#acting like I’ll finish it

[quibbs126]

You ever replay a game after finishing and realize just how much foreshadowing is in the opening area?

[otaku553]

The eventual kazuha and sanemi dynamic

[thecelestial-art]

Wip that’s kicking my ass sooooo hard rn but I’m so obsessed w this one portion

[heartbreakfeelsogood]

joining the war against the midwest on the side of the midwest

[mammomlette]

OH SHIT MAMMONS BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW THE 10th NOT THE 11th IM NOT READY MY ART ISNT DOEN DJANKCJKSKCKD

Expect me to be late chat💔💔

[charmedcleric]

Harper Geraldus is such a cutie ugh I need more of him in my life

[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

[inkats]

Hiyori Tomoe + I was feeling weird about drawing and then saw a handsome woman and died a little bit.

[it-came-autumnally]

[awestruck-atrophy]

hello bbc sherlock fandom can I interest you in a flavor of mormor yet to be present in an actual sherlock holmes adaptation

[i-really-like-phrogs]

And here we have… yet another Aziraphale! He is most certainly my favorite fellow, positively tickety-boo.

[lesbianyosano]

deeply hypocritical of asagiri to try to pivot the story into the fake deep commentary on the state while completely ignoring the question of carceral system even with mersault at the heart of the story for years

[ranger-crisis]

Heartbreaking: person you like doesn’t like Gale Dekarios because he’s “annoying” and “doesn’t have as ‘traumatic’ or interesting of a story” and “doesn’t have that much bearing on the story” (cough cough that damn vampire too, but sure Gale has “nothing” going on.) oh you don’t like Lae’zel? Who could’ve guessed that…?

Also I don’t think 90% of people know what infodumping actually is. And besides anytime I hear it y’all just sound like dicks. “He’s infodumping” go make actual friends that don’t shop on shien and call literally anything tmi. I’m putting “infodumping” on the shelf until you learn how to enjoy a game that isn’t all killing things or action 24/7.

[sansa-of-oldstones]

So, my SIL highly recommended reading It Ends With Us. She gave me a copy, and I’m about half way through. You can probably guess which part made me need a break, if you’ve read it. If you have, can you please tell me if it’s worth it to finish? We were going to do a whole girls day where we went to lunch and saw the movie. It’s just really triggering for me, some of the plot/content.

[overlordneptune]

Guess who just finished rise from the ashes…

*distant sobbing*

[kissformuppet]

The other day I was showing my partner a stupid Christmas show and in it they kept referring to a felt doll (not even a puppet) as a Muppet because it was purple I guess? I didn’t say anything, but at one point my partner said, “that’s not a Muppet, stop calling it a Muppet.”

Thank you, I love you, you understand me