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Just started reading Wuthering Heights (not for the movie, but the movie coming out did remind me it was on my TBR pile so there’s that). Best way to describe it so far: it’s like if Mr. Collins from Pride and Prejudice swapped places with Jonathan Harker from Dracula. No I will not elaborate
No but guys, Aaravos was trapped at the bottom of the sea made by his tears in the crater left by his daughter’s death. He was trapped in the hole her loss created filled with his own tears.
He was literally trapped in his grief, stuck in the pain and hollowness caused by his daughter’s death
Put my liked songs on shuffle and got hit with “Just a Man” right after “Thunder Bringer” because apparently my playlist doesn’t want me to chill today
Bakery Enemies Au Masterlist
@buggachat‘s bakery enemies au now has image descriptions for all parts currently out. They were done by me and @princess-of-purple-prose
Here are the links:
Cover, Old Cover
The Meeting: ep1, ep2, ep3, ep4 & ep5
Nino and Alya: ep6, ep7 & ep8
Nightmares: ep9, ep10 & ep11
Flashback 1: ep12
Kwamis: ep13
Home alone: ep14, ep15, ep16, ep17 & ep18
Chloe and The Robbery: ep19, ep20, ep21 & ep22
Flashback 3: ep23
The Talk: ep24, ep25, ep26, ep27, ep28, ep29, ep30 & ep31
The Dream: ep32
The Ring: ep33, ep34
DJWifi Strikes Again: ep35, ep36 & ep37
Wine Tasting: ep38, ep39, ep40, ep41, ep42, ep43, ep44, ep45, ep46, ep47, ep48, ep49, ep50 & ep51
Rain: ep52, ep53, ep54, ep55, ep56, ep57 & ep58
Sleepover: ep59, ep60, ep61, ep62, ep63, ep64, ep65, ep66, ep67, ep68, ep69, ep70 & ep71
Flashback 4: ep72
Bakery Morning: ep73, ep74, ep75, ep76, ep77, ep78, ep79, ep80, ep81, ep82 & ep83
Flashback 5: ep84, ep85, ep86, ep87 & ep88
Bakery Morning cont: ep89, ep90, ep91, ep92 & ep93
Videocall: ep94, ep95, ep96, ep97, ep98 & ep99
Cake Flashback: ep100 & ep101
Flirting Attempts: ep 102, ep 103, ep 104, ep 105, ep 106, ep 107
Family Time: ep108, ep109, ep110, ep111, ep112, ep113
Adrien’s Phone: ep114, ep115, ep116, ep117, ep118, ep119, ep120, ep121, ep122, ep123, ep124, ep125
Gala dream and Aftermath: ep126, ep127, ep128, ep129, ep130, ep131, ep132
Flashback 7: ep133
Before the Gala: ep134, ep135, ep136, ep137, ep138, ep139, ep140, ep141, ep142, ep143, ep144, ep145,
Reveal: ep146, ep147, ep148, ep149, ep150, ep151, ep152, ep153, ep154, ep155, ep156
Revelations: ep157, ep158, ep159, ep160, ep161, ep162, ep163, ep164, ep165, ep166, ep167, ep168, ep169, ep170, ep171, ep172
Post Reveal, Pre Gala: ep173, ep174, ep175, ep176, ep177, ep178, ep179, ep180, ep181, ep182, ep183, ep184, ep185, ep186, ep187
At the Gala: ep188, ep189
Translations: Spanish (instagram), Russian (tumblr), Hebrew (instagram)
Fanart: Adrien gets Hired, Adrien doodle, Natalie, Ladrien Roses, Wine Arc Alt ending, Group Selfie (ep52), No conflict just croissants, Peacock!Adrien, Marinette’s Panic, Its you! (ep 121 Alt ending, Not Hungry (ep123), Adrien’s Macarons, Ladynoir Gala Outfits, Ladybug Gala Outfit, Marinette vs Cake, Strawberry Parallels (ep140), Giving up the Miraculous (ep147), Realization (alt ending to ep150), It’s Me (ep 152), Fix It (ep154), It’s Okay (ep154), Alt Reveal Ending, Adrien Had To, Temple Kiss (ep156), Adrien’s shirt (ep157), Happy Adrien, Post Reveal Selfie (ep172), Problem Solving (ep174)
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My favorite thing about Avatar (well, one of them) is all the sub-cultures we see. Like, sure there are only four recognized nations in the world, but in those nations there are lots of other people running around doing their own thing. You have sand benders out in the desert. Omashu is a single-city kingdom in the Earth Kingdom with a unique mail system not seen anywhere else. The Sun Warriors have been in hiding for so long people thought they were extinct like the dragons, but both have just been chilling in the mountains. Kiyoshi island and the unique, non-bending style they’ve developed. The swamp. Like, all of it, all the glorious aspects of the Swamp Bender culture.
