anthro spooder kafka to complete the Furry Hunters

“Arya’s proxy to power in the North is an abuse victim!”

Don’t let Sansa stans know that Sansa’s proxy to any power is the murder of an eight year old and the plans and resources of Littlefinger. The man who forced Jeyne to work in his brothel and sold her off to the Boltons in the first place

Any victory or queenship Sansa has in the North using the Vale’s money, power, and resources are co-signed by Baelish. But I’m willing to bet these losers wouldn’t consider that dismissive of Jeyne’s experiences

And if we want to go one step further, we could ask WHY Littlefinger sold Jeyne to the Boltons in the first place when everyone involved knows she’s actually a steward’s daughter, if his grand plan is to make Sansa Queen in the North? But that would be an inconvenient truth for the lemoncakes and their delusions about Sansa’s 100% morally righteous pathway to becoming Qween 😁

All of this...the goalpost is forever being moved by them. The fake activism they invent kills me and it's so obvious they only bring it up to police our discussions; they can't stand to see people acknowledge Arya's importance to the Northern plot, so they came up with the "trying to make Jeyne's pain about Arya" accusation. If they actually cared about Jeyne they wouldn't be using her as a prop against stans/discussions they don't like.

What's funny is that they invent these moral guidelines when all it does is make them look worse. Cause if it's wrong to point out that Jeyne is posing as Arya, the entire point of her marrying Ramsay, how is it okay to write meta about Sansa benefiting from the poisoning of a disabled child (one orphaned by LF's plotting no less)🤔? They never want to touch those moral implications though...at best they're sticking their heads in the sand and pretending Sansa has no idea, at worst they're writing meta about SW being an abuser :/. It's just hilarious that they swear we can't see how hypocritical they're being. That's why their metas make no sense, they don't have any cohesive logic 😭

(also include in the tags why you think so, if you’d like!)

Character Work

Got an ask the other day that asked me how I developed a character, and there was no room to go into it on that ask at all, but I did want to note something. As a fic writer I feel pretty unqualified to write on how to create a character, but I do have something specific I want to say that I've been thinking for a while. I'll keep it just to that. I'll also say that I'm talking exclusively about writing, and not how you engage with fandom. It is, in fact, extremely fun to make an endless series of meaningless headcanons for random dudes. I'm just talking about in terms of how you approach the character from a writing perspective. Which is...

Your OC makes a bad character.

I mean your Dungeons and Dragons character. I mean the character you have a character sheet for, the character you've thought about for years, the one that you are extremely fond of and who feels like a real person to you. The character that is the character, and to change them would feel like changing a person.

Characters should feel like real people to the reader, but as the writer you cannot think of them as people. They are plot devices and a function of the story. They don't need to be fleshed out before you start writing. The actual creation of the character should take place in the outlining and drafting process.

I'm not saying you aren't allowed to stop and think about their favorite grilled cheeses or their sign. There's a few lists of good questions to ask yourself about your characters before you start writing them, such as their desires and their home lives, but the list of actual questions you need to answer are short. And you should try to stop there, because otherwise you're going to over-develop your character and it's going to get in the way of the story.

Assuming you're writing a character focused story, the character's journey is the plot's journey. But the character and the plot exist in relationship to each other. I think of them as two interlocking gears - some things in the plot just can't happen because Character A wouldn't do that, but some things need to happen for the plot to work, so Character A needs to be the kind of person who would do that. Both the character and the plot are in service of what the story is about (Theme, moral, message, etc). These three things have to line up, and they can't overpower each other. You shouldn't try and make round pegs fit in square holes. If a character doesn't fit in with what you want the story to be about (if the story's about vanity and your character doesn't care about vanity) then you need to change one of those things. You can bend the entire plot and meaning of the story around the character, but damn you better have a character who makes a really fantastic story.

You need a character that makes a good story. Some characters don't make good stories, and you need to work super hard to create a story that fits them. That's fine - that can create a unique and great story. Your character has to be consistent and work along their own internal logic. That is shit you absolutely have to stop and work out in the outlining process. Your character needs to make decisions that feel right to the reader - really good stories have the character making the worst possible decision, but in a way that makes the reader understand that they couldn't have done anything else and still been that character. And, like, obviously, give your characters faults and have them make mistakes. A character who does not do that cannot carry a plot.

Fic writers struggle with this. Of course you...shouldn't...be me and completely disregard every characterization, but I do think you can run into the same problem with your blorbo as your D&D character.

Your blorbos aren't actual guys.

This feels kind of obvious, but sometimes I think people don't feel that way. We write fanfic because we like the characters, and we'd rather use these characters and this setting than use our own. I see people projecting on these characters a lot. Like, a lot a lot. It gets to the point where an attack on the character feels like a personal attack - where people defend the character as if they're a real person because they ID so much w/the character. We all know this is dumb, but it also makes for some really shitty fic. The writer becomes completely unwilling to bend the character at all. And they don't try to make the character good for a story, because that kind of involves a lot of faults and mistakes that they don't like seeing their blorbos make. I sound dismissive but it's pervasive. The character becomes a character who makes them feel good instead of a well-written function of the story. The story suffers. Which is alright for some stories, but if you're writing a heavily character focused story like a lot of fic, then nothing is really propping up this story or making it engaging.

