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bloodanddiscoballs · 1 year

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Meet my 3rd Disco Elysium OC: Danny the Entroponeticist aka a Pale Scientist

Name: Daniel Arden Naveen

Nickname: Danny

Age: 33

Gender: Male (Trans)

Sexuality: Gay

Height: 5’10”

Weight: 150lbs

Race: Semenese

Danny grew up in Oranje as an only child to a single immigrant mother. He grew up poor, his mother working as a house cleaner for the wealthy homes in the nice neighborhoods and singing at night for some extra cash. Danny's father had been a Paledriver, but never came home after a trip, leaving his mother and Danny alone. From a young age, Danny was a curious child, always wanting to know how things worked and constantly on the move poking his nose into things he shouldn't. He because fascinated by the Pale from the time the basics were taught in elementary school. Danny would fantasize about traveling the Pale, hanging around the loading stations down by the ports for a chance to speak with the drivers and watch the Coalition airships take off. In high school, he ran track and field, seeing it as a way to help train his body and get fit for the goal of traversing the Pale. He had a high school physics teacher who took a shine to him, feeding his hunger for knowledge by getting him access to any and all books he could, and mentoring him one on one. At the age of 17, Danny built his own version of a Pale Latitude Compressor as well as his own suit using scrap from a friend in the autoshop class and old radios he had thrifted. He borrowed an old row boat from a friend of his father's and set out to the part of the Pale that hung off the coast, eating away at the sea ice. He completed 4 successful trips into the Pale, but his Compressor failed him on the 5th attempt. When he didn't come home, his mother contacted the Coalition Guard and, after a few hours, they located him and took him in to be questioned. Danny spent the entire night and half of the next day being questioned and evaluated before he was offered a scholarship to the University in Graad, making him one of the younger applicants of the Entroponetics program. At 21 years old, Danny graduated with his doctorate and has worked as an Entroponeticist for the last 12 years.

Most of what Danny does is the experimentation that others will not do; the dangerous acts that put one smack dab in the middle of the fray in order to know if something will work or not. He tests the updates to the equipment, proves or disproves theories, and pushes past the limits in order to see what is on the other side. It has earned him some scars, the strange swirls on the back of his hands from when a suit failed and began to be eaten by the Pale. It's also earned him quite the reputation, being cited in over 200 studies over the past 12 years as well as being published on his own three times.

Danny is constantly bouncing from Isola to Isola, never in one place longer than a few months. As a result, he was single for most of his life, not bothering to worry about anything other than his job. He finds people confusing, always feeling like he doesn't know the rules of social interactions. Danny wishes that people would just say what they mean instead of dancing around everything. As a result, he is rather to the point, and though certainly not rude, he does often hear this behavior can be rather jarring to those who aren't expecting him to be so honest. When he gives you his attention, he gives you all of it, which can feel a little intense sometimes. Danny is an incredibly bubbly person, easily excitable and almost always smiling, even when he is working on a problem. Making friends is rather easy for him, though he always seems to keep people at arm's length.

Aside from his experimentations, Danny is part of the division of scientists who investigates isolary entroponetics: the idea of the Pale being able to form from inside an Isola. It is part of why he is constantly on the move, though Revachol is often on his list. He has bounced in and out of Jamrock over the last 12 years after earning his degree. It was on one of these trips that he first met Jean Vicquemare ten years prior. It was a brief meeting, one that Jean remembered but that Danny had forgotten due to other major things that had happened at the same time. Their first meeting had been rather poor, Jean mistook Danny for a criminal; as a Junior Officer at the time, Jean went undercover at a gay bar in order to flirt with the young scientist. Danny had already been teetering on the edge of giving up on dating, so when a young Jean had made a fool out of him and grilled him for information, it was the switch that Danny needed to simply shut off that part of his life for good. The two men ended up meeting ten years later when Danny had been called by Trant in order to come on as a secondary Special Consultant, Danny already having been in town to investigate the Dolorian Church of Humanity. Danny didn't remember Jean, but Jean certainly remembered him, feeling guilty over his behavior all those years later.

Ultimately, the two men end up pursuing a relationship and Danny laughs about the situation, releasing Jean from his guilt. They complement one another well; Danny's bright and happy nature with Jean's sarcastic biting own. They work well, Jean needing the honesty that Danny provides and Danny very much appreciating Jean not allowing Danny to shrug off being cared for. There are some ways in which their relationship might now be "healthy", but it works for them; Danny loving when Jean gets possessive and Jean finding Danny's petty streak very flattering. The depression that Jean deals with and how he deals with it- pushing people away- does clash with Danny's fear of rejection, but they find a way to make it work. It helps that both men are fiercely loyal, those feelings driving them to the extreme when either is at risk. Both have helped the other come out of their shell in different ways, finding comfort and safety in one another even with everything else strives to be chaotic.

