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zetadraconis11 · 3 months

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HL Incorrect Quote #45

*walking around Hogwarts*

MC: Revelio!

Sebastian: That's the fifth time you've done that, why-?

MC: Shhh! I heard a ding! There's something nearby to find...

The group: *watches MC cast Revelio again*

Natty: I'm starting to get concerned...

Ominis: You're only now concerned about the mental well-being of MC?

Poppy: MC, what are you trying to find?

Amit: Yes, maybe we can help!

MC, too concentrated to listen: I keep HEARING THAT LITTLE BELL. WHERE ARE YOU, YOU BLOODY PAGE?

The group:

Ominis: I think we need to find a professor for help-

#I've seen plenty of memes about revelio so here's an incorrect quote about it #There had to be times people thought mc was a lunatic because those field guide pages were hidden too well #The amount of times I had to cast revelio #mc has friends that think mc is crazy but they love mc anyway #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy incorrect quotes #hogwarts legacy mc #sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #poppy sweeting #natsai onai #amit thakkar

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citnamora · 8 months

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I'm sorry I REFUSE to believe Franziska isn't in later AA titles, especially Dual Destinies. You're telling me the moment she learns Phoenix got his badge back she wouldn't charter a flight to be first in line of whooping his ass in court?? THE Franziska von Karma, prodigy with a massive superiority complex, who was raring to go head to head with him the very MOMENT she saw him in Bridge despite the fact he was running a cold induced fever of 102.2??? Franziska would not pass up the chance to earn her rightful victory against him and what better way to do so than the moment he returns to law???? Anyways. Franziska for AA7

#ace attorney #aa7 #(sort of????)#franziska von karma #dual destinies spoilers #(kind of?)#tbf it's probably for the best. the future designs are. hmmm. but there's plenty of concept art to pull from #I don't know the future games' writing cuz I keep restarting the first case of aj but there's definitely discrepancies in behavior #from what I've seen anyways. would they do her justice? she's adorable in the stageplays but like. that's different???#I'm a franziska in aa7 truther bc I can't see any world she wouldn't reappear out of pure spite and I love her so!!!

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fereldanwench · 1 day

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this watcher stuff is an absolute trainwreck that i cannot turn away from

#i finally watched their goodbye vid and shane looks rly uncomfortable in it esp when they're on the couch together #and the way ryan recoiled when shane was like 'share passwords for the streamer' lmao #you always gotta be mindful not to parasocial too hard here #but i would like to believe that shane 'eat the rich' madej has always been sincere about his beliefs #and i appreciate that sometimes your ideals conflict with your reality #i just struggle to see him actually being on board with this #and the handful of 'oh so you don't think artists should be paid' comments i've seen #you fucking knuckleheads it has nothing to do with that #plenty of people want to make sure they get paid!#hence their very successful patreon!#it's about being completely out of touch with your audience #no one watches for the slick production #it's for the banter and the chemistry #and tbh although fuck buzzfeed i enjoyed the unsolved format more than the ghost/mystery files format #there's TOO much production in some cases #i like the boys a little unrefined #anyway if they follow through with this move i'm definitely out #shows: watcher #t: wench.txt

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babacontainsmultitudes · 14 days

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[just venting a bit into the void you understand you understand 😌] Lately I've been feeling very caught between "I have a lot of thoughts on Sparrow and Normal and all that with the ending and teen talk and feel like I need to get them out and voice them for my own piece of mind and resolution" and "I am lacking the strength and energy to actually sit down and write it all out and kind of really just want to fully move on to other things (AUs, fics, anything else)" but my brain can't seem to commit to either and that's quite frustrating cause it's just left me very restless. *Sigh*. Idk! Just needed to complain about that a bit ig, it's silly but this is what has been ailing me as of late.

