#i dont know what i was cooking but i was cooking something

[bloopitynoot]

Reading TGCF: Chapter 71

For those who don't know, I am reading TGCF for the first time and sharing my thoughts!

If you have not read it, there will be spoilers! Consider this a warning.

Also- if you want to follow along, I am aiming to post updates daily. You can find all the posts in the tag Bloopitynoot reads TGCF. You can also check out the intro post for context on my read BUT if you followed along with my SVSSS read, the rules and vibe are the same.

Shhh no judgment, I have a cart full of teas but I am back again with my matcha.

Though lol, there was a casualty in the making of this. I whisked particularly vigorously and my kitchen became shrek's twin. I don't think my shirt is salvageable LOOOL. So much green!

let's go chapter 71!!!

It's wild that it sounds like she made the Brocade Immortal AFTER she ascended. I want to know why she made it though. p335

Xie Lian ought to know better than to let her see the brocade immortal "one last time", that's how things go sideways! p337

I hate that Pei Ming is growing on me. Him stopping Ling Wen because of Xie Lian's terrible rotten luck with people. p228

Qi Ying back at it again stuffing money sneakily into the shrine box. p339

WHY WOUD YOU LET HER LOOK AT IT ALONE!? p339

Quan Yizhen eating raw yams so xie lian can't accidentally poison him with his cooking. This is a vibe. I too would become a raw vegan around xie lian. p340

LoooooL I love how Xie Lian found out about Lang Ying being Hua Cheng; just get him to write something. I also am glad Lang Ying is alive and well somewhere. But concerned that Hua Cheng is stuck in this form atm. p343

ahahahah I clocked it a couple chapters ago, "and here I thought there really was a second person who could eat..." p344

Quan Yizhen: I definitely saw you make stew. How the fuck is this suddenly meatballs? p345

So mean to Quan Yizhen! Tricking him into eating the cursed meatballs. p346

Oh shit. Hua Cheng's warnings are seldom wrong- who are the visitors?? p350

The monks; "i've never heard of him, just some nobody" my heeeaart! Yes, he is, but that's what makes him the best :'( p353

RIP! not his lips giving away his ghost boyfriend!! So embarrassing! 355

Well those lips don't lie

I desperately want to know how Xie Lian get's out of this situation XD it's so embarrassing. I also hope everything works out okay with the Brocade Immortal. Something seems so weird about the relationship between them and Ling Wen. Like please dont be weird- it feels weird.

I can't believe it! One more chapter left of book 4! This book feels like it's been going by so fast. I'm glad I have 5 ready to go.

[miscommunicationtree]

picture this.

you're in the cinema, just for the premiere of the new F1 movie produced by 7 times WDC Lewis Hamilton. you post a story to Instagram and when you go back to the home page, there's a new story in Nico Rosberg's account. is a repost of his wife's story, it reads "happy 40th birthday, love", he's posing with his daughters.

you smile and close the phone.

the movie starts. It is just a regular movie. then, Sony Hayes is remembering the years with his friend, his teammate. you frown. they show flashbacks of them in karting, in Greece, the first podium in F1. this is weird.

suddenly they show Sony Hayes' teammate dog. it's a pug. his name is Hany. mmm, that's a weird name for a dog, wonder where that comes from.

half an hour in, Sony has sex with his engineer... but it was all a dream. he wakes up crying, he looks at a picture of him and his teammate and friend together and weeps.

in the climax of the movie, as Sony is fighting for the championship, you hear nothing more, nothing less than Crofty's voice saying "friends, teammates, childhood buddy, rival... everything but a lover"

you freeze in the middle of the cinema.

you hear someone sobbing.

omg, it's Lewis Hamilton.

[anbaisai]

A continuation of this post by @skriblee-ksk, in which Kalmia is left to ponder for the rest of class what Mayu meant...

[hipsternumbertwo]

Buckle Up!!!

[bklily]

It's giving-

EXCUSE ME HIS PRONOUNS ARE SHE/HER!!!!

[habitual-truant]

as a persona fan. i HATE atlus. like, theyre always SOOOO close to having really good social commentary on like, pretty much anything in general i guess. but. they pussy out and it has the opposite effect!! like, biggest example that i actually have well formulated thoughts over is persona 4.. i wrote a long ass essay type thing that id honestly like to rewrite now that my thoughts are more solidified on this but, tl;dr… :

kanji isnt gay and naoto isnt trans. kanji’s story is about accepting that hes got feminine traits and learning to stop internalizing what everyone says about him to be true. naoto’s is about accepting that she is a girl, and she IS everything that people look down on her for, and learning to stop rejecting herself just so she isnt disrespected and dismissed by others.

kanji isnt gay and naoto isnt trans, but they should have been. being queer is very obviously a theme in their stories, and without looking deeper into the characters and their arcs, on the surface level, the story is saying that they’re learning to accept that they ARENT queer. which is pretty clearly homophobic and transphobic.

the entire game is about accepting yourself for who you truly are. for the character that is EXPLICITLY stated to be gay and for the character who EXPLICITLY lives socially as a male despite being born a girl to both have their true selves actually be “normal” is… counterintuitive. while it does fit within the theme of accepting yourself, it’s saying to accept yourself as “normal” and “correct”, not as someone who doesnt fit into societal norms. it undermines the idea of being true to yourself. it’s SO close to being a great message that anyone, no matter who they are, can relate to, but it singles out the unusuals, the people who really need to hear that it’s ok to be whoever you are. i could go on and on about how it’s honestly impressive that the writers managed to miss the mark by such a small amount that it ends up completely undermining the entire thing, but it would be redundant (just like my use of the word ‘undermine’ within two run-on sentences..), and i want to take this back to my original point

the writers at atlus are very, very skilled. its amazing, i really really respect them. but at the same time, i think that their ability to write amazing characters and themes and weave them together into a universe with such inconsistent rules is exactly what makes this so infuriating. i KNOW they’re 100% capable of not being misogynistic in their portrayal of women, i KNOW they’re capable of not being homophobic, i KNOW they can take topics like misogyny and homophobia and transphobia and explore the reasoning behind why people are close minded and hateful, and how it affects people who are at the receiving end of the hatred.

but they dont, because either the writers themselves are prejudiced, or what i think is faaaarrr more likely, the executives think it’s too “risky” to talk about and criticize bigotry, and that they want it to be as palatable to everyone as possible. unfortunately that means no gay people, no trans people, no “controversial” minorities in general.. sure, we can have a few complex and well written women as a treat, but they either have to be fanservice or largely irrelevant to the rest of the plot.

no conclusion paragraph this isnt english class

thanks if u read my 11:00 pm hyperfocus fueled rant i am sending you joy and happiness and good things

[puhpandas]

me looking at all of the teaser video release dates vs the actual chapter release dates for dbd seeing they're usually around 20 days apart and that I'll have to wait a long time to get any info about it bc itll come out so late and close to official release

[shokupanda]

me when time moves forward at a steady pace: how the fuck is it more than halfway through july already. this fuckers rapidly sprinting when im not looking huh

[guesst]

sometimes i think about sullivan and how his n iruma’s relationship progresses and what made him choose iruma. i mean it was probably something to do with delkira that made him pick iruma up but i also think about that comment he makes early on in the series, that the others in the 3 greats have grandkids and he doesnt and how hed love to have a grandkid. and how he sends iruma to babyls partly because thats what a proper caretaker is meant to do. and how at the beginning maybe hes playacting and thinking yes this is the boy i have brought over for unspecified reasons, My Grandson, and i am the Grandfather (yay!) but its only later on that The Grandson becomes Iruma Suzuki first and then Sullivan’s Grandson second. and then i get happy about it

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I hope the bloke who sat behind me during dinner had fun seeing me look at the same pic of rivals magneto on my phone for the past like forty minutes

[puhpandas]

thinking abt the ggy easter eggs rn

[screash]

What if Timeloop Branch…

Where they get so close to freeing everyone in the first movie, but they fail, and Branch wakes up in his bunker just to try again. And he does, over and over. But something keeps on going wrong and he doesn’t know what. So he keeps trying, even trying to stop it from happening entirely. But it doesn’t work. And something always goes wrong.

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[discjude]

Hi prequel community. If I said that I think the reason why there were only two prequels compared to the three that the other parts of the series got (3 TSY books and 3 TCY books) AND the reasons why Rhian's eye colour changes miraculously from Rise to Fall from green to blue (I think he's described as having green eyes in Rise? someone might have to correlate me on that) is because in Rise he's supposed to parallel TSY Sophie (green eyes, doubtfully good, multiple boyfriends) and then in Fall he's supposed to parallel Japeth (blue eyes, fratricidal, insane, gets cool one liners) how would you react to that

[gargelyfloof118]

Have you seen a double yolk boiled egg?

[batcavescolony]

comic writers are in the comic business so you'd assume they've...You know, read comics. but from what I see they don't do that apparently.