#I have never been more hype

[fairyshotgun]

dude your secret witch sister has a magic ghost arm that's so poggers

[enduracarrotchips]

encounter

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[sixofcrowshyperfixation]

Wylan:

Jan Van Eck: Alys is pregnant with a son, who will become my true heir

Wylan: Cain instinct is real, I wanna kick this unborn child into the next realm of existence, he can never truly be my brother, Kaz is more my brother than that thing

[vulturevanity]

I JUST SAW THE POKÉANI SPOILERS

[kneworder]

angry at the oscars barbie nominations but in an annoyinger way (i think nominating ryan reynolds makes sense but the best picture and best supporting actress noms are ridiculous)

[determinedowl23]

So obsessed with when a Nintendo game releases and the fans just go “nah…… I could do it better” and make some of the greatest aus known to mankind

[unfinishedrambles-art]

i hear the secrets that you keep / when you're talking in your sleep

[rangerfromstarship]

I don't know what I will become when the new season comes out

But I apologize in advance

[stillcominback]

🎀 🎀 🎀

[n-agiz]

just watched the fnaf movie and omg ?? i actually really liked it ?? i had no expectations for it, as in, i didn't expect it to be good or bad, but i am still incredibly surprised by it ! i am pretty glad they decided to not follow all the lore entirely and kind of gave it their own twist because if they attempted to make it 100% cannon it would have all been an absolute mess . . really enjoyed the movie, really happy i went out to see it, and as far as i could tell by the reactions of the people around me, everyone seemed to like it too hehe. sort of a spoiler ahead ig so be warned, but my fav character was 100% balloon boy because why was he there ? what was he up to ? did i miss something ? i'm assuming maybe it was supposed to be a little easter egg, but i absolutely loved it either way — in fact, i loved all the little more direct references to the games that i caught ! like the scene where they all ganged up on afton ?? hello ?? absolutely fantastic. also adored the music they played when the movie ended there possibly couldn't have been a better choice for the soundtrack ! the most op character was 100% the cupcake tho also loved that little guy ngl

[ravenwolfie97]

for someone who doesn't really play star rail, i am way too excited for the 2.0 update oh my lord

[altschmerzes]

O here !!!

I am gonna be sending a longer ask BUT I have to say before I forget that as soon as I saw the team fixing Sam’s restaurant my ACTUAL FIRST THOUGHT was “omg they’ve pulled an altschmerzes barn raising!!!!!” I am NOT kidding

WHEN I SAY I WAS LITERALLY SHRIEKING i was like, daydreaming about it earlier in the episode like man if ever there were a time for a good old fashioned barn raising, here it is...... and then they DID IT and i was like. shrieking into my hands "BARN RAISING. THAT'S A FUCKING BARN RAISING." i have never been so thrilled.

[pjo-fan17]

Interviewer: do you think well ever see Mike profess his love for El to her?

“El, I don’t know if you can hear this but if you can I want you to know I’m here, okay? I’m right here. And I love you. El, do you hear me? I love you. I’m sorry I don’t say it more. It’s not because I’m scared of you. I’m not. I’ve never felt that way. Never! But I am scared that one day you’ll realize you don’t need me anymore and I thought that if I said how I felt it would somehow make that day hurt more. But the truth is El, I don’t know how to live without you. I feel like my life started that day we found you in the woods. You were wearing that yellow Benny’s Burgers t-shirt and it was so big that it almost swallowed you whole. And I knew right then and there, in that moment that I loved you. And I’ve loved you everyday since. I love you on your good days, I love you on your bad days. I love you with your powers, I love you without your powers. I love you for exactly who you are. You’re my superhero. And I can’t lose you. Do you hear me? I can’t lose you. You can do anything. You can fly. You can move mountains. I believe that. I really do. But right now, you just have to fight. Okay? El, do you hear me? You need to fight. You have to fight. Fight! FIGHT!”

[dutybcrne]

Halfdan absolutely loved each and every chance he got to participate in any tournaments in Khaenri’ah. Win or lose, he was sure to be all smiles throughout the whole event.

Except when he is in Full Focus Mode.

