#cringe forever baby

[amethystsoda]

A new gen “fan” said this on tiktok and immediately got flamed, because this fandom was BUILT on cringe animation cosplay kids. All the og fans are sharing cosplay now to re-cringe-ify the fandom 🥰🥰

[yellowocaballero]

Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Me: *points at Rangi before Kyoshi is found to be the Avatar* Me: Sugar Mama-Nepo Baby. Me: *points at Rangi after Kyoshi is found to be the Avatar and inherits all of Jianzhu's wealth* Me: Sugar Baby-Nepo Baby.

[wouteke]

I TRIED TO EMBRACE IT AND WATCH THE SINGING AFTER ALL AND I DIED AGAIN AFTER 5 SECONDS

[theoryandahalf]

I'm watching the latest film theory and Lee just said "chat".

I don't know how to feel *crying emoji*

If it makes you feel better, Lee is only about 30ish years old (if he was 20 when he started to work for Theorist in 2014). According to the internet, he only barely qualifies as a Millennial.

Amy's 34 according to the wiki. I don't know how old Tom and Santi are but Lee could be the youngest host right now (not counting Ash).

....no ok, this doesn't make me feel better. Gah!

[domeniudulce]

Sorry to Marika but I'm built different. If I had an omen baby I would cherish the hell out of them.

[azumasoroshi]

i think an incredibly funny part of the aiichi dynamic is that at least one of them has to be traumatized and/or possess incredible worldly exhaustion in order to even consider the other as a romantic love interest

like they need to go through decades and time loops of war and hopelessness and death and destruction in order to be like huh maybe this guy isn't so bad

of course this doesnt go for every fic (academy blues my beloved) but. a lot of them do and it's SO funny

[c-kiddo]

actually fuckin Despise the tiktoks/reels/whattever trend i keep seeing of people cringing and screaming at art they made when they were like 12 or even a little baby like 5. like fuck off forever. 5 yr olds do the best art and now what, you draw those colour pencil lips with a lime between them? loser behaviour for REAL .

[johnnyutah]

i put on star trek 2009 to get myself amped for the star trek improv show i’m doing at the local comic con on saturday . hard cut to me crying as sabotage by beastie boys blasts through my apartment

[sergeifyodorov]

Different anon here: I read that fic even though I'm not a hockey fan because I searched for fics with hip song connections and I saw yours and thought it looked cool enough to try anyway. And then it absolutely blew my mind. It's brilliant and I will never get over it. I'm sure that it's even better for people who know more of the hockey background, but it really does stand alone as a story too. I'm really sorry that you were in a bad place while writing it, but thank you so much for creating something so amazing and sharing it with the world (and for making it about the tragically hip too) <3

oh thank u so much anon <3 no but in all seriousness although the several-month period in which i wrote scheherazade sucked But i learned a lot about myself and i wrote scheherazade, and now that i'm doing better i can go. this chunk of words that i created was a bright light in a dark time. did it make the dark time go away? no, but it would have been a lot worse if i didn't have the light

[sambambucky]

‘nothing is cooler’ plsss

HIIIII thanks for askin!<3

soooo because people enjoyed if there was more, i started poking at the big 'ol draft it came from again.. its a punk!bucky x jock!sam au with Princes of the School and Only Gays stevetony, where i continue my bad habit of being overly invested in all the side characters. its all cringey angst with a happy ending.

a snippet for you:

“People talk too much,” Sam hisses back. “I don't want to end the school year with people whispering shit about me.” “Steve and Tony seem fine?” Bucky tries, because, what else can he say? No one will talk? Neither of them are that stupid. Tony and Steve are a constant topic of conversation, but they do seem okay. Happy, even. It’s because they have each other, Bucky thinks, they came out together, and they’re stronger together.  He could have that with Sam. They could be more than just, whatever this is they’re doing.  That is, if Sam even likes him like that, if the way he looks at him means anything. Bucky thinks it does. The way Sam makes him feel, even when they’re not pressed up against each other in the dark, might be worth anything they’re thrown up against. “We’re not them, okay? I –” Sam answers, and there's something in his voice that he’s heard a hundred times by now, a warning Bucky was ignoring. “Just say you don’t like me,” Bucky interrupts, not meaning to raise his voice, but not really able to stop lower it once he has, “just be honest with me for once. I don’t need you to lecture me about how I don’t fit into your neat little life plan, alright? If you don’t like me, you don’t like me. Just say – ” “I don’t like you,” Sam snaps.  It stings like a slap to the face. But he’s quick to pull it together, voice even and steady when he continues. And doesn’t that just say everything? Sam is wholly unaffected by this, by him, by them.  “Is that what you want? Everything is so easy to you,” Sam continues. “Well it’s not, for me. I have to think about the big picture, I have to think about how everything looks. So, if that’s not good enough for you, it’s – I don’t like you. I don’t wanna be with you. “It’s all or nothing, right? Are you happy? That what you wanted?” “Yeah,” Bucky lies, but his voice breaks around the edges of it, and god he is so fucking done with this. So sick of trying and having his efforts amount to nothing. “Thanks.” He puts his back to Sam and walks away, willing his eyes to stay dry until he makes it around the next corner.

from the WIP game!

[redvelvetwishtree]

Israel math really isn't mathing. If they know Hamas has hostages, why are they bombing Gaza relentlessly? Why have they promised in front of the entire world that they will carpet bomb Gaza and turn it to rubble? Don't you want your hostages safe? Or do you know where they are but you're not saving them on purpose so you can continue your genocide?

[adaywithanotherferalrat]

I've made a mistake...

So for context, I'm taking a server class rn and for this project, the prof wants us to make our own API but I wanted to make my own Genshin dataset so I spent like 4/5 hours on that but he still had to review it to make sure it fits with the project's scope.

So I bring it in today and when I show it to him he deadass shouts in the middle of class, "Genshin dataset, sweet!" And ofc everyone starts laughing and now I'm dying of embarrassment but to be fair he did try to defend me like, "I didn't mean it in a bad way, you guys know I play all types of games."

Anyways, he approved it and he said he's excited for my project and then he asked for my favorites so we slightly bonded over that lol

In conclusion: follow ur cringe dreams<3

[gontagokuhara]

twitter arguing about 1st vs 3rd person in writing which is like What the fuck ever who cares. but there are people being like “you NEED to be in 1st person to get into a character’s head and get to know them!!” and im like. Huh

[caracello]

genetic-wise i suppose affair baby would make more sense for the like. introduction of the x-gene (esp since mags passed on his powers to his kids even when having kids with a human so it's probably a dominant gene) but also thethought of the starks having 2 babies that they think are so cringe they have to hide is really funny to me.

[spearxwind]

Ough also ty for the kind responses on my self indulgent art -w- i know its very much not the usual biz at all, usually my drawn self/adri interactions are silly goofs but i shared my original comfort drawings way back and it felt correct that I do it this time as well. Bit of a reach but maybe it could have a positive impact on someone? Thats what I'm hoping anyway

Anyway ye ty for looking and also ty kindly to everyone leaving nice tags it means a lot <3