I've Been So Negative To The LA So Heres A Few Things That I Genuinely Loved. Spoiles Ahead. Duh.

criminal minds see's their female characters and goes "how far can we push them" and doesn't wait for an answer.

yes this is focused on JJ and Emily because what the FUCK are their life stories. Genuinely for how bland JJ is as a character HOW DOES SHE HAVE ONE OF THE MOST INSANE CHARACTER PROGRESSON JOURNEYS OF THE CAST. She mothered to hard and had to be water boarded I guess.

And with Emily she's so...AHHH. SHE FAKES HER FUCKING DEATH. what normal person would do that. Once again she mothered to hard.

Light yagami is a hardcore santa believer. talk to the fucking hand if you disagree cuss you are WRONG.

That boy is running down the stairs in his little jammies and reindeer slippers waiting eagerly to be allowed to open his presents. He'll be in his 20's doing the same routine he did when he was 5. Has a stocking aswell! He's also super proud that he never got a clump of coal unlike some people (cough cough L cough cough)

I want hatter to have a cow. I want him to treat the cow like it’s his child. Like it’s a gift from the gods. I want him to find the best bell collar, decorate the ears with ribbons. Omfg imagine him like painting the hooves to match his own nail polish.

Oh and it most definitely sleeps in his bed and he sleep in a hammock hanging above him

Heavenly Tyrant is out today! It's a weird feeling after so many years of losing hair over it. It didn't feel like I was capable of finishing the book until I wrote the last word. The publication process was not a happy one. I'm not doing any events for it, not even a launch. I'm typing this while lying in bed and thinking about what a terrible year it's been. We joked about 2020 being the worst year ever, yet every year since has been progressively worse. And the coming years do not show any indication of being better.

But a big theme in Heavenly Tyrant is that wherever there is oppression, there WILL be resistance. I have had as much heartwarming support from peers, friends, and readers as I've faced heinous shenanigans this year. When a very, very famous author I met this summer asked me "Are you a controversial person?" after I told him about the stuff I was going through, I answered "To many who hold power? Yes. To regular people? I don't think so."

I want to thank all of you who gave me the faith to say something like that. Most people I know are on the right side of history. If you aren't - I don't want to know you.

Anyway, the book. Heavenly Tyrant is SO different from Iron Widow that I'm pretty nervous about whether people would like it. I want to ask you all to adjust your expectations going in. You're not going to get another breakneck-paced story about a Girlboss Going Smash. The smashing was the easy part. Rebuilding what she broke into something better is much, much harder. The story is a lot slower by necessity, and the problems she faces are way more complicated to deal with. I also ask that you read until the end before making a judgement because, well, developments you don't like might not be endgame! And there's a book 3 coming! (This was always supposed to be a trilogy; it's just that my publisher was only willing to buy 2 books from me at first. They changed their minds after seeing the preorder numbers for IW.)

Finally, I want to bring everyone's attention to the five songs the Bookish Songs Collective wrote specifically for Iron Widow! They're now available to stream whenever you get your music. It blows my mind that MY book would get such epic music?! I can't thank or praise them enough. Seriously, CHECK THE EP OUT.

Lowkey wanna write a fic where like Chishiya knows magic tricks and either uses them to flirt continuously with Arisu OR uses them to like trick people into giving him their cards (including hatter and or Aguni).  except I don't write so this shall forever stay a forgotten thought never expanded upon lmao 

something something the gang continues fighting supernatrual problems within the town, even going to universitys near each other/ the same one so they can continue working as a group since it's fun. Eventually they face another creature that causes them to experience their greatest fears and Ethan is forced to fortell the future over and over and watch as none of his friends ever belive him. He realises that his greatest fear has evolved from being alone, to being with people but never heard, because isn't that worse? to be seen but to never be listened to?

Anyway they deal with the super natrual creature and alls okay and they start beliving Ethan again but it still FUCKS with him.

ps if you see how I just wrote ethan into casandras position (without the "no Apollo I do not want to have sex with you omg" moment), shhh no you didn't.

There’s no difference between the arc reactor and keeping crystals in your bra tbh.

You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!

I get that the Doyel episodes are like...Emily centric or whatever. But In lauren it has SUCH a sweet arc for Derek. From being angry that Emily never revealed the truth, feeling almost ashamed that she could never trust him, to confessing that he is proud of her as she DIES in his arms? Like okay she doesn't die, but from his understanding she is close to death and then DOES eventually 'die'. Like that transition is insane and it's so in character.

He's always has a more logical way of treated the unsubs and the people in cases with the ocasional diversion from this treatment. He's also very heavy in his ideas of trust and family. And he puts all that aside and focuses on that one idea of family, because it doesn't matter about being logical in this instant, all that matters is that she understands that even arfter everything that has happened she is still his family and his friend. They can work this out in the future, but for that to happen she has to stay clinging to life and its just...It's really sweet. Sometimes I write Derek off as having a very lacking character arc compared to other characters but I think I'm very wrong about that, its subtle but its consistent and common in the episodes.

Chat-noir: when you think about it us holding the power over abstract ideas like creation or destruction or illusion is in some ways terrifying in how we’re gifted these things and told “hey save people and don't become bad” and yet there's nothing ‘bad’ to fight against other than our own thoughts and creations within humanity. If the miraculous didn't exist there’d be no hawkmoth to fight and yet I know I wouldn’t nor would any of us really give up our miraculous because we’ve become to attached with the power coursing through our veins as well with our kawamis and our team. kinda whack huh  everyone else at the team meeting: e-excuse me???  Ladybug: ignore him he gets like that some times. Hey chat you want a brioche  chat-noir: yes please m’lady