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"Three of Swords. Heartbreak, sorrow, grief."
Literally the hottest couple in the MCU right now.
that they originally assume the tarot trial is set up to tell billy how to live his life, and it turns out that actually it's about everyone understanding and valuing the incredible long brilliant wise tragic life lilia has already lived, including lilia herself-- !!!
sometimes you just need to summon this flowchart as an overlay of your vision
reasons to write fanfiction (I'll start):
share a cool scene that popped into your head
evoke a particular emotion the canon makes you feel
song made you think of a character or idea from canon
make people feel the same way about a character you do
make dolls kiss for fun
explore ideas the canon hints at but doesn't do anything with
traumatize characters and make them suffer
coddle characters and let them rest
had an insane idea for a crack ship and now everyone needs to know
the author of the canon was wrong and must be fixed
use familiar characters to explore your own ideas and plotlines
canon is too short and you need to wallow in the universe of the story
I love how despite that Agatha litteraly just almost got killed by him, she still decided to tease Billy.
But even as she teased him, she expressed pride. She was proud that he found a way to survive. She was proud that Billy a kid she knew when he was young, found a way to live on.
I know she probably has an angle, and that she's probably gonna try to manipulate Billy at one point. But the whole "don't feel guilty about your talent" felt a lot like something she's been telling herself for centuries to make it easier
Bio? Something like that.
How did I start modding? Literally no one has asked this, but here's my story, don't worry it's not long... I guess that depends on what your definition of “long” is, haha! Hang on, here we go.
On a random day in January, 2024, a few days before my birthday, I might add... I woke up to stars in my right eye. A few days later, I was told I had a very rare injury and it would never heal. Those are not words an artist/gamer wants to hear! Long story short, I am now legally blind in my right eye. If you think, oh that's not a huge deal, you can still see. Humor me, get a cheap pirate eyepatch, put that on, then pour yourself a cup of coffee. Not as easy as you thought, right? Depth perception. It’s a thing. Anyway, on with the story. Suffice it to say, I was depressed. Majorly. Then, through some random conversation somewhere, I found Stardew Valley.
Perfect! 2D animation, cute pixel art, story that's not sugar-coated anime, I love it! Got to year 3, TBH I've never played past year 3 because ADHD, and realized the dialogue was quite lacking. Then I discovered mods. What the-, it's a freakin' goldmine! Downloaded a lot of things, mostly dialogue, and tossed half of them. While playing through a Sebastian run, I saw it. Oh. My. God. It's a coding error glaring at me in my dialogue box. This is NOT acceptable. I tried to ignore it, but then it happened again. Okay, time for some investigation. I opened the folder and found... json files. Interesting, I wasn't entirely clueless since I do know HTML code from back when the internet was a baby, Facebook had no ads, and dinosaurs roamed the earth. Okay, okay, the internet was more like a spoiled toddler. Yes, I'm old. Shut up. But I digress. It didn't take long to discover the misplaced punctuation and go on my merry reality-avoiding way. Until I got bored again.
I looked for more Seb mods, but there were like seven. Three were yandere, not my jam, and only 2 were updated for 1.6 and were dialogue-only. Solution? Make my own mod for myself. I spent six weeks downloading mods, learning code, Googling to very little effect, writing dialogue, learning how to make an event, discovering I knew nothing, and on and on. The perfect distraction from the whole eye thing. I finished a decent draft, loaded it up, and praise Yoba, it worked! And on we play. At some point, I saw a comment complaining about the lack of Sebastian dialogue mods. Huh, yep, they're right. Too bad. Oh. Well, I guess I could load this thing I made, it's really just my own internal story monologue while playing the game, I'm NOT a writer, and most people probably won't get it. But I did spend a lot of time on this, and maybe someone out there will like it. Heck, no skin off my nose since it's free. So I took a deep breath, made peace with my inner demons, and threw it out into the void of Nexus, expecting it to be swallowed up and ignored. That... didn't happen.
In the first few hours, several people downloaded it. Huh, Nexus must have a decent search algorithm. That was literally all I thought about it. The next day, 300 downloads. And comments! Mostly positive with the exception of one wild demand I subsequently ignored. At one week, it had 3,000 unique downloads. I was floored, 3,000 weirdos downloaded my mod. Add to that, people seemed to actually like it! I've never gotten so much positive feedback for anything in my life. Seriously. Apparently, my oddball internal monologue, thanks ADHD, is quite entertaining. Heck, might as well make another one... and here we are. Yes, I've gotten negative comments and unreasonable demands, but I do my best to ignore them and practice staying positive. Trolls be damned! It's a lot harder to do that for yourself than for other people, turns out.
