#doomed to fail I guess

[daisywords]

frustrates me to no end when people are like "talent means nothing! it's all about hard work!" as if being hardworking isn't also a kind of talent

[bungouchronicles]

I like my ships doomed by the narrative

[kiisuuumii]

i'm not gonna lie guys i don't think this love thing is ever gonna work out for me

[willowcrowned]

“Making anyone over the age of 8 watch tcw should be forbidden” okay, but why?

because it’s bad in the way only bad kids shows can be. and then it’s also bad in fifteen other ways

[albino-parakeet]

Hikaru’s dad: If you love someone, you better marry them quick or Unuki-sama will take them.

Yoshiki’s dad out of no where during a festival: This festival used to be for a god that lives on the mountain. Stay out of that mountain. You’ll be taken away.

Hikaru and Yoshiki barely like 9 or 10:

I don’t know where I’m going with this. All I know is that Hikaru and Yoshiki look similar in age in those flashbacks. And every time I read those pages I just think of their dads being like: Maybe now is a good time to mention that there’s a god of some kind on that mountain that can and will steal the one you cherish. And also Yoshiki you specifically don’t go up there for the love of god.

Then Yoshiki proceeded to fail that crucial step of not going up there, so he could try and find Hikaru.

And now I’m thinking about that one part (I forget what chapter), where Yoshiki is talking about actual Hikaru. Saying he was unfair and would lie sometimes, and etc. Like sorry Yoshiki, but I’d probably do the same if I was told at a young age that my family apparently has some kind of deal with an eldritch god. And anyone who I deeply cherished that wasn’t family would be taken away from me.

I can only imagine what Hikaru probably felt when he realized how much he cared for Yoshiki and then having an “oh shit” moment.

Putting you’re own friend in danger because you love them so much, and they don’t even know it and probably never will. And you end up dying on a mountain alone with your last breath wishing for your friend to be happy and safe. Even if that means giving up your body to the same god you feared would take them away.

[inawickedlittletown]

The only way that RDJ works as Dr Doom is as a variant of Tony Stark. But the only way we as the audience buy it is if RDJ can use those acting skills to give us such a different and yet still nuanced with Tony-isms performance.

[meljwrites]

I have a question: where do you see Hayray in the future when the show jumps to a year? I keep seeing people say they probably won't be together by the time the jump happens or that they both end up with different people. The craziest theory I've seen is that Lucas ends up with Rex. I wouldn't put it past the show to do something like that but even I think that's absurd. I just want Lucas and Dillon to be happy but the only way I see that happening is if both Oscar and Nate leave which I don't think is gonna happen for awhile. I haven't been this invested in a couple in a long time. They're the only reason I watch the show. If they end up having a happy ending, then I can finally stop watching the show. I just want to know your thoughts.

I am unsure overall what I think they will go with. Personally I think it really depends whether or not they make Dillon go to University. But he is one of the only two asian cast members left so that wouldn't be great, and if ste and james break up then they will be the only gay couple on the show anyway.

Daisy said that she thinks that the only thing that makes sense is for them to break up before or during the break so that we don't miss all of their early relationship days and struggles.

I'm not sure if that will happen because I feel like they built up for this for so long it would feel cheap if it failed at the first hurdle. I think that there is a valid point to make for them needing to grow as people and it is more likely that they will stay together longer if they work on themselves first.

Most of the people that are talking about Lucas and Rex are probably reading into too much as Lucas is very much still a child and that recent photo was a CAST photo rather than a PROMO photo, because they were wearing their own clothes.

One thing that complicates all of this is that Lucas has been in the village and thus on the show for his entire life, so it makes sense to have him stick around.

It's an unfortunate fact of life that soap couples start and stop at random until they either leave the village together, break up for good, or one of them dies.

Excluding the time skip, for their "ending" I imagine something very similar to McDean's original ending, going off into the world together, but I wouldn't imagine it would be a painless path to get there. They could end up as one of the main steady couples (Some have been together since 2011 or something like that) It just depends how long they'll want to stay.

