#narration details

[incandescent-creativity]

Do you ever write a sentence and then realize “Nah, that’s too self aware for you” and backspace a bunch of times.

[lilybug-02]

Eimmet High...temmiE high. OMG!

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Next update may take...much longer! I have finals and an internship and not to mention I have to draw- A LOT :')

[feelo-fick]

OH LIKE MONEY sorry i was just confused cause you sounded so sincere

(it wasnt that funny though i still dont really get it...)

EDIT, JUST IN CASE, IM GOING TO ADD THIS :

[fridgrave2-0]

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

[foxstens]

kevin was signed to the baltimore exy team before he broke his hand

[theballadofmars]

"I want more unreliable narrators" bitch you can't even handle these three

[vellichorom]

" Trapped in the back without a trusty, doting friend to call upon? Dealing with a bout of head trauma or a few broken bones? Perhaps you're on the brink of your demise? Might I interest you in this wayside's latest & greatest achievement since those mystery prize slide things? A drink of holy water, to cure what ails you! " -- Thierry Ellis-Baker, recently self-appointed, resident Backrooms salesman.

// A THIERRY DRAWN UP FOR @deviousnarrator's DRINK TREND!

featuring all KINDS of details in needless irony & symbolism that I will feel particularly smug about. apparently the fandomized concept of the backrooms now features some kind of health potion in the form of nut water? why should i be surprised? but it absolutely sounds like something thierry would market himself, if not just get in on, just to trick the naïve & stupidly brave or trusting; which, of course, made me HAVE to dress him like an old swanky 50's salesman, for the bit

also highlighting my favorite detail another blogger ( @/savefrog ) mentioned about the concept once that i promise IS related to this choice in drink

[gayofthefae]

Mike was supposedly avoiding Will to spend time with El but we later hear that he did, in fact, notice Will's behavior. But he also is actually avoiding El. We know his mind isn't on her, but he also avoids looking at her all day. He's avoiding eye contact all while we're being unreliably told his full attention is on her.

Something about guilt and not being able to look people in the eyes...

[coffeenonsense]

best thing about the vampire chronicles is canon is basically a fun guessing game bc pretty much every narrator is a horny mentally unstable lying murderer and the plot is incidental to whatever gay drama they're currently undergoing

"but this book says" that book is narrated by lestat he's not fucking paying attention lmao he is busy being A Nuisance and A Slutty Slutty Terror

[spindlewoed]

You have to understand. I don't "ship" Harry with the smoker on the balcony, I think whatever they have going on canonically is way funnier and touching than anything anyone could come up with.

There is so much within the dynamic itself. It’s a middle aged man and a younger man who are nothing alike and everything like each other. It’s the smoker being the person that kickstarts Harry’s sexuality journey anew, seeing Harry’s fascination with him and being amused by it because (aside from Harry being probably the first man in a while who’s managed to leave him dumbfounded in a positive way) the smoker *knows* what’s happening in Harry’s mind and as he puts it, it’s beautiful.

Don't get me wrong, the mutual attraction is there. The smoker flirts with Harry every other two lines (girl why the fuck are you flirting with a cop you're insane. I'm obsessed with you) yet makes fun of him in the same breath while Harry is absolutely clueless the whole time because he's too busy staring at his abs. Couldn't come up with anything funnier if I tried.

I love this high drama check, this is exaclty what it feels like to speak to clueless boomers who have no idea what they're talking about. Still, once Harry admits that he might be part of the "underground" as he puts it, the smoker is immediately excited and encourages him to think about it. It's very sweet.

(I know everyone has probably seen this dialogue 100 times by now but I love the phrasing here. literally twink_boutta_pounce.jpeg)

And as a side note I really like this emphaty check in response to Harry's little breakdown after the failed suggestion check the first time you meet him. The smoker like damn he just like me fr.

I don't think more smoker interactions were needed at all or that they would ever talk again post-game but it's interesting to think about what other converations they could have, even just so we could learn a bit more about him. They both have an interest in art. They're both stuck in a place they can't leave if they wanted to and yet find beauty in it, they both have regrets about past relationships. They both find talking with the other a charming experience in a way or another. If I want to be indulgent, they both could benefit from learning about what being gay means for a younger/older generation, especially since they both have such different life experiences with their identities.

It's all fanfic talk, and obviously no cops at pride and so on but their interactions did make me think about community and recognition through the other. A flirt for the sake of a flirt, a “maybe in another lifetime” but this lifetime is good too because they did meet and leave an impression on each other before parting ways. That's *beautiful* too.

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

[rukibur]

Growth

(Btw, please go read the fic this fanart is based off of ITS SUCH A FUN ADN INTERESTING READ PLEASE SHOW LOVE TO THE AUTHOR ASJHDSHD)

[rick-ety]

Looove old men in dresses. Giggle

[lexumpysfunland]

Restaurant

another day on this road trip hehe. I went slightly on a different thing, they may have been going to a restaurant but Walter wasn't happy with what they initially ordered and decided to make the food instead so yeaaah. some had the chance to taste what he made :D

after all, Walter is quite passionate when it comes to making food. he puts his heart into each meal he makes~

Fit @employee052 's Narry and sona (if I'm not wrong), @marionette-j2x 's Stanley, and @bugenthusiast0 's narry

have a little bonus because I made that

[aroaceleovaldez]

HoO is so funny to me when you actually think about the ages of all the characters. Octavian is 18. Percy and Annabeth are 16, almost 17. Reyna is presumably 16. Frank just turned 16, Jason’s about to turn 16. Leo and Piper are like 15. Hazel’s like 14 and a half, and Nico is 13.

The Death Sibs are both the youngest and oldest on the Argo II. Octavian is a college freshman getting into petty drama with a bunch of high schoolers. He gets told to shut up at one point by a random 8th grader. Everyone is scared of the 8th grader. We Sent A 13 Year Old To Superhell and he came back weirder, Just Like Middle School. TLH was just three high school sophomores being sent to do a task and it going Exactly Like You’d Expect. Percy’s the only demigod on the ship who can legally drive (though Reyna gets her drivers license at some point before TOA). What Is Happening.

[finchers-ipad]