#Obcurity

[cerulean-renegade]

Went through the entire main story thinking I was never gonna learn the parry system. I put the game down for a few days and suddenly??? I can parry?? Lets go?

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

There are a lot of subnautica creatures that could be interesting merfolk, even some of the smaller fish

These assholes. They're the mer that everyone discriminate against because their diet

Okay but seriously though I forgot to add onto the sea emperor yuu in the other post but mer discrimination must go wild right? When we went into the Coral Sea the npcs were the top half human the bottom half fish. The Trio are much more fish like in general.

They gotta have some weird biases and stereotypes for each other.

"Imagine having a scaley face" "Imagine having 2 different skin textures" "Who is still a veil-tailed betta when comb-tails are all the rave??"

Also do you think goldfish mer are usually from human/mer relationships given goldfish can not live in the wild and all? Imagine going to your other home in water and all the other fish are avoiding the "fake made up" fish

[unspokenmantra]

The Essence of Freedom (2017) by Mariusz Lewansdowski

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I have a headcannon that during the 18-months Wilde will sometimes slip irish experssions when he is very stressed/sleep deprived but he will still do it with his trained strong Oxford accent.

Zolf at first thinks it is some form of rich people offensive joke. Carter thinks it is to confuse him specifically. Barnes is the first one to go "guys I think his inner monologue is just like this and he actually just isn't filtering it right now".

Zolf starts to belive Bsrnes after he gets to know Wilde more. He asks Wilde once but the man acts at the same time crypitically, and apologetical about it, Zolf decides to just mot adress it every again to avoid an unconfortable unecessary talk. Carter starts to belive Barnes imidiatly after Barnes says it.

The few times they get Wilde drunk the sane happens but he also gets a lisp.

Only years later when they do a small post 5 years reunion hang out just for the four of them (Azu and Hamid also have a dinner just for the two of them) is that Wilde adds a faint accent to it. He doesn't seem to notice he is doing it but he actually just says it used to be his accent and until recently he tought he fully had lost it because post-time skip Wilde is in the best place that man ever was.

[bogkeep]

i don't know how to fully articulate this but it makes me a little sad every time a video essayist or podcaster just Assumes their audience has Obviously Heard About X and doesn't bother to explain who or what that is... like of course not everything's gotta cater To Me but like let's assume i DO live under a rock (or rather: i'm autistic and european) and have never heard of this musician and have no idea what place they hold in popular media. ok thank you please continue with your essay

[jazzzzzzhands]

I freaking ADORE your art!! It's so DJQUQJDBFUSIW idk what words to use but I love it!! Could I possibly request a doodle of yellow guy from Don't hug me I'm scared?

Oh!! You are gonna make me want to re-watch this series!! I'm so happy!!!!!! that you Love my art uwaaaaa QwQ <3333 Green IS a Creative Color!!!

[dapper-lil-arts]

What is the most obcure MLP fact you know?

idk what qualifies as obscure. but the g4 series ended on the same year disco elysium game came out. Meaning its possible they could have made a harry dubois and kim kitsuragi ponies for the background.

[miguelsbooklists]

dunno,, I already have a boyfriend and he knows about it. we sometimes take him with us on dates but he never seems to enjoy himself.

I haven’t known Evan for that long so this might seems weird but— he’s so… full of thought.

I can’t explain but it’s that gaze he has whenever he’s zoned out. I can’t help but think what is going on in his head. Of course, not in a rude way.

He’s always deep in thought, drowned in an endless mental picture. Not sure if he was always like this but it sure seems like it.

Whenever I ask him about he always says some made up word I believe.

“Sondering”…?

Also; Evan talks more about you than himself. It’s always so passionate and delicate. As if he hand crafted his words with a golden thread.

oh,, so ur evan's roommate hes been talking about

hey

— [ @insanelyycool ]

(ooc; you don't have to respond ehhsjeh.. 😅😅, i just like interacting with other blogs..)

