#a lot of them are clearly. not that and its just ppl

[dandeyrain]

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

#rain speaking! #does this make sense #its like if this was a live action more or even an animated movie from another studio half this audience would never engage with it because #it is on its face a weird strange art movie about the director working thru smth #but ghibli is as much an Aesthetic (a highly simplified 'cozy' and uncomplicated aesthetic that has very little to do #with the kinds of films ghibli actually makes) as it is a studio so a lot of ppl whod otherwise never touch this type of work #are going to be in theaters for it #WHICH IS GOOD!! i hope watching it inspires those folks to engage w more weird shit #sorry for the beau is afraid comparison they rly have very little in common it was just the first thing that came to me #when i was thinking abt other weird highly personal art films made by directors who are clearly #expecting the audience to have a really solid base under them re: their ability to engage with complicated films #boy and the heron spoilers /

[starlooove]

I rlly liked red hood the hill bc besides the gift it completely ignored everything else with the batfam which to meeee I’m taking it as the hill has been overlooked by the bats forever (see Orpheus rising) so yeah nobody there gives a fuck about those people and jason knows better than to bring that shit over there

#genuinely tho #I dislike the trend rn of simplifying Jason and Bruce’s issues and making it seem like Bruce was nice and accepting all along and Jason just #needs to get with the program #like the fanficication of that and the Damian Bruce issues or Damian tim issues or even Dick and bruce issues #where everything comes down to the kids being insecure and Bruce being bad at communicating #which has always been PART of the main issues but using that as the crux and lens through which a solution will be acheived is a stretch #a stretch only made in fix it fics that is picked up by ppl who dont read shit and then writers who dont read dont care and get a check #THIS IS MY ISSUE WITH WHERE IT SEEMS BATFAM IS GOING THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE I HAVE WITH RE #NOT ABOUT RED HOOD THE HILL #back to red hood the hill #i DO like them #playing off how jason has always been able to relax there #with a community that has eachothers back #and the flip from #his early red hood days to seeing dana go that path is soooo #what i find interesting tho as that he positions himself as support and backup more than a deterrant #like yes he does try to talk her down a lot but most of the time hes living his life with a worried eye on her #and i think it shows to how he reacted to ppl (bruce) being heavy handed with him #and u know i love the batfam repeating awful cycles shit i think its very interesting that this is one jason didnt repeat #maybe bc hes so close to the feeling or that dana isnt to him what he was to bruce or even that hes just relaxing and thinking clearly and #above all trusts her #most toxic fun future would be for her to break that trust and him to go crazy but thats a diff rant #anyways my entire summary for jasons character is that THAT is what good coochie does to a nigga #carmen thank you for your service another crazy off the street 🙏🏾 #red hood and the hill #oh. still no Orpheus mention #no it doesn’t hurt less anytime 💔 #Jason Todd

[scarletiswailing347]

i lowkey feel like ls would benefit from having a smaller space

like since its a pvp and interaction-focused server with less than 30 members, most of whom struggle to log on, i think itll do them some good to limit the amount of space they can traverse so that the ones who Do get on get to mess around with each other easier

doesnt need to be Super small or anything, just maybe small enough that you can fly around the whole thing in under 7 mins

#mine.txt #idk just watching zams lol we are dying vod and planet has a point #ive actually thought it was weird that the server was so big for a while now since the few pvp servers i know of tend to have limited space #and just kinda assumed that was the default for pvp servers lol #like you cant force ppl to care but you can encourage them #idk the fact that its a friend server turned content server turned some kind of weird mixture between the two doesnt do it any favors #cause on one hand a lot of members only really go there to make vids #but on the other hand they very clearly do wanna hang out with each other more #but its kinda difficult to do considering not only the fact most of them are in school rn #but also a lot of the meta stuff involved like the fact that almost every member makes hyper edited vids which doesnt really have #a good effort-to-output ratio in general but Especially to servers that dont focus on lore and/or some kind of overhaul gimmick #anyways heres my 10000 word essay on why lsers should start using less finnicky editing styles /j

