#nah im keeping that lmao

[cosmodynes]

azemethyth ko-fi sketch comm for @elpiphoroi

[pepperpixel]

“Can't remember when we walked past the O.R. sign!

(sur-ger-y!)

Can't remember passing out with her hand in mine!

(my-my-mind!!!!)

I remember waking up with my mind repaired.

(A-OK! ^^)

I remember when I realized, she wasn't there...”

Amnesia was her name….. is. so. horrifically. sadly fitting for these two in literally every single line. And I’m gonna NEED ALL OF U GUYS TO GO LISTEN TO IT NOW OK… THIS ISNT A DRILL GO GO GO GO!!!

Anyway… uhh. the fact Betty “blessed” this guy to like. An eternally long lifespan w THIS FUCKED UP OF A MENTAL STATE IS SO SCREWED UP GHGH- Like poor Simon god damn…! u kno he’d rather just keep on not sorting out his baggage and trauma forever too cuz it’d be too complicated… too much… force him to admit things about himself and about BETTY that he really really doesn’t want to… better to just leave it all unexamined.. pack it all into lil boxes so he can just try to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist… HE GOTTA LIVE FOREVER W IT THO… *ME BANGING ON SIMONS DOOR AT 3 IN THE MORNING*: “SIMON U GOTTA ACCEPT URSELF!!!! LOVE URSELF!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE N ACCEPT EVEN THE “BAD” PARTS OF URSELF!!!! SIMON PLEASE!!!!! SIMON EVEN PPL WHO LOVE YOU AND WHO YOU LOVE CAN HURT YOU!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE IT!!! ACKNOWLEDGE THE HURT AND ACKNOWLEDGE UR FEELINGS!!!! AND URSELF!!!!! SIMON!!!!” anyway… gGHGH YEA, SRRY. SIMON PETRIKOVS MENTAL ILLNESSES MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IM GONNA EXPLODE. ANYWAY HAVE SOME ART. W a bunch of diff versions cuz I’m indecisive!

[moeblob]

I've been debating playing more RF4S so uh. Have he.

[saintofanything]

there’s a really big reason that the “protagonist woke up and it was all a dream” or “they reset time and nothing mattered” or “everyone got amnesia” or “big bait and switch where nothing that has been built up happens” has been considered, for quite a while, to be a lazy and horrible end for any piece of media and that’s because it punishes the audience for caring.

your audience invests in what you tell them. when you tell them things matter, they listen. they believe you when you say that the heroes will win, when you say that the things that happened mean something, that the story you’re telling is worthy of the suspension of disbelief, is worthy of the investment your audience is putting into it.

those endings rip all that away. nothing matters. your audience should not have cared, because you didn’t. there was no ending.

vague spoilers below for Mass Effect, How I Met Your Mother, and Game of Thrones:

why did people hate How I Met Your Mother? because we were being told, the whole time, of this great romance. except at the last second, there is no great romance. everything that happened in the story meant nothing, the Mother was a random character we had zero attachment to.

Mass Effect? they spend two games telling us the choice was to defeat the Reapers or face extinction of all organic life, and that the way we did this would matter. only to bait and switch at the end, that your choices meant nothing. the backlash was insane.

Game of Thrones, most recent and infamous - nothing mattered. all those threads and plot lines and character development were tossed for shock value because predictable is bad despite foreshadowing being one of the most critical pieces in storytelling. 

and now, for Dream SMP? none of it mattered. a “rocks fall and everyone dies” ending is a punishment to the audience. how dare we get attached to characters and their endings. how dare we believe that child abuse victims be given a win and a hopeful end, that a child abuser/murderer/torturer be given justice and lose. how dare we invest months and years into caring. they didn’t mean it as a punishment, but that’s what it is because if nothing that happened matters, why tell the story at all?

[bangcakes]

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[fuckentoastybitch]

i need to figure out why im so infatuated with angel dust as a character when i dont think i have issues that are similar to his AT ALL, and yet ive been listening to loser baby and blake roman's songs on repeat for three days now and they keep making me CRY

help.

