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grading double life ships, shipnames, if any, added in brackets.
CANON PAIRINGS:
Ma'el/Pall'or (cultduo, sometimes maellor) the classic, they had chemistry day one. honestly not much more to say other than the fact that the players are on their hands and knees to stop the slowburn and let them fuck. bonus points for the intersting backstory weaving. 10/10
Eiwn/Miym very well done friendship to tragic love. the chemistry these two have is off the walls, like why are pep and cerin so good at doing these friends to lovers ships. the tragic family aspect and cool gods backstory stuff provides a really interesting dynamic. 10/10 i like the poem
RD/Alastrelle (no common tagname, but adding in one ive seen; "winnerduo" cause its funny as fuck) I didn't used to see it cause they had a slight roughness to their alliance but when alastrelle started getting darker vibes? ok yeah this is some cool corruption shit. RD has nothing to hold them back anymore either. i hope they win and kiss about it. 10/10
Luck/Lilly (tigerlilly, luckian) I think this one is actually just canon aside from pairing stuff? or its luck pining a lot, whatever. it's... it's hard to actually judge this one because pep can't actually play out them talking to one another, but y'know what yeah i like the vibes. me and my girlwife who hates people. me and my malewife who trips over roots. 8/10
NON-CANON PAIRINGS:
RD/Pall'or why is their friends with benefits energy off the CHARTS holy shit. RD has plans to kill him but the enemies to lovers energy could be fucking insane??? they have multiple plans to fuck?? the fact that pall'or knows every inch of their body?? 10/10 keeps that inappropriate workplace relationship going
RD/Eiwn they work really well as the weirdgirl/jockboy so I think it's pretty funny. yeah we gay keep scrolling! not a lot of substance anymore and tbh i've seen a lot of angst breakup fics following the latest events so.... yeah.... 6/10
Alastrelle/Luck from what I've seen, all the fics are entirely about the single conversation they've had. There's some further chemistry to be explored, but for now, I don't really see it. 4/10
Pall'or/Alastrelle the starboys... the lovers under the moon... I think they can be so wonderful or horrible for each other. i dont know why im saying this but hannigrm kind of. 7/10
Pall'or/Lilly HOOOOO boy theres a lot to be said when most of the fics under this are hurt no comfort and one-sided relationship. cool job speculating what the fuck happened between these guys. 9/10 because pallor would actually do that yeah
RD/Luck ok yeah again with the pathetic malewife who trips over roots and the cool strong one. I think the fact that RD does actually like luck feeds into this, it's pretty strong actually. 9/10
Pall'or/Luck ok half these noncanon ships involve them so its abt time! i don't have anything to add i just agree. 9/10 because they have yet to flirt in an insane way
Luciano/Cle'av i've seen some age discourse around this so no hate please im just doing rankings. we all love a consentual workplace relationship, especially on the dating death game show. 7/10
Ma'el/Luck once again dont mention the discourse pleaseeee luck said "oh i guess we're not then" in the same sentance after bringing up being related. yeah i think a dog and a cat can be lovers, if they try hard enough. more than anything i like the fact that theyre streetsmart vs booksmart vibe that pall and mael have too. 9/10
RD/Eiwn/Alastrelle polycule is always a win. i have small hope they'll meetup again to do more stuff like the bear bit, buttttt things arent going good. i miss these three 10/10
Ma'el/Pall'or/Luck ive said all that ive needed to say. 10/10
#dldnd#if anyone starts discoursing im gonna pvp and block#these are pretty opinion based#feel free to send asks with more rarepairs i did my best
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One of the strongest points of Mass Effect, if not the strongest, is just how well written the characters are. From Shepard, to the squad, to the side characters like Anderson and Bakara, to barely-there NPCs like Ereba and Charr the lovers, Etarn Tiro the enthusiastic turian merchant, Kargesh the krogan who wanted a fish, Lia'Vael, the quarian who gets falsely accused of theft, and the Salarian who wants to buy a memento to his asari lover to remember him by once he's dead.
