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this is sorts ranty but fuck it im posting it anyway, dont read if you dont wanna see watcher crit
this season is lowkey pissing me off. like what the fuck do you mean this teenage girl is soooo evil for having short relationships????? and her girlfriend dying and her retiring from public life was karma????? that ep all around is so fucked
and the milktoast ending of the most recent ep āsuree he used his sister a tool for political gain and killed a bunch of ppl so they fesr him but hay the people like him š¤š¤š¤ā ggrraaawjejejehjebwbebhe
like i sorta expect better from them and it makes me so sad to see them talk about this stuff like this
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#sts#slay the spire#mega crit games#I like killing towers#The Ironclad#The Silent#The Defect#The Watcher
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super neutral post coming from someone who actually had a lot of fun with purgatory but the longer the prison event goes on the more it makes sense that purgatory was just a kind of rushed play test for the global competition format, instead of an actual storyline with stakes
because the fact that the whole time the admins had to ability to do something much more interactive and connected to quesadilla island/main lore, -- not to say that some of the mishaps there didnt bring necessary feedback, but it would have been Very easy to mix in some of the lore quips and bits we see in the prison here and there, in purgatory back then even if not from the start. ... and they just . DIDNT like throughout all 14 or so days of purgatory its a little funny in hindsight
#kit.txt#i like purgatory for what i can make of it i love the setting but i acknowldge that it wasnt accommodating to the players#makes sense that they were just using the current qsmp ensemble to test out the mechanics lol#the loose watcher connection ends up as more of an excuse for why we as an audience should care and thats when it becomes messy imo#its a completely different gamemode and my belief is that they shouldve let it stand on its own#people who were interested wouldve still watched (me!)#no need to cross paths with quesadilla island lore#but whats past is past#crit#qsmp
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What party do you use and what levels are you for the master below? She always beats my ass really bad
I usually go around level 13-ish and I too get my ass kicked usually. This time around I kinda forgot about the Endless Paths after I was done with Kana's quest so I ended up going at level 15 (at which point Aloth already knows Wall of Many Colors and Hiravias knows how to summon that fire stag) and it was fine. My party is EdƩr, Aloth, Pallegina, Kana (built for a support/summoner role), Hiravias and my Watcher who is also a chanter (built for a tank role). Hiravias is very good at keeping the MB off her feet and Aloth's confusion spell can turn those xaurip priests to help you instead (and ofc the WoMC is just a massive help as always) sooo yeah.
#replies and whatnot#yeah I was kinda sorta pretty overleveled this time around whoopsie#I also have edƩr in the sanguine plate and my watcher in the golden scales and I have them rush at the mb#while the others run the other way so that the initial stomp attack wouldn't wipe them all out right away#the sanguine armor has a frenzy on crit effect so if edƩr is still standing he'll be pissed#and the golden scales has a really high fire damage reduction thing on it so the fire breath is pretty manageable with it#and the mb really wanted my watcher dead specifically so she just ignored all the others which was a godsend ngl
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kind of /gen like. the past week has been fun, i dont have the time to watch anything live so i just catch up via clips on youtube/tiktok +my dash and i follow a bunch of different streamer mains so im getting a pretty equal split of content and i havent been annoyed at anything all week like im having fun its been a fun event? just me?
#i mean like ig theres been some rockiness here and there but nothing thats like. been lastingly annoying#fandom at large esp twitter is annoying but thats different#every team has a fun dynamic and something to offer#im not really worried abt the long-term effects of purgatory event on the larger narrative#i think streamers will carry over what they liked or drop what doesnt work itll be fine#idk like. where the likeminded qsmp watchers at lol???#qsmp neg#i GUESS#fandom crit#??
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Cancelled for something that shouldāve been avoidable + was a little questionable when it came to the topic of race
steven lim is the dream (2020) of watcher
#maybe not the greatest comparison#lots of watcher think pieces in my mind but this is a connor blog but itās a crit blog nonetheless#maybe itās time to branch outā¦.
