#does anyone else think its weird

[guideaus]

i think everyone that read/watched this scene lost respect for ketil, but i really wonder how he has a worse reputation than thorgil and snake. ketil is weak in this entire exchange, lied abt his history, and then finally vents to his slave that could be his granddaughter who cant consent to sex, all these probably makes him lose like 100 points from the reader lol. snake and thorgil, on the other hand, are later portrayed as cunning, supportive to family, and loyal to friends, when they were the ones here clearly causing ketil this pain and snake even leads to the proatag's allies' deaths. i compared ketil to askeladd earlier, and ketil's a much lesser hypocrite than askeladd, and doesnt go out with a bang cutting a king's head off, but hes still a guy that hates himself and acts shittily. ketil is easily understood as shitty and pretty much disliked in the end, the kindest judgement towards him is probably calling him weak, but i wonder how askeladd, snake, and thorgil's reputations dont exactly plummit fandom-wise...

[destinysbounty]

As any self-respecting Zane stan, of course I've seen Decoded. And of course I loved the sweet but subtle character moment of him being bashful and awkward when Jay brought up the statue.

For the longest time, I've always interpreted this moment as Zane being his typical humble, bashful self. And while I'm sure that's true to an extent, recent events from Dragons Rising have led me to consider an alternative interpretation.

If I may bring your attention to this quote from DRpt2:

"Zane had impressive shoes to fill. No one could live up to him, maybe not even Zane himself."

I dunno. There's just something about the fact that Zane's own legacy has outgrown him, that he's overshadowed by the memory of his past self, that rather than a testament to the love his friends and community have for him he instead sees the statue as an insurmountable burden he can never hope to live up to...

Which brings me to yet another blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment from the Shadow of Ronin video game (I know it's canon-ness is debatable, but hear me out for a sec)

While everyone is gathered around Nya and speaking to Borg via hologram, Zane is...gone. He's off in the distance, standing at the base of his statue, just...staring at it.

God, and when you add this all up to Zane's Ice Emperor baggage...yeah.

[gulducock]

look at this pic i found on twitter

[croakings]

i apologize for mithrunposting incessantly but honestly if any of you expected better of me you shouldn't have

anyway i get it and some of the failguy jokes are funny. i can tell that nothing i've run into is even malicious. but also it would be really cool and awesome if there were simply less posts calling a disabled person a failure or baby or a dog or whatever for needing accommodation or extra help, especially when like. hey did you know the source material very on purpose did not do anything remotely like that. critical thinking question: could there be some reasons these phrases are not great, potentially

[princsstwilightsparkl]

saying "if aroace people can date, then can lesbians date men?" is absolutely aphobic narrative btw!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

zelda truly do be one of the only fandoms where you will get dragged by fellow fans for feeling attachment towards the world and the characters

[cookinguptales]

I will say that for google, just adding "-ai" to the end of your search works surprisingly well.

it's how I've been getting better image results for months, and it's removed the bs ai summaries for me, too.

I suspect a few things still get through, but it makes the site MUCH more usable ime.

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[bonefall]

Living for the Grandma Mistystar designation because she's grandma in such a specific way. Like she's been around forever and goes on and on and we know and love her and she lived through The War™ and had a hard life, etc, but sometimes things come out of her mouth that make it VERY OBVIOUS that she attributes the horrors she lived through to a bad person, a bad group, as opposed to the culture in which she lives, and therefore doesn't really have the right takeaways. So there's grandma telling you stories and then she says some shit and it's like "Grandma Mistystar didn't you literally survive an attempted half-clan genocide. The fuck are you on about." But also she's old as hell and you know she loves you and you love her so you just sort of sit uncomfortably in her living room and drink your tea. Literally an old-ass woman who lived through hell and still votes Conservative. I'm obsessed with her.

The old grandma characters in BB have my entire soul. They've all been through AWFUL shit, they came so close to the right conclusions, you love them SO much but then they drop some shit that makes your skin crawl. What can you do with that?

You can see a bit of progress with cats like Mousefur, but even then, it's never in the exact way you were hoping for. It goes from, "foreigner Bad" to "Some foreigners Not bad." But progress is progress, right...?

It's a sort of hopeless feeling, but not strong enough to tip into despair. The world is changing and they're remnants of the old one. You have to fight them when they try to drag it back, but totally changing their person is an unwinnable battle.

[ankhisms]

can i be emotionally vulnerable with you all in the torture dungeon

[tallymarkbrothers]

[Inktober Day 30 - Rush]

[justinefrischmanngf]

it’s not that it makes me sad per se but i really could’ve been dating someone i did actually kind of really want to date since JULY. and now the moment is literally so far gone and i didn’t realise until the moment was so far gone !!!

[timelessbibliophile]

Y'all does anyone else in the tlc fandom ages cress up to 18 so that it's fine for her to be with thorne? Why is no one talking about this age gap?

Look, i love cresswell, i do, but i read tlc when i was 15 and i didnt really understand what a 16 year old girl being with a 20 year old guy meant. The fact that it's a space princess story doesnt automatically make it okay for such a huge age gap between 2 characters in one of the main ships in the series!

I like to either think they didnt like each other or get together until cress was much older or think that cress in the series is at least 18, or else i get the ick for thorne, and i'm so sorry but i can't allow myself to get the ick from the loml.

[comradecowplant]

is my browser broken (oh because it HAS been broken irt tumblr specifically not loading properly/refusing to scroll back up/needing to refresh the page after reblogging, but that's not the point right now) or is there no schewpid april fools thing this year? hm the musicians sure have started playing from the life boat deck of this site huh

[gamingofkenna]

Oxenfree 2 spoilers, re the 'final choice'

I played the whole game in a solid 7 hour chunk yesterday and I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it, and I'll have to do another playthrough when I can, because there's so much of the way the characters are that seems based on your choices so I wanna see what happens when I make other choices

but I'm seeing that a lot of people let Olivia go through the portal at the end, and that everyone who didn't is saying those who did are monsters for letting this grief-stricken teenager kill herself

and. i don't think there is a 'right' choice at the end there in most circumstances. but i did let Olivia take the radio, because as awful as it felt I just kept thinking that I couldn't do that to Rex

especially since we just had a ghost moment of Rex telling Riley she has to keep fighting, even though she's going to keep failing? to follow that up with 'or you can just kill yourself now to save these kids'? like it is a horrible thing to do to Olivia but it's a horrible thing to do to Rex too?

honestly, based on my playthrough, the 'right' thing seems to be Jacob going through the portal. few players forced him to because apparently the only way for him to do it is if you force him - I didn't even let him come on the island with me. I saw the prompt that I could stop him and immediately knew that if I didn't he would die. Riley kept seeing visions of her future but Jacob never did. Jacob kept talking to me about how he feels he never did anything important in life, how he likes just chilling in his hometown, how he doesn't have any grand ambition but also wants to do something important and meaningful

when that prompt popped up I thought 'if I go to that island I'm getting sucked into this loop too and I'm not coming back; Jacob doesn't deserve that' and I made him stay. I'm curious now if there's a specific dialogue tree that leads to Jacob deciding, at the end, that him going through that portal and saving everyone by doing what he's always been doing is his way of being a hero. but that wasn't the option i'd been given. instead I had two suicidal people, who both had their whole lives in front of them

[miawinters]

ive been playing disco elysium, and it feels kinda weird how many times u can insult kim? like one conversation had 2/3 choices give u an opportunity to be racist to kim, and tbh sometimes i am skipping thru the dialogue, so if i did the same there i wouldve hit the be racist to kim option