#detail driven
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Reclining Nude | 20x16 in. | oil on panel.
a continued exploration of body hair and my own queer identity
#my art#figurative painting#oil painting#queer art#queer artist#this is as good of a photo i can get of this piece it has driven me mad#zoom in for detail all of those hairs are individual brushstrokes
20K notes
·
View notes
Text
insecurities | astarion a.
summary: “why don’t you like me?” he asks, his voice small amid the symphony of the forest dwellers. you choke on your spittle. how unlike your undead friend to sound so unsure of himself.
The night is quiet.
Most of your companions have retired to their tents. Tending to their weapons, reading, sleeping.
You’re left by the fire, snapping twigs to further kindle it. You smile quietly. The atmospheric pop and fizz bring you comfort as a summery breeze slides in.
You turn away in search of more wood when you hear a weighted sigh, followed by the thunk of the log behind you.
Seems someone’s decided to impede on your party of one.
You spin around to see your favorite vampire sitting opposite you on the log, his features accentuated by the fire. Astarion watches you with a pout on his lips and his brows knit together. You snort, wholly prepared for him to complain about something.
“What’s wrong, sunshine?” you query, squatting and poking around the campfire. “Our lodgings not to your liking? You break a nail? A rat crawl up into your ass?” Your eyes crinkle with mirth.
Astarion leans back on his hands, one leg crossed over the other. He stares at you with those petulant eyes, studying you for a beat. It’s unlike him to be so serious. Silence stretches between you for a moment longer before he asks, “Why don’t you like me?”
You nearly choke on your spittle. His brazenness floors you. Literally. You plop down on the ground, dusting off your hands, your expression bemused. “Excuse me?”
“Oh, come now.” He crosses his arms. Looks off to the side, face screwing up into a scowl. “You haven’t slept with me. You shrug off all my advances. Hells, it feels like you won’t even give me the time of day.”
Another snort. Your tone drips with sarcasm. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know I had to sleep with someone to show I cared.”
Astarion scoffs, waving a dismissive hand. “Bullshit. Have you seen me? I’m irresistible. The very definition of sex on legs, so I’ve been told. People would kill for a chance at me. And I would’ve bedded you a thousand times over, had you stopped playing hard to get.”
You sigh. Laugh a little disbelievingly, slowly standing. “Astarion—”
“I’m not your type, am I? Do you even have a type? It’s Halsin, isn’t it? That oaf of a druid.”
You caution a few steps around the fire towards him, your hands stretched out placatingly. You’re exasperated. “Astarion, look—”
“I don’t blame you. I would’ve bedded him, too.”
“Astarion!”
You’re in front of him now. Bent over, gathering his icy cheeks into your palms. He looks at you with confusion marring his features. You have his attention, nonetheless.
Your eyes gloss over with wetness. A forlorn smile rounds your lips. Your chest swells with emotion, and you tuck some errant curls behind Astarion’s ear.
“I thought we knew each other better than that.” You swallow before wetting your lips. You look down at the ground, inhaling deeply. Kneel before him, taking up his hands with all the gentleness of the world, your eyes shining with the threat of tears.
“You are more than your body, Astarion. More than some fling. More than a romp in the dirt. I wish you could see that. Sex is nice. Gods, it can be such an incredible thing. But I don’t need it to know I mean something to you. And I don’t need it to show you I adore you.”
Astarion blinks. For a moment, only the two of you exist in this world of chirping crickets and crackling fire. Tenderness flashes across his face before the vampire chuckles softly, patting your hands, squeezing them. His lashes flutter. He’s breathtaking.
“You adore me, do you?” Astarion purrs, his cockiness returning tenfold. “I am rather amazing, aren’t I?” He leans back again to have a look at his nails, radiating smugness.
You snort, standing and wiping your hands on your breeches. “You just had to muck it up, didn’t you?” You can’t help the quirk of your lips as you turn back to tend to the fire.
“Darling. Who would I be if I didn’t?”
