#get on the objective.; ooc

[tvlandofficiall]

revisiting ch1 for the anniversary and one thing that's always stuck out to me is the couple of times darkness is associated with being able to "see the way". i don't know if it means anything or if it's just me reading a bit too much into some flavor text but if it does mean anything i definitely think it has something to do with how, like how venturing further into the darkness reveals the truth of what's hidden there (the switch in the ringaround puzzle room or the path to a key, for example), entering the dark worlds themselves reveals the hidden truth of the objects of the light world to us and the lightners — that they're not just ordinary objects, but living beings. the darker it gets, the more the whole of these worlds and how they are connected is revealed to us.

[anghraine]

I've got a much longer post in drafts about it, but something I've noticed and find kind of odd is how there's so much insistence on the absolute episodic inconsistency of TOS, and writers knowing absolutely nothing about any previous episodes and the production team not really caring about consistency. It seems like almost any time there's a post about repeated themes or characteristics or whatnot in TOS, you'll get "that episode was written and produced entirely after the episode it might superficially seem consistent with or internally related to, but WELL AKSHUALLY..."

Like, for instance, any discussion of Kirk's (very consistent!) backstory and youthful personality in light of his canonical age will almost always get some insistence on how his age is completely up in the air until "The Deadly Years" establishes him as 34 in S2, there's no real consistency about his age in TOS, the internal timeline especially can't be considered significant to any S1 episodes or backstory as originally envisioned, etc. Yet in the S1 episode "Shore Leave," it's clearly stated that a) 15 years before the events of the episode, Finnegan was an older upperclassman who bullied Kirk, who was a "plebe" (first year) at the Academy at the time, and b) Finnegan was 20 then, nailing down Kirk's current age as no more than 33 or 34 (33 seems more probable, syncing exactly with him being 34 in the next season), and as far as I recall, none of the aired episodes contradict this or suggest otherwise.

A scene in "The Conscience of the King" would have suggested he's significantly older, but this was removed and the scene didn't make a lot of sense in the first place. Other backstory details in TOS are consistent with this as well, like the young Lieutenant Kirk being on his first deep-space assignment 11 years earlier c. S2 (aged 23 by the other episodes' timeline).

The production staff actively forced removal of details they considered inconsistent with his characterization and function (often rightly—sorry, Ellison, they were dicks about it but correct dicks). Details established in earlier episodes do recur—the existence of Sam Kirk, his wife, and sons and their good relationship with Kirk are established many episodes before "Operation: Annihilate!", Spock's painful, unexpressed love for his mother is introduced long before "Journey to Babel," Christine Chapel's crush on him is explicitly stated or clearly referenced in background shots over and over in S1 and S2 and is only really resolved as a thread in "Plato's Stepchildren," well into S3. Even specific events in earlier episodes are sometimes explicitly referenced in other episodes, like the Horta and Spock's desperate attempts to save Kirk in the Tholian web.

But honestly, I'm just kind of puzzled about why there seems so much investment in the idea that TOS is purely episodic and lacks all consistency from episode to episode, nothing ever recurs, it's never implicitly or explicitly calling back to other episodes, character arcs don't really happen, and so on.

[controlledhues]

/ / Hands you this wdyd

[pomniegranate]

I... will write..... but I've been trying to make money. 😭😭😭

[immobiliter]

mondstadt: high drama. albedo on trial. varka. the hexenzirkel fontaine: CHEVALMARIN AMUSEMENT PARK TIME

