#aside from some specific things and everything i had an issue with i could fix with meds

[differenteagletragedy]

A Variety of Things That I Think About Simon Riley

I have Many Thoughts and have attempted to put some/most of these in longer works but can't quite figure out how even though I could write essays on all of them why did they make him so good

He doesn't like his teeth. They're crooked and a bit stained from smoking/general neglect, and he's also got a bit of a gap right in the front top ones. The thought of getting any kind of orthodontic work to fix them never even crosses his mind, because in no universe is he spending that kind of money on vanity when his fondest wish is for no one to perceive him anyway.

Also doesn't take care of his skin. Like he washes and all, but sun protection? No, never, not at all. Even though he's got a fair complexion with dustings of freckles and a handful of beauty marks, he'll never put on sun cream, because after everything, the fucking sun is not going to be what takes him out.

Allergic to bees. No idea why this consumes me but it does. Maybe he got stung as a kid and no one cared and in addition to being afraid of everything else he had to add tiny insects to the list and he's bitter about it.

Is experienced sexually, but not so much with relationships, so there's quite a learning curve when it comes to him figuring out how to have sex with someone he also cares about and who cares about him in return.

Like he will not want an actual partner to give him any kind of attention that he thinks is specifically for him, i.e. blow jobs, because that is for hookups? Sex in a relationship is for treasuring his beautiful angel darling love, not for that. He will need convinced otherwise.

Something about liking spitting in his partner's mouth LMAO but not in a degrading way, and obviously miles after the previous issue is addressed, but just something something seeing a part of him go into you, seeing you readily accept every single bit of him, we'll get there.

Aside from the occasional whiskey and the smokes (I just googled it to be sure and apparently smoking counts?), he's pretty straight edge. No drugs, and he keeps the drinking under control. He's seen how easy it can be to slip into the haze certain substances can bring, and he wants no part of it, to the point where he'll ask for over-the-counter painkillers even if a doctor tries to give him something stronger. He can handle it.

Because he's always handled everything. Everything that's been hoisted onto his shoulders for as long as he can remember -- all the hurt, all the responsibility, all the little things that feel bigger when they're packed all together and he has to walk through life with them on his back. There's no alternative. He doesn't know anything else.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

I've heard that some meds are often overused, or used inappropriately. Albuterol in particular comes to mind, how often do you see things like that?

(This is about an albuterol post from like, 2 months ago. I've been very curious what the rant was about.)

Warriors: There are instances where you start noticing that certain doctors or just the department in general give certain meds out like candy, and—*gets violently shoved aside by me*

Oh Misty, if you’re curious about that rant then buckle up girl, because I will RANT.

Ok. So. You probably know this, but not everyone does - albuterol is a medication that we give for asthma, and really just for wheezing due to multiple causes. Wheezing is a lung sound that is caused by constricted bronchioles, which are part of your airway. In other words, parts of your airway are constricted due to inflammation, which is a common issue in asthma patients but can happen in many respiratory illnesses. So albuterol treats that by causing bronchodilation. It specifically causes bronchodilation.

It dilates the airways.

Ok! Bearing that in mind, that means that albuterol fixes certain breathing problems, but not all of them. Because there a lot of reasons you might have trouble breathing! Not just bronchoconstriction! It could be fluid in your lungs, it could be loss of elasticity in your alveoli, it could be due to injury, it could be any kind of V/Q mismatch, there are so many reasons.

So. With this logic, you can reasonably deduce that albuterol does not fix everything.

SO. Albuterol should NOT be given just because someone’s having trouble breathing. BUT. The ED ALWAYS GIVES IT. I had a patient a few months back when I made that post where he was having difficulty breathing, had a hx of COPD, had taken his own albuterol multiple times at home, and was tachycardic and anxious. His O2 saturation improved on some extra oxygen on NC, and his lung sounds were clear. Albuterol causes jitteriness, cause anxiety and tachycardia, so I wasn’t keen on making his symptoms WORSE while his lung sounds were CLEAR anyway so it wasn’t gonna FIX anything, and everyone looked at me like I’d grown a second head. And the ED gave him albuterol anyway. 😒

Hmph.

*pats Warriors on the head and plops him back in the blog*

[horrorvale]

HorrorVale Development Blog: End of Year

Hello, citizens of HorrorVale!

As the year draws to a close, we (or more specifically me, Dustin) wanted to put together a little blog to talk about HorrorVale! How launch went, what our current and future plans are, and more!

(Note that this blog post does not receive audio, so if you respond I cannot hear it.)

Dream Colosseum

First, before I start talking about HorrorVale's Launch, I want to discuss an upcoming patch.

Currently, we're working on a massive patch for HorrorVale that will include the following:

Even MORE bug fixes

Brand new optional dialogue for every single party member in the game for main story cutscenes

More skill re-balancing

Other minor things and scenes I still wish to include

But most importantly... The DREAM COLOSSEUM!

I originally didn't think many people would bother with the "Secret Bosses" in HorrorVale, but since so many of you enjoyed them and also desired to get more opportunities to mess with party combinations, I decided to punish you horribly!

The Dream Colosseum is a brand new feature that will allow you to fight Bosses you fought previously, now all scaled up to End game stats, with new moves and quirks, and all very difficult.

If you've fought the "Last Secret Boss", now you get to imagine what a Dream Colosseum version might be like.

It will require you to 100% the game to access, but won't give any unique rewards outside of a cosmetic change to Alice's bedroom so people don't feel compelled to torture themselves for completionists sake. Naturally, there won't be any new trophies either.

Right now we're working steadily on this update, and hope to have it out very early next year.

Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about how launch actually went for HorrorVale...

HorrorVale Launch

After 8 years in development and 5 years since announced, HorrorVale finally released on October 1st, 2024.

This reception has been tremendous.

Leading up to release, I was anxious but overall feeling pretty good about launch. There were minor things I wish I had included or changed, but knew that delaying what was otherwise a feature complete game would be extremely silly.

I actually intended on releasing these things as a patch in the first week of launch, in the hopes of catching most people before they get too deep in the game.

...What I did not expect however, was the unfortunate discovery of several bugs, some of which were game breaking.

What made these bugs especially frustrating is that most of them were NEW bugs, created from me adding things right before launch, or fixing other unrelated bugs.

Due to these bugs and the massive influx of new fans, comments, reviews, and more I found myself extremely overwhelmed, and it ended up being probably one of the most stressful 2 weeks of my life after launch.

In the end, everything worked out and I was quick to patch the game...

...Multiple times.

Still, despite these issues the reception was overwhelmingly positive. Certainly some critiques here and there, but the general response was that the game was so enjoyable that even the most egregious critiques could be brushed aside. All of the wonderful things I've read by people who had fun in the world I created... It truly means the world to me. The... Underworld you might say.

I'm sure some people are also interested in how the game actually DID. Good reviews and positive reception are one thing, but this is also a product being sold, so how did it DO!? Did it SMASH RECORDS and become bigger than UNDERTALE? Did it FLOP???

Well, to be honest I'm not entirely sure!

Which is a strange thing to say, but it's difficult to gauge "Success" when so many factors can change what that means. For a AAA game, success means something very different to a small indie game with a publisher, which also means something very different to a ragtag team of people with no real budget, no publisher, no marketing, and especially no notoriety whatsoever. Not to mention as first time developers we have little to compare it to...

But that being said...

As of right now, HorrorVale has sold...

1,000 COPIES!

That's an INSANE amount of people. If all of you were in a big room crowded around me, I would be very scared.

That's 1,000 new citizens to HorrorVale that have entered its gates.

If we gauge success purely based off "did it make back what you invested in it?", then HorrorVale was absolutely a success!

However, unfortunately it did not necessarily meet the expectations we had.

Going into the launch of HorrorVale, I had 3 goals in mind.

To make back what I invested in it (out of pocket, not including Patreon earnings)

To pay Matt, the composer full royalties for the HorrorVale OST (since he created the entire 170 track monster soundtrack for FREE.)

To be able to devote myself full time to Game Development

Of these three... Only 1 has been achieved so far.

While I generally try to avoid discussing topics like these, I feel like it's important context for the next piece of discussion. The future of HorrorVale.

HorrorVale: Act M

HorrorVale: Act M is a small side story featuring none other than Mothman himself! This spinoff game was greenlit thanks to HorrorVale fans reaching our Wishlist goal for the main game. This game will tell the story of HorrorVale from Mothman's perspective, giving you new insight into his side of the story, as well as elaborate on events leading up to and following that story.

I think there's something really special waiting for you in Act M, and I want to use it as an opportunity to experiment with the HorrorVale formula based off of feedback from the main game.

No matter what, this project will begin development and it will be in your hands....

...At some point.

Which is where the previous topic comes into play, because naturally how long Act M takes to make is dependent on the time I have free to work on it. HorrorVale sales could certainly pick up, and I might one day be able to devote myself fully to game dev, but for now Act M will have to follow the same development process as "HorrorVale", which means it's difficult to give an estimate of how long it'll take to make!

What I can say for sure, is that Act: M will be much, much shorter than HorrorVale. Don't expect a 50 hour experience! I'm aiming for something more like 8.

And yet, you might be asking yourself dear reader...

"How can we help?"

Indeed, you asked yourself that exact sentence and in the voice of the King from Zelda CD-I no doubt.

Which brings us to the next topic!

Patreon Revival

My original plan after HorrorVale launched was to completely retire the HorrorVale Patreon as it seemed unnecessary at that point, but since:

We did not reach our expectations of sales so far

Several fans expressed a desire to support the game in some way because of the Steam Early Access debacle

I thought it made sense to keep it up and give it a little makeover.

Now fully dedicated to "Act: M", you can expect Monthly Progress Reports here, just like the main game!

Not only that, but we've added a brand new "Cryptid" Tier, that will allow you... Yes YOU! The ability to design a Creepy, Scary, or Starry for Mothman to fight in Act: M! We don't want Mothman to just fight all the same enemies as Alice! He'd naturally encounter foes she never even knew existed. This is your opportunity to help the game out and get to be a part of it as well.

(Please note that in order to participate in this reward, you must be 18 years or older and willing to give all rights of your design to Batworks Software.)

(Also please note that Mothman will kill your beautiful creation with a crossbow and it will hurt very badly.)

