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Forgot to update this! But! I managed to finish Agartha a couple of days ago. And oh god it was sooooo bad! About the only things you could maybe salvage from that arc is the writing around Wu Zeitan (through not that godawful design) and maaaaybe Columbus as an antagonist (but that's stretching it). Everything else was just bad. Just straight up awful. The Psuedo-Singularity reads like a bad fanfic written by a fourteen year old boy just getting into puberty and learning about feminism from the manosphere or something.
But since I had time to spare this weekend too; I've also gone through all of S.E.R.A.P.H and now started on Salem! And both of them are already leagues better than Agartha. THOUGH! I have to mention that that bar is already freezing in the deepest depths of hell - so it doesn't take much to improve upon all of that.
And upon that note. While the writing itself was way better in S.E.R.A.P.H. I have to admit I'm not that big of a fan.
I really liked the writing around Meltyllis, and Kiara Sesshouin has always been one of my favourite antagonists in the fate-verse; so I enjoyed those parts of the story immensely! And the lore revelations about the Animuspheres and the experiments they've been doing was delightfully horrifying! But the EXTRA-verse itself has always been a bit of a sore spot for me. I've never really liked it. I've played through all of the games (extra, ccc and extella), but the whole "game-within-a-game" meta concept is not something I'm a big fan of and the kinda juvenile humour of the verse is just...eh. Not for me. A lot of the character writing for the games, especially ccc, is amazing though! I'm not disputing that! But my general meh feelings about the extra-verse really colored my enjoyment of the S.E.R.A.P.H. psuedo-singularity for the worse, since none of it reaches the heights of the writing of the games.
Not to mention I've always had a hard time taking the more out-there designs of some of the nasuverse characters seriously and because of that no matter how great the writing might be; if a character's design is one giant boob joke it's gonna be difficult to look past that.
Now, I'm just a couple of sections into Salem, but as of yet it's up there with Shinjuku, Camelot and Babylonia as one of my favorite arcs of the game. Again, with the preface that I'm still at the very beginning of the psuedo-singularity.
It's got a way more oppressive atmosphere than most of the other arcs (as a classical/gothic horror fan I approve) and the fact that it's at least trying to convey the attitudes and predjudices of the time through the characters is commendable...even if it doesn't always land. For example, it's kinda jarring playing as a female mc and watching the other female characters be treated a...particular way... only to have the character you're playing as treated completely differently. It completely takes you out of the story. And yes! It's a huge problem throughout the game as a whole! But it becomes more of a sore spot in the arcs which actually try to tell a good story, since...well, they're actually trying.
And regarding Salem, it's also, in a way, blatantly obvious that the arc is a japanese take on the salem witch trials and lovecraftian elements - a well researched one compared to a lot of the other singularities and psuedo-singularities - but still that. A very, VERY japanese take on it which tries to be authentic yet doesn't want to step on too many toes BUT while doing so inadvertedly offends by trying to sweep things under the rug instead.
I'm kinda, specifically, talking about the issue of the Pilgrims, Queen of Sheba, Tituba, and the GIANT elephant in the room that is the transatlantic slave trade which grand order hilariously and hysterically tries not to touch yet by virtue of it being a time-travel based piece of media it just...can't not touch. It's...awkward at best and offensive at worst that the only (very ambiguously) black character (that's based on an actual black woman mind you(I'm talking about Tituba here not Sheba)) in the cast is treated with such little regard and shown with such little agency and screentime compared to her white (actual slave owner) counterparts. I'm honestly a bit baffled. I mean anything even remotely touching the topic of witches in america is bound to also touch the myriad of stories about specifically black women persecuted and accused of witchcraft because they kept to traditions which didn't line up perfectly with christianity and what the puritans saw as acceptable. You could do so much with the topic! And instead grand order just...doesn't even touch those stories. At all. Heck. Tituba isn't even Tituba. She's Sheba. A character who's just kinda ambiguously brown (?). I guess.
With E Pluribus Unum it was an issue as well - just not as in your face. They just kinda ignored the problem altogether. No slavery here. No sir. But in Salem it's just...ugh.
And I'm really not the best person to be talking about this. I'm a white-as-sheet woman from sweden who just loves history and colorful casts of characters in the media I consume. But I think that it's a disservice to the reader/player/consumers to ignore the topic even if it's uncomfortable and difficult. Anyone who can pick up a history book will know what happened at the time. It's almost insulting to pretend otherwise.
I dunno...I'm sorry for the rant. I guess I'll just see where the story leads and get my thoughts in order when I've finished with the psuedo-singularity.
For now, I'm at least really enjoying solving the mystery behind Salem together with Mata Hari, Robin and Circe. Oh, and Sanson is growing on me too, so I'll see where that goes!
Ugh... I'm currently PAINFULLY making my way through EoR: Agartha and the only thing keeping me from quitting and bleaching any and all remnants of fgo from my phone is that I'll eventually get to the lostbelts.
...that and the absolute love and obsession I have for about seven to maybe eight characters from other type-moon works...
#very ranty#im just frustrated#because at a lot of times the nasuverse (and fgo) just shows such promise!#it has such high highs!#but at times it also just fumbles#i guess im just frustrated that its a gacha on a time crunch?#so it can never live up to its potential#but the handling of tituba is just kinda atrocious#again sorry for the rant#I've been drinking and i have THOUGHTS#fgo#fgo critical#i guess#overall i like it#it just has a lot of glaring issues#nasuverse#who's the writer of salem again?#eh#kinoko nasu#nasu critical#also looking forward to shimosa and the lostbelts#except maybe gotterdammerung#since im swedish and i know they've butchered norse mythology#sobs* freyja why would they do this to you??? *sobs#fate grand order#fate series#grand order
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💖 Day 3.5 is now available! 💖
For the last couple of months, only Server Boosters had access to the 3.5 update... Buuuuut now it's available for everyone to play in the 14DWY Discord — and soon itch.io once I'm happy with the QA and state of the game — so please don't feel pressured to join unless you want to!!
The full devlog + even more screenshots are under the cut ^^

What's been added to the 3.5 version?
📺 Streamer Mode!
I've been told that it's difficult to stream and monetise age-restricted videos on YouTube and Twitch, so I added an option to remove the sexual content and strong language used in the demo.
Now y'all can invite Ren into your bed for cuddles without putting your streamer career on the line /silly /lh
This won't affect the 18+ rating or dark themes/elements of the game, however! Although Streamer Mode will prevent you from seeing any "gruesome" CGs in the future, most of the core elements of the game will still be tied to the choices and decisions you make. So you won't miss out on the overall experience by using streamer mode!!
⚙️ Custom Pronouns!
It only took me one entire year to get around to it, but you can finally choose your own preferred pronouns (or use a set of pronouns instead)... At the cost of being able to change them mid-game ^^;
Since the original pronoun screen wouldn't update until a new scene was displayed, I temporarily disabled the feature. But once I find a workaround, I'll bring it back!
💗 Choose how others perceive you!
You can now choose how the cast and narration perceive you! Originally, the narration was kept strictly gender-neutral (outside of pronouns and genitalia picked by the player), but this will soon change in future updates.
For more clarity: you don't get to choose the words specifically, but you can choose between masculine, feminine, and androgynous terms!
📋 Separate top and bottom genitalia!
You can now choose your tatas and pps separately! >:3
Alongside that, you can also choose your preferred body type!
I removed the "both" genitalia option because a few players still assumed it was an obscure version of "intersex". That wasn't my intention and I don't want to mislead anyone, so I took it out for now ^^;
I also didn't want to include a screenshot of the new genitalia choices in action (because it's NSFW), so y'all get the same character menu screen for the nth time instead lmao
📱 Relationship Screen Overhaul!
