#insane dialogue choice

[tardxsblues]

I will die, and no one else here, or anywhere, will suffer. What about me? If there was something I could do about that, I would. I guess we're both just going to have to be brave.

#the subtext is heavy #and so is my heart #what were these choices? #i need moffat to look me in the eyes and explain himself #this was an insane decision for dialogue #doctor who #dwedit #dwgifs #dw companions #timelordgifs #moffatedit #twelve #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #twelveclara #whouffaldi #dws9 #episode: face the raven #episode: hell bent #dw parallels #peter capaldi #jenna coleman #tvedit #gif warning #i don't know if i love this or hate this #but i will be using the decision wheel more often for my giffing ideas

[chansoooo1-blog]

Ik the bear is really good show and there's really a lot of things you can commend them for but can we just take a min and appreciate the fact that Christopher storer might have actually revolutionized romance as a genre if sydcarmy do end up endgame...

#like no ones doing it like him #the amount of care and effort that went into each scene??? #the dialogue lighting music choice blocking editing chemistry etc #they took note of everything and pieced it all tgt to create a masterpiece #and its not too much?? like its not all in your face?? ITS SUBTLE BUT ITS THERE #and the fact that they dont seem like they are trying too hard??? #this show is just insane #the bear #sydcarmy

[drenched-in-sunlight]

I gotta say I did not expect I’d love Miles this much, enough to look up shit like Secret War and Civil War II reading order, and worse, subject myself to Bendis’ writing of all things (he’s the reason why I stopped being a comic stan 5 years ago. I were a DC/ Superfam fan. You know the beef was BEEFING). Like, my tolerance of that dude now only stops at him being one of Miles’ creators. So that better writers can do the kid justice years later. That’s it.

Like, why is the “r u and Ganke together haha” a whole shtick that comes up multiple times during his run? It’s so annoying and painful to read. Miles can go around being paired up with different girls but the moment THAT question came up you know he gonna be super defensive and >:( about it which, eh, just does not line up with anything else happening in whatever story is happening at the time. At all.

The only silver of light is that Miles actually never says he doesn’t like boys, he just denies ever dating Ganke. Like, he could just say he doesn’t swing that way and the question would have stopped, but he doesn’t. So I know he be running around kissing the punk-est boy in the whole spider verse, ha!

Idk I’m near the end of Bendis’ run and some of it r good but a lot of them put me thru excruciating pain (cringe) so I have to complain about it.

Did I mention I were a DC stan 6 years ago? I were a DC stan 6 years ago so this isn’t even my first rodeo with white dudes writing weirdest things in American comic, but I just can’t believe I got dragged into this again because Miles blinks his bambi eyes on screen and makes me want to rotate him in my brain so I need to know the lore of him in every medium, apparently.

#A POST COMPLAINING ABOUT COMIC? ON THIS BLOG?? AFTER 6 YEARS?? #anyway #it’s so insane like I could actually go haha I know this trope i know these fucked up issues numbering I know how to skim through #an entire event I know how to make sense of these reading order like my comic nerd self is not dead it’s still there #this is all Hobie and MiIes’ fault I tell you #terrible terrible #but at least I get to pull out the i actually read the comics card if anyone ever lords over me about drawing fanarts of the movie #ha! #personal #genuinely think miles’ origin in the comic is so fucked up tho Aaron is a real piece of work there #and by that I mean a gaslighting horrible jerk #still dunno what’s worse being chased around by whole ass adults yelling he’s a mistake #or being in a middle of a civil WAR where again grown ass adults fighting OVER him and making his choice for him #wow dat was crazy #but Miles’ current writer is really good and I also enjoy reading him when he’s with the Champions #also b3ndis’ 2016 run is SO WEIRD like there are dialogues that just make you go #“yep a white man wrote this

[assblastergaster]

I am finally starting to see the light on just how robust all of the companion origin romances are (i.e. romances within the party outside of tav). While larian obvs had to work with sudden, abrupt story changes and losses, somehow they still managed to make all of their stories so intertwined that all possible romances are good.

