#i don't hate this game

[muffinrag]

i hate that replaying missions in rdr2 always puts arthur in a default outfit with the ugliest possible facial hair known to man. my cat sat on my fucking keyboard and skipped a cutscene and the last time i saved was three missions ago, which means if i want to record the cutscene with a customized arthur i have to fucking replay 2 hours. autosave feature is fucking ass i hate this game

[deep-space-lines]

IT'S FINALLY FUCKING DONE. I'M FINALLY FREE

UNTIL FRAUD COMES OUT

Tumblr shrinks it down pretty bad so please. please. I am begging you. look at the full sized image and zoom in. This art piece made my friends worried for my mental health I need someone to witness the amount of detail and effort I put into this

also the original sketch under the cut bc I think comparing them is really funny

[zosanbrainrot]

part 2 of Zoro in WCI

01 02 03 04 05 06

I tried to write something to sum up my thoughts on this, but then it got longer and longer and tbh I'm itching to write a fic set in this AU djjdkf I think I could develop on their inner feelings more than in the comic form

Before posting the first part I didn't realize people had such strong opinions on how this would play out lmaooo

imo, of course Zoro wants to fight Sanji, not with actual intent to harm (they threaten each other on the daily, come on), but because that's how they are together, how they communicate. He respects Luffy's decisions and their goal here, which is to learn what's really going on with Sanji, but he's gonna be pissy about it all he wants. They both have so many intense and conflicted feelings about this and neither has any idea how to resolve them. So they fight.

ofc yall are free to headcanon this interaction any other way you want <333

[shinynewmemories]

Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.

Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!

Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.

And who is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!

To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.

Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".

[rainbowd00dles]

oh to be stuck between your two partners that are significantly taller than you, that have to crouch to give you smooches.

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[neon-lights-stardust-nights]

Tell me about your first playthrough (or watch through) of persona 5

Oh god, Persona 5 was weird.

I played it maybe up until Futaba's palace. I grappled with the idea of health as a currency to perform attacks, and then got really good at the battle system way quicker than I expected. So, I abandoned the game to binge what came before!

I played Nocturne, I played a fan translation of the first SMT, I started a play through of P2 fan translated on the PS1... And then I remembered somewhere while playing Persona 3!

I never beat Persona 5.

I struggled an awful lot on Kamoshida my first play through. 3 days of on again, off again attempts. I came back though with even more experience and honed skills than I came in, and honestly? It felt too easy. I started a second play through on the hardest difficulty: I still couldn't really cut my teeth on it. It felt like (by quitting for a while to find out about all this stuff everyone else said was harder) I had sharpened my claws a little too much.

It didn't help I am not easily invested in social sims. I will only really talk to characters that strike a chord with me, and disregard basically everyone else. You can't date guys in Persona 5, so I just spent Valentine's with Ryuji. I maxed out Yusuke, I maxed out Ryuji, I talked to a few of the adults like Sojiro... I came around a little on Haru, but she's like a daughter to me. So I never pursued the romance route.

I guess that's being aplatonic though. I am disinterested in all but the relationships I have a better frame of reference for, with few exceptions. Higurashi actually kind of sold me on the idea friendship isn't just something alloplatonic people made up, and that frame of reference has been helpful to my DND character (since he is, demonstrably, alloplatonic.)

Oh and I fucking hate Morgana. Congratulations Persona 5: you made me hate a cat. No other media managed before. Hats off to you, only Persona has managed to make characters annoying enough that they even grate my nerves. (Chie and Teddy also go up there from Persona 4. Do not ask me about Persona 4 unless you want to hear how much I hate it, please and thank.)

First playthrough, I'm in Kamoshida's palace, I was like... Awww, he's not that bad! By fucking Futaba's palace I was just like ON GOD SHUT UP OR I WILL TURN YOU INTO A LARGELY UNETHICAL COAT.

Oh and Maruki wasn't a thing yet, because Royal didn't exist.

