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🥤Fizzy Swirl🍓🍒
fizzy swirl! an enthusiastic Pegasus who works at a smoothie/milkshake shop as an apprentice. she works hard on every smoothie she makes, and is happy to see a smile on everyone's face when she gives them their drink. though energetic she's actually pretty shy and quiet meeting a new face. but is quite the chatter box when you get to know her.
she probably smells like a bundle of fruit
element of laughter/joy
#mlp#my little pony#toastie art#mlp fim#mlp art#mlp oc#a friend for rock slide#i like the idea that they might not be obvious what their element would be#makes them feel very dimensional
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We could have had it all...
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#jin guangyao#nie mingjue#oh man....the NieYao dynamic....All these complex emotions and ties to each other and they *aren't* canon?#Sorry fellas but the way you proposed writing your bro a letter of recommendation & agreeing to it was very fruity.#And *then* Lan Xichen shows up. And both JGY and NMJ are head over heels for him and have been for ages apparently.#Its like they found out that LXC had been two timing them this whole time and their response was: “UM. HOT?”#I'm tempted to redraw these three as that one bisexual-core image with Anne Hathaway. You know the one. It fits.#It's strange seeing all of this fondness in retrospect compared to the betrayal you feel in The Untamed after a longer build up.#Initially it felt like 'oops we made him a little too 2 dimensional as a villain - quick make him more sympathetic'.#JGY even had a scene with him kissing babies. As any politician would do to improve their image.#but it does come around to really showing a more authentic JGY and the tension between him and NMJ.#As an angst lover I am personally all for 'what could have been' relationships and they DO have it all.
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kind of underrated how manipulative kal skirata is and I dont mean that in the "kal skirata should burn in hell" way it's just very striking to me that within the first half of triple zero he uses zey's sense of responsibility for the war to set up the corufresh op, uses ordo to prove a point to civilians (or educate, as he puts it. ordo is fine with it cause it's ordo), uses etain's sense of shame and responsibility to uphold the clones's autonomy to get her to join the op, and then uses her compassion to convince her to torture someone. obviously in all of these situations except the one with ordo (also notable to me) the other person has an out if they want to take it, but the purpose of it is to make the out look unappealing. And now I'm just getting into manipulation semantics and what counts as free will (these are all characters who made those choices anyways. minus ordo) but it feels like KT is almost playing with your discernment skills, giving you everyone's opinion on him and what that reflects on them while also putting all of kal's actions in front of you from neutral pov's and saying what do you make of this? this is important, don't forget it.
#fascinating guy. very effective. something deeply wrong with him though#I also find it very interesting the types of people who feel comfortable/protected by him vs threatened#omega and the nulls are raised by him but etain wants to prove herself and bardan is bardan#both of them are drawn in by his brand of violent compassion that's so foreign to them as jedi#vs vau is irked by him and delta is wary of his personality and unpredictability. they don't like having to trust him implicitly#they have to because he's their co but they dont like it#it's mentioned multiple times that you wouldnt want to be on the wrong side of kal skirata and I think kt does a great job of#illustrating that#personally while I like his character I do get this unease or distaste for how he operates#that comes from knowing if he was real I wouldnt find it worth it to get involved with his schemes#<- making him sound like rumplestiltskin here lmfao#but its completely down to personality; it all depends on how you view trust and how you weigh things like intent & sympathy & compassion#it's a pretty huge accomplishment to make a character that is 3 dimensional and realistic with enough conflicting sources of reputation that#he feels like someone you know distantly through your social circle you're trying to get a read on#repcomm#finally got back to rereading triple zero academic style#txt
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#there's a lot going on here. 1) the fan ONLY referring to sam and 'sammy' throughout their entire question#2) jared mirroring that energy and referring to sam as sammy in response despite using sam throughout the rest of the panel#3) the wording of‚ “sammy's bad side‚” is very particular to me because when he explains it as 'against his nature'* it feels like he's#contextualising this 'bad side' as being in relationship to particular actions and/or choices sam would make as a juxtaposition to what#would like to or would otherwise do. 4) *the classification of sam as ontologically good with the kind of particular language 2008 jared#uses that i think 2025 jared would specifically avoid referring to sam with. and im thinking specifically of the way jared spoke about#hunter ethics in relation to his character from bostoncon earlier this year#4) jared's film knowledge is kind of insane in a way that he isn't as/doesn't seem as interested in anymore#5) jared finding these instances fun to play specifically because of the nuance it introduces for sam. there's another part in the panel#where he gives his jared-typical answer of loving stories and wanting to keep telling them his whole life and i think thats always#relevant to the way he approaches sam's character#6) op of this version of the panel put up a photo of meg!sam during the duration of this question which Did affect my perception of the#question because there is no specific reference to her at any point here. the part of the question that jared spoke over Does mention#'evil sam' but referring to meg!sam about it when a. jared doesn't answer that part of the question and b. meg!sam doesn't come up#at all during this question and c. we know meg's canonical motivations and she is very much not one dimensionally evil#is a very interesting choice. especially considering that the reference to her skewed my perception of jared's answer. hm!#jared padalecki
