#literally only explanation I can think of for that

[jay-trying-things-out]

I Have A Date Everything Theory (be warned for SPOILERS below!!!)

So, at first I was just experiencing the game as a fun little dating sim, y'know, as it's probably supposed to be experienced, but then I got to thinking in the shower, and I put some things together that may or may not have been intentional.

I'll give some examples of scenarios first to illustrate my point:

1. The toxic relationship between Dirk and Harper is obviously one that the game wants you to help fix/break them up. It's a good thing when they're finally away from each other in the context of personified characters, of course, but think about what has literally just occurred. You've gotten Dirk, the dirty clothes, away from the hamper by washing them. You've finally washed your clothes, which, judging by how sick of each other Dirk and Harper were, must've been dirty for awhile. Congrats! They motivated you to get something productive done!! (Even if Clarence, is, well, Clarence lol)

2. When you talk to Keyes, the main character (not us, but the person that is inside the game) seems to realize, in at least one of the dialogue options, that they haven't played piano very often. The interaction with Keyes as a person (hopefully) gets the mc to want to interact with her more, which, again, in a literal perspective, would be playing her. The mc is being motivated to play piano either again or for the first time. To explore creative hobbies like music.

3. Mitchell Linn the food connoisseur offers to take you to three different places right out in the gate in your first interaction (usually). The choices are sushi, a Hawaiian-fusion restaurant, and ice cream. When you choose the Hawaiian-fusion, Mitchell basically tells you good job for branching out and having an open mind. I believe he says something like this for Daisuke's restaurant too, if I'm not mistaken. He is literally encouraging the mc to try new things, starting with food, at least. To learn a bit about other cultures, too, while doing it!! (Since he asks you questions about silverware/tools/how you eat certain things for Koa and Daisuke's restaurants)

4. When you talk to Amir, he is the embodiment of not only the mirror, but the best hype man ever. I've seen many people in playthroughs assume that the mirror would be very vain and arrogant, but it turns out he is just the opposite! He never misses an opportunity to try to get you see that you are beautiful, and will not stand for any negative self-talk. I think that the beneficial impact he has on you needs no explanation; he's trying to improve your self-image!! :)

5. Beverly is REALLY desperate for customers. She even demonstrates that she is slightly annoyed you would invite friends over and then always end up cancelling. She wants you to get her bar more popular, and to do that, she insinuates that you have to invite some friends over! Sure, those friends can be the objects you've befriended in your house, but she's the one motivating you to maybe step outside of your comfort zone and realize that a little social interaction after all this time might be a good thing! She does just want business, though, so take this with a grain of salt lol.

I could go on and on about each (or at least most of the) character(s), but I'm pretty sure no one has the attention span to read this ramble, so I'll summarize some others I wanted to point out:

Dunk (and technically Kristof, Dasha, Shelley, and maybe a few others, but mainly Dunk) tries to get you to not only become sporty again, but be able to love it, too! Not to do it because you feel like you have to, but to enjoy doing it!

Diana speaks in word salads, presumably taken all from sentences written in her pages, so this might motivate the mc to write more positive things, therefore enjoying the positives of life more. Having Diana regurgitate or contemplate negative feelings that the mc writes about would probably make them feel guilty, driving them to make both Diana's and their lives better by writing about the positives.

I'll stop for now (let me know if anyone wants to hear about any more characters), but there are some of the things I wanted to point out. I'm not entirely sure what this is all leading to, since these are mostly just shower thoughts I had, but I'm thinking that, somehow, the glasses are improving your lifestyle. Now that the mc doesn't have a boring, pencil-pushing job (that replaced them with AI anyway), they are able to live a better life. (Or something like that; don't worry, I realize this is all a bit of a stretch, I was just having fun theorizing :] )

Hope you enjoyed!

[conclaveconfessions]

I'm not og anon but, imho when I started reading conclave fanfic I also sometimes felt like the Catholic yaoi is not Catholic enough, that being said if you go to the book Vincent literally says he isn't afraid of a schism. So I understand why people write him like that. it's a bit difficult to write the character differently. I don't quite agree with the notion that he wouldn't care about his vows or see them as irrelevant, because it's a whole thing in the book as well, but the whole confession stuff was actually so weird ajdjdn. I think book!Vincent is complicated in a way that perhaps has to do with the author not knowing how to make the theme land. And movie!Vincent is just this unknowable figure, really. Like "Vincent thinks it's ok so he ropes Lawrence in, who is so devout to him that he lets go" is not... A totally incorrect interpretation of the characters. It's AN interpretation, that yeah, protestants and atheists would be more partial to.

But there are different types of Catholics, and some are more progressive than others. And not everyone upholds his vows.

If we're talking about celibacy vows there are many justifications on how or why a priest would fuck. Youd have to guess the thought process of any given character except Lawmeli, and you can get creative with it. Someone like Tedesco might outright believe he's above it even if he's a traditionalist, something something cognitive dissonance.

