#me: I'm only talking about crys

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[captainfairygodmother]

I feel like the universal David Tennant Fan experience is watching Takin' Over the Asylum for David, then staying and being devastated by the plot and the other characters (as well as Campbell obviously)

[tylovingkit]

guys I've just been to the marauders haters side of Pinterest.

I'm not okay

the fact is that they were kind of right in some things but those things are literally the reason why fanon is better

and as a fanon marauders fan that shit really made me want to cry cause why do people hate on James and Remus, say that Sirius is totally straight and a bigot and collectively decided to completely ignore the existence of Mary McDonald?

why do people hate on Wolfstar?????

oh my god I'm never gonna recover

[hiitspussyhands]

Okay so, serial women abuser NG saw the Corinthian manipulating women in the first season and went "wow! So hot, that's just how I flirt! He's pan now" and everyone has to be cool with that and accept that they turned a gay icon straight just to save on CGI for Matthew? Yeah fuck NG and Netflix the character belongs to fan artists and Alan Moore now fuck this shit

[ultimateinsomniac]

hopping up on my special interest soap box to say: i think we as a fandom should discuss the satire in danganronpa V3 more.

idk if it is just me but i have always viewed this game as a satire, if only just because of the ending. it exagerrates the formula set up by the previous games to criticize the current state of media and media consumption. i know a lot of people in the fandom don't like V3, and i think that is by design. it is ridiculous, it is over the top, the ending is a punch to the face, but it's all on purpose. you're supposed to be uncomfortable because it is a satire. (of course you don't have to like the game, i just think it is intentionally like that)

the whole theme of fiction vs reality is put in there intentionally to make fun of the fandomization of danganronpa, as well as to poke at game studios and companies that put out media in general. tsumugi, in my interpretation, is representative of danganronpa fans (hence why she's the ultimate cosplayer). she is the mastermind. you aren't supposed to like her. her insistence on the idea that "fiction doesn't affect reality" is a direct criticism of that exact idea in real life fandom. the idea that this is the "53rd" danganronpa is directly making fun of other pieces of media "jumping the shark" because fans insist upon it. this is not to say you can't like tsumugi, i think you absolutely can, i just think her character represents some key ideas relating to the satire of the game.

this is why everything in the game is SO over the top. kirumi being the prime minister, korekiyo both having DID AND being a serial killer in a reference to the first game, EVERYONE'S over the top backstories (gonta and keebo come to mind), it's all acting as an exaggeration of common tropes (albeit highly problematic in several areas, not trying to excuse those aspects by any means).

and then there's kaede. they set her up as a strong female protagonist, only to kill her chapter 1 to be replaced by a male protag. on paper this is very misogynistic, but in the context of satire it is an exaggeration of the danganronpa formula. of course we couldn't have a female protag in a main line game, of course it would have to be a man. shuichi having a secret ahoge only adds to this; it's making fun of the trope. the best part is that i truly do love both of these characters, and their role in the satire doesn't diminish the excellent writing that went into them and the story.

this entirely shapes how i view this game. it manages to tell an incredibly compelling story with very complex characters while making fun of itself at the same time (as a good satire should). i know a lot of people have said they feel like the writers of v3 must have hated danganronpa, and while i see exactly what they mean i don't think that's necessarily true. i think it was an intentional choice as a work of satire.

i can see an intense love behind the writing of this game. the characters are rich and the story is compelling. the ending just serves to send home the point they wanted to make. i think it adds a really beautiful perspective to the danganronpa series as a whole.

[mariyekos]

Can't remember if I've talked about it here or just in fic wips, but I like to HC that Dante is Actually Cursed levels of unlucky. Like, it isn't just that he *seems* kind of unlucky based on his circumstances, he's "loses 85% of the time on a 50% chance" kind of unlucky. He *will* consistently get tails 8 or 9 times out of 10 when flipping a coin and trying to get heads, or rolll a 1 or 2 five times in a row when playing a game where you want to high roll (reasons to destroy the DMC4 Dice, anyone?)

