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whomst-the-hell · 1 year

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The babysitters’ club, as the older members of the upside down crew have dubbed themselves, meet at least once a week. Sometimes it’s only a few hours, just long enough to watch a movie together, to confirm that everyone is still alive and coping. Sometimes it’s all night, and Argyle plies them all with good California weed while they attempt to work through their collective truckloads of trauma.

Sometimes, like tonight, they spend it goofing off and having fun like the dumb kids many of them couldn’t afford to be.

They’re gathered in a circle at the Harrington mansion, deserted as always, playing truth or dare. Nancy has just admitted to smoking weed in her freshman year, in the drama room with Barbara Holland, and she has set her know it all, meddling, journalist eyes on Eddie.

“Truth or dare,” she asks, a challenge clear on her face.

Eddie knows that, with most people, picking truth may be seen as the cowardly option. With Nancy, that couldn’t be more wrong. If he picks dare, he will be safe, but he will be mocked relentlessly by every single person in the room.

…

“Truth,” he sighs reluctantly.

“Who-” she pauses dramatically for effect, a theatrical detail that Eddie honestly respects, even if it fills him with dread, “-was your most embarrassing crush! And it has to be a person we know, no celebrities allowed!”

Shit.

He feels his eyes dart to Steve. Nancy smirks. Bitch. He can’t even lie about it then.

Time to face the music, he supposes mournfully.

“I would like to say, for the record, that I was in junior year, ok. And, in retrospect, with the knowledge I have now, it’s not even that bad, but at the time-“

“Spit it out, Munson,” says Robin, the fucking traitor.

“IhadacrushonSteve,” he says, all in one breath.

“What was that, dude, I didn’t catch it?” Argyle says, voice mellow. Eddie honestly doesn’t know if he’s in on this or not, but he glowers all the same.

Face red, he repeats, “I had a crush on Steve.” He resolutely does not look at Steve.

“No you didn’t!” Steve responds, immediately, aghast.

Eddie can feel his heart tearing in two.

“Don’t get your panties in a twist, Harrington, this was years ag-“

“You literally rejected me!”

Fucking what.

He knows he must look ridiculous right now, mouth hanging open, cheeks still red with embarrassment, but he does not have the capacity to care.

“Wh- what do you- huh?” he finally manages.

“When you were in junior year, and I was a sophomore? We were lab partners-“

And ohhh, hadn’t that just been sweet, sweet torture. Pretty, perfect Harrington had had to sit next to him all semester, where Eddie could see his freckles and smell his cologne, but-

“You spent the whole semester making fun of me!”

“What the fuck are you talking about, man?” says Steve, eyebrows furrowed in that way he does that makes Eddie want to kiss his forehead and- Fucking focus, Munson.

“You always used to make passive aggressive comments about my clothes, or my hair, or my books or whatever!”

Steve buries his face in his hands and groans.

“I wasn’t being passive aggressive.”

“You- what the fuck do you mean, you weren’t being passive aggressive! Why else would you have said any of that shit?”

“Because I meant it?”

Because he- what? Eddie played back as many of their interactions from that year as he could remember. I like your jacket, Steve had said when Eddie had started putting patches on his denim vest. Your hair looks nice today, he had said when Eddie had tied it back to beat the heat. Oh, that sounds interesting, when Eddie described the plot of the book he was reading.

“Oh my god, you were flirting with me.”

“No shit! I once told you you had really pretty eyes!“

“I thought you were bullying me!”

“How on Earth could ‘I think you have really pretty eyes’ be bullying?”

“I don’t know! It made more sense than it being flirting!”

“I asked you to go to the drive in with me! That is the most classic first date in the book!”

Holy shit, Steve Harrington had asked him out. Steve Harrington had asked him out and he’d said no. This was the worst day of Eddie’s life.

His face must have looked some kind of way, because Steve just groaned again. He sat there for a second before peeking up from behind his hands, a move that should not have been as cute as it was, what the fuck.

“If I tried again now, would you still think I was bullying you.”

Holy shit did Steve Harrington want to date him? This had to be a trick or a prank or something, right?

Except that he’d thought that in junior year as well, and apparently it had cost him a boyfriend, so.

“No- nope, I would definitely pick up on it, uh huh. Definitely,” he said in a rush. God, he was normally so good with words, fuck.

Steve emerged fully from his hands, face pink but expression determined.

“Eddie Munson, would you like to go to the drive in with me? They’re playing Jaws next saturday and I’d love to watch it with you.”

“Absolutely, Stevie. It’s a date.”

There are groans from the rest of their friends as they rifle through their pockets, each passing money to a very smug looking Nancy.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie fic #my writing #i dont know the character tagging etiquette on tumblr #should i tag nancy or is that rude

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fake-daily-watcher-tweets · 2 years

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Besties..do you think that Neil Gaiman knows the impact and importance of his work? The Green Brothers, do you guys think they know? James Dashner?? Uncle Rick?? FUCK.

Like i genuinely would not have made it past middle school without the Maze Runner series. The complexity of the characters was my gateway to millions of other great series, and while the books aren’t my favorite now as a 20 year old, I appreciate everything they did for me in terms of learning to read novels and mapping out in-depth plots.

I wouldn’t have picked my major or found myself able to go through long auto-immune treatments without Hank and John Green..hell I probably wouldn’t have passed my high school classes without them either. Would I have picked the major I did without Crash Course US History.. ?probably not..and gosh, did every single one of their books ruined my life? yep.. (I literally clutched my cluttered TFIOS copy everywhere I went for like 2 years😭). I just want to sit down and talk to them and just even try to understand why they think the way they do.. just gain any wisdom from them.. I have so so so so so much to learn..

and Rick, I genuinely wouldn’t have found understanding for my disabilities without his writings.. I had never seen a main character who also had ADHD/Dyslexia until I met Percy. Not to mention that Will and Nico were the very first gay characters I had been exposed to, and little 10 y/o me had no idea the importance of that for later on.. (Though I blame him for my on going greek mythology phase..not cool uncle rick.. not cool..also I blame him for the creation of one of the best musicals ever ok ok). This man literally shaped part of my life for the better. I have a signed copy of PJO and its my prized possession and I wish that was a joke.

and Neil, literally where do I start? This man’s writings were introduced to me my freshman year of high school and were one of the only things that kept me alive until now. I graduate COLLEGE next year and I genuinely do not know if I would be here if I didn’t have American Gods, Good Omens, and The Sandman.. and who knew that it was going to be Crowley.. of all the fucking characters in the world - that gave me the courage to come out to my friends. (Honestly, it only got worse after David took the role, I’m annoying about it now.. I love that man so much but also Michael <3). Do you guys know the hoops I would jump through just to have a conversation with him?? To thank him for literally everything his work has done for me?? AHHH.

Authors are truly some of the most amazing people. If they can have an impact on such a small, inconsequential life such as mine, just imagine what their writings did and do for others who are bound for such great things. It makes me so excited. Fuck, I cannot wait for my generation to grow up.

Its 6 am and I just got out of exam week (so I haven’t slept for like actually 2 weeks so I don’t know if any of this made sense but take a sip of water if you agree). Goodnight✨.

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mermaidsirennikita · 3 months

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I realise this is subjective but what's the straight-up most batshit (derogatory or complimentary) thing you've ever read in a book? This doesn't even have to be a rec list, i'm just curious about the Things You've Seen

Good question!

Morning Glory Milking Farm seems so normal now, but when that premise came out it was so crazy. I mean, tbh, the book is actually a pretty normal cozy romance in a lot of ways, just with a really wacky framing (which has kind of become C.M. Nascosta's signature). I'm kinda meh on it, but not because of the premise. Run, Run Rabbit is my Nascosta of Choice.

I began reading Immortals After Dark because I heard of Lothaire's premise, tbh. "3,000 year old vampire (who has been a Big Bad in the other books) finds out hillbilly coed is his fated mate, is like 'oh God, that is SO embarrassing, I can't' and convinces himself that his actual fated mate is the demonic goddess possessing said coed's body, so he puts the coed on DEATH ROW for safekeeping, and five years later shows up to slaughter everyone in prison, rescue the heroine from the lethal injection, and go 'WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME YOU IDIOT???'"

It was the death row element that got me reading. And that's over with in like, the first two chapters. And then it gets CRAZIER. God, I love that book.

The Thornchapel series by Sierra Simone was SUCH a big swing, even by her standards. Six friends try to figure out the creeping, looming darkness in an ancient chapel...? While following ancient sacrificial rites and hooking up with each other? There are two romances (MMF and FF)? How does she juggle all that?

The answer: really, really well. I love that series. Perfect Gothic vibes.

I mean. The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath. Gorilla Twins. And she pulled it off to perfection.

The All the King's Men duology by Kennedy Ryan does not seem that bonkers in theory (long-term back and forth between a billionaire oil guy's rebellious son and a Navajo environmental activist-turned-political-operative) but the books are actually iNSANE lol. He's lost in ANTARCTICA at one point????? She's kidnapped by masked men??? There are hostage videos??? Honestly, this duology is kind of like... Scandal vibes, if Scandal hadn't gone completely off the rails. It really may have been Kennedy Ryan watching Scandal and going "... I could do that better". And boy does she.

The Wolf and The Wildflower by Stacy Reid has a gloriously insane premise. The hero is a duke (the Duke of Wolverton or something too??) who was stranded in the Yukon for years and basically became a part of a wolf pack and developed incredibly wolfy habits... So his family hires a father/son pair of psychiatrists to help him adapt back to society... And then he smells the "son" and realizes he's actually a woman in disguise (genuinely, this isn't a gross transphobic plot, the heroine fully identifies as a woman and just disguises herself as a man for Romance Reasons) and detects her WOMANLY SCENT. It. Is. Insane.

Lush Money by Angelina M. Lopez. Lady billionaire offers to financially bail out a small principality on the condition that the heir (who has a genius-level IQ) a) marries her for a year b) gets her pregnant so that she can have a hot, smart royal baby.

