#anyways I hate these games and I hate the show

[chosolala]

𐙚 ⋆˚｡⋆ jjk guys crushing on you

pt 2!! this is just some of my headcannons on how i think the jujutsu kaisen characters would act while crushing on you :]

characters: yuji, megumi, inumaki, yuta, todo, noritoshi, kokichi

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yuji itadori

he probably would wait a while before he tells you but there are MANY signs before he actually confesses

he always calls you pretty and always wants to be near you

he also shows off on missions a little when you guys go together

he is constantly talking about you and asking you if you want to hang out

he is so sweet though, always paying for your food, making jokes to keep you laughing, letting you win when you guys play video games, holding doors for you, all that jazz

when he finally does confess he’d probably do something stupid like make todo stand outside your room with a boombox while he break dances

don’t break his heart he will never recover

megumi fushiguro

he doesn’t want to have feelings for you because he knows it’ll end with one of you getting hurt with the whole jujutsu sorcerer thing so he pushes you away a lot

he actually makes you think he hates your guts so you guys go a long time not talking unless you absolutely have to

when you guys do talk he is always blushing and looking away

over time you manage to crack him though and he starts treating you like a human being with emotions

he probably buys you a soda or some sweets as an apology for being an a-hole to you

you find out he likes you through nobara or yuji but he would never confess,

if you want things to work out between you guys you’d probably have to confess to him and hope for the best

toge inumaki

he also makes fun of you but in a WAY more light hearted way

like friendly picking on you, like he’d somehow find a way to make fun of you for being pretty

he likes to invite you to help him cook just so he can hang out with you

panda never hears the end about you

on your off days he always invites you to go out and do stuff with him, like literally anything, he’ll invite you to run errands with him or to go to the arcade

when he finally confesses to you it’s no surprise to anyone, yourself included,

he slips a note into your bag and it’s literally just the cutest confession ever like that note could bring a man to tears

inumaki may be a man of few words but he knows all the right ones

yuta okkotsu

he is actually terrified when he realizes he has feelings for you because of rika so he waits a while before he even talks to you because he wants more control over her, yk so she won’t bite your head off

since he’s never around anyway he decided to just talk to you once he got back from one of his missions about how you guys have so much catching up to do

he is very observant though, he watches you and he knows what you get up to and who you hang out with, what kind of shows and music you like but he doesn’t want to be creepy about it

he is very sweet though, you mentioned running out of your favorite candy and he surprises you with a new bag that you guys eat together

he is a very vanilla guy, if he likes you, and he’s able to express it, he’ll do things like ask you out on a date or bring you chocolate, open doors for you,

he also covers your eyes from certain things on missions, he knows you’re used to seeing stuff like that but he just doesn’t want you to see what HE does to curses

he would probably confess by inviting you to the park or something and asking you to be his <3

aoi todo

he is NOT slick about it at all

first time he sees you his jaw is on the floor

he is borderline harassing you but in a…. caring way?

like he’s the type of guy who would throw himself over a puddle so you don’t get your shoes wet

he wrote a song for you except he’s a terrible singer

he probably also got yuji to help him confess to you with said song

he’s honestly like your night in shining armor though, it’s almost like he can sense when your in danger because whenever missions are looking rough he busts in out of no where to save the day

whenever you guys actually get together you always catch him shamelessly admiring you, whenever you’re together his eyes are only on you

noritoshi kamo

also in denial about his feelings towards you, he would never confess to you first or even tell anyone he liked you, yourself included

he can’t stop himself from being near you or constantly doing favors for you though

he doesn’t invite you out or anything but he just likes being near you and being able to see you i guess

like he’s always looking out for you

he likes meeting you outside late at night and just talking to you

one time during your convos he let it slip that you were the prettiest person he’s ever seen and you ended up confessing to him after that

and they lived happily ever after

kokichi muta (sorry in advance)

this is a tough one since he’s kind of a robot for most of his screen time….

i think if he wasn’t mechamaru and he was an actual person he would be kind of cold but still soft towards you

like he wouldn’t necessarily be mean or nice to you but he’d bring you ice cream or something as a ‘here just so you know i actually like you’

he’s the type of guy to bonk u on the head

i think he’d probably confess with like chocolate or a flower but he’d be so nervous that he can’t even look at you while he does it but if you accept his feelings he can’t stop smiling

#jjk #jjk headcanon #jjk imagine #jjk imagines #jujutsu kaisen #megumi fushiguro #jujutsu kaisen headcannon #megumi #jjk smau #yuji headcannon #yuji imagine #yuji x reader #megumi x reader #yuta headcanons #yuta x reader #inumaki x reader #inumaki headcanons #toge inumaki #yuta okkotsu #todo aoi #todo x reader #noritoshi kamo #kamo x reader #noritoshi x reader #noritoshi imagine #kamo headcannon #kokichi muta #kokichi x reader #megumi headcanons #yuji itadori

[ganondoodle]

im so sick of war games.

