#because they are sooo apathetic to the people and world around them.

[mortysmith]

doubt ill ever finish this, but ghost and mosca yayyy

[vlly-of-despair]

Ok but like, we need to talk about Alice and the ‘victim’… (spoilers for TMP)

I’ve been kicking around the theory for a little bit in my head now that the Magnus Institute program for gifted children is meant to find children who have an aptitude to act as conduits for the Fears via meditation practices that can transport their consciousness to the ‘Somewhere Else’, aka the layer of reality in which the Fears resign.

I made a past post about this, but for a summery: In the Magnus Archives, the Fears are described as gods from another realm, not necessarily from another universe, but rather in a different layer of reality we usually can’t see or comprehend, but can bleed into our world in the small weirdness of the statements we see throughout the narrative, and humans being able to harness gifts derived from the warped reality of these beings via becoming an Avatar. In the Magnus Protocol, people may channel the powers that may be from the layer of reality through becoming an ‘External’ or by an object, or environment. They categorize cases regarding the Somewhere Else as subjects being viabilities as subjects, agents, or catalysts (see ep 9 as an example of this cataloged on record).

Now, I personally believe whatever the Magnus Institute was cultivating, they wanted to specifically target areas of greater knowledge.

In TMA 127, John describes to Basira the ability to see into the minds of others as:

It’s like there’s a, a door, in my mind. A-a-and behind it is, is the entire ocean.

Before, I didn’t notice it, but now, I – I know it’s there, and I can’t forget it, and I can feel the pressure of the water on it… when I’m around p-people, or.. places, or.. ideas? A drop or two will push through the cracks at the edges of the door. And I’ll… know something.

Now both Sam and Gerard both applied to the Magnus Institute program, but were not accepted. When we saw the ARG Mag Testing sheets from past children’s names, as well as the criteria they ranked the children on, many being less so on their intelligence, but on their empathy, obedience, and conformity. So my best guess is that they find the most obedient children of high intelligence, those who may be able to harbor great ‘knowing’ and ‘seeing’ about the intellectual comprehension of most people, and that are apathetic enough to endure the possible… casualties tapping into the Eldritch horrors may call upon. Then they train them to become figures similar to the Archivist, but to the degree in which they can ‘open the door in their minds’ completely. This didn’t go so well… like at all… taken by the fact that the ‘protocol’ was enacted and the whole institute burned to the ground. Did they open a rift to this dangerous world? Is the OIAR fighting against those who try to push too much of these Outer Gods into our material world? To ‘see’ too much?

Curiously, there is a child in the ARG spreadsheet listing the children involved with the ‘gifted kids program’ with the name Connor Dyer, the same lat name as Alice. Many people, including myself, think this IS Alice and her deadname, prior to transitioning.

So, Alice was involved with the program, and her denial of the fact and urging Sam to stop researching the institute raises some big red flags. Where am I going with this? Well, if we go back to MAGP 15: WELL RUN, we see the victim that approached Gwen being compelled to spill out her fear as she is ‘drowning’ on land, trying to grab Alice as she whispers about seeing an endless, dark sea. Alice’s reaction is sooo interesting to me. At first it seems normal, she sees a dying frantic woman, reacts in panic and calls the ambulance. However, once she sees the tape recorder, she becomes utterly terrified. She says, “ I’m sorry, I can’t-.” And runs.

Alice, what about the tape recorder specifically triggered you so much? Is it because perhaps you remember this scene? Using a tape recorder, as a child in the Magnus Institute program, to document your decent into that same vast ocean beyond our world? Is if because if suddenly clicked what this is, what has happened to this woman, that she was compelled? That her thoughts were spoken with far more clarity after death because her corpse is being puppeteer by a power which unlocks the minds and fears of others beyond their mind alone? Why are you working at the OIAR? And why did you invite perhaps the only other person you know who could have the abilities the Magnus Institute searched for in youth?…

[sailoryooons]

Hali's Ao3 Rec's

Hi hello - in lieu of my Thirsty Thursday reviews that I skipped yesterday, I've compiled a very short list of fics I have read on Ao3 recently that absolutely scrambled my brain, loved them, no notes, want to re-read them again and again. Please make sure you give these authors love, even though some of these stories are old!

Note: These are literally all mem x mem because that's primarily what I use Ao3 to read. These are also in no particular order.

By Any Other Name (halloween 02) by ladypajara

Pairing: Jimin and Namjoon Summary: Namjoon and Jimin are stray demons who have long accepted to ignore their unholy purpose of collecting souls and live life as humans in all its banality. Some few hundred years into it, feelings arise. My reactions: The most lovely character studies, wonderful narrative of two idiots obviously into one another, and probably one of my favorite Namjoons to have ever been written.

Strawberry Dream by ladyddaeng

Pairing: Jimin and Taehyung Summary: Unpresented Taehyung gets his first heat and is assigned a special heat companion. My reactions: WEE WOOO WEE WOOO CALL THE AMBULANCE THIS JIMIN IS LETHAL AND SWEET AND KIND AND CARING AND THEIR DYNAMIC IS WONDERFUL

What Lies Below by Sharleena

Pairing: Jimin and Yoongi Summary: There is a curse that lives in the woods, and a spirit that keeps it at bay. And one sacrifice, born under the right moon. My Reactions: I stayed up until 3:30 am reading this motherfucker. It is beautiful though melancholy at parts, and though it is "horror" in parts, it is a .. gentle, hypnotizing horror, in a way. One of my favorite fics of the year.

The One by nicedress

Pairing: Yoongi and Namjoon Summary: Every stamen lured into Yoongi’s bed leaves him with a new blossom on his skin and a new grave on his property. When he encounters Namjoon, a stamen who refuses to touch any pistil unless it’s his soulmate, all Yoongi sees is someone naive and easy to control. Someone to help around the farm without complaint. Someone to dig holes without realizing they���re graves. Someone Yoongi’s not quite willing to kill—not yet. My Reactions: I read this through and then re-read it because it was so good. It was SO fascinating. There are notes about how the genre of Pistilverse works, but the author does a good job at using the tropes without making it confusing. Also please read the warnings. This made my brain spin for days and I want to do a Pistilverse AU sooo bad after reading it.

Murmuration by fringecity

Pairing: Taegimin Summary: Park Jimin is a rookie detective at the flashiest department in Seoul Metropolitan. When he's tasked to work with Min Yoongi - an apathetic, disgraced cop handling the ineffective cold case division - he doesn't expect the murder case they're working on to turn intensely personal. My Reactions: THIS BROKE ME AND THEN BROKE ME AGAIN AND THEN SCRAMBLED MY BRAIN AND EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IN IS WRONG AND FAILED SO MANY ATTEMPTS AT FIGURING OUT WHERE THIS WAS GOING AND MY BRAINS ARE SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH HOT SAUCE. One of my top fave fics on the year.

Turn Up Your Light by spudcity

Pairing: Jimin and Yoongi Summary: Yoongi needs to secure a marriage to save his people. My Reaction: I've never wanted to smash two character's heads together more and make them kiss than I did in this. The world building is not only fascinating, but these characters are some of my favorites I've ever read. Period.

Forest, Fire by rkiveink

Pairing: Jimin and Jungkook Summary: In a facility creating genetically modified humans for an elite military unit, alpha Jungkook is used to being overlooked. He’s classified as a ‘C-grade’ for his passivity and lack of aggression. When one of the facility’s valuable omegas goes feral, it’s exactly this nature that makes him perfect to try and tame him. But, even the calmest souls catch fire when they have something to fight for. My Reactions: *ripping my hair our* *taking anxiety medication* *crying sobbing screaming* *blood pressure spiking* i love this fic with every ounce of my being. It updates every Sunday and 4/6 chapters are posted currently.

[youremyheaven]

HEYYYY [insert whatever pet name u like] it's ur venus stellium anon from last month.. do u remember me? sorry life happened 🤩 n i've been pretty low energy so i didn't get around to bothering u. I've been looking at yt vids of some of my chart placements lately and i've discovered something funny (along with other developments like me. I've been looking at ur blog the past one or two days a little and I obvs haven't made my way through the whole "backlog" but some silly thoughts:

I didn't know u were bi! For some reason I felt a little awkward talking about this because I didn't want to be That Person lol (aka everyone was talking about guys and I didn't wanna weird anyone out 😔) but my exes were women 😂 supposedly I gave them daddy energy lmfao I hate it because I wanted that from someone. I talked about them a bit vaguely but it might've sounded worse under the assumption of it being a man. (Unless I didn't say much and just forgot)

I've been reading celebrity gossip and only now realised how people - even the most successful - can have it so truly bad when it comes to romance and idk it made me a little apathetic and allergic to it. Not in a "im swearing off of it" way but in a "im no longer going to expect it in my life. If I get surprised, yay for me. Otherwise eh." (my mind's at a weird place though so it'll probably change when other things calm down, don't worry about me 🫶 this is all about the hypothetical future anyway because I'm not looking for a relationship rn)

Sorry u got hate about ur blog. I can understand anon got upset but the unkind language was uncalled for.