[indeliblemarking]

abuse / trauma obviously isn’t an excuse for behavior and we see that notion applied (rightfully so most of the time) in fandom but i feel like in catra’s case you really can’t remove her suffering when analyzing why her redemption is written the way it is. she’s abused interpersonally and systematically as a child soldier from toddler age and it warps her perception of every relationship in her life to the point where she isolates herself to extreme degrees to the point that she’s consistently on the brink of a mental breakdown. yes she treats people like garbage yes she makes horrible decisions but her case is like…very extreme. and that’s not to necessarily play trauma olympics with characters in other pieces of media but i feel like people kind of downplay how that factors into her reasoning and also sort of forget how young she is throughout her entire story, flashbacks and all. so obviously the show is gonna have the good guys extend sympathy and not have her prove her worth. (which is one of the main ideas that messed her up in the first place) her arc needed more time but I think it’s unnecessary to devalue it just because the characters aren’t mad at her for as long as you want them to be, they offer her love and support as she exists but still don’t excuse or enable poor behavior and don’t allow her to be in their lives and make morally corrupt decisions. anyway ik it’s 2024 but that’s something I’ve thought for a while

[thanatologie]

can't believe i missed the baby talk, smdh.

listen. emmrich is a fantastic dad. a little helicoptery initially, yeah, but he gets it together, he figures it out.

but if he were to father a biological kid he'd be the most insufferable hoverer on the face of the planet. just stepping on someone's heels over it, obnoxiously so, would have to be told to go find himself somewhere for a little while before he gets strangled.

you know i'm right, he'd be unbearable.

but overall, while outside of manfred (who is a special case) i don't think he has a lot of exposure to kids. he teaches older students - think of him as your favorite college professor - but he'd figure it out. i don't think he'd ever talk to kids like...some people do, but he's patient, and kind, and knows how to redirect energy into something, uh. else (see: manfred).

[aalghul]

senselessly hating on a character ≠ talking about the characters flaws and failings (which make them compelling and worth engaging with) is still kicking people’s asses

[atm-sctey]

Anons to richard

...Why are you sending me gore...

[cringecorekitty]

((reminder that this blog is primarily canon compliant. until gabriel's reveal happens in canon, chat noir will never acknowledge it as the truth. he will not know he's a sentimonster or acknowledge it as being true in any way. likewise, i will not operate on anyone knowing chat noir's identity- unless they already know, but even then, he won't know that they do unless he knows they do in canon- and will respond with denial, ignorance, or straight up ignoring responses that say or imply otherwise :) just be aware of that, thanks!))

[unusual-brewing-au-askblog]

What are each one pronouns? I dont wanna mess up = =

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"It/its, though me personally I'm fine with whatever."

"It/its, she/they's also cool too!!"

"It/its. That is all."

"It/its is default but I'm fine with any pronouns, I don't really care about that kind of stuff."

"It/it's and he/him are nice."

[royalreef]

(( It'll likely be many years yet, simply because I'd only want to do something like this with someone who I trust, but some day I'd love to do a classical magic-anon-style plot of someone else's muse getting to be a merfolk for, like, a week. Just because the point of comparison would be fascinating, specifically to provide a lens from someone who isn't initially a merfolk to what their thought process and actual experience of being one is like, in such a way that the actual merfolk characters just don't notice. Because they're merfolk. They've always been merfolk. It's so ubiquitous to them, and this is dealing with specifically their inner experience, so they have no other point of comparison.

[bravevolunteer-a]

r.esident e.vil verse michael should get a flamethrower

[iryonin]

✿ + karin 😈

PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP. @shegore, accepting.

bold for things i could definitely see or want;   italics for things i could see or am unsure of; striked-out for things i don’t want or cannot see.

FRIENDSHIP.     childhood friends   /   work buddies or coworkers   /   family friends   /   friends with benefits   /   smoking buddies   /   adventure buddies   /   fake friends   /   recently friends   /   party buddies   /   friendship of need   /   dying friendship   /   circumstantial friendship   /   partners in crime   /   old friendship   /   [your muse]   is the good influence   /   [your muse]   is the bad influence   /   [my muse]   is the good influence   /   [my muse]   is the bad influence   /   opposites attract   /   ride or die   /   frenemies   /   roommates or flatmates   /   penpals   /   exes to friends   /   enemies to friends   /   other

