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gibbearish · 4 months

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ive seen ppl saying smth in the wider plagiarism discussion to the tune of "don't worry anxious people, it's impossible to accidentally plagiarize!" and i feel like that lacks a lot of nuance that anxious brains like mine latch on to to just dismiss the possibility outright, as well as a lack of life experiences fueling it.

it is possible to "accidentally plagiarize" in that you can read something, forget about it, then a while later have your brain spit the ideas back out without telling where it got them. so of course you just assume they're yours and share them as such, because That's Where Most Of The Thoughts In Your Head Come From! and it both is and isn't plagiarism, you weren't /intending/ to pass someone's else's work off as your own, i'd even say in a way you were just as much a victim of misinformation as your audience. but you very much so did still resuse the work of someone else, even if you don't remember it.

but in my experience, this kind of thing also happens to a lot of people. you tell a friend a joke then wake up in a cold sweat two days later realizing the reason they didnt laugh was because they'd told you that joke a month ago. you reply to a friend's text and after sending you realized you ended it with the same exact phrase as theirs. you're writing edgy poetry and write a line you really like only to see it in a text post two days later saying youve already liked the post. like, it happens. so if it DOES happens and you're just honest and explain, people will understand. something like "oh shit im sorry, i totally have read that, i mustve forgotten and only remembered bits and pieces and just thought they were mine. thank you for letting me know and for the source" works wonders.

people know you can forget things. people won't automatically doubt your apology just because all true plagiarists say it was accidental. HOPEFULLY people can understand the nuance between a genuine remorseful explanation, and a thief who hoped no one would find out scrambling for excuses for why they did it. and those who can't, that's a them problem, not a you problem, you've taken responsibility for your actions as much as you can. they think the answer is simple, that the only thing stopping you from saying "yes i did it on purpose, i knew the whole time and deliberately copied them" is shame/inability to admit to your actions. but sometimes things AREN'T that simple, so imo ppl who are shitty to you for not following the script they made up for you in their head should be ignored

#youre allowed to make up scripts for people in fact good luck stopping yourself since thats kinda just part of how conversation works #is you try to predict how your audience will react to a certain statement #and my therapist actually encouraged me to practice run stuff i wanna talk about in sessions because That Makes It Easier To Talk About #like who cares if it's rehearsed‚ it's still the truth‚ yknow?#however that only applies to the things /you/ want to say. you are the only one aware of this script and the only one who agreed to it in #the first place which is why you plan contingencies into the script #is because you only have control over one character and can only take guesses at what the others might say #if you guess wrong and they do something different that doesnt mean /theyre/ not following the script #it means /your/ copy was a misprint and you filled in the blanks wrong. so do what good actors do and improvise. you'll get back on script #eventually. or not‚ if your guesses devolved into wildly speculative fanfiction‚ but frankly you knew going into it that #most of your script was guesswork so you should be prepared to have to make some things up on the fly #or see again: prepare contingencies #if your guesswork on your copy of the script turns out to be wrong‚ wouldnt it be sooo handy to have a second copy which follows this #version of events much better?#and if not that one‚ maybe this third? how about this fourth? etc etc etc #but really just. when guessing at what others will say. know that you are guessing and dont hold it against /them/ if youre wrong #sorry ik that wasnt super related to the post itself im just also passionate abt that #plagiarism #james somerton

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project-sekai-facts · 4 months

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How are we feeling about ensekai’s emu3 translation!!! (I’m mad)

(if you remember the 3 whole posts i made when asahi got de-gayed on EN you'll know i am mad too and that this is probably going to get long)

i don't like to be too cynical but it was so obvious that they were going to change that line, i had a feeling since the event first released on JP and after the incident with Asahi where I went through and tracked down multiple other examples of EN removing queer subtext it became clear to me that in no way shape or form was "emu-chan really loves nene-chan" making it to EN without getting changed. what i didn't expect was them changing Nene's line after Luka's comment, which actually makes this whole situation far worse than many of their other instances of toning down queer subtext.

for anyone who isn't aware of what happened, in chapter 5 of the current Emu event, there's a scene where Nene, Rui and the Virtual Singers are talking about what would cheer Emu up. The vsingers all talk about how much Emu loves spending time with Nene, leading to the following exchange

If you look for them, any fan TL of this scene will be something similar to this:

Luka: ...Fufu. Emu-chan really loves Nene-chan, doesn't she? Nene: Th-that's nothing special...