You can now change your own status for more immersion, and long-term Server Boosters will eventually be able to submit and use their own icon within the game as well!
Stalking finding your friends has now become easier by using "Buddy Maps"; a new app that allows you to see the location of all the cast members!
I want to offer players more incentive to check the relationship screen since they tend to miss the status updates, so hopefully this might help ;v;
It also says it "updates every few hours" so folks don't go overboard and check every 5 seconds to see where Ren is gdsghf (also keep in mind that he's a hacker lol)
🖤 Additional Scenes Update!
Day 2 received a brand new CG!!!!! Originally, I planned on only adding a few CGs sporadically throughout the game, but it didn't feel right to leave Day 2 so... empty... so I added a brand new CG to (hopefully) make things feel more balanced and natural!
If you decline Teo's offer on Day 3, Leon will now call and try to convince you to reconsider. However, players are still allowed to decline, and if they do, they'll reach a dead end.
After listening to feedback on itch, I changed some of the dialogue during Days 1-3 to make it seem more consistent! They're only small changes though, so it's honestly not worth looking for sdgjssga
🎶 Updated BGM and SFX!
I wanted to try out a different style of music to see if it fits the vibe of 14DWY more! The BGM features more acoustics to suit the "beachy" theme of Corland Bay, though I made a conscious effort to include piano elements as well to stay true to the original!!
I figured it'd be better to give players a live example before I make a poll (to see if they prefer the change or not) and publish it to Itch.
Some new SFX have also been added, though it's very minimal and honestly not that noticeable.
How to download and play the update?
(warning: clicking on the following links will open Discord!!) To download the Day 3.5 update, simply join the 14DWY Discord server, verify your age, and visit the "14dwy-updates" channel!
Alternatively, you can also wait until the update is publicly released on Itch to play it as well!! (It normally gets released shortly after a round of QA testing/getting feedback from the server, though I may release it earlier if I feel like it hehe ^^)
Enjoy!!
#14 days with you#14dwy#💖 — 14 days with queue.#🖤 — updates.#🖤 — spoilers.#I'm not gonna say much about my current doxxing situation because I've got it under control now + it's being handled privately#Plus I don't wanna give it/the people involved any unnecessary attention. I just wanna announce the update and Get Back To It™️#(''it'' bein the grind 💪 It never stops lmao /silly)#OG followers will also know that these topics aren't the vibe I normally have on this blog (or any of my accounts); so I don't think I'll—#—make ANOTHER public post about the situation and bring more attention to it (when I just want everything to be over and put to rest ^^;)#However I also don't want people to think that I'm... ignoring?? the situation entirely (because gettin doxxed is a very endangering thing)#So I DO want to quickly acknowledge it here and say that it's all currently handled + I'm safe and okay + this won't stop me from—#—continuing to work on 14DWY (and other future projects). I also don't want to give these awful people more power and incentive to continue#—this kind of pathetic behaviour; so the less attention and encouragement being shown will ultimately be better in the long run :3#Aaaaaanways!! 😮💨#My other accounts will be restored shortly and my askbox will be opened once I feel comfortable. I'll get around to following folks—#—again in my own time; so please don't feel offended if I unfollowed you during a moment of vulnerability and anxiety!!#This is all EXTREMELY overwhelming and scary for someone with SAD/AvPD; and I /gen can't handle seeing it all over my timeline ;v;#Sorry this got ranty and personal again hjdsgjsdh T_T I said I wouldn't say much; so I'll shut up now hehe#🖤 — shut up sai.
