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jq37 · 2 months

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Descendants: The Rise of Red is kind of a bizarre movie to talk about critically because, imo, it almost doesn't make sense to talk about it in the usual terms of good vs bad or enjoyable vs not enjoyable when the way more obvious tension is finished vs unfinished.

Because, more than any other movie I've ever seen, it does *not* read as a full movie. And I don't mean in a "this movie has a cliffhanger" kind of way. The Empire Strikes Back and Across the Spiderverse fit that description. They end on big dramatic cliffhangers that point to a resolution in the third installment.

But Rise of Red just sets all this stuff up and then...ends without concluding anything. It doesn't feel like the first movie in a trilogy (or duology). It feels like the first act of a two-act musical. It very specifically reminds me of the end of the first act of Into the Woods where all the main characters sing the song Ever After about how they all fixed their problems with magic and nothing bad will ever happen to them again and then the narrator ominously says "To be continued" before the curtain drops. But in Into the Woods you know there's a second act and this movie wasn't sold as the first act of a bigger story. Like sure, it has the, "You didn't think this was the end" tag at the end like all the other movies, but those movies were complete, self-contained stories even though they had sequels. This was NOT a full story. It's half of one story.

Like, if we're supposed to take this as a full story, there are so many bizarre choices:

Why did they make sure to mention that Cinderella and Charming fell in love at the ball at the top if it wasn't meant to set up Back to the Future style, "Oh no, I accidentally got my mom banned from the ball so she's not gonna fall in love with Dad and I won't be born" shenanigans?

Why did Maddox very pointedly have that bit about "you could lose your mom completely" if that was never going to come into play? Red never did anything to endanger Bridget or endanger her own birth so it doesn't make sense as a warning in that way.

Why was there all this focus on this Carrie on prom night moment for Bridget if we LITERALLY NEVER SAW CASTLECOMING? Why dance around this moment and talk about it all cloak and dagger with no specificity if they weren't building up to some big reveal that it wasn't as straightforward as it seemed? And like, they leaned in HARD with making Bridget the nicest, sweetest, cotton candy princess as a teen so I need WAY more than, "She got pranked by known bullies she's been enduring with a smile very handily up to this point" to buy that she went from that to "murderous dictator". And even if she did become murderous, I find it insanely hard to believe that she'd include her best and only friend on the list of people she wants to suffer unless there was a betrayal. I find it INSANE that there wasn't a falling out scene at any point in this movie with how thickly they were laying on the admiration and camaraderie.

(Note: And adult Cinderella def has guilty vibes re: the Queen at orientation. Which I know I'm not imagining because it's literally spelled out in the Jr Novelization!)

Before the time travel element of the movie started, I thought they were going for something like they go to the past and realize that Bridget was bullied not by the VKs but by the spoiled royals, and Ella ends up joining in the bullying once she gets with Charming, betraying Bridget and justifying her whole "Love Ain't It" philosophy. Or Ella ditching her at the last minute to be with Charming meaning she has to deal with the monster prank alone and it was the being alone rather than the prank itself that hurt her (though that is NOT a good enough reason to go all off with their heads on your subjects). The fact that, as far as we know right now, it literally was just a relatively mild and reversible prank that caused all of this is just, such flat storytelling, you know?

But! All of this makes way more sense if this is meant to be the first act of a single contained story. And I don't wanna be all "Pepe Silvia, secret good 4th episode of Sherlock" about this but I did see this picture:

Which seems to indicate that this was written as a Part One. Which, if so, idk why they wouldn't advertise it that way but whatever. The point is, if that's the case then it means that we're potentially in bad pacing territory rather than straight up bad storytelling territory. Because this isn't a bad place to be halfway through your story:

The heroes, warned that time travel is dangerous, have gone back in time to change the heart of a brutal tyrant before she can stage a coup. They seemingly succeed in their mission and when they come home, everything is great! But then, the side effects of time travel start to catch up with them. Chloe realizes that, in breaking the vase, she prevented her mother from going to the ball and falling in love with her dad (who was conspicuously absent from the final scene btw) which means she's starting to be forgotten and erased from the timeline. And Red realizes that though this new version of her mom is as sweet and kind as the teen she once met, she's a complete stranger to her (fulfilling the Hatter's warning that she could lose her mom completely). So they have to go back in time once more to make sure the Ella and Charming fall in love again, perhaps at the cost of whatever bad thing that happened to Bridget happening again and bringing back the original version of her future self. But, now with more context of how her mom became that way, Red can now talk to her mother and persuade her to give people another chance.

