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@nobodyfamousposts
It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.
@iridescent-isopod
I honestly despise when people say "You know what? Screw the female lead, the two dudes should just get with each other!"- as the solution to a love triangle like that is not the progressive W you think it is
I'm not super into polycule shipping tbh but I'll take that any day over leaving behind the FL for some slop yaoi
She is what interests me in either of you
Like why are you even here if not for her story bro
Also revealing I usually dgaf about side couples in romances LMAO
It’s because the two guys involved have a more interesting dynamic. Through their infighting and jealousy, we tend to find more entertainment watching them interact and butt heads than we do in their interactions with the girl they’re fighting over. It’s more overt and obvious than the subtle hints and slow building romantic relationships either of them are building with her. There’s more attention given to each guy’s attempts at trying to “win” her and prove that they’re “better” for her than them actually just supporting her and showing how they would be equal partners in a long term relationship. This puts the focus on the guys and THEIR efforts a feelings over her and gives the often incorrect narrative that they’re trying more than she is and thus “deserve” more—whether the more in question is her as a trophy or just more than she can give.
This leads to a triple reasoning of 1) more dynamic, 2) more “deserving”, and 3) forbidden homosexual relationship to have the two guys leave the boring unworthy hetero female lead for each other just to subvert expectations.
That’s not to say that the resulting relationship between them would actually be healthy. Or last. Or even feasible. But people tend to choose to see sexual tension in anything—even or perhaps ESPECIALLY guys who clearly hate each other and would have a toxic or even abusive relationship if they DID get together.
So here’s a thought: the strangest reverse kidnapping the Waynes have ever experienced.
So Tim gets kidnapped.
Makes sense. He is the CEO of Wayne industries. Of of the most notable Wayne children. His kidnapping is really no surprise. He gets kidnapped every other month.
But usually the kidnappers tie him up.
And take his phone.
And his laptop.
And lock the door.
And make it so he can’t just…y’know…leave.
And they especially don’t give him a very nice desk set up where he can continue his work unimpeded.
Bruce is confused.
Tim is confused and intrigued.
The kidnappers are by no means special. They aren’t any sort of costumed crook. They have no magic or powers. They are absolutely normal people.
Normal but smart people.
“Mr. Wayne, we have your son.”
“Which one?“
“The one who runs your business.“
“I see.”
“We want $10 million for his release.”
“I think you’ll find that Tim has already been subjected to multitude of kidnapping in the past. We are well used to these tactics.”
“Oh, this one’s different.” The head kidnapper responded.
“It is different so far. I’m not tied to a chair and there’s no lock on the door. What’s to stop me from leaving?” Tim asks, bemused and gesturing to the aforementioned unlocked door with his again unbound hands.
“Because we have coffee.“ The kidnapper replies, gesturing to a rather fancy coffee setup with a freshly brewing French roast.
Tim immediately perks up.
“And for every hour that our demands are not met, we will give him a fresh pot of coffee with an increasing grade of caffeine.”
Ten seconds pass.
There is a “ding” from the kidnapper’s cellphone as the notification of the payment goes through.
The kidnappers blink.
“I’ll be honest. I didn’t expect that to work.”
Tim, who had taken advantage of this time to make himself a cup of coffee and already finished it, sets the empty cup down.
“I’ll double it to keep me.”
“Tim!”
i will NEVER understand why bryke thought that quasi-face stealer amnesia plotline in the search comic was a good idea. never till the day i die.
because here’s the thing. i’ve harped before on how fucking dumb it is to take the character whose central line in the og show was “no matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are” and have them immediately afterwards 1. actually somehow just not leave the country they were banished from, and 2. deliberately and knowingly choose to have their own memories wiped. like ???????!!?
and yeah, that then leaves the question, when it’s revealed in late s3 that she was banished and is possibly still alive: why didn’t she ever come back for her kids? why didn’t she at least seek out zuko, who was also banished and therefore at least theoretically accessible to her? why didn’t she try to intervene when she presumably learned about the agni kai and her son’s disfigurement? and if she never learned of it, how could that be without her either deliberately forgetting she had kids or choosing to actively ignore any opportunity to get information about them?
and my friends, this is where the silliest part of the whole kerfuffle is. because there was ALREADY a built-in, solid, well-explored piece of worldbuilding that could very easily have answered all of those questions in a way that wouldn’t fundamentally violate the basic foundations of her character’s nature. that piece of worldbuilding? the city of ba sing se.
