One of my favourite things about Nerdy Prudes Must Die is that it never goes in the direction you'd expect. It's constantly throwing you for a loop and it knows that and revels in it.
It's a high school play. It has the jock and the nerds and the cool kids and the weird prudy one. Romantic relationships establish themselves quickly, but societal forces get in the way. So you think okay, it's gonna be about how they overcome society's judgement and teach everyone to love who you want to love and form unusual couples and live happily ever after, right?
WRONG. Max just straight up dies. Really early on. And Grace, the girl who was into him, is weirdly on board with just hiding the evidence and pretending it never happened. So they hide the body and he's just gone now. So you think, okay, the rest of the play is going to be about how everyone grieves for Max because even though he was a pain, they still miss him, right?
WRONG. Life is great without Max. Everything is going eerily well. And then? Max comes back as a murderous ghost. And you're like oh okay. This is the plot now. We went from teen romance to having to kill this unkillable killing machine who makes lame one liners and never learned from his actions cos he's basically 18 and hormonal forever now.
Everyone talks about Grace's slow decent into madness, and I love it too, but can we talk about Stephanie's arc really quick? She reminds me a bit of Paul from TGWDLM in that neither of them wanted to be the hero, they just wanted an easy life, but they adapt weirdly well to this strange apocalyptic plot to save the world from theatrical harm. She knows that this isn't how the story should've gone, but she's here now and she's just gonna do what she's got to do to save everyone.
Even if that includes summoning weird colourful eldritch beings to help them.
This play is fucking wild from start to finish, y'all.
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i love how ppl will use the argument "why are you still hating on the show? it's been years, just get over it".
except i think many of us took a lot of time to realize the glaring problems within spop. it took me months to "wake up", and i'm sure others who follow my blog or the spop crit tag must have taken even more time to change their minds.
i mean, isn't that a natural process? at the time you watch a piece of media, you might love it. but then the hype dies down and when you revisit it, it sucks. take avengers: endgame for example. i remember a lot of ppl praising the film when it first released, but nowadays i rarely see any positivity online, i mainly see fans (or ex-fans) being disappointed and angry that the mcu's quality dropped significantly. besides endgame just being a trainwreck of plot holes that killed ppl's favorite characters.
like hell, sometimes you revisit your favorite childhood cartoon and you realize there are so many wrong things with it that you never realized before. you know what that's called? growth. i'm pretty sure we've all felt this way about any piece of media. and it's so funny that diehard fans will shame us for criticizing it, as if all of us have been hating on the media since it released.
(some spop crits have always known the show had issues, but not everyone has. including me. and that's more common than spop stans think.)
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Any tips for making a legacy, for lack of a better term, weirder? I've worked pretty much every occult possible into the family tree but I feel like I get too focused on just maintaining needs and normal daily family life for them, especially since I prefer to keep everyone more or less happy (i.e. no tragic early deaths). The most exciting things I've really done are turn one sim into a Global Superstar and marry off another one to the Grim Reaper, and sometimes I pause aging for a bit to spend more time on certain plots. Your legacy is obviously pretty wild so I wondered how you go about coming up with ideas like Michael Bublé Christmas Getaways and Charlie's Angels Spy Squads haha
This is a great question!!
Let me see if I can dig up a good enough answer for it 😂
And I'll include pictures to break up the massive wall of text.
The reason Gens 1-3 are barely mentioned on here is because in reality there wasn't really anything interesting that happened in them. I wanted to hide away from the stress of a worldwide pandemic and watch my sims garden for a while. No real rules, just something to relax.
Gen 4 was a slight departure since I was getting a little tired of my sims doing the same thing over and over, and I decided to do the opposite and move them to a penthouse in the city as a refreshing change.
And as I started playing with more gameplay mods that added extra moodlets- the chance of hysterical death rose exponentially. My Gen 4 heir died when my Gen 5 heir, Hinoki was just a kid. So I decided to keep him around as a ghost while my Gen 3 heir worked on grinding out the ingredients for Ambrosia and Reed (Gen 4) continued to follow his political aspirations to become the first Ghost President of Simerica.
