Look I was always going to don my clown shoes and hat to watch Amazon's Fallout TV show.

But from the latest trailer, I feel like a TV show might actually be a better way to explore a character whose grown up in a sheltered & highly structured environment being thrown into a lawless wasteland. Rather than a video game.... that gives you a gun pretty much straight away.

plain and simple i am not going to be able to remain in this fandom long-term if i have to keep putting disclaimers on every single one of my posts that say i don't condone dennis' bad, bad actions and that i am in fact aware he's got a history of sexual assault and dubious/nonconsent. the entire gang has done heinous shit. why is dennis the only one who needs to be treated like this? if some rando wants to post about how dennis is pookie pie that doesn't automatically mean they're blind to his crimes. every single member of the gang is a piece of shit. that's kind of the point.

draw dennis with cat ears who give a shit

I think the "Billy should ditch the boar" takes comes from AM being the one route that breaks their self-insert fantasy. Flamey and Emile doing their stuff and the Jerry thing etc do not matter bcs its not being directly mean to YOU, the player, in YOUR story. Edel-chan is a very sad and traumatized girl that will ALWAYS love YOU no matter what you do and she will doodle YOU and squeak about rats n stuff, but you don't have to actually deal with any of her supposed trauma in a realistic way (+)

(cont) She will always be fine and ready to gush after you, the trauma is only a plot device to make her wary of other people that aren't you, and be attached to only you. What she does to randoms doesn't matter as long as she's nice to you. But the evil european barbarian boar dares to actually show his trauma and negative emotions around you, and make you uncomfy, and bring any sort of realism to your fantasy! how dare he! Not only that, but he admits he didn't like you at the beginning!!!(+) (cont) you, the player, isn't above other characters when it comes to him being rude because of his trauma and mental illness, and the story dares to show your avatar feeling sad and powerless instead of badass and cool. He won't listen to you until another character opens his eyes first, and even if you marry him he's still hearing voices and struggling with his issues, your love won't cure him!! Not only that, but AM is his story, not yours! (+) (cont) It relegates your self-insert to a supportive deuteragonist instead of the main hero the plot centers around. He will become The King and you will be just a religious leader, following the footsteps of the Evil Lizard Lady!! Obviously you don't want that!! this is your story, where you can dump all your anti-church IRL arguments into, and be a super cool baddass mercenary who never has to deal with negative emotions!! And that's why AM is the only FE16 route where I actually like Billy.

Sorry anon for the tardiness of the reply!

Yep, I feel like for both Dee and the evil lizard lady, at one point, they are unhappy/upset/angry and more or less negative at Billy - who is, in this situation, taken as the player.

I remember during the heights of 2020-2021 discourse people sending asks to other asking how can they like Rhea bcs she was meant to "u" and whatnot, and it's just... Self-insert at its finest?

But Billy - the character we see in Nopes, FEH and FE17, wouldn't feel like the player in those instances (because Billy the character would never pick the "uwu" option in the Holy Tomb, and Billy the character would understand and/or at least get how Dimitri doesn't want to talk right now) - so again, it's the same old question, who is Billy? An empty self insert who feels a lot of sad uwus when Rhea threatens to rip their heart out as they assist and support who swore to kill her because her ears are pointy and cries whenever Dimitri doesn't want to talk to them, or is Billy the character we see in other games, who shows more empathy and tries to understand people, and thus, wouldn't have been able to pick a certain route in FE16?

Lol I just remember now how some people didn't like Cyril or even Seteth because they didn't slobber over Billy - as the self-insert - in their first 5 lines unlike the rest of the cast ^^

Granted, this "YOU must be the most important person EVER" comes back in full force with the S-supports (tfw seteth doesn't mention his family to billy when they hold hands) and it reiterates something I always knew : Avatars were a mistake.

Parasocial maybe saved the franchise from turning into another F-Zero like saga, but damn if it nuked a lot in the process (and by, a lot, i mean coherence and characters networks).

