#braindead brigade

[missbaphomet]

I know I said I was done talking about the internet drama Ken has dragged me into, but it's clear he didn't understand anything I said and was deliberately trying to overwhelm me with messages so that I couldn't fully respond. Well, it's over now, and I have all the time in the world to fully respond. Stay tuned for that, but it may take me a while to transcribe his messages from over the course of 53 individual screenshots. I will be preserving self censorship, lack of punctuation, and typos for posterity.

Do I think it will make Ken realize he's being an idiot? No. But I want it off my chest to be done with it.

[rat-spit-village]

ngl all the veilguard discourse is depressing me lol

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

i immediately deleted the ask i got because it's fucking braindead but im gonna post about it anyway.

if you have to start with "you CLEARLY only consume popular/recent media you need to watch unpopular/ancient media instead" and go on to detail why i'm wrong and why i should pry my eyes open like clockwork orange and force myself to watch fictional characters with zero established compatibility lick each other's necks to whatever the current iteration of shape of you is nowadays/was back then? you're actually stupid. like genuinely you're a dipshit full stop.

no the fuck i don't need to watch X Y Z or the sequel prequel spinoff. i dont need to do fucking anything that you insist i 'need' to force me into your blowhard bitch brigade full of self-fellating schmucks.

you ''need'' to sniff a flower and feel the wind on your face. bask in the dappled sunlight under a tree and eat some sliced fruit. jackass.

[itsjustmyunpopularopinion]

Look, I know I came off pretty fucking heated from this initial post, but you gotta understand - Pikamee isn’t just a “talking jpeg”, she’s just another person, like you or me. There are people behind those avatars, y’know.

She had a rough fucking childhood growing up in Japan, mostly due in part to the fact that she was Half American/Half Japanese, so she was bullied RELENTLESSLY. She grows up with this vitriol constantly lobbed her way, and so she escapes into streaming, finding acceptance and love from Westerners who find her charming and fun to watch.

She’s the antithesis to your average Social Media consumer. She’s not without her flaws, sure, and some folks may consider her acceptance of LoliSho art distasteful (but some of y’all got brainworms and dive off the deep end on that topic), and that’s fine. (except for those of you mentioned before. It’s a goddamn drawing. let’s not trivialize actual trauma by pretending cartoons play any part in that)

But y’all went and turned into the exact same people she had to deal with growing up, you put her through those hellish school days all over again. And over what? A video game? Instead of just saying “Hey, maybe don’t.” and leaving it at that (because Japan, believe it or not, tends to ignore the nontroversies occurring in the west, or giving it a glance and an eye-roll), you people brigaded her, dogpiled her, screamed threats and harassment down her throat until she finally fucking hit a breaking point and vanished off the net for three goddamn weeks.

Over. A Video Game, I’d like to reiterate.

I’ve seen the word “Parasocial” tossed at me a few times, and…no? I don’t feel any sort of personal attachment towards Pikamee, Silvervale, or any other streamer you people have basically tried to lynch online. What I see, is a group of bullies trying to push other people around, without actual cause, or even the slightest hint of guilt, or SHRED of self-awareness. I don’t like bullies. I was bullied growing up, see? I can relate to them, yes, but that’s about it. I just don’t like bullies and mob mentality.

And worse yet, you go flying off the handle over rumors, speculation, and allegations. Not proof, no smoking guns, just rumor and hearsay surrounding the game’s plot and development.

Hell, I’m willing to bet a good chunk of you Twitter Freak Apologists liked or shared that shitty Kotaku article that dropped, colorfully rewording “Harassment”, “Doxxing”, and “Sending Death Threats” to “Lightly Criticized”, “Educated”, and “Shared Discomfort”.

Y’all need to learn that there’s a fine line for what’s socially acceptable behavior, even online, and stop crossing that line so fucking liberally.

As a parting note, remember: The fact that Hogwarts Legacy is currently holding the record for Largest Launch Sales Figures for a game? That’s on you. You braindead, terminally online zoomers caused a Streisand Effect so massive, it may as well be renamed to the Rowling Effect at this point.

You People are Fucking Disgusting, Unwashed Fungoids in Desperate Need of a Shower.