#ganondoodles talks #watching the big game shows #i never liked it anyway #but now im just .. no ... stop .. #also almost every single crime or war thing is always either the evil arab or the evil germans VS heroic good america #like i started paying more attention to that and jesus christ #as in i usually just muted and looked away bc i just dont like gunfire and military shit but now i started to look at it and my GOD #im sick of evil gerrrrrrmans too #of course the evil arab stuff is way more and way more shitty #but i as a german also hate the evil german thing bc #yeah we are not the greatest even now but its always used in nazi context and with the heroic good american #which just feels .... so ... like a distraction ..? like american propaganda i guess?

[burialbunnys]

CW: A RANT

this isn’t going to be anything new, or that hasn’t been touched on before…but i genuinely feel like so much of the tcoaal hate is because of the overall lack of media literacy these days. at least online, that is.

i feel like my head is going to explode if i have to read one more post about ‘incest bad, characters bad, game so edgy😣😣’ LIKE BROOOO

ik in general there’s like a decline in literacy with younger gen z/gen alpha,,,but i feel like there’s a certain group of ppl online that are just so obsessed with everything needing to be socially acceptable and morally correct. like i feel that a big part of the reason everyone hates on tcoaal is bc they aren’t able to realise that just bc a piece of media is showing something doesn’t mean they’re endorsing it.

like to them tcoaal having incest, cannibalism, murder, etc. is AUTOMATICALLY BAD AND EVIL, unless the game like directly tells us in the most dumbed down fucking way that those things are bad. like you shouldn’t need the game to spell it out for you to realise that killing people = bad

and even beyond that most of the complaints towards themes in the game are just like,,,if you played the game you literally would not be saying that. Or i should say if you played the game AND COULD LOOK AT MEDIA CRITICALLY you wouldn’t be saying that

just ugh i feel like such a hag whenever i bring this stuff up bc i feel like i just sound like ‘back in my day👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻’ type shit

i’m saying all this as someone who is not only gen z, but also like not that well versed academically. (i am not very bright or good with words but it’s okay bc my brain is smooth and soft and juicy 😍😍)

I DIGRESS, i just wish ppl didn’t get their panties in a twist so easily. like i wish more people had the ability to engage with media that wasn’t just ‘pure’ and sanitised yk

idk it just makes me sad bc there’s so much incredible content out there (TCOAAL!!!) that you can analyse and understand and really look deeper at. yet people just seem to have lost the ability to do any of those things…ANYWAYS HOPE THIS MADE SENSE LMAO

#rant post #y’all piss me off #but some of you are so smart and interesting and have the best takes *smooch* #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley

[mariabrightmoon]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS SEASON 2-

Those dropped earlier and say smmmmm

1, some had theories that Vi ll become a enforcer since in the game LoL she s called "Piltover s finest" but it was still shocking to see this confirmed

But, like, then again, the serie is kind of settled before the game so it might show us *how* Vi became "Piltover s finest"

Plus i saw soooo many fanarts of Cait and Vi as "coworkers" that already explore that dynamic. "Oil and water" she said, but did Vi end up "chosing" Cait on Jinx (the way jinx might perceive it) even thought it might more be about Vi trying to do the "right" things or even make it up for her sister s actions against Piltover. But anyway it s a lot of changes and "character developpement" since Vi used to despise topsiders when she was younger

So is it the trope where a character becomes what they used to hate most??

THE dynamic i need to see is jinx with Vi. In the last episode Vi proposed to leave everything and run away with Jinx but she apparently didnt.

I need Jinx s reaction when she ll find out Vi joined the "other" side that she litteraly just attacked.

Especially after that Ekko and Cait tried to convince Vi that "jinx is too far gone", like...

