#life is strange tornado

[catfilledcar]

Friday, October 11

[tempodifleurir-a-nouveau]

When you realise that Earth has two moons, this Friday is the 11th of October, and that a hurricane is approaching Florida’s shores, all you can think about is these two dumbasses

[tornadoeffect]

Thinking about how similar yet how different Max and Rachel are...

Rachel is obviously destructive and impulsive in some ways, whether it's intentional or not, but so is Max! She does fix things a lot in the game, or at least tries to, but there are various occasions where she can act upon destructive desires mainly thanks to her newfound powers. For example, she immediately decides to blow up the doorknob to the principal's office when she can't find a key with Chloe and the latter can't pick the lock open. She can also spill Frank's beans onto the ground unprovoked. These are minor examples, but the greatest one of course is the Bae>Bay ending where she quite literally lets a tornado swallow up her entire childhood town to keep her best friend (girlfriend?) from dying. Her very powers are associated with the chaos theory. She says herself in her dream: "You're a goddam hypocrite. You've left a trail of death and suffering behind you.". She also says later in the game: "I can't keep fixing everything, if all I'm gonna do is just break it, over and over again!" Sure, this is her low self esteem and slight self loathing talking (as well as her having a normal reaction to the awful situation she's been put into), but the words have some merit if you look into them. Her powers, seemingly designed to fix things, seem to just make everything worse or break something else instead.

More under cut.

Meanwhile, Rachel turns a small, controlled burning of a picture into a forest fire. She spikes Victoria's drink on one occasion to keep her role in a play. She throws a bottle near Chloe in a junkyard in anger. She develops a self destructive drug usage habit. I'd argue her relationship with dangerous, older men is self destructive. Her difficulty with communication adds a chaotic element to her and Chloe's relationship (even though she's by far not the only guilty party involved). She breaks a table when her pent up anger towards her father escapes containment. She's associated with fire and the storm. There's obviously nuance to her actions, which is why I mentioned them being intentional or not at the start, but it doesn't erase their destructive or impulsive nature.

Now, I use the terms "destructive" and "impulsive" loosely here. And obviously, most of the examples I provided for Rachel are a lot more extreme than the ones I provided for Max, but I still think I got my point across. They both cause chaos, destruction, and disharmony around them, mostly guided by their feelings and what they consider to be "right" or "wrong", "deserved", "necessary", etc. And if the theory about Rachel being the one to grant Max her powers is true, then destruction links them together even more.

Furthermore, they're both young women onto whom destiny shoves great burdens and seems to play painfully ironic games with: Rachel must maintain her perfect appearance despite her unstable and crumbling sense of identity and freedom and the sudden revelation of her family's past, and she ends up an aspiring model dying horribly in a dark room; Max unlocks super powers out of the blue one day and tried to do good with them, but as she figures them out she ties them (and by consequence, herself) to a deadly approaching tornado without mentioning the extremely traumatic events she goes through in a matter of a week, and ends up having to decide whether to sacrifice an entire town or her closest friend.

And most importantly of all: they are both trapped by or in Arcadia Bay, albeit in differing ways. Rachel's case is more obvious: she's literally, physically trapped due to her family's unwillingness to move and her inability to leave alone, which is especially suffocating for her free spirit, and she's also metaphorically trapped by heavy expectations from everyone around her, feeling like she has no room to define herself.... herself. She's buried in the town's junkyard after years of dreaming of freedom. Max physically leaves/"escapes" Arcadia Bay as a child with her move (though she didn't especially want to), and does go back voluntarily, but is almost immediately chained to the very fate of the place and its people out of nowhere. I'd also argue that her past with Chloe and the guilt she feels because of it also traps a part of her in Arcadia for a long time. And after the ending, no matter what she chooses, Arcadia Bay will never let her go for the rest of her life.

[professordickbag]

i'm having another fit of a violent life is strange obsession, why oh why have the gods not blessed us with proper max and chloe follow up? woe is me,

woe is me

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

lis1 really asked what would happen if helen of troy was a blue-haired stoner dyke and honestly that was a good question. more people should ask questions like that.

[stimcanto]

Maxine Caulfield stimboard

"When a door closes, a window opens... Or, something like that."

x x x | x 📷 x | x x x

[3rpflx]

﹢﹒📷﹐𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝙻𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎. ◒ ༻ ｡ﾟ⊹ ࿙࿚ ♱ [ 𝚙𝚝. 𝟷 ] 🎞

[maxthesillyy]

tfw when the san fransico timeline was THISSSS 🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 CLOSE TO BEING PERFECT

[kirammans-violets]

Kinda wish Life is Strange did a better job showing that the storm actually completely destroyed Arcadia Bay, like you can’t tell me literally everyone died and then show like, EF2 damage at worst.

[tiffanyvalntine]

wowser

[secondbeatsongs]

@realwinterbro replied to your post “if anyone's curious what adhd is actually like,...”:

ah, an Outer Wilds fan

​to be honest, I still haven't been able to remember the differences between Outer Wilds and The Outer Worlds, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask

[catfilledcar]

[sozo]

"I know the end" from Phoebe Bridgers is so life is strange coded

[chloepleasestopdying]

LiS should have done what True Colors did and made Max’s powers something that has always been apart of her because otherwise I keep thinking ‘what gave them to her?’