EN's official translation is this:

So what's the issue? I'll start with Luka's part. In the original text, she uses the word daisuki, which can mean to "like a lot" or "love". It's a word you will see frequently in the idol/idol-adjacent genre of games, due to its ambiguity in that it can be read as either platonic or romantic when used towards a person, and often will be used in ambiguous situations so that it's harder to confirm the writers' intentions either way. so here, fans of the emu/nene ship could view the fact that emu loves spending her time with nene as more on the romantic side, but people who don't like the ship could view it as platonic and move on.

while they didn't translate daisuki directly, Luka's line still works, and still contains the ambiguity that works as ship tease in the original text. it's a perfectly fine localisation that still conveys the original intent. despite that, there is something to be said about EN's consistent refusal to translate daisuki as love in most instances when it's not used on An/Kohane (but then again, EN has literally teased An/Kohane on their twitter account so is it all that surprising?).

Here's some examples:

Aibou no koto ga daisuki de / he loves his partner -> he cares about his partner very much (The Power of Unity chapter 7 when Kaito is comparing Arata to Akito and Toya)

HARUKA-CHAN, DAISUKI DAYOOOO!!! / HARUKA-CHAN, I LOOOOOVEEE YOU!!! -> You're the best!!! (Dear Me, As I Was Back Then chapter 4 when minori is at an ASRUN concert. this one isn't actually that great of a localisation)

Honachan no koto daisuki dakara. Kore de iinda yo. / I love Honachan, so this is fine. -> I want what's best for her. And this is it. (Leo/need main story chapter 14 after Saki tells Honami she won't bother her anymore)

Minna daisuki de - taisetsuna tomodachi na no / I love them all - they're my dearest friends -> They're all amazing, and very dear to me. (Leo/need main story chapter 17. this isn't good either)

What's particularly amusing about that last one is that there's a second official translation for it that I assume was done by JP staff (since EN never promoted doing the Journey to Bloom subs like they did back when they provided subs for Petit SEKAI) that actually keeps the word daisuki as love.

Yeah. I love all my friends - and they mean the world to me.

It's a better localisation than the official EN team one.

Questionable localisation choices aside, Luka's line is fine and is actually in line with the original. The issue with this localisation very much lies with Nene's part, because that is an entirely new line.

In the original text, Nene's "that's just normal" or "that's nothing special" or however you choose to TL it, is meant to be her questioning Luka's statement, since all the things that the other vsingers said that Emu liked were pretty normal things like going shopping and playing video games with nene. To Nene, these things are normal activities for them to do together, so she gets embarrassed by the fact that Luka concludes from that information that Emu loves Nene. When I dissect it like that I think you can really tell what the writers were going for here lol.

"That's just us being friends" does still convey the idea that Nene thinks these activities aren't anything out of the ordinary and she isn't sure why the vsingers are picking these out as some of Emu's favorite things to do, but it's very different from the original line. "But those are just normal things we do together" is something I just came up with on the spot, but it's a lot closer to the original text and still conveys the same meaning. The fact they changed the line to "that's just us being friends" is, honestly, not even subtle that they're covering up queer subtext. The original scene was very clearly written in as ship tease, and EN mentioning "friends" for no reason, especially since the word nor anything close to it was not used in the original, is instantly a red flag because it's like the go-to for queerbaiting and censorship. This was intentional. There was no need for them to specify that the relationship is platonic, Luka's part is ambiguous for a reason so that fans can view it how they like.

Just to top all this off, here's Rin's original line just before that Luka+Nene interaction:

Oh, and! And! She said that playing games with Nene-chan is also super fun!

