gillion is stupid. like. he's got low intelligence. he's slow to pick up on things, he takes a while to understand new concepts, he doesn't think things through and on the rare occasions he does he just doesn't manage to grasp all the different possible outcomes.
yes he's got high emotional intelligence, yes he's good with words, yes he grew up in a different environment and is unfamiliar with the one he's in currently, but he is still a little stupid.
and that's important because it's part of the reason gillion feels so guilty, so anxious about being the chosen one, about trying his best to be a protector and still getting it wrong. he's a bad student, and he makes bad decisions, he's just not as smart as jay or chip. he gets them into danger at least as often as he gets them out of it, and he hates it. he wants to be strong and capable and smart, so that he can keep his family safe as best he can, so that he can be the perfect chosen one, but he just isn't! and that's so important to who he is as a person and why he does what he does.
yes! exactly! whether he's "just" stupid or there's more to it, fact is the feeling of overwhelming frustration at yourself for just not being able to 'get it', the fear of failure baked into your very being because you should be able to do this, you're the fucking chosen one for fucks sake, but over and over you make the same mistakes and over and over you're scolded for being subpar, the deep seated self loathing because eventually the repeated feedback that you're just overall worse at life than everyone else gets to you, they're all the same. and it's such a central theme for gillion and trying to plead that the riptide captains are all equally smart in their own ways completely erases that
Hey so funny story when I first started watching jrwi, Condifiction played Jay Ferin’s understated and grounded yet realistic femininity so well that I assumed Condi was a trans woman who just didn’t care about passing.
I thought I would challenge myself with learning how to draw glass digitally. I don't like how these came out that much but they are just concepts so it's ok! I can develop them more later!
Hope you like them and have a lovely rest of your day!
(Also I couldn't wait for the next Riptide episode so I watched the early access ep123 and HOLY SHIT STUFF HAPPENS AND THERE ARE SOME INSANE LINES THAT I CANNOT GLOSS OVER AND WILL BE IN FUTURE ART!)
With the recent changes to Fandom Metatags, a new change is coming to the way the Just Roll With It (Podcast) fandom on AO3 is structured as well! The old fandom tag will remain, no worries, but now all the various campaigns and one-shots will now have their own fandoms underneath it!
The Just Roll With It (Podcast) fandom tag now functions in much the same way that a fandom tag such as Dragon Age - All Media Types does in relation to the fandom tags for each piece of individual Dragon Age media, such as Dragon Age (Video Games) and Dragon Age (Tabletop RPG).
This means that people who want to tag or search for JRWI as a whole can still do that, but now people who would like to be more specific in their tagging can specify exactly which campaign they're writing about in the fandom field!
These are the new fandom tags that will be joining our Just Roll With It (Podcast) tag at this time:
Just Roll With It: The Fated | Campaign One (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Convergence (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Riptide & Related Fandoms
Just Roll With It: Tales from the Midnight Rose (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Riptide (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Prime Defenders & Related Fandoms
Just Roll With It: Resurgence | The Age of Heroes (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Prime Defenders (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: The Elementals (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Unwitness Protection Program (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Mythborne (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Apotheosis (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Monster Control Service (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Blood in the Bayou (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: The Suckening (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Total Monster Kill (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Wonderlust (Podcast)
Just Roll With It: Judgement (Podcast)
Hopefully this change will be a boon to many and no obstacle to the people who prefer the old system! If you'd like to know more about this change and how it affects tagging and filtering, we've addressed some potential concerns under the cut! Happy Riptide Saturday and let's just roll with it!
How does this affect searching for works in Just Roll With It (Podcast)?
Since the new campaign tags are all subtags of Just Roll With It (Podcast), this means that searching the Just Roll With It (Podcast) fandom will also bring up all Campaign tags underneath it in search. So if you tag only for Just Roll With It: Riptide (Podcast) for example, people searching for works in the Just Roll With It (Podcast) tag will still be able to find your works!
Does this mean that works tagged with multiple JRWI fandoms count as Crossovers?
Nope! With how subtagging fandoms works, this means that tagging for Just Roll With It (Podcast) and a campaign fandom tag, or even multiple of the JRWI fandom tags together will not count as a crossover for the purposes of the Include/Exclude Crossovers search function. This is pretty much the same as how it functioned before as one fandom. However, you can now also exclude specific campaigns in the fandom field if you'd like.
Will the new tags get added automatically to my works?
These changes only affect works that tag for campaigns in the fandom field. If you'd like your works to be tagged with one of these new fandom tags, you'll have to add or update the fandom tags on your works yourself. If you have a lot of works to edit like this, go to My Works > Edit Works, select all the works you want to add tags to, and then clicking "Edit" will let you add tags to multiple works at once.
I tagged my works with the Campaign additional tags. Does that get affected by this?
Since tags cannot be made synonyms across categories, the previous campaign additional tags will be remaining as a legacy format. Whether a work has used the campaign additional tags won't affect whether they show up in the new fandom tags filters, and vice versa. You are welcome to continue using those additional tags in addition to tagging your works with new fandoms, instead of retagging your works as you like, or remove them entirely as suits your preferences.
(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)
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