I was thinking and realised that monster?? steven from steven universe (idk I only watched the last episode once and forgot a lot of the details) reminded me of the shadows in persona 4 so I made the concept real

kills me kills me KILLS ME how at the end, Tatsuya breaks Philemon's mask only to discover his own face staring back at him

I am slain I am undone of course he is judging himself the harshest it is his own Innocent Sin which undoes the world it is his own Innocent Sin by which he is tortured by

And Nyarlathotep spent the whole game in the guise of fathers. The Sins of the Father. Your fathers fucked you up and so he slithers right into that role and cheats more ruin, more chaos, more bloodshed out of these bites and stabs and deceit

But then in Eternal Punishment, he uses Tatsuya's face back at him.

You fucked up the world. I am you now. Confront yourself and face the facts. YOU FUCKED UP THE WORLD.

I am undone I am dead I am slain by this I am the shadow the true self I am the God and the Devil which will make and unmake this world I am the Ruin and the Salvation and nothing I can do will change those facts

So I got around to watching Lego Monkie Kid...

And this has been living in my head rent free since I watched season 4 and couldn’t help myself, seeing as MK literally says the thing that makes his inner demons go berserk if it was actually P4.

As for his persona? Wukong. /j

pondering the orb ☆*:・ﾟ

Accepting the fact that the illustration looks better cropped is always difficult ( ; ω ; )

All my hard work! Cruelly chopped off!

I'll put the full ones here. They can just live here under the cut

We are livin our liiiivvvveeesss abound with so much informatiooonnnn

ohhhhhhhhh “sea of thy soul” = personal unconscious, “sea of souls” = collective unconscious. hey guys did you know that persona is kinda jungian

You are so right in your distaste for Blades book 2. No matter how great things get near the end, a majority of the book was horrible. They led us along like mouse to cheese. It’s inexcusable to play with their audience this way.

I only wish more people were less willing to excuse PB’s mediocrity. The signs were on the wall for me when DLS was flat out better than Blades 2, and it’s narratively quite simple. The story told was well paced, thought out, and above all kept us waiting for more each week. I cannot say the same for B2. That is sad.

I mean I do understand why people still enjoyed it and were willing to overlook the negative aspects or didn’t have much of a problem with them to begin with. Blades 1 was a fan favorite, we all missed these characters a lot, and many people (myself included at one point) didn’t believe we would actually get book 2 because of all the bait and switches PB had done in the past. But the first two things are why I personally couldn’t overlook the glaring issues.

I can’t remember who the OP was now, but I remember seeing a post from when book 2 only had a few chapters out where someone said something about it seeming like the writers learned all the wrong things about what made the book so good, and I couldn’t agree with that person more! Yeah, book 1 was good because it was different from anything we had ever gotten before. But I think the main reason it was so good was because of the characters as individuals and the relationships we got to form with those individuals to ultimately become a family. Yet they didn’t really acknowledge those individuals or relationships in ways that did them justice for the majority of book 2. And on top of that, MC’s own characterization was inconsistent at times because the writers picked and chose when they wanted us to be a competent leader and when they wanted us to be virtually clueless for plot convenience.

Book 1 was also relatively straightforward whereas it seemed like the writers wanted to turn the sequel into their own personal commentary on religion, which is an incredibly complex topic in itself. They had some social commentary in book 1, but it was done a lot better in my opinion because it didn’t take so much of a front seat. They managed to make it clear that that commentary was important and relevant to the writers, the characters, and the readers living in the real world while never robbing book 1 of that fun adventure game used for escapism feel. Meanwhile, book 2 almost felt like ‘Rising Tides but make it religion’ at times. And that’s on top of all of the other issues I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts.

I will say that I can see how there’s usually a lot of pressure to blow things out of the water for a sequel to something so beloved, and that most likely contributed to how things played out. So maybe I’m being a bit too harsh in my judgement of everything. But I still find it very disappointing to wait so long for something just for it to be so messy and miss the mark by a mile

say what you will about Persona 4--I think a lot of trans people would've figured things out sooner if a hotter, significantly more confident version of themself showed up and berated them for not Figuring It Out yet

then when they deny everything, this song starts playing and there's a boss fight

shadow selves are a bit silly actually like they’re alive for a few days and look at the camera and go “hey guys welcome back to my channel don’t forget to like and subscribe and hit that bell icon so you don’t miss out on any uploads today on this episode i’m going to KILL MYSELF‼️‼️‼️”

THE BLOG TITLE??? THE GIF IN THE HEADER??? our dio era is everything rn <3

i have been so OBSESSED with him recently its not even funny anymore😩

the way i have been searching the depths of the earth to find dio content + edits is literally making me feel humiliated (enjoys it.) bc he has no right to be this pretty??

Been seeing those sekai AUs on Twitter and theyre giving me some persona 4 vibes with the vocaloids as the shadows and the ocs as the people having to confront the ugly sides of themselves (not a bad thing, just something I've noticed)

have literally never played persona 4 but the unofficial p4 musical has me feeling some Emotions this sunday night

what WAS the normal child response to learning abt climate change actually. bc I’m pretty sure ‘depressed for at least 6 months and becoming deeply fascinated by apocalypses for ~3 years’ was prooooobably not it but who am I to say

Oooh the General’s simp is here. He looks so cute I can’t see him as a serious threat 🥲

…….

……Wait I don’t have any Wind or Thunder characters with me right now…..

I KNOW IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE

I KNOW ITS MY NEED TO REPLAY OLD TRAUMA CYCLES OR WHATEVER

AND I KNOW THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE RECEIVE ALL THE LOVE I WANT TO GIVE THEM IF THEY DON'T DO THE WORK

BUT IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER DOES IT

BECAUSE I STILL FEEL LIKE SHIT

BECAUSE I STILL LOVE THEM

AND IT HURTS TO KNOW THAT LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

new blorbos acquired cower in fear

anyways update im going insane over lego monkie kid i thought it would be a fun time but i did not expect some of the rawest scenes ever from a lego show selling you $100+ sets

this show deserves the world please watch it