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"Sure, I can fill you in." And with that, Zenkichi starts explaining the details and peculiarities of the case. People vanishing without rhyme or reason, showing up again in places they shouldn't have been able to reach, rambling about strange delusions and forgetting everything within a few days... well, some have reappeared, at least. There are still those who haven't, which is why the police is so worried to begin with.
The ramblings he's heard haven't sounded like people have wandered into a Jail, or anything that obvious, but there's something still a little familiar about the way they talk that makes him hesitant to dismiss them.
The explanation takes a while, but when he's done, Zenkichi shoots Naoto another question.
"So, any initial thoughts? I'm not gonna lie, it all feels a bit out of my pay grade." And he's in a pretty well-respected position.
@chibitantei ( continued from here! )
#ic#chibitantei#v. zenkichi; tag tbd.#ONE YEAR LATER. AND HERE I FINALLY AM. REPLYING TO THIS THREAD i am so sorry otl#if you'd prefer to drop it since it's been so long that's cool; i totally get it!#but i thought i'd go ahead and reply even if it's ridiculously late in case you were still interested#since i'm really enjoying this thread so far tbh!#i skipped a lot of zenkichi's briefing here since i am not smart or creative enough to figure out the details of a case#so apologies for that too; but i'm sure we can wing it lol#( if you want to plot anything though; i'm happy to do that too! )
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𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐮𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 ?
as far as canons go, they are my lil glorbo's. i have a thing for main characters, especially underrated main characters. naruto and atsushi are just my lil guys that i heavily relate to in one aspect or another. i'm writing an alt verse of atsushi but i love atsushi's character in general ( i've considered adding his canon self ) john has been a recent add to this blog and just...i really love FAITH, the game hits all the good religious trauma / horror notes for me. i love a priest who is dabbling with his faith and loyaltys. as for my oc's well, some of them i've had for years ( dom and mia ) but a lot of them are new since i made this blog and i love each of them differently but deeply.
𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 ?
i'm pretty down for most genres. there are some tropes / writing themes i'm not into like pregnancy threads ( i could make an exception for mia ) and obviously gross shit like incest / pro-ship stuff makes me sick. heavy no. otherwise i'm pretty open to things like horror, comedy, romance, dark themes, religious themes.
𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 ?
i love writing romance and i'm tired of being made to feel sorry for it. of course i love writing angst, familial things as well but i really enjoy romance. i am a hopeless romantic in real life so, i just love shipping and the different dynamics that come with that. i love writing religious themes and general horror. i love writing characters who are total opposites it's just super fun.
𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 ?
mostly at random. i'll see something in a movie or have a random thought and it leads to other thoughts and boom headcanons. my muses just give me vibes on things and it stems from that...idk i dont have a system LOL
𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 ?
music. i gotta have music. even a yt video in the background works but i gotta have noise. lmao.
𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 ?
mostly wing them. plotted things i have a little bit of an idea how things will go but i'd say 99% of shit i write is never plotted so, it's all me just winging it. i don't really enjoy super plotted threads tbh cause then it feels like i'm just coloring in the numbers ? i like things to be a little loose and free.
𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 ?
yes very much. but not just romantic. platonic and familial is good too. <3
𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐬 / 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 ?
salem ~
𝐚𝐠𝐞 ?
i am 28 *cries*
𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 ?
october 1st, libra gang
𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 ?
pink, blue, black
𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 ?
next. lmao how am i supposed to pick favorite songs of all time ? smh.
𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 ?
scream 6
𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 ?
i'm not sure ? probably one of the 4 anime i'm watching rn
𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 ?
moving out - kacey musgraves
𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝 ?
potatoes, seafood, ramen, sushi, chicken ( mostly fried chicken or wings ), pasta, chocolate and a bunch of stuff i love food i love eating out at a good restaurant.
𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 ?
fall, it's the best season. i don't mind early summer either but august is too fucking hot. i hate winter . . . i got seasonal depression and i live in midwest hell so winters are terrible here.
𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 ?
would have to be @aeviare who is on hiatus rn but she's my babe. lmao. we met on tumblr rp in 2020 and i've flown to see her multiple times and talk every day so. but other than tiff i'm not sure ? sighs. i'm very shy and i do love getting to know my rp friends but sometimes conversations just die and i'm horrible at reaching out. i'm just . . . i'm a shy lil guy okay i'm trying to be better but. (: personally i consider all my mains good friends but idk if they would say the same so. shrugs.
tagged by: @blaecdog
tagging: @mythcaels, @metrictita, @fangier, @mundanemiseries
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chuang asia (chuang 2024) has just announced their list of trainees! as usual someone made a quick facts thread for the 18+ girlies so here are some trainees i'll be watching based solely on vibes :)
my main picks at the moment are xueyao, yiyu, rjing, & akina, but i'm sure thing will shift, as they always do!
jessica (03) is a trainee under sole u entertainment, although it's unclear what her specialty is. i noticed her because she looks a bit more mature than is typical on these shows! ig: twinkletwinklejessica
zeng xueyao (01) is kinda my main pick right now, she was great on chuang 2020! it's always exciting when chuang trainees breathe lol
maliya (02) / maria - not much is known about her, but like jessica i like her vibe, we'll see though!
p.amp (02) / pam is an actress, not sure what her vocal/dance abilities are. i like her vibe! ig: ppammelar
yuan ke (03) deleted her ig lmfao but she went to shanghai musical theatre academy so im expecting Vocals. she's also done some modeling work which makes sense because she's gorgeous
pailiu (99) is a thai-vietnamese model & influencer who competed in Miss Thailand. not sure if she can sing or dance but she kinda slays anyways for now so let's see. ig: pailiuuur
anh sang (06) is a former sgo48 member. she plays piano & is an okay singer (like elyn she has a nice voice but likely minimal training). ig: nguyenlengocanhsang
yiyu (02) was on the great dance crew & is a confirmed member of A class (or whatever they're calling it this season). her dance videos are really great, it seems like popping is her specialty
r-jing (03) is a former sm trainee who left when aespa was finalized. she was on the voice kids & she's an amazing singer. ig: rjing_jeeranan
elynn (02) is a youtuber & influencer. she naturally has a really sweet voice but hasn't trained formally as far as i can tell. she plays the guitar & the piano though, which is cool. ig/yt: elynleonggg
ninnint (02) is a model & dancer. her singing voice is just okay but her vibe is so fun to me idky. ig: ninninttt
preemmy (04) is a model & a friend of p.amp's. idk what her performance experience is but she's sooo pretty idk. whoever styled her duting the pfp shot is an opp tho. she's also a huge fan of into1 so this myst be really exciting to her, lmfao. ig: p.preemmyy
akina (99) is the lead vocalist & main dancer of the jpop group faky! her vocals are fantastic and im looking forward to seeing how she does! i hope they never style her like in this profile again though 🙏 ig: akina_faky
ikema ruan (04) is the theme song center & competed on gp999. it'll be crazy if she has a miu arc (gp999 → theme song center (pdj s3) → in debut line for the whole show)
shye (02) is a singer & producer from singapore. i didn't know her before this but im really enjoying what im hearing from her! if i had to guess i'd say she's on this show for exposure since her style is a lot more alt leaning. since it introduced me to her though i guess the plot worked! ig: shye.mp3
pream (06) is a dancer and a confirmed member of A class. she was a member of the girl group celeste before they disbanded and she's currently under gmmtv record. based on celeste's only song she seems to be a rapper & a dancer. ig: im___.preme
the csr girlies need no introduction so i won't introduce them lmfao. i hope that this brings them some attention but i don't think any of them debuting would be good for their group tbh. don't really understand the decision but 🤷🏿♀️
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GET TO KNOW THE MUN. || respond to the prompts out of character!