[xycuro-illuminati]

I'm pro stubble Matt sowwy he's an awful hairy beast to me its funny

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

terfs are fucking nuts like they really think they understand biology better than trans people, who have to learn college/graduate level biology as a matter of course cus they will have to justify themselves to most people they meet who aren't also trans. (no terf I've ever met has had more than a high school level understanding of biology xx xy penisman vaginawoman. look around you. biology is NEVER that simple)

terfs get all their panties in so many twists over trans people "enforcing gender stereotypes" when I've known trans men to be feminine and trans women to be masculine and nonbinary people who are specifically and exclusively concerned with breaking gender stereotypes 5 different ways with each item of clothing they wear. we know women can be masc we know men can be femme. We Know. it's you lot who keep attacking gender nonconforming cis people in bathrooms cus you don't seem to understand identity isn't tied to gender expression

literally all slur discourse I've seen on here was instigated or fanned by terfs. terfs are concerned with respectability politics only, which means they're not actually activists in any way, they're reactionary bullshitters who don't give a single fuck about the material world, or consequences and realities in the material world. they want to preserve the status quo - it allows them to paint "women", "lesbians" and "children" as vulnerable, default-victim-status categories with no agency or power, who can't ever hold (any kind of) power under patriarchy and can't ever have agency (ever). it means they always will be forever convinced of their perfect victimhood.

they claim to want to abolish gender entirely, but they don't really want that - they know that won't happen in any of our lifetimes, so it's a convenient strawman to bring up anytime we tell them that their """"activism"""" literally only reinforces already existing axes of oppression. hun you're literally making gender live longer with your attitudes. no stop you're being soooooo counterproductive to the cause you claim to fight for etc

terfs i really hope you get better soon. especially if ur one of those teenage terfs around these parts. u have been brainwashed with anti-men propaganda. u have been brainwashed with anti-slur propaganda. no terrible thing you've been told is terrible exists in a vacuum and there will always be people reclaiming slurs and loving men and trying to be better. you really don't have to be so scared of them, we have more in common than we don't, etc

peace and love for everyone (this includes cis men and queers and fags and trannies and dykes by the way. and also every single other group you want to exclude for arbitrary reasons. it even includes terfs but i kinda doubt u will find peace and love unless u stop being a terf so once again. i really do hope you get better soon)

[konumbra]

wowee day 4 of pride month and I've already been shouted at on the street!

awesome

great

new record for me I think

[vagueiish]

i think that it's gonna be oli's canon that he and asta did meet before the events of the game. like, briefly. and very shortly before, mere days

and, yeah, asta did try to seduce the guy and bring him back to cazador. but oli's hella insecure + he's demi. so like not really interested (yet) (i mean, come on, he wants to know how he could be into someone only five minutes after meeting) + he's almost willfully oblivious to flirting (and also thanks some timely intervention from a family friend! what luck!!!) so he's safe. barely.

mostly i want this big, dumb interaction where asta tries to be seductive and oli's like ????? the whole time. something along the lines of:

oli, trying to make polite conversation while waiting out the rain: so, uh... what's your name? astarion: whatever you want it to be, darling~ oli, not exactly unused to being flirted with but isn't exactly super used to it and doesn't want to make assumptions: is... is that elven, or...?

[hjemlengten]

also, if you look at a friend as 'nothing but a druggie' for smoking a bit of weed while going through a fucking traumatizing life event, you're the problem and need to take a morals check lol.

[qqchurch]

idk how harem series are supposed to go, but I don't think the right play after stringing along your fans over the last decade is to make a sidestory about your protag getting together with one of the fan-popular girls and then shitting all over their relationship (along with every other ship indirectly) because the entire setting will blow up if the protag isn't simping for One Specific Girl

[jessiesjaded]

Twitter really does just have that rancidity of 2015 tumblr in a way tumblr doesn't even have anymore it's almost funny.

[senseiwu]

If any of you put the i am a surgeon meme on my dash. I WILL bite you.

[missiodine]

tfw you wanna try to play ttrpgs again, but ever since playing a few years ago during a certain two campaigns, you were bullied by people who you thought were your friends because you didn't know how to play and they made up reasons why they should dislike you irl. especially while you tried to be nice to them and give them space and tried to make steps towards interacting with them in rp too.

like no, it wasn't like "oh, it's just character interaction, these characters just don't like each other!" no it was "no joke, I absolutely hate your guts, Miss Iodine, fuck you and I'll be an arse to you in-game and irl. i will ignore everything you and your character say, i will attack your character because why not and say it's just what my character would do, and then start harassing my DMs"

love it when i tried for months to reach out for a proper sit down only to be given a sorry-not-sorry half-assed push the blame onto the victim apology

like yes this lives rent free in my head. you won, if that's what you wanted.

[hydatiid]

O no dont get me wrong im loving it! It just came outta nowhere xD (and sorry for the "yaoi" ive been saying that ironically a lot) keep fucking those old men homie