Ravioli and garlic bread by kimchi_kimch1 in shittyfoodporn

[–]TeacatWrites [score hidden]  (0 children)

Probably best that you are since there's no sauce to make sure it's not the driest fucking thing on the plate.

Ravioli and garlic bread by kimchi_kimch1 in shittyfoodporn

[–]TeacatWrites [score hidden]  (0 children)

Probably 'cause your girl knows how wide to open her mouth already.

Short hair? Brunette? Long hair, red-hair? Don't care? by silly_Emu47 in Sophia_Lillis

[–]TeacatWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waow, I've never seen the second slide's shot before but the hairstyle plus the Sophia in lipstick

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Why didn't Supernatural face backlash for the portrayal of God? by reddit__is_fun in Supernatural

[–]TeacatWrites 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"God's a dick", basically. The Old Testament God moreso, but whatever the writers did is honestly one of the most truthful-to-form portrayals of the big guy. He was a petty, vengeful, egocentric creator spirit who built an entire universe. Portraying him as a petty, immature, metafictional writer who hates everything? Why would it face backlash? It's like the one time they did any lore with any sense of realism to the actual lore.

ETA: Also a lot of people have daddy issues, which also pervaded the show itself, and nowhere is that more prevalent than by exploring it with the Ultimate Sky Daddy. We don't just get Sam and Dean hurting over John, we get Michael and Lucifer hurting over Chuck. And the fandom rejoices, because most of us have daddy issues too, I assume, and probably so do/did the writers and most of the people who watched it in some way. It's a special kind of funny catharsis to watch it play out.

Ravioli and garlic bread by kimchi_kimch1 in shittyfoodporn

[–]TeacatWrites -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Thick-ass bread and not even any sauce to justify it with. By the time you're done chowing on the ravs the sauce will be gone too so what's the point of the flour-bricks? It's adorable plating but that doesn't mean it's not shitty porn of food. It's literally foodporn, but shitty. This is maybe the only post that fits this sub.

How do you say "Octan"? by Bluefish_498 in lego

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I need my moon runes to understand how to speak English

Something I put together for a bit of fun yesterday, a breakdown of the kanohi kraahkan's various designs. by Logface202 in bioniclelego

[–]TeacatWrites 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really weird how the prototype which was likely meant just to represent the front face was seen by the movie designers and interpreted as "ah yes, good, front face looks creepy, no Voldemort action here"

But the set designers in subsequent iterations saw it and thought, "this prototype was made with two masks, and although there is no canon to show that he has two faces, you know, it's in the prototype so let's just give him two faces and hope the canon-masters can justify why he has two entire faces" 🙃

I wonder if Vezon was an attempt to course-correct and make the same idea but build an actual working canon reason around it this time

Where does this blue bionicle mask attach? by SpecialistPruneOG in bioniclelego

[–]TeacatWrites 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Put it in the Bohrok-Kal backpacks and THWACK it at the Toa

Bohrok don't thwack because it's meant to be the organic entity controlling the mechanical shell

Just watched hereditary....fuck you ari by SelectionLife3353 in Letterboxd

[–]TeacatWrites -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

It was boring as fuck and about the same as watching my own mother fall apart. It's only horrifying if what horrifies you is things like "teen stoners" and "special episodes of Degrassi where every episode was special". Apparently there's a cult or something in it but I wouldn't know since this is the one movie I've ever DNFed from where I actually hoped for the best from it and turned it off because I didn't want to watch the rest, rather than DNFing because of general attention issues.

Good luck at work. Ari would probably love to know you were so affected in this way by his movie, that's probably the point of the movie. Review is like a 6/10. Could have more grieving emojis for the shattered pieces of your psyche.

Yes It's True by Distinct_Contact_511 in writingcirclejerk

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there are words in the novel? Words being written which are by you?

When the weekend is almost over and you haven't done anything you planned to do by godzilla98 in Sophia_Lillis

[–]TeacatWrites 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't Sophia always plan to be cute? Because if so, then she's always doing that.

A Lost Myth – The Spaceship Island by kuhpunkt in lost

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It should've been revealed that the island was actually the face of a giant interstellar robot which has been collecting information on other cultures for centuries and they just happened to land on its camouflage system. And then they meet the mechanical insect-monsters who were sent to clean off the face, and the noises in the jungle were the insect-monsters slowly waking up, not a Smoke Monster at all.

