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welcome home persona AU, aka mostly an excuse for me to draw my human designs in classy children’s fairytale-inspired outfits
#welcome home#welcome home restoration project#whrp persona AU#wally darling#eddie dear#frank frankly#sally starlet#julie joyful#senjart#senja when he has a hyperfixation: crossover it with ANOTHER hyperfixation#already wrote down their arcanas and persona names THIS HYPERFIX STUFF IS SERIOUS#they are named mostly from books and opera ….. giving it more of a fairytale feeling#I think the AU’s main themes and storyline is about the strings of fate and deciding your own life….. like maruki’s dreamworld#their persona awakenings are basically them being bound by strings/chains/vines/etc and they break out and yell their persona names!!!!#BECAUSE THEYRE TRAPPED…. PUPPETS IN A STRING…… BOUND BY FATE…. YANNOW YANNOWWWWWWWW#AND THEN THEY GOT THEIR OUTFIT AND THE SICK P5 GUITAR RIFF PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND#’’yes we’re forced to come into terms that our reality and the cope of our imagination has been limited but at least we got these outfits’’#(sally voice) DON QUIXOTE! AGIDYNE!!!!!#also Home is the navi. it speaks as a disembodied voice that’s creaks and bangs to outsiders and coherent voices for persona users
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putting these two anons together and watching them fight
#I can't defend the main p5 storyline but I refuse to believe that p4golden is miles better than p5royal they gotta be at least equal#P4's most homophobic scene going toe-to-toe with P5's worst adult woman romance#The smoke clears and from the sidelines steps the third contender: p3's romance with a 10-year-old
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Btw I'm serious when I say Sarek has a human fetish. This is how those with a fetish for a certain group of people act. Sarek being disgusted by Spock's human side while also marrying human wives is 100% because of a fetish. Sarek is just the Star Trek version of Alma Mahler.
#sarek#spock#star trek the original series#this is also why i think michael burnham being spock's adopted sister is bad writing bc it goes against spock's whole character#like idrc if he has a million secret siblings or whatever even if it's dumb (it's been dumb from the start with sybok)#but sarek was so disgusted by spock's human side that spock remembered when he commented on that when he was BORN#and now some writers are telling me he adopted a human???!?!!? i don't buy it#+ it's also an offense to his entire storyline involving him being mixed species#and it's just lazy writing to make your main character related to the most influential star trek character ever#at least make her Not A Human#anyways#star trek tos#amanda grayson#alma mahler#gustav mahler
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okay I'm not expecting anyone to care all that much, but I was looking at the prompts for the 18th Day of Gift-Giving for my Olli/Allu fic advent calendar and I'm between two options on what to do with them, so if anyone out there wants to put in their two cents...
(see the pros and cons in the tags of the original post)
#on one hand i'd like to write a standalone with a storyline of its own#because that way i could probably manage to write a better story#on the other hand i kinda feel like i should focus on the main plot after all the standalones i've posted this week#but if i stick to the main plot my options would be more limited 🤔#because i don't feel like making either of them have a random headache/migrain or some kinda personal crisis#just for the sake of the prompt#i know there's barely any plot to begin with but i still don't want to make it too scattered 😅#i have an idea that would work alright for the main story and it would probably turn out cute enough#but some of the other prompts that wouldn't really work for the main story are soooooooo tempting#and i mean. at least 4 or 5 of the stories for next week will be related to the main plot#plus the stories for the 16th and the 17th#so there'd still be plenty for that too!#i'm probably gonna make my own decision regardless of the voting result but i'd like to hear from you anyway#i've never made a poll before and i'm kinda nervous about this lol i really am expecting this to get maybe 3 votes max 🤡#i hate how the title is so huge pls don't be annoyed with me i'm sorry for existing i promise i'll never make a post ever again 😭#not putting this in any tags. you see this if you see this
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Savitar had so much potential honestly
No for real!! It makes me so mad. I’ve talked about it here, but it’s why people calling s3 the “best season” baffles me. Like…guys, the villain makes no sense, the interesting framing device (the closed time loop) is destroyed with no consequences, and they didn’t even do anything interesting with the main villain except in the finale!
