#it wont affect the story

[we-are-dogclan]

DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF YOU CAN TOGGLE PREY OR NOT IN THE NEW CLANGEN UPDATE LMAOO bc i JUST updated to implement it and for some reason almost everyone is literally starving?????? i dont want everyone to die bc of an update lol???

[samarecharm]

If i start posting dc stuff on here, it means i lost the fight w myself. The demons won. Im sorry

[aldritch-ao3]

1k kudos you people are . unstoppable

anyways i keep meaning to keep a tally of every time someone says "great protag. he should kiss [character] " in my inbox/comments but also i realized last night it would make a really funny poll

[runeyseason]

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[slugandthorn]

The coolest gender thing in the 2009 Japanese video game persona 3 100% how hard they coded shinjiro as the dead mom

[sunflowercider]

Gonna just sit here and stew on this forever. Suho feels like his parents' death was a failing on his part, and now as Lloyd he's desperate to not let his meddling in the narrative be the reason for the count and countess's deaths

[chromaji]

Good lird [x]

Though I will say some of my rankings are affected by things the artist does (like the posing of ronin 1-4 for example). Because there's absolutely been times where the way other people have drawn some of these designs I otherwise don't care for makes them suddenly peak.

& color scheme too, as there's some alternate color palettes i like a lot more than the base. I wasn't too sure what to do in those cases so I just kinda... averaged them lmao

[kerfuffle-truffle]

Fighting bigotry protects everyone- not just the marginalised.

I think it's incredibly important for people to remember this, bigotry comes from hatred and disgust, and at its worst can hurt so many whether they're the target of it or not.

This applies on so many different levels and has happened to extremes in the past and continues to happen now, but it's easy to distance yourself from atrocities when they're so far from your day to day life.

So, let's take it a little more local for the majority european-american demographic of Tumblr. Something that could happen to almost anyone, regardless of whether you're in a marginalised group or not.

(transphobia CW for under the cut)

Imagine your mother or your grandmother, is ill, too ill to take care of herself and is put into specialist care. She's extremely vulnerable, and needs to be protected from infections.

Behind the scenes, without you knowing, something has been happening.

The cleaner for your relative's room is a young trans man. He's great at his job, and takes the utmost care to ensure your relative is comfortable and safe.

His manager though, is transphobic, and doesn't want this cleaner in the workplace. She treats him badly, yes, but he sticks it out, and keeps working to keep your relative happy.

His manager takes it a step further.

His manager plants a bowl of moldy food in your relative's room, because he's meant to clean that room and he'd get in trouble for leaving that there. The mold could kill your relative just by being in the same room. His manager doesn't care, because his manager wants to make him lose his job.

His manager is caught, police are involved, he never receives any blame and helps the investigation.

Your relative, thankfully, survived. Her life was at risk though, directly because of the actions of a transphobe who didn't even think about the consequences, who didn't care if your relative died. It doesn't matter what you think of trans people, because this goes beyond just the trans cleaner. He wasn't directly hurt. It was your relative whose life was at risk.

His manager was investigated, and despite being proven to have done this, wasn't fired. His manager was given a warning, that if they did anything else, they would lose their job.

They tried to kill your relative, and were left only with a warning.

This sounds a little extreme, right? Who's plotting murder to get some random trans man out of a job?

Well, my partner's manager.

This all happened to him earlier this year.

A sick, elderly woman's life was endangered because my partner's manager was a transphobe.

Bigotry doesn't just hurt its targets. Anyone can be hurt by it.

We fight bigotry not just to protect ourselves, but to protect everyone we love.

[cocopomcreates]

More Little Nightmares stuff! Yay! (Don't read the writing if you don't want spoilers)

I drew these reference pages for a school project earlier this year, and I'm quite happy with them!

[ardentpoop]

spn gave u yet another archetypical bad boy soldier boy james dean w a big gun and a chip on his shoulder and they rounded him out by giving him a wife to challenge his destructive tendencies and his overly simplistic (read: dangerous) view of his "job"..... but the wife was his brother

[galaxythedragonshifter]

If the KOSA bill passes tomorrow and it goes through the House and becomes law, I'll be inactive. I don't want to give websites my personal legal info. I'll lose many of my roleplays on Discord, I'll lose my reblogs and posts, I'll lose contact with my few online friends, and the little contact I have with my friends from school. But I'd rather that over my safety being put in danger because of a data leak or hackers getting ahold of my legal name, age, face, and potentially location.

I'm a girl, so if anyone with (certain) malicious intent gets ahold of my information, me and my family could be put in danger. I'm genuinely serious right now.

