#but there is your warning

[jamsofdeath0]

I genuinely think no game no Life and it's set up is peak escapist isekai. where the characters get pulled into another world and don't want to go home. because they lay out a reason the characters are pulled into another world and why the characters don't want to go home.

it's not by chance Sora and Shiro are summoned to Disboard. it's not even really some grand moral reason.

Tet the One True God finds them interesting and would like to have them in his world. When rhey respond to his fea ass email with the right answer he kidnaps them.

Sora and Shiro are both interesting enough people you could understand why a "god of play" would want them. They're incredibly good at games and an incredible fit for his world. he's finally found folks who understand his design, his Game.

it's already established from the first shot of them in a dark room staring at screens that they are not a fit their world. they've closed himself off into their world. and then it stated how they feel about their world. they call it "a crappy game with no parameters or endgoal". but that's not quite right. because Earth isn't a game.

you know what is a game? a game with set parameters and an end goal? Disboard. Tet's game. Tet's world.

He's just an immortal not kid who wants to have fun. and they're fun.

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one could argue that because Sora and Shiro have so much actual personality they'd be harder to project yourself onto and therefore be worse for an escapist story. but you'd be wrong. because you can still fantasize about this fun world and being in this fun world without projecting directly onto the main characters. and disboard is infinitely more interesting AND appealing than 90% of isekai. Sure Id never be summoned by Tet. But thats not the point. the point is to have a world that's legitimately interesting. and characters that are fun to watch.

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the next argument might be Disboard has too many issues to actually be an escapist fantasy. and yes it has racism and slavery and poor people. but like so do all the other isekai. And this one has cooler racism and doesn't say the slavery is cool actually. one of the characters goal is to end the race doing the most enslaving.

Like the racism is INTERESTING in this one. Its a remnant of the old God Wars™.

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this one might not be an argument against The escapist fantasy. but I find it interesting how the author didn't try to make the characters likable in your normal sense. One of the main characters, Jabril, is like openly racist. super hates elves and talks down about humans and calls warbeasts filthy animals. she is never portrayed as a good person. No Game No Lifes willingness to have layered characters even at the cost of them being good people is to its advantage. we're back to the whole ACTUALLY interesting characters and a world with history.

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Disboard's ability to feel like a real world and a game is what makes it and effective fantasy. you understand why it's set up is like this and how it was before it was like this.

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I don't believe no game no life was ever trying to solely be an escapist fantasy. maybe a little bit but I think it's just mostly trying to be a story.

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Number ten: lets all have fun and play together!

[kelocitta]

Small artists you need to understand that when you see an artist who you think has 'made it' tells you not to worry about the numbers and to not fret about getting more likes than reblogs they are not telling you it because they think you are stupid for caring or because they dont need to network to survive they are very likely telling you that because they have witnessed first hand the way the numbers game tears people to shreds in terms of mental health and motivation

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

"this is a universal queer experience"

>ask if it's universal or white

>they don't understand

>I pull out a diagram explaining what is universal and what is white

>they laugh and say "It's a good experience sir"

>I'm a native american trans woman

>Experience is white

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[monsterqueers]

Hey if people are thinking of 'stockpiling HRT' and you are doing it with Testosterone, be aware that is a controlled substance and doing this WILL GET YOU A FELONY CHARGE IF YOU ARE CAUGHT (and it would be very easy for this to happen through the way those posts reccomend).

Its your decision if you want to risk imprisonment (and then definitely losing hrt access), but be aware of the serious consequences- especially if you are recommending this to people!

If you do this with E, you get a slap on the wrist. If you do this with T its a felony. A felony charge deeply effects everything you do. Its not just hard to DYI T, its MANY TIMES LEGALLY RISKIER AND HARDER.

[and-this-of-all-my-hopes]

So, I feel like I’m losing my mind. I keep seeing metas about how Aziraphale wants Crowley to return to Heaven and be an angel again because he wants them to be on the same side/be good/change/etc., etc., etc. but I don’t see that at all. I actually see it as the very opposite.

Aziraphale loves Crowley just as he is. But there’s something more. Something huge.

Aziraphale loves Crowley and because he is an angel who is stuck in seeing things as black and white, he constantly praises Crowley for being nice. For being good. For being kind.

Aziraphale has watched Crowley on and off for 6,000 years. He watched him thwart the plans of Heaven and Hell because it was unjust. He spared the lives of innocents. He did small things that made Aziraphale happy just because (like making Hamlet successful and saving valuable books). And because Aziraphale sees things in black and white, he sees all the things Crowley has done as nice, as good, as kind.

