The timkon brain rot is actually so real

One of my favourite scenes in The Secret History is when Camilla and Richard are leaving a party to go to Francis’s country house, and Francis steps out of the shadows and goes “boo.” Wasn’t expecting that lol, it was an endearing moment between the three and I am delighted every time I reread it

Surge: If you want to date me, you'll have to defeat my codependent cryptid brother.

Amy: Your wha-

I think I should've put Sonic in the "Therapy? For what???" Just so it could have the triple sss

I found this post in #aesthetics but it's basically Maurice

That's a cute inspiring quote, just one problem though

IT FUCKING TOOK HIM

practising.

💌 lot by @beetlemp3 🤍

It fucks me up so much thinking about it

"Oh surge...We keep having this conversation... And it always ends the same way."

They found out already, many times before. How many actually. How different their reactions were at each point in time. How painfully devastating it was the first time, how much denial until acceptance and anger took place, how far did they manage to get each time. How freaked out Starline must've been, or was as he at all? Did he smugly belive he had it all under control back than too, or did he just feign it

The Bad Batch season 3 reaction

Episode 8 - Bad territory

Crosshair's disgust at Phee's description oh my god don't disrepect the queen like that

I do appreciate that Hunter won't force Crosshair to check his hand

God I love fennec I love her voice she's so cunt

Oh and Crosshair actually got his hand checked lol

'But eventually everyone's luck runs out' Well yours didn't. You were shot point blank and turned into a cyborg lmao

Is it really a boat if it's not sitting in water?

Fennec is such a dick to Wrecker omg leave him be

'You don't like anything.' 'True.' What a self burn

Yeah punch that crocodile!

'Good guys, bad guys' is such a juvenile thing to say

She really called them poor huh

Once again its too dark to see

Omg Wrecker is getting fed up!! You deserve better king!!

Crosshair is so sad to be out of the loop

Is she talking to Ventress??? Please be Ventress

Many fellas, some feral even 👀

Nine is actually my lucky number.

Kit’s eyes shifting pinkish-red when he’s gone into his “unhinged” state has to be one of my favorite design choices yet. Such a subtle and cool way of signaling how far gone his is and how much a mere slave his is to his own programming as well as trauma. Turning such an innocent and small, generally submissive character into a more cold and malevolent adversary. 

Could you draw Mari in a suit and Hero in a wedding dress?

OHHH HECK YEAH I DO!!

have some wedding plushies <333

(bonus under the cut!!)

every OMORI fan ever (/hj /lh):

jason todd with the white streak in his hair. you agree. reblog

I apologize for the person I will become when The Sunshine Court gets released

Idk why I don't see anyone talking about this, but this scene?

Kit is such a blessing! He saw Surge panicking and he thought she was scared(?) of him. Or upset. Or anything.

So what did he do?

He hugged her.

He hugged her and apologized for leaving.

And you know what's even better? Surge forgave him! I don't think it was an answer just to say anything or to make the kid stop crying. I think it was the first response her mind suggested.

Also, Kitsunami's smile at the end? So adorable!!!

“Kill Your Darlings” to Streamline Your Story

Criticism of “The Gathering Storm” in The Book of Boba Fett

Word Count: 1,643

—

I mentioned here that “Kill your darlings” is editing advice that means to cut out something you as the writer really enjoy in a story in order to make the story stronger. If cutting something out makes your story better by clarifying something, narrowing the focus, reinforcing character or plot objectives, bettering the pacing, raising the stakes, or by clearing up valuable space wasted on something we don’t need to see, cut it out.

I think TBoBF suffered from a lot of weak writing choices, and in order to streamline the story a bit some of those characters, visual elements, scenes, or chunks of the script have to go. There’s too much “stuff” happening but not a lot of story, and the script itself isn’t all that interesting to listen to in the first place; a lot of lines just state the obvious or are clichéd and overdone jokes, and there is also a lot of exposition given in monologues vs the audience seeing the story play out for itself.

In a show with only seven episodes, they don’t have time to dwell on anything that doesn’t directly add to Boba’s main plot or character arc, the parts of the world he is operating in, and the other main characters relevant to that story. Though there are other examples, I think a concise example of one of the biggest wastes of space is episode 4, “The Gathering Storm.” Three-fourths of that episode is a loooong long flashback to Boba’s team-up with Fennec, which doesn’t tell us anything new about the characters or the world. The things the flashback tells us are:

Fennec Shand was brought back to life aided by cybernetics (Which was established in a few lines of dialogue in “The Tragedy” of season 2 of The Mandalorian)

Boba formed a partnership with Fennec Shand (Which was established in “The Tragedy” of season 2 of The Mandalorian)

Boba got his ship back (Which was established in “The Tragedy” of season 2 of The Mandalorian)

Boba was searching for his armor (Which was not only foreshadowed in a three second wordless scene in “The Marshal” in season 2 of The Mandalorian, but was established and resolved in “The Tragedy” of the same season)

Boba and Fennec took over Jabba’s Palace (Which was not only more effectively conveyed in a two minute credits scene of the previous season of The Mandalorian, but is also the establishing circumstances of the show we are currently watching)

You see what I’m getting at?

