#but the conflict of interest is a little real!

[tobiasdrake]

Fun Fact: Even in space, ACAB.

Let's talk about Jaco: The Galactic Patrolman, a somewhat more obscure manga compared to Dragon Ball that Akira Toriyama wrote in its setting.

For the most part, this is a short and fairly simple story. It's primarily a character drama, with the developing relationship between Jaco and the scientist Omori as its central focus.

The manga is surprisingly vague about its connections to Dragon Ball for nearly all of its length, until its final chapter. Jaco is here on Earth to thwart some vague threat sent to the planet from a world of hostile aliens. It's only at the end of the manga that we learn he's talking about Goku.

Galactic Patrol detected an Attack Ball leaving Planet Vegeta and making its way to Earth, so they sent Jaco to... assess the situation and then make a decision about whether or not to do anything.

In his defense, the Saiyans are the most powerful race in the universe. I can understand why he doesn't want to fuck with a full-grown Saiyan warrior. Nobody wants to fuck with a full-grown Saiyan warrior. The most that the finest police force in the universe can do against Saiyans is to try and nip them in the bud when they're babies.

It's interesting that Galactic Patrol doesn't have Scouter technology. I wonder if that proprietary? Frieza might have a patent.

But at the same time, I don't want to be too sympathetic to Jaco because. Well. He sucks.

Galactic Patrol sucks. That's kind of the bit. Jaco is a self-absorbed little shit, utterly devoid of empathy or compassion for the people he polices. He's stranded on Earth right now because he wasn't watching the road while driving.

Jaco's a prick, but what little we learn about Galactic Patrol as a whole doesn't make them sound much better.

This one time Jaco accidentally pressed the Extinction Bomb when he wasn't supposed to and wiped out a planet. Hoo boy, was his boss mad! Gave him a real talking to before giving him another Extinction Bomb and putting him back on patrol.

Universe isn't going to police itself, y'know. Someone's gotta be out there very occasionally trying to stop those real estate genocides.

For his part, Jaco's in it for the aesthetic. He likes the image of being a cop, and he spends his time practicing looking cool for when he presumably dispenses justice upon the criminal element.

But his interactions with the common people are filled with condescension and menace.

Like I said, this is the bit. Jaco is a self-important thug with a badge, with the initial conflict stemming as much from trying to keep him from doing something awful to the community under his jurisdiction as from trying to solve his problem.

Ostensibly here to protect Earth from the impending arrival of a Saiyan threat, he is as much a threat to this community as the invader he's here to assess. Without Omori there to guide him, he'd be killing people left and right.

He fits in pretty well with the cast of Dragon Ball, many of whom at least begin their tenure with a degree of amorality to them. Omori himself is a bitter misanthrope ironically thrust into the position of having to convince Jaco not to kill people.

And then there's the manga's biggest Dragon Ball connection: The introduction of Tights.

Any reader who's been picking up on the Dragon Ball-ness of this universe will know immediately where Tights came from. Her name pun gives the game away. Just like how the final chapter clarifies Jaco's target as the young Goku, we get to see the familiar faces of Tights's family as well.

Bulma basically solves the entire plot singlehandedly.

Even as a little kid, the universe's greatest heretic remains unparalleled in the field of game-breaking super-intelligence. Bulma OP do not nerf.

Again, this speaks to how little of the manga is actually about the plot. If this were a story-driven manga, having a character from another manga show up in the final issue and solve the plot in the span of two pages would be pretty disappointing. But since the plot is just an excuse to make these characters interact with one another, it doesn't really matter.

We aren't here for the story; We're here for the relationship between Jaco, Omori, and Tights. With that in mind, Baby Bulma waddling up and going "I fixed the spaceship; Are you stupid or something?" is hysterical.

For her part, Tights lives up to her family legacy of being super-brilliant.

She graduated from college at 16. She's a genius like the rest of the family. What she's not is interested in science and technology. Possibly as a justification for why we've never heard of her before, Tights goes against the mold for her family.

She honestly seems like something of a free spirit. She lives in East City when we meet her, famously the city that Nappa wiped off the map, while Capsule Corp and Bulma's family are out in West City. Rather than a scientist, she works as a body double for a famous pop idol.