Since as of now I can't "live" off of HorrorVale sales, instead my plan is to put it and Act: M Patreon earnings towards Act: M itself and Mystery Future Project. This will help ensure a smooth development cycle as possible. If you're interested in helping out the HorrorVale universe, now's your chance!

Of course, forking over your hard earned candy isn't the only way to help though!

Just enjoying the game and telling your friends about it is a MASSIVE help. Without a marketing team, word of mouth is a tremendous help to us, and it's thanks to that that we're here at all!

Closing

In closing, I just want to say thank you to all of the HorrorVale fans that have supported us over all these years. The love that HorrorVale has been shown has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. As long as I'm able to, I'd like to read every comment and message I can, but I fear that if the game does get bigger one day I won't be able to see them all. Just know that the love you've given Alice and her friends mean the world to me.

Wait Stop Right There What Do You MEAN "Mystery Future Project"???

That's all for now goodbye!!!!!!

*The device he was speaking from explodes spontaneously*

[a-birdhorse]

This whole Pirate Software business is bothering me so much. The videos everyone is bringing up to scream at are things he made months ago and very few people had anything to say back then. Given, it's totally reasonable to disagree with his take on Stop Killing Games, but all of this hounding and yelling at a person who aside from this one somewhat innocuous take has done nothing but encourage people to follow their dreams and give advice to people who are down on their luck feels unnecessarily cruel to me.

Given the timing, it feels to me like the goal of this harassment campaign is to bring eyes to the EU petition, which is coming close to its endpoint. It has certainly done that, but the sustained attention has had unintended consequences. In a recent video Ross reported that a significant amount of the recent signatures where likely American spoofs based on when they signed, meaning that it is now impossible to actually keep track of whether the petition has actually passed or not. Now I'm no sociologist, but this shift occurred around the same time people started yelling at Thor for his videos and given the massive amount of attention the fighting has drawn to the movement, the relationship is most likely causal.

I think that attempting to aid the movement by attacking it's biggest detractor with horrific vitriol is causing it as much harm as it's causing good. The worst part is that if the UK petition is any indication, the EU's parliament might dismiss the petition out of hand for the same issues that Thor brought up in that original video. When they sent back the original petition, according to Ross, one of their complaints was that a change in rules would be too big of a burden for developers. Ross calls this "recycled garbage," but just as Thor says in his video he could easily have circumvented this criticism from the government by making his request more specific. When Ross says he's counting on government officials to want easy wins, I think he doesn't realize that if they have to figure out what kind of regulation they need to produce to get the effect he's asking for on their own that will not qualify to them as easy. It will only look like more work.

So the community ostracizes someone because he criticized them, then it blindly stumbles into coaxing a bunch of random Americans into breaking EU law over it, all for a document with glaring issues that could have been fixed by listening to said criticism. Hand on the table I don't like Stop Killing Games. I think that some games should be able to die. I think that when something ends forever and no-one can see it again, not really, it is a beautiful thing. It is a memory that only a special few can share with one another. We forget that now because we live in a world that lies to us and says that everything can last forever.

But I respect Ross. His heart is in the right place. And if I am to argue about this idea for the sake of art, I want to argue about the version of it that is the strongest. I'm not interested in fighting a version of it that only knows how to fight back by massing a couple dozen assholes together to yell about how I'm stupid or evil for disagreeing. Ross outright says that it's not the kind of movement that he wanted to build, and while I think that he could more effectively model that for his followers by taking criticism better, I think that when he says this he's being genuine.

Note: I understand that Thor's original video had some sections that were fairly unkind to Ross. If the people yelling about it now really cared about civility they would have started yelling when the video came out. My evidence for that is that there was one creator who responded to Thor closer to the release time: Louis Rossmann. It's here and it's from eleven months ago. Eleven months! They've had nearly an entire year to respond to his supposedly monstrous and moronic behavior, yet they waited until the last second because now is the time when people will have the most pressure on them to act. If all this yelling had taken place eleven months ago their audiences wouldn't have felt the heat anywhere near as bad. By timing the negative coverage for right now, they minimize Thor's ability to defend himself or change his mind and they maximize the amount of heat their audiences feel to get involved. This is the call that's causing all of those fake signatures in my opinion. It's a kind of reckless cruelty that shows a weakness of character.

[mekatrio]

MY ECHOES OF WISDOM REVIEW 😁 ill start by going over basic issues that are easy to nitpick, and then over to issues thatll need some more explanation. then ill wrap it up with what i liked abt it and my overall verdict on the game..

soo the first few negative issues that this game has are the ones that are very prominent in many nintendo games, esp the past 2 mainline zelda games, which are poor performance, virtually no accessibility options, and very tedious system mechanics. poor performance is easy to explain: the framerate in this game was quite frankly very ass. i played like the first one or two dungeons without the day 1 patch and it was v abysmal. after installing the day 1 patch it was Slightly better... but not that much. the frame rate jitters around soooo much and it really puts a damper on the flow of the game. when the framerate is high the game feels so good, but when it starts jittering to low its like... egh.. i wish the game was more optimized so it constantly performed at higher fps. or if that just isnt possible then i wished theyd lock the game at 30fps or do whatever tht needs to be done to cut the jittering out.. 😑 if it matters i mostly played this game docked. i played it very briefly undocked and the framerate was better that way, but still... performance should be optimized across all display settings no?

its accessibility is the usual in nintendo games.. theres no way whatsoever to edit your button mapping to ur preference. and yes i know u can edit the button mapping for specific controllers in the switchs menu but like.. its so much more easier to just be able to edit the button inputs in the game itself. also theres also no way to edit graphical settings of the game as per usual.... its ur usual nintendo practice. rip.

and the tedious system mechanics... Boy.... its like crafting in acnh. or upgrading your battery in totk.... sooo fucking poorly designed. the main culprit of this in eow is that Fucking Smoothie System... ohhhh my god why is it so tedious to make some damn smoothies. why isnt there a way to make a batch. why cant you view the drinks you have while ur in the smoothie making menu. why doesnt the game remember the last smoothie you make so you dont have to keep scrolling down to it. its just so bad..... which is a shame bc this whole smoothie system is otherwise pretty neat. like the game rewards you with a Lot of smoothie ingredients and the smoothies/potions themselves have decent use cases. and even if ur not drinking them you can make a lot of rupees from selling them... but its just SO tedious to do any of this bc of how shit the mechanic is designed so i hardly end up doing any of it. which is a shame.. smoothies asides another culprit is the scene of all the floating tri lemons whenever you fix a rift. afaik u cant skip it and its always the same thing like damnnnn do i really need to see this 😑 every time... 😑 but yeahh thats nintendo for you

also omg i almost forgot the mention the UI OMGGG this shit SUCKED. ASS. at the start of the game when u dont have too many echoes its fine but as you progress and begin to accumulate like 50+ echoes it gets fucking. rough. dude.

THIS SHIT.... SUCKS. at some point i had to open the notebook menu to look for echoes instead, which is also a fucking mess BECAUSE NONE OF IT IS MEANINGFULLY LABELLED...

like there are no submenus whatsoever everything is just There. WHY. the amount of time ive had to spend searching for a specific monster like omgggg would it have killed them to have this sorted in some way. like all weapon monsters here all insect monsters here etc etc etc. would it have killed them to let users make their own customizable group of echoes that they could easily access from the quick menu. totk also suffered from this bullshit which is just so mind boggling bc the fixes for these feel like no-brainers. are the ppl at their quality assurance department in love with scrolling thru menus or something like whatttt what what. ok. anyways..

so now that ive gone over modern nintendos typical bullshitery, ill move onto my own subjective nitpicks.. firstly the graphics/art direction is something that im so-so on. like i wont lie and say this game isnt beautiful bc it is, but its also like.. it feels very sanitized if you get me? like theres a quirkiness of sorts missing from the game. it also doesnt help that i very recently watched my brother finish mother 3, and eow's artstyle is something that would 100% fit wayyyy better for a series like earthbound instead of zelda. it took me some time for eow's artstyle to grow on me, and from a gameplay aspect everything reads very well, but its just... theres just something unappealing abt it to me. and sorry i dont rly have the vocabulary rn to rly describe what it is 😭

but yeah im just kinda getting bored of nearly every nintendo game looking like this ._.

also i already posted abt this but it bears repeating: there isnt really a good reason given for why zelda is weaker than link -_- like she has the sword... why does she have to turn to Shadow Link to swing it.. and why does she need an item to jump higher than him. what. but anyways i think their rationale for this is to demonstrate that woahhh link is Super Cool and More Athletic than the average hylian which is like ok. but my issue with this is 1.) the game did not convey this well like... at all. if anything this is just my own assumption. which could also be completely wrong and maybe nintendo is plain ol sexist but whatever. and 2.) just historically throughout the franchise link is not typical portrayed as this Cool Dude if anything hes more often a bumbling guy who, through trials and dungeons, eventually grows into The Hero Of Legend. which ig eow's link had gone thru and thats why he had 20 hearts at the start of the game.. but again this wasnt conveyed very well. and is just a big assumption from me. but more on the games writing later

ok the next two complaints are my last ones and are also my main issues with this game.. which is that eow's game design as a whole feels pretty awkward, and that its narrative does not help to make up for this. so what i mean by eow's game design is that its a mix of an open world game and a metroidvania... but in a bad way. bc it "fails" (in a sense) to be either genre, it also fails to bring out the strength of these genres..

so eow is an open world game in that, after the intro of the game, you can practically go almost anywhere on the map. like before doing jabul waters, i had explored all of faron wetlands and the first level of hebra mountains. im pretty sure i couldve also gone thru some parts of eldin mountain too, but i didnt bc i was honestly being overwhelmed on how much there was that i could explore. but what sets eow apart from actual open world games like botw and totk, is that all this exploration doesnt really reward me with meaningful items that helps me progress thru the game. in botw/totk, exploration would nett me better weapons, better armor, and overall more resources to make food and stuff bla bla bla. and while yes eow does reward me w echoes, some heart pieces here and there, 3825923 smoothie ingredients and so on and so forth.. very few of these items are actually "meaningful". what i mean by this is that basically everything about this game is built around the echo mechanic right? you use echoes to navigate around the world, and you dont rly do combat, so you summon echoes instead. but the thing is that even tho the game has a whooping total of 127 echoes.. very few of them end up actually being useful. at some point throughout the game, for me at least, i figured out what works and what doesnt work with these echoes. to get around the world, i mostly just used the bed and trampoline.. which i got at the start of the game. for combat, i mostly summoned sword moblins, and ignizols if the situation called for it.. which i also got at the start of the game. do u see where im going with this? dont get me wrong there were meaningful items i did get from exploring, like the bombfish (which is basically a key item) and the flying tile, but a lotttt of the echoes were not very useful. in fact there are several that ive never even summoned once. so like yes i can "sequence break" and go all over the map as early as id like, and its an open world game in that sense, but the game doesnt really adequately reward me for that.