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i think it’s interesting cuz i feel like sometimes you can tell if the person writing wanted to write a specific plot vs if they wanted to write a dynamic
both are valid but i’ve noticed selfshippers tend to be more invested in the dialogue and dynamic and general x reader writers tend to care more about the actual plot (obviously there’s overlap and an element of both in this)
#these approaches can both be executed beautifully#i have noticed however that when it falls short for x reader writers the characters tend to be one dimensional and you end up not caring#about either of them#and when it falls short for selfshippers it starts to look boring and hard to invest in#i think in many cases selfshippers can get even a stranger interested in their selfship#and x reader writers can make a stranger fall in love with a character and selfship with them#it’s very fascinating#ultimately everyone should do what feels best and most fun and fulfilling to them#mimi speaks
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so I watched the show and like. I wasn’t as angry as I expected to be. because it was so incoherent and so not resemblant of yakuza that I couldn’t really latch onto something to be mad about. like it’s just. such a mess.
#the cinematography was so uninteresting and all the scenes were so quick and sporadic that you can’t really Feel anything#there’s no time to get attached to anyone or anything and so much backstory is thrown out that everything either makes no sense or lacks#any significant impact#like how are you gonna make an adaptation of something and expect the audience to know enough about the source material to fill in the gaps#and yet divert so much from the source material that it’s nearly unrecognizable.#really wacky choices being made here#honestly the only thing that made me actually like genuinely irritated (as opposed to confused and disappointed) was the soundtrack#like. absolutely dismal. the only songs that stood out were western songs everyone knows and they were so horribly cliche#like tell me this was made by westerners without telling me#that’s such an insult to yakuza’s over a decade long discography that's generally always Very strong#at the very least the composers/producers put a ton of thought and effort into it#and the show just. says meh whatever. and throws in mr blue sky and fucking MAD WORLD#i'll give them SOME props for making yumi and yuko ('miho' i still dont get why they changed her name)#have some level of personality and 3 dimensionality#honestly i felt more sympathy and connection to both of them than i did kiryu#rambling#yakuza
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university.. university leave me alone
#heres the situation: for my cognitive literary studies class (quite fun) we had to pick primary material and a cognitive angle to analyse it#from. and the deadline was coming up and i who have been thinking very intensely about robots for the last half a year picked#yeah you guessed it. fucking PIERS PLOWMAN. which is not fun for me but i panicked about the deadline#so now i have to do something about piers plowman and its cognitive literary properties#and im in hell this is hell i have been extremely stressed about piers plowman for a month. to the point where ive been in physical pain#AND I CANNOT. THINK OF ANYTHING. ABOUT PIERS PLOWMAN.#and the teacher for that class is so nice and chill and she was like you can pick anything at all. and i went with piers plowman#like it's interesting but from what COGNITIVE angle can i approach piers plowman.#ive been thinking about saying exactly this that piers plowman is more for historical linguists and theologists than narratologists but im#also positive plenty of scholars read piers plowman for the plot#so then i thought about the characters and whether you can Connect with them and whether they help you Immerse yourself in the story and#other terminology i learned in cognitive literary studies class.#theyre allegorical and very 1 dimensional and there could be something about whether we from 2024 understand them in the same way#people from the 14th century did. like this was what i put in my proposal when i made it#but now i actually have to make the slides and use cognitive literary papers for this and it's just not going at all. i cant do it.#i cant do anything i cant enjoy the daylight and the warmer weather i cant think about anything other than im not making progress on this#and it's bad for me!! it's bad for my health i feel bad. why did i go with piers plowman why did i not pick watership down#my post#i have plenty to say about watership downm cognitively.#also about old possums book of practical cats#maybe i could email her and tell her id like to change it.. no#ive also been reading the tombs of atuan which is incredible
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now this, this is fascinating!
even before any kind of reveal, test tube is under the impression that a contestant's existence is dependent on the game they're in -- she doesn't think this season should exist, that it's a mistake, and likewise, she doesn't think these contestants should exist either, that they're a mistake too: a mistake as a by-product of the mistake that is inanimate insanity infinity ever occurring as a season. she doesn't even think that these new characters could've already existed, living their own lives, just recruited by salt and pepper... no, she thinks they were made. and...