I feel like so many of them are memorable, and they all serve a purpose to the overall world building. The krogan show that they are not the violent thugs the galaxy has made them out to be. The salarian shows the struggle born out of building relationships with people of a species with a life expectancy so beyond your own. Lia'Vael illustrates what Tali says about the quarians being treated like second class citizens. Those small little side quests have a meaning and a purpose, it doesnt feel like they are Just There, and they add more to the lore of them game to those who care about that stuff.
#Romance is an exception- I am 100% an outlier here but most of them are hmm. not quite as developed as they could#Most shippy feelings I've acquired are more like headcanons based off the stuff that happens in canon#Than canon things that happen during the game (but MAYBE it's because femshep can't romance talizorah)#That's just my opinion though lol and I don't think it makes the game bad. I think it's logical#You can't make space for too many branches based off romance or it'd be madness#So to keep the story more or less linear they have to be independent of the story by default#Mass effect#Mass effect liveblog#Txt#Of course I'm sure there are exceptions. And contradictions (ahem samara being the mother of all ardat yakshi)#But overall and taking into account just how many there are it's pretty good
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Also I know I’ve read quite a few fics where House teases Wilson about having been a twink when they first met, but like… House was the twink. Wilson was just pretty.
#house md#gregory house#james wilson#hilson#this is based on my opinion of how the actors looked in their 20s and 30s#rsl was like. a pretty man but not particularly twink yknow#he’s just always been beautiful as well as handsome#but Hugh Laurie ??? peak twink.
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I love how people are only ever interested in defending Arya's right to be weird-looking. It's never defending her intelligence from people who claim she's incapable of thinking for herself, highlighting her importance to the plot and refusing to see her as just a prop, acknowledging how much of her story gets stolen and given to other characters, talking about her trauma or how often it gets erased and overlooked, seeing her as more than just an attack dog/bodyguard, etc. Nope. It's just a "why can't people let Arya be ugly/unconventional looking? :(" post every other week because people are, for whatever reason, obsessed with how Arya is visually perceived. One of the most misinterpreted characters yet the issue is only ever with her being portrayed as "too pretty" or the wrong "type" of pretty. This fandom will entirely rewrite a character's motivations, values, and role in the story to the point that they consider references to canon "hate" but! The true injustice to canon is we acknowledge that she is described as pretty several times. Arya simply existing as her pretty, important, and non-conforming self is too complex and confusing for people to comprehend 😔.
#arya stark#asoiaf#fandom nonsense#how can Arya be considered pretty?! she's literally non-conforming?? being pretty belongs to /feminine/ female characters...right? 😱#I feel like these people tell on themselves with how much they value beauty because they make it /such/ a big deal#when her self-esteem issues regarding being a lady are infinitely more relevant to her story (and more interesting to discuss)#her being mocked for having the Stark look is a supporting story element that also reinforces her being an outcast considering#her mother + all of her trueborn siblings have a southern look and she was raised with southern standards#not to mention her non-conformity and often messy appearance heavily impacted how her looks were perceived#George writes Arya's non-conformity as parallel to traditional femininity so it makes sense that beauty is one of those aspects he subverts#(also why it makes sense that her future includes accepting her identity as a Lady while redefining the role but that's off topic)#this is why you need to look at the writing instead of judging based on the /type/ of character you think Arya is#and! it's truly not that serious 😭 I'm sure it will be a plot point eventually but it's not 98% of her story like these people pretend#Arya is such an interesting + well-written character but we constantly get people rewriting her and nonsense discourse around her looks#such rich material and all you can say is that she's an /odd-looking feral gremlin/ and I'm supposed to take your opinion seriously#at this point the obsession with Arya being /weird/ looking has to be some projection of personal self-esteem issues#there's no way /this/ is the hill you're willing to die on with all the terrible takes about Arya from this fandom#wish people who didn't care about her would just stop bringing her up so we could have our discussions about her in peace
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"Siffrin? Are you alright, bud?"
Fanart of Siffrin from @cinnamin-is-a-star's Villain Siffrin AU fanfiction To Extend Our Reach to the Stars Above Chapter 11.
