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eri-blogs-life · 1 year

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So, I just finished Digimon Survive. And sometimes when I finish games I like to write up some of my thoughts about them, so here’s my thoughts on Digimon Survive.

Generally speaking, as a game, it was solid. Nothing too amazing, but for fans of digimon definitely worth checking out. If you’re not into digimon, though... probably not necessarily amazing.

To get into more specifics, and more spoiler-y territory, there’s a couple things I find interesting that I really wanna talk about

Aight so I’ve been a fan of digimon since I was a kid. During the Pokemon craze of the late 90′s/early 2000′s, I was a child in the perfect demographic to be into pokemon, and with the pokemon anime there was also the digimon anime on tv. And like most kids, I thought digimon was probably just a knock-off of pokemon. But unlike some kids, I still watched digimon and fell absolutely in love with it.

The franchise has certainly not gotten quite as much in terms of successes as some other iconic big franchises, and its animes and games have had mixed levels of quality, but there’s something kind of fascinating about every iteration of the franchise even in that case

And I think one thing that’s really interesting about it is the way each iteration of digimon kind of takes a slightly different approach to the subject matter. I think every digimon media, or at least all I’ve consumed, has a few general traits - there are digital monsters, that live in a digital world, and kids who end up getting involved in this world in some way have a specific partner digimon that they are destined to be partnered with. Well, some games take it slightly differently - the Cyber Sleuth duology doesn’t have the destined partners thing, from what I remember, focusing instead on being able to get multiple different partners a la a monster catching type game like pokemon

And each series takes a slightly different approach with exactly how the digital world and the real world are connected, what exactly digimon really “are”, and how it all fits together.

Within the world of Survive, Digimon are referred to as Kemonogami, at least as our story starts. They are apparently something akin to gods that were once worshipped at a small shrine in the middle of nowhere

As our main characters in this story get lost in the woods near that shrine, they end up in the digital world (as it would eventually come to be called, though that’s not how it’s referred to at first), and as we get into this I wanna talk for a bit about... parallel worlds.

A lot of Survive reminded me, at least in certain ways, of a Persona game. The digimon of Survive are destined to be with their human partners specifically because those who are partners are linked together by their emotions. Digimon evolve in survive - at least those who are partnered with a human - through strong emotions and force of will from their human partners.

This works in a really cool way to allow the digimon of Survive to act like metaphors for their human partners’ mental states. As our characters grow stronger in terms of their strength of character, their digimon are able to evolve into stronger forms and face tougher foes.

During the course of our journey, this also results in some unfortunate side effects, including characters who are unable to come to terms with themselves seeing their partner digimon turn into horrible dark monsters, resulting in what is probably still to me one of the most memorable parts of the game - about halfway through, when one of the human characters gets swallowed whole by their dark digivolved partner who has gone berserk.

So that’s a really cool metaphor, right? There’s this parallel world that our party get stuck in, where they bond with creatures that physically represent a part of themselves, they are able to grow stronger, and then able to overcome any challenge.

And of course the big point of comparison that comes to mind for me is... Persona. Especially Persona 4, where each dungeon of that game features you saving a character from their “shadow” - a dark reflection of some part of their heart - thus helping them to become a more complete person. And it’s a great metaphor, and I love it a lot!

Persona does way better with it, though. Survive is decent enough in this respect, but I think there’s definitely something lacking in the department of writing here that makes it just a lot weaker than something like Persona.

I think the game also feels a little worse in this respect because we start Survive with a much larger cast than Persona does - Digimon Survive starts with a large cast of survivors who are trying to find themselves, which runs a bit too wide to really be too noticable in a lot of ways. Persona, focusing on one character at a time, can spend a lot more focused time exploring each individual’s main emotional conflict(s), and sorting through them.

In its finale, the game makes some interesting... points, I guess. The claim seems to be that these kemonogami, creatures that have existed for many years in their alternate world, are likely to be referred to as digimon in the future, due to the connection they have in the modern day with the internet - our party spreading rumors on the internet about this alternate world and the creatures that live within.

I think a metaphor that could be drawn, though I don’t know how specific I’d say it is, is that the internet acts as a sort of subconscious for humanity - it is a reflection of our world, and at the same time things that happen there also impact our real world.

It’s an interesting metaphor, I think, though the game certainly doesn’t dwell on it at all

‘Course, as I’m typing this up while the credits scroll, I get this pop-up after the end of the credits... I don’t know that I necessarily have it in me to play through another time, though and save that character. I’ll have to look in to exactly how big of a change that’d be

Cause here’s the thing.

This game’s mechanics come in two flavors: visual novel storytelling with rare choices that impact other characters’ opinions of you; and very simple and not terribly difficult turn-based tactical strategy segments where you slowly march your digimon across a battlefield and wipe out everything in your path

Neither makes for the most engaging of gameplay

The visual novel aspects are not bad. The story’s fun, and the choices that impact other characters’ opinions of you can change how your own and everyone else’s digimon evolve, with your partner agumon having multiple different possible evolutions at each stage of evolution

The strategy segments can be kind of grueling, though. It feels like your partner digimon don’t move very fast and there isn’t a ton of interesting strategy to necessarily be had. There aren’t really a ton of interesting choices to be made, with each digimon having 2, maybe up to 4 choices for what kind of attack to do on their turn, and one being a strictly better option than the other 99% of the time. How you move doesn’t have a huge impact on how things play out, either - good positioning helps, for sure, but I really didn’t find it necessary nor interesting to make terribly complicated decisions on where to place myself.

