i love makoto so much but fanon does her so much better (the good parts of the fandom) because in the game her character is so lack luster. they butchered her confidant it is so borning and not even about her. they made her a cop. A COP. they pushed this "canon waifu" role onto her (before sumire came along and did it Even Worse). and it SUCKS because SHE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! SHE IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!! SHE COULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!!! the way i feel about canon makoto is the same way i feel about the canon ryuji events post komoshida where he's horribly mistreated and used purely as comic relief: i ignore them <3 my game now <3 never happened <3 my ocs <3
You are so right. I generally apply this to all characters in p5 bc the game does such a shit job of staying consistent with character arcs and personalities. Theres a desperate need to throw in perverse jokes at the expense of female characters and a need to show that the police (as a whole) are reliable people who are not influenced by things like money and power; only the BAD cops do that. Not to mention this obvious fatphobia and homophobia but i feel likes thats a given.
But back to Makoto. Shes a victim of bad writing just like everyone else. Ryuji during the kamoshida arc was fighting with self loathing and genuine anxiety, and aside from the like. One comment on Panthers outfit in the metaverse, hes more than well behaved. All of that is shelved as soon as Kamoshida is gone and replaced with him being weird comic relief (and the focus of alot of sexual jokes that were nonexistent in the beginning of the game). Anns arc about self love and empowerment is completely dropped as soon as the nasty bad guy is put away (so that its good to be weird about her w the Good Guys). Makoto loses her a chunk of her personality to be the mature waifu which is INSANE to me bc shes like. Not okay or normal at all 😭😭😭 she THINKS shes responsible and so does everyone else on her team, but its an act! She doesnt know shit! And she doesnt know that she doesnt know shit bc shes respectful and adults dont care about anything as long as u respect them!
Its very telling that for literally every single thief (and goro), you can see the exact moment the writers gave up on adding anything of worth to their characters outside of the social links. Its like they didnt know what to even do w the characters at their disposal after their main arcs were complete. No mention of friends hanging out without you, no mention of having group hangouts. Everyone is treated as a core, important member of the friend group DURING their arc, but outside of it, they are acquaintances at best. Theres nothing in the game that convinces you that these guys are legitimately friends who care for each other and do Friend Things. And i describe it like that bc there IS a game that treats them all as friends, and its strikers! Strikers/Scramble genuinely feels like the game p5 wanted to be; a road trip w your team where they stay up at night talking to each other and hanging out and doing things together that dont necessarily include you, the player. Its refreshing and lovely but it sucks that u get that kind of attention to detail in a ‘spinoff’ title
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heyy just a quick update for yall bc ive been gone for a few days now. i got rlly fucking sick a few days ago and have been entirely bedridden, to the point where the past 48ish hours ive survived on less than one sleeve of saltines, ginger ale, and any medicine i can take without gagging. i have just now managed to change my clothes for the first time in days without having to rest in between. ill be fine i just got hit fucking HARD w whatever bug this is, so it may be a bit until im back n posting again lol
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reader is in a otome game and it has like a gacha system in there and glitchy just pulls for reader every time their banner comes up IMAGINE THE ANGER THAT GLITCHY RED FELT WHEN HE DIDNT GET READER IN A LIMITED TIME EVENT IN THEIR GAME💀 (sorry my english is shit🙂)
no your english was actually perfectly fine thumbz up! also LMAO
i feel like glitchy would have the WORST luck at gachas ( opposite to me, whos sorta stupidly lucky in gacha games ) he'd like.. eventually hate gacha games bc he never gets what he wants. i also think he'd tryhard them a lot. he's the type of dude to make optimal / competitive heavy builds in games that have that sorta system to the point where it like lessens his enjoyment of the game bc hes so hyperfocused on being optimal or whatever.
alternatively, he's just playing like the rhythm gacha games. i dont know if he'd suck ass at rhythm games or be surprisingly good at them. not like it matters, his hands touching the phone prob make it lag or glitch tf out. im so sorry glitchy <3 one day they will make a phone that you do not fuck with simply by existing <3
i hope he gets a 5-star limited-time event reader one day... keep your chin up, king. you'll get that 5 star drop someday...
