#it's hilarious to me and it doesn't make sense

[miifu666]

Asks you say?

What if Lmk Sun Wukong didnt meet Suklha for the first time until after LMK started? And let's just say he got a little bit obsessed with her. So yandere Sun Wukong (because yanderes are awesome!)

What are your thoughts on that?

PHOENIXXX HIII 🥹🥹🩷🩷

YESSS I LOVE YANDEREEES but i do tend to make them too dead dove- I've thought about it for a while! and made some Yan! Wukong with it! just below the Read more!

(I am having trouble drawing LMK Wukong tbh)

I imagine they met through MK. Particularly meeting through MK causing wreckage and falling through the roof of Suklha meeting her Client. In this case, Suklha isn't Wukong's lawyer and he has no idea who she is.

In a very cartoonish way, Wukong got attracted at first sight. Curious and threatened. The thought of another immortal chasing after MK, his prodigy just to talk about property damage? Thats hilarious! MK was just trying to save the city! This is injustice-!

Okay, maybe he can give her the benefit of the doubt. He hasn't been teaching MK properly. He'll admit, he's not the best teacher to have. He's probably lucky to have MK as his student who's so naive and patient. Naive enough for Wukong to ask who the lady that caught him during their sparring, get his ear talked out about an immortal Lawyer amongst celebrities known as the best of the best. I mean, what kind of monkey king doesn't have her as a lawyer? She's supposed to be the best! He should fire his current one. Yeah that makes sense, its definitely not because so he can get closer to Suklha. Nah, thats too egotistical! Hes a renowned sage! He should know better!

Yet even as he FINALLY joined those "VIP party" hosted by someone he doesn't care enough about, just so multiple well known artists and celebrities can gather and talk nonsense while drinking alcohol. His eyes kept looking around for a blue toned lady, usually his own Lawyer attend these events, something about finding relations and connections.

Eh, he lives in the mountains. His novel is worldwide, he doesn't need those stupid stuff.

He's lucky enough to see his namecard being put beside the person of interest, holding a glass of fine wine. Wearing a new and expensive black outfit, yet similar enough to her usual look.

"Oh? I was expecting your lawyer... is he not coming?"

Hearing her talk about him so fondly made his eyes twitch, blood red sclera affecting his vision. The room is closing in, he can sense everything in it. The chitter chatter, clinking of expensive glass, the pouring of alcohol, and the way Suklha's heavy earrings seemed to shine. Maybe firing the prick wasn't enough, maybe he should've done something more... adequate

All he can do is bite his bottom lip till blood draws out, all this time, such treasure was hiding under his nose. Spending time with his uptight and annoying Lawyer, who does nothing but berates him on not checking his emails and being "unprofessional". His ugly, old-schooled lawyer, got a chance to introduce himself to her?? How...foul

Don't worry, The Monkey King is good at handling business

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[notomys-mordax-blog]

I've let my thoughts marinate for a while after finishing up Dragon Age Veilguard. In the spirit of contributing to a fandom that I love, I'm going to be shouting my general thoughts about the game into the void instead of having the decency to keep them in my head.

TLDR: it's complicated. Better than expected, but still pretty flawed.

Things I liked:

I was initially pretty meh on the toonier direction they took the character art in. It felt like ... knock-off overwatch. However the style really grew on me as I played the game and I found that the character models were really expressive in a fun way.

The environment design was really colorful and fun! One of my biggest critiques of DA:O was how ... brown and ugly the game was. While I think it was probably the right artistic choice to remove the hilariously over the top post-combat blood splatter effects, I do miss it. This game had some really interesting visual design.

Watching Solas's worst memories like episodes of Real Housewives with the crew.

The combat was also more fun than expected. I definitely prefer tactical combat in games, and don't generally enjoy action games, but I had fun with it and felt like it struck (for me) the right balance between difficulty and frustration.

There were some really interesting and subtle things in some of the writing (especially when combined with character expressions). There were little characterization details that I thought were really well done (for example: the fact that Lucanis was obviously the most rattled at weisshaupt) . The prison of regret was a high point in the series.

I really liked a lot of the big lore reveals.

It was fun seeing some of the environments that we've only heard about. in the previous games.

