#bc they're all assholes ://

[seawitchkaraoke]

This is petty of me but there is something darkly satisfying about finally seeing everyone turn on a guy you always thought was a whiny asshole

Like I never followed him but when I got into MCC I very quickly noticed how there'd be arguments about things being "unfair" and how Scott Smajor would get called slurs after every MCC that Dream and his buddies were in and how that notably didn't happen if they weren't in the MCC.

[dirty-droid]

So I played through some more dbh last night and woke up thinking, God, there is a good reason Markus and Kara, and their respective companions never got as popular as Connor and Hank. Literally The Bridge is surrounded by the most *do everything for absolutely no reason* chapters, and there's no comparison.

First the Kara chapter wastes your time, she barely gets any small talk in with Luther, then the car breaks down, then you're just doing tiny tasks, doing a shitty sum up of her story so far when Alice asks you to make one up- they could have done something interesting with that story but they chose not to, literally anything specific anything that would function as a parallel to their journey would have actually had some value. Then you barely start a conversation with Luther, where are you maybe get a hint of his personality before we're back to just talking about the plot and Alice, but then it's over again and you meet the Jerries and you learn almost nothing about them.

It is a chapter where you do nothing interesting, and you learn almost nothing about the main characters, for a downtime chapter, I expect character development and get barely a sneeze of it. There is so much room and so much time for you to really push and question your main characters but it just doesn't get used.

Honestly I think the protagonists all could have probably really benefited from the audience getting to hear their internal monologues if they weren't actually going to talk to their companion characters, but even that would just be a substitute for decent writing.

Either way, after that, we come back to Connor and Hank, who do almost no tasks in this chapter, *but spend the entire time TALKING.* They talk to each other in a constant volley back and forth for the entire length of the chapter and it's probably one of the best chapters in the game, it's certainly one of the most important in their story. You spend the entire bridge scene learning more about Hank and Connor's inner worlds, and how they think, and how they feel, you spend the whole chapter learning so much about their perspectives, this chapter is all about asking the hard questions about both of their individual characters, and the tension is high, it's a straightforward chapter to play, and it really fucking feels like your choices matter here, there will be immediate consequences, not just walking through your environment trying to find the right answer, or being dragged through an interaction. It's just plain good.

And then Markus infiltrates the Stratford Tower, and you get the most boring and useless and frustrating chapter in the game that doesn't seem to serve any purpose beyond looking cool. If Kara's last chapter was only to gain sympathy and create some soft and fuzzy feelings, this chapter is only about looking cinematic. This is probably my least favorite chapter in the game, honestly I've just gotten lost on that yellow ass office floor building too many times, even though I'm very familiar with the game now I still managed to get lost again last night.

I will admit that eventually it does become an opportunity to decide between pacifism and violence but that seems to be the only real development for Markus, and it wouldn't have been hard to make that kind of opportunity in another setting. Because we get next to nothing watching him get past the front desk, or from walking around that floor, just some outfit changes and pretending to be a machine and a little more Android hate in the background, Markus is almost completely silent yet again, there is almost no talking with North once she appears. We actually get more about North's personality here than Markus', she just feels like she has more lines somehow, because sometimes she just talks without it being connected to the plot and Markus never does.

This bit is more speculative, but my fiance and I were going off last night about whyyyy did they have to break into the tower? We're never given any reason for what the steps are and why they are important, just usually pretty important in these mission impossible type scenes, they're usually explaining in a voice-over why they are taking the steps that they are taking. But we get no explanation for why he needs to go to the 47th floor or whatever, No explanation for why he needs to change into a maintenance Android uniform, why North was in the stairwell, how Josh and Simon got in, it's all just handwaved, and whyyyyyy they couldn't have just?? Made a recording and then hacked the station's broadcast remotely and basically just posted the speech? I don't know, it's just a particularly frustrating chapter to play, personally, but it isn't strong.

Either way, you've got two chapters with next to no character development, that just have a lot of empty space and time where the characters could have been talking or could have been doing something else, but didn't because the vibes were more important, sandwiching a simple scene with ten pounds of character development and it just feels weird. And once I noticed it, it just made the Kara and Markus chapters look incredibly weak and poorly written... And conversely, make the Connor and Hank chapter look much, much stronger in comparison.

It's like Detroit become human almost needs it's own type of Bechdel Test, just to show how much they fail Markus and Kara. "Do they talk about something that isn't the plot?"

"Do Kara and Luther talk about something that isn't Alice or getting to Canada?" "Does Markus talk about anything besides his speech for this chapter?" "Does Alice talk at all beyond basic communication with Kara?" "Does Markus or his buddies talk about anything that's not the revolution or just Markus himself?"

... They don't pass a lot.

It's just hard to take these characters above simply *likeable* when they just, don't, ever, talk. There's little to no development for Markus or Kara, and because they've just become deviants, there's hardly any character establishment in the first place, they barely even get the chance to just be flat, because if they don't really know who they are, we don't really know who they are.

