And with this blog, you too, can be confused

https://youtu.be/poU4bxz29Bw?t=5239 here's the link to the live stream recording, the cellist and singer show up at 1:27:20 (and stop playing 1:58:45) you can see the unedited bits that ended up contributing to the short video

https://youtu.be/BU3MJzgr11Y here's Ziarra's (the singer) recording of the song Heat Rises

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

Deadpan humor at its finest. Raise your hand if you think highly competent Commander Cody would win this championship.

hmmmmmm

Everything eats and is eaten,

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."