#farfromdaylight

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🌟[contributor spotlight] ✨ LARISSA @farfromdaylight 🐬

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Ah, yeah... I’m so sorry for being delayed on that!! I fully intended to get them open for November - I have a page on my website with the form ready to go! - but my drawing commitments this month are...well. I took two weeks off work to try and get everything done haha D: 

Eeee thank you! Now prepare for the ridiculousness that is this fic.

First. Gold and orange leaves floated past the window, bacon sizzled in the kitchen, and Fareeha was two seconds away from throwing a plate at her mother. Just another typical day in the Amari household.

Last. Nope. Fuck it. Fareeha ripped her jacket off and chucked it to the floor. Time to choke a bitch. ((ok, this is more than two sentences technically, but it was the last line I wrote so yeah))

The Fifth Act wasn’t even that good boo me all you like you know I’m right. 

It wasn’t the first (Crisis Core Time Travel was already a thing about a year prior to its release), but it was one of the earlier ones and it’s unquestionably the biggest. 

It is literally every single shitty trope that all bad VII fics have, in about the same levels of quality. It is the very embodiment of the complete lack of originality and utter disregard for anything outside Crisis Core in fics that is poisoning this entire fanbase. 

I’ve complained about it at length before but I think the thing that utterly infuriates me about it the most is the complete lack of any sort of reaction Cloud has at all to finding out he’s in a different timeline and not just the past, and he will never see Avalanche again in his life. 

“Oh, that’s a shame. Anyway I gotta save Genesis because my family might have spent three years showering me in unconditional love, but this guy does GOOD SORD FIGHT. Also lol who’s tifa”

Also Aeris gets reduced to a plot point that exists to cure the Soldier trio (again, that was fun). Cloud visits her once, asks her to whip up a cure for his new more important friends, and fucks right off again. Little to no reaction towards her either. Kunsel had more than double the lines of dialogue than every single female character in that entire fic combined.  

Oh, and the part where Cloud lives happily ever after working for a genocidal corporate death machine and there are no plans to destroy it and kill everyone at the top because then he couldn’t get to be best buddies with his fellow war criminals. That one’s good too.

And I don’t think I would be quite as salty about it if, again, it wasn’t a minimum of 50-60% of every single fic published in this stupid fanbase. They’re all fucking like this.

There are other things to write. Why is this so prevalent? (I mean I know why, Crisis Core’s marketing is working absolutely as intended so that’s where all the interest is, and even the variations of Crisis Core Time Travel: The Turks Make Sure Zack Lives And Also The Soldiers Are there, people still find a way to completely excise Tifa and Barret and company [Aeris gets to exist sometimes as Zack’s Girlfriend and also to act as a plot device later on but that’s all she is]. TIP: Whether or not Tifa’s existence is acknowledged outside of the author complaining about her is a good litmus test for how Crisis Core-y a fic is, actually! Otherwise she’s removed because she’s an obstacle to Aacgszcgzscg Cloud-shipping.)

ok are you ready for this, because to answer the question about the movie plot twist that completely shook me, we need Context. (also this is releasing my inner, secret twihard i’m sorry)

so when breaking dawn (the book) was released it was lacking something very fundamental for a movie adaptation: conflict. (or. well. visual conflict.) sure, there is conflict; but the second half (third?) of the book lacks it entirely, to the point where a big group of Good vampires band together (Cullens and friends) in a field opposite a group of Bad vampires (the Volturi, a group of italian vampires who don’t really want to be there anyway but their leader has an agenda because he likes Edward’s mind reading powers and another Cullen’s clairvoyance powers and wants them both in his coven) and they talk out their new Problem (the vampire human baby) by presenting evidence that the Problem (the vampire human baby) is not actually a problem because this isn’t the first vampire human baby in history, there is one that is several hundred years old and stopped aging in his late teens, and the vampire human baby will not reveal their society because the other one integrated a long time ago. thus there is no fight, and everyone goes their separate ways and goes home. 

this is a bad summary because the Cullens over-prepare for this by essentially creating their own army of witness vampires in case things get ugly and Bella (our protagonist) develops her mental shield ability so she can protect everyone from the Volturi vampire who likes to make everyone hallucinate that they too, are burning at the stake, like she did. ANYWAY the point is this is the big conflict scene and the characters manage to diffuse this extremely well, imo, it’s rare to see conflicts that are diffused sans a fight and so soundly to the point where the Volturi have no choice but to leave. 

but whilst it worked in a book, it wasn’t going to work for a movie, and it especially wasn’t going to work when breaking dawn became part 1 and part 2.

part 1 has a perfect three event structure - Bella and Edward’s wedding, Bella and Edward’s honeymoon, and Bella’s pregnancy with the vampire human baby that pretty much everyone else doesn’t want her to keep. (as bad as that sounds breaking dawn part 1 is actually a really well filmed movie and it’s one of my faves even as a standalone i’d recommend it to anyone if it wasn’t twilight lmao.) the movie ends with her becoming a vampire and the birth of a vampire human baby.

part 2 is about Bella getting used to being a vampire and the Problem of the vampire human baby. the clairvoyant Cullen, Alice, sees the Volturi coming to town to get rid of her because they a) want to check if Bella is a vampire and b) what the fuck is this vampire human baby. they gather their witnesses, they band together with their neighbouring shape-shifting wolves (because Jacob, our wolf protagonist, imprinted on the baby), they wait (listen they’re immortals the Volturi don’t have to be punctual) and then we’re back to the start of this post where everyone is in this field and a fight doesn’t happen.

how does a film sell if it doesn’t have a fight scene at its climax? - hollywood, probably, and so the movie invents a fight scene in the form of another of alice’s visions. the entire fight scene is a “possible future”, that the audience only finds out is a possible future after the fight ends with the leader of the volturi being destroyed. there are no effects, there are no changes to filming style, there are no clues to this being a vision if you did not know otherwise. you believe this is happening. this fight scene begins with the beheading of Carlisle, the Cullen dad, who did no wrong and no harm to anyone ever and just wanted to be a doctor, and fucking escalates to the death of two other Cullen’s, multiple good and bad vampires, multiple wolves (including Leah, the Only Female wolf and Seth who is the purest, best wolf) and it JUST KEEPS GOING FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES, there is no getting off this train, this scene had literally become “fuck it rocks fall and everyone dies”, literally. i wanted to leave. most of the audience in my cinema screen wanted to leave. we were yelling “WHAT???” at the screen because what the fuck. and then after this vision ends, the film very deliberately shows you angles of everyone that fucking died and that they’re alive now and my heart was pounding because what the fuck i just saw all my faves die, there is a literal alternative universe out there where that fight happened. Mouse and I were truly Shook and we both discuss this on a regular basis. 

and no one expected this “lol fake fight it was a vision all along guys!” happening because it’s very Firmly Established In Canon that our clairvoyant vampire, alice, cannot see anything she has not been, i.e. the wolves and the vampire baby (half the problem with bella’s pregnancy was that alice could not see her future) so this scene is actually impossible in the confines of even the movie’s canon, but lol we needed a fight scene, alice your visions are now convenient in order for us to throw that in.

Writers Truth & Dare Ask Game

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

Larissa you know you can just ask me for cat pictures anytime. ;)

Character ask meme!

17. Are there any motifs or symbols associated with the character? How are they represented, in their design, personality or in some other way?

Ariane is often wearing flowers or plants of some kind, whether in her hair or accessories, and different kinds of plants symbolize different things for her personally, so here's a few!