#that entire part was heartbreaking

[caitlynmeow]

look at this pure baby girl

#daniela dimitrescu #house dimitrescu #castle dimitrescu #re8 #re8 village #re village #resident evil 8 #resident evil 8 village #resident evil village #someone in capcom decided that the baby of the family has got to be a true BABEY #i want to wrap her in a warm blanket and give her heaps of books to read #she deserves the world #no you don’t UNDERSTAND #she was so confused when ethan was hurting her #LEGIT confused #that entire part was heartbreaking #ok i take that back capcom i don’t like you for treating this angel so cruelly #you’re alive and happy in my head so #canon can go kiss my ass

[nesperus]

i don’t know who made the original meme edit but heres my artistic rendition just for you

#shitpost #sage doodles #dndads #dndads cast #matt arnold #freddie wong #debate me coward part 3 right before the most heartbreaking scene in this entire season #just what i expect from this podcast #perfection

[kadextra]

Just realized that memory lapse today was probably the longest one q!bad has ever had so far, bc dapper said he randomly left in the middle of the night & she’d been searching for him for hours. he was wandering around lost for hours. haha im okay :)

#that’s heartbreaking oh my godd #that entire scene was so so bittersweet #<- just rewatched it #gah) #the part where he couldn’t recognize dapper right in front of him and kept asking if she’d seen dapper had me distraught #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp dapper #his kids can no longer ground him it’s so bad . #‘it’s me dad I’m your son’ 💥💥💥

[torgawl]

"he held on to a faint glimmer of hope that he would be able to find that tiny figure... she had only learned to walk a while ago and would gently slap at the little wooden guitar he made for her and giggle"......... i'm never getting over this

#boothill my friend boothill :(((( #nothing compares to the sheer heartbreak i felt when i read this entire part of his lore after giggling because he had gay dads 😭😭😭😭😭 #boothill isn't a green flag he's the entire amazon forest. he's a girl dad guys i hate hoyoverse why would they do this #annihilating the ipc with the sheer power of my rage and these fists #she was so young..... did he ever hear her first word???? 😭😭😭😭 #does he dream of her and her little smile??? does he think about all the things we was never able to live with her??? #AAAAAAAAAAAA #i want to explode #hsr leaks

[kitsunabi]

Being on the renheng/renfeng train for me is so weird and even now I’m still not sure how I sit in regards to the lore as it is rn (especially coming from a game like D2 where resurrection without memories of the past life, responsibility for crimes, burying your loved ones since you outlive them, etc is absolutely a thing that’s explored).

Like culturally I don’t believe vidyadhara can sustain itself without the understanding that you are not who you were. They live forever! They’re a finite population! They do not reproduce, if one dies that’s it! But they also have things like hatching rebirth where they become a new person more or less with no memories of their previous identity (with some exceptions).

Their avg lifespan is 700 years but there’s a whole thing with an npc who molts every few months instead bc she suffers from rapid growth. She forgets who she is every time! What do you do with that?

There’s another npc who clocks the same xianzhou woman every lifetime for 4 lifetimes (up to 2800 years if we go by max). Because she never dies she is 100% aware of who he is and just chooses not to tell him until the MC gets involved this time around. Each time he has no idea he’s going after the same person and is intensely jealous of his previous persona. What do you do with that?

We have our disaster couple here where the conflict right now is bc of previous aggressions. Like what do I do with this? I haven’t been this invested in anything in a long while

#i will fight you if you judge crow by his uldren actions Idgaf #honkai star rail #renfeng #renheng #look I’m just praying my fic doesn’t desync from canon when 1.3 comes out pls mhy just this once I worked so hard on it #on the subject of d2 it was so heartbreaking to learn that he was beaten/killed/tortured for who he was pre-resurrection because the ppl #around him could not see him as Not-Uldren and reading about how even Glint would hide so ppl would leave so he could ressurect him again #and the entire Zavala plot line where he outlived his wife and son!!! to age and war!!! like how do you get over that #the worst part is that he didn’t just outlive them he’s outlived generations of his wife’s family and it was wild to realize #iirc the scene where it’s just graves upon graves to get that point across was so tragic #there are 2 wolves inside us: one wants clean slate resurrections the other needs the red string of fate and I hate this #kittybee games

[n0brainjustvibes]

Actually, that reminded me of the other cracky fix-it I came up with. Sarah Livsey gets a broken Shard; instead of conflict drive, it has a conflict resolution drive. However, Sarah/Lisa is even more of a little shit here than in canon, for Mentally Ill Reasons, so once she escapes her parents she sets up as an independent villain(?) aiming to verbally destroy the lives and psyches of every powerful parahuman in the Bay.

