#we play ourselves

[daphneblakess]

books i read in 2022: we play ourselves by jen silverman

In the end, we are all entirely summed up by our single most public failure, and not by any of the nuanced, beautiful, difficult things we accomplished before or after.

#we play ourselves #jen silverman #storyseekers #booksociety #litedit #my edits #2022books

[lgbtqreads]

Backlist Book of the Month: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

Backlist Book of the Month: We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

Like many others who’ve been privileged to spend most of the pandemic thus far working from home, I’ve started to go back into the office a couple of days a week, and let me tell you, I picked an excellent first commuting book in We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman. I absolutely love books that engage with the mental gymnastics, emotional instability, moral quandaries, and all the other messiness…

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#Adult Fiction #bisexual #Contemporary #featured #Jen Silverman #We Play Ourselves

[judgingbooksbycovers]

We Play Ourselves: A Novel

By Jen Silverman.

Design by Rachel Ake Kuech.

#We Play Ourselves #Jen Silverman #Rachel Ake Kuech #books #book covers

[dykedvonte]

I'm sorry the Brotherhood of Steel is so goofy in the show but the idea that not a single member thought "Maybe we should use a ball instead of fucking rocks" to play post-apocalyptic basketball is so funny and in character for how the BoS operates in general.

#this is the best thing to make canon about the BoS #cant stop thinking about brickball man #like I bet they stoned the motherfucker who suggested to use a ball or something less painful if ur caught under the hoop #shows campy #fallouts campy #do i agree with every choice no #but its not insufferable like most game to show adaptations #i think peoples main problems is we cant explore it ourselves and fallout fans general aversions to having to watch someone elses story #as you get to play the story yourself #fallout #fallout amazon #fallout tv show #fallout show #fallout spoilers

[crazylittlejester]

Imagine:

Modern AU Twilight and Warriors playing a survival horror game together. Twilight is screaming and loosing his shit at every jump, Warriors is laughing at him (he is one more jump scare away from sobbing in fear), and they’re both so locked in that when Time opens the door suddenly to check on them, both of them whip around and scream in terror

And Time just… stares back at them and slowly closes the door

One room over Four and Wind are playing the same game and treating it like they’ve been sent in on a mission and they have to succeed Or Else and they’re not scared at all, they’re doing so well actually (Twilight and Wars have to quit and play something else because they keep working themselves up too much)

#inspired by me and my friend playing re5 and getting too locked in #it wasn’t even spooky we were literally just stressing ourselves out #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu warriors #lu wars #lu twilight #lu time #jes talks

[yusuke-of-valla]

The thing about mean rivals is that like there's kinda a reason we stop having them the second the plots started getting world-ending in scope and that's because you do not have time to deal with some whiny asshole who you've beaten over and over again's shit when a space chinchilla is about to suffocate everyone in the region

Like if they're a dick to you the entire way through they quickly become all bark and no bite because narratively they're going to keep losing to you, and again progressively destroying the ego of a small child is second to whatever this year's eldritch abomination is (and if they went so far as to help the eldritch abomination it raises questions about why they're friendly enough to battle you in the post game).

So like. It's simpler if they're just nice? And have arcs where the fact that they keep losing to you is the point? Your rival isn't the final boss anymore you don't have to build up to finally being able to defeat them for good (except not really) (I guess Hau in USUM arguably but LBR the final boss is Ultra Necrozma)

Like I guess I get annoyed when people don't acknowledge there's a point to how the rivals have been handled since gen 3. You don't have to like it per se but there's a reason the rivals are like this and it's not just the devs don't want to upset little kids.

The fact that the adults care about your safety on the other hand...

