if jason thinks bruce (and lex) are bad NOW, imagine if/when he gets pregnant with his own pups. they literally won't let him go anywhere, and he can't even Punch People about it to cope!!!

Jason could be in his thirties with six pups and Bruce would still sit on him in the nest. I feel like he and Lex would visit Jason's hypothetical future nest (with an alpha in it LOL) mid heat/rut just to "check" on Jason (AKA, threaten said alpha while he's knotted and vulnerable) and also to chat because sex in the nest in front of other people doesn't bother them as much as it does Jason.

Jason mid-knot: what the FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Bruce, frowning: don't take that tone with me

Lex: yeah, don't talk to your carrier like that

random alpha: h-hi mr wayne

Bruce, sitting down right in the middle of the nest and leaning back: hi David. how's it going?

Lex: looks like it's going pretty well, huh?

Jason: David, get up. I need to murder Bruce.

hahaha do you ever just wish you were interesting??? or had something you were good at?

i do.

One day I will watch a show that is not Kinnporsche (<- blatant falsehood)

Ngl, a big reason I'm obsessed with OMORI so much (and why it's as infuriating as it is to me) is because it had a lot of potential to be, at the very least, a decently compelling story and seeing said potential be so spectacularly wasted is just. horrible

I know that Mari and Hero are the group's "mom" and the "dad" only because the main cast needed to be pigeonholed into Tumblr found family roles, but the implication that Sunny views them as more of a mom and dad than his real parents - his biological mother and father only appear in portraits scattered throughout remote corners of his dream world - is pretty interesting! The game could've made a point that the financial well-being of Sunny and Mari's family came at the price of the parents failing to properly connect with their children; sure, their jobs are well-paying, but they're married to them, so to speak.

Mari could've felt compelled to care for Sunny as if she was his mom (with Hero trying his best to help her out whenever he can because he notices how exhausted she is) since their parents weren't around much in general. Alternatively, when their parents did have the time to get involved in their children's lives, they only pushed Sunny and Mari to perform well academically without paying attention to how it impacted their children mentally.

Maybe that could've been the whole reason Mari is a perfectionist, the emotional distance of her parents convincing her that she'll never measure up to what they expect of her and making her push herself to achieve an impossible ideal. Maybe that would've allowed Sunny to be characterized as a people-pleaser, always putting others' needs above himself because seeing Mari's hard work receiving praise from their parents gradually convinced him that being useful to others is the same thing as being genuinely loved.

What if Mari's knee injury forcing her to quit softball was indirectly caused by her own overworking? What if it was a significant blow to her already shaky self-esteem and she took up piano practice to compensate? What if her drowning herself in work made her more and more distant from Sunny? What if that made Sunny obsessively try his best to make his friends happy to the point of suppressing his own needs because he didn't consider himself important ("my parents clearly like Mari more and she's the reason why my friends are my friends in the first place, so why would I matter?") and because he was secretly afraid that Mari distanced himself from him since he wasn't good enough for her?

That way, their big argument would have probably been the result of their issues boiling over; Mari's perfectionism becomes unreasonable due to being exacerbated by her fear of the upcoming recital (with Sunny feeling that she wants the precision of a machine from him) and Sunny's long-suppressed needs finally make themselves known via him impulsively destroying the violin and starting the argument himself. Maybe Sunny could've put his hands on Mari in his rage (without shoving her down the stairs lmao) or viceversa.

And, well. Maybe that argument could've been the straw that broke the camel's back for Mari, the final push she needed to hang herself.

If Sunny was the one to put his hands on Mari, he could've blamed himself for making her feel unloved and erroneously assumed that she hanged herself because of him. If Mari was the one to put her hands on Sunny, he could've blamed himself for not recognizing that as a sign that she wasn't doing well. Either way, his situation would've probably become more genuinely tragic since he's beating himself up for circumstances he never had much control over. I think that'd have very neatly explained his status as a silent protagonist too - from his point of view, his beloved sister died the last time he dared to open his mouth, so he chose to deliberately flatten himself out because he's afraid of hurting anyone ever again.

