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i haven't read nearly enough to call myself a marxist with any kind of confidence but my god, trying to discuss any topic in depth from a purely liberal perspective is so.
#like. talking about the state as if it were some sort of homogeneous entity#<<there are opposing interests at play>>#which ones? on what basis are they confronted? how does this clash of interests manifest?#only the vaguest mention of maybe some kind of economic motive at play perhaps. and like not to be reductionist but for fucks sake#the both-sidesism#the reduction of morality to legality. that one's specially bad with this professor but dios mío#the amount of university professors who use ''the bad ones'' ''the good ones'' while talking about complex social phenomena#i know you're oversimplifying for this hour and a half long class#but you sound like a charlatán#anyway. my fault i guess. pa qué me vengo si ya sé cómo son
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rotating the UHCs + serveur du lundi qetoiles precanon potentiality in my mind
#im watching that vod where etoiles teaches antoine to play mc#and at one point he says he’s a mercenary as opposed to an adventurer (in relation to when he used to play UHCs)….. fascinating#and he spends the whole time being like no im not gonna join the server u guys r gonna play on (antoine baghera + other tdl people) bc i#don’t play survival i’m a uhc/pvp guy….. obviously he does and we got the serveur du lundi the funniest shit in the world#but watching the vod did make me realise that woagh before that server where he did do a lot of adventuring and exploring bro was like 👎 to#survival and rly only did strictly pvp….. for apparently like 2000 hours……… this fucking guy#but yeah anw very very interesting to consider that in a qetoiles pov bc wow . up until very recently his whole life really just had been#constant pvp and all the exploring he did on qsmp was in part a new aspect of life he was discovering#much to think about . i am already sorta writing a fic about precanon qfrench stuff this just adds fuel to my fire 🔥🔥🔥#jay rambles#étoiles
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OctoLayton and InkLuke
Bonus: Anemone Flora
You can watch it being inked here
#professor layton#hershel layton#luke triton#flora reinhold#splatoon 3#inkling#octoling#harmony#combine two interests that make me happy is a tried and true method of producing art that makes brain go brr#did think about this crossover too much lol#also the amount of games I've played that if the opposing team inked their base a bit more they would've won is astounding#sunnyaliceart
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i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans
#fair warning for. a very very long ramble and rant in the tags. apologies#westerner or russian. no other option#westerner because the only thought they ever have is 'but they had universal housing so if you oppose ussr you oppose that'#(which is stupid becuse you can believe in that WITHOUT WANTING LIKE 6 COUNTRIES TO BE FORCED TO BE RULED OVER BY RUSSIA)#(SORRY FOR WANTING TO LIVE IN MY COUNTRY WITH MY HISTORY AND MY CULTURE AND NOT RUSSIA!!) (poland was a sattelite state but GOD)#or russian because they have a victim complex and are convinced that they deserve to rule over the entire damn world#'well you had universal housing so you had it easy' right yeah. okay. forget about like. everything else that happened#to eastern europeans during that time#forget about the things that are STILL issues all these years later not only in poland but like the more eastern countries too#its not about. the fact that the houses 'didnt have 3 bedrooms and a jacuzzi' in them. you DUMB SACK OF SHIT#god sorry. sorry. i also know so very little but like god damn i fucking live here. i didnt sit thru all that modern history#for some dumbfuck to say that 'ohhh only rich and american middle class people are happy the ussr was dissolved'#'oooh the dissolving of the ussr was illegal and the countries within it actually liked being there'#im just so fucking tired man i need to. i need to start killing people#and this is all not to mention that theyll say this stupid shit and then deny eastern europeans the things they actually did that were good#FUCK french people for trying to claim maria skłodowska. fuck americans for trying to claim the witcher as their own fantasy world#fuck the way the west is allowed to claim and destroy eastern european culture without any consequence because we dont matter enough#vaguely related but ill throw this in here since anyone finding it is unlikely and im scared of having this opinion#i think one underappreciated aspect of DE (which might be underappreciated because its not actually there and im stupid)#is that its pro-communist while still also giving some criticism to how it was handled and acknowledging that its still not perfect#which makes the writers much better communists than any self-proclaimed one ive ever met in my life who just worships the idea#perhaps its because the writers of the game were not white upper middle-class americans living in the suburbs. among other things#idk de is a game for people far smarter than me and i only played it once and im sure anyone who played it well can clock me as a bad perso#horrible horrible person even which is why im scared of mentioning it. but its an interesting thing. to me#the main thing is that im just not. im not far left enough i suppose. i agree communism in theory is a great idea. as far as i know it#(which isnt very far)#but chances of implementing it correctly in a way that doesnt take away from peoples happiness in other areas is. low. very low#i wrote a short essay about how utopias are inherently contradictory ideas once it wasnt very deep or good but like#you cant have universal happiness without restricting certain freedoms. and when those freedoms are resticted not everyone#will be happy. and then theyre unhappy they will have to be somehow removed or ignored
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Not only have several of my former classmates gotten married, just found out that now one is having a kid?? 😭😭 just reiterating: i cant believe some people my age are doing that dklsldls. Where do they find time to work/study AND develop intricate crown prince rudolf headcanons once they do that
#married people and parents still have hobbies yadda yadda. you dont need to tell me that kslsld its a joke#its interesting how strong an emotional reaction of Otherness i have to these types of news dkkdld. like its always 'good for them but i#dont think i could ever want this'#i mean im not opposed to gay marriage in my future depending on how life plays out but i would not want to do it to 'settle down' i think#dont necessarily want a big house a garden a golden retriever or a car 😭#and def no kids#i guess its partly a reaction to kind of.... idk at a younger age more people are more 'restless' like me and then many change their minds#so its invalidating to be 'left alone' when you used to have allies who could relate to your life choices/wishes haha#i think being gay complicates this... i used to think it was a blessing for making it less of an expectation but actually turns out soooo#many girls on dating apps and online have or really want kids 😭 and i'm just like. good for you but this doesnt work for me#ugh anyway yeah. you guys better still be following me for rudolf posting when i'm 45 with a mortgage and an evil day job x#xD#you can take time off from your spouse and kids to log onto tumblr com and look at this shit 🥰🥰 for md ☺️#me*
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Thinking about how romancing Astarion as a druid is interesting because for one, it has the potential to be the most long lasting relationship Astarion could ever have with anyone due to a druid's long lifespan (and I need him to be happy for as long as possible ok 🥺🥺), but also in terms of roleplaying, since druids love all that is natural and are against all that is unnatural, which, as an undead, is technically what Astarion is; so there's potential for angst and conflict, where Tav may have to change their beliefs about the undead, and slowly learn that they can work together and ultimately even end up sleeping with him lol
#plus I roleplay my Tav as a bit more of a 'rogue' druid anyways so#and Halsin doesn't seem opposed to Astarion so I guess that's not something BG3 took into consideration anyways#I'm also a huge fan of rejecting canon whereever it doesn't fit my own narrative#BUT if you do want to play into those dynamics then I think the potential for interesting conflict is there#baldur's gate 3#astarion#bg3
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alien stage round 7
i've seen a few theories of what will happen in round 7 and i'm really excited about how it will play out (i like pain dw).
some theories say that luka will "be mizi" (like how he acted like sua for his round with mizi) and others say that he will "be ivan" and even some where he'll be both mizi and ivan.
the thing is, there has to be a winner, right? and luka pulling the same tactic to win again doesn't seem like the way to go for me. sooooo.
it's common knowledge at this point that till loves mizi (see the aliens tormenting till with mizi's missing article) so my guess is that luka will try to utilise that and will "be mizi". but it won't work this time. (even if luka does "be ivan" or both of them, i still think it won't work regardless).
now, till has changed a lot since round 2. in round 2, till was still fighting and rebelling because he saw what alien stage was doing to his love and that gave him the energy and emotion to rebel. (obviously he's rebellious because of his own abuse too but i don't think the main reason he rebels is to fight against his abuse because he has the opportunity to escape with ivan but he doesn't).
then in round 6, the fight is completely gone from him because he was fighting against the aliens for mizi's sake. now that mizi is gone, he doesn't see the point in fighting anymore.
so if it was mizi's disappearance that made him lose the fight, it will be ivan's death that will bring it back.
so in round 7, till will have his fight back and will slay the competition and will win.
which if you think about it, is kinda ironic because it will be his aggression against the competition that will make him win it.
therefore, i think it's more meaningful if till wins in this way.
also including the fact that luka is the fan favourite, constantly in the number one spot and is very submissive to the aliens and the contest, really playing in the show and the drama (by tormenting his opponents) but he'll be beaten by the rookie, the underdog, the discounted abused one that rebels against the aliens and the contest.
