#*sad choo choo*

[krazieka2]

me scrawling through my twitter, trying to decide what doodles are worth the effort of putting on here: yes this must be shown to everyone

#I have a strong golden deer bias and I am not ashamed #I LIKE THE SILLY GUYS #fe3h #if you like the sad anime boys this is fine #I'm putting a hand on your shoulder #it's fine and I support you #but you will never know my joy #and I will never know yours #we are different ppl and we walk different paths #it just so happens I walk the better path heyo #blue lions #golden deer #2022 art #carrying over my posts from twitter choo chooooo

[kittleskittle]

been spending my Friday afternoon mulling over HFW and BS meta-wise, and my GOD I am so anxious about h3, I feel like I'm going to lose my mind. Warning: rant with personal opinions below.

More and more as the series progresses, spectacle and shock value have been prioritized over theme and emotional beats. Nothing is given room to develop organically. There's no time to breathe in the narrative. Quiet moments to process all of these SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS (a very special fuck you to Liberation and their horrifying assassination of Avad for zero narrative reason) keep diminishing. Everything is a World Ending Threat™ that must be resolved IMMEDIATELY, so much so that I've started rolling my eyes every time the latest Big Bad End of the World scenario is revealed.

I suppose my biggest question is: what happened? HZD, to me, was a masterclass in thematic and character writing. I was so emotionally connected to Aloy that I felt as though I was experiencing the events of the game alongside her. The themes resonated with me in a way I very rarely have experienced. I literally could not shut up about this game the first time I played it years ago (big thanks to my incredibly patient friends and family for putting up with me LOL). How did the writing priorities and focus shift this hard?

HFW lost me, and BS even moreso. I don't feel connected to Aloy as a character anymore. I don't feel connected to a great deal of the side characters I used to connect with. The fact that BS was conceived as a "Hollywood Blockbuster" makes a depressing amount of sense, but goddamn, it's NOT at all what Aloy deserved for such a momentous experience as her first love, an event this series has been building towards - and yes, we know this from dev commentary - from the start. Regardless of how h3 turns out when it comes to romance, I'm going to stay bitter about that one.

I think h3 is going to have to do a LOT of work to pull me back in, and I'm afraid that it's not even possible at this point. I'm afraid we're going to get more of the same big flashy battles, this time with the Karen Reaper Spaghetti ball that is Nemesis, with little room leftover for substance. I'm afraid that I'm going to put down that game and feel unsatisfied and empty rather than complete and fulfilled by a trilogy of games over a decade in the making.

And that, to me, is going to be a really depressing end to a series that started out so strong.

#horizon critical #meta #Sad Thoughts choo choo

[4suitedplayingcard]

Obligatory cat posting

#k so HB’s 65th anniversary was 3 days ago and I’m sad that I didn’t do anything for it that day #so I’m making up for it by topcat posting #jellystone #jellystone! #hanna barbera #top cat #benny the ball #fancy fancy #brain #choo choo #spooky #ace.art #I’ll post better shit when I get the energy to #for now. take this ig..

[musette22]

The fact that you all think that’s what an erection looks like… He’s not hard in that scene. That’s just what men look like without being aroused. There’s a huge (no pun intended) difference between what an aroused and an unaroused man looks like. Lotta virgins on this app.

#oh no! but I really thought this was like #a huge hard leaking cock???? omg? sad :((( #i am 35 years old i know my dick thank you #and he's got a chub there darling #now choo off with you #your virgin shaming has no place on my blog #smh some people #minnie answers

[waywardstation]

Yeah so anyways that was a lie I caved and got the game just for her

#listen I don’t know what I’m doing in this game but I decided if I ever wanted to play it someday #I’d be sad I didn’t have the conductor cookie #so I played a few hours just to get her and now I can leave the game for whenever I want to play it again #CHOO CHOO #gatcha games more like GOT YA #because this reeled me in #am I ever gonna come back to this game some day? #who knows #but if I do I know I’ll have this train cookie waiting for me

[synth-ab]

Read "The Well" by Jake Wyatt and Choo. It's amazing

#artists on tumblr #traditional art #my art #comics #jake wyatt #choo #The Well #Li-Zhen #joe dassin #this is really stupid but god it made me laugh when drawing it #for added context she kidnaps the old sleeping lady to force her to return to her childhood village #Except it got destroyed and that's why the old lady didn't want to go back. Everyone ends up sad. She needed to do it for plot reason tho #Anyway GO READ IT it's GOOD it's BEAUTIFUL it's got LESBIANS IN IT