↳               @praeteritus-memories ,   continued from   here .     🍒

    to   no extent   had kakyoin expected that so significant a tenderness would bloom in his chest upon making giorno’s acquaintance ,   especially since he’d come to italy for work .   over a decade has passed since the momentous events of his egyptian escapade ,   &   in that time ,   he has learned more about his true self than ever had been previously apparent   ━━━━   become more of himself   than ever he had been before .   but one aspect of his being that has yet to fully emerge from its chrysalis is his reluctance to open himself up to others ;   many pensive hours has he sat beside his inner child in   healing silence ,   hoping to unravel ,   thread by thread ,   the tightly - wound shroud in which he’d enswathed himself for protection ,   as if hierophant’s tendrils had coiled ’round his too - soft body like an unbreakable cocoon .

perhaps that had been a necessary response to the   corroding heartache   of a childhood spent entirely alone .   yet ,   he has managed to make a home for himself on   the other side ,   now ,   &   the white - knuckled grip he’s maintained on the latch to free his heart from its cage doesn’t serve him so well anymore .   how ironic a tragedy that   letting go   is this difficult ,   but as a man that has survived   the unfathomable ,   kakyoin is not so inclined to think of it as a mountain he cannot summit .   even the slackening of one knuckle at a time is still progress .

even so ,   there was something he saw in giorno early on that rendered his heart’s   immaculate camouflage   futile ,   exposing the softness tucked beneath layers   &   layers of armor without so much as an honest effort .   perhaps he saw himself in giorno ,   &   perhaps that extended to him the ability to perceive the lonely child hiding at the core of the strong   &   straight - shouldered   force of nature   that brought an entire syndicate to its knees .   how could he behold that   &   allow himself to become another person that   abandons him ?? 

the embrace is as warm as the venetian summer ,   or maybe warmer still ,   &   the loving width of kakyoin’s smile encapsulates a disposition just the same as his arms anchor tightly around giorno’s smaller frame .   as much as he’s   dreaded   having to bid giorno farewell   (   distance can be so cruel ;   how   unfortunate   that the heart can leave pieces of itself all over the world   ) ,   moments like this are precious enough to quell the sinking feeling in his abdomen ,   leaving a comforting reminder that   not even eight thousand kilometers   can make strangers of them in its wake .  

“   i don’t just mean for practical things ,   ”   he says ,   straightening his back just enough to look at the boy in his arms ,   “   though that’s important ,   of course .   but for anything ,   even if you just need someone to talk to .   ”   a lavender gaze is devastatingly soft as it meets the blueish emeralds reflecting off of it in a deepening gradient ,   &   in the back of his mind ,   kakyoin curses the throb in his chest   &   the pressure building behind his eyes .   his husband would surely say he is being dramatic ,   &   maybe he is ,   but his ever - growing affinity for the golden - haired boy cannot be helped .

“   i know that you’re a busy young man ,   but if you just want to talk about your day ,   or tell me about any cute boys in your life ,   ”   his smile grows a little with that remark ,   the teasing glint to his eye twinkling like a sky full of stars ,   “   i’d be happy to listen .   ”   

the raising of a slender wrist   &   hierophant’s tugging back of a linen sleeve reveals the face of kakyoin’s watch ,   prompting a slight pout .   oh ,   fuck it .    sure ,   he’s eager to return home to his family   (   this is the longest he’s been away since jouta was born   ) ,   but giorno has become family ,   too .   “   say ,   giogio   ━━━━   it seems i don’t have to be at the airport for another few hours ,   ”   he says ,   ruby - hued lashes fanning out between scarred lids as his eyes become smiling crescents .   “   i think that gives us just enough time for one more adventure .   i still haven’t gotten to try amarena gelato ,   &   that’s just unfair .   ”

this one goes out to thunderstorms mmmm big BIG rumbly bumbly ones!!! i love love LOVE thunderstorms and how they make me feel! big loud thunder!!! YESS so i decided to paint a lil painty! <33

um another picture cause im not very good at taking pictures!

“  who  did  this  to  you  ?  ” ( st verse )

[ ◉¯] ✧˖° → A Hurt Peter - Accepting - @danversiism

EVERYTHING WAS SPINNING...