Speaking of baby stuff, Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips!!!! The heroine is a genius college professor who graduated from college or got her phD at fourteen or something insane, and she's really socially inept because she never had a normal childhood, so she wants a baby of AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE. Which, despite being a genius, she thinks means having a baby with a dumbass to balance out her intelligence. And she identifies an aging quarterback as a dumbass, so she literally like, seduces him into getting her pregnant. And then he finds up and shows up in her classroom, leaning against the door entryway and going "CLASS IS OVER" lol. God I loved it.

Kiss an Angel by SEP is also insane. Begins with a contemporary forced marriage, then the heroine finds out her new husband (who hates her) is taking her on the road working at a traveling circus??? Where she develops like, a psychic bond with a tiger. His circus trick is the whip trick where he cracks the whip to zap off a flower she's wearing or something.

And he's descended from the Romanovs

#romance novel blogging #book recs #bc honestly i don't hate any of these and love most #mgmf is probs the one i'm least impressed with and it's still cute

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marsbotz · 11 months

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hello I keep seeing u talk ab loving skybound but I'm curious as to why u love it, and would LOVE to read a super in-depth explanation bc im kinda a skybound notliker and ik uve changed my mind on certain thigns ab this show b4, and I was hoping u cld do it again !!! :DDD /gen

YEAH. OKAY !!! sorry this is super long and rambly i already had to rewrite it once cus tumblr ate it lol... and also sorry its all basically abt jay (running away embarrassed)

first of all let me say i do think skybound is a BAD season. having the characters suddenly all be sexist out of nowhere to drive plot is stupidddd and so is having a retcon ending that makes it all redundant except for Jaya Canon Now. i think thats mostly what makes the fandom not like it. BUT. i think its sooo interesting for like so many reasons also

i think s8 is considered the darkest season which is fair. but skybound also has a crazyyy amount of dark and DEEPLY interesting things it touches on. the ninja disappearing one by one. jays birth father being his favourite actor. jay torture. jaya actually being interesting!! lets talk abt these.

having the ninja slowly be cut out of the season is GREAT for not only building tension but also being able to more deeply build upon jay and nyas characters (and their relationship). the 22 min format means that some characters (like wu and kai) are gone for AGES. which is sad for kai fans but greatttt for the season. it rlly makes u feel their absence, and some of their disappearances are scary!! zane trying to outsmart nadakhan but realising too late hes been tricked... AHH!!!

if you compare this to how they did it in s12 its a lot more impactful as theres more time for the characters to... be gone. and the videogame nature rlly does take away a lot of the tension IMO. if jays mothers had been in prime empire like planned.... it would have been a GREAT parallel i think but as it is its just kind of odd. thats another convo tho lol (altho there issss the mention of jay being adopted at the end. very interesting [it goes nowhere])

i literally think abt jay adoption arc every god damn day of my life. ill try to explain this without getting too deep into my personal sicko hcs lol. first you get a rlly nice callback to s1 w jay being ashamed of his parents and living in a junkyard only to realise how litte he cares once theyre threatened. thennn you have the whole situation at cliffs house. jay finds out the man who abandoned him at birth (possibly? we dont know details) is the actor for fritz donnegan. the same character who jay imitated and aspired to be like. and then he realises his father felt the same admiration towards jay!! and they both never knew!!!

i think this twist is what makes a lot of jays behaviour in s6.... not excusable... but understandable. jay is shown to be insecure and have weird fucking ways of coping with this (lying. lying lying all the time) and so it kinda feels natural that his way of coping with this information would be to 1. hide the fact he made wishes 2. try to imitate his father through his book and 3. Never Speak Of This Again.

speaking of that lets talk about jay being tortured. can we talk about that?? they FUCKED him up. but the most important part out of allll of it is a character trait i rarely see ppl attribute to jay even though its like... pretty consistent for him. is his willpower!! hes able to endure days of torture to the point where he can barely walk and talk at the end of it just to stop nadakhan from gaining more power

nadakhan also directly points out jays insecurities and how they make him lie to his friends... and jays able to show some of his smarts thru trying to get flintlocke to stage a mutiny! honestly the whole episode is so damn interesting it makes me SEETHE its not more talked abt LOL

i wont get into my insanely complex jaya opinions rn but i will say s6 has one of the most interesting depictions of the ship to me. nya being reluctant to date jay due to being seen simply as his girlfriend is soooo interesting and fits well w her arc of not wanting to give up her own deal w sam x to become a ninja. its just a shame they had to retroactively make everyone misogynistic to do so lolol... and the ending w jays wish Potentially forcing them together is soooo odd and kinda goes what the rest of the season was setting up for them. THIS IS MAINLY why i think ppl hate this season. cus it sets up SOOO much cool stuff and then drops it all last second

i think the things that could have saved skybound from being so hated would be

1. do the same plotpoints w nya but dont drag the ninja AND DARETH into it ..... make them supportive of her!

2. makes jays final wish have some FUCKING consequence! you could do a LOT with how he worded it to twist it badly (im a nadakhan return truther for life)

3. not dropping every single intersting character trait ever. and also not dropping the GOD DAMN ADOPTION ARCCCCCC and also not revealing jay to be so crushingly insecure he physically cannot stop himself from lying to ppl and putting on a happy mask and then turn him into a one note comic relief character. [becoming a soulless husk]

LOL i realise this sounds now like i hate skybound I DONT i just think its very flawed. BUT thats whyyyy i love it... because its so interesting! its flawed in a way like "there is soooo much i cld do w this" and not like "i dont care about any of this its so bad". w ninjago my fav parts have always been the weird icky edgy parts that are almost too much for what it is... which is a childrens lego show. ik they cld never have done most of the interesting stuff i imagine coming out of skybound and thats ok! bc i get to think abt it evilly.

heres some assorted things i love and think are fun in skybound

kai and zane banter at the repo yard

ronin capturing the ninja!! specifically him shutting down zane from the inside is super scary and cool

NINJA IN PRISON!!!!! i almost threw up when they went to jail in crystallised its so fuckign fun. SKYBOUND 2!!!

zane playing chess against nadakahn. another scary zane moment

jay trusting only cole w the truth abt his wishes (HELL YES BROTHER)

clanceeeeee <3 him being like one sided friends w jay and standing up to nadakhan at the end of it all... wahhh

NINJA REPLACEMENTS. so fucking funny i love jay and his assortment of old guys And Skylor

everytime i watch it i cant stop thinking of this ytp and it makes me cry. its not even that funny i just have watched it like 50 times

its dungeon media. this is smth i made up and only i know abt . dont worry abt it but its true

ok my brain is mush HOPE THIS MAKES. some sort of sense . bascially trying to condense 6 years of Thoughts into coherent analysis is impossible for me LOL

#this post twisteed into smth dark and evil halfway thru sorry. i balcked out im not proofreading this shit #ninjago #asks #now someone ask me about s7.#ITS SO HARD DOING THESE cus i literally have a billion thoughts from over 6 yrs of stewing in my brain but its fun i love talking abt ninja #some day i will be able to make actual ninjago meta posts. but not today

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clonerightsenthusiast · 1 year

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okay I've seen a couple tags now and I'm dying of curiosity - what is the magic shotgun that eats sins??

oh, you've done it now. the magic shotgun that eats sins is actually just the tip of the iceberg of this deeply, deeply stupid story.

So. Our story begins in 1985. Peter David writes a four-part story in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, called The Death of Jean DeWolff. It will become known as one of the all-time greatest Spider-Man stories.

The Death of Jean DeWolff follows Peter as he investigates the murder of his friend, police captain Jean DeWolff, as well as several other murders by a serial killer calling himself the Sin-Eater. The Sin-Eater has super soldier-esque physical abilities, but no other powers. He uses a regular ass shotgun to kill people he believes have transgressed against society. The Sin-Eater is pretty explicitly a narrative foil for Spider-Man, and it is thematically extremely important that he kills people. Put a pin in that.

The Sin-Eater appears in this story, and then a sequel story (I'm not sure exactly how much later, about a year or two I think?) where he dies.

Now. Flash forward about 35 years. Nick Spencer, my greatest enemy, is the writer on The Amazing Spider-Man. For reasons that truly elude me, he decides to resurrect this classic villain, but... different. The Sin-Eater is no longer a slightly physically enhanced serial killer. Now he has the power to sense evil in people's souls. And, most importantly, he has a magic shotgun. That eats people's sins.

What does this mean, you ask? How does anything, let alone a gun, eat people's sins?

Excellent question. Moving on.

Now a lot of the details of this plot are fuzzy for me because I've done a really excellent job of repressing most of Nick Spencer's writing and I wish to god the current writers would stop reminding me about the dumb shit he did. But the broad strokes are that Sin-Eater forms a cult and starts shooting villains with his magic shotgun. And when he shoots them, they don't die. He eats their sins, and they stop being villains. They repent and decide that they're good and nice now. And also Sin-Eater gets their superpowers. Those are also sins, I guess.

This all comes to a head when he takes aim at the man in the Spider-Man canon with the most sins to his name: Norman Osborn. Sin-Eater wants to shoot him and make him good. Peter, who doesn't trust like that, wants to stop him from doing this. Norman, who's the worst, is being generally unhelpful to both parties. (Also there's this whole thing where all the other 616 spider-people (and also Gwen, who doesn't even live in this universe?) debate whether to interfere because of future visions of Peter dying and blah blah blah it's not important.)

Peter ultimately fails to keep Norman away from the Sin-Eater (I think he shoots the Juggernaut and gets his powers or something) and Norman gets shot with the magic shotgun. And his sins are eaten.

What does that mean, you ask again? Great question.

So I honestly forget what happens to the Sin-Eater because it literally does not fucking matter. Because it's time for Nick Spencer's grand finale, which really fucking sucks and is so bad seriously do yourself a favor and don't read it, and Norman Osborn is, like, nice now. I don’t have screencaps on hand of that but I do have this one of another extremely stupid thing that happens in Last Remains. God I hate that story. When will somebody eat Nick Spencer’s sins, I want to know.