Danny is trans and began testosterone at 18. That is also when he got his top surgery, though he got his tubes tied at 21 as a "graduation gift" to himself. His mother was not supportive, being incredibly religious, and when she died when Danny was 23, they hadn't been speaking. It is one of his biggest regrets and is part of why he shut himself off to the world. He is not religious but he was raised in Dolorianism as a child.

#disco elysium #disco elysium oc #jean vicquemare #also the stuff WITH jean is what the ai bot came up with #that stuff about them meeting when they were younger was all the bots idea but i dug it so much #oc tag->#Pale Heart #tee eff queue #Dez Art

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potatothemoose · 6 months

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Art Dump!

None of these are finished pieces, but I wanted to show them off anyways.

This little guy is Paxton! He's a spirit dedicated to the protection of a specific, technically immortal being named Maelstrom. They are the remainders of a fallen universe destroyed by the gods, who spared them and split them throughout the multiverse. This means that every universe in my creative multiverse has a version of Maelstrom and Paxton somewhere out there!

The concept for these guys actually started during a character.ai roleplay with Diluc. They're one of many OCS who started in Genshin RPs and then got adapted to my own creations, meaning that they have a Genshin AU as well. In that AU, Maelstrom is a descent of Khaenri'ah trying to escape from his past, falling in love with Diluc in the process. Paxton is an Electro Abyss Mage sent by Maelstrom's family and the Abyss to keep an eye on him (even though Paxton is often childish and usually Maelstrom also ends up looking after him). Definitely one of my favorite character pairs I've ever made!

My TADC OC, Krikett! He's a funny guy who plays music for the circus. I haven't fully figured out his character yet, but what I wrote on the paper is certainly a good start. He was probably a music teacher or musical artist before getting stuck in the Digital Circus.

More character.ai OCS! Every single one on this page is dating a Fatui Harbinger. We have:

Top left - Jekyll. Her canon version in my own works is a superhero with cryokenisis, orphaned at a young age and taken into an organization of heroes by an anthropomorphic hen named Isabel. She's definitely a very complex character who deals with potentially triggering subject matter, so I probably won't explore her here on my Tumblr where I'm still figuring out how to make content warnings, but I definitely think you'll see more of her. In her Genshin AU, she's paired with Tartaglia, and the whole premise of the RP is that they're a pair of traumatized 19-year-olds trying to have a healthy relationship. So far they're not very good at it.

Top right - Edith. She's a really old character I've had since I was in seventh or eighth grade. She's the ghost of a plague doctor who was unfortunately killed in a freak accident regarding an unstable building. During her life, she faked marriage to her best friend (named Norman) so she could lead a double-life as both his fake wife and a plague doctor. They ended up being a pair of traveling plague doctors until they met their demise. Now, she works as the right-hand woman for a knowledge god! Her Genshin AU is also one of the oldest. It's been going on for over a year now and she's married to Dottore because I'm obsessed with him.

Bottom left - Ash. Part of the same organization as Jekyll, she's a werewolf superhero who's been through a lot more than she wants you to think. Like Jekyll, she deals with some really heavy subjects, so I won't go into her backstory right now, but I definitely think she's a very interesting character. Her Genshin AU storyline follows her and Pantalone in a story mostly centered around self-acceptance and healing from trauma. Fluffy werewolf girlfriend and banker boyfriend go brrr.

Bottom right - Arden. A former US military Sargent, Arden is a character from the same universe as Edith. She suffered a debilitating injury that took her out of service (although I'm still working out where and when she served) and is my homage to any and all US military personnel and the struggles they face. I've always been fascinated by war and how it affects psychology, so Arden also serves as an excuse to research how PTSD and other trauma responses work. In her Genshin AU her backstory is pretty much the same, though the plotline follows her in her arranged marriage with Capitano, and how they come to cope with their trauma together and form a loving relationship built on trust.

This guy is Leo, a transgender himbo from the same universe as Ash and Jekyll. He's a superhero whose power is centered around geese. He can shapeshift into literally any creature so long as he can make it part goose. He also has a Genshin AU where he's shipped with Arlecchino. I know a lot of people headcanon her as lesbian, but my own personal headcanon is that she's bi with a preference for women (though she'll also settle for nonbinaries and the occasional man). Please don't come after me, my headcanon is not hurting anyone and you will be blocked. Yes, this drawing was done on a math worksheet. No, I did not do the math.