[narwhalandchill]

ok not to randomly go off on a somewhat negative ramble But. (general genshin story direction worries basically)

while there are a bunch of stunts i fear the genshin story slash lore could end up pulling that would serve as not only disappointments but to varying degrees also just retroactively ruin a lot of games writing for me. i dont think theres anything that im as genuinely concerned about as the possibility of like. completely losing their narrative marbles to an overdone time travel/temporal manipulation in one way or another like just the thought of that shit haunts me

bc like. while i dont find them particularly compelling as an argument for that to be the case regarding Everything in the narrative in current lore/theory circles (like. makoto n ei teaming up w istaroth once doesnt automatically establish universal time travel). it is unfortunately true that in canon lore there are many of the kind of lore pieces present that you could use to set that kind of reveal and complete restructuring of the story up. istaroth and the sacred sakura and some shady things said by various characters and how you could argue Any time loop or travel adjacent is just hidden by the irminsul 5head (another piece of writing whose potential misuse seriously alarms me, mind you). and so on.

and i am just. Not about any of that shit. like. for me absolutely any plot device or element that has the risk of fundamentally fucking up a storys continuity and coherence sideways to the degree BOTH the

"genshins gonna turn out to be ALL time travel/time loop/simulation to make [sudden endgame twist X heavily at odds with what was established in the central lore prior] appear sensible"

and

"celestia just irminsuls away all evidence for [that twist X again] so achsually it was always genius and compatible with lore"

tier of nightmare scenarios will have. is just. Not fucking worth it. this shit has ruined countless stories with vastly better writing and way more competent authors because its just. not the kind of stuff you can just insert in a massive fucking story willy nilly to explain away the mystery box you didnt bother to set up together so it ultimately comes together in a cohesive way that Doesnt need to be broken on multiple levels to scrape together some conclusion. and its just hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like ive never expected some massive masterpiece out of genshin like at best its gonna be one of those stories that once finished gets some really fucking banger fanwork as its community expands upon and explores a solid but flawed canon groundwork. theres fundamental flaws and limitations to its storytelling and format and that cant be helped. so im expecting no miracles on that front.

but the one fucking thing i dont want them to fall for is that misguided at best and outright pretentious and disrespectful at worst allure of. SEE! we outsmarted the audience! the theories! we broke our own story continuity to force a twist because our established worldbuilding technically makes it an option! isnt this smart!

like just please. no. no clue how unpopular this is but im already quite conflicted on the established use of irminsul in sumeru and how it arguably voided a lot of important characterization (nahidas inferiority complex) and narrative potential (scara literally becoming a non factor in the grander story more or less) for good but like. for now. fine. it hasnt become overused yet. i dont think its inherently bad as a factor of worldbuilding. i like how it recontextualizes fact and fiction and the significance of stories that appear mere fables in the world of teyvat. but as it stands the irminsul is still a deus ex machina. and thats a dangerous tool for any writer to have in careless use. and when combined with the sprinkles of lore involving the possibility of time manipulation and such to be further explored. its like powder and keg. two tools that can absolutely gut a story of its narrative cohesion and the weight of its stakes in an instant. its really fucking worrisome.

genshins writing is flawed but the one thing this game has going for it that i REALLY hope the writers will understand to respect is its world. how much the marriage between this massive and beautifully crafted immersive open world and the intricacies of lore and history afforded to all corners of it truly do in tandem to establish the world of genshin as more Real. as weightier. as a place you grow and remain attached to even when the main storys writing stumbles. the world is so important and to let it remain feeling real is just. i hope they understand how fragile of a gem that is.

featuring an artificial world order established by fraudulent divinity and that involving some degree of cosmic fuck-uppery of the natural order and all-encompassing illusion to maintain it is fine. this is a story heavily referencing gnosticism that theme is literally a given. but it needs to be an artificial world order imposed on a real world that remains feeling real the entire time through. and for that to be preserved it needs to remain grounded.

but the problem is that once a story truly commits to the "anything could be altered and fundamentally reversed with the right mcguffin at play with seeming impunity" there is no going back. it becomes very fucking difficult to keep the figurative feet of a narrative even touching the ground for even the most skilled of writers afforded absolute creative freedom to work with (which genshin does not have). and just that much more easier for the stakes to be lost completely. and i dont want to see that scenario become reality