and the other thing is like while yes you can explore like 80% of the map right after the intro, its still a metroidvania to a degree bc there is a set sequence to dungeons, and certain areas are locked behind key items. but again like.. its not a true metroidvania either bc the amount of "locked" areas is so minuscule. most of them are dungeons for the main quest. and again like.... virtually the entire map is free to you once youre done with the intro. which in turn robs you of the satisfaction of receiving a key item and using it to slowly unfold the world map.. bc you can go basically anywhere with items you started the game with. which isnt the best...

so you see eow is like an open world game except it doesnt really reward you with things that make exploration either more easier or more fun, and its like a metroidvania except "key items" dont really matter in the grand scheme of things, bc you dont actually need them anyways to get around 😔 instead eow is just this weird amalgamation of both that just... isnt super satisfying to play.

it also doesnt help that dungeons in this game are Long As Fuck like whatttt on earth. every area is like... you gotta do the quest line in the area. and then fix a rift or two. and do the long ass actual dungeon next.. sometimes with multiple bosses.... like brah what.... its so long, and soooo tedious. like ok one issue i have with these long ass dungeon quest lines is that the balance between exploring and doing the dungeons doesnt feel super great. like im either spending a Really long time exploring the map or doing a dungeon questline rather than healthily bouncing between the two. and secondly i feel like a reason why these dungeon quest lines are so long is to make up for the fact that theres so few dungeons.. but this itself isnt a super big problem bc like hi my fave zelda is majoras mask and that only has 4 dungeons. what i think is the actual issue is that.. theyre not super fun to get through. and i believe this is because the writing of the game is not super engaging.

the writing is very... Eh... like its not godawful but its similar to how i find the graphics... it Sanitized in a sense. iykyk. its a shame bc i do think theres potential, like the concept of cracks in existence terrorizing hyrule for god knows how long, and impostors being made and all that, its all very interesting.. and yet somehow the game doesnt really divulge into any of this. this games narrative in general just... doesnt really take itself super seriously the way twilight princess or wind waker etc had. like link is in trouble and he means a lot to many people but..... yeah. Yup. LIKE OK??? like u really do not feel urgency in this game imo. also tri does have some development throughout the story but its soooooo minuscule.. so at the end of the game when zelda and tri part ways i didnt really feel much bc its like well alright. like the overall game design is already clumsy and the game's narrative does no favors either so the end product is just..... a Very elaborate puzzle game, for better or worse. 😐

OKKKKKK YEAH those are my negatives out of the way.... theres a LOT of negatives.... but well thats how the game made me feel. but onto the (few) things the game did well.. although i bitched about the graphics, the game is very beautiful. the environments are very charming and beautiful and the npcs liven everything up too! while i do believe the game's writing as a whole is pretty weak, it still has a bit of charm. like every town in this game feels lively thanks to these npcs and homes actually feel lived in (unlike some games... coughs botw/totk). i also think the accessory system is a great feature. letting players pick their own buffs for zeldas is really neat, and receiving accessories make for a great reward. i also like that u can change clothes!

and lastly.. in spite of Everything, im very glad playable zelda finally exists. like yeah while this game has its Various Issues, at least it goes to show that yes... Zelda Can Be A Protag. like she fits in the world of hyrule as a playable character just fine. zelda can meaningfully interact with the people of hyrule, while link can still exist and play a role. playable zelda is here and Viable. so heres to hoping theres more playable zelda down the road 🥂

OKKK so my overall verdict on this game is well. if me finishing it in less than a week is any indicator, is that despite All of the Many issues i have with this game... i did have a lot of fun with it. because i. Love. Puzzles. and this game was really just a big ol untraditional puzzle game. so it was fun. a lot of fun! but also very overwhelming at times bc of the sheer amount of like.. Everything. also bc of all its issues i hesitate to say its a good game... ultimately its just like, alright. theres too many problems in its game design to say otherwise, and the writing fails to carry it. but it isnt an entirely bad game. its just 🆗. Yup

alright jeez im so tired from typing all of this. BYEEEEE

[edalynn]

I've recently seen someone defend the bad writing of Huntl0w with "it's just because the show got cut, it would've been better if it had time!", but I disagree.

Firstly, I'm generally annoyed with people defending every flaw of the show by "but it got cut!!". Yes, some issues are because of the cut. However, the writers weren't forced to write the show the exact way it turned out, they could still make decisions about it, and they should've carefully considered what to include and devote screen time to, since they knew they had less of it.

If Huntl0w was always the plan even before the cut, but they knew they didn't have time to develop it properly, they should've just cut it. Plain and simple. It contributed nothing to the characterization or the plot, cutting it would change nothing aside from surface level blushing (highlighting how pointless its inclusion was). Fans could still ship it, crew members could still ship it in personal art, but it didn't need to be in the show.

And the "but it's bi4pan rep!!" defense for keeping it in doesn't hold up, since there's zero confirmation of Willow's identity in the show, and Hunter's entire. confirmation is a small blink and you'll miss it flag that's on screen for like 3 seconds. If a more casual viewer didn't notice that one detail, they wouldn't know this isn't just a straight ship. For an m/f ship to be good rep the characters need to be SHOWN as queer, not just confirmed via tiny split second flags and the creator confirming it on a livestream. And making them a couple despite them barely talking also reinforces some heteronormative and amatonormative messages.

(And there's the "love heals all" trope problem with WHEN the writers chose to have them hint at becoming a couple/the feelings being mutual, and just generally a problem with the pairing being the conclusion to their arcs when that's not what either of their stories were about)

Secondly, I just don't think their personalities work well together. They don't have romantic chemistry, there's no spark, they don't mesh like Luz and Amity or Eda and Raine. The only way they could be "developed" to fit together is if you retcon their personalities and tailor them into a dynamic after they've already been established, which is not good writing.

Huntl0w is just a fundamentally weak pairing. I don't think it could've been fixed, I think it would've always had a "pair the spares" feeling to it. Neither have even shown interest in romance before, and we've been given no compelling reason why they would be interested in each other specifically. The "half a witch" thing isn't it, 1) them being called the same slur isn't romantic, and 2) their experiences aren't actually that similar, Hunter has much stronger parallels with Amity (they even had the same deepest wish - to figure out their own future). Interestingly, they also barely interacted, but what we did get actually offered a strong foundation for further development of their friendship had the show not been cut.

Okay, this is one of the best, concise explanations as to everything in the show that's wrong with hunt/low. It literally never in a million years could've even been hodge-podged together to make a compelling, intriguing romance.

It contributed nothing to the characterization or the plot, cutting it would change nothing aside from surface level blushing

(And there's the "love heals all" trope problem with WHEN the writers chose to have them hint at becoming a couple/the feelings being mutual, and just generally a problem with the pairing being the conclusion to their arcs when that's not what either of their stories were about)

I feel like these both go hand in hand. Not only would not adding it have not changed a single thing about the story, but even hinting at it actually damaged their entire arcs all together. Willow's whole arc was about being strong enough on her own, while Hunter's was about discovering and becoming himself and who he wanted to be. Making both of their arcs end in them being forced to rely on each other (almost seeming co-dependent-ish) when they've barely been shown to have interacted on screen really negates every single bit of character growth we've seen up to that point.

And the "but it's bi4pan rep!!" defense for keeping it in doesn't hold up, since there's zero confirmation of Willow's identity in the show, and Hunter's entire. confirmation is a small blink and you'll miss it flag

Also, Dana literally said that her saying it outside of the show airing & unless it is actively shown on the show, makes it headcanon only. She is the creator, yes, but she made the point to say that even what she says should be considered headcanon and that everyone should be encouraged to have and share their own. So technically, it's bi4??? rep at best.

Secondly, I just don't think their personalities work well together. They don't have romantic chemistry, there's no spark, they don't mesh like Luz and Amity or Eda and Raine. The only way they could be "developed" to fit together is if you retcon their personalities and tailor them into a dynamic after they've already been established,

100 million percent. They barely even work as friends honestly, especially from the very few times we see them interact on screen. Willow is brash, confident, and holds a grudge. None of those things would be good for Hunter, an abuse victim, in a relationship. Hell, the way she pulls him underground in asias is SO reminiscent of the way Belos does the same thing in HM, it makes me uncomfortable to rewatch. And she was totally ready for the school to turn him back over to Belos despite his begging until she was convinced he actually had been with Gus, and even then it was just so they could save Gus. And on the other hand, Hunter is impulsive and fiercely overprotective of the people he cares about, which goes directly against Willow's drive to prove she can take care of and protect herself. None of those traits scream romantic compatibility lmao. In all honesty, it's more likely to create a toxic relationship, especially coupled with Hunter's trauma and PTSD.

The "half a witch" thing isn't it, 1) them being called the same slur isn't romantic, and 2) their experiences aren't actually that similar, Hunter has much stronger parallels with Amity

Yeah... I've never understood the romanticism of being called the same slur lmao... And you're totally right about Amity and Hunter having far more in common than Willow and Hunter. Amity and Hunter parallel each other amazingly and the way their friendship was set up really would've made for a far more interesting arc, especially throwing Luz into the mix as Amity's girlfriend and Hunter's "rival" sister.

They definitely should've been dropped when the show was shortened, if they were ever intended to be canon in the first place. The way it was hinted at and their interactions and arc in the show is just lazy at best and damaging to their characters at worst.

[the-things-ive-seen]

Wonder Twins - Wonder Comics Volume

The worst of the Wonder Twins

As I flipped through the pages of the Wonder Comics yet again, I could but feel depressed, confused, and, of course, deeply pissed off. What sort of audience was meant to be turning these pages, and what exactly would they feel about the teenage wonder duo, who were shitting not just on their own legacy, but everyone else's as well?