Lady and Trish actually discretely kept track a few times and did the math to come up with this number before telling him. They noticed it mostly applied to things that depend on pure luck/random chance like games with draws and rolls and so on, but he's had enough weird cases of being dealt a bad hand by fate that they're pretty sure it impacts everything to some extent. Dante mostly takes it in stride though, deciding that there's nothing he can do about it so he'll just do as he pleases. So what if he has crummy luck; he'll make up for it with skill. Or just take advantage of it. Maybe at some point he and the ladies go to a bar where they egg him into joining a game where they bet against him because it's pretty much guaranteed he'll lose and they'll profit big time. (Unless of course the "bad luck" comes in the form of him doing uncharacteristically well to the point that Lady and Trish lose their money because Dante suddenly couldn't stop rolling 6s. Bad luck comes in many forms, and some of them can seem good on the surface!)

Nero, on the other hand, is a "wins 70% of the time on a 50% chance" kind of guy because a ton of his skills are named after gambling stuff. Yes Dante has the Jackpot phrase, but otherwise he doesn't have the same sort of skill list so I think it would be hilarious if both Dante and Vergil have terrible luck while Nero's somehow wraps around to being pretty lucky. I think Dante would find it funny while Vergil would (not-so-) secretly be jealous.

[ryllen]

"I decided it's my break day today, Oh coincidentally, I'm gonna sit here, and watch you work." also it's too cute how Nemo just came run at me whenever i sat on a bench

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Enemies To Lovers To Exes To Best Friends To Endgame= Slow Burn Perfection (A Perfect Glow Up)

[gingersnaptaff]

Arawn headcannons?

Hi, anon!!!! Arawn beloved!!!! God, I love him. I think he's neat and also, anybody who is a fellow dog lover gets brownie points.

Okay, so, Arawn to me is a full-formed God straight out the gate. He doesn't have a family, really unlike say the family of Llŷr and the family of Dôn. He, to me, is similar to Cerridwen and Aerfen in that they make their families because they're vital concepts to the Celts if that makes sense? Like Death (Arawn), Warfare/Fate (Aerfen), and Awen (that's basically like the act of creation in Welsh culture. So Cerridwen's cauldron is the cauldron of Awen. It's roughly translated to inspiration or divine inspiration and it a big deal tbh) are vital things so they took shape pretty quickly. (I'd also say that Amaethon and Gofannon were fully-formed instead of growing up into adulthood but, as can be seen with Dylan Ail Don, gods probably grew into adults like within a day. Like those t-shirts you have to wet so they expand.)

ANYWAYS. He has a wife called Alaw (means melody. It's also the name of a river which features in the Second Branch of the Mabinogion) and she's the deity of said river (I've made that up, but it's cuz Annwfn is associated with water and I was like 'Arawn marries a river deity' to preserve that theme) and, yes, she's the lady who Pwyll has to share a bed with for a year and gets super pissed off when Arawn's like 'BUT BABE WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED' and she's like 'NOT ANYMORE, BITCH, WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU?!' Anyways, they really do love each other and also they have a daughter called Morwen (sea white) who marries a guy and they have a kid called Alwen (also river name) who gets together with Urien Rheged and Modron in a menage á trois)

Originally, I headcannoned him as like a guy who could shape-shift into a 'black scrap' that was a bit ravenish so he could attack those he hated but he's now more fluid and water-based because of the whole Annwfn deal. Plus, idk a God of death being foreboding because of thr fact he's water-based is scary when you think about it! Water is incredibly destructive and nurturing and Arawn can be both. Like, dude is benevolent in The Mabinogion for the most part but when Pwyll first meets him you as the reader think 'JESUS, MY BOI PENDEFID DYFED'S ABOUT TO BE MURKED' because he just shows up and is like 'U SET UR HOUNDS UPON MY STAG.'

He and Alaw met because Arawn can use any river as pathways to his domain and he was out hunting and thr dogs were like 'A PERSON!!!!' Those dogs meet-cuted their master. He just walks on water with all his hounds behind him like a mini procession whenever they wanna hunt.

He is, as discussed, beesties with the Pwyll fam. I know this, I believe this. If the family of Pwyll has one fan it's me, if the family of Pwyll has a hundred fans I'm one of them, if the fam of Pwyll has no fans I'm dead and typing this from my grave. Pryderi sends Arawn letters CONSTANTLY. Arawn still dines with Pwyll's shade.

Chill guy. Any dog he sees he must pet.

