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Merry Christmas! I give to you: P*E*A*N*U*T*S! I have a few non-Christmas/New Year P*E*A*N*U*T*S that I’m saving for later. I rushed to finish these last night and this morning because I NEED my Christmas M*A*S*H post !! Interesting how they can never get the medical supplies they need but they do have 4 fake beards…
(Finally I have Colonel Potter Peanuts for all of you Potheads out there <3)
These are all available from my inprnt, which is linked in my pinned post!
I Forgot to Talk About Five Nights at Freddy's 2
The fact that I saw this movie weeks ago, yet it left my mind so quickly that I completely forgot to write about it, should tell you all you need to know.
Not being into the game series (I've only ever played the first), I know I'm not the target audience for this movie. Yet still, I thought the first movie was fine, a perfectly serviceable low-tier horror movie. I even bought into the hype a bit on this one, having just experienced the impressive FNAF house at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights a few months back. Yet here we are.
FNAF 2 was genuinely one of the worst movies I've ever seen, and not in the fun-to-watch way. The characters don't behave human, making decisions and saying things to eachother that feel completely out of nowhere. The plot is just set pieces strung together by random narrative insistences with no believability or solid connective tissue.
I know that the majority of this movie's twists and lore comes from the games, but the plot almost feels like a playground game, with random character additions and narrative revelations being pulled out of absolutely nowhere.
I know I would have gotten a lot more out of this movie if I was a fan of the game series. Yet still, I just can't see how someone genuinely invested in the games wouldn't be immensely disappointed by this mess.
As someone who *is* genuinely invested in the games/lore--and as someone who has dedicated 20+ years of her life to writing--this take is extremely valid.
The movie was fun in the moment (maybe less so act 3) but it doesn't really hold up to any amount of critical thought 😅
modern day tellius family
Not to tell Scott how to do his job or anything, but . . . I spent the whole third act of the fnaf 2 movie expecting Charlotte to turn up at Henry's house. Like, I was full on dreading it because I do *not* want to see that man die--but it would have made sense for the climax to be Charlotte going after the most important (to her) parent-who-abandonned-their-child, wouldn't it? I thought for sure that was what we were building up to . . .
(after reassigning half the things we thought Henry did to Edwin in SOTM, he could have at least given us a well-rounded movie!Henry as a treat 😔)
Just thought about how much spoilers for the FNaF 2 movie I'm gonna probably see
Like dude I'm gonna have to dodge the spoilers like I'm in Mission Impossible or something cuz I don't see the movie until Sunday
I have to wait until Thursday 😭
My favorite spooky season is here! And I'm so full of ideas but I haven't had time to draw because of all the chaos of moving to Sweden 😭 Once I'm settled in my new home, I'm gonna make so much spooky art 🎃🎃🎃
Henry Blake never got to meet his son… the show could have just sent him home, but instead they killed him off. I don’t get it.
It's so that every time the people around us start saying "maybe war is a necessary thing" we can tell ourselves "Henry Blake never got to meet his son" and refuse to let that happen to someone else.
Never forget how Henry's death makes you feel. It's important.
It always strikes me as good writing that everyone in MASH has their own breaking point. There's no character that's strong no matter what and everyone's struggles with the situation don't boil down to war= bad. People dying= bad. The deaths that get to them all hinge on their character.
BJ has a hard time with being away from his family, with seeing families separated, sometimes permanently
Henry struggles with the deaths and emergencies that are impacted by his decision making. He struggles with being made a leader when leadership means choosing who lives
Hawkeye struggles with lots of things, and I love that we are all supposed to cheer for the sensitive guy, the character that asks how being sensitive could possibly be worse than what all those cold, impersonal generals have going on. Mostly to me, he struggles with the cruelty people can show one another and the constant reminders of it, the futility of trying to stop it.
I feel like usually we see characters under emotional distress because they are emotionally attached to characters in danger or dying. MASH makes such a good study of what would really get to a character who saw strangers die every day. What cuts through that numbness?
And why does actual character development= good writing feel like something a lot of shows ignore lol
if we're really going back to the poisoned well that is the fodlan setting with fortune's weave, then i suppose my hopes for the game are:
more concise and experimental level design. Three houses level design was dogshit, so this really shouldn't be that hard to top to begin with. but engage also happened to do quite a lot right in regards to it's level design especially in regards to experimentation. if were getting a fucking charioteer class and lord on turky emu i really don't see why it can't be fun game design on top of that.
im kinda sick to death of all the safety padding going on in regards to character recruitment. its a problem modern FE has as a whole, where character recruitment is either obviously straightforward or not even a factor to consider because the tools are handed to you for free. this isn't me being an advocate of perma-death mind, but im starting to hate how FE is now so terrified you'll miss a recruit that they've taken all the fun/challenge out of recruitment.
i want a single unified story about a quartet of characters with a fixed end point. if their are routes, for gods sake just do it like the older games where its a handful of chapters before getting back to the main plot.
well i personally feel its an inevitability, i also just really hope that the game is firmly a side story happening at the same time as three houses but in a different part of the world [thracia 776 style baby]. your never gonna make a sequel or a prequel of this shit show work.
i desperately hope this somehow pisses off all the fodlanstans in some way. whether or not the game is even successful is immaterial to me at this point, i just think it'd be really really funny to piss them off.
I want less customization. Your lord is a fully realized character--they have a past they can even remember! You get the army you get and you have to deal with it.
Give me levels that make me panic. I miss the terror of starting a map and realizing I only get Micaiah and everything is dark!!
