#theres also the emotional agony

[thatgirlwithasquid]

i am SO ANNOYED with the end of good omens s2 purely because i thought id be able to turn around to my parents and go ‘HA! i told you they were in love!!! told you they were basically boyfriends!!!!!’ but noooooooo. cause if i say that now they’ll go ‘oh it was only crowley. oh its one sided. oh theyre not like that’ just because aziraphale didnt kiss him back

[tamagotchikgs]

MY OLD MEDICATION MENTION

[whimsysalesman]

having Big Feelings in the tags. you neednt read them, but you should go drink water and stretch your eyes

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

thinking about the fe games w/ routes (fates and three houses specifically but probably others idfk)

i think there needs to be more tragedy there. or opportunities for it i guess? or that fire emblem has to make unique death quotes for characters in general man

death in fire emblem feels so blah for me. more of an inconvenience than in other media. like when im playing DnD and an npc i love dies it isnt "man that sucks. anyway" but even w characters i love in fire emblem its just "man do i wanna reset the chapter for this that was so lame"

make death and especially betrayal related deaths Hurt More.

lets say youre byleth. youre teaching the black eagles, yay! but you have a b support with claude. you and claude are good buddies, maybe you just like claude as a character or its accidental because of x y z does Not matter. either way you are one of claudes closest friends. then the war starts, and you choose to side with a woman claude sees as a future tyrant (or at the very least a driven warmonger who might crush the alliance underneath her boot). imagine the hurt. the absolute fucking agony for claude.

and for byleth! byleth wakes up and their friend is gone. on another side, unreachable, 5 years of emotional distance *yawning* in front of them.

and then they reunite in the midst of battle, weapons drawn. theyve both come so far and have goals they *have* to achieve.

"I don't want this."

too bad. if you roll over, you get a game over because you fuckin failed the route. or you have to make someone else kill claude because sumn sumn mechanically you have a 0% hit rate bc of that b support. you cant do it.

too bad. claude cant run away, hes the last line of defense for a place hes responsible for. if he leaves what is he? a coward? a turncoat? would he have to believe in edelgard's future? would he have to slay his own allies, friends, the people who relied on him?

he cant. you cant.

he begs you to reconsider. you cant.

as he falls he reaches out a hand. you kneel beside him as he says a few things. calls this whole battle a clever gambit, praises your cunning in using effective weaponry, etc etc. but his voice is weaker. theres no option to spare him, you couldnt spare any *other* unit, could you? couldn't spare hilda. cant spare claude.

he mentions sometimes dreaming of the monastery. the food was good, right? hope the foods good in the future you build with edelgard. hope you name a town after him, thatd be fun. dont get stupid, teach, dont join him too soon. maybe he'll even wait for ya. keep a seat warm.

(fire emblem unit death sound)

then also: units in your own army.

lets say youre playing black eagles. its nearish endgame but not too close so i dont say any spoilers, but regardless bernadetta and yuri have an A support. they might get hitched postgame man, you havent done the A support of anyone else w those two. its a rough battle, your healer is severely low on psychic uses, you sold all your fucking vulneraries because you thought dorothea was more of a beast than she is. its dire.

unexpected sniper crit. yuri is on 0 hp.

bernadetta is within 5 tiles and instead of yuri's canned death quote, bernie interjects with one of the most well voiced anguished screams youve ever fucking heard. on the next turn, bernie gets +50 hit *and* crit on that enemy, and if she kills it the rest of the scene plays.

bernie is holding yuri, one of her few friends in her hellish fucking life. hes not gonna make it, she knows that, but shes still gonna try. shes wailing and begging him to stay like she wished she had all those fucking years ago, shes babbling about all the things he'll miss if he goes, all the things shes planned for them to do now that shes brave enough to leave her bedroom. he cuts her off to laugh. now is when she gets brave and honest with her feelings? when hes dying? oh bernie come on. he wraps an arm around her shoulders and pulls her in for a hug, kissing her temple like an old boyfriend and not a quiet yearning crush. he murmurs that hes glad she left her bedroom. that hes glad she can see the world beyond what abuse happened to her behind closed doors. that she'll find some other person to hold in his stead, one who wont so rudely get his blood on her battle leathers. one who wont leave her time and time again like he has. she wails into his shoulder as she drops the scraps of cloth she had been trying to use to stop his bleeding and just holds her dying friend.

