#this is technically a flashback sequence

[moltengoldveins]

writing snippet

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“Come on then!” The woman cries from above, her voice clattering down the canyon like an eagle in flight. Nebenai laughs, fingers gripping tighter to her precarious hold, shoulders burning as the healing sigils begin to heat the gouges on her fingertips and the pads of her palms. 

“I’m stuck!” She yells back, and the woman sighs, anchor chain clattering. Then, with easy grace, she kicks off her perch and falls, rope catching, creaking, swinging her out and down and past Nebenai’s position, inches from slamming into her and knocking them both off the cliff. She falls away, then swings back, ankles scraping against stone to come to a terrifying halt pressed against Nebenai’s side. 

“Hi.” Her grin is audible, breathless, the noonday sun is streaking around her head and casting her in painful silhouette. 

Nebenai rolls her narrowed eyes, her smile never faltering. “Oh shut up, help me out here.” 

One broad hand clamps down on the makeshift harness, the other on the rope above them both, and she begins to haul them both up the cliffside. Nebenai soon finds places to wedge her feet and push, helping direct their climb until eventually, gasping and laughing, they spill over the top of the cliff and splay out in the sunlight. 

Beneath them, so far as to be tinted blue by the distance, spreads the valley they just spent the day traversing. Behind a hill, a curl of smoke rises from the camp, tracing upwards into the air like an inkbrush on paper. 

Finally, Nebenai pushes herself up on her elbows, throwing one hand out to block the sun. The woman is already upright, perched above the precipice like a church gargoyle, arms spread wide to balance. Her fingers play in the wind like feathers, or autumn leaves. 

Nebenai reaches out with one foot to tap the woman’s ankle. “You know, you’re going to be the death of me one day.” 

The woman’s laugh is like bourbon, like a dagger, like a swallowed torch. It sounds like it hurt going down. “Please, give me some credit. I already am.” 

[robo-dino-puppy]

*chomp*

[todayisafridaynight]

So what's one of your favorite Tsutsumi fits 😉

random as hell question to be askin 🤨 so mysterious...

but since you did ask probably this one <3 from the second episode of pure <3

[eriochromatic]

Arcane CD Charms 💿💿💿 Track 8/8 Our Love 🥂

saved the best for last!!! Zaundads nation I was NOT about to forget yall.. I know this is technically an s1 song but that flashback sequence was everything!!!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Rhetorical Devices

Some Examples

Anacoluthon - Syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence, especially: a shift in an unfinished sentence from one syntactic construction to another. ("you really should have—well, what do you expect?")

Anadiplosis - Repetition of a prominent and usually the last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next. ("rely on his honor—honor such as his?")

Analepsis - A literary technique that involves interruption of the chronological sequence of events by interjection of events or scenes of earlier occurrence; flashback.

Antiphrasis - The usually ironic or humorous use of words in senses opposite to the generally accepted meanings. ("this giant of 3 feet 4 inches")

Apophasis - The raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it. ("we won't discuss his past crimes")

Aporia - An expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect. ("to be, or not to be: that is the question")

Chiasmus - An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases. ("working hard, or hardly working?")

Dysphemism - The substitution of a disagreeable, offensive, or disparaging expression for an agreeable or inoffensive one. ("greasy spoon is a dysphemism for the word diner")

Epistrophe - Repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. ("of the people, by the people, for the people")

Hypallage - An interchange of two elements in a phrase or sentence from a more logical to a less logical relationship. ("you are lost to joy for joy is lost to you")

Hyperbaton - A transposition or inversion of idiomatic word order ("judge me by my size, do you?")

Pleonasm - The use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense; redundancy. ("I saw it with my own eyes")

Syllepsis - The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense. ("she blew my nose and then she blew my mind")

Synecdoche - A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage).

Zeugma - The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one. ("opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy")

As with all fields of serious and complicated human endeavor (that can be considered variously as an art, a science, a profession, or a hobby), there is a technical vocabulary associated with writing.

Rhetoric - the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion, and though a writer doesn’t need to know the specific labels for certain writing techniques in order to use them effectively, it is sometimes helpful to have a handy taxonomy for the ways in which words and ideas are arranged. This can help to discuss and isolate ideas that might otherwise become abstract and confusing.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Part 1 ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[thebroccolination]

TEAM TAM TAKES A STAND [EPISODE 5 EDITION]

THE DEFENSE FOR MY CLIENT TAMTAWAN HAS ARRIVED.

I need to rewatch this episode eighteen more times to get my head more fully around it, but I wanted to talk about how I thought the main point of this episode was done very well. Namely, showing the audience that Tam has had reason to believe that Phi has been careless with his heart and his feelings in the past.

The very first thing we get as the episode starts is this flashback in which Tam reminds Phi of the promise they made before this visit: since Tam's mother is arriving on Saturday (which is presumably the next day) they're not going to do anything physical; they're only going to work. I got the impression from this that Tam's mother didn't know about their relationship, but either way, what matters is that Phi made Tam a promise.

This is immediately followed by a sequence of sexy flashbacks confirming that they did not, in fact, only do work.

And we also know from later on in the episode that Phi started it and broke his promise to Tam:

["key did you just make this post to post these screenshots?" NO I AM GOING TO MAKE A SEPARATE HORNY POST ON MAIN LIKE A RESPECTABLE CREATURE OF BASE INTEREST THANK YOU VERY MUCH]

Like, Tam does totally go along with it, so it's not like Phi forced him. That's not the point I'm making. It's just important to note that Tam asked Phi not to do anything three times:

1) Before they got to the house 2) Before they went into the house, and 3) Literally while Phi is making moves on him

I think Tam went to those lengths because he knew himself well enough to know that if Phi did start something, he wouldn't be able to tell him no. After all, look at that last frame! Phi asks him, "Can I do this a little?" while kissing Tam's neck. He is technically asking permission, and Tam doesn't tell him no, but this is after Tam has already asked him not to three times!!!

So it seems like the narrative is showing us a particular flaw in their previous relationship: that Tam often gave in and let Phi have whatever he wanted, and Phi was happy to take and take from him, probably without even noticing he was doing it.

Until…

HE TOOK IT TOO FAR, YOUR HONOR.

When Phi came back from grocery shopping, he left the door open:

I was sitting there with cat roommate senses like, "Close the door, close the door, close the door, close the fucking door!!!" wondering if it was a production mistake or if the characters just didn't care.

But then…

Tam notices mid-kiss that the door's still open and starts to panic that Sosay's gotten out.

Phi, less fond of the cat and more interested in making out, makes the point that Sosay was a stray and she can handle herself.

Let's break down the whole argument, shaaall we? :D

Phi says, "She'll come back. Let's keep going." Assuming the flashbacks are linear, they've already slept together (at least) once, so Phi's going for another round. Another round after the one Tam asked him not to pursue!

