#didnt seem like THAT long ago

[faaun]

i feel rly sad and conflicted abt one of my best friends on earth but idk who to ask for advice bc i usually would have consulted her in this situation lmao

[yanderespamton78]

damn it feels so good to actually have friends who i feel safe around. like to have friends who im not worried that if they find out that i like "cringe" things they wont judge me. woah!!

@angry-avaocardo @silly1xxx @gollyimsosoevil

[hassianlovebot]

"When she got sick, I felt my life losing its purpose. I’d do anything to save her. And I did! I don’t regret it!" this is one of reth's dialogues and like,, do you see what i mean when i say that the dialogue is So conflicting at times? like it's Just vague enough that it can very easily imply that tish Just got sick as an adult and that reth took action quickly afterwards. like it's worded in such a way that it doesn't Quite fit the vibes of tish being sick as a child. i'm not saying that reth wouldn't feel that strongly as a kid, but i am saying that it's worded in a way that implies a quicker passing of time between tish getting sick and reth getting into debt to save her life.

i feel like the devs really need to sort out the timeline and fix the dialogue to match up with it. either their parents died when they were like 5-10 or when they were teenagers/young adults. either tish got sick as a child or right before they moved to kilima. like,, you can't have dialogue that implies Both :')

[icewindandboringhorror]

Misc. photos from the past year or so ~

[orcelito]

Man. Yeah okay. You guys are convincing me to continue watching Arcane lol

[dockaspbrak]

Jobs for someone not cut out for real life but who excels at mimicry

[apocalyptic-byler]

chat is it reasonable to hold just a little bit of resentment toward a friend who forgot your birthday but you made it a point to make a big deal about theirs and on top of that bought them gifts with your own money or is it just me being dramatic

[droil]

chomping gnawing at the bit to finish act 2 so i can finally have more minthara scenes. im dying out here. withers has been calling me pussy no bitches for a second playthrough in a row. she's neutral towards me bc she doesnt have romance scenes in act 2 i swear. bro we totally hooked up at the act 1 party. she just needs some time to think after being in a cult. withers take it back im gonna cry

[muirneach]

46 minute psychoanalytic russian interview with andrey? i’m so sat.

[scribbling-dragon]

im gonna be thinking about the implications of joel’s video for a long time now. why did he have to do this to me ;-;

[normalest-of-knees]

Episode 8 and general Volume 9 discussion under the cut because... oof-

Tw: suicidal topics involving this episode and previous ones

Where exactly do we go from here? I'm serious. Where can this even go with 2 episodes left to this nonsensical volume?

Regardless of what RT actually does next episode, one way or another Ruby herself and (hopefully) everyone else will have to deal with the fact that she wanted to die, or at the very least, not be herself anymore.

Yes, Ascension is supposed to be different, but we also don't know anything about that. Ruby isn't from this world, so it may not even work, but we've also had unreliable sources (according to the show, anyways) as to what it actually is and does. We know the basics of how it's supposed to work, but not whether it's actually good or not

I had one crazy theory come to mind after the last 2 episodes, namely after we see Summer in Ruby's reflection in the storm.... and I cannot stress how much I hope this won't happen (but given how things have gone so far-):

I'm worried we may get a "Ruby turns into Summer Rose" or "Ruby was actually Summer all along" bullshit. It's just stupid enough to be something the writers would think is a "cool" "fun" "twist".

That aside, I must once again stress (I said this on a different blog) that everything feels like its going by at a break neck pace. So much is happening yet nothing is happening at all??

Ruby seemingly doesn't run very far away at all, enough that her team can hear the gunshots of her being attacked. She gets some weird spotlight beforehand that at first I thought was supposed to convey the passage of time as she walked, but I'm not really sure. She seemingly purposefully walks towards the mansion/casino/building Neo cooked up and we immediately are inside?? There's no transition to this. You'd be forgiven for thinking after she ran away that this bit was all a dream

Then even the parts with the dead menagerie attacking Ruby are odd. How does Neo know about half of this stuff? Is she guessing? Did she somehow find out via the lamp back when Cinder used it?? And as awful as it was for Ruby to be beaten and tortured like that, it was insanely short.

I know she was already beyond her limits, but they barely do much/say much before she's considering the tea. She had so much fire when she waltzed in there ("If you want me dead then come and get me!"), but a few illusions and her Aura is broken and she's ready to be done?? Again, I know she was already having a breakdown before, but it still felt too rushed to be natural. I know we saw bruises and a few cuts (and random blood on her hands?), but otherwise she wasn't visibly looking worse than some other fights she's been in before.