Take Karlach for example:

• Wyll: Their stories are literal parallels; They both were following someone with power and influence, yearning to serve them and others to the best of their abilities—and were both discarded after being tricked into (literal) hell. together they provide for each other what was taken without denying themselves what has changed them (more devilish? so be it, i am stronger for it). She will guard what he loves without question—all he's ever tried to do—and he will stand against the forces that served to get them here, all she's ever wanted. They have both been forever changed to be more devilish (scarred, marked, horned, dehorned) but still yearn to thrive amongst their peers to no avail. He will always be a human with fangs and horns, and she will always be a tiefling with no horn(s), no heart. They are each other's only peers, the hunter and the prey.

• Shadowheart: One young girl is torn from the people she loves, her home, the authority figure she serves. She is marred by this person. Her parents are lost to her—she will never get to say goodbye, never get to hug them again. Her peers shun her, believe her dead or worse. Her only friends are lost to her (or so she thinks). She is a half-elf forcibly blinded to the ways of the world, sent on a suicide mission to secure her master's authority. She is a tiefling who has forgotten the joys of the world, escaping a suicide mission meant to secure her master's authority. They were both taught to selfishly strike out against the world to just survive. Together they find something alien to both of them—self prioritization without selfishness (I am not made to serve, i was made to be here. with you).

• Astarion: He is empty of life, cold and buried; She is being consumed by her life, toiling and burned. They were both, for lack of better words, Baldurian hot-shots in their youths. A learned magistrate and the head guard of an up-and-coming Baneite. They were both likely very corrupt. Astarion is obvious—his attack by the Gur was prob in response to prejudiced rulings. But Karlach was working for fucking Gortash. She's not an idiot, and while she certainly has a soft spot for the community, she had to have had a hand in his nefarious doings. Regardless, both of them are still furious about what happened to them, rightfully so—and neither is willing to accept (yet) that the version of them they left behind was not what they want now. They both want revenge, to kill the fucks that stole them away. And they both get it, only to find that they need to make a life after this, not to mourn the life before this.

• Lae'zel: This, like all Lae'zel romances, is a tale of two cities. Lae'zel wants to serve someone so badly, else she cannot prove to others (and herself) that she is worth the air she is breathing. Her culture demands it, history commands it, and she was born for it. But she can't do it. Not blindly. Karlach was a rough and tumble child on the streets of Baldur's Gate looking to eke out her livelihood without serving authority. But she couldn't avoid it, nothing she's good at could make money or earn respect except for serving as a guard, as a soldier. At first meeting, they both immediately respect and pity each other. Karlach likes seeing someone so proud of who they choose to serve, but innately understands that it is not a choice. Lae'zel likes seeing someone strong enough to command respect, but knows that she "should" want to serve someone too. They see themselves in the other. Neither understands, but they will. Karlach will see why Lae'zel is so desperate to belong, to serve—Lae'zel will see why she is too scared to submit.

• Gale: We both have a bomb in our chests. A divine being, omnipotent in all but name, placed it within you and quelled its fire so long as you obey and worship. The most obscene devil, queen of the Hells, ripped me from my home and gave me this, its flame fanned by servitude and snuffed by disobedience. Gale has lost himself to depression, Karlach to rage. He pours through books searching for the answer he will never find, but that's how he got here in the first place. Karlach smashes her way through everything, making ragtag enemies and allies along the way, but that's how she got here. Before anyone says some bullshit about Karlach being too "dumb" or Gale being too "pretentious;" Karlach is not dumb, she is naïve (which lends itself to dumb decisions) but wise. She's led an experience-rich life (encountered through misplaced trust and naivety) and has learned lessons from every single one, something she learns to temper within Gale as well. Gale has done many things but actually learned from very few of them, which is one of the reasons why he's immediately eager for the Crown. But he's also not an idiot, he's just vulnerable. Together, they balance each other emotionally and pedagogically.

