"Sometimes I'm afraid of the dark

I can't find the light in my heart

I can see my hand pushing away

Hard as I can

But if I was fearless...

Could I be your wreckless friend

And if I was helpless...

Could be the one comes rushing in."

I will always adore Bones for starring Cindi Lauper in season 5 and for playing one of her finest songs.

Wait I wasn't able to watch the livestream wtf is this

Who made this decision

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

i go absolutely insane when the crows are either holding weapons or causing violence? kaz whacking people with his cane? i can't breathe. inej holding up her knives? i'm choking. jesper shooting at people and slinging his guns? i am trembling. wylan throwing bombs and chemicals? i've basically died

Season 5 coming back full circle to season 1 and the general theme of subverting tropes

In every season we have characters try to make the plot conform to a common trope only for that trope to get subverted.

Season 2

The expected love triangle would’ve been Max, Mike and El but that’s not how that went. Though when El runs away from home and visits the school, she sees Max and Mike talk and pulls Max off her skateboard. El tries to make the plot conform to the obvious choice for a love triangle but of course we know that’s not what’s actually happening.

Max, Dustin and Lucas form the actual love triangle of the season. A LOT of people were expecting Max to choose Dustin so them ending up together would’ve been the expected outcome. And that’s also where we get Steve as the character that tries to make the plot conform to the obvious outcome. He encourages Dustin and gives him relationship advice, setting up the plot to end with Max and Dustin being a couple but that’s not what happens. Max chooses Lucas!

Leaving season 2 we have El trying to push the trope of the jealous girlfriend

Season 3

And starting season 3 we have El and Max become best friends -> not conforming to an expected rivalry.

Steve and Nancy are broken up and Steve has trouble finding a girl he likes and then there’s Robin. Robin and Steve were the obvious endgame couple and we even have Dustin pushing Steve towards her constantly. He’s the one trying to make the plot conform to the obvious. Dustin puts the thought in Steve’s head that Robin is the perfect girl for him. We get Steve and Robin open up to each other and holding hands on a roof, totally hinting at the fact that they’re gonna end up together but that’s definitely not what happens. It’s revealed that Robin is a lesbian and she rejects Steve.

Season 4

Yet again we have Dustin trying to push Steve towards a girl but in vain because while the love triangle isn’t completely resolved yet, Nancy chooses Jonathan in the end of season 4.

For the next one we have Will being the one that tries to make the plot conform to the gay rejection trope. Will is self sabotaging by pushing Mike and El together which evidently isn’t working because El doesn’t talk to Mike in the end of season4. We also get Will trying to make the plot conform to the expected ending of the grand love confession saving the world which……..yeah, didn’t at all happen! Quite the opposite actually.

Season 5

Realize how I left out season 1? It’s because we’re coming back full circle to it with season 5. The obvious direction of the plot of season 1 is Mike and El falling in love. That’s what’s expected since episode 1 and throughout the whole season we don’t just have one but four characters trying to push that narrative: Dustin, Lucas and Nancy push Mike towards El and plant the thought inside his head that he’s supposed to be in love with her. So Mike himself starts to push that narrative too. But that’s not what’s going to happen.

-> It follows a pattern: there is an obvious outcome, there are characters trying to make the plot conform to that obvious outcome and in the end something else happens instead! Season 5 will most likely pick up on season 1’s expected outcome of El and Mike falling in love and finally subvert it. It will be revealed that Mike and El have never actually been in love. They’re gonna break up and while El will get her amazingly bitchin’ independence arc, Mike will end up with Will <3

I love that Jason completely destabilized Gotham’s underworld, became a mob boss/drug kingpin, and then just fucking split. I know Penguin and Black Mask were having a field day with all the competition he knocked out.

shots from simons flickr account

can we talk about how, in damn near every Batfam fic, we have to banish Alfred for a while for a good chunk of plots to happen? Like, damn, I really want Dick to have to take care of sick Jason and Tim alone, but damn it, Alfred's there and responsible! gramps has to go. or hiding an injury, or nearly any character interaction based angst has to happen out of Alfred's line of sight, or he has to go visit the fuckin Queen's grave or something, because he's just too smart and emotionally available for angst to happen, and we want angst, damn it!