[narwhalandchill]

ok not to randomly go off on a somewhat negative ramble But. (general genshin story direction worries basically)

while there are a bunch of stunts i fear the genshin story slash lore could end up pulling that would serve as not only disappointments but to varying degrees also just retroactively ruin a lot of games writing for me. i dont think theres anything that im as genuinely concerned about as the possibility of like. completely losing their narrative marbles to an overdone time travel/temporal manipulation in one way or another like just the thought of that shit haunts me

bc like. while i dont find them particularly compelling as an argument for that to be the case regarding Everything in the narrative in current lore/theory circles (like. makoto n ei teaming up w istaroth once doesnt automatically establish universal time travel). it is unfortunately true that in canon lore there are many of the kind of lore pieces present that you could use to set that kind of reveal and complete restructuring of the story up. istaroth and the sacred sakura and some shady things said by various characters and how you could argue Any time loop or travel adjacent is just hidden by the irminsul 5head (another piece of writing whose potential misuse seriously alarms me, mind you). and so on.

and i am just. Not about any of that shit. like. for me absolutely any plot device or element that has the risk of fundamentally fucking up a storys continuity and coherence sideways to the degree BOTH the

"genshins gonna turn out to be ALL time travel/time loop/simulation to make [sudden endgame twist X heavily at odds with what was established in the central lore prior] appear sensible"

and

"celestia just irminsuls away all evidence for [that twist X again] so achsually it was always genius and compatible with lore"

tier of nightmare scenarios will have. is just. Not fucking worth it. this shit has ruined countless stories with vastly better writing and way more competent authors because its just. not the kind of stuff you can just insert in a massive fucking story willy nilly to explain away the mystery box you didnt bother to set up together so it ultimately comes together in a cohesive way that Doesnt need to be broken on multiple levels to scrape together some conclusion. and its just hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like ive never expected some massive masterpiece out of genshin like at best its gonna be one of those stories that once finished gets some really fucking banger fanwork as its community expands upon and explores a solid but flawed canon groundwork. theres fundamental flaws and limitations to its storytelling and format and that cant be helped. so im expecting no miracles on that front.

but the one fucking thing i dont want them to fall for is that misguided at best and outright pretentious and disrespectful at worst allure of. SEE! we outsmarted the audience! the theories! we broke our own story continuity to force a twist because our established worldbuilding technically makes it an option! isnt this smart!

like just please. no. no clue how unpopular this is but im already quite conflicted on the established use of irminsul in sumeru and how it arguably voided a lot of important characterization (nahidas inferiority complex) and narrative potential (scara literally becoming a non factor in the grander story more or less) for good but like. for now. fine. it hasnt become overused yet. i dont think its inherently bad as a factor of worldbuilding. i like how it recontextualizes fact and fiction and the significance of stories that appear mere fables in the world of teyvat. but as it stands the irminsul is still a deus ex machina. and thats a dangerous tool for any writer to have in careless use. and when combined with the sprinkles of lore involving the possibility of time manipulation and such to be further explored. its like powder and keg. two tools that can absolutely gut a story of its narrative cohesion and the weight of its stakes in an instant. its really fucking worrisome.

genshins writing is flawed but the one thing this game has going for it that i REALLY hope the writers will understand to respect is its world. how much the marriage between this massive and beautifully crafted immersive open world and the intricacies of lore and history afforded to all corners of it truly do in tandem to establish the world of genshin as more Real. as weightier. as a place you grow and remain attached to even when the main storys writing stumbles. the world is so important and to let it remain feeling real is just. i hope they understand how fragile of a gem that is.

featuring an artificial world order established by fraudulent divinity and that involving some degree of cosmic fuck-uppery of the natural order and all-encompassing illusion to maintain it is fine. this is a story heavily referencing gnosticism that theme is literally a given. but it needs to be an artificial world order imposed on a real world that remains feeling real the entire time through. and for that to be preserved it needs to remain grounded.

but the problem is that once a story truly commits to the "anything could be altered and fundamentally reversed with the right mcguffin at play with seeming impunity" there is no going back. it becomes very fucking difficult to keep the figurative feet of a narrative even touching the ground for even the most skilled of writers afforded absolute creative freedom to work with (which genshin does not have). and just that much more easier for the stakes to be lost completely. and i dont want to see that scenario become reality

[flovverworks]

gah i need to ramble. i dont know how itd work/how to not make it push things too far/itd be useless anyway since akira knows 0 about fighting/does noooot have the stamina most ppl who end up fighting does<3, but taking the whole "can help oz use magic at night" into a buffer concept.......cuz i dont find a way to use that stuff/the sages book/etc in aus enough T_T something something when akira forms bonds with ppl............. so i was like "ig their evol could be something where i can work around it into that" BUT I DONT WANT THEM TO HAVE ONE........my normal little guy............who somehow can enhance u should the need come......

BUT it means i end up thinking about the time oz killed someone in front of akira. cuz it was at night/dawn. 'have u seen a wizard turn to stone' 'no' and holding them in a way so they wouldnt see auughhhhhh...........->figaro who ALSO has killed someon(something) in front of akira. and how quiet akira is after. no further comment i should reread that spot story now that its voiced

[musingmycelium]

. noncoherent but also thoughts