#COUDLVE BEEN ME!!

[magicandmaybe]

it’s true ig makes you depressed all i see are debate posts and i want to die

[mustasekittens]

i'm back in the fucking building

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sequel to this ramble cause the way james talks bout the reduced cherik scenes throughout the xmen films in this video is making me want to kill people. 'we'll always have paris darling' what if we all blew up.

[knific]

i need to draw something for ii 16 what should i draw

[junojams]

in a different timeline the les mis 2012 movie wasnt too extreme when it came to the live vocals and we got a decent studio recording :-(

[briefencounter1945]

calling margot robbie a mediocre actor is actually insane

[eta--piscium]

Not me crying over a hospital scene on a kdrama I'm watching bec it felt shitty. That they were able to visit their grandma and surprise her and make her happy and help her recover. I got jealous that I never got to do that with my late parents. My dad passed away the next day he was in the hospital and my mom, I can't even visit her bec of ICU restrictions and she was in a medically induced coma. When she woke up, I was still at home and then before I could even visit her.... she passed away.

[nezuscribe]

(i was the nonnie who asked about how america works) i don't really wanna keep going back and forth with this cause i dont wanna be annoying or anything, but i did a little bit of research and... that's not really what i've seen??

for all the economy stuff, Biden still had four (or is it five? idk how long your presidents stay in office) years to fix the economy he got from trump if it really was bad, and what ive seen from gas prices and grocery prices in america, he clearly hasn't done that

kamala also had four years to fix the issues she was talking about, so there's that

also, from what i know (pls correct me if im wrong) all of those sexual assault cases and other charges placed against him were proven wrong. i dont think hes actually been indicted or placed in jail for anything (which ig you could sum up to the unfair legal system over there, but wasn't there that hole issue with the Clinton guy?? maybe im getting things confused, idk)

from my research didn't he also provide a lot more jobs for people of color? ive never heard him say anything explicitly racist during his rally's (i havent watched all of them) or with his legislation. ik that whole thing with the border wall was going on, and i do think that was 100% rash way to deal with the border crisis, but the Biden guy also didn't do anything to help that situation

for reproductive rights, i remember tuning into the kamala v. trump debate and he explicitly said that he was pro-abortion in the cases of rape, incest, and life of the mother (if you think that abortion should be okay in any circumstance, the ig its just a different morality, where i live thats very not okay)

for the banning books thing, ive seen plenty of clips where in elementary school library's theyve been putting out books with porn and smut in them, which i think is not okay for little children to be leanring. from what i understand, that's probably what he was trying to do with banning books (again, pls correct me if im wrong)

and i've also never really seen him display any sort of homophobic tendencies.

pls keep in mind that this is all very basic level research, as i dont really have time to go that in depth, but im majoring in politcial science at my uni, so i think this is an interesting and important topic to discuss (sorry for making this so long)

so you seem pretty pro trump at this point but I’ll still humor you if you want to be so forgiving of him.

Who told you those sexual assault cases weren’t true? Those victims still stand by their stories.

And I said I’m not saying that Biden is great. But he was still working with Trumps fuck up. Also idk how much you know about a vice president, but they can’t really do much when they’re not president. I’m not saying Harris did everything she coudlve done, but being a vp has a lot less power than you think.

And for reproductive rights, yeah right. Those fuckers don’t give a DAMN about any cases. Even if they say they do. They want it gone, point blank period.

And one of his first days of office he took away trans people from the military. He spews homophobia.

Do more research. This is embarrassing

[sheosheosheo]

WRONG

YOU CANT DO THAT VOLTRON INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT YOU CANT JUST GO ON THE VA'S WIKIPEDIA PAGES AND LOOK UP WHAT SCARY THINGS THEY HAVE BEEN IN THAT'S LAZY AND IT MAKES NO SENSE THAT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS AND ONLY ABOUT THE ACTORS WOULDNT THEY BE WATCHING IT AND BE LIKE

"Hey... that sounds like you hey they sounds like me..."

