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swissmissing · 1 year

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The best thing about the public domain celebration for me is all the fanart being posted by artists who have never posted Sherlock Holmes fanart here before. Just shows how widespread and deep the appreciation of these characters is.

#mine #fandom #sherlock #at the same time i really think the pd thing is being blown way out of proportion #lots of misunderstanding of what it means #and what impact it has on adaptations #and publication #ie none #people who wanted to make it gay already have #published holmes smut has been around for years #i just feel like a lot of people have expectations #which aren't going to be fulfilled #which will make them angry demanding and hurtful

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uncanny-tranny · 2 years

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What to say to somebody if they have a queer identity you "don't agree with":

Nothing

No, literally. Nothing.

#lesbian #gay #bi #bisexual #trans #transgender #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #and what do you do if sayong nothing doesn't satiate you? you should just walk away and invest in your own worries/delights #policing another person's identity will *never* satisfy you ultimately. you will leave the interaction emptier than you came #isn't it worth it - then - to not invest your energy in that way?#is it not worth it to worry about your own self?#like yes i have come across queer people with a very interesting identity but i could never...#...sit down with them and pick then apart piece by piece and DEMAND an explanation...#...what am i a cop? hell no! fuck that noise. i'd rather die #and i would rather just accept people who are harming none. an identity by itself is harmful in the same way a piece of paper is (ie not)

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autisticaradiamegido · 21 days

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day 99

i have NEARLY finished the skirt for my ren faire fit i just gotta get a few finishing details added and also get the undershirt bleached (bc i got a bunch of makeup on it at last years fair and shit Stained) but THEN i can show yall the final fit!!

#day 99 #year 5 #aradia megido #homestuck #its gonna be cute #i was so fucking stressed abt this one because like.#i bought my fabric and i was like oh yeah dude this is toooootally more than enough for a circle skirt #went to finally cut things #realized i only had enough for a half-circle skirt and it would end up with a bunch of weirdly-shaped scrap at the end #(ie i would have to do a bunch of weird piecing to make the waistband and pockets and such)#and like honestly a half-circle skirt was NOT enough volume for me i need my skirts swooshy #so i was like well. okay. i think i can optimize my fabric usage more if i draft a paneled skirt #but this of course required..... Math.#and unfortunately. i was an art major. so. there was a lot of struggling #BUT I DID IT. THERE WAS STILL A LIIIIITTLE BIT OF PIECING THAT HAD TO BE DONE BUT IT IS MINIMAL AND CAMOUFLAGED PRETTY WELL #and also this is for a ren faire primarily bc i dont wear a lot of skirts in day-to-day #SO. economical fabric usage is absolutely period accurate. even though none of the rest of my outfit or techniques are.#basically all thats left for me to do is add pockets and the closure at the back #i meant to add the pockets as i was doing the main construction but i got too excited and forgor #so theres gonna be some seam ripping but nothing too bad

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sapphicmumrik · 21 days

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not me sitting here thinking about how Knuckles Wachowski only knows a) it's a possibility that he'll be killed at any moment, b) there's very little in the way of food and so c) the only way to live and eat is to kill/severely maim his next opponent in the gladiator arena and earn his next meal

#fern.sth #knuckles the echidna #knuckles wachowski #knuckles series #all signs of him enjoying food makes me think about how many times he had none #not knowing how to settle into a new SAFE place without engaging in past activities #ie setting up the lounge room as a gladiator arena #he's TRAUMATISED #this journey with wade betted be healing I swear

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presiding · 7 months

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How you'd rewrite Dishonored death of the outsider if it was fully fledged game with 10 missions? (like Dishonored or Dishonored 2)

Oooh!! Enrichment in my enclosure - thank you for asking! Thinking about a total rewrite was a great exercise. Fair disclaimer: I haven’t read the books & their canon-status can’t hurt me. To me, the Dishonored games stand out due to their immsim design philosophy, and thinking about some of the industry reasons for DotO’s departure from that, if I could make a standalone game with ~ten levels I would, but with the same budget I’d also happily make two DLCs made slowly over a longer timeframe with greater attention to detail.

