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[lyriumheart]

im so mad bc the game does actually try to discourage the player from choosing to save minrathous instead of treviso when. blighted treviso is SO fucked up its VERY cool and the quests and involvement of the people surving there are FAR more interesting than what minrathous gets.

minrathous is, functionally and tonewise, not that much different when saved vs not. despite the fact that we know the shadow dragons are the only thing holding the venatori at bay, and fighting the blight out of the catacombs with some wardens. and despite the fact that in the scene when you go back there only to be shown that, uh, minrathous is blighted. and then it's just suddenly not any more, when you return later on?

we know that minrathous gets fucked over, the venatori are in charge, they killed the archon, people are being kidnapped and executed on the streets, the common people are suffering more than they ever have before, the shadow dragons are all but hanging by a thread, viper gets the blight, theres blight in the sewer and in the catacombs- it COULD BE GOOD. WE COULD HAVE MORE. WE COULD COORDINATE WITH WHATS LEFT OF THE SHADOW DRAGONS. YOU BARELY EVEN SEE THE VIPER EVEN THOUGH HE'S MEANT TO BE DOING TRIPLE A SINGLE PERSON'S WORK NOW LIKE. cmon. opportunity wasted.

it's like. so disappointing. and even more so that most people are going to save treviso and not minrathous for bias and lucanis reasons. when blighted treviso is SO. NEAT. like youre missing out on a great, and dark, part of the game.

[bastart13]

What I'd give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you're in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you're not weak if you can't escape by yourself

I've never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into "princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else", to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she's a strong female character! (Implying if you're in a bad situation, it's because you're not strong enough to get out)

[casketears]

cannot stop thinking about how good the fabrication of consent in squid game was… like yeah, the participants consent! over and over, from agreeing to the slapping game to ringing up the number of their own accord to meeting at the location to signing a separate sheet once more upon arrival… they can even disband the game if the majority decrees it. but this is all performative. because of course they’ll agree - of course they’ll come back.

the second episode is even all about addressing this ‘consent’, and that potential audience superiority: “so why don’t they just leave???? if they can??? why did they even do all this to start with?? it’s so extreme, to do all that just for money, i would never”

because, the show says, look at what they’re returning to. look at the life that’s offered as their alternative. debt up to their ears, money-brokers beating them up, poverty at its worst. do you see? do you see how yeah, joining that game is optional, but it’s optional in the sense of choosing to be stabbed or shot: theres consent, but not actual desire. that theres agreement, but under exploitation. there’s a reason only poor people are chosen to compete and it’s so obvious but i fucking love how the show handles it and addresses any audience superiority anyway

[whatwememeintheshadows]

[helenofblackthorns]

I love the warm colours family bc they truly all said "we do not talk about Bruno.... but if we did-" and proceeded to have the time of their lives telling you about Bruno.

[verilyruth]

It’s almost the middle of November, so here is your annual reminder that Hallelujah is not a Christmas song, let alone a Christian one. Both the song and its composer are Jewish.

[tiecladartist]

I love the idea of Isabela's part of We Don't Talk About Bruno not being a vision at all. Like, I just imagine Bruno tucking in his niece after her gift ceremony, and he notices she's kinda freaking out after everything in the day, and like:

"He told me that the life of my dreams Would be promised and someday be mine He told me that my power would grow Like the grapes that thrive on the vine"

Only, when he told her it'd probably be worded more like this:

"Kid, you're gonna have the life of your dreams one day, I promise. Your power is gonna grow like... uh... like grapes! Grapes on a vine! Because you're sweet like a fruit, and your power is- okay that one kinda didn't work as well out loud, but, y'know what I mean."

And then little Isabela asks if he saw it in a vision, and he chuckles and says yeah, because it'd be nice to predict something nice for once, and he hopes that this particular prediction will come true.

[hannimatior]

the other day I saw a tweet where someone asked why pride flags only had colors instead of featuring flames, explosions, and dinosaurs and my brain thought, you know. that seems exactly like the kind of flag they might have on the boiling isles

also please appreciate my flag it’s so small in the comic I spent longer making it than I did drawing the panels

[tbartss]

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[cupcakeshakesnake]

Earworm pain.

[kristenbouchard]

midnight mass saying the line between divinity and monstrosity is nonexistent and how you categorize it is a matter of what you choose to put your faith in. how far you’re willing to stretch belief to accept the things in front of you that you’ve been told are good even if they’re ugly. seeing is believing but can you believe what you see. bro i am flat on my back

[sho-moo]

Ah yes, exactly what the franchise was missing giving Pokémon the license to Ķ͕̭̔ͪ́ͣi̵̤̝̖̱̼͑ͫḻ̬̺̘̟̝̓̒̃ͥ͜l̝̹̬̳͙̽͐ͯ͠

[eponym]

"I was a no, never maybe/ I knew she'd never take a chance on me" (x)

[followthebluebell]

Hey fam your blog is linked in this buzzfeed article in case you'd like to edit the post and demand some royalties https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/tumblr-posts-about-getting-older

thank you

[mooonbride]

You really don’t realize how disconnected from reality rich people are until you have to work for them bro, like I just had a woman start crying because I told her that the leather recliners she wants to order would take 2 weeks to ship and she goes “We just finished our custom home theater room and I have a get together this weekend and I have kitchen chairs in there. do you have any idea what thats like?” HELLO????

[serrangelic-art]

What if the part 3 bosses were fully independent NPCs?