#it's honestly too good to be true

[humantea]

Karlach is great because she's surrounded by people who are struggling so much with their own morality, some of which have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing good, and she's just there like, "My two priorities are A): helping people and B): finding a way to get a hug without incinerating someone"

#bg3 #karlach #Like maybe she's too good to be true and there's some dark twist that's yet to be revealed- but for now she's honestly the best #bg3 spoilers

[mhaynoot]

so i went into orv with full shades on, didn’t even read the blurb or anything, I just saw the cover art, the bridge scene and some high school au art and was oh they’re so cute! tbh i literally saw images of the bridge scene so i don’t know how i completely missed the fact that there was a webtoon but i did and so i downloaded the epub version first and started reading with 0 expectations except maybe a shounen rivalry

ahh this is a power fantasy, first person, game cliches and all the action tropes of dungeons. i think this is similar to the other thing I was reading (solo levelling) oh huh so he’s a lazy office worker guy who only reads and is about to be laid off? not the worst backstory, i wonder what op power he’s going to get!

i was very very unquestioning of the story, i didn’t really think about much beyond trying to puzzle out surface level power stuff. like i was just fully trusting everything kdj's said in his internal narration. the protagonist is always right, yeah? he’s the omniscient reader’s viewpoint after all. just look at him explaining his acts of good with ulterior motives, look at him being cut throat and saying he's a villian.

"what a self aware protagonist!" i say obliviously.

hyprocrite he calls himself and i cheer.

orv plays into the genre tropes and cliches so well, i was completely blindsided by the gradual build up to all the revelations i just never expect for it to ever answer.

so in the beginning i’m casually rooting for him on as he beats up and outwits his abusive boss, his old bully, as every adversery bows before him in a very power fantasy way. his first death is a brush off, it is inconsiquential, he brushes it off, i say “ah this type of protagonist!”

actually lets talk about his first death for a bit. like kdj literally dies, but his own narration treats it as an inconsequential, small death. ignore it. don’t worry about it, look kdj isn’t worrying about it either! his fourth wall skill is negating the effects that’s why he’s so blase about it and that’s not totally concerning at all, don’t think too hard about it. this is just a power fantasy remember?

until the gaps between his actions and words started appearing even in my very guillable eyes.

I ask, “why do you want to save shin yoosung so much? wasn’t it just hypocrisy?”

kdj narrates:

The omniscience was a curse. Knowing someone's heart meant always deceiving someone.

my worldview starts shattering bit by bit and then the characters around him mourn each death and i startling start mourning too, grieving in a way i wasn’t able to understand for each death and each time he starts this painful cycle of violence and survival and salvation.

it takes a whole month to finish reading the novel. i laughed, cheered, smiled and cried so hard at so many different points reading. orv has become a part of me in a way i never expected.

i love this story.

#orv spoiler #orv #ha rants #i love this novel. it loves me too. it loves you too. #i wanted to analyse some joongdok scenes especially the beginning train scene and the dark castle revelation as well as the 1863rd worldlin #to show how unreliable his narration is and how good the narrative is at keeping his true thoughts and feelings buried #but this post is long enough honestly #i'll keep it in mind for another joongdok analysis #and keep this as a little rant about how much i love this story for ripping my sunglusses off

[scintillyyy]

honestly, though. sometimes when the drakes are discussed it does seem a little "oh, they never would never do <insert terrible fanon trait here>, they just <insert a different trait they....also never really did and is actually kind of contradicted by canon? here>"

#honestly i'm usually fairly forgiving about the second because i'm sure i'm guilty of it too lmao #and it's also like. that's usually more of personal intepretation/reading thing which should have different viewpoints #variety is the spice of life and all #& i like defending the drakes AND talking about how they failed #but sometimes the thing that is confidently stated they do instead is something canon directly contradicts. #they never would force feed him something he's allergic to #they would just have super strict expectations of his behavior & not be affectionate #meanwhile the expectations are limited to don't wear a t-shirt to a wedding rehearsal and jack is shown hugging tim like every 5 issues #(and janet is dead and can have no expectations but the only time we see her she's like “you can be whatever you want to be sweetie :)”) #and they are shown having a very iconic outing with him and they treat him nice & want him to have a good time & are very loving #i too want to swing the pendulum the other way but that second one does apply to both good and bad traits lmao #“jack was just trying to get close to his son” well. no he really wasn't. #or “jack never cared about his son & never tried to listen to him” well that's not exactly true either #god i love them. my polarizing flawed family.

