#this is just the plot of the play tbh

[lavenderapollo]

incorrect shakespeare quotes #18

hamlet: you love me, right, horatio?

horatio: normally, i’d say yes without hesitation, but i feel like this is going somewhere and i don’t like it.

[creative-robot]

I know The Founders Cut, generally, is the edited scrubbed over version of genloss from Showfall in-universe (as well as a not-8-hour-long-three-stream-binge-night whenever we want to watch it again) but something that struck me as odd and I haven’t seen anyone mention yet, is this warning

It shows up right at the junction where the third act starts, where it appears the Hero is breaking free of Showfall thanks to Hetch. But here’s the thing, while a LOT less than the previous acts the audience still played a significant role in this act, even when really only given two audience interaction choices. Which makes me wonder, how real is this warning, and who is it for? Obviously the audience involved knows what happens past this point, but the audience is also implied to be an integral part of the Social Experiments, which is part of why things start to tweak out when the Founder removes them in the Founder Cut as the Generation Loss generation loses.

My first thought, was that obviously this is another bait and switch, a way to draw the audiences attention, seeing something that’s secret, something that’s not “meant for them”, which is a tactic I could see Showfall using in universe to keep people’s attention and add an air of mystery to their shows.

But

Showfall is doing all their experiments and these shows with a LOT of help from their censors to show it off, displaying a fun silly show that is definitely not uber fucked up and that is 100% just slime don’t worry about it, it’s kid friendly if it’s green! And I don’t think they’d want to bet all their cards on this one experiment doing well enough to their audience to not question the sudden shift in tone that follows this warning. Which makes me wonder.

They did their test, they did their experiment, and the evidence of this last act? I think it was a one time run, they don’t want anyone seeing this, it isn’t for the audience. Act three is specifically to both test and play with their Hero, Hetch’s new lines add a level to this, never once does he call the Hero by their name, just refers to Ranboo as their Role, and he’s not exactly. Nice? About literally any of Ranboos concerns, which wouldn’t really seem conductive to making an audience trust him, especially with his monologue at the end. Ranboo has escaped before, possibly right before act 1 started, they tightened the security on his mask to be unremovably part of them, Hetch doesn’t like the Hero but they’re a fan favorite so he can’t just get rid of them.

Act three is the cumulation of Ranboo being punished for things they don’t remember, for daring to break free from Showfalls control, this is Hetch taking the Hero and essentially majorly fucking and manipulating them to take his frustration out on a fan favorite they can’t otherwise get rid of or give a smaller role like Slimecicle. which is exemplified by the fact that we now know Charlie most likely was never able to actually able to fully snap out of the control, that even in act three in panic and confusion there was at least still a part of him being influenced by Showfall.

So the first two acts are the usual show, they have their posters, they have Squiggles to introduce them, they have goofs and silliness and only a couple slip ups that’re quickly dealt with, the usual rose tinted curtains. Act three?

Do not watch the following material

[sskk-manifesto]

Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple and how “ability users” (opposite to “normal people”) learning to accept themselves through the acceptance of their own abilities is a queer metaphor of acceptance of own's sexual orientation and gender: an essay by me

[purpleshadow-star]

Pic context: Talking about the exy stadium at USC considering the fact that USC is a real school

I love how Nora just invents things in order to avoid complications with real-life things.

Like, using USC's football stadium as the exy stadium too would take a lot of work to figure out how that would be possible. Solution: invent a new stadium!

Having the characters play a real sport that already exists would mean looking into all the rules and regulations and history, etc, and there could be multiple elements of the sport that work against the plot of the story or complicate it in some way. Solution: invent a new sport!

I mean, it gives her full creative control over what happens in the story, and we as readers get to learn about a cool new thing without feeling the need to fact-check every element. Tbh, it makes so much sense to me.

Like, go off! Make stuff up! It's your world. We're just reading and enjoying and becoming obsessed with it!!!

