#god forbid the sequels do anything original

[shiiro-arts]

NaLu's current relationship situation

Okay, this is something that's been on my mind lately and if I don't talk about it I think I'm going to explode.

We all know that Natsu and Lucy have a "strange" relationship, they are more than friends but less than lovers, as Mashima said previously. And I want to talk about some changes that have occurred from the original manga to the sequel.

LET'S BEGIN BTCHS

I think we all know that Natsu is NOT as dense as they make him out to be. He may be somewhat inexperienced when it comes to romance but he KNOWS that his situation with Lucy is different compared to any girl he knows.

He becomes possessive and jealous, something that doesn't happen with other girls, only Lucy. If you really didn't know anything about relationships or how intimate many of those moments are, why would you be jealous when other men do it? Natsu knows that what he does with Lucy is close, personal, INTIMATE.

I know some people treat it as a joke but I really do think that Natsu, from the bottom of his being, thinks he is in a relationship with Lucy. And Lucy has a lot to do with this, I think her way of expressing how close Natsu has become to her now and the lack of reaction on her part makes him think that she's okay with it happening.

Lucy no longer reacts aggressively when Natsu does something that only romantic couples do, she has become passive in those situations, timidly asking him to stop, a reaction that in the original manga did not usually happen. She used to be much more authoritarian and firm in these cases, reaching physical violence (the famous Lucy kicks, wich I approve of because god forbid a woman has boundaries smh).

I think this lack of negative reaction on Lucy's part makes Natsu think that he has her consent to do what he does, hence, from his point of view, he is not doing anything wrong. Natsu thinks that Lucy is exclusive to him, since he is exclusive to Lucy.

Lucy has no competition for Natsu's attention. He has no desire to be with another woman or have the type of relationship he has with Lucy with anyone else. Since from Natsu's point of view, they are together (and cheating on Lucy is non-existent in his mind).

But this is different from Lucy's point of view, she thinks that Natsu is not interested in her, she thinks that he is simply too dense to know what his actions mean and she lets it pass as an accident.

I know that communication is non-existent in Fairy Tail but if Lucy doesn't make their relationship clear they will never be able to be something more because Natsu doesn't see the need to talk things out.

(sorry if something doesn't make sense, english is not my first lenguage lmao)

Please feel free to say if you feel like me or not because I want to see different points of view about this :)

[mattstrahm]

i wrote this in the tags originally but it got fucking long so now it's a textpost - oops.

they should tell you somewhere what's an appropriate amount of reply to an ao3 comment, bc i don't wanna overwhelm the person i'm replying to bc above all i'm just so thankful for their kind words... but also i wrote that thing and i have so many things to say about it beyond the things that are in the fic. and some of them are in the subtext and i don't want the commenter to feel like i'm overexplaining stuff they definitely already understood from reading it and now i'm telling them again in my reply because i'm so excited about it OR, GOD FORBID, it didn't come across at all and then they have to recontextualize something for themselves even tho that's not like how art works?

like i am 100% in the belief that Art Means Whatever It Means TO YOU as the person viewing or reading or whatnot. and if you and i disagree about what my writing is about then that's so exciting, right? because it's art. and it can be anything. poems about boyfriends can be about god, poems about god can be about dads, poems about dads can be about the grandfather clock your mom owns, you know?

and especially for works that are self contained, like the latest fic i posted, there's no sequel there's no spinoff there's no nothing planned, it stands on its own... if you and i disagree on like the motives of juan in it, that's fine. you have your truth, and my truth can never change that, because i didn't put it on the page. and if it's not on the page, it's not a part of the canon. and i suppose even if it was on the page, it can still mean whatever you want it to mean.

but also i very rarely do things on accident. there's a reason for the decisions i've made. and i don't know how if i should be addressing these things when they're mentioned in comments or if i should just let it be. because then it can be anything. and i love when art can be anything.

[forzafinally]

Trick or treat!

You get a sneak peek to my girl Lestappen WIP. It's actually a sequel to my original girl Charles fic. More below the cut.

“What the fuck are you doing here?”

“It’s nice to see you too Maxine.”

“Don’t call me that. How did you even get in here? While wearing that red monstrosity as well?”

Charles rolled her eyes.

“One of your mechanics let me in. I said that you needed tampons and asked me to get some for you. He was very helpful. Very embarrassed too.”

“Very funny. Now leave.”

“Not until you tell me why you���re ignoring me.”

“I’m not ignoring you.”

“Max. Lewis noticed.”

“Well of course if your teammate noticed you had to come and talk to me. God forbid Charles Leclerc’s new teammate thinks that she’s unlikeable.”

“I’m not unlikeable.”

“Charles you are one of the biggest bitches I know. You are just very good at hiding it.”

“Why are you not talking to me? Don’t try to make me mad, Max. I am already mad enough at you.” 

“Just because we hooked up once, doesn’t mean that I owe you anything.”

“Well considering that you are talking to everyone in the paddock these days apart from me I do think that I need an explanation. What? Was the sex so bad that you can’t look me in the eye?”

“Keep your voice down!” hissed Max, eyes flashing. “I know that you liked parading around your sexual escapades at Ferrari ever since you joined, but at Red Bull I prefer that my team respects me as a driver before anything else.”

[icedjuiceboxes]

For the ask game *hands you a Emily*

You know you think this would be easy considering she lives rent free in my mind but man what new is there to say when I said it all already.

How I feel about this character

Emily had a very big role to fill as the playable protagonist of dishonored 2.

From my perspective Female protagonists in sequels tend to be mocked and ridiculed, especially if they replacing the original male protagonist from the first game. Some examples include Athena from Ace attorney 5, and Abby from TLOU2 (though Abby is a special case separate from the argument). Female protagonists tend to get shit unless they fall under two categories. A) They're the protag of a new game (Aloy from Horizon) or B) The female protagonist started as an NPC before being Playable (Ellie from TLOU).

Emily falls under the second category, so the community was already familiar with her. Still didn't completely block her from criticism from all the gamer bros™️ who cannot stand playing as anything but as a cis white male bc God forbid they do otherwise.

I will literally defend any female protagonists with my life. Which is why she became my favourite character. Sure. I like mainstream shit. But I like the underrated shit even better.

I also think Optimistic protagonists tend to be less favored compared to their emo-ass counterparts and I don't know who hurt yall but can we please let a little hope into our lives-

In conclusion: I will defend Emily til I die and even once I get over my brainrot I promise you she is only reincarnated in a form of an oc. Hell I'll probably will name an oc directly after her. I did it once before and I'll do it again

All the people I ship romantically with character

Emily X Billie

TOXIC YURI / ENEMIES TO LOVERS LETS GO !!!

Emily X Alexi

Very nice. Very plausible. I think alexi should been Emily’s Canon romantic partner in game especially with how fast alexi was introduced and killed and there was have been more emotional connection to her. Wyman didn't need to exist and the brownie points of making them non-binary is pointless (and I'm saying that as non binary myself.)

