#locomotivefan

[freddiegoesmetal]

fun fact i often refer to you as "my friend from chicago" + everyone is always like "wow CHICAGO? who do you know there that is so cool". what can i say we are mesmerized by cities here

this is really funny to me because i’m not even from the City i’m from the suburbs 😭 although i do spend a lot of time in the city

[datastate]

hi tobias i had a lot of fun on the aggie today :3 i was wondering if anybody had tumblr but also like. totally fine if not yknow !! i probably should've ask but the forgetter

i'm glad!!! i definitely want to do this a bit more when i feel up for drawing & a bit chatty :D -- here you go!

vivi / @room-of-lies / @girlslashers / @nomz

hazard / @corvidcrowned

ellis / @pierrots-ossuary / @aforgottenballad / @prizefigures

^ these were the people who lingered around the longest & chatted occasionally!!

hades @logicroute / moon @justalazytrashpanda / bagel @slightlytoastedbagel

^ made the occasional appearance :3

& for everyone else, this is penrose's / @locomotivefan's art!

[dysaniadisorder]

22 & 29?

22 : who did you save in chapter two? (ie going the kanna + alice route etc etc..)

I SAVED REKO AND SOU... i didnt realize you could CHOOSE to let Reko die and i killed Kanna SO quickly because i. thought itd be more dramatic and heartbreaking

29 : which floormaster is your favorite?

RIO RANGER. I LOVE THAT FREAK

[jokerlennon]

tagged by @tenderscience to post 5 songs ive been listening to a lot lately hiiiiiiii. im not posting links i dislike links #sorry

1 daily nightly by the monkees <3333333

2 listen to the band also by the monkees

3 dancing in the dark by bruce springsteen

4 born in the usa but the 1982 demo version specifically. you have to listen to this one it's not optional

5 auntie's municipal court by....you guessed it....the monkees

tagging @freddiegoesmetal @locomotivefan @porciaenjoyer @shcherbatskya @conspiracyofequals @mityenka

[goldenageofwireless]

BEEP BEEP here comes the tag game train!! i was tagged by the lovely @elwesbian! Thank you!!!! Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

@numberposting @humblemediagenius @gregdillard @locomotivefan @queriesntheories

[czolgosz]

"put a song for every letter in your url and tag the amount of people in your url"

thank you @eeuwigestilte for tagging me in this ^_^

you will notice quite a bit of artist repetition:

violin concerto in a minor (kolja blacher & cologne chamber orchestra)

i'm simply crazy over you (sam ash & louise macmahon)

come josephine in my flying machine (ada jones & billy murray)

they start the victrola (billy murray)

oui oui marie (arthur fields)

rhapsody in blue (leonard bernstein & columbia symphony orchestra)

the honeysuckle and the bee (belle davis)

after the ball (george j gaskin)

les amants de paris (édith piaf)

k-k-k-katy (billy murray)

i'm afraid to come home in the dark (billy murray)

narcissus (victor concert orchestra)

glüwürmchen idyll (will kalinka & paul godwin orchestra)

margot coeur gros (édith piaf)

an der schönen blauen donau (andré rieu & johann strauss orchestra)

cri du coeur (édith piaf)

he'd have to get under—get out and get under (billy murray)

i'm goin' to settle down outside of london town (billy murray)

non, je ne regrette rien (édith piaf)

eden blues (édith piaf)

20 tags: @ahotjanuary @bumblingest-bee @busg @crescentmp3 @dilbobloggins @drinkthemlock @dualclock @freddiegoesmetal @koiketto @locomotivefan @magnoliae @orangegloom @porciaenjoyer @riddled-forensic @spring-heeledjack @strangestcase @thereddenedking @troyandabedsnewapartment @verae @wiredalienvampire

[couldtransitionhavesavedthem]