Obviously this is focusing on the narrative aspects of these relationships—not the personal intricacies. But the majesty of this writing is that these are all characters written by separate people, forging separate stories with thousands of paths each. It's just unheard of.

#but of course everyone is still subject to personal taste #to me though doesn't matter. bg3 has finally given me the freedom of story choice that dragon age has been trying to do for a while #i honestly like all of them i just prefer some to others. which is new for me! #however did just see a post about how (playersexual makes them feel like dolls and astarion should just be gay) first of all fuck you. #second they are not playersexual they are bisexual and we can contain multitudes bitch!! bi butches and twinks unite thank you #baldur's gate 3 #karlach #wyll ravengard #also btw in the gale/karlach one that's not an attempt at writin dialogue for karlach that would be insane #Lae'zel #gale of waterdeep #shadowheart #astarion

[zxal]

How fucked up is it that lightning says "he likes it better this way" when he takes away jin's identity and autonomy and then jin loses his memory and yusaku and kolter are both like "it's better this way". Man what the hell

#vrains #.txt #(crawling bloody and bruised from a storm drain 48hrs post vrains finale) Have you guys heard about jin kusanagi #'he forgot about his suffering so he's fine now' NO HE ISNT. I PLAYED KINGDOM HEARTS. #whats fucking insane to me is that yusaku agrees with kolter like he really thinks it's best that jin forget. about everything #like yusaku would ever choose to forget like yusaku would ever believe in taking that choice away from jin #(gritting teeth so hard my jaw cracks) SO WHAT IF I GOT ATTACHED TO THE DINKY SIDE CHARACTER WITH NO DIALOGUE

[magneticflower]

The show has many egregious errors, but the fact they don't let Kaz be quippy like he is in the books is a crime and not the fun kind

#six of crows #kaz brekker #they pull dialogue left and right from the books but they draw the line at kaz's iconic (ridiculous) jokes??? insane choice really #why doesn't he get to constantly make little quips that are ridiculous yet funny #and stupid jokes ; that's like... His thing #and they totally deprived us

[frankencanon]

pet peeve: video games that give you dialogue options but they have absolutely no effect on the story whatsoever (and even the other characters' responses to your choice are the same either way)

#playing twst and it's driving me insane because #even the way the characters respond to my dialogue choice is carefully crafted so that it could work with either option #twst #twisted wonderland #don't get me wrong i love the game it's just #why bother? #the illusion of choice ig? #update: i recalled more examples #pokemon legends arceus #arceus #pokemon #shin megami tensei #shin megami tensei v #<- i haven't gotten that far in smt5 yet #but so far all of the dialogue choices had no effect whatsoever #i know bc i restarted the game to see what would happen if i clicked the other options #like trying refuse the guy walking me home #whether you say yes or no he's gonna make you come regardless #smtv #smt5 #though i *have* heard that that changes later in the game #persona

[hella1975]

sometimes ur scrolling thru tumblr and browsing ao3 and all of a sudden u get hit with the most unexpected of crossovers by ppl u least expect.

there i was, scrolling through the jaime lannister tags on tumblr bc every couple of months or so, i remember the asoiaf books and get drawn right back into the jaime lannister-orbit cause that man is my fave, i adore him, i loved him even when he was just a guy who flung a child out of a window to protect uh. just how close he was with his sister. and was i ashamed? yes. deeply so. but good god was he entertaining. and then he got pov chapters and ur like oh shit! and however much i found him fascinating he was now an all time fave.