As a publicity stunt, they're going to launch an idol into space. Tights's job is to impersonate the idol so she can die in the inevitable disaster instead. She is bizarrely chill with being paid a huge sum of money to get stupidly killed. Much like Bulma, Tights has a terrible sense of self-preservation and is willing to take on incredible risk for the sake of achieving a personal goal.

Tights is the best character in the manga. An aspiring sci-fi novelist who agreed to probably die in space for the sake of the experience. This family gives zero fucks.

And then there's Omori himself.

Despite its title, Omori is basically the main character of this manga. He's the one whose life situation is most heavily scrutinized. This is his status quo that Jaco and Tights enter. Similarly, Omori is the character who undergoes personal transformation as his experiences with Jaco and Tights help him find hope in connections with other people again.

The three characters click really well together. So well, in fact, that Dragon Ball would end up recycling the setup of Super Alien/Crotchety Old Man/Spunky Young Woman for one of the best dynamics they ever wrote.

This is not a copy/paste; Cheelai, Leemo, and Broly are all distinctly separate characters. but you can still feel the barebones aesthetic of Tights, Omori, and Jaco in their dynamic.

So. Yeah. Overall, for what it is, it's a cute little short story about a group of characters just living lives in the world of Dragon Ball. It's the kind of thing that the franchise needs more of, and still does to this day: An opportunity to flesh out the universe a little but also just to let us live in it through the eyes of someone else.

#dragon ball #jaco the galactic patrolman #jaco #tights #omori

[utilitycaster]

In what way did having Laura and Marisha on 4SD damage your view of their relationship? 100% agreed on needing Laura on 4SD without Marisha asap. Slightly off-topic, but Laura is also the only cast member who's never been on two consecutive 4SD episodes. It's frankly impressive she's been able to give any in-depth answers about Imogen with how repetitive questions for her are. It's really indicative of the questions' quality that she provides answers to them before even pulling them out.

re: damaging my view of the relationship (which to be clear - I mean im*dna, not Marisha and Laura themselves), one of my issues has always been that Imogen and Laudna have for lack of a better way to put it, acted (and been treated as) as a glued-together unit but without any glue. It's recently gotten interesting and I hope this conflict that we have continues! But until recently, they've had in my opinion a dampening effect on each others' stories; they're infinitely more interesting to me as individuals than as a couple. Therefore, the way that Laura hasn't been on 4SD without Marisha since "That's Just Right" in December 2022 (and, of her 9 appearances, has been paired with Marisha in 7), and the fact that so many 4SD questions treat them as one unit, even when it's not remotely relevant (eg, the question about FCG's death) and resist the idea of them becoming more distant even if that's where the narrative has taken them (the truly egregious "please say syke [sic]" question from last night) is a real turn off, but also, I'll admit, rather vindicating. I'd much rather have a 4SD where we can treat Imogen and Laudna as individuals with their own arcs and lives, but if we must have this pablum at least I was right that there is a noted pattern of treating them as the appendages of one another with little value outside of being half a relationship on which to project. It's unfortunate, because Imogen's had some fantastic interactions with Orym lately and I'd have loved to hear about that, though Robbie's questions were extremely good and maybe he should write the non-Dorian tankard questions for a while.

I will say the one criticism here that I think isn't really important is that Laura hasn't been on two 4SDs consecutively; I think that's almost certainly just scheduling. She's got a busy acting career and a kindergartner and a lot of the work she does for CR (merch) doesn't require being in-office, so she's always been a little less frequently on the talkbacks than some of the other cast members. Even though Imogen is extremely central to the plot I didn't expect Laura to be on 4SD too frequently; I just wish she could be asked more insightful questions. I'm not getting my hopes up but maybe the Fireside might be an option for something better.

#answered #Anonymous #cr tag' #be normal on this or i will turn off reblogs; criticism of people is fine hate is not etc.

