#tvtropes liveblog

[aparticularbandit]

me: where else do i know clair de lune from

me, checking the wikipedia page: oh yeah ocean's eleven that's right

also me: wait what do you mean it's going to come back as a recurring theme for kaede throughout the game

#musings #bandit liveblogs #bandit liveblogs danganronpa #I WAS JUST SURPRISED IT WAS EVEN MENTIONED ON THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE #LIKE WIKIPEDIA ACTUALLY HAS THE DRV3 BIT MENTIONED UNDER ARRANGEMENTS #LIKE WOW #but also wow wikipedia spoilers much! #(to be fair wikipedia is horrible about accidentally spoiling things #which is why i check summaries of stuff on tvtropes more often instead)

[diabeticgirl4]

Cinderbrush is so good hhhhhh

Why is there next to no info on it hhhhhh

#ignore me #maddie liveblogs critical role #technically the one-shot cinderbrush #I haven't checked tvtropes yet but the wiki is so sparse!! #most of the non-cr one-shots I've been kinda eh on #(srsly tho everybody loved undeadwood but I couldn't make it past the first ep it bored me too much) #but cinderbrush! weird kids! high school drama! running from and/or seducing the cops? #two of the kids dads had an affair w each other???? #I still have a half hour left but I'm enjoying this way too much

[tuiyla]

Okay, okay, There Are Worse Things I Could Do.

I’d argue this is the best song of the episode not just on terms of vocals but in terms of what it does for the story. Like A Boy Like That in season 3′s West Side Story this has an interesting meta layer of both the musical and the Glee’s story. And unlike the other “in-universe it’s a Santana solo but we’ll have it as a trio”, Constant Craving, this one actually does work really well as a trio.

TvTropes’ Glee page is kinda garbage, like, utter garbage in some parts but I really like what they say about this song, which is:

The best part is that it manages to be an "I Am" Song for Santana, a Villain Song for Cassandra and an "I Want" Song for Unique.

Even the way the distribute the lines is excellent to fit these three separate characters and their stories. And Naya Rivera, once again, doing her damn best to act out emotion through song at the very end there. Excellent piece.

Sure, bringing in Cassie is a weird choice but I’ll take this over Shelby singing Constant Craving because she’s fucking Puck any day, and at least this serves as a villain song unlike it did for Shelby.

#glee liveblog #there are worse things i could do #the glee tvtropes page is Bad but this thought stuck with me #maybe i should do a proper analysis of this gcv #4x06 liveblog #santana lopez #unique adams #cassandra july #santanalysis

[hellsiteliveblogs]

“…and naturally, it's difficult to play head games against dirt and grass.”

#liveblog #liveblogging #tvtropes

[charlezarrd]

First Impressions: Sanitarium (1998)

Ok, i wanted to do this instead of liveblogging it, or waiting til i’m done.

This is gonna be on the style of my more idiotic rambly posts, like the one about Devil May Cry, or the one about Nyanners, so I’m putting it under the cut so nobody has to scroll forever through it.

Sanitarium is a point-&-click style horror game from 1998. You’re thrown directly into the action with only the help of a short cutscene showing a car crash to show you what’s going on.

Your dude then wakes up in a poorly-kept and falling apart insane asylum, with bandages on his head. He doesn’t know who he is, how he got there, or anything prior to this moment. He does seem to have a relatively level head on his shoulders, though. Especially in contrast to the… other patients. One of whom pulls off his pants and jumps to his death when you approach him.

For anyone familiar with this game, I have gotten as far as chapter 2, and opened the school building.

This game is… Fucking weird. It’s completely disjointed, and bizarre. There’s no sense of internal logic. Or. There is, but it’s entirely localized to each conversation you have, each room you go in. It’s like Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, but wrong. At the same time, there… Are a few through-threads. Thematically at least. So far, i’m seeing Religion, Stained Glass, and… Pumpkins?

At the same time! I know how stories work, i’ve spent a fair amount of time on TVTropes. I would consider this my field of expertise if nothing else. I can tell when a story is poorly put together. I like to think I have a good instinct for that.

And so far? None of my trope senses are going off. Even with the patients, nothing raised any alarm bells. The other patients are delusional, sure, but none of them are harmful or threatening. (Which is refreshing given that mental health is a serious topic, and having played Outlast, where it was just like “oh god crazy people how scary!”, i was a little apprehensive about this game too.)

