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Slay the Princess? More like HOT CHICK HEAVEN

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hi I'm from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him

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Some design notes for the cold. Additional related headcanons below the cut.

His sharp claws and teeth don't allow him to preen himself without causing severe and permanent damage to his feathers

Secretes a natural oil that keeps his feathers orderly and shiny. Tastes bad though (RIP Smitten when he tries to preen him)

Doesn't express himself bodily aside from mild head-tilting when he's intrigued.

Actually has a barbed tongue similar to a cat's.

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“Drake Bell has preyed on a minor, continuing the cycle of abuse and that is something that should never be excused or dismissed”

And

“Drake Bell was preyed upon as a child in a space where he should have been protected and it was despicable regardless of his current day behavior”

Are statements that can and should coexist. Adult Drake did something awful, but that doesn’t mean Child Drake deserved what happened to him, nor does it make his testimony against Nickelodeon any less valuable.

Drake’s experience matters because if someone as famous and beloved as him at Nickelodeon got no justice, then neither did the hundreds of other kids just like him who were also preyed upon by the same industry. And if one of Nickelodeon’s most famous child actors is vocal about Nickelodeon’s complicity in child endangerment, then it makes it more likely to get attention and awareness to make sure stuff like this STOPS.

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No because I feel the need to explain the thought process cus it’s not actually as weird as it sounds to pick the walrus and I’m sick of pretending it’s not.

Is a walrus showing up on my doorstep more likely than a fairy, a fictional creature, showing up on my doorstep instead? Yes, obviously. But let me explain why the initial shock you’d feel from seeing either one is not as logical as what’s more statistically possible and based in human instinct.

If a fairy randomly appeared on my doorstep after ringing my doorbell, there are a few things that could play out. My initial thought was that the fairy is either one of those Tinker Bell types that are tiny and fly, or alternatively, it’s one of the humanoid ones from a Midsummer Night’s Dream or something. If it’s the latter, I might just assume that it’s a person in a costume, so I prefer the first idea because it’s direct proof of a magical being vs a possible cosplayer, and would be more initially shocking as a result, so let’s go with that.

But regardless, a magical entity has made itself known on my doorstep. While I would undoubtedly be freaked out, given that it rang the doorbell, and is, I’m assuming humanoid in appearance, presumably this is an entity capable of intelligence and can be at least spoken to like another human. I’d probably think it was some kind of joke at first, or a trick of the light, but if the magic of this being was super obvious to me, then I think eventually for a lot of people, fear would become CURIOSITY, and I’d likely be more fascinated than frightened. After all, magic exists, and it seems that for some reason it has some type of business with me! And it’s not like I know for sure what this creature is capable of, so I wouldn’t be questioning how it got there, instead focusing on the WHY. Humans are not so fear-brained that our first instinct with unfamiliarity is to dismiss what we’re seeing and flee; we’re inherently curious animals, and if we don’t know what something is, we try to inspect it safely. If the fairy is ill-intentioned then you’d probably find out by talking to it, and if it’s small enough you can swat the hell out of the little shit, but if it’s being otherwise civil towards you, you’re less likely to freak out.

I mean, if you saw a fairy, would you just swat it away like a bug even while it’s just on your porch the second you notice it, or probably take a few steps backwards in shock, maybe say “what the fuck?” Presumably at the VERY least, because this creature is unknown to you, you wouldn’t be as quick to get near it and instead engage with caution, so your panic level is likely to be lower and more curious about why it’s here, and if it can talk to you or at least communicate in some fashion, then the threshold of immediate danger is dependent on what it tells you. My first question after calming down from the initial shock would likely be to ask “what are you?!”

Now a walrus appearing instead. There is no whimsy, just presumably a regular ass walrus on your doorstep. For one thing, walruses are HUGE, and noisy, and get aggressive when threatened, so you’ll be defensive right off the bat. Unlike the fairy, a walrus is a knowably dangerous animal. I don’t know enough about a fairy to know what to do to avoid one harming me immediately, but I assume fairies don’t just knock on people’s doors to just beat them up on sight. What I DO know fully well is what an angry walrus can do, which would put me into flight or fight mode automatically.

But say you immediately slam the door and peek out the window to watch the walrus, because if you don’t close the door presumably it might try to get closer to you or waddle into the home. The longer you think about it the weirder it gets. Unlike with the fairy, the walrus can’t explain to you why it’s there, and it’s probably very stressed being in the middle of a random city. ALSO most humans live in environments walruses are not native to, while Fairies historically are associated with woodland areas, so if a fairy showed up I wouldn’t really be concerned with HOW it got there, because even if it doesn’t live nearby I can assume it’s a being of intelligence that can walk or fly, or I could just ASK it if I really cared enough. Walruses are large, slow on land, and not native to the area, so my first thought would be to wonder how it’s here to begin with.

There’s a million questions. How did it get here? Who the fuck rang the doorbell? Was it the walrus somehow? Literally how? Is this a prank? WHO DO I CALL TO GET RID OF THIS WALRUS? If this is a prank, who would plan this? Is it someone I know? Do I have a stalker? This walrus might hurt someone walking past my home! Do I call animal control? How do I explain the walrus to animal control? Is an intercity animal control center even equipped to deal with a walrus?