As a writer, this solves so many of your problems. If Ursa ends up in ba sing se (which there’s decent reason for her to do, given that it’s entirely reasonable that she’d be worried about ozai changing his mind and deciding he needs to tie up loose ends, and that the city just repelled iroh, making it about the most secure location she could get) then once she makes it inside the walls she discovers there is no war in ba sing se. suddenly, trying to get information about anything to do with the fire nation, let alone the royal family, becomes extremely difficult and dangerous. she has a plausible reason not to know, or have very little and extremely delayed awareness of what’s happening to her children.
also, the city is fucking massive and packed to the brim with refugees. even with zuko and iroh getting all about the lower and upper ring, it’s completely plausible for her to have even still been there without amnesia and just. never happened to cross paths. big cities are like that. you could see a million people in a day that you’ll never see again and they’ll only be a tiny fraction of all the people there that you’ll never catch a glimpse of. plus, once you’re lucky enough to get in as a refugee, it’s probably not so easy to leave again, especially if you want to have a chance of being able to come back.
if you really want the amnesia plot, the dai li/joo dee worldbuilding is already set up there too! all you have to do is have ursa keep trying to find out about her kids, maybe even discover zuko’s banishment and try to either reach out or leave the city in response, and have the dai li catch her in a sting to crack down on citizens promoting awareness of the war.
badabing, badaboom, ursa gets joo dee’d and now you have an amnesia plotline without ursa deliberately abandoning even the memory of her kids.
Another thing that really bothered me was a take of Ursa being a commoner that Ozai plucked up against her will and had his way. Which I know it's done to stress how evil the royal family is, but I always thought it was far more interesting of a young Ursa who desired to be a reagent. Who pursued for that power just as much as any other noble woman did, who was just as ambitious and bold as a true Fire Princess should be. And potentially prove that her family had loyalty to the Royal Family if there was suspicion of them through their familial ties with Roku. It even could've been a means to save her family or improve their livelihood amonst the FN nobility.
I also thought it was far more tragic to work off what Zuko said, that they were a happy family once, but Ozai had a bigger love for power than family.
I know as a kid he could've not realized how things actually were, but it just hits me harder to think that they were a happy once, and from Ozai's lust of power, his family fell apart, it broke, it grew weak and divided. Conflicting.
And it just added to the lesson of pursuing absolute power is a loss of love, a collapse of your house, a weakness in your foundation.
How the higher you climb, the farther you are from the roots that held you up and together, and it makes the fall far more devastating.
His want of power over family, he sent away the wife he once loved.
Turned an older brother against him to plot in secret.
Banished the son that would help lead to his defeat.
Broke his most loyal and effective daughter and soldier as he left her behind.
And all it left him was being alone and overconfident. No one to come to his aide as he faced the wrath and mercy of the Avatar.
It also begs the question of why she didn’t just take Zuko with her.
Fanfiction after fanfiction and theories upon theories of what happened to Ursa—locked in a prison cell on the Boiling Isles. Exiled. Trapped in Ba Sing Se. Left imprisoned on an abandoned island. Even that she just died somehow. All of them INFINITELY better than what they decided to go with because they at least gave the woman who sacrificed herself to save her son the credit that she would have at least TRIED to get back to him if she could!
The idea that teenagers need to "pay" for their mistakes boggles my mind.
Teenagers are basically primed to make mistakes. That's kinda the whole gig. Just old enough to do stuff on their own and still figuring out how to weave in and out of it. It’s worse when they start out as well intended mistakes. Imma be real here, i am a parent. I have a teenager. Sometimes she makes mistakes and learns something. Sometimes she just goes "maybe I didn't break the rules the right way."
So here is the thing. Marinette is 15. 15 is a special age. Later curfew, grown up feelings without grown up knowing, and the unfortunate urge to "handle it yourself".
She has also been handed the literal weight of the world. Which. No 15yo ever is ready for that, and she already had anxiety and imposter syndrome before that started. She is getting terrible advice but she is at this point someone who is suffering under lets call it "chronic trauma". Over and over over again the narrative has demanded that she and only she is responsible for everything that happens around her, to her and through her. She has once used nearly every Miraculous in very short order, and has now fused the cat and ladybug - which I have mentioned is likely incredibly dangerous.
How are people looking at her as some sort of evil villain? People lie about grief all the time. We try to make things gentler. We lie at funerals. Marinette feels both that she failed to save Gabriel and that she as good as killed him. (If she'd been a few seconds faster, he wouldn't have died. That's not rational or right. But it is what she is feeling.