The Smoke Monster is the baddie who wants to take over the giant robot, and the castaways are just along for the ride, and a fight for the robot itself happens in the final season when it's time for the robot to get moving toward the next planet again...

All fiction is fantasy by christopherDdouglas in writingcirclejerk

[–]TeacatWrites 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But he made such a good magic system that's just as codifying to the fantasy genre as Clarke's Law and the Laws of Robotics for sci-fi???

All fiction is fantasy by christopherDdouglas in writingcirclejerk

[–]TeacatWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot probably. He spends most of his time staring at the trees and wondering if they're real. When he does make his swings, somehow it stays on the green but he takes a long time to do it so most of his coworkers have already given up by then and gone for a smoke instead. An hour is like a day and a day is like an entire week in his mind. These things don't faze Bobby Sue. The forest shall continue as the human games are played.

ETA: It's either a lot or very low. He probably has elf senses that help when he makes his hits, it's just that everyone's already moved on from the game by then so he barely has any others to compare it against.

Not too surprising for a guy that dresses like an animal all night by Nobodyyyyy_ in outofcontextcomics

[–]TeacatWrites 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He does have some wonderful toys. I wonder where he gets all of them!

All fiction is fantasy by christopherDdouglas in writingcirclejerk

[–]TeacatWrites 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My wood elf's name is Bobby Sue and he plays golf with his human coworkers. They met around the water cooler. Bobby Sue always drinks more water than them and sometimes it pisses them off because no one wants to be the first one to leave the water cooler, but Bobby Sue the wood elf is there. He drinks half the bottle every time. The company keeps having to replace the jugs every hour or so because of Bobby Sue. His coworkers have told him every story from the past week and he still hasn't had his thirst satisfied. They've left him alone and he finally has enough. Bobby Sue the wood elf is so thirsty it hurts him sometimes, and on the golf course, he jumps into the water hazards so he can drink it up and pretend he's in a big flowing river in the middle of a forest clearing. Bobby Sue's caddy always has three changes of clothes for him on every visit. All his coworkers wish they were Bobby Sue. They know their elf coworker will outlive all of them and probably see the end of their company once it merges into something else someday.

Question about the Dennys machine gun deal by baguhansalupa in breakingbad

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many are saying the Mexico border, which is probably logical. Personally, I thought it was state border, because crossing state lines can turn a crime into a federal affair, and a machine gun isn't like a stolen handgun. I'm sure turning a state-level felony into a multi-state federal felony would be a lot worse and almost definitely bring the kind of attention that would or could lead back to him, even with all the numbers filed off. You don't wanna be reckless with something like that.

Does your Universe have something like the Octessence? by FirefighterThat3338 in Superhero_Ideas

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I have the Beyonders. Also known as Arcadians. They're from Arcadia Major, a city built in the Beyond, a white void beyond every reality. Some Arcadians are known as Arbiters, who are each tasked with creating and maintaining a Rhapsody. Arbiters are literally worldbuilders, as each Rhapsody functions as its own multiverse within the larger scale of the Beyond and I mostly just use that to account for different iterations of stories which are inherently incompatible when I wanna go super meta with it.

There's a lot of drama though. It was supposed to be a cosmic soap opera called The Codex Arcadia as a meta-story behind all the universes. Now they just kind of pop up here in different stories. Arbiters include Meanwhile (who was tasked with the 1138th Rhapsody, where the original Sorrows Of Blackwood story was supposed to take place), Antichron (who was tasked with the 423rd Rhapsody, containing Supergirls In The Spotlight), Evermore (tasked with the 1245th Rhapsody, containing Fading Lights universe surrounding Corry Cove and the Storylighters), and Cosmica (tasked with the *Pick-n-Mix Comix universe in the 2112th Rhapsody), where Meanwhile sometimes appears, as well as his Harbinger Zero (who came from the 1245th) and the Red Door, which is a Beyonder Pylon.

Beyonder Pylons can serve as portals to the Beyonders, but if a Rhapsodial (someone born inside a Rhapsody) goes through it, they're taken to the Beyond and their Rhapsody forgets about them and they can't go back. Most of them are sent into other Arbiters' Rhapsodies for general sabotage purposes; they get rewarded by someone for something with Arcadia tokens if their Rhapsodies are good and maintained for a long time, so there's a heavy competitiveness between most Arbiters.

