#**rambling

[galactic-rhea]

How many times do you think Anakin arrived a meeting, a call, or honestly anything important for his job swinging and stumbling and speaking weirdly, so everyone would just glare at him like "Showing up drunk is worse than not showing up at all", only for it to be that he's actually with a severe concussion; or dizzy from blood loss, or oxygen isn't reaching his brain or literally anything but drunk; in fact , Obi-Wan wishes he was drunk.

[mrs-theirin]

thinking about how fallout 4 is 1000% geared towards men but what is more devastating than a new mother who has lost her husband and her child in a single day. what is more powerful than a woman in a completely new world fighting anyone and anything to get her child back. what is more painful than having to destroy the very son you've been desperate to return to. female sole survivor will forever be on top because we've all seen the male war veteran loses his family story. what about the new-mother lawyer who's never experienced war waging it across a world she doesn't even recognize anymore to get her family back together. what about that

[infamous-if]

this isn't infamous related and will be deleted in like 10 minutes but i hate internet algorithms because why was i just spoiled the entirety of season 2 of arcane after liking 1 tweet ???? im only on episode 4 of s1 omg

[who-the-fuck-are-you-bruh]

WAKE UP SLEEPYHEAD YOUR BOYWIFE IS COMING TO GETCHA

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

Hey anyone want any fun facts

[phannie-by-night]

Imagine how much useful information could fit in my brain if it wasn't taken up by Dan and Phil lore

[broocksz]

hc that dust got the name dust from killer calling him duster which is BASICALLY saying murderer for monsters and then dust just stuck

[phinnking]

sometimes I am

sometimes I think

[unibeartoon]

KITTYKAT MY BELOVED

[fizzlewizard404]

you ever wanna steal a character's gender so bad

[kinniemikey]

Oh wow-

Well then I share my nightmare as well, I had a nightmare over masks because my big brother used to chase me with a zombie mask as a joke.

I was in a room to play, there was a mat and I was on it- suddenly it moved as if something was inside it. I opened it and saw that zombie mask fluttering around with other masks. Quickly I closed it and ran away, those things were chasing me, flying after me and making creepy noises. My big brother came to the rescue, got me to safety and the masks got to him. I didn't see what happened I just heard him scream and suddenly his face...only the skin of face was thrown out to the floor for me to see- they basically turned him into a mask but thinking about it, it was very brutal-

I was having a fear of masks for a good while until my big brother was trying to fend off my fear by letting me touch his other masks, he couldn't believe that this got me so bad to the point, I got afraid of non creepy masks too-

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[nightmareentertainment]

tom simons listen to me. learn acoustic guitar. tom simons listen to me drop the keyboard playing behind your music. strain your voice a little over a shitty out of tune guitar. i need you to listen to me we are going to frontbottoms your shit listen to m

[akuma-tenshi]

finished closing night!! boy do i have some thoughts. and now that i've gathered them, i'm about to make my autism your problem. spoilers below.

the first part of the event wasn't awful imo, it felt like character building and just helping establish the dynamic. i know some people weren't fond of it but given that i was never really that invested in hullabaloo before this and didn't know every little detail of these characters, it was nice to get some character establishment and figure out how they all are as people. i am also a fan of slowburn character-focused horror, so that may just be a personal taste thing lmao

bryce papenbrook does a good job as mike, even though there are definitely points where he sounds exactly like nagito (namely the scene where he's shouting at margaretha in the foyer). he has a very particular way of speaking / voicing characters that make it immediately clear it's him. however, i do think he fits mike well and he definitely lays off the nagito-ness in the second part.

the rest of the cast was excellent as well. while there was a Choice made with murro's voice (he sounds WAY younger than he's supposed to be, which is off-putting and takes me out every time he speaks), it's very clear everyone knows their characters well and they all do a good job keeping their mannerisms and vocalisations unique and fitting to each role. aside from some awkward lines (which i attribute more to stilted writing than to the va's themselves), the voice acting is absolutely a highlight.