[stinkrascal]

sometimes you post about sucking at a video game on tumblr and you get the most encouraging msgs imaginable from complete strangers who are just really into whatever game u talked about and wanna see u thrive and its so wholesome. and sometimes you post about sucking at a video game on tumblr and randos who you have never talked to in your entire life will write comments on your text post from august of last year about how you're dumb as shit for struggling on this level, not realizing that i posted that text post in august of last frickin year. pardon ive actually beaten this game 3 times since then but thank you for being mean to me and calling me naive for no reason??? 😭

#i posted about sucking at elden ring once and this cute elden ring blog rb my post and was like #YOU GOT THIS BABY GAMER YOU CAN DO THIS LEVEL UP YOUR VIGOR YOU GOT THIS! #that comment single-handedly made me want 2 play elden ring again like wtf.... you are so nice....... i did level up vigor btw!! #but then i made this text post about how i was struggling in the underdark in bg3. i posted it in AUGUST when the game released #and i still get comments to this day from ppl who are like 'lol just get good' motherfucker i have beaten the game 3 times since then...... #and also why are u talking to me like this i literally do not know you wtf be NICE 😭 #i get so offended when ppl call me naive. honestly it's true too but you don't have to say it :) makes me insecure leave me alone!!! #im gonna start biting ppl BE NICE!! let me suck at video games in peace wtf :(

[dailypokemoncrochet]

I think it's a good thing I been posting my crochets for as long as I have been with various angles and stages of finish and with me holding them and whatever because I feel like if I had only recently started and tried going for a more refined(??) approach to photographing them, at least one person would be like "ai 😒😒" fjsjfjskaojfjfsk

#text #like sure a bit of that feeling is my ego #but also a good number of people tell me how amazing the shapes are i make #and completely honestly i crochet a LOT and know what it looks like...but i still cant ever say when an ai crochet pic is 'obviously' ai #'look at these stitches obviously NOT real' ??? they look normal sc to me 😭 #'yarn doesnt even GO like that' *stares at my extremely diverse collection of amigurumi with some that actually kinda do* #'these look too perfect to not be AI' well i mean. all my lil guys are perfect imo. 🥺 #apparently theres a rise in ai generated amigurumi patterns? fucked up if true

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

a really undervalued line from one of prism's robots that we get from not a drill is the canonical explanation that kinesisium is the secret ingredient behind all of the robots' sapience.

kinesisium. the thing that prism didn't have until she left the agency. the resource that she allied with zoraxis for.

imagine being zor, very loosely keeping tabs on prism in case there's any other information or research you can squeeze out of her now that you have her on your team. you turn around for five seconds to take care of something, and when you look back at her again she's a proud mother of fifty

#ieytd #ieytd3 spoilers #roxana prism #robutler #<- still feel really bad using that tag for all the robots when its just the name of. one of them. #honestly though... that must have been CRAZY. i'm surprised its been several months and NO ONE has made like #a fic or a comic or anything about the first robot to have 'woken up' and been. fully conscious. #i know everyone clowns on prism- all in good fun of course- about how she wanted to make dispensable robot agents #and then canonically stated she would rather them leave her to die than risk getting destroyed #but like. by the time she sold herself to zoraxis. to BUILD her robots. it was already too late. it was already over. #the kinesisium WAS the key to making true robot agents. because it turned those robots human. she can't let them die NOW #she can't be detached NOW. they're people. and she loves them. and they love her.

