#Factory reset me ffs

[worshipbeginsontheknees]

Thots and prayers for the day:

After a long, hard, stressful day in the world outside of this little piece of real estate I don't have elaborate words or thoughts. The opposite, in fact. I just want nothing more than a hand around the the throat, snuffing out the non-stop ticker tape of the mind. Just shut down my brain for a little bit. Not long. Just... long enough.

Let me flirt with losing consciousness. Yank my pants down, grip my hip and force me upward on tiptoe. Slam me into the wall as we connect. Pin me there. Let me feel my palms on paint. Make it hurt. Dig crescent moons into my skin and let it break under the pressure. Sink teeth into my shoulder, taste my stress.

Be unyielding. Be a destructive force of nature. Destroy me. Impale me. Fill me. Take that hand between my legs, torture me there. Make me cry. Make me beg. Make me plead. Faster. Faster. Faster. Crush against me as you slam upward and I feel you piston inside. Quicker. Quicker. Quicker.

Then you give permission. I break. I break. I break. Only then are you free to flood me within, to hit that factory reset that was necessary. To wipe away the day and replace my problems with only your presence. Just make it better. Wipe the slate clean. Even if only for this moment.

[charbies]

I'm mashing together my review of totk and reactions to random encounters with the masterworks I've had lately into one stream of consciousness

Totk should have had true continuity, not a 6 year time skip that we never get to see, experience, and feel. It's not that hard to bridge 2 games with a 1-2 min cutscene, esp in a zelda game. Majora's mask starts with quick, but meaningful exposition that bridges OOT to MM! The intro to wind waker is a 6 minute long cutscene!! This series thrives with its detailed, intriguing intros, so what happened?? Before I even launched totk the night it came out, I booted up botw and replayed the final boss & ending because I was so stoked to see the transition in story/world and wanted to honor both games. Instead boom, we're walking in a cave w/ no context.

I was so disappointed that zelda wasn't a companion character to link in totk, it was disempowering to her character arc. Really thought this game would build off of botw's snippets of link & zelda working together in memories. The teasers and trailers for totk gave this perception that she would be there (which would also "break tradition" like devs wanted, ffs). When I was on the tutorial island I was fully convinced I'd be finding her and we'd reconvene like "ok what's next." When I realized 20 mins into the game that she was GONE gone, as in will not reappear likely until the end of the game damsel-in-distress-style, my verbatim thought "wait... really? Is this still going to be good?" Which was kinda sad, for a game I waited so many years for :/

I had major pet peeves with the copy/paste nature of the cutscenes with the old sages. The dialogue, bgs, pacing, literally all identical. They just hot swapped the character models for the sages and said that was good enough, wtf!!! I live for cutscenes in games, I have since I was like 5. This felt lazy, and seriously demotivated me from completing the dungeons bc I knew there was going to be nothing novel or intriguing to look forward to

The secret stones were gimmicky af. Sorry. Also stupid name, they couldn't even opt for "sacred?" Ik in other languages they have way cooler names, which would have helped. Link's fucking thanos glove of stones was a stupid gimmick, I cannot believe they didn't think to alter that concept to be more mythical, or creative, or just original. I would have killed for the stones to relate to the triforce in some way, or to do away with the stones and have this game connect to the triforce, since the whole direction of this story was going back to ancient myth & lore.

the Zonai lacked depth, and honestly just felt like a boring distraction even tho they were supposed to be a central focus of this game. I 1000% agree with other folks posts on the take that rauru was a flat, 2-dimensional colonizer. Sonia got sidelined. yikes. ew. no thanks.

^similarly, ganon really was given no character or depth imo. It's like they did a fantastic job making him visibly LOOK scary, so they didn't bother to give him motives beyond "I'm bad, I do what I want."

the cliche "back to normal" at the end irked me. Link could have come out with no arm, keeping the zonia arm, or at least scars w/ the zonai arm pattern and that would be meaningful. Zelda got factory reset from irreversible draconification in a method that for all intents and purposes, could have been done as soon as link got rewind ability. There was no investigation or inclusion of the other dragons, which seemed like a missed opportunity. Actively working on reversing her could have been a main quest in game!! Like 1. Complete all dungeons/get all stones, 2. you can now go round up the spirits of rauru & sonia and reverse zelda yippee, 3. you and zelda go beat the shit out of ganon together. The dragons fighting was beautiful, powerful imagery, but honestly I think too much potential was traded away just to execute that one fraction of the boss fight.

