“Write” The Wrongs You See

Thanks for the tag @the-samsquantch!! This was such a blast to put together.

🖋️ Last song: Dark Sanctuary by Toby Fox from Chapter 4 of Deltarune! It's kinda spooky and wistful which is a genre I absolutely adore. Deltarune is a video game created by Toby Fox that's a sister game to the more well known Undertale and is being released in chapters - Chapter 5 comes out later this month and I have yet to finish Chapter 4. I started playing it again this week and have been obsessed with this song!! Highly recommend to play in the background while you're doing work or something (I absolutely LOVE listening to video game music while working - listening to it on repeat as we speak!).

🖋️ Current obsession: I'm really getting back into My Hero Academia! It ended back in 2025 and my brother and I finished it during Christmas last year. I've slowly but surely been rewatching it from the beginning and am on season 6 out of 8 (season 4 is my fave!). It's such an amazing show, full of heart and inspiration and incredible voice acting!! Deku my beloved!!! Also Justin Briner (Deku's English VA) is hilarious.

🖋️ Currently reading: Prince of Song and Sea by Linsey Miller - it's a YA fantasy of The Little Mermaid from Eric's POV. Apparently he's been cursed to die if he kisses anyone other than his true love. I'm only a hundred pages in and it's FINE, it feels like how I write fanfic where I incorporate real lines from the source material but make it fit into my new narrative. Nothing wrong with that, but it's interesting! I love The Little Mermaid and Eric so I was really interested in it! I'm also trying to use it to inspire me to write more about my siren OC, Birdie. I'm enjoying it so far and eager to find time to keep reading!

🖋️ Currently working on: I am REALLY trying to finish part 9 of my Astarion x Reader fic, Beauty and the Bard, but I'm struggling to find motivation. Tale as old as time! I have most of it written, just gotta finish the conflict and add some spice. Thanks to everyone for being patient with me!!

I'm also participating in what my roommate is calling "D&D Summer" where we're playing one shots every weekend starting in July and running through August, and I'm going to DM two sessions! I've never DM'd before so I gotta prep that. One is going to be loosely based on The Selection series by Kiera Cass (although in concept only, I'm not taking any of the characters or lore etc etc), and then the other is going to be inspired by the new Masters of the Universe movie (GO SEE IT IF YOU HAVEN'T!!!) because I wanna play a Big Bad that's essentially Skeletor lmao 😂

Conversely, that also means I have to create a bunch of new characters for the other one shots I'm participating in that I'm NOT DMing. Lots to do and create!!

🖋️ Currently wearing: Ducktales 2017 crewneck, North Face jacket (it's cold in my office!), leggings, Elmo socks, and sneakers my younger cousin didn't want but fit me perfectly lol. I got a compliment on my Ducktales crewneck which was nice 🥰 I miss that show!!!

🖋️ Last Search: Lmao apparently it was "Deadpool Cast" - my sister and I were playing Fortnite last night and she was playing as Colossus but neither of us could remember his name. I was playing as He-Man. If you even care (Our theme was Big Beefy Men).

🖋️ Favorite flower: Because of Beauty and the Beast, I usually say roses. Which is true! But recently I've really resonated with Forget-Me-Nots. I have a bad memory, which is something I really struggle with, so Forget-Me-Nots feel significant to me in a weird way. Is it purely because of the name? Maybe! But they're so delicate and pretty, I can't help but love them. They'd make a gorgeous tattoo as well but I'm a wimp and scared of getting tattoos lol.

Last song: Elio - Elio Mei. They're one of my favourite artists and this song was the soundtrack to me experimenting a little more with masculine makeup (read: shitty facial hair drawn on with mascara) and looking at myself in the mirror, trying different things and seeing what feels right

Current obsession: Good Omens. Much as I hated how it ended, I can't help but love the show still.

Currently reading: my copy of Project Hail Mary (nearly finished it, LOVE the movie)

Currently working on: Some OC writing I hope to publish someday

Currently wearing: Black long sleeve shirt + blue jeans.