Some T-shirt designs I doodled at school! I'm unsure how many of these will make it onto a short and how many might become stickers or other kinds of fun thing, but all of them will be digitally rendered eventually and there are more on the way.

That's all!

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dervampireprince · 1 year

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ASMR | OC - Satin x Listener SFW Accidentally Summoning a Femboy Incubus [TM4M]

[TM4M/TM/NB] [Femboy incubus] [English accent] [First meeting] [Flirting] [Lots of flirting] [Sexual flirting] [Hugs] [Comfort] [Pet names] [Brief mention of transphobia and incibus getting misgendered] [Discussion of aroace spectrum, listener can be seen as demisexual and/or demiromantic] [Discussions of gender identity and sexuality]

So this was meant to be a fun quick introduction... and then I stopped talking and it had been almost an hour. There's a little talk in here of gender identity and sexuality in this video and if that makes you uncomfortable... well my channel probably isn't for you. I'm trans, a lot of my ocs are trans, that's just how it is around these parts. While all my ocs are going to exist in the same universe, this listener character is not the same listener character as Ambrose and Arden's listener. The reason for the gendered listener tag is Satin is achillean and for him that means he's only or mostly attracted to men and masc non-binary people and the listener character for this audio is implied to be male (Satin asks you to accompany them into the men's changing room, but also refers to you being nervous to leave whether the listener is cis or trans open to interpretation). Also Satin is trans and a femboy, he is not called a femboy because he is trans, he just likes the term. Don't call anyone a femboy without knowing if they like using the term as it can definitely feel misgendering to trans men, I've experienced that myself and do not like being called a femboy personally. Only use the term for boys and non-binary people who like using the term, whether they're cis or trans, don't use it to refer to trans women as it has been used against trans women as a derogatory word.

Also, video layouts/thumbnails are changing! I've been planning this for a while. Instead of the circles with a pre-existing image of the character (or drawing of my own when it's an original character, or photograph when it's non-character specific) all videos will now have a large picture which will be a drawing done by myself! If anyone wants to see more of my art I post that under the name 'emptymasks', have an Etsy shop and my art commissions have just opened for the first time.

Custom audio commissions are open! Full spicy audios on soundgasm and Patreon. Downloadable versions, exclusive spicy audios and Discord on Patreon. I also stream on Twitch 3 times a week @ dervampireprince . [minors + ageless blogs dni. this blog is for 18+ only.] [do not repost/reupload/edit my audios/videos]

#the vampire whispers #monsterfucker #monsterfucking #monster fucking #monster fucker #nsft audio #nsft audios #nsft concept #nsft fantasy #trans nsft #ftm nsft #mlm nsft #mlnb nsft #satin #satin x listener #the vampires ocs

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lamentable-comedy · 2 years

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The Rest is Silence: Arden, Adaptation, and Narrative Stewardship

hey remember when i announced my intention to write an essay on arden and then didn't do it for two years because i was waiting for season 2B to come out and then... just kept not doing it? Well I finally wrote it and it's below the cut

i. Narrative Stewardship

Narrative stewardship is a term that you’ve never heard before because I invented it to describe who is entrusted with telling a story and when. It goes beyond just a matter of perspective or narrative voice, and specifically addresses in-universe instances of characters shouldering the responsibility of telling the story. And this can be varying degrees of explicit in terms of how it occurs.

One of my favourite less explicit examples of this is The World’s End. The film opens with narration from Gary, placing the story of the first golden mile firmly in Gary’s stewardship, and implicitly setting you up to think of the events of the movie from his perspective. However, it ends with narration from Andy, telling a group of people about the events of the film and retroactively applying his perspective to the story. The narrative has now passed into his care, and he is the one sharing it and bringing it forward. However, this switch isn’t the result of any explicit conversation that Gary and Andy have, nor does it directly represent that everything we’ve seen is something that Andy has been telling-- there are scenes that he just wasn’t there for, for one thing-- whatever version he tells the other people in the circle, it isn’t exactly what we’ve seen. The point is that the story of the first golden mile is in Gary’s care, and the second in Andy’s. In this instance, drawing attention to stewardship serves more of a thematic purpose in order to underscore the point that the movie is making about the past and how we interact with it.