ROMANCE.     childhood sweethearts   /   [your muse is mines]   childhood crush   /   [my muse is yours]   childhood crush   /   exes   /   exes to lovers   /   forbidden lovers   /   highschool sweethearts   /   secret relationship   /   opposites attract   /   long distance   /   unrequited   [from your muses side]   /   unrequited   [from my muses side]   /   unrequited   [from both sides]   /   skinny love   /   friends to lovers   /   enemies to lovers   /   spurious relationship   /   power couple   /   newly entered   /   soulmates   [metaphorical]   /   soulmates   [literal]   /   awkward   /   turning toxic   /   toxic love   /   cheating   [on your muse]   /   cheating   [with your muse]   /   other 

FAMILIAL.     siblings   [half]   /   siblings   [step]   /   [my muse]   is an older sibling figure to your younger sibling figure   /   [my muse]   is a younger sibling figure to your older sibling figure muse   /   [my muse]   is a parental figure to yours   /   [my muse]   is a child figure to your muse   /   guardian figure   /   legal guardian   /   adoptive child   /   foster child   /   [your muse]   is taken under mines wing   /   [my muse]   is taken under yours wing   /   other

ANTAGONISTIC.     dangerous to each other   /   dangerous to others   /   unpredictable   /   rivals   /   petty   /   developing into sexual or romantic tension   /   based off family matters   /   based of off circumstance   /   based of professional matters   /   based off misunderstanding or lies   /   conflict of ideology   /   betrayal   /   hero - villain dynamic   /   enemies   /   fight club   /   friends turned enemies   /   lovers turned enemies   /   exes turned enemies   /   other 

[rollaut]

been rereading while icons & like,,,, man,,,,,,,, getting Called The Fuck Out abt basically forcing the other bots to remain on earth even tho megs hasnt been an active threat to the planet in two (2) years (& the Scathingly accurate "i think you need to stay here. i think without something to take care of, some fragile thing to protect, you don't know what to do with yourself.") n then op relenting for hotrod to take action with a team to rescue prowl from human capture only to lose ironhide in the process,,,,,,,,,, holding op like the world's most wounded pigeon. but also man spike was having A Time lmao

[hlvrvi]

LOUNGE TIME LOUNGE TIME LOUNGE TIME LOUNGE TIME LOUNGE TIEM

After a bit of walking, which was surprisingly not much at all, all the kidnapped people had reached the lounge. It was a pretty simple room, all things considered. Everyone found a place to stand, Controlly sitting up on a shelf or something to match the height somewhat.

The PA turned on.

(I'm sorry for doing this so suddenly, you six. First of all... I feel like I should emphasize that I mean no harm. In fact, I aim to help.)

"Likely story," the recently-dubbed Hal scoffed, stance stiff.

(No, it's quite true,) the Narrator insisted. (All of you are currently stuck in some sort of predicament. Stuck on Xen, for some, and for others, lost in a variety of different ways. There is no winning those battles alone.)

Silence fell over the group, for a moment.

"He's right," Gordon agreed after the pause, shrugging. "I can't get out of deep space on my own."

"G-man isn't listening to me," Ozzy grumbled.

"And I can't kill that bastard without help, apparently," Controlly said, the venom in his voice leaving the silence after uncomfortable.

The rest neglected to respond.

(This shouldn't take more than a week,) the Narrator promised. (There are plans to formulate and simulations to run, but generally, my hope is that the more of you agree to help each other and bond, the easier your problems will be to solve.)

Hal squinted up. "But we're stuck here."

(I'm not letting you leave and get hurt without a plan,) the Narrator said, honesty flooring Hal for a moment before he scowled in reaction.

"So, what, we just have to get all buddy-buddy with each other?" Controlly asked, skeptical.

Joshua decided to speak up, too. "Which one of us is going first...?"

(Either Ozzy, Gordon, or Controlly. You all can decide for yourself by listening to each other's stories.)

Having said what it wanted to say, the PA shut off again.

Well, that was sure an exposition dump. Now what?