#this is all the same anon i believe !

[princescar]

wait, junko and yasuke officially kiss in Dr0??

Volume 2, Chapter 6

and its later reiterated by Yuto in Chapter 12

(included Ryoko's crashout too bc damn, girl could NOT catch a break)

and we KNOW this is Real Junko because both Mukuro and Matsuda confirm it in Chapter 14

(i love this last part too, he seems so offended that she thinks he couldn’t tell the difference between them lmaoo thats definitely junko's man)

[dykedvonte]

I find the line "I have to believe our worst moments don't make us monsters." Fascinating because it comes from Anya, and I feel she really proves it the best.

For obvious reasons most people are in the "Anya did nothing wrong" camp and for good reason but there is a single action that I don't think she did well and it was her suicide. Specifically her method.

Realizing that Anya took Curly's painkillers was horrifying to me. As a Nurse I have no doubt that she'd know how terrible dying from overdose is. She had access to a gun which is well known for having a far more instant and far less painful death. And despite everything falling apart around her, knowing how bad Jimmy was, she still left Curly alive.

I don't think I thought about it much like that at first but the longer this game has sat with me the more horrified I am by the action. Curly is man who has been horribly disabled and is completely unable to help himself and he is very much a human being who does not deserve to be anywhere close to that amount of pain. Those painkillers were one that the few things that could give him any amount of relief and Anya took them.

She could have shot herself and left the painkillers for whoever was left to help Curly. She could've shot Curly and then taken the painkillers. She could've shot them both and quickly put an end to their misery, yet she didn't. Anya had a great amount of her agency stripped away from her, to the point that she didn't deem life to be worth it anymore and ended it, right next to a man who couldn't make that choice for himself even if he wanted to.

It is easily her most horrific choice and yet, she's still an angel.

(Please don't take this as Anya slander, I genuinely love her so much. I just find this to be an incredibly interesting thing)

I do subscribe to the idea that Anya realized that Jimmy was hitting Curly when giving him his medicine but didn’t intervene. I also don’t think her taking the pills from Curly as monstrous mainly because (while she knew he suffered worse with out them) she likely also knew they were basically bandaids on a bullet wound.

I have this sort of belief that that statement can only really apply to Jimmy in the inverse. Like some statements in the games aren’t meant to apply to all characters and not in every context of every action they do. It’s the idea that no one should be responsible for Jimmy’s actions but himself but they are forced to by him or the environment. Everyone is experiencing their worst moments but no one is a monster outside of Jimmy due to his inability to take responsibility and how he escalates the severity of the situation through his bad choices. Even then it’s not one moment that makes Jimmy a monster it’s the culmination of every moment that prove his inability to be anything but in this scenario.

With Anya you must remember she did have the code to the gun. Yeah, she could’ve broken it open but who’s to say how easy or how long it would’ve taken. Not to mention, there’s this misconception that she wanted the gun to kill Jimmy which isn’t true. She wanted the gun to defend herself in the case he got aggressive which is an important note of Anya being the only proactive person on the ship vs reactive. Locking the door, knowing there was no way in was likely a duel mercy for them both. A person in his state would die relatively soon without constant care and she has ample time to pass. It’s a hard decision to make for herself and someone else but it was the easiest even if it caused more damage than it was ever meant to cause.

It’s a sort of parallel to how Curly made choices he thought would help Anya and everyone but ultimately doomed them all further. Jimmy got what he wanted in both scenarios of crashing the ship and wanting Anya gone. What happened on the Tulpar will go down as a tragedy if they are ever found, a mystery if not but certainly not in a way that Jimmy wanted. Anya and the pregnancy are effectively gone but he’s still facing the repercussions for it.

