#I tend to go into tangents

[oprika]

The stupidest thing that people came to accept, after being drilled-in to believe in it by a capitalist society, is that you need to work hard or suffer to deserve happiness, good things, and/or blessings.

It’s a little like drug addiction. It’s been collectively accepted that you need to be suffering to be worthy of attention, compassion, empathy, sympathy, a helping hand, a borrowed ear, etc. So the Opression Olympics became a thing. Not because people weren’t legitimately struggling. But because there was this idea that if you won you would deserve all the sympathy. You would finally be able to rest. Ironically, very counter-productive since you would need to keep suffering— even if you wanted to be/get better— to keep the attention/understanding compassion. Also counter-productive in the sense that those running for the marathon would become bitter, not only in the sense that they didn’t win but the fact that you’re undermining/invalidating their struggles. There’s no winning to it. That’s the ridiculousness of it all. But it’s not our fault. This is a very well hidden agenda; an agenda that makes us believe that as long as we put in the blood, sweat, and tears we are still deserving of goodness. At the end we’re suffering for nothing. The pain is for nothing.

We’re already born worthy. Living is the deciding factor that makes us worthy of happiness.

(I mentioned the drug addiction not to compare it to the oppression Olympics, my mind was running too many thoughts. I mentioned it because you’re being fed something that keeps you addicted. It messes you up mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. As a whole you’re fucced. When you try to get better it feels even worse. The withdrawal feels worse than any other pain. Society looks down on you and blame you for even starting to do this when it’s not really your fault. Empathy, sympathy, and compassion are not limited assets— they shouldn’t be treated like one either.)

Getting better is hard but it’s worth it. Start separating yourself from negative societal influences. Hope this helps.

This is topic #9: Glorification of Pain.

#i’m not good with words #If anything doesn’t make sense just ask #I tend to go into tangents #sorry :0 #glorifying suffering promotes illness #it’s only encouraging people to stay in bad places #it even influences people who are mentally good into following the trend #the pain is pointless #that’s ridiculous #writing #cycles of pain

[canisalbus]

Vasco and Machete are absolutely adorable, your style is so lovely and you draw the softest beds I’ve ever seen in any art ever

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#thank you! #softest beds is a whole new compliment that's so sweet #let me go off on a weird and personal tangent for a minute #I've always found the concept of sleeping very touching somehow #it's this mandatory resting period literally everyone has to plan their life around no one has the power to avoid sleeping #if you neglect it your mind and body start to break down very quickly #sleep is such a neutral state of being no one is particularly sad or happy or evil or good while they're asleep they're just logged off #sleeping feels nice it's rejuvenating it's one of the few universal pleasures every single person has an access to #and I find it terribly cute how people have different little bedtime rituals #socks on socks off various pillow and blanket arrangements certain sounds that make them sleepy etc #and sleeping next to someone is such an act of trust #it's extremely intimate as is sex doesn't necessarily have to factor into it #getting comfortable and going unconscious with someone at the same place at the same time that just touches my heart #especially if you're invited into their bed which is a very private space a person's own little nest where the world can't reach them #even if you fall asleep in public transport there's this vulnerability to it and for the most part people respect the sanctity of sleep #and tend to leave sleeping people alone at least in my limited experience #I like drawing my characters sleeping because it feels like I'm doing them a favor granting them a little respite #anonymous #answered

[lollytea]

Unfortunately due to TOH being cut short by Disney a lot of character arcs and more storyline could not be fully fleshed out and finished as Dana had to wrap up everybody’s story in just a few episodes

I'm fully aware that Disney's intervention is responsible for a lot of the plotlines getting suffocated. Which is why I don't think it's fair to go harassing crew members with "why didn't THIS happen??" and all that, because nobody really knows what they endured working on those final episodes and how much they had to cut and rewrite. But from things Dana has said, it was likely a very stressful and exhausting experience. So I don't like to make assumptions about the crew being incompetent. Nobody knows how the season WOULD have turned out if they had been granted full creative freedom and breathing room to develop it to their hearts content.

However, me not directing personal ire towards the crew doesn't mean that I think that the show is immune to criticism. Its flawed. It might not be entirely the crew's fault but that doesn't mean we can't talk about how it's flawed. If anything, I think acknowledging and dissecting its weaknesses is a good learning opportunity for what we should consider when creating our own stories.

Season 3 is a bit of a mess. There's good stuff. There's some less than good stuff. I think ultimately, as a story about Luz, King and Eda, it knocks it out of the park. When they were left with no other option, they decided to prioritize the writing of their three protagonists and I think that was the correct choice.

But I've been thinking about the three specials and how they stand on their own, quality wise, and honestly, there's valid criticism to be said that is completely unrelated to the shortening.

Bear in mind that the crew has known since Follies that the show was getting cut short and they needed to start wrapping up loose ends. So it's not like they started writing Thanks to Them believing it was the first of 20+ more episodes. They knew that they were going to be writing a 40 minute special. So the execution had to be tight, concise and satisfying, right?