(You want to see what driving someone to suicide really looks like? Fine! I'll fucking show you!)

However, "powerful parahumans" means a lot more villains than heroes. Her first target is Bakuda, and it goes something like 0:35 to 1:26 of this:

(except Lisa is genuinely trying to insult Bakuda.)

It turns into one of those [Character] Gives Everyone Therapy fix-its, except Lisa is completely furious that her villainous rampage keeps accidentally making parahumans' lives better. At least until her own mental stability improves, thanks in part to the capes she's accidentally befriended.

And, much as my Lisa has Mentally Ill Motives, this helped me hit on my favourite way to characterise her in humour fics: "It's a beautiful day in Brockton Bay, and you are a horrible Thinker".

#lisa wilbourn #tattletale #bakuda #worm #wormblr #worm spoilers #fanfic ideas #she keeps editing her PHO wiki page from Indie Hero back to Villain #best part is if she gets to Scion she can avoid the entire apocalypse #She's not therapying E88 or. like. Heartbreaker though #just for the record #she is aiding other capes in their humiliating defeat #and yeah she is passively suicidal like canon Taylor at the start. she is not doing too hot :(( #Youtube #Side note why do ppl write Taylor giving everyone therapy with an altpower? Alignment-swapped Jack Slash or Lisa are easier pickings

[mrschwartz]

Interviewer: And lyrically what is Only Ones Who Know about?

Alex: Oh that were just, so... me and me friend John McClure were once in town--this is like, it’s very old that song, I’ve had that probably when we were recording the first album but um... no, in fact, probably a little bit after. I think it must’ve been just when, like, uni term had started back or whatever, and there were like these two--this lass and this lad in town, like on a Sunday night. And they were, like, asking for directions or somewhere to go about or whatever, and I don’t know, I just sorta... they looked like they didn’t quite know each other, almost like they’d been bound together, probably had the room next door to each other in the halls or...

Interviewer: Yeah yeah

Nick: And you’ve been following them

Alex: So I followed them! For six months after that. No, but like, I don’t know, but I got that impression from them and I thought... and then I kinda daydreamed about it and that...

Interviewer: And the results are here in this song

#arctic monkeys #alex turner #nick o'malley #favourite worst nightmare #fwn #only ones who know #audio #* #like bhjvjhvjhvjh i was listening again to the track by track interview alex and nick did for fwn and they got to only ones who know and lol #i’d completely forgot about the actual story behind this song #all this time i’ve thought that it was about like a fleeting relationship he had with some girl but no!! #the actual story is so much more crazy to me nfjnvfjvn #primarily bc he has a million songs about breakus so like what's one more #but since it's not actually about alex himself it paints him as such an inspired fanfic writer jvnjfnfjnjn #like okay he’s used strangers as inspiration before #riot van is about troublemakers he’d observe in sketchy parts of sheffield; same for when the sun goes down #brianstorm is famously about the weird guy they’d met backstage; “mark speaking” is a greeting he’d heard some guy answer the phone with etc #but this is different! it’s such a sad song. he truly created an entire romeo and juliet-esque heartbreaking ballad #about some random uni students who probably weren’t even dating 😭😭😭 #mano como eu queria que existisse uma palavra em inglês pra ''fanfiqueiro'' nada mais consegue descrever ele contando essa história jnvjfnv #''and even if somehow we could have shown you the place you wanted i'm sure you could have made it that bit better on your own'' #alex;;;;; are you saying. ''even if john and i could've given you the right directions to the bar you would've had more fun #running off by yourselves to live some romantic fantasy''???? #this is insane who IS he. what gave him the right to do this ndbshdjmfj

[bo0zey]