So after that trainwreck finally ends, the book passes hands to a new set of writers for the next chapter of ASM, Spider-Man: Beyond, and he's still like this. Norman isn't really around for the next arc (which focuses on my bestest boy Ben Reilly), but his sins are!

They get put in someone else.

Spider-Man: Beyond ends, and Amazing Spider-Man gets handed to Zeb Wells as the new writer. And Norman is back in the limelight. And his sins sure are still gone. And between that and Gold Goblin, a spin-off just for our good pal Norm, we really start to get a look at what it means for his sins to have been eaten by a magic shotgun.

And it um. Well. Um. I get the feeling Nick didn't really leave a lot of notes? If he put any thought into it at all.

So. What does it mean for your sins to be eaten? Norman refers, often, to his sins being "gone". But the actual events still very much happened; everyone still remembers them happening; their effects are still very much felt. But Norman now has a conscience, and is haunted by guilt for the many many many terrible things he's done.

He even has a big ol' Wall of Guilt vision board featuring: Peter Parker listed four times; his own son whose life he ruined in countless ways listed third; the baby he had killed like, more than halfway down the board; a whole host of Clone Saga throwbacks (which I, clone saga lover that i am, appreciated at least; hashtag justice for seward trainer) but also notably not Ben Reilly, who nevertheless shows up like a week later to kick his ass for all the shit he did to him.

This isn't super relevant but I just find this giant monument to his own crimes that is simultaneously kind of overboard and also still somehow incomplete really funny. Anyways, it's proof all the bad shit he did is still very much real.

And now here's where we return to the sins. Because as you'll remember, Norman's sins aren't just gone. They're in somebody else. Specifically a clone of Ashley Kafka, another character who's been done dirty. And having Norman's sins put in her have made her evil. And not just that, they're physically killing her. Here are Norman's thoughts on the subject:

And he's read some science about it, so I think we have to take him at his word.

Now. There's a lot here. Let's recap the things we now know about sins:

They are linked to but a separate thing from the actual bad thing that you did

Are ALSO linked to your superpowers, maybe.

They prevent you from feeling remorse. In their absence you feel REAL bad about what you did.

They can be transferred to somebody else who had absolutely nothing to do with the actual things that spawned your sins

They make you evil

They physically kill you. This may just be if you have somebody else's sins that don't belong to you, because Norman did not seem to be dying of sin poisoning before he got shotgun'd

Losing them does not stop you from considering murder a legitimate solution to your problems

They can die, or at least go out of the world if the person holding them dies.

[Blaseball voice] A sin is a physical concept

So. Because Nick Spencer wanted to bring back a classic, little-used villain, and I can only assume went "his name is Sin-Eater? got it, I understand his deal completely", we all have to wrestle with the theological implications of a magic shotgun that eats sins. As my beloved roommate said when I explained this to them, the idea that feeling bad about your sins means they don't exist (at least as far as you’re concerned) could cause a schism in the Catholic church, and personally I can't wait until whoever the pope is in the Marvel universe finds out about this.

In conclusion: Just read The Death of Jean DeWolff instead okay it's so good especially if you like a real hard look at Peter's dark side and also Daredevil is there it's a great story don't subject yourself to this bullshit read something worth reading instead.

^ me @ Nick Spencer

(and look there are whole other rants about how the way norman has been treated by the other characters and especially peter in light of this bullshit doesn’t make sense and also nick spencer’s arc more generally and also harry and I almost went into a rant about ben reilly at least three times in this post even though he’s not even really involved in this but I will leave them for another time)

#spider-man #marvel comics #norman osborn #at this point im reading gold goblin purely for the writers desperate scrambling to make sense of this nonsense (and also lil normie)#anyways as always. nick spencer meet me in the pit.#i am sorry to burden you with this knowledge but you DID ask

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rgbstatic · 1 year

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What do you think about las nevadas and Quackity’s arch, about Wilbur’s revival and his arch and ending? I’m interested im hearing your thoughts

I think Quackity’s arc and Las Nevadas was going to happen irregardless of Doomsday and the fall of L’manberg.

Quackity had already created El Rapids/Mexican L’manberg, and before the events of doomsday it’d already been in the works of being abandoned.

Quackity’s arc also started before doomsday, as he’d been a victim and target in every prior arc. His revenge plot with the butcher army, although extreme, I don’t think was entirely unwarranted with the people in his target book. Wilbur was a target but Wilbur was dead and crossed off, the same with Schlatt.

Next was Techno and Dream, and Techno would be the easier of the two to target just because Dream, at the time, had many people on his side.

I still think Techno had in some sense deserved some sort of call out/punishment. He didn’t and couldn’t just ‘retire’ without the consequences of what he did. He was not guiltless in his execution despite what he claimed. I think the way of the butcher army was very non L’manbergian, but despite involvement of the cabinet at the time, it was Quackity pulling the strings, and L’manberg trying to fight back against people who opposed and harmed those within. L’manberg, excluding the literal declaration of independence, has never been the one to cause problems. It retaliates, and in the case of Quackity, he retaliated to an extreme degree.

Quackity though had always had a want for power. If he’d not gone with Las Nevadas, let’s not forget his original plan was to revive Schlatt (this was before he even had knowledge of a revive book existing mind you, his plan was to get his body parts back together and he claimed he knew what to do from there), and use him as a political puppet and to start a new nation again.

Then he made Mexican L’manberg/El Rapids with his fiancé, and they fought for recognition, and they faced hardship. Quackity decided he wanted to make a place safe for himself and his fiancés long before L’manberg had fallen, so I believe it would’ve happened regardless. It’s the natural direction for his character to have gone. He was always second in command, it was his first time to lead, and to protect.

Quackity’s arcs make sense for his character, and I like that his doesn’t end in death, and honestly was left pretty vague. We don’t know what came of Karl or Sapnap (yet? Karl says he still wants to finish tftsmp and has plans to), but for Quackity either he moves on entirely, and has learned a lesson and helped destroy what he wanted to, and he is officially free from his ‘weak’ and ‘always the side man’ stereotypes, he’s proven himself. He could also return to his fiancés and work to build that again, is next step, there’s a lot he could do. I think his endings and arcs were good and though I personally wish we got to see more with his deal with Glatt and like, I so badly wished something had come up with him eating Schlatt’s heart, it was good.

Las Nevadas or something similar was always going to happen, as was the direction Quackity went. Like I said, he’d dealt with Techno (sort of), he moved onto Dream, it all just makes sense. His story was fine and I have no real qualms with it. I also thing it would’ve still happened whether Doomsday happened or not,

As for Wilbur’s revival, god I’ll be honest I fucking hate how it happened. We all knew it was going to happen, I mean directly after Doomsday Ghostbur wanted Wilbur to be revived, and Eret and Phil had been so immensely close to reviving him. Ghostbur had seen limbo and seen those who were dead, but it was difficult to latch onto Wilbur.

I wish that that had been the successful revival, or at least a revival similar. Maybe not in January when it occurred, maybe closer to when Tommy had died in prison.

I don’t like that the first person he in depth talked to was Phil, I hate that Phil acted like he’d been so distraught the entire time Wilbur was gone but the moment he came back he literally sent him away when Wilbur tried to spend time with him. Wilbur tried to spend time with his neglectful father even after he killed him, and that man who said things like ‘Ghostbur is just a shell of him’ and ‘I miss Wilbur’ and ‘I regret what I did’, said he was busy and sent him away. He never even really apologized?

I don’t like that he was revived by Dream.

I don’t like that cDream got to sink his hands further into things, things that honestly his character didn’t need to do. Dream narratively already held so much power that he didn’t need more.

Imagine with me, for a second, that Dream thought he was the master of life and death. That he was immortal, that the reason he was in prison and people hadn’t killed him yet was because he could control them with hanging life itself over their heads. He thought he had the most power one could possibly have.

Now imagine he escapes, which was something that if he’d been put in prison no matter the way would’ve always happened. I’d he’d been captured or whatever, he was always going to get out and try to take control again.

Imagine he tries to track down Tommy, or something of the sort, and he’s running and he runs into Tommy’s house, but Tommy isn’t there. Instead it’s Wilbur, staring him down.

“Oh, hello again. Miss me?”

And Dream has to let it sink in that the one, the only thing that gave him power over everyone else, doesn’t matter because *he* didn’t revive Wilbur, and he doesn’t know who did, or how. And with Wilbur in the picture, he can’t sink his hands into Tommy the way he did exile, and he can’t use his words because Wilbur always wins with words.

For a moment, he’s pitiful.

I think how the story actually went didn’t give Wilbur much potential to shine being revived. We had so many great starts, and the tragedy lies in we didn’t get the projected 11-13 streams that were supposed to happen with the burger van era. Sure, we got hitting on 16, but that would’ve been the last 4ish streams.

Wilbur had set up with Ranboo this, understanding. He didn’t like Ranboo because Ranboo was a self claimed centralist who wasn’t really centralist. Wilbur set up that he had this way of thinking where if you did one bad thing it made you bad forever, but this strict rule applied most to himself, he would write off everyone else’s bad with nuance except for his own. He said he felt like a monster. And in talking with Ranboo he said he felt like a monster, that everyone dances so cautiously around him waiting for a slip up so they can go ‘i told you so! he’s bad!’, he said he felt if it’d not been Dream in the prison, he’d be.

And it was Ranboo saying he understood, and explaining his own problems that made Wilbur realize that he wasn’t alone. Ranboo was the only person at that time willing to give him a complete fresh start, a fresh chance. I wholeheartedly think if we’d got those streams, Wilbur would’ve helped bring out Ranboo’s truth, the side he’d taken, which was and would always be those he cared most about. He’d chosen a side, whether he admitted it or not, and it was always going to be Tommy, Tubbo, and Michael. I think Wilbur would’ve helped him stand up for that side, give him that backbone and confidence.

Meanwhile Ranboo would’ve provided what Wilbur needed, a middle ground, and teach him that not everything is black and white there’s nuance and middle ground. They were two people with opposing views that had started to open up and understand each other and I think if we’d gotten that, Revivebur would’ve gone in a different direction.