*****does the fact that Vi joined the topsiders means that she "gave up" on her sister?!?!?*****

2 so the poster that dropped showcases a glance of vi and jinx new dynamic thought, does Jinx still attached to Vi? I saw analysis comparing how "possessive" Jinx s depicted in season 2 s poster to how "Protective" Vi is in the season 1 poster.

Especially that we know how arcane masters parallels with the multiple characters foils in season 1

Ok no i didnt took any breathhh

Canttt

Cant waittt for season 2 goshh

Also ummmmmm for the sudden post.... its unm... i ll keep drawing here dw

for people that dont know arcane, consider it "reference analysis"✨️✨️🤭🤫

#arcane lol #violet arcane #arcane violet #arcane league of legends #arcane vi #arcane jinx #arcane series #arcane season 2 #arcane season two #arcane news #arcane netflix #jinx arcane #vi x caitlyn #caitvi #arcane analysis #riot #riot games #jinx league of legends #league of legends #vi and caitlyn #vi and powder #vi and jinx #vi arcane #powder arcane

[palipunk]

given that Google is pretty unreliable nowadays, can you explain why TLOU is anti-Palestine? I remember the games being very insularlly focused on the USA. (I don't know shit about anything, lol)

Neil Druckmann was the creative director and co-writer of the Last of Us part 2 and is the current co-president of Naughty Dog. He wrote and produced the TV show as well and his hatred towards Palestinians was a point of inspiration with the story.

He was born in Israel and was raised in a Israeli settlement. He recounts that the killing of two Israeli occupation soldiers by Palestinians (within the occupied West Bank I might add!) is what sparked a lot of his hatred towards Palestinians. It’s a whole sob story about how he wanted vengeance on Palestinians and how he later “regretted the impulses”. It’s not something you can really ignore in the show or games because it is baked into the writing.

Here’s the vice article that talks about the Israeli politics in the games:

And I really recommend this one by @akajustmerry about the show and pinkwashing:

#anti tlou #anti tlou2 #anti Neil Druckmann #ask #spinnerofink #merryana shoutout <333 #anyways I hate these games and I hate the show

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #not art #fhjy spoilers #its!!! gods I will Be My Ass in the tags rn. but thats so like. deliciously setting typical #like porter's desire is to transcend and his contempt for the world he's in feels. idk Real #like he plays the game bc he wants to win and be done with it. how do I word this #yknow. being a god would like. be his win state. when he gets that happening thats it his story is done he checks out #meanwhile the bad kids do actually just like playing the game lmao. like they love adventuring! #theyre so solidly Of This World. they carry the values that can only be born of it and they like having mastery over it #its a meta angle that I think is very fun specifically for d20 being in such a unique position in the zeitgeist when it first started #the rat grinders are from DnD Writ Large. porter wants to escape. but this is the bad kids' home its Their Actual Play Show #which makes it so fucking excellent to me that porter's question is somewhat of merit! its their show and it tries very hard to punish them #and they just straight up dont listen to him here lmao bc they hate him but! since the moment the academic track ended its been clear #that they save the world bc they Like Playing. With Each Others #thats what riz thinks the core of adventuring is! thats why fig stayed! and I also think thats why this hovers over elmville now and #a dead god is coming back in the school gym. porter is a shit evangelist but even if hes a good one I dont think it wouldve worked like he #wants it to. the only way he couldve escaped is if he'd not involved elmville at all. thats where the bad kids met dude #its a shitty place that fucks with them but they all come back here bc they wanna play with each others #and in that regard I think thats what the stress tokens ultimately means. Is This Game Still Fun To Play. ITS A RAGEQUIT LIMIT #Im literally running from one end to another of this conspiracy board Ive pulled out of nowhere #Ill draw after this I just wanna get this out. gods this episode has done nothing but furthering my delusion of grandeur actually #Im the hottest smartest manthing on earth Im king fucking midas over here. anyways uh! great ep!