To put it simply, In this new volume of the Wonder Twins, Jayna and Zan are space aliens who moved to Earth from their home planet and serve a upcoming superheroes with a lot to learn about Earth. Except there's a problem. The wonder twins used to live on a utopia world without crime and spontaneous orgies, and Earth is a political hellscape of suffering and drama. Feeling out of place and deeply horrified by the nature of Earthlings, Zan and Jayna try to deal the difficulties of justice and society.

But that description paints a bit of glamourous view on the series as a whole. In reality, Jayna and Zan are the descendents of their world's version of space Hitler, so they quickly leave their home world out of shame and migrate to Earth. After awkwardly jamming themselves into a highschool setting and becoming junior Justice Leaguers, they constantly complain about how inconvenient everything and how Superheroes, specifically the meta of Superheroes, is crass and stupid joke. The series continues spotlighting human nature, societial issues, and strawman arguements until the Wonder Twins have had enough. The volume ends with the Twins yelling at the Justice League for not understanding moral ambiguity before they're kidnapped by a racist TV star who wants her cell phone back.

Normally, I don't have a lot to say about comic books, even bad ones. But goddamn, this entire volume is horrible; both in concept and in execution.

This series is a lot like the TV show Velma, and you all fucking know that is not a compliment. Its depicted as bright, colorful, and comedic but constantly tries to drag you into the dark and serious. It tackles ideas and social issues, but it doesn't actual know them except on a surface level. I think what's even worse is that the 'solution' to these problems is to just... fix it. Doesn't matter how, or why, or who it effects. Just fix any problem infront of you, simple. World hunger? Just fix it. Cat in a tree? Just fix it? Dad trapped in the Phantom Zone? Just fix it. Thank you Wonder Twins, I had no idea that all of life's problems were just one panel transition away from being fixed. I must've forgotten that I had all the resources, methods, and charisma to deal with everything. I guess the problem was me all along.

I guess what pisses me off about the series is how they Wonder Twins are such shitty superheroes (In this volume at least). Upon first going in, I thought I would be frustrated by how their powers work in each issue. But no! The Wonder Twins themselves are quite possibly some of the worst Superheroes I've ever seen in action.

Sadly, Zan is not being sarcastic. They actually are trapped in plastic bags after an unprompted home invasion. The Wonder Twins spend most of volume fighting powerless human beings who may or may not be wearing stupid costumes. I'm not refereing to armed thugs either, but usually groups of three or less people. This is not counting when they get to scare off the angry mob crowd, which is recurring villain in this series. 'Society is the real villain', said the teenage white girl.

Aside from these performance issues, I'm also refering to Zan and Jayne's character. They... suck. A lot. I actually used to like Zan, but now I think he's just an ignorant moron. Which is what the series was going for; a lovable moron, but the story never hesitates to water him down or belittle his existence and relevance. I genuinely feel bad that he can't play a bigger role or have important things to think about and share his perspective, which sounds very strange for someone who is a main character. As for Jayne, she is the worst. Like, insurmountably the worst. A humanoid being I wouldn't tolerate being around for ten minutes. I think Lisa Simpson was at least likable and had solutions for life's problems. Jayna is just a miserable sad sack looking for more reasons to give up. I can literally count the initiative and planning she shows on one hand because most of the time she's complaining about how the planet Earth is too complicated and broken. Yeah, she's a teenager and everyone eventually becomes disillusioned by life on Earth, but holy shit stop ranting for one second and do something already. Stop complaining about walls and start climbing. Stop acting hopeless and go find some. Batman sometimes exhausts me with dark poetry, but listening to a teenager complain about the mere existence of crime and corruption, without dissecting why that happens in the first place makes for an abysmal experience.

Sigh.

I guess that takes me to the heart of my argument, and my personal gripe with the volume.

Did I mention I hate Jayna?

For context, "a Soap Box is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. ... The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person engaging in often flamboyant, impromptu, or unofficial public speaking." -- Wikipedia.

When I say The Wonder Twins is a soap box, I'm not referring solely to the political overtones of the series, but I'm referring to how the story portrays these themes and the beliefs of the person writing it. When I read this series, I didn't walk out more self-aware of my actions and the government's failures to make a better world (this comic came out in 2020, by the way). I came out feeling embarrassed to have read such a painful virtue signal for anyone who donates money every day to a tip jar. This series is a painful mishmash of anarchism arguments, radical vanilla ideas, and lazy school intern adventures. And in the midst of all that I'm supposed to adopt an intentionally vague message to rebel against authority because a comic book series, the medium best known for maintaining the status quo, is appealing to my inner narcissist? I mean, it's either that or the author is so obsessed with telling people to fight American status quo, that they forgot that they were writing a comic book, where the point is they need not change the world, but inspire the world to change. Because it's a fucking book.

Look, everyone has an off day. We lose focus of what we're fighting for and begin to lose faith in our beliefs. I already mentioned the disillusionment thing. I'm not going to speak for everyone, because sometimes it can be a good thing to lose faith. It gives us an opportunity to change, to see if something is working for us. What's important is that we don't lose hope and give up completely; that we don't flip tables in hopes that the mere idea of starting over will make us feel better. I think Superheroes used to help with that, because even someone like Batman could overturn a hopeless situation. And, with good writing, a story like that can be... inspiring. Superheroes could be inspiring.

The Wonder Twins don't make me feel that way. I feel like they were supposed to be, but here they don't. The Wonder Twins series feels like a reminder that in superhero land the world gets slightly farther from the real-world status quo every day, becoming better and reaching nonexistent solutions, before the editorial office slingshots the whole DC meta backward and suddenly 9/11 was inevitable. The Wonder Twins themselves feel especially hopeless, demanding rewards for kindness and being privileged to the point of genuine confusion. I don't see them as heroes, they're just doing their job. They hate their job and everyone involved with it, but hey, they wanted the job. As if to further my point, the series literally ends with them working in a facility where they get to make their own rules to bend while working as Superheroes.

Maybe I missed something or maybe one guy's personal change of heart is supposed to convince me that Zan and Jayne make a difference in anybody's life. Maybe this was supposed to be the story of how the Wonder Twins realized there are no rules when it comes to giving someone the help they need, just consequences. Well, all I can think of is what it was supposed to be. It's a wonder how it turned out this way instead.

Also, the art direction sucks. Every fight or conflict is less than a page long. This is what I meant when I said they forgot that they were writing a comic book.

[angstyandromanticwriting]

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A Regina George X Fem!Reader Angsty, Cute, and Fluffy Prompt

[Just a Short Prompt For Today]

Minors DNI!!!

* Dealing with some possibly disturbing themes, here!

I will always try and make links between prompts + main instalments whenever I am writing for a consistent few characters!

* Feel free to refer to earlier instalments for this character + her Reader here!

The Word Count [Exclusive to this Prompt]: standing around 1.6k!

Takes place after the events of the film [2024 version!]

I hope you enjoy it!

There will be more!

!TW(s) [The Specifics]: Physical Violence & Bullying, Verbal Abuse & Threats, Blood & Injury Depiction, Emotional Distress & Self-Worth Issues, Implied Homophobia & Societal Pressure, Fear of Abandonment, Ambush/Assault Imagery - if I’ve missed any here, please feel free to let me know; thank you, and I hope you enjoy it!

Hospitality/A Circle of Blood

You still don’t know how to feel about everything you and Regina had shared with each other yesterday.

It was hard enough thinking about what would happen once high school was over, and done with.

Then again, you weren’t sure if you would be able to even make it that far, the amount of times you and Shane had got into fights again.

It had almost been every working day of the week, by now.

You hated coming back here, and loved it at the same time, perhaps too much.

Shane had managed to punch you in the face.

Your nose was bleeding, but you didn’t care.

You would have given the gesture back, if you hadn’t heard Regina calling for you to stop again.

You hesitated, after finally getting hold of the idiot’s collar, as everything he’d said about your parents and what happened to you rang through your head like a cracked vinyl on a broken record player.

“Y/n-!”

Regina calls for you again, and you huff lightly, but not because you’re mad at her for interrupting; you’re just mad that you didn’t get to make him pay any further than you had somewhat managed to.

“You’re running out of things to say about me - you should fix that,” you utter, before you shove him away, and he staggers back, scowling up at you, but when he gets back up, he doesn’t bother trying to start a second round, as he instead just glares back at you, as Regina finally reaches you, subconsciously holding you as close as she can just in case anything else started up between you and the asshole before you.

“You’ll regret that - I’ll make sure you do,” he hisses, before he stalks off, and you imagine a tail between his legs, as you grunt, before timidly turning toward her again.

She falters, noticing the blood leaking from your nose as she frowns, heart sinking, and she can’t hide her soft frustration.

“What the fuck do you think you were doing, back there?”

“Reg-”

“You need to stop this, Y/n - please, just stop; you can’t let him get to you forever, okay? The board already let you off last time with a warning, Y/n - if they catch you fighting with him like that again, you - you might get-”

“I don’t care if they kick me out,” you murmur, and she can tell you mean it, as her expression softens a little, before she pulls you aside, noticing that people were still watching the both of you, uninvited, as she scowls around at them, desperate to find a more private space for the both of you so she could really talk to you; really get through to you, as you followed along beside her, keeping your head down, not sure what to do or how to try and make things right again. “I’m sorry,” you try, and she scoffs, making your heart ache even more as you look back over at her, terrified that maybe you’ve pushed things, and way too far this time. “I am-”

“Then stop getting into fights all the time,” she interjects, and you falter, as she sighs heavily, before carefully turning you around to face her gently again. “Look, I - I’m sorry, okay? Just-.. I-.. I know that - that things he’s probably saying to you are just-.. they should never be said. Ever. But - but they were, and I understand that - I understand why you react the way you do, I mean - I’d probably do the same thing if I-.. but you have to understand that - that if you go too far, you-.. you will be the one suffering for it, not him, and that isn’t fair. That isn’t fair at all, Y/n. In fact, I think you deserve your place here, more than he does. Way more. You shouldn’t let him ruin anything of your time here, okay? Why don’t you just try and think like he’s the idiot for even trying to bother you, the way that he does, without using your fists next time, huh? It works - I swear it works, just-.. promise me you’ll try it. Please promise me.”