I came across the ask about nodes conjuncting big 3 and one of mine does; i can assure u (and the hate anon) that yes, this particular example (me) DOES happen to be cray cray 😭

This is related to the yt vids and point 2: My charts basically say I'll have an okay enough career, but the romance department would be dodgy because I will never be satisfied by anything anyone does for me (to put it shortly) 😂😂 that had me a little shocked at first but then I was like u know what we kinda knew this.. let's just focus on that career instead LMFAO

HARD AGREE WITH U ON THE FLIRTING IN NON-ENGLISH. I gotta be honest I cringe if I hear flirting in anything other than English (I've only ever been exposed to it in that language) but I read a fic (english) once where this man called his lover "meri jaan" and it had me in a DAZE FOR DAYS (excuse the lame pun pls) SO YES I AGREE W U. I've been collecting other little terms (just 1 so far) that I've seen people around me using affectionately and they're sooo sweet.

I HOPE U'VE BEEN WELLLLLL. I'm away from tumblr lately so I probably won't be able to send u asks in the near future but I hope u stay safe and take care of urself 💖💖 BYEEEEE

HEYYY bbg 🥺

I thought this was going to be astrology related but you're just checking in on me 😭😭😭😭and I feel so touched 🥺🥺🥺

1. About being bisexual

I feel like there are definitely different dynamics at play bc I do attract more butch leaning women who want to be my daddy 🫣🙈 but whenever it's a femme x femme dynamic, I always feel like I become the more dominant one and I do kinda hate it 😭😭

It just wears me out to be the giver tbh 🙃 especially because I already assume that role in so many other areas in my life, I just want to sit back and be babygirled 😭😭 this is why despite being attracted to women , relationships with women don't really work out for me 😭😭

it's all a matter of luck when it comes to love and relationships and sometimes things find us unexpectedly.

what I've learnt from some of my recent experiences is that someone can do all the right things, give you princess treatment and all that yet not make you feel anything 😭 so to be physically attracted to someone, emotionally in- sync with them, AND have a healthy relationship,, it's all down to luck 😭

2. not u calling yourself cray cray 😭😭

majority of people in this world are not living happy lives, be it with regard to love, career or family. To even have one of these things going well is a huge blessing ✨and while it's possible to have all of them, it's okay to not beat yourself up for achieving all 3 in one go.

One of my dad's childhood friends, remained unmarried into her late 40s. This is veryyyy unusual in India and she's not from a bougie artsy family where such things are chill or anything either. She, however, had a brilliant career and is a civil servant and rn she's in a veryyy high ranking position because she's worked her way up. Everybody around her pitied her (for being single and childless) but she was just out there making $$$ by the time she hit her late 40s people stopped pestering her because by that point, it's kinda "too late" to settle down. BUT GUESS WHAT HAPPENED??? she met a reallyyyyy cute Swiss-German man who was visiting our state/city and she happened to be the one showing him around?? (someone linked them up basically) and that wonderful meet-cute led them to marriage in like 2 months lol ,,, this lady who had been single for 47+ years found the right guy and married him in less than 2 months???? Isn't that sooooo romantic??? It's all about timing 💛💛 and now they've been together for a decade and spend most of their year travelling the world ✨and are very much in love

So different eras of our life will have us focusing on different things. Rn it's probably best to make that $$$ and focus on yourself. Love will find you when it needs to 💛✨💛

3. About flirting in non-English

JAJAJSJ yess I used to cringe 😬 hearing Desi flirting across languages 😭but now I feel like I've finally decolonised my mind to find it cute 😭

My ex was Tamil and he used to call me "bomma" which means "doll" in Tamil ,, I had a flop talking stage with another Tamil guy who used to call me "Kitty kutty" ("little kitty") and idk if it's a Tamil guy thing but they go hardddd with their affection through terms of endearment

Flirting in Hindi is always fun bc it's all "aapka this, aapka that" (using honorifics) and respect turns me on i guess lmao 🤭🥵 Idk if this is just a Desi thing but yk how men start calling you madam and ma'am 😌yeah I live for that shit 🤭🤭 they'll be like "madam is still getting ready" and I'll be like 😍yes the hell I am 😍😜

4. Thank you so much for checking in with me angel 🥺🥺 I appreciate it and you soooo much 💛💛💛 you're the sweetest

I'll take care of myself 😜 😌and I hope you do as well!!! 💛💛 May the rest of July be wonderful for you ✨

[onlyswan]

The person who mentioned virgo as a sign they can see oc as i totally agree but i can see virgo being their venus sign. There’s a couple virgos in my life, my bestest and longest friend is a virgo sun, my mom and older cousin are virgo moons and two people i adore most in this world that i’d consider family are virgo venuses(can you tell i’m abit of an astro nerd) and from being around them, listening to them and just experiencing them, my analysis is that they are genuine and extremely childlike but more so in a youthful tone not an immature one.

Virgo is ruled by the planet Mercury along with Gemini so they can be just as playful and witty and spontaneous! They want to explore and experience the world and hate the idea of limiting their spirit, but at the same time love is always in their back burner just waiting to be lit up. There’s this purity about them which is why it hurts so much to see them hurt. They do genuinely care for others and take the needs and feelings of others into consideration before they ever choose themselves which is why it takes alot for them to walk away from situations where they are being mistreated.

People tend to associate virgo with just being kind of apathetic and judgy or a neat freak, organized and very specific and picky with certain things and with people but they’re far more complex than that. They sacrifice a lot for those they love and are so thoughtful and nurturing through their actions more than anything. And while they will pamper and baby you, they’ll also hit you with a dose of truth because they want what’s best for you. I’ve always called Virgo an earthy version of cancers because they are so so so sooo compassionate and really adorable sweethearts. Although they outwardly seek passion and affection and good times in their love escapades, deep down they seek strong commitment, reliability and time with people they hold dear.

Though i will say virgo venuses aren’t really straight shooters when it comes to pursuing love so i think oc may have a fire mars in their chart that makes them so spicy and bold when it comes to being flirty and straightforward with what they want lool … butttt still virgos do tend to play shy when 9/10 it’s really a gagg and their real, plethora of other personalities are kinky, reckless, sad, passionate, affectionate, tension filled, rebellious n trauma all in one lmaooo. They’re still the cutest and so endearing and intriguing, you just want to know more

if i were to "diagnose" oc lool, i’d say they’re a cancer sun, maybe pisces moon, leo mercury, virgo venus and leo mars(i’m in between this and sag but also scorpio because they do tend to be bold n upfront too lol) with a gemini rising 😁

Oh! There’s also this thing called a Synastry Chart which is the interaction between two people’s charts and Jk having a virgo moon would conjunct(this is an astro term basically meaning two planets are close to each other) oc’s virgo venus and venus conjunct moon is an extremely cute synastry placement n really lovey dovey… those two are just eternal sweethearts ha! if that sounds a little complicated if you have time you can take a look at this https://www.yourtango.com/zodiac/moon-conjunct-venus-synastry# it explains it pretty well!

Wow this is soooo longg and i didnt expect to go off on such a tangent.. i apologize but just thought i’d chime in too since i’ve had a love for astrology for so long. It’s fun and super complex and it can be accurate but also not.. our environment and way we’ve been conditioned etc influences all this as well so it’s not end all be all. it’s nice reading everyone else’s interpretation of what sign oc may be tho, oc has got lots of fans ! Me included but i think i may be a bigger ART fan 😉 haha take care and keep being beautiful my love 🏹🌠

People tend to associate virgo with just being kind of apathetic and judgy or a neat freak, organized and very specific and picky with certain things and with people but they’re far more complex than that.

tHANK YOU 😭 you should see my face every time i hear about that stereotype (;—;) it physically hurts my soul lmaoooo

There’s this purity about them which is why it hurts so much to see them hurt.

🥺🥺🥺 oh

Though i will say virgo venuses aren’t really straight shooters when it comes to pursuing love so i think oc may have a fire mars in their chart that makes them so spicy and bold when it comes to being flirty and straightforward with what they want lool

omgggg okay i’m listening

if i were to "diagnose" oc lool, i’d say they’re a cancer sun, maybe pisces moon, leo mercury, virgo venus and leo mars(i’m in between this and sag but also scorpio because they do tend to be bold n upfront too lol) with a gemini rising 😁

writing this down so i have another set of placements to read about aside from mine heheheheh thank youuu so much for your insights it’s very much appreciated 🥺🫶🏼

omg yeah i know about synastry charts !! definitely not bcs i’ve done it with my chart and a few others during my down bad moments haha ha but it’s so freaking cuuuute reading about it in the context of the iw!couple 😭😭😭 MY HEART.

Likewise, the Venus person brings creativity, charm, and goodwill to the connection. They bring out the deep feelings of the Moon person and make them feel safe enough to open up sooner than they usually do in relationships.

