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[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Nick and Ashley visibly going through it at different paces is so funny.

[owtechnolich]

Outer Wilds vines part 1.

Someone (@tippertot) convinced me I should put these here so I am. (It didn't take very much convincing.)

Anyway here they are.

[somethinboutkat]

animation I forgor to post here!!

No idea how long this took but it’s over 17 hours

[vanmarkus]

can we just talk about how much fun Lou is clearly having?? like, he gets to play this funny, confident, smooth queer guy who makes Buck squirm like a teenager... delicious.

[the-masterless-press]

the efficient commissioner is a fascinating character, not just because of how the fall affected her as a young woman, but because of how she is in the present.

she lives up to her title, chasing answers and aid to prevent the creditor from killing london. she has a tragedy procedure and law at the ready when asked. she is positioned, initially, as someone who might be an obstacle during the inital railway- if you keep her on board.

however, efficiency and readiness is just a part of her character. it is, in my opinion, just the surface.

during dangerous gains, we learn that the commissioner has been suffering from nightmares ever since the start of the railway. you can help her in the viric jungle by easing them in some way, and she reveals the source of her fears: the creditor, and its awakening and disgruntlement because of the tracks being laid across it.

this stress rears its head in a few failure texts during the railway, and her desperation to keep the company from fully destroying the neath. it is also present further ahead, considering all of the endeavours the commissioner undertook to find a way to satiate the creditor until the player is forced to come and help her with the task.

its only at the end that her fears ease up, and the player has the option to listen to the commissioner as she cries and reveals all she's done to try and mitigate disaster.

a character like her is clearly a great authority figure, and unlike other similar characters who get a moment of brief emotion, the commissioner gets a satisfying catharsis at the end of her tale, fulfiling and resolving a debt.

what fascinates me is that her efficiency can be explained by both her stressors and fears, and by years of running the tragedy commission (i think.) neither takes away from the other, and the vulnerability she shows the players makes her a more rounded, more fascinating character.

[herrling]

there's always that "it's just fiction/pixels" person or a few in replies that i personally want to punch

[missabnormal]

imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way opened to it?

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[willgrahamscock]

horrible news: you have to practice to level up your skills because it's unrealistic to think you'll be good at everything first try