[thenbecauseshegoes]

episode 12 / episode 34

episode 12 / episode 37

there were several similarities i noted between the two episodes (12 and 34):

within the specific scenes: both touga and akio reached out and touched her hand with their left hands, but touga covered her hand with his, while akio took her hand into his. in episode 12, they were accompanied by anthy and wakaba (during the day, out in the open cafeteria), while in episode 34, they were alone in akio's room (during the night); anthy was aware of it, but she was in her and utena's room and couldn't do much about the matter. anthy also couldn't do much for utena in episode 12 due to the rules of the rose seal (she was engaged to touga). also, the two scenes in episodes 12 and 34 took place after very tragic incidents happened to utena: losing the duel to touga, and consequently, losing anthy as her rose bride versus akio raping her (unarguably even more tragic).

correlation with utena's sense of self: in episode 12, utena tried (and succeeded) to take back who she was via a rematch (losing to touga made her doubt who she was as a person). who utena was as a person may be referring to the role of a prince that she was able to truly embody due to her engagement to the rose bride. or, more like how the engagement with the rose bride allowed utena to be more like herself, which would constitute the princely ideals she adopted/learned (i'm not sure for this part).

in episode 34, we learned that the real reason utena had the rose crest ring, the real reason utena wanted to become a prince: to save a little girl suffering a fate worse than death. ultimately, in both situations, anthy influenced utena's sense of self, to an extent. regarding the prince, taking into account the context of episode 11, i'm quite sure utena still believed that touga was her prince in episode 12. meanwhile, episode 34 gave us (more) indisputable confirmation that akio was the prince that utena met (this fact was heavily hinted at since episode 25). however, i don't think utena made the connection yet at that point. nevertheless, as a whole, in both situations, touga and akio were framed as utena's prince (to utena [episode 12] versus to the audience [episode 34]).

a common conflict/theme underlying both scenes was the pressure of conforming to ideal gender identities and presentations. this was evident in the scene with touga (complimenting utena's girl uniform and asking her out). however, it's infinitely more severe with akio because he was actively grooming utena to that end; some events of this episode were just parts of the long process (in the specific scene: asking if they're friends, mentioning that she didn't take off her ring "that night", trying to kiss her). in addition, the visuals of both touga and akio somewhat covering utena's rose crest ring with their hand gestures seemed analogous to them trying to suppress/diminish her princely ideals/role (touga saying that losing the duel gave utena a chance at being a normal girl; he then actively tried persuading utena to this end i.e. the compliment and the ask for a date. also, to reiterate: akio brought up the fact that utena didn't take off her ring when he raped her while stroking the ring; he expected that that event would be sufficient for utena to take it off [give up the role of the prince]).

i think episode 12 is an interesting foreshadowing/parallelism of some kind for later events in the final arc, with regard to utena/touga/anthy and utena/akio/anthy dynamics.

#very literal observations of the two scenes and episodes #touga mirrored akio very often #revolutionary girl utena #shojo kakumei utena #shoujo kakumei utena #rgu #sku #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya #touga kiryuu #akio ohtori #wakaba shinohara #i'm very sorry if it's difficult to follow english isn't my first language #this is the first time i wrote something like this #please correct me if i'm wrong at any parts #this write up is inspired by several other amazing rgu posts i have read

[lovelylittlelevity]

Im very sorry to say that as of 5/29/24 Lovely Little Levity's blog and game has been decided to become a content archive.

this was a team decision, and due to the lack of motivation and health issues (mental and physical) among us, we've come to the conclusion to simply let sleeping dogs lie. While I wish I could say we ended with a bang or something else interesting, it was a simple decision to choose us and our health before LLL.

below are the final statements of those who wished to speak

---

Melody:

While I wish I could say I had fun, that was only true intitially. While I understand I made my mistakes, nothing I did gave the free pass some of y'all think you have to stalk me through multiple blogs telling me to kill myself and otherwise harrass me. I really hope I can find the joy of creating with friends again with the other projects I have ongoing. I guess to the people who still want to make "expose" documents/posts about me all I gotta say is: Grow up. Get a life outside of fandom culture. Some of y'all are forgetting what an actual problematic person looks like/have never faced REAL conflict and it shows.

Puppit:

Honestly it was fun at first but after a while it felt more like we have forced ourselves to make it because y'all wouldn't stop rushing us some of the time and kept on asking when the game was going to be finished. But when we released the demo, y'all said it felt forced. So it didn't feel fun anymore. It just became stressful in the end. Honestly the LMK fandom is just a whole disaster to the point so many are just at each other's throat. I just really hope it gets better for all of you.

