#use me when you're bored

[yellowocaballero]

Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

#these aren't deep or unique thoughts they're just the specific aspect of ISAT that made it one of the most interesting gaming experiences #i actually like the prologue much more than ISAT for just this reason #its honestly a video game art piece that's created to give the player a very specific experience #that makes them an aspect of the narrative that is told #it's. incredible. #in stars and time #start again start again start again #start again: a prologue #isat #god and there is so so so so much more to say here #what a rich and complex and fascinating game that made me cry like a baby #i dont even kin sif. we arent similar at all. #i cant imagine how devastating this game would have been if i did #but I do have a deep relationship with escapsim #and i write about it a lot #and video games about being video games are wonderful #as are stories about being stories #and why we consume stories. how we use them. how they save us and hurt us. #never played a video game that used its medium so well #i bet undertales also pretty good at that but this is more so i think #stories about stories have to be about why we love stories #and im not an artsy person and i roll my eyes a bit when people talk about the spiritual neccesity of art #i think people need stories because the world is sad and hard and boring and we want to think about something else for a while. #some people need to be anywhere but here #and sometimes if you're Lil Depressed-Ass Snufkin that looks like being here forever #baby cringe-ass snufkin big hat idiot

[yohankang]

ngl i think a shop for killers should've been a movie

#i watched 5 eps and i'm bored.... like can things happen faster #you got lee dong wook on this show please use him #this clearly isn't a plot for 8 episodes.... or maybe that's just me but i don't like one-place settings #that was my main problem with sweet home 1 lmao #sorry but it's boring when you're trapped in the same space! #either give me more interesting plot or show me more ldw #k.txt #BUT ANYWAY. i miss bad and crazy. ldw peaked with that role

[snekdood]

Hey so uh.

I dont think voting is the only solution. Nor will it necessarily get us what we want immediately. And i think protest is more important and more effective.

However.

Conservatives. Would. Not. Be. Trying. To. Make. Voting. Impossible. And. Taking away. Actual voting places from marginalized areas. .

If it meant ABSOLUTELY nothing.

Hope that helps.

✌️

#if it makes me a lib to just even ACKNOWLEDGE that fact. then i think ur probably an entirely irrational person. #very. very sorry for wanting to do everything i can. very sorry. #its almost like... you can protest...... and also.... vote......... #its almost like voting in of itself at this point is kinda a protest since theres places w voting booths being removed or people who have #to drive miles just to vote. like. i kinda think it means somethin here pal. #like. republicans dont want us to vote. it benefits them when we dont. it also benefits them when you're riddled with nihilistic apathy. #u probably feel so defeated that u probably dont even think debate matters or means anything at all #whatever. im bored of you and your personality. #its this type of nihilistic thinking that leads to accelerationism. you think fuck it. lets just let the republicans win. show the world #how bad they are. thinking that will make people finally stand up. but the problem is people are cowards. and they wont. and i dont think #its worth taking the chance on and rolling the dice on when the outcome of letting republicans win is very likely to be genocide. #and i really really dont think being smug and all 'i told you so' to libs is worth it enough for vast amounts of people. people you #probably care about. being killed in swathes. i really really dont think letting things get Worse on Purpose is a great idea #and it honestly makes you look like an evangelical republican who thinkis climate change is a smite from god. #bc functionally you're doing the fucking same thing. instead though you're pretending its a smite from you. #i kinda firmly believe that accelerationism is a intellectual bystanders excuse for not doing shit. like genuinely just sitting there #watching ppl suffer to prove a point. gtfoh

[batri-jopa]

Found on facebook today

I hate that it looks like some "list of shame"

