#(im very normal abt forsaken)

[arcenergy]

we have a new player in our d2 clan and he recently informed us recently that he thought forsaken was just the current dungeon/gun bundle on steam and not an entire xpac and me and my friends aged by 20 years

[4th-d-slipped]

tell me abt ur angel oc guy kelo!!

CLAPS HANDS TOGETHER. PREPARE YOURSELF

kelo is a fairly old oc (2017-2018) but didnt actually start growing into himself until 2019-2021. his real personality/backstory was just decided on a whim and it kept being built up from there and im very happy with how it turned out :D

the gist of his story is that he is an angel. obviously. and he had a childhood friend named libra who died violently to a demon. so kelo grew up to join the angel military and got extremely focused on taking revenge for libra by hunting down demons and killing em. he does this for a few years and meets plenty of individuals demon, angel, and human alike (who each have their own storylines in this universe!) until eventually god decides kelo has become too full of wrath and Thats A Sin so kelo gets banished to hell. kelo is pretty notorious down there because he killed so many demons so the residents decide "yo youre an asshole so you get to be a demon too. have fun being the thing you hate!" and well he sure does hate it. hes been forsaken by his own god and now hes a demon/fallen angel so he decides he really doesnt have anything to lose and goes to kill god. he has some development but it only clicks that libra wouldnt have wanted the whole revenge quest when its far too late and hes already fighting god and actively dying. he still puts in his all to the fight and eventually dies and even though theres nothing for angels and demons when they die (for obv reasons) he still feels like he gets to symbolically be with libra again!

he is not the best guy ever and is meant to be a morally cloudy guy so hes done some Things. some of the most memorable things hes done are in a roleplay separate from his story and those include

harassing/traumatizing a friends angel oc by repeatedly calling all her friends demons and treating her like a bastion of purity simply bc shes an angel

he then shot a 10 year old with intent to kill because the 10 year old was friends with my friends angel oc and just happened to be psychic and thus a demon in his eyes

he just claims anyone whos not an angel or normal human/animal to be a demon actually and then tries to kill them regardless of anything

hes been in a few other roleplays separate from his main story and is destined to die or at least go demon mode in every timeline as my personal word of god. bullying him is a fun passtime but thinking too hard about his story makes me get all teary-eyed and stuff. also the arguably most cringe thing about him is that he has a "story" playlist of entirely ajr songs (im sorry it was ajr out of everything). like mystery skulls animated and/or vampair. but thats all i have to say abt him!

[jackienautism]

i rant about resident evil and their writing / inclusion of the girls.

i jsut want 2 girls to go on their fucked up little adventures together is that too much to ask

i finally got to the halfway point of code veronica X and GODDDD i fucking knew they were gonna do this goddamn shit w/ steve and claire. i knew from the goddamn beginning even if i didnt want to admoit it...... residetn evil just cant be normal w/ a girl being paired w/ a guy. they just fucking cant

i understand that this is seen more among the older games (ashley + leon from re4 as well) and i cant speak for the og re3 nemesis but the way they wrote carlos and jill? its just.... why make these male characters say such bizarre and degrading and just ? nasty comments towards the female protag? do you really expecvt us to root for them? i just dont fcuking undeerstand, and this occurs in a remake too! they didnt bother to maybe just maaaybe take that bulllshit out. because jill's uncomfortable. IM uncomfortable. its just. godddd who the fuck caaaares STOP THIS TROPE

you see this same thing w/ steve and claire.... not oonly is steve incredibly fucking annoying the first second we meet him, he also continually acts as a nuisance towards her for a good quarter of the game. yeah sure theyre just building up to the Ground Breaking Emo backstory drop later, but. you already made me fucking hate this loser so goddamn much meaning im not gonna give a single shit about his development later. I JUST DONT CARE FOR HIM !!!!!! THEM MAKING HIM SO ANNOYINH RUINED ANY CHANCE OF ME CHANGING MY MIDN LATER.......

