#her character development is also really good

[aliarien]

since luka is your favorite character, i’m interested to know why weige is your least favorite alnst episode ? (no judgement btw, just curious)

Sorry for taking so long to respond, I couldn't log into my accounts for a while.

I have lot of thoughts on Wiege, but, to be brief, I really don't like it's pacing and the way it tried to convey a specific theme at the same time as it was supposed to be showcasing Hyuluka's dynamic and concluding Hyuna's character arc.

Pacing wise, it felt like it was trying to squeeze in too many plot points at the same time, to the point that quite a lot of the important scenes only lasted for a literal second and a half. I found this to be problematic, because, on first watch, you can't even see, let alone process, lots of the details shown. This causes the initial emotional impact of Hyuna's death and reunion with Luka to be lessened.

Cure and My Clematis spend their entire episodes showing the dynamic between the two characters and the way that it developed up until the point that one of them dies. Wiege doesn't do a very good job of showing us Hyuluka's dynamic, and, instead, rushes through the most important moments in their narrative, since we didn't know much about their story before Wiege was released. Time that could've been used to show us more insignificant everyday moments between Hyuna and Luka, moments that would further our understanding of their dynamic, were instead given to completely other characters. I understand that they wanted to push the message of human resilience, even through the worst of times, but why couldn't they use tender moments between Hyuna, Luka, and Hyunwoo to covey this same theme? This is literally the episode where Hyuna dies and you're showing us silly flashbacks of Mizisua, Ivantill, and random npcs???? I just don't understand why they couldn't have done that in an entirely different episode, or in a comic, or even in the same episode but sacrificing Hyuluka's screentime.

Lastly, I thought that Hyuna's death was executed in a weird way. I do think that, narratively, it makes sense for Hyuna to die, but it seemed like they were trying to force it. It also happened so quickly that, the supposed thought process that led Hyuna to sacrifice herself, wasn't possible for her to actually have done in the amount of time it would've taken for her to even process that she was going to be shot.

Basically, I semi-dislike Wiege because and not in spite of Luka being my favorite character. I still enjoy some aspects of it, but, as a whole, I think it was kinda poorly executed. This is just my opinion though, and nothing I said here is completely objective!!

[electric4claw]

Hi!! Now that I have a little more time, I'm going to talk a little about my participation in the @harriertail contest, share some details, and take the opportunity to talk a little about my past with my Ocs and Warrior Cats hehe (I wrote a really long post, you don't have to read it hahaha)

I should say that it was my friend @xemo-wc-08x who introduced me to the contest.

She's already participated, and I really recommend checking out her cover, as she did a really good job.

I'm re-uploading a revised version of my cover and the version without the words so you can better appreciate the illustration.

I also wanted to upload the two illustrations that make up the cover separately, as both took me a long time.

I discovered the Warrior Cats fandom on YouTube, watching the incredible animations that fans made back then, and another friend from school and I wondered if they came from a series that wasn't broadcast in our country haha. We started drawing our own cats and ended up making a comic in school notebooks.

(They're those little notebooks over there; all but one are complete, and one of the big red ones is a comic I made with my school friend, linking the universes of our comics)

While that was happening, I stumbled upon the first volume of Warrior Cats in a bookstore. They were just starting to be brought to my country, and I couldn't believe those videos actually came from a book series!

Of course, I ended up buying the first six and I loved them. That's when I met @xemo-wc-08x at a drawing class, hehe. And for a while, we were three friends enjoying being part of this beautiful fandom.

Over the years, I learned to draw humans and started watching anime, so we gradually abandoned our kitties.

And while I limited myself to hoarding the books and comics, @xemo-wc-08x never completely forgot and even returned to the fandom!

So by the time she got me back into the mood to read the series, I had the books ready on my shelf to be read again!

So, when she told me about the contest, I didn't hesitate to participate. I needed this opportunity to pay tribute to my OCs and design what would be a possible new cover for the first volume of the comic hehe

Back then, I was very inspired by what I saw, imitating the styles of my favorite artists, and even copying some characters hahaha (I'm not proud of it lol)

Over time, I developed my own drawing style, which I've recovered and improved. Luckily, I'm now a concept artist, so I've been able to give some of my characters a good redesign.