Did I miss "back from the war" recreation or is that not happening

OK so i've been meaning to address this for a while because it’s actually something i've been genuinely annoyed/sad/upset about; my original plan to recreate the post was to go to riot fest & have someone take pics of me during MCR live in person (caption wouldve been something like ‘when will mcr--omg they;re Back from the Warfdskns’ lol idk). i ended up 2nd row from the barrier & i was like OMG bc i didn’t expect to get so close & i was like ‘WOW these r gonna b such GR8 PICTURES!!i;m so lucky!!this is gENIUS!’ & so my plan was literally going according to/even better than planned right?? i mean the fact that i was ~a few feet away from the stage n was ~1.5hrs away from seeing mcr LIVE??? my plan was going along SUSPICIOUSLY well..everything was falling into place TOO perfectly...it was almost to good to be true right??? IT WAS. everything went to shit & my plan fell thru during the last band before MCR when my body suddenly fell victim to the effects of being crowd crushed for >7 hours straight; i experienced syncope & was pulled over the barrier & out of the pit by security.

sooooo, you didn’t ‘miss’ anything; the post was supposed to be recreated at the concert, but the universe pulled an uno-reverse on me when it remembered i’m on the universal ‘Do Not Ever Allow to Be Truly Happy’ list lol. i meant to post an update abt my failed plan afterwards, but tbh the actual event in itself made me wanna fr kms, and i felt even guiltier/worse for being unable to fulfill my promise to u all bc i fr planned on recreating it at the concert. 'ok but u were still at the concert after u got pulled out’ ok physically yes but mentally N-Ooo. due to the hypoxia (lack of blood blow/oxygen to the brain) i’d obtained secondary to being crowd crushed PLUS the psychological trauma of being removed against my living breathing dying will from the pit (btw the psychological trauma has nothing to do with being crowd-crushed but im not gonna get into that turmoil rn lol), i was stuck in an altered mental state for the remainder of the concert. i was dissociated for mcr’s entire set until i woke up the next morning & it took ~3-4 days for my body to fully recover from the physical trauma of being crowd crushed.

i still plan on recreating the post eventually, but tbh it’s not rlly my top priority atm bc 1) i still can’t come to terms w/ the fact i lost my 1 n only chance to experience MCR live & 2) imo seeing MCR live was the perfect opportunity to recreate the post & that clearly didn’t work out for me sooo now i have no idea how else i can top that idea :( .

#i have an idea but i’m not sure if it’ll work...imma need mcr 2 pull thru n meet me halfway on this 1 lol #anywyas i h8 talking abt riot fest i feel like every1 h8s me whining abt it too lol #i was so angry and upset with the world and myself. i really tried so hard to stay conscious; #ppl were asking if i was ok & i kept nodding yes because i didn’t want to be pulled out of the pit bc #then i’d lose my spot + my ONLY chance to see MCR live & so up close. #next thing i know i’m being pulled over the barrier by security and WHOOSH into dissociationville i go. #they were too much for my brain to handle so i’d just fall back even more into that weird dissociated state #i honestly would have preferred to not have even attended the concert. like HONESTLY 100% deadass i wish i didnt even go. #like imagine urself in my shoes lol i went from being 2nd row from the stage to like 70000 rows away. #yall dont understand how awful it is to have such a golden opportuntiy to be 1 hr n a few feet away from the band who saved u #to having it all ripped away from u in literally a matter of seconds #if i’d just stayed home my 12y/o little wouldn’t have had to experience the psychological trauma of having everything to having nothing. #my 15/16 year old teen wouldnt have had to re-live the experience of realizing there’s nothing left #in this world to comfort/protect/save her OR her childself #22 year old me realizing i failed them and all the other parts of me. i cant be happy i cant have shit in this world #i couldnt have my mom but at least i had mcr right??? nope lol that got ripped out of my fingertips too #i cant even begin to describe the emotional damage/psychological blow the situation had on me bc like #i cant even put it into words and i know nobody will truly understand/believe me when i say how heartbreaking & detrimental this #situation was for my already fucked up psyche. or they’ll think im exaggerating but its like u dont get it #ive lost so many things and people i spent my entire childhood/adolescence maladaptive daydreaming. #at age 12 mcr became my escapism for ~4yrs straight bc they were the only thing that made me happy #while all the other ppl in the real world in my day to day life were making me wanna kms everyday #like ik it sounds extreme/dramatic but ??? i mean i dont even fully understand my reaction tbh. #i think its just mcr used to be my happy place n then i get to see them live and its just an absolute nightmare #and the fact that i was dissociated from their concert when they used to be the only thing to keep me grounded to this earth??? #truly i wish i didnt even go like i cant even listen to their music anymore without wanting to crawl out of my skin #when the only thing that made u feel alive made u feel deader than ever inside....yeahhhhh not fun!! #its a heartsinking feeling i hate it so much i wish i had a doever #mcr #when will mcr return from the war

[carlyxtalessdo]

abigail's piece of shit brother making her feel so self-conscious of her weight she can't even bring herself to accept a hug out of fear sabrian may feel she's more chubby now,,, i wanna do a murder so bad rn

#i talk a lot <3 #nsws #not sew wicked stepmom #abigail freidkin #the pinching her side..... war flashbacks going through my head fr. #the entire new chapter was absolutely heartbreaking on every way possible but that last part #denying herself affection for fear of being perceived as. a let down. because of her weight.

[6ebe]

whenever I’m in a male dominated sports fandom space and am violently reminded of the fact that the men there do not respect women nor expect women to share their hobbies or exist in their spaces

#it’s so frustrating and upsetting when you commit time and energy to something and you’re just presumed to be an outlier or unimportant #saw a post of a guy saying he was visiting England wirh his wife and wanted to go to a game #and no one responding in the comments seemed to even consider the possibility that his wife could maybe enjoy rugby #I know part of this is just the cisheteronormative framing marriage as something conflictual between two binary opposed genders #but man. it’s fuxking exhausting sometimes feeling so excluded to the point of being invisible #literally saw an acct on the rugby Reddit with a lesbian flag pfp with a clearlt female self avatar as their pfp #and a user responded to them using he/him pronouns #it hits extra hard bc I grew up playing and loving ‘masculine’ sports then went through an entire internalised misogyny / lesbophobia crisis #for most of my adolescence only to rediscover my love for sport when I started uni #not to be hyperbolic but it truly is heartbreaking sometimes #like especially my love for rugby growing up was tainted by misogyny and that’s why I stopped playing and stopped watching so much #to rediscover my love for the sport and still be dealing with this bullshit 10 years later. depressing

[mechanominecraftic]

everytime i watch someone play mcsm i boot up the ole telltale voice extractor and play the Translation Game w nurm, since i doesnt put the lines in order i like figuring out what hes saying to different choices

anyways i found this line and even with it just out of context im hysterically sobbing over it. why would you do this to me.

#on a lighter note if he gets left in the sunshine institute when he returns w ivor he confirms that ivor stinks #mcsm nurm #mcsm #nurm #i know a few of his lines off by heart at this point #episode one is the easiest for me to remember. but bcs the dialogue changes so much between playthrus the futher i go the less i remember #which is super cool !!!! like. mcsm doesnt really have the marked for death probleem a lotta telltales games suffered from. #s2 really makes you feel like the choices you make matter but also doesnt punish you for making them 'wrong'. every path is the right one #like i think nurm is one of my favs bcs it shows how much Effort was put in this game. like he can have entirely different arcs and he has a #super unique and fun personality. #and all this dialogue is written and its still witty and cute and heartbreaking #all for a character /you dont understand/ #i will never understand ppl that treat mcsm as some corporate cash grab when so much love is baked into every part of it

[harrowharkwife]

x

#i can't bring myself to talk about the palestine israel stuff publicly online yet no matter how many times i try #but please rest assured that i am not ignoring any of it. it's weighing on me very heavily and occupying most of my irl conversations #every time i try to talk about it i end up writing a fucking novel length brick of text #if anyone wants to talk about it i am here and open to discussing it via DMs #it has been a difficult and exhausting and disheartening and intensely uncomfortable week to be an anti-Zionist jew online #which i do realize is incredibly western/American/first world problems of me to be saying when people are literally dying #but just. i have a lot of thoughts but for the most part they all boil down to frustration at having my entire faith and culture #equated with zionism at every turn #and it is so distressing to watch chronically online westerners actively cheering on death and war and conflict #and none of the things i want to say will fit in a post or a canva infographic or a tweet or an insta story #just. palestinians deserve to live freely. jews deserve to live safely. #what we're seeing now is the inevitable result of decades of violent genocidal settler colonialism #that doesn't make it justified or any easier to swallow or any less heartbreaking #personal #idk

[sheltershock]

Sashamilla is such a nice ship. I just want to gush about my otp, so sorry if this isn’t organized as neatly as it could be. But thinking about them, their dynamic, and how they’re portrayed just gives me so much hope and makes me feel happy. Like suddenly throughout my day I’ll just break out into a big, goofy smile and that’s just nice. 

