#that's my biggest problem with Total Drama

[nefastnefertiti]

WHY CHAPTER 431 OF MY HERO ACADEMIA SCREAMS CENSORSHIP

First let's start by the "afterword", the note Horikoshi left after 430 and before the extras, chapter 431.

Original japanese for those who understand.

The best traslation I found and most people are agreeing with.

Key sentences are:

1.The real final chapter is 429, 430 is more like a curtain call.

2. PS: For chapter 431, I turn off the cameras and free the characters from their dramas.

This note being left after 430 and before the extras is so important. . The clarification of "the real final chapter is 429" and 430 is the curtain call is screaming: the show has ended here. This is further stated by "i turn the cameras off" by the man who use to refer himself as the camera man, I leave you with an example.

(They're talking about Vol 37 cover)

And back to point number 2: "and free the characters from their dramas", which could perfectly be understood as "the characters are no longer tied to their previous plots and drama" no longer connected to the main story.

It may seem like a reach until here, we're just trying to convince ourselves that's not canon, right? They´re delusions, right?

The problem is how far away everything about 431 antagonizes the whole story, the characters doesn't feel like themselves, they even regress back all their development, the drawing style looks totally different and there are many irregularities that call for our attention.

Dabi, 431 and by Horikoshi

Toga and Ochaco in 431:

Toga and Ochaco by Horikoshi:

All Might's signature for Katsuki (Horikoshi would never mess this up):

Kirishima with 6 fingers lol, Horikoshi loves drawing hands, he would never.

Katsuki's odd teeth what the fuck. (His hand looks good to me)

Ochaco and Shoto just look, weird. It's clearly not Horikoshi's art style.

And this awful background (center) was the main giveaway.

Horikoshi's backgrounds are so professional:

At this point I'm getting tired since the difference is astounding, don't believe me, just check the manga.

I don't think Horikoshi would've allowed those mistakes had he have a role in the making, maybe he did, there's no saying about that, but clearly if he did his involvement was very low.

Character's development wise now.

Seriously? "Deku"? And Katsuki complaining for picking him up. He cried his eyes out when Izuku lost his quirk and now he's back at season 1?

Izuku would never in a million years turn down that offer. And if he did, it would never be like this, so devoid of emotion and empathy.

430 showed us an Izuku aiming for his dreams again and at 431 this Izuku ¿? It's okay with being a teacher? Ok. And if that's not the problem, why he outright rejects Katsuki out of nowhere? When their rivalry was one of the main points of the plots for 430 chapters and now just um over? Without justification? Ok.

Ok.

Now specifically about that ship canonization and bkdk.

Horikoshi has been doing this for 10 years. The choices he took the whole manga were incredibly intentional, all those romantic tropes given to bkdk, his interviews, all stand in direct opposition to what happened in this last chapter.

I, myself, don't know much about Jump but what I've heard is they end lot of shonens with the same heterosexual formula. I don't think all of this is a coincidence.

Something really important that needs to be adressed to is what happened back in June (I think), when suddenly MHA announced it was ending in 5 chapters could've something to do with this. The manga was suddenly rushed to its ends with unsatisfying resolutions and as if that was not enough, one month later (at most) the same happened to JJK and all of this came accompanied by a switch of one of the heads of Jump.

About 431 again though.

I was just thinking what would I do if I was pressured to write something that ruins the biggest project of my life and goes against everything I was hoping for? Refuse. Tell them to write it themselves. If I can't do anything to stop it and it'll be there, alright, but I WON'T DO IT.

And I think this could be Horikoshi's case.

I've never seen a shonen manga come so close to implying his male protagonist and his male deuteragonist are in love before. Yes, it was not EXPLICIT but it was so fucking clear if you knew how to read, all the way up to 430. All those cliches tropes he gave them, he knew, we know.

I thought I'll die trying to explaineverything that seems wrong with this with nothing to back me up but the fact that he added that note is clear for me. I'm surprised they allowed him to publish it, I thought we wouldn't even have that.

PS:

It's interesting this being posted the same day 431 comes out. Also "heroaca is pretty dark, huh?"

I'll not go into this anyways because it's kind of a reach but the conclusion is: I think it's a "soft" censorship and Horikoshi did his best to relay his message given what he had.

Thanks for reading!

[hamilando]

ੈ✩ drama island (smau) ੈ✩

pairing : lando norris x reader

tw : fluff; suggestive, tiny tiny angst, jealousy love island coupling, mentions of other celebs as cast, infidelity

fc : Jung HoYeon

a/n : I REALLY HOPE Y’ALL LIKE THIS, THIS IS PART TWO OF LOVE ISLAND

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sojuyn drama ❌ prada ✅

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user1 THE LOOKS !?

user2 she really said I don't care

user3 LANDO AND YN IN THE SECOND PIC 😭😭

user4 THE FACE CARD IS INSANE

user5 But seriously, I loved how lando popped off at magui, not caring if she was a girl

user6 HE SAID NOT MY WIFE

user7 lando did the correct thing 💪🏻

user8 magui was literally abusing yn and yn was just listening quietly !? attentions seeker !?

user9 yn's always been polite, she has never been the one to speak in case she is rude

user10 lando is her protector 💪🏻

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lando never recoupling again

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user1 LANDO'S SMILE WHEN HE WITH YN 😭

user2 the couple pictures

user3 landhoe in his Loverboy era

user4 WE ALL SAW YN WEARING MCLAREN MERCH !?

user5 i can't wait to see her at the paddock

user6 the way they are total opposites-

user7 OPPOSITES ATTRACT

user8 MAMI ET PAPI

user9 ig cuddling is their love language

user10 never felt more single

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landoislandfan bold of the girls to think our Y/N is the problem when you clearly have Jude Playingham

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user1 ep1-magui, ep2- evelyn, ep3- the new bombshell !?!?

user2 bro got football skills, but not commitment skills

user3 HE MAY LEAVE YOU REAL MADRID!

user4 never expected him to be like that

user5 none of the girls deserve him

user6 i can't watch him the same again

user7 i can't believe I found him hot once

user8 we all cancel him right?

user9 like seriously there is a limit to playing with people

user10 idk what to do with this man

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loveislanduk the sidebar’s open for episode 4!! WE HAVE A RECOUPLING COMING IN EP 5 !

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user1 YN IN LIKES !?

user2 she agrees with drama

user3 YES!! JUDE AND MAGUI ARE INDEED FAKE !!!

user4 the recoupling 😭😭

user5 jude and his "manly charms"

user6 JUDE IS INDEED PLAYING THE BIGGEST GAME IN THE VILLA

user7 ofc evelyn is bored

user8 love how every drama is around jude Bellingham

user9 lando's little smirk watching jude be judged

user10 i am not ready for the recoupling

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loveislanduk IT WAS THE BOY’S CHOICE AND JUDE CHOSE Y/N!!!

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user1 OH HELL NO

user2 UNO REVERSE !?

user3 WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK !?

user4 EVEN WHEN HE KNEW HOW MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER!? ITS LIKE SO OBVIOUS

user5 LANDO'S FACE IN THE SECOND PIC 😭

user6 lando is barely controlling his anger

user7 the way yn ran to kiss lando-

user8 jude is getting so many curses

user9 that's like his fourth girl -

user10 my landoyn 😭

part 3..?

