#except this time it’s not a cult

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

I don’t care what the plot of the community movie is as long as it starts with a shot of Troy and Abed cuddled together in bed and sleepily singing “Troy and Abed in the morning” as they wake up

[hatekawa]

Narilamb (ft. Leshy)

[egophiliac]

Have you seen the clips of the Ride Kamens characters' henshin scenes? They're all great, but Kamui's is the best one. I can't believe that he doesn't accidentally choke during it.

I've seen them in the twitter countdown clips, only gotten to a couple in-game though! (I've been playing pretty slowly...I keep getting distracted by the character episodes so I'm only on like...episode 2. :') (right now Saigo has gone off to fight some villains offscreen while Haruma talks to me endlessly about milk and it's GLORIOUS)

that said I do agree it would be very funny if Kamui accidentally swallowed his ring. or maybe not-so-accidentally. this, too, is ~art~ (somehow)

(he would not be the first character to canonically eat a rock though) (Leon my beloved...)

[mamawasatesttube]

every time i remember how bendis completely destroyed the kon & clark bond i want to start biting and maiming. literally what is the point of it all!!!! just kill kon again im begging!! it'll be funny when the second time around comparatively nobody gives a shit fdklsjdjkd

[jesus-camp-the-sequel]

Just submitted a narrative essay that’s a combination of Catholic guilt and religious/cultural conflict. The twist is that the characters are loosely based on Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian. There’s like a 72% chance I get a shit score but I had fun and honestly, the true grade is the friends we made along the way

[just-null]

the way you drew kokichi .. i think im ascending to the heavens .. i see the light .. chest collapsing .. heartbeat flatlining ..

oho, a Kokichi enjoyer!! tysm!! it was my first time drawing him at the time so im glad i didnt fail him. i dont want to fail any of the kyoto group. i love them all!! even w my clear favoritism

he's nice too, a bit more expressive than Noritoshi so i can finally draw something that isnt :| or >:( even if it isnt by much- i like him too

I like how he's both a dick but also kinda sweet. He's a different flavor of tsun... i can use this. my knowledge on him is limited but FROM WHAT I SAW IN THE WIKI OH MY GOD???????? OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! KOKICHI!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[necromonica]

ARACHNOPHOBIA

So remember how I have that headcanon that the Goat comes from a "Shamura is The One Who Waits" AU? I kind of have a better story for that now.

In this AU, Shamura has always had a decaying mind, that's not Narinder's fault. Once upon a time one of their siblings pushed them a little too far on a day they were particularly unstable, and Shamura said something along the lines of "I'm losing my mind, you say? Well, let's make it fair... Why don't the rest of you lose something too?" You can probably guess what happens next. Leshy looses his sight, Heket her throat, Kallamar is ears and- to fit with Do No Evil still- Narinder loses his hands.

So the Goat is stuck with someone a lot less mentally stable than Narinder. Whoops!

[nedlittle]

cold boy summer time

[edennill]

on a (very) vaguely related note something in me wants to go all in on late númenor/the reign of terror parallels

[instantpansies]

i really want to make a tierlist of westboro baptist church song parodies but i feel like i shouldn't give them more of a platform :/ i like to check in on them every couple months just to see how they're doing and they're always doing worse but oh my word it's hilarious. and revolting. idk

[pinacoladamatata]

"if you fancy Astarion, you might want to consider therapy. He's so damaged I must have him! Enjoy the fantasy and then call a therapist. It's a two step thing and it's very important you do both." - Amelia Tyler what do your narrator eyes see? 😂😂😂

[notfeelingthyaster]

everytime i watch riverdale again i feel like im using chemical drugs, everytime i watch glee i feel like im using weed, the difference is subtle, but there

[sluttish-armchair]

Ok but thinking back to how I was in elementary and middle school: I had such disdain for other kids who broke the rules, that I irrationally hated a whole bunch of kids — kids I would have made good friends with — all because I couldn’t stand the fact that they engaged in conflicts with, and affronts to authority figures or standards.