“And to think, I was just about to kiss you.”
The indignant sound Astarion releases behind you makes your ribs blossom with pride.
Ah, well. Maybe next time.
masterlist
#astarion x reader#astarion x tav#astarion x you#astarion fluff#astarion drabble#astarion bg3#astarion fanfic#my attempt at writing something less detailed#and more dialogue-driven#astarion romance#astarion x gn reader#astarion x gn!tav#astarion deserves all the love#tw: sex mention#tw: language
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
The basegame wedding dress has a pregnancy morph??
#I can never be positive if something in my game is like. a third-party launcher addition#but this is so funny and I had such a strong hunch#because rushing to have your Sim get married before they give birth is such a thing so many players would do!!#and it would be so funny to pay attention to that detail by having the wedding dress show the bump!!!!#all your sim's wedding photos very obviously giving away the reason for the rushed date HAHA#the dress with the pendant at the back that everyone default replaces off (the one with the knife texture) also has a preg morph#which I know because it's the one your Sims get forced into if they attend a wedding#but it's kind of unusual because pregnant Sims don't have the opportunity to change into formal wear?#like pregnant Sims get new undies pyjamas and swimwear in addition to their maternity outfit#and if you direct a pregnant Sim to change into one of them then it changes them into the appropriate maternity fit instead of their usual#but you can't direct them to change into formal and if you use a hacked option like the shop any-wear rack it uses their usual non morph fi#so it has to be something external like a wedding that triggers them to change into formal. and I have no idea why#does this mean there's a BG suit with a preg morph for men??#or did maxis not think that pregnant male Sims would be quite so desperate to get married#anyway I'm probably the last person to know about this LMAO and I'm sure no one cares bc everyone uses wear-anything mods#but I'm a scrub who still prefers to use the default maternity meshes so this is yuge to me#also if you've never seen this dress b4: in the early game all Sims getting married under an arch used to be forced into the same outfits#actually I can't remember if the men got forced into the same suit or if they just used their regular formal#because most BG formal outfits for men were mostly wedding-appropriate#but at any rate. all women wore the same wedding dress. and it was this .... beauty#and I don't remember with which EP it changed but probably pretty early on they just let Sims use their regular formal wear for weddings#so you could pick their wedding dress yourself#but this dress remained hidden by default (I think?) so ironically it meant you COULDN'T use the wedding dress even if you wanted to#also this is completely off topic but you would also go away for your honeymoon#which meant the Sims getting married would literally get driven away in a limousine and stay off-world for a while#it was kind of cute because it really was like they took a vacation from the player too. got up to their own mischief away from your contro#then with bon voyage they introduced ACTUAL vacations and they turned honeymoons into an actual game mechanic#but again these offworld honeymoons are no longer a possibility#kind of like teens 'going out' with permission got replaced by going out on actual outings/dates even though it was a cute event#wow this note section is long and irrelevant. anyway enjoy picking up your wedding dress from a store called 'It's Not Too Late'
95 notes
·
View notes
Text
one thing i am really noticing on this rewatch is how long it takes for silver to start looking like silver. seeing him in (especially in the early part of) s1 always feels so jarring to me idk why but with everyone else already having their Look down (character driven style pivots of flint and eleanor nonwithstanding) he still feels very Unformed.
idk if thats just me on my nth rewatch projecting my foregone conclusions and opinions abt him as a character on him but i do think even w the change he undergoes being a very gradual one (unlike the previously mentioned pivot of eleanor from Pirate Boss to Ladywife or flints buzzcut of grief and political radicalisation), there is a definitive period where he is not yet locked in, so to speak.