So far, the typical “crazy person” beats are… Weirdly absent. Nobody’s mentioned Aliens or Conspiracy theories. So I think… Maybe this is all somehow relevant.

On another note, the art style and voice acting lends itself to being weird to. Granted, this game’s from 1998, so neither are going to be amazing, for a 2.5d-sometimes-3d, fully voice acted point-&-click game. But what strikes me is not… That it’s bad, neccisarily. Well, ok, the voice acting is bad, don’t get me wrong. But it’s not so bad as to be bothersome and more just… Feels off.

In short. This is gonna be interesting, one way or another.

#Charle Plays #Liveblogging #First Impressions #Sanitarium

[ffxiiiapologist]

Have been on a Yu-gi-oh nostalgia trip lately like reading the tvtropes and looking up playthroughs of some of the games I used to have as a kid and overall it’s been enjoyable. The means available to me mean I can only watch the dub of the anime which like has its ups and downs, and I should double-check if the official site has the later seasons of GX. I’ll try not to be too spammy with posts about it but it’s also the type of series that lends itself well to liveblogging so whom knows. I guess also consider this the obligatory “Oh my god it’s so unnatural seeing him summon Blue-Eyes without Tributes” post

#ygo #analects

[sternbilder]

i just finished this game and i'm a changed person,

#remember that post that's like nier (2010): this world is cruel because the diversity of human experience leads to misunderstanding and #violence as we all fight to protect the ones we love #well nier (2021) went and hammered in one more time that this world may be hell and full of violence and cruelty it's also ultimately worth #living in bc it's the one that has those people we love in the first place and god. #i'm gonna fucking perish. thanks yoko taro for my life. #cam thoughts #liveblog: nier replicant #anyway gotta eat something and then go binge read the tvtropes page

[bnhayyy]

*stares directly into the camera*

if this dude turns out to have an evil twin who is named zolo, i’m gonna scream

#op liveblog #and yes i do know that sanji actually does have three evil twins #i accidentally thoroughly spoiled that arc for myself while on tvtropes #to jon's absolute fury #but that's like the only one #W E L L i have discovered that #when i thought there was a cannibal mermaid arc #based off of vague memories of my brother rambling at me about OP #I may have been thinking about Dressrosa #and mixing it up with something else entirely #but that's a whole other matter

[autumnblogs]

Day 1: A Young Man Stands In His Bedroom

I don't expect Day 1 to be too eventful, but I'm also pretty wordy.

https://homestuck.com/story/3

Homestuck has this sort of weird relationship with the idea of "Started just now, but always was that way" that I think probably is pretty important to the way it tackles cultural narratives overall. Growing up, cultural narratives have a huge effect on our day to day lives, but we're not really cognizant of them until they are right up in our faces. That's my thesis, by the way, or at least one of them. Homestuck is a story about stories. That's not the only thing that Homestuck is about, and it might not even be the most important thing it's about, but that is one of the things that it's about.

Or maybe I'm full of horseshit. Wouldn't be the first time. More after the break.

https://homestuck.com/story/4

I like Homestuck’s character intros. They’re cute. Instead of actually characterizing these characters much, they have a pretty strong tendency to sort of create the background radiation of the comic. Like, I don’t think that John and Karkat ever bully each other about the fact that they’re mutually bad at coding, which would be hilarious, but there are loads of weird programming gags in Homestuck that I think are a part of the universe because John is bad at programming as much as they’re there because Andrew was into Comp Sci at this time.

https://homestuck.com/story/6

The first of our funky gaming abstractions. Homestuck is a story about stories, and the kind of story that it’s often about (when it’s not about highly abstract cultural narratives) is the video game. Especially the point and click adventure game.

There are a lot of weird things about Homestuck’s story and themes only because it engages with video games the way it does. I’ll come back to that. As long as I’m writing, this, I might as well take a minute to say that I think this whole sequence of screwing around with puzzling and slightly irritating gaming abstractions loses a lot of people on an archival read. It lost me a couple of times before I was able to get past it and lose the next eight years of my life to Andrew Hussie. Nowadays though, there’s something endearing about it. I like watching John scramble around.

https://homestuck.com/story/12

I’ll never get tired of Dad Egbert. Is he the Platonic Ideal of Dadliness? Maybe. Dadliness, and more generally, Manliness, is a lens we can look at a lot of John’s character arc through. His room, as we’ll see in a few panels, is full of Manly dudes, and I think he cares a lot about being a manly guy - a romantic lead, a badass, maybe some day even a Dad himself. Maybe.

https://homestuck.com/story/16

This one is a new train of thought for me.

