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the hardest part abt writing SNK fic is that every character is more interesting than all the other characters
#x#like objectively speaking#Historia is more interesting than Falco#AND Falco is more interesting than Historia#and Annie and Levi are each more interesting than the other#SNK#in one sense EMA is like whatever but in another very real sense they are like Everything You’ve Ever Been Or Will Be#it’s because he’s blended high concepts with universal experiences#(I don’t mean universal as in ‘every person experiences this’ I mean it as in ‘every kind of human has heard this story’)#that’s what makes a character Interesting™ isn’t it#and that’s how he conveys message too. he takes a high concept so far removed from reality that nobody reading could say#‘I’ve experienced this’#and you climb down the ladder until you get to the ground and find humanity#it’s like comedy that unites a polarized audience with a mutually enjoyed absurdity#this is why I get frustrated when people say SNK is about war.#yes it *concerns* war but war is just one part of the exposition of the story he’s been telling since chapter 1.#yes he’s talking about the consequences of isolationism but he’s ALSO talking about the consequences of globalism#the simple fact of the matter is#you’re trying too hard to pigeon-hole the themes into your bite-sized first-world Western understanding#if he wanted you to do that he would’ve introduced Marley from the start instead of at the end#attack on titan is not about war it’s about What is mankind and what are we doing here and why are we doing it like this?#the man’s read Paradise Lost for crying out loud and you should know my phone autocorrected that to Paradis Lost#mobile#analysis#and Fullmetal Alchemist does this too btw. ppl loooovw to say Fullmetal Alchemist is about war. again it *concerns* war#but war is NOT what it’s about#war is a vehicle to show what it’s about#anyways I’m going to bed don’t y’all dare tell anyone i know that i’m writing anime fan fiction i will slay you where you stand
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I do think that it's important for Evan to understand that just because his friend don't express it in the way he does (or desperately tries not to) it doesn't mean that they don't love and miss him just as much as he misses them.
Evan said that he learned after love (his friends) came into his life, that the rest of life is still very much a thing you have to deal with and now he's seen someone dealing with it.
Jammer loves the Pilot Program and he loves his mom and sisters and all of the other teams he's part of, but the logistics of life get in the way of that. So he's thinking of ways to change his life to accommodate that love.
Now Jammer doesn't handle that perfectly because no one does really (god I want to see the convo in the next episode so bad) but he's acknowledged the problem and then moved towards fixing it.
I understand why Evan is the way he is but I do think that (for perfectly understandable reasons) he can be very unaware of the others feelings and motivations. In the same way he was doing a disservice to Sam, he's doing the same disservice to Jammer by deciding on his own that they are being 'kind' rather than 'loving'.
Jammer obviously isn't coming at the thing with the same intesity as Evan is but they both have the same silly day dream of just getting to be with their loved ones forever. That's a very understandable, very common want.
#Again I understand why he's that way and I don't think it's as simple as realizing your coping mechanisms are bad#And then deciding not to do them anymore#But the fact of the matter is that all of them have their own baggage.#It might look different than Evan's but they can't always be the perfect people in their relationships with him because they're not perfect#Sometimes Evan is going to have to be the one stepping forward and reaching out#Or being generous or understanding and picking up the slack#That's the hard part of belonging#You can't just be in a community you need to do community things#And you can get leeway and support and understanding and not be perfect at it#But you just gotta do it imperfectly then because that's what everyone else is doing#dimension 20#misfits and magic#mismag 2 spoilers#mismag spoilers#mismag 2#evan kelmp#Whitney jammer
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“Democrats have to stop pandering to the left” would be a hysterically funny postmortem election take if it weren’t so old and predictable and tiring. Pandering where. Show me the policies. Remember when Biden slightly airbrushed Trump-era immigration law, and Fox News went right on characterizing him as an unhinged open borders commie regardless? Remember when Harris literally campaigned with Liz Cheney?