Connor and Hank's friendship is more functionally the main plot, more so than the deviant investigation, and for Markus and the team, and Kara with Alice, that's simply just not the case, there is hardly any relationship, they're just in the same boat. This is why Connor got astronomically more popular, and why he and Hank have the staying power that they do.

Markus and Kara just don't ever talk, and Connor does. And I'm fucking mad about it. The amount of time that was just wasted in their stories, I could probably take a damn stopwatch to all the moments where there could have been a little something-something, and nothing was put there. It's not to say Connor doesn't get some quiet moments too but he always gets the chance to make up for it.

Even at the beginning of the Stratford Tower chapter, I noticed that they could have had Simon and North talking about something maybe unrelated when Markus walks up, but there's nothing, only silence until Markus comes in with a plan. And of course we know about every time Luther tries to bring up the fact that Alice is an android, only to be shut down and walked away from. It fucking kills me how much time Mark is has the focus of the camera but it's only so he could look cool for a minute, and share no thoughts of his own, none of his new feelings, everything is only implied and then followed by the action where he is only allowed to be the leader of the revolution and never just Markus. There's a tragedy in that, but they could have driven it home harder by *pointing that out.*

[ohsweetflips]

my neutral dragon age trait is that 50% of the time i'm like "the more i critique the games, the more i love them. i can appreciate each game for what they are but my criticism and frustration over what they could be are a sign of love" and the other 50% is like "this is the writing of the dragon age series. sure. why not. this may as well happen."

[july-19th-club]

yesterday i was like oh no i couldn't possibly try to bull my way through more who rewatch or new material it's simply not feasible ive got too much else going on . but i checked and the last place i left off rewatch-wise was 'age of steel' which of course is a perennial favorite due to the mickey ricky jake of it all so

[chirpsythismorning]

bylers when over 350k people don’t have the exact same thoughts and opinions as them

[funeralprocessor]

God I wish my brain didn't shut down the moment I try to actually write down anything about my OCs/ideas/etc. I've got some freaks knocking around in here y'all would go wild for.

[80r1517m8]

more homestuck oc shit

now that i made this https://www.tumblr.com/80r1517m8/768906760093335552/thanks-for-watching-another-episode-of-clogging-up?source=share which i don't dare to reblog again i thought i should give some info on them twelve

FELKUL

felkul is a mutant bronzeblood (marsblood). they go by they/them pronouns and they are transfeminine. they are a teenager.

typing quirk: no capitalization or punctuation. ("nothing interesting going on")

HIONNE

hionne is a rustblood (rubyblood). she goes by she/her and she is bisexual with a preference for women. she is an adult.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, replaces E with 3. ("I was an auspistic3 most of my lif3, it's only fitting! H3h3.")

ANMIER

anmier is a slut anmier is a bronzeblood (autumnblood). he goes by he/him and is pansexual. he is an adult.

typing quirk: no capitalization or punctuation, replaces O with 0. (sm0ke weed everydayyy)

ERIPYR

eripyr is a goldblood (brassblood). she goes by she/they and they are lesbian. she is an adult.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, replaces O and I with 0 and 1 respectively. ("The 0nly b1nary 1 care ab0ut 1s c0mputer b1nary. B)")

ANAEKA

anaeka is an oliveblood (chartreuseblood). she goes by she/her and is bisexual. she is a teenager.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, replaces S with $. gets really excited talking about money and will sometimes spam currency signs. ("$omeday I'll vi$it Earth and become the riche$t troll of them all!!!$$$")

PERDAM

perdam is also a slut perdam is a jadeblood (aloeblood). he goes by he/him and he is bisexual. he is an adult.

typing quirk: perfect punctuation but no capitalization, except that he capitalizes J, X, and Z. ("i have a certain... affinity for the uncommon.")

XENULO

xenulo is a tealblood (slateblood). they go by she/they and she is a transfeminine lesbian. she is an adult.

typing quirk: no capitalization or punctuation. doubles the letter T. ("i dunno i speak pretttty harshly on accidentt somettimes like itts not inttenttional")

NITOPE

nitope is a colbaltblood (creekblood). he goes by he/him and he is bisexual. he is a teenager.

typing quirk: capitalizes everything, barely any punctuation except for exclamation marks. replaces I with !. ("YOU CAN NEVER TRUST ANYONE EXCEPT YOUR MO!RA!L ! GUESS")

DREEDO

dreedo is a piece of shit and should die dreedo is a blueblood (oceanblood). they go by any pronouns and he is bisexual. she is an adult.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, often doubled consonants. ("I'mm tirred all the ffuckinngg time. Wwhat the hhell do yyou wwant frromm mme???")

TORBAS AND TUSLIN

torbas and tuslin are purplebloods (grapebloods). they are two trolls from one egg. they both go by any pronouns and they are both aroace. they are both adults.

typing quirk: torbas speaks with no capitalization and almost-perfect punctuation (no apostrophes), and replaces o with 0. tuslin speaks in all caps with almost-perfect punctuation (no apostrophes), and replaces I with 1. they often speak together, when they do they speak with alternating capitals (LiKe ThIs) and replace both O and I with 0 and 1 respectively. ("1ND1V1DUAL1TY 1S FOR CHUMPS." "f0r we are 0ne." "0Ne AnD tHe SaMe.")