Emily X Hypatia

I see the potential and I personally like to think that Emilt and Hypatia got along a little too well on the Wale and Billie was jealous the entire time and completely misresd the room between them. Because tell me why when Billie says "let's hope your friend (hypatia] doesn't burn the ship down" HAD SO MUCH JEALOUS UNDERTONE ??? toxic Yuri for the win

Alexi X Emily X Billie

Hear me out,,,, herding dog, sheep, and wolf situation. And no not a love triangle. Emily has two hands okay.

Emily x Mindy

They fucked once. Thats it.

Emily X Outsider

Once again there's potential here and i can see it. Idm seeing stuff but it doesn't excite me to personally create for it (though if I made it Yuri...)

My non romantic otp for this character

Outsider X emily

You can't tell me the outsider didn't have favorites (and that favourite was Emily.) The two are besties.

Emily X Alexi

Doomed one-sided crush and the oblivious best friend okay. (Alexi should have lived change my mind)

Emily X Hypatia

They're both nerds

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in Canon

Nothing because I respect the narrative as it present but also I am a comic creator with free will, delusion and pure spite and delusion and anything I want to see happen I've already thought about it. There's already an outline. it's in my wips folder. I am the change I want to see in my world

Just kidding I wanted a fucking voice line to discovering corvo's childhood home and daud confession. Where is it akrane. WHERE IS IT.

[kariachi]

I know I had a post somewhere on this matter but gods forbid tumblr lets me find it apparently so I'm just adding onto this old thing.

As stated in the original post, we can make the logical assumption that chimerizing is not Kevin's 'natural' response to absorbing from the Omnitrix. His body's original response was uncontrollable shapeshifting between the species he acquired by doing so, which makes sense given we had already been shown that his natural response to absorbing dna is to take on traits of the species absorbed from- or at least gain the ability to do so, Aggregor's powers and Kevin's own lack of experience at the time make things a bit wibbly but the natural shapeshifting is there either way. But we also know that he can get control of his shapeshifting, and in fact learn this even before the sequel series with the reveal of 11k and his own shapeshifting and chimeric form.

So, going on from there. The fact Kevin is never again seen losing control of his shapeshifting after absorbing from the Omnitrix, but is seen taking on chimeric forms immediately instead. That in and of itself I think counts as a solid piece of evidence that he's doing this on purpose, but let us continue.

We already know that Kevin's chimeric forms are more dangerous- one could argue more powerful but that's not what we're here for- and I think that alongside other factors plays a large part in what we see from him.

His first Rooters chimera, the first time he's pulled from the Omnitrix since the first run. When this occurs Kevin is on a killing mission, and very much not doing well mentally anyway- Argit does note that he'd seen Kevin lose it before this point, so clearly he was already on the edge. This is a situation where him deciding to be as dangerous as possible makes total sense. He even specifically cites going for and enjoying the power of the shape he uses and the species that make it up.

His Ultimate form, the first time since the first that he remembers. In this case Kevin is very very openly going for as much power as he can so as to face Aggregor on something closer to an even field. Gwen can't do anything to the guy, he's besting Ben at every turn, but Kevin knows how he can match him.

His second Rooters chimera, the fourth time he's pulled from the Omnitrix. Also, I think, the second best evidence of my theory. In this situation Kevin is playing a role- he's playing the turncoat siding with the bad guys, playing at having lost it again, with the end goal of stopping the villain and freeing the other Amalgams from his brainwashing. And so, having 'lost it again', he pulls from the Omnitrix, and just so happens to not only get a a good amount and display of Conductoid dna, but also to get exactly what he needs from it to use Servantis's powers to free the rest of the Amalgams. He then proceeds to showcase his own control over his shapeshifting (we're so proud) by shifting back to human form as soon as he no longer needs that shape.

Kevin 11k, the last of the OG!Kevin chimeric forms we're shown, chronologically. Also, I feel, the best evidence for my theory available. Kevin in this, first off, proves that he doesn't need to absorb from the Omnitrix to shapeshift. Meaning that prior cases of his doing so were doubly deliberate, as he'd still have had earlier shapes to work with. Boy was upgrading his repertoire. It also proves that he chimerizes deliberately. 11k isn't a shape we see before, though it uses base species we've seen before. And yes, you could make the argument that it's the result of him pulling from the Omnitrix again, were it not for the inclusion of Null Guardian in the shape. They're non-sapient, they wouldn't be in the Omnitrix, meaning that this is DNA he either somehow got from the Nemetrix or grabbed on his own using his baseline powers. Either way, the fact it's in a chimeric shape with sapient species means he can build his own chimeric shapes and is fully willing to do so.

With this, I feel like we can agree that there's enough evidence that Kevin can build his own chimeric shapes using DNA he absorbs, and that the majority of times he chimerizes are a result of him doing this purposefully, to call this theory plausible if nothing else.

Now whether he, if he chose not to chimerize when pulling from the Omnitrix, would fall back into the same inability to control his shifting or if that was a matter of childhood lack of experience mixing with Omnitrix bullshit and now that he's older he could control the shifting fine, that is a question for the ages.

Thought of the Day: We see in Framed that after absorbing from the Omnitrix in Kevin 11 Kevin gained the ability to shapeshift between the different unlocked species. This is the first, and likely primary, result of the action. He doesn’t go full-on chimera until later in the episode, when he loses control and shifts into that amalgamized form. So, chimerism doesn’t actually appear to be the ‘natural’ result of his absorbing from the Omnitrix.

So today’s question: Has Kevin, post-OS, not been absorbing from the Omnitrix despite knowing what would happen, as we’ve all assumed, but in fact purposefully choosing to chimerize?

I think his actions in the show (purposefully absorbing from the Ultimatrix for added power, his final chimeric form with the Rooters being just what he needs to fulfill his plan-) support the theory

[perdamian]

no bc kylo ren and hux really had the potential to be one of the most compelling star wars relationships like WHY did they never get to actually fight one another. what is the point in pitting two characters against each other like that and then completely abandoning that dynamic?? their conflict was so lame?? you’re telling me snoke died and all power went unflinchingly to kylo? after his disgrace on crait? and hux didn’t even attempt a coup? even tho he was fully in charge of the first order’s military and ran the stormtrooper program? say what you want about the prequels but at least they put weight into the politics beyond “good guy vs bad guy”!

also hux being a mole just to take kylo down (out of character in the first place but whatever) just to have have a completely new character kill him… especially when they gave kylo a redemption arc?? complete and total wasted opportunity for a genuinely interesting villain vs villain dynamic! a wasted opportunity for meaningful betrayal!

[meridaism]

People hate lesbian headcanons so much that once a character is confirmed to be a lesbian or is heavily lesbian-coded, the first thing people will ask for is proof. Like it's an accusation or something. God forbid said lesbian character has smiled at exactly ONE man for like a millisecond, then all of a sudden it's “UMM ACTUALLY THEY R CANONICALLY ATTRACTED TO MEN SO….”

You have no idea how many “has Disney said anything about this?” and “If Disney hasn't outright said anything then I can't take this as the truth” responses I've gotten towards my posts (especially my pinned) when there's so much canon proof of Merida being a lesbian in all of the properties and pieces of media that Disney themselves owns that they don't have to say anything.