Well...it was....weird. Definitely fun. Good for fan service. The main hook was the witch kids navigating the human world in their dorky witchy way. And initially, that was enough. But once the novelty of that wears off and we focus on the plot of the special, what do we have left?

Thanks to Them is very guilty of lore baiting. Dropping in stuff that they know damn well that they're never going to elaborate on, leaving the audience with a feeling of intrigue that is never going to be satiated.

I personally think that is just bad writing. They knew they didn't have a full season 3 and rather than rewrite the means of which the hexsquads finds answers, they still made the choice to drop in what are most likely vague ideas from the initial draft.

I think, if they had no intention of developing it in future specials, there was no point to that scene of Masha telling the Wittebane story. It was just...filler. To stretch out the running time. Which is....kind of precious. Only 40 minutes. If you're obsessive enough about lore, you already knew the story from the Hollow Mind paintings. That scene was for casual viewers. Which is useless, because there's no point in casual viewers learning about Evelyn and Caleb because it never went anywhere.

Also. I personally think that if there was any value to learning the Wittebane lore without making it plot relevant, it would be for the sake of character development. We wanted to know how the kids would react to this knowledge.

Well how did they react?

*Shrug* They seemed a little unnerved but they kinda forgot about it the second they got off the hayride.

So what was the point of all that? What was the point?

Is it because we wanted "Goodbye, Evelyn," to be more of gut punch?

Was it worth it? Was "Goodbye, Evelyn" worth it? We know fucking nothing about Evelyn.

I think the rebus was a stupid and lazy means for the kids to discover Titan's blood. You introduce this mysterious object that was hidden under the floorboards and then you just use it as a plot device.

When the kids uncover the rebus and find the secret code inside, the viewer is not thinking about how it can be used as a means to an end (finding blood) The viewer is thinking "what the fuck is that thing and how did it get there and how did Flapjack know it was there?"

Questions that will not be answered <333

ALL IM SAYING is that I'm sure the crew could have come up with another way for the kids to have a Titan's blood treasure hunt. Maybe they could have dug a little more into the history of Gravesfield and follow leads on weird things happening on this one spot in the graveyard (which turns out to be because there's magical energy there, revealed when Luz realizes she can use glyphs)

I just think that if you're gonna leave the mystery box a mystery, you shouldn't have included it.

And I know. Its subtle storytelling. There's elements of what could have been a far more complex story and they're leaving hints of it here and there.

Well the thing about that is I think the hints are very unsatisfying and weaken the episode's plot significantly.

Also I don't think they should get to just pick and choose what parts of the lore are subtle and what parts are ham-fisted.

YES we are going to be reminded like three times that Flapjack is being secretive and hiding things from Hunter.

NO we are never going to get a payoff for that because he gets shanked and dies first.

BUT!! BUT!! If you squint, its IMPLIED that Flapjack belonged to Evelyn and blah blah blah

You don't get to rub things in the audience face and then choose to be all subtle about it at the last minute. Pick one or the other.

Anyway....I think they could have written Thanks to Them as more of an intriguing and suspenseful horror mystery where they spend forty minutes gathering clues and everything finally clicks together at the very end. That's not what we got.

We got a very weak attempt on the Hexsquad's part to be little detectives, but like a minute of screen time was devoted to them dicking around in a library, a costume shop, and a zoo.

I don't think we can blame the shortening for this.

#very sorry i got distracted and went on a little rant about ttt #this was unrelated to your ask i just tend to go on tangents #i needed to unload it somewhere tho

[crystalleoi]

au doodle... wanted to write a short interaction between these two :)

#inanimate insanity #ii mephone4 #ii mephone3gs #my art #this is the au from my last art post. that i still haven't named yet #3GS is like a mentor to 4 in this au... kinda like merc lol #i think 3GS can be rather pushy but he means well. just wants to see 4 improve yk? #4 tends to be more cautious (for a runner XD) which is good for not dying but not so good for delivering stuff quickly #4S is like the opposite... he gets way too reckless and ends up cracking his screen every other week :P #<- he isn't in these drawings but i just felt like mentioning him. because i love going on tangents abt my ideas #ii city of glass au

[commsroom]

heres an essay prompt: how do you think hera engages with the passage of time? especially milestones e.g. "in case you've forgotten, i am four" or "happy birthday officer eiffel" . speculation is more than welcome; youre not restricted to canon.

okay!! good question!! there are tons of factors there, so i'm going to try to just... touch on some of them. first, obviously: she's only ever been in goddard labs + space, so she has no real first-hand concept of day/night cycles, seasons, etc. in the way those mark time on earth. their "year" orbiting wolf 359 is only about two and a half months, but obviously they keep track by earth's calendar + they use military time, so... even in smaller ways, she's used to these methods of timekeeping.