When Phi keeps pressing him, Tam snaps at him, and crucially, Phi looks confused.

Tam is basically like, "I am no longer thinking about sex, I am thinking about my missing cat."

To which Phi is all,

"She's a stray, she can take care of herself. Why are you so worried?" Or, translated: "But I want to have sex with my hot boyfriend."

And Tam is correctly like, "Cool, you don't care about my cat, but you also don't care about me since I am visibly distraught about my cat. Also, you keep trying to sleep with me when I told you that was off the table."

Critically, even though Phi broke his promise, it was only this time when Phi left the door open and Sosay got out that Tam actually stopped him. And I think the reason he loses his temper like this is because he was telling himself he should have stopped him before.

Like, this is definitely Turned On but I detect a bit of annoyance there, too.

Also, check out this subtle moment!

This is the same night they found Sosay! (Or Sosay found them.) Tam finishes working on whatever they came to work on, and Phi gives him a massage. Notably, Tam thinks Phi being sweet and accommodating is weird.

And, tellingly, Phi isn't actually doing it to be sweet and accommodating. Moments after making Tam beam so happily, Phi goes in to bite his ear and kiss his neck and bulldozes past Tam's reminder of the promise he made.

Tam thought Phi was giving him a massage to be kind.

Phi was actually doing it to get laid.

But again, what makes this a really good conflict is that one could assume that from Phi's perspective, Tam isn't making it super clear that this is a boundary he doesn't want crossed. You can almost see in Tam's face when he tells himself it doesn't matter. That what he asked Phi for wasn't that important, really.

But isn't it kind of heartbreaking to watch that moment of Phi cradling Tam's face in his hands and think maybe Tam believed this was a simple act of kindness. That Phi really did just want to give him a massage and tell him he did well.

That for all he does for Phi day in and day out, he got some affection that stayed within the night-long boundaries he asked Phi to respect?

Perhaps from Phi's perspective, he was just being affectionate. No one was actually home, after all. He probably didn't think Tam was going to be upset and hurt when he pushed him for sex. We can see he didn't take the promise super seriously even at the start of the episode where he salutes in the adorable way he does. It's a very, "Sure, sure, I promise. Wink~"

Like, if you haven't watched Singto's solo MV "Consent" from Tam's perspective, absolutely go give it a watch, because it's very clear that Tam has an extremely different perspective of their relationship. (Also, Singto has the sweet and mellow voice of an angel and he does not get enough love for it.)

Phi's greatest grievance in his song is how Tam left him.

But Tam has specific complaints from their actual relationship.

Obviously, the best thing to do when one has issues in one's relationship is to talk about the issues with one's partner, but if characters did everything right all the time, then we wouldn't get stories about ex-boyfriends who squabble and then have sex about it.

I think Phi's not getting Tam's breakup reason because there's some piece of it Tam can't tell Phi yet, but I think we're not getting the reason because the narrative put us squarely on Phi's side in the first episode, and now it's gradually showing us that Phi wasn't an angel.

Think about how much we knew about Phi from the start: his job, his condo, all his possessions, his colleagues, his boss, his reputation, his fanbase, his university days, his ex-boyfriend, his award, his billboard, etc.

Now think about what we knew about Tam in episode one: he studied abroad in Australia. He dated Phi. They broke up. He's really hot. He came back because Yong said, "If you still love him, come back."

We spent all of episode four with Phi's mother.

It's only in episode five that Tam's is mentioned.

And I think this is all very intentionally and cleverly laid out. Because Phi already knows a lot of what we're going to see, but his perspective is going to change. Like in this episode, he relives the night Tam adopted Sosay, which was also a night they fought and Phi went out to find Tam's cat to make amends.

We're literally seeing that Phi's capable of changing for the better when Tam tells him directly what he wants or needs. I think that could be the lesson Tam needs to learn.

Hard to say without the second half, but that's the impression I'm getting from the setup we have so far.

Anyway JUSTICE FOR TAM MY SON IS BEAUTIFUL AND HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE.

The defense rests.

[arcane-ish]

So... is this canon? The "Lanes carved from bedrock" theory

There is this fic by @out-there-tmblr called Brush Off All The Dirt about a the backstory of Silco and Vander meeting as young men in the mines.

There's also the big fat Zaun timeline/chronology meta by @sorceressofthesky

They basically propose the following sequence of events of what exactly might have been the backstory of Silco and Vander and the Lanes as Young Men: namely that they built the Lanes up from scratch.

Let's look at the hints.

1.) Silco, Vander and Cassandra Kiraman are roughly the same age range.

2.) The voice on the recording we assume to be Cassandra. Technically we don't know that for sure I think? 2x01 definitely starts with Cassandra talking because she is talking directly to Caityln

"I know you doubt the merit of your birthright, Caitlyn. There's wisdom in that. But remember: You're a Kiramman."

The voice on the recording picks up directly there with

"But remember: You're a Kiramman."

However it is distorted, in theory this could be ie Cassandra's mother talking to Cassandra and just using the same phrasing. That said, my subtitle thing notes Cassandra for that line.

"The rise of industry in the fissures has led to the air becoming increasingly toxic. They call it the Grey. I've instructed our architects to devise a ventilation system."

So Cassandra as a young woman installed the ventilation system. In the picture where the ventilation system is being opened, she is posing with miners who wear gas masks.

3.) When we see the flashbacks of Vander, neither he, nor Silco, not Connel and Felicia wear gas masks, which suggests the conditions were better for them than during the time when Cassandra was posing. So either Vander and Silco became miners after the changes Cassandra made or were around to see it happen. [note another theory, that shows up in the fanfic, is that those people next to Cassandra might be Piltover engineers who get better gear than the normal miners, following the idea that Pilties need masks and Zaunites are just used to the air, but it still never sat right with me that Felicia would raise her children without protection if there were alternatives; I also think the miner gear just looks pretty similar from the drawing to the flashback]

4.) When Felicai talks to Silco and Vander she says "Tonight a harebrained scheme these two bozos cooked up to turn a dank crack in the earth into a thriving, healthy community became a reality." and later "You two are gonna figure this Zaun thing out. I don't care if you have to carve it out of the bedrock, covered in blisters. You're not allowed to fail anymore."

(that line alone is interesting. Does "you are not allowed to fail anymore" imply they have failed before? there's also the line from Silco to Vander "we both know topside won't listen to anything else.")

5.) In season 1 Vander is protective of the Lanes specifically ("Spare the Lanes"). While Silco wants freedom for all of the undercity.