what made you pick up the current muse(s) you have?
uhm well i've been obsessed w/ this band & these characters ( especially 2D ) since i was a wee teenager,,,,,, his muse kinda came out of nowhere after a few years of being quiet & ran me over. he does not have a license.
is there anything you don’t like to write?
well obviously i wont write anything reprehensible or nasty but just like, surface level?? not that i can think of. it depends who / what muses im writing with, too.
is there anything you really enjoy writing?
any opportunity i can get to swim around 2D's head & make him retrospective is always a good time. i love exploring the complex thoughts characters have that we, as an audience, don't really get to see often -- or only catch glimpses of. i like getting messy & philosophical with it. but ofc angst tropes i adore, as well as found family. certain ships with 2D i also wouldnt mind exploring.
how do you come up with headcanons?
a lot of it is lived experience, i think. it'll be like "this character is just like me fr" & then i'll think of ways to make them even MORE like me. it's nice to see yourself represented, even in little ways. but sometimes i'll be inspired by fanfictions, music, tv shows . . . like i listened to an old panic! song & came up with a hc for 2D that way lmao. sometimes i'll just see humans doing human things & relate it to characters. my mind just doesn't shut up tbh
do you write in silence or do you play music?
always music. i feel like i'll pass out if i don't have some kind of sound going on constantly
do you plan your replies or wing them?
9 times out of 10 i'm winging it. sometimes, especially with first time interactions with muses from different fandoms or oc's i do some planning -- just to kind of get a grasp on who the other person is playing & how 2D would interact with them, or how their worlds would intersect. but if i worry too long it just makes me anxious haha so i just try to have fun with it & hope everyone else does, too!
do you enjoy shipping?
im lowkey kind of reserved with my ships for 2D fjksljflks i only really have two & im not really looking to do shipping rps unless someone mused those characters & felt comfortable, but it's fun to reference his feelings in threads!
what’s your alias/name?
you can call me cal!
age?
24 years young.
birthday?
september 7th! 5 more months.
favorite color?
probably green!
favorite song?
i love music, it changes all the time.
last movie you watched?
a friend of mine showed me the second avatar movie lol
last show you watched?
'baby reindeer' on netflix. chilling.
last song you listened to?
superfast jellyfish -- gorillaz. ( shocker. )
favorite food?
idk man i love to eat but uh. i am always in the mood for chinese food.
favorite season?
fall, by far.
do you have a tumblr best friend?
not atm! most of the gay ppl in my phone are on discord lmao
tagged by : shamelessly stole it
tagging ( only if you want to! ) : @rebelpuff , @manaborn , @poeticvocals , @okoden & @moralpuppet. & anyone else who would like to!
#( ooc. / dash games . )#should get to replies & things when i'm not so sleepy ghsjfs#so here's this in the meantime <3
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WHAT MADE YOU PICK UP THE MUSE YOU HAVE ? autism probably
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON'T LIKE TO WRITE ? aside from the like. illegal and morally reprehensible stuff i'm not very good at writing action since i don't do it often, so i skirt around it lol. if i were going to write for more than a hobby i would probably practice and get better at it and hate it less. i also just don't really find cheating as a plot device interesting or sexy lol but i can't really think of anything that's a super hard no for me
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU REALLY ENJOY WRITING ? hurt/comfort makes me want to eat glass /pos
HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH YOUR HEADCANONS ? autism again. no uh i just. idk exist. i'm possessed or something probably. my mind just wanders. sometimes i black out and my phone notes are full of headcanons. i'm super normal about it
DO YOU WRITE IN SILENCE OR LISTEN TO MUSIC ? varies based on how overstimulated i am LMAO a lot of the time i'll write on my phone just in notes or on a google doc because that's what i have energy for, so that's usually silent. if i'm sitting down to knock out a bunch of drafts i'll usually pick a playlist of the character i'm writing to get me in the zone :)
DO YOU PLAN YOUR REPLIES OR WING THEM ? i want to say i wing them but truthfully i think i plan most of it. not like hardcore planning, but if a thread is going somewhere i've usually had some sort of conversation with the other writer about the general direction of the thread or our muses' relationship whatever that may be. i don't like to have everything super plotted out usually because at that point like.... why am i writing it if i've already let it rotate in my head for 10 million years, but sue me i like some structure
DO YOU ENJOY SHIPPING ? I'M A WHORE. LET THEM KISS.
WHAT'S YOUR ALIAS/NAME ? My middle name technically haha. I used to go by the name of one of my first ocs, but then i started writing her on tumblr and it got weird, so i started using my middle name which then got shortened to christie. since i'm a performer i've also had to think about my stage name a lot, and i ended up including it in that which is kinda fun
AGE ? 22 baby let's gooo
BIRTHDAY ? September 29, same as my Aether and also Annie @actstogether <3
FAVORITE COLOR ? It used to be orange but tbh? Green has kinda been the vibe lately
FAVORITE SONG ? it's either francesca by hozier or fake out by fall out boy, i don't think anything else even comes close to those
LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED ? dune part 2! for once i've seen something recent lmao i don't watch a lot of movies but my dad loves dune so i had to watch the first one and then he dragged me to the new one last week
LAST SHOW YOU WATCHED ? like casually i think it was psych, as far as like binging a whole series i'm not sure
LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO ? red wine supernova by chapell roan don't look at me like that
FAVORITE SEASON ? i dont even know anymore bro. spring maybe?
