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hot take but I think a lot of current fantasy has lost the "what the heck" nonsensical vibes and that's why a lot of it is so bad
#people are so obsessed with 'being like tolkien' that they forget that a key part of fantasy#is the magic and wonder and inexplicable occurences#some things we need to accept on faith and move on#like you don't NEED to understand the mechanics of portals to other worlds or magic#or have a logical realistic fantasy realm#it's fantasy!! it's by definition UNREALISTIC and WEIRD and INEXPLICABLE#tolkien himself said something along the lines of 'if you explain how it works#it's not magic anymore'#(somewhere in on fairy stories I think)#but the point is that I actually could not care less about whether your fictional languages and histories etc etc#are realistic or sensible#if I wanted to read about a different culture or language or place I'd pick up a regular fiction novel#fantasy means that there's magic and things beyond our ken#lots of things will not and should not make sense#(logically. they should make sense in terms of fantasy)#(paraphrasing from sir terry here but it's unrealistic and nonsensical#for the third brother to succeed or for the sword to be pulled from the stone or for kindness and bravery to always win the day)#(but in a fantasy that is what makes sense; the illogical)#someday I'll write up my discord rant on modern fantasy as a true essay but it is not this day lol
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If it’s not too much to ask.. can we get a timeline for the lights out au?
(Not the full story, obviously. Just the bits of the timeline that have already been revealed. I just think it’d been nice to have a neat guide to it all)
oh for sure!
this is gonna be a little clumsy because I have a very bad grasp on time & also math. numbers suck and i hate them. but i Am trying to create a timeline, ill give you the Very basic, Very vague one
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1972 / the show is cancelled, and the neighborhood is abandoned in the dark
1973 / Sally starts sleepwalking, Wally loses his eye
1975 / Wally starts exploring beyond the set
1980 / Barnaby loses his arm
1986 / The Divorce™️ happens
2007 / Frank wakes up
2013 / Poppy wakes up. Frank starts getting worse
2015 / Howdy wakes up. They barricade Sally in her house.
2016 / Eddie, Julie, and Barnaby wake up. Arc One ends.
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aaaand not going into the other three arcs. the second is still nebulous, the third is soooo spoilery even though Does That Really Matter?, and the fourth is a mix of both.
sorry this isn't as in depth! aus aren't a high priority for me, so they're more like little side thinkings i tinker with when my main Interests start to get burnt out. keeps me fresh!
#but yeah thats the very basic timeline....#about. what was that. 43 years???#im purposefully making it shorter than the canon timeline to make the au feel a bit more... sensible#grounded? hm.#like in a 'the whrp is still a few years away so Its Sooo Realistic And Faithful Trust Me On This One Guys-' way#an alternate timeline events#< says the guy who doesn't know the timeline of events#thinking about this au wildly flip flops between#this is so fun!! im having a great time!!! yeehaw!!!#and banging my head against a wall a la what the Hell am i doing#but that goes for uh. pretty much everything i think about ever. so#rambles from the bog#wh lights out au
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I think it’ll be really neat to see how Matt Mercer fares with the Dimension 20 format. Matt tends to favor attrition-style encounter design (lots of smaller, narratively inconsequential combats meant to drain party resources ahead of the Final Fight). This style is sort of the default for how 5e assumes you’ll play (hence why Short Rests exist), and it’s a perfectly valid style choice, especially for home play and for long-form campaigns.
While I don’t mind playing that style, I find it way less engaging as a viewer when it’s used in Actual Play. As a viewer, I generally prefer the D20 format of (what I refer to as) Set Piece Encounters. Big, story-relevant fights where the PCs have most if not all of their resources and abilities from the start, often with multiple paths to victory that the PCs need to discover as they interact with the encounter.
To be clear, it’s not like Matt CAN’T do this, there are tons of examples of this kind of encounter design across all 3 campaigns (C1 BBEG fight, C2 Cathedral Fight, C2 BBEG fight, C3 Museum Heist), it just tends to be reserved more for special occasions rather than being the default. But that makes sense because Critical Role is long-form as opposed to Dimension 20′s limited-run seasons.