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i just really love how chill keefe and alvar are about gay ppl bc genuinely THATS how kids/teens react to gay ppl irl like its SO wild for conservatives to say "its confusing to children :((((" bc no its literally not
i learned ppl could be trans when i was like 13 by my cousin mentioning an actor in a show we liked had transitioned from ftm and i just went "oh cool you can do that? thats awesome that hes comfortable now"
#it pisses me OFF when theres a gay couple (specifically i heard this for balisterand ambrosius from nimona) and theyll be parent reviews#that are like “my child was so confused she thought they were brothers” like that is YOUR fault that your child doesnt know theres differen#types of relationships#fucking im from a very religious and bigoted household didnt stop me from being a faggot ur literally not gonna prevent anything do better#whatever this got ranty#kotlc#keeper of the lost cities#kotlc fandom#kotlc thoughts#kotlc unraveled#unraveled spoilers#keefe sencen#kotlc keefe#kotlc alvar#alvar vacker
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honestly to me this whole livvy ~discourse~ boils down to the fact that there seems to be like this weird undertone of ncaa gymnastics that the fans are just kind of dumb. Did you know the beam is only 4 inches wide? I don’t know where the judges found those deductions! She’s really having fun and showing off her personality in this routine (identifies zero skills or deductions). These people are supposed to be professionals at what they do. Between athlete, commentator, and me, I shouldn’t feel like the smartest person in the room.
Like, why am I being treated like a child who can only differentiate between 10=Good Yay! and Not 10 = Sad Bad Mad! Why am I being lead to believe that the only thing that matters is hitting your handstands, not falling, and sticking the landing? I’m a grown ass adult, I promise I understand how numbers work, and I can hold more than two thoughts in my head at once. I know how sports work and that it’s not a personal affront to a gymnast to take deductions for things they did wrong, just like it’s not a personal affront to a football player or whatever to get a penalty called on them.
I don’t know enough to say if this is a gymnastics issue or a women in sports or something else entirely. But I do know that fans aren’t dumb, athletes aren’t dumb, dear broadcasters, stop treating us & them like we are!!
#idk this wasn’t very coherent but I’m in a ranty mood#i’ve loved this sport for my whole life and I want it to get the respect it deserves and not turn into a circus#ncaa gymnastics
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just bought the yarn to make this top…. very excited it’s my first time using real wool…
#sooooooo expensive though 😭#very excited by the color also bc i couldn’t choose between brown and grey and this is kind of an inbetweenish…#although it does read as more grey#pattern is armour too by ranti studios!
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rant time
This is so disappointing, and the worst part is I have no one to blame but myself. I've always sorta seen the writing on the wall. Hori has always had a really weird track record with his writing; dropping plot points, being purposefully cagy and noncommittal to certain themes etc. However I do think there is a difference between something being an objectively poorly written story and just a story that, while well done, might no be something I personally enjoy (or even a overall fine story with a few flaws). For awhile I thought, like many people that mha was going to be a scathing critique on hero society and Deku & Co. would have to reccon with their places in it: how the hero-villain dichotomy does not help anyone, scapegoats those deemed undesirable, allows heroes to get aways with murder, and perpetuates the complicity of the masses leading them bring about some sort of systemic change with the help of the antagonists . When I realized it wouldn't be that I thought "OK" then it is a story about saving the have-nots and proving why they are going about things the wrong way and offering another solutions while working within society–a bit sanctimonious but sure–they become the greatest heroes because of their compassion and willingness to save. And then when the villains bring up their issues with society their continuously told to shut up or that their wrong with no further elaboration, better yet that they just dealt with what happened to them the wrong way as if was somehow their fault for reacting badly to being treated badly and given no real recourse. And then the All For One reveal happened. And god. the last minute reveal (right before he's 'killed') that all of Shigaraki's family issues and quirk were the direct result of AFO? It's a really nice way to further invalidate all the criticisms he's ever made now that nearly everything bad that's ever happened in his life was because of some really bad guy, doubling down on making everything an individual problem rather then a social one–because that way you don't have to challenge your characters core ideologies right? or think of actual solutions? And that's where I feel like MHA crosses into being an objectively poorly written story overall; to establish all these issues and themes and back out on them at the last minute for a simple solution.