6.) It gives Vander and Silco something to do between Felicia announcing her pregnancy and the bridge fight. Felicia's words suggest that they have already achieved a lot, the Last Drop is already fully there and looking good. And yet it's several years between Vi being a zygote and Vi being a young kid in the opening scene (I would expect her to be at least 5/6). Time for Vi to have a relative safe happy idyllic childhood as per the Remember Me video. And Silco throwing a molotov and looking scared overall seems like a still fairly innocent reaction, suggesting that there wasn't that much all out open war before the Bridge fight (again matching the rosy, peaceful depiction in the Remember Me video). If Silco and Vander were mostly busy building up their community that would explain why Vi had a very happy childhood rather than being born into turmoil or being raised in the middle of a civil war.

So the solution that for example that fanfic proposes is:

there was an area that was unusable due to Gray

after the ventilation system was installed it tentatively became livable

Vander, Silco, Felicia and Connel started to use their mining knowledge to carve out new areas that new people could live in and built a thriving community

that community's economy was heavily based around on smuggling (as per the statements of Amanda, who also says Vander and Silco created the "market" respectively market area).

it would explain why Felicia is still working as a miner when her kids are small rather than let's say working for Vander at the bar. They are not working for rich mine owners, they are doing their own thing and working for something they believe in.

It seems like it was always a vision of the writers that Vander and Silco "built the Lanes" in whatever form. And season 2 could have brought in the additional backstory of Cassandra making it possible thought her air systems and Felicia being one of the miners who helped.

Now personally, I strongly think that "it does not matter what headcanon the writers have, if they didn't put it on screen it does not count" (ie like Amanda saying Viktor bullshitted his way into the academy or that he helped Sky get a spot there). But it's still interesting to ponder what exactly the writers were envisioning.

Personally, i always like the idea more of Silco and Vander as dashing robbers in their youth, more in the style of "this is exactly the sort of job Vander would've pulled when he was our age."

But I'm willing to wrap my head around alternative takes. I think there is some appeal to the idea that there was something that Vander and Silco built up as young men, something that was their baby and Vander stayed attached to it. That they "built the Lanes" together. And they clashed, because Silco wanted to expand beyond that ("You had my respect. The Lanes' respect, but that… that was never enough for you.").

That said, I'm not super enthralled by it and I'm trying to formulate why. For one it seems kind of less dashing than fun robbers and revolutionaries. Again there's some appeal of actually building something. But "let's build an underground town" ...

1.) it just seems kind of small as a dream compared to

2.) it seems kind of close to what Ekko is doing (don't like how things are being run, build your own community, except with less pretty trees and hoverboards).

3.) It feels kind of like a very American sort of dream? Grab a piece of wild land, tame it, built a thriving merchant town on it.

Again, I don't completely hate it (and I really enjoy that fanfic that goes into the weeds of Silco and Vander figuring out the starting logistics). But overall, I'm glad they left it vague enough so I'm free to imagine it more as Silco and Vander organizing heroic miner strikes for better working conditions or being gangsters who work their way up.

[youryurigoddess]

Thy Kingdom Airways

Attention all passengers, please fasten your seatbelts. We are preparing for take-off. This time our analytic journey will revolve around planes as a recurring motif in Good Omens 2 and possibly Good Omens 3. Since a part of this post will add some new crumbs of information about the ongoing production to the discourse, please make sure to spoiler tag your replies accordingly.

We’re starting literally at the beginning, AND YES, I’m painfully aware that this is my third time breaking apart this particular scene from the new title sequence (Peter Anderson, I’m in your walls). We’re witnesses to the Second Coming brought to us via Thy Kingdom Airways.

And this big silver plane is actually a part of some good old — literally 20-year-old — spoilers from the never published Good Omens sequel:

Director Douglas Mackinnon personally chose the poster for A Matter of Life and Death / Stairway to Heaven (1946) to appear here as well. The movie itself is referenced multiple times in both seasons of the show, but what interests us here is the fact that its MC is a British pilot who dies in a plane crash.

He gets another chance at life due to an angel’s error and eventually must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with a radio operator who shared his last moments on Earth over the airwaves.

Douglas is also responsible for the movie playing in the background of The Resurrectionist pub scene in S02E06 — The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), a biopic of Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris.

To finish the transatlantic flight, Lindbergh has to stay awake for 33 hours (33 happens to be biblically significant, i.a. as the age of the crucified Jesus). He succeeds by talking to a fly that had buzzed into the cockpit and reminiscing to it about his life (via flashbacks).

Once an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern, right? So there’s a plane. And a character traveling through time and space to navigate some dangerous circumstances. Looking for help or… clues? The danger is either their own feelings or something more ominous here.

Flash-forward to 2025. It might be completely off, but considering the overall panic I think it’s worth mentioning that I found some crumbs of information suggesting a Good Omens film shoot with a certain amount of angels at an airport right now.

I was casually screening the extras’ profiles for Good Omens 3 the other day, as one does to learn that e.g., one of them is a professional contortionist (really!) and after a while, it came to my attention that a few of the profiles repeated mentions of “angels”, “2nd unit angels”, and “airport” across a few days in late February. Interestingly, some of them also listed sword fighting skills and law enforcement background underneath.

The implications seem obvious to anyone familiar with the plot of the unpublished Good Omens sequel and what I just shared above: please take a minute of your time to consider Aziraphale in a new suit, new hairstyle, a headset, and surrounded by at least one unit of angelic bodyguards in dark glasses.

Now, the filming dates in question consist of days and months only, so technically could also refer to their Good Omens 2 work since some (not all) of the extras were also employed by the show at the time. And Heaven’s corridors scenes could be shot at an airport instead of a studio, right? But the thing is, the background angels seen on screen in S2… don’t seem to match the profiles I found.

A perfunctory social media screening revealed one mention of Boeing 737 interior scenes filmed this month in the area, at Dunsfold Aerodrome. Is this connected? No idea, but if at least some of my speculations are correct, a follow-up exterior shoot at an airport would make sense.

Another interesting crumb that may or may not be related in some way is this photograph from the set shared by Guy Spangler, a professional dressing props specialist and armourer on Good Omens 3. Not quite the big silver plane of Thy Kingdom Airways we’re waiting for, but still!

[hollow-lime-green]

Share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have fewer) and tag ten people.

ty for the tag @detta-pica! <3

it seems like a good day to do some reminiscing/reflection on the ol' fics. i like first lines. sometimes i have a good idea for one, and it'll really guide the story. sometimes i don't, but by the end of writing the piece i can go back and find something that fits for me.

interestingly, exactly the last 10 (no more, no less) of my posted fics are JJK, and they are all in the FIYM extended universe. so i shall post them in story chronological order:

1. it's not gay unless the domains touch

Geto Suguru was fifteen years old when he first met Gojo Satoru, and he instantly decided he couldn’t stand him.

but that's in flashback. the story really starts with this one (one of my favorites)

Suguru can’t quite figure out if Satoru didn’t get enough hugs as a child, or if he got too many. 

i'll put the rest under a cut so this isn't a longboy on peoples' dashes (do people care about this? i do not know.)