So, bottom line, found something interesting? Try it! Does it make you happy? Keep doing it! Even if it's only for yourself, do the thing and let it make you smile. Share it with the world if you're so inclined. Get out there and kick ass!!
is anyone else constantly afraid they’ll be “caught” doing stuff they’re obviously allowed or even supposed to do
trying to be normal about the fact that people think 1) señor scratchy was a gift from Rio or 2) Agatha named him señor scratchy because it reminded her of the two people she loved the most (her son and her Spanish speaking WIFE)
I don’t know if anyone can resist some good ol’ fashion fake dating, so here are 150 related prompts.
this list of prompts includes:
☆ 50 reasons why we must fake a relationship ☆ 50 reasons i’m only doing this because people need to believe this is real ☆ 50 moments of wait, are we still pretending?
buckle up and please enjoy the ride!
reasons why we must fake a relationship
01. I’m tired of my family whining about when I’m going to start dating someone (classic and must be included) 02. my moving van was stolen so will you pretend to marry me so I can get the money and gifts to replace everything? 03. my ex is an asshole and I really don’t want them to think I’m still in love 04. I’m tired of my friends/family setting me up on horrible blind dates so I made up a relationship and now they want to meet this mystery person 05. I need a green card (aka The Proposal AU) 06. I want to let someone who keeps asking me out down easy, so I blurt that I’m in a relationship and things sort of got out of hand 07. I answer an ad so we’re each other’s partners to our family gatherings 08. someone assumed we’re dating but I didn’t realize that’s what they meant until it was too late and I had committed us to a couples’ retreat weekend 09. in order to get that promotion, I have to show the Big Bosses that I’m a family person too but I don’t have a family so can I pretend to be part of yours? 10. my ex just showed up with their new partner and I don’t want them to win this breakup 11. I’m your assistant and you just informed me that your entire family thinks we’re dating and you don’t want to let them down 12. it’s grandma’s dying wish to see you married so here I am 13. I’m really competitive and drunk and I just told a rival that my relationship is way better than theirs, but they don’t believe you exist (but I’m too stubborn to admit they’re right) 14. our friends set us up on a blind date as a prank because we don’t like each other but neither of us wants to let them win so 15. people keep teasing us about being a couple so we come up with a plan to fake date and have a fake breakup so they’ll feel awkward and leave us alone
enjoy the rest of the prompts under the cut!
Afficher davantage
You don't need anyone's approval for the stories you write and the art you create. But it's also absolutely valid to want some approval from your audience. Kudos and likes don't determine your creation's worth. But it just feels amazing to receive them.
Love the contrast between the two last episodes, with a mother that became a famous rockstar to protect her daughter from a curse, creating a protection spell so popular and powerful that it’s being sung somewhere every moment of every day; and in the next episode we have a mother that deems her child evil and wants her dead even from beyond her own grave
Agatha being the first one to enter the trial's house but waiting for everyone to be inside before closing the doors. SHE'S NOT EVIL BUT JUST A BABY WITH POWER KINK
This is Agatha, she loves her personal space.
That's Rio, she also loves Agatha's personal space
There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
What do you mean their relationship is not canon?
What do you mean they have never even met in canon?
What do you mean the writers never wrote the subtext I have clearly been reading this whole time?
why are we all sleeping on kathryn hahn saying agatha is "for sure a top" in that podcast tho????? followed by "except that she's so powerful that sometimes she wants to be treated like a baby" WHAT
There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"
About episode 1x05
So, I have a theory in case most of this episode is in Agatha's head. I think it all starts once she takes her hands off the ouiga board. That's when Jen starts acting very hostile. All, except for Billy, act very hostile out of a sudden. So, from that point, everything seems to be happening in her head.
Now, if the point of this trial is to make Agatha face all these fears and traumas, it must also be, as I've seen others mention here, that the rest of them have to feel empathy for her and that won't happen if they can't see her vulnerability. The question is: how can the others help her or sympathize with her if they can't see into her head? And the answer must be: the TV. There is a TV in the background, so if the others are still in that room, they probably see what Agatha is seeing through that TV.
The TV could be a reference to Wandavision.
This is just a theory and I could be wrong, but that TV seems very suspicious to me.
Okay I do not understand where this idea that Agatha is a liar comes from.