I have to ask: What the fuck is going to change? Stories set in a fantastical world usually have something to actually fucking comment on in that world. We are shown explicit issues in the world of mha What has been deconstructed about the world of MHA? After all of this, what have any of these so called greatest heroes done to make an actual, tangible difference in the world they live in? The end of MHA is shaping up to be just a continuation of the same cycle it the begins with, all of it's issues going unaddressed or swept under the rug. People want to say that MHA doesn't need to address those things, that it's just a story about hope and redemption, where is the hope and redemption in killing off the people shown to be the most victimized by society? If it is a story about true heroism being intrinsically linked to saving then what does it say that some people just can't be saved, that are 'too far gone' that have to be fucking mercy killed.
In conclusion, the LOV deserved to be in a story which actually lived up to what it promised.
#mha#bnha spoilers#mha spoilers#bnha#lov#but especially#shigaraki tomura#shimura tenko#dabi#touya todoroki#toga himiko#sorry this is very ranty and bitter#I usually like to consume my media in peace but bnha has done the impossible#*long sigh*#I am incandescent with rage#idc anymore#*crickets*#might delete later
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I was already super sceptical of Sol’s “I’ve been thinking forever about how to say this and now I can ✨explain✨” and now. having seen what went down and had the explanation. Where the actual FUCK does Sol think he’s going with this. How the fuck is hearing all this again good for Mae, going to change Mae’s mind, soothe her, ANYTHING good for her? What, you’ve waited sixteen years to explain to a kid why you chose her sister over her because you just wants a kid that badly and you had a ✨connection✨ with Osha and just weren’t that interested in Mae at any point??? Like Mae’s just lying on that table listening to all this like “ok now I want to punt him into the sun” like what the fuck is supposed to be Mae’s takeaway from this, in Sol’s head??
#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#sorry this is super ranty and not like well structured or thought out I am still experiencing ✨emotions✨#acolyte spoilers#mae aniseya#master sol#this isn’t Sol hate I am finding his character and the character direction a very interesting thing to explore
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.anyway ,, qcharlie's entire thing is loving devotion in its most raw fucked up form. codefippa could stab him in the heart and he would kneel down thinking she is knighting him for his service. everything he does is for her. that includes getting better (promising juanaflippa he would get his "rash" checked out during the day of the dead stream because she seemed worried) and getting worse (his entire talk with cellbit. the parallels of his code and the knife). he loves so strongly that it consumes him, quite literally. the loss and grief from his love consumed charlie so he created gegg as a last resort when nobody else would let him throw himself away in their name (foolish rejected the marriage, and mariana wouldn't log on. he was still staying by flippas grave day in and day out. charlie would be doing the same if flippas final words to him turned out different, but in his mind he needs to make it up to her. he needs to stay exiled. he cant return until he's paid the price and attoned for his misclick.) gegg was meant to be quackity's son and even then quackity wanted nothing to do with him. gegg was elquackity's kid more than anything and when gegg died elq was the only person charlie checked on. actually after geggdeath charlie nearly broke the cycle and found his hope again in the other eggs!! he met richarlyson and tallulah properly on his birthday and was given codeflippa as a gift at the very end. he is genuinely letting himself get consumed by the code just to keep her in his life <3 it's fucked up and bloody, pure raw grief and love at the same time manifesting as decay and rot through the code <3 <3 <3 i literally hate him so much it's insane <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍#qsmp#letting this out of the drafts. be gentle and nice to it im so sorry its very unfinished and ranty but like#nobody understands whats going on with him and i feel insane#guys the throwing himself away thing has been there since the beginning.#the code is just a new manifestation because of codeflippa and the whole decay and grief shit hes got going on#also im saying devotion because mariana is a god ;D take that as you will i guess ^_^
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Been watching the new Disney show win or lose and why is it actually good???
