#pls give this man a villain role!! he's been begging

[sandushengshou]

xiao zhan appreciation [86/ ∞]

[northerngoshawk]

top 5 favorite characters from each of my games rn (cuz i can)

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Jinhsi---prob easy to figure out from my pfp lol. i really loved her during Thaw of Eons, and to date i still consider 1.1 the best main quest story of the 1.X updates. it really felt like a story centered around Jinhsi and her struggles as the Magistrate with Rover as a helping figure rather than their presence taking away from her

Zani---sorry, but im a sucker for salaryman characters 😂 i find her to be incredibly relatable with the whole "im not paid enough for this" and "i need a vacation," def reminds me of Nanami from JJK. i like how incredibly normal she feels, and in a cast of extravegent personalities, she's a breath of fresh air. eagerly awaiting for the day she becomes playable!

Carlotta---i really love how different her personality is compared to everyone else in the story as of right now. very charming, sly, and cunning as part of the mafiosa, she's just incredibly cool! also love her dynamic with Rover (honestly of all the Rover ships, this one genuinely feels like it has the most chemistry + doesn't take away from Carlotta as a character in her own right)

Brant---he's just fun and colorful. he's a theater kid, he gets drunk, he's very dramatic and flamboyant, but he also knows when to get serious and get the job done

Roccia---i love me a deadpan character, and she fits that role perfectly. also really love her dynamic with Brant, they truly feel like the sibling duo we were robbed of from Aalto and Encore (still wish they expanded on Aalto and Encore during the black shores patches, hopefully we'll see them more in the future!)

punishing gray raven

Lucia---also shouldn't come as a surprise to people lol. i absolutely adore her character arc, her backstory, her dynamic with the Gray Ravens, and her foiled traits with Alpha. she's also just incredibly cool overall and feels like a good character; can't wait until pyroath releases on global! also yes i ship her with my commandant oc, the dynamic just feels natural idk what to tell you

Teddy---honestly didn't expect to love her this much, but again, i love me some deadpan characters. i love how she contrasts Karenina, and yet despite their differences you can still tell her and Karenina are the best of friends. i also absolutely adore her and Karenina's banter, and i really enjoyed seeing Teddy's perspective on the whole thing with Dominick in the story

Vonnegut---he's just a super cool villain, man. calm, collected, in control, he's probably one of the more unnerving villains that we've encountered by far (apart from Cradle). his design is also incredibly sick, i love that gold mask (kuro make him playable pls i bEG--)

Alpha---for reasons similar to Lucia, i am absolutely fascinated by her place in the narrative, esp in relation to Lucia and Luna. she also has a pretty sick character design and i love seeing her in artworks, they always make her look so cool

Watanabe---i put him on here for both playstyle and narrative reasons. i love how he's put at odds with Babylonia for good reason, and yet despite everything they've done to him and to the Forsaken, he doesn't give into hatred like Ballard did and is still willing to reach out. playstyle-wise? epitaph has the highest survivability out of all my built chars rn and is my most invested unit by far 😌 also grappling hook go brrrr

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Firefly---girlie's just been through so much, and yet she still decides to be kind and caring, even when she was built for destruction. i admire her tenacity and her determination to keep moving forward even after she lost everything dear to her, and she found a new family in the stelleron hunters. one of my mains, and also the break effect damage is just 🤌

Stelle---idk as far as MCs go, Stelle is one of the most personable. Most gacha MCs sometimes feel like self-inserts, but Stelle feels like her own character. she's such a chaotic trash panda, but at the same time she can also be cold and brutal during battle, and i love it when she switches up like that (also ik caelus could technically be characterized like this, but i chose stelle)

Bronya---idk, i just adored her story in Belobog and her dynamic with Seele. ik she's taken directly from HI3, but i love this version of her: calm, serious, collected, but also under a lot of pressure to become the leader of Belobog. it's a mantle that she still decides to bear even after everything with Cocolia, and honestly i can't help but respect that

Feixiao---im only partway through the quest that involves her, but so far i really love her carefree and laidback attitude, while also retaining that same authoritative demeanor you'd expect of one of the Arbiter-Generals. she's just incredibly cool and as my other main, very fun to play!

