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bee | she/they | league, rwby, warrior nun, fe3h | ao3: FoulBearObservation

[foulbearobservation]

Rewatched the avalil fight, and was struck again by how much Lilith really, really wanted Ava to come with her.

I have to wonder what it would have taken for Ava to say yes. Adriel kidnapping Bea is the obvious answer, but I don't think he'd do that; I think that's a hard line that Lilith wouldn't cross (and he doesn't want to lose her), plus I imagine he wants Ava to come willingly.

There's just so much going on in that scene

they're kinda everything to me. like what do you mean lilith is asking for that connection soooooooo bad

[alms4oblivion]

The way Lilith is soooo earnest in this scene. All she wants is to be free and for Ava to be free with her, and isn't that what Ava always wanted? So why isn't she saying yes? And Lilith doesn't really understand any other way to have an argument except through violence, even with people she loves, and so they fight, and she hurts Ava and she gives her another chance. And Ava still says no, with Lilith's family sword buried in her guts.

And Lilith promises to rip the Halo out through Ava's chest, except when Ava defies her again she doesn't bother to do more than go for a gentle claw slash, which Ava dodges. And then Ava finally gets a good shot in. And Lilith has to decide whether to actually hurt Ava, to teleport her outside into the magic burning sunlight where Ava would be at a huge disadvantage, and what does Lilith do?

She leaves.

[foulbearobservation]

All the little freaks (affectionate): 👀👀👀

idk what this was in relation to but it's very funny in any context

[foulbearobservation]

Rewatched the avalil fight, and was struck again by how much Lilith really, really wanted Ava to come with her.

I have to wonder what it would have taken for Ava to say yes. Adriel kidnapping Bea is the obvious answer, but I don't think he'd do that; I think that's a hard line that Lilith wouldn't cross (and he doesn't want to lose her), plus I imagine he wants Ava to come willingly.

There's just so much going on in that scene

they're kinda everything to me. like what do you mean lilith is asking for that connection soooooooo bad

[foulbearobservation]

🫵 gay

[foulbearobservation]

I have a post cooking in my brain that's like "early RWBY is both better and worse than you think it is, you just haven't watched it with intent since you were a teenager." but I'm not like totally sure about how to word it without sounding like an asshole.

because like, don't get me wrong, early RWBY (1-3) is a mess! the animation is mid at best and distractingly bad at worst, the voice acting is very much everyone's first rodeo, and the saturation of the colors is so atrocious as to burn your retinas.

but there's something there! there's something about how team rwby are the ones to pick the white knight pieces to become a team and how that (if you're reading thru an Alice in wonderland lense) means they're a blundering but well-meaning protector. there's something about how mercury and emerald are abused children who are protecting each other the best way they know how. there's something about the compelling argument about personhood and the self that Penny represents. there's something about the (somewhat clumsy) metaphor that the faunus represent. like there's something there!! it's just buried under an over-complicated plot and volume 1 has a runtime of less than 2 hours to do foundational worldbuilding and volume 3 is a tournament arc with no stakes at all

but there's something there! under all the mess. there's something there. and I think only acknowledging the mess and never talking about the fact that there is some really good and compelling shit there if you care to look for it

[foulbearobservation]

I think I'm gonna do a rwby rewatch in honor of V10 being greenlit. I haven't fully watched since my first watch forever ago (before v9 came out) 😭😭😭

[thequeenofcringe22]

(Affectionate)

[moocar0n]

A sad girl's pleas

Live only for a breath and then they fade

[jawlipops]

quick redraw of this since im back in the building

[greelin]

i ❤️ faceless character designs like yesss keep the mask on… Obscurity is so hot

[greelin]

“what if you could see their face” well i neither want nor need any of that. i’m right where i want to be

[mllfology]

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Please review the additional updates and guidelines in the posts below before participating.

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[gbandit]

Pink mountaineer's axe from Muromachi period, 14th century Japan

[mintmildew]

in case you where wondering why there was a heart symbol on a 14th century weapon

[pearbosc]

thinking about Dorothea (the original YouTube video is by Caroline Winkler and she is wearing a formal dress in the video)

[power-chords]

Can you please explain your dialogue theory of fanfiction?

In short, that dialogue, more than anything, makes or breaks a fanfic. What do posts like "He would not fucking say that" and "They would NOT have communication skills that good" have in common? Talk. Characters expressing themselves to one another. The faithful recreation of identifiable speech patterns is weighted heavily in the evaluation of a fic's quality. By "speech patterns" I do not just mean the semantic content of a given character's expression, but idiosyncrasies of style and slang, vocabulary and idiom, even gesture, musicality, and rhythm.

Of course believable dialogue is far from the only thing that makes a good fanfic Good. And there are forms of fic writing, particularly highly abbreviated ones like drabbles and ficlets, that in practice tend to de-emphasize its significance. But if we are talking about the romantic, erotic shippy stuff that is the meat and potatoes of online fandom, dialogue does the heaviest lifting short of the consummation itself. Arguably more so! It's the real keystone to the catharsis, and often the catalyst for it. Is there a confession occurring? A provocation? An evasion or ultimatum? Zoom out, big picture: What is the most potent and fundamental mechanic for developing complexity, tension, and transformation within a relationship, getting it to go from one thing to another? Making these two idiots talk to each other! Often clumsily and indirectly and maladaptively, at the worst possible time and in the worst possible situation, about anything or everything but what they should be — but talk they usually do.

What makes fanfic specifically so challenging and rewarding in this regard is that the talking is as much a feat of translation as invention, because both reader and writer are working off an existing model. Liberties taken with plot, form, and even narrative voice have wider buffer zones; you can get creative with circumventing the events of canon while still conforming to its emotional and substantive essence.

But the training wheels come off the moment you open your mouth to speak in another character's voice. And man, nothing will break a reader's immersion quite like he would not fucking say that.

[power-chords]

I probably should have clarified at the outset (though maybe it’s obvious) that this post was made with televisual media in mind. I’m seeing a lot of comments/tags to this effect and if you want a very straightforward exercise that will strengthen your ear for writing in-character fic dialogue, start transcribing the source material. Re-watch relevant scenes of interaction with either a notepad out or an open Word/Scrivener/Google Doc and translate it word for word back down to written form. Pause wherever necessary to make sure you get it all down, and annotate with any useful observations that jump out at you. Go back over and re-read what you’ve transcribed when you’re done. You’ll start to pick up on, at the very least, certain modular fundamentals: shorter vs longer sentences, preferences for certain words or phrases over others, regional slang, how and how often they curse (or don’t), etc. Do this often and you will get better at replicating how your blorbos speak to each other. Promise.

[deathlonging]

ID: screenshots of three sets of tags: 1. i read this at a time where i am struggling to get a characters voice and perhaps that was a bad time to read it but youre right 2. its why dialogue being my achilles heel hits so much harder - because it becomes so quickly inescapable 3. ah my arch nemesis - dialogue. but this is an interesting read tho

[synthwolf]

Kai'sa doodles

[kchzndrvh]

you are a better knife.

Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories: The Foreign Lands // CJ Hauser, The Crane Wife // Safia Elhillo // Janet Fitch, White Oleander // Phoebe Bridgers // Richard Siken, Straw House, Straw Dog //Tamara Panici, I Do Not Want to Say This Country Is Not My Home

[divorcedfranklangdon]

@thepittmonth 6/10 relationships: Victoria Javadi and Cassie McKay

Who's Mrs. Grant? Nobody. I made her up. Sorry. You just had that look on your face my son gives me when I give his basketball team pointers from the sideline. I'm sorry