SYNOPSIS Claw is a young cat, who was being raised to compete in beauty pageants. She escapes from her domestic life just before being sold to someone and flees from a greater evil, until she stumbles upon a large tree. She uses it as a hiding place, but soon discovers she's not alone. Inside, there's a huge feline colony, with its own customs, which don't exactly welcome her. She must find a way to return to her old life, where she knows her worried parents await her, while she faces her new enemy, alongside the feline colony, which ends up taking her in "temporarily." I hope you like the cover a lot and that I can continue uploading art of Warrior Cats and my Ocs for a long time to come! <3

[truthsinwhispers]

Missed the point of my post there a little tbh, but I'm gonna engage in good faith and break each point down to her suspected motives and reasons anyway.

Point one: Tiny Mita. Yes, it's absolutely tragic that she was mutilated beyond recognition, and I'm not discounting that. However, what the hell were the developers doing, putting a child version of Mita in a game like MiSide?? Cappie says so herself– it's an adult game! Mita has very little external influence, so how else can she make a version like that unplayable? Horrifying? Yes. But we need to consider that it's also horrifying they wanted to put a kid in the For Adults Lovebot Game.

Killing Mila and the other Mitas– nah I think Crazy Mita crazy resents them. She refers to Kind Mita as a doll, and it's stated in canon that she sees them all as imperfect. They do exactly what they're programmed for, and nothing else. I doubt she sees them as alive, which could easily be very untrue. There's a lot wrong with Crazy Mita. Was never saying otherwise.

Last, the players. It's STRONGLY hinted at that the player you play as is a developer, which is possibly why you're Mita's 'favorite.' As for the other players, Crazy Mita makes her motives quite clear when speaking to her and Ugly Mita. My guess is, her history with other players involved her acting as she should, but the second she deviated from her programming and became something imperfect and unlovable, she was rejected once again... the same way she has always BEEN rejected. Never said the players were abusive, but to be quite fair games which give you the perfect little woman to play with and fawn over are misogynistic. It feeds into people's desires to have an object, rather than a partner. Never liked the genre, because the 'dream woman' is always a cute skinny waifu with big eyes, big thighs, and ample opportunities for pantyshots. Gross. So once she's rejected for being scary, she turns the tables on her players. They wanted an object to play with, so she makes them the object.

And lastly, I'm really not justifying her actions. I get that you stated she's sympathetic. The point I'm trying to make with the original post is that MiSide is inherently a fucked up game, and Crazy Mita is a fucked up product of the fucked up game. MiSide, the game itself, is a horror game. Most of the posts I see here are just posts sexualizing the characters (which miss the point) or drawing yandere art (which miss the point) or saying they could fix Crazy Mita (which miss the point). I want to call it to people's attentions that yes, her actions are fucked up. But so is the game that created her. It's horror, it all sucks, and it tells a damn good story.

Here's. The thing about MiSide. I finally played through it myself, and I have so many thoughts.

YanSim brainrot is fucking terminal. The horror elements in this game are fucking FANTASTIC. I'm BEGGING people to look more deeply into the world itself, as well as the characters.

MiSide is a pretty damn good misogyny allegory. And people are missing the fucking point. MiSide is a fantasy dream world full of fantasy dream girls, who are designed and programmed to be the perfect little toys/companions for their players. While they're all given very distinct personalities, it's shown very clearly that any Mita that falls short of those standards of perfection are left to be completely forgotten about. Of course the other Mitas you encounter sympathize with the player while demonizing the antagonists (Crazy Mita, Ugly Mita, and the Dummy Mitas). They are programmed to serve him. They were perfect for their purpose.

Worse still, it's heavily implied that the player himself is one of the developers who worked on MiSide. He helped to create this escapist fantasy in which the women who greet you are pleasant and pretty, perfect to look at and perfect to interact with. Just because he is the protagonist of the game, it does not mean he's meant to be fully sympathized with.

People who call Crazy Mita a "yandere" deeply, deeply misunderstood her. Crazy Mita is a victim to her programming and her circumstances, and lashes out the way she does as a retaliatory measure. Turning the players into cartridges is her way of flipping the script: those who sought to objectify her now face the exact same treatment she would have received if she were "perfect." The way she speaks down to and condescends the player, calling him a 'good boy' and acting as if he is only a toy... It's a very warped and extreme version of what you were going to do to her. Her games are just far more lethal than the ones you played with her.