Also: warning, this is a long text post. 

I like how we get personally introduced to each of them separately, and that they get to be their own characters first and possibly in a relationship second. In the first game we get to meet Sasha, get a feel for his personality, run experiments, explore his mind, discover his traumas, and then get directed towards Milla. Sasha’s a complete, standalone character with personality, quirks, and a backstory by the end of his level without any mention of romantic relationships. And then we meet Milla. We don’t get as much time with her, but that’s because she shined more in the opening of the game. She’s already established with her job as an international secret agent, we see her character design which is colorful with lots of circular/spiral patterns, and we see that she’s motherly, kind and responsible. And then we enter her mind and get both  an expansion of that and a subversion. She's a bubbly party girl who’s always pumping everyone up, and has probably one of the most tragic backstories in fiction. Although her trauma memory vault is hidden, it is 100% accessible before her second one even if you’re playing the game for the first time. So before you get to her second memory vault you get her personality, a few quirks(overprotectiveness w/ the explanation of why), and her super depressing backstory. She’s a stand-alone character. And only after we have two complete standalone characters do we get to see her second memory vault where we get the implication that they’re both in love with each other.

But both of them have already been built up so well that they got time to be their own characters instead of simply being “X’s love interest.” It prevents this problem that happens in a lot of heterosexual couples in media where often it’ll just be one full character split into two roles. So the couple “completes” each other, because neither character was actually a complete character to begin with. I actually have a bit of a distaste to the idea of “completing each other” in romance, and I heavily dislike how it’s leaked into real life in the form of “your other half.” You are your own person, and absolutely complete as yourself. I like the terminology of “complimenting” instead of “completing,” specifically in the analogy of color theory. For example the colors red and green. You can make an entire painting in just shades of red or just shades of green and no other colors and it’s a complete painting. But if you put red and green together, it looks really nice because they’re complimentary colors. People in romantic relationships should compliment each other, rather than complete them. 

Sasha and Milla absolutely compliment each other as a couple. It helps that they’re clearly apart of the “opposites attract” trope, but the literary term would be a foil. They are so badly and fully themselves that they can’t help but highlight the other person’s qualities. Control vs. Chaos. Monotone vs. Colorful. Flat vs. Expressive. Logical vs. Emotional. But the reason they compliment each other so well is because it isn’t as easy to say that they’re just opposites, because they’re also extremely alike. For example, you can’t say that Sasha is emotionless, cold and uncaring. You just can’t. Milla is absolutely emotional, warm and friendly, but you can’t say that Sasha is the opposite of that. Firstly, because emotional baggage exists in his mind, which would imply, y’know, emotion. He sympathizes with Raz enough to step up to be his mentor, and when he believes Raz has mistaken a “scary, flaming-eyed demon” for a Censor, he doesn’t berate Raz for wasting their time, but just gently encourages that problems often seem larger in our heads, and that it’s alright. And in Rhombus of Ruin, Sasha tries extremely hard to be as comforting as possible to Lili, to the point that he actively tries to imitate Milla with slow speech, a softer tone of voice, and even throwing in a “darling” at the end. 

The same can be applied vice versa, too. Sasha is clearly a smart, intellectual character. But Milla can’t be called stupid. Except for the times where she is literally brainless, she proves herself to be really smart and capable. She can easily put herself in other’s shoes to identify problems, she knows how to read ripples in emotional oceans and trace its source, she’s extremely knowledgeable about children and their development, and in RoR she can rally the Psychonaut team from their emotionally charged, personal tasks to work together to achieve a goal. Milla isn’t stupid. She just has a different version of intelligence. Instead of Sasha’s logical-mathematical intelligence, Milla has really high emotional/interpersonal intelligence. And that’s the beauty of complimentary characters, that lean towards comparing and contrasting. 

Speaking about how Sasha and Milla compliment each other…well, they compliment each other. Literally. Their version of flirting is just them hyping each other up. Which is really cute. Complimenting their work ethic, ideas they come up with, talents and abilities, etc. Never in the games do they really talk about the other’s physical appearance. Which makes sense since they’re both psychic. But it’s refreshing to see a relationship where both people value their personality and talents instead of physical attraction. The famous scene in PN2 where they are both inching close in way that’s so obvious that they’re going to kiss, they’re talking about how fucking talented and good at their jobs they are. 