I think he was underutilized, and I made a post not long ago about my opinions on that and how I felt about the endings so I won’t repeat myself, but I like what revivebur could’ve been. I do like how he reacts finding out about exile, and I wish we would’ve gotten that earlier in the story and that he would’ve acted on it further. Wilbur has for the most part been a pacifist, but he stood up for his friends and family and his values go out the window if you hurt them, and Dream was already past the line.

I don’t think Wilbur would’ve *killed* him, but I think he could’ve been used in Dream’s downfall.

I will not acknowledge ‘allegory for death’ Utah and his ending.

I think my previous ideas of him being revived earlier, and in a different way would’ve benefitted the story much better, and it was implied he was going to! Not only with Eret and Phil’s attempt at revival, but when Foolish had joined the server he’d talked with Tommy and some others about how he had demigod powers, before the lightning and everything else. He was a Totem of Life and Death and on one of his first days in the sever he’d stated he could bring people back to life. I remember a lot thought and theorized that somehow Tommy would get his help with Wilbur… rather than you know, going into the prison a handful of times.

I also just, don’t like Ghostbur’s ending. Ghostbur is his own person, yes, but he’s also a piece of Wilbur. Wilbur is missing a piece in Limbo. I don’t get how that works, I don’t get why they didn’t fuse or merge, or like, why he’s still there after Wilbur left to fucking Utah.

I know it was something *difficult* to do, but they’ve done prerecorded things before. I wish when he attempted to do his apology to Ghostbur, rather than tie Niki into it, he could’ve actually apologized to Ghostbur. We saw the veil of limbo thin before, after the Final Disc Confrontation Wilbur was able to tell Tommy good job from limbo. He could’ve done something to cause that again, and apologize.

Ghostbur could forgive him, say he understands, that he’s a man not yet convinced, he was never the dragon to be slain, something, and then silence, and then they’re halves united again as one, or something.

Due to irl reasons just, after Wilbur was revived not enough happened, a what seemed to have been planned and what seeds were sewn to happen was good! We just never saw it because of communication and rushing. Fuck the only reason we got ho16 was because no one told Wilbur they were doing the break out or that Ranboo was going to die, which meant all he had planned had to be scrapped. Just sucks.

I like revivebur in theory and what he could’ve been and I try to pretend what happened, mainly the most of the apology streams and his ending, didn’t happen.

#rgb asks #dsmp analysis #rgb talking #long post #2020-2024

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a few weeks ago I said I should start taking notes while watching only friends so here are my unfiltered and unedited thoughts on ep. 11:

aw, Plug and Yo are back together.. and now Sand's probably even more sad

honestly I'm with Top here, if Mew said he was ready to forgive him and is now playing this stupid game that's not it like let it go, bestie

aww man, Dan if only you knew.. honestly I was rooting for Dan, I don't think he really has an chance anymore but I thought him and Nick were cute

Ray and Sand's mom.. aww what a cute little scene

nooo not Sand being all sad in the bar :(( I can't take First's teary eyes anymore

oh god now they're both crying oh god

uurrgh now that they're all lovey dovey again that Boeing drama is gonna suck

aaand there he is

huh?? Mew bestie, if you want to give Top a chance then stop being a bitch and actually give him the chance what are you saying??

just shuuut uuup Boeing pls

Boeing is so petty it's hilarious

uuuh, Boston-Nick-Atom-Drama let's goo

yoo, not Nick and Boston teaming up to get revenge they are sick!! two little psychos

not Boston literally saying Atom should get a grip

man, Nick is just so nice I can't take it.. yeah, he's a bit of a weirdo but he's nice

oh yeah just Sand and Ray making me feel even more single than I already am, thanks guys

not Mew and Top both having big fat trust issues like that's maybe not the greatest foundation for a relationship

yeah and see, now Mew messed with Top too much after Top messed with Mew and now he's gonna realize he actually wants him back and bla bla bla

can you tell I'm not the biggest fan of Top and Mew??

eww, Boeing smiling at Sand

hands off of Sand, dude

ahahah wdym Boeing wants to be a flight attendant?? that's so funny oh god

life lessons with the mums

actually funny how the short haired mum is literally just moral support like she barely has any lines

okay, okay is this the first TopMew scene that kind of touched me??

why are they striking such poses for a passport picture??

oh I see we are communicating the Boeing issue love that

Atom telling Cheum the truth?? hope Cheum is going to apologize to Boston

Nick's cute little face when Boston said he's only gonna sleep with him I caaan't his smug little face

actually kind of upset I am only now getting the chemistry between Top and Mew like we are in the second to last episode!! this is so annoying up until here their chemistry was non existent and now the show is almost over but who knows maybe it was intended this way, maybe they just were supposed to be weird around each other because Force and Book clearly work well together but everything before today's ep. was so off

bro, the way my smile faded when Boeing came in

uuuuh the tension between them

not Boeing coming to get on Sand's nerves now after he realized he couldn't do anything to Top and Mew

take his annoying ass away I know he's literally just a plot device but pleeaase take him away

bro stop the acting

oh my goooood stop touching Sand!!

oookaaay what kind of road are we taking with this "pool party"??

oh god what was this ending??

and what was this hell of a preview??

I honestly don't know what to say.. I gotta admit this was the least cursed ep. 11 I've ever seen in all the bl's I've watched but it seems like we're gonna get all that bullshit in ep. 12 and I don't know if I like that

#only friends the series #only friends #broo #brooo #idk what's going on #I did not enjoy the tension of those last few minutes #you could even say I hated it #I really did #gmmtv series #gmmtv #sandray #mewtop #thai bl #bl drama

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littlx-songbxrd · 2 years

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Regarding what you said about there being parallels between Kierak and thomastair, I honestly think there are parallels between a lot of the relationships because CC tends to hit the same beats in her narratives. But yeah there's definitely a lot of parallels between kierark and thomastair but it's interesting how the narrative seems to have more empathy for Kieran then for Alastair gee I wonder why?/s

But the fandom really disliked Kietan back when TDA was still on progress. Like I remember being in the TRENCHES fighting for that man at age 17. And I know there are definitely people who still don't like Alastair but it seems like a lot of the hate towards him has calmed down now, and that has nothing to do with the narrative imo but it's still very critical of Alastair. I think people may have gotten slightly better at empathizing with marginalized characters? But then again, I only really interact with people who are pro Alastair so I might kind of be in a bubble.

Anyways I'm sort of tempted to say Kierark are better written then thomastair but the kierarktina arc is basically over now whereas we still have one more book of tlh.

Sorry this all over the place lol.

Yeah I can definetly see that CC reuses a lot of similar plots and ideas (nods to most (to not say all) of her leads falling into the forbidden romance territory) but this was, actually, somwthing i hadnt quite connected. Which is funny kierark was one of my favorite parts of tda. I loved their dinamic, and when kierak became kieraktina dhjfhfjdkdkfkd

GEE I WONDER WHY HUH. I WONDER WHY

Ok so i came very late to the tda fandom so most ive seen are the REMNANTS of kieran hate. Now no one really talks about him which is a shame. But I can see why the fandom would do him like that. However, Alastairs character in the fandom is kind of debatable. Like Alastair fandom is only relatively chill on tumblr. Yeah you see an anti every once in a while and perhaps some extremly bad takes but nothing too bad.

Outside of this plataform its chaos i promise. Back when i initially really got fixiated on tlh, like now I can say tlh is just a relative obsession and interest but back when chog cake out no that was a fixiation for me that was almost 3 weeks of sleep breathing eating any and all content on tlh.

But I didnt have tumblr so I had to get my sources,,, in other places. Every book review I watched of tlh treated Alastair horribly. Every instagram blog literally dragged his name through the mud. I literally only came to see Alastair in a positive light when i downloaded this hell site 😭

I went back to watch some reviews when choi came out and they were AS bad if not worse. Maybe im just annoyed but god if i have to hear one more white person talk about how insignifucant alastairs racial issues are i will throw smth.

Ive seen reviewers go as far as call Alastair homophobic for treating mathew badly 😭😭

Anyways i feel like we all live in a buble here cause were chill bit outside the buble they hate his guts and i want to unread that one confession page that said he was hoping he'd die in the first book so they didnt have to deal with him.

Oh no. Kieraktinas arc is way better written and how i see this going

I love thomastair but will admit i love it vecause i basically rescued it from the mess that is their canon. I dont have a lot of hope for chot.

#fae!!

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ri-writing · 2 years

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Dear Book, please stop doing this to me (or Ri yells into the void about a throw away line with implications)

I was working on Part 2 of my meta essay on Jordan and Ixil and trust, and was flipping through my copy of Icarus Hunt looking for the right chapter (the one I want to discuss is Chapter 13), when I stumbled on something in Chapter 12 that I hadn't noticed before. It's fascinating, and I'm trying to figure out if it's intentional or if it's a case where the author made a mistake.

Honestly, someone needs to take this book away from me. All I wanted to do was write a nice essay series about how a trust plot line gave me feels, but there's too much stuff in this book and I keep getting distracted by all the details that make me go “wait.....omg, how did I miss this?!” in a book I've easily read three dozen times.

Cut – because it deals with spoilers. Everything with this book is a spoiler, I swear to god.

Alright. Welcome to my Side Quest that I'm now spinning my brain around. In Chapter 12, Tera is explaining why she called in the tip against Jordan at the Meima spaceport - namely she calls in the tip to prevent Jordan from reaching the ship before Arno, so that Arno can sneak aboard. That explanation seems to make sense.

But today it hit me - at the time the tip is called in, Tera and Jordan have never met. Jordan sees her for the first time when he reaches the ship. It feels pretty safe to say that this is the first time Jordan lays eyes on her. He describes her in the same manner he describes the other crew member characters. Jordan does not connect her with Arno. As he's trying to figure out each member of the crew, his assumption about Tera is that she's part of a religious sect that doesn't trust outsiders. He holds that assumption about her at least until he's talking with Uncle Arthur, as that's where he suggests Uncle Arthur look to try to find out information about her. Learning she's Arno's daughter is a real shock to him – so much so that he barges into her room to confront her. Even afterward, he's not completely sure that it's true. This man had no idea Tera had a connection to Arno Cameron. We can confidently say that Jordan's never seen Tera before he meets her in the spaceport.