[thecraftyninjacat]

literally shaking with excitement original aladdin theory is real can’t wait for everything to fall apart for arajin

#bucchigiri?! #HONESTLY LIKE this episode ended WAY TOO WELL for him #he’s gonna be at his peak when everything is taken away from him bc someone (prob akutaro) steals senya #and its gonna be sooo narratively satisfying #because that means ara will have to be brave without any magic help and YEAH!!!! #like i don’t even want ara to lose everything bc i hate him #it’s because it’s what he needs!!! for true character development!!!! #*holds act 2 darkest hour on a spoon in front of his mouth* come onnnn it’s good for you #crafty speaks

[cozykdramakat]

for anyone looking for an explanation on the ending of episode 3

in the webtoon essentially every time Im Sol returns to the present, the Im Sol of the past returns to her body. So the Im Sol that says yes to the Tae Sung confession doesn’t remember anything that has happened post-time travel, so she doesn’t know who Sun Jae is yet and still has a crush on Tae Sung

love triangles aren’t always great, but this is a very fun way to use one and show off the implications of her time jumping imo

very excited to see what craziness the writers have in store for us

#the show is wayyyy better than the webtoon honestly #like leagues better #there’s a really good storyline about the watch in the webtoon though that I hope they use cuz it’ll be veryyyy interesting #also second league syndrome is giving me true beauty vibes #thankfully sun jae is too cute to not ship #spoilers #lovely runner

[found--family]

💖💜💙

i hope the folks planning on resurrecting Supernatural [re:jackles] are taking notes on what's happening in the 9-1-1 fandom and with this Buck character right now. i know next to nothing about this show, but i do know that 'Buddie' is a major mlm ship between two guy friends and that this guy Buck - a strong macho man in his 30s - has just been canonised as BISEXUAL! with a MLM kiss! after SIX seasons! the subtext was there all along but the network was not on board, by the sounds of it; a change of network saw this queercoded middle-aged male character finally set free. no more subtext, no insinuations that could be interpreted one way or another, just undeniable beautiful text. 

i'm thrilled for everyone in the 9-1-1 fandom and for this positive queer rep in media! here’s hoping other shows will take note - namely Supernatural. Dean has 15 seasons of queer subtext under his belt and he would now be in his mid 40s. it’s never too late to canonise a queer character. characters are never too old to realise they’re queer. this is such an important message, and while i can’t speak for the buckgirls i can say that queer deangirls have been relating to his queercoding for almost 2 decades, including 15 seasons of bi!Dean and 12 seasons of Destiel. seeing a character like Buck come out as queer after SIX seasons (i’ll keep saying it, it’s fucking amazing) is such a win not just for queer folk but for good storytelling; i know there were likely obstacles in finally getting here, and it would be great if queer characters could come out whenever they want instead of struggling against tptb, but six seasons has given the show a wonderful amount of time to delve into Buck’s character and journey with him through various plotlines. as a fan of the slow burn for romance, and a good amount of time for character development to play out, i love that there’s six whole seasons of Buck backstory to delve into for the leadup to his bisexual canonisation.

happy bi day Buck, may you inspire more creative control to cater to the characters instead of some suit in an office who’s never even seen your show and doesn’t care about your journey and narrative freedom. today is a great day.

(the first gif is Buck’s first mlm kiss. the second gif is a moment from a gay comedy called Looking that many people have pointed out perfectly encapulates how a Destiel kiss might play out on screen.) 

💖💜💙

#dean is bi #let him be free #spn posting #911 buck is bi #thoughts #spn reboot #can i also just say: it's so good to see a character who wasn't written explicitly as the queer character yknow? this isn't some #teenbeat coming of age drama with a queer character reveal in season 1 and a queer ship canonised in season 2 #we're talking SIX WHOLE SEASONS of character development - watching this guy grow and how his #relationships with others change and evolve over YEARS of storylines. it's unknown whether buddie will #be canonised but that's secondary. this is a huge milestone for queer characters and bisexual (male) characters #moreover in a show that isn't made for teens or centred on queer identities. this guy was allowed to BE #and honestly that's more than what castiel. castiel was killed off for his queerness and then they #killed dean too rather than let him be queer. but with 911 - the show is ongoing! it's not an endtimes reveal #it's going to be allowed to exist in the narrative moving forward meaning everyone who saw the #queercoding of his characters for SIX whole seasons is seeing it come to fruition. the meta was there #and it's not belittled or ignored or criticised or condemned but embraced and celebrated and rewarded! #it's never too late #for characters or long-running shows to be allowed to be true to their narrative #destiel

[brazilian-whalien52]

Kawi is not just shy he has social anxiety disorder (SAD).