i think what gets me as 'not silver yet' is him being clean shaven and that he wears light colours but genuinely. thats a chameleon still deciding which colour to turn while it watches the room and once hes decided with whom to side he commits not only to a 'personality' but also to a wardrobe style which in his case is first unassuming dark clothes and growing his hair and beard and then slowly bit by bit hes adding details like necklaces and rings and starts wearing his hair differently etc until he ends in his Coat Era once he starts to assume real power as he begins the transformation from 'john silver' into 'long john silver'
#black sails#john silver#once again im turning my own tags into a post bc i have many thoughts that have v little to do w the post under which im having them#and i also want to elaborate so here u go.#im still in s1 rn so correct me if im wrong but i cant remember a post s1 scene of silver in a light shirt like.#whoever he was before he decided to take the cooks place was someone who wore white and blue#both colours noticeably absent later iirc#bc as silver he wears mostly browns and greens#he also didnt accessorise much as a Proper Sailor which is probably due in part to dress regulations but i bet it is also character driven#i always felt like the man he was on parrish's ship was a happy smiler :) bc in the beginning he still smiles on reflex when ppl look at hi#and a man w a simple cheerful disposition would have a simple cheerful look without any frilly details so to speak#listen idek where im going w this. its not like this is in any way new information but i am on this site to talk to myself so.#cavetext
107 notes
·
View notes
Text
I still feel like the craziest part of the book of bill is bill making ford stand on his roof in the freezing cold and ford realizing bill couldve made him jump but didn't. like. what the fuck
#text#billford#Idk why that sticks in my brain so much just. man#and the detail of bill setting up the inside of the house to be all warm and welcoming is just#man#he also threatens to walk into the lake when he tries to call stan like bill this isnt gonna make him want to take you back#just imagine what it'd be like to realize the interdimensional creature obsessed with you can make you end your own life#its so fucked up#no wonder ford got so paranoid i would be too#he was so ego driven at the time that the loss of autonomy and control would be even more terrifying#he thinks he can only rely on himself and yet that sense of self is being distorted and repossessed by another#i have so many thoughts about them i need to write into fanfic
94 notes
·
View notes
Note
sooooo curious how did Usagi die????
you ask like that's NOT such a loaded question
I'm like - NEVER - too shy going to post the full execution it's 13 pages but I am willing to show bits and pieces I made for it - like the visuals
Some context: Usagi (ult Alien) is my oc for a fanganronpa I play in. And he is declared guilty as the culprit for Chapter 5. He's also the 'son' of the character who (in lore) builds all the physical infrastructure for the killing games (NOT the mastermind, just some evil shareholder) - so he gets a different kinda death
This is a (scrapped) falling animation loop of when Usagi falls through the floor - the final ver is simpler without the sparkles. The writing later gets 4th-wall breaky and I wanted the pages to match.
The execution itself takes inspiration from the same story as Kirumi (NDRV3) did of the Spider's Thread - though instead of climbing one (1) thread to heaven, Usagi goes through several obstacles (zombified ex-culprits) to reach his spaceship (his one chance to escape the kg).
Random doodle of said culprits of the kg. This isn't in the execution but just a reference of the competition Usagi was up against.
Another unique thing about his execution is that it uses dice rolls to determine how well he survives something. These are some of the gifs I made based on his results - these would show up on the screen of his chest cavity. The third is a unique decision not made by Usagi but by Yuto (guy with the yellow colour code)
Chest cavity animation for when Usagi rolls the nat1 that seals his fate and is ultimately killed by his narrative foil (awful stuff - tldr they beat the shit out of eachother).
And that's how Usagi died!
