#foundational fix

[brainrotisseriechicken]

bible siblings 2: electric boogaloo

these still need some fixing but ill selling these bad boys at cf as prints :>

[forthosetunedin]

please let me do it for you ➡️ i’ll ease the path ➡️ man do it yourself

[existennialmemes]

If I had three wishes (based off intent, unadulterated, no strings attached, consensually offered by a genie working as a free agent, in servitude to no one) they'd be as follows:

Cure Poverty- everybody has access to their needs, including rest and leisure.

Immunity to Misinformation- everybody can instantly tell when something isn't true

Curse of Compassion- everybody becomes incapable of not caring about others (this will likely result in many abusers and oligarchs and whatnot ending their lives.)

[bennetsbonnet]

I fear that the Netflix Pride and Prejudice adaptation will try far too hard to make a Lake Scene™ or Hand Flex™ moment happen and in doing so will miss the point that both of those were accidentally iconic. The infamous scene in the 1995 series was intended to be funny rather than swoon-worthy, while the shot of Mr Darcy's hand in the 2005 film was captured by chance. Both iconic moments, but not scripted as such.

I don't think you can force these things, they kind of take on a life of their own once an adaptation is released and become iconic in their own right organically thanks to the audience. I would hate for a scene to be added in to try and force A Moment™ to happen.

So, rather than trying to make the next one happen, I would love it if this time a scene from the novel with Jane Austen's brilliant dialogue in all its unaltered glory was what truly stood out to people and that the incredibly talented lady who brought so many iconic characters to life, for once, got the credit she deserves, rather than a scene that never appeared in the original novel getting all the hype.

[cozylittleartblog]

JUST GUYS BEIN' DOODS

redraw of the meme under the cut

original by @knightmarebug

[talkmagically]

I have a mighty need for a fic where a Forgiven Illario has been doing work for House de Riva during his "probation" and - after seeing how well of a job Illario *actually* does - Viago decides he doesn't want to give Illario back. Because Illario's talents would fit in SPLENDIDLY in a house that specializes in poisoning their targets and needing to get in close.

[andhumanslovedstories]

chapter eleven of what feels like the most soap opera ass fic I've ever written and then just a bunch of thoughts about writing it, which contains vague spoilers for my plans:

The inception of the fic basically went like this:

haha lol i'd be fun if sqq got real mad at the state of education

what would need to happen in this fic that doesn't happen in canon to motivate him to do something about it

oh shit he didn't unlock OOC so he has to figure out how to be his coddling indulgent self (which he's in denial about) while also being shen jiu

But the thing that really made the story get so much bigger in scope was when I was reading a fic with yqy coming clean to sj, and sj being like, "GASP. I forgive you." And I was "I simply do not believe that this is how it would happen." And I would have moved on with my life, but then I thought, "but like how would it happen." And more importantly, how could this conversation happen within the canon timeline but still involve Shen Jiu, the person this information affects.

The OOC idea and the need for Shen Jiu to be present in this fight scene came together to be like "what if sqq got sj's memories so he could rules-lawyer his characterization more accurately, and ends up being furious on sj's behalf?"

(This, btw, is why I knew I had to get much fonder of YQY and get a much better understanding of his character. When a pillar of your fic idea is a character getting ripped into for his choices, it is sooooooo easy to for it to come off as the author yelling their personal opinions or for it to be completely flat character bashing. Neither are interesting to read or write! Hence the crash-course in YQY appreciation, so now he gets his own emotional arc too. Everyone gets a goddamn plotline.)

Meanwhile I was also thinking about the implications of downloading another person's life into your head. If you have their memories and their body, are you them? What makes you not them? I didn't know! I sort of just kept writing and posting with the assumption that I'd figure something out, which I've finally nailed down btw. That's a relief! Also kinda the fun of WIPs where you're building the railroad track as you're on the train. I end up fanficing my own fanfic. Once stuff is posted, that's the canon, and I look at it and think, "if this was a book I was reading, what is the way I would extrapolate what's there to make a new but coherent story?"

