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1931 Emmett Brown my absolute beloved
#back to the future#bttf#bttf the game#doc brown#there's a lot to unpack about the game#but I need to say that they did a fantastic job with teenage Doc#mine
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FMK: TLT Milfs edition*
*I am excluding Pyrrha because she's too main character it feels unfair
#the locked tomb#abigail pent#juno zeta#commander wake#do you ever think about how the canon FMK game replaces fuck with reanimate?#lots to unpack there. but that is serious discussion and this is a funny sex poll
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ian feeling like no one ever understood his creativity and the visions he had in his brain (and losing the one person who did, his mom) and deciding to become a video game creator so everyone could finally see, and validate, what happens in his brain. poppy having no one to share her love for games with and being made to feel like a freak for spending all her time playing games and then deciding to go to school for programming so she'd be surrounded by people with the same interests. each of them finding out that, despite their efforts to feel seen, the validation ian received was never enough and poppy never found anyone as passionate as her. until they find each other. now ian has someone who truly, from the beginning, appreciated and loved his work and poppy found someone who loves games as much as she does and didn't see her as a freak (or saw it and still liked her). the fact that even to this day they're still the only people who fully and deeply understand each other because of their similar feelings of loneliness from childhood, even if they don't talk about it. and the fact that despite them butting heads all the time, it's still their partnership that's at the core of mythic quest and should be the core of grimpop if they're smart enough to realize it before everything blows up.
#soulmates fr fr#i have a lot of feelings about the sarian episode trying to unpack them all#also! the name for grimpop was most likely created by ian as it's basically the same convention of sarian - the combination of names#sarian was named that because the game was his and his mom's. grimpop is his and poppy's!!!!#mythic quest#ian grimm#poppy li#text
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my previous nightshade post got WAY more traction than i thought it would so here’s more food 4 thought
#my art#omori#omori spoilers#omori au#basil#basil omori#ask to tag#knife#scopophobia#odontophobia#teeth#i just realized STRANGERs silhouette looks so stupid when it cuts off before his shorts end fml#nightshade#nightshade shipping#stranger omori#i have a lot of thoughts about this au. mostly that ive been captured by basils speech when sunny confronts him in his room ever since#the game originally came out. because jesus christ theres so much to unpack there. how can i Not want to delve deeper into that and--#flesh it out more?? as a STRANGER/basil kinnie: u ever idolize someone. u ever have an FP???? y
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Hello.
You and gay-jesus-probably have successfully made me question everything with your view that Tears of the Kingdom is imperialist propaganda, so that's been fun.
Anyway, I decided to share this discussion with the Zelda fans on reddit, and perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of them disagreed. Here is what they said (I'm Alarming_Afternoon44):
So what do you think? Have I and all these other people just been duped by the game's manipulative framing? Or do they actually have a point?
And if you'd rather not answer this, or would prefer if I censored the usernames, just tell me and I'll delete this.
Hey! Thanks a lot for reaching out, and I'm glad it made you think stuff through!!
Honestly, as I mentioned in this post, I am not super interested about in-world conversations about who oppresses who, because what can be assessed from the game is super vague and more vibes-based than evidence-based. Within the text, of course that the Good Zonais are good and the Bad Ganondorf is bad! But that's my whole point! The narrative has been deliberately crafted so that the zonais and Rauru (and Hyrule) are as blameless as possible (and it's not doing a great job at it overall to be frank; we would not be having these conversations about how offputting it all feels for a non-zero number of people if it did do a great job). More importantly, I want to focus on what sort of real-life narrative it all parallels. Because people make stories, and people live in the real world.
Not going after everyone's throat here, gamedev is hard and the hydras that are AAA game production do end up doing super weird stuff, especially since the thematic ramifications are absolutely never prioritized (and it's also always the same kind of people who make the final calls and push out what can and can't be talked about also). And as fans, we tend to have trouble stepping outside the lens of lore and take a look at the bigger picture sometimes; not as an attack on any individual part of that decision-making process but to just pause, stop, and question our standards, our priorities and the kind of reality (or skewing of reality) the stories we tell each other reflect.