#ISAT Siffrin#ISAT#ISAT Spoilers#TEoRttSA Spoilers#<<Schrano Art>>#Production Techniques not listed this time#They're the same as the previous ones#but better!#Practice makes perfect and all that.#General Production Comments:#Technically much more complex#Changed how the lights work from emissives to point lights.#Had a lot of fun with this one#Couldn't get the image of it out of my mind from the second I read the lines in the fic#Just sorta knew I had to make it real.#I really liked the idea of having the cracks physically manifest for a piece in the same pattern as the King's but more fragmented.#It was fun getting to draw Disguise 2#I grayscaled actual leather as a colour base for the top.#The colours contrast pretty well in my opinion.#It's fun getting to draw Siffrin in different outfits than their cloak#And also provides me a nice challenge when he's all small like that in the center of the frame.#Not a lot of pixels to work with I'll say that much.#I can't say it enough#I really enjoyed working on this one#It was a blast.
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Oh man, I am waaay on the other side of the "pronounce names correctly" debate. Not because I don't think you should, in general, attempt to pronounce names correctly, I do. But I'm trying to get people to stop trying to pronounce my name correctly.
I happen to have a name that's (for foreigners) Hungarian on Hard Mode. I'm talking umlauts, digraphs with y, just all the good phonemes that don't exist in most other languages. I've spent a lot of time abroad with people from various parts of the world, and I can tell you from hard empirical data: nobody can say it. And I'm cool with it! I just tell them the English equivalent and it's fine.
Mostly. Some people, especially those who are trying to be culturally sensitive, have a Really Hard Time™️ accepting that a) they are not getting it right b) continue to not get it right despite asking me to demonstrate over and over. And I appreciated it at first! How thoughtful, this attempt to engage with my culture. Cue several months of unsuccessful attempts, at the end of which they were (mostly jokingly) accusing me of faking it. Almost verbatim: "if we recorded you saying your own name and played it back to you, you would say it's incorrect".
(I get it though, the pop sci explanation that I've never bothered to fact check is that as you grow up, you're more attuned to characteristic frequencies of your mother tongue, so when another language comes along with different frequencies, you are quite literally incapable of distinguishing them. So their attempts may sound the same to them, but it sure doesn't to me. I tell them I have this with "bet" and "bat", and that sometimes puts an end to it.)
So yeah, attempt to pronounce everyone's name correctly. Unless they have asked you multiple times not to.
YES YES YES. sometimes you don't want to hear your name butchered over and over and again. like it can be funny when the entertainment is the hungarian gyöngyi and the czech přemysl trying to pronounce each other's name (actual thing that happened at an event my mom was at, everyone thought it was hilarious), but like. at some point it gets TIRING.
god do i hate those people who are like "well at the introduction i wouldn't stop trying until i could pronounce their name correctly!!" newsflash you were not pronouncing it correctly unless you also did a deepdive into the phonology of the language right there. what actually happened was that scene went on for so long and got so awkward they said "haha yeah that's correct!" to stop you from trying again. PLEASE stop. it is very awkward.
the pop sci explanation is sorrrrt of right, you're not really ever incapable of distinguishing phonemes, or phonologists would be out of a job! but your brain does become attuned to the subtleties that are important in your language and discards other phoneme differences that aren't used in your language because who even needs that. it's possible to learn to speak a language like a native and understand all the subtle differences so deeply that they come as instinct. it just takes a LOT of work.
(but- learning your native language took even more work. you're at an 8yr old's level of umderstanding in the language you're learning? well, how long do you think it took the 8yr old?)
also, relatedly, if someone - usually someone who's chinese in my experience - tells you their name, and then adds "but you can call me [english name/name in another language]!" it tends to be because they LIKE being called that name and possibly even prefer it to you butchering their name. they understand that you will butcher their name, because the language - which may or may not be chinese - is notoriously hard for outsiders.
#wow this got long but YES THANK YOU i also have a lot of opinions about this#my real name is pretty easy to pronounce for most other languages i've encountered#except funnily enough english speakers who sometimes have trouble with the middle two vowels#so i actually prefer they don't call me that lol it's just weird!! doesn't feel like they're addressing me when it's mispronounced!#like it doesn't grab my attention#anyways the number of chinese people i met who were like “but you can call me [entirely different name]”.....#you just know it's based on experience#(also the vietnamese guy who used to work at a restaurant near us who went by lali of all possible names. huge fan.)
