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alex-fictus · 1 year

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Sand behavior is so odd

So very odd.

Pictures by me.

From Silver Lake State Park Dunes, Mears, Michigan, USA. These dunes were created 1.8MYA, deposited as glacial drift (1).

#throwback #throwback thursday #my photography #sand #geology #sand dunes #sediment #sedimentology #it’s not letting me include a link #why tho?#I wanted to link a source to find out more about Michigan dunes

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plutonicbees · 9 months

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young just us: the game 👾

based off of the scott pilgrim video game, i wanted to play around with the idea of what the yj98 team would look like in the same style.. mostly i just wanted to draw everybody as silly little pixel sprites

(character sprite pngs + mount justice landscape under cut)

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luna-lovegreat · 5 months

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For those who don't have Twilight Princess but would like to know:

The move Twilight performed while fighting Dink is called the helm splitter. It's one of the Hidden Skills that the Hero's Shade, aka Time (but as a skeleton oof) taught him

This move is often an instant kill. It is harder against Lizalfos, so the goal is to quickly turn around and deliver a slash. He lands with his back to the enemy- which made Dink grab him from behind (and bit Twi's arm ouch). But it's one of the most powerful moves Shade taught him- he practically ripped out Dink's shoulder.

One of the art screenshots is not Lu, but art Jojo did of shade teaching him to do it. (Can confirm it was terrifying- bro stopped the blade an inch from Twi's head- after telling him it's called the helm splitter)

#love that Twi's using the skills Time taught him #also doing this move in game feels really badass tbh #run away dink #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu #lu twilight #hero's shade #Lu time #lu dink #twilight princess #I know that many have already pointed this out and or already know #I wanted to include videos and stuff but never want to imply I know things that others don't #and if you have the links (heh. pun) to posts where others pointed out similar or the same stuff I want to see them!!! because!!#literally everyone's thoughts are so cool and valuable? I love you guys never stop creating #and if I ever say or imply anything offensive let me know because I want to learn always #:)

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spielzeugkaiser · 1 year

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[MASTERPOST]

Jaskier has always sung Milek to sleep - the songs are ingrained in his consciousness. And there are things that were difficult, things that still hurt, yes. But at the core? Jaskier is happy.

#I wish I could properly put into words what that realisation means for both Geralt AND Milek #geraskier #geralt of rivia #jaskier #geralt x jaskier #the witcher #geraskier lovechild #with all the guilt that Geralt carried around I think there is the moment of realisation for him that this is not the Jaskier he knew #not the exact same one #(as he changed with becoming a father too)#and that Jaskier found happiness - that let's him breathe easier again #this is a triumphant song!#and that means something #omegaverse #also the song is 'everything changes' from waitress which was already the musical that started that whole AU #I'm not including a link because tumblr is ehhhhh about that #If I ever learn to do animatics you have to hold me back that would have been one #jaskier and milek

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breannasfluff · 7 months

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Triple Threat Cheer Squad!

#lu triple threat #lu wild #lu hyrule #lu legend #linked universe #linkeduniverse #tri force heroes #Lord Fluffle Puff the First #lu ravio #blupee #ravio #breannasfluff #linked universe wild #linked universe legend #linked universe hyrule #linked universe fanart #thank you sraksha for letting me include Fluffle #my art #polls

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leciraofthewilderness · 3 days

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So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).

#loz #tears of the kingdom #Link #Zelda #I will say also that I think part of the reason totk is special to me is very personal #like when it came out I was still struggling with the worst burnout of my life #I had had a few months of exhaustion between January and March and in May that exhaustion was still sticking to me #it was hard to get out of bed hard to do anything I felt so tired that I almost felt sick but I wasn’t sick #and the thing is Zelda games are my biggest special interest #and having a new one to play like genuinely I’m not joking it gave me bsck so much energy #I was doing really badly but when totk came out I played it for an entire weekend straight basically #and like my mom came to visit me and help me out with basic life stuff #and like sit with me while I played just like enjoying being together #and that was really nice #over that summer and the fall after I started getting to know someone I work with better #largely over conversations about totk at first #and they’ve become a good friend #(and become someone that I feel safe to be fully myself around)#and so I just have this really strong personal connection to totk #like I will not claim to be impartial about it #there are definitely criticisms that I can acknowledge #in particular I don’t like that they un-amputeed Link let Link be disabled #and also ganondorf’s characterization was shallow and one dimensional #and I’m sure there’s other things I could think of #but the overall narrative #including Zelda becoming the light dragon and then turning back in the end #I really like that #it felt like a narrative of healing to me #and playing it at the time that I did felt really healing to me too

