#therapy game spoilers

[sir-klauz]

Hello, how are you? Thanks for your BL recs. If you don't mind, can I send a 'BL challenge' ask to you? Also, have you read the update of Therapy Game? I love it (my heart breaks a little in that scene between Minato and Shizuma's mother).

No worries! And I'm existing, I'm OK, I hope you're doing well too!

Sure! I'll get to it when I am next online. It may not be fast, so I apologize if it's not.

YES! I have read the update! I would usually post all about Therapy Game, but I've not been active much.

Yeah, I agree. That was such a difficult moment. I really feel for Minato. It's really hard living as an openly gay person, and with relationships and family scenarios, or parents of the other not knowing yet can cause complications. I've experienced it a couple of times, things like that, it certainly leaves a mark and can lead to literally needing therapy later on, which, is.. welp, the title.

Some people prefer privacy, and all partners don't want to tell parents about their sexuality and relationship status, but when they do, or one does, it can be exceptionally difficult to experience, though I of course didn't think Shizuma is actually wanting to hide it at all but he just hasn't said anything yet, you know what he's like! Being a child where both me and my sibling are queer, and our gender is not binary cisgender, it was certainly a difficult thing for us both to come out to our mum. My partner as well, has 2 other queer brothers, and all have struggled with coming out because "other sibling/s came out", due to societies judgement on being gay, let alone multiple children being gay, and the pressure for grand kids and straight marriage, when 1. Nobody needs to have kids and 2. There's many many ways for gay couples to have children, we have a child ourselves! These worries are so old fashioned, I can see she's not seeming to be trying to be a bad person, but it's something I see so many parents say, and it's sad and ignorant and hurting their kids.

[songthursh]

Also a sunflower, because @stupidlynx have amazing songs for these two ///

[t4twailingstar]

idea that the collector got thrown in the theraprism for taking over the isles

[starregulus]

jean: Im not going to kill myself. I promised Kevin 🙄

Cat: you know that is not something that normal people say right?? it's important to me that you know that

[ilovelumity3000]

Just finsihed Elpis questline in Endwalker like an hour ago, and... i thik im gonna go insane. This game has some of the best cast in any video game, ever:

Hermes - a brillitant yet deprresed scientist with the gentlest of hearts, crushed upon revelation that we might be alone in the universe, with every civlization other then his home either dead or on the brink of death

Meteion - esseantially a space travelling AI with the power of sueper-emapthy, which after scoruing the universe far and wide, decided that the answer to lifes meaning is death and nihlism

Emet-Selch - a dutiful public servant, who, even though we will fight him one day, etrusted us the future of his planet, all while being a grumpy tsundere

Venat - a retired badass grandma who went up against her own people and shattered the world, making it "imperfect", all in order to prove that humanity is worth existing

AND THIS IS THE CAST OF JUST 1 QUESTLINE

HOW IS THIS CAST REAL

[waspgrave]

All I want to be able to do is have my Rook bring my Inquisitor to Solas’ house and not tell him this is going to happen. She shows up and Solas is in the middle of painting one of his Depression Murals and is just miserable, ecstatic, horrified, scared, throwing up when he sees her. Need the sitcom level ‘you did WHAT??’ heard from the kitchen that consists of one plate, one fork, and one goblet

[lady-charinette]

Rei shooting himself in his dominant arm, most likely permanently injuring most if not all of his nerves so he could effectively only use his left hand.

Rei most likely not being able to play any video games anymore, his main coping mechanism and hobby throughout the show, something he did in the beginning to the point of neglecting to take care of Miri and doing house chores.

Rei most likely, after extensive physical therapy and relearning how to use his right hand as his dominant one, trying to find other stuff he could turn into hobbies except gaming.

Rei most likely finding true joy in not just playing games himself, but watching others play them.

Watching Miri and Kazuki battle it out in the kid friendly and later on more action video games together and having fun and bonding over how bad of a sore loser Papa Kazuki is and how well Rei taught Miri how to play by supporting her with tips from the sidelines.

Rei most likely finding that, even if he can't play himself, he enjoys watching his loved ones play his video games in his stead because he gained something so much more to hold dear in his heart by losing his arm.

[blueberrysquire]

I am so excited for the proper debut of my #1 babygirl Jiro

I spent like WAY too much time choosing who I wanted in the prologue and I narrowed it down to I think Lucas, Haku and Jiro. After much deliberation I finally landed on Jiro and I have adored him the whole game. He's not my current FAVOURITE (that's Sho, the relationship build up there was beautiful, I can't NOT love a capable, cute guy who takes a bit to warm up to you), but boy howdy am I ready for the next chapter to change that.