2. too gay to function

So, for the record, none of this was Shoko’s fault. She got dragged into this shit years ago. Not like, ‘kicking and screaming’ dragged - nothing so loud and hysterical. No, she got dragged down slowly but surely - like a poor, low-level gangster with his feet cast into concrete shoes. Drowned by gay bullshit: R.I.P. in peace, Ieiri Shoko.

wow okay so i'm literally already cheating because technically this is the earliest chronological point. but c'mon i had to start with domains.

3. two sorcerers chillin' in a hot tub (five feet apart cause they’re not gay)

Geto Suguru ate his first cursed spirit at the age of five and a half. Curse manipulation was, among other things, not an especially intuitive power. It took a creative, slightly deranged sort of person to look at a warbling mass of cursed viscera and think, ‘Oh, yeah, that looks tasty’. However, as a general rule, five-year-olds are more than willing to put almost anything in their mouths, except green vegetables.

you will see that there is a trend of me starting with a one line 'paragraph' and then a multiline follow up paragraph. i simply like this.

4. the uncertainty principle

Gojo Satoru is sick in the head.

this side piece is an interesting and special one for me. i was talking to a (non-fic) writing friend at the time, particularly about atmosphere, characterization, and introspection. and what i like about that pieces is that, in hitting all of those things - nothing happens. like, actions are not taken, nothing is happening. and yet, it is still a scene that works, and an important piece of the story (very important if you read in sequence, because it is our first look into gojo's pov in the whole story).

popular books but especially BoyFantasy (tm) (i am staring directly at you brandon sanderson) fall into a trap of being so egregiously action driven. once you break out of that, you can build a lot more character depth and tension. (read name of the wind read name of the wind read name-

5. blueshift

To most people, the train out of Shinjuku was a bit louder than usual. To Satoru, it was utterly deafening.

rare case where i feel the summary actually goes harder than the opening line

Gojo Satoru loves in black and white; he suffers in technicolor.

6. string theory

Satoru’s eyes burn. This, in itself, means nothing. Less than nothing, actually, because the combined time that Satoru’s eyes don’t burn is far less, fractionally, than the time that they do. Less than half. Maybe less than a third. Usually, it’s the sun’s fault. You’re not supposed to stare at the sun, obviously, but you’re doubly not supposed to stare at the sun when it burns your retinas in three spectra instead of one. It’s not the sun’s fault this time, though, because he hasn’t been outside in three days - almost four - and the library sconces don’t burn that brightly.

from the start, we can certainly already sense that Something is Wrong With This Man, so that's effective.

7. relativity

‘Just relax, baby,’ Suguru murmurs. Except, he doesn’t. Because Suguru wouldn’t say that - the ‘baby’ thing - and Satoru doesn’t even know if he’d want him to. Because ‘baby’ sounds, like… weird, and girly and stuff. And he’s not a girl, so- Nope, he’s not getting into that tonight.

relativity my beloved

8. gal pals (ongoing)

The train ride to Kyoto goes by in the blink of an eye. Not because it’s pleasant, and not because it’s particularly quick, but because Shoko’s brain isn’t really in good enough shape to fuck with the concept of linear time.

go read about the lesbians, guys. this pride, it's your civic duty to care about the lesbians as much as the gayboys. also when i have the stamina to post about it again... i am telling you folks, i am cooking something here. i am cooking a fucking feast here (admittedly the dessert will be in ch 3 and i need to get through ch 2 without putting an ice pick through my eyeball because i need to write some complex choreo)

but when i get there?

when i get there you will understand why this had to be a side piece, and why i am doing the alternating posting structure with fellas.

despite my recent blah, whenever i think about finally get to post the end of gal pals, i smile. oh. oh. you guys are not prepared, you're simply not prepared.

when i get there.

9. fellas is it gay to be his one and only (ongoing)

AN: Special fangz (get it, coz Im goffik) 2 my gf (ew not in that way) nanami, bloodybread7:3 4 helpin me wif da story and spelling. MCR ROX! Hi my name is Satoru Light’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have short ivory white hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my shoulder and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Anderson Cooper (AN: if u don’t know who he is get da hell out of here!). 

i forgot what the opening line for fellas was because i was thinking about the chronological start of the plot for fellas and not the start of the text, not the greatest writing of my fanfiction career. and the stars aligned so i got to post this on 4/1... i think i had this in the drafts, fully edited ready to go, for maybe 6-8 months before it got posted? i peaked here. i really did.

aaaaaand...

10. ??? (upcoming)

Suguru’s never been a fan of early mornings, but, like most things in his life, they’re a habit he’s tripped and fallen into.

ohhh i'm cheating again i'm cheating again someone call the fanfiction tumblr police i'm cheating again. this is from a WIP (the tropefest WIP I have been oversharing on).

technically the 10th work in FIYM is teeth and tongue, which is fun and if you are interested in my uraume then you should go read it. but it's very tangential to the plot and set in the heian era.

this upcoming work has been a nice, lighthearted full comedy break from some of the heavier FIYM writing (not that I can describe the fanfiction scenes as heavy... yet?). i'm having fun with it. :)

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Tagging: well i feel like in her post olga stole of ton of people who i would think of tagging and 10 is such a big number, so like always I am going to cop out and say ANYONE WHO WANTS TO WHO IS READING THIS POST.

but of people who i remember are writing things I will tag (and I am re-possessing from olga)

@mildlyannoyedscoundrel-blog @andiftheycare @alpha-hydra @fushiglow @lmskitty

and (beta counts for 5 points i don't make the rules)

@benevolentkitchen (oohhhh you thought you were safe just cuz you've never posted ohhhhh you're not post your wip do it you won't ohhhh)

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Regarding the possibility that Foggy Nelson isn’t dead, the reason why I can’t really wrap my head around it is that there would have to be some sort of complicated conspiracy to justify why Foggy survived. I know that people referenced the comic where Foggy got shanked and turned out to be alive, but consider where we’re at with the show.

If Foggy somehow survived, then that means Bullseye had to have been told by someone to make Daredevil think that his best friend is dead. Bullseye’s massacre at the bar would then be his way of covering up his actions. There’s no other way Foggy could’ve survived, Bullseye had to have done that intentionally since this is someone whose aim is around Hawkeye’s level. Foggy was literally standing still when he got hit, there’s no way Bullseye wouldn’t have been able to miss a killshot.

