#Maybe I’m just harsh?

[youngerfrankenstein]

To people who like Heavensward… why?

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

I am so glad that the kid spectrals have such normal and caring spirits who will definitely not physically endanger and/or cruelly betray them in the midst of their lives already being destroyed by cults, monsters, and interpersonal drama. It’s so cool and nice 👍

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

every so often I am reminded that having severe food restrictions sucks actually

[my-fall-from-grace]

ok i know we all find out about camp jupiter later on and i know the books (son of neptune and mark of athena specifically) discuss this a little bit, but i can’t get over how unfair the greek camp is compared to the roman camp. it’s all i can think of when watching the show and thinking back to the original pjo series

the romans can grow old! they have legacies! they have a university, coffee shops, homes, a whole city to live in and fall in love and raise children and grow old!

on the other hand, camp half blood is for children. it’s a summer camp! some campers go home for the school year and just never come back because they have to choose between being “normal” and being safe - while the romans have schools. they have a life after their time in the legion! while greek demigods EXPECT to die young. you so very rarely seen anyone older than 22 that it’s even remarked upon in the books! and when you grow up and you want to live a life that is not in a summer camp, your only option is to join the human world and fear monster attacks. the romans have a city, a place you can live safely. the chances of a greek demigod living a long life are so minuscule, bc to be strong enough to defend yourself outside of camp and life that long, you need to be powerful and that immediately means you attract more monsters. the greek demigods were doomed from the start (it’s the narrative).

and yes ok i know that romans are child soldiers and pay for these “luxuries” through all their years of service - plus the gods are more involved with the greek demigods for sure - but i still find it so heartbreaking for the greek demigods. as i’m watching the show and i’m older and no longer the same age as these children, i’m just horrified by all these details i thought were cool. a summer camp is fun but you can’t live forever there, you’ll have to leave at some point in an effort to have a life and that’s most likely going to be what kills you. i feel like if the greeks knew of the romans earlier, then luke would have had so much more demigods joining his cause - and understandably so!

i wish there would have been more discussion of how ANGRY the greek demigods were that they had to live like that while the romans could grow old. i know they must have been tired at that point, even of being angry at the gods for yet another thing in the endless list, but i would have wanted to see more of that realisation. “they don’t really care about us.”

[zorosdimples]

knowing i should take a step back from tumblr for my own wellbeing vs. being emotionally attached to this app and the people on it

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I was just mentioning this in a comment earlier but I think the Fyodor ability semi-reveal actually did have enough hinting in his former appearances - you can actually somewhat piece it together in hindsight so I’m fine with that. I’m actually quite intrigued about where we go from here.

However, it comes on the tail end of an arc where most everyone was apparently acting, drastically reducing the stakes overall. If everyone had legitimately been in mortal danger but they nabbed Fyodor at the end just barely, it would’ve been like ripping the rug out from under us when it’s revealed that he literally can’t be killed - rendering it all pointless still, but in a really cool, gut-punch awesome way.

What I’m actually annoyed about is still, and always will be, the way Fyodor and Chuuya apparently got out of the flooded room. That was stupid as hell and I stand by that.

[coconut530]

TODAY ON NEVERMORE: LITTLE GUY GOES THROUGH THE HORRORS

[heir-of-the-chair]

Lowkey hyperfixating now and I’ve come to the devastating conclusion that Jacob the main character of Water For Elephants… doesn’t really have a character arc

[sanasanakun]

Since people are discussing Larian’s “people pleasing” updates with this latest hot fix, I’m gonna add my two (unnecessary) cents to this as well. I really love Baldurs Gate 3 for the choices and agency it affords me as a player. That’s its main draw to me. However, when comparing it to its main inspiration (i.e BioWare games), the writing in BG3 is far worse.

And I think this shines through the most with the companion content disparity. I do think Astarion is a very well written character, but I also think his popularity partially comes from the other characters being far too underwritten. This isn’t even touching on Karlach’s lack of depth and the shocking disparity that is Wyll’s entire storyline/character. But other companions like Shadowheart and Gale, while well written, lack the same attention and suffer for it.

