#I love you guuuuuuys

[coffeecakecafe]

Happy 50 sessions to the Pringles dnd campaign! Officially the longest game I’ve ever played, I love all of our characters and the story we’re telling sooooo much. Can’t wait to play 50 more! Maybe Red and Yancy will be kissing by session 100 and not just staring longingly at each other.

Top: Izen @justabitscrewy

Middle: Phaela @couchtaro, Yancy (me), Theseus @eaudecrow

Bottom: Blink (dog), Red @lorebreaker

And, of course, much love to our dm @bacoj8

[basketobread]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ERIC YOUVE BLESSED ME WITH ETERNAL LIFE (what have you done)

yeah im normal about my friends oc. what about it?

oracle - @basketobread

[klausysworld]

GUUUUUUYS I SAW JOSEPH TODAY

MET HIM

HAD MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH HIM.

He was very lovely

I was mostly speechless and just gawking(?) at him.

You do not get long at all, literally walk in get photo leave.

I think you may get longer for an autograph? Not sure, couldn’t afford both if I’m honest.

So anyway

If you ask for a hug you get it, he is warm and smells great

Yes he is as hot in real life-sculpted by angels if not gods.

I managed to see him through the curtain before i went in, the realisation that he was actually real was crazy-definitely did not cry.

I did just go look at him while he was signing autographs, the security people get mad when you take photos from afar but like…

Yeah so, what’re they gonna do?

Um

It was boiling in there (could’ve just been because Joseph was there though tbh)

Theres so much stuff you can buy, people make really great art of all the tvd characters.

You can also get frames for you photo and stuff which are quite nice and cost like £20.

The actual photo was like £95 with ticket protection and stuff, autographs were the same and you have to buy actual entry tickets as well.

He alternated between autographs and photos each hour or so. I would recommend just queuing asap but don’t panic because the queues do go down quite fast.

Um if you wave at him he does that little Klaus finger wave

This^^

And yeah…could have passed out.

Personally the money was 100% worth it even though it was a small interaction i am definitely going to remember this forever actually so in love with him.

He called me ‘love’ twice and ‘sweetheart’ once in the time span of like 10 seconds??

^Thank you @klaustopia and @twelfthmortalofcrimsonpalace for immediately being excited and making me laugh 🤍🤍

If there’s anything anyone would like to know just askk 😊

[solaroppositesyaoi]

Tervo Week Day 7: Free Day!

I’m late again but I just wanted to thank everyone who participated or anyone who just enjoyed the week.

I thank you guys for making this week so much and I’m Love you sooo much!

THANK YOU GUUUUUUYS TERVO FORVER!!!!

[beheadedtheatrekid]

Idea for choirsona/rtc oc

How would your rtc oc react to

Ocean singing I love you guuUUUuys

Noel's face when Karnak tells that Noel worked in Taco Bell

Mischa showing photos of Talia

Ricky telling about cat girls

"Do you want to brush my dolly's hair?"

Constance kicking Ocean

[sp-growingpains]

💌 and 💢 for the oc ask game?

Guys!!! Guuuuuuys! Thank you so much 😭

Quick hold this! ~ 💚💜💚💜💚

💌 - First crush/love

Man, that's always the fun one, isn't it? Messy romance questions is just 🤌 hm!

I always imagined her first crush to be Kyle. If it's something Jean admires, it's that good moral compass. Then it's the fact that he's so free with his anger.

Now that's really strange to say, but for her, that's so admirable. As someone who bottles her own anger to the point of unhealthy coping mechanisms, the fact that he can express it freely and people still want to be around him is so foreign to her. He's not afraid to say how he feels or speak up when something is wrong. That inspires her to do the same later.

But the first time, she really felt it was when they were older, and the way he just - laughed. That smile had her doing that cheesy romance thing where time slowed down and her heart leaps.

Then she immediately pushes that down and forces it out of her mind. It never happened. She'll take those feelings to the grave. Or until she can't take it anymore and just unloads her feelings on Stan, who doesn't know how to handle that all that.

