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[puppyloveandpredators]

Ladies and gentlemen... her

[prometheus-rewound]

No matter how good each Knives Out movie is, I will ALWAYS love the format of an anthology series with a single continuous character. It’s literally the OG Sherlock Holmes format. I go apeshit everytime for it. It’s basically a serialized movie franchise.

Like it’s literally just so fun. And each Knives out film has 100% been fun, regardless of any other criticisms I may have for them.

[qintten]

there's something rly special about tartarus and his mc in the catch 22 universe (╥ᆺ╥;) i like how the first time sylus saw us, we're not a hunter or anything like that. we were just someone who needed help. not even in a damsel in distress kind of way. we were literally dirty and crawling on the ground and just desperate to live (｡>﹏<) but he still took us with him and made us stronger and we survived

[quick-drawl-mcgrawl]

a goofy sketch

nothing fancy, just reminds me I'm am to be "productive" on my days off. Perhaps I'll come back and do a full version.

It is also alarmingly blatant that I do not know how to draw hands 😞

@eriscary thank you as always for the inspiration to draw with your awesome character, au, and comic. Edit: you know, I keep forgetting we're mutuals on here 💀 I was sitting here like "oh wouldn't it be cool if-" and then I saw. *Melts*

[besitoalasflores]

listen the gerard emetophilia thing was fun but there’s people genuinely saying 40 year old frank iero named the 10 year anniversary version of his album stomachaches-XnauseousX IN REFERENCE to the USERNAME gerard used IN THE YEAR NINETEEN NINETY EIGHT on VOMIT PORN FORUMS!!!!!!!!!!?????????. so my question is Do You Guys Hear Yourselves

[sattbowie]

Eretlout's eldest daughter (one of my Eretlout fankids)

Ellenlout is the protected little daughter of Snotlout and Eret (Especially Eret, he loves his little girl)

Ellen inherited the strong personalities of both her parents, so she's quite... annoying sometimes... like, really annoying

At first, Snotlout wasn't very excited about having a daughter, but that was because of his own fear of becoming a terrible father like Spitelout. When they found out about the pregnancy, Snotlout freaked out, afraid of being like his father. He didn't feel ready for it and was very insecure about Eret reacting badly to the news about having a baby. But Eret's reaction was one of pure joy. A family with the love of his life was everything he had ever dreamed of having. Eret's positive reaction was the last thing Snotlout expected.

Until Ellen's birth, Snotlout was still very afraid of becoming like Spitelout, but as soon as he saw his daughter's little smile, her smile recognizing him as family, his thoughts changed. He would be the best father in the world to his little girl, and she would be the happiest girl on Berk. He would give her the childhood he never had, filled with care, love, and protection.

Eret was truly overjoyed with the news of his daughter; he let all of Berk know that he and Snotlout would have a daughter (a loving husband, and an even more loving father) Eret did everything to show Snotlout that he is not Spitelout and that he will never be like him. Eret also has insecurities about raising Ellenlout; his past sometimes haunts him. He was also afraid of not being truly good, even though he had been forgiven by everyone, especially Snotlout. Sometimes Eret still wondered if he deserved to be forgiven for the things he had done, if his daughter would love him if she knew the things he had done before. But obviously, Snotlout also helped him with his insecurities. Of course, he wasn't as careful as it would have been if other riders had done it, but it was in Snotlout's way of saying that Eret would be an incredible father.

about her name, The idea came from Snotlout; the first option was Snotface, but Eret refused to let his daughter have that name. So that everyone would have something in common with his daughter's name, Eret asked to name her "daughter of Eret."

[gabrielurbinatm]

What is the worst way you’ve ever seen someone misinterpret a piece of fiction that you produced?

Hah! You know... honestly it happens very rarely. Like... I think most of the readings/theories about my shows that bubble up to me are one of

A. A correct reading of the text/a good anticipation of what's coming, which is always nice.

B. Something that is... slightly to the left of what we're doing, but is still really interesting and in good conversation with the show. (And a lot of the time, most of what falls into this category is something we talked about doing and then discarded along the way.)

Or C. Something that is probably not in line with the canon but is, for lack of a better term, totally fucking rad? Like, if somebody writes a long post explaining why Isabel Lovelace is for sure in a drag street racing gang back on Earth... whether that aligns with my understanding of the character of not, that is objectively totally fucking awesome.

Most of what gets to me is in one of those categories. A is great because it makes you feel like people got what you were going for, so hell yeah. B is great because it validates the larger ideas around the shows, so hell yeah. And C is great because people are taking the characters past the point where you left them and making them their own, which hell fucking yeah.

Truly unhinged takes that are, like, fighting to swim against the information current of the show are very rare. Like, practically no one is ever like, "Wolf 359 is a story about the virtues of maximal capitalism!" (It's not.) Or "Time:Bombs is all about how effective traditional masculinity is!" (It's not.) No one thinks that Marcus Cutter was justified in what he was saying, that Harry Winter was invalid for feeling the way she did, that Faith Adler was a treatise on the dangers of falling in love, or that my version of Mina Harker needed to just shut up and get back in the kitchen. Simply put, I think most fiction podcast listeners have enough media literacy to pick up a lot of what I'm putting down without twisting it into a totally deranged take. (And again, most of the deranged takes I do see fall into category C, being both harmless and awesome.)

If I had to say something... I will admit to a certain degree of... puzzlement when people talk about my shows as a source of escape? Because... maybe they are, in the sense that you get to go into a fictional world and spend time with characters that are very separate from your real life, usually with at least one vampire, magic spell, space station, or Radio Bob Special thrown into the mix for good measure. But they always feel like they're reflecting and refracting the real problems, issues, fears, traumas, and violences that we deal with in the real world. Humans are always humans, and whether we get magic or travel 8 light years away from Earth, we'll always bring our shit with us wherever we go, and that collision of fantastic setting with real problems is where a lot of the drama I find fascinating to write, to direct, and to produce lives. So yeah, the reading of my writing as escapist always raises my eyebrows a bit. But I suppose if it works for people, who am I to say it's wrong!