#im rambling or this is my two cents but i dunno

[vickie-believe]

You know, going back over the Life is Strange choices and how...undeniably tied and defensive the two endgame sides get, it really gives ya an outsider picture that....sad to say... (spoiler alert btw)

Both end choices still seemed bittersweet, even if to their eyes “it’s a happy ending”.

Yeah, the happy ending is either “you saved a town” or “you have the girl of your dreams and you say FAWK this town” ok that last part is exaggerated given that there were some bad apples in the Bay. But when I looked over both, as one who’s into the story, not so much my choices, I realized the consequences really reflect hidden in the lines.

I always wonder if players who picked saving Chloe realize that comes happiness, there’s grief. You sacrificed a town for your loved one and...I can’t imagine the aftermath. The only ones who lived, now carry the weight of their dead families and friends, even more so that Chloe asked you to kill her. Yes, you built a bond with her but to take away a choice from her? It’s hard, it sounds selfish but you can also say, Chloe is selfish to have her be killed for the sake of a town instead of staying with you. It’s like tossing the ball but from an outsider point, it’s hard to justify who was right. You wanting for her to stay alive or her wanting her parents to be alive? There’s no way you can honestly feel like that was a good decision if you were in your shoes (unless you really have zero connection with the other characters then...ok I can’t stop ya 0-0 ). I could imagine the difficulties these two will have, maybe Chloe feeling betrayed and grieved that Max took away that decision and went down that path. Maybe, JUST MAYBE (and Im REALLY HOPING PLS GOD THEY HAD ENOUGH OK!) that their love together would be the one factor to pull them through but realistically, that’s just an if. Can love carry you to look past a horrifying event? I dunno since I don’t know love. That’s something others will have to answer and maybe it’s yes, no or maybe. And not to mention fringe horror: Max’s powers are gonna stay, which means more destruction of space-time continuity is gonna happen. It might even be a horrible thought that this is gonna continue on with their lives, more storms that destroy places, more deaths. It’s terrifying to think that they might even come to the end of time. Or maybe not? I dunno.

And the other ending, it’s even sadder to think you lost your loved one, your best friend, your everything. And you have to pull forth to a future you cant imagine seeing without her. Or even the worse idea is that everything you’ve done has been rewinded - it’s a hated idea just like say dream theory but the thing is, we’re not gods. Choices were never a thing we could control. It’s like Undertale or any choice-based games, every choice has a consequence and in no way, can we fix them. Yeah, in games we have save feature but in real life, as much as we hate it, we can’t change those choices. All we can do is admit to those mistakes and fix it. And maybe that’s the reason for sacrificing Chloe - you made her feel loved and needed for the first time in her life, you gave everything to her and she is so happy to have something made meaning that she’s alright with dying. Because she knows even to her death, she was still loved. Her death wasn’t and isn’t meaningless. Because you gave her one final wish she wanted for so long and she got it. She is satisfied even if her life was to end soon again, just like you’re a patient at death’s door and finally, you got what you wanted before your last breath.

I think that’s what I’ve noticed about players for Life is Strange. That we’re so easy to want to correct our mistakes just for a happy ending. And when we’re not given that on both, we want to get angry or we become proud of the choice we made, despite the horrifying fringe horrors to attach to an uncertain future in both scenarios. And ironic, that actually reflects our real-life choices. Sure, we don’t have time travel powers but...you can’t deny we always resort to those feelings with our choices outside of games. We have no choice but to live on with that fact. It’s life. Just as the title said, life is strange. There’s no happy ending but it doesn’t mean we can’t build towards it. There’s just no easy cheat to get it.

To me, both endings in a way reflect on dealing with loss, not so much hurrah we will take the other ending because it’s better than the other. It’s more of, we can’t escape our consequences, as much as we hate to, we have to embrace it. To everyone, either one just seems worse than the other and yet to me... they are a little similar in their own lights. These endings remind me so much of the Cat Lady game and its endings - it’s sad, its horrible, it’s mocking at us because it tells us life is cruel but...when you have something to hold onto to deal with that loss, you hold onto it and let go of that loss. You press on through life for the losses. You’re not alone either.