💢 - Person they can't stand

See I could be typical and say Randy, again. But it's the truth! She can't stand that man. She can't stand the way he makes his wife and kids the people he's supposed to love, so frustrated!

But let's stray away from that a little yeah? Get something fresh.

I think Jean can let a lot roll off her shoulders. It takes a lot to get her to the point where she just won't talk to you or hates being around you. She's honestly stupidly forgiving, wanting to believe that people will change and be better.

I think, like most people, she has a bit of a rocky relationship with Cartman, but I haven't fully figured out how she feels about him. And to be fair... that confusion and frustration is probably the extent.

So besides the easy answers. It's Mike McKowski.

Also did you guys know that the guy that calls Stan "Stan Darsh", Tad. His last name is also McKowski. I wonder if there's a relation? Fuck them both

[mercymermaid]

so

next stop theatre rtc production rant

@ihavenoideamanokay you're being sacrificed

- jane didn't actually sing during her first verse of karnak's dream of life, she just flung her doll around which was iconic

- karnak unfortunately spoke very quickly and didn't have the comedic timing of 2016 :(

- virgil was this tiny little rat who moved up and down it was so silly

- karnak had little blinds in his booth and the front one got stuck and at first we thought it was a bit until he opened the side one and said "oh that one works-" (and then during the entirety of uranium suite he was trying to fix it 😭)

- ocean and constance both had the same outfit, jane had the same outfit as them but with white socks (instead of black), noel had a whole ass blazer over his dress shirt, mischa was. mischa. and ricky had a normal sweater vest over his dress shirt and a beanie

- during uranium suite constance kept managing to channel Main Character Energy (/pos) and then ocean just went. nope <3 and constance actively looked hurt

- once karnak started speaking and they were all standing there ricky was rubbing his throat like "oh my god-"

- noel was a lot less vocally expressive but damn his facial expressions were on POINT

- constance was just having this huge ass panic attack throughout the entirety of everyone's catchphrases and it's hilarious

- speaking of, during everyone's introductions, they hovered by karnak's booth just in like a video game idle animation

- noel, instead of being disgusted, just kinda shrugged like "okay, me, pop off"

- ricky did a handstand and slayed

- jane sounds a lot more like an actual teenager, which was great

- she also had a ragdoll which slayed and it's head was constantly falling off

- noel looked like he was struggling very VERY greatly to keep it together while ocean talked

- mischa and noel were so nice to jane 😭 - noel was talking to her about nails during ocean's intro and waving ajd shir, and they both like ushered her around and shit oh my godddd 😭 they'd make hand gestures and jane would imitate and they looked so proud oml 😭 

- mischa sounds german 😭 

- ocean started her songs by aggressively blowing a whistle which spurred everyone into choreography

- jane was really out of it and didn't actually know what she was doing until towards the end of what the world needs 

- ocean somehow managed to hurt everyone at the end - noel was hit in the nose, constance was knocked down, ricky was as well, mischa got kicked away, and ocean used jane as a little stepping thing at the end

- they all very much enjoyed that, and as karnak announced the 'unanimous vote' thing, ricky and noel both were trying not to laugh

- noel started dramatically clapping and it was great

- "not all gay people are fun to be around" he stared ocean right down, stuck his middle finger in his mouth and then cornered her into the middle while aggressively flipping her off (as he should)

- noel yelled a LOT more than "sweet jesus christ on a stick" when he was fed up "I LOVE YOU GUUUUUUYS-"

- his idle animation was some really weird sexually invigorating writhing (funnily enough mischa was sitting behind him 😭)

- instead of the gay pose for the "his mother found out two things", this mf all but twerked and showed off his ass to the audience 

- this man. /pos

- during the "i hear it gives you an erection" ocean looked on the verge of tears and smiled and nodded aggressively when constance suggested just moving on

- noel was fruiTEA he was not holding back at ALL 

- the taco bell pic was on thr back of a karnak poster and noel all but sprinted and screamed to stand in front of it and trying to play it cool (he failed miserably)

