#ursa.talkwriting

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the way i am DREADING the moment susie realizes she has a crush on noelle bc you can just tell she’s never been able to connect with someone the way she EVEN PLATONICALLY connects with noelle so those feelings are going to be both amplified tenfold (bc she’ll be excited about the amount of chemistry they have) and way more difficult to deal with/communicate healthily about (bc she has been shown to have a fear of rejection)

she may act confident but i just KNOW after going through what she’s been through, girlypop does NOT have a healthy attachment style

source: personal experience and being a deltarune fan who can read

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i keep forgetting arven is in the humanities track and i know humanities is like the study of human understanding through art and music and psychology and philosophy and stuff so it's probably supposed to be analogous somehow to the complexity of his relationship with his parents and how hard he tries to wrap his head around why they did what they did and how weird it is that the AI thought differently than the real professor and the implications of environmental psychological effects being so complex and unpredictable that they can't be properly measured and translated into even the most super-duper of supercomputers and how it's really weird that even though he knew the AI was obviously not his parent he still had a visceral psychological reaction to their final goodbye because all his brain saw was his parent's face and voice apologizing to him after all that time but i just think of that twitter post that's like "if you're a student just take psychology instead of paying for therapy so you can get credits and figure out wtf is wrong with you"

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The general message behind Lady Krillers was "sometimes forced writing can be harmful to a franchise". The problem was that there was an unclear vision for properly addressing that issue, and it just ended up confusing everybody. At the very end of the episode, Milo even says "I've learned my lesson. I have no idea what it is." Watching it all back, it feels like the writers weren't even sure where they were going with it themselves.

I wanna give them at least a LITTLE benefit of the doubt. Because as much as it...totally...definitely...feels like a narrative that...directly refutes diversity altogether...and feels super duper uncannily like transphobia at several points...MAYBE that wasn't the intention. But it could totally be interpreted that way! In fact, from what I've seen people saying about the episode, it is ALMOST ALWAYS interpreted that way or in similar negative ways.

At the very end when Milo talks to the director, he admits that any changes to the Krillhunter continuity wouldn't matter because he doesn't care about anything making sense. If this is supposed to be the moment that ties the whole lesson together, it becomes even more confusing. The idea that the Krillhunter movies had become worse with every sequel was introduced at the start of the episode, but then it wasn't ever brought up again until that moment at the very end. If the episode was supposed to be a commentary on writers caring more about money than continuity, why was the whole rest of the episode focused on gags about Tobias Trollhammer trying to act like a woman? Maybe it's supposed to be some kind of allegory related to forced diversity, sure...but then what would that allegory be if not "sometimes when you add traditionally feminine things to traditionally masculine things, it doesn't make sense"?

I think it's possible that this episode was being extremely rushed for whatever reason. I can't think of any other possible reason for the writers of that episode to have let that idea be the one that went through production. It felt meandering, lazy and indecisive about its messaging.

If you all have anything to add, I'd love to have more of a conversation about this. I want to ask someone who worked on the episode about it as well at some point.

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Deltarune spoilers//

I've seen a few people talking about how the Kris SOUL reveal is gonna impact Susie--since, y'know, it would call her whole friendship with Kris into question--and I've got some thoughts I'd like to throw into the ring.

Y'all remember that scene in Weird Route Chapter 4 where Susie, with barely-concealed paranoia, asks Kris about their conversation with Noelle? And then she sorta-kinda-jokingly-but-not-really tries to confirm that the conversation wasn't about her?

We know Susie has struggled with being an outcast and having people talk bad about her behind her back (several NPCs in Hometown do so throughout all 4 chapters). Because she is insecure in her interpersonal relationships, it's natural to assume the SOUL reveal is going to be devastating for her...but we also need to consider whether the weird route differences will factor into that response. If Susie continues to notice Kris's unusual behavior, that gives the reveal a little more buildup. How will she respond differently if she realizes something is wrong before the reveal, as opposed to it being out of the blue?

