#interactions: liz

[akiacia]

social call at the Montgomerys'

[cupcakeslushie]

Scene from chapter one of @unorthodoxx-page’s story “A Tale of Spirits”

Donnie ending up in the Fire Nation palace, surrounded by extravagance and then acting like he couldn’t care less, lives rent free in my head. I had to draw it.

[romatito]

THIS IS A LONG ONE HOOO BOY BUT !! heres next part of the hadestown au 💃💃 in which Everyone is simply Begging their leads to fucking get a clue and talk so they can get thru a whole practice without an argument 😔👍

(i will be posting the full cast list next when I get a chance!! the only reason I haven't posted it yet is because I have been. incredibly indecisive over who would play hermes. lmfao🫠)

[tampire]

Duo Lon returns in King of Fighters XV

[annn-starrr]

so IT IS written by Langley

[moxyphinx]

Elizabeth Mitchell as Anna Volovodov in THE EXPANSE S3

[bluerosesburnblue]

@oveliagirlhaditright I'm putting my Missing Link thoughts in another post because it would be too long, and honestly I have SO MANY thoughts about why the basic premise of KHML was a bad idea (completely separate from my own distaste for the "Ephemer is Xehanort's ancestor" stuff that might be in it)

Because you're right to mention Pokemon Go and it really, REALLY feels to me like it's just trying to ride the hype from the mobile ARG boom that started with Pokemon Go a whole eight years ago. Because KHML as a concept doesn't even seem to be utilizing any of the unique features of an ARG that make them appealing

There's two real franchise-based mobile ARGs that I ever remember hearing about: Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite*. These two projects do make sense to me, as opposed to KHML because of the way that both franchises make use of the central concept of the augmented reality feature. They're additions to reality, which both series already played around with. HP takes place in our reality, but with a "what if magic was real and just hidden" premise, so it's insanely easy to make an ARG that's just "yeah, you're one of the people in on the secret magical society that always existed in the real world." Pokemon takes place in an alternate version of our world; every location in Pokemon is based on a real-world location. So that's also a natural progression for it, and it's easy to pretend that the "reality" you see in the ARG is just the Pokemon world. Other than location names and the presence of Pokemon, the Pokemon world is practically identical to reality

That is literally the central concept of an ARG. To make the game part of reality. And that just doesn't work with KH, a game about flying through space to reach Disney worlds. Sure, some of us might have wanted to pretend to be Keyblade wielders as kids, but did we want to be wielders in our small backyards? Not even imagining that they were another location, but the yards as they were? No! We wanted to be in the Disney worlds! Or Traverse Town! The central facet of ARG gameplay doesn't mesh with the functionality of a story-based canonical title. And so what do they do to force it to work? Complicate the lore with the Astral Planes, which completely take the "reality" out of Augmented Reality aside from... a map? Like, it might have worked with Quadratum depending on how much of "our reality" that ends up being, but that's not at all what they're doing

Additionally, ARGs are not conducive to story-heavy games! You're supposed to play them while walking around town, maybe stopping for a few minutes to take a break. Or you play them on work/school breaks. You need to be able to pick them up, play a bit for 10 minutes, and put them down. The typical gameplay cycle for most ARG players does not include 20 minutes just to watch cutscenes to get the Exclusive Lore before being able to do anything, and the people who like KH for the story aren't going to want to wait all the time for their mobile game energy to recharge before they can get their cutscenes (a thing that even KHUx did away with for story chapters after some time!)

The entire decision to make KHML an ARG, to me, feels like corporate checking off a box of "style of game that got popular in recent memory" and trying to copy it rather than thinking of the gameplay as a medium in and of itself to tell a story. Nothing about the ARG concept works with what KH is at its core, and I honestly feel like they unintentionally admitted that when it was announced that you'd be able to play it without leaving home. What is the point of making it an ARG at all if you're going to remove literally the only benefit that it has as a medium, as opposed to something that could benefit the story you're trying to tell? We are a long way from the days of TWEWY making revolutionary use of the DS technology to have its gameplay tell a significant part of its story

In an ideal world, I think that KHML should have been an MMO like we thought KHx was going to be back when it was announced. They wouldn't have to mess with the lore to make it work, other players running around would help to "populate" Scala ad Caelum in a natural way, people could form "families" with their friends to further the bloodlines narrative, and MMOs can function on the drip-fed narrative style that they wanted. It doesn't even have to be a big-budget MMO like FF14, because I actually do like KH3's artstyle and KHML's simpler usage of it (it manages to be distinctive and colorful, working in hallmarks of Nomura's hand-drawn style while still being more detailed than the PS2-era). It could just be... basically what it is now, but they add in new Disney worlds every couple of months to keep the story going

And now here we are, with a game that was supposed to be out by the end of 2023 still missing (lol) and only having had two betas by the near-midpoint of 2024 because they're having developmental issues that I would personally guess have to do with the game's self-defeating nature. I find it very frustrating

*Adding in, Wizards Unite literally ran for less than three years (June 2019 - Jan 2022) before shutting down so even being tied to a big-name franchise couldn't save it. I have a strong hunch that the Covid-19 lockdowns played a huge part in killing the ARG boom so it's doubly insane to me why Square Enix thought trying to bring it back was a good idea

[throwbackgaylor]

august 4, 2023 | one year ago

liz huett reposted a gaylor onto her instagram and tiktok stories, soon after deleting the story from instagram

[hearts401]

Me thinking about flashlight duo and their connections to Elizabeth because everyone explores Michael knowing I genuinely cannot figure them out

[dany36]

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[dr-lizortecho]

[girlwiththegreenhat]

having just made it to KITT vs KARR i stand by my point that KARR has done nothing wrong ever in his life

[beyond-far-horizons]

Cue randos in my mentions trying to ‘educate’ me on U.K. politics. Yes I know Labour isn’t the Leftist party it was once. I voted for Labour my whole life inc for Corbyn every time he was unfairly trounced by the billionaire Right wing press. Starmer has pissed me off royally many times, but he’s still not the Tories and he still has some progressive aspects to his agenda. Let’s hope he will do better. Etc etc so on and so forth.

[annn-starrr]

PLS NOT THEM HAVING THIS CONVERSATION IN THE MIDDLE OF A FUNERAL. the "it's surprising, but what can we do?" TOOK ME OUT. also don't be sad my sweet tate, I'm gonna romance you after I'm done w the whole book :(

[becauseplot]

watching ep 11 of osnf (minor spoilers) and… okay Liz has a crush on Arthur right. like i know im dense when it comes to these things but im not THAT dense. if so then Joui definitely knows and it’s literally the funniest thing. Luba holding up his phone camera flash to his webcam and narrating that Joui has taken a picture of them together is sending me. he literally 📸 caught them in 4k.

[sailor-aviator]

I gotta shower, but then I’ll come back and update the Twisters masterlist