#ive been really wanting to have these for actual years. and now i have them. holy fuck

[nishitanis-left-nut]

Ive been trying to figure what would be the best way to get into the yakuza franchise in case I get the chance to try and coax someone into playing the games but so far its been Nishiki the one thing that keeps messing up my order

I've only played up to y6 so my list ends there for now but overall Im team "play the games in chronological order" (ive seen some freaks say the order doesn't matter and theyre... not exactly wrong but it still dont sit right with me) but 0 is kind of an outlier. i feel like it would actually be better to play kiwami before jumping to 0??? like, getting to experience the prequel AS a prequel you know? kiryu and majima dont even interact at all so its not like you're missing anything about their relationship when you start kiwami, if anything getting their backstory after playing kiwami might be better tbh

Nishikis the one thing that doesn't let me say this is the best order to play the games in

as ive said far too many times already the retcon of his character was a really weird choice, they wanted to eat their cake and have it too and all that. cuz thinking back on it its kind of weird how we dont really see him and kiryu become more distant in the years between 0 and kiwami??? cuz by the start of kiwami theyre already not on the greatest of terms, and i sometimes feel like Nishiki not regretting anything and not acting remorseful at the end was sort of a bad call with the context 0 gives to their relationship. so like, if you play kiwami and then 0, youre probably just gonna be confused about nishiki. and if you play 0 and then kiwami, you're gonna be both confused and a little pissed off at how weird his writing is

basically in my head the order you play kiwami and 0 in all depends in what character/relationship you wanna care about more. if you play kiwami first, in 0 you're gonna care more about seeing how kiryu and majima became The Dragon of Dojima and The Mad Dog of Shimano and probably just ignore nishiki as a whole cuz you know what happens to him later on. and if you play 0 first what you're gonna care about more is seeing what the hell happened to nishiki (and also the majima everywhere system cuz hes the most important part of every game)

nishikiyama akira is like a worm that's burrowed into my brain and makes it so everytime i think about the games i always end up circling back to his character arc and how i dont understand what lead them to the choices they made regarding it

[divorcedfiddleford]

and you may say to yourself: "my god! what have i done?" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful wife!" and you may tell yourself: "this is not my beautiful house!" and you may ask yourself: "well, how did i get here?"

time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, time is a pony ride! (images described in alt text)

[crystalkitty1220]

Man I wonder where the leader of the fear realm could've gone, it's alMOST LIKE NEVIN HAS AN

[antennatoheaven]

does shadow have a drivers license

[5-htagonist]

i am genuinely so crazyyyy about lbruuuuu.... like Genuinely Genuinely. its pretty bad guise

[undistortedworld]

the increasing acceptance that i will probably never be financially stable enough to have money to save for another tattoo is making me increasingly tempted to just do my own stick and pokes again hmmmm

[lovinggreeniehours]

NOT TO BE REALLY OVER THE TOP EMOTIONAL BUT 🥹 GUYS,,,,,,,,,,,I GOT ARIFIVE WEDDING RINGS FR THIS TIME🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 IVE BEEN WAITING 4 YEARS FOR THIS

[depresseddepot]

weird thing about me is that I am so serious about new year's resolutions that the last week of december feels like I'm in one of those "preparing for war" montages (but in a good way)

[vampirebiter]

ive been a dick about horror since childhood. i distinctly remember being a kid watching the nightmare on elm street movies and being like "wow these arent scary at all and i dont really like them" even when i had basically no point of comparison besides reading goosebumps and scary stories to tell in the dark. i did still watch all 8 of them though.

[genekies]

screaming in the club

time for another vent in tags

[phagodyke]

omg.... my new nearest audiology department actually has an EMAIL TO CONTACT!!!!!!! we're so fucking back baby

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i think i understand dating now. you find a person that seems cool and you become their friend but in a romantic way until you. actually love them. yes?

[mishy-mashy]

Hi! I noticed you bring up fanfiction every once in a while, so do you have an ao3?

I DO

But the stuff I post here isn't actually written out and posted anywhere else, and my ao3 (posted stories) is pretty bare. Like, I only touch it to read other people's stuff at this point

Everything I do write is OC stuff though, and that's not everyone's jam

The stuff I do post here all comes from my notes for said fic ideas. They're all fleshed out enough that I can write them into proper stories. Like, the whole plot is figured out, I know where to end, character perspectives, all that jazz. I just don't write them out, since I don't have that motivation, and the stories would end up huge

I don't like posting the actual stories either. People have asked for updates on the new chapters I just put down, and I've run into a lot of copy-pasters. Even the few things I have on ao3 is having a mimic somewhere. So I otherwise keep everything to myself, or post little things here

I've been going through my past stuff lately to reorganize. It's fun. Even if they're old (some are over 5 years old), I find little gems that surprise me like these

(Unordinary; Re:Zero; BNHA)

Like- they aren't that bad. That's surprising. How old are these things???

[good-beanswrites]

Hello, I've been thinking about your actors au. Are you doing anything about Rei and Mikio being the only side characters with faces in the first trial? Because I do have a theory about that which I haven't posted but I always thought that was really interesting. Even Yamanaka pointed it out in the first anniversary stream.

Ah, I definitely want to!! Mikio is the man in Harrow, right? (There's also maybe-Rumerie in Bring it On who drives me crazy to this day asdfsd) I'm hoping once the project ends and we get the bigger picture, I can really highlight their relationships more. I'll touch on some of my ideas real quick, but I'd love to hear your theory if you ever end up posting it 👀

My problem is, I originally thought the faces show the prisoners' love towards them, and not necessarily mutual relationship -- which causes some hiccups with including them as characters in the au... (Including t2 faces), Haruka hungers for his mother's love, but given her abuse, they couldn't in good conscience have her on set with him. Rumerie may have been some sort of friend, but he didn't seem so close that he'd be okay seeing Fuuta again and being implicated in his crime. Muu cares very deeply for Rei, but even if the murders never occurred, I can't picture a young girl would feel safe filming her own death at the hands of her bully... I ran into a similar issue with Mahiru and Kazui's partners, but as adults I felt like it was easier and safer for them to consent to the situation.

However! The fact that Kotoko's victim has a clear face really interests me, because that's the only one that (seemingly) has no established relationship or love between them. What could Muu's realtionship with her classmate have in common with Kotoko's and the victim she hunted down from a distance? So I'd love to compare with your thoughts and reevaluate my theory as the new mvs come out...

[todayisafridaynight]

Wanna put your friend in a lil terrarium just to see what wacky things she does stg 😂

i actually Cannot Stress the migraine she gives me every time we hang out. like without fail she'll always say or do something that ranges from mildly questionable or irritating but relatively Whatever to How Have You Survived This Long Without Burning Your House Down Boiling An Egg