(fire emblem unit death sound)

if death felt like An Event and not An Inconvenience i'd play with permadeath more man. make me sad fire emblem youre so shit at it

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[emimii]

ooh can you share more abt your autistic alonzo hc... i also see him as autistic but i'd like to hear your specific thoughts :3

FELLOW AUTISM ALONZO ENJOYER!!!! YAHOOO thank u i love u anon /p <3

like i mentioned in the mistoffelees ramble post alonzo has trouble physically expressing emotions

his tone is flat and he doesnt really make facial expressions so people cant tell if hes being genuine or sarcastic

he tends to over explain himself a lot because of this, esp to older cats bcuz he probably has like a strong moral code to be nice to his elders and not disappoint them

he doesnt tend to over explain to misto and victoria though, cause they get him :3

he also technically doesnt have to overexplain to munku bcuz theyve been friends long enough for munkustrap to understand what hes tryna get across, but its a force of habit and munk doesnt stop him he just listens

theres a obvious change in alonzo’s masking level and general openness when hes with people hes comfortable with, like hes probably a lot more talkative with loved ones

the few times he does show emotions is during stressful or awkward situations and its probably like, not the appropriate reaction either

something bad will happen maybe he breaks his arm and his immediate reaction is to start laughing even though hes in boatloads of agony or something bad happens to someone else and he’ll smile but not cause hes happy ykwim cause hes panicking

hes also pretty ‘immediately forgetful’ where he’ll put something down and not even a moment later he forgets where he put it so he just spends 10 minutes frantically walking around the general area flipping things over to try and figure out where he left it

i definitely think hes got a big aversion to like “screechy” noises, like nails on a chalkboard, spoons scraping on plates, and things skidding across the floor, he also does not like loud noises to me which is unfortunate when your younger brother has lightning powers.

[hostilemuppet]

Also I like how occasionally your trolls eye colors invert to show pure fucking rage lmaooo.

its not ALWAYS rage... sometimes its despondence, or otherwise emotional agony 🙄 theres a range!

[succulentlesbians]

"I should send an ask for the nice reply i got" Brain: Windows dial up noise. Anyway, hi, hello! :D thanks so much for your reply, it made me feel emotions and now im sueing for damages <3 YELENA WAS GONNA RUN FROM THE RED ROOM TO BE WITH DAISY??????? pain. suffering. a g o n y. im now imagining an au where she did manage to escape actually. they are happy and young and free and being goofy. yelena keeps them safe and daisy keeps them hidden. canon. to me.

omg young skye and yelena together would be so fun. sorry for your agony that they couldn't, i am similarly distraught. was thinking about writing a prequel (can you believe the audacity, i haven't even finished the sequel yet) about them but the emotional devastation of having to rip them apart would absolutely kill me so we shall see about that.

yeah the whole assassination thing was something that i hadn't fully considered in terms of what skye would be cool with when i offhandedly wrote that oneshot. i'd now imagine that yelena would have deliberately misled her for as long as she could (ie. "help me break in here for this information and no that people died wasn't me, it was a coincidence lol") and that skye was kinda naive and really wanted to believe that she was just stealing info and similar things. yelena at first was just using her as a resource and prob knew like yeah skyenet is cool with this sort of stuff only. but i think skye kinda charmed her and they kept talking and talking until yelena was like oh shit i care about you and you made me believe in the good in this world and i dont want to do this anymore. and skye after a bit maybe was wavering btwn like hmm i can read between the lines here, im not stupid, but also ive talked to you so much and i believe that you are good and i believe that you dont have to do this and then she learns about the actual situation that yelena is in with the red room? and shes like oh youre a whole ass victim. this is not your fault.

and yeah a situation where skye has to choose to save yelena over someone else (a target?) or something? bc the red room would kill her? could be both a demonstration of love but also kinda jarring for skye to make that decision and so even moreso something for yelena to be like omg skye cares about me so much. good god anon you're giving me ideas.