There’s this idea that it’s controversial to say that Anya was anything but perfect and while I don’t think she did anything wrong, she certainly didn’t make the best choice in telling Jimmy but that again was because of the situation and environment she was in. We don’t know why she didn’t wait on Curly after their conversation in the cockpit, we know that was the plan and we know Jimmy finding out through her alone was the catalyst to the crash within like the next hour, yet you can’t really blame her. We don’t know why Jimmy came to medical nor what anyone else was doing. It can be considered her one mistake but then again we can’t blame a reasonable action on someone’s unreasonable response.

I think that’s a big aspect a lot of people look over in the characters actions. Most of them are normal, reasonable, human. But the systematic responses to them and Jimmy’s are unreasonably harsh and punishing.

This has gone off in a tangent from what you originally posed but I genuinely think of what might do happened if that confrontation happened with Curly there and away from the cock pit. I assume it’d happen in medical or even utility, hell, an area away from anything sensitive but what if? If the ability to do something awful wasn’t at Jimmy’s finger tips, if there was more than one voice in Curly’s head during that moment, what would’ve changed?

When I look at Anya I see her as having the best responses to anything happening during the events of the game but the environment, systems against her and even the other crew mates to an extent made it so it would inevitably backfire on them and mostly her hard.

[chuluoyi]

it’s really beyond me how subposting is still a recurring event in this hellsite — but i’ll say it once again: if you don’t like what i write or what i do in my own blog, then kindly leave or block me. mutuals or not, i won’t care a shit. you don’t go subposting or spreading hate. that’s highly immature behavior befitting a child :)

i don’t know if it isn’t obvious already, but i spent lots and lots of time rethinking while writing my fics. most of the time it takes weeks or months. whether i’m basing it on a manhwa or not, i spent a lot of time thinking and writing it—for months even—so if you don’t even read it and just label it as if i just plagiarized it in one go… it actually makes me so upset

just… be peaceful pls. if you don’t like it, then block me. it’s so simple if you think about it like a mature adult. unless you’re incapable to. thank you

[morningstargirl666]

what do you think about Hayley?

I think she was made as a plot device, not a person, and therefore has no real character.

I mean, when she was first introduced, she had a good premise---we learn she grew up with foster parents, and when she turned for the first time, they kicked her out. I think that's a really neat insight into the werewolf world they should have explored a whole lot more. If she's in her early/mid-twenties does that mean she's been turning since she was a teenager? Is she an experienced werewolf, having been running with other packs ever since she was kicked out? What happened when she was kicked out? Was she homeless for a while, forced to hitchhike and live on the streets, thinking herself a monster until she realised there were more people like her? How did she find that out? Did she bump into a werewolf in a bar? Was there a werewolf that took her under his/her wing, taught her everything she knew? Did she find her own family, even though they shared no blood?

The problem is, TVDU has a horrible habit of creating female characters for a specific purpose, and not expanding on them otherwise. Hayley was supposed to be likeable because they intended to air TO and Plec wanted the baby plotline. She wasn't a homewrecker, because Tyler wasn't actually cheating on Caroline with her, see? It's just a ploy to distract Klaus! Hayley's actually trying to help the hybrids out of the good of her heart!

Yeah, well, that's all good and dandy, but Julie---[takes a huge breath]---my darling, you forgot you made Hayley a decietful bitch who betrays the hybrids to Klaus just for the promise of information on her parents. Which, don't get me wrong---I think the twist made her character all the more interesting. It would have been better if her alliance with Shane was revealed later and came as more of a shock. But again, Hayley was a plot device, and the writers were using her for all the wrong reasons, reaching their crescendo of mysognistic bad decisions when they had her get pregnant with Klaus' child and later, forced her own plotline with the NOLA werewolves just to give her something to do rather than just be Klaus' shacked up momma.

Like all the characters in TVDU, she had great potential, especially as a morally grey character or antagonist.

But as always, the execution was shite.

