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[polevaultingzombie]

they’re putting chemicals in the dirt that turn the freakin plants gay

[g3othermal3scapism]

Bright young man!

[edenfenixblogs]

Escapist Media Recs?

Going to bed soon but would love some recommendations of “safe” TV shows/movies/youtube channels and/or confirmation that they are “safe.” The hardest part of dealing with everything is constantly feeling like I’m in defense mode or don’t know who’s about to gut punch me.

My criteria for a “safe” escapist media are:

Has not said anything about the conflict and (if YouTubers) has not indicated anything about the conflict through their platforms

OR

If they HAVE spoken, they acknowledged pain of ALL civilians in the levant.

OR

Has not attacked/demonized/fomented hatred against Jews or Muslims or Arabs or Palestinians

Has not allowed hateful rhetoric against anyone on their platforms

Has expressed sorrow or sympathy for Jews or Israelis without adding a qualifier of BUT afterwards

So far, KoreanEnglishman/Jolly have seemed safe. I know Rev Chris posted something nice about Israelis and Palestinians and wanting peace.

Drawfee is pending until I can see how the livestream goes.

Are the Try Guys still ok?

Grace Helbig has been safe so far but she’s not purely escapism as she is very much Going Thru Stuff this year. But I’ve been watching her for ages and she’s wonderful.

Is it safe to watch Abbot Elementary?

Any other Recs???

I really just need to watch or engage with something where I don’t have anxiety about whether or not I’m gonna find out the people who write/act/produce the content are gonna turn around and start spouting dogwhistles and tropes.

What’s been calming for y’all? What have you found that gives you a moment of fucking peace?

I’ve read 13 books so far this year already. But i really just want to sit and watch something and turn my brain off.

Anti-Zionists, DNI. I know your feelings on this and about me. You’ve made your position clear. Not looking for a debate right now.

Just looking for something that takes my mind of all *gestures broadly* this.

[theultimatekamehamehavoc]

he got a bit curious

[nightwonder7]

What are your thoughts on the new Hullabaloo content?

AAaaaahhhh sorry it has taken me so long to get to these asks! 😭 I've been too eepy to properly articulate any replies ;u;

The short of it, it was so good!!! O0O I liked the story a lot more than I expected. Like gosh, the writing, the presentation, the animation, the voice acting (Joker's performance at the tent gave me chills)! Everything was so impeccable and much more than I thought it would be :0 Certainly a breath of fresh air and an upgrade from the diary stories of game 4 and 9 (I wouldn't mind at all if the devs revisited those with the same caliber as Closing Night 👀 at least it seems all the stories from now on will be presented this way)! While character and essence trailers tend to be very poetic and ambiguous, Closing Night was pretty straight forward in the plot, which was really nice.

The characters themselves and their dynamics were probably the most striking to me. It's one thing to read the lore through letters and deductions, but seeing the characters actually perform in real time gives more insight and adds layers of depth and complexity that are hard to perceive through other formats. Even the little things; the way they speak, their demeanor, their body language, how they act towards each other in different situations... Like how Mike tends to use grandiose gestures while he speaks, or how Violetta talks with such softness and meekness in her voice (she is definitely the kind of person to apologise if someone else were to step on her toes... okay, bad analogy, but you get what I mean gfhjgdg). It's these details I'm so grateful to have witnessed in these characters. (Emphasizing that these characters come from a media where most of the lore is tucked away in written documents that a lot, or even most players, don't bother to seek out. It's nice that the later story installments to IDV have enabled more of them to learn more about the lore, cause it's all so very interesting and a shame to miss out on) It was an absolute treat to see them all interact with each other and the environment!

I love how the point of contention was building up through it all, and how it all came to a head at the end. I loved Mike's development as he realised what was truly going on at Hullabaloo. His perception of his perfect childhood paradise practically imploded on him in such a scale that he could no longer handle it ;-; All of them were victims to the circus and each of them had their own sets of trauma from the abuse. You could understand why they all acted the way they did, even if some of their actions weren't always the best. Man, the writing is so good!

Overall a very good story and presentation that I really enjoyed! Lots of angst, which I love 👀 I feel like I've gotten a better understanding of these characters now too; just hoping I'll also manage to portray them somewhat similarly fgdshjfsd XD Anyway, I'm looking forward to game 0 now! (but plz I want more Ashes of Memory first 😭)

[lunxribuh]

what i DO 💜😭🙏

[theprinceandthewitch]

Hmm... it's interesting how they made Luz wear a witch's cloak in Hunting Palisman - the episode where she introduces Flapjack to Hunter. This is also the episode where Hunter defies Belos by choosing Luz over him. He goes back to his palace empty-handed and he doesn't hand over Flapjack to Belos. Unbeknownst to Hunter, he is following Caleb's footsteps.

But then, in Hollow Mind, they made the choice to have Luz not wear her witches cloak - instead they made Luz wear a jacket with a giant "E" on it. They could have given Luz a completely different outfit like they did in Hunting Palisman. But they don't... they make her wear this specific jacket...

...They also make Hunter wear Caleb's symbol in Hollow Mind... an episode where Luz and Hunter are trapped in Philip's mind... where we can see paintings of the two most important characters in Philip's life - his brother and a witch from another world.

But I'm sure this is all unintentional.