And here's Rin's line from the official EN translation:

That's not the same thing, but even more weirdly, the incorrect part (super fun->really loves) is a correct translation for the part changed in Luka's line. So, they can do it, they are willing to say "really loves", just not in the right places. Maybe because Rin's part is less personal than Luka's part? It's strange actually, this isn't the first time they've done this either. Off the top of my head I can think of an example from Shiho's Varied Kindness 2* story where they translated the word "suki" as really loves, despite that being much stronger than the original word used (and the fact that daisuki is used a lot in the Leo/need stories and it's incredibly rare if not entirely unknown for them to translate it correctly).

It's not subtle that they're trying to remove implications of the characters possibly being queer, they did it in curtain call and they did it in walk on and on, and multiple times before then too. And considering some of the content in this year's events and the amount of times they say daisuki alone, it's gonna keep happening. honestly i hate the fact that i keep trying to justify the translations in these posts. these translations are intentional. what happened in the curtain call translation back in october says enough. when a character who uses explicitly romantic language towards another guy passes as a straight character in the translation you know they're doing it on purpose.

oh and once again, it's only the EN server that has this issue. The scene in question was translated almost word-for-word on the TW and KR servers.

read fan translations. they're better than what EN gives us and people put a lot of effort into them.

#since the EN translation qualifies as a leak i am scheduling this to post when the event drops #asks #mod talks #i'm going to leave this in the tags because i don't want to make the post any longer #but something that's been really annoying to see recently on twt has been the gradual uptick of players saying that there's no queer #characters/subtext/etc in the game outside mizuki being trans. and i do wonder if EN's consistent habit of toning down #or outright removing moments of heavy subtext and other more ambiguous shiptease moments has anything to do with it.#that or people live under a rock because even EN keeps most of An and Kohane's relationship intact and there's still plenty of #moments that were impossible to edit or tone down due to being plot relevant or being part of longer interactions that wouldn't make sense #if part of it was changed. like the An wedding event.#eh maybe people are just ignorant.#but anyway it does bug me immensely that EN-only players are getting a censored version of the game. it's 2024. staff can do better.#also like i mentioned in the part about rin. they /add in/ things occasionally. so why the hell are they removing so much?

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kagoutiss · 9 months

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*complaining for no reason again because i am bored* i need more ppl to know that these. are all the same person these are literally canonically all the exact same individual person im begging u

literally almost all the ganondorfs are the exact same individual and almost all the ganons are the exact same individual, almost all the ganondorfs & ganons are the same exact person just in different forms and circumstances. except for FSA and maybe whatever the fuck is going on with TotK ganondorf but i still think it’s weird that he still has golden eyes & rounded ears when even the gerudo in TotK’s ancient past dont, but anyway ashfjsbfjsn

#not like you always have to subscribe to canon because it’s often impossible to know the truth of certain things #or some things that are canonical just suck and should be changed anyway but like #of all the things that are like relatively basic facts for ppl engaging in the Lore or whatever #ppl are like always. Always talking about ganondorf as if every iteration of him is a different person just like link & zelda #but so much of his character development stems from the fact that WW ganon and TP ganon are both different timeline offshoots of OoT ganon #i’m not even citing the ‘Official Timeline’ on this because it is silly & confusing but i just literally mean #in terms of basic canon continuity #that WW and TP were conceptualized even in the early 2000s to be the events that occur distantly after the two timeline splits OoT created #because OoT is a game about time travel and the entire concept of the split timelines in this series #originated from the two different scenarios that are created by link & zelda’s use of the master sword and the ocarina #WW ganondorf and TP ganondorf are both literal older versions of OoT ganondorf in 2 different futures #not to mention all of the ganons in the early games. OoT was made as a prequel that both literally and figuratively #attempted to humanize the main antagonist of the series #OoT ganondorf at the time WAS the ‘ganondorf with character development and an actual motivation’#WW ganondorf (who is the same person.) just actually got to vocalize what specifically his motivation was #which is great!! and also retroactively gives OoT ganondorf more context & depth #can u tell i am off my meds at the moment and have nothing better to do with my time ahsjfhskfhdj

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2hoothoots · 3 months

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because i'm predictable, what're bobby and chloe up to in the villain au? or how's the dynamic between sam and dogen since he's taken psychoisolation to the extreme?