None of that is how I develop a character but that is what I wanted to say about characters lol (fwiw, how an OC is created for me is: "I need a character in this spot or representing this thing. Yoink!"). Of course I spoke hyperbolically and took a hard stance on all of that, haha, and of course all of this is rule of thumb. I'm sure your OC is wonderful. Just don't get caught up in them, okay? Go write. The best possible OC is an OC who is born from a good story. That's how you get rich and real characters.

It's been two years since I've first drawn them fighting and I was having a lot of Grim vs Palpatine brainrot the other day so of course I had to draw this one fight scene again 😊

Comparison with the older versions under the cut:

November 16th 2021 vs September 25th 2022 vs June 3rd 2023 vs November 16th 2023

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i’m so tired my brain is scrambled but there’s just something really interesting about the female characters and direction in andor for me. like it’s simultaneously a fairly male-dominated show and yet there are a lot of women in it, probably more than any other large scale sw production yet, and what gets me is the way every one of them is really internally dissonant and interesting enough to be a full on character in a way that’s not a full on Strong Female Character cookie cutter way (because the narrative does not feel the need to justify the presence of a woman by proving her /strength/, a supposition that of course comes with the rather misogynistic implication that woman as a whole aren’t strong and need to prove it, somehow, on screen.) which isn’t to say it’s /perfect/ and there’s a lot i’d like to see more of, especially bix. but it’s got so much room in terms of the pure interesting factor for the women, and it’s bix and cinta and maarva and vel and mon my brain keeps spinning the blades on in terms of, what is going on here? what to write next? there’s also something interesting to me in the way that the women of andor seem to interact with gender as an object internally WITHIN the star wars universe but as in regards to the lack of the STC necessity they aren’t as gendered by the exterior outside camera. in short: many thoughts head empty 

This is actually SO funny to me. Lesson in being perceived

And sorry if I used your tags lol no offense

I know it's apparently not canon that Raven and Snow White share a dad, but imagine the hijinks that would happen if they did share a dad.

Headmaster Grimm and everyone not knowing who's going to be the next Snow White since Apple doesn't fit the physical description meanwhile Raven does and this leads to everyone being awkward when it comes to talking about both girls destinies because how do you tell a little girl that her niece is going to marry her dad and that her dad is going to die and that she's going to be poisoned by her niece or if things follow the maternal destiny, she's going to poison her niece after marrying her brother-in-law and then she's going to be locked up(they probably wouldn't have trouble with the last one, as seen in canon). How do you tell the other little girl that she's going to marry her own grandfather, poison her aunt, then be imprisoned for poisoning her aunt or her aunt is going to marry her dad, he dies, and she gets poisoned by her aunt/step-mother.

The Evil Queen also stops her leading Raven to dark side plans because on this AU, Raven's destiny isn't as defined as in canon and we know that the EQ does care abt Raven's happiness in her own twisted way. Instead she makes plans of apprenticeship for Apple incase she gets the role of EQ.

When both girls get to EAH, they both take villain and damsel/princess classes as Headmaster Grimm doesn't want to have an unprepared villain or damsel once their destiny starts. This does lead to EQ revealing she switched the Storybook of Legends but she she "forgot" (she remembers but just doesn't want to tell them) where she put it so they can't even check the book to see who has which role.

wait why does no one ever talk about you want it darker

when this scene came up in the trailer i remember thinking "huh she looks kinda demure, or like she's hiding herself behind the case" (because I thought this was going to come up after the helicopter scene, so I thought it was the briefcase with the amber)... it's a fucking gun lmao

i really hope yellowjackets doesnt go in the W/ndigo direction that would be so trashy. i hate how butchered and appropriated it has become. 

I should be asleep and absolutely cannot sleep. So while staring at the ceiling, all I can think about are two unrelated (superficially so) things, Mozart’s Lacrimosa playing during the Jepella Rebellion trailer, and Kafka’s gloves, or rather the barrier they so artfully create, and yet, absolutely not.

the discrepancy between the depiction of ganks in most of legends canon vs. in the edge of the empire rpg will never stop being hilarious to me

they are all the most feared mercenaries and killers in the galaxy and exactly the same amount of cool

When no kink at pride reaches doxxing of an organisation whose purpose is purely educational is when I know it what the right call not to show my face there...

i’m glad that pedro’s talking about tlou specifcally for variety tho because i genuinely do not give a single fuck about mando. s3 was ass and din didn’t do shit character wise so there’s virtually nothing of depth or value to talk about

Some mini Maras (ft. Luke's shoulder)