#industry doesnt

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[niccoguedes]

A REZA

[eaissilyy]

Golden Lineage brothers (-Minus Mohg because he’s an independent man who prefers to call himself the lord of his own right) fishing trip be like:

(Godwyn is fully on board with this. They sent the pics to Godfrey who’s hiking in the most random ass place ever and has no connection until next month. Godwyn also sent the pic to Godrick who posted on private account ‘why am I NOT invited’ it’s because Morgott hates his lazy ass and Mohg has an unknown beef with his nephew.)

I LOVE GODWYN AS A LOVELY BROTHER but I believe given the opportunity Mohg would annoy him so much bye ✋✋

[chrliekclly]

i do not control th art my brain focuses on nd this came to me on a walk

[ants-personal]

benson the type of person to never know if hes colorblind or allergic to certain things cause hes isolated himself so much and his ma constantly tells me he isnt and then one day with randy he asks why people eat mangos if all they do is make your throat itch or he gets into an argument with randy about the color of pen hes writing on the map with randy tells him its red but benson insists its black all his pens are black why would he use a red pen and randy sits there flabbergasted that benson has survived this long when he was basically at the doctors for any small cough

[ajastu]

there's a lot of posts in the DA tag criticizing veilguard, and like. Barring the fact that most of those feel like they're really not thought out OR they are not made in good faith...which is a whole another topic on its own...

I don't think that even if it WAS a bad game (which, it really is not), i personally could ever go on a criticism crusade against it. Just because of how...important it is, in regards to representation in these sorts of rpg games. The options it made available re: character creation.

Like, hear me out. I love Origins. I've replayed origins a million times. A lot of those times, i had to ignore large parts of how the game referred to my player character bcs i thought of them as nonbinary. Because it was just. Not An Option. And it was fine, i got pretty used to it, because i literally had to do that in EVERY game that let you create a character (and irl lets be real lol). Power of imagination and all that.

And then bg3 properly came out (obligatory 'i know its not the first big game to let you choose pronouns, its just the one i experienced first' disclaimer). And it let you just. have a nonbinary character. Which was refreshing! I remember how excited i was to learn about that. But ultimately, it didn't make much difference, because it never comes up after the CC screen. (and dont get me started on the same clothes changing depending on the body type lol) And sure, being trans isn't, like, the entirety of someones lived experience, but it does still come up? Like its still pretty relevant as far as personal characteristics go. It shapes your experiences in a certain way.

All that is to say, when I saw this pop up in veilguard, i damn near lost my mind abt the Novelty of it all

Like. You can do that??? YOU CAN JUST DO THAT???? IT COMES UP IN-GAME??? YOU CAN JUST. BRING IT UP WHEN RELEVANT??? YOU CAN TALK TO ANOTHER NONBINARY PERSON ABOUT IT, EVEN????

Suddenly, i no longer had to run a constant filter in my head. My character was just allowed to exist in the way i imagined them. And i did not think i needed that, but, hey. Turns out, its really nice being pandered to, sometimes <3

'oh but its worded so awkwardly-' i cannot express how much i don't care about that

'but its bad representation because it doesn't capture every trans experience at once' first of all bad take, second of all it gotta start Somewhere.

This is not something I would want to pick apart. Could I? Sure. But that is not the point here. It doesn't need to be perfect to be important. ESPECIALLY with the way things are right now. And hey, that said, it's still pretty damn good as far as these things go! like its not even bad!! it really isnt!!!

Point is, veilguard set a new standard for character creation in AAA games, for me personally. Now that I know what it's like, any new game of this type that comes out and doesn't take the same care in it's approach will be lacking. It's something so simple, in retrospect, and it's kind of incredible it took This Long to get there. But we did get here!! Veilguard got here, despite the development hell and EA handling it all in the worst way possible both pre n after release. And that is why datv will forever have a special place in my heart <3

TLDR VEILGUARD THEY CAN NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU

[miss-mossball]

Memory Manipulation

[piplupcola]

Writers trying to convince Disney execs not to cancel Nimona, Owl House, and many other IPs:

It's almost laughable how ironic this scene is with what a dumpster fire Wish turned out to be

[bmpmp3]

not used to this kind of mascot

[cankersoregirl]

I don't want you to pressure yourself too much.

DMD Friendship the Reality: It Takes Two | EP. 4

[poolboyservice]

what's your most evil, fucked up headcanon/theory about the fab killjoys? i'll go first

BLI absolutely can kill every single character off and destroy all the zones, but they don't, because they use the desert rebels as a "supply" for future draculoids. No need to train them if they know how to shoot already from the years of fighting as a person in the zones. It also partly explains why BLI doesn't constantly pursue the zones, especially since they do have enough exterminators and draculoids to overwhelm and get rid of every single character in the zones, and only seem to do so as specific intervals of the month.

that'd just be a waste of potential employees, after all.

[f0rgetf0rgetting]

oliver butcher vanity or smth

[chrliekclly]

How did you get your job on sunny? I really wanna go into the entertainment industry.

iv told th story b4 but i got onto th show bcuz i just happened to b n th right place @ th right time

was working on smthn completely different nd drunk on th camera truck during one of our wrap days me, the DIT, nd the loader wer talking abt fave tv shows nd when i said tht always sunny was mine th loaders just like "oh lol funny im the 1st AC on that. i can get u some days if u want" ???

so i...did some days...then i did a season...and now im core crew i guess

[ilynpilled]

being denied for being a jb pegging truther when we have an actual dream sequence of them naked and jaime giving her a sword, an established phallic symbol in the text, with a passage that’s verbatim: “the steel links parted like silk. “a sword,” brienne begged, and there it was, scabbard, belt, and all. She buckled it around her thick waist.” and mind you we had jaime say shit like “it was the gods who neglected to give you a cock, not me.” and “give me the sword, kingslayer.” “oh, i will.” and “a big strong peasant wench to look at her, yet she speaks like a high-born and wears long sword and dagger. ah, but can she use them? jaime meant to find out, as soon as he rid himself of these fetters.” oh ye he’ll find out alright

[fisheito]

"Eiden and his companions accidentally run their carriage into two yokai wearing "maid costumes". To take responsibility and make amends, they set off to check out a maid café located in the forest—"

Girl that's just kuya and yakumo on their way back from the island

Wait ,no. Forest...

Girl that's just kuya and garu out for a walk

[st5lker]

i guess to be real its all concerning i know i come across as an ai centrist sometimes but im not stupid its just that i find it hard to see a possible universe where this industry didn't start to exist at some point so i try to place my focus more on what can be done about it now because i dont think just ignoring it is going to be an option especially not for much longer