#flyingmousetrapcircus

[yamino]

Hi yamino! I fell way behind in Sister Claire a while back when I was having a depressive episode and found it really hard to read anything, I think it's about time now to jump back in (I've really missed it!) but I'm not sure whether to try and catch us with the comic and the missing moments together (as I know they link up reveals sometimes) or to catch up with them separately, and then if it should be the comic or the writing first? Like from your pov which makes more sense?

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a hard time, I hope things are improving for you or will very soon. <3

I think it might be best to catch up on the comic first, and then go back and read an MMs you missed.  It’s true that we try to time the comic pages and MMs to come out in a synchronized way to really complement each other, but reading the MMs after will still fill in a lot of interesting and juicy details we don’t get a chance to explore in the comic.

I hope you enjoy it! :)

[h0lyhandgrenade]

🍎I have no entire about your anything except when Atticus gave Dragonthing a curly wirly in Mokepon I realised you were British.

My gender is essentially British I can’t argue with that.

[nightclimes]

i've never seen either breaking dawn movie so: what the flying fuck are the tags on that post

ok are you ready for this, because to answer the question about the movie plot twist that completely shook me, we need Context. (also this is releasing my inner, secret twihard i’m sorry)

so when breaking dawn (the book) was released it was lacking something very fundamental for a movie adaptation: conflict. (or. well. visual conflict.) sure, there is conflict; but the second half (third?) of the book lacks it entirely, to the point where a big group of Good vampires band together (Cullens and friends) in a field opposite a group of Bad vampires (the Volturi, a group of italian vampires who don’t really want to be there anyway but their leader has an agenda because he likes Edward’s mind reading powers and another Cullen’s clairvoyance powers and wants them both in his coven) and they talk out their new Problem (the vampire human baby) by presenting evidence that the Problem (the vampire human baby) is not actually a problem because this isn’t the first vampire human baby in history, there is one that is several hundred years old and stopped aging in his late teens, and the vampire human baby will not reveal their society because the other one integrated a long time ago. thus there is no fight, and everyone goes their separate ways and goes home. 

this is a bad summary because the Cullens over-prepare for this by essentially creating their own army of witness vampires in case things get ugly and Bella (our protagonist) develops her mental shield ability so she can protect everyone from the Volturi vampire who likes to make everyone hallucinate that they too, are burning at the stake, like she did. ANYWAY the point is this is the big conflict scene and the characters manage to diffuse this extremely well, imo, it’s rare to see conflicts that are diffused sans a fight and so soundly to the point where the Volturi have no choice but to leave. 

but whilst it worked in a book, it wasn’t going to work for a movie, and it especially wasn’t going to work when breaking dawn became part 1 and part 2.

part 1 has a perfect three event structure - Bella and Edward’s wedding, Bella and Edward’s honeymoon, and Bella’s pregnancy with the vampire human baby that pretty much everyone else doesn’t want her to keep. (as bad as that sounds breaking dawn part 1 is actually a really well filmed movie and it’s one of my faves even as a standalone i’d recommend it to anyone if it wasn’t twilight lmao.) the movie ends with her becoming a vampire and the birth of a vampire human baby.

part 2 is about Bella getting used to being a vampire and the Problem of the vampire human baby. the clairvoyant Cullen, Alice, sees the Volturi coming to town to get rid of her because they a) want to check if Bella is a vampire and b) what the fuck is this vampire human baby. they gather their witnesses, they band together with their neighbouring shape-shifting wolves (because Jacob, our wolf protagonist, imprinted on the baby), they wait (listen they’re immortals the Volturi don’t have to be punctual) and then we’re back to the start of this post where everyone is in this field and a fight doesn’t happen.