And this is where we find the nexus point of weird. And here's the biggest (not so secret) secret to it. The beginning of Gen 5 is when I started actually sharing my gameplay.
Not publicly, but with a small group of friends and simmers on a discord, like I've mentioned before here. Suddenly I wasn't just playing for myself, I was very slowly starting to play to make my friends laugh- to see how they reacted whenever I would leave little updates. And I found I really enjoyed that!
I started contriving little scenarios- what if Hinoki slept with her husband's band mate and had a secret child. And then someone would pop in and say she might have to run away for a while to Tartosa to have a baby. This independent toddler trait gives baby Val such a stink face- oh you should put him in a tiny leopard print robe to match. And it became this back and forth of - you know what would be funny?
I was started going off the rule from my friend @anotherplumbob that my first born would be the heir, so i had the fun task of figuring out how to get from point A to point B with Valerian, and what the hell point B even looked like.
We knew he was evil- he killed his dad as a toddler, and was just a full creep through his entire childhood- and so I started asking, what story do I want to tell my friends? I love romcoms, I love spy movies- what would be fun for me?
We're all influenced by our environments, the art, media, and music we consume, and that's all directly reflected into what we decide to put back out into the world.
And through exploring those characters, through playing the game, through my friends throwing the weirdest suggestions at me - what if he made a robot copy of his childhood Nanny? Okay, what mods can I use to reflect that in my gameplay? - What if he 3D printed a baby? - What if the Volcano gave them another baby? (this one is never happening shooby) - The whole thing spiraled out of control 😂
SO TDLR- How can you make your legacy weirder?
Find a community or even a couple trusted friends to bounce ideas off of. The amount of time I've spent conniving and scheming with @doctorsimcraft should honestly be studied. Write for yourself and like the 4 people you care most about. Enthusiasm is infectious.
Find some good gameplay mods to add color to your gameplay- More Personality Please is an absolute game changer. Wicked Whims and Lumpinou's RPO are also fantastic additions if that's your style. Hopefully the game throws you some fun curveballs. Adversity and conflict breed interesting story - or something like that.
Think about the types of stories that you would be excited to tell- really lean into your favorite tropes and themes. It's not a checklist, it's just like - I really love campy spies, I really love enemies to lovers - what do I do in game to make this happen. Find your story and let drive your gameplay- not the other way around. Or find a good balance and see what happens.
And to be honest I've very much lost that balance and fallen into a total rut of letting the story overtake the gameplay. So whenever I get too overwhelmed by my stupid large ambitions I just sit down and play and see where the game takes me.
I hope I can get back to not posing every single scene out for Gen 7 but I also love making poses, and breaking my game in every way to be able to tell the stories I want to!
It's why I'm so comically slow now. But I guess that just means we get to spend more time getting to know our characters, which I do genuinely enjoy.
I don't know if that was helpful or incredibly unhelpful- but it's what I got. Good luck! And above all have fun- in whatever shape that may take. (Hopefully it's a weird one)
xo, Anne
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It’s Anon 🔴☘️ again and I’d like to explain myself. I sent that ask while heavily sleep deprived so it was a mess. Heck I reread it yesterday morning and got confused. The original comment was supposed to be something like “Everyone likes Lamb!Adam but what about a plant or gardener Adam instead? He could accidentally make Eden 2.0 in Hell while Yandere!Lucifer plots to get 3/3. Sera would lose her mind.” That’s it! I have no idea why my brain added part of a 3AM crazy theory about Adam’s species, sin and the Tree of Life… Let me try again since I caused some confusion.
tldr; Adam isn’t human because he doesn’t have free will. In order to be reborn into Heaven or Hell you have to be human. In order to keep him alive in the show I found a work around using dirt. He’s now friends with Hell because of said dirt.
