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re: ronan writing

since we are here for that anyway like i think (maybe i am too radical about this however-) big mama making ronan eventually more of a plot device than his own thing is ironical in overview of the whole character. this niall lynch move- but also it is so disheartening. like what is the final lesson. because i felt like ronan didn't really move past many of his traumas and didn't change much in the very end of the whole books? idk. maybe just me. i am too sensitive when the topic is ronan lynch.

okay. no you're not too sensitive. and i kept this off of twitter main because all i've seen is a lot of praise for the short story and ronan's characterization in it, and while i would never dream of denying someone their adoration of a story (and i, myself, have been known to enjoy many things my instincts say i should not) i have a great deal of contention with how ronan is being written nowadays (often at the detriment to the characters around him who now ring hollow and underwritten) and i think you nailed my first issue on the head. *bonk* brilliant.

so, i recorded a long ass rambling voice note before tumblr wouldn't let me upload it because it is twenty minutes long and that's how many issues i have with this short story and the way ronan has been handled. because ofc, and i want this disclaimer made clear i do not blame maggie for not wanting to be involved with trc fans, not really. i don't blame her for wanting to write more ronan. i do not think there's anything wrong with writing a character you enjoy, but the ronan we are presented is a very hollow ronan and one who has been contorted and pushed to further a feeble plot. and it serves my question of why did it need to be just ronan??? why is it a continued dismissal of any character besides ronan from the narrative, when her other characters are the reason we grew so attached?

warning (for any passerby) that the below is very critical of the substack short story. i am not putting this in the main tags, do not read this if you're going to get angry or are unable to engage critically. i do not dislike the story but instead am critical of its purpose and sole focus of ronan as a protagonist over the original ensemble which made the story feel as rich as it does. i am critical of the use of ronan as plot device and the erasure of other characters so this can continue to be about ronan lynch who i feel fits rather clumsily within a mature development which has not been earned.

#i sense a lot of fatigue with the trc universe on her end and it fizzles throughout even the gn and this short story #i'm not putting this in the main tags.#i'm worried i'm too harsh on it #it is very well written and i do not even hate it #i just resent that this is a ronan story when it doesn't need to be about ronan #and it feels as you said a bit ironic to be treating ronan as a tool #i will however defend mstief down. i would love to see this interpreted as another story.#c.ask #lie tag

@prlssprfctn i had to split this into two ofc. i almost just posted this on my bsd account but ah this is funnier.

here's my notes/criteria:

chuuya was the first i placed. obviously. who else. talks shit and hits as hard as he says he is the hulk and wonder woman of bsd. my man my man my man god of calamity indeEEDDD

ranpo is exactly who he says he is i'd argue his bark is on the lower end of the scale but still he said "i'm the greatest detective" and he is the greatest detective i'm biased bc he's my second favourite

fitgerald was all "wah wah" i have money okay and you got beat up by two fucking nineteen year olds having a slap fight

kenji CATASTROPHIC BITE and no bark (except he probably suggests cannabilism first in a plane crash scenario)

"dazai is big scary caden wdym he's small bark weak bite double black" double black double shmlack dazai is like ninety pounds soaking wet malnourished going "chuuuyaaaa CHUYYYYAAA" eating canned fucking fish and asking kunikida to wrap hands around his pretty pretty neck. besides that, dazai isn't a character who really needs to bite imo he spends half the series ass up in a gas canister

oda is dead

kunikida <333 my beautiful man <33333

i'm biased. yosano is exactly who she thinks she is

sigma is literally like a few months old its not his fault

poe gets a one up SOLELY bc he kept chuuya out of commission in that fucking book for over a fucking year

okay that's what i got for the time being this is open for editing later

#bungou stray dogs #ask game #lie tag

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#ok so fuck you i started crying #c.ask #which is so dumb bc this is a fucking pride and prejudice meme lmao?!?!?!!#lie tag

asking about the great impersonator because i LOVE this album and i would love to hear your thoughtsss

the great impersonator is one of the most uncomfortable physical experiences i've had in my life, and i say this with the uptmost praise. this album came out at a low, low, low, point in my life and i remember listening to life of the spider in my bathtub for the first time at three in the morning bawling my eyes out. but its not just that, its the brutal and cutting detail. it's the woven existentialism: that constant thread i am alive, what does it mean to be alive, i do not wish i was alive, i prayed i would die now i am feeling life slip away and i wish i could take it back but you can't, you can't, fate has come to collect; it's the guilt of a suicidal teen growing to sick adult and realizing your prayers were answered too late (please god, i wanna be sick/please god i don't wanna be sick/[please god you've gotta be sick) and realizing you finally have someone who loves you enough to miss you, to lose you, to mourn you. it's the recognition that this is where life really can stop, and why now? it's the acceptance, its the weary. it's i'm one hundred ninety six in dog years. i have seen it all. my dog died last year/he fell asleep in my embrace/the very last thing i told him was "see you soon."