Since we see that this is how they flirt with each other, you can actually go backwards in the series and see that they’ve been kind of doing it for all three games. In RoR, when Sasha suggests the idea of tracking a constellation, Milla says “oooh~ great idea, Sasha!” Or in the first game when Sasha refers to Milla as “one of the world’s foremost levitators,” which Raz repeats to Milla as “the most powerful levitator the Psychonauts had.” And Milla’s response for her tone to get really soft and go “Sasha said that? Really? I didn’t know he noticed…” Which, uh, they went on multiple missions together and she’s in the air for most of them. I think he noticed. Then Raz goes on to say that he only works with the best teachers and Milla calls him a flirt. But armed with the knowledge from the sequel that they’re literally always talking to each other, and can do so while having a different conversation, I personally like to think that she was referring to both of them as a flirt. 

And that’s another thing, they’re always talking to each other. Which communication, yay! And it also hints that they like each other enough that they always want to be available for conversation. But surprisingly, when this is revealed in PN2, I think it’s the first time a two-way telepathy connection has been brought up. Of course, characters have been projecting their thoughts into Raz’s mind during all three games, but in these scenarios, Raz always responds out loud. You’d think in an organization of psychics, this kind of two-way communication is normal, but it isn’t? When Sasha, Milla and Hollis go on the casino mission, they’re using radios to communicate. Out loud. Radios. This is a stealth mission and they picked a type of communication where you have to vocally express your thoughts? At one point Milla is saying into her earpiece, “I’m approaching the front desk, I’ll distract the clerks.” That’s not something you want to be saying out loud, within earshot of the target you’re going to distract. Of course the argument can be made that this choice was because the interns were coming and they needed to hear what good correspondence sounds like. But there’s got to be a more effective, less life threatening method right? Unless, of course, that two way mental links aren’t very common. 

Projecting yourself into a mind doesn’t seem to be very hard, but manipulating the mental world does. Within all the games, Raz has to play each level and mind by its own rules. The same is probably true in the real world, that each mind is different and has its own vibe and rules. Solutions that worked in previous worlds are viable in new ones. For example, in Hollis’ mind you have to disconnect the ideas of money and risk to destroy the Lady Lucktopus. Bob’s mind seems to work with a similar boss idea, each plant represents a person in his life that has caused pain, and realizing that his view of them determines if they’re a monster. So if Raz really wanted to optimize his therapy speedrun, all he’d have to do is disconnect whatever thoughts Bob has with these people. But that’s not the solution, Bob has to do the disconnect himself. Like Hollis said, the Psychonauts are there to help people fight their own demons. Because it’s almost like trying to go in and manually changing someone’s mind usually fails in some way, because everyone’s mind works differently. 

What I’m trying to say is that psychically linking two people is probably extremely difficult. You probably need to have a good understanding of each other, get on each other’s wavelength, etc. The only other time something like that has happened was with the Meat Circus, which was terrible, and multiple characters said that untangling Raz’s and Oleander’s minds would be difficult. So thinking about how Milla’s and Sasha’s minds are linked in such a way that they can communicate without it going horribly wrong is extremely impressive. Especially with how stated previously that they’re really different from each other. But seeing how they can get on the same wavelength, it again shows how similar they actually are. It seems really symbolic of a healthy relationship. 

I don’t really know what else to necessarily say. They have their own identities, they compliment each other, they have subversive banter, they’re psychically linked and are probably really good at communication. Just watching them being in a relationship is cute. Even if the games don’t make it clear what exactly their relationship is. They love and appreciate each other for being themselves, and that’s just so hopeful and adorable to me. 

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts rhombus of ruin #rhombus of ruin #sasha nein #milla vodello #sashamilla #part analysis essay part headcanon #entirely cute shit #two precious people in love #I’ve just never seen a het couple as good as them #I didn’t even talk about their trauma or how perfect their dynamic is for hurt comfort #like they have to know each other’s baggage right? and they just love each other anyways #they probably know better than most how secretly broken their partner is and they still think they’re amazing because of course they are #they deserve a happy ending together after all the pain and heartbreak and loneliness in their lives

[bassproshopspyramid]

ichabod crane from shipwrecked’s headless: a sleepy hollow story is so autistic coded