Game structure

Finding Daud // Billie’s past

The fate of the Outsider // Billie’s future

Game story

Setting & Characters

Billie: What has Billie been doing since she’s returned to Serkonos? Knowing the Dreadful Wale will sink, she’s sold it for scrap & has set up an agency in Lower Aventa. She’s something of a detective/odd-jobs man (& assassin when it suits her). Business is booming, life is good. I think a long-running implication that she's becoming Daud in some ways would make for an interesting subplot.

Karnaca: a city that unfolds. In the first levels, Billie feels like a forgotten woman, a ghost slipped through the cracks, but as levels progress there are hints & references to how her past actions have affected others & shaped the city

Alignments: Witches, gangs, religion, industry; missions for clients who can’t necessarily pay their way. Missions that allow the player to explore/understand Karnaca in a deeper way.

Daud: Billie is unsure if Daud again will bring her any closure. She’s been thinking of him since her time with Emily, and his name keeps popping up.

Deirdre: the charm is a more functional heart, similar to Jessamine, as well as her own character design. Perhaps she doesn’t see Deirdre until she chooses the powers, or until she’s in the void (see next point)

First arc: Finding Daud // Billie’s past

Powers: the Outsider offers Billie powers even though her life is finally, actually good, so she’s pissed off. A choice - she can take them, or play no powers mode.

Breanna Ashworth is this arc’s villain - she wants Delilah back, and knows that Daud has banished her before, wants to know how he did it. Grief & desperation has changed her, and she no longer has her high society veneer. The remnants of the Karnaca coven, now powerless, have stolen from the Overseers to arm themselves to the teeth, and to neutralise Daud’s powers, in addition to black bonecharms.

Billie’s in a race against time against Breanna to find Daud, but by the last level it becomes clear that Breanna *has* found Daud, and has been torturing him for information about the void. Her dynamic with Billie is complicated by their past.

I think betrayal would be an interesting theme, so maybe one of the levels gives you the option to ally yourself with Breanna under false pretences.

Second arc: choosing the fate of the Outsider // Billie’s future

Delilah is the core villain, but she’s obsessed with killing the Outsider so she can take his place, having been violently ripped from her perfect world in her own painting by Breanna (who meant well), & knowing the Empire doesn’t hold her interest... but a perfectly mouldable void & infinite power does take her fancy.

As remorseful Daud is obsessing about preventing Delilah from taking power, Billie’s doing some detective work and learns more about the Outsider (he’s not showing up and monologuing - she’s finding this out herself. A level idea could be a raid on a ‘haunted’ houses where the void is thin)

Delilah succeeds in taking the Outsider's place, leaving the Outsider dead or mortal depending on if you are able to save him. Delilah has split her soul from herself before and she’s very much clever enough to learn the Outsider’s name to render him mortal.

Daud knows he’s dying, though, and it might be an ultimate sacrifice to save both Billie’s life, and the Outsider’s.

So during the final battle, there’s an option to make Daud the Outsider, because Daud wants Billie and the Outsider to have a shot at a normal life, and his life was forfeit in his own mind…

… or, reluctantly accepting the Outsider’s help, Billie finds a way to cut the void’s access to the world, rendering Delilah an all powerful god over a dead & silent world.

Because of the past/present focus of this you could even have levels set in the past - missions with Billie & Daud. Perhaps Billie as POV character, and Daud dropping by the way that Billie did in Knife of Dunwall. That’d be neat.

A heap of ideas here, hope there was something you liked :)

#dishonored #death of the outsider #daud #delilah copperspoon #billie lurk #the outsider #i dont know why you asked me this but i love that you did. thank you anon!#i wanted to stick to the topline ideas rather than dig into what the levels could look like #and you'll notice i mostly avoided the things introduced in doto. ie plot points & new characters #because none of them really pass the fandom test to me. i just dont see anyone obsessed with things from that game #and i could write an entire separate essay about cults in videogames & morality #i want billie's choices & life to have felt like it has meaning and made a difference #and i wanted the game to feel like it was more about billie even if its also about power & the fate of the world #and though i dont love where they went with the outsider & daud in the game. i do love having really high stakes