...oh. damn.
yeah okay the twist wasn't even a twist, was it?
#melonposting#ii spoilers#ii 16 spoilers#also... there's a point made that all of the contestants here are zany and unserious like lightbulb#which is why she initially gets along with them. because in a lot of ways she's the same#you can imagine both they and lightbulb were made that way as contestants. that's the archetype they were made to full#but lightbulb has been able to develop past just that. she's more. she's not a flat character#maybe it has to do with the fact that she was actually able to compete in the competition? like these guys can't?#lightbulb becomes disillusioned with them because they're her at her most 1-dimensional state#though it's funny -- salt and pep seem to hate their competitors#every time they're generated they end up like this. zany and unserious and ultimately annoying#which suggests that they're not consciously crafting each character#i wonder if it has anything to do with the mephone who generates them? or if it's salt and pep's subconscious (possibly like mephone4)?#it's also fascinating how salt and pepper see the contestants as weird and below them. that the two of them are the only normal ones#the very act of creating them makes them feel superior........ something something.............................#also this is a side note but it's very funny and sad how lighty and tt can win by feeding off of pepper's insecurity#about salt not really liking or respecting her#augh!!!#her 'latching on' to salt...... makes me think of her ii1 elimination and then how salt proceeded to fixate on oj instead#leaving pepper to pine for her somewhat even when they reunited :(
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i have GOT to do more with the warden he is too important to romeo not to touch upon more. the narrative does him so very dirty alas … like he is so. meaningless. he’s set up as this, almost, false antagonist sort of character ( or is, at the very least, supposed to be viewed sympathetically / is noted to be someone one can reason with ) only for his screen time to be so limited and for him to be, no matter the choices, destined to die. like what?? sigh. s2 is full of so many interesting things and characters but is very held back by it’s limited five eps structure … it’s rather obvious that everything needed to be given more time, especially the sunshine institute + the admins’ towns below the bedrock, but they just have to rush through it.
#txt.#s2 tag.#in a perfect world every character would’ve mattered like they did in s1#but s1 had an easier time accomplishing this because the cast was kept small and contained#basically it was just the old order + jesse & friends#*gestures* but s2 is a VERY big story that is constantly introducing new characters#in ep1 it’s stella. radar. jack. nurm. vos. the ‘colossus’#in ep2 it’s a more formal introduction to the admin ( hence why ep2 is probably my fave. it just has more time to do character things )#but then!! ep3 is : the warden. a bunch of other side characters that matter for some reason. xara. first mention of fred.#ep4 is binta. all of her people like cam wanda (?) kent etc. then val and soup. and you spend like five seconds with these people#all of whom are extremely one dimensional in nature!! yet you are supposed to care and feel a type of way about them.#thankfully no one’s introduced in ep5 besides an official real appearance of fred and human romeo#but the point is there is just so. many. characters#s1 was like. jesse’s friends + lukas + gabriel + ivor. and then ellegaard and magnus. and then soren. volia#even the ocelots ( who are narratively unimportant ) make a comeback depending on choices. or at the very least are MENTIONED after ep1#i do think s2 did a good job with most of the more important new characters but still. it feels like the warden + the bedrock people SHOULD#have held similar importance and just didn’t in the end because of runtime. same for old characters that werent petra alas#anyway. anyway! just musing and gripping this fine monday morning. dont mind me *yawns*
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I have a lot of thoughts on The O.C.
Some of them are good. Others,,, not so great.
#still going to watch it because I’m trying to keep an open mind#but it very much feels like every character is being fitted into a singular box#and like they’re being kept very one-dimensional#I also don’t like the fact that they just. seem to make issues that aren’t okay okay?#the fact that Julie wants to divorce Jimmy after he bankrupts their family#and instead of supporting her? everyone else just says it’s not fair to divorce him??#because like? babe. if my partner did that?? I wouldn’t be supporting them! they’d be out on their ass#and the fact that Caleb just dates a much younger woman?#when he’s in his 60s is just so disturbing?#that’s like a 35-40 year age gap between them#idk the way they use these issues for plot lines and enjoyment just feels so wrong#when it should be something that’s treated seriously#maybe I’m overthinking this#leave me alone#angel speaks#the o.c.