All Pikamee wanted to do was play a fucking game. But Nooo, you shitheads had to become “CAPTAIN PROGRESSIVE! HARASSER OF THE EVERYDAY PERSON!”

Her crime? She wanted to play the stupid wizard game…and you fucking brainlets chose to harass and bully her until she cancelled the stream.

You realize, when you pull shit like this, it makes your side look like a big ol’ massive fucking pile of mentally damaged psychopaths, right?

Right?

[salvador-daley]

what do you think klaus and dave’s first big fight was about?

Given that Klaus spent his whole life being immortal and not knowing about it, I imagine that probably made him, um, a little reckless sometimes. I can imagine him doing something foolish on the battlefield and that leading to a fight.

I imagine it probably went something like this…

CW: Vietnam war setting = bloody violence

Words: 1,150

The whole thing was fucked up from the start. They were dropped from the chopper on the other side of the treeline in broad daylight, which meant anyone in a ten mile radius would have known they were planning an ambush.

Fuck knows whose bright idea that was. It wasn’t their place to ask; they took their orders and they carried them out, no matter how suicidal the mission, no matter how braindead the person giving the orders.

No wonder there were rumours from other brigades about commanding officers getting fragged in their tents in the night.

Myths, probably.

Maybe.

For what little good it did, they had crouched in the dirt and crawled their way to the trail, digging a trench behind a small hedge row from which to plan their next move.

There was only one way out in or out of the village - an oasis positioned in the middle of a patchwork quilt of rice paddies - and this was it.

It was agreed. They would wait until dark and pick off the target if and when they decided to leave.

As the sun set, a silence fell on the village. The lights were snuffed out, one by one. The cows in the paddies ceased their mournful lowing.

Even the crickets were still.

The night sky was blank with clouds. No moon or stars to see by.

Just endless, velvet night.

And then, in the darkness, something took to the sky. Something small and light. A moving shadow, the size of a fist. And now falling, falling, finding the earth with a soft thud.

“Oh, shit,” someone whispered, right before the trench lit up with an infernal blast, kicking dirt and body parts into the air. An ear-splitting boom rattled around the valley, followed by the panicked screams to open fire.

But there was nothing to open fire onto. No muzzle flashes, no movement. Just another shadow lifting into the air and then another, and another. Thud… thud, thud.

“Get out of there! Move, move!”

Dave grabbed him, tugging him to his feet by the collar. Together they scrambled out of the trench and towards the trees as more explosions shook the earth, softening the wet dirt under their feet and hands.

Klaus’ ears were ringing, he couldn’t get his bearings. Darkness lay in every direction.

How many of their comrades had survived? They couldn’t know. The voices of those still alive bounced off the trees, the groans of the injured echoed around them.

“Stay down!” a voice called out - whoever was in charge now.

“We’re fucked,” hissed Dave. “We can’t see them, but they can see us. We’re sitting ducks.”

Klaus couldn’t make out Dave’s face, but he could certainly guess his expression, imagine the lines of his forehead coming together, the widened pupils and pale skin. A rabbit in headlights, awaiting the surety of its fate.

And that made Klaus thankful for the dark.

“What we need is a distraction,” he said.

And Dave had agreed. “That’s for sure.”

Thinking back on it, that probably wasn’t Dave’s way of giving him permission to do what he did next. But Klaus was never one to wait for permission anyway.

He rose to his feet and bolted from trees. “Yoo hoo! Over here!”

“Klaus, no!”

But Dave’s voice was already behind him. He darted across the trail, waving his gun high above his head, twirling in circles. “Hey, losers! Look at me!”

Bullets begin to whizz past his ears, pelting the ground by his feet. Klaus tapdanced around them as if starring in a Broadway musical.

“Wassamatter? Can’t kill me?”

From the trees where his comrades lay hidden, Klaus heard someone shout. “Motherfucker has lost his mind!”

“Who cares?” Someone answered back. “It’s working.”

The sound of gunfire exploded from the treeline. The enemy had made themselves known now, which meant his company stood a fighting chance. But it also meant Klaus was being shot at from all sides.

He ducked. Too late. A hard impact sent him flying to the ground. And then the open trench swallowed him whole like a yawning grave.

He woke to Dave shining a torch in his face. A medic slapping him about the cheeks.

“He’s alive,” someone said with an incredulous laugh. “The crazy son of a bitch is alive.”

