You ever think about how we had the chance to see so much more of Astrid in the six seasons of RTTE? I mean, where was her beef with one of the villains (imagine how cool that would have been.) Why didn't we learn more about her hobbies? Or about her family? Her house burnt down but her parents were safe but WHERE WERE THERE?? Why didn't we see more of those relationships? Where were the Astrid-centric (without Hiccup) episodes that made us learn more about her. Don't get me wrong, we still saw her do a lot of cool shit and there were like 2 episodes about that but Fishlegs got an episode every season, so did Snotlout, and so did Heather. But what about the girl who indirectly caused the chain of events that led to there being dragons on Berk? She's such an important character to the universe, and we got to see very little to nothing of her

This.

It seems to me that the writers of rtte demonstrate a "special attitude" to Astrid primarily because she is the love interest of the main character. Like many screenwriters, they simply do not understand that "three-dimensional character" and "love interest of the main character" are not mutually exclusive concepts.

If the creators of the show perceived Astrid, first of all, as a person, and not as a Hiccup girl, then they would not erase the unconventionally attractive features of her appearance – uneven tan, big ears, uneven teeth, sloppy hairstyle, long arms, angular physique. They would most likely have given Astrid a temporary love interest (she had a lot of potential with Throk, Heather, and even Fishlegs), like most other racers. They would show more personal struggle, would reveal Astrid's relationship with any of her family members. Her fighting skills wouldn't be exaggerated or downplayed for the sake of the plot. At least one of the many conflicts between Stoick and Hiccup would be replaced by the conflict between Astrid and Hiccup. Instead of all this banal romantic nonsense (sorry), we would have more "team", "interpersonal" moments between these two. I would really like them to create an antagonist specifically for Astrid. However, this is my arrogance

i like how we all collectively agreed that covid does not exist in any of our sims stories

I would love to see obey me MC in a stereotypical horror movie setting, I think the 0 amount of shits they'd give would be very funny

I would pay good money to watch them go about their day to day life while something desperately tries to kill them and becomes more and more devastated by how little MC cares

Horrific Creature haunting MC, in tears: Can't you just pretend to be scared?

MC: You want me to lie?

istg men will be like: "yeah i love being married!" then not want to be forcefully castrated (possibly die but who cares?) and forced to be a bride forever in an insane asylum to a delusional incel serial killer with childhood trauma and anger issues 😐😴😑

So what's up with kris being non-existent?

I tried searching your blog a little but couldn't find anything related to it, so I thought it would be easier to ask.

I wouldn't say they're exactly non-existent in Looking Glasses, I'd say they're more... haunting the narrative.

I wanted the setup of the comic to mirror the setup for Deltarune. Kris and Noelle are in their first semester of college, and the Looking Glasses gang are waiting for them to come back home for winter break. The comic is also set up to take place over a week, much the same as the game.

One of the things I'm most interested in examining in this comic is how relationships evolve and grow when some of your friends move away for college. So when Kris left, they broke up with Ralsei, whereas Noelle and Susie stayed together. Everyone is still friends, but those friendships have become more complicated as the characters move into adulthood.

I have plans for Kris, don't worry! It's just going to be a bit before they have a significant appearance in the comic proper.

But as a preview, I've drawn them a few times, a few times in the comic even!

roots of pacha peak game for saying poly rights in the base game & not making u mod out any penalty

Just saw someone post in the anders main tag a list of his 'red flags' among which are that he is self deprecating/insecure in the relationship, that he 'talks about politics all the time' and that he has no personal friends. Like I very much understand it not being the romance for you, you don't HAVE to do it! But do realize that the people who are into it are into it precisely because he doesn't change as a character completely for your sake if you romance him lmao

on spoiler tags

since reload is coming out soon, i wanted to give people some heads up for tags i'll be using as a courtesy. please curate your experience accordingly! if you haven't used the mute feature, here's how to 👍

i will continue to use #persona 3 for all posts related to p3 (it's my main tag)

for posts about reload specifically, i'll be using #persona 3 reload, but it might also be worthwhile to mute the abbreviations #p3r and #p3re.

for the people who don't know anything about p3, i will attempt to tag spoilers for p3's events as #persona 3 spoilers but i cannot guarantee that i will remember to do so...

i hope everyone enjoys their experience with the game! i will still post here occasionally, but in general i'll be steering clear of socmed until i'm finished with reload.

tangentially related- i expect splatoon 3's side order dlc to come out during this time. all stuff related to that dlc will be tagged with #side order and will also be tagged as #splatoon (main tag)

thank you for your time! enjoy gaming, and remember to drink water 🥤

Young adult contemporary coming-of-age story (releases 4/16, I read an early copy from Netgalley)

