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dealing w some geniuses on r*ddit rn who are insisting they couldn’t do a serious anime adaptation of a fgo plotline with gudako as the protagonist bc it would be ‘too confusing to anime onlies’ like they didn’t choose babylonia and Camelot to adapt first
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enduringsea · 3 years ago
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( rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to! put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people! no skipping! ) / tagged by @yellowcrumpet​ ╭( ・ㅂ・)و )))
Thanks for the tag! I LOVE these things-- I don’t rlly have a playlist either though, just a mess of music files on a device I haven’t updated so I’ll be checking my YouTube history too lol. There’s a uhhh.... pattern to be found, mainly relating to Code Vein or other OCs.... which isn’t surprising ._. ;; I made it a separate post bc I knew this was going to get long and rambly with lyric snippets and crying about fictional characters, sorry :D
1. Repeat Until Death - Novo Amor don’t go / you’re half of me now / but i’m hardly stood proud / i said it, almost oh i’ve been low / but damn it i bet it don’t show / it was heaven a moment ago oh i can’t seem to let myself leave you / but i can’t breathe anymore This one gives me Loubeth vibes ok, partially bad end route ;-; While Elizabeth is a very strong person, her friends are the most prominent reason she tries to do anything at all & isn’t living day-to-day in a monotonous grind to survive without a solid purpose other than ‘help random ppl bc it’s the right thing to do’. If she loses them, it’d ruin her & hammers into her head how everything she’s ever done has been a failure. She suffered a major betrayal by her boss before the Collapse, she was unable to fully participate in proj. queen despite her incredible test results, she failed to defeat Cruz and take her blood during Operation Queenslayer, and if she fails to protect the people she’s finally found meaning with? She’d break down completely & destroy herself to save them. She’s always had some level of abandonment issues, and without her family around it’s so much worse, even if it isn’t the most obvious because she’s generally seen as very well put together-- I really can’t express how much it would hurt her to lose Louis, Yakumo, and the others. She’s just not one to show just how bad it can truly get for her mentally and emotionally-- she’s resilient as hell, she’s been through hell repeatedly and survived it all, so it’s easy for others to assume she’s fine all things considered. It makes her feel weak and ashamed of herself if she shows any level of vulnerability, so she doesn’t; she swallows it down and is afraid of disappointing those who look up to her as a fighter and friend-- of course, no one at Home Base would blame her for being vulnerable, they all have their moments, Bethy just sets herself to such a high standard it’s difficult for her to talk about her own suffering in spite of how well-versed she is in getting her thoughts and feelings across otherwise. Louis is the one most keen to how deeply she’s hurting, but he doesn’t understand just how deeply until she finally does fall apart. The final swell of the song and its desperate lyrics really relays the pain they both feel-- Louis too would not fare well if something happened to Elizabeth, because he blames himself she was even involved in Operation Queenslayer for a long time, I honestly did so bad in explaining coherently, this song just has so much emotion and hurt behind it adklfjdfdff </3
2. Looking Out For You - Joy Again this is a love song for a girl who will never know it’s about her she's beaming that smile / all the while i’m all tripped up on my own throat i guess there is no hope This song reminds me of Elizabeth & my friend’s character Takashi Fujioka, who gets-- vERY...FRIENDZONED, for lack of a better word, by Elizabeth in his story, it’s really summed up best as tragic (;﹏;) Before the Collapse they were hitting it off, then the Collapse happened, they were separated, he lost his sisters, Mido happened, he was experimented on + became a revenant, etc, etc; years have passed since then & she’s gotten her life together as much as one can in a world like Vein, but for Takashi it’s like no time has passed at all. Elizabeth is subtly older in appearance, she’s been working w Lou & Co. for a long time; Loubeth blatantly have a connection, & rather than bringing up his feelings + making it awkward bc he values their friendships, he just kinda. chokes on them & does his best to help out the team. It doesn’t help he can’t even be jealous bc Louis is a really solid friend to him too, IT’S JUST A MESS OF A SITUATION & the death of what could have been if things were different.
