12/31/09

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gripper gal

the high school griddlehark au that exists in my head. harrow “freak catholic girl on the verge of deconstruction” nonagesimus and her loser enemy? girlfriend? (their peers are unsure, but also don’t really care enough about them to speculate) gideon “you’re lucky your dad is the principal, how can you wear these shirts to class” nav-gaius. harrow is going to buzz her hair and start getting into tarot cards during their second year at college

So, talking about my au with a friend of mine and-

Basically, I can imagine Vaggie, Charlie, and Emily all bantering and arguing about which bird is the best cause;

Charlie: Duck

Vaggie: Hawk(stealing that from the HEF au)

Emily: Dove

So they always banter which bird is the best, Emily has a great sense of direction and only need to look at a map once, Charlie has waterproof wings, and Vaggie can fly super fast

They eventually drag Husk in, specifically Emily liek "Dad!! Dad what type of brid are you!?" Dragging dad into your fights is a must

He responds "Dracula Parrot." And the girls immediately stopa nd spend the next 2 hours researching and Emily asks him a bunch of questions

"They eat flowe- is that what happened to those father day flowers I gave you!?" "Was I....not supposed to eat those??" "I mean- it's your flowers you can do whatever you want with them but like- I- I just thought you took them up to your room!!" ".....they tasted good with that helps??" "....it does actually"

i think that in the tmagp universe, oliver banks is working at tesco and the lukases have a reality tv show

The idea of Loki using old-school english and Shakespearian insults is fucking hillarious, but I think it's even funnier if he doesn't talk like that all the time and it only comes out when he's really pissed off.

Like, imagine you're arguing with him and bro calls you a "cockalorum". With a really strong british accent. Out of absolute nowhere.

Btw I just love the platonic physical affection between the ninjas we've been seeing. Like how they hug each other and shoulder pats and hold hands for comfort etc. It's just so nice seeing very close platonic affection like that in a cartoon.

You can't stop me lum, I'll forever be in your walls >:3

Now draw tails and eggman bonding over tech

🔫

n o .

The egg is dead

I think about this all the time. Just like any normal person should. If you don't you're not normal and need help.

Very much work in progress, excuse the ugly. The J'Adore Bakery is not looking like it's original blueprint at all! I found some beautiful, aestheticly pleasing bakery pictures on pinterest (ofc) and felt inspired to go wild, cc-free limitations be damned!

I'm currently reading TSC and i love how casually Nora gave us a nonbinary character in a polyam relationship in this one. Cody Winter I hardly know you but I would die for you.

Lemme just talk for a second about the scene where Xie Lian gets murdered over and over again in his temple on his altar.

Specifically, the paragraph of "it hurts it hurts it hurts" over and over. Usually, I would say that just repeating the same thing over and over for emphasis is not going to make your point. Repetition dulls after about three times. Even reading that scene, my eyes skipped over that paragraph because I could see it was the same thing over and over again.

But you know what's crazy, it did a job and it did it differently and imo better than a lot of scenes like that I've read. Because how do you write about something endlessly being tortured so extremely? One technique is to just talk for a while about how painful it is avoiding exact repetition, but the truth is that this gets repetitive too. A reader can only take so much pain and suffering; after that, it doesn't feel like pain anymore. It feels like bad writing.

Another method, which is I think what you would more commonly see in a "well-written" torture scene and the method I myself would usually employ to write such a thing, is disassociation. We've all heard of or experienced a pain that hurts so bad you almost can't experience it anymore; you can't process; your brain goes to another place because the nerves overload it with too much info. So, the way these scenes are often written is that the person is suddenly outside of their body, watching it happen, or they are suddenly in a memory of a different time, or even the narrator just jumps elsewhere so that when the narrator returns to the immediacy of the pain the viewpoint character is experiencing, everything is sharp again.

MXTX...did not do that. And I think what comes across is that Xie Lian cannot do that. He's trying to get beyond "it hurts it hurts it hurts," to go to some other place in his brain, and he can't escape. The panic of him not being able to escape that temple, that altar, or even that moment in his own mind creates this kind of claustrophobia in which you really do have to experience every. single. sword.

And of course, this is Xie Lian's whole problem ("problem"). He was that he was not able to take a step back. He was not able to remain uninvolved. He had to try to solve every single issue. He had to take every. single. sword.

And he is only able to disassociate when he is completely broken, when he tries to kill himself and can't; his disassociation is so ultimate and almost complete that he becomes someone else entirely. He becomes White No-Face.

And what's wild about Xie Lian is that after he comes back to himself, he knows how to compartmentalize. He knows that it's possible to stop feeling pain. He knows that it's possible to put away hurt and replace it with something else. But Xie Lian chooses not to do that. For Xie Lian, every single sword hurts less than feeling nothing at all.

Abigail (2024) and A Discovery of Witches take place in the same universe. If you know y'know.

Thinking about that time Kanan Jarrus told Ezra Bridger that all paths were coming together.

Thinking about the Bad Batch and next week's finale.

Thinking about the fact that Echo has now come full circle and what that means for him exactly. ("Thanks for the hand." Favorite line.)

Thinking about the fact that Tech is the only batcher Crosshair hasn't been able to make amends with.

Thinking about the fact that there are clones and Force sensitive children needing to be rescued from Tantiss.

Thinking about the fact that the Zillo Beast clone is going to be really hungry for some Imperials.

Mostly I'm thinking about Echo though.

Heads up about the live plants, you are gonna wanna look into doing a bleach dip or something like that for any plants you add. I did not. In addition to some free snails with my plants, I also got a flagfish that is now bullying my cory cats for their food

Oh, jeez, duly noted. What is a bleach dip? Are there other methods to cleaning the plants?