"A symbol of beauty."

"An emphasis on hope."

[veryunoriginal]

Les juro por dios que esto no soy edgy ni nada por el estilo, pasa que me obsesioné con un personaje.

[thebloodofazra]

Qnother name for this chapter: Lin Wen, master of psychological manipulation.

I'm soooooo normal about Kyereh showing signs of emotional deconstipation. The panel where he reaches out to touch the rain was MUACK chef's kiss.

The watchmaker jumpscared me so bad, I thought he was Illirik's dad for some reason 😭😭😭😭😭.

Anyway, amazing chapter! Thank you so much for it! Take care of yourself!

Wen grew up with Illirik, she KNOWS how to make things go her way when the other party is being needlessly stubborn. Also, I'm so happy you noticed the rain scene!!! It's very small, but it's one of my faves in this chapter too. Thank you so much, as always, for leaving your thoughts!

[kosmogrl]

[veryunoriginal]

Since dandelions are seen as the souls of the dead in Mond, would the Dandelion Knight be seen as a cthonic figure in-world? Is Jean seen as a cthonic figure?

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Every time I remember the map of Dio’s mansion has a room labeled the “engine room” I lose my fucking shit. Like, what does that even mean? Why does the mansion have an engine room? What the fuck does that mean? Could Dio’s mansion potentially just. fucking blast off like the end of Vampire Hunter D or some shit I’m dying what the fuck

[greed-the-dorkalicious]

Howl’s Moving Castle 2: If You Thought Howl was an Asshole and a Drama Queen Get Ready to Fucking Shit Yourself

[veryunoriginal]

What's heartbreaking about Avrelian's execution (besides everything else) is, to me, that it's not implied anywhere (that I recall) that he tried to escape. He really went "Oh Silvestr thinks I deserve to die? Word? He must be right then" and just let it happen

[nikoisme]

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[nikoisme]

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here

[veryunoriginal]

As it turns out, embroidering a rose is surprisingly easy!

[veryunoriginal]

Thinking of the Idealist again, and how he is the best example of Aleph's failure as his aspirations for a "perfect" language that can encapsulate all things perfectly is doomed to fail because languages are ever changing and a "perfect" language would be one none uses

[canayams-art]

Been ‘Walding a lot lately (and also Jack being there)

[aphel1on]

just realized collei's plotline qualifies as dottore being his own worst enemy as per usual. me when i inject some random kid with god remains and 4-7 business years later the god starts whispering in her ear and the entire nation evacuates before anything interesting can happen, sowing the seeds of my own demise. "average escaped test subject causes massive issues down the line" WRONG, they mostly die in the wilderness. collei, with the willpower of 1000 suns, two (2) angels phoning directly into her mind, and a found family consisting of half the most important people in sumeru, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[demilypyro]

a lot of my favorite mangas are in that "this is technically erotica but the world building and characters are so good I'm gonna read this for non-horny reasons" kinda space

[bevsi]

something I’ve noticed in fandoms lately is a lack of… object permanence? perspective? Just reacting to each episode/chapter of something as if it’s final & whatever plot line they dislike is the status quo forever? like…… have a tiny bit of patience

I kinda understand because a lot of franchises lately have ended in shoddy and poorly thought out ways, but tbh either have some faith in your fav show or just write fanfic

[bevsi]

this combined with people reading a boatload of fanfic between seasons then coming back to the show & getting upset that their headcanons aren’t canon… disappointment is a normal feeling but I also feel like people put themselves through unnecessary stress watching shows they clearly do not like

[veryunoriginal]

Books

[veryunoriginal]

Do we know why Nod-Krai ghosts are so different to, say, Liyue ghosts?

[bigolbadblog]

i feel like something that's missing from some people's understanding of kink fiction and fantasy is, like... in fiction and fantasy, everything is in-scene.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

so like. when fiction does kink in a way that would be unsafe or harmful irl... just keep in mind that you're not watching actual people neglecting check-ins or ignoring their set contract or genuinely harming each other. you're watching a scene without the behind-the-scenes bits, and that's okay.

[bigolbadblog]

this has gotten a couple replies along the lines of "yeah, you can just assume the characters worked all the important consent stuff out when you weren't looking!" which is true in some cases, but not the point i was trying to make, so please bear with me while i try to rephrase myself.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

kink fiction doesn't have to be about characters consciously and conscientiously Doing Kink. kink fiction can be stories where the kinky things people fantasize about or roleplay (but wouldn't want to happen in real life) do happen in the universe of that story. because the story is a scene.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#Yeah this is THE thing that drives me crazy the past couple years#like imagine if u were a kid playing playing with dolls and other kids prefaced every idea you had with “but the dolls are just PRETENDING”#“the dolls arent going on an adventure theyre just in their backyard and soon their mom will call them in for snacks and water :)”#like im going to end u- you're taking all the fun out of imagination by anchoring it into real life#“well why would u want to pretend the dolls are in danger instead of pretending to be in danger for their enjoyment? Suspicious :/” ughhh#kink discussion#consentception

@sacred-pro-fiction's tags

[npdclaraoswald]

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was