#poor bastards

[floorboardghost]

Doodles of my older chuck + his mikey (they drive me nuts)

[churchofpossum]

More of them.

[honourablejester]

... The fuck?

Sorry. My Advent gift, on this 7th day of December in Fallen London, was to come downstairs after hearing a ruckus in my lodgings to find that someone had left this in the middle of my floor.

That. That is a rat, a master thief rat, who has been turned into a candle. A hand of glory candle. And not ... not by other rats? If the rats are disguising their agents as them, that sounds like the true objects (corpses?) themselves are not being made willingly by rats.

And. If you click on the thing in your inventory. You have some options. One of which is to light the candle. Which has two potential results. A) it gives you seven items that will give you a lot of money, or b) it will set the poor disguised rat on fire, waking it up and making it very pissed off. Which, honestly? Extremely fair.

(Yes, I know this is obviously a risk they're taking by disguising themselves as candles in the first place, but still. Waking up because some bastard has set fire to what they thought was the corpse of one of your own, and which is actually you, would not incline you to be friendly regardless, and that's entirely fair).

The other option you have is to give it back to the rats. Which. Whether it's a sleeper agent or a poor dead rat that's been made into a candle, either way feels like the honest thing to do. So that's what I did. Because the fuck?

I don't know why this struck me when this is a universe where you can, with effort, turn yourself into a candle (Hi Sunless Sea), and it's actually pretty cool. Horrifying, but cool. But still. Yes, I'm giving the poor desecrated rat back to their people. Great Salt.

[the-senates-one-fear]

i know we shit-talk Obi-Wan for not wearing enough armour but im watching the Ryloth Arc from s1 and its infact Jedi Master Mace Fucking Windu who doesnt wear enough armour

the bastards only wearing vambraces

[wheatley-imagine-scenarios]

Baby

Virgil or Nigel: Bitches be like 'I'm baby' but have childhood trauma and neglect like wtf do you know about being baby, you were forced to grow up from an early age. Anyways, I'm bitches.

[sir-adamus]

I’m constantly thinking about how my interest in Dragon Prince just died.

I liked season 1 fine, some pacing issues but every show has growing pains. Plus with nine episodes you gotta move a little quick in places.

Season 2, again, was fine. Some good moments. But my problems start getting obvious. Bad Dad is… not that well written. It feels like they’re trying to make him sympathetic while he’s treating his kids like shit and being a power hungry douche, and “no, the dragons were the real bad guys.” And… no? The writing for him is so muddled. And then my other biggest issue is the romance that came out of frickin nowhere. Like suddenly after a week Rayla ready to tell Callum she loves him like… what? And yeah they’re kids but still.

And then… season three. Oh season three. Undoubtedly the best part is what they do with Soren. I love this himbo. He’s the one thing I think is paced really well. Well, him and Claudia. But that’s about where it ends. I’m still so baffled why Aunt Amaya saved the Fire Elf when she’s been shown to have that same extreme prejudice. And while cute, their relationship is even more speedran than our main one which is impressive. Speaking of, I just can’t with Callum and Rayla. I can’t. And a lot of it comes down to the awful pacing. Again, limited episodes but I’ve seen other shows do a whole lot with just nine episodes. *cough* Arcane *cough*

And that’s not even getting into all the behind the scenes horror that just killed any enthusiasm I had left for the show. I know the people who worked on it didn’t want us to stop watching, they just wanted the world to know, but… I was already just barely hanging onto the show by a thread.

yeah honestly it's the pacing that killed it for me too (as well as, like you said, the behind the scenes stuff being extremely fucking horrible). the first two seasons go at a fairly even pace and then suddenly in the final episode throws in Rayla making an attempted love confession out of nowhere which then proceeds to dominate the entirety of the third season despite that the show's timeline means these two have only known each other for less than a month

it's the complete lack of buildup before acting like it was there all along - Arcane didn't have that issue despite the romantic aspects only being present for just over half the season's run-time because a) Vi and Cait's attraction to each other is made clear from the start and b) while they become close during the few days that back half of the show takes place over, they aren't making love confessions and kissing each other yet. mutual attraction and emotional connection has been established from the get-go and things build in a romantic direction from there. unlike with Ray/llum where it comes out of nowhere at the back-end of the second season after these teenagers have known each other for a month and then they're just in a serious relationship

like what

by comparison it doesn't feel half as rushed (though still rushed and definitely trying to play it with plausible deniability) with Amaya and Janai despite them having hardly any screentime because they didn't get that far, we just get established mutual attraction (if you can understand sign language because they didn't subtitle or have someone translate Amaya telling the boys that Janai thinks she's cute but won't admit it yet - can't think why!)

honestly the problem with the whole show is Ehasz trying to coast off his AtLA cred (which considering he wasn't invited back for Korra feels very much like how shit like Epic Movie were advertised as 'from the writers of Scary Movie' and it's the two writers who weren't invited back for any of the sequels) and so it's doing everything AtLA did but in a far more compressed timeframe and that really hurts the pacing

they spend two seasons building up the brewing war only to have it happen and resolve it in less than five episodes. i already did my rant about Ray/llum. Callum has basically no narrative struggle in season 3 because he's the magic Avatar and any magic he sees he can do (even super special magic that even most natural born magic users can't do), and the one conflict he has with Rayla, where she's intent to sacrifice herself to redeem her family for seemingly abandoning the Dragon Queen, he resolves by breaking a magic pendant she had given him to remember her (which itself was a gift to her so she could remember her adoptive dads, and was a symbol of their relationship) so he could use it as fuel for a spell (that, once again, he had only seen once, no magic struggle, boring as all fuck) behind her back, without consulting her, so he can win the argument and tell her she's wrong

all the interesting characters get sidelined in favour of turning Callum into a boring, overpowered time sink that Rayla suddenly perpetually revolves around. Soren is the one shining light in the season with him breaking out of the golden child/scapegoat conflict his shithole father has him and Claudia trapped in, while Claudia is just being fasttracked into being Azula but again (and i have a sneaking suspicion that there's no way she's going to be handled with any genuine nuance or care once that jump happens - Claudia was a great character in the first two seasons with a unique perspective on things and deserves way better from a writing standpoint. and a better writer who doesn't lie to fans in DMs about her romantic prospects just to encourage more engagement with the show because i know the person he did that too and holy fuck what a manipulative scumsuck he is)

it's frustrating because there was interesting stuff going on, cool ideas, fun characters - and it just got completely fucked over by Ehasz being a tool and a hack writer rushing half the story, rushed romances and whatever else into the third season because that was all the animators were contracted for (while also being a terrible shithead behind the scenes and lying to fans, about a number of things but in this specific case, trying to drum up engagement for the show so they could get a second and third season despite that those were already in the works) because he desperately wants this to be his Avatar but again and Better

[secretsofdbz]

Did I just publish a whole ass chapter combining SSJ grade 2 AND a whole lot of awkward sex Ed talk between Trunks and Vegeta?

Yes I did. Do I have any shame or regrets? Fuck no.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37828726/chapters/95705794

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

The Marines Malevolent once met a group of Lamenters, they died from being in the proximity of so much pure goodness...

Then the Lamenters got blamed for murdering them and their Penitent Crusade got extended even further and the Minotaurs showed up to take their Primaris reinforcements.