At least the fairy can presumably explain why it’s there, and it leaves it up to you to gauge whether it’s dangerous or not like you would with an actual stranger, and if you feel endangered by the fairy at least you have the capacity to try and reason with it, or m hit it with a newspaper if it’s small enough. What the hell do you do to calm down a walrus?

Basically it boils down to this: if you see a Fairy, your initial reaction would be a shocked but curious “what the hell?”

If you see a walrus, your initial reaction would be a terrified “What the FUCK?!”

I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

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I have zero clue what the Coffin of Andy and LeyLey is even about, I’ve only learn about the controversial parts secondhand through instagram and Twitter, but the discourse is so funny to me

I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the incest, and fans of the game replying with “the twins murder and eat people, the incest is the least of their problems” and “they’re bad people anyway” or “the incest is a skippable option so you don’t have to do it”

And the most fascinating reply to critics of incest in the game is “haters don’t even play the game, all they do is complain about is the incest!”

Which, fair enough, if a horror story has elements of incest and it’s portrayed as bad, or it’s only a small portion of the game, then it surely can’t be that big of a deal. Horror games are supposed to make you uncomfortable after all. The game must have more to offer!

And then I scroll through the tumblr tags and it’s literally almost NOTHING but fanart of the siblings making out. Perhaps occasional discussion of how shitty their parents are, but I see practically no discussion of the plot beyond it.

No wonder anti-COAAL people only talk about the incest, it sure seems to be the only part a lot of the fans care about about too

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theyre in a polycule

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masterpost

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Cold and Smitten = Voice of the Obsessed

Think about it. What are Smitten’s biggest defining traits? A strong belief in love, but also a delusional adoration for the Princess that supersedes the wellbeing of the world and even his own.

What are Cold’s defining traits? An intense lack of empathy, a disregard for the wellbeing of others, a fascination with pain and violence, and a collected demeanor.

So, if you mix together these two extremes, you get an unstable, morbidly curious maniac obsessed with the Princess, but rather than in a fairytale “true love triumphs” way, it’s more like the “love” of a stalker, where it’s much more unsettling, scary and possessive.

if i were to fuse some of the voices, who would you wanna see fused ? i had the idea of Cold and Hunted but i wanna know what other people want too

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oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

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rb to fuck his flat bird face

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I love this because, if this interpretation is true, it puts Cold into the same “Razor Fanboy Club” as Stubborn and Smitten, where he experiences an almost sexual form of satisfaction from seeing her as a bunch of knives

Finally, he and Smitten can agree on something

So what the hell do yall think was up with Cold when he saw the Razor’s final form? Everyone else shows a different reaction that we could easily understand; most of them were a mixture of confusion, terror, infatuation, and rage at how insane things were, but also very in character. Cold’s response is… interesting.

Cold basically is always emotionally and physically detached from everything, but one consistent trait of his is his odd relationship with pain. He finds pain to not be a detriment, but outright fascinating if it’s something he hasn’t experienced before. Cold in general seems to treat positive and negative stimuli as equal outcomes, which makes sense; he doesn’t care about what happens to himself, so he doesn’t have a preference one way or the other. Nearly all of the other Voices regard pain as a bad thing, or at least an obstacle to overcome, but Cold is the only one who doesn’t actually care.

But Cold does find pain he hasn’t experienced before interesting, such as in both Grey routes where he finds interest in burning to death or drowning just because it’s a novelty.

His tone during this line in the Razor route is fascinating because Johnny Sims takes a very neutral tone to his voice for Cold, and because of that it’s a bit hard to read what type of reaction Cold is giving here.

Is it a positive one, where Cold is in fascinated awe at a Princess experiencing something that would undoubtedly be excruciatingly painful if it was happening to anyone else? Or is it a negative one, where the Razor is so bizarre as an entity that even Cold, the voice that cares the least about pain in general, is put off by her existence?

What do you think?

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So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom

It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education

602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡

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I think the Narrator really fucked up when it came to the idea of handling the Long Quiet’s sympathy.

Like, he was REALLY relying so hard on the Long Quiet obeying him without question, even when he’s not being an open resource of info. When comparing him to the Princess, who answers questions to the best of her ability and is otherwise initially candid, he seems the less trustworthy of the two, if only because he’s not good with the LQ doing things out of the box.

If he’d been really clever, he could have played into the idea of sacrifice; rather than dehumanizing the Princess and implying she has no personhood and shouldn’t be respected (he consistently uses her lack of humanity as an inherent reason why she should die, mocks her sanity and her memory, and tries to use even the neutral parts of her existence to justify her death), he should have acknowledged them and still pushed the LQ to do the “right thing” (“I know this is hard, but she shouldn’t have to suffer, so make her death quick and painless” or something like that)

But he hates the Princess so much that he wants the Long Quiet to hate her too. Too bad this is a love story.