#he’s like yeah. this checks out lmao

[darlingsart]

Part 4/???? of this modern AU

Needless to say there is no dna test needed and Patroclus is NOT impressed lmao

[doctorsiren]

give this angle another tri

[fearandhatred]

i was thinking about this line from my fic:

But the fall had hurt, too. Because the wind had cut into his useless wings like knives, his skin and grace peeling away under the friction, and he had been looking right up at the multicoloured and unreachable expanse of sky just to see it fade from his eyes into dull greys.

and i came up with this. i hope the vision came through

[turrondeluxe]

You know how some kids say stuff that freak out their parents like “the man in the corner doesn’t like that” and there’s no one there

or how most kids just stand in the doorway of a room at night for no reason besides waiting for their parents to wake up so they can ask a question but it can be really creepy and freak the parents out

That kind of thing but mostly the second one because I think that’s more common in kids

(previous ask for context)

Alright i totally understand now. That'd be Moja, no doubt!

[kingofanemptyworld]

one of those soulmate AUs where your soul mark turns black when your soulmate dies and Ichigo’s mark has been black since he was born. you can’t miss what you never had so it’s never bothered him much. only, it itches sometimes, nearly burns, and he sure as hell doesn’t know how to explain that so he wisely doesn’t mention it to anyone, ever.

meeting grimmjow for the first time both complicates and simplifies things.

[jq37]

Descendants: The Rise of Red is kind of a bizarre movie to talk about critically because, imo, it almost doesn't make sense to talk about it in the usual terms of good vs bad or enjoyable vs not enjoyable when the way more obvious tension is finished vs unfinished.

Because, more than any other movie I've ever seen, it does *not* read as a full movie. And I don't mean in a "this movie has a cliffhanger" kind of way. The Empire Strikes Back and Across the Spiderverse fit that description. They end on big dramatic cliffhangers that point to a resolution in the third installment.

But Rise of Red just sets all this stuff up and then...ends without concluding anything. It doesn't feel like the first movie in a trilogy (or duology). It feels like the first act of a two-act musical. It very specifically reminds me of the end of the first act of Into the Woods where all the main characters sing the song Ever After about how they all fixed their problems with magic and nothing bad will ever happen to them again and then the narrator ominously says "To be continued" before the curtain drops. But in Into the Woods you know there's a second act and this movie wasn't sold as the first act of a bigger story. Like sure, it has the, "You didn't think this was the end" tag at the end like all the other movies, but those movies were complete, self-contained stories even though they had sequels. This was NOT a full story. It's half of one story.

Like, if we're supposed to take this as a full story, there are so many bizarre choices:

Why did they make sure to mention that Cinderella and Charming fell in love at the ball at the top if it wasn't meant to set up Back to the Future style, "Oh no, I accidentally got my mom banned from the ball so she's not gonna fall in love with Dad and I won't be born" shenanigans?

Why did Maddox very pointedly have that bit about "you could lose your mom completely" if that was never going to come into play? Red never did anything to endanger Bridget or endanger her own birth so it doesn't make sense as a warning in that way.

Why was there all this focus on this Carrie on prom night moment for Bridget if we LITERALLY NEVER SAW CASTLECOMING? Why dance around this moment and talk about it all cloak and dagger with no specificity if they weren't building up to some big reveal that it wasn't as straightforward as it seemed? And like, they leaned in HARD with making Bridget the nicest, sweetest, cotton candy princess as a teen so I need WAY more than, "She got pranked by known bullies she's been enduring with a smile very handily up to this point" to buy that she went from that to "murderous dictator". And even if she did become murderous, I find it insanely hard to believe that she'd include her best and only friend on the list of people she wants to suffer unless there was a betrayal. I find it INSANE that there wasn't a falling out scene at any point in this movie with how thickly they were laying on the admiration and camaraderie.

(Note: And adult Cinderella def has guilty vibes re: the Queen at orientation. Which I know I'm not imagining because it's literally spelled out in the Jr Novelization!)

Before the time travel element of the movie started, I thought they were going for something like they go to the past and realize that Bridget was bullied not by the VKs but by the spoiled royals, and Ella ends up joining in the bullying once she gets with Charming, betraying Bridget and justifying her whole "Love Ain't It" philosophy. Or Ella ditching her at the last minute to be with Charming meaning she has to deal with the monster prank alone and it was the being alone rather than the prank itself that hurt her (though that is NOT a good enough reason to go all off with their heads on your subjects). The fact that, as far as we know right now, it literally was just a relatively mild and reversible prank that caused all of this is just, such flat storytelling, you know?

But! All of this makes way more sense if this is meant to be the first act of a single contained story. And I don't wanna be all "Pepe Silvia, secret good 4th episode of Sherlock" about this but I did see this picture:

Which seems to indicate that this was written as a Part One. Which, if so, idk why they wouldn't advertise it that way but whatever. The point is, if that's the case then it means that we're potentially in bad pacing territory rather than straight up bad storytelling territory. Because this isn't a bad place to be halfway through your story:

The heroes, warned that time travel is dangerous, have gone back in time to change the heart of a brutal tyrant before she can stage a coup. They seemingly succeed in their mission and when they come home, everything is great! But then, the side effects of time travel start to catch up with them. Chloe realizes that, in breaking the vase, she prevented her mother from going to the ball and falling in love with her dad (who was conspicuously absent from the final scene btw) which means she's starting to be forgotten and erased from the timeline. And Red realizes that though this new version of her mom is as sweet and kind as the teen she once met, she's a complete stranger to her (fulfilling the Hatter's warning that she could lose her mom completely). So they have to go back in time once more to make sure the Ella and Charming fall in love again, perhaps at the cost of whatever bad thing that happened to Bridget happening again and bringing back the original version of her future self. But, now with more context of how her mom became that way, Red can now talk to her mother and persuade her to give people another chance.

Boom, that gives us time to go back and hit everything we haven't yet hit. We can pay off the time travel tropes that were set up but not explored. We can go to Castlecoming which feels so obviously set up to be the centerpiece of this story (like, come on, Back to the Future literally does the school dance thing. This is Time Travel Storytelling 101). We can actually get info about what the prank was and why it affected Bridget so completely.

(Note: This is a side thing but it really strikes me as so crazy that Bridget would so SUCH a big 180 here. Like, I know the Queen of Hearts is a silly, goofy, campy villain, but she straight up murders people and there's no way to get around that if we're taking her out of the surreal story she comes from and putting her in a (comparatively) grounded story. If I wasn't doing a betrayal plot, I would make the twist that the spell that turned Bridget into a "monster" didn't just have a physical effect, it had a mental effect and it magically twisted her personality to be the way it is now. So they broke the physical half of the curse, but neglected the other half and it's been festering the whole time, turning her as evil as she was sweet. Because like, a simple physical transformation isn't that big of a deal to have such heavy security--Bridget made cupcakes with a transformative effect and that was totally fine. I'm not saying that that's what's gonna be the case. I just think it would be an explanation that makes sense for why she changed so crazy much that makes more sense than a simple prank or even a betrayal. Her mom wasn't even evil! How did she go from zero to murder without even an evil mom to push her onto the path? But I'm super digressing right now.)

(Note #2: OK, one last thing. The trap on the book presumably would have hit the VK's and trapped them in Merlin's office regardless of what Chloe and Red did, right? That's like, net zero influence on the timeline. I genuinely can't tell if that's a straight up plot hole or set up to be like, "Oh no. Actually when she said that she was turned into a monster in front of everyone it was meant in a less literal way." Like she was just made to look bad and that was the real thing that pushed her over the edge. Like idk. It really feels like the only thing they really did that would change the timeline was get Ella banned from the dance and presumably out of the way where she couldn't hurt Bridget. OK NOW I'm done.)

Anyway, my point is that this is not how I would have structured my movie and I think this was a super weird way to go into the second era of Descendants movies, but they can still tell a complete story if that's their plan. I'm genuinely really curious to see if this pans out to be a fairly competently told story that just happens to be split over two movies or a complete fumbling of the narrative bag because it could really be either at this point and it's fascinating to me.

[buckera]

we could run away together

[thychesters]

#wipwednesday! sneaking some writing in on my lunch break today as opposed to scooting in here at the literal eleventh hour. zoro's off in the corner getting plastered and living his best worst life. i'm sure he's also respectful and aware, but for the sake of argument he's also not going to let some no-name guy tell him how he's supposed to drink his booze. (which i also just recently learned myself regarding sake!) and i know canon has them downing barrels, but i wanted to get the man drunk, not give him alcohol poisoning. i promise this is all relevant too. i'll tell you later as a treat. / text under the cut