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[kayrockerqog]

NO BUT ACTUALLY IT SUCKED SO MUCH

Especially since there was POTENTIAL for layers they could've used with the fears they gave the others, but they didn't use it like, at ALL

Julia being afraid of old people: a sign that she fears aging and losing her youth, namely the privileges it gives her, is an INTERESTING FACTOID THAT THEY DO NOTHING WITH???

Priya being afraid of thunder and lightning is actually very telling!! She mentions how it's kind of a lame fear for someone like her but it actually makes a lot of sense because of how unpredictable storms are!!! She can train all her life to prepare for a game show but there is nothing people can do to stop nature from doing its thing!! She's afraid of being unprepared and being overwhelmed by loud noises and things she cant control!!! COME ON!!!!

Wayne having his fears be related to the things he cares about going wrong, only for him to accept them as a part of life is SHOCKINGLY DEEP especially for him but its PLAYED OFF FOR NOTHING

And I literally forget what Caleb's fear was but they should've made it something more existential based on his arc in the game. Someone out of the bunch should've had a less tangible fear for variety but NOOOOOOOOO

I didn’t really finish td23s2, but how did they make a FEAR challenge boring??? Like it sucked. Bad. Ugh.

[nativegirltapes]

so i just watched the buzzfeed interview with the obx cast… one of the questions was “what’s your biggest ick” and it made me think of IF angel reader were to be in the cast and crew and in the interview… i vividly pictured her answer 😭

“people who dress in dirty looking clothes like it’s fashion.” and then side eyeing drew because she’s totally referencing odessa 😭🤣🤣

STOPPPPP😭😭 yes oh my god.

& she has NO problem saying it either. her eagerness to answer the question has the whole cast looking around amongst each other like 😟 bc they know all the odessa drama. after the interview when all the cameras are off and it’s her and drew alone he’s like “what was all that about?” and angel just side eyes him again and looks him up and down and says “you know exactly what i’m talking about. don’t play stupid.”

[biancasaidstfu]

I just wanna say, SLAAAAAY our Fave anon, glad to hear from you again 🥹

And I hope you are doing well these days Bianca ❤️

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if there's one thing that made me real secure in knowing N & L are together is this, the cause of all this drama, the spiraling and the hate people getting on all sides.

The vagueness.

Hear me out, because if there is really nothing beyond friendship between Nicola and Luke, we will never got the easter eggs (as I like to call them), the mixed messages and not to mention, the way they behave.

Their inability to deny that they are more than friends, the ability to say that we are just friends, and the way they keep on using roundabout on clarifiying things makes me real sure that THE feelings is there.

We saw how people around them keep clocking their asses and yet they both gloss it up by referring to Polin when multiple times we all know the interviews were not referring to their characters at all. Shoutout to miss interviewer at SAG who said she needs a happy ending. Plus 100 points for you for that side eye on both Nic and Luke.

I know they said on multiple occasions that they adore and love each other. That's a fact and sometimes it baffles me people in the fandom tend to miss that known fact.

But what I'm saying is that, they can express their love with one another freely and yet its like killing them to say that they are just very very best friends. It makes you wonder why. I have this theory about this but suffice it to say, they have no problem expressing their love and affection with each other but its almost like you have to pluck the moon from Earth to even hear them say, "We are only just great great friends."

That's why that vagueness is what makes me real sure they are together. Because they have no problem saying their love with each other in public and they have like this major problem saying directly the status of their relationship. Given that they all know about the speculation, the romance rumours and more.

Their hesistancy is what makes it more obvious. It's like its going to kill them to even deny that connection between them. They can't even admit it to themselves they are just friends, so it makes me even think what's going on behind the scenes.

And lastly, I see the claddagh rings on her latest selfie. Ireland is my fave among all stops. And the biggest easter egg that I like to keep bringing up is on Nicola's ig post, a picture of her and Luke on Dublin carpet, and she, out of all places, knee-tagged Luke. Up to this day, she never changed it.

Thank you anon ❤️

I totally agree with you. The vagueness and change in behavior are the most telling signs.

[ryoshiwaah]

chapter 7: MAMA awards

a/n: I know the mama awards were way after the release of armageddon but time is inconsistent just like me.

With the arrival of the mama awards the whole industry was a mix of excitement and determination. It was like graduation day for some and a total nightmare for others. 

One of these people was Y/N. Her biggest problem wasn't being able to remember the choreography or lyrics, but being face to face with a certain Korean girl. 

Her worries didn't fade at all since Danielle told her that she had talked to her manager to make sure Newjeans and aespa were sitting together, which of course they were. 

Bouncing her leg due to stress, Y/N couldn't shake off the anxiety that was eating her up from the inside; a reassuring hand made her come back to reality as it squeezed her knee. 

“It's going to be alright, you'll do amazing” The voice of her leader, Karina, was a whisper in the van carrying them, but not enough to actually calm her nerves. 

“The performance is the last of my worries, it's another thing…” 

“Minji?” The question caught the attention of Giselle who was sitting next to Karina. 

“Again with that name, I thought we wouldn't talk about her.”

“Gigi she—” 

“Hurt you? Yes! I don't get why you keep defending her actions. She wronged you deeply and you're still into her.” Giselle's annoyed and high pitched words reverberated into the vehicle, creating a temporary silence. 

Y/N expected a reaction like that, after that girls night they had in her room the members knew all about the accident and the aftermath of their “little” fight. Minji wasn't a saint, but Y/N wouldn't depict her as the villain of the story either. 

“You don't know her like I do. She wouldn't hurt me for no reason.”

“Then why didn't she text you again?”

“I left her on read”

“And?? You were best friends, she should know how to start a conversation with you.”

Y/N hated how right Giselle was, no matter how she tried to convince herself that Minji had been busy, the voice in the back of her head was well aware of the situation.

Lost in the conversation and drama the girls didn't notice they finally arrived at the destination.

As they posed for photos and asked interviewers’ questions, Y/N took the opportunity to scan the crowd of people near the red carpet. Many groups were getting out of their cars, she spotted some members of (G)I-DLE, and waved at Yuqi from afar who waved back smiling.

“Where are they?” Thought Y/N to herself, impatiently tapping her foot on the ground while scanning the crowd for the fifth time.

From left to right, her eyes moved across the unknown and known faces of her colleagues, until they landed on her.

“She’s gorgeous” muttered Y/N, the fondness evident in her tone and expression, her heart beating like crazy. She felt seventeen again, looking for Minji in the school cafeteria, but this time she couldn't go to her even if her brain was yelling to do so.

The moment ended when she was tapped on the shoulder and dragged to the main room by Minjeong, too eager to sit down.

“I called you 6 times, did you become deaf?”

“No, but I got blinded by Minji’s lethal face card”

Minjeong slapped the back of her head, urging her to stay silent — “Don’t say it too loudly, we’re surrounded by paparazzi and fans.” Indeed, the place was a mix of flashes, loud cheers and music.

“What’s a face card anyway?”

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After the acceptance speech of their third award, aespa got back to their seats. Y/N was ready for Danielle to hit her shoulder while bouncing on her own chair, telling her how proud she was to have such an amazing and talented friend, but her hopes shattered when she saw that the infamous Kim Minji switched seats with Dani.

Keeping her poker face on, Y/N followed her members and went to sit back in her spot.

“Congratulations” Minji whispered, earning a nod as a response. Y/N didn’t hear her at all due to the shouting coming from the crowd, but she saw her lips moving. A reaction was needed to avoid drama and scandals.

Minji furrowed her eyebrows in disappointment, thinking Y/N was ignoring her on purpose.

