#i wish they had more plot tho

[0605018redactedasmr]

Me: I love plot heavy asmr/audios !!!!

Person: That must mean your favs are the Solaire Clan and the Shaw Pack right ???

Me: no...

Person: Ah got you ! Is it The Balance or Project Meridian then???

Me:...

Person:...

Me: It's the Damn Crew

[vvienne]

I literally woke up in the middle of the night like God will dark rise is so fucking screwed. The line that’s like. “Everyone wanted to kill the Dark King.” What’s the part where he looks at Violet helplessly, haunted, almost pleading for mercy? But of course he reveals nothing of substance to anyone. Elizabeth is too young to understand but the reader knows what “Her relationship with that boy was…unnatural” can mean. Tying him to bedposts? Failing to strangle him? What else? Never not even once seeing beyond a mythological identity Will himself didn’t know he had? What did he think was the reason? That he was just intrinsically hateful? Of course he says nothing. Of course Violet can’t trust him- he’s given her nothing as painfully real as what she’s given him. So he gives her the sword hoping at least he can die at the hands of someone he loved, but even that doesn’t work out - she gives the sword to a Visander still furious at SARCEAN. The pattern continues; no one looks at Will, who vomits when he realizes what’s happened to James, Will who is much of a liar and killer and sneak as Elizabeth accuses but nonetheless wants to be different. Even when he doesn’t remember his own past. There’s no way out for him that doesn’t hurt. Hope this obsession passes soon given the one and a half years of waiting required for book 3

[melodramadreams]

contrary to popular opinion (i think) i love season 3 just as much as season 1&2 but i'm completely ignoring the "chosen one and osirian cant be together" excuse as to why nina did not come back lolz they could have just stopped at her gran getting ill again or something 😭😭😭

[evelynpr]

Hoyoverse's children in a nutshell

Fly me 2 the moon: First and oldest child, long gone RIP. Their legacy is having the first ever Kiana Kaslana

Zombiegal Kawaii: basically dead, hardly anyone even knew about her

Houkai Gakuen 2 (aka Gun Girls Z; GGZ): Next child, oldest, small and niche but dedicated fanbase, still going in CN server. Very gay and depressing, incredibly convoluted lore.

Honkai Impact 3rd: Took after GGZ a lot then became the favorite child. Still gay and depressing but more hopeful. Definitely a lesbian. They also really like flashy combat, philosophy, and science fiction.

Genshin Impact: The popular kid, and spoiled brat. They're very bisexual and very into religious themes and every culture and myth imaginable.

Tears of Themis: Probably the only cishet male child. Their fans are fewer but well fed and satisfied. (I dont know nearly enough about their story and themes to know its personality tho)

Honkai Star Rail: Takes a lot from big sis hi3rd (depressed but hopeful gays), and probably genderfluid. Ppl love it, theyre popular but it doesnt get into their head as much compared to Genshin. They're also really into exposed shoulders and internet memes.

Zenless Zone Zero: New kid on the block with furries and cyborgs. They are the youngest, most punk, and definitely into western action rpgs more than their older siblings.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

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[mikodrawnnarratives]

Probably unpopular opinion:

I would have preferred Narcissa to get the "some people were always meant to be villains" plot line and Magpie to get the actual plot relevance ngl

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2024:

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 1 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2021)

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 2 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2021)

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 3 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2021)

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 4 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2022)

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 5 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2022)

Villains are Destined to Die Vol. 6 by Gyeoeul Gwon & Suol (2023)

My In-Laws are Obsessed With Me Vol. 1 by Yunseol Han & Seungu (2023)

My In-Laws are Obsessed With Me Vol. 2 by Yunseol Han & Seungu (2023)

My In-Laws are Obsessed With Me Vol. 3 by Yunseol Han & Seungu (2024)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[celestial-toys]

been laying here listening to Lucky by Dermot Kennedy on loop for half an hour while thinking about Everything Stays and crying

[skania]

Hi, i love all of your thoughts about akane, aquakane. Just wanna ask ur takes about kana and aquakana? Do you think that they have much more possibility to end up w/ each other? Honestly, i don't like kana (her personality and actions) i don't hate her though and I'm not a big fan of the ships so im okay either way who's aqua gonna end up with, tho if i get to choose ofc it's akane, akane being the endgame means we win 😂

