It’s a bit silly but I get a bit peeved when people fail to understand the complexities of things yet still pass harsh judgements. Or when people claim to support someone but then actively go against that.
A lot of autistic support I see isn’t actually very supportive methinks. They’re supportive of the idea of us. They like the idea of special interests and stimming. It loses appeal when we act weird and get irritable and miss out on events constantly. It’s no longer a tism moment when you’re seen as a bother.
Working at a home improvement store is starting to breed a hatred for inexperienced DIY home improvement hobbyists.
They come in expect me to know everything describe their whole project to me and further expect me to sherlock homes mind palace visualize exactly what they'd need and where exactly to find it.
Like no Joe Bob I dont know the exact size nails you would need to frame your bathroom expansion, and no I dont know what size and material pipe will exactly fit on the blurry image of a sink basin you showed me.
Lukrwarm take but sometimes it's annoying how much of Good Omens fandom started woobyfing Aziraphale after the show dropped. Just an uwu soft angel. Blushing so much wating cakes uwu
Aziraphale is a bit of a bastard (enough of a bastard to be worth knowing, even). Don't pull his teeth out to fit him into the same one-dimensional fandom clichés
Same with Crowley tbh but I find it more grating with Aziraphale, the angel is s bitch sometimes and thats why he's who he is
I knowww its a part of the larger trends in fandoms in general and the fandom obsession with grumpy x sunshine one (The Wircher geraskiel shippers I'm also lookind at you) and how people like latching unto familar tropes more than 3 dimensional chatacters. But idk as someone who was in Good Omens book fandom before the 6 of the general protrayals of Aziraphale (and Crowley) portrayals, it bothers me sometimes
And hey I'm glad so many people like the show! I like it too! But I treat it as a seperate version of the characters and teh story, and its so hard to find the old Book Omens posts now, epsecially when so many Aziraohales I look at don't remind the Aziraphale I know anymore. Transformed and re transformed by fandom over and over until he doesn't resemble himself anymore
I also miss all teh wonderful fanart with so much diversity of how the characters looked like. So many fun Crowleys and Aziraphales, and now all I see are Sheen and Tennant versions. I miss seeing those other interpretation
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.
Pac: I don't know what to say- Bagi, I'm so sorry. It's not your fault, you know? We can revenge, you know? We can make a revenge.
Fit: Yeah. We'll make them pay.
Bagi: I will destroy this place, Pac. I will go back to the fcking Purgatory. I'm going to kill all of them. All of them.
Pac: I know, I know how you feel. I know words don't help much, but - We got your back, you know? [...] We're gonna revenge Empanada. We gonna make them pay.
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Pac: I don't know what to say- Bagi, I'm so sorry. It's not your fault, you know? If we- if you wanna- we can make- we can revenge, you know? We can make a revenge.
Fit: Yeah. We'll make them pay.
Bagi: I will destroy this place, Pac. I will go back to the fcking Purgatory. I'm going to kill all of them. All of them.
Pac: I know, I know- I know how you f- like, how you feel. I know words don't help much, but - We got your back, you know?
[Ramon hugs Bagi]
Pac: Yeah, a hug.
Bagi: Thank you, Ramon.
Pac: Everything's gonna be okay.
Fit: Yeah, we're in this together.
Pac: Yeah.
Bagi: I'm going to find the fcking Luffy.
Pac: How can we find him?
Bagi: We can, Pac. We can. I found him once, I will find him twice.
Pac: I'm sure you're going to find it.
Ramon: and we'll help u
Pac: Yeah. Exactly, Ramon. Anything you need.
Bagi: Thank you. [Sighs] Dammit. You know, I- I hope Cellbit is still in Purgatory and is killing all of those fckers. All of them.
Pac: No, yeah, me too... If he was here, he would- well, you know... He would also help.
Bagi: I actually hope Cellbit is still a cannibal to eat all of those fckers after killing them.
Pac: I hope too, you know, and he's probably still -
Bagi: God dammit!
Fit: Mhmm.
Pac: Yeah, no, he- We gonna- we're gonna revenge Empanada. We gonna make them pay.
Shen Jiu should make dark jokes about his time as a slave but no one gets the jokes coz everyone thinks he is a spoilt young lord from a noble family.
(Except, Yue Qingyuan. He gets it. He is currently screaming, wailing inside coz sometimes SJ is a bit too detailed JUST to make him feel even MORE guilty.)
Aziraphale didn't take the job as Supreme Archangel because he wanted to be on Heaven's side again. And he didn't do it to protect Crowley, either.
He did it because he thought it was right.