Ekko:

In all honesty LLL was a mess. Early on we had the Scott issue, and then later more personal issues that slowed work down. Even when we had a pickup on motivation the constant pressure and rude comments were too much. It's not hard to be kind on the fucking internet, the world wont end if you dont click send on that kys message I swear. I could handle it better than the other members of LLL, however it doesn't mean i should have to. Thank you to everyone who was kind in welcoming me and aware of my tone deafness, you are appreciated more than you know.

-xoxo EK

#ekko yapping #lmk #dating sim #puppit answers #melody talks #lovely little levity

[frozenjokes]

After years of thinking... I finally want to know what is CUBGUY and his boyfriend's MBTI aka the 16 personalities

You’ve opened Pandora’s box with this one my man because I am a psych major that HATES personality tests however that did not stop me from taking the test three times (this one which I hate specifically because the commercialization of personality tests to measure worth is evil BECAUSE THEY DONT WORK. THEY ARE NOT A GOOD MEASURE OF PERSONALITY OR WORTH AND HAVING TO TAKE THIS FUCKING FOR LITERALY JOB APPLICATIONS INSTEAD OF IT JUST BEING A FUN THING TODO IN YOUR FREE TIME IS FUCKING AURYRHEUSHDHUDUSHDJSHSJAHSUSUSJ KILLING BITING MAIMING GRAGAGSHGEHWDGSHHS I HATE. HER.) anyway. I can be normal about this subject I promise.

normal elsa: haha hey guys! I took the personality test for my ocs! yippeee!!! from left to right we have Cub, Scar, and Grian. thanks for the ask! this was fun!

but it’s not about having fun is it

so anyway I took notes. So you may have noticed some things don’t look quite right here. I mean, Cub looks fine! That’s pretty accurate even! Scar too, look at him go! … wait a minute. Grian’s not nice!!!! Or poetic!!!!!!! Is altruism even real????????????? (It is and I feel strongly about this but altruistic as an adjective to describe a person i believe is doing a disservice to the definition because what they MEAN is ‘selfless’ not altruistic but while we’re on the topic of selflessness Grian is fucking NOT)

So why did this happen. I don’t really care that the personality test got someone wrong, but I am interested in Why that happened, and why a test like this will never get a character like Grian correct.

Put simply, the answer is that this test wants to make you Feel Good. Now, having fun isn’t a crime and oftentimes personality tests are there to have fun, but the danger of something like this is that the MBTI isn’t presented as a low stakes fun activity, it’s presented as fact. Look. This is you! This is a good, objective measure of your personality, aren’t you great? You’re awesome :)! Here’s a list of vague-enough sentiments that probably apply to you based on the questions we asked. Yippee! its a really clever and extremely affective trick.

While the little blurb for Scar describes him relatively well, nearly every description of his ‘personality’ besides extroversion read pretty inaccurately, and that’s because the focus is so positive. The thing is, Grian and Scar are largely very self serving people (/neutral tone). They are often more worried about themselves than others, they’re impulsive, and that’s not all they are, but it’s pretty impossible to get at someone’s actual personality without recognizing what makes people flawed.

The closest I think the MBTI test gets to probing at this idea of potential selfishness are questions that are meant to test thinking versus feeling. Do you consider someone’s sensitivities in if they conflict with reason? Are you more concerned with facts or emotion? Logos versus pathos. That kinda stuff. But ultimately the MBTI test doesn’t really care about selfishness, it doesn’t care about flaws, it just cares about making you feel good baybe! So these neutral questions don’t really come back in any meaningful way. The MBTI is concerned about making caricatures of people, not accurately measuring their personality and that Matters because its so often treated as scientific, at least good enough to be used in consideration for jobs and work and school and all sorts of stuff.

And I could go on but the problem with modern personality tests goes so so so much deeper, even in more controlled, more science oriented fields like psychiatry. The system for diagnosing personality disorders is somewhat similar to a personality tests are at the very least aided by them, falling on a straight lined spectrum of Openness, Consciousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. But this system Sucks and everyone knows it sucks because comorbidity between clusters (A, B, C) of personality disorders is Insanely High. I wish I had the exact percentages, but I can’t quite find the information I’m looking for, but the point is that if the rate of comorbidity between different disorders is So High, how do you know these disorders are correctly defined at all? If a person more often than not has Disorder A and Disorder B at the same time, who’s to say they’re all that different at all? In general, a lot of the criteria for diagnosing a personality disorders is Really similar, so in general it’s a section of the DSM that needs a pretty massive overhaul.

I don’t envy personality psychologists man their job is Tough (and in my opinion, kind of impossible. there’s too many roadblocks in making an objective test. It is. Eugh.)

TLDR: the MBTI test is about as decisive as a fortune cookie and it literally can’t be anything more because then you would realize its lying to you. amen

#cubscarian hotguy au #grian #gtws #goodtimeswithscar #cubfan135 #personality quiz #16 personalities #mbti types #mbti personality types #mbti #psychology #psych

[aperturals]

when i consider the stanley cup final there r two wolves inside of me etc one is the actual sports fan favoring my actual favorite team the other one is starving for mattdrai narratives. florida/edmonton in the final voices need to stay in the box where they belong but they’re getting louder…..

#if we’re being real the sports fan will always rise to beat the shit out of the rpfer inside of me if need be #but the conflict of interest is a little real! #it’s really to the point where soon you’ll find me praying in the center of a candlelit pentacle for a leon to florida trade #and once again the sports fan considers the logistics and rolls her eyes…but the narratives! #mattdrai #hockey

[blueskittlesart]

i am an athena cykes defender forever and ever until the day i die but god. somewhere out there there is a universe where apollo justice got actual follow through and it kills me that i am not living in it

#sorry. i am replaying apollo justice. and it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL. #kills me that we never get any real answers about kristoph obv but its not even just that #klavier as a rival was so interesting. because hes basically already at the state that you're trying to get all the other prosecutors in th #series to in terms of winning vs truth. hes really well rounded as a prosecutor in a way that you as the player arent used to #and that was an interesting departure from the formula for aa in general but then they slapped him with a whole DIFFERENT problem #with kristoph and phoenix. and then they just. do not resolve it whatsoever. #even though apollo is literally right there as a perfect little avenue for resolution. and i KNOW that they WOULD HAVE resolved it #if only they would have MADE THE SECOND GODDAMN GAME #PLUS the secondary conflict of systemic injustice within the system and phoenix's role in that. TRUCY. #god fuck ace attorney why are you so good and so bad at the same time #what we really should have gotten is an apollo justice duology and THEN an athena cykes solo game #where apollo shows up exclusively as a background character and athena actually gets to be the playable attorney in more than 2 cases. #ugh. whatever #personal

[seasaltmemories]

Thinking about my boy

#aono kun #i want to hold aono kun so badly i could die #ryuhei aono #to be clear normal aono is my boy more than dark aono (yada yada how different are they yeah but their vibes are distinct enough for me) #but this screenshot was too good to ignore and I can appreciate dark aono for being a great unique antagonist #just a little freak who is scheming things but not very good at hiding that #but real aono the real costar of my heart- i need him to be happy by the end just as much as yuri #I do think his conflict with his dark side is interesting in how it reflects his trauma and everything I learn about his life #up to the present day breaks my heart #he didn't get a chance to grow up and make up for his mistakes he never got to be more than his mother's child #so I will forgive a little murder and possession as a treat #unless WEIRD REDACTED TWIST ends with him hurting Yuri for real bc she is the other costar #but yeah sad little man haunted by his trauma and goes 'don't worry about it' as he tries to be the ideal romantic partner until it all #comes crashing down all around him is very seasalt-core

[grandcovenant]

it's such a shame that sophia as a character is so reliant on keeping everything about her a mystery until.... literally the last chapter, because it makes her a lot weaker as.... one of the main characters. she's intended to have the same level of importance as geppetto in the narrative, however, in execution..... you can't really get invested in her because she doesn't really offer anything meaningful to you until the very end, and by then it feels a little too little too late. (and so much of it is wrapped around simon's plotline, which i have already expressed i don't really care for.)

i think it's why i try to make a bigger deal of things like the hermit's cave, or the thing about being a listener being "the devil's power", according to sophia's mother. these bits show her as an existing part of the setting she's in, and not as the walking Big Reveal set-up she... kind of is, honestly.

sophia is meant to be p's guide through his growing humanity, a counterpoint to geppetto, and i wish more was done with it!!!

#lies of p #love this game dearly which means i must dissect it like a shrimp. for better or worse #sophia is such a frustrating character to think about writing-wise... girl i am rewriting you in my brain half the time #i still think she should've been granted some degree of complex morality. the most we get is the ~i lied about why i woke you up~ ordeal-- #--which hardly means anything given she still guided him towards saving the city without any conflict with her real goal #it would make more sense as to why the story is so cagey with her. #and would make her a more interesting foil to geppetto. #-> i know what *i* would have her do in that regard. but that's a secret. for now. #theres more to be said but im tired of trying to work this post out. fly free little bird

[gregoftom]

GOD i am trying so fucking hard not to read into the fact that tom repressed the shit out of how he actually felt when he learned he probably won’t go to jail and then when he went to greg, he could. express it. you know. he could be himself. i really hate so much what i read into it BECAUSE I SHOULDN’T BC I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS LATER AND I SHOULDN’T TRUST THIS SHIT BUT ARHJARHA HOW CAN I NOT WHEN HE’S REPRESSED ASF PER USUAL BUT THE MOMENT HE GOES TO GREG OR IS ALONE WITH GREG HE EXPRESSES HIMSELF FULLY, HIS RAGE, PAIN, [MANIC] HAPPINESS, AFFECTION. I HATE THIS SO MUCH. AND GREG IS IN THE CORNER COWERING BC HE DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THAT THE REASON TOM ACTS THIS WAY AROUND HIM IS. no. i Refuse to read That into it. but yall get what i’m saying right. 

AND THEN THIS

are you fucking kidding me. like was that really fucking necessary.

#tomgreg #god i hate thi IS S how #im gonan. i gotta sit down for a sec i'm jahving a jhemmhorrage #hemorrage #mhem?? you know that ththing #oh yall are prob expecting a novel in the tags wel like i said in the post. i think it's interesting that tom is like. Himself. around greg. #when they're alone. he can be like. maybe his core self? i don't know. maybe it's some kind of. parallel. #to how he tries to be a roy. which can be compared to say. roman. who was confirmed to have had the concept. #of being gay. like. they put on a show right. like roman's true self is he'd die for his family. but he won't say it outright. #and in fact hates being called out on it/makes excuses for it. #you see where i'm going with this. they pretend to be. yk. something they're not. #but around greg HES SO EXPLOSIVE and SO AFFECTIONATE and so PLAYFUL. like i said. he's like a schoolboy. #we get glimpses of that with shiv but she doesn't seem to like it so he learns to repress it. #when greg refused his little wrestle to the ground [by the way. ok gayass] he got snippy and took it as a rejection. #but it won't stop him from continuing to be himself around greg bc there's something about him i guess. #like obviously i'm trying really hard to think rationally about this bc i don't know if i can trust the writers with something like this. #and i'm getting conflicting thoughts and feelings and ideas from stuff i've seen about season 4. #but like. yeah. i don't know. it's interesting to me. this scene was interesting to me. #i'm not gonna cap the whole tom going koo koo bananas bc well he flipped a desk and beat his chest unga bunga. but. yeah. #ALSO GREG ASKNG ''IS IT REAL'' BEFORE TOM KISSES HIM GOD SEND THE FLOOD #DONT FUCKING DO THAT #anYWYA IM GOING MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS RISING little lord fuckleroy has left the call #txt #SORRY SORRY ALSO tom calling them the waystar two hAHHhhhhhfdne wowowoewoewd what is he your fucking boywife. fuck outta here

[iniziare]