#Then there's also a part of me that's like “does anyone even care at this point? haven't I already talked about them too much?”#but I have seen many a take that irk me...#and perhaps at the center of it all nagging at me is that persistent conflation of love and pride #Less about that in Normal's mind so much as in Will's and the fandom's 🤔#Also that reoccurring issue of the fandom going ''Normal thinks this therefore it is The Truth'' though I believe I've discussed this befor #And... Hooks Will could have grabbed onto but didn't... Quite a few of those...#And the double standard/negativity bias in fandom of ignoring that Sparrow says both that he loves and likes Normal while doodlerized #But not treating those with the same legitimacy we do the pride thing. And ignoring Sparrow's demonstrations of love and change...#And what the love wolf scene actually implies about Sparrow (as I see it) with his own explanation of the pride thing in mind #But also!!! Also on Norm's epilogue and how despite everything taken at face value (i.e. no teen talk influence) I don't actually hate it #and I think it's plenty salvageable #And gah also that like *regardless* of how things turn out with Normal and his dad-#Well I haven't listened to much of the teen talk just the directly Sparrow-relevant clips #so I don't know quite how cynical Will is or isn't about Normal's future #But like. UGH. What I'm trying to say is even if things didn't find resolution vis-a-vis his dad #(which tbh I could go either way on- it's the meta misinterpretations of Sparrow that Bother me not so much Normal's)#(Well that's complicated. Again it comes back to the love vs. pride thing gosh this is so vague of me lol)#With all the positive influences in his life (and just the fact that life is long? and therapy is a thing?) I just don't see Normal-#being Miserable for the rest of his life. Like. I mean I won't elaborate here really but damn it no he can absolutely turn out alright stil #blugh #BUT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN THAT'S A LOT OF STUFF AND THAT'S ONLY VAGUE RAMBLINGS ABOUT *SOME* OF IT #Like I'm proud of a lot of my essay posts (which I'm hoping to eventually compile in a masterpost eventually actually) but they take a whil #And if my heart wants to do other things... Ah idk...#ANYWAYS a vent to vent a vent to vent

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snekdood · 5 months

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ive been disillusioned with a lot of the left for a while, it's nice to at least see that other ppl see it now, though the reason why kinda fucking sucks.

#i used to think i could trust ppl bc of pride flags in their profile or them being trans or whatever #and then i put allll of my trust in that community not realizing theres a Multitudes of types of ppl in it #aside from even the fact some trans ppl can be nazis- some trans people- as much as it might make us look bad to admit-#are also predators and abusers and want to lie to you and use you for money and sexually abuse you and dump you like trash #and then accuse you of doing everything they did @u@;; ask me how i know!#so on the one hand im happy ppl see it now- it's not that leftists or queer ppl or feminists are better ppl- ppl more worthy to trust-#they're just as diverse and as good and as shitty as any other demographic of people.#you're gonna find shitty people everywhere. obviously you're more likely to find predators on the right but that doesnt mean theres not #plenty on the left too.#at a certain point calling yourself 'on the left' doesnt mean much aside from idk. thinking ppl need basic human rights?#and even then its apparent that some leftists dont think that. so who can say. maybe you wont misgender me? but nah- you will #if i disagree w you or if we get in a fight- i've seen plenty of leftists do this.#i just think the term is useless now.#i think the left is about to fracture into different groups at this point #anyways be weary traveler of ever putting all of ye trust into any group of people.#its possible to like ppl and enjoy being around them and still not fully trust them. and if something tells you to gtfo? you should #also putting all your trust in a group of ppl is a one way ticket into possibly joining a cult on accident #or at the very least a culty friendgroup

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taupewolfy · 9 months

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also - quick little snippet a sequence of shots i actually noticed what they were doing when we watched castle in the sky last night:

there's the bit where sheeta is with the robot outside the fortress and she tries to stop it from shooting, whoever it is - i can't remember right now, and when she leaps at its head to stop it, the beam redirects into the surrounding countryside.

So you get the shot of her leaping at the robot and you see the laser go off, then the next shot is viewed from the fortress to the surrounding countryside and you see the laser beam shudder along the hills, barely missing the little houses UNTIL it hits a tower in the town that's pretty damn far off from there. The shot gives you enough time to register 'oh shit it hit a town' before you get the close up of the town, showing you the tower on fire after its explosion and the chaos of the villagers running away from it but wait! There's pazu and the pirates still on there way to rescue her.....but because you just saw how far off that town is because of the prior shot you know how much further they have to travel to get there. It drums up tension in a great way too. And then from there the camera follows them to the fortress.

Like i don't have the images on hand right now but the almost effortless feel of the way that sequence flows from one location to the next to the next through the characters and the action is really fucking cool.

#anyway its a movie i've seen plenty of times before but it's also been a while since i last saw it and #well. i never noticed what those shots are doing if that makes sense. like from an analytical pov

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eternalchant · 3 months

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gonna be real gang. been playing palworld.