DO YOU HAVE A TUMBLR BEST FRIEND ? i have a crew :^) my little gay people in my discord server <3
tagged by: @mischiiefs hi mak xx
tagging: well u see. mak also tagged the rest of the aforementioned crew so if you wanna do this go for it i can't stop you-
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Mid-Year Book Freakout 2023
Thank you for the tag @kazz-brekker! 🌻
1. Best book you’ve read so far this year
This is a hard one but I'm going to rule out the various re-reads I did this year (three!) and pick Rebecca.
2. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year
It's easily Dune Messiah - I don't think it's perfect, but I think I discovered lots of nuances in the series after re-reading the first book and dissecting Dune Messiah in that context has been really fun. The sequel also picks up the thread of the gothic atmosphere the first book was cultivating and continues to delve into that with greater detail which is probably why I grew fond it very quickly. Also Frank Herbert really got his shit together for it and committed to the criticism of empire that he was only really hinting at in the first book without forgetting to care for the characters and sympathise with them which I think really did something for me.
The series has a very TLT-esque balance of narrating the story, now that I think of it, in the sense that there are larger events happening in the universe around the characters while the narrative chooses to zero in on the personal tragedies of a select cast of characters in order to effectively convey the themes that it’s dealing with.
3. New release you haven’t read yet
I haven't really been keeping track of new releases much since I didn't care for a lot of the queer fiction Tor was marketing lately - but Our Wives Under the Sea has been on my radar for a while and it's the latest release I can think of at the moment because the rest of my tbr fully dips into books published pre-2000. I did read A Day of Fallen Night recently though, and it was published in Feb 2023, iirc.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
I'm going to cheat and say Alecto the Ninth although Tamsyn Muir said that release was probably going to be delayed. The only other release I'm looking forward to is The Bone Season #5 coming out next year-ish? (probably 2025 tbh).
5. Biggest disappointment
Books #2 and #3 in the Southern Reach trilogy were rather poorly done. I don't think Jeff Vandermeer is a very good storyteller, but instead has a lot to say about sci-fi and horror as genres - and those things are interesting but I'm not certain they can act as stand-ins for the actual act of storytelling.
I did still enjoy my reread of Annihilation though, but it was probably just nostalgia.
6. Biggest surprise
Wuthering Heights, although I'm not quite certain why. I think I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.
7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)
Daphne du Maurier - I'd tried to read and finish Rebecca before, but I really got around to finishing the book this year and it was very, very good. I enjoyed Rebecca so much that I kind of wanted to started My Cousin Rachel immediately; but I might have to put that off for a while because my tbr is very long at the moment.
8. Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character
I'm in Alia Atreides hell currently and I'm uncertain that there's any cure for it.
9. Book that made you cry
Harrow the Ninth! Books rarely make me cry and this was a reread but I still felt plenty emotional.
10. Book that made you happy
Solaris :) I distinctly remember smiling very broadly while I was reading the last couple paragraphs of the book. I think more people should read Solaris and also watch the film that Andrei Tarkovsky made based off of the book. It falls roughly under a category that I like to refer to as sci-fi horror, but it's also very Nona-esque, in the sense that it discusses the human condition of love with brutal honesty (I think basically all the sci-fi books I’ve read this year have dealt with very similar themes, especially with respect to their criticisms of imperial hegemony and environmentalism).
uhh tagging @phantomxblood @jaqobis @jelli-ace @wishesofeternity @honey-and-hibiscus-kingdom @iliyanaofcasimir and anybody else who might be interested in doing the game!
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get to know the author!
it's been quite a while since i've done one of these so i figure i might as well get this out of the way (even tho i chose to do it like. lol. i just woke up from a nap, spare me)
name: evan
pronouns: they/them (he is also fine)
preference of communication: discord by far (starteas#6241)
most active muse: the only muse i currently have for this blog- ekira. i'd honestly love to add some of my other muses to this blog such as hemlock since he's incredibly prevalent in ekira's story, but i need to curb my own laziness and finally give him a page lmao. i'm also incredibly out of practice with writing villains so it's been quite a while. i definitely need to freshen up there.
experience / how many years: i've been roleplaying on tumblr since i was about 13 so i have about 8 or so years of experience. i only started taking it seriously fairly recently into my early teen years, and i've been trying to do so ever since. i don't keep up to date with my rp experience nowadays (considering thinking back on old things i did as a tween makes me cringe heavily.)
when i rebooted ekira's blog back in 2020 or so is when i started taking writing up as less of a hobby and more of an artistic pursuit. i've always enjoyed it for as long as i can remember, and have loved making up stories with my characters since i was little. i consider rping to be an extension of that, and it's always great to improve my writing and characters along the way.
platforms you use: tumblr and discord, but mainly this hellsite
best experience: my best experience has been meeting other muns and interacting with characters from all aspects- whether it be canon muses or ocs, or even heavily canon-divergent muses, i love them all and interacting with each muse has been so fun. i know i would like to interact with more muns one on one more often, but i don't mind the mini interactions we do get with replying to each other's posts or seeing each other in our notifs. hello friend!
rp pet peeves: punctuation. this might be me considering i am VERY finicky on correct punctuation and spelling, so it's incredibly hard for me to jive with characters that don't seem to have as much care in their writing presentation. that's just a me thing though, and i absolutely don't fault anyone who falls into this category! it just itches my brain in a way i really do not like
this is also directed at myself, but i dislike happy-go-lucky characters with little to no substance. when i first started writing ekira that's the only thing they tended to embody. they were sweet and kind and friendly and incredibly fucking boring. they could get emotional, sure, and could get angry sometimes, but they were completely sanded down and unfun to right and otherwise just boring. i wasn't having fun writing them and i wasn't having fun in threads because i wrote them all so... samey.
it's why i decided to revamp ekira's blog the way i did, and in the same vein change up how i wrote them completely. i won't get too much into it (because tbh i already stated my problems with it and we'd be here ALL DAY if i continued) but i'm much happier writing them now than i ever was before the reboot. sometimes i still find myself falling into the same patterns as i did when i first wrote them, and it's something i personally am striving to improve on the more i write them.
ekira's still friendly and kind but can get frustrated, sad, angry, and isn't much of a blank slate as they were before. i'm incredibly proud of how far they've come since then, and hope to avoid any of the same stuff i ran into before in the past.
fluff, angst, or smut: fluff and angst are both good in moderation. i'd personally love to get into more angst threads as it's the ones i surprisingly get the least of (understandable) but i'd also like to get into more smut. i don't write it much as i'm still very much a beginner to it, but it's something i'd like to explore more of in the future; same with angst. there's a lot to ekira i'm grateful i get to explore with my friend @modestmuses and i'd certainly love more of it whether it be in those two categories.