its the rounded theme of i do not know who i am i form a new identity every day i make myself anew (i wake up everyday and wish that i was different, i look around and its just me -> in a coma i can't defrost her, can't you see that im an imposter -> hope they spell my name right in the paper, in here lies the great impersonator -> i will nurse my wounds until another artist needs me new.)

and i could go on. the themes of motherhood, how she looks at the relationship and rivalry built with a mother to win favour with a man who'd never really stay, how they recognize their mother anew now that they are a mother. i could go on about hometown, and the undercurrent of i did not think i'd make it past twenty seven, i did, i did not have time to celebrate, the universe is a sick fucking joke.

#if someone told me 'your human starter kit came incompete' i'd never recover <33333 #i'm so sorry i am listening to darwinism on a loop tonight i love this album so fucking much #its so precious to me god i hope she knows this album changed lives (mine)#halsey #music #c.ask #lie tag

hi. just wanted to say that ily and miss seeing you more often around, hope you are resting and your health is doing better 🫵🏻

hiiii! hiiiii! helloooo!

i just got off of winter break, where i took a very nice and cozy break from social media at large and hunkered down and and wrote and spent time with my dad. very lovely little times! i am mostly rested, my health is significantly improved! omg! i'm back at school and ready to rumbbblllle. it's so good to see/hear from you ahhhhh. how are you??? are you good?

i am at liberty to share some snowy hiking photos for the masses (i am in five jackets there ignore my alarmed look i was caught off guard)

#back at school officially switched my major environ. science with minors in biology and genetics #whoop whoop #anyway i missed you im glad to be back on the interwebs #i needed time offfffff #c.ask #lie tag

how a one gets in shuake... what games do i need to play... i am surviving the end of the semester soon and i might have time to check it out but there are so many (?) games idk where to start

also it is just 00:32 for me dw 🙏🏻

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD SHUAKE PLEASE OH MY GOD.

The cool thing about shuake is you literally just need to play Persona 5: Royal or watch a stream of the game. Akechi shows up by the third palace, but he is! OH MY GOD. ONE SECOND.

So first, make sure it's ABSOLUTELY Persona 5: Royal not the standard, bc the standard doesn't have the extended content and the extended content is where akechi really thrives as a character. (Akechi is like if you took the worst pieces of Adam Parrish and whittled them to a Light Yagami cringefail mold and gave them Megumi Fushiguro's voice actor). akechi is such a fucking loser ("NONE OF THESE PEOPLE KNOW I WAS AN UNDESIRABLE CHILD") AND HE HAS ✨️mommy issues✨️ and I love him.

shuake is just the mc of persona 5 x akechi, and really *i* think you can play p5 without playing any other persona game. its the most mainstream and the easiest to jump blind into, imo.

persona 5 is really succinctly a group of teenagers who revolt against corrupt adults, unmask injustice, and navigate the possibly limiting parameters of Japan's societal norm. they break into the metaverse to break into these "palaces" of a corrupt individuals distorted desire and reality to steal their "treasures" to implore their targets to confess their crimes. whooooo. it's sexy, its jazzy, its got FLAIR and an undeniable homoeroticism. no one has a good relationship with their father. except for the ones with dead fathers. its insane I love it sm. and I could go on a whole rant about the way it tackles social order and what it means to be an individual in a heavily structured society that values compliance and cohesion but also your best friend is a talking cat and somehow the plot twist is pancakes.

pls play persona 5 ill fly to your location and kiss you direct on the fucking mouth. akechi goro is a fucking legend, this diva.

shuake is a very lawlight dynamic which i use to sell the story but where lawlight is like tragic in how it is inevitably never going to work nor is it actually given much plausibility beyond medium-typical queerbaiting, shuake is really settled in a world where redemption is deemed possible and something we can see this character begin to achieve. like the extended content in royal is literally just "hey shuake are boning but we cant show it onscreen btw but his biggest desire is to spend his days with you" like okay. but also akechi genuinely sucks (with the knowledge he's a teenager influenced heavily by the abusive adults taking advantage of an isolated and depressed teenager who probably has what bpd but im getting off track). also [redacted] and [redacted] ill chew my fist off this is my second favourite ship of all time they murder each other as foreplay pls play persona five its like teen drama meets life sim meets psychological thriller meets your least favourite philosophy class meets pokemon