[fizztapp]

I regretted not getting the chance to play battleborn so I picked up concord and it's fun and scratches that arena shooter itch that I haven't had scratched in a good while. Play it now I guess because it won't last 😔

[concernedcrimson]

Thank you for trying with her, but I believe she is beyond reason. Some simply will not change.

@badlydrawnrose

ROSE?!?!

YOU'RE ALIVE?!?!

O_O

....

Oh! right! Sorry for losing my composure there.

I'll be honest, I thought the robot body thing was a bluff that Calliope made up to straight up replace you entirely rather than, you know, house your soul.

But you're here?! Talking to me?! Damn....

And you know what? Maybe you have a point. I wanted her to change. And I guess I went too far with trying. But at the same time, I feel like I failed.

I only did what I could because I can't fight. So I tried to have faith in my methods. I tried to believe that if someone wants to do "good things" for the planet you call home, they actually could while taking into consideration your autonomy and shit. That they could do it as an act of loving the beings that live there while letting them live how they want to rather than as a act of the kind of "love" that ensnares and suffocates them enough to snuff out the lights in their eyes.

But I guess I was wrong.

It was worth a shot though.

I'm sorry for failing you.

- ScAnon

[groupwest]

Want to actually kill myself :-/

[crimehat]

thinking about how Arthur said "we're more ghosts than people."

thinking about how RDR1 is basically a ghost story.

[motherforthefamicom]

uh hi guys. just gonna stop declaring myself as being ‘back’ since im starting to realize its probably never going to be very consistent lmao

[marcusrobertobaq]

And the most interesting part... it's in Detroit xD

i have so many things to say about how the android revolution was handled in dbh, especially how most of the conflict was around markus’s choices to be violent or peaceful. idrk how to phrase it all but like. ugh it just bug me so much really is can all be said from the quote by assata shakur “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

a huge part of the revolution is ‘we can’t stoop to the same level as the human’ and it makes me so mad. like yeah sure, murder and hurting ppl isn’t good. but protests for rights have never been peaceful. you don’t gain rights by being peaceful and perfect. i just hate it so much. plus, the game has obvious parallels to the civil rights movement (even if david cage says it’s not. it is. even if it wasn’t, this game is political no matter how u view it. the topic of rights and freedom will always be political) and to imply that the android revolution has to be near perfectly peaceful to succeed is crazy. girl does he think the civil rights movement was entirely peaceful?? someone put him and all the other writers in a god damn history class

not to mention markus. i think the writers saw him as like the equivalent to mlk jr, with the parallels to the civil rights movements and such, which is crazy considering they turned him into their Savior and led the whole movement. like. side eye. idk i love markus’s story, but i think the whole revolution and being turned into a savior robo jesus was so so bad and tone deaf (thank u david cage..) . and the whole revolution TOOK PLACE IN A WEEK. A WEEK. THATS INSANEE. A WHOLE REVOLUTION IN A WEEK IS INSANE. i understand that a game needs to end but we don’t need to see Every Single Second of the story!! spread it out over a month, give characters time to form relationships, let the plot thicken, let things get tense, let things simmer and develop!!! not everything needs to happen on screen!!! one of my biggest gripes about the game is its timeline </3

i know i just rambled a bunch but god it annoys me so much. markus’s story was done so wrong for so many reason, and as a queer person who’s largely interested in protests and movements for rights and such, it just makes me so mad how badly and idealistically it was created. it feels like it was written by humans, by OPPRESSORS, dreaming of a utopia where they are still good people. :/ which i suppose it IS in a way — but still u get my point

[pirateshelly]

As much as nearly every character she meets tends to act like there's something uniquely broken and wrong with Claudia, at no point does it truly seem to me like there actually really is? I mean, obviously she is extremely fucked up, she straight up went through a serial killer collecting trophies phase, but there's a level of fucked up that's sort of the baseline for every character in the show, and obviously being turned into a vampire as a child puts her at a unique disadvantage. But for all that everyone around her spends their time bemoaning how dreadful and doomed her life is, even Louis who genuinely loves her but also builds so much of his identity around feeling responsible for her Terrible Fate™, I really don't think she's like, fundamentally damaged any more than any of the other vampires are.