anyway. yelena coming out of the red room. im thinking she sorta tracked daisy while she was there, in a way where she was keeping tabs on the rising tide, shield etc. she doesn't want to draw interest to daisy after all but she wants her to be safe and to know about her. when she gets out, literally the only support she has could be daisy or natasha and she thinks that natasha abandoned her. she literally does not have a good relationship with a single other person in the world. she was in the red rooms hands since she was a Baby (this is so sad). so yeah theres a lot of courage that she has to reach out to daisy when she hasn't been heard from in ten years and to try and trust that she'll help, but there is absolutely a sense of 'i have no one else.' daisy is her first and basically only stop. but also. daisy taught her how to live once. and i think that absolutely she was thinking, oh daisy can help me figure out life. And! also being like hey, wtf is daisy up to shes kinda going crazy and maybe she needs help too. (this all being on top of, she just wants to see daisy again). so many reasons.

they are absolutely pairbonded kittens.

this is them. i don't make the rules. if i separate them again... you have my permission to kill me.

tysm for your ask and support, you're giving me so much motivation and thoughts to write about. i'm so glad you enjoyed the fic!

[yermes]

PAC:

ITS A TWO FOR ONE TODAYYYYY: Theres been something thats been heavy on my heart y’all and thats the amt of short dicked fuckers that feel entitled to my time as of late. (None of you guys you are all precious and amazing i mean in my irl) since I know we are all birds a feather heres some way to deal with this issue of people who waste your time because they are on their high horse and think its okay to talk down to you. 🥲🐓🗡️

Pick a meme

Pick a card

Art 🪼

Mercury, sagittarius, Fire, Yesod to Tiphareth

This specific card represent alchemy as art specifically your ability of taking something plain and making it valuable. People want what they can’t always grasp themselves so it draws this type of person who wants to be that mystical magic bitch but can’t pierce the veil and make life as precious as you do. People flock to what they may never possess that doesn’t mean you have to entertain them. Another big part of the card is perspective. And dissolving and combining. Seeing how these things bug you, what causes the issue, and a way to personally solve an issue internally before you make an external move to dissolve.

Knight of wands 🫗

21° in scorpio 20° in sag, Fires of Aziluth, Chokmah

This bitch is fire in fire you yourself are a natural born leader and you have so many charismatic and strong qualities to either A start a cult or B do anything you set your mind to! With that said when people with FAKE BDE try and step in where they shouldn’t be stepping you being fire in its purest manifestation is about to fucking burn them. Now the only thing that comes from war is pain agony and destruction so remember that. Fake BDE hoes may be annoying but you yourself don’t HAVE to be cruel when you don’t need to be especially with lack of air, water, and earth in this card.

Queen of wands 🐅

21° Pisces 20° Aries, water in the fire of Yetzirah, Binah

Personifying two opposites water and fire this card is often unstable. This card also has a strong association with independence, motion, transformation, etc. I am getting the feeling you cry in arguments and while you have a strong base, a strong moral code when people step up to you and try and shut you down your emotional aspect flairs up and its hard for you to face it. However the other aspect of this card is fire which means not only do you feel these emotions you really fucking feel these emotions and it just adds to the instability that this situation does to you. Take a step back. Think for a minute. Breathe. You are okay. I promise you.

[dirtbra1n]

hihihi tashiro anon here guess who got access to the second years novel :)

do you ever think about how tashiros a natural charmer? to the point kuresawa talks about being hesitant about intruding him to his girlfriend even though he has full trust on him? how him being on a all boys school almost seems like a missed opportunity?

now add this to the way how tashiro struggles with emotions, i think he would be quite obvious when hes involved in anything romance related. only when its his own tho, that boy is way too observant of his surroundings and his friends despite looking like he doesnt think most of the time (which is another interesting point, tashiros own pov reveals another side of his character to you, i think)

i dont know honestly,, i was just thinking about how theres multiple instances of tashiro asking romance related questions to his friends to understand it better, only to get more confused at the explanation. if hanzawa to tashiro ever become real, it probably would have quite a different tone than the other two thanks to our main characters

hihihi tashiro anon CONGRATULATIONS ON THE SECOND YEARS NOVEL sorry I’m late I wanted to finish writing tashiro post before replying to you. as a sort of Gift. but it’s getting long so Here we are

