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I would love a novelization of ff14. theres so many people i would love to experience the story who will never touch an mmo. bigg problem is the fact that WoL would be Meteor and I can’t think of a worse main character

hey its me.. justin meteor.. here to save ishgard

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Whenever someone complains about the $80 USD sticker price on new games, some folks like to bring up the fact that many Super Nintendo cartridges were retailing for the same price way back in the 90s.

The subtext of these observations is usually that AAA game prices have been effectively static for thirty years, so really, once you take inflation into account, AAA games are cheaper than ever.

A more pointed observation would be that, in spite of those thirty years of inflation, that $80 price tag has managed to become less affordable to the average gamer in 2025 than it was in 1995, which is an indictment that reaches much further than the AAA gaming industry.

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miraculous ladybug au sulemio. i’m so insane about this aoughhh

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super secret special mission!!

(want a chance to get a comic or illustration by me? I'm doing prizes for a charity raffle for @fandomsforpali, more info here!!)

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They really gave Chat Noir a special new super power, his equivalent to Miraculous Ladybug, in an episode where he doesn't learn anything, or come to some sort of realization about himself or his relationships, or have a moment of emotional catharsis or whatever. To him, this was a completely normal akuma until the end where he discovers a new power, and he doesn't even really know why he uses it on Rena, other than she and Ladybug told him to. He's like the third most important character in this episode. That is absolutely baffling to me.

Given how much he's been kept in the dark in general it's possible they're doing a theme about how much he's used to having his talents be used for other people and how it's comforting to some extent or whatever. I hope there's some follow through with this theme but to be honest I am not optimistic.

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The demand for more f/f fic (written by people who aren't turned on by it) has been going on online for decades. In the LiveJournal days, writing and reading f/f was called "eating your vegetables." You weren't supposed to like it, but it was morally suspect if you didn't do it. Like, callout posts would be made for fic writers who had never written f/f.

Obviously, this strategy worked very well to encourage f/f fics, and everyone was happy forever.

That's hilarious actually. Wildly superficial engagement with text, treated as a solemn duty.

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okay……i ship……

hope you like it

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I do want to say that I’m baffled by the posts I’ve seen arguing that “the writers” ruined Chlobrina by “making it abusive out of nowhere.” I’m aware that I’m poking a hornet’s nest, but Chloé’s mistreatment of Sabrina was consistent from S1.

Y’all know I’m a Chloé, Sabrina, and Chlobrina fan, but I like them because of the toxic dynamic, which is a children’s show-ized version of one I remember well from elementary and middle school. “Toxic codependent female friendships” are a lesbian meme for a reason.

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TOXIC YURI SAVE MY SOUL

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Metafictional horror tabletop RPG where the players take on the roles of a group of tabletop RPG players trying out what initially appears to be an unpublished playtest draft of a diceless lyric journalling game about the last survivors of a dying universe; over the course of play, it gradually becomes apparent that the pregenerated PCs from the game-within-a-game are in some sense real and self-willed, and are trying to survive the death of their world by psychically supplanting their own players and escaping into the "real world", which is modelled using a hack of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

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They have solved this problem by just deciding to not be a RPG anymore. XVI is just straight up a character action game like Devil May Cry.

i dont know much about final fantasy but i think whatever the ticking time bomb did also affected 14 because 1.0 was so bad it was literally nuked into unplayable oblivion with a moon

This is in reference to something I said on twitter, which was something to the effect of "Final Fantasy VII is a masterpiece and a classic, but it also turned the mainline games into a ticking time bomb that didn't go off until XIII." XIV managed to turn it around eventually, but 1.0 was really the low point of the collapse, and based on the reactions to XV, the franchise is still struggling to find its footing.

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kinda in a chlonette mood

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What's also fascinating about Sublimation is Marinette's kind of toxic desire to be useful. Like, obviously the first half of the episode is tinted by Marinette's jealousy that she won't admit to herself, and that makes Marinette act unwise. But even so, literally all of her plans to seduce become friends with Sublime hinge on something bad happening to her that Marinette can fix.

Besides the jealousy, that shows how Marinette always works: She's a fixer. She wants to fix things. Broken toys, broken dreams, broken relationships, no matter what, she's going to get in there, with permission or not, and fix things, and get a new friend that way.

But that only works if the people have something that needs fixing. Sublime doesn't as far as Marinette can see. The issues Sublime has with her fear of failure and the tension with her mom are all things Marinette doesn't learn about. And that leads to that kind of toxic mindset. "I hope this girl has an accident… so I can help her and befriend her!" is a marked change from the way Marinette treated Kagami early on, but it still contains "I hope this girl has an accident" in there. (And, again, of course part of that is the jealousy that Marinette is trying to fight rearing its head.)