#okey so it feels a bit too much like blaming self blaming or otherwise negative emotions here... #I think I grown out of 'chasing' and 'obsessive' and... 'overtalking' (though my internet friends would not agree lol) #but why 'making up stories and worlds' is put into this list like another negative trait? like 'something that proves you're a loser'? #and not a wonderful alternative to any other boring life cliche? #okey I am excessively helpful indeed... I can't say 'no' even when I'm really pissed off by the amount of asking-for-help-or-a-favor around #and when I spend another hour after hour of my free time to help them they say: 'oh you are always so kind and helpful!' #to only keep on asking for more next time... oh f*ck off already all you excessively-asking-for-help!😫 #if you liked me you'd let me rest!!! and you wouldn't give me 5 minutes of YOUR fucking precious time if I was more assertive😣 #I so love to spend my time with people not knowing I'm a doctor. Or knowing and not using it. Then I know they like me for me❤ #and not seeing me as their wish-granting machine #aroace #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aromantic asexual #aspec #a spec #a spectrum #not too positive this time... more a vent... #but whenever someone tries to put me into a 'loser' labeled box in their narrow mind - I want to make their mind explode!!!

[death-rebirth-senshi]

My original unfiltered opinion of the chantry boom was "Anders that's so terrible! Well at least something interesting is finally happening in this boring ass game" and while I don't 100% agree with that it's like. 90% agree.

#I don't hate all of the ideas put forth by act 3 of da2 but it was the point of the game where I was like. This can be over now. #I get it. Templars are kinda right. Mages are kinda right. You're gonna have to pick a side. I got that at the end of act 2 #Is that all you have for me. Nothing else. #And also it's done. Kinda boring. Like badly but more importantly. Boring. #(when blood mage Hawke is like 'omg have these circle mages resorted to blood magic' it's like. I have to laugh.) #I'm not even saying that Grace hating us no matter what is nothing. I'm saying. Well act 2 was more interesting. #That Inquisition is further uninterested in exploring this kinda puts the nail in the coffin.

[red-dragon-archfiend]

YouTube Horror channels be normal about indigenous American cultures challenge

#musings #'hmm there's this entity that you're never supposed to speak the name of. i'm going to write a creepypasta about it' #it's always that thing or skin walkers or probably something i don't even know about yet #and it rubs me the wrong way because it's always the white american youtubers doing this shit #they're not usually the ones writing the stories but c'mon #there are so many different monsters from fantasy and folklore you could use #or better yet make something up yourself #even if you think that using other peoples' cultures as the basis for a creepypasta isn't cultural appropriation #at this point it's just boring and generic to see the same monsters used the same way over and over #i can't speak for native americans on this but it rubs me the wrong way to see entities that have been part of their culture for centuries #treated as something trendy like the backrooms or some shit #to be used and overused and then discarded when the internet gets bored of them

[future-crab]

Guys, I've gotta be honest, days, they've been better, I sleep even deader, I wake up when everyone's gone...

#just give us a touch and let me down slow!! just let me know!! if this is some kinda life or something else!!! #die just a little!! we try just a little!! lett's meet in the middle and wait! or maybe you won't! i'm bored when you don't!! #you're sad and magical! he says you're beautiful!! i think you're beautiful too!! #gerard way #don't try #song of all time imo #hesitant alien era

[byronicbi]

Why is that YA can get away with so much in comparison to Adult fiction?? Like, aside from "no graphic sex" (tho there's been some pretty spicy scenes in some I read during my youth), the only hard line that cannot be crossed is "protag can't be older than 18" (tho New Adult pushes that to 20/22, I believe). You can have the most fucked of body horror, the most gruesome deaths, and gratuitous amount of gore and it's all good for an age-range of 13 to 18. Some of these "extreme Adult horror" books wish they can be on this level.

#yes this is about me learning that the fnaf books are. in fact. YA and not MG as i originally thought. #knocking on Scott's door like 'dude lemme write one i can do it i can write YA horror i promise to keep the homoeroticism at bay' #'unless.' #i can't even be like 'bad stuff only happens to the adults' because it DOESN'T. #it was really funny being an elementary after-school teacher during the 'golden era of fnaf' because it was a constant whiplash #of kids fighting over who the best animatronic was while parents continuously lost their minds that their kids wouldn't shut up about it. #there were two camps: fnaf and bendy #but i also worked at the most BORING center because fun was not allowed but i would let them check out the books at the library #much to my co-teacher's dismay. #'you're gonna get us in trouble' THE KIDS ARE /READING/. whatever it fucking takes buddy. #foxy was very popular btw #people on the clock app: omg this is so nostalgic i remember being 12 when i first played the games #me having been a teacher at the time: haha yeah.... my joints are killing me

[essektheylyss]

I am TIRED of hearing the whole "there is NO reason a paragraph shouldn't be more than four lines" writing critique. If Ursula Le Guin can write an asshole psychiatrist monologuing for a page and a half straight, it is FINE, actually.

