#twitter canon technically

[tboytoby]

I support their rights, their wrongs, and whatever in gods name this is

[zincfingermotif]

i really loved the art on the left here, but i could never find any nice clear images of it. turns out it was from a trigun 25th anniversary exhibition clearfile which i happened to find while browsing merch, so i got it and scanned it. (full size images: front, back)

[some-pers0n]

The worst thing is when canon itself flanderizes the characters. Not in a way where it's like "oh you don't understand these characters having multiple facets to them" but rather "the writers themselves do not understand these characters" Like somehow the nuances of them in the main source material gets lost the longer it goes on

Like I could forgive a random fanfic writer or something for flanderizing them and boiling them down to their most surface level traits. Fine. That's what you expect from fandom. When it's done by the actual writers itself is where true darkness lies

[cryptidm0ths]

heyyyyyyyyyyyy moth is gonna just post their vague collection of himeru covered in blood teehee

[aparticularbandit]

okay but here's the question.

and i think this gets addressed in the ddlc+ lore but i haven't gotten back to it yet, so i'm just going to be musing a bit.

monika is an ai. so are the rest of the girls.

is every version of monika in every released game also an ai who is self-aware? or is there just one monika in the version of the game that's being used as a testing ground for the simulation who is self-aware? they didn't release a version of the game that still has a self-aware monika in it, did they?

we don't have multiple self-aware monikas who escaped, do we? or multiple self-aware monikas who are trapped in the multiple games around the world (within the context of the lore)?

there's just one self-aware monika who escaped, right?

right?

[sn0wbat]

alright, question. because this post is getting very long.

i've still got a couple more pages left of this, and this is kinda the first time i've been adding onto a comic arc in real time on tumblr. so i'd just like to hear opinions

[evilmagician430]

who up sinning their fest

[tamaharu]

[dhampirwomen]

if the vampire academy show gets multiple seasons, i really hope it changes the direction of the rose/adrian relationship bc i can’t think of any good reason to write a show where a black woman is villainized and used as a plot device for her white oppressor's manpain. regardless of your personal feelings on rose or adrian, the concept of a narrative where the black heroine is put in a bad position at the end of her own story to set up more angst for her white ex-boyfriend is a bad choice, for both meta and story reasons.

wrt meta reasons why keeping things the same as spirit bound/last sacrifice is a bad idea, following the books faithfully would prob open the door to a lot of fandom antiblackness and sexism against rose as a character and sisi as an actor. rose is already an overhated character in book fandom and reviews bc of the rosdrian subplot, with many of the same people who don’t see an issue with adrian’s sexually harassing or objectifying rose calling rose an abuser, manipulator, gold-digger and a mix of sexist and racist slurs for not returning adrian’s feelings and/or for not being loyal to him. ofc this isn’t behavior that’s unique to adrian fandom bc all fandoms have sexism/racism problems, and i’m def not saying all adrian fans are anti-rose or that anyone is bad in any way for liking adrian. imo you can love/appreciate adrian as a character and still see that the va show is better off avoiding the books’ take on the rosdrian subplot. black characters- esp black women- always get more flack from fandom and their choices are judged more harshly, rose/sisi is already getting a lot of hate from racists who hate the show reality that rose hathaway is a black woman, and there’s no need to stoke the misogynoir flames even more by making rose “at fault” for how her dynamic with adrian plays out.

the show could write any number of new subplots where (assuming the show wants to keep the canon endgames intact):

(if adrian’s behavior is changed) adrian has unrequited feelings for rose for a while but they don’t actually date, he takes no for an answer after some flirting and his romance shifts to adrian/sydney once sydney takes a more active role in the plot

(if adrian’s behavior is changed) rosdrian date, but they do it in a casual, no-strings-attached way where they break up at some point before they get together with their endgames. there are no hard feelings between them

(if adrian’s behavior stays the same) rosdrian’s trajectory stays mostly the same but the breakup is abt rose getting some catharsis calling adrian out for objectifying her, which could kickstart adrian’s redemption arc. this option would prob be closest to canon, but rose gets a mini-arc that culminates in her standing up for herself against a royal who disrespected her and adrian realizes he needs to start acting better with women who are lower than him on the moroi social hierarchy, which would pay forward with adrian/sydney

this is just me floating a few options and i’d love to hear other ppl’s suggestions wrt how this subplot could go if y’all have any. but the most important point is: no matter what happens or how adrian is written, rose shouldn’t cheat on adrian and shouldn’t be written like the breakup is her fault, like she’s responsible for adrian’s feelings, or like she "owes” adrian a chance at any point. even if adrian is written like a legit nice guy and doesn’t coerce rose in the show, the main issue with the cheating plot is richelle m using rose as an “ex who broke his heart” plot device to give adrian more tragic backstory in a spinoff, without giving rose any of the detailed catharsis, recovery and healing she wrote for adrian in that new series. the va show, like the main series, is rose’s story, and it needs to stay rose’s story without sacrificing her character development or marring her hea so it can contrive more angst for a white supporting character.

[megah3rz]

tbh all i can really say about the extra chapter is; 🤷

[oh-meow-swirls]

wait in 3 nate doesn't have whapir or baku, just kittylumbus. kittylumbus can't absorb sleepiness seemingly. either a) baku just permanently made it so nate Literally Never Feels Sleepy (does not sound healthy-), b) kittylumbus does do that also, or c) nate is just past the need for sleep. idk which i prefer honestly-

[apollos-boyfriend]

If we go off technicalities, technically everything is canon. since theres that one animation where all the *clones/alts* get into a fist fight in the void. iirc the most unhinged one was Crash Landing!Jordan, i think he murdered the Pixlemon one

if we go off of full technicalities fucking. joe biden is canon to the mianite universe. where’s that fic huh

[meringuejellyfish]

olruggio almost beat the spy x family guy in that anime dad poll which is funny because1  spyxfamily is one of the most popular animes out right now and 2 olruggio isnt even a dad

[sandersgrey]

Listen to me. A character or narrative can be as queercoded as you please, but unless the words are said or the queerness is made unmistakable to an allocishet audience, it's not fucking rep.

If my dad who has two gay siblings and a queer child can watch a show and not realize its queer, its not real representation. Stop settling for crumbs.

[take-ya-to-the-ghey-bar]

Being hit with the realization that tomorrow is your boyfriend’s birthday, and yet you haven’t had time to plan jack shit--

[quinn-of-aebradore]

So Mark Hulmes posted some thoughts on post-campaign Calianna on Twitter the other day and I for one am emotional

Calianna naming her children after Jester and Caleb may just be one of my favorite things now 🥺 Also dragon wives beloved

Hulmes considers this headcanon because it didn’t happen in game and Matt hasn’t approved it, technically, but it’s very sweet and Calianna is his soooooo. Canon. Yeah.

(I attempted to add alt text for all images but tumblr started replacing every image with the first one so… text transcripts would be greatly appreciated! 🥲)