Back when this was written, I gather the comic was still being written pretty much entirely off of prompts, and I think it’s probably just part of Andrew’s playfully antagonistic writing style, at least in a Doylist sense. I wonder how much, though, retroactively, we can read the narrative’s general aggression toward John as being his own self-criticism? Sometimes the Narrative in Homestuck is Andrew Riffing. Sometimes it’s a character’s own internal monologue. Often, I think it’s probably both.

 Maybe I’ll keep a tally of how often it happens.

https://homestuck.com/story/26

Our first sign of Dave. I think it’s funny how people glom onto some things and not others. Apple Juice has become practically Dave’s Trademark Favorite Food if you look at some peoples’ perception of the character. I don’t think people think nearly as much about how much of a surly jackass John is to his pals in early acts. He’s a little mean. Is it early installment weirdness? It certainly adds character to him.

:(

Poor Dave. Maybe I’m reading too much into this. I probably am.

https://homestuck.com/story/42

These don’t really exist any more. GameBro is one of those things about Homestuck (like John remarking on Black Presidents) that really makes it a period piece. It is, as another commentator put it, aggressively contemporary. I remember drooling over gaming magazines when they were still in print but never really buying any due to a lack of allowance funds. My friends and I shared a moment of silence when Nintendo Power went out of print.

https://homestuck.com/story/63

Rose appears. This is a character I’ve got a love hate relationship. I think out of everyone in the comic, Rose is the one I’m the most like. We’ll come back to her later. Not a lot to say here except “A Weakness for Insufferable Pricks” is a collection of syllables I’ve always enjoyed. And that Rose knows her friend’s quirks well.

https://homestuck.com/story/78

The narration is, once again, weirdly aggressive to John. (Also the Peanut Gallery thing is a cunning bit of wordplay.)

https://homestuck.com/story/82

I like this page. It’s weird and eerie. If anybody has a good take on what it means, I’m all ears. (The other houses in John’s neighborhood have always made me wonder things like, what is John’s neighborhood like? Does he have any other friends? Any neighbors who are important to him? It never comes up, so I think the answer is probably no. What about School? Does he go? He never mentions any school chums. John is a pretty lonely kid.)

https://homestuck.com/story/90

Teenagers are little shits. I certainly was one, although my general shittiness didn’t flower until I was probably between 16 and 18 years old. I was at least well behaved before that. Anyway, I think your relationship with your parents can be adversarial at the best of times when you’re John’s age. That’s always been my interpretation of Strifes, but maybe there’s more to it. John’s is pretty mild. Some of the later ones, less so.

https://homestuck.com/story/103

The Narrative gets weirdly aggressive toward John again.

https://homestuck.com/story/109

Maybe I should watch some of these movies at some point so I can be in on the joke. I don’t think I’ve watched any of John’s favorite movies, actually.

https://homestuck.com/story/132

John and Rabbits are related to John in at least two ways - magicians pull rabbits out of hats, Nic Cage puts bunnies back into boxes. John’s a bit flighty like a rabbit too. Like the legendary lapine hero Elahraira, one of John’s main strategies as the Heir of Breath is avoidance - he runs away. There’s kind of a basic tension between that and the fact that, as a self-styled manly dude, John is also, at times, pretty confrontational.

https://homestuck.com/story/153

I’ve always had an interest in like, the specific way Homestuck characters talk - getting a feel for what words they use, what words they would probably never use. Rose goes for a plethora of multisyllabic words, and then occasionally peppers her pesterlogs with Buffy Speak and profanity.

https://homestuck.com/story/154

I think they’re elegant too, Rose.

https://homestuck.com/story/171

Of all the kids, Rose uses fuck more than any other profanity. Karkat uses it more than Rose does, but a higher percentage of Rose’s curse words are fuck compared to all the curse words she uses. Just a fun fact.

It’s perhaps no surprise that Rose is the only main character to definitively end up in a stable romantic relationship by the end of the main comic. Girl has fornication on her mind.