The question then is if Bullseye did intentionally “miss” to let Foggy live, who would order this, why would they order this, and how did they convince Dex to go through with it. Whoever this person is, they’re someone who is fine with letting several innocent people die as long as Foggy survived. That’s why I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this possibility, it just seems far-fetched, even for this show.

The one thing I can think of is that Wilson or Vanessa Fisk hired Bullseye to do it. They wanted to destroy Matt Murdock, but in a way that their actions can’t be traced back to them. So, Bullseye “kills” Foggy, but in reality, Foggy survived somehow. That’s why when Wilson Fisk says he honored his deal with Matt, he’s technically telling the truth, which is enough to fool Matt. The problem with that possibility is that it doesn’t explain where Foggy went. Like, are the Fisks just keeping the man in some dungeon somewhere? At that point, they might as well just actually kill him.

I don’t see the police being behind this since the police would be authorizing a massacre. Say what you will about corrupt cops, but even that’s a touch too far. Also, even if the cops were behind this, why specifically keep Foggy alive? In fact, why hire Bullseye to do this? The other remote possibility is that Foggy hired Bullseye to fake his death. But that also seems too much of a stretch, plus I’m sure there’s an easier way to fake your death that doesn’t involve killing innocent people.

Anyways, we’ll see what happens in the rest of the show. I know that Elden Henson is coming back for season 2, but at this point, I’m sure it’ll just be for flashback sequences. If he’s alive, there has to be a solid mystery behind it.

[hell-is-not-an-excuse]

Helluva Boss versus Achillean Relationships || Chaxxie [1/3]

Let me preface this by saying that I know I'm not the first person to point this out, and I certainly won't be the last. However, it's something that's been tugging at me for a while now. That "something" of course, being the portrayal of MLM/achillean relationships within the Hellaverse, and how they're favoured over everything while bordering into the fetishistic.

I'm going to be the first to admit I have not watched the entirety of Hazbin Hotel. Hell, I made it to the first five or so minutes of the first episode before unceremoniously quitting around the "this body was made to be exploited" line. I'll have a separate post on that later, since my thoughts on that (and Angel Dust as a character, by extension) are long winded and not the focus of this particular post.

So, for today, I will be focusing on one of the three canon MLM ships within Helluva Boss specifically. For the purpose of this post series, I will only be including the ships that have two characters that are named within the series. This narrows us down to Chaxxie, Fizzozzie and Stolitz (which is not technically canon but is clearly endgame, unless the writers are waiting with bated breath to pull the rug out from underneath the audience).

This time I will be talking about Chaxxie, as it's the least touched-upon relationship in the show itself; not only because it's the only past relationship on this list, but it's also the only relationship that contains a one-off character. And yet, I found the lack of chemistry so offensively boring that I felt the need to make a whole post just about them.

So, Chaxxie. There's not a whole lot to talk about with their relationship, as all we get is just over a minute of backstory and a song that screams "unable to take no for an answer". I suppose I could also include their sham almost-wedding, but that comes off less as a shipping moment and more a plot beat, and thus will be disregarded. Even so, I apparently had way more to say about them and the implications of their relationship than I thought, so this post will be long.

Before that however, there's the obvious elephant in the room - Chaz and Millie. Despite being the ex of both Millie and Moxxie, we as the audience never get a perspective of what the relationship between Millie and Chaz even looked like. Not even a throwaway line from Millie herself. Given that Helluva Boss has suffered from a lack of precise characterising of its women up until this point, this is another glaring example to add to the long-suffering pattern.

But what about Moxxie? What do we get as the audience?

In the first of two flashback scenes, we're informed that Chaz and Moxxie meet during Moxxie's induction into the Knolastname crime family. They meet eyes, and Moxxie is charmed right off the bat.

This springboards us into four different instances of the supposed chemistry that these two share with one another, the first being a gunfight in which Moxxie and Chaz reach for the same grenade, with all the flirtation and blushing that could be fit into the few seconds allotted for this sequence.

From there, the sexual intensity ramps up in the next two shots before settling back down into a nude portrait scene reminiscent of Titanic.

In terms of learning about their relationship, we as the audience don't glean much from these scenes, other than the fact that they have an incredibly sexual dynamic. One could also infer that their relationship started as a secret given the request to not tell Crimson that Chaz was at the door in the signage scene, though this is never properly expanded on.

Now, before we venture into the second half of my Chaxxie critique, I want to make two things clear; there is nothing wrong with a couple having an incredibly active sex life. This is true for any pairing with consenting adults, be it Achillean, Sapphic or Hetero. This is something I will expand on momentarily. Second is that despite my griping of the overtly sexual nature of their relationship, I don't find these examples to be "too sexual". By all means, this is quite tame imagery, at least to me. I bring these examples up primarily to highlight that Chaxxie as a ship suffers from sacrificing chemistry for sexuality (whether that be in a manner meant to be comedic, or genuinely sexy).

Back to our flashbacks. In our second and final flashback scene, we are given the unceremonious ending to their relationship. In the midst of a heist, Moxxie is pinned and unable to escape the scene of the crime, as police sirens wail in the distance. Chaz, in a selfish move, makes a grab for the money and leaves Moxxie to the authorities, effectively ending their relationship. This is presented as a great heartbreak for Moxxie, but due to the issues highlighted above, this reveal falls flat.

Moxxie doesn't appear to struggle with feelings of self-worth in the romantic department; this is evident in the way he interacts with Millie, self-assured in his love for her and her love for him. One would think that if this relationship with Chaz was so important to him, that there would be some sort of foreshadowing or hints regarding the feelings or issues that would have been bound to have sprung up as a result of Chaz and his abandonment.

I will concede here, Moxxie not wanting to talk about his past is a fine enough example of why Chaz wouldn't come up in conversation prior to this episode. However, if we as the audience are meant to believe that this relationship was that important to him, it would have been nice to add a hint of abandonment issues to Moxxie as a character.

This could also have had a possible added effect of explaining why Moxxie isn't so quick to leave Blitzø or I.M.P despite his treatment - Blitzø and Loona may be awful to Moxxie, but at least they don't abandon him. At least Blitzø throws crumbs of praise his way. At least Loona comes along with Millie to rescue him and Blitzø from the D.H.O.R.K.S.

Unfortunately, we're still not done here with the Chaxxie scenes, as the biggest and most glaring issue with this ship as a whole comes in at around the fifteen minute mark.

I'll start with the least consequential of my critiques - This scene is just not funny. The punchlines essentially amount to sex, big dick, and the mounting discomfort that Moxxie feels while he repeatedly insists that Chaz leave him alone. There are ways to comedically write a character being uncomfortable with sex or sexual implications/situations. Blatant harassment is not one of them.

Speaking of blatant harassment, this is the moment that any semblance of this ship being worth my time fell apart. The writing is done using Chaxxie as a ham-fisted attempt at giving Moxxie further backstory (at the cost of Millie once again) and is now beginning to decline into the outright uncomfortable.

