#yeah this just feels like ellis

[schmweed]

[r0semultiverse]

From Season 3 Ep9 Revelations Chapter One Live Blog

“The baby was hungry”

“Please you helped me so much since I first got here.”

BOY SHES GONNA EAT YOU ALIVE IF YOU DON’T CUT THIS SHIT OUT 👀

JIM I STG YOU ARE BEING SUCH AN ASS BRO I MEAN RANDALL WAS A DOUCHE BUT STOP PLAYING COP, WE ALREADY GOT THE YT LADY DOING THAT! 😭

Oh thank fuck he’s listening for a change instead of charging in guns blazing.

Oh shit she’s gonna go for the jugular isn’t she?

Please no one shoot the messenger, Sara has done fucked up shit, but she’s helpful.

Weird how Fromville is basically playing them all like chess pieces or one big show or something.

Oh gods please keep cop lady away from Victor. I don’t trust like that.

DONNA IS GAY I KNEW IT (or that’s her sister but listen... VIBESSS)

THATS WHY BOYD IS THE GOAT!!! 🔥

Ellis is hot. I think that a lot, but just wanted to say it. He’s cute.

Someones gonna die today and Elgin's got the final sayyyyy (epic the musical thunder bringer reference yeah)

“I’m a good cop!” For the crowd who usually jokes about participation trophies you sure are giving yourself one. Bruh I wish the monsters got you on the night you arrived. Someone get this pig out of here.

Hey Victor buddyy... hey maybe don't... do that.

Woah kid hi wtf?

You an angry spirit or something boy in white? "because I tried" WELL, TRY AGAIN THEN! If you're gonna stick around fucking help!

Wait no Victor is right, this kid does look different, sounds older too like preteen or teen. wtf is happening?

ELGIN IS GONNA GET CAUGHT IM CALLING IT NOW

Are they gonna do a time skip of some sort before season 5? Idk how I'd feel about that, but i randomly thought of it.

ELGIN SELF REPORT!?!?

ah nvm

oh shit oh fuck

I stg if this shit somehow teleports them I'm gonna be so annoyed

NO, GO IN TOGETHER PLEASE HOLY FUCK

NO NOPE NOPE NOPE FUCK YOU I HATE THAT. GET YOUR BLAIR WITCH PROJECT ASS OUT THE WAY PLEASE

oH THANK FUCK. bruh stg I'm always turning my volume down for shit like this, I hate getting jumpscared.

oh no :((( she saw Victor's mom get eaten by jerma

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

Hey did I ever tell y'all about the time I dreamed that I had a baby daughter called Ellie that began with my finding out I was pregnant and ended on like her third birthday?

I legitimately woke up thinking "I should go check on Ellie" and then realised she was never real and when I tell you I SOBBED. I've been haunted by an implacable sense of loss ever since. Did I travel to another dimension? Wtf happened because that was insane.

[mangora]

“Jake is annoying” my brother in Christ I respect your opinion but if I had lost my grandfather before being on a survival reality show and my grandmother during a survival reality show and I just got out of a toxic relationship and I scored with a mysterious twunk and then immediately discovered he’d been hiding the fact he was a government spy and saw everyone I was close to including my living grandmother figure brutally die only to be told it was a VR bit and then after that I was told by one of my closest friends that my spy boyfriend who had just trusted me with some major shit was cheating on me then yeah you’d probably have to lock me up I think he’s handling this pretty well all things considered

[loptrcoptr]

Ten years ago, a little baby loptrcoptr (then under the username daysoffuturepasta), freshly in love with Norse mythology, decided to make a few Norse-myth-meme valentines. I did seven rounds of these things (technically 6 and 1/2) for a total of seven years and I had a lot of fun. Even made some for my grad department to put around the place, and once shoved them into friends’ pockets on a night out to see how long it took them to find each one.

Now, in honor of the tenth anniversary of these trashy little things, have one more!

(Also totally message me to tell me which ones were your faves!)

[bulbabutt]

no offence to people who genuinely enjoyed james somerton and feel cheated but you could kind of tell he didnt give a shit about anything he ever said. there was no passion or personable anecdotes in anything he ever made, and the fact he was constantly posting videos was crazy. like if you watch your more popular video essayists theyre always coming from a point of 1) education in a field 2) passion in a subject and 3) being open about themselves

like , this man hopped on the video essay train because of the popularity of his peers and just tokened himself into "the gay video essayist" as if so many other people werent already doing that? and the lack of care for intersectionality was obvious. i stopped ever watching him after he took it personally that some marvel show was about black exploitation in america and not about two men kissing each other, cuz it became abundantly clear that was the only experience he gave a shit about (his own)

[poisoned-pearls]

Everyone’s here now!! these are my twst fankids! From left to right there is: Vivienne Schoenheit (rookvil), Faraja Kingscholar (leona), Ellie Felmier (epeldeuce), Samir Al-Asim (silkali), Nami Ashengrotto (Jamiazu), Neo Shroud (Idikei) Emil Schoenheit (rookvil), Tamaki Leech (treyjade), Mallerie Draconia (Malleyuu), and Malick (malleyuu)

[theha1rarch]

ngl i was feeling kinda crappy & sad & a little discouraged abt tumblr & feeling like i was being annoying today, & it wasn’t anyone doing anything - just being a bit too in my own head & stuff … but then some of y’all said some really sweet things in asks i sent in to y’all - that didn’t even REQUIRE YOU SAYING NICE THINGS - & i feel a lot better now & love you all sm truly 🥺

[whenthegoldrays]

🦢

[petr1kov]

Penny for your last of us thoughts? 🪙

No pressure - I just saw your post and love to talk about TLOU. I loved TLOU 1 as a teen and still do but hate Duck-man and have basically erased TLOU2 from my brain. Would love to hear what you think!

to give credit where credit is due, i think joel and ellie are good characters who had a very compelling relationship with each other, which is why the first game worked at all.

that being said, i've always taken issue with the way society's collapse is portrayed on most zombie stories and it's no different on this series, but it annoys me a little more than usual because it does try to take itself seriously and fails to provide a perspective more interesting than presenting us with a literal trolley problem at the end of the game (in a rather contrived scenario).

i like some of the ideas both parts 1 and 2 try to tackle, especially the messy way we deal with grief and trauma, but i think that it ultimately never escapes a very surface level 'humans are selfish' read of the world that is presented as fact, which is disappointing considering its main strength is the way it handles ellie and joel's relationship in the story

[5hrignold]

feeling sick about ellis and marshall’s relationship again

[the-cpu-system]

I love playing borderlands and deciding all the relationships for my oc

[mabelsguidetolife]

if bloober team’s blair witch game weren’t just packed to the brim with overplayed psychological horror tropes and focused on the terror in the woods (and the time stuff) a lot more, it would’ve been a lot better, because i do NOT care about ellis’ war trauma or his girlfriend, i just wanna run through the scary forest with a dog — the extra stuff is so pace-breaking

[datastate]

(sending this as an ask because it got WAYY too long to be a reply whoops) i really like your opinions on the routes!! especially on the ais waugh…. i am planning on playing kanna's routes whenever i eventually replay this summer + i am excited to see what they entail…. but yeah overall i really like your thoughts and man do i need to replay yttd T_T it has been so long. (+ this is where the reply turned into a small ramble about qtaro because the autism) plus your comment about how the main games have gone + the qtaro thing. sorry i am ill about him. glad to see someone who understands his intent there because although i am not active in fandom ANYMORE i used to see so many people absolutely hating him for that (<- like obviously not the best way of going about things but he had intentions. okay?) (also i would like to make the comment of although in 8th grade i had intense hyperfixation on alice, ever since my first playthrough in 6th grade (HOW HAS IT BEEN THAT LONG?!) qtaro has + always will be my favorite sorry society….). i still remember when 3-1b came out + so many people were like "oh maybe qtaro is not deplorable" meanwhile i was over here #1 qtaro fan sobbing. sorry this is so long

(in response to this ask! also, for my own sake, i've broken up replying this into little sections :] <3 but i don't mind at all!!!)

REPLAYING YTTD

oho...!! i do think even a general replay (without seeing other routes) is really worthwhile to get a better feel for the characters & see how you can recontextualize things they're doing/have said at the time... i love combing through to see what nao and kai were up to in particular just before the main games <3

while i do think there was more that nankidai could've stood to do to differentiate the two routes particularly to make kanna & shin's separate routes feel like an actual choice, i do think that what small things are changed are still worthwhile & cool to see! i hope you enjoy your replay!!! :D

Q-TARO

YEAH exactly... i'm really sad that it's taken until his literal death to truly appreciate him as a character when more morally ambiguous characters like... well. shin, keiji, and even kai (though i'd honestly argue that most people don't see kai for who he is, you know; rather they place emphasis on his attractive appearance...) -- what they've done & how they behave are excused because they're, frankly, thin enough to care abt.

i've gone on about this before, so i won't linger much more than i need to, but i find it so strange that most people don't seem to recognize that - if not in the moment, i can understand that everyone's emotions are in a swirl. even the player's, but in chapter two when he says he felt a connection w kai - q-taro is autistic. and this definitely makes how he approached things in the first main game all the more understandable, personally... being so blunt about it when he'd settled on it being the clear solution, he even outright says that he doesn't want to see any of them just resign themselves right away to being voted out! & then we learn in ch3 as well that he's also experienced suicidal ideation which just lends so much more value to what he says...!! he doesn't want anyone to die, but certainly not with the belief that it's the only option they had. he wants them to at least have the chance to fight, just in case. and he's willing to hold himself to the same standard!

of course, first impressions mean a lot, but i feel like people saw this and completely missed the entirety of chapter 2 where he quickly warms up to gin afterward & even apologizes to sara for all she's had to deal with, despite it not being his fault, and expressing that he wishes there was something he could do even irt miley... he cares so much abt the kids within the group, even if it takes a lot of courage to support strangers when he knows he has other kids waiting at home for him... he still tries his damnedest, you know? i feel like there's something about that you have to respect. even when he's attempting to leave, you visibly see how conflicted he is about it & it's why sara can pick up on it so early, because he doesn't want to do this, it just feels like the only option... which. well. there's something to say about how gin's the one who's freely handing out tokens and yet q-taro goes to someone like sara first. someone who's been steadily pushed into the figurehead of the group, who is clearly strategic... versus someone who resembles the people q-taro's trying to get back to. hmmm. i sure wonder what the implications are here. (& i have a post for you. that you might enjoy... i've been meaning to write it for a while but i forget. but the idea is there.)

but. yeah... they didn't give him much room to grow in their mind after this point, which is so disappointing & definitely created a very toxic space. beyond that, it played into general southern stereotypes of him being the only homophobic/transphobic one, which i honestly often find treatment of to be in poor taste (it can be used well in stories, but you shouldn't just. throw bigotry on characters simply because you hate them...) -- but also just. blatantly untrue?

even just. everything about his treatment of people in general being so understanding once you explain something to him, or his desire to be a good person worthy of looking up to (which is why it doubly wrecks him when he sees himself become disabled/suicidal in the hospital, because he's become such a rotten person and he feels it and it's a terrible, terrible cycle) for the orphanage kids & to prove something to the parents who abandoned him that he's still worthy of being loved too... he believes in equivalent exchange in social dynamics, only ever giving out what you can take, just... in what world would he be so insensitive?

and this isn't even bringing up the fact that he has slightly longer than shoulder-length hair + nonetheless treats kai/mishima with a lot of respect and care even with them both generally being considered (physically, as well as in their demeanor) strange. combined with the fact that he relates to kai on the basis of being "lonely" rather than "loved" for what's unchangeable about them... there's so much there to read into. not just with autism or ptsd, but. gestures. transgenderism, being mixed, so on. things that sara had people to help support her with prior to the death game, or that she lacked altogether (if she's fully japanese)

but i digress! i'm glad that ch3-1 skirted some hatred toward him, but i definitely agree -- he's such a well-rounded characters even prior to that & it deserved to be acknowledged...!!

[arolesbianism]

Ok yeah I’m a little obsessed with them

[andorerso]

finally started watching TLOU and when Tess says “he answers to me” mhhmmm queen shit, you love to see it