#which for SO MANY REASONS was impossible

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[innocet]

beginning to think you guys dont know that screenwriting is a different skill than prose. yknow. because its a different form. kate orman is my favorite novelist full stop end of sentence but i think it is flat out Nonsense to believe that a novelist who has never written for television or as far as i can tell Any Visual Medium Whatsoever should be the Next Showrunner Of Dr Who. I don't think she knows how to do that

[ganondoodle]

honestly cant stand how technically important demise is and yet how he doesnt actually matter or exist in peoples minds as a character, the only thing that matters is his stupid "curse" thing and its the only thing why he will ever be brought up, theres never really any thought around him that isnt related to the "cuuuurse", otherwise he basically doesnt exist in the fandom

to some extent its understandable given how little he actually is in the game but it still makes me sad and a little frustrated imo he shouldnt be treated like soemthing so unimportant given hes involved with the literal start of the timeline

and worst of all is how he and ganondorf make each other worse, like their link is completely deniable yet its like more often than not treated like gan is to demise what zelda is to hylia, but even that isnt used interestingly no, its only ever to write off gan as "well, hes just a demon, demons need no motives or character, they are jsut evil" WHICH IS SO BORING, and people will be HAPPY about that??? they go yippie gan is jsut an evil demon yaaay like the fuck???

it goes around to that other post i made about how not wanting a better written gan is wanting everything to be worse, bc a better written villain is a better written everything and there is only winning in that

demise specifically is just a sore spot for me since hes my blorbo, and the way even gan fans hate him for introducing the "cuuurse" thing just makes it hurt doubly, i get why, still its just so .. man i wish BOTH gan and demise were allowed to be characters, at least gan was a character at some point, demise has nothing ;__;

[br1ghtestlight]

personally i imagine that the remaster is mephone's hypothetical idea of what season one would look like if he was able to recreate it w/ the knowledge and experience he has today. which means that broader themes and characterization (like lightbulb being trans) ARE 100% canon mephone just didn't have those words to describe them back then

but it also means that the remaster is influenced by what he knows of these characters and their relationships today which is why lightbulb and paintbrush are interacting so much when they never spoke in the original. bcuz in mephone's mind "paintbrush and lightbulb are friends" and subconciously he assumes that must've always been true. so their characterization skews more towards how they act in later seasons bcuz mephone's thinking of them as they are NOW vs how they actually were in season one

almost the opposite of what test tube and fan did w/ bot where they were trying to recreate bow based on an outdated understanding of who she was in season one vs who she later became

[babymorte]

spending the entire day putting in apartment applications and tour requests and lemme tell you this shit is STRESSFUL

[deeplovelydark]

thinking about how many of jadzia's 'unfeminine' qualities are kind of legitimized by them having been curzon's–or one of the other dax's male hosts'–first. interest in klingons, attraction to women, love for gambling, a violent streak, a free-spirited and somewhat reckless nature, sleeping around... an interesting outlier is her taking up martial arts which seems to be a synthesis of curzon's klingon obsession & appreciation of a good fight and emony's gymnastics, particularly the control it gave her over her body and mind. jadzia was a shy and somewhat self-conscious young woman but with great ambition as well. she was incredibly clever and excelled in sciences. but nerdiness is not one of jadzia's prominent qualities once she's joined. is it because it's not 'hot' and in that way even worse than the transgression of being 'masculine' as a woman? is it because as dax jadzia for the first time in her life feels confident enough to be anything else but nerdy? does she know who she really is except a scientist and a joined trill? were all these desires present in jadzia but suppressed? or maybe there is a certain freedom in it: she's worked hard and thought for this, achieved this and now she gets to enjoy being dax. those qualities and desires may not come from jadzia but now they're hers, they're jadzia dax's and she will indulge them.

(I want to be someone else but for it to feel like it's natural. like it is who I am. and jadzia did work for it. just like a person irl works to change themselves).

[coquelicoq]

i ate a cupcake recently without first spending five minutes talking about how logistically stressful it is to eat a cupcake, so. i am capable of growth

[pickaropoprocks]

Fighting battles that have ABSOLUTELY been seen before (wanting to restart my Animal Crossing New Leaf town so I can begin the game from scratch and as myself as I am now vs. not wanting to restart my town because nostalgia and I'd miss my villagers)

[cerbreus]

baking never feels more like science to me than when i'm trying to cobble together an intricate multi step recipe together from several different recipes and tutorials online because the recipe I'm imagining doesn't exist....

[branmuffins22]

ive been struck by the horrible terrible yearning again. where my blorbos have me writhing and languishing in gender envy

[adhdo5]

I am going to start ripping off my own limbs

[azierum]

i love cooking up oc lore. it makes me so giddy coming up with good ideas. usually from the most random inspiration

[quietwingsinthesky]

im going to lay here and think about pond family cuddle piles until i fall asleep

[lesbiansanemi]

Can Twitter finally just fucking implode I am so sick of hearing about that stupid ass website

[mikkeneko]

If you're wondering how the hell studies could have gotten things so backwards, consider that there is a significant overlap between the populations of "people who are overweight" and "people who diet a lot." very few studies on weight and nutrition science have a usable way to distinguish between these populations

fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders