#A genuine fucking nightmare

[beansidhebumbling]

He wishes she would haunt him again with her sweet curses. That she would invade his nightmares once more like she did that first night. She's already occupied his every waking thought, why not his unconscious ones too?

And so he lies staring at the dangling glass of the chandelier above his head, waiting for his eyes to grow heavy so he may see that pale sharp face. Mor's knocking at his locked apartment door is a distant distraction when the hope of her, the blessed darkness that signals her arrival is so near.

Night comes but then the damned light of dawn. His eyelashes flicker and the chandelier refracts rainbows across the back wall. No summoning spell can summon a ghost who does not want to be found. Rhysand has become quite familiar with regret since first meeting her. But the oily dread that coats his gut is a new and unwelcome addition.

Nesta Archeron has been dead for six months but this is the first day she is gone.

[lucabyte]

some thoughts on Claude

alt title: diversity win! this Butch Nun is crafting bombs in an unventilated room in her convent while actively courting Mother Superior! Do Not Give Them Access To Unlimited Power No Matter How Nice They Are

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[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Rewatching Jurassic World in 2024 is somehow an enlightening experience to me because since when did I look at the park and go "oh that's such an inefficient use of space" and "you could have multiple versions of this fancy escalator and immediately improve crowding issues" and "oh, a monorail? How original. It's futuristic so we simply cannot have a train despite it being a vastly better means of transport."

At what point did this become part of my personality and how did I not notice it before?

[obseshin]

HOW DO CYBERTRONIAN HISTORIANS NOT KILL THEMSLEVES???

LIKE, GENUINELY. Nobody has last names. IMAGINE IF GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS JUST NAMED "GEORGE". This would actually be such a nightmare. IMAGINE HOW MANY BOTS OUT THERE HAVE SOME BASIC-ASS NAME LIKE "WHEELS" OR SOMETHING. IMAGINE BEING A PROFESSOR AND TRYING TO TEACH THIS SHIT. "And so, Wheels invented the bobble-knocker-fuckray..." "Sir? But didn't Wheels invent the nibble-nobble-smitherkacker?" "No, my young student. That was the OTHER Wheels." "Which one?" "The red one!" "There are three red ones." LIKE WHAT DO YOU EVEN DO AT THIS POINT?? YOU CANT EVEN SAY "OH, THE ONE FROM *INSERT DATE HERE*" THEY LIVE TOO LONG FOR THAT SHIT. THE OVERLAP WOULD BE INSANE. ACTUALLY INSANE. "Oh, but they have serial numbers! Just use those!!" SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. AINT NO WAY ANYBODY REMEMBERING "PROFESSOR FU298787345642985". IF I SEE THAT SHIT ON MY CYBERTRONIAN HISTORY EXAM, I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO KILL MYSELF.

[marzipanandminutiae]

not going to lie- I keep a journal sporadically for Historical Posterity, like a good little history professional, and I try to be very noble about it and wish the Future Reader well

but "fuck you for not living through this; I hate you so much for not having to deal with what I'm dealing with right now" is. a sentiment expressed in the journal many times

[this-is-fox-speaking]

FUCK THIS EASTER EGG IN PARTICULAR THAT WAS FUCKING HORRIFYING. YOU PULLED SOME ANALOG HORROR SHIT ON ME. YOU PULLED A DDLC ON ME YOU BITCH

[ashmcgivern]

Now why would anyone use Procreate Dreams when Callipeg, a much more competent mobile animation program, just went to $15 flat rate. 👀

[bace-jeleren]

Reminder that WotC keeps making them hotter every time they show up, for me, specifically

When they gave Kaito a funky little cape and a crop-top, and decided The Wanderer should have her hair up and have an exposed midriff, they were thinking of me.