They didn’t have to add these people to the story, but in doing so they make a seemingly small world expand in such wonderful ways. It makes viewers feel like the world is as fleshed out as our own with our varieties of cultures and makes us wonder what other people could be out there we just didn’t see in the series (the existence of Swamp Benders has always made me wonder if there’s a rain forest somewhere where the people have a similar vine-swinging technique, or if there’s an underground earthbending culture somewhere similar to the Sun Warriors). This show is great, and it always proves that even the smallest details and characters can have lasting impacts on the story as a whole
As a writer, I feel like Miraculous is the perfect case study for both generating worlds and characters people feel attached to, to the point where they generate theories and get invested in tiny developments, and also a case study for how a story should absolutely not be developed from that point on.
Every time I see something from the show, I’m reminded of the brilliance of its concepts and setups. You have superheroes tied to zodiac animals (plus others) which give different powers not tied to the animal form in ways people had seen before (seriously, props where props are due, there were some unique power/costume combos here). You have secret identities which hide both two kids who are in love with one another in different forms AND the fact that one kid is the SON OF THE VILLAIN (angst on angst for that finale and any reveals). You have cute little creatures of seemingly infinite cosmic energy who have been around since the dawn of time but also have banter of their own. You have cool jewelery designs (yes, this is vital to making people want to draw your world and make their own ocs, which is one of MY big writing motivators lol). You have a cool cast of background characters who, for the first two seasons, are each given an episode to have a breakdown and become villains. You have a bully who seems like childsplay in the face of an actual supervillain terrorizing Paris. You have a clear front runner for Villain #2 in a character who depends on deceit to rule the class. You have all the foundations for an epic tale of growth, love, betrayal, etc. etc.
And you squander it. You take the MC whose father is the villain out of the final fight to pad out the awaited reveal. You backslide any and all character development. You don’t let the romance go ANYWHERE for four seasons, then speed through the reversal of attraction people had been dying for. You send the most interesting characters out of the story (mainly Luka, but I’m also going to include Chloe here). You let all the background characters become heroes and forget that the main draw of the show is watching our two leads, or, sorry, ONE lead by the way things end (because forget about the fun of their dynamic no matter the masks which drew so many people to this show to begin with).
The worst part for me is that I can pin pretty much all its problems on one thing: the rule of cool. It would make thematic sense for Adrien to be in the final fight and face off his father, but it was COOL for Marinette to combine the miraculous and fight him solo. It was interesting to see a small band of heroes help our leads (their two best friends and Chloe, who was shaping up to be an interesting hero in her own way), but it would be COOL if all the kids had powers 24-7 now and no, most of the designs don’t look as good as those initial ones. It would be interesting to see Marinette and Adrien finally discuss their feelings to one another, and eventually have a reveal that leads to maybe betrayal and excitement all at once, but it would be COOL if they just started dating already so they date as civilians. It would be interesting to explore the world, the themes, and relationships we felt promised by those early episodes, but it would be COOL to just take the story wherever the wind blows and add in any cool fights or lines that prop up our now stand-alone MC, even at the expense of her literal partner or any of the other secondary characters we were given a focus on (because why prop up the characters everyone already loved when we can give Kim, a solid tertiary character, a backstory tied directly to Marinette’s worst trait in a COOL attempt at explaining it away because it WOULDNT BE COOL if she had flaws).
I’m not saying I hate everything from the newer seasons. However, it seems like the writers’ plan for the story didn’t include things they set up, and what they set up was infinitely more interesting than the things they planned to pay off. My takeaway advice for writers is this: put down the “Rule of Cool” for a moment and analyze what you think are the inherently INTERESTING parts of your story. Maybe you have a unique world, or your character ideas have merit, or you too have some contrive love square people can spend hours agonizing over. Then, don’t shove it to the side (or drag it out past the point of caring). Think through what you want to do with those concepts and the ways you want to explore them, and make a clear path. Don’t worry about what the public reception to those ideas will be (I know, seems counter-intuitive to the post, but stay with me) and instead dig into the themes you want to tell. Miraculous wanted to tell a cool story, and in the end they told a bland one. The best stories come from writers who put aside their goals of being cool and just write the worlds they personally find interesting.
