#more like a rant but eh

[grimalkinmessor]

Ryuk and Light's relationship is so important to me, you don't understand—

I am a staunch 'Ryuk is aro/ace' believer, so it's not about that, but whatever they have is also not anything else more than the other. Like, they're not lovers, they're too close to be acquaintances, too vicious to be friends, too uncaring to be enemies, like,,,,I can't EXPLAIN it but I adore it, it has me by my whole neck.

The way that Light isn't afraid of Ryuk at all, the way that he patiently explains everything he's doing without putting up that Perfect facade of his—because Ryuk is the only one that Light has ever shown all of himself too. The only being that he's ever given bits of himself to freely.

Meanwhile Ryuk is possibly the only being that wouldn't shy away from Light as he truly is. (Barring L but that's a different story and this ain't about him). Light's a little fucking monster and every other person around him wouldn't just roll with it like Ryuk does. His family would either fear him or try to fix him, his peers would likely do the same, and Misa already got a glimpse of him and disregarded it in favor of seeing what she wanted to see—even Rem has reason to be wary of him because of her feelings for Misa (and also the fact that she likely has more humanity in her than Ryuk).

Ryuk sticks by Light's side through all of it. He cares for him, but not in any traditional or even tangible way—why else would he stick around for those five years between L dying and Near and Mello showing up? It HAD to have been boring at some point in those years, but Ryuk just chilled with Light through it instead of killing him/finding something more interesting.

There's a mutual respect there. Their personalities reflect each other enough that they understand each other while also being highly aware of what the other is capable of. There are no soft feelings between them, but they're there. They play video games together and have inside jokes and expect almost nothing from each other even as they play around for their own ends.

Their parallels—"This world is rotten." "I've been bored too."—make them able to intimately understand one another. They're like brothers, like twins, and yet nothing about them is familial.

I have absolutely no clue what their relationship is but it is fascinating.

#ryuk #yagami light #light yagami #death note #its romantic in the sense that it's absolutely not #i imagine this is what the relationship would be between people that grew up in a cult together #like 'idc if you die but i'll stick by you until you do' #there's no loyalty but also there IS do you feel me? #blood brothers or conjoined twins or a fucked up version of soulmates #i dont KNOW its great #character analysis #sorta #relationship analysis #more like a rant but eh #*puts them in a jar and shakes them* #WHAT ARE YOU #and yes im aware that most of this is due to ryuk being a metaphor for the audience #like paul in llamas with hats #but also #it creates SO many interesting situations #ryuk doesnt want light to die but he kills him #ryuk sees all of light and is fucking thrilled by how fucked up he is #light knows that ryuk will eventually kill him but stills plays and talks with him #they are so important to me #i honestly kinda ship them but IDK H O W TO WRITE THIS LIKE #HOW DO I PUT THIS INTO WORDS

[rainbow-arrow]

"So you don't know me completely either, and yet we're still close friends, right?"

"I don't know what I'd do without you."

the most criminally underrated friendship in this entire show

#let's go #listen marinette gets to be kagami's friend on screen why is this held off until the moment he's leaving #luka couffaine #adrien agreste #lukadrien #mlb migration #ml #mlb #miraculous ladybug #shows up a month late to Rant about This episode #did i like this episode? more than most of the s5 ones but #eh #this show ended at wishmaker you can't change my mind on that

[kelocitta]

What a worthless animal

#oc: siggy #first image is babies attempting to figure out their ideal limb count #anyway having a bit of a 'never trust how you feel about your life at 3am' moment but i think the artfight brain plague is beginning to hit #dont worry about me im fine #just feeling a lil bad about maybe not being able to clean up the revenges i would like too and theres sooo many i didnt even get to sketch #and am only at like 50% of how much i 'scored' last year so it makes me feel a lil eh like im not doing as much #but ultimately i did way way more revenges even if it mightve been a mistake LMAO so at least thats something #although i feel bad cause i didnt even revenge some of the coolest ones i got!!! augh!!!!!!!!!! #ah well beetles dont have to deal with these problems we should be more like them #if you read my tag rants sorry about the lore on how my brain works you should check out the wooly chafer beetle