#ask stufff#stufff rambles#character concept stufff#(like a lot)#original character#oc#danganronpa oc#fanganronpa#danganronpa#whwhw no tw despite the question#dude i could talk abt usagi for hours so sadge hes gone#i left a lot of the smaller character-driven details out - i didnt want it to get too long
115 notes
·
View notes
Text
20/10 stars little guy
#me (scrounging undetected autist whose ideal fashion sense is ''if i have to be seen at all: shrouded'') seeing encanto the other month.....#and on top of it all i LOVE slice of life. encanto being so focused on What It's About that there's so much of that + character / dynamic#also part of what i loved abt pixar luca. ppl like ''simple story but not a problem :)'' like YEAH thank god it's Also so slice of lifey#2021 what a year lol. though again i only Just saw encanto....tfw Studio Creative Control backs off a bit more than usual: Joy & Wonders#anyway i knew going in bruno wasn't an antagonist (fine if he was though b/c slay & b/c scapegoats can do whatever they want)#knew i'd love him b/c again Scapegoat shows up & i'm the Amazing Showstopping Totally Unique Never The Same gif on loop#but what a delight even beyond those expectations lol. love again how Focused the movie is on What It's About & Thee Points it makes#the Characters / Dynamics & the Metaphor & the plot stays right with all of that. the focus & importance re: thee scapegoats....#& bruno being disabled like whole layer of Yay Yay Yay spamming. that even when He's Back we're reminded he's not ''normal now'' or w/e#(i.e. presenting that as The Good Ending for the disabled outcast. vs just being embraced as part of the group again & accepted As He Is)#meanwhile was like hmm chat is there queercoding do we think? like is he queer: Yes. but is there coding? hmm#sure isn't cishet coded though. but i was also having the thought like fellas is it gay to [higher tenor tessitura or w/e] lol#made me go ''do i know this voice? ok do i know this name / face / actor? (i have never seen anything ever / bad w/names/faces/voices)''#indeed was like yeah haven't seen this; heard of this; seen it once ages ago no way i remember more than like 0.6 details#then from ''ohh haha I'm A Mammal That Cares....yeah i hear that'' to ''omg CHI-CHI RODRIGUEZ???? ;;0;;'' waaah fantastic revelation lmao#also the way Literal Future Seer ability was externalized to make it more wrangleable for plot is so impressive & fun & excellent#got a lot of [i like this thing i saw a lot] i got to say....guess i can do that w/the sideblog i made for one drawing i made last night#encanto 2021#bruno madrigal#also the way bruno is so Nervous + Hiding / Bold + Big Personality like yes ha ha ha Yes....tamped down as ''too much'' experience#also the [stuttering stumbling muttering mumbling] line: i fr nigh wept upon going back over a moment like what am i hearing here?#& realizing the answer was: it's bruno quietly stuttering a moment during this one line (& then (& then (& then)) i saw you) ;;;mm;;;#hang onnn....the first scapegoat who's driven off being Disabled is so real so ;m; that again they're like so he got Weirder; Okay ;;m;;#that we get jorge thumbs up nobody having an Aside to be like [ugh; this guy] or Anything. augh always have too much to say for 30 tags#fabric drape there sure not accurate but i was like okay if i try to really reference that i'm not getting this done tonight
48 notes
·
View notes
Text
I’m trying to write a “quick” reference doc of in-universe common knowledge for the players in my ttrpg campaign but every time I sit down to edit, it expands by another 200 words. The section on orbital dynamics is now almost a full page. There should not be a section on orbital dynamics. Why do I have chronic terminal writer brain. H e l p
#the planet is in a much more elliptical orbit than earth so the seasons are driven as much by that as axial tilt#you get uneven season lengths#and the temperature variation between seasons is much more dramatic in one hemisphere than the other#there are a whole bunch of calendar systems#I explain the calendars in detail and give specific numbers#but the moon is small and orbits quickly so lunar calendars are uncommon#also the planet is closer to the sun than earth#just barely on the edge of the habitable zone#it’s toasty#the oceans are fucked#the only inhabited land is on polar continents#it’s bigger than earth too and dominated by oceans#I need to be stopped#ttrpg
448 notes
·
View notes
Text
Because of that dream I had (mentioned in this post), I headcanon that og!Cale's only fear that applies to himself are teachers. All his other fears implies other people being the one who suffers, but he's deeply scared of teachers.
He's teacher-phobic like some people are clown-phobic and like some little animals are afraid of humans. (Or I to spiders)
In my mind, that's the actual reason he abandoned his studies. He had a whole conversation prepared to convince his father that he could do self-study and have Ron or Hans test him every some months. He was so ready to have to present a whole list of arguments when he ditched his classes.