3. Closer - Teagan And Sara ( no lengthy explanation for this one thank goodness, I’ve just been watching BoJack Horseman again and I really like some of the songs they add in, I like listening to this one on loop when mindlessly coloring something )
4. Brutal - Olivia Rodrigo  all I did was try my best / this the kind of thanks I get? they say these are the golden years / but I wish I could disappear ego crush is so severe / god, it's brutal out here I have it on a playlist for Elizabeth somewhere, not all of it applies to her but it reflects some of her struggles she has both before & after the collapse. She’s-- always kind of been a mess while under immense pressure + has serious self image issues, this song hits that side of her well. She’s been held to humanly impossible standards by both herself and her family bc frankly? She can reach them, she’s NOT exactly human. She was born into her position as a hunter & intends to keep it for as long as she lives (like revenants, her kind is very much ‘either gets killed or lives 5ever), even if some days she really feels how heavy the burden can be. She didn’t have a normal childhood and she’s fine with it for the most part, but it alienates her from most of her peers-- she never got to date anyone, never had a close group of friends, never went to parties that weren’t formals, etc., while she feels a little childish about it, she does envy ‘normal’ and understands the pressure she’s lived under her entire life has caused damage-- she has been exploited for her abilities, there’s just not much she can do about it but to keep going, rlly.
5. Freaks - Surf Curse  don't kill me / just help me run away from everyone  i need a place to stay / where i can cover up my face don't cry / i am just a freak / i am just a freak UhhhHHH this song really makes me think of Oliver Collins :D;; thank TikTok for showing it to me. It makes me think of how scared he was, of both the world and the revenants who captured him. The song’s use of the word ‘parasites’ really makes me think of Revenants and the BOR parasites XD I’m hoping when I poke my video editor again, I can record some Oliver footage to make a short video to this song. Oliver deserves so much better, I wish you could save him, but that’s what AUs are for, hahah.... The second half of the lyrics make me think of the AU I have where he lives and has to grapple with the guilt of surviving and the things he did to other revenants to get by too.
6. All Eyes On Me - Bo Burnham you say the ocean’s rising / like i give a shit you say the whole world’s ending / honey it already did you’re not gonna slow it / heaven knows you tried got it? good / now get inside I haven’t seen the Netflix special yet but I’ve had this song on repeat since my move started. The lyrics hit too hard & resonate with my existential dread, covid exhaustion, and extreme burnout in my 20s, but bc I have Damage I can also relate it to CV ._. ‘you’re not gonna slow it, heaven knows you tried. got it? good now get inside’ makes me think of--;; the bad end route again, and Elizabeth’s desperation to keep her found family together. It’s not like her to completely stop caring about an issue, but in the moment she realizes what’s being taken from her? She doesn’t want to save all of revenant-kind if it means she’s going to wind up alone all over again, her world is effectively over if she’s forced to be alone again. The MC frenzying means the only immediately identifiable hope she had of saving everyone else is gone, so why not just go home? If they’re all doomed, she wants to at least be together for a little while longer, it’s fine if they use her blood to survive & everyone else in the mist is out of luck, it’s soul-crushing bc I’ve never had her in a situation where she’s been this reckless, despondent/hopeless, and thinking irrationally where it’d impact more than herself-- especially when she’s normally goal-oriented, organized, meticulous, so on so forth: she’s not one to act without thinking something through first, but that last breath of light just got sucker-punched out of her. All she wants is home, comfort, and family, and ultimately in the bad end route she does manage to preserve their lives, maintain the mist, and supply blood beads, but her own condition leaves her on the throne-- it’s a mix of the bad, neutral, and true ending rlly ldkfjdf BUT YEAH enough rambling on that :D;; This song’s really good and touches a lot of different thoughts and ideas both in real life and my ocs, kind of embarrassing--;; thank u bo burnham for ruining me with this beautiful song
7. Yellow - Coldplay look at the stars / look how they shine for you / and everything you do your skin / oh yeah, your skin and bones / turn in to something beautiful do you know / for you I'd bleed myself dry Does this song make me think about JackEva? Yes. Yes it does. Star / night sky symbolism? Bam. Sappy lyrics about love and finding the person you’re with absolutely mesmerizing and worth dying for? BAM. If JackEva were capable of using their own blood to save each other, I can see it-- hJNGn they just care about each other so much, Jack cries for her even though they both knew that eventually one of them would succumb to their duty, and if the roles were reversed I can see Eva doing the same, I adore them beyond human language. On my CV RP blog, my Jack’s not shippable bc-- Eva, my friend even have them looking after his nephew (an oc--) at one point. I should seriously drop some headcanons down eventually....
