#dash commentary .

[spiderman2-99]

PSA:

Under any circumstances, do not enter my office or the cafeteria. We are dealing with wild animals that may be dimensionally displaced.

If you find any sightings or evidence of raccoons or chipmunks anywhere else in the building, tell me immediately.

Do not engage with it yourself, especially if you have not had rabies or tetanus shots.

[mouthymercx0x0]

"....YES, I WOULD LIKE TO BREED SOME OF YOU. YES, I HAVE PROBLEM. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH."

[poisonedspider]

BREAKS DOWN THE DOOR. "Did someone say fuckin' breedin' kink!?"

[katyspersonal]

I really hate every single moron who acts as though cis men or white people or heteros are inherently evil and harmful people that should let the "systemically oppressed ones" walk all over them and live in the perpetual state of paying for the sins of their ancestors that they have nothing to do with besides shared identity/race/etc. 🙄

Whoever must hear it, you do NOT get to treat someone as guilty for who they were born as and then, after those alt-rights treat those you dehumanized like human beings, act as though them joining those alt-rights "proved the point". You can't seriously claim that the only """good""" cis hets whites or any other category of humans you deemed harmful by definition are those who just let someone mistreat them on the excuse of those mistreating them being hurt. Besides, the demand to "turn the other cheek" and always excuse literal abuser because they must have it worse, the being hated for being born who you are, the feeling that if you hate yourself enough you might atone for the sin of being you....

....isn't it all EXACTLY something that traumatized so many of us? How can you claim to fight the beasts when you've became a beast yourself? Think about it.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[king-of-wrath]

Apparently, even in the year of Our Lord Two-thousand and Twenty-four, people need this simple chart explained to them at length

[thaumatology]

Therapy doesn't 'fix' you, it's not magic. It just gives you tools to deal with whatever your problem is.

[battle-subway-ghost]

You guys just need more things to talk about than Pokemon I think

[katyspersonal]

OP, I am very impressed with how keen your understanding of both the way Soulsborne stories work (especially the phrase "And not choosing to get what you want can be as bad as choosing opposite.") and of the way fandom is fucking shit up on regular basis. Dark Souls trilogy fandom is the most safe from this cancer, Bloodborne is quite deep into this trouble by now (with only fans of very messed up characters such as Alfred or Micolash doing the service to the community xd) and Elden Ring is ALL about this.

"This leads to something like Marika fans writing essays on the topic You Can In Fact Deserve Genocide"

This reminded me of a very annoying situation from a couple of months ago where my friend wrote very based post ( x ) about how fandom treats Hornsent as this evil race that is evil just to be evil thus painting Marika as a hero "cleansing" the world from this "filth". And what happened was EXACTLY what you've mentioned! The first reblogger jumped in to not only excuse genocide of Hornsent but also add excusing genocide of Fire Giants for the good measure, the popular artist jumped in to confirm all of that was based when they didn't even read the original post, and then they both continued to gloat in their blog about how ridiculous this "Marika hate" was.

Marika HATE, dude. How. Literally how this fandom always, always, ALWAYS keeps drawing the connection of 'pointing out bad shit character did = hating the character'? Before DLC, the similar problem happened with Mohg! Whoever painted him as sexual offender was viewed as just hater by his fans. Also before DLC, whoever pointed out pettiness of Malenia or Miquella's sinister traits (Bewitching Branch) was seen as just hater. It only got worse after the DLC too! These are just interpretations and analyses! ....And yet, at the same time, there ARE people who hate Marika, hate Miquella and Malenia, and hated sa!Mohg interpretation. And they hate not only the characters, but also their fans. As if these fans just subscribed to condoning any of that shit in real life.

I just think that this endless morality contest is so dumb. Like...

"Oh if you like Godrick/Rykard/Post-DLC Miquella / Seluvis then you’re moral pervert/ lover of Dark."

Like, where are the DOWNsides? xD /j

And seriously, what is the goddamn POINT of engaging with fiction, where any person and any dynamic can be examined within the safety of fantasy, if ALL you're gonna do with this is to just express how you would act in real world? There is a much, MUCH better place to apply opinions and morality as you would in real world. ....IT IS THE REAL WORLD! 🤦‍♂️ Go outside and form correct opinions, and only like good people. This IS what real world is FOR! Fictional world is for doing ANYTHING, and yet you choose to just re-simulate what you already have!!! How little imagination, curiousity, wonder and passion do you have? What is WRONG with you, people!

Really. Elden Ring fandom's creativity and imagination suffers very badly from the fact that when someone simps for a morally grey character or is just a huge fan, 90% chance that they will wash out all that moral greyness from them and make sure they're pure, innocent, and always in the right. Who cares if the story has to become so one-dimensional and pointless as 'race is evil just to be evil and exterminating them is net-positive for the world', right, Marika and Messmer fans? And when you can't distort the story this way, you can always just declare writers to be incompetent and ruining the character and insist on """pre-DLC portrayal""" as if it was an entirely different character, right, Miquella and Malenia fans?