Bobby's in a pretty similar position to the regular timeline - at least, at first glance. he's overworked and underpaid, constantly crunching to try and keep on top of the ever-growing mountain of paperwork his superiors keep handing down to him.

but i think the trajectory of his character looks pretty different? he never really met Raz at Whispering Rock. he never got humbled by him, never had to suffer the embarrassment of his spot as top dog being yanked away by some new kid... but he also never really got to go through a lot of the character growth from their ensuing rivalry? he's definitely mellower than he was as a kid, but he's got a lot of unresolved issues bubbling under the surface - anger problems, poor self-esteem, a tendency to lash out at authority figures...

he still really believes in the work he's doing, and wants the Psychonauts to be the force for good he knows they can be. but he's carrying a growing burden of stress and exhaustion, stuck in a toxic work environment that's more likely to change him (or just make him snap) than he is to change it.

his only real friend at the Motherlobe is Chloe. Chloe is... well! again, first-glance, not that much has changed. she works the same job in the Motherlobe's engineering and aerospace department, and she still gets to pursue her childhood fascination with space.

but the harsher work culture and the more pragmatic, efficient environment have exacerbated some of her less personable traits. she's blunt, rude, and almost fanatically devoted to her work, to the exception of basically everything else. her workplace safety standards are lax, and her ethics laxer. she'd sell the Psychonauts out for one corn chip if she thought it'd get her better funding for her pet projects

#my thesis is that Raz and Bobby made each other worse and then better #in this timeline Bobby never hit those lows. but he also never got to grow past them and develop as a person #he /hates/ vau Raz. but it's more as this faceless proxy for everything he hates about the Psychonauts #Raz barely even knows he exists.#Chloe and Bobby are still good buds! and maybe on-again off-again something more #but they're both too... (gestures vaguely) to really hold down a stable relationship as they are now #Chloe also never gets to meet Mirtala in this version of events #and she never gets to have that kind of uncomplicated deeply loving friendship with another kid her age #and among other things she's fundamentally much less well-adjusted because of it #but then isn't everyone in this au lol #villains au #SAM AND DOGEN is good also... i need to chew over that one more #much to think about #but i wanted to draw bobby today so here he is

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abluehappyface · 5 months

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Time for the sixth installment to the Chen Takeover! It's time for the Silly/OldSchool RuneScape Cover! Now, like I've said before, I've never played OldSchool RuneScape, so I don't know how close I got to its music style apart from what I've heard on accident, but I think I did really good here. I have a bestie that can confirm how close I actually got, but I think all the saxophones with the shenai and sax synth give it the same feel the game has from what I've heard. I like this either way!

@motsimages @mango-frog @caniscreamintoanabyss @lesserbeans @k4ndi-c0spl4y3r @kinokomynx @he-was-beautiful@fembutchboygirl @semisentient-entity@siegesquirrel42@soulless-paper-bag @space-frog-boy @insertusernamethatsnottaken @the-cinnamon-snail @the-kneesbees @that-bastard-with-all-the-bones@reblogging-corner @womensrightsstegosaurus @please-put-me-in-the-microwave @da-silliest-snek @scarletdestiny @chengoeshonk @oneweekwitch

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loumands · 2 years

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Imagine being trapped in a metal box 6000 feet high in the air with a violent man with no way to escape and not being able to protect your children. He should never be allowed to be alone with any of them again because strangling/choking is one of the biggest predictors for the abuser killing the victim

#i guessed years ago something like this had happened but i though angelina would fare better than amber #because she has so much more financial and cultural power than amber and is tough af #but now i'm not sure because i'm seeing a lot comments like she's amber 2.0 #even the children supporting her version of events and refusing to see their father is somehow twisted into angelina manipulating them!#there's no limit for how much society hates women and especially bi women #angelina jolie #abuse tw #txt

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gamingstar26 · 7 months

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Yes, you are exactly right about totk!! A lot of my own complaints come from the story (or lack thereof). To be honest, it's a rare LOZ game that has a particularly complex or nuanced story, but in my opinion, the best ones more than make up for it with their characters.