I actually really enjoyed how direct Taash's gender adventure was. There was no room for "well actually, they aren't non-binary, they are this unique fantasy term that isn't actually queer". I also enjoyed how it acted as a vehicle for the other gnc characters in the story to have their moments. Bonus points for also having non-binary characters doing something other than gender with their lives.

The game was functional, complete and ran well on launch! I had to put down BG3 for like two months because it was unplayably buggy when I picked it up, and the ending of DA:I really doesn't have any impact without Tresspasser, which came out much later.

Things I didn't like:

The writing was very uneven and pretty awkward at times. The number of times the phrases "Gods, Rituals and Artifacts" were uttered by different characters, often without any further explanation, really made me itchy. It was really weird to me why the characters kept calling the Evanuris Gods (especially with a non-elven Rook). I also wanted to grab Neve by the shoulders and shake her whenever she talked about the venatori doing a ritual. WHAT KIND OF RITUAL? GIVE ME SOME JUICY LORE TIDBITS BEFORE I CHEW MY ARM OFF.

The venatori and the antaam were straight out of Saturday cartoon villains. Their motivation also made absolutely no sense from a world-building point of view (maybe if they leaned more into the fact that the elven gods were also the Tevinter old gods ...?). This whole conflict really felt ... underbaked.

I can respect the game design choice to want the player to be completely heroic, and frankly -- given that most people don't pick the "evil" path, it makes sense to devote more effort in creating permutations of the good path ... but I do feel like they really could have pushed the themes of "as a leader, sometimes you won't have any good choices" a little bit harder (idk -- I think it would have been interesting if instead of the blight dragon, you would have to chose whether or not you'd ally yourself with the venatori and leave Treviso to the Antaam or vice versa).

DA:I does a good job convincing me that Inky is creating complicated alliances between different powerful factions. DA:V falls flat in this regard. I think they were aiming for the different factions to feel small and scrappy, but with the exception of the Shadow Dragons (and maybe the Lords) ... the Wardens, the Mourn Watch, and the Crows are major political forces ... which feel weirdly small.

All of the companions were pretty ... unobjectionable and straightforward heroes. As someone who personally loved the dynamic between Anders and Fenris in DA:2, I was pretty disappointed by the lack of inter-party conflict. Serious cultural conflicts between characters such as Emmrich and Tassh were resolved .... without much fuss. I didn't feel like any of the conversations about the fact that Lucanis kills people for money had any teeth.

In that vein, I felt like the worldbuilding was also pretty defanged. Topics of racism and religious oppression were very prominent in earlier games. I think it's pretty obvious why having an oppressed racial minorities gods being the main villain would be a bad look. Heck, I can also understand and respect these themes being less fun for the writers to explore in the hellhole that is 2025, but I think this could have been handled in a more elegant way. Instead it felt weird and hand-wavy.

The crows really must've hired a PR team after that whole incident with Zev. My headcanons really had to do some heavy lifting.

We finally get to see Minrathous, the biggest magical city in Thedas ... and the area we explore is just a generic fantasy fishing town? We see the cool floating canons in the intro sequence! Give us more of those.

The game was inconsistent about incorporating bits of Rook's origins into the dialog. For example, the seer in Rivain explaining their relationship with spirits felt really weird with a Lord of Fortune Rook. Another (minor) example, Mourn Watch Rook eats the fish, it would have been neat to have the option for him to be vegetarian (given that this is common in Nevarra).

Romance is my favorite part of dragon age, and I felt like all of the romances were very ... paint by numbers.

Dreadwolf would have been a much better name.

Some of the comments from people involved in the game (specifically the AMA -- but also the whole "this is the most romantic dragon age game ever") had a weird vibe.

Where are Solas's agents? What happened to them?!

We were not betrayed by any of our apostate companions, 0/10 this is an important aspect of any dragon age game.

Rook felt like the boss that nobody wanted to invite to do anything fun. The companions seemed like they had a lot of dynamic with each other, but they never really directly spoke with Rook. It was weird how you couldn't talk to them. You had to awkwardly listen in on their conversations. Pretty much all of the companions have more chemistry with each other than Rook.

I have more thoughts about specific characters and plot points that I may share later, but I needed to expunge this from my mind like an exorcism.