For a more literal example, you can look at The Lord of the Rings. In-universe, the books that you read when you read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are a translation of The Red Book of Westmarch, which was primarily written by Bilbo and Frodo, and that is finished by Sam. Frodo directly, in the story, tasks Sam with the work of writing the end, and there’s analysis out there that pinpoints where that shift happens to within a few lines.

So that’s narrative stewardship. It doesn’t always have to be defined by a shift from one character to another, and there’s a lot of other situations under which it can be applied, probably some that I haven’t even thought of, but that’s more or less what I mean when I use the term, and it’s a concept that I think about a lot when it comes up.

Arden interacts with the concept of narrative stewardship on a number of occasions, first and most obviously, in its format as a true crime podcast. Throughout season one, Bea and Brenda are telling the story of Ralph and Julie. They have not been entrusted with this story by the people it actually concerns, they have taken it on themselves, and they’re each doing it for different but similar reasons. Bea sets out to tell Julie Capsom’s story. Not just to share and find out what happened to her, but because of a connection she feels she has with Julie, and because she feels she has some responsibility or duty to be the one to say what happens. Brenda is there for Ralph. She barges in and kind of strong-arms her way onto the in-universe Arden podcast because she wants to make sure that Ralph’s end of the story is being done justice, and at the core of her involvement in the rest of the season is the desire to prove that Ralph isn’t to blame for Julie going missing.

Bea and Brenda each feel that they have some responsibility to one of the key players in the story of season one, and both feel they have some right to tell the story because of their initial involvement at the time, Bea as a reporter and Brenda as one of the police officers investigating Julie’s disappearance. And the story was public enough at the time and it’s been long enough that the rest of Wheyface, the public, and Ralph and Julie’s friends and family all just... let them proceed with that goal.

However.

Julie and Ralph don’t want their story to be told. They don’t even want to be the ones telling it, they left it unresolved with intent. So when they do step in and are all but forced to take over stewardship of their own story from Bea and Brenda, it’s an act of self defence almost. They don’t want to be doing it, but they need to in order to justify, or at least explain, their actions. Of course, in-universe “Episode 11: The Monsters Who Did It” doesn’t actually exist, but the in universe equivalent of this reluctant re-possession of their story is when Julie agrees to answer Bea and Brenda’s questions on mic when they find her. Of course, doing so means owning up to her past actions. In season one of Arden, narrative stewardship means responsibility. Julie’s responsibility for the crimes she committed in order to orchestrate her disappearance, and the responsibility of Bea, Brenda, and the rest of the Arden team for negatively affecting the lives of at least three people.

So of course for season two they change things up a little.

Dana Hamill wants her story to be told.

Dana Hamill wants her story to be told by the Arden crew, to as wide an audience as possible.

Dana Hamill wants the world to know what happened to her Dad and why the actions of her uncle and, to a lesser extent, her mother, should be considered suspect in the light of what happened.

The question of narrative stewardship shifts in season two. The matter of how one person’s memory of the past can differ from another’s, and how that affects how they tell the story of what happened comes up directly a number of times-- Dana’s impression of her father as compared to those of Trudy and Clyde, Dana and Olivia’s differing perspectives on their past relationship, the different things that Bea and Brenda take from their initial interactions in 2007 and how that effects their present relationship... But the most noteworthy places for our purposes are the shift in the form that the podcast takes, and one Rosalind Ursula.

The Arden team is aware that, after the disaster that was the end of season one, they need to be more careful with how they approach season two, and as a result the episodes that we are hearing are not at all what the in-universe podcast, A Town Called Elsinore, actually consists of. So while Bea and Brenda are trying to tell Dana’s story, we aren’t just getting their version of that story. Moreover, their perspective on what the story is that they are telling is very different from Dana’s perspective on the story she wants them to tell. They are more aware of the possible consequences of taking responsibility for telling this story, and so they are more wary of fully doing so.

Which... brings us back to Rosalind.

Rosalind takes her first name from the main character of As You Like It, a character who would definitely, 100%, no doubt, get along with Hamlet so very well that one of my main takeaways from this podcast is turning over that possibility in my mind. Her last name, Ursula, is a nod to a minor character from Much Ado About Nothing, which ties her into Brenda and Bea as reimaginings of Benedict and Beatrice, but other than that doesn’t have much of a bearing on her character. Like, she’s not an adaptation of Ursula in any form. And it's interesting to note that she is one of the few characters in the podcast who is based on a Shakespeare character, but who is brought in without bringing in other elements of the play from which they are is taken. The only other contribution As You Like It has made to Arden is the title, but even that is more strongly connected to the real-life forest of Arden near Shakespeare’s home town than it is the fictional Arden in As You Like It’s France. Even Andy Wheyface is actually surprisingly similar to Andrew Aguecheek what with his willingness to throw his money around and comedic attempt to get married with vague motivations as to why he actually wants to, though that is retained without importing much else from Twelfth Night. The only other Twelfth Night reference being Malcolm Volio in season one.

