#this could be the brainrot talking

[gay-meowmeow]

if i was a screenwriter for Pitbabe, during the scene where Pete is walking around Way's apartment, i wouldve had him sniffing an article of Way's clothing💁🏾

[orionabovethehorizon]

I wish I had enough followers that I could post “Will and Hannibal are both autistic” and get 100 people in the comments saying “real” :/

[cult-rangoons]

MORE DUDES. P2 dude this time. Still learning on how to draw this man. Every time i draw him hes colored different im still figuring it all out

[haebai-png]

what u got there, Osamu

[monochromatic-heartzz]

There's a part of Sampo's character that is easily overlooked. And that part is easily summed up with this one line

"Epsilon? What fun can you get out of a giant vanity fair like that? True happiness always entails the dignity of mankind. Now that's a quote i live by."

I get why more people don't talk about it, we're more focused on other aspects of his character, and that's alright.

However. It's a very important line.

To give a little bit of a "context". Epsilon, from all we've seen, is a star system of "easy pleasures". Entertainment industry, if you will. Many actors, movies, music, etc, comes from there. It's sort of like a hollywood.

Add on to this that the World's End Tavern is in Epsilon, aka, Masked Fools gather in Epsilon due to its easy ways to obtain Elation. Even the concept of the Tavern itself is an easy joy card. Getting drunk and watching fights could be many people's cheap way to obtain Elation.

And Sampo doesn't like that.

He believes Elation should be obtained after hard work. Through endurance and hope, not by cheapishly making whatever and hoping that is your reason for happiness.

Having small pleasures isn't wrong, but pretending it's the key to happiness is. Because it's not true happiness. It's a temporary substitute.

Elation needs to have purpose.

This. Is mainly why he loves Belobog so much. They've persisted so long. 700 years of hoping for a better tomorrow. And when they do finally get it, it's the best payoff they could've gotten. A nice "happy ending" to this story full of tragedy.

Now. This is a strange thing. Because, despite being a (probably retired) Masked Fool, his ideas of Elation align quite a bit with that of the Mourning Actors.

I think Sampo sees value in both sides of the coin. But he doesn't completely agree with both of their views of Elation. His path of Elation is his alone, he walks it by himself. Actually, everyone sees Elation differently. This is just his way of expressing his own ideas.

I love Sampo Koski can we get more lore on him please

[nextstopparis]

kilgharrah looking at arthur in 2.13 like he wants to inspect him under a microscope isnsndbsjs

[svtskneecaps]

honestly foolish's character walking the slightly meta line of "oo this'll be fun content" makes him feel like that marvel immortal character who is only immortal as long as he doesn't get bored (and was played by jeff goldblum in the movies). like idk why but the more i see of foolish's rp the more solidified the comparison gets in my mind.

like it's kinda cool for a headcanon ngl and also it means i'm not really surprised pikachu-ing when, say, he flips a coin to decide whether to rat out his son-in-law, or climbs into an incubator of corruption crystals, or doesn't ENTIRELY kick owen out of the kingdom. it's not that he doesn't CARE, but..... well, wouldn't it be interesting? don't you want to know what would happen?

[johnslittlespoon]

i just finished the prologue of the mota book and i don't know how i haven't seen a single post talking about how after john and gale's stalag reunion, they were then separated for another four months.

my heart is aching so bad. imagine being reunited (after almost three weeks, oct 8–26th) and having that tiny feeling of 'everything is going to be okay' and then being ripped apart again for four fucking months. 120 more days of not being able to be at each other's sides.

[weirdoaroundtheblock]

I want to preface this by saying that I love sydcarmy and am not against it!!

BUT! I think it's a shame that a lot of pro-shippers (at least that's the vibe I'm getting) seem to think that their love can only be romantic (eg: saying stuff like "if they're not in love explain the panic attack scene" or "explain ep10" etc)...

I feel like a lot of their views of sydcarmy is reductive of their relationship and love for one another, because they don't need to kiss or be in a relationship to be in love, and right now it would feel very forced and awkward in my opinion, because their relationship and their feelings for one another are SO much more than just romantic!!

Also, I personally do not need or want them to be in a romantic relationship for so many reason that I will not give here because I don't want to yap forever

I also think that when the creators say that sydcarmy will never happen/that they don't love each other (I'm not actually sure of what they said about it, but if you know please tell me), I think they mean the sort of relationship/love of a "basic" girlfriend/boyfriend relationship, because those two are so much more, and to me, s4 just depicted that in the best possible way

[mysticalcats]

ok fellas what old possum's book of practical cats poem should i analyse for class that isn't just This Guy Is A Cat Look At Them. look i know that's like the whole point of the poems but i Need you to help me find some SLIGHTLY deeper themes so i can work it into my assignment

[lilbirdyart]

Clewis Birthday Kisses

The gifts they got each other

[bardan-jusik]

cannot get over lately the realization that while repcomm is widely criticized for being 'anti-jedi', it's WAY kinder and more understanding to all of its force-using characters and the jedi order as an organization than actual anti-jedi fans are

[broken-heart-raven-queen]

What if when Jeremy learns about all the mafia affairs he just sighs and tell the others that his step-father might help so then we getna whole ass arc of Jeremy dealing with his daddy issues motivated by Ichirou's business with his people.

[roenais]

if i start just posting a backlog of oc art would u guys be mad 👉👈

[adachimoe]

The effort this dumbass put into this

Honestly, yeah. What is the player by this point in time, if not a huge dumbass?