- oh the flirting with mischa was WILD

- at one point he made some innuendo ("never wrote a novel.. or had sex.." points at mischa with a wink) and mischa immediately started texting talia

- instead of a full-blown kiss scene it was a bit more of a little peck and then mischa going "😍"

- and then right after that he got his wig lmao

- he was laughing like a MANIAC he was FERAL

- he was about to do a split and then after constance refused to pay he gave up

- his "tell the lord im dying like him" moment was less dramatic and more peppy

- he just say up and excitedly started rattling off what he would say

- he walked down a pathway of chairs and boxes to The Box and then did his lovely singing while everyone else was also on chairs and shit lmao 

- ricky's accordion was rapidly falling apart 💀

- karnak danced to every song except wtwn and ballad

- again. more fucking flirting with mischa. this man was WILD-

- everyone was sitting on the sidelines during ocean's lesson rant

- jane was sitting with constance, trying to show her her doll, which constance accidentally threw onto the stage

- jane went to get it and mischa went "no-"

- also when karnak said "not every story has a lesson" constance was motioning for him to stop like "please do not-"

- tsia was dope. he had a fur coat and EVERYTHING. he was slaying hard

- everyone was being extremely sexual which was fuckinf hilarious to watch 💀 

- noel was getting INTO IT

- ricky had a silly little robot head thing

- "i lay my masculinity at the altar of your maidenhood" he offered his rapper dollar sign necklace 😭 ily sm my guy

- someone said "aw" and he focused on them for the rest of the song lmao

- talia was beautiful. the big projection fabric was brought in as a veil by jane, and then they used it to shadow project jane and (i think) noel dancing behind it it was so cooollllll 

- instead of the dance circle they all just started dancing crazily it was great lmao

- mischa fucking THREW himself at ricky and noel that mf was sobbing

- no sped up speech from ocean (thankfully /j)

- however at the virginity bit noel immediately walked over like "fucking SPILL"

- they all collectively nudged ricky forward it was so sweet like "you should go"

- it was. wild.

- as he was explaining his religion, noel was nodding along like "yeah this seems sick dude"

- instead of having ocean, jane, and constance at the beginning, he had jane, constance, and noel (bisexual king) 

- he had a cape for a bit but took it off before the "it gets weird now"

- speaking of there was no backstage or costume change he just played guitar aggressively smh

- everyone had a cat helmet and fluffy cat tail and they all has different color and they all had visors and mischa's was constantly falling off 💀 

- mischa: "dude you are so cool now" ricky: "nobody-" *gives the biggest fattest nastiest side eye to ocean* "-ever listened to me"

- BALLAD WAS SO AMAZING HOLY DHRIROFJDUSSHITITISHUDIEKDSB AJRUSJSJFJFJRAUGHFHDUSUFJEIIRH can you tell it's my favorite song

- jane gave her doll to karnak 😭 dadnakdadnakdadnakdadnak-

- her voice was so powerful holy SHIT

- the choreography was everyone moving around with masks on their hands like heads before the first chorus, and then after that it was just hands constantly grabbing at her

- she was terrified kf the hands and heads

- oh and there was uv lihting which made everything very very ckntrasty holy shiat

- her voice was torn between fear pain and anger and it was so fucking gorgeous DUDEEEE

- THOSE HIGH NOTES 🤩 best jane ive seen since emily rohm (i say, this being the only other version i've seen-)

- at the end she just kinda stood there, nobody else was on stage, she kicked the floor like a lil pouty child (my sweetheart) but then when the others started singing happy birthday her eyes widened like "what the fuckkkk"

- mischa beat boxed the first half of the og birthday song

- the new birthday song was super awkward but then ocean figured out the beat and it got really fast really randomly for some reason- felt a bit rushed

- they all blew it out together so once she reached for the cupcake it was already put out

- she didn't wander off to eat the cupcake shr went straight to Ricky

- at first he kinda dismissed her but... oh my goD

- her voice was so confident "savannah, with the greenest eyes..!"