[sas-afras]

i’m kind of a bitch about video game mechanics Not having to be 1:1 representations of irl shit but i truly do love the re4 inventory management system where items take up physical space in ur inventory and u only have a certain number of Slots to hold things in.

genuinely if i had my way this is how fallout survival mode inventory would work, but i don’t think it would mesh well with the pip boy UI :/

#not art #my roommate accidentally got me into TFC minecraft where everything is way more based on how it would work irl #and i’ve started to appreciate how granular it gets #the main reason the creator made it was to be like the ideal survival mode for minecraft #and that made me think of the ideal fallout survival mode obviously. because there’s something wrong w me! #but the fact that survival is so easy even In Survival Mode makes a lot of the narrative stakes a lot less. heavy #eh a rant for another time

[get-more-bald]

every day I thank god fans aren't in charge of making updates to games

#unless ofc you play tf2 #but STILL like. ive seen so many bullshit rebalances for spies and snipers #and like. ik the current system is plain tiring to fight against but these people WOULD MAKE IT WORSE #i just saw a post about fallout 4 changes #and some of them are obvious. like changing danses dialogue after blind betrayal etc #but like. NO. some of these..... #WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO REPAIR NICKS FACE? #1 thats his charm. hes old and broken down. 2 it would NOT help his identity issues #like this is the face and hes made it his own. hes no longer an institute synth AND he's no longer the pre-war human detective valentine #also romancing him....eh. i admit i would also love to romance him #but to quote one of the disco elysium creators: the thing about desires is that theyre much stronger when theyre not fully satiated #thered for sure be still nick simpers ofc. as am i. but imo i think thered be less #and again coming back to tf2. i saw recently a post on reddit that made a concept sapper for spy to use on medics #and like please 😭😭😭you want to sap the medigun? you want to sap übercharge? you want to hurt medics EVEN MORE? #playing med well is hard enough as is normal girl. there was a comment down below saying that the spy should have sappers for each class #and WHAT. STOP. the spy ALREADY has a way to hurt all classes! #if he gets close enough he either dies immediately or backstabs! why do you want to sap too! #and spy is already SPECIFICALLY a counter to engie! and gets countered by pyro! its a good balance imo #ofc theres some tweaks to be made for each class but CMON. thatd be a HUGE rework for spy #and some other comment said that a sapped medigun should hurt teammates. FRIENDLY FIRE IS EXPLICITLY NOT A THING!!! #we should bully spy mains more btw #okay. bitching over. sorry #i have more to say but ughhhhhhhh #thatd be pretty much just repeating what i already said basically #mine #rant

[thelittleprinceconfirmed]

Ok yeah Fyolai's song is Bernadette but on a cuter and more wholesome point can we imagine The Zombie song and Gingerbread man

#i dunno i feel like they fit #gingerbread man would be nikolais pov #i mean the zombie song would also be nikolais song but eh #plus i like these more than bernadette so #even tho i guess bernadette is hard to replace #idfk man #bsd #gogol bsd #bsd gogol #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #bsd fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor dostoevsky #fyolai #bsd rants #i guess thats it

[no1ryomafan]

Very stupid getter thing I’m thinking about as it’s such a minor detail but my brain is circling around how color is used in the series, more specifically for the robot.

Color palettes for your badass giant robot mean everything but the color choices in Getter are *very* important as it was the first-and few-robots to have multiple different forms in one, and are all compromised of jets to make the robot.

The designs needed to be consistent with this aspect, having the Getters color palette use all three individual colors of the jets. What’s noteworthy about the colors used is the robots almost follow using the primary colors of red, blue and yellow, but the blue is swapped out for white. This was likely due to a better color balance, as while the primary colors would work if the robots weren’t individually joined but still a group, keeping in mind the concept of how they form from jets the blue would likely clash too much with red and yellow, where as white makes it all smoothly come together.

Nearly every Getter set since tries to follow this tradition of using red, white and yellow in there palettes, but aside from a few obvious exceptions for Getters that were meant to stick out-like Neo/Go, as that robot doesn't run on getter rays so the palette was changed drastically to reflect its nature-the most obvious example of a traditional Getter breaking this tradition and going for blue over white is Getter Robo G.