A speeding monster is charging down a track. Next to you is a gun you can use to kill the monster. If you let the monster continue its path, the entire world is going to be destroyed. If you kill the monster, one person is going to die instead. Do you kill the monster?

The game does the classic thing a lot of stories do, especially in jrpgs, tackling the trolley problem on a unique scale. In the case of Survive, you have this part in the middle of the game where you are threatened with a world-ending monster that has possessed a person to use them as a vessel.

The game’s story involves you trying, again and again, to find a third option - a way to save the world and the one possessed person.

It’s a thing a lot of jrpgs do, I feel, and it’s not a bad idea. As a leftist, I certainly see the value in trying to think of a solution outside of the two prescribed ones and implementing that

And I don’t know that I have it in me to fully elaborate on my thoughts about this right now, but there’s something to be said for what the trolley problem, taken to extremes, can represent when it comes to, like... trying to find a third solution when you don’t have the time to do that. The way things are talked about during that portion of the game, it feels like time is running out and saving that person just isn’t going to be possible, but still the characters insist on trying to find a way to save everyone, but the longer the party waits, the worse things are going to become.

I don’t know, I don’t have the words to elaborate on that very well right now, so moving on

I will definitely praise the game in terms of aesthetics, though - the visuals and audio all look and sound great, the character designs are fun and distinct without being annoying, and just overall aesthetically it’s great

The UI and controls lack a little, though, at least playing on PC. Might be better on console, though, I’d imagine. Being a japanese game, it was most likely developed with console in mind first and foremost

Speaking of development, though, this game’s been a long time coming. If I remember right, this game changed developer hands halfway through its development -

okay, did some super light research on that topic and can talk with some definitive opinions.

Game was originally on a smaller budget and an entirely different game engine than it is now, but as it was developed they realized it was a bigger design than initially planned, thus why the game was delayed from its original 2019 release date to 2022, and why it changed development hands partway through.

With the scope of the project and the team changing up midway through development, as well as the whole global pandemic thing causing problems with development, I absolutely do have to make the point that this is a great product. I may have some complaints with certain aspects of it, but it was definitely enjoyable in a lot of ways

As a long time fan of Digimon, the game really does feel like it is your own form of Digimon Adventure. A new Digimon Adventure, taking a new look at the series’ original narrative structure.

And... I don’t know, I think that’s most of it. Here’s some other screencaps I took and maybe a couple notes on my feelings about them:

My gay brain gettin fired up about my girls. Love Saki, love Aoi. They’re great <3

A definitely interesting question that would be cool to explore in a game that took more time to focus on each individual character’s psyche rather than on the adventure the group as a whole takes

Digimon are cool because, yeah, they can be used as a metaphor for their human partner’s psyche, but they can also just be... partners. Not even a metaphor, per se, they can act really good as just characters in their own rights and interact with their human partners in really nice ways. Each pair’s gotta figure out their own ways of trusting and finding each other.

Something something digimon as a transgender allegory.

There’s a point the game, like, briefly touches on religion, and the way belief works. It does make sense with the end point of the game being the main characters trying to keep the digital world alive by having people believe in it, which is not a connection I had made until just now. Huh

An important point about self-realization. Other people can help move you in the right general direction, but ultimately people have to come to their own sense of self by themselves

Clearly the most controversial statement in history

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Alright, I think that’s it for real. I did overall have a pretty good time with Digimon Survive. I may or may not try to replay and max out everyone’s relationships, see how that changes things, but first and foremost I’m gonna take a bit of a break.

#eri blogs games #as usual this post ended up being way too long. read at your own discretion if you have 8000 hours to spend on trivial garbage #nah i jest a little and my thoughts are certainly raw and could use some cleaning up if i were to want to present this to. like.#a college professor or something #but in this case it's just stream of consciousness thoughts about my own experiences #y'all know what you're getting up to if you do read it #digimon survive

