#do I even really like the media if I don’t make a dbh au for it?

[noodles-and-tea]

Arcane: become human

[arkitiore]

Ask thingy! Idk if there's a limit but answer me this😅 8, 9, 10 and 16♡♡

There is never a limit! But I already answered 8 and 10 in the last two asks so I shall skip over them!

9. Do you like prequels?

Generally, yes! I love them. Sometimes even more than sequels if I feel like the thing being prequeled already had a nice neat ending. I feel sometimes there's also less risk in creating a disappointing piece of media with a prequel because its harder to damage the original story if that makes sense (with obviously exceptions of course (looking at you Star Wars)). DBH is one of the instances where I think a prequel could be less risky than an immediate sequel - the founding of jericho with simon/josh/norths stories, the making of Markus, looking into Carls connection to Kamski and what Kamski might know from the beginning about deviancy, the inner working of Cyberlife - how that resulted in the creation of the RK800 line etc. A sequel would of course work too but I think there would need to be a time jump because I wouldn't trust them to tackle the whole negotiating-robot-rights plotline without making an embarrassing disaster. But let's be honest any actual legitimate continuation of DBH is a Terrible Bad Idea and a disaster waiting to happen because David Cage is a hack lmao

16. Do you block people who like characters/fandoms/ships that you don't like?

I dont really block anyone except spammers. If something in particular doesn't vibe with me I'll block the tag but not individual blogs generally cause they might have other content I like and I don't really have any issue just skimming over stuff I dislike - especially since this fandom is TINY and the only thing in it that really freaks me out past mild dislike is that "box boy" au that gives me the big creeps, but it hardly comes up very frequently and I loooove a lot of the blogs that are into it so its whatever. So yeah, everyone's safe from Connorks Big Block Button 😂

[16ruedelaverrerie]

Excuse you!!!!! First of all, anon, if you ever call yourself that again I will find you on your birthday and I will take from you that which you love the most. If at any point I happen to say something that rings true or seems even vaguely insightful, that is a product of practice and experience and has nothing to do with natural aptitude! Literally I have been trained for more than a decade to read things as a career, and I’m still slowly learning how to do it better!

It is, of course, also a product of even less remunerative forms of practice and experience-- that is to say, too much time in fandom. Even in that regard, there’s still more for me to learn! But it’s really fun to think about how each fandom has its own distinct ecology, how each subsection of that fandom operates under a distinct microclimate, and how each country (or linguistic community) has such different norms of engagement YEAH THAT’S RIGHT THE THIRD ITEM IN THIS LIST DOESN’T COME WITH AN ENVIRONMENTAL METAPHOR

I think that’s the problem with fan studies academics who aren’t actually knee-deep in the filth of fandom, but are just... distantly fascinated by fandom; they’re trying to draw global conclusions by aggregating disparate sets of local phenomena, because they haven’t run up against how heterogeneous fandom is on the ground level. I mean, sure, there are trends! There are waves! But sometimes people do arrive at the same thing via wildly different paths, and having seen that makes me reluctant to come to any kind of conclusion (other than only very tentative suggestions). So everything I say here should probably be read as you picture me shrugging so noncommittally that my shoulders shoot up past my ears. (Thank you very much for reading v v v)

 THIS IS... TOO CLOSE TO A HORROR MOVIE. It’s kind of like that AO3 Gothic post! “YOU ARE ALREADY FOLLOWING THIS USER. YOU ARE ALREADY FOLLOWING THIS USER.” As your foot snags on a floorboard and you come crashing down onto your elbows, the voice dogs your heels through the interminable hallways. “YOU ARE ALREADY FOLLOWING THIS USER.” You try to crawl to some sort of escape, one knee after the other, sobbing for breath. “I DON’T WANT TO FOLLOW THIS USER,” you scream, tasting blood in your throat. “IT’S TOO LATE,” says the voice. “YOU ARE ALREADY FOLLOWING THIS USER.” This is the price you pay for making kind but unwise decisions with your social media accounts!

 NAGEKI.  NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI. NAGEKI.