#I'd have to go play through it properly but like. the plot of Gen I is really weak and for narrative sake I think we should not be holding #ourselves to its tropes #(i don't say this to be disparaging to Gen I I respect those games so much #I mostly say it to like make a point) #also like the rivals didn't start exclusively choosing the Pokémon weaker than you until the one stronger than you showed up elsewhere #what's more intimidating Kukui and Leon having the stronger starter or the weaker one? #meanwhile Hop and Nemona are like. explicitly going easy on you. Nemona was about to waste you with her champion level team like a Pokémon #player stumbling across a bug catcher they missed while having god in their party #yeah of course when clavell points that out she chooses the weaker starter #Hop also has two Pokémon on you and is not ready for you to be as good as you are that's why he takes losing so hard later #he's being cocky #ANYWAY THIS HAS BEEN YOUR SEMI MONTHLY ALTO RANT ABOUT CERTAIN POKÉMON FANS #Pokemon

[genericpuff]

Do you know "Eggnoid"? It's a rather old webtoon about a girl being put into circumstances on taking care of a robot guy who hatched from an egg (hence the title) the robot guy appears to be a grown man, but he has mental capabilities of a toddler and even acts like one. So, it's like those types of "born sexy yesterday" tropes but the gender reversed. The girl also repeatedly shown crushing over the robot guy and at some point, she called him her boyfriend despite she's supposed to be his caretaker.

I haven't read it, but I can definitely attest that there's a double standard when it comes to gender roles and age gaps / situations of grooming / etc. in literature but especially in webtoons. And by that I mean I've legit seen people hold comics like Lore Olympus accountable for their gross dynamics between a young teenage girl and the much older and richer love interest, but then turn around and say it's "couple goals" for a teenage boy to hook up with a much older woman. At the end of the day there's still a power imbalance due to the age gap and the massive differences in life experiences between the two, gender doesn't really change that.

Big ole' sip of hot tea as a take, but speaking as an AFAB, a lot of women are just as capable of grooming and taking advantage of younger men in the same way as men towards young women, it's just that on the surface people tend to get skittish about addressing that because they don't want to sound like they're going "yeah well actually women though-" and dismissing the notion of toxic masculinity. Which yes, that's a fair thing to worry about, some people do use that as a way to dismiss the arguments made regarding patterns of grooming behavior in men towards young girls (among many other problems in which men and toxic masculinity are held accountable), but like any topic of this nature, it's not always a cut and dry black and white thing. Toxic masculinity and the grooming of teenage girls by adult men is a very real problem! But just like how we can understand the nuance that being a man by default doesn't immediately make you a predator, we should be able to understand the nuance that being a woman doesn't give you a free pass to do the same things we call out men for doing without consequences. It's like the double standard in LO that it's okay for Persephone to do the same things - if not worse - than what Leuce and Minthe and Thetis do, because she's the main character and she's not some scummy "mud-sucking" lower class person, she's rich and a Queen and she's wearing a giant hat so it makes it okay /s

Unfortunately the saying of "I support women's rights and women's wrongs" is being used in a completely tone deaf "literally excusing the main character of her crimes and wrongdoings against others because she happens to be a woman" kind of way, while missing the real point of the saying - supporting women's wrongs doesn't mean you celebrate their abuse towards others, it just means women shouldn't automatically be viewed as irredeemable "crazy bitches" for making mistakes like any other human does, and like any other human, they should be given the opportunity to grow and heal and learn from their wrongs.

When it comes to Persephone specifically, it can't even be chalked up to a "one time mistake" anymore, she's literally been showing patterns of abusive behavior for years now and refusing to take accountability, and now even Rachel is meme'ing on it knowing fully well it's what people are calling Persephone out for in the critical spaces. That's not "supporting women's wrongs", that's enabling the wrongs of a person because they happen to be a woman, and that's not okay. Persephone isn't a "girl boss", she's a bully.

I think the double standard in these age gap romances also speaks to the idolization and fixation on women as being nothing more than conquests for men as well. People who romanticize age gaps between a young woman and an older man think, "Wow, that woman is so mature for her age, enough that an older richer man would choose HER to be his wife! So romantic!" when in reality those who know those dynamics are unhealthy and toxic recognize it as an older man taking advantage of a young woman who's being love-bombed into believing she's "mature for her age" so that she'll sleep with him. Meanwhile, on the other side of it, those who romanticize young men getting with older women tend to come at it from the angle of "well she's so old and washed up, no man could ever love her, her chance for love and a happily ever after is gone now! it's so wonderful of that young man to give that sad and lonely old woman love and attention!" and yet fail to see it from the same perspective of an older person manipulating a young person with zero life experience, because there's still this deeply-rooted ideology that women are "used up" by age 30 and any man who gives her attention beyond that age range is a hero. Completely neglecting the fact that relationships aren't off the table at all for older single people and they don't need to involve robbing the cradle.