Even before he begins his song, Moxxie outright tells Chaz to leave. Of course, Chaz completely disregards his demands to be left alone, insisting that he knows exactly what Moxxie wants. This is a common line used by real life sexual abusers against their victims - and yes, though Chaz never actually forces himself onto Moxxie in an explicit manner, his following song is filled with unwanted touch and crude, overtly sexual language.

Look me in the eyes and tell me that Moxxie is enjoying this experience even remotely. He looks put off, alarmed, uncomfortable. And yet this scene is played for comedy, for some reason. This is not the first instance of Moxxie being sexually abused or harassed for comedy either. Even back in Season One, this poor guy was being used for the sort of joke that should have died out years ago.

Overall thoughts on Chaxxie and their contribution to MLM representation.

Do I think Chaz and Moxxie are good queer representation? The easy, fast answer is a resounding "No". Their relationship lacks any sort of depth in canon and looks to be just another vehicle for gay sex jokes, partnered with yet another excuse to harass Moxxie for laughs.

On a slightly longer note, I find them not only to be lackluster representation, but yet another instance in the growing pattern of Vivziepop's achillean ships being either based on sex, or having a heavy emphasis on sex that isn't afforded to her sapphic or hetero pairings. This isn't to say that the other achillean ships don't have moments that are fluffier or not purely focused on sex (after all, Chaxxie is the worst offender of being a pairing based on nothing but sex from a writing standpoint), but the discrepancy between the amount of sex talk from Chaggie and Millie/Moxxie as compared to Fizzozzie, Stolitz and Chaxxie is stark.

It's hard to say exactly what goes on in the heads of the writers, and I am not here to speculate on what they may be thinking at all times. However, the writing behind Chaxxie as a pairing specifically (in the past or not) leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The inclusion of Chaz does nothing to further Moxxie's character and seems more like a segue into making his bisexuality explicit, rather than taking the time to explore his attraction to men and past relationships meaningfully. Their past relationship is shallow at best, giving me no real reason to care about its end, and does a disservice to the already limited representation in Helluva Boss by painting yet another portrait of a lustful, but ultimately loveless feeling relationship.

[queerfables]

The Rules of the Twist

Given the themes of deception and sleight of hand in Good Omens season 2, I think most of us agree it's at least possible there's some kind of twist waiting to be revealed in season 3. We're bouncing around a lot of theories, but I wanted to take a step back and look at the general shape of what we might expect.

The big twist we've seen before in Good Omens is Crowley and Aziraphale's body swap. (Okay, technically it was an appearance swap. But that just doesn't sound as pithy.) Rather than anticipate an exact repeat of this trick, I'm considering the swap as a sort of model. What does it tell us about the rules Neil plays by when he pulls a twist in this story? What clues can we expect, and what can we not count on? Sure, there's no guarantee that a season 2 twist is going to map exactly onto what we've seen in the past, but I think it's a reasonable place to start. Take these as guidelines and take them with a grain of salt, but if you're sorting through all our fascinating Good Omens theories and trying to decide what you think, you might find them helpful.

So then, what are the rules?

Broadly speaking, Neil plays fair with twists. He foreshadows and includes enough hints for the audience to make a reasonable guess at what's going on, or at least to look back after the reveal and go, "oh, of course". But he still keeps some cards close to the chest.

During the body swap, there are two big gaps in the information we're given:

Key events happen off screen The swap happened between scenes, during a time that it was only suggested, not confirmed, that Crowley and Aziraphale would be together. The transition between these scenes also used film and tv conventions to make that passage of time "invisible" - we see Crowley and Aziraphale get on the bus, and then we see them in the morning going about their days separately, and we're conditioned to think nothing important could have happened in between.

Key tools (eg abilities, items, information) haven't been shown before The swap was not something we'd ever seen Crowley and Aziraphale do, and it wasn't something they'd ever talked about either. It fit comfortably into the established world building but it hadn't been specifically signposted as a possibility.

The other big twist that Good Omens pulled was the romance between Gabriel and Beelzebub as the explanation for Gabriel's disappearance from heaven. Both of these information gaps are involved here too. The offscreen event is obviously the meetings between Gabriel and Beelzebub that lead to them falling in love - up until Gabriel's flashback sequence, the only indication they'd ever met each other was a brief conversation at the airbase during Armageddon. The tool that we haven't seen before is Beelzebub's ability to create a fly vessel for Gabriel's memories (protecting him in much the same way that Crowley and Aziraphale protected each other with their body swap, in fact).

These are pretty big gaps, really. And given that Neil knew there'd be years between seasons 2 and 3, I expect he would have leaned pretty heavily into them if he wanted to hide something. So how do we predict a twist if we can't know where it is and haven't seen what it might involve?

Unanswered questions

This is the big one. Looking at where the furniture isn't, you might say.

What's interesting is that the questions that point to a twist aren't usually subtle or ambiguous. For the body swap, the two converging questions were: what did Agnes' last prophecy mean, and how could Crowley and Aziraphale survive their executions? In season two, some of the unanswered questions signposting Gabriel/Beelzebub were: how did Gabriel lose his memory, why was he carrying a box, what was the significance of the song he kept singing, who was he at the Resurrectionist with...

I think guesses about upcoming twists are most convincing when they seek to tie up loose threads from the show. For this reason, I'm a little skeptical of theories proposing the kiss between Crowley and Aziraphale involved some kind of twist. It isn't impossible, I just don't see any unanswered questions there. (Savvy readers may note that I too have speculated about a twist hidden in the kiss. I do find the possibility fun, but it's not a theory I'm seriously committed to). If I was going to really buy into one of these theories, I'd want it to explain one of my big unanswered questions other than "but how could they get into a fight that hurts me so deep in my soul?" That's definitely a question I have, but not technically a mystery.

It's worth noting that in the case of the body swap, we were initially given a false answer to the question "how did they survive their executions?" The angels and demons watching attribute it to Crowley and Aziraphale having "gone native", believing that their natures had fundamentally changed, making them immune to holy water and hellfire. It might be the case, then, that some of the apparently resolved questions this season warrant further investigation. Is there more to the story of Gabriel's disappearance than we know, for example?

2. Unexplained details

If examining an unanswered question is looking at where the furniture isn't, then this is where we take all the pieces of furniture piled up in storage and see if we've got anything that fits. Everything is fair game here: script, acting, music, props, sets, costumes, editing, camera angles, audio effects, visual effects, everything. If it's on the screen or coming through the speakers, it was put there on purpose by multiple teams of highly skilled and attentive creators all working together to create the final product.