but imagine my surprise, when i was scrolling, yk, as u do, and then all of a sudden i see you in the asks of another blog being excited abt jaime. i was like holy shit is that hella? taob hella? wrote the most baging dabi fic ive ever read hella? just wasnt expected, it was sort of like, when you see a classmate or a teacher or the grocery store cashier out of their normal setting

haha that wasn't me haha you can't prove anything haha listen LISTEN-

#fiver says it was an ask sent to rori. that bitch is always getting me in trouble #okay but anon u get it. he's soooo. like ive never read the books bc i take enough issue with the show #but if ur gonna pick a character out of a cast where they're all insane and incestuous then PICK JAIME #HIS REDEMPTION ARC. BRAIME. HIS DIALOGUE. HE'S ALSO FUNNY AS FUCK WHAT CHOICE DID I HAVE #ask #'wrote the most banging dabi fic ive ever read' anon im kissing u but it's a little gross bc im also crying profusely. love u

[collegeoflore]

there was smth immensely satisfying about planning out and making a character i conceptualized as nonmonogamous from the beginning and then being able to actually have that conversation with their romance partner in game

#watched a video of the halsin convo post-ritual with spawn astarion and i feel insane. #of all the things i expected to get going into this game a like. healthy (if a bit basic) convo abt nonmonogamy was like #not on my list. #and being like a polyam person irl it makes me kinda crazy idk i like it and them :) #i don’t even find the halsin romance particularly canon for xarrai (they’re fwb at best) but #it Is canon to me that they’re always going to have other partners #from time to time #and they’re not leaving sex work Entirely #idk just having the actual game dialogue be ‘i trust you to make choices that aren’t going to hurt what we have’ makes me feel so warm #漫言

[risingsunresistance]

man i can't stop thinking about this part of elise's dialogue

[NPC] Elise: I crossed the breach a little bit after Dante's defeat in our world. [NPC] Elise: While I can't be sure if the Slime was there "before" his demise, the resemblance is striking. [NPC] Elise: The wizards believe Shen employed Dante, or perhaps even created him! [NPC] Elise: Or did Shen find a way into the Rift before us? [NPC] Elise: Did he find Dante here? [NPC] Elise: Best of luck battling the infection in the Colosseum.

shen either found dante here or straight up created him. do you think dante ever wanted to do all of that. do you think dante was just a weapon. what was his life like before he was sent to the hub to do shen's dirty work. did he even have a life or was he created just to win a war or die trying. has he ever known anything else. was he a good person. if he had the chance to run would he have done it. do you think-

#im going insane man WHAT IF DANTE NEVER WANTED TO BE HERE #WHAT IF HE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE #WHAT IF THIS WAS ALL HE THOUGHT THERE WAS TO LIFE #WHAT IF HE WAS LED TO BELIEVE THIS WAS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD HAPPEN. HOW THE WORLD HAS TO BE #WHAT IF HE REALLY BELIEVED ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT KEEPING THE PEOPLE SAFE #WHAT IF SHEN TOLD HIM ALL THAT #WHO IS SHEN #I HATE YOU MINIKLOON I AM TARGETING YOU SPECIFICALLY FDKJHGK #sb #sb lore #also yes i did color code the text just like elise's dialogue. for funsies #i was gonna screenshot it but then i realized that might be hard to read on mobile bc wiki screenshots are kinda. cramped #but i wanted to keep the fun colors yippee #tbh it also makes it easy to follow. for me at least. keeping up with all the names n stuff and who is the subject of the sentence

[tomurakii]

Just had the meeting with Mystra after I told Gale I'd support him going God mode. He's being a little worrying...