(ooc// gosh no need to apologize other blogs interacting brings me life,,)

you’re that Jerry— or Jared guy!

yeah, I know you!

I only know about you because of that one picture in his wallet lol!

[the-intersex-experience]

Having very valid reason to question if you're intersex, but also having OCD suckkss. youll be like 'huh the records of my hormone levels from before they let me on t are pretty obcured, and a good handful of my traits from puberty dont really line up completely with a perisex person who was afab..." and then the fucking Thing in your head starts beating you with a hammer because what if this is somehow a complicated way you're attentionseeking[<has only really done a few questions to people chill with it and researched independently. how would it be attentionseeking my guy i aint gettin anything for this(/dir at the ocd thoughts]

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[saltminerising]

MY FUCKING GOD I JUST GOT INTO A VIDEO GAME BECAUSE OF SEEING SOMEONES FANDRAGONS AND I JUST FINISHED THE EPILOG SO I GO TO TRY AND FIND THEM AND AFTER AN HOUR OF FUCKING SEARCHING AND HAVING TO SEARCH FOR ANOTHER OBCURE CHARACTER I KNEW THEY HAD A FANDRAG FOR[id been meaning to get into smile for me for awhile and the games fucking epic so i felt like id needed to thank them okay?] I FIND OUT THAT THEY JUST HAD A FANDRAG PURGE [AS IS THEIR RIGHT] AND THE DRAGONS I WANTED TO THANK THEM FOR ARE GONE.

LIKE GUESS IM NOT GOING TO THANK THEM FOR BEING THE FINAL THING TO FINALLY GET ME PLAYING PEAK BECAUSE THATS FUCKING WEIRD AT THIS POINT AND IM NOT LIKE MAD BUT IM FEELING SOME FLAVOUR OF WAY ABOUT THIS AND NEEDED TO WRITE SOMETHING

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

1, 3 and 7 with Discworld?

Hahah that's so vague! So I'm going for overarching stuff, as much as possible. Rather than character specific.

1. Canon I outright reject

Moist von Lipwig is not tall. I refuse to accept that. He should be average in all things: facial features, coluring, height. Deeply, deeply average. Mediocre, even. Nothing to write home about. You wouldn't notice him.

Because that's the point.

Oh - I refuse to accept that the merchant's guild was a relatively new creation (as per the timeline of the series). Ankh-Morpork is a fundamentally mercantile society - it makes no sense for it to be so recent an establishment.

Therefore, I reject TP's world building on that front because it doesn't fit the world itself.

3. Obscure headcanon

Not sure if it's truely obcure, but obviously I head canon Madam as Vetinari's mother rather than aunt. They just fudged things to ensure in the eyes of Polite Society he had ""Proper Parentage"" and wasn't the offspring of a sex worker and one of her favoured johns.

7. Age/height/weight headcanon

I'm not sure! Most people fit with their descriptions pretty well so I've not augmented much in my headcanons. I've just drawn things perhaps a little firmer?

I know fandom prettifies people, so I tend to try and make sure Vetinari isn't described as this handsome man but rather weird looking and Beauty is Very Much In the Eye of the Beholder with him.

I also like characters to have a bit of weight on them. Downey is in his fifties - people put weight on with age, for the most part. He's not going to be a svelte twenty year old. Same for Vetinari - he's in his fifties and he's less mobile than previously due to the gunshot wound. He's going to be carrying more weight in the paunch than when he was young. Ditto for Vimes and Boggis and Sybil and all others of a Certain Age.

I just like these people to have aging, changing bodies. It's important that their skin hangs a little loose, that there are squishy bits that weren't like that when they were twenty-five or thirty, that there's weight on hips/thighs/stomach/arms, that there are wrinkles and lines and skin pores and random black hairs that show up overnight and all that stuff that is part of the beauty and grace of aging.