#absolutely heroic commitment to the bit and by the bit i mean refusing to engage with reality#listen. yes. the usa is a deeply right wing country. i am not unaware of this cold hard fact or the difficulties it poses wrt elections#but 'run to the right' is not the simple solution you seem to think when the republicans will always be righter than you!#and scaremonger about what a far left nut job you are no matter how far to the right you run!#also i personally think you should have principles but whatever#us politics#usaposting#my posts
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Hitting the "not interested in this post" button over people's endless navel-gaze-y catastrophizing about how "discouraged" and "critical" they're feeling over Veilguard should be an Olympic sport, and brother, I'd bring home the gold
(thank you for the plethora of undodgeable, untagged spoilers btw, bunch of terminally pessimistic dicks)
#squirrel plays datv#datv spoilers#I don't know about you but I'd rather have a GOOD game with a story they're excited to tell#over an endless prade of callbacks cameos and acknowledgements#are you all seriously forgetting that they want others playing this game too; not just those with the intricately#and meticulously crafted canon worlds? are you forgetting that this is a AAA game?#i was fully prepared for my inquisition choices not to matter#just based on the simple fact that the story is now so branching that it's borderline impossible to write around every choice#EXERCISE YOUR GODDAMN IMAGINATION; IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR BEING HUMAN#and i swear if you all kill the one thing I've been genuinely excited about waiting for i AM going to end up on the news#of course it doesn't fucking matter!#a CORE THEME of the franchise is how time distance and perception obscures fact!!!!!!#FUCK!!!!!!!!!!#I PHYSICALLY CANNOT FILTER MORE VERSIONS OF JUST THE GAME'S FUCKING TITLE#and yet i got home from the store and got immediately spoiled#because yall can't exercise two minutes of calm and rational thought#i'm so fed up at this point
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Actually it really fucking frustrates me as a disabled person how ‘controversial’ video game accessibility is, how contrived it is to find actually useful accessibility mods for even popular games, how abled gamers try to distance themselves from us because we’re the ones without social lives, who don’t leave the house, who can’t work.
#ra speaks#personal#video games#accessibility#not to mention this is part of why elderly people would LOVE video games but the modern market is hostile to ANYONE who might need help#whether that’s better designed controllers/easier remapping of controls#options for low vision/color blind players#or simply implementing easier difficulties#do you know how much it fucking sucks to love horror and gore and ‘adult’ material#while being relegated to fucking Nintendo kids games bc they’re the only people#who makes games that are approachable and forgiving and MADE to be understood?#this isn’t a stab at convoluted plots or even difficult bosses this is to say that a lot of adult games#don’t have good game design when it comes to having accessible controls or ‘tutorial’ levels#like that’s the bare fucking minimum and jfc is it rare to find a#‘skill issue/git gud’ fun fact I do in fact kick ass in doom 64.#because it’s an older game with simple controls and plenty of accessibility mods#I suck at modern shooters bc they have shit tutorial levels too many buttons and terrible modding scenes#it’s not a matter of skill it’s a matter of accessibility for the purpose of improving that skill
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I don't think that the reason why Number One's homunculus came out perfect and everyone else's was defective is that No1 had a ""Superior"" extra wrinkly guinness record brain or whatever the fuck. It's most likely because, you know, the UG facility's research was probably way better funded and carefully, well, researched, and picked out just one individual to focus on cloning -- on the other hand, KW's Project: Homunculus was unbelievably fucking rushed because Huesca wanted so bad to have one over the unified government he just started raw dogging the experiments and collected the DNA of almost every single person in that city because even if their homunculi do come out a bit undercooked at least they've got the numbers babyyyyy take that unified fuck. I think more thought and care went into building all these damn clone pods we saw for all of them than their actual creation. "something unexpected occured in our efforts to find suitable DNA" -> "i will die in approx. 20 seconds and STILL I won't admit I any% blind speedran playing god and failed due to the easily foreseeable consequences of my abysmal choices. It's actually a dna skill issue on those defects fuck them pinkies my final message. goodbye"
#massive passionate love-hate relationship with Huesca that guy really just made the biggest impact in the game#consistently became worse with every scene he appeared in and. I CANNOT in simple terms state how much he fucking. I can't. I can't.#it makes sense of him to do... *that* with the homunculi considering he was explicitly said to use unwilling persons as test subjects#for weapons and also his own escape from KW after the fact. He has absolutely zero regard for human life already#fuck you huesca i love you huesca don't come near me or my family huesca#mine#rain code#why does nobody talk about Huesca he's like mdarc's most influential villain right after the UG. Yomi takes 3rd place only lol#no matter how much Yomi tries he will never be that guy. *shouting* YOU ARE NOTHING BUT AN ANT BENEATH HUESCA'S MAGNIFYING GLASS❗❗❗
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++(adding on the last ask, sorry i just forgot to put this there) it's also the very very VERY weird way they keep talking like the jewish culture was completely erased from the rest of the Europe and the german speaking countries, like we didn't know how there were people fighting and resisting and trying to create communities before and after holocaust. this does NO erase holocaust, and that's one of the most enraging parts for me too: talking like the resistance of jewish people outside israel would somehow negate holocaust and antisemitism. this is fucking bonkers?
during the whole article i was thinking "why would the Germans have ownership of the works of an writer who is from PRAGUE? writing in german does not immediately imply this, and the fact that he was born in Prague does not negate the antisemitism he faced"
Kafka writing about his experience with oppression inside a country where antisemitism was so recurrent does not make him an symbol of the israeli state, and that's mainly what they're trying to affirm. by doing this they're trying to erase the way his works relate so much with the oppression other groups suffer inside other places, including the ones being attacked by the israeli state.
