#new series i guess lol

[peach-moths]

Im using rise mikey to help me journal my mundane normal life

Today March 4th I got the last of the pasta salad from the grocery store deli tonight

[gunsatthaphan]

👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻.

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

[thevelaryons]

Alyn & Jon Antiparallels: 1/?

“There will be a price.” “Price,” screamed Mormont’s raven. “Price, price.” “There is always a price, is there not?” The Braavosi smiled.

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon IX

It is not in the nature of any Lyseni to make a gift of anything that might be sold.

— Fire & Blood, Under the Regents

[thymelessink]

Isn't that a bit too much, Q?

Q: I don’t understand the question.

(Although, I was asking myself whether the first one is too much, so here you have both versions)

[chibishortdeath]

I guess these count as shitposts, they’re just based off of some random text posts I was looking through on Pinterest tho idk. :3

[robinmage]

i just started my first playthru of kh3, do we seriously have this much mp to start???? i added a small handful of mods before i started; party AI, better keyblade wielders, and remind ability integration. did something get messy and give me too much mp? this feels like WAY too much to start with ?

lvl8, 170hp, 205mp

[artsandstoriesandstuff]

Ginger and Gingerbread or something, I don't know I didn't grow up with this show

[bluesylveon2]

Twst spoilers!!!!

Vil 🤝 Jamil

Kings of getting an SSR card after a hometown event

[prismit]

dead cells show looks sooo ugly but aside from that it does look fun to watch ngl.... i feel so conflicted

[blind0raven]

Woke up seeing news from the twst fest stream event

HELLO YES!?!??! EXCITED!!!!

YEEEEEEES!!!!

New birthday cards and honestly these will be my favorite ones!!!

Damn I should have waited to the my birthday art series to be able to release it alongside these!!!

These cards could have been very helpful with Jack, Lilia, Ortho and Sebek since they're the ones I have difficulty pinning what they're referenced

Ortho is already too late, but I don't regret it

I'll still release birthday fanart of the boys despite their character inspo being way off cause I still wanna go through with my idea, and like there's no way I'll be able to see the new cards ahead so I can make the art

Ortho may be wrong, and so will the other 3 very likely, but I am stubborn and I want to stitck with my original plans

THAT BEING SAID THOUGH

Grim my baby boy!!! Look at you!!! Dressed up nicely!

AND PANTS TOO!!!

Also with Mickey! His new card shows Mickey! Nice!!!

I had an idea for Grim's card in the birthday series and now I'm happy about it! With Mickey there it just excites me more so!!!

spoilers: Grim's birthday art will be posted on the day I first started playing the game, so it's not an anniversary fanart either. I'll have a different one for it

NOW FOR THE GRAND FINALE OF MY EXCITEMENT THOUGH

🎶 Hi-diddle-dee-dee!~ 🎶

🎶 An actor's life for me!! 🎶

Pinocchio themed event I'm guessing (another one outside of the Stars and Dancing event)

We're gonna go to a sketchy carnival hopefully hahaha and maybe...

Maybe not Pleasure Island right?

... Right?

[athenaholmesartistsguild]

I've only just started chapter 3 of Gaiden but I am absolutely obsessed with the theme of powerlessness and how it's conveyed within the game.

I can't help but notice how often Kiryu says he 'doesn't have a choice' when doing pretty much anything. Even if it's in super banal, low-stakes interactions like doing something for Akame, he's constantly stating that he feels as if he has no agency in his current situation.

In the previous Kiryu Saga games, Kiryu is painfully aware of the consequences of his actions, but he still regards them as choices that he made; not something he was forced into.

His status as a Daidoji agent has basically beaten him into submission. He'll occasionally try to fight against this absolute control over him, but he's eventually returned to his position as a pawn in this huge, shadowy organization. The Daidoji are the first organization/power structure that managed to get control over Kiryu's tendency to burn shit to the ground and good god do they take advantage of that.

But then Kiryu's also painfully aware that this is the reality he asked for. Not only does he outright say this multiple times, but he's telling others that 'they started this' when they're confronting him and it's so obvious that he's talking to himself.

He's constantly bouncing between feeling miserable and powerless and then resenting these feelings and berating himself for having them in the first place. He's grasping at any sliver of control he can still have over his life, not to find meaning in his new existence, but to further punish and abuse himself.

I can't remember the exact post, but I saw someone describe Gaiden as a love letter to the Kiryu Saga and that's the best way to describe it, I think.

Kiryu's arc in his games is an incredibly slow car crash where we witness in painful detail how incapable he is of permanently leaving his life as yakuza to protect his family.

He has this almost codependent relationship with the Tojo Clan and feels a compulsive urge to get involved in the constant crises happening.

Of course, there were outside factors that were trying to pull him into these conflicts. Everyone believes that he's the only one who can fix everything. Kiryu's name carries power. Isn't it disgustingly selfish to refuse to get involved when he was the one who chose the clan's chairmen?

How could he refuse to deliver a single letter after the 5th chairman was shot right in front of him?

How could he ignore the people threatening to take his orphanage away from him and his kids?

How could he tell his daughter that she can't become an idol because of his past?

How could he justify staying alive when it did nothing but bring harm to his family?

What choice did he have?

But remember, you chose this, Kiryu.

[iristial]

Gira looking at Rita like that after she massacred some Bugnarak mooks before they set one foot in her kingdom...how could I not

[kirayamidemon]

In other updating news, ive been dragged down into new anime hell n been dying n only spirally down even worse since then i hate it

[quantumshade]

i'm taking her away and putting her up on a high shelf till you mfs learn to behave

[aestheticsfandomsandmore]

“wai wouldn't have been so affronted and upset about pran not telling him he was in a relationship with pat if he were not in love with him” / “the only reason i can possibly have to explain his actions during episode 9 is that he was jealous”

oh thank you for bringing amatonormativity to this meeting, you can put it on the coffee table (since i don't even like coffee) and then you can leave