Gallagher---he seems like a very chill person, honestly. also has "salaryman" vibes, and he just seems like the type of guy who wants to sit in his bar and make drinks, which i can respect. i will say, i never saw that initial twist coming with him, but it also gave him a lot more depth and dimension. he's also a rather fun unit to play

tldr; my fave characters tend to be people who have been raised to be weapons, who have gone through hell and back again, and yet still find it in themselves to be kind... or salaryman characters lol

[crazyyfilmyfreak]

like always this is going to be Obviously a Spoiler Free Review of The Batman 2022 coz i don't want to spoil the movie for others but more than a Review this is about my feelings and how i felt after watching the film and it might be short or long af so if you want to skip this, then this is The perfect time to do it

First things first More over i can't believe that i really watched The Batman for Real like for Real ??? i was so excited for this film since years and now i finally watched it and i am about to talk about it here with y'all but i still cant beleive this i am in denial lol anyways Talking about the Film

This is the most Realistic Batman movie we are ever going to witness for a very long time and this is the most gayest live action Batman , Bruce Wayne character is so fucked flawed and he has gone mad shit crazy over in his head and he is not living in the real world , he is so very very very much disconnected to real world and we can underatand why he is behaving like that in the film but we can not relate to him , This version of Batman is very different from every other versions of batman we have seen so far and Matt Reeves is a Freaking Legend for designing him that way and i felt Robert Pattinson nailed the role and he was really cool af thru out the film in every damn scene .

Usually during my every film review its just me writing 3000 words long ass essay and screaming and begging y'all to watch movie i liked and enjoyed but this time i am not going to do that , The Batman ( 2022 ) is upto you , you can watch or you can skip it if you want bcoz this film is not for everyone

This Film feels like the most Non-Batman Movie that has been ever made coz of how different it is compared to remaining Batman Flicks but at the Same time this is also the most Batman Film of All Time if that makes any sense 👀 to y'all.

And Finally we got a director WHO FUCKING UNDERSTANDS BATMAN and knows what drives him and not only just that but he also respects the character and the original source and roots of the character and doesn't interfere much with it and this man got balls of steel or iron or even of fucking Vibranium coz of the he dealt with the movie and the way he designed the characters , set the tone and way he finished and made a very perfect Film at the end and having Said that The Batman movie has got many flaws here within itself but again it is perfect in its own way .

I am so very Happy for my guy Paul Dano 😭❤ Bcoz everyone who watched the movie are loving him and praising him so much and he deserves all that praise , love and admiration and he really killed it with his acting in the film i will not say this is his best performance coz i still think his performamce was so fucking magical and incredible and out of this world in There will be blood ( 2007 ) but i will Say his performance in The Batman is a very powerful performance , You can literally FEEL HIS PRESENCE IN EVERY FUCKING SECOND IN THE FILM to the point where it gets so freaking scary 😭 if you see the movie you will know what i mean , Riddler is C or D grade character in comics and i never really liked him and always felt like this is the time of character johhny sins would play in his porn parodies but Matt Reeves this genius mf picked a character like that and made him the whole ass villain in his very first Batman Instalment and casted Paul Dano in it and he nailed it

i am so proud of Robert Pattinson coz he is such a great actor and a Director's actor who gives what the director wants and respects the script and doesn't really mind even if other characters are written strongly than his character and doesn't mind even if those characters outshine him , he genuinely respects the craft and i love him very much for that , i used to hate him so fucking much when i saw him in those vampire films and i hated him so much back then that i wanted him to fail as an actor in hollywood coz of the how horrendous he acted in those films ( pls don't judge me it was long time and i was a small ass kid 😭 ) and now i love this weird lying piece of shit so fucking much and I'd take a bullet or two for him , i love him so much and i respect him and admire him a lot for his work , passion , dedication and the realistic charm that he brings in most of the characters he played after twilight and i am so very very very happy for him now he is a very big star now after The Batman and he has reached the big leagues in hollywood , i am so proud of him 😭💙

Zoë Kravitz really doesn't have a lot of screen time or impact in the film sadly :/ but i am not dissapointed coz i feel she's coming back again and this is not the last of her in the franchise , She did add lot of sexiness to the film with her character tho and Selina was really interesting sadly like i said before i felt i didn't get enough of her screen time 😭 and please don't attack me when i say this but i already love Jeffrey Wright's Jim gordan so much and i feel this is the best version of jim gordan we have ever got and if anything bad happens to him in the future films Matt reeves is going to have to deal with me, Andy Serkis also got less screen time but he was great with what he was given to play and broooooooo Colin Farrell is so damn hilarious as Oz 😭💀 I KNOW HE HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING THE CHARACTER and can't wait to see more of him in the future

My very only visible disappointment with the movie is the background score :/// , i am not saying it is bad but it could be more great imo

In Conclusion i just want to say The Batman is Great , please do watch it if you can in cinemas but don't expect what you usually expect from a batman flick , The Batman ( 2022 ) is different , Stylish and unique in its own way and this Mf Matt Reeves set a very painfully slow burning pace & tone to the film but if you are patient enough and can get thru it you might see his vision and enjoy the film so yeah The Batman is freaking great and cool , Do not miss it

having Said All of this Shit , This is just the fucking starters lmfaoo , we are yet to eat the Main course and Deserts ( i am talking about the The batman sequels duhhh) in the future and The Batman has set the perfect atmosphere for that , i could go on and on and on but that's it for now

[elizabethrobertajones]

you ever think about how they hired twins to play the triplets that dean and crowley have sex with. I feel like that right there is proof that they're not queerbaiting, because no one could possibly be baited by that because 99 percent of everyone didn't even notice it. They just put it in there cause dean's bi and they write him as bi.

