#THE WRITERS ARE MAKING IT MORE OBVIOUS NOW

[v88sy]

Lmao but for real. Idk if it's bts drama with Ryan or something but it's getting more and more obvious. Bobby, his captain just died and the guy is just over there offering a cookie to Ravi in these trying times like an extra on set with a blank expression on his face.

I refuse to feel bad for enjoying this situation. Bvddie shippers have made their own bed. I don't like Ryan at all, but even I can admit there's only so much toxicity an actor can take. Buck was at least allowed to exist in his own right in their eyes even if they couldn't stand him canonically dating a man (so much for being LGBT warriors and caring for representation!). But the way they're obsessed with Eddie and try to bring every plot he has back to him being "gay" is exhausting and weird as fuck.

Imagine being an actor and being excited for the storyline your character is getting that season and your fans are just like "we don't care, when are Buck and Eddie going to fuck on screen tho?" Not saying Eddie's plots have always been exciting at all, lord knows they've done some stupid shit with the character, but still. Eddie arguably had the most interesting SL in years while trying to mend his relationship with Chris and they could not have cared less because it meant he was in Texas and not bending over for Buck. I wouldn't blame Ryan if he wants out, if his acting in this ep is any indication, his heart just isn't in it anymore.

I didn't mind Eddie at first, I really didn't. But, it kind of feels like after Shannon died, the writers just...didn't know what to do with him. His entire existence became about grief without any real action to address it or deal with it. I get it, grief never really goes away, but you can't just Fight Club your way out of it either.

I often wonder if the writers intended to write him as insufferable and selfish as they have. He says things to hurt others and never reflects or takes accountability. It's been talked about ad nauseum here, but his friendship with Buck is incredibly one sided. Again, I don't know what's more scary...to think this was all by design...or that it wasn't.

And, since we're just going for it here, Ryandrew Tateman absolutely hasn't done himself any favors here. I know what he did. You know he did. And I wish I could say that was the only thing, or even the most recent.

On a personal note, I've worked in healthcare for 20 years, including the height of covid, so being an anti vaxx/anti covid vaxx is an instant 'fuck off' from me.

And the memes he's been sharing about Pete/Bobby? Salty edgelord.

You make excellent points about anything and everything being boiled down to Gay Eddie™ in some people's minds. Not even bi or demi, or any other shade of queer. It has to be gay, and Buck has to serve as the trad wife self insert surrogate. Which, really makes me question their motives, because it ain't representation. We already got that, and have since day one. Not that they'd ever know.

Look, it's very clear by now that I'm not his biggest fan by a long shot, but it's absolutely disgusting that people want to disregard his body autonomy by saying things like "it doesn't matter what he wants, they're gonna force him to do bddie anyways because it's what the people want".

No, they don't, and honestly, that makes me wonder about your views on consent. The role would involve, at the very least, kissing Oliver, (not that I'd mind myself, but that's another topic for another day) so...yes. It absolutely is his choice, as it should always be when engaging in contact with someone, acting job or not.

And yeah, I'll give it to you that he's probably tired as fuck about being reduced to nothing more than "the guy who absolutely must be gay because *insert harmful stereotype here.*"

And that's in addition to having every. single. interview. harp on the ship that he has said repeatedly that he doesn't want to do, for actually valid reasons, assuming those are the real reasons and he's not just blowing smoke up our ass.

So, yeah, I don't blame him for wanting an out, but I also don't think we should be blamed for wanting to be able to enjoy our show and the fandom as a whole once again.

All that being said...are you trying to put me in jail, katey 😂

[elytra404]

IM FUCKING OBSESSED WITH THIS NEW EPISODE????? THE RULER MAY BE THE BEST EPISODE IN MY EYES OF THE SEASON SO FAR???

I have so many things to say soooo warning for spoilers below

1. Genesis has limits!! We don't see it very clearly but the item's disappearance when Marc makes new ones or when they're knocked out his hands. SO I think the limitation of genesis is focus. You have to be thinking of the item and focused. It gets knocked out your hands and you get surprised? It's gone. Plus it has to be something you can imagine it seems.

