#I'm making no sense but idc

[lumimis]

I love calling people love..

[macksartblock]

could you do some gothcleats? pretty please

anyone else haunted by snowballs at school dances? no? just me okay

[keymintt]

i’m sure this has been at least mentioned before but one of the things that’s so fucking funny to me abt kim is that, for all the shit he gives you (harry) when you try to get him to dance or wear the piss jacket, he actually wants to do those things to some extent

over the course of the game you can’t get him (or other characters for that matter) to do things he doesn’t want to do. disco elysium isn’t a power fantasy game like that. don’t get me wrong some things he needs to be convinced/challenged for, but he can and does outright Refuse things at times like when you suggest getting on the kineema and cutting the body down from there, not going into the tent with the ravers, or not climbing up the shitty feld building ladder, etc. and there are also definitely moments when he reluctantly puts up with harry/the player’s antics bc harry’s persistent and it’ll just put a quicker end to things to be like, “yeah sure fine i’ll eat the sandwich“ or, “i'll spare you another *20 hour mind-project*— yes, i am”

when you really badger him into dancing in the church and pass the authority check, he of course puts up some resistance but then goes, “now check *this* shit out!“ and starts busting it down! if he was reluctant to dance, he’d totally just do some stupid lil shimmy to appease harry with the same enthusiasm of, “oh god more cryptids” but no! he starts “heel kick[ing] the church floor with such intensity, it’s reasonable to fear he’ll kick a hole right through it“ he had those moves Locked And Loaded, but it’s not like he was gonna bust them out oh god no, then harry pulls his rank on him and he thinks “well everyone else here can see that the guy making a bigger fool of himself is ordering me to do it so i guess it’s okay for me to“

(thinking abt that, there’s prolly something to also say there abt music being a sort of outlet for kim. in my brain the anodic dance music and the shit speedfreaks fm plays have more in common than not, but kim also strikes me as somewhat of a music snob about that sort of stuff so. i dunno)

and then the pissfaggot jacket! when you’re trying to convince him to put it on he essentially says “you’re gonna keep bothering me about this no matter what“ but at the end of the interaction he still puts the jacket on and keeps it on! “the first chance i get, this thing’s coming off“ yeah right, the first chance he had was immediately after putting it on, harry clearly doesn’t give a shit if kim leaves him hanging fashion-wise, he’s the one who puts on the fuck the world jacket first! and once harry takes off the fuck jacket, the piss jacket is gone too, so it basically boils down to “as long as i’m following around this guy who’s making a bigger fool of himself, i can do this thing that i wanted to do got coerced into going along with“ 

kim’s also like “it really *does* look cool to have both of these jackets on right now“ once he puts it on like who are you kidding bro. your lame ass wanted this. sure he wanted to be a jackass and take the jackets but he also confiscated those hubcaps because they were cool and he was gonna eventually install them, was he not gonna steal the jacket to wear it?

he has his pristine little Image to uphold so he’ll only do things he wants to do if it looks like he’s being forced to and/or he won’t be the biggest fool in the room because god forbid he expresses himself. there’s plenty of deeper analysis here in conjunction with how he relishes in having control over his desires and how harry’s someone who can get him to break his rigid self-control and let loose a bit, but for me it just boils down to:

he’s so fucking lame and it’s so fucking funny

[apatheticlexicographer]

i promise i'm not insane, i promise okay, but-

the fact that el is lying in her letters to mike to make herself seem more appealing is one of the verrrrry first things they set up in the whole season. that she is lying is an unquestionable fact, even if you're GA. it's so canon it's a key plotpoint in three characters' arcs.

but mike??? we don't know what he was writing in his letters to her, only that he signed them all "from, mike." but considering how he reacted to the revalation that she had been lying, i don't think he was also actively lying to her. he wouldn't have any real reason to anyway; el already knows firsthand what his life is like.

so el is shown to be lying about nearly everything she says in her letters. el is shown to be, specifically, telling mike the complete opposite of the truth and to be doing her best to keep those lies up even in person. el is the one signing her letters "love, el."