Not to mention y'all use her comphet as a means to say she's straight in Bravely when her love interest is literally canonically non-binary???

Us: Merida is a canon lesbian

Them: “But you failed to consider where there is a brief mentioning of Merida’s childhood in Bravely where she was attracted to a BOY. 🤓”

Meanwhile, what Merida actually said and meant: “For a short period of time during my childhood I was attracted to the body and build of a boy but the more he spoke the more I realized I wasn't really attracted to HIM at all. Ever since then, I haven't gone out of my way to find the right man for myself someday because I knew they'd all anger me, bore me, and fail to give me what I really want. It is for this exact reason why I do not care for Feradach’s male appearances whatsoever, and I really only care for who he is internally: a genderless, bodiless being made of air whom is kind, curious, and loving. That is who I love, no matter what physical form he takes. I love Feradach internally, not externally. His physical forms don't matter to me, only his truest and happiest form made of air because that is his true self. Which is exactly why I am aiming to free him from his curse of having to wear the human faces and bodies of those he unwillingly brings ruin to. I am aiming to restore him back to his original, happiest form: a feeling, an internal bliss made of air, the one I love.”

Brave has always been about internal vs external change, and Bravely is the perfect sequel to that. Don't dismiss the message of Merida’s story and her growth as a person just because you want to have a nonexistent gotcha moment out of a pathetic desperation to erase her canon lesbianism and take a beloved character away from the lesbian community and erase the representation she gives us.

[likehandlingroses]

I think a lot of people are speaking of the first film as now being meaningless or Fellowes ignored how happy people were, etc…and I just think people are taking a very narrow view of what happened in the production of these two films, and so the real progression between the two is not Registering as significant when it actually is.

When the first film came out, there was no promise there would ever be a second one. And Fellowes Originally was going to have two equally upsetting things happen to Thomas in quick succession: two dazzling men (Chris Webster, Richard Ellis), two events of community and closeness, two painful separations.

Fun movie! So he scrapped the second fall because god forbid that’s the last time we see Thomas! And most of us—I think fairly at the time—assumed that meant he had scrapped the idea from his mind, that Richard Ellis was now free from the entire concept.

And he wasn’t! He isn’t. And to a certain degree, disappointment or not…that’s not necessarily unfair or unthinkable. Fellowes wrote Richard Ellis, and one of the defining features of this character when Fellowes thought him up is that he was Going to be married. Perhaps that was too difficult for him to shake from what he’d written and what was kept in, and it didn’t feel truthful for him to pluck that character back into the world and hand him to Thomas without addressing that central concept. We as the fandom have made much of Richard and that’s wonderful, but In reality as a character in a Fellowes’s mind I do understand why he would say, “this is not really workable with this person I envisioned.”

But what about the fact that people LIKED the first film so much. That it earned applause and nominations and a general sense of joy from people? How could he ignore that, and then just do the same thing he always does???

I would argue that he didn’t, but he addressed it in a way that people weren’t anticipating. It’s a sequel, it should be a continuation of the same! Right? But the peculiarities of the story of the first film, like I said above, made that impossible. Richard Ellis didn’t work for Fellowes any more—and maybe he should have gotten over it or maybe it was totally fair and maybe you prefer him or maybe you’re relieved! What matters is that appears to be what he felt to be true, and so the sequel was not going to feature Richard Ellis as Thomas’s love interest, whatever fans had taken from the first film.

And Fellowes could have made a weak effort to string it along longer. Without really believing it. Just one look at that fob, people said for months. Just one!! And I’ll be happy. Anything to keep the ship alive. But that’s not the only way to look at this. And it’s probably not the fairest to the writer or the overall audience, who want to see something HaPPEN to Thomas!

And so Fellowes did something really interesting. He went back to the drawing board and Did It On Purpose this time. The sequel features—on purpose—a man and a story that gives Thomas what he wants. From Go! When Thomas could have stood there and done Nothing, and another character could have a turn at a story! And it is appropriately soapy and infeasible and optimistic—on brand with what protagonists of DA are often given to enjoy!

The sequel is in a very real way a validation of what people liked about the first film—and I think here it is helpful to remember most people have not spent the past three years writing meta and fic and talking about Richard Ellis! But they probably think from time to time how nice it was to see Thomas happy, and this film is for them as much as it is for any of us. More, really, because their tickets cost just as much and there are more of them!

These general viewers are the ones who would have been just as likely to hate the first film ending with Richard’s wife as much as we did, BUT they are vastly more resistant to the negative reaction fans have at a seeming betrayal that she’s showed up now. And what they will see is Thomas getting what he says he wants without compromise or Waiting on his part, which is absolutely a progression of the promises of the first film. It just is not reliant on the same characters and storylines to do it, which I don’t think is required and also makes sense to me given what we know about the production of the first film.

And this is not to dismiss that people would rather have x or y, but it isn’t fair to take those feelings and project them onto the finished product and declare there’s no connection or progression of thought just because it isn’t what you wanted the connection between the two films to be.

[rise-my-angel]

what did you think about the ending of tlou?? and are you excited for season 2?? would love to hear some of that wonderful Mimi insight!! ☺️☺️

Okay, so I consider this season a closed story much like the original game. A story designed to end where it ends and the actions in front of us exist in their own merit and not that of future set up or outside sources. Meaning I do not consider events included in tlou2 to be canon, and I also don't take whatever neil/craig/usually game voice actors say about the show as truth or canon either. Beacuse a lot of what they say is purposley trying to make you think these events will lead naturally to what will be season 2 which is the second game.

I disregard the second game because I think it is completely illfitting to this universe story that forced characters to change to make it fit. And so, I am only looking at this show soley on the same way I did the first game. As its own unique thing that does not need a sequel.

That being said, (under a read more cus God forbid i make a post about this show thats not 8 thousand words long)

I love how the hospital events were framed not as tense and brutal, but painful and emotional. When the game came out everyone talked about how crazy that sequence was, but here its so interesting that its flipped. In the game you play this out yourself so you end up putting your emotions onto the scene but here we're forced to endure that this Joel isn't fueled by anger but a gut wrenching desperation. And the new added context that Joel losing Sarah drove him to attempt suicide paints it in a new light as well as direct confirmation that Ellie was not told anything and was drugged against her will.

Joel isn't just saving himself. He told Ellie JUST before they got seperated that he was so sure he wanted and was ready to die, but by some miracle, he flinched and lived long enough to heal and find purpose through her. Joel sees Ellie's pain. And he realizes, that Ellie has been manipulated into thinking that she has to do this and her own trauma might be used against her. Its why he doesnt respond at Marlenes comment to ask what she would choose.

Joel knows that he healed and that Marlene has not only taken Ellie's ability to flinch awat, but that she is the reason Ellie thinks she is the worlds only hope. Joel knows Ellie can't choose for herself, because Marlene is metaphorically holding her in place. Ensuring she won't flinch.