Tag drop: Kafka

#ic. [ like a spider in the center of her web. it has a thousand radiations; and she knows well every quiver of each of them. ] #countenance. [ destiny has thousands of faces. why does it choose to wear this one? ] #introspection. [ it started with sincerity and anticipation followed by a passionate catharsis; with one climax after another. ] #meta. [ she must have sought something extraordinary. everything she does comes at a great cost. ] #little notes. [ the mara's tether is firmly in her grasp. she will not pull upon it before the designated time; nor shall she relinquish it #wishes. [ if you wanna look for some fun. i won't stop you. i mean after all; elio didn't put it in the script; why would it matter? ] #stellaron hunters. [ we all have our own individual goals. we may work together; but we work together for our own reasons. ] #astral express. [ in pursuit of the most dangerous objects in the universe? in that sense; you and i are cut from the same cloth. ] #conflict. [ looks like we're the ones getting ambushed. / but they're the ones getting besieged. ] #nessun dorma. [ da capo. fortississimo. capriccio. recitativo. doloroso. leggiero. ] #beauty. [ all beautiful things have one thing in common: fragility. the more fragile; the rarer. maybe that's what makes it so precious. ] #destiny. [ that's the nature of destiny — it creates a miracle but convinces you of an accident. ] #pteruges-v. [ it was one of many planets changed by a stellaron. ah #it's a shame i never got to witness how far it fell at the time. ] #bladie. [ … her voice was very gentle. and even the monster inside his body stayed silent to listen to her. ] #bladie: daybreakrising. [ i long for you; i who usually long without longing; really and utterly long for every bit of you. ] #veritas ratio. [ i do believe you have fallen victim to a misconception; doctor. who says it is elio who harbors an interest in you? ] #veritas ratio: avaere. [ does it smell of me; veritas? ] #caelus. [ i called out to you and you came. you had many choices; but everything led you here. to right here and right now. ] #caelus: astrxlfinale. [ everything that you love: you will eventually lose. but in the end; love will return in a different form. ] #elio. [ there's an empty space in my mind; my heart. changing that part of myself isn't something i can do alone. he can help me. ] #silver wolf. [ ignoring the rules is something she and i have in common. ] #sam. [ you should really stop playing with your food; kafka. / i know. next time. this time… it's already too late. ] #v: new babylon. [ i was a devil hunter. when people don't feel fear; they are dominated by desire and pleasure. they become “devils”. ] #v: present. [ we can only add one gold thread each time but eventually: we will pave the way for the future that is written. ] #v: future. [ the future is like a labyrinth: every divergence is merely an inducement. there is only one real path. ]

[nonbinaryphantom]

making valerie a vigilante in roleswap bc vlad for sure isnt providing ghost gear and im not sure if she would go to the fentons idk maybe tucker hooks her up or something

#reasoning would be tucker recognizes that danny needs to be taken down to an extent #sam is also in an odd spot but i think she would become a more active ghost hunter #wait i can make mech pilot tucker real. the ecto suit. #but i think valerie is like thein between with tucker sam and danny shes the middle woman bc theyre not all talking to each other #which is such an awkward spot but it could be fun maybe #dp roleswap au #bc all of them cant rely on danny in this au he picks fights sure but its never for saving he aint doing patrol #sam is more proactive with tucker being a mechanic while he also goes to valerie going yeah this isnt working out #tucker’s smart he just works a little behind the scenes so he can save the town and bring danny back to his senses #hm maybe vlad does hook her up with gear bc idk i just feel like it Could be interesting #mayne later dowm the road where he sees danmy hesitating againsg her #and goes oh she might have a chance here. its. a little manipulative ig #but its just the slightest edge of canon vlad still in roleswap. hes not malicious he just recognizes an advantage #but that could make an interesting conflict with valerie and vlad once she finds out

[seilon]

i usually dont comment on these kinds of things because they shouldnt be treated with the level of weird parasocial interest they tend to be on social media generally but. claire (lil tay) was so fucking young. it doesnt take knowing her personally to feel just how jarring and genuinely tragic her sudden death is. like shit. she was only 14. she didnt even get to live her own life. sorry if this is pointless and theres no call to action or anything here but. jesus.

#kibumblabs #cw death #havent looked too deep into it because im still conflicted over it feeling voyeuristic and disrespectful to do so or not but #from what i have heard it seems sketchy re: her brother and idk i dont want to accuse anyone of anything without proper basis especially #when that someone also passed away but. considering his history of controlling behavior over her image and how it put her in some #serious danger at worst - situations a child should not be in at best... if he did have any part in this i. well i dont know. #cant exactly say he needs to see justice considering its a bit late for that but. i dont know #depending on the circumstances one of her parents may need to answer to some neglect charges. but anyway it all feels so trivial when its #already too late. #you know what. what i think i can say for sure is that i hope she's properly remembered and honored for who she actually was and not as #'lil tay the worlds youngest flexer'. a persona her brother made up that put her in dangerous situation for the sake of clout. by no means #is the public entitled to anything but if anything more is put out there in memorium i hope its something #letting the world know who she was as a real teenage girl with her own interests and personality and favorite songs and teenage obsessions #she looked like such a sweet girl. i hope her friends and family who actually knew her are haunted as little as possible by her #bastardized image on the internet. i hope they– as well as anyone else really– can separate that character from the innocent young girl #who actually existed and who's life was cut so. so fucking short. #i know i said i didnt want to comment too much about this but idk man. it really got to me. maybe because its such a novel situation thats #never exactly happened before- the way her image was on in the internet and how this case will inevitably be treated on the internet #how young she was and how little say she had in how she'd be portrayed on line– much less now how she'd be REMEMBERED. #its disturbing. and deeply deeply tragic. #2009. she was born in 2009. fuck. thats just. wrong

