#this feels really biased...

[greenapplebling]

Fandom when they see a very masculine character but he happens to have a pretty face and long hair: Transfem

Fandom when they see a very feminine character but she happens to be ripped/her body build happens to look more masculine: Transmasc

U-uhm...

[cookiesnpaste]

omg new miku dropped yall (nah i wish she was real)

[celpii]

Do you think that Vaugardians would make murals and statues of the saviors, especially of Mirabelle?? Idk but I’ve been thinking about how Vaugarde would idolize and immortalize the saviors and how there’d be reminders of their quest/victory all over the country. And how years down the line they would become like a legend told through stories and art

Anyway, black and white version under the cut

[gothgirlantlers]

maybe I'm alone in this but does it seem insane to put one specific blog and any mutuals of that blog as DNI in your pinned post?

like maybe just block that blog and move on? idk just plastering a prominent transfem blogs name in your dni just feels like one step away from a callout post

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Once the theatre monkey discovers angsty broadway musicals its all over y'all

or: I got a new personal project I'm workin' on! I'm at the first pass on the animatic rn! I forgot that 'generate matte' is a thing you can do in SB Pro for a whole hour!! I'm suffering!!!

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[sad-scarred-sassy]

Correct me if I’m wrong but Nesta, Lucien and Tamlin are the only characters that actually show remorse for their wrongdoings and apologize and they’re coincidentally the most hated characters in the acotar fandom…

[xxplastic-cubexx]

gave him contacts today

[poke-poke-poke]

hear me out - i think leon and nihilego would be a fun combo

their designs compliment each other well lol

(i like villain au ideas though, so i may be biased, aesthetic wise)

[rmbunnie]

Hey actually now that I'm talking about the Hush Jason retcon: I feel like it’s a kinda divisive (maybe??) one but honestly I really do love it, because the actual contents of the Batman combined with the stuff implied in that batman annual/lost days results in just the most balls to the wall miscommunication scenario known to man. And not in a bad way! In the best way! Both Bruce and Jason have absolutely valid (to them) reasons for acting the way they do and said reasons grate on each other perfectly to create just the perfect storm of nobody being happy. It's honestly amazing.

As of the retcon, Jason shows up in a graveyard acting as a miraculous fake apparition version of himself, intentionally flinging around the most hurtful cutting accusations of abandonment that he doesn't even believe (for the most part) specifically because he wants to taunt Bruce into giving him a reaction. To him, if Bruce visibly reacts pretty much at all to the fake acted-out Jason who died blaming him and feeling abandoned, the Jason he'd be most likely to get emotional over, that means that some, just any, part of Bruce is sad about it all, and misses him and valued their time together, or even feels just a tiny shred of Bad about how it all went down, and the fact that Jason went through the effort of staging all this indicates that it meant enough to him to search out confirmation of Bruce's... not even grief like he's aiming for just slight regard for what happened! that said confirmation very likely could have changed things! And as of Hush proper, Bruce doesn't give him an INCH of reaction because he was so sure in every moment that this was obviously an imposter, and he was sure of this because he "knows" that Jason (who is actually putting him through a trial of "does he actually love me" in the present moment) would NEVER doubt that Bruce loves him, and the idea of someone puppeting his beloved son's memory around just infuriates him (said puppeteer is Jason himself,) so there's no reason to be sad or say anything loving to his son's ghost or emote because all it would do is give this sick and cruel villain satisfaction after going for low hanging fruit (totally not because he's repressing his trauma.) So Jason leaves this whole mess having definitively proved to himself that he never meant anything to Bruce and ready to carry out Under the Hood, Bruce walks away completely secure in the idea that Jason ALWAYS felt EXTREMELY loved and cared for with him, having stoically acted properly in the face of that dirty trick and primed for some quality brooding monologues, and neither of them ever figures out what went down!

[myimaginationplain]

I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face

[sillygoofyqueer]

waiting in a boring ass bus station and seeing that u posted more fucked up mad scientist wuxian oh life is so fucking good 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

I'm glad I can bring you joy and hope in your dreadful time in the bus station. Just for you today, we're flipping the perspectives and checking on all the other sects!!! I know what you're thinking. "Four. Four what the fuck is happening in Lotus Pier." And boy oh boy. Let's look at things with the bigger picture - Wei Wuxian has never stepped into Lotus Pier, so there's no comparison for Jiang Cheng to be belittled by (don't worry!! He still has his inferiority complex and mummy issues because like...Madam Yu is his fucking mother. She's a monster even without Wei Wuxian to point at). Jiang Fengmian actually shows affection for his son, but he's also a bit more distant than he would be in canon; he grieves the death of his friend and his friend's wife too much to think about anything else. Jiang Yanli is in an arranged marriage still, because as much as he would like to deck Jin Zixuan all the time, Madam Yu would quite literally have his head for such a crime. At least he has his dogs.