(I really can’t emphasize enough that Dimension 20s limited-run nature is what makes it possible for every Encounter to be a big Set Piece Encounter.)
And because Dimension 20 has SUCH a strong format of alternating Roleplay and Combat episodes, because Dimension 20 seasons are limited in scope, and the Encounters are worked out with the production team ahead of time, I’m hoping that Matt really leans into it. I’m so excited to find out what he does with a limited-run season (REALLY can’t wait to know how many episodes there will be). I’m really hoping to see him flex his Set Piece Encounter design skills in the dome.
#dimension 20#critical role#Matt Mercer#Look I could write a whole comparative analysis of Brennan's Encounter Design sensibilities vs Matt's#both are VERY good at what they do#but Brennan's style is WAY more suited to playing for an audience and it SHOWS#I watched Calamity with a friend who doesn't watch D20#and he was blown away by how engaging Brennan's combats were#(he's used to mostly checking out during combat and playing video games while we watch)#And I Get It#But I don't think that Matt CAN'T design combats that way#I just don't think it's a realistic thing to expect in a long-form campaign
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just showed the first small draft of my br regency story to my teacher and he said: “well i think you need to reforce how problematic slavery is more often”. hello???? one would think the reader knows that slavery and sexism and racism and ableism are bad without the author having to tell them again and again! omg
#(have to specify it’s brazilian regency bc of the anglos…..)#also something about the gay experience not being realistic….. girl the is a lower class black gay man in 1830s brazil. i can’t possibly-#use modern understandings of sexuality with him hello!!!#this is the problem w writing historical fiction while your advisor (is that the right word?) knows shit about history tbh#basically he wants me to write a contemporary novel with contemporary characters (w contemporary ideas) that just coincidentally takes-#-place in the 1830s. the bridgertonification of it all#(something something it’s impossible that all the (usually wealthy) characters in your historical novel have perfect progressive opinions-#that never offend contemporary sensibilities. that would be like someone 200 years from now writing a book in which everyone is a radical-#-communist. it just doesn’t make sense. brazil was reactionaryland in the 1830s. you’d get called a jacobin for being a constitutionalist)
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But yeah. Like. The mystery and the beauty of romance is that it can neither be separated from the right kind of moral code/conduct nor from extremely boring practicalities and realities; it’ll die if you divorce it from either. And yet being good AND being sensible is not enough to produce the romance on its own. There is Something Else needed.
#In a way romance in real life is either completely right or completely wrong#Which is why I’m not a dating app person#But it is such a meeting point for choices and circumstances that are out of our control#and grace#idk I can’t quite put my finger on it#And I’m having too many thoughts at the moment#But yeah#it definitely can’t survive without goodness and good choices OR without being sensible and realistic#But the spark and the flash and the recognition and the mystery and the light night bolt of it all are real too#Idk man this is not coherent!!!!!
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dress up nice (and don't get any blood on yourself this time, please)
[collaboration with @dxppercxdxver again. we are still going.]
#em draws stuff#flintlock fortress#team fortress 2#FINALLY this is done it took me more than five hundred thousand years [editor's note: it took them approximately four days]#this one does show a little that I went to tumblr university instead of art school when it comes to certain design elements. So What.#also I am pretty sure that I used up my Realistic Hands quota for the rest of my life somewhere partway through this drawing#forgive me the couple of fucked-up ones because I also drew four really really super nice hands for a different thing. also a jawbone.#maybe I will also post the jawbone since it does look very good#.....anyway. 'twas about time for a Significant Outfitting Moment in these parts.#proves something about my own sensibilities because I do feel a little bit scandalous for having drawn this.#this is honestly a really silly thing for me personally to get scandalized by (for a variety of reasons that I won't share)#I think it would read better if I reordered the panels but ah I simply do not feel like it. take it as it is.#finishing march strong by not doing so so so many tasks and doing this again. if you need me I'll be in the soup for the next while.
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you can go on a trip to a city you genuinely love and then go back home to the city you actually live in and only barely tolerate but watch out!!!