It’s a bit of rambling, I admit it. But Life is Strange endings, they had their own meanings and in a way, it reflects life even more when looked at that angle. Life is never supposed to give ya answers or make it easy. You have to make the choices and stick with the mistakes. You brush off the dirt on your knees and keep going.

It’s life but it doesn’t mean it dictates you.

[naswoop]

Anonymous:

note: i ramble a lot here again. so for everyone's sake ive decided to turn things in parentheses blue 😔👊

anyways i realize itd be kind of awkward to say more stuff. so ive decided to separate this into two different asks due to the change in topic because Man Do I Have Thoughts. Like. All The Time Every Day. this is more of a stream of consciousness thing than an actual theory

but like. you know how "the king IS siffrin" or whatever is a thing. like. a theory that i think most people have?? after finishing the game??? (source: i successfully convinced a friend of mine to get the game and during our post-game conversation she did tell me that the king being siffrin somehow was an idea she briefly had)

and i think weve talked about it before and that. like. how unlikely it is that the king IS siffrin due to the fact that its. uh. too obvious?? well i thought of two (2) more reasons that its (probably) not true:

1. since you own the artbook youd know that siffrin's pronouns are he/they and the king's are he/him. unless future!siffrin decided "hm... today i will go by he/him :)" theyre probably not the same person

2. i faintly remember going through adrienne's twitter and seeing that last year's april fools joke was something about "the king is the only queer character in the cast and that the rest are cishet. ha ha just kidding!!" and since that implies that the king is cishet (...does it??? i am very bad at reading comprehension sometimes) i feel like thatd be a very weird joke to make in reference to a character who has been explicitly confirmed to canonically be both non-binary and ace

HOWEVER. i do think itd go verily hard if siffrin was like. "the prince" or something. i KNOW this is like the third time ive suggested the idea of siffrin's title/character class changing into something else and im SO sorry but please bear with me here. basically. i am thinking about flowey undertale's line of "i am the prince of this world's future". that's literally it. also please ignore the fact that "prince" is also the name of a homestuck class thing i literally havent looked at homestuck since 2019 so i dont remember what each classpect is all about BUT @any homestucks who may be reading this if reading this makes you end up classpecting siffrin as a prince of time then i WILL cry/j /lh

(if i remember my homestuck classes correctly though then a prince is someone who destroys their aspect or destroys using the power of their aspect. so a prince of time would be someone who either destroys time itself and so leaves everything in a timeless state (such as. oh i dunno. freezing the very flow of time itself) OR someone who destroys using the power of time (e.g. freezing living beings in time and thus effectively "killing" them). hm. [imagine me glaring very hard at the king right now])

anyways im not gonna suggest the idea of a character who goes by "the prince" in sasasa and then leave without any further explanation. so like heres my own two cents on it while working under the assumption that siffrin IS said prince. basically. i have very mixed feelings about the idea of siffrin being the king's kid or something (plus! look at the man! he clearly doesn't have a wife! and as divorce anon let me tell you, he's divorced at best!/j) and besides. judging from the shape of siffrin's crafts and what the artbook itself says on it he's PROBABLY not from vaugarde (although i guess to be fair the artbook never explicitly states that siffrin ISN'T from vaugarde so i guess it could be like. deliberate trickery and tomfoolery. maybe being the prince just makes you Built Different™ and turns your crafts to look like that. i dunno. but personally even though i think the concept of siffrin as "distant traveler returning to the hometown they haven't seen in a long, long time" could definitely be done well i have unfortunately grown too attached to the idea of siffrin being from some faraway place. and besides. isn't four (4) vaugardians a Bit Much? im pretty sure much of the appeal for sasasa's main cast is something something found family + people from all walks of life and places all over the earth and whatever coming together and becoming the closest of companions. so i feel like making the researcher the sole foreigner kind of defeats the point.) so my idea on how being the prince works is that its like. a weird messed up magical "natural order of the universe" thing where "the king" and "the prince" are magical titles ushered and forced onto you by the universe/fate itself and being the king. well. being the king just gives you unimaginable power over time and also makes you Like That. meanwhile being the prince kinda uuuh. you know. may make your craft turn into stars regardless of what it should be but DEFINITELY makes something very, very bad and traumatizing involving time happen to you which may or may not be a time loop where you die repeatedly (the time loop could be caused by something else! who knows! the main point is just to make the prince have an awful relationship with the concept of time and/or the passage of it. see: the king's whole motive being to freeze the flow of time itself because he could not handle the change that inherently comes with the passage of time). in conjunction with my previous "exile siffrin" theory this COULD be why they got exiled. either way, when the current king dies, then the current prince gets dragged screaming and kicking by fate itself like "come here. you will become the sole ruler of a tyrannical monarchy whether or not you like it <3" into becoming the new king or something. this promotion may or may not be immediately apparent to the new king. i dunno. i made most of this up on the fly. i DO think itd be very messed up in a fun way though if it is written in fate itself that the current prince will be the one to kill the current king. and hey. what do you know. siffrin is the one who ultimately deals the final killing blow to the king in the true ending.

