#i dunno just random thoughts

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Good!GIW Thoughts

After I wrote the Multiverse Police prompt, I've gotten a few replies and reblogs saying they've never seen good!GIW before, and I realized, wow, me neither!

The GIW are always the bad guys, and, well, yeah, they fit the criteria for being the shadow branch of the government to commit atrocities. But there's potential in good GIW.

Imagine it.

Imagine Amity Park being off-limits not because GIW wants to keep it contained but because they treat it like a resort or a national park. People are not allowed to freely come there only because GIW wants JL out of it since the heroes are going to treat the whole thing as a threat. But there's an infinite amount of knowledge there! A portal to the new world! New culture! Things you could never learn before!

Imagine Amity being under government's protection. Imagine Jazz attending a university with her full tuition paid by the GIW since she is, well, a liminal, a minority, and she is getting a degree that will help her establish connections between them and Infinite Realms.

Imagine GIW funding Fentons' research not in order to eradicate ghosts but to have a safe way to talk to them while not getting caught up in a fight with an impossibly strong being.

Imagine GIW being hella annoying to Danny because they just won't stop with their interviews and questionnaires. Which, actually, has the full potential to become confusing because imagine Batman meeting Phantom and Phantom is like, "Oh, yeah, there's a hidden government branch that I avoid like plague because they want to catch me" and Bats are super worried. In the meantime, GIW is looking for Danny simply because he is the most friendly ghost they encountered and they want their answers about the cultural differences between the dead and the living.

Now, there's also a way for this to become the thickest plot armor ever. Imagine Jazz is on a mission to get some artifact from the mortal world. Then imagine GIW helping her while they still can't exactly show they are government agents because who in their right mind would believe the government is studying ghosts? Anyway, Jazz now has the potential to become James Bond kind of cool. Wonderful.

Imagine Danny having trouble with the JL/Bats/police, and then he just, "Wait, let me call someone, I have the right to one phone call, right?" And not 15 minutes later, a bunch of secret government agents in white show up, and Danny is free to go while the agents are saying whatever happened is now classified in the best Batman manner.

Oh, what about a world-ending event where a ghost is involved, and the JL is at a loss of what to do. And then the white vans show up, packed with unknown tech, agents in white with blasters, and a few weird meta-kids no one knows anything about. They even have a K9 unit because, come on, Cujo could be a perfect friend for them.

Just GIW being the secret protection squad for Amity and ghosts.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

I feel like so many countries don't teach the bad sides of their history. We all know the US' history coverage is, uhh, lacking when it comes to the US' many crimes and failures. I've heard Japan is the same and I just saw the tweet where someone with a Spanish flag emoji seemed to not know about the Spanish Inquisition.

[bmpmp3]

FREAK ASS

[starsinthenigth]

★ Okay so, concept ★:

— |★| A giant/human is walking home with a tiny being held as a captive in their pocket. Though once they arrive home and check to see how their new little 'friend' is doing— they are quite baffled to find out that there is nothing in the pocket but a large tear, meaning that the little bugger has somehow managed to claw or bite through the cloth in order to escape their prison of fabric. You can decide wether the giant/human will be on the hunt for the tiny for the xyz reason, or if they just forget about the whole ordeal— only being annoyed at the fact that they have to patch up their pocket or something.

[crustyfloor]

Maybe (and I have a suspicion) that this cursed haircut will make a comeback in round 7...as the aliens aim to clean Till's appearance up a little more. If he becomes so willing enough to deal with it.

[quibbs126]

I hope someone will draw these two together with their new costumes

[torchstelechos]

ISAT aus where the party plays the game starts with someone poking fun at Siffrin for making them watch him make stupid lame puns for however long this will take and it ends with the party crying over Siffrin making a pun again cause they're feeling good enough to mane new puns

[braidedhades]

just found out that non-aromantics actually have feelings towards the people they decide to have a crush on. Apparently it’s not like, “hmmm should I consider this person for dating? what are the pros and cons here?” Or like, “I want to be really close friends with that person” But it’s like an actual emotional response or something? An emotion that is different from the “I wanna be really close friends” emotion??

also I just figured out that I’m aromantic

[tekatonic]

concept : sonic fangame in which sonic somehow gets stuck in his super form and has to collect rings in each stage so that the emeralds don't KILL HIM by feeding off his life force instead of the rings, all the while looking for a solution to the problem

[0x28]

another fundraiser to support

[totallypumpkin]

Sun wukong from jttw has a vice grip on me, bc if he is in a media there is a chance I've seen it

On another note I've finally caved and drawn the silly little guy!

who would totally never commit crimes I promise, just look at his innocent lil smile :D

Just an innocent little guy! No crimes committed here nope-

[waffelz-png]

I don't know anymore

Btw the red haired girl who probably has she/they Pronouns belongs to one of my partners,,, also this was based on an image me saw on pinterest,,,

[socially-awkward-chocobo]

Does anyone ever think about how crazy - or maybe just surreal - everything must feel to Shintaro post-STR?

‘Cause like, it’s finally over. Who knows how many loops, and they’re finally free

It’s probably not as big a deal to the others (they don’t have the weight of all those memories after all - except for Mary who I heard somewhere has nightmares about past loops?) but to him?

I’m kind of wondering if it would be a little overwhelming once it really sunk in. Just, imagine:

You’re Shintaro. You have all these memories in your head of the same things happening, over and over again. You never live past 18. One way or another, you never even make it out of summer. Usually because Clearing Eyes has brutally murdered everyone then forced Mary to reset time. Whenever your powers activate, you become aware of all this.

Until, everyone lives. Clearing Eyes is gone. It’s over. It’s finally over.

You make it through summer. It’s fall, then it’s winter, then spring - and your birthday. You’re 19. You’ve been 18 thousands of times, maybe for what feels like forever, and now you’re not. You’re finally growing older.

Like I said earlier, I think it might be a little overwhelming. Maybe he’ll get used to it, maybe he won’t. Maybe he’ll mostly adapt , but there’ll always be this little part of his mind that forgets they’re not stuck in a loop anymore - that’s used to expecting that they need to beat Clearing Eyes for everyone to be free.

Maybe I’ve just thought about it too much. Who knows.

[the-catmans-offical-2]

What if.

Listen, I see Ed and Al as trans in anyway (though my preferred hcs as of current are transfem Al and Transmale Ed).

But what if, WHAT IF transfem Ed?

What if, double hear me out, transfem Wrath(03)?

.... Yes, I'll see myself out, thank you for listening.

[jjinpang]

disorganized honest thoughts on angeal and genesis

Read someone's view on crisis core as "a strange game where I only remembered charas from ff7 proper". And I thought to myself. that is an accurate review.

really long ramble-y thoughts from a person who has not kept up with ff7 past crisis core under cut you have been warned

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I have learned to like both of them quite a bit after rolling them around in my head for several years, but on first playthrough I did not like angeal or genesis. and I don't think back in a "what a fool I was" way. I think my original view on the two is actually still valid. I think angeal and genesis are both pretty badly written and have very little substance in game.

I understand the limitations of the psp greatly restricted the amount of story they could cram in. but then you write a different story or change your game system. This is not a valid excuse.

My understanding of how they WANTED to position the characters is Angeal, zacks' heroic ideal, a bar for him to gauge whether he's made it or not. While sephiroth was genesis'?????

because angeal barely spends any time NOT in the opposition, or even coming UP in conversation I really can't tell.

Genesis was positioned to b a foil to zacks. which still rings true in crisis core, but not straight forward enough???

Both Genesis and zacks were fixated on being a hero. I could see it being a clash of ideals. "what is a true hero" type thing. but in that case genesis being a peer of both angeal and sephiroth makes the connection muddy.

This is just a completely biased counter suggestion to the story we got but:

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I feel like we could have gotten more bang for our buck if genesis was actually a peer of zacks, maybe even excelling where zacks was not, but feels threatened by the growth zacks is showing empowered by his sunshine puppy attitude. Both look up to sephiroth.

genesis continues to idolize sephiroth even when sephiroth proves to be not as perfect as advertised, while zacks has his qualms. it's about becoming a hero for zacks while it's about becoming sephiroth for genesis.

Later there is some drama surrounding who gets promoted to class 1st ( only zacks / only genesis / both but genesis causes some trouble and has to leave etc etc)

zacks and genesis eventually have to duke it out one heroic ideal to another. zacks wins -- we still get basically the same conclusion we got at banora in crisis core proper.

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You might have noticed this suggestion is Angeal-less. While Angeal is probs one of my fav of the charas introduced in crisis core he did not need to be there methinks. (save on disc space, leave him on the drawing board) HOWEVER In my haphazard suggestion above, maybe it could have been that zacks idolized angeal while genesis idolized sephiroth -- the two class 1sts. But for whatever reason angeal has an "accident", that way sephiroth can still have his "oh no all my friends are gone" dilemma. and a good reason to start going down a dark path.

Meanwhile Genesis had more of a reason to be there -- it's 2007 and GACKT is RIGHT THERE jk jk -- Zacks needed his own foil. that said this "Angeal maybe didn't need to be there" opinion is a bit colored by how square has handled zacks throughout the years. Positioning sephiroth as his heroic ideal over angeal. However even in game they didn't really paint a clear picture of how Angeal was zacks' mentor.

Everyone knew the PSP has limited resources throwing new characters at the problem was kinda a bad solution.

I say this having actually loved playing the game, and knowing full well if they actually did something like what I wrote above I might have enjoyed it less. who knows, nagging about a story that's already written is something nerds(me) do to fill the void in their hearts.

anyhoo have nowhere to put my thoughts so putting them here.

[sapphosclown]

thinking about how dan said about halfway through the pinofs you he starts to question his life choices and then it picks back up and honestly that just put so many pieces together for me.

i think 1-3 have the nostalgia factor because they were just silly guys having fun and not actually caring about the audience’s perception of them. 4-5 have a weird shift in tone that’s like— what is happening who are these people in comparison. most notably 4, being lower energy and 5 just feeling strictly like they seem kinda like they have to?

and then 6-7 being probably their peak. you can tell at this point this is their career and they are embracing it and playing to it the way their audience was ready to eat up at the time. i think 8-10 is kinda when they take this using what they know works slowly starts to turn back into a sort of fuck it, we’re here, why not just be silly again. i think they had settled a lot out of their Youtube Personalities and really started just vibing on the internet which made the last few pinofs pretty low stakes but they still were able to cater them to the audience.

idk it’s kind of interesting to sit and watch that evolution happen just through pinofs if you weren’t there to experience the growth in real time