plots or memes: i have a lot of fun doing both, but i definitely want to get better with doing things that are much more planned out. i'm not the best at thinking of in depth plots on the spot, but i know it's something i want to do more of. memes are also great (again, shouting out teddy for this one) because he just knows how to craft plots around memes so expertly that makes me crave EXACTLY what he's writing.
long or short replies: i tend to do medium replies depending on length, but recently i've been feeling more drawn to long replies. it helps me improve my writing and i love testing the waters with longer replies; it gives me more opprotunity to flesh out ekira's thoughts and actions much more than two paragraphs ever could.
best time to write: whenever i feel like it. i'm sporadic when i use tumblr so i get bursts of inspiration randomly. usually it comes best to me either mid afternoon or very late at night.
are you like your muse(s): yes and no. i'd go more in depth about it but all i can say is we both need to learn to love ourselves a bit more. also i want goat horns and a tail, it'd be sick as hell
tagged by: @modestmuses (not actually i stole this lol)
tagging: steal it
#out of sunflowers.#anyway uh. that's about meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hope you enjpyed#i think i talked too much uhhh oops LOL#long post
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heyyy! i was wondering if you liked the os2 episodes of bbts!!! i noticed you shared some stuff regarding the first two episodes. did you enjoy eps 3 and 4 as well?
i never get asks, this is so exciting??? (probably because i don't actually spend enough time on tumblr...i was kind of starting to be on here a bit and then got depressed by a lot of the negative reactions to @end-otw-racism during their first action. but tbh getting an ask actually makes me want to engage more so THANK YOU ANON)
okay, my os2 feelings! i talked about this a bit on my twitter so i'm going to recreate some of that here, haha. but the short version is: yes, i enjoyed the whole thing! i think episode one was my favorite because i lovedddd the patpran dynamic we got there - watching pran be confident but also settled in love felt amazing to me, and i loved the little domestic notes. i think my second-favorite episode was actually the last one - not so much because i think it was a well-constructed episode (it was a little all over the place, tbh), but i ADORED the phutian ending after having felt like their relationship was getting kind of shafted for most of the special. also we got to see inkpa again!
it's hard to talk about my own feelings though about it without reflecting on the disappointment a lot of people i know have felt about the special. and i certainly understand and agree with a LOT of the critiques, they are completely valid. but i guess i'll explain a bit more about why i liked the special anyway.
firstly, i think i came into it with the feeling that because bbs is such a perfect narrative, anything we got in os2 would be a bonus, and that i could take or leave the parts i liked and didn't like to apply to my own personal love of bbs - especially since it did take place in the timeskip instead of the ending. and i especially felt this way because of knowing that there was a crossover with atots.
i think that one of the issues with crossovers in general is they force shows to draw kind of contrived parallels between characters and pairings. and similarly i think crossovers require characters to be matched up in scenes together just so you see their contrasts. so that's why we had to have two separate nights of lost in the woods, so that we could get pran & phupha as well as tian & pat. could they have done better with making parallels that made more sense for both couples? sure. but i wasn't totally surprised that the crossover parts felt clunky/over-worked. i also think crossovers prioritize humorous moments over character-building ones. they're just really not a good vehicle for storytelling imo - they're more just about seeing your faves up on screen together.
as far as patpran's conflict in these episodes - again, totally valid & understandable that people are upset & feel like it was unresolved! for me, though, it felt like a pretty natural part of their progression as a couple. my friend @/siri_dechawat on twitter has a great thread about it that i totally agree with. and also i think it's worth thinking about how long patpran's history is, how many old hurts they still have that probably aren't fully resolved. i was once in a relationship that reminds me of that, a relationship that had six years of fraught history before it got happy, and my recollection is that by the time you get to the place where you're secure in that kind of relationship, you don't always revisit those old hurts because you have the feeling that now you're happy, so why look back so much? but they can still flare up and it can be hard to talk about them, so you try to work through them yourself and that isn't always easy.
to me, the fact that patpran kept up a lot of their usual dynamic - teasing, competing, cuddling, even while they're in the middle of a fight - felt very organic. they can't always say exactly what they're feeling, but they still express affection. and for me, the fact that they were having this fight at all about pran's independence & pat's self-sacrifice wasn't at all going backwards from the original show. the second half of bbs doesn't actually have them resolving a lot of those things out loud.
at the end of the day, while this is the last time we'll see patpran onscreen (sob), it's not their ending. it's not even the ending that we see of them. we know where they end up by ep 12 and it's pretty perfect imo. and the fact that they are not always perfect at communicating along the way is okay with me. we know they end up on the same page (ha) even if these episodes had some conflict around that. we know where their love is.
okay i said all this and i stand by it, but also if you have read any of my fic you know that i LOVE writing canon-divergence AUs, so i did a series of them for os2 as well based on prompts i got on twitter! i ended up with twelve separate "what if" scenarios for how various scenes in the special could have gone differently - just episodes one through three, because i wasn't as much in a writing mood after the last one - and i collected them together in an ao3 post called in another lifetime. i think my favorite ones within there are mountain, a h/c ficlet patpran do actually make it up pha pun dao, and secrets, an extension of the last patpran scene in episode three. so if you were unsatisfied by various scenes in the special, maybe you will like these as fix-its? :D?
anyway thank you again anon for the ask!!!! maybe i will try to be on tumblr more again...
#bad buddy#our skyy 2#a tale of thousand stars#meta#patpran#phutian#inkpa#shameless plug for my fic oops#our skyy x bad buddy x a tale of thousand stars#asking me answering you
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queen charlotte’s first meeting scene is as rip off from magnificent century kösem. i hope this will become bigger news when show starts
https://twitter.com/aofaglover/status/1573758456737124352?s=46&t=Cj8-wxU3Iw5Sa0s-i59iAw
Just wanna put this disclaimer out before anyone starts reading under the cut: Despite this ask & post and my own feelings about the show, it has been really heartwarming to see BIPOC fans delight in this show and my fandom friends gushing to me about this :D That is something no one can take away from them and I'm very glad they enjoyed it!
[This is also my first and last post on QC so my overall thoughts on the show and everything surrounding it will be there at the end!]
Hello again yall!! I actually started writing this a month ago when I was in Bali with my fam but could never find a good pic comparing George and Julian lmaooo so I gave up on it for a while. Also I've been hella busy at work but I'm back for a bit!
Heya anon! I'm not sure if I blogged about it but the moment the first teaser of their meet cute dropped, every one who has seen Turkish drama kicked up a fuss on Twitter. As they should!!
This is the original clip in question:
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Alot of people did talk about it at the time - especially on Twitter and Reddit and I know a few of my mutuals on here talked about it briefly.