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

latest ACGAS report: one of the best episodes of the season I think, possibly one of the best of the show. 10/10 from me.

#character development!!! relationship progression!!! big convos and interesting conflicts!!!!! #I really enjoyed how close and comfortable the little Skeldale House fam seemed too #spoilers ahead— #but Helen coming to Siegfried with her concerns and him hearing her and meeting her in them with such genuineness #Mrs. Hall going with the boys on the car ride #Tristan and Siegfried clashing just a bit but ultimately continuing to build camaraderie #and then every single moment between James and Helen #gahhhshdhhhdhdhehhahaha I loved it so so much wow #also I love Florence she’s So COOL and Tristan’s a dork around her and I’m just. I fully approve. it’s nice to see him be genuine #and kinda awkward and nervous and just very frank and real with someone. it’s really cool I do appreciate it v much. #all creatures great and small #all creatures great and small spoilers #acgas 2020 #acgas spoilers #acgas s3 #mobile #gurt says stuff

[loveletterworm]

if you try to watch videos on like  just how to do the coding things in game engines the recommended videos always like to try to veer towards “How To Make Hit Indie Game And Make Money Dont Make These Five Mistakes In Your Marketing This Is What A Publisher Is”  and its kind of funny to me because  the closest ive gotten to thinking of anything along those lines with regards to this is  “If by freak accident i do manage to make anything viable here what is the most out of the way corner i can put it in so as to minimize the amount of people who will ever see this ever”   like its not even like im ~doing it for the art~ or something pretentious like that  im just shy.  and i would be scared.

#Thewres also the problem where i hate almost all youtubers which is a real conflict of interest if you want to make little video games now. #because it feels like everyone makes little video games for the youtubers now or at least they really want the youtubers to see them. #which makes sense i suppose its free marketing after all but What If I Just Really Hate Them. #What If They Make Me Mad. this is why if i ever finish a game i will only distribute it in unlabelled flash drives left on the ground #mypost

[pankomako]

dude not me thinking about post-gang war arc gang's bay aughghgh the character design ideas i have are so GOOOODDD

#at this point i feel like i just SHOULD make gang's bay a tv show when i can #but also that depends if i can get the necessary people on it. mainly being boat (which i dont think will be too hard?) #(but that also depends if he would be interested in so much as being a voice actor) #(and that's like the bare minimum i'd need from him. i'd hope he also wants to do more of the development as well) #(which i mean it seems right up his alley? he seems to like creating characters n stories for an audience right) #but anyway it may actually be higher priority to me than bwob at this point. as much as i still love the idea of it #im just SO invested in gang's bay now #i think the main thing is that the ocs ive made for gang's bay i've developed to the point of them actually feeling real to me #and like people i could talk to. and there are SO many stories i could tell with them #meanwhile boardwalk is meant to be smth a little more like a recent disney cartoon: a sort of blend between episodic and serialized #where it kind of starts as more of a sitcom but builds up to a big dramatic save-the-world type plot leaving everything changed for better #at this point gang's bay also kinda does that but on a smaller scale conflict-wise but is far more flexible #in that a LOT could happen before and after the fact. it's still at its core a sitcom #but it's still allowed to have a sort of story progression between the gang war and the characters changing & finding their life partners #gang's bay also has SO many more themes than bwob does at this point #bwob is supposed to be an allegory for acceptance of queer individuals or even any type of diversity #meanwhile in gangs bay there's friendship and trust and the meaning of masculinity and growing up and overcoming addiction and trauma and- #there's just SO much at this point dude. if any show SHOULD run for like 10 seasons or more it's gang's bay #honestly im not even sure where it would end at this point. either way if it were a show it'd probably be the best adult cartoon out there #UGHHHH im so hyperfixated on this cant you tell