Boom, that gives us time to go back and hit everything we haven't yet hit. We can pay off the time travel tropes that were set up but not explored. We can go to Castlecoming which feels so obviously set up to be the centerpiece of this story (like, come on, Back to the Future literally does the school dance thing. This is Time Travel Storytelling 101). We can actually get info about what the prank was and why it affected Bridget so completely.

(Note: This is a side thing but it really strikes me as so crazy that Bridget would so SUCH a big 180 here. Like, I know the Queen of Hearts is a silly, goofy, campy villain, but she straight up murders people and there's no way to get around that if we're taking her out of the surreal story she comes from and putting her in a (comparatively) grounded story. If I wasn't doing a betrayal plot, I would make the twist that the spell that turned Bridget into a "monster" didn't just have a physical effect, it had a mental effect and it magically twisted her personality to be the way it is now. So they broke the physical half of the curse, but neglected the other half and it's been festering the whole time, turning her as evil as she was sweet. Because like, a simple physical transformation isn't that big of a deal to have such heavy security--Bridget made cupcakes with a transformative effect and that was totally fine. I'm not saying that that's what's gonna be the case. I just think it would be an explanation that makes sense for why she changed so crazy much that makes more sense than a simple prank or even a betrayal. Her mom wasn't even evil! How did she go from zero to murder without even an evil mom to push her onto the path? But I'm super digressing right now.)

(Note #2: OK, one last thing. The trap on the book presumably would have hit the VK's and trapped them in Merlin's office regardless of what Chloe and Red did, right? That's like, net zero influence on the timeline. I genuinely can't tell if that's a straight up plot hole or set up to be like, "Oh no. Actually when she said that she was turned into a monster in front of everyone it was meant in a less literal way." Like she was just made to look bad and that was the real thing that pushed her over the edge. Like idk. It really feels like the only thing they really did that would change the timeline was get Ella banned from the dance and presumably out of the way where she couldn't hurt Bridget. OK NOW I'm done.)

Anyway, my point is that this is not how I would have structured my movie and I think this was a super weird way to go into the second era of Descendants movies, but they can still tell a complete story if that's their plan. I'm genuinely really curious to see if this pans out to be a fairly competently told story that just happens to be split over two movies or a complete fumbling of the narrative bag because it could really be either at this point and it's fascinating to me.

#rise of red #descendants #descendants rise of red #descendants the rise of red #i have never seen a dcom paced like this #uma DOES say that messing with time has consequences which gives me a glimmer of hope that they're going for a 'we have to go back' thing #but idk I've stopped assuming that writers know that they're doing #if I was ending this movie on this note here's how I'd do it #I'd have it end the same but when red and her mom are dancing I'd have one lingering shot of her being a little uneasy #and uncomfortable with this new version of her mom #and I would show chloe happily reuniting with her mom but then pan over to another part of the room and show that like #a portrait or s/t that had charming in it before now just has ella #or maybe something more subtle like something he placed on a table or something earlier in the movie isn't there anymore #just a little thing to be like 'don't worry we know what we're doing'#that would give me a lot more confidence #I was so sure that Chloe was gonna find Cinderella and she was gonna turn around and be like 'who are you?'#*that's* how you do a cliffhanger #and then in the next movie we could have had the tension of 'yeah we saved your mom from being evil but now mine doesn't know I exist'#listen there's a lot of ways they can handle this #they just need to pick literally any of them #last thing:#in the Jr. Novelization #the line is that the prank turned her into a *giant* during the dance #not a monster #i wonder if the giant prank was an 'eat me/drink me' wonderland ref before it was changed #also there is a world where they changed it from giant to monster bc they wanted to do s/t with the monster body/monster personality thing #but that is TOTALLY veering into pepe silvia/secret good episode or sherlock territory lmao #for the record I did not buy it I checked it out from the library #I'm not above buying jr novelizations (i happily own the disenchanted one)#but I'm not into descendants like that