I blame the lack of older couple representation in media tbh, so many mainstream romance stories are basically just this:

To pull it out of the perspective of LO and webtoons for a second (sorry, I'm going on a hell of a tangent here), remember how gross it was when it was revealed in Fifty Shades Darker that Christian had been introduced to the concept of BDSM at age 15 through one of his mom's friends (i.e. an older woman!) who Anastasia calls "Mrs. Robinson"? And they had that relationship until he was 21? And they never really did anything about that, it was pretty much just there to explain why Christian was fucked up but he still got married to Anastasia, an innocent woman who he was repeating the cycle of abuse with, and lived happily ever after anyways?

Yeah. That was pretty fucked up.

#we all need to do better to hold ourselves accountable for shitty behavior #there are def societal issues at play that predispose people to have certain opinions or react differently based on concepts like gender #but true feminism means making a better world for women *and* men *and* everyone within and outside of that binary #it's not “rich and powerful women can do whatever they want because they're boss babes and deserve to be mean" #that's literally more along the lines of white feminism which we've definitely talked about here before #and just gender supremacy as a whole which isn't helpful for anyone #always remember to ask yourself: “is it feminism or is it misandry?” #because a lot of legit misandrists try to moonlight as feminists and really just hurt the cause as a whole

[loveandthings11]

He is so funny and real and sweet and still true to himself 🩷

#only wearing brown is a monstrous lie hahahaha #this was such a good-humored discussion I loved it #I liked that they talked almost all about the play but also still about succ!! #good for him for being honest that that line is not funny to him #idk we need a new word for like ‘insane’ but not ‘funny’ #like it was meant to seem desperate and absurd as an argument but not ‘haha’ you know #and I think Seth gets that but we have few words to express ourselves #I think absurd encompasses it best #also it’s so funny that Seth brought up the mustache thing because I’ve been thinking the same thing 😂 #jeremy strong #succession #kendall roy #an enemy of the people #late night with Seth Meyers #Seth Meyers #Youtube

[allgremlinart]

"but I liked when the canon was that the Blue Spirit mask was from Earth Kingdom opera not the comics retcon where he gets it from his mom :(" see but what you're not considering is that.. it could be... both...

#idk Hir'a seemed pretty isolated. very plausible for them to still be performing plays based on EK arts. #MAYBE its a thing where the mask/story originated in the EK and was adapted in different places but post-Sozin FN was #just like “actually this thing is ours and we made it up all by ourselves” since any foreign culture would have been seen #as lesser and they wouldnt want to admit any connection... #this aside tho I do prefer the Ursa retcon cus like. mommy's boy in his mommy mask <3 hilarious. in character. #atla

[chryblossomjjk]

it sucks how everything has been tainted by patriarchy and as women we cannot do literally anything without it being linked back to patriarchy. like wearing makeup or pink or whatever has been determined feminine by the patriarchal definition feminity, so doing those things means you’re playing into the patriarchy. not doing those things means you’re also playing into patriarchy because it’s a rejection of the idea of femininity, and thus, reaffirms that identifying with feminity in any way is inherently inferior. likeeeee we really cannot win lol… i think a big part of reclamation includes allowing space for people who identify as women to find out what that means to them.

