[october] one year of togetherness.
@/dreamsecretclub: dteam Christmas won’t be happening unfortunately, thought I’d say before that way Christmas can still be great :) totally out of our control unfortunately, can’t wait for the future still :)) 2022 incoming ♥️♥️
Dream: I'm gonna expose George's feelings on his behalf ... He was just saying, he was like, 'I think I'm depressed', and we were like 'What do you mean?' and he was like, 'I don't know. I don't do anything, and no one's here, and I just wanna come to the US'. And Sapnap was like, 'Well, what if I came to the UK?' and George was like, 'You should'. And then Sapnap went and filed for his passport the next day.
Dream: Because George hasn't got his visa yet, Sapnap's going to the UK.
Sapnap: Fine. I'll go.
[Dream Team laughs]
Dream: So, unfortunately, Sapnap's getting the first George hug.
[George Laughs]
Sapnap: I'm getting the first George hug.
Dream: I feel like if George isn't here by, like—I wanna be like, 'Well, next month'. I feel like if George isn't here by September, my like, mental health will take a dive. Massively. And that sounds like, fucked, but it's one-hundred percent true.
Dream: You will see the fact that George, um—George's reaction to seeing me ... We said when he got his visa he could FaceTime me, so, stuck to the plan. Not saying anymore because you have to wait for the meetup video.
Dream: You sure you don't want to wait to see me in person?
George: I'm ready. I've got my camera set up—I'm all ready to go!
Dream: I guess I just, I wasn't expecting this. I'm gonna go look in a mirror and make sure I don't look like trash. I'll be right back!
George: [laughs] Okay ... Oh my god.
George: After years of waiting, I was finally going to America.
Sapnap: Dream?
Dream: Yeah?
Sapnap: Clay?
Dream: Oh god.
Sapnap: I brought him. He's here. You excited?
Dream: I am ... very nervous.
Sapnap: Nervous but excited.
Dream: I'm nervous, but I'm excited! I'm doing excited hops.
Sapnap: It's a big day—an exciting day! ... Take your time. This is big stuff. He's going to be living here forever.
@/GeorgeNotFound: Just met Dream!! :)
“This doesn’t even feel real,” George says in the video — a sentiment he reiterates to Variety when asked about how he felt in the moment. “The sun was directly behind him, and it was blinding me, and he had an aura about him.”
George: It's so bright, I can't even see you. You're like a—you're like a god with the sun behind you!
George: I guess I gotta go get my bags in, and time to live in the Dream House.
Dream: The Dream Team House!
@/GeorgeNotFound: why didnt you post the one where you actually kissed me?
dream @/dreamwastaken: just felt better leaving things up for larger interpretation
George: Look it's Dream, and Sapnap. It's all of us!
Dream: [softly to George] Rise and shine. We're home.
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hellblazer’s rules about how heaven and hell work are the funniest bit of worldbuilding ever to me, because i'm pretty sure the lion’s share of their complicated nature exists solely in reaction to the fact that they created the first of the fallen — god’s conscience, constantine's perfect rival, humanity's Satan for whom constantine is, personally, The Devil, so chronically obsessed with our favorite scouse shithead that he once spent every night for 20 years tormenting a priest just to give constantine an example of what will be in store for him when he finally dies — and then had constantine beat the pants off of The Satan in his very first appearance. like, where do you go from there?
why, naturally to the next time constantine beats the pants off him, which is about…three issues later, and brings up that satan is part of a triumvirate of leaders in hell. also, if satan is tricked three times, according to The Law (that’s all it’s called), the person who tricked him goes free and satan has to take the punishment instead, just to make that time spicier than the last two. also, he undoes the first trick, comes after constantine, and gets fucking murdered (because being able to figure out the first trick at all was, itself, a trick) and there's a big final question about "where does satan go when he dies", which is honestly! really cool and thought-provoking!
but we don't want to lose him, since he was created as the perfect rival to highlight constantine's existence as a force to be feared by hell + the cost of that status in his personal life. so the answer to that really cool question is that satan was made mortal and fucked off to greece. as you do.
but also, you can restore greek-vacation-ex-satan back to power by getting the one he hates the most to give up their soul, who happens to be constantine, who happens to worm his way into staying alive while still fulfilling the terms, so now we’re back to regular ol satan again.
god i love these comics.
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Hello.
You and gay-jesus-probably have successfully made me question everything with your view that Tears of the Kingdom is imperialist propaganda, so that's been fun.
Anyway, I decided to share this discussion with the Zelda fans on reddit, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of them disagreed. Here is what they said (I'm Alarming_Afternoon44):
So what do you think? Have I and all these other people just been duped by the game's manipulative framing? Or do they actually have a point?