That's why my outline becomes pretty useless after a while. The big picture doesn't change too much--I know roughly where all the major characters are going to be emotionally by the end of the story--but I discover the path I'm going to take there. Which usually means adding stuff. Liu Qingge wasn't going to get a POV, and now every chapter I'm like "fuck am I building a throuple". Ming Fan will have waaaay more a story line than I originally conceived. Early on, I was like "eh I'm not going to go too far into the brothel stuff," and can you guess what is going to be coming up prominently in the next few chapters? God help me.

Actually, there's only one major part of the outline that I cut: Shang Qinghua. He was originally very prominent early on, but turns out having the literal Word of God in a story about slowly discovering backstory is difficult to reconcile. So sadly, he doesn't get a real role. If you're curious, the original plan for him was that SQQ would realize he's a transmigrator much earlier in the canon, but the System would be like [shen jiu would not tell shang qinghua he is a transmigrator. ooc] which would lead to this series of SQQ trying to figure out how he can communicate around this. SQQ at a peak meeting being like, "do you think these DEMONS are PROUD of having made their WAY to us IMMORTALS?" while SQH is like, "AM I HAVING A STROKE?"

What's some other stuff about this fic? I've got a lot of thoughts bottled up, in part because I'm kinda snobby tbh in how I post. I'm like "*pushes glasses up my nose* the author's takes on the story should not be unavoidably present when reading the text" so I don't like to use ao3's author's notes. It's ridiculous and not a standard I hold anyone else too, but whenever I find myself wanting to address something in the notes, I know I must feel insecure about that part of the story. So either fix it or don't draw attention to it. But this is fine, you have to come here for this. This is DVD commentary.

My favorite part of writing this fic has been balancing Shen Jiu's character. As I'm fleshing out his sad backstory, I've been wary of essentially woobifying him. Reducing him to just someone who greatly suffered is so boring and flat. He NEEDS to suck. Or more accurately, he needs to be a very imperfect victim. Exasperating at his mildest, despicable at his worst. (Truthfully, I do think I can and should make him worse. Luckily this story is nothing but flashbacks to him at his worst so there's plenty of opportunities.)

This whole mental breakdown section has been an interesting balancing act because it's explicitly about how bad Shen Jiu's life was and now how bad Shen Qingqiu's is. It's the point at which I had to decide how torturous his time at the Qiu manor had been (me and Shen Qingqiu really discovered that together). On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the absolute worst saddest brutalist ideas I had for this era in his life, I'd say I settled on about a 7. Most of it is backstage in my head, but once I locked that down, I could start figuring out how much was bleeding through.

Anyway, it's been fun writing the angstfest of the last few chapters, but oh my god am I ready for a tone shift. There's usually jokes in my works, even the saddest bits, but jokes relieve tension which is the opposite of what I was going for. I didn't want any humor in the YQY conversation, then you have to keep not joking for a while to get the point across. There's still a lot of planned emotional shit, but I'm happy to not be wallowing for a while.

AND GOD AS MY WITNESS THIS STORY WILL NOT BE LONGER THAN 20 CHAPTERS. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN BE LESS!! IT IS DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE A WHOLE CANON REWRITE. PROBABLY!! IF TIANLANG JUN HAS ANY SIGNIFICANT SCREEN TIME, PLEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE FAILED.

[moldypoff]

No cuz wouldn’t it be so funny if 049 was handed a ‘sick’ patient and finds that they have no trace of the pestilence in them but researchers keep insisting that the patient is sick.

Eventually he gets pissed and that’s when they tell him that the patient has depression.

He tells them that ailments to the mind aren’t his specialty but they keep pushing him to whip up some sort of cure.

So, he requests a bunch of things, dried lavender flowers, water, oils, pots and a portable stove, sugar, etc. and he goes into full TLC mode.

First day goes by and people are like, “okay, basic mental remedies, at some point he’ll rip them open and fix the unbalanced humors in patient, right?” WRONG.

He spends time reading and talking to patient for the next few days and slowly they come out of their shell, picking up old/new hobbies that 049 introduced to them to. It’d be even cooler if patient gets better in record time than if they’d just gone to a weekly therapy session.