You can have characters monologue, you can have a long bit of description, you can give exposition in chunks—the issue is when there's no PURPOSE to it and it's treated as a prerequisite dump of information rather than a curated telling.

As long as you're making choices about language and what is being conveyed so that it's relevant and matches the style, it's fine.

#I read body work by melissa febos yesterday and she was like 'unpopular opinion: every single thing in a piece of writing is a choice' #and I was like 'oh my god. a woman after my own heart.' #this is my DEEPEST HELD writing opinion #and also it's fine if you are NOT looking that specifically at every comma but like. #on a larger level you gotta understand why you're doing what you're doing cuz if it implies something you don't want it to? #you gotta be able to understand if that choice is more important to you than the secondary thing it implies #and like. I'm not interrogating every comma or individual word (and my aversion to editing is a flaw that I need to improve upon) #but like. where a paragraph ends is always a choice. always always always. probably the grammar thing I think about most actually. #often it is more of an instinct than conscious examination cuz I've been doing this a long time and there's a feel to it #but I know WHY a paragraph ended when and where it did. I can tell you exactly why if you asked! #and readability is one of the concerns there!!! but that is sure as FUCK not the only concern #nor is it necessarily the most important concern if there's a stylistic need that trumps it or must be balanced with it! and there often is #also. as an adhd person. if I have to hear that it's ableist to adhd people because 'they don't have that much of an attention span!' #I will throw the products of my twenty years worth of writing hyperfixation through your fucking window. #if it's BORING or I don't CARE or I'm TIRED then nO but in a BOOK THAT I AM WILLINGLY READING? shut the fuck uppppp #I don't need No long paragraphs I need VARIATION. INTENTION. STYLE. #I don't have enough attention span for your bullshit actually. #and my experience with adhd is NOT the only one but like. to use adhd to claim that as a stylistic choice is Bad is just. fuck you actually #like constant staccato paragraphs are actually usually WORSE for me cuz I cannot tell what's supposed to be emphasized. #I need the contrast so I know what gets the most weight. cuz NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD. there are LEVELS. #anyway I'll stop ranting in the tags but I was reading lathe of heaven and got mad about it all over again. #I didn't actually see this commentary today I just remembered it. with my so-terribly-short attention span. #so you can rip my long paragraphs out of my cold dead hands.

[obeymeow]

being neurodivergent is all fun and games until you remember those hourly quote bots on twitter and think well maybe I can't make a bot anymore but I could schedule a few quotes a day, that shouldn't be hard. it sounds fun to have a bunch of quotes of my favorite character Thirteen from hit mobile game Obey Me! and its sequel Obey Me! Nightbringer. and then you think about how arduous collecting the quotes is going to be but she's only been in the games for maybe a year and a half with little screentime and you love collecting things so you start but then you remember that you love collecting things so naturally you have ALL of her screentime in the game and suddenly you have 45k characters of quotes and are several lessons into season 4 (which is truly a trial in and of itself) but not nearly close enough to the end but you refuse to just stop collecting the quotes and make the account with the EXCESS of what you have already because you literally only have season 4 to get through and if you don't do it just seeing the bot (because now you've been informed you can make tumblr bots instead) will haunt you with that knowledge even if nobody else would ever know. this is a general anecdote of a situation that could easily happen to anyone though and not in any way related to my life

#obey me on side #ummm i don't have a personal tag yet because i hated looking at this blog before the revamp so i'll do that later #with the carrd. usually when i say i'll do something later it means sometime in the next 3 years but i actually mean this one #but rn there's no way to tell i'm a lesbian (except for the thirteen icon. + probably also the ruri-chan banner she's lesbian colors) #okay maybe you can tell but I want to be CLEAR #anyway i would also like to note that immediately before starting this project i spent a full week lamenting my lack of free time #because I wanted to write some fics. and then literally as soon as i got free time I went um. no. quote doc instead I think #????? girl why did you do that to yourself #fortunately i'm now bored of reading s4 so i can go back to writing #unrelated but all of these fics contain a significant amount of solomon and i like him that's not surprising but it was unintentional #which IS surprising. like okay one of them is about solodeus (specifically mc playing matchmaker so i don't clickbait) so that's obligatory #and another is based off of the new solomon card (IT'S CUTE) so that's also kind of obligatory #(the third one is based off of luke's card from the dnd nightmare a while back because i was entranced by its strange unbalanced party) #but usually i try to switch up the characters i write about to get comfy with all of them and not just the ones that make sense to me #that's not entirely accurate it's my one braincell bouncing around like a windows screensaver picking a new fave every time it hits a side #but also to get used to writing them all. anyway #i'll just write about satan to balance it he's always been a fav but i am obsessed with him in nightbringer he is so offputting and tragic #if you're still reading these tags please see above on th 'later is up to three years' in regards to the fics still haven't posted anything #hoping to change that soon though I WILL eventually.

[hillbillyoracle]

I still do not understand people using terms like “gatekeep” and “police” to just mean someone not validating your view or practice. 

I guess it’s easier to say “you can’t gatekeep who counts as a witch” than “the history of the term is complex and varies by culture so what might not count by one definition does count by another and it’s worth being respectful of that.” 

It’s easier to say “you can’t police correspondences” than “

But the tendency toward likening a lack of validation to materially violent acts is not pro-community. It normalizes heightened emotional responses to mere disagreement which is a hinderance to communication. Reactivity is an obstacle to collaboration - a building block of community.

And so often I’ve seen this get applied to anyone who doesn’t have the most expansive view of language which in turn trends a group toward a type of relativism that is neither realistic nor helpful. Truths can be known. Words can mean things. When definitions change, it’s worth evaluating the cost benefit. 

Inclusivity to the point of meaninglessness is not a virtue. It is okay for people to not fit a given criteria even if they want to be included. It’s okay for actions to not fit a given criteria even if people want them to count. 

The continued elevation of feelings over material and spiritual realities is very frustrating. I’m tired of the pendulum swinging, the black and white thinking. I understand coming out of a culture of “feelings don’t matter” or “validation doesn’t matter” and the damage that can entail. But healthy answer to that isn’t “validation matters a ton” or “feelings should be centered”. It’s feelings and validation should be considered in addition to other factors like material conditions.  

#you can't gatekeep xyz #is honestly just a boring take #why #if you're going to reduce gatekeeping #and policing #to have no material reality #why can't someone #what difference does it make #why say gatekeep when you should just say keep? #you know? #that's never made sense to me #you can't keep someone from using the term witch #works just as well #why liken it to some materially awful shit #just so weird to me

[winter-tospring]

Dropping "The only time I feel I might get better is when we are together" after talking about cows???? I'm sorry?? Emotional damage Matty

#Me: *dances softly to this* *this happens* *stops and has to sit down* #what the #He knows his power he uses it too well😭 #A microcosm of the ''if you're sincere all the time it gets boring'' in action #The 1975 #Bfiafl #When we are together

[daz4i]

if i may complain for a bit about something that doesn't actually matter and can be easily avoided. god i hate fics that baby-fy chuuya

