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[rwbyrg]

My favorite thing about RG is how naturally they fit together. Like, they feel like they belong together without them being literally made for each other. They each have their own rich stories going on, but they especially enrich one another with their parallels, themes, and the ways that they are able to reach one another in ways that few other characters do.

I’m late to answering and posting these but sooooo true. One thing RWBY ships do really well imo is how they compliment each other. From the designs and colours, to allusions and parallels, to the themes and character arcs. RG especially has got it all. I’ll never be over any of them, but especially how they support each other in ways they just can’t seem to get from other characters. Oscar being the first person to actually help her carry her grief, while Ruby has consistently been the one to see Oscar as his own person. Those are the roots of both their arcs and they’re all tangled up in each other!! What in the soulmates nonsense is that!!

[rainbowsconnect]

Kermit/Piggy for the ship meme.

The Girl Boss/Male Wife ship of all time. I love them forever. There is a reason they have endured decades of pop culture and Will They/Won't They: they are ultimately funny and sweet together. You as the audience want to see them keep being funny but still figure it out. It seems like they're opposites (simple guy and diva) but they both share the same dream of making people happy. They should get to share it together. 💖💚

...Still. I wish they would just try to keep their relationship funny while they're still together one of these days. Miss Piggy being just mean to him and Kermit fat shaming her in return is so old and boring. Audiences in the 2020s are over that part of their dynamic. I think there is untapped potential of them simply being together and watching the chaos unfold from there.

[raayllum]

13 for the meme.

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13. worst blorboficiation

So blorboficiation seems to be when you have a very character and you talk about them a lot with an extremely positive slant. And every character in TDP has both good and bad sides to them. However taking this under the realm of focusing Only on a character's positive traits or, perhaps what I've called "de-clawing" in the past, actually ignoring their negative traits

Pre-S3 I probably would've said Soren or Claudia (people were way too easy on both of them in S1 imo) but nowadays pretty consistently I think it's probably Callum and Ezran

For Ezran, I think people sometimes look at his massive capacity for forgiveness and compassion and strip him of like, an ability to be messy and angry and hard to understand (which he is, at least decently often, in canon)! He had a harsher reaction to finding out about Harrow's death in S2 than his brother did, he's very good at holding people accountable, and he's not always the best at communicating (Autistic Ezran headcanons my beloved). He's not kind just because he's a kid and he's smarter / often times the most level headed than people give him credit for, but he can Also be stubborn, simultaneously a bit of a pushover, and very presumptive (re: analysis post here) and I think that's important to acknowledge. Let Ezran be messy, selfish, etc. He has flaws and complexities. Write it in fanon, too, please

As for Callum -- woof. Either people make him a total chad because they're butt-hurt over being called a nerd when they were 15 while also treating Callum like a white guy, and never bringing up the fact it's subversive for Callum to be what he is - both very emotionally sensitive and expressive and becoming a powerful, fearsome mage - is precisely because he's not white.

But more often I see people remove his anger and selfishness and tunnel vision. Callum is skeptical and selective and often times quite dismissive/insensitive. He uses his memory/attention to detail to go for the jugular in fights. He has very little problem bending his morals and has a strong self-preservation streak when it comes to actually risking himself (i.e. the one - 1 - time in show he's risked himself with no hope of survival was when he was going to die because of Sol Regem, and Rayla talked him out of that just by saying "Calm down".) He is sacrificial but he also argues regularly for his life - just look at his first convo with Rayla - and that gets overlooked so often, or he's made into a completely unreasonable asshole bc men being '''intimidating'''' is a Flex, i suppose? 🙄

TLDR; people woobify Ezran out of disinterest and to ignore his interiority, people either woobify Callum to smooth over plot elements or Chad him up (mostly the fandom troll and their associates) without understanding what his 'negative' qualities actually are and where they come from, and it's Wild

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

Another great thing about Aang is that he has such varied and interesting dynamics with every character he meets, so exploring his relationships with everyone is very rich and fulfilling!

YES!!! and specifically because of aang's role as both the last airbender and the avatar, as someone brings hope and mediation, as a person who shoulders the world's grief yet still extends a hand of forgiveness to those who've wronged him, it also allows for incredibly compelling examinations of potential development/interactions with aang, from expanding minor relationships like aang&teo to building relationships from almost naught, like aang&mai

[askthelightnerds]

Noelle, what's your favorite memory of Susie?

