you've raised me from the dead // let’s die alone together ALLISON & PATTY : EVERY EPISODE

I wanted to do a ‘sad expression’ animation test and Sun Wukong was my victim.

had an idea

the secret key to writing in character dick grayson is that dick does not get enjoyment out of relaxing or doing fun things. its a hard mindset to understand because it's the opposite of what you or i as fandom people experience, but Dick is never shown to do things for fun. if he's watching a movie or playing a game, it's almost always to spend time with other people, not because that's his impulse (and lowkey he sometimes ruins it for other people by never being able to turn off his brain)

now, this is not to say that he's unhappy, or that he doesn't experience happiness in his day to day. but he doesnt get that from the things that we, as comic book readers and fanfiction writers, get enjoyment from.

Dick is the definition of a workaholic. His only enjoyment comes from a job well done, helping people, and sometimes adrenaline (as his only real canon hobby is...skydiving)

Further reading: Flash Plus Nightwing (1997) (hating on the Hardy Boys)

Nightwing (2016) #43 (being unable to take a night off)

Nightwing (1996) #140 (skydiving)

The Titans (1999) #3 (being a terrible film watcher)

you ever write up a combination of words you're really proud of at the time bc you think it's vivid but it's actually so atrocious that you remember it eight years later bc it's burned itself into your long-term memory? just me?

i love smtv but, like nocturne, a big missing component is that for a megaten game there isnt enough 'killing your friends' vibes. the game in the beginning was like. Yeah you dont know these people that well. Walk home with them or whatever. They are kinda nice >> (the game introduces u to aogami and everyone else ceases to matter)

meanwhile in smtiv theyre like. you dont know these people well. u are training with them. u are having lunch. u are facing class conflict and your upper class besties are standing up for u. u are speaking about your dreams for the future. u are in another universe together--oh god the one you were closest to just sacrificed himself in front of u. and the other one is also dead. If u aren't neutral route u have to kill isabeau yourself. Final boss has so many sad friend erased vibes. walters scarf is visible on lucifer. its fine

fav hc is that wukong has thousands of hobbies but baking/cooking are not any of them because he's afraid of the stove and cant read instructions

He's probably scared of the smoke and fire of the stove, not the object or the hobby itself, plus it happened multiple times he ended up blind because of the smoke, even if a small one, bet.

And, he doesn't think he needs it! He doesn't even eat cooked food, and he's a monkey. Most of the human food is off limits for him, he can get diabetes from a banana for Buddha's sake! Imagine eating a cake!

so, he never looked into it.

He knows how to draw, and likes it too, he loves painting random stuff, sometimes he paints his friends because he's afraid of forgetting their faces.

He likes playing videogames, he even made one.

He likes listening to music, his favorite thing to do when painting, it helps him concentrate (he definitely listens to marina.)

he likes writing, he himself likes writing fics about random things, he likes hiking, he likes walking, he likes helping animals, he likes helping people. Sometimes he disguises as a doctor because he finds fun doing surgery, and always succeeds.

He likes learning math, he likes learning chemistry, he likes learning biology, he's a science guy, he has even a medical degree!

he likes to illustrate, he likes to dig up bones and figure out again history and remember it, he likes inventing things, stylist his hair and clothes, likes to color his hair, likes to make clothes himself.

But cook? Nah.

he either eats fruits, which are good for him, hair food in the firm of normal things like cake or pastries since he can't eat too much sugar because of diabetes, but he likes ordering stuff too.

Noodles are his favorite, he always orders from pigsy (secretly because pigsy reminds him so bad of bajie, he isn't even sure it's his reincarnation.)

sometimes he buys vegetarian food, like meatballs but in a form that even vegetarians can eat, so he can try and do some special meals from other cultures.

Italian, Spanish, french, german, English, and so much more.

he always..has to go directly to the country itself to try them out though.

but that's fine, he has fun visiting places, he had nothing to do for 500 years.