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I'm sorry but this just pisses me off (Not Hunt obviously, but Bryce)
Bryce rant incoming which you can just ignore and I'll probably delete later
But Bryce just puts all the blame on the Asteri. And yes ultimately they are to blame in the larger sense of things. But Bryce plays a direct role in leading them down the path that results in Hunt, Ruhn and Baxian being caught. It was her need to find out Danika's secrets with no thought to the consequences, her idea to go to the Eternal City. And she takes NO personal responsibility for it at all!
Hunt is blaming himself for everything that's happened. Even when it's not his fault at all. When we're in his pov he's constantly drowning in guilt, thinking about how he should of done more, he should of tried harder, he should of been better, how it's all his fault this happened and that his friends suffered.
And then Bryce does none of that. When we're in her pov she doesn't really show any major guilt. I can't think of any times when she blames herself like Hunt does. And I'm not saying she should be wracked with guilt. But a normal person, a good person, will usually feel bad and will feel guilty and blame themselves to some degree when something bad happens and people they care about are hurt, regardless of how big or small they're involvement is, or even if they're not at fault at all, case in point Hunt being wracked with guilt even when it's not his fault.
And to make it worse she acknowledges that Hunt warned them, warned her. But that she disregarded it and would of done it no matter what.
And then she has the audicity to say she doesn't regret it. And she thought they were on the same page. ON THE SAME PAGE!!?? Hunt made it clear in hosab that he didn't want to go down this road again, that he didn't want to get involved. YOU just didn't listen Bryce. And yeah Hunt's an adult, he can make his own decisions and he could of said no and not gone. But of course, OF COURSE!! he wasn't going to let Bryce go down that road alone, because he loves her, and doesn't want anything to happen to her, and wants to protect, so of course he would never desert her. But that doesn't mean he wanted to do it!
For Bryce to be that unaware of Hunt's feelings, when he explicitly stated them. For her to be that disconnected from her mate's feelings that she's surprised that he wasn't really on board is kinda unfathomable to me. Just that complete lack of awareness really does make her look quite selfish/self centered.
Anyway sorry, this post is a mess but I just had to vent
And then when Hunt mentions the consequences he and his friends faced, Bryce makes it about her pain. She's hurt that Hunt mentioned that they suffered. And the worst part is, Hunt then regret's it, he regrets saying something that hurts Bryce, because he cares about her and feelings. And she does not consider his feelings to the same degree
It just pisses me off
#honestly with bryce's lack of feelings of guilt her lack of consideration of other people's feelings and her lack of taking responsibility#for her actions i think sarah has unintentionally written her as kinda a bit of a sociopath#anyway like i said in a previous post *sigh* i miss hoeab bryce my beloved#hoeab bryce had gone through so much and had a lot of growth through the first book and had so much potential for more#but then it just stopped. went backwards even. in fact i think hofas bryce has gotten worse#she's had no development for 2 books now and the further i get into hofas more and more apparent it's become how flawed#and one dimensional her character is#her being in prythian and the acotar characters carried her early chapters but now that she's back in midgard her lack of growth and#maturity is starting to grate on me. literally every other pov character has had more development then her#in all the other character pov's they are constantly self reflection they feel guilt they blame themselves they consider the feelings#of those around them. they consider how their actions have affected those around them. they take responsibility for their actions#bryce's pov does not do that to the same degree. if at all#there's minimal critical thought. no self reflection. a lack of taking any responsibility for her actions and the consequences#she's really is a very flat character. what you see is what you get#and her 'sassyness' (that was fine at first when there actually was more to her character) which is supposed to come across as#witty funny badass who takes no shit ect. more and more is just comes across as annoying and immature#and often inflammatory in situations that require maturity sensitivity and tact#her disrespect for the ocean queen who is helping you and is super powerful and not someone you want to make#an enemy of was just unnecessary and not smart tactically#and this is super nitpicky but I'm getting so sick of bryce's clothes. please get her out of those ridiculous leggins and pink sneakers#they were fine when she was going to the nail salon and the gym but how am i supposed to take her seriously on a world saving#mission in those clothes. how am i supposed to take her seriously as a queen (ugh) conversing with the ocean queen#in those clothes#and I'm loath to say it because i love hoeab quinlar with my whole heart but hofas bryce doesn't deserve hunt#the devotion and consideration hunt has for bryce and her feelings is not returned to the same degree to him#anyway i was hoping to get my hoeab bryce back but it hasn't happened but hopefully the second half of the book#can turn things around for her#pleaseee