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swatato · 1 year

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I refuse to believe a damn thing I’m seeing thanks <3

#noragami #noragami spoilers #like this just spits in the face of all the themes and messages of the entire story #idk how hiyori being yatos shinki could possibly benefit the narrative #like do they just go home after this and begin the entire cycle of protecting a shinki from ggs again?#or does she conveniently get to remember everything too cuz of some asspull and then they live happily ever after?.?#the whole point was that hiyori should live a full long life #whats the point of yato rising up to father if he just gets ‘taught a lesson’ yet again #and nora too for that matter im just waiting for some payoff after that entire bond she formed with hiyori #like this is just the dumbest way to go out especially for how rushed it is #its so absurd which is why i dont entirely believe this is actually hiyori kicking the can #surely adachitoka gonna pull something here dhsifnksjf #im betting amaterasu will pull some magic cuz a) yato keeping his promise to kill father #and b) something something about a loophole with hiyoris unique half dead status #and the fact that theyre in father weird abstract water dimension #jumbled thoughts ghhhgghh #like im yatori garbage to my core but this aint it

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stergeon · 9 months

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at some point i will figure out how to write the post-canon, post-empire edelgard autonomy fic of my dreams. it just feels like a very big task and maybe like with playing the dane, i’m simply not old and traumatized enough to manage it yet.

but my vision is thus: it’s set years (realistically, decades) after the end of crimson flower, when everything has gone as right as it can possibly go. fódlan is thriving. the social reforms have taken effect. the nobility system is nearly eliminated, if not entirely so, with titles made merely symbolic. social mobility, welfare, and prosperity are high. there’s an explosion in arts and culture and technology. brigid and duscur have gained independence; relations with sreng and almyra are much improved; heck, maybe they've even figured it out with dagda. in my most idealistic version, leicester and faerghus would eventually be ceded back to become autonomous regions, essentially disbanding the adrestian empire. rule is no longer hereditary, but merit-based. there's a roadmap for the future, and everything is on track—and more than that, people at all points on the power spectrum have already seen it bear fruit. with or without edelgard, it will be pursued. there's buy-in. they believe.

of course, it's not perfect—nothing can be—but edelgard's vision has been fulfilled. the people are empowered. humanity is free. fódlan has healed.

and somehow, she's had enough time to resolve her goals outside of politics, too. those who slither in the dark have been eradicated. edelgard and lysithea's second crests have been successfully removed, allowing them to live if not full lives, then substantially longer ones than they would have with their twin crests intact. who knows—maybe she finally gets around to having that wedding.

point for point, every item listed in edelgard's manifesto has been checked off. the ghosts of her past have been laid to rest. she can finally take off her crown. she can finally pursue the quiet, humble life she's wanted for so long. she can finally breathe.

... but can she?

edelgard is nothing if not driven. her intelligence, vision, and sheer willpower allowed her to plan and execute a revolution against two countries and the most powerful institution on the continent, all while she was still a teenager. as royalty, her life was never truly hers even before she became heir to the adrestian throne, with all the additional baggage of survivor's guilt and the desire for vengeance and her need to ensure nothing that happened to her can ever happen to anyone else, ever again.

so what happens when that drive has no outlet? what happens when someone who has been constantly in motion, constantly working and planning and preparing every spare second of every day since she was fourteen years old, suddenly has to stand still? what happens when someone whose hands have been bound for so long—first literally in the dungeons of enbarr, then by the weight and responsibilities of her crown—is set free?

