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[realchivalrix]

graph I've been meaning to make of the yuzuru relationships/headcanons in my brain ! I'd like to expand on each of them more but there's only so much text space and I'm bad at formatting.

[st4rstudent]

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[elsannej]

Save me movie Symbrock save me

(I am being very sincere - it's not lookin' good on the comic front)

[mrstsung]

Alan Lee's shang tsung, you deserve a better narrative and script.

😔 *sigh*

I just hate the story this shang was in. If it wasn't for bad plot. And horrible direction.

This could have been an amazing young/early sorcerer days shang tsung.

Like I'm just sad the more that i think about it.

Like the bad plot,plot holes,simple solutions to a problem that isn't really that much of a problem,the character favoritism,etc.

God,shang,im so sorry.

Mr. Alan Lee,i feel if the script wasn't crap,the narrative didn't screw you over,and this game wasn't filled with useless microtransactions,and shitty gameplay. You would have been a perfect successor.

But sadly. It's not ment to be.

I personally feel if he was given a chance to bring his shang tsung to life more,make him actually intimidating,and add oomph to it. Then i feel like he could shine. Like i just feel he's held back. Like get angry dude! Genuinely,get pissed off! Make shang scary. And not in the cunning sense like they seem to shoehorn him into. Like yes that is a facet of his character,but only one small part. Shang is complex. And so should be his energy and expression. Like i feel mr. Lee was scared doing shang. But excited too going by his interviews. But i feel he was so worried a out disappointment,that he got blindsided by the bad writing. If i had a chance to write something for him. I would in a heartbeat. Give him a better narrative and story for his shang tsung.

I would absolutely looooove to write for mortal kombat. At very least shang tsungs part. And idc if it's "canon" or not. I just want a good story. That treats shang as the badass we KNOW he is. *sigh* alas i have to only share with my fellow shang tsimps. Not that that's all bad. I love you guys.

But i really really wish that alan Lee's shang was done better. I dont mind his voice,aesthetics,i just hate the writing.

I wanna give him a hug and take him away from this horrible version of the game and series.

Me at all shang tsung's: "my heart n soul sir"

[echollama]

Daaaaam Jing yer boopies

[total-drama-brainrot]

we as a fandom don't talk enough about how alejandro literally hypnotised owen. i know it was sort of ignored post ex-files but it was. a thing that happened.

[anonymous-chicken-was-taken]

Guys I need to read Frankenstein for school and my copy is coming late so when people were talking about what they'd read so far in class I was just nodding along off to the side pretending I knew wtf they were talking about and. Guys. GUYS. I am getting. SO excited to actually read it. I keep coincidentally seeing people talking about it. And the discussion we were having in class???

No one told me Victor Frankenstein was a fricking dark Stanford Pines. Seriously the discussion was just constant like. "Can Victor and Walten be blamed for being addicted to knowledge, so to speak? At what point does scientific curiosity become damaging? Victor Frankenstein has daddy issues and faces much rejection from his family, peers, and teachers. When does drive and spite cross into obsession? Could parts of this conflict be resolved by finding fulfillment in family instead of chasing unattainable goals and insatiable ambition? Who in this text is a reliable narrator? What is autonomy?" THIS IS GRAVITY FALLS YOU'RE DESCRIBING GRAVITY FALLS.

Obviously I cannot vouch for the accuracy and relevance of these probing questions because I haven't read it yet. This parallel may be completely incorrect and wrong and Ken how dare you compare Ford to Victor Frankenstein but. For NOW? This is a connection in my brain and I am HYPED. Like even if the connection that formed in my brain is totally wrong this sounds so interesting. I'm definitely gonna be taking notes while reading. For future analysis essays I know I'm gonna have to write and am now genuinely excited for and want to put major effort into and also because I can already feel the the Frankenstein AU forming in my brain.

[merry-harlowe]

Nah okay I’ve been playing bg3 and it’s good, but I’ve kinda been like. :/ because a lot of the games feels unfinished to me, but seeing posts about wyll and Karlach (my two main characters I have in my party aside from Shadowheart, who i thought her story was just progressing really fast?) and realizing that oh, this isn’t a broader pacing speed in the game or a broader level of the game not being finished, it’s a wyll (and somewhat karlach) thing. Ah. Like Mercury kissed Wyll at the tiefling party, but Wyll hasn’t had any new dialogue options since, and I’m halfway through the underdark??? Also I completely missed his side quest with his father, companion quests should not be that easily missed!!

I was rlly surprised with how fast the dialogue trees are exhausted in this game in general tbh, it’s quite limited so far compared to its peers in the genre. Also this is a personal gripe but i hate that they don’t have clearly labeled when a dialogue has a “flirt” tag, i got to the tiefling party scene and literally everyone propositioned my character, despite the fact i was only flirting with astarion and wyll. Adding a little heart at the end of flirtatious dialogue options doesn’t break immersion it literally just clarifies the tone the line is written in 😭

Also the character creator got so much hype, but legit it was the most disappointing customization I’ve seen in a hot sec. Like dai (a game from a decade ago) and Elden ring (a game where you don’t even see ur characters face nearly ever) both had far more advanced customization, and like. Even that wasn’t enough when it comes to representation. Also like dhgjkg for a game that advertised its ~risqué~ content, a) it’s quite tame, and b) you can’t even pick your chest size? 🤨 (which again, is not even getting into the extreme limitations w different body sizes and shapes)

Like it’s a fun game and I’m enjoying myself, but like. For a game that swept at the award season and costed me eighty bucks, I kinda feel like the game should feel finished, let alone have some level of polish. (Also also im glad it’s getting the content updates it clearly needs, but it’s insane that it won GAME OF THE YEAR! and is still getting base game content updates???!??? I really hate the trend it’s emblematic of in the industry tbhhh)

[intriga-hounds]

^bazzy under 2 years

bazzy nearly 3.5

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

no because it's "buried alive inside my dreams but it was all a fake-out". there's a BUT! like they were imagining it. they thought they were stuck behind a window, buried alive inside dreams they can't reach in futures that never came and pasts that can't be changed, BUT!!! but it was all a fake-out. it was all in their heads. they weren't really trapped and buried after all!!

