#and absolute fucking stress of a day

[finnesse]

i was talking to my non hockey enthusiast friend and this was the convo of me celebrating the cats' shutout win today.

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also the cutouts won what HAHA *cuss* CATS AHHA i was gonna say the cats won they had a shutout win CUTOUTS>?>>???

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Hey remember that time in 1.09 when Merlin went to take out wraith Tristan like “oh this’ll be SO discreet” because it was nighttime and then immediately proceeded to publicly light him up like a fucking Guy Fawkes Day effigy with a trail of fire leading directly back to him

[antiquepearlss]

I actually really want Eugene to officiate the Varigo wedding because one, it’s not a very official or proper wedding. If anything, it’s something Rapunzel and Varian put together in one week and is essentially just a giant party where they blow stuff up and eat cake. Varian totally asks Eugene thirty minutes beforehand if he will officiate and after five minutes of sobbing, he agrees.

And two, because I want him to say this line-

“It has been a joy to watch your distracting childish rivalry turn into a distracting childish courtship, which will undoubtedly turn into a distracting childish marriage.”

[rowanisawriter]

i liek how lucanis follows the playbook and recites the perfect lines right up until the almost kiss—saying a cup of coffee tastes like a kiss, “you don’t know how much trouble i can handle yet”, “you like to walk close to the edge”—and then a switch is flicked and he stops the theatrics. bakes a cake to lock a romance, leaves his own party early just to have a cup of coffee in the quiet dark, gets on his knees with tears in his eyes. i like that very much

[arsenicflame]

stede is 'oh this place has something related to my interest i must go in immediately' autistic and izzy is 'if we deviate one inch from my plan for today i will murder someone' autistic

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 99

i have NEARLY finished the skirt for my ren faire fit i just gotta get a few finishing details added and also get the undershirt bleached (bc i got a bunch of makeup on it at last years fair and shit Stained) but THEN i can show yall the final fit!!

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[pochapal]

some of you haven't experienced true hell until you end up drowning in Horrors and your only lifeline is an individual who completely sucks and only views you as a feelgood accessory to augment their own life and you can't seek anything better for yourself because there is a rot inside your body that you cannot fix and scares literally every other human being away no matter what you do so it's either settle for being shoved into someone else's myopic fantasy mold or let every minute of your life be ruled by unfathomable loneliness and terror. as you do.

[mazojo]

[itshomobirb]

they should let me explode things with my mind. for enrichment.

[shirogane-oushirou]

🍄 Happy (belated) Renniversary!! 🍄

it's been one year (+ two weeks) since the dream i had about a Strange and Silly Guy who ended up becoming Ren!! i've never had an oc who's been this important to me, and he's helped me through some difficult times and exhausting issues. he's also the reason why i formally joined the selfship community and met so many cool people!! 💕

i'm so happy to have finally finished this piece to celebrate the day (night?) he dropped into my head almost completely formed, changing my life for the better. gripping him in my fist and squeezing ARGH i love my little Fun Guy... Fungi... so so much, and i hope he always knows that. 😌💖

[killa-trav]

THIS IS THE ONE HES WAITED FOR

happy birthday r kid

[a-murmur-of-a-prayer]

So all of a sudden I may be moving out of state in ten days

[dol-dee]

I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THAT WRAITH BS ONLY TO MISS THIS??? < had to reload

ALSO SYDNEY?? BABY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??????? DONT SAY THAT

[arundolyn]

ohhhh my fucking god nobody needs to like know any of this medical tmi but it is literally 11 pm and if im kept up one minute longer when i just laid down trying to go to sleep by my mother YELLING REPEATEDLY that she needs to pee. im going to actually go insane. she got a catheter in. Yesterday. it is working. she won't listen to anyone when they tell her that this is the case. help me jesus. im sure if a nurse comes to check on her tomorrow they'll probably get the same response. my brain will simply explode

[amethystina]

I was wondering what you think Yo Han was thinking during the scene before going to the event with Ga On. Like the scene in the dressing room and car, because do you think in his head he is considering what is to come, or is he instead distracted by interacting and observing Ga On?

Ps I love your works on ao3, they're so good! And congrats on your recent work, it's amazing to finally be able to finish a project after a long time instead of moving on

In my mind, Yo Han was focused entirely on Ga On since I think that whole thing, from start to finish, was all about Ga On.