My favorite game that I've played is Skyward Sword, and I desparately want to play Wind Waker, because the both of them have such fun and compelling characters that I don't really mind the simplicity of the narratives (and Wind Waker even hints at nuance the other games won't dive into!)

Tears of the Kingdom tries to use plot driven storytelling, but... expects us to be far more invested than most of us ever really are. There's hints of character driven story in there, but it all just falls flat in the end and feels really superficial, ESPECIALLY when you look at how they treat the women in this game. Zelda is JUST the sacrificial maiden (again) whose only autonomy comes from choosing to give up her autonomy. Mineru is JUST the smart character who magically technobabbles the solutions. Purah is JUST the scientist that tells you where to go. Most indicative of Nintendo's attitude in this, to me, is with Riju. The way they treat her, it's clear they want her to fill the role of the sexy one, but they know that won't go well if they go all out because she was canonically a young child in the last game. Still really gross, Nintendo you're not subtle.

All this to say that TOTK thinks it's more clever than if is, and fails to pull its own weight in any meaninful way.

All of this!!

I’ll add a bit more that I forgot to add:

Yea usually zelda games have simple plots overall (with some expectations of course) but they do make up for it with memorable characters, etc, etc…

My favorite zelda game is Ocarina of Time cause of the lore (also gameplay of course) and the how interesting it is to me and the overall themes it goes into being tragic and relatable, even tho the surface story is simple overall.(the hero of time games being my favs cause of the story driven nature yet also have fun gameplay) Also other games like skyward sword having a good engaging story with good characters (Groose is the best), wind waker being a simple coming of age story, but also having the king and ganondorf both cling on to the past, etc.

Like you said totk thinks it’s clever and fails to deliver on making us invested in a meaningful and exciting narrative, in a way it’s using tropes from previous zelda games like oot, botw, SS and link to the past without even knowing why they worked in the first place. While failing to reuse tho tropes in a more unique way like previous games have done. It’s true there are hints of character driven story it’s just ignored or mentioned in a half assed way.

Also like I said in the post the lack of consequences with the main story at the end, like Link’s arm just being restored even tho furry rauru had said it was beyond saving, and zelda being recalled back to normal, so her “sacrifice” was not worth it at all (master sword is also worse somehow like wtf zelda)

I’ve also noticed the way totk treats the main women it’s very not good, like you said with zelda she’s just sacrificial maiden turned into a dragon, mineru being exposition dump lady cause that’s all she does tbh, also has the worst Sage ability in the whole game, etc.

zelda being the worst one. (Tbh botw/totk zelda is mixed overall she’s overrated) cause she’s dumb as hell didn’t even recognize that Ganondorf and Calamity Ganon could be related, she does nothing until furry rauru and sonia are dead. Also being a terrible princess, she didn’t even do any meaningful things to hyrule’s rebuilding efforts other than build a school and some small memorials and fuck around doing whatever the hell she was doing pre totk. Also she stole links house damn it.

there’s also the way the gerudo are treated in the zelda series as a whole, but that’s a whole other topic others have done better at that. Like with totk and botw (mostly totk) being helpless yet also warriors needing help from hylians to even survive in their own home?! Like how ingame they explain that zelda of all people was the one to help them get to know the desert and how to survive better wtf? And the secret heroine side quest end, how it’s just some random hylian guy to be the hidden 8th. (There goes the 7 sages and the 8th being the hero of time theory)

Also the way the botw events are treated. they just pretend that none of the ancient tech never existed at all and refuse to mention anything about botw, only in small passes. And the side quest with the Hateno school mentioning the original calamity.

The depths having potential to be better but we’re just empty and massive instead, I like the bargainer statues those are cool as an concept. And the sky islands being boring and copy paste the same few islands throughout.

Holy shit this game makes me write entire essays of complaints. I’m sorry if I repeat myself I’m terrible at explaining stuff at times.

