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[lakevalorr]

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but:

I fully believe that whenever Klavier kisses Apollo, it's usually on one of his cheeks, hands, or on his forehead.

When Apollo kisses Klavier, it is almost EXCLUSIVELY on the lips. Anywhere else is extremely rare.

[lakevalorr]

Spoilers for Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1

Under the cut.

No because Lee's death actually broke me. Literally, you spend the entire game getting to know him, learning what he did, and playing through the perspective of this character, all while taking care of a 8-year old girl who has NO ONE but you.

You spend the whole game growing an attachment to all of these characters, and then you have to (if you choose that option) WATCH WHILE CLEMENTINE HAS TO SHOOT LEE TO PREVENT HIM FROM TURNING, TO PREVENT HIM FROM HURTING ANYONE. 😭😭😭

When she started crying, I lost it. I am so sorry, sweet pea, you deserve the world.

Reblog if you've ever cried over the death of a fictional character

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

I think Ghost King Dan aus should really be explored more, especially since he has the Fright Knight, the ghost king's knight, at his side, who's says "I serve a new master now" in TUE, very likely referring to Dan

I imagine Dan would happily awaken again and then beat Pariah Dark w/o the ecto-skeleton just to declare himself the best

[fernandoaloneso]

Valtteri Bottas hits the ice with the Montreal Canadiens

[sammydem0n64]

Hey guys. Time to partake in fandom discussion. I’ve seen a lot of discussion (and honestly, mainly bashing) around Vallamir and how The Hex fans interpret him and I have some thoughts about it.

I am more than willing to accept that Vallamir was written to be misogynistic (dare I say even a bit creepy) if we can also accept this aspect of him was poorly written in canon.

Let’s look under the cut to see what I mean.

The narrative I see is that Vallamir is constantly being a misogynistic prick, and even preying on Chandrelle, on purpose. That he’s deliberately being Gross instead of just gross. That he is meant to represent how women are objectified in fandom spaces with him being the person who only sees female characters as sexy lamps to lust after.

Various lines of dialogue are cited as being his creepy factor on display; let’s take a look at all of the examples I’ve seen used against him and a fourth bonus one to try and fully understand the picture

-“XOXO, Vallamir”: The throwaway blurb on the Tome of Vallamir. People interpret this as flirting to Chandrelle’s dismay, but I’ve seen plenty of people use this in non-romantic contexts, much less forced ones. It’s a common signature. I’m sure Vallamir just thought the funniest juxtaposition was writing an entire evil spell book and then signing it off with “hugs snd kisses”

-“You can’t say you didn’t enjoy my company”, this one has the most weight as a creepy line. Creeps use this rhetoric all the time, always on about “hey! Nuh uh! You actually DID like me!”. Vallamir could be using this in that deliberate context. He could also be saying that it’s a slap to the face to have their business relationship go to Hell. He could be saying it to try and get the last laugh in a shitty situation. Him being a dick rather than a prick. Perhaps even his vain attitude shining as he’s once again trapped without escape, this time doomed to be alone since it’s a tube and not someone else’s head. He shouldn’t have said that regardless, but the line is more grey than black and white

-“Looks like we’re going to be roommates”: Mid-tier joke. It’s a mid joke. Any nonchalant character who is about to be trapped with someone else in any context of entrapment is going to make a corny “oo we’re roommates!” line.

-The bonus is his excitement over Chandrelle using the tome. I can give grace and say that “heh, you actually used it” can be read in some “fuckboy” “heh, you actually called me back 😏” allegory. However, it can also just be seen as poorly worded excitement over Chandrelle making their alliance official.

Vallamir- in these discussions- is deliberately being a sexist pig. And yet all of these lines- merely three and an item description out of all of his dialogue- aren’t completely black and white. What seems to happen is that Vallamir talks out of his ass. He’s a prick who doesn’t think about the double meaning to his words, and ends up saying things that can be taken the wrong way, and he’s not one to care enough about being socially acceptable.

Chandrelle dislikes him from the start NOT because of any objectification he’s doing, but because he constantly cuts EVERYONE off, farts all over the place, and is overall a gross jerk. He’s not a Gross jerk. And if the intention WAS to make him a Gross jerk, more should’ve been done to make this clear.