It even went as far as internally mocking a kid my age — calling him “Mama’s Boy” in my head — over the fact that his mother whispered comments into his ear, which he mumbled unintelligibly into the mic, and then would fall asleep as if dead on her arm. I perceived his inability to give comments on his own, and his sleeping, as moral failings of both mother and child; because I wasn’t raised like that. And maybe, those feelings also came from jealousy. I was expected to fight off sleep all the time because I could read at a college level in third grade, and could theoretically understand the material presented at the meetings despite it still being inappropriate for my age group.

I was so far deep into the “bad associations spoil useful habits” mindset that it made me hate my fellow neurodivergents — kids I would have been friends with — who maybe couldn’t hide it as well as I could. That is beyond fucked up. Now, I work with those very kids I disliked so much as a child, and guess what? They are my absolute favorite people to be around; and many of them remind me of myself.

[0809sysblings]

you know... Amane's answer to Q19... "My mother should have kept her faith to the very end"... it really makes me think.

(read more because this got long. also this is very rambly and probably doesn't flow well lol sorry about that. I'm mostly just thinking to myself here)

the first assumption one would probably make is to connect it to her having broken a cult rule, leading to Amane murdering her. which yeah could still be that. but I started thinking about alternative explanations as to how her mother could have not "kept her faith to the very end". because I just like to brainstorm about every single possibility for things no matter how plausible they are to see if there's anything there.

and so I was trying to think. how could that altercation have played out? do you think Amane incapacitated her (but still conscious) and tried to question her before actually doing anything? what if she did? what would her mother have said to try to explain why she killed the cat? I can't see why Amane's mother wouldn't be able to defend her decision. obviously it wouldn't really matter in the end if she could or not, because that's not really why Amane killed her.

so what her mother would say doesn't matter. just what if she did say something. Amane doesn't listen however. she doesn't care. it doesn't matter. her mom needs to die. her mother realizes that "logic" is not going to get her out of this.

Amane's answer is basically one of the cult's doctrines, isn't it? "’Tis ordained, thou shall stay thine course, then perish". the "then perish" bit can make it a little misleading, but what it's literally saying is to just stay on your course (continue acting for the faith and continue believing, basically) until you die. or in other words, until the very end. Amane's mother seems to have broken this doctrine based on her answer.

and so that obviously got me thinking about how her mother could have broken this doctrine. I mean, she was literally torturing her daughter for this cult. she's as dedicated as it gets (whether that dedication is genuine or out of survival is another question... but that's not important for this). but when you're scared and emotional enough, you can do some pretty out of character things. fear of dying I think would do the trick lol.

then I started thinking about some lyrics to a song I really like, "Hey, ain't it funny, you can't bear the same sort of agony you forced me to emulate?". the song is about a child getting revenge on their abuser(s), just to give relevant context. so you can see why it came to mind.

Amane (most likely) tased her mom to incapacitate her. her mom tased her as her first punishment for helping the cat upon getting home. she was using the same tactics used on her but for punishing and killing her mother.

I think it would have REALLY pissed Amane off and just fueled her determination to hear her mom attempting to plead for her life and to apologize to get Amane to stop. this sounds a lot like some lyrics from Purge March...

After you cry, repent, and kneel, it’s now your turn to say that hopeless “I’m sorry”

maybe Amane was describing her mom's actions during the murder with this...? her mom was trying to plead for her life. maybe she went even as far as bargaining with Amane, saying she'd treat her better and not punish her again. but punishment is part of what you must do as a believer!!! you must punish the wrongdoers! to say you wouldn't would be simply going against the cult. maybe this is how she broke that doctrine? she went back on the word of the cult to try to save her own life. she did not keep her faith to the very end.

and that concludes tonight's 5am Amane ramble. thank you for coming.

[joanofexys]

yes i do realize that i am letting my own experience of growing up in and leaving a cult influence my feelings and opinions on the ravens and no i dont care

[madamscream]

Ngl, the degree of ‘all of us love you so so much and you’re the specialist bby in the universe’ from literally every character in the game, most particularly the events, has started to reach the point of making me uncomfortable lol

It has, however, put the idea of a rapport system for a game like this that works in levels and can go south of neutral into my head, though.