TROY BOLTON from HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

Gender: non-binary

Why would transition save them?: "first off high school musical is already a trilogy about being bisexual (troy feeling they have to choose between theatre and basketball, but realizing they don't & that they don't want to be what everyone expects of them) but this allegory of wanting to be yourself and not wanting to choose also makes troy read as non-binary.

when gabriella meets troy at school, troy says that they haven't told their friends about "the singing thing" because "its not who they know me as". which is so transgender. once again, the entire series is about people having expectations of troy (what they want to do, where they're going to college, how they act). troy is always struggling to find themself and what they want against all the pressure.

but the most non-binary thing of all is "scream", troy's solo in high school musical 3. the main chorus is "i don't know where to go what's the right team? i want my own thing so bad i'm gonna scream. i can't choose so confused what's it all mean? i want my own dream so bad i'm gonna scream". they also sing "i'm gonna fight to find myself, me and no one else". transition would save them SO BADLY"--@locomotivefan

[pyromance]

it's a tag game! wahoo!

tagged by @cary-elwes ! thank you sebastian <3

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite!

these are probably not my all time all time favorite characters but they're certainly some of my favorites <:

taggging... @ajdrawsig @locomotivefan @goldenageofwireless @agentperezbian @sliceofdyke @wavebf and anyone else who wants to do it!

[conspiracyofequals]

tagged by @kafkaguy yayyy thanks. :-)

last song: san francisco by sofiane pamart... i've been getting really into instrumental music lately

last book: time is a mother by ocean vuong

last film: 120 battements par minute rewatch. the club scenes ended me! the dust of it all

last tv show: i think the last thing i finished might have been all the light we cannot see... and on my own andor back in december... i don't have the time for tv shows i'm more into podcasts these days

last video game: pokemon scarlet, i'm grinding to get the starters from the institute

last things i googled: new york state. in a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy. billy budd

last thing i ate: fruit yoghurt

currently watching: started a killing eve rewatch with my parents so that's always fun. on my own oniisama e

currently reading: les cloches de bâle by aragon. ever since i finished aurélien exactly a year ago i've been looking for it and i found a 1982 copy in my favorite edition... it was a sign it had to come home with me. found it in this used bookstore right next to my school too where every single book is 3€ and sometimes they even have The Smell. and the dark soundtrack is always playing. the cycles are so kind to me. that + the nazi cultural revolution(?) by johann chapoutot, a historian i like

favorite color: red

current obsession: the nineteenth century i'm pretty sure

anddd tagging @isaidilovedu2death @locomotivefan @fatherkreiner & anyone else who might want to do this really. no pressure whatsoever of course of course

[datastate]

tobias i think if you do get into yyh i think you will really like kurama (<- i am currently watching a kurama centric episode + well. i am having very intense emotions about him + based off your favorite characters / posts i think you will too.)

looks at you so kindly... i'm intrigued by this fellow already

[datastate]

(sending this as an ask because it got WAYY too long to be a reply whoops) i really like your opinions on the routes!! especially on the ais waugh…. i am planning on playing kanna's routes whenever i eventually replay this summer + i am excited to see what they entail…. but yeah overall i really like your thoughts and man do i need to replay yttd T_T it has been so long. (+ this is where the reply turned into a small ramble about qtaro because the autism) plus your comment about how the main games have gone + the qtaro thing. sorry i am ill about him. glad to see someone who understands his intent there because although i am not active in fandom ANYMORE i used to see so many people absolutely hating him for that (<- like obviously not the best way of going about things but he had intentions. okay?) (also i would like to make the comment of although in 8th grade i had intense hyperfixation on alice, ever since my first playthrough in 6th grade (HOW HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG?!) qtaro has + always will be my favorite sorry society….). i still remember when 3-1b came out + so many people were like "oh maybe qtaro is not deplorable" meanwhile i was over here #1 qtaro fan sobbing. sorry this is so long

(in response to this ask! also, for my own sake, i've broken up replying this into little sections :] <3 but i don't mind at all!!!)