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I think the saddest part about secret life Joel is just how futile all of his actions are in that season. On a surface level i mean stuff like all of his more careful gameplay being cancelled out by a singular failed tnt trap but on a deeper level i specifically mean how that character contrasts with last life Joel. Joel is undoubtedly at his lowest point in the life series in Last Life. He goes down to red in session 2 and spends the majority of the rest of the season alone (and when he does have allies itās only bc of a shared bloodlust). The red bloodlust completely takes over and this festers for nearly *8 sessions*. Not only that but the one time he is given a chance to restart and go back to yellow his old alliance member goes to red, leaving him alone again, and he is made boogeyman the next session. This, overall, has lasting consequences (he actually wanted to be fairly friendly at the beginning of LL, a stark contrast to how bloodthirsty he was at the beginning of DL or Lim L), and gained him a reputation that has never fully gone away. This is especially bad bc most people agree that LL was the most violent season (despite the lower kill counts in comparison to LimL) and was generally the worst and most traumatizing experience in the games for most people involved. Compare this to secret life, which everyone agrees was definitely the happiest season for Joel (or at least the most normal. His life is a tragedy no matter the season.) he has allies that (for the most part rip mumbo) stick with him until the end, he is friendlier with a larger group of people, and when he initially has to deal with the loss of some of them he has people who can ground him (bc as much as I adore the bad boys, grian was not qualified to do that). He was so hopeful that season, and was generally in a much healthier place mentally. And yet, despite how much he seemed to have grown, those 2 seasons ended so similarly for him it was almost comical. Joel engaged in a fight at the end, watched his ally get killed by scott, and is then forced into a 2v1 against Scott and another player that results in Scott taking his final life and him finishing 5th overall. I was describing both of those seasons here. After everything he did to grow, after all the improvements he had made, everything ended *exactly the same*
Making this about the bad boys for a second (because Iām me) they kinda suffer similar fates. Grian learned in the most tragic way possible that his allies were doomed to fail as long as he was with them no matter what, that this was not something that he could control by simply avoiding killing them himself. Even when he actively tries to save them (ālet Tim do it he needs the timeā āJoel you can kill me!ā) heāll still lose them in the end. I think this realization is also what made him stop trying to fight it, which resulted in him killing or almost killing his allies from previous seasons immediately afterwards (stabbing scar in the back and that one scene where grian kinda ominously jumps with a sword like he was about to crit and kill bigb after finding out he had 50 seconds left on his timer). Itās sorta like a way of telling the universe āfine. You winā
Similarly Jimmy. Well. I donāt think I need to explain that one. Even when he was given hope that things could be different, that he could break the curse, he died only a few minutes later. I still hold on to the narrative that the watchers only allowed that to happen to give Jimmy false hope that things can be different only to rip the rug out from under him and drive home the point that he is in a losing battle because by the time of secret life Jimmy was one of the only few people who genuinely still believed he had a chance. Obviously this is not something that can fully be a reality until he goes out first next season so if he doesnāt thatās a little awkward but just work with me here
TLDR; here is reason number 672 on why I believe the bad boys are the most doomed motherfuckers on this server and their alliance is a modern tragedy
#no one will ever hate the bad boys more than the narrative#trafficblr#life series#smallishbeans#joel smallishbeans#grian#solidaritygaming#jimmy solidarity#the bad boys#secret life#limited life#last life#can you tell the brain rot has gotten really really bad
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Since crit role has been on a break (I haven't caught up with age of umbra, I need to be in the right mood to do so) I have been catching up on Hermitcraft. It's been very fun, and I rewatched the life series and watched secret life and wild life for the first time. I showed my sister, and now she's also really into it all!!
BUT HOW COINCIDENTAL IS IT THAT I REJOINED RIGHT BEFORE THE NEXT SERIES
And GRIAN IS DOING WATCHER LORE??? I know we had a teaser with the Secret Keeper in Secret Life but omg if he fully commits to it like Martyn did I am going to LOSE MY MIND /pos
#grian#life series#martyn inthelittlewood#trafficblr#evo watchers#i am so hype i cannot contain it but i must because im at work and must be a functional adult unfortunately#i need more trafficblr and hermitblr(?) friends pls hmu
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Ok stupid me I'm not anon anymore... I'm so dumb, embarrassing!!! But still, the hat is mine š©
Ok um... About Watchers! You think they are some silent chthonic creatures who only observe, or mb bunch of chill dudes who's eating popcorn while watching whatever mischief G is causing with their powers?