SEE IT WOULDNT WORK

ALSO TWD AND SCREAM TV SERIES ARENT MOVIES THAT SAYS MOVIES YOU CANT JUST ADD "AND SERIES" YOU DICK YOU COUDLVE PUT MAYHEM OR FUCKING NOPE WHY NOT FUCKING NOPE AND HELL FEST WTF

NOPE, DALE AND TUCKER, MAYHEM, AND HELL FEST WERE ALL IN KILL COUNT VIDEOS I THINK VOLTRON OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM ADMIN IS A FAKE FAN AND HATES JAMES A JANISSE

[gin-juice-tonic]

alright guys I got curious as to why Dipper in Journal 3 said 12 here instead of 13 so I did a little trial and error with a Bar Mitzvah date calculator

I used a range of 1946-1956 just to get a good size.

Heres what i found:

As their birthday is June 15th, The only 2 years in this range Stan and Ford couldve been born and had their Bar Mitzvah date be before they turned 13 by the gregorian calendar were 1948 and 1951

and since the boys looked like this in “1960-something”:

I personally rule out 1948 as their birth year. As at the youngest they coudlve been in the 60s was 11/12 (closer to 12 since this appears to be summer) in the year 1960, and they do not really seem 12 here to me.

So uh.. Guys I think Stan and Ford were maybe born in 1951

[ikachap]

Hi it's me again! :D I forgot to tell you but I finished my model, like, last week?? Idk how long its been but oh well, I wanted to share the progress!! I made a little test animation to see how Blockbench felt to animate and ehhhh coudlve gone better

I hope they load in smoothly, im currently sending thus from my phone and its sooooo laggy DX

holy smokes dude that rocks!!! I love the texturing you did and THE HANDS!!! the posable fingers TvT <3 thank you so much for updating me on your work this is so damn cool!

[bookwyrminspiration]

hey, as the page number guy, i was wondering if you could find a quote for me. it's from unraveled

(joke in honor of you still not having unraveled if that's not clear)

oh you think you're soooo funny oh he he look at wuil quil doesn't have unraveled yet they can't read it they don't know what happened even though basically every single on tof their friends has read it probably like six timesby now they know the plot by heart but quil doesn't because quil wont look at spoilers and their books always take forever to arrive because they sacrifice their time oney and effort to go to thoae eevents that onobua else goes ot to gget us all new keeper info and so they cant read the new nook ery fast st that so soooo funny tee theee i agonna poke fun at uil and mock the fact they cant read unraveled and theyre so lonely and alone and all they have for cojmaptn is their finals and assignmens wheil atll the rest of their frinds are rading the new boka dn having fun and making memories meanwhile quil hasnt been in the kotlc tag for weeks because they dont trust everyoen to tag their spoilers so theyre soooo out of the loop isnt that soooo funny there coudlve been a new fandom wide joke and quil doesnt knwew and everybody elsedoes and thaey all laugh at quil ha ha ha for not knowing when quil is so nice and kpind and loving and helpful and soooo sweet and everyone should be so niceys to them and and they just wanna be included but they caaant becasue the shipping takes for eer but they do it for you they do it foe ryou and yet you mock them for it ohhhh they cdont know the pages they cant see the pages silly silly quil so left out and excluded and sad wet kitten pathetic man cant read they dsee all their mutuals scerams ing and they dont know they cant know gotta gotta poke fun at quil tee teee im soooooo funny >:[

[lorillee]

ok time for lorillee to talk about yakuza 5. Instead of studying for her finals. Forewarning this got a lot longer than i was anticipating

first and foremost. even with my beef with what they did w majima ive gotta be so honest i think this is prob my 2nd favorite yakuza game.

^insane statement from girl who literally will not shut up about that man but i had suuuuuuuch an insanely fun time with the majority of this game like its honestly crazy.

that being said we're going to go ahead and get the elephant in the room out of the way first.

its actually like bonkers crazy insane how little they elaborated on majima and parks relationship especially given the fact that we got the bomb dropped on us that majima was literally MARRIED for some period of time?????????????????????