You’re hesitant, at first, and you hate yourself for it, and the way her eyes darken slightly only makes it hurt more, as you push yourself to nod, not wanting her to worry about you anymore than she already was.

“I’ll promise you, I just-.. I don’t know why you get so worried about me all the time,” you murmur, your voice barely there, but just audible enough for her to hear, as she raises her eyebrows, before timidly reaching to hold your hands within her own again.

“You do know, Y/n, you just-.. you don’t - see yourself the way I see you. The way I’ve always seen you.”

Your breath stutters, even before she’s carefully lifting her hand to delicately caress your soft and still tear-stained bare left cheek.

“I’m going to say this just once more, okay? Y/n, you-.. you mean more to me than you will ever know - I promise you you always will, okay? I love you, so - so much, I-.. I’ve always loved you, Y/n. Always. And I’ll never stop, okay? Ever. You’re everything to me. Don’t ever forget that - please, don’t. Just-.. you don’t even have to promise me, just-.. say that you know. Or - or nod, or-.. just - Y/n, please-”

“I love you,” you manage, your voice faintly trembling, as you tightly swallow back the lump in your throat again.

Regina falters, heart skipping a beat, as her eyelids even flutter a little whilst she tries to recompose herself as best as she can, then.

“I - I love you, too, you - you know I do, Y/n, I-.. c’mere,” she coos gently, as she carefully eases you into another of her delicately soft embraces.

You falter, in an instant, melting into her soft warmth, as she smiles softly, burying her face into the crook of your neck as she draws in a soft breath of your sweet scent.

“I just-.. I wish we could stay like this; I wish we didn’t have to go back inside when the-”

And, of course, as untimely as ever, the bell rings out just like she’d been predicting it would soon.

“Shit,” you murmur again, and she sighs heavily, before tightly shrugging as she holds you carefully at arms’ length again.

“I probably should have kept my mouth shut, huh?”

You can’t help the soft smile that plays on your lips again.

“Would maybe have been a better thing to do,” you corroborate a little more playfully, as she pouts a little, and your heart stutters faster than it ever really had before.

“We, erm - we’ll see each other again later, right? You - you’ve got a different class, if - if I remember correctly, maybe?”

She recalls, as you wince, your heart sinking again, before you nod softly, determined, and she relaxes again, not sure what else to do, as she reluctantly looks back toward the back entrance, sighing softly - she knows she has to go, but she isn’t about to part from your side again before she gently kisses you, and you melt into her soft touch again.

You’ve never been this breathless before.

Never felt this alive before.

It’s the best thing you’ve ever felt - you guessed that was maybe why it hurt more to have to part from her again, as you timidly wave back at her as she disappears back into the main building of Northshore High again, and you’re about to make your way to the other, until someone unexpectedly rounds the corner, as you stagger back a little, evidently startled.

The unfamiliar smirked, like he’d caught you in a trap, as you scowled, trying to recompose yourself.

You knew what this was, of course you did.

You were being ambushed, and it felt more familiar than anything else ever really had before.

You tensed up, subconsciously shaking your head, but you didn’t want to show any of your possible attackers that you were scared, as you stepped back just slightly, hands trembling, before you finally managed to coax your voice back out.

“This was Shane’s doing, right? You’re working with that asshole, aren’t you? Aren’t all of you? I’m surprised he even has friends, or maybe he’s paid you to do his dirty work, huh? Well, let me tell you something - you might have won, this time, but I’m not giving up; I will fight back if one of you even tries to-”

And that’s when you feel something colliding with the back of your head as you falter, your ears ringing more than the clanging sound did, as you staggered down onto your knees, but it wasn’t enough to completely knock you out, as you lifted your head again, already feeling blood running down your skin.

You wince, just a little, as you’re shoved down onto your front, and all you can hear is the rush of blood in your ears, as one of them decides to speak, saying something like ‘you messed up big time, you little freak’, and before you can even try and speak again, you’re knocked out on the ground, and hardly able to breathe regularly as you falter in place, and the last thing you try and mouth is Regina’s name, as you lose consciousness, and all you can see is the stars dancing behind your eyelids as you slowly begin to stir, and are invaded by a pair of two intensely bright and dancing lights again.

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Thank you so much for reading, guys!

I hope you enjoyed it, and are looking forward to the next one!

I will ensure to get this uploaded onto the Regina George Masterlist, as well as posted onto ao3, at some point!

*I’m taking a short break from ao3 at the moment due to some recent occurrences, but will try and get back onto it if anything does end up sadly happening to Tumblr somehow, or if I just decide to start posting what I’ve done on it again before that can end up happening perhaps!

Until then, I hope you all have a lovely rest of the day/night, and I look forward to seeing you again, soon!

For now, however, I have been - as usual,

And as always,

Your ever faithful, H.H.

Until the next time, guys! 💜

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[lettersfromaplatypus]

It is taking me an embarrassingly long time to watch season 4 but here’s some episode reactions so far that nobody asked for (keeping in mind I was mildly spoiled just by being on tumblr)

Ep1: I was kinda on board for a few minutes until people started treating Klaus’s mental health issues like they were things he should just get over. His fear of germs is basically brushed aside and made fun of, they pressured him to go to places he SPECIFICALLY said would probably trigger him, he’s been sobering up but when he mentions this he gets brushed off or made fun of again AND THEN THEY STRAIGHT UP HAD HIM DO A SHOT AGAINST HIS WILL?? What the fuck that’s not funny and quirky humor that’s at best cringe and at worst is insulting.

Also I know from what people have been saying what is about to happen with this “Diego thinks Lila is cheating on him” thing and like… why couldn’t it have just been that?? It would have been frustrating, but they could have used it to laugh like “wow Diego you dummy” and it wouldn’t be purely creepy character assassination! You know it’s bad when I’m rooting for the “thinks their spouse is cheating” sub plot.

I did like seeing items from when they were the Umbrella Academy in the first season/as kids that was fun. And where did Sloan go? Did she die? Haven’t seen any mention of her but honestly am not that sad about it. Luther’s character keeps doing 180s but at least he’s nice in this turn?

Ep2: ok I have to admit that Luther getting gorilla-body back in the middle of his strip tease was actually funny to me. Same with Diego finally throwing packages well. Still hate this Ben for spiking them. It’s interesting how their powers came back and made them sick/out of control. Limp tentacle Ben…no.

KLAUS DIDNT DRINK IT YAY GOOD FOR HIM. Ok Viktor go off I like that he snapped at Ben. Ok, don’t hate me but… family road trip in a goodwill scooby-doo van with all but one member sick af, rolling down a road with Baby Shark playing in the background… THAT’S funny. The vomiting I could’ve done without.

Well fuck… the dilemma of Klaus not wanting his powers back but them doing it to save his life… god why. And what’s up with this girl?? Also their powers got upgraded? Is Luther bullet proof now? Why does Lila have laser eyes when her thing was mimicking others?

OH AND THE TIMELINE THING? I assumed this was a thing where there’s only one timeline, and each time they fucked with it it messed everything up— like trying to go back and fix things makes it worse because they’re only working with one timeline in one universe. That’s why Five ran into his past self who was about to go back in time to save his family during season 2. But then Five gets on the subway and apparently can go to different timelines? Which means that they just have to get back to their own? But wouldn’t that one still have future apocalypse?

[batsplat]

what to think of motogp and wta's new logos

what to think indeed

I don't know anything about graphic design, so these are all extremely uninformed opinions. I thought this piece on the race was really helpful (to me, who again doesn't know shit) in explaining some of the practical reasons for the motogp rebrand - and I imagine some of the reasons are broadly applicable for the wta too. like, yeah this does make sense

which I don't feel like was. as much a problem with the old wta logo

idk man. I get the player adds a more cluttered visual element, but the atp logo also still as one of those. iirc this logo has also only been a thing since 2020, so it's not like in the motogp case where it's literally been around forever. you can detach both the text and the symbol and use them on their own. I kinda get why motogp needed a new one more than I do with the wta,, like okay, the wta is defo in a worse state than motogp but I'm not sure the REBRAND is gonna fix anything

setting aside the actual justification for the rebrand... I don't really like either of them. it just looks extremely generic! again, I think the piece from the race was good for explaining WHY this happens --

-- but the thing is, right, I am not a shareholder in motogp and don't actually need to care how commercially smart this change is. I think sometimes there's this thing where you dislike somebody and you then get told 'well you just don't know that there's industry-specific reasons for why it's Like That!!' and it's kinda. okay, that's good information to have, but I have taken in that information and I still don't like it. logos in general have been getting more generic and, sure, maybe that makes sense for commercial reasons, but sometimes you've got to free your mind from your inner capitalist and just. dislike stuff. I don't want all my sports to look like they're trying to sell me vegan soup

also, while I can claim no real nostalgia for either the wta or the motogp logos, to me this is still like. the intro I will always associate with motogp

the champions tower is one of the cooler branding things motogp has going for it, and the link with the chequered flag just makes it neat and distinctive and on-topic. idk, SURELY there was a way to just integrate this one visible design element into the new logo in a way that still makes it work for the internet age etc etc? I'm not a graphic designer (clearly) so I don't have any great suggestions, but even if you're just making the 'o' have a chequered flag or whatever idk. I don't like this trend

coming back to the wta, we do obviously have to address the elephant in the room - they've changed colours. idk man, the problem with the wta rebrand is I associate that logo with the wta even more than I did the old motogp one with motogp. and I do associate purple with the wta. idk WHY they've made the switch.... I do kindaaaa have time for the argument that 'men's tennis blue women's tennis purple' is maybe kinda dated colour coding. I'm a big fan of the colour purple in isolation, but also I don't necessarily hate moving away from that. that being said.... don't go GREEN, the atp challenger tour is GREEN. now I know they have also recently had a rebrand --

-- but in everybody's heads, that shit is still green!! I watch challenger events, plenty of tennis fans do and even if you don't you do still have a sort of... vague awareness of them. why green?? okay so you can't take blue because the atp's got that, no purple, I'm guessing no red on similar gender coding grounds. I personally would have gone for orange. and in general, obviously the larger issue is that announcing you're going to do a big change a RADICAL new step a huge overhaul and then it's a fucking COLOUR change is like. my brother we are in crisis mode here I think you're gonna have to do better than that

anyway. why does everything just need to look more boring nowadays

can we not at least keep the triangle 'a' with the tennis ball!! could we not have kept the 'a'!!

misc complaints:

what does 'rally the world' even mean

nobody is calling it 'mgp'

don't like that that's in the social media pfp's now... with the wta I do need a bit longer to see about how I feel about the graphics in practise. but also, at the end of the day, I don't care THAT strongly. I have zero real investment in motogp's long-term health, I DO have a lot of investment in women's tennis' future but also it's not going to live or die by this logo change. I will miss both of the old logos and broadly preferred them to what we have now

anyway.