But Rosalind! She does bear a similarity to her Shakespearean namesake in terms of character, but not at all in terms of role. And the fact that she has been taken so entirely out of her original context essentially gives her leeway to be a more flexible character for the writers while still maintaining a connection to Shakespeare. And what the writers do with that... is make her Horatio.

I can still remember listening to season two for the first time, and realizing that Rosalind was going to be acting as Horatio and... I think I literally got goosebumps? Because Horatio... Horatio is the person who has stewardship of the story of Hamlet. Hamlet entrusts him, at the end of the play with the task of telling this story. In the world of Hamlet, the only way that the story of all of death and tragedy-- the “carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts”-- gets told, is because of Horatio. And we know that he does tell it, at least once, to Fortinbras, when he shows up at the end of the play.

Dana gets Rosalind to tell her story. She contacts Arden generally, but Rosalind is the one who does the groundwork of flying out to Montana and looking into Dana’s story in preparation for the in-universe season 2. And as a result of befriending Dana, Rosalind is swayed to her perspective on events, and becomes the only person on the Arden team advocating for the version of the story that Dana wants them to tell. This interacts with some other aspects of adaptation in some ways that I’ll get to in a moment, but first and foremost it makes her... a really good Horatio. By which I mostly mean it makes her a very Horatio Horatio. She really takes her responsibility as the steward of Dana’s story, as the person entrusted with her version of events, very seriously. To Rosalind, this is Dana’s story-- much as in season one Bea saw the events as Julie’s story almost to the exclusion of Ralph-- and so, first and foremost, Rosalind sees Arden’s responsibility in telling the story doing right by Dana. At least until she realizes that she's gotten too close to Dana and comes clean to the rest of the crew about the gaps in Dana’s story.

Season two asks questions about the role of objectivity in narrative stewardship, because if someone asks you to tell their story-- the story of what happened to them, and what they did, what happens when that conflicts with just telling the story of what happened?

ii. Adaptation and Narrative Tension

Arden isn’t fully an adaptation. Partially because it’s got so much original stuff that there are whole storylines that can’t be found in Shakespeare, but partially because it’s never a straight-up retelling of any of the plays that it takes on. There’s always enough distance from Shakespeare’s actual text, story, and themes that despite the obvious influence, it also stands on it’s own as a new version of an older story.

Which is actually very in line with how Shakespeare approached his plays. With very few exceptions, (Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Tempest) they're all based on existing stories or historical events. Some plays are the result of combining two stories, and faithfulness varies greatly between different plays, but in general, Shakespeare plays aren’t original. They’re just really good at standing on their own.

But none of Shakespeare’s plays are mysteries. There aren’t really twists or reveals. Villains tell the audience what they’re up to, the Chorus synopsizes events for you before they happen, foreknowledge of the ending will not in any way hamper your enjoyment of the story. So Arden is actually given a very difficult task in terms of adapting stories that everyone knows into a true crime format where the reveal of what happened and who did it needs to actually hold some weight. That approach to adapting the plays essentially requires a genre shift, because the aims of a mystery are directly at odds with the aims of the kinds of tragedies that Shakespeare wrote. And the really amazing thing is how it’s done differently in the two seasons.

Everyone knows how Romeo and Juliet ends. The prologue of the play tells you how it ends just in case you didn’t know. And, listening to season one of Arden, you already know what happened to Ralph and Julie, because you know they’re Romeo and Juliet. Well. You should know they’re Romeo and Juliet. You might not know the details, but you know they’re dead, and you know they died together. Season one relies on that foreknowledge to keep both the real-world audience and the in-fiction audience engaged. Even if you somehow managed to miss the fact that Ralph Montgomery and Julie Capsom are Romeo and Juliet, in-fiction, everyone making and listening to the show knows what happened to Julie Capsom. All that blood? The crashed car? She for sure died. They just don’t know how.

So, when the twist is revealed and it turns out that they’re not only not dead, but still together? And thriving? You, like the in-universe are surprised by it! It’s like. Undoing any dramatic irony that existed in the original.