Aside: There aren't really a lot of other relationships she has that aren't based on her fixing things. The most important relationship she has that isn't based on her fixing things is… Adrien, probably. (Wait, has this been a Sublinette post the whole time? I don't know what I'm typing I'm making this up as I go along, but you know what, sure, I ship it.)

I'm not sure I have a conclusion, but I think it's interesting how very explicit it is made here. The show has always questioned Marinette, that's the only thing Alya and Tikki are there for 90% of the time, but it often portrayed it more as unconnected crazy, generic anxiety, mild comedic stalking. But my vague vibe, possibly incorrect, is that this season drills just a tiny bit deeper. Certainly this episode, with comments like those by Trixx.

Marinette loves to fix things, and will do it endlessly and unasked. It's her safe area. That makes her an excellent superhero. It also means she's more likely to work as a garbage man than to hang out with her boyfriend, or that she'll literally hope for all sorts of weird accidents rather than just flirt hang out with a pretty girl normally.

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Nine-episode animated miniseries where each episode is framed as the obligatory beach episode from the middle of a different full season, and figuring out the arc of the show's notional nine seasons from context is left as an exercise for the viewer.

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For now Im gonna focus on Marinette in "Daddycop" at least trying to use her manic energy to put 200% into preparing a date for their 100th kiss

More of that please, im begging you. Let her be as loving to her boyfriend as we were promised she'd be and stop making he hurt him or hurt others because shes insecure of being with him

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A comment from Youtube in regards to Chloe and her Spiral that I wrote and liked.

Honestly, whats more frusterating is Chloe didn't even choose to side with hawkmoth just to get powers. Chloe had agreed, through reluctantly, that she couldn't be queen bee anymore when ladybug finally told her (after Sabrina went miraculer in defense of Chloe) about how since hawkmoth knew her identity that to avoid being targeted she couldn't be queen bee and that it could keep pollen safe as well. Only for chloe to be targeted directly anyways!

Hawkmoth akumatizing her parents and directly TELLING her that he chose to target them because of Chloe...implying he could do it again at any other time!...and then having no way to defend herself, she then went to contact ladybug via signal where she was literally cornered by the bad guys on a roof where they cut off the power to her signal...no way to defend herself or think ladybug would come to her rescue.

Where then hawkmoth, a villian who hardly ever comes out of hiding and a manipulator, dug into her insecurities after making her feel isolated, alone....just for the kicker being that he had pollen and all the other miraculousess! When Chloe had trusted ladybug to keep pollen safe! If Chloe had said no again she would have been left alone with a most likely angry adult man villian with no way to defend herself and he would have kept the miraculouses! He would have kept pollen because LB had failed to hold up her half of the bargain or protecting pollen! and while I understand thinking 'oh she wants to be queen bee again and is feeling entitled' but she had accepted not being queen bee in the miraculous episode before when she had rejected being akumatized and HAWKMOTH the manipulator who knows her even better than usual cuz she is a life long friend of Adrien's pointed her in that direction to point her stress and blame. Plus she still only agreed only after he freed her parents!

I understand Marinette and others in the show assuming Chloe was just being her entitled self but WE the audience literally WATCHED as she was literally cornered into that decision! Watched as she was sabotaged by a adult villian who knows her well!

Why do we brush off others getting manipulated into agreeing to the powers in their lowest moments but we don't give Chloe some leeway when she was literally put into a stage to be manipulated? is it cuz we can't blame it all on the magic? Even though the whole point is suppoused to be a metaphore for how people are more likely to agree to things when they feel isolated and alone from someone who seems to understand how they feel and is giving them a chance to validate their feelings. Not accidentally imply if your manipulated in real life you should still be blamed since you aren't magically compelled! Gabe didn't just take advantage of a separate situation and someone feeling low here...he SET Chloe up for failure so she wouldn't be able to resist siding with him this time.

Even more! Chloe is bad at communicating and feels like she messed up bad because she sided with hawkmoth and it caused all these side heros to be known!

We KNOW Chloe is aware that people don't like her. We know that being good was hard for Chloe even when she was trying...just for all that effort to go down the toilet by siding with hawkmoth! Not only do alot of fans ignore that Chloe was set up and manipulated but the fan will either agree that chloe was already bad or dismiss that chloe was just sabotaged by the creator later instead of seeing the logic to why she reacted the way she did.