^like theres a lot i could say on this and actually you know what theres a lot i AM going to say on this. because the entire thing is just actively ridiculous

the really interesting thing about majimas role in this game is hes on screen for approximately like 8 minutes total probably. well maybe 10 if we're being generous. but hes like integral to pulling 75% of the plot together because of all the nonsense hes been pulling in the background/his relationships with a bunch of the major players. hes kind of like everybodys dead wife simultaneously

and like his lack of screentime isnt really hurting much of the suspension of disbelief wrt kiryu and saejima because for the former we've only had 4 other games of them interacting and Well saejima is literally majimas sworn brother like neither of these are relationships we really need to be sold on in the first place, and additionally for saejima we get those like 6-7 minutes at the beginning of his story to set the scene for their relationship in this game. so its fine we're chilling.

but with park & katsuya & majima its like. Well frankly they give us jack all to work with. our entire understanding of any of the dynamics going on here is like a handful of lines giving only a bit of information what was going on between park and majima at the very end of their relationship from park herself, and then a brief recap of the trio's general relationship third hand from that random guy. the lack of effort going into developing anything here is almost laughable

like park and katsuyas relationship even though its not terribly elaborated on 1) still gets something from katsuya himself and 2) is easier to digest because these characters are being introduced at the same time. like theyre both new so saying omg they were totally besties is like Ok sure got it.

but we have known majima for approximately four games now and neither of these people have been brought up in any capacity and youre telling me theyve been involved in his life for a minimum of twenty years???????? Give me a break. like obviously majima is insanely cagey so its not really much of a surprise that we the audience dont know this but because of the complete lack of elaboration it feels insanely shoehorned and frankly borderline unbelievable

we dont get like a single on-screen word from majima on either of them. we have literally no idea how he and park even met in the first place, god forbid started dating. the relationship is barely even justified within the text.

^and again we circle back to one of my biggest gripes with this series ever: COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im gonna be so insanely honest with you there was literally no reason to make majima park's husband and given the astounding lack of effort on the text's part to justify anything going on here i really dont feel bad saying this. like her husband literally coudlve been any random shmuck off the street and her relationship with majima could have been the same as katsuya's.

like because its not like the letter was even real. it was literally a decoy so theres actually no reason for them to have been estranged for like 20 years they literally couldve had a normal platonic relationship and absolutely nothing wouldve changed. But because this is yakuza the writers will actually shoot themselves before not having one of their main characters be in a romantic relationship of some sort we dont get those sorts of luxuries

additionally lowkey besides the fact that theyre allergic to letting majima be on screen for more than 15 minutes per game i honestly feel like if they had actually spent any more time dealing with all the insane implications of this relationship and what we know about it they wouldnt have been able to justify it being majima so they just chose to force him into the role they needed him be in for the story to work the way they wanted it to and then decided not to elaborate legitimately any further. Because his ass would not be doing any of this.But whatever

Unrelated but given that park is kind of a no nonsense woman i literally do not know how she stood his ass to begin with because hes literally one of the most annoying people on planet earth. But this is neither here nor there

anyways in the end because this entire thing just pisses me off im glad we got legitimately absolutely nothing in terms of meat to this relationship so i can join everybody else apparently in mostly kind of just pretending it doesnt exist. But as something of a storytelling enthusiast the laziness is truly appalling.

EDIT: ok actually sorry its been a handful of days and i saw a reddit screenshot that pissed me off so bad im actually 10000% willing to acknowledge this relationship because Like sorry but get real majima is not the victim in this relationship he had literally not a single bit of business marrying a barely legal teenage idol. if i ever see a reddit man talk about park i think im going to attack him theough the screen

whatever lets talk about something i actually enjoyed instead. namely; THE REST OF THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok i was hating on her at the beginning of the game but highkey i actually quite like park i think shes a really fun and interesting character - like ok her relationship with haruka is soooooooooo so interesting because. lets be so honest she kind of sucks. she's actively manipulative and has a strong tendency to steamroll over everybody else to get what she wants and has honestly kind of very little concern of how everybody else feels if she thinks shes doing the right thing.

she blatantly projects her own dreams onto haruka and like no ok because its actually reaaaaaally intereesting because at the end when haruka gives her little speech its revealed that she hoped to make it big as an idol specifically to support morning glory. Like she straight up does not even give the implication that she became an idol for the love of it she became an idol to relieve the financial burden of the orphanage.