how does a film sell if it doesn’t have a fight scene at its climax? - hollywood, probably, and so the movie invents a fight scene in the form of another of alice’s visions. the entire fight scene is a “possible future”, that the audience only finds out is a possible future after the fight ends with the leader of the volturi being destroyed. there are no effects, there are no changes to filming style, there are no clues to this being a vision if you did not know otherwise. you believe this is happening. this fight scene begins with the beheading of Carlisle, the Cullen dad, who did no wrong and no harm to anyone ever and just wanted to be a doctor, and fucking escalates to the death of two other Cullen’s, multiple good and bad vampires, multiple wolves (including Leah, the Only Female wolf and Seth who is the purest, best wolf) and it JUST KEEPS GOING FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES, there is no getting off this train, this scene had literally become “fuck it rocks fall and everyone dies”, literally. i wanted to leave. most of the audience in my cinema screen wanted to leave. we were yelling “WHAT???” at the screen because what the fuck. and then after this vision ends, the film very deliberately shows you angles of everyone that fucking died and that they’re alive now and my heart was pounding because what the fuck i just saw all my faves die, there is a literal alternative universe out there where that fight happened. Mouse and I were truly Shook and we both discuss this on a regular basis. 

and no one expected this “lol fake fight it was a vision all along guys!” happening because it’s very Firmly Established In Canon that our clairvoyant vampire, alice, cannot see anything she has not been, i.e. the wolves and the vampire baby (half the problem with bella’s pregnancy was that alice could not see her future) so this scene is actually impossible in the confines of even the movie’s canon, but lol we needed a fight scene, alice your visions are now convenient in order for us to throw that in.

and that is the story of the movie plot twist that took ten years off my life.

[h0lyhandgrenade]

I was so hoping you'd get some detriot stuff together for Manchester mcm! I've had my overwatch and star wars badges of yours from last year slowly fall off my bag or get water damaged as the year went on, and was really excited to get some fresh ones and Detriot too!!

Thanks, I feel justified in my decision now as I’d been wondering if making Detroit merch was a good idea xD I’d have loved to make a poster too but the inspiration didn’t strike, and considering how those boys aren’t easy to draw I’d hafta come up with a REAL good idea (or something I at least consider to be a good idea) in order to push myself to work on it. So we’ve got badges and postcards. 

I won’t have the Star Wars badges with me, but they’re on my online store. The Overwatch badges will be coming with me to MCM though, they follow me everywhere xD

[nightclimes]

“i don’t need seven inquisitors”

“i don’t need six wardens”

the keep says otherwise

[jet-kun]

because i forgot to answer this one

flyingmousetrapcircus 

Permanent Geranium Lake (favourite type of flower) :  I don’t know anything about flowers. But I’m gonna go with like daisies or daffodils or something that sounds kinda pathetic and common. Because when I think about flowers like that, I imagine a really well intentioned guy who doesn’t know anything about flowers buying some for a girl that he really loves. Not necessarily like in a sexual way or anything, I mean it could be for a date but it could also be a guy buying flowers for his mother or his sister or a friend in the hospital or something. The flowers are all kind of wilted and sad looking, and he is too. But he really really loves this girl, so he put on his old ill-fitting suit he wore to his uncle’s wedding years ago, bought some flowers (daisies or daffodils or whatever) from the guy outside the train station, got a haircut for the first time in months, and wore that one cologne he owns. By the time he gives her the flowers, they’re coming out of wrapping paper, everything is soaking wet because it rained on the way, and some of the flowers have lost petals because he bumped into a much larger guy on the tube. He greats her with a nervous smile and an “umm hi” and he hands her the flowers, barely looking her in the eyes the whole time. She smiles back warmly and gives him a big hug; a big, long hug. Because she knows he thinks all this is stupid - it is - but he tried, because he really loves her. And she really loves him, too. 

[jet-kun]

Name: Charley. Age: 22. Meaning behind tumblr url: Literally none Favorite anime/character: You. Why I follow you: You are my favourite anime charater. Random fact about me: Me and my favourite anime character have the same birthday Question for you: When will my fave anime ever update again?

*stoic anime dude voice* “hm.”