#The Party Report

[ahalliance]

the dread i feel knowing that qbaghera is a ‘federation experiment’ and that qantoine is involved in ‘federation experiments’ will never fade btw 👍

[getpoliticaluk]

Labour are on track to win a landslide victory,

you can vote green and know you aren’t enabling a Tory back door victory, I myself am planning to vote snp as a voter in Scotland

the tories will have been in power for 14 years next month their time in power is done everyone in Westminster knows it’s why the tories are in burn mode,

it’s going to be a starmer coronation so it’s important that it’s tempered by a left wing since he’s forced all the Labour left out

[momotonescreaming]

Where did the trope of everyone leaving Hawkins except Steve come from? He canonically admits he wants to travel America? He's not some sad little baby who wallows in his sadness? he knows who he is and what he likes? Plus he'd never let Robin go alone. Come on.

[langernameohnebedeutung]

It's actually fascinating to me how social media is becoming more important and less important at the same time. Because everything is about social media. Everyone is influenced. Everyone is spending hours of their day. Everyone knows everything.

But at the same time - I remember 2010, 2012, when people were organising their parties and birthdays on Facebook and creating fun little groups and stuff and you know which of your friends were there. You used to talk about posts and everyone would react to yours. No one does that anymore, at least in my age group/social group. They're on various messengers, but they're all deleting or barely using public real name profiles these days and they're not even announcing that they delete and I don't notice because these accounts usually have been dead for years. Social media is no longer the place where I find everyone from work or everyone from my old school or this guy I just met. It's just angry strangers and corporations and news.

[goddesspharo]

At another corner of the bar, Glen Powell asked Elizabeth Banks if she knew Charles Melton. [...] Glen Powell, in head-to-toe Tom Ford, saw Tom Ford himself sipping a Diet Coke at the bar and flapped his hands over his whole fit. "It's all you, buddy!" Powell said to Ford. Party Report - Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2024

[xia0ming56]

Im drawing. A lvl prelims is next wk and im dRaWinG!!! 😭😭😭

[serenedash]

Let's talk khux gameplay and plot,

imo I think part of khux's story telling and the impact of the story gets lost now that the game is defunct. I always thought people didn't appreciate how the gameplay and the mechanics actually had an impact on the story and while that impact become virtually nonexistent later on, I always thought it made the story far more engaging when the game was just chi/unchained chi and also the English translation didn't do it too well ngl

Anyway what I'm specifically talking about is the medal system. Also I feel like the whole bangle thing wasn't explained well in game but really it just comes down to leveling up medals specifically. If you never played khux, you equip medals to your keyblades and they doa specific attack and to level them up you combine multiple of the same medal and you could see how leveled up a medal is by the amount of yellow dots next to it and, in JP at least, this was called "guilt" and like wow that name fucking slaps. And when nightmare chirithy reveals the player has been collecting darkness this whole time thru the medal system, you have literal guilt on your conscious. You are guilty of collecting darkness and negative emotions like guilt to use for your own power. And in Back Cover when the foretellers are made aware of this, there's no stopping it and ofc the player can't stop either, they HAVE to get stronger, you literally have to keep playing the game,

Another part of the game that I appreciated is the way the name changes factored into the game; chi was the original "world line" that the dandelions existed in and at first unchained chi had come off as just a remake but really what we're playing is the continuation, where the player and the dandelions are now in this unchained state/new world line and they're reliving their time as wielders but now without the war/"dark" memories and finally when they relive everything and get back to the "present," they continue on after into "union cross" which I feel like. wasn't explained well in game that much tbh but if you didn't understand what that meant in game, it was just to say that unions didn't matter anymore and they were all dandelions so the unions. when the unions are crossed.

and tbh the experience of playing this game in real time also added to the experience a lot and the impact of the story especially with a player insert character. I think the most effective use of this game being played in real time was Strelitzia. Now in the english version, everything with Strelitzia was all one update and the english ver was behind so honestly they had to do catch up they couldn't really afford to lag behind. But in JP, which most khux fans kept up with using fan translations, Strelitzia's introduction and her death happened about a month apart so it gave the players time to actualyl grow attached to her and THEN we get crushed. You can easily pin point the exact time certain khux fan art was drawn bc in a group drawing of the dandelions Strelitzia is there instead of Lauriam since he was only introduced after her death

and another thing! It only became apparent by the end of the game but khux actually takes place over the course of about 4 years. which is fucking insane. because the dandelions were stuck in the data for 4 years and didn't know it until the glitches started. and the game ran for roughly the same amount of time and we weren't even aware of that either until the glitches! ("why 4 years" there are cutscenes that literally say "4 years ago" so yeah girl what the fuck haha)