REPLAYING YTTD

oho...!! i do think even a general replay (without seeing other routes) is really worthwhile to get a better feel for the characters & see how you can recontextualize things they're doing/have said at the time... i love combing through to see what nao and kai were up to in particular just before the main games <3

while i do think there was more that nankidai could've stood to do to differentiate the two routes particularly to make kanna & shin's separate routes feel like an actual choice, i do think that what small things are changed are still worthwhile & cool to see! i hope you enjoy your replay!!! :D

Q-TARO

YEAH exactly... i'm really sad that it's taken until his literal death to truly appreciate him as a character when more morally ambiguous characters like... well. shin, keiji, and even kai (though i'd honestly argue that most people don't see kai for who he is, you know; rather they place emphasis on his attractive appearance...) -- what they've done & how they behave are excused because they're, frankly, thin enough to care abt.

i've gone on about this before, so i won't linger much more than i need to, but i find it so strange that most people don't seem to recognize that - if not in the moment, i can understand that everyone's emotions are in a swirl. even the player's, but in chapter two when he says he felt a connection w kai - q-taro is autistic. and this definitely makes how he approached things in the first main game all the more understandable, personally... being so blunt about it when he'd settled on it being the clear solution, he even outright says that he doesn't want to see any of them just resign themselves right away to being voted out! & then we learn in ch3 as well that he's also experienced suicidal ideation which just lends so much more value to what he says...!! he doesn't want anyone to die, but certainly not with the belief that it's the only option they had. he wants them to at least have the chance to fight, just in case. and he's willing to hold himself to the same standard!

of course, first impressions mean a lot, but i feel like people saw this and completely missed the entirety of chapter 2 where he quickly warms up to gin afterward & even apologizes to sara for all she's had to deal with, despite it not being his fault, and expressing that he wishes there was something he could do even irt miley... he cares so much abt the kids within the group, even if it takes a lot of courage to support strangers when he knows he has other kids waiting at home for him... he still tries his damnedest, you know? i feel like there's something about that you have to respect. even when he's attempting to leave, you visibly see how conflicted he is about it & it's why sara can pick up on it so early, because he doesn't want to do this, it just feels like the only option... which. well. there's something to say about how gin's the one who's freely handing out tokens and yet q-taro goes to someone like sara first. someone who's been steadily pushed into the figurehead of the group, who is clearly strategic... versus someone who resembles the people q-taro's trying to get back to. hmmm. i sure wonder what the implications are here. (& i have a post for you. that you might enjoy... i've been meaning to write it for a while but i forget. but the idea is there.)

but. yeah... they didn't give him much room to grow in their mind after this point, which is so disappointing & definitely created a very toxic space. beyond that, it played into general southern stereotypes of him being the only homophobic/transphobic one, which i honestly often find treatment of to be in poor taste (it can be used well in stories, but you shouldn't just. throw bigotry on characters simply because you hate them...) -- but also just. blatantly untrue?

even just. everything about his treatment of people in general being so understanding once you explain something to him, or his desire to be a good person worthy of looking up to (which is why it doubly wrecks him when he sees himself become disabled/suicidal in the hospital, because he's become such a rotten person and he feels it and it's a terrible, terrible cycle) for the orphanage kids & to prove something to the parents who abandoned him that he's still worthy of being loved too... he believes in equivalent exchange in social dynamics, only ever giving out what you can take, just... in what world would he be so insensitive?

and this isn't even bringing up the fact that he has slightly longer than shoulder-length hair + nonetheless treats kai/mishima with a lot of respect and care even with them both generally being considered (physically, as well as in their demeanor) strange. combined with the fact that he relates to kai on the basis of being "lonely" rather than "loved" for what's unchangeable about them... there's so much there to read into. not just with autism or ptsd, but. gestures. transgenderism, being mixed, so on. things that sara had people to help support her with prior to the death game, or that she lacked altogether (if she's fully japanese)

but i digress! i'm glad that ch3-1 skirted some hatred toward him, but i definitely agree -- he's such a well-rounded characters even prior to that & it deserved to be acknowledged...!!

