If you ever find yourself questioning your own intelligence, just remember that Jujutsu Kaisen gave us a character who is the undisputed strongest living being in his universe (so much so that his birth altered the balance of the entire world around him) and is canonically able to do anything he tries; who could have decided to spend his entire life doing absolutely whatever tf he wanted because there is literally no one and nothing with the power to stop him, but instead chose to use his strength to protect and train the next generation to be strong and intelligent enough to overhaul the current oppressive system that would have stripped those innocent kids of their lives and precious youth in the same way it did his own generation, and this was a good portion of the fandom’s reaction to said character:
mostly based on one (1) line removed from 5 layers of context. When the majority of the story wouldn't have taken place at all if not for his strong sense of morality. I am so Tired.
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stares at this one (1) shot of Bowser from the final trailer for the rest of forever amen
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She says, “there is something deeply broken about you.”
The world tilts. A shiver starts in the pit of your stomach. She knows. She knows. She knows, but— What does she know?
Does she know that the person laughing over wine and fries isn’t your entirety? There is a patchwork of eldritch horror sewn tightly to the backside of your skin, a kaleidoscope of little evils that you must guard from escaping. The crumpled side of a silver sedan and the deep abyss of blood. The choked wheeze of one too many last breaths and the smell of salted asphalt. The heat of your own selfish tears and the chill of that small hand in yours.
How the fuck does she know? You smile and drink your wine. She doesn’t know that, she can’t know that so—
Maybe she knows you are a liar when you call yourself an optimist. Maybe she sees through you to that awful hunger that dying leaves behind in the living. Maybe she knows that your breaks are jagged. You are not sea glass, not pretty and collectible. You are a beer bottle smashed against the shore, waiting to rip open vulnerable feet. Maybe she knows—
You force yourself to speak. “How so?”
“In the best way,” she assures. Her eyes sparkle. “All the best people are broken.”
Your soul screams, I am not a good person. There is a crevasse inside of me that I am falling into, never to be seen again. I will hurt you in the end. Evils do not always announce themselves. There are mundane ones and I am one of them.
“I like to think of it as being creative,” you say.
“To being artists then,” she says and raises her glass for a toast.
You smile widens and you bring your glass to hers.
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unfortunately I have opinions about the ascendant astarion ending and I have been holding back from saying it. but it's a problem that applies to the whole game and it's been annoying me
what's actually weird about the ascendant "romance" scene is that the writer considers it a tempting option for the player. They wrote it to be bad, but they also think it's a fun and sexy option. Same goes for the haarlep scene which they also wrote that way because they find it sexy. Except finding this sexually appealing entirely hinges on the idea that the player is a submissive. So RIP to a scene that the rest of us could have found sexy because the lead narrative designer was a submissive. lmao
In this game you can have a scene where you have to kneel for a male character. But you can never have a male character do the same for you. (Halsin doesn't count. It's a vanilla scene, he is not submissive there and we are not even asking/telling him to kneel down) You don't get such options, not even if you play a drow female! RIP the number one reason for playing drow female to be honest. lol You can kneel and fully submit to ascendant astarion or fully submit to mizora or fully submit to haarlep or submit to lae'zel or submit to minthara. you can get whipped by abdirak or you can tell him "touch me and lose a hand" he even responds positively to this remark and yet the possibility to flip the dynamic doesn't exist. There is never an option where a male character truly submits to the player. RIP to a scene that would have been the opposite of the traditional dynamic. the potential that existed but they never used the opportunity
By the way, how interesting that Lae'zel is dominant but she is a woman so ofc you get the option to tell her “no you will submit to me”. You never get such switch options with any of the male characters... Obviously it's not ascendant where they could have made that an option. My point is that it's NEVER an option among so many male characters.
It's a cool idea that the bad ending in a romance means "I saw this character as a sex object" except it falls apart when the scene is very sexually unappealing to anyone who is more dominant leaning. If I see a character as a sex object then I would place them in sexual situations which are appealing to me. so the message doesn't quite work. because there isn't anything that I can selfishly choose for myself just because I like it and I find it sexy.
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sorry this may be tmi but does anyone else with adhd constantly deal with suddenly being like “oh wait damn i’ve had to pee for like 5 hours but keep on forgetting or procrastinating going” multiple times a day. who the hell gets distracted and forgets they have to pee? me, apparently
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