All could have been way more fun, interesting, deep, developed, and above all, respectful to OTHER fans, had we as a fandom just abandoned the mentality of 'if you like a character that did something bad then YOU are bad, so nullify this bad thing at all cost if you want to prove you are NOT bad'.

I think we really should understand that engaging with fiction is NOT about translating and advertising ourselves as people! No, as PRODUCTS!! Purge that stupid corporative brainrot out of your system with Messmer's Flame!!! Engaging with fiction is about experiment, imagination, curiosity, creativity and extending emotions and wishes without any harm to real people! Well, we should ALSO understand that the more war crimes the character did the hotter they are because again, we ALREADY have real world to target liking the kind, nice people so what is the point of doing the SAME shit here fsdfhds But I digress

Ok about moral greyness in elden ring fandom

I feel like it’s mostly treated as either some kind of badass cosmetics for a GoodGuy (like “my blorbo is cool and good and kind but you know they kill people - bad people, so it’s not bad but it’s not also your Jesus guy which is normal bc who would give their second cheek”) or some kind of euphemism used by bad/problematic/pseudo intellectual people to erase morality

I’m bad problematic pseudo intellectual person so take my opinion with grain of salt, but I think it’s a great misunderstanding or what a morally grey character is in ER especially

It’s usually based on the that understanding of goodness that to be good you just need to do good things and don’t do bad things (which is of course extremely vague and not defined but anyways). It’s seems pretty straightforward and because of that brings a lot of confusion

It’s quite easy for a character to be GoodGood (even with murders but I digress), you can see it in many fix-it fanworks where often every trouble finds its own, well, fixing, and there’s always a way to set things right, maybe just with some sad deaths along the way, but characters often will find this correct way because in these universes there’s always at least one

(It’s not a rant on fanfiction I like it and I like fix-its very VERY much)

And when same logic is applied to the game itself, often arises treatment of characters as GoodGood, MisleadedGood and BadBad ones

But in the stories we see in Elden Ring context is usually such that when a character wants to get something, even something good, like for example make people live forever or cure their own sister, there’s sometimes no way of resolving their trouble without facing some kind of moral choice, even if you’re a literal half-god. You either get what you want with a price, or don’t get it… also with a price. Because fromsoftware stories are build on conflict, tragedy and irony

That’s what makes character grey, the fact there’s no third option or that you don’t have third option just because world is that way and you’re unlucky. And not choosing to get what you want can be as bad as choosing opposite. And that’s what usually makes situation complex and twisted and inherently grey

I don’t want to say that like every person in fandom should treat all the characters as mostly good ones without making some way less sympathetic than others. Making characters twisted and horrible is fun! I’m just tired of the way how people 1) don’t realise there’s often HUGE room for interpretation and make it problem of others 2) hate characters with such a passion as they were real humans who live in your neighbourhood on planet earth 2024 3) sanitise characters into strictly Good and Bad ones etc etc etc

My whole vent on Miquella’s hatebase is in fact divided into two parts, one being me thinking many people just lack understanding of the DLC/base game ideas and plot, but that’s ok we all have different opinions (I’m just the only one who is correct. LIVE WITH THAT.), and second being that vague ??rudeness?? and hatred which accompanies division on Morally Good and Morally Bad, because there’s this subtle idea like. Oh if you like Godrick/Rykard/Post-DLC Miquella / Seluvis then you’re moral pervert/ lover of Dark. Which is rarely true and really annoys me

I also have no trouble with GoodGood characters being GoodGood because, well. it’s comforting and cozy stuff. But often it turns into token of moral superiority, like look I love GoodGood guy because I’m good too and also not stupid. This is also annoying and I wish we had less of this in fandom.

It’s often also a lie to oneself, because even if we approach elden ring from I Can Simp Only Morally Pure ones (which is very boring and butchers the whole thing in my opinion) then we would probably be left with only Boc, Hewg and maybe Roderika. What do you mean you want to simp LITERAL murderers?? What do you mean you want to simp those assholes demigods who think that people are just dolls for their games, who turned the land into land of the dead because they just couldn’t stop war after war after war to decide who will make new order? What do you mean you want to simp the demigod who quit the war to do literally nothing to stop it???? CRINGE

Also GoodGood character headcanon making without self-awareness often results in very weird moral twists of its own, because in this logic character is allowed to make only GoodGood decisions, therefore all the stuff character made in canon MUST be good and morally justified. This leads to something like Marika fans writing essays on the topic You Can In Fact Deserve Genocide

Enough for today have a good day fellow dlc lovers 💪

Upd posted this on main by accident got jumpscared it’s so hard to copy past on mobile for some reason. No edgy on main I promised!!