[datastate]

oh i am very curious which yttd routes did you play first :O? (mine was alice/shin <- this was literally because i was hyperfixated on alice + i was playing it with my friend who was hyperfixated on shin.)

oho... i believe my first route was true logic! (reko + shin) -- i'd pushed the fake reko, because my view on the whole 'doll v. human' thing is. well. humans will always be preferable if they're still alive, though even after death it's a shaky trail to follow. of course, while alive they can still be manipulated & gaslit into certain things, but the AIs can be changed on a very fundamental level with the intention of deceiving someone they care for (whether they mean to or not; mishima, for example, whose values weren't necessarily changed, but just shifted to see those he would've cared for as enemies), and the idea of them being so easily reset - to me - makes it more difficult to view anything you do with them as permanent. which, while that may be something worthwhile for some (sara w ytts, hiyori w shin ai...), i find scarcity to be something very important & i just hate the idea of desecrating who someone was after death. what you see as the ai will often have a very tangible effect on how you perceive the person post-mortem as well, which isn't fair to you or them, regardless of how genuine they believe they're being.

or, well. that's the gist of my thoughts on it x']

in any case! i do wish i could've kept alice alive, but this was a 'no resets' run for me & i still wouldn't have changed my answer here... sorry reko ai.

as for shin, i chose him primarily because my sister (kid) really enjoys his character & i was very intrigued in seeing where he'd go once pushed further than this. i felt terrible killing kanna for this, & realized during her death (i. started crying also <3) that if i were in this situation that i'd never be able to work w someone who enabled kanna's self-sacrificial nature. which shin evidently echoed, rendering any logic behind the choice null, ironically because i failed to take into account the emotional attachment between them all.

& of course the influence this has on ch3-1... where sara had very obviously sacrificed dolls for her allies before, it just makes it tasty...

however! as for my current routes, i think i favor true emotion (alice + kanna) -- i really wanted to know more abt alice before he died & i was surprised it was even an option so early on. i also enjoyed seeing alice getting after gashu outright + i think he deserved to have that personal chance in getting after hiyori again... even if the realization he's become a 'real murderer' (he had still pushed hiyori w intent to kill, you know...) is held against him here.

and, in terms of character development, upon reflection: i really do think i'm more interested in seeing kanna truly overcome that desire to push herself aside for others' benefit... it'd be so much more fulfilling to me, with what i'm searching out, in a game like this where pushing forward really is the only choice you can make...!!

as for both, they don't get the focus i wish they could've in ch3-1, but i nonetheless find it a more interesting route going forward, even if i still don't agree w the choice made to keep alice alive x'] the implications for sara's character in either route are really fun to consider :D

[datastate]

ah hi tobias sorry i just have to say i keep rereading your tags on my lalah art because im so glad you got EXACTLY what i was going for 🌟 im so glad it translated well

AWE :] then you did so well in your execution of it too!!!

[jokerlennon]

tagged by @tenderscience to post 5 songs ive had on repeat lately thank youuu <333

tagging @carmeloffie @freddiegoesmetal @victortalkingmachine @eugenieedanglars @locomotivefan and anyone else who wants to :-)

[freddiegoesmetal]

🔥 theatre ? mayhaps?

i don’t think this is an unpopular opinion on tumblr but it is in the World. i think people who only listen to super popular tiktok-y musicals don’t have the right to say they’re into theatre and ESPECIALLY if they don’t care about straight plays too.. like i’m not saying you can’t like heathers or six or be more chill or whatever because i like those too. but what i am saying is people need to expand their horizons before claiming to know a lot about theatre or even just claiming they know a lot about musicals! because they don’t. peace and love

[freddiegoesmetal]

🐭

you are 🐰 to me..