Maybe the game could've subtly conveyed Sunny's efforts to move on from his grief via Mari's grave in the church's cemetery. Since I believe that the game would've had more time to properly pace its content if the events took at least five days, the idea could've been executed like this:

on the first day, Sunny wouldn't even see the door to the cemetery just like he doesn't see the closet room's door and like he makes the door to Basil's room disappear when he sees the latter's corpse

on the second and third days, the door to the cemetery would be visible if you visit the church, but trying to interact with it will just have Sunny shaking his head

on the fourth day, the cemetery would finally become accessible… except for Mari's grave. it would have collision, like there's a sprite supposed to be there, but it'd be invisible the exact same way Mari's piano is on the Hikikomori route, and when interacted with, Sunny would just say that "There is nothing here."

finally, on the fifth day, you'll get to see the grave and even lay flowers on it if you want

Maybe Black Space could've been an anti-Memory Lane of sorts instead of being a YN rip-off - if Memory Lane was supposed to represent Sunny's most cherished memories, Black Space should've represented the worst ones he had. What if Black Space actually provided set-up for the argument by chronicling the gradual deterioration of his relationship with Mari over the course of their practicing? It'd make sense that he'd try to bury these as deep inside of his mind as possible. There was a nice story here. It's gone now.

hiii do you have an all time fav song

hii!! yes i DO!!! hands-down my all time favorite song is "scenes from an italian restaurant" by billy joel! it has been my favorite song for YEARS i love it so much rahhhhhhhh

Yeah Sephiroth's new costume is... something. Tbh completely honest though it looks like something Shinra would've had him wear off the battlefield, so I don't feel like him wearing... that doesn't seem out of the picture and I hate it.

It does which adds another layer of grossness from a lore and story front. If its true, its kinda ironic that square put it out as a costume in the first place. TFS saying that Sephiroth was a victim of Shinra from the beginning and that’s definitely a bad thing but in turn, putting that costume out as marketing and “fan service” is doing the exact same thing they’re saying is bad. I’m tired, so that probably wasn’t very coherent lol

It’s just so many layers of “this is weird and gross”

The costume could’ve just been referenced in dialogue like “yeah shinra has me wear things like [costume] sometimes.” Not a thing that people are spending time and money on to have. And some of the stuff on twitter people are saying about it is also pretty weird to just gross. I would expect the rage-bait app to be mad about it, but not that ive seen. I’m probably just rambling now, but yeah.

ENDLESS OCEAN ENJOYERS STAY WINNING OUR PATIENCE HAS BEEN REWARDED

I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of the apothecary diaries

and is there not just generally a certain level of decency that would make you like ease up on a person who's obviously more than a little frazzled i am sorry that i cant process all my feelings and regurgitate them to you in an easily digestible manner while im actively In a situation or have a prepared disclaimer about how im so sorry but im just overwhelmed and need you to leave me alone right now or whatever else maybe i just dont know maybe i cant tell you exactly what im feeling or need and if i have to figure it out and explain that to you my brain is going to explode. but you could read the room. is there not a point where a friend would probably just go oh okay let me not continue pushing this person let me take a moment to reflect on their state and perhaps try to ease that or at least not keep fucking pushing on it. and also maybe not choose these moments to make otherwise innocuous but contextually just kinda meanspirited jabs. ok whatever

In an extremely odd turn of events, I have been reading fluffy fanfics of late.

aokise…………

how does one respond when one's favorite author(s) comments on one's fic, like, how does one construct a comment purely out of drool, tears, and maniacal giggling? asking for a friend. >.>

i thought of my family. i ✨shrivelled up inside✨

AND WHAT IF I JUST WRITE PURELY SELF-INDULGENT THINGS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE?????????

ok so concept: bronze age slugcats

slugcats with civilization. slugcats who pay taxes to the king of their local city state. slugcats who bake bread and make beer in little jars. slugcats with little textiles and coins and swords. slugcats who live in relatively peaceful cooperation with the scavs and trade with them. slugcat warfare with armor and red lizard chariots. slugcats having little festivals and dancing and singing and feasting. slugcats who sail the seas in boats and explore the ocean. slugcats who start mystery cults around the iterators and care for them and keep them company. slugcat ea nasir getting chewed out via pearl-tablet for the poor quality of his copper (stolen from five pebbles)

Remember how the character creation in Foundations was the one thing everybody was like crazy jazzed about. Like the main thing I got the most compliments about was the character creation stuff? I think I accidentally challenged myself to top it.

This game is looking like it's gonna have over 200 items of clothing in 6 different styles that can be mixed and matched, plus a system to save your outfits.

My little fashion nerd heart is fluttering while writing all of these item descriptions...