And the recruitment thing. There needs to be another recruitment so convoluted you buy a guide just to know what desert tile to stand on 😆
Assuming Greil went mad from the Medallion the same day he met Soren, does that mean that Ike wasn't caught up in the slaughter because he was spending time with Soren on the edge of town? Been thinking about it lately, the slaughter could have been the next day- but I feel like Elena wouldn't want to leave a small child out if Ike told her what happened. I also just think it's neat to think about, Ike's life spared because he was helping someone in need.
Thinking about the things Ike has to come to acknowledge now that he knows the truth at the end of RD. It's probably a lot to process.
My Father Was a Good Man is a comic I wrote in 2023 that you can now read online or buy physically. Many of you may have seen it described as a horror story involving a wolf, but at its heart it's a story about domestic violence. I wanted to take a moment to speak about that more earnestly.
Many immigrant children grow up believing the abuse they experience at home is normal. Laughing off being hit with a shoe or beaten for poor grades as if it were simply part of life. This comic is about reckoning with those quiet, everyday horrors, and how sometimes the worst acts of violence come from those closest to us.
If you have ever struggled at home, I hope this work reaches you. I hope it lightens a memory you’ve carried alone for too long. I wrote this story about a specific time in my life when I was 16. I am 29 now, and with time and effort, things have turned out alright.
Stay safe out there,
Adeline Kon
FE7 doodle dump of Eliwood's story up to Lyn's reunion!
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“Hey bunny, care for a duel?”
Vampire and werewolf dating
OP I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU DIDN’T CREDIT THIS, BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!
This is an ongoing series by @sarahseeandersen called “Fangs” - it’s absolutely worth following and keeping up with!
https://tapas.io/episode/1559785
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Me and whatever goth gf I’m given
I absolutely loved this series, and the entire thing can be read for free on Tapas.
Unfortunately, she did end it, but what’s there is worth at least ten rereads. I go back to visit it every few months or so. :3
also? available as a hardcover book.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The spooky, sweet romance between a vampire and a werewolf proves to be irresistibly fun in this love story by Sar
There used to be a lot of activities that took place around a populated area like a village or town, which you would encounter before you reached the town itself. Most of those crafts have either been eliminated in the developed world or now take place out of view on private land, and so modern authors don't think of them when creating fantasy worlds or writing historical fiction. I think that sprinkling those in could both enrich the worlds you're writing in and, potentially, add useful plot devices.
For example, your travelers might know that they're near civilization when they start finding trees in the woods that have been tapped, for pitch or for sap. They might find a forester's trap line and trace it back to his hut to get medical care. Maybe they retrace the passage of a peasant and his pig out hunting for truffles. If they're coming along a coast, maybe your travelers come across the pools where sea water is dried down to salt, or the furnaces where bog iron ore is smelted.
Maybe they see a column of smoke and follow it to the house-sized kilns of a potter's yard where men work making bricks or roof tiles. From miles away they could smell the unmistakeable odor of pine sap being rendered down into pitch, and follow that to a village. Or they hear the flute playing of a shepherd boy whiling away the hours in the high pasture.
They could find the clearing where the charcoal burners recently broke down an earth kiln, and follow the hoof prints and drag marks of their horse and sledge as they hauled the charcoal back to civilization. Or follow the sound of metal on stone to a quarry or gravel pit. Maybe they know they're nearly to town when they come across a clay bank with signs of recent clay gathering.
Of course around every town and city there will be farms, more densely packed the closer you are. But don't just think of fields of grains or vegetables. Think of managed woodlands, like maybe trees coppiced-- cut and then regrown--to customize the shape or size of the branches. Cows being grazed in a communal green. Waiting as a huge flock of ducks is driven across the road. Orchards in bloom.
If they're approaching by road, there will be things best done out of town. The threshing floor where grain is beaten with flails or run through crushing wheels to separate the grain from its casing, and then winnowed, using the wind to carry away the chaff. Laundresses working in the river, their linens bleaching on the grass at the drying yard. The stench of the tanners, barred from town for stinking so badly. The rushing wheel-race and great creaking wheel of the flour mill.
If it's a larger town, there might be a livestock market outside the gates, with goats milling in woven willow pens or chickens in wooden cages. Or a line of horses for the wealthier buyer or your desperate travelers. There might be a red light district, escaping the regulations of the city proper, or plain old slums. More industrial yards, like the yards where fabric is dyed (these might also smell quite bad, like rotting plant material, or urine).
There are so many things that preindustrial people did and would find familiar that we just don't know about now. So much of life was lived out in the open for anyone to see. Make your world busy and loud and colorful!
This is a big reason that I have always loved the Brother Cadfael novels, set in the mid 1100s. Written by Ellis Peters, each book has such a vivid sense of the place and the time period. Many different settings around Shrewsbury are described, along with the people and their various jobs.
I love that kind of world building and would add that many resources were tightly regulated that we don't consider nowadays. Examples are the right to herd your pigs in an oak forest belonging to a specific monastery (saw an example where an altar piece had a carved pig to make sure the claim was known and advertised) or down to which farmers had the right to tree leaves in the fall (shortage of other animal bedding in certain Swiss valleys). The idea of a wilderness in a medieval setting is not what we think.
Great points! Thank you.
Forever recommending A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry as an introductory resource for this! The author is a historian of the ancient mediterranean and he has a lengthy two-part blog post on "lonely cities": how fictional cities tend to look in pseudomedieval fantasy versus how real cities actually worked, specifically how they reshaped the land use for many miles around. Part I, part II, or available read aloud on YouTube here.
