i am IN DEBT to this game. made this to help drag more people into the wormhole <3 if you like blue haired MCs and choices matter visual novels. if you’re a sucker for time loops. this is the game for you

i think about that period of time where dick had to step up and be damians mentor but didnt actually want to like twice a day

he fought a lot for a kid he had to learn to love the hard way

Vasco seems like a honeycomb (candy) type of guy tbh

Never heard of it before, but it looks nice. Apparently it's really easy to make at home as well? Is it good?? The texture seems interesting.

i never post my jus black n white of these so. here is the pencils for a lament for icarus redraw!! im excited to colour this. nothing gets me going like a warm colour palette 

I want to take a bite out of someone's arm but I'm too shy

I was trying to do floors like a good little dumbass and apparently I wasn't doing it right? Somehow?? So one of the managers came over and snatched the mop out of my hands and startled me. I flinched and she started screaming in my face how "she's not gonna fucking kill me but will fire me if i keep acting like she will"

I think she assumed it was a race thing cus she's black and i'm white as a sheet

girlie i didnt flinch cus youre black i flinched cus you scared the shit out of me 💀

About Judgment: In short, I think RGGS was intending to continue the series. There were indeed rumors at one point that the series would end at Lost Judgment due to a disagreement with Kimura's agency, Johnny & Associates, about porting the games to PC--I'm unclear on why, there was speculation but I don't think it was ever stated. Obviously the PC ports are out now, so either that wasn't the issue or they moved past it. There's also just general disbelief around there being a third entry simply because there's this idea (joke?) that Kimura never does three of anything, which isn't true at this point. It is true RGGS historically hasn't done three of anything in terms of spinoff series (Kurohyou, Mobile+Kizuna, and arguably Kenzan+Ishin), but it's also true that none of their past spinoffs have been as successful as Judgment, and we're seeing a lot of "firsts" from the studio lately. The fact is that Yokoyama himself said something along the lines of "and of course, we won't forget about Judgment" (not literally, just the closest English expression I can think of that can be misinterpreted in the way I'm about to explain) while talking about future works. But for some reason, people took it as if he meant it "in mourning" rather than an obvious confirmation of more to come, I guess? A TV show was also announced, so I really don't get why they'd invest so much into a series they were going to end. I know Kurohyou got a show too, but this seems different. Anyway, that's the most recent information, but it's from some years ago. There is a major new development, however: J&A talents' contracts are being cancelled left and right as of the last couple of months due to the agency's dogshit handling of and response to an investigation into Johnny Kitagawa's serial abuse of allegedly hundreds of his talents. That's been going on since the man died in 2019, basically, but a lot's happened this year.

This has left the talents with the incredibly tough decision of either remaining at an agency that refuses to even change its name and is rapidly breaking down or leaving. It has historically been very difficult to do the latter. On top of what you'd expect, J&A controls their talents to an insane degree and has leveraged their control of the media to suppress the careers of those who leave.

Broadly, in terms of how media companies have responded so far, I understand not wanting to associate with J&A and that J&A would likely benefit from the contracts more than the talents, but it still feels like the talents are the ones being punished... I have to imagine at least some of them were victims, so to be victims of the blacklist on top of that... That, and some of these companies kept the truth from coming out for decades.

With J&A losing its foothold in the media, though, there may be no better time than now to leave the agency. I don't know if Kimura will--rumors have been circulating ever since his idol group were forced to break up years and years ago, but while they all went independent, he never has--especially because a lot of seniors like him feel a responsibility to stay and change the agency for the better. As of right now, I'm not aware of Kimura's contracts getting cancelled, so I can't say one way or another if that'd have an effect.

I don't know what happens from here. I'm not sure if RGGS will look at it as collaborating with J&A or with Kimura or both, and how they'll factor in what's going on right now into working with him. Hypothetically, it would be possible to continue the series even without Kimura (any of the other mains do or would make great protagonists), but at the same time, Judgment is hugely reliant on Kimura's charisma. That's why people who play the dub (or people who don't like Kimura) often come away with the impression Yagami's kind of a dick or doesn't stand out much.