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i haven't talked enough on here about gladion. specifically anime gladion. he's so well-written. i love him so much (platonically, although i was one of his superfans and had a crush on him back in middle school).

like there's the whole symbolism behind his other eye being visible while he's reconnecting with the playful childhood side of him and the thing about needing to protect his family and alola from ultra beasts after what happened with lillie and him and faba were the only ones who remembered that incident for so long and the fact that faba didnt do anything and gladion was too smol to do anything and that gave him a whole complex of having to get stronger and he couldn't stand being around lillie while he was training with pokemon presumable because it made him feel guilty and remember what happened and there's the thing about him remembering how warm and kind his dad was and then running to tell his mom with a huge smile when he found out he was still alive and when they caught the nihilego in journeys he was so happy bc his family was back together and he did the thing where he jumped up in the air but then when they went back to alola he was back to his edgy self bc getting over trauma and complexes like that takes time and NO ONE EVEN REALLY ACKNOWLEDGED HOW HE SUFFERED IN THIS WHOLE SITUATION WITH LOSING HIS DAD WHILE HE WAS AT WORK AND THEN ALMOST LOSING HIS SISTER THE SAME WAY AND THEN ALMOST LOSING HIS MOM AND YOU COULD TELL HOW ANXIOUS HE WAS ABOUT GETTING TO THE POINT AND GOING TO SAVE HIS MOM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ORDEAL WITH THE TAPUS AND SOLGALEO?! LIKE HE NEEDS THERAPY PLS?! LIKE NO ONE EVER REALLY HAD A PROPER CONVERSATION WITH HIM ABOUT WHAT HE WENT THROUGH OUTSIDE OF WHEN HE TOLD ASH WHAT HAPPENED?! IM SO GLAD HE FINALLY HAD THAT CONVO WITH MC IN HIS POKEMAS FRIENDSHIP STORY EVEN IF IT WAS FOLLOWING THE GAME CANON BC GAH DAYUM I COULD WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY ABOUT THIS IF SCHOOL DIDNT MAKE ME HATE WRITING ESSAYS. ONE OF THESE SUMMERS IM GONNA WRITE SO MANY LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAYS AND IVE BEEN WANTING TO MAKE A VIDEO ESSAY CHANNEL ABOUT LITERARY ANALYSIS FOR SO LONG I GOTTA DO IT Y'ALL I FUCKIN LIVE FOR THIS SHIT

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not to say that gladion was written BADLY in the games, but i gotta say, the anime handled him masterfully. the stuff he went through pre-series added way higher stakes to his ambitions, making his story so much more powerful. the best part is that he doesn't have one solitary experience that solves his trauma--he has little moments of warmth that steadily increase in frequency as the series continues--it never feels the least bit forced. his trauma is dealt with in such a realistic way, and those little moments where he shows his warmer side are what make him so compelling as a character.

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i just need to successfully write a years-leading-up-to-AYA situation in which there’s this little moment of “phineas doesn’t just have a crush on isabella, he admires her as an assertive and quick-witted leader and a good, genuine person and she ultimately makes him a better person whether they’re together or not”

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guys. guys guys guyS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!!!

IF YOU ARE A MILO MURPHY'S LAW FAN. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU READ FANFICTION. REGARDLESS OF YOUR OPINION OF FANFICTION AS A MEDIUM. REGARDLESS OF YOUR LEVEL OF UNOBSTRUCTED NITPICKINESS FOR SMALL THINGS LIKE GRAMMAR AND SPELLING MISTAKES. I NEED YOU TO BOOKMARK THE LINK TO MY POST OR SAVE IT IN YOUR LIKES OR SOMETHING. AND THEN GO READ THIS ENTIRE FIC RN. AND THEN I WANT YOU TO COME BACK. AND GEEK OUT WITH ME IN MY NOTES. I FEEL LIKE MY BRAIN HAS O-FUCKING-FICIALLY ROTTED OUT OF MY BODY I ALMOST CRIED FUCK OUGHHHH

Friendship Games (42662 words) by @dawhitebag/@ask-whitebag Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: Milo Murphy's Law Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings