#like I've got a plot and shit

[tinkrtailrsldrspy]

Let's Get That Man Pregnant!

Okay. This is probably the toughest battle we've faced yet, people. Ford against Dean Winchester?? Guys. Dean just beat Kirk.

Do not underestimate the Supernatural fandom! Go vote now!

>The Poll<

(Also, there's been another month added to gestation!)

[whatwhywhowherewhen]

SVSSS au in which in denial trans woman Shen Yuan transmigrates into a not medically but very much always has been socially transitioned trans man Shen Qingqiu. Shen Yuan internalized transphobia double reach-arounds him(...her?)self into coming out to all the Peak Lords and the sect and the cultivation world because "he" (she?) can't just not reveal the Scum Villain was a woman all along?! What a plot twist that is definitely the most important and relevant thing.... she... is meant to discover. System: *side eyes*

They do not have transphobia in PIDW, but the only person who knows Shen Qingqiu isn't cis is Yue Qingyuan. The Peak Lords all think Shen Qingqiu has just come out as a trans woman, and are mostly just surprised Shen Qingqiu has a gender that isn't Rage and Spite. Yue Qingyuan is surprised Xiao Jiu has switched genders??? Somehow?? Qi divinations can do that now???? Mu Qingfang is surprised when Shen Qingqiu refuses the Ever Blossoming Transformation Peony on the basis of "of course not! Haven't I already said I have one of... those things..." and now neither Mu Qingfang or Shen Yuan have any idea what conversation they're having

Shen Yuan expects this to massively change the plot, and is actually prepared when Binghe goes goo-goo eyed. However, she fully believes she will be a plot-relevant but mostly ignored redeemed villain wife, and is still shocked when Binghe is heartbroken and pleading rather than just betrayed and seductive. "Binghe why do you care more about this old crone than all the pretty little sisters vying for your attention huh?!?! And if you want me so bad why am I still in the dungeon!?" The treatment (which she doesn't know is how Binghe acts when actually hurt and caring about a person rather than just wanting to win) leads her to fear she might have imagined Binghe's feelings and have an angst session about it, leading to the escape attempt and the self-sacrifice

She also has to contend with sexism and heteronormativity in the trial. Every motivation is attributed to romance and irrationality. Shen Qingqiu is being accused of being in love with Qiu Jianluo and murdering him out of jealousy when she was engaged to Qiu Haitang instead. Shen Yuan: "that doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about Shen Jiu to argue"

During the years when Binghe's in the abyss, Yue Qingyuan tries to talk to her about what she's comfortable with now compared to before the "qi divination", during which she gets the big hint that Shen Jiu was not, in fact, secretly a woman. Confirmation comes from a chaotic and mutually politically incorrect conversation with Shang Qinghua (tentatively, he would be a trans man in his first life who was happy with his gender presentation, but cis in the second. He feels weird about it and is on his own journey to realize gender identity and presentation do not have to match up to societal expectations. He/him gender-exploring queen.)

Shen Yuan, rather than having to accept being gay with and for the protagonist, has to accept that she is a woman even though the Scum Villain wasn't. She still grows a mushroom body with Shang Qinghua, meant to look like "Shen Yuan The Boy", in order to get back to her "real" gender (and escape all the awkwardness of Being Perceived, both as Shen Jiu (oof) and as a woman (which she really is? Isn't? Can't be??? (...always was?))). As "peerles cucumber", she then has to accept it doesn't feel right anymore, and with some deeper reflection maybe never did (but that's just because [excuse excuse excuse]!!!). Anyway she willingly returns to the Shen Qingqiu body to live as a woman, peak lord, and the only wife of Luo Binghe. The end is just her beginning.

All this chaos and Shen Jiu is just in the modern world staring at the "Peerless Cucumber" like "...nice"

[ssaalexblake]

Why is 13's regen abt a white dude and why is 15's regen abt a white dude when do we get rid of that white man that just Cannot let other people have their own moments I swear this is so old, like really, it's a tale as old as time where white dudes are the center of the narrative and universe and everyone caters to them, and I'm so bored of it being celebrated. It's not innovative, it's not new, it's not brave.

[goldensakuma]

i am in. Immense Pain

[onebizarrekai]

I've been going back and forth trying to decide whether I want to make the old ibvs oneshots be available on ao3 but every time I look at them I go into a state of shock at how… absolutely teenager they are

also this

[ciel-phantomhives-world]

Honestly, the trope of having an intense cliffhanger, only for the next chapter to solve it in a very un serious "setting" or less dramatic way is getting very old, overplayed and BORING, most importantly...

[asgardian--angels]

regarding those key frames that were just released, I'm so glad that's not what we ended up getting jfc

[drop-dead-dropout]

here have a random chunk of text from my drafts featuring a totally normal and mentally stable kim kitsuragi (tw self-injury, blood, and general unwellness)

[the-way-astray]

why don’t you like grizel?