margaretha's trauma with sergi is portrayed very well imo. bear in mind i have not suffered the same abuse as her, so i can't say how accurate or good it is, but it feels like it displays that it was a terrible thing while also being respectful and avoiding being exploitative. the added layer that everyone else (except joker) liked sergi and was unaware of the abuse adds a lot.

in general, i think mike and margaretha are incredibly well-written here. i think ne could've absolutely gone the route of popular fan interpretations and completely demonised margaretha while making mike a perfect angel, and they would've gotten a lot of praise for it. but they stuck to their guns and made them both very flawed yet understandable people, and that just makes everything feel that much more real, at least to me. they're such different people with opposing goals, and their friction really comes through. everyone else is very well done (shoutout to me a couple of hours ago calling joker cute for some godforsaken reason i can't remember) and i love all of their characterisations, but mike and margie really are the standouts here.

i do wish there was a bigger payoff for margaretha using euphoria so frequently. i know it's implied to have been involved in violetta's death, and i appreciate the connection to game 5, but i wish there was a little bit more there. it's not a huge gripe though, so i won't harp on it for long.

the pacing at the start of the second part had me extremely worried; things felt like they were dragging along and being padded out for the sake of being padded out, and i was not having fun with it. fortunately, this issue was remedied about halfway through, and once things got going, i started really enjoying myself. the pacing of the first half of part two is my biggest gripe with this story.

i was noticing a lot of similarities between hullabaloo and fool's gold: hunter forms of popular survivors being announced and used as a major part of marketing for an update to the idv story. with the aforementioned pacing issues, i was really worried that hullabaloo's reveal would shape up to be similar to fg's: a kinda cool cutscene and a lame chase sequence at the very end of a long, boring storyline. however, despite hullabaloo having a much smaller part in this story than fg did in aom, appearing only briefly in the fire at the very end, i still think it's a better incorporation of the character than what they did with norton. better to have it be quick and intimidating than just kinda tedious.

every death in this (aside from joker's) felt very purposeful and well-done. violetta's death was heartbreaking. the change in animation towards the end, followed by the single sound of her machinery giving out after the screen went black, was beautiful, and hey, at least she died happy. margaretha's death pulled at a very specific and very major love i have in storytelling, that being a character choosing to die free rather than live in captivity, and the payoff of all the underwater scenes where she swims towards sergi finally coming through when she chooses to sink away from him had me losing my mind. i genuinely did not expect mike's death to be a straight-up suicide; like i said, i'm not completely caught up on hullabaloo lore, so maybe other people saw this coming, but the fact that he truly could not live with the truth about hullabaloo is such a heartwrenching yet satisfying end to his character. like i said, joker's is the only death that doesn't totally stand out, but i like that they let you put the pieces together yourself.

the chase sequence with joker was unintimidating and a little lame, and honestly it felt somewhat forced, just a way to get his hunter form in there bc they realised "oh shit right this guy's like. a hunter isn't he." i do like that they gave him back his chainsaw though; very nice little callback to the betas.

the animation of the hullabaloo fire was absolutely gorgeous and the ending had me in shambles. for a while afterwards i felt similar to how i felt after finishing end roll: drained and flat but in a good way, like a ton of adrenaline had just released from my body after some intense event.

all in all, i really enjoyed it. i can't say if i like it more than aom, but that may be the frederick bias coming through, so i'm going to choose not to rank them and just say hey. banger event. well worth the hype even with its hiccups and flaws. i always say this, but idv has some genuinely talented people in its writers' room, and i can't wait to see what they come out with next.

[nerves-nebula]

Did you guys know you can unlock extra comments on your art by going to Pinterest and looking for your own reposted stuff?

It’s great. I think these are mostly kids. and also they don’t even try to remove the watermark so a discerning viewer could probably find my blog no problem

I was not aware that people used Pinterest to like. Talk to each other and stuff. Like as social media? I figured everyone used it as a kind of worse, purely image based Google.

[star-lights-up]

i don't say this enough but jean's my fave.

porting stuff over to my laptop, please accept this jean, very vaguely inspired by paranatural

[id in ALT]