It’s funny, for whatever reason I was thinking last night about how my own personal definition of the way the show may or may not queerbait has changed over the seasons, and it’s not just to do with personal growth but the way the show is written and the way they are handling things. 

My impression of how it all felt in the start of season 10 was utter disbelief that they were so on the nose about Dean and Crowley, and I know not everyone wants to/does think that they hooked up, but there’s some stuff the show pushed there that in some ways it would have no other excuse to do and I went cold on Drowley several times after feeling like the handling was sweeping it under the rug, writing it off as villainous queerness or other ways to distance Dean from it like suggesting he wasn’t in control or roofied by being a demon, that thankfully at least was not how Crowley died on the show, with 12x15 giving us the last example of how that dynamic had matured, and it WAS matured, and at least in terms of respecting that Dean n Crowley had once eloped, was about as good as it could get. And I think owning that the dynamic wasn’t a sense of that time being abusive was important given how much Dean and Crowley interacted and behaved towards each other AFTER, as well as exactly how we were supposed to read whether Dean should feel violated or smug or nostalgic about it all (and he did flash between them depending on the season or episode in the time after). But at the start of season 10 this whole journey was really only just beginning. 

Obviously people had written about the queercoding and Crowley’s seduction before then, but in very careful metaphorical terms, and as much as it was suggestive in season 9, the fact is that without season 10 it could easily remain a metaphorical ~seduction to evil~ where this was written in terms of romantic seduction - except for where it was fatherly or brotherly - but 10x01 smashed that and made it really really clear that you could read that Dean and Crowley had been hooking up, even independent of the twins/triplets subtext. Specifically when Crowley is annoyed Dean and Ann-Marie hooked up in his bed, and Ann-Marie tells him and Dean to get a room, and he’s like, we had one. Of course you can pretend that not everything Crowley says is innuendo (and room = specifically the bed), but that exchange had a lot of jealousy and a lot about his and Dean’s *personal* relationship, as much as the other stuff was about the more wild stuff they shared with others while howling at the moon. Which was part of the longer term emotional game Crowley was playing about their business relationship and Dean being his scary consort and them sort of going exclusive >.> 

And in that context, Crowley mentions they’d done some memorable stuff to triplets together, and on rewatching you catch they’re hanging out with twins in the bar before that, but the wider context was this absolute explosion of queer subtext and borderline text and a dynamic that needed concentrated work to not come to the conclusion they’d been fucking all summer, with and without buddies of whatever gender with them. Focusing on the male twins in the background as a hint that Dean had had sex with men is ignoring where Crowley directly implies they’d been hooking up and now he wanted to go exclusive with Dean as the hugest neon sign that, yes, Dean has been having sex with at least one man, regardless of the gender of the triplets. Like, I know people were like hurr blurr the triplets could have been women, #no homo, sometimes men sleep with triplets together like bros. Which traps us into hyperfocusing on what the triplets were and using them as the definitive proof, when in fact the reason triplets were being banged in the first place was because Dean and Crowley were banging all the time everywhere up and down seedy bars in America, and Dean didn’t want the good times to end, while Crowley wanted the d all for himself now pls. 

And considering that’s the thing under the paper thin surface that you can remotely pretend that Dean only slept with women and he and Crowley were just hanging out the entire time, regardless of no matter how much more subtext the show piled on later, less close to the surface but with more confidence that everyone knew Dean had banged Crowley and the only way any of this worked any more was that that had happened, even just when we only had 10x01 to work with, the whole Dean n Crowley thing was so enormous that you can’t just speculate on what the twins were to approach to what degree was this queerbaiting or not. The twins are a detail that you can pick up on and speculate on if you look deeper, as they know we sometimes do. I’m not saying they’re NOT an aspect of this, but they’re a relatively buried easter egg of subtext compared to, say, Crowley sobbing over his flickr albums in the next episode :P