(ps. this has literally nothing to do with the rest of the theory (if you could call it that) but what are your thoughts on the idea of like. the rest of the bosses in sasasa2 being named after chess pieces. with the combination of the king being named the way he is, the game being in black&white, siffrin's colors being mostly an inversion of the king's (siffrin has (a patch of) black hair but is dressed in white, meanwhile the king has white hair but is dressed in black), fate being a reoccurring theme in sasasa so far and it being a Bad Thing, and something something about a pawn (who is destined to move only in a straight line until the end of the board, much like how siffrin cannot stray from his journey until the very end) getting promoted when it reaches the end of the chessboard, i personally think itd be VERY cool/g)

Wait, holy heck, I didn’t know asks could come in blue

I'm gonna post this now and type a response later because it's been in my inbox for far too long, but heck yeah more theories with Divorce Anon time

[birthisacurse-and]

So like, I've seen a lot of trans truscum that like to point to the fact that non-dysphoric supposed trans people aren't really trans because they don't feel the same pain they feel every single day that makes it almost unbearable to exist... but to that, I ask, why would you actively want someone to feel horrible pain in order to prove they're like you? I do not point to the San Francisco gays living with accepting, encouraging parents and in an accepting, encouraging society and say they have not experienced homophobia to the extent I have and, therefore, should not be allowed to identify as queer. I should not look at lighter-skinned Hispanics who live in readily-accepting Hispanic-American communities and say they should not be allowed to identify as Hispanic.

[Disclaimer: with these analogies, I only mean to set up the parallel situations of comparing levels of pain to justification for identification or feeling a certain way, not saying racism or homophobia are experiences that are at all identical to or on the same level as transphobia.]

Who am I to proclaim pain as the validator of one's identity or existence?

Some trans truscum claim transtrenders are simply looking for oppression points and that's why they identify as trans, but, in reality, the former are ones who end up looking to be crowned, "Most Oppressed", by trying to justify their right to be oppressed with the pain they feel.

[readeatfightlove13]

#meetjsecommunity

Yay my first community event!! I’m really glad I found this community, its so unique and marvelous. I love it. Also its one of the few out there that makes a perfect mix between raw comedy (or probably just lots of swearing), kindness and understanding (again the same person that swears!) and my personal favorite…..game rage ( and guess what! more swe— *a table flies on top of my head* Ok fine, jeez!)

But seriously tho I’m really glad I found all of you guys, and of course I’m glad Jack decided to do this for a living and for being the person that he is. Without him, God knows where we all have been, probably unhappy or worst. So thanks again.

Enought rambling, lets get to the actual event that @no-strings-puppet organized.

1. My name is Valería Hernandez. My age is not going to be revealed. And I’m from Honduras. For more info Honduras is located in Central América which in turn is in Latinoamerica.

2. So appearence? I’m not good at descriptions but I’ll try. I’ve more than average height with 1.68 meters. Although the average around here is like 1.40 or 1.50 meters. Sorry but I dont remember how many feet is that. I’m a girl, natural blonde (dont know if I’m gonna change my color), tan skin, deep brown eyes (boring eye color, i mean my sisters are green and blue eyed but noooo make me the boring one) im average weight and I love to use hoodies and boots although I dont get to wear them very often so you'll usually see me with jeans and a t shirt of some kind and tennis.

3. I dont have many hobbies, I mean there is always something I must be doing which is exhausting, but I do like to listen music, play piano, videogames… I dunno probably some fighting and reading…just saying.