(The “Masonville” scene makes me cry every time 😭)
I have so many plans to revamp s3 in my AU…and it’s gonna involve a lot of rewriting, because that season had so much potential that it squandered. And so much…random nonsense too? Like wtf was up with Alchemy, and why did Savitar genuinely try to kill them so many times…oh yeah, and why did they stretch out the mystery for so long?
(Part of me has always wondered if the Savitar-is-Barry reveal was actually planned from the beginning, because it really did feel like they were stalling…and also why would Savitar try to kill a past version of himself??)
And also, ofc, why did Team Flash suddenly treat a time remnant so poorly in S3’s future when, in the s2 finale, they were fretting about the life of a time remnant and genuinely mourning him??
Also also…the closed time loop was doomed from the start when it hinged on Iris’s death, because there was no way that was gonna happen, and also those aren’t high enough stakes. Should’ve been the entire Team or the world at stake…like in season 2 with Zoom (they sorta have Savitar pivot to this in the finale, but it comes off as so bizarre because he shouldn’t exist by that point anyway). Especially because of how Iris gets shockingly little focus in this storyline about her death! She gets her moments here and there, but…not much. And nothing really long-lasting, just some one-off struggles that she gets past. You know, as anyone who knows their exact date, time, and manner of death would! 🤦♀️ (she needs so much therapy. SO much. This poor woman)
Also…any version of Barry wanting to kill Iris doesn’t make sense. “Oh it’s a closed time loop, he needs to kill her to exist” yeah but the show makes him out to genuinely want to do it 🤷♀️ no exploration of anything deeper until after he fails to do it!
In conclusion, Savitar should’ve been Future Barry (not a time remnant, but genuinely a version of Barry from the future), and they should’ve let him impersonate Barry (or at least explained the scars if they really wanted him to have them)
#savitar#the flash#don’t even get me started on the bs takes i see from some of his fans#‘he should’ve killed iris’ the main female lead?? the flash family matriarch?? be so fr ✋#s3 infuriates me so much because…at least with s5 everyone knows the villain sucks. and that the storyline is weak#but with s3?? everyone acts like it’s SO GOOD#and i’m like ?? where??#all s3 has is CONCEPTS
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#okay i’m gonna try to keep this short and sweet. 30 tag maximum you are my nemesis lol#my main issue here is not necessarily that the karaoke and other bach party scenes have likely been cut#it’s more that they’re clearly buddie baiting for engagement#journalists were watching the episode as early as saturday. which means the ep was ready by at least this time last week#so they knew that the scenes had been cut. and they chose to continue including it in promotion and interviews#i KNOW that logically the reason they chose those scenes to cut was because they’re less important. and we’d already seen them#they technically already gave us the clips in the promo videos. right? so bye bye#but that’s bullshit. sorry#they used buddie best friendism content as a way to promote the ep and increase hype#and then they just pull it out from under us the day before it airs#this is a madney episode. madney are getting married. buddie having fun is not the most important thing here. i get it#so why did they not promote something else? you’re telling me there was NOTHING ELSE they could’ve used?#nothing else from the episode that was free of big spoilers? at all???#it’s madney’s episode but they chose to promote one clip of buddie talking to maddie. one of chim crawling. and the bach party stuff#they must know that people would focus on the bach party. buddie is beloved buck and eddie are beloved#what were they expecting??#they used buddie as a pairing as bait. not queer bait and not even ship bait i suppose as there was nothing ‘shippy’ shown#but they baited buddie content. that’s literally what’s happened#i would be more understanding if this wasn’t a regular occurrence. it’s normal sure. shows do this all the time with fan faves#but also it is a false reflection of the episode. even journalists are saying the episode is not what they expected from the promo#it honestly feels like they’ve made fools of us. maybe the episode will air and it’ll be better than expected#but i don’t have much hope not much hope for buddie. not much hope for madney getting what they deserve. ZERO hope for eddie’s 7b storyline#frankly i’m expecting b/t to be the main chat after this ep. which is……. anyway#i’m not really liking s7 so far and i feel gaslit when people say it’s great lol#IN MY OPINION it is choppy and too fast and a little ooc and doesn’t make a lot of sense#they didn’t even green light bi!buck until episode. what. 2/3??#so presumably had to change everything from then on#i know that’s partly down to limited episode numbers but… 3 eps for the cruise (unnecessary) but 1 for madney wedding? ok#sigh. if anyone’s read this far pls don’t come for me ok. these are just my opinions#we’re all entitled to them. i’m sad for madney and i’m sad for buddie best friendism and i’m sad for s7 as a whole right now
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i hate kevin ball. i’m disinterested in veronica fisher. they fucked up svetlana’s whole character by creating the throuple. the end.
#kev and v are funny as side characters but i really can’t stand them as main characters and i’m sorry#i feel like once they hit that rough patch in s5 i lost interest#and they had a bit too much screentime#every single season they have like 11 storylines that barely link together and are just for laughs and to make the episode longer#like if you watch shameless without their scenes (that don’t have the gallaghers/milkoviches) you arent missing much#i just dont understand how some people are like THESE ARE THE BEST CHARACTERS and then they’re the least complex and most boring#(kev and v not svetlana)#svetlana was well-written and interesting and easily in my top 10 but the throuple happens and i just can’t#i’m not bothered or bored or even annoyed by her it’s just they were so stuck with her character#like her whole ordeal with mickey ended (or just noel left) and they were really at a loss#so they just literally added her into kev and v’s relationship because those two are the characters they also don’t know what to do with#it’s like the island of misfit toys or whatever it’s called from rudolph the red-nosed reindeer😭😭#i love shanola and isidora so i’m glad they got screentime#but it’s just like… why#ok that’s the end of my rant that nobody asked for#shameless#kevin ball#veronica fisher#svetlana yevgenivna
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Why is chapter 16 so messy? 😭
I feel bad for Barbatos for being a deus ex machina.
#like okay you're OP but this is way too convenient#and their whole attitude change when MC is revealed to be Lilith's descendant#Mammon stans i understand you now. only he was real from the beginning. good for him#rereading this mess for my fic but akxxjkdkdkdkd I've read better fics than chapter 16. Even then at least at this point#om team is trying to flesh out the storyline#im done this is so messy. Belphie deserved better#obey me#we dont even have a storyline anymore in the main story
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Out of sheer curiosity, I rewatched the first episode of the L Word not long ago. I was horrified and decided I didn't need to rewatch the whole series. But a super cut of just Sharmen? I would watch that. I also love the fun antics of Alice and Dana. Everything else.... I'll just say I'm glad we have better stories, happier endings, and more accurate representation in queer content now.
Oh, I am right there with you. The full series was available on iTunes for cheap a while back, so I bought it to show my wife--who had never heard of it--and I think we made it through like. Three episodes. It's rough. And frankly, I remember finding a lot of it pretty embarrassing when I watched it for the first time at like 18. We have come a loooong way in queer media.
And yet. The chemistry between Shane and Carmen. Hallelujah. They're forever in my heart.
#ask#i recognize how much that show gave to us in pushing rep along#but i also recognize how brutal and BAD it was in so many ways (thinking first of the trans storylines but also like.#(not kind to bi folks AT ALL)#i haven't bothered watching the new version but i do hope they improved a lot of that stuff#and i'm so so glad we've largely moved away from the 'every lesbian can and will cheat constantly' energy in other media#being a gay kid whose main tv rep was willow and tara on buffy and then all of the drama of the l word#i was...worried about my dating prospects to say the least
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"I don't know how well you get along with your father. But if you feel like he actually loves you and cares about you, you should talk to him and tell him what you like. Of course, it will be difficult and he might not accept that after the first conversation but the more you share your thoughts with him, the sooner he realizes that your own happiness means much more to him than the hopes he has pinned on you."
I’ll never be wiser.