Now I’m going to play the zelda games I’ve never finished to cleanse myself of totk.

#totk critical #totk criticism #totk neg #loz #also the constant repetition of the same few events over and over again #Sage cutscenes being the worst offender #also don’t get me started with the hero’s aspect and the stupid lore implication of it #puppet zelda had more personality than real zelda and that’s just sad #ganondorfs amazing design in totk being wasted on the worst and most boring version of ganondorf to date #some amazing character design wasted on shitty writing that’s just sad #this game legit makes me go on long ass essays cause of how much this game disappoints me #I wish that zelda team listens to these criticisms and makes a better story in the next zelda game #but the future of the series is definitely concerning if they keep going like this #as a big fan since 2011 I hope the series gets better in the story and lore department #I’m critical cause I care it’s not cause of nostalgia ( a bit tho)#this game feels like a terrible oot/botw fanfic au #I did a let’s play of this game half of it was me saying my criticisms about the game without spoiling much #i just couldn't help myself

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poisonandpages · 3 days

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Imagine you are a conservative catholic and you had your silly slutty phase when you were younger, but now you're ready to settle down and start your "holier than thou" era of life where you're cruel and judgemental to everybody else, never a kind word to say, despite the fact that you yourself are a sadistic person who never grew past being a bully in high school and decided to go into nursing where you'd find more vulnerable people to abuse. You have an older sister who's more or less the exact same, but you're slightly dumber.

Imagine your younger sister, a genuinely kind person, marries a man that you despise. Not for any of the valid reasons to criticise him, but because he's both a protestant and an outspoken person who will call you out when you say something objectively wrong. He does not blindly go along with everything you say like your own husband, and so you hate him.

Imagine you hate this man so much that as your sister is dying you and your other sister steal most of his property from her house and try to tamper with your dying sister's will to essentially steal their children. Not because you care for them and want to look after them, purely to spite the husband. Imagine you scowl at him throughout the funeral, not caring that his daughter is right beside him watching her mother be buried.

Imagine when you don't get custody of the children you convince him to let you, your sister, and your mother take the children a few days a week, ostensibly to keep them close to their mother's family, but really to abuse them in multiple ways including heavy psychological abuse - again, just to spite this one man.

Imagine these kids grown into teens and stop talking to you one by one as they realise how fucked up the situation is. Imagine the eldest one hasn't spoken to you in ten years.

Imagine around the same time these kids stop talking you, you realise you've spent all this time neglecting your own children, one of whom has fallen into heavy drug use and gotten another teen pregnant.

Imagine the baby's mother ODs and your own child is struggling so much with addiction care of the baby falls to you.

Imagine your own brother hangs himself because he suffered greatly from the death of his own wife and felt completely detached from everyone else. He couldn't possibly talk to you. He didn't trust you. But at the funeral you pretend you were best friends. From the other side of the hall your dead sister's children look at you with disgust. Your dead brother's children ignore you completely.

Imagine your child that gave you a grandchild comes out as transgender, but you don't accept that so you act as though they've died instead.

Imagine ten years after your sister's children stopped speaking to you, you realise your family has gotten a lot smaller and your mother may be dying, so you try to reach out to them. No apology, no acknowledgement of the time passed, no thought that maybe since they are all now adults between 22 - 30 they'll have a better understanding of what they were put through and why they're still struggling to recover from it years later, just a casual reach out as though you're old friends who haven't been able to catch up in a while. You don't even use your own social media profile, you borrow your daughter's. You invite them to your grandson's communion ceremony at the church they all still have trauma from because that was also part of the abuse that YOU and your family made them endure.

Are you struggling to imagine someone so cruel and stupid? I would too, if she weren't my own aunt.