The ripping off was not a great start to the QC promo on top of "Love cures racism". All my friends have given their input on the "realistic" aspect of the show, I agree with their points and don't have much to add on tbh so I'll link the posts here:
Tbh yall can just go through Triv’s QC tag
Honorable Post Mentions:
On top of this rip off meet cute; I picked this ask cos ever since the first few promo stills dropped my friends and I - particularly Zaira, Triv and Belle - noticed another rip off from our childhoods.
Can yall guess what it is?
Yall he's SO Julian coded please - I love him (this is me saying before the show aired and I won't be watching but the vibes are thereee)
Then the video of QC and LD came out recently (a month ago when I wrote this reply hahah):
Down to the dresses, it's giving:
Shoutout to @hptriviachamp for pointing it out lmao
Sidebar: while I'm not interested in QC's premise, I do love how well India and Arsema are playing their chars (from what I've seen so far) and I WOULD LOVE to see a version of Barbie's Princess and Pauper with these two!! Speaking of them, look at their chemistry in this pic!!
Also me seeing the end of the vid:
All in all to say the Kosem copying was bad and it should be called out but the Barbie references are all in good fun!
Since this is the main ask I've gotten about the show, I'm also going to put my main thoughts here and I don't think I'll be answering any follow up asks because every take has kind of been said and done. I really don't have much to add on since I'm not ever going to watch the show either.
Outside of the show, I adoree that India and Arsema are getting their flowers and the couple is being promoted how they should be! It's all well deserved. A small part of me does feel sad because if this is the PR team going all out, where was all this fanfare for S2, Jimone and Kathony?
However, based on what I've been told:
- I'm glad the chemistry between QC and George was good and everyone enjoyed their romance
- Who on the team hates LD?? Because COME ON martial rape AND giving her a not-hot older man IN VIOLET'S DAD OF ALL PEOPLE?? They did her so dirty. Idc if Lord Ledger gave her the first orgasm of her life, I see that man and no thank you. My girl deserved someone as hot as Adolphus!
- These two things is a HUGE reason why I can't watch the show cos of my triggers: I hate hate how gratuitous they were with the torture porn - both with LD's scenes with her husband (FOURRRR MARTIAL RAPE SCENES THAT'S LAUGHED OFF AS A GAG???) and George getting waterboarded for his mental illness. As someone who experienced SA and has a mental illness, these are very sore subjects for me so no thank you QC, but I will not be tuning in.
Anyway to close this out, congrats to the cast for doing a great job and whoever enjoyed the show, I'm glad you did! Those who read this and agree with me, just know you aren't alone in your critiques of the show. As long as you're being respectful and mindful of the language used, your criticism and enjoyment of the show are both valid!
#Phew that was a long one#I don't have the mental energy to deal with discourse so I'm not gonna tag the show#The Viscountess Answers
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My url for the meme !
Send a URL and I'll answer the following || Accepting !
Do I Follow Them? As you know, I do xD We haven't been mutuals for long, but I'm honestly glad that we do! It's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to our future interactions 😎
Why Did I Follow Them? Ngl, at first it was mostly because I saw a few Miraculous muses on their list xD There are too few people who write in that fandom, and since their blog looked good, I decided that they were worth a try. I haven't been disappointed!
Do We Role Play? Hell yeah! We have like...uuuuh...four threads ongoing? I think 🤔 I'm bad at keeping count of this stuff xD
Do I Want To Role Play With Them: You bet! I'm really enjoying our interactions so far and I'm excited about the fee ideas we have discussed OOC! I'm sure that they are going to be just as awesome 🤩
An AU Idea For Our Muses: Which ones? xD I'm not too good at coming up with AUs, tbh, especially while the dynamics are still in the working 🤔 All I can think about off the top of my head is an AU where Adrien and Félix grow up together more as brothers than as cousins? Or Félix moving in with Gabriel and Adrien after Colt's death because something happened to Amelie too. I think that it would give their dynamic a very different spin (and he'd be such a bad influence on Adrien xD)
A Song For Our Muses: This is another thing I'm not particularly good at xD Let's see... “Burning Bridges” by Delain gives me Félix & Adrien vibes, and maybe “Horizons” by Beyond the Black for Adrien & Plagg.
Do I Ship Our Muses? We're considering the possibility to feel out how Adrien and Kaito would work as a ship, and I'm very curious about it 🤭 And I'm also excited about our platonic ships too! Plagg and Adrien are gold, and what we have planned for Stitch and Mabel looks just as good 😎
What I Think About The Mun: I think that they are really fun to talk to and very willing to bounce ideas around, which is one of the many things that aren't easy to find these days in the rpc. They are a good mutual, who makes sure to show interest even if they are very busy IRL!
Overall Opinion: Wonderful roaster of character, fun interactions and a great mun! Totally recommended!
Blog Rate: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
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I'd love to hear you ramble about Ken!
//Oughgh, Kenny,,, I'm good at rambling so this probably isn't going to have much information but it WILL be long 💛
I was actually just rambling about him to my mom the other day. He's got a summer home in my frontal lobe.
I've rebooted the storyline for these characters two or three times now, I lost count tbh. And every time it is Kenny that changes the most between depictions, so he's like. Still new, I suppose, and I'm still working some things out for him this time.
Specifically, I'm not entirely happy with his motivations in this particular reboot. I like a lot of the changes I've made to his personality and things, but I like to really try and figure out all of their mental states at the very least with regards to their upbringing and exile. And Kenny's just doesn't feel quite right to me yet?
He's angry, I like that, he's reckless, yes. But I really need to figure out a better explanation for it all, the way Aton treated him as the canon currently stands doesn't really warrant that much anger, I don't think. I guess that could just be his personality, but it still seems like a lot of stink over probably the best treatment any of the siblings received as children.
The buds of new ideas for that though ARE formulating in my mind. Not very good buds yet, though. I'd thought that maybe Aton had Kenny doing tasks that were very undesirable but then I struggled to think of something that Kenny wouldn't enjoy doing. He would probably enjoy wiping out civilizations when their time came.
I really just think he's a defiant little shit that hated being told what to do at all. Like thats the core of it. I just want more ;-; I must, develop mental state,
Most of his health issues are new to this reboot of the universe, and I think they make sense for him and I'm glad thats a direction I am going. But they are SO new that I am really easing into it and a lot of that stuff hasn't come up yet.
He's always been electrified since exile, that fact has been consistent since day 1. But it was literally only after I started this blog that I realized that that... Probably should have some consequences ?
Like he is resistant to shocks, he's not just straight up built to fail or anything, but the constant rain for billions of years just wrecked him. He's weak now and hes more susceptible to injuring himself with his own abilities. This also contributes to his anger at present.