2. I'm obsessed with Nath's fighting style. My boy had marker knives. MARKER KNIVES. He used a big paint pallet as a shield!!! A big ass pencil as a javelin!!! And he's so cute doing it! (That being said, I'm still gonna be calling him Caprisun 💙🖤🤍)

3. The most overt queer metaphor I have ever seen, and I watched 'I saw the TV glow' over the weekend. Legitimately. At what point does it stop being subtext and just become the text cause I feel like at this point it's just the text. I'm fucking obsessed with it I adored this episode I will be rewatching it for the rest of time. Nath transforming in a closet, "set him straight", the hand holding, the just straight up gay nights that clearly reflect nathmarc and adrinette??

4. The adrinette subplot. A. peak fanfic vibes I am obsessed. Love me a good sickfic. B. I've seen some posts talking about the adrinette subplot seeming like it was irrelevant (though I haven't see anyone complaining about that and I agree even if it wasn't it was adorable and I love a good character development filler subplot), but I disagree. I think having a subplot for adrinette, legitimately no matter what it was, was a really good call. The parallel between Marc and Nath's story and Adrinette's lives are so obvious, and it leads me to a faint theory.

4.5. (Said theory) I think Mari or Adri are gonna make a wish. I think it might be Adri especially? Or Adri does the miraculous Chat Noir on something serious? Something bad is gonna happen, like real bad, and their gonna loose their powers, but a wish or a big event are gonna fix it while also revealing identity. That's the direct parallel right?

5. Another theory based on The Ruler and El Toro, I think episode 22 is not only gonna be akuma!mari, which I think is a common theory (Seriously 'Lady Chaos' really sounds like akuma!mari). But I also think it's gonna be caused by an issue with her parents, or Natalie. Marinette has been doing her best this season with all the parenting struggles happening for her friends. Ivan's dad being a dick, Jules struggling with her dad being absent her whole life and suddenly giving all the attention and love to her twin, and now Nath's homophobic mum. This season has a really strong theme of parental issues, almost like one of the main character's abusive dad just died and it's up rooted his life hmmmm. Mari's family isnt perfect. Dearest family and Simple Man are good examples of that. And Natalie's now debatable alliances, when Natalie is a very trusted adult for Marinette. I think this is building up to something for Mari family wise, maybe even this causing a reveal of the Gabe secret.

6. I'm obsessed with that reveal. The transformations? I swear I've read that in adrinette fanfics 100 times and that makes it so perfect for marcnath. Them, who bonded over ladybug self insert fanfic when they first met? Its Fucking Perfect. It's so them. Nath has probably read that type of fic 100 times, those fics were probably running through his mind in that moment. It is perfectly beautifully them. Whoever on the writers team thought of that, I would do anything just to get them to give me critique on my scripts because their clearly a genius.

7. I might make season 6 Marc my new pfp. I'm obsessed with him. I am fucking loving this season, and honestly even rose's design is growing on me. Juleka's and Zoe's are still my favorites, but Marc and Alya are getting close to taking over the more I see them.

[maukiki1-but-cringefail]

Do yall ever think about. What the hell happened to these two

G revolution obviously did not give a flying fuck about borg (( now called neo-borg, i mean yes they brought them back but the team was obviously a tool for Kai. Yuriy has a part in the story obv but the other two have nothing.

they barely get any dialogue, characterization, screentime whatever theyre just... there

they were more of a team in the manga but i guess anime wanted to spend all its screentime on kai. so boris and sergei are just cardboard cutouts.

I mean this is very obvious is the G rev debut scene of neo-borg.

Yuriy is battling Sergei and Yuriy says his yabadabadoodoo about his team or whatever but everytime it cuts to sergei.....😭😭😭😭

close up of his face with no dialogue. these screenshots are seconds apart and like. okay this is HILARIOUS the way it just cuts to his face and he says NOTHING. couldnt yall make him say like... one word? just one? you wont die.

also the animation inconsistency is so funny. what the hell happened between those two scenes please😭 looks like they made him lick a lemon or something im dead😭😭😭

honestly wouldve preferred it if they used the exact same shot since he didnt move an inch EITHERRRRR

i could talk about this more but i want to go back to the beginning

so obviously this season dont give a single fuck about these two and back to that eariler picture of them knocked out: wtf happened.

So they get their asses kicked by garland, faint (im guessing , thats literally all i can do), cuts back to Yuriy, episode ends. next episode theyre gone.

Yuriy and garland are in a different location in the next episode. so obviously some time has passed off-screen. so them dissapearing there isnt really a "omg did they forgeeet??😱😱😱😱😱" they couldve been taken to another location

this is where i need to start making shit up.

