#plot elements

[blogjhm]

I'm very sure these are the same thing which is why the plot for Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie was reused for Dora And The Lost City Of Gold. I think Craig Bartlett the creator of Hey Arnold! should sue the story/screenwriters Tom Wheeler Matthew Robinson and Nicholas Stoller for stealing his ideas.

[angel-fruitcake]

watching supernatural like

[fairsweetlonging]

something i wanna say on shen yuan taking over shen jiu's body is that i often see mentions that while everyone knew, nobody did anything because they liked shen yuan better, and i think it's important to say that they did do something about it, but just couldn't find the cause.

shen qingqiu went to wei qingwei's sword trials terrace three times to try to pull hong jing, yue qingyuan himself tested him on demonic qi and mu qingfang did ample research to try and find the reason behind the sudden change, but none of them could find anything. only after all that did they consider the option that it could be amnesia, and then they decided that it might be better not to actively reinstate his memories because they thought the new shen qingqiu was more pleasant. but, again, that was only after they couldn't find any evidence that this wasn't shen qingqiu. it's still pretty tragic that they decided they liked someone else better, but in their defense, they didn't know this was actually someone else.

i think it's not so much a case of "we like this version of shen qingqiu better so let's not look into it too deeply", it's more like "we tried every test we have and nothing came of it, so the only explanation left is that this is the real shen qingqiu, but with amnesia"

it reminds me of this meme:

[gunpowdercarousel]

Honestly MAJOR missed opportunity for Karlach to have some kind of permanent 'buff' that deals minor fire damage to anyone who touches her in melee. Like obviously it'd be strong for fighting beasts, because every time they hit her with claws/fangs they take damage, but just from a STORY-TELLING ASPECT?

How heartbreaking would it be when you're trying to cast Cure Wounds on her? In order to heal her, you have to hurt yourself and she KNOWS IT. You go to cast Longstrider on the party and you hesitate as you reach Karlach. Yeah, it's only a few points of damage, it's not that big a deal, but does she REALLY need it? Is it worth it?

You linger, hesitate. You realize you don't want to touch her. You realize that's what EVERYONE thinks when they see her. You realize she KNOWS You're hesitating, staring at her sheepishly as you try to think of whether or not it's worth the pain just to help her.

You learn to support her from a distance. Healing Word. It's not as effective, but you don't need to get hurt for her sake. And so she learns to get used to receiving help from a distance. Just words of encouragement. It's all anyone wants to give her. Maybe it's all she'll ever get.

Aid? Bardic Inspiration? You don't need to touch her to give it to her. You can keep her at a distance and not get burned. And you're still helping her.

It's just... cold.

[gideonisms]

sorry but most books "for fans of gideon the ninth" do NOT engage with gothic lit themes are NOT that funny do NOT have half as many bonkers plot twists and largely do not even have the same number of lesbians either. to be fair it's difficult to physically fit in as many characters per book as tazmuir does so I can excuse this on the basis that not everyone wants to write a 400-page space opera. but if that's not what you're writing then commit to writing something else!!

[rednightmare18]

It's not even about the vindication of calling a ship, okay. It's that the supposedly anti woke studio wrote about 3 million words of medieval fiction centering the relationship of the two main characters who are in most ways (or in all ways if you follow the obvious canon momentum of the story) meant for each other, as counterparts who help each other survive the great travails of their lives and who challenge/complete the other to become fuller, braver, kinder people. It's so clear these two people are soulmates, platonically or romantically, something observed consistently by the world around them and by themselves.

Except their society (feudalism, Catholicism) dictates that they are intended to be completely incompatible by nature and divine law. Not just for the obvious fact they are both men, but they are separated by what is arguably an even steeper chasm of social class. Their existence even as friends utterly spites, interrupts, and threatens feudal order right down to its theological and philosophical roots. They should not see each other as human and yet.

It's the fact that they do. The fact that the entire story has been about this--that these two protagonists fit together, undeniably, and grow to love each other fiercely (a love that deepens superbly from their knee-jerk playful puppy-friend-love in kcd1 to something selfless and mature by the end of kcd2). And they do so despite the immense opposition by their world, their social circles, their faith, and indeed their fandom.