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pineapplefulfillseveryneed · 3 days

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Sparks tour 2023

#I thought it would be nice to put all their photos from the tour in one post because I love seeing them all together :)#(there were so many though - I sadly had to leave 5 photos out)#best tour. 10/10. zero notes. <3 #everything I could find from the tour that was already posted has been reblogged ^^ (if I missed any of your posts: let me know!)#a little explanation about the archive (maybe I should write a proper thing on how to navigate it sometime):#I've tagged posts with the city things happened in so you can find them that way through tags #posts have additionally been tagged by date following the format Month Day Year like so: june 16 2023 #if you are on desktop or using a browser you can click the link I put above & it'll lead you to the archive of all the posts from the tour #I still have a lot of things to add (including my own tour experiences) so I'm not done with tour posting!#I'll post any new posts the normal way and in a week or so I'll send them back in time so they'll show up at the right dates in the archive #End of PSA!#sparks tour 2023 #sparks tour 2023 photo #2023 #sparks #russell mael #ron mael

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dirty-bear-rick-sanchez · 5 months

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Saw this comment under an episode breakdown and holy shit?

Personally, I think it would cheapen the ending and the episode as a whole (no pun intended) if this was the case but it was a very good observation and I had to go back and rewatch that moment because I completely missed it.

I'm hoping that it's meant to symbolise that Rick's greatest fear is having/admitting to his attachment to Morty (or to people in general) rather than the literal interpretation of them still being in the hole but this was such a good catch that I had to share it!

#rick and morty #rnm #rick and morty spoilers #rnm spoilers #fear no mort #rick sanchez #morty smith #i hope it's alright for me to post this here since i included their name and a link to the video they posted it under #please let me know if this is an issue!

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poirott · 8 months

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Benedict Cumberbatch at Milan Fashion Week

Benedict attended the Prada fashion show during the Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024, September 21 2023.

Source: ellehongkong, culted, whoopsee.it, SmilingBenedict, letitiawright IG story (alternate), ffw IG story (alternate), shirleymorgana via SmilingBenedict, prada Tiktok, lucy.dimitrova Tiktok (alternate), GettyImages.com

#benedict cumberbatch #prada #milan fashion week #benedictedit #cumberbatchedit #marvelcastedit #fashionedit #dailymenedit #*edit #these gifs took ages to do! *o*#love the big coat and cool shoes :)#his shoulders are so broad <3 #he sat with emma watson yay <3 #it's amazing to have this much footage #i included some alternates #since IG stories expire #so you can still see the videos #tumblr won't let me link one of the tiktoks #for some reason but i inluded their name

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babycharmander · 8 months

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people will write the most aphobic or amatonormative essays on creativity or media in general and other folks will link it around like it's the most Beautiful and True thing that has Ever been Written and it's just something like

"more children's media needs to show characters having sex"

or "art is only good if it involves fetishes and is written by intensely sexual people because liking sex is normal and not being interested in sex is not and makes your writing Extremely Boring and Bad"

or "media that shows muscular or thin people is so sad because it will make other people want to be muscular or thin and then that will lower their libido and they will not be able to enjoy sex which is more important than health"

like are people... actually reading what these essays are saying or

#negative nonsense #sorry some weirdo linked to one of these essays in response to a post a friend of mine made #and it never ceases to amaze me how people think the world must revolve around sex #to the point where only Good Art/Media/Writing/Whatever involves sex #and if it does not involve sex it is Not Good #like my bros my dudes please goodness gracious sakes alive #understand that some people exist........ who are not interested in sex #and they're not unhealthy or anything they just!!! are not interested!!!#and they don't want to include it in their works!!!#and that works don't have to include sex or fetishes to be good!!!#like I get that you're combating sex negativity but don't like stomp on sex repulsed or asexual people in doing so???#(I am asexual for the record please do not come at me for stereotyping ace people as not liking sex)#(I am ace and sex repulsed please let me exist and stop trying to tell me I am a bad writer/artist for who I am)

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dtmgshenanigans · 4 months

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Dude That's My Ghost Shorts!

Hey everyone!!! After searching and scrolling through tumblr I found three of the dtmg shorts in HD quality!! The shorts are titled, "Walk This Way", "Scream Queen" and "Hydra Head". Here is the link to the videos and I hope you all enjoy!