Because Aziraphale always does what he thinks is right. He has his own moral center, and he will fight tooth and nail for it. He will lie to God's face about giving away his flaming sword for it. He will defy Gabriel and all the archangels at the end of the world for it. He will risk his angelhood to protect children for it; he will risk his precious, peaceful, fragile existence to protect a forgetful archangel for it. He will let Crowley, the love of his life, go on his own to Alpha Centauri for it; and he will leave him again, alone and broken, heartsick at doing so, on Earth for it.
Because nothing, nothing is more important to Aziraphale than doing the Right Thing.
Let me just preface this by saying everyone is allowed to have their own opinions, TOTK is a really fun game, and I'm glad that other people have been able to enjoy the story as well.
...But I'm being dead serious with my complaints about the narrative being 100% imperialist propaganda. And I'm getting really tired of people replying to those posts by saying it can't be imperialist propaganda, because imperialism is bad and the game says that Hyrule is the good guys.
Like, guys. That's not the argument you think it is. Yes, I am aware that the game tells us Ganondorf is a flat, one dimensional character with no ambitions, interests or motivations beyond destroying the entire world for the hell of it, and also it's totally not racist because he's green, not brown like literally every other member of his race. Unfortunately literally all of these things are kind of the entire goddamn problem.
See, the thing is, everyone trying to make these arguments is accepting the game at face value. Hyrule is the perfect and almighty nation chosen by the demigod Zonai, and whose royal family has the right to rule due to their divine heritage. The other races exist to serve the glory of Hyrule, and they're happy to do it. Ganondorf is pure evil and must be stopped at any costs.
But that's not how anything works. The story informing me that Hyrule is the ultimate good that has done nothing wrong is the whole goddamn reason why I don't trust Hyrule at all. There's always more of a reason than that. And the game fucking suggests there was more going on! Ganondorf mentions Rauru has repeatedly 'invited' the Gerudo to become Rauru's subjects, and let's be clear here, it doesn't matter how peaceful those 'invitations' were, when the guy who owns every single magical nuclear missile in the world repeatedly demands you surrender to him, there's always going to be an implied threat of 'do it or get magically nuked'. Just that power difference alone shows us exactly why Ganon would feel threatened enough to invade. It's because Rauru was holding a gun to his head, and Ganon was expected to just trust that he'd never pull the trigger.
And yes, even if it wasn't intentional Hyrule was always threatening to wipe out the other nations, considering the entire royal family walked around openly wearing their magical nukes as cute accessories. If they couldn't be safely hidden away, there wouldn't be four other secret stones sitting untouched in a vault until the last second.
But that's never acknowledged. Of course Hyrule is the only nation with the right to the secret stones; even if other races get to touch them, they can only have them if they swear eternal blind loyalty and servitude to the glory of King Rauru and Princess Zelda. Ganon wanting to have one magical nuclear bomb out of a stockpile of eight of them is proof that he's dangerous and evil. I mean my god, what if he just walked around all day wearing a magical nuke and using its power for his own benefit, that would be terrifying. It's only okay when Hylian royalty does it.
And you can't argue that Ganon betrayed his own people, considering we don't get to know fucking anything about his relationship with his people. He's shows as the leader of the Gerudo, we're told he's a hero to his people, he has soldiers that loyally follow him into battle... and then oh nevermind, they all hate him and will spend eternity trying to atone for sharing a race with him. How did the entire race do a complete 180 in the span of at most a few months? Who cares, what's important is that now they accept they exist to serve Hyrule so they get to be the good guys now and we don't need to know why they were following Ganondorf, or why they stopped following him.
Basically my point is that yeah, I fucking know how the game insists everything went down. That's the entire reason I think it's imperialist propaganda, because the entire story feels like Hylian propaganda to conceal and justify some horrific atrocities that caused all of this. I literally do not believe that I'm getting the story through reliable narrators, especially considering that the only people allowed to actually tell me the story are all the characters that have the most reasons to be heavily biased in favour of Hyrule.
When the game shows me protagonists that have a massive amount of power and control over the entire world, then says the bad guy doesn't like that system just because he's evil, and literally nothing and nobody in the game says anything to oppose that take, I have some questions about what the fuck the story isn't telling me. And I'd really appreciate it if people would stop trying to argue with me just by telling me to stop asking those questions.
Random thought here. but i feel like people forget how smart Kaveh is? like he and Alhaitham are on the same level. They're the only ones that can keep up with each other, thats why they clash so much. Kaveh is a genius. not saying no one can call him a babygirl but hes a fucking genius and baby girl. if guy wasn't so nice he could crush you mentally. He might not be physically as strong but?? Kaveh isnt weak.