[sleepy-crypt1d]

im not sure if this was intentional- or just a reuse of assets- but the subtle detail of the car that hit Simon following him throughout the game never fails to unnerve me.

the first time i noticed the car- the only one parked, the only one not piled or flipped over, the only one facing me- it made my skin crawl.

this thing haunting him throughout the entire experience, this hint towards what's really happening outside of the monsters his brain has created to protect himself, this acknowledgement that something is wrong. that he's being hunted.

its one of the creepiest details in the game to me and the more i catch the car in the sides of my vision, the more it freaks me out.

as to not clog up the tag im gonna put the rest of the pictures ive gotten of this thing under the cut :p

this is on Ronald Street, which is the first time I noticed it during my fourth playthrough?? I think? it scared me so bad i had to pause the game and take a second lmao

its also the car that the weird flesh tree thing throws in your path right after

this one is def just, reusing the assets they had but it shows up four times in front of the building sophie is on top of (fourth one not pictured is behind me but i promise you it's there).

even as it's becoming more obvious they're just reusing models, it doesn't make it feel any less gross to me, especially considering the context of where we are and why we're here.

its even in his own neighborhood several times.

IT'S EVEN PARKED OUTSIDE HIS HOUSE. it's taunting him.

like i know this probably isn't all the instances (pretty sure it's also at Saxon Avenue lol), i had some trouble with the game while trying to get these screenshots and have a feeling i missed a couple, but the sheer amount i WAS able to capture? upsetting. down right creepy.

i know- logically- it's just the same model being used throughout the game like all the other cars, but knowing that the thing that causes the events of the game in the first place is following us throughout it's entire run time is such a good detail i WANT it to have been intentional.

[pokemonblack3white3]

Giratina, Kyruem and Ghetsis, Area Zero, when pokemon manages to actually convince you the protagonist is in danger ohhhhh that's the shit baby

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Most annoying thing is when people depict or draw nightmares tentacles on killer and portray it in a suggestive way

[the-sage-libriomancer]

it's interesting to me how kyo is always placing himself in wide open spaces - on the roof, near big/open windows, at the edge of the porch looking out to the garden. i think it can be reasonably assumed that he's actively seeking out open spaces because he knows his time with them is limited. meanwhile, yuki has very acute claustrophobia after being locked up in a dark room so many times as a child. he's okay in regular rooms but has full-on panic attacks when confined to a small, dark space like a closet. he must've recognized the impulse in kyo to find places that aren't dark and suffocating. i'm sure he had similar impulses when he started living with shigure. um. i don't know where i'm going with this. something about how yuki knows exactly what kyo's future hell will be like and still does nothing about it

[otome-dissection]

I think everyone should think about yakuza kenzan forever and ever and talk about the insane levels of kazumaji in kenzan forever and ever and rgg should announce and make a kenzan! remake please please guys talk about kenzan Plea

[susie-dreemurr]

Why doesn’t the child simply take the rat corpse with them so they could eat whenever they want? Are they stupid?

[iangallagherisadeadman]

honestly the character to have the worst, saddest ending in shameless is definitely Karen! I mean, her whole character makes me wants to cry.

She comes from this dysfunctional home, with negligent parents, a sick mom she has to look out for and that doesn't parent her and an absent father, starts her sexual life at like 11yo?, suffers with nymphomaniac, is abandoned by her father, has some rape porn around, gets married with a 30yo something while still a teenager, gets pregnant and has a baby which she didn't want anything with but her mom goes against her wish and expects her to raise him, said mom fucks her now ex husband, goes out of city and theoricly gets all of her money stolen and is almost sex trafficked, comes back and gets run over by a car, got in coma, got raped while in coma by her much older ex husband who's now in a relationship with her mother, wakes up with several brain damage and ends up with a life she could never wish for or be happy living: back with her ex husband, with the baby she didn't wanted, moving to a state she doesn't know and have no one there for her.

I mean what the fuck she became a prisoner in her own body, she didn't had the power to decide for her destiny, sooo fucked up.

Like this? Stfu people acting like Lips some nice guy and not a condescending misogynist pig. Karen is just some girl she's not murdering nobody how is she the devil?

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.