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i think you forgot the tech wizard's birthday (mikado)
TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, ANON, THIS IS LESS, "Oh shit, I forgot one of my favorite character's birthday-!" AND MORE, "I've been swamped with work, school, and been more focus on a silly little stick figure show over SDRA2 and now I'm pass the deadline welp-"
Anyways, here's his birthday art that I tried to plan in advance but never finished it in time until today cause I didn't spend my time wisely.
Happy birthday to my worst boy(s)! I totally wasn't, like, four weeks late for this, hahaha!!;;;
(Featuring me still figuring out my IRLkado Lives AU coat design for him. Still not sure if I like it or not-)
#Asks#Star Talks#SDRA2#Mikado Sannoji#Super Danganronpa Another 2#IRL Mikado Sannoji#AI Mikado Sannoji#IRLkado#AIkado#SDRA2 Spoilers#Star's Art#personally I am of the opinion that IRLkado would regret creating AIkado if he ever survived and found out that his AI tried to kill him#“I never thought an AI based off of myself would betray and try to kill me!” says guy that has selfishly dirtied his hands more than once#the only reason he's against AIkado is for revenge more or less. “backstab me once and I'll make your life hell” - that kind of thing#IRLkado: “I should've deleted you once your role has been completed.”#AIkado: “...But cha DIDN'T!!” >:)))#First time drawing Glitchkado. He was kindof a pain in the ass but when is he never? lol#At least this drawing turned out pretty cool if I do say so myself
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Its so funny to me that @dfwbwfbbwfbwf is making long post about "why I like and dislike this characters" and the I go "he /she is hot,I like him/her" jaksjsksk
#for real I dont have any strong opinion over any other silm character besides the finweans#the rest of them is based on “is pretty in my imagination” jakjakks#silmarillion#silm shitpost
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a sort of mini-rant .. or more a personal opinion of totk; most my issues with it are probably clear by now, given how much i have talked about it, its probably also rather clear that i dont like the sonau (engl zonai) very much the way they were done in the game and its got lots of reason that all play into each other-
tho to mention something that is much more personal taste; i dont think sonau tech is actually that much 'tech', its mostly just magic animating some green rocky looking material or creating flames and rockets kinda out of nowhere
im someone that loves mechanical stuff, like old mechanisms, the first cars and first versions of technology, steam trains and such, i think its in part bc i like knowing the context of things, how stuff WORKS, and why it is or how it makes sense, huge metal beams attached to countless cogs, hearing the steam shoot out of the kettle(?) that powers a huge maschinery ... steampunk if you will
and shiekah tech, while obviously not exactly like that, still has some mechanical parts to it, sure its also magical, powered by some unkown material, but its got bits and pieces that move, it looks like something that seems pretty believable, if you look into a guardians ... hole at the flipside of it (you know what i mean) theres stuff that moves, glowy cogwheels and more, pipes and cores, you can see it between their 'head' and body too, you find springs and screws on broken ones, even the cores have some mechanism around it, and while being automatic and doing stuff on their own .. they are not sentient, not in the way sonau constructs are at least (listen i, in realy life, think of pretty much anythign inanimate as a sentient thing in a way, but maybe you know what i mean, i also like when things cannot just talk directly to you -also a reason i like silent characters- and instead you have to work a little or just ... pay attention to understand it?) (this also kidna goes for the shrine puzzles? like you often had to work with some sort of mechanical thing to get to the end of the shrine in botw, in totk you mostly just kinda glue stuff together and it .. just works?? not a fan of that tbh tho the shrine puzzles where one of the most fun parts nonetheless)
the sonau 'tech' isnt that, really, the most mechanical thing is a wheel or fan spinning? but all other stuff either just works (like rockets and stuff) or its a bunch of floating rings vaguely held together by some magical swirly string, and the constructs literally talk to you, like characters, while still being treated as nothing but 'maschines', i got nothing against magical maschinery (heck i love the shiekah stuff) but thats like .. too far removed from actual mechanisms to hit the right spot for me, that combined with the strange super modern look of some things (like the wheels, and kinda nonsensical steering thing, the rockets that just .. look like literal rockets with a vaguely rock looking texture over it .. etc) it made it all the more bleh to me
and while its far from a deal breaker it just adds another grain of salt on my opinion of the sonau things in general and the game as a whole (especially considering that lame ass excuse to just act like shiekah tech never existed ... ill never forgive them for that)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#ganondoodles rants#not really#but still taggign as such since it kinda fits into it#i think its ok to have a pretty much .. purely taste based opinion for once?#like most stuff i talked or ranted about usually had sth that id say is questionable in general#anyway
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I never understood Asmo's hair color. In the game, he has light brown hair, but in the anime, he has light pink hair (maybe strawberry blonde hair). The wiki states that he has champagne-colored hair, but upon further research, it seems that people tend to refer to this color as strawberry blonde hair.