Adachi's letter only continues if you've gotten him to rank 9 by this point. This involves getting him to rank 6 by his hard cut off date and then going to see him alone on December 7th and seeing his arcana transform.

Earlier in his Social Link, Adachi talks about his school life. As he says, you can only get back what you put in - if you put in effort to studying, then you get grades. And in his experience, this is exactly what he did. But as he remarks, this only worked at school and it doesn't translate to the real world.

In the 3rd Persona 4 audio drama cd, which was released before Golden even!, Adachi's dialogue talks about effort. His commentary is, more or less, that things are not worth it unless there's some kind of reward: He mocks the protagonist for running at full speed during the relay that has no reward, but thinks it's okay for Dojima and Nanako to try and win the 3-legged-race because they can win a free night at the Amagi's.

In some ways, I think you can relate this to the Social Link system as a whole: We tell our Social Links things they like to hear during mostly one sided conversations where they talk, we occasionally respond, and we get rank ups for our troubles. But obviously, this only works in the game. (Tbh tho, in real life, you can leave people on read for 5 years before resuming their Social Links.) Things require more effort - caring, giving a shit, more than a one sided conversation.

Adachi's Social Link starts off the same - we invite him over for dinner, we tell him responses he likes to hear, and we get rank ups as our rewards. On rank 7 and 8, there are no points to be earned. We simply assume that, based on Adachi's dialogue, he must give a shit about us, and his Social Link advances on its own.

When his Social Link transforms, he asks us what the hell kind of brain damage we have to assume our bond with him was really that tight. "You get back what you put in" - we put the time to go see him here, against our friends' wishes even, and we don't get a rank up here. But the nature of our relationship changes with him and his arcana changes into Lust or Hunger.

By the end of the game, when Adachi calls us a dumbass, it's cause we honestly are 100% a bunch of dumbasses. In order to get this guy to talk to us in any way whatsoever, we have to go through his stupid Social Link requirements where he has limited availability and it swaps between day / night, where you sometimes don't even know what to do because Atlus was too fucking stupid to program in a tell to go do his hangout during the night (or maybe that was intentional idk), and also do this all by a certain deadline while juggling all of the other bullshit going on in the game and the scheduling. And on top of it all, you are then given the option to go against your friends wishes and continue reaching out to him even after finding out he kicked off all of the events of the game that nearly got Nanako killed and endangered the rest of your party members, plus he tried to bait you into killing Namatame.

It goes without saying that the effort that you have put into this relationship is significantly higher than whatever Adachi has put in. And as he says himself, you get back what you put in. Despite what the player has put in, we've gotten a lot of nothing back. He, uh, came over and bummed free dinners and tried to get Nanako in on his low effort game by telling her to cheat on a book report. That's like, gotta be a negative gain lmao.

To have gone out of your way to try and get this guy's Social Link rank ups and talk to him even after the reveal and after you've already gotten so little out of this... Yeah okay honestly what are we if not a bunch of dumbasses by this point. Like I'm 352 posts into this blog and Adachi isn't even going to throw me into a TV god what's the point even.

But at the same time, Adachi appreciates how big of a dumbass we are when it comes to him. He doesn't call us a dumbass because he hates us, he calls us a dumbass because of how much effort we've put into this relationship. A level of effort that he himself scoffed at, but now causes him to reflect back on the time he spent with us and sees it more fondly. He couldn't see what he had until he didn't have it anymore.

Adachi will send you the letter urging you to reach out the truth and finish the case so long as you're doing the true ending. It's a scene from the PS2 game and it doesn't matter if you've done his Social Link or not. In Persona Club P4, Atlus remarks on how the caution tape in his dungeon hints that deep down inside, he *is* still a detective. Him sending the letter is proof of that - he wants you to solve the mystery. But if you complete his Social Link, the letter continues with this new segment, and I think this changes the nature of his letter: Having put the effort in to him with not much to show for it, we, at long last, get something from him.

And of course, as P4AU implies, he has become something of a "dumbass" himself in regards to expending unnecessary effort on things no one asks you to do.

Btw, the way Madono calls you an idiot in the Japanese audio is pretty great. The way he draws out vowels as Adachi in general I think really helps sell the playfulness.

[benevolentspidey]

Kacchan Bakugou is the reason why i still think bkdk would be the most annoying clingy couple in class, and that Katsuki would be a damn good boyfriend.

the way i NEVER got a notification for this has me big mad. sorry anon. but omg 1,000% YES like in the little spot in my mind dedicated to bkdk and bkdk only they're like the complete opposite of what their personalities would suggest

like okay

bakugo personality-wise gives off the vibe of being the very jealous and overprotective type as in "breath-in-his-direction-one-more-time-and-I'll-slit-your-throat" type of vibe and deku just screams clingy "i-cannot-think-straight-if-you're-not-in-my-direct-line-of-sight"

but idk man i think after everything they've gone through (ESPECIALLY the final war arc) that deku just goes feral if anyone even gives a sideways glance to bakugo because like homie already died once he cannot risk him dying again and bakugo can't breathe if izuku isn't in front of him because he already up and left him (everyone) once before and what if he does it again???

lowkey they're both so traumatized and will have serious co-dependancy issues but it makes for a really cute and vomit-worthy couple and bakugo would make it his goal to date the SHIT out of deku. #boyfriendoftheyear