Probably something in the middle... I really like the concept of them as spoiled viewers who only need intrigue and drama, and it might work very well considering G as a warlock and one of your latest drawing (VERY COOL BTW)
And of course Scar is crit charisma'ed them so now they just love him as an adorable puppy ššæ
gkdfjkgjfkg don't you worry, you can absolutely still have the hat it's all yours <3 <3 <3
the watchers are like. an eldritch entity that's both singular and plural. they're incomprehensible gkfjdkgjf grian's never seen what they look like, but they mainly communicate with him by manipulating his emotions? he feels different when they're around, and he's not sure what they want from him yet, but they must want something in return for the immense power they've given him!!! they enjoy it when grian loses himself in his powers so his current guess is that they simply enjoy watching him either succeed or suffer... maybe both...
the watchers really don't know what to think of scar yet!!!!!!!! he's. really powerful. but in a way they don't understand. the bond grian's formed with him could prove problematic if scar keeps succeeding in keeping him calm and in control of his emotions.
also from your previous ask gkfjdkgj they've tried to come up with a party name, but jimmy suggested "big man jim's big men squad" and everyone veto'd
(thank you thank you thank you <3)
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You ain't wrong about fndm's lady/dude crit imbalance. I've noticed so much whataboutism & overlapping insistence that Oz/Qrow/Tai did their absolute best given [magic special forces duties], [hell world full of hell beasts] and/or [Salem/Raven's Selfish Dippage/Supermom's Loss], often with a side of 'you're just being blinkered stans who can't accept when ur waifu mains have flaws that need a-fixin' or should Get Over Themselves & Stick With The Program'. I mean, no denying the STRQ guys would be leagues less dysfunctional were it not for their situation's unique pressures and the immortals' contributions thereof (ditto for Ozlem thanks to the Bros), but I still don't think that causality chain fully corroborates this 'naught but vindicated put-upon sensei figures, the Bad Moms Doing Badness exonerate everything, it's Just How This World Works, we've been over this, STFU already' perspective nursed by long-haul fanposters and tons of general watchers.
truly. although i will say i Donāt think itās fair to judge qrow as a parent because he wasnāt one, in either the biological sense (uncle) or legal (did not have custody) or familial (not a member of the household). so while certainly there are things he could have done better (gotten sober) (quit taking missions from oz for the sake of being around more to help out) (confronted tai about the wagon incidentātho we donāt know he didnāt do that tbf) short of either moving in to take over parenting or like flat out getting whatever passes for child services involved to force tai to get help or foster the girls himself for a while qrow didnāt really have a lot of material power in this situation. & both options he did have posed real risks (misfortune + the compounding trauma of a messy custody fight while everyone was still grieving summer). so
but yeah what gets me is "they really did try their best" and "their best was in fact inadequate and caused lasting harm" are not incompatible statements. Sometimes Your Best Sucks. thatās life. & sometimes when youāre deep in the throes of a traumatic situation or a depressive episode or alcoholism or what the fuck ever You Will Hurt People because you Donāt have the capacity to support others or practice empathy; you canāt draw from an empty well. thatās life!
itās just also where the "intentions donāt negate consequences" principle applies; qrow trying to Be There for his nieces whilst struggling with alcoholism doesnāt make the harm done by his alcoholic behavior not have happened, taiās depression doesnāt make neglect not neglectful, salem⦠existing at all doesnāt justify the choice to rely almost solely on child soldiers to defend his relics. etc
this is also the most compelling thing to me abt tai (potentially) staying near vale because of summer, at the expense of his kids; as soon as you bring "summer is alive and well and chose to leave him" into this equation you bring the implicit blame to the surface: is this woman responsible for his actions because she chose to end their relationship?
consider that the one thing we know with 100% certainty about these two is that summer did not trust him with her real self; her reaction to hearing him down the stairs is.