It fucking sucks to lose capabilities you know you used to have. He's got much less control now, even though he's free to do as he pleases for once without his father breathing down his neck. He can't control his energy, hasn't got the same motor control, can't even control his emotions (although he wasn't ever especially good at that, but he is notably worse these days)
But that leads me back to the initial frustration I had in this rant, and I suppose a better way to frame the problem: I don't know a lot about who he was pre-exile!
Its not really anything I've ever had to explore in a thread even way back in the day, so it's got zero precedent to build off of. I don't even have anything I can point at and go 'well I don't want it to be like THAT'
But he's kind of based around themes of power and control, so I guess it would make sense for him to be a much more meek and quiet individual as a youth. Mirrors who he is now in a decent way. It's a starting point, at least. I may have to write some snippets on my own time to flesh that out a bit more.
I really do need to put more work into developing ALL of their pasts, but if Kenny has the reins on the braincells then thats what will get done first.
I could probably keep going but I will spare ye all for now. I commend anyone who read this far and I love you
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If you're still in need of some EXO recommendations, I got you! Enjoy the following ask that definitely isn't way too long didn't take me way too much time to put togetherbecause I couldn't decide on just a few songs
(before getting to the list tho, I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your writing and it's helped me through some hard last weeks, so thank you for that 🥰)
So, first of all, fitting to this season, I can really recommend the whole universe album (I especially enjoy Fall), Sing for you and miracles in december, 10/10, always great
Then, we've got the classics - Baby don't cry, Mama (their debut, still hitting strong), Overdose
The title tracks obviously as well, but I especially really really love Tempo, the acapella part in the bridge is just out of this world good; also Lucky One is a really really good one (that I feel often gets overshadowed by Monster)
Now I could list a lot of side tracks, but I'm gonna try to keep it to two per Album ^^' and go through them chronologically
Playboy and Hurt, Promise/Exo 2014, Artificial Love and They never know, Can't bring me down, Boomerang, The eve (obviously, you definitely have to watch the dance practice too), walk on memories and touch it, ooh lalala and smile on my face, Jekyll and Groove, Paradise
Now coming to the solos and subunits, I'll just go for one each, because this is already way too long 😶
Baekhyun - UN Village
Kai - Nothing On Me
D.O. - Rose
Chen - Beautiful Goodbye
Suho - Starry Night
Xiumin - Brand New
EXO-CBX (Chen, Baekhyun and Xiumin) - Hey Mama
EXO-SC (Sehun and Chanyeol) - What a Life
And last but not least: Lay - Lit this song is just so so so good, it's honestly one of my all time favourites
hii nonny! ive been meaning to get around to listening to all of these but im just gonna answer this one ask (since other ppl have suggested the same songs) and listen through rn!!
also tysm!! i'm glad i was able to help you through hard times. i hope things are better for you now <3 december has been weird for a lot of us i think, but we're getting through it. 2023 is just around the corner!!
i'm gonna go into this mentioning that the only EXO songs i know are love love love, tempo, baby don't stop, ko ko bop, and el dorado. there's probably more i've heard snippits of, but those are the ones i'm most familiar with >:3 (love love love was one of the first songs i listened to (outside of shinee) back in like. 2014-2015ish when i was originally into kpop tbh!!)
i'll come back to sing for you + miracles in december since universe has been a lot slower/calm winter vibes which is great but im admittedly in a weird spot rn ksdhfsdf but i do enjoy universe!! the winter vibes are great, just not what i need in this moment <3 (i'll def try to return to these later and give them a proper listen-through)
baby don't cry is like... oddly cozy in a way i can't describe? but ugh their voices layer so nicely here. also wait wtf this was 2013... how...
OH IVE HEARD MAMA. lets see how many of these songs i already know. it absolutely hits strong how the fuck is their debut??? some groups rly do just have debut songs that will always slap. also hehe they look like babies on the album cover. their vocals literally are so strong tho what da hell... how old were they at debut...
oh they were all upwards of 17. yeah that'd probably make sense.
know im also looking at songs on color coded and what the HELL kai's voice..... wack.
this answer is gonna be really long as u can tell.
OH ive also heard overdose. same album as love love love apparently :0 wack. overdose also slaps. i feel like im just gonna go through every song like "yeah this slaps" but tbh everything so far has slapped
im listening to tempo and im like wow. more guys <3 also the squeaking is the only cursed part of this song. i read a reddit thread once that mentions there was Someone who kept using the sound in songs??? the cursed SM era. song still slaps tho <3
i have reached lucky one. this one i haven't heard before! :D oh wait i lied. i was abt to be like 'idk where i heard it' BUT I'VE HEARD THE CHINESE VERSION.... probably in the rhythm smtown. im blanking on the name. but i do recognize the chorus lmao i was like hm why does this seem a lil off and its bc i've heard it in chinese lmao
good song tho!! its fun <3
OOO PLAYBOY IS ANOTHER I KNOW and love a lot. i mentioned once that i love the exo version but i always wished there was an official recording by jjong since both have different energies. i could go into it but i think jjong's live version he did once felt more... smooth? while the exo version feels a lot more playful and teasing. both are so good in different ways. it works so well with their voices imo but god i can only think of jonghyun when i hear it. it feels like such a Him song to write. i'll stop talking abt him but know that i do love the way EXO did the song.
hurt i don't think i know? we'll know when we hit the chorus. ok i dont know this. but :0 i have no idea how to talk about music despite taking classes for that lmao but!! the drawn out 'hurt' in 'you hurt me' just... flows so nicely?
can i say i rly do love baekhyun's vocals. like idk i think i usually notice his voice above the others at times. im saying this while listening to promise/exo 2014. also forgive me if its the wrong word but chanyeol has like... a slight rasp to his voice? its SO nice to listen to tbh idk if thats the right word but its like. texture. it scratches a brain itch.
ooo artificial love i also know primarily from the chinese version. it also slaps idk what else to say here sdfkhsdf it Does
they never know is another im unfamiliar with. i am repeating myself when i say i think everything slaps but there's something like... SO soothing abt this one while i can kinda bop to it as well? exo can do it all-
ok im gonna start making comments when i actually have them. if i don't say i dislike something, then assume its gonna be the usual 'this fucking slaps yo???'