#it’s kind of frustrating to see everything women do criticized even in scholarly spaces #as a product of patriarchy and thus bad #but like #ideas of masculinity are also patriarchal in nature #and we never hear men getting criticized bc how they dress #or look #feeds into patriarchy #i think two things can be true at once like we can understand the nuances and ALSO choose how we want to or don’t want to #express ourselves #without being critiqued that we’re playing into patriarchy lol #this is why the whole pick me convo has gone off the rails like #women get called pick mes for anything #LITERALLY EVEN EATING LMAO #also like saying women dress xyz way as the result of men gets into very slippery territory… #BUT DO YALL GET WHAT I MEAN #idk idk idk lil ramble u know the drill will delete eventually

[soulless-bex]

to all the people in denial of alastor’s sexuality, i swear, just google it. it’s not that hard to open the wiki. and even if you don’t trust the wiki i can guarantee you will find some other sources that confirms that he’s aroace

#we cant have nice things #it’s one character and it’s already a fight to keep him for ourselves #yeah he’s not the best representation since he’s a psychopath and it plays in dumb stereotypes #but he’s still ours so back off #alastor hazbin hotel #alastor aroace #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fandom #aroace #aromantism #aromantic #ace #aro #asexuality #aromantic representation #asexual representation #aroace representation #lgbtq representation

[dsaf1gnarlyending]

i think it says a lot about jack that we aren't even given the option to tell dave about henry's tapes in dsaf 3's good ending. like not a greyed out option like the evil end, just straight up not given the option.

#i also think a lot of people forget we aren't playing as ourselves. we;re playing as jack. we're playing through HER choices and HER story #and how SHE thinks and portrays people in HER story #ok to rb if desired

[foldingfittedsheets]

not a question, but I just wanted to say that your stories about you and your beloved give me hope for me and mine <3 hope that one day we can be out and proud :> so, thank you <3

I HOPE SO TOO! Everyone deserves to love without fear!

#ask ffs #we do talk about places we want to travel and where we might have to play it straight #but it’s not the same as not being able to be ourselves day to day

[rpfisfine]

aleksa playing guitar and alex calling him a show-off.....

#alex was soooooooooooooooooo jealous he didnt get a present damn......rosa luxembourg clearly has a favorite im crying... #ididathing #alex apollonov #boy boy #aleksa vulović #aleksa is so insanely good at playing guitar what if we all killed ourselves with hammers

[just-a-mod]

Cult of Tyme got it's first dissenter uwu coincidentally, it also got its first prison OwO

#justaart #art #cotl #cult of the lamb #cultofthelamb #lierally never had one of these guys before #but one of my members brought them in and i went #'eh how bad could it be' #the answer is 'very bad' #had to build my first prison ever in a play through #the funny part here is i feel all sermons and 're-educations' for Tyme are just fanfiction #'and here is how i will beat all of the old gods' #'and how i will make them all mortal followers too' #'and how i will beat death himself and then marry him and kiss him' #because c'mon that's what we all do #lets be honest with ourselves #i did a whole playthrough for the sheer pleasure of beating he who waits and then turning him mortal and then marrying him #didnt even marry any one else before getting to him #fuck the faith i can buy it back with a feast #/it was the principle of the thing/ #who else wants to kiss death say aye

[dontfindmeimscared]

Lethal Company is so fucking funny

Was playing with some buddies and a rando, we fucked up and got left behind on the last moon and now we've got 30/830 for our quota. We go to an eclipsed moon on the last day bc we're doomed anyway and I die to a giant and the rando dies to bees that he was trying to lead back to the ship

K and Cam are left. K decides to go and get some scrap (specifically a horn bc Cam fucking loves the horns). K comes back with a fog horn and two giants chasing him and Cam will not unbaricade the door.

Me and this other guy are just pissing ourselves laughing, going between looking at Cam who's just looking at the baricade he's made out of everything in the ship, singing to himself and holding a rubix cube. Then going to K and seeing him collecting shit for Cam then being eaten by the giants because Cam won't let him in the damn ship.

fricking love this game

#its the first time ive really played games with people i don't know #like thats how my first few games were #its so fucking fun omg #everyone's so chill its great #i keep taking the apparatus and getting ppl killed lol #the last game we played we just launched ourselves off of the ship each time #"we're not jumping at the company guys“ ”nah that'd be too much“ All of us immediately jump in the ocean