being edelgard, she would step away from the throne, no matter how hard it was for her to give up control. she's always been focused on the endgame, and she knows that if she doesn't let go, she'll be setting the wrong tone for fódlan's future. she's too devoted to that endgame to cling to power much longer than she needs to, though i could see her making some excuses and trying to iron out just a few more things to buy herself some more time to mentally prepare before she's done for good.

but who would she be then? who is the woman without the crown? what becomes of a machine once it is no longer needed, when it has made itself obsolete? what about when that machine is a person with legs and arms and an innate unwillingness to gather dust on a shelf?

what happens when you get everything you want? what happens when all your wanting has been for others to thrive, and now you have to want only for yourself? how do you discover who you are when you've spent decades being everything for everyone else? how do you find meaning again? how do you find purpose?

after a lifetime of devotion and passion and movement, how do you learn to sit with yourself, and be quiet, and be still?

gosh, i would love to meet her. i would love to pick her brain. but boy, i do not envy the work that girl has to do.

#sterge.rtf #fire emblem #fe3h #edelgard von hresvelg #realistically edelgard is not getting all of this done in her lifetime. but that wouldn't keep her from stepping away anyway #'cause a funny thing happened to edelgard during the crimson flower route: she learned to have faith again.#so even if she couldn't check every box and fix every societal ill she'd still be able to pass the crown to the next ruler.#maybe not without fear. but with confidence. with optimism. with the belief that she's leaving the world better than she found it.#she'd have faith in her people. faith in the future. faith in the groundwork she's laid. faith in the systems she's put in place.#faith that her vision will be carried out with or without her.#and that faith would allow her to eventually let go.#i so love edelgard pulling a george washington and saying nah i'm good on power. peace #though unfortunately i could also see her pulling a teddy roosevelt #and saying nah i'm good on power. peace. wait what are you doing. you're ruining it. you're bungling everything. i can't believe this #and making several (failed and increasingly insane) attempts to get back into politics #who is the taft to edelgard's ted tho. i don't want to do ferdinand the disservice of saying it's him even though i think it's very funny.#it's literally the opposite of his character as taft notoriously sniffed roosevelt's farts for a long time #until he finally pulled his head out of the guy's ass and realized there are other smells. such as the sewer. and garbage.#smells which he pursued quite happily much to ol ted's chagrin #meanwhile ferdinand does not think anything of edelgard's ass except that his is definitely better-looking than hers #(he's wrong on so many levels but you try telling the guy that)#in fact ferdinand has always taken great joy in pointing out all the things that smell better than edelgard does #which gives him an instant up on mr Take-Advice-From-Theodore #all this to say i think ferdinand von aegir would have been a much better president than william howard taft. that's just my opinion.#i'm getting off the rails in these tags idk what's wrong with me #sorry for equating your blorbos to long-dead american politicians everyone. i know this is a cardinal sin #also please don't take this to mean i think positively of washington or roosevelt or taft or whatever.#i hate all dead old white guys who ever held a modicum of power #i just had a hyperfixation on american presidents when i was in grade school and unfortunately now my brain works like this

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jessamine-rose · 27 days

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*squeezes aine this time*

Read my Yandere! Dottore fics first (⁎⁍̴̆Ɛ⁍̴̆⁎)

Chemistry ๑ Magnum Opus

So @ainescribe decided to surprise me with more Darling fan art, this time of Dottore’s Assistant!! *sobs* I love it so much ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Once again, feedback will be in the tags. Thank you so much for enjoying my writing, Aine <3

