#okay gnight

[astrumocs]

and where's the love for maylon,

[polkadotjohnson]

Johnson pants

[takemebacktowheniwassane]

before I actually sleep should we indulge in Mendel/Marvin Monday

on another note do either of them actually deserve a monday?

discuss.

[alstroemerian-dragon]

theres something that really bothers me about the way a lot of people talk about and write peko re: her place as fuyuhiko’s “tool,” especially when it comes to like. despair. and i feel like it stems from a few different places and one of those is definitely uh. distance from the source material. because. w. did we play the same game

like. the second trial is a lot of things. annoying. about the death of a character i dont really care about. kind of confusing. Very Sad At The End. but the one thing it shows beyond any shadow of a doubt is that peko Does Not Want To Be Fuyuhiko’s Tool. she leans into it a lot in that trial, past the stupid. serial killer shit. which is literally just desperation and quick thinking on her part (and non diagetically meant to parallel the first game but whatever). but she does that because it is the only option she thinks she has if she wants to keep fuyuhiko alive. because thats her ultimate goal, right? sure, she’s his tool. sure, theyre Badly and Unhealthily codependent. sure, she was basically groomed to stay at his side no matter what. but…

she also cares about him. genuinely. she loves him. for all that teenagers can properly conceive of love in all its forms, but she at least think she does. but she does truly care about him.

did anybody do her free time events other than me? genuine question. because i dont think someone who wants to ask the guy shes sworn to protect on a date would be content being just his tool. that sure sounds like someone who wants to be on equal footing with him.

like. look. say what you want about the anime. take it with a grain of salt. cherry pick what you like and toss the rest of it out. that sure is what i do!! but even if you do that, youve got to take the text of the game itself into account if you want to have any semblance of regular characterization, and the game makes it clear that she hates this!!! she doesnt want to be his tool! she will fight him on things if she has to! she will disobey him if she has to!!! thats the whole point of the trial!!!!! he told her to run and that he would take the fall and she told him no!!!!!!!!!

and you cant ignore the fact that the time between them starting at hope’s peak and the tragedy hitting the ground running was two whole years. people can change a lot in two years, especially teenagers, and especially high schoolers. idk how long its been since you were in high school (unless you currently are in which case. dear gd im so sorry. good luck) but your mental state in high school is so fucked. you have no idea who you are and neither does anybody else and can you even imagine the kinds of pressure the ultimates would have been under?? again, taking the anime with a grain of salt, but even if you go along with it and think the school was barely a school at all, the pressure from society, from family, from peers still has an impact. everyone was telling them who they were and that thats who they were going to be for the rest of their lives and i doubt ANY of them felt like it.

and even if you subscribe to the idea, like me, that their second year was a downward spiral because of junko’s presence and influence, they still needed somewhere to fall from. the idea that peko was uniquely comfortable being quiet and violent and doing whatever fuyuhiko wanted so she didnt need despair to be his tool is ridiculous. i see the argument of “well watching her friends fall into despair and spiral made her spiral in turn and grow numb to it and retreat into herself until she needed to become fuyuhiko’s tool again as a coping mechanism” but. buddy. That Is Despair.

sometimes i feel like the only person who thinks about despair complexly and maybe thats its own post because this ones too long already but. despair isnt just Being Brainwashed Into A Monster. ignore what the writers told you. okay? look at me. Look Into My Eyes. The Writers Are Fucking Idiots And Dont Know How To Write Good Drama With Genuine Stakes. despair as a nuanced concept is so much more horrifying. different post. sorry. peko.

if peko had not been pulled down by despair just like the rest of them she would have fought tooth and nail to keep fuyuhiko above it. she would have demanded he explain to her why he was doing what he was doing. and she would have told him no.

and of course heres where i get into the accusatory part because the other place a lot of this comes from is, and im sorry, an unwillingness to write complex or nuanced women. not pointing fingers, but reducing peko down into “fuyuhiko’s tool” and “she does whatever he says without question” completely destroys any minuscule amount of agency she has. shes a fucking person. yes, shes pixels on a screen. yes, shes a representation of tropes. but diagetically, within the fiction of the game, she is a human being, and if you want to write her, and not be puppeting around a gddamn cardboard cutout, you have to think of her as a person with agency who makes her own fucking choices. sometimes those choices are taken away from her. but they shouldnt be taken away by you.

[thedeafprophet]

I wonder if glory hole mining will be on my midterm exam tomorrow

[shoyostar]

i’m not “back” yet, but i want to change my theme so . . . expect new pinned coming soon

[unsurebazookacore]

wishing everyone who isnt asleep yet a very Believe by Josh Groban christmas eve and everyone whose woken up to christmas day the same

[bunfloras]

ok goodnight silly guys in my phone. send more funny discourse to my asks it makes me giggle

[jupiter-reimagined]

anyone wanna help me out rq and like manifest i have a good day tmrw w/o the heavy executive dysfunction and general sluggishness? thanks ily

[orgasmic-garlic]

boobies. Titties even

[twodragonsinatrenchcoat]

Just watched Us (2019)

[astrumocs]

Dami's sprites are so pleasing.. the lines are always so crisp or smooth in th right way,

[walterdecourceys]

goodnight

[nururu]

"get up at six am you have to in order to help us with something. if you don't we can't do it." *gets up and is ready at 6am* "you don't have to come actually we can do it ourselves." ?????????!!!!!????!! ffffjgjgjgjdhdhdbfngjjdksldjflaocksleifjgjgkdkfuisjdjgoekcjsoskirocks kk dkjdndvgnencj

[burning-sol]

walked out side room to heard music playing sorta loudly so as a rationall person with the time at 3:30am i have put some stuff in fronr of my door because that's fucking haunted. i dont trust like that . i will go to sleep and hope the curse hasnt gotten me.

[thedeafprophet]

Alex can insist he hates fires' presence all he wants, being a cat boy means his purring betrays him