Gosh I love Hatoful Boyfriend SO MUCH. I have to confess, though, that this is one of those canons/fandoms where my love is composed mostly of the emotional memories that I have from the process of playing the game, not of any recall of actual factual details! I did play it and a short bit of Holiday Star, but I didn’t actively seek out the fandom or any fanworks, and I think that allowed a lot of the plot to ebb from my brain over time. But, I mean, it’s like 95% still there! I’ve only forgotten some of the intricacies of the BBL route!

Hatoful is a MIRACLE. It is an IMPROBABLE CONFLAGRATION WITH GREAT CHARACTERS and it would surprise absolutely no one who is familiar with my terrible track record with character preferences to hear that my first instinct was to make a beeline for Shuu. Not even exactly because of AH MY SERIAL KILLER PARTRIDGE DOCTOR LOVER feelings, but more-- I just really needed to see what he was about??!? And then it turned out that what he was about was Ryuuji Kawara, which (it would also surprise no one to hear) I was INTO. You know what I was also into?? That bit during the epilogue where Kazuaki turns up pushing Shuu’s wheelchair and Sakuya is like ?!?!?! APPLYING ETHICAL GUIDELINES TO EITHER OF YOU IS COMPLETELY FUTILE. Like what kind of convalescence interactions are Kazuaki and Shuu even having during this time!! They are both SO INCAPABLE OF RELATING TO EACH OTHER IN WELL-ADJUSTED WAYS that I was charmed in the way that you are charmed when you see something so intractable that it defies understanding. I just want them to have hilariously maladaptive cohabitation routines where they are both SO SERIOUS about themselves and the entire rest of the cast is just like ????!?!??!?!?!!?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING

I ended up talking a lot about Shuu, but I really do love all of them so much. They are all so special and if I started shouting the names of characters I loved I would just end up shouting all of them! It’s debatable whether Shuu is even my favorite, because Okosan exists... as does Anghel... and Yuuya... and Azami... and Sakuya... and... SEE THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS AFRAID WOULD HAPPEN. Anon you are a blessing for sending in this ask and you should tell me your feelings about Hatoful too!

 fkjld;hlgkeofkld “I DON’T DANCE” IS DEFINITELY A REFERENCE I HAVE MADE BEFORE, IT’S LIKE YOU KNOW ME INSTINCTIVELY ANON. First of all I will never be out of DBH, I talk about this a lot but I do have to make it clear, I’m just not capable of losing interest in things for good so you bet I’ll still be in DBH fandom long after DBH fandom has functionally ceased to exist! Second of all, Markus x Simon (Simarkus, I suppose, but my aversion to namesmushes continues unabated) to me is less a pairing that I choose to ship or not ship, and more... a precondition, like a natural fact of the world. In my head I am like, yes, I accept Markus x Simon, what would I be otherwise, a flat-earther?! And I say this as someone who loves North very much and doesn’t care for invalidating her as a romance option. Markus x Simon is just... a thing! But anyway THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

SIMON TEACHING MARKUS THAT IT’S OKAY TO EXPRESS HIS MUSICAL THEATER INCLINATIONS

WOULD ALSO WATCH SIMON AND NORTH DO THE “BOP TO THE TOP” ROUTINE

Oh my god I hope that in this AU Josh is Troy but that the plot is split in half instead of converging so that Josh is just running around having important epiphanies and going through crises and falling in love with whoever Gabriella is, but it’s happening entirely in the background while Simon and Markus just engage in one elaborately convoluted set piece metaphor after another about Markus discovering his sexuality. At the end of the movie they meet up and Josh is like “Guys so much has happened, I don’t know where to start” and Markus is like “Okay! Well Simon and I are an item now” and Josh is like “...That’s too big a thing, you were supposed to be the side plot”

I realize that “I Don’t Dance” is from HSM 2 but honestly that is a sequel that is FAR SUPERIOR to the original!!!!!!!!!! (Insert 15-minute monologue here about how I think “Bet on It” is one of the funniest pieces of cultural output that humanity has ever produced.)

[tressymaviary]

op youre so right............

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