And yes, it really does fucking matter that all of this culminates into a deep onscreen romantic love (if you get out of the way and allow it to) between two fandom-beloved male main characters (not just side characters rammed in for an optional gay romance but THE main characters of the duology; the "you" as in the player character and your erstwhile dick-jokes bro you have perhaps grudgingly at first been invited as the audience to love) in a historical fiction story that has been wrongly touted by the worst of our contemporaries as the holy grail of cultural conservatism.

Holy shit. Warhorse -- y'all. I'm sorry I doubted you. So few game writers understand how love works and indeed how people work, let alone translate it so well onto the screen.

Calling this an "optional romance" is not technically incorrect, I suppose, because it's true you can opt out and choose to remain platonic friends. But this language feels like a disservice, as if Henry & Hans's romance is a typical RPG wham-bam fanservice makeout with a minor fan fave character who never interacts meaningfully with the player again. Or as if it's a Bioware-style "give this NPC the right gift and do their side quest and you get to see a jankly ugly-bumpin' montage" situation.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is so very much not that. The "main, optional" romance scene in question is just one consummation event of two people who have been growing up and falling in love in front of us over the course of some 200-300 (or god knows how many) hours. The fact these protagonists openly love each other is very much not optional.

This is, sincerely, groundbreaking storytelling in this medium and this genre. How fucking cool that we all got to see it now.

[leonisloresmith]

Rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist and here we are

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[the-prince-of-the-ravens]

if Hayao Miyazaki wants to come back out of retirement one more time Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett is right there

[bookrat]

A Compsognathus made to go outside~

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Toy Box

[thesernotthedroidsurlooking4]

I’m going to be a teen wolf fan on my terms, bitches!!

you know what, that’s it, I’ve had it. I’ve always loved teen wolf so much, it is such a comfort show for me, but I’ve avoided engaging in much fan activity for it for a reason, and any of you who also like Scott know exactly why. It really hurts to keep excitedly rediscovering the teen wolf sandbox in my mind, revisiting my fav lil blorbos and rewatching a season or two, only to open tumblr or ao3 and get smacked in the face with what feels like death by a thousand cuts every. single. time. I want no part in the strange Scott-hating AU that seems to have swallowed the majority of the fandom even after all this time.

but you know what, screw it. This is the time I’m going to be a teen wolf fan, and just because I’m not like what seems like the majority of teen wolf fans doesn’t mean I have any less right to exist in the fandom space. I’m just going to blacklist the shit out of the anti-Scott tags, and write what I want to see in the world. I’m going to write so much Scott and Liam and Allison and Kira content and Scallison content and McCall pack feels and I don’t care if no one reads it. I’m ignoring that bizarro world fanon just as much as so many have ignored Scott, and I’m going to do what I want. I’ve had it with only being in the Scott McCall Defense Squad, I’m going to be part of the Scott McCall Is A Fav Blorbo of Mine Squad and no one can stop me!

[kingsmoot]

people love to say that the show got bad in later seasons but the show was very obviously extremely bad from the get-go and very clearly being made by people with no real investment in the books

[jekyll-doodles]

Revival Redesign, Main Engines || My Kofi & Commission Info || Do not edit, trace, or repost!

Rusty, Momma McCoy, Greaseball, and Electra.

I know the Non-Replica productions tend to be Different. And I do like some of the revival's designs. However, some of them missed the mark imo. So I'll be tinkering with the designs, trying to keep what I feel works, without the regular show's guidelines (mostly).

[902186]

"In the time we have traveled together, I have come to see how you are with one another. Closer than brothers. [...]" Minstrels, perhaps, see too clearly.

[catboymoments]

Btw in hotel purgatorium lore the reason why sinners specifically can’t leave their rings they’ve been condemned to is because if they go there and try to go back or ascend to a different ring they’ll immediately become corrupted and turn into mindless monsters