#they got to me. the Narratives got to me
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you could be my bodyguard
Zijian Wang / Jordan Jimenez / The Athletic (x, x, x, x) / Chappell Roan, “California” / Jenny Slate, “Little Weirds” / Pierre Haessik
baby’s first bball web weave lol. is there anything more tragic than a sports husbands divorce? ����
p.s don’t know where at least half of these pics are from but saw some of them on @freethrows @unmanageably @its-always-silly-season and @8jib’s blogs so thank u all for ur service 🫡🫡
#nba#web weave#web weaving#golden state warriors#dallas mavericks#nba finals#nba finals 2022#klay thompson#steph curry#steph/klay#beyonce#cowboy carter#the athletic#the athletic? or ao3#chappell roan#the rise and fall of a midwest princess#california#jenny slate#little weirds#bball rpf#11x30#they got to me. the Narratives got to me#I'll be your mirror
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Holy moly
#my art#digitalart#sketches#fanart#epic the musical#epic odysseus#epic hermes#epic the vengeance saga#we got mixed feelings here narrative wise but I loved the songs a lot#Charybdis is my favorite#eu ainda tô processando meu deus esse hermes me representa#odysseu totalmente coringado cara#i mean ele já tava coringado mah agora a conjuntura do meu mano foi pro beleléu de vez e é pq ele ainda vai destruir os pretendentes#num to preparada gente
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happy 9th undertale anniversary, everyone. :)
#undertale#undertale newsletter#undertale anniversary#ut#asriel#asriel dreemurr#asriel undertale#chara#chara dreemurr#chara undertale#photoshop flowey#flowey#flowey undertale#i haven’t drawn anything ut related in years. this poem got me good man#chara was just a kid. asriel was just a kid. they were CHILDREN!!#AUGH#my art#if i had a nickel for every media i’m currently into that features siblings doomed by the narrative#i’d have two nickels#which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice#at least stan and ford get a happy ending 💔
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The thing is, it's not about the Therapy Speak. It's not that everyone who disliked DAV hates healthy communication as a dynamic in fiction. It's not even about only being allowed to be a good guy, really, because most of us did do that anyways (though the option not being there is a loss I grieve even if I never chose it myself, but that's another rant for another day).
It's that DAV does all that stuff at the expense of being believable. At the expense of characters being permitted to have personalities. At the expense of emotions behaving the way emotions actually work for people. At the expense of letting the plot build tension through the stakes we're forced to grapple with.
Half the fics out there take the conflicts between the characters in the previous games and resolve them. I do it myself ALL THE TIME because I like to find a path to resolution through just about any conflict, that's what fascinates me about telling these stories. But the higher the stakes, the harder a conflict is to resolve. You CAN resolve any conflict, you CAN communicate healthily through any emotion, but you can't skip the time it takes to process it all to even be able to communicate it. As someone whose got CPTSD and recovered from many Traumas, I can tell you that the TIME it takes to work through it is not something you can fast track, and the ups and downs of your emotions on that journey can't be skipped. It doesn't matter if you know exactly how to do it, exactly how it's going to feel, or exactly what the end state will be, you CAN'T speedrun it.
DAV has stakes that are astronomical, but nobody treats them that way. Nobody experiences denial - a common psychological reaction to being presented with information that shatters your worldview. Nobody expresses any distrust in the establishments handing out this information - something common among cultures that have at times been at war, even if those wars are "resolved" in the present. Nobody really ever breaks down - something that any person is capable of under extreme circumstances, especially when facing multiple crises of faith that challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves. Nobody blows their lid because they've been repressing the hell out of everything. Nobody grieves for southern Thedas, the entire thing dying off screen and giving you, the player, NO way to engage with it in any way.
Not to mention there are barely any inter-party conflicts, when there should be a lot more. Why is everyone (except Spite) fine with it if Emmrich sacrifices Manfred to become a lich? Why is everyone fine with Illario potentially being set free if he was working with the venatori and Elgar'nan, two sources that have actively attacked everyone in the party? Why doesn't Neve resent Lucanis if Treviso is picked? Why doesn't Harding get pissed off at Nevarra for having a secret society of liches that never helped during the Inquisition's war against the breach and corypheus? Why doesn't Harding feel ANYTHING about Ferelden and the rest of the south? Shouldn't Harding resent the fact that she's stuck in the north while her home dies?
