#sayonara bitches

[munsonslove]

the medicine i took saying it would work in 12-72 hours

me the exact minute it’s been 12 hours: ⏰⏰⏰🤨🤨🤨❓❓❓

[moistvonlipwig]

it seems odd to say because he does not die or get removed from power in any kind of traditional way but i find akio's defeat at the end of rgu to be the most genuinely emotionally satisfying defeat of any villain ever. anthy says "bye i'm leaving have fun playing merry-go-round in your little coffin forever :)" and then just Walks Out and leaves akio standing there like. ummmm anthy? 🥺 where are you going anthy..... and it is somehow infinitely more satisfying than anything else that possibly could've happened to him

[beet-n-ninja-cookie-whenever]

Today's Ninja Cookie got fucked, unhappy 2 years to this stupid thing I made

[canichangemyblogname]

Buck: “I can see you as my forever.”

Tommy: “No. You don’t know what you want.”

The Audience: “I’m not understanding? Were they having problems in their relationship?”

LFJ: “So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night 🎵🎶.”

[magical-girl-coral]

local folk at a discord server describe Judaism as coming from a different universe after a shit ton of red flags, I am fucking gone, baby.

[shima-draws]

Clawing my eyes out student loans are back with a vengeance so now I'm going to be SUPER broke paying off rent, normal bills, medical bills AND student loans. Lying face down in a river is starting to sound very appealing

[demonsandpieohmy]

[dreamertrilogys]

MY AUNT’S SOOOO OBSESSED W ME IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY

[grindset]

I’M FREEEE WORST FUCKING EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE

[orcelito]

i'll be taking a class on persuasion and a class on communication & gender. here's hoping they dont suck ass.

[dybalassunshine]

It's 5 in the morning, raining outside, and I'm watching old Barca matches to experience football in its real essence and beauty because what we get nowadays is blasphemy on the name of the beautiful sport.

[winterbirb]

Alrighty,

Anyone I see on my dash being a fucking idiot about US operations in the Middle East is getting unfollowed. Not blocked (yet) because I'm just nice like that.

This includes:

• Being morally outraged that the Houthis are finding out after several months of fucking around

• Claiming that it doesn't matter if a Trump administration would be more dangerous for Palestinians because voting for Biden makes your feefees hurt

• Criticizing the campaign against ISIS (thank fuck 99% of the ISIS apologists shut the fuck up back in 2017 but ong if you do this I'm going to steal your teeth. By way of pavement :))

• Honestly just general stupid shit like saying the Biden admin is "anti-brown." like what the fuck

• "Genocide Joe"

• Basically anything that sounds like an anti-vaxxer post but for leftists. Yes, anti-vaxxers also have "sources." Yes, their sources are also shitty, biased, and disconnected from reality.

What this does NOT include:

• Posting actually decent articles that do journalism instead of useless emotion-propaganda (y'all know Famine's chow in Good Omens? That's what your "genocide joe" posts are to Actually Understanding Shit). Because this is a disappointing website and it turns out terminally online leftists as a group are just as stupid as anti-vaxx QAnoners, the only vocally anti-US person I can think of who this applies to (without hitting the previous criteria) is Zvei. But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

[achinghcarts]

i’m not even watching the show but i’m thrilled to know the d.arkling is dead already lmao rip bozo !!!

[waywardsalt]

ok since tears of the kingdom is coming out like. insanely soon i figured i’ll just dump how i’ve been feeling abt it here. i wont tag for them and i dont intend to share any but because i have been actively seeking out spoilers i will vaguely reference them here so… idk really long musings on this game and my feelings abt it

(im just writing this out mostly for myself since i really kind of just. want to really figure out how i feel about this)

i… am not excited for totk?

i’ve figured out a bit ago that my severely waning interest in botw and general anxiety and discontent surrounding totk is just that… these games arent for me. i dont enjoy open world games with half a million things for you to do like it’s basically a sandbox. i struggle to really enjoy singleplayer minecraft. the space stage in spore gives me genuine anxiety, both when i played it as a kid and again when i reached it as an adult.

botw and totk are not games for me, and that’s cool. i’ve figured that out.

so why am i getting so damn anxious about this new game?

i am getting totk- not entirely of my own volition, i live with someone who is very genuinely excited for it, so it’s pre-ordered digitally on our switch. i am going to play it and complete it at least once.

the gameplay and world of botw never really got to me, and even what snippets of gameplay i see for totk dont really entice me. it just makes me anxious to think about the sheer amount of new stuff i’ll be dropped in the middle of and how i really dont care about this version of link or zelda or anyone else in botw’s hyrule

and some of the story spoiler stuff and general direction this game is going in has me just worried that the zelda series is moving away from what it used to be into an entirely new direction, that being a direction that it seems like i wont enjoy as much as everyone else seems to

so then i guess my main worry outside of totk is that i just end up struggling to really feel connected to the rest of the community about this? being a contrarian is fun until everyone is enjoying something you for some reason can’t get yourself to

i dont have a lot of hope in the story of totk to harken back to… ANYTHING of worth that past games have built up and made to be so important and interesting. hype is a dangerous thing for a not-yet-released game, and while i think the insane amount of speculation and theories and hype around totk will cause a lot of people to be disappointed with the final story, i dunno if i really wouldve liked it even if the story actually piqued my interest

maybe totk’s gameplay will really hook me. maybe i’ll enjoy the massive open world and gmod-ass gimmicks. but what ive seen of the story makes me less interested and the snippets of gameplay i see just make me remember how bored i now am with botw

at the end of the day this is just a video game with tags on this site i can blacklist and videos i can ignore and lore i can brush aside because at this point loz canon is a suggestion more than anything

i just cant shake the discomfort of once again being an outlier as everyone i see loses their mind about this new game while i just feel overwhelmed by it. i have played botw for a long time and have long since worn it out. i played age of calamity to completion and have not touched it or cared for it beyond the music since. i am not excited about totk and i feel like i am in the wrong due to my opinion

[nururu]

road leaving my town is one lane on both sides for about 30-40 miles. signs all over telling slow drivers to pull over and let people pass. anyways, I don't even get mad when ppl in front of me start driving extra slow bc they're mad I'm on their ass. I might not be that guy, but there's plenty of guys out there that exist that will run you off the road and literally murder you and I sleep peacefully knowing those vigilant heroes exist and are out there serving justice. your time will come. creating road rage situations isn't as smart as you think it is. just fucking pull over.