To what degree Drowley was queerbaiting is the real question, and since Crowley is now consigned to the show’s history books, we have the full story in a way. In the context of what we have now, I don’t think overall, all comments included, the show ever pretended, even when distancing Dean from it, even when painting it as abusive or Dean having diminished responsibility, that Dean and Crowley did *not* bang. I think there are multiple comments which as long as you are permissive that Dean would have could have probably did, that in seasons 11 and 12 pretty clearly indicate a memory of having slept together one point or another, especially 11x23 and 12x15 with overt references to sexual things from Crowley to Dean, or 11x07 and the implication that over a year later Dean still has Crowley’s answerphone messages from howling at the moon, and knows and remembers details of his personal life fondly. (I don’t think that’s the only time Bobo wrote them like that but that’s the one that springs to mind :P)

Buuut they never showed them on screen in such a way that could be seen from the moon as them together, like actually showing them IN a sexual relationship while Dean was a demon, or having Dean confirm Crowley’s innuendo with more than the usual reactions where he gets plausible deniability to any gay stuff going on. And SOME of that I think MAY be to do with the problems with the villainous queerness slant, and the way it was at times framed as abusive/Dean lacking control. Because they would not commit to exploring the aftermath of that relationship SERIOUSLY, i.e. making it clear they had slept together when Dean was a demon, and him on-screen dealing with how that made him feel and how he felt about Crowley, and even, god forbid, his own sexuality, the best they could do to resolve it was to establish eventually a sort of civil exes dynamic, both aware of their history, but not harping on it, even if Crowley remained somewhat to entirely besotted by Dean for the rest of his time on the show. The lack of handling it seriously means it stays as a somewhat jokey subtext later on, and they can play it off as no harm no foul by the end of season 11 and through season 12. 

I think in that vein it also eventually contributed to Crowley being sidelined and eventual downfall, because he was trapped in the subtext of being Dean’s ex and all the enormous complications that made between them and for his personal life, again without being able to explore it or leave a lasting, openly discussed impact on him. He no longer directly antagonised them, but he couldn’t cross any lines which made him human or part of the team for more than passing moments because the longer he was around Dean the more awkward it got and the more it would beg them to explore what, exactly, were Dean and Crowley now, and the obvious issues that would have/could have arisen if we discussed this like adults and we were allowed to just textually state in a frank and open way that Dean had been seduced by Crowley that one time. 

And I think in terms of where that puts us, it means that Drowley was very much a stifled relationship, officially over and no chance of getting it back, which in some ways is as large as or larger then Destiel in the weight it puts on the show when it comes to answering queerbaiting charges, because it could never be addressed openly while Crowley was alive, still ISN’T acknowledged, and Dean is as closeted as he was before, despite in his actual living human memory, knowing what it’s like to bang Crowley on the side for 3 months of his life with no direct personal growth (that is: now banging Cas, happily, or even banging other random guys, no angst, just for fun hook ups, equivalent to the textual times he picks up women) to show for this wild college experimentation metaphor phase of his life. 

At this point you really can only change the final judgement on it by making Dean canonically bi and then giving him the character growth, acknowledging the role Crowley had played in it, and allowing him to live what had just been subtext as a textual part of his character. In all other respects, I think the fact that Dean subtextually has hooked up with Crowley, and presumably other men probably other than the male implied triplets we saw on screen as well, but it’s relegated to this one particular part of his story and locked up in the subtext box, is going to look absolutely like one of the show’s worst sins of queerbaiting if we get to the end and that box is never opened again. And not to say it all looks rosy while we wait until the hypothetical what if of textualising Dean’s bisexuality and trying to live a positive life of hoping that will happen. As it stands, the handling in the text is depressing, and speaks of how far the show will currently allow any queer relationship for Dean to go. Meaning a worst case scenario is that his borderline subtextual marriage to Cas may never move beyond a similar point if this remains the high water mark of the show’s willingness to show Dean in a genuine, sexual relationship with a man. And that’s something you have to at least think about, in terms of how it looks now, and how it might look one day, no matter how positive you are about the endgame of the show, when it comes to being realistic about the show’s queerbaiting, or at least perceived queerbaiting if you don’t believe they are. That’s what other people are seeing, both with Drowley and Destiel. 

I mean, that deleted scene in 10x14 says it best: Cas and Crowley trapped together, frustrated and living in angry despair in their competition over Dean, where he is busy not picking either of them, while they vie for his attention and consider each other his boyfriend in all but name, and yet he will not commit to either of them in the way they desire. And this is the same frustrated wall that Cas is still stuck bouncing up against, even when his romantic rival is *utterly* vanquished and removed from the narrative, and hadn’t even really been competing for Dean for like 2 seasons before that.