#but the system shouldnt be broken

[imanflexington]

I really wish I was more punk. The establishment should be pushed back on every shape and form, unfortunately I think humans work great in a structured society, and I'll therefore be forever punkish.

[backseatloversz]

"you NEED to vote the lesser of two evils" is an insane thing to say when theres already the blood of tens of thousands on bidens hands. im only NINETEEN it is NOT my fault american democracy is a joke and i REFUSE to let people make me feel like it is!!!!!! you can not fucking guilt me into saying anything but a vote for biden is a vote for trump!!!!!! thats now how it fucking works!!!!!! none of this is MY FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!! dont get mad at me!!!!!!!!!!!

[rainbows-fanfics]

The Barnes & Noble app stopped working for me ever since the beginning of July, and I had to physically talk with someone over the phone just to report the bug in my app since no one could help me via email. The issue never got fixed and rendered my app unusable. So I finally uninstalled it today.

Cancelled my pre-order for Sally's Lament from them, probably going to get it from Amazon or ThriftBooks instead, it's just way more cheaper and it doesn't look like the B&N Exclusive is going to offer anything special.

I don't think I'll be buying anything from B&N anymore, come to think of it.

[dandunn]

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dont read this

[echidnana]

ok just something we have to vent somewhere because otherwise it will make us feel insane but the dad said today that the reason for financial hardship in the united states is because of "illegal immigration". what a batshit take

[roseyjustice]

An.ders' romance was the first I went for and it's so sweet and important to me tbh

Like I have so many thoughts about him and his character and his role, like I he's so complex and understandable !!

I want to gnaw on him like a chew toy raauhh

[transsexula]

Clearly we have fully read my response and didn't just get pissed about the first point that we didn't like!

(Yikes. Love the cut off right before the full explanation! I hate that I have to try to explain this shit but here I go-)

Let's make it simpler:

Vote for someone you would trust to elect your representatives. Ignoring state elections is what costs us the most- as it gives way to nation-level law changes.

Obviously you won't get a prefect candidate- I don't think that may ever be possible. But who is the best option? Who are they most likely to bring in?

Like goddamn. The whole point of this stupid ass system is to vote in people you trust to appoint others to certain positions. It's to bring someone in you trust to pass laws that YOU want. You are voting for your representatives when you are voting for your local government.

Do I believe they should be able to appoint people at will? Personally? No! I want that to be up to US directly. DIRECTLY being the key.

I get what you're trying to say with the initial post. If you actually read my response you would know that. But there is a HUGE problem with acting like your vote does jack shit, when it literally elects the little guys that do the big things for you.

Again. I never said I like or support this system. But the way you guys talk about it is like you can't ever get shit done. Like it's worthless to even try. What makes you think thats a good way to go about it???? All that does is discourage people from voting to make those small changes.

Like- I would rather put someone in office who won't make it illegal to protest in my area. That way I'm 5% safer in this area when I'm at a demonstration.

I would rather put someone in office who will actively fight old ass horrible abortion laws, than someone who unquestionably signs them into law.

here's the thing: if you're not a member of the electoral college in the USA, it literally does not matter if you vote. electoral college members take the popular vote numbers, officially, as a *suggestion*, and they are full within their rights to vote against it (historically this was justified using the potential case of the ballots being collected just prior to some major event that would clearly invalidate a prior vote, such as a candidate being killed by another candidate). it literally only matters whether these unelected 538 people (unrelatedly, the USA has ~700 billionaires) vote for a given party. literally everyone in the country could vote for one candidate, but if those 538 people decided they didn't want to, they could just elect the other one, and it would be perfectly within the bounds of the US's constitution and so-called bourgeois 'democracy'.

Lenin said:

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for the slave-owners.

[castielsprostate]

also i would like to mention I drew a reverse death today and sometimes i hate the cards

[bibibbon]

MHA chapter 426

4 more chapters until MHA ends and wow!!!

Honestly this chapter was mainly the conclusion of the todoroki family arc which I still hate how it played out and ended. The whole todoroki family NOT INCLUDING ENJI deserves so much better than what horikoshi gave them.