The masterworks book annoys me, which is sad bc I love concept art. I wanted to be a concept artist growing up, I can accept that you'll often see things that never make it into the final cut. I was enamored with early posts abt things like zelda's haircut, char designs, etc.

But more recently I'm seeing the anthology side of the book taking major liberties that it didn't even bother showing us directly or alluding to in the game, and I think that's such a cop-out. They are literally telling us instead of SHOWING us in the game they release a year ago, and spent SIX YEARS making. There was a festival celebrating the return of zelda/defeat of ganon?? Freaking show us that!!! Show us link & zelda acclimate to post-calamity life. Show us imperfect, non-linear healing and resilience. I would have loved a festival scene w/ link and zelda that conveys the nuance of celebration and recognition of their efforts, and the contrasting weight of what they went through. Show me zelda, exhausted after a festival struggling with guilt and indecision about whether to bring back the monarchy with hyrule's restoration. Throwing in a "oh btw imagine if we actually had done this" post-game makes me so irritated and feral. It's like the post-release canon is sidling up to fanon and saying, "hey look we can do that too! look at our fan art" idk if that makes sense, I don't think I'm explaining it well. But it just feels disingenuous.

I'm not a timeline purest, I don't need everything to interconnect, but I don't love how assertions in this book invalidate connections and lore of other games. Also really don't love how this game overwrites and sidelines the sheikah.

I know majority of my disappointment stems from my own, personal expectations of a game that, let's face it, was probably given many mandates and initiatives to appeal to *everyone* in broad, lackluster ways. I still love the world and characters of zelda, if anything, totk reaffirmed what I love and want to prioritize in my art that I didn't see present in this game. Fun fact I used the world of botw to learn a lot about drawing landscapes & composition. It actually inspires me a bit to try to learn to do comics, which has been a longtime goal I've been too busy and/or timid to pursue lol.

mmm anyway if u read this and any of this resonated DM me and lets froth at the mouth and commiserate lol

[eliantosbed]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

tagged by @itsanidiom, who wrote my fave PhayaTharn ff I'm obsessed with in unhealty ways.

So:

3 Ships You Like:

VegasPete. Where it all began. My blorbos. My babygirls. Never not thinking about them.

Chen Yi/Ai Di. Do I have to say more.

Akk/Ayan. Akk is my boy. I love the Eclipse so much.

First Ship Ever:

The oldest I can remember was being obsessed with Chazz and Alexis from Yu Gi Oh GX. Well, more like I loved Chazz and Alexis was the only girl around. Apparently the original names are Jun Manjome and Asuka Tenjoin, as I just learned.

Last Song You Heard:

Steal the Show by SHAUN and Jeff Satur, I think. Jeff, you're the prettiest man alive and I would give everything to be as pretty as you.

Favorite Childhood Book:

I was obsessed with Roald Dahl, particularly Chocolate Factory and the Witches.

I was a bit older, but I can't not mention my namesake, Elianto by Stefano Benni, who shaped me and my insufferable way of speaking and made my sense of humor even worse. I haven't reread it in years, I should do it.

Currently Reading:

Apart from the million fan fiction tabs I have open, I don't really have the attention span at the moment. I have like ten books near my bed and I can't read more than two pages at once. The ones at the top are Vespertine by Margareth Rogerson and a book about fabrics.

Currently watching:

I'm watching 1000 years old, but I'm not invested. Same thing with Anti Reset. Oh, I'm also watching 23.5 and Deep Night. I've finally finished everything I started at the end of last year and now I have to survive in a world without Pit Babe and the Sign every week. Pavel, come and save me.

Currently consuming:

If this is about food, tea and almond paste biscuits. If this is about media, I just watched episode 2 of 1000 years old.

Currently craving:

Some sleep, some good series, a better job and enough vacation days to go and spend all my money on visiting Thailand.

[eyeingyouup]

OMG 😱 this is too FF !!! I had my phone beside for like 2.0-30 min didn’t touch it as I’m messing around with my laptop trying to factory reset it (almost there) then all of a sudden I get notifications asking me to plug in my adapting charger and so I do that then I go to pick up my phone and this is what it shows !!!!

If you have following my story on this then you’ll know what I’m talking about , this is too Fucking Freaky , everything about it . How could this be possible , I mean no one’s making me pick my phone up at specific moments or anything so how is it possible ?

1/09/21 3:15am

[anotherobeymeblog]

Ffs

I had to do a factory reset on my phone and I had to redownload obey me, but I don't have access to my transfer code for obvious reasons. Anyone know what I can do?