#surprisingly not as awful as i assumed it would be #it's def just a mash of other games. pokemon obviously. specifically legends of arceus. botw (altho all open world games are botw ripoffs #apparently at this point). also kind of getting elden ring inspo from some of the structures. and then of course a mish mash of #crafting/survival games. i haven't played either but i've seen plenty of comparisons to ark & valheim #anyways ! it's fun. tbh.#and i think some of the pal designs are very cute

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aboutmetamorphosis · 9 months

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the tattoo says olina which is a little town in modena!

okay? i genuinely couldn’t care less either way love i’m literally just chilling

#someone sent me a comparison pic of olivia/olina in cursive writing and i think you could make a case for both if you so feel inclined #me? i’m not sweatin’ it!#and if it says olivia (it def looks like it does) then i think it’s fucking hilarious #for me it’s same genre of humour as harry wearing the daddy hat #the girls who get it get it #anyways i’m just here for a good time so 🤷#ask #update: i’ve just been made aware that his california tattoo apparently says colazione #so yeah i think the photos (or at least the ones i've seen so far)#aren't clear enough and the tatt could easily say smthn else rather than olivia #i still think it’s olivia #to me it’s plenty clear enough but #maybe this is a bit of ‘you see what you’re looking for’ situation yk what i mean #cos now that i look at the other one i don’t know how we ever saw california there

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madamescarlette · 1 year

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my curse as a writer is that I can only tell about the same three things over and over but from slightly different angles and distances and unless something about my core drastically changes they will. stay the same three things heedless of my intention.

#don't get me wrong. i think they're plenty of things for me to delve into with those three things #but i get worried every few years that i constantly write the same poems over and over #and maybe i'll never grow up from them! but who knows. maybe i'm not asked to #anyway. waves from my yearly crisis that i've stagnated. it goes away in a month or two so it's actually slightly hilarious when it comes #back around again and i'm like oh hey writing identity crisis! i hadn't seen you in a while i missed you!!#thinking out loud

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wxs-tsukasa-official · 5 months

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favorite anime. go

In all honesty, anime isn't something I watch too often on my own. if I do watch anime, it's usually with Saki. Out of everything we've watched, I've found myself rather fond of Sailor Moon, so I'll go with that!

#ic: tsukasa #(//note: i have never watched a single episode of sailor moon)#(//i just had No Idea how to answer this bc i dont think tsukasa would be someone who watches anime regularly)#(//also bc i havent watched anime in a long time. i've seen plenty yes but my memory is dog shit)#(//im sure theres an anime ive watched tsukasa would like i just cant remember at the top of my head)#(//anyway just wanted to get that out of the way in case people ask more questions abt. sailor moon.)

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apollo-cackling · 1 year

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not trying to be mean but honestly any sentiment that's like "[non-Traditional form/genre of literature*] raised my bar for queer representation so much I can't ever return to Published Books because it's all bad straight stuff/straight people writing queerness/etc" is kind of distasteful to me now. they're there. there's literally plenty** out there now if you just look.

[edit: I want to clarify that I don't think published books are inherently better than any other forms of literature and that I'm not trying to say people should always aspire to have a media diet of only 100% Published Literature (the assumptions inherent in which create a false dichotomy anyway bc plenty of published queer books I've read are fun romps whose themes are incidental to the main goal of being fun)

I just dislike the sentiment I've seen around that mainstream queer stuff is either just subtext or written Inauthentically because it's just. untrue. and it cedes ground to queerphobic people saying the only ground queer stories can occupy is artless smut/popcorn trash with no meaning (which isn't a bad thing to be in and of itself, but it's hardly like queerness can't be artistic)]

The Darkness Outside Us came out last year. Ophelia After All came out this year. The Honeys came out this year. the second book of Burning Kingdoms came out this year. Zachary Ying came out this year. Delilah Green came out this year. This is Why They Hate Us came out this year. And that's just the few on my 'anticipated of 2022' GR shelf (+ The Darkness Outside Us because goddamn that book was good).

it's completely fine to be dissatisfied with how the publishing industry (/mainstream media but I'm mostly read so) is! I also have many gripes with it! but it just feels distasteful to demean Published Books on the whole as if it (/other mainstream media but again see above) is a monolith and diminish the the very queer queer books by queer - gender and sexuality - authors (Ocean Vuong, Akwaeke Emezi, Victoria Lee, CB Lee, Ashley Herring Blake, Shaun David Hutchinson, need I go on?)