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safyresky · 1 year

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😤😤😤

#venting in the tags don't mind me!!#dani speaks #personal #when the blog becomes the diary #y'all it is VERY HARD dealing with a narcissistic parent I gotta say!!#i am understandably very upset with my parents right now for some nonsense that went down Sunday into Monday #so I've been limiting contact and not reaching out to them unless they reach out to me to ask about my houseguest #and because growing up with them. and my MOM specifically #I KNOW that they would 100% not listen to my points or feelings or whatever #and just turn the table to be like WHAT ABOUT ME AND MY NEEDS #mom more so than dad. anyway #so this model has been working well most of the week UNTIL TODAY #in which I checked WhatsApp and saw that my dad has messaged several times to check in #i was like 😤 and replied fine #my mom send this big INFURIATING text to me #i replied in the fam chat that by fine I mean things are FINE. SATISFACTORY #NOT FINE AS IN IDC WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY CONVERSATION ENDS NOW AND HERE #BC THAT'S WHAT MOM DOES AND THAT'S WHAT SHE THOUGHT I DID SO SHE GOT ALL HUFFY WOO IS ME IN THE CHAT #so I made a v grown up reply that was basically. tldr:#I'm having a bad week and here's what's happened and I am NOT using fine to end a conversation and would appreciate space #so I can feel BAD without being made to feel bad for feeling bad #and it's v mature but LORD AM I READY TO EXPLODE #like i am talking full Jacqueline diring frostmas on main EXPLODE #IT'S SO ANNOYING TO NOT BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH PARENTS HOW YOU FEEL #KNOWING THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK AND WANT YOU TO BE OKAY WITH THEM #GIVEN THE SITUATION HOW CAN I! FUCKEN EH #i am going to rip off my shirt and explode into 1000 tiny danis and take apart the local clocktowers

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electricalparades · 2 years

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#it is 5:30 am so i know my brain is lying to me at least a little bit but also there's a whole lot of truth in there too #but anyway my life is just. so meaningless. like i genuinely don't think my existence has any meaning.#and god if that's not just the absolute most soul-crushing feeling in the world.#and it's just so fucking crazy how you can move through life never knowing if you've had a single positive impact on another person #logically i know i have. i know at some point I've made someone feel safe or comforted or seen or joyful.#but for some reason it's hard to accept that truth. and it's hard to feel like it's enough.#this post is brought to you by 5am thoughts‚ 4 days of not taking my meds‚ dehydration‚ post concert depression‚ and devastating loneliness #anyway see y'all in like 6 months for my next emotional breakdown post since I guess that's all this blog is anymore 👍

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princekirijo · 2 years

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So turns out complaining may actually help because um I think I have a design for Pimpernel 🧍‍♂️

#pimpernel #oc tag #yeah he deserves his own tag he's an oc in his own right #but um idk wtf happened #i sorta just started scribbling let the brain take over and boom design?#its def the best one ive done so far #it may be a little bland so i have to spice it up but um win for me ig #the only thing is he looks a little familiar and i cant place it so i hope i havent accidentally reinvented a character 😭#but if i get this right i'll be able to turn my attention towards fixing up lugh a little and then onto percy #and once that's done hatanaka is next #yuna is on the back burner because ive been ignoring hatanaka for far too long and theres some stuff i need to work out with her #but i feel im getting somewhere so go me ig #i really feel i need a sideblog for either my art or fuck it the au itself #probably the former considering i already have the url ready to go #but like i know this is my blog my thoughts but like some of y'all MUST be sick of me by now 💀#by that i mean sick of me talking about the au specifically #eh oh well i know some people enjoy it

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bredforloyalty · 2 years

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hmm i should have a diary. or at least some kind of online space where i just post whatever

#i post whatever here but there are restrictions because tumblr blogs are supposed to be followed and if there are followers and friends‚#there are people to disappoint and annoy and there are some things i just don't WANT to be honest about #like it's not good for anyone if i'm honest‚ it's best for me if i keep it to myself so i won't change my mind and develop an environment #where i can be myself 100%#because i want this environment. i like this y'all are cool and fun and etc and i like it like this #but there's also things inside me that i better let out ??? you know?#some thoughts are for me myself and i but i still would feel better if i expressed them. yeah that's it. i just need to put it out there #kata.txt

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ktempestbradford · 2 months

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I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

#long post #Willy Wonka #Wonka #Willy Wonka Experience #Willy Wonka Experience disaster #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Willys Chocolate Experience #THE UNKNOWN #Wish.com Oompa Loompa #House of Illuminati #AI #ai generated

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daincrediblegg · 27 days

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no you know what I'm going to scream about the stuff I talked about in the tags of this post publicly

I'm tired of the well-meaning "don't feel bad if your work only gets 20 notes your genius is what counts and do it for you!" bullshit. I've had a good handful of friends who have straight up DEACTIVATED in recent months because their work was not getting reblogged AT ALL. No, it wasn't from lack of not being well-liked, no it wasn't from lack of trying to make sure it was getting out there to the people they knew would engage with it. It was because no matter how much they were praised privately for their work, when push came to shove, absolutely NOBODY reblogged it and gave it the audience that it was due, and I'm tired of people shoving the "unsung genius" narrative as an excuse for it. Nothing excuses that. And the boop event really proved that.

because I know given the opportunity, indiscriminately pressing a button (sometimes 10 thousand times, as I did) is not beyond this website's capability. y'all loved doing that. and look at what it wrought. nothing but love and affection and happiness. just from a couple of quick clicks of a little paw button. sure. nobody knew who you booped but the other person (which is how likes used to work on this website, btw). there was an element of anonymity to it. but that is kind of the core of this website that no other social media platform still has: the ability to be anonymous. and hyper-curating a blog on here like you might on twitter or instagram to project an image is simply not viable. and hey. you wanna know a secret: literally nobody cares what you post or whether it goes with the "theme" of your blog or not. yeah. I know. CRAZY concept in this day and age. but literally. I myself have reblogged things that have had nothing to do with whatever I am currently fixated by and you know what happened to my follower count? not a damn thing. in fact, I actively try to reblog things specifically BECAUSE it's my friends who made them (even though I'm not always good at KEEPING UP WITH HOW MUCH THEY POST @prismatica-the-strange will NEVER GO UNRECOGNIZED by me).

