#isnt actually spoilers but still tagging

[kitty-kedi]

I do/will not blame you for watching "for the future " since it's been leaked. I shouldn't be making this and we should all be getting ready to watch it in two weeks, but Disney decided, "na, let's ruin the fun for this fandom and it's creator."

Now if you are lucky enough not to have seen too many or even little to no spoilers. Then the respectful thing to do is to wait two more weeks until it officially airs.

But the world isn't that black and white, some people have already been spoiled by things they couldn't avoid.

The owl house is my biggest hyper-fixation at the moment so as soon as I opened both tic-tok and Tumblr, spoilers attacked me. Most weren't even tagged with a spoiler warning, at first I hadn't even realized they were real. but by the time I do the damage had been done.

Dana was rightfully tired and disappointed that this happened since she is the creator of this show, but that also means she wants her fans to enjoy what's she's made.

Maybe it's different for you, but spoilers take the magic away from watching something for the first time, since well it wouldn't be the first time. and in the case of spoilers you would feel more dread everytime you see them, instead of joy with actually watching the episode. Wich is why I beg you, please do not leak anymore clips, if you see it enjoy it for yourself all you want, but there are others who want to wait, so be respectful of that for them and for Dana.

But for the people who have been spoiled and may not be able to avoid not getting any more big ones for two weeks. Why make the first watch less enjoyable? Don't freak out about it online until the 21st so you don't give the people deciding to wait more trouble. But if you feel you would more enjoy it now, especially if you've already been spoiled to an extended degree, go for it, I dont/won't blame ya.

[shatterdome-underscore]

I know we're all collectively sold on "Sparrow takes a d100 of psychic damage when oakworthy happens" but have we considered Jodie or Scam taking one look at Normal and telling their son, who is half chaos deity and also the prince of hell, "you know you could do better, right?"

[fandom-101]

Ya know, the one thing im really worried from the show is Grover.

Like, characterization wise, they are doing a bang up job with him! And Aryan delivers everytime. No notes and no complaints.

But where is any of his satyr side of things?

The bleating he does when he is nervous. Any of the nature magic he can do. Him playing his pan flutes. The fact tht he can read emotions. THAT HE CAN SMELL MONSTERS! Like ?? where is all of tht??

(I am very glad tht they added Pan and the searchers like this cuz i was afraid it'd be too late to mention this)

[crimeronan]

declan referring to adam as "the person ronan cared about most in the world" is a sentiment that's theoretically sweet and might even be true on a good day but i think it's mainly just the BEST use of dramatic irony in any piece of media ever it is SO FUCKING FUNNY SCREAM . declan out here pacing and clawing at the yellow wallpaper or whatever like "why didn't he call you, his loving boyfriend who he loves so much, something must be REALLY WRONG" adam sitting kubrick stare white knuckle grip in the taco bell drive thru or whatever like "yeahhh haha unfoooooortunately he just accused me of killing him to death and then told me to fuck off and die like the evil sack of backstabbing shit i am. i think.... you might wanna............ try gansey,,"

[teaspoonofdragons]

Come on guys.

[mitskiluvr]

watched the haikyu movie thinking it was going to be normal but unfortunately i came out battered bruised bleeding and 5 years younger, back in 2019 watching haikyu on my couch and trying to get my sister hooked on it

[devotedlystrangewizard]

the school arc to me is so good because it drags ciel out of his position as a powerful figure and literally places him in the shoes of the person he could have been. the circus arc ALSO drags him out of his position as big bad queens watch dog/head of the phantomhive estate but the school arc feels like a mockery of a future that never was. this is what he could have been had his parents not died. and even then its NOT because he will never be that kid.

he never was.

[coern]

earlier when I said I was normal now while playing isat that was a lie I'm miserable trying to fall asleep. wtf. I'm on some type of shit. in this moment you are loved. friendship is magic and solves anything type of thoughts I have here

[duckuwu]

i think it's really fucking significant that ashton told imogen, to her face, that they believe she's their leader.

"you, especially you and laudna... everybody. it's not destiny, we matter."

"that's why i'm fighting for you."

ashton who was lost / abandoned / left behind / the lone survivor so much they gave up on letting themself care. who had given up on so much. ends up finding this woman who had almost given up in a different way, a darker way. who is forced to hear all the worst thoughts / intentions of everyone around her.

this woman who, since the moment ashton met her, has shown over and over how full of love her heart is. her intentions the most selfless possible, who does little acts of kindness to complete strangers, acts that others wouldn't notice. who is fiercely loyal and proven over and over that no one ever gets left behind or forgotten to her.

the world has hurt her over and over, but she still persists, she still cares. she still loves.

the gods have never done anything to give ashton any sort of belief.

but ashton believes in imogen. (and in imogen and laudna.) (and that their group is going to do their damnedest to do whats right.)

hope to the hopeless. faith to the faithless.

idk seems really significant to me. and i love it.