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lokh · 3 months

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ok new thought. shuro was actually normal about falin until he saw her looking at a caterpillar one night, which he claims is the inciting incident. while at this point laios has not become openly Hungry about monsters, shuro has still been exposed to his monster interests (see him being forced to talk about monsters for 5 hours upon meeting laios). i think it's something that shuro struggles to understand much the same way kabru wonders how someone can be so enthusiastic about monsters. im not sure how open falin was about her interest in monsters, but seeing her that night reframed that interest in the typically weird and creepy as something that could be beautiful to him. it's interesting that This is the thing he latched onto after being stuck with a guy he just couldn't understand (sublimation????). what im saying is that i need him to make a similar connection with laios, either by seeing the similarity or having his own moment

#i think itd be interesting for him to realise how instrumental laios monster knowledge has been to their survival too #iirc kabru notes that what sets laios party apart from similarly experienced parties (ie his own) is his knowledge on monsters #i suppose for the most part thats all others incl. shuro would see it as. a particularly practical obsession #but again idk that he knows the extent to which it saved their asses lmao #i should like for kabru to bring it up in conversation to him and think of his reaction #<- UNLESS THIS ALREADY HAPPENED AND I FORGOT ANSHCHXHDHDH????????#none of this is new info im just reframing it for myself i think LMAO

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wonder-worker · 1 month

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"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

#historicwomendaily #elizabeth woodville #my post #friendly reminder that there's nothing indicating that Elizabeth was exceptionally pious or that her piety was 'beyond purely conventional'#(something first claimed by Anne Crawford who simultaneously claimed that Elizabeth was 'grasping and totally lacking in scruple' so...)#EW's piety as queen may have stood out compared to former 15th century predecessors and definitely stood out compared to her husband #but her actions in themselves were not especially novel or 'beyond normal' and by themselves don't indicate unusual piety on her part #As Laynesmith's more recent research observes they seem to have been 'broadly conventional'#A conclusion arrived at Derek Neal as well who also points out that in general queens and elite noblewomen simply had wider means #of 'visible material expression of [their] personal devotion' - and also emphasizes how we should look at their wider circumstances #to understand their actions (eg: the death of Elizabeth's son George in 1479 as a motivating factor)#It's nice that we know a bit about Elizabeth's more personal piety - for eg she seems to have developed an attachment to Westminster Abbey #It's possible her (outward) piety increased across her queenship - she undertook most of her religious projects in later years #But again - none of them indicate the *level* of her piety (ie: they don't indicate that she was beyond conventionally pious)#By 1475 it seems that contemporaries identified Cecily Neville as the most personally devout from the Yorkist family #(though Elizabeth and even Cecily's sons were far greater patrons)#I think people also assume this because of her retirement to Westminster post 1485 #which doesn't work because 1) we don't actually know when she retired? as Laynesmith says there is no actual evidence for the traditional #date of 12 February 1487 #2) she had very secular reasons for retiring (grief over the death of her children? her lack of dower lands or estates which most other #widows had? her options were very limited; choosing to reside in the abbey is not particularly surprising. it's a massive and unneeded jump #to claim that it was motivated solely by piety (especially because it wasn't a complete 'retirement' in the way people assume it was)#I think historians have a habit of using her piety as a GOTCHA!' point against her vilification - which is a flawed and stupid argument #Elizabeth could be the most pious individual in the world and still be the pantomime villain Ricardians/Yorkists claim she was #They're not mutually exclusive; this line of thinking is useless #I think this also stems from the fact that we simply know very little about Elizabeth as an individual (ie: her hobbies/interests)#certainly far less than we do for other prominent women Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth of York;; Cecily Neville or Margaret Beaufort #and I think rather than emphasizing that gap of knowledge her historians merely try to fill it up with 'she was pious!'#which is ... an incredibly lackluster take. I think it's better to just acknowledge that we don't know much about this historical figure #ie: I do wish that her piety and patronage was emphasized more yes. but it shouldn't flip too far to the other side either.

