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#trope: thinking this is all a dream
wangxianficrecs · 1 year
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Dream a little dream of me by Moominmammashandbag
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❤️ Dream a little dream of me
by Moominmammashandbag
M, 60k, wangxian
Summary: Lan WangJi braced himself. “Wei Ying.” he said. “You are not dreaming. This is real. You have been rescued.” “The kissing bit comes first!” said Wei Wuxian impatiently. “But…I cannot kiss you if you think you are dreaming!" “I don’t see the logic in that.” said Wei Wuxian. “I obviously want you to kiss me or I wouldn’t be dreaming about it!
Mojo's comments: asdfkljfadslkdsaakjka I have no words. Probably because Author used them all, so well applied to such a charming and surprising story that there are none left for the rest of us. Welp. In which wwx lives, but is caged and tortured by jgy for 9 years before nhs starts with his plan for vengeance. Lwj is roped in, and mxy, and a very confused and disoriented (but happy!) wwx as nhs sets the scene to tear down his brother's murderer. Written with Author's usual engaging flair, snappy dialogue and fearless detours into both angst and humor. This story is a fabulous fix it. I just want to rave for a moment at the audacity and skill it takes to have these two such different scenes in the same story and yet never once jar either the pacing or the tone.
Excerpt 1: “You used to put needles in my mouth.” he said. He shook his head, looking down and shifting his weight from one foot to the other. ‘You broke my fingers, and when they healed you broke them again.” “You should have been more cooperative, then.” said Xue Yang. “Your choice. You can’t blame me for your poor choices.”
Excerpt 2: They reached the door of the Hand’s bedroom, and their little party stopped. Nie Huiasang nodded at the sentries and they acknowledged it impassively, as if their Sect Leader frequently came to visit the possessed arm of his dead brother with a retinue, a [goose] and a bound and gagged man in black.
canon-divergence, wei wuxian lives, prisoner wei wuxian, trope: thinking this is all a dream, first kiss, protective lan wangji, caretaking, banter, mo xuanyu lives, humor, fix it, dreamsharing, dreams vs. reality, references to past torture, hurt/comfort, first time, goose!nie mingjue, mastermind nie huaisang, dream cultivation, happy ending, nie huaisang/mo xuanyu, @moominmammamia​
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beaulesbian · 2 years
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The Sandman + Tools in ep 4 || ep 5
I’d forgotten just how much of myself I had placed in that jewel.
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aprill-99 · 7 months
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The thing I find most interesting with immortal fictional characters is when the narrative does not also establish that they have some kind of magically gifted memory because on the one hand you have the comedy potential of:
“This was a major defining traumatic life event that took 3 years for you. Personally, I’m having a fucking stressful Spring Break. Trust me, this is nothing compared to the 50 year siege of the lost empire.”
And on the other hand you get the pure existential horror of:
“I know that I have loved many people. Some of them I remember perfectly, some I have forgotten, and I dread the day when the ones I can recall inevitably fade like all the others. I am sometimes furious that time has ripped them from me and sometimes so very relieved that the pain has dimmed with the centuries.”
Anyway, probably this is just creators not considering it, but duality of character etc etc. I just think it’s neat…
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butwhatifidothis · 11 months
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Ultimately, I think one of the worst things Hopes does wrt its writing of Claude is take out all of the complexities and contradictions that had made him so interesting to begin with.
OG Claude lies and manipulates people and closes himself off while still searching for the truth and wanting people to come together and be open with each other, because of how his traumas meld together with his dreams. He says that he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants and shows off opportunistic tendencies and then buckles at the first sight of innocents getting hurt, because no matter how much he wants what he wants he still prioritizes the lives of the people around him over anything else. He knows of people's capacity to hurt others for petty or illogical reasons - was raised with that knowledge beating its existence into him - and yet still dreams of a world where people of different lands and cultures can still be friends, because that is how tightly he holds onto his dreams. He's a kind person with the capacity for being a dick, and his contradictions add on so much to his character; they in large part are his character.
Hopes Claude? He lies and manipulates people and closes himself off... and that's it. He says he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants... and he does. He knows of people's capacity to hurt others for petty or illogical reasons... and has no real dreams of stopping it (or dreams of anything in the future really, by his own admission) and he indulges in that very behavior himself, seemingly without any awareness. He is untrustworthy, and manipulative, and opportunist... and that's it. What you see is what you get. And if this were a character unto themselves, if we're kind and we ignore all of the other issues with Hopes!Claude's writing, that would be a fun enough villain to follow around.