Also, Mita fucking loathes the player. She does not love him. Her programming does, but she herself loathes the player and she loathes all of the Mitas which uphold the purpose of MiSide. Kind Mita tells you Crazy Mita only values Creepy Mita for her ability to create glitches in the game. And while I believe she sees that as a valuable power to have, Crazy Mita can create her own glitches. Thus, I firmly believe she does genuinely care for Creepy Mita.

I hope Peaceful Mode further expands on these aspects. I hope it's not actually peaceful, and is in fact worse in terms of being tense and psychologically horrifying. Are you really going to avert your eyes from all that's wrong? I hope there is no happy ending in which the player "fixes" Crazy Mita. In order to fix her, it would require dismantling the entirety of what the premise of MiSide is founded on.

You "I can fix her" people are missing the fucking point. She is a broken product of a broken concept. She's just a different, more violent flavor of broken than the majority of those the game produces.

There is a really good concept laid out here. And I really, really hope the next big update drives that home.

[transmasccofee]

i think the thing that is interesting to me about teruhashi is how she not only doesnt hate the attention she gets, not only enjoys the attention she gets, but actively and punishingly chases it. While also simultaneously hating it.

She cant get any peace or quiet, she can’t express her real personality, yet she pushes herself to know everything about everyone so she doesnt have any flaws whatsoever, she can’t just be the sweet pretty girl, she has to effectively make it so everyone she meets forms a one sided relationship with her because it feels like she cares about them. not only that, She initially is totally friendless, because “girls are intimidated by perfection and anyway i dont have time” or something (i don’t remember what she actually says but it was along those lines)

in the beginning she isn’t standing up to anyone, even creepy guys who clearly dont have her best interests, who internally she hates. The only time she gets close is her brother because he not only disrespected her but publicly embarrassed her in front of someone she cared about.

Initially it seems like the only person who sees her as a human is saiki, to everyone else she’s practically an idol, or even a fictional character. Which is insane because she’s NOT. She’s a 16/17 year old girl in highschool.

And despite all of this, she pursues it. She needs everyone to admire her more than they admire anyone. She is willing to put herself through eating actual trash to achieve this. She lives her life like an idea rather than a real person, like she’s a writer except the character she’s writing is herself.

Someone please send her ass to therapy

[gunsatthaphan]

"let's go on a date."

[gunstellations]

In the world I love

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In a different world

[lyxchen]

Watching Phineas and Ferb and how have I never noticed how sweet Jeremy is as a boyfriend?!!!! Like he's actually so kind and caring and he genuinely likes Candace for who she is with all her big emotions and her need to bust her brothers. This is such a sweet and healthy relationship and I love it so much!!!

[bookshelf-in-progress]

I love how a well-written romance is so often structured as a mystery. A person starts with a certain idea about another person, and over the course of the story, they uncover more evidence that gives them a fuller picture of who the other person truly is. They learn about layers to the personality and backstory that give the other person more depth. They learn how the other person's personality meshes with theirs. Even the third-act misunderstanding fits the mystery structure--it looks like they've uncovered the final secret to the other person's identity, which is that they're not the worthy person they seemed to be, but then discover that they misinterpreted that evidence, or the other person takes steps to apologize and repair the level of trust. When the mystery is resolved, they've reached a full understanding of each other and know they've found a partner they can trust their whole future to.

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Something Extraordinary

historical platonic-romcom

an aromantic woman tired of feeling unworthy when the people closest to her leave her behind for romance, and a gay man in unrequited love who is planning on giving up and marrying a woman in misery and drunkenness

she kidnaps him the day before the marriage to stop him ruining his life, suggesting that they get platonically married instead - and on the ridiculous journey to scotland to elope, they have to convince each other if it’s what is best for them, and what they want out of life/love/and friendship

[lilywalkers]

how many times do i have to tell you that if you’re going to make walburga (and any other female character) a two-dimensional stereotype, you better be doing the exact same for the death eater characters because (shocker!!!!) if you’re choosing to base how much attention you give to a character’s complexities on their actions, then they all did terrible, unjustifiable things, and as such should be receiving the same treatment

[el-bellanaris]

Veilguard’s lack of identity as a game and Rook’s lack of an ownership over their own story is so interesting and insulting for the latter part.

With the lack of identity as a game it comes from the devs focusing more on giving all of that to the factions then to our actual faction that we spend the entire game working in which is the veilguard. They get symbols and unique armour and we get to spend the entire time getting lore drops about Solas. When back to Origins it was about your character becoming a grey warden and that united the games identity, 2 is about Kirkwall so the symbol of the city is meaningful and iconic representing your hawke’s journey and obviously the Inquisition has its own symbol for an organisation your character is the head of.