A Quick summary of social anxiety: "A person with social anxiety disorder feels symptoms of anxiety or fear in situations where they may be scrutinized, evaluated, or judged by others" 

You can see through the drama how he cares about the opinion of others. He builds his whole life over what other people think about him and, in the same way, pushes other people way and keeps a distance. 

He also, in many moments, freezes in front of others. For example, when he has to sing as a first-year student in front of his classmates. Besides avoiding places or situations where he feels other people may judge him, which causes him to not have any meaningful connections in the future and regretting all the opportunity he lost. Even the work he ends up at is basically another form of isolation (he does subtitles in his home office and the contact with his boss seems to be mostly through his cellphone).  

After a social situation, he tries to over analyse his "performance", looking for flaws in his interactions, blaming himself and regretting the things he said/did. Also, he tends to expect the worst possible consequences from a social interaction or negative experience, believing that any mistakes he makes will turn people against him. Basically, he doesn't allow himself to make mistakes, especially during social interactions. You can see him expressing this a lot in the firsts episodes. 

Another thing that shows is that he doesn't feel comfortable eating in front of others, a usual trait in people with social anxiety disorder (observational social fears). It is also pretty common for people with SAD to develop drinking problems. Normally, they have alcohol because it's a way they can be "fun and spontaneous" around other people. However, how he was before, also shows his social anxiety. He was too afraid of drinking and getting loose around other people. That's probably why he never drank. Basically, he went to two different extremes in that matter.  

Plus, people that are part of a minority group (in this case queer) are more likely to have social anxiety disorder. 

#honestly i am not good with bringing prints and quotes #but i am pretty sure its obvious that this is the way he has been acting #also i kinda think it is obvious and I dont eveb need to this post but idk just feel like it #be my favorite #be my favorite the series #i mean kawi is the poster children of SAD #but some post about him make me wonder if people understand that behind his actions it was other factors playing besides his personality #also that not universal true obviously a headcanon still i basically take as canon #idk having sad myself and 60% of my friends having it too its just too easy for me to spot it #kawi #mua #if i am wrong please let me know #English is not my first language so i had to look for the terms and words in English #if i wrote anything in a offensive way please let me know so i can correct it

[loptrcoptr]

Just finished s4 ep 12 of moonlighting and like. I know I say something along these lines after every single episode of this show but what in the cinnamon toasted fuck was that

Never in my life have I sympathized with any human beings more than I sympathize with the folks who watched this shit in real time in 1987 and had to endure this jack fuckery. I literally cannot imagine the screaming I would have done if my ass had waited around through weeks of reruns for stunts like this. Any of yall who did this the first time around are my heroes because I am losing my will over here holy god. Did you break your tv sets? Rip up the tv guide? I felt the ghost of Rage Quitting past as soon as the episode ended like it was imprinted onto the reels from y’all’s original agony lmfao

#I say again WHAT #moonlighting #loptrcoptr watches tv #look like in fairness I knew shit like this was ahead in that ‘this is too good to be true’ feeling you get #when you’ve watched or read something long enough and the ship gets together and you’re like… theeeres too much time left oh god oh no #and in fairness instead to the show its not like they haven’t jumped the shark prior to this #but because everything was ridiculous from the start it was ok #this is a soap opera level plot explosion that I honestly cannot wrap my head around the reasoning for #I’ll have to look up what the fuck was going on behind the scenes to cause the entire cluster fuck that is this fourth season #what a ride lmfao

[nomsfaultau]

He could tell the exact second Tommy’s conditioning kicked in. The thrashing struggle came to a shuddering stop and the kid froze beneath him in a way that made Wilbur feel wretchedly ill. Crimson poured out around the pair in violent glyphs, but Tommy stayed quiet and trembling and waiting, just like a good little altar lamb should. Wilbur hated this, hated himself for what he was doing to his baby brother.