So Joel knows, he has to flinch for her. And I refuse to say he was wrong in lying because he is clearly not proud of himself for it. But, I think he's waiting. Waiting for Ellie to be more ready, to see that light he fell in love with return to her eyes and then they can talk. Joel wants to heal that guilt in Ellie before they talk about what happened, so that when she finds out the wholw truth, she is ready to accept Joels perspective and not be stuck in this suicidal ideation that Marlene tried to create.

Also, Ellie not only had full plans for what she and Joel would do after (i.e moving to Jackson as a real home and starting to live like a real family with Joel) , but she herself had doubts. In episode 6 she asks with very distant emotion and clear doubt whether or not the vaccine works and she doesn't say any more about it beacuse they and up talking about Sam. Ellie not only didn't sign up to die, she wasn't sure it would work.

I personally think Ellie wanted to finish this at the end, partially to make Joel proud. The things they'd been through, and on multiple occasions she tries to pretend shes stronger then she is (crying after shooting that guy only to wipe her tears away and pretend shes cool about it when Joel comes in the room). She now knows what they have but she wants to make him proud that she didn't give up. She has been quiet and nervous since entering Salt Lake City to the point Joel asks her about it and then when he gently says she can change her mind shes caught. She wants the only father shes ever known to be proud that she saved the world and caught between Marlene telling her it all falls on her shoulders alone.

People seem to mostly agree that Ellie at the end knows Joel is lying, but doesn't push it. But where I disagree is when they say her trust is broken. Its not. I think shes quiet on the way to Jackson because shes upset Joel is lying and she's also trying desperately to figure out what could have happened in the hospital that Joel lies about the entire thing. And I think her saying okay at the end isn't really to Joel.

Its that she decides, it's okay that he lied. It's okay because she trusts that Joel did what he did to protect her beacuse he has always done that from day one. Its why when Joel loses it in episode 1 Ellie has a torn look about her. The only person whose ever defended her like that is Riley but that was in a far more kid vs kid protecting the girl she likes manner. Joel was different then that and even from other adults.

She doesnt know why he did it much like she doesnt know why Joel is lying to her. But it's okay. Beacuse now she knows for sure its not angry or malicious. This time she knows its from a place of love and I think Ellie starts to heal from this point on.

Joel was right to do what he did, he was right to lie to a traumatized child to not add to what he knows is already survivors guilt and I think Ellies trust never wavers.

Ellie knows Joel better in the show then the game because they open up to each other much earlier and theres much more new added context to it. Theres no distrust here.

The lie isn't a set up for future problems. The lie is Joel wants to keep the worst from her until he's sure she isn't still trauma ridden and Ellie not only decides she still trusts Joel. But I think she understands why Joel lied and it only serves to strengthen it.

Shared traumatic experiences do not tear apart. It bonds peoe together.

Last thoughts: I think the flashback with Anna is legitimate but I think Marlenes flashback is purposley scued memory to justify her actions in present day. I don't think the umbilical cord conversation happened at all. I think Marlene is inventing things to eellivate the guilt of her own monstrous actions. Also I apply real world science here because its fun, and I can say for sure no amount of experiments or tests on Ellie could produce a vaccine. Its impossible and fungal infections do not act the way viruses or bacterial infections do. I think Marlene is just desperate to win a losing war and by doing this I think she is not evil but has genuinly deluded herself into thinking that she can do the impossible. And I think she purposley found the only doctor who agrees to do this, because absolutely no doctor or scientist worth their salt would think Ellies immunity had anything to do with making a cure and his moral corruption to kill a child is far more monstrous then anything Joel did all season. So the vaccine in my opinion is bogus, I think its just the delusional actions of a group of failed rebels clinging to any power even if its just having power of a childs life. Its all bogus. The first two episodes started clearly that by the time the outbreak happened, not only was there absolutely no evidence of a cure or vaccine possible, but on outbreak day they didn't even know that the cordyceps jumped the species barrier. There is no cure.

But society is already healing. Jackson is proof that its not power or control that heals. It's love. Love and respect. Funny enough the only other place that works is Boston, which tells me that its not FEDRA itself thats the problem, its the individuals in charge. We see it in Kong in episode 7, FEDRA sees thenselves exactly like the fireflies do. But they are both wrong. Beacuse its not with violence and command does Jackson work, its community and freedom. Hell even the indigenous couple proves that. There wasnt even any animosity for Joel pointing a gun at them beacuse they all understood that the way normal peolle survive is through supporting eachother. The man immediately apologizes about being dismissive of his brother because support is what holds life together.

Summary cus I talk too much: I don't consider any future games, existing sequels, or future seasons to be canon. The Last of Us was never intended to have a future. It was a closed story of healing through love and I think the show showed this between Joel and Ellie better then the game did and thats where I'd prefer the story stay.

(.......ignore that my longest series is literally me continuing the story....i didnt base my story off the cycle of horrifc theme of hate and vengeful violence based on the Isreal/Palestine contlict I continued the theme of healing through love so im allowed to write more of this story beacuse i didnt decide that the story about love triumphing hate and violence ends with love causing hate and violence.....)

[rubye402]

OK, so, I got to something in The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe. Don't worry I'll put it in a read more what it is particularly so y'all can go spoiler free.

Just know the spoiler free TL;DR is I wanna thank Crows Crows Crows for that something and for making TSP!

...

Y'all here got the thing in Ultra Deluxe?

Everyone here has the thing on their menu?

Good.

So about that Epilogue "Ending" that you click on in the menu

First off, DIDN'T know our text "pal" was a fucking villain. Thought they were trapped in the game by Narry or /someone/ served to amerce us in the game but... Nope! They're a crazy game milking bitch.

I did NOT go along with changing the title screen anymore than it already was, to say the least.

So we all kinda got the impression of what all of the epilogue served as right? It was Crows Crows Crows saying that they didn't want to make DLC or Sequels to TSP and just leave TSP UD as their final note of Stanley's, and thus Narrator's, story. As to not work themselves to meaningless milking of something that was already not broken, so why fix it? Leave the games legacy alone.

I can already hear people's comments of how it hardly had anything more to it than the OG and how it shouldn't be it's own thing... But that's ironically enough, kinda makes this game all the more hilariously necessary and meta, both in AND out of universe.

This extension of the OG Stanley Parable, not necessarily DLC, or god forbid a sequel. UD is a brilliant game that not only pokes fun at gaming and story telling as a whole like the original, but now it extends to development behind crafting things and making more of it.

Now, I do agree with the "villains" message of "Who cares what people think?" Not necessarily because not listening to your audience isn't important! It is! But I found that as long as YOU are happy with what YOU created, there's no reason to concern yourself with making something EVERYONE will enjoy. That's just not possible. Thus "who cares what people think?"

Now, with this, we gotta acknowledge this means TSP is 100% over and done in a canon game sense... But I'm fine with that. I think Crows Crows Crows talking TO us in this manner of helping us understand WHY they aren't making more is snarky but sweet of them. So I'm giving MAD props to them. And, of course, as I said in the TL;DR:

A biggol thank you to Crows Crows Crows. Y'all are awesome in every sense of the word, and made a brilliant game that truly needs nothing more than what it already has. You all have risen to the top charts of indie teams in my eyes, and I look forward to what the team does next.