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Shaking my regular readers by the shoulders like PLEEEEEASE GIVE ME COMMENTS SO I KNOW YOU’RE STILL ALIVE 😭 /lh

#sillyposting #ao3 #some of my usual commenters have been MIA the last chapter I’m like guys are you still with me? #did you fall off of my train? #choo choo please come back #I miss you I’m gonna have to plan a funeral this is so sad!! #also ​is there still a market demand for trans hunter fics or has that ship sailed #that fic’s comment section is desolate too #hmm

[redwhitebreeze]

Advanced a bit the honkai star rail story and got past the pretty cute firefly moment but then got irritated by Misha's voice for the nth time, I fucking swear they better be relevant later because it's getting tiring real quick. All that got redeemed by the precious Black Swan.

#Honky Ponky Choo Choo Train #Also they being coy about the voice like who the fuck is that they sound so sad and I'm like seriously bro you have met like 7 characters #And most of them are women can't you recognize the fucking voice I swear

[gagedraws]

CoryXKenshin’s reaction to Eugene’s death from Choo-Choo Charles.

#coryxkenshin #choo choo charles #Eugene choo choo Charles #funny #sad #video games #horror games

[theinfinitedivides]

*chants* F*CK HIM UP F*CK HIM UP F*CK HIM UP F*CK HIM UP—

#tv: oasis (2023) #kbs oasis #kbs2 oasis #oasis #jang dong yoon #choo young woo #kdrama #local gay watches k-dramas.txt #it is ep 15 everything is about to go to sh*t and Doo Hak's claws are finally out #bitch said i'm done with being second place i'm not going to lose to you intentionally anymore and that for me personally? #that's hot. Jung Shin knew and that's why she picked him #Cheol Woong is a sad mf*cker who is still delusional up to this point. it looks like there will be no redemption arc for this man #and i have never been happier to have skipped the SLS this time around in my life #i need all of y'all to choke. literally just go off somewhere i do not give a f*ck #not Team Leader Oh tho. he's my precious meow meow and the lack of him in the latter half of this ep so far is scaring me #i know you're evil but where have you gone :( #edit: ok no tell me that Oh is not in the state i think he is #either way this is f*cking with me bc uh. remember how Cheol Woong asked him how long he thought the Deputy Director #was going to be his umbrella. remember how he asked him that in return. Oh literally told the Director that Cheol Woong #wasn't his biological son and after all of that he still chose the latter over him. he chose to be his umbrella i am unwell

[paradoxi-callum]

#10 Train Driver Strike, 21 June

Albert sat at the platform, waiting for his train.

He'd been waiting a long time, but Albert was a patient man, you know?

He cracked open a can of Bulmers and decided to buy a book to pass the time.

He went to the inevitable WH Smith, had a look at the Buy One Get One Half Price deal, but all that appealed was an autobiography of Jenson Button.

He sat back at the platform, no sign of his train.

He finished Button's book, a bit confused because it wasn't about a man aging backwards but still found it interesting.

Still no sign of his train.

He thought about going for another book, but knew that's how they get you isn't it?

The train companies are obviously making trains so late because WH Smith needs more sales, genius move really.

#writing #literature #poemsbyme #poetry #sad poem #train #nationwide strike #tim key #choo choo motherfuckers

[coastercrushed]

tags.

#hc. #character study. #aesthetic. #mapplethorpe landis. #sad yeehaw. #( choo choo promo train! ) #sp. #verse: fun kids. #verse: the lost boys. #verse: dead by daylight. #verse: stranger things. #verse: precanon.

[chaotickamakazi]

Numb

#sad times on the train #choo choo #numb #i feel numb #i feel empty #no thoughts head empty

[thesearethingsetcetera]

AHHHH

today has sucked shit. i tanked (probably) an exam, forgot to get my stupid fuckin white coat, and i am playing hella email tag with a prof who seems to only be reading half my emails. me "i can meet before x time on this date" them: "how about this time after x" maam i would love to not have to do surgery next week but unfortunately they won't let me skip that. i just.... want some guidance on hunting for residencies and maybe a letter of rec? mentorship please i am floating in space. ;_;

#also! i'm sad and lonely and even tho i have school friends it's not enough idk #and i am Stressed about Surgery and my repro midterm #i also should not have taken economics lmao it's just one more thing i have to do #choo choo we on the brain train to demoralization central

[blazichu]

So I was thinking about the reboot again (I know, I know, why would I do that to myself) and while I can't remember the specifics of the newer version, there's something I think really highlights what went wrong with it.

