#whatever i'll maybe brain something up at some point who knows. what difference does it make
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..ive really just reached a point where i dont even really care about uploading fics anymore huh
#i have a couple i could put up somewhere but i legit just dont care lmao#maybe later. idk#it just doesnt feel worth it anymore tbh. i just share them now with the one person that matters and thats it#and nobody has asked where fic uploads are so. im just going to assume nobody misses my shit lmao#whatever i'll maybe brain something up at some point who knows. what difference does it make#im gonna have dinner now and then finally play ff15 tho so. dont expect uploads tonight. unless you really want them for some reason idk#whatever byeee#night is an absolute mess on main
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okay, so, I've fallen victim to the leon kennedy brainrot steadily overtaking me, following me from Tumblr to Pinterest, to Instagram and even the absolutely fucking dreaded application of TikTok. I don't even use it that often??? and the algorithm is just like 'wow, yeah, this little fuckers gay as hell send in the 40 year old meow meow!!' and having watched Death Island fairly recently, I'm gonna have my opinions on what this dude would be like. Cus my brain loves to rationalize shit and think ab 'what if this mf was someone real?' so... fuck it.
Leon Soft Kennedy Headcanons
SFW
accidentally bigoted. - im sorry but let's be so fucking real here. he's a 40 something year old man who spent the majority of his life in either the military, a police training academy in the 90's, or otherwise working under the U.S Federal System with minimal/no time between missions to unpack absolutely everything he's got going on... the guys gonna have some problematic tendencies. Obviously that doesn't mean he means any of that or is incapable of change, etc. etc., but I know for damn certain this dude would laugh a little at Bill Burr's borderline to blatantly misogynistic material and has probably chuckled unironically at the attack helicopter jokes. But, he's not a complete dick, and would definitely become more critical of those kinds of jokes if it's pointed out to him.
honest to God, Dad Without Kids™ - it's not simply enough for me to leave it at 'but it's the vibes!!' so, I'm gonna break this shit down. Leon is absolutely Gen X incarnate. I can fucking guarantee you that on his off days he accidentally ends up dressing as an undercover cop; I'm talking cargo shorts, light blue button up, those fucking standard issue boots cus "they're perfectly good shoes" and those stupid ass sunglasses... you know the ones I'm talking about. Let's say you're living with him, right? And you're... you, and you wanna watch something on TV. This dude would strain himself getting up like a turtle fallen backwards on its shell, stand up, walk right in front of the TV screen and stand there with his hands on his hips. It doesn't matter that he had to piss, he needs to get a better look of what's happening! Does those really loud, obnoxious coughs and sneezes, absolutely blows his back out doing one at least five times a year.
Only watches British Reality TV - Considering he's canonically a film buff, I'll say that this is purely for whatever he gravitates towards on general streaming services. I honestly don't see him being the type to regularly tune in to standard American cable TV, or only does so under specific circumstances like American Ninja Warrior or maybe Forged in Fire if there's absolutely nothing else. It's not something that's exclusive to Americans, — I'm from New Zealand and I do this too, — but Leon absolutely falls into the category of watching British Reality and Game shows purely because of the accents. I'm talking Jeremy Kyle, The Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Taskmaster, The Great British Bake Off and so on and so forth. It doesn't matter that baking isn't his forté or a passion of his, if Josephine curdles her buttercream by over mixing, his hands are in his hair in utter disappointment. 100% tries to mimic their accents too. We all do it, don't lie.
Has... very dated music tastes - I don't know if you could guess, but the last paragraph included me calling myself out and name dropping some shows I watch anyway or grew up watching, and I'm just saying that this is gonna be no different. If anything? This'll be worse! Since I'm very passionate about the music I listen to and have the inability to keep my interests separated from the other, of course my love of particular bands will bleed over into my interpretation of Leon's character! Anyway, all that for me to say that Leon fucking LOVES 90's grunge musicians, specifically Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, as well as early nu metal bands like Korn (their dubstep phase did not happen.), TOOL, and Rage Against the Machine — and no, he unfortunately doesn't see the irony of him being a fed and listening to Rage, — but would also have a soft spot for psych rock, post-punk and shoegaze. My man's definitely laid awake at night, sobbing without expression as he struggles to accept that Ada never really wanted him like he wanted her while listening to fucking Slowdive. My hottest take here is that he doesn't really listen to Deftones. Like he'll occasionally blast My Own Summer, Change, Bored or Rosemary, but anything outside of those? He just didn't listen to 'em. My second hottest take is that he does NOT like Slipknot, which kind of pains me 'cus I do, but I fucking bet you this dude would actually adopt one piece of "Gen Z lingo" or whatever just call them cringe. Though admittedly he would've been jamming the fuck out to Psychosocial and The Devil in I when they came out. Went off the deep end in Vendetta, obviously, and drunk-cried himself to sleep on the couch listening to Linkin Park.
Very confusing spending habits - On one hand, we all understand that Leon came from money, — he was implied to have been born into a mob family from my understanding? And I doubt he'd ever really had to worry about being fully, irrevocably broke, — but I'm sure that growing up in the U.S Foster Care System made him at least a little more cautious of where his money comes from, where it's going, what he's spending it on, etc. So, on the one hand, he's apprehensive to spend recklessly, particularly on perishables. But also, if he can drop over $100,000USD on a motorcycle that got absolutely fucking cheese grated into the road, and spend a perceived, metric fuck ton of money on designer leather jackets and massive watches, it's gonna be hard for me to call him 'financially conscious'. On one hand, he gets apprehensive on spending more money than he needs to on food since he's "just gonna shit it out later", but if he sees a cool watch or a nice suit in a shop window? Money's suddenly not an issue! Not because he's materialistic, but because the one thing he really maintains a sense of control over in his life are his possessions and the way he dresses. The D.S.O can call him in for another months long mission whenever they please, and all he can realistically do is allow the government to tug on his leash and put him where he's needed. He may as well spend their money on things he wants!
Gets out... enough? But also, not really? - So, personally I've pegged Leon as more of an introverted person, — amateurly typed his MBTI as possibly ISFJ? — so he doesn't really feel the need to go out and meet new people or really hang out with anyone. If somebody invites him out? Sure, he'll go. Otherwise, it rarely occurs to him to meet up with friends or colleagues at a cafe or anywhere. I think he'd prefer to just go there alone, mostly for the sake of having somebody else cook for him as opposed to actively seeking out the atmosphere. It's pure convience in his mind. And remember when I said in the beginning about him accidentally being at least a little misogynistic? Yeah, that was me trying to say that he regularly tries to hit on younger waitresses. Not because he actually wants anything to do with them, but simply because it's an ego boost. He likes that he can make girls half his age blush or offer him their numbers, because it tells him that he's still desirable, and ultimately, that gives him the power to reject them politely and go about the rest of his day. If they don't reject him first, of course. Admittedly, Leon's audacity towards women peaked during Infinite Darkness.
Since I'm planning on posting more NSFW headcanons for this guy, — and more NSFW kinds of posts, — here is the obligatory Minors DNI attachment. For your own safety, I don't care if what I have to say is tame so far, you can hold it off I promise.