Hawks is the new HPSC leader?!?! I feel like the system should of just been destroyed considering how much it hurt everyone and hawks by no means has any proper character development to take this role. Hawks hasn't really broken down his flawed beliefs or truly developed from his mentality that ended up getting one of the most redeemable league of villains members aka twice killed. Also he barely reflects on his actions and all of this feels so underwhelming and unprepared for.

Todoroki family deserves better. The ABSLOUTELY vile ending the todoroki family received is horrible like I really feel like they should just runaway and live in a house without endeavour and actually take up on endeavours attornment bs. Like the only one who gets it is natsou who has every right to live with his girlfriend and keep her far away from that environment and oh my Rei deserves so much better both narratively and by the fandom.

Enji still sucks. Yeah I can't lie nothing this man can do can make me like him and it doesn't help that hori has written all of those retcons to humanise him and make him pitiful. I feel like when it came to the todoroki family arc enji took on a whole lot of screentime WHICH HE SHOULDNT OF!!! That should of gone to shoto and the rest of the family and an easy way to fix it is to simply have killed enji in the first war arc (as was initially planned but hori changed it later on) ALSO I SAY LET TOUYA REST AT THIS POINT!!! having him just mechanically alive and stuck is horrible honestly I think that death is much more of a merciful fate for him at this point.

So lady nagant chose to go to jail?!?! Her reasoning for it is actually so sad though and it really shows how much hero society traumatised her. Like the woman didn't want to be free so she can't be used by anyone and would rather spend time in prison over it. I wish that she was hawk's mentor from the begining because the vibe those two give is absolutely amazing and it would enhance the parallels and relationship they have if they were. Honestly I hope hawks actually does a good job but Iam still all for the destruction of hero society and I doubt hawks is actually going to reform it properly also the hero society is so deeply flawed that I don't think there is a proper way to reform more like just scratch everything out and start fresh.

Spinner is back. I hope I don't see him have a breakdown when he realises what happend to the league because I can't handle that. Also that begs the question I thought that spinner had become somewhat brain dead after all he's been through so how did he turn back from being a giant nomu?

I can't handle the sibling angst too bad that touya and shoto didn't have a better arc. The whole shoto trying to know touya better and him revealing that soba is also his favourite food softens my heart. In another universe where enji doesn't get a redemption touya gets one while justice is served to the todoroki family.

Gentle criminal and la brava getting justice. (The only good part of the chapter fr)

in conclusion this chapter was horrible if we look at it from a story perspective due to how badly MHAs already established plot points and themes are handled!!!

Also what happend to the random character in the last chapter!!! I hope we get closure on that soon

[i-yap]

I found ur blog like a week ago and I went through all ur Dick Grayson fics and I'm lowkey obsessed help

May I ask for childhood best friends to lovers w Grayson? Maybe he and R were besties at the circus but after the incident and he gets taken in by Bruce, they get taken into the Court of Owls and works as their best informant/spy when they meet Dick again as Nightwing? Or just normal childhood friends to lovers lol

Im not too familiar with the court of owls..so im just doing a govt spy y/n if thats okay. And also i need more people like you giving love to babyboy grayson tbh

Dick Grayson x spy!reader - Childhood besties ->lovers

The girl who could fit through, mold through any surface, any ring or hole and the boy who could jump, twist and turn like no other. The boy of the spotlight and the girl of the shawdows..the only kids in a big circus they called family. But what good is a family when he's gone. Some billionaire, from gotham they said. Was it the billionaire who held him when he cried that night. No , she was.

That night, the girl had no parents so his parents were hers too. But she is calmer, always has been. Calm, bidding her time before she makes enough to escape. A house is not a home without her wonder boy.

Wonder boy? in the choas of it all, in the pain, for the sake of revenge he left her. But he himself doesnt see - he really had no choice. " New family" the press called it. A family is not born out of pain, its not born from bloodthirst. She was his family, but when he came to get her she was long gone.

Now here he stands, looking at her. He should have known she'd turn into a govt spy, she had a talent of getting in where she shouldnt. The way she got into his heart and never left.

The vigilante and the soldier, the hero and the spy, the fighter and the runner.

Would she believe him if he said he thought about her everyday? would she love what he has become? Would she forgive him for all he has done?

What all he had done. the women he has been with, they never meant anything. He thought she was dead! if he had known. They promised under the circus lights...but here he was. He wonders if she broke the promise too.

