#I’m so normal about this play

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

No but genuinely if Florence Welch turned around on day and announced that Queen of Peace was written about Desdemona I’d be like yeah that checks out

[thebirdthathauntsmusic]

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN AJSGAISGAISV ajsgajsvaidvsisvaidb

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Neptune Theatre, 2024)

[anna-scribbles]

so this summer i am nannying a 5 year old who loves miraculous ladybug (my dream) & every day she asks if we can play ladybug and chat noir at the park. these are some comics based on our various games<3

[casart]

Happy birthday you anxious thing💜

[frogs-in3-hills]

fma 03 bad ending 👍

[peekychu]

Shoutout to the furry owned game store I went to today 🫡

[rosy-crow]

You guys remember that post where I fawned over the Rebirth detail where Seph was smitten with Nibelheim’s beauty? The beautiful home he didn’t know was his? I feel like that got WORSE now.

So…not only did he just…not really see the world outside of that stupid building unless while on missions…but….

These tiny little dialogue bits in Rebirth feel a little deeper now? Like really man? Even after growing up, he just…missed out on seeing the world outside of war and his assignments? I’m not sure why I hoped otherwise but at this rate, I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s just depressing.

And Jenova or this….manipulative dream sequence…plays into that lack of connection to a normal or natural world…in addition to the mom issues of course. They’re in what looks like some pretty alpine meadow. Everything is just beautiful and mom is there in the center of it all.

So then, Sephiroth being struck by Nibelheim years later — a beautiful landscape that he swears he recognizes and has no clue about being the place where his real mother worked and lived….

….that’s where he finds Jenova. Drawn into a beautiful, scenic place, he finds another illusion of his mother.

He once again finds nothing but lies while so close to home.

[loverofstufflof]

Black Myth: Wukong rant because I’m just… so tired of you people.

I hate the community this game has cultivated. I hate looking through the tags and seeing people tearing each other apart over a game based on a story I love.

There’s two stances:

Those who say that merely interacting with the game is in support of all the terrible things the developers have (allegedly) done. Who parade accusations that many have stated were mistranslated and that the situation is far more complicated than it appears.

Those who mock the former by making a straw man of their concerns while simultaneously displaying their misogyny, racism, homophobia, and general traits that make it clear they’ve never touched a woman in their life.

One is slightly more tolerable than the other. Neither make me feel welcome in enjoying this project I’ve been looking forward to for years.

I will be talking more about purple, because I don’t speak Chinese, and feel that I have no authority speaking too much on orange.

Purple people are beyond insufferable.

I think that most of this came from a Screen Rant review that listed one of the game’s flaws as “a lack of diversity.” This is an accurate analysis, and has been warped beyond belief.

I can understand the outrage… a bit. When playing a game surrounding Chinese culture, in which you play as an inhuman character fighting equally inhuman enemies, it doesn’t make too much sense to request racial representation. And when there isn’t any romance, representation for sexual orientations also wouldn’t work. Including anything in those merit would feel forced and out of place, I agree.

But you wanna know what the reviewer wrote?

She was concerned about the lack of women.

She felt unwelcome when playing a game made by rumoured misogynists because there were no women at all.

And she explicitly said that the game was still enjoyable despite this.

She gave it such a “low score” (3/5) because of the performance issues and repetitiveness. By her own rating, the game was listed as “Worth a shot despite its flaws.”

Everything got so bad they had to take down her name for her safety.

People in the purple category took this review to mean that the “woke left” was “pushing an agenda” and “trying to cancel this game for not having pansexual nonbinary black people.” Which, as I’m sure you can now understand, was not the case. The boycott surrounding this game is purely based on accusations targeted towards the developers, not the game’s content.

Of course, I don’t expect many of the aforementioned people in this category to care too much. I’ve seen the Steam reviews where they praise the lack of women. I’ve read the Reddit threads where they feel grateful that there’s “finally a company who understands the male authority.” I’ve scrolled through post after post on Tumblr that “no one would want to play a game where females jiggle their tits around while doing nothing.”

That last one gets me. It’s really telling what you can learn about a person when they say things like that.