#leon kennedy x reader#leon kennedy#leon kennedy fanfic#resident evil#resident evil leon#leon kennedy headcanons#babyfangs.txt#fangsfic#idk man im literally talking out my ass on all this 💀
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hii, i have a request if you don’t mind!
jd x reader where jd has a humiliation kink and maybe the reader does something really normal and it arouses him, the reader notices and playfully makes fun of him, but his body takes it 100% the wrong way and he’s rock hard
Omgomgomg I love this so so much yesyesyes thank you!!!
I love these and if your wonderful brain has more I'll do it
Not really smut (maybe a tiny bit) just reader teasing JD but I'm still gonna call it nsfw, also pet names <3, switch JD, JD embarrassed cause he's subby and he likes humiliation
You're both on his couch watching TV and you're legs across his while you're sucking on a lollipop
And when I say this I don't even mean in a particular provocative way, like you're just very normally enjoying your sugary treat
And when you look over at him he's staring at your mouth
"What are you serious? This all it takes to get to you?"
He scratches the back of his neck because that's absolutely what he does if he's shy or embarrassed and I'm not taking disagreement
And also whatever it's not that easy to push his buttons okay? It's just it's you so it's different alright?
JD loves very intensely, as in once he's in, he's in, and he is clear about it
So it's a little tricky to actually get him embarrassed when you make fun of him a little when it's involving his attraction for you
So that first comment doesn't quite do it
But like
"Y'know if you're that desperate for some... Attention, all you had to do was ask nicely"
Okay so maybe that got him a little bit, just because of the asking nicely thing, you kind of put the idea of begging in his mind right there and now he's thinking about saying please so that you'll put your mouth around him or that you'll touch him
Now just thinking that is enough to turn him on
But then there's the slight matter of his totally mild humiliation kink, y'know the one he's not planning on telling you about? Ever.
For him begging like that (the thing he's thinking about right now just because of what you said) would be something that would set his whole body aflame because he would definitely get embarrassed by it
Well, he's also thinking about that now, which does not help at all
And your legs are draped over his crotch and wow whaddya know? You just felt something press into them
Stupid traitorous dick
Put your candy down on the table right now because this obviously needs your full attention because now he's turned on and wow he really is easy
And you tell him that much
And he's trying so hard to stay all calm and collected
I don't how true this is for you dear reader but for the purpose of this you are not oblivious
You see what's happening here
You told him if he wants attention not unlike the kind you were giving that sucker then he can ask nicely and now he's rock hard
This doesn't necessarily mean he has a humiliation kink but it's at the very least an indication of someone who would get off on begging
So you tease ask him about it
What? You like that? You want me to make you ask nicely for what you want? Do you me to make you say please?
I'm not gonna lie JD has a tendency to get a little pissy if he's getting teased to where he's getting embarrassed
"Whatever, just drop it"
Just move your legs and sit beside him so you can hold and kiss him a little bit, just until he's calm enough that you can tease him again
"I'm sorry baby" and you run your hands through his hair and tell him...
"It's okay darling, really it's cute that you're into begging, I didn't take you for the sub type"
And oh look his blush is back
And also whatever shut up he's not a sub okay... He's a switch... So yeah, whatever
His body is so warm and he's so turned on
At this point he can't even deny anything you're saying because he's already reacted like this
But like you can't know he has a humiliation kink based on this right? So he has that going for him
He's telling you to shut up
You're asking if his erection also wants you to shut up
He's putting a pillow on his lap and he's looking away
Tell him how cute he is when he's embarrassed
He gets so flustered and he tries to say something but it doesn't work out and-
Wait
"Is that the part you like? You like being embarrassed?" I mean he did get really flustered just then so maybe just maybe that's not too far fetched and maybe you're just projecting because you want it to be true
He looks over at you before looking away again
He just kind of splutters but again no coherent sentences
Which means yes that is what he likes
Caught between fuckfuckfuck, you weren't supposed to know that but also fuck you're hot
But he really is mortified and honestly he might cry
But he probably won't because that would make it so much worse
But if you think he might go ahead and be all sweet and lovey dovey with him
Maybe start palming his dick through his pants
Actually what would be really good is if you told him how hot he is like this
Let him know it's not just him
You also get off on his humiliation so
Tell him how his blush is an aphrodisiac
Please tease him forever
If you're watching a movie and someone in it is experiencing any kind of Humiliation ask if he likes that, ask him if that turns him on
See him instantly get shy
Will swear he doesn't like it
"It's not me alright, it's just my dick doesn't quite agree okay?"
Wanna see him get all frustrated?
Ask him if he wants you to stop
"if you tell me you want me to stop making fun of you right now, I will"
He open his mouth and almost tells you to stop but he just closes it
Opens it again to tell you to go fuck yourself
So no then
Wanna make it even worse for him?
"Y'know sweetheart, you seem like you want me to stop, so if you don't tell me you like it, I will"
You motherfucker
Fine
He'll say it
Once and thats it
He doesn't look at you and even with the frustration in his voice he's quiet but he tells you he likes it when you tease him like that so don't stop okay?
"Sorry baby, could you speak up? I couldn't quite hear you"
And he hates you
And you are so lucky he loves you
And you better not tell anyone about this because he swears he'll kill someone and it could be you
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hi,
after seeing some of your ifs posts, i've been doing some research about ifs because i'm suspicious i have it too. but i had a question about something that i never found a proper explanation for, so i thought it would be best to ask someone who has ifs. how exactly do you communicate with your ifs members? are they like voices in your head or like hallucinations of a kind? or something else?
Hi.
One does not "have" IFS. Not in the context you are speaking. IFS is NOT a diagnosable mental health condition. It's a type of therapy done between a patient and a trained therapist.
I do not have IFS. I have a IFS. It is so important to not get this mixed up. What you MIGHT be doing is thinking in a way that is similar to IFS. Compartmentalization is the best term. My recommendation is to talk to a trained psychologist, cause again.....you cannot "have IFS".
Before I answer the question about how I communicate with my parts. My parts are not a hallucination, whether it be auditory or visual, even physical. If you are seeing things or hearing things, I again implore you to see someone about it.
Communicating with my parts:
They are not 'voices' but thoughts. They are my thoughts coming from different places AKA Parts, my IFS members. I do not hear Darth Vader speaking to me. I have a thought that originates from him as a "part" that once I identify as him my brain kinda throws the voice in there for fun. All this happens in less than a second. Sometimes thoughts are so fast, that yeah, I can identify where they came from but sometimes I need to double check. Piett talks over other members as he likes to interpret.
As an artist I work visually and I like to pretend that yeah, maybe Shadow's buckled up in the back seat of my car --That Norman is sitting on the floor next to my bed as I draw. It helps me connect to the parts. I draw my parts interacting. I'll draw how I envision them if they were physically there.
If I need to consciously communicate with a part, I think of the emotions tied to said part and the thoughts they have. Vader being anger, I just focus on that and I think or feel whatever it is I'd like to communicate and usually I get an answer..
There's a point in IFS therapy where...you just know. You becomes so entuned with yourself and your parts that you really don't have to think. And I find that beautiful is some way. IFS is, to me a way to learn to love and care for yourself by understanding yourself, cause there is nothing more powerful than understanding.
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Do you have any tips on increasing word counts in fics?? Or is it just something that develops overtime? Thank you!!
So, for me, my wordcount comes from two different sources:
1: My erroneous belief growing up that the average chapter of a FF was around 7.5k words.