“Did I miss all the fun?” Klaus groaned, reaching a hand up to the back of his head. His helmet had fallen off and his hair was wet with a warm, viscous substance. His skull was pounding like hell.

“Klaus,” said Dave, leaning in to bring his face closer. “Do you have any idea what you just did?”

Klaus chuckled and tried to sit upright. “I believe I just saved the day with my spectacular dance moves.”

“No, you stupid bastard.” Dave grabbed Klaus’ vest with both hands and lifted him, pulling his face close to his own until they were almost touching and Klaus could feel Dave’s hot breath on his nose, the flecks of spittle landing on his cheeks. Dave’s teeth were gritted and his eyes were blazing with something Klaus had never seen there before: anger. “What the fuck did you think you were doing?”

“Woah, woah, woah…” Klaus attempted to wriggle free from the two hands holding him firm, but Dave wasn’t letting go. “Is that all the thanks I get? For saving your life?”

Dave’s voice pitched higher, the grip tightening in his two fists around Klaus’ clothes. “Don’t you understand. You could have been killed, you fucking asshole!”

And that’s when he saw it. Illuminated by the soft yellow torchlight. The look of fear in Dave’s eyes. The terror.

Klaus stopped struggling to break free and he felt Dave loosen his grip without letting go. The man looked desperate, distraught even.

“If something had happened to you…” he whispered, unable to piece the final jigsaw pieces of that sentence together.

“All right, all right.” Klaus wrapped his hands over Dave’s and brought his voice lower so the others wouldn’t hear it. “I’m sorry, okay? I didn’t mean to scare you.”

Dave let go of Klaus’ vest, allowing Klaus to sink back into the mud, which welcomed him again. He slumped on the opposite side of the trench, broken and defeated, and picked Klaus’ fallen helmet out of the mud. As he turned it in his hand, Klaus could see a hole at the back that wasn’t there before. Dave poked his finger through it and met Klaus’ eyes again.

“Just don’t… don’t fucking do something like that ever again.”

Klaus double checked the back of his head. Blood on his fingertips. But no bulletholes, no entry wounds. The bullet must have grazed him as he fell into the pit.

He let out a long breath and wiped his bloodied hand on his pants. “Okay. I won’t, I promise.”

And for once, he meant it.

If you enjoyed this fic, would you be willing to give it a quick reblog? Thank you! 😘😘

[love-toxin]

ok but I'm thinkin bout steve + dorky angelface again and kickin my feet cause...........you've got those big wire-rimmed glasses that reflect the neon lights off the arcade screens, and those old t-shirts and jeans with holes ripped through them, not for style but because they're well-loved, and that lanyard that you always have around your neck because you like to fiddle with it when you're anxious or focusing or whatever. you're not the type he's gone for before but steve is so fucking whipped because you're just......you're so cute in that nerdy way, so unashamed of enjoying what you like, you match the energy of the kids that you call your best buds, and yet you're kind and careful and exude that aura of comfort that makes him just want to melt into every touch you offer him. whether it's a hand on his shoulder or your fingers brushing his wrist as you guide his hand to the joysticks on your favourite game, or even the tickle of your hair against his cheek as you two stand shoulder-to-shoulder on one of the multiplayer cabinets while dustin and max and mike and lucas all cheer and shriek excitedly as you approach a new high score. you're such a dork but you're so cool cause you've got the keys to the arcade, the holy grail of friday nights, and you single-handedly captain the geek brigade with that big, dumb smile on your lips, and eyes that always glimmer like you've got some big scheme cooking up in that busy brain of yours.

