#i blame v for this entirely

[braisedhoney]

lil cowboy narry shenanigans bc despite everything i love him

and also this. because he is just such a silly little guy and no amount of power can stop me from picking him up like a potato sack.

[sendmyresignation]

something I've been thinking about lately. i do think it's incredibly telling that almost 80 percent of the conversations around 'gatekeeping' and 'posers' and shit end up just becoming vitriolic hatred of 'alt girls' like i hate shit spotify playlists and dollskill fake leather edge and tiktok recommendations as much as the next person but this is a very big attitude coming from a website full of people who spent their formative middle school years shopping at hot topic for multi-colored skinny jeans while listening to like. falling in reverse or 21p unironically (this is a self-own btw). first of all teenagers having shit taste isn't killing punk music. but also why is the object of your hatred always boil down to a woman faking it? as if it isn't the single oldest stereotype in heavy music? like am i insane for thinking this is an issue

[byanyan]

catch me sobbing bc I'm about to have a desk of my own for the first time since I was like 17 😭

[wonder-worker]

A.J Pollard’s biography on Edward IV was so cringe lol (generic; minor but frustrating inaccuracies; intensely judgmental at times and oddly dismissive at others while never considering the broader context; entirely diminished and trivialized Elizabeth Woodville as both queen and wife of his main subject in the name of "defending" her; created a false dichotomy between Edward and Henry VII’s styles of ruling and lauded the latter at the former’s expense even though Henry literally followed Edward’s example for the very things Pollard was criticizing Edward for; had a downright nonsensical and thoroughly misleading conclusion about Edward’s legacy & Richard’s usurpation that was based entirely on hindsight, Pollard's own assumptions, and the complete downplaying Richard’s agency and actions to emphasize what Pollard wrongly and misleadingly claimed were Edward's so-called 'failings', etc, etc)

I wanted to buy his book on Henry V but after reading this shitshow and the synopsis of that book, im guessing it's going to be 10x worse, so...no thanks

[ozlices]

idk how exactly to word this entirely but if i had one criticism of the glory it'd be that i rly wish yeo-jeong's unhingedness was leaned into more instead of making him a walking pile of the worst romance tropes.

like the moments where he gets to go a little bit apeshit are some of the best parts of the show (imo). & i REALLY wish we got more of that instead of. what we did get, u know?

idk i feel like it was a missed opportunity & for a show that deals with exploring trauma so well in its main character, i feel like her love interest & his complex trauma & the v real & complex ways he handles it were kinda sacked.

he shoulda gotten to go full out feral more

[themyscirah]

Philippus? Wym philippus this is a wholeass other woman?????? She's white?????? Guys come on now

ALSO cursed white Euboea in this same sequence.... homeboy she's Asian please stop

Joe Phillips I'm sorry but this is some shitty ass guest pencilling how can you not know anything abt what these people look like thats literally your job... you also just needed to read the issue before this to know?

Editors should have caught this one these are major Amazon characters

[viridianwins]

Oh. Never again will he be distracted by a pretty face. The cost is too high.

[iunctura-arch]

HONKAI STAR RAIL - VERSE INFO

The product of human experimentation, to bring forth a man-made Aeon. Their hopes were to force this Aeon to become the new Abundance, so that he could grant their wish of immortality and long-lasting life. However, it only ended in blood.

When he first awakened, birthed from the consciousness of the poor soul they used as fodder for this experimentation, he only knew the sadness and rage that the former owner of the body had. His first breaths were screams of anguish and agony, his first movements were to kill those who had created him.

His first years of life were in solidarity in the Xianzhou Luofu, charged with mass murder and being a Denizen of Abundance. He was considered a 'newborn', but was kept in darkness for years upon years. They waited to see if he would "become someone else", like the Vidyadhara do. They waited to see if he would perish like a Foxian would, or a Xianzhou native would.

They would wait, for countless years, until he was released. The unnamed man would be exiled from the Luofu, with a ban and told to never return. Much like they would with Dan Heng centuries later. Tossed out, he would be left adrift in the sea of stars for what felt like an eternity.