2: My overly flowery, pretentious purple prose.
I have a massive problem with going on for too long as opposed to not long enough. You know that writing advice that will tell you not to get too up your own ass with the details? Yeah, I do the opposite of that. I'll go on for eight years about how the rosy-wood sheen of a desk and by the time I've finished jerking my own writing brain off, no one is interested in the story anymore.
My advice to you would be don't worry about length. It's not quantity-- it's quality that matters. I've seen 2k stories that hit hard over 50k ones that just... drag. I would argue that length doesn't matter in the long run as long as you're getting across your point effectively, efficiently, and emotionally.
The only reason a fic should be incredibly long is if there is genuinely that much information to convey. As writers, and especially neurodivergent writers, sometimes we get a little carried away. A common mistake is people getting so caught up in the details that they forget to tell a fucking story. An obsession with word count really contributes to that in my opinion, because if it's not needed, it becomes invasive filler nonsense, and believe it or not, people can tell.
If the line doesn't fit, isn't needed, doesn't help, or isn't useful, cut it. Trim it like a hedge. Sculp a good story from the dirt with blooming aspects, not dead leaves and rotting twigs. Descriptions can be great, but they can also be a fuckin' anchor weight yanking your story down into the depths.
Think: Is it important to the perspective? Is it something the character would notice, subconsciously or not? Does it contribute in one way or the other to the story or the environment? Don't get me wrong, there are amazing authors who write the most useless shit (Victor Hugo is famous for writing like 8 pages of description about characters that literally don't matter) but when you're grasping the basics, it's best to try to keep it simple.
Another piece of general advice I can give you is to emulate the greats. Read FF authors that you love and adore, figure out what about their style that it is that you admire so greatly, and try to blossom your own style from it. Something about it deeply appeals to you, so figure out what and why!
If you're taking commissions and they want a specific word count and you're having trouble reaching it, there's a few reasons that could be. Maybe the idea just doesn't speak to you, or maybe you skipped over some detailing that you could have gone into. Re-read it outloud. Are the emotions being properly conveyed? Picture yourself in their shoes. What would you notice?
For example, say you have a character that is crying, and you have written them crying. What else about crying makes it hit home? The large, intangible lump wedged in the throat that makes it hard to swallow. The way your nose gets runny, especially when you look down and it's humiliating in front of another human. The way it blurs your vision and clumps your lashes together. That horrible, aching rake of razored claws down the inside of your chest that makes your body almost literally collapse on itself like a singularity. Being unable to breathe between heaving sobs and fighting for breath over your body's need to just completely break down. Maybe the character is prideful and spends a good two paragraphs trying to hide it. (These are bad deliberately, as you take them, fine-tune them, and then place them properly. Just write something general at first.)
Think about what descriptions really hit what it is that you're trying to sell. Tend to the environment around the characters to play positively into the story. Sneaking metaphors for whatever it is that's happening to them occasionally works well, but can be rough to pull off (say, leaky pipes dripping incessantly driving the character mad even though it's barely audible when they're remarkably stressed over a billion things and it's a breaking point. Drip. drip. drip. into a puddle that pools on the floor one measly drip at a time.)
I'm no professional, but these are just things I've picked up over just talking too fucking much and writing things that I am interested in, and it kills me every time I cut some useless bullshit from my stories because I like the way they sound even though I know it's just filler or even nonsense to the readers.
#morgana and friends#Writing advice#Inbox: Ask a hack writer anything! lmao#ignore the misspellings and shit I haven't slept in 2 days
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Hey there, 66! Hope you're doing great. I have been going through your account for the past few hours (this reminds me of that one time I stayed up till 2 am as I appreciated all the artworks on your Instagram) so I know you've heard this several times, but I wanted to say it myself too: your work is wonderful. Believe me, I absolutely love it!
I found City of Blank years ago, during its first season. I read it all, and was quite impressed with the concept, intrigued by the plot, and in love with the characters. But before the next season started, I dropped out of reading Webtoons completely, as far as I remember. Long story short, I revisited Webtoon recently, read a few episodes of City of Blank, and was hooked. Yep. I binge-read the entire rest of the episodes in... three to five days?
So I want to commend you on your amazing concept, beautiful and eye-catching art, plot that keeps me reading late into the night (and at the dining table, between my studies, every single chance I get), the characters (really, they're very well-written — please don't doubt that — and unique, with different stories and personalities, I just love them), and the themes too (incorporated nicely, and it does make me wonder what it means to be a human). The way you write grey characters is one of the best things in your story, I feel.
(I feel like I should give you specific examples of what I like, but I have a tendency of talking too much, as you can see, so this will get way too long, I think... and sorry about the already huge chunks of text. but I hope this make you feel happy somehow)
Alright, now onto my actual questions. They're actually not related to the webcomic itself, since I really can't think of anything interesting... But your story is really good, so here are some queries I have about writing in general.
Do you have any tips for thinking of ideas? About concepts, plot, whatever; how to really get your brain in that mode, you know.
How do you create such vibrant characters? My characters are so similar... there are at least three pairs of nearly-identical characters. And how do you make them flawed yet still so likable?
They are pretty general questions, my apologies. It's just that, you know, since I'm getting to interact with the creator of one of my current favourite stories, why not learn something from them? You can just answer with your personal processes or whatever, I just wished to know how you do it.
I'm really looking forward to the next episode (but take your time, I'm okay with waiting). Pretty sad that this is the last season though. I'll miss it. Could you maybe tell me the estimated date of return and how many more episodes we'll have? Just a rough idea will do too.
That's all. (At this point it'll come as a relief to you 😂) Have a wonderful week ahead, lots of love, and know that there are lots of people who genuinely enjoy your work, you adorable shark! ❤️
(also, don't know why I'm telling you, but this is my first ever interaction on Tumblr with literally anyone) (cool site, I like the easy formatting)
(If you've read this entire thing, thank you. Did I bother you too much? I hope not.)
Hey there! Gonna do my best to answer this since it's been in my inbox for a while, but apologies if it's not the most coherent as my head's still in a bit of a fog from a cold.
First off, thank you for the kind words. I remember they made my day when I first got this ask, but they made it again as I'm waking up w/ a throbbing head ache and coughing my lungs out from the NYCC 2023 Con Crud™.
Anyway, gonna answer your questions the best I can, especially because I'm not entirely sure what the best way to answer these kinds of questions are-
Do you have any tips for thinking of ideas? About concepts, plot, whatever; how to really get your brain in that mode, you know.
I think one thing I like to shape a lot of my concepts around is making something unordinary ordinary. I've talked about it before, but one of the inspirations behind blanks is shadow people, like the ghosts. They're so horrifying and creepy to me, and I thought it would be neat if I made a world where the most creepy and scary thing to me was just...super ordinary and mundane. Like a world where you go into your living room and you're like "Man, that shadow person is still standing in front of my tv. How obnoxious."
A lot of my upcoming ideas kind of focus around this concept too. What if we lived in a world where demons were just every day citizens that went to work and school with us? What if we lived in a world where nobody feared death and was excited for it? What if we lived in a world where half the population was in prison? I can't say every single story idea I have falls into this, but I'd say a lot of them do and I find it's often a kick off point for a lot of my ideas.