#You have no idea how excited i was when i found these!!#all of these were already downloaded from the disneyxduk youtube so they do include the youtube intro #logo and outro #This is my first time adding videos to a google drive folder but hopefully I did it right and it shows up #Let me know if the link or the google drive doesn't work #I'll try to fix it as soon as possible!#dtmg #dude that's my ghost

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shimmeringweeds · 8 months

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Hey, hey, so is this, like, general life advice or is this a personal request.

Because, oh boy, do I have some inquires for a certain someone.

#past or future let them be #and LG is really here being like 'that includes me'#I'm an old man my past is traumatizing and death is my future - don't ask #I only nag because he's my favorite #Link Click #时光代理人

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chocolateteapotsvis · 10 months

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Halbarry Fic Recommendation Masterpost

Yes, it's a list of lists. Since there's kind of a lot of these now (and I have plans for more when I get off my butt/am procrastinating my Halbarry Week stuff), let's get everything in one place!

Trope/Themed Lists

Domestic/Cozy/Slice of Life

Hurt/Protection

Angst with a Happy Ending

Fun/Quirky/Upbeat

Historical AU <- Longfic for people who already know the characters

Blue Lantern Barry (+1!)

POV Outsider

Halbarry Calendar

New Year’s

Valentine’s Day

Hal’s Birthday

Barry’s Birthday

Halloween: Horror/Cute/Sexy and Spooky Vibes

Winter/Christmas/Hanukkah

Even More Lists!

Halbarry Week Collections! 2023, 2022 and 2020

Halbarry Secret Santa Collection! 2023

@briarmoon1015's List!

@ceeloilights' List!

@finalfrontierpioneer’s Lists: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019

@dailygreenlantern Lists: Here and Here and Here

#halbarry #fic recommendation #fic rec masterlist #I'm a little behind on my reading #so hopefully this will be an excuse to catch up on that too!#will plan on updating the links as I add/find more!#let me know if you have more lists and I'll include them!

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to-be-loved-by-death · 7 months

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My current sapphic Japanese cinema masterlist:

Blue (2002) - youtube

Typhoon Club (1987) - youtube

The Cherry Orchard (1990) - youtube

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming (2008) - youtube

Helter Skelter (2012)

Love Exposure (2007) - internet archive

Tag (2015)

Black Lizard (1968) - youtube

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

Antiporno (2016)

Tokyo Decadence (1992)

Summer Vacation 1999 (1989)

Dream Girls (1994) - youtube

Manji (1964) - internet archive

With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)

Girls of the Night (1961)

A Bride for Rip van Winkle (2016) - youtube

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002) - youtube

Topless (2008)

Maria Watches Over Us (2010)

Sailor Uniforms: Lily Lovers (1983)

The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye (1935)

Afternoon Breeze (1980) - youtube

Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (2009)

The Forest of Love (2019) - netflix

Keiko (1979)

The Story of Pupu (1998) - youtube

Love/Juice (2000) - youtube

Sayonara (2018)

The Adolescence of Utena (1999) - internet archive

Night’s Tightrope (2016)

Queer Japan (2019)

Angel in September (1994)

#archive #lesbian cinema #sapphic cinema #japanese cinema #film links #film recommendations #take the sion sono films with a grain of salt or better yet don’t take them at all #it would feel incomplete to entirely drop them out but he is a horrid horrid man and should not get any of your money #I am not sure what is available elsewhere as I’m in the uk #so prime and Netflix here are pretty severely limited in Asian cinema #also this is my specialty so I’d love to hear if you guys have any favourites I’ve missed out on here #I haven’t included the female prisoner films for example and if you think I should have let me know!#I’d like for this list to grow and expand with collaborations!!!

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charrfie · 2 months

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howdy laika! for that ask game, spamton with 17, 22, 23, 24?

LONG POST INCOMING PLEASE READY YOURSELF

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

See this is a tricky question bc I wouldn't say I truly LIKE any spamton ships really; they all don't work for me for one reason or another. But I'm fine with seeing some* of them regardless because I do view a majority of them as having been a part of his history? Like him and swatch for example. I do not enjoy that ship or actively take part in it but do I think there was something going on there during spamtons big shot years??? Yeah. Do I have a problem with anyone that does enjoy it? No. Kind of a non-answer but it's the best I've got

* = "Some" excluding any addison ships (bc I personally view them as siblings) and also ones that aren't morally gross, obviously

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to ths character? Something you don't like?