- once the focus shifted off of them ricky unwrapped the cupcake and then he took a bite to show her how to eat it then they took turns until she just shoved the entire thing in her mouth-

- mischa was all alone and then he pointed the bottle at noel who came over

- he offered a sip and noel was such a lightweight hetook one gulp and his knees buckles 😭 

- they had their deep convo and then just took turns drinking until they ended up finishing the entire bottle

- the constance ocean situation. goddamn. it escalated to yelling and then constance punched he really hard and ocean sat down and sulked for the entirety of jawbreaker

- mischa was the guy and he had the tattoo and once he was Free the look of disgust on his face as he tried to dust himself off

- everyone was kinda smiling somberly as constance talked

- DADNAK GAVE HER A SPARKLY JACKET EAFHFHGJGJG

- they all kinda did their own jigs yk

- dadnak had them walk past his booth and grab various sparkly accessories from a bucket for them to dance with it was so cute

- no recorder solo sadly but she did do some wicked scatting

- it was utterly amAZING

- AFTER SUGAR CLOUD. OCEAN HUGS CONSTANCE AND OUT LOUD FULL ON TELLS HER "I'M SORRY" LIKE FUCK YEAHHHHHH

- as ocean being the final vote is announced, the choir turns to look at her rhythmically, and then just look at that exact spot for the rest of her monologue

- it is. long. obviously

- as she's turning around to pick the final vote, everyone makes varying faces of some sort of hope, and as she chooses jane, they relax

- jane's life is revealed by a waterfall of photographs coming from the ceiling and everyone crowds around her to point out all the stuff in them as ocean starts its not a game

- eventually she has all the photos and she's shuffling through them quickly on the verge of tears

- she leaves without much fanfare, constance WAVES and jane runs off behind the wings

- karnak gets his ass killed and just leans out the window, very dead (his death scene was.. interesting)

- as they start it's just a ride oh my god 😭 it's so happy because they're just kinda running around and dancing together and everything AUGH MY HEART

- NOEL HUGS OCEAN. 

- THEY DO THE SPIN ON THE "TURNING ROOOOOUND" BUT NO BIG JAM OUT HOW DARE THEYYY

- JANE COMES BACK OUT AS PENNY WITH A DARKER WIG AND GREEN EYES AND SHE GUIDES THEM ALL TO THE AFTERLIFE BC THEY ALL END UP SETTLING INTO THE ROLLERCOASYER POSITION

- AND THEN PENNY SINGS THE “I KNOW THIS DREAM OF LIFE IS NEVERENDING” WHICH MEANS HER NOT SINGING IT EARLIER WAS FORESHADOWING LOOK AT ME I’M A GENIUS

OTHER STUFF

- this one chair to the side was used as the breakdown chair because constance had like thirty anxiety attacks on it and noel was barely keeping himself together from tearing ocean to shreds 

- can't remember in which interaction specifically but ocean pisses mischa off and he stomps off to sulk backwards on a chair by ricky

- either at the beginning of lament or tsia jane fucking. chucks. her doll somewhere behind karnak's booth

- at one point jane and ocean are sitting next to each other and jane keeps trying to initiate contact and ocean is leaning away like 'fuck no babes'

- mischa beat boxing was a good bit and he did it twice-

anyway that's all-

[polyamorouspunk]

I love you guuuuuuys <- *is very sleepy*

[day6source]