And god, the villains. I think that’s another egregiously bad area of the writing. Kethric gets a whole act! Meanwhile, Orin is interesting but crammed into sharing space with Gortash. And Gortash is given an incredible backstory that ties to another villain, but nothing is done with it and it’s mostly hidden in notes. And the story overall is just ok. Act 2 is easily the most compelling. But compared to BioWare, the story is lackluster imo. The Dark Urge plot line is the most interesting part of the overall main storyline, but it’s not afforded enough detail or content (imo).

And none of this is helped by Larian removing bits and pieces of their characters in these hotfixes. I really wish they’d just start adding content to flesh out these problem areas, especially Wyll and Minthara.

[duckiemimi]

it’s bpd

[soullessjack]

trying to explain that there has never been a single instance in the show to indicate that jack is intended to be a child/toddler/baby in any way and that all canon actually makes it pretty clear he’s supposed to be a teenager/young adult is like trying to explain that the cheese is under the sauce in a Chicago style pizza

[yourqueenb]

You are so right in your distaste for Blades book 2. No matter how great things get near the end, a majority of the book was horrible. They led us along like mouse to cheese. It’s inexcusable to play with their audience this way.

I only wish more people were less willing to excuse PB’s mediocrity. The signs were on the wall for me when DLS was flat out better than Blades 2, and it’s narratively quite simple. The story told was well paced, thought out, and above all kept us waiting for more each week. I cannot say the same for B2. That is sad.

I mean I do understand why people still enjoyed it and were willing to overlook the negative aspects or didn’t have much of a problem with them to begin with. Blades 1 was a fan favorite, we all missed these characters a lot, and many people (myself included at one point) didn’t believe we would actually get book 2 because of all the bait and switches PB had done in the past. But the first two things are why I personally couldn’t overlook the glaring issues.

I can’t remember who the OP was now, but I remember seeing a post from when book 2 only had a few chapters out where someone said something about it seeming like the writers learned all the wrong things about what made the book so good, and I couldn’t agree with that person more! Yeah, book 1 was good because it was different from anything we had ever gotten before. But I think the main reason it was so good was because of the characters as individuals and the relationships we got to form with those individuals to ultimately become a family. Yet they didn’t really acknowledge those individuals or relationships in ways that did them justice for the majority of book 2. And on top of that, MC’s own characterization was inconsistent at times because the writers picked and chose when they wanted us to be a competent leader and when they wanted us to be virtually clueless for plot convenience.

Book 1 was also relatively straightforward whereas it seemed like the writers wanted to turn the sequel into their own personal commentary on religion, which is an incredibly complex topic in itself. They had some social commentary in book 1, but it was done a lot better in my opinion because it didn’t take so much of a front seat. They managed to make it clear that that commentary was important and relevant to the writers, the characters, and the readers living in the real world while never robbing book 1 of that fun adventure game used for escapism feel. Meanwhile, book 2 almost felt like ‘Rising Tides but make it religion’ at times. And that’s on top of all of the other issues I’ve already mentioned in my previous posts.

I will say that I can see how there’s usually a lot of pressure to blow things out of the water for a sequel to something so beloved, and that most likely contributed to how things played out. So maybe I’m being a bit too harsh in my judgement of everything. But I still find it very disappointing to wait so long for something just for it to be so messy and miss the mark by a mile

[padfoot-lupin77]

My brain: ok I know you’re exited but they don’t care don’t start rambling don’t start yapping don’t self promote I don’t care how long you spent on this do NOT become annoying and also remember to be polite

Me: *starts crying*

[sableeira]

okay but ada dazai is so pretty princess vibe and prison dazai is so cat vibe. pre-dark era dazai is also cat vibe but not in the silly way but in the haunted way. dark era and beast dazai are both bastard vibe but in a tragic way and in the most affectionate way possible. the peak of dazai’s pretty princess vibe was during dead apple.

[tricoufamily]

an average of 4……it’s better than midnights

[slugass]

am i the only one who’s sick of “one/no braincell haha” “look theyre sharing a braincell haha” humor

like it feels so ableist

like it’s mocking mental disability

it’s so uncomfortable to me

am i the only one who doesn’t like this kind of humor /gen