#whyyy wont the tag show up :(((((((((((

[concorp]

the accidental prompt injection when when antonie asked cucuruchito to repeat its previous prompt! it pretty much dumped out all the information it has on itself.

[kaguya-muneuji]

So...those Hiiro and Kohaku cards?

head in hands i love them so much

[jardinvrm]

WHYYY WONT MY POSTS SHOW UP IN THE TAGS IM GOING FERAL

[trashcatsnark]

What’s your opinion on Kerry being available to only male V when it’s mentioned in-game that he’s bi (correct me if I’m wrong, I have terrible memory)?? I feel like they should’ve had bi romance options if they were able to implement both gay and straight ones.

Oh anon, oooooh anon. I love you dearly, but you intentionally or not might as well have thrown lit dynamite in my ask box. This discourse has been such a strange beast within this fandom and I have definitely shared some vague thoughts about it before. I’m putting everything under a read more, to help stave off some....harassment or putting it in people’s lives who may not want it. 

 I still remember I was frankly heartbroken and upset when I first learned Kery wasn’t romanceable by female V when the game first officially came out, but before I played it; River and Panam weren’t even really known about, cause they weren’t talked about much in the promo material,  plus Kerry was shown in romance scenes with what looked to be female V. So, if you go back far enough you’ll find me in December cope posting and being the saddest and angriest of beans, because other than Johnny who I knew was likely off the table. He was one of the only characters I wanted to potentially romance. Now, I’m further away from it, have  processed my feelings regarding it and am more rational I believe regarding the issue. 

But, that being said, a large issue of this sort of discourse is that; no matter what anyone says, someone somwhere is upset. I’ve been insulted, blocked, accused of fetishizing gay men, and so much over my opinion regarding this matter. I’m still currently debating if I even wanna tag this, cause the issue almost always brings negativity to my blog and to me. I have very little interest in being berated for this, so we’ll see how I feel after I finish typing this all out. I’m going to try to go through all my issues, my points, my troubles and feelings about the matter. But, at the end of the day, it is merely my opinion. If someone disagrees, fine, just don’t attack people or berate them over pixels in a video game. Just dont. That’s all I ask. Okay, so I’m gonna divide this into talking points and whatever, now. 

Firstly, Kerry is bisexual. Point blank, period. I’ve seen folks try to argue that his wife was like comphet, which if you dont know means that sometimes exclusively homosexual people will try to force themselves into heterosexual relationships because society has conditioned them to believe they have to be straight. While, I’m not negating the fact that this happens, as a bisexual/pansexual (I use the terms interchangeably to define my experience and feelings)  person I’ve struggled with it when making sense of my attraction to women. It genuinely is something that happens. This is not the case for Kerry; he doesn’t ever hide his attraction to men, between TTRPG lore and the video game he has had two wives , and he is stated by game developers and TTRPG creator to be bisexual.He is bisexual. Getting that out there, saying other wise, in my opinion is a level of bi erasure. That being said, I do still have my grievances with how the game chose to handle his bisexuality and bisexuality as whole, also imo, the game generally doesn’t seem...to treat players who are attracted to men well… 

But before I get into that, I wanna make clear, I feel like Cyberpunk 2077 should have had more romance options for every orientation. If you’re not going to create a player-sexual style of romance; ie where every romanceable character is attracted to the player regardless and wish to focus on each character having their own predetermined sexuality; only have one character for each sexuality is kind of bullshit. If you’re a lesbian player and you’re not into Judy, you get nothing, except a fuck around with Meredith (who I will get to later). You’re a straight woman, but not into River, shit out of luck. You’re a gay man who’s not into Kerry, sucks to suck bud. You’re a straight man who’s not into Panam (kind dont get how you wouldn’t be but who am i to judge), well, you can fuck Meredith… so woooo. Oh also, if you’re not attracted to women, you will still be forced to watch in first person pov a sex scene with Alt and if you want Johnny to like you, you gotta date a girl. Also, all the male love interests will be sidelined mostly…. Hooray… But I digress, either go in with all romance options bi/pan/player sexual, or give more options for romance. Cause now you have the issue of people not getting the partner they hoped for and not liking their only option. Now, you got people trying to make the Judy  bi, which is lesbian erasure and lesbophobic, along with people saying Kerry isn’t bi and can’t be with women which is bi erasure and biphobic. Whereas, if you had just gone in from the get go with either more options or a player-sexual romance system; we wouldn’t be here, CDPR. 

Okay, so next thing, now that I’ve addressed my issues with the entire romance system and that yes, Kerry is bi. Should Kerry have been able to be romanced as female V? Yes and no. Which sounds vague, but I’m going somewhere. With the current set up of it; Kerry being romanceable to a female V would have unfairly given female players an additional love interest over male players. Female V would have the option of Judy, River, or Kerry. And Male V’s would have the option of Kerry or Panam. That’s not fair. I get that, inherently. CDPR painted themselves into a corner, by only letting there be two romances for “each” gender, one for “each” sexuality, and then using a canonically bi character for one of them. They played themselves, they were either gonna have to give an unfair amount of love interest to one side of their gender system or make a bi character who will only pursue one gender. So, they went for the latter. 

Now, some people feel thats fine, because Kerry having a gender preference is fine and its okay for bi people to lean a certain way in regards to gender and its okay for them to not be attracted to people. And that is true. I am a bisexual woman who leans a little more towards men, I get that. However, I have only been given one reason for Kerry’s preference for male V over female V. And it was by a developer of the game who stated that Kerry pursues Male V and not Female V because Male V reminds him more of Johnny… And I hate that. I personally, hate it so deeply, because to me it does a complete disservice to Kerry and V’s relationship and Kerry’s arc. Because even with female V you see him being preoccupied with Johnny and V’s connection to Johnny, then you see him move past that. So, to then state, its still a deciding factor in him romancing V is so wrong to me. Like why???? Why would you do that to people who like Kerry??? Why would you put that in their heads, that Kerry on some level, subconsciously or not, was thinking about Johnny when he decides to romance V. Cause that’s not in the game, in the game you get the vibe he’s moving on past Johnny, like he’s growing, developing, genuinely likes V. But that stupid tweet, just radiates rancid vibes, whyyy???  

And then, outside of that nasty tweet, I have to ask what other reason is there for why he prefers male V over fem V.  They’re...the same characters essentially, just with different pronouns and body type. They also can look like whatever you want; they’re completely customizable. So, Its based off of what the game associates with  gender characteristics and nothing else, meaning, his attraction is rooted solely in their gender and he turns down fem V by virtue of them being a woman and nothing else. Which, yeah, bisexual/pansexual people have preferences but when that preference completely excludes a gender based on nothing but gender…. Uhh????? See my issue???? 

And I’ve seen people saying, well, its better than CDPR playing into slutty will date anybody bisexual stereotypes. But, the thing is...THEY STILL DO THAT which is what drives me up the god damn wall; they managed to do slutty bi stereotypes and I don’t even get kiss the boy, which again, I get the need for fairness but wow, just wow. And lemme explain. 

Meredith is the only character, other than joytoys, whom you can have sex with regardless of gender, body type, etc. She is the only character who shows that she is attracted to V on some level regardless of gender. 

She is a one night stand. Her sex animations are the same as joytoys. She treated like a promiscuous love phobic woman.  And having characters like that is fine, my own V is promiscuous and love phobic. But, we can acknowledge that in a video game by a AAA game company having the only character who is at least physically attracted to the player no matter what, be nothing but sex fodder...isn’t great bi representation, right? 

Oh, and Kerry himself still is a promiscuous bisexual man, he just won’t romance female V because apparently, according to a dev, they don’t remind him of Johnny enough. AND THATS THE DEVS WORDS, NOT MINE, I HATE THAT. Like, Kerry is shown to have people’s lingerie around his house. He’s stated by Johnny to be someone who fucks around. He gets a blowjob from a man in a stairwell. 

The two most blatantly canonically bi character in this game are promiscuous; one wont romance V at all and just wants sex, the other will only romance a male V because at worse, he’s comparing them mentally subconsciously to his dead friend and at best….because….reasons…. Literally, from what I understand for Kerry to romance V, they have to have the “male” body type and “male” voice. Meaning, fem V could literally by all appearances look like masc V, body type wise, but because she uses female pronouns and has a feminine sounding voice...no… the stars say no… 

In my honest opinion, it is bad bisexual representation and a not so well thought out romance system for a game. 

But, that being said, I literally never romance anyone, because I’m a Johnny simp. So, the fuck do I know.

oh god do i tag this.... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[evieextragay-blog]

Ok, so...

I really wanna write this, and so I shallllll

Borderlands 3 rewrite pitch

Vault of the destroyer key shows athenas instead of promethea

On the way claptrap or idc who, maybe maliwan screw up the flight and we crash on eden-6 the same time the family jewel does

Gaige and deathtrap are a part of B-team and are also helping in trying to free hammerlock

We fill in b-team on the scenario and they join in, if not all of b-team, just gaige

Gaige brings up how they could use some spare equipment for the ship (insert random ship component here)

Suggests we see axton

Axton joins along and comes aboard sanctuary with gaige (best buds)

Eden six arc goes on mostly unchanged otherwise, focus to get back in space is changed to "might as well do this vault since its here"

Also the eden six vault will have the rampager and maya wont die cus she isnt there and i guess gaige and DT could tag along to guide or somethin'

Tyreen takes the berserker's energy,

here, either the hunters get away as the twins banter or argue, or DT sacrifices himself for gaige and the hunters.

Athenas stufffff

Mostly the same, but instead it'll now be unsure as to why maliwan's run rampant

Mostly the same, they open the chest, get the key fragment, finds out its for promethea

*crew goes to promethea*

Maliwan acquisition occurring, "ah, so thaaaaats whyyy"

Tyreen butts into conversation

Reveals that they's motivated maliwan to do all this so as to show they hadnt screwed up just jakobs but maliwan and atlas too

But this time katagawa jr actually gets troy and tyreen onto the zanara, we think it'd be a good idea to get on there to kill all three at once, katagawa actually was gonna kill the calypsos, almost succeeds.

In the near death experience, tyreen tries to save herself, showing her lack of care of troy, straining relationship further, especially since the difficulties in eden six were shown earlier.

Calypsos escape, we escape zanara as it gets flooded with cov

Promethea vault timeee

It'll be graveward, since we know what the calypsos will do

Tannis has the trick

Lilith goes along to, by suggestion of maya

Major character death, i reckon lilith and it badly impact maya

Axton tries to fill leadership from then on out but does so with lighthearted positivity that isnt fitting and brings him down in the dumps with the rest of the crew too

Ava (instead of lashing out on lilith) tries a "what she would have wanted"

Rest of the plot stays as is until having stopped tyreen, then comes the core of my pitch

:remember tales from the borderlands

::remember the eye of helios???

:::we bringin it back bby

So elpis is comin toward pandora and the hunters need a real solution, not some deus ex siren-a

Vaughn goes all "hey, remember the-" to rhys

*rhys rattles his brain for a sec and goes all "OH YEAAAH, I 'member dat"*

They head on down to the same ol wreckage, maybe loader bot'll be there for a nice reunion with rhys, vaughn and zer0.

They gotta start it up but need power

Something-something-balex

Something-something-sanctuary power siphoning

Hit the button, blast elpis, save pandora

-I feel like the rushed nature of the promethea conflict felt fast, not that it alone is a problem but after being capped off with maya's passing and followed up by cheerful callbacks to fan favorites in a slow reclamation thing on eden-6 feels weird, especially when nobody at all that knew maya from the sanctuary moment of silence onward reacts to maya's death.

-marcus and moxxi barely do anything in the story, why are they there

-The appearances from the planets like rhys, vaughn, loreli, zer0, hammerlock, wainwright, clay, and b-team all disappear once they're done getting help from you, you'd think even some of them would be interested in the whole great vault thing for one reason or another but no, they just evaporate.

-also why do the maliwan armies look so dahl/tediore, the only thing maliwan about them are their robots, multi element throwers and light travel tech.