A good twist (if they hadn’t done something similar already in episode 4) would have been that Max had already messed with her personal timeline but somehow forgot it (maybe because it was her first time doing it or something ) Like she realizes that the reason she never talked to Chloe was Chloe would have been Jefferson’s victim or something similar.

[stewardofningishzida]

Masterlist

Started: 6/19/2023

This masterlist is a monster, ye hath been warned.

Doctor Strange Meta-Fic 1

Chapter 1: First Meeting

Chapter 2: Discovery

Chapter 3: The Calvary

Chapter 4: Hello!

Chapter 5: A Sweet Introduction

Chapter 6: Tension

Chapter 7: The Research Begins

Chapter 8: Trial and Error

Chapter 9: Back to School

Chapter 10: Into the Abyss

Chapter 11: Back to Basics

Chapter 12: Double Double

Chapter 13: On Jewelry and Eyes

Chapter 14: Weathered

Doctor Strange Meta-Fic Sequel

Chapter 1: Lingering Fragments

Chapter 2: Catching up

Chapter 3: Chaos

Chapter 4: Old Friends, New Friends

Chapter 5: A Learning Experience

Chapter 6: On Novices and Damage Control

Chapter 7: Fury

Chapter 8: Tibetan Witch Project

Chapter 9: Silly Witch…

Chapter 10: Trix is for Avengers!

Chapter 11: Recovery Daze

Chapter 12: Dormammu

Chapter 13: We’ve Come to Bargain!

Chapter 14: On Moving Day and Shapeshifting

Chapter 15: Who Broke It?

Chapter 16: The Trials

Chapter 17: Catch-Up, Make-Out

Chapter 18: Grim Grinning Ghosts

Chapter 19: Missions Possible

Chapter 20: An Alien in New York

Chapter 21: A Covert Ring

Chapter 22: A Strange Debacle

Real-Life Scary Stories

Real-Life Scary Story 1:  The Trail

Real-Life Scary Story 2:  Queen Mary

Real-Life Scary Story 3:  SCUBA

Bonus Real-Life Scary Story: Strong Currents

Real-Life Scary Story 4:  Mountain Drive

Second Bonus Story: Tanks!

Real-Life Scary Story 5: Morning Commute

Real-Life Scary Story 6:  Hanging Around

Real-Life Scary Story 7:  Dangerous Equipment 

Real-Life Scary Story 8:  Gas Leak

Two for One Real-Life Scary Stories (9 and 10):  Road Rash

Real-Life Scary Story 11: Ether

Real-Life Scary Story 12: Packing Up

Real-Life Scary Story 13: Birth

Real-Life Scary Story 14:  Barbecue

Real-Life Scary Story 15: Arachnophobia

Real-Life Scary/Crazy Story: Jezebel

Real-Life Crazy Stories

Real-Life Crazy Story 1:  Goat Rodeo

Real-Life Crazy Story 2:  Sailing

Real-Life Crazy Story 3:  Green Cloud Means NO

Real-Life Crazy Story 4:  Safety Last

Real-Life Crazy Story 5:  How Could It Bee?

In Memoriam

In Memoriam: E.M.

In Memoriam: E.G.

In Memoriam:  C.L.

In Memoriam: N.K.

In Memoriam:  U.E.

In Memoriam:  N.L.

In Memoriam: V.H.

In Memoriam: J.H. and A.H.

In Memoriam:  M.E.

In Memoriam: M.X.

Real-Life Funny Stories

Funny Story:  I Like Trains

Real-Life Funny Story:  HONK

Real-Life Funny Story 2:  Let Them Wear Cake

Real-Life Funny Story 3:  Mind Your Manners

Real-Life Funny Story 4:  Feeling Flushed

Real-Life Funny Story 5: Christmas Crafts

Real-Life Funny Story 6: All’s Fair in Louvre

Misc.

General Weirdness

More Memories (Dear God, Why?)

Yet Another Bonus Story

Some Reflections

Me vs. Death

Thanksgiving 

On the Holiday Season

Remembering 

Heartwarming Stories

Heartwarming Story 1:  Bathtub Surprise!

[jynxeddraca]

Interestingly, the local news was going around recently to get stories for the 1-month anniversary of the tornado. I said I wouldn't mind, but I just had just fired my contractor and the guy threatened to sue me if I left a review online. While I entirely do not think he would have a case, I really don't want to push my luck either.

The woman said that she was sorry about that and it wasn't the first time that day hearing it.

And that just makes me really sad. When the tornado hit my parent's town almost a decade ago people literally came from outside the country to help. And they did, in fact, help. I think someone came down from like Canada to help a rancher replace all 300 of his cows that vanished. Today I live in a larger city, but I've already heard of so many people getting taken advantage of. One of my friend's neighbors hired a stump grinder and they quoted $5,000 when the job would normally be like maybe $200, people are going around trying to 'represent' people to their insurance, scams are popping up.

And while I can report the price gouging, the other stuff isn't so easily dealt with.