How do you create such vibrant characters? My characters are so similar... there are at least three pairs of nearly-identical characters. And how do you make them flawed yet still so likable?
Do I make them likable? Sometimes I can't tell when I look at characters like Lyss haha. Because I think she's a victim of how I write characters, which is just... I dunno, write them like they're real people. Everybody is mad at the decisions Lyss made but... I'm sorry. I'll forever die on the hill that everyone are hypocrites and 90% of people would have done the same thing in her shoes. Only a flawless, benevolent, and frankly kind of stupid, person would have just...let Rex go in those circumstances, evil other half be damned. He was still a danger who proved he couldn't control himself, and the same way you'd probably report your best friend who was driving raving drunk after he just smashed into someone, she reported a dangerous person. Even if people hate her for it, I wrote what any person would have done in that situation. And that's how I try to write all my characters, for better or for worse. A lot of Rex's stupid decisions are dictated by his anxiety and depression, and I know from firsthand experience how being in that state of mind can influence your decisions and overall outlook on life and the people who love you, despite what you may think.
I guess my advice is just to give them human flaws. A lot of people don't like Nia because she's manipulative, but I write her as a character who 100% practices what she preaches. Yeah, she "gas lit" Rex into joining Blan Corp, but she also 1000% believed it was the best thing for him.
Desmond probably comes off as the more "flawless" characters, but his own self-loathing and... catholic blank guilt is a big part of what pushed Rex away. In the time when Rex was questioning and hating himself for being a blank, why would he ever go the one person who hates himself for being a blank more than him? When he could go to the person (Nia) who celebrates him being a blank, and reminds him he can be loved for being one.
Anyway, that's enough rambling for now. Hopefully that gives you some to chew on.
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Hi, i just speedran the entire webcomic yesterday and kinda maybe? spoiled myself with the webnovel here on tumblr and i just had to ask--
Do you ever think lloyd ever mourns his past selves?
All the iterations of him that worked so, so hard to get closer to their goal but ultimately failed due to some blindsided error or something he didnt consider, and at the moment of their death, tried so hard to give at least one tiny hint to the next iteration of lloyd who would inevitably do the same things the last lloyd did up to that point and just hoping-- praying to whatever higher power is up there, that at least this version of lloyd, this next one, would get at least a little farther than him?
Do you think that, on a quiet moment after lloyd overcomes whatever killed a past version of him, he sheds a few tears for them? Counting how many lloyds deaths and clues and hints that helped him get to this point? Do you think that, with the weight and trust in all his past selves have in him or at least some version of him, he feels some sort of motivation to keep going? To go farther than all these past lives and accomplish what they couldnt both in his own name and theirs?
Do you think Javier ever finds him shedding these few too many (too little) tears and etching another line in either a notebook or his shovel and wondered, who are those lines for? What or who do they represent? Why do you cry for these lines? And why do they keep increasing in number?
I dunno, i just saw your post abt tbe Ending Spoiler thing and my brain couldnt stop brrrrrrrrr-ing since yesterday
ooohhh i like how you think <33 we can give lloyd so many more issues. besides the ones he already has obviously :)
i'll try to avoid as many spoilers as i can but still general warning for novel spoilers yada yada
i think. i think lloyd is way too busy to grieve. after all, grief is. it is too big. it is too heavy. if you stop and let it catch up to you it sticks to you and weights you down and makes it hard to start going all over again. and lloyd can't afford that, he has so much to do, so many things that need his attention, so many problems he has to solve, he can't. stop and think about it.
(he can't think of his future/past selves who lost everything and everyone and slowly one by one lost the will to keep on going. who had to have known he'd see them dying, that had to know they died and their deaths were nothing more than a warning for him. that's what grief does to you. it's what grief did/does/will do to him. he can't think about it)
(he does. constantly. endlessly)
(lloyd is good at lying)
(he's self-aware enough to know he's good at lying to himself too)
he sees those other versions of him and it's him, they act, speak, think like he does, they did exactly what he would've done, if he hadn't cheated, if he hadn't looked into the future, if he hadn't used histheir deaths to avoid falling to the same mistakes they did, that would've been him too.
but he did. so he isn't. and that's. that's enough for now. they died and he would've died but they died making sure he wouldn't and he can't stop to think about that because if he does the grief will catch up to him and he's seen what grief does to him and he can't afford to waste theirhis efforts like that.
(and if he cries in his room when the world is asleep and there's no work to be done until the sun comes out then that's between his pillow and him) (and the knight that eventually learned how to feign sleep because he has a master that puts himself in danger like he knows javier would fight heaven and hell themselves to keep him safe but also puts him to sleep before sneaking out to who knows where so what's the point-)
(the knight sometimes thinks his master is grieving someone but he doesn't know how to ask about it without asking if it's someone from a different world) (he adds it to the list of questions he has for when his master finally decides to trust him enough to tell him the truth)
(if the knight had known he never would he wouldn't have waited. an angry master was better than a dead one)
lloyd is, above anything else, pragmatic. he sees his future selves die and he takes the knowledge they desperately threw his way in a last ditch effort for him to avoid their fate and he applies it to his own fate and he doesn't die and he goes on living because theyhe died for this so he can't ruin it by feelings of all things
but. he marks them down, one by one, because if there's anything worth remembering, seeing yourself die and then avoiding it should be somewhere in that list. and it's a strange feeling, being able to look and count how many times he's cheated death, how many times he's tried over and over again to get the happy ending he's looking for. how many times he's failed but most importantly how many time's he's succeeded at getting closer to it.
he's already this far, he can't let himself (themselves?) down by not getting there at the end, now can he?
#hey i got an ask#the-2nd-random-kid#the greatest estate developer spoilers#the greatest estate developer#lloyd frontera#i just think. lloyd should've seen himself die a few more times. for plot reasons :)#also for bonus points it should've been increasingly obvious that as time went on and more attempts were made#and more visions were had. lloyd's deaths started being more and more self inflicted with each spoiler.#like. it starts with a monster invasion. then a sickness. then alcohol poisoning. then death by javier. and then. well.#i just think we should've gotten to see the obvious conclusion#altho maybe the ending can count 🤔?? mmmm many thoughts about that#thank you for the ask it was delightful <333#tged
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this is no disrespect to either of you three anons, so please don't feel like this is me trying to be a bitch.
but oh my GOD i don't care lol
i'll just say everything i feel about this here and then be done with it.
ms singer was a girl colby went on a few dates with, and was done "dating" her by like halloween or a little bit after. he didn't even know malia until sam's bday, so it's not like he left ms singer for her. ms singer herself has said she's on good terms with colby and that she has no hard feelings for malia, it's katelyn she has issues with.
colby unfollowing her on her bday was not done maliciously. he just unfollowed her, most likely, bc he has unfollowed every girl he either a, dated/had a fling with or b, found hot. shock and awe to absolutely no one, she falls into that category.
but also she's STILL talking about her beef with katelyn. and look, she has every right to talk about it as long as she wants to. i'm not here to say she can't vent. but let's be real for two seconds: first and foremost, fans are egging this on and we all know that. anyone that wants to argue otherwise is just plainly ignoring what is happening. ppl go on her tiktok lives just to ask her about katelyn so she can start complaining about her yet again. and the only reason fans want more tea on katelyn is bc they hate her bc she's not kat. full stop, full transparency, that's why that's happening. yall don't like tess; you just like that she gives you tea on a girl you hate bc she maybe once shaded kat when in reality if you have more than one brain cell you would know that's not what she did. stop being so up kat's ass that you think everyone is out to get her.