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sometimes I don't think I could be autistic and/or like all that neurodivergent and then other times my fiancé makes a practical and logical argument as to why we don't need a tiny colander that's too small for most tasks and that to save space in the sink/cabinets I should learn to use the medium sized one and honestly we should probably just get rid of the small one and I am filled with such an immense rush of panic and discomfort and grief that I can't even explain it properly until I am saying shit like "the tiny colander is my friend" and "using the big one just FEELS wrong, you know, like going to albertsons instead of safeway" and "next you're gonna tell me I have to use the big soup spoons instead of the little ones and I'll pass away" and I can tell while he does love me and isn't actually mad he def thinks I'm being super illogical and can't fully understand why
like yes I KNOW I am being illogical I am well aware of that...however!! If things are different I will die and if I have to get rid of object that is my friend I will ALSO die, and the only explanation I have is "I like to have things a very specific way even if it doesn't make sense or is less convenient or wastes time and space and changing it is REALLY hard I can't just go "oh you're right" and then change it just doesn't work like that" which is like.....not a great explanation I don't think but that's literally all I've got so???
and like this is legit the only thing we ever "argue" over(bcs we aren't actually fighting we're just talking) it's just him being like "hey the way you do things is inefficient and doesn't make a lot of sense, wouldn't it be easier/make more sense to do it this way?" and then me scrambling to try to articulate "that's fair, but this is the way I do things, I can't change that" in a way that doesn't make me sound dismissive or insane or something which doesn't really seem to work all that well, or like...isn't really getting what I mean across correctly at the very least
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i think it's fine for gay people to be put off by cishet people actually and how they interact with media, since we're not yet living in a world where lgbt people occupy the same space or are afforded the same rights. Cisheteronormativity impacts lgbt people negatively and constantly, and it's inescapable. i don't think it's being mean on the internet to point that out and I don't appreciate that whenever gay people have something to say suddenly everyone on earth becomes bisexual and we're being biphobic. it's disingenuous, cruel and dismissive, and it misses the point entirely.
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For The World is Hollow and I Have Toched the Sky isn't just weirdly poetic without any meaning,.it s actually the best and coolest title ever because. You see. Life is bad and they're in space
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I don't know what compelled me to do this. But back when tumblr seemed like it was ending in 2018. I screen-shotted literally every nice message or words I got on this website. It is basically a giant folder. I craved validation when I was younger for so many reasons. It's definitely not a healthy habit by any means.
But I just re-read them all for the first time in years.
And I'm literally crying.
This place used to be so full. In the darkest periods of my life, it seemed like I had a whole world of kind strangers behind me. The gratitude I have for those people is insurmountable. I'm so overwhelmingly touched. These echoing words from the past.
I think what makes me the most emotional about it. I can count on one hand the people who are still with me. They've mostly migrated to other sites. But god. All these people who are no longer in my life. Whether it be dissolved friendships. Followers simply moving on.
It's just a painful fact of life. Most people in this world aren't going to be permanent fixtures in your life. Some people are simply here just to teach us a life lesson or give us a beautifully unique experience. It's just incredibly heartfelt to see all these people who once supported me. These people moved mountains in my state of mind.
These people believed in me before I did myself.
I lost a good chunk of my audience around 2019. There was a notable decline when people got the idea that when I was finally mentally stable/sober enough, I no longer needed them. That wasn't necessarily true. Everyone in this world wants to be loved.
I just can't help but wonder where these people are now. I lost touch with them so unwillingly more often than not. It's just moving to read the words from people you once considered so vital/important to your being. I hope they know how deeply I appreciated them.
I wouldn't be who I am without their love.
To those who are still with me, you know who you are.
I love you beyond comprehension.
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Kinda a weirdly specific take, but I don’t know how anyone could reach the “all men are bad” conclusion unless they like. Never work retail.
Like, really? All men? I get a lot of annoying sexist remarks thrown at me all day (by men and women) but I also get treated with respect by men?
Sometimes a customer is a man who politely asks me where to find something and then thanks me and goes about his day?
Idk, I just can’t imagine living within society and never meeting a good man. Sometimes people are assholes. Sometimes they’re very gentle and understanding and want you to have a good day. Sometimes they’re men and sometimes they’re women.
Also every single person is going to have Morally Good and Morally Bad qualities according to an individuals specific, subjective definitions. The nicest man is going to have some bad qualities, but that doesn’t make him bad. A cruel woman is going to have some good qualities, but that doesn’t make her good.
What are they even judging people by? By actions? By intentions? By affect on the world? By how close the person is to 100% meeting all of their individual rules for Being Morally Good? How does someone work retail (and see every type of person there is) and decide that they’re an authority on if Every Man Ever is bad or not?
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