Crowley vehemently attests he’s not nice or good or kind.

He’s not exactly wrong nor is he lying when he says this. When Crowley spares goats during a cruel bet over a righteous man and swallowing laudanum to prevent a suicide, when he prevents Armageddon by working with Aziraphale and stopping the Anti-Christ from being the Anti-Christ, he’s not doing the nice/good/kind thing.

He’s doing the right thing.

Crowley chooses to do the right thing without hesitation. He is better than all of Heaven and Hell who have callous and dispassionate view of all existence because he questions, because he makes choices. Crowley sees the world for all its messiness and he sees himself. He sees a place where he fits in. He sees the blurred edges.

And Aziraphale sees that, even if seeing the blurred edges is hard for him.

But here’s the thing that Aziraphale can’t voice.

It’s the reason why he told Crowley about being allowed to return to Heaven and become an angel again. He doesn’t want Crowley to change. He doesn’t think Crowley is flawed. Or not enough.

It’s something that is so monumental that it cannot be put into words. Because to put it into words would be more than blasphemy. It’s down right unthinkable for anyone in Heaven, Hell, or Earth to say what Aziraphale knows deep in his soul.

God was wrong to cast out Crowley.

Aziraphale believes Crowley can/should return to Heaven because he knows that Crowley should never have fallen in the first place. He wants him to be forgiven because when Crowley fell it was unjust. Aziraphale is trying to correct a mistake. He’s trying to do the right thing.

Yes, Crowley would never accept returning to Heaven. And Aziraphale was wrong to even suggest it (although that conversation is another can of worms to unpack).

Aziraphale loves Crowley. He loves him exactly as he is. He doesn’t want him to change. Aziraphale knows that Crowley the best of all of them. He wants to change Heaven because of it. Because God was wrong and Aziraphale knows it.

Aziraphale may have difficulty seeing beyond black and white, but when it comes to Crowley he sees everything crystal clear and in vivid color.

[seven-oh-four]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[the-real-google]

For every note this gets I'll personally kill a transphobe with my bare hands

[sillysiluriforme]

he got the munchies <3

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[iguessthisisanewobsession]

The ring was small and silver with a single emerald embedded in the metal.

It wasn’t something flashy, it probably cost less than the smallest gem from his vault all together.

But it was perfect.

Which made it so heartbreaking to turn it down.

“Dick.. you know me so well.. I wish I could take this ring, i really do.”

Dick was still on one knee in the little apartment, but he put the small box down on the floor as he asked.

“Then what’s stopping you?”

Danny let out a bitter chuckle,

“The US government.”

[not-so-blue]

same shadowheart, same [x]

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

[percypaints]

Trump survived. Here's what will happen.

Every media, news outlet will be showing this photo. Not of a convicted felon who was impeached, who summoned violent terrorists to the white house, who sexually assaulted many women, but of a survivor, a hero.

And Trump will win 2024. The Alt Right and his MAGA supporters will see this and be more motivated than ever to vote Trump. Centrists will see this and think "the left is so much more extreme than the right" and vote Trump. Fuck, even liberals, after seeing Bidens disastrous debate performance might vote trump. In their eyes, he's a survivor now, he's strong now, he's worthy now. If you don't believe me, wait and see the top comments of news articles, the Reddit posts, the twitter quote tweets.

It isn't if Trump wins, it's when Trump wins, Ukraine is Fucked. Palestine is extra Fucked. And of course, America is absolutely Fucked.

I don't like Biden, but Americans have to remember: you live in a two-party system.

It is Biden or Trump.

And I'd much much rather an old husk of a man that has done so much good for trans rights, social policies, and human rights in general, than Trump. Yes, Biden has sent aids to Israel. Do you think Trump won't do the same? Do you think Trump won't do worse?

"Vote for a third party, they're both awful" you might say. Come on, be realistic. This is about holding the line against fascism. It is going to be way WAY easier to change the system when you're up against milk toast Joe than an actual dictator. So,

For the love of god, vote Biden in Novermber.

[mischievous-thunder]

Bonus:

[ms-demeanor]

I don't care about data scraping from ao3 (or tbh from anywhere) because it's fair use to take preexisting works and transform them (including by using them to train an LLM), which is the entire legal basis of how the OTW functions.