#this webseries loves pain so i think they would end it with the cruel irony that till will win the contest by opposing it#it'll show that no matter if you play the system or fight against it#it will still control you#there is no freedom from it#obviously this theory kinda ignores hyuna and mizi trying to rescue till#that could also happen too#especially as they tried to rescue ivan and till in round 6#i wouldn't be opposed to that happening#because i wanna see luka and hyuna interact or at least see how they respond to each other#i'm very interested in their story#alien stage#alien stage round 7#alnst#alien stage till#alnst till#till#till alien stage#till alnst#starrywangxian#you queue fine things well
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I don't trust North we disagree on literally almost everything why does me attempting to still be a civil human being with the basics of decency lock Markus and her into a romance what the heck
#detroit become human#detroit become human spoilers#bit of play experience#literally I think I've only gotten her approval twice?#being sincere when Markus was trying to have alone time and successfully getting the trucks during the heist at the very beginning#Bring John with us? disapproval#turn away from her suggestions of violence (that she is constantly making at the slightest inconvenience)? disapproval#its mainly that last one actually#But I try to return the common decency of her expressing interest in Markus by asking her what her deal is?#suddenly they're lovers#I go back because I'm too frustrated with the fact I'm prompted to kiss her despite the fact that I'm still steadily gaining disapproval#and stick with the decision to not ask about her past#even though now that I know it Markus turning away saying “I'm going to talk to the humans” sucks and feels so bad#but don't just leave her to die when the army is baring down on her?#oh you guys are lovers again#even though you literally gain her disapproval yet again literally a moment later#like#?????????????????????#I don't dislike her enough to leave her to die but this is absolutely confounding to me#my version of Markus is literally opposed to her on almost everything#the one thing they can agree on is making sure Jericho is safe and making a better future for androids#why cant markus just dap up simon#<- screachogreilige addition that I agree with
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me and my girl don't argue she just bash my head in with a rock and i walk it off like a man
#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon scarlet#professor sada#sada pokemon#pokemon sv spoilers#pokemon sv#area zero#immm so crazy about her#this is the Real sada btw#hope the intense emotions and grey hair indicates that#i know turo has like the same personality but i think Sada is more interesting#i did also play scarlet so im biased of course#but the combo of future tech and past aesthetics is fun#paradise being some distant past you can never return to as opposed to an inevitable future is really compelling to me#shes just...oughhhhh#love beautiful evil women#my art
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i want to properly hit people with the keykid dalia lore but unfortunately i’m a perfectionist and i believe text should be accompanied with pictures in order to have a stronger impact which means i gotta draw which means it’ll never happen
#i can provide the gist in text though#long story short there’s a kind of meta thing going on there#in reference to the fact that as opposed to everyone else’s keykids who actually existed when khux was online#and had their own personalities before the story was complete#whereas i came in late and made an oc for a story that was already long over#hence like i made her knowing she would die. doomed from the start#so the meta aspect there is that she’s kind of like aware that she’s in a story already over. she knows the future#whether that’s her own strange power or that she got a look at the book of prophecies somehow#but she’s too scared to try interfering with fate so she willingly plays along with the role that destiny has for her#she doesn’t want to risk messing stuff up#she hides the fact that she knows all this from pretty much everyone and it messes with her#for example she is already aware of strelitzia’s existence (strel isn’t that good at hiding lol. but dalia is also just observant)#she would love to say hi but she knows it shouldn’t happen#i imagine like fast forward to later people find out she knew about everything. and particularly lauriam finds out she knew strel’s fate#which has him furious bc why didn’t dalia do anything about it?#simple. because it was meant to be this way. as much as it breaks her heart#’dalia’ appaaaaarently. don’t quote me on this. is some pagan lithuanian goddess of fate/destiny#or something along those lines#it also means like ‘branch’ or ‘bough’ in hebrew/some similar language so that’s interesting ig#but i was going with the fate thing#just in general she’s a very shy and introspective girl. polite and reserved#loves cutesy wholesome things like gardening and reading#and like. Soul Crushing Knowledge#kingdom hearts#khux#oc: dalia
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#lugia#back to the *actual* legendaries. i feel like everyone kinda likes this one‚ but always think that its boss fight in soulsilver is a bit#underwhelming. just because everyone thinks the music in ho-oh's in heartgold is way better. i haven't listened to lugia's music tbqh#but i do think ho-oh's is badass. hold on lemme grab my earbuds i'm gonna listen to this shit right now and give you my live verdict#… interesting. giving me dq vibes? no idea why. it's certainly very hgss. i certainly wouldn't mark this as one of my favorite tracks#but then again. i have a tendency to like OST more when i hear it in context first. and i played hg as opposed to ss#so i never got the chance to hear this one in game. team rocket battle will always be my favorite song from hgss i feel like#i get weirdly attached to pokémon OSTs ok. i think all pmd fans are like this. which by the way stony cave from gti best pmd OST#and if you like the lugia battle theme then i apologize. but go listen to the ho-oh one
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Mel for the unhinged character bingo!