and steve also wants that head empty for once, wants those eyes glittering with tears and those lips parted and wet with spit as he fucks you until you're practically braindead. wants to lift you up on one of the pinball machines, the arcade completely empty of patrons so late into the night, and watch those glasses slip down your face and fall askew as he rocks his hips so hard against you he leaves bruises where he's dragging your waist down to meet him. wants that damn machine to shake and wobble like it's gonna collapse under the weight of his thrusts, each one testing the strength of those legs and yours when you try to get up and walk tomorrow morning. wants you to hear his grunts and groaning and spitting your name into your open mouth as he kisses you, cause you clench up so much when he says your name--even harder when he mutters that he never knew you were such a slut, never pegged you for one, but god if you aren't such a pretty one. and steve's not cumming until you do, not until you lose all sense of dignity and babble out that you're so close, steve you're so close, you're gonna make a huge mess--and he pushes his thumb even harder against your sweet spot, makes you throw your head back in a whine so loud he's relieved there's nobody around, and orders you to make a mess for him cause he knows he's gonna cum so hard when he watches that sweet face twist up in pleasure that you'd never get just from touching yourself while thinking of him. you'll get an apology for letting your glasses fall off and hit the floor, plus a heart attack when you slide off the pinball machine and see the pool of cum and slick that you've both left behind, but steve will help you clean it--and when that fails, he'll help you move it into the back room for "maintenance" that you're gonna have a hell of a time explaining to your boss the next day. although, knowing steve, he'll take advantage of it and use that poor, poor pinball as your designated dogging spot whenever you two find yourselves alone together after hours again.

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still think it was remarkably and unusually shitty for y'all to brigade me because i saw a bomb test. i have, again, said it all before but there's functionally no difference between these dumbasses and a far-right conservative. they're lucky i have bigger problems than arguing with the cartoon obsessed braindead about nuclear policy, i know i'm not getting an apology when i'm proven right yet again, because i have, again, been talking about this since longer ago than when some of y'all were first learning shapes and colors. ain't my first goddamn rodeo, i can tell it is some of y'all's though because you were asking for photos as if there's anything to be proven by that. think for one fucking second. sorry for not talking down and explaining it in easy to digest little animated stories, maybe that would have worked since they're all hopelessly conditioned to expect nothing else.

you think i took a dslr out to visit a decommissioned proving ground in between visits with my dying mom? do you know i stopped out there because i was driving 1200 miles further to pack up the last of a storage unit to move across country for an engagement to marry that fell apart? even aside from the fact i didn't go expecting to see anything, it's fucking personal. i wanted to walk the leviathan ground like some belly of the beast shit and my mom was getting sick of me trying to hold her to account on her deathbed anyway. no, it's not radiation poisoning or cancer, it's octopus-pot heart and i'm pretty sure it's my fault. it's my aunt that's fighting cancer, currently, this year, as opposed to every other person i've known who's fought it. not that it's any of your fucking business but if any one of you took the time to walk a mile in my shoes you'd be dead from sheer stress on the first step. stress is what killed the engagement. little else i can do but laugh at how stupid this is because of course, what else would happen? you can't make me unsee it, so none of your objections matter one half of a shit. i didn't want your attention and i don't care what you think.

the fact that still gets me is like... so we both agree you shouldn't believe me sight unseen -- that was stated outright in the one post you couldn't read -- so... what were you actually disagreeing with? abject lack of context? the precious idea of me you have in your head? it'd be hilarious if it wasn't such pathetic, wilfully malinformed bullshit over such a gravely serious subject. we were disagreeing over whether authorized testing is detectable by unauthorized test detection methods or over whether another country would call our bullshit in the middle of declaring six different wars? i'm sorry, i mean humanitarian proxy conflict interventions. so, we were disagreeing about reactors, huh? as a proxy conflict? i've already said that the braindead model the behavior of the empire interpersonally. we were arguing over whether you knew more about detection than the wing of government designed to evade precisely that? appealing to the authority of a crumbling infrastructure? which part, precisely? we were arguing because i said maybe two kilotons and you pictured castle bravo? stupid.

so hellbent on believing you wouldn't hear about a bomb test on the internet while you fawn over the possibility of covert celebrity migration from twitter. yet more trifling ass bullshit. put it together, dumbass. you didn't hear me any of the other times i talked about it, maybe that's why i have a notebook here while i'm trying to figure out how to detect what's designed to evade detection so i and the other three people in the world who care about this can figure out the appropriate means to make you hear about it in a way you can afford to believe without having to crush yourself under the weight of your own culpability in it while the IAEA is busy debuting drones at COP27. i wish they'd all just die on god but that'd be a mercy they don't deserve.