and secondly, tess can complain - sure. but she is talking about real ppl that are now dealing with real hate. it's the whole fuck around and find out method. keep talking shit on someone, and someone close to them (ie colby) is gonna stop fucking with you. why is this a surprise to anyone?
and i'm not here to say that katelyn is innocent. don't mistake me for that. i'm just saying, if katelyn was a shitty friend to her, then that's a shame. but the beef is very much between the two or them, and not us. stop egging it on for content reasons, or for twitter threads, or for whatever weird reason yall try to justify in your head this all for.
not only this, but colby and ms singer only dated MAX a month, but i don't even think that's the case fully. they went on a couple dates and stayed cordial. some of these fans are acting like he blocked his bestie or something. they remained friendly with one another bc things didn't end badly between them. they don't have to have loyalty towards one another, that includes colby. this isn't some betrayal. he unfollowed bc he's taken now, and she's still talking about his best friend's gf. it's really that simple.
dear god, all of this is such hs drama bs and i'm so tired of hearing about it, honestly. i'm too old to go back to my hs self who would have throughly enjoyed this drama. but seriously, can we find literally anything else to talk about??? i'm actually begging at this point.
and colby didn't unfollow ms singer bc malia told him to. he did it bc he wanted to. he's a grown man, as many on twitter love to point out every time he does something they deem as childish. why do you think this is any different?
also, sam and kat pretended to be besties after the break up. let's be real here. there clearly was some awkward tension left between them, but if they told the fandom they were going no contact and never talking again except maybe in passing, ww3 would have started. so they remained cordial to be appease fans (and probably themselves in one way or another). and realistically, kat probably made sam unfollow her (by blocking him/muting him/removing him as a follower) bc the day she did that was after pics of him and katelyn leaked from new years. realistically she probably wasn't thrilled about that and needed some space. it also didn't help that the khakis personified that is sam golbach decided to like a tweet that she made saying how nice her spotify top five looked without the "take a look at my bf" song, which CLEARLY WAS ABOUT HIM. he got his ass blocked after that, and rightfully so lmao
i would like to request - respectfully to all anons going forward - to stop bringing up ms singer, shea, and stas. hell, throw kat in there too. i don't care enough about any of them to hear what's happening about them. i'm tired of talking about them. some of them i've been talking about for years, i've said my piece on them countless times, and i just want something else to talk about. bc it's always the same stories over and over again and i just cannot care about it any longer.
also, since i might as well throw this in too, if you genuinely think snc are malicious in any compacity - STOP WATCHING THEM. why are you here if you genuinely think colby is a slutty manwhore who fucks anything that moves and is malicious and a shitty friend and whatever other random nonsense you think he is?? why are you here if you think sam is a terrible boyfriend who's also a bit of creep and has as shitty gf and again, whatever random other shit you believe???? why are you here???? you don't like snc anymore, and yet you waste your time talking about them. what you really like is the tea that comes from them and the ppl they have surrounded themselves with. i implore you to log off and find a hobby or a content creator you ACTUALLY like.
(also none of this was really directed at yall. more so the fandom et large. sorry if it felt like i was yelling at you guys. wasn't what i was trying to do here lol)
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Random Trivia
Just some stuff that's been on my brain about what Inezra likes / has picked up since she started interacting with aliens.
Human Topics
Inezra has been exposed these things to one way or the other, either through conversations with humans, aliens somewhat familiar with them, or as a result of consuming and asking questions about human media. If she remembers anything at all, if only comes out if she can connect it to something relevant in the moment and/or can use that knowledge to make fun of someone.
Christianity, which spiraled into a search that ended up in a deep dive into Christian Fundamentalism and assorted topics. She doesn't care about that part, but she does like the murder and violence in the old testament. Jesus getting nailed to the cross is pretty cool. No clue why humans act so weird about it.
Santa Claus. Why does an old bearded guy go around giving wrigglers presents? Funny that bad kids get coal though.
Pigments. You mean they don't use blood? Like at all? They're out here using artificial sources entirely? Okay, kind of lame but whatever.
Human family structures and relationships. She doesn't really care about the complexities involved in human family trees, and has trouble differentiating between them. It doesn't matter much to her, considering most if not all of the humans she interacts with have dead lusii, families, or both. It does make watching human media suck sometimes. Who is who? Why are they acting like that? Are they related?
The confederate flag. This was briefly explained to her as something humans carry when they're stupid. Why would you fly a flag when you lost that badly?
Crime. For the most part it seems like humans are awfully worried about shit that doesn't matter, like murder, or dismemberment, or maiming to the point where they have insurance for this very thing. Seems weird.
Countries. The fact that there's so many different countries on Earth makes her mad. You guys couldn't figure your shit out and put one person in charge?
American States. Again with the multiple municipalities and boundaries. Why is America not just one big country, or a handful of territories ruled over by the same entity properly. Why do the states have such stupid names? What the fuck is an Arkansas?
Science Fiction. Humans' idea of the future in their past media reads as very silly to Inezra. Though she thinks franchises like Alien are interesting enough, when viewed from the standpoint that systems humans knew that were somewhat simple would be easier to repair (re: CRT monitors and whatnot). At least they had robots.
Human Expansionism. Humans dreamed big, didn't know shit, and then also didn't manage to go any further than their moon before they blew their whole planet up. They couldn't even conquer all the land on their own planet and use it effectively. Kind of funny, not gonna lie!
Human Phrases
Y'all, die badly (Dave's fault), you do you, other assorted pieces of slang and references that are actually difficult to keep track of. Maybe I'll update this section later.
Human Media
She isn't a fan of most human media! She doesn't think they effectively use their screen time at all. This is mostly a complaint about shows like Why Women Kill. They already spent 3 hours showing you reasons why. Go ahead and get to the part where the husbands get murdered, thank you.
She dislikes unrealistic violence in movies because it takes the fun out of it. Realistic fear and fighting are better. She especially likes when humans use tools in their environment to beat monsters. Go human. Sorry you're weak, but at least you can put your neurons to use.
She does like:
Pearl (2022)
Alien (1979)
Gone Girl (2014)
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Xena: Warrior Princess
Miscellaneous
Owns a cat. She hasn't given it a name.
She has spent a couple days in jail, but she hasn't been to prison.
Likes
Alternian Wrestling. She has an account on the official forums and regularly uses it to start flame wars and wish death on troll's favorite wrestlers.
Meat buns. She's a regular patron of a combination food truck / restaurant hub called GastroGrub where they're readily available.
Chocolate Ice Cream.
#OOC#[Meta Post]#[Character Info]#// It's a little crazy under the cut.#// Will probably do another one of these later or add onto it in the future.
