#you have created a monster

[liesmyth]

ianthe wants to have her coronabeth and eat her too. to this end she will cut her up in the style of the infinite chocolate bar. this is my formal alecto prediction

Ianthe would and she could! She’s a flesh magician. She can eat a bit of Corona then heal her up right away, there you go, infinite sister loop. I’m putting this on the Alecto bingo card next to “River wizard Augustine is the reason why something is fucked up with the River” and “John and Alecto asleep together in the tomb forever.”

(tbh unironically I wouldn’t put this past Ianthe in... certain cases. Not canon Ianthe IMO, and probably not in the short timeframe of the series, but with enough time and enough resentment. Listen. I 100% believe the point of all of Ianthe’s necromantic research is to figure out a way to make Corona immortal, but once she’s safe from death what then? She perfected her Lyctor education at the school of Jod “what is bodily autonomy” Gaius after all)

[nina-the-ninth]

If I get the motivation I’ll do the whole chapter

[shitty-quotes]

my parents told me they were proud of me for standing up to myself because of me calling you out on your shit, even though me doing that and you not fixing things (even though i was trying to, i was the only one trying) and being left to go to extremes like blowing up your phone with texts and yelling at you to get you to listen. even though you couldnt handle what you caused so you broke up with me. my parents told me they were proud of me. right after you broke my heart. my friends say good riddance. and you still think im the problem?

[mayasaura]

Ten years later, I'm still in awe of what the BBC show Merlin managed to pull off. It's a silly show. It's cheesy, over the top fantasy full of dumb gags and physical comedy. It's the most compelling tragedy I've ever experienced

[osarina]

OKAY i know i said no more until my birthday but @imsofrancey opened commissions and their dazai is simply my favorite ever 🙈 so i simply HAD to jump on it. they were so kind and so quick. genuinely it was such a pleasure commissioning them and i hope to again one day but i am not to order any more commissions until my birthday 🤞 i must be held to it.

[sweepingboy]

bingge is spoiling his boyfriend every way possible~

[solarkarii]

Anyone cant get genloss out of their head as well ..

[arcadialedger]

Man, this middle grade fandom is violent.

[retributory]

gx is so crazy how do you explain to someone with a surface-level understanding of what yugioh is that the series after dm features a hermaphroditic dragon-demon card spirit fusing their soul with the main character, who also has apparently been continually reincarnating for 100s of years with the card spirit's primary goal being to protect him, and when they embrace to fuse he says they shall never part again because they will forever and always from that point on be one jointed soul and body, and also he commits a borderline genocide against the card spirit race (???) and straight up kills some of his friends (they get better), and also there's a character who got his leg broken during an archeological dig and they replaced the broken bone with a dinosaur bone (???) and now he's like part dino and has fucking dino dna (?????????) and they send him to space as his dinosona to destroy a satellite that is about to destroy the earth (????????????), and also one of the teachers in the school (seto kaiba's duel school for dueling) is a homunculus and when he dies his soul (???) gets eaten by his cat and for the rest of the series he is living (?) inside of the cat's body, and also on top of all that theres a cool rival character as expected of a show targeted towards young boys who looks cool but in actuality he's lame as hell like he canonically stinks like shit cause he doesn't wash his clothes and he joins a cult and they get him out of the cult by reminding him that his real personality is being a rancid little stinky smelly bastard loser and no one likes him and he spends the entire series getting completely dunked on and also his main archetype is these things:

and then you have to concede that at the end of the day it is still an anime for a children's card game designed to sell the cards so if you ever try to explain the impact this had on your developing mind at 7 years old you'll sound sick

[limmy]

What have I become.

[yellowocaballero]

hi! i've been reading some of your older fics and was wondering if there's any merit in watching buffy for the first time in the year 2024

This may not be obvious, but this is actually an extremely complicated and highly subjective question. I'll try to go on for too long.

As background: my mother loved Buffy and its spin-off Angel growing up. It was our Bible (besides the actual Bible). Not kidding, she was on the forums and fan groups and wrote fanfiction for it and everything (These days, she's really into kdramas and Asian dramas, and calls me about how the Thai seem like big fans of gay people). So I'm quite biased.