So... that's the state of Judgment right now. We won't know until we know, I guess.

OHHHHH OK saucy... sucks about J&A- it'd be cool if yk. they could face the consequences of their actions LMAO but that Could involve displacing hella workers now wouldnt it

random thoughts after second watch of Everything Everywhere All At Once:

i love that the alt life skills/jumping paths are activated when you do something silly and weird. because that's how LIFE is -- so WHAT if you didnt choose to be a kung fu master or a hibachi chef or a singer or a gymnast or a sign spinner in this life. if you decide you want to do those things now, it's never too late!! if you want those skills you can get them, you can LEARN!! you just have to be willing to look foolish and silly, break your own status quo and do something weird and new and sometimes deeply uncomfortable and sometimes painful and be willing to be percieved doing all that!!

Jobu Tobaki (Tupaki?) wearing her ridiculous and amazing and over the top outfits in every scene feels like an externalization of the "i feel like i am too much and no one will understand me or be able to love me because I am too much". and i think that's how Joy feels, deeply, and Jobu Tubati IS Joy, and there's this whole nilism/depression/despair/helplessness/overwhelming looking through every universe because she just wants a mother who can see all she is and not run away. and then when she finds one, SHE runs away!! god. screaming and crying and throwing up. etc.

and there's this whole layer of like, allowing people to love you. because Joy/Jobu rejects that love until the very end where she reaches BACK, she chooses to accept the love that Evelyn is giving her. even though it isn't perfect. because you are still loved in such an absolute and unconditional way, that that love transcends this universe into every universe into every life, it is so virulant a love that it is capable of infecting universes without life at all. and you are allowed to accept it and allow yourself to be loved. and there's this whole feeling i am having trouble describing of the experience of growing up and realizing your parents did not love you in the all the ways that you needed, when you were a child, and how that hurt you, but they still loved you, and they love you now, and you can decide to reject it and walk away but you can also accept their love. because as an adult you have the agency and power you didn't have as a child and you also have the choice. to feel loved, to see the love. and it doesnt erase all the trauma and pain of a childhood starving for the exact type of love&care you really needed, but it feels very much like Joy is allowing herself to hold this duality of her Mother and the duality of the love she has recieved, as both existing without either aspect invalidating the other. there's a lot going on here. the absolutely gorgeous way this movie portrayed the complexity of relationships makes me want to eat sand.

the prophetic dreams are getting much more concerning

I have absolutely nothing against poc Tim Drake hcs.... but that boy canonically likes artichoke on his pizza. If that ain't like the most whiteboy shit I've ever heard, I don't know what is. So~ 🤷‍♀️

There is no pain in your soul that three fat plates of Chinese can’t heal. 😔🤚

happy valentines day (derogatory)

also spicy bonus:

friend and I have been talking about the concept of an alternate timeline where they didn’t kill off mine and instead, while laying low and trying to unlearn being Evil basically, as both penance for his actions and as a tojo-mandated involuntary vacation, he’s sent to okinawa (with some sort of supervision, of course) to work for morning glory. ie; mr. orphan hater has to help babysit orphans to pay for his orphan-related crimes and hopefully learn something in the process. shenanigans ensue.

thinking abt that psychology lecture where they taught us how thinking about good memories makes your life obiectively better over time

the main thing that’s striking me rn abt shb in the writing is eulmore. It’s not necessarily a bad plot element, but it is a little strange bc the eulmoran army’s purpose is essentially just a motivator for the wol to kill lightwardens faster. Which is like fine, but killing the lightwardens was already a task that the wol was gonna do anyway bc plot.

they spend a lot of time setting up eulmore as this expac’s main evil faction right at the start so they can later throw them at you, and it is interesting how they interpret the sin eaters, but like…I’m not sure if killing the lightwardens was a tasking that needed another motivator behind it to get the player/wol moving? Like all the scions are already dedicated to this, and even if they weren’t the exarch won’t let you or your friends leave until you do as he asks anyway, and he specifically waits to tell you what your task entails until after you've already unwittingly started it, all while refusing to inform you abt any potential ramifications of it. like all the motivators are there already, and imo they're far more interesting than eulmoran army ever is