Yes, Israel's whole rhetoric is very deliberately constructed narrative which often raises uncomfortable questions.
And I also agree I think it's weird how there's complete exclusion of the country that Kafka was from (but then again, was he from Czech Republic (because that didn't exist back then) or was he from Austria? That existed in some sort). In any case, Kafka identified with the minority in the Austro-Hungarian empire (Hermann also), that is with Czechs.
What Kafka's nationality was is a tricky subject overall but the reality is that Prague is in Czech Republic so it is Czechs' "responsibility" to preserve Kafka in that city. Israel and Germany are just both weird about Franz Kafka and are trying to have hegemony over his legacy when none of them actually have tangible credibility.
#what matters is that kafka was a jewish man living in prague speaking german#the jewishness the city and the language all matter at the same time and thats why kafka isn't one thing#and cannot be claimed by one state#i think israel has the least credibility based on the simple fact that israel didn't exist back then and kafka wasn't living in israel#even austria could say more than israel lol#also about speaking german#imagine how ridiculous it would be if UK claimed every person as English just because they spoke english…#asks
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...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
#looking through my drafts and seeing this post unfinished and knowing in my core I'll probably never actually finish it .#but strangley enough i don't hate the way it looks with only those 2 panels ? beauty in simplicity or something idk#woe unfinished post be upon ye#honestly probably wouldnt even bother posting it were it not for the fact i was hit by a sudden wave of sadness#by being reminded out of the blue that alex really does just . lose nigel that night#enough deep level analysis my brain is all out i think . but just the simple fact that nigel dies that night#and alex has to go on for the rest of his life post-ending carrying that grief and loss with him#i know we talk about how nigel isn't truly 'gone' in the sense that they're one now and jack is supposed to be an amalgamation of the two#a product of their union and 'consummation' that night at the yard#but he's still gone . no matter how much alex might try and follow in nigel's footsteps#no matter how hard alex tries to tread that same path nigel did to feel close to him#he's gone . they will never have that moment beneath the house ever again . and alex has to go on living with that#anyway . normal again . imagine dropping a song rec like i used to. aha . go listen to sick like me by in this moment.#like minds#murderous intent#nigel colbie#alex forbes#nigel colbie x alex forbes#edit : THEY'LL NEVER HAVE THE MOMENT UNDER THE HOUSE AGAIN !!!!!#thinking about the moment where nigel sits across from alex after he shoots john#and the contrast to the scene in the crawlspace . nigel is trying to connect he is trying to get alex to see to understand#but now alex is closed off. something may be irreparable broken between them#do you think it was the moment where nigel starts to despair . to plead . realise that he needs to find a way to make alex truly see#i need to get some sleep
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lol you may be thinking: that's a lot of posts for someone who still has an exam tomorrow, Songbird. and you're right. it IS a lot of posts for someone who has an 8:30 tomorrow and hasn't studied for it
#it's an essay exam i know most of the material at least that's what i keep telling myself#the simple fact of the matter tho is that i simply don't give a darn anymore :)#somewhat concerning but when an exam is worth 20% and you've JUST finished two of the most brutal exams you've ever taken#it's hard to give a darn about the last one
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A/rcane Snz
Because it's relevant and Arcane S2 is out, I have a hot take. You can't tell me that Vi doesn't have a snz kink. Watching the well put together perfect girl Caitlyn crumble and lose control in such a manner...and you're telling me she's NOT going to be turned on!? Naaah. Zero chance. Vi just wants to see her perfect Piliti girlie fall apart in front of her. period.