it's mostly a massive pet peeve of mine but it just feels kinda. lazy? obviously if something like this's post date was like 2010 or if it was a situation where access not awareness is the problem etc that's a different situation but like. most of the posts/tweets/etc I've seen of this are recent and most of them have the tone of "it's perfectly safe for me to read/watch queer media I just couldn't find any" which

I really started reading queer books in 2020ish. I googled 'queer fantasy' (because I like fantasy) and found a bunch of different booklists, took a few recs and just started there. I found lgbtqreads. I followed a few queer folks on GR (once you look through a certain type of books' reviews a few common names start popping up) and noted down the books they were reading and now I have a bunch of queer books that I need to get around to.

I just. if you're into books there's plenty of queer books literally right there (and recently enough big publishers have started publishing them that they're appearing in libraries too). it's not a dichotomy. you don't have to read Published Books if you don't want to but it's not all straight there goddammit. and this isn't even bringing up self-published books

#*fanfic，d/nmei (chinese bl) etc #<- to avoid maintagging #**still not a lot on a percentage basis of total books published (aside from self pub) yeah publishing industry bad but still plenty #in general I dislike the idea that any category of media is inherently anything #also the phrase 'd/nmei raised the bar for queer stories for me' is a bit funny to me bc. these are webnovels. most of them 80+ chapters #and like from what I've seen most of them are either 100ish or 300ish chapters #I don't think they've really gotten popular until recently either too so I doubt most folks have fully read more than two lol #imagine if I watched bloom into you and said 'anime changed queer stories for me' lol #the specific post I saw that got me to put this into words was this one post on the d/nmei subreddit about how reading western quote 'BL'#feels off compared to d/nmei bc they felt like badly written wattpad fics and unrealistic wrt queerness which I was side-eyeing pretty hard #eh it bothered me for a few reasons. some of them I think are fair - the ones I made this post for #some of them I'm not sure is fair which is why they're in the tags #specifically that the specific post reminded me of the stereotype of the straight girl completely uninterested in the messiness and #complexities of queerness or exploring queerness at all (unless it's aestheticised suffering) and just wants to see pretty boys together #but I'm not sure how fair that is because I'm not transmasc and I'm not mlm lol #anyway yea lol #my rambles #queer stuff #media #10n

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bill-gates-hate-blog · 2 years

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It's actually fascinating to me that dating apps have essentially pulled the same bullshit that streaming services (and the video game industry, now that i think about it) have pulled.

Essentially: - the market is over-saturated - "content" is spread thin - constant downgrades and removal of free features to paid tiers

I can think of quite a few dating apps off the top of my head. Hinge, Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid. (Most of which have enjoyed a brief five minutes on my phone before I realized ahh scary, but hear me out.) Userbases are actually spread pretty thin. Tinder has the most people on it, being the only usable app in many small town and rural areas. It has very effectively marketed itself as a hookup app, not a relationship app*--hence, people stay on the app longer and are more likely to get frustrated and pay for the premium tiers (after all, those 86 likes are so tantalizing! I want to know who they are! Ah...now that I've paid, where did they all go?) Technically all of these platforms will advertise your profile globally, far outside your location to drum up likes and trick you into paying for premium, but Tinder is a pretty hefty offender because of its near-ubiquity and explicit de-emphasis on long term relationships.

Other apps lack the userbase that Tinder has. They might be okay in the city, but the effect is very similar to content being divided among the many streaming platforms that have sprung forth since the advent of Netflix. Sure, it's easy enough to download every dating app available on the app store, but you have to a) dedicate time to curating your preferences on each of these apps and b) the free versions suck ass. Depending on what subscription model you get, these things can run you up as much as 40 bucks a month per subscription. That racks up fast. And people are desperate for companionship.

Here's the other comparison. Remember the paid streaming tier of Netflix with ads, when in the past decade its explicit appeal was having all the content with no ads?

I did a little snooping on the OkCupid subreddit, because I was curious. Most of the most popular posts and success stories were from... 2014. Nearing a decade ago, at this point. Many, many of the features that made (free!) OkCupid not only usable, but a genuinely accessible and efficient online dating experience have been slowly chipped away. Looking at the google reviews, and the subreddit, you can see how disappointed people were to watch this app's downfall. Prior to my own forays into online dating, when I was first doing research about free dating apps (because I'm a dirty cheapskate) I noticed that naturally, the older the articles were, the more highly these apps were spoken of. Despite this being the supposed heyday of online dating, the apps are at the worst they've ever been.