Here’s my Redemption Arc about dirt: The original Adam is made from clay that turns into flesh and blood. I’m assuming that’s part of HH!Adam’s origin story until Vivzie tells us otherwise. Now to me Adam sounds like a fairly advanced clay golem. In some games and literature, golems can repair themselves using the same kind of material that they’re made of. Instead of conventional healing they add what’s been subtracted. This doesn’t have to be a conscious decision and can just happen i.e a “passive ability.” Like breathing for humans.
SO! Adam either dies or is close to death after Nifty stabs him but eats dirt on accident, which turns into flesh, and he lives lol. He’d be stuck in Hell since he’s made partially out of Hell itself now. He can’t be reborn because he can’t technically sin/has no free will. Lucky guy will keep his original physical body. He’s still mostly made out of Eden.
Unfortunately no Eren Yeager epic bs like Adam’s spirit living in everyone, just Hell probably being semi sentient and fully aware that Adam has become an extention of itself. He’s become Hell’s Green Man aka Disney Princess! He doesn’t want Heaven anymore. He’s never alone now since Hell’s in his head and under his skin he’ll never be abandoned again
I can’t say anything else or else it’d be an essay. No joke. (ngl I’m still sleep deprived)
- 🔴☘️ Anon
OOOOHHHH OKAY! That does help a lot, actually! Okay okay, yeah that makes sense to me now!
The idea of Adam being like a golem is djdjfznfjsf kinda awesome ngl. That would be a cool thing to happen to him because now he is made of, as I understand it, two different kinds of dirt. Would this make him have some sort of double nature? I imagine it would, now he has two "wills" fighting against each other inside him, and I'd imagine that would cause a lot of conflict. Now he has a connections to demons that nobody can deny. I'm guessing that would make him have some existential crises along the way lmao.
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Author’s Note.
Hello. My name is Yeet. I am the Mod behind Glitch! Barnaby and Dogfish! Barnaby.
As of the time I am writing this, Glitch, and the rest of the Comfort Trio (Lucille Lovejoy and Wanderer! Wally), will be undergoing a reboot/rewrite.
The reason for this is that, to put it simply, we (the Mods behind the askblog) never set out our boundaries ahead of time.
When the Comfort Trio askblog was first made on October 12th, 2023, we never made a pinned post. We never stated what our boundaries were, because we didn’t think we needed to, at least not at that time.
As you can assume, that was a mistake.
Originally, the askblog was just suppose to center around the three characters my friends and I had made. But, when others started roleplaying with us, specifically with Glitch, I got distracted.
I will admit, I am the main one at fault here. I got so excited by the idea of roleplaying with others, that I was blind to the original plot my friends and I had set out.
The askblog was never suppose to be about text roleplays.
It was suppose to showcase art and comics that my friends and I would make, to answer questions and further the plot of the story.
But others started roleplaying with text, and the dopamine hits of that were addicting to me.
It was like a drug.
I messed things up by including others, by not setting out the boundaries that we needed.
Glitch was never suppose to have a brotherly dynamic. He was never meant to have a found family, a robot mom that he abandons, he was never suppose to have any of that.
And Dogfish was never meant to get married. He was never meant to find love, adopt kids, none of that.
It’s too late for Dogfish to get rebooted. Too late to push him back into his original form.
You guys can keep him. You already keep him. His story can never be rewritten now.
But my friends and I AT LEAST want to keep the Comfort Trio. We want to AT LEAST rewrite that.
To make a long story short: the stories of Glitch and Dogfish end here.
Dogfish ends with a happy marriage and three kids.
And Glitch is gonna be revived with his original intention.
One dies like a whale, and the other is revived like a phoenix.
Please do not yell at me or my friends about this. Do not try to convince us to just keep it as it is.
Because it won’t work.
I spent so much time and energy trying to please everyone with quick text-based roleplays, even if it wasn’t my original intention for the story, even if it was convoluted and confusing, even if I had to give and give and give up everything I had work so hard to keep.