I THINK ABOUT IT. SO MUCH. this is a personal realization I’m having right now that tashiro in his own right has so much magnetism…. so charming so easy to like…… SUCH A GOOD GUY, ALSO…!!!! I actually get really emotional thinking about kuresawa’s narration. just every instance of it. because he really does like and care about his friends and he talks about them in such. AN ENDEARING DEVASTATING WAY……….. but the way he talks about tashiro specifically is such a big beautiful Window (kuresawa’s eyes) to tashiro (and his minute details)

so when you think about That, and think about the night trip they were all on, and tashiro’s first love being Sorry I went back to start rereading this bit and I’m feeling kinda weepy suddenly. kuresawa using a soft tone of voice with miyano and making a concerted effort not to say anything too mean out loud. tashiro shirahama back-and-forth. shirahama fussy about his appearance and working hard at playing stylist. I understood—Tashiro was such a straight shooter with his kind words that you could get a little bashful. also while I’m here Suddenly laser focused in on I wonder if [Shirahama] had a crushing story of first love, too, even if he wouldn’t fess up to it. ha ha. anyway

TASHIRO’S FIRST LOVE no hold on I’m getting distracted again tashiro’s ears perking up when he hears ‘ping-pong’ Auh. whys this guy so cute. and unknowingly passionate Agony! BUT TASHIRO’S FIRST LOVE, THOUGH, GOD. “probably a teacher in elementary school or something” <- non-answer that he came to after thinking about it for-ever. My type is whoever I have a thing for at that particular moment.

I’m just really trying to get at tashiro’s facets lately. he’s so much. a hundred different angles to look at him from.

thinking about hanzawa to tashiro from the outside is so so so much fun. malleable enough to be fruitful in anyone’s hands. as efficient at trapping people as like. a bog pit or something. forces people to really think about and poke and prod at two guys who’ve got a lot more going on than a lot of people give them credit for. tashiro would have been so popular romantically if he was at a coed school but he didn’t go to one. is always asking questions. who could possibly be a better companion in weird love for hanzawa masato than tashiro gonzaburou, who’s also just. so weird about love.

I’d still kill to see harusono’s hanzawa to tashiro. the potential it has for being weird and strangely visceral. Please. please……

[polyhexian]

In eventually, Camila and Jasper have a decently supportive relationship, right? Like she's a supportive person in general, and he's able to reassure her that Luz is doing amazingly well in the Demon Realm, and sure there's still Jasper's issues but for the most part it's good.

Right, so what if in BvB, Camila and Will are just. Incapable of NOT setting each other into a panic.

Camila: I've been so worried about my daughter being in another world.

Will: Eh, don't worry, she holds her own. Her glyphs are no joke, she set one of my scouts on fire once. And she really packs a punch.

Camila: …wait, HAVE YOU BEEN FIGHTING MY DAUGHTER??

Will: Shit.

And like, Camila can't comfort him much either.

Will: So, as a parent who's been separated from their kid, can you tell me how that made you feel? For science.

Camila: Once I realized Luz was missing, I was prepared to do whatever it took to get her back! Fight the entire demon realm if I had to! Kill whatever monsters might get in my way!

Will: …well I can't say I'll be surprised if Hunter's dad kills me.

Camila: Oh! No! I mean--look, I'm upset at Eda, but I'm not gonna kill her! She's been taking care of my daughter and doing her best to help her grow and protect her and even if I'm upset I'm still grateful to her for that!

Will: *thinking of all the dangerous missions he's brought Hunter along on* Yeah I don't know if he's gonna be.

In bvb they've got a slightly different vibe and it's generally like... I mean. Jasper actually has a fucking adult friend. And hunter is a lot less traumatized than eventually. And also since jasper has actively been trying to kidnap him for three years I think it's a lot easier for hunter to forgive him for anything because like. He was visibly fucking doing his best lol

But in eventually like... Camila is empathetic and kind and like. Jasper is deeply fucking troubled. But I think... Surely she must see herself in him? He loves his son so fucking much but it's... Not enough. Just loving him is not enough. it's the same with luz-- she loves her so much, but Luz cannot be happy with her. She can't be. And it's not Camila's fault and there's probably nothing she could have done about it. Luz found a place she can be happy, and she has never been happy where she was. How much must that hurt? To know no matter how much she loves her, the best thing she can do for her is let her go.

And jasper has let Hunter go. Hunter is happier living with Camila. He loves him enough to be without him even though it's agony. She's literally done the same thing with Luz, and she ALSO hurt her. Not to nearly the extent as Jasper, but-- she tried to change her and I'm sure after Manny died her emotional connection with her became really strained and unhappy. And she knows she hurt Luz and that theres nothing she can do now. She can't fix it or change. And she clearly regrets that so much. Of course she has to sympathize with jasper and his regrets and pain and consequences.

I just... I know she must be in a lot of pain. Luz loves her but she still has to go. She just has to be okay with knowing that ultimately she did fail as a mother, because her goal was to raise a happy child and she didn't. Even if it wasn't her fault, even if she had tried her very best and couldn't do any better, it doesn't matter. That was her goal and she failed to reach it. That must be so painful. And so... Again. He was in such an impossible situation. What could he have done? What should he have done? What would would SHE have done? What must it be like to live with that?

He saved her sons life. Over and over again. He has also at this point has probably saved luz's life too, or at least, has protected her in a way where he might have. I think it's clear that... Jasper is a good person. But also... Something is so wrong with him. A lot is wrong with him. She's a vet. She's seen what a traumatized animal looks like. She's seen a frightened and confused dog who expects to be hit biting hands that try to help it. She has a lot of empathy for what's going on with him. And pity is not the kindest thing to feel for other people but... It's gotta be really hard not to pity him.

So yeah I think she like... Feels a sort of... Protectiveness over him. A little similar to how Gus feels extremely protective of hunter. He is technically her peer, but at the same time he is so much less developed. If you've ever had a friend you really cared about but also seen how fragile they might be and just feel... Like extremely protective of them... I think that's what she feels. He's sort of a friend but also like. Very concerned and protective of this person in her life who is really struggling and doesn't have much of a support structure in his life to help him. You know what? Luz pointed at Hunter and said My Brother Now. Camila has kind of done the same thing with jasper. Only Luz was like This Is My Annoying Older Brother Now. And Camila is like this is my fucked up little brother now and I keep trying to get him to come over and eat a fucking vegetable

[okthatsgreat]

Ocs in AHL anon here, I'm now wondering how well your OCs would deal with the Convention from lgowab.

YOURE SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok ok ok so. long story short: not fucking well

SPOILER TAG FOR LGOWAB LOL

just to get her out of the way, i honestly think billie would be fine. shes fifteen years old but not a season 53 member so i guess she'd be a spinoff character?? not involved in the main plot, kinda like a warrior of hope maybe. shes unassuming and nobody would be actively targeting her, she would NEVER be chosen as an enforcement team member, so as long as she keeps to herself she'd be fine. honestly it would just come down to luck, worst case scenario she gets gunned down after a failed task (this honestly seems most likely lmfao).

i think season 50 would be eighteen/nineteen at this point (since their season aired mayyyybe threeish years ago), so unfortunately most of the convention considers them to be past the age of "kids". which means theres not gonna be a lot of people watching out for them. Sad! sae is one of the "older" participants at 34 so she'd really be on her own here

from most to least likely to survive/what probably happened to them here we go (THIS IS NOT INCLUDING THE RANDOM FACTOR OF THEM BEING GUNNED DOWN BY THE FAILED TASK!!! ALSO TW FOR SUICIDE):

yoshito is fine i think. he's a protagonist that is liked enough and pretty damn harmless in most peoples eyes, so he'd have some kind of influence and isnt likely to be targeted. he wouldnt be asked into the enforcement team but he'd likely lean more towards the future foundation's side. he'd absolutely be in mental agony over his "i can save everybody" mentality but he'd make it out alive!

mika is smart enough to stick by yoshito and has been with danganronpa enough to learn how to survive it, she's scrappy and headstrong and i reckon she'd be fine. again she would lean more towards the future foundation side of things, would have major feelings of inadequacy and would have multiple breakdowns throughout the entirety of the convention but would probably make it out with a few scratches

sae would be asked onto the enforcement team just because of her physical strength and she would not have a good time about it, might have a target on her back during the latter half of the game but would be fine for most of it. would spiral quite a bit and definitely emerges with like a million mental illnesses resurfacing

rie is smart about appearances and extremely paranoid about her safety after her killing game so she would do quite a lot to survive. not sure if this includes killing anybody but she would deffffinitely change quite a bit. joining the enforcement team will be veryyyy difficult just because she isn't close enough to mondo/sayaka to get in while the team is being formed and she can't sell her smarts like miu did, but i think she'd try? that, or i can see her forming a more lowkey kind of alliance just so she has more people around her to protect her. super paranoid about not dying again, definitely has an ugly breakdown at some point, probably attracts a bit more attention than she would like to

ryobe would struggle BAD. BADLY. he has serious trauma from getting killed by a gun and what is the primary weapon of this convention? GUNS. he would be a completely different person, genuinely so frightened and traumatised, totally unlike his normally goofy and lighthearted self. would get irritated easily and become emotional at the drop of a hat. i have no doubt in my mind he would run around like mad and get himself caught in even further chaos. also he's the antag of his season so he has somewhat of a target already. would definitely need to be wrangled in to survive

erin would be in TROUBLEE since she has already been established as an AHL member. major target, massive presence, would really struggle to keep up her persona and actually could become quite violent if provoked and frightened enough. i think it's unlikely she survives this one to be real with you

straight up i think naomi just takes herself out i dont think there is a universe where she doesnt have a serious psychotic break and kill herself to be real with you. she can not handle another killing game and especiallyyy after her killing game and all of the trauma she is struggling to endure she would absolutely be the person who walks off the roof at the beginning of the story

and andi, of course, is a hologram

THANK YOUUU FOR THIS QUESTION!

[shadowthian]

HI. LISTENING TO THE PLAYLIST. TAIXU AND NEVERMORE. WHAT IF I FUCKING EXPLODED (POSITIVE) (EXPERIENCING EVERY EMOTION AT ONCE) (SAPPHIRE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)

GODDDD FUCKING FR

deadass Taixu and Nevermore were the ones that had me like. okay i HAVE TO send these to Leo i have to i have to they are THE time loop songs to me

i could make a post breaking down the specific lyrics that made me pick each song but i'll do Taixu and Nevermore here besides just. the entirety of them being reflections of the same time loop

TAIXU. GOD, TAIXU. i loooove Lasah's vocals and this song irrepairably changed me when i heard it. normal time loop enjoyer

"The first end came so suddenly, you couldn't say goodbye to me

The tenth ending was agony, I thought that we were meant to be

The hundredth end was simply just an apathetic day for me

The thousand end was ecstasy, the people called for me to bleed!

The millionth end was vanity, I thought I saw you smile at me

The billionth or the trillionth end, I gave up counting how many!"

just. god. this part alone would have made me pick Taixu for this. the first end came so suddenly, you couldnt say goodbye to me. who knows what happened to the first Viking? Sapphire doesnt! in general quite a few of these picks were based around what i understand of Sapphire's character and a little bit of Navigator. Sapphire steadily losing it more and more through the loops til we get to now, where he's willing to do Anything to escape. (also one of the reasons i picked Enough: "And if you can't tell what this is about, I've had enough and I want out.")

AND NEVERMORE. AUUUGGHHH. imagine listening to Taixu and then five years later THERES A SEQUEL TO IT. AUGHHH

"What am I becoming? He looked at me, asking me silently, "Are you me?"". " "Tell me, if I'm the only one, why am I becoming doubtful of this world?/Opposition, accusation, complication, wake me from this nightmare!/Tell me, if I'm the only one, why is there another winder of this world?" "Tell me, if I'm not anyone, I can make you special in this hollow world!"

like with taixu, really the entirety of nevermore deserves to be here, but heres some highlights that REALLY hit for me. definitely feels more of the vibe between Ruby and Sapphire than between Sapphire and Navigator, and the last lyric in particular AUUGGHHH. Ruby just trying to do his best and support their brother while Sapphire is staying hidden from him but attracting attention- and not strictly the good kind.

i am very normal and totally not playlists georg

[tmnt-obsessed-ace]

You mentioned a long time ago you had an idea for a tmnt 2012 and rottmnt au where the leos body swap

You ever gonna do anything with that

Oh yeah that

Well...I still have an idea for an interdimensional mindswap au

But it involves Hollow Knight (I have to appease the brain somehow, my other aus arent going anywhere I am still VERY much hyperfixated on turtles, but oh boy hollow knight is just so good)

So instead of 2012 Leo and Rise Leo swapping minds...