[rustytrident]

seeing all these mixed opinions ab nightbringer and here i am giggling and kicking my feet cause we get to rizz up the demons all over again

#obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me nightbringer #like don't get me wrong i appreciate the bonds mc has in the og obey me and value them lots #seeing mammon and not having the immediate option to devour his face made my heart break #the only thing u absolutely HATED i when solomon said that we just disappeared....... from the other om! world..... #what. #and what about the BROTHERS. #can you even imagine what /they/ are going through? #anyway maybe it's just me being emo but yeah. i rrly like nightbringer! i think it's a better way to find out ab what happened #than through flashbacks and the total chaos of the plot that was the og om! #and i loooovevevveveveeee how it just shows that mc and the bros are connected no matter when or where #like. back in time? in alternate universes? in the far away future? we love each other all the same #and i love how that takes shape in the game. it's such a pretty thing in my eyes but then again i have the mental age of 163 #so i get excited ab everything

[derelictwreck]

psychonauts is a good series

#my art #wreckart #psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #razputin aquato #mirtala aquato #augustus aquato #donatella aquato #frazie aquato #dion aquato #queepie aquato #bob's burgers #fought for my fucking life against my video editor to get the last bit right but i DID IT #psychonauts are really good games i think everyone should play them #im awful at video games and i 101%'d the first and plan to 102% the second soon #i hope one day we can get more content for psychonauts #maybe not more games but like a comic series or show or something would RULE #anyway don't repost without permission and if you do you're a fucking asshole and i hate you personally #[edit] like a true artist i forgot the fuckin stripes on dion's sleeves i'm going to go lay face down in a ditch

[fisheito]

Well THat doesn't seem right....

#pre-sleep STRIKES AGAIN #evry time i make stuff like this i wonder if i should put it under the ship tag or the individ tags #bc i am showing a pattern and it involves mashing kuya and yakumo into a paste (via traditional mortar and pestle) #*turns on the blender* we're having yokai stew today. and tomorrow. and the day after that. and the day after tha #i'm tellin u. if they introduced kuya lookin like kuya but with yaku's personality #i would have impregnated him ON SIGHT #and if they started the game with a kuya-personality yaku-looker i probably would have hated him more than anything in the universe #it gives me.....first love interest in every otoge where he looks like an edgelord in red-black and has control issues over protag #anyway i'm glad you two are the way you are... even if my instinct-to-impreg leads me astray #bc kuya in his purple pink flower motif (boss bitch) and yaku in his edgelord goth n bones aesthetic (too soft to live) is just. fun #yakuya #nu carnival yakumo #nu carnival kuya

[sapphoscorner]

I have a longer post for this where I’ll go into detail on this, because I think people need to understand where this is coming from, but I really need our life fans to understand that game is queer and it’s so clear that some of you are avoiding making tamaracks mcs only because she’s a girl, and fat and because y’all hate sapphics.

I saw an anon asking for another game with a male li, as if 90% of otome games aren’t about straight romances or around men. Can we sapphics have something? Or do we constantly need people showing us down our throats men and men romances? Are y’all able to survive without men?

We have a fucking game where neither of the mcs are men, CAN WE PLEASE HAVE THID OR DO YOU HAVE TO BRING MEN INTO THIS ONCE AGAIN???? Because some of you seem, SO DESPERATE to have men in this to the point where you’re misgendering qiu and is fucking annoying

#our life #our life now and forever #olnf #our life: now & forever #soar's rambles #anyways #again bigger post in drafts #just had to vent this because I will fucking go insane #I don’t even mind cishets playing the game just don’t erase the queerness of it #the only tamarack mc I’ve found is a man why are you guys scare of sapphics? #make girls kiss you cowards #oooh girl on girl action ooooh scaryyy #and also fatphobia #y’all hate fat people and it shows

[dirty-droid]

So I played through some more dbh last night and woke up thinking, God, there is a good reason Markus and Kara, and their respective companions never got as popular as Connor and Hank. Literally The Bridge is surrounded by the most *do everything for absolutely no reason* chapters, and there's no comparison.

First the Kara chapter wastes your time, she barely gets any small talk in with Luther, then the car breaks down, then you're just doing tiny tasks, doing a shitty sum up of her story so far when Alice asks you to make one up- they could have done something interesting with that story but they chose not to, literally anything specific anything that would function as a parallel to their journey would have actually had some value. Then you barely start a conversation with Luther, where are you maybe get a hint of his personality before we're back to just talking about the plot and Alice, but then it's over again and you meet the Jerries and you learn almost nothing about them.

It is a chapter where you do nothing interesting, and you learn almost nothing about the main characters, for a downtime chapter, I expect character development and get barely a sneeze of it. There is so much room and so much time for you to really push and question your main characters but it just doesn't get used.

Honestly I think the protagonists all could have probably really benefited from the audience getting to hear their internal monologues if they weren't actually going to talk to their companion characters, but even that would just be a substitute for decent writing.

Either way, after that, we come back to Connor and Hank, who do almost no tasks in this chapter, *but spend the entire time TALKING.* They talk to each other in a constant volley back and forth for the entire length of the chapter and it's probably one of the best chapters in the game, it's certainly one of the most important in their story. You spend the entire bridge scene learning more about Hank and Connor's inner worlds, and how they think, and how they feel, you spend the whole chapter learning so much about their perspectives, this chapter is all about asking the hard questions about both of their individual characters, and the tension is high, it's a straightforward chapter to play, and it really fucking feels like your choices matter here, there will be immediate consequences, not just walking through your environment trying to find the right answer, or being dragged through an interaction. It's just plain good.

And then Markus infiltrates the Stratford Tower, and you get the most boring and useless and frustrating chapter in the game that doesn't seem to serve any purpose beyond looking cool. If Kara's last chapter was only to gain sympathy and create some soft and fuzzy feelings, this chapter is only about looking cinematic. This is probably my least favorite chapter in the game, honestly I've just gotten lost on that yellow ass office floor building too many times, even though I'm very familiar with the game now I still managed to get lost again last night.

I will admit that eventually it does become an opportunity to decide between pacifism and violence but that seems to be the only real development for Markus, and it wouldn't have been hard to make that kind of opportunity in another setting. Because we get next to nothing watching him get past the front desk, or from walking around that floor, just some outfit changes and pretending to be a machine and a little more Android hate in the background, Markus is almost completely silent yet again, there is almost no talking with North once she appears. We actually get more about North's personality here than Markus', she just feels like she has more lines somehow, because sometimes she just talks without it being connected to the plot and Markus never does.

This bit is more speculative, but my fiance and I were going off last night about whyyyy did they have to break into the tower? We're never given any reason for what the steps are and why they are important, just usually pretty important in these mission impossible type scenes, they're usually explaining in a voice-over why they are taking the steps that they are taking. But we get no explanation for why he needs to go to the 47th floor or whatever, No explanation for why he needs to change into a maintenance Android uniform, why North was in the stairwell, how Josh and Simon got in, it's all just handwaved, and whyyyyyy they couldn't have just?? Made a recording and then hacked the station's broadcast remotely and basically just posted the speech? I don't know, it's just a particularly frustrating chapter to play, personally, but it isn't strong.

Either way, you've got two chapters with next to no character development, that just have a lot of empty space and time where the characters could have been talking or could have been doing something else, but didn't because the vibes were more important, sandwiching a simple scene with ten pounds of character development and it just feels weird. And once I noticed it, it just made the Kara and Markus chapters look incredibly weak and poorly written... And conversely, make the Connor and Hank chapter look much, much stronger in comparison.

It's like Detroit become human almost needs it's own type of Bechdel Test, just to show how much they fail Markus and Kara. "Do they talk about something that isn't the plot?"

"Do Kara and Luther talk about something that isn't Alice or getting to Canada?" "Does Markus talk about anything besides his speech for this chapter?" "Does Alice talk at all beyond basic communication with Kara?" "Does Markus or his buddies talk about anything that's not the revolution or just Markus himself?"

... They don't pass a lot.

It's just hard to take these characters above simply *likeable* when they just, don't, ever, talk. There's little to no development for Markus or Kara, and because they've just become deviants, there's hardly any character establishment in the first place, they barely even get the chance to just be flat, because if they don't really know who they are, we don't really know who they are.

Connor and Hank's friendship is more functionally the main plot, more so than the deviant investigation, and for Markus and the team, and Kara with Alice, that's simply just not the case, there is hardly any relationship, they're just in the same boat. This is why Connor got astronomically more popular, and why he and Hank have the staying power that they do.

Markus and Kara just don't ever talk, and Connor does. And I'm fucking mad about it. The amount of time that was just wasted in their stories, I could probably take a damn stopwatch to all the moments where there could have been a little something-something, and nothing was put there. It's not to say Connor doesn't get some quiet moments too but he always gets the chance to make up for it.

