#latent potential

[aceredshirt13]

gang i have to share this P. G. Wodehouse quote with you all because ever since I found it I can't stop thinking about it. it's from a letter he wrote when he was 78 years old to his friend Guy Bolton (many thanks to P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters)

I have been on the sick list myself, but am better now. Inflamed bladder or chill on the bladder or something, the symptoms being agony when I passed water, as the expression is. It brought back the brave old days when I used to get clap.

he really said "yeah the pain from my bladder issue reminds of the days when I used to have so much sex I repeatedly got venereal disease"

[mielmoto]

yes, yes, i know, i'm EXCRUCIATINGLY babygirl*. but you're only allowed to call me that out loud if we're $@&#ing.

[babygirltangerine]

the implications of shigeru calling prince the white death's daughter when he wasn't there for The Reveal...

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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[personal and vaguely unnecessary whining underneath, just a bunch of undigisted and personal thoughts about my problems with Creation and Art that mostly just concern myself, but here they are anyway woooo!!!!]

feeling some kind of way about having to concede my artistic calling truly is in fanwork, but, yeah. all of my creative energy really tends towards fanwork, and like. not even the popular kind really, but the long, cerebral, pretentious kind of fanwork that is impossibly costly to produce yet comes with an inherently very limited audience at the end of the road. but every time I try to do something else, something "original", I get frustrated and I feel like I have nothing to say, or that what I have to say isn't really worth saying/that I'm only kind of doing this out of fear of being perceived as illegitimate rather than because of actual passion. I have original ideas, but I don't even really like most of them. it's weird, to have your inner creative fire being so intricately connected to something you will never have legal control over, something you can't really show off/take actual pride in, and something that is, by and large, decried as a waste of talent or time or proper artistic merit.

but yeah, it's the shape of my brain. it's what it is. I'm just not sure how to connect this reality to the rest of my creative/career frustrations. weird place to be, don't love that my brain chose to be like this honestly.

[meistoshi]

hmmmm.. storm sorcerer & swap monk for a nature domain cleric class.....

[jaypgartifacts]

october is coming. which means, of course, that it is time for the horrors. tfw the dream self must confront the Nightmare Self

[dutybcrne]

Me, chilling vibing: :)

My brain: So, what if Diluc also had time spent in the Abyss while in his jaunt in Snezhnaya bc he'd fallen to it in trying to escape pursuit by the Fatui/a Harbinger, and thus his particular pursuit of the Abyss Order happened to result of the things he'd seen there and the creatures that tried to prey on his grief/negative emotions, thus wanting to protect the people of Mondstadt from such things. Part of the reason he was able to survive using the Delusion constantly happened to be unwittingly being tainted by it. Though not without price-

[waffliesinyoface]

had a realization just now about Familiar of Zero, aka, a fan-favorite series for crossover nonsense to happen in. It’s got the perfect setup for serious fics, crack fics, romance fics, you name it, you can literally throw any other character into Saito’s role and make wild shit happen.

That said.

The premise of the series hinges on the character in question not immediately going “fuck this, lol” and bailing on the ritual. Once it’s completed you can generally finagle a situation in which they stick around even when Louise is being... well, start-of-the-series-Louise, just by handwaving it as a subconscious compulsion from the Gandalfyr runes. However, there’s still a minute-ish long gap between the character being summoned and Louise completing the ritual with a binding kiss.

Which means some of the characters who’d make for absolutely fantastic disasters in Halkegenia likely aren’t going to let that actually happen.

For example, if you want to summon Kakashi Hatake into halkegenia, there’s three realistic outcomes. He either instantly vanishes and starts doing reconnaissance, he comes out swinging, or he fucks off to go find someone who knows enough to fix this. In none of these situations, is he going to allow this random teenage girl to kiss him, because he’s ten years her senior and does not need this right now. (Any of the akatsuki are in the same boat, except most likely “comes out swinging” are plans A through Z)

[givehimthemedicine]

wait you think max has powers? my money is on will tbh

yeah! my money is on Will too, him having powers seems nearly inevitable, but my theory is Max does as well.

long story short I suspect Max having latent powers was part of why she was targeted (same as Will), and that the act of Vecna'ing is taking someone's powers (with the curse as a prior activation step for those whose powers aren't already strong/active). the kill ritual being interrupted in Max's case could mean a loophole where she still has them in 5.

idk what exactly I think happened Will / Henrywise in s1, but he also pretty clearly got activated in the UD. and then I assume he lost his abilities (or awareness of his abilities) when he died. so I could see Will and Max being in the same boat powerwise in 5 that El was in post massacre.

I have since reconsidered some parts of this post but here's the analysis where I explain the support for my Max thing in detail!

[fstbmp-a]

You know those anime platitudes like "my friends are my power", "this is all of our power", etc etc? Y'know, the very much "I'm powerful because of my friends" schtick? That's quite literal with my interpretation of Amy. Her power is literally increased because of her friends and the purpose with which she does a task.

She might be incapable of doing something one minute and, quite literally because the context has changed to protecting something she loves, be wholly capable of doing so the next. It's not like she Always had this power, it's genuinely because she's protecting that something that made her stronger.