[boysborntodie]

I think that Johnnyboy’s potential to complicated and messy is criminally untapped in fanon. Ponyboy ‘fucking sucks at feelings, both his own and of others, and can be a bitch’ Curtis and Johnny ‘imperfect victim with shit self-esteem’ Cade would definitely have their ups and downs

[wutheringmights]

Hey guys! I'm still in the throes of working on the next chapter, which will be done before the end of the month (if all goes according to plan).

I just wanted to take a moment to issue an important PSA about the next chapter:

If you are behind on CTB for any reason or have not read it yet, now is the best time to get caught up.

That is not a threat, but I guarantee you won't regret it.

If you have followed me or this story for any period of time, you know that I have never said anything like that before, which goes to show how serious I am. You will want to read chapter 21 the moment it is published. I promise.

Of course, you do not ""really"" have to get caught up now but I highly recommend it as this is going to be The Chapter, and there is no way I am going to be able to keep the spoilers for this story in check after that point. You will be spoiled.

So if you can and are able, I highly recommend getting caught up. You can go ahead and stop reading CTB again once chapter 21 is out and you know what's up. But if you want to keep spoilers to a minimum, please go ahead and give CTB a read.

Here's a handy link for anyone who wants to start reading now.

[ridiasfangirlings]

K seem to have a lot of important stuff just later created or expanded through years worth of extra materials. If the K anime had been created after all of these things had been made instead of the other way around, how different do you think the anime's story would have been?

Less flashbacks in ROK, probably :/ One of things with K is I think they tried to make the side materials supplement the main anime story without being required in order to actually understand the anime, so I don't necessarily think they would have added a bunch of extra stuff to the anime if the anime had been made last. I do definitely think there would have been some streamlining and switches of focus in the story for both seasons though. Season one I definitely wonder if the show would have spent less time meandering at the school island with those characters and more with the Reds and Blues, since Homra and S4 are ultimately more important for the story as a whole.

I think S4's place in the narrative might have been altered somewhat too, at least to be less...sinister, I guess? I've mentioned before that I feel like they get much more of a villain treatment in the early part of season one and I wonder if we would have gotten less of things like Awashima discussing violating Mikoto's human rights or Fushimi looking vaguely unhinged if we had more characterization for them (the episode five Sarumi fight is particularly interesting as a possible point of change, because on the one hand LSW does explain his behavior there but on the other hand Gora walks it back a lot in all subsequent media, without having that moment there first I wonder if Fushimi would have been at least a little more gloomy and less yandere from the start if the side media had come first). I also imagine season one would have had more foreshadowing for the rest of the series, I definitely think we would have at least gotten Kotosaka talking to Colorless to give more of a hint as to who was behind all this. I personally would have liked them to add maybe a couple mentions here and there of the Gray King, even just saying he died in the Kagutsu Crater, just so we know that King exists and it feels a little more organic when Iwafune appears. Giving Zenjoh at least a cameo would have been nice too, again knowing that he'll be more important later.

Season two I could see the changes being largely what was done in the novelization, stuff like adding in an actual storyline for Neko that the anime just hinted at. I'm actually kinda curious about how the novelization came about versus the anime, if some of the additional bits in the novel were things Gora wanted to put into ROK but couldn't because they felt limited by runtime (and possibly budget, I wonder if episode ten in particular wasting time on flashbacks was GoHands being cheap). The stuff with Fushimi's 'betrayal' I think was also a lot stronger in the novelization, especially since the novelization actually bothers to make it clear that yes, Hisui and co know that Fushimi was once in S4 and yes they are actually suspicious of him because of that, which the anime was really frustratingly vague on. With the novelization being just completed I think that stands out pretty strongly as what Gora 'would have written' if they could when the anime aired, it still follows the same basics as the anime did but makes the story a lot stronger and spends a lot less time on filler, which was for me very much the weakest part of ROK.

[aromantic-misguide-to-romance]

Claris is so alloaro.

Also it's nice that she's just... the way she is. Alloaro characters tend to really get the short end of the stick and seem grotesque, so I'm glad to see her being like an actual person.

Also it makes so much sense for two aros to flock together.

[sheathnknife]

the vampire diaries 8.16 // louise gluck, crossroads

“and damon, like the voiceover tell us, he was worried he would never see stefan again. it was just elena assuring him that there would be peace. that we’ve dealt with this other side of darkness for several seasons, but there’s also light out there and there’s peace, and damon will find it. if you search for it, you will find it. and we wanted to get that last moment to see that [...] damon found it too, and it looked just like his brother.” — kevin williamson

[darius-1]

The 90's is so much better at capturing things from the manga! The new version is lacking!