and GOD havent even mentioned this yet but. when i saw the little preview thing w/ the 3 characters w/ claire + chris i saw [steve] and went.... [eyeballs] hello whos this? long story short i thoiught he was a butch lesbian and i got SO excite d b c residtn ebil has yet to pair a girl up w/ anothner girl around the same age but noooooo instead i got this pathetic loser of a man (derogatory). the closest we have to 2 girls being fucked up together is mia and zoe in re7. but thats like. mainly a side thing. and mia isnt even the protag so

which leads me to the next thng i wanted to talk about. i think mnmen are super cool ofc and i hate to be that Bitch and pull that Card but good freaking god why must there be a man FOR EVERY SINGLE FEMALE CHARACTER IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN SERIES...... andit woudlnt be huge deal if they were noraml w/ these pairings but theyre NOT..... THEY MAKE IT WEIRD EVERY SINGLE TIME..... STEVE LITERALLY ALMOST KISSES CLAIRE WHILE SHE'S ASLEEP........ CARLOS CONSISTENTLY MAKES UNNECESSARILY WEIRD COMMENTS TOWARD JILL......... ASHLEY RANDOMLY AWSKS FOR SEX AT THE END OF RE4............ WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT AOBUT? good for ashley for shooting her shot i guess though but considering yhe game's previous comments towards ashleu and her figure.... it was blatantly put in to sexualize her furtyher

maybe its thr lesbian in me popping out maybe its the aromantic in me popping out WHO KNOWS all i know is that. resident evil makes me very upset sometimes dflkgnjg i love the games i love the characters (esp the girls big surprise i know) but jesus christ. somethings i just can't ignore. and this is cerrtainly one of them. a girl just can't exist out of a guy according to capcom. and that sort of idea is suuuper evident in how they portray and include their women. you could have a girl protag (re3, recv etc) but theres always a 99% chance theres gonna be a man tagging along + continually saving their asses and theres almost alwaysa an even HIGHER chance that theyre meant to be seen as a romantic interest! and its exhausting@!!!!!

long story short . i get im not resident evil's target audience . but im still gonna be pissed and annoyed . the girls deserve better .

im def gonna have to go more in depth abt resident evil and their writing of relationships (or lack thereof) some other time but just for now. the best written ones are claire + sherry and mia + ethan goodbye

[runehope]

mynni returns to my sketchbook, the prodigal child... love u darling... ok im going to infodump about their outfit under the cut

I LOVE MYNNI LIGHT OF MY LIFE DARLING CHILD... ok i’ve thought so many thoughts abt this

hair: does this count? yes. i was going for “sunset” but its kinda more peanut butter, but that’s cute too. in their first appearance they had red hair, but over time they went more purple to mimic their older sister, Dhythi, because she’s so cool. now they have both colors, to symbolize them growing into themself - emulating the cool parts their role model had, but also having their own identity

shawl: in mynni’s family, each child has a shawl embroidered for them, usually made during the pregnancy and presented at birth blah blah etc etc. the flowers embroidered have meanings. every shawl has a common flower they always have - Queen Anne’s Lace, which symbolizes the village the huldra family live near, and the family’s devotion to always help the townsfolk[not irl obviously but in lore] here’s the other flower meanings:

daisies - innocence, keeping secrets red anemone - forsaken or forgotten love, protection against evil, a sign of fairies, bad luck hyssop - sacrifice, cleansing, mythological significance

blouse: mynni’s iconic blouse, if they’re not in it then they’re wearing another garment of the same type of fabric. well, what is this shimmery fabric then? their blouse is made out of silk from a Redwood Moth, which is not. a normal moth. it’s a magical creature the size of a horse with huge piranha teeth, but, if you are very kind to it, and very patient, it will let you harvest its silk. or kill it but that’s hard, anyways the huldra family own a couple garments made out of this rare material, you’ll notice the socks are the same.

skirt: mynni generally only wears skirts when they need to hide their tail, but i thought it would look nice for this picture. the belt has traditional norwegian embroidery patterning on it.

boots: the same boots they wore in my first ever drawing of them, only slightly revamped. the boots are very thin leather, so they can still feel the forest floor. huldra generally never wear any shoes, but living in such proximity to humans, the whole family became used to it. it’s better to be accustomed to it when you regularly have to be in the company of mages, or undercover in the mundane marketplace.

[thegeminisage]

i need to freak out abt this with someone but none of my friends are insane enough. anyway the poet etel adnan gives off unprecedented levels of supernatural imo & im making it ur problem too now :) The Manifestations of the Voyage is my personal fave

“Matter having forsaken its laws,

we land in hell,

ascending to heaven.”

“within its black eyes

the fright of my adolescence

and the nocturnal walk on the hills:

which hill?

I mean the kingdom that a man carries

in his gut when

his love’s fulfilled.”

“The Prophet swam through waves

of clouds

a river of gold carried his

vessel”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53852/from-the-manifestations-of-the-voyage

(clickable link)

ok im normally a bit lukewarm on poetry but LIIIKE...THE KINGDOM THAT A MAN CARRIED IN HIS GUT WHEN HIS LOVE’S FULFILLED. fellas do you ever just want to love someone

also. sent this one to the ol groupchat and got this very hinged and normal response:

WELL FELLAS?