[randomrealityshift]

Cant wait for the rest of the harbingers show up in game so genshin’s braindead twitter brigade can have meltdowns over character other than childe for a change

[missbaphomet]

Imagine posting you yelling at a 16 year old for prioritizing her health and school over playing video games with you and pretending that SHE'S the bad guy for that. That is a fucking child, Emily. This shit you're doing? That is a hallmark of emotional abuse. You have posted how you've been talking to her since she was 11, and then openly display that you're fucking grooming her, and make no mistake, this is grooming.

Misty, if you see this, you deserve better. I was groomed in a manner very similar to this, and you can get out. If you ever need someone, you know where to find me. I'm so sorry Emily is doing this to you.

[sylviaofaureate]

These are my thoughts under the cut. Some speculation and discussion of videos and voice dramas.

Strongly disagree with your take on Shidou. His voice drama and his music videos have made it clearer in round 2.

As a doctor he was asking the families of brain dead or otherwise unrecoverable patients to take them off life support in order to use their organs for patients that had better recovery potential.

He started to feel the weight of this after his son was in an accident and became braindead.

Vote him whichever way you like, but he wasn't trying to make a Frankenstein monster. I think this is a metaphorical take on all of the people he attempted to save, but also all of the lives that he had taken over time.

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Mahiru is somebody who I don't think I have a very good read on, but I don't think stalker is the correct take.

Since she was often shown on the phone with the person she was dating, I think her "crime" was being overbearing. Actually, there is a part in that first music video where she's "over" her date and with a mischievous smile that made me feel on edge. I think she probably pushed and pushed and somebody too much, the kind of relationship that feels suffocating, and whoever she was with felt like they had no way out and would rather die.

This specific scene put me on edge, because this doesn't look like somebody who's on the same page in a relationship with somebody else. If we take the feathers as a metaphor of the partner, then they've been losing their feathers from stress. And it leads right into

Losing all their feathers, a breaking point, but one that Mahiru didn't recognize the signs of. She seems like the type of person who has heavily romanticized love and doesn't know what it really looks like, or what it really entails. We'll have more insight in her next video and drama.

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Yuno. I saw that somebody had already spoken about her abortions, and she does make that clear through the voice dramas.

Though I see nothing wrong with her getting money and sleeping with guys, Japan has very strict laws on abortion. They're only really allowed when it's the result of rape or it's an active endangerment to the pregnant person. I think it's less that she did something wrong, but more of a feeling of guilt that she would like to be abscribed to. Especially because in the comments of the first round of MVs had a lot of talk about how "it's not her fault because she's some poor girl who was taken advantage of" But the second round dramas made it clear she knew what she was doing, and she wasn't coerced into this or anything. But a relationship between a minor and an adult will always have the minor being taken advantage of, just due to the power dynamics.

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Futa, between his first and second pvs, I think the thing he's guilty of is starting online cancelling brigades. The first one has him forcing people to apologize, which is a very familiar thing on the internet these days. People rallying around somebody who's done something wrong, and then absolutely mobbing them until they take their own life. I remember a big name in the youtube creation sphere being attacked so badly they left the platform, Lindsay Ellis. Smaller creators were bullied into the hospital in the Steven Universe fandom. This is a real thing that has happened before.

The first "boss" battles he faces, there's no bloodshed, nothing big happened, he probably just got these people to apologize for what they said. But then he gained a following, and with a following like that it becomes a mob mentality. You can see here, that the "boss" just has those cartoon birds over their head, nobody was really hurt as far as Futa could see.

If you get off now, you're a traitor/Now let's be reasonable. We are the ones that blow the horn for justice

After that first take down, he's probably feeling that he's on the high horse, and feeling like he can't leave. If we take this together with all the eyes on him during Backdraft, we can guess that he felt pressured to continue doing this. (I think part of PRESSURE is also the feeling of being judged by all of us.)

Here he's on a higher level than the rest of the "party". So it's possible that by the second takedown, he's feeling like he's the head of his mob.

But at the same time, we see that he's alone in the real world. This likely means that he has very little power and no friends in his own life, and has found an outlet through bullying people online and flaming them. By flaming people, there are other people who flock to the flame wars, and thus it becomes suffocating for the people who are mobbed this way. But of course, the people who started it have no idea how bad it is for the people on the other end. They'll likely never see that person as a person or know them in real life. That's why all of the "bosses" that have appeared so far were just cartoons, and didn't bleed when they were attacked.

