#silent storytelling

[turtleblogatlast]

AU where Leo is trapped in the Prison Dimension for months instead of minutes and the only way he gets by with his sanity intact is through recording himself talking to his wrist comm.

When they finally manage to get Leo back and make him rest up to heal, Donnie can’t help but listen to the recordings left behind.

He’s not sure what exactly he’s expecting, only that his subconscious is screaming at him that it has to be heartbreaking, that it has to be torturous.

Instead, what Donnie is subject to is a full thousand hours’ worth of Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitsu crossover fanfiction. More than one part in the series. Spanning well over a million words.

(The worst part is that it’s actually good.)

[yugiohz]

idk i think they're equally annoying roommates

[jackshiccup]

despite knowing what was going to happen, snotlout's redemption and eventual downfall was so so heartbreaking to me. we spend the past 10 books witnessing how much he's tormented and bullied hiccup that we all feel the same anger and frustration and resentment as fishlegs does in the beginning of 11. i was, maybe, even rooting for something a little bad to happen to him so that he can feel even a fraction of the humiliation that he put hiccup through. but time and time again hiccup, with his inherent goodness and wonderful capacity to always try and see the best in people, reminds us that people need and deserve second chances. even third, fourth and fifth chances. even when hiccup was faced with the certainty that snotlout was set on betraying him from the start.

that's why it was so satisfying to get to the emotional catharsis of the swordfight. snotlout practically begging for hiccup to hate him and hiccup genuinely not having it in him to be able to. and even after that, even after he disarms hiccup and is seconds from killing him - he doesn't. and then hiccup comforts snotlout through it. he tells him words that snotlout didn't know he's been desperate to hear. he tells him he's being too hard on himself. he tells him he's a hero. he opens a door inside snotlout's life for the first time in a long time. despite everything, he offers him another choice to join the dragonmarkers. and snotlout accepts. he bows to hiccup, he calls him king, pledges his sword to his service forever, shakes his hand and chooses to bear the dragonmark.

and it's this moment we finally seeing the seeds of change planted in snotlout sprout - instigated by gobber teaching him a lesson in the amber slavelands and reminding him what the black star represents: pride, honour, bravery. all the times we see snotlout give in to vulnerability and ponder on his choices, he's always holding onto it. which makes it all the more symbolic when he hangs it around hiccup's neck during his last act of valour.

just like how the book tells us that the tides can change so fast, through hiccup, my heart was able to give snotlout another chance too. and it's because of hiccup's belief in snotlout's potential for more that makes you feel so strongly about his death. snotlout's excitement at finally being on hiccup's side, at doing what's right, at having the opportunity to actually be a hero - we can't help but feel that burst of pride, we can't help but root for him. and so we feel the loss, as hiccup did. and it's a point driven home when hiccup ends the epilogue with how he’s carried snotlout and his sacrifice with him all throughout his life. and how time has rubbed away at the black star.

that now the star doesn't look black at all. just gold.

[ganondoodle]

im listening to some zelda music compilations again and i gotta say 2 things

damn does the hyrule warriors, aoc included, line have some bangers or what

and damn, if you ignore the absolut blast i was having fighting koga, does totks music on its own make me feel things the game never did, like i dont wanna sound like i keep hating on it but man the music is SO GOOD in ways the game didnt deliver on and when i hear it i just kinda drift off into what id imagine the game being like with music like this and then be sad about the real one like the trailer music alone is just GOD what it made me think theyd dare do with the story after turning what was largely considered THE zelda gameplay so on its head, now surely totks gonna be daring in terms of story, its the most logical progressio-

oh :(

[royalarchivist]

Phil: I always love hearing about like, different stories -- especially from the teachers in the chat -- where like, a student or like just a member of the school has some form of like, Techno merch or like, does something that is clearly a Techno reference. I just love that. It’s ‘cuz like -- exactly what I was hoping to happen is happening, where people are just keeping his memory alive. Whether it’s through wearing, you know, his merch and stuff, or still supporting him through doing like, you know, just talking about him or making like their art piece about him, stuff like that. It’s very cool. Technoblade truly never dies, if everyone just keeps f**king talking about him. [Laughs] If everyone just keeps referencing him, which is very easy to do because he was incredibly funny. He has a lot of referenceable quotes and sayings.

[welcome-to-silent-pines]

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[levmada]

Omg i saw another panel where its after the fight with kennys squad in that cave with the glowing pillars and its when erwin catches up to levis squad and asks “is anyone hurt” “yea only hange” and hanges like “HEEEY ERWIN” why didn’t they keep that thats so funny and cute of them!!!

HEHEEHHEHEHHEEHEHEHEHEH it's the way the dialogue is arranged too, everyone has a chill vibe😭🙏

[tinylantern]

Thanks for the nightmares, Silent Hope.

[fantastic-nonsense]

like I won't say that Damian's death was worth it because of Tomasi's Requiem issue, because absolutely no storytelling narrative was worth that travesty, but I will say that the B&R silent issue was probably the most poignant way DC has dealt with grief and mourning in a Bat book since the initial post-Death in the Family issues

[tovarischgrazhdanin]

went ahead and watched the whole of jenjortsu kaisen

then, not believing my eyes, went ahead and read bits of the manga

but it was true... the writing really was hokey...

i mean, JJK has its good & great moments... but i did get tired from being spoonfed all the lore and magic system shenanigans (and backstories!!!!) during the fight scenes

i do get the point of it. on the one hand, without explanation, some scenes would feel confusing. on the other hand, if every other scene depends on a nebulous storyteller explaining to us every single move, then why not write a book... why choose a visual media, if you're not willing to come up with anything, which could be explained visually

a lot of shounen media can get to similar levels of over-explanation, but JJK is nothing BUT explanation of current events. it's hard to tell, where the line between action and explanation truly stands. the whole story feels like a recap of another story as a consequence

too bad, bc some of the scenes and fights have the potential to be emotionally charged and exciting, but they are greatly diluted with characters becoming sentient wiki-pages the moment anything out of the ordinary happens

[jessmkellsimblr]

The Comptons were the newest addition to Silent Pines, only having moved in a week ago. In the short time they've been in town, they have gained a reputation as a happy, perfect family. Nicholas was an author, Jose a barister, and Bo.. well... Bo was a perfect little girl. She made fast friends with Gerald, the missing teen Cleo's younger brother. Gerald saw the real Bo, including her outbursts. He still liked being around her though. She didn't treat him like a damaged child, and he didn't treat her like a bomb waiting to explode, even if she felt like that sometimes.

[studio-cultist]

My essay of the silent protagonist.

For the longest time, silent protagonists as an archetype we’re my most despised kind of characters. The main reasons are that I consume games as a form of art, specifically in the story telling kind and so I want well rounded or at the very least likeable characters who are distinct from each other and because of the nature of the silent protagonists as a vessel for the player to project themselves onto, they inherently made the immersion of a story weaker as we can all agree that a stone faced empty shell for a main character is not exactly Shakespeare.

And I am not exactly immersed by being a character with no personality beyond “hero” especially one that doesn’t talk as I Infact have the ability to speak aswell as have a much more human sense of morality where heroic attributes are not all present always and like everyone am capable of bastardry

It didn’t help that famous examples of the archetype such as link from the Zelda series or crono of chrono trigger are all heroic badass chick magnets.

I used to find it very patronising that a game dev would portray the player in such a way and to an extent I still do, I may enjoy escapism as much as the next guy but not enough to enjoy such a masturbatory fantasy where you get to play a flawless character with legendary status.

Perhaps I was just not enjoying the escapism or perhaps I wanted a story that had its main character a fleshed out character or at the very least be an archetype that fucking talks!

Or maybe I just didn’t get the point of a silent protagonist…

When playing through the half life games, I finally began to understand why the silent protagonist works especially when playing through half life 2.

The main character you play as was Gordon freeman who was a theoretical physicist of an Area 51 like science facility called black mesa, and in the second game he finds himself stuck in a conflict against a fascist inter dimensional alien empire.

Despite being a silent protag however I grew to love dr freeman and I considered him my favourite character in the half life series(despite him not having a personality at all)

The silent protagonist finally made sense to me when I stopped trying to project myself into gordon freeman and instead began to mold him in my head of what I imagined gordon freeman to be like as a person.

Because of the style of gameplay in half life 2 I kept feeling tired throughout much of my time playing which made me realise and wonder if “is this what Gordon is feeling?” Having to constantly be on the run fighting aliens and combine soldiers without any rest? This tiredness I felt from playing through half life ended up creating an image of Gordon freeman who was a tired and cynical man with a defeatist attitude who thinks his struggle is worthless and yet still chooses to move on because taking the cowards way out to lay down and rot wasn’t something gordon wanted.

The fact that gameplay alone built this idea of gordon in my head astonished me and I realised how instead of treating silent protagonists as a shallow form of power fantasy, I could instead immerse myself in the role of the protagonist and simply build that idea of their identity in my head of who they are.

This is all probably elementary level shit to all of you who have already realised this yourselves but this recent revelation has forever changed my views on games and how I have consumed their story telling for so long.

Cave story is my favourite game but because of this misguided idea of silent protagonists I have always held the main character quote with disdain because he was a silent protagonist. For the longest time it was the doctor who was my favourite character because of how he Elicited extreme emotions out of me however now that I finally understood silent protagonists, I looked back on the first time I played cave story and how quote as the silent protagonists made me feel as I experienced the story through his eyes and the kind of character he was in my head.

In my first run I got the bad ending and I remember all the emotions I felt before, feelings of hopelessness and defeat. For many of you who played cave story, your version of quote probably got the normal ending where quote is able to save the day however mine wasn’t, my quote was a hero who failed and the fact that the silent protagonist archetype gave me an intimate feeling of how that felt made me realise how important quote was to me when I first played cave story.

It’s because of this that I now consider quote my favourite fictional character of all time.

Not because he’s an interesting character with an identity but because as a silent protagonist I got to create my own version of the character and have such a personal connection to the game I’m obsessed over.

[wataksampingan]

One day, probably when I should really be doing legitimate work, I'm going to spew word vomit about the one sequence of panels of this webtoon/manhwa that had me paying coins to fast pass each week - ONE DAY

[israbelle]

in light of “like a dog”, i really don’t think it’s a good idea for yura to bring dmitry back to the lab.

@nopanamaman

[vhgr]

book aemond this book alicent that god forbid characters written as historical figures of their fictional world get any dimension