#Personal#Was Born To Lead#I finished editing the seventh chapter!#Now only the eighth (actually the ninth now) one is left#and then I continue to write the new chapter <3#The chess chapter is still my pride although looking through it I realize that it wasn’t written well either#But there are just so many things happening there I think it really makes this chapter very cool#Also there was one thing I was worried about when I started editing the old chapters#I wasn’t sure how good I am at consistency?#Like maybe my characters seem OOC or their characterizations just changes from chapter to chapter#Or maybe I forget what I put into the previous chapters and my storylines feel torn#But I don’t think it happens?#As for the characters some of them definitely changed but I don’t think it was sudden or unclear#and generally I think all the mains have quite a stable ‘voice’ so they’re pretty much recognizable#And as for the plot I occasionally bring up little details from the previous chapters and I never left any storyline unfinished#So I think I have no issues at this regard?#But I don’t know at least nothing felt off to me when I was reading the old chapters
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And the truly obnoxious thing is like, we know from countless interviews over the past few months, that like.....EVERY writer in the X-office wanted Bobby for their book. Orlando said he really wanted Bobby and Christian to stay on Marauders for his run, but they’d already been called ‘dibs’ on, part of why I was so hopeful Bobby was in X-Men Red was specifically because Ewing had mentioned wanting to use him, Spurrier’s said something about wanting him, Tini Howard mentioned something about a possible Bobby story, hell, even Leah Williams wasn’t shy about wanting to do more with him and at this point I would even have preferred....y’know what, let me not tempt fate, I’m still holding a grudge about that trainwreck of an X-Tremists mini and I need to just not go there even for the sake of hysterical, fanboy-in-a-state-of-high-dudgeon hyperbole.
I’m just.....
Pretty much every other writer in the X-office except for Percy has mentioned having a Bobby story they want to tell (literally all of the above writers being bi, just for the record) and Marvel’s like nah, let’s keep him with the straight writer who already HAD two plus years to do whatever the hell he wanted with the character and used that time and opportunity to.....literally do nothing at all.
SURE, THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT.
#and literally the most common complaint about Duggan's X-Men title is that of the seven main cast members ALREADY on the book#he's barely given any of them actual focus or any kind of development whatsoever#....is it too soon for me to start hoping for an endpoint to his X-Men run so I at least know how long we've gotta be stuck with#him writing Bobby THIS time?#ugggggggggggggggh. this was NOT the news I was looking for today. Ill get over it and back to bored jaded ennui#soon enough - much like I'm managing to not be actively bothered by Taylor's Nightwing or the absence of me having#any interest in reading THAT book.....#but seriously. I only have three consistent comic book faves: Dick Grayson Kyle Rayner and Bobby Drake#all of whom are THEORETICALLY supposed to be pretty high profile and either A list or at least high B list#you would THINK it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to hope for at least ONE of three characters that high profile to have a consistent#presence in a well-written book and thus keep me occupied and entertained even if the other two aren't being utilized well or even at all#but nooooooooooooope. Kyle's still nowhere to be found as usual. Dick's being written as the walking embodiment#of every other character's support system and/or reliable showcase for them all to show off#how much more competent and better at dealing with all his enemies and threats are than he is IN HIS OWN BOOK#and Bobby's.....moving laterally from one book where he does fuck all but bring in readers for a writer who has zero interest in turning#that reader interest into actual storylines for him.....to another book where hey guess what? he'll most likely continue to do fuck all but#bring in readers for the same damn writer who has zero interest in turning that reader interest into actual storylines for him#YAY I LOVE COMICS THE END
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Ok so I watched the interview with Stephen Rooney, Astarion's writer, and here are some highlights. (I'm an aspiring writer and current game design student who wants to write for games so I'm sorry if some of these insights aren't as interesting to you as they are to me <3)
He calls Astarion his "horrible little vampire boy"
He loves seeing the fandom around Astarion<3
He did write other characters in the game, but mostly NPCs surrounding Astarion or his storyline, so it mostly revolved around Astarion
Astarion is not as connected to other companions/Origins as, for example, Lae'zel and Shadowheart, or Wyll and Karlach are to each other, but he is still reactive to their stories, even if it's just to stand off to the side and laugh when something terrible happens
He had a clear sense of where Astarion's story would start and end, but it got "muddy in the middle", but those are also moments where the best ideas come from
They write from the general idea that every character has one "good" and one "evil" ending, in order to give the player choice. RIP Ascendant apologists :(
According to Stephen, two of the most important aspects of Astarion's character (to keep consistent when bringing him to Idle Champions, at least) is that he enjoys violence, but is also fun about it
"He has a certain appreciation for violence, I guess? A bit of a murdery streak. [...] He's a vampire, he's all about blood, and he's all about, kind of, those darker sides of humanity. [..] But at the same time, he is ... He is really fun, he's really fun to write, he's really fun to have in your party, and it's very important for me that that is also represented."