#god i truly forget how much disdain for my hometown is always simmering just under the surface#until i'm in one of the couple cities i actually genuinely like#me repeating over and over to myself:#staying in memphis was a sensible realistic and practical choice both financially and for family's sake#while my eye twitches 🙃#this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming
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gunter slowburn fic excerpt ~ this is right after the events of the Vallite King when corrin's brought gunter back from the brink, and he's still touch and go in the healer's tents, only recently arriving back into consciousness.
naturally, ryoma decides to pay them both an unplanned visit.
unedited.
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"Give me one good reason why this traitor is still breathing."
Raijinto was flickering rather ominously in the dim light, unsheathed.
"I wonder that myself." Gunter murmured soullessly, so quietly to be inaudible.
A holy rage-fire of possessiveness bubbled in Corrin's heart, and she took a step so bold toward Ryoma that he visibly blinked at her, distracted from his target.
"Please stand down, Brother. No violence, not here."
"... Right. Healer's tents, sure." To her greatest relief, he sheathed the lightning-sword instantly. Out of the very corner of her eye, she thought the old knight's lips twitched in grim humor at how meekly the samurai backed down.
"That still leaves the matter of this cretin." Ryoma's face hardened into stone when she bristled instantly. "Need I remind you he killed Scarlet? Almost killed you? Betrayed you? Almost killed all of us?!"
"I will talk to you about that, Brother." She tried to remain coldly diplomatic, biting down uglier words to match his shouting. "-- We will, I promise. Reparations will be made. But not now. Ryoma, he is recovering from death."
Corrin emphasized the last words with laced warning. Ryoma gave her a cutting glare in response. It was plainly written on his furious expression as to what he was thinking, only too polite and trained in Hoshidan stoicism to say it out loud.
He should have stayed dead.
"Dears, dears dears, if you are not a patient or a healer, this is not the time to be here." One of the older healers, a thin but severely dressed lady clapped her hands at Ryoma. The red-armored samurai all but jumped at the crack of sound, though Corrin thought it was more at the sheer audacity of his authority usurped. "You are disturbing our wards."
She didn't have to look at Gunter to know he'd be amused at the drama playing out by his feet, too. Corrin risked a discrete step closer to him, her hand searching for his, hidden by the bedside from the others. His immediate warmth from knobby fingertips that rubbed over hers soothed her like nothing could, and she stood a little straighter, her hand clasped in his.
Ryoma was muttering apologies that were trying not to morph into excuses to the healer, and the good lady was having none of it.
"Is this a mission critical discussion, fearless swordsman?"
"I-"
"Out you go."
"Excuse-"
"Yourself, yes."
#okay so this is me having issues with how quickly everyone forgave gunter in-game.#xander and ryoma fire emblem who were the two loveable blockheads whose suspicion of each other wrote the first half of the plot???#HE LEGIT JUST BETRAYED THEM LOL and then they were suddenly cool with .... everything???#shit i love the man more than is sensible and i still would have tossed him in a cell until after the final battle at MINIMUM.#like gunter's not /wrong/ but its not realistic for royals to suddenly change their worldview on 1 shady retainer bitching about past crime#gunter slowburn liveblog
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kieran on roman and jeremy on kendall always make me very fucking glad they weren’t writing the show
#matthew is always behind ten layers of dislike of being interviewed#sarah can stay but on thin ice#nick generally sensible and at least realistic#arian is fun but they would naaaut say that
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unexpected side effect of being a jock writing fanfic is that im spending far too much time looking into and explaining rope climbing for it to be in 7 lines of my fic
#he's not even doing it sportily its Steve climbing out of the tunnels in s2#but like that ropes thin as hell and his shoes are covered in upside down shit and any other sensible person would be like#'then he climbed out and it was difficult but he made it'#but no i have to explain the form and he needs to tell mike this rope sucks ass and then plop down exhausted#AND THEN i need to add an authors note explaining why its extremely difficult and how not getting a proper foothold doubles the difficulty#and now its an hour in and its still 7 lines in the fic but now its 20+ lines in the author note with 3 reference images#like im happy about it and im excited for realistic physical ability to be a part of my style but damn do i feel kinda weird in the moment#stranger things#steve harrington#jock steve harrington#devon's steve henderson au#steve henderson au rambles#devon thinks sometimes
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This is maybe the best ending on any anime I’ve ever seen. Gundam Witch From Mercury is shaping up to be one of my favourite anime ever. Top three.