Also, if you’re me, you’re kind of more emotionally affected by that twist than you are by the original ending. Because you were prepared for them to be dead, gosh-darn-it, you were prepared for that because you’ve had years to accept it-- but for them to be alive and happy? You wrote a story where they’re ALIVE and HAPPY?? How dare you. How dare you change their fates and show me what could have been, because now the fact that this story has ended in death for four hundred years is sadder.

Anyway.

Season two, builds on that. Season two is an elevation of season one in pretty much every way, honestly, and with that comes an even further departure from the source material and a more deliberate obfuscation of what an audience expects from Hamlet. Because in order for the mystery to sustained in a manner which fits a story of an investigation, we can’t have our Hamlet given concrete knowledge of the culprit, heard from the murder victim, right at the start of the story. Yes, in Hamlet, Hamlet has his doubts about the information that the ghost gives him and that’s part of why it takes him a while to kill Claudius, but the audience doesn’t really have their doubts. We know. Both because of the narrative itself, and because Hamlet is, um. Very famous.

So, Arden season two lacks a clearly articulate ghost describing his murder in detail. The listener is still predisposed to suspect Clyde because they have read or seen or are at least culturally aware of Hamlet, but that suspicion is shaken by remembering that they changed how the story went in season one, so... who knows what could happen. And the further season two of Arden departs from the source material, the less sure you you can be of who’s going to make it out okay.

And this is an amazing exercise in getting you to think about the story differently, because the way Hamlet is written-- giving an audience knowledge as to what Hamlet it doing and why, by showing us his interaction with the ghost-- makes Hamlet’s actions and the fact that he suspects Claudius the way that he does more or less make sense to us in a way that it doesn’t to the majority of the characters. We know that he has his reasons for all of the weird stuff he’s doing, and even if you don’t agree with how he goes about it, you’re still able to see the justification in it. To the other characters in the play-- with the notable exception of Horatio-- his actions are absolutely wild, and Hamlet’s entire plan relies on that.

In Arden, we’re not following Dana directly. We’re following her via Bea and Brenda’s investigation, and that investigation is also following all of the other major players in the town. That shift in how we are presented with our Hamlet figure removes the perspective of knowing who (probably, if ghosts are to be believed) dunnit, even if some shadow of it is still there because of cultural knowledge of Hamlet. It’s basically asking you to relate not to Hamlet, but to Claudius and Gertrude and Ophelia and Polonius-- all the people who are worried about just what Hamlet is up to and that... that is an amazing trick to pull off.

Let’s go back to Rosalind and Horatio. Because Horatio is actually monumentally important to the audience’s understanding of Hamlet as a person for much of the play, and Arden puts that into a much sharper focus by having Rosalind literally trying to shape what the in-universe audience hears of Dana and the story, to the point of deleting footage that might incriminate Dana and interfering with Brenda and Bea’s investigation. Horatio is tasked by Hamlet with telling his story, and Arden asks us to question the ethics of that in the framework of true crime, as well as asking us to question Horatio’s objectivity. It’s asking “but what if Hamlet wasn’t right? What if Claudius didn’t do it?” and that... I don’t even know what to do with that.

Now, no discussion of our access to Dana’s inner thoughts and motivations would be complete without the matter of the soliloquies. In Arden, the soliloquies are fantastically adapted into Dana’s songs. They serve the same purpose as a soliloquy in that they give us some insight into Dana’s thought process, but they also emphasize the element of performance that is at play in Dana’s actions. Performance is such a big part of Hamlet’s actions, in the play. There’s a really amazing ambiguity to just how much of his actions are performance and when he’s performing and when he isn’t that can vary from production to production. Is Hamlet aware that Polonius and Claudius are spying on him during “to be or not be”, for instance. Some of Dana’s songs happen in more private moments-- “Show ‘Em I Mean Business”, arguably “Watch the Fire”-- but most of them are in public, drawing the audience’s attention to the fact that, while Dana’s emotions about her father’s death and the ensuing situation are genuine, on some level she is still performing. And when and how she is performing, not to mention for whom, is immensely interesting.

iii. Conclusion

In the commentary episode for season 2, episode 6, Christopher Dole expresses the aspect of true crime ethics that Arden explores as "who has the right to tell another person's story? [...] And what is the storyteller getting out of choosing this story?" While these questions are of course relevant to questions of true crime, I think they also have bearing over the matter of adaptation, and the matter of theatre. Theatre is unique in that the exact same story, the same script, gets told over and over in many different forms, with different actors and blocking and set and what have you. Shakespeare, as the meeting point of theatre stories that have had cultural relevance for a long time, is a nexus of two forms of repeating and retelling the same story. Arden, both in the act of adapting and retelling Shakespeare, and in the way it chooses to adapt and retell Shakespeare, asks questions about how we frame narratives, who gets to tell stories, and what stories are chosen to be told.