Its 2012 Leo and Hollow (aka the Hollow Knight themself)

And I think that would be objectively funnier

Considering that both of them would be going "I dont know where I am, what is wrong with my body, I am surrounded by people that act like they know me but I cant even understand what they're saying please help me" the entire time

Poor Hollow is gonna absolutely struggle as Leo. They have only just started to heal from the Radiance after over a century of torture and agony. They tried so incredibly hard to be the Pure Vessel, to be nothing more than an empty object. No mind to think, no will to break, no voice to cry suffering. Just a simple tool that would follow orders to a T and ensure that the Radiance never got out. But they WERENT. And when they're just starting to heal from all that they get yoinked into a different dimension, a different home and family into a different BODY. Now they are not only encouraged but EXPECTED to have their own thoughts, their own emotions, hopes, dreams and passions even their own personality. Thats supposed to be NORMAL.

Even worse when they're expected to GIVE orders and LEAD instead of following them.

(and to make it even more difficult, for the longest time Hollow is literally not gonna understand what Leo's family are saying to them. Because you know, the bugs of Hollow Knight dont speak ENGLISH. They speak their bug language, it just looks like english so the player can read it)

Meanwhile Leo on the other hand will be stuck inside a MASSIVE bug body.

A bug body that is SEVERELY FUCKED UP. Its hurts to move, it hurts to breath, everything is hurting nonstop and its AWFUL.

To make matters worse he is stuck in a kingdom where at least 98 percent of the population is DEAD (I say 98 because the Mantis tribe is still around and so are the people in dirtmouth. There are houses in the background of dirtmouth there have to be more bugs living there)

Which also means that there are a LOT of dead rotting bodies everywhere, so so many.

Hallownest is a corpse of a kingdom.

And thats really gonna fuck Leo up. Just imagine, a massive sprawling city with one maybe two people max. An empty city, an empty kingdom.

Theres no one.

Majority of people are dead. So many that they cant all possibly be properly buried.

The kingdom is a mass grave.

(Imagine if Leo ends up in the abyss. Imagine seeing thousands of corpses of your dead siblings.)

Yeah thats a fun au

[moonchild-in-blue]

hello i just wanted to let you know that you have banger takes and muse used to be my favorite band for the longest time so the fact theres someone else who thought “woah sleep token covering muse song” made me EXPLODE positively!!

also in case it’s not clear im fields-of-elation which is a side blog

anyway hope you know youre cool thats all, worship and all!!

Aw, thank you so much for that!! You think I'm cool?? 🥺 YOU'RE the coolest, friend 💖

Honestly, I think the amount of genres ST incorporate on their music, plus Vessel's disgustingly amazing vocal rage and technique, gives opportunity for some really amazing covers in any music category.

But yes - Muse are so incredible on their own. I find a lot of similarities with ST music-wise. Matt Bellamy is a criminally underrated vocalist for once - his falsettos and high notes are out of this world. He sings like he's in agony (something Ves does as well), all emotion and whimpers. And their instrumental proficiency is also insane (particularly those juicy, juicy bass lines). Vessel would kill it if he ever did a piano version of one of their songs, and if the whole band did it, well. I'd pass away.

That song I was referring to - Stockholm Syndrome - gives way to all 4 of them shine and excell in their instruments, and with the Vesselettes addition?? OOF. Like I said in that post, the lyrics to that particular song are very ST coded. If you had shown me the words and claimed it was them, I would not question it at all; it feels like something out of Sundowning.

Thank YOU for validating my musings (hehe) - you've got fenomenal taste as well, hun.

[marinetteplztakeabreak]

Trying to find a way to convey the Ladynoir Emotions i am feeling right now like… i trust this show and after Careful Thought about the themes and narratives it’s chosen to hi light i think that it’s probably going to address the way that ladynoir has been growing apart again and i think it’s building to that eventually. And also i think a lot of the narrative choices WERE very cool and fun!!! And there’s a lot of great directions they can go from here!! And i am obsessed with ladynoir ESPECIALLY it’s bad and falling apart because thays when its the mosy fun,,, and i think theres a reason this fandom loves ladynoir enemy au’s so much,,, like,,, theyre so strong together it’s VERY fun to split them up,,, and i know this show has gone on for so many seasons and they gotta have Plot happen,,, the status quo has gotta change up at some points,,,,, and like!!!! In general i have loved season 5 and i trust the writers to take it in a cool direction!!!! but ALSO!!!!!!!!! (Howls and wails in agony and screams at the moon) WHERE IS THE LADYNOIR WHY ARENT THEY TOGETHER WHY ARENT THEY HOLDING HANDS AND KISSING

[onewomancitadel]

What do you think about chivalry being a apart of Jaune's character? Do you believe it's a good thing? Because I've seen it referred to as something offensive and talked about as if theres something wrong with it. Do you think that Jaune being chivalrous is wrong or that it's somehow "harmful"?