Okay and then the invasion of Lotus Pier happens. Wen Zhuliu? Dead. Wang Lingjiao? Dead. Wen Chao? Desperate to prove to his father that he's a good son, that he's better than Wei Wuxian ever could be (because Wen Ruohan is mourning his little scientist). This leads to a highly uncoordinated attack mixed with the fact that Madam Yu is not facing off against Wen Zhuliu which was ultimately her undoing in canon, means that they can pretty easily beat back the attempted invasion. There's like an issue with this though, and that's the fact that I cannot picture a Madam Yu who would not make snide, insulting comments about Wei Wuxian's heritage. Wei Wuxian in this AU would literally not fucking take it. May I remind you about how, after learning about his parents dead by the Wens' hands, he literally tore a man apart? With his bare hands? Sorry bbgs, girlboss is not making it. (Also Jiang Cheng needs the trauma for character building.)

Meanwhile, the first moment that Lan Wangji makes it back from the cave of the Xuanwu of Slaughter and he's found out that his brother isn't dead, and that they have started rebuilding the Cloud Recesses, and that everything is going to be okay, he spills everything. He sits down with Lan Xichen and tells him everything that happened in the cave, the way Wei Wuxian took a blow meant for Luo-guniang. How he, instead of abandoning them and just leaving on his sword, took charge of the situation with an injury and coordinated escape groups. How he almost died in order to save Lan Wangji from certain death, forcing this monster's jaws apart. How he was most certainly brainwashed by the Wen and yet still worked with Lan Wangji to kill the Xuanwu of Slaughter despite his distrust. He doesn't think that Wei Wuxian is genuinely bad, just very, very misguided ("I can fix him, gege....").

Lan Xichen of course takes his didi's words seriously and writes to Nie Mingjue about it, also asking after Nie Huaisang because "Wangji said he didn't come for the night hunt?" He receives a letter back, one that makes it very clear that Nie Mingjue wouldn't at all believe that there was anything redeemable about Wei Wuxian if it weren't for the fact that the same man had been the one to entirely engineer Nie Huaisang's escape. He would likely be tortured and/or dead by this point if it weren't for Wei Wuxian intervening. Even more than that, he's been corresponding with Huaisang, asking more about all these different sects and what they were like. Mingjue, whose world has always been a very clear black and white, does not know what to do with the idea of a Wen not actually being evil. Let alone multiple Wens, like Wei Wuxian's letters suggest. Lan Xichen is like "hmm...let's see where this goes, having Wei-gongzi on our side could be useful in this likely impending war."

Then Nie Huaisang gets the short letter about Wei Wuxian's death. It's like a shock to the system, the idea that Wen Ruohan would actually kill a boy so useful to his cause the moment he found out that the boy was learning more about the world around him. A teenager, discarded because he's no longer good enough to be perceived as useful. Nie Huaisang is honestly a mess because of it, having begun to see a friend in Wei Wuxian - he was friendly with the other gongzis, but it had always been so hard to connect with guys that were, at the end of the day, completely focused on fighting and brawling. Either that, or there was beef between the two sects (the Jin) or the gongzi his age was just terrifying (sorry, Wangji). Wei Wuxian had been someone who had been funny and related to him so well. Now he was dead.

Lan Wangji is sort of feeling out of sorts when he's told by Lan Xichen, because he feels like he's failed this sincere boy who helped and helped despite his preconceived notions of life. He should have done more, helped out more. If for anything, just because of the debt he owes Wei Wuxian for keeping him alive even when he himself was injured and just riddled with resentful energy. He literally clambered into the rot infested shell and attacked the Xuanwu from up close and personal because Wangji was too injured to do so himself. Lan Wangji had repaid that by not attempting to speak to the boy while knowing that one of his peers was doing that very thing, not asking Nie Huaisang what he was telling Wei Wuxian, or how Wei Wuxian was even doing, or anything. Now he was dead and it was too late to reach out for him.

Lan Wangji had failed Wei Wuxian before even trying to help him.

[four-is-the-best-number]

(having a thought) yknow i always think abt that moment where X says he gets invited to a lot of parties actually. considering his nature you'd almost think he isn't that social bc they're quite meek and docile but the thing is. a lot of characters like X because they are very friendly too. so it's interesting to me that X stays with Four despite them being fairly mean, when clearly other characters like them a lot. it wouldn't be hard for X to make new friends because pretty much everyone who they meet likes them. so... why do they stick around? sure, loyalty is probably one reason. but I almost wonder if X is drawn to Four for being someone who doesn't immediately treat them like this sweet, soft character.... Four is willing to be blunt towards them when no one else really will because of the way they view X. and I think that's part of the reason why X stays. Four's confidence is something they are trying to learn from and is something they slowly do gain more of.

and that goes for Four as well. X is everything Four struggles to be. both of them inspire the other to try and change and grow. they are both learning from each other and becoming more like the other as the show continues on. okay im done having thoughts now

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: Cucurucho, you have a lot of power, right?