Is she manipulative? Yeah. Will she do anything to get what she wants? Probably, idk. Agatha seems like she’s more intent on running away from everything.
Does she lie? Yeah. But she’s also canonically terrible at it.
For this entire series, she spoils every lie in less than a minute by giving away that she’s lying or by just straight up telling the truth right after.
Are y’all referencing WandaVision? That show where she was too honest with the protagonist and it was her downfall? The one where she was corrupted by the Darkhold, a book famous for corrupting everyone who uses it since forever?
Every instance we have of her lying often turns out to be Agatha telling the truth and no one believing her.
The coven attempting to kill her in 1693? Turns out she actually can’t control her power. Trying to steal power from the other witches? She already told Lilia that they have to attack her first. Not drinking the poison wine? She left the glass in plain sight.
Agatha Harkness is a terrible liar and people need to start acknowledging that.
Agatha All Along Episode 5 Theory: Why It’s Weird and Short
So Episode 5 was by far the shortest episode we’ve had so far for the series. It feels different from the other trials so far which causes it to feel…scrambled in a way. Now you could blame poor writing for the craziness of this episode (along with the abrupt ending), but I usually reserve that judgement for after a series ends.
Here’s what I think is going on. SPOILERS AHEAD!
Agatha’s trial being in this episode was a bit of a surprise, but let’s be real, the show is called Agatha All Along…do we really believe that our favorite dramatic sad backstory mommy issues-filled witch only gets ONE episode for her trial?
The Ouija board makes the objective for this task clear: Punish Agatha. A task that some of the coven clearly have no qualms carrying out. But let’s think about the sequence of events after that message is delivered.
The coven tries to tie up Agatha which fails after Agatha becomes possessed by her mother. Agatha’s mother says Agatha must be left behind which causes her to freak out. Alice tries to save Agatha which results in Agatha accidentally(?) killing her. Agatha is only stopped when Teen says her son’s name and the door to escape opens after Teen says Goodbye on the Ouija board.
Notice anything?
Agatha is never *technically* punished by her coven. Each trial so far involves a task that 1. is specific to one witch’s ability, 2. involves a clear objective that the coven eventually recognizes and reaches together, 3. ends with growth, both power and character wise, of the witch/coven. This episode feels off because the formula is off. And the formula is off because none of it’s real.
Episode 5 IS Agatha’s punishment. Every trial has stirred up unwanted tragic memories from the witch it’s related to. It is no coincidence that this episode hits every. single. one. of Agatha’s problems.
It starts with an Ouija Board - Agatha has killed a lot of people, not all of them on purpose. We already know Agatha loves to pretend to not feel anything, but now she is forced to directly interact with her victims.
Punish Agatha - The coven turns on Agatha surprisingly quick to carry out the trial and surround her while she is on the floor…just like her old coven betrayed her. She fears betrayal.
Evanora Harkness - Self-explanatory, she not only forcefully possesses Agatha (which could tie in to fear of lack of control thanks to Wanda), but tells her she was born evil, something that Agatha looks devastated to hear. Mommy issues galore.
“I’ll be good” - upon hearing that her coven may leave her behind, Agatha freaks out and begs for them to not leave her. Fear of abandonment.
Alice’s Death - Agatha seems horrified after killing Alice with her powers (just like she killed her mother and coven in the past), and the rest of the present coven, especially Teen, are horrified by her actions and don’t believe her.
Nicholas Scratch - A devastating name to hear. And his voice calling to her is just the cherry on top.
And after she leaves the trial? Teen turns on her using magic similar to Wanda’s and then throws Agatha off the path to kill her. And Rio is suddenly nowhere to be seen? Another tumblr user made an interesting point that the aspect ratio doesn’t return to normal like it usually does after a trial. Because all of this has been the precursor to Agatha’s actual trial.
This may be all in her mind and it’s up to her coven to help her, guess we won’t know for sure until next week.
I’m not a perfectionist, but finding a typo or a grammatical error in my own already-published fic is like stepping on a Lego honestly
one of my favorite things about this scene is how Rio starts off her story by saying “someone” then “them” and then ends with “she is my scar” and just proceeds to fully stare at Agatha
Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!
Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.
There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.
I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:
Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.
The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.
The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.
If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.
Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.
Dying at how Agatha is SO annoyed at Rio right here yet she snatches her flower anyway🤭
“what the FUCK are you DOING…GIVE ME THE FUCKING FLOWER😡”