#I'm just bitching here

[brainrotcharacters]

the easy grip on the knife. the leg over the seat. the hand over the other seat. the sassy "come get it" move. you know the bitch is smiling behind that mask even as he said the line.

[theabigailthorn]

"Good" Acting

i have a theory that a lot of people say acting is "good" when they're emotionally moved by it, and a lot of cishet white people have a lifelong habit of not listening or empathising when minoritised people speak, so minority actors get called "bad" even when they display some pretty fucking amazing technical skill

[ask-codeearasure]

It's okay man I'm not a big fan of the Bad Sanses or the Murder Time Trio either. They're way too overdone and fucked around with for me. The potential they do have isn't something I have the interest or motivation in messing with.

I find it difficult to like things when the personalities, motivations, and core character traits of these characters are warped until it doesn't look or sound like them anymore.

Like what do you mean Dust is okay with being stuck with these guys? What do you mean he has no problem killing people for no reason just because Nightmare says so? Hell, just because Killer says so? I get Dust is fucked up, that is the whole appeal of his character and I know his creator said they left us room to be creative with him, but there's nuance to his mentality and cognitive dissonance and that gets ignored. Dust's creator still left elements of his character out there that are not up for debate. He had a REASON to commit atrocities in his origin timeline repeatedly; a reason he could justify to himself or else he would not have done it. It wasn't a GOOD reason mind you but it was something, plus this dude's mind had already been broken. His sense of reason and justification is not at level with ours. If anything it was born out of a twisted, tortured form of desperation and malice towards The Player. He's living under circumstances that we as the audience can't thoroughly judge because there is no way to replicate these circumstances in real life and analyze it from there. We can only judge his circumstances based on what we know about murder and insanity in this reality. Not his. If he were stuck with the Bad Sanses or even just Killer and Horror, he wouldn't kill for the fuck of it. He wouldn't kill or torment anyone unless there was a purpose he saw a necessity to, and canonically all of that purpose is gone from him now (given that The Player never returned). He's settled for rotting away in an empty timeline. That is what he thinks he deserves and he'd like to stick with that conclusion, thank you very much.

Dust is an extremely stubborn, depressed, and paranoid character.

I'd complain about how Horror is portrayed in Bad Sanses/MTT narratives too, but I don't know all that much about him or his canon. It's Dusttale that was my hyperfixation once upon a time.

-- Sarco

It’s hard being a color spectrum duo person when this fandom is filled with bad sanses and murder time trio 😞

[justiceforplutoo]

I feel like steddies are always going for bi steve/gay eddie but consider: comphet gay steve/bi eddie. I'm so sure someone's said this before but...consider with me, ok?

consider a young child steve whose father still works in hawkins but is never with the family, leaving steve with his mother and his mother's girl-friends. they talk all about their husbands and their families and one day steve, all innocent, asks his mom, "when will I get a husband?"

his mother clutches her chest and says, "oh no, stephen, that isn't how that works."

steve who confusedly nods along and goes with it.

steve who chastises himself every time he catches himself staring in the locker room, or in gym, or at swim meets.

steve who finds himself, years later, confused as to why he can't find himself feeling for the girls he dates the way they do for him.

steve who convinces himself that he'll find the right girl one day.

consider steve sitting on the floor of the starcourt bathrooms with robin, covered head to toe in vomit and blood. and this is it, right? this is the part where he gets the girl. and something in him cringes at the thought. something in him says, no, you don't want her.

he brushes it off as king steve telling him who he should and shouldn't date.

and then robin starts panicking and talking about tammy thompson (oh.) and suddenly they're singing muppets and steve has this paradigm shift because he doesn't have to get the girl.

it takes him a couple months and one "don't ya, big boy?" to make him realize that he doesn't have to get the girl.

and it's funny - honestly, it is - because robin comes out and so does will and eddie is...himself, but steve thinks to himself, well, that's good for them, but it could never be me.

and he keeps saying that it could never be him until the split second before he realizes it is him.

it could never be him, he thinks, but rocky horror picture show is playing in the background and eddie leans into his space and talks all about how sexy rocky's body is and somehow that leads to jocks and somehow that leads to, "so what do you like, steve?"

and somehow that leads to a strained and breathless, "I think I like you, eddie."

and then they're kissing, and steve is desperately pawing at eddie's collar, unsure where to put his hands. it's a blur, and all steve really registers is that they're kissing, and then-

and then steve starts crying. silently, at first, and in the heat of the moment, unnoticeable, except then steve is pushing eddie away and eddie looks hurt.