which is kind of insane because at the beginning park's justification for driving kiryu out of running morning glory was that he was preventing everybody else from being able to follow their dreams because theyre all too concerned about the money situation and are willing to sacrifice what they want to do in the future to keep what they have.

like park's whole reason for recruiting haruka and kicking kiryu out of her life was so that haruka could follow her dream...... But its not even haruka's dream because haruka's underlying goal in all of this was literally just to keep morning glory from closing its doors. its literally just park's dream and she literally knows it because when she's trying to motivate haruka at the beginning of the haruka story she literally threatens to shut down the orphanage if haruka doesnt sweep this whole competition.

and like this isnt to say that park does not care about haruka - its pretty well established i think that she does and seriously sees haruka as the daughter she could never have. But also because she was actively abused as a child and whatever was going on with her relationship with majima (which frankly from the little we heard and if nothing else implication of the ages they met at. Does not sound good at all) she actively does not know how to have a normal functioning relationship.

so even though she loves haruka as her daughter she's also actively manipulative and projects literally all of her baggage and dreams and problems into her. and because haruka is desperate for any sort of connection after having been isolated from her family and her father and community and has really wanted an older sister/mother figure she views park as a mom in turn. which is based as hell i love found family that sucks

anyways so tldr park is an insanely fun character and if anybody other than me says anything bad about her ill kill them I LOVE MENTALLY ILL WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry we're literally not even talking in order anymore whatever its fine. anwyays i actually super adore harukas entire story in this game and it makes me sick that theres people out there that dont. But theyre also like reddit men so its really not even worth commentating on

anwyays it actually kind of makes me want to start attacking people how haruka and kiryu's stories parallel each other in the sense that like. i dont really know how to explain it but in short it goes that obviously kiryu's profession of choice would be Well being in the yakuza. as we have established multiple times previously and continue to re-establish over the course of the game. hes dragged back into it time and time again to the point where its almost actively contrary to common sense that he keeps leaving after whatever event he came back for concludes. But even though he'll always be yakuza at heart he still chooses to turn away from the tojo because theres something else more important to him and its haruka and the rest of the kids at morning glory.

and similarly, regardless of the fact that her underlying motivation was the financial support of the orphanage, its pretty clear that haruka really enjoys her work and life as an idol and very likely would have continued down that path as a career, but in the end gives it up because it would require her to permanently cut off kiryu and he'll always be more important to her than anything this career would have to offer. anyways it literally makes me sick i love u guys so much

ok lets actually take a step back for a second here to talk about the more overarching stuff

overall id say this is definitely following the trend of increasing writing quality in these games just like in terms of pulling together a largely coherent storyline. i talked a lot more about this in my y4 review so i wont bother repeating the details of it here but in short by introducing multiple concurrent storylines theyre able to cut down on a bunch of the bloat, but again obviously there are pretty notable downsides to this like having to tie everybodys plot together in a way that makes sense and having more threads than you have time to elaborate on or wrap up. so we kind of winsome and lose some but overall i think we're winning a lot more

im gonna be honest im kind of baffled tanimura did not show up like even at all. crazy because we literally gave him the final boss battle last game and youre telling me we're bringing back everybody else from y4 in terms of main characters except for him? Not super complaining bc i wasnt terribly attached but its still a bit weird i think

in terms of his replacement . honestly i feel like shinada was the weakest link in the narrative cohesiveness because his entire shtick lowkey feels incredibly removed from everybody else's. like his story is really important narratively in terms of like the discussion on dreams But functionally he's kind of holed up in his own little world

^additionally on this point i think the lack of connection to majima is not helping here because like i said at the beginning of this post his nonsense is the glue holding 75% of this plot together in terms of kiryu/saejima/haruka&akiyama's plotlines and getting them to all come back to kamurocho, but its just kind of weird that shinada has absolutely 0 connection at all to him or anybody else other than daigo

like to be clear i didnt dislike his story but it just feels so insanely removed and frankly kind of self contained in comparison to everybody else's melodrama that im not really sure what to do with it. like his final antagonist was some guy he had never even met before this incident and had absolutely 0 personal connection to in any meaningful way. so it just feels kind of strange.

like everybody else has their own distinct little mini adventure but it all ties together in a way that makes sense partially just because they already know each other and are connected by the common thread of tojo clan melodrama and majima nonsense. but whatever

honestly i dont have all that much to say on kiryus plot im just so insanely happy that random lady did not show up again because i seriously did not have it in me to deal with ANOTHER nonsense kiryu romance. overall liked it, enjoyed, kind of a small note but i really liked the visual progression of the final boss battle in terms of fighting aizawa out of the heart of the tojo -> to the main floor -> to the outside. very epic

also its kind of funny that when you put the money into the atm to send to morning glory it really is just flushing cash down the drain. i sent them a bunch of money because i felt bad but there was a part of me that was wondering if youd be able to pick it back up as haruka or something and literally no like that cash is gone

saejimas story i also really liked honestly im always perpetually distracted by how much cuter he is with the buzzcut im so glad he keeps it. i also really highkey love his perspective on the concept of avenging majima because its like well really not what youd expect from somebody in the yakuza and its just a really interesting character trait.

im gonna be thinking about absolutely snatched baba for the rest of my life

saejimas fight with majima on the rooftop highkey kind of makes me sick and its also crazy that majima said all that stuff re: their conversation in the batting center because like girl get real We all know you are lying. Badly. MAJIMA I LOVE YOU FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRR

it also actually makes me sick that majima was the one who kicked saejima out of the tojo like hes actually terrified of losing anybody else to the point where he actively tries to drive them away from him you have PROBLEMSSSSS

also unrelated but its insanely funny that he faked his whole death and somehow managed to get away with it and we got absolutely not a SINGLE detail on how any of this happened. me personally im still rooting for fake open casket funeral. WE LITERALLY HAD A WITNESS WHO PERSONALLY SAW HIM DIE? And like come on you cant pull the bulletproof vest because that man does not wear a shirt.

adding onto that point though more seriously majimas role in this story is just kind of weird because even though hes the glue responsible for holding half of it together the vast majority of what he's been running around doing is entirely background and 95% unexplained. which again blessing and a curse and also lowkey kind of bad writing

anyways i also really liked that daigo got to be more relevant this game but hes still kind of a perpetual running disaster. lowkey he kind of needs to get fired because hes always fighting a war with his own stupid clan but also i would feel bad because like i said earlier hes trying so hard. and also theres not really another other options at hand since the tojo hierarchy turnover is so egregiously high and like Well nobodys making majima patriarch.

^but considering my vague knowledge of 3jimas existence hes getting out of here at least temporarily for a bit? So we'll see..... we'll see....!!!!

actually devastating to me that we did not get to see hana this game.... talked to her on the phone for like 3 minutes but it was objectively one of the best parts of the game. hana and akiyama you will ALWAYS be famous to me.

akiyama and haruka are also an insanely cute duo theyre so special... LITERALLY LOVEEEEEE

akiyama honestly is sooooo good i literally love him so much forever. He still highkey needs to get his ears pierced

theres honestly not too much to say on his plot since its more haurkas than it is his but this is just a win for feminism. that beign said ti was kind of weird at the end where everybody was like omg akiyama we love u so much forever Because i feel like he didnt really do all that much. but ok

also completely unrelated but i feel like theyre becoming less trigger happy in terms of killing off 75% of the supporting cast. which is just kind of weird to witness and also just strange because they certainly pulled that move in y0 which comes out after this game. so who knows.