[coquinespike]

From a Self-Described Neutral

Someone posted in the tag a couple weeks ago basically calling out neutrals to...idk, defend themselves? In the spirit of answering a “direct” address, I started writing this post but kept deleting because I didn’t really believe anyone wanted to hear from me and god knew I didn’t really want to get into it with anyone (hence the being neutral).

But now, I do feel compelled to at least express my personal views. It’s gotten too difficult to ignore the drama happening in the inuyasha tag despite my best efforts.

When news of the sequel first came out, I found myself most annoyed by the so-called Antis, who it seemed to me had automatically jumped all down the throats of anyone who was even speculating that Rin might be the mother and throwing around buzzwords like “grooming” and “pedo apologists.” Which. I can’t articulate how fucked up I think it is to accuse people of those things over a goddamn anime ship. I couldn’t blame sessrinners from getting defensive, those are serious allegations. I saw antis post photos of real, actual human beings who were child brides and child porn victims, often children of color, to what end?? Making an outlandish comparison to a fictional ship?! Just...what the actual fuck.

But then!! As the sequel continued to air, it seemed that a subset of Sessrin shippers got way more vocal than I’d yet to experience. I’ve seen others imply that they were always like this, or had been this rabid before when the original series was still coming out. I found myself very alarmed by their behavior, and the kinds of posts “justifying” their ship that just... turned my stomach to say the least.

What I simply Do Not Understand is why sessrin shippers have this insatiable need for their ship to become canon. When you try to use examples of sesshomaru & Rin’s interactions during the run of the show/manga as “clues” or whatever that they’d later end up together romantically...then that WOULD be grooming, what the fuck is wrong with y’all??

If you wanted them to be a couple after she was an adult, why on earth would you bring up anything to do with when she was a child? You should be doing everything you can to separate her childhood growing up in kaede’s village from whatever potential future she might have with sesshomaru. And because we only ever saw her during her childhood, y’all had like the perfect blank slate to turn her into any kind of character you want for her adulthood. She could be some super-intellectual courtesan. She could be a healer, with or without spiritual powers. She could become a badass warrior. The possibilities are literally endless, any of which could include a woman who chooses to go with sesshomaru on her own terms, instead of focusing on ways he “pursued” or god forbid “seduced” her.

I dunno man. I still consider myself neutral. As stated above, I do believe there are ways to tell the story under which the sessrin ship could be a healthy and acceptable one. But the ways sessrin shippers seem to focused on? Ugh. Nah. Creep me tf out. And the decisions that Sunrise seem to be making, where if Rin is the mother of the twins she was clearly still way too young for me to be okay with it. I Do Not Approve. And I have now officially contributed a big block of ranty text to the inuyasha tag, I’m a big fucking hypocrite lmao.

[tortschordsofsteel]

hi im tort/tortilla i wanted an aa sideblog and here we are <3 apollo is my son

(hi for my sicktember aa fics collection check over here! mostly sequel trilogy but a few og trilogy ones are sprinkles there! oh and one (1) dgs one)

i wanna make nice tags eventually but for now I'll mostly spoiler stuff like

general spoiler tag - #aa spoilers (usually for any games that arent the original trilogy)

game specific spoiler tags - #aa1 spoilers / #aa2 spoilers / #aa3 spoilers / #aa4 spoilers / #aa5 spoilers / #aa6 spoilers / #dgs spoilers / #dgs2 spoilers / #tgaa spoilers / #tgaa2 spoilers etc (i havent played the investigations games so i wont post spoilers of those. i hope)

im slowly coming up with character tags and the alike and I'll even slower update this with them but here are the ones i have rn (beware spoilers) (currently in the process of going back to retag stuff lol)

general tags

game tags - #aa1 / #aa2 / #aa3 / #aa4 / #aa5 / #aa6 / #dgs / #dgs2

my screaming tag - #tortilla rambles

my posts - #tortilla posts

art tag - #tortilla arts

kin tag - #keys to my heart

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(ORIGINAL TRILOGY)

main tag - #triforce of bluffing

phoenix tag - #how the turn abouts

edgeworth tag - #steel samurai fanboy

mia tag - #proud plant mother

maya tag - #mystic burger

pearl tag - #nice shot!

franziska tag - #FRANNY YOUR SWISS ROLLS

godot tag - #starbucks no 1 boycotter

larry tag - #HE KILT LAREY

gumshoe tag - #gummy worms

manfred tag - #The MANFRED The MYTHFRED The LEGEND (fred)

kurain tag - #school of girlboss gaslight gatekeep

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(SEQUEL TRILOGY)

main tag - #sequel tag

apollo tag - #yelling every law ASMR

trucy tag - #magical truck girl

klavier tag - #piano man take me by the hand

athena tag - #l’enfants amongus! sacrebleu!

simon tag - #hawk friendly parks google search

nahyuta tag - #oh holy mother we're really in it now

rayfa tag - #this is so sad nayna play despacito

clay tag - #see ya space cowboy

ema tag - #what’s the shit! now it’s got Fingerprot

lamiroir tag - #borginia’s got talent

dhurke tag - #are you afraid of the dhurke

datz tag - #sewer lizard hunter

mikeko tag - #rejoice! mikeko be upon ye!

waa tag - #waking lie detectors

prosecutors tag - #updated autopsy record

gyaxa squad tag - #if a man died in space would that be fucked up or what

khura’in tag - #law(yer)less land

clay & pollo tag - #they’re FINE!

gramarye tag - #trouble in magicland

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(DGS/TGAA DUOLOGY)

main tag - #dgs

ryuu tag - #the great mouse attorney

susato tag - #shovel talk? no. shovel action

kazuma tag - #partmewr

sherlock tag - #dance white boy dance

iris tag - #das baby

van zieks tag - #rich wine aunt

gina tag - #gina tag

mikotoba tag - #mikotoba tag

gregson tag - #fish and chips

wagahai tag - #waggy

soseki tag - #poor little meow meow

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(SEQUEL TRILOGY SPOILER TAGS)

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gramarye family tag - #perceiving you

sahdmadhi family tag - #blood of the dragon

jove tag - #[strums guitar] AAAA

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(DGS SPOILER TAGS)

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klimt tag - #klimt tag

genshin tag - #god forbid catmen do anything

fambly :) - #221B tea party

[wack-ashimself]

'The Batman' or as I call it...

'Is there a real difference between emo and goth? That will be a highly covered topic in this unneeded POS.'

Sure, Farrel as the penguin was nice, but being he has little real screen time, no real character development (like everyone in the movie) you just are watching the best version of a live penguin (that stays closer to the gangster element).

You ever watch a movie and go 'this is not bad, but in no form was it one of the better movies, I'll forget it in a year or two, and it cost HOW MUCH to make?!'

It met expectations, but then stopped as soon as it did.

It's just so fucking drawn out, and 2 of the biggest plot holes are right in your face. Spoilers.