THIS PART :(((

it’s nice reading everyone else’s interpretation of what sign oc may be tho, oc has got lots of fans ! Me included but i think i may be a bigger ART fan 😉

CUTIE 🥹🥹🥹 but to me this is just a silly little blog and you are all my little forest friends 🍄 i hold a tea party for every few weeks <3 ilysm <3

[iknowiknowiknowtheend]

please talk about dsmp lore i want to hear lol

okay so. HEAR ME OUT. the villianization of cdream was always a little too much. DONT GET ME WRONG— he was very much a villian and a little freak but people would stress “he’s abusing a child” soooo freaking much and the cwilbur existed prancing around like the freak he is and NO ONE EVVVERRRR brought up the child abuse with him. he employed his little brothers and his son into war. he made them child soldiers. SO HE COULD SELL DRUGS. he waged war with children fighting for him SO HE COULD SELL DRUGS. and everyone was like awww ccrime so cute and I’m like boy ur all crying cdream child abuse and then love wil so much what the hell. Anyway I’ve always been into cwilburs wow he really sucks-ness because I’m such a cfundy stan. dude he was such a fucking awful dad I actually kinda loved it. because that was the point. That he really really sucked. cfundy could never say anything around his dad because cwil would just TALK OVER HIM. I have so many drawings of cfundy where he’s living in his dads shadow or trying to talk to him and getting absolutely fucking ignored and shit. fundy was and would always be fucking fourth in line of importance to whatever cwil would be doing. cwil would be oh I love my son sooo much and then cfundy comes over and can never speak a freaking word. cwil always loved the idea of a child to own and that is his rather than having raised a person to care about. Cfundy is a pitiful daughter of a wretched father and he will ALWAYS be in his dads shadow. cfundy my sweet prince….. the decanonization of trans fundy was so sad btw. but it’s okay it’s still canon to Me. In my head.

anywya to reiterate- cdream still a CRAAAZY bastard but all the shit that was put on him that could also be put into other characters but weren’t was always so annoying. anyway cdream forever I wish he killed everyone or at least made them all go away so he could live in piece on his own land. cdream the eternal… cdream the wild…… he is the earth and you dare steal that ??? no wonder he hates you. Wow.

csbiers we’re kinda crazy all the time so glad I was a cdream team stan. oh my fucked up little trio. munchy forevrr rlly. did you know cbadboyhalo destroyed the world because he loved his husband so much? yeah. imagine being csapnap. ur dad absolutely fucks over the world because he loved ur other dad so much. bruh moment. especially because csap had the biggest fucking always second best issues. miss cgeorge too he was THE WORST!!!!!! I loved him so much. he was the most petulant of princesses he was Awful and I loved him. he was so selfish and apathetic. big war is going on and cgeorge is just off making a house. his house gets burned down a few days later and he goes whining and crying DREEEEEAM TOMMY BURNED MY HOUSE DOWN KILL HIM. and dreams like okaaay george rolls his eyes. cdream makes cgeorge king and he’s like okay. Whatever. Then he complains about it and cdream is like OKAY DONT BE KING THEN and then cgeorge throws the biggest fucking fit about it GOD I LOVED HIM SO…. peolle we’re always so annoying about George lore which was nuts that shit was GOLD. some of it was silly yeah but the blowing up the smp stream was amazing. it was the perfect show for his apathy and selfishness and how he always wanted and wanted and wanted and wanted and nothing was EEEEVER enough for him. he wants dream under his finger forever and hates that they aren’t like that anymore. he wants to kill his friends. he’s jealous of dream and techno so he kills them. he then kills most of his friends for lols. he wants to kill the dragon but ends up killing god instead. well. he tried. anyway the reception to that lore stream was like BUt itS LAme iTs a dREam. dude if he did any of that shit slash real everyone would’ve thrown a hissyfit about it. at least we get to see how fucked up he is for real for real.

how did this go from complaining about biases over ccs influencing outlooks on characters to a cgeorge love letter. that’s not actually much of a question cgeorge just has my heart forever. fuckin freak.

uhhhh tldr ccrime fans who loved the awww brothers I want you to rethink ur choices a little. Thanks

[imjustheretomooch]

Who wouldn’t want to read about an immortal amoral autistic mage/wizard and her dumb sociopath of an apprentice that she doesn’t realize is trying to murder her because she’s too op?

“Doesn’t that get old quick?” well stay tuned for book two where said dumb sociopathic apprentice becomes less dumb and decides instead to try and sleep with his master with the same success rate of his murder plots! Which is to say he fails and it’s still so good! This time in America where they wreck havoc on the population simply because neither gives a fuck 

I once again have absolutely fallen in love with a book that has an absolutely miniscule fanbase oof. On the bright side, its small enough that the author will respond to your reviews on goodreads!! 

Anyway, Dark Apprentice! There’s our protagonist, Nikolai. He’s dumb of ass and the least pure of heart man you have ever come across in your life. Like he’s a psychopath. Literally. Author confirmed he has ASPD. Despite being free from the shackles of emotion, he manages to be the least objective mfer out there and spends the entire first book clowning himself to the highest degree.

And then there’s out other POV, Medea. Due to the scale of her life- she’s easily a 1000 yrs old- she seems rather apathetic to the plight of man, but who really cares about World War 2 when you were around for a millenium of human atrocities.

She’s also undeniably the strongest mage in the world and will fuck you up in the most creative ways possible, but usually she lays pretty low because she isn’t a fan of social interaction and spends her time studying magic, which she notices is slowly dying out. Medea decided against taking on apprentices because those bastards keep trying to kill her (her reputation draws mostly only scummy, power hungry mages who want to learn dark magic) but when she meets Nikolai, who has incredible magic potential like she hasn’t seen in years (and also blows it out of the park in terms of being scummy and power hungry) she decides to try again.

She's pretty standoffish when it comes to justice because she's lived long enough that even the concept of what behaviour is wrong has changed, but if you're a rapist will flip your digestive tract to attach your mouth to your asshole and shove your dick up your ass-mouth so you digest your own penis and while she slowly rips your sinew apart.

Honestly I have never seen such a unique pairing of characters in a book. Nikolai and Medea are both highly unusual personality types to see in media, mostly because the author follows through on their bloodthirsty-ness and their quirks that make them sorta awful people. It also makes their dynamic, which is sooo good in the second book, so funny. I laughed out loud at the part where Nikolai, who’s convinced himself that he’s the center of Medea’s world, finally is like wait. Do you even fucking know my name? And she’s like Um. uhhhh, errrr… 

and if you get frustrated with Nikolai being stupid, know that the second book is even better and he's no longer a massive idiot

anyway. go read it please please please

[dariamarchin]

//SPOILERS

Centaurworld S2E1 notes

Sooo,

I'd like to invite you all to

join us in the fight

Cause if you don't

Then you maybe will dieee!

To start off with some nice stuff i have to say, I love this^ line gjfjjvk

I liked the first centaur(TM) we see: a buff pompous woman is the characted i never knew i needed (Platoria, i think?). Her voice and accent was cute too! (too bad she is a racist/classist😒)

Zulius is gay, yep😏

Dupleton becomes a responsible dad! You go, king!

Protect our babyboy Stabby😔✊ (also he is alive!! i think. you need to take this sword out if him though)

Dupleton's little reprise was so cute!!

Becky!!! Can't wait to see whats up with her and Rider!!

So, the purpose(s) of this ep was: to intoduce this seasons/episode's conflict (the war is coming and Horse needs an army) and have some worldbuilding about the centaurworld rich class with some Ched backstory sprinkled in.

This eps conflict had a pretty weak resolution? All the stuff horse did was ultimately pointless since the little junk taurs just kinda showed up and boom! conflict resolved! They say that Horse's speech inspired them to fight (i'm not really sure why it inspired them but not the cattaurs and others tho?). They weren't really shown during any of her speeches as far as I seen? this would have been a cool foreshadowing.

This is pretty interesting how disinterested everyone seems in the upcoming invasion? Considering their world wad invaded by the same monsters not so long ago? I'd guess this could inply the level of how each group was affected at the time: moletaurs and mertaurs were not really affected, since they live underground/undewater; the Tree Shamans are as apathetic as they were in Wammawink's flashback; cattaurs and the centaurs that live near the beartaur's cave seem the most scared/worried about this, but still not willing to fight, so i guess they were somewhat affected by the war but maybe from secondhand effects of the war?

The message "The rich/priviledged people don't care about the war and making them care is kinda pointless, but poor/unpriveledged people on the other hand would care" is pretty nice (i think it's what they could be trying to say?), but were do the centaurs from the start of the episode fall here? They don't care, so are they like the rich people? Why they didn't care??

I think I would like it if the centaurs they tried to recruit said that they don't worry about the war because they have Shamans, who would protect them (if they only knew about the Wammawink's village,,,). Like horsetaurs they think that they can handle themselves in their own bc magic/money. And have the little trash vermin centaurs (maybe with some off hand scenes where they are shown to not be a part of any of the shaman-led communities and are sorta despised by them) running around while Horse gives her speeches to the different centaur groups. They follow Horse around during her journey and ariund the end of the ep master their courage to offer their help? Maybe they could rescue the herd when horsetaurs find out that Horse tried to impersonate one of them?

The scene with Rider had really weird pathing? Maybe it's just me, but i got kinda confused watching it and The General gave off some scetchy vibes to me? I'm not sure if this was on purpose

I think if this scene started with the clear espablishment that Rider is waiting for The General, bc she wrote him a letter. And then we have the-guy-thats-revealed-to-be-The-General enter the scene, joking about her nervousness worrying his horse, which distracts Rider bc she is horsegirl. We start off with Rider's POV instead of the other way around and the letter and this guy being a general don't come out of nowhere.

Also where is Waterbaby??