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pochapal · 3 months

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well. i mean. kind of. yeah. but not really at all. that's not exactly how "existence" works, natsuhi.

#umineko liveblog #beatrice has been narrowed down to four suspects #at the exact same time that the letter revealed beatrice to speak with a voice that belongs to none of them #that means Something but i'm not exactly sure what yet #in a room with no magic beatrice cannot be present so the four of them can only be as they say they are?#like the kitchen scene beatrice is a distinct shared being that floats between them all?#ie all of them are beatrice just as none of them are??#i'd say the answer *should* be the same as in the kitchen with kanon #except they're in the study where there is no magic. and beatrice spoke #these small differences somehow mean that the answer has to be radically different #and i am too in shock to formulate this exactly right now #girl help i'm being caught in umineko's trap

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lotus-duckies · 5 months

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i like that the implication here is that donnie changed his background after realizing people borrow his laptop and he probably doesn't want them seeing his pictures when they do that

#he has so many folders and for what #none of them are even named #also the very real possibility donnie made the hamato clan background in like. ms paint or something #the subconscious desire to label all of their possessions with the family symbol #also he was just??? on the desktop when he was in the kitchen with his brothers???#maybe he does what i do ie minimizing all tabs when family is around so they can't see what i'm doing #that seems realistic #donatello hamato #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012

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tomsmusictaste · 9 months

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righteous-pines · 1 month

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Chivetiger joined the clan long ago under the lead of Pinestar, but his life as a loner isn’t even a distant memory now. Though he spends much of his time alone, thinking up dialogues and stories in his head that fill his chest with pounding excitement, he is often the cat others in the clan turn to with their problems, as he always seems to have a hypothetical on how to handle everything. He’s happy to spit out his opinion on the matter, and then be left alone, no other conversation necessary. He can often be found in a shady corner, off to himself, sorting his collection of shiny rocks and mumbling softly to himself in little voices.

#If it wasn’t obvious #this man is AUTISTIC #All my characters are a little autistic because I’m autistic. So they all get autism infused #But I looked at this guys in game traits and said oh so this guy has autism then. This is INTENTIONAL autism writing #He collects rocks. Geology is his special interest. The ‘whispering to himself’ is him writing ‘dialogue’ for stories aloud #And talking in character. Ie. what I do every night to fall asleep. The scenarios(tm)#He’s so good at coming up with stories and scenarios and thinking about how things are solved. That when people ask him #He’s like oh yeah i figured that out for this story i came up with one time. Here’s your answer #And they’re like woah you’re so smart… advice prodigy…#And he IS. But not by intuition. By many years of accrued knowledge #His gender description is also directly inspired by my relationship with gender #I am me. I like some girl stuff and some boy stuff. None of the words bother me #But in my community where I actually live. I’m just what I was born as. Because its easier and I don’t feel strongly one way or another #Because I’m me! And that’s. What Chivetiger is too #‘Probably agender but I have a job so let’s not worry about that’. Or something. Let’s call it that #Tom until otherwise stated #righteous pines #clangen #clangen oc #warrior cats #warrior cats oc

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avatar-state-kate · 1 year

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I feel like with all of the great analysis written for Succession I cannot possibly be the first to think this but I cannot recall ever finding anything about how Tomshiv and romangerri parallel each other.

Both relationships really sell the theme of their being no separation of private life and work for the Roy’s (and how capitalism encroaches on all facets of life for everyone really just the Roy’s being a heightened version of that). Every interaction these two couples have is simultaneously a date and a business meeting, strategy is foreplay and intimacy is a business deal.

The biggest hurdle in both of these relationships is that both parties work/are involved in Waystar, Logan will always get between Tom and Shiv, alive or dead, and Gerri’s desire for professionalism to keep her job means that her and Roman cannot be intimate. Of course the irony of this is that if it weren’t for Waystar neither of these couples would exist either. I do believe that Tom loves Shiv, but would he have pursued her if she were not Shiv fucking Roy? That had to have sparked some of his initial interest. And for Roman Gerri’s own interest is largely in him as her protege (”I could have got you there”) - they were both doomed by the narrative.