Last search: "cubic zirconia rainbow hoop earrings" (i lost a pair of earrings a little over a week ago and i'm trying to find a similar pair online to replace them)

Favourite flower: probably lavender, i love the way it smells

Last song: The Seven Seas of Rhye- Queen. My favorite band who I'm doing my uncountable timed album listening of- Highly recommend, it's a healing journey I tell you T-T

Current obsession: Hazbin Hotel + Michael Jackson.

Currently reading: Moonwalk- Michael Jackson

Currently working on: Thinking up some fanfiction ideas :DD

Currently wearing: A stranger things nightgown and starry PJ pants

Last search: "Are period pains equal to heart attack pains?" (I heard it somewhere and decided to look it up cause I'm having worse cramps than usual, IT"S ACTUALLY FUCKING TRUE THEY CAN BE EQUALLY PAINFUL WHAT-)

Favorite flower: Violets!! I barely see any, but I just think they're beautiful.

Last song: Hard to remember, but I think it was Garlands by Cocteau Twins. It's one of my favorite songs of theirs, but my top favorite from them is Blood Bitch. I love darker music hehe.

Current Obsession: Sofia the First (both the original and Royal Magic), Cedric the Sorcerer (to be honest he's really the only character I care about, other than Sofia and Zaria), Michael Jackson (it's starting to die down again, but it never goes away), and Big Mouth (I pirated it because I don't wanna support Netflix. I know most consider it a bad show, but I find it very relatable and it's even comforting to watch because of the issues it tackles).

Currently Reading: Nothing at the moment. Just waiting for more chapters of a fanfiction a fellow friend is working on!

Currently Working On: Art requests, was a bit surprised to see a lot of people ask for drawings hehe (btw, if anyone wants one, feel free to send me an ask in the inbox!)

Last Song: I think it was “The Starry Night” from Starry because I wore my Irises tie to a film showing and threw the Starry soundtrack on while on the drive over to the theater. Otherwise, it was something random with my kid? Probably, “Friendship is the Formula” from G1 Sofia the First - they’ve been favoring that one.

Current Obsession: I’m in a very dance heavy production at the moment and I may yet achieve my dream of dancing on a table? We will see. XD

But, dance has been huge.

The event tonight was a pride thing, and I sketched one of the queens there. She not only signed my picture but told me the community center should put up my art because I was really talented and that I made her look like a real movie star.

I’m gonna be riding that high for a while. Haha.

So, doodling has also been a big thing for me lately. I may not do numbers on Tumblr. But, apparently I’m not bad?

Currently Reading: My spouse unit bought me this really cool book about our city’s queer history that I really want to read. There’s a trans man from our city that was apparently really active in our Civil Rights movement that also may have shared a lot of other identity markers with me. So, I’m looking forward to getting beyond the forward of that because I read about him, desperately wanted to know more, and found the book that my spouse then bought for me specifically to learn about him.

Currently Working On: So many things. Too many things. I have projects coming out my ears and eyes right now. Between fics, two musicals I’m actively working on composing, being in a musical for recreation, writing a play about different portrayals of masculinity, having a play that I sent out a pitch for to see if I could get it picked up, and a bunch of other stuff I don’t remember, I’m like swamped … but, honestly? That’s how I like it?

Currently Wearing: My PJs

Last Search: Local venue that I can’t list because I don’t want people to know where I live.

Favorite Flower: Sunflower or Roses, depends on the day

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

He is grace.

He shoots suitors in the face …

(Not sure how familiar folks are with Heathers? But, the song is “I Say No” from that musical, which got suck in my head. That song isn’t the **worst** song from that musical. But, it is a REALLY dark comedy that was based on a dark comedy horror movie, of the same name, from the 80s. So, like VERY much 18+ music/ topics if you wanna tackle the whole thing.)

So, strong rating on the musical itself even if not the picture.