#pmmm was always first#mob was a strong second#el cazador de la bruja a personal favourite at three#but i guess this has come in to replace any one of these#well not pmmm#genuinely....it does its 'anime tropes TWIST into a KNIFE' so well and playing them straight in a realistic world love it love it#theres yuri there are pretty boys theres character development theres plots that actually seem sensible#theres amazing animation theres people who know what theyre doing at the writing desk#i just need the economo-babble to be...uh... a reflection of a real system#my stuff#gundam#the witch from mercury#i just wanted to share bc nobody in my real life will appreciate#and if you havent seen the show it doesnt hit as hard#im starting to like.....giant robots#as a concept.....
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There is a part of me that is genuinely considering planning a trip to Vegas next year and signing up for WWWY presale
It would be the WORST idea because there are so many parts of my life that are up in the air and I don't know where I'll be or what I'll be doing by October. And also I would have no one to go with and as brave as I've gotten about going to gigs alone, this would be a whole other ball game.
But there's still part of me that wants to. I could do it. I have savings, and I'll already be flying over to the US in late September anyway for Horseshoe Hell. I could just. Go from the ranch to Vegas instead of coming home. It wouldn't be that hard.
(I probably won't. But the fact that I /COULD/ is going to itch my brain for far too long.)
#there are so many bands on that lineup who I love#and who I would KILL to see play those albums in full#but realistically it would not be a sensible decision
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I will not succumb to fomo
I will not succumb to fomo
I will not succumb to fomo
#I am a sensible adult with realistic expectations#my life is good and enjoyable#I will not compare it to others#FUCK ME IM JEALOUS I WANNA DO THAT#pumpkablah#maybe soon I too will be doing cool stuff 🥲
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If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:
weird flex
religious reasons
religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)
tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)
someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool
someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool
it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible
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theres very little written work about rody&deku that can actually hold my attention. this is simply my reality. whether the characters themselves are mischaracterized or the author is (understandably) confused about the order of the sequence of events, i always get distracted by something and will at best skim what's there.
#rody reveals his quirk at the end of the roadtrip. not beforehand#understandably because its 1 movie and i dont think expecting people to have an encyclopedic memory of everything that happens in it#is particularly sensible. or realistic.#ive watched it a bunch of times and usually end up catching a new detail on every rewatch#most recently: deku was navigating during the roadtrip... but he was also navigating todoroki in the humarise secret base#hm. wording. well whatever
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Hi idk if u have already written this if u have pls igonore but what about the first time bombshell reader calls Spencer beautiful?
fem, 1k
“Gideon has a new prodigy.”
Your head rises of its own accord. “Yeah?”
“He's younger than you. Twenty three, I think Hotch said. Fresh out of college, two degrees and working on a third? Or maybe he was getting his doctorate? I couldn't keep up.” Morgan shakes his head in disapproval. “Overeducated and under-experienced. He failed his physicals. The ones he took, anyways.”
“Ooh, ouch. A baby on the team before me,” you joke with a smile. “Genius baby, but a baby.”
Morgan smiles when you smile, he's too nice not to, but he picks up soon enough, crossing his arms where he's stood and wrinkling what was once a finely steamed suit jacket. “I don't know what Gideon's thinking.”
“Does anyone ever know what he's thinking? What's Hotch say about it all?”
Morgan reads what you're typing from over your shoulder and corrects a mistake. One day you won't need his help, but for now you take as much of it as you can get. You're not too proud to acknowledge when you mess up, you're a realist. Super sensible (in mind if not action).
“Hotch lets Gideon do what he wants, mostly. What can you do when he's one of the originals?” Morgan leans heavily onto his desk by the forearms and shrugs. You’re similar in this regard; complain, move on. You're similar in other ways, too. That's why you get along.