While each and every Getter has its own factors to stand out and differentiate itself, the G line for simply having one small color change really sets it apart. Especially with its OG design above, it’s hard to not notice its version of Getter Two (Liger) had a color change that affects the whole palette. So people either love or hate G for this, even if later takes of its design like Armageddon, try to tweak the colors to be more visually appealing by keeping it strictly to the main color of the respective jet. (This also carrying over for Shin Getter in the show)

But why do I mention any of this? Well I was in fact thinking about this regarding Arma and Getter 2, but less on the actual designs itself and more so a rather small yet likely intentional detail: How Kei is associated with the color blue before it’s even shown that she pilots Shin Liger. From her own promo art with Shin 2 having her being colored in blue despite Go and Gais colors being their respective robot, to her pilot suits having blue shoulder pads to match with Liger, which we see before the robot even appears. (Yes I’m using a SRW art instead of a show shot, just deal with it lol)

This is such a small detail but the team likely had probably a rough idea of what to do with Shin Dragon, so seeing them giving small hints to the viewer-albeit one has to see a art of this prior to know lol-before it even happens is pretty cool. Just goes to show how much insane detail Getter has across its series.

#meg text #getter robo armageddon #getter robo g #my first ramble of the year and it’s a fucking mess LOL #(I was tempted to delete it after until I looked at the time and went “I don’t wanna waste time like this”) #I do wanna make a more in depth post about the build up to go team piloting shin dragon but need my thoughts organized #by which I need to make a whole google doc for it (which I tried and deleted for some fucking reason bc I’m dumb) #hopefully it still in my deleted drafts but probably not (but I didn’t finish so eh) #rants aside my autistic brain was just thinking so hard about this because arma really like it’s pilot suit colors #I think about how ryomas team also has their scarves be the corresponding colors to their robots… love that #the go teams shoulder pads is a nice parallel to that but I like how between all pilots hayato and kei are the ones not to match #simply because liger stands out but that fits with kei so well because she’s the one pilot on the team who’s a girl #yet her suit is also white so it’s not like she doesn’t entirely not match with hayato lol

[anothermonikan]

Nooo don't try to do interpretation and analysis on a character from a piece of media you don't have all the information for yet, you're too cute aha ^^;

#sorry. I went on a rant to my friends about HAL #and like. man. I've watched the movie once I don't know anything about how the director wanted it to be interpreted #i haven't read the books #but just based on movie alone I was like. actually no I don't buy that everything HAL did was completely premeditated #and I'm probably so wrong about that but gwah. he's just a tiny scared guy!! #(my argument was a lil more complex than that obviously but I'm not repeating the rant aha ^^;) #sigh. i gotta do work but I'm gonna use getting more into this as motivation #eepy times now ehe #2001 aso #2001 a space odyssey #android.txt

[jonathanrook]

i take back everything i've ever said i want to get married so fucking bad

#this isn't a subtweet i'm not in a relationship lmao #and i prommy this isn't just bc it's cold or cuffing season or whatever #the past few months i've just been like. damn i want a wedding #nothing big or fancy it'd more or less just be a little party #and would you believe. i've also been a bit broody #(anyway not to give the brits undue points but they popped off w that piece of slang eh) #like i still don't really want my own kids i don't think but i want to be like. a cool aunt #i was playing with my cousins earlier who're like three and seven and it was making me a bit emotional #that's never happened before what's happening to me #maybe i do truly want to become the daddy #or like. be a housewife #i still want to cook for someone. now. #what's your favorite meal let me cook for you #anyway. imagine cooking for your lovely wife forever i want #it!!! what's happening to me!!!!!! #rachel rants

[archduke-enver-gortash]

#i hope this doesn’t sound rude but. i wish what i create wouldn’t just be barely tolerated at BEST for once #in fandom or in general or whatever #like you know that most people straight up don’t like what you do and even if they like it a bit they would always like it more if it was. #well. different! #and like. it’s fine. people like what they like. but god is it hard on my brain sometimes. #eh who cares we ball! WE BALL #(gripping the bathroom sink while looking into the mirror) #anyways sorry for reblogging that post about ranting in tags and then doing it an hour later #heart <3

[ophiliaclement]

I know the game isn't even out yet but I've already seen some really lukewarm takes about castti. I'm begging you all don't do to her what everyone did to ophilia. these are actual characters with agency and emotion beyond mom friend-ifying them