[fog-with-a-blog]

humans are SO BAD at flirting. this is why we foxes just scream. you can't miss that even from like three miles away

[siirlendikalbimiz]

Dash de kaydırmanızı böldüğüm için üzgünüm ama harika olduğunuzu ve mutlu olmayı hak ettiğinizi bilmeniz gerektiğini düşündüm..

[tadcpomni-blog]

The wedding is starting rn!!! Happy wedding (first) anniversary for Ragatha and Pomni!

[katyspersonal]

This is so true.. Leda is definitely a more frequent example, but there are many other Soulsborne characters who do not have blue eyes but get drawn with them.. Henriett, Yurie and Damian from Bloodborne all have blond hair and grey eyes, but often get drawn with blue. (+Yurie's hair color data is also commonly straight up replaced with black despite her eyebrows being visible but that's not relevant) Maria from Bloodborne has "ashen" hair that could look blond and green eyes, but often drawn with blue eyes. Somehow even Roderika, blonde with very very VERY radiant green eyes, notable for resembling the shade of Divine Beasts' eyes, gets her eyes drawn as blue...? Both Iosefkas from Bloodborne have green eyes, but often get drawn with blue. Arianna from Bloodborne has beautiful purple eyes! Still gets drawn with blue eyes.

Honestly, blond hair and blue eyes is not a bad combo in the slightest, but true that 1) it is super overused *glares at Dark Souls 1 cast* and 2) this is just not accurate to the characters! Honorable mention is Henryk from Bloodborne who is a brown person and has strange shade of grey eyes, a bit pinkish even, but even he gets drawn with blue eyes for some reason!

Why so many blue eye errors are in Bloodborne lmao

(Full respect to Alfred fans tho who never ever ever drop his green eyes lol)

Desperately need people who are about to draw Leda elden ring to understand that her eyes are a dull grey and not blue. That one promotional art is lying to you her eyes are the color of a common American quarter.

[dannyphantom-fenton]

Okay, I saw a comic of Dash telling Danny he respects his bisexuality and is bullying him as a nerd, not as a member of the LGBT community, and it got me thinking.

What if Dash eavesdrops on a conversation and believes Danny is pregnant?

Obvs this is a trans Danny au, and something happened to Ellie, and Danny is carrying her core. Vlad finds out and is himself about it. However, Dash hears this argument and puts things together in the wrong way.

Vlad corners Danny after school. Dash is staying after to practice for football and is going to practice when he sees Vlad dragging Danny into a room. He decides to listen in at exactly the wrong time.

“Daniel, you must stop being so irrational about this-“

“Irrational! You almost killed her because she isn’t a boy! I barely managed to save her! Now I have to stop taking testosterone because of you, and I have to worry about raising her during high school and putting off College-”

“I can raise her.”

“Not a chance, fruitloop. She’s my daughter.”

“She’s mine as well.”

“You were the one who decided to throw a tantrum and not only create her, but try and destroy her because she isn’t a boy! You don’t get to touch her!”

Cue a conveniently timed ghost attack or call from Maddie, but they leave without realizing Dash was listening in. Dash now has to grapple with the fact that the nerd he’s been bullying is pregnant, and the mayor, who he thinks he’s heard Tucker say is his godfather, is the other dad!

(Dash grew up with them, so he already knew Danny was trans.)

Dash immediately enlists the other A-listers to help him protect Fenton.(Because Dash may be a bully, but he’s not evil. He’s not gonna beat a pregnant man, especially since the mayor has apparently been creeping on Fenton.)

This all culminates into protective A-listers making it known Fenton is off limits and an extremely confused Danny who doesn’t know what’s going on.

[songofsilentechoes]

Noelle sighs and breaks out her cigarettes. People casting hate on furries and a heated argument within earshot.

Yeah....she didn't want to deal with this.

[sennenpharaoh]

@game-weaver

"Ah! Too bright!"

Atem had to shield his eyes from the immediate bright flash of light that filled the room. That's... one way to wake him up, never mind the sound of something scuffling on the floor.

"What's... going on- ow." He began to rub the sleep from his eyes when he felt a slight... discomfort in his arm. Actually, his whole body, but mostly his back. Oh great, was this what they meant when you sleep wrong because ouch this hurts. His face felt... itchy? Come to think of it, so did his hands. Like the tiniest cuts all over.

Wait a minute. This was familiar. Too familiar. Waking up in pain, pain that was unexplainable?

...

Aibou.

"Aibou-- shit." He hissed as a small wave of pain shot through his back. Block it out, check on Yugi. He felt his heart sink a little when he saw the half-fae look like he was going to be nauseous. Something happened.

"Aibou, I'm right here. Are you-- nngh." Hurts a little to move, keep the movement minimal. "Are you okay?"

[harteofthehart-ayyy]

I think there isn’t enough Team Magma on rotomblr. We need more.