Follows two first-year students at Wellesley College who run dueling anonymous advice columns and befriend each other in real life as they bonded over both being aroace, unaware of the other's internet identity

Platonic love story

Explores themes like aroace identity, finding community, being the queer child of immigrants, and trying to find your place in the world as a young adult looking towards the future

Love letter to platonic/familial love and finding community

Aromantic asexual Chinese American protagonist; aromantic asexual gender-questioning/nonbinary (she/they) protagonist; lots of QPOC side characters

news flash! three more teenagers want ghetsis dead

Rosa May had a peaceful and unassuming life at her ranch near Floccesy Town, at least, until Team Plasma took over. It was one thing after the other, and then her best friend Hugh was wrongfully arrested! This is the last straw for her, so she decides to go rescue him, befriending local musical artist Roxie along the way. Rosa May is quite shy, and really doesn't want to hurt anyone, so she can't help but feel overwhelmed as she's slowly being dragged into something...legendary.

I hope she knows that she isn't alone and that she can rely on her friends...

Oh jesus wait! Only now that something might finally be starting with Carol and Daryl did I suddenly think.. what if Daryl was aroace tho. and now I'm just-

me, looking at the cast of Hatchetfield characters: hmmm . . . what would make a good dead corpse for a Lord to possess . . . so many choices but no perfect fits . . .

stranger things au where someone can just hear the emotional synth music that plays when will is pining after mike. they don’t have psychic powers and it isn’t playing physically. the gay energy is just so off the charts that’s it’s come around to directly blast in this one character’s ears. i vote either dustin or steve, cause i think they’d be the funniest options. the pizza van gang get to hawkins and it’s just [tender, emotional music] everywhere

saw a video about 2 player ttrpgs and one of them was like "this one's about a pretend marriage" and i was like oh? and i looked it up on itch (eyes on the prize, fyi) and it's 50% as of right now and i was like OH? and i bought it immediately & ive read most of it and i am a big fan. and i KNOW that i have friends who would have fun playing it (it's a 2 player or 4 player game; the 4 player variant has 2 fake couples) but asking them is going to be so cringe. yeah we're gonna make up people and pretend to be them and then pretend to pretend to get married and the characters when they start their pretending they're gonna be like "oh we don't have any romantic feelings towards each other this is strictly plot" but then (get this) they will start to develop real feelings for each other. and we're gonna act it out together and pretend to be them but don't worry! we have no romantic feelings towards one another. this is strictly plot. when WE (irl) pretend to be in love it's actually platonic, unlike the people who we are pretending to be to each other. so do you have like 2-5 hours you wanna dedicate to that next week

and the worst part is that's 100% what i want. like i have roleplayed romance before with friends it is literally not a big deal because the whole point of roleplay is that the character ISN'T you. but with a fake relationship the crushing weight of dramatic irony hovers behind me

Sorry just looking back at it, I really do think G3 sacrificed having good fashion in order to have good character design. Which like, if it was just the cartoons they were rebooting, then like sure. But all I'm saying if any other doll brand in the year of our lord 2023/2022 come out with tye-die shorts with frills we would have laughed them off the market but it's Monster High so it's fine

I think it succeeds a lot at times, for example, no matter how much I don't like G3 Clawdeen, not gonna lie, they really got that 'quirky protag girl' vibe incredibly well with her. Or how the G3 Werecat Twins personalities show so strongly though their designs, but dear god WTF is Meowlody wearing.

But on the other hand it's not like good character design and fashion are antithetical to each other. Like not only was this the reason G1 Monster High got so popular (that and it's gothicism) but G3 HAS put out nice looking fashion pieces before!

Prior to Headbangers Ball (which began in 1987) MTV had an all-metal videos show called Heavy Metal Mania, hosted by Dee Snider from Twisted Sister. Apparently it aired monthly, beginning in June 1985, but it's really hard to find out more than that - a lot of links I've found just lead back to its longer-running successor, Headbangers Ball, which is no good to me when writing a Stranger Things AU where Steve and Eddie fall in love in summer 1985. I want them to watch it on TV together, at Steve's house because he has cable (the Munsons can't afford it), but I can't find out anything about the times and dates it aired, and I don't know whether MTV repeated it in between times or you could see it only on that monthly date, and I also know it doesn't matter and I haven't even specified in the story what date it is other than sometime in July at the moment... but I just wish I could find out because it would be even more satisfying if I knew it was correct.

Anyway they'll enjoy the show together. Cuddling on Steve's couch. It will be nice.

The cuddling will be disrupted any time a really good song comes on and Eddie needs to thrash around to it, but they'll get back to it.