If I had a nickel for every time I started a story centered around a momma’s boy who wants to change the world only to come into power of future sight and become the force of reckoning across humanity while being lifted to the rank of some messianic figure to the select few he recruits to join him and betray the trust of the girl he loves… I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice
Haven’t seen Madam Web yet, so I have no idea of it’s actual quality, but can I just say: I love everyone hated it because it’s genuinely bad and they aren’t dogpiling on how it’s a mostly female cast. Like, this movie is being absolutely DRAGGED online, but I haven’t seen one “this is what happens when you only put women on the screen” or any of those kinds of comments.
Yes, let this movie’s badness be tied to the writing, directing, and plot as it deserves! Go off you beautiful second coming of Morbius!!
Was Chloe an objectively horrible character who was far from redeemed at the “peak” of her redemption arc (even just with the events from the first two seasons)? Oh, absolutely.
Do I still think about how the writers literally bent over backwards to shove her out of the hero team and replace her with a ten-second-idea replacement sister that never existed before forgetting the rule they used to get her off the team applied to at least three other characters?
Oh, ABSOLUTELY
A show idea I think about twice a month: Disney Chanel Moms Book Club. Like, think of every unhinged, out there mother from a Disney live action (or cartoon because let’s be honest that would make it even better) interacting in a book club. The shenanigans. The drama. The only “normal” one being the spy from KC Undercover. The mom from Good Luck Charlie as the unexpected ringleader. If Disneys just going to keep doing their old ideas, why not go crazy with them?
Gabe’s ending here was perfect for the shows portrayal of him. As much as I love Sally taking things into her own hands to get rid of her abuser in the books, I don’t think it would’ve hit the same here. Sure, the more serious abuse could have been discussed in later seasons to retroactively justify this action, but new viewers aren’t going to catch onto it as easily, which may make Sally come off as an unnecessarily heartless character who took revenge a step too far.
This though? Having his own disregard for others and disdain for Percy be his undoing? This is the perfect way to end his story with how the show portrayed him. He wasn’t quite as bad as Book!Gabe, but he was a trash guy who didn’t care about others, and having this trait be his undoing is a bit poetic in the grand scheme of things. Also, Sally can still sell the statue, so she still gets her girl boss moment by capitalizing off the leach she’s divorcing, so it’s still a win in my book!
Listen, disregarding your favorite bachelor/bachelorette, disregarding you as a person or the persona you’ve imposed on the player character: Harvey x Farmer is objectively the funniest, most “mid-2000s rom-com” pairing possible in the game.
Picture this: a nervous Dr. just trying to make ends meet in a small town. His dreams of being a pilot were shattered by poor eye sight, and pretty much the only person who interacts with him outside of patient visits is the nurse who’s 100% coding an ai program at the desk since no one ever shows up.
Then boom: one day there’s this raggedy farmer hauled in by the local homeless man. Maybe the farmer’s said hello in passing, most likely they’ve given him some random weed dug up in someone’s backyard, or maybe this is the first time they meet up. Anyways, Harvey greets them and sends them off and then NOT TWO DAYS LATER THEYRE BACK! If it isn’t monster attacks, it’s working themself to death on the farm or chopping trees or fishing until 2:00am because “well what if there’s a special fish past 1:00am!”
And, as time goes on and they meet up either in clinic or in the library (where the farmer is shoving ancient bones into the hands of the man at the counter) Harvey realizes he’s growing fond of this new goblin. Harvey’s birthday is one of the last, yet this chaos beast might just find him and shove a cup of coffee in his hand (the farmer has been running at Mach 5 because they downed ten before getting to this point). And darn, he’s fallen in love with the dirt-crusted farmer.
Then in marriage, the scenanigans never end! He still charges for the many, MANY, ER visits because they’ve been fighting flying anacondas in the mines, and he’s been home with his model planes and radio knowing that, screw it, they always come back like some feral cat.
I think the only storyline that comes close in rom-comability due to the character growth from the chaos the farmer brings is Hailey, but I think it’s funnier with Harvey because no one expected him to get roped into a rom-com, least of all himself
completed a portrait series of all the human children of the big three from pjo/hoo 𓏲*ੈ✩‧₊˚
loved loved loved experimenting with a new style and interpreting these characters with a new design!