The worldbuilding was pretty nice to have, but I'm not sure how the rich class works? Do they rule Centaurworld or are they a separate community that somehow is richer than the other ones? In the S1 the shamans were shown to be leaders of their communities. Do horsetaurs respect the authority of Shamans? What resourses they have that make them this rich if they are just a separate community? Mines? and? Anything??

In my little worldbuilding rewrite I would make them a separate community. They still think horsetaurs are better than other taurs, but they have classism within their group, with rich ppl and poor people. They are much richer then other taurs bc they have better land and maybe some mines with metals and gems or something?

I know they tried to have a joke about horsetaurs not being what Horse wanted, but I think it would be better to tone it down a bit? Maybe they have competent fighters but the Horsetaur Queen still refuses to help, because why would they help taurs that are below them?

Ched's backstory was also confusing??

So he used to live with horsetaurs? I think? Can we talk more about that?? Was he, like, adopted?? Or sorta like a pet to them?? (that would be fucked up tho)

I think this was implemented also to show why Ched doesn't like Horse, because he was a bad personal experience with them

But nothing comes out of it?? His connection to horsetaurs is treated more like joke. And neither he nor Horse start to treat/see each other differently. Horse could realise why he doesn't like her and Ched could see the contrast between the horsetaurs and Horse and realise that she is actually nothing like them? That would be good to have??

But, alas, Ched-shut-up-and-get-likeable-already challange is still relevant

(Also, note: I'm watching/reviewing one episode at a time, so if there is some stuff in one of the future eps that clarifies it, good! Pls don't spoil! 😊)

(Also also, i like this show, i swear, this episode just fell a little flat for me)

[skiyoosmi]

hiii :D your writing is sooo cute !! i was wondering if i could request some soft clingy kenma hcs 😚 i am a simp for kenma 😔🤚🏼 thanks so much

ღೃ*  𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚   ༉‧₊˚✧

✎ . . . .   when i tell you that this pudding right here is the most adorable human being to ever grace this earth, i mean it with every vein in my heart

✎ . . . .   he could literally end, not just the world but even the whole solar system with a single smile

✎ . . . .   so. IMAGINE!! if he suddenly walks over to you after a long day of gaming and casually plops down on you (yes. on top of you.)

✎ . . . .   i think kenma's not really the type to be vocal about wanting affection; he's not like those who whine and demand to get cuddles right now, unless you're really oblivious to his wants (which we'll get to later on)

✎ . . . .   the moment he lies on top of you, he already expects you to do what you have to do because you are the best partner okay <33

✎ . . . .   brush and run your fingers through his hair!!! give him light pecks or forehead kisses!!! hum him any calm tune!!! if you're a bookworm, then read to him!!

✎ . . . .   he swears he has the best kind of sleep when at least one of these things occur

✎ . . . .   if you're a bit dense (like me) and doesn't realize what he wants as of the moment, he'd get pouty and the cute type of grumpy

✎ . . . .   huffs until he gets your attention!!

✎ . . . .   i've seen a lot of tiktoks including him in the "boyfriends who will be bad to you" because of (apparently) his "indifference" but i honestly think otherwise :(

✎ . . . .   rather than characterizing him as apathetic/indifferent, i see him more as someone who is reserved

✎ . . . .   as shown in one of the episodes, kozume, although rarely, is also capable of showing emotions— only when it's with and for the people he's close and comfortable with (e.g. nekoma, kuroo and in this case, you)

✎ . . . .   in conclusion, although he's not the most vocal boyfriend out there; kozume can still be the best boyfriend in other ways (i see him showing affection more through his actions hehe)

✎ . . . .   on another matter, as shown in the anime, he has a VERY wide imagination and a creative view of his surroundings;

✎ . . . .   so i say: he imagines doing lots of activities with you and then makes an actual list to make sure he tries them soon with you

✎ . . . .   i.e. fiddling with your fingers/hands when his are free from any controller or device, playing video games with him, doing skincare, spooning, etc.

halting from doing some paperworks, your ears perked up as you heard the sound of feet dragging while it neared your bedroom. a fond smile formed on your face as your boyfriend, who looks very sleep-deprived at the moment, entered the room.

"hello there, you," you greeted him, an eyebrow starting to rise as he trudged towards your desk before stopping right in front of you. without any words, he took your hand and began pulling you to your shared bed and then urged you to lie down.

as soon as you did so, he plopped down on his stomach, snuggling closer to you as his arms found its way around your way; he sighed contentedly, the sulky expression that was plastered on his face secons ago turning into a satisfied one.

you let out a soft giggle, raising one of your hands and placing them on his head as your fingers began playing with his hair, "what's got this adorable pudding pouty a while ago?"

he grumbled quietly, grudge evident in the tone of his voice, "i lost because kuroo didn't know how to play.... should've known better than to invite him in the game.... that man only knows business, chemistry and volleyball...."

another giggle escaped your throat as he tightened his hold on you, "well, just let it go and get some rest instead. you've been playing for hours already."

he only hummed in acknowledgement. a few moments of silence passed before you felt yourself slowly drifting off to sleep as well.

as you were closing your eyes, you hear him quietly mumble in his sleep as he adjusted his head which was now lying on your chest, "i love you, yn... you're the best pillow..."

amused, you smiled and shook your head before placing a kiss on his forehead, "i love you too, my prince."

[kob131]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byjiwECylIE

So EruptionFang made a video about Raven Branwen. 

Considering his last video I watched (his Volume 8 Episode 2 Breakdown) was basically him shitting himself continuously because he’s STILL bitter about his headcanon being disproven, I don’t have high hopes.

But who knows, maybe he’ll make a good point.

0:00 - 1:24 “In RWBY, other characters get torn down to make Team RWBY look better, like the show only wants you to like Team RWBY! No one gets to be fleshed out or understood by the show! It’s SOOO disrespectful!”

...

*SMASH!*

Sorry, that was the sound of me faceplanting so hard I smashed a desk in half.

Really, Team RWBY never rises up and only other characters get torn down to make them look good? Yang never had to develop from being reckless as all hell to actually using her head in a fight? Blake didn’t have to get over her own fears and learn to accept help from others? Weiss didn’t have to struggle against her own personality to become a better person overall? Ruby didn’t have to struggle against the world itself and her own worldview to keep going?

This shit that is OBSERVABLE IN THE FUCKING SHOW didn’t happen? Sure, and there are two Adams. Even by the example you visually give (Avatar The Last Airbender)- Team RWBY still rose up like Team Aang did.

And don’t give me that ‘other characters get torn down!’ bullshit. The Ace Ops weren’t made to look bad to make Team RWBY look good- They failed because of their own personal flaws that were already established before that fight (Harriet’s recklessness, Elm’s temper, Vine’s detached attitude, Marrow’s disconnect). And Adam wasn’t torn down AT ALL: he remained the same damn character throughout his appearances and failed through his own failures born from his character.

And funny how you talk about other character not getting developed and yet ignore the Ace Ops’ boss. What’s wrong? Oh yeah, Ironwood IS developed (EXTENSIVELY. As in, we know more about his thought process, reasoning and actions than even WEISS, let alone Blake, Yang and Ruby.) so he just becomes a walking debunking of your OPENING ARGUMENT.

Not even past the intro and I’m already pissed.

1:46 ‘Any character’s righteous revolutions-’

Which didn’t exist, was disproven in the first episode and completely ignores BASIC writing tropes (like ‘Villians LIE’).

But please, keep talking about your delusions.

1:56 ‘There is an inescapable bubble Raven is in by both the audience and the characters!’

Spoiler Alert: It’s a bubble Raven HERSELF made in the first place.

‘A bubble that she’s a coward and cares about no one but herself.’

True and effectively true. I’ll explain WHY later.

(Nothing to say about the ‘Meeting Yang and Raven’ part, moving on)

8:37 - 8:51 *quotes Shane’s letter, portraying it as a cruel choice to ignore the Volume 2 stinger scene.*

So now we’ve moved on to tearing off chunks of Monty’s corpse and Shane’s grief to use for his own headcanon. Fan-fucking-tastic.

I have absolutely no sympathy for anyone using this- partially because it’s always using an emotional connection to Monty to manipulate the audience. Partially because this was a DUMB decision. 

Where the FUCK would Raven fit into Volume 3? Even the section EF takes from is about a fight that everyone agrees wouldn’t have fit into Volume 3 at all and served no purpose and this is the ONLY mention of Raven. Combine this with how Volume 3 is structured (where Raven can’t do anything that Qrow didn’t already do), how ambiguous the final scene of Volume 2 was, the Mary Sue accusations against Yang at this point and Raven’s revealed personality- She wouldn’t WORK in Volume 3. Just because Monty had the idea doesn’t make it a good one. Fuck, he BROUGHT ON Miles and Kerry BECAUSE he knew he wasn’t a writer and his last contribution (Maidens) was BY FAR the worst aspect of RWBY which proves that even more.

EF, you’re bitching that Raven wasn’t shoved into a Volume already overstuffed and lacking in time and resources. With NO purpose and contradicting her personality.

Congrats on encouraging bad writing.

10:43 ‘It doesn’t make sense that in introducing the maidens and making Raven one, they cut her attacking Pyrrha to get her Maiden powers!’

