#idk!!! I'm just rambling at this point...

[naomihatake]

I also think it's very cool tbh

After the cards were actually released, I think we gotta look at them for what they are. Because I don't think we expected this level of angst and fluff all in one card (for each LI) 😞

!!!!SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!! (and sorry for the rambling I have SO many thoughts 😭)

because what do you mean Rafayel forgot that he was an artist but still sings like the opera singer that he was? What do you mean that he discovers painting just because he wants to find a new life next to MC?

And what do you mean Sylus left MC despite taking her under his wing SOLELY because he wanted to protect her from his own self? What do you mean he kept himself caged every night to make sure he doesn't harm her? And the fact that she was actually scared, probably terrified, of having to force Sylus into that bird cage he made for his own self? What do you mean?????????

And WHY the fuck do they have two endings? Every card has two endings. WHAT. Why do you give me love, just to give me angst with the other side of the story? The implications of the sad endings make me sob. I was absolutely flabbergasted when I saw that there are two possibilities. And I was so damn shocked 😭 WHY DOES INFOLD LOVE TO MAKE US CRY????

Also, for Sylus, it hurts a little more. It's like his dragon myth repeats itself all over again. I don't know about the other LIs, I'm waiting to see if we receive some free 10 or 20 limited wishes in the upcoming days (or maybe I missed something including those wishes? Idk)

THE POINT IS. If you dislike these cards, give them a chance on YouTube or something. It is not exactly what we thought it would be; there's an alternative universe with different stories, and in this universe they receive a happiness they've never had before.

Hear me out…

I know the valentines event wasn’t what anyone expected and some people aren’t too happy about it, but I think it’s cool that they’re trying out new things, like seeing how differently characterised the boys are in the trailer is so interesting?? Zayne, the level headed, calm doctor who likes to softly tease you, being fucking feral?? The completely different persona, the expressions and the behaviour??? The complete difference to how softly the boys treat you in the other events??

I get that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but let’s not hate on infold for this, it’s not even Valentine’s Day in China 🤷‍♀️

Though I am hoping that we get a fluffy banner next bc I do miss my soft boys too

[lexirosewrites]

(lol here's my weird omegaverse body post, enjoy my rambling)

Ok so this is no hate to any of the worldbuilding that people have done previously. Ultimately omegaverse is ~handwavey~ so we all kind of suspend our disbelief. But i've noticed in fics, there's 2 options. either characters are born their designation, or their body changes during puberty and they become a designation. Both are totally valid! But like, if you go with the second option, then you're telling me a person could live 12-13 years (approx) with female sex organs and be socialized as a girl, and then wake up one day with completely different genitalia. like their clit and vulva are just gone and now they have a dick and testicles. I just think that's a little too extreme of a change for the body to do.

So i thought, what if it's not as extreme? Like everyone is born with a modified set of genitals. like "boys" are born with essentially a micropenis and nothing else. "Girls" are born with a urethra and a slit. No extraneous labia and it's not a deep hole. Everyone is born with nipples like human beings. It's expected that "boys" become alphas and male betas and "girls" become female betas or omegas. So this allows for some of that delicious in-universe angst when you get female alphas and male omegas, if you choose to do that. That would mean that there could be totally different gender expectations for kids, because while you'll probably go a certain way based on your genitals, female alphas and male omegas are rare, but not unheard of. This allows for a nonsexual childhood and possibly less rigid gender roles because the primary genders are so nebulously different.

Then when you go through puberty, your body changes to fit your designation. Alphas get a larger penis with a knot and testicles, betas get the "normal" human genitals that coincide with their primary gender, and omegas get a clit, vulva, and vagina. Beta women and omega's breasts grow, with females having larger overall to coincide with their primary gender. Alpha females would have breasts as well, but maybe no ability to produce milk, maybe just like larger pecs? And like male omegas wouldn't have breasts per se, maybe just larger pecs with milk producing capabilities as well? idk let them have tits, everybody likes tits. But yeah, i just thought it was interesting. That as a child you almost have no gender until you get older. Like how would that shape our understanding of what it means to be a male or female or an alpha versus an omega? (also if at any point this gets a little too terfy or gender essentialist, i 100% don't mean it that way. if anything i'm leaning towards a gender utopia)

my favorite part of omegaverse discussions are the breaking down of societal views/expectations of gender and how blurry the lines get when there are no guarantees from birth. what a wonderful flowy concept! of course we still find ways to make drama and inequality, but why not treat pups like pups and not simply as girls and boys with rigid gender norms!!

