I find it soooo fucking funny when people say HLVRAI is only sillies with absolutely no angst, it's JUST jokes and there has NEVER been ANY angst, and then they get mad at people for writing angst because it's a "funny gmod series."
Like even aside from the fact that if it's handled well and with care, dark topics can be discussed, it's just. Oh you mean the funny Gmod series where the tutorial character found out he's just an AI and was so broken and horrified by the realization that he wanted to wear the protagonist's skin like a meatsuit to escape? The funny Gmod series where the main character canonically has PTSD and maybe psychosis and got betrayed, amputated, and almost killed by his friends and talked about how he was just feeling complete despair over it? The funny Gmod series where the protagonist tries to kill himself on screen multiple times and expresses suicidal thoughts several times? THAT funny Gmod series?
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probably my favorite thing about the gang™ is that (minus brett) they're not the cliche 'oh we'll always stick with you, bff's forever, with friendship we can do anything!!’ group you usually see in animation. they ditch reagan the second a shitty situation comes up. they'll turn on each other at the drop of a dime. sure, they like eachother to an extent. and yeah, they always come back to each other in the end, but most of the time it's just because there's no better option. i don't know what i was getting at with this, but i think it's that i like how the only thing that makes the gang™ friends as a whole is that they have been through so many screwed experiences that it'd be weird to just be work acquaintances.
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Pretty sure I had my sexual awakening at 6 years old watching Secret of the Sword, very specifically the scene where He-Man is deprived of all of his power, trapped in a glass box suffering, while Skeletor stands revelling in He-Man's pain and helplessness, laughing and mocking maniacally; She-Ra eventually comes along and rescues He-Man when he can't even really stand, and he helplessly leans on her as she lifts him from the power-draining glass box/cage*
And yesterday, I went, oh my fucking god, it's the Tommy and Mosley and Lizzie dynamic.
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