"He's gonna stab you, but will have a smile on his face as he does it? I mean, I dunno. That's kind of him in a nutshell."
Larian would not have allowed for Astarion to be a typical brooding Dracula type, and there were scenes that were shot down for not being original enough
The main thing about Astarion was trying to get a "sense of fun." It would be easy to write a character that was very unlikable, and they absolutely did not want to do that
Rooney says Astarion is consistently terrible throughout the game and awful in a whole lot of ways, but he also needed to be charming enough that you could tolerate his presence and wanted him around
Rooney also had a lot of input on Astarion's stats (meaning the 10 Charisma is probalby 100% intentional)
He also had input on how certain lines should be delivered, even though the writers didn't directly work with voice actors
The way Astarion moves and poses is "all Neil"
Apparently, Neil Newbon worked on the character for years and Rooney did not speak to him once, though his voice work did influence how Astarion's lines were written and it became a "feedback loop" (Possible context for "ONLY SLIGHTLY, NEIL")
There were no points where a line delivery drastically changed Astarion's writing; rather it was a constant, slow evolution
However, there was one very spoilery moment where Neil gave such emotion to some "basic" lines that it fundamentally changed the scene (WHAT IS IT OMG)
It's difficult to balance approval, as you don't want to straight up write a monster. Every character needs to have some humanity in them. So if it comes to leaving the party, it needed to be the result of something central to said character. They wanted to be mindful of situations that would cause actual rifts between characters. (I assume this is why most generic disapprovals/approvals are +/- 1 or 2, while character-related ones give +/-5 or more)
However, as they don't write straight up horrible people/monsters, it doesn't come up as often as one might think.
The interviewer makes a point about how characters like Astarion and Lae'zel are good examples of how to play "evil" characters, as they are maybe not the best people but are still eager and willing to stick around the other party members
They worked to make sure the characters would work as a group, no matter the configuration of the group. The characters needed to be on the same path, even if they don't always agree or walk that path the same way.
Stephen Rooney is very proud of the "climactic" scene of Astarion's story. (AS HE SHOULD BE.) He even had to step away from the computer and have an emotional moment. Me too, man.
He's also "extremely pleased" that there's a point where you can punch Astarion in the face. "Actually, that one might be my favorite part" A MAN OF THE PEOPLE!!
Stephen Rooney's tip on what specific thing you should try out with Astarion: When he's trying to get a "sneaky nibble" at night, you should "probably" let him bite you. Way ahead of you there, sir.
No discussion about Astarion's romance unfortunately, but that's that!
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#astarion#anyway ... after dragon age it feels so mindblowing to have writers who aren't apologists for their characters
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WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THERES A QUANTUM LEAP REBOOT
#I'm only on episode 2 but so far i actually like it#and its a SEQUEL and not a straigh reboot or nonsensical retconny prequel#ive already noticed things that strongly suggest its made by people who actually LIKE the original and are trying to build on it#rather than make it 'cool' or modernise it in shallow dumb ways#it has a diverse if small cast and doesnt shy away from the cheese and the main guy is actually pretty likeable so far#and theres a het couple at the core but theyre actually pretty sweet. not a huge amount of chemistry but i like them well enough#I'm not bored or disgusted by their dynamic so far at least which is something#and AL AND SAM ARE STILL SORTA PART OF THE STORYLINE#though Al is dead and I'm trying not to dwell on that because he got to die old and happy with his family who love sam as much as he did#i need someone to be as excited about this as i am
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every once in a while i see u reblogging something when i check reblogs on random posts and go like "YOU." bc i follow u on my alt i dont use anymore bc i read ur wattpad stories in like 2021 and was obsessed with one of them 😭😭 (children of chaos i think)
ABORT MISSION PEOPLE RECOGNIZE ME /silly
for real though i'm glad you liked it that much! i love when my stories have an impact on people :3