But Tera's seen him.

As I noted above, Tera admits to being the person who calls in the tip that got Jordan detained back in Chapter 2. This is before Jordan and Tera meet. She knows what he looks like well enough to pick him out of a crowd. (We know there's a crowd at the gate; Jordan literally uses that word). The only way Tera would know what Jordan looked like was if she was in the taverno when Arno hired him.

But Ri, you might be asking, couldn't Tera have looked Jordan up? He gave Arno his name. He has a Mercantile Authority File with his photo in it. It would make a lot more sense if Tera simply had his name and saw his picture.

That would normally make sense, but in Chapter 2, we're told the photo in Jordan's file is old and looks nothing like Jordan now. The fact that Jordan no longer resembles his old photograph is what saves him initially from all the bounty hunters looking for him. Given that people whose job is to find those who do not want to be found are unable to recognize Jordan based on his picture, Tera's not realistically going to be able to pick him out of a crowd based only on the old picture. For her to pick one guy out of many and know that he's Icarus crew, she must have seen Jordan now. And she would need to have seen him with her father to know he’d been hired. That only happens once up until this point - in the taverno. Tera was somewhere in that room. Jordan tells us the room is dark and crowded; it would be all too easy for Tera to blend into the background and watch.

Of course, that raises the question of why she's there. Arguably, she could have been shadowing her father in her role as his mole, but that's contradicted by evidence from elsewhere in the book. We know that she doesn't see Arno hire the medic. If she had, she would have known that Everett was not the medic Arno hired. We also know that she doesn't see Arno hire Jones. During Jordan's homage to murder mysteries, she gets temporarily confused as to whether Jones and Jordan had worked together. Tera even tells Jordan that the plan was for her to be kept out of the hiring process. Presumably, that's what happened.

Which then circles us back to why Tera was in the taverno. Now, it could be that Zahn messed up. There are a lot of inconsistencies between this novel and the sequel that look like mistakes. (Uncle Arthur, for example, is a general in Icarus Hunt but is referred to as an admiral in Icarus Plot; Tera's last initial, let alone her last name, is never used in front of the Patth, but the Patth know her as ‘Tera C’ somehow. Authorial mistake is a possible explanation). The original Icarus Hunt itself, though, is too tightly plotted and the language of each conversation too carefully selected for me to think it's a mistake. The whole sequence with Jordan being detained is too critical to the plot.

Maybe Arno and Tera ended up in the same place accidentally and then became trapped with all the other patrons when the Yavanni decided to barricade the place off. Coincidence and bad luck are real things that happen. Maybe they staged a hiring meet-up there so that, if anyone ever did try to look into the hiring of the crew, nothing appeared out of the ordinary and Tera could claim to have been hired off the street just like everyone else. Regardless, it's an interesting little observation that's itching at my brain. Because I do want to know why. And how. And what Tera thinks of the whole scene from Chapter 1. These are questions to which I’ll likely never receive an answer.

I've long thought that the two major supporting characters (Tera and Ixil) have more interesting stories than Jordan. What makes them even more intriguing is that most of their stories happen between the lines and off the pages. We never get all the details – and we likely never will - but the glimpses we do get are fascinating.

#icarushunt #icarus hunt #i read way too much into things #and then talk to myself about them on tumblr

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2, 4, 28, 30, and 33 for the film questions!

2.Favorite director(s)?

Oh god there are so many to list and I know I’m going to forget so many but here we go- I’m also gonna include some showrunner directors in here bc honestly there are way more talented female directors making shows than there are those who make feature films and I need to give them credit for how much they inspire me too. Some of these may be painfully obvious and others not so much but here we go:

Guillermo Del Toro, Mike Flannagan, Peter Jackson, Hiyao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Lily and Lana Watchowski, Todd Phillips, Wes Anderson, Robert Eggers, Bong Joon-Ho, Mel Brooks, Taika Watiti, The Coen Brothers, Jon Favreau, Terry Gilliam, Makoto Shinkai, Jim Henson, John Hughes, Chris AND Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Noah Baumbach, Sergio Leone, Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Jonathan E. Steinburg, Sam Mendez, Kenneth Branagh, Vince Gilligan, Spike Jonze, Spike Lee, Rian Johnson, Tarsem Singh, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and begrudgingly Quentin Tarantino (bc even tho he is way overrated in the film bro community he does make some fun movies it has to be said)

4.What’s a movie you watched over and over again as a child that you still love?

Another that I remember watching a LOT is legally blonde. When I started sleeping by myself at night my parents let me keep a tiny DVD player in my room and I used to watch movies on it to go to sleep (also bc I was afraid of the dark for a long ass time) and I distinctly remember Legally Blonde was the first one that I put on every night to sleep to lmao.

28.Recommend three completely different movies.

Aight. First if you haven’t seen Top Gun Maverick you should bc it’s all practical and that’s fucking insane to do and nobody else has made a flight movie like this ever. The original looks like fucking tinker toys in comparison I mean like literally but it walked so this film could fucking SOAR so… yeah. There u go.

Next is a deep cut: Bicycle Thieves. Italian Neo-Realism at its finest (which basically means none of the “actors” in it were career actors- just normal people, and no extras either- nothing is staged it’s all 100% just footage from the real world, and also probably the best child actor I’ve ever seen playing the kid in this ever. Also this was Sergio Leone before all the spaghetti westerns and frankly I think this might be my fave film of his to trump them all).

Another deep cut but since we’re thinking about star wars and obi wan kenobi I can’t help but mention The Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa. If you want to know where Star Wars comes from? Thats it. In its entirety. And Toshiro Mifune essentially plays the original Obi Wan Kenobi (and god what a perfect world that could’ve been if he had but this is a great window into that- also I think he’s a better sword fighter than Alec Guinness for sure). I might have to even re-watch again for further parallels to the Kenobi series man.

30.Favorite movie with a pet/animal as an important aspect?

I mean god where do I start. First that comes to mind is Babe bc I watched that so much as a kid it’s burned into my head now. Then I thought Okja because jesus that fucker got dark (but god damn important as a film for sure)… but fuck all that we’re gonna go with Balto because that was my fave as a kid I even had a wolf stuffie I named Balto after him so there u go.

33.Name a film you could write an entire 10+ page essay on. (If you’ve done it, what was the focus?)

Well I mean I have written many 10 page papers on many films lmao. My first was on LOTR and it was focused on Merry and Pippin but in hindsight it wasn’t the most well thought out theme or execution (but then again whose first college paper is?) but WITH that hindsight it’s really a think piece about the vitality of side characters to the movement of plot- using both the book and the films as examples to how Merry and Pippin shape the story of LOTR way more than they’re given credit for. Yes I have always been a slut for them.

Another one I wrote more recently was a comparison of horror director methodology to edgar allan poe’s essays on writing structure in which I of course used GDT and crimson peak as my prime example- given time I would’ve delved more into mike flannagan and robert eggers films and shows too as examples of the grander cinematic gothic revival, but alas, that’s a whole ass thesis and it was only a 7 page assignment and I didn’t have that kind of time. Also I did a critical analysis about the ending of Apt Pupil once that correlated the nazi imagery to the american male teenager that earned me a handshake from my professor and an A for the course but like y’know no big deal. And of course y’all know how bad down I am about midnight mass I mean Y’all have seen the meta posts that are somehow still circulating. I have so much about that series living in my head and never enough time to put it to paper lmao. In fact thats true of a lot of things I literally have so many essays in my head happening all at once and I am always looking for some kind of excuse to write it but never getting one lmao

FILM QUESTIONS

#ask games

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As someone who also doesn't like Cable and has seen too many pride posts about him, I have to ask: what do you think of the way Cable treats Wade? because I've seen so many variations of it and I'm not interested enough to read Cable/Deadpool comics like I did to Spider-man/Deadpool. Is Cable a self-centered asshole? Does he use Deadpool and discards him when he sees fit? Is he reluctantly fond of him? Lay it all on me, dude.

Btw, I agree with all you said about Spideypool and that's precisely why I have no interest in other Deadpool ships.

Wow so this ask has been waiting since June 20.... I'm so sorry for the lateness but the thing I was going to reread some of Cable and Deadpool 2004 so I would have more concrete material to complain about but I only read one volume before I got so fuckin sick of it bc I genuinely cannot stand Cable oh my God

So here's why I don't like Cable and specifically why I don't like cablepool from my vague recollections of reading some c&d like eight years ago plus the one volume I reread last summer for this ask

Cable is meant to be a serious character to outbalance Deadpool's wackiness, but they overshoot and end up with callous disrespect

Spider-Man's dislike of Deadpool at first comes from a fundamental disagreement with Wade's chosen profession - killing for money - and in one of my favorite scenes says that while Wade wants to be a hero, he confuses doing the right thing for being adored. Cable's equivalent reaction is just sort of because he's a dick? And in the comic they're literally forced to spend time together bc of comic book bs, and it's just. I don't feel like Cable ever treats Wade like a person.

I also just in general... Don't find Cable or his plots interesting. He's involved in all these X Men shenanigans, got all this time travel shit going on, and he just plain does not work for me as a character.

I honestly don't mind that other people ship cablepool, even though I think it's toxic, because I ship spideypool specifically in a toxic way. But I like both Peter and Wade, it's not hard for me to enjoy reading or writing a fic about them. But cablepool just isn't for me at the end of the day. I don't enjoy the stories their comics choose to tell and I find that Cable is generally dismissive for no real reason towards Wade which gets on my nerves.

#so yeah that's it sorry for not getting around to this for so long #I kept telling myself I'd read more cable and deadpool and then not doing it #dp #marvel comics #marvel #gail speaks #ask #tsuyoiqueen

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Uhm, hello...I just read your imagine of YUTA, the one called motherFUCKER I think? And even though I just reblogged it screaming, I wanted to message you and tell you, girl (I'm assuming you are a girl as you write m x f, sorry if you arent) you are fucking talented.