But it's not; this is supposed to be Claude. This is a character who has so much of his foundations be built on the idea that what he presents on the surface isn't all that he seems. That he's more than a character who is just "tee hee I'm only pretending to be nice but I'm actually eeeeevil evil evil evil evil evil evil," but someone who both uses kindness as a means to an end and embodies it genuinely. Warm yet calculated, a good man with real flaws - THAT is who Claude is. Hopes Claude is who Claude is if you strip him of any complexity - He Is Only Pretending To Be Good, But Actually He Is Bad.
He's just... easier to swallow, in a sense. Claude is a good person who is willing and able to do bad things, but only up to a very specific, very clear point, all for a good dream he's held onto for years and plans extensively to make a reality in the future; Clyde is a shit person who's willing to do everything short of bombing specifically whatever land he himself is ruling, all for what essentially amounts to no concrete purpose. There's no need to think about Clyde as hard, since he just does what he does because he's doing it and that's enough.
It's why I'm glad I am Dev-Approved to just fuckin' ignore Hopes entirely as a horrific fever dream, because Hopes does not understand what made Claude so lovable at all
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thyandrawrites · 10 months
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Reo's jerseys reading just "Reo" is such a Choice because I think he's the only one aside from Rin and Sae who goes by his first name. But at least in the brothers' case it makes sense to distinguish them since they have the same last name. Reo doesn't have that issue, but he did get into blue lock specifically to achieve something for himself that isn't tied to the Mikage empire, by his own merit. Between that and the fact that when he appears on screen in the various charts he's sometimes reffered to as "Mikage" and sometimes as "Reo", I like to think he chose to have his jerseys show just his first name as a bet with himself. You know, to show the world that on the field he's not The Prized Mikage Heir, but just himself. And his achievements are his own
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bluesadansey · 2 months
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remembering on my circa 2017 booklr I used to tell people to read Gemma Doyle by describing it as trc but with an all girls boarding school / all girl group in a historical setting… I was trying to do the lord’s work she deserved tumblr fame
#I do think that was an oversimplification of both but. Not totally off base there are some similar char tropes used I’m proud of past me for#the attempt. Also I think I’m going to start advocating for Diviners in that way now that trc fandom is apparently quite miserable post GW#you like gay people doing dream magic? you like witchcraft and ghosts and strong ensemble casts?#you like an ambitious abuse survivor getting a healing arc with learning to control magic/psychic abilities as a metaphor? you like four#book series where the first three books rock and the last book which is named king + corvid is a bit underwhelm who said that?#a positive point in diviners favor is Ling x Wei Mei >>>> RonanKavinsky. Generally find the take on dream magic in diviners more compelling#(although LingHenry + RonanHennessy both being mlm wlw duos who are the dreamers is kinda fun)#anyway. This is not actually a fair comparison because Ling is my fav or at least top two w Theta of the leads and I love Ronan but he is m#least favorite of the trc leads of which there are four all of whom I love so it says nothing bad about him. But it does put me as an#outlier re: fandom priorities..#on the flip side while I love diviners dynamics sadly I don’t think they ever come anywhere close to Gangsey levels of extreme codependency#so I can not care quite as much….#from what I remember the girls in Gemma Doyle are a lot more codependent good for them. Would have to reread to compare codependency levels#Ling and Theta are both my favorite in diviners in the same way Blue and Adam are my favorite in trc and Abed and Annie are both my fav for#community. basically one char who I love and overidentify with (Ling/Blue/Abed) and one char I love who in many ways I’m not like#but in a handful of very niche specific ways I also relate quite a bit. And am fascinated with (Theta/Adam/Annie)#s speaks#very off topic from my initial point which was you should read Libba Bray’s books#and in both cases I have a second and a half tier fav (Evie/Gansey/Britta) who I love fictionally but if I was trapped in a room w them I’d#kill myself. with the white blonde women I’d also want to make out w them debatable if that makes it better or worse#but like. I could not stand listening to them speak for that long I know this#Gansey might just die a third time by my hands…
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enden-k · 1 year
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i forgot there was smth, just logged in and literally was there like
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cheswirls · 5 months
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hhhhhhhhhhhh saboace royalty au. ace was crown prince but can’t use magic which is necessary to become king, so he renounces his title and becomes infamous for his eccentric tendencies to play up the illusion that he’s truly not meant for the throne and that his younger sibling has full rights to the title of heir.
sabo is born to a family serving in the royal court, has been a genius magician since he was a child, and is the perfect example of a young man fully educated to serve at the king’s side. which is why he’s allowed himself to be tied down into a loveless political engagement with the king’s heir, putting the whims of his family before his own and resigning himself to become the future ruler’s consort/spouse to legitimize his role as an advisory right-hand man.
but then the heir grows rebellious and denounces the engagement with sabo in public and ace swoops in to save the day (and sabo’s reputation), demanding his father give sabo to him instead. he steals sabo away and challenges his sibling’s right to the throne, intent on earning back the title not for himself, but so he can make sabo (who is heavily qualified to rule) the king - and since they’ll be wed, no one will be able to undermine sabo’s position as he will technically be part of the monarchy that governs the kingdom.