You can imagine him saying all of these lines to a male protagonist. If Lazarus was in Chandrelle’s position, nothing except Val’s signature greeting would be changed (“hey girl” to “hey boy”). He’d still say they’re going to be roommates. He’d still say “Oh so you actually used it!”. He’d still make a comment about Laz missing his company. He’d still even put the XOXO! If his hollow lines can apply entirely to a male character (and, dare I say, be taken as “Oh he’s flirting with Laz! 😳😏” to straight up “toxic Yaoi” between the two and lead to shipping. People already do this to them in these circles where I see discussions about this happen.) then there’s nothing uniquely sexist about it, it just has more unfortunately wording when paired up with a female character. Vallamir needs to learn to keep his mouth shut, but he’s not deliberately being Gross.

I’m not saying he needs to look into the camera and say “I don’t see women as equals, and also I want Chandrelle carnally”, but there are ways to make this subtext more pronounced, add more dialogue that is deliberately, unabashedly sexist. Have Chandrelle express specific annoyance towards the XOXO comment. Have him make a pass at Chandrelle during their one-on-one talking sessions instead of leaving it at “Hey girl”. Have him make a comment about “finally having some alone time” either during the first one-on-one talk or when he’s about to be put in her head. You can still imply this factor of him without saying the quiet part out loud and without having, honestly, nothingburger lines to showcase it

Just to make a further comment about the subtext; the notion that Vallamir was flirting with Chandrelle (and that they were even romantically involved if you interpret it that far) was completely overlooked and ignored for years in favor of headcanoning Val as gay and hooking up with Irving behind the scenes, based entirely on the “Say hi to Vallamir for me” line. Which, in context, has no queer undertones. It’s Irving playing mind games with Chandrelle and further threatening her since he couldn’t beat sense into her. This also ignores the blatant fact that Irving also harshly punishes Val for the SOL incident by putting him in Chandrelle’s head, a fate that isn’t good for either party. But hey. Who am I to judge Yaoi.

TL;DR: Fandom extremism towards this topic (insisting that Vallamir is a creep and that if you don’t read the text this way, you’re illiterate and foul) needs to have extremism in the text to match, and nothing in the Hex is up to snuff with this Intentional Creep!Vallamir image. If the fandom is still debating this, then clearly it isn’t black and white, and I think that how poorly this possible subtext was implemented into the story needs to be acknowledged by the side who bashes others for their writing and reading. Basically everyone-both sides! Though mainly the bashers- ends up rewriting this possible creep factor anyways, so I honestly don’t understand why it’s such a point of contention.

TL;DR 2: All Vallamir did was fart, say one- maybe even two- things that are harder to see as not creepy in some fashion whether he as a character intended it or not, have a consistent theme of being trapped, and was chill asf (a jerk) snd y’all hated him. He did all that shit but he wasn’t being a misogynist on purpose. DONT free my man!

[lakevalorr]

Now, I've only just gotten to the third case in Dual Destinies (and I'm not even half way through with the first investigation day, I don't think), but I feel like DD (and sometimes fandom, to some extent) forgets that Apollo is a huge fuckin' loser.

This guy shouldn't be prickly around him; he should've been like, "oh! Uhm... hiya!" Or something along those lines.

He does his absolute best to appear cool, and he fails miserably. Apollo is a DORK, and we love him for it.

Oh, wait, this was about their first meeting. Yeah, they are both horrible (not to eachother), and they should make out.

how to (not) court a defense lawyer

[harrowscore]