#also I think roman and shiv are like two sides of the same coin as the younger silings ie not the heir #and while occupying similar positions by being the none heirs are also set as opposites like with gender and politics #and in these respective relationships they have similar structures with the more dominate women and subservient man #so again shiv and roman as opposites #but both relationships also explore and explode that power dynamic as tom and roman are shown to have more power then initially perceived #like theyre sub because they want to but tom can betray shiv easily and claim her place at logans table and dickpicgate is a very male #power play #idk there is so much here I need succ's greatest minds on it #romangerri #tomshiv #shiv roy #roman roy #succession meta #my meta #succession

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alienssstufff · 6 months

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4 + 16???

[ ASK ]

[4] Which mechanic/gimmick would you like to see return, if any? Mechanics that allow players to gain life/hearts -- Secret Life already doing this I'm satisfied whwhwh

[16] Are there any mechanics/gimmicks you'd get rid of, if given the chance? if yes, why? answered!

#ask stufff #life asks #personally like it when none of the gimmicks return ie no two identical rules - the unique rule is what makes up a season

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dwn024 · 5 months

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hibiki literally rescues a kittycat out of a tree in this new draft. don't you care about him

#oc #cmy2k #also the very first thing he does on screen now IE his establishing character moment is helping a caterpillar onto a leaf #which is bar none THE most hibiki thing he could possibly do

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waffliesinyoface · 1 year

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my spiciest and most controversial naruto opinion is that i dont think jinchuuriki were even a thing until shippuden.

like, for starters: nine-tailed foxes are like. thats just a thing? that dates back to the actual real life warring states period, 2400 years ago. If the series never had the other 8, it would not have been even slightly notable.

secondly, we have gaara. Yes, I will argue that gaara pre-dates jinchuuriki, despite being the second example of such. Here’s the initial reveal:

I’m pretty sure the official explanation for this is either “oh, suna forgot the rest of the tailed beasts were a thing and they conflated the ichibi with one of the previous jinchuuriki,” or, more charitably, “they just lied to him about what shukaku was”

This is whats known as “blatant retconning”. At this point, Shukaku wasn’t a “tailed beast” because the “tailed beasts™” didn’t exist. The reason for him only having one tail wasn’t because he was the weakest, it was because "more tails = older & stronger” is specifically a fox thing. They don’t even mention its tail. It’s irrelevant. He’s just another equally powerful demon. There is no relation between Shukaku and Kurama aside from circumstance. Naruto and Gaara’s relationship is not written as “fellow jinchuuriki,” it’s “this world sucks because children being turned into living weapons who are then reviled is depressingly commonplace.”

Like, yes, they establish later (way later. its chapter 648 out of 700) that suna got hold of shukaku well before hashirama went around stuffing them into jars at the end of the first war, and thats why people forgot it’s origin, but given hiruzen fought in the first war, that means that the majority of them were running around free less than a century ago. Even in a world run by ninja-enforced secrecy, cultural memory doesn’t fade that fast.

People also routinely point out the fact that Naruto’s treatment at the beginning of the series makes no goddamn sense when other jinchuuriki are a thing. The tailed beasts cannot fucking die, killing the host just makes them pop up again a couple years later.

In an attempt to try and hammer some semblance of consistency onto canon, fans have latched onto the idea that it was only the civilians/civilian-raised ninja who were especially shitty to naruto. Which is nice and all, but, uh.

Hi Mr. Akimichi, you sure are a blatant example of a clan ninja huh

My final example is that kishimoto has repeatedly gone on record and said things that make it clear he’s flying by the seat of his pants:

Chuunin exams were a thing because Shonen Jump editors wanted a tournament arc, and thought the original plan of introducing the other teams over time was too slow

Orochimaru showed up because the editors wanted an overarching villain

Sasuke left because he had no idea what to do with him plot-wise

Boruto doesnt have the byakugan because kishimoto forgot about neji’s backstory and the justification for the caged-bird-seal

Ninja shoes are like that because he likes drawing toes

(bonus example: kaguya. just. everything about kaguya.)