[shinysamurott9]

2024 Games: Mega Man X6 Tweaks

After playing X5’s improvement project, I felt it was only fair that I give X6's a go as well. X6 Tweaks is a sort of like a custom tweaks patcher allowing you to alter several elements of the game to your liking, including how the characters play, certain specific elements of level design, elements of the game’s presentation and a lot of stuff being tracked under the hood.

Before going into that though I feel I should talk about my opinion on base X6.

I hate it.

I really do not like base X6. I have played a majority of the side scrolling Megaman games, not all of them but most of what could be considered main series games and I genuinely feel X6 is the worst Megaman game, of the one's I've played at least, I've heard many bad things about BN4. But with X6 itself I feel like there were a lot of good ideas and some genuinely fun things to mess around with, but between the massively inconsistent difficulty, poor executions of it's ideas like the Nightmare Effects, bad design decisions with things like the secret boss areas and all armour pieces being required to use an armour again and of course it's infamously bad level design. Any good or sensible idea X6 had, is ultimately either undermined, falls over itself or is lamented for being stuck in this game.

So what exactly does Tweaks do to fix these issues?

In short, quite a lot while also adding a number of miscellaneous additions for fun and QoL, but at the same time, not doing much to fix arguably X6's biggest issue.

With my playthroughs, for the overall important changes, I opted to disable the Nightmare Blindness, leaving the other nightmare effects on. Aside from that, I activated incomplete armours, made it so the Exit Stage button was always available, unlocked aerial moves like double jumps and dash, fixed the translation, added the custom mugshot graphics, and tweaked the damage tables to make a few things more tolerable, like the donuts.

These changes did do a lot to make X6 more tolerable which did allow it's better qualities to shine through. The game is a lot more open with your routing, probably at least in part because every stage needs to be revisited anyway. The armours are fantastic, I'd argue they're some of the best armours X ever got and with the updated script, I can at least appreciate what the story was attempting. The script does even have some stuff that is genuinely interesting or funny.

Nightmare Zero actually has lines that read like he is Wily, I genuinely did not know that til now.

MF actually pulled the "I got better" card,cannot believe this.

Zero canonically hates puzzle games lol

They even added unique dialogue for Zero in the intro stage and against Nightmare Zero should you use the cheat to unlock him from the start which is a fantastic touch.

Some other fun additions include letting you change the Ultimate Armour’s palette to any of the three from the PS1 Trilogy as well as a fixed version of the X6 colours to match the portrait and a colour palette for the Legacy Collection Ultimate Armour which I think was updated to make it look better.

Unfortunately, at it's core the game us still X6 and it's main issue, the level design is still very much a problem. Scaravich is still a random layout , leaving the armour, boss portal and heart tank up to RNG. Mijinion still has his really annoying secret area, and his main area still throws literally everything at you, and of course, Heatnix is still just donuts. Would you believe me if I said someone actually told me they thought this was not only fun, but better than an actual level? Course the Gate stages are still just as bad too, but hey you can actually beat them without parts now. Bringing Shadow Armour to Gate is actually a reasonable idea now, as one of the few changes the hack does make to level design is adding a platform to the infamous jump. An air dash for No Armour and Shadow Armour is also available.

Sadly, like X5 Improvement, the hack ultimately does very little to fix the overall level design and the more problematic sections. But to be clear, I can't really blame the hack creators for that as the only real solution would be to just completely scrap the existing levels and completely redesign them from scratch, something well beyond the scope of a rom patch. So overall while it is an improvement over X6, I'd really only recommend it to someone who's familiar with X6, the bullshit it throws at you and the ways you can cheese it.

I'd say it helps the stromg qualities of X6 stand out enough to get B tier, but a pretty low B if I'm honest

[starkraivennemad]

Sins C7: We Got Some Issues That We Need To Solve

Alpha Saoirse O’Reilly would normally not blow past all of Jim Moriarty's people like that. She did not like having to push her Alpha presence in his office, where ‘Moriarty' was the top dog. Also, she would typically check to ensure she wasn't disrupting anything of import.

But Jim had been actively avoiding her. 

And that was never a good sign. So, she'd had to start asking people.

That was when she realized the others in the Top Tiers were also actively avoiding her. 

Jim avoiding her when something was wrong was one thing. Usually, that meant he had reverted to the rather childish attitude of 'if I can fix it before they catch on...' everything would be alright - specifically, no one would ever know. Mind, he was one of the few people smart enough, sneaky enough, and determined enough to make that work, but it was still a bad habit of his.

And once she realized that Rohaan and Franklyn were also avoiding her?

Oh, she knew for certain then her favorite little fucker of an omega had gotten himself not just in trouble, but * Real Trouble TM*.

Not one of his lower-tier people knew what was going on. That was partially expected. If SHE didn't know, they sure as hell would not, but sometimes, enough of a rumor trickled down.

Unfortunately, this was not one of those times.

Speaking casually with some of the lower tiers gave her just enough to realize she had to skip the middle tiers and go straight to the second-tier people in the office. They were Jim’s second-tier people for a reason. It would not be easy to get information out of them, but they would know if something might be out of sorts, even if they did not know precisely what. 

It pissed her off to be forced to do so, but needs must.

She started using the tricks that everyone kept forgetting about, namely putting aside her 'Alpha' and being sweet as sugar: asking if any personnel changes had happened lately, unusual travel, and all of that...

Sure enough: Jim had thrown out one of his usual fuck toys in really bad condition, and the sniper- Moran- had been thrown to the wolves (or, in this case, thrown to Jim). They had spent a suspiciously long time together, which sounded like trouble right there, and everything went topsy-turvy from there ? Somehow Moran was in the doghouse and was being sent away on multiple, honestly bullshit missions. Missions that any of the lesser tier snipers could have handled instead of sending his best personal guard away.

Saoirse thought about it and looked at the timing... If Jim had not liked the man's attitude in bed, he would have killed him... but he locked himself in… ... with an Alpha...? For THREE days?

Oh, fucking hell - he had an unplanned Heat?  And locked hisself in with an Alpha? The poor lad likely had no clue! And for that long?

James Moriarty planned his natural heats to avoid exactly this scenario. He planned them with the only alpha he trusted not to take advantage of him - namely, her. She started feeling sorry for Jim and then froze…

The only reason he'd be acting like a damn idiot after would be if… No… But why wouldn’t he…?

It was at the point of being insulting. After nearly a month of avoidance, Jim left her no choice but to show her alpha.

Someone must have tipped off Franklyn or Rohaan that she had entered the building. If Jim was in his office, one or the other, if not both, was always in their respective offices. They had to be hiding somewhere, leaving security and the second tier to deal with her, which made it obvious both had been expecting this showdown with Jim sooner or later and were trying to delay it.

And with that, the sugar sweet was gone.

Now she was MAD.

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[firestormmaidenanddragon]

Del the Builder - Can He Build It? Yeah, Maybe.

So, when I've not been here, I've been on Minecraft, specifically my old Achievement City world which I created back in the PS3 version and haven't touched proper since it got transferred to Bedrock Edition because of how the game auto-expanded the boundaries and overwrote/deleted some of the builds I had, meaning I had to fix or move them.

But my reason for playing has been to get rid of some non-AH builds while adding actual AH builds I could have done but didn't for whatever reason, and so far, I've added Lava Wall, Giant Creeper, Kerplunk, Hot Foot/Hoof/Cree-Plunk, Warlords, Joust, Dart Toss, and a proper homage to the King series pre-PC move where mods/modded worlds were used for what two Kings happened hidden at the top of Geoff's house instead of having the Indoor Pool.

I've still got some builds to go, like OG Creeper Soccer and the giant pig & sheep, some of it is just dependent on if it's Redstone-heavy since even following the Let's Builds, Things To Do, or the Let's Plays they appear in, not everything is shown on screen.

But one problem I have, aside from trying to figure out size and scale of stuff, is one that's down to my world, most of it is snow, and with how snow works now, it just piles up and is more and issue than ever, since I've have no way of keeping things like the AH logo free of snow-piling up without changing it to be carpet over Glowstone or Sea Lanterns.

What non-snow areas I do have, I don't want to touch, since the idea when I brought it over to PS4 and met the squad I generally do stuff with was that it'd remain untouched for the sake of streams, which only happened twice, everyone gave up on Shopping List and King simply didn't have enough people to play

Maybe once I'm "done", I'll try and make a video tour in the style of the world tours they did for 2013 and 2014 just to show what I have, though with some builds, I do take some minor creative liberties to fix or style up some things, like Lava Wall's respawn corridors or Twelve Tower's misplaced Tower of Pimps.

[alexandrium]

how does morphine work bc when they gave it to me at the hospital I fucking hated it. Like it didn't do anything but make me nauseous. I stopped pressing the button for it and it made me feel so much better. Like the pain was being managed fine by the ibu/tyl they were giving me. I just wanted off of the magnesium, morphine, anything IV related just bc I wanted to see my baby. And they weren't letting me. I wonder if part of it is just how bad I wanted to see him in the NICU. I didn't see him until he was like 2/3 days old.

and then they prescribed me codeine to take home with me and I've been scared to take it like what??? the most I've needed is the 600mg ibu they gave me.

[horizon-verizon]

I mean... Of course, Cersei hates Robert, he routinely rapes and beat her. It wouldn’t be a problem if Robert was only a cheater, he’s a wife-beater and rapist.

*EDITED POST* (3/3/24)

I assume that you are talking about this recent REBLOG I just put up about Rhaegar, Elia, Lyanna, and Tywin.

