Is that my boy Ricky Starks for your icon 👀👀👀

Yes

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

I started to learn Japanese and I'm giddy with hiragana. Another entire new writing system for me to completely butcher with my terrible handwriting.

Save the Earth!

You don't understand how much I would've given so that Ricky Starks was one of the Kens in Barbie

reading the receipts on how bethesda resorted to fucking extortion in a pathetic attempt to force Leona (a trans woman) to resign without pursuing a discrimination lawsuit by holding her fucking surgeries hostage & holy fuck

her experience at bethesda was a harrowing but depressingly familliar one filled with a sudden loss of respect by her superiors, public outing by her manager, falsified reports on her yearly review to convince corporate that she was a liability...

i struggle to find the words to descrive how i felt going through it all.

they were HOLDING HER SURGERIES HOSTAGE TO COERCE HER TO RESIGN

fuck this fucking industry. you cannot fix this. it is beyond saving

im having a moment

I just realized that Tumblr is the perfect place to talk about headcanons and stuff so please let me tell you about my amazing Persona 5 Spin-off: Fist of Justice.

So. If you've been on the Persona 5 Fandom for long enough you'll know the conflict of interest with Makoto Niijima being a Phantom Thief, and watching Joker get fucked by the cops, but still wanting to become a cop herself because of her dad. So I thought... Well let's try it. Let's make Makoto a cop and see what happens.

The story would start with Makoto's second year in the force, the first cases being fairly normal police procedural stuff. However, two characters appear at some point in the story that would slowly turn the story into a much higher stakes game. The first is Lavenza, who warns Makoto that someone from her world has been in the Metaverse and has stolen her compendium (I headcanon that a Velvet Room attendant with a compendium could summon every persona on demand, which would make them even more overpowered than they already are). The other character is Naoto Shirogane from Persona 4, and an incredibly respected private detective by this point.

So, the game from that point on is about finding who stole the compendium and is messing around in the collective unconscious.

Some new stuff I would add is that, while palaces are back, targets' reactions can be different. Some flee, some confess but believe they're right and don't move an inch, some become aggressive, etc. This is because I want to make Makoto follow some procedure and not just rely on forcing confessions out of people.

Some other stuff happens, like Naoto and Makoto becoming closer, some appearances by the other Phantom Thieves and even more important, and even deeper and more developed relationship with Sae, how they healed together after all the shit they went through, etc.

At some point in the story it becomes clear that the case involves higher-ups in the police itself. Makoto gets abducted and tortured much like Joker, and completely loses her shit after escaping, having to hide from her own colleagues while going berserk on a bunch of people. This is a bad thing, btw, she's right, but she's threading on thin ice mentally.

At the end, turns out that the bad guy was Tokyo's chief of police and he wanted to control the will of people and such. The real kicker is that he has a plan B, which is assaulting the Diet building for real and just take over. And as a little extra he kidnaps Sae in the process. Makoto goes there and beats the shit out of everyone, saves her sister and, seeing what the police had been doing to her physically and mentally, quits.

I have to remember every 5 years that when I was a little kid my dad was having obsessive spirals about things he did wrong like 30 years prior and his talked to his therapist about it and you know what they did NOT say. They did not say "hmmm well have you learned your lesson changed your behavior and atoned?"

They said "that sounds like a really unhelpful and distressing thing that your brain is making you think about All The Time. How about when that happens you try to think about something that makes you happy instead"

(My dad carried a picture of me at age 4 with a large inflatable dinosaur in his wallet for this purpose) (hard to ruminate about past failures when looking at a picture of your kid enjoying a large inflatable dinosaur)

Anyway. Fucking... stop thinking you can Solve Ethics by spiraling you fool. It's the Ethics Cuckoo. Fuck that guy

"IF YOU SUPPORT OUR QUEER FOLKS GIVE ME A HELL YEAH"

Rest in Peace Jay Briscoe. A real one.

Just a quick not friendly reminder: someone who has apologized for past mistakes, made amends for past actions, and clearly no longer holds past beliefs, is a far better person than one who digs up old dirt and uses a person's past that no longer exists against them.

children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear

neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years