#and none of u can stop me

[lacunadaisies]

on my gomens bs tonight i guess. bro what the fuck was that finale.

i just. the first four eps were good ! not too much meat but lots of set up for further plot, the mystery of gabe hanging over their heads, nina and maggie. the mini stories felt like they didn't do much but they were fun !

and then the last two episodes fell flat for me. the confession scene was still heart wrenching, but ugh idk.

the regency ball thing was,, weird ? can we all agree it was weird ? and the fact that nina was the only one who never got drawn in ? is it bc she was upset ? and how did az manage it w/o a miracle, given we were literally told EPISODE ONE that he has to be super careful with what he casts bc heaven is watching, ESPECIALLY since they think he has gabe. if he DID do a miracle for it, that feels like lazy writing ? why spend so much time setting up "we need to do a baby baby miracle oh no we fucked up" if theyre just gonna start doing miracles later w no consequences

and the halo thing was also weird. it just felt like lazy writing, they couldn't have set a halo up as a weapon during ANY of the mini-sodes ? even a one-off "oh remember when i blew up my halo?"

the thing that rlly got me i think is gabe and beez's relationship being fleshed out in five minutes in the last ep makes the payoff of them running away feel really hollow and empty.

why is it so paradoxically easy for gabe and beez ? it makes the dance az and crowley have been doing look like one fueled by basically "being too cowardly and dumb to run away together" when really its "being caught up in who you are, who you are supposed to be, who you love, fear of rejection, and love for someone you should by all rights never have spoken to in the first place"

gabe and beez and up being "look what those two idiots could have if they just chose each other" and it feels hollow and petty and because gabe/beez has NONE of the narrative set up for their relationship to carry any depth, they make the struggle crowley and az have been having feel trivial ?

don't get me wong, beez and gabe COULD have been a foil to the fear crowley and aziraphale carry about their relationship, how if you can just make the leap you can be with the one you love, but with SO LITTLE setup for beez/gabe, it falls flat

im hopeful s3 will fix a lot of stuff, and admittedly im sorting out my emotional frustration w the cliffhanger from my actual grievances with the plot but ugh. it was not what i expected

[hefights-archive-3]

im gonna make the tiniest tlou oc w/ sunny suljic as the fc even tho he has 0 resources

[aeb-art]

note: the following is three (almost four) years post-game

okay fine i'll just draw comics for my au since writing is so dang hard smh

anyways welcome to two coins! where loop shows up again but siffrin only got the one hat ending

edit: part two

[kaiju-krew]

I wanted to know. Is battra and Space Godzilla Gay together? If so nice. If just friends. Then Still cool

they are in fact.......... Gay Together

in my delulu little world at least

idk how it started honestly?? i just like the idea that gojirans are inherently weak for big moths :'') they're essentially mosugoji if you hit it with a emo-yaoi-beam or something

imma draw more with them soon to help flesh it out and spread more spacebat propaganda o7

[southernspooks]

[vigilskept]

might make a longer post when i have the brainpower for it, but i do think some of the wider fandom criticisms about the direction of veilguard/dragon age as a franchise are coming from us looking at this piece of media and thinking about where we wanted to see it go rather than an objective view about where it’s been going from the beginning

this is not tacit approval, to be clear. i also really preferred the more grounded approach in origins & da2 over the high fantasy angle things have taken from inquisition onwards

unfortunately, the more i reflect on the games the clearer it is to me that we were always going to end up here!

flemeth has been there right from the start, and there’s nothing to suggest her being mythal was a retcon in any way.

the starting stats from origins with elves being more attuned to magic with the dwarves being cut off from it… that’s been there! sandal with his titan magic through his exposure to lyrium was there!

we met our first magister sidereal all the way back in awakening, the second in da2. the games never drifted from that plotline. we were always inching closer and closer to understanding what caused the blight and how the magisters tied into that story.

the games may have shifted in scope but the trajectory of the narrative was set up very early on

i don’t think the execution on many of these was Great & pulling references from real, still persecuted minority groups for their depictions for elves knowing they were going to take this kind of direction was definitely…. a choice

it’s not a choice i’m surprised by bioware making though! if we’re being honest their sensitivity to dealing with non-white (or fantasy minority) cultures has consistently been one of the weakest aspects of their writing from day 1.

ultimately i would also have liked a franchise that stuck with the scale(/tone) of origins and da2, but i just don’t think there’s any basis for railing against these choices as if they’re a symptom of inquisition-era developments. i really don’t think they are. this is what they had planned and this is how they executed it for better or worse

if it’s not for you, it’s completely valid to just take what you like from the instalments you enjoyed and engage with the works in a purely transformative capacity. i might take that approach myself!

i think it will just be less painful going forward though if we can all call a spade a spade. it’s not about the devs leaving, and it’s not about solas. dragon age was headed here, one way or another

[chrswlls]

i already talked ab this but i headcanon that chris and dave met while fleeing the country and got along doing stupid shit together. This is one of those incidents. Yes this is referenced original under the cut :)

[lovelyrotter]

can ppl in this fandom like... stop... implying that transmasculinity in hcs or (especially) canon is shallow or misogynistic or even transmisogynistic on princible, like literally just by being prescent in someones mind or in the text. like that doesnt fuckin feel good. thats kind of really nasty to imply. if its not okay to say about other trans experiences, maybe dont say it about this one either. why is there a weird little exception here. yall KNOW how much that sucks to hear all day every day. what the fuck

[bedforddanes75]

"x aesthetic girls 😍" and its all skinny white girls with dark hair Ooooh im gonna delete tiktok

[lesbx]

LIKE this is so cute. they gave her all new voicelines and redid all the pyro cosmetics. what the hell. female tf2 class mods are supposed to be femscout upskirts and latex mommy mods not have actual taste and effort put into them

[caimitos]

saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

[eversweetflowerpot]

2 hrs until i can finally go home, be ridiculously stoned n edge until i pass out. but who’s counting

[byanyan]

thinking about byan having a teacher submit some of their work into an art show or contest of some sort. how they'd be surprised (they've never really thought all that highly of their work; there's a reason they don't typically share it with anyone and it has a lot to do with a lack of support and a fear of having their enthusiasm for art crushed) and some part of them might even be a little excited... but they don't expect anything to come from it. (they've never actually won anything in their life. they've never had any of their skills celebrated, only been torn down over what they lack.)

thinking about them actually winning and not believing their teacher when she tells them, how they're sure she's just fucking with them until she shows them proof, maybe even hands them their cash prize. how even then, some part of them thinks that she forged the announcement and went to all these lengths so they wouldn't be disappointed over losing — the only thing that makes them accept that they really did win is the fact that no one would ever care that much about their feelings.

just thinking about how excited they'd be, once the truth of the matter finally sinks in: they finally won something, and it was for their art, of all things! maybe they're actually not terrible at it, maybe they really do show some promise! maybe... maybe they really are good at this thing that means so much to them.

[jrueships]

the monthly apathy is back, rlly sorry if i said smthing to u and then u say smthing back and i don't respond for like a thousand years only to spam u after it passes and then u respond bcs ure awesome and i go on an unspoken vow of silence for yet another thousand years and the cycle just continues

[corv-idae]

Just got called entitled bc sometime I put my name on my groceries before I put them in my fridge… ah

[arodrwho]

me occasionally like a fool: hehe my bones are sooo sexy now im basically cured

my hip when i'm just sat there minding my own business: bitch