The point is, these people make me feel very unwelcome in a community that previously made me most comfortable.

So let’s recap:

The people who I would find community with are portraying the mere interest in this game as a sin that’s worthy of being blocked and shamed over, and the people who are actually in this community remind me why I’m terrified to walk alone.

I have a lot more that I want to say on this, but I don’t really have the words quite yet, and still need to do a fair amount of research (which I probably won’t be doing because holy shit I’m so done with this). Maybe I’ll come back and add some more, but for now I just might block the tag entirely.

I just feel shitty ‘s’all ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

[jubjubmaz]

I drew my husband hihi he’s everything

[the-name-is-loser]

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[carbonated-olive-juice]

Appreciation post for Anne in episode 5. the woman heard that her friend from college who she hasn’t really talked to in a while “died in a home renovation accident” and she went “he would not fucking do that” and BROKE INTO HIS APARTMENT, then when she couldn’t find any leads there she STOLE SAID DEAD FRIEND’S PHONE FROM HIS GRIEVING PARENTS, decided to play the game that got her friend killed, and SHOWED THE AFOREMENTIONED GRIEVING PARENTS A VIDEO OF THEIR SON SAWING HIS LEFT ARM OFF AT THE SHOULDER TO WIN AN ONLINE GAME. she was NOT normal even before woe.begone but that’s not even all. when the dead-now-alive friend goes “wow you did all that for me?” she IMMEDIATELY shuts him down and tells him that she only did this to figure out what happened, she ended her email with “if i lose, you die” like a totally normal person which technically happened in episode 4 but it feels relevant. she then asks him to help her kill a cop, goes through HORRIBLE trauma, and when Mike apologizes for what she had to go through SHE SAYS SHE LIKES WHO SHE’S BECOMING. FUCKING WILD THING TO SAY AFTER MURDERING SOMEONE. godddd and how she was scared during the entire process of yknow. killing a cop who was known to be violent and threatened her and now look at everything she’s done.

[myokk]

my angel…

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 13: Radius

A bounded range of effective activity or influence.

A line segment that joins the center of a circle with any point on its circumference.

[spidehpig]

i haven’t even attempted a raphael fic yet and i literally have 3 cod fics i need to work on right now but i got hit with a deranged urge to write some weird psychosexual cannibalism thing with raphael & tav

[squidfinch]

Hey guys. Still autistic 👍

[unmerrymagdalene]

Sydney burying aeself in work does not change based on corruption. Corrupt Sydney is no more likely to take a nap on PC than pure Sydney. The dialogue for it isn’t even that different: (corrupt) "Don't move. Taking a nap." versus (pure) "Hope you don't mind if I doze off on you.". Corrupt Sydney just works in Sirris’s shop after school before going to pray in the temple. The underlying problem has not been solved.

Jesus fucking Christ that is so depressing

The underlying problem hasn’t been solved!

This goes into my other headcanon/“I’ve thought about this too much,” but I really don’t think Pure and Corrupt Sydney are all that different?

Like, in terms of how they express their sexuality it is: Corrupt Sydney is more upfront, while Pure Sydney needs to “convince” PC because he can’t make an active decision, otherwise only he can be blamed for it

But they still have the same or similar ideals? I remember seeing this screenshot for the Confessional (while doing research):

I know logistically they’re the same for coding/game reasons, but it still asserts Sydney holds the same ideals after being corrupted. I could talk more about the above but that’s for another post

It feels less like being corrupted fixed all of Sydney’s problem, and more of “it fixed(?) one, but created a whole bunch of others on top of them.”

Corrupt Sydney is also reminiscent of good, straight A teens eventually breaking and swinging into the other direction. They are trying to prove something to themselves and others (mainly that they aren’t that person anymore), but are in a very difficult/sensitive place in their lives. They are figuring out their identity now, and are conflicted and confused.

Imo, Corrupt Sydney still harbors all the problems they had before: overworking themselves, having confusing/damaged ideals on relationships/sex, and still not really handling the whole other parent situation. The only difference is that they fit in with the town way better now.