forgot abt my random obm oc who is belphie’s kid
i still have no actual idea how they exist in canon but the idea of all of the others slowly realizing their parentage and freaking the fuck out bc belphie’s locked in the attic and his kid is just waltzing around making pacts with their uncle is hilarious to me
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Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.
(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)
You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.
(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)
And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.
I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.
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hattie’s little ghoul companion follows her after his “parents” attempted to pawn him off on her once they were done cheating her out of her brahmin (rip queen 😭) and most of her more valuable supplies in exchange for SHIT ones they had. while she initially told them HELL no and went on her way, she KNEW she was being followed (homie was creeping around behind her like gollum all the time) and when they finally stopped long enough for her confront him about it, he revealed that he stole her good supplies back BUT would only give them to her if she let him come with her.
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imagine if the credits for majora’s mask were tied to the actions you did in your last cycle
like instead of that everybody is happy celebrating the festival, if they were a specific set of cutscenes that each play depending on whether you did it before fighting majora or not
so like, if you didn’t defeat each temple boss you would see cutscenes from that region still in trouble like the deku with the monkey over the fire or the gorons all frozen, but if you did kill all the bosses in the last cycle you can see the regions happy like in the actual credits
and the same for important quests as well, grog could either be with his chicks or with grown cuccoos, pamela might be with her dad or she’d be on her own, you can only see anju and kafei’s wedding if you complete their quests then fight majora, if you don’t help romani defend the ranch she isn’t playing with her sister in the credits she’s just sat there
idk i just think it would be really neat if you finished the game and were suddenly hit by the realisation that that’s it, the cycles are over and your choices in that final go-through are how the characters will live the rest of their lives
and it would make you want to go back and play through again if you saw your favourite characters not having the happy ending they deserved
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Fun fact: I dislike vegans with a passion!
Reason: cows need to be milked if they don’t it causes immense pain, chicken will lay eggs no matter what, sheep will die if you don’t sheer them, etc
Livestock over produce, they were bred that way, I can understand vegetarians, but I don’t understand vegans. Besides it being way easier to say ‘I’m vegan’ rather than ‘I’m vegetarian’ (it’s honestly a mouthful) I just don’t understand the reason behind going vegan
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i need to be laying on my back in the middle of a great expanse of midwestern plains please and thank you. get me the fuck out of the city i need out out out PLEASE
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