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#me @ my youngest sister at 6.30 this morning: yooooooo can u draw me a fishy so i can get it tattooed on me? #i drew her some flowers so i want a paralell tattoo with her initials bc she has my initials on her #but i literally have not spoken to her since like may bc i do not talk to my sisters unless we r in the same room. no hate we just dont hav #a lot in common. it makes me a lil sad tho bc im curious abt them. my youngest sister is at least nice to me 😭 #ive been thinking abt asking her for ages and last night i was asked abt my sisters so i was like. the time is now #while im still a bit elevated #which has been to my advantage bc i was able to stay v chatty and energetic while talking to ppl. and i think i made some friends #we bonded over fic reading. so theyre a bit. ya kno. girls gays and theys of science #we make the world go round. but its so interesting to hear them talk abt coming to school here bc they both liked where they were and r #leaving their support systems. and im like bruh if i didn't leave the southwest i was gonna die. im so happy to b here #support system? whats that. i talk to my parents once a month and that's it lol. but im gonna try to establish one here #and try to actually make actual friends. this school is way better abt making grad students interact #my last school was not at all like that. but anyway i had fun #and i mean im only at the start of the semester. and im in a good mood. and i kno things will get stressful #but im just really happy i got accepted here #and the longer im here the more clearly i can see how much i was suffering #the funny thing is tho that i wrote this last night and only hours later i was squirming in frustration bc the fact that im back in therapy #means i feel a greater obligation to not b actively self destructive. evil coping mechanisms my beloved #this is y my mum wanted me back in therapy bc im a goodie 2 shoes and when my counselor is like: did u do X the next time i see her. ill b #honest and itll b annoying >:-[ ugh #its just hard for me to b around ppl a lot bc i get stuck in mental loops bc ocd. which is exhausting. and i want it to stop #and i want to do bad things to make it stop but i wont bc im trying to b better #its just funny to me that ill go from everythings awful to everythings great i shoukd talk to my sisters and make friends and do this and #this and this. to oh god i cant do this anymore in such short time frames with certainty that how im feeling is how ive always felt #ive also noticed that my peaks of high energy do come before stressful events. which does make me worry for future stressful events. like #defending. i mean ive never gone fully off the tracks but its a lil alarming when it feels like the train is going at a million miles an hr #unrelated #meanwhile my other sister is apparently in Colorado but when i saw the pics is was like: YOU BITCH #R U CLOSE TO ME RN??? but no. Colorado is far away

[ritzcuit]

my most controversial aa opinion is idc about genderfluid/similar klavier headcanons that much. my second most controversial aa opinion is i would fuck up a sewer lizard idc Datz hand it over im eating the fuck out of those things. im convinced it's just jerky with a little more going on

#i dont have anything against the hcs its fine it's just. Shhrugggggg #there's a lot of fanon for klavier that does literally nothing for me so its not surprising #I mean i feel like ppl just do that hc for him bc it's very likeeeee you know the tpyical genderfluid genderqueer poprockstar #a la bowie/the other ones #Ok not bowie probably more likely is just the v kei aesthetic he's very clearly supposed to kind of probably be invoking. #And i cant hate on that logic cus that's why i hc daryan as bisexual is that exact reason. so like. whatever #But idk how can ema be a man hating lesbo if klavier isnt a man :( it's anti lesbian to take that away from her (KIDDING) #(JOKING) (UNSERIOUS) #i would eat the fuck out of a sewer lizard rn. #i just know he'd season them right too. theyd be crazy good.

[swordfaery]

anyway my favourite thing about dead men fanfiction is the wildly different characters we all write. like. not even the ones who have been dead for years and have so little actual characterisation but even the ones who were alive in canon were probably very different one hundred, two hundred, three hundred years ago. also theyre under characterised in fiction. also we are all just having fun

#guy who barely posts about skulduggery pleasant: so ive be rereading some of my old favourite dead men fanfiction #as well as my own dead men fanfiction #and damn if we arent all writing a bunch of different fucking guys. to be fair i have gone rogue bcos like. cant be fucked w canon #dont wanna write about war #heyo what if it was pre war and everyone was still. convinced their wouldnt be one #also i love the idea of skulduggery being. just super fucking irresponsible devil may care live laugh love sorta guy pre-war #spoilt. rich parents who dont care much about him. loads of magic tutors. #i mean think about the class implications of the dead men #skulduggery. an elemental. a difficult discipline that clearly requires a level of training and scholarli-ness #his NAME is skulduggery #you come across that name if your educated. if you read a lot #this is a man who has been afforded every privilege #and like. i think a lot of sorcerers are implied to be very upper class #or like. kinda rich and fancy about it #but obviously that wouldnt be the case for everyone bcos magic isnt just genetic right like some ppl just show up with it #and like even then #dexter vex #anton shudder #like as far as im aware these are just names ppl have #and slightly uncommonly used words #disciplines which are more emotional/physical #as opposed to 'learned' #i just think its interesting #i was gonna have my dead men all meet n be friends pre war #but tbh i think them meeting and not being friends is better #i think theres a sort of tragedy in them being as close as they were because of the war #and not having that post war or pre war #its actually really fucking sad but like. evidently they didnt hang out in the interim when most of em were still alive #or at least that much #im wondering if like. they needed a couple hundred years of like. detox bcos seeing each other just pulled them back into that mindset

[sonknuxadow]

im so tired of literally everything being a reboot or a remake or revival or sequel or whatever nowadays. i dont always hate that sort of thing i can name some adaptations and reboots and stuff that i like but so many of these things arent even GOOD adaptations and the companies making them either wont make anything else or wont bother to promote any of their original shows or movies and to top it all off so many original and unique things get cancelled while the endless pool of disney live action remakes and shitty adaptations continues to grow. i cannot do this anymore velma was the final straw it looks so bad

#the fact that the owl house got a shortened final season while velma is allowed to exist makes me want to explode people with my mind #velma just looks really bad in general tbh regardless of whether or not its connected to scooby doo #but part of what makes it so bad is that it clearly wasnt written with the scooby doo characters in mind #they just put them there because theyre popular and people will watch the show for them #or maybe that wasnt their intention. but from the clips ive seen it certainly feels like it was #also people are gonna kill me for this one but. i feel similarly about wednesday. #it feels like they just wrote a show completely separate from the addams family and slapped wednesday addams onto it so ppl would watch it #and like i understand and am ok with the fact that reboots and adaptations will sometimes have different takes on the characters #im Literally a sonic fan. who likes the games and the comics and the movies and the shows. of course i know that. #but. idk. something about the shows i just mentioned #doesnt feel like a reimagining of an existing thing or an adaptation that changes a few things #it feels like something that wasnt even written with those characters in mind they were just put in there for money reasons #also the comment about original things getting cancelled isnt about insidej ob or whatver its called idk anything about that show #just felt the need to clarify since. a lot of people are mad about that rn and i thought people might asssume i was talking about that

[elytrafemme]

also btw. just wanted to point out how Boundless Sands and the Las Nevadas Finale (no matter HOW u feel about them) both made attempts and imo did a GOOD JOB at handling the conversation about recovery. neither c!Wilbur nor c!Quackity were perfect and clearly in the beginning or in the midst of a messy road to healing but w the letters and w Friend being in limbo + c!Wilbur going home we see like. the characters were WORKING on healing and being better as people. and that to me was not only a testament to how much cc!Wilbur and cc!Quackity loved their damn characters, but was also something that really reassured me. you know as someone who has had their own mental health issues too (clearly) and has been in the throes of the recovery process for a while. shits messy and shits unclear and you relapse but you TRY and cc!Wilbur and cc!Quackity did a good job being both gentle & real about the trying part.

versus the fucking “DSMP vol 1 finale”, aka a stream that was clearly coordinated (bold word choice of mine, implying anything here was really planned) by Dream and only included some of the biggest streamers (For all the DSMP season 3 / prison break stream had faults, at least more than 5 fucking people were on the server doing things !!!), had HORRIBLE messaging about the process of healing. Ppl have gone back and forth about how bad the whole Tommy Dream “reconcilation” thing was, and I didn’t watch the stream so I only know bits and therefore can only be taken w a grain of salt here. BUT i think that the fact that (1) Tommy was even entertaining the thought of making amends, or if you think that he was making amends at the time, with Dream NOT APOLOGIZING and no follow up to show that forgiving abusers doesnt absolve their guilt and also u dont have to forgive abusers and also Tommy wasnt at fault  . and also (2) that the finale involved THE ENTIRE SERVER BLOWING UP which not only signifies that these characters NEVER got a chance to heal but also ensured everyone excluding like c!Q and c!Wil NEVER COULD. Is fucking horrific and disgusting to me. 

and not to even talk about Dream as a person bc I have so many fucking thoughts about how all that makes the messaging surrounding power dynamics in the finale So much worse (and is the reason I have yet to watch the stream bc I will just trigger myself thinking about that). 

So fucking disgusting to see how the dsmp finale happened, with NO regards to the majority of other streamers, just Dream and whoever could mindlessly tag on that happened to have pretty big viewer counts (shocker), and completely throwing out the characters and the story that have been built for YEARS. Versus how streamers like Quackity and Wilbur handled things, INCLUSIVELY and COMPASSIONATELY and fucking EXCELLENTLY, in my opinion.

#nightmare.discourse #discourse #ok to rb #Ya i know some of the Wilbur streams were kind of weird but being realistic I didn't expect perfection #clearly everyone who was part of those streams gave some amount of shits and tried #and the Las Nevadas saga was fucking fantastic like #ppl gave ccQ a lot of shit at the start of the turn in how lore happened #which tbf ppl also give like ccRanboo shit and its like I don't think that's right either #like critique on all ends deserved but my point is like #neither singlehandedly ruined everything and ppls hostility towards the more pre planned lore stuff ccQ was doing was. Undesreved. imo #bc he fucking SLAYED that lore and that lore was GOOD and Exciting #like think abt the lineup we had in Las Nevadas we got ppl from all corners of the SMP in on it #idk. Idk. idk. #feel horrible for newer members and smaller creators. feel less horrible about the others though some of them its like #Dream 0 sympathy Tommy a smidge and maybe a little more to like . Creators that got fucked over more #whatever. Idk what im talking about just. thoughts. #the coding of the finales felt weird to me

[oscill4te]

everything always peaks me. then im on the other side, see so much hostility, just as bad as what peaked me, and its like nvm. damn. oscillation at its finest.....

#i made a post like this before but i fell into a very bad trap where i just ranted about “both sides” and thats never really helpful #i think there is just a lot of “us VS them” in this world. no one is ever willing to hear others out. they just look at characteristics #of yours and make broad assumptions about you. #i dont know. i feel like everyone in my generation is so willing to jump for your throat these days for different opinions #its their right of course; but i dont know. its like if you have even a slightly different opinion on something; you cant discuss it 2gethe #i want to meet some other fellow normies man; idk #and i say that as someone who isnt really “normal” in most peoples eyes #but i can chill and talk with ppl who have diff opinions from me as long as... they arent super hostile and think in black&white... #mostly feminism and lgbt stuff im talking abt here but yeah. i just want this world to be safe for women & lgbt+ folks yknow #i base a lot of my opinions on that #im trying to just. not care anymore. im just a human at the end of the day and so is everyone else #everything feels so black and white. i just want to belong somewhere. i dont know. #my parts all have different opinions on things so i never have a stable stance on anything #i just try to have compassion and reduce my cognitive dissonance as much as possible #that led me to veganism. lgbt rights. feminism. but even within these groups there is so much hate and fighting #i cant pretend i dont fall into the black and white thinking but i always actively try to challenge it #i tell myself: the world is not out to get you. but why does it feel like it is? clearly everyone else feels like that too

[arolesbianism]

Ok so I need to rework my Wendy skilltree concept because klei heard ppl complain abt the combat and went alright then time to completely rework combat but very slowly one update at a time so no one realizes until we straight up give Willow spells