#I really like how they protrey all the characters#it doesn’t matter if their trans or Christians the writers portray them with such care and doesn’t mock anyone#it’s like this character believes in god and it’s not mocked or seen as stupid#and y’all know my very complicated relationship with religion and I genuinely liked they show it in the show#they didn’t make the character a total bitch or crazy she was just someone who prays#same will all the other characters it’s just so casual#this was very ranty but I just can’t stop thinking about it#not the most perfect show ever but is better then all the reboot shit Disney’s been pushing out recently#win or lose
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[cracks knuckles] prev lesbian anon with an ESSAY here. part 1: the awkwardness between them at first! that unspoken something was definitely there, and now that they’re both trying to ignore it, it seems even louder. val being terse to get it over with and distance herself from jo, acknowledging that she was wrong about the situation and misread what was happening. and then jo upends the table! i can only imagine what’s going on in val’s head right now. sapphic mental gymnastics are never easy!



YEAH BUDDY! PLA! This is delicious! Attaching the other parts here instead of answering them separately for anybody who wants to read the read but also so we can answer them properly…
We gotta give it to Val, she really must be going through it. She absolutely decided that the ball is in Jo’s court now. She’s closed herself off and rather literally, shut the door in Jo’s face. That’s why when Jo even asks to even come inside, Val subtly makes her be the one to implore her. Her pride is hurt, and she does have some inkling that Jo toyed with her, but she’s also too interested in Jo to write her off completely.
But boy oh boy, are you onto me about the house being a metaphor. At surface level it represents Jo (and us) uncovering more about Val with each step. But so much of it really represents Jo’s desire for something “more” and the ways in which that goades her into making choices. Combined, this is nothing short of dangerous for Jo, and the more she sees of the house the more her desires to go further are stoked. It’s the same thing with her life on the road, and as we’ll see, once her foot is in the door she doesn’t let go.
So no. Jo is lying to herself. She’s obsessed with control and yet she’s spiraling out under her own nose. She’s driven by nebulous desires that don’t have a clear end, and in reality they have more of a hold on her than she has on them. Even worse than that, she’s fully convinced herself that she IS in control, because she feels like she controls others. But we can see in this post that that’s a ruse, right? Because if Val opens that door, does she really have control of herself then? And can you even really say you’re in control when you’re playing with fire just because you like it?
Now I must ask (totally rhetorical questions to plant in your brain going forward)….is Jo really softer with Val? Or is she just presenting herself a certain way for her own agenda? Is she mindful of who Val is and what she wants? Or is she seeing Val as a fantasy, an antithesis of Gio and a reflection of the life she’s chasing? And what would happen if Val fucked up and Jo has something to hold over her head? Because that’s what Gio did, isn’t it? He fucked up and she chose to stay with him and use it against him for her own gains rather than process her hurt. Val seems shiny now, but people aren’t perfect and love makes you vulnerable. THAT is what Jo doesn’t want to accept.
In other words what Jo REALLY shoulda said when Val opened that door was…
#it’s getting messy out here#as if it wasn’t already#but alas#where there is smoke there is fire#and MISS JO#can I also chastise you for straight up just keeping this woman on the hook#Val is out here trying to keep cool and Jo is flouncing in talking about next time#y’all know Val didn’t sleep that night come on now#okay okay enough rambling for me#thank YOU PLA for your reacts they bring me life ♥️#Nonny reacts#gif warning#times two#cause I was feeling gify and ranty thank you very much#plus a little#Josephine Duplanchier extra#on this one 😉
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how men interpret female rdr2 characters is. so exhausting.
mary linton is a bitch who uses arthur (criticizes him for being a criminal and asks him for a favour that doesn't involve criminality at all whatsoever - unless he chooses to be one in the process, which she deliberately asks him not to. somehow she is responsible for the poor choices he makes because she knows how he is and should expect him to be violent.)