Peter wasn't a fighter. Hell, he was entirely sure before this moment he had never even been in an ACTUAL fight. (No he was not counting the times flash had kicked his ass in high school.) Honestly, he couldn't even fully tell anyone what had come over him. (Okay, so maybe he did just a little bit. But in his defense.. Talk shit about Clint. Get hit. )

Of course Peter hadn't counted on the senior having friends, and for those friends to come out of NOWHERE and land one HELL of a beating on his entire body. He was pretty sure his entire shoulder was completely out of it's socket, and far too many of his ribs were DEFINITELY broken. (Shit. Leonard was never going to let him hear the end of this.)

The urge to let UNCONSCIOUSNESS take over him was so INVITING that he almost didn't hear Carol calling out to him at all. Only barely did he register it, his eyes DESPERATELY BLINKING open as he tried to look at her. (Though his eyes REFUSED to focus.)

"Mhmph?" Not exactly.. words, but it was all he could manage. Before he could even attempt to say anything else, he had to SPIT OUT the blood that had POOLED there. There was an ATTEMPT at a deep breath, but it was quickly CUT SHORT, replaced by a hiss. (Rips were DEFINITELY angry. )

"H-hey Carol.. funny running into you here.." It wasn't answering her question, but he really didn't want to have to explain how he decided to take on a senior twice his size because he was talking shit about Clint and ended up getting his ASS handed to him.

"Wanna take..take bets on how long Len is gonna lecture me?"

sigh- maid day wip ig I probably won't finish this but also maybe I will depends On If The Friend I sent It To Says Nice Things About It

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anti r.eylo on my dash in the year of our lord 2024? god. get over yourselves this is ridiculous

i want ike to be in three houses

for science

Karlach is one of those characters I absolutely hate the fandom characterization of. I hate all the infantilization I see of her, and find it extremely obnoxious, this is a woman who wants to get her engine fixed so she can fuck, and who swears every other word. The fact she also likes cute things doesn't make her a blushing little girl.

Thor noncon-ing villain!Loki (but he likes it): unoriginal, boring, trope of fixing someone via secxing the bad out, seamlessly blends into previous abusive dynamic, doesn’t do in the way of suiting respective character arcs, overdone, often dismissed as noncon at all, typically excused as something being done for a greater good cause which keeps Thor a good guy

Villain!Loki noncon-ing Thor (but he likes it): unequivocally hilarious, exquisite, victory as the evil vile most wretched Loki-plot for revenge has been foiled, trope of absolute bafflement on both sides for the same AND vastly different reasons, contributes in the way of respective arcs while encouraging growth of character, done too less, dismissing it as attempted noncon ruins the whole effect, the secx in question is indeed framed as a bad thing being done by the villain one

pop quiz what breed of childhood trauma borne neuroticism is it called when being condescended to on just the most neutral, limpid, nothing thoughts you express like you’re a little silly child, or “out of your depth”, or woefully misinformed, or just speaking on something you shouldn’t cause fuckin hell you’re doing it *wrong*, and with the most plainly obvious remark too, makes you want to chew on your own arm until you reach bone marrow

Looks like "Rhea BaD" has got a new little sister now. Her name is "Céline BaD", because apparently protecting your people against bandits who are trying to kill innocents and burning down places is BaD.

That's just a low bait from marine life -

To try to find a "uwu double standard uwu" because when Supreme Leader hunts and kills refugees it's BaD but when Céline kills bandits who are doing bandit things it's suddenly GoOd?

When some people come up with "preemptive defensive invasion" you know they don't even know what a moral compass is, and most likely mistook it for toilet paper.

imo that's the thing i was more or less talking about with giving more figs to vilains than to their victims - in a FE game that is not FE5 (even if FE5 is crystal clear about the topic), why the eff are you giving fucks about chapter 1.1 bandits instead of the green units they're terminating? Because the bandits have a sad'n'lonely backstory?

► Point at Momo's chest while she's wearing her hero costume and yell "LOOK AT THOSE MONSTERS!!!"

Send my character a ► and a command. They must obey.

Ochako felt her face heat up but also worry at possibly insulting her classmate. But she had no strength to defy the command.

And once Momo was in her view, she immediately approached.

Her finger pointed at her chest and she yelled quite loudly but also with a flushed face: "LOOK AT THOSE MONSTERS!"

Her hands immediately shot up to her face and she mumbled an apology before rushing away. Her friendship was ruined!

@historias-multorum

y'all see what i mean about pitbull owners now