Not wanting to give up the interaction, the girl had enough courage (for once) to reach for Y/N’s hand. Startled, the other quickly turned around with wide eyes making Minji laugh a bit.

“Congratulations”  — “Sorry for leaving you on read” They both talked at the same time, silencing themselves completely.

“Thank you” Spoke first the winner (conan gray reference?), her eyes fighting to not look at Minji’s lips.

“First, it's fine. Second, you deserved it, Supernova was so catchy Hyein couldn’t stop playing it" Minji took a deep breath, she was talking fast almost too fast. Was she nervous? Why would she be nervous? — "In the car, in the shower, while taking a walk. She’s obsessed with aespa, but mostly with you. It’s scary.”

“And are you not?”

“Obsessed with aespa?”

“With me, silly.”

“You wish” Said the older girl with a roll of her eyes, her heart beating faster at the teasing words. She didn’t notice how their hands were still intertwined until Y/N squeezed hers.

“Can’t argue with that.”

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[ultimateplaylistmaker]

Rate all the popular dangitronpa ships out of 10

Komahina; really fun but also kinda overshadows other fun ships, along with the issue of characterization being a bit flanderized, but very fun in basically all forms 8/10

Oumasai; interesting fact the reason i call it oumasai instead of saiouma is because 1. Kokichi tops and I refuse to budge on this. and 2. to help keep it out of the much more popular tag when I'm complaining. Anyways 90% of it's terrible but that 10% can be pretty damn good though, please become less popular, constant bad characterization 3/10

Ishimondo; classic, maybe too much of a classic, way too hard to find other ships with these two, however ishimaru did in fact get mondo on his knees in that sauna so i can't exactly say they are wrong, alas i got into danganronpa at like 13-14 and i was too young to really appreciate this ship and has kinda made it not something i ever really reach for 7/10

Naegiri; also a classic, I love them, they are so cute, they love each other so much and the memes are great, genuinely amazing, plenty of room for fluff angst and crack. Adorable but also not something I tend to overly reach for over other ships however am more likely to casually see it and go "HELL YEAH" and read a 40k fic, 8/10

Kaimaki; long time fans know I am not the biggest Maki fan, she's grown on me over the year, but the more canon a ship gets the harder it is for it to keep my interest without some other detail, and Kaimaki, does not have that other detail, I don't mind reading it if it catches my fancy, though I think I prefer it unrequited on Kaito's end, is 'aight 6/10

Saimatsu; similar problem as kaimaki of thhe more canon the ship the harder to keep my attention HOWEVER saimatsu is also a fucking comedy because they both kinda bring out the unhinged in the other and also the angst does make me really sad, so its good even if its not what im reaching for. 8/10

Naegami; 14 year old me was fucking obsessed with this ship, I have since calmed down. Thank god. Honestly overexposure made it a bit stale to me I think, like it's FUN don't get me wrong, I love Togami being a fucking freak about this little peasant little guy, but it's a bit generic "soft with mean" shipping I feel, very much "baby's first rivalry ship" for me 6/10

Oumota; oh that's the good shit, that's the good shit, the angst, the drama, the competitiveness, the assisted suicide, the secrets taken to the grave, the totally for real kiss in the hangar, the, pun intended, amalgamation of them in the final trial. The fact their love hotels line up, the fact they balance each other out. The hilarity of Maki and Shuichi's faces if they found out these two are dating, Ohhh my god, ooooh my god 10/10

Fuyupeko; another classic that falls under "the more canon it is, the harder it is for me to get into it" also Peko just...isn't super interesting to me, like don't get me wrong she's still great, but she's definitely a character I don't think of as often. I love the art for it though, fanartist go HARD and i love it, it's just overall missing that friction or interesting twist I want with my ships, tends to lean too domestic. 6/10

Kamukoma; pretty fun! I kinda grew a bit out of this one as well but sometimes you want komaeda being the absolute fucking dramatic worst with his cringe loser emotionless emo boyfriend, and that's a lot of fun. Good for angst, especially more cracky angst at times. Very funny when Hajime after the fact is like "HEY W HAT" 7/10

[phantomphangphucker]

Phic Phight - The Royal, The Abducted, And The Baffled

For: @armed-with-knitting-needles @phantoms14 @ventisettestars and library_of_Cronos and the_crownless_queen and warvik

The FrightKnight has zero chill, Amity Parker’s -specially the A-Listers- have all the chill, and Danny just wants tochill but everyone is making that very hard to do. Anyway, he’s the high ghost king now and the biggest problem his goddamn bullies have with that is that his castle looks like shit.

Danny’s walking forwards steadily, stomping his feet a little and glaring ahead in annoyance. The FrightKnight spent nearly all of yesterday chasing him around and shouting about how he needed to ‘vanquish’ Pariah once and for and all and claim his ‘rightful place’, multiple people saw, Danny was not impressed. Especially because one of the people who saw that shit was Dash, hence why Dash and co have been following him around for the past half hour pestering him about ‘being so bad at being a Fenton that he couldn’t get a single ghost to leave him alone’. Which hey! Danny did get the guy to shove off, you know, by angrily stomping into Phantom’s Keep aka his current ghost zone lair, tearing open the sarcophagus, and just ramming the shit out of Pariah’s entire chest area with multiple weapons, of varying types, and sizes. The guy was ended, over, done with; not Danny’s problem anymore, or anyone else’s for that matter. Now the FrightKnight could shut the fuck up and leave Danny the fuck alone for, like, ten minutes at least.

But what does he get instead of peace? Why Dash of course! That’s what his luck is like. Ugh.

Dash snorting, “I bet the ghost of fear was following Fentailbone because he was just so fed up with how not scary he is even though he’s got spooky powers!”.

Kwan chuckling, “yeah! Even the Box Ghost can be scarier! You know, like that one time”.

How dare!

Paulina and Star snickering to each other. Paulina sounding sickly sweet, “or maybe he was trying to teach the boy how to dress, that ghost does know a thing or two about fashion clearly”, sounding like she’s talking to Star now, “like girl, have you seen how shiny his armour is? I would love if I could get my hair to have that kind of sheen”.

Dash snorting, “the only sheen Fenton’s got is coked up Charlie Sheen chic”.

Okay yes Danny’s fashion sense is dumpster inspired but RUDE!

Kwan groaning, “man that drama was so good, right?”. Everyone else in their stupid little group voicing their agreeances, which fine even Danny agrees that had being very interesting drama and sue him, he’s just as much of a gossip as any other self respecting ghost is.

Then, because of course, a ghost portal just opens up right beneath Danny’s feet, and the A-listers are close enough to him to get sucked in as well. Fun.

All of them landing on the hard tiled floor with an intricately well designed, but beaten down, red rug underneath them. Oh hey! This looks like the inside of his keep! That can’t possibly mean anything? Could it? COULD IT! Danny was going to end Frighty. Danny grumbling as he stands up and brushes off his pants, “I’m going to find you, you spooky motherfucker, and piss in your stupid little silly helmet”.

Everyone else groaning a little as they all scramble up, they’re not nearly as surprised or freaked out as a non-Amity Parker would expect them to be, after getting magicked into a weird beaten down castle and all. Amity Parker’s just weren’t weak like that, nowadays. Paulina holding her hands up to her chest and poking at the floor with one foot, “oh ew, this place is so totally run down. Why couldn’t I have fallen into a castle place that was pretty and sparkly?”. Star grabbing Paulina’s arm, “I know girl, look at all the weird creepy statues!”.

