#into just bad and wrong(tm)

[gothicrepetitions]

I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2

[skibasyndrome]

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[ganondoodle]

i often really do feel like an .. unwanted part of the fandom, i dont draw beautiful landscapes, i have unpopular but strong opinions im constantly annoying about and rarely change, dont like/dont draw the pretty young popular twinks and hot gurls to fanboi over nor do i turn characters into one, the opposite moreso, draw only one ship no ones heard of really, got little energy to interact with the few people that are nice to me and send me asks so it probably looks like im ignoring everyone and unfortunately but still rarely get so stressed i get overwhelmed and emotional about pehaps seemingly minor things and spiral almost into a breakdown feeling super embarrassed about it afterwards but the damage is already done and i look like a freak or agressive weirdo

[moiraimyths]

Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.

Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)

Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!

For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^

[bunnyboy-juice]

awawawawawawa

[asterdeer]

i deserve financial compensation for every time a radio makes me hear hozier tell a woman “you treat your mouth as if it’s heaven’s gate / the rest of you like you’re the tsa”. i didn’t live through years of baby it’s cold outside discourse just for this shit to be the song of the summer. fuck dude

ETA: rbs turned off because 2 terf rbs is 2 too many jesus christ

[wild-at-mind]

Sometimes the 2 other guys who run the lgbtq youth group are trying to talk about why older people like 20+ might want to be interested in a teenager romantically. I feel very aquianted with this topic and I don't think they are but I also don't want to get emotional about it again. In our group we do not believe that anyone under 18 is in a situation and for people over 18 it isn't a safeguarding situation, more of a 'let's talk about this' situation. Only i think these 2 older youth leaders don't know.

I had just turned 17 when this guy who was 20 who i met at the TCG tournaments I was doing at the time started being interested in me. That's not the biggest age gap in the world but it still felt like a yawning void at that age. I was a young 17 and had no social skills. (17 is over the age of consent here FYI so I don't wanna talk about that. I thought I was fine either way because every kid does but also it still would have been bad if when we met I was 18 and he was 21. Again not the biggest age gap ever. But age gaps are bigger the younger you are.)

The guy clearly wanted just, like, any girlfriend at all. He also had basically nothing going on in his life. He had no job other than helping his dad out occassionally, he lived at home, he had basically no hobbies other than the TCG. There's nothing wrong with any of that in itself but I am sure that he was aware it wasn't great prospects for an exciting dating life. The only person who could possibly look up to him was someone who had no idea about non-NEET 20 year olds. Who was in 6th form (basically school still) and had no social life. Basically as soon as he asked me to the cinema for the first time he started talking about marriage and kids. He wanted that SO badly. With just....anyone I guess. He didn't really ask me anything about myself, not that I would have told him because I didn't tell anyone anything. (Instead, and I am not kidding about this, he did this quiz on my Bebo profile that I made at 14 during an argument with a friend, decided everything in it about me was still exactly who I was 3 years later, and internalised it all to an insane degree while also not asking me about anything in there to see if my opinions had changed. I only found out about this after we broke up.)

We were only together 8 months thank god. I sometimes think about how 100 years ago, sooner maybe, you just got married to the first person who came along. That would have been him. It messes with me sometimes. He had the name of his first daughter all picked out but he didn't know anything about me as a person.

Sometimes with the benefit of hindsight I wish it had been just about sex with these earlier people in my life. It wouldn't have been a great bedroom experience no matter what, because that's what being young is like tbh, but something about the pretense of a loving relationship someone is having with a person they imagined, and you are just there, is so fucking soul destroying. My 2nd relationship that went on 3 years was not so different from this. It never occured to me that I could not be in romantic relationships and still have intimacy and feel valued and accepted, because they don't teach stuff like that in sex ed.

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

[townofcadence]

🍀 - do they believe in luck? :)c

Symbol Meme!

I think the answer for Artair is both yes and no! Kinda like programmers who might put a bag of snacks on a server to appease it lol.

Like yeah in most cases, luck is what you make of it and it's about your mindset when you're confronted with a cascade of events brought about by the sheer volume of variables that mash together in the universe. There isn't good or bad karma, sometimes one thing leads into another but a lot of what luck is, is focusing on events that happen and in a way trying to attribute meaning to them. Hell, half the time someone who feels they have bad luck might just be fixating on the times when things went wrong, because humans are prone to remembering bad stuff as a survival mechanic; even if a bunch of good things happen in between, a person might fulfill their own prophecy by going 'see this proves i have bad luck' whenever something happens to go the wrong way.

But also he knows people who can manipulate the outcome of events in a way that might be attributed to luck? It gets messy when you start looking at magic as a thing too. Good or ill can still come of either outcome, though, so a lot of it is still random even when you're pulling on the strings of the universe. Maybe you win the lottery because you manipulated it to be so, but then you lose all your friends and family because you can no longer trust who doesn't want your money. Maybe you don't get selected for one job you really wanted, but then you find yourself in a different field and end up being happier for it. Maybe you lose your friends in a terrible twist of fate, but in searching for them you find more and valuable friends and relationships along the way. You're still at the whims of chance and there is no intent behind the events that may come to pass, it is just causes and effects.

But also. He's definitely built different. He IS bad luck. And he brings misfortune to those around him and everything is also probably his fault somehow. :V

[thormanick]

Ok so I was thinking about some stuff and in the end stumbled upon the question “but why does Traveler care about gnosis being taken away so much though???”

And while I think they care mostly bc of the stuff they know (that gnosis is the basis of archons’ powers, and taking it away can put a nation potentially at risk) + Venti&Signora moment,

I think there’s a tiiiiiiny tiny bit more to it, specifically that I now have a newly acquired headcanon that Traveler projects their trauma on the gods a little bit (their own powers were sealed/taken away from them against their will and they don’t want others to go through it)

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i think it is probably a sign of the process of healing from the trauma of having every word out of my mouth ripped apart, mocked, and treated as an unforgivable offense warranting Extreme Rage and Vitriol, and having it explained to me in excruciating and hateful detail why my thought processes and basic turns of phrase and the things i thought were worth expressing were stupid worthless gibberish, unbearable to listen to, and the root of everything wrong with society, by redditor-ass faux-intellectuals in my life growing up for being awkwardly phrased/not concise enough/mildly whimsical, that some days i'm proud of my meta and some days i can barely stand to look at it. but god that does not make the second one more fun.

[jeonqkooks]

the morning show is one of the best shows about journalism that's ever been made

[niuxita21]

Fell first // Fell harder

[annabelle--cane]

the asexual double edged sword is that a lot of people, particularly queer discoursers(tm) online, are really really rancid about ace people who have sex, I mean like stunningly awful, so naturally sex favorable/indifferent asexuals will be very keen on making sure that they aren't erased within their own community and that people at large know they exist. at the same time, people are also Very Bad about ace people who don't have sex, and sex averse/repulsed asexuals face a lot of pressure both on societal and interpersonal scales to submit to sex that they don't want, and so naturally it'll really rub them the wrong way to constantly have "but don't worry, ace people can still conform to the societal expectation!" appended to their PSAs about their experiences of asexuality. and so everyone's just kinda upset and annoyed all the time when instead it should be peace and love on planet ace.

[chisungie]

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[h-ypno]

Hm.