Instead, Deruth just agreed to it almost immediately. Cale was so shocked that he forgot to tell him about the self-study part.
A few days later, he heard some people talk about how "the young master's behaviour got worse and worse" and how "he refused to have any education at all". Then they mentioned how Bassen was so dedicated in comparison.
So he decided that this misunderstanding was quite useful and let it be.
Anyways, I headcanon this so strongly that sometimes I forget it's not canon.
Everytime I read a highschool AU where og!Cale is skipping classes, I'm like "yeah, I would do that too if I were him". Then I remember that that's not canon, not even in the fic. He's just keeping with his "trashy" persona.
(Although, if the fic doesn't contradict it, sometimes I keep going with my reason instead).
#og cale henituse#original cale henituse#og!cale henituse#that dream was so detailed#cale was so scared but also#didn't care that much about himself like to do something about it#then his tutor almost hurt his sister before she was even born#and he got pissed off#his tutor was strange#he wasn't evil#just an amoral curiosity driven guy#he was brillant but crazy#and shouldn't be left alone with children#lcf headcanons#og cale#og cale's nonexistent teacher AU#if he saw a teacher he would walk backwards really fast
71 notes
·
View notes
Text
No, wait, I have one more thing to say.
I then watched as a well-mustachioed young gentleman in a brand new frock coat...
Magnus has done one (1) good thing in his life and that is to use the word "mustachioed" as a genuine, serious description of this guy.
#very interesting look into an early magnus mindset tbh#even beyond the language lol#says hes better off leaving the cab alone#comes back a few days later saying hes been searching for it#is almost entirely honest with the junior member of staff hes sacrificing about the danger#almost#except for that one crucial little detail of his certainty...#(what im saying is theres Parallels here that are making my brain buzz)#the magnus protocol#tmagp spoilers#27 driven#my magnus protocol stuff#original post#queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs#jonah tmagp#<- provisionally. dont think i didn't notice we didn't get his first name...
34 notes
·
View notes
Text
Well, this post is... way overdue. I've had a heck of a time sitting down to write it, for reasons unknown. But... we have a car. God has provided us a car. The details are a little messier than that, but I know a lot of y'all have been praying about that for us, so: there it is. He has provided.
#Nattering into the void#I feel like there's way more that I SHOULD say but I can't think of any of it#I'm so tired all the time#And the details REALLY are REALLY messy#But we've ridden in it a few times and I've driven it a few times and...#I am grateful. I am.#But I keep circling back around to those messy details.#Forgive me. I'm very tired today for some reason.
22 notes
·
View notes
Text
rough draft
#this can get posted cause i actually really like it#ive been loving messy art lately its really nice to make stuff for the sake of getting ideas out and not have to stress over it not looking#-absolutely perfect and then being disappointed in myself after each piece#so :] take the boys tumblr#homestuck#dirk strider#dave strider#my art#dirkdave#stridercest#msi#obligatory anxiety driven reminder that if im misinterpreting the song no im not shut up (lighthearted)#uhhh queues this for like 11am tomofrow#today ig its like 1am#OKAY POSTS IT#fuck i love rambling#Spotify#also i came back for more notes cause when arent i rambling but uh ignore that theres only two of them thus rendering the vodka they are-#-spinning completely useless#the official version will have a couple other people thrown in#but like in less detail kinda fuzzy like#probably like june and terezi or something idfk#or john ig but i think june fits the tone better#OKAY ACTUALLY BYE NOW SHUT UP ME#wow i just posted cringe basically
21 notes
·
View notes
Text
hello friends i wanted to ask for help from those with a better memory for lore/details from the games than i have. a friend of mine is doing a presentation party soon, and i want to do mine on da2 - why my favorite game kind of sucks and how i’d fix it lmao i’ve got a lot of ideas and have been replaying it to find extra details, but my memory isn’t great and i know there’s a lot of great meta posts about it on here, so i wanted to give y’all a chance to chime in! what are some things you think i should include? what are your favorite or least favorite aspects of the game? what parts are really cool and what parts do you hate? specific examples of scenes/quests/dialogue would help - also, if you know of any posts or anything else that have this type of info, send them my way! i love da2 and i’m very excited to talk about the game that it is and also the game that it could have been, so i want to be sure i have enough for it to make sense!
