Before I played: Man I don't think I'm mean enough to romance Astarion.

After playing, romancing Astarion, and getting further context on his endings, esp. the epilogues: I literally am not mean enough to let this man ascend, I will protect this sad pile of pixels with my last breath, cute bat though.

Btw I haven’t stopped thinking about Link’s most recent teen fact. I know it was funny silly! Lincoln sneaks in to clean his dads’ bedroom! But also. it made me SO sad 😭💔 I’m almost always sad when we learn more about the Grant and Marco’s relationship bc wow yeah the Wilsons never change :( For all of Grant’s efforts to communicate better with his son, to do a better job at that than Darryl and Carol did, he doesn’t communicate with his husband! He outright lies to his family! And now we know that Marco also doesn’t really communicate that well lol

SS TIER KUUKOUS FROM THE EPILOGUE OF THE MANGA 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Hello! So like I've been having that Lights, Camera, Sing Your Sins AU rent free in my head for a while, and thought this up.

Since the prisoners weren't allowed to meet at first, they could hear the others practicing their singing nearby/next door. Some are awed by how passionate they put into their songs (eg: Haruka & Shidou), how into it (eg: Fuuta & Kotoko), how emotional (eg: Kazui), etc. This allowed the prisoners to imagine what the others are like.

...Then there's Mikoto with Red going all out with their MeMe song and it stunned everyone into silent fear until the prisoners meet him and go "YOU SANG THAT!?!"

I've been going so so crazy over this omg!!

No matter how big the facilities are, I'd imagine it would be difficult to keep ten people undergoing a full filming process completely separate from each other. Though they don't actually see each other, they overhear recording booth sessions while while walking down the hall. They spot unique outfits and props in the costume closet. They hear crew members giving Jackalope weird updates ("sir, where do you want the massive tarot cards when they're finished?" "the order of thousands of fake flowers has arrived" "we ran out of medieval outfits" etc.) They see teams lugging around massive set pieces from one stage to another. They hear a few hushed rehearsals from behind dressing room doors.

Mahiru totally tears up listening to Kazui. Meanwhile Kazui is blown away by Mahiru's enthusiasm and speed. Yuno thinks After Pain sounds really fun. Amane is awed at the other songs, (she's never even heard rock music before). Kotoko finds herself singing bits of Weakness. Muu is moved by Shidou. Fuuta is torn between being jealous of Mikoto's song and excited there's someone else with some yelling.

And so of course, the prisoners go crazy trying to piece together predictions about their upcoming cellmates. One the experiment begins, they subconsciously start matching up the voices they remembered hearing with their expectations. I think Shidou, Amane, and Kotoko would surprise people the most -- it seems hard hard to get a day-to-day read on them from their songs alone. Fuuta is simultaneously exactly what people were expecting and nothing like what they thought. Everyone's ideas of Mahiru were spot on. Haruka sang so confidently that the group is surprised to hear him stutter so often. Anyone who heard a bit of Meme is shocked when they meet Mikoto and make the connection. When asked about it, he just shrugs and laughs innocently, which only makes it harder to believe. Fuuta, excited to find someone else who did a rock song, is sorely disappointed at first.

summer 1985, hawkins.

byler week 2023 | day iv: summer love song used

i hope your depression and everything gets better for you btw!! wishing you the best 🌟

｜ｏ゜）I drew a happy Nemu to cheer myself up!

Furthering my Lucy is asexual agenda with today’s entry bc like! I’ve seen a couple posts comparing her experience to Jonathan’s trance when Drac’s roomies tried to eat him, and it IS like that, BUT without the slightest element of sexual attraction! Tbf I’m sure she’d downplay any such element when talking to Mina, but the thing is that it isn’t even downplayed, it’s just not there! And that’s such a central feature of how Jonathan experienced his trance that I think its lack here is quite notable.

some rawr x3 Noelles for the soul :33333

man I love projecting my interests onto characters I heavily relate to then going "wow they're just like me that's so cool what a coincidink!!!!! :3c"

I already sent an ask but shit i have another question

How is Tamarind holding up after Wendy's death? :(

Not so great, really. I get a little ache in my chest every time I see this little "yearning" mood debuff. Tamarind must be so unused to sleeping alone after all this. I wonder if there's a "grief counselling" mod or something?

Ugh, I never like losing colonists. It makes me too sad.

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mikayla never thought she'd be pathetic enough to spend seemingly every waking second thinking about a girl, but that's how she got through all her years in confinement, thinking about tai. just like out in the wilderness, it was her only coping mechanism, the only way to make it through the day, because without it, she was hopeless. there was a part of her that expected tai to be waiting for her the day she got out, but instead, to her annoyance, it had been misty, for whatever fucking reason. she accepted it, because it's not like she had any other ride, telling herself she'd look for tai after — until misty started rattling off how everyone else was doing, most of which mikayla drowned out, but of course, she listened when she got to taissa. (which she did last, probably because she knew mikayla wouldn't give a fuck about anything else after that.) and hearing about everything she'd already gotten accomplished, she changed her mind, because she didn't want to ruin it, didn't want to be some obstacle. and so she didn't look for her.

she'd convinced herself that if tai wanted to talk to her, she'd reach out, and so she waited, but days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, and somewhere in between, she realized that she wasn't coming, that their love was just as dead as their friends. and it fucking hurt, knowing that the memories she clung so desperately to for years were just that — memories, nothing else. as time went on, she convinced herself it was fine, that the massive hole in her chest was just something she'd learn to live with, another shitty thing on top of everything else. she was fine, mostly, as long as the women she distracted herself with looked and acted absolutely nothing like tai, as long as she didn't let herself think about anything for too long, as long as she reminded herself that she spent the first part of her life completely alone, so she should be used to this.

and then fucking misty called, over a year later, and in her desperation to keep mikayla on the phone, told her that tai was engaged. she was fine until she wasn't, until something inside her fucking snapped. her reaction could only be described as a tantrum, smashing her phone and throwing things until all of her dishes were just as broken as her heart, and in the silence that came after, in the middle of the wreckage, she decided to see her. when misty shared her address, mikayla hadn't written it down, hadn't planned on needing it, but it was ingrained in her brain anyway, and then mikayla found herself here, on tai's doorstep for the first time in seven years, overcome with rage and longing and desperation.

when @ladyintree opens the door, suddenly mikayla's eighteen years old again, her mouth dry, hands shaking, butterflies erupting in her stomach. briefly, she forgets why she came in the first place, forgets the years they spent without each other. instinctually, she wants to reach for her, her fingers twitching with the need, but then she sees the ring, and it's a punch to the gut, all her nerves replaced by anger. it's unfair, maybe, because she couldn't have expected tai to wait all those years, but a part of her felt like there had to be a reason they survived, that the wilderness kept them together because they were supposed to be. but apparently, she was the only one.

she doesn't know how to begin, if she's supposed to say hi, but she decides to cut straight to the point. “ is she the reason you didn't give a shit when i got out? ”

She's DONE!!! Sorry random obscure 90s vn girl whose garage kit I repurposed.

i am doing not great today lads

I've got the BIGGEST mixed feelings about Legends Z-A's unspecified month 2025 release date.

My brain is going: Ah yes. Smart decision. This is great. Gives them more development time. Let them cook. :)

But my heart, upon hearing that I won't be able to play a brand new Pokémon game this year, not a main series game, spinoff or a DLC, for the first time ever, is going:

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