#feedback #fan art #ainescribe #AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE ( ；∀；)#THE FACT THAT YOU DREW THIS?? AND SO SOON?? give me a moment. i need to cry happily #fun fact aine has made jokes about assistant and 'dead-eyed desi trauma' so my first thought when seeing this fan art was #'wow you can rlly see the desi trauma in her eyes' xD i say this both jokingly and seriously cuz AHH HER EXPRESSION!!#it's hard for me to describe visual art + techniques but you did such a good job at depicting assistant's emotions #is it bc of the thicker line art used for the eyes + eyebrows?? the lil eyebags/ creases under her eyes?? the uneven shading for her irises #all of that combined with her jaded facial expression and body language?? idk but just know that i love this depiction of assistant #especially since her emotions are an important aspect of her character design (to me at least)#moving on i love your original design for her. once again it's always interesting to see how my readers imagine and depict my darlings #and the way you drew her including the pose and design....she looks like a character from an animated show or visual novel!!#just put her name. caption. and dialogue on the side then she's ready to be romanced. 100% the fan-favorite character <3 #i rlly like how you drew her hair!! it looks very fluffy and voluminous (sorry idk many terms for haircare either)#the scar is an interesting detail. makes me wonder if she got it before. during. or after the akademiya?? from an expedition/ experiment??#either way. ohohoho the potential....i imagine the scar serving as a lifelong reminder to assistant of what she has sacrificed for her #scientific curiosity and career. not to mention that the scar is located on her FACE which is 1) the body part most crucial to a person's #identity 2) makes the scar difficult to ignore. to the point that some people may recognize assistant's face mainly bc of her scar #poor assistant. at least dottore is one to appreciate such traits. i can see him administering first aid or lovingly tracing the scar......#moving on to her uniform. i love that it's practical but also stylish in its own way. a perfect balance methinks uwu #the patterned lapels. the lil brooch. the leather armbands. the fatui symbol. the tucked shirt and high-waist pants.....aaaahhhh i just #love these small details!! and it does look like smth which a fatuus would wear on the job~#i think that's all i have to say on assistant!! once again. thank you thank you THANK YOU FOR EXPRESSING YOUR LOVE FOR MY WRITING AND MY #DARLINGS!! it means the world to me and i'll always cherish our rambles and brainrot <3 #dottore x reader #yandere dottore x reader #yandere fatui harbingers #fatui x reader #genshin x reader

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behaemoth · 10 months

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Do not have any idea where my sister went wrong with gale in her game but SPOILERS at the end when she told him to leave the crown in the river he went off on her & yelled about how he was going to go take it for himself & rolled up on the reunion party like dr manhattan spray painted silver this man is a certified f r e a k

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #spoilers #patch 5 spoilers #epilogue spoilers #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #when I call him a freak I’m saying it with awe and not hate btw #they crafted such a well made freak and stuffed him so full of hubris it’s a wonder he can get anything done #it’s also funny bc in mine he was so nice and happy lol #and in our other friends he was happily married to them #while she was also a mindflayer #which still does nothing to lift the freak allegations

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americanrecord · 4 months

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suicide blonde is going back to sleep, literally every time i touch the universe it unravels further and i've lost sense of everything and every character

#it just can't live up to the size and structure of the original so like #idk i need to put lex/val in a universe all their own with dean/inez as strict side characters because it's the only way it'll ever work #and i can't figure out a way to do that because literally every character decision i make - particularly for val - has me primed to fear #people will hate her #which i think is just trauma from dealing with the fic but #idk literally everything i do just falls apart like nothing works #and like val and lex are my true passion to write about so ....idk i just can't figure out what works #but like the priest started as an offshoot and became so original so fast and has such a clear image and purpose #probably because it's a standalone #but this universe does not feel clear to me as it attempts to be so many things at once and none of them are the story i want to tell #i just can't hit the notes i want to hit and i've become so insecure over the characters #which ...is probably my fault at this point but idk #it's just so frustrating <3 #and i'm very happily chugging at the priest au but keeping in mind that does not have a happy ending is probably why i'm turning back to sb #but...sb is not working at all #soooo...back to sleep she goes #✯ — diary entries.