Also, why in the shit fuck did her friends just stand there and do nothing? You're telling me after someone dear and close to you freaks out, runs off, then you hear gunfire and rush to see what it is, then see her on the ground visibly upset and beaten up with the villain who has been hunting her down standing over her with their weapon out, you just..... stand there?? Waiting to see what's up?? There weren't even any copies or illusions around as well, it was just Neo and Ruby there.

Ruby just picks up the cup and drinks and Yang just.... stands there. Even the close up on her eye didn't have much emotion other than if she was watching a log tumble off a waterfall or something. Like barely anything aside from "Oh wow. Huh" going on....

And yeah, CC and Neo being the ones more upset over that than anything is.... a thing.

I don't care how the group interprets Ascension, you see your close friend, your SISTER, drink some unknown liquid and then falls over looking dead and gets swallowed up by a hole in the ground with vines, you'd have a reaction. You'd be panicking and running over to the spot. Freaking out! "Where'd they go?? What's going on??" Would be an understandable reaction.

But nothing. No one even moves an inch, they just watch, get blasted by a Cat, then it's over.

I thought at least Weiss would use her glyphs or something to charge at Neo or get to Ruby as fast as she could. Summon something to knock the cup out of her hand. Anything!! Why are they so.... apathetic about it? They're not even really horrified, they're just "Oh no... anyways." Like they saw someone slip and break something they were holding. Unfortunate, but oh well.

Don't even get me started on Yang's bitching earlier.

"Why'd she run off like that?!" "That wasn't upset that was-- ugh!! Why didn't she talk to us?!" "We weren't asking her to be perfect."

If you told me Yang hardly ever interacted with Ruby ever, let alone was her sister that 'supposedly' raised her, I'd believe you. The Hell kind of reaction is this when your sister runs away crying after expressing she wasn't doing ok?? Yes, Ruby brushed people off when they'd try to ask if she was ok, but even that is still an answer! Clearly she was not ok! And even when she'd be more vulnerable or sad, she was ignored or scolded for being sullen. How in the fuck was she supposed to open up?

I honestly don't know what is even gonna happen after this. 2 episodes left and the title character committed metaphorical suicide.

They'll either make it not matter, make her reset and forget everything, become someone else entirely, or nothing will change and she'll just have to be like "Yeah, so, my bad. Anyways, here's the exit guys"

This show makes me so tired....

[skitskatdacat63]

Comparing my characters' most recent art to their first art makes me feel like a proud parent 😭😭😭 I can't believe how far they're come 🥹

[scattered-winter]

horrifying self recognition through the other aside this has been an actually not terrible start to The Family Gathering tbh

[yousaytomato]

Tumblr really is one of the last defenders of the: "ooopsy wooooopsy~ looks wike we had a wittle accident 👉👈🥺" style of error message

[regrettablemeasure]

i have not played other routes w intimate scenes but i will say F’s are so character-less i’m actually shocked and it doesnt SOUND like N and M’s are like that at all :( F’s route in general in book 3 is underwhelming to say the least. You can make a perky funny romance without the character lacking dimension (like i dont NEED the M or A or triangle angst), and I really thought by the third book in the series we’d get…something? but i fear it’s actually going backward, after playing through the first two books the 3rd is just F: Quips and Goofs Edition vs what i ASSUMED were setups in the first two (regarding their aversion to difficult emotions and abandonment issues) which get. Such scant mentions here they don’t feel relevant, especially because they neither impact F OR the detective.

All of the conflict, development, or cracks is starting to show with the other three vamps wrt their relationships and then poor F feels like an afterthought. right down to the romance scenes being so generic if you took their name out of it I wouldnt be able to tell you who it is. Even N can get into some shit w the detective in book 3 but F’s internal monologue and most scenes (save for the dinner with Verda) feels so half assed it’s disheartening. Idk if it’s just me, idk if I just happened to play it a way where it came across as such but I’m genuinely curious as to what other scant F-mancers out there think of them in this book. This is a critique of the writing, not my baby F themselves. In the romance route at least F is exactly the same as they were in book one, if not regressed. We got some backstory lore but thats not the same as character development.

[missingn000]

hiiiiiiii omg dropping by to say that even tho we've only been mutuals for a little bit I've been reading tpg since chapter 8 was posted (time flies btw!!!) and i NEED to let you know that ur characterizartion of satoru is my favorite ever it rlly rlly is like!!! you get him....

WAIT YOU READ TPG??? BROOO I HAD NO IDEA 😭 holy shit chapter 8 was AGES ago, god that was summer 2021. the passage of time just socked me in the face first thing in the morning

ahh u are so sweet!!! i love writing him so much...he's my favorite jjk character tbh and i think i have gojos past arc completely memorized from how hard i studied his characterization in the early days. everything beyond that is because i can see into his mind. thank u for your kind words!!!