hello loves!! happy wonpil day!!💕💕💕 no real big updates, but there's a few things i wanted to mention/remind! one - mostly an apology for bubble updates being late, sometimes the boys just send so many at once and i have to find a time to properly sit down and go through to translate/screen cap. 🫶 i've also been a bit more picky about posting twitter content, mostly stuff that is typically kr only (like fansigns or merch updates or television shows unavailable internationally) or just things i don't think you guys are super interested in based on past interactions. but! if you'd like to see those anyway, just let me know! 💕 two - speaking of, if you're curious about the songs wonpil has been rec-ing on bubble, i have a spotify playlist here with all of them that i always keep updated per recommendation session! three - and speaking of wonpil, my good friend joyce has started up a wonpil update blog! you can find it over at @whereswonpil, and she'll be posting updates as well as fansite pics! she's a bit of an affiliate, so if she happens to get to some posts before me, i'll just reblog from her to here instead!💕 four - guuuuuuys it's been almost a full year! still need to sit down and plan something properly, but!! we'll also be celebrating 300 followers!! which is so crazy!!!! WHAT!!!!! 💕💕💕 i love you guys so much, this is so insane to m there's so many of you here!!!!! 💕💕💕 i think that's about it, make sure to follow @whereswonpil, and as always, stay happy and healthy, and make sure you're all taking care of yourselves 💕💕💕💕 love love love, tay 💕💕💕🫶🫶🫶

[ibrithir-was-here]

I want to say I love your amazing art and stories ideas. I really admire your tenacity, creativity, and positivity. Keep being you, you're awesome 👏

😭🩷🫶😭🩷🫶 You guuuuuuys you're gonna make me cry 🥹🥹🥹

[biographydivider]

Jellybean

For @acewithapaintbrush​, who was disappointed that the baby sibling in the background isn’t canon.

“Welcome one and all to Puppet History --!”

“Professor, keep it down. Sensitive ears, remember?”

“Oh - oh, right, yeah, sorry Mom. Okay. Today,” The Professor whispered, resting his tiny (but not as tiny as it had once been) nose on the crib’s railing, “we’ll be taking an ever-winding look at yet another chapter in the heavy heavy book we call history, while our guests ruthlessly compete for the coveted cup, and the title of History Master. I am, of course, your beloved host and big brother, The Professor!”

He held for applause that never arrived. Instead, someone blew a raspberry. He wasn’t sure who it was, but assumed it was Ryan and mentally took off a History Point, just to be safe.

“Uncle Ryan, are you ready?!”

“Not quite sure how you roped me into this,” Ryan said from the other side of the crib, idly spinning a teething ring around one finger, “but yeah. Sure.”

“Special guest and baby puppet/dinosaur hybrid Jellybean, are you ready?!”

Lying in the crib on her back - holding her tiny, fuzzy, orange feet in her tiny, fuzzy, orange claws - The Professor’s baby sister gazed up into his eyes with all the love and innocence in the world, and farted.

“Then let’s crack in! Dun Duuunnn!” The Professor flailed his arms, and Jellybean giggled.

A baby sister had been a...surprise. But it wasn’t like The Professor’s life could get much weirder. He knew his parents had a, uh, robust romantic life. But he really wasn’t expecting to come home from filming one day to find them waiting for him at the door, giving each other goo-goo eyes and talking about something very, very important they had to show him in the spare room.

“Now that asteroidation isn’t an issue,” his dad had said, “your mother and I wanted to make the family a little bigger.”

“Plus, you weren’t exactly a normal birth, baby,” his Mom had added. “I wanted to experience the full, natural journey to motherhood; from a night of loving, mindless passion with your father right the way through incubation, ending with a brand new baby to care for.”

“And we always thought you’d make a wonderful big brother.”

“You...you thought that about me?” The Professor asked, gazing at the egg sitting in a pile of cut grass his Mom had hoarded just the week before - payment for Dad running the lawnmower over Ryan’s mom’s lawn in readiness for Too Many Spirits 2023. The Professor had asked her what she was doing, and she’d just chuckled at him and told him he didn’t need to know. Which was dumb - he was The Professor! He needed to know everything.

“Of course we did, baby!” his mother said, wrapping him up in a big hug. “You’re so intelligent and creative - and so cute - what better role model could a lil’ dino baby ask for?”

“Aw, guuuuuuys...”

Her name was Scout. But even before she’d hatched, her big brother had always called her Jellybean.

“Now,” The Professor began, “do either of you have any experience with teddy bears?”

“Actually,” Ryan piped up, “I have a real cute story about this bear that my grandpa --”

“Gahbaghabababa!” Jellybean squealed, her tail thumping against the mattress of the crib as she made a grab for the copy of Quantum Theory For Babies that The Professor had bought her when she was born. She liked to chew on it while she thought.