[riisume]

Tmw none of my self ships/self inserts are hitting cuz I've been having a gender identity crisis again and want to experiment with a genderfluid sona

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[bbpuckdrop]

possibly a hot take but I don't think quote tweeting players and specifically mentioning ao3 is good for maintaining the fourth wall !!

[son1c]

i wonder if silver ever feels resentment towards any of the main cast. it could be interesting to explore him grappling with more negative emotions like that. cuz, i mean, who's responsible for the future always being in jeopardy? not anyone from the future. it's always these fucking guys in the present somehow. ofc he'd know that sonic and his friends aren't dooming the future on purpose. but just how many times do you think he can experience a hellfire future knowing it was caused in part by the actions of sonic and his friends before he starts getting a little cagey.

[lazylittledragon]

right now i'm very torn between "taking critique is important as an artist and it's not an attack on me personally" and "people commenting about my same face syndrome under my posts upsets me an unreasonable amount and i wish they would stop doing it"

[solarpunkani]

"Oh no, someone's attracted to the aesthetics of my -punk movement but doesn't know the praxis and history behind it like I do--"

OK. Tell them. Make it a teaching moment. Everyone who's in your movement learned the background from somewhere at some point, maybe this is that point for that person. Give them a jumping off point that they can dive into later.

"Oh but I shouldn't be responsible for teaching baby -punks about the history and the how-tos and--"

OK. Then don't tell them. You don't have to be responsible for teaching people with a budding interest in your group the ins and outs and how-tos. That's fair and valid! It can be a lot of work. Someone else will handle it

"But I'm annoyed that they would try to claim to be part of/be interested in my community without knowing all the details that I know after being in it for months/years/decades, they're dumb, they're posers, they're--"

OK. Then don't engage with them, if it's that bad. Maybe someone else will come around and tell them the history, maybe they'll pick it up on their own, maybe they'll just enjoy the fashion elements for awhile.

"But they shouldn't claim to be part of the -punk community if they don't know the--"

I feel like we have a few options here. People can either talk to them, share the history, share the values, share the praxis. Or they can just chase off anyone who even thinks about dipping a toe in their community, and then wonder why it's dying off later down the line.

I dunno, maybe I'm too naive and patient or whatever. But if people are entering your -punk spaces without knowing The Rundown of what you feel they need to know, maybe being nice about it and informing people instead of immediately assuming stupidity and malicious intent could help you make a new friend. Even the loudest voices in a space had to learn from somewhere, and not everyone has the luxury of being in the space as the History was Happening--whether it's an age thing or a not being aware of the space thing. Or maybe I just don't see what the big deal is behind people hating people who like the aesthetic of something and don't know the behind the scenes history about it yet.

Because I believe in the word 'yet.' No one comes into this world knowing everything about everything, and we're all constantly learning new things. I'm not gonna degrade someone and call them a poser for not knowing what I know. Because if it were me, interested in a scene but getting chased out and called a poser? I wouldn't hit the books and study up, I'd go 'that fuckin sucks, those people sucked' and then avoid anyone and anything having to do with it.

So chase people off and call them posers if you want. But if your community starts dwindling, don't be fucking shocked.

[dagwmeno]

ummmmmm some killer x dust would be awesom..

Ding ding food is served!! Eat up!!

[vasira96]

bothered by the defense of frieren's demons "it's not problematic, they're literally, biologically evil" yes ok, but why are they written that way? why would the author put in bad guys that look exactly like humans but aren't actually human?? what does it say about us that we write villains that boil down to "what if racism was justified, actually??"

[queerofthedagger]

sometimes. what i like to read or write in fic or just generally play around with.... is different and, dare i say, sometimes even contradicting to what i think the canonical reading is offering. like yeah he would not fucking say that but every once in a while i do like to indulge. sue me

[can-of-slorgs]

Completed the Shenkuu Stamp collection some time ago, so it was only fair to draw my girl Mirsha

[crow-with-a-pencil]

Hi @naffeclipse I'm very normal about your fic. Have some frantic midnight sketches as extra kudos along with some tag rambling :)

[transmascutena]

okay so i love drawing parallels between characters -- and i especially love drawing parallels between characters who seemingly have nothing in common -- and in a show where every character is a mirror of one another, i think kozue and utena might be the two who are the least alike. so i wanna talk (ramble) about them.

what does it mean that kozue and utena both have an injured ankle on their 'date' with akio?

i think it has something to do with restricted movement meaning restricted agency.

utena's injured ankle means she can't walk on her own, which means she would not be able to escape her situation if she wanted to. kozue on the other hand can walk, and chooses to go in the car, but i think they're both ultimately in a similar situation of believing they have more agency than they do in their relationships with akio.

kozue is more convinced of this because she's used to using romance and sexuality to get what she wants. she believes that she is using akio just as much as he is using her, and is fine with that arrangement (this is, i think, similar to touga's mentality. they both believe they're getting something out of their relationships with akio, which is why they stay.) but, of course, no matter how nefarious your intent is, it will never make up for the power imbalance between a child and an adult.

utena is... well it's more complicated. i don't think she's at all aware of what she wants, and she certainly does not think that akio is using her. (if anything she might think she's using him, and feels guilty about it.) she doesn't stay despite the abuse, she stays because she doesn't know about it. kozue knows akio is a bad person and doesn't care -- utena thinks he's a good person. akio takes advantage of both of these things in a pretty similar way. he makes all of his victims think that they are entirely in control of their own actions, even when they aren't. he makes kozue believe she is just as selfish as he is, and he makes utena believe that everything he does to her is her own fault. both of these things also conviniently serve to make sure neither of them ever tell anyone. (not entirely true. kozue does tell miki on his car ride, but it doesn't end up mattering at all)

then there's how they each got their injuries. utena's was either directly or indrectly akio's fault, depending on interpretation, whereas kozue's came from a decision she made that had nothing to do with him. i think this mainly reflects that kozue is not part of akio's plan in any significant way, whereas utena obviously is. he needed to personally restrict utena's agency, whereas he only took advantage of the way kozue has limited her own agency via the choices she makes (and the structure she lives in that pressured her into said choices, of course. i hope i don't sound like i'm victim blaming.) this again ties into kozue being able to walk despite her injury where utena can't -- kozue is much more free to leave her situation.

[claitea]

i know i shouldnt dwell on stupid opinions like this but a while ago i saw someone complain that Applin was a boring concept bc its just a worm in an apple and i was FLOORED. this iirc was in response to smth about gen 1 designs being boring as well

its not just a worm its a Wyrm its a pun. that is a concept. maybe you don't like it personally but to say its objectively bad is certainly Something. not every pokemon has to be based on a myth or something else fantastical to be a good concept. you Need "boring" pokemon for the dex to feel complete, if Everything is Cool then nothing is actually cool

"gamefreak is running out of ideas" yeah there's a billion fish pokemon but they're all actually very different to each other, lanturn is an anglerfish and lumineon is a butterfly fish. say what you will abt gamefreak rn its probably warranted but imo the one thing they still do right 100% of the time is unique concepts for each pokemon. the execution can be debated but the fundamentals are always there

[jacky-rubou]

yeah, that jk simmons as ford voice clip at the charity stream was pretty funny and i do love it but man do i wish they used him for something a bit more... genuine? instead of some silly 'reading thirst tweets and taking them at face value' they made him do. like... an update on the stan o' war II or... or something else that doesn't feel so... superfluous?

like damn, first time hearing ford's voice in a while and it's for this? i dunno man, i kinda wanted to hear how Ford's doing post canon more than that suggestive joke about his fingers...

but it's not like i can really expect anything else out of the man who leaned into b.llf.rd to draw in viewers and thought those viewers would just believe him when he said it wasn't canon so who am i to say anything?

i guess i can't be too mad when they kept him autistic/asexual as hell about the comments though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