The entire point(s) of that post was to:

point out how Rhaegar's cheating was not the cause of Elia and their kids' death.

argue against the idea he was entirely or mostly responsible and also want to say that the entire dynasty's collapse was only caused by his infidelity. That such a thing could be caused by such.

argue some people have conflated Victorian (a hyperbole) family values of fidelity or their own personal past with a bigger, interconnected political condition that was a maelstrom in Rhaegar's case. While ignoring his concerted attempts to even get rid of his own father before.

argue that some people think that somehow, just staying with Elia would have prevented her death, or that it was easy to ascertain that Aerys and Tywin and everyone else would act as they did if we were him -> as I already listed in that post.

And this is what I said about Cersei:

The text never once explains or indicates how Elia herself feels about Rhaegar or Lyanna, but we have people claiming that she was emotionally wracked by this? Maybe upset for her reputation or shocked, but we still don't know who this woman was by personality, this all the guesswork based on her heritage, her health and the arrangedness of the marriage itself. One also cannot claim that she was something like Cersei was/would be, feeling totally humiliated, jilted of a perfect and glorious life, hating Rhaegar, etc. Nothing in the text gives strong evidence of that.

She is not only hateful towards Robert because he beats and rapes her (completely justified); she hates him for treating her as second place to someone she sees as inferior to herself and someone who "stole" Rhaegar from her. BUT she is hateful toward Robert & compares him to Rhaegar specifically bc for years she has wondered what life would have been like for her if she married Rhaegar instead of this man who she thought would at least appreciate her for the qualities she's told to have/be the best for a woman...but instead gets an abusive, self-deluded man who lusts for a girl who never even liked him AND was not the idea of a "perfect" woman to Cersei, but is still her competition for male favor (a woman's political key to access to power).

(*I must bring a more nuanced point about this, though and note that aside from Robert whispering some other girl's name on their wedding night, Cersei also has had an issue with not "measuring" up to the masculinized standards of competent personhood, so Robert's revealing that he wants and continues to want Lyanna over her pokes at Cersei's deepest insecurity.

GameofThronesHistorian on TikTok notes how Cersei expected to marry Rhaegar after Tywin dumbly got her hopes up and she spent a lot of her time fantasizing about being with him and being Queen but he marries Elia, Aerys basically insults the entire house along with Tywin, and her hopes are dashed along with a bit of her pride ostensibly (nobles get a lot of their pride from their house identity). She finally gets to be Queen (the position dangled in front of her like a prize since childhood, snatched away, and now she "has" it back), but she discovers that the queenship doesn't make up for Robert's clear preference for the same girl "her" Rhaegar got himself supposedly killed for.

When Cersei married Robert she expected to finally overcome the haunting legacy both girls left behind her own insecurities & ruined hopes. When she actually gets to be Queen, she discovers that this thing she thought would "fix" everything, assure her longlasting dignity and power. and that was been long promised to her cannot make up for the slight Robert gives her and thus traps her in a marriage that quickly becomes abusive.

For someone like Cersei, who grew up hearing that she is the most beautiful person around while having almost nothing for herself other than that and later being queen as Tywin always promised to her name [bc her patriarchal society affords way less in terms of prestige, value, and recognized respect to women as it does men & boys AND makes physical features comparatively final measure of worth for girls and women], it's not that hard to see that Cersei's feelings are not baseless or totally irrational. Her already existing insecurities mushroomed into a plague that also sharpened her need to be "perfect" and counteract the feeling of never measuring up. Therefore, her classist-generated need to self-empower evolves into her stomping on others to get power and the self-satisfaction always distant from her.*)

Neither her feelings nor Catelyn's for Robert/Ned cheating on them are things one could automatically guess are the exact same as Elia's toward Rhaegar being with Lyanna. Even without the beating/raping, because they are unlikely to be similar women w/exactly the same experiences.

I say this to point out that Cersei, while definitely being a victim of domestic abuse, still has a specific personality, history before him, and expectations of herself from her class position and gender. From those expectations, an idea--and the need to constantly reaffirm that idea bc of how little room it leaves one for developing a constant sense of self apart from it--of her exceptionality. Cersei is a NLOG and very much by a social-inspired inner compulsion.

What we know about Elia apart from her having kids and being married to Rhaegar comes from Oberyn and her Martell family members. And we get barely much from there (compared to other characters) aside from how she had had her own mind (her voicing her desire against a potential match by his farting). We have her in her early/mid-teens at the Lannisters wanting to see baby Tyrion and thinking/acting like she thinks him cute and witnessing child Cersei pinch baby Tyrion's penis (which already shows us a deep resentment against male privilege at such a young age and how it turned to who her father blamed for the absence of her mother). We don't have a PoV from Oberyn, so we get a few sentences of his feelings towards her in dialogue and dialogue is not as rich as the direct inner thoughts of characters. He does not have a reflective view of who Elia was as much as current/adult Ned Stark for Lyanna (who had PoVs) because he's focused on revenge. Even Ned could have thought more about other things that showcased Lyanna's personality independent of her engagement to Robert, but Oberyn seemed much more aware of who Elia was than Ned with Lyanna.

We don't know who adult Elia really is like we do Cersei, just her position, she was sick most of the time, and that she was Dornish. We do not get her life with Rhaegar, we do not get details nor suggestions in-text of her dynamic with Rhaegar as much as we get with him & Lyanna.

In a Con, GRRM has reportedly gone on to state that Elia and Rhaegar's relationship was "complex". Does this mean that there was affection but a mutual understanding that there was no deeper romance? Does this mean that if Elia were healthier, she would want to develop one with him? Either way, would she want it to be monogamous or not? Again, she's from Dorne, she's more likely to be more okay with it being an "open" marriage AND it being known Rhaegar has a side lover as she has enjoyed more body autonomy and a stronger sense of her own political autonomy from childhood.

But while she is Dornish, after she married Rhaegar she had to live in a nonDornish court in a nonDornish region while raising children, knowing that a man versus a woman having extramarital lovers are treated very differently. [a fuller explanation by dwellordream HERE]. For her own image and social standing, would she want him to be discrete even more than if they were just minor nobles? Or is she secure in the knowledge that her kids will always inherit before any of Lyanna's bastards (would she be, how likely is this) and de-prioritize how bad Rhaegar's cheating makes her look for her own safety (she nearly died the last time she gave birth)? We simply don't know for sure, even though I believe that Elia knew about Rhaegar and Lyanna bastard and wasn't against it.

this is essentially just a reception, so you could scroll past if you need. I basically free-write these things.

The answers to all these questions for Cersei are too obvious. We have Cersei's PoVs and her interactions with multiple people with both PoVs and with none--either dead or still alive by the last published book. And we get her own PoVs to draw her motivations and psychological processes and make better, credible conclusions.

Cersei's Lannister self-defensive-exceptionalist mindset feeds into her believing herself to be the paragon of any living woman, especially paramours, and mistresses. That PLUS her own need to have something close to or the same authority and power a man could have in her world, which she buys through sex, giving up some of her agency during some sexual encounters, and making herself NLOG to (mistakenly) gain men's loyalty or at least obedience to her commands. All of which is always in flux and depends on the person. To repeat myself, she very much cares about and is emotionally dependent on her nobility, her titles, her rank, her Lannister name, etc to accrue power for herself to her own detriment and to the abuse of others, which worsens or gains justification under Robert's abuse.

On the other hand, Cersei, her whole life, has been externally defined through a sexual lens. Yes, even in childhood. Sex and reproduction. She isn't a "whore" or a "slut" for then using what people used to objectify her into a weapon or device for her own intentions when she has learned that that is a direct way of accruing others' interest in her own and her kids' advancement. Cersei, while loyal & protective to her children, also--from her own experiences with powerlessnes from her gendered value in her family and society--tends to be less patient with them and be less able to address their emotional distresses. She seems abusive towards at least Tommen. And yes, in a feudal world, one can gain much political power & resources through their kids' claims and/or positions of power -> Tommen or Joffrey were kings and she could be Queen Dowager/Mother, the highest female rank a noblewoman could have...at least how GRRM wrote Westerosi society.

This is the crux of her motives: she learned that power-as-masculine AND power = male sexual dominance. Unlike the Tyrells, who have a better grasp of using both actual soft power and hard power (mostly yhr first) to maintain social dominance, Tywin is more the silent, golden rock that intimidates you into following him. Power, she learned from her father, is less diplomatic and more forceful and fear-inspired, violent, physical, and from Robert, sexual. All traditional qualified as masculine and assigned to men, who are given the privilege to hold/lead armies and wield weapons in battles:

In medieval times a woman could not bear arms; therefore a woman could not take on a role which, even symbolically, required her to carry arms. In medieval times a woman who took on an overt military role was an aberration. Lyon, A. (2006). "The place of women in European royal succession in the middle ages."

From childhood, she absorbed this ideology and "decided" to essentially prove she was "not like the other girls." And the loss of her mother to childbirth, how her father never truly coped, would have had her rush to gain his love, and when that didn't work, to gain his respect. But she is female, so Tywin never will. She learned that being anything "feminine" is inherently "weak", and so she tried her entire life to differentiate herself from the "weak" women around her. Cersei is the ultimate NLOGs.

She gave up her sexual agency for her children (yes, the same ones who she abused at one point) to shore up defenses for their/her own position and safety, as she wouldn't in a hundred years have sex with some people willingly if it did not come with the expectation of their support, resources, etc. Class/masculinity-perceived-through-hypersexuality is to her, strength even as it puts her at a disadvantage as a woman, as she's that much more open to scandal if the odds go out of her favor and the Lannisters lose much of their power and the others' fear of them.

She imagines herself as Robert/in the male/"dominant" position (she herself imagines that position as male, the place of power she internalized as prime her whole life) when she's sexually rubbing and fingering Taena of Myr. She continues to finger her painfully despite Taena protesting in pain, thus herself becoming a sexual abuser so she can feel the power and defy Robert/men. Power that she learns directly resides in using sexual ties or performing sexual abuses. Taena also, as Cersei's "spy" on Margarey, and as one far beneath her rank, is also a person who acts as socially lower than Cersei herself, which feeds into Cersei's ego. So Cersei banks much of herself and self-worth on her class to a dangerous fault.

