#BUT LIKE !!!!!!

[poisoned-pearls]

“You know, I think you'd get along far better with someone like me than with Kalim.” “And what's wrong with that? I like the authentic Jamil much more, as a matter of fact.”

“You carry yourself like a goody-two-shoes, laughing off conflict with a flippant word or two. To twisted individuals like myself and Jamil...Ah, I mean, to calculating individuals, those remarks are like barbs digging under our skin.”

“Yes, I'm lucky...to have you for a partner, Jamil!”

[dnfcliparchive]

“are you pregnant?”

george: absolutely. can you tell? have i got the pregnancy glow?

george: yep, I said it! pregnancy confirmed in 2025!

[stiffyck]

i actually like hate people who refuse to watch animated movies just because theyre animated. im so sorry your taste in movies sucks.

[perspicaciouslynameless]

the career way vs peoplez conflict is so funny to me actually

like, let's suspend disbelief for a minute and say these are the only big talent scouting firms around

HOW is the career way ceo so incompetent that she has the bigger, more established firm, and she is still constantly losing to someone who had to start from scratch and build her firm from the ground up

and it would have been one thing if she lost the bid to peoplez fair and square, or even if she influenced the decision in her candidate's favour. but she literally shows up with no strong candidate of her own and asks her client to make the choice or recommend their own. previously unachieved levels of incompetence here

[skeletor-n-a-meatsuit]

However. You might survive internal decapitation.

"That wouldn't be fatal!" It would."They couldn't survive that!" They could.

If my time as an EMT and instructor taught me anything it is that the body is both impossibly resilient and impossibly fragile, and almost any traumatic injury you can think of could either be fine or fatal depending on the whims of the universe.

So use that crap as liberally as you want to serve whatever narrative you're writing.

[peopleareaproblem]

ok is anyone else surprised by how easily outie!Dylan refers to his innie self as "me"?

"how did the thing go? the thing with me?"

everyone else we ever see refer to explicitly an outie or an innie (their own or anyone's) either refers to them as a seperate person, or struggles with deciding between using first and third person. why does outie!Dylan so firmly see himself and his innie as one and the same?

I think there's more to Dylan that we know.

[yamsgarden]

i mean-- think about it

[goldenstorm0]

okay, so endo just likes to fucking tease us with the short chapters. ok. ok ok okay

[variouslengthsofwire]

As someone with a public health degree - it could be much, much worse. We've made huge strides in sanitation, medical science, nutrition, etc. Human rights are not universal, there are still slaves right now, but a lot of the world is free. You have the freedom and ability to vote in this poll. We avoided nuclear annihilation during the Cold War.

Life could be much better for many people, absolutely. But it could be much worse, too.

In the worst timeline, no country ever outlawed slavery, there are no vaccines, people don't know to wash their hands (not even doctors), scurvy and rickets are rampant the world over, and nuclear war destroyed most of the earth. And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

[angelus-osculum]

saw reddit is so scary

[katchleeifyoucan]

there’s just something about ticklish men that makes me so fucking feral and i genuinely do not know what it is

[blank-house]

Just wondering if it would be too difficult to keep track of MC appearance in choices if we could customize them and decide exactly how they look? I know some games have it and so much needs to be altered in dialogue because of it.

Correct it is difficult! Regardless of if you see these variations on an MC doll/sprite, MC customizations is always a major endeavor for the exact reason that you say— dialogue and any narration that pertains to it needs to be altered.

Granted I could just make the game say “your blue/brown/green eyes” but I would want it to be a more worthwhile mention in the game.

Tbh I have a lot of thoughts on this subject but because I don’t want to get preachy. I’ll just say this:

If I have to weigh between letting you decide what your hair color is (if we do this then how many would we let you set? Is this natural or dyed? Are we only letting you set this once? Or would there be other opportunities to do so, for example if you would want to dye your hair in the future? What about half colors like cam’s hair. Or dyed hair that’s growing out, how do we account for that because some people have MCs with that. Do we have alternate words for certain colors like blonde/redhead/ravenette/brunette or would we only limit narration to blue/purple-haired. Would players want to state if they have hair or not because some people don’t, etc.) or just not at all

Yeah, I’ll pick not at all always.