But there was only one way to summon The Blood God.

#some True Names can only be written in violence #and sometimes you muffle your victim not because they’d scream #but because they’d plead #Aka Wilbur makes questionable life decisions #I swear he does have a pretty good reason probably hopefully #Scene from my Fault Au that is unfortunately so very far in the future rip #Honestly it’s worse in writing bc he exploits Tommy’s traumas too but now I’m just rambling #Anyway #dirty crime boys #crimeboys fanart #crimeboys #wilbur soot #tommyinnit #scp wilbur #scp tommyinnit #dark sbi #the blood god #Blood tw #knife tw #bruises tw #summoning circle #sbi scp au #sbi au #fault au #something to nom on #sbi fic

[vvelegrin]

i'm really enjoying pathologic 2, actually. i mean, i didn't think i wouldn't enjoy it as much as i was worried it would just, i don't know, muddy the water. and maybe it will, but i'm not really bothered by that anymore. that said, i do think patho 2 took a fairly unsubtle game and increased its unsubtlety by about tenfold.

well. calling og pathologic 'unsubtle' doesn't feel quite right, but i'm not sure what word would feel right. maybe it's 'distinct in its sensibilities'. I think og patho felt more obtuse, whereas patho 2 is like. here. take it. do you get it. here is the information. do you see the themes. i am announcing them to you in such a way that you know that i am saying something thematic. i'm not far enough into the main story of 2 to be able to say that there's less reading between the lines, but it feels very much so far like there's less reading between the lines. whereas the original had a somewhat different... i don't know, affect? it felt like a hostile workplace where everyone recited shakespeare about even the mundane. in patho 2 nothing feels mundane in the first place, everything feels loaded in a way that og patho was but didn't feel, if that makes sense.

but i think that's okay. at the very least, it feels very much like leaning into the 'theater' aspect of it, which is enjoyable. pathologic 2 feels to me more like... bonus content? not to be Stuck Up For Pathologic HD but i enjoyed the feeling of grinding my face against a cinderblock, having to tease out information and conclusions. it felt like a game that you had to figure out, but you actually weren't really doing any ground-level figuring out of much; you're not a doctor, your character is, so the puzzle of Solving the Plague belongs to The Story, whereas the question of What the FUCK is This Town's Deal is your job. it's a very linear game in most respects, but all three playthroughs come through as a thematic package deal.

i so far get the impression that pathologic 2 can be played on its own and be enjoyed in its own right! however it exists to me as like. director's commentary. i'm really liking the playing with different character relationships and alternate things, the expanding of steppe language and the kin, love my worm guys, but i like it because of how it enriches my eternal mind rotation of og pathologic. sorry guys i played the original pathologic and it broke me and remade me in its image. sorry.

#sorry to be the quintessential 'guy who played pathologic and now doesn't stop thinking about pathologic' #i'm having a lot of fun trying all of the different things in marble nest though #i do worry in general that the inclusion of sprinting and fast travel will really fuck up my flow #the walking feels SO much slower now so while i was content to plod along in the original i feel like there's not a middle ground #so it feels a bit contrary to it all that i'm sprinting everywhere and just chugging bottles of water and calling it good #though at the very least it does seem like it will take some of the weight off of the 'route planning' aspect of the original #which was. honestly a load bearing part of... gestures vaguely #and i understand why people don't like it! i think that's a very reasonable thing to not like #having a game on a time limit that requires you to walk slowly across the map multiple times #i don't know what brainworms it activated in me but i quite enjoy it #on paper i should not like this game but here we are #that's not true. i play a lot of Bad To Play games for the story. #but 'guy who has no sense of time' playing 'time limit: the game' is... well i'm not arguing at the results #so that's my main Thing that i 'dislike' but even that word is too strong #i don't dislike it as much as i am keenly aware that i will have to play the game differently and i Don't Like Change lmao #that said these are preliminary impressions as i'm only about 4-5ish hours into the main game #pathologic

