#and he refuses to tell which is true

[7-oh-ta1]

Sakyo a natural blond or NOT because his kid aprite has blond hair his kid CG has blond hair but they imply in Rad Red that he dyes his hair even as an "old man"......... IT'S BLOND RIGHT?

[tomurakii]

I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.

Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.

Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.

[ashestoashes7]

Jeremy Knox conspiracy theories drown out the Jean Moreau rumors

[fleshdyk3]

god i fucking hate my dad

[lady-shadow-and-darkness]

It's very intriguing how Lyney is arguably the most favoured sibling among the three, and yet he also seems to be the most afraid of disobeying Arlecchino's orders and going against her wishes. Despite Lynette's and Freminet's reassurances, he almost always thinks Arlecchino is going to be angry with them/feel disappointed in them; when Arlecchino herself, while being stern, has never been such a harsh character to her children.

[guinevereslancelot]

most fucked up thing at my new job is there's only zero calorie sweeteners at the coffee station in the break room. three different kinds of zero calorie sweetener but no regular sugar because the assumption is that literally everyone is on a diet?

[vitasexualiiis]

dont get me wrong i love that fukuzawa is all about personal freedom, including with his employees, but let us not kid ourselves that this personal freedom comes at the cost of tanizaki and kunikida's mental and physical wellbeing 👀

yosano and dazai (him to a lesser extent, but the way he treats kunikida is like ??? yo shachou...you're just gonna let that happen to your devoted employee? ok ok sure) are kinda seriously off-leash in the WORST way???

and like, YEAH it's funny as a reader but like......your employees deserve to not be harassed into panic attacks on company premises...and also possibly...PERHAPS...correct me if *I'M* being the asshole here...the option to NOT DIE without being brutally tortured...

like...maybe you should...step in...my guy...my dude...

[lunar-fey]

ohhhh my god. okay. so. my aunt does like, she buys random junk in bulk from retail wholesalers and then resells it on like, facebook marketplace and ebay and stuff. whatever. so my mom works for her. makes a flat $50 a day, regardless of the fact that shes disabled and doing hard labor for at least 8 hours a day, often 10+. and min wage here is $10 an hour but mom argued that $50 a day is still more than what she would make working the same hours at an actual job because of taxes...like girl that would be 50% taxes. you do not pay that fucking much. so thats already Bad.

but today mom shows me a video of a knife theyre gonna sell, and i watch 2 seconds and i realize its an automatic knife, and i tell her hey. thats illegal to possess in this state. let alone sell! and mom is like ohhh [aunt] knows what shes doing itll be fine.... we sell knives on there all the time she just doesnt put pictures and calls them something else on the listing to get around fb/ebays policies :)

LIKE. HELLO. THATS NOT BETTER. YOURE COMMITTING MULTIPLE CRIMES. *AS YOUR JOB.* and she was just like "its not a big deal she knows what shes doing." folks, this is the same aunt that, very illegally, paid me to sort through her clients confidential tax documents and bank records and stuff. because she works for a bank. and took the records home to sort them. i dont think she DOES know what shes doing, actually!

[lateseptemberdawn]

Ngl bad parents give me such an ick like stay tf away from me ew

[technicolorxsn]

eugh

[fideidefenswhore]

"[Capello] said the King is already tired to satiety of this new Queen (che il Re era stufo et satio hormai de questa nova regina.)" 'Venice: June 1535', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554, (London, 1873) pp. 23-28. British History Online

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The Lady has lately feasted him at one of her residences, where she prepared beforehand an entertainment [...] to which many people were invited, though she entirely forgot to ask the French ambassador, who has not been at all pleased at her neglect. She has, however, so well managed to banquet and amuse her guests that [...] the King loves his concubine now more than ever he did. 'Spain: June 1535, 16-30', in Calendar of State Papers, Spain, Volume 5 Part 1, 1534-1535, (London, 1886) pp. 492-506. British History Online 

[aparticularbandit]

Actually, I think you can make the case that emotional shut off numb IS Junko's primary state of being. That it's not so much I can only feel despair ever but that, as a trauma response, she shuts herself off.

Like...that's base Junko, separate from the other personalities she switches through. (And, yes, this happens in DR0, too, in her conversation with Matsuda in Book 2 Ch. 6. He specifically calls it out in the narrative: Enoshima changed her personality with no warning, as if she were trying on clothes....) The personalities aren't her; they're her...doing something else. In DR1, I'd say base Junko is that final argument when she talks about the air thing being connected to her, when she's most clearly her - but there's a specific point in the dialogue earlier where you can see it shift to that. For, like, one character beat, I think.

But that's not the point.

The point is that Junko presents the emotional numb as an extension of her boredom and hyper analysis, but the book in Ryoko presents it as a trauma response. And given what we can glean about Junko in terms of what she says in DR1 (that she cried out in despair when she was born, that she should never have been born (someone clearly told her that, although she might have started thinking that, too, at some point)) and how Monokuma talks about big brother/little sister stuff in DR2 (so far, anyway) (not just about causing pain, but particularly that Usami was the little sister who got separated at birth - taken in conjunction with never should have been born and everyone always asks why we have different names and it's not important - that very much suggests that Junko and Mukuro were separated at birth and that Junko was not supposed to be born)--

Look, when I say I'm building up backstory and am waiting to get through the games and the book to see if I'm proven wrong, this is basically it.

[radioactiveshitstorm]

engages in the completely normal behaviour of dumping some horrendous deep personal backstory lore in the tags of a simple meme post

as a treat :)

[axellis-archv-2]

a moment abt overhalliday if you dont mind but its in the tags bc im embarrassed sowwy..

[waugh-bao]

The thing is, that as tragic as it would be for Charlie to reject Keith’s affection, it is something impossible to imagine. If someone said ‘what if the Stones were cats and dogs?’ I can instantly imagine and be like ‘ok, Ronnie would be a puppy, Mick the bitchiest cat ever…’ But when someone says ‘what if Charlie got mad at Keith for hugging him?’ there is just a brain’s 404 message. The brain then reboots to a montage of kisses, hugs, handholding, piggyback rides, arms around shoulders, heart eyes, and bum slaps.

[yelloworangesoda]

maxwell and sammy are all mine and i love them like my children but its pretty hard to divorce them from fnaf enough to make them straight up ocs. sammy especially bc hes technically not my oc, even if i made up every aspect about him except his name and dead twin sister