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baerryjj · 2 years

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Do you think they've explored each others bodies

#its been brought to my attention that this ship has an amazing potential #and i am absolutely fuckin with it #the potential angst these two could have #what if they were in love before the knight of the black knives #and Ranni asked her to commit an atrocious war crime with her #which she happily went ' anything for you my lady ' and red wedding'd Godwyn with her besties #and then they have a somber parting when Ranni asks her to kill her #and she does it despite it breaking her heart because she trusts her so deeply and knows that it's for her own good #;__;#anyway the incoherent rambles are still incoherent #tired goodnight #elden ring #lunar princess ranni #ranni the witch #black knife tiche #the gays tm #just realized i misspelled night but im not rewriting none of this shit

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calimanc · 5 months

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All I want is to compile a list of my favourite lines from fics for this post, invent a system for organising the hundreds of fics that I've read to make that knowledge useful and for someone to tell me what the fuck was going on in IWTB because I'm not sorry I am not watching that mess again. Is that too much to ask for?

#re: IWTB like what is up with the ambiguous break up shit?#when I watched it when it came out I was busy being mad about a whole lot of things about it #but somehow I missed? they were breaking up? What?#speaking as the most diehard you can't tell me shit they love each other and will live happily ever after goddammit shipper you will meet #I feel like I would have picked up on them breaking up #I thought she was just pissy and saying she wasn't coming home while he was working the case because she couldn't be around that again #Like you do that Mulder while I GOOGLE stem cell research like a high school student but I'm sleeping at the hospital #Catch you on the flip side #and he was devastated because she didn't want to work with him when it was his first chance to do what he was good at again in years #but in their typical can't be more than 6 inches away from one another without losing their shit way #does the revival breakup give people that lens through which to view iwtb?#or am I just really missing the obvious here?#the x files #iwtb #i want to believe

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naturallybecca · 14 days

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Every time I look at my bank account I have to remind myself that no, I am not bad with money, I just got a dog.

#I swear to god I am not bad with money but i am so broke rn #my most frivalous spends are socks and books that's it #but god it is so expensive to get a puppy #she's getting spayed today and it's gonna be half my savings #partly because i haven't been able to save bcos everything is so expensive #i do also pay all the household bills and buy all the groceries #my brother does not contribute much at all #which is fine because he can't really but it does put a lot of pressure on me #especially since i enjoy my job a lot less now my friend left #my dad will happily give me money but my stepmom gets assey with him about it and I don't like causing that

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risaonda · 21 days

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the way I was Positive this had to be someone typing up the most hyperbolic shit they could think of until I scrolled a bit more and they

they're serious. you're serious? you're being completely real? you think your cat looks both ways before crossing the street?

#chatty!#i have a cat who stays indoors and has no desire to go outside beyond maybe being curious about The Unexplored Room #and i simply go ''no buddy'' if he gets too close to the door (he basically never does) and then he will walk away from the door instead #he is always hanging around me when im home except when hes playing with the other cats #and he cuddles up with me at night and greets me so happily whenever i come home #also hes 15 and still has kitten energy. biggest health issue is his hyperthyroidism which is being treated #vet loves him hes one of their favorite cats and they always tell me how sweet and well behaved he is #sorry your cat is bored and doesnt like you. do you really think she doesnt kill squirrels and birds bc u ''trained her''

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darchildre · 1 year

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Ultimately, I don't love Dracula's Daughter as much as I love Son of Dracula, mostly because Marya spends most of her movie trying (and failing and being punished for failing) not to be a monster while Kaye spends hers totally gung ho about becoming a monster and one of those is just a much more appealing story to me than the other. One is a straight up tragedy and one comes within an inch of being a triumph, and the triumph is more fun.

But I do love Marya. I love the questions the movie lets us ask about her (is she actually a vampire or does she only think she is?), I love her trying to escape the shadow of what was clearly an unhealthy relationship with Dracula (and I wish the movie was more interested in spending time on that relationship) and figure out who she's able to be without him. I love the slightly stiff prickly sense of discomfort she has in nearly every scene, like she doesn't know how to hold her body in order to act like a human and isn't even sure that she wants to. I want her to have more space to figure herself out.