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Thank you! <3 <3 <3 <3

[cornbread818]

“It’s the same gullible story with you people! One night stand and then it’s a year long run away.”

Leave it to me to always draw the most obcure or unpopular characters.

[time-variance-archive]

A heartfelt tribute to Victor Timely

I know if you follow me on main you've probably already read enough posts about Victor Timely, but he's my favourite character from S2, and I love him very very much, okay ^^.

I will soon make a separate post about my impressions on S2 (it's complicated), but despite certain disappointments, this season managed to subvert a few of my fears and I'm happy with that.

As you might know, I was on the "burn the TVA to the ground" team, so I am not totally satisfied by the finale, but things could have been a lot worse.

One of my biggest fear for this season was the implications of Kang as the big bad.

Season 1 was all about free will and poeple being more than the role assigned to them by society. The very concept of Kang as The Enemy makes me uncomfortable because it implies the existance of a whole type of poeple inherently dangerous and evil by nature.

During the finale, HWR implied the existance of "benevolent" versions of himself, but as long as we don't see them in person, their existance is at best downplayed to justify the anhiliation of a whole group of poeple based on their time aura. Really icky...

But S2 made sure to tell the audience Kang variants are not inherently evil. They are human beings and they have as much free will as any other type of Variants.

Humanizing Kang

The first time we see Victor on screen, he is introduced as a child. And innocent little boy minding his own business until the TVA disturbs the course of his existance (not unlike Sylvie...).

And this is so important.

Compare this to the way Victor is introduced in Quantumania.

A mysterious man emerging from the shadows like a cheap horror movie's villain. Victor doesn't do anything bad, but he is framed as a menace.

S2 recontextualizes Victor as a human being. A little boy who grew up in poverty and worked hard to make himself a better life. And also, ultimately, a victim of the TVA.

But Victor Timely is much more than a simple plot device to remind the audience that "not all Kangs are bad" or serve Sylvie's arc. He is his own character with (in my very subjective opinion) one of the best arcs of the season.

Victor's ambivalence

When we first see him in 1893, he is introduced as an ambivalent figure. Is he a genius inventor ? A complete sham ? Maybe a bit of both ?

And this ambivalence is what makes him so great as a character. Should we trust him ? He's a Kang after all. But he's just a funny little guy and he seems so innocent.

His relationship with Ravonna is the perfect exemple of this ambivalence. His schoolboy crush on her is adorable. Is it reciprocated ? Maybe a little bit ? Ravonna isn't insensitive to Victor's quirkiness.

But ultimately, he betrays her in a brutal and cowardly way.

Once at the TVA, we discover another side of Victor's personality. He is very curious about all the futuristic technology, especially because he thinks he is the one who invented everything. And once again, there an ambivalence. Thinking he created all of this, Victor shows his big ego, but there is no malice in it. He doesn't asks what the TVA is or what they do, he's just running around excitedly and marvels at the coffee machine.

And yet, his capture by Ravonna makes the audience doubt again. Will Victor betray Loki and his team to save his own life ? To be completely fair, even if he did, he would still not be completely wrong. From his perspective, both Ravonna and Loki are strangers who want to use him for obcure reasons, and he has no reason to trust any of them. But he still choses to side with Loki, wasting her time until the rescue comes.

And when it's time to get into serious action, he willingly choses to put his life on the line to save the multiverse.

Poeple are determined by the choices they make

In the end, what makes Victor such a great character for me isn't what makes him different from Kang, but what makes them alike.

Like his more nefarious Variants, Victor is a loner who doesn't do partnerships, he is ambitious and has a big ego. But those traits are not inherently bad.

He has very valid reasons to not trust easily, and in the hindsight, betraying Ravonna was the right thing to do. His ambition has mostly been used for good (and a bit of mischief), and there is nothing wrong with being confident and proud of one's achievement as long as we respect others.