#op#i…aaaaaaaaaaaa iykyk but if you dont small tangent story time#i asked friends for magical show recs w unique magic concepts bc i decided to set the#toxic codependent forever-bond in a fantasy au so i can make it be a set of self-inflicted curses#the only free time i have is walking to and from work so ive been scribbling notes on my phone#thinking of what type of magic system to have for this one was becoming a distraction#esp since the focus rly isn’t on magic itself and only on aspects of the bond that show how unhealthy it is#instead of obsessing over it more i decided to have someone decide for me#flash forward one of them brings up using the fantasy yuri anime that came out early this year#then proceeds to give me the rundown of all seven published light novels until i cave and watch the pilot episode#its SO good i actually watched 2 and love anis and euphie and will definitely be reading the LN over winter break#also completely snapped me away from the au bc i am so in love w this now#went in to ep 1 with misconstrusions and fell halfway thru screaming this is so saboace core and i have a halfbaked plot at the ready#thinking smth smth sabo visits the palace to get acquainted w/ fiancee and makes fast friends w/ ace#then they realize they have legit feelings for each other and the whole thing was gonna be a play#on the steals-partner-from-sibling trope that i jus loosely dreamed up bc algard reminded me of sabo and then i couldnt not think of them#but then i finished the ep and went OH it went down like that!!!! thats brutal. and then i changed it#and then i watched ep 2 and changed it further based on glossed-over advanced plot knowledge#bc the solution to algard feeling pressure from a title he never wanted and anis rejecting it in the first place#is obv (in this very yuri-centric fantasy novel) to make euphie queen instead and legitimize it by her marrying anis#and then i hyper projected that onto saboace bc i love them so#yessa after letting me ramble abt this so i could resist the urge to furiously jot down notes: i think val made you worse actually#(shes not wrong also val responding w ‘lmao wlw wins again’ and nothing else had me in stitches#best/worst influence it is 5am and i have done nothing for my studio class yet am having the time of my life)#curse of the average hobbyist writer to always have good ideas when there is no time no breathe life into them#writing
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sirompp · 8 months
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the autism urge to create a blog archiving and sorting the entirety of something nobody wants not even me
#thats a lie. i do want. but not that much#you see.#i was thinking.#um.#theres a lot of gacha life mini movies in this world right?#and they all follow a lot of tropes.#and youtubes search isnt very great for when youre trying to find a specific kind of video and dont have the title memorized#a tumblr blog with a very thorough tagging system...would fix that...#im not going to do it. im NOT going to do it.#its so much work and would be an impulsive decision and those NEVER go well for me. im NOT GONNA DO IT.#but i want to. i fucking want to#i more want this blog to already exist to be honest because of one specific glmm that i saw as a kid that fundamentally changed me#i dont even watch glmms. i didnt when i was a kid either idk why i clicked on that video.#i dont remember anything about it besides some basic facts like...#it. um. there was hell. im pretty sure hell was in it. ithink the main character was an angel that got turned into a demon#which is like 30% of all glmms im aware.#also there was a dream sequence that i thought was really inspiring because it actually felt like a dream with dreamlike continuity#if i were making a gacha life mini movie archive blog then i would probably find that video. because id have to watch all the videos id pos#unless of course the video was deleted.#which um.#hm.#well id have made something useful to like 3 people either way so itd likely be worth it anyway#me tag🍭#<-almost forgot to add that bastard#and UHGHFJVNB it would be SO autismpleasing to sort all those things into their own little tags.#GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH im not going to.#fighting with ymself to not make a bad decision
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bylerpoet · 2 years
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there's no way mike never had a dream about kissing will.
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grymkoena · 1 month
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A little Dragon's Dogma 2 WIP:
With Dragon's Dogma 2 launching this Friday, I too spent solid 9 hours in the prereleased character creator to get my Arisen and my Pawn characters ready ahead of time. And boy do I love how they turned out. Mind you there's no way to turn off the UI in the creator so I haven't been able to take proper pictures of them yet but I'm sure that will change once the game launches so stay tuned.
Starting off with my Arisen character, Alcestis Lysther:
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Once an honorable oathbound knight serving her queen, now Alcestis is just as disgraced as her Lady as she first saved her life and then followed her into exile to continue being by her side. Her loyalty and adoration outweighs the nagging guilt of her and her Lady's past actions.
I really wanted to give her a kind of sharp and hawk-like aesthetic and I REALLY adore the way she turned out.
Continuing with my main pawn, Oriana Cirrus:
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A queen who - threatened by an usurper - devoured a curse to gain an advantage over her enemies but it only brought destruction and chaos leading to her downfall and exile. Stripped from all her titles and riches, now only the curse eating it's way through her body remains.