OH YOO??? the like... contrast between "무너져 가는 Wall / 니 별은 이미 Fall" like. w wall and fall being much deeper? it is delicious. i am consuming this. its also in the different "down"s at the end of lines. tht contrast though UGH <3333 its so good
im gonna take a sec to mention that i really like the different exo album covers and like. the different way their logo is made. i just think its neat :)
im watching the dance practice for the eve. why are men hot. anon why would u do this to me. NOOO WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!!!!! I UNDERSTAND WHY U SAID I HAVE TO WATCH IT is this allowed. in my good christian minecraft server. i need to stress my 'why are men hot' was said within the first like 10 seconds.
ok i finally did something smart and just queued up everything else so i dont have to manually search.
walk on memories + touch it are both good! i don't have any real comments haha
have i mentioned i rly love how their voices mesh when singing together... bc i do...
jekyll slaps. i feel the need to mention it specifically. also groove is such a like. 180 from how intense jekyll was. 11/10 i love that.
ooo i rly like paradise :0 idk what abt it gets me but it scratches a certain itch and im into it
ok im gonna do the solo ones faster. baekhyun good and i already know this (i've heard some of his solo stuff and also his voice is just... so cozy. let him out of the military rn.
i put these out of order by accident so kai's song is after xiumin's--anyway YOOO I KNOW D.O'S SONG its on my lovey playlist hehe (the english version is i mean). solid song, makes me smiley <3
beautiful goodbye: makes me want to cry. good song <3
starry night: ooo... cozy. kinda sad. very pretty tho.
brand new: absolutely not what i expected ngl but im already into it. his voice reminds me of someone and i don't know who?? im boppin tho
nothing on me: kai is also someone who's solo work i've heard before--in terms of like... the big ones (mmm + peaches) and vanilla. his voice is so nice. idk how else to describe it, im running low on brain juice and im gonna make food after i finish out the last few songs
hey mama!: ooo this is fun <3 truthfully at this point i think if u tell me baekhyun is in anything, i'd probably listen.
what a life: ngl i wasn't sure if i'd be into it but the chorus slaps and i def enjoy it more after hearing the first chorus. random comment but i have to wonder if vernon has listened to this before. something about the way it flows, esp at the chorus, make me think of him and the way he makes music
lit: oh. oh. this gave me chills (in a v good way)
i'd give final thoughts but i think the general "exo fucking slaps" is all i can manage rn
ty for the long ask (even tho im getting to it a lil late) i hope u are having a good day <3
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I'm loving your posts about Babel! I personally really disliked the poppy war trilogy, I couldn't get through the first book but I have been anticipating babel as she's older etc and has more experience in writing... but yikes 😬 I've heard it's described as "a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell", if you've read either of these what are your thoughts?
Ah, thank you so much!
I'd say the poppy war treads the line between young adult and new adult (if you're not really into YA you probably won't like it) and mostly deserves a higher rating for the sheer number of content warnings it warrants - it was a little dull in the middle and RFK is not particularly good at writing female characters, I'd say (with the notable exception of her protagonist, Rin), but it was still a very good book overall. She managed to tell a really interesting story while weaving in enough research to let readers really immerse themselves in the world while also opening up conversations about gender, colorism, racism, colonialism, addiction, genocide, how empire commodifies bodies, classisim, generational trauma, etc (I don't think she resolved any of these conversations well and that the sequels were substandard at best, but that's another topic altogether - I'm just mentioning it because I heard that she failed to resolve all the plot threads and themes she picked up in babel as well). And I think the publishing industry really does need more books which unflinchingly explore these themes while centering protagonists of colour! This got kind of rambly, but what I'm trying to say is that the poppy war still remains her best published work to date, tbh. I think babel suffers heavily from a desire for her to come across as if she's smart and worthy enough to formulate a novel in response to the two she mentions - there's just too little plot in it, she relies on a measure of suspension of logic, she injects far too much theory about translation and language, and she can't seem to decide whether she's romanticising or critiquing academia in certain passages although she does a fairly good job of getting across the seduction of empire and the power it seems to give you as long as you allow it to use you to its benefit. I think she's still figuring out how to write novels - and I won't be picking up her next published book (coming 2023 I think) because it doesn't sound like it would be a good book, lol.
I unfortunately haven't read either of the two so I can't really comment on how babel tackles them! I've had friends who hated the secret history for its mishandling of race and friends who say it critiques academia very well but I've never gotten around to finishing it because I've learned (after the atlas six and if we were villains, although they're generally pretty bad books tbh) that I don't particularly care for books that deal with academic settings. I just wanted to make an exception for babel because RFK is a writer of colour and I enjoyed the poppy war enough to give her another go even if I hated the subsequent sequels. I'll link a goodreads review I liked, though, since it kind of explains why babel is so flawed - at one point in the review the reviewer mentions that babel is more of a thematic response to harry potter than jonathan strange & mr. norrel and... I kind of agree honestly. I just got the weird vibe that RFK was trying to say she was responding to those books just because she centered protagonists of colour and tackled academia's role in colonialism (but the secret history doesn't romanticise academia in the first place so...), but I can't really comment any more on the matter since I don't know anything about those books.
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The new chapter killed me. So freaking good it’s my favourite fanfic bar none at the minute.
The vindictive letter Alicent sent had me crying 😂 I know it’s angsty but honesly queen shit.
I love it so much.
I do have a question though.
Would rhaenyra care if she came back and Alicent was with criston? ie jealousy.
Are we gonna see more about the brothels ect I think like something else might me there maybe with daemon but might just be my mind because I’m over thinking about the story because I love it so much 😭
So talented and so many words per chapter absolute machine at writing
❤️
first of all, I just want to say thank you so much for reading and enjoying!! i'm so happy to hear that my silly little fic is bringing you such joy.
in regards to ur questions:
as far as rhaenyra's pushing alicent towards criston, the subject will be broached further in the next chap so i didn't want to give too much away. i will say though that in my mind, rhaenyra's letter was written with the best of intentions, not necessarily to get a rise out of alicent or get a longer letter back—i mean, she would've liked a longer letter but probably could've done without the extreme emotional duress. she genuinely just wants alicent to be happy, as laena explained, and this was just a particularly stupid expression of that sentiment. as far as whether or not she'd be jealous... that's a good question... why would she care about who alicent is in a relationship with... when they don't even have romantic feelings for each other... obviously... ;)
(alicent is not going to shack up with criston, so we'll never really get to know how rhaenyra would've reacted. i'll say tho that i think she would try to be all noble and self-sacrificing about it, but deeply regret having suggested it in the first place. she'd want to be happy for alicent but she'd probably find that more difficult that she expected it to be.)
then, as for the brothels, i will say that this thread has sparked a lot more theorizing than i expected it to, which is perhaps my fault. i suppose it's all presented in a very mysterious light. but in my mind, rhaenyra has just been living it up in king's landing since essentially when her mother died, following her desires where ever they led her. there's certainly a debate to be had about the ethics of purchasing sex and how it ought to reflect on someone's character, especially in this pseudo time period i've set the fic in—questions which i do Not feel equipped to answer in my little lesbian dragon show fanfiction. but in my mind, rhaenyra is very considerate and gracious with every person she sleeps with, she just happens to sleep with a lot of people and pay for it sometimes.
ahhh that was probably more in depth than you wanted or needed. i'm just so flattered to know that people are thinking this much—or at all tbh—about something i wrote, and i am egotistical enough to also really enjoy spewing meta bout my own writing.
thank you so much for your questions and for reading :D
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🦎 + Are there any scenarios you’d like to see Vegeta in? Whether it be rping-wise, or [in a world where his character was actually done justice] what you’d like to see in the manga or anime? Or another character, if not Vegeta?