During the third battle, we can see that his graphical user interface has become distorted. Hinting that he either regrets these actions specifically or that he was pressured into doing it.

This is not the expression of a guy who was expecting bloodshed for what he thought was just an internet flame war. I think this is the first time it really set in for him, that there were other people on the other side of the screen.

I think it's very possible that after the girl died from cyber bullying, that this line is actually addressing himself.

Like Futa says in the voice drama, Es is doing the same thing that he's done before. Es is condemning people when they only know a small fraction of the real truth of the matter, and then they go "I didn't know this would happen" when Kotoko is out there and attacking the other prisoners. So to him, he must feel like he's been shifted from being on the side of "justice" to being on the side of "unjust" which is a hard thing to process, when somebody has convinced themselves it's happened before.

Kotoko

She does start her interrogation by saying she was a college student and dropped out. So it's possible that she gave up on her life in order to pursue these killers, that she thinks are killers.

Becoming light-headed again, it all becomes crazy The normalcy sought for, Fading away, Everytime death comes The soul moves forward

To me, this sounds like she's sustaining herself on the murders that she's doing.

Let’s end this! “HARROW HARROW” I can’t forgive the evil hurting the weak It’s unforgivable, I won’t allow it, I swore

And she's justifying the kills that she's doing as being righteous in the same way that Fuda was, but he seemed to have realized his error at the first sign of blood.

It seems like Kotoko wants to play judge jury and executioner.

I think it's also very telling that she ends it in I want to be drowning in the knowledge that I'm right. Like she isn't completely sure that she's correct, but Milgram gets to decide if people are forgiven or not, and since she was forgiven, then now she feels like all of her decisions and actions are correct.

And where Futa ends looking at the destruction he caused with horror, Kotoko isn't looking down at the man she's killed, she isn't looking at the girl she potentially saved, she's looking up with triumph. I think it's plausible this was her first kill and she's savoring it.

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I feel like Haruka is hard to judge because I think he should've been sent to a therapist. He's very hung up on his mother, and can't stand the idea of having to share her attention with anybody or anything at all.

If we look back at his first MV, we can see him with a dog, and when it runs off into the woods, we can also see him killing it with a rock very violently, even if the blood is completely obscured.

So it looks like to Haruka any kind of attention is positive attention to him, even when it's supposed to be a condemnation. So if he kills an animal, he'll get some kind of attention for it right? And it looks like he killed his little brother so his mother would have no choice but to look at him instead.

At the same time, this is not a triumphant posing. This is a kid who knows what he did was wrong, but probably couldn't control himself or his jealousy enough. It does seem plausible that he has a learning disability and his family gave up on him, mental health care isn't very well taken care of in Japan. So he probably never got any of the assistance that he needed, and depending on his family's wealth likely never had the ability to.

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Mu is so interesting to me. Her first video makes her seem like a complete victim, the hourglass rolling off of the table like she had no hand in it. We can see that she's sitting underneath the blackboard of insults directed at her.

We have the visual of her in the hourglass, being slowly drowned, which flickers to this image. And the line My sorry spells must be wearing off. I wonder what she has to be sorry about. And additionally "I guess some of it is my fault".

If we combine this with It's Not My Fault, I think this is a rich, spoiled girl who is used to getting her way all the time and will twist the narrative around in order to be free of being guilty of anything ever. I think that's shown with the last view of her in the 2nd music video.

But I do think there's a part of her that doesn't like this side of herself. It's telling to me that every other music video has the character as human the entire time. Her she views everybody except the purple haired girl as bugs.

It seems like she was a bully, and the purple haired girl wasn't within her clique, was watching what she was doing, and then exposed her somehow? Which lead to everybody beginning to bully Mu in return.