At the time, Yo Han was still pretending to be allies with everyone and he would probably have gone to the event regardless. And, most likely, it would have been a formality in his eyes. Show up, pretend you're happy to be there and keep up appearances, congratulate everyone on their brilliance, then go back home. He must have done the same several times during the years he slowly but surely convinced them of his loyalty and, eventually, to let him have the Live Court Show.

In short, this is far from the first event he's gone to with these people and I don't think he really thought all that much about what was to come in regards to his own performance. He could probably do it in his sleep if necessary.

But, instead, he chooses to bring Ga On and, clearly, Ga On is Yo Han's main focus that night. Partly because this is when he introduces Ga On to the true depravity of the rich class, but also keeps testing Ga On's reactions over and over and over again. And it starts in Yo Han's closet, testing the boundaries, seeing how well Ga On follows orders, how much Yo Han can push before Ga On pushes back (and enjoying the hell out of dressing him up like a pretty little doll). And it just keeps going, seeing how Ga On reacts to Yo Han's cars, how he reacts to the socialites, how he reacts to the dinner, how he reacts to the blatant show of corruption, how he reacts to Yo Han publically (albeit non-vocally) scolding him when he steps out of line, how he reacts to Yo Han yanking the steering wheel on the drive home.

That entire night Yo Han is hyperfocused on Ga On and his behaviour and reactions since that, more than anything, is Yo Han's objective. The event itself is boring — something Yo Han has done hundreds of times already — but taking his new sugar baby out for a test drive? Now that's exciting.

(Pun entirely intended, by the way — in all possible ways)

Because Yo Han just keeps pushing and pushing and pushing, giving Ga On more and more to react to. He's even framing himself as one of the villains — pretending to enjoy himself, laying it on thick just to rile Ga On up even more. And it's all for Ga On's benefit. Because Yo Han wants to see how he'll react, and show him the truth of this world they're living in.

This is all about Ga On.

So yes, Yo Han is definitely observing Ga On very carefully, but I wouldn't say he's distracted. Because, to me, it looks like Yo Han's main objective was to observe Ga On. To bring him to this event, throw him into this new, unfamiliar world, and see what happens. While Yo Han usually plans everything in minute detail, he also has moments when he instigates a situation and just watches it unfold. Usually when he's still gathering data.

Or is too curious not to.

But he still maintains enough control to keep things within the parameters he's set up, like when he yanks Ga On away from the table when he's getting too heated (and I will never not find it hilarious that Yo Han does this by grabbing the scruff of Ga On's neck. I've said it before and I'll say it again — Yo Han treating Ga On like a disgruntled, disobedient kitten gives me life). So it's not like he entirely lets go of control, but he is willing to give Ga On some room, since this whole thing is about observing Ga On's honest reactions.

This early in the drama, Yo Han is still getting a feel for Ga On and who he is as a person. And, I mean, Yo Han learned a lot about Ga On that night. The fact that he's a prude and (hilariously enough) able to kick Yo Han out of his own walk-in closet. He likes expensive cars even if he tries to hide it. He knows how to drive. He's awkward in social situations and too polite to firmly state his boundaries if he gets too overwhelmed (so Yo Han has to do it for him and literally save him from getting mauled by socialites). But Ga On is also fearless enough to speak up in a room full of people so powerful he should be shaking in his boots. He's so righteous and good that he'll stand up to just about anyone — and only gets more angry when he's scolded for it.

And that's just to name a few. Yo Han definitely picked up on a lot more than that and, in his eyes, probably had an incredibly productive evening. Especially since Ga On doesn't even seem to have realised that he was Yo Han's main focus that evening. He was too busy feeling disgusted by the rich. Which, undoubtedly, was Yo Han's secondary objective. What better way to start convincing Ga On to switch sides than showing him just how depraved their opponents are? Ga On may still think that they're Yo Han's allies at this point, but I bet he never forgot that night. And that it no doubt helped convince him to go with Yo Han later, once he found out that Yo Han was actually against them.

So, again, an incredibly productive night for Yo Han! :D

And one he no doubt enjoyed immensely. If nothing else because he got to spend hours just calmly observing and analysing Ga On, to his black little heart's content. Just imagine how much fun he was having ;)

So yeah. Something like that?

Thank you 💜 I'm honestly so relieved to finally be getting this fic out of the way. It's been weighing on me for literal years and I don't like to leave things unfinished. And it'll make me feel less guilty going forward, since I have one less unfinished WIP starting back at me from my folders!

Thank you so much for sending this question! I realise I might not have gone too much into detail on Yo Han's actual thoughts during the scenes you mentioned, but I hope that's still okay.