#this witch can fuck me UP

[stiltsthegm]

GOTY 2024 #1 - Heaven Will Be Mine

I can't believe it took me this long to play Heaven Will Be Mine. It's over 6 years old at this point. I had known about it since it released, so it's not like it blindsided me or anything. I just...never got around to it. At the same time, though, I'm glad it took me this long to play Heaven Will Be Mine. I don't know if 2018 Iris would have appreciated it as much, or in the same way. Fuck, I still hadn't figured out I was Iris until 2021 so, you know, things are looking a whole lot different from the other side of that.

Heaven Will Be Mine is a visual novel about three women who pilot giant mechs for three different factions. These mechs, however, cannot kill, because they weren't designed for fighting things of flesh and blood or even metal. They were designed to fight ideas. These girls will try to use them to make their own ideas real.

Every fight in the game is a conversation, an argument, a reminiscing, a flirtation, a reconciliation. Pluto's mech is massive and overwhelming and all-encompassing because that's what Pluto's personality feels like. Saturn's mech is slippery and bitey and scrappy because she's a mischievous brat. Heaven Will Be Mine sees the metaphor of the humanoid mech and decides to simply toss aside the thin barrier of separation between man and machine. The man is the machine, the machine exists because the man sees themselves in it and as it. In such a world, a child might decide that this new and potentially limitless expression of the self is far more liberating and fulfilling than anything they had on Earth. They might decide to stay in space to build a new life for themselves. To be a new type of human. One that doesn't fit the previous definitions.

And what would happen if Earth decided it didn't want the definition of "human" to change?

The three factions in the game represent three different answers to that question. It's a testament to this game's phenomenal writing that all three answers feel "right," even if there's one particular ending I like more than the others (mine is Cradle's Graces, for the record). Because that's the only true way to handle that question, isn't it? We're all trying to figure out what being us even means, and we're gonna have different ways of doing that.

God, I've been rambling about themes and introspection and shit and I haven't even mentioned the art and the music. It's stunning, gorgeous, evocative, and I could heap more superlatives on it, but it'd start to feel insincere even though I mean every word of it. I adore every character in this game and want only the best for them. I love reading every chat log and news article and mission briefing. Every ending makes me cry, even when I'm seeing them for the second time.

I suppose it's fitting that the only game that had a chance of knocking 1000xResist from first place was an even gayer visual novel that came out almost 7 years ago and is a contender for one of my favorite games of all time. And if you don't agree with me, well...

[knockknockitsnickels]

Gundam Horse Girl AU

[knightwhoisni]

concept: unromanced eleanor as drifter's romantic advisor and wingwoman. how successful she actually is at this depends on how serious she's feeling.

[mercutiotakethewheel]

Kendra, inwardly: Omg I am so scared right now. I’m going to die here. This freakyass magical creatures about to do me in. And could do so easily, which I am imagining very vividly right now. Those are huge teeth. I am fighting god to hold it together right now. I don’t want to die. Why am I here? Just to suffer, every night I close my eyes and—

Kendra, outwardly: I cast vicious mockery.

[moonlight-prose]

gonna finish cowboy logan and post it and then i think i might take the week off from tumblr.

[taviokapudding]

My dad and I were chatting before bed when he said "damn shame Republicans hate Democrats too much because you almost saved the United Healthcare ceo"

And I stared at him in confusion until I remembered I convinced Democrats to write the active shooter alert system bill in 2022 & Republicans said no. Since my Twitter is gone, the thread of me @ everyone is gone. And when Trump got re-elected, I removed the video discussing the bill concept for public comments. It fully slipped my mind because I went from pulling teeth & being reluctantly patient to full on cussing, cursing, and hexing the government by the end of 2023.

I hope that Twitter DC staffer is having a good laugh- I bet their bosses are pissed wwwwww

I don't remember the exact wording I wrote to the White House when I cussed out Biden for funding war crimes (2023) & the bill itself (2022) but I did list consequences I foresaw that are happening now, so suck to suck if nobody listened & are on the receiving end of massive hexes

I guess my dad is right, the GOP technically killed Brian Thompson in 2022

[blujayonthewing]

this is such a tiny stupid petty dumb sticking point but why do people act like hot-water baths are ludicrously unrealistic in a DnD setting no matter what the setting or context actually is

one time in melliwyk's campaign we were staying in a luxury inn in a dwarven stronghold partially populated by warforged and built inside a volcano and each room had its own private bath with running water on tap and when I/ melliwyk was like 'hot water? 👀' the DM gave me a scathingly incredulous 'no??' like that was the world's dumbest question

what do you mean NO. they've figured out PRESSURIZED INDOOR PLUMBING but not GETTING THE WATER HOT????