#rat rambles #starve posting #this is abt the new dst beta btw willow and wigfrid are getting skill trees #now I have complicated feelings on parts of their skill trees but this is a beta so Im fully expected attempted improvements at least #<- this is mostly abt the beefalo stuff on wigfrid's since it just feels. so out of place with the rest of her skill tree #but burnie desperately needs better buffs especially since youre required to take a lot of them for the lunar and shadow branches #I also have some complicated feelings on the direction theyre taking the comabt but at the same time it is a necessary change #but at the same time one thats only necessary because of them deciding to take a more boss heavy approach to game progression #basically this is their attemtp to get out of a whole they dug themsleves in #which means that as time goes on dst is becoming less and less of a survival game #which some ppl might like but its still a bit disappointing for a game that caught my interest because of the survival elements #its not terrible tho it just means that the devs have decided upon a new direction for their game to give it more heavy story elements #most of my main issues have come from how clumsy the change has been and how it very much means we're losing the original feel of the game #but original don't starve still exists so its not like I think its the end of the world that theyre differenciating the two more #anyways since the devs are clearly trying to make actual combat classes a thing within dst I think this completely recontextualises things #as in I have to throw all of my past predictions and expectations out the window and look over everyone again taking thin into account #since now theyve shown that theyre fully willing to make completely new mechanics for these skill trees including straight up magic #which reminds me god I hope they dont give wendy spells or some shit #I really really REALLY want wendy's skilltree to mostly focus on abby buffs and sisturn buffs #because if they dont thatll just completely fuck over wendy's whole playstyle and I desperately dont want abby to become obsolete #I also need them to give the sisturn actually good buffs like for the love of god pls its only worth anything in super early game #at Least make the boosted abby regen a worldwide buff it wouldn't even be worth using most the time still but itd be Something #also god Im so scared for walter skill tree. please have it not fall into the same trap as his base kit of being too all over the place #the wigfrid beefalo branch is what makes me worried since thats a very concept over function thing already #same with like. most of wormwoods skill trees #tbf they fixed at lot of the weird wormwood stuff and hopefully they'll fix the weird wigfrid stuff too #most of willow's problems just come from the bernie skills being too weak which is especially funny cause previously burnie was the only #notable stength willow has pre tree #I mean tbf burnie has always been the weaker support between him and abby (imo) so its not like hes been like amazing anyways #but willow is just such a nothing character that burnie is basically why you use her

[dennisboobs]

this is genuinely... so funny to me. like the hilarity of copypasting rational tweets. i'm literally right. it's not even a funny copypasta because it's literally just. objectively correct. it's a criticism of twitter culture and that makes it funny to you because...... god forbid you actually have empathy for other people. caring is for losers if you're on twitter dot com, you have to be snarky and funny at all times.

#moots & friends keep sending me shit and im just like. lmfao this is embarrassing for YOU guys. i stand by everything ive said actually. #i'm sorry you think trying to have a genuine conversation about harmful behaviours is cringe #you consider yourself an activist and will retweet every fucking post abt current events #but you can't actually be bothered to make a positive change in your own life......... #the fact that most of them stop responding after they realize im not going to freak out and give them something emotional is very telling #it's not even like most of them disagree they literally just want to make fun of me for...... caring. like ok. weird hill to die on idk #im at the point where im considering privating my tweets just so i dont continue to get ppl responding but #i think its important that ppl can see my responses. because i stand by them and clearly other ppl do too #theres been a lot of mixed responses but a lot of people have actually ended up agreeing with me after some back and forth #which i appreciate. i didnt want to start fuckin. twitter drama. but like. ill take it #i dont interact with sunnyblr at all so i think this is a good opportunity to potentially change at least a few ppls perspectives #and if youre too far gone to the point where you think that someone caring about perpetuating homophobic rhetoric is funny #i. dont really want to interact with you anyway lol. get better soon xoxo #last post about this on here im. putting this to rest. #ada speaks #genuinely disgusting how many of these ppl will say shit like. ppl are dying. like... yeah. what are YOU doing to help. #retweeting a donation link or someones random carrd doesnt do shit actually. performative armchair activism. #same ppl tweeting vapid shit while acting like theyre above engaging with me on this #i was venting about people qrting glenns old tweets with stupid shit because it was clogging my tl actually lol