people being surprised that the acolyte was cancelled and the sw dudebros won... i'm sorry, i really am, but what else did you expect? disney will always cater to this part of the audience. i'm not saying this because i feel superior or whatever, on the contrary, it's because i've been there too. i mean, remember what kelly marie tran went through after tlj was released, and how it resembles the treatment of the acolyte poc actors (especially, from what i've heard and quite unsurprisingly, of amanda stenberg)? it's nothing new. imo there has been a horrific regressive movement these last few years - conservatives, antiwokecels, straight up racists etc. have become even louder, more aggressive, and their numbers have increased. what once felt ''reasonably'' progressive would become, were it released today, the object of an unholy amount of unfounded criticism, with dudebros whinging like little babies because a person of color/queer/a woman dares to get an important role in a beloved franchise or *gasp* even get cast as a protagonist, which is dumbfounding to them because wow, you mean women and minorities actually exist and their stories are important too??? *surprisedpikachu.jpg* like guys, mulan was out in 1998. if disney had the audacity of making such a classic in this day and age, hordes of manbabies would cry about ~the evil feminazis~ and their nasty ~gender propaganda (whatever that means), and also ~communism!!!! because the movie is about a chinese woman. i'm sure mulan (as the hunchback of notre dame, to make another example, that with all its flaws as an adaptation is still explicitly against racism, specifically towards the always demonized romani people) had this kind of criticism back then too, but it was almost 25 years ago. the world should have and is changed since then, but in some ways we're going backwards. my theory is that since women and minorities actually got some rights and representation during the last couple of decades (and oh boy, was it a harsh battle to even get that) these people feel somehow threatened. they're not ~inherently superior or at the top of the game anymore, or at least many people realized they shouldn't be. and they're afraid, and as such they need to cast themselves as the victims. but other, way more clever people than me have divulged into the causes and spread of fascism and right-wing ideologies, so. i'll leave it at that

[lakevalorr]

We need more AA content where Phoenix is a dad to Apollo. Capcom can make thirty more characters to add onto his backstory, but at the end of the day:

Phoenix is your dad now, Apollo.

Also, Apollo has definitely called Phoenix "dad" on accident at least once.

[lakevalorr]

De-Whitewashed Klavier

I have been blessed. I can now rest peacefully.

I have cured klavier of his disease

[gloriousmonsters]

sorry 2 anyone who liked it but to those who didn't know that this is a safe space to acknowledge that par/anoid d.j's new hazbin song sucked. because holeeeeeeee shit that was BAD. and on the first day of pride month, no less

[bloodwards]

okay but if taylor doesn't let florence fucking welch sing I WILL eat glass

[lakevalorr]

I don't necessarily hate "Time Machine" but it definitely seems to be the black sheep of the bunch. It just doesn't fit in comparison to the other songs; it feels way too much like a Tally Hall song.

[kittykatkatelol]

fuck I had a dream last night where I had a visibly deeper voice and it's making me question if I want T again 😭

i have been going back and forth because one I can hit high notes , I can sing , I fucking love my singing voice , and I'm worried I'd never be able to hit those notes again , to be able to do Burn or Ballad of Jane Doe or Candy Store or any of it properly ever again - even if I desperately want a deeper voice , I don't want to give up those notes

[xx-helliswheretheheartis-xx]

I can confirm that the songs are Nick's and not Johnny's by lyrics from Draw The Line

"You wanted me

To be something

That I could never be

I'll forget you

You fake black and blue

Just to bend the truth

Now I'm coming clean"

Nick made a post in I think 2022? (I could be wrong on the year) Using the # 3 years sober

Since Johnny outed him as a heroin addict, Nick has been clean of heroin for... 5 years??

Which proves even more the lyrics are Nick's

i don’t think you’re being fair tbh

all of johnnys solo stuff came out when he and nick weren’t taking. i very highly doubt nick wrote any lyrics because he had no reason to. nick rightfully was upset with him during that time and i highly doubt he took anything from get scared’s archives because they would probably give him backlash if found out

and johnny helped write get scared’s music so of course there’s going to be some similarities because his solo career never took off so he never did explore his identity and sound for vawa

[fissions-chips]

Valentinecore Valentinecore Valentinecore-

[lakevalorr]

me omw to brutally murder all of those mfers who put "don't ever forget", "in the morning sun", "runaway, fugitives", and "the frism" on their playlists in cold blood <3

y'see, my brain does this thing where i sit down, relax, and imagine these different scenarios in my head with my pmd characters with the music. the second a sad song starts playing, IT'S LIKE A GODDAMN VIETNAM WAR FLASHBACK--

note to all “relaxing pokemon music” playlist makers: STOP putting pmd explorers music in your videos because i will stop relaxing and start crying