#tw suicide #tw child abuse #personal #long post #tw OD #this is a very condensed version of everything #the details are just too much #but I had to vent this out because I am so very angry #I broke down crying last night out of sheer rage #like how dare she? after everything? how fucking dare she speak to me as though we're friends #hey everybody welcome to Auntie Anna's Tragic Backstory Extravaganza #making vent posts because the other option is breaking furniture #K in the unlikely event this post makes its way to you somehow I hope you get hit by a truck & your grandson winds up somewhere much better

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watchmakermori · 1 year

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I finally finished the inversion of genesis archon quest the other day (it took me ages because i got interrupted due to nahida being busy in another quest and i could not be fucking bothered to do it). on the whole I liked the trajectory they took with scara, where he tries to erase his existence and past, but ultimately ends up choosing to remember everything that he did. it could’ve been executed better on the whole, but it’s still a rare moment of actual character development in a genshin quest

the bit I didn’t like too much was the tataratsuna stuff. I felt like the explanation of what happened with katsuragi, niwa, and dottore was needlessly convoluted. involving dottore in scara’s past doesn’t work for me and I will not be incorporating it into my headcanons. I feel like it was done to give scara more of a reason to want revenge on him, but...he didn’t need any more motivation. dottore exploited him and preyed on his desperate desires to become a god - risking his life in the process - then totally abandoned him when the plan fell through. that’s more than enough reason for scara to hate him

so I do ultimately like where scara’s character ended up, but not the path they took to get there. I have my own take on what went on in tatarasuna and I still prefer it. at this point, my own interpretation of scara and the actual canon version of him are pretty different, but that’s part of the fun of genshin. the whole thing is a sandbox to play around in.

I actually really liked the fact that the traveler helps choose his new name at the end of the quest, though. I called him Morita on my account, which is a name he uses in one of the fics I wrote

#genshin impact #wanderer #scaramouche #i prefer to think of the events in tatarasuna as much more like. lowkey #i basically think scara met katsuragi. they got very close. they kept scara's true nature on the downlow #then some shit happened and scara probably got violent #katsuragi tried to hide it to protect him #but it probably got out. people realised what scara was and what he'd done #katsuragi was killed because people were like 'wtf you've been protecting a monster and didn't tell us'#and scaramouche was traumatised forever and ever amen #i know the canon story incorporates all this shit with niwa and other character names but honestly?#if you can combine two characters into one that usually makes for tighter writing #I think the story would've been better if scara's emotional connection was squarely centred on one character #but yeah. scaramouche is basically my OC at this point #i like canon scaramouche but my version is wearier and quieter and has less edgy teen vibes #he's also gayer and more trans. so obviously superior

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glompcat · 1 year

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Episode 3 of The Last of Us was amazing.

#I literally just spent a recent therapy session #telling my therapist how much I hate how most media tries to sell you on keeping loved ones alive #even when they want to go #and how much that hurts #how every story that says to keep fighting for forever even when the person dying told you to stop #and says that is what love is #feels like a direct jab saying I don't really love my mom #or rather if I really loved her I'd override her autonomy #since I've known my whole life my mom WANTS me to help her when she is ready to go #and it feels like there is nowhere where I can find any affirming messages that helping her is an expression of my love #that it isn't evil or horrible #she's been so clear on this front since I was very young #and there is paperwork involved now too #so I am legally bound to respect things like how she never wants to be on any form of life support etc #so to have this love story?#this story that culminates in helping Frank leave as an expression of how much Bill loves him?#(and then of course becomes a double suicide but I mean they live in the post-apocalypse and Frank is Bill's world)#FUUUUUCK #THIS EPISODE MEANS THE WORLD TO ME #also also I can not state enough how much better this version of events are than what was in the game #I loved seeing their life together so fucking much #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh #tlou #tlou hbo #tlou hbo spoilers

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katyspersonal · 2 years

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Thinking about that dream I had a while ago where me and Micolash went to bug Laurence because we wanted to nap in one bed with him just to be comfy but he had to reject us because unlike us he was doing his homework hfhhjgfbv So Micolash just offered to watch Magia Record instead and we actually did, but at that time I haven't seen that anime yet.. nonetheless I envisioned Kaede (character from this anime) with perfect accuracy - I remind you, I never seen her or heard about her then. So that same day after I woke up, I decided to watch that anime foe real, and I am still trying to find the words for what I felt when I saw her in the anime and realized my brain wasn't just filling the gaps. Magiiiiic