[kandykawaii]

Objectively? Doey. His characterization in the chapter is insane and tragic. Him remaining ambiguous in the beginning of the chapter puts you on edge; you can never predict whether he's actually there to help you or if he's going to rip you apart after one wrong move. Plus, I not only love how his emotional breakdown is foreshadowed, but he also foreshadows Poppy and Ollie's betrayal. It further emphasizes how in the factory, you can't trust anybody, no matter how "innocent" they may seem. "Gentle voices lie".

The best character personally, though? The doctor. He's HAWT.

[detectivebambam]

why am i blocked by like... half the aftg fandom

what did i do😭🙏

[dubiousanon]

ShikaNaru Headcanons

☀️Shikamaru definitely realizes his feelings first and it is 100% an "oh, shit" moment.

☀️I imagine the Nara clan to love not as angrily as the Uchiha, but just as obsessively. Where the Uchiha seek to almost possess, the Nara clan covets knowledge. In this case, Shikamaru wants to know everything about Naruto— no detail is too small.

☀️ I'm not saying Shikamaru is stalking him, but he'd definitely follow him everywhere. Like, he's not trying to hide. Naruto just hasn't noticed because it's... Well, it's Naruto.

☀️And the few times he does notice him it's just— "Wow, what're you doing here Shikamaru? 😀" baby you should be asking why you've seen him ten different times this week and it's only Monday.

☀️Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation Nara Fixation, did I say Nara Fixation yet?

☀️Naruto wants for nothing because somehow, Shikamaru always knows exactly what he needs and is able to predict exactly when he's going to need it.

☀️ Naruto never quite realizes the depth of the obsession/love. He's just completely oblivious to the fact that Shikamaru is kind of, slightly, a little bit (maybe a lot a bit) insane. With a cherry on top.

☀️ Lowkey, I am a huge fan of crazy Shikamaru. Like, not outwardly crazy, but "I know your height, weight, regular resting heart rate, wrist diameter, and how many times you've said 'believe it' today" crazy Shikamaru. Knows too much Shikamaru.

☀️Naruto 100% just assumes they're dating after a while of certain details accumulating. Shikamaru feeds him like, daily. Shikamaru has shared a bed with him several times. They spend a lot of time together. They hold hands. Shikamaru knows like, everything about him somehow.

☀️ Naturally, they must've been dating this entire time and Naruto simply didn't notice until now. And because Naruto has zero experience with healthy relationships, he just accepts this as fact and moves on with his life.

☀️ Shikamaru when Naruto grabs him by the face on day, plants a huge kiss on him with no context, and then skips off: 👁️👄👁️

☀️ Come on, it'd be so funny.

☀️ Insert Naruto also knowing a surprising amount about Shikamaru, because he's more attentive than people give him credit for. Shikamaru follows him around so much, of course he learns about him over time. He may be an idiot, but he's not a moron. Or... something like that.

☀️ Naruto is just happy someone actually wants to be around him. Sasuke is Sasuke, Sakura constantly yells at him, Kakashi literally runs, Yamato is only around for training, and Sai just insults him in increasing intervals when they're together.

☀️ Touch-Starved! Naruto vs. Can't get enough of touching him! Shikamaru! Go! Fight!

☀️ Shikamaru "he's never going to love me" Nara and Naruto "I wonder when Shikamaru is gonna propose" Uzumaki

☀️ Naruto just goes to the court house and files the documents himself. Surprise, Shikamaru. Not only does he love you, you've been married for the past four months.

☀️ Alternatively, Shikamaru could pull the same move. Oh, you kissed me on the mouth? Sounds like a proposal to me.

☀️ For a certified genius, Shikamaru would absolutely be the kind of idiot to assume Naruto couldn't ever return his feelings. There could be so much evidence to the contrary and it really WOULD take an entire kiss to the lips to convince him.

☀️ No worries, Naruto is more than willing to oblige.

☀️ Basically um I love them, they're both smart AND stupid in different ways, but they make it work. And nobody can change my mind.