Yuriy got hospitalized after Garland kicked his ass. But that fight was purposefully dragged out, you could see him literally beating him up in the battle. For sergei and boris, the radiant thunder came quicker. not to mention look at the picture again, their clothes arent torn, no visible injury. i think they simply fainted and woke up not too long after.

and now where the fuck are they...... i mean again g rev doesnt care about these two so obviously it tossed them aside immediately after it had a reason to: they fainted

but where are they in the following episodes? when Yuriy is in the hospital? wouldnt they have visited? i mean i headcannon they did theres nothing in the way of thinking they could have off-screen but the show couldve given us SOMETHING... but no these two are just a tool to them not characters.

this is why i like neo-borg in the manga (i still dont like manga yuriy) because theyre not treated as such

and as for the ending

firstly, this was cut from the english dub. or should i say midglish dub because the english dub SUUUUUUCKS but this being taken out is hilarious. if my native language was english, and i had watched the english dub as a kid, i wouldve 100% assumed they died LOOOOOOL because after they faint you never see them again

anyway for the actual show aka the sub this is there and theyre fine yay everything is happy ivan is there. im surprised they even put this in like wow i thought the writers forgot about these two entirely.

Also Ivan got done dirty the most. didnt even mention the mofo. atleast he was back in russia but😭poor guy. replaced by that stupid gay fuck

[menacerie]

@girldisaster2007

(Sorry to put you on blast. I'm answering this in a reblog because I believe this information might be more valuable in a post rather than the replies.)

To answer the question: nope! There is very little 'lore' behind the creative team of Miraculous. You'll find that most generally known facts (the hate for the show's director, Thomas Astruc, or the fiasco over the S1-S5 animation studios and broadcasting rights) have been explained on Tumblr. Anything else is obscure knowledge from my point of view. The fans aren't collectively hating on anybody new yet. The new screenwriters are simply too new for people to hate on. Their IMBd pages are scarce. None of them were involved in any scandalous incidents (that I know of). Any sour opinions that pop up should have a source.

There is no 'one' person responsible for the show's improvements. Everything is team effort. Everyone has a role. Every episode has a different writer involved (although you will see Astruc's and Thibaudeau's names everywhere for obvious reasons), so it's hard to tell what creative decisions can be attributed to who. However, I refuse to believe the new additions haven't made significant contributions. The pacing and vibe of Season 6 episodes is different from previous seasons. The most we, as viewers, can do is spot the names, make connections, and give credit where credit is due. That's what I'm doing now, and what I will continue to do after every new episode.

All the writers of Season 6 have been listed on the Miraculous Wiki, but you can also compare IMBd pages, check the credits at the start of every episode (that's the easiest way to spot the writers) or look at this Instagram post:

(Rough) Translation: "Pound it! Season 6 is over for the writing team! Thanks to the new (and brilliant) Miraculous Writerz of these 26 episodes that I have the pleasure of presenting to you (from left to right): Caroline Torelli, Pierre Doublier, Maître Astruc, Manuel Meyre, DJ Seb, Chloé Paye, and Camélia Acef.

Thanks also to the "old guard" Wilfried Pain and Jean-Rémi Perrin!

So excited for you to discover our sixth emotional roller coaster!"

To summarize, you shouldn't have to feel obligated to hate on anyone. If you want to hate, pick your person and pick a reason. Make your own opinion. I've also been enjoying every episode of Season 6 so far, some more and some less, and haven't found any writers whose writing decisions I truly hate.

Right now, I'm personally fond of the episodes of Caroline Torelli ("El Toro de Piedra", "Revelator" and "The Illustrhater"), who also happened to be involved in Dead Cells: Immortalis, while my least favorite is, unsurprisingly, Jean-Rémi Perrin's "Sublimation".

Quick reminder that the script of "The Ruler"/"La Redresseuse" was written by one of the new additions to the writing team: Pierre Doublier! Doublier was also behind the script of "Daddycop".

[theroyalmisfitmess]

[Updated as of 07/11/23] Reasons why I think Sid is the father

I don’t think other viewers can call fellow Sid-is-the-father theorists delusional anymore. The show is already building up the final contenders and I know in my gut they’re gonna be Sid, Jesse, and Ian. Hopefully we get S4 because I will update this whenever there’s a season break or a season ends.

