#how many slates are there

[svtskneecaps]

grrrrrrrr i have more inane zelda lore questions

[skunkes]

[secretarysong]

so much Mayday stuff (& a smidgeon of Vinyl City worldbuilding) in my head. ooouugghh. wrote this at 12am last night and i'm not the best at articulating my thoughts so forgive me as this wooonnt be the most polished. this is likee a mini conglomeration of personal headcanons and a bit of analysis (reading too far into things) ... i just wanna talk about her REEEAALLL BAAADDDD

i've always thought of Mayday as someone so deeply intertwined with Vinyl City (specifically the working-class & lower-class areas; the 'little guys') that her dream of becoming a big famous rockstar also stems from a desire for agency/power. power to be able to do SOMETHING in the name of her communities after personally living through, like, 2 decades of neglect—condemned by NSR to live in the shadow of the more tourist-oriented/commercial/profitable parts of the city—even if it means rising to charterhood under the same stupid record label that's the source of all her problems in the first place ...

i also like to believe this, in tandem with her rumbustious nature, is why Mayday IMMEDIATELY switches to aggression (dare i call it a TV meltdown...?) following her & Zuke's flames being so harshly snuffed out during the Lights Up Audition.

Mayday was probably warned beforehand by the adults around her about the EDM bias. i think she ignored/dismissed every warning/dissuasion because she believed in herself and her ability and her principles too unshakably for her own good. and then for the judges (particularly Tatiana) to unanimously strike her dream down like that, thus proving their warnings right & her hard work (and ignorance) in vain... FURY!!!! (Mayday is NOT the best at taking losses with grace)

and then the banning of Rock from the Lights Up Audition happens. and then the subsequent blackout and diversion of energy happens. and seeing the extent of what happens across the city with her own eyes from atop the ledge (after being limited to her own ground-level experiences on the outside, looking inward) is what finally tips her over the edge and into the vat of a full-blown revolution.

semi-related, but i also view Mayday's hatred towards EDM as. like. a general prejudice. it goes a bit deeper than just Not liking the sound/style; she associates it with NSR, and therefore links it with everything wrong with Vinyl City. rock music, a dying art in the era being upheld by her tightly-knit community, untouched by NSR, to her is authenticity.

she also loathes the "Order leads to progress in Vinyl City." slogan because, to her, order means complacency... and complacency has done shit all for anyone she knows. ("If chaos is what is needed to get things done around here, so be it!")

i know i'm kind of bouncing back to the second paragraph but. like. there's just something so dear to me about the idea of a Mayday whose a roving city girl from off the streets... armed with her guitar, her passion, and her support system, doing everything she can to prevent rock—her home—from becoming irrelevant. always chasing a fantasy about being something bigger than herself. even if the odds are stacked against her. even if Mayday's own impetuosity is a double-edged sword that impedes her just as much as it enables her.

to me she's. like. a melting pot of ambition and stubbornness and righteousness and naievite. Mayday girl i love you SOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOO MUCH ideally i would put this all into a legitimate form of writing like a backstory fic or something but gah i don't even know where to START

[bombyxluna]

Look, I love unhinged doctor Evan who’s sadistic and clinical and quiet and weirdo and a scientist through and through

But I also love messy, lowlife Evan who loves to smoke with his friends and is a bit more talkative and maybe somewhat pissy, likes to pick fights sometimes, and is still a weirdo (in a different way), has some wild kinks and strange moral codes only he (and Barty probably) knows and is more lively and more carefree bc again, he’s messy

And I also like him being somewhere in between.

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Everyone arguing about Stannis, JonCon, Jaime, god forbid Jorah being the 1000th commander of the NW….when it will be Jon again 🌚

[moondirti]

If i started a lil comic series of random moments between miguel and wraith that don’t make it into the main fic, would y’all be interested

[smilesrobotlover]

Sometimes when I’m writing my lbl au I get nervous and self conscious about how the different Link’s are written and I’m afraid that people won’t like it, but then I remember that it’s my au and I shouldn’t care what other people think and that they can suck it

[miscellanekas]

And here's the rest, this time for @bonus-links

same process as what was described in this post

[atomi-cat]

Still trying to go through both recent and old messages. Apologies for going through my inbox at a snail’s pace XD;

[quietwingsinthesky]

i’m saying i don’t understand the desire to be In A Relationship when you aren’t even imagining a someone to be in that relationship with. that feels like it defeats the purpose, like the same desire as Wanting A Child without actually imagining what that child will be like or require. just filling out a checkbox.

[demonsfate]

can't even look at bloodline jin seriously since day 1 ever since i binged watched it with my brother on release and he griped "why does he keep opening his mouth like that? is he waiting for a cock to suck?"

[unopenablebox]

i guess it's still technically possible that the person who told me that most of our uni/on leadership are members of the psl was wrong and it's actually only some of them. but also. jesus fucking christ are you kidding me

[merriclo]

i need more content of Wild being the resident “i’ve got you” girl. mf has everything you could ever even think of needing either on him or in his slate.

Four needs to measure something and Wild is right there with a measuring tape in hand.

Legend gets a hole in his hat and oh hey Wild has a sewing kit! Vet asks him if he knows how/likes to sew. the answer is no.

one day he pulls a harmonica or something out of his pocket to solve a puzzle bc loz puzzles are just like that and the entire chain can’t even be shocked bc of course he has a fucking harmonica. of course he does.

[friend-bear]

i sent in an audition for a movie last night !! it would be my first credited speaking role in a feature film i really hope i get it 🤞🤞

[phoenixcatch7]

Man I am just SO CONFUSED. About the time line of this game.

No one is telling me how long links been gone! Or how long the botw-totk timeskip was! They all just started selling my stuff again lol. I'm going to have to get everything redyed!

Me: hey random stranger! Lore dump? You look like a lore dumper.

Kindly npc: why hullo there, link ^^! My, I haven't seen you in a while since the calamity ended! I was so worried when they said you and the princess had gone missing! But it's good to see you're well.

Me: aw, thanks. How long has it actually been tho.

Kindly npc: ^u^

[slightlytoastedbagel]

Please don't tell me people are actually surprised Kohane 5 is a good event what happened to the whole "I love Sekai's writing" crowd. What happened to actually fucking enjoying this game.

What happened to stop fucking complaining about everything before knowing the full context because even the people who started saying that are now.