This is very confusing, since champagne-colored hair is actually a pale yellowish-orange shade, while strawberry blonde hair is a light shade of red with blonde highlights. What's you're opinion on this?? Cause like I'm desperate for an answer....
My opinion is that Solmare was too chicken to give Asmo the pink hair he deserves. (And also the LONG hair he deserves... I have opinions about it lol.)
BUT since they have deprived us of pink haired Asmo, I always kinda thought of it as light brown? I mean, I'm sure it varies slightly based on screens and devices and color settings and such. But to me, his in game sprite always looked like it had light brown hair.
It's like that shade that's right in between brown and blonde, you know? It's too brown to be blonde but too blonde to be brown... I don't know how else to describe it.
I guess you could say it's strawberry blonde, but I kinda think it doesn't have enough red for that? It certainly varies in the anime and the card art. His eyes do that, too. The best card art gives him pink and yellow eyes each with a slightly orange tinge to them. It makes him look so beautiful and bright! Hang on~
Okay Asmo card for reference. I LOOOOVE his eyes in this card.
Anyway, I think this could be classified as strawberry blonde. It definitely has a pinkish reddish tinge to it. But it also has a lot of brown in it still, so I'm not entirely sure, to be honest with you.
When I look at this card, I think I would still call it light brown lol.
The lighter parts of his hair still don't have any yellow in them and that's the color needed for any type of blonde (and I would assume champagne as well though I'm not too familiar with that as a hair color). Even the brighter parts of his hair in this card are just the brown brightened by a white light source.
In the end, I suppose you can call it whatever you want, but to me personally, this will always be light brown. It's not yellow enough to be any kind of blonde and it's not red enough to be strawberry blonde either imo.
#please note that I am not a hairstylist or professional of any kind#this is all based on my personal opinion#and my qualifications are non existent lol#all I want is pink haired Asmo#though honestly I think this color is actually quite pretty too#obey me#obey me nightbringer#obey me asmodeus#anon asks#misc answers
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Spg fanbot fans does your fanbot believe in ghosts 🤔
#cookie cutter doesn't#shark has too much in its life going on for ghosts to come into the equation#mask does though and she takes them VERY seriously. i think hes a little superstitious especially with like theatre based superstitions#a little... no a lot#joyce had no real opinion on ghosts but thought conceptually they were pretty cool#then it came to the very haunted manor and was like Oh! alright i guess this is my life now <3#faust knows they exist and tries to make them feel included. it must be lonely to be a ghost
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Rereading Moon’s pearl dialogue and it’s all so good. I genuinely don’t get how people think she’s boring she’s so expressive in them.
#rain world#looks to the moon#it actually baffles me. like she is THE resource for pretty much anything lore related especially in the base game#she’s the reason rainworld even HAS a story bc Pebbles doesn’t tell you much in vanilla#maybe they think she’s boring BECAUSE they only see her as a vessel for exposition? but I still think that’s bullshit#she adds her own opinions and perspective on nearly every single one#and her perspective is interesting!#ik that’s subjective but I’m right
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ill be honest, sometimes i kinda feel like some of you guys think every new breed needs to be your new favorite breed or else its garbage and a disappointment and i really feel like you miss a lot of wonder that way
#like.. not every dragon is gonna be a dragon you love#especially when you're so used to the dragons we already have#and i feel like it can come off pretty strong sometimes#and if you think this one is the ugliest thing in the world and you hate it thats FINE#im not saying that's not fine!! im just saying maybe it's not a Staff issue as much as you think it is#maybe it's time to recognize that so much of this is opinion based and subjective#because truly it is
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the people in the tags understand me. starembers art is super pretty but also weird at times.