Anyways. I like the other tailed beasts. I think they’re neat. They are free goddamn real estate for anyone making naruto fanfiction because they’re cool. But they were 100% a retcon when kishimoto realized he needed something for the akatsuki to do.

#naruto #i would like to also state that none of this is a bad thing. naruto's blatant retcons; ass-pulls; and plot holes give it charm.#fandom (and me) loves a fixer-upper #also in contrast to SOME writers (ie: jk rowling) kishimoto has acknowledged that he does this; instead of claiming he planned it all along

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wonder-worker · 21 days

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It is difficult to argue that [Edward IV] was wrong in what he did. His advancement of [Richard of Gloucester] can be criticized only by those who believe that the only good nobleman is an impotent nobleman. Medieval kings did not think in these terms. Gloucester’s power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country. Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power. The duke had been a loyal upholder of the house of York, a central figure in Edward’s polity*; there was no obvious reason why he should not occupy the same role under Edward V. In this respect, precedent was on Edward’s side. Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power, but no young king had ever been deposed. Even royal uncles traditionally drew a line at that, something which explains why Gloucester’s actions seemed so shocking to contemporaries and, perhaps, the reason why he got away with it so easily in the short term.

In the immediate sense, Gloucester must take final responsibility for what happened in 1483. However one explains the motives behind his actions, things happened because he chose that they should: there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did.

-Rosemary Horrox, "Richard III: A Study of Service"

*Richard was also, yk, Edward's own brother who had been entirely loyal during his life. The problem wasn’t that Edward trusted Richard, the problem is that Richard broke that trust in a horrible and unprecedented way to usurp a 12-year-old. Please understand the difference.

#wars of the roses #edward iv #richard iii #edward v #my post #The arguments of Ross and Pollard (et al) are so profoundly unserious and ahistorical #casting an unforeseeable turn of events as a predictable ('structural') one as David Horspool rightly puts it #Ross specifically is entirely dependent on his own horrible view of Elizabeth Woodville and her family as the basis of his analysis #but anyway. as Horrox points out later in the book:#''although earlier events [during Edward's reign] cannot be said to have caused the crisis they did have some bearing in how it developed'#namely Edward's legacy of forfeitures in the 1460s; manipulation of property descents; and fluctuating royal favour.#the most prominent and politically important of all of these were the manipulation of the Mowbray and Howard family fortunes #This is often used to enhance the unserious and ahistorical arguments of historians like Ross and Pollard that Edward doomed his son #But as Horrox points out: Edward's reign did not exist in a vacuum and needs to be analyzed by actual historical context.#from a broader perspective his actions were not especially transgressive as far as English kings were concerned #NO MONARCH (Edward III; Henry VII; etc) died with every single one of their nobles 100% content and supportive #they weren't living in Disney movies and there's no point holding Edward IV to fairytale standards that did not exist.#More importantly Horrox points out that Edward's actions (eg: the Mowbray and Howard cases) need to be put into actual perspective #They were not perceived as problems and did not cause problems during his own reign.#They did not cause problems after he died before Edward V arrived in London.#They only became problems after Richard decided to seize power and deliberately exploited them as bribes for political support #Had Richard decided to support his nephew or work with the Woodvilles - Edward's actions (@ the Mowbrays and Howards) would be irrelevant #(It's also worth pointing out that we don't know WHEN Richard decided to usurp. It if it was a more gradual desire then his depowering #of the Woodvilles by exploiting Mowbray & Howard discontent would not have not affected *Edward V's* ascension or prospects)#ie: the problem isn't that discontent existed with a few specific nobles (that was normal) the problem was how Richard took advantage of it #In theory this sort of thing would have been a potential threat for ANY heir to the throne whether they were a minor or an adult #In itself it's not really unique to Edward and it's silly when historians criticize him and him alone for it. It was more or less standard.#(if anything the fact that he was able to do them so successfully is an indication of his authority)#We come back to Horspool's point: 'Without one overriding factor' - Richard's initiative and actions - 'none of this could have happened.'#which is where this analysis of Horrox's comes in :)

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