#see? i still tag it ffs

[therainingkiwi]

piping hot Percy Jackson (tv show) take, but i honestly think that it's really good for the main 3 actors to not be doing publicity; and i'm going to be just a little sad for them in particular when the sag-aftra strike is over

sure, okay, it'd be cool to hear what they have to say about filming, but also i think it's not really a bad thing that three literal children aren't going around doing constant publicity interviews in front of media and giant crowds of people

i'd rather panels like we got at NYCC, where the designers and writers talk about their process! that was awesome! maybe talk to some of the adult actors!

i'd rather let the kids be kids--go to school and film other fun projects and post embarrassing shit on tiktok and NOT have to deal with the press.

it's cool to learn about the show but also the amount of publicity child actors get is absolutely fucked up. remember how concerned you were about your self image when you were thirteen? remember how you felt about your body? yeah. okay. now imagine you're constantly being poked at by stylists, and photographed, and filmed, and your face is blown up to mega-size on zillions of billboards... and don't you think that'll fuck with your brain a little?

like, i don't think anyone has done anything objectively wrong here (aside from some concerning industry norms) but also i'm very happy these teenagers AREN'T going to NYCC or SDCC or giving tons of media interviews or whatever.

[autistic-katara]

there r fics that make u insane (so amazingly good it’s removed ur sanity) and then there’s fics that make u insane (you need to fistfight the author for how they did a specific thing that caused u to rant for hours)

[fruitsofhell]

One of my new surfacing gripes with FF7R is how a lot of moments from the original game that rested heavily on player investment seem completely stripped out of the remake in favor of everything being a constant 60 hour long movie experience.

Like every now and then I hear the original game get shit for not taking its political messaging seriously at certain key set-pieces that are too game-y and chill like Costa Del Sol and the Gold Saucer, but that's not the whole picture when you consider how much control the player has over the party in that game. Costa Del Sol was just where you landed on the next continent and there was like a guy or two to talk to to point you in the other direction, a few lighthearted interactions to break up the fucked up shit that happened on the boat ride over, and then you could leave. The idea that the original Costa Del Sol indulged in the tourist trap goes only as far as how you as a player approached the space, if you got to Costa Del Sol and felt "Oh, this is a shitty Shinra colonial project I hate it here" you could book it outta there and maintain some of that disgust, but you fucking can't in the remake and its horrible.

For some fucking reason the boat ride over is on a cruise ship instead of a military vessel like before, so instead of a funny moment of humanizing the soldiers by being miserable with them, you get this fucking card tournament quest where everyone is suddenly SUPER into all this shit and doesn't care about any of the obvious underlying bullshit of the boat? And then its even worse when you get to Costa Del Sol because likefhsjkdhf? Everyone is OK with this glaring parallel to real world colonization and exploitation of island nations? Even Barret who literally had an amusement park built on the ashes of his home village by the people who burnt it down? EVEN YUFFIE WHO'S WHOLE SHTICK IS HOW HER HOME WAS INVADED AND TURNED INTO A TOURIST TRAP????

I cannot speak 100% for the original, because I remember it also missing these opportunities and besides that my memory is hazy, but its the fact that it wasn't flooded with all these ridiculous cutscenes and extra set-pieces that force you into experiencing areas a certain way, and a way that is just really fucking OOC?? And like for as OOC as the original could be, THE REMAKE IS 25 YEARS YOUNGER AND WISER THAN IT, PICK UP THE SLACK? But instead we get a fucking beach episode where you can put the girlies in bikinis or some shit. It's such a waste.

I can't think of like a single moment of subtly that the Remake retained from the originals. And it DOES have them under all the silly tonal whiplash stuff that the Remake cranks up to an unhealthy extent.

[paperdoll201]

this boxer au is taking me longer than i thought so imma just post a story i’ve had in my drafts either today or tomorrow after i tweak it a bit since it’s been a minute since i’ve read it

[atthebell-moved]

if i see any eret neg on my dash im beating you to death im so serious

[lokidanger]

I will forever curse the MCU for calling their universe 616.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

My mom just sent a message to the family group chat suggesting that my siblings download the 'For the Strength of Youth' magazine on their Gospel Library app and talked about how much the youth magazines helped her testimony growing up and like, cool. Fine. Don't know why the 'sending random spiritual thoughts in the gc' thing started out of nowhere when it hadn't been a thing for a decade but this is just another one of those, and you're ofc allowed to talk about things that are significant in your life.