If this girl starts talking about her friends or love, you need to fucking run she's going to crank it up from a 7 to a 10 real quick.

[darling-wendy]

I haven’t really done a deep dive or analysis type post despite there being like 4 topics that have been bouncing around in my head, and I’m still digesting the finale, so it might be a minute before I can get my head around it. But I want to do it. I really love this show, it’s so rich in layers and I love thinking about them all. 

[reginrokkr]

whispers (1) great way to show trust is letting himself be touched on the parts that make him a monster—

[shankhachil]

Get Schooled fandom on tumblr is far far far farrrrrr more horny than I expected given that I already expected them to be dripping

[endawn]

pax’s grandmother, psylia arne, is an altmer and still alive during the oblivion crisis. after it was over, she traveled to cyrodiil from high rock to check up on him but ended up chiding him for wearing his hair in a way that obscured his pointed ears & for wasting his full magical potential. then leaves.

[normaltothemax]

The question of the hour is: do I give Stiles latent magical abilities? Like do I make him a "spark" like he is in so many fanfics?

[ckret2]

So a while ago some friends were talking about fans who claim the Same Coin theory is canon. And I made the mistake of saying:

Do you know who also has tons in common with Bill? Mabel. Yet nobody claims Bill reincarnated as Mabel. …wait now I want a "same coin but it's Mabel" AU. Funniest Bill reincarnation option. The all-seeing arsonist is making macaroni glitter art. The omnipotent tyrant is crying because a unicorn called her a bad person.

And then I overthought it for two months.

So—AU where after death, Bill's soul shoots 13 years into the past and reincarnates as Mabel. I'll call it ✨ Sparkly Coin AU ✨

Don't leave yet. Lemme show you why it works. Behold the eerie amount of parallels in their personalities, dialogue, behavior, mannerisms, tastes...

I could have kept going but my attention span ran out. All right, we all on board now? Convinced we could segue from one personality into the other? Great. Now here's why you should be interested: the juicy post-Weirdmageddon angst potential.

As long as a small fringe of the fandom still thinks Weirdmageddon is Mabel's fault, why not amp that up x100 and have some fun with it?

Is everyone sold now? Great. Let's get into the details. I've got 8 more pieces of art under the read more.

So the AU starts the instant Bill dies. Thanks to invoking his deal with the Axolotl—one way to absolve his crime, a different form, a different time—the Axolotl gives him a new shape and shoots him thirteen years into the past. Apparently, the Axolotl thought it would be very funny to stick Bill in the family that defeated him.

Which probably made for a jarring transition.

(It's fine, she's like 10 minutes old, she probably can't even tell who she's looking at. Not being able to tell who she was looking at is what got her into this situation ayyyy)

When Dipper & Mabel come back from Gravity Falls complaining about this triangular jerk Bill, their parents mention that Dipper's name was nearly Bill. See, after they knew they were going to have a boy, one night their mom dreamed about a visitor—some kind of magic pink salamander??—calling her child "BILL." Then at the next sonogram they found out they were having twins, the girl must've been hidden at a weird angle the first time, and they wanted matching names, so they thought, Bill and Bell. But they didn't really like Bell; but eventually they stumbled on Mabel, so to keep the names matching they switched from Bill to Mason. Isn't that the darnedest thing?

(Of course, Mabel and Dipper assume Bill harassed their parents to try to trick them into naming a kid after him. To be a jerk.)

When Bill meets Mabel, he's unaware that she's his future self—Bill's notably bad at doing things like, say, double-checking to see whether he's going to die anytime soon—but like... he can tell something's up.

Naturally, before visiting Gravity Falls, there were echoes of who Mabel used to be—but nothing anyone would be able to identify without context. All her Bill-ish quirks either smoothed out with time (see: how between second grade and fourth grade Mabel went from being the "freak" to the popular girl in class), or else they were accepted by her family as Mabel-ish quirks.

After they meet (and kill) Bill, they have the context to understand some of Mabel's behaviors... and unfortunately, some of Mabel's latent Bill-ness starts surfacing after she's been directly exposed to her prior incarnation.

The part of the Pines family familiar with Bill thinks the worst case scenario is that maybe Bill's survived and is slowly possessing Mabel; but far more likely, they think this is just some weird way of trying to subconsciously process last summer. Mabel doesn't think she's being weird, you guys are being weird, stop giving her weird looks. They get attacked by one triangle and now she can't wear yellow or pick up macrame as a hobby??

(It's not all red flags and uncomfortable triangle imagery, though. When Stan asks her what she'd like as a gift for some important event, she shyly admits that she thinks she's starting to outgrow her plastic gem jewelry and maybe she's old enough to get her first piece of real gold jewelry, if that's not too expensive? And Stan's never been so proud of her. Thirteen years old and already thinking about buying gold!)

But of course, the real fun starts when Mabel finds out.

That's the face of a girl who's just discovered that she tortured her great uncle. Now imagine running into the brother she possessed.

But I've already spent a million words and thirteen images on this post. If enough folks are interested in the AU maybe I'll expand on it later. Let me know what y'all think.