[zhoras-bitch]

If Aerin was a Love Interest in book 1

[kunsels-inbox]

Somewhere I know Genesis is watching Remake/Rebirth and seething because Sephiroth has clones now and that was his thing first!

[huldrabitch]

All the DA2 romances alsmost feel a bit unfullfilling to me, are there many others that prefer Hawke single with the subtext of an unspoken Varric thing?

[icouldhyperfixatehim]

poor mork getting punished for the crime of being in a hypervigilant state he hasn't dealt with :( like i get it yadda yadda the conventions of the form but idk i'd have liked to see a different path taken. day's had a great self acceptance journey (loved the white cane finally making its appearance and being referenced in tandem with day's preoccupation with how people perceive him), and the way he's grown to accept support from others while managing his own independence has been really lovely. but it would have been nice to see mork get his parallel there, to be able to move through some of the steps of healing with others to lean on while he does it, not just being cast out on his own. mork's not really had a problem with independence, he's had a problem with dependence - letting other people take care of him and bear his weight, letting needs be filled by people/things that aren't him or in his control, "my sister killed herself because i didn't answer a call". i would have rather seen him have an equivalent moment to someone clearing rocks from the path in front of him so that he could climb to healing. not just sort of sending him off to a mountain on his own.

[dat-silvers-girl]

History often tends to repeat itself.

ft. Carewyn @carewyncromwell because we need the responsible friend also mom plz stop her

If I considered Jacob going blind actually canon, (I don't cuz it's a stupid plotline) then I think about how genuinely desperate Sarahi would be to heal him. And like Sebastian, she's willing to do just about anything. Dark magic would be fair game.

Funnily enough, the only thing stopping Sarahi from going down the rabbit hole of Dark Magic is that... she's an idiot.

Sebastian is a scholar and taught himself the Unforgivables. You know how much effort and genius that takes??? And then there's Sarahi... Fully dependent on Rowan, and later, on everyone else, to even understand what's written in basic textbooks because she doesn't have the braincells to process information. Someone will need to teach her unforgivables on purpose. And who would do that?

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Rakepick. Yeah. Sarahi knows Crucio because Rakepick taught her. She's never used Crucio, but she does know it. Dammit Rakepick.

[universalcaffination]

I finished Triangle finally, after setting it aside for life events. Gotta say, not as bad as i was fearing a story about shoving a woman between kirk and spock (and the major plot point is that she loves them both) might be. In fact, I would go so far as to say I enjoyed it!

In fact, the book - through talking about the "love triangle" between kirk, sola, and spock, the story - (in?)advertantly talks very casually about spirk. it's like through introducing the possibility of heterosexuality by adding a woman, the author manages to gloss over the gay that is present in two of three people in a polyamorous relationship being men who love each other (to the point when spock calls kirk th'lya btw, this was published like 4 years after TMP)

It's like schrodinger's cat but for sexualities and skirting under censors

[menlove]

like actually and genuinely I do think fried green tomatoes had a deep impact on my queerness as a child. I watched it when I was about 7 and at that age I was OBSESSED with male characters that acted like idgie: devoted, head over heels for a girl, the Big Hero with a little snark, the underdog. and it was the first time I saw a female character acting like that and towards another woman no less. I didn't really understand that they were gay yet, but I knew that I saw myself in idgie and that movie became so so special to me. and now as an adult and a butch... it's just always so comforting to rewatch

[read-write-thrive]

wanting to get more in rp VS currently obsessed with a fandom I haven’t consumed the original media for & wouldn’t feel comfortable writing about as a result …

[the-knife-consumer]

"Yona was just added bc Nintendo wants people to stop shipping sidlink!" Literally what the hell are you talking about

[rui-143]

got a new game called tokyo debunker

as of where i am right now in the game it's alright!

not really what i expected to see since i pre-registered it due to the ads but ehhh

[designernishiki]

I feel like I liked yakuza 5 a lot more than most people for some reason

[shima-draws]

GIRATINA?? IN MY PMD GAME???