And if you'd rather not answer this, or would prefer if I censored the usernames, just tell me and I'll delete this.
Hey! Thanks a lot for reaching out, and I'm glad it made you think stuff through!!
Honestly, as I mentioned in this post, I am not super interested about in-world conversations about who oppresses who, because what can be assessed from the game is super vague and more vibes-based than evidence-based. Within the text, of course that the Good Zonais are good and the Bad Ganondorf is bad! But that's my whole point! The narrative has been deliberately crafted so that the zonais and Rauru (and Hyrule) are as blameless as possible (and it's not doing a great job at it overall to be frank; we would not be having these conversations about how offputting it all feels for a non-zero number of people if it did do a great job). More importantly, I want to focus on what sort of real-life narrative it all parallels. Because people make stories, and people live in the real world.
Not going after everyone's throat here, gamedev is hard and the hydras that are AAA game production do end up doing super weird stuff, especially since the thematic ramifications are absolutely never prioritized (and it's also always the same kind of people who make the final calls and push out what can and can't be talked about also). And as fans, we tend to have trouble stepping outside the lens of lore and take a look at the bigger picture sometimes; not as an attack on any individual part of that decision-making process but to just pause, stop, and question our standards, our priorities and the kind of reality (or skewing of reality) the stories we tell each other reflect.
Again: do we want to take videogames seriously or not? If we do, then we need to accept they are a vehicle for ideology, just like any other artform. And sometimes, you push out questionable ideology, sometimes without meaning to, because you didn't unpack your own biases as you did. And it's even fine to do it, nobody is perfect, a 300+ people team spread over 6 years certainly will not be that. But that it wasn't prioritized is, in my opinion, a problem. As a narrative designer, I want games (at least the narrative side) to be held to a higher standard than this. It's literally my job to work with the industry so it can hold itself to higher standards of quality --so the whole TotK situation is quite frustrating to witness from a very pragmatic, work perspective where I already spend my days trying to convince people that things mean things. I have a vested interest here in not having the companies I work for being given a free pass by gamers to do literally whatever as long as it's fun, especially when we're talking about a billion-dollars company suing its own fans left and right for any perceived slight. Nintendo are not underdogs here. It's fine to point out they cut corners and maybe promoted messy ideologies, voluntarily or not.
So long story short: no I don't believe anyone here has a point in regards to what I think is actually important, which is why these choices were made in the first place. If you look at an imperialist text expecting the text to tell you that it's imperialist instead of recognizing a framing used for propaganda by yourself, you're never gonna find any imperialist text ever, obviously not!! I'm sorry if I sound a little gngngn here, but I don't know why audiences have, at large, this feeling that lore and story beat decisions materialize themselves already formed and without any human bias, meddling, intervention, internal politics or approximations (it seems that people can only conceptualize this part if they have actual names to attach to the story, but without clear authors it's like there are no authors and so no bias, which is... a very strange bias in itself). I can promise you that it does not work that way in practice: every narrative department on every big game is a battlefield --some nicer than others, but all of them very emotionally draining either way.
So yeah, I guess that on these grounds, I disagree with every point raised here. Sorry Reddit :/
But thank you for the ask and sorry if I didn't go more into details as to why. The big Why I Dislike Rauru Post and the Gerudo Post might have some more specific rebuttals, but I am not super interested in debating small detail stuff tbh. I feel like it's no use if the frame of reference isn't being understood in the first place.
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I'm not a fan of gatekeeping but everytime I fucking see a certain type of white allocishet in kpop spaces I change my stance
Like I just want to watch cute videos of groups wearing rainbows and hugging each other without someone saying shit like "oh they only act supportive so they don't get cancelled, they're probably homophobic/racist behind the scenes"
Like yeah that has unfortunately been the case (Siwon go fuck your queerbaiting self in the ass with your dog) with some idols, but not everyone is like that?? Also citing that they're from South Korea which is very conservative like everyone there thinks exactly the same and doesn't have access to the internet. Queer people and poc exist in South Korea as well and the fact that people act like they don't really says something. For fuck's sake, part of my family came from a similarly conservative Asian country and managed to not be racist/homophobic, because guess what? not everyone from one country has the same beliefs.
It's also unfair that queer people/poc can't enjoy fandom spaces without being reminded that there are people who literally want us dead for existing like?? Yeah I don't know these people personally and don't claim to know what their beliefs are, but I like to believe that Mamamoo means it when they hold events to support queer fans or that Chan was making a concious effort to talk about periods in a gender neutral fashion or that P1H wasn't just trying to gain clout when they talked about cultural appropriation in the industry. But no, everytime a group comes around that seems to be safe people feel the need to ruin it for us.
I don't know who needs to hear this but just let minorities find joy in something oh my god
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