sadie is overrated and randomly becomes a gunslinger in a single chapter. (they forgot the part where she says that even before the gang she knew how to handle a gun. apparently they all overlook this and decide she's a mary-sue who simultaneity is OP but could be smoked by John and Arthur. because they don't routinely cite holding deep respect that borders on fear for sadie and her ability)
abigail is a nagging bitch. (asked john to stop murdering people and got fed up with his behaviour after a decade. i don't even feel i need to express more to illustrate what's stupid here)
my favourite thing i hear - from men, but also women - is that "i hated both mary and abigail. i love mary-beth though." and while i also love mary-beth and am not slighting her, what i hear is "i like female characters that don't challenge the MC, don't involve themselves in the narrative, don't display any agency and know their place"
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mdarc chapter 4 spoilers (tw negative)
i'm a couple of doors into the mystery labyrinth, and it's getting a little annoying having shinigami and yuma go "but how could this have happened? who could have done this?" when i literally knew it was yakou as soon as the game told me that the poison had a delay. this is so silly like "how could anyone have got past this, they would have died in thirty minutes!" ok! narrow your suspect pool to people who die in the next thirty minutes then! damn!!!
#mdarc#rain code#little ranty#also i have only just started so if [redacted] isn't the killer then so be it#but i know they are there's no way it's anyone else#vivia having that quiet (more than usual) moment when yuma said the lab is hooked up to a secondary power source that never went down#is so good#i think [redacted] required an accomplice for [last part of their plan] but from that reaction i don't think it's vivia#i think it just got more or less confirmed for him who the killer was#also viv is so interesting to me!!! i was right that he was going to be my favourite#the bold experience machine enjoyer#i find it kind of funny when halara says that he'd be a great detective if he just put in more effort#this isn't some problem of viv not reaching his goals or anything#he is very good at the things he actually likes doing and wants to do#he wants to come up with theories as to how a crime could have been committed#he doesn't particularly care about which one is right#just finding ways around logical constraints#that being said he very much understands that choosing one of those and expressing it will influence the world#which is why he doesn't tend to communicate when he's figured something out#he's more interested in observing what other people do unrestricted by his influence#this is why i think it's really sweet when he threatens to kill yuma (insane sentence)#i have such a soft spot for characters who break their own rules and principle for someone they really care about#and seeing vivia put [redacted] in front of his own happiness and ingrained way of doing things is so humanising#i don't think viv is particularly complex as a character#once you grasp that he genuinely has no regard for what's true and enjoys ambiguity you've can understand him from there#there's this one line where he says 'after all...i'm more interested in the story than the truth...'#but he is my favourite by far#i love how he's straddling the line of philosophical postmodernism and actual psychosis#he's so interesting to me#tw negative
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Rewatched Multiverse of Madness earlier and while I've never had the vitriol for it that some Wanda fans do*, the whole "just be happy with what you have" lesson does reek of condescension in this case. Not to mention the callousness it takes to lecture someone who has nothing and no one about how they should just be content with their status quo. Obviously Wanda's actions were wrong, but given all the desperation and grief that fueled them, I get why she wanted out. As far as she knew, there was nothing to keep her there.
And don't even get me started on the film's attempt to put Strange not getting over Christine on the same level as Wanda wanting her kids back after having lost everyone else**. If we were talking about Strange Supreme from What If...? with all his tragedy and guilt then they'd have more of a leg to stand on, but prime!Strange's break up angst? Sorry, but no. Maybe if we were privy to more of Stephen's damage in that arena or why that particular relationship mattered so much it could've worked, but since we're not it doesn't. Not for me, at least.
#*given that the writing on the wall became clear very quickly and i made peace with it#because if marvel was hellbent on making wanda 'crazy because womb' i wanted them to just get it over with so we could move on#but... clearly there are issues here#**i suppose she has clint and sam still but they're both too busy with their own problems and lives to notice something was wrong#(that's not their fault of course - especially given how she isolated herself - but it what it is)#anyway... i don't know where i'm going with any of this#i just needed to get it out#wanda maximoff#scarlet witch#and the rest#multiverse of madness#ranty mcrantface#analysis and close readings etc#only vaguely but still#i don't know how else to tag it
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Leon was the only one who didn't go into the corner yesterday to thank the fans. Not exactly a team player. I think that was the final proof for Nagelsmann not to nominate him for the EM.