She is a kid. Wrong choices - maybe? Good impulse. Sure. We can give her that. But as much trauma and pressure as she was under at the moment and is still under *now*? From the people she trusts? From the adults around her? Was it a choice that Marinette made or a situation where the window is broken and she's the one left holding the ball?
Learn from it? I have so much fucking compassion for this little girl that at this point I am just rooting for her to *survive* all of this. This is a lot of complex trauma for someone who is already carrying so much. She doesn't need a lesson. She needs a hug. And like yeah, pick your own fandom experience and all that. I have a big block list. But I was 13 when I first joined fandom spaces. And the prevailing attitudes in mlb fandom as a whole make it unsafe for teens and holding hard lines about responsibilities for trauma and trauma reactions.
Life is not a lesson. And trauma doesn't teach anything but an overly active stress responce. So for the teens in mlb fandom - I hope you feel like you can share the hurts you are carrying with a trusted person, I hope they make you feel safe and heard. I hope the only lesson that you learn is that people can be good. Not all of them. Not all of the time. But enough of them to matter. It doesn't matter if the hurts behind those lies are big, small or silly. You deserve to be heard and not to suffer in silence so you "learn."
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! Like I understand why she chose to keep her mouth shut when London Special dropped and quite frankly, I’m exhausted that people seem to have no grasp or grace for a character making mistakes especially as a teen girl (Female main characters that are hated by majority of the fandom for behavior and mistakes while always giving grace to the other characters WORSE than her will always be my favorite and I will defend them)
It boggles my mind that the people who have been blasting Marinette for keeping secrets and “getting away with it” after she was manipulated by a supervillain are the same ones who have been vehemently defending Chloe and Lila as “poor abused teens manipulated by a supervillain” who actually HAVE gotten away with it.
There is intent. There is willful desire to cause harm vs a desire to protect oneself and others from harm. There is reveling in lies vs the burden of lies.
And through it all, regardless of the situation, the hate is going to the person who is actually TRYING.
Trying to protect.
Trying to help.
Trying to be good.
Trying to make up for her mistakes.
Trying to simply FUNCTION without accidentally causing the destruction of an entire city by accident with every choice she makes.
Doing all this while effectively being the ONLY responsible party and the one to apologize and be accountable in every situation that goes wrong.
And yet they insist that not only is she the bad guy but that she isn’t suffering enough.
Make it make sense.
ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.
black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.
bruce: how’d you get your scar?
zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.
bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.
Zuko: Do you mind if I wear this blue demon mask?
Bruce: *sniff, tear in his eye* Not at all.
*Zuko fighting the Joker*
J: "wan na kno w h ow i go t thes e sc ar s"
Z: *rips off mask* i don't give a fuck
I’m still stuck at the “batman has adoption papers in his utility belt”.
“Quick, it’s time to use the Bat-adoption papers!”
Bat-option papers
Okay, but you’re missing the best part of this.
Alfred and Iroh complimenting each other on tea while they discuss their overly dramatic children.
iroh: once, i told zuko that he needs to work on his inter turmoil. he screamed at me that he had no such inner turmoil, and then proceeded to go to a cliff during a thunderstorm to scream at God to strike him with lightning
alfred: master bruce and i have that interaction at least three times per week.
@absentlyabbie
I see your "Alfred and Iroh as tea bros" and raise you "Alfred and Iroh as tea rivals"
Consider
Iroh: you too must learn patience. Boiling the water ruins the delicate flavor of the white jade
Alfred: oh I'm dreadfully sorry - for some reason I expected this tea to have TEA in it
(later)
Alfred: *aggressively laying out full tea service with milk, lemon, sugar, and, just to drive his point in, jam*
Iroh: *dying inside*
excellent addition
hey bruce spent a lot of his bat-study abroad in the far east and has kind of a weeb weapon collection so proposal, what if Bruce appreciates Iroh’s tea
while Zuko is enthusiastic about cream and sugar
further fueling their dad-figures’ passive-aggressive rivalry?
You had me at Zuko vs. Joker, I was crying by the Eastern vs. Western tea service
Wait a minute. Batman and Zuko have the same arch-nemesis.
Mark Hamill
Saw the last comment and my brain would not rest until it happened
this post has everything
this was an enjoyable ride. i liked the scenery very much. smooth suspension, nice height, several fascinating loops. 10/10 would go again.
The good plot twists aren't the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they're the ones that make all the other little things that didn't quite add up before suddenly click
Is there anything you would have changed about your previous ML fics considering some of the show's more recent developments?
