#maybe the really obscure ones

[naamoosh]

When I was in elementary school we had a contest before some holidays to find as many different reasons for certain widespread traditions for these holidays.

One time I managed to find 20 different reasons and was sure I was gonna win.

I got second place

One of the fun things about Judaism is that I can look up a basic question like “What is the reason for this custom?” and find, not just a bunch of different explanations in different articles by different people, but a bunch of different explanations in the same article by the same person.

People say we’re a religion of questioning, and, yeah, that’s true. But part and parcel with questioning, we are also a religion of answering. It’s just that we don’t see the need to limit ourselves to only one answer.

Move aside, “two Jews = three opinions,” and make way for “one Jew = seven opinions.”

[taxinealkaloids]

harrianthe + sewing (variations on a theme)

[emberwritesinsight]

I know we all kind of assume Anthy and Akio are Indian because of the brown skin and bindis (Google tells me that while it's less common, men do wear bindis sometimes), and I agree, but also. "Dios" is Spanish, "Anthy" is derived from a Greek word, "Himemiya" is Japanese (I would theorize that her name hasn't always been "Himemiya", though she does seem to have had the name "Anthy" as far back as we're allowed to see into her past), and Akio drives an American car and plays jazz (a style of music that developed in America) over the radio in said car. Also, despite bindis being a Hindu, Jain and Buddhist thing, all the religious shit the two of them have going on (the martyrdom, Akio drawing a comparison between himself and Satan, Ohtori looking like a fucked up Cathedral and Dios appearing to Utena in a church) is Pretty Christian.

I know all of this is probably just a product of the writers not having a concrete idea of where they wanted Akio and Anthy to be from other than "not here" but it implies a lot of travel, which does kind of fit with Dios' whole "trying to rescue Every Girl Ever" thing.

Where do their names come from, anyway? "Dios" sounds like it could have been a name given to him by the people he saved. We never hear hide nor hair of their parents, they're fully irrelevant even by the farthest flashback.

[balmungkriemhild]

Nobody follows me for Honkai stuff as far as i'm aware but who gives a shit. this is Rêverose, she's a Knight of Beauty and she hates herself because she "wasn't pious enough" to stop the Fall of Idrila. TBH she couldn't have stopped that shit she just has a lot of self-hate and other issues

[j-esbian]

the fact that taz abnimals is set in a place called river city, and in today’s episode justin literally said “you got trouble” and NO ONE made a music man reference smh

[hanadragon-art]

malewife mode majima

[analog-sentimentalism]

it is so strange to me that when you study shojo culture, shojo manga, authors like matsuda aoko and yoshimoto banana - everyone cites oshima yumiko as a key influence in the 1970s - 1980s (< the 1980s are generally under researched because they were the cobalt era of 33 volume novels and no one has time to read all those to write about them)

but in my research I have never come across an article about oshima (maybe they're out there in a japanese library to be fair), her manga appears to have never been reprinted at least after 90s, she has never been translated, I have not even found her works illegally translated anywhere

[medicinemane]

There's honestly... just so many people, just so so so so so many people in this world where I'm like... aren't you people tired of this fucking... you know, I was going to call them clowns but that's really disrespectful to clowns, these people could never get their face on an egg...

Anyway, aren't you tired of this childish jackass? Don't you just want to ignore them and never have to hear about them again? If we just ignored them they legitimately would go away... don't you want that?

And this applies to... just ungodly amounts of people, from jake paul to even elon musk (just... don't touch his shit, he'll run out of money eventually with how bad he is with it), to just... name an annoying famous person and you'll name someone I've literally forgotten right now that I could never have to hear about again if people would just ignore them (unless they committed crimes, investigators are welcome to pay attention while gathering a case)

Yet the answer's always "no, we're paying so much attention to them!" and I'm just like... why? Why would you watch jake paul box? I heard about that and was like "he's still doing that shit?", and yet I guess it made a lot of money yet again and it's just like... ignore him

These people could go away, and yet

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

it's weird how "things i care about" and "things i blog about" are overlapping but very distinct circles. like yeah i care obsessively about the ulster cycle and also blog about it constantly but there are so many things in my life that i care about that i just..... don't post about. so many books i enjoy that i have nothing to say other than maybe sometimes reblogging a post about them when it comes my way. so many things that i'm secretly feral about but do it all inside my own head

