#and im not accepting criticism at this time

[incognito-lionbeast]

truly, the best things to come out of CQL are: live-action Lil Apple & the secret Lan bnuuy cave hidden under the cold spring.

[fox-guardian]

starting to feel like part of the reason that Sam and Celia's romance thing feels a little off rn is cuz like. what do you mean they're actually dating. he asked her on a date and she said yes. and it's working out so far. it's chill and fine. what do you mean they're not pining for 4 seasons, not communicating, and then getting together only after one of them walked through hell to drag the other out and make sure they know they're loved and wanted. they haven't even patched each other's wounds yet hello. aren't y'all moving a little fast.

[fossilizedhysterics]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

[hitmehardnsweet]

the amount of people i see saying shit like “i don’t wanna vote for a cop” or “but the genocide” or that it’s offensive to try to tell people to vote for harris because they don’t like her or whatever else yall are saying is making me incredibly anxious.

i don’t want to vote “blue no matter who”, you’re right that it shouldn’t be choosing between the lesser of two evils but you not voting is not going to “show them” anything. you’re going to get trump elected again and he’s going to end the genocide and not in the way you want. he’s going to take away every right he can from queer people and poc and women.

you are signing their death certificates right along with him if you allow this to happen because you have some sort of grandiose idea of how elections should be or the type of president we should have. it’s not going to be an immediate change and i want to grab you all by the shoulders and shake you until your little brains get it.

[the-kipsabian]

i would like to hand you three very important points

look at the way kips attention shifts to nick as he goes to ambush hook, and those the way kip holds his arm and shoulder. hes not exactly trying to hold nick back, but the intention is almost there. its not, cause kip knows hes being watched

which is evident in the second one. as soon as hooks (and so also christians) attention is on them, he'll back away. the facade is back on. the way he smirks when hook gets hit, cause the attention shifts again, which means he plays his part well

and third, who is the first to go for attack, even before christian calls for it? the brother who has to prove he belongs here. but again, for all the entirely different reasons than what they expect in reality

thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[milquetoad]

of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless

[butchvamp]

can we please acknowledge that the reason lucanis's romance with rook is the way that it is is not because of some secret nefarious plot to get him with neve and intentionally shaft the player, but rather just the fact that a lot of his content got cut and he went through multiple writers over years of what was already a very messy and chaotic development process. it’s just bad writing. why are we making shit up just to get mad at a fictional woman of color who is, again, fictional and does not have the agency to scheme and steal your man. can we please be serious

[metanarrates]

the ugly squid curse thing is super funny but also I (brainworm haver) am thinking about how this is a curse of having all your words misread, all your intentions misunderstood... to write on the wall and to not have it be perceived by another person

[elisedonut]

i know I've talked about this before but i love the concept of Percy and who he's with getting the same kind of treatment from the family (read mostly Molly)

and Percy handling it in a complexly different way to how Bill did

I always think of him getting into a serious relationship a few years down the line so he's healed a bit and offended as hell over his mom still not trusting his own decisions and trying to set him up with random women(because it would be girls sorry Molly is homophobic but just doesn't realize it) when his SO is literally right next to him

I know that she doesn't actually ever mention the Bluer age gap so really she likely wasn't bothered by that part but I think that would be different if Percy was with a boy tbh

like I think she would complain about the age difference between Perclin

also i think the idea of her inviting like Luna (or like Romilda Vane if you want to play into how she sees love potions as whatever plus shes even younger) is neat because of how messed up that would be and having her be like 'it's different' no no it's not

She honestly thinks shes helping like thats really important when it comes to Molly imo

that she honestly thinks shes doing something good and that Percy would be happier with someone else

shes just you know wrong and hasn't figured that out

So she just doesn't understand why he's fighting this so much when she knows best she knows her little boy far better then anyone else she knows he needs someone better someone worthy of him so she just doesn't get why Percy getting so mad about it

on the bright side

because Percy left once before shes more willing to listen to reason whenever he doesn't talk to her for like a week or storms out of a dinner because she said something and he was at his limit

He'll get her to understand eventually

[flysafepapi]

i need to talk about Rhaenys for a second, because i've seen posts about how it only took Rhaenyra one look to realise that Daemon was the one behind blood and cheese and the reason why people are cursing her name and saying she ordered it, but I think it was Rhaenys that made her realise it, it just took looking at Daemon for Rhaenyra to realise that Rhaenys was right.

That entire scene, while Rhaenyra is talking with Maester Gerardys and then having that little argument with Ser Alfred, Rhaenys doesn't look away from Daemon once. She's the only one who knows that he wanted to go to King's Landing at all, after he tried to order her to go with him, and she stares Daemon down during the entire exchange while he very deliberately avoids looking at her until she speaks.

"Mind yourself."

I don't believe she was talking to either Alfred or Rhaenyra. They both make valid points. Helaena was the only sibling that Rhaenyra liked, she never had an issue with Helaena, she says herself she would never have wanted Jaehaerys dead in retribution, and though I've never been a fan of Rhaenyra's, I believe her about that.