As long as I’m on the subject of romance and fornication, I’ve been looking for an opportunity to bring up the other theme I’m going to riff on in my exploration of Homestuck a lot - Reproduction. Shipping is a bit part of the Homestuck fandom, and not for no reason - all these kids have finding a mate on their mind, and the idea of each other as potential romantic partners is one of the very first things anybody brings up - it’s the first thing Dave talks about in his very second conversation with John.

:)

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy pretty much any time John and Rose talk to each other? I am not a Grimdorks shipper, but I’ve always been of the opinion that John and Rose are closer with each other than they are with their other respective relationships. Besties.

https://homestuck.com/story/199

More narrative aggression for John. 

https://homestuck.com/story/217

It is a matter of critical importance to me that Rose’s Room is messy and her bed is unmade. We learn quite a bit about the aesthetics Rose is going to bring to the story here, but my favorite is that Rose’s room is a fucking disaster.

Anyway, I think that’s about all from me tonight. I’m about an hour out from the end of my shift. I’m largely going to be doing these while I work, since I’ll be at my computer anyway, waiting for jobs to come my way. 

This is Cam signing off, alive, and not alone.

#homestuck #liveblogging #commentary #giocities #tvtropes #personal stuff

[daisyachain]

The joke is about Reuenthal and Mittermeyer but the ones who actually are married, in-text, are Poplan and Konev

#and konev doesn’t have a section in tvtropes and we all know what that means #kelsey liveblogs logh

[feralcharlie]

being a first time watcher and trying not to get attached to chardee because i know what happens in s13 :///

#having your spoilers off while looking at the tvtropes page comes at a price #they're so cute esp in the ep im watching rn #but like....i cant #whyyyyyy :/ #iasip #liveblog #anti chardee #(not really just to be safe ig) #mine: text

[aparticularbandit]

You know when you start building a character in your head based on very little time you've spent with them but mostly reading other people's stuff and going through tvtropes and looking through wikis. And you start having a picture of them and how maybe you'd write them but you still aren't there yet because you feel like you actually need the lived in game/show/book time with them first. And at this point it's just to check and see if your theories and characterizations are sound?

....

This is me with Junko right now.

#musings #bandit #this isn't even liveblogging #this is i went through just the general tropes for her on tvtropes yesterday and there's something they said repeatedly— #actually it's a couple of things #that just !!! WAIT and now my brain's just 🤔 over them #and i feel like they're quotes #and i'm just #i want to get to when they actually show up in canon so i can see the context! #but i'm also just #having very similar 'junko baby no. that's not. /no/' like i did with eve and just #h e l p #-sighs- #BRAIN JUNKO AND EVE ARE NOT REMOTELY THE SAME STAHP

[diabeticgirl4]

Someone apparently made a gif of Liam during the episode when he later realized percy and vex were uh. Together. And it is the most relatable thing I've ever seen.

#ignore me #maddie liveblogs critical role #it's too big tumblr won't let me link it wehhhhhh #I found it via tvtropes but it's a reddit link? so idk if anyone's posted it here #if it is pls someone link me to it I need it on my blog #but the way he just. looks at laura. looks at taliesin. back and forth. again. makes an ew face. MOOD.

[jalopeura]

ok i finished blue lions route and dont know if i can try the other routes bc i dont wanna see my boy dimitri die

#ill check back when the 'more story content' dlc drops probably #fe3h lb #it's not a liveblog if there's no liveblog tag #gonna go read some happy funtime fanfic now or something #actually im reading the tvtropes page rn and its cool how different the three houses plotlines seem to be props to the devs #and well done me for instinctually picking the one undoubtedly most suited for my personal tastes #by 'instinctually' i ean 'oh this house leader is a blond boy with blue eyes that means i love him'

[princessparadoxical]

Also y’all should know that the husband and I finally finished Parks and Rec and honestly that’s the most loved and respected and cherished that a series finale has ever made me feel.

#hannah liveblogs her life #I've been sitting in stunned silence for a while now #but also I'm about to tvtrope the fuck out of it

[electricbluebutterflies]

Love when people get my babes Wrong.

#ebf liveblogs life #so i'm on tvtropes looking at some general stuff for possible longfic filler #and seeing if the source material is at all mentioned anywhere #and there is one thing and whomever wrote it is Wrong #or else i have a very different and or uncommon take on that bit #but like there was a not terrible reason that thing happened #dumbass does not necessarily equal sexist mkay #ebf tag rant #ebf writes see it with my eyes closed #because that's what this is about kinda AHEM