#maybe I misunderstood all of it

[sprimps]

they're thinking about very different things

[jade-kyo]

The fact that Restoration actively makes me, a known shisno trilogy hater, want to rewatch the Shisno trilogy says a lot

Shisno trilogy I’m so sorry I ever doubted you (except you season 16, I still don’t like you)

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

It did strike me today in light of all the discussion about “Cassandra” how time and again Taylor’s been accused of things or had her claims dismissed or ridiculed only to eventually be proven right amidst deafening silence, and that the silly ~tea~ from the Ice leaked texts is yet another example of it because it confirmed the Karma collab long predated the MH situation even though she was accused of using Ice as cover for the whole ~scandal~ when it was finally released and idk. (Even though it’s obvious it would have had to have been recorded long before because it takes months to plan and execute these things.) Again she just isn’t given the benefit of the doubt other artists do or the grace when the accusations lobbed against her are disproven. “Do you believe me now?” Indeed.

[perilegs]

i know astrology is fake but i'm not too keen on how a lot of people on this website seem to be clowning on it as a hobby a bit too hard. i swear the woman who thinks it's neat how she and her friends with the same sun sign are all similar isn't trying to say that you are who you are born as and there is nothing you can do to change it. it's a hobby. an interest. what happened to finding meaning and joy in the small things. does it affect you if someone enjoys tarot reading or crystals. does it make you upset someone has interests that they enjoy.

[dykedvonte]

I keep seeing fanarts of ppl's OC's being on the ship, so do you think that if there was 6st crewmember (specifically, another woman) Anya would've been more safe? Like, someone to actually call Jimmy's begaviour out, someone Anya might wanna trust? Is there a possibility something might have changed (even if a little) or it would not have mattered at all?

-💀

I feel like the game would make it part of the commentary on where she would believe and help Anya but still be sort of dismissive? Like the whole “don’t waste time crying and being scared keep going and move on, don’t let him win”. It’s supposed to be positive and reinforcing but sometimes it does more damage in those times of mourning and grief, it feels patronizing, like you don’t understand what you’re going through but they do. Even if they did call out his behavior it’s still on Curly to act and while another voice would help, it’s still 4 against 2 on guys that don’t get it until they have to vs women who always have to.

I don’t mind mouthwashing OCs but I do get a bit bored as they tend to be borderline saviors or like Jimmy aligned. They are either more complicit than Curly or just Jimmy haters for no reason, outside of what the creators know about what he did to Anya. I am never irked by OCs but in a story like mouthwashing you really need to think about what your character adds to the commentary, especially if they are there during the crash. It’s nice to have like characters on Anya’s side more whole heartedly and interesting to see characters who placate Jimmy but sometimes it’s one note.

I can’t and don’t want to police peoples OCs it’s never my intention when I comment on trends I notice, but I do feel like the way people make their OCs interact with these two characters and especially Curly, really show a grave misunderstanding of the narrative and these characters as people vs roles in the story. Still, I know people just make up characters for fun and that’s fine. Great even, but I guys I’m focusing more on OCs that are supposed to have those serious dynamics. My favs tend to be pretty-Tulpar or post-Tulpar au OCs.

The inevitably of the crash is on Jimmy. He did that not because he wasn’t stopped but because all his means to kill Anya were taken. The gun, the axe. Even if Curly did strip him of his co-pilot privileges and try to keep him contained there’s only so many people. An extra body helps but they have jobs they have to do, he’s the only one steering the whole ship and Jimmy would likely have an out: food, bathroom, etc. He’s not new and if he couldn’t crash the ship directly, who’s to say he wouldn’t sabotage something else? A clunker like the Tulpar wouldn’t take much. An extra person helps but it’s just another thing that prolongs what a person like Jimmy is willing to do to shirk responsibility.

It’s more than just needing someone to stand up to him and think that’s what is missing when it comes to inserting a character into the mouthwashing setting.

[kawaiisimp]

I'm gonna be brave and say it. I thought afk journey was gonna hit us with some goth and spooky heroes. Turns out they're villains in the storyline. Yes, this is about the graveborns and hypogeans. Yes, my disappointment is immeasurable.

[irabelas]

i like vows & vengeance well enough but i do wish that rather than a full story featuring an independent protagonist, they had done small side stories for each of the companions pre-game (without needing to connect them to that protagonist). if the selling point of the podcast is the companions then I want to hear about them, not have them be minor features in another character's story.

[coquelicoq]

me after reading four poems by internationally beloved, critically acclaimed, insanely influential 19th-century poet charles baudelaire: wow this guy's emo lol

[stinkrascal]

hes just a little guy (a crazed murderer trying desperately to suppress his natural urge to kill)

[yi3248]

sometimes self care is drawing your own custom card holder cover

[flowercrowngods]

always so funky to be reminded that your parents might love you but they don’t actually like you very much

[hauntingblue]

Them doing a photo lineup of the mugis for the battle and when it's Robin's turn she just turns and does a blue eyed stare at the camera 😭😭

Look at her 😭😭

[lecinea]

My goodness there is a lot of bullshit in the Jiang Cheng tag again.

[gothhabiba]

okay, this surprised me from you -- no upper age limit on holding office? the judiciary is rife with cases of dementia where judges refuse to resign from lifelong appointments and horribly bungle cases. mconnell and feinstein are clearly political pawns/props for their respective parties despite being obviously unwell. are you asserting that obviously unwell people (judges w/ dementia, politicians having strokes) should keep holding their jobs?

p.s. w/ "obvious unwellness" i am talking about dramatic mental debilitation that is obviously hindering one's political role and causing huge negative repercussions for civic society. i feel like that's topical here

then... get this..... ban people with dementia from holding office. why would you need to have reference to age to do this.

[iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife]

Has anyone here read the memory police by yōko ogawa. And if you have do you perhaps know WHY the author keeps mentioning fruits so often after they disappeared?? The main character says that she wants to buy fruit to make punch, she complains about not having any strawberries for her cake, she writes about a dress made of fruit peels in her novel, even one of the books she burns has an image of a fruit in its cover. Is the part where all fruit supposedly dissapeared a translation error?? Would the amount of times fruit get mentioned stand out to me as much if I wasn't seeking them out or if their presence didn't directly contradict one of the earlier chapters??????? What does it all mean.

[evadingreallife]

Just watched the first tadaima okaeri episode and yes its cute and all its just... uhmmmm... how in the world did they manage to have non tradional abo dynamics be the traditional abo dynamics?? Also like, are all kids in this universe adopted? Surrogated? I mean its abo for a reason, if you tell me the traditional couple is alpha+alpha etc how are they reproducinggggg

Edit: someone posted the manga explanation