[tunas-spriting]

little five minute edit :)

[luxsea]

i heard karlachs monologue was rlly good but holy shit i genuinely dont think i'll be the same after that

[arti-cat]

ill post au drawings ive done i Think! first one is tempest au stuff and the second is slugcat au stuff, both being made by me and @calameowri :] the comic Will be based off a joke comet sent me about sigs falling for suns. Literally. Because his structure collapsed onto suns'

[sonknuxadow]

everyone keeps saying that sonic superstars was the very first time theyve ever done metal amy but archie sonic readers know the truth

[lokh]

i want qifrey to suffer <- actually likes him as a character

[tea-kettlezztoo]

Honestly, I'm really happy to see Nichelle has something going on for her this season. I was worried they wouldn't have followed up on it, and I'm glad to see she could actually be a strong competitor. She didn't do a lot last season, but seeing her be very cringefail made me start thinking some thoughts on what they could do with her

But I also do think it would have been interesting to see them have Nichelle find a different skill. Instead of using her athleticism, she uses her charm or maybe even manipulation this season. If she can't be tough enough, she CAN be smart and charming enough

Though maybe it wouldn't really work, given nobody would believe her. Her whole career she was lying to everyone. Which I don't fully fault her for and think it's ridiculous she lost her career for it, given she is literally a child star. Ik its Total Drama not that serious, but whatever. It's mildly messed up when you're me and look into the dumb reality TV cartoon too much

Idk I do think it would have been interesting to see Nichelle find a different skill that still makes her a strong competitor in her own way

[always-a-joyful-note]

Thinking some fandom thoughts and then about ORV's portrayal of an author-character-reader relationship with the story and realising how....lacking at times the whole death of the author perspective on media can be.

(Turned out to be long and rambly so I put it under a cut. If you like death of the author, probably not for your worldview? Also, beware major ORV spoilers if you care about that)

Like, perhaps I'm misinterpreting something here, but in ORV, we had these three characters plus an entire system that gave us a look into the relationship between author/reader/character. And focusing on the Han Sooyoung, Kim Dokja, and Yoo Joonghyuk dynamic, I realise that none of them really died. Pushing asides Joonghyuk and Dokja for the moment (as I am talking about death of the author), we have Han Sooyoung whose consciousness faded after finishing Ways of Survival.

However, I don't know if we can really call that death of the author, really. Because Sooyoung's whole purpose in writing ORV, her authorial intention, was to save Kim Dokja's life...which she DID. And even after the story left her hands, her intentions were imprinted into the story itself. Yes, Dokja realised that the system was lenient to him because of (spoiler alert) his status as the OD. But at the same time, I think that Han Sooyoung's authorial intent to keep Dokja alive with WoS can also be taken as a factor in the system's leniency towards our reader.

And just jumping from that back to my original point, while death of the author IS fun and can be awesome for reinterpreting stories that the author may have intended as problematic (to our modern standards, at least), to separate the actual story itself from its creator seems just....a tad disrespectful to the author.

Or maybe disrespectful isn't the right word. Like, say, even if said author is objectively the worst of humans, there remains the fact that the story in essence has part of them embedded into it. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, to only give "morally okay" writers the allowance of people who put a part of themselves in their works. Any writer, even those who are writing for money imo, can't help but put part of their own selves into their story...and to separate the story from the author just because we hate the author or hate their beliefs seems a bit counter-productive. You can't just say, after all, that this author's vulnerability in their writing is okay because it's Correct but this other guy's vulnerability should be ignored because it's chalk full of Problematic Content.

But again, that's not to justify authors you dislike or the deeply wrong messages implied in their works. Especially those that could easily be shooed away by employing death of the author. But I think I'd consider fanfic or analyses that ignore authorial intent and their message to be something...new entirely? (Best way I can say it is something something death of an author employed to help the reader create their own narrative inspired by someone else's story rather than it being used to ignore author intent and claim our interpretation is what canon actually meant).

I think there's a saying in music as well as writing that you could play the same exact score or write the same story, it's just that things will come out different depending on the player or writer. (That's not a perfect comparison because the player/musician who WROTE the score could be considered a reader/author relationship...the point is more that the same thing will look different in the hands of different people. And that just as the reader will interpret something in their own way when reading/re-reading (another ORV reference), the author also has placed in their own interpretation and intent in that own work...which should at worst be respected because they DID make that content (and then we proceed to brutally revise it to make something we like better xD) or at best be taken as "word of god" for lack of a better term)

Not sure if any of this makes sense, and I definitely don't have any factual evidence to back up this opinion, but it was just something I was thinking of.

TL:dR? Death of the author is FUN and actually pretty cool but I think the things coming out of it are new(ish) things/works entirely, and og author's beliefs/intentions are important to consider for that text they wrote in of itself.