#THE LAME BORING KIND

[wyat-ttt]

hey so like

I now have more followers on here than Twitter, which sounds neat at first

If I wasnt getting these notifications from my email for the past couple of days

theyre all BOTS, even the ones with actual pfps have empty profiles

it wasn this bad it was just 5-6 bots during the span of a couple days

But 100+ in the past 2 days?? I cant block all these people as easily (and if it keeps happening) that frequently

Is this just a me problem and tf do I do tumblr?!

[secondbeatsongs]

oh. ao3 is being DDoS'd.

welp

[mummer]

they could never EVER neverrrrrr ever ever do this even ryan condal would never cede such an “iconic” setpiece & “memorable” dialogue and even if he wanted to HBO simply would not allow it but in my minds eye ideal hotd adaptation of the battle of the gods eye completely discards EVERYTHING supposedly recounted/editorialized in fire and blood no anime dialogue no ultra choreographed fight scene no cinematic beautiful shots of the dragons dancing no leaping from dragon to dragon its actually like incredibly fast and loud and incomprehensible to the audience just beasts colliding and ripping each other apart dirt and blood and horrific and disgusting and ultimately super SUPER pathetic ❤️ daemon and aemond dont get to make any epic last stands theres no glorious blaze out, no chilling last words, no grand narrative, in the end it really is just two men thudding to the bottom of a lake and getting eaten by fish. make the craziest climax in the world an anticlimax. ultimate antimoment

[fuck-you-showerthoughts]

if you are a woman, you are not a gay guy. your just str8 and like to fetishize gay men. fuck off.

Normally I would just ignore this because it's just so incredibly unoriginal but I just need to make sure..... you guys know there's a difference between someone saying "I'm attracted to men in a queer way while also having a nuanced and feminine gender identity" and 2013 era yelling "ZOMG MY YAOIS" at real gay men right. Like they're pretty distinct

[tigergendermoved]

I don't like DDLC'S MC very much on a very petty level but I still wish there was more fic or meta speculation about him. I'm not interested in him as a character, though, because he's barely a character. Literally by the game's standards, he has no inherent "character file." He is the SCRIPT, if anything. All of his thoughts and actions occur within the little text bubble at the bottom of the screen, and so do the characters'. He barely appears in CGs, has no body sprite, and it is through his observations and his thoughts and his call to make choices that the game progresses.

I think that specific trait of MC is fascinating, especially given how deep reaching Monika's manipulation is. During Act 1 he is active, he is talkative, he has a definitive (and yet inconsistent, based on which girl(s) you're speaking to) personality. He has thoughts about just about everything going on. And yet in Act 2 he is reduced to dust. He stops having any kind of commentary and he almost never remarks upon the horrible occurrences around him unless prompted or unless it is something that could plausibly happen in the realm of reality, like Yuri abandoning him for 10 minutes and Natsuki collapsing on him. But even then he's still significantly muted. Yuri and Natsuki have a horrible fight and the only kind of response he tries to throw out is co-opted by Monika. He witness Yuri declare her love for him and talk about how she would love to pull his skin open and crawl inside of him and the only thing he has to say is "yes" or "no" when she asks if he likes her back. And then he physically cannot move or speak or react because the world is so far gone that Yuri's death has damaged him, the script, so much that all he hears is gibberish coming from her lifeless mouth.

And like... that's neat to me. I like that by the end of Act 2 the script is so off the rails and so far gone from reality that MC can no longer really function as a person, because the script is barely functioning. He stops reacting to anything happening around him and most of the conversations he has are just the girls talking at him. Monika has to literally rewrite the script and force Yuri and Natsuki to say things to further her agenda or keep the scene rolling. MC had a clear and very human response to Sayori's death because it was a plausible but horrible (and not forced) event that could happen naturally. Yuri's death was so jarring and away from the scope of the natural order of his world that MC (and Yuri, by extension) can only sit frozen and broken until Natsuki and Monika show up to force new progress.

Like Monika's effect on the girls has been talked to death and it is an interesting topic but I also think what she unintentionally did to the POV character of the game is also something neat. It really adds to the feeling of the world in DDLC being hollow. The MC is a half-character who can only react in incredibly predictable ways, and when the world stops being predictable, he stops being anything more than a walking camera for Monika to speak into.

[13eyond13]

Hate that I agree so hard with Takumi about something.....

Also this drunk little background smooch made my day lol

[infernalurge]

I thought I read somewhere there's a way to ally with both Orpheus and the Emperor but now I'm googling and I can't find it?

[stromer]

lets use shootouts during playoff hockey. except once it hits 5OT the shootout is me and a gun

[gibbearish]

yknow what bugs me is when ppls criticism of YA media boils down to them just not knowing how teenage crushes work

[z0nic]

i fucking hate dark sonic. why are you including dark sonic in the list of sonic transformations like hes part of the gameverse club NO HE ISNT. i understand if you want to keep things gameverse ok but then KEEP DUMB DARK SONIC OUT OF THERE. if dark sonic is included then ultra sonic has every right to be there too and i WILL be annoying about this

[milkyberryjsk]

i know muse's (literal) death was unceremonious and underwhelming but there is something thematically satisfying about the villain that made spectacles of his killings die in such a.. bland way

[jrueships]

rewatched shooting stars aka the baby bron and friends movie <3 very cute

[twinkskeletons]

man i’m never getting out of here i should stop prolonging the inevitable

[latinokaeya-moving]

ok i gave myself 48 hours of no hating bc it was that thing’s bday but i gotta say it now. i honestly hate like 95% of ragbros content it’s so overwhelmingly extremely basic and shallow ‘sibling’ content made by people who seem to be unable to conceive of sibling relationships that don’t fit the cookie cutter ideas that r most palatable to fandom it’s boring it’s so so boring to me !!!

[bigbuffelves]

I find the BG3 villains/villain run quite boring tbh

lust-for-power villains are the least compelling villain to me

[maddyshome]

i will always love noble characters. those characters who try their best to overcome awful people and situation. who go through hell and still remain good. i know most people love villains but i think theres nothing more beautiful than a good soul.