Possible hints from the show (not the obvious and usually stated ones + not hints that could also apply to other contenders):

- When Sophie enters Pemberton’s to switch phones back with Sid, the engagement party crowd thought she was Hannah

- Sid remembered how much Tinder dates Sophie went on; he paid attention to her well (more on this later)

- Sophie and Sid both experienced relationship problems then found each other at the same time and same place. Sid later gave Sophie advice about finding the right person (funny enough, the advice parallels the situation because Sophie and Sid found each other at the right time to give each other advice)

- Two of Sophie’s by far most important love interests are connected to Sid—Jesse who is Sid’s best friend, and Drew who is a close friend of Sid’s wife

- Sophie remembers the Electric Slide; this time she is proven to pay attention to him

- Sid tells Sophie that he hopes the man she’ll marry will give her a better reception that what he and Hannah have

- If the father isn’t Jesse and Sophie is still married to the father, only Sid would be the perfect candidate to be understanding on why Jesse’s photo is on Sophie’s wall since he is Sid’s best friend

- The father is hinted to have loved Valentine’s Day even before he and Sophie even got together. Unlike the other guys, Sid’s memory for Valentine’s Day was always consistently good. Additionally, when Hannah walked in Pemberton’s to surprise Sid, only Sophie’s reaction was the focus

- Sophie and Sid both remember random facts they found out about each other offscreen; once again solidifying that they do pay attention to each other

- Sid somehow is the only character who has profound or notable interactions with both of Sophie’s parents

- In the episode where Sophie and her father made a popup, she tells her son it’s a story of how she met her father; in this episode, Sid is the only father option to interact with Sophie and her father

- Since we know that Sophie narrates the story, it’s important to note that she often emphasizes Sid’s stories by giving us in-depth insight despite their minimal interactions in episodes before 02x13. While she also does this for her other friends, it’s only Sid’s stories that we actually see play out long. To add, Sophie always paints Sid in a positive light in her stories

- In the disengagement episode, Sid and Sophie are implied to know a lot about each other (Sid knowing Sophie’s lock screen, Sophie knowing the password to Sid’s iPad); this isn’t really a hint but again, recurring theme that they pay attention to each other

- Both Sid and Sophie have this storyline where they are judged for their jobs/careers (and in the same episode)

- By 2x18 we see Sophie’s parents again and it’s Sid who primarily consoles them when they (along with Valentina) follow Sophie into Sid and Jesse’s apartment

- Sophie slowly bonds with Sid as each episode progresses and have more significant plots with him more than with Jesse

- Hannah assumed that Sid emotionally cheated on her with Sophie, and it was without reason. After this scene, we then cut to Sophie

- EDIT: Season 1 also had another cheating conversation between Sid and Hannah where Sophie’s situation with Jesse and Drew was the trigger

- Sophie’s son says that he thought it was a happy story to which Sophie replies it was, but we immediately get Sid crying over Hannah—setting the mood that it wasn’t really a happy night for everyone

- By 2x20 we have finally taken Charlie out as a candidate to be the father of Sophie’s child because it’s been confirmed that he ends up with Valentina (Side note: love this revelation. I was on a fifty-fifty with them but they fit well and love each other); Drew can also be taken out of the equation because of how future Sophie talks about him as a mere catalyst, but since there’s not an official confirmation we can just put him down the list for now

- Once again, it needs to be mentioned that the way Sophie talks about Sid in her story is always in a good light. She talks about the father so fondly and only Sid is the male character who is presented with so much emphasis about his personal life, his goodness, and his ability to have someone stir up their fondness for him

Parallels & Connections with HIMYM/Ted and Tracy:

- Alliteration names (Ted Mosby and Tracy McConnell, Sophie and Sid—if Sid’s last name also starts with a letter “T” like Tompkins then that would be interesting)

- Both are romantics. Sophie is a hopeless romantic who can’t find “the one” like Ted, while Sid is a committed romantic who is (and possibly going to be was) in a longterm relationship like Tracy

- Sophie and Sid swap phones, paralleling the yellow umbrella swap

- Sophie and Sid’s banters are very similar to that of Ted and Tracy’s

- Sid has Ted’s old room

- In connection to a point from the previous section, Sophie painting Sid in a picture that’s so positive and feeling untainted is very similar to how Ted paints Tracy in his stories—perfect, an angel, someone who no one could say something bad about, with great fondness

- Not directly related to HIMYM, but in the original HIMYM spin-off (How I Met Your Dad), the lead character Sally met the dad as she was preparing to get divorced. The script of this scrapped spin-off was reworked into HIMYF. I’m not saying it’s a direct answer, but what if the divorce storyline is gonna go to HIMYF’s only married main character father option?