All of these conflicts ARE resolvable, but not easily. And it's not believable that they're never brought up. It's not believable that these characters skip through everything that happens with like, barely a frowny face most of the time. In DAO, Alistair leaves if you don't treat his conflicts with respect. In DA2, your party members try to kill each other if you don't pay attention to their conflicts/emotional needs. In DAI, people can leave or betray you, Cassandra throws a chair at Varric and tries to body him out a window. ALL of these can be resolved but it takes effort, and the characters get to SHOW that they're bothered by them and struggling the way a person would when faced with those emotions.
The problem isn't the therapy speak, or that everyone is loyal and won't leave, or that they aren't mean to each other enough. It's that it's toxic positivity. It's toxic as fuck to imply that anger or grief should be smiled over or else you're giving up, and it's damaging to people to avoid engaging with their own negative emotional responses to extremely negative stimuli. It's pasting optimism over very real, very weighty issues, sweeping it all under the rug, and you keep waiting for the lid to blow off the pressure cooker that creates, but it never does. It never becomes anything that emulates real emotions, which is why the whole damn thing feels hollow. Everything's dying and nobody cares, not even about themselves, and that's NOT healthy communication.
It's bullshit, half-assed storytelling that didn't tell us the actual story, just the vague idea of what it could have been.
#zombolouge writes#dragon age#dragon age spoilers#DAV#DAV Spoilers#DAV critical#veilguard critical#been rolling this one around in my head for a while because I know it wasn't “healthy communication” that was pissing me off#I write healthy communication all the goddamn time and people seem to enjoy it#but I also treat the trauma and the problems with fucking respect#ignoring your negative emotions is a form of self-destruction#it's just not how psychology works#and this is indeed not even addressing all the lore conflicts that they want us to think got fixed in the last ten years off screen#or the erasure of the complicated parts of some of the factions *cough the Crows cough*#but like JUST as a baseline JUST the emotional handling of the narrative is wack as fuck
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99. Pathetic — Blame Candy
My palm's pressed up against my face My brain is scattered all over the place I'm working harder than I need to be Because you won't allow my life to be easy Ooh, it's problematic even though you'd profit too You're having trouble sleeping, and I think I know why 1460 days since we were alright But now you're just pathetic, I said it You are pathetic
Ooh, I've been sitting on this one for so long! The first 8 or so songs on dbhc X's playlist portray the gradual deterioration of Xisuma's psyche throughout season 8 under Android 24's command and control; Pathetic actually comes right after Again & Again on the list, as Xisuma's dread turns to self-deprication spun by 24's demands and manipulation. His self-appointed derpiness kind of becomes a weapon turned against him, and the playful self-bashing becomes something 24 canonically uses against him (see: Evil X always calling Xisuma a derp, and 'foolish axolotl' etc) to admonish his efforts and ideas.
Even though this song is on Xisuma's playlist, I imagine most of the lyrics (namely, the ones bolded above) are coming from Android 24, coming from an annoyed, flippant, and demeaning place.
#dbhc#dbhc art#dbhc xisuma#art escapades#dbhc music#spotify wrapped 24#spotify wrapped drawing challenge#dbhc android 24#xisumavoid#evil xisuma#hermitcraft#hermitcraft au#dbhc s8#xisuma season 8#evil empire#ughhhhh this makes me so sick#evil x's attitude of like. 'don't worry that you're so derpy all of the time! that's why you've got me! :)'#and the depency and manipulation that sets up is just so genuinely sickening#i again side eye cc xisuma and sweat. thinking to myself 'did this man realize how horrific of a narrative he was spinning? just curious'#'oooh it's problematic even though you'd profit too' IS SUCH A GOOD LINE FOR 24 re:derpcoin and the like#financial manipulation of the hermits and stuff for 24's profit#like oooh maybe it's a bit under the rug but you'd profit too! It'd be a wonderful thing! The hermits would love it!!#sighs tiredly. oh season 8 xisuma narrative
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of course the show that is fundamentally centered around two sisters and their tragedies becomes centered around men and said sisters are sidelined and their arcs are pushed to the sidelines and all the phenomenal care that went into their characters went down the drain. one’s arc is literally “the traumatized / mentally unwell character’s happy ending is committing suicide because they are simply too broken to heal and be happy” trope, and her mental instability is forgotten. the other is reduced to a mere plot device, has no agency of her own, and her trauma and anger is treated like a complete and utter joke for the sake of a shitty ship, and because the writers literally, point blank, were bored with her. it’s so sad because the tragedy of these sisters is so utterly devastating, so encompassing and so intricately woven into the narrative. but make it about two men i suppose?
#astra.txt#arcane#arcane s2#anti jayvik#arcane critical#i don’t hate jayce or viktor either btw#though their story took a very weird turn in my opinion#viktor being the mage in season one ruined a lot about their dynamic for me#it felt so cheap#i really like jayce#i don’t really care for viktor#but i don’t dislike either of them#it just felt weird#this is the first time i can confidently say i was in a show that was ruined by shipping btw#i hate it#a lot of season two felt incredibly cheap to me in the narrative sense and i simply cannot bring myself to like it#the animation somehow got better though i luv it#but unfortunately not even animation as good as arcane’s can save bad writing
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not only do they only focus on mark/helly in the video in terms of workplace fraternization, reusing the clip of irving saying "let's burn this place to the ground" without the context of what led him to that point, but they literally erase burt from this scene in the back of o&d...fucked upppp
#severance#severance season 2#severance season 2 spoilers#at least we got heat miser reference...and keanu narrating#idk if ill actually have the stamina to make it but#i wanna make a video analyzing all the artwork they show in s1#its so interesting to me...the narratives they want to present and all that
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reunion 🌸
#persona 3#persona 3 spoilers#minato arisato#makoto yuki#ryoji mochizuki#aigis#ryomina#lizzy does art#HELLO EVERYONE!!! march 5th is upon us again so i bring... my contribution for this year. my third year drawing for it!#i made the thumbnail for this a few weeks after last year's graduation day#i thought it would be fun to lean into the ryominaigis angle of graduation day (you could read this as minato/aigis if you like-#but i feel like most people would read it as ryoji/minato)#IN ANY CASE working on this made me very emotional over this game :') (specifically minato)#i really enjoy how p3 ends it's such a nice way of wrapping up the narrative's messages and themes#working on this. minato's kindness was at the forefront of my mind throughout the piece#and i really wanted to capture how. ultimately it was his decision to sacrifice himself- to do the great seal#while to an outsider's perspective it is. sad that minato passes. i think becoming the seal is something that minato-#actively welcomes. in the same way that death (ryoji) is a comfort to him because death was housed in him for Ten YearsTM#AND I ALSO GOT REALLY SAD OVER AIGIS TOO. i still get fucked up over how in fes's animated cutscene for 3/5 they portray-#her as human and not drawing the robot parts so i wanted to do something smilar here...#but also i am very sad on aigis's behalf because she discovers her humanity through minato and realizes what she-#wants to do and then. well. minato is like. he's ready to pass on (even if he's scared) and im like. OH MY GOD THIS TRIO GETS ME MESSED UP#this was more coherent in my head LOL BUT ough i like drawing p3 and working through my feelings about it...#anyway! happy (in quotations) march 5th. i love this game to bits. it's so fun to draw for this day every year and see how i've improved#if you've read all this thank you :) lizzy appreciates you all very much. mwah! <3
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you. N and volo's massive parallels. you understand yes?
