#or maybe an actually useful fact...?

[uselesshollowknightfacts]

When I was first playing though white palace, I had a glitch where in that room with a bench just above the first fly parkour section and below the big room with loads of sawblades, I was on the bench and still moving while in the charm menu? I don’t have footage cause it was deleted somehow

Sounds like bench storage! i.e., keeping the state of being on a bench while not actually on it. There are a lot of ways of getting it, mostly ones that involve messing with quick map, but you can get it with hazard early control too. It's hard to say how you got it without a video, but here's one way I could see someone getting it accidentally:

[Video ID: Gameplay footage of the player in White Palace. The player falls on top of a Wingmould to get double hit into thorns and immediately dashes to the bench and opens inventory. They begin moving around off of the bench, still in a sitting state with inventory open, and equip a few charms. Their inventory automatically closes as they enter the room above. They go through the first platforming section of the room, then begin charging Crystal Heart on one of the platforms but open inventory and let go of Crystal Heart before it's fully charged. They equip a few more charms and overcharm Hiveblood with their jump key, and can be seen jumping up and down behind the charm menu as they spam the button. /End ID]

If you closed inventory and left the sitting state before you entered another room, the effects of the glitch wouldn't persist. As you can see, leaving the room with inventory open would have let the state persist indefinitely (until you bench next that is).

The persistent version of bench storage has some funny effects like letting you equip charms while off of the bench, but you're also in a glitched state where you can softlock just by opening inventory. Opening inventory always takes away control, but with bench storage, the game doesn't know to give it back. That's why I charge cdash before opening inventory towards the end, and then release it to tell the game to give control back. Fun stuff!

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[plagueislost]

i love being late to trends. my new years resolution is to be late to every trend ever. and you know im serious because im even late to new years.

(theres an inverse version of this by @chamiryokuroi , you should go check it out! i started making this before i saw theirs, but i think its cool that now theres both versions)

[clumsypuppy]

act 4 :(

@chipper-smol and i came to a realization

[cosmicredcadet]

I wholeheartedly believe that the last thing that should be said in response to aspecs hating their identity is "don't worry! Aspecs can still do X, Y, and Z" and I'm so fucking serious about this.

The least helpful thing you can do to someone who have not accepted their aspec identity yet is give them ways to compensate for it. If an aspec person is upset over not being able to enter a romantic relationship, the last thing that should be done is to tell them they can still enter one or instead enter a QPR - not because that's not true but because that is quite literally going to stunt their ability to accept their aspec identity. Telling them they can instead enter a QPR when they're upset over the lack of romantic relationships is at MOST a bandaid for the main issue. Instead of them coming to accept their identity and accept who they are you have instead handed them an amatonormative alternative on a silver platter that allows them to pretend they still fit into amatonormativity without every deconstructing it. This is how we get QPRs getting shoved into an amatonormative framework - these people NEVER got over the "I'm sad that I'm aspec" phase because they were handed alternatives instead of given actual support in deconstructing their internalized aphobia, self hatred, and amatonormative biases.

[eisenartworks]

Starscream

[flying-cat]

I feel like we should all be a lot more concerned that there are people calling for the deportation of others who are just exercising their right to question the president's actions

[lucabyte]

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.

[hawkinslibrary]

Stranger Things 4 Chapter Nine: The Piggyback | 4.09

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

idk man been sifting through my feelings on all this. and i think what it comes down to is i don't really care/mind that there are non-canonical (BY DEFINITION, if it is not IN the media, it is not in the 'canon', and this info was in tweets) statements about Lucanis' sexuality being demi/ace/him being a virgin. and i'm glad for people who like to incorporate that into their headcanons about the game/interpretation of his character and expand on that more than the game itself does, like, this is our space now baby do what makes you happy!

but personallyyyyyyy i just do not think these new labels are some magic bandaid that solves the flaws in the pacing and writing of his romance. Lucanis never talking to Rook about his feelings as they get to know each other (but sure is willing to talk to Rook about his feelings for Neve if you don't romance him) is not solved, for me, by saying "well he wouldn't be attracted until he got to know you and also has no experience with sex". the same way calling it a "slow burn" did not solve this for me. especially because right up until release he was being advertised as a "bisexual mess". but now was secretly a "panromantic demisexual" the whole time. it just... idk. you can say anything you want online, you know? but if you don't Show Me... well. i also don't like that people who are saying 'well this was Not part of his story in the game so i don't see it' are getting labeled as anti-ace when like, many of the criticisms i am seeing are coming from people who are themselves demi/ace lol. it's not asexual representation bc it is not in the game itself. (though honestly. i AM glad that that was not jammed into his story arc, and that his quests were about his agonizing over his family and the fact that he's now bodysharing with a demon. because his writing was never going to get MORE lines, and to take away any of the ones he had to put in a sexuality arc beyond an offhand mention would have really crashed that because the existing writing barely holds together as is. like there just was not room to have more so personally i am not criticizing Mary Kirby for her decision not to add it. but you can't not add something and then also claim it's a definitive part of his character. plus i dont think a character needs to know/understand/use modern labels anyway).

and personally i DO prefer an awkward/fumbling Lucanis, to be clear. Before Veilguard came out I was never expecting the sexy antivan lover angle. we already have Zevran (who ALSO isn't actually that sterotype either, he has SO much depth), I didn't want poor-imitation Zevran, and bioware would not write Lucanis like that to make sure he is a more distinct character anyway. BUT i do think it's reasonable in a bioware game to expect that a romance is going to have romantic content--and the number of times after his cutscenes i literally said aloud "go girl give us nothing" after he failed to react to a flirt was pretty sad. If he's awkward and nervous give him a line where he stutters and doesn't know how to react, not just a blank stare and back to business, or whatever. Or a scene where you can literally ask "you never respond to my flirting do you want me to stop" and for him to say say he likes it but doesn't know how to reciprocate or. ANYTHING. Idk. I have seen 10 different posts/takes on how the Wall Lean Scene fits in, be it that he was imitating a romance novel or it was crow seduction training or he was just pretending because that's how he's seen Illario do it but at the end of the day. It is all just speculation because nothing in the game EVER addresses how wildly different the tone of that scene is from every other one of his romance scenes. And as much as i love the Sexy Wall Lean, given the rest of his characterization in EVERY other romance scene, i think I'm at a point where i think the romance would have been better served by cutting it out and having a different scene where you actually get to talk to him instead.

but! that is not the game we were given. we only have what we have, which is the Veilguard content by Mary Kirby, and The Wigmaker Job written by Courtney Woods (where for reference, he mentions stumbling into an orgy on a previous job, and having an "interesting" time getting out of that, so i already think we have 2 different interpretations of his character between them anyway). but yeah idk man to me "well he's ace" is not an excuse for either gaps in the writing or cut content or whatever was going on. because 1. HE IS NOT AN ACTUAL PERSON he is a storytelling vessel that i felt failed to satisfyingly communicate the entire romance story and 2. even if he was a person saying 'well in ace relationships communication sucks' would also be, not great, you know. everything beyond the text itself is just interpretation and headcanons

[mamawasatesttube]

peak timsteph to me is like, some situation where they are in the heights of their divorce era, but something happens that gets steph real rattled, and tim doesn't want to comfort her himself but he doesn't want her to be completely alone with it either. so she hears a knock at the door and opens it to find a plate full of steaming hot mashed potatoes. he's nowhere to be found but she knows no one else would've known what her number one comfort food is. the presence of the potatoes means something. so does his absence. who else knows her like he does? it haunts her every time she sees the scars on the nape of his neck. (not that she sees those often. there's a reason he keeps the cowl up and his hair long, these days.)

[macbethz]

Me: yay fun little doctor who episode

The last ten minutes:

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[sillyof1987]

something ive been seeing lately with the link click fanbase people treating lu guang like hes an awful deceiving person & awful for going back in time over & over again to save cheng xiaoshi.. but did we forget season 2? 😭 cheng xiaoshi would do the same given the same circumstances.. stop making it one sided!!!!!

[plasmara]

been thinking about kai and jay in hunted because i’m rewatching (user plasmara thinking about plasma like who’s surprised) and just realised that kai didn’t even flinch when jay called him “baby”?? not a single reaction??? which leads me to believe that this is not a one-time occurrence. no. this has happened many times before.

ergo: kai is simply used to it by now. and now i’m fully convinced they exclusively refer to each other with pet names. not even necessarily in a romantic way. they’re just Like That.

and everyone on the team is used to it by now too. no one blinks when jay’s like “you good, sweetheart?” after a fight or when kai goes “relax, babe, i’ve got this” before doing something deeply unwise. it’s just background noise now.

and U KNOW WHAT. not that anyone asked for it but fuck it yes okay breakdown of pet name usage, because i have thought about it Extensively now:

jay:

- sweetheart but this is actually used Genuinely

- baby (duh)

- cupcake — only when he’s mad. always said with a fuck-ton of attitude

- darling

- handsome AND HEAR ME OUT ON THIS ONE. only when he wants something. but kai secretly loves it and gives in to whatever he’s asking for

- snookums (but only once because kai gagged so hard he almost threw up. now he threatens him with it)

kai:

- babe — this is his default. he uses it more than his actual name

- honey THIS IS ALSO GENUINE

- dumbass (affectionate). but he also has dumbass (angry) and sometimes jay can’t tell the difference

- sparky

- hot stuff — actually he calls HIMSELF this in front of jay in the hopes that jay will say it to him one day. started as a bit but now he’s committed

- sunshine

[almondpiglet]

(wips) who here likes serijose or joserei!!! *exactly three ppl in the crowd cheer*