Elain and Lucien aren’t ready yet but they will be soon ☝️

listen its not that tamlin locking feyre in a manor is ‘not a big deal’. its that sjm parallels tamlin and rhysand way too much for rhysand to be a viable, healthy option for feyre.

rhys put a whole city under a lockdown so severe people forgot about its existence (and from what the wiki says, the city was kept hidden for centuries even before, for the safety of its citizens) but tamlin locking feyre in a manor, so she wouldn’t follow him into an unsafe situation was crossing a line?

The declan lynch girlies when they see me, a fellow declan girly saying I’m a niall lynch apologist

The humans in ACOTAR are literally just props. The story doesn’t actually care about them or what happens to them. The characters contradict themselves in the way they behave towards them. Hell, the author herself barely gives them a second thought.

During the endeavor to save the Mortal Realm through book 2-3, the Mortal Queens were consulted and their help was requested. The High Lords were consulted and their help was requested. But when it came to the actual helping part, I swear, the humans in the south of Prythian didn’t even know any of this was happening. While the Inner Circle plotted and planned out their fates like they’re pieces on a chess board, none of them even knew any of this was happening. That doesn’t seem a little screwed up to anybody?

if you had to introduce someone to k project with the intention of getting them into the series, where would you tell them to start from? im honestly torn between LSW, the side:red novel or MOR

Honestly? The first season of the anime. It’s uneven but it does a good job introducing the world and the main cast, and it’s a good jumping off point to get into the other side materials based on which characters a person is most drawn to. The issue that I think comes up when you start with the side materials is they don’t all do as much to explain the larger ‘world’ of the series because it’s assumed the reader already knows about the basic Slate and Kings thing, most of that is just given a quick ‘as you well know’ nod. Season one can definitely be confusing (I think it holds up much better on second watch when you know what to look for and can see some of the more subtle stuff they’re doing) but it does at least make most of the worldbuilding stuff pretty clear. LSW I think is probably the weakest of the ones you mentioned on this point, it pretty much assumes anyone reading knows what kind of setting this is and mostly just nods at the parts that are relevant for the story, which could be troublesome for a new person going in blind.

MOR has a better sense of worldbuilding but I think still has a general ‘feeling’ of assumed knowledge, to me that one feels very much like a companion series that won’t hold up as well on its own (it also spoils the whole thing with Totsuka’s death in the final chapters, I feel like it works better reading this one after you’ve seen season one so the end scene of episode one with Colorless hits better). I also think MOR doesn’t work as well as a jumping in point because the early chapters are focused almost entirely on minor characters who barely have any lines in the series proper, I think starting with that one would give someone an incorrect idea of what/who the series is about — even DOB would technically be better here because its focus is a bit more narrowed, Awashima gets a chapter early on and Fushimi remains a consistent focus throughout and he’s at least more of a main character than the alphabet squad are. I also feel like the emotional heft of the last couple chapters doesn’t work as well if you aren’t already attached to these characters, I think it’s just stronger when there’s already a base to work from. 

Side Red I think would actually be a good entry point outside of the anime though, the main drawback probably being that as a novel it might be seen as less accessible than the anime. Actually if we were going for ‘best entry point besides the anime’ my pick would probably be read Side Red and then watch the Seven Stories Side Blue. Side Red I think works really well as a prologue to the series, it brings in the worldbuilding elements and hints at future developments without outright spoiling them and gives good characterization to the Homra top three as well as Anna, Yata and Fushimi, all of whom are main characters, and it brings in things like the state of Mikoto’s Sword and the previous S4. Side Blue then makes a good prologue of the ‘other side,’ though I think the anime actually manages to do better than the novel on this one. Side Blue was written very early in the game and I think it shows, I feel like Munakata is written more manipulative and antagonistic than he is in the rest of the series and the novel has the same issue as MOR where it spends a lot of time with Hidaka and co., who then go on to not really matter all that much in the anime proper. The Seven Stories adaptation narrows that focus more around Munakata, smooths out some of the characterization issues without completely softening them, adds some flashbacks for additional world building and hints at the wider picture with the Greens at the end. If we’re not starting with the anime I would probably say start with Side Red and Blue and then go into season one, and then from there choose where to go next based on which characters caught the viewer’s eye the most.

guys.......... is suns actually an asshole (read the tags for a trip lmao)

I don’t block actual people often, but tagging any of my stuff “q slur” is an instant bye-bye for me.

hmm i think another thing i like abt kencen is chess should be played on a smaller stage. now i am an intimate staging truther for almost every play so i may be biased but that doesn't make it less true for chess. like i get the appeal of the big sets bc of the way they travel thru location and our initial reaction upon literally visualizing chess on a stage, but i think it makes it so easy for characters to get swallowed and for the stage to feel very empty. which may work like. conceptually but i think in practice it just limits the actor's effect. & i know that you can argue that chess is a show that needs to get by partially on spectacle bc of the quality of the book but i disagree just choose a good book. or make up for it w staging and strong character choices. it's not like it has a shallow plot bc it really doesn't it just doesn't have a well resolved one. which is actually another argument for it to be in an intimate space bc it will make the audience feel more personally invested in the characters rather than the story and will care what happens to them even if they leave with questions (does this distinction make sense?). i'm also not saying that chess Couldn't be done well on a big stage i just think most of the time it isn't

i am reminded, once again, how anachronistic arthurian legend is. and on one hand, i don't mind it because it's just fantasy; there's dragons and beasts and magic and the stories have been told for a millenia, so of course not everything would make sense.

however,

it becomes an issue to me when the maps made for the legends don't fit in the time period pop culture decides to assign the legends in

THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THE ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTFUL MESS AIKATSU ANIME IS . god. i love telling my friends something rly insane abt an anime girl and they'll ask "where are they from" and it'll always be the sparkly girl idol promo anime

ASDJKAJKSGDJKHGDHA RIGHT ITS ALWAYS. the cute sparkly idol anime isnt it (i have watched like two or three maybe) but aikatsu stars specifically absolutely ramps up the drama its soo everything to me. yeah sorry that cute new protagonist? yeah we put her through the horrors. yeah she can sing really really well sometimes even though she's technically behind everyone else in terms of skill at the moment. yeah sorry she collapses and loses her voice afterwards each time. yeah if she keeps this up she might never sing again. sorry again

where is my midnight kiss update??

Won't even pay me dinner first? Straight up fucking with me?! I'm kidding 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Trying to post till the end of the week! I wrote some scenes but something feels off about the pace... I can't figure it out what...

Oh yeah I should probably mention I have a “not this” account for other art and so forth sooo… look at it?

moments before disaster (not rlly)

[did a few cybergrind runs while streaming it with friends]

"hmmm maybe i should complete the challenge for 4-1 using slam storage. it should be quick"

@ people who only ever like stuff and don't reblog but especially the people who only like art. Why are you here???

I still remember I didn’t watch the Nin//tendo direct the night before, and in the middle of literature class when my friends were talking about it, I was approached with the question, “Freya, what do you think of Byakuya’s washboard abs?”

And I forever associate this cursed image with that memory. They did point out I was very red at the mere idea of its existence... I didn’t even know it was noticeable I blushed that much, haha.

I’m a lot happier with the sprites, but I love this outfit more ^-^ (we’ll loose the effboy necklace though LMAO it’s not him,,, but it does add a good balance to the overall outfit? I don’t know, hehe)

When I get done damn rest I’m redrawing this, beware of my lack of knowledge on drawing men shirtless /lh