#doctor's orders#n harmonia#volo#pokemon#this was on my old twatter acc that got suspended :(#but i still think of it daily i was right#god complex. inferiority complex. mommy/daddy issues. neither of them think they are capable of being loved (by their pokemon who clearly d#i want everyone to be happy except for me because i don't deserve it#BIG DREAMS. BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG MISGUIDED DREAMS.#life ruined* by the narrative foil protag who is also a child who appeared out of nowhere.#and after all that they do give the protag their blessing to make THEIR dreams come true :(#they also both have a somewhat unclear fate. for N at least until bw2 i guess but volo's fate after the trial of sinnoh#was written so ambiguous it's actually almost funny. yeah let's imply that he's immortal killed himself and got his life back together and#reproduced all in the same breath. who gives a shit. fuck this guy (me) in particular
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vex & pike in c3e112
#critical role#cr spoilers#ygifs#listen laura said hi baby unwarranted to pike and left me to deal with that#absolutely c1 still plagues the narrative if keyleth and pike both need to get fucked and vex is like well I'll FIND someone#like lady vexahlia grand mistress of the grey hunt you ARE someone fuck your bitches yourself already they're dying#here's how cr is really just the narrative demanding laura's pcs to be nonstop dykes send tweet#pike the same one who got FLUSTERED when naked vex hugged her is yearning for her geriatric human husband while Vexahlia is right there?ok.
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"i have a sister now! thank you, granpa! we are going to do so much stuff together!"
(trans masc newborn shado btw. tag as ship and ill kill you)
#im so done. they deserved so much better#im getting atatched to maria now and its#its not easy. shes basicaly a pure white girl but also a completely blank canvas#yet im so. shes so.. i hc those earings are a gift from her parents they gave her jjst before she moved to the ark. she always wears them#she was a human being with her own identity but neither her granpa (the person that raised her) nor the narrative treats her as such#there had to be some fucked up shit she went through psycologicaly that not even shadow got to know#its actually painful for me to draw her not happy. its too much#also shadow is trans masc and just a few days of age thats why maria calls him “sister”#sth#sonic#sonic fanart#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#nov.aart
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#bobby praying for buck + eddie praying for bobby
#mine*#911#911edit#911 spoilers#911 abc#bobby nash#bobbynashedit#eddie diaz#eddiediazedit#tvedit#tvgifs#uservalentina#alielook#mialook#useraish#tuseraixa#userdahlias#userrin#tuserrobin#useraudrey2#tuserambs#userbbelcher#chewieblog#cinemapix#genuinely insane and hateful to me personally that this is the only shot we got of eddie praying over bobby#queer catholic eddie diaz im gonna get you out of this narrative hold my hand baby
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The Great Dusknoir (but human)
#I should probably preface in the human au; Bibsy and Aimilly are much older#(17-23ish?)#at the very least baby-them have self defense in the form of elemental moves. that and having this man beef with toddlers in this au#-is a bit TOO unserious for me#anyways YAAAAAY FINALLY GOT HIS DESIGN DOWN (DOES A JIG)#pmd#pmd eos#pmd art tag#pmd explorers#pmd2#Dusknoir#pmd dusknoir#<<<< AND ALSO IMPLEMENTING THE DIALGA GEMS IN HIS DESIGN. I wanted to do it in his ghost form but the gold looked better#<< but it’s more fun narrative wise here bc the timegear brooches are earned/gained from Ribbons and Aimilios when they forgive him#anyways here u go u animals
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Yesterday for the first time I saw a post in a public forum that actually points out Marika has every reason to be so cold & distant towards Maliketh... thanks God.
The Two Fingers/ EIden Beast stood aside & let her entire family die, then when it successfully entrapped her in a literal divine prison it said “here we gave you a brother lol” like istg WHAT are you even saying. Her entire real family is already in a ditch !!! No prayers to the Gods help them! And now these Godlike beings are like take this random guy as your bro???
It’s confirmed in the base game Shadowbeast is like sleeper agent that the Two Fingers put there to monitor their Empyrean & off them if they try to rebel, no matter how earnest the Shadowbeast sounds. Ranni and Blaid literally grew up together & we still have to get rid of him at the end of her questline 💀 Marika was a young woman who had lost everything then forced to recognize some stranger as family. To her that must be some fucked up joke.