- Sophie and Sid both play detective in 2x19. In HIMYM, Ted and Tracy have this running gag that they loved sleuthing

- Both Sophie and Ted went through all the lengths to get with Jesse and Robin, respectively. When Ted met Tracy he didn’t have to work so much, he just let it happen. Both shows work with a philosophy on how love is hard but loving is supposed to be easy. Both Robin and Jesse have complicated love lines with Ted and Sophie, respectively

Also if it’s any consolation, I previously took a film course for my major. So while I do acknowledge that I could be reading into things too much, I did have backing since I tried to incorporate the concepts to pick these things up.

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

[teh-nos]

okay, so the thing with wishing we could kudos every chapter of a fic.

i get it, we all want to hit the little like button more than once, it's the easiest way to express our approval/enjoyment/gratitude. i am going to address this to a generic 'you' (hello Y/N!) and assume that 'you' has either never posted fic to ao3 or hasn't posted both oneshots and multichapter works.

hits, kudos, comments, bookmarks. every marker of popularity (which many will interpret as quality) on ao3 is inadvertantly weighted in favour of works with more chapters. no, not longer necessarily, but with more chapters. go and sort a few fandoms by any of those stats and you'll probably be able to spot this trend in action right away.

oneshots are only at the top of a tag (by the default date sorting) once, and even if you re-read it you can only leave one kudos on it.

a multichapter can stay near the top of the update-sorted results for months if you time your chapter drops right, and of course every time someone comes back for the next chapter that's another hit, and being seen more it is more likely to end up with more kudos. you can still only leave one per work, though, which limits the effects to some extent. multichapter works still tend to overall outperform oneshots on stats, and the longer they are the more likely that becomes, but you'll still usually see a couple of oneshots on the first page if you sort that list by kudos.

and a lot of people (percentage unknown) do sort by kudos (or some other stat) and works at the top of 'by kudos' will thus attract more readers and more kudos. so there's an incentive to get as many kudos as you can on your fic, and if cutting it up into 250 chapters will help... well it already does, and that's had an effect whether writers will admit to dragging fics out a bit on purpose or not, but imagine if that effect were to become orders of magnitude more intense.

even if you personally prefer longer fics cut into fairly short chapters, you probably don't want to get your 150k epic in chapters of only a 100-300 words, do you? you don't want the oneshot writers to just give up when every page, no matter how they're sorted, is full of 5000-chapter works to the point that readers now riot when asked to read a whole 2000 words in one go. your fave author is now feeling insecure because chapter 12 didn't get as many kudos as the last one did.

and this is why ao3 will never let you leave kudos on every chapter. they're aware that the site already incentivises chaptering works and doing that more than you otherwise might. so you're just going to have to learn to put an emoji heart in the comment box.

[kradogsrats]

realizing two years in that "ha ha, pajama time" aside, Soren has literally removed his armor before talking so earnestly and vulnerably with Claudia in s4 like

[acacia-shade]

you know, we do technically have a system name- not the one displayed on this blog, that name exists purely for public convenience and because whomever created it had a fondness for acacia trees -we just don't like using it. mostly we like the name, the 'actual' one, well enough, it's certainly an apt descriptor at times, but anyone else knowing it seems entirely undesirable to us, at least if we can't explain it to them.

its not a name, so much as a title for our system. if someone uses it as a name, like we used to have people do when it was public, it always feels wrong. and yet we like the name.

I don't know. I think it is the closest our system will ever come to a system name we can agree on, and even then many of us probably only accept it as much as we do because we've had it for so long, it's been years.

We've tried to replace it, we've just never really succeeded. Every other name we've tried or thought of hasn't stuck. I think that happens because really people are just thinking of names they'd like, but many of us don't like them, and after the last traces of whoever thought up the new name have vanished from the front we dislike it, it doesn't fit. Even upon realising that fact we have never come any closer to finding a 'working' system name.

