#mostly astonishment

[lavishtine]

What the fuck do you mean that Richard Speight Jr. directed the hell episode of Dead Boy Detectives, what do you mean??? What do you mean???? What the fuck is this now????

Huh???

I have no words, or not enough of them at least.

[chirpsythismorning]

I have been going over the seasons looking for all the evidence of the whole epic primary color theory connected to El, Mike and Will. And ngl this moment right here had me spiralling.

THE SAD PAUSE UPON THE REALIZATION WILL IS STILL MISSING AND THAT EVEN THOUGH HE HELPED THIS GIRL WHO WAS LOST IN THE WOODS AND HOPED IT WAS A SIGN, IT PROBABLY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. WHICH MEANS HE'S STILL FOCUSED ON FINDING WILL. LIKE WHY DID HE NEED TO TAKE THAT YELLOW CLIP WITH HIM UPSTAIRS?!?!? WHAT WAS THE REASON? WHY IS THE MF RAINBOW IN FRAME?!?! SOMETHING SOMETHING TOO MUCH YELLOW

[sneakystorms]

People throw the "just a bunch of rich people going to each others' houses" meme around a lot when it comes to classic lit but really I cannot emphasize enough how much crime and punishment is just a bunch of poor people going to each others' apartments

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

151. Faust (1926)

[shadow-sector]

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[antennatoheaven]

caleb wittebane keeps making me cry bc this is a character that so far doesn't have a single line in this show. he hasn't even been animated for christs sake. his only appearances so far are paintings of someone's memories, a statue in a park and some sketches his brother made. the effect he had on the world around him, while clearly there, is barely tangible, just some loose bits and pieces tied together trying to make sense of what he might have left behind. does he live on in the images his brother made of him, or has his voice truly been lost to time

[mostlyvoidpartiallyjims]

Me: Being a tomboy my whole childhood

Me: Horrified when puberty hits and feminine physical changes are explained to me.

Me: Has primarily male ocs, prefers role-playing those ocs.

Me: Has no desire to use makeup, wear feminine clothes, and be actively uncomfortable when I have to.

Me: Hate being called pretty, beautiful, gorgeous, instead of handsome.

Me: Keeps making self insert personas. Most of them are nonbinary or male.

Me: Two out of three of my fursonas are not my agab.

Me: Feels sick with envy over masc lesbians, femboys, transmascs, and certain male presentations.

Also me for nineteen years: Nothing to read into =] Perfectly cis women I'm just qUiRkY =]

[wanderingblindly]

For the director's cut, even though I don't really know what a director's cut is, I wanted to know about "All the stars I cannot see" because I love soulmates aus but they tend to be all really similar and I loved how you spun the feelings about having a soulmate

I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS ABOUT THIS FIC THANK YOU FOR ASKING

Re: why it might not feel like a normal soulmate AU

That's probably because it actually wasn't one originally! I had written and outlined a good portion of the fic, but I just couldn't find the... oomf. That last little detail that would make it all fall into place. I kept asking: What is it that brings them back together after Charles breaks it off??

And then I saw the prompt list for Lestappen week and realized that I could spin the prompt into a "reluctant soulmate" idea!!!! Everything fell into place from there -- Charles, sick of feeling like a burden to everyone fate brought into his life, and Max, believing that fate will only do him harm.

Other insider information about the story:

I originally wanted to have an underlying motif of "Native vs Learned Language" tied throughout it, but I couldn't quite get the storyline to move in a way that worked out.

I chose to have only Max and Jos communicate in Dutch because it both showed a familial tie and highlighted how talking with Jos isolated Max (since no one else around them speaks it). I then wanted to have a culminating moment where Max put his foot down and fought back against Jos exclusively in English, as a metaphorical end to their father/son relationship. I have an excerpt of the planned scene below!

"Get out of my room.” Max spoke lowly, his eyes turned towards the floor and his feet together.  “Wat zei je zojuist tegen me?” The anger in Jos’s voice was clear, nearly shaking with it as he stepped deeper into Max’s small driver room.  Max spoke Dutch privately with family. “Get out of my room.” Max repeated, glaring up through his lashes and separating his feet – strengthening his stance. “I said, get the fuck out of my room.” He spoke English for work.

I ended up replacing this climactic route with the quali crash/concussion/Charles's panicked confession :)

Overall, I was heavily inspired by the song GODDAMMITALL. I listened to it on repeat the entire time I wrote this piece, as I tend to do. It's really where I got the idea of Max feeling fundamentally broken, unlovable in a cosmic sense. It's also where I found some of the imagery that kicked this fic off (the childhood rooftop scene, specifically).

This was an insanely long "behind the scenes" peak, but thank you again for asking!!!!!

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I can see the kitchen window from my bedroom.

And the dishes in the sink - usually, I’d have to be doing those dishes, but they are content to sit there while I rest.