1-the bat signal. IMMEDIATELY after knocking out gordan, they meet on the building with the GIANT BAT LAMP!? NO cops thought 'I wonder if batman is gonna be nearby the THING THAT CALLS BATMAN THAT WAS JUST TURNED ON?!'

2-the riddler's writing is extremely noticeable. Alfred's seen ALL the evidence of the riddler. ...still opens the package with his DISTINCT style of writing covering it because....? BECAUSE....?

Ugh. And do not even get me started on catwoman. Great acting, great fights...and carried all the scenes where robbie boy decides to take his twilight character and meet michael keaton's batman...but their forced 'love' connection felt nothing but filler. And like this movie: unneeded (her fight scenes were much cooler than batman's on average tho).

I'll give you it was probably the most REALISTIC batman, but who the fuck cares? It was boring most times. Outside of figuring out the ridder's clues/backstory, nothing in this movie evolves or matters.

5.9/10. Yeah, I'd rather rewatch the BAD batman movies. They at least were bright and colorful.

ps-best part? The chase scene with the penguin. It's way more bad ass than the trailer. But not much else was.

Side note : I think the main reason above all this movie was a disappointment story wise was because if you watched all the batman movies, video games (tell tale-this was basically STOLEN DIRECTLY from their batman game), shows, specials (real and animated) this was like a frankenstein's monster of like...3 of those combined, so you kinda saw most of it coming. Even if you weren't a comic book fan: you KNEW most of this story. 1-the waynes being dirty. 2-mob and wayne's ties. 3-mob controlling the cops. These were totally all done before on some level. So if anything it was just the real life version of a cartoon they already did. Kinda like spiderman no way home was a knockoff of their own animated movie's story (spiderverse)...god forbid originality comes to play. Then ending it with catwoman and batman doing a paul walker fast and furious drive off? That's it. Everything has been done before. We're just recycling everything forever. Amazing. Fuck hollywood.

pps-no sequel. I do not care. Rob was so bland, like the movie, and nothing felt meaningful. Know when you eat something and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth? Well, that was this, but with NO taste. I didn't even know I ate something. It was like water. An ice cube.

[rexis12]

I’m always thinking about how people react to a sequel character that ‘undermines’ a known franchise favourite, vs a rival character that tries to be ‘better’.

TL:DR Sequels and Reboots always have a chance to appear much more antagonistic towards the original franchise, and thus the original fans than rival franchises and I think that people who develop/write/create them should always keep that in mind.

Usually when I look into like online discussion there’s always the whole aspect of how a sequel or even a reboot character is hated by the original fanbase, especially when they are made to ‘undermine’ or ‘take over’.

But at the same time there’s never really much hate, save for hate that is present for either that genre or that character by itself, when a character from a rival franchise tries to do the same.

Like for example, everyone knows about Dante and Bayonetta

While not explicitly rivals, they are both well known and often poster images for their genre of games. And while Dante and DMC don’t really do anything to poke fun or jab at Bayonetta, the latter does.

Often using names and even phrase, to even having Bayonetta use similar weapons but label them as the ‘joke’ weapons in her game. And I’m not saying that’s bad, it’s the kind of jab you would want to make and expect when producing a rival franchise (even if both of them like to tease that they’re in the same universe).

And for the most part, it’s taken as fun games between them.

The same can’t be said when DMC 4 first came out or god forbid DMC:DMC.

Nero got like a really bad hand (lmao) given to him when he was first introduce. He was made to be the new DMC protagonist, and like you’d expect from people who have played DMC and attached to Dante due to Dante being the face of the game/franchise for as long as it has existed, people did not like him.

While Nero wasn’t made specifically tom ock or belittle Dante, the fact that he was going to replace him was enough to make people feel upset or angry. Obviously opinions changed, and DMC V did him well alongside fellow newcomer V and he’s accepted to be either a Duotagonist or upcoming Protagonist since the developed him well.

Donte (I love that nickname) on the other hand, was NOT accepted before, during, and even after his game came out. Since he was made specifically to mock and try to make himself better than the current Dante. In addition to the horrible PR that was done, it’s obvious he’s not very well liked.

This is despite that the jabs he’d make towards DMC was, while not as funny or smart or subtle, like Bayonetta’s way of cheekily suggesting that Dante’s guns were inferior to her own, almost similar like the wig moment and other things that I honestly can’t give a shit to think about.

But because Donte’s game was made to replace Dante (At least that was the plan since it was a planned reboot), the comments didn’t flow as well and became more aggresive in context than they actually were.

TL:DR Anyways, what I’m saying is. Sequels and Reboots always have a chance to appear much more antagonistic towards the original franchise, and thus the original fans than rival franchises and I think that people who develop/write/create them should always keep that in mind.

[seriousfic]

Terminator: Dark Fate

I have no idea how TSCC came up with two seasons’ worth of innovative scenarios about Terminators and these cinematic universe motherfuckers can only redo T2 with more CGI.

This movie is plotless. It has no real plot. It’s like Now That’s What I Call A Terminator Movie! There are so many callbacks and borrowings from all the other Terminator movies that it passes the point of homage and just becomes plagiarism. The bad Terminator is the same as the T-X, metal endoskeleton with a T-1000 shell. They kill him with a Terminator power core. They say Come With Me If You Want To Live and I’ll Be Back (twice! It’s the first thing Sarah Connor says and it makes no sense in context, it’s just something people say in Terminator movies). In fact, it has anti-plot, since it undoes a lot of the story developments in Terminator and T2.

The premise is basically just we’re going to remake Terminator 1, but people don’t like reboots, so we’re going to bring back Linda Hamilton and make it a technically kinda sorta sequel (sure, Skynet was wiped from existence, but another, completely different, yet exactly the same AI called Legion was created and did the exact same thing. Which also happened in T3, but they had the decency to still call it Skynet). But otherwise, it’s entirely people being chased by an evil robot from the future and trying to destroy it. 

That’s it. That’s all there is to it. T2 had the whole thing about preventing Judgment Day before it happened. T3 had Judgment Day actually happen. This one, nothing. There is nothing going on under the surface other than a bunch of action sequences and explosions. Even T3 got some mileage out of the idea that Judgment Day was inevitable. Here, our cast learns that Judgment Day was already ‘averted’ once slash that it’s destined to be repeated and they basically go “Eh. Figures.” I’m not kidding.

Wait, that’s not fair. Let’s count out the TWEEESTS.

1. In a very contrived way, the script waits an hour and a half to actually explain why heroine Dani has been targeted for termination--you know, the thing Kyle Reese explained to Sarah Connor the moment they were out of danger--all to set up this big ‘reveal’ that Dani isn’t the NuSarah, she’s the NuJohn (yes, they actually say this aloud, just so you soup sandwich motherfuckers in the audience get it). Hear that, neckbeards, John Connor is now a woman! And Mexican! And she’s got a bit of a gay vibe, because it’s 2019 and God forbid we have a heroine that isn’t a bit bicurious. If she has a cock and balls, my bingo card will be a winner.