#da2#dragon age#dragon age 2#da#she speaks#ty to anyone who sends me anything!!#my memory/cognition in general is Garbage these days lol#also i apologize for being so so inactive on here for so long#da4 news has driven me back to the brink i fear#so far i plan to focus a lot on the anders/fenris rivalry and their lack of late-game development#plus the weirdness of having to fight both the first enchanter and meredith at the end#and i’ll probably also mention the fun theory that all caves/buildings are the same#and other little details are weird/inconsistent#bc the whole thing is just varric telling a story#i will also be starting with an acknowledgment that considering how rushed it was the game is FANTASTIC
19 notes
·
View notes
Text
advertising is a great method for raising awareness of your product so that if I'm ever in a position where I have to choose between it and something else that does the same thing, I can think back to hearing the ad and immediately know that I want to buy the other thing instead
#i dont even care about the details like girl fuck you i dont wanna hear about your garbage#i will absolutely make consumer decisions driven entirely by spite in a desperate bid to feel the tiniest measure of control over my life
20 notes
·
View notes
Text
I have Feelings™️ about Beakley
She’s a grandmother she’s a spy she’s an agent she’s a director she loves Webby she’s the worst guardian in the manor she judges everyone she’s extremely good at taking care of kids she’s terrible with children she lies like its second nature she’s barely remorseful for her actions she feels terrible about everything she’s done she’s traumatized she’s the most well-adjusted person in the room she’s one wrong move away from blowing up she’s calm and collected but most importantly she’s a hypocrite.
She’s the biggest hypocrite in the mansion and I absolutely love her for it.
She judges everyone. If you exist in her line of sight, chances are she’s going to look at you and think ‘I could probably do X better than you’ to herself. Especially when it comes to parenting.
And here’s the kicker- she’s wrong. She’s so wrong about that. Without a doubt, she wins the ‘worst of the mansion’s parental figures’ trophy by a landslide. She did terribly by Webby.
She kept her in the manor, alone, and trained her to defend herself from much too early an age. She told her not to bother Scrooge, the only other person in their home, which means that the only person Webby every really had was her.
I mean this woman was ready to straight up kick her ass on the roof of the manor for saying ‘hey maybe traumatizing Huey and Dewey isn’t the best form of training’
This woman, on multiple occasions, looked Webby right in the eyes and lied to her without even thinking- twice! And that’s after knowing that Webby hates being lied to!
She’s had quite her fair share of fuckups when it comes to parenting, and yet she still freely judges Scrooge, Donald, and Della whenever they try to parent.
She’s one of the biggest hypocrites in the show.
And the thing is, it makes sense.
All of her actions so much sense, even the judgement.
She’s a thoroughly traumatized secret agent who’s probably never opened up about herself to anyone (well, maybe Scrooge, but that’s another post for another day), found a child kept in one of their secret bases, and made the impossible choice to abandon her mission (her entire life) to go into hiding and keep the child safe.
She used to be a secret agent, so of course her modus operandi is to lie. Of course she keeps her cards close to her chest (even when nobody else is playing), of course she waits to reveal anything until she’s deemed it absolutely necessary to do so.
She essentially kidnapped Webby, the top-secret project of an evil organization. Of course she never let her leave the mansion (or at least, go anywhere besides the mansion and the Money Bin, because she’s been there before), she had every reason to believe that their agents may one day show up to find and take her away.