Dash grunting, smacking Kwan one on the back, “oh whatever, let’s just find this ghost whoever and beat the the shit outta them”, glaring at Danny, “ you just stay here, ya damn twink, and let the real men handle this”.

Danny turning to them slightly and glaring, “fuck you”. This place was technically Danny’s home so, no. He doesn’t feel like getting beaten up today, and Pariah was too stabbed through for anyone to be going and beating him up. Like, there is a such thing as over kill at a certain point.

Then the goddamn FrightKnight appears in a puff of spooky, ominous purple smoke. Everyone behind Danny yelping while the ghost bellows, “I HATH RETRIEVED YOUR GREATNESS, OH ALL MIGHTY KINGSBANE! IT IS TIME TO CLAIM YOUR THRONE! MY KING!”, and swings his sword to basically point it directly in between Danny’s eyes.

Danny… Danny wants to flying kick him square in the face. Immediately.

Dash sputtering a bit, “why are you shouting that at Fenturd?! Me or Paulina I’d get!”, turning on Danny, “who died and made you king!”.

Danny is passed the point of goddamn caring anymore. Fuck all of this. Fuck all of them. Fuck the FrightKnight’s hard on for making Danny more powerful and more kingly. Fuck this shitty ass ugly ass building. Fuck secret identities because this asshole just does not understand the concept, clearly. And also? Fuck subtlety.

Danny starts smacking at the ghosts sword wildly with both arms and hands. “Dude you suck, how do you have the worst situational awareness in all of existence, holy shit”, grumbling and aggressively stomping over to the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep, grabbing the edges, and violently tearing off the front; yeeting the front half into a wall dramatically. Danny gestures at Pariah’s spectral corpse, still littered with multiple different knives, and spears, and swords, and axes, some pencils, a butter knife or two, there’s even a tv remote Danny sharpened with some ecto-fire and an edge. Danny grinning manically and growling, “this motherfucker did, shit head”.

The group actually looks slightly freak out, the FrightKnight seeing that, gives Danny a little cheery thumbs up. Danny scowling at the ghost, “Frighty, I am so goddamn close to just busting into your area, eating all of your flooring, and cramming you back into your goddamn pumpkin. I’ll rename it the fucking timeout pumpkin!”.

The FrightKnight putting a hand to his chest, “but your majesty, I must stay by your side and they should know and fear your greatness!”.

“I’m not Pariah! I don’t actually want people terrified of me, man!”.

“All ghosts need fear, your highness!”.

“The flavour of fear that I like is the kind that comes from chaos and confusion, not terror!”, crossing his arms and huffing, “which to be fair”, nodding his head at the A-Listers who are all in varying stages of freaking out, “this is doing a fantastic job of causing so much confusion”. At the FrightKnight perking up and his hair fire waving more happily. “No, bad. Do not yank random people into my goddamn throne room! I don’t care if it makes the ‘good fear’! Go set a random stop sign on fire or get the head Observant drunk during a hearing or something, instead!”.

Dash throws his hands up, “what the Zone, Fenton!”, sticking his hands out at Danny and at the sarcophagus, “are you seriously trying to say, that you busted in here at some random point and stabbed goddamn Pariah fucking Dark in the core a bunch of times with random pointy shit! How did that happen?!?”, dropping his arms and blinking, sounding way calmer, “no really, how?”.

Kwan looking at Dash nodding, then Danny, “cool though, I guess”.

“No Kwan man, that’s Fenton, once a loser always a loser”.

Paulina actually shoves Dash a little, “king, or whatever, is automatically cool, Dash”.

“Heh, yeah I guess. I am the football king after all, and I’m the coolest”.

Danny blinking at them, speaking monotoned, “I like to take the speeder on random little zone trips sometimes, found this place, got creative”. Weak ass excuse but he does not care even slightly.

Star putting a hand on her hip, “well if you’re this places king or whatever why haven’t you spruced it up? This place looks dreadful”. Paulina going wide-eyed before instantly nodding, “dios mio! Definitely”, she immediately moves to stalk up to Danny, grab his arm, and start dragging him off, “if you’re going to be cool now then we are fixing this travesty”.

Danny just sputters disbelievingly while the entire A-lister group starts basically tearing the place apart. Trimming the frayed curtains, dumping water on overly dusty shit (he neither asks nor cares where they got the water from), shouting at him to fix his ‘ugly ass rugs’, Paulina even starts smacking the FrightKnight to get him to clean the super high up massive windows and tapestries.

Danny shouting, “HA!”, at the FrightKnight -who is just leaking tangy spicy confusion-based fear- while the ghost is forced by Star to rearrange the dinning hall to be symmetrical, her ranting the entire time about Pariah having the worst room design sense in the world.

Kwan’s off pointing at an accent stair step, utterly baffled why anyone would have that in their house or place or castle. He acquired a hammer at some point, Danny left him to that.

Dash was now raiding a random storage room for ‘more manly’ statues, while calling Pariah’s skull and bat statues tacky and thus pathetic. He even called The FrightKnight pathetic when the guy tried to defend the aesthetics of bats.

Star set what Danny assumed used to be Pariah’s bed on fire because it was a ‘travesty to all ghost kind’. Which yeah, thing was really ugly, lion themed for some reason, and shaped like a comma. Danny had to spend the next half hour making a new rocket ship themed bed out of ecto-constructs. Star deemed it childish but acceptable because of his ‘weird love of space’.

Then Paulina went and forced everyone to stitch tiny little stars into the bottoms of all of the tapestries. Danny bitched that he could have just made ecto-construct ones or something and she called him lazy. The A-listers nearly spent more time relentlessly mocking the FrightKnight for sucking at using a thread and needle. The guy was in armour, Danny doubted he could sew sweet dick all with armour covered fingers.

By the time Danny had managed to drag the group of humans to and through the little ghost portal connected to his Fenton Works bedroom that he had, the FrightKnight was left just standing, half sagged over, and physically shaking from bafflement and sheer concern. The guy looking at Danny, “there, there is something deeply wrong with your citizens”.

“Oh I’m well aware, Frighty, well aware”, snorting and crossing his arms, “honestly? These days I get more of that sweet sweet confused fear from the ghosts than the humans”. Everyone did just kinda go ‘ah not this shit again’ nowadays, rather than screaming in terror or fleeing like their lives depended on it.

The FrightKnight slightly shakes himself off, “well I’m glad to be of service and to your tastes, your highness”.

“Ew, you could have phrased that better”.

The ghost just gestures at the throne, so Danny sighs and does the thing that the goddamn personification of fear abducted him to do. Takes his rightful place on the High Ghost Kings throne; Frighty being more than eager to give him his crown.

Danny will bet money that if Dash and his buddies even tell anyone about this, whoever will just blink, then go ‘huh that’s neat. Guess Fenton’s cool now’, and go back to eating a sandwich or something. But hey, at least his lair looked nice now? Maybe that’ll get him to actually spend more time in the place…

End.

Prompts: Dash really shouldn't ask the question "Who died and made you king?" to Danny Fenton without knowing there's an actual answer to that. Reveal gone right. Everyone knows Danny has ghost powers. No one (or only the people who know in the show) knows he's Phantom After Danny defeats Pariah Dark, Fright Knight becomes loyal to him, and the knight doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of a secret identity. Shenanigans and ghost politics ensue Ghosts feed on fear produced by the living. Some ghosts arent picky about the flavor, some are. Danny is not exempt despite his halfa status. And it might not bother him all that much. (Horror and/or fluff encouraged) Danny surprisingly gets good advice from an unlikely source

[etheries1015]

I was thinking- what if Vil does one of those celebrity documentaries when he's older? He's settled down with you, you have kids, his career is still going good. He'll talk about when you guys decided to settle down and have kids (the home video clips of him loving his kids 🥲). They'll sit you down and you just radiate loving housewife energy and someone will sneakily catch on camera Vil looking at you so softly while you're recording your part. Him admitting his problems with Neige (and the team interviewed him too but he still has no idea about Vil's true feelings), how he always wanted a role outside of being a villain. Rook having his own interviews being his usual self but also suddenly showing up in your home during filming. Epel wanting to get in on it to kinda reveal the bs Vil made him put up with (and Vil just chuckles cause he still knows he was right) and to promote the farm. And then Vil mentions how he owes Malleus favors (does he reveal he overblotted?). Cue the screen suddenly showing Malleus sitting comfortably in a chair and smiling smugly. And then you notice he's in your home. And he's just like, "Oh, yes. I did Schonheit some favors back then." And it shows some backstage footage of the film crew wondering if they should even try and contact THE Malleus Dragonia to get an interview, and if they do if they actually have the guts to. But before they can decide you pull up, "Oh? You wanna talk to Mal? Let me ask him!" And you just speed dial him and ask and once you hang up he's magically poofed into your home for the interview. He doesn't mind talking about Vil and you but also sneaks in some gargoyle stuff. There's also extra footage of your still young kids hearing Mal is here and running up to him, "Uncle Mal~!!" And you, Vil, Mal, and the kids having a small tea break.

Oh man, what're you doing dropping this beautiful piece in my inbox when you should post it on your page and get the attention it deserves?? Because this is ADORABLE and AMAZING! All the ideas you threw out in here were so cute, Vil finally having the confidence to talk about you and his family, his carreer as a total...plus that Malleus blurb LMFAOOOO, When you're asked what person in your school years affected you most other than Vil or what friends you had that were most prominent, you say "Oh, Malleus Draconia! I think he's king of brair valley right now, though."

Everyone just stares at you in shock, but Vil kinda like "You have his number, right? Call him over." (He did it for the drama...he thought it would be funny for the documentary, and he was right. It became the most replayed part of the entire section.)

AND YOUR KIDS WITH VIL TALKING AND HANGING OUT WITH MALLEUS LIKE OL' CHUMS IS SO ADORABLE. When Malleus comes over, he always has some sort of riches or treasures for your children. He's constantly playing with them. He's your go-to baby sitter and he LOVES it. You being best friends with Malleus while married with Vil HAS to be my favorite thing about ALL OF THIS. It's so adorable i'm sobbing crying shaking throwing up.

The home clips...oh my gosh i'm so soft. YES!! Imagine when the documentary gets released, so many people point out places that they noticed Rook was in the background in the videos when you didn't see them before. It was insane, an entire conspiracy theory trend came out of it.

I like to think you have home videos of VIL being the housewife, cooking in his "Kiss the queen" Apron while holding one of your children on his side and using a spatula to flip the pancakes with the other. He had no idea you released this to the director, it came a shock to him when there was a section of the documentary dedicated to how you felt being married and having kids with one of the worlds biggest stars. He probably cried a little about it, ngl.

PLEASE I IMPLORE YOU reveal yourself!! Or post this!! Because it's such a cute idea and I think you truly deserve the rightful attention! But thank you for sharing, this was such a fun read and I enjoyed exploring / expanding more on it heuheuheu.

[thanakite]

I'm watching Witch from Mercury on YouTube (before I was watching them on a pirating site) to help show how amazingly good and popular it is, but it also means that I can see people's comments on each episode, and man these people...

Like the biggest thing to me that I've see from them so far is that they are calling the scene where Miorine chases down Suletta at Plant Quetta the "you don't have the right to feel this way" fight, and I just find that so disingenuous

Miorine isn't saying that Suletta doesn't have a right to feel the way she does, she's not even mad at Suletta for feeling that way, what she is mad about is that Suletta not only didn't communicate that with her, but with literally no one else (except a little to her mom), she's upset, because she can't change how she acts unless someone lets her know that it was wrong first, and that is totally understandable

Honestly, I've run into issues with this in my own life, where someone expressed issue with something I did or said, but they did it WAY after the fact, so not only did it make it difficult for me to have known that a change was needed beforehand, but then I also struggled to know if ANYTHING I was doing was okay, because now I knew they wouldn't tell me right away

Communication is big with any relationship, and while both Miorine and Suletta are bad at communication, Miorine is at least aware that it is important and something that needs to be worked on and that is what she is pissed about and trying to get through to Suletta in this scene

It is NOT "You have no right to feel this way" it is "You need to take action and communicate these things to me because I can't know there is a problem, nor can I help you with it or fix it if I don't know there is a problem in the first place"

This is a conversation that (on some level, not necessarily this level of drama) all couples that want to last need to have at some point, because if you don't communicate these things the relationship WILL crumble

This is a major milestone in their relationship and really starts to solidify for Suletta her feelings for Miorine, and that wouldn't be the case if it was as simple as "You have no right to feel this way" as even someone as kind as Suletta wouldn't fall for someone who invalidated her feelings so completely as to say or imply something like that

[nessacousland]

can i ask what was ur problem with treviso? i actually found treviso and the crows to be the most interesting faction out of all of them so maybe im just biased LOL

Okay, full disclosure: I was on vacation and didn’t get to play Veilguard until the 8th of November. Couldn’t take the potential spoilers everywhere, so I've been cramming these past few days to finish the game asap (I still did every side quest, had all factions at max strength and got the “best” ending etc. but didn’t do every chests/stats puzzle). By the time the Treviso questline concluded, I'd been fully marinating in the sauce of all the other criminally stupid quests, is what I’m trying to say, and Treviso was emblematic of every problem I already had with this game. It was my breaking point.

To start with, the questline is offensively generic and an actual insult to the players’ intellect. Painfully linear, cartoon villains abound and nothing of any substance was ever said during its run.

The moment Caterina told us about Lucanis’ non-death, I called Illario being the traitor. There were no clever misdirects, there were no other leads, nope, they showed us his hand *immediately*. Grandma First Talon of the murder guild has a clear favorite and didn’t tell the ‘spare’ heir about her suspicions? Yeah, okay. Repeat FAMILY as often as you want, you piss-poor Godfather knockoff of a questline, I ain't buying.

So, from the start, all tension is gone, I'm just sitting there waiting for the rest of these “capable” assassins who “rule Antiva from the shadows” to catch on to this incredibly obvious plot twist. Meanwhile, the quests had absolutely nothing interesting to say - about the Crows or Treviso. The first bad guy was, predictably, an evil evil Venatori, super more evil than the evil evil Venatori you've seen before, guys, she literally BATHES IN BLOOD. Omg, right? 🙄 (I found Tevinter infinitely more compelling when their entire ruling class were power-hungry tyrants out of self-interest instead of being hit over the head with the mustache-twirling villain/crazed cultist stick).

Mr. “totally not the traitor” kills Zara before she can tell us anything of substance, she dies,clearly shocked, calling him “Amatus”...AND NO ONE CATCHES ON. You can have Neve on the team, Bellara regularly reads Tevinter serials (the whole team has a fucking book club in the middle of an apocalypse), you can play a freaking Shadow Dragon Rook, but nah, nothing. We don’t even get to ask “Uh, what was that?”. Instead, we get to sit through more pointless missives/quests while the ever capable Crows are totally investigating the traitor.

Now, you could argue that the “Amatus” was a reward to tip off those of us who’ve played the previous games and know what the term means. But with a plot this threadbare and obvious…did the writers think they’re Agatha Christie here? Did they really think I was at the edge of my seat, desperate to find out “whodunit” and grateful for any crumbs thrown my way?

Well, anyway, we are told a million times over that super charming (where?) Illario is just “like that” every time he acts super freaking suspicious. (The funeral thing with Caterina's ashes was especially funny.)

You'd think those instances would start to add up and prompt someone - anyone - to start using their brains (don't we have a goddamn detective on our team?!), but NOPE. We have to corpse-whisper to progress this questline. One of the biggest ass-pulls they've introduced via this game in general, in my opinion (is this Forbidden Realms and we just unlocked the Speak with the Dead spell?) - and it acts as the deus ex machina here to finally give us a clue. Wow, thanks.

The entire sequence of Lucanis confronting Illario in front of the assembled mafia felt like something out of an Antivan play. So goddamn goofy. I thought that vibe was charming in Josephine's romance quest - Antivans live for the drama - but they wanted us to take this moment seriously. This is Lucanis confronting his “all he has left” (don't get me started on the Fade sequence - apparently we the players can’t grasp anyone's motivations without having them spelled out for us over and over again) for putting him through hell and changing his entire being forever. Should I be laughing right now?

To make matters worse,we're told that the Crows are the perfect killers who never leave a contract unfinished - and then Lucanis spares Illario because the humiliation is the biggest punishment??? Like, I'm fine with him faltering here, that’s human. But this should have had consequences. This is the murder guild we're talking about here. Lucanis’ parents were literally killed in a different house’s coup attempt. He was just made the head mobster, immediately showed weakness in front of the entire mafia and everything is just dandy fine??? Because FAMILY?

Another personal gripe with this is that - as always - Rook had zero agency. No matter what you do, Lucanis will forgive or spare Illario. Imagine if we had the option to convince him to kill him instead. Imagine the resulting resentment tainting our bond with him and having us actively engage with fixing or breaking it. Imagine us going along with his mercy but hashing out the painful consequences for his house with him. But that’s not the game Veilguard is.

Anyway, the quest then becomes even more ridiculous. We've long learned that a human traitor helped the Antaam claim Treviso overnight. Someone with great knowledge of the city and the necessary power to make it happen. Gee, I'm sure the human GOVERNOR regularly hanging out in the Crow headquarters or the market bitching about the Crows’ interference 24/7 - the ONLY town official we get to see - had nothing to do with it. Five scarves fluttered in shock out of five, great job, guys.

The Butcher thing was just…weird. Like, we get to hear and build him up as this totally different antaam leader, cruel but cunning and calculating, someone who will be difficult to dethrone. Only for him to show up out of nowhere and serve no other purpose than to move the main plot forward asap and die. Lol, thanks for your service, I guess.

Then Ivenci, for no fucking reason, decides that they, like any good cartoon villain, should reveal themselves to us just in order to gloat. Um, why don’t they simply order the Antaam to murder us dead right then and there? If Rook and their plucky team of friends are too powerful for that, why haven’t we taken Treviso by force already? But nah, lol, our plot armor doesn’t have any cracks yet, so they literally tell us to go away and try to disturb the gods’ plans, because those guys will totally kill us for them.

Now, we wait again. Excuse me, isn’t this a questline about assassins? Why aren’t we trying to, y'know, assassinate Ivenci? Cut off the snakes's head, how often have we heard this phrase otherwise? Nah, let's wait till we get another letter that shit is going down that the Crows totally didn’t anticipate and THEN let's confront them. (Ofc, the Crows’ investigation of the qamek stalled forever. Cause they’re incompetent.)

But the thing that really broke me…we KNOW Ivenci stole a bunch of special qamek. We run at them THROUGH A GREEN POISON CLOUD. And my Rooks's just like “Huhhh? Is something possibly messing with my mind right now?”. YOU STUPID POS.

And then, ofc, we end the questline and Jacobus pops outta nowhere to spare Ivenci because a good pirate never steals and a good assassin never kills, I guess. Jacobus founds his new house to basically become a big mafia family for orphans like him which everyone is super proud of, because, if the previous installments of the game have taught us anything, it's that the Crows are deeply concerned with the well-being of orphans. Whoop dee doo, the end.

Okay, more notes. It’s been mentioned plenty already that this game has completely neutered the Crows and turned them into edgy found family freedom fighters. Personally, I'm not okay with the explanation that this is simply a different house than House Arainai. Because what the actual fuck, game. Why is Ivenci the bad guy when they're literally right about everything?! Where's my option to agree with them that a fucking murder mafia shouldn’t be the ruling force of a town, let alone the entire country? Why is the municipal government the enemy while my non-Crow Rook keeps shouting “Viva the Crows”??? Are you really telling me that the Crows are the good guy mafia and House Arainai was the bad outlier? Is that what this is?

Look, I'm fine with allying with the Crows if that’s what necessity dictates. We're trying to stop the SUPER BLIGHT here. But don’t sugarcoat that this is us joining forces with the mob. The way Veilguard presents them makes me cringe cause they're basically just leather-clad incompetent fools larping as birds. Show us the reality of this alliance. Get into the nitty-gritty. Make this world feel real. God.

I *wanted* to like this questline. Out of every country in Northern Thedas, I've always been most interested in Antiva. The whole medievalesque guilds system and merchant princes, the mediterranean romance and drama, pirates and Crows, the snazzy outfits and Spanish accents, god, normally, I'm eating that shit UP. I didn’t even think twice about which city to save. Partially because Minrathous was better fortified and Venatori seemed like the lesser evil vs. blighted water, of course, but mostly because Treviso is absolutely gorgeous and Zevran and Josephine instilled a lot of love for Antiva in me that I just don’t feel for Tevinter. I also thought that the setup was very interesting - professional assassins turned into freedom fighters of their occupied turf. And it *would* have been if they had let them remain, y'know, the actual murder mafia they always were.

But aside from my gripes about the Crows’ portrayal, the entire questline was just a total nothing burger. This is the first time ever that we're actually in Antiva, our introduction, so to speak, and what do we learn about the place? That there’s strife and betrayal among the Crows? Um, yeah, Zevran covered that fifteen years ago. There’s nothing new whatsoever. Imagine if our primary goal had actually been to help the Crows free Treviso. That we're working to loosen the Butcher's grasp on the town via strategic assassinations (i.e. actual Crow missions) that also introduce us to Treviso's people/Antivan culture (taking out someone during a theatre play, for example! The drama!), the internal politics of the Merchant princes and the municipal government's struggle to keep this occupied city from imploding. Imagine us getting caught up in this web of intrigue as we get closer and closer to the Butcher and then suddenly, we're being played. And only *then* do we start to suspect a traitor among the Crows’ ranks and the whole thing unravels. Spitballing even further, why repeat the Crow/Venatori romance in a random side quest with random people? Why not have Zara and Illario be actually in love, but he kills her for his ambition anyway? And instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he blames Lucanis for forcing his hand? Or maybe, they both thought they were playing the other and as another power hungry asshole, Zara almost respects Illario for the hussle as she dies? *Some* messiness and drama? (Cause Varric’s initial narration sequence made Zara seem like this blood-soaked femme fatale but the actual narrative gave zero fucks about that vibe. Discount Countess Bathory wannabe).