#arden #arden podcast #these are not all of my arden thoughts #not even close #they are just the arden thoughts that need to be fully articulated because they've been bouncing around my head as fragments #i'm also gonna make this into a video #but editing takes time so i'm posting this as is and i'll post a link to the video when it's done probably #depends on how i feel #you might just get the written version idk #anyway....#words #a lot of words #podcast #meta #analysis

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by organiccyborg I like Ardyn and I like sexswaps. So I did a brief bit from the first few encounters in XV wherein Ardyn is ArDEN (since his name is the lady version already), and Noctis has horny feelings about it. Very gen, just a young guy being a dude. Words: 2507, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Other Characters: Ardyn Izunia , Gladiolus Amicitia , Prompto Argentum , Noctis Lucis Caelum , Ignis Scientia Relationships: Ardyn Izunia/Noctis Lucis Caelum Additional Tags: Sexswap , Alternate Universe , MILFs

#final fantasy xv #ffxv #ffxv fic rec #final fantasy xv fic rec

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jonismitchell · 9 months

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in better news i received a pretty sweet scholarship for university today (it will cover half my tuition) <3

#across everywhere i applied i think i ended up being offered 10k in scholarships #not bad for a girl with no talent!#arden speaks #university (arden's version)

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The Doctor | Age-Dependent | Time Lord | Genderfluid

The one, this version of the Doctor isn't from the canon universe, as the other Doctor says, little changes and even little ones with that Doctor makes, changes. Resulting in this one living in Pete's world. He's not sure how old he is, but past a thousand is definitely the case.

"There's more important problems than some metacrisis turning up. -"

There are differences in this universe, little changes. Changes that resulted in midnight never happening or that he never fell in love with a Rose, there wasn't one at the time anyway. Results like travelling with a companion that isn't human and ages slowly, it's been a long while since a new one but he doesn't mind that, they meet new people every adventure. Not that he goes on one back-to-back, he's not that needy.

Gallifrey is still out there, he's not sure he likes that there's no war or that the Daleks were destroyed before there could be a war. But there was a few at some point, like they hid out of sight or they came through from the other world.

" - Even if he looks like me."

His companion (Arden) is a snake shifter, someone who hes happy to have with him. God knows what he'd turn out like otherwise.

The Master isn't a companion, but he does travel with him a lot, seems to be a habbit for them. Traveling together on an adventure when they get together and it's not like he picked him up. It's was more like the Master found him, see apparently someone told him that there would be four knocks, forgot to mention that he'd get a heart attack with said four knocks on his TARDIS door. Very much that resulted in him being annoyed and yelling that he was not in need of being dead or regenerate thank you.

Not that the Master is any kind of bad, this one didn't get four drum beats in his head but he kind of was different in that he didn't want to travel to see, he wanted to travel with the Doctor and be chaotic in the small ways. The Doctor really doesn't mind. Save planets and let the Master do something silly.

He's not for heart attacks again, the once was the last one.

The Doctor hasn't really regenerated that much as the canon one, not for lack of trying. The lack is the missing all the times the other one regenerated and he just stayed in this one.

He doesn't travel back to back, like a yoyo and he has a house on earth in london somewhere. He likes to stay there sometimes, especially on holidays with the Master and Arden. Though that itself is trouble, just because it's not adventure out there doesn't mean he's not about to get into one.

So far, no christmas has caused aliens. He won't open his mouth though. He doesn't trust it, plus wrapping tinsel around himself and running around London is bad enough he thinks for the Master and Arden.

And will probably punch someone, or himself out. No one wants him to cause problems that he might ever regret. Or has to solve the problem he himself caused, he'll avoid that.

#doctor who au; pete's world: not the same Doctor #[ au doctor thread ]#「 paved the way ― bios 」#well now he has an actual home world #in pete's world #lol so any metacrisis can say hi to this dumbass

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Birthday Spotlight - Dr Gary Konowalous

[13th January - Capricorn]

Known first and foremost as the MVP of Falling Falling Stars, Dr Gary was a runaway hit even though he was never meant to be in anything more than a handful of reminiscences re: Efnisien's sessions with a psychologist who specialised in criminal juvenile behaviour, especially those who leaned towards murder, rape, arson and animal cruelty.

