#the way I'd be SO DONE with everything

[sharpsuite]

Just thinking about how it's basically established that if you've been to the Borderlands, any near life or death situations seems to send you right back to the Borderlands, or at least a version of it. It's really the "Martha I'm coming home- IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN" meme

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09

Hey, this is it.

[crimeronan]

ultimately i think the appeal of daniel and armand to me is that it's very much a typical dark romance storyline where the heroine is kidnapped and tortured by an evil monster but using her wits she manages to seduce him and make him emotionally vulnerable to her, because she is More Special and More Clever than all of his other victims, and because of this she enjoys a level of dangerous favor and protection from him, except in This version of the dark romance it's two toxic old men who both have the worst fucking personalities imaginable. who truly just fucking suck beyond measure. like no pun intended, they are Garbage, one is the actual literal immortal devil and the other is just kind of a deadbeat with no moral compass, neither of them is willing to work on himself and neither of them has ANY reason to want to rail the other as bad as they do.

and yet. There They Are,

[mayasaura]

Actually. Looking at the chronology. The last time Gideon and Harrow talked alone before the pool scene, Gideon accused Harrow of being a jealous creep for telling her to stay away from Dulcinea.

A whole lot of stupifying things happened in between, but really, it wouldn't be surprising if her first panicked reaction to Harrow disrobing was to think Harrow was making a move on her. Relationship definitely hurtling toward something.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

Wanna know why I procrastinated on what is usually my favourite part of my English Literature assignment?

Because they want us to use ai.

In a degree where English Literature is one of my majors, they want us to use ai to write a poem.

What the hell is even that. I mean, really!? USE AI TO WRITE A POEM IN YOUR ENGLISH LIT ASSIGNMENT💀

Fortunately, we're only using it as a starting off point at best for our own poem, and then write an essay on how ours is better. Our lecturer hates it too so she's giving us more leniency than she ever would. But still!

And the AI part is only 3 marks.

I'm using something that is stealing other people's works and quite literally destroying the planet, for 3 marks🧍🏾‍♀️

[hermemescabin]

Annabeth forgave her dad, let it go

A person reconciling with a neglectful and/or abuse parent in real life is a very personal choice that you have the right to make for yourself.

A character who grew up in an abusive and/or neglectful house in fiction, only to have this neglect invalidated by the author, is a totally different matter. Personally I never felt that Rick gave me enough reason to believe Frederick is redeemed. Also he's fictional and my opinion won't hurt him. I just don't like him.

At the end of the day we're all going to interpret these things differently and I welcome you to disagree if you feel like it.

[nyan-bynary]

Choso has the worst case of eldest daughter mentality kenjaku truly mothered

[torchickentacos]

My local bestbuy tech support counter is shockingly competent and wonderful. Over the summer there was the thing I posted about with my phone battery and the employee who drove to the next town over to get a new battery since they didn't have one for my old phone model. And THIS time, my wifi card was loose in my computer and he was like 'okay well it might come loose again because [xyz slightly-damaged but functional part], and even though it's fixed for now, I'd feel bad for charging you about it when it's not a full replacement so don't worry about it'. so shoutout to my local bestbuy again

[sysig]

Coding woes (Patreon)

[airenyah]

ooooof why did it take me about 3.5 hours to write about the very first fadelstyle scene alone. at this rate i'm never gonna finish the main text by sunday night (monday noon)

[overly-verbose]

A whole lot of the next Part is literally just;

Everyone else's brains: *the entirety of the Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney OST intensifies*

Meanwhile, SIkuna's brain: *the Wii theme song (occasionally interrupted by falling_metal_pipe_sound.mp3) starts playing*

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[lia404]

"Ai, living has no answer."

"When we're in pain, we search for an answer to feel better. A concise, absolute answer. But if you really want an answer… it's that there is no answer. There are no absolute in this world. Even if we think there is, in the end, it'll only make us feel better for a moment.

If there are no absolute, then what's left?

Bonds. Bonds between individuals. Bonds between one another. That's all there is.

That also changes with time. A huge trigger can cause a huge change. Bonds may be severed. But new bonds can also be formed. So living is a series of bonds.

That's what life is.

I have to do that forever?

Yes.

That's a lot of work.

Yeah.

I'd need to be so strong.

That's why people become stronger. That occasionally leads to conflicts. But even if that happens, we have to keep fighting. Keep searching for bonds, even if there's no answer.

You can't rush living."

So I saw on MyFigureCollection that October 13 was maybe possibly Yusaku's birthday, although I couldn't find any reliable source for this. I'd have loved to do something nice and light-hearted for the occasion, but I'm still feeling too strongly about it all. So here you are instead: Happy (maybe) Birthday, Yusaku! Please have some trauma to go with your trauma. Here's to another year of fending off expectations and looking for your own life and its non-answers with eyes wide open and always filled with hope.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Number of stories I would like to write: Many.

Number of stories I find myself able to write: Zero.

[diueliz]

Latest realisation: part of my effort to create more should really be about Writing

[shachihata]

i do have something intelligent to say about the game actually. i really like how the pacing's been so far... it hasn't felt super slow or super rushed at any given moment yet. the plot itself seems relatively straightforward so far, but that's to be expected again of the vibe/genre... and i'm not even fully convinced that it's going to be straightforward the whole way through because of the ambiguity of the main trio's backstories & lore (kabbu/leif especially) + the tensions re: elizant ii's goals, the wasps, so on. the depth of the world is just crazyyy i love how fleshed out everything feels... the history the kingdoms the Bug Politics of it all. i keep bringing up the fucking sandbox desert because it's such a good example of how bf teases its worldbuilding throughout -- it doesn't hit you over the head with anything, there's some forced exposition-y bits esp. about leif's backstory but the way the World Itself works is there for you to uncover and piece together mostly on your own.

i think some of the platforming bits are annoying (e.g. a lot of the honey factory) but it's outweighed by the fact that the dungeons are relatively straightforward. i think if they were more zelda-esque & involved more backtracking i'd be more frustrated (the perspective isn't great with the jumping/controls imo), but thankfully they are pretty much one-way paths to the end (with puzzles & fights along the way).

the linearity of the dungeons is easily counteracted by how open-world the map itself is. there's TONSSS of sidequests and particularly in between-dungeon periods you have a LOT of leeway to do whatever you want and finish things in whatever order you want and fight minibosses whenever you feel ready which i really really like. particularly like... i'm thinking rn of my playthrough, i'm technically "in" chapter 4 but i have like, again, a checklist of the 272739483930 places i have to explore instead of progressing the plot lol. there's a LOT of things they add to make even backtracking feel fresh -- the new npcs walking around old areas, the bounties, and so on. it's soooo much fun to me to go through and squeeze every last bit of dialogue out of each area.

speaking of. my god. there is SOOOO much dialogue and flavor text and Fun Things to read in the game. the writing in the game is so fun and every character has SO much personality i'm so crazily attached to the main trio it's unreal. it's really funny how leif keeps commenting on how nosy we are but I LOVE BEING NOSY!!!! I LOVE THEIR GROUP DYNAMIC!!!!!!! I LOVE ALL THE NPC DIALOGUE AND HOW THE THREE OF THEM HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT EVERY NPC THEY INTERACT WITH AND AREA THEY ENTER the fact that each room has custom dialogue is just NUTS to me there is SO much to learn about the world and if what they're talking about isn't interesting/groundbreaking lore-wise it's just funny as fuck. god. i love it when games have The Characters in them it makes me lose my mind. anyway

[memorys-skyscraper]

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