part of me does wonder if/to what extent joel’s character in limited life was influenced by the sexyman tournament. like tell me these aren’t the actions of a man who learned what a poor little meow meow is and immediately started taking notes
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i will say approaching a fan favorite character with only a vague sense of amusement and only having become interested in romancing him initially to do the bad ending does feel. odd.
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so I don't have a motorcycle and I take the bus everywhere, so when we want to get a midnight snack after dance practice this charming lad has been giving me a ride on his motorcycle so I could go with everyone, and he's also been dropping me home. Today there was an older man who joined dance practice, and he thought I was a girl so he was surprised when I gave my name and he went "oh, that's kind of a masculine name, isn't it?" and I STARTED to laugh it off and then I was like "wait. no that's the girl response wrong wrong wrong I say I'm a guy here." and I got as far as going "ahaha... well, ah..." and the guy who's been giving me a ride this whole time goes "well you're a guy, right?" which was really nice and considerate of him??? so I say yes and all.
later on I chat him up while he takes me home, I say my sister's gotten covid and her co-workers have been getting her food and water and meds and everything and she's looking for a gift for them, and it's difficult because in the boondocks there isn't really anything nice you can treat them to and they're at the age where sweets and cakes aren't good anymore (for health and palate reasons). I said I'd just give them tea, but he said "well what if they don't drink tea? I think I'd gift flowers" and I was really surprised by this?? I feel like flowers have a really strong romantic connotation, especially in the states... but maybe not here???
anyways I really wanted to thank him for... not quite sticking up for me, but... well, it was nice, you know??? and when I expressed surprise at his flower suggestion, I went "Wow, really? I've never received flowers for anything!" he went "I've given them as gifts. Never received any, though." in like a mildly sad way. And I know there's a flower shop nearby??? like would it be too much??? to buy him flowers??? like is that too fruity??? like I'm not trying to romance this guy but he's been really nice to me...
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when I first started my job, I'd often overplay my emotional detachment to it because I had moved from a high-emotional/personal-involvement industry into a soulless corporate one.
and to, like, justify that decision and explain it to my high-emotional/personal-involvement peers from that old industry, I'd be like "lol I don't really care, you know? the job suits my skill set and I can do it, so it's all good:)"... but I've come to the realization that I actually really enjoy doing the labor of my job and it's weirdly hard to admit that!!
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avantasia fandom nice???? so fucking nice to the Kaleidovision Collective????????? Sweet and so wonderful and reblogging my art oh my god??????????????????????? the amount of reblogs and TAGS on that Scarecrow piece is insane oh my goodness. Goodness gracious yall are so sweet. What.
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ok mostly just getting this out of my head i think the reason i like stampede vashwood as much as i do despite not being much of a shipper in general is it resembles a dynamic i theoretically love but have never actually seen—where one character (A) is pining over a character (B) they know feels the same way about them.
because see for A these feelings are uncharted territory, a type of connection they’ve never formed before and maybe fear they never will again. even getting to the point where they admit their feelings to themself is like pulling teeth, but it’s something special to them.
meanwhile, character B has no reservations about their own feelings at all. they could give the most heartfelt declaration of love and mean every word of it as easy as breathing. they’ve loved A from the start and always will.
but in a sense, A’s feelings are unrequited anyway—the affection the two have for each other is equal, but it’s because B cares that much about everyone. it doesn’t matter if their feelings for A are romantic, deep down they probably don’t even know how to tell the difference between that and being whatever anyone wants them to be. and A knows this, so A can’t tell them what they want
ideally, this seemingly infinite capacity for compassion and love is part of what drew A to B in the first place (it at least can’t be something A resents or sees as unfair to them personally, that would miss the whole point). also ideally character B represents some sort of hope for a future A thought was impossible, escape from a dark past or a chance to become something better than they feel they are, but it’s a chance they can’t take without losing them
also also, this dynamic is angst-only. if they’re healthy enough to talk through their feelings and actually end up together they’re disqualified. it takes two specific types of disaster character for this to work properly, and any way it plays out will end up with everything falling apart horribly.
and like if i’m being honest here it’s barely even romantic. they probably never even get around to kissing and if they do they’re both convinced the other one doesn’t really mean it
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the fun thing about taking morrigan with you to places is you get to hear the parts where she actually calls for mercy for people no one else will, right after telling the warden to damn everyone else
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