writing is so interesting because you don't realise you're doing half of it. I don't, anyway. I mostly just write fanfiction but I clearly remember the chapter where fez spends time with albedo and they learn a bit about each other, and it culminates in albedo giving advice based on his experience as a caregiver to klee, a child. and it resonates with fez because her Problem Of The Week was trying to work out how to act as a retainer to childe, an adult, who has just demonstrated his constant penchant for recklessness.

and I wrote that and then went, oh, right! it plays into the main character's needs because childe and klee are both impulsive, uncontrollable, chaotic messes who need a caregiver to help them curb themselves and keep themselves safe, and albedo is uniquely positioned to be a mentor on that, and that's what links these two and justifies the meeting

and the characters just got there by themselves, I didn't start with that. I started with 'haha albedo time' and they handled it on their own and then I read it back and went 'ohhhh'

bethesda come on

starfield's plot of going on an overly long, rambling quest across seemingly randomised locations and finding the core of creation in deep space and going into it and melding your DNA with the essence of the universe is the exact same sequence of events from BRODYQUEST

starfield's plot of going on an overly long, rambling quest across seemingly randomised locations and finding the core of creation in deep space and going into it and melding your DNA with the essence of the universe is the exact same sequence of events from BRODYQUEST

GENSHIN IMPACT ; fontaine 03 - faded castle

OOZE TIME TIME FOR OOZE

chilchuck going "sorry leave me outta this one. i cant fight" but then hitting literally every precise shot with an arrow or projectile he ever made in the story INCLUDING PIERCING A RED DRAGONS EYE BY THROWING A KNIFE WHILE LEAPING AWAY my bro is a rogue with dex 20 and wants no one to know biggest liar in history

Spyro and Elora to celebrate the spring :>

I love it so much when cartoon villains are like, "horrid greetings, your vile wretchedness," or "foul morning," "disgusting evening," "wicked nightmares," "sleep abominably, and bite the bed-bugs back" instead of normal salutations

kinda fascinated by falin's characterisation bc I feel like you can see the thought process with it

the driving force of the whole adventure is Save Falin and, although we understand that sympathetically as it's clear Laios and Marcille love her dearly, and it's natural to feel invested in a guilt-ridden brother wanting his little sister to be alive again. It runs into a writing problem

'How do you make the audience care about Falin when they don't know her'. We have all the time in the world to get to know the main cast and love them, but it's tricky to engage people's emotions when they cannot see a character's personality, and Falin dies on page 1

So I think the decision was. To make her as unobtrusive as possible. Without her presence we can conceptualise one trait for her, and it's sheer innocence. There's nothing bad about Falin. She's the sweetest woman ever. She was a healer. She was kind and lovely to everyone. She was great at magic and cast spells with hugs. She's never depicted with her eyes open, making her always look serene and childlike. (And, I think, forcing some distance, reminding you we don't know her, and can't, because she's dead)

Falin is simply just a giving, caring person, loves everyone around her... and that wouldn't work as a character usually, it's too sanded, too smooth, there's no hook. But the hook is she's dead. Felt through her absence. So she gets away with it fine.

I like to think the conscious decision to pitch Falin to the reader was 'she's great and everyone loved her' and you can't disagree because what are you gonna do, speak ill of the dead? The only action we directly see her take is pushing Laios out of the way and getting eaten instead of him. The only thing we know is that she's never done a thing wrong in her life and she was killed, bam. There's no nuance even. She was too pure to die like that, so we have to save her, clearly. And it works.

scara textposts

a page of lil guys,,,

& a bonus senshi :D

is this anything

Only thing I remember from my dream is a single line of dialogue that went something like "No I don't think it's transphobic, I've seen white people with asses that big before. The camerawork is excessive though"

depraved adult man dot mp4

(guy saying "would" to a white anime girl) gosh you're so brave. man he is really out here moving boundaries not letting anything hold him back. damn. the sheer courage. a white anime girl can you believe

I'm so obsessed with this because it literally looks like a child imitating what he sees adults doing, without understanding WHY they're doing it.

Scaramouche woke up every day, saw his fellow Harbingers put the giant cloth thing over their clothes, and decided he should probably do that too. Didn't make the connection that the clothes underneath were chosen to keep them warm, just thought "this is good enough" and walked out of his room like that.