#i did save during the convo so I could go back #but should I??? i feel like this would be the “real” ending my tav would get. but I also feel like maybe #i should've gone the “you're enough as you are' route. perhaps I'll run it again and see if his post-mystra dialogue changes #cause like. as a (recently oathbroken oops lol) revenge paladin I think encouraging him to strive for godhood to do good is the #accurate choice. and then as he starts getting a lil crazy “it chose me” about it she would go 'calm down gale' which is what i did. #just torn between the RP-accurate ending where my boyfriend goes insane and the good wholesome ending lol #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #bg3 spoilers

[beepiiboop]

I FINISHED THE P2 DUOLOGY O(-( . it was such an experience moment

#chey speaks #the only thing i have left over is watching tatsuya side stories but other than that Lord. #my feelings abt ep is no longer as mixed it was at the beginning i have w/ it as i came to enjoy the story a lot there #ESPECIALLY THE ENDING W/ TATSUYA IS SO..... LORD !!!!! #the only thing i don't like abt it is some parts of it (tatsuya becoming cop..... bestie don't Do That) #i do like the idea of baofu starting up an agency but i Do Not like him being partners w/ ulala 😭 #especially both of them didn't get along w/ each other as much + NOT fond of their dynamic at all bc of it 😭 #also destroying at/lus for trying to slightly push tatsuya/maya w/ some of the dialogue choices you'll pick bc let them just be friends. #BUT OTHER THAN THAT p2 duology is so insane. tatsuya my best friend maya my girl best friend lover

[raveartts]

I wanted to try my hand at comic drawing, but coming up with and scripting and posing a completely original idea was too daunting, so I tried just redrawing a scene. I abandoned CSP after making the panel layout even though my goal was to get familiar with the program

#raveartts #akudama drive #i may have made....odd...stylistic choices #but oh well. that's what art is about isn't it #thicker lineart because i do not have the patience of a manga author to draw such detailed art over and over 😍 #for as much as I shit on Ogaki. i hold the utmost respect for the insanity required to draw not just one drawing. but PAGES of detailed art #and as you can see. drawing expressions is something I need to practice because yikes that swindler doesn't even convey the same emotion #though i think my cutthroat has better vibes than Ogaki's here #I hope the translation I did is adequate anyways #i always end up writing the dialogue very stiffly and according to what was said precisely #because that's just generally the default way I speak anyways #like i *probably* should've went for an 'okay' instead of 'yes' in that first panel but oh well #OH YEAH thnak you chloe for providing these pages for me like a million months ago

[nguyenfinity]

Here's a poster I did for one of my classes!!

The assignment was to make an expressive poster of any dialogue of your choice using only type and. I decided to get silly with it--

#sana school stuff #typography #graphic design #typographic design #my other choices of dialogues were a scene from the beyond the boundary movie where mirai is crying for her mom or some game changer skits #yeah i decided to go the stupid route. #WHEN WE WERE SHARING WHAT DIALOGUES WE PICKED the person next to me picked something from beastars and my professor was like #'oh that anime with the wolf guy and bunny girl' #[all of us staring at this middle aged man for knowing beastars] '...IT'S ON NETFLIX ANYONE CAN WATCH IT' #and then it was my turn and when i was explaining the vine he looked at me like i was insane. #anyways. he knows the vine now.

[illputdownmyrootswhenimdead]

wrote a rambly little genloss fic to handle my feelings, please read

#generation loss spoilers #generation loss #the choice #genloss #ranboo #fanfic #bird writing #so. about that 3rd episode huh. #im insane. thats how im handling it #fuck. fuck!!!!!! #ranboo's a good fucking actor man i had to rewatch the ending a few times to write this and get the dialogue correct #and it made me feel so sad every time #:((((( (with love)

[zevlors-tail]

Hi yeah sorry I've been busy speed running Arcana Twilight but can we talk about the new Obey Me event for a hot minute?

IM SORRY!? THESE TWO FUCKERS I SWEAR-

#obey me #obey me solomon #obey me simeon #the implications of this dialogue option are just INSANE #IM DEAD LMAO #MC: You've been bad... I'll have to discipline you... #Solomon: Do you promise? #Simeon: I'd like that very much! #jesus christ i cant #i love this game #btw... because I say fuck the canon choices. Muse ended up making a music box for Solomon. but also a toaster? #simplicity is best #steampunk aesthetic? yes. building something steampunk? very much NO. #Muse did not like it lol #obey me steampunk event #obey me steampunk