[welcometoteyvat]

love your thoughts on character’s ages. looking forward to fontaine & sumeru :) i think you described it really well. ages for my are like… they exist but they don’t at the same time.

edit: OH MY GOD TUMBLRS EDITOR FORMATTING SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! if you see random parts of words bolded PLEASE ignore i dont know why it keeps happening

if you're the same anon as the og ask i am so so so sorry about the delay T_T T_T i was drafting my answer and then boom life happened ..... anyways. thank you for enjoying my thoughts wah <3333333 "they exist but they don't" SAME SAME frfr. like the most on-point (internet) discussion I've read on ages is that the stage of life you're in is often the only factor that matters, and that can vary a lot based on like your past experiences and stuff. and from my own perspective this holds true—similarly, in genshin where all the playable characters have jobs it's hard to kind of quantify them into really distinct age ranges tbh. sometimes it's just vibes (unfortunately vibes often includes height bc it's a game w not very diverse model types). anyways! character hcs:

sumeru (sans scaramouche): collei, cyno, tighnari, faruzan, layla, nilou

i think collei has an actual canon age right? unless I'm tripping and fanon has solidified so much in everyone's minds. I still haven't read the manhua <3 but iirc people think she's 12-13 there right. maybe she's like 17 rn, i can see anywhere from 14-16 though. idk anything abt her timeline so these are quite literally guesstimates from vibes and they're likely to be wrong. Layla is such a college girlie, she's like 19-20 and sleep deprived (same fr); begging for her to catch a break on behalf of uni students everywhere. I don't have a set age for Faruzan, I can see her anywhere from 30-40, 26 years old minimum (the redesigns people give her where she looks visibly older are so cool <3). Given she was a pretty well known researcher back in her day and since academia is a long and arduous career choice, I think it makes sense; also if she's like way older than Kaveh appearance wise (≥ 10 years) , even if she hadn't gotten trapped for a century, that would be sick af (their dynamic is impeccable and I think a larger age difference makes it better, sweeter, and funnier). Nilou also feels 19-20 years old to me; no real explanation, she just has a young adult vibe, like someone just out of her teenage years but quite capable at managing her life, although still testing out responsibility for major decisions and stuff like that (age solidarity w yun jin)

iirc cyno was already mahamatra or something WHILE tighnari was still in school; thus this makes cynonari EXTREMELY funny if you're a moral purist who ships it and thinks they fell in love in their akademiya days LOL. jkjk it's also a reasonable interpretation that Cyno became mahamatra at an insanely young age, since uhhh fucked up temple of silence background smth smth and honestly it feels in character for him to go buck wild at a young age like that (person most suited for young collei fr). HOWEVER. personally I think being mahamatra at like 19 is insane—thus I think tighnari's probably 23, cyno might be 27? I don't know if that makes it """""""better""""""" from an age gap standpoint but I also don't really care. Cyno being older but more joking around friends, while Tighnari is the younger kohai but serious and no-nonsense is pretty funny to me and when they're both serious you know you're fucked

fontaine: lyney, lynette, freminet (are those the only medium youth models so far lol. damn)

anyways lyney and lynette are confirmed to be at least 10 from Lyney's story quest. such helpful information I know lol. I'd think they're probably around 19-20? 18 minimum—I personally wouldn't watch 18 year olds do gravity defying magic tricks at the nation's biggest opera house—being like 1 year older doesn't make it any better ofc lol, but I think they're above the teenage threshold bc of that. Kinda fucked up to think about the timeline and house of hearth stuff though with this in mind

Freminet I'd say is around 16; 14 minimum. No thoughts for this just vibes. mmmmm idk when he was adopted into the house, if he's around 4-5 years younger than L+L, and let's say they entered the House when they were maybe 6-9 (my headcanons, is it now possible to piece together an accurate timeline of this from in-game lore??), and that was maybe 3-4 years after freminet entered, he probably was like 5-7 when he entered... wah frem............. poor child I'm giving him a hug (knowing that he's also a killing machine)

#i can like. i can SO CLEARLY see faruzan as a cs professor. her hangout was so incredibly real to me i LOVE her routes there #cyno and tighnari are interesting to me too. like its so funny to go from 'is he committing academic integrity violations' to 'worthy stude #'worthy student unlike the rest of researchers; has morals' to 'husband to annoy w jokes and also trust w my life' #i love them actually. don't think abt their relationship too much but it's really very sweet #and for the record the sumeru girlies (minus collei sorry) are all so dear. i really like their characters i like how they were written #nilou gets quite a lot of shit i think. from people's commentary on her. i still dont agree w her design but i cant stand for ppl who say #'she's just fanservice for traveler' SINCE WHEN DID YOU GET THAT IMPRESSION??? also her character teaser/trailer fucked so hard #ok anyways. enough from me ty for the follow up ask that also pushed me to actually type this up :) <3 #asks #anon ask #ramblings! #teyvat thoughts #headcanons #genshin impact

[capfalcon]

something about having a dog makes some people act so.....wrong

#im not talking about the ppl who call their dogs babies #altho i do have misgivings about that bc ppl will be like 'oh i have a kid!' and i go 'oh thats so cute how old is he' and then 5 minutes #into the convo i find out the kid is a labrador but. anyway #im talking about how dog owners will not understand that dogs can make ppl super uncomfortable and they think everyone has to love #their dog #i like dogs a lot #theyre adorable and cute and great #however i also have very little experience w dogs #which means i don't know how they act and i dont understand how to react to that #and im generally v friendly w dogs ill stop and ask to pet them and ill play w them #i spent like half an hour outside my apartment once at like midnight talking to this dude and rolling in the grass w his dog #i love dogs a lot #but i am also like reasonably scared/cautious around violent dogs #i always ask ppl if the dog is safe to pet/whether they want me to pet #and like ive been nipped by excited puppies before #thats no biggie #but i meet some dog owners and they have Aggressive dogs that clearly dont know me #and they'll just. be like #so unconcerned while their dog is clearly Losing its Shit #its so #and then they go 'why r u afraid hes friendly' #bitch to You maune

[rottingsick]

ppl who sh for attention are so valid because oh my god no one who isn't mentally ill would sh as a way to get attention

#text #rotting #mine #I think abt this a lot #'oh they're just doin it for attention' and? there's clearly a fuckin problem if that's how they choose to do such??? #no one whose mentally stable would ever go 'hehehe hohohooo I think it'd be funny to fake mental illness by actually self harmin' #honestly writin someone off bc its 'attention seekin' is just gonna make the problem worse... #I think bein attention seekin with sh is a product of neglect or their pain bein dismissed/ignored and sh is often used as a measurin tool #by many for 'how bad is it' no matter how wrong that is #so by sayin they're just attention seekin and dismissin their pain yer just reconfirmin their already held issues #honestly its wild how much of a 'no I don't actively sh or have any plans to commit die' will quell any urgency a doctor will have to treat #completely ignorin the fact I am 100% impulsive and have a history of doin shit and creatin the entire plan to attempt in one day #or get a little off my rockers and notice oh shit I just did that after it's already dmged myselff #but then again I don't feel like bein locked up because I honestly cannot give any consistent way to check #if they'll just stay intrusive thoughts or if they're gonna become reality #also not to go off on a further tangent but I hate the ppl on tiktok classifyin impulsive vs intrusive thought by whether you act on them #when you can 100% act on an intrusive thought... typically in delusion or in a way to make it stop or it's so overwhelmin you loose control #in my experience as a delusional bitch.. intrusive thoughts can and have won #and it can become hard to tell whether that's how I actually feel when my brain is violently tellin me it is #anyways that's a long road down a tangent but also not really and it did come full circle if you consider the fact that #the push to sh for attention is one of my intrusive thoughts eyooo #mostly born out of the fact my pain was never real enough to those around me. I was never considered sick enough. I had no proof of my pain #I was just a lost cause and it was all my fault. so yea. it did start as a way to try to make my pain real #altho it has warped and adapted overtime as my mental health has gone down a slippery slope to sh for attention from one person directly #guess I've been taught as I grew up that if I'm hurt enough I'll get attention I so desperately crave. always ignored if I wasn't in crisis #and I don't know how else to get what I want so even then I naturally just break down as it's my only ability instantly get attention #even if I'm not doin it on purpose I'm just so wired and trained to mentally or physically hurt myself in an explosive attempt #to get what I want regardless of if I want to take that method but the infightin in my head just makes it happen anyways #and it sucks because tbfh. it works. my behavior is reinforced almost constantly but it's also extremely dangerous to not be reinforced #cause then I don't know how to handle myself and get sui and it just sucks a lot

