There’s a joke that if you find one of these next to a pile of paper in a forest you shouldn’t take it because no amount of parboiling will free it of its unpleasant taste.
It’s a false morel of some sort, probably a gyromitra esculenta. It’s deadly poisonous if not treated correctly, which is why my mushroom hunting will not start quite yet.
One reason why i fuck heavily with disco elysium is like... idek how to describe this phenomenon, but usually when i read Fantasy or Sci-Fi there always has to be this protective layer of Allegory where like, we can't possibly call a thing what it is lest it get too Real so we have like, The Empire. The Dark Lord. The Federation. The Culture. The Ministry. The Shmeebus Bleebus. YOU know. But DE is the first narrative i ever encountered that'll just straight up say "This is about communism. This is about fascism. This is about centrism. This is about nihilism." Like actually use the grownup words for it, you know?? And trust that the audience won't faint away with shock when confronted with ideologies
not me thinking abt how estinien is consistently one of the most emotionally intelligent characters (at least when it comes to other people) we have yet this is constantly forgotten or minimized
Me explaining in terms of strictly how I read canon I think Nahida not severely punishing the Sages is just meant to convey that Nahida, even when wronged, is not a very vengeful or harsh person and makes the choice to be kind instead, but in my mind I have this idea of a Nahida interpretation which elaborates on that where her self punishing tendencies extend to her being someone who internally downplays her own experiences constantly, and as a result has a hard time feeling she’s allowed or justified in placing a lot of blame on the Sages for what they did to her So while she is following her own philosophies regarding teaching lessons/wisdom/etc in how to handle the Sages and genuinely doesn’t want to be really angry or punishing because of who she is as a person, her decision is also influenced by the fact she’s basically blocked herself out of grappling with how to handle people who hurt her by blaming herself for said hurt instead as a coping mechanism. And like this is all just me being insane about Nahida Trauma and not something explicitly implied in canon but also I really do think this isn’t a far stretch from her canon characterization especially when my vision isn’t to conclude that Nahida needs to be angry and vengeful but she should extend the kindness she shows others to herself and also every day I get tormented thinking about she was the mental equivalent of an average human child when the Sages found her and how they basically specifically discarded her for being a child and the idea of how Nahida would pick up on + internalize that and eventually need time to unlearn it
please please please take him off my hands. i can't sleep at night without him going off about lego island or what kind of pizza i should eat. i can't eat plastic. i keep telling him this. please take him i beg of you.
I WAS SEARCHING FOR THIS LINE FOR SO LONG I CANT BELIEVE AROMANTIC/AROACE EDGEWORTH IS LITERALLY CANON
there’s literally so little rep of us anywhere ever and a character rejecting marriage is commonly a shorthand for showing their lack of interest in romantic/sexual affairs (especially sexual since it’s a teen game without talk of those subjects) (and because as much as the dev team loves wrightworth they’re never making it canon) so i’m attacking these crumbs pleaseeeeee PLEASEEEEEEEE
OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE CAN HEADCANON WHATEVER THEY WANT (aa people can definitely be in relationships like im a huge wrightworth enjoyer too) BUT OH MY GOD. aspec rep is literally so hard to find in popular media please just let us have this
Speaking of wander over yander, I used to work as a barista and one of our regulars looked and sounded EXACTLY like wanders voice actor. So much so I had to look up if that was actually him and if lived around there (it wasn’t him).
He was a massive creep unfortunately, so now I can’t watch wander over yonder, wreck it Ralph, or anything with wanders va in it anymore cause it makes me uncomfortable.
for me the things is that fandom is fandom and fandom should stay separate from the authors (ccs in this case) so - draw what you want, write what you want, create, because this is our greatest gift. just don't expect or try to be noticed by the authors, don't create for them. create for yourself, for your friends, for the fandom. and then this weird (imo) creation that are boundaries won't need to exist.
it's the audacity for me. the absolute middle finger to erect a fucking tombstone for James Ironwood and write DONT COME BACK on it. I had hoped that RT would have just dropped him and forgot about him like they do literally everything else, but nooooo gotta do a nonsensical thing so that everyone knows they fucking hate disabled men with PTSD!