He finds himself alone on the deck at some point, third bottle of sake loose in his fingers, though he can’t pinpoint where exactly he split from others and it raises his hackles. His next swig is a near-miss, a trail sloshing out the corner of this mouth and he scrubs it away with the back of his hand. Once, maybe some four islands removed from Shimotsuki, he pissed a no-name guy off at a no-name bar for not drinking sake the proper way, and he’d grimaced at the first pull followed by the next because it all went down the same way, didn’t it. And the man had told him he lacked appreciation, that he didn’t savor anything, and then he’d turned his ire on the poor barkeep.  Zoro looks down at the bottle, throat burning and muscles loose and thinks he appreciates it just fine. He makes a short, derisive sound in the back of his throat, fingers itching for Shusui like she might be of aid. Zoro pivots on his heel, boot squeaking against the polished wood to dart back down the stairs, and starts when he finds Chopper approaching him. There’s a concerned set to his snort; his head tilts. “Are you okay? I didn’t mean to sneak up on you—I didn’t think I could do that…” “Fine,” he says, because it’s been his favorite word for the past forever. Everything is fine except it isn’t, but none of them have to know that. Chopper digs a foot into the grass, kicking up cool dirt. His nose twitches as he scents him. “Have you been drinking?” he asks, and Zoro narrows his eye at the one Chopper and then the other that swims into existence next to him for a split second. Does that sometimes, doesn’t he, likes to asks questions he already knows the answer to. Must have gotten it from Usopp and Sanji because they do that to Luffy all the time when they catch him doing something stupid. The neck of the bottle is smooth beneath his thumb. “You really want an answer to that?” Chopper doesn’t hum—or maybe he does, or maybe it’s that whining noise he’s picked up from Nami or that throaty grunt he does when he’s not paying attention. Today’s been too quiet. His stomach churns and then Chopper taps his hooves together. “You were laughing, I was worried.” “Why would that worry you?” There’s a little drizzle in the air, which means the men’s quarters is going to reek of garlic and wet fur. “You don’t really sound like you—you don’t laugh like that.”

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Ohhhh god I got the motel scene everyone stay calm <- will never have a normal reaction to this scene

[shannonsketches]

This interview confirmed

The point of the wilds era games is showcasing mechanics, the 'core' of both games was to build and walk around

There will be no DLC

There will not be another direct sequel

The ultrahand will not continue in future games

The timeline is intentionally unclear to make the game accessible for new fans and the development process (tl;dr All Zelda games are intentionally AUs to a degree)

The producer and director both deny intentional references to prior games in the story, but then say that these similarities represent the soul of the series and the overall myth of The Legend of Zelda (pick a lane)?

The timeline doesn't matter, outside of specific sets of games it's irrelevant on purpose. Whatever you think about the timeline is correct. Continuity is not the point. Maintaining the form while creating something new is the point.

Fujibayashi really only cares about mechanics and Aunoma is totally cool with that

[cdroloisms]

I won't argue abt the nuke ending with you but I still think it's incredibly funny that they staked a major lore segment on Tommyinnit being able to accurately throw a minecraft disc onto a pressure plate a hundred feet away in two tries. Also very funny to me that Dream just built a trap. Go girl jigsaw behavior

the saw trap made me lose it bc an AU version of c!dream that my friend and i had involved this whole thing where he made a saw trap and monologued at two people in his saw trap for awhile and was generally just a dumbass about it. so having a saw trap exist in the lore was really fucking funny

look at least they gave him two tries okay

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

The LP I'm watching of In Stars And Time has reached the point where the loops start accelerating bc Siffrin is checking out more and more and forgetting what happened and. Its absolutly tragic and anxiety inducing and Very Good but hits extra hard bc. Idk if there's a specific trigger for it or if it's after a certain number of loops or what? But it started happening IMMIDIATELY after first loop doing everyone's quest and getting the full Family Run so it's. Sif. Siffrin buddy my dude I get it but let me in

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Live Action Last Airbender really said in order to get rid of the sexism, some other sexism had to take its place but unlike Sokka learning sexism was bad, the new sexism is never addressed and treated like its okay.

[thedroloisms]

But Dream was acting pissy over a smp he himself recognized was very close to Q's project only to let everyone down.

And then liked shady twt towards Tommy, making their beef public. Fans only got angry towards Tommy bc of him (love Dream but he needs to keep his behavior in check bc he always make mess worse)

Wow I can’t believe Quackity invented the concept of having a multi language Minecraft server. The issue wasn’t the server, it was the mod??? Which Dream literally released first. Idk what you mean by acting pissy or what the USMP being shut down as a result of a very obvious negative reaction by the fandom at the time has to do with anything in the current conversation, tbh.

I’ve also addressed quite clearly that Dream was obviously acting emotionally which affected their conflict behind the scenes. And Dream couldn’t like the tweets if they didn’t first exist, lmao? People got mad at Tommy when the guy was literally in surgery. Idk man I think Dream is allowed to have emotions and Tommy is allowed to have emotions bc breaking news they’re both people and their fandoms fucking suck and any friendship has its rougher moments and misunderstandings.

[compacflt]

Okay. Need to know after seeing your graph breakdown. Who told Bush and/or Obama about icemav???????? Please I need answers

i mean all they’d have to do is just look at them.

[blujayonthewing]

so in juniper's campaign we've just found ourselves in a high-stakes situation that I as a player do frankly find stressful and am anxious about, but hey hi also the DM was like 'okay here are the exact mechanics of how this is going to work because I don't want to surprise you with serious repercussions, also here are all the options you will have to try to do something about the situation-- [affected player] what do you think? honest feedback, I don't want it to feel unfair, I want to be clear that I am not just trying to kill your character, and if it ends up being badly balanced we can revisit it down the road' and oh my god I could COLLAPSE and WEEP with gratitude