there's also the consideration of time as distance ("somewhere, 13.7 light years to the left...") and overlapping time, how she experiences any given length of time simultaneously many times from multiple perspectives, etc. as part of how she might perceive it.

re: milestones in particular, of course the big thing is still going to be... what the writers said, how hera cares about holidays because the people in her life invite her to care about them. she cares about eiffel's birthday because it matters to eiffel, and she cares about him. she feels left out from thanksgiving because she can't participate the way the others can. etc. and i think she might have some complicated feelings about her own birthday, or maybe even want to consider a different day her "birthday." since, unlike most people, she can remember the earliest days of her life, and that's not a pleasant association.

which ties into the next part, "in case you've forgotten, i am four" is one of those lines that frustrates me so much in how i feel people misinterpret it. like, yes, it's important to realize she only has four years of life experience. it's equally important to realize those are four years she has lived as an adult woman with an adult perspective and responsibilities. it can't be dismissed as just "she's an AI" because so much of what hera experiences directly, intentionally parallels the effects of real life trauma. it is extremely common, as a sheltered adult who has recently escaped trauma, especially with the additional limitations of being disabled, or neurodivergent, or trans (all things i think hera either directly, canonically experiences, or can be drawn in close parallel to), to feel that you've only been alive for a few years, that you've been thrust into adult life without the necessary formative experiences to make sense of it. that your peers all have some shared experience or understanding that you missed out on. i hate so much to see her infantilized for that; i don't think a lot of people fully realize how real or how painful that can be.

... which is a bit of a tangent off the point re: time, but i think it's relevant. since she has... both a very limited life experience, but also so much overlap within that timeframe, there's a sense of urgency about it. i think hera has always felt that she's running against the clock to live some type of life, anything at all. she thought she was going to be left alone up there and had a few years at most. and while a lot of sci-fi presents AIs as long-lived... in the context of wolf 359, where they're a product constantly under development, where the timespan between rhea's series and hera's was only a few years... i think the average AI in that universe probably has a much shorter expected lifespan than the average human. and since hera is very much in uncharted territory re: living an autonomous life... maybe that's getting into a different topic, but i do think time is something she thinks about a lot.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #asks #thank you for asking!! sorry for going on a bit of a tangent. but it feels relevant to the overall point #there's something about the. hurriedness of time when you feel like time has been stolen from you. and when people like you #don't tend to live long lives and you have nothing to model it after. you know what i mean.

[realreulbbrband]

some Coricojerrie headcanons

⪼﹕As far as goals, these two are very different, Mungojerrie has no set goal, he wants whatever gratifies him in the moment, stealing from the next house, emulating Tugger, etc. Coricopat doesn’t understand this, probably because he has so many goals he wants to work towards, most of them summing up to wanting to support the Jellicle community as a whole in a meaningful way. 

Despite their differences, Coricopat occasionally tries to gently nudge Mungojerrie towards considering more lasting accomplishments.He tells him that the short-lived happiness of his little escapades will fade, and that investing in something more substantial could bring greater fulfillment in the long run.

Mungojerrie does listen to this advice with a mixture of sarcasm and amusement; he finds amusement in Coricopat's sincerity, and teases Cori about being overly concerned about him, and tries to highlight the desire he has to live in the present. Even if Mungojerrie isn't ready to fully embrace the idea of long-term goals himself, he does, in the back of his mind, appreciate Coricopat's comments and acknowledge the genuine worry.

⪼﹕Coricopat does tend to sleep with his eyes open, which isn’t completely unusual for cats; no, he sleeps with them wide open on occasion. As if he were just staring off into the distance. 

Coricopat's unique sleeping habit is a direct consequence of his psychic abilities, which grant him heightened awareness even during sleep. In this state, Coricopat experiences vivid visions, with the clarity and duration of these visions influenced by his proximity to his twin sister, Tantomile. When Coricopat and Tantomile are together, their visions are clearer and longer, often shared between them in synchrony. However, when apart, Coricopat's visions become shorter and less distinct. Despite this, he attempts to interpret these visions independently before discussing them with Tantomile. Surprisingly, depending on when they fall asleep, Tantomile and Coricopat frequently see the same visions at differing times.

Back to Mungojerrie, though; he’s observant; he needs to be in order to steal so well, so it didn’t take him too long to decipher whether Coricopat was staring off or "resting.” One particular sign that Coricopat was mellowing out was that his tail would swish around from left to right every minute or so; if he was resting, however, his tail wouldn’t move at all. When he’d catch him in the act, he’d normally wait by Coricopat to see if he would tell him what he saw.

Any other cat wouldn’t tell Mungojerrie anything; he was known to cause trouble, after all, but Coricopat didn’t mind. In fact, he found it helpful to discuss what he saw as it helped him interpret it better, and Mungojerrie did provide insights Coricopat may not have always thought of as an explanation, regardless of if they were wrong or right.