Most unbelievable thing about ITSV was how tall spider noir was.(without getting into the teenager thing cause while I believe it with my whole heart it is still technically a HC and not confirmed)

1. He’s a Peter Parker variant, theoretically they should be the same height if they have roughly the same genetics.

2. People were actually shorter on average a 100 years ago, why is he a giant.

3. Look me in my goddamn eyes and tell me this man is getting all the nutrition he needs during the Great Depression with spider metabolism.

Ruin and Rising, Chapter 15 (The burning of the orphanage)

This is a fanmade, animated video where the creator shot the tether scene between Alina and the Darkling in which the latter has burned the orphanage and shows her the corpses.

An incredible film where the simple, melodic and beautiful music in the background contrasts the severity of the scene.

Alina's pain and the Darkling's empty look in his eyes will give you chills and make you understand that, in this moment, they're both mourning.

PLUS: Very accurate to the books!!

(Warning!⚠️ Don't look at the YouTube comments if you are a Darklina/Darkling fan. You'll get infuriated)

day 5 - 1/5/24 - bonewheel

WOOOO EVERYBODY GIVE IT UP FOR BONEWHEEL 👏👏👏🎉🎊 YEAHHHH 🦴🦴🦴💀🦴🦴🦴 WOO

+ non-colorful version

Me: The annual dental check-up. As I've already needed to fix two teeth this year, I hope my teeth are OK. Dentist: You've got 2 cavities needing fixing and 10 beginning cavities. Me, who has used probably 15000 euro to my teeth in the past 20 years: Ah, I see :'3 Well, give me a next appointment. I guess I can't survive any year without 700-1000 euro dental bill...

they actually nailed it with the casting because i would totally believe matthias when he says "he looks like he's about twelve" despite wylan being played by an adult

when alex g said i'm gonna crack a rib when i get home i'm gonna bury you in my favourite hole i made a bloody mess in the kitchen sink i tried to fix myself but i didn't think and when alex g said leave your body leave your mind don't you know you're out of time and when alex g said i don't want to see me i wanna be trapped in you i don't want to be me but im gonna pretend for you and when alex g said string the sinner by his wings in his head a brittle bone and when alex g said mary is the girl that leaves you to rot she says 'i am real and you are not' and when alex g said don't you know she's been here all along in a dream and when alex g said she loves me like a dog and when alex g said nothing compares to the fever dream it's what i do i wait for you and when alex g said dry your eyes i won't tell your mother she won't ever discover the things you kept under the covers and please don't cry i am not your brother i am not your lover and there is nothing wrong and when alex g said you know what they do to little dogs like you and when alex g said every day is a blessing as i walk through the mud if i live like the fishes i will rise from the flood and when alex g said you were born inside your head and that is where you'll be when you are dead you are just a boy you are no man and nobody you know will understand and when alex g said remember when you took too much i didn't mind being your crutch i loved you then it's not the same i don't like how things change and when alex g said you're starting to look really weird yeah your face is out of place and i can't make you out and when alex g said-

Alina’s relationship with her powers, pt. 2

Before

Chapter 1

Alina’s health’s going to hell.

Sun Summoner isn’t a job! You never stop being Grisha! *glares at LB*

Even mentally, Alina’s not in the best place.

I don’t know, but the fact the Darkling looks better using merzost, than Alins not summoning...

He wore his weariness like an elegant cloak, but it was still there. Faint smudges showed beneath his eyes, and the hollows of his sharp cheekbones cut a little deeper.

Chapter 5

The fact Alina goes several times from not summoning at all to doing so in tense situations can’t be exactly healthy. How likely is that the adrenaline rush alongside her body’s natural reaction to summoning gets addictive to her?

Chapter 6

This also doesn’t sound well. I know Alina’s skills are incredibly limited, but creating possitive associations with “slicing someone in half" might not be the best idea ever. Especially is she’s worried she’d becoming “corrupted”.

Claiming of the Sea Whip.

I’m gonna repeat myself, but how could this go IF Alina were well-trained Grisha?

- I don't know where it came from.

~ It came from everywhere. Because you called upon it to come.

Alina × General Kirigan; Shadow and Bone 01×03: The Making at the Heart of the World

pt. 1

pequeño comic inspirado en tts clifford y padres<3

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