My friends and I are changing that now. I will not focus so much of pleasing every little person.
You’ll keep one. But I’m taking the other with me.
Thank you for reading.
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how was playing hsr? was there anything that you liked in the game and the story?
ITS BEEN AMAZING AS EXPECTED!!!!!!!!! i actually havent played genshin in a while since starting it, i have no motivation to do the filler event while a perfectly good star rail is sitting there waiting to be played :')
but for mechanics, i love they have auto battle so you dont have to nessecarily sit there and invest in every little battle you gotta do....and i love that the resin (resin??) system is a lot more forgiving with a higher cap, lower cost, and allow for overflow...thats nice...i also love that the mc and starter units are very useful. im so emotionally attatched to the star rail crew so im glad they never have to leave my team !!!!
storywise im LOVING IT SO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i started playing it at the beginning of spring break 2 weeks ago and im almost all caught up!!! i went through belabog and penacony and now im just doing those leftover intermission main quests which im only now realizing i shouldve done before going to penacony LMAO
and of course.....danmarch....im so soft for them......and also i love sampo i cant wait to see what they do with him
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Can't sleep brain too full of death
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Started the very arduous process of getting caught up on Honkai Impact 3rd lore and Cecilia deserved so much better
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Literally just put insane!Kirby but I wouldn't say he is insane. Delusional maybe?
This is an AU!! Will post it in ao3 if I find the time as a one-shot. This was drawn in the midst of me writing a report (as seen from the numbers at the edge). Yes hello, i know i suck at character designs-
(rambles of au will be in tags. Not going to spoil as it'll be in the one-shot itself. Just a premise)
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Hi! I’ve been dying to know, how would Keith react/cope with Lotor dying in a similar fashion as in the show (quintessence poisoning after a battle with Voltron) if he was in love/falling in love with him? Also, how would the paladins respond to heartbroken Keith? I need my angst. Btw, thank u so much for continuing to write Little Blade, I love it so much!!!
I’m going to go with: horribly.
As we saw with Shiro’s disappearance in canon, Keith......doesn’t deal well with loss. In part, because he has so few people he cares for to begin with, but more so because I imagine that his history of losing those closest to him—his mother so shortly after he was born, his father (likely his only known living relative) when he was perhaps nine, and Shiro twice over with both Kerberos and the s02 finale—has ABSOLUTELY left him with some severe abandonment issues,,, not to mention he spent more than half his life in the foster system, seemingly without forming a single significant bond until Shiro.
So if Lotor were to die like,,,, that, Keith’s first thought would be to blame himself; could he have turned Lotor away from that path before he was too far gone? Could he have saved him from such a fate, even after that point? Let us not forget that even in canon—even when they’d barely interacted—it’s Keith who in that final battle says “Let’s grab Lotor and get out of here.” with the only member of team voltron more insistent than him being Allura (with whom Lotor was literally romantically involved). So if Keith himself had spent time with Lotor, grown fond of him, fallen in love with him... at best, I think he’d never forgive himself.
At worst, I don’t think he would have left the quintessence field at all.
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am i going to make enemies today or am i going to keep a lid on how much i hate charles vane (bs)
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me when season five airs and The Big Reveals are mike's sexuality and will's love for mike bc mike has always known he's loved will but he hasn't always been comfortable with his sexuality and will has always known what he is but he didn't always know that what he felt for mike was that kind of love until it was already too late and thus the source of his pain has been jealousy + unrequited love
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ff7 rebirth really embraced the whole "okay this horrible event in the story will always happen no matter what but what if this time is different" that is inherently part of a remake
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until proven otherwise, i am assuming gortash speedran mephistopheles' lair with durge. and also. their funny little magician augusta
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bro: hey you wanna finish watching the last 8 episodes of stone ocean
me: yeah sure
*4 hours later*
me: *is irreparably changed*
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They packed so much Severely Damaged Man Who Hides Behind His Cynicism into Alan Shore oh my gd
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