That might just be what I would have wanted and nobody else, but I still maintain that anything would have been better than this cookie-cutter, baby’s first mafia story that is beat for beat exactly what you'd expect and have seen before.

Well, this was a long rant. I don’t intend to make a habit of shitting on things others enjoy on here, but my emotions are still running high after finishing the game yesterday and you did ask. Sorry.

[mixterglacia]

CONTENT WARING: Vivziepop/Stolitz Critical below the cut.

TL;DR- This episode was inconsistent to put it politely. I will not continue such niceties below the cut. You've been warned.

I'm going to start with the good. The jokes with Satan and his...therapist?? are delightful, and considering how awful this episode was, I will take it.

The bit where the rest of the imps are tormenting Stolas felt so good, but I'm aware we're meant to sympathize with poor wittle owl boi can do no wrong uwu. So that missed by a mile.

While it wasn't consistent, this episode had some stunning animation. Kudos to the team, especially those working on the shot where Stolas is lifting his cape in the song. That and the slow turns were beautiful.

Alright let's rip into this.

If the second half of this episode existed in a vacuum, it might have hit its mark. But it doesn't. This is TOTAL tonal whiplash. Completely unearned and obnoxious. Once again, we have the biggest helluverse problem:

I don't want to put in the effort to earn my drama. I am relying on the fandom to fill in the blanks so they cry.

The song is horrendously demeaning and bad. He's belittling him because he's in a place where Blitz can't fight back. You can't convince me that I should go from the tone at the start of the song to the end.

GOD i hate these two. there is nothing appealing left. They are a hollow, pathetic shell of what we were promised. this is "messy" in the way a dumpster is. This isn't some artsy spill of candy. This is trash with glitter poured all over it.

Suddenly we're getting Blitz's "truwe" feelings all dumped on us in the span of a single musical number. This is TERRIBLE. You have been so stingy with any level of development on his end that this feels like a car getting t-boned at an intersection. I guess "self indulgent" is code for "I didn't want to put in effort, i just wanted my OTP." Which is fine in a fandom sense, but this is a SHOW. You have to actually make us believe they feel like that. You have FAILED, and you're still trying to give yourself the prize? Man, you are deluded.

This was total dogshit. This was a rushed attempt to get Stolas in Blitz's house/bed. This was nothing short of MORE woobification of this dumbass owl. HE DID THIS TO HIMSELF. IF ANYTHING, THIS IS A SLAP ON THE WRIST.

He's a privileged piece of shit that is so babied by the writers that even his PUNISHMENT is nothing. So he's banished, but only for a hundred years, which is nothing to an immortal. If you're trying to bring him down to be on par with the imps, you've failed.

He's still going to get his job back in the future. He's still going to have money in the future. He's still going to have power in the future. If anything, you should have had the punishment make him be an imp for those years.

But no. You're so obsessed with him that you've centered the whole plot around HIM. Not I.M.P, not Blitz.

HIM.

This show has become so derailed at this point. Each episode is (somewhat) fine on their own, but you can't sit there and tell me they have any level of consistency. I keep thinking they're going to hit their stride, and they keep failing to do so. This is pathetic.

I'm very close to giving up on this series. Even analyzing it has become a chore. You aren't fun to watch, or make fun of. You're just mediocre.

I so desperately want these shows to have better writing. I want them to have quality and be successful at the same time. But currently we only have the latter and I fear that will wane in time if Vivienne doesn't get her head out of her ass and put in the effort I know her to be capable of. You can't keep coasting off of your pilot fans forever. I implore you to have someone work on the tone and consistency of the helluverse in the future.

Somehow Helluva makes Hotel look like high art, and that's a shame. When it was only the pilots, I truly adored Helluva. It had wonderful characters and great humor.

But here we are.

[k-s-morgan]

TGSTLTH related

Ok so I decided to do it here cuz I don't know will AO3 allow me to write essay hahahahah 😂😂😂

I don't even know how to start this. I've been reading fics for 13 years straight, like I don't remember the period of my life where I didn't read them cuz I always have some ship active and I'm crazy BL fan. Only a small number of them can make me crazy to the point I don't wanna sleep, eat, skipping my obligations, killing the pain and your sebaciel did everything. I haven't felt like this reading fic..,maybe ever? This is totally another level of me being fascinated by some writer.

I adore sebaciel, I'm in fandom since 2016 but the biggest problem I had with their fics is that - either people go too much OOC with them orr they rush up the things between them, going quickly with sex and feelings. It bothered me so much so I was crawling for good SC fics as crazy!!

After some break with SC, I came back to ao3 and saw your long fic. I started reading it but I dropped it after 3 chapters, I got bored cuz I thought you are gonna just re-type manga and do classic thing which another people do. Quickly, I got disappointed with another one and idk how but I decided to give your fic one more chance and dear lord......that was one of the best thing I have ever read. Maybe even the best.

Like, how smart are you? What's your IQ? Your manage to explain me some things about Kuro plot which I haven't udnerstand by myself. And the way you write Sebaciel relationship. That's everything I have ever wanted. Everything. They have normal conversation and that's it, that's all I need cuz there is everything. I feel electric every time when they talk, fight, do things together, goood the little touches svbjhsdjvbvbvbvbvbsdjvhbdf. I was tense whole fic. I read it for like 10 days, abandon everything until I finished it and now I feel sad ahahhaahha. But you are really something special, cuz I always used to say that manga itself is the best fiction cuz Yana knows the best how to create good Sebaciel energy. You, next to Yana, did the best job. You kept them as they are, never broke the character, and that's what I am most grateful. Slow burn, with drama and angst, love and attention, all misunderstanding, you put all necessary spices for 5 star meal. My fav part is when Ciel told Sebastian to add slamming doors to his most dramatic moments of his life ahahahahahahhaha 😂😂 I laughed like crazy, they are so precious♥ And I really wanted kiss to happen when Ciel lied Sebastian about another demon, that was sooo svbjhsvjhjhvbdf. But okay, you know the best, I trust you fully with this♥

The fact that they are ready to kill each other before they have normal conversation about their feeling is my fetish. I am in love with toxic things. Ciel ready to throw all game just to prove Sebastian that his value is not only his soul, right after he told himself for 1000 times he needs to stay on distance..... I LOVE ITTTT!!! I also need to say that you find PERFECT balance for good plot and romance. Your games and their cases...I just don't know, deep bow for you queen🔥💯After all, you didn't retype drama ahahaha but you manage to keep it canon without changing anything but still adding your spices so it's not ordinary Kuro plot we see every day....

I just have one question. From time to time, I was like a Bard ahahhaha, so sick of their games and my head hurting me, but on a good way. I am clear about Ciel but what about Sebastian and his disgust for Ciel's nicer, soft, emotional side? I know Ciel doesn't have it a lot, but would Sebastian still be grossed out about it as he was at the beginning of a contract or not? Keeping in mind that he is more and more obsessed with a boy?

So, that's all. I don't know how to use Patreon/PayPal, but for you I'll try cuz I only have credit card and that's all I know ahhahaha, I like to keep money in my hands😂 I'm sad about the situation in your country and all under - war countries. It's not bringing any good for anyone, specially for civilians. I hope you are okay and I wish you alll the best, the good karma must hit you really quickly cuz you made one person really, really happy here♥

Looking forward how will you finish this story, have a nice day❤

PS - this is the longest comment for fic I have ever left ahhaha, it's crazy how you got me sooo hyped up bjcvsdghvbds.