Anyway yeah this was just me rambling I think about this so much all the time can you tell. I hope missing link does something like this too tbh it makes it more fun and makes it feel that your actions as the player actually have impact on the story

[meggydolaon]

Do u think Frieren left on her own after defeating the Demon King bc she personally watched Flamme whither and die over the ephemeral course of a human lifespan and didn't want to Grieve again? She's known her Master for over 50 yrs, tended her grave and passed on her will, and it saddened Frieren to the point that she even avoided casting flowerbed magic because it reminded her of Flamme (which makes it interesting that she deigned to cast it for some lost "brat")

Afaik the whole "I'm used to my Master begging for her life" thing was never addressed. We're used to seeing Flamme as sagely and composed, especially in her sunset years, but did she stay that way? Did she come to fear death in the end? Did Frieren have to put her down herself?? Even if she didn't, the fact that that's the version of Flamme an Einsam would conjure is pretty telling.

Frieren's had over 50 yrs to get attached and the loss could've cut her more deeply than she's even aware of. She's known the Hero Party for only a fraction of that time, and an even smaller fraction of her long life. Given how avoidant she is for unpleasant experiences, it's no wonder she's dismissive of the time they spent together. Staying would mean watching it happen all over again, giving her more to grieve when the time inevitably and all too quickly comes.

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

Look at Elon musk spreading misinformation on the social media platform he turned into 4Chan lite! He'll do anything to earn praise and validation from other people including the fascist Republican who want to destroy democracy through Project 2025, why do you think he unbanned Republican accounts who spouted hate speech before banning liberal journalists? Everyone should expect Elon musk to continue spreading misinformation/disinformation throughout the election like he did with Trump and Biden, I mean how many times has he agreed with rascist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on Twitter and in fact that's why he's made liked posts private?! Honestly it's kinda funny cause it won't be long before he does this again I swear it, then he'll deny ever doing then offer a limp apology when he gets called out then his sycophants will crawl out of the woodwork to defend him.

[no27-autonation-honda]

congratulations to Mme. Pascale Leclerc, who has surely just experienced both the funniest and most unhinged weekend a mother could ever have. Dear fucking christ, I hope your middlest son brought you a bottle of champagne for yourself, ma'am.

[getpoliticaluk]

10 days later

Fuck the Labour Party, fuck Wes streeting, fuck keir stalmer, it’s an election year remember this do not give them your vote, your support because they don’t support you

[crtter]

Speaking of Iyami! I’ve seen some people speculate on the current ages of the sextuplets and Totoko and Nyaa-chan, given how Nyaa-chan’s baby is all grown up now, which implies the characters are aging in real time and I just happen to be neurodivergent enough to have been keeping tabs on how old the characters have been getting as the years go by, so I might be able to shed some light on the subject.

First of all! The characters from -kun that had established ages were the Matsuno brothers and Iyami, being 10 and 36 respectively. Totoko, Chibita and Hatabō are often shown in the manga and 60s -kun as being in the same class as the sextuplets, so they’re probably about the same age as them as well, although sometimes they’re portrayed as either older or younger depending on the story.

The timeskip between -kun and -san is never outright stated. What’s officially mentioned is that the sextuplets are “older than twenty” and that “it’s been about ten years” since -kun.

However! We have a more concrete number when you take into account episodes 3.5 and episode 4 of season 1, set in 2015. In episode 4, Matsuzō claims he’s been married to Matsuyo for 24 years. Taking into account that having children out of wedlock is very uncommon in Japan (it’s becoming more normalized in recent years, but it definitely carried more of a stigma 20-odd years ago), we can assume that the sextuplets were younger than 24 as per season 1.

Episode 3.5 helps us narrow it even further: in it, Todomatsu claims he rented adult DVDs five years before, which would only have been possible if he was at least 18 then, since that’s the age one has to be to purchase pornographic material in Japan.

Taking all this information into account, we can infer that the sextuplets can’t be any older than 24 and were 18 five years before 2015. This gives us a solid number for their age: 23 years old, as of 2015!

Until now, though, it hadn’t been confirmed that the characters were aging in real time but seeing that Nyaa-chan’s baby has aged since her last appearance in season 3, I think it’s safe to assume everyone has been aging as well! That would make the sextuplets as of 2023, 31 years old and Nyaa-chan’s baby, who seemed to be a few months old as of her first appearance in November 2020, around three years old!

[thebramblewood]

Read an exclusive excerpt of "Chapter 5: The Mysterious Cal and Lily" from Tangled Vines: A Complete Investigation of the Vatore Disappearances, the bestselling phenomenon sweeping Sim Nation!