[variousqueerthings]

it’s a problem that hawkeye looks like this: 

while talking about this: 

sir:

sir I know this is an entire scene’s worth of “pretending to be a homosexual who’s in love with frank” but you make it come out so sincerely that I have to overanalyse it just because and headcanon you’re talking about trapper by proxy (and you get away with it, because it’s a “joke” and juuust removed enough to be taken as such)

#hawkeye pierce #im rewatching MASH #MASH #he really does say things sometimes doesn't he..... #his hair really was black in the first season #and then..... #he's got kind of a classic moviestar look going on here #which is good because the classic moviestars were overwhelmingly gay #this scene really is several minutes long #were you like this back in america? #was your dad like *we can't let my son venture too far or he'll get hatecrimed* because honestly.... #this is the early 50s sir!!!! #(and he was an adult in the 40s already it's not like it's actually 1970-something and even THEN! this is the guy who made america #fall in love with him huh -- guess you really can get away with a lot if it's cloaked in comedy) #you remember the episode where he crashes in his jeep and monologues for 20mins and one of the things he talks about #is this one guy who beat him up whose shoes he vomited on back in highschool and who was apparently *a great guy* #yeah i'll overanalyse that anecdote too #you're not very good at pretending to be someone you're not (if you ever really were) #shielding yourself through comedy so nobody takes the truth seriously is a tried and ture tactic #true* #and of course... not like this is a single scene in which this happens... this is... one of many... many #many many many #we end our rambles here

[mustangs-flames]

In the later parts ( when mark and altcesar aren’t trying to kill each other) how would mark react or think about how altcesar is confused about its identity in comparison to Cesar’s?

For Mark, it will be difficult. He knows his best friend is dead, and that alt!Cesar isn't really him - that he just wears Cesar's face. But sometimes alt!Cesar will do or say something, or he'll laugh in just the right way, or he'll crack a joke or a smile and it's like nothing ever happened. It's like Mark has Cesar Torres back. But then he remembers. And it hurts.

The pain of it never really goes away.

But it lessens with time. He continues to grow around it, adapt to it.

And maybe one day he'll be able to look at alt!Cesar and see him for who he is, as his own person rather than the shadow of someone who can never come back.

#hail true body au #mustang answers! #htb mark #htb alt!cesar #htb prophecyduo #i am really excited to explore mark's perspective on alt!cesar as he grows and changes and becomes his own person #for that moment where he can look past the outer shell and see that there is someone worth knowing underneath #that alt!cesar is his own person and is worthy of a life and an identity #and it takes a hell of a long time #but mark gets there eventually #there will always be moments where he only sees his old best friend but bit by bit he begins to see the differences too #the differences that make up alt!cesar and set him apart from the face he wears #anyway yeah. sorry for rambling lmao #i love these two and the friendship they eventually develop #it's weird but it's *their* weird friendship and honestly. good for them lmao

[thsc-confessions]

"Rosemin is an underrated ship. In my opinion, I feel there isn't much content about it. It's not that I hate Stickvin ship (I really like the fanarts), but I feel that in the fandom (and many others) the only thing they highlight are homosexual relationships (I want to emphasize that I have nothing against this). Hope I haven't offended anyone with this." submitted by anon

#I agree honestly #I was actually thinking abt the ship quite a bit today... I may write the sometime #anywayz yea I've seen ppl call them the most popular henry stickmin ship which was true when ftc came out but like... #by the time thsc came out despite how many endings they have together they're not as popular compared to stickvin curtisson and copperright #maybe even panprice if pushing it #I enjoy all those ships too but rosemin is just as good imo <3 #thsc #mod dave #thsc confession #thsc confessions #rosemin