#a part of me was thinking about this the entire time i watched it #i’m back on my headless agenda. its SUCH a good show #ichabod crane #headless #headless: a sleepy hollow story #shipwrecked #shipwrecked comedy #actually autistic #autistic #autism #as a certified and peer-reviewed autism haver: i was like Oh Thats Me #the exact same light was going off in my brain when quinni in heartbreak high was onscreen and she is canonically autistic (her actress too) #fuck i gotta finish that show (hbh not headless. i have finished headless! i adore headless!) #if u read this all and you havent watched headless you gotta do that now

[vaugarde]

well i finished renegade. i sure was renegading all over the place

#it was alriiiight.... but man i hate to say it but i think i have more complaints than praises #i DID like florins new execution route and i liked talons deal. the entire end of night spell deal was horrifying and i loved it #i love that genre of horror like ''you die twice when you get forgotten after death'' #so seeing it play out here was horrifying in a good way. talon and amber's deaths were both so fucking good like goddamn #they were just as heartbreaking as they needed to be. especially ambers like when you go talk to tesla after #but. man i dont think meta games are for me cause ngl i was sorta just like ''aight.'' to most of the meta here #like that was the one thing about talon i didnt care for. i thought ''everyone i know and love is going to die and god is screaming at me'' #was a fine enough motivation to go crazy and become a rift. i thought it was compelling and tragic and a good thing to do #with a new character. but then he started going ''in older versions of the game i wasnt even there i was just a prop for the backstory'' #and thats sorta when i started tuning out. like i cant explain why but i feel it made the scene more... cheap? #i think just cause personally ive seen that motivation a lot in meta games before and its gotten old to me #tbh the entire meta angle is whats really dragging this down to me. dont get me wrong i love eizen and his scenes #but i dont see why we have to canonize the game's update cycles as like a critical part of the world #and then theres m2 who i have mixed feelings on. cause i love the character type of ''ive been through so much shit idc anymore'' #and they end up being kinda goofy and saying inappropriate/out of pocket things while trying not to discuss The Horrors #ive written more than one of those types of characters. but with m2 its like she doesnt know how to turn that off #like spacea and tiempa's deaths being a tera raid parody where they joke about being in a crashing plane and get bashed by extra melias #it just felt like. unfitting. (also a nitpick but goddamn that scene made my head hurt with how much the screen wobbled) #like really? this is the sendoff they get in the fucked up and evil route? and idk i just dont think m2 was all that funny. #she was more grating than anything tbh. and i just feel like her existence and the bad timeline is just Too Much #like there were already so many plotlines and arcs and do we Really need a new-ish character right before the climax #idk. im hoping v14 is more cohesive in this department #for now im taking a much needed break from this game lol

[saltpepperbeard]

I have to wonder how many times Edward must have been lead on and/or emotionally manipulated to make him give up at the pier. He didn’t try to look for Stede in the woods. He didn’t seem fearful that Stede could have potentially been hurt. He just almost seemed to accept that he had been abandoned, again. That his perfect little dynamic with the perfect and bizarre little man had all been too good to be true, again.

He just sat out there all night, because he knew. He was waiting for that other shoe to drop just as it always did. 

So, how many times must he have been robbed of happiness?

#OFMD #Edward Teach #Revenge Rambles #It kills me man #It absolutely KILLS me #Because he just sort of accepted his fate and that's heartbreaking every time I think about it #He must have sat out there for hours just KNOWING #All the while a little part of him was screaming for it to not be true #That there's no WAY it could be happening again #That there is no possible WAY Stede would follow that pattern #ALSO SOBBING AT THEM ACCIDENTALLY TRIGGERING EACH OTHER'S PAST TRAUMA #ACCIDENTALLY STRIKING RIGHT WHERE IT HURTS #Because Stede left drowning in guilt and thinking he had ruined the love of his life #Thinking he had ruined yet ANOTHER beautiful thing #As everyone had always told him for his entire life #And Ed left thinking Stede was just like the rest #That he only liked him for Blackbeard #And that he dipped like the rest when it became too much #LIKE #L I K E #GOD #HEY DAVID I'M GOING TO NEED YOU TO UHHHHHHH #ABSOLUTELY NOT DO THIS TO ED ANY MORE K THANK YOU SO MUCH HSDKLS </3 #I genuinely hurt for him so so bad #Both of them of course #But Godddd EDWARD #He deserves nice things #Beautiful soft amazing things #I want him to be secure in his happiness #For him to know that he WON'T lose it