Alfred also has a good point, people in grief do things that aren't logical or wise, and it's not out of the question to wonder if Rhaenyra, in her grief, didn't blame Aegon for sending Aemond to Storm's End and want him to feel what she was feeling by having him lose a son too. We know she didn't, but it's understandable that people would wonder, especially considering up until this point, neither side have made it secret that they do not like the other.

But I believe, and no one will convince me otherwise, that she wasn't telling Rhaenyra to take a minute and calm herself because the little argument wasn't going to help the larger issue, or telling Alfred that he should probably shut up if he wants to keep breathing, she was speaking to Daemon, staring him right in the eyes when she did so, because with the exception of Rhaenyra (who we could argue only knows the parts of Daemon he lets her see), Rhaenys is the one who knows him best, she's known him all his life, she knows what he's willing to do if it gets him the results he wants.

It's only AFTER that, when Rhaenyra takes a step back and stops talking to Alfred and sits back down that she realises Rhaenys is staring at Daemon, and then she turns to also look at him, and that's when she realises.

"Mind yourself" was meant for Daemon.

[introspectivememories]

one thing about me is that if im writing an avatar (2009) fic, the earth is not dying. im so sorry it's my least favorite plot point in the movies. why did cameron write that in????

[potatoesandsunshine]

"i have no interest in revolution" that's percy. that's percy to me.

[squidsmeister]

my truest most honest conspiracy theory that I fully 100% believe is that they put Scott and Courtney together in tdas 1. because they needed a romance between two characters from different seasons and those were literally the only two they could’ve picked because every single other woman was in a relationship and out of lightning Scott and Cameron it’s unfortunately predictable they’d pick Scott and 2. they wanted to downplay the extremely lesbian activities Courtney and Gwen were getting into by going But Look She Likes Scott (even though she really only thought about him passively AND EVEN ADMITTED SCOTT WAS SO GROSS GWEN WOULD NEVER STEAL HIM FROM HER)

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

why do u think people r so ashamed of loving danron??

I mean, honestly, there's a lot of reasons, which makes it kind of complicated to tackle. I can list out a few from the top of my head, based on personal experience Feeling the shame and observation of other fans

•The problematic content in the games themselves. People feel embarrassed to like the other parts of the game because of the amount of bigoted moments (and sometimes whole characters) within these games. They don't want people to think they like those parts too, so they couch their appreciation in embarrassment.

•The reputation of the fanbase. On tumblr at least, things have normalized significantly and I find this fandom a very chill place to be. But the danganronpa fandom at its peak (2012-2016ish) was RABID. Like any major tumblr fandom, there was tons of drama, discourse, and toxic fan behaviour, but DR was genuinely on another level. This is especially true because of the young average age of members of the fandom at the time. Even though thats not generally true anymore on tumblr, this fandom still has that reputation to non-fans, and so people don't want to be associated with it.

•Cringe culture. At its peak, the DR fandom on tumblr was made mostly of teens, especially younger teens. I think the earnest way young teens participate in fandom led to it being seen as cringe, just like many other fandoms. Also, even outside of its problematic content, DR's plot can be weird and, frankly, even completely ridiculous. Similar to hom/estuck, I think this esotericness adds to people's kneejerk reaction to it when hearing about it second hand.

•The tendency of tumblr to turn on popular media when the magic is gone. This is something I've noticed with a lot of tumblr's number 1 big fandoms. Once a lot of people's interest in it starts wearing off, for some reason people will pivot to hating it. It happened with T/MA a little, it happened with Und/ertale, it happened with S/U, and so many other fandoms that tumblr went crazy over initially. Maybe its because these fandoms became so vocal they started to annoy those not participating, so they started to meme and make fun of it and its fans. Then, when people start to leave as their interests change, they join in on the teasing to displace the shame they might've felt from being teased. Eventually, people usually turn around and come to appreciate the piece of media casually again. That didn't really happen with DR... probably because of the other three reasons.

DR gained this reputation of being "irredeemable, problematic, cringe media" with a toxic fanbase and never shook it off. Before I played DR, I knew nothing about it except that tumblr hated it, for some reason. I had learned literally nothing else through fandom osmosis! And I think that general feeling, that Good People who like Unproblematic Things* (*requirement of being a good person) would never touch DR with a 10 foot pole outside of to make fun of it, sticks with people.

So when people finally check it out, usually through irony-poisoned letsplays of it, and end up actually liking it, they don't know what to do with themselves. How do you balance genuinely liking this piece of media with the site-wide perception youve grown so used to? With the idea that everyone will hate you if they know you like it, that you are a bad person for even posting about it? And thats how you get everyone's first DR post having a caption essentially communicating "im so sorry for posting about dr- I know its terrible and associating myself with this game makes me look disgusting- people who've followed me up until now, please dont hate me!"

[lith-myathar]

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[skierisa]

I SWEAR i'm working on it so take this wip