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it’s dickate brain rot anon back AGAIN to say: oliver and kate cannot stand each other but kate and roy are bros… and it’s objectively hilarious because their mentor/mentee relationships are basically the inverse of one another so kate SHOULD like oliver because he’s her parallel— someone with wealth and privilege who had a change of heart, who fights for the little guy.
i don't know ANYTHING about roy but what I DO know is that in a kate/jason universe roy is basically like "if you ever break up i'll start dating both of you...ha ha...just kidding...unless???" they can never figure out if he's joking or if he actually wants to date both of them or if he wants a threesome or if he's actually kidding?????? ROY?????
roy is actually the one who physically separates kate and oliver. dick is too busy laughing to help.
and it's not like a deep moral hatred or anything? they are worsties. they are so petty to each other, at some point oliver wears a deep purple suit to a fancy thing and kate is SEETHING because he KNOWS THAT IS HER COLOR, dick is honestly just confused because when he wears purple kate is like "haha mineee :D" does oliver have some weird crush on kate? is that what this is?
"THAT'S DIFFERENT" kate informs him before attempting to take off her heels which dick puts a stop to immediately because she is absolutely going to weaponize those shoes against oliver. roy cannot stop laughing
idk i think they've be really good friends. maybe they'd have a PI agency together, they are road trip buddies, they swap trick arrows, the only time kate and oliver can be less than five feet apart is if something happens to roy, in which case they a.) violently kick the ass of whatever injured roy and b.) manage to be in roy's hospital room at the same time. as soon as he's discharged it is TRUCE OVER
#kate bishop#roy harper#hawkeye#dick greyson#jason todd#dc brainrot anon#you know i bet kate and oliver get weirdly mad if the other is injured#like they're very proprietary about who gets to make the other miserable#newsflash: it's not you clayface!!!#you've got questions i've got answers
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fandom ask game: 1 8 12 15 16 17 21
the character everyone gets wrong
Okay, I don't know that this is *wrong*, per se- but I think the ITSV characterization of Gwen Stacy has everyone thinking that Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider/Whatever is this like... cool, super competent hero with an unwavering sense of right and wrong while her incarnation in the comics is just about as far from that as can be. For starters, Gwen is older, at least 19 to start but the story spans at least a year, maybe more. She's also a certified mess, and she makes a lot of mistakes and missteps and spends a lot of time disappointing people, and we didn't get a sense of that in ITSV. That's fine, because at the end of the day it was Miles' story, but even making her a ballerina with sick dance moves instead of a "she gets by because she has powers" fighter just makes her seem way more put together than she is. I'd like to see more of "barely holding it together like she's made out of masking tape and old corn dog sticks" Gwen in fanworks.
common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about
That there is a "best" Spider-Man. You are 1000% entitled to your *favorite* Spider-Man, but the character has been so many things over so many years and mediums, each geared towards a different audience- people who try and put some sort of objective judgement on something like that are just stating their personal opinion as though it's fact.
If you don't like a certain incarnation or love another one, that's fine! Just own that as your personal opinion.
All the Spideys are friends and love each other, even when they fight.
the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them
IDK about unpopular? What does that even mean these days... I guess I'll interpret it as "characters that need more time in the sun"?
I have a soft spot for Arach-Knight (the Moon Knight/Spider-Man hybrid from the Infinity Warps comic) and I wish there was more fan content of him. I think it was a genius mash up, because so much of Spider-Man's internal conflict comes from an inability to compartmentalize the different parts of his life, but Arach-Knight is this great example of compartmentalization gone too far. I believe the implication is that the 616 gang is aware of the temporary folding of the universe? So in theory they might still retain some memories of their Warp selves? If I was a faster writer, I'd love to explore what that means for 616 Peter.
Oh, and shout out to Last Devil, silent hero from like 5 pages of Spider-Man/Daredevil. We barely knew ye, but I found myself very compelled. The design, the implications of a Daredevil who has a connection to the Hand... there's so much going on there, I want to crack him open like a geode.
Second shout-out to Weapon Xi (the "not deadpool" from X-Men Origins: Wolverine) because as bizarre as that interpretation was, the character has the potential for so much ANGST and I want it.
that one thing you see in fanart all the time
Alright, I guess the point is to be spicy, so I'll go ahead and say it. I've reached my quota of "twinky goodboy uwu Matt being manhandled by big stwong Frank" artwork. I'm good. We can stop.
you can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
When they were handing out the part of the brain that ships Wolverine and Nightcrawler, I guess I was getting second helpings of "love Nightcrawler". It's not that I dislike the pairing, or even that it squicks me, it just does nothing for me. I nothing it. I see tons of beautiful art (and I've read a few fics) but I might as well be looking a a photograph of a very nice car for all the warm feelings it stirs in me.
The wild thing is!!!! I LOVE friends to lovers. Love some best buddies who mean the world to one another that come to mean even more. I just...??? I don't know. There's some kind of blinders on me when it comes to those two. Maybe this isn't the answer to this question bc it's more about my own inability to like something than not being able to understand other people's interest in it.
I think I also have a tendency to try really hard to understand why people like the things they do. Like, even if a dish is not for me, I'm still able to say, "I do not want to eat this, but someone who loves spicy food would be crazy for it." And I have that approach to fandom stuff too- so with *most* things I think I have some understanding of *why* it has a fandom, or what the appeal is.
there should be more of this type of fic/art
Stuff based on the Marvel 1602 universe. I really want to take a stab at doing some artwork of this at some point (after my current projects give me some breathing room) but gosh. I'm surprised more people aren't playing in this universe. Maybe it's because the books came out before the MCU boom? Maybe because they're kind of dense or historical based AUs don't interest people? I just feel like it's fertile soil and gosh, drops just enough crumbs for us to use to make a whole meal.
part of canon you think is overhyped
A lot of the classic X-Men stories. I don't know if it's fandom that lauds them as the best thing ever or just the people making media that are convinced the stories that were popular four decades ago still hold up, but like... some of those stories were revolutionary because it was the first time we'd seen the concept in comics- but that was decades ago. The concept of a hero being pushed over the brink and embracing evil is very well explored now. We don't need ANOTHER Dark Phoenix story. My hope is that if/when the X-Men enter the MCU, we really embrace some of the weird stories that team has been through.
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Awakening
Nobody was ready for what had happened, and certainly not the guy it happened to. All I remember is that I went from a casual nobody with no outstanding features to the Dark Lord. Let me explain.
I don't know why it happened, honestly. Just that it did. I was sitting at home waiting to give kids Halloween candy when there had been a crash and a small crystal that flickered between red, blue, and green had flown through my living room window. I'd always loved collecting rocks of all kinds growing up, and that never really changed. I was cautious at first; when does a glowing gem just fly through a window?
I knew at the time I probably shouldn't, but I had to get it. Maybe get rid of it, maybe stick it on a shelf and worry about that later, but something needed to be done. I grabbed some tongs from the kitchen and tried to pick it up but the crystal pushed away at them. It reminded me of trying to stick the north side of two magnets together.
I tried to pick it up with a lot of different things, but in the end it was like the crystal demanded that I touch it with my bare hand. When I did, the world seemed to pause around me and I could feel the alien object in my palm scanning me. I tried to drop it, but the thing had adhered to my hand.
Changes will be made.
Hell no. I began to panic and flailed my hand back and forth to try and get the gem off my hand.
Reality discovered. Scanning for nearest cosmetic match.
Uh oh. I started to smack the crystal on a thick and heavy coffee table. I didn't think that the world was ready for Darth Revan walking into the world. In my panic I thought that I was going to get replaced by the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Cosmetic match found.
