#i have to connect them to whatever im watching

[fleshwerks]

Thank you for your rant posts on DAV. They’ve been cathartic to read as they echo so many of my own issues with the game and how it treats its own lore and insults its fanbase. I feel stupid for caring about the oppression of mages and elves given how they sanitized and wrote out these cornerstones of the Thedas setting and it sucks! Im glad I’m not alone.

I had very little hope for this game given its mess of a dev cycle and how the company has bled talent, I thought it would be a very messy narrative as a result. And it is! But it’s worse, because it’s not just messy, it commits the greatest cardinal sin of writing: it’s boring.

I think you nailed it. I'm at the same point as you, especially as someone who's huge into DA lore and the intrauniverse sociopolitics, as well as the expected (foolishly) aspect of your deeds mattering, either positively or negatively.

I have a whole ass Inquisitor who can now stop feeling bad in his steppe-sky burial about his indecisiveness during his tenure as an Inquisitor: BECAUSE NONE OF IT MATTERED ANYWAY. 'Oh, you delayed some suffering for like, what, 7 years? 7 years is nothing when you're doomed anyway. I can already hear the argument "but what you do even in short term matters, too."

Yes, in real life. But I don't do RPGs for real life. I play RPGs to be able to fantasise about doing a bit more than I can do in real life.

On top of it just about everybody being so blasé about what's going on. This is the worst blight ever, two actual gods are loose, but here we are at the dinner table, arguing about Taash' mom being a strict, traditional jerkass and Bellara joining the list of people who hate themselves for having ADHD, and holding her hand through it. Boring.

Veilguard commits another sin: everybody blames themselves for everything, but it either gets fixed for them, or they're feeling sorry and do the thing they feel so sorry about anyway.

My kingdom for a character who can go 'it is what it is, I'm not perfect, but I'm not sorry for existing and having an impact on this world, especially if the impact is caused by something I couldn't really control; all that matters is what we do next.' Which would open up the world at wide: tackling things that make your personal issues microbial in comparison. These people don't have the luxury of crying into their chicken soup. Not to say these things can't be addressed, but in Dragon Age, characters are supposed to support the overarching plot and the worldbuilding. Instead, the world puts itself on hold until you've solved Lucanis' granny issues or whatever.

If you've ever watched campaign 3 of Critical Role, that series has the same issue. The cast is made up of people who by and large have no real connection to the world or the overarching plot, and a large part of the viewerbase has come down onto the same idea: if the characters don't really care and only keep reacting, and reacting with quippiness and laughs and occasional 'oh no, that's bad, right? Anyway,'... why should we care?

Why should I care? Because everything I cared about as a player has been deleted, and the cast of Veilguard is mostly just dicking around until the plot reminds them that hey: we have the worst apocalypse going on since Solas deleted Elvhenan. Can we like... react more to it? We can do the therapy sessions later when people have stopped dying.

Disclaimer: I fully acknowledge that I'm going off on a tangent and I'm most likely projecting and reading into it too much/not reading into it enough. But that's the problem. Most players will play it once. You can't rely on subsequent playthroughs to make someone care.

Worst part is, companions aren't even boring. They're just miscast for this particular plot, exacerbated by what BW did to all the established lore. The tonality of the game itself and its place in DA canon is just wack.

I'm likely being incredibly unfair, but there's something to investigate here, because if you've failed to bring players into the lore and invest themselves in such numbers, it isn't just Mari here talking shit, it's a wider problem. Lest we forget, your fiction, your work stops being 'only yours' the moment you publish it and allow people play with your toys. The author is king, but the author is only the king of their own version of their story. The moment it's read and played by many, it's not just your story anymore, it's everybody's, who's engaging with it.

God dammit my English literature and language degree is catching up with me, I've turned into That Guy. Uck.

[the-acid-pear]

Alright so that was a movie. I'm pretty upset with the ending. It arguably kinda ruined the experience for me. Them suddenly acting like we're bad people for watching a movie is very silly.

Up until whatever that goofy shit was, this movie was fun and interesting!! I really enjoyed Peter and Paul's dynamic and character. Little enjoyment to get out of the family but, thats kinda the point innit? ^_^

Well, probably not, but that's what _I_ got from it. The emotional distance we have from them, and the boring silent scenes, they SERVE the movie even if i had to play subway surfers. Unlike Tom n Jerry over there these were a normal family, and as that they were just... boring. Slow. We never get to know them past their torture, the most intimate we get is in the car, and even then the scene gets corrupted by the metal.

So when we are in some of the most emotional scenes of the movie it just feels... utterly vouyeristic, as i said. You have no connection to these people. Even if you can see them cry and understand the pain they must be going thru you have little reason to care. Because you have not met them, they're strangers. If anything you're miles closer emotionally to Beavis and Butt-head than you are to these two.

And that's really cool!!! Because this is a REAL issue in so many movies (even the one i watched yesterday!) but here it felt done on Purpose.

It was also really cool and a nice choice how they barely show violence on screen, the only time it REALLY happens is with Peter, AND when we see Anna undress. The later example i can understand easily, being taken from a SHOKCING scene to a mundane scene, while the first example i mean... i dont know entirely but that's fine.

This movie is not a Normal one by any means. Its purely symbolic and meta. You cannot treat it like a regular movie, and with such lenses i think it does a great job! And the actors are nothing shy of amaizing too, all of them <33

So, is Funny Games a good movie? Yeah, i think so! Mostly at least. The ending is really weird in its guilt tripping, i insist on that, but everything else (and, the little game they try to set up with the audience, if of that im right, especially). Do i recommend it? Honestly, yeah!! Again, its not a normal movie, but i think its not trying to hide this. I think it is pretty faithful to what it is and understands this.

I'll be watching the remake soon, and, by all means, i still believe me and my ex could pull this one out Easy. ♥

Time to watch funny games, the og one, of course. I have managed to avoid all spoilers of this movie so I genuinely don't know what to expect ^_^ aside from the scariest experience of my life I guess, whatever that means.

[siriuslygay1981]

I can't be normal about the marauders, I'm reading this fic where reg and James met in juvie and I've been tweaking (screaming into my pillow, squealing, kicking my feet, biting my nails, jumping around my room, punching the shit out of my pillow, doing laps around my bed, throwing my phone around) reading it. (Also it's so good I cannot stop reading, it isn't finished which is making me eat my pillow TBH but my God I love it all and I will immediately be binding it when it's done if the creator is ok with it)

The marauders consume my every waking thought. I have more marauder fic ideas than any of my original stuff put together. I have more marauder fic ideas than literally all my other fandoms and original works put together actually..

I genuinely go insane for marauders content tho. I eat that shit up every time

[deoidesign]

I've been told my comic feels like it was written by AI.

I suppose I'm not trying to be groundbreaking. I'm not interested in pioneering genres. I'm not writing for the purpose of literary analysis.

But written by AI...?

I'm already someone who has my humanity questioned. My identity erased. My existence disrespected. It could be worse. Anything could be worse.

But AI?

I spend weeks writing single scenes, toiling over the implications of single lines. I have goals. My writing has intent.

If you cared to read deeper, perhaps you'd see the themes. Maybe then you'd see the value. If you tried to analyze it maybe you'd see something there.

Maybe you'd see me.

Someone told me my comic seemed like it was written by AI.

And my humanity was denied one step further in that my voice was not seen in the work I've poured years of my life into.

[triglycercule]

mtt therapy moment except dust keeps taking breaks to talk to phantom papyrus and horror just wants this to hurry up so it can get to his turn because he couldn't give two shits about dust and killer's trauma and killer physically cannot discuss his issues and just starts zoning out while crying for some reason during it

and i'm the therapist listening to all of this writing down notes fervently because ITS CANON MATERIAL CANON I NEED TO GET THE CANON MATERIAL

[caruliaa]

OKSYY idk if anyone actually gives a shit abt these but yk the drill ill be liveblogging the nintendo direct block #flappy watches the nintendo direct now so u can not have to deal with it

[unproduciblesmackdown]

(genderly) chill as hell if i was only ever glimpsed / detected like this

[swirlingvortex]

Romcoms are just sad after you hit a certain age.

[toytulini]

thinking about my oc Bytte. and. her gender is Aro. her Aromanticism is inextricable from her gender experience.

[emulation-0]

its so funny though that whenever i tell people about my dreams theyre like wtf are you okay? and only then i realize it is not a normal experience that almost every dream you have is essentially nightmare fuel

[hauntedtotem]

I think the biggest red flag for me regarding the hopelesspeaches and lio convoy stuff, their entire group (especially lio) has near identical speech patterns and dynamics as my mom's online friend group. Which is less of a red flag and more of a raging wildfire tbh

[dexaroth]

so funny to end growing up as the character guy with no social awareness or storytelling skills. yes this is my guy, he has no backstory because he represents a vague collection of traits i cant put into words and he also never changes and was just born like this. sorry

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[killsaki]

i hate how uncool social media has become in the way that everyone is trying to be cool. why do people need to “boycott” perfectly good products that could be donated to people in need—by mass buying them and destroying them on video, or why do we film strangers in public, harassing them and then getting angry and painting them to be a horrible person online for millions of people to see when they just wanted to be left alone. in public. but this also includes the platforms themselves. kinda wish that they would just shut up and make their apps function. make them easier to use, add more settings for how we want to navigate our time on the apps. why does twitter come out with a new “feature” every week? why does instagram and facebook to copy every single other app in existence? why do these people think that fucking pinterest and tiktok are so popular? because they keep the same format, they keep their apps usable, and they don’t add unnecessary shit every 5 seconds.

[crystalkitty1220]

Welcome back to tumblr! Hope you enjoyed your break

It was very stressful. Ended up failing the marking period for English, but not by as much as I was failing before. Could still pull up the overall grade by the end of the semester.

[solcarow]

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