2. Months after killing John Connor and thus completing his mission, an Arnold-model Terminator started a family (wow, that was quick) and learned the value of human life and eventually switched sides. This is a crazy new idea that also happened in Terminator: Genebissss, so it’s done and dusted in ten minutes, even though Arnold is the most engaging character. (He’s saddled with a lot of yuk lines about how he’s a comically serious Terminator, yet (teehee) works as an interior decorator, but at least he has a personality.)

3. The other good Terminator is Grace, who needs meds to keep up her cyborg strength or she’ll crash (this never affects the plot) (it’s like they read something about Rey Palpatine having no flaws and so they decided to give Grace the ‘flaw’ of literally having her own Kryptonite). She’s not a Terminator, she’s an augmented human, which means she can make MCU-style wisecracks every five minutes. (”I didn’t hear anything.” “That’s because you’re not a cybernetic super soldier from the future.” Actual dialogue.)

4. Linda Hamilton is back, baby! Yes, that’s right, they dragged her away from doing guest spots on Lost Girl! Can you believe???? She’s become a Terminator hunter that ambushes Terminators as they come back from the future and destroys them, because Skynet was both able to send back an infinite number of Terminators AND because now they can easily be destroyed by one five-hundred-year-old woman. 

This makes it a bit confusing why they have so much trouble taking out Ghost Rider, given that he’s a T-1000 skin with a creamy T-800 center. It seems like if you hammer him enough, he’s got no endoskeleton, and that’s all she wrote. That’s what happened to the T-X. Can his liquid metal skin just walk around without the other half of him? If so, what’s the point of the endoskeleton? The T-1000 managed without it and that seemed a lot harder to kill. At one point, Sarah hits the bare endoskeleton with a bazooka, which seems like it should’ve been a mortal blow, but it’s the first act, so I guess not.

And is it supposed to be funny that the opening takes place in a car factory where (in 2019!) the human workers are losing their assembly line jobs to machines? Because they’re all Mexicans? None of them ever look at a Terminator and go THEY TOOK OUR JOBS, but man, that one is all teed up for the Rifftrax boys.

For a movie with, as I said, no plot, it’s very rushed. They seem to be saying “yeah, it’s a dumb Terminator movie, you know the score,” (even tho it’s halfway aimed at people who aren’t Terminator fans; more on that in a minute) because it seems to take all of ten minutes for both good guys and bad guys to find Dani and start getting into CGI stunt double fights, which means the story has very little time to breathe and we have very little time to get to know any of the characters. The bad guy spawns practically at Dani’s front door! And pretty much does everything by massacring a bunch of people and then hacking a computer. The T-1000 had some intelligence, some charisma. This guy’s a big nothing.

And the Dani character is useless. She starts the story already super assertive, is barely traumatized at all by her loved ones being killed and her own life being endangered. There’s none of that relatable feel of an everyman suddenly being told they have a grand destiny and an incredible responsibility, because right from the start she’s standing up to her mean boss and doing the Nevertheless She Persisted thing. And all this while being literally five feet tall and looking all of twelve years old. 

I love these Spy Kids movies.

And at least the original two movies were smart enough to leave the future John Connor mostly to the imagination. This one actually shows us Dani as grizzled military badass, beating up guys and delivering inspiring speeches (would it surprise you to know that humans fighting among each other “is exactly what Legion wants”?), and it’s just--oh man. If ever a political leader is enough to make people think back to the good old days of Trump and Biden...

And if we’re going to talk shit (rightfully) about Jai Courtney’s Kyle Reese not being at all scruffy or traumatized or feral, it should be noted that Grace seems pretty well-adjusted for a post-apocalyptic guerrilla fighter (who all wear Starship Trooper uniforms). Aside from a tendency to smash the face in of everyone she comes across, whether they’ve done anything to deserve it or not (Sample dialogue, to a doctor who is looking at her X-rays after performing life-saving surgery on her: “Did I give you permission to look at my private parts?” SMASH. No, really!)

They really go all in on this cringey, woke af “You’re not the mother of some MAN, Dani. YOU ARE THE FUTURE!” And yet, there’s a hilarious amount of toxic masculinity in this movie, just without the dongs. About every other line Sarah and Grace have is generic tough guy bullshit about how they’re going to kick someone’s ass, how they’re suspicious of someone, how they’re hostile towards someone. If they had dongs, you would think they were the smallest dongs possible, because they are compensating for something, BIG TIME. Between the T-800 and Sarah and Grace, everyone in this movie seems to outright hate each other, to the point that Arnold’s killer cyborg is one of the more pleasant characters. It gets to where you just want someone to order a fucking decaf. Does the fact that Sarah Connor has a vagina keep it from being ridiculously over the top how she spends all her time either blowing up robots or drinking herself into a stupor? C’mon. You can’t complain about male characters having ‘man-pain’ then give Bad Grandma a pass over her ovaries.

And that’s it. It’s a Brundlefly shit between yet another dumb girlpower reboot for the people who’ve never seen a Terminator movie and a sequel with Sarah and Uncle Bob to try and get that last drop of blood outta this stone. They’re trying to make something that appeals to both people for whom this is their first Terminator and people for whom this is their latest Terminator and it just doesn’t work. The newbies don’t have any emotional investment in these characters and the Terminator fans don’t like it that all the old movies were rendered meaningless to prop up Grace and Dani.

Hilariously enough, I actually played Terminator: Resistance recently, which is a fun little mid-tier shooter that was meant to tie in to this movie... and it completely ignores all the Dani/Grace/Legion BS to take place in John Connor’s future war and tie in to the first two movies. That’s how forgettable this movie is. Its own damn video game adaptation pretends it doesn’t exist. Fuuuck.

Oh! Oh! Oh! And in that big, bad, sexist original Terminator, which was so unwoke and problematic, Sarah saved herself and finished off the Terminator herself. Here, Dani has to be saved by Arnold at the climax. The 35-year-old movie is more feminist than this one. Fuck you very much.

[otogetranslations]

Announcing of Dropping DIABOLIK LOVERS MORE;BLOOD

To sum things up:

Someone leaked the Diabolik Lovers Limited V Edition patch, posting it publicly despite all our warnings and requests. Thus we are following through with our original policy.

We’re stopping every projects related to Diabolik Lovers, including further support for Limited V Edition, and there won’t be a patch for More;Blood.

Collar x Malice Unlimited will still be released, but privately. After all, you guys will get the English version of it from Aksys for the switch next year!

I (the leader of otogetranslations) will still be helping other translators with their projects: Brothers Conflict, Hakuoki SSL. How the patch is gonna be distributed is up to their respective leaders (coquettishcat for Hakuoki SSL, and PassionandBrilliance for Brothers Conflict).

No more Black Wolves Saga. This project I (Reishiki) started by asking permission to use existing translation from orlandoblue @tumblr, Siberia (twitter.com/bakemeatz). The patch of Black Wolves Saga Bloody Nightmare is to be completed soon. But it’s no more.

Read on if you wanted to know what really happened:

As you all know, we released DIABOLIK LOVERS LIMITED V EDITION fan translation patch this August 16th, 2019 for homebrew enabled/hacked Playstation vita, and only for people that have proof or purchasing the game.