Again: do we want to take videogames seriously or not? If we do, then we need to accept they are a vehicle for ideology, just like any other artform. And sometimes, you push out questionable ideology, sometimes without meaning to, because you didn't unpack your own biases as you did. And it's even fine to do it, nobody is perfect, a 300+ people team spread over 6 years certainly will not be that. But that it wasn't prioritized is, in my opinion, a problem. As a narrative designer, I want games (at least the narrative side) to be held to a higher standard than this. It's literally my job to work with the industry so it can hold itself to higher standards of quality --so the whole TotK situation is quite frustrating to witness from a very pragmatic, work perspective where I already spend my days trying to convince people that things mean things. I have a vested interest here in not having the companies I work for being given a free pass by gamers to do literally whatever as long as it's fun, especially when we're talking about a billion-dollars company suing its own fans left and right for any perceived slight. Nintendo are not underdogs here. It's fine to point out they cut corners and maybe promoted messy ideologies, voluntarily or not.
So long story short: no I don't believe anyone here has a point in regards to what I think is actually important, which is why these choices were made in the first place. If you look at an imperialist text expecting the text to tell you that it's imperialist instead of recognizing a framing used for propaganda by yourself, you're never gonna find any imperialist text ever, obviously not!! I'm sorry if I sound a little gngngn here, but I don't know why audiences have, at large, this feeling that lore and story beat decisions materialize themselves already formed and without any human bias, meddling, intervention, internal politics or approximations (it seems that people can only conceptualize this part if they have actual names to attach to the story, but without clear authors it's like there are no authors and so no bias, which is... a very strange bias in itself). I can promise you that it does not work that way in practice: every narrative department on every big game is a battlefield --some nicer than others, but all of them very emotionally draining either way.
So yeah, I guess that on these grounds, I disagree with every point raised here. Sorry Reddit :/
But thank you for the ask and sorry if I didn't go more into details as to why. The big Why I Dislike Rauru Post and the Gerudo Post might have some more specific rebuttals, but I am not super interested in debating small detail stuff tbh. I feel like it's no use if the frame of reference isn't being understood in the first place.
#totk spoilers#totk#totk critical#thoughts#asks#yeah I just disagree with a lot of these in general but I just don't feel like going through them one by one sorry ;_;#feel like I'm starting to repeat myself#especially for a game I liked okay but will definitively not revisit in the long run#tho @ the last redditor: yes thank you for proving my point because do you actually know about afghanistan's recent history :))#like... who funded the mujahideens' war not so long ago :))))) and for what purpose :)))))))))#everything said by that redditor is 100% far right propaganda it's not even a little bit anything else it's textbook applied imperialism#it's.... yeah how do you want to have these sorts of conversations when the real life parallels are unackowledged#I don't know it's just.... so frustrating to me that so many people have such a hard time to unpack external influences in media#or do not know how to pull apart thematic framings from in-world fluff#sorry if I sound a little dry but it's just... it's all a bit tiring honestly#I'm glad this made you reconsider things! or that you took the time to read stuff through even!! thank you!!!#and thanks for compiling the whole thing!!#I feel like it's a good way of showcasing well... the narrative doing a good job at defending itself#but not disputing that the entire framing is deeply flawed#at least in my opinion
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[A screenshot of dialogue from Disco Elysium, transcribed below;]
[ ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Legendary: Success] - Get the gun, lieutenant, it's okay. It's safe, he thinks. Just get it.
HAND/EYE COORDINATION [Formidable: Success] - Alright, here's how we do it: As soon as that gun isn't pointed at you again, you dash right, then immediately close the distance. Left hand grabs the barrel, right one breaks the wrist...
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Formidable: Success] - ...fingers lock behind her head, knee to the face, knee to the face, crush the ribcage, side-step and drop her with the hammer kick.