#xie lian has been doing manual labor for a living (breaking boulders on his chest WITH NO SPIRITUAL ENERGY brick laying farming etc)#im anti twink xie lian#also i dont think he should have mxtx protagonist snowy white skin. maybe as a sheltered prince. but he has been planting rice for years.#AT LEAST GIVE HIM A TAN#and hua cheng died as a malnourished 17 year old (he has been working out since then but i still prefer skinnier headcanons).#why does everybody have light eyes (even putting aside the colorism in the novel.)#why does xie lian have this wide-eyed-lips-parted-blank look and hua cheng have bedroom eyes all of the time#(not that they can't necessarily make these expressions but augh.)#why are they tall as fuck in every full body shot#why are their hands so big.#again i don't want to put any opinions in an actual post because i havent read the comic and it might be different than i think#but just based on the art ive seen... theyve been very yaoified. thats the best word i have#even by the point the manhua has reached (lqq arc iirc)#they've been having sincere and vulnerable moments#and i havent really seen panels that tell me that. let them be silly and awkward and fuck up. even if it makes them less sexy for a moment#and also?? xie lian (again just based off the art) seems to have lost a lot of agency?#he is a 'go with the flow' guy but he is also pretty situationally aware and clever#but the vibes i get are that he gets wide-eyedly dragged from plot point to plot point#(in the case where hua cheng slung him over his shoulder literally??)#(he would not fucking do that book 1.)#please correct me if i'm wrong#i'll probably get around to reading the manhua faster if someone tells me theyre more in character than i think they are#lmao#if you love the manhua disregard me.#not art#to delete l8er#(possibly)#(if i turn out to be wrong about this which is possible)#(or if someone decides they are very emotionally invested in my medium intensity feelings)
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I've been feeling really down about where we're at wrt rally obedience, to the point where I'm starting to consider giving up on trialing.
Kaija continues to disengage as soon as we enter the trial ring. Our instructor thinks that I need to be more firm, and that I have to keep asking Kaija to reengage and focus, so she learns that she can't get out of work by 'demonstratively' disengaging from me.
This doesn't sit right with me at all. Even if this approach did work/yield better results in the competition ring... is that really how I want to get there? With a dog that believes she has no choice but to work, regardless of her emotional state or her confidence level?
#i want so badly so follow Sharon Carroll and Laura Waudby's protocols#but it pretty much requires me to go directly against our instructor#who for the record is the most 'positive' - or whatever you want to call it - obedience instructor that i'm aware of in this country#seems like there is no overlap between choice-based training and dog sports here (in terms of classes and instructors)#only one or the other#i can't do this on my own#and i can't constantly fight the opinion of the person i am paying to help me#the best solution i am seeing right now is to say that kaija might never step foot into the rally ring ever again#that we'll continue to train at her pace (because she does enjoy the training and so do i) but if that's where it ends then that's okay#i just don't know what else to do here so
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#I have an opinion#I will stand by it#Twilight Town is an embarassment of gameplay#genuinely awful level design#with terrible enemies to boot#legit hate Dayzees#it's an absolute running-back-and-forth simulator#plus since it's puzzle-based#it's insanely unreplayable#once you know Doo_liss' name the fun is gone#Twilight Town (along with some other shit levels like Boggly Woods) is the reason I'm not buying the remake#but Doo_liss and Vivian?#those two fucking HIT#Doo_liss as an entire character is amazing#him swiping your identity is SICK#the camera holding on Mario waiting for you to hit something is amazing#Doo_liss' entire plot was handled really well#and he's honestly the funniest character in the entire game#he stands alongside Bowser Jr and Yoshi in my S tier Mario characters#and Vivian?#It's just nice to have her be trans in all translations (heh)#she's a pretty-well executed heel turn and is a direct upgrade from Bow in 64 (and Bow is already the best partner in 64!)#now to tag all this shit#doopliss paper mario#vivian paper mario#paper mario#paper mario the thousand year door#ttyd#ttyd remake
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