Your thoughts about The scene where kana laugh at akane when she found out that she's akane's idol then saying that she doesn't like her?? Others find it funny cuz kana was just like straightforward, blunt etc. But to me it's insensitive and rude 😭 and their rivalry, i want their rivalry as an actress not of aqua but i feel like kana saying she doesn't like akane or her feel of rivalry is mostly because of aqua, i mean the reason she joined bkomachi is because aqua asked her to then later she leaves the group cuz she really wanted to be an actress?? I only remember some parts of the manga (since i don't want to re-read until the manga is finished) so i wanted to ask you about ur thoughts, i don't want to hate kana but i still can't get myself to like her

Hi there, anon! This post summarizes my thoughts about Aqua and Kana. There's also this one and this one, as well as this one. My thoughts about Kana are here and to a lesser extent, here.

Others find it funny cuz kana was just like straightforward, blunt etc. But to me it's insensitive and rude 😭

I think it's both, Kana was rude and insensitive and she was also blunt and straightforward. That's kind of how she is. Whether that works for you or not depends on your tastes, there's no right answer there. Personally, I did find the scene pretty funny despite feeling bad for Akane, but I can definitely see why you didn't.

i mean the reason she joined bkomachi is because aqua asked her to then later she leaves the group cuz she really wanted to be an actress??

Kana's goal has always been to be an actress, being an idol was just a detour because Aqua manipulated her into it (although if you ask him, he'll tell you he did nothing wrong because he genuinely thought she'd do great as an idol lol). Kana's rivalry with Akane was there before Aqua, he just made Akane more of a sore point for Kana because there she was wasting her time being an idol for him while Akane not only got to date him, she also got tons of roles and acting work.

This is how Kana actually sees Akane:

I'm pretty sure Kana would love nothing more than to be out there giving Akane the good fight acting-wise.

Ironically, she can do so now but I'm not sure if Akane's mind will be in the same wave-length :(

All in all, personally I really like Kana but I understand why you don't like her and that's fine! Different strokes for different folks, you don't need to force yourself to like her anon ^^

[nohoney]

Hello, I'm just wondering if the alternative endings for Us are already up? I couldn't find them in Ao3... And I love your work! this is such a toxic relationship. And cheating Us! Keigo makes my heart drop T-T

hiiii did you mean the side stories for the series after the ending? if so, they aren’t posted and i don’t have a set time for their release anytime soon! i wanna focus on my other stories that i haven’t made progress in a while but i’m so flattered that you enjoyed my works (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡

[void-botanist]

Okay I wanna ask you Blorbo wrapped questions back lmao. I'm also curious about who you thought was coolest, who you rotated in your head the most and who was most fun to write. But also, did you have anyone that was kinda driving you up a wall but then something clicked and you really figured out how to write them? If not, who's still driving you up a wall?

Kendrick! I think you saw that I got too excited and answered my own questions over here but who has been driving me up a wall is an excellent question, lol. There are a few who aren't actively driving me up a wall (what's up with Aza huh) but the people who I still haven't got a hold on are Declan, Horatio, and Sid.

I'm almost hesitant to say Declan because I don't think I have a hard time writing him but I also feel like I haven't fully keyed into the fact that he's an autism creature of a man (and also making it clear that the way the rest of the crew does things behind his back is not them infantilizing him because of it but more complicated than that. They do think he's fragile but that's because of how he's handled his grief). Also like. He literally trusts his crew with his life. But he is so so bad at talking to them and I haven't totally figured out how that all works out.

Oops this got long so here's a cut

Horatio got a character lift in this version. He's always been a sweetheart but that evolved out of him having A Sense Of Justice while also being generally pathetic and wet and soft. Now he has the Standing family deviousness that goes along with it and I don't know how to write that. Because also he looks completely different to Sid, who knows him very well and who he's open with, than he does to Avis, who hates him somewhat for the circumstances of his birth (she tries not to because it's not his fault) but extremely much for being sun-coded in the "cheerful" and "unavoidable and intense" ways. So like, what is he plotting (especially about getting Sorian and Avis back together) and how is he plotting it and how does this dovetail with the happy-go-lucky florist which is equally as much who he is?

Sid on the other hand is challenging in the sense that writing him feels fine. He's a real everyman if you will. Except I don't get his character and I think that's a major stumbling block for AOM as a whole. Yeah, on some level he has to be the sad traumatized guy but like. How does he handle his parents trying to run his life once he takes a massive step outside of their frame of reference? How does this work with Avis's story? (Can I successfully shove these two stories into one thing that is a whole? They have so many themes in common help) In his earliest iterations he was the devil-may-care I'm-doing-my-best guy who mildly tormented Horatio Sense Of Justice and I guess they've sort of flipped? Except Sid is always the Doing My Best guy.

