#don’t ask me how it works idk but it did

[puppyeared]

its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

[stinkrascal]

i hate you monetization of hobbies i hate you i hate you I HATE YOU!!!!

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i feel like my mental/behavioral health has gotten to the point where i don’t just need therapy, i need treatment. ykwim

[crybaby-bkg]

good god I hate it when people make me feel like I’m annoying or bugging them when they AGREE to do something for me but haven’t done it skdjdkfj I’m literally losing my mind and as I’m typing this I realize that’s bc it’s a trigger from someone in my immediate family who always does that to me so now I’m ready to detach and do the thing I need done by myself bc that’s what I always end up doing anyway 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

[reaveh]

This account feels so weird T-T

[pepprs]

mutuals i got myself into a situation so sticky i don’t even know how to describe it (edit: *describes it* lol). please send thoughts of successful escape my way lol

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

quietly realizing that I likely do not have queerplatonic attraction *or* romantic attraction.

[no1ryomafan]

Yknow one thing I hate to do is compare mechas given they’re all pretty different even putting the clear influence a lot have on each other aside and I don’t like the idea that I’ve seen a lot of mecha fans subscribe to where “if you like this one show you HAVE to like these other ones” but this is less of a comparison thing especially because I’m not petty or anything since it’s just something I thought about:

Mazinger v Getter when it comes to their recognition tends to boggle my mind a bit. Since it feels like there are more dedicated Getter fans around that talk about it than Mazinger fans, but Mazinger is more recognizable to the point it gets more funded stuff than Getter.

I was thinking about this when I was watching Mazinkaiser, and I can’t confirm this but I found it interesting that it almost (felt) like this ova spawned out of Getter making a comeback before Mazinger did, since Armageddon came before and was massive hit, than was followed up with a game + shin vs neo by the time Mazinkaiser was made. Like they even got Armas art director to work on it and the studio doing it was Brains Base who made the getter OVAs.

And in terms of recently all the stuff with Grendizer, which I know was SUPPOSED to get another an anime way before this, is now finally getting something coincidentally after Getter Robo Arc. And everyone is already pointing out between the two Grendizer looks waaay better then Arc so it’s clear it has more money put into it, yet I wonder if Arc didn’t happen if they would bother to touch Grendizer since Arc was them also finally giving the Getter team who NEVER got to be in a anime- well, a anime. And now the most neglected pilot apart of Mazingers universe is getting his own show.

I understand why Mazinger is more known and funded since it was the first self piloted mecha and something Go Nagai, a man who arguably changed the industry a lot, made so his works are always gonna be rebooted for the sake of memory, where as Getter sorta lives in Nagai’s shadow sadly even if Ishikawa memory is respected, but I feel like almost Getter is the one to test if things will work and then they’ll see if they can do stuff with Mazinger again.

Or maybe it’s just two coincidences and we’re just going through a long coming mecha renaissance of older properties of the genre, but I’m still rotating it heavily.

[greaseonmymouth]

I’m meeting my D&D group on Sunday for session 0 and I still have NO IDEA what I’m doing and filling out this character sheet is TOO complicated goddamn

[bokatan]

2. "this was a mistake"

[ send me a number and I’ll write a micro story using the word or phrase ] @fuzzydreamin

This was a mistake.

The ancient terminal had taken its sweet time copying everything over to the holotape and Reed knew he was out of time. Fuck, this was a huge mistake. He’d barely gotten the holotape out of the terminal and into a pocket before he heard footsteps approach outside the quarters, followed by the door’s hinges creaking and a heavy metallic click as the door was shut. He quickly composed himself for what he knew was going to be a tense situation.

“You’d better have a good reason to be here without permission, Paladin.”

“I need to discuss a confidential matter with you, sir. Off the record.” Reed replied promptly.

Maxson shot an odd look at him before shrugging his coat off and setting it down on the table in front of the door. “Go on.”

Reed quickly covered the few steps between them. His impassive green eyes met the Elder’s and held contact for a few seconds, until the younger man cocked an eyebrow; a silent challenge that he’d been looking for. Reed smirked and dropped to his knees.

He was so, so incredibly grateful that someone had made the brilliant decision to put a tightly wound 20 year old in charge of an army.

[pallases]

fun news everyone i abandoned the assignment i was working on (bad) but i also started and finished everything due tuesday which means all of my focus tmrw can be on abandoned assignment (good)

[dramaphan]

am I the only queer person who’s uncomfortable with how Dan talked about ‘the straight experience’ and simultaneously seemed to imply things about the gay experience? idk, might be reading into this, but not all straights sleep around a lot (in fact, getting into a long term relationship at 18, Dan, is a very straight thing to do, I can introduce you to my heterosexual friends who started dating at 16, married at 20 and now have kids lmao), neither do all queer people, we are not all closeted until we are 28, etc.

Also think sometimes he needs to acknowledge that his experience is just that - HIS experience. He’s not some sort of voice for all of us. He’d need to unpack some of his internalised homophobia first please. It’s fine that he wants to sleep around after having probably been in a committed relationship for that long - I kinda struggle how exactly this is connected to him being gay though especially because he’s been in a gay relationship, it’s not like he just came out after being married to a woman.