[perenlop]

oh also we watched the mlp g5 movie yesterday and i really liked it tbh ^^ it was very cute and vibrant and all the character designs were pleasing (in fact i really prefer looking at these characters in cgi), and izzy was my favorite, tbh i kinda just love every character kimiko glenn voices

#racism metaphor was very clunky and i cant really say too much on it but like i didnt have much hope that it wouldnt be clunky #so i just focused on the characters and yeah i think theyre all really good ^^ #but like. we talked abt this a lot but man i REALLY wish this wasnt in the g4 continuity #not just bc it doesnt make sense but bc conceptually it feels like such an insecure decision #like this world wasnt good enough to warrant being its own thing. it had to be a continuation #even tho the lore and such is clearly different from g4. like i feel like they wanted to make it standalone like the other series #but they panicked and thought ppl wouldnt care if twilight wasnt there. but i feel like all it does is hinder both series #bc no one wanted this to be where g4 ended up and it keeps g5 from doing its own thing bc it has to connect to g4 #like im not opposed to the wind creatures (not saying their name) not showing up bc they suck in the first place #but writing wise its weird to not even mention them at all when it was important to the worldbuilding #did the ponies just love being racist that much that they killed the wind creatures?? #if it was me and i HAD to make it the same continuity id probably have put this in the past instead of the future #but then we couldnt have ponies on phones ig #or epic g4 references #im gonna try out the show but im like hmmmm bc lex said the show was a lot worse abt this #i swear the movie itself was good and i liked it! but i can see easily see the lost potential #and how g4 is going to keep holding it back and refusing to let it be its own thing #echoed voice

[gen-is-gone]

Legit getting so *fucking* annoyed by this fic and its literally insulting level of mischaracterization of so fucking much bc the writer has time to write 150k+ words of fanfic in a month but apparently no time to so much as glance at a wiki for basic plot and character details, let alone read the damn comics, but now I'm 150k+ words committed and I am still genuinely interested to see how it ends but oh my fucking god would you just stick to hob gadling's jaunt thru the centuries and stop writing the Endless if you're gonna fuck up basic shit this badly and also mischaracterize actually important characters so badly that it is, again, literally fucking insulting to the original story??

#still vaguing #bc however irritated I am I am not so gouache and rude as to say this to them #and y'know clearly it's a labor of profound love and fandom is for everybody etc #but it's just also absolutely hitting critical mass among show only fans #and it's convincing ppl to watch the show who are then basically only watching for this one minor character #and fine whatever ppl can like whatever the fuck they like but #seriously it's so fucking insulting to only give a fuck about a character who is barely in it #fuck the monkey's paw of me wanting other ppl to appreciate hob gadling #has been slash fandom not only totally mowing over both his and dream's actually personalities for the sake of shipping tropes #but also mowing over the fucking plot of sandman in its entirety for the sake of shipping #ugh I *like* hob I like him a lot #but this really genuinely fucking sucks #and again it would be fine if this person wasn't rapidly achieving bnf status of the #'arbiter of fanon agreed-upon meta and characterization' level #while being flat fucking wrong about so much shit with truly embarrassing amounts of confidence #fuuuck I hate being mean I hate feeling like a grouch about how other ppl do fandom #I assure anyone listening that normally i am the monarch of live and let live don't give a shit #but sandman is where I hit my limit after 15+ years in fandom I guess #megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace