#mal: musing

[qrowscant-art]

girl help he is having an awakening

[orwillidrown]

instead of watching santa claus is going to high school crossed, i’ve decided to see how far i can walk into the witchwood without feeling physically ill to prep for the camping trip i guess i’m going on

if this is the last thing i ever post, the ape-man got me

[littlequeenies]

March 22, 1974 - May Pang, John Lennon and Mal Evans attend the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Rocky Horror Show' stage musical at The Roxy Theatre.

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Friends - I have finished MAFS. It’s now in the very capable hands of @squintclover but I can’t wait to share it with all of you ❤️

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

What are your thoughts on Mal's route in Blades 2?

OOOH this is such an interesting question! Tbh I'll probably have a different answer by the end of the book but in short, I think that the idea was interesting but the execution was flawed. I feel like that could be said about most of the love interests but it's very prominent with Mal.

First, taking this route with Mal isn't out of the question. I always saw it like this: the other LIs have one barrier (getting them to open up to us). However, Mal had the additional barrier of having a ~facade~ hiding his vulnerability. It's one of the reasons the finale of his route in B1 was so satisfying. Simply put, it would be harder to reach his true self because it becomes a two-step process rather than a one-step process. I'm not trying to reduce people's complicated natures to numerical values, it's just a metric I'm using to explain my thought process.

I bring this up because MC's disappearance reinforces Mal's belief that prevents him from getting too close to anyone. That wall that he's built around his heart that has slowly fallen? It's back up now and even stronger. If MC of all people, the Savior of Morella, left him, who's to say they won't leave again even if they've returned? Case in point, I'm not super upset if they did this for the sake of the plot, but they didn't give this part of the story enough weight, which makes it harder to take seriously. This leads to my biggest problem with Blades II so far: its pacing issue.

Personally, they didn't balance the ratio of plot to emotional development as well as in the first book, which had a clear goal in each chapter that drove the plot forward and gradually expanded on the relationships between characters without the paywall. From a reader standpoint, it feels like they had too much and not enough story for a second book, if that makes sense. This makes B2 feel almost stagnant. In fact, it feels like there is a ratio of filler episodes with a plot-heavy episode every few chapters which is kind of frustrating?? I do want to emphasize that I am grateful for Blades coming back and I don't wanna seem like someone who is complaining for no reason a new book is better than nothing in this case but I wanted to bring it up because it's clearly affecting the LI routes. They weren't given enough time to emotionally process what happened, nor did they address how that negatively impacted them, they just ignore it.

Basically what I'm saying is it would have been different if Mal was apathetic and it was addressed in the story in a way that doesn't feel like a casual side effect. Personally, if I was him, I would be too worried to have MC out of my sight lol.

Idk if that was phrased well but yea <3 I'll make a post about my final thoughts on Blades II so consider this post a preview to that.

[lingeringscars]

I really love the differences between mal and alina. Both were soldiers, but alina was a cartographer. Mal was trained to be a weapon, and he dedicates himself as such. He's a weapon for alina to use (I am become a blade), and alina tries and tries to turn herself into a weapon, but she's never as good at it as mal.

When Sergei betrays them and they have to adapt from their plans, alina searches for and fights for her people. They are all concerned with getting alina out, but alina puts them in front. Mal is beside alina and willing to die for them, but he's fighting and focused on shooting his target.

Alina looks for stigg; mal says there isn't time. Alina thinks about all the losses; mal (tries and fails to) pushes them from his mind. Alina thinks about how she needs to keep moving and fighting and can't let their emotions get the best of them, but alina is all emotion.

[locallibrarylover]

day 21: starting off friend week with a drawing of marvin for @sheblindedmewithscience ^_^!! colored via rainbow brush

id: a half body digital drawing of Marvin, a robot. he is smiling and looking to his left. Marvin's right hand rests on his hip while his left is raised as if he is waving at someone. the background is transparent. end id

[saltyunordinaryprincess]

no matter how powerful, all curses can be broken. ( @bluebellestorybrooke , from Belle for Mal )

@bluebellestorybrooke

Maleficent looked up from her ancient spellbound to cast a simple look at the petite librarian; the prized possession of the Dark One. "You have such a chipper outlook on such bleek circumstances for a doll living in such dark surroundings... what did you say your name was again, dear?"

[stardustedstories]

Lifeweaver: [exists]

Keyleth:

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smile!

[orwillidrown]

Mal, can you hear me? Whatever you do stay away from Grace. Please. She- she killed me, she killed Jace, apparently she killed Max in another timeline. Please stay safe.

grace chasity?

like, wears two swimsuits during swim gym and still won’t get in the pool, grace chasity?

protests outside the sex ed classrooms, grace chasity?

censors already censored curse words, grace chasity?

you’re telling me that grace chasity murdered people?

[tracingpatternswrites]

Brain dump.

All I’m asking for is some fucking brain space to write and people I work with to do their fucking job without me holding their hands every bloody step of the way. They are ALL adults and have been around longer than me, though honestly I have no idea how.

I’m going away this weekend and I’ve been looking forward to it for so long but right now all I want to do is hide away at home without talking to anyone and just write.

I know the trip will be good and fun but honestly, I’m just so tired. And my brain is full of MAFS but I don’t have time to let it out.

I’m just tired and annoyed and frustrated and a bit sad.

Adulting is hard, you guys, I do not recommend.

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

Everyone in Blades has amazing hair wtf doesn't this book take place in the middle ages or sm ?

[daydreamdoodles]

Descendants Crimes Against Humanity (/aff) pt 1

The wigs getting slowly straighter throughout the triology

[lingeringscars]

Mal & alina adopt Misha. They also adopt a cat. Or 5.

[jekyll-doodles]

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All my ocs/fan ocs/shared ocs, some newly redesigned. Not including original designs of canon characters (like my batim employees),one-off original designs, or designs I made for someone else's character.

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