another interesting detail about el's lies is the fact that they aren't just minor alterations of the truth. she's failing math, but rather than telling mike she's better at something else she says it's her favourite. she's relentlessly bullied and ostracized, rather than saying she's met a couple of friends she says she has a lot. she's bullied by ANGELA, in particular, but in the world she creates in her letters to mike angela is a close friend!!! it's not just an escapist fantasy, it's a complete inversion of the truth. flipping it upside down.

mike isn't shown to be lying to her at all in his letters. in fact, the only thing he's indisputably confirmed to lie to her about in this season, so canonically that it's the basis of a whole scene, is that he's been saying he loves her. mike is the one signing his letters "from, mike."

el only tells mike she loves him through the lens of her letters and their fabricated dreamworld tailored to seem as appealing as possible. mike only tells her he loves her through the lens of will's painting and nameswapped confession.

the things el says in the voiceover of her letter go against the truth of the footage of her lenora life being shown onscreen at the same time. mike's claim that he loved her from the moment he saw her goes against the truth of the flashback that plays, of a scene where he was searching for will but stumbled across el instead.

'The First I love You' and 'The First Lie'. the correlation is so strong it seeps into the fucking soundtrack.

it can't even be brushed off as subtext!!! not when the tangled relationships between mike and el and love and lies were the entire focus of their relationship this season!!! denying the evidence would mean quite literally denying that the plot of the show is canon!!!

el lies about her life and feelings to seem more desirable. she signs every letter with "love, el."

mike lies about how he's proven he loves her in the past. when he tries to enforce the fact that he loves her in the present, he focuses on the past, trying to impress on her that "and i knew, right then and there, in that moment, that i loved you."

el wants to live a perfect, happy life, opposite to what she goes through in the real world. a life where she goes to parties at the roller rink. a life where her grades are good. a life where she's best friends with her popular bullies. a life where she has a boyfriend, and they're in love. she does whatever she can to maintain that fantasy, even trying to rope angela into it, but mike doesn't keep it up on his part. when he comes to visit, the dream world she's built is shattered. mike still can't say he loves her to her face, and she can't keep pretending. she signs her note to him "from, el."

mike has always been the guy with the plan. he knows love makes el's powers stronger. he's the leader, he's the heart, and when things go bad the only way they can still beat vecna is if el truly believes she's loved. she confronted him with how he's failed at proving it in the past, so he does her one better. he tells el he's loved her since the very beginning. it doesn't matter how he's failed to show it, because it's been true all along.

it's too late. the fantasy is broken, and el is done lying. max still dies, the gates still open, and days after his grand confession, el will barely look at him.

boyfriends lie, but friends don't.

[transmasc-slykinnie]

hey guys I thought we all understood that Mink was done horribly wrong and deserved better writing as one of the mixed characters specifically him being both black and native coded yet n+c and that maybe some people liking him is their way of reclaiming him and taking him in to give him a better story!! We don't need to tell people to die!!!

[mosswoodmc]

Scar is Icarus as in:

"Our hands are pulling everything apart Fall apart, falling back Tell yourself there's no more need to lie We don't have time for that It's okay, it's okay My love will fall with grace" - The Crane Wives While on the other hand, Grian is Icarus as in: "Standing on the cliff face Highest fall you'll ever grace It scares me half to death Look out to the future But it tells you nothing So take another breath" - Bastille

[dailygunngoo]

23/06/01

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

im literally in love with him

btw I drew these all ^^ would prefer to not use them as icons because these r all oc x him HAHAJAJSAKAKAK

[riddlerosehearts]

another thing i think about a lot when it comes to vil and idia is... i feel like vil is someone who had to grow up quickly, just generally from being under so much scrutiny as a child actor but also because of how he overheard adults talking about him and saying that he was too "otherworldly" and "special" to play a hero or a relatable teenager back when he was twelve. ever since he was a kid he's had so much drive and ambition and worked so hard throwing himself into his training and beauty regiments to try and achieve his dreams, and he also carries himself with such a mature and dignified air compared to most of the other characters that kalim laughs when vil refers to himself and the rest of the VDC crew as "boys our age", even though he's no more than 2 years older than any of them. he was probably the kind of kid who started thinking he needed to be mature and not waste time on silly things, and rejecting things he thought were too "childish" for him, from a pretty young age.

