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[travellingwiththedead]

So is it canon or fanon that Caterina only became First Talon after her husband died (in some way)? Because I see it in fic a lot.

To me it rather felt like she is the one who had been First Talon from the start (taking over from one of her parents maybe). Mostly because her late husband is such a non-entity. Also she is the one who cares so much about keeping the First Talon seat in House Dellamorte. I don't know, but I can't find anything on the wikis.

In my head she's the lady in charge all the way and her husband was also there, until he wasn't.

[suzypfonne]

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[is-on-its-way]

my problem with iwtb... I think?

Okay Im not sure Im eloquent enough to meta my feelings on this topic, I also havent seen enough past season 8s finale to really have perfect opinions on this, but from the clips I see on here and reddit etc. I have issues I need to work out…  

There is something about the characterisation of Mulder in IWTB that really annoys me. And please correct me if Im wrong on his motivations. Usually my protest is the mistreatment of Scully. But in this case I think theres a certain mistreatment of Mulder’s character that really irks the shit out of me. 

Firstly Mulder comes off as Tom Brady in this movie. So single minded and stuck in his ways he couldn’t possibly figure out how to live his life without the one thing that he thinks makes him successful or that he lives for. Two things... its the wrong obsession (more on that in a moment) and this is the opposite of where his character has been hurtling since he met Scully so as written it makes no sense.

The thing mulder was obsessed with and searching for since he was 13 years old was solved. He got his answer when he found out what happened to his sister. He was freed from his lifelong quest. He even was ready to give the agent thing up in the s7 finale, telling Scully the price had been too high and she needed to stop. Meaning he would also be stopping, bc he never wanted to do it without her. Sure he wanted to keep fighting in 8 to protect his baby, but they got rid of the baby atp, so Im not gonna get into that rn.

Turning him into the FBI agent ghost of Tom Brady was… a choice. Throwing away the love of his life, the one who believed him, the one who listened and supported him and loved him back endlessly for what? To help the organisation that tried to murder him? No. I just dont really believe it at all, because it's just not believable. 

Secondly, would he maybe have a midlife crisis? Sure. Would he be lost or depressed? I could absolutely see it, they lost a child found out the aliens were taking over earth. Would Scully commit him rather than leave him alone in that house? For sure. And it would’ve apparently been the culmination of the plot line Morgan and Wong had worked towards since the beginning... 

Realistically, he might've been lost for a while with the end of the quest for his sister. I get it, you work your entire life for something and its always just within reach and when you finally accomplish it, you think well what now? You’d thought, you’d held onto the fact that when you got to the top of the mountain you would feel happy and accomplished and relieved. But when you turn around at the summit from the horizon of the breadth of your work, youre met with yet another peak ahead. Some other goal, some other thing that occupies your mind because thats what your mind is used to.

You’re just going to have a really hard time convincing me for Mulder it was searching for proof of Aliens in random magazines, (when he knows there are aliens and they have invasion plans) instead of preventing the 2012 thing, publishing actual papers under his Luder pseudonym, and making sure Scully knew how much he loved her as his family had never done for him, making sure he made Samantha proud and lived the life she missed once he let her memory rest. 

Thirdly he is intelligent, a psych major with alien superpowers, who graduated from Oxford. Would he be bumbling around making paranormal magazine collages a la Charlie Kelly when he ALREADY knows the endgame? Would he be dealing with random cases and helping the FBI who betrayed him and put him on death row?

Or would he be using Marita Covarrubias and his apparent new power to speak to the dead to try and stop the invasion by any means necessary? Would he be combing over Maritas paperwork, medical records, UN contacts, payment histories to find, like all those bees in Tunisia for example? Would he not be having Scully research this magnetite thing and getting papers written about its properties so that when the hybrids make themselves known there would be literature for people to find? or engineering an anti bee-virus virus? (damn those effing bees btw) Would he not be using every power of his beautiful mind to continue fighting in any way he could, fully of the reservation? 

And could Scully then rightly say don’t bring that darkness into our home? Because my answer would be no. Even if she did go back to being a medical doctor (Im going to ignore the surgeon part because its out of character and would take her redoing residency etc. lets labor under the impression she’s a family doctor or ER doctor). They were right about one thing, the darkness follows them, and would still even if they both stopped looking. Thats the show after all.

Would she maybe have wanted a vacation where he could row her to a deserted island in the adirondacks? Sure. Would she be okay with letting an alien invasion happen in 2012 and saying to Mulder stop fighting? No. When one of them quits the other supports and encourages them back to the mission. Thats the show. If anything Scully having the breakdown about that darkness would’ve made more sense.

Anyway my point being, the transition from Mulder fighting for the big picture to him being a sad shell of himself in his hoarder office, telling Scully they weren't meant to be together is... jarring to say the least, and nonsensical. 😔

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

one of the good things about this semester is I think I finally feel confident enough to write the votdt anaylsis I've been thinking about for the past year or more. It's a comparison between the book and the movie and how the movie absolutely destroyed Lewis' theme in the book. I took notes for it last year when I re read voyage and I think I have an outline for it somewhere and at least two journal entries ranting about it, and I've probably posted about it more than once.