OH ALSO i cant believe i literally forgot to talk about it but the major plot twist this game actually were like. GOOD? like the whole reveal with the omi chairman i was like "HELLO????? Im actually stupid for not seeing this coming." that being said i think aizawa being his son shouldve gotten some foreshadowing too so that one was kind of a classic yakuza cheap twist but whatever. lowkey i was just shocked i didnt see the thing with the omi chairman coming sooner

i think thats rpobabblyy it. i might have more thoughts but overall REALLY FUN GAME. i had such a crazy good time as long as it was not in the period of time in which i was going through the 5 stages of grief over the majima is parks ex husband reveal LOL

[hearts401]

the hottake ill die for will always be that liam was better for aarons development than the scientists were... cause liam saw aaron as what he was. a kid. while the scientists seemed to see aaron as a monster that had to be redeemed for the good of humanity. granted i havent read the books in like a year but whateverrr

OKAY I ACTUALLY HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS!!! I havent actually read aarons redemption yet im getting there. but ive been thinking abt how it would be if aaron actually stayed in quill/the pirates actually took alex. and like!!! liam coudlve done so much for him personally. i think its great that him and the scientists have this relationship and i understand WHY they view aaron that way i dont dislike his arc BUTTT i am a little bitter that as far as i recall theres not a lot of liam and aaron post-redemption and that makes me mad bc liam was GOOD for aaron!!!

[cozycryptidcutie]

Honeslty Ian gives such silly guy vibes so it’s whatever. But Anthony is so hot- THAT IS TO SAY not in that Ian is like ugly. He’s very cute. But he gives such silly guy vibes. And i d k maybe it’s cuz I wasn’t ever a smosh fan and only saw him as the serious interview guy. But seeing Anthony be Ian type of silly is like wow that’s so not fitting. OKAY FINE IM ALSO JSUT MORE INTO HOW ANTHONY LOOKS SUE ME. Tho him saying “ch*ke me” in the blind slap challenge? When it coudlve been ANY of the staff? Especially with him being one of the big bosses? That gave me the ick. Luckily it was a man. But imagine that same scene with that a woman staff member? He’d be cancelled. IM JUST SAYING

[eatbabies0]

ive spent hours in the alien stage tag but today i found your account and Id liked NEARLY NONE OF YOUR POSTS it was so nice to find a trove of new content anyways hi your works all super cool!!! I love ivantill so much and I reeeaaally hope they didn’t die :((( like it coudlve been SO interesting to see how they went about things if they survived and perhaps had to face each other again after escaping, somewhere safe… but at the same time I understand the emphasis of killing them just when they had all their prospects lined up to do something incredible. Aughfudgfebugra…

i’m also excited to see lukahyuna face down though! I saw a theory that till and luka were bait to get a hyuna v luka match since the aliens like to pair people who are buds, and I think it would be super interesting to see the aliens force these two to stay on stage and sing. Especially since Luka’s tactic is making people face theit loved ones yet now he has to face his… i want to see that man break down wracked with the weight of his crimes

anyways i suppose I’ve shared my theories now hello i like your stuff!!! Have a good time, flowers for you 🪻🌼🌻🌸

OMG HI!! THANK U SM FOR LIKING MY STUFF LMAO i do tooo... IT WOULD BE SO INTERESTING IF THEY DELVED DEEPER INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIP/OR JUST THEIR CHARACTERS IN GENERAL,, but yeee,, its understandable why but i just like to think of them escaping and having a good life instead of misery....... OH GOSH YEAH,, i dont think ive heard of that bait theory before but its an interesting one!! i reaaally hope hyuna/mizi arent forced to perform on alnst again... they dont need anymore trauma pleaseeee let them escape</3 it would be rlly interesting thou despite the pain!! i rlly wanna know more about lukas character/his relationship with hyuna,, iirc i heard from the artbook that shes the only one that lost alnst and survived so? it'd be interesting to see what would happen if they performed together again after so long!! what im hoping for tho in my delusional brain is that till is faking his death ((THERE ARE THEORIES GOING AROUND AND THEY GENUINELY SEEM PLAUSIBLE!!! LIKE THE HEAD PIECE MONITORING HIS EMOTIONS/HEARTRATE IS OUT OF HIS EAR WHEN HES ON THE FLOOR "DYING" AND THE FACT THERES A FLASHBACK OF MIZI AND TILL HIDING FROM THE ALIENS AND THEY SUCCEED!! IT CANT BE A COINCIDENCEEE) and mizi and hyuna rescue him and everythings fine!!! no angst is here chat! YAYA THANK U!! im rlly happy u like my stuff<33 i wish i could make more without taking so long,, but it pays off cuz others like it besides me!!:D TY AGAIN!!