and then idia, on the other hand, also had to grow up quickly in a sense. but for him it was more that he became jaded and gave up on himself at an incredibly young age, because he knew that his future as the heir of STYX was set in stone before he was even born and that he had no choice in what to do with his life even though everyone always said he was a genius and a prodigy, and the one time he tried to briefly break free from his fate, it resulted in the death of the person he loved most. which he coped with by creating a robot version of ortho who would never grow up or get hurt, and by staying closed off and isolated while throwing himself into his hobbies and interests--and his interests mostly consist of things that are commonly seen as childish and immature, but he fully embraces them and doesn't care if others don't get it. he also hates his responsibilities and tries to avoid them as much as possible, and feels like there's no point in doing anything to try and improve his future.

so, like, i think idia and vil would be good for each other because they could bond over their pasts and the expectations that were placed on them. and as we've already kind of seen during book 6, vil is someone who can encourage idia to take better care of himself and not be so afraid of trying. but then i bet idia could also get vil to relax, to slow down for a bit and let himself act more like a typical teenager.

anyway, this post really got away from me because originally i really just wanted to point out that yana toboso once made a tweet saying that the basketball club members (jamil, ace, and floyd) are some of the oldest students in their years since they all have autumn birthdays and the school year starts in september. unless i'm even worse at math than i thought this implies that vil, being born in april, is several months younger than idia, who's the same age as him but was born in december. i find this both hilarious and a little sad depending on how you look at it.

[discjude]

Hi prequel community. If I said that I think the reason why there were only two prequels compared to the three that the other parts of the series got (3 TSY books and 3 TCY books) AND the reasons why Rhian's eye colour changes miraculously from Rise to Fall from green to blue (I think he's described as having green eyes in Rise? someone might have to correlate me on that) is because in Rise he's supposed to parallel TSY Sophie (green eyes, doubtfully good, multiple boyfriends) and then in Fall he's supposed to parallel Japeth (blue eyes, fratricidal, insane, gets cool one liners) how would you react to that

[da-proti-toku-grem]

Okay it pretty much looks to me like this happened after the one where he's holding/rubbing at his face

He has smudged eyeliner around his eyes and black stains in his hands, maybe symbolizing that he rubbed his hands around his eyes

Again his eyes are closed and the tip of his fingers are wet, so maybe he's holding his own face and trying to stop the tears from falling. But also we can see his hair is also wet, so perhaps what he's doing is splashing water to clean the tears away, like when you do after you've been crying for a while. Trying to calm down and get rid of the remaining tears and the red eyes to put back on that façade that everything is fine, I'm fine

[clfixationstation]

It's funny when ems bring up Armin punching Eren for Mikasa as Armin being some great em defender, when he's really being a Mikasa defender, against Eren's shitty treatment of her

[pinacoladamatata]

the way some people are acting about larian saying "no bg4 from us and no dlc" you would think they killed the bg3 characters where they stand and made it so you can't play bg3 anymore

[sparrowmoth]

p.s. this post has an audience of three people and I only take criticism from them <3

EDIT: Vil's team updated per the enlightened reflections of my bestie @villainsnest

[bigmamamads]

HELPP I didn't expect my Leon art to blow up so much 😭 (it didn't even blow up but it's still super big for me) usually my art doesn't do well at all on here but it must be Leon guiding me along with a golden rope or somethin idk, anyways thank you all!! It might not seem like a lot to other people but for a small artist like me it means a lot 😭🫶

[sga-owns-my-soul]

The thing is you have an "ignore this" tag on your rant posts which makes it feel kinda rude to like it because you literally just told me not to

hello anon!

yeah so the "ignore this" tag that i use is because i have a very specific blog and (i assume) people follow me for the specific fandom posts i make/reblog, so it's just an easy way for people to blacklist it if they don't want to see those posts for whatever reason. it's not necessarily me telling people not to interact with this post, it's more me acknowledging that i get not everyone cares about my personal life and if they would rather not see those posts, i have a tag they can use to ignore it. plus, as with all my tags, i use it so i can find specific posts later on. anyways long story short i don't care if people do or don't interact with my rant posts, if you're comfortable and want to like it in support i'll never say no! but you also have no obligation to read it or interact with it if you do not want to