8. Louder Than Thunder - The Devil Wears Prada  are we meant to be empty-handed? / i know i could, i could be better i don't think i deserve it / selflessness, find your way into my heart all stars could be brighter / all hearts could be warmer 
LMFAO throwback to my middle school playlist, I’m old-- I’ve applied this song to a lot of things back in the day, but I really connect it to Loubeth now, especially Louis. Lou & Bethy are both functional idiots who are too hard on themselves & have trouble recognizing their worth beyond what they can do for others. They’re trying to be better-- to make up for what they perceived wrongs they’ve done, but it’s hard, they don’t believe they’re worthy of the love and support the other gives, but they still yearn for that sense of security. After Louis’ memories are returned, he finally understands the guilt he’s felt since he became a revenant and it really skews his self-perception; he blames himself for so many things & Elizabeth, who has always been able to kill when necessary, sets it straight-- “It’s not your fault”, and it takes Louis some time to properly absorb that message. He thinks she’s just trying to comfort him, which she is tbh, but she’s not wrong: “It’s not your fault you couldn’t kill someone. It was never your job to kill anyone.” It’s up to people like her to do those sort of things-- Elizabeth may not have been present when Cruz frenzied, but if she had been? It would have been over before it started, that’s something she has regrets over, even if nothing could have been done since she was already on the field. Actually, she’s actually really quite angry that security failed to monitor Cruz properly and has a few select words for the ones there who could have actually done something before it got out of hand-- civilians and doctors are exempt from her shtlist bc they’re not meant to be killers (so don’t worry Artorias, she’s not ready to bite your head off!), but they had to have some kinda security detail rite o-q??? They’re probably hiding from her wrath-- BUT ANYWAY, she insists she’ll never blame Louis for not being able to do something as serious as killing another person. He was a normal human being who cared about his friend, not a failure, and he couldn’t have been expected to do something that shouldn’t have fallen on his shoulders in the first place. As many times as it takes, she’ll reaffirm that it wasn’t his fault, she’s not angry, he’s always done his best and her opinion of him hasn’t changed. He’s a good person and she loves him through all the hurt, though she doesn’t drop the word ‘love’ for a long time. It just-- takes Louis a while to accept she views him as someone worthy of the love and respect she has for him. It’s kind of ironic she’s so adamant on Louis not blaming himself considering she’s the one privately blaming herself for-- wow there’s too much to unpack, she feels guilty she was even born?? im so broken over these two. I love them and yet they SUFFER... 
9. What I’ve Done - Linkin Park i'll face myself / to cross out what i’ve become erase myself / and let go of what i’ve done today this ends / i'm forgiving what i’ve done
I have Louis Amamiya brainrot and I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks that this song fits him super well & it needs to become an AMV dsjfkldsfd. I’m a near life-long Linkin Park fan and this fits with Lou so well thematically. As much as I’ve gone on about Louis’ guilt, he does steel himself to keep going forward in spite of it and make things right, for everyone. Maybe it wasn’t really his fault, but at the end of the day his inability to kill Cruz in that moment left a disaster in its wake that got a countless number of people killed-- the MC included with Karen and Aurora. He doesn’t want to run away from the truth, doesn’t want to make excuses, he wants to take responsibility for it and he’ll work himself to death if it means things will be better-- it’s both admirable he’s got a strong resolve and VERY concerning with how willing he is to die for the cause, please don’t overdo it, Lou, you’ll break mine and Bethy’s hearts ._.;; It won’t always be easy, there are moments the grief gnaws at him, but in the end he does overcome it (and uh. as in the bad ending, we know he can actually do it this time). I know we can’t see everything, but I would have loved deeper character interactions, especially with Louis with an emphasis on grieving + forgiving himself properly-- but this song really is nice with the whole ‘I’m going to face my mistakes head on, forgive myself, and keep moving forward’. It’s what Louis deserves: self forgiveness and a damn break ‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚
10. Call of Silence - Hiroyuki Sawano you will know you're reborn tonight / must be rough but i’ll stay by your side even if my body's bleached to the bones / i don't want go through that ever again so cry no more / oh my beloved ngl idk if those are the correct lyrics, buuuuuuut....... im a weenie and am internally weeping abt loubeth after midnight, what else is new lmfao- i’ll at least try to be brief :D I also used to really like Attack on Titan when I was in high school, I dropped the anime years ago because I was waiting for s2 and never got back to it once it started airing again, I thought I’d finish it once the anime was complete since I eventually caught up with the manga, such a good series BUT ANYWAY-- I think it’s a really pretty song and Loubeth fit with the tender lyrics. IT’S LATE, idk what to say about them other than what I’ve said already dsklfjdslf im sorry I really ramble a LOT and I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t had the chance to >w>;;
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grapecaseschoices · 6 years ago
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17, 26, and 27 for the salty ask. (idk if we're supposed to pick the books too but just in case: bloodbound, ame, or trr)
You don’t have to! But I’m going to make the effort of leaning toward those books (even though I didn’t really finish AME 1. But not really, I didn’t. lol.)