Also when it comes to Anni and Zel, Anni is so easy to write with all the technical stuff and much more challenging with the romance stuff and I don't want it to be that way aaaaaaa

As for who did click, I think I'm getting there with Patience (even though I haven't worked on TFA in a while), Rodney worked better when I just let him be soft, working out Fay's whole divorce history helped make her easier to write (she's not pretending to be the good suburban mom. she just is sometimes and other times she sucks), the fact that Wylie hates himself cracked his whole character wide open, and lately I've realized that a critical part of post-divorce Sorian is that he's tired. He's tired of Avis needling him, always being there but never being there for him. He's not even sure he deserves for her to be. But he kinda wishes she would just leave and move on so he can too.

[guideaus]

i finished looking at the added scenes for the vinland saga anime, and i noticed they added an extra sneak peak to the next arc, but they even foreshadowed the next ones? bc i do not know these characters yet lol

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[lesbianyosano]

Wait so is this like. The manga version also? Or is this like a full metal alchemist oh shit we ran out of things to animate let’s make up our own story now???? Very confused

i have. no fucking clue to be honest but if i were to guess the manga will be similar?? bc im assuming asagiri and harukawa had the chapters done for months now, early enough to give them to the anime team to animate and 111 is just one of them

i really didnt like this episode i think the pacing was bad and rushed so im hoping theres some more info in the manga?? but also. it would suck so bad if we were now behind the fucking anime and unless we get like 3 fucking chapters next month thats whats going to happen

and with the 2 hours later thing, i dont think its an anime thing bc of how it resembles the fit fukuchi is wearing in that last doa official art, but 2 hours????? girl what on earth is going on. this arc has been so pong and exhausting and the writing has been decreasing in quality and were all tired so the idea of sth huge happening soon is just really not that exciting to me. i want to see the political repercussions and the page not another fight, at least not now

but yeah tldr i dont think this is an anime only resolution, at least not entirely. a lot of the things make sense ig (like bram regarding his body and dropping the vampires, i feel like thats the only thing that could have happened) but maybe the pacing will be better and maybe therell be some useful info

[dykefever]

not to stir the pot but i’d love to hear why you didn’t enjoy tsh!

okay hello so i think the sparksnotes of my thoughts can be summed up with my storygraph review that i’ve copy pasted - but i can definitely expand on what i’ve said! under the cut again (tsh fans look away xx)

Donna Tartt creates an incredible atmosphere with vivid imagery and then essentially drifts through the book on that alone. Henry and Bunny were both interesting and dynamic characters (and Richard, to a degree) - everyone else was very one dimensional. Camilla sort of just waifs around and is beautiful and everyone is in love with her (it feels like tartt wrote her as a male fantasy character then failed to make a point about it in any way like she was almost accidentally written that way. sorry!!)

A huge amount of the action is told through dialogue which gets incredibly tedious and boring. There are an exceptional amount of scenes that aren’t really about anything other than sustaining that dark and beautiful atmosphere or showing dynamics between characters that don’t really … say anything - about the characters or the story or overarching themes (there are scenes that do achieve this too but just so many that don’t). What was achieved in 500+ pages could have been done with less, and with far more impact. I don’t mind a scene with no particular purpose than to show the characters/ who they are/ how they interact but as said before, most of the characters are one dimensional!! it’s an impressive feat considering how often the core group are on the page! I just finished this book feeling frustrated and bored - although the last 10% picks up.

+ i think i’ve said if i didn’t have such high expectations i would have been able to enjoy it more for what it was! to me, it read as a book by an author wanting to show they were a good writer - and donna tartt is in a lot of respects, she has beautiful prose - and how almost… smart? they are? also why was julian barely in it i feel like he could’ve had far more impact ALSO i think the julian/henry dynamic could have been explored that could have been so interesting

[angryteapott]

Every time they bring up that the Nanyin people all have crazy evil witchcraft and were "wiped out" 100 years ago and as soon as someone is from Nanyin the leads assume they're guilty and then the leads are right they are all secretly evil because they're the scary evil foreign tribe. It's getting to the point where I'll probably quit the show.

[mazojo]

Guys I finished the supernatural aliens not aliens demogorgons dnd something something show !