(I just liked this one particular quote from the song “I Say No” as the premise for a prophecy and JD’s design as one for a young Grimtrix. Also, Veronica’s color scheme- even if this is a black and white pencil drawing - matches the blue and white of Hexley’s robes. And, I’ve always HC’ed that Winifred and Grimtrix were together before she and Goodwyn started dating so … then my mind wandered and we go the image below the cut …)

Image/ Image ID / HC context and such like below the cut because, even if the content of the image is pretty PG, I’m paranoid about the quote coming from this particular musical & the fact that a character is grabbing another one by the arm.

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Likes and kudos are great if that's what you have spoons for, but if you can leave even just a heart or a reblog with no tags then it will always mean the world to me.

Disney Networks Highlights - July 2026

Chibiverse

Return of Pebble; Lost Pets ; Mystery Busters 5/7

Magicampers

My Friend Cloudimus ; The Magicamp Treasure Hunt 3/7

A Sandy Situation ; Big Bubble Trouble 10/7

The Pugness Monster ; Butterflairy Friends 17/7

Snowy Loomis ; Harmony Holiday 24/7

Night on Melody Mountain SEASON FINALE 31/7

Hey A.J.!

Somebunny's Missing ; Follow The Leader 3/7

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+

The Candy Cottage 3/7

Mickey's Country Farm SEASON FINALE 30/7

Ariel

Twinspiration ; Family Picnic Games 10/7

Sylvia's Voice ; The Tooth Fairy Fish 17/7

SuperKitties

Grand Pigeon Poobah ; Puppy Pirate 10/7

And besides Sofia the first is one disney's best money makers for 2 to 6 year olds and it was number 1 on disney+ for a week

Disney Networks Highlights - July 2026

Chibiverse

Return of Pebble; Lost Pets ; Mystery Busters 5/7

Magicampers

My Friend Cloudimus ; The Magicamp Treasure Hunt 3/7

A Sandy Situation ; Big Bubble Trouble 10/7

The Pugness Monster ; Butterflairy Friends 17/7

Snowy Loomis ; Harmony Holiday 24/7

Night on Melody Mountain SEASON FINALE 31/7

Hey A.J.!

Somebunny's Missing ; Follow The Leader 3/7

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+

The Candy Cottage 3/7

Mickey's Country Farm SEASON FINALE 30/7

Ariel

Twinspiration ; Family Picnic Games 10/7

Sylvia's Voice ; The Tooth Fairy Fish 17/7

SuperKitties

Grand Pigeon Poobah ; Puppy Pirate 10/7

And besides Sofia the first is one disney's best money makers for 2 to 6 year olds and it was number 1 on disney+ for a week

I don’t know, man. I think he just wanted to do gay stuff and got carried away and committed murder.

Utterson is the one I would be afraid of. Might hang out with serial killers for fun (the only person who still entertains men that society has utterly condemned), stalks a man for weeks on end just to see his face, ordered a butler to batter a door down with an axe. While the lack of emotion is very autistic, it can also be interpreted or written to be off-putting/uncanny valley to neurotypicals, or that he repressed himself so much he forgot how to feel emotions.

As in, Jekyll is the one who has forgone a lot of who he was by pouring it into Hyde, and Hyde is, thus, more, in certain ways, indicative of Jekyll as he was in his more idealistic phase during university, and thus impulsive.

This would leave room for some really interesting interpretations surrounding the murder of Danvers, why it happens, why Jekyll is so bent up about it, etc.

Was it self-defense?

Was it out of defense for someone who went missing from Soho?

Was it out of an impulse for some other purpose of protecting himself/ themselves?

Is Jekyll actually bent up over his queer self having more and better morals than his “posh Victorian self?”

Is he really afraid of confronting that his mask is evil and what he was hiding, his ADHD/ queer self, was good?

(This is to say nothing for the possibilities of addressing & including the history of Stevenson’s Scottish roots as Sage did in TGS by giving Hyde a brogue or including Scottish folk music/ the Scottish language in the potential adaptation, which would have been frowned upon.)

I dunno it’s 2026.