“That’s a really good point,” The Professor cried. “You know, I hadn’t thought about that! A jellybean for the baby sister!”

“Beeee!”

“That’s right; a bean! You’re so smart.”

“Hey!” Ryan complained, picking up a blankie and lobbing it over the top of the crib at his friend. “I thought we were leaving favouritism behind us, Professor?”

“We are!” The Professor insisted, dodging the projectile with ease. “She just made a really good point.”

“Sure she did.”

“Anyway; our story today is about a President, a defenseless cub, and how capitalism really just can’t just leave things alone. This is the story of the very first teddy bear!”

“Of course,” Ryan grumbled, “when it’s for the channel it’s cannibalism and propeller butchery; but she gets literal softball topics...”

“She’s a fuckin’ baby, dude - what do you expect?”

“Language, son!” came a call from the living room. “You can play with the baby as long as you behave.”

“Oh. Right. Sorry, Dad.”

The Professor looked down into the crib at his sister, who smiled back up at him. There was a glint in her eye that he knew very, very well. A chaotic, fun-loving, too-clever-for-their-own-good sparkle. He had a feeling that, between them, there would be a lot of time for mischief when she got a bit bigger. As well as a lot of learning.

“So, anyway, our story begins...”

[adorastarot]

🥹 I feel so loved

Guuuuuuys, we have reached 300 followers on Tumblr and 50 members on Ko-fi! Thank you so much for being here and for all the love so far! I truly appreciate you all <3 I am releasing more content this week both for members and non-members! I am also almost all caught up on private readings, thank you all for being so understanding of my medical situation! I am so grateful to all of you, thank you thank you!

💕

[harkingspot]

idk if you noticed this but i think glenn and myc showed up together a lot in this season like the're just always together

OH DEAR ANON THAT WAS THE ONLY THING I NOTICED IN PART 2 ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? im compiling all of their moments together akshooalee (actually) KLDAJKLDS oh my god you guys THEY WERE. LIKE. STICKING TO EACH OTHER IM GOING INSANE

(SPOILERS BELOW)

i cannot stress how much the vip scene means a lot to me- LIKE "lets go party, mushroom man"???? HUH YOU GUYS ARE HOMOSEXUALS

not only that but they both went thru like a whole ass identity crisis together,,, I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY DIDNT SMOOCH OR SMTH GOD

and in the fuckin halloween party they just MAGICALLY end up wearing the same costumes???

bro its like theyre MEANT for each other!!!!!

i love when two horrendous characters get together like yES go be disgusting and an inconvenience to society together <333

then when reagan goes "remember how you guys did a group costume?" THEY JUST ACCEPTED IT

part 1 glennmyc wouldve continued the fight and been like OH YOU MOTHER-

but part 2 glennmyc is DIFFERENT. they're slightly more tolerant to each other which means one thing: love is blooming <33

AND THE CUTEST MOMENT OF THEM ALL

"'prisoners of warped realities' glenn coined that one" "im a wordsmith!"

GUUUUUUYS!! KICKING MY FEET IN THE AIR LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL LOOKING AT THESE UGLY DUDES BEING POOKIE WOOKIE TOGETHER

anyways im done being insane. we are so close SO CLOSE to the glennmyc truth. i can FEEEEEEEL IT

plus since its even confirmed by the ij crew glenn + myc 4ever <3

[breakfastteatime]

You guuuuuuys T_T So lovely and supportive! If I get any more Asks, I'll get to you in the morning as Grandma Breakfast Tea needs to go to BED.

Right now the plan is to take a short break from the Big Fic 2, work on a one shot set on Bracca but inspired by Survivor, and then get back to fixing that beast! I can't wait to share it with you all in the autumn <3

[baisleyarts]

you guuuuuuys💜💜💜💜

Thank you all!

I plan on opening commissions with limited slots soon, so keep an eye out.