And you know what fucking sucks? I have to deal with this too. surprise right? you ever wonder why I reblog fics or art I post like 20 times the day that I post them? do you ever wonder why I ask about tag lists and beg for asks all the time? IT'S BECAUSE EVEN I GET LIKE. 5 LIKES ON THE THINGS I POST. AND THE REST OF THE REBLOGS ARE MINE SO I CAN MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE WHAT I MAKE GET TO SEE IT. and I say that knowing that I'm certainly not an unpopular blog, or an unpopular writer. I know that people love the stories that I create. Hell, half of the people that I've talked to about lady terror have told me that they consider her to be canon (AND EVEN SOME!! THOUGHT SHE WAS!!! WITHOUT EVEN HAVING WATCHED THE SHOW! WHICH IS STILL SO SO WILD TO ME!!!) But especially in the last 4 years (which really dates this phenomenon), my posts, no matter how well received they've been amongst people I've talked to about them directly, I still go into the notes and at least half (often more than half) are MY reblogs to make sure people saw what I posted. and it happens every single time, and I can't tell you how much it crushes me considering that it used to be that I would be able to post it only once, and people would reblog it sometimes even HUNDREDS of times.

It's not about popularity. it never has been. it's not about anxiety. or shifting website cultures. even if you lurk, the simple fact is, that if you want people to keep making what you love. you have to reblog. your theme won't suffer because you reblogged a fanfiction that you really admire. your posting won't be ruined because you reblogged some fanart from someone in a different fandom. really. I promise. and if people do unfollow you for that? who needs em. followers come and go but you should NEVER have to cater to them. on this website it has ALWAYS been the other way around. lean into it. make it yours. put stuff you ACTUALLY WANT to be seen and that you love and appreciate on your blog. no matter how old it is, how new it is, no matter how niche or off-theme it is.

so please. if you really want to show your appreciation for someone's work? you reblog. it's really as easy as that. check the tags. add some when you reblog if you like. but please for the love of god reblog. it's as easy as booping and even more rewarding for the people who you reblog from. if you want to let someone know that their work is genius and appreciate it? show it. reblog. then DM them if you're too nervous to say what you want to say but not in a public forum. but for christ's sake. REBLOG.

#fanfiction #fanart #reblogging #boop

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bibluebutterfly · 3 months

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Hoo boy. Now I've made it known multiple times on my blog that I LOATHE the whoobiefication of Vox, but lets get into why/how Vox is NOT a good person nor a baby that needs protecting and why he's all the better for it. Buckle up ladies and gentlemen, this will be long.

Now, why isn't Vox a good person? Easy. Because he (along with the other Vees) is supposed to be the bad guy of the story. Shocking, I know. Vox was NEVER intended to be a good person, and some of y'all just need to accept that.

Now for the long part: HOW is he not a good person?

Well, first of all, his literal introduction is an ad selling drones HE DESIGNED specifically for stalking,"peeping on the neighbors has never been more stylish"

Right off the bat, this tells us he doesn't care about people unless he can profit off them.

Which is also backed up by the point that he ADVERTISES Val and Vels "love potions" which are basically just roofies.

Again. This man ONLY cares about profit first and foremost, screw the people who can get hurt/SA'd by his products.

Next, he has a power of hypnosis which he is NOT hesitant to use. He can take away someones free will at a glance and uses that to his full advantage.

He's also very willing to give Val his lowest earners to shoot. Notice that he does so with no hesitance and no regret.

Also, (and most significantly) he's a huge, HUGE enabler. This guy has cameras EVERYWHERE, ESPECIALLY when Valentino is involved. He's got cameras in Val's room, Angels old room, at Vals corner of the club (which moves when Val does), there's NO WAY he DOESN'T know that Val is a r@pist.

And DESPITE that, he still sleeps with the man, is very likely in love with him, and oh yeah, FUNDS HIS WHOLE DEAL. The cameras Val uses are Voxtech cameras.

Val may be the one who does the dirty work but Vox willingly and knowingly makes a profit off of that. He doesn’t just know and do nothing, he actively HELPS Val out and obviously has no second thoughts nor regrets about it.

This is not a look of disgust or discontent, this is fondness. Genuine fondness. For Valentino. As a PERSON. Let that sink in.

There’s also the implications that Vox is jealous of the attention Angel gets from Val. Angel gets abused constantly by Val, Vox KNOWS, and still hates Angel because of the sheer fact that he takes up so much of Vals attention.

Not to mention the HEAVY implications that he gets off on watching people suffer.

“Well Vox can still do better than Val!!”

While I’m at it, I guess I should bring up the fact that BOTH Vox and Val are MASSIVE red flags.

