#yelling at clouds

[notquiteaghost]

concept. grace trying to have his cake (prove to rocky this is not the first time in his entire life he's been close to another person) and eat it too (continue to avoid confessing he did not actually volunteer to be on the hail mary) by talking about stratt, the woman in charge of the whole project, very infrequently. five whole sentences the whole journey back to erid. but he talks about eva a lot. eva is his friend. eva worked on the project with him, eva and him spent a lot of time together, he misses her something awful, sometimes rocky reminds him of her. rocky does not need to know eva and stratt are the same person. grace is in no way hoisting a sword up to hover dangerously above his head.

[amiya-shirou]

is this anything

(inspired by this version I saw with Utena characters)

[westernlarch]

I love my fanfiction reads, but nothing drives me crazier than seeing fanfiction speak applied to published novels. Tropes are real and a part of all kinds of stories, but when I see someone labeling complex narratives with "grumpy x sunshine" it makes me want to throw things....

[igrab]

i don’t understand why ppl don’t like the training camp arc of s4 (haikyuu ofc). like literally. yeah hinata’s having a frustrating time but once you know what happens you know this is an amazing learning moment for him.

…AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF ok heres why its my favorite favorite part of the anime to rewarch 500million times:

—obviously, we meet hoshiumi and sakusa, monstrously important for me personally

—kinkuni are there!!!

—kunimi gets a plot moment!

—HYAKUZAWA

—HINATA AND HYAKUZAWA

—literally everyone at the miyagi camp is like ‘thats hinata shoyo why the FUCK was he not invited???’ except two idiots who are laughing at him meanwhile everyone else is activated and ready to THROW DOWN (bc hinata wrecked their shit so bad already)

—this is where goshiki and kogane meet if thats your ship (it is for me!)

—we also meet KOMORI!!!!

—and atsumu i guess

—literally washijo forcing hinata to be a ball boy- and continuing to force it, making him actually pay attention and do the work- was accidentally the best thing that ever happened to him. and we’ll NEVER KNOW if that was on purpose.

—washijo teaching hyakuzawa like, gently??

—i

ok let’s remember a few things. 1. shiratorizawa has faced kamomedai before. i do believe that ushijima comparing hinata to the ‘other short player’ that he’s met was DEFINITELY an allusion to hoshiumi. ergo, washijo knows that hoshiumi exists and what he’s capable of.

so what is it about hinata that sets him off so bad? i think, he sees hoshiumi as a fairly polished player who knows his strengths. he has that Hunger, but he doesn’t show it nearly as much because he’s been honing his spear a lot longer. but hinata’s all hunger and potential and no development and it makes washijo upset. not that he’s short, not that being short is bad (never mind that washijo believes tall is best thats not the point), its that hinata isn’t training in the way that’s best for him.

i mean, that’s what i HAVE to conclude if we’re never going to get Washijo Reacts To Hoshiumi Kourai. like maybe he discounted it as ‘well he’s a genius that’s different’ or ‘when you’re a powerhouse school with money that’s what you get’ but idk neither of those seems to be right.

this is why i can’t stop watching this arc okaaayyy

im also dying to know who else from the all-japan camps ended up on pro teams. who was ushijima playing with when he was there. did the other top spikers make it? i assume so. which means bokuto, aran, and kiryuu made it, and like i assume iizuna did too. but we have very few important third-years from national teams?? abd who made it to the actual worlds? im assuming kageyama did bc hes kind of a big deal as a setter.

AAAAAHHHHHHHGGG

[c-official]

Children now have it too good with all their fancy features like garbage collecters, virtual functions and such. Everyone should take one month high-level cleanse and only use C for that time. That'll teach 'em to respect the machine.

[thisbarbieisineffable]

The way that I can’t even go and read books on writing craft anymore without getting angry at the way that Stranger Things was fucked over by the Duffers.

I just want to yell at clouds.

I’m currently re-reading “20 master plots” by Ronald B. Tobias, which is a basic writing craft book on how story works and what to look out for and …

The Duffers ignored essentially most of the basics every beginner learns

(That’s not a new revelation, but rereading it after a long time and seeing it all laid out on the page just reinforces how much they fucked up.)

Fiction is not real life. Real life is chaotic and stuff happens out of the blue life.

But fiction?

Everything must make sense and follow the internal rules you as the author created. And you have to be consistent and not just start playing god by bending stuff to your will.

Lucas is completely right that we shouldn’t believe in coincidence anymore because there shouldn’t be coincidences in a story that was well crafted.

Everything that happens in a fictional story should be causally related to the overall plot, even if it looks casual, heck, especially if it looks casual — think of Chekhov’s fucking gun they used to shoot themselves in the foot.

And then the the eighth section in "The Lowest Common Plot Denominators" is called "Make Sure Your Central Character Performs the Central Action of the Climax."

Oh boy!

…

Anyway…

The essence of plot is to ask a question.

And this part uses Cyrano de Bergerac as an example, where the question is, will he ever succeed in telling Roxanne he loves her?

The goal of the plot is to answer this simple fucking question in the climax.

That Stranger Things answered the question not with Cyrano winning his Roxanne, but with the fucking painting not being addressed at all, is just so infuriating.

Fine, maybe the answer they wanted to give us was “oh sadly, he failed” but then at least he should’ve tried.

Instead of, well, crickets…

[fflow3rss]

how i feel when someone yells at me

[hissynixxietelsm]

DeviantArt users were harrassing me for my views and I was gonna harrass them in return (the "get what you recieve" stuff), but I didn't. I thought if I went around posting things worse than what they were posting I'll have the same reputation I had back when I was on Wikia...

And I am a stubborn little shit, yes, but sometimes you just gotta let a guy yell at some clouds.