Even at the beginning of the Stratford Tower chapter, I noticed that they could have had Simon and North talking about something maybe unrelated when Markus walks up, but there's nothing, only silence until Markus comes in with a plan. And of course we know about every time Luther tries to bring up the fact that Alice is an android, only to be shut down and walked away from. It fucking kills me how much time Mark is has the focus of the camera but it's only so he could look cool for a minute, and share no thoughts of his own, none of his new feelings, everything is only implied and then followed by the action where he is only allowed to be the leader of the revolution and never just Markus. There's a tragedy in that, but they could have driven it home harder by *pointing that out.*

#dean talks to himself #detroit become human #dbh connor #markus dbh #Kara dbh #and it's not like i don't know there's racism and sexism in fandom and in production. obviously Connor is a white man. i didn't forget #and there's the insanity that happened with GR and creating all that personality for an asshole with four appearances throughout the game #which makes you wonder why didn't the fandom do the same for Markus and Kara bc wtf #But honestly the logic kind of tracks. GR showed so much personality and he has the benefit of being human so we can more easily extrapolat #we know what humans tend to do with their time and what they act like and we barely get to see any androids actually doing the whole #becoming human thing. #I've tried building them up in my head but I'll admit it's kind of hard. they're more blank slate than sandbox #GR is a human and Hank's foil and that's easy to extrapolate on. 900 is Connor but Better and that's easy to extrapolate on #i think we somehow see too much and not enough of Markus and Kara and it has us pressing the brake and the gas at the same time #just trying to figure them out around these points. it's like a damn maze and a lot of speculation that doesn't have anything to grab onto #it's just a damn crying fucking shame because there was so much time to spend on them and it just doesn't get spent on them #anyway rant over hope you didn't hate it

[blueskittlesart]

swings with you. i think sidon is the perfect capsulation of how men and mlm ships take precedent. he's a fairly boring character 😭 the only thing he really has going for him is that he's hot and "himbo" so ppl r obsessed w shipping him w twink link.

why are conversations about sidon so predominant when the narrative of totk is so clearly putting more focus on zelda. can she have one thing im begging here

thank god im not the only one. christ. like i feel like the only thing sidon has going for him is that he's a hot man. his story is like. fairly straightforward 'i had a family member who died and i am grieving her' which like. multiple other characters in botw had. i would argue that the other champions in botw had more interesting stories than him (riju's struggles to lead her people at age FOURTEEN, teba fighting for his son and the future of his family, etc etc.) sidon isn't a BAD character by any means but he wasn't a GREAT character either and i NEVER saw any chemistry between him and link. 90% of what people seem to like about him is just. fanon shit. can we please just drop him and talk about women for once i am begging

#AND HE ISNT EVEN REALLY A HIMBO IN THE GAME?? #like i assume that came from the whole 'never met a hylian' thing maybe??? but that was just like. because he is a zora. #they are an isolated society and on their timescale the calamity happened very recently of course he was sheltered??? #like someone please show me the textual himbo sidon evidence. i do not see it #asks #also not to be insane but i feel like no sidlink shipper EVER has considered the like. actual implications of this ship. #'hello ex boyfriend of my dead sister who i am still grieving for. she wanted to marry you btw. want to date me now' ????????????? #ugh. anyway. i swear i do not hate sidlink guys im just SO TIRED

[presiding]

you'll never guess which level we're up to in this dishonored 2 rewrite

#if i haven't stuffed up my timezones this post should land on thanksgiving so here's somethin' to read to go with your food coma #dishonored #dishonored shitposting #emily kaldwin #billie lurk #dishonored fic #interesting the way the resurrection was handled - rock up to aramis stilton's powerpoint presentation basically #does anyone else think it would have been cool if you had to do the duke's palace first. #grab delilah's mortality and give it back in the past. like while she's vulnerable #kind of makes sense too from an emily character perspective #because she shows SO much character growth in stilton's manor #and then goes to the duke's palace next and IMMEDIATELY says the dumbest shit she says all game re: her entitlement and obliviousness #stilton's manor: wow ive learned so much i finally get it now! #nek minnet. emily misunderstands class warfare so bad she thinks she needs to sharpen her dads folding blade. emily. no #and if you think about it the duke's palace would have made a lot of sense for an earlier level just from emily's perspective. #hes very clearly her enemy compared to meagan's vague idea of where sokolov might be. a darker timeline perhaps #lovely Off_Topic mentioned hating time travel as a plot device and i have to agree. here's my take on that level anyway #also big thank you to RoseEll (<3) for saying it parallels the limitations of the game's mechanics interestingly ♥ #using this meme template was like. 'oh hey lingering hatred for jeremy clarkson i forgot i had you' #making the badly photoshopped heads too big. my beloved. #ah crap rambling again

