#unpopular opinion but I love this game

[snack-shop-boss]

I always forget just how beautiful Haunting of Castle Malloy is until I play it and see the sky and the gates

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

Reverse unpopular opinion: sequel to phantom of the Opera? :)

The thing is! Love Never Dies is genuinely so delightful to me. I take great joy in awful things and that show is SO fucking funny

The way there is a seven minute impassioned duet about how Erik and Christine fucked raw in a fucking field ten years ago like two days before her wedding or something. Girlie was legit about to leave Raoul because the 60 yo virgin dick was apparently that good (doubt!) like forget about the murders and the threats, who even cares about that!

Erik being introduced in the London production with a fully automated Christine sex bot that SOMEONE at RUG I assume must have finally noted was too fucking creepy and just NOT conveying the same gothic tone as the mirror bride so they just switched it out for a portrait he can cry at? The fact that Erik, thee Phantom of the Opera, the great virtuoso, apparently spends his time writing vaudeville hits like Bathing Beauty.

“Give me the gun, Meg” as a fully serious line at the climactic sequence. Trying to talk Meg out of fucking killing herself and then ending it with “We can’t all be like Christine” because that’s totally going to be taken well.

I have this musical memorized. I am not kidding.

If I’m not allowed to talk about the “so bad, it’s good” elements though, the music is genuinely fun, I really like the arrangements. I like how the Melbourne production balanced a few callbacks to Phantom in a few of the songs.

The art nouveau revolving stage design goes really hard! The costumes are also great! Christine’s costumes are also great! Of the music, I genuinely like Devil Take the Hindmost a lot. And uh… I forget whatever Meg’s sad song about the sea is called. But I sincerely like that one too. The libretto genuinely excels at passive aggressive group numbers. Dear Old Friends is very clever and biting! So is uhh the song Madame Giry sings early on at Erik where she’s like WHILE YOU WERE FUCKING AROUND IN SIDESHOWS I WAS HOLDING DOWN THE FORT

It’s such a stupid fucking musical. I love inflicting it on unsuspecting friends who like Phantom

Send me a topic and I’ll have to say something good about it! No hating allowed!

[navree]

i request monetary compensation from all the bitches in season 4 who were whining at jon about how immoral it was for him to ask people questions when apparently he could have been making people run to death or otherwise kill them after forcing statements (without even having to ask a question). y'all got the nicest version of what the archivist could be and you were assholes about it for no reason, shame shame i know your name

[kideternity]

[Image ID: An inked digital drawing of Digimon character Amphimon. Amphimon is a cyborg humanoid wearing an altered diving suit, they have large chunky gauntlets and boots, lightning bolt embellishments across their design but most notably on a buckle at their waist, on the bottom of their chest armour and on their diving helmet window. They have diving helmet style shoulder pads, a large jellyfish like skirt connected to the buckle made up of two layers- a puffier top layer with jellyfish markings on it and a longer flow-ier bottom layer- and large circular pads at their hands, feet and knees. The ones on their knees and hands have a cross symbol on them and the ones on their feet have a minus symbol. They have large jellyfish antenna coming from their diving helmet and the exposed parts of their body- such as their forearms, waist and at the inner upper thighs- appears made of straps. They’re in a front facing action pose, with their right leg and arm pointed down whilst their left leg is raised the calf slightly tucked in, and their left arm is raised over their head. /End Image ID]

I haven’t seen all of ghost game yet but Amphimon is by far my favourite new digimon from it

[zeroducks-2]

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

I am going to have to say Eobard because christ alive the amount of people who say that he's ugly is insane.

He's been drawn ugly in the Silver Age a couple of times (mostly because of the ridiculous haircut), but beside that he's either ugly because the artist has Ugly Face Syndrome and draws everyone looking like roadkill, or he's VERY handsome.

Like yall. Hello.

He's hot!

ask game here

[mullermoment]

does this parallel make sense to ANYBODY but me. am i alone in this. it's ok if i am

[tatck]

i love sonic boom (games)

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

out of all the main characters in atla, which one had the worst fit (could be just a one-off outfit or their main clothes) 😼

strawberry you’re abt to get me in trouble uhhh

im sorry but this is just not it for me like the goofy ass muffin-top thing and the flying squirrel ass design. I love you book 1 and 2 aang but your fit was not that fashionable king 🙏🙏 (doesn’t mean it isn’t iconic)

[ranna-alga]

A very long (and Joel-Miller-apologist biased) TLOU hot take incoming:

I don't want to get too deep into my honest opinions about TLOU2 because even though I am quite critical towards it, I'm sincerely uninterested in engaging in any discourse about the game that has been going on for three whole years. Instead, I'll just talk about one thing that I consider to be a personal nit-pick that I don't see many talk about. This may be a hot take, so if you want to comment on anything, I kindly suggest you hear my side first ♡

[screenshot from MKIceAndFie's gameplay on YT]

One thing I wish was different with TLOU2 involves the scene where Ellie gets the truth of what happened in Salt Lake City, and I'm unsure if the writing is to blame, but I lowkey wish Joel... Defended himself a bit more?? 😭

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely understand Joel wanting to let Ellie be angry at him - she had every right. I found it quite bizarre that such an important scene (or at least the conversation) felt very... short? I feel like maybe it would have been more interesting to not only see Joel acknowledge how hurt Ellie is (again, her reaction is understandable and I'm not trying to say she's in the wrong at all) but also try to at least give his point of view of things, especially on why he did what he did to the Fireflies.

This, plus Ellie, albeit still heartbroken and furious, emotionally exclaiming how she feels, and why getting a cure was so important to her deep down. Or at least as well as she could put it in her current emotional state.

Maybe I am biased in this because I am a Joel Miller apologist until I die before I am my own person. Like, you may as well call me Saul Goodman because I'm practically this man's lawyer with how much I defend him.

In my opinion, he would be justified in saying that even if the operation was a miraculous success, the Fireflies would probably exploit her name by setting a price on the vaccine, or if a war between the Fireflies and FEDRA/other Factions erupts in order to seize it, killing more people than saving them. He would be justified in saying that they never asked for her consent and would wonder if they would still put her under the knife if she refused the offer. He would obviously know she was capable of making her own decisions but would also understand that she has Survivor's Guilt (something Joel may have felt before, especially after Sarah died and he didn't) and how that could affect her mentality/decision-making, especially at just fourteen years old. He would feel justifed if the operation failed and Ellie would have died for nothing, a risk he refused to take.

He would probably tell all these things to Ellie, trying to make her understand at least a little bit. But these reasons likely came to him after getting Ellie to safety. In his mind and heart, he might as well have had only one reason for doing what he did.

That reason being? It's simple. He loves her.

To him, that is more than enough, and Ellie may possibly realise this. Perhaps, after him listing out all those reasonings, Ellie might say,

"But all those things... They weren’t really the reasons why you did it, were they?"

"... No. They were not."

I definitely don't imagine Ellie would forgive him immediately, obviously. I still think Ellie would leave and not talk to Joel for some time, but with this interpretation, I'd imagine she would have a lot to think about in the meantime. Ultimately, I think it would have been a very interesting scene between these two verbally-repressed people who very much care for each other but are at a breaking point.

TLDR; I think there was potential to have this scene be a bit more "fleshed out" in terms of Joel expressing his intentions whilst also acknowledging and recognising Ellie's feeling of betrayal and heartbreak. Almost like a parallel to that "I'm not her, you know" scene in TLOU1.

[ariscats]

one thing that never was clear to me is if avery and toby kept contact after the final gambit. I mean, you would think they did bc hes literally there and he did all of that for his other daughter, so there is no point to ignore the other, and in the brothers hawthrone, eve says Avery is his favorite child, which would made you think that they are still close.