[fictionadventurer]

Trying to sort some thoughts about Jane and Rochester.

I started by liking Jane and dreading Rochester coming on the scene.

Rochester showed up and was funny. He added a necessary element of humor to the book. I liked that he was here.

Last time, Rochester lost me with the gypsy fortune teller stunt. This time, it was hilarious.

No, this time, he lost me with the Blanche Ingram stuff. He's courting a woman he actively hates who is actively cruel to a child under his protection. Then he keeps pretending he wants to marry her up until the moment of proposal to Jane???

I can't wrap my head around his reasoning here. Best I've got is maybe he thinks that since he's married and can't chase after Jane, he's got to make Jane chase after him.

The worst part is that I'm also starting to dislike Jane.

Rochester seems like the only person she completely likes and respects. Everyone else doesn't measure up in some way. Her family's horrible, of course. None of Rochester's visitors get any positive description. She likes Mrs. Fairfax but considers her too silly. She judges all of Adele's flaws.

I know I said I'd take this book on its own terms, but I can't help comparing it to Austen and Gaskell.

Austen had a sense of humor. She recognized varying personalities, and even when she skewered them, she could still like them, respect them or sympathize with them. Jane and Rochester's humor is all very detached and dry, separating them into their own little world. There's no fondness for the ridiculousness of others.

Gaskell has compassion. A skill at tracing out and sympathizing with varying personalities. Here, everyone who doesn't fit into Jane's narrow mold comes under scrutiny in some way.

I'm being unfair to Jane. She likes Bessie and Robert. She likes Adele and Mrs. Fairfax. But the disapproval of their flaws is presented in a way that shades the entire relationship.

Maybe I'm supposed to dislike Jane here. Maybe that's the point.

She's about to enter into an unholy union with an unrepentant sinner--maybe that's making her worse.

Jane herself admits that her inexperienced eighteen-year-old self was blind to his flaws.

I've got to give her a chance to grow from here.

But for now I'm skeptical as to how much of Jane's behavior I'm supposed to think she's meant to grow past.

[chasedeys]

CLEO. in hard knocks when theyre discussing jambalaya and joe kind of like backs into jamarr as jamarr goes forward and jamarr’s hands IMMEDIATELY going for his waist. much to think about

HI YESSS I HAVEEE ARUUURGURHRUHHHHHGGHRH went straighttttt to his waistttttttttt kinda like that mic'ed up lions vid lmaoooooo something to be said abt that ehem BUT REALLY

something about. mindless physical touches. comforting there and gone. a glance of skin and then we're apart. oh you're here and then you're there. like it didn't take that long of contact i guess even if i wannaaaaaa make it longer. wanna make it like. ja'marr lets joe bump into him. ja'marr lets him fall into his chest and traps his hips and keeps him locked there. lets his hands press firmer, doesn't let him up. grins and makes sure he feels it even through the helmet and the space between them. whispers what you don't sense me right behind you? thought you always know where i am like i'm your north star or some bullshit idk something less corny lmaooo and joe just huffs and slams an elbow back to get him to let go. makes it like. who says i didn't know you were there. who says i didn't know you'd catch me. something about wanting a comforting touch in a crowded space just for a single moment of a scheduled practice and no one noticing it being anything more than a bump and moving on. and it's easy! a quick little physical touch and joke and jab and they're following through with teasing zac with his shit pronunciation of louisianan cuisine and his apparent fear of them and its sooooo cute btw how they incorporate nola dishes for ja'marr plays??? that's so cute wthhhhh 😭 who's idea was itttt was it joe....was it joeee 😔🫶 bc it sure as hell wasnt zac lmaooo

and also aughhhggrhrghh cuteeeee how joe was instantly reporting to ja'marr how zac mispronounced it!! jerking his head to zac at ja'marr. 'said it like 'gem-balaya' like yeah he knewwww ja'marr would get a kick out of thissss. did he once had some hilarious experiences with nola pronunciations and dialects?? did ja'marr teach him stuff?? god that's cute as hellll hard knocks can't enddd :(( i want more of these type of practice vids damn it :((((

[water-you-doing-bro]