But in the end, he never learned how to cook.

But knows everything else. Even acient Greek and Latin. But cooking? HAHAHAHAHHA

Growing a Person

Its a magical experience. Its full of its trials and tribulations. My lil person apparently wants to stress me out every two weeks 😂

But at 4 1/2 months pregnant, I am now feeling my baby move regularly… and by move… I mean I swear this kids dancing the Argentine Tango in there. Feeling kicks and flips.

Its mad to think theres a lil person in my tummy right now just fucking about 😂

Its both magical and fucking freaky at the same time 😂 two weeks from the halfway mark and learning whether its a girl or a boy 🙈

Sun Liu'er, the Eldest Son of the Sun

And Sun Gēn Téng (Tóubiāo), the Second Eldest Son of the Sun

For my A Den Of Suns AU <3

It's an AU where the Monkey King somehow procures kids to love and stress about! He has a lot of grandchildren (basically tens of thousands of them) but not children of his own!!

So, feeling cheeky and a lil soft, I drew him some :)) Liu'er is still a very curious character to me though, but I'll give his some comfort instead of murder and angst.

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

ngl i'm obviously grateful for the fact that medication exists that can make me function as a human without the extreme period cramps once a month and without the vomiting due to pain.

but the fact that the medication instantly and very obviously also made me. like. fully numb to life. is really not fun and i really don't think it's fair that those are the two like........... options... that exist

does anyone else get the feeling that RWBY might have done differently if it was a monster-of-the-week fantasy school type story instead of the chosen-ones-against-the-evil-mastermind path it's going now?

From a storytelling perspective, I think the plot could have been more consistent if it had remained in the schools with a smaller-scale plot. The gang moves to other schools as part of exchange student programs, and every few seasons end in an Amity tournament at the end of the school years, signifying the move to a new story arc. As the gang settles in the other schools, they get to uncover the backstories and whatnot of various characters.

This would require smaller-scale antagonists and villain-of-the-week setups with various cronies and schemes. Perhaps if it stuck with the season one villains: Ronan and Neo, whose main motivation was nefarious profit, and Cinder, whose original characterization was someone who was so cool and awesome that she simply had to be the best at everything, including gaining all four Maiden powers. You'd likely have to scrap characters like Salem and Oscar who are 100% related to the Big Destiny Plot, but honestly I think it would have remained consistent with the original vibes of the first few seasons.

And of course, you could return to the tried and true method of using classrooms for worldbuilding exposition--how better to explain your lore than to make the characters quiz each other with flash cards about the upcoming test on the king of Vale? Weapons upkeep class (perhaps taught by Professor Qrow, wouldn't that have been better than just hearing about him and Tai being teachers offscreen?) in which Ruby gets to present her scythe and excitedly talk about all the aspects of huntress weaponry?

I think i would have liked that better than the World of Remnant segments because I didn't even learn about those until halfway through season three. And I'm not the kind of person who likes having to find information elsewhere (a la authors posting important backstory details on Twitter), so honestly I would have liked the worldbuilding to, yknow, be in the story instead of as a side piece. But that's just me.

if you Genuinely think that john b’s hatred of ward and “lack of understanding” about ward and sarah’s relationship has to do with him not caring about sarah vs him thinking ward literally murdered his fucking father and then actually framed him for murder and the fact he’s a grown man regularly terrorizing the only family john b has left besides his father i literally do not know what to tell you besides seek help

I’m editing the third chapter of WBTL now and just WHY the heck I made Gabe so uninterested in olaball

I can definitely tell I'm at like peak childbearing age because while I still have no desire to have one, every single child I see is so endearing to me lol like I see little kids out and about and I'm like omg I'm about to cry they're so cute

rotating the concept of trans/nb/non-cis chrissy in my brain 👉👈 (with a bunch of platonic eddie/chrissy thrown in for good measure, also chrissy getting adopted into the steve-robin-eddie-and-by-extension-all-the-other-teens friendship circle)