I’ve always found it kind of fascinating how Dan and Phil are SO different in the way they seem to view their sexuality. Like, for Phil it just seems like A Fun Fact about him that doesn’t hold a ton of weight, if that makes sense? Like I know he talked about how he’s had to come out a million times to a million people over the years and he’s been out personally for a long time so for him it just seems like old news and you can tell he’s just a lot more comfortable with himself than Dan is. But Dan is still kind of a baby gay who just came out for the first time in his 30 years so he’s not at that point where it’s like, a comfortable part of his identity yet? Maybe? Like he still leans pretty heavily into the stereotypes and he’s still being pretty experimental with things and seeks Approval from The Community and like go off babe but also when he does interviews about it, it does sort of give Baby Runs for President.

I’m curious to see if Dan levels out after a few years or if he really is going to be uncomfortably fake slutty forever.

[robertsbarbie]

i understand venting without wanting solutions but sometimes there NEEDS to be solutions and you NEED to accept help otherwise you life is always gonna be fucking miserable

[pepprs]

my mom isn’t letting my dad go back to his office bc him being out of the house stresses her out and makes her have a flare up and it’s like kind of insane. like i understand why the idea of him doing that would make her panicky and angry as someone who also struggles w separation anxiety and abandonment shit / has physical symptoms from that kind of stress (though not to the same degree ofc) but also he is a grown man. he should be allowed to go to his office and not have to shape his entire life around her needs. and she keeps guilt tripping him out of it and it’s impacting his quality of life a lot and the whole thing is kind of… hm

[overbearingstruggles]

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[waywardsalt]

Hi! What do you think of Linebeck’s manga counterpart compared to his game counterpart? Is it about the same or do you feel different about them? Any sort of thoughts opinions and interpretations about his manga and or game counterparts?

Hi! Thanks for the ask!

I had to dig up and reread my Phantom Hourglass manga for this since I haven’t actually read it in a while, which I guess already reveals some of my opinions about it.

Off the bat, I feel differently about manga Linebeck than game Linebeck; I like the game’s version of him better, and I’ll go ahead and say that it’s probably because the manga cut out pretty much over half of the game’s plot, which severely limits a lot of stuff in the manga, as well as trashing the majority of Linebeck’s original arc and therefore making his manga arc feel very abrupt to me.

So, in terms of how the manga version feels in comparison to the game version… overall a bit lackluster compared to the game? Mainly due to the fact that half of the plot was cut, so you lose the letter, the slower changes seen through dialogue, as well as losing the two sea monster battles. The fact that the manga cuts from the ghost ship right into the Bellum fight is mainly what kills his arc a bit, since he more or less start and ends in the same places as the game’s versions, but in the manga you lose most of the build-up to that change. It also suggests the idea that he actually had less development than in the game, due to losing the letter bit and cutting out a lot of the time he had to change in the game. You lose some of the smaller details.

In general, I’m not a big fan of what the manga did with Phantom Hourglass’s overall plot, and this even extends to how they presented the final boss, too, even though a lot of people like this interpretation. I do like this play on the final boss, but it feels like it just… lost what extra impact it could have had due to the plot getting shuffled around. Placing the bellumbeck fight before the fight against just Bellum just feels… wrong. In the game, the bellumbeck fight being the last thing gives it more impact and leaves Linebeck’s possible fate a bit murkier (if you don’t know what happens, of course), and I actually dislike how this shuffling of events erases a) the ghost ship battle and b) Linebeck using the phantom sword to protect link. Obviously, these have their manga parallels (Linebeck helping fight Bellum in the end; his waking up during the bellumbeck battle and that ensuing bit), but I feel like the game’s version of events do more to support his development and make it feel more meaningful.

So, my general feeling about manga Linebeck compared to game Linebeck is essentially that the manga version kinda got shafted by the story cuts and shuffling of events.

Aside from problems caused by the pacing of the manga (this thing is at breakneck speed it’s been a while since I read it and man that’s fast pacing), in terms of his actual characterization, he’s also a bit different from the game. A lot of his traits are exaggerated throughout, which has its ups and downs.

I’m just going to go through the negatives before going through what I like; I’m not really a fan of how… over-the-top and cartoonish he comes off at times. Even in the game he doesn’t really come off like that, and with some of the turns the manga takes, it makes it a little harder to pinpoint exactly what his deal is. He’s definitely treated as a joke for a majority of the manga, and he generally comes of as incompetent at points, too. It’s a little harder to track his character development since, due to story cuts and pacing, it comes about faster and with little visible warning. Overall, he’s a bit shallower in the manga, though mostly due to axing the part of the story where the majority of his character development happens.

I don’t hate this characterization, though. There are a few small details- usually things either unique to the manga or other things not really even touched in fan media- that I really like. Number one on that list is the visual detail of him sticking out his bottom lip at lot. It’s so fucking good and fits him perfectly it’s so childish and I could absolutely see him doing that within the context of the game’s plot.

I also love how awful he is in the manga. I love it when he’s genuinely terrible and morally dubious. There isn’t much of a ‘oh he’s actually good at heart’ thing going on until later and it’s great. I personally love characterizations of Linebeck where he’s genuinely kind of awful on purpose. He borders on antagonistic a few times and it’s great.

In terms of deeper interpretations… I’m not at invested in the manga, so there isn’t much, so I’ll compare notes with my game interpretation. Linebeck in the manga doesn’t give me the same general vibes as Linebeck in the game; he seems more comfortable talking to people, less affected by Ciela (less negatively affected, that is; meaning that in the manga she actually helps him towards his development, while in the game she seems to make it a bit harder for him), and there’s less evidence of autistic traits or stuff like that. I’m pretty sure that plenty of people have psychologically picked apart manga Linebeck, so I’m not really going to touch on that beyond he’s definitely got some issues, though different issues than his game counterpart, in my eyes.