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Inviting all to participate in a fandom event!
Time: April 14 - 16, 2025
Topic: Albrecht x Loid
Prompts:
April 14: April Showers/May Flowers
April 15: Sanctum/Pride
April 16: Farewell/Reunion
All manner of fanworks welcome - art, fanfic, captura and so on! Tag your works with #alloidfest when posting during the event!
You may choose one of the two prompts (or combine them both) for each day and on that day, post your work pertaining to the prompt. You do NOT have to post on all three days.
Feel free to ask questions if anything is unclear!
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The aftermath
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I've been thinking a lot about Albrechts notes and what happened to him after he got out of the void... the way he describes just sorta floating there waiting to die, too scared to act. And Loid taking care of him once he decides to get his act together. It makes me so emotional & conjured up a lot of images in my mind.
i don't wf but tbh been thinking on how much narrative framing matters for making morally grey characters likable. someone who's done extremely horrible things in a narrative that Gets It and handles it well is way more tolerable to me than someone who's done some mean things but like they had to and the people they hurt don't even matter and they're so sad and-
For context WF recently introduced a pair of characters who are 'semi-divorced' and the player's task, explicitly, is to get them back together. Hooking them up is textually their Good End and they don't become your best friends if you don't force them back together. The female half of the relationship (because of course it's a straight relationship), is constantly verbally derisive of the man you're supposed to get her back together with.
I'm a huge supporter of women's wrongs but this character is just...loathsome, because the narrative genuinely believes her behavior is normal and excusable. You only get Unreliable Narrator glimpses of their past (perhaps he really is just paranoid and she hasn't been purposely ruining his friendships!), but in their present you can pretty clearly see one person consistently belittling and harassing the other--and the narrative treats this is a 'well both of them made some mistakes' kinda situation. And that's not what the text on the page says.
I was watching an LP of the Coffin of Andy and Leyley last night, and while it's got its negatives (the writer knows what crowd they're baiting, certainly) I'd argue that the narrative also knows that Leyley's behavior isn't acceptable. I was watching the LP and thinking 'god I wish I could kick this character's fucking ass because she's so obnoxious, but with the toxic home situation that we see it's clear that she truly doesn't know how else to act and gain affection. As much as I want to kick her ass, it's tragic she ended up like this because she never had another chance.'
And then I sat there for a minute and thought about how I honestly found the incestuous cannibal serial killer a more sympathetic figure than the 'hero' in Warframe, on whom my opinion is 'god I wish this were a Fire Emblem game so I could send you unarmed to the front lines.'
Reblogged pluckyredhead
“Contrary to popular belief, those two get along like a house on fire. No one can run up a tab on a night out like Guy and Bea can when they’re together”
like a solid 60% of weird fandom tropes were invented by women who needed slightly more avant garde ways to fuck spock.... wanting to fuck spock is in many ways a load bearing pillar of fandom like if u took it away the source code would just break theres like a molecule of wanting to fuck spock or reaction to everyone wanting to fuck spock within the heart of fanfic all fanfiction is about wanting to fuck spock except fanfic about wanting to fuck spock which is about women in stem
Reblogged teenytinycoffeebean
Every update DE finds creative ways to call Loid gay