But there is literally no evidence of it. It was never mentioned phone calls of visits and even the call Avery made him in the end of tbh, for me at least it was not clear if that was smt normal that she did or not bc it says that Avery talks abt Toby in a melancholic way (to be more specific, abt his nickname to her) so shes still “sad” abt all of this or at least resent shes not his biological child.

[gomzdrawfr]

Soap soap soap soap soap soa-

(For the ask game :3)

ka-FREAKING-BOOMMM

hi hi :3

My first impression

woah he sure pouts a lot

My impression now

puppy...precious...[cradles photo and sobs] they'll never let me forget you

Favorite thing about that character

his voice....the growl- HHGHGH

Least favorite thing

this is hard...buuuut I guess I'll say the latest gas mask skin

there's a lot going on with the vest and shoulders like excuse me sir what are you packing

Favorite line/scene

too many from that one mission Alone in mw2....so I'll give 2

Ghost: “Narcos… they’ll take videos.” Soap: “I’ll give ‘em your email so they know where to send them…” Ghost: “I won’t watch ‘em… more than once anyway…" Soap: “Sick bastard…”

Soap: "away and bile yer heid!!" Ghost: "English, MacTavish" Soap: "let me translate, go fuck yourself" Ghost: "Much better"

Favorite interaction that character has with another

Alejandro: "I can't call Soap 'Johnny'...." Soap: "Don't. Only Ghost can pull that off."

*giggling kicking my feet*

A character that I wish that character would interact with more

I think Soap would hang out well with Alejandro and Rudy! so them for sure

Another character from another fandom that reminds me of that character

Johnny Cage....(idk why either)

A headcanon about that character

actually, I think between Ghost and Soap, Soap's the kind of guy who likes salty, savoury things instead of a sweet tooth(to which I hc Ghost as) but he might be a lil weak for a good ol milk butter round candy

another is he has high alcohol tolerance, but he likes to act like he's drunk as hell just for fun

A song that reminds of that character

you know what? this probably ties in with the hc and the next question but this song...I just feel like Soap knows what it's like to be lonely

An unpopular opinion about that character

I...actually think. that Soap doesn't have a big family that many others has hc him to have.

I like to think he has a good family yes, ma and pa holds a special place in his heart, but no siblings and nothing.

No close relatives after he joined the army.

Favorite picture (tw: blood)

[lyon-amore]

I confess that I don't like it when people make character chats and write to Jake putting face emojis in their messages (I mean these 😏🙂😉 ), If it bothers me reading it from the bot, imagine the people who did play the game, it's very OOC 😅😩

[just-a-madrigal]

So I must know- are you very brave? Or just very stupid?

Tomb of the Lost Queen

Nancy Drew Embroideries

[andywinter16]

This is absolutely stunning art piece! The little details, the colour pallete. Feast for my heart and eyes!

[princekirijo]

Well that happened. That was a DLC.

[literallymikewheeler]

people who over hate gale really get on my nerves. like he was a teenager who was manipulated into being a war figure after his whole DISTRICT got burned into the ground. like i dont like his personality all that much, but i dont think he is some disgusting human being. gale was literally supposed to represent katniss if vengeance and hate overtook her heart, and i think ppl forget that. like gale wasn't some active killer, he was just someone who was angry and mad. people always hate gale for literally just being katniss' friend, bc if she is in love with peeta she just HAS to cut off her best friend of a few years, doesnt she??? like i have literally seen ppl make videos saying he was worse than COIN AND SNOW!! the literal DICTATORS!!!! like people need to wake up and realize how much of a complex character he is, and not some baby bomber. gale. was. not. trying. to. actively. hurt. prim. and i think ppl just hate him bc of their love for peeta. like dont get me wrong PEETA MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!! but im willing NOT to despise the "competition" peeta had just bc i love peeta (and lets be fr, it was never a competition) people just need to finally understand that gale was never an evil villain, just a manipulated teen. ok, thats all!!