The Director of Hillview eventually came to be featured in the Underline the Rainbow alternate universe, an omegaverse where he is the Director of Hillview Omega Rehabilitation, a peak alpha, and the unlikely partner of Efnisien ap Wledig in an unusual m/m romance. Going from psychologist in one serial to lover and main character in another is a pretty big glow up!

‘You touch the lives of the people around you, Efnisien. In the past, all you saw was the negative ways you influenced them. I’m sure that will be the main way you orient to the world going into the future, though as I always say – we’ll work on it. But you do have an influence on the lives of the people around you. Sometimes it’s fleeting. But sometimes it’s meaningful, and important, and quite a remarkable thing. ‘I enjoy you as a client, not only because I enjoy the work we do together as a professional, but also because I enjoy the young man you are. You’re kind and compassionate, funny, and sometimes possessed with a very wicked sense of humour which I frankly find quite relatable. You’re insightful and courageous.’

Falling Falling Stars

Spoils of the Spoiled - A minor character referred to by name only, and the diagnostician of Efnisien ap Wledig, formally diagnosing him with Pure O (a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

Falling Falling Stars - Intended to only be a side character with minor cameos, Dr Gary quickly became the MVP of this long running serial, and was as much a star of this story as Efnisien and Arden!

The Moon is Down - A oneshot between Dr Gary and Mika from Falling Falling Stars.

Constellations - A Gwyn + Efnisien reconciliation story in the Falling Falling Stars universe.

Underline the Black - Main POV character alongside Efnisien ap Wledig. An enemies-to-lovers, alpha/alpha romance, with very unconventional dynamics and a significant (20+ year) age gap!

Underline the Gold - Cameo role

Underline the Blue - Cameo role

Underline the Red - More significant character here, and the unlikely antagonist

PhD of Psychology

Specialises in niche psychology (juvenile criminals/sociopaths in Falling Falling Stars, omega rehabilitation in Underline the Black)

Has a golden retriever - Polly - who is the goodest girl ever

He is dry, witty, dominating, a top, compassionate, insightful, bullish, heavy-handed, can be ruthless, and quick to apologise (though he has to be!)

Older. Age undisclosed in Falling Falling Stars, but he's 44 in Underline the Black.

The scene where he dropped absolutely everything to save Efnisien's life in Falling Falling Stars

Every time he's made Efnisien cry

Being so extra in an omegaverse that he's a literal "peak alpha."

Workaholic!

Consistently helping Efnisien realise the world can be a better place, usually after upsetting him a lot beforehand.

Dumping Efnisien into the ocean (just about) to snap him out of a dissociative episode.

The blue cup

His espresso + wine habit in Underline the Black

Chain-smoking his dead lover's cigarettes while moodily staring at the beach, in Underline the Black, like a 44 year old emo kid.

That good old PhD in psychology

He keeps his wry sense of humour

He always owns Hillview!

He cares deeply for Efnisien

Good dresser! Likes suits.

He pushes too hard

He has a strong sense of inner justice and equality

Needs a holiday

His appearance was intentionally never described in Falling Falling Stars so that people could imagine their own safe version of a psychologist! That's nearly 780k of never telling you his hair or eye colour, for example! Many people swear they know what he looks like, and are surprised to realise I never said a word about what he looks like in this story. Much to the rage and chagrin of fanartists (I'm sorry!)

Dr Gary's therapy sessions have inspired multiple readers to seek therapists of their own, and some people have described him as being the therapy they needed. Sometimes fiction just hits right, especially when Dr Gary's in the room. (He's a pretty annoying therapist though!)

I started shipping Efnisien and Dr Gary in the first 3 chapters of Falling Falling Stars, and then had to stop myself for the rest of the story to maintain their professional relationship. But in a way, the seeds for Underline the Black were sown a long time ago!

After typing 'Dr Gary' for so long in Falling Falling Stars, it took ages to train myself to write 'Gary' in Underline the Black! Thankfully it took Efnisien a while to get on board with saying 'Gary' instead of 'Dr Gary' as well. :D

‘Did you fuck me?’ Efnisien croaked, thinking he should be presenting a more macho image right now, but waking up to that dog touching him – and feeling a bit like he might be dying – was making it hard to manage much at all. ‘You would know if I’d fucked you,’ Dr Gary said, voice wry.

Underline the Black

#birthday spotlight #dr gary konowalous #writers of tumblr #falling falling stars #mm romance #queer romance #enemies to lovers #slowburn #underline the black #underline the rainbow #original fiction #original works #character birthday #doing something new this year #happy birthday dr gary!!#don't drink too much wine

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#Equality #Gay #Men&039;s Love #Generic

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