She didnt care, of course not. This was her sweetheart, her lover. He had the same smile, the same love for the spotlight, the same passion and the same kind eyes. Maybe she is breaking the oath of being a government official, but promises are made to be broken and for him, there's not much she wouldnt break.

The same applies to him, after all these years, reunited again. Maybe they never left at all. It's written in the curtains of the big red-yellow tent.

Changing the system from inside and out, y/n really has always been what's missing from Dick grayson. How can boy wonder be without his girl mystery after all.

[cogmin213]

Who is Raven?

Reincarnation of Deon Hart from im not that kind of talent

He is 174 years old and Cruel Hart's forever baby

What is Raven's true name?

"Deon" but his name is censored by the world so whenever you mention Deon. They will only hear static noises or "■■" in Cruel's system chat box

Raven is only an alias since his true name is censored

Why does Raven have black hair and Green or grey eyes?

Raven's original hair color is white and his og eye color is red, however due to an accident. He become blind and his red eyes turn into murkish grey

The reincarnation Deon was kidnapped due to his ability of " spirit fragment" and been taken care by his fake parents.

The Head of Spirit Fragment association during that time use Deon's fake parents to keep an eye of him until Deon decide to escape in his snowfox form but during his escape his eyes turn blind and met the head of association

He awaken his shaman ability and met the guardian spirit. The guardian spirit save Deon but Deon's soul fragment is broken and missing some pieces

Cruel decide to give a partial of his soul to Deon thus making his hair turn black. That black hair is a connection of Cruel and Deon and if the connection is broken means Cruel disappeared as Deon's guardian spirit and his hair will turn back white

The green eyes was lend by Cruel and it can be turn off and on like a switch by Deon. Cruel can see anything Deon can see since that eyes belongs to him

What is Raven's backstory?

Deon is born with the purest soul. Pure as a snowfox.

He snowfox is a proof he could become a spirit fragment user and thus making several people wanting him.

Guardian Spirit has been watching Deon since the moment he was born.

The Head of Spirit Fragment Association kidnapped several children including Deon and put them under several fake parents.

He taken a form of snowfox to escape but large accidents happen during his run making him blind

He goes back to take revenge to kill the head of association as he accidentally open the 'gate' in rage and awaken both immortality and shaman ability.

Due to his shaman ability, he was able to communicate to the Guardian Spirit

Note- Gate is the vortex directed to the demon world meaning it could bring out monster or an entrance to a territory like the vampire queen. In this case, Deon open the gate and manage to bring out demonic monster to eat the head of association.

Does Raven know about his previous life?

In chapter 98, he will acquire the book Remember written for Deon.

The book is only for that one reader

The cover was smudgy and you could only read the title as "talent" written by Remember

In Chapter 99, He ask permission from Cruel if its okay for him to read the book since it's related to him. Cruel only answered he shouldnt let him waver his action due to Cruel's opinion but Raven insist Cruel is more important than the book

Chapter 100, as Raven reads the book with Cruel. Raven naturally remember his past life and Cruel was crying when he reads the book

In conclusion, Despite his shitty life for 24 years of life as Deon Hart. Its nothing compared to the way he live for 150 years as ■■. All the hatred he felt in intkot doesnt mean anything to him. He just felt pitiful to his previous life but he never deny he was a sinner

He became closer to his Guardian Spirit after that

Why is Raven curse?

Karma from his previous life

The curse is about when an ordinary person taken their eyes off Raven. They would forget about him from their memory

Raven's disciple tried their best to remember their master by creating diary and adding matching tattoos together

...Hwan took the tattoo way too seriously though

Who is Raven's disciples?

Raven have 5 disciples but maybe 6 now

Altair , Live, Rowena , Hwan, Deceiver and reincarnated!Dan

Altair : First Disciple and the Head of Awakening Association.

• 31 years old with Navy blue hair and sky blue eyes. He have a mole below his left eyebrow. 188cm

• Raven's little star

• Tsundere who wants to kill his master becayse he knew his master is immortal

• Rarely calls Raven father and when he does. Its meaningful

• The person who is hurt the most by Raven's disappearance.