this, followed by slipping on a mask and lying through her teeth with practiced ease. (in comparison, when ruby is feeling acutely distressed she shuts down and gets quiet, which has the effect of making her distress visible but also small and easy to ignore or easily shunted aside by louder more apparently urgent problems. ruby tries to put on a happy face most of the time, but when sheās Feeling Bad the best she can do is small, strained smiles. summer turns around with a relaxed grin and makes a casual joke at ozpinās expense.)
soāyang remembers "supermom" and ruby thinks her dad "misses adventuring with [summer]" and for eight volumes there isnāt anything to contradict this impression the girls have that their parents were deeply in love and happy with each other⦠and then our introduction to the Real Summer Rose is:
reading bedtime stories to her girls
the lies come out of her so easily!
she planned her rogue mission in secret with raven, who also left tai for hitherto unknown reasons that are now strongly implied to be that she felt like a failure as a wife and mother.
leaving aside the question of why summer chose to join salem (and why she faked her own death to do it)⦠this does not imply a happy or functional relationship. if nothing else whatever problem summer had that drove her to plan this suicide mission with raven was something that she, for whatever reason, did not feel like she could bring to her spouse/partnerāand that in itself speaks to a fundamental absence of trust, but taken in conjunction with a) this Extremely well-practiced emotional disappearing act and b) how tai handles emotional vulnerability in v4 (NOT WELL!) itās kindaā¦
well. the blacksmith shows this to ruby then remarks "maybe youāre not the only one who has felt the weight of othersā expectations. like alyx, like your mother," and the only character summer performs for in this flashback is. tai.
andāwhile the silver eyed warrior paragon-hero fairytale cult nonsense was undoubtedly the greater burdenāi think the narrative is inviting the question here of to what extent perfect mother/perfect wife was one of those expectations, to what extent Raven Leaving was a shadow cast over summerās relationship with taiyang, and how she might feel about all this with fourteen years of hindsight.
wrapping back around to the point about tai and culpability, you have on the one hand this implicit blame put on summer for tai having neglected the children after she left him and on the other this nascent question rising to the surface of: was summer even happy in this relationship, if she felt like she had to perform happiness often enough for it to be this easy? thereās the asterisk of course that what we see in this flashback was outside of the ordinary but the ease and confidence with which she slips on that mask bespeaks habit.
so tai fourteen years later is still pining for this partnership in which summer may or may not have felt an expectation to Be Happy (perfect huntress, perfect mother, perfect wife) and in which she certainly did not feel like she could bring her Desperate Suicide Mission Problems to her partner⦠and his parental neglect is all rooted directly in the intensity of his anguish after she left him⦠and sheās spent those fourteen years with salem and if theyāve not already crossed paths offscreen theyāre certain to do so now that tai is like alone on patch with salem / summer / cinder for neighbors.
thereās an interesting reckoning being set up here, i think, with the unspoken implication that summer was the load-bearing pillar in this family and by removing herself from it she Made tai into a neglectful fatherāthatās the family narrative, dad shut down after mom left (died), but the narrative arc is beginning to culminate with "okay, why did mom leave?" and it seems to me that the natural trajectory from there is to really interrogate that question of blame.
#i am rly curious to see how summer feels abt tai these days#because it doesnāt⦠feel like⦠thereās a trajectory here toward (romantic) reconciliation. and thatās rly interesting#the fandom will of course be ridiculous about it but what else is new.
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Cookie of the Week: Caramel Arrow Cookie
This Cookie of the Week is...
Cookie name: Caramel Arrow Cookie
Pronouns: She/Her
Rarity: Epic
Position: Front
Type: Ranged
Lore: Caramel Arrow is the First Watcher of the Dark Cacao Kingdom, being the youngest one in history. However, before episode 13, she was briefly demoted and banished from the Black Citadel because of Affogato. During episode 13, she helped GingerBrave and his friends enter the Citadel to reach an audience with Dark Cacao. She did get her position as First Watcher back after helping defeat Affogato and giving the throne back to Dark Cacao in episode 14. She did make a brief appearance in the Cookies of Darkness story.