But Lestat is so unwilling to be wrong that every time her life hits an inevitable road bump instead of helping her through it he points and says "look! see! she IS a monster, I was right Louis, making her was a mistake!" (and I think he sees his own monstrousness in her but fails to also see her humanity)

And then Armand meets her and sees only someone who will inevitably lose her mind, so of course speeding up the "inevitable" and siding with the coven to plan her death is just a mercy, absolving himself of any blame. (and he projects his own frailty and desire for death onto her, failing to see her strength and her desire for life)

Which makes it so cathartic when she meets Madeleine, admits to her how broken she feels sometimes, and Madeleine's response is just. Well that's normal. Who isn't a little broken these days. Let yourself feel it, move on, let yourself feel it again if you need to. After spending her life having others act as if her emotions are something uniquely dark and worrying, Madeleine's incredibly blase attitude must have been such an incredible breath of fresh air for Claudia!

To spend her whole life being made to feel like something is Wrong™ with her, and then meet someone who's just like, "yeah, and?? Who isn't? Join the club I guess"

Which makes her death so incredibly tragic and frustrating because like. She was fine! She was making a life for herself! She wasn't doomed by her nature, she wasn't "doomed by the narrative" (whatever the fuck that even means), she was doomed for no reason other than that everyone around her (except for Madeleine) preemptively DECIDED she was doomed and never gave her a chance to prove them wrong.

[bloggingboutburgers]

Going through some really tough times right now being terrified that any timing hiccup ('cus we ARE having them, despite our best efforts) on the very complicated US fiancé visa process will compromise my future with my partner forever.

At this point I don't even know if venting about how stressful this all is might hurt our case too (because access to my social media pages was requested, so that could be monitored) but I'm exhausted, sometimes it seems everything's already doomed from the get-go even if we're ticking all the boxes because of how confusing things get, and I needed to let out why I'm less active these days I guess.

Don't anyone ever give us the whole "haha yooo neat getting married for tax benefits" thing ever again. This process is costing us a fortune and we're putting tons on the line, and the uncertainty of it all is crushing. There's nothing practical about it. And still this is the only way we can ever be able to stay together permanently. We can't afford to fail yet sometimes it seems we have so little agency about it. It's hell.

[animallover432]

Looking back, it’s clear that Bro Strider really wanted to be a major part of the beta kids session. He wanted to be a hero and be one of the main players. He purchases copies of the game for himself, intending to be the fourth player I guess instead of Jade? When he gives Dave his copy and leaves, the plan changes, and instead he decides to just enter the game with Dave. But before that happens he is the one to save Dave by cutting his meteor in half and throwing his rocket board to him. Once he enters, he immediately vanishes to fight monsters on LOHAC. Then he is the one to send his rocket board to catch Dream Cal, so he can send him to the ectolab, of which he’s briefly in himself. Then he goes fights Jack. He tries to initiate the scratch, but fails. At this moment it seems he was trying to be the hero to cause the scratch and create the new timeline, and of course it doesn’t work but the fact he knows about this is what’s has to happen is odd considering he seemingly never meets up with any of the other guardians. Of course Jack eventually kills him on LOWAS, and I feel like Bro genuinely believed he could’ve truly saved everyone, but alas just like post scratch Dirk, his attempts at being a hero are futile and in this case he was basically doomed from the beginning since he was never meant to play the game. It’s very similar to how Dirk fails in the game over timeline despite all that he tried to do because this is who he is. Only this time he failed because this version of him was never meant or be a hero of the game or be important, arguably bro isn’t even the “main Dirk.” Due to lacking a dream self or possibility to go god tier or any powerful abilities, he never stood a chance against Jack. His only purpose was to train Dave for sburb, and in trying to steal the spotlight from the beta kids he sealed his fate