Characters embody ideals as much as they embody emotional verisimilitude of a real person, so chivalry being an idea explored in Jaune's character is something that reads as pretty natural to me. However, it's explored through the lens that R/WBY wants to explore those ideas through, which is going to be grounded in something life-affirming and also - to the modern viewer - more egalitarian.

Chivalry as it stands historically doesn't really represent anything that noble; chivalry as we conceive of it is mostly an idea that exists in fiction. I'm talking about knightly chivalry here, not chivalry in the sense of men holding open doors for women. Which is probably where the misunderstanding happens, because the modern notion of chivalry grounded in gender roles is derived from an ahistorical notion of medieval chivalry. A thing that doesn't really exist in the way it claims to exist predicated upon something that never existed in the way we conceive of it is rather farcical.

I like that interplay of fictional ideals coupled with the reality of expected decorum and behaviour, and if I had extremely high expectations of R/WBY appreciating the ins and outs of the historical record, I might go so far as to say that a play on that fiction vs. history would be something they'd be good at (what with fairytales being real). I don't think this is necessarily the case, but it does add nice flavour to a character like Jaune.

As I said: it's nice flavour, but it's really just part of the romantic aesthetics of knighthood and masculinity. As you can tell, I really don't understand Jaune fans obsessed with murder when a) they don't understand his Semblance/the themes/the story and b) killing Penny is now the darkest hour of his soul. It's not a good thing.

I suppose you could go so far as to say that the Jaune/Weiss 'romance' is a type of chivalric romance (unreciprocated, unconsummated, pure childhood fascination and entitlement, represented by a white rose) and the same for Jaune/Pyrrha, but I don't expect either of these (... in a potential pattern of three) to be the ultimate answers to what chivalric romance would look like in his character arc. Actually, rather appropriately, the troubadours and that evolving medieval concept of romance is something that I think might be rather fitting: it's what Campbell talks about (the bloke who did the monomyth). So if I expect some type of extreme romantic, life or death devotion, Wound of Love type shit:

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Right. That’s a very mysterious thing, that electric thing that happens. And then the agony that can follow, which is that which the troubadours celebrate, you know, the agony of the love, the sickness that the doctors cannot cure; the wounds that can be healed only by the weapon that delivered the wound.

BILL MOYERS: Meaning?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Well, the wound is the wound of my passion and agony of love for this creature, and the only one who can heal me is the one who delivered the blow, you know.

BILL MOYERS: So we often hurt most the person we love, and heal the hurt by the love that hurt.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: That’s something like that, that’s the paradox of the job.

I would expect it with whomever comes next.

Overall, I would say that there is something of a conflict here between what chivalry is, and what we think we're talking about. I think chivalry is probably only flavour added to his character and potential romance, but is not necessarily grounding his character thematically (only in a reconstructive sense, I think, in response to the story's ideas). I don't know if talking about harm is necessarily the right angle here, because chivalry itself isn't 'harmful', it's what the story is saying about it that is the interesting part. As it stands, it doesn't seem to be a major thrust of his character arc, but I don't think people who think Jaune is 'chivalrous' are using the word in the same way I am.

For that matter, tonally, if you've got chivalry as a theme involved, there is that undercurrent of heresy with Joan of Arc. Chivalry and heresy (following codified ideals of behaviour/going against codified ideals of behaviour) as conflicting ideas is a lot of fun. Of course, I do maintain that whatever heretical idea he completely commits to is something that is considered wrong by people at first but is actually the most correct thing to do (helping Cinder).

So, in that case, ideals and resolve figuring into his arc make perfect sense (and the same is when you have the ideal of masculine self-sacrifice conflicting with the nurturer/life he could save instead figured most prominently in V5 and onwards).

If I go even further, that connection of chivalry/heresy with Cinder and the medieval ideas of romance means the Wound of Love - and its conception of love and pain - is even more appropriate. Lol.

I don't know how to address the gender anxiety surrounding Jaune's character, but a nuanced conversation looking at what the story is saying is always more interesting to me.