• The most rational person between the disciples

• big oldest sibling energy

• loves to tease his younger siblings

• Dwarf Chief favorite

• doesnt like sweets

• Most likely to carry out the crime plan by his siblings successfully

Live : Second Disciple and Head of Spirit Fragment Association

• 30 years old with green hair and yellow eyes. 169cm

• Professional gaslighter and two-faced

• The sibling who start an idea to commit crime together

• Calls Altair "hyungnim"

• Elf King favorite

• Spirit Fragment is a Jaguar

• Semi Immortal due to Hwan delaying her death (she is supposed to be dead)

• loves to tie Raven's long hair

Rowena : Third Disciple and Head of Fighter Association

• 27 years old , 174cm , black hair and orange eyes with fair skin

• massive Chaotic energy and wont stfu

• always the main reason why Altair declare an emergency meeting between siblings

• Cruel's most favorite but also his least favorite

• she could crush a skull with her barehands

• Have an artificial vampire blood due to being experiment as a child but was saved by Raven

• Vampire Queen's favorite

• wants to marry Raven ( Cruel reacts so strongly he wants to yeet her) because she wants to spend most of her life with Raven but not because of sexual attraction

Hwan : Fourth Disciple and Head of Shaman Association

• 28 years old, 180cm , Red hair with gray eyes and southerner dark skin (similar with the shaman in intkot!Ran skin)

• Looks like a good boy but could kill you

• Will curse at your face as long as Raven isnt around

• Doesnt know martial art and the weakest in physical strength

• Can see your future and call you ugly af even in the future

• Mermaid Queens favorite

• put a tattoo brand on Raven's tongue

Deceiver : Fifth Disciple and Demigod

• 196cm , pretending to be 26 years old to be called the youngest by his siblings lmao. He have white hair like Deon and red eye pupil with black sclera (however his eyes in disguise is grey pupil with white sclera to appear like a human)

• Demon King Caver and intkot!Deon Hardt biological child

• World Error

• He is above the emperor and everyone except his noonim, hyungnims and father. He hates Dan and never acknowledge the newest disciple though

• he loves his father so much he start a war against the holy land to find his father. He is also willing to create a world for his Father

• He is very knowledgeable about both of his fathers life

• His true body is the tree in Esperanes Kingdom

• the 4 disciple keeps kidnapping Raven from Deceiver and also trying to keep him away from Raven since he is the main reason why their father disappeared for 10 years

• Raven only tolerate this child after he founds out he is the world error but his responsibility to kill him to save the world from getting swallowed by the gate

Dan : Fifth Disciple who is supposed to replace Deceiver and the successor of Spirit Fragment Association

• same appearance as intkot tbh (he is the reincarnation of intkot!dan)

• all the disciples hates his ass and probably jealous because during Raven 10 years of disappearance. Raven just adopted a new disciple

• Live is using him to gain favor from her papa and Live is keeping an eye on him since he wants to kill her father

• Raven loves him

• Member of Lofty Mercenary

• Spirit Fragment is a crow. His spirit fragment often accompany Raven but always getting yeeted by the other disciples to spend time with their papa (Altair threw Dan out of the window before lmfao)

• only became a disciple recently

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• All Disciples except Dan called Raven "Father"

• All Disciple except Dan have childhood memories together creating diary and matching tattoos before Raven disappeared for 10 years

• Raven called all his disciples with cute nicknames even if they're an adult such as " my son, my dear, my baby, my little star, etc..."

• All Disciples except Dan raised with warmth and love since they were children until the day Raven decide to disappear for 10 years

• All Disciples except Dan have abandonment issues because of Raven

• All Disciples except Dan always gives Cruel a headache and you can always see Cruel taking out his sword from his sheeth slowly ( its like Cruel always feels his blood pressure rising whenever they done something stupid involving his baby Deon 😂 )

• All Disciples except Dan planned to lock Raven inside the room with no escape which made Cruel want to smack them even more (but Dan visits Raven in his imprisonment room for time to time so basically he wasnt against the idea of locking Raven up LMAO)

• All disciples loves cuddling and getting kisses to their face from Raven (though Altair doesnt like being treated as a child but he loves his father)

• Raven priorities taking care of their trauma and very supportive parent

What is Raven and Cruel's relationship?

• Hyung and Dongsaeng. Raven tease Cruel by calling him ancestor since Cruel is born during mythological era (intkot timeline)

• They're soulmate literally

• They cant live without the other

• They are more open to their feelings and communication

• Cruel is always against on Raven's marriage whenever he receive a marriage proposal

• touch starves (kisses, hugs, caressing cheeks , etc...)

• Flower is their love language. Cruel always give Deon flowers

• even before and after having previous life memory. They never stop being together

• respectful and ask for the other opinion before they do something they felt they might cross the line

• HAPPY CRUEL AND HAPPY DEON FRFR

• THERE'S SO MANY THINGS ABOUT THEM 😭😭😭 EVERY CHAPTER IS JUST ABOUT THEM AND THEY'RE VERY CLOSE I CANT EVEN PUT THEM INTO WORDS. IM SO SOFT ABOUT THEM. I LOVE THEM BEING TOGETHER UWEEEEH. THEY LITERALLY CAN NOT BE SEPARATED NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO THEM BUT IF YOU DID. RAVEN WILL GET ANXIETY AND GO INSANE WHILE CRUEL WILL DO HIS BEST TO GO BACK TO RAVEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I LOVE THEEEEEM

[audhdnight]

Hey hi hello I am extremely pissed off

Maybe this point has been beaten into the ground already but THE HUMAN SHEILD ARGUMENT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT

While my family members were just telling me that Israel didn’t actually bomb that first hospital everyone was up in arms about, Israel bombed THREE MORE HOSPITALS. And immediately after began a campaign to completely decimate the entire health system. THEY DONT HAVE ANY FUNCTIONAL HOSPITALS LEFT

But when I proved to aforementioned dumbass idf bootlicker relatives that YES ACTUALLY THEY DID BOMB THAT HOSPITAL AND NOW ALL THESE OTHERS I get the “wElL hAmAs sHoUlDnT hIdE iN hOsPiTaLs tHeN”

Listen to me. Carefully. Come closer.

I DONT GIVE A SHIT

EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF EVERY SINGLE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN THE FUCKING WORLD COULD HAVE BEEN IN THAT HOSPITAL AND YOU STILL DONT GET TO BOMB A FUCKING HOSPITAL

This applies to the churches and refugee camps and schools and relief centers too. These are places of REFUGE. They are supposed to be SAFE when homes and open streets are not. THATS WHY THIS IS CALLED A FUCKING WAR CRIME.

Do you understand that the people of Gaza (Palestine in general actually but I’m specifically speaking about Gaza right now) have been stripped of all dignity???

They can’t bury their dead, or if they manage to, it’s in mass graves marked with fucking cinder blocks. Bodies can be seen sticking out from under rubble, covered in flies. Because of the ceasefire, doctors have returned to a hospital they were forced to evacuate, leaving patients behind, and found the bodies of the children they were not allowed to take along, rotting in their beds. Imagine the absolute abject misery of being a doctor in Gaza right now. You can’t save everyone, you can’t even save almost everyone. You are forced at gunpoint to make the decision to leave your patients behind so that at least you can continue to help those who leave with you, hoping to return soon enough to save those who remain. Imagine the heartbreak of coming back days later and finding these poor broken bodies. Children with limbs missing or splinted who could not get up out of bed to even try escaping. They died slowly, and painfully.

Gazans are watching as their oppressors burn their olive trees, their cultural heritage, their livelihood, their source of food. Those trees mean so much to them, and have been cared for by generations of the same families in many cases. It’s not just a plant, not just a crop. Those trees are their inheritance, bearing the sweat and blood of their foremothers and forefathers. And Israel burns them.

Gazans are now being punished for COLLECTING RAIN WATER. Because even though Israel bombed the water reservoirs and poured cement in their pipes, apparently the fucking rain still belongs to Israel. Large numbers of deaths come from those who died of dehydration, or those who got sick from drinking dirty water. Illness is everywhere, because not only is the water dirty, but what food they can scavenge has been expired or left open from explosions or picked out of ashes.

These people cannot even eat and drink with human dignity. They don’t have blankets to sleep with despite the fact it is winter and nights are freezing. People sleep in the streets wherever they can find a less rubble covered place. Bisan mentioned in one of her videos from two weeks ago that many people lose clothing every time another bomb drops, and so people are walking around half dressed or in literal shredded rags. Do you wonder why everyone in the videos you see is covered in ash and dirt? It’s because they don’t have water for showers. A bomb falls, sending dust and rubble raining down over every surface, and the survivors just have to walk around like that, wearing the blood of their family members or friends or pets who didn’t make it out.