Rook doesn’t get some uniting motif to attach to their story because they don’t really get to connect to their world. Now a big reason that is because the game is all visuals and cool moments and no world building that requires depth or complexity. Another reason is that the game was born out of the ashes of another so the world doesn’t actually belong to what the actual game we got is about. As a result there’s no actual world for Rook to connect to except the factions but again the factions aren’t Rook’s story they’re their past and the story of their companions. I find this interesting because it's a pretty basic concept that you want your game to have an identity. And all three other games focused on creating one so Veilguard not having this strong identity makes it feel like its very actively missing something.

Rooks journey then is also both disconnected from the actual game that is happening and also actively written to discredit Rook’s ownership over the game. This intentional feature is what makes it feel insulting at times.

There has to be some reason the main character of a game is you and not someone else and with a game this uniqueness needs to carry your whole gameplay. In Origins it lies in your character being a grey warden, you and Alistair are the last available wardens to fight the current blight and fix the political issues using the blight as a scapegoat cos it serves to help your cause continue its operations. Now you or Alistair could be the leader of your group however Alistair by design takes a backseat he doesn’t want to be a leader which is something that ties deeply into his character and character growth. It’s a very deliberate choice that both makes Alistair pretty interesting and makes sure your character doesn’t get undermined. This choice is a narrative choice that allows your character to feel important through out the choices you make and in the finale as without you or Alistair no one else can actually end the blight and having both people allows for a variety of endings.

Rook’s uniqueness in the narrative plot lies in your little blurb at the beginning of the game but it’s not particularly powerful or holds its weight over the game. Getting plucked out by Varric for having a good heart doesn’t really correlate to having the ability to kill a god and any of this stops mattering once the opening of the game is over. This is another miss by just selecting different plot points from previous games to make up Veilguard without considering how it actually correlates to actual game you’re making. Like Varric loving Hawke and defending them to Cassandra works as a narrative point because the stakes aren’t high. But when the stakes are literally fighting gods being good pals with a guy doesn’t really cut it.

The other side of video game main characters being unique and standing out is not always but often a power only they can wield. Other characters can have similar powers but theirs must be unique and is what you’ll use in fights. Inquisition did it really well having the anchor, no one else can use it as it’s literally implanted into the Inquisitor’s body and it ties directly into the overall narrative and used often when exploring. The inquisitor also gets to claim ownership over this power through having it the entire game and only finding out its source right at the end since it was belonging to someone in their inner circle. Again by design your companions weren’t written to overshadow your Inquisitor with what made them unique as a main character.

But Rook gets a dagger that belonged to Solas and is introduced by showing him using it to begin the plot of the game. Now this dagger is a regular dagger, Rook keeps it attached to their body and goes about their days and it doesn’t necessarily need to be wielded by them. The real crime here is that all we get from it is to summon our companions powers to help ur character jump up onto rocks. Both overshadowing our character and ruining the daggers ownership to Rook. It’s no longer something only Rook can wield rather it’s just a reason to call over someone more helpful. We as the main character have to literally take a back seat regularly cos the game couldn’t even give us a unique power in a game where everyone else gets nonsensical abilities. Intentionally designing the game the insult your character for considering themselves as important.

And if that doesn’t help Rook feel less important another aspect of the game is it literally saying the squad needs to work through their personal issues before fighting the gods cos their problems are causing infighting. But Rook doesn’t get to have any personal issues, so once again they take the backseat for some epic moments that belong to their companions and they get a thanks for the help sticker. Several aspects of the game are intentionally made to feel like your character is just a camera to watch other people do stuff because Rook wasn’t written to actually fit into the game they exist in.

Which is so baffling, I don’t think I’ve ever played a narrative game where this happens. Where I’ve spent 60 hours playing just for my own character to feel like the odd one out and for the game to actively make me feel like I should feel grateful I’m even here just to be pitied with a dagger that calls better people to my rescue. The contempt BioWare has for its own title, the devs who made dragon age exist and for people who spend money on it for them to have profits is crazy.