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Queens of Innis Lear
slow-moving political fantasy, retelling of the shakespeare tragedy king lear
set in a dying island kingdom, where the prophesy-obsessed king (having neglected the wild magic of the land) must pass on the crown to his three daughters
the elder two hate their father and have been planning their rule for years, and the youngest loves her father and does not want the crown- but does care for the magic of the land
but when the king makes an unforeseen decision, and other kingdoms and spies circle, vying for land and power of their own
earth magic, fate and duty, complicated sister relationships
#The Queens of Innis Lear#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#I thought this was pretty decent. It’s very long though. by the end i was starting to feel the length of it lmao#I don’t really have any familiarity with the original play so I was more approaching it just as any other fantasy book.#It definitely did feel very shakespearean in the plot and how the characters acted though!#I thought the love-and-hate relationship between the sisters was really interesting!#I liked ban in the beginning but by the end he was so annoying. Elia too a bit. didn’t really care about whatever was going on between them#I liked Aefa (the fool’s daughter….also just the inclusion of fools in medieval-esque fantasy)#I did pick this up because I’d heard there was an aroace character. She is one of the 7 or so POV characters#Definitely one of the most interesting characters to me; definitely also plays into some stereotypes.#(cold; brutal; a ��heart of iron’ - there are other reasons for this; and she’s certainly not a one-dimensional character#(also. i want this kind of aroace character sometimes) but still something to note.#Like I did really like her but also wouldn't necessarily rec people read this for the aroace character (partly just bc of the large cast)#That plus with the fact that she’s described as the darkest skinned (often in tandem with those other descriptors; being brutal; masculine)#is.....hm. a bit uneasy#I’m not sure how well the story handled the Black characters in general tbh but i can’t really make a judgement on that i guess#(I’m hesitant to read books by white authors with Black/biracial MCs regardless; wasn’t aware of this before I started it)#there are couple other bi characters but it’s not SUPER queer otherwise.
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chapter five! we've got a diedre pov which i think is a good bit interesting :) i lied last week though we're not actually meeting fenrir's siblings until chap six, i had to cut it after they got to the northern territory or it would've been way too long a chapter
ao3 - https://archiveofourown.org/works/55561897/chapters/143260885
quotev - https://www.quotev.com/story/16519931/a-drop-of-silver-in-a-sky-of-stars-yandere-m-various-x-m-oc/6
#yandere#yandere fic#i did change the chapter titles like i was talking about#also character descriptions are edited to include some new characters :) wonder what those guys are about :)#(hati and skoll i love you)#still mildly obsessing over ceri. i can't wait until i can start writing him properly but we do have to get fenrir settled in first#the most awkward family lunch next chapter. it's great#his siblings have very obvious character flaws which i feel makes them more realistic. they might seem a bit one-dimensional at first but#their dynamic includes them all as representing cerberus#you know. cerberus the three headed hound#so they all have flaws on their own but are terrifying when they function together as a group#they all balance each other etc etc more poetic metaphors#if i elaborate more than this i will never leave this tags section
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Watching the bad batch episodes just makes me hate the show even more
#I wanted to watch the bad batch be awesome and fight droids in interesting ways and be brothers#not watch them babysit a child who’s very existence makes 0 sense#I also feel like the bad batch show strips them of their personalities. they’re 1 dimensional and shallow and it’s stupid#they’re also painfully stereotypical#smiles rambles
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do yall ever think about how little wlw rep there is and get sad because I do a lot