It's Qwark.

Not in the sense of him being the narrator-- because other games have done that, too-- but his weight in the story. It's disproportionate to what it was/should have been, and that's because of how badly Ratchet and Clank were sanitized, and how boring their dynamic ended up being.

(And yes, I realize people argue that it's because Qwark is the narrator, and he's just like that/focuses on himself to the detriment of others, but if that's what was going on, the framing worked against the story to a massive degree.)

Neither of the title characters were allowed to have flaws, and so there was no way to spark a proper conflict between them. Because of that, the conflict had to start somewhere else-- hence Qwark's betrayal being blown up into something way bigger than it should have been.

I'm invoking the original not to compare unfavorably, but to demonstrate what story is being told. In R&C 2002, Qwark is a galactic hero, yes, but he's introduced to us in a blase way. Oh, that guy on the poster? That's Captain Qwark. He's on TV. He's not a role model to Ratchet, and so their opinions on him are allowed to differ. Clank thinks he's a hero who can help him wrt Drek. Ratchet recognizes him as someone famous and successful, and it's Qwark's appeals to his ego that make him go along with it. He doesn't want to be a hero, he wants to be famous.

So Qwark's betrayal isn't a personal affront to 02 Ratchet-- he was already suspicious-- it's just the straw that broke the camel's back in regard to his rocky friendship with Clank. That's where the drama and forward momentum comes from: the conflict between characters and how they grow/patch it up.

The reboot can't do that. There's no interpersonal drama because the characters are so idealized, so they had to invent new problems-- like Ratchet lying about knowing Qwark, Nefarious as a whole, and trying to make the betrayal an emotional beat.

Here's the thing, though. In this version of events, both Ratchet and Clank idolized Qwark to an extent. They're already on the same side. So shouldn't his betrayal unify them as a team? For some reason, though, it still splits them apart instead, when there's barely any bad blood between them-- and that's resolved almost instantly, because the game can't progress with them apart, so what did we gain from this?

I don't care that Captain Qwark betrayed us. It's Captain Qwark. Of course he's pulling that shit. We don't have that kind of emotional connection to him, because, from the get-go, he's established as comic relief. So now, instead of a conflict to gradually work through as we press toward our goal of stopping Drek-- because if we don't do it, there's nobody else who can/will-- we're just traipsing from planet to planet doing fuck all. I legitimately can't remember the latter half of the game/movie, save for a couple of plot points with Drek and Nefarious, and something that sounded like it should have been the payoff to a conversation that never happened. ("What are you doing?"/"Improvising!")

...I'm full-on griping about '16 now, so I should probably stop. I was just thinking about Jim Ward's retirement and what his last role in the series would be-- and while I'm glad he got such a spotlight, I just... wish he'd had better material to work with, you know?

#choo choo janice choo choo #i started out with a thesis #but got kind of distracted by the end of this #so it's little better than rambling #but like. #everything wrong with the reboot can be traced back to the fact that there's NOTHING between the title characters #i kind of wonder if fixman just got so used to their dynamic as of future #that he forgot they had to grow to get to that point #eta: even that doesn't explain it #though #because there's still substance in Future! #what happened here man #(for real tho their portrayal as of RA-- after he left-- was so much better than his last work in the main series that it's... really sad.)

[sophs-style]

sophs-style:

Enjy Kiwan (wearing Georges Hobeika) at the 'Triangle Of Sadness' premiere during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (21st May) in Cannes, France.

#Enjy Kiwan #2022 cannes film festival #75th Cannes Film Festival #75th annual cannes film festival #Triangle Of Sadness #premiere #appearance #appearances #event #outfit #Georges Hobeika #Messika By Kate Moss High Jewelry #jimmy choo #celebrity style #celebrity fashion #celeb style #celeb fashion #red carpet fashion #red carpet style #fashion #style #stylish