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Posting this separate just so that I can say— I love this duo so very much they are so cute
#tmnt mikey#tmnt raphael#sunset duo#tmnt 2k3#tmnt 2003#tmnt 2k3 mikey#tmnt 2k3 raph#my art#ill never shut up about them#their interactions are my favorites 😭#just the simple fact that all raphaels no matter how grumpy always have a soft spot for mikey#like he’s still short with him but its very clear that mikey is his favorite brother and I love that#idk what to tag this as cause its not really a specific show or comic hah
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#anyways since i haven't been controversial on main in a long time#notice niall's promo : using his platform for fan engagement and just focussing on the music and making it drive and take off#like he's been teasing it for some time and then he got his industry friends to do some promo#and he can casually talk about kissing lewis capaldi or 1d or harry or louis or anyone#and how even though he has a quite long term girlfriend never once has that relationship been a focus of things#never once has his private life or any aspect of it been a focus of promo. or even his golf career as a matter of a fact#the story is simple : he is releasing an album and he's gonna talk about music that's it#now notice harry or louis' album cycles : always focus on relationships and private lives and barely any talk about the music#or how to drive that music and make it the main aspect of promo cycle#you can argue that harry is a bigger name and people would care about his private life but like. b/w niall and louis clearly niall is more#known and still he never needs to speak about his relationships or personal lives#you can also look at literally any other artists album cycles : dua lipa. taylor. ariana. lizzo. beyonce. literally anyone#and none of their album cycles revolve around their relationships and private lives#which just goes to show just how much harry/louis' teams want to drive it into everyone's heads that they're straight. when they're not#even zayn!! yeah he's never really in the spotlight but none of his album cycles have revolved around his relationship#including mind of mine which as we all know came out when he was linked to both perrie and gigi#i just find it fascinating how these people came from the same band but their album cycles are so different.#niall's album promo cycle vs harry + louis' album promo cycle and the clear stark difference between them. fascinating
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first female loz director and the gerudo seem to be written fine enough? wow... there ain't no way I thought we were in the worst timeline after totk
Yeah got through the main quest with the gerudo, it wasn't painful! It wasn't even bad! Still got them outfits but for the most part it was like oh cool!
I would say a lot of that oh cool is from the fact they didn't do a lot to even fuck it up to begin with, I'm gonna be real with yall this game is NOT worth $60USD
Edit: lemme say one thing, you know when people were being like damn totk story wasn't dark or mature at all why was this compared to Majora's mask again? And then all the zeldatwt people came out and said zelda is just a kid series domt expect good writing uH
This one feels like a kid's game. That ain't to say it's terrible I would say, hell I'm not far in it if I get something crazy that's like OH FUCK I'll reblog this post and say something but uh.....game for babies I'm gonna be shocked if anyone struggles with any puzzles cuz you CAN CHEESE THEM EASY ITS 🫢🤭
EDIT EDIT: I SWEAR IM NOT EVEN TRYING TO BE A DOWNER..... @ezlo-x HAS BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME IVE BEEN PLAYING....THEY KNOW I HAVENT BEEN A PARTY POOPER.....
#its......seems quick#the sidequests are very boring tbh#like this game should of been 45-50 max not 60#its cute i like it so far but oh my god the optimization and game design could of been way better#and after botw/totk like....how do i put this#its like nintendo heard hey we need a LITTLE bit of rail roading and then#😬#basically...example#for a main quest i have to go to 2 places to get people#i went to the 2nd place first and it......didnt update the side quest even though she should of gone to the meeting place#thTs apart of the quest but no i had to go to the 1st guy no matter what#and its like.....hey botw not totk would do that#most GAMES in general now wouldnt do something like that#also yall gonna hate the fact there is no organization or favorites tool for the echoes#game is fun so far but uH#i got through the first dungeon FAST FAST like this is not a return to form#minish cap dungeons i dont think were that fast and theyre simple#also anyone that says this dorsnt have mechanics from the wilds games yes it does#tri has an ability thats JUST ultra hand#oh and its not good in this game#yall gonna fucking hate it#unless somehow a pirated version doesnt allow you to rotate the fucking item or move it in a way that goes behind me#without me locking off and then back on again after repostioning myself#im worried its a feature and not an anti piracy measure#me and GC are gonna finish this up this week but dang i havent even done the whole first part of the main quest#if i had this on the switch i could see how fast i could play through the game WHILE talking to people and having fun and exploring#also oh my god the zora side quest very cute but when eveeyone knows how the game goes ill make one complaint in the tags one day#funny thing its not story....ITS GAMEPLAY#yhe story in the game is fine and i say that cuz its....very simple#HELL A LOT OF NPCS DONT GOT NAMES THAT ARE VISIBLE
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i miss the mob 😔 < guy who wasnt there for s2 lmao
#mine.txt#normally im like it doesnt matter if you werent there for the season#but in this case i think its relevant for the simple fact that theres barely any vods left#and theres a good chance the lsers all lied in their vids at least once#not only that but there isnt a Whole lot about them#so needless to say my knowledge is inherently biased#but nonetheless i love what is there anyway
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The hard thing about writing therapy sessions into fics is that like. The story is predicated on drama, and even in therapy characters are still people that may or may not be able to communicate, and then there's the fact that even when you're successful in therapy you still have to deal with relationships and life outside of that where your coping is actually put to the test
Like it's weird because "characters dialoguing in therapy speak" is a current day hated trope, but in this case the characters going to therapy (sometimes even with each other) is LITERALLY part of the plot. But then you don't want the therapy to just instantly solve every interpersonal conflict so the characters still need to beef over something. Which, fine, lots of people go to therapy and don't cooperate during the session, are unwilling to apply the advice IRL, other things happen due to the flawed nature of existence, etc.