Because of his power as a manmade aeon, he did not freeze nor die while in the vacuum of space. Instead, he drifted aimlessly, fading in and out of sleep. When he woke up fully, he had been pulled onto the Astral Express and met some of Akivili's followers, the Nameless.

And, when asked for his name, he merely called himself "Nameless", as he had no name. Akivili herself would then suggest that he take up the name "Dark". Reminded of the centuries he spent without ever seeing anyone, he adopted that as his name.

For a while, until the Express' destruction, the newly-christened Dark would travel with the Nameless and observe. He would slowly but surely construct a personality of his own, taking bits and pieces of the personalities of others that they met, becoming more and more like a "person" and less like a "newborn babe".

Dark became close to Akivili and would learn many things from her. He would fall in love with her, only to be devastated when he found she had died due to Aha's actions.

The rage he felt triggered his awakening as the Aeon of Destruction. If it weren't for the love he held in his heart for Akivili and the Trailblaze, Dark would have fully lost himself when he ascended. Instead, he would send Aha a warning before disappearing himself.

Unfortunately, he was the reason most of the star tracks had been destroyed, his awakening having meant that he had little control over what he destroyed as a warning. It was a complete accident, one he feels immense guilt over.

For years, as the Destruction, Dark would hear the calls and praises of his "worshippers". Those who walked the Path of Destruction, those who wanted to one day become him. Drifting aimlessly through space, with no destination in mind, he would listen to the cacophony of voices that had started the day he had become the Aeon of Destruction.

They called him Nanook. They gave him a name that wasn't his own, wasn't the name Akivili had given him. Wasn't what he had been called by those that followed the path of the Trailblaze. Growing tired and feeling sad from the loss of Akivili, Dark would go back to sleep and dream of the years he spent with Akivili and her Nameless.

Until he woke up, on a familiar train, having been pulled onboard by Himeko and Welt Yang, long before Dan Heng and March 7th became a part of the crew. As the Astral Express crew grew, so too did Dark's fear of losing them.

And then, one day, he felt the presence of Akivili once more and the power of the Trailblaze grow stronger. Not long after, he would meet Akivili once again.

But she did not remember who he was. With a sad smile on his face, he would reintroduce himself to her and watch as she integrated with the Astral Express crew, her followers.

Thus, he watches over her and those who walk the path of the Trailblaze, never forgetting the kindness and love Akivili once showed him.

[softavasilva]

just when we were gonna get mutual pining leatin the show gets fucking cancelled i hate it here

[constantvariations]

Thinking about Adam being Remnant's Nat Turner and getting goosebumps

[mundanemiseries]

quietly giggling to himself about a Moa named "Cheddy Chazbear"

[nikosliberty]

also no offense but FUCK people who say that using cheats means you didn't play the videogame right. especially old games like do you genuinely expect me to do a 100% clean playthrough of a game that has no mission replays (meaning if i die in a mission i have to DRIVE TO THE MISSION MARKER AND REDO THE ENTIRE FUCKING THING AGAIN) yeah no.

[palms-upturned]

I see, thank you for explaining! I think Kanae's feelings of dislike are understandable because she's definitely tried her hardest to love Anthy and it must be upsetting having a woman you're supposed to get along with and love hate you for reasons you have no idea about. The fact that Kanae wasn't raised to deal with her dislike of others properly and recognize her negative feelings are valid doesn't help either.

Hmm well I think that’s ultimately one of the things that the show is trying to say about these sorts of situations. Neither Kanae nor Anthy are the villains in this scenario, and both their negative feelings toward each other are understandable in context. Akio is the villain because he has a broader perspective (and just generally more power) than the two of them, but chooses to use that against them and engineer scenarios in which he can turn them against each other.

[vinkumakkara]

srtt’s answer to gabtoss homoeroticism was at one point to have the main plot of the game focus around a romance between Boss and Johnny... but it would’ve been strictly heterosexual depending on Boss’ gender. if Boss was a dude they would’ve only been allowed to fuck Shaundi instead. lol

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

i think i hate the walking dead game fandom

[toastsnaffler]

damn I rly have another 4 weeks of holiday this year huh. I should start making some plans