[fraternum-momentum]

This is so so stupid but I got very happy when I read in your strawpage you are from 2003 too, I've lurking around seeing your art ever since DOL caught my eye and you're one of my favourite artists so having that bit in common is cool! I also love your DOL designs, especially Kylar's and Whitney's but the fave gotta be your PC she's so pretty! Seeing your fanarts keeps tempting me into posting dol art of my own so if I ever draw dol I'll draw our wet cat (Kylar) together >:)

Also if you haven't played Fields of Mistria or Homicipher I definitely recommend them! The first one is similar to Stardew Valley in the sense you're a farmer, you can decorate your house and romance any of the bachelors/bachelorettes but this one is more fantasy-like and the artstyle reminds me of 80s anime and Sailor Moon. The second came out recently and I haven't played it yet but I saw the trailer and some fanarts; you wake up in a terrifying unknown world where you have to survive and the romance options are very creepy men, one of the appeals of this one is trying to learn the world's language, it looks fun

Wish you a nice weekend! PS: Is it ok to follow you if I like South Park? I know DOL is darker when it comes to sexual stuff but just in case I prefer to ask boundaries

HELL YEAA '03 BABIESS 🤝🤝 ngl that dol era was probably peak bc i was fucking around with a lot of my mooties and just interacting with the fandom in general, it was so funnnn :3 and ky and whit r probably the most popular ones out of the 4 school li's (designwise my favs r still my fallen syds bc pretty) so understandable (⌒_⌒)d

but thats insane that u find my pc pretty bc thats probably the most boring, most generic looking self insert ever 😭😭😭😭 so many people have cooler looking pcs out there so im flattered that u like mine 😭😭😭 ??????? for some reason 😭 ??????????

and you totally should !!!! (if u want to of course) despite me not posting as much dol as i used to i still love seeing dol fanart !! but do whatevr ur heart desiresss and no pressure :3

and i've actually been following the development of fields of mistria ever since i saw march in my twt feed !! i just want to wait for the full release so i dont have to keep repeating playthroughs n stuff (its the same with hades 2, i just tried out the beta test bc its free so i went why not lmao)

OKAY. I KNOW i said im gonna play homicipher but like,,,,,,,,, this is def just a me thing but when everyone keeps saying to play this thing or watch this thing (arcane,,,, homicipher,,,) it just disincentivises me to do it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 especially when i know im gonna like the thing. IDK WHY,,,, maybe its kinda like the same philosophy as someone telling u to do the dishes when ur alr on ur way to do the dishes and like ok i dont want to do it anymore ?? idkkk its weirdd

Re: P.S. you can follow me from whatever fandom ur in ! as long as youre not a minor and u have either 'adult' or your age in bio then its all good

SORRY I WAS KINDA CONFUSED AS TO WHO U WERE TALKING ABT I THOUGHT IT WAS THE HORSE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i think u meant celia from tpof :3 ? that's probably one of my favorite drawings ive done ! i dont remember how i did it anymore thou,,,,,,,,

AND YEAA!!! i used to be an infamous irumatsu shipper back when i was active on my main on insta ! my silly lesbiabs,,,,,,,,,, they r everything to me,,,, my favorite chara is shuichi tho ♡

CATCHING UP WITH LORE 😭😭 U DONT HAVE TO DO ALL THAT,,, u arent missing out on much dw 😭 ty tho,,

weirdly enough i never got into creepypastas. i def stumbled into them from time to time like slenderman, jeff the killer, ben drowned n shit but i think ever since i got scared shitless by the smiledog.jpeg (??) i never stepped my foot into creepypasta territory ever again 😭😭😭😭😭 ok i like horror but im really really bad with jumpscares and suspence and stuff. i get scared easily orz,,

ive heard of it ! seen a lot of (really insane) fanart for it !! havent played it tho but i like some of the designs :3 i keep seeing the guy with the horns? malleus ? hes cute,, well tbh all of them r cute so its a hard choice

[popppyfur]

(coping) reason why there hasnt been a third series announced yet is bc they actually started production AFTER tbt or at the very least at the ends of it unlike tpia where it was being made alongside twt at the time hence giving them a chance to actually try and include the characters introduced in tbt