With Val, aside from the obvious, he’s also a huge attention whore for Vox and isn’t afraid to break Vox’s property if Vox doesn’t pay attention to him. Yeah Vox gets frustrated with him, who wouldn’t be when their lover is throwing temper tantrums every other day?

With Vox, again, aside from the obvious, isn’t afraid to handle Val roughly when he’s mad, and literally screams about how watching his arch nemesis/obsession get the crap beat out of him is better than sex. Right in front of Val by the way. In regular circumstances, 9.98/10 that’s gonna get your ass dumped in a second.

Not to mention the mutual condescension ation towards each other.

And as much as fans (including myself admittedly) like to shit on Val for being a man child, Vox is literally no better.

Plus the explosive tempers.

Seriously. Vox LITERALLY cannot do better than Val. Vox is the only one who can put up with Vals BS and vice versa.

OH YEAH and lets not forget one last thing: VOX ALSO ABUSES HIS OWN EMPLOYEES.

This dude is scared of him, and it’s NOT because he’s worried about getting fired.

So yes. Vox is not nor HAS EVER been a good person.

And for me personally, I love that. I love that he’s entertaining yet awful. I love his dynamic with Alastor, and I love his relationship with Val even more.

If you’re wondering why I personally love Staticmoth, it’s because basic couple rules do not apply to them. They’re both toxic narcissistic red flags and therefore they can be as awful as they want to each other, and the other will simply shake it off. Yet there’s still heavy trust between the two (never being scared of each other) and they still have little moments together where they’re genuinely happy. It’s unique, and something I’ve never seen in media before.

Basically, if you liked Vox better when you thought he was a poor little baby being abused by Val, read a fan fiction. There’s a lot of them out there.

But people really just need to accept the fact that he’s an awful person. Always has been. He’s not better than Val by ANY means. He and Val are both evil pricks who deserve each other.

And guess what? LIKING AN EVIL CHARACTER DOES NOT MEAN YOU SUPPORT THEIR CHOICES. IT’S OKAY TO LIKE VOX EVEN IF HE IS EVIL.

But don’t go on saying that Vox was “ruined” as a character when all signs have always pointed to him being terrible.

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ellemj · 4 months

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Wear That Again: 12 Days of Smut #7

Bucky Barnes x Reader One-Shot

This fic was inspired by two things:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Ha16Rj/ this Tiktok edit by @the.stark.internship ( @thestarkinternship on Tumblr)

@littlemiss-yeehaw's latest smutty drawing which can be found on her blog, I've stared at it since yesterday and I'm still not over it.

Summary: Bucky ruins your brief holiday romance with a SHIELD agent out of jealousy. You'd think storming in and yelling at the super soldier would've ended in an argument and some slamming doors, but that's not what happens at all.

Warnings: profanity, some objectifying thoughts, possessive!Bucky, jealous!Bucky, thigh riding, MINORS DNI, 18+!!!

Word Count: 1.7k

A/N: I don't know how tf it's happening but y'all have me averaging 1.2k notes per day on my blog for the last couple of days and it feels surreal. Also I just want to say, I wrote Bucky out-of-character for this one-shot and this is not how I imagine he'd be at all, but it was fun to write hehe.

“You little fucking shit.” You finally snap as the elevator doors are opening to let you out into the common living area of the tower. “Bucky, you are such an asshole.” You’re absolutely livid, and if your words hadn’t showed that then your actions sure would’ve. You’re slamming your hands down on the kitchen island before the elevator doors have even fully closed. Bucky sits on a barstool with a near straight face, completely unaffected by your rage and only briefly looking up at you as he chews through a bite of his Chinese takeout. “You’re the reason he stood me up, aren’t you? What the hell did you do this time?”

“Wear that outfit again.”

You’re silent for the longest moment yet, at least fifteen seconds, and Bucky thinks it might be a new record for you. He hasn’t paid attention to a damn thing you’ve said since you walked in, but he sure as hell paid attention to what you chose to wear tonight. You were supposed to be going on your third date with a SHIELD agent who crossed your path a number of times professionally before finally asking you out two weeks ago, and with it being just six days until Christmas, you were dressing for the occasion tonight. You’re wearing a tight black turtleneck sweater that’s tucked neatly into the tiniest holiday-themed miniskirt you could find. It's a sort of festively-colored tight plaid skirt that barely covers a thing, but you didn’t wear it for any reason other than to encourage your date to rip it off of you later. However, Bucky made sure the poor guy wouldn’t even get the chance to see the damn thing.

“What did you just say to me?” Your voice is shaking but not with fear, no. It’s shaking with the sheer amount of anger that’s currently eating you alive. Bucky lifts his gaze to meet yours as he sets his chopsticks down and picks up his half-empty beer bottle from the countertop. Letting his eyes roam over the entirety of your figure that isn’t obscured by the kitchen island, he boldly repeats himself.

“Wear that again.”

“If you like it, I’m burning it.” You say defiantly, crossing your arms over your chest as you glare at the man before you. Bucky lets out a low laugh now, the sound is melodious but his gaze hardens and narrows as he focuses in on your face.