HALF LIGHT [Formidable: Success] - OH MY GOD, YES!!!! ]
#for context this is during the pigs encounter#harry looking for any excuse to beat the shit out of someone. old habits die hard dude#disco elysium#de screenshots#i think there is a lot to unpack about this dude's violent behavior that there hasn't been much discussion about#i want to put him under a microscope#also cops are often extremely violent and this is an example of the game not shying away from that fact. imo#de spoilers#disco elysium spoilers#dont be scared of the truth. harry's not a great guy we can embrace that#it makes him better#i want to talk about harry can we please talk about harry
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me writing childe as a delicate lover and ignoring how violent and bloodthirsty his true nature is 🧌‼️
#there’s a lot to unpack here with him truly#i think him being with someone gentle and loving would be so nice :<#i’m projecting bc im the opposite of him alright#i feel like it’s partially canon just bc of how he talks about his family#like he is such a big family man it’s not funny#his siblings (at least the younger ones) adore him sm#his story quest RAHHH#and how there’s a cottage kitchen set he favors in the game ?#this man is domestic as hell#just have to peel back the layers to see it#ajax 𓆩☆𓆪
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how is your soul perceived ?
the quiet observer. your soul is like a sponge, absorbing so much of the universe sometimes you feel like you're drowning. you wish you could make your heart a little stronger. but your gentleness is not weakness and neither is your sensitivity. you feel so much more than everyone else. it makes you kind even to those who don't deserve it. it makes you notice the hidden tears and the covered scars. you wonder who will save the ones who are suffering in silence, don't you know that includes you too?
tagged by: @halfyearsqueen
tagging: @isefyres @velcryons @daerias @diralupus / also anyone who wants too.
#'sometimes you feel like you're drowning' hello ???#(also the last phrase in HIS view. no it doesn't. moving on. we're never talking about that)#(he is very much. 'everyone should speak on their feelings. it's important and can fix things. except for me.'#there's only two people with whom i can imagine him speaking about it in canon tbh)#(i don't tend to get into luke's own image of himself because so much to unpack and it's not a fun time)#(it is never going to be enough. it doesn't matter what he does he'll never think he doesn't need to prove himself)#anyway i will say. i do not think he sees feelings as weakness#like when he goes serious it's not ? because he sees them as weakness it's that he's uncomfortable and not#allowed to react tbh. in general that IS the connecting thing when that happens#dash games tag.#and i know it's the show but#i think a lot about the court scene of 1x08 because like. yeah. he would openly hold his mother's hand as a teenager#he wouldn't see any issue with it
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CHAOS PRISM POWER MAKE UP
i did say i was going to do this eventually
#this is a shitpost#in case it wasn't obvious#because it is a little mean#he's unpacking a lot of trauma here#and i'm laughing about it#but he did look like a fucked up magical girl#sailor kratos or sailor sparta#sailor sparta? sailor sparta#i'm going to hel for this one#God of War#God of War Ragnarok#god of war Ragnarok spoilers#kratos god of war#kratos#gaming gifs#videogame gifs#playstation gifs#gifset#mine: gifs
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#diana's music diary#🌗#today was pretty nice actually#I did some chores today and yesterday and it's been pretty good my mind feels a little bit clear for once#other than that I played games with friends#and I've been thinking since last night about Órfhlaith#I'm really getting the hang of playing her now I think! she's weird and hard to play sometimes cause she's one of my less chill characters#which is so different from both me and the others I play#still fun... I still need to lean into some more aspects of her#she's got a lot to her being old I think so there's a lot to unpack in how she acts#anyways... let's try to have a nice and restful night... I'm in pain again n_n;;;#Youtube
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What is your OC's love language?