I don’t think it’s that simple. Leon is the first to admit that he often isolates himself after losses and is not a fun person to be around in those moments. Was it a perfect response? No, but what is a perfect response really? He’s human. People process things in different ways. There’s been plenty of times in the past where Leon has been one of the few, if not the only, Bayern players to stop and take pictures with the fans, so he’s clearly not doing this out of contempt for them.
Also, I don’t know that it’s necessarily fair to determine whether someone’s a team player or not in the aftermath of one heartbreaking game. He’s been captain in the past for a reason, and he shows he’s a team player in plenty of other ways, be it through a hug when it’s needed or an encouraging word for teammates whose confidence might be shaken. And that’s not even getting into the fact that he would literally wage war for a teammate who’s been wronged or hurt in any way (see: Jo Kimmich 😂). If anything, I’d imagine him not going to the corner to thank the fans at full-time is more a reflection of his disappointment in himself than anything else.
Truth is, I’m biased and I know I am. But in moments like the one you’ve described, I can’t help but see a man who retreats into himself in the immediate aftermath of defeats, blaming himself for things he could’ve done better. And who knows? Once the dust clears, he’ll probably find his teammates and comfort them, having processed that hurt. After all, you need to take care of yourself before you can properly take care of others, no? But we likely won’t ever see how he is around his teammates behind closed doors; we won’t hear that.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I know we’re all heartbroken right now, but let’s try not to blame our players, even though we’re hurting. They’re probably hurting just as much, if not more, than we are right now.
#anon 💖#sorry if this is kinda ranty#I’m still heartbroken…can you tell?#I am very ✨in my feelings✨ rn#I just needed to get my thoughts out#leon goretzka#fc bayern#fc bayern munich#fc bayern münchen#my asks
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“Don’t touch my kids!”
Wanted to finish this before the finale came out.
#ranty draws#eda clawthorne#edalyn clawthorne#the owl house#the owl lady#harpy eda#toh fanart#fanart#trying to do more action poses and get my art less stiff#very slight eyestrain
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Well after... a bit trying to figuring out how to draw again i did a little drawing
Specificly a friend of mine who watch bocchi requested me if i could draw emo bocchi, and of course i had trouble with it
So of course because of that, i of course decided to redraw it... and also the whole band each with their own style... yeah

So in order bocchi is emo, nijika is a gyaru, seika is a punk/crunch and kita is hipster (like the vintage kind)
Sooo yeah going a bit into specifs the og plan was to have them all be different types of emos... but i couldnt find distinc subcultures like gyarus or gothic, so i landed in the best next thing
Bocchi is the first i desing, and while i didnt change much from the way i originaly drew her, i changed her a bit so there wasnt so much contrastic black
Nijika was a bit more simple, althought my original plan was to give her a tan... but i kinda didnt want to mess too much with her
As for seika, originaly her desing was a little too much like bocchi so i tried to difference them as far as i could by enchanging some desing from one to another, tho i fear i should had make her pants black or grey
Kita was kinda fucked by lineart, part of me thinks that i could have come up with another color (as two characters here already use blues) but hey at least she sortha looks vintage (also yes i gave her a mustache pin, i thought that was a cute idea), tho those glasses could have been done better
#txtart#art#pencil and pen#traditional art#bocchi the rock!#bocchi fanart#ijichi nijika#kita ikuyo#seika ijichi#sorry if i was a bit ranty on this one lol#i have very conflicted feelings about this drawing#kinda like it kinda hate it#at least i got it done#and also watch almost the entire kof restrospective of 4 parts all of them more than an hour each#yeah this doesnt look as good when thinking how much it took :(#but hey at least it feels finished enough you cant win them all i would say but at least i can try
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