During this season, Victor had plenty of possibilities to seize power at the TVA, but he kept making the best decisions, sometimes for selfish reasons, sometimes for heroic ones. And yet, we can ask ourselves what would have happened if Miss Minutes had not sabotaged his budding relationship with Ravonna.

Is Victor inherently a good man ? Or could he have made the same mistakes that sent his variants on the path of war ? Both HWR and Quantumania Kangs see themselves as the hero and think they are fighting to save the multiverse from their Variants. Maybe the fatal flaws of Kangs are their deep sense of insecurity and self loathing.

I'm disapointed we didn't see what happens to him after the events of S2, but since his name appears on the new TVA Handbook, we can assume he stayed in the new TVA with the poeple he learned to trust.

[themindelectricdemo4]

if marina didnt build cipher into th memverse who did. was it the other octolings working on it? if not how did they gt in. I CANT COPE WITH THIS COOL LORE BIT LIKELY BEING ANSWERED IN AN OBCURE JAPANESE MAGAZINE

[koorinokujira]

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[yuisdad]

The Women Love Women Phobia in Otome games and fandom

You ever find yourself reading a summary for an otome game that you either can’t get overseas or are looking to see if you’re interested in buying said game? Does this particular game have a route where the MC can date another girl? If it happens to have one, then you might see opinions on said summaries saying “I wish it was a best friend/platonic route”, and that’s if you’re lucky to not find a game summary that doesn’t skip the wlw route entirely.

This has thankfully died down, but in the early to mid 2010’s, you’d usually see these opinions floating around, especially when it came to console otome games. Now, there are some otome game fans who don’t like wlw romance in their games (or lgbt+ romance it seems), which isn’t inherently bad, but it’s still weird how they go out of their way to say they don’t like wlw routes in otome games and wish they were platonic routes instead…which is essentially a variation of people who don’t like lgbt+ romances saying “Why can’t they stay platonic? Not everything has to be romance”. But it’s even worse when otome game fans say this rhetoric because they’re playing a ROMANCE GAME!

There is also a double standard at play since some players don’t like wlw routes…yet are fine with incest (“as long as they’re not blood-related” or whatever bs), teacher x student romances, concerning age gaps, etc, simply because they find the male love interest attractive.

There are also players who are not attracted to women, so they don’t play wlw routes…But even that doesn’t hold much water considering that you don’t need to find someone physically attractive in order to enjoy a romance, which now makes me concerned how adult players view high school love interests if they’re basing likability off of attractiveness…

This wlw phobia is also in a few otome games themselves. One example that comes to mind is Gekka Ryouran Romance, where they have a girl as a love interest since all of their routes have a forbidden romance theme…even though same sex relationships aren’t and will never be forbidden. (Oh boy, can you tell this game was made by Rejet?) Hamefura, All Routes Lead To Doom is a harem isekai anime set in an otome game where the original MC and two female friends explicitly fall in love with the protagonist, Catarina. When it got adapted into an otome game by Otomate, they not only have no routes, but any romantic attraction they had for Catarina was written out of the story. The game came out in 2022…

However, there are otome games with genuinely good wlw routes, especially in mobile otome. My awesome mutual, @lolotheparagon, has played these mobile games and has more knowledge on them then I do, but from what I’ve seen, they’re pretty well written and are given the same attention and good writing as other male routes. Some of them have marriage ends, so the ladies are winning in that department!

Validate is a recent game that not only has a ton of lgbt+ romance, but has very good POC and plus size rep. There’s also an obcure otome game called IDEA Sensen Fukoku Hen, which not only has two wlw routes and I believe a nonbinary route, but the two male love interests have the option to date each other, which is something I haven’t seen in an otome game AT ALL. Although, considering how the company writes mlm relationships, I’m a little afraid about how good the lgbt+ rep in IDEA is.

If anyone has any wlw routes they’d like to share, or just thoughts about wlw routes in otome games in general, then feel free to add to this post.