#naturally it was well handled

[fireladybuckley]

I can’t believe a boyfriend made a silly sex joke to lighten the mood after both partners had a moment of vulnerability. The audacity. The horror. The normalcy! Unbelievable. How dare a conversation about feelings turn to levity. How dare a couple have a light chat about trauma-related things over dinner that doesn’t turn into an incredibly deep heart to heart instead of a joke and moving on. Unbelievable. I’m never watching this show again! 👎🏻

[oofmilk]

this is gonna be jumbled no doubt but i’m thinking about my p3 twins/kotone lives au where it’s like…

okay, so makoto becomes the great seal and kotone gets to live. incredibly tragic, but things are ok… ish. enough. kotone’s surviving in the aftermath. then comes the answer, and aw shit, here we go again. when aigis summons makoto’s orpheus, it’s the first time kotone cries about losing her brother since march 5. and this snaps something in her and she becomes sort of very not well, so mitsuru has to intervene and unseat her as leader of sees, instituting aigis in her place. and that’s fine! it’s whatever, it’s fine.

so they’re going about this bullshit again and kotone’s so obviously unwell that really only yukari can bridge that gap to her, and sees well. they sure get through it. until they learn about the keys and the ability to go back and kotone and yukari team up on team “go back to the past.” we all know why yukari’s doing it—to see makoto again and save him—but kotone’s doing it so she can join makoto as part of the great seal like she was always meant to. and she does not tell yukari this!! not until they’re fighting aigis and metis in the coliseum and yukari realizes oh, what? you want to go back so you can basically kill yourself? were we not good enough for you? was i not good enough for you? and kotone’s like that is NOT it you wouldn’t understand

in the end, when kotone realizes she’s being an idiot and makoto gave his life because he wanted her to live and continue to forge bonds like the ones she’s created in the past year, she sobs, again, apologizing profusely, no wonder mitsuru unseated her as leader of sees, she’s fucked up so badly. sees has to tell her that it’s okay, really, they understand, and so kotone keeps going and lives another day, just like makoto wanted her to

[b4kuch1n]

the king shunned, the lion dead, the knight lost, the princess absent. but the wizard lives.

[p0rk-guts]

They shoulda kept her white roots and made her intersex

[writeouswriter]

Girl, help, the book authors are trying too hard to be "hip" with the fleeting "teen lingo" and trends again, immediately dating their works before they're even released

[poorlittleyaoyao]

You're doomed--may you never fathom who you are!

Oedipus Tyrannus, lines 1167-1173 (tr. Robert Fagles)

[stardustdiiving]

How evil is arlecchino and what is she cooking

As of 4.2, I’m really curious what they’re planning with Arlecchino as a character, especially as a villain/antagonist/morally dubious character, and how far/which direction they may go with that

Intuitively my impression is we’ll see her do something way more “villainous” than she presents herself as being for majority of Fontaine’s AQ in front of us right—(which isn’t a surprise given that, you know, Arlecchino nor the House of Hearth have never been presented as 110% ethical LOL) but I find myself not being in complete agreement with most analysis or speculation threads I see about Arlecchino’s morality and the like, level of sinister people seem to ascribe to her.

Idk how to put it, especially in regards to her children I do agree they are not a wholesome found family, that Arlecchino is not above pulling strings or using them for her own ulterior motives, but I kind of hesitate on the idea she only cares about the Hearth children as a means to the end/things she can control and there’s nothing else going on with her characterization wise there. I’m not saying that impression seems remotely unreasonable or unfounded, but just that it feels there’s something intentionally missing in how we are supposed to conceptualize her as a person

My main reasoning for this hunch is the fact they have not elaborated on Arlecchino and the previous Knave—who Arlecchino is stated to have taken over the position from by force. The extra tidbits I think about are that 1) Arlecchino was previously an orphan in the Hearth 2) the previous Knave is described as way, way crueler to the children of than Heart than Arlecchino was from when she took control of the House

Often, people’s major indicators that the House of the Hearth is kind of super fucked up are the NPCs we meet in world quests who are part of it and clearly suffering. But one thing I haven’t ever seen people mention w this that i think is a very interesting detail is, in The Very Special Fortune Slip Inazuma worldquest, where we stop this House of Hearth guy (Efim Snezhevich) from manufacturing tension between Watasumi/the Shogunate to restart the war with his other Hearth subordinates, at the end of the quest we get this dialogue that reveals he had been acting under the previous Knave’s directives:

It’s also mentioned he’s employing this plan in an attempt to “rebuild the prestige of the Knave” following Signora’s death, iirc? Now, see, the dialogue itself says that this is “assuming our captive is telling the truth” so who knows what’s really going on, but I find this a really odd/interesting thing to highlight. I’m a bit fuzzy on other world quests with Hearth members, and am not saying none of them were acting and subsequently being treated poorly by our Arlecchino, but like, this gives me a lot of questions especially when paired with implications this previous Knave seemed to be way worse