“If I like it?” All he can think about is pushing you up against a wall, lifting the back of that tiny little piece of fabric you call a skirt, and fucking you until Christmas morning. If he likes it? Hell, he fucking loves it.

“That’s it, I’m burning it.” You’ve had enough. First, he ruins your short-lived holiday romance. Then, he has the audacity to act like your outfit is doing something for him. As you said before, he’s a little fucking shit. You shoot him one last passing glare as you move around the island and start heading toward the hallway, ready to lock yourself in your room and plot his demise for the rest of the night. But Bucky just can’t let you have the last word, and he sure as hell can’t let you walk away from him looking like something that belongs under the Christmas tree. Or more accurately, something that belongs under him.

The two of you have done this dance so many times that you aren’t even surprised when you hear his barstool slide away from the island seconds before you feel a firm hand gripping your forearm and yanking you backward. You’re not surprised when suddenly, your front is pushed roughly against the wall of the hallway and his lips graze over the shell of your ear. Frustratingly, you’re not even a little bit surprised when you feel heat rushing through your body and settling between your legs.

“You’ll wear that outfit again, when I tell you to.” Bucky’s tone is so much less indifferent than it was only a moment ago. It’s so full of lust that it leaves you trembling, awaiting whatever his next move may be. He knows no one else is in the tower tonight, which means if he wanted to, he could take you right here in the hallway and not feel an ounce of guilt over it. Who’s he kidding? He’s done that before even with everyone in the tower, and guilt sure wasn’t the feeling he felt afterward. But he wants you in his room tonight. You and that fucking skirt.

Bucky takes your silence as obedience and steps away from you, letting you push yourself off of the wall and turn around to face him. If you’re being honest, you’re a little disappointed. That’s all he wants from you tonight?

“How long has it been since the last time we had sex?” Bucky questions. He knows you remember, probably down to they very hour. He remembers, but he has to make sure you do too.

“Two weeks.” You haven’t slept with Bucky since the SHIELD agent asked you out. Bucky mulls over the length of time in his mind. He wants to remedy that, he wants to fuck you tonight, but he won’t. You started seeing someone and threw Bucky to the side so easily that him waiting two weeks to ruin your dating life was the nicest possible thing he could’ve done in retaliation. He’s not going to give you what you need now, at least not everything you need.

Bucky’s silent as he pushes open his bedroom door and waits for you to step inside before him. He’s still silent as he sits on the edge of the bed and beckons you to stand between his legs. He begins raking his hands up the outsides of your thighs, sliding them underneath your skirt until he feels the waistband of your sheer tights. He isn’t so silent when he begins sliding those down your legs, letting out a soft groan when his hands meet your bare skin underneath. It’s been too fucking long since he’s touched you and an unfamiliar peace settles in his soul when he feels your warmth. You’re expecting him to rip the tights off, followed by the skirt and everything else you’re wearing. However, Bucky’s plan involves keeping you nearly fully clothed, and only partially satisfied. Once he has your heels and tights on his bedroom floor, he kneads your ass underneath your skirt, letting his fingertips brush over the fabric of your thong. God, he’s really practicing his restraint tonight. His cock is already hard, threatening to rip the seam of his pants with even the slightest movement, but he isn’t planning on getting his own fix tonight.

“Sit.” He commands, gripping your hips with both hands and pulling you down to straddle one of his thighs. As soon as your clothed core makes contact with the toned muscle of his thigh, you stiffen and try to shift your weight so you won’t be so stimulated. Bucky makes an annoyed face at you before slipping one hand back underneath your skirt and drawing your panties to the side, causing your wet clit to press against the fabric of his pants. “I’m not rewarding you for spending your time with some other guy for the last two weeks, I’m not having sex with you.”

You’re about to protest, to tell Bucky that he’s being sensitive, that the two of you never had any rules about dating, but Bucky senses your opposition and begins dragging you back and forth over his thigh. He looks down between the two of you as a wet spot quickly begins forming where your pussy meets his clothed leg. Fuck. It feels too good for you to even consider stopping and telling him that he’s an asshole. So, you go along with his guiding movements, grinding against his leg and finding just the right amount of pressure and friction to start heading toward an orgasm.

“You didn’t have to scare the guy off.” You mutter as you lean forward, letting your hands rest on Bucky’s shoulder as you place a gentle kiss against the side of his neck. He sighs and tilts his head to the side to give you better access, but his hands continue to guide the movement of your hips.

“Three dates were enough. I couldn’t stand it anymore.” He admits. You feel an odd sense of pride surge through you at his words, though you have no idea if he’s being honest or not. “I couldn’t let him have you like this.” You suck on the skin just beneath Bucky’s left ear and pick up the pace with which you’re grinding on his thigh.

“Fuck, James.”

Bucky knows this isn’t the right time for the conversation, so as you grind out an orgasm on his thigh, letting out the most heavenly moans and whimpers just for him, he tells himself to hold it together until Christmas. That’s when he’ll tell you. That’s when he’ll tell you that he wants more than the angry, hateful late-night rendezvous in his room or yours. He wants more than sitting around waiting for you to come home from a date while he nearly goes insane with jealousy. He wants more of you. Fuck, he wants all of you.

Just as you’re coming undone on his thigh while moaning his name and squeezing his shoulders, he lets his hands snake underneath your little plaid skirt. He grips your ass with both hands, digging his fingertips into the supple skin there as he leans into your neck. You feel him take a deep breath in as you’re coming down from your orgasm high.

“Why do you always smell so fucking good?” He asks, licking a small stripe up the side of your neck before pressing his lips against it in a soft kiss. You only hum lightly in response, your brain not quite ready to formulate a full sentence. Bucky presses a second kiss to your neck, and then a third as his works his way up to your lips. His hands move to smooth over the fabric of that little skirt that he can’t seem to get over. “Stay away from the fireplace this week. I can’t have you burning this skirt.”

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p0rchc0ll4ps3 · 2 years

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Actually a lot of y'all ftc peeps seem really cool and I'd like to talk and plot with y'all but I am so shy and scared of fucking things up coz lord knows I've fucked things up before 😔

#something something every time I make a friend and trust them there's the potential for my evil nasty side to leak through #and I get so fucking ruined by rejection I'm always scared to reach out #worst they can say is no is a really good saying but for me coz of my stinky brain i take no as oh I'm hated of course they don't like me #I'm unwanted my ocs suck Etc even tho I KNOW that's not it #this sounds like a me begging for attention but it's NOT #just throwing my symptoms out into the void to explain part of the reason I'm so shy #also I just have this innate thought in my head that all of y'all already have good friends and stuff and if I talk I'll be interrupting #which is also probably not true but yeah #I've been closed out of so many circles it's just .. like I always think man is it worth it??#but yeha not necessarily a vent! just an explanation #also I know what I have I just don't want to put it on my blog. it's my personal brain issues n only people I trust trust get to know #but yeah don't take this as a me vagueing to beg for attention #this is justa thoughts in the void #feel free to ignore (genuine and non threatening)!#it just takes a lot of energy for me to connect with people and then a lot of energy to keep up the connections and a lot of energy to push #out the thoguhts that I'm not wanted #so then at some pt I just give up coz I have other things to do haha #like draw! or write! or apply to grad school! etc #energy must be used wisely. one only has so many spell slots a day

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dolliestfairy · 9 months

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𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝅄ֹ ׅ♡ ೀ ʚĭɞ ‌ིᨴּ ˒˒۪

(Crazy) Yandere [Nerd] Boy x Soft!Chubby!Fem!Reader ༢𓏲๋ ⊹ ֢

𔓘 Tw : Kidnapping, Extreme Noncon (y'all are strangers bro), Rushed Fanfic, Mentions Of Blood, Virginity-Take, Extreme Somnophilia, Stalking, Extreme Obsession, Impregnate, A little of Bondage, Seriously dude you're fucking with a crazy nerd boy who is a freaking stranger to you like y'all didnt know each other but this madman is really know you to the soul from all his stalking and stuff. this fanfic is quite the Dead Dove Do Not Eat. Chubby reader fics with no skintone of reader mentioned.

𔓘 A/N : y'all.. this are f***king insane bro.. like this is kinda disturbing imo as a writer of this and also a lot of suffocating. Read at your own risk. me myself actually like the extreme yandere fics but this is still the prefix of it. stay safe while reading this because again; y'all are a stranger!! if a dark content yandere isnt your cup of tea then i highly recommend you to spend your shit at other blogs!! ty.

W/C : 6,4K for Stranger Fucking 💀

Currently thinking abt nerdy men who looks like they would shit in their pants when someone raised their voice at them, but the truth is; he's really really quite the strong. he's a nerdy man who arent shy at all (or maybe just a little) and he's simply just dont like to be bothered by anyone else. he's also a nerdy man who told himself countless time to just focus on studying and studying, and at the first moment; he actually manage to do it within his daily life, well until he met you.

You; plump, soft looking girl with chubby cheeks and doe eyes. you dont even know how much you affect him didnt you? arent you just dumb? walking there and then with such a tiny skirt that almost showed up your plump ass cheeks. walking down in the hallway with such dress that hugged all of your curves together perfectly. oh if only you find out how every night he would spend his time in his bedroom alone while his hand thrust his own cock up and down, thinking about you. he would be drown in his thoughts about how you would find out all his dark fantasy about you. but.. he do realize he shouldnt be doing this actually, no really, he should just be studying, but the soft laugh and those.. those whimpers terror you gave him just drove him to his edge.

And the fact that he masturbate about you when you both are clearly still stranger - is fucking crazy. he mostly had heard of how'd you talk, whimper and moan (wait.. how did.. he know?) and stuff like that while your own self being completely un guard around him. he swear to his thumbs he hated you for making him felt like this, i mean how could you?? a plump girl just trying to get into her daily life as normal as usual can make some nerd dude mad in love with her without her being aware at all?! he cant do this.. he cant do this anymore..!