Me and my cheap Darth Revan costume was close enough to the real thing somewhere out there in the multiverse? This was bad and I needed to stop whatever was happening. I wasn't sure how. You might be wondering what I said at this point. I'll save you the trouble and just tell you that I swore. A lot. Almost exclusively. Lots of F-Bombs.
Beginning update and repurpose processes.
I was furiously hitting the crystal on the table until I locked up and felt searing pain wash over me. That was how I learned this magic rock's processes didn't come with anesthesia. My eyes clouded and I couldn't see anything. Not that I wanted to. At that point I was just waiting to die so it would be over.
Awakening potential in match. Syncing knowledge, skills, and experience.
It was like some parts of my brain were dumped into a bucket of ice water while others had white hot iron pokers jabbed into them. Eventually I slumped over. I began to feel things far off. I'd never felt them before, but as the crystal roughly crammed decades of knowledge and experience into my head I recognized it. Pain. Terror. The crystal dimmed and began to crumble.
Notifying Formation of success. Transference complete.
I lay there for a moment. My body ached and itched, my face felt melted, and as if to add insult to injury my throat was so dry it did that weird crack feeling when you're mildly dehydrated. At the same time, I remembered having felt worse so I pushed myself to stand however unsteadily on my feet. The lights flickered and an image of a squad car outside and a gunshot. Too dazed to recognize the premonition for what it really was I went to the door.
I felt the fear through the door before I opened it. With a wave of my hand it opened on its own. "That's cool," I said as everything settled into place. My body healed and recovered rapidly as I stood there. "I could get used to this."
"On the ground now!" shouted a man from the street. From what I could tell, everybody who could see me had the same thought about me; wrong. "Whatever that disturbance was, it came from your house. You can get on the ground or I can put you there!"
I stared at him through my mask and I felt somewhat annoyed. It wasn't my fault some reality altering crystal decided I was going to be Thanos's David. I took a step forward off the porch and at the last instant I realized what the premonition was warning me about. "Motherf-" A gunshot rang out and the rest of the word went unheard.
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Additional context stuff for hopeless, for the lil parenthesis dialogues, mainly who's saying what and a lil bit of why
(If you're seeing this when I'm posting it, I'll only be posting a usual link post later but the fic is There i promise)
Arada: You know that that’s not really what an anagram is though, right?
Murderbot: You’re overestimating my willingness to care.
Overse: Ooh, you walked right into that one-
This is 100% just good natured, friendly bullying. Murderbot is enjoying itself immensely and so are its friends
Amena: Does that mean you can see in the dark?
Murderbot: Define dark.
Amena: Like, if I shut you in the closet-
Murderbot: I’m not going in the fucking closet.
Someone laughs, bright, high pitched. I cannot place it. I should be able to place it.
Also just fun teasing, the laughter is also Amena ofc. Also followed up by some joke about "I don't know how second mum would feel if she knew how much you swear around me"
Ratthi: How are you just fine with this?
Murderbot: How are you not?
It’s not meant to be rude, maybe. (It genuinely isn't, Murderbot is just like this, it's just asking)
A pause.
Ratthi: Well, the thing with humans- our inner ears- hold on, let me sit down…
Set sometime during the survey that Network Effect opens on. Getting around on a boat for whatever reason and the water is a bit choppy. Ratthi isn't sea sick but it's more than his balance can handle whereas Murderbot's systems for balancing work completely differently and are much more finely tuned so it's doing fine
Ratthi gets to be distracted by giving a mini lecture on the topic that Murderbot pays a bit more attention to than if another human was giving it
Murderbot: That’s not what it is.
Gurathin: Mm-hm.
Murderbot: I’m not taking pictures. I’m saving individual frames of my camera inputs. It’s different.
Gurathin: And the end result is different how exactly?
Some sort of survey or excursion or whatever, peace times and a pretty view, and Murderbot is taking pictures of said view for keeping and also bc it thinks Mensah would like them maybe. The interaction with Gurathin is genuinely not mean spirited at this point, they just usually communicate by being contrary assholes anyway
Mensah: I thought you liked unrealistic stories.
Murderbot: I’m- yeah, but this is just dumb!
Mensah: What would make it better then?
I can’t tell if that’s bait. I don’t think it is. It’s not her style.
...her?
The episode rests paused between us for over two hours. We make up a better story.
Not much about this, Mensah and Murderbot are just watching something together that neither of them have huge emotional stakes in so they get distracted just talking to each other bc it's more fun
Murderbot: And you’re calling me immature.
ART: My desire to know how this arc ends is not immature. In fact, my emotional investment is the exact opposite-
Murderbot: Do you even hear yourself right now?
I start the next episode anyway. The weight over me abruptly stops complaining.
Just your regular "Murderbot and ART arguing over media" stuff, only thing of note is that this is ofc happening over the feed, I just had to keep with quotation marks for the sake of consistency
The actual purpose of these was 100% just vibes but the dead author who is very alive says that while the nightmare itself came entirely from organic brain bits, these flashes came from inorganic long term memory trying to contribute/course correct and completely failing to establish a proper, coherent connection due to the Oh God Everything Is Fucked And Nothing Computes nature of a nightmare
#kata's chatter#these were never meant to be an ensamble cast catch-em-all but im still a lil sad i didnt get to include a pin-lee one#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#arada#overse#amena#ratthi#gurathin#mensah#who ik has a first name but i cba to break the tagging pattern#asshole research transport#fic meta#thats not a tag ive used before but probably should so that i dont just entirely lose this
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INHALES
Buckle up bitches, I'm gonna share my thoughts on the Newest Halloween movie whether you want them or not.
Posting a SPOILER WARNING HERE because I'll be discussing the end and much of what happens in the movie. If you haven't seen it, I don't wanna spoil it fot you, But if you read it past this point, that's on you.
First I wanna say, I did throughly enjoy the movie, and I have seen opinions from both Ends. I personally didn't think it was terrible but I do feel that it could have been executed better
Firstly it wasn't consistent with Halloween as I personally know it. I've seen the Originals and the modern ones, and while it's not my favorite horror franchise, I am familiar with it to a degree.
Micheal Meyers has always been solitary. He works alone, always has. I would have liked to see more context as to why he didn't kill Corey when he saw him like he does literally anyone else.
Typically if you survive a Meyers encounter it's because you got away somehow, not because he let you. I would've like more context as to why Corey was suddenly different, but that will never happen, I honestly feel like blumhouse just wanted to throw a fresh face in there because why not? But it didn't make sense if we're going off the fact that it's Halloween.
My friend feels like what they did with Laurie was backwards, having her be super paranoid and stuff in other movies and this one she's trying to heal, and I get that thought. However there's no doubt that Laurie has PTSD and when she saw Corey standing there like he was, it triggered it and she just kinda... spiraled from there.
Also the reference Micheal Meyers... being brain damaged (I don't recall this ever being mentioned before in previous movies) and some.. expanding on that would have been nice because from what I remember he was seen my a therapist or a Psyciatrist as a child who insisted he was the devil incarnate and no one did anything for him ever except demonize him. I have no doubt he had something going on but if I recall correctly this is the first time someone mentions him being brain damaged instead of just plain evil or even mentally ill.