I do find it important to point out, you don't need a system name. you don't need a collective anything. too, you can create a system name that follows none of the average conventions for one. and we have tried to craft names with all and none of those conventions.

we just,, want a collective name I suppose. Something we can look at and know that it refers to all of us. not even the 'secret' system name that we haven't revealed here fills that role though. a lot of us don't consider ourselves to have a system name at all, instead we just think our ourself as a unnamed system.

there is some comfort in being an unnamed system, an undefined nebulous group, something not so easily simplified into a single phrase or title, we are different from one another after all and there is comfort in that being reflected, but there is also a,, loneliness to it. that there is no written, spoken, or drawn manner by which we can be easily referred to as a collective. we are always referred to by a name that doesn't fit or by a name that only some of us claim as their own.

that feels like a rather abrupt place to cut off but that does seem to be all the thoughts I, and whomever is here with me really have to offer on the topic. I will say as a minor disclaimer, this isn't a complaint, or something meant to garner pity or similar, it is simply a written scattering of my and my companion's thoughts on the topic of collective names as they pertain to us.

uh, thank you for reading, and apologies for my manner of speech, I'm aware that it is likely rife with errors among other things, but it is nice to have the freedom to word things in the way that I naturally would and not have to correct them in some endeavour to sound 'normal'. this is after all, a blog primarily made for us.

[daughter-of-inklings]

An underrated pro of making your protagonist bilingual is that, if you can't remember the English thing-

neither can she;

[mechanical-aristocrat]

Okay this is silly but am I crazy to think that Screwllum didn't talk like this before? In Silver Wolfs event he just talked like a human but now he says things like "Affirmation:" or "Conclusion:" Does this have like. Lore signifigance? Was it explained? Or did hoyoverse just retcon how he talks?

[OOC:]

Actually, he has talked like this the whole time, it's just that in Silver Wolf's companion mission it wasn't used nearly as frequently as in the new story. (To make sure I was remembering correctly, I skimmed the dialogue section of the wiki and found that the amount it was used was around the same for both missions, but since Screwllum had far more dialogue in Punklorde Mentality, its use was significantly more spread out so it wasn't as noticable)

In my opinion, it was better that way. I feel like this sort of speech mannerism is only charming when it's used sparingly, but for every handful of lines? It's a bit awkward and loses its effectiveness pretty quickly. Before, it seemed to me like something he was doing intentionally, turning typically flat and emotionless robotic speech patterns into something more endearing. Now, though, it reads like it only exists because he's a robot and robot characters have to speak a certain way, right? Never mind the fact that Screwllum is far more in touch with emotions (both his own and others') than most robot characters that exist in fiction, and that he tends to speak in a very elegant and poetic way that wouldn't usually blend very well with that blunt, straight-to-the-point style of speaking (unless, of course, a balance is struck between the two...like it was in Punklorde Mentality, maybe?!).

It's not a retcon, per say, because that word usually only applies to major, plot-important elements (as far as I understand it), but it is an inconsistency.

[cacw]

i do still stand by this and it's kind of upsetting me they don't hate him but they really obviously dislike him and his place in the story

[libidinous-weeb]

every time a female character in a male written anime/manga decides to quit fighting or being a “tomboy” for a shitty boring male protagonist, another far right incel is born

[itzphynix]

For years, I've been trying to put into words Why I give a single iota about Bendy & the Ink Machine, but it's such a tangled mess that no thread can be seperated -- they're all interwoven in a way that makes it hard to pick them out. The game, overall, makes me miserable, because I can see that there was love put into it, but a lot of it is thrown to the wayside in favor of a story that I think was retroactively improved by the sequel's recontextualizing of it, but is ultimately not worth the price of admission & majorly drops the ball.

It's easy to list things I don't like about it -- the gameplay is sparse, the combat is uninteresting, none of the chapters feel connected, the bugs that assault all my playthroughs & kill my saves are consistent & fill me with dread every time I open the game, the lack of thought in the contents of a chapter (chapter 3's wheel ""puzzle"" & the animatronic Bendy from chapter 4, in specifc, really grind my gears), which speaks to the amateurish & rushed way that the game was crafted -- there's a lot to hate, & it's easy to hate it. But I don't. Despite all that, I am compelled by this game, by what it's trying & failing & trying again to say.

It's really easy to understand why you dislike something. I couldn't have told you much about what I did like, in Ink Machine.

& then, I played Dark Revival. I didn't realize I liked the story of Ink Machine, until I played Dark Revival. It's a better made game, it's just not fucking interesting, to me, because it doesn't have a story worth tuning in to.

[mercurywitch]

ah yes, the higher ups at bandai namco trying to say suletta and miorine's relationship is "up to interpretation" when they have wedding rings and suletta's sister calls miorine her sister in law. very ambiguous and up to interpretation, you homophobic assholes.

[stripesysheaven]

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