Look, I just think that Percy having mortal Christian or Jewish or Muslim or otherwise monotheistic friends is just a well of untapped potential, okay? Like, obviously Percy just draws in the most eclectic group of friends, right? And idk at lunch or smth they're talking about some assignment they got in history class and it comes up that they all have different beliefs/religions and Percy, being Percy, decides to try and bond with them about it by asking if they have a favorite myth/bible/torah/quran/etc story and at first half of them are like uh dude are you making fun of me? and they're just super confused and ofc Percy is all oh shit no sorry dude I just, y'know, I'm pagan and idk I have a favorite greek myth and stuff and I thought maybe you guys had a favorite story from your faith, idk is that not how it works? was it rude of me to ask? oh gods, I'm so sorry guys

And then they're all like oh okay no that makes sense actually, it's just not smth people ask usually, not cause it's taboo or anything, it's just . . . not smth many people think of, I guess.

And then they go around sharing stories from their respective faiths and percy is ofc respectful and listens intently and sometimes he may ask questions and stuff but he never dismisses them or makes fun of them or their beliefs [bc like, if the greeks, romans, egyptians, and norse are out there, who's to say that there aren't more? who's to say that they're not all out there, yknow?], even if he is a little weird about them sometimes but that's all just because he doesn't understand lmao

I just, idk, I think Sally probably raised Percy mostly atheist yknow? and its not like he's entirely unaware of Christianity and Judaism and Islam and all that, he just doesn't have any clue how those religions are practiced/worshipped and stuff. His only real exposure to that kind of thing is what he's seen on tv and then his own experiences with how they 'worship' and interact with the gods at camp.

So he just thinks of deities as being mostly Just Some Guy who happens to have powers and a superiority complex. He thinks of 'higher powers' as, like, idk if personable is the right word, but I mean, he thinks of gods as just people. He doesn't understand the whole reverent worship and devotion and like, detachment from God attitude that like, Christianity has and stuff like that.

So Percy will just say the wildest shit sometimes, like, 'oh yeah, Zeus is a horny bastard and an absolute asshole, but he's the king of the gods so if we don't give him proper respect or tribute or whatever he gets pissy. What about your God? Does He get grumpy if you don't like, go to church on Sunday or smth?' or 'do you think you could get me in contact with Jesus? because Zeus put Dionysus in sobriety time out and he's all cranky about it bc he can't conjure wine ig but like, if your guy did it for him it might get past thunderbutt's restrictions and then grapehead might be less cranky?'

Idk but like I said, I just think this is an untapped well of hilarious potential!

[autiezo]

today I learned that "Jean Vicquemare" is pronounced Je-ohn Vic-qu-maar. Like the french way. Not jeans, as in the cool everyday style pants👖 .

At first I was in shock. Then I wanted to keep pronouncing his name as 'Jean' to disrespect him. Besides, didn't the Narrator and Judit call him "Jean" and not "John" anyways?

Then I thought about it more, and went, "Wait, his name is fucking JOHN? As in, super lameass bitchass generic binoclard John? And not the cool hip unique memorable name i never heard of until Disco Elysium? What a LOSER >:D"

So now, armed with this new knowledge, I pronounce Jean's name correctly in a mocking tone.

[bisaster-energy]

big believer in keiko and kuwabara being besties like. you're my best friend's best friend and instead of it being awkward they realize "hey i really like hanging out with you!" this is ofc extremely detrimental to yusuke who now has two people on his ass

they share textbooks keiko quizzes kuwabara til he drops and she asks for fitness advice. why do i think this? I simply think it'd be funny asf if Keiko randomly got abs of steel. yusuke walks in on them doing sit ups while testing each other on vocab and almost breaks into tears.

"Keiko stop turning kuwabara into a fucking nerd he's wasting all his time studying instead of goofing off" "yusuke shut up and feel my abs" "holy shit these guys are like rock hard" "right??"

Kuwabara gets glasses and yusuke genuinely thinks it's a bit at first but kuwa is like "man seriously I realized part of the reason school was hard was cos I couldn't make out the words in my books half the time I need these things fr" classic yyh collapse in shock moment

Keiko and Kuwa are there for each other when yusuke goes off doing god knows what in Makai. They know he'll be back but it can be shitty not knowing what he's doing when he'll be back. Kuwabara reassures her that Yusuke does give a shit even when he leaves and Keiko reminds Kuwabara of why he doesn't need to drop everything and join him. He'll be back he'll be back he'll be back.