I usually cringe so much at smut writtings and stuff, overall in general...I tend to dislike all of it and read it only when I'm bored, but this work? Dude, you literally broke me emotionally. Like this post had me wanting to throw the computer to the damn wall, and that's something only "real" books like Shadowhunters got me to do, like bro...BRO I CRIED! AND I ONLY CRIED WHEN MY BOY WILL HERONDALE BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIS BESTIE BC HE LOVED HIS GIRL TOO MUCH (heartbreaking, yall should read it), like IT WAS THAT GOOD BRO!!! Seriously, I feel emotionally broken, and now I want a bf like Yuta in your work, man....wow, just wow.

OH MY GOD, I JUST LOGGED ONTO TUMBLR ON MY LAPTOP. I DIDN'T GET THIS VIA MOBILE and NOW I WANT TO FIGHT THE TUMBLR HIGHER UPS. i'm so sorry i couldn't get to this sooner, please trust the moment i would've seen this ask i would've been bawling on the floor from such kind words!!!!

i am a degenerate through and through, and i'm very easy to please, so i love smut very much (i kind of apologize for being cum brained). if the fucking is good, i'm already into it-- story wise though? i go absolutely belligerent for a good plot <3 so i try to make sure i hold myself to the same standards as the fics i enjoy. but to know that i actually got people to CRY??? AGHHH my heart is so warm

realistically speaking i would never want a man like motherfucker yuta LOL, but in regards to fiction i kinda do.. something about a dude that is just so passionate for you that he's willing to go to hell and back for you is just... a lil hot. i'm a fiend for angst <3

i'll definitely peep shadowhunters!! i love young adult sci fi/fantasies very much because a lot of them have excellent romances, even more so than actual adult sci fis!! honestly i read a book called 'daughter of the moon goddess' around the time i posted the first part of motherfucker, and his characterization is very loosely based off of one of the love interests.

again thank you SO SO much, i'm so grateful for you and everyone else who's stopped by for motherfucker because i still have really mixed feelings about it <3 but you've really made my night, i can't thank you enough for reading and enjoying

#jessamine-room #the sweetest readers #opened my laptop and fell to my knees after reading this message you are SO SO AMAZING

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sukirichi · 3 years

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jujutsu kaisen characters as students in high school: (non-canon AU)

featuring: itadori yuuji, fushiguro megumi, gojo satoru, getou suguru, & ryoumen sukuna notes: some parts include you as their friend, or even their high school love! (this is unedited/ not proofread)

masterlist ! requests are open

𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐈 𝐘𝐔𝐔𝐉𝐈

he’s not the brightest bulb, but he makes up for it through hardwork and enthusiasm

yuuji is literally that classmate everyone is just friends with

the type who waves with a smile, saying “good morning!” the moment he walks through that door

with that being said, since he’s everyone’s friend, i headcannon that yuuji doesn’t really have a best friend because he’s so open and available to everyone it’s hard to have just a one on one conversation with him

not to say he’s always surrounded by a crowd that you can’t get near him, but everyone likes talking to yuuji

he just fits in so well and understands people

kind of like how he easily clicked with junpei (please, i miss him, i still can’t believe that he’s...you know...)

whether it’s the guys raving to him about sports

or girls shyly talking about their crush on class or about that new shojo manga

yuuji is open to anything and everyone. this boy wears his heart on his sleeve and he’s honestly such a precious boy, please be kind to him <3

the type of student that gets called to answer in class but isn’t shy to admit he doesn’t know the answer while rubbing the back of his neck

he does pay attention tho

i think it’s canon that yuuji is a dedicated man, like from that time he just watched movies straight and kept his cursed energy controlled so the cursed corpse would stop hitting him

overall, yuuji is a very hard working student!

he wouldn’t get over the top grades, but he’s really proud of himself (and he should be!)

also that one kid in class that is surprisingly good in sports despite his lanky figure and laid back persona, because all the other sports-craved people are always flexing or challenging other captains

but plot twist, this boy is ripped and very, beautifully kept in trim

yeah he’s not really into club activities that much

not because he hates them, but he’s just not that into it. he’s more than glad to join in whatever activities though and enjoys them, but if asked what he’d like to do, it wouldn’t be that first thing that came to mind

in conclusion: itadori yuuji is the class sunflower that lights up everyone’s day 🌻

yuuji’s role: the hard worker!

𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐌𝐈

hands down, megumi is THAT student

if you’re volunteering in the library, you can sure as hell guarantee you’ll see megumi there

he doesn’t like studying in class because it’s too noisy, so if he’s in school, you’ll always see his name in the library logs

he’s that kid that aces all exams

the type to scowl when he sees a 96% mark because he’s expecting a perfect mark

okay before you come at me, i’m not saying megumi is that annoying smart kid in class that goes, “Oh, I’m so dumb, just a 96?”

no he’s more frustrated at himself because he knows he studied hard and lost sleep over it. he’s just wondering where he went wrong. he has literal note cards and customize flash cards on an app on his phone, waking up every four am and probably taking supplement classes after regular school hours

i headcannon that megumi is someone who always wants to do his best and actually goes through lengths to prove his worth

maybe it stems from having the need to show who he really is and what he’s capable of

but yeah i can totally see him doing that

also that cute student that keeps visiting the cafe every saturday morning, wearing a black hoodie and headphones tucked in, his pretty hands nestling over a book

he looks like a gamer but honestly i don’t think he’s got time for that lmao

would also be that guy people find hard to approach because of his quiet and reserved self

he’s pretty intimidating too

definitely sits beside the window at the back of the class. you can’t fight me on that

just because he’s smart and loves studying, it doesn’t mean he’ll sit on the front row and raise his hand every damn second

the teachers will encourage him to participate in class a little bit more, especially after seeing he’s awkward during group activities, but megumi just really prefers to do things by himself

i also headcannon him eating in the cafeteria like everyone else instead of having his alone time during a rooftop? like idk i can’t picture megumi completely isolating himself like that

he blends in well in a way that you know he’s just like everyone else; a human

but he also stands out in the manner that he’s a lot more introverted and reserved compared to everyone else

surprisingly good during sports and relay games

100% reliable

the type to stay up at midnight to finish a group project, sighing because his groupmates doesn’t care as much as he does, but turns it in anyway the next day

he’d be annoyed at them, but he doesn’t really like confrontation so he doesn’t out them to the teacher like that

but he’s also not someone who lets people walk over him, so he’ll simply say something about his groupmates becoming more responsible and to be serious for once as a “warning”

and yeah, he may be closed off, but once you get really close with him (even better if you have similar interests) you’ll find there’s a lot more to him than what you’ve originally seen and he’s actually a pretty great friend and supportive classmate

would teach you instead of just letting you copy his work or snap pictures of his notes

ugh he’s so responsible and morally right and that’s so attractive help

in conclusion: fushiguro megumi is the hidden gem 💎

megumi’s role: the intellectual outsider!

𝐆𝐎𝐉𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐔

man...i don’t know how to start this

i’ve said this about megumi, but gojo is also that student

no, in fact, he’s THE student

everyone loves him. literally everyone

the teachers? smitten

his classmates? in love

the school guard? calls him by his first name

the cleaning lady? turns into a star with the way she lightens up when he’s there

the cafeteria staff? yeah free food because he’s gojo satoru

gojo is what i like to call the “one who has it all” because....well, he kind of does

he’s really smart and talented, which comes as a surprise to everyone in the first day of school when he nearly gets kicked out for falling asleep in class

only for everyone to be shocked that he knows the answer already and the teacher is only discussing chapter 1 lmao

yeah he’d be that kid who always sleeps in class

or is playing games on his phone behind an open textbook

he literally doesn’t listen to what the teacher is saying at all - or at least that’s what he wants you to think

man is a god at multitasking and his seatmate would snicker because he’s crushing his enemies at a phone game, but then gojo coolly corrects the teacher about history or something

he’s pretty laid back tbh

but when he’s got everyone’s attention on him? ofc he’d show off

basketball meats are wild. even students from neighbouring schools would visit just to see gojo play - and he’s not even an official member! the coach just asked him to replace a sick player but boy won that champion shot

omg BASKETBALL PLAYER GOJO I CAN’T

but he pretty much excels at everything

except cooking class, gosh, don’t ever bring this man anywhere near a fire. that’s probably the only thing that really got him to detention this time because he always somehow talks himself out of getting that red card with his words and charm

also that kid that would receive lots of confession letters, chocolates, and random gifts in his shoe lockers

he knows he’s handsome and he’s not shy about it. in fact, he’s shameless when it comes to his allure on people

but he also doesn’t really date anyone (it’s canon this man won’t stay loyal to a single woman lmao)

if he and megumi were classmates, they’d be sort of rivals

megumi would always come on top of class, but gojo is just a breath away from the former’s perfect marks. if it only weren’t for megumi’s squeaky clean record and reputation - whereas satoru’s is TAINTED as heck - and the fact that gojo doesn’t really study as much as gumi, then yeah he’d also be top of the class if he wanted to

on a much more serious note,,,gojo acts like nothing really bothers him and he’s simply that effortless

but i feel like he grew up with tutors from a very young age and that’s how his natural intelligence was just further improved and increased with that type of environment in his childhood

and unlike megumi, i don’t think gojo would really have a set goal in mind on who he wants to be or what he wants to do in the future

he’d just be enjoying the moment <3

in conclusion: gojo satoru is the effortless god!