OH BOY AM I A FIC READER. For the past month or so as my hyperfixation on spam has ramped up in severity again I've been trying to read every spamton centric fic that's ever been written and wow has it been a journey. So as for what I like!! The easiest answer to this is probably just the general statement of "when people write him how he is in canon." It's surprisingly rare to see him written in such a manner but is always a nice surprise when he is. Not only do I say this in relation to his character as a whole, but his speech patterns too! Which- admittedly- are extremely difficult to get the hang of! So I understand if people aren't super well versed in it and can't write him accurately in that manner. But it's my favorite thing ever when people do.

As for the second part of this question, I think the most glaring thing I hate when it comes to fics about him is just how often he's infantilized. It's SHOCKING how often it happens. Sure sure, he can be silly no doubt about it, but he's a grown man in his 40s and has experienced so much awful shit. Can we knock it off with treating him like he's a newborn or is stupid?? In the same breadth is when people make him excessively kind or sweet right off the bat... like is he not kind of an asshole??? I think its perfectly fine to embrace that fact; him being morally gray adds SO much to his character! Dare I say a lot of people who enjoy his character wouldn't have been intrigued by him without it, so I don't know why that element of his character is so often neglected. Same with his small moments of kindness/humanity; they wouldn't hit as hard if he was like that the whole time. Idk. I'm kind of picky about writing and literature so I have a lot to say sorry lol

23. Favorite picture of this character?

If we're talking about canon art of him only then I will forever be thinking about this gif of him. It makes me crazy. Same with this drawing toby did of him, you people have no idea the damage it does to me

If fan works are included... then this piece by @fatspamton is my absolute favorite picture of spamton EVER and it has been for the longest time, no question about it. It's exactly how I see him in my head and he looks so charming in it T_T <3 All of this artists spamton art (and other art/music too!!) is absolutely worth looking at if you ask me; the way he draws spam is unbelievably perfect, I think about all of its works of him very often :"^]

24. What other character from another fandom of yours reminds you of them?

Going to be honest I've been stumped on this one. I don't think I have any answer?? There's no guy that takes up my brain space which is similar enough to him for me to say in full confidence "yeah x is like him," sorry!

#THANK YOU FOR ASKING THIS LOVE U #also to the artist whose works i included:#please let me know if youd like me to take down the actual picture and just leave the link to it up! ^_^#laika answers #should i put this under a read more. is it too long. lmk #long post #you can ask me about spamton and I do not shut up

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crescentfool · 2 years

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recently, i’ve been thinking about what a 100% social link/confidant run is like from the perspective of the persona protagonists, rather than the player. i’ve always been a sucker for thinking about the type of narrative created by a person’s gameplay choices (it can be so fun and deep) so!! i wrote this analysis / musing.

some notes before we start: this was written with the lens of persona 3 being the most recent game i played- but the concepts are applicable to the p4/p5 protagonists as well! no spoilers for any of the games are mentioned; this is moreso a general discussion of ludonarrative dissonance with the game mechanics and narrative and how it makes for fun angst (ft. personal interpretation).

(more under the cut!)

the framework: game mechanics

in all of the games, the social link system’s existence coincides with the social stats mechanic. certain social links require a specific set of stats in order to initiate it, or surpass a certain rank. each game has around 20 of these- each of which represent the major arcana (+ some bonuses, e.g. aeon / jester / faith / councilor).

for any players going for a 100% social link run, this basically requires each social stat to be maxed out. anyone who’s followed a guide for a 100% run would know that the beginning of the game tends to be very “strict” with how time can be used, most of which involves getting the stats raised as soon as possible.

outside of characterization and worldbuilding, completing social links are incentivized for a variety of gameplay reasons. so how could this completionist play style affect the protagonists?

prioritizing social stats over everything else: a general view

regardless of which protagonist you want to put under a petri dish, with a 100% run, you’re essentially asking the protagonist to form amicable bonds with 20 or so people, give or take. granted, not everyone becomes adjoined to the hip to the protagonist.

personally, i feel that forming 20 different bonds over the course of a year would be rather strenuous. during these 100% runs, the protagonists may feel that they’re spreading themselves thin trying to dedicate their resources to multiple different people as well as raising their “social stats.” i find the implications that this has on said bonds is so, utterly fascinating.

while this isn’t reflected in the game and would be better represented within a fic, i find it difficult to believe that this type of behavior doesn’t have any ramifications on the quality of the protagonist’s closer relationships (or their self-image, for that matter).