yessss YEEEESSSSSSSSS
#ask me#so Mel is in the unenviable position of being a very strong character whose rights I support and whose wrongs I also fully support#BUT the way she's treated broadly in the fandom is so pervasive and so consistent and so frustrating to me that#I am in full -must protect my blorbo- mode with her at all times#-Mel's story is over so the only thing left for her to do is die-#-if Mel dies then J can get together with V and they will appreciate her for her sacrifice bc she died a hero who rejected Ambessa-#enough! enough I say!#what about proving to ambessa that she can take the throne for herself? what about the angst of defying her mother and her home country#and opposing those in Piltover who DO want war and want to raze the undercity#what about the magic that she's heavily foreshadowed to have and how it's different from hextech#and how it directly opposes but also parallels what is happening to Viktor#what about her -friends- abroad and the plot Mel was cooking through all of season 1 that has not been revealed yet#there's so much potential for her to have to confront the fact that J was slowly becoming a monster through season 1#and that she can't ignore the undercity forever#also what if whoever Ambessa says killed her brother comes after Mel too!#it is very frustrating to see Mel get dismissed as dead or evil or irredeemable or whatever when she is consistently#the most interesting person in the room in every single scene she's in and the character who shows the most conviction and change#so yeah i will take a bullet for her she is my blorbo I will despise any character who hurts her#and I would cradle her in my arms if she gave me a chance - which she would never! - but a girl can dream#however I also enjoy leaning into the idea that Mel is perceived as being a devil from the outside - Mel leans into it too when it serves#but it's in direct opposition to her ironclad values and the personality that she keeps hidden a layer down#I genuinely think that Mel will have a happy ending - or at least as happy an ending that an Arcane character can get lol#like I fully believe she will take the throne (Piltover) in the end but I can only guess at this point what that will cost her#I love putting Mel in situations but mainly to play with both how creative she can get and also how fucking far she will go to win#which is ANOTHER thing we know is probably true about Mel but has not been put on display yet#also Mel has already done a great job at separating what she wants for herself as a person from just being Ambessa's daughter#but Mel still deserves to get plenty of great therapy for that situation because OH GOD THAT CHILDHOOD FLASHBACK#also Kino is dead? maybe dead?? at least Mel fully believes he's dead so she needs therapy and hugs for that too#I am super normal about her can you tell
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"you're not traumatized by being raised by parents who were way too young and were raised in shitty families themselves and who never taught you emotional intelligence and isolated you from pretty much all of your non churchgoing peers, you're just a little silly! and you cry whenever you notice any sort of shift in the way someone speaks to you and take it as a personal rejection, whether or not it was intentional, but that's unrelated"
#i know i have it good because my family was never struggling as much as my moms family seemed to#and because my parents were more affectionate and emotionally available than my dads family and parents#but being the oldest child of four and generally the 'good quiet one' with typically decent grades#meant less attention was given to me as opposed to say#the disabled second child or the family baby (at the time)#i genuinely dont remember getting a ton of one on one time with my parents unless i was in trouble#and while i know it did happen#children dont tend to internalize the positive encounters#and it only got worse as i got older and my interests drifted further away from what my parents liked or wanted to hear about#and then they had another kid but not before mom was hospitalized for a month#and dad was working so he wasn't very available so rven thougj i wasnt supposed to play parent#i kinda tried to. i was 14#and it felt a little like no one was looking out for me#and it still doesn't#i still feel like an outsider and fundamentally unlovable unless im serving some kind of purpose#because if even my own parents dont pay me much mind when im not actively being helpful#why would anyone else?
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bustafellows ch 2 questionnaire guide
screenshot of the list of questions in chapter 2, with the responses color-coded per associated LI. there’s also a text version. under the cut for spoilers
1. I usually point out someone's error. [YES] (Limbo) or [NO] (Scarecrow)
2. I prefer doing things alone without help. [YES] (Helvetica) or [NO] (Limbo)
3. I like choosing a present for someone. [YES] (Scarecrow) or [NO] (Mozu)
4. I am theoretical person, not emotional. [YES] (Mozu) or [NO] (Helvetica)
5. I am prepared for as many contingencies as possible. [YES] (Shu) or [NO] (Limbo)
6. I am curious person. [YES] (Scarecrow) or [NO] (Shu)
7. I like taking care of others or animals. [YES] (Mozu) or [NO] (Helvetica)
8. I consider a question in all its bearings until I understand. [YES] (Mozu) or [NO] (Shu)
9. I am interested in social problems. [YES] (Limbo) or [NO] (Helvetica)
10. I often regret about some mistakes I made. [YES] (Limbo) or [NO] (Scarecrow)
#bustafellows#hmm. i don't think i care enough about this post's visibility to tag all the character names#the max number of opposite responses for a given pair of LIs is 2 questions#i.e. shu & crow; mozu & helvetica; and limbo & helvetica each have two questions where they are the opposing yes vs no responses#at first i didn't see the limbo+hel pair so i would have said sth about two 'opposite pairs' of characters but yeah it doesn't shake out per#perfectly even#but anyway i think it's an interesting supplement for viewing their characters and each opposite pair definitely differ in v fundamental way#*ways#shu and crow being polar opposites... mm yeah that definitely tracks xDD#much to think about the characters. every day i'm caught between wanting to replay the game but also staying away longer so the next time i#play it is even more impactful
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this post has wormed its way into my head
god, it would be so good to give Solas a bit of a gay crisis in my canon game with Ray.
I typically really like to include something of a "could have been" type of a relationship, or a one-sided crush in my characters' stories (just to act as an extra point of interest), but... I already have him have a very uncomfortable misunderstanding going on with Cassandra, and a slightly homoerotic mentorship with Blackwall....
Like I know he's cute, and I know he's a veritable golden retriever who just wants to be liked so bad, but that.... that would be too many people caught in his (unconsciously woven) web, I think
that'd mean that this regular-ass garden variety white boy came in with that AOE charisma, and we can't exactly have that, can we
#squirrel plays dragon age#oc: raymond trevelyan#in my Iona game of BG3 I headcanon that Halsin is straight up pining; and the game more or less supports that#in Origins i can't help it; Alistair has to have a crush at least (even if he's not my canon LI)#in DA2 there's the “if only we had gone to therapy” thing my Garrett had going with Isabela for a spell#even Arvid had kind of an “if things had been different we might have been different as well” with Shadowheart#and Petyr was straight up beating Astarion off with a stick; that's not even something I made up for entertainment#i just had to literally reject the guy like three times that game so i just leaned into it#fictional yearning is fun! frustration and unrequited feelings make things a bit more interesting!#but “this is my guy; he's underwear-model handsome and very few people would be opposed to jumping his bones” is a bit............ well#gauche is the word that comes to mind
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I'm really glad elyss came several years before melliwyk, because mel's alignment shift from chaotic neutral to chaotic good sometimes feels a little embarrassing in an 'I can't keep my own feelings to myself for the sake of committing to the bit' sort of way, but the counterpoint to that is that elyss, steadfastly true neutral, just simply Does Not Care about anyone other than her own loved ones or anything outside her own immediate interest no matter how much I sometimes wish she would
#she has a soft spot for children but that's the only real exception. other people's problems are none of her business!#she's not gonna look for your kidnapped husband or whatever unless the paladin wants to (he wants to. this is my loophole as a player lol)#whereas *I* wanna befriend and adopt every NPC and do quests and help people out of genuine desire to help#melliwyk is still more self-interested than not but at the end of the day she fundamentally really is a good person#she just lost track of it for awhile. being around people again has reminded her that she cares about people actually#she IS bothered by needless suffering. she IS smart enough to recognize when smart people handwave 'necessary sacrifices' to be cruel#she DOES oppose evil on principle rather than just because of how it directly affects her or her friends and family--#not just passively and in general but actively enough to want to do something about it herself#and I dunno it's nice. it's nice that it feels like that's not just me muddying the waters with my desires as a player--#but that it's just something *neither* of us realized when I started playing her but that was nonetheless always true#and honestly I also think it's nice that elyss is Like That but that I don't think there's anything wrong with her for it#she's not evil! she's not hurting anyone who didn't deserve it! she's literally just trying to mind her own business#she's not going to needlessly or carelessly hurt people just for her own gain like early campaign melliwyk would have#she's true neutral like a wild animal is true neutral and That's Fine#the ONE downside I suppose with mel is that 'NICE does not mean GOOD' is compelling to me#especially when your stereotypical chaotic neutral dnd character is an edgelord asshole#but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe if her field of study had more opportunities for human experimentation lmao#melliwyk the experimental necromancer or behaviorist or summoner has a different relationship with ethics I have no doubt#melliwyk has READ studies with Dubious Ethics and gone 'I mean they couldn't have GOTTEN results like this otherwise'#really the biggest difference between Good Melliwyk and Neutral Melliwyk is opportunity for temptation. which is also compelling#my OCs#melliwyk#elyss
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