I just gt into Milgram Project and its my new favorite thing. So far here is my line up'

Guilty:

Shidou - So, what I got from his song and vid is that he killed ppl so that he can play Frankenstein. He felt guilty about doing it but he still did it. And then the monster still went and died 🙄 chile anyways 😒

Mahiru - Y'all this woman is textbook crazy. There's no other way to splice it. Like she gives stalker vibes. The 'if you don't love me, you can't love anyone else'

Yuno - I originally that she was on some stalker type shit. So she was like a escort or something? I think she developed feelings for one of her customers and when they didn't reciprocate beyond being a customer she offed them

Innocent:

Futa - What I got from him was he's a gamer and spends a lot of time there bc the real world is filled with trash ppl. He is the shit in his game and kinda wishes he could wipe out the bad guys like in his game. He got the two worlds crossed and ended wiping out someone irl. He is not happy about some of the others being found innocent in the 1st trial. Which lines up with his views about justice. I feel like I may be off here but maybe there was someone he couldn't save or put on danger with his views and actions. I think he fears that he is just like the rest of the prisoners he sees as awful.

Kotoko - Blood for blood is a tale as old as time. Someone killed someone she loved and she went to kill them back. Same sis. 😏👏🏿

Haruka - Yeah, he was deemed guilty in the second round and I can't see how. He was mistreated for being different. That broke him. He just wanted to be loved by the people that should love him unconditionally... but ok 🙄

Mu - So, Mu was bullied something fierce and when she finally got a friend, for whatever reason she turns her back on Mu. 🙄😒 That is what I call a cunt move. But we'll see what happens in this 2nd Trial...

Unsure:

Mikoto - Poor baby def has a 'split personality' (apologies if the term is wrong, feel free to correct me). I think he deserves a mental hospital more than a prison but he definitely shouldn't be walking around in society if he can't keep that other side in check

Kazui: As much as I want to put the love of my life as innocent I don't really understand what went down in his video...? 😵‍💫 Like he and his wife drifted apart. Are the woman at the bar and his wife one in the same? I assumed he met his wife when she was at a low point in her life and they found live in a hopeless place. That or he a goddamn dirty cheat. And I really hope that's not the case 😭

Amane - I have no idea what her video is about. Like not even a vague idea... 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Do let me know what y'all think, whether you have something to add or a different idea entirely. Would love to see everyone else's thoughts on this.

[defjux]

Favorite 5 films?

sorry this is so long, i couldn’t bring myself to just pick 5.

12 Angry Men (1957)28 Days Later (2002)The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)Akira (1988)Alien/Aliens (1979/1986)Altered States (1980)Amadeus (1984)An American Werewolf in London (1981)Angel’s Egg (1985)Apocalypse Now (1979)A Touch Of Zen  (1971)Back to The Future I & II (1985/1989)Big Trouble In Little China (1986)Blade Runner (1982)Brazil (1985)The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)The Brood (1979)Children of Men (2006)Chinatown (1974)Contempt (1963)Dark City (1998)Dead Alive/Braindead (1992)Die Hard (1988) Dr. Strangelove (1964)Do The Right Thing (1989)Dracula (1958)Drunken Master (1978)Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)Eraserhead (1977)Escape From New York (1981)Evil Dead II (1987)The Exorcist (1973)The Fifth Element (1997) Five Element Ninjas (1982)The Fly (1986)Forrest Gump (1994)Full Metal Jacket (1987)The Godfather 1 & 2 (1972/1974)Ghostbusters  (1984)Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)Ghost In The Shell (1995)Gladiator (2000)Godzilla (1954)Grave of the Fireflies (1988)Gremlins (1984)Haraikiri (1962)Heat (1995)Hellraiser (1987)The Hidden Fortress (1958)Home Alone (1990)House (1977)Inferno (1980)Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)The Iron Giant (1999)Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)Jurassic Park (1993)Kagemusha (1980)Kill Bill 1 & 2 (2003/2004)Lady Snowblood (1973)La Planete SauvageLeon The Professional (1994)The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)The Lion King (1994)Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)Lost In Translation (2003)Mad Max 2: Road Warrior (1981)Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)The Matrix (1999)Memento (2000)Metropolis (1927)The Mist (2007)Mulholland DriveNo Country For Old Men (2007)Oldboy (2003)Once Upon a Time in America (1984)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)Perfect Blue (1997)Predator (1987)The Prestige (2006)Princess Mononoke (most Ghibli films really)Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Ran (1985)Rear Window (1954)Reservoir Dogs (1992)Return of the Jedi (1983)Sansho the Bailiff (1954)Se7en (1995)Seven Samurai (1954)The Seventh Seal (1957)The Shining (1980)Shogun Assassin (1980)Solaris (1972)Space Jam (1996)Stalker (1979)Suspiria (1977)The Sword of Doom (1966)Synecdoche, New York (2008)Taxi Driver (1976)Terminator: Judgement Day (1991)There Will Be Blood (2007)Thief (1981)The Thing (1982)Throne of Blood (1957)Touch of Evil (1958)Toy Story (1995)Vertigo (1958)Videodrome (1983)The Warriors (1979)Yojimbo (1961)