He's very ambivalent about the family of Dôn. Like, Pryderi nearly died because of Gwydion (becauss of the one strike thing. I know it should be over running water, but I think the water would spit Pryderi back out because Arawn Does Not Want Him Dead unlike Hafgan. In my book Pryderi doesn't die because that's my brother in booboo and I LOVE him) and he went to Y Felen Rhyd to retrieve Pryderi's body instead of having Gwyn ap Nudd do it so Pryderi could get treatment from Cerridwen, Taliesin, and a tiny string bean of an Emrys/Myrddin.

He loves poetry. His job comes with the perk of having every poet who has ever died in his hall. Of course Arawn's gonna have poetry read to him every night. He even listens to Alaw read her pierty and she's BANGING AT POETRY. (Basing her on Gwerful Mechain, my absolute beloved. Women absolutely did master the Welsh bardic craft and I wish we had more of their works surviving) He commissions poetry for his and Alaw's wedding and gets Alaw to do it so his court knows how fuckin great his wife is at poetry because he's like 'EVERYBODY PLS LOOK AT MY WIFE OKAY SHUT UP SHE'S PERFORMING'

Is besties with Llŷr who is now, uh, chained up by Euroswydd somewhere in a silver chair (my invention idk how boi is chained up because MYTHS DON'T TELL) in a dungeon away from the sea. Euroswydd doesn't know that Arawn's been sending river water to Llŷr on the down low so he can keep his strength up. Although it's not the sea, Llŷr is endlessly grateful.

Arawn has met Cigfa because Pryderi was like 'u gotta meet my third dad' soon after they were married and basically trekked the poor girl to the Afon Cych and was like 'dw, dw, dw, I'm not a weirdo but I've been telling Arawn all about u' ans she's like THE GOD OF THE FUCKING DEAD?! And this close -> 🤏 to filing for divorce then and there. Fortunately, Arawn was like 'nice to meet u do u wanna meet my dogs and my KICKASS WIFE?' and Cigfa was like 'dogs 🥰🥰🥰'

(What if I told u she walks out of there with two Cŵn Annwfn pups who are only a few days old with the reddest ears and whitest coats? What then?)

The whole Hafgan thing is turned into Annwfn's biggest propaganda spin ever. Arawn is like 'Pwyll and I defeated Hafgan who was legit The Worst.' It's probably like Damnatio Memoriae in that no traces of Hafgan's rule over Y Gwlad y Haf exist. Arawn is absolutely ruthless in that.

Gwyn ap Nudd is Arawn's psychopomp but have you also considered be rules Annwfn whenever Arawn takes a holiday? The Wild Hunt is an exercise for the doggos at this point. Mallt-y-Nos screams because she's excited. (God, I've cutesified Welsh myth. Kill me.)

Anyways, anon hope these are good. Arawn is actually a bit more foreboding in the book. Morrígan's dead clutter his halls, he has a whole run-in with Oisín and Gwyn in a stable before he realises who they are, and murks a load of people. Also, his aura is white and red because of his hounds and also because those are Otherworldy colours.

[lukazade]

I can't really put it into words but Gangle throwing off her mask (ep 4) reminded me a lot of Pomni trying to get out of the exit (ep 1)

The music direction and the vibe were like same/similar but one was evil (until the door opened) and one was good (until the truck came by)? Idk what this could mean (it's 11:30pm I'm tired) but I'm thinking about it rotating it there's something there. They happen at similar timestamps too.

Also (because of the above AND the overwhelming B+ grade AND some other things) I'm thinking the circus is hitting the.. [purgatory/sisyphus/the good place/ride the cyclone/not quite truly dead yet] points in my brain. Idk tho this is just vibes! This category of things. And I think the point behind the purgatory is something to do with "correctly" completing the adventures. Which is to say incorrectly. Prove humanity by being human (unpredictable/sporadic/neurotic/angry/panicked). Or something.

Idk. Tired!

[freakoutgirl]

i'm like trying sooo hard to work on my mental health but i still feel like i'm fucking drowning

[alcyoneusgalaxy]

leviathan book 3 summary drop???

and it's coming out in april next year?? which is somehow way sooner than i thought yet still too far away????

[agnesandhilda]

my family putting the "men" in "mental illness"

[keineahnung-ichhalt]

Are you all aware that they are marketing Tatort Stuttgart as Crimescapes - Scales of Justice internationally and have made the most dramatic trailer possible

here is the listing which also includes the following description:

[deoidesign]

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[ourladyoftheflytrap]

Nooooo don't think about all the ways your momma has betrayed you just go to bed