Yeah- nice headcanon. Too bad your own quote says they didn’t know the purpose, Shane’s letter never says the purpose either and you even say it’s speculation. Also too bad that we’re suppose to SYMPATHIZE with Raven on some level later on and a large part of why Cinder isn’t portrtayed as sympathetic is that she KILLED Pyrrha, Raven’s theoretical target. Thus Raven’s attack would make her even MORE unlikeable.

‘B-but it changes the context of what we know, like Yang’s search for her!”

And how? 

“Through her message to Yang, which was hostile and angry!”

... Really? The message of “I won’t save you again” is angry and hostile? It seems more matter of fact to me, informing Yang she won’t help her again not out of anger or dislike but through her worldview, which would be disconnected from her emotions on the surface.

Qrow’s words never include an insult or attack on Yang, like calling her weak or mocking her. You can INTERPRET it as hostile and angry but that depends on the subjective worldview of the person. The actual words and message don’t carry hostility or anger. They carry apathy.

‘B-but it splits her character in two-!’

Oh my god, did you SERIOUSLY try to pull another ‘Two Adams’ on me?

Raven DIDN’T HAVE a character to spilts in those two appearances. We knew nothing about her as a person. Her saving Yang and that supposed talk could have been for and about ANYTHING. That’s why there were so many theories: NOTHING was known. And nothing about those actions inform her character without context, which Volume 2 never gives.

This ‘first Raven’, like CJ Black’s ‘First Adam’, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a headcanon you refused to accept as being debunked.

‘W-well, Raven still looked after Yang when her arm was cut off!’

In bird form. And only bird form. And never directly interacts with Yang. All in a form Yang DOESN’T KNOW she’s in. Suffering from problems RAVEN HERSELF caused. WITH A FUCKING PORTAL TO HER AT ALL TIMES.

‘B-but her actions say that she DOES care!’

I knew PRECISELY what arguments you were gonna make the moment I started this video. Because they’re the SAME DAMN SHIT I’ve seen to defend Raven before. And let me go ahead and tear it down now: Raven being around in bird form means NOTHING. Without Yang knowing it’s her, it is meaningless. It’s WORSE than nothing because it demonstrates that Raven could have been with Yang throughout her life with no apparent cost to her because SHE WAS ALREADY DOING IT. And it means she watched Yang struggle with her abandonment and the toll it took on her family and ESPECIALLY Yang and did NOTHING to fix the problem. 

Even ignoring the portal thing, taking this one scene in a vacuum- her looking at her depressed daughter and then fucking off paints her as either so lacking in empathy that she can’t be bothered to help HER OWN CHILD or so ill equipped to be a parent she makes TFS Goku look like...well, Taiyang. With CONTEXT, (still ignoring the portal thing), she CAUSED this depression by scarring Yang all those years ago and made Yang’s life worse for it. With the portal, she couldn’t even do the barest of minimum standards.

You can try to portray this as beautiful all you want: Nothing is shown stopping Raven from actually BEING A PARENT FOR ONCE before this and after this, we KNOW it wouldn’t be difficult in the slightest and she STILL chooses to not help. It’s one of the worst cases of parental apathy I have ever seen and fuck you for trying to bitch out the creators because you chose to IGNORE CONTEXT.

‘Instead of making it so Raven abandoned Yang because of her Maiden powers, they instead chose to abandon her role as a mother!’

You mean they had a character make a decision that completely fits with how the audience would perceive the character at this point?

Everyone, consider what we know about Raven. She’s Qrow’s twin sister, meaning she’s logically just skilled and strong as Qrow is. She’s also a Maiden, something that gives characters an IMMENSE amount of power separate from their normal abilities. She has a decoy so no one knows what she actually is. She has a portal to and from Yang at ALL times. She’s as strong as the strongest non-Maiden character shown so far, IS a Maiden bolstering her power beyond the Maidens we DO know of and can instantly be there for Yang at any time in her life and get away if someone tries to go after her, which makes no sense if it’s about her being a Maiden because she has a DECOY for this thing.

And yet, with all these things working for her, giving her every advantage that DEFIES the common trope EF is pushing- Raven still ditched her, ditched her a second time and couldn’t even be bothered to give her deeply apathetic message herself. And now supposedly, Raven would suddenly become a mother to Yang...and we’re expected to feel happy about this.

Yeah, no. People would be outraged that Raven got off scot free. In no part

“Everyone keeps being hostile and angry with Raven, who is also being hostile and angry. This means that the other guys are just pidgeonholding her into this role!”

Yes, a trend that Raven HERSELF causes. Qrow is hostile towards her because she tried to act as though she cared about her family to Qrow, a character shown to be a loyal person, but ignores her own DAUGHTER when it’s supposedly about family. Yang is hostile towards Raven because she knows Raven could have been there for her but chose not to, all while she NEEDS to find her ACTUAL family. Even Taiyang’s look at the end of Volume 5 makes sense as if she’s there, that means she’s likely running from their daughter, whom she has failed as a parent YET AGAIN despite Taiyang giving her a generous interpretation.

Raven is being forced into a role SHE MADE FOR HERSELF.

“This isn’t how it was at the beginning of the show. Yang and by extension the audience is sad and curious while Raven and Qrow are angry and toxic.”

Again, you ignore context.

Yang knows NOTHING about Raven and was abandoned by her. Of course she’d be sad and curious.

But Qrow is different. He DOES know Raven, saw first hand what her actions have done to his family while being the type of person who would HATE this and Raven is actively being manipulative while also avoiding him as he asks for help in SAVING THE WORLD.

Later on, Yang finds Raven...after learning that Raven had every chance in the world to be there for her and chose NOT to. All while Raven exudes arrogance and a selfish pride in being a ‘prize’ for Yang to work towards.

Then Raven proceeds to use her as BAIT, abandon her, try to turn her against the family that HAS been there for her, insults the father and uncle who loved and cared for her- all for more power...that wouldn’t even solve the problem Raven has. She stabbed her own brother and daughter in the back...for nothing. Because of her own flaws, something Yang fought against and overcame making her more mature than her MOTHER.

And after all that, she is given one last chance to truly show her love for Yang: to help her and join her. To go with her and put herself at risk for Yang’s safety or at least taking the Relic so Salem will target her instead of Yang. And what does Raven do? Abandons her AGAIN.

Abandons her to run off near her ex, the man she left with a child and a broken heart. She uses her connection to him to run away from her responsibility as a parent, running away from THEIR DAUGHTER. The girl he raised up without blaming Raven for anything, instead trying to paint a good picture of her in Yang’s head.

No shit people are hostile or unhappy with her- She keeps FAILING.

‘Oh hey, they made her an antagonist and thus EVIL! The writer’s CLEARLY think that there’s no way a parent who abandoned their child can be anything other than EVIL!’

... Then how come they portray her as conflicted and sad in the finale of Volume 5?

Much like how Adam’s unmasking fundamentally BREAKS his previous arguments of ‘HE EVIL!’ because it helps humanize Adam and give him pity and sorrow, the same is done here with the finale and Raven’s final actions so far. If Raven were evil, she wouldn’t have tried justifying her actions. Salem, Tyrian and , actively evil characters, don’t act like Raven. And they certainly don’t show regret or sorrow for their actions or conflicts about the results. This goes AGAINST how people perceive evil, even in the show itself.

So if she’s supposedly EVIL, why is her climax all about aspects that are fundamentally incompatible with how evil is portrayed in the show?

Answer: Raven’s not portrayed as evil. She’s portrayed as FLAWED, with actual negative flaws that cause her grief and pain like any normal character. EF is just throwing a fit that a ‘character’ he likes isn’t being treated as positive.

‘Volume 4 wasn’t where we got our first impression of Raven, it was Volume 2 and 3!’

And what impression could you get?

That she’s strong...and that’s it. At least, that’s it for positive traits. Raven is strong because she scared off Neo and that’s all the positive traits we have of her.

Everything else is negative. She apparently doesn’t care enough about Yang to stay around in any capacity for whatever reason. She refuses to see Yang and is largely apathetic towards her. She can be there for Yang but chooses not to. And her own twin brother Qrow doesn’t really like her.

The things we saw of Raven then paint a picture of someone who doesn’t care about Yang in any meaningful way. Even though I’ve chosen to ignore the portal thing, I really shouldn’t because she showed the portals off since Volume 2, meaning since her physical introduction she ALWAYS had a path to Yang but never chose to. EF acts as though these aspects of Raven didn’t exist before Volume 4...when the barest minimum of thought shows them in before that.

‘Their biggest mistake was the Volume 2 end credits scene since it goes against everything they wanted to do with her as a character!’

Yeah...and you argue for including it even though your own source shows that the other writers KNEW this issue.

‘The first impression we got of her was her saving Yang’s life and then confronting her!’

Yeah, and guess what? Those are not inherently positive. She could have saved Yang to manipulate her and use her as a pawn for all we knew. For as many positive interpretations you can give for these actions, I can give a negative interpretation. All because these actions lacked context at the time so it was neither positive nor negative.

The context dictated what these actions were. And context defined them as ultimately positive...but flawed. Which you conflate with malice.

‘The Volume 2 scene was meant to be a kicking off point-’

For what? Once again, the scene is not inherently positive. Raven never shows care or love for Yang in that scene, all she shows is a desire to talk (which without context of what she says, what it means, what her intentions are, how informed she is and how she uses this opportunity- makes it neutral.)