Kuwabara can only make simple meals Shizuru forced him to learn and Keiko doesn't really cook even tho her parents own a restaurant so when yusuke is in the human world there's cheers and applause "finally I get to eat 🙏🏼" "aren't you guys graduating college soon how are you surviving when I'm not here" "get back in the kitchen boy" "yeah I need another bowl 😌" "im poisoning ur food"

because girls and guys apparently can't just hang out school mates are sure Keiko is dating kuwabara but some think she's with yusuke and others think the two are fighting over her and she just looks at them like they're stupid if anyone ever asks directly

as for Kuwabara nobody knows whether he has a gf or a bf cos sometimes a polite brunette with a sweet smile visits him on campus and they talk at a picnic table (she's seen hitting him sometimes tho) but other times a guy with slicked back hair and devil may care attitude like. swaggers up to kuwa when he's with some classmates and drops a homemade lunch in his lap "you forgot this dumbass" "ahh thanks yusuke you're a life saver 🥺" "just eat your food" inside is the cutest box lunch and yusuke's glare keeps the people kuwa was with from cracking jokes. kuwabara acts like this is very normal

anyway i just think it'd be cool if they hung out and yusuke was equal parts delighted and grumpy about it

[pardonmydelays]

i never told you this but i actually watched the warriors (movie) and while the concept album is incredible, the movie literally sucks lmao

[pynkhues]

Wait u don’t think they r getting back together?😨 would love to know why!

I think they'll get back together eventually, but it would completely undermine Louis' s1 and s2 arc to have them back together right away. He's just left an almost-century long marriage, and him saying that he's companion enough for himself now in the finale needs to be true for that arc to contain the weight he as a character deserves. Plus Lestat's pretty clearly not in a great place from 2.08 and the s3 teaser, and in a lot of ways, it makes sense for the show to have Lestat do the work on himself that Louis' done on himself before they get back together.

Plus - book spoilers - but honestly, the timeline with TVL and Queen of the Damned works so well! Having them get back together right at the end of TVL, only for Lestat to be abducted by Akasha offers so much emotional carnage both for them as characters, and for us as viewers, haha.

[p1harmonie]

I JUST REWATCHED PIWON MOVIE AND I HAVE THINGS TO SAY

[trans-yllz]

sorry but the guy playing the ratfish on game changer was truly So fucking annoying

[mariyekos]

Imagining a scenario where at some point Dante and Lady get married purely for practical purposes (like if she gets hospitalized so Dante can visit/make some decisions) but Lady ends up dating Trish so Dante's like

[randomnameless]

Hey, I come crawling to your inbox with another question. Do you know if there's anything said about the position of Prime Minister after Aegir Sr is deposed? Does anyone take over, is it explicitly not filled, or is it just never discussed? Thanks!

Hi!

Hm, in-game properly... no, as far as I remember, nothing is told about the position.

However, in CF endings, Ferdie takes the title again or, in an interesting outcome, if he marries Manuela, she becomes the Prime Minister !

Adrestia could have been an interesting concept to explore, with an Emperor and a Prime Minister and his various ministers (what Edel calls the "Nobles"?) and said Ministers and the Emperor have, apparently, always benn vying for power over the other - but sadly the game doesn't explore this too much.

Sure, it's not a politics 101 game and as it is depicted we could buy the situation being similar to Begnion (and Emperor and a Senate) but when Adrestia's history has an insurrection started because the Emperor wanted to centralise power on himself, and the nobles reacted against him, I wonder if we could have had more...

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[forgotten-daydreamer]

I have too many tabs open on my phone, and I took my meds about 40 minutes ago and was reading fanfiction when I realized I needed to use the bathroom. So I went and came back and opened google again and started reading a fanfiction that I opened before going, and I read a few lines and I I found a sentence super similar to one I wrote and I convinced myself that I actually plagiarized someone and only after like two good minutes I realized that it was my fic and that I opened the wrong tab so maybe it's time to call it a day

[y-a-n-n-a]

dreamt of mckirk at around 3-something am. truly.