N: Gosh, it’s hard to pick… can I just tell my first memory of her, instead?

S: Aw, man, not the pencil story again.

N: That’s when we met, not my first memory of you!

N: My family went down to the lake one summer to have a picnic— it was dad’s idea! We even got mom to come. They were setting up a blanket by the lakeshore when I saw someone in the trees, hunched over. I wanted to know what she was doing, so I went over a little closer… It was you, Susie! And you’d picked up one of these huge white mushrooms from the ground and you were just tearing into it. It looked so good! But I stepped on a leaf, and you just about jumped out of your skin and ran away, with a bunch of the mushrooms in your arms…

N: You’d made it look so good, so I tried one, but it tasted like foam rubber! It was awful! I guess I started crying or something, because Dad came over and hugged me, and he cut one in half and said it was a giant puffball mushroom. Mom was really mad, because apparently there’s other mushrooms that look a lot like them that are really poisonous, but dad said it was all okay, and he started singing this song— eighteen pounds of edible fungus, in the wilderness a-growing, saved the settlers from starvation, helped the foundation of our nation! And it made me laugh, and everything was okay.

N: He cut them into slabs and fried them with butter on the little public grill by the lake, and they were so good! And I couldn’t help thinking about you, Susie, even though I didn’t know who you were, and how you obviously loved them so much raw that I could only imagine how much you’d love them cooked. But I didn’t see you again until I started school the next fall, and I didn’t know how to introduce myself or if you’d remember me, so I just offered you that pencil, and… you know the rest.

S: …

S: YOU’RE THE ONE THAT STARTLED THE CRAP OUTTA ME WHILE I WAS PICKING SQUEAKERS?!

N: Fahahahaha!

[thethiefandtheairbender]

I am becoming curious about Spider Riders. Where would one go to watch it?

at last, my agenda is being completed. i want as people as possible to watch this old 2006 canadian anime, it's so much better than it has any right to be and has some very lovable characters and interesting concepts (and worldbuilding just in General, somehow)

you can watch spider riders here! i found the first two episodes to be pretty lacklustre, but like, from the third episode onwards literally every episode is better than the last, basically, so by the time you're at the series finale you are Losing your mind.

for ex: i thought the fourth episode was going to be a standard “wander into town, defend it from villains” type of thing, a la “warriors of kyoshi” from ATLA or even something from she-ra. it was not and i was delighted. i don’t know why they went so hard on the worldbuilding. i really don’t but i love it so much

the site does have a tiny mixup, though. near the end of s1, they have "big bug" and then "action in arachna" when the order should be reversed, so "action in arachna" comes first.

if you do watch it please let me know because it is such a surprisingly solid show and it really deserves so much more appreciation

[kabutoraiger]

If you want to watch Yugioh again, I would recommend going with either Arc-V or Sevens. Arc-V is the anniversary series that makes references and allusions to the other shows but doesn't require any knowledge of what happened in those other shows. Sevens is just straight up zany goofy fun that would not be out of place in an episode of Zenkaiger.

through the combined yugioh opinions of you smart folks perhaps i may embark on this journey someday soon....

[fantasyforbeginners]

I am currently about 8000 words into the second draft of a fantasy novel that I started work on in 2021's NaNoWriMo and things are going pretty smoothly. Its a story about a thief trying to steal the secret to Xenthos, the drug that allows people to become wizards, so that everyone can have access to magic and not just be hoarded by the ruling elite. What would be a good place to go look for beta readers?

I was recently struggling over this myself, so here are some options.

https://www.womensfictionwriters.org/mentorship-program with applications opening March 1 - May 30 (for women only, though, I'm afab nonbinary so I plan to apply, but the relationship to gender and how that would feel is different for everybody so it may not apply)

https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/mentorship_program_overview with applications opening March 15 – April 15

I've also heard of Reedsy but I can't personally verify. There are a lot of beta readers in twitter (#amwriting, #writingcommunity, for ex) and reddit critique circles, so you may be able to find something there or on other critique sites (there are tons running around)

Some freelancers (like me) offer paid beta reading as well, so if you're willing to pay, there may be more luck and options out there. A pretty standard price is 0.02-0.05 cents per word. Writing courses can be great as well, if you want something more broad, but most feedback circles there aren't 1) tailored very well for long form projects, in my experience and 2) work even less well for fantasy or sci fi.

Hope this helps! I'm revising my third draft rn so I know how you feel to be in the editing trenches!