BTVS is both a product of its times and ahead of its times. It was a show about feminism and the struggle of living in this world as a woman, when very few shows were doing that. It was the first show to have a long-lasting lesbian couple, and the first show to depict a kiss between them. For better or for worse, it was one of the codifiers of broody vampire boyfriend. It was pretty unafraid to be experimental in a lot of what it did. It had incredibly complex and nuanced character work and growth that I still aspire to. Spike's arc is still matched in quality only by Avatar's Zuko. Angel's long term arc, from Buffy to his spin-off series, still makes him one of the most complex characters on TV. It had the most complex depiction of depression on TV at the time and I still think it's one of the best. I think the show had very high highs.

It also had very low lows. Some of the feminism is problematic in retrospect. The sapphic couple has a rather famous element that was severely problematic. There are, overall, some deeply atrocious arcs that I can appreciate objectively but not in practice. Xander: a whole-ass character aged awfully. On a meta level, the workplace conditions were bad (thanks, Whedon.) There are no people of color. The spoiler's sake I won't go into detail on this, but in general the good stuff was so influential and the bad stuff was just awful.

I think these days people tend to brush off the entire thing because it's Whedon. That is more than fair. But I'd also say that Whedon & Buffy is extremely similar to Brian Michael Bendis & Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis was fantastic at writing sassy, bouncy, permanently stressed-out teens - issue was, he wrote entirely different serious adult characters the way he wrote these sassy teens. Same with Whedon: the annoyingly constant quips are perfect for Buffy, because that's who the characters are. They're awful in Marvel, because Steve Rogers is not Xander. Kinda similarly, Buffy was genuinely feminist for 90s TV - issue is, Whedon has not grown or developed his views, and now his works feel so sexist (oh my fucking god why did you treat Natasha like that). After a certain point it's egotistical: you're writing like that because you're Joss Whedon and it's how you write, not because it's what's best for the characters and story. But it was really important to me to get the character voices right, and it's freaking difficult to endlessly write dialogue that distinct, full of voice, witty, and clever.

I think BTVS & Angel TV's greatest influence on my writing is how intensely character-driven both of those shows were, and how intricate the characters were. What every character did was something they would do, if that made sense. Even the stuff I hated to watch, that made me uncomfortable, was the culmination of so much (usually). I think I also picked up the constant wit and humor lol. On a personal level, the conversations I would have with my mother where she broke down the character motivations and composition of the story was my first exposure to looking at storytelling from an analytical perspective and a framework of critical analysis, which was an approach I carried into the rest of the media I consumed and that was the primary reason I was able to become a decent writer. Thanks, Mom. Have fun with your kdramas.

TL:DR: There is merit, especially if you care about good character work. There are things about it that may make you want to drop it, which is extremely valid. Season 1 is rough but interesting, Season 2 and 5 are the best, Season 3 is pretty good, Season 4 and 7 skippable, and Season 6 is........epic highs, epic lows......

[ambrosiagourmet]

Demons are Kaiju and dungeons are breach points that can technically be sealed but often need to be fought back over a long period of time. Elves invented Jaegers but have trouble piloting them because living so long and having so much history makes drifting a lot harder (there's more to get lost in - two mature elves trying to drift are bringing a combined 200+ years of baggage to the connection, between them). It's also hard to mitigate this by having short-life/long-life drifts bc there's so much prejudice against short-life species among the elves.

So they outsource the "privilege" to short-life species, recruiting and training them, forcefully if necessary.

Demons are wildly known about on a surface level, but there are still things the elves keep secret, like the fact that all demons are tied to the same creature, and that this creature works with humans in much the same way that humans drift with each other to fight it.

[kori-senpai]

[kyurochurro]

Frankie Stein!! ⚡ Part 1 of 3 for my 2023 Howl-o'ween Monster High Series!! 🎃 >:)

(Draculaura and Clawdeen are next!! Stay tuned for them, I'll link them on this post later on when they're done!)

[smoshingatut]

I'm kinda tired of dungeon meshi fans blatantly misinterpreting Kabru's goals, motivations, and character so they can ship him with Laios...like obviously it's awesome if you enjoy Laikabu but can you nooot twist Kabru's intentions for involving himself with the guy who constantly triggers his monster trauma and pisses him off so bad he gets brain damage so that he turns into "the guy who wants to suck Laios's dick" as his entire character? I've even seen people cut off Kabru's words to make it seem like he is admiring Laios because it would disrupt that narrative

[widowshill]

— But it's almost midnight. — Oh, that's the point! At the stroke of twelve, he turns into Dracula. C'mon, Vicki – he won't bite.

pose ref.