Love you 😘

[strawberryjamsara]

may we know which interpretation of a character from ur shows u do not agree with and find to be in slightly poor taste u reblogged that post 5 times about 👀

I reblogged that post way more than five times I thought….

And well it applies to a lot of characters… but for what I’m thinking about now it’s the entire cast of yttd

This game is literally about a death cult that’s been training people for a murder game against their knowledge their whole lives. You’d think the fandom would be able to shoulder more moral complexity than 7 year olds.

Qtaro is beloved nowadays for his stellar character arc, but before 3-1b and even now, his tag is uninhabitable. No matter how much he changed from his pretty indefensible actions in the first chapter, even a line in the second chapter main game that was pretty much just turning towards the camera and telling you he had changed, people were VICIOUS at the idea that he could show any moral complexity and growth. People were outraged over a man called Qtaro Burberberg who was a parody of Jojo characters, and making headcanons about him being homophobic (which is a whole other can of worms but I don’t have time for that today)

Then we have the opposite spectrum. Characters who are loved.

Kai Satou, literal ex assassin who drank poison as a child? Apparently he doesn’t know what swears are.

Nao Egokoro, who in one route of the game kills everyone? Like that happens. She kills everyone. Well she’s just a cutesy artist lesbian.

(Also Kai threatened Nao at knifepoint to attack an innocent person in canon but that never gets unpacked anywhere in the fandom)

Hell the uwufication has gotten so bad that Shin Tsukimi SHIN FUCKING TSUKIMI, the antagonist of the game for a good chunk of the run time is reduced down to being just a little guuuuuuy! Baby booooooy! The fact he spent so long tormenting a literal child is treated as a funny little quirk! And look, I’ll be the first person to advocate for Shin and Sara being a well written relationship and their eventual bond meaning a lot to me, but Shin has gotten so many passes for being a fan favorite and (dare I say it) being a twink.

And like. There’s also the weird limbo with Keiji. Oooooh Keiji. See, you can make a post pointing out Shins mistakes and everyone goes “He’s so funny <3” but if you make a very similar post about Keiji the literal day after those people will say “Ugh, thank you this is why I hate Keiji.”

So look. I love Keiji. I make fanart of Keiji. I obsessively write meta of Keiji. I blorbo tag Keiji. I am like the only person in the world who thinks that with the way Nankidai has written the story, killing off Keiji would be a bad move…

But here’s the thing.

Keiji is a flawed character. Like extremely flawed. He’s meant to be a direct foil to Shin, but rather than antagonizing our main character, he’s sitting in the chair next to her as her main assistant. He cares about her deeply, but in the beginning of the game, his only interest with her is using her as a figurehead for his own survival, and no matter how much he wants to protect her now, that initial approach is not without consequences. He has hurt people, and he uses that fact to hurt people more as his own self inflicted punishment. He has changed and grown over the narrative but he’s not someone you can put in an easy box of good or bad.

So people tend to go to one extreme or the other with him. Either he’s the best dad who does no wrong, or he is the worst character ever and the game would be so much better without him. It really sucks that Keiji and Sara, one of the most complex and interesting relationships in the game, and one that is out front and center so comically often, to the point that 3-1b revolves around it, is ignored to such a degree that the contract, the main point of that scene, the fact you were meant to be put in Sara’s shoes and feel her making that decision was missed by the fandom so they could whine about not getting to make the decision themselves! Reading comprehension zero! Literally where is the meta and fanfic?! Greenblings has tons of it! Do I have to do everything mys-

Also like, there’s also characters explicitly meant to be not sympathetic who do get sympathy. Like, idk how hard Nankidai has to look into the camera and tell you Midori is just like that for you to stop giving him backstories. People probably do that so it’s easier to ship him with Shin tbh. Stop that.

Okay one last thing, and I’ll stop. This fandom is weirdly focused on shipping. Like I love shipping don’t get me wrong, but yttd is like not about shipping. At all. There’s twenty different extremely fucked up and interesting found family dynamics in the game and people are worried about whose Alice gonna take to the jailhouse prom. Okay. Gothi out.