[jewishbarbies]

who's gonna tell Jew hater baby-girl-aaron-dessner that Aaron and Bryce expressed that one of their dreams was to be able to take The National to Israel? sadly they've never gotten the opportunity. but it's significant to them because they're, you know, Jewish!

i didn’t have any idea who that user was and i wish it stayed that way. scrolled for less than 5 minutes and found literal gory pictures of dead children, “be the intifada you wish to see in the world”, the “don’t let propaganda make you believe any child doesn’t deserve to grow up” followed by calling Israeli children colonizers who deserve to die for being born in israel, reblogs from heritageposts bc of course, glorifying macklemore’s antisemitic goysplain of a song, and just about every possible antisemitic conspiracy in between random posts about taylor swift.

[angryaromantics]

It's so fucking weird how reductive people can be online. Like, do you really think me complaining about niche issues that predominantly affect aromantic people on my aro sideblog means i have no hobbies or joys in my life? Do you think, in the weeks between posts, I am sitting stationary, stewing in my frothing rage, and doing absolutely nothing else?

You can see very little about a person while just combing their blog for something to get mad about. Can't you just block me like a normal person? Don't worry, I'll do it for you <3

[not-poignant]

Hello! Wanted to ask about Ream. You said that you set your tiers a long time ago, and with current horrors of Patreon and such will you add some tiers to Ream so that once-a-month payers on Patreon could find a tier with same price on Ream and would be comfortable moving? Thanks!

Hi anon!

So this is something I've been thinking over for months actually.

At first I was like 'yes of course' and then a very good friend sat me down and I realised that...actually maybe not.

Here's the reason (tl;dr I haven't increased my income in 10 years and actually cost of living has gone up in that period of time and I need to eat too):

Those prices haven't changed in a decade. I haven't had a 'wage increase' on that front in a decade. You can't change tier prices once they're made, they're locked in place forever (until you delete or retire the tier).

Not only that, but I offer about...3-4 times as much as I used to.

In the end, I increased my prices on Ream (a semi-midway point between charging once and charging twice) because of inflation and cost of living.

I know that everyone reading this is impacted by that too, and that might mean some people can't subscribe to Ream (or can't subscribe on the same tier) for a few dollars more because it's just too much, but I am now drastically undercharging compared to so many other authors on the market who do subscription.

Where I charge $5 USD for base early access, most charge between $10-20. I settled on $9 USD on Ream. Some authors have tiers of like... $100-200 per month, and I couldn't ever dream of doing that. But this is my career, and it's the money I use to pay for food, bills, etc. I don't make a minimum wage with the hours I work, and the idea of just hitting the country's average yearly income feels like a distant dream.

Granted, some of that could be down to my marketing options (like maybe I'd make more if I took all my writing offline and made people pay for all of it, but I don't want to do that, I like the model I do now, but it's dependent on those who can comfortably afford to support it... supporting it - if they want!!)

When I set up Ream, and set up the new tiers, I set them up with how much the cost of living has changed in a decade and how much other authors are charging on the whole. And I thought about it and came to the conclusion that I have 10 years behind me, I'm offering 3-4 times as much as I used to and am only charging about 50-80% more, cost of living has changed, and since I don't rely on book royalties (I love Perth Shifters but royalties work out to about $30 every 3 months), subscription is where the changes need to happen.

I'm not super happy about that, like, obviously I don't want people to feel hard done by, but all I can do is remind myself - and remind you and others anon - that unlike 99% of other authors in subscription, almost all of my writing becomes freely available if folks just have patience. That's something I know for a fact some other authors think I'm stupid for doing, lol, but I prefer doing it this way because it feels fandom and community friendly in a different way.

So even if folks can't afford a few dollars more to subscribe on Ream (you can become a follower though and still get email notifications - no one needs to pay to follow me on Ream, that's completely free), you just need to be patient. Like I get it, that few dollars is the difference sometimes between a bill getting paid and not getting paid - I feel and live that myself. I'm so angry at the Patreon situation, because honestly, if my account goes tomorrow and I get banned there, I may have to quit writing if Ream can't pick up fast. I cannot work for like... 50c an hour.