The audience already knows cybernetics exist in this world, and that they are relatively quick, effective, and easily accessible. There is also zero tension in seeing a character come back to life in a flashback when we are watching a show where that character is already alive, and whose presence was also established in a previous season. We don’t need to see Boba get his ship back because we as the audience know Boba Fett is a capable person, so him simply showing back up in a previous season with it doesn’t really have us scratching our heads as to how it was achieved. We don’t learn anything new about his and Fennec’s relationship since we can already tell Fennec doesn’t have a problem working for him and he already treats her as his equal and partner. We don’t need to see the layout of the palace, we don’t need to see them defeating a couple of nobody droids, we don’t really need to see Boba bonding with the bantha, we don’t need the cybernetic mod-parlor, and tbh we don’t really need to see him destroy the Sarlacc.

The only new information the flashback provides is that Boba used the ship to get revenge on the Nikto speederbike gang he thinks killed the Tuskens. In my opinion, the Niktos should have been cut out entirely and more importantly, the Tuskens should have still been alive up until the episode where Cad Bane reveals himself to Boba, and Bane then makes a comment to the effect of “It sure would be a shame if something happened to those closest to you,” which makes Boba realize his tribe could be in danger. That puts the action in the present and presents a physical and emotional obstacle for Boba to overcome.

Boba immediately flies out to either warn them or verify for himself if they are in danger, leaving the Palace defense weakened to the point the Pykes or whoever they hire can attack while Boba is away. They don’t even have to deceive him and cast blame elsewhere, having already murdered the tribe to get back at him and send a message. He already has beef with the Pykes, and they are using this attack against what he holds most dear as their means of weakening, if not destroying him. Get him out of the palace, divide and conquer his defenses while he’s gone, and cause a serious emotional blow to Boba right when they are on the precipice of war, making him emotionally unstable and more likely to be reckless or distracted as a result of the provocation, thus easier to defeat. They can also be gambling on that anger being enough to push Boba over the edge and have him resort back to his more ruthless past self as a killer, gunning down anybody who would stand in his way on his warpath back to the Pykes, which breaks down the reputation he’s been trying to build being a leader based on having people’s respect, not fear. Then he would have nobody backing him up and he truly would be fighting alone.

Going back to Boba and Fennec, anything they wanted to explore concerning their character dynamics should have been done in the present timeline. Don’t tell the audience “These two are on good terms” and then have zero conflict OR growth between them— Show the audience how these characters interact within the conflicts presented and how their relationship develops in the present.

Something they could have done to strengthen Boba’s character, develop his relationship with Fennec, and consolidate extraneous characters and scenes into stronger ones is if Boba had been the one to save Fennec’s life directly. Cut out the cybernetic mod-parlor and have Boba recognize Shand and drag her back to his own base of operations he established after leaving the Tuskens. Show me Boba doing the work patching her up, Fennec gasping back to life and demanding to know what happened and where she is, and now you’ve given her character a reason to feel even more indebted to his service. You can then go two ways with their relationship, either with a sense of friendship and camaraderie, both with similar pasts as hunters for hire and both barely escaping the brink of death, OR give them just a bit of conflict and tension, Fennec not liking the fact she feels indebted to Boba for saving her life, and now being forced into a sedentary life that puts her at risk of enemies being more readily able to find her.

Then we can move forward in the present with a number of different possibilities. Fennec should have been serving in the background undercover instead of the foreground anyway, keeping her role as a stealth expert going and adhering to her demand that Boba keep her presence a secret for her own safety and discretion. You could have Fennec resentful of the fact she has to rely on Boba to modify her cybernetics, making her feel further indebted to him while also giving her a weakness she has reason to keep hidden from others. Fennec is not someone who likes to rely on people, a character trait that is paralleled in Boba. All of that would have given her more depth and meat to her role, providing a solid objective for what that character wants within this story. (As the show stands right now, Fennec is static without her own character arc or change throughout the show. She’s more of a yes-man to Boba, a capable character who can accomplish what the plot needs to happen, but not really that interesting to follow on her own because Fennec is established to be content to go along with whatever. She does cool stuff, but it’s more like watching an action figure and less like seeing a character develop.)

Making Boba responsible for saving Fennec also means we could have had his relationship with Cobb Vanth come full circle at the end; instead of simply providing the bacta to heal Vanth, the end of the season should have been Boba personally being the one to fulfill the debt he feels toward the people of Mos Pelgo and the marshal by tending to the marshal himself.

Vanth was Mos Pelgo’s primary defense, he was shot by Boba’s primary emotional and physical antagonist, and he was mortally wounded because he no longer had his biggest defensive advantage: the very armor Boba now has back in his possession that the marshal gave up to Mando in season 2. Cad Bane went out to Mos Pelgo after the people there were contacted as backup for Boba’s conflict, and the people of Mos Pelgo showed up in the fight at the end because of their marshal, not because of Fett. Their presence meant Fett was able to succeed however, and Fett is also not someone who likes being indebted to people. Him doing the actual work the cyberneticist was there for at the end would have further reinforced Fett being somebody now who helps the people who could not or cannot defend themselves. It directs the story’s focus back to him and cuts out extraneous side characters and gives these characters’ relationships a lot more weight, actually threading these individuals together while simultaneously reinforcing Boba Fett as a capable, resourceful, interesting, and meaningful character.

need any help?