#flaw in my code

[sweetlymorose]

Most say she's...

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[zetsubobu]

Listened to halsey a lot, now I'm thinking about book 6

[dewwshi]

i liked the sparring scene from the start of siege of darkness a normal amount

[theartistonthemoon]

Why Dc keeps up the whole “Batman vs Joker” thing when they have a perfectly good “Blackbat vs Redhood” potential is beyond me

[scurvyboy]

wait were you serious about not liking gay people

[snivyartjpeg]

ooma from purse owner 5

[petrichara]

They say an event starts at 18:30 but they don’t arrive at this time, they arrive after. You become the early bird for doing what they say to do. You learn that this punctuality is not typical, and try, just once, to follow the observed social convention. On the dot, you arrive ten minutes after the listed start time: 18:40. Except this is the one occurrence in history that everyone arrived on time. You are not entering in an appropriate window of time, you are now late and everyone is looking at you.

[kingsmel]

I think half of “jackie taylor is mean” is just things she didn’t notice she did/said because she was a popular girl in her golden years. the other half it’s just some justification for the way they treated her so it’s less horrible the way she died.

[crab-people-overlord]

okay but can we talk about 'Mystery of the Urinal Deuce' because this episode is literally EVERYTHING when it comes to Stan and Kyle's friendship. Marsh is playing dumb the whole episode and Kyle is losing his goddamn mind over it. The betrayal. The DRAMA.

Stan in this scene knows damn well that everything is a conspiracy (he admits as much later in the episode and knows that Kyle thinks the same thing). And Kyle knows damn well that Stan out of everyone should also know this, because Stan is the one person he can usually count on to back him up on this type of shit. But Stan is the one messing with him in this episode, so we get these fun moments of Stan letting loose and enjoying pranking his friend Kyle. 

Many see the Assburger's duology as the establishment and turning point of Stan’s character. And while it certainly establishes his clinical depression, I’d argue it in no way establishes either his tendency towards depression/melancholy OR cynicism as both of those have always been present from the beginning (but that’s another discussion for another day. I already basically wrote an essay on that a longgg time ago that maybe I’ll share later).

When it comes to a true  ‘turning point’ for Stan’s character, I think of ‘Raisin’s’ ‘from Season 7, which expands on his already present tendency towards sensitivity and annoyances with general society and evolves it into a deep melancholy and detachment from society (at times bordering on nihilism, something we see more of from Stan post Season 7’s ‘Raisins’ such as in the ‘Douche and Turd’ episode in Season 8 and many other episodes). I don’t see the ‘You’re Getting Old’ episode as the turning point for Stan’s character at all. I see it more as an extension of what I actually view as his turning point episode of ‘Raisin’s’. 

What I love about ‘Mystery of the Urinal Deuce’ is it is a post ‘Raisin’s’ episode where Stan just gets to play around, which is sadly something we just don’t see from Stan post-season 7 as often. 

Kyle has always been the easiest target for Cartman not even necessarily because of his traits, but because of his reactions. He is super reactive to everything, and Stan knows this. Unlike Cartman, Stan respects this and usually stands up for Kyle when this aspect of him is taken advantage of. But at the same time, this doesn’t mean that Stan doesn’t like to tease Kyle at times - because let’s be real; Kyle’s high reactivity would make it so fun to mess with him. And in this episode, Stan takes advantage of that. 

And while usually I hate people taking advantage of Kyle in this way, it is so goddamn refreshing to see Stan just being able to let go of all the heavy shit that’s been so key to his character emotionally post-Season 7 and just play around with his bestie in this episode, something I think that at the core of his character he ultimately just wants to be able to do at the end of the day. you can TASTE the shit-eating grin in his voice. he is having the TIME OF HIS LIFE watching Kyle spiral. stan tries so GODDAMN hard to find happiness throughout the series to no avail, so it’s refreshing the times he succeeds and gets to just actually be himself.

Later on in the episode, Stan is also just able to let loose. His ‘Well dude, maybe we’re just badass, have you ever thought of that?’ later on in the episode is said so nonchalantly with him literally smirking, and it cracks me up every time as he tries to appease Kyle’s doubts. He is thoroughly enjoying pranking his friend. 

like yes give me more of this next season?? give me more of stan actually getting to be a kid and mess around with his best friend instead of drowning in existential dread 24/7? please and thank you?

[austajunk]

I feel a bit weird with this opinion because I think about it a lot. It's odd, because I do love Danganronpa a lot and it's my favorite of the things Kazutaka Kodaka's hand print is on. I love love love the series to bits, but I also have to admit that it is highly up in the air for the first two games and the anime whether or not the status quo has really shifted.

I don't want to say that it hasn't because Makoto and Hajime both fight to keep living and to continue to pursue Hope for their respective futures. HOWEVER, Hope's Peak Academy is still rebuilt and that feels like a big blunder on the story. It makes me think that perhaps we were better off without the anime and leaving things up in the air after SDR2 and the revelations of UDG.

It's a bummer... but that's why Rain Code honestly makes me so happy as a game. Whereas DR may have fallen off a little bit with its theme and messaging, Rain Code actually has its characters push past the status quo of an abusive system.