And he really cant do it anymore. as he go to your apartement at midnight after finding out where you live. peeking through the window to what you were doing only to find you dressing in a short pastel rainbow dress lingerie with big bows placed in the back of your hair, dancing to some songs.. and oh my god he cant even explain how much he want to ripped those colorful dress lingerie off your body. he has no doubt at all that you have the most beautiful body he would ever sees in his entire life.

As he drown himself in his own thoughts until he heard a telephone ring -- it was your friend! your male friend! as you picked the phone up, talking with your friends, while he sees with his own eyes about the way you laugh softly at what-god-knows your friend was muttering to you. he doesnt and he would rather bury himself alive than admitting about the fact that he was really, really, envy and jealous. as he harshly breath at you, while all his body is literally focus with you. his eyes seeing you from head-to-toe, his ears listening carefully about the conversation you're having as his mouth try to resist to open it again because well um -- he is quite the drooling over there. that was it until you start to walk towards the front door where he was outside!!

As he sees you carefully, while hiding himself in the corner, and focused on the door handle you're about to open. until........

Until he quickly enough to put his arms and placed it onto your mouth, shuting you up until you passed out and bring you to your new home his home. as he open the bondage he placed at your mouth, and pinch your chubby cheeks until he sees your whimpering again. thats it! thats the thing that always drove him mad everydsy everynight. thinking about you whimper at whatever he was doing was like a holy candle for him. he then stood himself up, looking at your half unconscious body, and then start to strip you... to naked.

As he softly ripped all the dress lingerie you weared, and after he got the look at your boobs, he slowly put his hands up at where your nipples on, and start playing with it. while his eyes focused on your face, waiting the reaction he have been wait. and until then... you are moaning. honestly he have been thinking that he was in a dream that time. i mean -- he do have seen you moan by the way he always check on you secretly.. but he never except his own self to be the only one who could capable enough to hear your soft moan. as he sped up the phase of his hands playing your nipple, while his own other hand strat to undress himself.

And until he and your own finally completely naked. and... oh god to be damned. he swear he always sees you at some kind of whore while your other friend sees you just as an innocent normal girl, and he always have no doubt about his feelings That you have such an erotic body and at the end.. he was actually right. you do have a very very.. pleaseable body. as he placed his hands into your half unconscious body, lowering it until his hands touch your private part -- your pussy. he slowly but surely put his 3 long fingers in to play with you, and to be surprised or.. shocked even, that you are so so fucking damn tight! he even sure that your pussy is one of the most tightest thing he'd ever placed his hands on, as he quickly sped-ing up his pace at playing your pussy, watching you moan and whimper become one, he cant believe what he saw. you're literally still half unconscious! but yet you somehow still manage to bring out the sound he would die for with! at this rate he doesnt know if he wants to wake you up or just let you still be half unconscious so when you wake up, you're gonna have a some extra surprised with your naked body that has been covered with his cums. as he thinking about it while he placed his (quite big) cock at your pussy. trying to rip those tight wall of your pussy off. thats what he was trying to do until your pussy start showing a little drop of blood out of it.

Oh.. he get it.. yeah he actually get it. You're a Virgin arent you? oh.. such sweet cheeks.. well too bad yoi're going to give all of your innocents left as his own hands and dicks. the body of someone you dont even know at all. he actually felt (just a little) bit of guilt. but who cares anyway? you're literally still half unconscious! as he said it to himself while he tried his possible to pound your ass up at your fat pussy. going in and up in every corner. at first it was slowly, but then he start to change the position into a mating press just so the cums and the blood are still there. as he quickly but surely speeding his pace up like a mad man. at this rate he was at the edge of doesnt gave a fuck about the fact that you're still half unconscious but then he's also at the edge of shock and unbelief because of how you are still not waking up at his pounding.

And all of those pounding ends when his cock start to dried out with how your fat pussy suck all his cums and sperma in. pulling his cock out of your pussy only to see the view of the inside of your pussy, being drown with his cums. as his hands hold your body up just so all the cums he had restored isnt goung to spill. and until then he slowly put his hands down, letting your body down into the mating press position, watching your pussy spilling all of his cums like a fucking waterfall. (his cum waterfall) and then he placed his palm hands at your cheeks softly, while quietly muttering about how he would take care of you, and keeping you safe and that you wouldnt need to be scared of him (even after all his done to you) as he placed his other hand at your undressed belly, and then stroke it with such gentleness because he knew that right now, right at the almost-morning time, that you're going to be swellen with thousands - thousands of his sperm, and at the end of the month, he would see you placed your own hands at your bellies who at that time was full with his kid. oh how he cant wait... he just hope that you wouldnt be freaked out about the fact that you just found yourself in a unrecognizeable place with a literal fucking stranger who is now has placed a baby inside of you. yes, a baby -- his baby.

TSUKISHIMA KEI, ITOSHI RIN, MEGUMI, Itachi, Shikamaru, Nanami, Neji, Tobirama, Deku, KUNIMI, Muichiro, SEMI EITA, Konoha Akinori, Venti, XIAO, AL-HAITAM, Akaashi, KOZUME KENMA, & hatake kakashi.

did i forgeting anyone? insert ur fav!

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