Knowing what I know now, most of my stories probably wouldn’t have been written with the show’s developments. Not just because of personal lack of interest with aspects and reveals in the later seasons, but because some of the concepts simply wouldn’t have worked.
Sentimonsters would have killed the concept of the dolls because why would the Ladybug give Marinette power to literally create life if that’s a Peacock power?
Missing would have been shredded because I’d be trying to give credit to characters who proved there is no credit worth giving. And what was the point of doing anything with Lila if she just had two other moms to escape to?
Double Monkey Dare post Derision? How could I dare suggest Kim be helpful after seeing what lows he could reach?
Double Kwami AU could still work. Along with False Ladybug AU.
The only one I could see myself really rolling with is BURN THE WITCH!!! Imagine ALL THREE of Lila’s moms seeing her nearly die on TV? And then find out about her manipulations that way? Yeah, try to explain your way out of THAT one, Lila!
Sometimes you hear a song and a fic pops into your head full formed. This is a trap. The fic may be fully formed in your brain, but you still Have to write it down. This is an important step that most people forget about.
Chaton Noir: Blep
Alternate title: Bad Example
Another day, another round of Chloe being Chloe.
“Watch it, Clumsinette!” Chloe jeered as she shoved Marinette and sent the pule of papers she had been holding flying. She gave a smirk and sauntered off with a laugh.
Marinette glared at Chloe's retreating back. The blonde sauntered off, none the wiser. Not that she would care anyway.
Frustration couldn't begin to describe her feelings. In a fit of pettiness, she stuck her tongue out at Chloe and blew a raspberry.
Sure, it was childish. Silly. And likely didn't make Marinette look mature at all. But it made her feel a little better in the moment. No one was around to see it anyway.
Well, almost no one.
"Marinette!" Tikki admonished, popping out.
Marinette rolled her eyes and went back to picking up her papers. "Oh come on, Tikki. It's not like it makes a difference."
The sound of someone blowing a raspberry followed.
Marinette started and looked up in surprise. "Tikki?!"
Tikki was floating there, however, she also looked confused.
The noise happened again.
The two turned to find Chaton staring at them from the bag.
Chaton blinked twice.
And blew a raspberry once more.
"Chaton!"
Blep!
Marinette picked him up.
He stuck his tongue out, making a cute if not somewhat silly face.
Blep!
Marinette blinked.
"….since when do you have a tongue?"
i don’t care if zutara was ever a possibility in the writing room or not. i don’t care if i’m making the ship up in my head. at the end of the day only one person in the gaang was willing to stand for some good first degree murder just to make katara feel a little better, and it’s not aang. the end
Previous tag: #aang was too busy projecting his own morals onto katara 👀
It’s not even necessarily about the willingness to murder or help her murder.
Zuko worked WITH Katara, meeting her where she was at. No expectations. No judgement. No condemnation or lectures or metaphorical finger wagging. He went out of his way to learn about her, to LISTEN to her, to understand what she needed. And he helped her to find closure on HER terms.
Aang was trying to get her to accept closure on HIS terms. He tried to guilt Katara into getting over her own trauma. He tried to shame her for how she was dealing with her trauma. He tried to push her to “be the bigger person” and follow his standards by “forgiving her” and expecting her to “learn a lesson” herself and forgive the harm done to her…by comparing her taking Appa without permission to the murder of her mother.
I’m not saying Aang was wrong…I’m saying that of the two shipping options, only one of them was supportive in the way she needed. The other was tone deaf and pushing his feelings on her trauma and grief.
Hey all, I need help finding an adorable Lukanette story where they meet when they’re younger and have the “issue” of Luka wanting to hold/hug people and Marinette wanting to be held/hugged. The parents work out said issue when Anarka visits the bakery with little Luka and Tom and Sabine let him meet little Marinette, and the two are immediately clingy and remain clingy throughout the years.
Is it on tumblr or AO3 or both?
My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]
....A man who was tortured and brainwashed for decades... who was forced to kill people... should die to redeem himself for being tortured and brainwashed and forced to kill people...
Ok. Got that.
preserving te tags curtesy of @therese-lokidottir
#Howard recruited hydra while building SHIELD#Not saying he deserves to die and certainly Maria seems to have done nothing wrong BUT#I want to make that point#Howard chose to work with Hydra#and it was because of him Hydra could thrive in the shadows and become so powerful#also Tony was well into his ratpack years when Howard died so his crappy parenting was solely on his own actions#Not dying wouldn't have change much for Tony in that regard#other then maybe way down the line Howard could have in person apologized for being a crappy dad#anyway that being said#Screw dying to save Morgan being the perfect end to Bucky's arc#why does his arc have to revolve around Tony#why is saving multiple lives. actually confronting and apologizing to people inperson--#-- doing what he can to take the people hydra put in power in jail--#--and helping saving world multiple times not good enough?#why is none of that counting to his arc?#why act like somehow the starks are the most important most central people in the world?#That wouldn't be the perfect end to Bucky's arc#that would just be the story saying Tony is the most important character in the franchise
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Also Howard chose to take is wife on that drive wit the super soldier serum ...
