#i adore life is strange

[hernameislover]

October 11th.

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

(Max meeting Rachel IRL for the first time)

Max: You… have a face.

Rachel: Yes. I do.

Max: I mean, a nice face. You have a nice face.

Rachel: Thanks, I think.

Max: Please accept my attempt at flirting. I don’t know what I’m doing.

[longmaxsilvarg]

max taking a picture of trevor laying on the ground right after he fell off his skateboard is so important to me

[clarablightt]

my girlfriend won't stop calling the residents of Stardew Valley "Stardewians"

she legitimately won't stop saying it

[shioaoi]

You know somthing I really appreciate about the Life is Strange comics?

Every ship from the games is canon.

The Max the narrative follows is dating Chloe, and spends the majority of the comics trying to return to her.

In one of the timelines she temporarily switches to, she meets a Warren who refers to that timelines Max as "his Max".

And then finally, Max ends up stuck in a timeline where Rachel survives and is together with Chloe. And it's clearly stated that the feelings Max has for this timelines Chloe are majoritively platonic.

I just think it's a neat way to show how every romance option is fully valid in some capacity, and everyone's playthrough can be seen as just one of the many timelines.

[stringcage]

Society if we got to play as Rachel in Before the Storm

[heuhuewaves]

finally writing nathan prescott smut. cant wait to write about this asshole going feral

[chloepleasestopdying]

I had an idea for a X-men AU where Chloe was an mutant which caused her a LOT of stress at home. I never decided what kind of mutation she had, only that I wanted it to be a really easy one to see but also I liked the idea of her being able to pass as human if she really wanted too so I kinda pictured her as being able to shift into something like Beast (I also liked that idea because he is blue)

Anyway the bulk of the idea was that Chloe and Max are dating while Max is at college. Max discovers she’s also a mutant but since her powers aren’t physical her parents pressure her into keeping it hidden (for her safety) Chloe slowly starts fall into pro mutant groups (due to all the anti mutant hate plus how David and Joyce keep trying to pressure her into ‘being normal) and eventually ends up joining some kind of recruiting off shoot of the Brotherhood of Mutants.

After a little bit of this on a normal ‘mission’ Chloe pulls up with Max because suddenly Max demanded it. It totally freaks Chloe out because Max knows every single person there, including the higher ups that Chloe’s never seen before.

And whoops, that’s actually Future Max who is currently fucking around with time.

[martianbugsbunny]

Elsa Appreciation Post

[langfield]

my hot take is that one of double exposure’s strengths was it’s characters, actually! i think people tend to forget how little the characters in lis:1 mattered tbh? they barely had relationships outside of max ( kate and warren are the biggest offenders of this, with kate’s other friends, stella and alyssa, being shown in one photo and warren’s only relationships being with brooke, a girl he never interacts with on screen, and stella, a girl he gets with at random in the vortex timeline ) and would cease to exist once they served their intended purpose to the plot, like nathan, who’s killed off screen after inherently giving max and chloe everything they needed to find the dark room. victoria, bless her heart, is so inconsistently written and suffers hard from the plot manipulating her character to fit whatever role the other characters aren’t filling … etc etc. don’t get me wrong! they’re still good characters! in fact, i love them thoroughly. but you can tell pretty quickly that lis:1 is a plot over characters sort of game -- and that people’s praise for the well written cast of lis:1 is mostly founded in nostalgia and hcs they’ve been personally making for the past nine years. a lot of the dynamics are shallow, nonexistent, or entirely made up from the first game … meanwhile double exposure, with it’s more condensed cast and social media element, was able to do a lot more despite the shakier plot writing.

safi and moses? best friends with actual lore and screentime. safi and vinh? were once in the same friend group, have slept together, he’s in love with her but she doesn’t care for him at all and, if forced to have an opinion, dislikes him greatly. safi and gwen? mentor and mentee, you see how much safi trusts gwen with how she comes out of her shell around her during her experimental writing years, and gwen takes safi hating her to heart because she cared for her too, and ( as heard in a voicemail from vinh ) likely blames herself for safi’s death in the dead world timeline. lucas and safi? former student and teacher, now coworkers, heavily implied safi used to admire lucas before he fucked maya over and now loathes him so fiercely she’s willing to hurt his kid to get back at him, and he’s legitimately scared of her. and that’s just safi’s relationships! a character who the game barely shows on screen in ep2 and ep3. vinh’s relationships are vast and complex, raging from his situationship with reggie ( a dynamic that has a long history that takes multiple playthroughs to understand ) to his intense and bitter rivalry with diamond to his silly, lowstakes attraction to moses to his ‘forged in secrecy and pain’ relationship with yasmin to … so on so forth. moses and diamond have an entire bittersweet dynamic where diamond has found herself loving someone for the first time but not only is moses taken, he also sisterzones her at the end of the game. diamond and reggie are close friends despite their different views and bond over their unrequited love and undergrad struggles. loretta has a crush on reggie! etc etc.

and that’s just the relationships between the characters. the characters themselves are rather distinct from each other -- but that’s a whole other post entirely. are there flaws with the character writing in double exposure? naturally! there are some that aren’t as fleshed out as they could be ( like the lis:1 crew ) and some relationships go nowhere or are inconsistent at best. i could harp on lis:de’s flaws all day, really, because the plot writing after ep3 was rather atrocious tbh!! though i still think people are rather unfair about the pros of the game itself, and the stuff that was genuinely improved upon to a degree such as having the supporting characters exist and interact without max’s input.

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

Victoria: I hate Sundays. Boring-ass days.

Kate: I like Sundays.

Victoria: I like them too.

[imminent-danger-came]

I really am so sad I don't like isat. The themeing was very good

[ecsytv]

i checked my mood tracker today, and ive been feeling more positive these past three days. im having my favourite hummus to celebrate :)

it does get better.

[kidrunaway]

my love language is trying to inform myself about a media that my friends enjoy so that I can talk to them about it and let them ramble

[jrueships]

pls turn around. pls. pls. i can't take this anymore.

[greasydumbfuck]

hold up i have to draw something really fucking stupid with meta but im not sure how to even phrase it properly