This is the literal definition of “cruel and unusual punishment”. They have no dignity in life, and certainly none in death. This is inhumane and absolutely disgusting, and I am ashamed to live in a world alongside people who loudly and proudly support it.

I don’t care if you hate me, I don’t care if you think my identity means I shouldn’t have rights. No matter how much I dislike or abhor someone, I still know they deserve their dignity. All humans should have that most bare minimum of basic rights.

[blusical]

"win and in shouldnt be a thing" "another example of nascars broken system-" my guy (gender neutral), a driver got his first career cup win, 100th win for his team and did it during his LAST YEAR with that team. let us be happy. (but also, i too hope nascar fixes this wacky playoff system).

[manicsystemic]

Trans men who say they experience transmisogyny, define how you have experienced transmisogyny aside from being called a slur or mistaken for a trans woman challenge: difficulty impossible.

Literally every example I have seen these trans men depict is just being misgendered. Which is just regular transphobia. Why are you so eager to say you experience misogyny. Why do these same trans men often say they can be lesbians. Why are ya'll so eager to misgender yourselves. Why have you let terf bioessentialism into your mind.

If you ask an actual trans woman what kinds of transmisogyny we experience, its more than just slurs and misgendering. It's the fact that even when people agree that we are women, they gatekeep us out of women'a spaces despite the fact that trans women experience proportionally more violence and need access to things like shelters, support groups, and community outreach.

It's how pervasively society depicts amab people who present femininely (transfem coded characters such as buffalo bill, lois enhorn, and more) as a joke, to be ridiculed and demeaned, but also dangerous and often insane and violent, depicting a boogeyman of older trans women as acceptable targets for violence which mirrors how trans women experience violence often from those close to us.

but also as desireable but denying their femininity (see every transfem coded anime character in the 'otoko no ko' trope) so as to incur a "i am a failed broken woman" vulnerability that leaves them open to abuse "i want to be a woman but im not allowed to be by myself or others so you can hurt me and its okay im not a real woman anyway" that frankly exposes how many trans women are abused when we are younger.

Transmisogyny is not "when someone calls trans eomen slurs" transmisogyny is a systemic, pervasive cultural force that shoves us into an underclass of women that are acceptable to punish, hurt, take sexual pleasure from forcibly, and that do not receive solidarity from cis women (as a societal class) because it we are an acceptable underclass of women for even them to feel superior to, for them to call men to do violence to us, for them to ridicule as unable to take part in aspects of 'tranditional' womanhood and thus as unable to even fulfill society's deemed roles for women.

It's how even when we try and talk about our issues in trans spaces trans men talk over us just like cis men talk over cis women, and cis people are all too eager to lift up those transmisogynist voices over us.

Also, my brain is very verbose today because I'm doing a lot of thinking at work, but make no mistake I am absolutely pissed and incredibly livid at every post I see of ya'lls talking about hoe kuch transmisogyny you experience when you have no goddamn clue how much it soaks every second of a trans woman's life in how we shouldnt feel safe anywhere, how we're below everyone, transmisogyny is not misgendering, despite what terfs tell you you dont experience sex-based oppression and they don't see us as men, as many trans women point out terfs are all too happy to ally with cis men to enact violence on trans women, they see us as an undesirable class of women, and that is why you will never experience transmisogyny. At worst they will see you as a cis woman, we are acceptable for cis women to punch down on. It is not erasure of trans mens struggles to tell them to shut the fuck up about saying they experience the same systemic cultural downward force we do.