⪼﹕Coricopat is the more social of the psychic twins, so Mungojerrie always took the liberties of bothering him over Tantomile. He became quite fixated on the idea of outsmarting Coricopat in particular; he’d insist that Coricopat didn’t have any powers at all and would pose absurd questions to him in an effort to "prove" his argument. Even when Coricopat effortlessly answered these questions, Mungojerrie would dismiss it as luck or coincidence, promptly posing another question—often unrelated and equally absurd—just to keep the banter going. Like what he had for supper two moons ago, or how he’s going to feel about the weather tomorrow.  

Despite Mungojerrie's persistent teasing, Coricopat remained patient and good-natured, his understanding demeanor shining through. Unwilling to admit defeat, Coricopat would sometimes respond with vague answers when unsure of how to answer Mungo’s questions, enjoying the faux rivalry he shared with Mungojerrie. However, when he was confident in his knowledge, Coricopat made sure to assert his correctness, taking pleasure in proving Mungojerrie wrong. He enjoyed the humorous challenge of their relationship and didn't mind repeating himself to his foolish mate in order to get his point across.

#trying a different style for these why not #this is mostly from a pre-realationship perspective mostly going over some of the dynamics between them #Mungopat #Coricojerrie #idk if I'll put it on main tags hmm #This was more difficult for me because I tend to avoid talking about characters I'm not completely confident in my portrayal of #especially when they're beloved characters (the fandom scares me like that) #but hey #it's better to try and fail than not attempt at all. #and I wanted to make a post about them for a while #Also also I go on little tangents a lot sorry #CH #I'm posting this now so I stop editing it

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

Metalheads who don't like/respect Babymetal bc their "look" isn't, what? Traditionally metal? are so cringe. Like bro it's an alternative music scene we're supposed to say FUCK tradition????? What's wrong w y'all... Embarrassing

And also they are missing out bc Babymetal fucking rules

#its like pol who are like punk is only if you look like *this* and im like. you are asking me to conform to a societal expectation? in PUNK? #like what. the fuck are you talking about. NON CONFORMITY CAN LOOK LIKE ANYTHING. THATS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF NOT CONFORMING #yeah i dont always dress like a typical punk but thats bc the clothes tend to he fucking uncomfortable or a lot of work and i dont care #like why would i put so much effort into looking a certain way... in... a nonconforming alternative group... why would i conform... what #like the way you look doesnt fucking mean shit. a real punk is someone who actually fucking thinks and acts like a punk. #thats all that matters #punk ain't about how you look or causing random mayhem its a fucking. lifestyle. its a culture snd belief system about the world. #its about saying fuck you to the way things are if the way things are isnt fucking fair. its about community and taking care of your fellows #its about safety in numbers against a ruling power that wants people who are different to stop existing. #the mayhem is for a reason. its to say you cant fucking keep us down and if you try we WILL fight back. you cannot keep us down. #thats the POINT. #idk how my post about people being snobs about metal and missing out on good music bc of it turned into a rant about punk ideology but. #well. here we are. i have a tendency of going off on tangents in the tags..... #point is. trying to enforce a 'norm' in a non traditional alternative genre is fucking stupid and against the whole POINT of the thing #and i think it fucking DUMB that ppls get so caught up in appearances when its never been about that

[fakeosirian]

i'm the number one victor-fabian parallelism girlie but i must admit i was just struck with the bolt of lightning that is victor-eddie parallelism. hear me out:

strained relationship with selfish father (in victor's case too close/controlling, and in eddie's too distant/neglectful)

consequences of that relationship impact sense of identity (victor trying his best to Be his father in many ways, and eddie doing everything he can to be the opposite)

that sense of identity is something of a conscious choice to take "control" over their circumstances in response to that strained relationship (young victor learns to berate/intimidate to get his way (including taking the role of his father to punish himself when he fails), and eddie "chooses" to have a "bad boy" persona and admits to putting up a "forcefield"/that his poor attendance is a conscious aesthetic/lifestyle choice so that people don't expect too much from him in a way that he feels some sense of control over)

also worth noting that the circumstances of the society's founding means that victor was a mentor figure to sweet in his formative years, and sweet himself has a very weird relationship with victor that has this same pattern to it. to avoid victor's ire (because he seeks his approval), he doesn't take action/responsibility as headmaster in situations that he REALLY SHOULD HAVE DONE because he defers to victor (who is most likely making an obviously bad decision that everyone else privy to it is pointing out), in part because he's selfish too and doesn't like dealing with consequences (lol) but also because his loyalty to victor impedes that. but, in situations where his own pride is wounded because of victor (he starts feeling the drawbacks of being a lackey enough to consciously realize he's a lackey), he takes it out on other people, same as victor (and arguably same as eddie) -- notable examples include ALL of the expulsion scenes but especially mara's, the arguments he has with andrews in s1, and just. the entirety of season 3.