There are over 50 people who showed us the proof of purchasing the game and they received the patch for free. All we asked was for you to actually buy the game before you can play it with a hacked playstation vita.

Our 30-people team worked on the patch for 10 months. We only used outsource translation for 8/277 total scripts. Our in-house hacker did the romhacking process, our in-house proofreaders proofed the translation, our recruited translators worked on the translation. Everything was done by us and it’s our team effort. So we have the right to decide how we’re gonna distribute it.

However, on August 20th, 2019. Rojaaalice on reddit r/vitapiracy posted a thread, asking the patch to be given to them for free (without purchasing the game). A lot of people who frequent this subreddit accused us of being Gatekeepers, while all we’re doing is asking for proof of purchasing the game (not the patch, the patch is 100% free). Is buying the game you play wrong? Is asking for a proof of purchasing something you play gatekeeping, when we could have chosen to not share the patch at all in the first place?

I don’t think so.

But, this person, SilicaAndPina (https://twitter.com/SiliCart) is not happy with how we distribute our patch. He said that we should keep the vita hacking scene free, we can’t ask for people to buy anything to be able to get the PATCH that we worked on. He doesn’t play otome games in general, and he doesn’t even know what otome games is.

He started to trick me into giving the patch to him, by making a fake proof of purchase with a cloned gmail account. I noticed the proof was fake and didn’t give it to him. Then he got mad and sent this (WARNING: GORE IMAGE) to me. He stated that he will leak the patch eventually.

He attempted to acquire the patch once again with a different fake proof this time. I also noticed this and we trolled him by sending him a FAKE patch. We left the prologue in English and put ridiculous/crack fanfiction in other parts. He thought it was real and distributed it, declared he has won over us.

He thought he tricked us but no, we weren’t being tricked by his half-assed effort. 

Today, August 22nd, there is someone from the DiaLover Fandom that received the real patch sent it over to him. I’m sorry to say that the patch would be leaked eventually, one way or another, because if someone really wants to leak it, they could buy the physical copy, take a photo with it and send it to us. Then they can sell the game to get the money back. 

So, we lost.

But to the one that sent the patch to him, lost to the malice of this world, and not to him. 

I had envisioned this would happen when I first started the project. So I’m not surprised. I had a small ray of hope this wouldn’t happen so soon, but I was wrong. 

As we’ve stated before, we will cease every project translation related to DIABOLIK LOVERS.

No more patches of DIABOLIK LOVERS will be made from us, at least when I’m the leader of that project (as well as the leader of otogetranslations): Reishiki.

I’m proud to say our patch was enjoyed and praised by people that bought the game and received the patch.

I (Reishiki) will still be supporting other translators if they need it, but I won’t start any new project from now on (in which could be AMNESIA LATER/CROWD/WORLD, VARIABLE BARRICADE - these games I completed extracting the texts with our inhouse hacker’s help, and I planned to announce we would start one of these projects soon. But… I’m sorry to say that it’s no more. At least it won’t be made available to the public.)

Thank you everyone for your support.

These are our team members opinions:

JokerTrap-Ran: I think I just lost faith in the community as a whole again, coming back after 4 years. I hope you’re happy! This was really demoralising and I hope ya’ll had fun putting us down like that. I’m not one for drama and honestly I’d very much like to stay out of it considering the bad medicine bashing that happened on otome reddit about 3 years ago. I’ll continue releasing translations for blog’s followers but that’s it. I’m whimsical, and most of my followers know it. I pick things and I drop it all the same. 

Khikari: For those who thinks that what we have committed is blasphemy and should be shut down for this, great, please take the time to learn Japanese yourself. Or learn to care about other people with emotions for once in you life. Demoralising people who were willing to work endless hours for free with just one condition sure is satisfying, isn’t it? It really hurt all of us. For those who genuinely cared and are saddened by this post, I am sorry and I wish the best for you all. I know that the few doesn’t represent all but this is a massive motivation killer, and I don’t need this drama in my life. From now on, private translations all the way! Also, Silica, attacking an idea is fine, but attacking people with malicious intent is stepping out of line. Enjoy being a rock specimen.

LoliChan195: I hope you are happy with what you have done! We only wanted to bring this out for people that had difficulties playing the game, and also help support Rejet by having more people buy their games. Its people like you that cause all these game companies to go bankrupt! (Also SiliCar, you sick fuck. Who sends pictures like that!? XD you’re probably just some edgy 12yr old XD Besides, who says WE WILL NOT FORGIVE XD what a dumbass! And is it that hard to search on google about the game? Why would we make it so it specifically needs to be the limited edition?!?! ) Seriously, the people who attacked us for putting the rule out are just as bad, like can’t you just wait and buy the game? Or even if u just pirate it, read online translations. Its not that hard! 

Hermy: Nothing much to say, except, ya’ll could have totes pirated the game and played it along the translations available on the net. Welp, I hope you don’t dislike that idea too much because that’s what ya’ll gonna need to do if ya’ll wanna play the sequels.

PS: the MB translations available on the net are riddled with errors, but by all means have fun with them :)

Anon: Oh yes, silica? Perhaps you should just lead on with your true intentions next time instead of trying to honey your words and do some "re-con"  for dots, yeah? 

Marzi: I'm a bit numb to this situation at this point, but it is disheartening to know Silica was so intent on distributing our translations that he didn't stop even when we threatened to cease all translations. It wasn't like he was ever going to play the game - he just felt so personally offended by the fact that we were "gatekeeping" for some reason - which, in my opinion, is a bit of an immature reason to ruin a translation group. You can't argue that we're "unrightfully holding something when we don't have the intellectual rights," when you're bypassing all copyright laws as well in wanting to post it PUBLICALLY. But what's done is done - whoever manages to get a copy of this, I hope you enjoy it. Please know so much effort and passion went into these translations, and that we loved working on this project every bit of the way. If the game leaves you antsy for More Blood well LOL you know who prevented that from happening.

Sonic-nancy-fan: I never knew someone could have such an illogical mindset. Silica/PSSDude made the original base repatch program, and we used one that someone had edited and added to (which Silica was fine with). But, because he made the original one, that means he feels like HE can getekeep all uses of variations of it. This would be like saying people can’t use paper to make a paper airplane because the original creator of paper said no, or you can’t print manga because Gutenberg said no. Also, who in the world thinks they can take a moral high-ground by telling us to promote piracy? Patches are already a sort of grey area, so we were trying to take the most legal method available while still making a patch. I know in modern society, piracy is very common, but I can’t imagine your average person would call us in the wrong for trying to hinder piracy. God forbid we try to get people to buy Diabolik Lovers. I can’t say I’m shocked as I expected it to get leaked sometime. I’m just saddened at certain people’s general hate and unyielding desire to leak it. So, I don’t blame the community as a whole, nor do I feel any malice toward the community (we had a lot of people buy the game and get excited). I’m just mad at very specific spiteful people. Also, if I ever hear someone say “the scene” as much as Silica, I’m going to go nuts. It sounds like something the “cool guy” in an 80’s show would say.