#I'm not in a good headspace rn

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

also not to create a post that's just a magnet for dramatic irony but like. Are there any creators who aren't just the worst people on the planet? Like people who generally have a normal reputation with their fans and are mostly just focused on making good art in whatever medium they work in? I need to be able to believe that the absolutely monstrous people are the outliers.

[tiredassmage]

"I can do much worse to you. Consider this a mercy."

One blaster shot. Spilled chemicals. An explosion No evidence of murder. Make him pay, if you like.

[starmocha]

I like your Sylus analysis so much and adore our dragon with all my heart but I steel don't understand why he acted so mean towards mc in the n 109 zone in the beginning 😭 and also it feels like he tried to return his old mc because he loved her but not mc from main story line 😔

🥺 thank you for the compliment!

Prior to his myth, I did a speed reading through the main story and some of his memories to gather anything that could relate to his past. From that reading, I found Sylus to be more resigned with the situation between him and MC? He knows she doesn't remember him or their past, but he also didn't want to be the one to push her to remember.

As for earlier on, we don't know how long he has been living and waiting to find her again, or whatever else might have happened between the myth and the main story to shape him to be who he was early in his branch. He was cold and callous, but I didn't interpret it as outright "mean." I remember coming across another player's interpretation, saying he might have been more used to his sorceress!MC's personality, who was more "wild" than our main story MC. As seen in recent cards and other in-game interactions, Sylus has over time shown instances of adapting and also taking on current MC's personality, interests, and mannerisms which coincided with him appearing softer around her now than early on.

[wdapteo]

drinking game: take a shot every time they say "Dan and Phil" in the new video

[pochapal]

just realized i've pissed away my entire degree due to cringefail medical issues

[werewolfdog]

The things I'd do for Sol...

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Explaining my thoughts on Bedrock Bros is so hard because I can never figure out how to convey the similarities between them while also make the differences really clear

Because what kills me about them is how they were both simultaneously trying to use the other as a weapon and trying to form a genuine relationship, it's just that cTommy was primarily trying to form a relationship while incidentally to turning cTechno into his weapon, but cTechno was consciously trying to turn cTommy into a soldier/anarchist/terrorist while subconsciously trying to form a relationship

Because both had enemies they needed to destroy, for revenge and self defense (again, balanced in opposite amounts), but both were also desperately lonely and latching hard onto anyone who wasn't trying to hurt them

And to me, cTommy was doing it all in the way a scared child does, needing the nearest safest adult to protect them, while being a bit oblivious to the adult's needs (because that Should Not be a child's responsibility, but still leading to selfishnesses), and cTechno just doesn't understand the way children work or hold any extra patience for children (probably he wasn't given any as a child, and so just sees kids as smaller adults because that's how he was seen as a child, I would assume) so between that and all his own issues, being unable to be vulnerable with others, and also generally being unable to see himself as fallible or in the wrong to any degree when under any amount of stress or accusation (aka, he's deeply defensive, probably insecure about something), he just seem cTommy's actions as, well, a betrayal. And hold him responsible as he would an adult who knows what they're doing, rather than as a hurt and scared child with only so much understanding of cTechno's issues (because cTechno isn't communicating them, so how would cTommy know them?)

[gxtzeizm]

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[illhaveyouforbreakfast]

He may not have been a great (or even very good by most accounts) guy but. Holy shit. I know we dont have confirmation of exactly what happened but. There's something surreal when a member of the thing that stopped you from killing yourself as a teen might have killed themself.

[lixenn]

Woke up an hour ago because I forgot to turn of my alarm. So even though I want to bed kinda early for me I'm still wiped.

Today is the actual departure and though I finished packing and therefore won't need to worry about that I'm so tired and I feel unwell again. But I literally booked the correct train yesterday and I refuse to waste this much money. So holiday here I come!

The only upside is seeing my friends again but I can't seem to gather any excitement for it.

Just.

I'm tired

[sensitivegoblin]

My brain is full of bad shit so I'm gonna drown myself in sex, hmu if you wanna join

[heavenbled]

do i dare.... do i dare succumb to the mumu also getting a carrd......

[du-garm]

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[hallowed-axolotl]

it's always always "im here for you if you need help!" until you really fucking need it and suddenly you're a problem.

[fruitypieq]

Halfway through Borrasca and I am already having Emotions because I got the ending spoiled and now I know what's coming LMAO

[cas-ettetape]

I think there's something interesting to be examined in terms of a fandom's treatment of characters who make bad decisions/m of hurt others with a level of empathy and understanding of their actions under the stress/abuse/mental state/etc. Like, a lot of folks are willing to go to bat and if not justify, contextualize their actions -- which, to be clear, I think is a correct way to understand most situations. But it's the contrast of that with the tendency to label others, sometimes for understandable reasons (often not) as Abusers or Problematic and be willing to completely exorcise them from social circles, online spaces, whatever. While sometimes this is necessary for safety, most of the time in fandom spaces it's been about transgressions such as "liking weird porn" or "going through a bad breakup" or interpersonal conflicts that should definitely be resolved with a tough conversation.

Really what I'm getting at is that whenever I see character discourse happening in earnest I hope everyone is as accepting and understanding of the real life other people in their lives as they are their Blorbos