#like??? that is just poor writing imo

[ophillya]

im going to hold everyone's hand while i say this, i hope i dont sound rude, but saint you better sleep with one eye open because how the fuck do you have your "im going to protect phaya even if that means dying for him" character turn around and PUNCH HIM COLD BECAUSE THE COCOMELON DOCTOR IS BEING AN ASS TO HIM?

[don1t1red]

I know that this is a very unpopular opinion but hear me out!

I think not enough people consider Corvo as an unreliable narrator. We see the story from his point of view and all we know about Jessamine Kaldwin comes from his perspective. So, to think on that, do we really know how good Jessamine was as the Empress? 

I know that she is usually portrayed as a good person if not a saint but what if it wasn't that way? A lot of people in the streets are indifferent towards her image, if not hostile; the situation with Delilah; how both Geoff Curnow and Corvo are treated because of their nationality; two hatters recalling how greatly Corvo dealt with workers uprising under her command  – a lot of things are a tell-tale signs that something is not quite right. 

And at this point I have to clarify that I'm not saying things like "boo no I hate Jessamine". No, it's actually quite the opposite, I love her character. But the way it is usually portrayed seems to be so dull and static. Let her not be a saint. 

Let her be manipulative. Let her tell Corvo that "he is not like other serkonans, he is sooo special and that's why he is where he is and not somewhere deep in the silver mine", while being (just as any nobility in Gristol) not very welcome to any outlanders. 

Let her be power-hungry and afraid to lose this power. Remember a bonecharm in her hidden room in the Tower? Who knows how it ended up here! Maybe she knew (or felt) that Delilah was coming, capable of overpowering and taking everything from her. Maybe Jessamine was so afraid to lose her posh life that she was ready to use some kind of a black magic! 

Let her be disloyal. Obviously, she and Corvo developed some kind of codependency. But along with that, she was the Empress so who could stop her from having an affair or two? And Corvo was just the safest option, with a way less unnecessary risks and questions. 

Let her be an imperfect person. 

Obviously, Jessamine could be easily born a perfect ruler and a perfect loving woman for her chosen one and her daughter. But maybe she had to learn it the hard way. 

Maybe she changed along with Corvo. Maybe the plague was a critical point for her character, maybe those months without Corvo made her rethink a lot of things. 

And isn't it tragic, finally understanding and becoming the Empress everyone wants to see in you, just to be killed the other day, because all those changes have been seen as a weakness? Have nothing but faith in your closest one, faith that these people will be more wise than she was? 

Give her some development, give her some motion! She could easily  be a saint, static point.  But in my opinion, she deserves to be not perfect but in constant motion. Trying and learning, understanding and making mistakes. She was too young when she became the Empress, she was a part of gristolian nobility, not so kind to anyone but themselves, she literally had no prerequisites to become a good person. And yet somehow she did. 

It's always so easy to be a "saint" from the very beginning. And it's always so hard to learn how to become one.

[fair-fae]

Narratively, I don't think Zenos should come back from the dead because FFXIV has already had way too many death fakeouts/back from the dead storylines and he has already had one of them. But I would still be more than willing to accept it because a) I really love Zenos and will always want more Zenos content and b) the idea that this motherfucker just absolutely will not die is hilarious to me.

[jasontoddsno1simp]

Stop trying to make Jason feel bad for Titans Tower!! That man got other shit to deal with!!

Namely, the fact that his so called father figure wants him dead!!

[nolongerexistingsadcatface]

Ok yes America hating the cold is funny (eh) BUT. have you considered that I like the imagery of an America sitting alone in the forest in the bleak mid-winter landscape of an east coast woods, all alone in both body and mind, agonizing over her seeming doom to be stuck in the throes of loneliness for all eternity?

[skrunksthatwunk]

so the eikichi-centric kuwabara fic is going well

[httpiastri]

Oscar is so bad LOL What even is he doing?

go off, anon 😚 you seem to know a lot

idk if i would say p9 in the championship, two podiums and being one of the four people to win a race this year is “so bad”, but you do you i guess

[princekirijo]

Honestly one of the biggest problems I have with Makoto is the way they make her look smarter... Is to make everyone else dumber and it really irritates me.

Like she joins and is like "They'll pounce on us immediately if we use the front entrance again, let's find another way into the bank." And everyone's like "Wow that's genius! You're the best, Queen!" And I'm just sat there like... You mean the thing we did for the previous two palaces???

It's a tiny thing, but it bugs me.

Yeah that's my beef with Makoto's writing. You can make a smart character without putting down the intelligence of the other characters to make the smart character seem smarter you know.

[meadow-roses]

Will you be watching the live action avatar the last airbender live action show?

Well, I watched the first three episodes and a couple scenes from I think episode six??? Idk I wasn't a huge fan for multiple reasons afjchbh

The cinematography was incredible but the acting and writing left me disappointed 😞

[ranger-kellyn]

i'm always annoyingly self-conscious when i give characters anxiety because i'm always taken back to the time in an old discord server when someone snapped one day and was super agro about me and at least one other person who tended to give the main character of the game bad anxiety.

they said to the effect of, "nobody with that kind of anxiety would ever be able to do anything, you all write them as such fucking babies it's ridiculous. they wouldn't actually be able to do any of the cannon missions the way you write them".

and i'm so mad that their voice continues to live in my mind any time i write a character with anxiety. it's been years but their shitty attitude still sits in the back of my mind and ugh.

like. 1. fuck off i can write a player character however the fuck i want. they literally don't have set personalities. my work my rules, you don't have to read. bite my ass.

2. idk. maybe as someone with chronic anxiety, whose life has been set back countless times because of that anxiety, it's nice to read something where a character who has anxiety just as bad as mine still gets what they want in life. is still able to save the day.

3. bite my ass

[llycaons]

another thing I liked was how vicious and hateful and unforgivable xy was depicted because he literally did manipulate a good man into murdering hundreds of people and then tortured and murdered a little girl, whose pov we are reading from, like I find him entertaining as a villain but he's absolutely vile and sooo many fics want to be like '🥺 he just needed love' well he actually did get unconditional love and support and companionship FROM XXC and he used it to manipulate and mass murder so idk it was really awful what he went through but I think in any situation he would have been a fucked up sadist out for his own amusement and you know what im just going to link it: x. it's good but the wx is very novel-faithful so 😔

[dizzybevvie]

so scared to take a stance on danganronpa bc it had major flaws and a not great fanbase but the first game is honestly not that bad in terms of themes and such and both of these opinions will get me jumped in the street

[blairswldorfs]

I can't believe I had forgotten how badly skam españa fumbled amira's season

[castielmacleod]

I do hate 8x22 with my whole heart but god I LOVE Crowley’s speech near the end. Pop off king

[jiyoos]

saw someone said the w*tcher books were bad bc the author seemed s*xist how do you miss the point so bad

[butwilltherebealcohol]

I keeeep having dreams where I'm either jumping off a cliff/ tall building and endlessly, blissfully falling......or where I'm in an argument with someone who's saying absolute bullshit and the more they yell the more my voice gets quieter and weaker until I'm just moving my lips trying desperately to defend myself and no sound is coming out and it's just like. alrighty brain. I think we get it. you can tone it down a tad.... seems a little obvi for "subliminal messages", no?