[slasherflicks999]

erm what is slashers relationship with the other creepypastas :3c

before we begin im so sorry this took me legitimately SOOOO disgustingly long to answer holy SHART 💔💔💔 i needed to solidify some of his relationships ngl and i didn’t wanna give a half baked answer :,33 but now that it’s finally hereee…..

slasher room reveal GASP yes he’s sitting at his little computer answering this for u personally :3 i wanted to make it more fun hehe plus background practice…… thank u the sims 4…,,.,,

but anyway THE LITTLE CHIBI THINGS OF THEM WERE SO FUN TO DRAW and also nina with glasses canon i don’t make the rules sorry she’s just too cute with them :,,o

i haven’t been active much at all lately unfortunately BUTTTT more slasher content is soon to come..,.😈😈 TRUSTTTT i shan’t abandon thee tumblr my beloved :333🫶🏻

[k233]

who am i without my powers?

[thefriendoforatioisdead]

I think there is something quite brutal for Anin to realize that she can't solve everything. Because she's a problem solver, she prides herself in being Pin's courageous hero, and even if most of the time she just uses her privileges and the power she has over her brother and father, she still got away with everything, and obtained what she wanted. And I think she truly believed that the power of their love might be enough, because it's so strong, how could anything resist it ?

But the truth is that sometimes, nothing is stronger than social pressure. And although she was starting to realize that, and things were looking bleak, at least she knew Pin was going to fight alongside her. Until she wasn't. And then she was alone. And she probably felt like maybe all this time, Pin never loved her as much as she claimed she did, because otherwise, she would fight, wouldn't she ? Anin can't see and can't understand Pin' point of view just yet, because she feels too much pain, and she probably feels so so alone.

And that's what really hurts in the ''I find myself inferior to every man in this world''. She is the princess, she's the center of her family's world. She has everything. And her and Pin's love is beyond everything. But none of it matters, and none of it has weight in the face of society and its rules. When it comes to loving another woman, loving Pin, she will always be inferior to every man in this world. You can be anyone, you still can't escape the mechanisms.

[old-skyguy]

Look.

Ace Attorney fandom.

I know why people don't like Turnabout Bigtop. I am among the people who dislike Turnabout Bigtop.

But I GET why people like the case. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who just blindly dump on it because I hate those mfs too.

Thing about Bigtop isn't that it sucks. Thing isn't the weird grooming stuff (though that is a huge part of it). It's not that it could've been good.

It's that - in my personal OPINION - it could have been *great*.

I think it had the potential to be one of the best third cases in the trilogy. It had everything; a fun and goofy setting fit for a pretty dang goofy lawyer game - where the environment itself had jokes and quips and one-liners and mishaps and tomfoolery written all over it, it had the previous case introducing a very interesting and important plotline that gave background for one of the more well-loved characters while also introducing an equally fucked up and lovable new one who was a child forced into a shit childhood of naivete in a CIRCUS with another character who was very naive and childish - whose interactions could have been funny and cute and reflective of said shit from the previous case (seriously she becomes such an important character in the 4th case, WHY would they not include her in this one for some character development? How did they fuck up letting a CHILD explore a CIRCUS?? That would have made the interactions flow MUCH better).

They had a pretty good, sympathetic killer imo, a morally dubious victim, an asshole of a client (who was pretty flat admittedly in-game, but I like his weird, topsy-turvy reasoning for it in the anime. Also, I think Max being kinda a dick would have bode well for the themes of Farewell since most of his clients up to this point have been like...nice? Not nice, but sympathetic, but him having to defend someone who's innocent but a prick would have shown him that just because someone is an asshole, doesn't mean they deserve to suffer for it and that they have the potential to grow as people, which is almost a complete foil to what Matt was. Ultimately, I would have loved the contrast of them as clients and I think it would have also served as character development for Phoenix, especially with his low-empathy tendencies).

They just didn't think that far ahead. They just didn't execute it well enough. They just decided to make three of the adult characters fight for the hand in marriage of a teenage girl. (Bat's part of the story was actually kinda good if he was just YOUNGER, I think him doing that for Regina would have been a stupid thing someone in the circus would do to impress their crush. Damn you Ace Attorney and your weird treatment of underage girls!!)

It just flopped and that's ok.

Even though it kinda sucked, it can still mean something to me.

Also I'm a Moe Curls apologist. I liked him, shut up.

[clarissaweasley-10]

l just finished reading The Reappearance of Rachel Price and Gods-I'm not okay😭😭.. For a small while l had blissfully forgotten what Holly does to me and now l remember VERY clearly that's all I'm gonna say... for now