Yuma, the main character, instead of seeing no choice but to kill his Homonculus, Makoto Kagutsuchi or vice versa, instead talks to him about telling the entire population of Kanai Ward the truth about their circumstances and to let them decide what to make of it. They decide to believe in the people of the city that Makoto loves and fought to protect and let them choose what to do next as the World around them has isolated and cut them off (and probably would want them killed).

By the end of the story, everything has changed. Yomi and his abusive structure is defeated, his former partner asserts that criminals must have the rights of human beings, Kanai Ward chooses to keep Makoto watching over them and to essentially become something of a democracy. And the first Homonculus, Kurumi Wendy, with precautions from Makoto looking out for her, leaves Kanai Ward on her own to search for Yuma.

In DR, you have to search and pick apart the things that have changed in characters and the world, and some of that is quite clumsy or forgotten.

But with Rain Code, so much has changed. From characters to Kanai Ward to beliefs and trust in others as a whole. The world was proven to be capable of change because there was a person (Number One) who wanted people to be happy and for it to be so.

That's good storytelling. The quality of Kodaka's work is really, steadily improving.

[thousandyearphantombunker]

CW: I'm mean here about shows and stuff people like

syndrome from incredibles, Thanos in the comics, mad hatter from Batman, tighten from Megamind, frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, Red Hulk, parasite from superman and Ozai all of these villains are pathetic but they work for some reason I cannot place. A lot of stories try and write villains that are pathetic but also scary and it doesn't work- I love Starscream he can be an amazing character (he can be sympathetic or a straight up monster he can be lame but still threatening etc) and I like most versions but God can writers screw him up and he can fall flat (i love tfp i swear but god i hate their starscream! He just didn't work for me! Megatron and knockout are cool tho) Belos for some reason doesn't work for me at all- I know he should be scary while the fandom is wrong about him being a colonizer/cult leader/a dictator (he's not stop using words you dont understand the meaning of)and how insane it is that he's in a kids show (watch more cartoons there's villains darker than him) he's still trying to commit genocide and he's abusive and he's at his core got very little depth or complexity- he's really just an isekai character gone wrong- a pathetic guy with a hero complex and emotional baggage who becomes a villain- but he just didn't work for me. Neither does Jacob Hopkins- he's just Ronaldo from SU if he was written to be a straight up hate sink. I'm a lesbian latina with autism and was raised with a different sect of christan beliefs from him- I know historically this guy would have murdered me and i know he should work but something about him didn't stick the landing! The main thing I think about with belos isn't 'wow this guy is a great villain' it's 'can y'all stop being weirdly ableist toward this old man' or 'why do so many of y'all wanna fuck this man he's ugly' and dont get me started on mcu villains - their version of the mandarin, she-hulk's dumb men rights activists on reddit (seriously that's the scariest villain you can come up with? Like revenge porn is evil but really? I don't like the term man-baby- I have personal issues with how the term has been used in ableist ways- but yeah erm man babies on reddit are the best you can do for a villain? That's freaking stupid) and OMG Sutur in Ragnarok was terrible etc etc- these villains all suck!

How do you write villains that are pathetic but still work? How do write villains who are at their core whiny insecure losers but still work as detestable threatening villains? Like marvel made a character whose whole thing was that he's an incel work but so many other stories fail to write that stuff. Part of me thinks it's because these stories are desperate to make their villain into a hate sink joke but still make them scary and it fails but Tighten and Red Hulk are right there and there's no way the writers weren't purposely writing hate sinks with them! And they work! Why doesn't belos?

[rathologic]

I've always found Alexander Saburov interesting, especially P1 Rubin's take on him where he tells how Alexander in incognito saved people from burning house and went unrecognized for the deed (nor flaunted it). Wonderful and easy to miss characterization.

YES saburov's fucked up sense of performing duty by putting himself at risk... my favorite... have had thoughts brewing in response to this that aren't quite cooked enough yet but it's very much a gendered standard that he holds himself to IMO, of idealized masculinity as a responsibility. as an active role and as the way things must be done. making the choices that he thinks need to be made regardless of how bad they are for him. pairing beautifully with katerina's self-destructive attempts to conform to the extremely feminine-gendered role of mistress, pairing wonderfully with the two of them's catastrophic attempt to conform to the heteropatriarchal nuclear family archetype by adopting the changeling :^) and especially how this is a function of how saburov relates to his Job, a role that's been passed down in his family and Actually Is critical to the function of the Town, inescapably so as long as the system of rulers exists

[voidcat]

Unblocking my twins blog from this acc. If he wants to follow this blog so badly it’s on him this time. Dont come crying when you see back to back posts about how much I wanna fuck a blond man

[ad-astra-per-aspera-1389]

This is all three of the original rats, Adam, Bree, and Chase, and also Marcus. I've seen this song mentioned for a Marcus playlist before

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

i wrote a fanfic

[lookwhatyoudidithasanxiety]

Wh-

Eclipse… are you ok?

//Eclipse still doesn't lift his head from where he has it tilted down towards the floor.//

Kill Code: That is the very thing I am also most concerned about. Eclipse?

Eclipse: ....What do you want?

Kill Code: Please look up for me. I need to see your face.

Eclipse: No. *crosses his arms across the back of the chair and buries his face in them* Just go. Leave me alone.

Kill Code: I will not be doing that. *pulls the broken chair away and sits on the bed near Eclipse's chair*