#octopath traveler #octopath 2 #ophilia clement #castti florenz #a lot of ophilias stuff was quite between the lines - a child of war who believes she owes her life to the sacred flame + is deeply lonely #she thinks the only worth she has is in being a healer and helpful so she's not a burden to others. so she will shoulder everyone's burdens #as well as her own. she starts a holy pilgrimage because she thinks her sister deserves to stay by their ill father's side more than her. #and when lianna does... chapter 4 things ophilia gets PISSED. like this is the only time shes ever seen as remotely angry. #shes so betrayed in that moment #and then you have castti who is clearly not okay. she's very blunt and talks like a zombie. #she's clearly got something shady going on with Eir's Apothecaries. she has an underlying sharp edge to her. #one of her battle lines is literally #'there is no cure for evil.' #like. please don't mom friend her she has DEPTH she is clearly not an 100% cut and dry Good Kind Person #and thats okay!! your healer can be a dick. look at temenos. #side note is it really a coincidence the male healers get depth to them in this fandom but the female ones get a cookie cutter personality #eh. #anyway thank you for reading my rant.

[wearily-confused]

ystrdy my brother went into my room and just his pencils (new pencils) e v e r y w h e r e

for no apparent reason

*resigned sigh*

siblings

#its weirder bcz just a few days ago he was asking me for pencils #like now that you have more pencils KEEP THEM my guy keep them #i just know he's gonna be asking me for more pencils in a few days #coincidentally enough i accidentally dropped my box of pens ystrdy too #am too lazy to pick them all up #eh #will pick them up in a while #was just hoping for him to come and collect his pencils #but no dice #they are everywhere #like every everywhere #i dont even want to open my drawers to check for more #eph #siblings #rant? in the tags ig #desiblr

[the-silly-man-kaprix]

HELLO PEOPLE OF TUMBLR. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. REALLY.

I have realized a MASSIVE problem in the homosexual oc couple community not just on Tumblr, but EEEEVERYwhere.

TOO MANY GAY COUPLES ARE SEXUALIZED AND TOO MANY LESBIAN COUPLES ARE WHOLESOME.

I do not CARE if this gets me banned. I need to speak. I NEED TO.

I'm not saying that there isn't any wholesome gay couples or... raunchy lesbian couples out there but COME THE FUCK ON!! IT'S A MAJORITY VOTE!!

Make some more!! Get the gays to be more wholesome!! Make the lesbians screw!! CMON!!

MORE DIVERSITY, PEOPLE!!

#rant post #lgbtq #gay #mini rant #CMON YALL. PLEASE #MAKE MORE OF THIS. #LIKE CMON!!! #does this count as a meme #eh screw it I'm tagging it as such #meme

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread    

City of Nightmares

1920s insp fantasy city where people can turn into their worst nightmares if they don’t take dream-preventing medication

a girl with anxiety & pstd from her sister turning, living in a maybe-cult, ends up in the centre of a criminal conspiracy

you can pry a platonic reading of the main relationship out of my cold dead hands

#City of Nightmares #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i really enjoyed this!!! #maybe theres some eh thigns about it but i have decided to love it. thanks #it definitely kept going in directions i wasn’t expecting #i think i enjoyed the first half more in terms of plot direction tho? #a lot of times i had to just stop what i was doing and make a face jdghkjfs #girl u sleep curled up in the closet…… #also sy bestie you are so kovit-coded. he just has daddy issues instead of mommy issues #i respect an author with an agenda #also #alloromantics are so fragile. theres so many reviews like ‘this character went on a SEVEN PAGE RANT about how TERRIBLE relationships and mon #monogamy are’ ‘the author’s SHOVING her views about HATING ROMANCE into her book AGAIN’ #bro…..literally there’s just some musings on being sad when your friend abandons you for a relationship and personally not getting it #and how romanticisation of abuse is bad……….it is not that blatant and also all perfectly reasonable…. #and then there’s people butthurt about the ending of MoM. like wow so sorry a series ended in friendship instead of a romance. #sucks there’s no other books in the world that do end in romance. i can’t imagine what it would be like to not be able to find books like th #at. #no romance #***probably i guess we'll see how book 2 goes #at the very end her other friend teases her for ''liking'' him and shes like yeah hes my friend. #which is of course One Of Those Tropes #but idk.....i think i trust the author... #also wait i said sy but is it cy. i listened to the audiobook