4. To be a youtuber of course. I mean its a lot of responsability taking good care of the people that follows everything I do, but it would be worth it. Not because of fame and shit but because of how much love there is around a comm and I would love that. Bonus would be going to conventions to meet people and to meet Jack, Wishuu, Mark, Amy, Bob, Wade, MatPat, Ethan, Tyler, and even some others like KubzScout, Egoraptor, Gane Grumps, HolaSoyGerman, Los polinesos, EnchufeTV, y Alfrely. I just like them all!!

5. Well a book! Right now I’m have The short second life of Bree Tanner by Stephanie Mayer, a kit of pens to write (not much of an artist), a candy or lollipop, a small notebook, a music sheet, right now my script for Preciosas Ridiculas ( I have my first costume rehearsal today) my phone charger, and a cap strapped on the side of my bag hanging on the hinges of the straps. Uff thats a lot now that I write it....huh.

6. Again descriptions, not my forte. Ok let’s see… I’m very firm in what I believe but try not to be rude or intolerant when people dont agree, so its more like I can’t be put in doubt easily. ( see I’m not good at this) I’m the voice of reason or anxiety in my group of friends, being all like “this isnt a good idea” or “are you sure about this?” because honestly sometimes they can do some preetty stupid shit. I’m good at making conclusions , most of the time you’ll see me staring at nothing, thinking, but can stay focused when I feel interested. I’m not the most humble person in the world but I try my best, I’m smart most of the time when I focus and my weakness are cats, i just love them. And I guess thats it.

7. Well it was for the whole Anti event last year. I was so excited for FNAF: Sister Location and I was watching Markiplier’s vídeo when in my recomendation feed apeared Jack's SL lets play, so I clicked on it and inmediatly loved his energy, his reactions to stuff, his opinions, everything. I remember the slight static and weird glitching of his vid and wanted to know more so I researched for some time and found out about Anti. I had already heard about dark personas since ‘darkiplier’ but Mark hadn’t done A date with Markiplier by then so this was my first time with that. I usually dont like to go into things without previous information so I kinda binge watched lots of his vids before continuing with his newer ones. I still dont regret spending countless hours watching his content. And naturallyI love Anti so..

8. Anti!!! Love that guy!! Did I mentioned it already? Yes?… Ok then. Then comes Dr.Shneeplestein whom is an excelent doc. And the most recent one is Dapper Jack. HeS so cute for some reason.

9. My favs are Night in the Woods Series!! You just gotta love Mae and I laughted so much with his voices for the caracters. And my second most fav is Papers please. I wish Jack would do more Guessing phrases in other languages and he should bring back one of the old ones like You dont know Jack. It would be awesome.

And finally

10. I consider myself a quiet member but I’m sure that’ll change pretty soon…….see foward for something músic related.

And thats it for this post thank you for reading it and I hope that this two cents were worth it. Pm me if anything comes up or catches your attention. ~See ya!

@no-strings-puppet

[rxcusant]

I’ve seen some people talk about how Vanitas would remember Ventus being a dandelion / the age of fairy tales or whatever you wanna call it and I dunno, I wanna throw my two cents in just because it vani and I love my boy

I personally disagree, just ‘cause if Ventus doesn’t remember, why would Vanitas? They’re two halves of a whole, and we don’t know how much of being-ventus Vani remembers. I believe in the novels he remembers the events leading up to the split, and I know he makes some mental retort like ‘Ventus didn’t respect the master BUT IM DIFFERENT’ or something along those lines. If Ventus forgot about being a dandelion, I don’t see any reason for Vanitas to remember.

Plus, if he remembered shit from 1000 years ago, I feel like .... mmm I don’t know how to word it, but he didn’t know about the X-Blade until MX taunted him with it, and then he decided he would forge it. there’s also his ramble before he fights Aqua. Sure you could argue he talks like he’s seen the war before, but I’m sure MX has rambled to him about bringing about the keyblade war when he’s not abusing him. I dunno, I just-- I think if he remembered, his.. motivation wouldn’t be the same....? aaagghhh fuck I don’t know how to put it. 

idk either way, if he remembered, I think he would show some signs, but that’s hard to do when BBS came out way before KHX did. long ramble short, I don’t think vani recalls being a dandelion, and I don’t think venven does either. kickflips out.