[moonfurthetemmie]

Rayonnant & Baroque

Rayonnant

Talks like Jet, acts like Obsidian. Smooth, insults you to your face with a smile so you can’t tell he’s insulting you. Also very easy to piss off. And would rather crack your skull on the pavement like an egg rather than try to use some kind of subtlety to resolve the situation.

While Rayonnant is more than capable of resolving situations without violence (and does do it! Sometimes), he prefers violence. It’s more fun.

And since he’s so easy to piss off, it’s not much different working for him than for og Obsidian. The only real difference is that he’s gay instead of bi, so some people are spared the worst of it. Eostrix is pretty lucky. Hopefully she never has to find out just how lucky.

His motivation for world domination is less about wanting control, like Obsidian, and more just about making the rest of the world suffer. He came here to attack people and he’s having a GREAT time

Rayonnant and Baroque’s relationship is very, very similar to og Jade and Obsidian, but with a few key differences.

Firstly, Rayonnant does care about Baroque, and wouldn’t let anyone else hurt him.

Secondly, no one has any idea whether or not Rayonnant cares for Baroque or not. None of them ever tried to hurt him, so they didn’t get to see Rayonnant go ape shit about it. But for all the nasty shit he does to Baroque, when he talks about him it very much sounds like he’s fond of him.

Thirdly, Baroque is partly aware that something’s wrong. He can’t put his finger on what, though, because he firmly believes that Rayonnant would never hurt him without good reason. But that’s where the problem is. There's never any good reason to hurt someone. especially someone you love

Rayonnant, much like Jet is with Dark, is desperate to keep Baroque with him. He was Rayonnant’s only friend for years. But his solution is to keep Baroque locked in the house, gaslight him into thinking that he’d never do anything wrong, and make him too afraid to try to leave. Can’t wait to see it blow up in his face one day.

All that is also one part of why he messes with Eostrix so much. He doesn't want her to take Baroque's attention from him; in any way, shape, or form. He doesn't care if Baroque's feelings are platonic, romantic, familial, or whatever; as long as it's positive and he wants to hang out with her, she's a Problem.

The other part is that she made the mistake of saying something about Petrel within earshot of him and now he's trying to coax Petrel's whereabouts (or at least potential whereabouts) out of her.

Baroque

Mostly talks like Dark, acts a little bit more like Dark than Rayonnant does Jet, but overall his resemblance to Jade is strong. And so is his constant state of worry and fear. Ray would never hurt him, though! (Unless he ‘deserved’ it. And Baroque is trying very very very hard to not deserve it.)

His soul is half positivity and half corruption. He’s also one of only two people in the manor who know sign language, as he and Eostrix are the only ones who ever needed to know.

Baroque, Eostrix, and Petrel lived together for a period of time, in Eostrix’s AU. This means they lived in her odd fantasy-au place, which was probably kind of fun tbh.

He was ways kinda nervous, but it got a little bit better when he was staying with Eostrix and Petrel.

Since getting to the manor, though, it's gotten much worse. He's terrified of upsetting, like, anyone. Quietly panics when he makes the tiniest mistake. Even the tiniest hint of someone being mildly irritated makes him think they're mad at him and starts apologizing.

Cass finds this irritating at best, and exhausting at worst. he tries not to be an asshole about it, but avoids Baroque as much as possible. Also Baroque can see all those tiny hints of irritation and always thinks Cass is mad at him. On the bright (?) side, it's been so long that he's starting to think Cass just straight up Doesn't Like Him. Which means there's nothing Baroque can really do, and he's not going to apologize for existing just because someone dislikes him. especially if cass is being so civil despite it.

Near the end of his stay with Eostrix and Petrel, the latter asked Baroque if he'd let them take a sample of his magic or two. Baroque asked why, and Petrel's response was just 'Research'.

This was not long before Baroque went to find Rayonnant, and he'd been talking about needing to find him.

Petrel took two samples, because she had two different reasons for doing so.

Firstly, Petrel has a really bad feeling about Baroque going to look for and talk to Rayonnant. Baroque has explained a little bit about how his and Rayonnant's magic worked, and Petrel wants to see if she can, like, replicate it or find some other way to generate more. Because if Rayonnant tries to make Baroque like him, then there will be no positivity left to (potentially) fight him. And that does not sound great.

Secondly, Petrel, like everyone else Baroque has ever met, she likes happy aura. just wants to stay around him. But as they're afraid he's about to get kidnapped, and they're already taking a sample, they might as well take another just for themself.

Baroque has no idea where Petrel is. He doesn't know where Eostrix is, either; he just knows that she doesn't live in the house they and Petrel had lived in together, that Rayonnant knows where she is now, and that he'll 'ask her' if she wants to come see Baroque if Baroque asks. Eostrix seems nervous to hang out with him, but she always comes, so...It's probably fine?

The really unfortunate thing for both of them is that Eostrix can help with Baroque's nervousness, even just by hanging out with him. She's his friend! She's nice! He doesn't have to worry about her getting mad at him. ...At least, not as much as he does the others. including Rayonnant.