Anywho, patient gets taken away by foundation to do a psyche evaluation and turns out their depression is cured. (THE ONE THING 049 HAS ACTUALLY CURED)

Afterward, even if patient was formerly a researcher or a d-class, I think it wouldn’t matter in the end because they’d still be amnesticized.

Anyways, 049 has all this crap in his cell and it looks like he actually lives there now but it’s missing the person that made his prison feel like a home.

[spoilthevines]

wait a sec i think i never ended up posting it here? it's been almost a year now but anyway, have the thing. still love it tbh.

[elviehun]

Happy Third to the New Hope!

Happy Birthday to 'GET UP COWARD'!!!!

HBD Foundations, my beloved ❤️‍🔥!

Thank you for turning my life upside down 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[brainrotisseriechicken]

touchy feely

(an hour late to pride month where i live but huzzah. fruits of my labor. gay people. good night)

[littlefankingdom]

Finally read Batman: Hush, and I cannot believe people dare to use it as proof that Bruce blamed Jason for his death, because this part of the story isn't simply out of character, it is just so badly written that it doesn't make sense. Like, I would not accept this bs if it was for a character I hate, because even in this story, it doesn't make sense. Let me explain:

Jason is blamed for his death here, but he is ONLY described by two things (repeated around two or three times):

- He was full of rage.

- He viewed being Robin as a game.

Now, tell me HOW CAN THE TWO WORK TOGETHER? One cannot not take seriously something and think it's a game AND be so full of rage, he wasn't a good fit. Like, wtf are you saying??? (Also, if there is someone who viewed it as a game, it's Bruce and Dick in the earlier decades. They were here to have fun)

It is very weak. Not only does the narration doesn't give a lot of time to Jason (There is a whole page about Bruce's thoughts on Barbara as Batgirl and her losing her legs, but Bruce's thoughts on the SON HE LOST are like a afterthought, one line. Bruce has been written more tortured than that about Jason when Bane broke his back), but there are also multiple references to older comics, which implies that the target audience are people that have been reading older comics. One of these references is Bruce meeting Ra's Al Ghul in the 70s, with Bruce reminiscing the plot of the issue it happened in. An issue from when Dick was still Robin, when Jason was not Robin yet. So, not only are they describing Jason as just "full of rage" and "thought it was a game" only and you barely get a look at Bruce's feelings toward Jason ("Jason knew I loved me" And I wish the narration showed us that. Like, when Bruce faces the Joker in Knightfall, it is clear he loves Jason from the inner narration. Here, the inner narration is empty), but they also are straight up lying to readers they think read older comics or are inviting to read older comics.

The saddest part is that they are multiple moments in Batman: Hush where Bruce's inner narration and relationships with others are great (his thoughts about Helena in the beginning, when he is working with Dick, his whole relationship with Selina is great when normally I cannot stand Batcat, Bruce and Lois' friendship, ...) which shows that the writer has potential, but the moment it's about the plot or too rooted in it, it's a mess. The plot is catastrophic, it loses you ten times in trying to make it more interesting and to stop you from coming to your own conclusion. They are multiple big reveals that turn out to be false just to confuse you. In the end, neither the readers or the characters understand wtf happened. And you get jumpscared by bold Harvey Dent.

I cannot believe y'all lead me to believe the Jason Todd fight was the big moment of this story, when it's one of the worst part of it.

[againaweasel]

Whenever people offer “things you should read apart from Harry Potter” suggestions they always focus on magic, usually using the “the magic system is better” as their selling point

But I think that majorly misses the point. It’s very rarely the magic itself that brings people back to Harry Potter, or the world (because that’s never been all that good)

Its’s the characters.

Something the author does very well is idiosyncrasies in character speech which goes an incredibly long way to make characters feel real.

You don’t need to know the ins and out of a characters life for them to feel like a person - the fact they talk like them makes you care about who this person might be outside of the one or two lines they’re given…which in turn leads people to want to create what that might be

So if you’re recommending replacements for the series, a focus on characters is the place to start for many people

[serivynne]

Little video I made of the bastard

[peteytheparrot]

hazel and Oswald beating up Milo and puts him into a pool

Wholesome bonding activities, we love beating up Milo 💞💕💗