#it's still... theoretically in progress but realistically i am doing what writers do best. which is not writing.#i'll finish it one day#maybe before i have grandkids even#it does Not help that when i started it i had no plan for the plot. we are rapidly approaching the end of my first draft chapters' storylin#that i wrote over the course of 3 days and 27 pages of crumpled notebook paper when i was 14#and i'm gonna have to figure out where to go from there pretty soon#at least i have the side plot mostly figured out but the like actual main plot........ oh boy
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#like the clown i am i spent half the night awake trying to come up with a way to make the olli/allu modern-day royalty AU work out#my first idea was to try and make it similar to my college AU with POV chapters and shit#but i quickly realised it wouldn't work out for the same reason i'm still struggling with the gran hotel AU:#unlike with the college AU i don't have a clear character arch for everyone#e.g. i can't for the life of me think of a way to link the joel/niko side plot to the main plot to make it make sense#and idk what joonas' role would be other than to occasionally hook up with olli and fangirl about aleksi and pine for joel#soooooo it thought i could instead make it a series of shorter stories? if anyone out there is seriosly interested in reading this AU? 👉👈#like. the first one would obviously have to be a little longer since it's the establishment for the whole AU#so far i have an outline for a 6-chapter story from olli's and allu's povs. basically just them getting together#and the rest of what i have planned for the AU would be standalones or shorter establishments?#because if i were to include EVERYTHING in one fic it would most likely end up being +20 chapters lol#and no way in hell would i have the patience for that 💀#that way i could just time-jump to the scenes i want to write the most lol#instead of having to try and weave them together to form a longer coherent plot#i mean i looooooooove slow burn and all that but i don't want to overwhelm myself by starting to write something#only to realise 32k words later that i have no idea where i'm going with it D:#(my ski jumping rpf fic says hi 🙃)#but by writing individual shorter stories it would be much easier for me to handle the plot while also advancing it#because the storyline in my head is so extensive that i feel like i can't fit it all in just one fic#at least in a way that i would be satisfied with 😭#i can make them get together in 6 chapters with no trouble#but for them to actually form a secure relationship and get messed up in all that tabloid drama and face the prejudice of the royal family#until eventually getting their happy ending? yeah nope. gonna need at least 20 chapters for that lmao#and if i wanted to advance all the sideplots on top of all that? yeah nope 😵#with individual stories i could just write all the joonas/tommi and niko/joel (and unrequited j/j) as spin-offs! yay problem solved! 😇#pls don't get your hopes up though lol i may love planning fics but writing is another story entirely 😂#but yeah. watch this space?#or maybe i'll just continue writing random pointless olli/allu standalones whenever i get a burst of inspiration. we'll see 👀
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hey! not gonna give my 2 cents on the situation or anything but i did want to give u some clarification on why the spin-off is on s2 and the other one hasnt even gotten a proper ep 1 yet: the main show was picked up by a studio and the spin-off is self published. they dont have control over the production or release schedule like they do w the spin-off :)
aah i see thank you for clarifying that, i knew the show got picked up by a big production company but thats p much all i knew about it till this week 😅 (kinda wish it had stayed that way!)
but the second show being self published does kinda explain why theyre being so overly defensive of it. but also that level of closeness to the project is all the more reason for them to stay away from twitter tbh :/
#other#t talks#i think. the closer you are to a story/project is also a sign of how far away you should be from reviewers tbh#cause theres Always going to be negative reviews#you could write the literal best story the world has ever seen n there will still be ppl that dont fuck with it.#so the fact theyre getting this defensive over some lukewarm criticism is alarming to say the least#cause once the main show does get released theyre going to be hitting a Wayyy bigger audience#n honestly for all of that staffs sake i hope theyre ready for that. but... after this week its kinda obv they are not :/#but i dont intend to find out how they weather that storm#cause i dont really care for comedy or romance as genres n thats like... all those shows are from what ive seen :/#(i like comedy and .... well i like comedy in shows. i just dont like when thats the Main selling point of shows btw)#im ngl i hate like. 90% romance storylines in shows tho 😭😭😭 pickyyy as fuckkkk
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