I don't think sending the 'What I Did When Someone Close to Me Challenged My Faith' article right afterwards was strictly necessary though 🙃

[limitverge]

rebirth!

[chipped-chimera]

I haven't finished BG3 yet but I am kind of scared that it's gonna be one of those pyrrhic victory endings and I'm not sure I can mentally deal with that at the moment 😐

[glass-clown]

oh boy i sure do wish blocking someone actually did something

[lilbittymonster]

2022 Writing Round-up

Tagged by @crackinglamb and tagging basically the entire clown car (@yloiseconeillants @azure-dragonsinger @mythandral @whatsthisascianbullshit @tallbluelady @hermits-hovel)

For simplicity's sake, I am choosing to interpret "words posted" as anything I've put either on here or on AO3, since I know my AO3 has seen precious little activity from me lately and most of my work has been doing prompts which get posted directly to tumblr.

Words posted: 34,376

Additional words written: 26,490

Grand total of words: 60,866

Fandoms: 1

Highest kudos count: Crisis of Faith at 24 kudos

Highest hit oneshot: Crisis of Faith at 126 hits

New things I tried: Writing other people's OCs! It's scary! And fun! And Scary! AAAAAAAA!!!!!! But no, for real it's been a lot of fun getting into the headspaces of other characters that aren't NPCs bc it turns into real time collaborative stuff!!! It also helps that we are all just. Constantly yelling about our children in the discord server so there's been a good aggregate of info by now.

Fic I spent the most time on: Dragoon Age: Origins. It took a little over a month and about five or six passes of beta-ing before both I and my beta reader were satisfied with it.

Fic I spent the least time on: Crisis of Faith. I think I sat and got most of it out in one sitting, and rewrote the last conversation once.

Favourite thing I wrote: This post is probably my favourite from this year. I come back to it all the time.

Favourite thing I read: honestly genuinely i do not know. I have read so much this year. The answer to this question is likely something that was posted in the group chat at 2am and has not been posted anywhere else.

Writing goals for 2023: literally anything I have plans for getting to Kitali's Heavensward arc properly. I'm currently playing through her clone over on Light DC and I'm about halfway through ARR in MSQ, so I'm hoping a couple more big pushes will get me into the 2.x patches in the next month or so and then I can start writing fresh off of the story!

I also have the royalty AU that's been banished to the backburner in the wake of all the AUs coming out of the clown car (affectionate) but I'd like to explore that a bit more.

New works:

Crisis of Faith - The aftermath of the DRG 50 fight leading into meeting Estinien again prior to Heavensward MSQ (2,261 words)

Dragoon Age: Origins - A (mostly) external perspective on Kitali's journey from mercenary to Azure Dragoon (16,208 words)

Extinguishing the Last Light - The bad ending where the Scions fail on the First, and another legendary hero is called in their place (4,122 words)

[capricornsicle]

(Image: Handshake meme template. One arm is "Deucalion in season 5", the other is "Beacon Hills lacrosse refs". Where they're shaking hands is replaced by the "I pretend I do not see it" meme.)

[transparent--gay]

six songs i’ve been obsessed with lately (tagged by @grieving4theliving thank u i love this)

ok it was so hard to not just list six songs from the same album bc i am usually an album listener not a song/playlist listener but i DID it (you’re still getting three noah kahan songs tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it is what it is)

tagging @whiskey-in-a-wineglass and anyone else who wants to do it can say i tagged them (bc i am nosy)

[redysetdare]

I'm sorry but Sex repulsed aces expressing their repulsion is not automatically purity culture. Purity culture is a very specific system of ideology that stems from Christian (and other similar religions) religious beliefs that say sex is saved as an act of worship to god and is not meant to be enjoyed. Sex is saved for conceiving children and is not to be used for any pleasure outside of serving god by having children. It can Also be the idea that certain kinds of sex is wrong, such as; gay sex, kink, one night stands, etc. Basically anything that breaks the "norm" Purity culture shames people for having sex while upholding the idea of virginity as being the perfect christian

THAT is purity culture - not sex repulsed aces expressing how uncomfortable they are with innuendos and the sexualization of everything in society. Stop calling every sex repulsed persons expression of repulsion "Purity culture" you look fucking stupid.

[merry-the-cookie]

[maxmayfieldirl]

I live for Mike Wheeler angst and it's so rare nowadays bc everyone hates him now ydjsjdjjdjd