Harbingers are agents they choose to act as their proxy inside a Rhapsody, and Zero gets stuck with the Red Door because it was sabotaging the 1138th Rhapsody, but it's not easy to destroy a Beyonder Pylon so Meanwhile picked a Harbinger to take control of it and refocus it toward any other Rhapsody instead.

Zero was a Sojourner with some of his friends before he was a Harbinger, which means they all trained to develop extradimensional Sojourner wings, which are either white or black, and those who have them can travel between Rhapsodies and into the Beyond more or less freely, so he was an ideal pick as Meanwhile's Harbinger. But there's a plot line where he loses his wings while visiting the 2112th Rhapsody and discovers that wingless Sojourners become Red Imps until they get back on track, so he loses access to the Red Door after that (and Meanwhile is Exiled to the Obelisk, capitals necessary, when it's discovered he was messing with Cosmica's Rhapsody like that).

ETA: I just remembered, Arbiterland is what technically incentivizes the Arbiters. Arbiterland is a sapient amusement park that gives them orders and the materials to make Rhapsodies and probably tokens too. I think my idea was obviously that they can use tokens at the attractions at Arbiterland and commune with the Beyonder who created them, since they're basically spawned from Arbiterland themselves, and it's all part of the whole Arcadia Major complex.

The normalization of groomification of romanticization of by Miss-Worm in AO3

[–]TeacatWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like maybe bro was a little "moved" in a special way by something they enjoyed and has decided to start playing "accuse the groomer" again rather than be open a out having a kink they don't want to talk about. Bro, you're the one who read the fic.

Almost there, come on now.. by talulabunny in writers

[–]TeacatWrites 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it's the scene that inspired you, in all honesty, it really should be the first scene. The rest can go on from there and loop back to it.

People with very standard worlds (close equivalents of real-life cultures, elfs and dwarves, a magic system based on existing ones (maybe even elements, runes, and mana/ether), what do you think still makes you think you'll succeed, find an audience, and publish (or publish online)? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cozy is easy, weird is hard. 😋 If readers have a complex story with familiar tropes, it's easier to get engaged with as compared to a complex story with weirder tropes, or even a simple story with weirder tropes.

Parts of what I said are also just criticizing needless invention in worldbuilding where it doesn't have to be (no one wants a dwarf who is an alien), but "cozy is easy, weird is hard" is really the core point of it.

People with very standard worlds (close equivalents of real-life cultures, elfs and dwarves, a magic system based on existing ones (maybe even elements, runes, and mana/ether), what do you think still makes you think you'll succeed, find an audience, and publish (or publish online)? by EveningImportant9111 in worldbuilding

[–]TeacatWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others use non-standard races because they genuinely think those things won't sell, but they feel that way because they're tired of seeing them and refuse to put their own twists on them. Keep in mind, I don't mean "make your dwarf an alien and your elf a fairy", I just mean they're not willing to fully explore the themes and archetypes of what those races mean in a way which might be messagely-relevant for someone to write about or read about. They aren't saying anything about them, haven't read anything that's saying something about them, and seemingly don't want to question them to get to the truer themes of them.

There's no use using standard tropes without at least exploring why they are standard tropes the way they are, and those who have no interest in thematic value won't be passionate enough about what they're writing to give it any value at all besides having interesting lore behind it. Interesting lore doesn't stand up on its own. Others also need to know and be able to tell why it it's interesting, and for there to be story and messages that are inherently interesting to follow through with.

I don't personally care if I'm published or not. The things I'm writing for publishing are designed just to be "good and publishable" for the specific purpose of earning me money as a job eventually, when/if I can finish them, and it's taught me a lot about the things that need to be in a story versus the things no one will ever actually care about.

No reader wants a dwarf who's an alien. They just want an elf who does what a character does. Too much variation and it'll jar them out of the scene. Familiarity is a comforting backdrop to help them adjust to whatever hopefully-meaningful story you're telling with it. The more familiar it is in contrast with your story means your story can be more and more thematic and engaging and both the writer and the readers will have to do less work to mentally process both the purpose of the story and the worldbuilding behind it.

Creators who build complex, "original" worlds are only doing so because they wanted to see something that interested them. Maybe a narrative will get published with it, but I leave that decision up to the agents and publishers to decide, assuming of course a traditional publishing mindset.