Of course she trained Webby relentlessly, of course she reacted so harshly to the idea of not training the boys in the same way. In order to survive, she was treated as a soldier instead of a person, after all. So in order for them to survive, she’s got to treat them like soldiers too.
Of course she judges everyone around her and refuses to admit when she’s wrong, she’s been through hellish experience after hellish experience, took over as director for SHUSH after the previous director was kidnapped by FOWL. She’s learned to hide her weaknesses, bury them so deep that even she wouldn’t be able to find them if she tried. She’s had to lead others, monitor agents, make absolutely sure that no information leaked which meant running the tightest shop possible. After doing that for so long, seeing others not do that is grating (what do you mean, other people got to be safe? What do you mean, nobody else has dealt with the things she has? What do you mean, she doesn’t have to treat everything like a secret war is brewing just under the surface? Preposterous).
She’s been through more than anyone else will ever know, more than she’ll ever say, and she refuses to admit that it’s caused her harm. She refuses to believe that what happened to her may have been wrong. That it shouldn’t have happened at all (It ended up giving her Webby. How could anything that gave her Webby be wrong?)
She’s a bitch and an asshole and a jerk and a hypocrite and a badass super spy and a housekeeper and a grandmother and anything she needs to be to survive and is maybe just starting to allow herself to live.
But there is one thing she most certainly is not:
A secretary
#she’s great#I love how fucked up she is#and how little she’s willing to admit it#because she’d never admit to being as fucked up as everyone else in the family#it’d kill her#ducktales#dt17#mrs beakley#bentina beakley#the reason she clashes (slightly) with della is because both of them have ‘I’m The Main Character’ energy#but where beakley is the main character of a long and detailed story-driven singleplayer#della is the main character of an mmo#so della never actually realizes that they have beef because she’s perfectly happy with the idea of there being multiple main characters#but beakley has to adjust to this new development#and she hates adjusting to new things
101 notes
·
View notes
Text
my favourite thing about the always sunny podcast is listening to rcg all say something extremely neurodivergent and then agree amongst themselves and convince themselves its completely normal
#and to be clear im not diagnosing them charlie said he wasn't neurotypical#like deadass i think. the reason some of their writers just completely botch the gang's motivations/dialogue sometimes is bc at their core#these characters are all. SO autistic. which inevitably leads to them being misunderstood by others outside their group#whether rcg realizes it or not they inject this very specific vibe of neurodivergence into the gang#and its why they will just. argue over inconsequential details bc they Need to be understood completely#they can't just drop it unless they are crystal fucking clear#imo the biggest mistake other writers make is thinking that the gang is completely desensitized when its more like#they just don't react the way you would expect#which is often... adjacent to that but still distinct. and its trauma that influences this as well#the gang does not believe they themselves are 'bad people'. theyre most often oblivious to the fact that the things they do are insane#rob saying he doesnt pick up on social cues and then going on to argue in circles with glenn#i dont think last week was anything crazy but i think. rob doesn't know when to let up. which is a problem that *i* have#and while it comes across as being confrontational in an 'im right youre wrong' way i dont think its driven by ego here#just like with how as they said mac and dennis are making up while chucking bread rolls at each other#on both sides its frustration at being misunderstood#but they are all similar enough that even if they disagree over small details theyre usually on the same page. and this can be beneficial!!#thats the conclusion of the ep!!!! whether its suggesting smoking to cancel out the toxic apple skin or suggesting words u cant think of#glenn said he was upset about feeling misrepresented and picked on#dennis gets angry for those exact reasons in.... ALL of his big rage scenes#its frustration that leads to anger because youre speaking to (another) brick wall and you can't adequately explain yourself#which. glenn is clearly more competent than dennis & i think a lot of the time in sunny the gang is WAY more obtuse for the sake of comedy#but its interesting to watch the dynamic because as charlie said last week#they are mac and dennis (especially when theyre fighting)#i just think.. they are in a semi-unique position to understand this because this is how they are. while several other writers do not get i#ada speaks#untagged
110 notes
·
View notes