making this post specifically for the ieytd community because i think there's a combination of this space being so new, as well as the fact that a lot of people in here seem to be coming here from other social media platforms/this is, for one reason or another, their first time using tumblr
PLEASE reblog and engage with other people's creative work!
this isn't me being whiny. this isn't me enforcing some sort of moral standard. i'm genuinely concerned that there's a lack of understanding with how this community actually works. especially when it's kind of hard to maneuver through the community tags with all of the side content like asks blogs and such, which aren't meant for 'public' consumption.
i hear a lot of times that people really love the artistic and creative community that's been cultivated here. but as this place keeps growing, your small little neighborhood could turn into a bustling city, and the people on the outskirts are gonna have a hard time finding the content you guys admire so much. we have to pass things along from person to person. visual art- drawings and animations, yes, sure- but also headcanon and fanfictions and theories and other things that are meant to be shared and enjoyed.
in the long run, it would really help the structural integrity of this community if there was more of a habit around propping creators up instead of everyone needing to seek them out themselves
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so.
i actually think, final thoughts, i really liked udg.
and this gets long (and talks about some, ah, sensitive topics), so it's under a cut.
there are two themes it was trying to tackle, and both of those themes are pretty big themes, and in trying to tackle both of them, they hit one harder and did a better job which left them lacking on the other.
udg did a fantastic job (for a video game, and especially for a danganronpa game, i think) of talking about how two sides of a conflict can be radicalized to hate each other, to see each other as less than human, to get to a point where they're no longer just wanting to protect themselves and those they love but where they want to destroy the other side entirely.
like. to an extent, udg is taking on genocide. it never uses that word, but that's what it's hitting.
the warriors of hope are trying to kill all adults because they believe that adults are hurting kids and all adults are bad and the only way to take care of kids is to kill all the adults and just have a safe place for kids to be kids. they are attempting genocide on the adults of towa city.
the adults who shirokuma save steadily grow more radicalized to the point where they want to kill all of the kids in towa city for the mass murder that the children have been doing on the adults (not realizing that the kids are being mind controlled - literally - by the warriors of hope). by the time they find out what's happening (and that the only way to stop the monokumas is to literally explode the heads of all the kids being mind controlled), they don't care. they want all the kids dead. they are literally chanting kill! kill! kill! to that end, they want genocide on the kids of towa city.
(and udg probably never uses that word because it is a very heavy word with a lot of weight and consequences to it. but that is very much what both sides want to do to the other.)
and it does a very, very good job of showing how people who are being attacked and who have these actions taken against them can become radicalized back to a point where it's no longer just stop the pain but also kill them all, they need to all die.
and the game calls them demons.
it has the warriors of hope call adults demons, and it has monaca call the adults who are fine with killing the kids demons, too. says that they've become that. (and part of the process of the adults getting to that point was when they said the kids were demons.)
udg does such a good job with this. and of course, it can't end with hope or despair but somewhere in between because there's not a pat answer there. but it ends with komaru wanting to save both - to save both sides - to find a way to reconcile and save and not fall into the radicalization and staying so that she can try to do that. and that's beautiful.
....
and then also it tries to tackle various forms of child abuse and does not do a very good job of that because it wasn't the main theme. it was backstory theme to support the main theme. it was, hey, the kids also have a good reason for hating adults, it's a lot more complicated than people want it to be, neither side starts with let's kill everyone, they get there from being radicalized through a lot of trauma.
so because it's not the main focus - it's just there to support the main focus - udg does a relatively poor job of addressing it. there's very shallow attempts to talk about each of the different forms in the different chapters, sometimes barely talked about at all before the boss fight (looking at you, chapter one), and some of its attempts are paired with a lot of discomfort, which i'm willing to hope was intentional because it should be uncomfortable and not glossed over, but also is uncomfortable.
worse still, a lot of that theme gets completely shoved under the rug when you get to monaca and yes, she also got abused, to the point that she faked a disability to get people to be nicer to her, and the people who abused her apparently hurt her so bad that they believed they hurt her THAT BAD, which is saying something. but that gets avoid in monaca's exposition because that's not the point; monaca being evil and starting a war is the point - which, again, is the main theme. so the other tough theme gets a not great treatment because it's not the point.
which is unfortunate because they did such a good job with what was the main point that i think maybe they could have actually done a good job with the rest of it if they'd treated it with the same care and consideration they did with the other.
i think this is easily the most coherent of the danganronpa games (so far). it hits its theme, and it does have...ending pacing issues, which seems to be a running issue with the series, but they aren't as bad, i think, as they are in the other games. the ending was basically how much worse can we make monaca, which. wasn't necessary. but it served its main theme well, so.
I didn't feel hit over the head with a lot of things i could not have figured out over the course of the game. i didn't feel like i couldn't have figured that stuff out. i had moments of ah, i was close, but this is the actual thing and oh, i see, that makes sense instead of i don't know how i was supposed to figure this out.
and it did such a good job with the relationship between toko and komaru. that is probably the best relationship that's been written in the series up to this point, and maybe it's because komaru isn't going around trying to make besties with everybody and they can just hone in on this is your friend, we can just develop this and have it mean something.
like.
this may not be a good danganronpa game (given how radically different it is from the main games), but it is a good game.
...albeit sometimes a bit danganronpa gross about its subject matter.
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haha so when i was young my parents used to joke that maybe i was freddie mercury reincarnated (the timelines match up) and i never really thought about it too much but
(not to brag but)
im progressing fast with the guitar and it shows up just how much I understand music intuitively. i can barely do more than plucking strings and i know 3 chords and i can't play them well but ive managed to work out what key half the songs on my guitar playlist are in. ive worked out a bunch of the chords for one of the songs. none of them are the 3 chords i learned. ive also been making up my own little song to sing over/along with one of my exercises. it's in 3 and im using advanced and experimental techniques cus i don't know the simple standard ones yet. im being so autistic about this
anyway i just imagine maybe Freddie when he died was asked how he would like to live his next life and he was like well maybe I'd like to be reborn as a white girl. maybe in west germany. to good parents. a nice chill cushy life, for once. and it would be great to have a sibling who's stupidly talented at music so i get held back from pursuing music professionally early on. im tired of being a pro i would love to live a life where music is just fun, a hobby that i don't have to stake my entire life on. maybe in this life i will be in choirs early on and play like, the violin unenthusiastically and then grow into the guitar as an adult. maybe in this life i will be surrounded by music and taking it in constantly, always learning so I can become real good without ever having to be a pro. there are so many ways to play music without being a pro. maybe in this life i will get to be unapologetically queer without fear of hiv and without so many friends dying. maybe there will be language to describe genderweirdness and less judgement for the gays. that would be nice
anyway regardless of whether i was freddie mercury in a past life or not, i think he would be proud of my creativity. would be happy to see how excited i am to play the guitar. and would highly approve of my extremely queer autistic lifestyle. i think we would be friends. he may have moved into my head already. he may not stay. im sad i can't meet him in person and play music together. im sad he can't meet my cats. or i his
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