I don't talk about it much, but my main F/O and dream date was Yusuke. Still... Def would date him if the game let me, and I wasn't playing Royal (thus, Maruki isn't an option.)

Oh and the game lets you fuck your teacher, so while I didn't do it, my step dad and I giggled like middle schoolers over it on his first play through instead.

I also really hated Akechi for like 80% of my play through. And then somewhere in that last 20%, he became a kismesis to fill my Persona 5 black quadrant. I really ought to give him a tag and write some of him and Maruki soon...

Also don't ask me what separates bad hate from sexy hate, I am not even 110% on it myself. All I know is that Akechi and Varre fill me with the most gleeful malice, but Morgana makes me want to commit atrocities out of like. Bad rage.

[asparklethatisblue]

House Tully, and the fate of the three children of Hoster Tully after the War of the Five Kings

[danandphag]

this is genuinely the funniest thing i've ever seen

[radiant--as-the--sun]

do people really just wanna be fans of the hunger games and not mention palestine at all? like honestly? do you really wanna just support fictional uprisings and fighting back against fictional oppression but don't actually give a shit about it in real life? did y'all genuinely learn and internalize nothing from this series????

[molsno]

"They hate us! They'll never be happy in a universe where you're happy too. So let's run! If they don't want us to be part of humanity, we don't need their cradle either!"

[speakergame]

Progress Report - 4/29/24

hello and happy birthday!

...is how this was going to start when I intended to post it this past Friday. But I spent my birthday as a side character in the hit 1996 movie Twister. By which I mean there was a really big tornadoful storm here, the likes of which I've never seen before. It's never a fun time when the words "historic" and "record-breaking" are involved.

But anyway! My birthday was a few days ago, and to celebrate I have a slightly belated gift for all of you!

A release date

That's right, we're back in business here in Speakerland 😁 I'm so relieved to finally return to some semblance of normalcy, and I'm very hopeful that I'll be able to get back to doing regular monthly updates again.

As for this one, the update will be going up on Patreon TONIGHT! I'll be uploading that momentarily, in fact. That means that, barring any strange game-breaking bugs or overly tangled code, the update will be out for public release on Tuesday, May 7th!

I just want to thank everyone one more time for your patience, and for all the messages of support 💙 it really does mean the world to me.

I think that's it for this time! I hope you all have a fantastic week with only mild-to-moderate tornadoes, and I'll see you all next week! 💙💙🌪️💙

[luna-loveboop]

If you ask the chain for their worst/ most annoying enemy

Time: redheads- I mean Redeads

Twilight: *stifling a laugh* Shadow beasts

Four: *deadpan* Gibdos

Legend: *can't think of anything challenging* I'm gonna say, umm... *shoots a teasing glance at Sky* Sleep

Wild: definitely Guardians

Sky: Demon lords with long tongues

Hyrule: *looks at Sky* not even gonna ask about that one, but Octorocks. They're everywhere in my world

Wind: I was gonna say Octorock too! But specifically Big Octo, those are the worst

Warriors: ...

Warriors: SO WHAT AM I THE ONLY ONE WHOS GONNA SAY GANON

[gardenofskeletonss]

Anger

[blighted-elf]

Palia - Reth romance 1/?

[mellarked-katnisseverdeen]

I think people miss out on so much of Everlark with the modern way we see romance, ngl.

The softness, the gentleness, the peace they have around one another IS the passion. That is the excitement! And it remains even with the feelings change and morph as all feelings and emotions do. There should be something so thoroughly thrilling finding someone who even when they don't make you happy (because no human being on earth is gonna make you happy all the time), their happyness makes brings you joy. And what that builds is the bond between you is such an adventure.

That is why Katniss is never board or lacking in excitement with Peeta around. He brings out her creative side, her fun and soft side- ya know. The side of her that exsists when she isn't having to fight for her life or work to bring in the next meal day to day. The side of her she WANTS the freedom to explore.

It beats out this hyper emotional, volatile all consuming passion based on nothing other than feelings and emotions ANYDAY. At least in my eyes.