The only place where I do care is extremely petty and has nothing to do with care for the scriptures and just on my understanding in how religion works as an atheist that grew up in a Catholic society, and it's when fanfics make Thomas and Vincent "marry" each other. Like my brain literally can't compute it and I just ignore it or outright skip it ajsjdjdj

I 100% understand this is poetic language (tho not always) and yet-

I'm always like... but they are Catholic priests... They're "married" to the Church... Even if they were a straight couple/the church was nice to gays it's just not possible... I have a friend and her parents are married evangelical pastors and the first six months of friendship I kept forgetting and remembering this fact and my brain said: ... That's not how religion works.....

But that's like, my gut feeling. Obviously religion works in many different ways. My friend has like legit religious trauma because her parents do not like that she's queer (she liked conclave btw sjdjdj).

This is a small cultural bias (I knew in other religions priests can marry but I constantly forgot) that is actually Huge in terms of how the characters relate to each other. They would never consider themselves husbands, as long as they're pope and cardinal... And this has to rattle their brains ajsjddj how do you, top dog of THE catholic church, rationalize your union to the eyes of god? Compartmentalize? Ignore it? Confess all the time? Change your whole POV? It's tricky! It's interesting! It's also mostly absent in some Conclave fanfic. It doesn't seem to be a question. It's ok if your answer is "oh but it's fine because we love each other c:", but it could be more of a challenge to get there. Also I don't buy the explanation that "well some Catholics allow priests to marry". Not these Catholics ajsjdnd

So if you're wondering: what does someone with a Catholic background might feel it's missing? Sometimes it's not even about anything scriptural and it's really just the vibes of forbidden love and guilt. Bartender, more guilt please!!! At least to me that was the feel. It's not called catholic guilt for nothing.

Eh, actually, it's not that it's not present, but it's usually not developed from Vincent's perspective, and that's the thing, I think.

If you rewrite Vincent to be sexually active prior to the conclave it all ties together more neatly, he can be the instigator to Lawmeli's desire and, I like it, but if he held onto his vows... Why? Why now and not before? Why Lawmeli? Is that why you are marrying them? You think he thinks in marriage is less sinful? Why? Oh, you say he doesn't care/believe in sin? Then why didn't he break his vows before then? Why were his vows important before but not now? Was breaking his vows a sin before but now that he's pope he can deem them not a sin now? Is his lust just that big? But then, doesn't he feel guilty about it? Because it kinda seems like he should feel conflicted about it, if he held to his vows all his life only to break them after becoming Pope.

You can take this in so many different directions but for that, it needs to be a conflict first. But if you're protestant, and you had a married priest growing up, maybe it just wouldn't occur to you. You "know" catholic priests don't marry or have sex, but you don't feel anything about it, so when you write conclave porn, they don't care about it. If Vincent is fine with being an intersex priest he would be fine with sex, right? But would he? And why?

Take this with a grain of salt given the atheism. Maybe an actual catholic can reply in earnest.

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[outer-edges]

JASKGKFKKSKS OH MY GOD UNCOVERED THE CURSED SPIDERSONA X TWILIGHT CROSSOVER I WROTE IN HIGH SCHOOL. LOSING MY MINDDDDD. BEING A TEENAGE GIRL DURING THE PANDEMIC WAS QUITE A TIME.

[tiredcowboyy]

I can only conclude that the reason arthur was so blind to merlins magic was because he couldnt actually have a coherent thought around him because he was so besotted and distracted by him

[designernishiki]

it’s kinda funny to me how that dumb scene in kiwami 1 of majima getting shot and left for dead in the harbor was basically just added as a half-assed way to explain majima not being around for a bit of the plot, but they accidentally(?) just made it seem like start of a chain reaction where majima ended up feeling slighted and heartbroken after being abandoned like that and then lashed out about it via smashing a big truck into the building kiryu was in. and yeah that isn’t inherently a romantic thing as-is but then they go and add the part where majima grabs a hostess and performatively hits on her as in-kiryu’s-face as possible, she says she’s already in love with someone, and majima lets her go immediately, no questions asked, making a big fucking point of it just to say see THAT kiryu? I appreciate when people are HONEST about their FEELINGS. people who won’t just BACKSTAB someone who CARES about them to save themselves. is that so crazy kiryu?? huh??? anyway make it up to me get down here and fight me right fucking now

[cryptdfish]

“white mourning.”

[we-love-lando-norris-over-here]

Do you think there is a sponsor/ contract/ money related reason for mcl to not post lando on main? Because f1 movie premiere precedes papaya rules or whatever, liberty media had made drivers show up specifically on a jet for this screening and red carpet. Mcl would need to have a real reason to look this stupid in front of Stefano Domenicali…

Or maybe the comms dept just didn’t get the memo😂😂😂😂😂

I don’t think it’s about leaving Lando out. I think it’s more about keeping Bottlestri in.