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You know what I think about every now and then? How wild Miraculous would be if they waited to tell us Adrian was Chat Noir until like the last episode (not Origins but Volpina).
Imagine that scene where they’re each on one side of the wall, but it pans to show Adrien instead of Chat. Imagine the fanfics, the explosions, the REVELATIONS! Heck, I think the wait for the actual reveal could be more bearable if we had less time knowing these dorks are just in love with one another. We could probably guess at it (though based on the old “Hawk Moth is Gabriel’s twin obviously” theories I assume it wouldn’t be a popular one lol), and that would only sweeten the moment. Idk, just imagining how wild that would be makes me weep for a world that never would have existed
A connection I haven’t seen made enough yet: Show’s immidiate distain for mockingjays at the hanging of a man he never knew vs Katniss’s immidiate disgust at jaberjays for perfectly mimicking the screams of her loved ones.
Snow appreciates the jaberjays because they’re a practical tool (of course with capital ingenuity implied). Katniss loves the mockingjays because her first experience with them is as a genuine bird (with a hint of rebellion). Snow thinks the mockingjays destroy something useful, and Katniss is disgusted by the unnatural nature of the jaberjays (she even thinks something along the lines of “I wouldn’t even consider eating this thing,” in Catching Fire). Like, something as simple as the bird they first hated reveals so much about their outlooks, and I love that about this series
there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too
suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.
all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.
While this is definitely part of the brilliance of how the books are written (and how decisions in the writing room almost always reflect exactly the things Collins warns us of) I think it’s also important to stress that there IS a moral difference to us as an audience interacting with this film vs the capital, and both ideas coexist!
Yes, the commentary Lucky made was extremely out of pocket, and in the theater I was appalled because it really showed how this guy was likely trained to treat it as nothing more than a sporting event. Not only did he get the crowd going and make them fall for this fake framework for the games, but he laid the foundation for the hunger the capital had for the games and bloodshed years down the road. Unlike Caesar, who is stated to do his best to show off tributes to give them a fighting chance with sponsors, he’s solely there for the show (and likely to not be killed because let’s face it no one is free in this world).
That said, when you leave the theater and process the horrors of the games and the message of the story, you can also find some humor in the odd remarks. My sister was a sickly kid, so she’s been coining herself “Ill Dill” since because the remark was so out of nowhere that it stuck. The way he was surprised with how good the “all colors fade to gray” line was genuinely funny. The way he literally spat something onto one of the mentors (forgot which one) and kept rushing them out of their seats because he genuinely didn’t care about ANY kids involved in this spectacle brought some much needed levity (and was likely a tiny dose of the huge helping of humbling those kids needed). Heck, I distinctly remember the “oh look, they’re holding hands…I want them dead” line from snow in Catching Fire circulating for years! He’s referring killing people who stood in unity against him, but it’s a genuinely well delivered, funny line people snagged and made a meme of.
Basically, every time a new movie comes out there’s always this guilt with interacting with the entertainment as entertainment because we think it makes us the capital. That isn’t the message though, and it really hasn’t been. The message isn’t “all the masses who sit back and do nothing are evil and if you find enjoyment in this fictional story you’re just as bad,” but rather “systems of power that are fueled by propaganda affect us in ways we often don’t realize, and if we do not try to use compassion to understand others we risk becoming the kind of people who crave violence in reality and look down on those beneath us as non-human.” Unless you walked away from the movie thinking Snow was 100% right or that there’s a market for actual killing games, you aren’t the capital. You’re a consumer who got hit with a dose of “here’s a mirror for society” and has a chance to further study how that makes you feel (who is also capable of laughing at the “those drones are not good” scene).
As OP said, we are consumers, and the book mirrors our consumption to an extreme degree, but please be kind to yourself and realize WHY it impacted you instead of just blaming yourself or others for reacting the exact way we’re wired to react to media. A huge part of the story is how propaganda works, but you can’t learn from the lessons about it if you’re too busy beating yourself up or trying to sound morally superior to others.
Also, wanted to end by saying this is in no way pointed at OP, just my general thoughts on the matter (and a rant from how exhausting the lukewarm “holier than thou” takes I’ve seen have been)
Haven’t seen Wish yet, but based on what I’m hearing I’m sad that my one theory for the movie was wrong and the Queen isn’t in fact planning to overthrow her husband from the shadows the whole time (seriously, they made her seem so sketchy in the trailer for nothing)