[silverwhisp]

I’ve Completed KH3 And I Have Thoughts.

I have finished KH3 short of the side stuff like the ultima weapon, classic kingdom, gummi ship stuff, battle portals and the cooking. I have some thoughts. First off, I loved this game allot. I only have a couple of complaints gameplay wise and three story wise but all in all, I loved every minute of this game. For those who don’t want to read everything I’d give the game a solid 8.5/10. It was amazing but a few small flaws and the three story issues I had made me bring the score down. First I will discuss the issues cause I feel that’s what one should do when critiquing art. I will offer solutions where I can. 

I will discuss my gameplay complaints first.

The manual lock on is ass while the auto lock on is decent. I almost never used the manual lock on due to the fact it can just drag the camera where ever it wanted. Especially if enemies start flying. This is largely due to how often you spend in the air while in combat. The auto lock is good though and doesn’t seem to change targets unless you make it or bump into another enemy. The manual lock is good for human sized bosses though. Short of making the camera tighter this may not be able to be fixed.

The game is to damn easy. I had this issue in BBS and DDD after I got to level 30 and beyond. The game becomes easy even on proud. This is largely due to bad enemy health scaling. They still can hit damn hard and enemies like the Ice Dragon still are dangerous. But since the enemy’s health and defense don’t scale up better the game becomes real easy after level 40. I don’t doubt they will patch in a critical mode which may be a better way to play this game. Just better enemy scaling would fix this problem.

That’s all my gameplay complaints now for story ones. SPOILERS will be discussed so leave while you can.

The game has bad pacing in the Disney worlds. Some like Olympus, Toy Box, San Fransokyo and Kingdom Of Corona have great pacing while Monstropolis is meh and ones like Pirates and Arendelle were just awful. Why are you cheering for Anna and Elsa Sora? You didn’t do anything you turd. This could have been fixed if they added intervals in between all the worlds to reset the pacing and if they just followed the movies from start to finish in their entirety instead of jumping around.

Twilight Town is more of a bus stop then a world. They should have made it bigger and included old areas to explore. Even an expanded sewer system would have been fun. No story reason needed it just exists. Oh well.

These next issues ARE MAJOR SPOILERS so leave now if you don’t want to be spoiled.

What the fuck is Nomura’s issue with writing a good arc for Kairi? I mean they set her up to be training to become a bad ass and we don’t get to see either the training or a decent fight scene. We fight with her once, she gets kidnapped, and then fucking dies!? I’m starting to think Nomura doesn’t know how to write female characters. That may be one of the reasons they dropped him from FF Versus XIII since females had big roles in the story. He fucked Kairi over and made her the least likable and cared about character in the fucking finale of this Saga to me. What the hell? This alone may actually get me to start my own series on something I’ve been thinking about for awhile. Jesus. The death isn’t the issue its that there was no build up for her.

The last story complaint is a small one. I saw Sora’s “death” coming since death seemed to be a theme in allot of the world’s we went to. Flynn, Anna, Jack, and Tadashi were or are dead at some point. Even Young Xehanort hinted at it when he said, “There is a high price to pay for wielding such power recklessly (...) There is no saving you.” The issues I have with the “death” of Sora is that it means nothing. Nomura said he will be the protagonist for the foreseeable future. If he didn’t say that then the death would be okay. The main complaint about this is the final scene on Destiny Islands where everyone sees Kairi and Sora but Sora just gets Thanos’d. That shouldn’t have been in there. There are two scenarios that would work way better than that one in my eyes.

One: Everyone is just looking out to the sea and the music goes quiet. All you can hear is the sounds of the waves and it zooms to Riku and he just smiles.

Two: Same thing but Kairi comes from the ocean in tears and Riku helps her up. They all look at her and she shakes her head. Everyone gets solemn until Riku chuckles. He smiles and says, “That knuckle head always getting into trouble. He’ll be back. Even if I have to drag him home.”

Maybe its stupid but if you removed the scene where Sora turns into smoke or whatever, the ending would have allot more impact.

Those are all my complaints for the game. Like I said solid overall but with a few issues that could easily be fixed.

Now for the stuff I loved about the game. Gameplay Is First

All the worlds were so much damn fun to explore. I easily spent and extra couple hours in each just looking around for chests, emblems, Easter eggs, and ingredients. Even Pirates was fun and I was worried it’d be gimmicky due to the ship mechanic but nope it was so much fun. The only one that was less fun was Monstropolis but since it takes place in a factory its okay. It seemed more into hidden paths than open places which is fine.