Oriana has three scripture tattoos, two of which are mirrored on Alcestis' body. I like the idea that Alcestis offered to bind some of her own life power to Oriana to sustain her and to stop the spread of the curse (visually resulting in the identical tattoos), a fact that surely gives their dynamic a certain gravity. I'm not that familiar with the Dragon's Dogma lore (yet) but I'm sure Alcestis getting her heart stolen by a dragon will be an interesting twist on their relationship.
I for one cannot wait to find out more about the lore and maybe fine tune the backstories of these two.
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bleegazoid · 4 months
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Specialties and Colors
Freakazoid: a superhero, but if you ask anyone else they'll say he's a security guard. Mainly yellow, but his accent color is red and wears white and blue friendship bracelets. Roddy: Ruaridh MacDubh is a expert at internet jumping, but Roderick Freeman's specialty lies in lasers. His colors are orange, red, and black. Dr. Steff Sullivan: mechanic and biologist, along with anything else she needs to make a power suit. Her main colors are white, pink, and light blue. She wears yellow and deep blue on her shirt's collar. Armondo Gutierrez: business major (uncool) and hardware developer, as well as knowing a few things about the making and maintenance of clones. His main color is dark green, and his secondary is purple.
Lobe: he's the perfect scientist so he's good at all science, but he is especially good at Xen related stuff. His colors are pink with accent yellow.
Glitch: a programmer who knows a fair bit about aliens and dimensions and alien dimensions. Deep blue and gray at the start of the story. Deadpan: Shapeshifter, Bit Devotee, and portal expert. Aspiring ruler of this world, but for now is helping make sure it doesn't break. Gray and brown, and eventually red.
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lighthouseborn · 2 months
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this is kind of me still marveling at that i can make gifs that look like this now but also i am just. thinking thinking thinking about how Afraid of salazar henry is, is all. what a flinch. he didn't even see salazar kill anyone he just Knows that he did and the rest is the immense vibes of Bad coming off this thing that is entirely too far into his personal space at all times
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starlooove · 10 months
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A lot of y’all see Miles as “one of the good ones” and it shows
#wait till he gets a lil ghetto#maybe have him blow up at Gwen next movie and not forgive her quickly#matter of fact let him say he doesn’t care about her dad or smth#the switch up is gonna be crazy#like i couldn’t put my finger on why the racism just…missed miles this movie#like y’all are racist about miles and hobie obviously#but miles as a character isn’t getting the reception he got before#and i had hope that maybe ppl were just less racist#but no a lot of y’all ignore miles and his character#or see him as the nice yet sassy black guy who’s exotic enough to be cool but not so much that it’s unrelatable#the little parts of his culture are excused as quirks to you do you can relate even when it doesn’t apply#like y’all did with Bruno throwing the salt in encanto#but yeah i still think there’s an element I’m missing to it but that’s like. the bare bones so far#I’m basically tryna figure out why y’all are treating miles so differently this movie#like genuinely it feels like every racist thought and trope y’all have been putting on miles#was just. dispersed onto other characters#he’s not aggresive u can call hobie and Miguel aggresive#he’s not a thief u can call miles 42 the thief#he’s not the black best friend u can call Pav the manic pixie dream boy#so when all of that is gone all u see Miles as is something u can project onto#and that’s why y’all ignore miles unless ur talking about him in reference to other characters#it’s getting weird#itsv#atsv#fandom racism#miles morales
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jvzebel-x · 9 months
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#one of my least favourite media tropes is the 'bad person w a heart of gold' character lmao#i think its a kneejerk response to my inherent belief that when someone tells you point blank who they are you should believe them lmao#but also maybe its projection bc its not like ppl arent always offput by me for one reason or another#w/o ever actually getting to know me lmao.#so like maybe i just have chosen to disavow all versions of having a 'deeper' self in favour of spitting on the idea that i should have to#prove myself by disproving anything w a Deeper Level of Self lmao. maybe im actually just exactly what meets the eye.#perhaps i am not only totally fine w that but genuinely prefer it that way lmao.#... that is all hypothetical nonsense rambling however lmao. what is objective fact is the Bad Person w A Heart of Gold trope#has done as much damage as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope&i fucking hate them both the exact same amount lmao.#what is also objective fact is that i have now dropped two books in a row bc i refuse to sit thru the plot points of#'im an asshole but pls get to know me its def not fucked up that i take my bullshit out on random ppl like a toddler pls coddle this'#&'no one could ever understand my sad life story that makes me extremely abusive pls fix me' LMAO#ahhh i just need better distraction. between everything going on back home&the unstable weather making my unstable body heave#i have been going rather stir crazy&usually i can get thru like a book a day when things are like this#&starting over twice is Offensive right now LMAO.
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