I was tagged by @natesofrellis @socially-awkward-skeleton @echo3-1 and @purplehairsecretlair to do this really interesting uquiz! Thank you for the tags, beloveds 💙
sending out tags to; @sstewyhosseini @risingsh0t @poisonedtruth @hoesephseed @thomrainer @confidentandgood @aceghosts @indorilnerevarine @adelaidedrubman @josephslittledeputy @strangefable @ghastlyrider @noetikat @jackiesarch @jacobseed @leviiackrman @shadowglens @shellibisshe and you!
a story that ends in blood
The world has always been unkind, and when you have turned to yourself for comfort you have come face to face with an empty pit which seems to be laughing. You don’t care if it kills you but once you find someone whom you love and who loves you back, you will make sure nothing happens to them. They are yours. You will make a tear in this world and create a new place for you and your love if it comes to that. Because it has always been about love, and it is how it always ends.
consumption of a heart unloved
Here’s a dining table, here’s a set of plates. Here’s your heart, red and bursting with love. You have tried to love people all your life, but no one seems to understand you. Your own mother perhaps forgot to teach you how to protect yourself, maybe people whom you trusted chose to look the other way when all you wanted was a hand full of love. All you want is someone to take from you, all you want is someone to dig in your heart and eat it and kiss you afterwards - bloody and red. You want them to tell you that you are what they have been looking for, you want to be the one who ends their hunger.
an undoing influence
Can someone tell you what to do? You have been carrying so much love within you for so long it is starting to turn into anger (why does it matter, all you see is red anyways) and you have been dragging this body through each day and every night you are split open on your bed and it is so so so lonely. If someone were to walk in while you were on your bed that way and they stitched you back in a new way, lining the seams with their love and kisses, you’d probably find this dreary world a little more bearable. You want someone to turn you over and over until you look in the mirror and see yourself looking back at yourself with a gentleness which has been lacking in you since forever.
violent devotion
Everyone seems to think you are faithless, but the thing is you haven’t yet found someone who will bring you to your knees and make you raise your head in reverence. This world has stopped bringing you joy, you want more of the divine. You want to dedicate your entire existence to someone; you want to make them realise they are not something terrible, make them see just how much beauty they are bringing to this world. You want to be the only one for them, the only one they have chosen to love. There’s a god shaped pit inside of you and only they can fit in it. And what if they choose to walk away? Didn’t I say this was violent devotion?
a knife called grief
You have left your house, you have left those people behind, but what are you going to do about the memories which have taken root in you? You can run but not without them. You want someone to sit with you on this cool marble floor while the sun burns everything. You want them to cut your rotten heart and theirs too. You want to sit with it in front of you, let them see you with all your flaws, which haven’t been your fault but you have been made to believe so, and you want them to love you anyways. Because you know you’d do that for them.
#oc: paz acosta#oc: mags wilhelm#oc: laurie devin#oc: shireen oqir#oc: carol kovacs#tag game#uhh be careful when opening the tags lmao#we got A LOT to unpack here wow ok let's go#these are all so extremely accurate it hurts and scares me#mags' result is probably the most surprising one#replace 'mother' with 'father' and it would be a lot more accurate#i guess you could say it applies to her before she met genji and after she escaped talon hmm#she did give him her whole heart (served on a plate) so maybe that's how talon could not take it from her later on#because she didn't have it anymore. it was always safe with him#or maybe i'm talking complete nonesense#paz is an obvious one. a tortured and broken soul looking for redemption in the form of love#it's all there really is for her. all she can believe in. wants to believe in. and when she finally finds it she'll do anything to protect#this is the part where i can finally talk about how 'blood in the wine' is THE song for laurie. it was written for her i know it#'i was given a heart before i was given a mind' describes her perfectly#because that's how she acts. out of love and compassion. not necessarily the most logical way. but it's always others before her#not only has she been neglected by others but also by herself#and the stitching part can honestly apply to both jacob and faith#it's almost as if this quiz knew shireen's partner is maul 😩 and to her he's obviously not the monster everyone else only sees#she doesn't deny the atrocities he's committed and she stands by him#how they're sort of?? in a force bond and they're the only ones for each other kinda hnnnnn#this whole result is just about carol and her dad tbh. she can't deny him nor run away from the memories. they're rooted.#all she ever wanted to hear him say was 'I am proud of you' but she never did. and she blames herself for not being good enough#and she carries this with her throughout her whole life. talk about daddy issues#if you made it this far i am kissing you on the mouth#these are just notes for myself but hii!! if you're reading this lol
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wanted to do more of these so!! fallout boys (new vegas and 4 respectively) and their boyfriends >:^)
#tag games#ask:nestor#ask:tiberius#i'll just use those tags shgfjdhg it's technically still a tag game <3 sort of#DID YOU GUYS MISS NESTOR i know i did#nestor uses any pronouns except it and tiberius uses he/they btw <3#AND YEAS YOU MAY RB#i'm spinning them in my brain so fast#arcade and nestor confessing at the same time... gayass#mac unintentionally fell in love with tiberius after a facking. bet. i hate him#tiberius' stats are funny to me. there's a lot to unpack there#nestor being both straightforward and vague we stan a [vague hand gestures] queen <3#ALSO YEAH I KNOW NESTOR AND ARCADE BOTH DO NOT HAVE THEIR CORRECT HAIR COLOR IN THESE PICTURES BUT IT'S FINE#i've found peace with it. don't worry about it.#anyway if you have questions about them hello hiiii my asks are open <3#haven't played new vegas in ages and never finished it but i can come up with lore on the spot it's one of my hidden talents
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like i think umi does a pretty good job of showing how misogyny is something thats deeply intrinsic to the family's traumas and how that shit is kind of passed down from parent to child and you can even see that in the men in the family but like then ill go on social media and see people talk about how their misogynistic behavior is actually a sign of them being a nonbinary malewife or whatever and its like are we sure youre not just talking about your oc with the same name
#.txt#like obviously i do think there is a lot of stuff to unpack even with the dads but like no one is talking about it in a nuanced way they#just call them their pathetic malewife meowmeow and completely misinterpret their misogyny in 100 different ways that are all wrong#i wont deny that part of this comes from how agonizingly the game portrays the effects of the men's misogyny on the women in the family so#its frustrating to still see people ignore that in favor of whatever fandom people do best in terms of male characters lol
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the post-grad unemployment blues have not been helping my annual summer depression, so my brain has been... not great. my lease is up in just a few days, but i can't move into a new apartment until i know where i'll be working. i'm having to put all my shit in storage until i can find something. it's been rough.* but i spent a few days at Books' this week and even though everything sucks, they did a lovely job cheering me up. when i got to theirs, they surprised me with a silly and refreshing beverage i'd previously mentioned in passing that i wanted to try** and this book that they picked up from work.*** then they took me to their campus so we could play board games on the massive group study tables.**** we got dinner at my favorite ethiopian place in the city. we cozied up in bed and double featured they cloned tyrone and the lighthouse (which they hadn't seen before). i finally got to an alamo drafthouse weird wednesday! we saw let the corpses tan,***** after a delightfully nasty late night diner breakfast. we played mario kart and i lost, terribly, but still had fun.
i also had an interview yesterday, for a job that sounds like a great fit for me.****** all of my interviews so far have been strange, for one reason or another, but this one may have been the strangest- because halfway through, the interviewer started pitching me a different position that sounds AMAZING.******* i'd be happy with either. i really hope this works out. i should be having a second interview next week.
i'm back at my apartment now and i have to be out by monday afternoon. i'm glad to be leaving this place, even though things are still so up in the air. and even though i haven't been my best lately, i'm glad to know that i am still loved.