17.  Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…
I feel I’ve said this before, so forgive me if this is repetitive:
1) I would have books like TE and TRR and ES where the LI treatment are meant to be equal and it is meant to be an ensemble. Actually, be such.
2) I would allow Hana’s storylines to be actually about Hana. I would remove the Drake and Maxwell aspects entirely. I would remove the need for MC (in some respects. In certain moments, I could see why she would want her there). If we’re going to include these characters, it would be in how they relate to Hana.
How Hana and Liam and Maxwell (and even to an extent, Drake) never addressed the varying effects of family expectations/pressure and living up to that is beyond me.
I wouldn’t necessarily remove Hana was ‘perfect at everything’. I would talk more about the costs of it. I wouldn’t have that in diamond scenes. Connected to that, I would have more of her struggling with the costs of it. How it applies to her day to day wants / as well as her growth into the person she wants to be. Like, I am putting this in the POV of her marrying MC, but she is a co-duchess. It could be easily be seen as her skills being a benefit. Both on paper and practically. However, Hana mentioned fears that I feel were barely addressed – about connecting to the people. That is something that could have been handled as equally hers and the MC (bc I feel that is a storyline they should have focused more on period). Like moments that focused on how Hana would handle it, moments that focused on just the MC, but also moments where they collaborated / supported each other in their insecurities.
Speaking of. It would’ve been great if that moment of Hana helping her dad had been Hana helping herself. Applying her skills to her duchy. It would’ve been a longer arc. Instead of a flash in a can (or whatever that saying is.) 
Not to say that she couldn’t have helped her dad. I am of two ways re: Hana and her parents: 1) She doesn’t need to owe them shit and if she were to choose to forgive them it should have been more about her doing it for her own growth, her own peace, her own spirituality. Instead of her ‘proving to them’ (and if they were going to go that way, I wish they’d addressed how parents like that can still engender that need even when you’re independent). 2) If they were settled into the route of them forming some type of relationship (because children / people wanting to do that with those who hurt them is valid), they should have handled it better. I think first by actually handling it, lol. Like everything with Hana it often felt like it was an afterthought. 
3) Lily … a part of me wants to be like ‘deserved better’. I think in certain ways Lily was a rather well-crafted character but in a lot of ways she suffers from what most characters who aren’t the main dude (especially if this character is a female, a person of color, or both). Lily had interests and heartache. She had her opinion and was allowed to dissent from MC as well other characters. She set the pace of her dynamic with MC (if you chose a romantic opinion). She was allowed to upset (to an extent) and show fear and be bad ass. She had her interests and she had her style. She is who she is. And as a fictional woman of color that is BIG (heck, some choices white dudes can’t even say that much).
That being said, I feel like things happened to her and we didn’t always get to be a part of that. And I felt it was unfair to her storyline, the worldbuilding, and her dynamic with MC (romantic or not. Sorry haters, these two are ride or die friendship the extent of Ron and Harry. Platonic or otherwise Lily is her Life Partner). This can be broken down into two parts - that needed to be changed.
Things happened to her. Other than choosing to stay with Jax (and I wish we had gotten to see more of it) and coming to help toward the end. Her break up happened to her. Turning into a vampire. Happened to her. Lily did make choices, as mentioned. However, we didn’t get to see the result of them and they often seemed to come out of a Bigger Event that wasn’t really her choice at all. I guess in away, it felt clouded. (I need to ponder this more).
Though, I feel my issue from that comes from wanting more of her perspective. I feel, sometimes, the events in Lily life have the shadowing of other characters wants or just their presence in general. People say they wish Lily could have left the threesome scene, but why couldn’t have Jax? I could be remembering wrong. There is an option to do both or just Jax. However, was there an option to choose Lily only? Why was the moment turned sexual? Why couldn’t it have been MCs best friend in the world was going through a lot and they just hanged? Same with her moments with Kamilah (a training that happened off-screen. Why? I have seen others say this and I agree. It would have been informative to see more about the growth of a baby vampire). It was all about how much she’s learning from Kamilah and how cool Kamilah is. How about more on Lily as a student and Lily as a baby vampire. I’m not saying that they did horrendously awful. I just feel they could have done better. 
