when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people
the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to
I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part
Look, I have no objection to video games inventing hot girl versions of major historical figures in principle, but if your girl!Rasputin isn't tall, gaunt and filthy, I don't even know what we're doing here.
Its viscerally upsetting that our preferences are apparently respected but we’re all automatically opted in for tumblr’s AI 3rd party “partners” to supposedly scrape our posts and content? L O L
BLOG SETTINGS -> VISIBILITY -> ENABLE “PREVENT 3RD PARTY SHARING”
If you’re on mobile *you must first update the tumblr app*
THIS MUST BE DONE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL PUBLIC BLOG YOU HAVE
I adore Soap being so unapologetically Scottish; proud of his home country and of the MacTavish name. Though he’s also deeply in love with Ghost and wants him to reclaim the Riley name, making it more than just a tragedy, making it mean something good again. John Riley, Soap thinks. No, actually, Johnny Riley.
Ghost on the other hand hates his name. Vile. Just like his father. He wants the Riley name gutted from him and buried six feet under. He’s legally dead anyway. If they found a work around with forged documents, it’d make sense for him to take MacTavish. Simon MacTavish, Ghost thinks. Fresh start, clean slate, a new life with the love of his life. Yeah, Simon MacTavish.
The way BG3 approaches revenge is so interesting. It never says anyone is wrong to kill someone who's done them harm, but it does say that doing so alone won't fix the trauma.
Aylin just feels empty after killing Lorroakan. Astarion admits killing Cazador didn't feel how he expected it would either; he feels numb for a while and it changes his perspective on things. Karlach kills Gortash and it isn't satisfying, because he never felt sorry for the life he took from her and now she has to grapple with how little she has left.
Again, they weren't wrong to crave that catharsis and the safety it brings them. But revenge is never the end of healing. It's only the beginning. Choosing to live again is maybe the best revenge there is.
It just occurred to me that “you’re technically twins, but one of you got all the Good DNA and the other one got all the Bad DNA” is both a central plot point in the Metal Gear franchise and the premise of a 1988 film starring Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and now I’m a. obsessed with the possibility that the former was directly inspired by the latter, and b. vividly imagining a Metal Gear adaptation where Solid Snake and Liquid Snake are played by Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.