just… imagine calling one of your close friends but then they consistently give responses along the lines of “lmao sorry i’m busy doing other things,” and they rarely make the time of day for you. how would you feel? gameplay-wise, this deterioration of the relationship is best represented in persona 3 with social links reversing if you haven’t spent time with them in awhile.

part of my fascination with this concept is influenced by my own experiences. trying to maintain so many relationships can be difficult to keep up with and it quickly gets overwhelming (see dunbar’s number for more information). jumping between so many people also makes it difficult to focus on a few relationships meaningfully- meaning that relationships may be limited to being simple pleasantries. even then, ‘successfully’ keeping every relationship satisfying comes at the cost of being unable to pursue your own development and interests.

overall, i think that trying to do so many things ends up lowering the quality of the relationship(s) involved, especially when you also consider the fatigue from going to school as well as fighting shadows.

playing the therapist friend / listening role: a general view

another aspect of the 100% run that i think about is how the protagonists rarely open up to other people. a good chunk of SLs follow a storyline of the protagonist acting as a therapist friend/helping the other person through one central issue. some SLs are an exception to this and have a more casual “we’re just hanging out vibe.”

basically, SLs tend to be weighted toward the other character’s growth, moreso than the protagonist’s (which is handled by the main story). that said, the idea of mostly playing a listening role across most of your relationships and not having many that you feel comfortable to speak freely about your own stuff… feels really unbalanced and unhealthy?

i do think that part of the lack of “input” can be attributed to the silent-protagonist approach taken in the games (which is a whole ‘nother topic). but!! i find that each protagonist’s options, while limited, are fun to think about! some of the traits and interpretations i’ve seen for the differing protags, to name a few, include:

being afraid to open up / get attached and keeping people at arm’s distance as a result

needing to be around other people, even if it’s just listening them, to distract from their own struggles / pretend nothing’s wrong with them

enjoying helping others, being a good and careful listener who can provide an appropriate and helpful response

the willingness to prioritize others over themselves; a lack of self-preservation

compulsive people pleasing

at its worst, the lack of “protagonist talking” or equal reciprocation in response could be misinterpreted by the other person as disinterest (like they’re talking to a wall). alternatively- the lack of “personal tidbits” could be taken as, “you don’t trust me enough to be able to open up, huh.” and i just think that seeing this in a fic would be the biggest shitshow ever (and i would read that).

concluding thoughts:

overall, i feel that the protagonists taking a predominantly listening approach to several relationships at once can lead to compassion fatigue and general burnout. the protagonists are rarely at the receiving end of being listened to and/or having their issues worked through… and that’s kind of sad?

while the 100% social link run can provide great power to any persona fusions (and other cool battle abilities + hijinks)... i ultimately think that there’d be a lot of mental strain that would make achieving this much more difficult when you take a narrative-emphasized approach.

i do realize that it is possible to see the general vibe of this post as “100% social link is bad,” but like… there’s something i find really appealing about the messiness of attempting to manage so many relations at once- only to fall short in several of them and attempting to salvage the last bits of their sanity. when you think about the complications of the 100% SL run from the shoes of the protagonist… yeah!! that’s the good shit!

anyways! if anyone knows of any fics with this kinda vibe for the p3/4/5 protags… feel free to drop it in my askbox… i like them all VERY much :3c… and if this raised any food for thought- i’d be equally honored! let the protags go through shit i wanna see their emotions and coping mechanisms damn it! 👏

#persona 3 #persona 4 #persona 5 #yes it is 3am and im posting this. i couldn't sleep so i wanted to write something that i've been thinking abt as of late :x #highly recommend looking up ludonarrative dissonance btw! if ur interested in game storywriting its SOO interesting bc its definitely-#an occurence that happens every now and then in a video game. persona included. like.. when game mechanics tell one story but the narrative #-ends up contradicting that (or some other thing in reality ends up doing that...). does that even make sense??#i tried to keep this post general to p3/4/5 but if you know me well enough you'll see how my p3 bias has shaped this post. lmao #i also could go on a tangent about how i feel about orpheus telos as a thing w/rt p3 social links BUT I WONT. unless...?#i have more i want to say on the topic (maybe will do so at a later time) but feel free to ask for more specific hcs with the protags?#maybe not p4kun though just bc ive only watched p4 so i havent had the time to let it sit btwn play sessions #anyway bye im just going to let this float in the void while i sleep. have a good day #meta #hc and au nonsense #lizzy speaks

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