satoru’s role: the lazy king everyone is envious of

𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐔

the playboy

you can’t argue with me on this one

he just is, i feel it deep in my SOUL he just is

moment he walks in, all classy and suave aura and all, you can honestly smell and taste the amount of confidence that drips from him

probably came from a well-off family

probably the mayor’s kid lmao and he’s been used to the attention ever since he was young

much like megumi, he’s not really the type to show off his intelligence

and similar to gojo, people are surprised he’s actually got them brain cells just because everyone is more focused on his appearance first

like who would expect this tall hunk beautiful beast of a man with long hair and piercings actually liked classic novels and could effortlessly recite sonatas and poems in different languages

yeah i headcannon that getou is an intellectual, cultured man

ofc having long hair and piercings isn’t allowed in his school, but because he’s geto and the school knows about his family’s influence, they just let it slide

probably comes late to school too

he eats in the cafeteria, but you don’t really see him indulge much. some days, he’ll have his own fancy bento box prepared by a family chef, but geto is actually pretty simple and humble that he also buys packed bread or canned coffee

takes the library volunteer by surprise when he drops by one friday after class to borrow an old classic novel that even your professors had a hard time analysing

but geto’s like, “oh this? yeah i last read it when i was thirteen, thought i’d read it again”

IDK WHY but I can see him as sort of breaking the rules when it comes to the school uniform

top three buttons of his shirt open when he’s feeling hot or something

doesn’t really keep his tie that tight too

but overall, geto is a composed and well-put together guy

i just can’t picture him slacking when it comes to his appearance, he’s too fancy and pretty for that

he’s also similar to megumi in a way people find it hard to approach them, but most definitely, geto also receives confessions often

i can see him dating someone after being interested in someone in school and actually being serious with them unlike gojo

then they would be “that” couple that’re just so couple goals

not the type that goes overboard with pda and pulls off the angry face emoji when they hear someone talking about them and they’re like, “NO HE’S MINE”

okay that’s cringe but i legit witnessed that way too many times in high school yall cant blame me lmao

but they’d be more like the chill laid back couple that supports each other in everything and you can just tell they have a happy, healthy relationship

(oh to be getou’s girlfriend in high school and his first love and all his firsts)

in conclusion: getou suguru is the unpredictable!

getou’s role is: that one classmate you really admire but he’s so far out your league but he’s genuinely a good guy anyway so you’re happy for him no matter what <3

𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐔𝐊𝐔𝐍𝐀

okay okay hear me out but...the stoner

i really can’t see him any other way guyssss

and if you’re his classmate, you most likely wouldn’t see him that much either

dude is like 2-3 years older than everyone in class and he doesn’t give a shit about it

he’ll come like...once a week, if he’s in the mood enough

teachers don’t even bother scolding him for his tattoos anymore because there’s rumours going around he’s the son of a yakuza leader or that he’s a gangster who sells organs or some creepy dark stuff

ofc he doesn’t do that

he just does drugs and gets drunk at most

sukuna doesn’t really have that much friends either. yeah he parties with people and often gets high with some older kids, but he doesn’t genuinely enjoy their companies either

would totally come to school with his uniform unironed

red-eyed from his high and naps at the back of the class, making the teacher soften their voice in fear of waking him up

also doesn’t have a pen or paper

i mean...he doesn’t even bring a bag

fails the exams all the time, making him repeat year by year, and he’s even known for beating his senpai up for something stupid and sending the guy to a hospital where he stays for two weeks

but on the other hand

he’s also freakishly attractive and surprisingly easy to talk to

you probably bumped into him one time and you profusely apologize, but then he notices something about, something odd like, “did you just cut your hair?”

“uhm yes...you noticed?”

sukuna shrugs lazily, “noticed something was different, but whatever. it looks good on you though.”

he’s just soooo nonchalant most of the time, it’s hard to believe he’s actually pretty violent

but yeah this man has anger issues i’m sorry

but with that speaking, i actually don’t see sukuna as a bully with like a gang of his “followers” or that type of jazz

he’s more like the kid that hides under the bleachers or gets high in a storage room while everyone else is occupied with school festivals

it’s a shock he even came, but sukuna just says “free food is always a gift” but ofc it’s not free food...he just steals from the stalls

now here comes the fun part

so now that we know sukuna pretty much is a hopeless case...suddenly, he isn’t? maybe he meets you, the class volunteer who goes out of their way to visit his shabby apartment just to hand him his class work that he’s missed out on

he obviously disses you at first and ignores you, telling you to get lost

but somehow your kindness and persistence has him breaking

now he starts coming to school often, carrying a pack of gum or mint pops because he smells like weed and he’s slightly conscious of himself

this is supposed to be just them being students in high school, but i could honestly sukuna changing colors once he just gets a better grasp of what would be good for him

or maybe something finally interests him and gives answers to his silent questions

i feel like he’s such a troubled kid and just lacks proper care and attention, but once you become his friend and show him you don’t have bad intentions, he’s actually a loyal and decent guy

and when you two finally get close, you eventually gain enough courage to tutor him. sukuna is actually pretty smart too, he just doesn’t like studying, but when you compliment him, oh man, he melts

“yeah, you actually got that right! i told you you could do this!”

tsk,” he scoffs, “that’s all kindergarten shit.”

“if it is, then why haven’t you graduated?”

“shut the fuck up.”

although he sneers, you and sukuna have gotten close enough that you know both of you don’t mean anything bad behind those words and it’s all light hearted teasing

oh and when you ask him to take a picture with you for “high school memories?”

sukuna is disgusted

“get that thing away from my face - did you just take my photo?”

“yeah, you look pretty cute here! i’m so printing this and putting this in my album.”

sukuna is about to scold you even more, but the thought of you putting your photo together - even when he’s frowning in the picture - in something as sentimental as a photo book really has him softening up

would even try - keyword is try - to study more just so you’d stop frowning when you see his paper covered in red marks all over again

and he’d even try cutting down on his weed for the sake of his “health”

ofc he won’t suddenly - or ever, even - become the amazing student megumi is

he’ll still get into trouble because he’s impulsive and has poor coping skills, also he’s not good with words or dealing with his emotions

but on his good days, he’s a pretty funny guy

it just takes a lot to see that side of him, but it’s worth the time and patience

also i was expecting to write funny scenarios or imagines of stoner! sukuna because he’s too high to even hold a proper conversation sometimes but all i got is him saying weird words like “snail trap” or something when you ask him how his day is

would also have that garbled little laugh when he’s so out of it

sukuna will try to be better though, you just need to be patient him

but my GOSH when he finally graduates

he’s going to hide that little smile because deep down, he’s also pretty proud of himself and how far he’s come <3

lol now this makes me want to writer a high school au lololol

in conclusion: yeah he’s the stoner with a good heart

which is so not canon...this shouldn’t even be a headcanon we know ryoumen sukuna is PURE EVIL but oh well maybe when I’m down from my sukuna high I’ll write him a lot more canonically

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miraculousmaladys · 3 years

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TFP If You Ship...

Ultra Magnus

I would also like to warn yall, I do roast the shit outta these ships and you. Some of y'all are nasty and need to be told/reminded, and some of you need to stay far the fuck away from me. Aight? Aight lets begin.

MagOp/OpMag/Magnimus/ Ultra Magnus x Optimus Prime: You pretentious bitch. You absolute fucking- I have no fucking words to describe how beige you are. You 're personality is plain oatmeal. Message me. I want to beat your ass. You prolly like them for the fact that they can relate to each other, and because of their importance to the war. But I hate you cause you also have more content. Fuck you. May your cereal turn soggy before you can eat that shit, may your drawing tablet get so hot in that one corner that you can fry bacon on that bitch. Fuck you.

MagMeg/Magatron(ew)/ Ultra Magnus x Megatron: you eat mayonnaise with a fucking spoon. Y'all saw that one scene with them on Darkmount and was just like "hm, but what if fuck?" and ran with it. You went to Ao3 expecting kinky shit, but all you got was stuff for IDW Megs and Mags and honestly baby, its gon' be okay.

Matchet/Ragus?/ Ultra Magnus x Ratchet: Yes we get it, the old man can dom now shut the fuck up. If taking your S/O to the nursing home as a date was a ship it'd be these old crotchety ass bitches. But, but, on a more serious note this ship can be so therapeutic for both mechs. These two were there way before the start of the war, they lived through it, and they knew Optimus all throughout. I imagine Ratchet would tell Magnus about Orion before his ascension to the primacy. I ain't ever been more depressed scrolling through a tag though, y'all broke bitches need whatever the fuck UltraScreen is having.

Magbee/Ultra Bumble/Ultra Magnus x Bee: I ain't ever seen two same heighted Cybertronians in a relationship, always one of'em gotta be spike suckin' height.

UltraJack/ Ultra Magnus x Wheeljack: Listen, listen, both these mechs love their solitary time and it can create so much angst, SO MUCH. Magnus feeling he must uphold his duties and Wheeljack having a mindset similar to a pirate. His spark belongs to the stars AND Magnus, but the stars will always come first. But bitch this is Ultra Magnus. We horny. We know Wheeljack is a fucking brat, and Ultra Magnus is his Dom.... baby we nasty. We nasty and there is no fucking denying that shit my GOD.

Ultrabulk/ Ultra Magnus x Bulkhead: Listen man as crazy as this might sound, I think this could work. Just like any other ship with Bulkhead you are fucking STRUGGLING though dude, you got like 5 fics you keep coming back to. You cry at night, knowing, and praying, that the gods will smile upon you and bless you with an update. You know you struggling when you only got three fics that have this ship as the focus. If y'all ban together I'm sure you can scrounge together like three pieces of fanart and a lint roller between the four of you.

UltraScream/ Ultra Magnus x Starscream: I don't see how anyone could hate this ship. Like, they literally work as really good foils to each other. You've got Magnus who is loyal as fuck, very militaristic??? And very much involved with the safety of his team. He's described as recklessly brave. Starscream on the other hand has a lot of character to work on and Magnus could help him along with that, and he can teach Magnus self preser- fucking-vation because Mr. "gets fucking chomped by a predacon for another bitchass Autobot" needs it. You're fuckass wants someone to save you, or you want to go absolutely apeshit. You are the mom friend everyone is worried about.

Ultracee/ Ultra Magnus x Arcee: Huh?? I mean like....Okaaaayy?? I mean good for you. This ship makes me feel the way that you feel when someone offers you candy you don't like, but you wouldn't mind eating it so you do. To be honest the people who ship this definitely see diamonds in places others wouldn't expect, but like you're so fucking unnessecary oh my god. Like you prolly add weird ass comments to other peoples statements, ain't nobody out here asking for an echo. Sit down.