Just saying
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I do think it would be a nice little lateral arabesque if Bucky safed Tony or someone from is family (without dying) becasue it would be like
Dead in every way that matters and controlled by hydra he kills
Wenn he is himself, he safes
Would be kind a nice, you know
Would make us come full circle from is very first appearance, which is wenn he shows up to safe pre serum mini steve wo can totally do this all day ...
Also worth including tags from @janetsnakehole02
ripfic
#it's not like a chunk of this fanbase still uses tony's parents as justification for the accords or anything#<- prev tags so true#why is everyone convinced that death or sacrifice is required in order to give a character a meaningful ending to their arc??#can’t the man just retire in peace#why does he need to die as some sort of sick twisted redemption for something he was literally tortured and brainwashed into doing#bucky barnes
He lost his life. He lost his place in time. He lost his memories. He lost his free will. He lost his morals. He’s lost his best friend. Why does he still need to sacrifice for a rich asshole with daddy issues who had no issue making weapons until they were turned on him and no issue screwing over the universe so long as HIS happy peaceful life was untouched.
You know who deserves a happy peaceful life where he can just rest? Bucky Barnes.
The idea that teenagers need to "pay" for their mistakes boggles my mind.
Teenagers are basically primed to make mistakes. That's kinda the whole gig. Just old enough to do stuff on their own and still figuring out how to weave in and out of it. It’s worse when they start out as well intended mistakes. Imma be real here, i am a parent. I have a teenager. Sometimes she makes mistakes and learns something. Sometimes she just goes "maybe I didn't break the rules the right way."
So here is the thing. Marinette is 15. 15 is a special age. Later curfew, grown up feelings without grown up knowing, and the unfortunate urge to "handle it yourself".
She has also been handed the literal weight of the world. Which. No 15yo ever is ready for that, and she already had anxiety and imposter syndrome before that started. She is getting terrible advice but she is at this point someone who is suffering under lets call it "chronic trauma". Over and over over again the narrative has demanded that she and only she is responsible for everything that happens around her, to her and through her. She has once used nearly every Miraculous in very short order, and has now fused the cat and ladybug - which I have mentioned is likely incredibly dangerous.
How are people looking at her as some sort of evil villain? People lie about grief all the time. We try to make things gentler. We lie at funerals. Marinette feels both that she failed to save Gabriel and that she as good as killed him. (If she'd been a few seconds faster, he wouldn't have died. That's not rational or right. But it is what she is feeling.
She is a kid. Wrong choices - maybe? Good impulse. Sure. We can give her that. But as much trauma and pressure as she was under at the moment and is still under *now*? From the people she trusts? From the adults around her? Was it a choice that Marinette made or a situation where the window is broken and she's the one left holding the ball?
Learn from it? I have so much fucking compassion for this little girl that at this point I am just rooting for her to *survive* all of this. This is a lot of complex trauma for someone who is already carrying so much. She doesn't need a lesson. She needs a hug. And like yeah, pick your own fandom experience and all that. I have a big block list. But I was 13 when I first joined fandom spaces. And the prevailing attitudes in mlb fandom as a whole make it unsafe for teens and holding hard lines about responsibilities for trauma and trauma reactions.
Life is not a lesson. And trauma doesn't teach anything but an overly active stress responce. So for the teens in mlb fandom - I hope you feel like you can share the hurts you are carrying with a trusted person, I hope they make you feel safe and heard. I hope the only lesson that you learn is that people can be good. Not all of them. Not all of the time. But enough of them to matter. It doesn't matter if the hurts behind those lies are big, small or silly. You deserve to be heard and not to suffer in silence so you "learn."
The bad news is that you have been abducted by aliens. The good news is that you've been abducted by the alien equivalent of Steve Irwin, who has decided to make you the subject of an alien nature documentary.
How is that good news?! That is even worse news! What is a poor socially awkward camera shy introvert supposed to do when a rando just decides to kidnap them AND post videos of them to the whole universe?!!
Stage fright. So much stage fright.