IAKSEA

iaksea is a violetblood (plumblood). they go by they/them and are a genderqueer bisexual. they are an adult.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, replaces B with 6. ("It's only natural for a cra6 to love the num6er six! :::)")

SILNAH

silnah is a fuchsiablood (tulipblood). she goes by she/her and she is bisexual. she is a teenager.

typing quirk: perfect capitalization and punctuation, replaces S with ~

good fucking night i'm so tired except relationship chart jumpscare

(i edited the image, but if it still shows black feelings that silnah (pink) has please ignore them)

chart goes clockwise in order of blood hierarchy. starts with the bright orange one (felkul)

[sweetnnaivete]

the whole drama with people sending hate to jegulus shippers because they don't like seeing jegulus in the jily tag is so ridiculous... just block the jegulus tag? what do you gain from complaining ??

[mad-hunts]

i like how barton went from being like... a hippie in terms of how he viewed sex in his early twenties, then kind of abstained from it for a few years / became sexually repressed, which... definitely isn't such a good thing. BUT then he became even more of a freak (and i do mean that in the good way this time LOL) around the time he started residency because WOW is that shit stressful. though that was also unfortunately around the time when he really started to spiral as well 😬 but we don't need to talk about that ahahhh

like the way this man learned how to express his sexuality REALLY came full circle in the end considering he was like 'yeah, back in the early days that i was in college, i was a freak. but now i'm not anymore... though do you want to see me do it again anyway?' like 💀 JSJSJ if he weren't so demented, i'd almost be inclined to say good for him, y'all LMAO feeling comfortable with your sexuality and perhaps even having a bit of fun with it (though maybe too much in barton's case, because he literally weaponizes it in order to lure in his victims. BUT once again, we don't need to talk about that right now psshhh. i actually fully intend on talking about that in the tags NGL) is more often than not a good thing after all

[nonuggetshere]

PK: "...Kid..."

PV: "What? I'm just pointing out the obvious."

PK: "You're being a little shit is what you are."

WL: "Well, they're not wrong–"

PK: "Don't enable this."

(ID start: A picture of The Pale King, The White Lady and the Pure Vessel from Hollow Knight as humans. They're all wearing matching golden roses, a pin for Pure Vessel, a hair clip for the Pale King and a corsage for the White Lady. The Pure Vessel has their hand at the head height of their father, laughing about his height with their mother, much to the displeasure of the king. End ID.)

They're making fun of the monochronic manlet

[snekdood]

idg bullies bc if you think someone is committing some sort of social sin... why aren't u stepping in to help them, why are you watching them fuck up? clearly its important enough to you that you try to socially punish the fellow, if this is a social cause you are so very impassioned about, why not help that person not fuck up?

or... did you just want to laugh at someone fucking up? bc at that point you're providing nothing to anyone besides just being an asshole but hey ig some people are proud of their assholes so

[crimson-moonflowers]

Love/s dreaming with people I've blocked in here. Like- brain, I blocked them irl, do the same for my subconscious.

...what I do love is Lia not taking their shit tho AKKFKDKNDNDDNDM

[vettelcore]

people with outdoor cats be like: yes my cat came back home half dead, caught hiv, is full of parasites and sometimes has gone missing for weeks but i don't care bc at least the cat is free and not locked inside like selfish people do!!!

[goldentigerfestival]

I love the vocal nuance in this exchange, but also posting this for my differences posts because this is one of the changes that infuriates me the most. Yuri didn't threaten Ioder, did not threaten him with a weapon, and just said he'd punch him in a lazy, half joking voice (half joking as in, he really doesn't want to hear that - that's just his way of saying so; but that's not the voice of someone who is super angry and threatening).

My other huge grievance is that this is a recurring issue between them in the dub. Yuri is pretty much always vocally rude to Ioder. Ioder has done nothing to wrong him or anyone and has only ever done good for the people where he's able to.

Yet despite Ioder being nothing but sincere, honest and polite with Yuri, in fact even happy to see him here and there, dub Yuri is outright tonally rude to him leading right up this scene where he threatens Ioder in this dark voice. Meanwhile he's actually just supposed to be… lazily telling Ioder he'll punch him in his Yuri Lowell way of saying "I don't want to hear that".

The dub really just wanted to turn Yuri into this dark edgelord and I hate that for my goofy, silly boy.

[jupiter--dream]

(cw vent, sorry it's just been A Couple Of Days)

Not really having many irl friends comes at the price of feeling so terribly lonely, I feel like I have no one to talk to because I'm not close to enough people, or maybe I am and I just haven't talked to them in a while and I don't want this to be our first conversation qwq

I'm honestly just. Tired, tbh qwq

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Tell me why there was a medical emergency on a day where a medical emergency should not have been involved lmao wtf