The parallels to the downgrades of streaming services are fairly clear, but I think it's even more obvious and insidious when you compare it to the state of microtransactions in the gaming industry.

See, many of these apps have "boost" mechanics that advertises your profile to more people (because everything these days is so swipe-heavy) or they have "super likes" that are limited and can be bought and let your potential match know you're interested--god, even the all important, basic dating mechanic of "letting people know you're interested in them" is made into a paid feature! Admittedly, most of my examples here pertain to OkCupid (because it's the only app I can bring myself to spend more than 48 hours on), but that one makes you pay fucking $1.99 for read receipts**. This is very similar to the pay structure of the mobile games industry, as well as the free-to play model of many modern console and PC games.

The gaming industry, being something of a new medium of expression and working as its own "virtual reality" of sorts, is usually a harbinger of new "innovations" in the ways we are sold commodities--lootboxes, for example.

And here we are. The invasion of microtransactions, season passes, and paid DLC that gut the base game of the most personal aspect of our lives.

In the case of streaming services and certain games, the solution has been piracy, or not to play. But for many of us, romantic loneliness is a major barrier to happiness in our lives, and the results these subscription services net us are...minimal. For those of us who are less than conventionally attractive or socially awkward, I mean, there's a reason we're trying to utilize these apps in the first place.

The equivalent to piracy is risking rejection and asking people out face to face. Otherwise... you can't exactly download a relationship. Or not one with a real person, at least. Our loneliness is already being capitalized on via AI romantic companions, as we've seen with Replika.

I've seen a fair few people (in my circle of edgy lefty tumblr, anyways) express frustration over the odd little cognitive dissonance that it's no longer as comfortable or commonplace to express romantic interests in strangers, though it may be in a normal, respectful way. Can't help but feel like that's related.

*I want to clarify that people who do hookups are cool and can do whatever they want. It's just that the state of the dating app industry has left those of us more interested in long term relationships in the dust.

**These are generally bad in normal day to day life, but I would argue in the context of a dating app that these can be pretty crucial in determining another person's interest.

#online dating #capitalism #tinder #hinge #dating #Unfortunately I was born about eight years too late to enjoy the good parts of online dating #alas #if i were not twelve years old i might have jumped on it sooner #i'm definitely not the first person to have made this connection #i've just had a couple realizations that i very much should have asked the cute boy at sophie's party if he was single #i'm even a girl! i'm supposed to have it easy! You could even call me cute if you were so inclined!#can't help but wonder if the ease of accessiblity to online dating is correlated with gender animosity #at least among straight men and women #incels being an obvious example but i've seen plenty of animosity from women towards men about this subject #long post #Anyway sorry if this is saying something everybody already knows i just hate capitalism #i hate being alienated #i hate being mediated by outside forces

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fag-on-goth-action · 1 year

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i find old american straight men's interest in the smiths hilarious like you listen to the softcore gay car sex band and yr singing " i was looking for a job and found a job" you listen to the vegan pro choice bisexual band and you focus on the capitalism critiques that barely touch the surface speaking about an economy that you don't even partake in? Okay girl.

#no shade on them btw i just think it's funnt #it does show how more hyper observant we are of the themes of music #i've seen ppl say that songs have gotten more deep over the years but i feel like that's just consumption of the vintage mainstream #like pop music 90% of the time is very straightforward with its messaging #a lot of rock was also like this spare a few iconic numbers like most queen songs and american pie for example #because for a lot of rock it was VERY abt the guitar without focus on depth #yes we do in modern day have an obsession with depth but even then you can look for insanely deep lyrics back then and you will find plenty #it just may not be in the genre you like from that era #but ofc it wasn't as mainstream so ppl didn't look into it alot even with the bands that had deep lyrics #so we have the illusion of the songwriting not being deep or whatever #but honestly back then it truly was like focus on the noise you made with rock like #les zeppelin is absolutely gorgeous music even if the lyrics aren't 6 feet under deep #*led zepplin omg #but it wasn't impossible to do both but most bands didn't prioritize it #two great bands who did tho were the doors and #the smiths #those two literally were some of the most insane band ever #anyways this is too much for tags sorry lol

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sofastuffing · 1 year

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this isn't meant to be derogatory but i think one massive sign that someone's a newbie artist is the way they add very prominent warnings not to repost their work