I'm tossing up between wanting to literally put him out of his misery (Jiro lovers can relate) and laying him down on my lap, playing with his hair and reading him philosophical works. Or horror. I think he'd enjoy H.P. Lovecraft.

TL;DR: the next chapter can't come soon enough

[abowlofsourcream]

💫⏳You got a country to save!⏳💫

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[moodysullie]

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Oh he bad, Bill had it bad.

Look how nervous he is

And also... THIS

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[kuppikahvia]

[pistachi0art]

The drawings I did for the Joshua segment for @hlvrai-twh ^^ nothing bad happens I swear

[aureus2010]

my ass watching in horror as siffrin interacts with their family in act 5

[hallwyeoo]

Ellie’s memory of the golfing scene and what it tells us about her.

🚨spoilers for tlou2🚨

I think Ellie’s flashback to Joel’s death is very telling of how she internalized the event and the meaning she applied to his death. It’s also a good demonstration of her relationship to autonomy. Let’s break down the elements that were inconsistent with the actual event:

The stairs/hallway are much longer than they were. This suggests a sense of helplessness, an inability to get there fast enough. Joel is constantly out of reach.

There is blood on the floor outside of the door. Not entirely certain on this one but my hunch is that she blames herself for not seeing more obvious signs of violence/not knowing something was wrong sooner.

The door is locked, another roadblock in her path to Joel. She can’t access him, she can’t help, he needs her and she isn’t there.

Most importantly. Joel yells “Ellie, help me” (which he didn’t in the actual scene, he just screams. He doesn’t say a word in the actual scene)

Ellie hearing Joel scream for her help, calling for her while being horribly beaten, and her being repeatedly impeded on her way to him suggests that what she took away from his death is that she wasn’t enough. They always helped each other, always had each others backs, always got up. Ellie views his death as a failure. She was too slow, too weak, not smart enough to save him. She failed him when he needed her most. She is absolutely helpless to save him, just like she was helpless to save Riley, Tess, Sam, and Jessie (and Marlene, and humanity, and and and-).

Once again, Ellie makes a decision (staying with Riley, going to the fireflies, staying with Joel, being the cure, trying to forgive Joel) and once again her autonomy and ability to find closure is ripped from her.

This is the inciting incident of tlou pt2, this is the moment where Ellie’s whole world shatters the same way Joel’s did at the start of pt1. Ellie enters into the same cycle (which I like to call the “Joel cycle” because… yeah.) that he did, and throughout pt2 she stays in the “20 years later” phase of the cycle. She is changed, she has lost her light, lost what she fought for. She lost her chance to genuinely forgive Joel and rebuild their relationship. She is stuck in a gruelling and violent world that she has no anchor in, at least not anymore. His death is so sudden and so incredibly violent that it practically gave her (and me as well, tbh) whiplash. She’s in a state of total shock.

On another devastating note, this is one of the three times in tlou that we see Ellie beg (that I remember). The first is begging Joel to get up at the university of Eastern Colorado, the second is begging him to get up and for Abby to stop, and the third is begging Abby to not kill Dina because she’s pregnant. (Two times she begs Joel to get up, one time he doesn’t. Two times she begs Abby to spare her family and one time she does. What a beautifully haunting contrast)

To wrap up, every person creates an internal narrative, a story of their life that is crafted from their context and lived experiences. The meaning we derive from those experiences doesn’t always reflect the truth, and that can sometimes bite us in the ass majorly when we experience a traumatic event. We tend to want to find someone or something to assign blame to, some reason or rationale to why it happened. We tell stories. We write them in our minds about ourselves and what happens to us and what that says about us.

But Ellie is wrong. Joel’s death happened in response to a conscious and willing choice he made. It is in no way her fault, and there was absolutely no way for her to know or to stop what was happening. I think Ellie knows that much on an intellectual level, It just doesn’t change how devastated she is over the whole event. It can’t change the fact that she FEELS as though this was all her fault, that Joel did what he did to save her, that she could have saved him. That she should have.

[citnamora]

Athena Cykes is my favorite part of Dual Destinies at the moment. I adore her theme. It reminds me a lot of magical girls which I can definitely see reflected in some of her concept designs. I also enjoy how she started psycho analyzing Apollo out of nowhere. That was funny. She's easily my favorite character in this weird mirror world.

[arklayraven]

This moment has me in a chokehold tho pff 😭💕