now hold up a minute. im literally going on a trip next sunday when leverkusen plays. how the fuck am i supposed to watch history play out when im in a pool
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honestly I find it really weird when people get mad at "cozy" or low stakes popcorny stories for not being deep and meaningful.
like no, shit, why on earth did you pick up the cozy book thinking you were gonna get gritty realism that had something to say about society. like you don't have to read those books, no one is making you, but literally the point of them is make you not have to worry and turn your brain off for a bit. like???? are we gonna get mad at "squeecore" again now? are we back here again??
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That Claudia post reignited my internal screaming about Manfred’s situation in the story and how he is treated in the narrative (likely specifically because it is a middle-grades series).
Manfred is treated as a very unsympathetically evil villain because the story is told from the perspective of his victims. Which, in fairness, is basically everyone on the “good side”, whether they know he contributed to their problems or not. Plus all the kids in the school who are afraid of him just as a bully of an older boy who has scary powers. Even when the narration is from Manfred’s perspective he sounds like an ass; the story is just really driving home that this is not a likable guy.
The thing is, when looking at his situation in the context of him as also a child, it reframes things so that he can become more sympathetic. The story shows him hurting people and participating in kidnappings as a child in order to make him seem even more creepy (this is how the “good” characters react to it), but these are actions Ezekiel and Harold guide him in. It’s explicit in the past scenes that when he harms people it’s because they want him to, he is a weapon because they raised him to be one. Almost everything he has done that harmed someone during the series was on instruction from Ezekiel (more rarely Harold), and even the stuff that wasn’t can still be attributed to how they raised him to act and use his powers to serve their interests.
Sometimes characters in situations like Manfred’s are written so that, while no one in the story sympathizes with them or is on their side, at least the audience will be. But Manfred doesn’t even get that. The audience is not meant to care about him, they are meant to feel satisfied at an evil boy burning up in his own flames.
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Right in time for bad weather to roll in!
There's a game on the Vita that I adored because you created both your character and also a second character that followed you around. (in that game, you're a little fella and your secondary is basically your babysitter who can't feel emotions and is programmed to be not be fond of you)
On many consoles, there's another game where you create your character and also create a secondary and it's very much your first in authority. (Arisen and Pawns? Multiple people knew of the game when I posted fanart of my silly duo so.)
However, there's tragically a third game I found in which you also have two characters and the first one is a fella, a hooman... and the second is AI. And absolutely adores you. Buuuut I made my primary a kind of indifferent fella named Adam and then in honors of the first one I mentioned, I named my secondary 'sqlmn' which is basically pronounced 'salmon'. Which is what my angy babysitter was named, Salmon.
Anyway I'm too embarrassed to admit which game I'm playing so have fun guessing!
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being into stavrovensky is weird bcs one second I'm sitting here going omfg over this queer-coded dark academia anti-everything twink who would destroy himself and the world and more a thousand times over for his sun who is his better half but also really is just super depressed and the worst and most beautiful guy on earth and eternally bored but he laughs when Pyotr /flies into the room with impulsive curiosity/ literally just emotionally impaired walking personality disorders torturing and being silly with each other and the next i have fifty two tabs and twelve books open trying to crack the underlying philosophical political religious aesthetic layers of this crazy ass yaoi and i just
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