Like, what drove Arlecchino to take over? How unexpected and controversial was this within the House? Assuming the above information is all true it definitely says something this guy went rogue and acted on what the previous Knave would want and didn’t think our Arlecchino would greenlight it, which does feel consistent with the previous Knave being described as basically worse & crueler than our Arlecchino. It also makes me question how much house of hearth things we’ve seen outside the main story are the work of our Arlecchino or if there’s a bigger divide of loyalty. Heck, I could be wrong but it doesn’t even seem like we know if the previous Knave is dead or not

This isn’t me saying Arlecchino couldn’t possibly be treating hearth children worse than she wants us to know, especially ones who aren’t her “favorites” the way the fontaine trio seem to be, but I really don’t feel sure about making a solid conclusion of her exact level of malice the way ppl r generally understanding it rn when it feels there’s going to be more about her. Just the idea of she, as a Hearth child, clashed with the previous leader who was known for being cruel, overtook their position and took on less harsh methods of leading that made at least some members with more power/possible closer proximity to the previous Knave go rogue and try to commit atrocities in the previous Knave’s name…I feel this leaves a lot of room to suggest there’s more going on with how Arlecchino is as a person

I don’t mind if she’s just very evil and deceptive bc if she totally had me fall for thinking she was less evil than she actually was that’s fun tbh. But I feel people suggest that’s all her character could be with no degree of like, “sympatheticness” or deep grey morality and that if her character did go there it would be automatically poor writing and genshin walking back on making a truly evil woman when IDK. I feel you can claim at this point they have left it open ended and it’s never been completely confirmed she’s pure evil. Also sometimes I just get a hunch and feel cautiously confident in Genshin executing certain characters well. Not all characters, just certain ones. Especially given Fontaine’s character writing being very good and a character like Lyney feeling very solid to me when any development with Arlecchino would likely involve him and his siblings as well, I honestly feel open to the idea of Arlecchino being satisfyingly written to be both villainous/morally dubious but “sympathetic/likable as a person” in ways outside of just her ruthlessness if that makes sense

If I’m wrong/they drop the ball with it more than I anticipate I’ll eat my hat but I am pretty excited about her character and which way they decide to go with it. I will say the only potential impression I have of where they’ll go with her has been wondering if it will go in a “cycles of abuse” direction—I’d be surprised if they ever elaborated on Arlecchino’s character especially in how she feels about things and her also growing up as an exploited child of the hearth wasn’t relevant

[skrunksthatwunk]

this could be kuwameshi if you guys would like. take my hand and trust me

[romanticatheartt]

I know this might not be very popular but I would've loved to see Feyre ruling over the Night Court all by herself after acowar.

It would've been such an interesting concept and gut wrenching at the same time.

bonus: imagine her being also pregnant with their son... I'm making myself cry for no fkn reason help

[spork-supremacy]

There’s going to be a live action.

Heheh… I THOUGHT THAT WAS A JOKE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR NOT ACTUALLY REAL.

Writing quality will be anywhere between hunted or skybound.

Casting as a whole might actually have to be the canon looks for everyone.

Everything within me is screaming about the casting because it can go inline with fandom thinking, or very wrong. And we’ll be stuck with it. We don’t have to justify design headcanons but once that comes out I see potential for more harassment over it because of the canon looks.

[geothebio]

are tears good for the skin because if so boy howdy do i have quite the skincare routine going on

[beanghostprincess]

For the people asking if I'm okay, I'm fine!! Where I live it's just heavy rain but in other places there are floods and although it's not as extreme as it's been in Valencia (because there they didn't give them a damn warning btw!) it's still pretty worrisome in some zones.

[lovetogether]

Something we liked about mouthwashing is that it had characters which fit into the “ostracized by society” group but made it very clear these people were much different from the actual perpetrator. It’s too often “social fuck-ups” are lumped together, giving true abusers a place to hide. Pointing that shit out as what it is and that it’s very much NOT the same as, say, being an alcoholic, meant a lot to us. One is a place somebody lands in, the other is an act the person in question has full control over.

[pandaemoanium]

wow the legend of dragoon has not aged very well lmao, the gameplay is really damn good but the writing makes me go 😬😬😬 like half the time

[starry-marshmallow]

Friendly reminder this is a Kim Jihyun love-zone!! We appreciate him over here!! This is a safe space for people who just want to find content of Jihyun and adore him peacefully.

I will not tolerate any slander or hate on him at all. If you don’t even like his character or dislike/hate him, this is not the place for you.

[daz4i]

i think I'm gonna try using tumblr less if i can

I'll probably fail and you're still gonna see me online a lot but. yeah I'm gonna at least try to make my visits shorter