After this you do this cartoonish ‘oh they changed direction!’ thing without a single shred of evidence beyond a letter made by a grief madden man which doesn’t even say what you are saying. You keep assigning direction to something without a clear direction.

‘So how do you address her Maiden plotline with her Yang plotline?’

You make it about her personal failing of trying to use power to hide her cowardice, show that she lies to herself as well as others to justify her actions and show how she fails? Like how they showed that her ditching Yang lines up with how she refuses to take action until backed into a corner, gets confronted repeatedly with her flaws as her daughter (someone far weaker and less informed) keeps going and the show forces her to see how she’s being cowardly?

‘Don’t do one.’

... Translation: ‘i didn’t like what the show did so I’m gonna do selective remembering to make it look like nothing happened. ... What? I did it with Adam.’

Regardless of how you feel about the plotlines- They were BOTH addressed. It wasn’t dropped, it wasn’t forgotten- It was resolved as I have shown multiple times here.

And here at 20:33 I’m ending this. It’s pretty damn clear that Erup-Cole is just ignoring whatever doesn’t fit his view. Instead of taking a look at what happened and trying to understand the pattern that comes, he’s making up a pattern and patchworking it together through cherry picking.

I see that he hasn’t changed from his Adam tantrum, because this is the EXACT SAME VIDEO, just stretched out and about Adam’s MILF form. And I do mean ‘Adam’s MILF form’ because I don’t think a character with such superficial similarities to him getting the same treatment is a coincidence.

Cole, you can’t try selling me something with THIS much bullshit. It’s like trying to serve me a maggot infested steak and telling me it’s well cooked. You’re full of shit and no matter how much you try to hide it, it won’t change.

Your headcanons are not canon and it’s your fault you take such offense. Deal with it.

[amazingorangedangantrash]

The only ending everyone seems to ignore is v3 because it’s just... it’s just a mess.

How do feel about this game survivors? And do you think that everyone woke up from the simulator or tv show like sdr2 or only the survivors?

Hoo boy...

Honestly nonny, having only finished the dang thing yesterday I... don't know.

(I kinda went off into a spiel, so feel free to skip to the part where I talk about survivors and what I think happens next)

I understand the mixed response a LOT. I mean- I see what they were going for. The 4th wall break was cool, and the (sorta?) reappearance of past characters was pretty damn awesome. I like that the creators are definitely self aware- and there's a kind of 'learn to laugh at yourself' sort of thing.

On the other hand it can almost seem a little too mocking?

I get the whole yaknow. 'Fictional characters are aware they're fictional and rebel against their creators' thing but- like-?

As I mentioned before, thing is, Tsumugi is not us? We aren't exactly intentionally cruel? There's a BIG difference between the kind of fiction in our world and in their world.

What does Tsumugi call it? "Real fiction"?. Yeah- thing is- we don't have that. We don't have the technology for it, and I certainly hope we wouldn't abandon ethics for it either!!! We can't have 'real' fiction, because in our world, all fiction is fake! The closest you have is fiction about real people, perhaps, but- that's not even remotely the same thing?

So it does come across as a little... um- preachy.

We're supposed to represent the audience but... like- the audience fucking suck! What was that they said during the argument armament? "This guy should have died instead of Kaede!" Like- fucking hell. Imagine saying that to someone, who can HEAR you say it, and who's MURDER you could potentially watch unfold before your very eyes as a result of YOUR actions. I mean- look how empathetic some of us are to ACTUAL fictional characters. Could you imagine if we were in a similar situation to the outside world in V3???

Maybe it's because I keep imagining the v3 cast as like- sentient AI, instead of "just fiction". Because I can't imagine anyone being so sadistic or apathetic otherwise.

So uh- yeah. I don't... know how I feel about that. It's not- very satisfying?

With sdr2, the whole "none of this is real, the killing game is all a lie, you're in a fake world!" felt like a relief ! Whereas here it's more like- "what?? It's all fake? What the hell was the point then?!"

"Nothing matters!" vs "nothing matters..."

The whole HOPE VS DESPAIR, FUTURE VS PAST thing worked, because, well, it's something we can all understand. We have all felt hope and we have all felt despair. We've all, at some point in our lives, felt stuck in the past, unable to or scared to move on.

(Hey- some of us still feel like that now, even).

The first game was very simple- hope and despair. Still relatable, but fairly basic- effective to set up the foundation for the follow up.

The second game made things a little more complicated. Sometimes it's more complicated then just- choosing between Hope and Despair. We refuse to fall into Despair, but we can't just blindly have Hope.

So we choose the Future. We can't promise it'll be a good one OR a bad one. But whatever happens- we need to move on. The only way we can make things change is by making that choice, to create our OWN future.

V3 felt very... complex. It started to get kind of... uh... philosophical? And- don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with that. It just... it kind of shifted from TRUTH VS LIE to FICTION VS REALITY. And whilst the latter definitely sounds interesting- I don't really know if I liked the direction they took with it-? I wish they'd kept the focus on TRUTH VS LIE a lot more.

(Fiction and Reality are like extensions of Lie and Truth but- only to a certain extent? Really?)

It's kind of harder to get into the final fight in V3 because... what are you fighting? The outside world? I mean- I can't speak for the rest of you, but as far as I'm aware I'm not a fictional character.

(If I am- then wow someone's a reallly bad writer huh?)

I can relate to Hope. I can relate to Future.

I can't relate to Fiction.

I THOUGHT maybe the message was a warning of the dangers of escapism ('please dont go as far as to erase your own personality just to be a part of a type of fiction you like' definitely seems fitting for this fandom)- but the message "fiction has the power to change the world!" kinda contradicts that. I mean- I do like that message, but- I don't like the idea of a series about killing games being heavily influential-!

The whole problem was that people grew so obsessed with the series that they threw away their lives! Is that not the point you should be focusing on-!!!!

The outside world in this universe fucking sucks. So they changed their mind, big DEAL! that's not comforting knowing they let this shit continue for 53 seasons-! I mean, maybe Makoto and Hajime were all 100% fictional, but at some point they started putting real people into these games, and everyone was ok with that!

I just-

I'm glad Shuichi got through to them at last but...

Someone said something which resonated with me- "in a vacuum, this is good". Like... on it's own, I thought the ending was great! It was entertaining, for sure. And the whole concept and stuff was unexpected and interesting. You gotta give em points for originality.

The problem comes with it being the 3rd game in a series. (Ignoring UDG I mean-). When a series becomes a Trilogy, you gotta make it good. This is presumably the last game in the (main) series too. And- after the UTTER NARRATIVE DISAPPOINTMENT of dr3- can you blame people for wanting more? People fell in love for THH and SDR2 (and UDG even if its not part of the main series) for a reason- and, for me at least, a biiiig part of that reason was the continued storyline. The last chapter of sdr2 was the hypest shit EVER. when you see glimpses of the previous game bleed into this one, only for it to turn into what's like- a full crossover???? The previous game isn't just mentioned, it's a straight up sequel!!!! I had absolutely no idea Makoto and co would return (i thought the games were separate) so when i saw that they'd be interacting with the new cast- yoooooooooooooooo-!

Hell, even seeing alter ego again made me go WILD.

V3 plays upon these expectations, and subverts them, but... not necessarily in a good way? You- kind of feel cheated? (Idk if you're an avengers fan, but- it's like expecting *Endgame* and instead getting...

Well- Endgame).

The ending isn't bad persay it's just- not quite what one would expect? I can definitely understand why people are disappointed. The problem is, instead of standing alone, you can't help but consider it as part of the series. Individually, I don't think the ending was that weak or bad, but in comparison to the series as a whole?

Meh.

SURVIVORS

(Oh my- I really got off track, oh dear. I'll- get back to what you asked now.)

KEEBO

W H Y

They rllly gonna rub salt in the wound huh?

(Whilst i dont dislike the other survivors, there are a LOT of people i really really wanted to see make it to the end, and it's just the final god damn nail in the coffin to kill off the last of the few characters I came even close to liking the most-)

Killing keebo was dumb

Maki- I liked Maki quite a bit! She's a bit cold, yeah, but I warmed up to her after hearing her backstory.

I found it annoying (if understandable) that no one trusted her at first. I thought it was sweet that her, Kaito and Shuichi had this friendship trio. They really trusted each other- it was very refreshing. I also love me a strong girl. Her romance thing with Kaito was a little... forced. I'd have found it more meaningful if they kept it more subtle/ambiguous (though i suppose they needed smth to use against her in the final trial sooo-).

Himiko-

I-

*sigh*

Ok I'm going to say this once, and once only.

Someoneonthedrteamhasabigthingforlolis

OK! I SAID IT- AND IM NEVER SAYING IT AGAIN

No judgement here of course. Just. Uh. Y-yeah-

(I'm mainly kidding of course, idek if Himiko counts as a loli but-)

I mean... I'm not... the fondest of very small, childish girl characters (Saionji intensifies). I like a bit of childishness in a character but- i mean- it depends.

(I'll never recover from the "seductive whisper" thing from the love suite event

Never.

Never ever.)