i am. not sure what this means yet but it shifted my perception of a large chunk of the show about two inches to the left and reaffirmed the read that this whole time the real treasure in anubis house was the generational trauma and the cycles of abuse we made along the way

#house of anubis #hoa #hoa meta #my writing #<- ig #i started going down a weird tangent of this shaking up the perception of victor->fabian sarah->nina eddie->rufus i tend to work with #into eddie->VICTOR and thus fabian-> rufus in a way that sort of doesnt work but the ways in which it DOES work are OOF OW MY BONES #would post but i really need to get back to writing foyf (which i have been doing) and if im not careful this will eat holes in my brain

[curuxavermella]

Some Obey Me! Nightbringer commentary, up to Lesson 10 because I just finished it and I need to yell to the void about it 🥲 and for my own future musings when more content comes out...

I'm still missing some side lessons/hard modes because I need to get higher ranks to unlock them but the main story up to date is done!

First of all, I love a more chaotic MC. I also love time travel plots a lot, and how this game explores more deeply the relationship between the brothers: I felt they took it a bit more seriously than the og Obey Me! More seriously it's probably not the right word but... better paced? Which I like a lot considering they are still adjusting. I saw most of them struggling with issues I wanted to see in the og game and damn did I get fed. We haven't seen all of them in 10 lessons, but seeing them also worry about each other as they went through different shit was amazing, considering how they "joke" about leaving each other to their demise in the og game lmao. I liked this a lot more.

Also a day or two ago I thought about us still having the Ring of Light while progressing Nightbringer (I even went back to og Obey Me! to catch up... I left it on Lesson 68 and was saving up on rainbow sticks and AP, only for my dumb ass to forget that they have a promo of 0AP going on so I put on the seatbelt, grabbed my 70~ rainbow sticks and plowed through the damn thing up to Lesson 80 while I farmed some grimm in Nightbringer to level up my damn cards and continue the story when I was done. And I found out that yes, we still had the ring with us in the present) and how they would find out we had the thing. And lo and behold, on Lesson 10 Lucifer sees the Ring and flips his shit just like I hoped he would bc it's an important plot point and I was a bit worried they'd forgotten about it lmao. The brothers did see MC use the Ring before on Lesson 9 but Luci wasn't present and MC pulls a "oh they're just similar" and that's it bc they buy it lol I love them.

Also I thought it was weird none noticed we were human, but Diavolo was onto us on Lesson 8/9. He pulls us aside and outright asks and I was like "THANK GOD" bc SOMEONE between these powerful bastards had to notice eventually. I mean, I know people pointed out in og Obey Me! sometimes they can't tell and perhaps we've been with our demon and angel family too much so they kinda can't tell what we are. So. Yea. Also demons can change their appearance/don't always look like demons, so it made sense. But I still made fun of their radar lol.

And then Diavolo pulls a "you can't stay here as a human, the situation is already dire as it is" and I was like "WAIT NO GO BACK". I legit thought we could fly past it with a task, like the usual trials Diavolo puts MC through, but I underestimated how more serious Nightbringer was compared to og Obey Me! and at some point I legit believed we were going to get our ass kicked out of the Devildom by the end of Season 1 and we'd have to come back for Season 2, just like in the og game.

For the "Diavolo trial" (lol) I thought it was going to be the Mausoleum job Mammon mentions the moment we get back home, because it fits the usual MO (I had just done all the trials to get into the Student Council in og Obey Me!.....), but when we get there we meet Adam (who posseses poor Mammon) and hello there, YET ANOTHER MYSTERY IN THIS GAME, HOW ARE YOU? GOOD? GREAT! Leaving aside the whole Adam thing because that's a whole other suitcase to unpack another day and I'm not in the mood to revise Biblical history right now to look for Lilith+Eve stuff (and besides he said his beloved was in the Celestial Realm, so it can't be Lilith...... I think.) when he mentioned that a demon who called himself Nightbringer told him a human with the damn Ring of Light would lead him to his beloved in the Celestial Realm I almost flipped my shit. I kept changing my mind about the "unknown person" who sent us back being Barbatos because it could also be a red herring (god knows I've eaten those up way too much so I have Trust Issues with very Obvious Stuff), and past Barbatos didn't recognize us despite being able to see shit everywhere, past-present and future. But if future Barbatos wanted to keep his past self without knowing shit, I suppose he could also do it... So, yeah, I believe it's him, but for what purpose? I think he saw shit going down in the future and the only way to help us/everyone was to send us to the past without us knowing.

As an extra: before heading out to the Mausoleum job, MC wrote a goodbye letter for the brothers because of Diavolo kicking us out. When I tell you I got misty eyed xd like, damn. "Lucifer, be nicer to your little brothers." "I always had fun with you, Mammon." "We have to go bookshopping, Satan!" etc etc, it was all so sweet. We have it with us at the moment, but we didn't give it to them at the end Lesson 10 bc Shit Went Down (I'll get there in a second). Also there are little details, like them commenting how the "empty guest room" makes them feel so at ease thay they even caught Lucifer napping in there. Who tf is cutting onions.

I thought it would be a while until we revealed we're a human to the brothers but Lesson 10 had other plans (very cool Lessons 9 and 10 btw, with Beel's and Belphie's stuff going on and Lucifer trying to face Diavolo for the sake of his little siblings I love this man so much)

and then, after a Cool Heroic Moment after which we are left out in the open bc we used all of their powers oops, they leave us with this confrontation and A CRIMINAL CLIFFHANGER.

Lucifer doesn't exactly buy it for some reason because we're too op lol and Belphie is reclutant for obvious reasons. And they end it with this as the final blow:

And that's it!!! Good luck waiting for the next lesssons bitch. Have fun lol

Oh you think the next stage before the boss battle is going to be the end of this convo? Nope: it's Solomon and Simeon being cryptic. I wonder what Solomon told Simeon. He warned us about Time Paradoxes so I don't think he'd go that far to tell Simeon. Solomon did tell him something though, and we won't know what it is yet......

I am suffering here. But God Nightbringer gave me a lot of good stuff. I will eat this time travel plot like candy. I feel I'm being spoiled by the game with all the scenes they're giving me and I'm enjoying every second of it. Plus the dynamics, I already talked about the brothers between each other, but there's also new stuff, like Barbatos hating the absolute shit out of Solomon. After Solomon uses his pact on him to save our asses he takes revenge on the Sorcerer lmfao I KEEP WONDERING WHAT DID SOLOMON DO TO HIM TO GET HIM SO PISSED OFF?? But man that was hilarious do it again.

Bonus Barb: one of the last things you can say to him in og Obey me! is "I love you" so if he's Nightbringer it's going to be Fun (and I can't WAIT I've grown fond of Barbatos too agh).

Plus there's the whole Simeon being human issue, but he seems to be faring better at the end of the game. He keeps saying "He (Michael??? Their Father????) probably had a reason to do it" but it won't stop me from kicking some Angel ass ngl. It's gonna be fists out with Michael the moment I see him, I swear.

Plus I want to see the present demons losing their shit with MC disappearing. I bet they're all frantic o(-< and Solomon said he can go back and forth between fuckin dimensions, so he could probably go back and tell them we're okay???? But he hasn't. I think. This is a mess lmao poor MC and demon family. He does say if something happens to us Lucifer will have his head, so..... you can do it, Solomon, I believe in you jdfgsdg

I can now farm side lessons and hard mode at peace for extra scenes, wooo.... o(-< oh and there's new songs in Lesson 10, but only in Lesson 10. The duets/group songs remixes were there and they were a breath of fresh air ;u; I hope they add more.

Time to farm side content in peace and prepare my cards for when they release the next lessons............ whenever it''ll be. Sobs.

Edit: NEXT UP: LOSING MY SHIT ON LESSON 11 LET'S GO BABY

#Anne plays obey me! nightbringer #just thoughts I'm probably missing stuff I tend to go on way too many tangents oops #anyways I love this game #long post #obey me! #obey me! nightbringer #nightbringer spoilers

[byanyan]

today is one of those days where I feel the urge to stress that byan is not tiny. they're not huge by any means, but they aren't small either. 5'10 and a little underweight, yeah, but they've got some decent muscle tone to make up for it. a little gangly, maybe, because they're still growing into their size, but thin waist, broad shoulders... their stature is pretty typically masculine, for lack of a better descriptor

#I feel like the way they dress tends to give people the wrong impression #but like. yeah. they can look pretty intimidating when they want to #they can probably pick u up and carry u if they feel so inclined #they're like... lmfao the fastest way I can think to describe it is 'less twink more twunk' asjfjsg #it's part of the reason they lean a little more femme in fashion choices (other than just liking femme fashion) #their body & their behaviour read very boyish to a lot of people so they kinda try to balance it out with their clothes #they get real sick of people defaulting to 'he/him' #but tbh their real growth will be when they're less concerned about how people perceive their gender #....i forgot where I was going with this I kinda derailed on a soft tangent there #BUT YEAH. byan? not small. very mid-size ig. #just smth I've been meaning to post about for a while tbh #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ HEADCANON ⋮ DANGER IN THE FABRIC OF THIS THING I MADE.

[steakout-05]

he is not amused.....