What I'm trying to say is that at least in stories/worlds with no therapy, ppl being severely malfunctional and getting in deep shit makes sense bc there's no education or support or help for them to make the optimal choices. But in stories with therapy, you want the therapy to be an in-universe part of the world that characters react to as real people react in therapy. But you don't want the therapy to turn into a meta device that you as an author use to magic away a character's emotional/interpersonal problems effortlessly with disregard to how long/difficult therapy is.
I feel like this might be a genre issue, idk? There's just so few stories that involve therapy (many of which are biographical in nature and not fiction/narrative focused), maybe due to how mental health is only a recently destigmatized/educated topic. So this feels like a writing problem exclusive to some sort of contemporary, "just like the real world" genre of writing that I'm unfamiliar with and maybe the answer is just "yeah you have to write it as a fictional story but also like it's real life." Idk.
#squiggposting#i didnt have this much trouble with PUE's therapy sessions#it's not a question of 'how to accurately write therapy' so much as it is just#how to make therapy NOT a deus ex machina/asspull type thing to sidestep actual character interaction#in PUE i feel like i did a good job of that despite the fact that optronix had a heavy therapy focus on him#but that was also bc optronix refused to cooperate in therapy so him finally choosing to participate#was caused by exterior plot and character interaction#for the pharma fic i'm writing pharma is constantly in therapy that he participates in#both for his own reasons as well as being forced to by release conditions#so like the therapy has an effect and shapes how he views things but the therapy doesnt fix him#idk i know firsthand that going to therapy doesnt fix you like that + implementing techniques#outside of therapy in the real world is really hard. so idk#probably im only worried about this bc the therapy is the main part i have outlined#once i have more plot then it should be a simple matter to incorporate the therapy sessions as like#things pharma does to deal w his problems but they both help and dont help#+ he has other things going on that actively impede him effectively implementing them#idk sorry for the dumb ramble
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To soothe the pain, love, while I don't believe the Doctor - that is 1-12, the others might - ever SAID 'I love you' to River, I am convinced they taught her Gallifreyan just so she'd understand they kept tracing 'I love you' onto the back of her hand at random moments
Awwh! :’) I love the idea of the Doctor randomly tracing Gallifreyan on her skin to express all the things that they can’t say! I’d sort of thought River knew Gallifreyan instinctually with it on the TARDIS screens, but with her connection to the TARDIS being so inherent, maybe there’s no need.
…but now I’m imagining River recognizing (with their lives out of order), that the shapes he’s tracing are Gallifreyan circles. And maybe she’d connect the dots and study Gallifreyan on her own. And then she would understand what he’s writing — and start to take it wrong that he’s writing it but doesn’t have the guts to actually tell her, and she would overthink forever but not actually ask him…
Until the Doctor notices asks why she’s being cold — and then she tells him — and he says he thought she already knew—
(Crying and hugging ensues.)
#I’m a simple woman I like crying and hugging#sure the doctor avoids addressing what he’s writing as they cry and hug. but it’s matter of fact. it’s of course.#You aren’t wrong 😭 the Doctor is a bundle of issues and terror of vulnerability 😭#random tracing of ily is canon to me now ty#maybe she traces back sometimes. maybe they have slow intimate conversations#11 can’t stay still but with River he doesn’t have to run. he can take it slow.#nonverbal and slow#🥰🥰🥰this is v soothing🥰🥰🥰#on such veins I ALSO wish the Doctor and yaz had a mysterious whisper moment while eating ice cream so we could DREAM#fast forward to fourteen gushing love#anyway Moffat may keep his secrets but unfortunately#RTD did straight up ruin the speculation energy by saying tentoo said ily in Doctor Who Confidential…#BUT tentoo isn’t quite the Doctor. it could very well be his Donna half (human half) to be blamed for that#ten intentionally timed his environmental destruction aka burning up a sun to avoid saying ily#(me rambling all this as someone who voted that he said ily to all of them on my own poll)#river song#words by seaweed
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