“Well, I want to meet this guy,” you say. “We'll be teammates just as soon as Strauss stops hating me. I'm one strategic boxed bouquet from a full pardon.” He laughs and touches your arm like he believes you. “Is he around?”
“Here they are now.”
You spin in Morgan's desk chair slowly. Jason Gideon is stalking through the office with his head in the contents of a manilla envelope, while a new face follows behind him talking a mile a minute.
“Obviously,” you hear Gideon interrupt as they get close enough. “Agent Morgan can explain that to you. Don't overthink it, Spencer, just try to get through it.”
He doesn't acknowledge you nor Morgan as he leaves Spencer and hurries up the steps leading to his and Hotch's offices. You aren't expecting much else from him. What little Gideon knows about you he doesn't like. If you ever get over the Strauss hurdle, it's him you'd have to convince next. You don't watch him cross the landing, your gaze focused on the man making his timid way toward you. Your lips part briefly, and then quirk into an overjoyed smile.
“Oh, you're beautiful,” you say without thinking.
He frowns at you.
“Reid,” Morgan interrupts, “This is Y/N L/N. She works in the sex crimes division. As you can imagine, we get a lot of crossover.” You stand, holding out your hand. “Y/N, this is Spencer Reid.”
“I don't shake. Sorry.”
You press your hand to your chest. “Oh, that's okay. I shouldn't assume…” Your voice melds into a silkiness that has his shapely brows furrowing further, “It's nice to meet you, Spencer Reid. You're really pretty, do you know that?”
Spencer peeks at Morgan quickly, who laughs good-naturedly. “She's serious, Reid. She's not making fun of you.”
“You'd know,” Spencer says. It isn't malicious, but it isn't exactly friendly, either.
You twist to frown at Morgan deeply. “Morgan, you're not being nice to him?”
“I'm being plenty nice, sweetheart, but this is how it works. I gotta haze him a little.”
“No, you don't.” You tip your cheek toward your shoulder to look at Spencer through your lashes. “He pretends to be worse than he is, I promise. But don't let him neg you, okay? You're smarter than he is–”
“Hey.”
“–and he's used to being the office pretty boy. It's jealousy, nothing else,” you finish. Spencer really is gorgeous now you're close enough to see his eyes. A brown like caramelised sugar tented by dark, dark eyelashes. When he smiles, the very slightest hint of teeth shows, and it makes him even prettier. You endeavour to make him smile again. “Sorry if I'm coming off a little strong. It's not my intention.”
“She's just nervous. You have everything she wants,” Morgan says.
You sigh forlornly. “Oh, doesn't he?” Spencer's confused pout is even cuter than his smile. “Getting into the BAU is about as easy as walking on water.”
“For a human,” Spencer says. “Easier if you're smaller. Like a water strider.”
There's a silence. Morgan is aghast, you think. You're in love.
“Yeah?” you ask, stars in your eyes as his own spark to life.
“Because water strider's can transfer their weight, but also due to their hydrofuge hairpiles. Their microhairs.” He catches himself, measuring your expression carefully. “Did you really wanna know?”
“Do you wanna get a cup of coffee and tell me about it?” you ask.
His lips part as yours had when you first saw him.
He's prevented from answering as Hotch's office door opens and the man himself walks out near the railing. “Good, you’re here. I have something to talk to you about.”
You grin at him. “I'd love to chat, Agent Hotchner, but I'm getting to know your new protégé.”
“I see.” He waits.
You would ignore him —Hotch has a soft spot for you (or rather, he likes you enough to put up with you, which is more than can be said about other members of his division) and he'd shrug off your dismissal— but you're really keen to hear what he has to say. Perhaps Strauss has changed her mind about your proposed trail basis with the team.
“I'm so sorry,” you say to Spencer, immediately re-dazzled by his pretty, lovely face. “It was really nice to meet you, Spencer Reid. Maybe next time you can tell me more about it.”
You give Morgan a quick thank you for the help with your paperwork and trust him to log out of your emails. In your rush up the stairs, you hear a wisp of conversation.
“Was she messing with me?”
Morgan laughs. “No, kid. That's how she is.”
"Oh... She's nice."
"You have no idea."
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