I think you could probably do an entire meta on all the little details pointing towards the season 1 body swap, but here are some of the big ones:

"Crowley" sees the restored Bentley, but takes a taxi instead of driving it

"Aziraphale" circles "Crowley" when they order their ice creams, the way Crowley more typically moves around Aziraphale

"Crowley" says "tickety boo", an extraordinarily Aziraphalean phrase

The collar on "Crowley's" jacket is a beige tartan rather than its usual red

There are general differences in the ways David Tennant and Michael Sheen embody the characters throughout the swap

Similarly, Gabriel and Beelzebub's romance has lots of small details pointing to it. The big one that keeps showing up is the connection between Gabriel and flies. He mentions them and interacts with them repeatedly, and although it isn't obvious at first glance, there's a fly in the box that he carries to the bookshop. This all culminates in the reveal that it's the same fly, Beelzebub's gift to him.

Here's the problem, of course: if everything in the show is intentional and crafted with meticulous attention to detail, how do we know what actually matters? This is why I think it's so important to look at the unanswered questions first. There's a joy in seeking out Easter eggs and connecting all the dots, and sometimes you might strike gold this way, but there's also a lot of noise in the signal. It's helpful to know the general shape of what you're looking for, so you'll know when you've found it.

You can reverse engineer this. Start with details that jump out at you and then look for a puzzle they might explain. This works, but it's a little easier to get lost in the weeds, struggling to sort out what's significant and what's a fun reference to another piece of media or a hint to a question that's already been resolved. Going back to the twists we've already seen on this show, the unanswered questions around them were really big and obvious, so I think it's a good idea to ask: if I hadn't noticed this detail, would I have thought this was a mystery that needed solving?

Okay, but what do we do with this?

Well, maybe nothing. These criteria can't confirm or rule out any theories, after all. I'm laying it out like a rubric but it isn't really, I'm just describing a few storytelling patterns we've seen before and making some rough guesses about how they might show up again. If I were really serious about this I'd probably take a look at other examples of Neil's work and see how well my model holds up there, but the truth is I'm not really familiar with enough of his other works to do this. (Confession time: I was always more of a Pratchett fan).

The main reason that I've laid everything out like this is it informs my thinking when I stress test my own theories, and I figured other people might be interested in it. I'm also hoping it will help me to be able to refer back to this when I write meta in the future. For my own purposes, I find a breakdown like this helpful because it gives me a sense of how a writer approaches their story, where they'll tip their hand and where they'll hold things close. It's no guarantee and it wouldn't be any fun if it was, but in a lot of cases we're not aware of our own patterns, so it can be surprisingly illuminating.

[ckret2]

I'M SORRY but I don't have TIME to read through all 60 chapters of your fic. I do however have a MIGHTY NEED for as much content about Euclydia as possible. Can you direct me to which chapters feature flashbacks to Bill's home life?

Bad news! it's 94 chapters now!!

There's flashbacks to Bill's childhood in chapters 15, 40, 41, 42, 49, 52, 53, 55, 82, 83, and 85. Some of them are dream sequences, so they aren't 100% accurate, Bill's subconscious is reinterpreting the events.

On top of the flashbacks, chapters 52, 53, 55, and 85 have extra lore about his home/childhood in the rest of the (present day) chapter.

Bill talks about his childhood in chapters 30, 56, and 84 but there's no additional flashbacks, just lore. (including pictures of his house!)

Chapters 61-69 are about the aftermath of the Euclidean Massacre, so they're about Euclydia but technically Euclydia burned up like a day earlier. There's a lot of other 2D dimensions/people though.

‼️Important note!‼️ Chapters 16-60 were posted before TBOB and haven't been edited yet, but technically the only part that isn't canon compliant is his parents' designs—I originally made them a golden line and a green trapezoid. So, don't be surprised by that. The rest of the lore about his home dimension is unchanged by TBOB. (and if anything doesn't look canon compliant, that's because you don't know the whole story yet.)

[paigegonerogue]

Episode Five

Incredible episode!! Once again, please enjoy my completely disorganized thoughts :D

SPOILERS:

Stellar opening scene. I fucking love when TLOU pulls back and we see other people being affected by these things. The last of us continues to be stellar at using exposition to build characters, and the twist at the end when we find out Leon is her son was brutal😭 and then we saw him later😭

It’s really interesting how we see parents and children on both sides of the WLF and Seraphites. We see the dad and his daughter and the mom and her son, both of whom seem like loving parents but whose families are lost from the conflict, which will set up what happens later really, really well.

“Natural gas baybeeee” I love Ellie so much😭❤️

That theater scene is unbelievably gorgeous omg. Also Bella’s subtle acting is unreal, the way we see absolutely everything happening in her head is unbelievable.

I love Dina’s monologue. It’s such a good insight into Dina’s headspace, and the way she’s so cavalier about it but we can still see the underlying hurt is such great writing and acting. It’s scenes like this that prove show don’t tell isn’t always straight forward, because by having Dina tell Ellie about it rather than show it we get such a deep insight into Dina’s psychology and even more meat in their relationship. Also I desperately want to write something from Dina’s POV.

Once again the infected sequences are technical marvel’s. The suspense as we saw the stalkers on the crates was unbelievable.

JESSE!! I love Jesse!! I really hope we get more with the three of them, because Bella, Isabella, and Young not only have fantastic chemistry and the writing gives them a really fun and interesting dynamic, but also because that’s like a dream triad of actors for any project.

The Seraphite sequence was gorgeous (once I turned my brightness up a bit lmao). The forest had so much texture, and I loved the greens and oranges.

I feel very vindicated, because we clearly see how Ellie isn’t okay. How she’s still obsessively focused on Abby, and how Dina had been tampering her down. But once Dina isn’t there to stop her, she goes nuts.

The spore-set is unreal. Like, it’s indescribable. The artistry on display is so unbelievably incredible. It’s this perfect mix of dark and morbid yet gorgeous. The details, the lights, the infected on the wall. I can’t even.

Bella. Fucking. Ramsey. I don’t even know how to describe their acting in that scene. Like, really, Ellie’s shift in demeanor was so good. It’s been this subtle buildup and we saw the dam break. The rage in everything about Ellie in that moment, geez. Phenomenal.

Also, Ellie recreating what happened to Joel was so good.

The flashback made me emotional😭 they’re so happy and soft together I can’t stand ittttt💔💔💔

Pearl Jam song in the credits—freakin’ great.

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I started KCD2 because after the Monastery quest in KCD1 I was beginning to lose steam so rushed the ending (I'll go back and do it all again properly). KCD2 is more user friendly and the storytelling and acting is a lot tighter so far. I loved the flashback sequence to KCD1 and how they framed it— Henry on the brink of death, his PTSD in the forefront, being dragged out of the danger by an increasingly scared and desperate Hans babbling reassurances. 10/10.