Also, they could have done with Lily and MCs sexual scenes NOT  happening after something Intense and/or Painful was going on. Admittedly, I didn’t catch on it at first. But it was kind of weird. (Also, as much as I love Lily calling the relationship shots. I hope they can get to talk about making their romance more romantical. Instead of just friends with benefits.) 
26. Most shippable character?
Characters of color. 
In BB and TRR: Lily and Liam. I have the most Liam ships out of TRR.
27.  Least shippable character?
White Men whose storylines needlessly take over the storyline / spotlight from other characters. 
aka Drake. LOL. (Though I do ship Driam). But I mean in the sense that I would probably never do a Drake run. 
Thank you for asking @onesocialpiranha!!
Salty Ask.
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yuzuria · 7 years ago
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5,6,11,24,26,27!
I’ll do gintam and dr for the rest and bnha if applicable ^^
5. has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
for gintam, not really ruined if I wasn’t into it before but I used to entertain 0kikagu as a friendship thing but then the fandom just have to be nasty that make everything they touch STRAIGHT and everything that happens between a dude and a girl, even that moment where the dude *proposed* to take the girl TO THE JAIL had everyone screaming at the top of their lungs it’s canon who will eventually fuck thanks to that exchange also what the fuck is kamusoyo why the hell does it exist 
For dr it’s koma egi I have an irrational hatred towards that ship, even though there’s nothing much between them in the canon, the fandom stuff had found its way to land to my eyes and permanently scarred it. I hate it from the bottom of my heart and if only I could I would say I’d avoid people who even the slightest ship them but heck, even my fav komahina content creators ship them occasionally with komahina + n*egi and I just want to be blind for good. I hate it so much. I’d go in particular what I saw I hate about it but only if somebody asks since this is getting long.Also hinanam and kamunam bc I’m sick of dr ship discourse slash drama
6. has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?
Wow this is hard I can’t think of something on top of my head. I guess I hated taka zura a bit when I was a takamu fuckr bc it’s just obligatory for me to hate on ships that has either halves of my otp now I can’t almost stand the latter lol. Gin tae too for the same reason lol when I was a hijiginn fuckr 
For dr it’s sai ouma I guess? I low-key hated them bc the comparison with komahina is so annoying, either how it’s the komahina of drv3 or how SUPERIOR it is compared to the latter because hey you can always get away with komahina and komaeda hate so these ppl always run their mouths wild. It’s so annoying I hated them out of spite but upon playing the game, I understand where the ship came from, they have cute fan content I’m not actively fond of it but ouma is cute so I’ll let him have that average dick
11. is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? why?
I honestly feel like sacchan is not that popular or it’s because of the amount of hate she gets overshadows the love ones. Both her and tae tbh. For a generally unpopular chara I’m very fond of soyoFor dr ruruka!! She's almost universally hated bc she's so flawed, manipulative, and unapologetic terrible who dared to hurt everyone's fav Seiko boohoo (I love Seiko btw) but that's why I love her lmao
24. would you recommend xxx to a friend? why or why not?
I recommended gintam to almost all my friends before and only one of them watched it. BITCH. But rn I would happily recommend it to ppl who likes comedy bc comedy gintam >>> serious gintam and for light-hearted stuff. Also well serious arcs tend to get tiring as it goes on bc it’s repetitive but if they are into quick action arcs (initially) that isn’t too overcomplicating and want to be moved by generic mc speech then yeah it’s for them.On the other hand I only recommended dr to one person lmao. Game wise I recommend it for gameplay value but if they’re looking for a story that is investing (dr is investing but also frustrating because almost all doesn’t make sense and you yourself have to fill in the blanks) that had actual coherent value skip this. I mean it’s not that dr has it, it has interesting premise but if that’s what you’re mainly looking for…eh I like bnha a lot so it’s part of the latest starting kit to watch for me. Esp my friends (mostly irl) likes shounen I would def rec to them.
26. most shippable character?
I’m just gonna say charas that have the most appeal for me being shipped bc well usually protags get the cake of being the most shippable. Tae for gintam. Kirigiri and kaede (they both have a harem of girls don’t @ me) and oddly enough, komaeda tho only platonically and I lied. I also consider Hinata to be included. For bnha I’m curious with Mina ships tbh.
27. least shippable character?
Hijikata, why do u hate the other charas to ship with him. For dr, tsumiki ;; I want her to have a gf but at the same time girl you need help first. Bakugo for bnha, I can’t see him w anyone other than kirishima ;w;
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