#yeah yeah i know just don't read them w/e. there's no tags to avoid these unfortunately 😐 #it kinda feels like a fanon of fanon. it's so far removed from his canon self even if some core elements are there. #why write him like a 15 y/o even as an adult. and the thing is. even when he was 15 in canon he wasn't this childish. c'mon. #a lot of the most popular skk fics have him characterized like this and man I'm tired. look how they massacred my boy. #ok complaining session over. i feel like i sound kinda mean. sorry abt that. #it doesn't actually matter that much just a bit frustrating when it keeps happening when you're already a couple hundred words into a fic #edit: i lied I'm not done complaining i gotta turn this into a rant bc ppl misunderstanding my favorite character online is a crime. #childish was the wrong word for me to use ig it's more like. innocent. #girl. bestie. he has been part of criminal organizations quite literally since he remembers himself. #he is not some sweet uwu baby who's a bit of a tsundere or w/e. he's got genuine reasons to be angry yknow. he's been through shit #and he's not innocent? he's in the fucking mafia lol we literally see him kill like 20 people in 5 minutes at 15 y/o. #he's not naive either???? he may not be dazai levels of smart but he's still capable of figuring things out himself???? #like he did figure out rimbaud's thing by himself. he's not stupid or slow. he wouldn't be a mafia executive otherwise. #and that's also the reason he can't be naive like... he is in constant danger after all #and idk watering down all this^ for aus is boring and turning him into practically an oc but it's even worse in canonverse #or literally any au where he suffers the same amount as he does in canon. bc then what's your excuse for watering him down. #it feels like forcing him into this very clear cut mold you see in every media when he is literally. not that. #no one in bsd is honestly that's part of its charm imo. they all subvert your expectations of their character archetypes #i think this is why it's making me so angry bc it doesn't feel like just misunderstanding the character but also the whole story. in a way. #am i going too far? perhaps. i dunno. i do feel less Dirty after letting out this frustration tho. #complaining session is now officially over okay. yes. sorry. i don't mean to offend anyone sorry if i sound mean at any point.

[welcometoteyvat]

yoimiya 2nd story quest ?!?!?!?!

#honestly didn't vibe with the first one that much but lets goooooooo #as a tcg player im ok with the main gimmick being a tcg patch but it would be kinda boring if you're not into that lol but i do hope they ma #make a somewhat compelling story even if the premise of the patch sounds like total crack fic material #also very meh on fontaine 😭 #i saw the key visual art for the livestream with like. charlotte. and my first thought was yanfei skin????? #and then i was disappointed. god the designs have not been hitting #i'm also delusional with fontaine bc before i knew it was gonna be france based i really thought the hydro nation would be either ancient ko #korea (to match with ancient china and japan) or maritime southeast asia #and seeing the underwater swimming clip just makes me want that more 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #you could make a tropical like coral island or something similar for an underwater region if you used sea/pacific islands god #and maybe fishing would actually be useful in hydro regions bc greater importance to culture or something idk im just saying #like idk when has france been known for its sailing or maritime activities girl #besides like as a product of its empire. which genshin doesn't and won't reference lol #im neutral on steampunk but idk its just the way they've been designing fontaine characters (from the leaks) it isn't hitting idkkkkkkkkk #whatever. delusionally thinking about how genshin phili.ppines or like ancient indo.nesia would be like if they were land of hydro #ramblings! #genshin spoilers #livestream spoilers #liveblog insanity

[strifethedestroyer]

i know i like to keep this blog mostly fandom related and it will stay that way but lately ive been drawing a looot in class and i actually like some of these so i figured i'd dump em on display for the curious onlooker👍

some of these look pretty similar but bro i draw what comforts me espechially in class so you can see repeating poses or hairstyles and such

and yes that is a komi san fanart at the end what about it

#my art #should i tag this as kcc for the ONE komi fanart at the end. is that a dick move #who cares im doing it im an organtizational freak when it comes to tags #komi cant communicate #komi shoko #shoko komi #komi shouko #shouko komi #becuase apparently there's 2 variations of her name for some reason. i only use the 1st one #i really like sketching in class its fun and some classes are reaaalllyyy boring so it helps me not die from boredom #some of them are really stressful so drawing in them helps me loosen up #and yknow its just plain fun and helps me fill my sketchbook. actually not really because i dont bring my sketchbook my school #i just draw in my class notebooks and rip the pages out later and just put them in my sketchbook #some of these are glued in but thats because they're from a different notebook thats only at home that i use for studying so it doesnt #count #so yeah im not even filling my sketchbook this way im just making it fat but shut up you're under my roof. probably

[icharchivist]

a bit of thinking out loud on my part but i’ve been thinking for a while know about constantly slamming stuff for “bad writing”, more in the sense of “no one talks like that” or “this sentence was so badly worded” more than “it didn’t make sense in the end” as if it’s a deal breaker makes me think that we really moved too far away from suspension of disbelief and not wanting to just, fill in the steps kind of?

Like, i’m thinking about how ff7cc has some of the cringiest dialogues i could think of and some characterizations suffer a lot from that. When i don’t play the game for a long time, i’m always coming back to it and laugh at how they overuse “protect your honor”, or everything about Loveless, and stuff like that.  but when i want to seriously play the game too, i want to give the game a benefit of a doubt. Of, okay, i find it ridiculous but you’re taking it seriously, so i’m going to try to take it as seriously as possible. What are you doing to do with that. And thanks to that i think i can properly experience some of the more visceral elements of the game, despite how much of its emotional core resting on this specific idea that i find cringe. 

And it’s just like, idk, i think constantly wanting something to be really well written and getting rid of the cringe completely is kind of trapping yourself into an echo chamber where you’ll only get to hear the same old things. Eventually to experience new things it’s good to go into horizons that you’d consider cringe and try to see if there’s something you can get out of it, if you take it as seriously as ever. And sometimes cringe is unfiltered sincerity, which has its place especially in emotional story telling.

I kinda feel like there’s an overuse of “wanting realism” in stories (again “real people don’t talk like that”), that it’s easy to just close yourself from anything slightly challenging what you’re willing to accept as realistic.  in a way i’m just refusing to think “realism” is the same thing as “immersive” and if something is unrealistic to me, i don’t think it specifically breaks immersion and i care much more about immersion than realism. But even so, Immersion often comes with just, accepting what the story wants you to accept as normal. you have to do some work as the person receiving the story for it to work.

Feels stilted and boring and it’s kinda sad how often i see it brought up that “bad writing” in term of, clumsy sentence structure and stuff, can take someone out of something this badly. 

I guess it’s just to each their sensibilities but, how dull....

#i've been seeing it a lot over different fandom i've been into #and often it's like 'i couldn't get into it because people don't talk like that' and stuff or 'they talk about their feelings too much' #and it's just. boring. #I think that there's an aspect of interreacting with fictions that isn't just about making stuff up to fill gap out of spite #but also just - as an audience - to be willing to say okay it's not working for me but let's see where you're bringing me with it #idk if it makes sense but this is like the 4th take i'm seeing on something like that this week #not even always on things i actually /like/ but generally it takes me out as in '/this/ was your deal breaker with this thing?' #like 'how could people be fan of that when the writing was this bad' #and like my dude the cringe writing is not the biggest problem here what #feels... snobbish but for the wrong reasons lmao #but oh well i also do tend to like things a little cringier than the norm anyway #and besides i never consume stuff in my native language so everything is a bit filtered in that sense #i do remember watching a game playthrough in english and everyone was talking about how 'no one talks like that it's so cringe' #and i was just yeah no whatever it's a bit ridiculous but it's nothing immersion breaking to me even if it's not realistic #but then i watched the same game in french and it was translated flawlessly #and i was just 'oh okay no this is cringe as hell help' #i still had a lot of fun though but i did have to pause sometimes because they really made me listen to the wildest string of words #but yeah idk where i'm going with it but yeah #(taking ff7cc as an example bc it's probably the least risky thing for me to dunk on) #(and besides the Old Ones here know that i used to have 'living legacy' in my @ in here) #(so me making fun of 'protect your honor' while it's full punch is in the same speech as the living legacy thing...) #(ya know how I Feel.) #ichasalty #kinda? #ichatalks