And I need to make some posts about this on Patreon obviously, but the stress of it is so overwhelming, because it's like staring down the barrel of a potentially career-ending policy decision.

Anyway, re: tier prices, the one exception to not changing / offering half-priced or lower-priced tiers is the merch tier, where I have thought about approaching Ream with getting an ongoing discount code, since I calculated sending merch on the merch tier at the $25 USD rate with the awareness that some people would be paying twice as much, and the leap there is the most significant one. That's a place where I'm willing to compromise if I can work that out, and Ream is typically very accommodating.

Folks who can't afford it still get access to nearly everything eventually - and not in a year, but like...in a few months, or even just a handful of weeks.

Folks who don't think my writing is worth a modest increase can choose to bow out whenever they want (or sign up to a lower tier and still get access to nearly everything eventually)!

I am grateful to any and all folks who choose to support my writing whether it's financially or not, and I do get that like, sometimes the budget just does not allow for an increase of any kind. Or maybe you only signed up this year and don't believe in paying more than what you do already, and so it doesn't matter that my prices have been the same for a decade. Most artists / creators / writers have put up their book prices / art prices / etc. Ream is the first time I've ever done it.

Anyway on the matter of the merch tier, I'll talk to Ream about organising some kind of perma-discount and offering it specifically in that tier. For the rest, I'll keep thinking about it, and maybe talk to Ream to see what they suggest too.

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Anyway, I'm just... I am sorry anon, in a perfect world, I would have been able to incrementally increase my tier prices all along with a lot of warning in advance. And I'm also like, extremely and intensely hoping that I can just stay on Patreon, but that seems less and less likely with their new policy changes. I'm not uprooting, I will keep posting on Patreon until the lights metaphorically go out. It's just, they could kick me in an hour and I'd have no recourse and there'd be no point in appealing. Or they could kick me in 5 years, or 10.

In some ways this isn't a problem until Patreon makes it a problem for all of us, but yeah, that's where I'm at. A friend basically reminded me that it's okay for me to value my writing and my 10 years of experience and my track record and my stories a bit more, and I took their advice to heart, and then have felt terribly guilty ever since, lol. I'll keep thinking about my options here, and what I can do, because I obviously don't want to leave a lot of people behind, either.

[lover-of-mine]

Oh WOW I didn't know any of that,my goodness lmao no wonder they think these two will move in together and get married and get custody of Christopher and live happily in Tuberculosis subtle masculine helicopter and MMA touches home

Yeaaah, and it's funny because a lot of them renounce 🧀 but repeat the moving in spec and the Tommy's house spec because they don't know it started with someone messing with them and decided they had something to based it of. It's especially funny when you know that it all comes back to ☕ saying Tim told her something that would break the buddies hearts. Obviously that means Buck will take Chris and run to the sunset with Tommy, I guess. Because that's totally happening.

[strang3lov3]

carnarion- does true love exist?

🍓💌

Flower asks

I don’t think I know! I feel like true love is sold to us like a fairy tale idea like two people fall in love and everything is okay simply because they love each other. That’s the definition I’m working off of. Love is not enough imo. I think what is equally important is shared goals, respect, responsibility, timing, appropriateness, etc. All those not as “romantic” details. Sort of like when you can love a pet, but love is not all that a pet needs - it also needs you to feed it and give it clean water and do the dirty shit like cleaning up puke. If this all makes sense

[cementcornfield]

good lord my inbox is a mess lmao

[rosicheeks]

Sometimes what I'm jacking off to just doesn't cut it, so I imagine it's you in the video or audio instead and it always makes me cum harder. Like yes that is Rosie I'm fucking against the window where anyone can look up and see. Yes indeed I'm covering Rosie in cum so I can have an excuse to fuck her in the shower.

THIS ENERGY ONLY!!!!!!