Around the corner is my roommate, sitting in the living room, working on some homework. They’ve got a lot of work to do today; college orientation and unpacking their stuff from when we moved in. The house is very messy.

Despite that, they spent hours last night just sitting six feet away from me through the doorway, cracking stupid jokes and chatting with me. They brought me water, snacks, and medicine. We threw plushies at each other. And this morning, they offered to buy my groceries - unprompted! - and then offered to make me lunch - unprompted again! I apologized for inconveniencing them and they just gave me a funny look. “It sucks to cook when you’re sick. Of course I’ll make you food. You’re good.”

It’s funny. Before I drove home, my friends a state over acted the same way. One passed me on the couch while getting ready for work - suddenly I have tea and honey and Emergen-C and Tylenol. I misplaced a plushie - my friend gets up from their computer to help me find her. I run out of sparkling water - someone is wheeling to the local grocery store, and returns with water and candy and chips. Someone is always telling me to rest, even playing a video game so I can lay down and watch while I try to sleep. I’m never left alone to rot. Help is just a question away.

I’m exhausted. My throat is crunchy, I’m coughing, and sitting up or standing for a few minutes drains my battery. I spent a day crying every hour because I was miserable and tired- but this is the best I’ve ever been cared for in my life.

I can’t help it. I’m eternally stunned by how kind friends are to me when I’m sick.

[lesbiansanemi]

Uh oh. I accidentally liked a marvel movie. Losing my media snob credibility immediately

[iguessitsjustme]

Yesterday, 30 minutes before we closed

Manager: Hey Rae, tomorrow can you do this* and this*

Me: Sure no problem. I can get both things done tomorrow.

Today, at work

Me: Oh I have ~questions

Manager: *on PTO*

Me: Whelp

*both just absolutely awful

[divinekangaroo]

Always fascinated by family dynamics where there's actual respect and grandparents and/or parents who are admirable.

[corpsecoded]

i still find when most people talk about the pandemic it’s grossly insensitive. honestly if it didn’t affect you much and you just got to stay home and were soooooo bored and baked bread and made memes just don’t talk about it. don’t even mention it.

[nerosdayinanime]

wanna make my own kny httyd au

[waywardsalt]

okokokok so on the topic of botw/totk link having little to no emotion in cutscenes. ive said it in other posts but in botw it honestly makes sense given his present scenario and you are given a pretty good reason for it in the past. he's under a lot of pressure and he's just trying to do his job. in totk it does not work because he should have new memories now and he has memories with these new sages and with zelda and yet he's all but stonefaced with this people. there are some micro expressions and that's fine. but to me the problem with his lack of emoting in cut scenes is that it makes him very devoid of personality. he doesn't talk, so you're going to get the most of his personality from the way he moves and emotes, but in the cutscenes he just comes off as... dutiful stoic knight. with no meaningful feelings towards these people supporting him.

i'm not asking for him to be animated with all of these flourishes to give him some bombastic personality, but i just want to see him... react to stuff. see him express some extra emotion asides from determination.

people argue against botw/totk link having no expression by pointing out that he DOES emote quite a bit in gameplay and pointing that that there! there's his personality! and yes! i see it! and that kind of makes his lack of emotion in cutscenes worse! he can be and has been animated with personality and preferences and reactions and for some reason none of it is in the story important cutscenes! normally it's the other way around!

this isn't even fully about him having minimal expressions: i get it when people say it's maybe an autism thing, and that makes sense! i personally don't do a whole lot of expression when i'm under pressure, so i get it! that makes sense! i don't necessarily want him to have the facial expressions that skyward sword link had, i just want to see some shred of visual personality out of him in these cut scenes.

i mean... in ocarina of time, when the great deku tree is done telling his little story, you see that link has been sitting down. that's... something! stuff like the way he gets out of his bed and the speed at which he walks or runs in cut scenes... the engines oot and oot3d were done on can't allow for the same kinds of animations as botw/totk, but we still got little bits of personality just out of the way he moved his body. you emote with your body as much as your face. i may have a fairly straight face, but the way i may move gives away how i feel and how i act.

i wanted something like what we got in that first scene under hyrule castle- i wanted more of the moment when he gently takes zelda's torch because he knows her, understands that she may need both of her hands, and is willing to hold this torch for her while she grabs her stuff. you get a bit of personality out of that, you get that he knows zelda and how she works to some degree, and you get that there is trust between them because of this.

as far as i remember, this is the only instance of link being animated in such a way that suggests personality and his relationships with others. he emotes and is animated plenty outside of story beats, so he's very lively in dialogue options and little extra cutscenes, but in story beats, where he is interacting with his friends and discovering history and incredible secrets and trying to help the people he cares about and the world he cares about- it's all washed away, and it's kind of frustrating. i don't want anything big, just subtle little things, like his taking zelda's torch for her. something that isn't just him interacting with his environment and tepidly reacting- something that suggests little things about him and his opinions.