#also not that it matters but i also lived in my boss's attic for a year in a big city im literally ren (the mc)#I SCREAMED WHEN I SAW THIS #persona 5 #c.ask #lie tag

yo what the fuck is mephistopheles i don't even know that word

(for wip tag game btw)

hi i adore you ty for asking i veq nredn

my wip list rahhh

mephistopheles is a demon featured in folklore and literature; typically a symbol of evil and temptation, "representing the forces that lead people to make morally questionale decisions or to lose themselves in the pursuit of earthly happiness." it's a working title. for the sake of this wip i wanted something associated with trickery and manipulation with undertones of deviant behavior? i have been. so excited aout this fic, actually. i've been working on it for about three months now? i started it around kinktober. psychological horror-esque, second person. the appeal of this fic is getting to push some of my personal limits and force myself out a comfort zone. i'm actually so embarrassed posting about this bc i haven't really talked about it much.

synopsis, so far, pretty simple. i wanted to play with clone fucking. it derailed. here's a snippet:

What are you supposed to do? You claw yourself to consciousness in happenstance— or, no, wait, you’re brought to present. Claws aren’t yours, but you’re being shred all the same. Skin, scraped, clutched, peeled off vein. Blood vessel, burst. You’re being torn, head to toe. Then, amnesty. This, you think, is some sort of salvation, and you emerge on the other side, curled fetal and protected. Everything: safe, warm, warm warm warm. Blanket, you think, though you struggle in half marks to put name to material. Sharp, your recollection of knowledge: you’ve come stockpiled with intellect unsuited to your years. Your minutes, you consider, and that’s a spiral to crisis, though you’re unsure if the crisis is even your own, or that application is also applied against your will. What am I, what is this, where am I, what if what if what do we do are we fucked I fucked up I fucked up I fucked up call Hennessy call Declan call someone call Adam what do I do what did I do fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck And you’re irritated, now, with the commentary. So you sit up and clasp hands over either ear, hiss and wince and its a juvenile outrage. You kick legs, and slap your head, but that refrain keeps up, fuck fuck fuck fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck– This next part— integral. You blink, up, examine, and this is coming home. This is RonanRonanRonan, and its familiarity and an old little dream. Perilous, the place you’ve been plucked from. But Ronan is a little spot of warmth, something resembling hands on ribs, on hips, lips on hands; the familiar tread of fingers over nose bridge, over back, over thighs and torso and… your fingers twitch, to reach up, even as he stares down at you, immeasurable horror flickering over recognition in feature film. “You’re not supposed to…” Ronan clears his throat and you twitch, again, to reach up to him. “You weren't…” But you did. And you open your mouth, to tell him. But it's a silent protest, halfhearted scream. Your vocals, collapsed. That's near unbearable, and you see how Ronan's torn apart in the realization. “Fuck.” He says, or thinks. Thought, filtered through your own. Indistinguishable. Help. Help. What’s happening? “I need to…” Ronan’s expression flickers, moves to neutral ground. Resignation. Moves across the room, does not deign you a glance. Silent migration across antiquated floorboards, crackle, snap, groan, where bare feet thunder, rattle. You watch your hands— calloused, chapped, tinged in flakes of red, pink. Hear phone: in dial. Ronan, Ronan’s dialing, he’s dialing, and the cybernated rattle of a program in distress. No, that’s you, that’s your head. Listen, stop. Pause. No, that’s Ronan. No, it’s the electrical currents. It’s the outlets. No, it’s the phone. Ronan? “Parrish.” That’s me. I’m Parrish. Why are you… Ronan doesn’t leave— but you have, you’re not here. Not to him, so not to you. So you stare at the fissures between planks in wood and wonder what now. “I can’t.” Ronan croaks, throat stripped. And he’s watching you, like you’re an abomination. Like you’re a bug to squash, beneath feet. And he’s already debating where to chuck you in the bin. “Adam, I…” I’m Adam. You’re Adam. Why is he talking to you? Clicking into place, when Ronan faces back to you, rests forehead against the wall. Sighs. Groans. Bumps fist into wall, again and again and againagainagainagainagain– That is Adam. You are Adam. Two things can be true. You are alive. You are a copy. There two things are, also, true. And the way Ronan is looking at you? The way he winces and his brow pinches and he grimaces in distress? They are going to kill you. You want to live. Two things can be true. •••

#ty for asking. i have another snippet but its just blatant smut and i'm not editing that rn #wip #c.writing #c.ask #rae tag #lie tag #cee tag

my sleepy ass saw your tags for the post before the post (that one about hk au) and i saw tag adam (1) gansey (2) and ronan (3) and i was like uh.... aftg au??? why adam is riko. then i scrolled up.

IM CRYING AT THIS OMG. riko!adam PLEASE 😭 STOPPP THATS SOOO FUNNY.

the implications of gansey as kevin and ronan as jean im going to puke.

#now im beginning to question volleyball positions 😭#omggnwjfjwjrjwjdjwkeek #that is. so. unexpectedly funny.#PLEASE #adam as riko is SOOO funny #dont make me crackship bc ACTUALLY #c.ask #lie tag