Marya Zaleska deserves better than Jeffrey Garth (everyone deserves better than Jeffrey Garth), and she deserves better than this movie, really.

#sara's cinema corner #dracula's daughter #i do also love that the movie does bother to ask the obvious horror sequel question #which is 'so what did the characters tell the police 2 minutes after the first movie ended?'#i honestly would have watched an entire courtroom drama of van helsing on trial #someone make *that* movie #anyway #marya's fine #she's going to move to new orleans and live happily ever after with kaye caldwell

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topazshadowwolf · 9 months

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chapter 5 is so sweet and tender I love the interaction between the characters especially Lyra and Dust! Also happy Christmas Eve!

I am happy you enjoyed that! Yes, Nightmare can have his tempter too, but once he notices there is a problem, he softens. It's all part of his parenting style. And I enjoy putting Lyra in roles where she can be a mothering figure for the boys. Sure, they are adults, but none have had a mother before and end up responding well to such care. (Besides, as an immortal, they are babies in comparison to years lived.)

Merry Christmas Eve to you, too! And to all of you! I do work Christmas (such is the life of being a nurse) but at least I have today off. So, *rolls up sleeves* got some writing I wanna do!

#She wants to be a mother but...#It hurts...#But she does so for them #Because she cares #She found she cares about this lot because they just seem like little lost souls that didn't have a true chance #They have changed so much with Nightmare's guidance #She will offer some mothering care...#Which they happily accept because someone cares #Lyra!Toriel #Balance!Toriel

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whistlingstarlight · 6 months

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I know a lot of people either don't get on well with their siblings or have parents that play favourites.. but if you've got a family that doesn't play favourites, do you ever still feel like you're second best?

#i can tell I'm not my mum's favourite #not easy to hear that her first kid's dad was the one she would've happily spent her life with if they hadn't had to divorce #which I know does not mean she would've been happy without me but it's. still hard to not infer things #vent

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forestofmemories · 1 year

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also thinking about the way hapu views pokemon battles at first in the anime. she’s the granddaughter of a former kahuna, so to her battles were something that helped her grow strong, something that is useful to be knowledgeable about when protecting other people or pokemon- something sacred, even. the duty of a kahuna. she constantly refuses satoshi’s requests of having a pokemon battle with him bc the way she sees it, he battles for fun, bc he likes it, not bc it’s something you *must* do (whether to protect something or someone or in a dire situation). it’s no wonder she’s appalled when she learns satoshi wants to battle tapu fini seeing as at that point in time poni island had no kahuna (which meant there was no grand trial to take), bc hello that’s a guardian deity, this kid seemingly has no respect for customs and what the tapus mean to alola and to us and just wants to battle for fun

but she slowly opens up to the alola gang, to the point that she confronts tapu fini, a pokemon so important and sacred to her, just for a chance of getting her new friends back, bc at this rate they might never comeback. she opens up to the point that she readily, happily accepts satoshi’s challenge the moment she becomes a kahuna. to the point that she looks forward to battling satoshi again bc it was *fun*

she already knew that pokemon battles help people grow (stronger), especially when it comes to the challengers taking on the grand trial, but she comes to the realization that they can also help you grow as a person. it’s something that can help you understand and learn something about both your own pokemon, and the person you’re battling. something that can be fun and enjoyable

#and it’s only when she earnestly battles tapu fini and decides to go against what she believes in (sorta) that she’s acknowledged as kahuna #even though she’s wanted to follow her grandfather’s footsteps and become a kahuna for the longest time #she was still lacking something #the power of friendship……..#she went from being very reserved and rather reluctant to interact with other people/the kids outside of what felt necessary #(her parents *live* in poni and yet she’d rather live alone which. is very messed up wtf where even were they)#to inviting them over to her house. to happily waving at satoshi during a press conference of all things #i love hapu so much you have no idea #half the time i don’t think i express myself the way i want to but i have. so so so many thoughts #head full only sm #does any of this even make any sense. am i making a point

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