UltraShock: ya like'em thicc don't you commanding officer Ultra Magnus? Anyway maybe y'all could team up with UltraBulk shippers and add a pile of used soda cans to the pile. Y'all are ghosts, do you even exist on this plane. My guesstimate on how many people actually ship this forreal is like 5.

Ultrawave/MagnusSound/Magnus x Soundwave: Listen if the Ultrabulk shippers are starving y'all ain't even corporeal. I show up to this ship with a fucking ghost talk box and some heat sensors, and like one boombox tryna see if GHOSTS even inhabit this bitch. Y'all aight? Are y'all good?? HELLO IN THERE (hello in there) (hello in there). Yall really go all out for the goth shit. Prolly hidin' in the shadows of my house waiting to strike.

Ultrascreen:

You, and I mean this in the most (derogatory) way possible, are a fucking

HOE

Literally looked on AO3 saw nearly NOTHING BUT kinky MF PORN. The oooonly plot y'all got is exactly how long Ultra Magnus can deny Smokescreen an overload. Why every time it comes to Magnus people make this by the books vanilla bitch the kinkiest one. YES I love subverting expectations but can I PLEASE get one fic where he sputters because his partner says a bad word. These two are the main ones who get this treatment, and baby I ain't complaining, but please. Please just- please sir I-I a-ah!

Ultradown: The UltraBulk, and UltraWave shippers come here every year, at the exact same location, at the exact same time, all for this ritual. The UltraWave shippers take out a boombox, some energon candies, and a supersized Cybertronian false spike. The UltraBulkers begin to sing the incantation to summon their fallen comrade: https://youtu.be/m9We2XsVZfc. They must do this once every year, they must battle the UltraDown shippers, though most would say they are a myth, the UltraShock and UltraWave shippers know better.

MagnusOut/KnockMagnusOut?/Ultra Knockout: Listen its not as horny as Smokescreen but the constant tension is definitely there. Knockout is just as horny as the depressed, RE-pressed ass Magnus fans and can you really blame him? Boyfriend? Dead. Magnus? kinky. Hotel? California.

/If I missed any let my gay ass know. Sorry if this ones lackluster, but some of these ships don't even really seem to have a fanbase?? Remember that these are TFP ships y'all.

Also I better see more Bulkhead content after this. Do you all have a problem with truly thicc bootyful babes or what?

#Ultra Magnus #transformers prime #TFP if you ship #Ultra Magnus x Optimus Prime #Ultra Magnus x Megatron #Ultra Magnus x Ratchet #Ultra Magnus x Bumblebee #Ultra Magnus x Wheeljack #Ultra Magnus x Bulkhead #Ultra Magnus x Starscream #Ultra Magnus x Arcee #Ultra Magnus x Shockwave #Ultra Magnus x Soundwave #Ultra Magnus x Smokescreen #Ultra Magnus x Breakdown #Ultra Magnus x Knockout #valveplug

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vidalinav · 2 years

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One of the fun things I like to do is to come up with plots for acotar that would contain all of the plot points already established but arranged in a way that doesn’t seem so choppy or ambiguous.

So one of the plots that I came up with is having Nesta married off to Koschei right in the beginning. Let me explain. Everything in acotar happens the same except when Feyre leaves to go save Tamlin, Nesta receives a letter from her mom’s cousin from the continent. Nesta goes because she wants to make something of herself as she says and she also has unresolved issues with her mother and none with her father/sister, so she goes. That’s where she’ll discover this “unnamed fae” bloodline and find out that she’s a part of that bloodline, and that she’s a “witch.” An actual one. This will eventually tie into why she’s “Mother blessed.”

Koschei is actually moving all these strings and her mother makes a deal with Koschei that she’ll marry Nesta off to him, which is why she raised her like a queen and to rule kingdoms. Why I’ll get to, but it has a lot to do with Fionn and the wife and the general, and eventually human rebellion. But she marries him, being honestly trapped into this, and she joins the troop of women who are stuck on the island with him. She has magic hence why she can withstand glamour and why she was “other” the whole time, and he teaches her how to use it so she can be his spy.

Koschei is pulling a lot of the string with Amarantha and Hybern and the queens. So the reason why Hybern even gets the feet of the cauldron and the cauldron itself is because Koschei knows where they are and how to get them past wards. Koschei uses Nesta to help them, so she becomes a sort of “villain” in the sense that no one knows what her motives are. Feyre and Elain have no clue any of this is going on. But Rhys does only slightly because of Amarantha. Amarantha refuses to do anything because she thinks she has Prythrian in the bag, and she’s not going to be run by any beast trapped on a lake.

But Feyre breaks the curse and Amarantha is killed. Tamlin situation happens, Rhys comes and saves the day, the cauldron becomes a problem, and they contact the queens for the book as usual. But when they get to the estate, Elain tells them that Nesta has been gone for months now and she thought she knew because of the note that Nesta left. Feyre’s like... okay I guess she did go off and see what she’s made of. They contact the queens, they are all sneaky because they all are already aligned with Koschei who is now playing two sides. The queens think that they’re colluding with Hybern, but Koschei is using them too. They’ve even seen Nesta before which is why that one queen harbors such hated for her. Koschei thinks using the cauldron will set him free, but he needs someone to put it together, to test it and to wield it so he entices the queens and Hybern to do this. Power and immortality. Except Hybern trying to one up Koschei and prove that he is the all powerful and he will not be sharing power throws Nesta into the cauldron along with Elain. Nesta takes from the cauldron as per usual and the queens try next and that one queen turns into an old hag, segmenting why she hates Nesta specifically. But key difference is that after Nesta comes to herself in that moment, she kills Hybern right then for doing that to her.

Cutting out the middle man and getting rid of one war, because we don’t need it. Made literally no difference.

Now the conflict is the death god siblings and Koschei specifically. Nesta goes back to him because of that deal/bargain they have. Feyre goes looking for answers with the bone carver who again regales what Nesta can be and so starts a deeper journey into lore. Vassa is definitely sold to Koschei during the queens ordeal. She is changed into a firebird and we see how curses work with him and how to undue one or at least how that works. Everyone is now trying to look for Nesta and Koschei and that is why her father goes and makes a deal with Koschei, because he wants to save Nesta who he’s learned is in this predicament. Lucien goes as well that stays the same because he’s trying to be helpful to Feyre and his mate, and all of that is similar. Except they don’t find Nesta, because Nesta is dealing with cauldron things and she’s very deeply depressed. She curses Koschei and vows she’ll kill him, but Koschei says as long as I live you’re my wife, and so she sets out to release him so she can kill him. This is why she searches for the trove and why the others look at her to be monstrous, because they think her intentions are not good.

A very important difference is that Elain chooses to go with Lucien, because she’s a seer and she keeps having visions about where Nesta is. So Elain thinks she is the best bet to save her sister. This is how the Elucien train sails, because Lucien and Elain are forced to spend time with each other and Elain learns what it means to be fae. Just as she had a prior engagement, she is still deeply disheartened, but she needs to find her sister first. And during this journey, she gets to know her mate who still blurts it out because those segments again are still the same. Feyre’s story stays very similar to what it already is. Except for the details above.

Now Nessian is established because Cassian has the most skill in battle, and he has the most experience with creatures of the prison and of death gods. He has that morbid fascination remember. He also tends to be wherever she is “coincidentally” but this is because they’re mates obviously and he feels her pain. It’s like he’s pulled by a string. Nesta hates him of course, but he keeps coming around and she almost always tries to leave him to die but she can’t. She absolutely cannot do it. Because they’re mates.

Amren is a big source of information about Prythrian before and of the Dread Trove. She’s still got her power at this point and the IC have the cauldron. So they think that they’ll use the cauldron to lure Nesta out, because Amren is concerned that she wishes to free Koschei. Koschei is stuck on the island with a spell that is very twisty. It is the reason why the courts are all separated and contained by day, night and seasons, and why the Prison and the Middle exist. The Dread Trove is hidden in every place with a sister mountain. That is the same, except while acotar has the crown conveniently there, here the crown would be hidden in Ramiel. It becomes a race against the clock, so they try to get there before Nesta, but they never do. Because Nesta is suppose to have those weapons.

Those weapons are put there by that fae who she has the bloodline with. Nesta has the singular piece of that women’s magic/soul, which is why she can wield them and why they call to her. They want her to find them. Not because they’re all cauldron made, but because they all belong to her, even the cauldron but I’ll get to that.

The other high lords are still a problem and the magic of Prythian after Amarantha is not good. They think it’s because of Tamlin and not performing the Rite, but it’s because every time Nesta unravels the spell, Prythrian’s magic gets worse. The High Lords feel it the most, and so they’re very anxious and are starting fights with each other. However, this also has to do with the beasts that high fae were before. I’ll explain that. But the humans start to feel that the fae are losing magic and that it’s their time now, that the blessing is changing to the human people from the fae, so they plan to rebel.

Helion and Beron/Eris are important to this. Because Beron is immediately antagonist to humans and he wants their land. He’s like let’s just get rid of the threat, Tamlin is weak anyway we’ll move over him. Helion is important because he knows more about the Prison and the Eighth Court than he realizes. He hates the feel of those cursed weapons, but he’s also their direct link to how to undo the spell on Koschei. He researches with them with the library they have left. The library coincidentally is not burned by Amarantha, but rather Koschei uses magic to “winnow” it away with the help of Amarantha. So he has all the ancient spell books and magical resources, because again he’s trying to get unstuck. Nesta knows all about this stuff though, so unfortunately for the IC, they’re several steps behind and eventually it becomes a matter of convincing to Nesta to join their side.

Feyre is certain she will.

The others are not.

But Cassian has the in, and so they think to use Cassian to convince Nesta or to at least trap Nesta for a hot second so they can convince her. They trap her in the House of Wind, because no one can winnow in or out of it.

To be continued...

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