#deity dialogue#not to mention the little rep we do get tends to fall into specific categories that we can’t really go outside of#when you look at the amount of wlw media there is compared to straight and mlm media it’s like so little#this is not me saying there should be less mlm media btw I’m very happy for yall and you do deserve to be represented#but my god it feels like no one cares about wlw stories or characters or like wlw people in general ya know#and the categories we get are like. wlw ready where none of them are happy at the end and one of them probably dies#male gaze mlm made for men#the sole wlw character is a huge fucking bitch and we all hate her#uwu smol bean lesbian who is one dimensional and honestly probably just there so you can say look we have a wlw character now shut up#am I making any sense#it’s 3am I’m sleep deprived#oh also the fun ‘the wlw relationship is subtextual but you should be grateful to even have a grain of rep why are you so ungrateful ugh’#and you can’t even say anything about reading a character as wlw without people being so mean to you#you’re also not allowed to explore different tropes that straight and mlm characters get to like you’re locked in specific tropes and#categories and if you try to do something different you can’t
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rain world watcher review its rambling its long nothing of honor is contained here etc: stuck in the right side of Aether Ridge, with my ways out either being Go To A Zone Whose Only Connection Is THE FIRST ONE, taking me on an a-b-c-a route (and i'm not exactly confident theres anything linked to Coral Caves (first zone) that isn't either Aether Ridge still the way that i got there first time or, like, locked behind progression shit (i had to look up spoilers to not ragequit on that locked-from-the-other-side portal, had no clue what i was dealing with). also why the hell would they chop up the original Aether Ridge mod like that but just LEAVE the dead-ends to its subregions just. sitting there. like that. theres so many rooms that feel like they should lead SOMEWHERE but noooope! also the rain is making increasingly less sense why not just go the Saint route for the snowy area (not saying it needs temperature regulation mechanics, though that'd be more INTERESTING actually, but just. have it be a blizzard that kills you at end of timer or some shit X[ )
Also me being "stuck" because the way back is too fucking windy in the wrong direction has honestly looped back around to comedic. I took the wind to imply there was something Worthwhile (hence the new mechanic) thaterways rather than the horrible acid tunnels but instead its leading me in a loooooooooooong circle.
so far my favorite New Area is the torrential railway with barely anything in it that just leads between Coral and Aether, and my favorite part of the DLC was the beginning before *any* of the new regions because watching (lol) the visual changes corrupting the familiar environs in a way that made way less sense than Downpour's timeline goings-on had a good and spooky vibe to it. I've heard theres similar stuff later along those lines but. I need to. Get there.
Addendum: like two weeks later but ok yeah it gets better, i enjoy yume nikki cat
#oh ok so its like. a metaphorical#extrapolation of his mental state and struggle to survive!#cant even passage#its wierd being pretty solidly on the Hypercrical Surly Gamer side of a contentious gameplay addon lmfao#i do still like. Things. about whats going on#(sadly not a fan of the lore spoilers i've heard to be real. which is also... irritating. the rot stuff is almost fine though it deserves a#better home than this though)#(.....plus i feel like making the rot THE metaphysical badness thingy kinda. cheapens its place in the base game???)#not the biggest fan with how Downpour handled characterization and anthropomorphization iterators-wise tbh but i don't think#this dlc was really improved or disimproved by those problems not being allowed to be there in that way since.#like. the strengths it and the base game brought kinda aren't there except by EXTREMELY strained and textually unsupported (antisupported#even given the dimensional shit) with regards to the BUILDING A CONSEQUENTIAL CHARACTERIZED AND HOLLISTIC FEELING SETTIIIIING TO EXPLORE#thats. THATS the shit with 5pebbles that i think gets lost here (and why the rot feels.... wonky in the context i've still only HEARD its#implimented)#actually going upstairs and meeting the puppet is NOT the first time encountering the “character” of 5 Pebbles. you'd been dealing with him#from the very start of the game#the rain? thats him! rot? him! cycles? a universal concept extending beyond his influence but from a gameplay standpoint HE'S whats definin#them!#and this is where Downpour kinda screws up a bit story-wise because the impulse can be that ITS LITERALLY HIS *ACTUAL* STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE#SOCIAL DRAMA THATS THE METAPHOR#viewed holistically in interference with the environment the player slugcat Is A Part Of 5P#...i think this is why i am really attached to the broader scope timeline-lore of Downpour despite being a bit “eh” on the iterator#characterization more directly and like#the slugcats themselves#bc it DOES feel like it plays that out really well#and while i think a dlc that just Did More Of That Shit Again would suck complete ass i feel like it fumbles even recognizing how that WAS#important. and it feels like a huge missed opportunity because you could do some really wierd and interesting shit with jumping between nea#nearby realities and such. maybe throw in a dash of time travel. work a bit on making the parallels between zones (sorry to keep calling th#them zones. OFF brain rofl.) more apparent (if it was intentional in the first place???) and. like.#actually fucking meaningful.
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