Hi! Ooh, thank you so much for your amazing, wonderful essay! I can't tell you how happy it made me! I think the electricity was already started being cut off when I got it, so I could see I have some really lengthy ask, but it wouldn't load. It was the torture of the most delicious kind :D

Like you, I've been reading fics for ages now, and the moments where I find some fantastic story that won't let me sleep or work or even blink are always the happiest and the brightest spots I remember. So it's extremely flattering to know that my story has become something similar to other people.

I love writing about smart characters, but most of them are definitely smarter than me! The benefit is that since I'm writing, I can think and plan everything in advance. In real life, I only wish I were as quick-witted and inventive. Alas, the best ideas and arguments come to me when they are no longer needed.

I love slow burns, and I love characters who abhor the idea of expressing their feelings, so Ciel and Sebastian have the most perfect dynamic in my eyes. I feel like I could spend the eternity just enjoying their Gothic world with their games, arguments, plots, and so on. Them antagonizing each other only to instantly team up against the common enemy is my most favorite thing in the world.

As for your question, right now, Sebastian would be thrilled if Ciel were to show a softer and more vulnerable side - at least in relation to him. Well, a part of him would feel the automatic need to mock him for it anyway, some habits don't die easily, but Sebastian's feelings have evolved a lot, plus Ciel is cold more often than he is not. So Sebastian treasures every word of praise, every hint of appreciation and need because they are so rare - he's come to crave them, and he has memorized all known cases of them by heart.

And no worries about supporting me! I really appreciate you taking your time to leave such a fantastic review, it made my day!

[chaifootsteps]

Lightweights podcast interview: Viv says the rest of the story is about the ‘Goetic’ society (not even a word btw) with kings, other princes explored and stolas perspective in all of that, amongst ‘all these new characters’ Dear god stop adding characters woman. She also said if stolas died there would be no show.

jeez, Viv isn't even trying to pretend Blitz or IMP are the main characters anymore

this is the biggest criticism people have of the show and she just admits it's totally the case and she's doubling down on it?

and thing is, how the nobles work and what the stakes are for this stupid divorce is something the show should flesh out. but it should have done it long before now and just in the background of its B plot

it boggles my mind Viv thinks she's improved as a writer when she keeps doing everything backwards and her stans insist it's good writing when she fixes problems she shouldn't have caused in the first place

I'm so out after s2. I'm never bothering to watch an episode in full again, I'll just read summaries to see how bad it gets. I could care less about Stolas' family drama if it takes over the whole show

also 'there's no show without Stolas'. besides him usurping Blitz, way to kill the tension completely whenever he's in danger. he's obviously never gonna die, the audience is just with him forever

"I've improved as a writer. Also, there's no show without my favorite character that my audience is increasingly saying they hate."

Oh, Viv. Don't ever change...just kidding, it's obvious you never will.

[nthflower]

I can be remembering wrong it been a while I read it and it was a very emotional era for me so I got attached but I really love utopia era X-Men.

It had so many cute character moments even tho all stories are ridiculously high stakes. It used academy X kids more than background props there was drama and arguments. Scott was so well written. Scemma was peak mostly. Namor was there and was a total diva.

Utopia despite the name wasn't a utopia it was a ruin that floats hardly and slowly sinking and specially caused by villain trying to isolate them from humanity so it also doesn't have krakoas biggest flaw. Like when I read krakoa my biggest problem is how narrative treats it as morally right and best for mutantkind. Utopia was not good it was desperate everything was blank and I had fun it didn't bother me because it was supposed to be blank.

Plus X-club was there Kavita Rao was there as human ally and one of my favourites ever and they were incredibly fun to me. We have many human allies despite the isolation living with X-Men or supporting them. Cloak and dagger was there learned they are not mutant and still got support instead weird not one of us treatment. Mayor of California was friends with them they did pr work together trying to make mags look less scary.

Anyways it was extremely bleak but somehow also extremely fun to me also idk despite everything it has so many moments I remember fondly. As an era I don't feel any dislike towards it at all like most people do I really like it.

[the-bigger-fish]

You know, I'm not normally the type of guy to post this sort of thing but I really want to get it off my chest....

I really enjoy Viv's shows and general works. Like, for some weird reason Helluva Boss (and to a lesser extent, Viv's body of work as a whole) has become a show i hyper fixate on the likes of which haven't been seen since I was a Transformers Prime and MLP fan back in 2010.... BUT that being said, I also find myself also very critical of her works for a lot of reasons as well. (Not as a hater, but as someone who loves the show and wants to see it improve.)

Which then leads to the reason why I wanted to get this off my chest... Stolas is a good character, heck he might even be a GREAT character..... On paper, that is.... Like, he has all the elements for what could be a really interesting and nuanced character and antagonist of the show (Antagonist meaning "Someone who contends with or opposes the Protagonist, not necessarily meaning he's evil...) Like, having a well meaning, but sheltered, privileged, and ignorant man make a mistake in the throws of passion that causes not just turmoil in his family whom he loves dearly, but also with his friends and many others as well and thus tries to make things up to everyone? That's genuinely an incredibly arc for a guy to go through and honestly quite fitting for a show that aspires to ape plays and theater so much, too. It's just that... The show never really seems to be interested/able to show him going through this arc it seems? Like, I'm not sure if it's a production issue given that animation is hard, a monthly-ish web animation is probably even harder and you can't cover everything you would want to realistically in the show proper. (Which honestly makes me wish we had side comics or prose to compliment the episodes and shorts as well, because it genuinely feels that we missed a chapter or three at times...) But like, it feels like we're told Stolas is one thing (Kind, loving father, ignorant and delusional yes, but does try his best to make things up when he realizes he's screwed up.) and then shown an entirely different character instead. (Coercive, airheaded and easily distracted to the point of forgetting important things like his daughter and the like, classist, and more than a bit obsessive towards Blitzo and way to stuck in his own world to actually be able to right his own wrongs.) And as we all know what Rule 1 of storytelling is, ESPECIALLY visual storytelling like animation:

SHOW, DON'T TELL

Now, I'm not saying Stolas has to be perfect (in all honesty, the fact he's so deeply flawed makes him farm ore engaging in a "Greek Tragedy/Shakespearian type of way fittingly enough) it's just, it feels like the show wants us to view characters and plots in general as one way, while showing us something completely different from what we've been told. (And honestly, that just might be the result of general teething issues regarding the show's hard switch from "Dark comedy where Logic and consistency need not matter as long as the joke lands" to "More serious character drama where actions do have consequences, no matter how far fetched they might be.")

Which isn't to say I'm blindly bashing the show or hating on Stolas or Viv, I think both the show and him has a lot going for it and that some of the more vocal critics take things way too far when it comes to criticizing Stolas and the show, it's just I'm saying this from the bottom of my heart as a fan what my biggest problem with some of my favorite aspects of the show are and hope they can be improved upon because dang it, I really wanna see this show be as great as i know it can be! Same with my birdy boi, too!

(P.S. Stolas totally got his fortune paving the entirety of Hell's roads with his good intentions. That's just facts right there.)

(P.P.S. If this does well enough, maybe I might write more writing critiques and general thoughts as a whole. Let me know what you guys think.)