I like a lot of what i’ve seen from Cronenberg, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Lynch, Tarkovsky, Miyazaki, Ridley Scott, Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Tarantino, Sergio Leone, Coen brothers, Carpenter, and Del Toro but i’ll basically watch anything lol

some more recent favorites: Blade Runner 2049, Avengers: Infinity War, Blindspotting, The Night Comes For Us, Mandy, Annihilation, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Hereditary, Good Time , The Florida Project, Get Out, Logan, John Wick, Split, The Void, Brigsby Bear, Raw, Don’t Breathe, Terrifier, Mad Max Fury Road, Green Room, The Witch, Upgrade, Whiplash, Ex Machina, Nightcrawler, Birdman, and Grand Budapest Hotel

[arkaniist]

didn’t think i had to clarify this because i thought the fucking brainworm-infested anti kylo brigade had died off by now but this is not an anti kylo ren post you absolute braindead morons. i literally tagged it reylo you unmitigated buffoons.

legitimately feel like i'm going insane. i swear to god i read a meta thread a while ago about kylo ren's gender presentation and someone made a comment about how jj abrams had designed his TFA outfit to be androgynous. i can't find any info on that anywhere, nor can i find the post anymore. does anyone have a link to the post or any further info about that claim? where it came from? maybe it wasn't jj but someone else?

[teeplorable]

We're being brigaded, remind braindead Liberals that they thought this twitching harpy was fit for the job

[missbaphomet]

I'm literally not doing anything except when I said it was totally hinged for you to accuse a random person of wanting to have sex with fictional people because they like a video game.

Actually my friends are incredibly based and I'm sorry you can't say the same. So sad for you worstie

Hmmmm how about some evidence on that claim?

Why are you in my notes looking for who interacts? Lmfao

Anyway @gorepill it would be sooooooooo funny if you drew xariya and astarion having gross nasty sex

[jastiss-blog]

Ok now that my brain is working, allow me to add some great folks.

@ignis-scientia-estrogen-brigade contributes excellent art and literary works to the fandom, with obviously a soft spot for Ignis, though.

My girl @lazarustrashpit does some excellent art as well... and a lot of crack art, too, which is hilarious.

If you're into Ardyn of a darker nature, I'd recommend @diabolik-trash-heap or @strikecommandher for sure! All depends on your taste.

I think any other recs of mine have been covered... but if they haven't, I'm just braindead and I love you.

Hello! I’m new on Tumblr and I was wondering if you knew of/could recommend any other active FFXV blogs? I know I’m way late to the party, but I never played the game until the Royal Edition came out and it looks like a lot of blogs are dead. OTL

Oh, nuu! I’ll help ya as best as I can. As you already know, my blog is dedicated to Ardyn since I’m swimming in his hell haha. Some wonderful blogs with works FFXV- related (which may also steer a little or a lot towards the chancellor ;D) include:

Writers who words inspire me (seriously their work is sublime) -@valkyrieofardyn @ladychocoberry

Photographers whose pictures give me life -@solheimgirl @maty-yami@wondersofeos

Artists with works that floor my heart into sweet submission -@jlavisant@amicitonia@vanmec

Bloggers who really makes it fun in the tumblr and FFXV community -@pascha-chan @sevansheart@jastiss(Read the last one’s tags at your peril 😏)

And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are plenty more amazing blogs out there. Pace yourself and explore, this place is huge. Plenty of time before Episodes Ardyn, Aranea, and Lunafreya release which may have a reveal this coming weekend during TGS 18 as shared by the reliable @chimeracuddles who always has the down low info

[missbaphomet]

He is literally playing video games with me RIGHT NOW but ok sure. It's not any of your goddamn business why he deactivated but we're still hanging out and talking. Turns out when you don't fucking suck as a human being people don't randomly abandon you. If you projected any harder you'd be a movie theatre. Leave my friends the fuck alone.