[softer-ua]

Honestly the fact that Deku has been treated so bitterly by life and still has the courage to be open and kind to others is something that’s not praised enough. Even by me.

Look at how many Villain!Deku AU there are and how popular they are, I think we’re fully aware it’d have been so so easy to turn that hurt into begrudgement and grow up resentful and become just as hurtful as those around him.

But he never did! And that’s such an underrated power! The absolute astounding level of resilience Deku continues to show time and time again is really awe inspiring.

Even when Bakugo asks if how he went about admiring AM was wrong Deku says no(dumb fucken answer but okay) like he doesn’t have an ounce of resentment in his body and that’s just astonishing.

There were definitely times were the way Bakugo viewed AM directly translated to his reasoning for treating Deku and others so poorly. It definitely drove Bakugo to be stronger and strive to be the best, but it also festered into something real unhealthy.

Still Deku chooses to see the better half of it. He could easily view Bakugo as a tormentor, and take advantage of his weakened state to air all his own personal grievances and get some revenge.

Instead he sees him as Kacchan, an inspiration who he cares about who’s being tormented himself. He sees him as someone with their own problems, he doesn’t pretend that Katsuki hasn’t done wrong but he sees him as so much more than that.

Hell the fact that he’s not even remotely bitter about the fact that just when he thought he’d get his dream come true the quirk he has obliterates his body so his arms just become squishy bags of bone dust, I’d have walked the fuck out like sorry AM but fuck this.

Seriously there is a very real correlation between mental strength/health and being able to cry when you need to and being able to adequately emphasize with others.

Two things Deku undeniably excels at, both of which will lead to him dealing with the realities of being a hero so much better. There’s going to be loss in this line of work and being able to work through that hurt instead of against it is going to allow for much happier and healthier life in the field than a lot of other pros are going to experience, and he’s transferring that skill to the rest of his class. And it just beautiful. Like ya they’re a mess right now but they’re still learning, by the time they’re pros they’re going to be some of the only mentally stable ones out there.

ALSO SHOUT OUT TO MY BOYS SHOTO AND IIDA WHO REAFFIRMED AND VALIDATED DEKUS FEELINGS AND TEARS, SOME SOME SERIOUS STAR MVP ENERGY

SUCH GOOD BOYS LEARNING FROM ANOTHER GOOD BOY AND HELPING HIM STAY ON THE GOOD BOY PATH, JUST A GROUP OF BEST BOYS 😭💞💞💞

[sakuwritestkafics]

How Extra Can One Be

I’ve been working on a fic idea for over half a year now, and I’m still too afraid to finish writing the first chapter, even if I have already planned out everything I promised I would do. This is the longest I have worked on a fic without publishing a chapter of it.  Steal From Yu (as the series name has came to be) is an ABO verse with demi-human concept added to it. It contains multiple pairings but the main plot mover is the constant rivalry(?) between Ye Xiu and Yu Wenzhou - for reasons that will be revealed on the story.  This time around I’ve been working on Tiger Clan, finishing up their profiles and ages. Tigers come in different breed and especially White Tigers are a special class. Now, I have only 1 White Tiger in the series (at least from the canon TKA characters) but I spent at least a month trying to figure out their class and special characteristics. They are also heavily religion based, which meant I had to think gods and deities for Tiger Clan.

This all, just for that 1 character. 

[pixyrevenge]

Maybe I’m thinking too hard, but since the prophecy goes:

“a child of the eldest gods shall reach 16 against all odds”

Why would the immediate urge be to make it the odds harder for one of their kids to reach 16? First they basically lower the odds of the kid existing in the first place, and then they give themselves an incentive to hide any that are born, in case they get hunted down for existing.

The way I see it, if they’re trying to avoid the prophecy, they should make it super easy for their kids to hit 16. If they don’t face “odds” then they can’t be the prophecy child right?

[aglaecan]

so i have two muses who die in their respective canons. and it’s interesting to me how differently i feel about telling stories about them, and their deaths and lives...

for caranthir, i have no interest in ever writing a verse where he doesn’t die in the second kinslaying. his entire story arc is one aimed and pointed directly at that doom, or Doom, as the case may be. (stares at mandos for a long, long time....) it’s a story of choices taken one at a time and of narrowing paths and of inevitability, and the weight of it. of a geas, or an Oath, which can only ever have one outcome. and how he feels about it, and how he goes on with it anyway, and cannot allow himself remorse or regret or a dream of another life -- that is the story i want to tell, and to inhabit in his threads. (i do have some reborn verses for ease of interaction but. he will always have died.)

but with renfri basically the first thing plotted was a verse where geralt (as portrayed by @cigydd ) saves her in the end. he nearly kills her, she’s bleeding on the stones, but he carries her supposed ‘corpse’ away to save her life. and the story i’m interested in here is how she feels about surviving, yet again. and being stripped of the place of strength she’d built for herself, yet again. and how she feels about the man who saved her this time instead of breaking her further, or did he save her, or did he break her? it’s a story about choices opening back up, instead of narrowing. of new paths and new lives, free of all the things which had entangled and trapped her... but never free of herself.