I think it’s time for a new stage/ film version of the story where we answer these all important questions & also address that, yes, of the two of them, Utterson is infinitely scarier.

Lol can we talk about this??? 🥺 I freaking love the fact that Cedric was having lunch with his students. Like there’s no doubt that there’s a teachers lounge room where he could’ve just go there but instead he decided to join his students during lunch time and that honestly has to be so freaking wholesome to me!! 🥺

It really fills my heart with so much joy in seeing how much Cedric truly has changed for the better. Sure he may still have his snarky sassy personality but yet he is a total sweetheart when it comes to his students. I kinda do wish that moment could’ve lasted a bit more in just seeing Cedric having a nice chat with Zariah during lunch time but of course there was the whole conflict with the goo monster.

And speaking of the goo monster, another thing that I loved so much is the fact that Cedric instantly went protective mode on his students! He was making sure that all his students were right behind him and far away from the monster! I love this man so much 🥺

"Cedric's Apprentice" and "Substitute Cedric" are my favorite episodes of seasons 1 and 2, and I love how they foreshadowed him eventually becoming an actual teacher for Royal Magic! In "Cedric's Apprentice", Sofia even says to him that he's a great teacher!

Part of the reason my own kiddo can’t finish that episode right now is because the idea of Cedric getting stolen // locked up is too real and scary for them right now.

The Goo is a little more approachable so we’re chill with that one. But, they do mention not particularly *liking* the moment Cedric gets stuck to (and left) on the wall because of their association of Cedric with me. Despite the fact that that moment is one the 90s/2K kid in me loves and finds ridiculously funny!!!

(It’s endearing but also kind of funny to listen to toddler/ preschooler logic. /gen)

But, yeah, it’s really cool to see this arc we see begin in “Cedric’s Apprentice,” move into the sort of begrudging substitute arc in “Substitute Cedric, his nostalgia for prank day sort of battling for helping protect RPA for a hot minute. Then, he sort of really shows his true character when push comes to shove in “Gone With the Wand,” & how he acted in “In Cedric We Trust.”

So, again, this writing did really feel nice in the greater context of G1’s arc for him in regard to how he acts towards kids entrusted to his care. :)

I do also love the animation of him in the gif though. He actually looks strong in this image as opposed to in previous shots where he looked more desperate?

Lol can we talk about this??? 🥺 I freaking love the fact that Cedric was having lunch with his students. Like there’s no doubt that there’s a teachers lounge room where he could’ve just go there but instead he decided to join his students during lunch time and that honestly has to be so freaking wholesome to me!! 🥺

It really fills my heart with so much joy in seeing how much Cedric truly has changed for the better. Sure he may still have his snarky sassy personality but yet he is a total sweetheart when it comes to his students. I kinda do wish that moment could’ve lasted a bit more in just seeing Cedric having a nice chat with Zariah during lunch time but of course there was the whole conflict with the goo monster.

And speaking of the goo monster, another thing that I loved so much is the fact that Cedric instantly went protective mode on his students! He was making sure that all his students were right behind him and far away from the monster! I love this man so much 🥺

while realism means--exactly that, adherence to the specific logics of actual reality and its physics, logistics, etc.

There's a particular recurring discussion of "realism" in media that goes something like this: "okay, but realistically the heroes would always win because they'd just shoot the villain while they're monologuing" – while refusing to acknowledge the obvious follow-up question: "wait, but if monologuing reliably gets you shot, where do all the monologuing villains come from?"

i.e., what we're really discussing is not a milieu which has adhered to some notional model of "realism" ab initio, but one which was apparently governed by the conventional tropes of its genre right up until the moment the character the person framing the scenario wants to win walks into the room, whereupon "realism" asserts itself.

Heck, there were folks doing this song and dance in the notes of the post this one is following up on, trotting out hypotheticals like "in a realistic fantasy setting the twelve-year-old chosen one would always lose because experience trumps skill and the power of friendship isn't real", implicitly taking it as given that in a milieu where this is true, people would still be handing out magic swords to twelve-year-olds.