#3 a.m

[kkopimint]

good night

[beccawise7]

3 A.M. Thoughts. 💜🖤

[jaynovz]

Someone's made this joke, right?

[the-goddess-of-gays]

Leo: My life is like a Cinderella story in reverse. Everything was going great and then an overpowered fairytale lady showed up and fucked it all over. Annabeth: And this, dear listeners, is why we have therapy.

[stasiksssss]

i'm gonna getcha...

it's veeery rushed bc i'm leaving soon... but... i kinda like it still...

[herqalbs-blog]

" The comeback is personal, it's an apology to Allah "

[elmocult]

i am fucking crazy . but i am free.

[belonareyna]

TGR SPOILERS

"You can rest Elodie, you are safe now"

[missmetus]

[cambrianera]

lots can go wrong in an indifferent universe.

[pianokantzart]

Okay, so I've compiled a quick list of reasons why Helen Gravely would work really well as the main villain in the next Luigi's Mansion game

Aesthetically??? 11/10. Absolute icon.

King Boo has been the main villain three times now, and his dynamic with Luigi isn't like Bowser vs Mario where they can just rinse and repeat over and over. King Boo shows a clear path of escalation, getting more unhinged and determined each time he's defeated. There's only so far he can go, and having a different main villain for a spell might shake things up a bit.

Helen has more reason to go after Luigi than just winning the heart of King Boo at this point. Having had her staff defeated and her hotel destroyed, she doesn't strike me as the type of woman to take that sort of blow to her pride lying down. Not to mention the fact that Luigi was the first (and perhaps only) person to get her so riled up that she revealed her true form, so just add that to the list of reasons why she would like to wipe him out of existence.

Polterkitty has a very interesting (and terrifying) gimmick that... while having served its purpose well enough in Luigi's Mansion 3... could be played with and expanded on in future installments.

The way Helen expresses herself, perceives herself, and interacts with others makes her an anti-Luigi in a way that Waluigi could only dream of, right down to the way that she willingly plays second fiddle to someone who would otherwise be her peer in terms of power and abilities. But while Luigi and Mario have a very respectful and warm relationship built on love and trust, Hellen is a megasimp for someone who coldly uses her affection for his personal gain.

[beccawise7]

3 A.M. Thoughts. 💜🖤

[theotherwesley]

I'm going to posit something that may sound a little weird at first: but I think the same kind of dissatisfaction that leads people into questionable or dangerous reactionary movements, is the same dissatisfaction that leads people to start witch hunts and dog piling on social media, is the same dissatisfaction that gets people into new age, vibes-based "health" and "cleansing your toxins" lifestyles, is the same dissatisfaction that leads people into an Marie Antoinette-style obsession with cottagecore and the nostalgia for an imaginary bucolic lifestyle that never really existed. It's estrangement from results, particularly direct results.

This is essentially just the Theory of Alienation, but the connective tissue between cult-of-action-to-cottagecore hit me in a particular way that made me want to dig into the specifics in terms of internet phenomena.

Just about every aspect of the computer-bound/computer-dependent lifestyle is geared towards separating people from process from product. We don't see the results, we don't see the mechanisms, we don't see the other people involved. So the prospect of working outdoors to plant something nourishing and be able to see and enjoy the results is intoxicating (especially if you don't rely on doing it for a living). So is the idea that you can just pick up a weapon and make something happen. So is the idea that you can punish people for real or much more often perceived crimes directly without waiting on due process. So is the idea that you don't have to throw yourself on the mercy of a doctor who trivializes and ignores your symptoms to the tune of hundreds or thousands of dollars. Hell, the obsession with generative AI being pedaled as a "solution" to the apparent "gatekeeping" of "talent" (or time/labor/compensation) is stemming from the same thing. There are plenty of examples but the roots connect. Returning to the theory of alienation for a second-- is not an accident that we have been separated from each other and from our labor, it is unimaginably profitable for the ones selling us things and keeping us beholden to them for scraps and pennies our entire lives. It is killing us. It has been killing us. Some people exponentially more than others. You know this, you're living in it.

I don't have a plan for the Revolution or whatever but I am pretty convinced that it is critically, vitally important that we Make Real Things, with our hands and brains and with other people-- real art, food, friends, crafts, tools, stories, clothes, fun; help with something, do things for people, grow something, fix something, learn something. Get a result you can see that's YOURS and GOOD and not a product of consumerism or fear. --Are there obstacles to all these things? Oh baby, are there ever! That's the point! That's the problem!! <-THE PROBLEM. This isn't a judgement!! We are all fucking struggling!!!

Making real things is essential not in a woo-woo way but in a practice so you can improve way. So many people are convinced they can't make things simply because they haven't made things before. Start somewhere, anywhere, and you can build the confidence to in yourself that you can do more. It will help you adapt and strengthen yourself in a world that is trying very hard to keep you powerless and isolated. Again -> The point. People end up seeking things that make them FEEL like they've made an instant change in the world, or feel like they're escaping the rat race, or anything that feels like regaining power over their lives.

But if you don't also control where that feeling comes from, you are open to being manipulated by all manner of opportunistic and predatory forces. If you create something tangible/observable within your own means (and this does NOT preclude collaboration), you made something of value and that value remains with you, to do with as you wish.

That's empowerment. It can be practiced and nurtured, in fact it MUST be.

[invisibleintrovertartist]

NSR stuff (mostly just Neonnova, because that's about 90% of what I draw day after day).

[bob-mirum]

having a strong desire to share these sketches.....

i'm not ashamed

[bride-of-hemlock]

I find it kind of funny how anti-AA "media literacy" experts around the fandom claim you can only see Astarion's Ascension as a positive if you "miss the point of the story", and then their "deep analysis" is just the most surface level, shallow, 1:1 equivalency between a fictional story in it's own fantasy world and a "sorta similar" real life equivalent covered up in American therapy speak and parroting hays code-esque logic based primarily off of epitext, route-break consequences, and like, maybe one line of dialogue or whatever.

Not to mention - multi-narrativity? Genres? Literary concepts (catharsis through violence, etc.)? Room for different interpretations of what's romantic (in fiction or otherwise - yes, some people love HEA actually <3 eternal love is beautiful, and so is mutual obsession <3), like a classic vampiric love - unpunished, intense, obsessive, devoted and almost holy - eternal? Themes - like a vampire representing sexual desire, as such - historically - the vampire (or the LI) must be punished - a trope subverted, by letting them be happy together (a reading wholly supported in-text, sorry not sorry-this is what makes AA romance so great too)? Internal world logic? Or the fact that it's DnD, not real life? Naaah who cares, we saw out-of-context tiktoks and a youtube video essay and a discord message from one singular writer with strange opinions on what constitutes a romance, surely we don't even have to 100% the game ourselves!

[The amount of times I've seen someone say "AA is abusive and tragic and can't love!" and then some variation of "I'd never/'ve never let him Ascend" is baffling. Or how they barely pay attention to what's happening... Like honey how do you have an opinion on a text you didn't even read (or pay 100% attention to)?? Please- 💀]

And, tbh the:

"this is a bad in-game choice & will lead him to suffering 100% because [idk, killing The Wrong pixels in a videogame] would be bad irl and [cites epitext] <3 it's the only right interpretation!"

is basically "the curtains are blue because the author felt like it!" except insisting upon itself by using fancy words, but I digress.

xoxo ꨄ︎