[boy-armageddon]

im like. The biggest digimon defender ever its fucked up that it also really sucks tbh

#i can cite. a lot of reasons #poor translations for one #i think a lot of the humanoid designs are boring and its better when its more. sighs #anthro y you know #i dont like the weird digimon fanservice too #most of the newer games arent very good in conjunction with my translation note #the new shows arent either #but eh its for kids i guess i shouldn't be that harsh #alas. special interest #i can talk about the designs foreverrrr. i love digimon i fucking love digimon #and NO!!!! its not a pokemon ripoff theyre both monster collecting things but it is very much different from pokemon other than a few basic #ideas and such #anywho. rant over #evil neighing compilation

[little-mouse-adventures]

I haven’t been able to make much project in my reread courtesy of coursework, but your tags about your own reread and thoughts was really cool so… how has your reread been, which has been your favorite to reread so far, and what are some of your thoughts? I always enjoy seeing them!

😈okay so i have about a million thoughts, all the time, about the Artemis Fowl series.

but this reread - which has been going great, thanks for asking!! - has really reminded me how much of a comedy the whole series is. Not just the deliberate snappy one-liners, but the whole premise of a lot of the books is inherently funny. Like...I'm just over halfway through TAC right now, so most of what's in my head is from the latter half of the series, but the entirety of TTP with Little Artemis being the worlds most irritating ten-year-old and Older Artemis recognizing that, and then doing the bare minimum to change the way he interacts with people is hysterical. (The reason the St. Bart's authorities wouldn't let Butler on the grounds is because they are hoping that if someone tosses Artemis into a trash can for being a smarmy little monster, he might learn something, but no one will be brave enough to do so with Butler hanging around.)

Also, No1. He's probably my favourite character to read about this go, he's just so sweet and lovely, but I noticed this time around that he's apparently around 14. The same age as Artemis. And despite TLC introducing us to Minerva in an attempt to show 'look how far Artemis has come from being nothing but a young genius interested in his own gains!' (which she does, don't get me wrong), the book also shows that a literal demon warlock from another dimension is still so much more of Just Some Guy than Artemis is. Fourteen-year-old Artemis is wondering how he's going to get away with lying to his parents about his various criminal enterprises, and No1 is just thinking "I don't like school, and I wish I had more friends :("

In terms of straight up style of the books, I do find the shift at about TLC from a mostly action-focused series to a more introspective POV fascinating. The first four books are very much written in a sense of "Here is the narrator, telling you that Action A happened, and then Action B. Character A thought X about Action C while it happened." whereas the latter books are lot more stream-of-conciousness of the characters through third-person limited POV, rotating between the main cast. For example, in TAC, when Butler is off in Mexico to rescue Juliet, the entire section about him finding and entering the wrestling ring is written as though we are riding around in his head:

Around the back, he decided. The story of my life....How old do I have to be? he wondered. Come to think of it, with all the time travel and fairy healings, I'm not even sure how old I actually am anymore.

Compare that to AF, when Butler is getting Juliet out of Holly's holding cell and winds up trapped in the foyer of the Manor:

And on any other day, Butler would have moved. He would've been halfway up the stairway before his brain had time for second thoughts. But today he had his baby sister over his shoulder spouting gibberish, and the last thing he wanted to do was expose her to murderous assault fire.

While both are past-tense, and both give us insight into Butler's thought process and desires, the change in perspective from essentially looking in on Butler's thoughts in AF as opposed to the more personal and direct communication of those thoughts in TAC is wild. We really get a lot more sense of the characters as individuals, and I applaud Colfer for handling such a broad cast with different personalities so well in the latter style! It's hard to get different character voices, and when you are trying to really get inside their head, as opposed to just note down what they say, it's a huge accomplishment to do so well.

#artemis fowl #long post #i have...many more thoughts #but this is very long already #and most of them are to do with specific characters #like Opal's weird characterization #and how Turnball is kinda 'eh' to me as a character and especially as a villain #but - and i cannot express this enough - i am DELIGHTED by the opportunity to rant about Artemis Fowl at any opportunity #thank you very much for the ask