#personal #i swear if i make a side blog just for mysterious dream/nightmare events involving micolash?#it will update as regularly as this one hahaha!#what a guy this micolash lol #i bet it is just because he saw this anime already and HIS memory of kaede rubbed on me telepathically #i have special connection with her though #she is like noelle - a character i have kin link with despite not (obviously) resembling them much #laurence being himself though hahaha so strict and responcible #a top student is a top student even in a dream #only like all five of my regular mutuals understand what i am talking about tho #scientific explanation of seeing future in dreams is that time is not real/linear #everything that will ever happen already happened it is just human brain that perceives time as linear #but i like mico telepathy version better ahaha #my favorite dream demon xd

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bonyato · 1 year

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I already couldn't choose wether to watch the 2001 or the 2021 anime adaptation....and now I wanna switch to the manga too......Ughjoegh—!!

#FUCKKKK I JUST WANTED TO GRAB A SCREENCAP OF A SCENE I SAW IN THE ANIME CUZ I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY & WANTED TO SEE ITS MANGA EQUIVALENT TOO #BUT WHILE I WAS LOOKING FOR IT I CAME TO NOTICE JUST HOW MUCH CONTENT BOTH ADAPTATIONS SKIPPED‚UUUU .... (╥﹏╥)#I mean they kept the essentials (at least in the 2021's adaptation case) but still..!! it's such a bummer methinks #probably must be just that i enjoy seeing character interactions a lot hsjfhsjf (which is why i favor the 2001 adaptation much more too)#but at the same time‚ w/ how much importance ties & friendship and relationships in general r given in this series #you'd think they'd focus more on emphatizing that by being equally attentive to the more slow-paced‚ lighthearted non-action events #they may seem trivial but it honestly adds so much to characterization #Anyways the whole reason why im making this post is bcuz there's this one chapter that starts off w/ Yoh & Manta going to school together #& like actually being shown engaging in school activities and i thought it was fun #it upset me that i didnt see this in neither of the adaptations orz (from what i've seen so far anyways but still‚#i haven't seen it yet i doubt i'll see it later on since it's an early chapter)#It got me thinking abt ALL THE OTHER STUFF I MUST'VE BEEN MISSING AS WELL.....AND THAT I'LL PROBABLY KEEP MISSING OUT ON #so now i have a 3rd dilemma 🧎 PAIN & SUFFERING......#'cuz like i said‚ i was already struggling to decide between keeping up w/ either version of the anime ('､3_ヽ)＿#the 2021 one sticks to the manga .. but i like the atmosphere + the way 2001's adaptation handles its pacing better......#AND there's also my bias based on personal preference. (<- Huge older anime aesthetic enjoyer)#however it does Not completely stick to manga events so that keeps me from being able to enjoy it freely orz #Switching to the manga seems like the easiest course of action w/ all this considered #BUT THEN I'D ALSO BE LOSING THE CHARMING SPANISH DUB ASPECT‚ WHICH IS /ALSO/ A HUGE REASON WHY IM WATCHING THIS IN THE 1ST PLACE...........#HEAD IN HANDS. WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!!!#finally getting into shaman king is .. reminding me why i took so long to actually get into it in the 1st place ( ꒦ິ꒳꒦ິ ) SO COMPLICATED...#wondertext #apologies for the ramble !!!! My mind is plagued w/ Thoughts ♡

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iamthescalesofjustice · 2 years

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i definitely share the problem many people have of whats in my head vastly outpacing what ive actually written, but i sort of have the opposite problem with other parts of the creative process bc the thing is when i do actually write its never so much bc i sit down to write, more like the ideas that have been pressurizing finally burst forth in a chaotic torrent that drags me into a fuguelike state where there is nothing but feverishly getting the words out with minimal mind to editing or organization and eventually after at least several hours i surface and find myself with like 8k new words of writing to sort through, and hope the spell is broken rather than being only a brief window of lucidity bc it wont properly be done for the next couple days actually, which is what happens sometimes