I haven’t had that much fun with a combat system since playing as Vergil In Devil May Cry 4 Special edition and that’s saying something. His combat was so smooth and easy to experiment with I didn’t think it could be beat but KH3′s comes close with transformations and grand magic. The attractions are a bonus though I didn’t use them allot. There wasn’t a need at later levels.

Thank god for combo cancelling with dodges and slides. Against the Gigas, which are the only enemies that pose a threat now, its a god send.

Flowmotion is fun to use and not over powered like in DDD. No more spamming air slam at early levels.

The party members all feel useful. Not many died in combat and seemed smart enough to back off when they’re in danger. Donald also heals based on need versus what he did before. Like if I was out of magic and potions he would heal me over goofy even if we had similar amounts of health.

There wasn’t a single boss I didn’t like short of Dark Baymax since it felt so slow. Skoll is now my favorite heartless design finally surpassing the Wyvern from Kingdom Hearts 1.

That’s all for gameplay since I could go on and on.

Now for story stuff. SPOILERS INCOMING! All the original story stuff for the KH characters was amazing. Anti-Aqua’s theme was so heartbreaking and beautiful and what she said as we fought made me feel like shit even though it was Mickey’s fault for leaving her there. Vanitas’ voice is god like and his scenes are so good. Him calling Ventus and Sora a brother to him makes sense yet unsettled me with the tone he used. ALL OF THE TRIO’S BEING REUNITED!!! I cried when Xion, Roxas and Axel hugged and cried. I was so happy they got to be together. Aqua’s reunion with Terra and Ven was also beautiful. Xehanort’s story beats were great and the man they got to replace the late Leonard Nimoy is amazing. Sounds more sickly and dying like he should at this point. The twist where Terranort wrecks everyone before we go back into time was a fucking shock and amazing. THEN LINGERING WILL SHOWING UP! The voice for Lingering will was amazing. DONALD’S ZETAFLARE HOLY SHIT! All the foreshadowing of Sora’s “Death” or “Disappearance.” Death was talked about allot and Young Xehanort even said Sora couldn’t be saved since Sora uses the power of waking so recklessly. All the Disney characters who met organization members being sick of their shit before they even talk. Woody especially. “I bet you’ve never been loved.” and “That makes you more hollow than any toy.” My son I am so proud. All the instagram style posts were so cute. The epilogue was mind blowing. I knew that sarcastic sniper knew way more than he let on but him being Luxu was a fucking shock. Amazing. And the secret ending seems to be hinting that Sora’s been given a second chance in the form of The Reaper game from TWEWY. Either its going to be DLC which Nomura said if he did decide to do he’d do free stuff and/or one big dlc that adds to the experience in a big way or the next game opens with The Reaper Game. Riku being in Verum Rex is interesting to me. Maybe he realizes Sora isn’t in the realm of light and after talking with Goofy and Donald he learns of Verum Rex and how Sora was tossed in so he goes looking for him there. And finally the Master of Masters looking at the moon and forming a heart with his hands. Is he looking for a new plain of existence for everyone to live on but before he can move people there it needs a new Kingdom Hearts? And is that what’s in the box? I’m excited to see. All in all I love the game and would recommend it to people who want a good JRPG.

8.5/10

[stevenhyd]

lcvato replied to your post: does anyone else have issues with updating their...

i read something abotu someone who had the same issue when i was looking for answers about why mine wouldnt start and they had to completely reset their phone to factory conditions to fix it??

gOD i hate apple .. i think its time for me to sue them for emotional distress, all im tryna do is update my dumb phone and they make it so difficult ?? ffs

[tellywoodtrash]

ishqbaaz 21.02.17 lb

my girl getting in a few punches of her own. 🙃🙃🙃

howwwwww can the kapoors NOT know that’s romi under there? 🙄🙄🙄

shivaay’s the worst host ever. barely a hello and he’s like GTG!!! and goes and stands in the middle of the room and stares off into the distance. 😑😑😑

i wish i had romi’s confidence and... general attitude. she’s so fucking efficient and not bogged down by emotions. #stonecoldbitch #goals 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

god this outfit of anika’s is so damn bad. 😣😣😣

oh girl, i already see this ending badly. you have no life/friends outside this damn mansion and we ALL know it. 🙈🙈🙈

apparently her husband, who spends 24/7 around her, doesn’t. fucking idiot. 🙄🙄🙄

i hope that phone is on silent and won’t start ringing in between this charade and out her. i neeeeed my girl to get one up on this asshole for the shit he pulled. 😤😤😤

oh thank god. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

lmao the little hand gesture he does at “ainvayi ainvayi” 😂😂😂

shivaay’s suddenly realizing he knows next to nothing about anika’s “circle” other than sahil and the existence of bandari bua 🙃🙃🙃

speaking of, where’s bandari bua? where’s she living, now that the house is shivaay’s? 🤔🤔🤔

not that he’s locked it up super-securely or anything. anika and daksh got into it pretty fucking easily. buaji might be living there for all we know.  😒😒😒

pft, alpha male wants to know where rohit lives, why exactly??? plz note your brothers are not here for backup. 🙄🙄🙄

look @ayeshcreamcone, shivaay’s factory resetting anika’s phone for her! 😆😆😆

faraq pe faraq, faraqCeption™. 🙄🙄🙄

lo, mummy bhi aa gayi, aur raita phailaane. 😑😑😑

“mehendi KAL hai???” 

pft, maybe if you took some time from playing mind games and staring at your girl, you’d be more up to date with what function is when. 😒😒😒

and also realise that you’re perilously close to marrying tia. step up on your investigation ffs. 😑😑😑

*yelling behind a departing anika* “mehendiiiiii hai meri kal!!!!!!” *to himself* “tia ke saath. very excited.” 

lmaooooo this fucking loser, i can’t even 😂😂😂😂😂😂

mummy se jhoot nahi bolna. mummy-nu sabbbb pata hai. 🙃🙃🙃

shivaay is this close to telling mummy that bahu toh yehi rehni hai, whether she likes it or not. 😆😆😆

oh my god. what the fuck even is anika wearingggggggggg?!?! 😩😩😩

lol who are those random two ppl perched on the staircase? 😐😐😐

anika, by now you should know/think that ANY gesture from shivaay is NOT intended towards you. even if it is, leave him hanging. 😒😒😒

why does the stylist hate my girls like this???? tia’s wrapped in a sheet of tinfoil, like a chicken that’s about to go in the oven for roasting. 😩😩😩

wow, what an interesting couple shivaay/tia are. they’re just standing there staring at each other in silence. 🙄🙄🙄

jesus above, the size of that tumbler. if i drank water from that, i’d meet my 2L water requirement of the day in one shot. 😐😐😐

why are you still standing there, anika? 😶😶😶

lol. so fakeeeeeeeeeee. 😆😆😆

it’s kinda adorable how fucking devoted he is to her though. won’t even drink tia’s jootha. such patnivrata, wow. 😚😚😚

but also fucking infuriating that he’s this fucking committed to her, but just can’t tell her that he loves her? #manbaby 😒😒😒

is mrs. kapoor gonna call her sniper again? 🤔🤔🤔

oh god, even prinku’s fallen victim to the shitty stylist. EVEN PRINKU!!!!!!! 😦😦😦

the closeup of shivaay’s kurta is fucking blinding me. 

ok nakuul’s not gonna be winning lipsync battle anytime soon. 😬😬😬 

also, this is more of an anguished staring at each other from across the room kinda song. not singing AT her in a dream sequence kinda song. 🤐🤐🤐

i’d have directed this sequence to be 70% less cheesy and 2000% more heartbreaking. 😕😕😕

but whatever, this songggggg man. it makes my heart hurt. 💔💔💔

BRO IF YOU’RE IMAGINING YOURSELF DOING FILMY BOLLYWOOD SINGING FOR HER, HOW CAN YOU EVEN DENY YOUR FEELINGS?!?!?! ONCE YOU (and YOU of all ppl) GO BOLLYWOOD, THERE’S NO GOING BACK. 😩😩😩

ok, what is anika signing? rose petal on him? “i’m the one in your heart”? what????? 🤔🤔🤔

rose petal. but NO WHERE near where she was pointing. 😐😐😐

damn, is no one noticing the groom and the wedding planner being this close to making out or what?? 😶😶😶

why did she have to personally come over and pick it off him? such contrived. 🙄🙄🙄

why am i complaining tho? you go girl, you pick them rose petals off him sexily and make his dil ki ghanti go into overdrive! 🔔🔔🔔

tellywoodtrash tries to predict tomorrow: 

she’s gonna burn her hands thanks to whatever mrs. kapoor put in the mehendi and he’s going to drop everything to tend to her?

maybe not. maybe she’s just gonna get HIS mehendi on her hands and he’s going to be enamored by that? 

either way, they’re going to have another anguished/sexy Faraq-ilicious™ exchange. 😏😏😏