The advent of the Roaring '20s put a new city on the map. Prohibition was in full swing across the nation (though often loosely and selectively enforced), but citizens were more eager than ever to revel in excess. Producers of alcoholic beverages (including the Vatore family itself, having swiftly resumed business operations despite the loss of its future inheritors) transitioned to an outward emphasis on medical spirits while moving recreational production underground. Equally clandestine speakeasys began cropping up by the dozens, but one city's winding sidewalks, grimy storefronts, and labyrinthine system of underground tunnels made it particularly well-suited to hosting these secret locales. Soon enough, San Myshuno was the pinnacle of glitz, glamor, and elegant debauchery. All who attended a party wanted to be seen. Curiously, though, two of the names most often uncovered in tabloid archives, Cal and Lily, seemed to fully avoid the increasingly ubiquitous flash of the camera. While other frequenters of the speakeasy circuit often found their grainy black and white faces in print, providing endless fodder for the burgeoning gossip rag industry, this pair remained elusive, which of course sold even more papers. Fellow partygoers pitched first-hand accounts to the highest bidders, and readers clung onto every salacious word. Lily and Cal were always observed to arrive together, but she would soon make a beeline for the gramophone while he settled in at the bar. Nearly every report calls Lily an exquisite beauty with an almost supernatural ability for drawing men into her orbit. In some instances, partygoers describe a herd of suitors nearly erupting into fisticuffs as they competed for her attention. It is impossible to say how many of these accounts are exaggerated or even fabricated. Nevertheless, it is clear she was quite the force. At the end of the night, she would leave with her chosen companion, stupefied by his stroke of good luck, on her arm. Meanwhile, Cal would watch listlessly from a distance, nursing a glass of whiskey he was never observed to actually drink. The relationship between the two was unclear, as was his reason for accompanying her, as he seemed to have little interest in the raucousness surrounding him. He rarely engaged with other guests or even Lily herself, though there is at least one report of an argument in which he seemed with little success to be dissuading her from leaving with yet another man. One cannot help but draw parallels to a certain set of siblings with suspiciously similar names. Despite being younger, Caleb Vatore was always said to be protective over his sister Lilith's interests, even if she rarely heeded his advice. Digging into the newspaper archives at Myshuno Meadows Library unearths several more disturbing accounts. Increasingly, there were whispers that the men Lily seduced completely vanished from San Myshuno society after coming into contact with her. While there was a small spike in unsolved murder cases at the time, a concrete connection between the victims and the mysterious Lily cannot be made. In one story, which admittedly reads like a hallucinatory drug trip, Lily is described as a succubus with glowing red eyes and sharp blood-stained teeth. This account was clearly dismissed, for its revelations were never entertained further. All at once, the champagne and glitter dissolved into a more sober era, and these socialites vanished from public life just as swiftly. In isolation, similarities between Cal and Lily and the disappeared Vatore siblings may seem like mere coincidences. In truth, it cannot even be proven that they existed. No official records matching either individual have been discovered. One could argue that they were works of fiction concocted to boost sales or composites drawn from several individuals. However, considered alongside the evidence to be presented in later chapters, the theory that this duo and the Vatores are one and the same becomes too tantalizingly probable to dismiss.

[lsleofthelost]

descendants tweets [22/?] Aziz edition

[puddlellama]

I'm so mad at this bullshit. how fucking dare they. soulless bureaucratic monsters. if i ever get my hands on that rat-faced fascist, he'll be fucking begging for death.

[severefartoholic]

i met ferry irl and it was SO BAD (rant under the cut)

i saw ferry at the metro station today while heading to work and it was so heartbreaking actually shes such an awkward and rude person irl.so i knew it was her because of her stupid stupid big round eyes (and because shed posted photos before on a server) so i came up to this ferry yespamanandmam and said "omg ferry! i love your work!" she looked at me like bug eyed for like 10 seconds straight while i just stood there awkwardly looking down at her because she is actually 2'1 irl. she proceeded to mumble something incoherent and then four of her demeter friends actually materialized from the dark they were kind of goop like and they started shouting racist things at me for NO REASON :/ IM LITERALLY WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant believe shes friends with these people. i guess theyre her type. they also threw in just general weird shit in their hate. then ferry proceeded to kick me with her little legs right in the nuts. ok. thanks dude. i cant get prenant now. i really love ferrys work especially pafl like im a hugee fan its just so sad that shes like this irl, i guess you guys can still support her but i just want to get this out im sorry to anyone this offends