I actually get to pet Mutt and Pebbles. 10/10.

However, as soon as the world opened up I immediately did the blacksmiths questline because I was enjoying the KCD1 type investigation— Henry of Skalitz, medieval Bohemia's no1. federal investigator (I mean, lords are technically the government). But it was definitely too early for me to stumble on the Hermit and boy did that escalate quickly! Somehow Henry survived and I'm hiding the bodies of four Crusaders. I don't really know what the Hermit did to warrant a visit from the Church's personal army but I'm on his side regardless and we are taking this to our graves.

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Hi! I saw your question about the animation process. As a student, I can answer some questions.

The first thing is that although animation in home improves things, that has nothing to do with the faster or slower completion of ep ,Of course it does it faster! But we are not machines 😔 It all depends on the scene they ask to perform

Here are the benefits they give and one can see

ZAG has much more direct control over the creative and technical process! If you watch the episodes you will know that there are better compositions and narrative in many , A good example is the entire visual narrative in Ivan's ep and the different play of tones in the sky

They can now use background compositions and not dictated text, add more subtleties to their scenes and not rely so much on dialogue

Adrien in his empty room, the different sunsets give the viewer a sensation (I don't know if it is understood? It's techniques to make someone feel without saying it) The new program allows for more lighting play, which is a total boon for design! We love light!

This was not possible before due to communication delays

The narrative is better structured due to the flexibility, " Now he's doing this thing he wasn't doing before! " Exactly, now they can do it! And they can animate it! It's like building a house before it was on a limited land now that half destroyed house is on a flat land and they can build better ( I don't say it's perfect because there are no perfect writers, but now they can get more juice and with the new ones it's better) That's why we finally have Adrien's flashback with his mother

Well, what does the animator do?

Eh . .. It's too much so trying to simplify! There is a contract that when the el is ready, it has to be published.

Some scenes require more time due to their complexity Because there are more characters, more action, special effects, while others are simpler and are completed sooner. In addition, script writing, dubbing, and editing also influence the order in which It ends

Each animator goes for his specialty but even then they ask the animator to do the impossible or difficult The delay of chapter one, for example, that whole chat noir sequence is complicated!! It's not just animating it, it's telling you "it's not right, rethink it or add these effects or the mouth doesn't match the actor's voice" And we're just talking about animating movement, not about color, which is a mess and the greatest friend as an enemy They have to make the colors balanced or the viewer will feel visual discomfort

Sometimes they give a scene to an animator who is not a specialist in this and he has to come up with something, but that also lengthens the process.. I think you can see a little of it in Ladybug's transformation into werepapas It seems they gave up trying to understand how to make Marinette's hair flow and just gave up

Dubbing is also a problem and the reason why they are in other languages before French lol

I'm sleepy so sorry if everything is mixed up Marketing is important It seems they prefer to get rid of the weaker and easier episodes to do or Being able to have chapters with a certain similarity together to attract the viewer in view of something chronological

So that they would have a similar production rate and deliver them almost together

Obviously when the process of animating it begins is when these plans do not survive That's why chapter 1 isn't there because they underestimated the fight, which is normal in an action scene Please don't criticize anyone for that :( it shows that there is a lot of effort

The program also has its studios, rooms and character designs to use, but some are not ready yet or are missing details, which is why delays occur

People have more than one job, that's why they took so long

Another benefit is that there is now more balance in animation quality and not like before ( Marinette's Mom ep.... ) but I still put it at maybe because there aren't enough chapters to judge if it will actually hold up

Script delay, knowing what they want to convey, the animator cannot move forward unless it is left to their interpretation

There are even more people checking out other things! It's so much that I'm not surprised they decided to throw away the chronology They knew they couldn't handle it because there was no clear parameter as to when each one would finish at the beginning So when they saw halfway through the process what would happen, they just kept going

It's like prioritizing a college assignment. There are different dates. Maybe it would be better to submit it in order, but many people submit it by priority And in each subject, different students submit their work at different times and the teacher has to grade this, but teacher takes extra weeks to deliver grades because he also prioritizes other notes also some students handed in on the last day so he will only be able to finish grading now but he also has another room so it will take him a while to get to grade those and then send it so they can upload the grades for everyone in the course ( From a single course, now he needs to do the others )

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying or omitting too much, but I'll leave it like this. I hope it helps you ♥️

(Post this ask was referring to)

Thanks for the brain dump, anon. I think I should clarify what I was saying in that post. I actually do have some training in animation (took a few courses when I was trying to decide on a career path). That means that I know a lot of high level things about the animation process and industry, but there are substantial gaps in my knowledge when it comes to the fine details such as why in-house animation wouldn't fix the issue with the episodes airing out of order.

For those who don't know, when it comes to animation, it's normal for different animators to be working on different scenes in the same episode. You can even have multiple animators working on the same scene if you've got something like a background crowd being animated by group A while group B works on the main characters' animation. That's not even getting into the complexities of the animation that happens before the characters are added and the fine post-main-animation details like lighting that often go to yet another team on bigger projects. It's an incredibly complex process that often leads to scenes being completed out of order for a whole plethora of reasons like scene complexity and team availability. Things like revisions can further complicate the process. A scene might get delayed or reworked due to script rewrites or rejected story boards. All this means that the order we see on the screen is almost certainly not the order the scenes were completed in.

This out-of-order production standard can obviously extend beyond an episode being animated out of order. You also can have people working on different episodes at the same time leading whole episodes to be completed out of order based on all of the above. That all makes sense and I can see how it might lead to an episode being delivered late or a few episodes airing in the wrong order. The thing that confused me was how this was leading to so many episodes being so wildly out of order. It's not uncommon for that to happen in episodic shows where the order genuinely doesn't matter so they don't need to worry about order when figuring out the work schedule, but with Miraculous having serialized elements, you think they'd at least care to have the serialized stuff air in order!

For example, episode 11 was aired before episode 1 and episodes 6 to 10 even though episode 11 is the episode where the hero team gets their new, full-time powers. That's five episodes that might confuse the audience if they don't know about the air order issue assuming we see timers in some of these episode. Another example is Adrien meeting Sublime at the end of Climatiqueen which aired several episodes after Sublimation. That's odd when the animation is in house meaning that the creative heads should be able to make sure that the handful of serialized elements get handled properly while the truly episodic episodes air whenever, a thing they can't do when they farm the animation out because they have more limited visibility on what's going on plus they can't shift resources around between different animations studios if one studio is lagging behind the others.

I'm not sure if you addressed all of that in your ask, it was a little hard for me to follow, but that was the question I was asking. Not why an episode aired out of order but why so many episodes were airing out of order in a way that negatively impacted the story. That just seems sloppy and unusual. I can't think of another show that had that kind of issues.