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

#makoto naegi #Danganronpa character analysis #Danganronpa #danganronpa thh #danganronpa future arc #I fucking love Makoto Naegi man. #I think there’s a fine line of nuance to Makoto that’s easy to miss bc he doesn’t really make it known #he’s not a pushover and he’s not overpowered. he’s a people pleaser but he will say what needs to be said #he’s an immovable object and the exact opposite of Junko but he’s also just a normal guy who’s optimistic and (un)lucky #he isn’t invincible but he has immense power to his words the same way Junko did #if anything his superpower is being kind above all else. he’s compassionate to some of the worst people in the world. #he was even conpassionatr to an extent to Junko. he didnt want her to kill herself despite everything she’s done #and he still acknowledges that for years she was a classmate and friend. #I do think the more he learned abt what she did the more he’s come to actually hate her though #post the first game he always refers to her without a suffix to her name which is one of the most subtle rude things you can do #it means you have zero respect for the person you’re referring to #and he speaks about her with some venom he doesn’t use for anyone else in the future arc #he’s not incapable of feeling negative emotions #I really liked the future arc scene bc it showed that Makoto DID experience enough despair to have overcome him if he didn’t refuse #and that it still affects him deeply. people treat him like he’s either this perfect ideal Chad or this baby chick who’s so delicate #and no one really focuses on how makoto shoulders so much and yet is still vulnerable. #honestly that guy was DUE for a mental breakdown even without the tape. it would have happened eventually #I actually wrote one based on him finally hitting a breaking point after giving so much of himself away and keeping nothing for himself #that his issues that he shoves down constantly finally can’t be held down anymore. Hajime helps him bc he knows how that feels #it was a LONG time ago that I wrote that but honestly if I can remember where i was going w it I might finish it #it was initially an rp but I could make it a fic #anyway. the point is Makoto is SO much more complex than people give him credit for #the most fundamental thing about him is that he’s normal and that’s ok! that’s what helps him rise!

[wallbeatjournal]

can i tell you all about my conspiracy theory that roberto chose to do heathers as the season 3 riverdale musical specifically to SEO-bomb and suppress out of google-documented existence that horrible right-wing heathers 2018 miniseries that was developed as probably the most blatantly contemptuous cash-grab riverdale rip-off of all time so far

heathers the edgy tv reboot was essentially the evil (straight, boomer-oriented) version of riverdale that tvland funded. it came out in 2018, was hated by everyone and undoubtedly flooded the riverdale media team's google alerts during its whole short and notorious run

and nowdays. well. guess how many qualifiers you have to add to your google search to find reviews of that horrible 2018 heathers reboot where all the minorities were the real bullies because they could cancel people. it's a lot of qualifiers if you don't want to just see chapter fifty-one: big fun

#watching it now with katie bc i can't stand the thought of watching something i have to try to like that isn't riverdale #it's so terrible #anyway. we shouldn't lose this contextual riverdale lore #it's so relevant now when we are once again reminded about roberto's pettiness and interest in schemes and long games and contrivances #it's amazing that someone could try to make riverdale and notice so many details about its style but miss the mark so so badly #like it's so bad and so hateful. the hatefulness really can't be understated this show is a meme about librul snowflakes #and it has a character who is such a jughead knockoff but the kind of jughead knockoff your worst older relative would design #would love to get the jughead nation's takes on 4chan guy weird weirdo JD from heathers (2018) tbh. i'm obsessed with how much he bothers m

[front-facing-pokemon]

#pansage #for a while i thought all the elemental monkeys were gen 6. because as a kid i skipped gen 5 and played gen 6 after gen 4. and these guys #showed up in the early game forest right after route 1 i'm pretty sure. the one you do with shauna where she just heals your pokémon #for free whenever you want. underrated feature but lots of people hated it. 'cause they think pokémon games shouldn't be easy or whatever #anyway i'm pretty sure all the elemental monkeys showed up in that forest. for some reason. and i didn't know gen 5 at all so i went forwar #thinking they were gen 6 pokémon none the wiser