#i love suffix -uh for emphasis btw

[notyonatto]

Omg im popping off yes queen

I think what makes the ending of botw so tragically beautiful is that, yeah, sometimes things change for the worst. Sometimes things go so bad, you can’t salvage what you had. It’s gone, and you can never go back. And that hurts. But it will be okay. The sun will wake once again. And you will wipe the dirt off, rub the crust from your eyes and you will wake with it. And you will start again. You will once again start from nothing and try again, with the knowledge and wisdom and love from before to guide you forward, honoring what you lost while moving ahead. And that is so beautiful

[morethanmeetstheass]

Yoooo uh, can we hear that Cyberpunk ramble? The long version? Please? I'm only vaguely familiar with the genre, I'd like to know your meta. I mean if you're not comfortable going off I'll come off anon but ye can't just offer knowledge like that I wanna know now! ovo Blast me with your wisdom, I beg of you.

YOU BET YOUR ASS I CAN, I BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE

okay. so. first of all. any aesthetic with the suffix “punk” is and should be a political statement. PUNK IS A POLITICAL STATEMENT. you cannot be “punk” or thrive within a punk subculture (like cyberpunk) if you don’t believe in anti-establishment, anti-capitalism, and mainly anti-authority. that’s what punk is. punk has been watered down to a grungy sort of “aesthetic” and it angers me. 

so what does that mean for cyberpunk?

the main mantra you’ll hear about cyberpunk is its emphasis on “high tech, low life.” cyberpunk explores a dystopia where technology has advanced to absolutely insane levels, with all the implants and prosthetics and whatnot being one of the main things people focus on. that’s the “cyber” in cyberpunk. the “punk” stems from a huge social change which primarily focuses on the underground of society. most cyberpunk media is extremely nihilistic, which contrasts really sharply with the technological “utopia” typically depicted in futuristic-focused media.

what makes me sad is that the themes of cyberpunk have been watered down like crazy. cyberpunk is blatantly anti-corporate because the main point is not “technology bad, prosthetics make people less human,” it’s supposed to be “technology is dangerous because massive corporations control the technology that we are putting in our bodies.” cyberpunk focuses hugely on a social divide, where the rich create groundbreaking technology and use it to manipulate and control the lower class. one of the most common tropes is the brain being connected to a computer, which is dangerous as fuck because those computers are created by (usually corrupt) corporations. the cyberpunk world isn’t ruled by a government, it’s ruled by corporations. see what i’m getting at?

lots of cyberpunk protagonists are antiheroes, and that’s what’s so cool about the genre. it’s gritty, dirty, angry, and explores the manipulation of corporations on people of lower social standing. it’s a dystopian setting. hell, the book “do androids dream of electric sheep” (amazing novel btw) has rich people keeping livestock for clout. technology has become the norm, and that’s not a good thing! cyberpunk celebrates technology but condemns how the setting uses it, basically boiling down to “hey, we have all these cool implants and shit, we should overthrow the corporations and not turn ourselves into walking products and advertisements.”

and recently, cyberpunk has drifted into weird territory where the message is “you are less human if you have tech implants” and neon lights and prosthetic arms. when it’s so much more than that. the aesthetics are gorgeous, of course, with very urban settings that are usually really messy and dirty and stinky. it’s very high contrast to see beautiful, shimmering holograms and neon signs mixed with trash all over the ground and rampant violence due to social unrest. and that’s what it’s supposed to be. the irony of cyberpunk being massively monetized as an aesthetic and being sold as such is so grating. there’s also the exploration of radicals who either 1) go overboard with technology or 2) refuse to use any of it for fear of control, and that’s a whole other topic i don’t have time to go into. 

high tech, low life. the world is shit and every single line of morality is blurred so bad that you can’t even see it anymore. and i fucking love it when it’s done the right way. my favorite ever piece of cyberpunk media is the game >observer_ because it does a fantastic job integrating the ideas of humanity while also spending a lot of time diving into the anti-corporate cyberpunk setting. especially because you play as a fucking mind cop trying to solve the disappearance of his son, one of the people who tried to use technology to escape a megacorporation. it’s delicious and i highly, HIGHLY recommend it if you’re even remotely interested in cyberpunk (and can handle horror games) and please talk to all of the tenants because they really build a miserable, perfect cyberpunk world