#*i am about to be lower case h homeless but i am very lucky that i have enough support to make it through this without tremendous difficulty#however i might have to go back home which... i do not feel ready for. and i don't want to be away from Books for too long#**i'm in t*xas so there are hardcore topo chico heads and i had never had it before#i didn't care until a friend was talking about how much she hated it bc it was like drinking tv static#***i had already packed my books and only left one fiction book unpacked to read while i'm going thru this and this one is verrrry differen#which is good i need variety!#****everdell is like Our Game and the wee tables in my apt are only just big enough to play on (no room in Books' tiny studio to play it)#and Books also has the spirecrest expansion- but we hadn't gotten to play bc we didn't have the space!#it was so fun to actually do such a big game (it took maybe two hours and the entire six foot table lmao)#(i won but it was close! which usually happens when we play games we're well-matched but not too competitive so it's always a fun challenge#***** LOVED it#******similar to but more intense and challenging than my fav internship rotation. at a cool and pretty unique hospital in a great location#*******full time w benefits and travel. it sounds... SO good for my adhd. lots of novelty and adapting to new situations!
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I know that I hung upon a windy tre
for nine whole nights,
wounded with a spear
and given to Odin,
myself to myself for me;
on that tree
I knew nothing
of what kind of roots it came from.
Turns out Elden Ring is 200hr long allegory to the myth of Odin’s self-sacrifice. Female Jesus, struggling for the freedom of humanity, was never a thing, we’ve been dealing with modern reimagination of pagan god, who sacrificed themself, for the sake of themself. Part of them had to die so another part could gain... what?
#elden ring#mine other self yeah#Marika/Radagon is such obvious reference to Odin#there is so much to unpack#imma going to reference Norse mythology a lot in next posts#I noticed that something is wrong when I was writing post about golden order#and then I find out that game never stated who punished Marika#there is Radagon rune on the tree#but withoout this rune tree wouldn't be burned and the GO would be restired right after Morgott#they were playing 5D chess against each other#not against GW or whatever#it was a literal depiction of odin's self sacrifice all along#and I'm not sure that R is ded looking at his background and lack of certain item after bossfight#bless that person who gave me a hint#this myth explains a lot
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Toxic Traits
My toxic trait is I love making dommy mommies as much as I like making dom male in the sim
My toxic trait is I watch anime in DUB (don't wanna hear it!)
My toxic trait is every sim I think of is always leaning towards gay and bi-curious
My toxic traits I can't eat anything without having something to watch.
My toxic trait is I am sexually frustrated
My toxic traits is women sometimes to have my questioning my own sexuality
My toxic trait is I mainly see myself with a black man
My toxic trait, my best relationships are with fictional men
My toxic trait, I have dated both a man 10x older than me and someone younger...verdict say men of all ages suck!
My toxic trait, I'm so completely self-aware of my red flags and still act on them
My toxic trait, I'm an Aries
My toxic trait, the only abusive relationship I been in is with EA
My toxic trait, it's official, my type in anime men consists dark hair and wholelotta trauma
My toxic trait, I love anything chocolate but milk and ice cream
My toxic trait, my turn on is men back muscles
My toxic trait, I despise the thought of working 9-5
My toxic trait, I NEVER UNDERSTAND LEVI & EREN SHIPPERS. And anyone that have should be ashamed
My toxic trait, I'm also hypocrite because I've read plenty BL stories involving older men and young boy dynamic (granted the boi is usually 18 at most)
My toxic trait, I read A LOT of Yaoi (mostly smut)
My toxic trait, I could really keep this going and I shall
My toxic trait, the amount of movies I haven't seen...would get my black card revoked
My toxic trait, I've watched hentai
My toxic trait, I know what boku no pico is
My toxic trait, I STAN bad boy tropes
My toxic trait, I despise when most male group of friends in anime are immediately seen as lovers
My toxic trait, Obama is still my only president
My toxic trait, during the 2 girls one cup era, I think I watched every disturbing clip known to man
My toxic trait, I prefer to text than talking on the phone
My toxic trait, if I didn't have my boyfriend, I would be on my hoe phase
My toxic trait, as much as I love men; I strongly believe they are truly real dangers to society
#that last one has a lot to unpack#this is not a tag game#I just really had a thought of if I could list all my toxic traits#how long would it be#and funny part#I can still keep going lmaoo#unprovoke#learn more about me
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