[sun-marie]

ooh, questions for Lydia!

🌹 What’s the first genuine fight Rook got in with their love interest about? How was it resolved?

🥀 What figure from Rook’s personal past would be added to the regret prison?

Oooh, we're getting into the Spicy Questions now >:) Thank you for the ask anon!!

🌹 What’s the first genuine fight Rook got in with their love interest about? How was it resolved?

Lydia: "You know that much caffeine isn't good for your system right."

Lucanis: "You know why I drink so much of it, Rook."

Lydia: "Uh-huh, but that doesn't change how bad it is for you. And even though you and Spite have settled your differences you still drink a ton of it."

Lucanis: "You know what else I heard is pretty bad for you? Lyrium potions."

Lydia: "What? That's not the same. I'm a mage, I need those."

Lucanis: "And I'm an assassin who needs his coffee."

Lydia: "That's nOT THE SAME-"

lol yeah I think it'd be a bit after their second coffee date, Lydia is a Certified Coffee Hater and Tea Truther and she is (genuinely!) concerned Lucanis has a coffee addiction. Trying to get that man to give up, or even lighten up, on the coffee is like arguing with a brick wall, though, and I think it'd get pretty heated pretty fast. She'd probably storm off at some point and pout for a bit, and when he tries to talk to her later about something normal she'd say something like "Don't say a word to me right now Lucanis, I'm so serious" and he'd be like "mierda, STILL??"

But after some alone time and reflection, I think she'd go back and apologize to him for trying to force him to do something he didn't want to do. He'd appreciate the apology and admit she wasn't wrong that it's bad for him and that he knows she's just trying to help, but it's not so easy to just drop something like that, especially with Everything that's going on. They agree to table the discussion until after the gods are dealt with and promise not to let it get so heated like that.

🥀 What figure from Rook’s personal past would be added to the regret prison?

Her parents :( Or at least as she remembers them, vaguely elven figures without defined faces. She regrets not only that she was separated from them (not her fault), but also that at some point she stopped looking for them (...kinda her fault). She'd be stuck at their area the longest, bc unlike Harding, Bellara, or even Varric, this is a regret she's carried for most of her life. Letting them go means that it's alright for her to take care of herself and to live for herself, and that it may even be her responsibility.

Woe! Rook Ask Game Be Upon Ye!

[padfootastic]

Also incredibly sad that what other anon pointed out is true. Potter inner circle = marauders because lily was just. never given any friends other than snape? Are we supposed to believe that if they had a fallout in their 5th/6th year Lily just didn't befriend any of the other students in her year? What was she DOING between graduating from Hogwarts and dying? Are we supposed to believe that Lily (whose only screentime was 1. yelling at boys in her year and 2. defying voldy himself) was just sitting at home twiddling her thumbs while her bf and his friends tried to safe the world? We know that she went to meetings cause of that picture Moody showed Harry. Did she not make ANY friends?? you cannot convince me Lily didn't have at least one close friend by the time she and James had to go into hiding. jkr i'm in your walls and spiteful

god EXACTLY!! lily literally only exists as a trigger for james’ maturity and that’s just. so offensively ridiculous i refuse to touch it with a twenty five feet pole. i just cannot. the deification of lily must stop!!! she was more than just the Sacrificial Mother!!! (we do not know what ofc but she had to have been)

my personal hc is that lily spent years alienating her housemates and other muggleborns/halfbloods but even that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t have friends, especially after she cut things off w snape. and the order? war leads to strong bonds,,,,where are hers? the whole thing is just so sad man.

[foursaints]

hi so i'm the anon that sent like the crying, the not soften and the one about them being strange togther. glad you enjoyed my thoughts. these two make me want to chew on my own bones and atp what's stopping me anymore. also. you understand the assigment every time. thanks for your version of them.

♡ ♡ no i should be the one thanking you for your messages wtf… i felt privileged to be receiving them because you were really doing some high-level Understanding and i’m just happy to be the middle man. let’s chew on our bones together