You know, like this is:

oh, nbd, just a painting being paralleled with the scene happening right before our eyes

here's a more high def image of the painting

Oh, hmm, okay, this is a painting of Caleb standing next to a witch with short dark brown hair and who just so happens to be a witch from another world. Both of them are startled by Philip...

Hunter, the Grimwalker who looks the most like Caleb, is standing next to someone who ALSO just so happens to be a witch from another world with short dark brown hair... both are startled by Philip's monster form...

Hmm, must be unintentional I guess.

there's also this:

Mhm, okay, I see... I see, very interesting. Here we have Caleb being lead away from Philip by a witch from another world after the brother's have a fall out. This fall out marks the point of no return for them, as Philip later kills Caleb out of anger.

Hunter and Philip's relationship completely deteriorates because of Luz, which leads to Philip's decision to kill Hunter. She shows Hunter Belos' true nature and she offers Hunter sanctuary at The Owl House right after he finds out Belos has been lying to him his whole life... Luz saves Hunter's life and changes it forever.

Hmmm... very interesting

But I'm sure this is unintentional [I'm being sarcastic]

[grapecaseschoices]

friends who are disgusted together ... bust venatori together?

[randomnameless]

Regarding Edelgard's "oh you can't understand the plight of the poor because you're highborn” reply to Dimitri's speech about people helping each other, i've heard that that was a mistranslation and the jp's more like “it's easy for you, someone who's never lacked for support or friends and doesn't know what it's like to be truly alone, to say that”; can you verify if that's true or not?

Teaspoon translations compared this line!

So while it's not as worthy as the lolcalised version as a Supreme Reply, it still sort of counts, because Hubert - who stands by her side in this scene? - is still ignored at large, just like Doro and Petra who remain by her side in the last map.

Or are we supposed to really believe Supreme Leader had no one who helped and supported her in AM? I don't believe it a second, it seems it is again another "uwu lonely" message the devs want to give us regarding Supreme Leader, which really falls flat when you consider how, as I said, her old classmates still fight with her. Or maybe she feels like she is lonely and has no allies who support or help her, but that's another story altogether (Hubert who?).

[greyias]

After much dithering. I finally figured out Grey's new, very not snowy weather appropriate, Life Day party dress:

And as stills do not do the absolute sparkliness justice, some motion:

[puppetgearing]

ngl younger ppl (heck even older people) that takes someone's age out to shame them for doing "cringy" stuffs (eg. self shipping, ect...) is way more cringe

[bluebudgie]

i still have to finish dragon age (think im about 70%-ish through) and i like the game for a lot of things but man if it's made one thing abundantly clear is that i'm not into action games

the combat is so mindnumbingly boring i dread every fight

that's not the game's fault i'm pretty sure because.. i imagine it's a proper combat system? (i don't really have much of a point of comparison in the genre) but to me personally it's just. mash 2 buttons for like 3-5 combos. hit 1 of 3 skills on cooldown. tell your companion to hit a skill on cooldown. mash mash mash.

i wanted to try but i really can't get into it bro😭dunno if i should have started on a higher difficulty but i'm afraid the enemies would just become damage sponges and it would just be more of the same mashing

but yea. gotta kick my ass into finishing the game. i want to see how it continues after all.

[followadze]

Imagine being so unhinged over your dislike of a game that you compose an eleven and a half hours long rant video about how much you hated its story. And said video is just the same rehashed reddit-tier complaints I've seen towards this game again and again and again.

"PACING BAD"

"EXPOSITION DUMP BAD"

"CP POINTS BAD"

"HP-BLOATED BOSSES BAD"

"FINAL DUNGEON BAD"

"NO CO-OP BAD"

"3D SKITS BAD"

"VILLAINS BAD CUZ THEY'RE NOT COMPLEX & SYMPATHETIC"

"COUPLES BAD CUZ THEY'RE ALL HETEROSEXUAL"

"LAW BAD CUZ HE STOPPED RINWELL FROM LOSING HERSELF TO HATE"

"ALIENS BEING BEHIND EVERYTHING BAD"

"ALPHEN FORGIVING VHOLRAN BAD"

"NEW GAME SUX OLD GAMES PERFECT"

Like, damn. If you need half a day to explain why you hate a game just go read a book or touch some grass.

Even the friggin' twitter Tales community is clowning on that video, and that fandom over there is an absolute cesspool.

I'm sick and tired of this fandom's constant hating on this game. It gets way too much hyperbolic hate and criticism than it deserves, especially towards its story. Even some certain "fans" have been shitting on Arise for its writing and straight couples and even called the game "forgettable and random to those who played it" in that rant video's comments section.

Y'all haters are annoying as hell and have become exactly like the obnoxious nostalgia-blind purists over at the Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda fandoms. I can't wait until the next mainline Tales entry comes out so you'll move on to hating that game.

[respectthepetty]

The World Cup is being shared between México, USA, and Canada in two years, and now it's up to Canada to make us all look competent at playing soccer in the Copa América.

CANADA?! Number 11 and 14 couldn't do shit, so we are now dependent on number 48 to prove to the rest of the world that we know how to play soccer.

CANADA!

Good thing we're all hosting the World Cup because that's the only way any of us would get an invite to play.

[otaku-tyriq]

The fact I’ve never seen anyone talk about Papa Baker’s and Loaf’s Walmart looking family picture is a crime

[emmodii-mode]

Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).

I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-

Her face before she flies off---

She looks so heartbroken and sad.