Lando had to be there. Someone had to represent McLaren. I’m pretty sure each team was expected to send someone, and while most sent both drivers, McLaren, Redbull and Mercedes didn’t. In Merc’s case, Kimi said he had exams (fair enough), and Max hates this kind of stuff so no surprises there, but I digress.

McLaren probably cooked up some fun little excuse for why Bottlestri couldn’t show. I have my own tinfoil theories about why, but none of my theories are the kind of excuses you can give to the CEO of the sport you're racing in.

And since their entire media strategy revolves around pushing the landoscar narrative, or better yet, just Bottlestri on his own, Lando showing up alone wasn’t worth posting about. No Bottlestri, no content. Maybe if he'd worn that necklace with the McLaren logo they might have felt tempted (if only to show everyone the necklace, again), but who knows 🤷🏽‍♀️

I do wonder what they told Domenicali. Like hey, sorry, we’re skipping PR for the global film premiere meant to grow the sport because our other driver couldn’t make it, and we didn’t want one half of our PR "sibling duo" on our socials 😂

[tubbytarchia]

Points at my pinned message. There's a message there in bold. I'm sorry I don't clarify that I'm talking about CHARACTERS ONLY in posts that I don't maintag. I presume if you're on my blog to see these posts at all, you would already know as much. CHARACTERS please... just characters.... I've acknowledged that CC Jimmy is not bothered by the bullying many times. I'm very aware... I'm talking about characters......................

[swiftfootedachilles]

trevor saying "this is about you loving all the attention" ........uh. well yeah obviously...... did you miss the part where ian was abused and neglected growing up? do you expect him to hate the attention he got? i need you to be so fr trevor

[dramas-vs-novels]

i'm pretty easy going, as long as they are not so stiff and unconvincing to the point of noticeable + the story is interesting enough -> i'm all good. that's why sometimes when ppl said this and that actor's acting are bad i genuinely cannot see it lmao

i do know when an actor is good. mmy's actors are solid, they embodied their roles in a way that i'm unable to see anyone else be phayu, rain, sky, prapai. do u think dmd actors can act? (this ask is brought to you by someone on twitter said jimmy and ohm's acting were terrible)

I don't want to get into fandom drama, I just enjoy what I enjoy, I don't want to be some keyboard warrior. I went through that phase when I was a kid and it's just not any way I enjoy things.

I'm not going to argue with "someone on twitter" cross-platform, I'm not going to defend the resume's of every actor.

Some people like certain actors, some people hate certain actors. Some people have a standard they want everything held to, some people just take things for what they are and roll with the vibes. I'm like you- as long as it isn't noticeable, the story is good, I'm happy.

Actors are out there doing their best. Some people will like it, some people will hate it. It's just life. I love most of the DMD shows I've seen (I'm tepid on Why R U, it's fine, it feels like every Taiwanese show I watched in the late 2000s). I like Jimmy and Ohm. That's all I care about.

All actors are people doing a job to the best of their ability. It's natural that job puts them under massive scrutiny and people want to pick it apart and have their opinions, but I don't want to get involved in all of that. I just want to enjoy it.

Let people working hard at their jobs have a break. All actors deserve grace.

[gu6chan]

oh yeah!!!! forgot to mention this is my last day at work :') honestly the pay wasn't the greatest (not complaing though, this is a public position and it was certainly enough to get by) but ngl this was probably one of the most enjoyable jobs ive had 😭❤️ for a ridiculously conservative population like this im glad they seemed to enjoy the numerous marxist solutions to all their problems getting slid in under the reasoning of "community/small town values" and "neighbours having each other's back" and 5 minute small talk about how taxes work at the line in the grocery store lmao

[r1pmyh34rtup]

I hate talking to my mother nothing even really happened but I’m confused and stressed now

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Terribly upset that I am willing to put so much love and effort into a relationship and people aren't willing to put in slightly more than the bare minimum for me

[dragontatoes]

you know I’m going to be honest, I don’t think there’s any trick that bumps up your chances of getting a job. I don't think tweaking your resume, dumping buzzwords into a cover letter, applying on the company website vs recruiter sites, or emailing after applying makes literally any difference. After a couple years and literally hundreds of job applications I've sent in, I'm pretty sure they were all essentially lottery tickets I threw in a hat, and the only people that have a better chance than that are getting hired by friends/family that are already in a company. I honestly don't think applicants could be doing any more than we are. We're just being failed constantly.

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

this is a formal apology for every time i've read ur fnaf theories, gone "ah... of course! yes!" and then forgotten to respond

This is a formal apology for every time I've read one of your asks, not immediately had a TQ&/E, and forgotten to respond

[saintajax]

Can i b honest w/y’all