She has basically felt compelled to buy into that exceptionalism at full speed to compensate for her lack of power and feelings of inferiority from that lack. Cersei is rather a pretty complicated woman, while also being very simple. Her class position as aristocratic and Queen Dowager/Mother and her desire for power in the aristocratic space are directly related and inspired by her long sexual objectification. This is where gender and class intersect. Her hatred of Robert is obviously justified and comes from her long struggle to gain and keep autonomous power from men; that doesn't mean that she also doesn't eventually use her class and internalize female inferiority as her final crutch.

Cersei's personality and her abuse from others and against others are two related and unique things informing each other from her young childhood, especially evidenced by her thoughts and actions of her youth before she married Robert, how her father & those others around her treated her, and her observations of the events before Robert rebelled concerning women's abilities. Elia is, by contrast, a silent victim so it's easier to project a lot onto her the way it isn't for Cersei. Or Catelyn.

Even with the societal setup of misogyny put up against her since birth and her trying to collect power for herself, the consequences of how she does it, the carelessness of it, and the losing control of her impulses are going to be reasons for her downfall anyway.

[zukuist]

𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞

200 followers special

includes: multiple characters (would add more tags but.. i reached 30 ;;)

your name is shortened to y/n, they/them pronouns

notes: thank you for 200 followers! this isn’t really going to be that long, but im just doing the characters i really like so ;; ALSO I MIGHT’VE GOTTEN KIRI’S ENTRY A LITTLE WRONG so ugh sorry ;;

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shouto todoroki

— THE OBSERVANT SIMP

from the start, he’s quite oblivious to certain things, (social ques, signs of romantic interest, etc.)

but when he’s observant with someone, then that totally means you’re special to him. does he realize how much he pays attention to you? hmm.. maybe?

he’s going to be the first one that notices you’re hungry, even if you don’t realize it yourself. he’s quick to grab a snack and break it open to you

same thing with being thirsty— if he notices that your water bottle is empty, he’ll quickly find the nearest vending machine and buy a bottle.

temperature is also no problem. he can immediately tell whenever someone’s cold; but he usually helps you first

too hot? he’s slowly putting down the room’s temperature

too cold? his left palm starts emitting some sort of heat in your direction, hoping it creates some sort of aid

if your shoelaces are undone, and/or he notices that there’s a button undone on your shirt— he’ll fix it for you

will ask to take your pictures on dates, and he’ll also help you pick out the best photo (not that any photo of you is short of any beauty)

in short— people will notice that he’s actually a big simp for you; because of how observant he is with you specifically.

katsuki bakugou

— THE TSUNDERE SIMP

just because he’s simping for you doesn’t mean he’ll treat you any differently. bakugou will be bakugou, and you eventually learn how to adapt to that.

but even so, his simp habits slip out sometimes.

when he’s cooking, he’ll accidentally make too much to eat, and he’ll coincidentally put the extras in another box and hand it to you

he’s a good student, even with studies. but would he say he’s a good teacher? hm. probably not

but if he notices you need help, he’ll sigh, feining annoyance as he decides to tutor y’all, because those ‘idiots’ are hopeless

rolls his eyes when he sees food on your cheek, but he’ll grab a tissue and wipe it off for you— claiming how you’re so messy.

he’ll act like he hates hearing your ‘annoying ass singing’ but he’ll lean against the doorway and listen to you rock out to whatever song you’re singing to.

denki will call him a simp for looking after you, and bakugou will just yell at him to “SHUT UP” >:T

he secretly likes taking care of you. his words aren’t the softest thing in the world, but his actions make up to it.

izuku midoriya

— THE DETAILED SIMP

as katsuki bakugou would call him; he is a nerd

he definitely meant that as an insult, but his input on detail makes it very useful in things like relationships

he remembers every detail of your quirk, your limits, potential secret moves.

it would’ve been stalker-ish, if it weren’t for the fact that deku does this out of admiration for his s/o

so if you so happen to collapse due to overusing your quirk— deku has a detailed plan on what to do. it’s almost scary.

he puts detail in a lot of things, anniversary gifts, birthday gifts, and so on.

deku’s also the type to plan things weeks before it actually happens. like.. planning out the perfect birthday gift

and with this, his memory is really good. so it’s very unlikely that he’ll just suddenly forget anniversaries and birthdays.

i hc deku as a bad cook, so he eats takeout food more than his homemade food

but he’s takes note of your allergies, your dislikes with food— and he finds himself mumbling small details to recall what you like

when you walk out in pretty/good outfits for dates

his face will break out into shades of red— suddenly rambling all the good details of your outfit, complimenting you while he’s at it

“y/n’s looks fantastic as always. i might die from their beauty”

if anyone calls him a simp, he’ll be really embarrassed about it. “me? a s-simp? is that a bad thing?”

just tell him it’s fine.

denki kaminari

— THE HYPEMAN SIMP

a big simp

like.. really big

he worships the ground you step on, and hypes up everything you do

y’all know when irene from red velvet literally breathed in north korea, and the crowd just

*claps*

yeah, that’s denki to you

it’s so blantly obvious that he’s simping over someone, and everyone’s just kinda used to it at this point

he’s just a big fanboy sometimes

whenever you’re sparring with someone, he’s always in the background like

“go s/o!!” 🤩

and he has tendencies to go a little easy on you like.. what’s he gonna do when you get electricuted??

but that doesn’t mean he’s never serious— nah.

there are times where he’s just a little bashful just being in your presence

sneaking glances your way, as he silently fanboys about you in general.

“s/o looks really good today. they always look good but !!”

when y’all weren’t together, the bakusquad was just tired of the constant romantic pining

it was really obvious that he was simping back then, and they’re not so sure as to how you didn’t say anything about it

mina always called him a simp

so yeah!! it was a big relief when you got together with him. he never makes you feel terrible, because he’s always your #1 hypeman.

eijirou kirishima

— THE HELPING SIMP (rip idk what to call this)

i didn’t really know what kinda name i went for this one but let me carry on

kiri upfront is very confident, and friendly. he never shows a mean side to anyone,

and there are rare cases of him being bashful

he’s kinda almost like a golden retriever? since he’s always nice and friendly to everyone

but then when you enter the room; he suddenly goes quiet, and he’s left alone with his rather loud thoughts about you

he didn’t really know how to properly approach you at first

but him being kiri, he’s still rather friendly to you (for now)

when he’s messing around, practically sharing one braincell with kami and sero

and then you suddenly walk in— he snaps out of his foolishness, and greet you with his very warm smile

“hey y/n!” he waves at you, and he hopes you don’t mention the teasing look on both kami and sero’s face

sometimes when he’s doing his close combat training, and he notices that he’s getting too close to you

he’ll be like “woah man, maybe we should move locations.” bc he doesn’t wanna hit you by accident ;;

kirishima prefers to not stand near you when his hair is all spiky. like he’s never conscious about it, until he’s around you

man poked sero with his hair before, and he doesn’t want to do that to you

kiri always looks at your hand, just to see if it’s occupied with something. his thoughts linger to what your hand might feel like

“their hand looks really.. soft. argh! i shouldn’t be thinking about these kind of things in public! im sorry y/n”

bakugou really only notices kirishima’s simping ways

bakugou always mentions the fact that kirishima goes really silent whenever you’re around—

and he’s secretly contemplating on having you around more so he can just shut up 。・°°・(＞_＜)・°°・。

moving aside all of that, kiri always carries your things.

you’ll beg him to give you at least one thing, and he’ll say no because it’s “not manly to let someone carry all of this.”

if you’re sad, he’s the first one to cheer you up— reassuring you that everything will be okay.

kiri’s just wants to be at your service at all times! it’s manly to help people, right?

hitoshi shinsou

— THE DISCREET SIMP

no one would be able to tell that he’s simping for someone

because unlike kaminari; he’s not like IM HITOSHI SHINSO AND IM ACTUALLY A SIMP

he’s a lot more discreet, and no one has really caught on, besides you and kaminari of course

he’s a lot less sarcastic with you, asking you about anything that’s happened instead of just being there

he prefers it to hear you talk. the way each word and syllable rolls off your tongue smoothly, and the way you use your hands to emphasize things

he’s amused.

oh and the way he looks at you? almost any normal person can sense the simp in him pop out (he’s so contained though)

he’s definitely the person that’ll get rid of any bug that’s terrifying you— even though he’d normally just leave it to them

he’ll do it, regardless if it’s the biggest fucking spider he’s ever seen, or the smallest spider

he’ll do it to make you feel safe.

he has these random spurs of compliments during the day

the source mainly comes from his staring habit

and they’re just so unexpected and out of the blue. hitoshi’s amused whenever he sees your reaction to his compliments

like.. you could be really frustrated about something, and he’ll just go “your eyes are pretty.” that’s his discreet method tO MAKE YOU TEMPORARILY DISTRACTED FROM THE ISSUE—

call him a simp, whatever. it’s true anyway so he doesn’t why should he be ashamed of it?

he’s discreet about it, since it’s your business and his business. but you can definitely feel his feelings loud and clear

neito monoma

— THE 180 SIMP

“i’m not a simp!”

[you enter the room]

*nervous laughter*

he had his last laugh, and he never thought he’d be this soft around someone.

especially if you’re from class 1-A like.. i became the thing i hated, ugh.

relentless teasing is amped but this is his way of making sure you remember him loud and clear

but he’ll never tease you in a condescending way— like how he torments the rest of class 1-A

that’s reserved for them 💅

always compliments you, that’s the first thing he does when he sees you—

and they’re never generic compliments either

“it’s nice to see you here, y/n! you make the world better day by day!”

“i’m still wondering what you’re doing in class 1-A, you’re much better than them!”

everyone secretly wonders how you got monoma to like you

monoma canonically likes pastels. spread the word

so sometimes, you’ll walk over to your desk— and you’ll just see this random pastel ornament sitting on your desk

you know who it’s from

whenever monoma starts becoming annoying, kendo will definitely use you as a weapon to make him shut up

he’ll be laughing at the expression on his face, thinking he’s absolutely winning at this

but the smile is wiped off his face when he hears “ok go on, i’ll tell y/n about your antics.”

“no, no! i’ll behave now, please don’t tell y/n.”

class 1-b literally use you as blackmail whenever monoma acts up, and it’s because of how different he is around you

like.. his personality takes a 180, (besides the obvious teasing) it’s alarming

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