Cucurucho: ...I don't know. Maybe.

Roier: Ah... Yes, you know, don't act like a dumbass, you have it. You have it, man. Eh?

Jaiden: Is there a way for us to protect all the Eggs? Do you know? I don't want anything to happen to the Eggs that happened to Bobby.

Cucurucho: Ha ha ha

Roier: WHAT? [Smacks Cucurucho]

Jaiden: [Bops him] Headpats.

Cucurucho: Maybe.

Jaiden: [Continues to bop him] Headpats. C'mon, I can get it out of you! Headpats! Chin scratches! Belly rubs!

Roier: [Joins Jaiden in bopping Cucurucho, chuckling and laughs]

Jaiden: Yeah? He's comin' around!

[Jaiden and Roier both laugh]

[eightspringdays]

one of my favorite hc about near is that he just drops fun facts literally out of nowhere and keeps doing whatever he was doing after

near, building a card tower

mello, meters away doing reports

near, unprompted: did you know bees communicate by dancing

mello: what?

near, keeps building the tower in complete silence

mello: what?!

and after a while mello just knows

near, assembling a hot wheels highway: it's almost impossible for opossums to get rabies

mello: good for them

but sometimes is just

near, under a ten storey lego building: praying mantis can change colors to adapt to their environment

mello: wait. like chameleons?

near, already on the eleventh floor, completely silent

mello, side-eyeing rester who just sighs and googles it

[everestgale]

Sorry if this is a bad hour but I have a question. Is there any part of StP you think is genuinely bad?

No worries! I usually respond to asks when I have time/when I'm in the mood to talk anyways, so it's never a bad time to send an ask!

In general, I don't think I really feel comfortable with saying any parts of StP are genuinely bad, per se, because the game is just so expertly crafted and means so much to me personally that I'd be lying if I said I'm not biased to it. And also I'm no media expert, I'm not even that great at media analysis either, so I generally tend to be quite reserved with judgements; there is no way I could, in good conscience, say that any parts of StP are objectively bad or anything like that.

What I can share, though, are my personal dislikes about the game and its writing. There aren't a lot of them, and of course, the positives far, far outweigh the negatives (I wouldn't be here if they didn't), but I still have a couple of issues with the game, and I want to talk about one:

Happily Ever After lets the Long Quiet, or rather, you, the player, get away with too much.

Now for full context, Happily Ever After is one of my favorite chapters in the whole game. It is deeply personal to me, and I resonate with it on a very strong level; it emotionally devastated me, in the best way possible, when I played it for the first time (Paranoid variant), and this chapter holds a very special place in my heart.

...that being said, I dislike the fact that the game never acknowledges that it's your fault that everyone is miserable and stuck in the cabin. You made the decision to stay in the cabin, but the game never calls you out on that, never forcing you to acknowledge that you did this. It weakens the ending of the chapter for me, especially with the princess asking "Do you... still care about me?"... I know the game gives you a lot of options in that moment, a lot of which are written well, but the option to say "Of course I do" just feels so off and so hollow to me, and I can't seem to verbalize it quite well, but it really annoys me.

In general, the ending is very sweet, but in my opinion, it doesn't feel that earned, precisely because the game never acknowledges your fault and never lets you to truly apologize for it, to feel remorseful for it, to earn that moment of dancing under the stars. Though, I do very much like that scene from the princess's perspective, as I've rambled about in tags of this post, as this symbolic moment of her finally getting her wish fulfilled after being denied and denied and denied for so long.

I'm sure I'm not expressing my thoughts very clearly, and I apologize for that, I just feel quite passionate about HEA because it really did impact me so much, and so these personal dislikes about the chapter irk me because it feels like a missed potential to me, on an already such a great chapter. If it affected me this much and this deeply when, in my opinion, it has a pretty major flaw in its story... I can't help but imagine how much more powerful it would've been without said flaws.

Though like I said in the other post, even with those problems, I adore this chapter a lot. And this kind of extends to the whole game too, whatever issues I might have with the game, those all pale in comparison to just how many things the game did right, and just how much this game has impacted me, and just how much I love and adore this game, and just how much this game has changed my life. Thank you, Slay the Princess, thank you, Black Tabby Games, and thank you, Slay the Princess community, all for being so wonderful <3