Personality: Caramel Arrow is determined, supremely loyal, and compassionate. She can let her strong emotions and unmovable beliefs decide her decision-making. She is known to never hold her tongue (and bow) when insulted.
Skills: Caramel Arrow's Skill is called Arrow of Resolution. This skill has Caramel Arrow perform a ranged attack and this leaves an Arrow Mark on the enemy. After the ranged attack, the Arrow Mark explodes when Caramel Arrow rushes toward the enemy and deals DMG proportional to the enemyās Max HP. She does receive a buff that makes her immune to debuffs as well as becoming resistant to interrupting effects. With her Magic Candy, her skill becomes Finality of Resolution. Her skill now targets up to six enemies and deals an area damage. When Consuming Darkness is applied, her DMG Resist, ATK, and CRIT% increase.
Costumes: Caramel Arrow has no costumes.
Cookie Decor: Caramel Arrow does have a Cookie Decor called Caramel Watchtower. It does showcase how she takes her duties seriously.
Thoughts: She is a goddamn beast in gameplay. And I would love to see more of her.
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regarding your recent reblog, as a frequent philza watcher, i didn't even make the connection that, yes, he keeps brushing off 95% of the realm's lore, all while constantly making references to previous servers he's been on in some fashion, which is certainly, uh, a choice. whether it's comparing it to stuff on the server (when, even though I understand his reaction, it'd be stupid to assume only qsmp had small npc companions or creepy eye entities in the sky), or for example, when he suggested to sneeg (mostly not serious, but still) about pretending to be o!phil in sneeg's mind while sneeg is on the realm and phil was just in a call with him. even sneeg was like "bro wants to do lore but not do lore wth"--again, he wasn't being seriously accusatory, but I still felt that because seriously!?!?
idk, he doesn't have to have his own lore on the server, most fans don't mind. just maybe, idk, don't be a dick about the lore on the server you're currently in? if you're in a server like the realm and you wanna interact with people, you gotta accept that maybe, just maybe, you're gonna play a 'character' (even if said character doesn't have lore) that interacts with some server lore and just play off of what happens; that's kind of a given in a server like this?? trying to ignore it all is both nearly impossible and just going to make you come across like a dick.
sorry about the wall of text. my feelings on this have been building up the past few weeks. i love my streamer but realm streams have been unbearable. and i really really hope that changes soon.
While I cant speak on his streams, nor can I give an indepth analysis of his actions I feel validated hearing that a lot of Phil viewers are sharing my feelings. I don't hate streamer and enjoy his content and his interactions with my streamer(s), but it's a little disheartening? Frustrating? To hear all of the hard work people are putting in be brushed off with a simple "I ain't doing that shit" and the like.
I don't even want him to play a character, truly I couldn't give less of a fuck what streamer does as I don't watch him. What I, and seemingly a lot of other people, want is for him to stop unkindly dismissing the work people are putting in to make a fun story. I get being burnt out from it, I get not wanting to engage! I'm happy he's setting boundaries about what he does and does not want to do.
I even think it's okay to reference other servers/lore, and even I think it's okay to compare them critically as critical comparison and criticism (how many times can i say a word with "crit" in it) are healthy and necessary to make a server flow properly, but not so much when it comes to people's story telling and the thing that they are ultimately having fun doing!
In the end my opinion doesn't really matter, and I prefer not to be engaged in drama I have no real standing in. But I sympathize with you! I'm a firm believer that if anyone in the server cc wise has an actual issue with it that it will be handled privately and that's all I really care about ^^
#philza crit#no more tags dont want anyone to see hehe#some of my mutuals are crows and i love all of you and i love philza#teeny tiny crit is all#and not even a crit really just. an observation and a wish
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TQ you gotta tell me is final girl digital one of those divine femininity slash "girlhood" people... i want to be a video essays watcher so bad because theyre the ones doing the cool cultural & literary crit but i cannot stand the girlboss brand of feminism..... and i don't want to judge but what i have seen of her has not given me hope in this regard....
No she's very Aware Of & willing to point out the exploitative elements of feminine standards and their artificial construction. HIGHLY recommend her Substance video
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I also REALLY enjoyed this piece she wrote there's so many good quotes that even just trying to pick one to try hook ppl I'm like no literally just read the whole essay.
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Just waking up and had dreamt of another Life Series thingy!
So the last standing people were Tango, Cleo, Lizzie, and Martyn.
Four players left.
And this drives Martyn a bit mad, and I mean he starts breaking down how this will end and he canāt win again because he already won and it was painful. Heās rambling.
Cleo, Lizzie, and Tango are just Gobsmacked by Martynās breakdown.
But Tango takes this opportunity to slash at Lizzie, getting a crit and setting her on fire.
Cleo tries to help Lizzie but her teammate dies. So with out a choice, she runs off over to Martynās base.
Martyn is in there just sitting with his gear. Lost in his thoughts. Cleo basically snaps him out of it and convinced him to fight off Tango.
So they both fight Tango who is just throwing fire everywhere and exploding everything in their away. But, Cleo kills Tango with a bow and arrow.
Now itās just Cleo and Martyn. Which Martyn just stands there for a moment before falling to his knees. Allowing Cleo to kill him as he canāt win again. He canāt go through what he did last time.
Cleo nods and takes her sword and slays Martyn.
Which Martyn is met with the Watchers, disapproving his down fall.
And Cleo is met with the destruction around her. Left in the rumbles of her friends existence.
#trafficblr#life series#traffic smp#inthelittlewood#martyn inthelittlewood#zombiecleo#ldshadowlady#lizzie ldshadowlady#tangotek#life series tango#martyn life series#life series lizzie#life series cleo#I had another dream where I was in Danganronpa and another where Makoto Neagi was an android but I donāt remember a whole lost but the end
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maybe im just a super salty person bc its 5am and im Still not sleepingn and Still thinking about it but i cant help but feel that qtubbo fans are some of the most hypocritial people ive ever seen. this is like. full of generalizations and just observations ive made as a crow and im. typically defensive and salty so im gonna try to be objective but at the very least im not trying to neg on the characters or the ccs, since im directing this towards the fans. its also like a solid two months of build up .so. oops?
but uh. how to start explaining this. well for one im taking this as a recent fan who is a phil watcher pretty much only. but i tend to chronically read posts about other characters since when im into things i like to be informed on all cases (idk constant instinct i have lol). like i said im gonna focus on qtubbo here, if i go into qphil stuff its purely as a comparison point. i cant speak much on interactions with other fanbases since i simply am Not informed enough but yknow.
for one, i think both tubbo and phil ahve similar things when remembering lore that is Not their own. not a neg on either one, since i dont expect them to remember it, but both have forgotten major stuff recently, ie. fred's kidnapping (phil) and the birdhouse (tubbo). both things happened before purgatoryand the subsequent forgetting happened after so even in character it makes sense (they had more to worry about), but i also think reactions in character tends to fuck with audience perception. ie, tubbos very visceral reaction to the ill timed fred joke phil had made (and it was ill timed, and thats all that i feel was criminal about it. tubbo and phils friendship is very much based on banter and friendly barbs, lots of teasing from either side. phil simply shot back on a smilar level as tubbo had originally, making his joke about "phil and who?". other people have spoken on that so im not gonna rehash about whos comment was worse, since imo they were both just shy of being insensitive, had tubbo not been dealing with freds presumed death at the time. im not gonna talk about the funeral, becasue if i do i'll get mad.). likewise, when tubbo forgot birdhouse phils reaction was much less outwards. he just said a birdhouse wouldnt be slaying- given the imprisionment he had, it makes sense that phil would associate it negatively, especially since it catalzyed all of his future derealization episodes. both of these are simply ooc things imo, from their original standpoint. i dont think either is in the wrong for forgetting. but what annoys me is the fandom perception.
this is a problem im going to link back heavily to purgatory. im not sure if it was present beforehand, as i only really got into qsmp the last two-three weeks in october (bad timing) and had only really been watching vods in order to catch up. that being said, i think the bolas and soulfire rivalry had widened the gap between the fans, which in turn affects negative perception. later weeks in november had full bad faith interpretations of phil because he was critical of tubbos choices or simply didnt understand sunnys character perfectly. and there were. a lot of those. purgatory had happened just a few weeks prior, so i liken it to that. maybe it is just my expierence, but the phrasing of a lot of character crit and analysis between the two has wildly different interpretations of a character (to wildly different results)
you can get qphil fans explaining against a bad faith interpretaiton, and people will (and have) called them excuses to defend against character analysis. i have noticed, however, when qtubbo fans do the same thing (and they have) it seems to be more of a matter of adding context to the conversation. thats.... exactly what qphil fans are doing however? when talking critically about qtubbo not communicating with other parents and friends both his and sunny insecurities, its all that hes younger and in a bad mental state. but you have something about phil not understanding sunnys character perfectly, and hes a cruel stepmother and such; and when an explanation is added to why hes not a bad father nor a good father, just an imperfect one trying his best, its simply a "mindless defense against a crit of his character". are these not the same things? providing context to a percieved bad faith interpretation? idk. i cant tell if its the age or the percieved roles theyre supposed to take, but why is tubbo allowed to be imperfect and doused in outward angst, especially when interacting with other characters (ramon had to take the initiative to communicate with tubbo. and yet. age age age.) phils just as complex and imperfect and unwell. all of qsmp is unwell. it is an explanation, not an excuse.
anyway. i think i was thinking about this because of the flightless bird/ostrich dna joke. ill timed, just like the fred one. but phils reaction speaks volumes doesnt it? if its an age one maybe he'll overdramaticize, but he laughs it off mostly. theres a lot he laughs off. he doesnt. "if your kid wasnt here id kill you". tubbo doesnt know about phils failed flight. he probably wont for a while (i cant help but think qphil is embarassed. he was knocked unconcious from hitting the water too hard. and he knows how to fly? fuck, man). i think its wild, however, that one fred joke gets the entire fanbase ready to deface and mischaracterize the whole character. but one wing joke gets maybe shocked laughter and about two posts complaining? idk. maybe im just complaining about nothing, im tired as fuck.
tldr is that tubbo fans are so wildly hypocritical that they cant see when theyre doing the same thing as everyone else. im sure im being hypocritical in this post, its human. but its annoying as fuck when its everywhere, and i think purgatory made it worse.
#im just gonna tag this#qsmp neg#even tho its not really#its such a specific stupid problem but i have sent so many texts to one of my friends who doesnt even Watch qsmp i had to get it off my che#tenor talks#mutuals not interested im So Sorry#actually anyone not interested or whatever im also So Sorry i get annoyed so easily.#50/50 i delete this whjen i actually get some sleep idk. its 5:15am bbg i can invent wholeass problems you cant even dream of.#ok im going now.
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random thought i just had: do you think Zeke would have disadvantage against the steel watch? or advantage because he watched them be created and subconsciously knows their weak points?
or both could work, i suppose. like advantage to crit chance but disadvantage to saving throws, or heās Frightened the whole time or something?
and whatās his reaction to seeing one for the first time in act 3?
(post i think you are referring to for context with eke thoughts about the steel watch) but absolutely yes disadvantage and frightened the whole time. heād also have disadvantage on almost all checks against gortash tbh.
the beginning of act 3 is like. he starts consciously remembering gortash since he saw his experiments in the morphic pool and itās sort of. like all of his scars opening one by one the closer he gets to act 3. heās just in a perpetual worsening state of terror, obviously tries to hide it as best as he can but fails miserably when he sees that steel watcher on the bridge.
#i recently played squirrel stapler and. how you feel during that āgod is comingā section? thatās how eke feels#sorry for this extremely fucking obscure reference lmao but itās accurate#feeling in your blood not just the blood of this body but so many before that something is rising over your horizon and it will be grand an#tear you apart piece by piece but you donāt know where itās coming from or what it is or what it looks like or anything at all really#and the antithesis of everything you are and it crushes you between its gears to destroy the natural world/you#thatās how eke feels all the time but especially during that section#sorry brain is still fried massively so iām sorry if this is incoherent š#bg3#enver gortash#oc: zeke#gortash#baldur's gate 3#gortash & zeke
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