"I read that wrong, didn't I?" says eddie.

steve gulps in air, face red, and barely manages out a "no".

"...no?"

"I don't think I like girls, eddie. but I like you."

"you know you can like both, right? I mean, I do."

steve nods, then shakes his head. "I think I just like boys, eddie."

"oh, okay."

eddie leans in for another kiss.

[neverbelessthan]

JET LAG THE GAME | Benjamin 'bing bong' Doyle (2 / ?)

[croquettish]

This is making me feel insane. This interaction only comes up if you keep clicking on Hans after you run into him at the wedding (the first time), but it gives us literally perfect insight into Hans' mental state during the divorce arc.

Like... Hans, baby girl. You left Henry. He literally was ready to push all your insults aside and move on, ready to keep going together, and you pushed him away.

No wonder he did that. No wonder he tried to push that inadequacy onto Henry. It's all at home in deep-rooted, deep-seated insecurity: I'm not good enough for Henry. I'm holding him back. I landed us in the pillory. We only ended up here because I had to run my big mouth, just like he said. I need to do this myself because if not I am only a dead weight to Henry.

I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't running through his head the whole night they spent in the pillory together.

[heliomanteia]

This might come off as sort of... corny? Cheesy? but half the joy has been the friends we made along the way.

There are going to be vitriolic morons that will use corporate layoffs we've been witnessing for a while to portray the latest installment in a negative light. Ignore them. Block the hell out of a part of the fandom if you need to, the whining is ever-present around these places. Enjoy the game. It is a good, lore accurate Dragon Age game. It introduced a lot of new people to the wider franchise. There are people playing other installments for the first time and it's a joy to see. It is a breath of fresh air. Enter a better part of the community, make friends if you wish, hell knows it's so easy to do when this game inspired such a flow of creative energy.

Dragon Age has always been crafted by its loving fans as much as it was shaped by its talented devs. There would not be Dragon Age without its creators (put some damn respect on their names) and there would not be Dragon Age as we know it without its enthusiastic community.

A franchise is only as good as the people who love it. Personally, DA has been there for me through some of the fundamental times of my life, it's changed me and changed with me. It is my special interest, it is my lifelong friend, and it is going to stay. I don't need corporate approval to find joy in things and I do not pin my enjoyment on how high something ranked in a list made by people who only care about profit. Hope you can find joy too. Stick around.

The gold and glory are yours now, to use as you will.

[ahxiang]

he's so fucking annoying i love him so much

[welcometogrouchland]

Was skimming through some Dixon era BoP for no particular reason and came across a scene where 3 DIFFERENT MEN (Dick Grayson, Ted Kord and Jason Bard) all show up to Babs' door at almost exactly the same time bc they're all in love with her.

Birds of Prey (1999) #19

Which is, A) really funny on its own and B) actually extremely based from a representational view. Oracle was important as disability rep in comics for a lot of reasons, one of which being that she got mad bitches in her wheelchair. She had too much swag and they had to kill her

[brainrotcharacters]

makes me giggle to think of X2 Logan meeting dp&w Logan when this is a thing

[mapplesand]

me when i have resting bitch face autism and look like i will murder someone but i'm still silly

[hoofpeet]

Potentially weird habit but. When I get really fixated on an oc/blorbo or whatever I get embarrassed thinking cringey shit "In front of" them. Like ah fuck I was cringe in front of my imaginary fursona. shit

[papercranesandpride]

Begging my fellow aros to realize that "x kind of love is so much better and more special than romantic love" is not actually fixing any of the problems with amatonormativity. That's just replacing one hierarchy for another. And you're screwing over atertiary alloromantics by saying that their preferred kind of relationship is lesser. You know, that thing alloromantics do to you all the time and you hate.

And of course God forbid anyone just doesn't do that whole love thing at all. We can't have that. Even if you're aro, love and relationships must be the most important thing.

[simaraknows]

i see your "'does he want to lick my boots or chop off my hands' is a Nicki reference" and raise you "what if Armand's relationship with sex is so fucked that his two modi are total submission and 'don't touch me or I'll chop off your hands' and Louis is still clowning on his trauma" in this essay I will

[whenuwishuponastar]

I liked you right from the start

[vaguely-concerned]

powerful mental image of lucanis expounding passionately about any given one of his limited but extremely deep areas of interest (the wyvern/knives/coffee/cooking/murder continuum of lucanis dellamorte special interests if you will) while rye lounges around and Beholds him with palpable twink boutta pounce energy