[mantisgodiveblog]

Just so you don't get too-high expectations - there's not really big branching paths or anything like that loop-to-loop. Stuff changes, but it's not like a tree of choices with huge impacts. My partner got very frustrated at the limited choices because she had previously played DBH and Life is Strange and expected something similar (way beyond the scope of an RPGmaker game with one writer). I've also seen people get frustrated at 'unfair' deaths in the story because they went into it expecting a roguelike's fair challenge and got a visual novel in the shape of an RPG instead. Also, there's a couple things early on that almost everyone misses, so I'll let you know. Firstly, there's three Loop chats that are only available when you have done something 2-3 times, 4-8 times, and 13+ times respectively. It's a once per loop thing and you haven't seen it yet. If you lock yourself out of a chat you can still get the later ones. Secondly, there's a secret room - many people find it at some point, but there's interesting dialogue in it in Act 2.

...we think that you presenting "visual novels" as something that doesn't imply that your actions will have a branching tree of consequences with huge impacts that may also include a large amount of scenes locked to obscure and strange combinations of actions that may or may not lock certain things behind them is messing with our brain a bit, sorry.

Maybe it's because of the specific visual novels we're playing, but we're fairly used to them having adjacent staples to older point-and-click games, just with less things to click - which, uhh, older point and click games are actually one of the main genres we enjoy, and probably where we picked up the foundation of our problem solving. The fact that DOSbox is on our desktop probably dates us quite a bit, though we only really remember where a handful of the games we have that work on that currently are.

We quite enjoy visual novels. We've played quite a few of them, they lend themselves well to writing in formats we quite like, and make it very easy to break down where to poke to find certain things. We are also very very used to visual novels having alternate routes and extremely elaborate unlock requirements for those routes. We also use this same sort of technique when we play text-based RPGs, or similar. We spend a lot of time exploring alternative routes for, uhh, pretty much anything - the difference between RPGs and visual novels tends to just be that in the visual novel, the secret might-lock-your-whole-game-if-not-picked-up option is an option that clearly pops up on the screen, rather than a missable pixel on the floor.

...if you can list the things that we need to do 2-3 times/4-8 times/13+ times when they turn up so that we don't accidentally lock ourselves out of conversations, it would be appreciated. We'd rather not run ourself into a wall too early - we'd like all the dialogue we can get! Also, if there's any dialogue that's locked behind stuff like staring at barrels, we've already failed the 2-3 times requirement and the 4-8 times requirement, we've checked literally every barrel in the game that we have access to. Some multiple times.

[magratpudifoot]

Finished 15 December 2024:

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

I don't even know what to say about this one, except that I hope we get a film adaptation, and also I'm not even sure how one would film this.

(Maybe since it is a novel that claims to be an audiobook about a lost film, it should be adapted as a miniseries instead, to keep the trend going of never quite being a movie.)

This is a Tremblay story through and through, in all the best ways, but it also made me think of I Saw the TV Glow, House of Leaves, and Petscop, all of which I love, and at one point had me reflecting on how it was doing something far better than Skinamarink did. If any of those comparisons help anyone decide if they are or are not likely to enjoy this.

[disfrutalakia]

Everything with factions in minecraft makes me think "oh my god this is just like minecraft guerra"

[wormthing]

i have these two really similar drawings i want to post... but i dont feel like posting them together but also not like posting them alone in their own posts... omg. i might end up posting them together anyways... sometimes i wanna post a drawing and suddenly the act of formatting a post is the most vile poison to the artist's psyche

[basofy]

i know the dumb horse baby in mouthwashing is how jimmy sees it because he has this thing about relating feelign watched with horses but i do wonder a lot how would anya personally see it

[exculis]

tagged by @indigo wahoo!

this was a fun one, i wasn't sure i was gonna have enough artists to fill up the board, but then i had to decide who was gonna make the cut in the end... Special shoutouts to Type O Negative, O. Children, Ploho, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Boris, and all the other artists i decided weren't quite enough of my music diet to make the cut.

anywhoo... tagging @occultradio, @google-searchhistory-official, @nierbottomata, uhhh... and anybody else :3 ESPECIALLY if you listen to or have even heard of any of these artists, okay? ♥

[heatobrienswife]

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