[sapphire-weapon]

Sorry to vent in your inbox but I feel like I'm going crazy seeing everyone celebrate BG3 winning GOTY when it's an unplayable buggy fucking mess. I can't even finish act 2 bc I have a bug where any time an important cutscene plays it SKIPS swaths of dialogue, completely ruining the scene and the story.. restarting the game or save scummimg doesn't work. I shouldnt have to rely on youtube to see the scenes that were bugged out. And this is act 2, I haven't even gotten to act 3 where the game is even MORE broken. It just baffles me how no one has brought this up

i ran into a game-breaking bug where dice rolls wouldn't initiate, so i'd just be soft locked in cutscenes that refused to progress. i eventually just had to roll a new character and start again from the beginning.

it also has a lot of game design flaws in it that require a guide. i have big issues with how the quest system was set up and executed, as well as how some of the dialogue trees definitely had only one "correct" answer, with absolutely no indication of which one it actually was.

i get that BG3 resonated with a lot of people and the sheer scope of the game is impressive, but like... for BG3 to lose best narrative AND best game direction to AW2, because AW2 was objectively and legitimately better at both things, but then beat it for GOTY just doesn't make sense to me.

and i say that as someone who doesn't think AW2 was the GOTY either. but there's no logic to this other than "we know people will be pissed if we don't pick this one."

but this is why you shouldn't take TGAs too seriously.

[swiftfootedachilles]

Mickey would find a way back to Ian in the psych ward, it would be similar to how he got into prison (ratted on the cartel and chose where he goes) but he'd do some asking around on what gets you into the psych ward and he'd work out what "symptoms" he has and he'd stick with playing them all the time

But the writers would do something shitty like playing up his autism traits then calling him "crazy" for acting like that and that's how he got in

yeahhh the shamey writers have a real knack for making mickey as stereotypically autistic as possible for comedy. i on the other hand am sophisticated in my autismification

but ok ok listen. so seeing as he rolled on the cartel and obviously got a lot in return for his testimony, i definitely think he couldve finagled his way into a secure psych hospital. i mean they obviously shortened or possibly even commuted his sentence in canon, since he was sentenced to 15 (incredibly short for what i assume is attempted murder??), expected to serve 8, but got out in less than 4 after escaping which shouldve added to his sentence. so if he knew ian was getting sentenced to a hospital he couldve done a few things and im gonna lay them out bc each one comes with its own intricacies that writers can expound upon

kept his sentence the same as canon, but he convinces the cops to put him in a psych hospital with ian as part of his deal. otherwise he refuses to talk

commute his sentence on the grounds of insanity, meaning hed talk to a forensic psychologist and talk about his childhood and shit, proving that he was so psychologically damaged as a kid that he somehow ended up having some episode and hurting sammi while legally insane. this could be a great way to really understand mickeys situation growing up. plus i really just want mickey to have his time in the limelight and put on his hurt puppydog face and act/lie his way out of responsibility. perhaps he realizes at some point that hes no longer acting and is truly expressing the raw emotions hes has bottled up since he was a kid 🤔🥺 also of course the new sentence he receives happens to be the same length as ians 🤭

gets his trial thrown out (BECAUSE HE SHOULDNT HAVE GOTTEN CONVICTED IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT WAS BULLSHIT) and gets a retrial, staying in the psych hospital in the meantime for similar reasons as mentioned above. fuck it lets bring back sammi and her kid and get all the gallaghers interviewed by police/giving testimonies in court including fiona!!! and because theyre not fucking dumb this time theyll actually get mickeys ass found NOT GUILTY this time and he can live his mfing life without an adult record. no larry/paula shit, no plothole on how mickey and ian could live together despite both being felons on parole, the dynamic between ian and mickey being flipped on its head now that mickeys got a clean record and ians the convict, omg what if they had their moment of one of them visiting the other in jail and putting their hand on the glass but this time its mickey visiting ian 🥺🥺🥺🥺 im literally bout to throw up

im very much a choose your own adventure kinda headcanoner... no matter how he gets there, mickey fucking GETS THERE. and i just have so many thoughts on how theyd interact with each other as roommates in a psych hospital. ian showing mickey the ropes for the psych side of things and mickey guiding ian thru the criminal/prison-y side 🥺 also i absolutely think mickey would get diagnosed with c-ptsd and autism while in the hospital and ofc at first he denies it, then he goes thru this phase of thinking hes "broken," then ian and his therapists (and an unexpected ragtag group of criminally insane individuals) become a solid story system to learn to accept himself. ian especially. obviously. he makes a list of things to buy mickey once they get out and save the money. because dammit if his lover doesnt have the best sensory corner in all of chicago! and overall they just get to actually... grow as people and as a couple by supporting each other in ways that canon never gave us