[parkercore-69]

thank you J.R.R. Tolkien for writing the most devastating romantic subplot in your lotr books without even realising it

[musubiki]

im actually fully convinced now that mochi used to wear the long skirt uniform until coco convinced her to be a normal high school girl and wear short skirts like everyone else, and thats when limes Thing(tm) started

[ratatatastic]

do you also think about ekky, in his first full game back after rehab, the practise held the day afterwards, when asked how easy it was to play with forsy again going "its like having your own cheat code out there" and "im blessed to be able to play with such an awesome partner" thanks man very nice

[maxgicalgirl]

Archive 81 tv show made Melody Pendras straight we cannot trust podcasts in the hands of mainstream media !!!!!!!

[theprinceandthewitch]

I still... do not understand how sibling truthers will literally watch TTT and think Caleb/Evelyn isn't Lunter propaganda...

Like barring the literal mirroring of Hunter and Caleb at the beginning of the episode and the Tale of the brother's Wittebane showing you who's supposed to represent the brothers using an animation from Hollow Mind... The tale foreshadowed Luz dying by Philip's hand:

"Philip set off to save his brother and bring the witch to justice."

With this image overlaying the dialogue

This is not the only example of Luz being foreshadowed to die by Philips hand. In TTT, Luz is foreshadowed to die 3 times, here they are in order.

1.) During Camila's dream, Luz kills herself with a dagger - a weapon that's associated exclusively with Philip.

2.) When Hunter and Luz are in the basement of Caleb's house, we see this image of their shadows

Which tells us, point blank, Philip is going to kill Luz

3.) The final piece of foreshadowing is during the Tale of The Brother's Wittebane, which I've already shown you earlier with the dialogue and the image... but ill also put it here so you dont have to scroll up to see it

"Philip set off to save his brother and bring the witch to justice."

Like I legit don't know how people can miss this when it's right infront of their faces. No one else in the show besides Luz shares traits with Evelyn... so who the FUCK do you think the writers are talking about when they made Masha say "Philip set off to save his brother and bring the witch to justice."

Like... oh my god... 

And dont even get me started on the framing during the carriage ride - how it literally only showed Hunter's and Luz's reactions to the tale AND did this unsubtle shit:

LIKE LMAO??? Hunter is cosplaying as a human character and Luz is cosplaying as a witch character... as they are listening to a story about how Philip's brother was lured away to another world by a witch. You literally cannot make this shit up. This isn't a reach either - it's right there for you to see.

It's honestly so embarrassing when people bring up Luz looking like Philip in King's Tide as proof she's supposed to be Philip... The only reason why she looks like Philip is because she thinks she's just as bad as him. That was what they were trying to convey to the audience in that episode. Which is why you were never supposed to take that "parallel" seriously - as this "parallel" is based on Luz's fears and insecurities.

Also, I can't believe people are bringing up Luz "hugging" Hunter while hes possessed as PROOF she's supposed to be Philip because it looks kind of similar to the painting of Caleb hugging Philip... Luz is LITERALLY DRESSED AS A WITCH and they're using that as proof for Luz being Philip... just think about how dumb that is for a second, especially when you take into account this "hug" comes after the Tale of The Brother's Wittebane...

The show LITERALLY tells you Luz is supposed to be Evelyn and not Philip. She is the witch Philip is trying to bring to justice. [Also ya know.... Luz has been training to become a witch for THE ENTIRE SERIES. So why would she be paralled to the literal witch hunter and not the witch... make it make sense.]

This is why when Philip kills Luz - she is dressed as a witch. This is why when Luz literally and metaphorically steps into her power to defeat Philip, she is still A WITCH... like Jesus Christ... This shit doesnt require a literature degree to understand lmaooo.

[im2tired4usernames]

Ugh I was excited for today until I found out I'd have to spend it with people that actively make me hate being alive hate the future and drain me off all energy physically mentally spiritually like a vampire I can't stand to be around her she is the definition of stupidity and even then that's generous as fuck this bitch has filled her brain with so much garbage I watch her brain cells die at alarming rates every single time she uses her vocal cords her giggles make me want to jam a sewing needle into my ear repeatedly so I can never have to hear it again its a friendly reminder that my parents decisions this time my dad's constantly makes me want to die

[thetimelordbatgirl]

If it really turns out to be Wiccan/Billy Kaplan in Agatha All Along, stans of him have my prayers and sympathy for how the MCU is about to fuck up his character completely.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[pericky; a look into ricky's head during their meeting.]

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"I'm glad you came, I wasn't sure you would." The wine pours, the sound of it drowning out the missing word in that sentence: back.

Of course, is the response, and the part of Ricky that's spent twenty years tearing itself apart to understand why vibrates with relief. It doesn't matter anymore. Of course, of course, he thinks giddily along with the words. He never needed to wonder why Pericles wasn't coming back in the first place; he was always going to.

I'm happy you invited me, and of course he thinks again. A lifetime of pretending he wasn't always going to either falls away. However harsh and lonely the world has been, all's right with it again; and the shy voice of the boy inside him that he's tried so hard to kill says, so quietly, I missed you.

[katyspersonal]

"She ruined Petrus for me" is NOT a phrase that should have came to exist. 🤦‍♂️