Himiko comes across as like An Actual Child at times and at the start it was VERY annoying. Surprisingly, I warmed up to her eventually. I knew in advance she'd be a survivor so i kinda thought "well she's gonna stick around so might as well try to like her". I do appreciate that she underwent a character arc too, and it was sweet to see how she became a more active, determined person. I wish it hadn't taken Tenko's death for her to finally start changing but whatever. She is quite a cute character and after a while became more endearing then annoying.... (for the most part).

Was she in my top 3 picks for a survivor? No.

The top 10 even?

N-no-

I'm glad she's still alive though. SOMEONE damn well needs to be.

Tsumugi- ah. She's not a survivor, is she? I knew well in advance she was the mastermind so I didn't really warm up to her all that much during the final chapters, for obvious reasons.

Shuichi- if shuichi hadn't survived I think that would have been the breaking point for me, honestly.

Overall- uh... they aren't... the ideal picks. Shuichi is the only one I really wanted to see survive, I was neutral towards the others. Tbh I was just happy anyone was alive by the end of that.

Waking up- for the sake of my sanity, I like to think that after the survivors wake up, they threaten to sue and/or maim the shit out of the dr team if they don't start on reanimating their 'dead' friends right fucking now. Surely they gotta keep their consciousness' somewhere in those memories banks right? I mean- what if they ever wanted a "surprise return from the dead" plotline? Surely they gotta keep em somewhere? Right?

Whether or not they reawaken as their in-game or pre-game selves, who knows. Whichever you prefer, I guess. Maybe a mixture of both.

[2p-hcmaker]

2p! France head canons

2p France Headcanons

For a length of time he did go by François

But as he started interacting with the outside world more and more he realized people couldn’t pronounce his name and often keep saying it like Francis

So he changed it to Louise (Lew-wees) (Yes it’s the female form of Louis, He liked this name out of all the other possible options)

That being said, he doesn’t care that it’s the female form

He doesn’t care about a lot of things

He’s apathetic about literally everything

In a way he’s almost like a role model because he doesn’t care what anyone thinks about him

but also he doesn’t take care of himself in the slightest sooo

If it takes more effort than standing up and walking a few feet, then it’s not worth doing right now

No food in the fridge? I’ll eat later

Clothes not clean? Guess I’m not changing

He acts like he’s depressed but he really isn’t

He has very little to be sad about and he doesn’t have issues about how he treats himself 

He just doesn’t do much

When he was younger and was spending more time with Francis, he was a bit depressed

Being able to directly compare himself to Francis made the situation worse 

When he was able to start distancing himself, he found himself much more content with what he was and what he liked

The biggest thing about Louise is that he’s different and he wants people to accept that

He doesn’t understand why people have such a hard time accepting others because “everyone’s different”

He’s a big supporter of civil rights and human rights

He’ll talk with Allen about whats happening in America or civil rights in general

Once or twice if he can get himself to do it, he’ll go to protests

If he does end up doing something, he puts his best foot forward

He’ll still make mistakes, but he’s trying to do well

There are things he likes to do 

believe it or not

He likes to sit outside

he likes to read

he likes to take walks

They are very simple things but he likes to do them and its all that matters

thank you very much

Of course, you can’t talk about Louise and not mention the more adult things about him

He does not see a problem is having sex with people

“It’s a natural thing”

If people straight up tell him they aren’t comfortable then he’ll respect that

but if you beat around the bush (like Oliver) then he’s not going to bother censoring

Because Liouse is a no-nonsense person, many 2ps like to work with him

He’s helpful to the Allies for saying things as they are and pulling their heads out of the clouds

The Axis like him too, but Luciano sometimes has a problem being called out

BTW Louise likes to screw with Luciano when he can, but tends to get a little too far over his head

[vendettacanons]

Best childhood memory you can recall? / Worst childhood memory you can recall? (for the puppy bean 83)

⚔️ Interview the Muse | CLOSED ⚔️

“The memories of my days as a tribal are always my clearest. I remember the days where my mother used to walk me through the fields in our territory. Despite being scorched so long ago, life was returning to the land. You could tread along the ground and feel the soft grass under your feet, catch the smell of blooming flowers. The trees began to grow again and in them you’d hear birds singing as you walked past. I remember walking through them with my first dog, and my mother, and her dog, Cloudfoot. I remember that day because I had lost a dear friend of mind to sickness, and I asked her what happened when we die. Not our dogs- but us. And she comforted me by telling me that when we die, we go to a place a lot like these fields. The grass is tall and there are flowers all around us. There’s a river we come across once we’ve walked far enough away from this world and a rainbow bridge we walk over. Then we stand and we wait on the other side until our dogs come and join us. And then we play in the giant fields together and make our way to some place far away where all the people we love will be with their dogs. The feeling of comfort I got from hearing those word was something that stuck with me. Gave me hope. Hope that someday, this will all be over and there will be peace for me and my hounds. It’s stuck with me ever since. Even though I lost someone I loved, I still consider that the best day of my life just because of how much of an impact it had on me.”

“The worst day of my life I think goes without saying. It was when Lanius came to our tribe. I had seen war and plague and pillaging. There were sooo many occasions where I thought I knew suffering beyond belief. But Lanius... proved me wrong. Everyone else from the Hangdogs say they learned the meaning of power, of fire and hell raining down when he came. But do you know what I learned? I learned the depths of human depravity. I learned just how evil and cruel humans could be. I learned that people are capable of doing awful, terrible, tremendously horrifying things to one another and feel nothing for it. And that is what scared me the most. Knowing that Lanius was not one of the monsters from our tribal campfire stories, no beast from some cautionary tale. He was real. And he was a man. Beneath all the armor he was just like me and the rest of my tribe. The realization that humans were the real horrors behind everything in this life almost killed me. But I stayed alive, unfortunately. I stayed alive in spite of all the days that pass where I wish I hadn’t. I watched him order his men to hold us back, tear our dogs from out grips, force us to watch as they struggled and bit and clawed at the hands the beat them as they were dragged along and thrown upon the flames. I could still see them even through my tears, scrambling to escape the flames that blackened their furs, their screams sounds almost human as they roasted on those embers. I smelled the burning flesh of the hounds and I heard the cackling of Legionaries. I have so many days and nights where those memories haunt me and I wish I weren’t alive to have them. Because at least if I had died, it wouldn’t have been as painful as witnessing that. I remember not being able to breathe, less because of all the smoke, and because I couldn’t catch my breath between sobs. That day... the day the Hangdogs finally surrendered, that will forever be the worst day of my life. I will never be able to know peace so long as history remembers that. And so long as Lanius is alive, remorseless and apathetic to what he took from me. My family, my tribe, my dogs, my courage.

It’s wishful thinking I know- and something horrible to wish for too, but... I want him dead. And I want it to be painful, so that he might know for even a fraction of a second what it is like to be one of the thousands he tread on like they were nothing. I’m only upset that I’ll never be the one to make it happen. He’s taken that from me too.”

[sparkles-and-trash]

Some thoughts on South Park, the characters and the fandom

So, yesterday I had a chat with one of my more... academic (brainiac) friends, about South Park, and I’ve been dying to share some thoughts from it.

So, the thing is, my friend also loves South Park, but most for the satire, which I 1005 relate to, as that was my own way of enjoying it until like, this December when I fell face first into the fandom. 

But what we talked most about, is how the fandom constantly have these little discourses and disagreements when it comes to how we view these characters and why that is. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a fandom bitch since 2005, and I’m aware that this occurs in all fandoms, but I’ve never, ever, seen it as much as I do in this one. 

Why? 

Well, let’s start with the obvious. For one, there is so much content to pick from. 22 seasons, over 20 years of evolving content, characters and creators. People come into the fandom at different times, which no doubt has some effect on how they view the show and the characters, because the show surely have had a bunch of shifts when it comes to writing, focus and overall mood. 

Also, this is a show who focuses a great deal on real events, so the way the characters respond and acts according to these things is bound to have an effect on how the viewers feel about the real issues themselves, and therefore, how they feel about the characters reactions and actions. 

That all makes a bunch of sense, and is not a new idea to me, and probably not to you guys either. But the next part was certainly not something I’ve been giving any thoughts, and that’s why I wanna talk a bit about it. 

So, South Park is a satire, focusing mainly on ongoing issues in America, but also the world as in general. We all know that. 

That means South Park is a plot driven show, rather than a character driven one. I believe this might be the key to why there are so much stuff about the characters the fandom disagrees on. 

When a show is plot driven, it has a tendency to use it’s characters as plot devices, and South Park is no exception. If anything, I think they do it a lot more than many other shows and stories, simply because it’s South Park. The tagline of the fandom is “They make fun of everything!” and yes, that includes themselves, a great deal actually. 

When characters are used as plot devices, their characteristics may sometimes be a little compromised. Like, for example, Geralds whole deal in the 19th season, where he suddenly became a horrible internet troll, driving people to suicide, when he had never before shown any signs of having a mean streak, for the sake of the story. 

That’s just one example of so, so many, but it’s the most prominent and most recent one that comes to mind for me, personally. 

I’m not, in any way what so ever, saying that this is a bad thing. Because it’s not, and Matt and trey usually handles these things with humor, insightfulness, clever writing, and most importantly, a whole ton of self-awareness. 

Where it can go a little wrong, however, is when the fandom culture comes into it. When people become very passionate about these characters, and want to create their own content, like fan art and fanfiction, and they start to fill in the blanks themselves. 

Those of us who’ve been around for a while usually call them headcanons. 

Headcanons exists in every fandom, but the difference here is that the canon we bade it on, isn’t always a constant, as a more character driven show would have. 

Of course, I’m not saying that the characters doesn’t have canon personality traits or are written badly, because that’s so not the case, at all. 

But when characters show a side of themselves only sometimes, or once or twice, and in certain. situations to drive the plot some of us are bound to disagree on how big part that actually is of the characters personally. 

Some might even want to use those things as the base of the way they see certain characters, based on how strongly they feel about it, or if they started the show when that character was in a special place.  

A few examples of things that are, or once were, canon, but the fandom tends to make the main part of these characters personally, while others absolutely despise them are: Stan as a depressed alcoholic, Kenny as a promiscuous pervert, Kyle as a self righteous, angry nerd, Butters as a tiny soft, nervous uwu boy, Wendy as a selfish idealist who keeps breaking Stans heart, Craig as an emotionless and apathetic mess, and the list could go on and on. 

I would like to be clear that I’m not saying any of those things are bad to do. I’m just using them as examples I hope some of you recognize. 

Sooo, what did I really want to say with this long ass rant? 

Basically what I always preach, lol. That we need to remember what this show actually is, and that we should never let that stop us from enjoying it and it’s character in any way that makes us happy and inspired. 

But we also need to remember that everyone has a different opinion n these characters, and that in a fandom this big, and this divided, it1′s super important to respect each others opinions and passions. Don’t start arguments where you have no other goal than to point out that your way is better than someone else’s. 

Is there any trope, any ship, a character that you really dislike and feels like it ruins part of the joy for you? Block the tag(s). Seriously, it helps a lot. 

And on that note, remember to tag your stuff, so the filter actually work. Some might find too much tags annoying, but if that’s a problem, try politely explaining that it’s to be considerate of people who might want to avoid certain characters, ships and themes. If they don’t listen, YELL AT THEM. 

Jk, but seriously, that’s their problem, not yours. 

TL;DR/Basically, be considerate of either peoples opinions, discuss away, but don’t ridicule people for having different opinions than you, and just fucking enjoy this shitshow. 

And, for the love of god. remember: 

[hunkkeiths-blog]

So I just scrolled 20000 years back on your blog like the creep I am and I saw you mention schizophrenic Keith headcanons but never actually saw schizo Keith headcanons and I'm 👀👀👀

once again thank you so much for sending this! i really really love this au but i never talk about it bc i feel like no one cares and this makes me sooo happy!

also sorry again for answering late i just wanted to be able to type everything relatively quickly and use a readmore

(i added links that lead to wiki pages to explain what certain stuff is, you don’t need to click them or anything)

ok so here goes

[Food mentions and slight emeto for this part]

Keith has a lot of trouble with food, both bc of sensory issues and paranoia

when its sensory, its mostly if the texture is too different to whats hes used to, or if theres too much taste and theres anything else (a sound, some lights flashing, whatever) hell get overwhelmed really easily. so he tries to stick to relatively tasteless stuff

Keith also gets a lot of persecutory delusions and some of the most recurring ones is that his food has been poisoned, having relatively tasteless food helps with not being as convinced of that

On good days (well as good a day as you can have when you think your food has been poisoned anyway), he can sort of just power through it and eat enough to not be starving.

On bad days, he either doesn’t eat at all, or if he only realises it after having eaten he becomes sick/makes himself sick.

Back on Earth, especially during his year alone, he had 3-4 “trusted foods/brands” and he almost exclusively only ate those

Once on the ship, things get very complicated, because from the start, he doesn’t trust the altean food goo (he still doesn’t if he’s entirely honest, but they’ve all been eating it and none of them are dead yet so if it is poisoned its slow acting enough) so he mostly only eats when hes absolutely starving for the first month or so before he slowly starts to eat more of the altean meals

He does however trust what Hunk cooks partly because he trusts Hunk, partly because Hunk eats it too, and (taste+texture of the food goo aside) hes always more comfortable when Hunk cooks.

[Warning ended]

While developing and after when he had it (which was 2 or 3 years before he entered the Garrison), Keith ended up almost entirely isolated from people, in part because he would willingly withdraw from others, in part because the people who took care of him after his father left/died (foster families i guess? i dont really know how the system works and i cant imagine how much worse it must be for a schizophrenic kid so) didn’t really know what to do with him because he had really bad emotional blunting

Because he was mostly left alone, he started focusing alot on the delusions he had at the time, the main one of which was that he just wasnt human (which yes turned out to be somewhat true, but it’s still a delusion). that led him to thinking of going to space because of a feeling that something would happen there. which led him to the garrison which is how he ended up there.

At the Garrison, he was amazing at flying and mediocre at best in all his other classes.

This is partly because outside of doing stuff that could actually directly get him to space, he wasnt able to get any motivation to do anything else. (even if he gets kicked out, he can just steal a rocket or something right?)

he also didnt really have any friends because he didnt approach anyone and more or less actively avoided anyone trying to get close to him.

the way he just was; never showing any emotion, barely speaking, the weird things he sometimes did, etc; sort of drove ppl away on its own

(this is also sort of the reason he didnt remember him and lances “rivalry” in s1ep1. he never actually noticed lance thought of him as a rival, he just thought lance was sort of loud)

Shiro ended up like being a mentor or something to Keith, and Keith wasnt able to really avoid him

They start off sort of rocky, because Keith hates interacting with other people, due to paranoid thoughts (”he can read my mind”, “he wants to hurt me”, and so on) that, while they werent nearly as bad as off meds, were still present even with medication.

Slowly though, Keith warms up to Shiro and starts trusting him (though shiro is never really sure because Keith doesnt show it at all)

Keith starts doing better in all his classes, because he’s interpreted that shiro will be extremely disappointed in him if he ends up getting kicked out because of poor grades, and hes terrified of disappointing literally the only person in the world he trusts

It also leads to Keith putting a minimum of effort into becoming at least somewhat expressive 

When the kerberos mission fails, keith is destroyed. all his grades almost instantly drop and he barely shows up to class because losing the only person he trusts essentially makes him totally apathetic, and go back to having alot of paranoid thoughts/delusions (mostly surrounding the garrison staging the entire thing, sort of fake moon landing style but with actual murder to make people back off on exploring space because of Something), and feeling like he’s being stalked by people (not entirely untrue tbh), and deal with anhedonia. and thats how he gets kicked out/how he drops out 

Living entirely alone (as in without any supervision) was hell for Keith.

Moving to the shack after dropping out messed with his entire routine, and without a relatively strict routine, he ends up forgetting his meds

Off medication, he had really really really horrible episodes that almost always ended with him getting hurt in some way

Off-meds, he starts his garrison/shiro conspiracy wall

He also found the blue lions cave during an episode

After a while (keith never tries to find out how much time he spent without his meds because he forgot about them), he ends up taking his antipsychotics again, and almost destroys the wall, except theres a feeling he still has that he rememebers he had during an episode.

He ends up going to the cave again, and “Holy shit that was real??” so he restarts his wall while being a bit more down to Earth.

The day shiro crashes on earth is one of the best days of his life bc, well, shiro, but also because he was actually right for once.

Overall, Keith’s pretty good at organising his thoughts and not speaking incoherently, but if hes at all stressed, hell go through a lot of thought blocking

It’s really annoying because Keith hates not being understood and not finishing his points, but often, even if the person hes talking to reminds him what he was talking about, he cant remember what he was going to say after

He also used to think that the thought blocking was aliens and/or the government stealing away all his thoughts to study humans (or, before the garrison: not entirely human entities)

His thoughts are alot more disorganised than his speech shows (under normal circumstances, there are occasions where he does get mostly incoherent). He’s learned to think of what hes going to say step by step before saying it

What he says often still comes off as not entirely thought out, rude, etc because thinking about what order words are going to come out of his mouth doesnt fix not understanding how to interact with others

And here’s a bunch of stuff i couldn’t really make long enough to warrant a separate section:

Keith stims mostly when hes nervous or bored, and he stims by scratching his nails against things, because he likes the sounds it makes.

[self harm (sort of)] at some point, the team notices that when theres nothing for him to scratch (like a wall or something), hell scratch at his own skin, because scratching fabric feels/sounds horrible, often until he scratches part of it off. so they make him these little squares of material to scratch at

Keith does a lot of magical thinking (i cant find an easy link for this but in this case its like seeing signs in things that are seemingly unrelated if that makes sense) where he’ll see a ‘sign’ and feel like he has to do something (what something is varies from something very specific to just “something”)

since he obviously cant always do what hes supposed to do after seeing the signs, hes started writing down everything so he can do it later (lance’s idea). it helps a lot.

Keith hates places with background noises that arent constant (like they stop and start, stop and start), even if they arent particularly loud, because he loses his entire train of thought whenever it stops or starts

Ok! that’s all I can think of right now, I hope this answered what you were looking for! 

I lost my entire train of thought at least 5 times while typing this so I’ll probably add more things in my tag later on when I think of them again!

I’m also writing an actual story with this, it should come out around the end of June if you’re interested!