#barry steakfries #jetpack joyride #sketch #barry after you call him barreth for the 50th time and he's past the point of embarrassment and is now just grumpy about it #i'm in love with the fact his name's comically long and ridiculous #fuckin barreth mcsteakington friesenhausen. #one of the characters in AOZ has a ridiculous name as well (miss rubenstein sexypants) so i'm happy they kept that going in the vlog #i feel like he dreads going to family gatherings specifically because of that name because it's embarrassing #and he just has to put up with it for a night and a half #also i like to think craig would lightly tease him about it if he found out what his whole name is #he'd think it's actually kind of a cute name but also make fun of barry for it because it's funny seeing him get embarrassed #also speaking of that episode of the vlog: as an queenslander barry's mum is incredibly accurate to how quite a few people here are like #like her story about her friend getting hit by a bus after using the internet feels like something i'd hear a weird aunt or neighbour say #i think most of halfbrick's fans aren't australian so i find it really funny when people call barry british or get confused at certain term #and i have seen some people call barry british before and i feel this mixture of amusement and confusion about it #because 1. that's just really funny that people tend to immediately assume that pronouncing stuff like tomato as “tomahhto” = british #but also 2. have you even heard a british person. i assure you they often don't sound like us australians #especially with the many different variations in their accents depending on what area they come from #anyway.... barry grumpy :3 #i like how i always end up going on long tangents in the tags about random loosely related shit #it's the autism brain going off

[daiourage]

(okay i accidentally deleted it yike;;; here’s take 2 of my deets!!!! And extra info about y’all’s truly—

Check back regularly! I,,, like to add stuff;)

(ｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞｱﾞ消しちゃったぁぁぁー (இωஇ`｡) はいっ、ミーの情報を再び上げますぅ、、どうぞ〜

定期的に戻って来てね！)

18!

Hi! I go by too many things.

Dai, Ophie (Ophelia), Emil, Felix, Hyunie… (aaaand my real name)

…Take your pick! (Probably gonna add more bc I’m not quite satisfied with any of them…)

日本人だよーん (JPN ok! 中途半端だけど(泣))

They/them because I have no idea what I am right now.

Just found out I’m on the Ace spectrum!! (Demisexual)

Japan Standard Time! (Which is why I post at weird times…)

I used to be an imagines blog! Which is why you see both “dai” and “ophie” in tags (“dai” is for aggressive speech and “ophie” is for regular speech).

I refer to my brother as “Crow” and my sister as “Rosa”.

I LOVE rarepairs/crackships guys—

⤿ Here’s a list ※ (that will keep growing):

GarWOL (FF), LoveRivalShipping (PKMN), Birushin (DB), TachiKiryu (RGG), Justquill/Simollo (AA), Shez x Felix (FE), Ryoumarx (FE), Krerdly/Krispy Chicken (DR), Ushihina (HQ)

※ Here’s a list of ships that are not rarepairs/crackships in the JP fandom but are in the ENG fandom ↓ ↓

Tsukihina (HQ)

※ …And the reverse ↓ ↓

Dedashe/Ashue (FE)

(Also a multishipper so hit me up y’all—)

My AO3 is: music_compass

Composer!

Also very unrelated fact but I love sandwiches and trains—

#i talk in tags! not bc im afraid to speak on the real post but bc i tend to go on tangents;;;; #don’t feel obligated to interact with this post if you see it!! just here to be here

[elisedonut]

baby it’s cold outside feels Flintley coded 

#percy weasley #marcus flint #flintley #yes im delusional #no i wont explain #yes i know it's may #though will say thats with the interpretation that the one wanting to leave doesnt actually and just feels like they cant just say yes for o #for one reason or another #and that the other one knows this and is why they dont let up #not like date rape #though i understand why people tend to consider it that way #i just choose not to thank you #though #with the right storyline with these two it could also totally be actually wanting to leave #if you want to go the unrequited route #so idk why i went on this tangent lmao

[spider-man-2o99]

Does the run where Miguel had the white suit and said GR’s bike was fuck count as canon?

That would be Spider-Man 2099 v3 (2015)!! It was canon to 616* when it was coming out, but I have no goddamn clue if it still is now, what with how often Marvel decides to entirely reboot 2099 every single time it gets mentioned, nowadays.

(*Marvel 2099 does not take place in the 616-verse. The 90s books are all designated as taking place in earth-928. More rambling under the cut.)

The Miguel we see in this run is very specifically a Miguel who has been stranded in the past (2014) after the events of the Spider-Verse crossover destroyed his present. People have argued for years whether or not this Mig should share a wiki page with the Miguel from 1992. I have no idea where he should go, either.

ANAD Miguel has been pulled from such a point in the timeline of the original '92 comics that the last, uh... eight, or so? issues of his debut solo run have not happened to him, because PAD did not write those issues and did not particularly care to acknowledge whatever the hell went down without him, which if nothing else I respect the inherent humor of.

While SM2099 v3 ends with Miguel finally returning to his correct time period, it is strongly implied that he hasn't quite gone back to exactly the same 2099 as the one that he left.

'Cause... Time-travel stuff. Idk.

#asks #anon #anonymous #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #marvel #fwiw vis-a-vis my own headcanons i honestly tend to think abt the 2010s run(s) of sm2099 more as au books than proper continuations of v1 #it just. is a heavy blow to miguel's character to remove him from his proper context and setting. like. he works best in-situ #if the world is just and there are superheros on-call who can Handle Things then miguel is just Some Guy #and that's literally just how the ANAD runs go. miguel no longer Has to be spider-man so for the most part he isn't because pete's got it #you're taking away his Cause by putting him in the present and it leaves his character directionless w/o an outlet #which is why at least to me those books are so damn BORING #Nothing Happens but not in a fun slice-of-life way it's just Nothing Happens and there's no reason 2 get invested #but. anyways. im getting on a tangent that's definitely a rant for another time #thank u for the ask! :)

[sleepydrabbles]

Things I Have Been Obsessed With:

Wings

Scars

Injury

Pain

Loneliness

Description of Emotion

Manga (as a specific art form)

Anime (as a specific art form)

Bakugan

D Gray Man

Pokemon

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Horses

Japanese (the language, yes.)

Describing personal experience

Money (not in the fun get-rich-quick way, no)

Drawing

Writing Original Stories

Writing Fanfiction (yes, that’s a different art form entirely)

Photography (of small things)

Organization (konmari’d the fuck out of my room three times)

Social Connection (I’ve elaborated on this too many times to explain here)

Astrology (Babylonian, Chinese, Personality Typing, etc.)

Random Generators (using them)

The floor (my RA has a photo of me lying on the dorm floor because I still find it nice and grounding)

Religion (mostly Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, some Ancient Egyptian. Never got around to the Catholic Saints but it was a desire)

Piano (quit because brother stole my piano book and hid it for ‘being annoying’)

Fairy Idol Kanon (it’s a real series I swear)

Happy Happy Clover (manga)

Pandora Hearts

My Hero Academia

Genshin Impact

Books (Book Hoarding, Dragon Style)

Dragons

How to Train Your Dragon

Rise of the Guardians

BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan, Beyond the Scene, etc.)

SEVENTEEN (kpop group)

Fashion (continues to baffle me)

Stretching (Inherited super stiff, tense muscles and wanted to be able to touch my toes)

Pilates

Haikyuu

Aikatsu (anime)

Nest Building (as in bedding, comfy clothes, etc.)

Food experimentation (not anything wild. Grapes and yogurt wrapped up in a tortilla was pretty good)

the details TM (apparently. I get told frequently that I notice the little things. I do not think they are little things. I continue to miss things my mother finds obvious.)

Tragedy (why the fuck did I read so many books about people suffering and getting hurt as a teenager. I can’t stand true crime, but I did read “Reviving Ophelia” by Mary Pipher and it did some serious damage)

Music (as a listener. I was looking for a vibe that I have now found successfully many times over but still can’t describe to people, lmao)

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce

Harry Potter (spare me. I was eleven.)

The Fire Within Series by Chris D’Lacey (just checked to make sure I didn’t hallucinate it)

Mistborne Series by Brandon Sanderson

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (my copy is a wreck of notes and underlined parts)

Studio Ghibli Movies (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, Ponyo, Song of the Heart)

Avatar the Last Airbender

Tourist Spots in Japan (I’ve since discovered through personal experience that the normal city streets are my favorite)

“Aesthetics”, as in the practice of throwing together a bunch of photos with similar color schemes and themes and calling it a summary of a vibe

Eve’s Music (JPOP)

Yoasobi’s Music (JPOP)

Kenshi Yonezu’s Music (JPOP)

Aimer’s Music (JPOP)

Teddy Bears and stuffed animals

Stickers

Swimming

My Little Pony

Littlest Petshop

Barbie

American Girl Doll

Vague Endings to Stories

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

Found Family

LGBTQ+ Labels and Groupings

Gender Presentation

Yaoi

Throwback Lists of 2000s Dance Songs

Character Playlists (That spotify thing where you name a playlist ‘[character] vibes’ and fill it with songs you think could be their theme)

Fairies (specifically that one book of flower fairies that’s really old and cute and seasonal)

Elves

being a Good Student TM (grades looked great! Other stuff not so much)

Human Biology

Drawing Manga Style

The Concept of Art

#this is an exercise in self awareness #mostly because I tend to classify all my interests #into easy-to-understand umbrellas #like manga #anime #etc #but the reality is #I was obsessed with certain features of the thing #and a lot of people find themselves put off #when they go to have a typical fan conversation with me #and I start taking tangent after tangent #until we’ve gone in circles together

[jibunbosh]

not to post about the crab day thing again but you guys know that even if it wasnt started by a terf or whatever it is that people are saying it would still be a bad idea regardless right.

#i think too many people tend to conflate quality of character with the practicality of an idea as a way out of actually objectively engaging #with the actual content of said proposition on its own merits #(thinking about that other post that was like ummm did you know that the strike organizer is a bad person) #i think “heartbreaking the worst person you know just made a great point” was wonderful for literacy and critical thinking on the internet #sometimes you also gotta have a “the best person you know just made a terrible point” too #i think i'm going on a tangent here. love and peace and critical thinking on planet earth