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[This question is always so hard for me to answer because there are so many I've thought of in the past and now don't really remember all the sort of wish list items I've had for him outside of the obvious AUs that I've mentioned before that would require a lot of plotting and canon shifting that most people don't seem to want to mess with (which I undersaltand). At this point, I've been on such a dry spell with rp in general and with Vegeta specifically that I would honestly just take threads that get him into a deep conversation about his past, his feelings, or really just anything that isn't super shallow and one off stuff. Which with him is easier said than done.
As far as talking about what I would like to see canon material do with Vegeta, outside of him killing Beerus since they want to make HIM the one that told Frieza to merc the Saiyans, i...don't really care any more. They've done so much damage to him already that like...unless they just completely remove him from Earth shenanigans and let him do his own thing disconnected from everything else, I don't think I would feel satisfied. And even then that's probably not really what I think should happen because balance. The reason I say he would just need to be removed from it all to go on his own path is because, every time he's shoehorned in with Earth shit, they screw it up, from his motivations to his personality and his reactions to shit because, usually, they want the lulz or to further slap us in the face with the garbage "family man" narrative they've forced onto him. And not well, but you all know my feels on that.
Basically, where we are now we'll get moments that feel good for Vegeta, but nothing substantial for his personal arc or the story overall. Which is likely true of Goku and plenty of other characters, too: they give them this nee something, from revelations to power up, but they're so convoluted, pointless, and/or completely unexplained that it all feels irrelevant or binding. Just another moment and then we move on. Like take Ultra Ego. It was basically the equivalent of that Loki meme where he's like "how sad....anyway." Only with this case and even UI and other non transformation moments or revelations it's like "wow neat...anyway." because we never see it fleshed out or connected to the overall narrative. Because it's on my mind, the Bardock bs from the last arc absolutely falls into this category. It had absolutely no real relevance or meaningful (let alone believable) bearing on the plot and just wasted everyone's time. I wouldn't even call it cool tbh. Let the man die.
As for another character, and I've mentioned this in my latest manga discussions, I do hope we get to see more of Goten, and not just as the like...Trunks's sidekick feel he's had so far. He shouldn't be portrayed as his sidekick and I'm mad that that SEEMS to be the direction they're going. I imagine the focus is going to be mainly on Trunks and Goten will be there in the background, stopping him from revealing his secret identity or telling Trunks to take on the "big bad" and save the girl (please note i shuddered and gagged here btw) while he takes on the peons. Give me Goten content. What's his home life like? How does he feel about school? How does he feel about fighting at this stage? What does he want to do (or not do) after school? I want all of the tidbits of info we've gotten about Trunks (which has all been great for the most part, and I've enjoyed seeing how they are setting him apart from his future counterpart) for Goten, the same attention applied to him rather than him just feeling like Trunks's best friend and a secondary character. Goten (and by extension ChiChi) deservse so much more and better.]
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Figured I'd send you an ask instead of tacking onto an already quite long post while the tag for said posts is going thru Something(tm)- I like reading your analysis, but it also touches upon smth that was discussed when I was in college (studied film/animation) that they unfortunately didn't go into too much, but: there's multiple ways to analyze a narrative, 1) in the meta sense, where you treat characters as the narrative tools they are and delve into how they fulfull their narrative purpose, or 2) in-narrative (i'd call it diegetic but to most ppl that's just a music term), where you analyze characters like they're people with motivations etc. etc., which I feel like is the more common way that shows, movies, etc. are discussed online. I personally greatly enjoy reading about both, which is why I don't mind these rambles of yours, but it might make it easier for you/all of us to distinguish these two ways of approaching FC3, because I agree, it can get messy/complicated, and depending on which method you use, you're probably going to get wildly different outcomes on whether the standard Symmetry theory makes sense or not
Oh trust me I'm very familiar with the diegesis question (I got my Master's in English). and yeah tbh there is, a simplicity in splitting the uprights on those two modes of reading. There's definitely plenty of texts where I do prefer to engage with one over the other. Into the Woods, for instance, I read non-diagetically: its a story ABOUT fairy tale logic and it does a disservice to the text to react to actions of characters like they're real people. On the other hand, I read A Song of Ice and Fire almost entirely diagetically. Non-diagetic readings of ASOIAF can be compelling to me (there's a really good essay I found on the Others as perpetual warfare), but ultimately what I find the most interesting about that series are the complicated interpersonal tensions. It doesn't do me any good to really think about what these characters represent on a meta level because how they interact with themselves and each other as people is what's interesting to me.
With Far Cry though, that "mess" I refer to in all honesty is what makes the series so interesting to me. There's this constant underlying tension between what these characters represent within their meta narratives versus who they are within their own worlds. Its not just that they're different, but in the case of Citra and Vaas they can even be completely contradictory roles that, like you said, provoke completely opposing reactions from their audiences when looked at in isolation. That's not a negative so far as I'm concerned, its part of why I keep returning to this knot to untangle it and part of why I keep picking at a proper essay outline. Because I think there's something this series tries to say, and each game since 3 is a different attempt to get that meaning across, each with its own unique strengths and weaknesses. Part of my interest as a media crit guy is unpacking what works and what doesn't (from my perspective, for all that's worth lol)
That's not to say I don't enjoy other kinds of content. I have OCs for the far cry universe, I have fic concepts that are entirely about the interpersonal, I enjoy fanart and a whole variety of means of engagement. In the end you really kind of do have to pick and choose how you want to enjoy certain aspects. But the is the one that tends to linger the most with me and that keeps bringing me back here is just staring at this strange and contradictory piece of media and trying to see where one thread joins into the next.
#by the way i hope the opening paragraph doesnt come across as like snotty or anything#i dont expect you to magically intuit my academia credentials i just have chronic grad school give background disease asdkfjhsakdfjh#thank you so much for all the questions by the way its been a good way to clarify a lot of this#far cry#girthy ramble#far cry 3
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