super subjective reasons

she is such a hyper girlboss. like to an extent that goes even farther beyond shannon's typical. she's a classic case of shannon's tendency to write girlbosses instead of good female characters. (yes i know della is like this too but it's hard to find a female character that isn't like this in kotlc and i have made up lore for della so. lmfao.) also she insults an entire gender and god i despise men vs. women writing it makes me cringe out of my soul because it's either misogynistic or it's used to try to create a cool girlboss character (of which grizel happens to be the second) and it never works. i stand by the idea that true feminist narratives don't need to rub their feminism in your face with men vs. women writing but i digress. also this happens in legacy. like okay i thought the sexism was gone with the first few books but i guess it's still here okay i see how it is

her introduction to the series very much reads like shannon realized sandor had been around for like three books (technically two) and we still knew little to nothing about him besides the fact that he's a tough goblin warrior. so she gave him a love interest to try to "humanize" him, so to speak. grizel exists entirely to be sandor's girlfriend. it annoys me greatly. she is not a character by herself. seriously. name a characteristic or piece of lore of hers that isn't encapsulated by "she flirts with sandor and also makes the occasional snarky comeback". and shannon could, you know. we know that she was offered a position in the queen's guard but turned it down for a lost cities job because sandor was there. do you see what i mean. this could be an interesting piece of lore but instead shannon uses it to make her character revolve entirely around sandor. it annoys me so so so so bad. she's like ro in that sense, except instead of her only personality trait being "sokeefe shipper that occasionally snarks about the lost cities/sparkles", it's "sandor's girlfriend that occasionally makes a snarky comeback generally" idk it's just not something that appeals to me personally . . . the bodyguards in general are not very fleshed out but grizel annoys me the most because she's in the story enough to be fleshed out and yet she is not

so to put it together we have a hyper girlboss in the place of an actually well written female character who revolves entirely around a man . . . she's kind of an encapsulation of my main problem with most of the female characters in kotlc (della included . . . with her i just make up my own lore so i like her more but canon della leaves a lot to be desired)

[pen-papers]

Accidentally clicking QUIT instead on CONTINUE after finally reaching the top of Death Mountain in OOT

Remembering that there's the secret path back to Goron city through the Lost Woods

[the-red-hoodlum]

chat, i did it! missed my alarm (that was set half an hour before i usually get up so i could have some more time-) but i still got it read in time!! yay :3

[taniushka12]

I'll finish editing my fic this week for sure for real this time, nevermind the fact that I can only edit a top of 200 words per day at max and also that I started my classes this week, I WILL finish it

[thenixkat]

Oh no, I am most certainly not reading the new 52 run for Jaime. Everything I've seen and heard about it sounds like straight ass and edge and I actually like myself.

True I'm having a terrible time with Jaime's Rebirth runs cause it's all just kinda bad as far as I'm concerned compared to how well done the 2006 run was. And there's so many decisions that come off as bad or poorly thought out. But at least it's not 'what if we rehashed this entirely but several times worse just because we're edgy now'.

Like the Graduation Day/Scarab War stuff feels like a first draft that could have used a second and third draft b4 going to print what with the 'yer retreading territory that was already done pretty solid in a way that feels vaguely insulting' vibes. And I didn't like the art style what with the weird shit it was doing with people's mouths/expressions and how distractingly shiny it was trying to be.

Also, I'm currently like 12 issues deep into the 2016 run for Jaime and it's really bad. Like? The art? Shit tier. Whitewashing half these people, many don't look like the people they're supposed to be, and somehow the worst attempt at drawing a person with freckles I've ever seen. The writing? Ass tier. Like damn yall did Dan dirty. Dirty dirty, good lords, giving the vibes of gotta rush through these fuckers to get to the version of the Blue Beetle we wanna work with in a way that feels disrespectful to ALL of the Blue Beetles. And the whole 'let's retcon Khaji Da back to being magic even tho there's two previous runs of it being alien tech oh wait oops we wanna do a Reach storyline so we'll retcon it back to being alien tech later' is... certainly something.

I know that when I pick up a Blue Beetle book I wanna see fuckin Dr. Fate (I don't, I don't care for Dr. Fate's whole thing of enslaving its host for the greater good and no one freeing poor Mr. Nelson gods damn that's horrifying how many heroes are ok with that) and an Atleantian and magic shit for like 8 issues without any of Jaime's rogue gallery showing up other than a bastard version of the Posse that feels like canon fodder based on their designs alone. (/sarcasm)

[menstits]

leo help i got majorly back into genshin for like 3 months and i’ve been having a great time i speedrun both sumeru and fontaine but the natlan story quest is so goddamn boring i want to drop it again 💀 but i would miss kaeya and yanfei !! crossing my fingers so tight for the sabzeruz festival because oh my god it’s so dire rn. why are they doing this to me

Hi!! No literally sorry... Like it's extremely dire for real, I'm pushing through it exclusively because Natlan so far is very Abyss related and my interest in genshin is extremely Kaeya-centric so anything Abyss related might come up again later with Khaenri'ah and such but so far it's like... Everyone in the main cast so far is ugly and whitewashed and the lore is confusing and the saurians also piss me off. Like. I was talking about this to my boyfriend too the other day but i feel like by keeping everything about Natlan under wraps for 4 whole years and then delivering something like extremely sub par and disappointing they did like the opposite of building hype for it like... for every other region we had little details sprinkled in since very early on and npc dialogue to go off of so we knew just enough about them to form a mild interest in the region before it came out but everything about Natlan feels very out of nowhere... I honestly just hope they let me see Kaeya and his ugly brother again soon or Childe because truly all i care about at this point are the same 3 characters i've been obsessed with since day 1. The only thing i'm interested in for now other than the Abyss stuff is Capitano because . He's been on my mind since the harbinger reveal teaser video dropped but i'm worried they're gonna fumble it with him too. In any case unless they improve the skin tone situation i won't be pulling on any banner for the foreseeable future even if i am and have been f2p since day 1 cause i hope their banners flop.

[cathymee]

ok. i guess

[faerune]

lowkey obsessed with the dynamic between triss and mystra