Expanding on the other part of it with Corey and Allison (I know I spelled it wrong) I loved it. I loved Corey's character and I loved his development. I loved seeing him go from being this timid Lil guy to being more... meticulous and bold. I love how we get to see how smart this man actually is at the end of the movie
I think Corey's part of this movie would have been FANTASTIC on its own. Still able to make a play on what happened and how he was swayed to the "dark side" (so to speak) meeting a killer, who's has decided to show him the ropes or whatever. I think they could have done this without riding on the "Halloween" part. I feel like Micheal Meyers working with someone is just out of character with the Micheal Meyers we've seen until now.
I feel like if it wasn't for the Corey part of the movie, the ending of it would have hit much differently with them parading Micheal around. I do feel like the way he died was a little lackluster for Micheal given all the stuff he's survived, but the whole showing all of Haddonfield he's actually dead is a good fit for the end of his legacy since he's terrorized that town for years.
I think, personally, Blumhouse should have dived balls deep into the Halloween aspect of it without Corey's story to it, because in my opinion that would have made more sense, then taken Corey's story and maybe made and seperate film with that. I wouldn't even mind some Halloween references in it, but I don't think Micheal Meyers should really have been in it at all.
To me the film didn't feel like a Halloween film. It felt like Blumhouse rode of the popularity of the Halloween franchise and off Micheal Meyers more than anything considering Corey killed more people than Micheal and was more the focus of the film than Micheal (aside from Meyers being mentioned a few times)
I think Micheal should have been more the focus of the film since they were bringing his reign of Terror on Haddonfeild to an end, and while I Like Corey as a character A LOT him having been a Meyers wannabe that in all honesty should have been killed by Meyers sooner or maybe not in the film at all.
All the stuff with Corey (in my opinion) would have been better as it's own film, and I think the way his story ended would have been a great ending to that film, and the end to Micheal Meyers would have hit better without it.
Still a great movie, I still liked it, I still enjoyed watching it, and I enjoyed Corey and his character. But it still felt like two different films mushed together.
#ghostly whispers#discussion time!!!#i was proof reading this but i had a rough day today#anyway#feel free to send me asks or reblog this witg your thoughts!#these are just my personal opinions and critique of the movie so#*gestures* i hope it makes sense.#i also accept i could be wrong about my recalling the original movies#because i have bad memory and its been forever#so if thats the case- my applogies
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20 “i'm not leaving you. ”
Good lord so many things I could have written, abandonment is one of A'miru's biggest fears, and my brain actively tries to subvert expectation and hand me scenarios where it's not G'raha saying this to her, or where it's a threat. Was hard to pin down just one and focus on it but this was the first one that popped into my head bc i've had those ishgardian brainworms for a few days.
He's excited as he always is, getting to meet the Lord Commander and Lord Speaker of Ishgard, the man who offered his city as refuge for A'miru, on his trip to Ishgard with the love of both of his lives.
Everyone talked about what a warm and caring person he was. Caring and gentle, with looks that made everyone swoon.
So he was not expecting the chilly reception he received. Sure, Aymeric graciously answered his questions and delighted his curiosity with tales of the dragonsong war but there was no emotion in his eyes, no friendliness or warmth. Only a cool and pointed gaze.
"Now, I know you're going to say otherwise, but am I crazy or does Aymeric hate me specifically?" He asks the first time he has her alone. "He is acting cold and I think I know why. I'll talk to him, and then I think you should, alone. Maybe when you both have some time to really talk." The look on her face says more than she ever could with words. There's story there, something was...missing, information he didn't have and while attaining that information included steps that made him uncomfortable he would do it, he needed to. He needed to know.
A soft kiss and a hand on his cheek for comfort before she strode away toward the towering Elezen and he watches. He feels weird for doing it, but he watches her speak with Aymeric, watches her solemn nods and his concerned eyes and the look on his face in response to whatever she had just said to him, something that hurt him and halted his objections and the pained look in her face at bringing it up. What actually happened there? What was that?
But then she's back, leaning against him with his arms wrapped around her but he can't stop thinking about what just happened and what was going to happen and she decides that's enough for the night. They head to the firmament’s outdoor baths to round off the night. They aren't stay at the forgotten knight, no, Aymeric would never allow that. They stay at a rental in the firmament close to the baths, surprisingly upscale for what it is and she have a feeling perhaps her less talkative Ishgardian Elezen friend had a hand in that.
The next day a messenger comes for G’raha. Aymeric was following through a little sooner than expected, directly after breakfast as it turned out. She was pretty used to Aymeric’s somewhat erratic schedule, he and his time were in demand so meetings were squeezed in between his official business and sometimes that meant weird hours.
Visibly nervous, G’raha pulls his coat on after eating and hugs her, “Don’t get too bored here, alone” He cracks a forced smile as she tries to comfort him; the things he did for her, to understand her, made her chest hurt. “He’s not mad at you, just-” nerves were clearly getting to her as well but....differently, the way you'd would hesitate to tell a child a precious pet had passed, “Just listen to what he has to tell you” she plants a soft kiss on his lips before he leaves and she tres not to fret too much as he does.
What Aymeric was about to tell him could break G’raha into a million little pieces of guilt and it scared the hell out of her to let him go alone but it was better coming from Aymeric. Without the tinge of shame or the impulse to assure him she was fine, now. He needed to know how bad it had been while he was gone and only Aymeric could really tell him that.
Too many hours later and the front door to the rental hesitantly cracks open slowly and quietly closes behind the body that opened it with little to no noise. Fear grips her as she sits, facing away from the door, on a sofa, open book in her lap that she'd been pretending to read for at least an hour.
No greeting, no sounds. Just a pain in her chest that screamed far too loudly in the silence. “I hope-” “Shh” she's cut off and her breathe hitches because it never really occurred to her before that he might be upset with her.
What he’d learned might have made her a different person to him, and she couldn’t blame him for that, but holy shit did that realization hit her chest with force and instantly fill her eyes. She hears his jacket on the coat rack, boots on the mat, soft footsteps across the creaky wooden floor. She can't look up at the weight that silently settles next to her, even when gentle hands close and take the book from her lap. Why wouldn’t he say anything?! The silence was worse than if he’d come in yelling at her, or scolding or something, anything was better than silence.
But warm arms creep around her as she just stares into your lap and she notices the ragged breathe in the chest shes' pushed against. Her head snaps up to see red eyes even redder, swollen eyelids and tear stained cheeks. “I’m sorry” comes his voice, weak and hoarse. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry” It comes out in fits and spurts as he sobs into her hair and it breaks her; she should be apologizing, not him. “I’m sorry you ever had to feel that alone, I’m sorry I wasn’t there, that I contributed, for what I had the audacity to put you through on the First.” He takes a breathe, deep and gasping, and closes his eyes as he curls around her.
As much as she wants to relax into it, assure him that she's okay and it's alright, she can't, "you're not...mad?" At this his head snaps up out of her neck, "Mad? Why would I be mad?" He's genuinely confused as he looks at her, wiping the tears off his cheeks. "I don't know," her brows furrow and he watches her eyes dart around, looking for something in her thoughts; a reason, an explanation for the thoughts she'd had while he was gone today. "Hey, look at me, please" he pulls her chin up, "put those thoughts away, I'm not leaving you because you stumbled and fell, don't be stupid." He pokes, gently, and the soft gasp of a laugh the puffs out of her through tears as she softly hits him relaxes them both again as she lets him tuck her into his arms again.
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