And get this, I do believe Maliketh and Blaidd care for Marika & Ranni genuinely, it’s a tragedy that they were born to bring “nothing but bale” to the person they love. Just like how Messmer, the beloved son in the Shadow, also became a curse to the person he loves the most in the end. That’s the doomed narrative they are trying to portray.
#er brainrot#the tragedy is THE LOVE WAS THERE !! it's just set up to be doomed by the narrative#not oh one party is unloved / mistreated by the other :(((((( gawddd#like gahhhh ok yeah sure think whatever u want but i'll sit on this reading of the lore#i were going to draw a comic about that which was why i been keeping my mouth shut about MaIiketh but the post i saw yesterday knocked me#tf out (a post in a wild analyzing Marika's actions with NUANCE and it's from someone i don't even know???? made my night fr)#so the feelings got out and i had to type this out
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inspired by that one other vien diagram
#oneshot game#in stars and time#undertale#oneshot#isat#ut#utdr#isat spoilers#ut spoilers#oneshot spoilers#alternative candidates to vien diagrams circles were:#'BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BIG HAT BIG CLOAK BI-'#'died but got better'#'semi-divine being on speed dial'#'damn these mfs havent seen the sun in one thousand years....'#'the gang gets doomed (and then sequentially undoomed) by the narrative 🔥🔥🔥'#'the end goal was not in fact the End Goal'#'colors 🌈'#and of course#'made me cry real tears at one point'
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May I ask what were the best transformers media you ever saw/read?
Well Transformers Prime, Transformers 1986 and IDW comics are having the first place that’s for sure
And then the second place is kind of shared by Fall of Cybertron, Exodus, Prime wars trilogy, Robots in disguise(2001) and Transformers One.
The third place goes to G1, Animated, Earthspark, Armada, War for Cybertron Netflix series, Aligned Robots in disguise, Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts and Cyberverse because I only liked some little parts of them.
And then I also saw some of the Bay movies, Victory and Headmasters and didn’t like them at all.
Separate first place for J-Decker. It is not exactly Transformers but it is a show about giant robots and I loved it

#call me weird for placing cheap ugly shows above Earthspark and Animated#but the thing is#I have when the whole narrative revolves around human kids#*hate#I’m allergic to them#Prime wars trilogy had one of the worst face rigs I ever saw#but it also had Overlord teaming up with evil Rodimus and Megatron being funniest mf alive#Armada is straight up infuriating imma be honest#Armada is like#Au where all the weapons work only once and then just create some glitter#I actually have SO many thoughts on Armada. like. as a writer#the way they keep reusing the same plot 3000 times is borderline impressive#OH War for Cybertron from Netflix was such an experience!#It was so painfully boring and stupid sometimes#but the other times. ooooouuufff. The scene where some nameless decepticon gives Megatron a little tour to show him how him and his friends#-work so hard for the cause??? THAT SHIT HIT HARD#….also I pretty much only like the Quintesson apocalypse arc from the entire Cyberverse#Transformers Victory is fun until you actually hear them speaking#the concept of Star Saber adopting a human child and raising him and then#going to human school as his legal guardian being like ‘yeah sure I can sign all your tiny ass documents’#it’s hilarious but unfortunately all the writers of that anime were snorting cocaine because WHY all the characters talk like that#Animated was fun for me only near the end. Idk what to say. I’m not a fan of any drama centered around humans#things got interesting when Cybertronian government got involved#Earthspark is WHOLE giant topic ahahah. I liked Twitch. sometimes. I also liked Grimlock while he had voice lines. Prowl was fun.#everything else needs and essay haha I don’t wanna annoy anyone#OH I also watching Tf Cybertron right now and this shit is UGLY. they have NO RIGS. THEY HAVE ONE EXPRESSION EACH#but for some fucked up reason I love it. they got the guy named Landmine who only can have (-_-) face.#their Megatron actually respects Starscream so far and regularly gives him positive reinforcement??? I heard words ‘excellent job Starscrea#and went WAIT WHAT#Anyway. If you ask me to ramble about media you get a word tsunami. I have a lot to share
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