#still with the stupid prime screenshots

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

Obsessed with the fact that Crowley is always careful to say “for Satan’s sake” or “where the Heaven” or “for Hell’s sake” rather than anything that might show deference to Heaven, BUT when Aziraphale starts to reject him at the end of episode 6, he’s so distraught that he slips up and says “oh God.”

And by “obsessed,” I mean I’m going to jump out a window

#good omens #good omens 2 #gos2 #ineffable husbands #still with the stupid prime screenshots #it’s just after aziraphale says heaven is the side of truth and good

[goldfishontheceiling]

"Alastor is just using Rosie" NUH UH whips out the list

1. He is capable of making friends, as seen with Mimzy. So it's not that hard to believe that he can have another friend if one (cough cough MIMZY cough) just comes around when she needs something. Mimzy doesn't even benefit him in anyway, yet he doesn't cut her off, which shows he can make friends.

2. Aside from the cannibals in ep7, what else could he get from her? I mean she does recommend him deals sometimes, but anyone can do that. If his true goal was control over the cannibals then their bond would feel a lot more shallow, like ep1-ep5ish with Charlie.

3. If Alastor was using Rosie for deal recommendations (since she gives him "prime pickings for a deal to be made"), then why not just do so with a mutalistic relationship instead of having to form that bond?

4. He bleat like a fawn. If he was acting, he wouldn't let himself lose composure for an act.

5. They both kinda get close to eachother in a way they don't with anyone else. SHE PICKS HIM UP AND SPINS HIM AROUND AND HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Sure, he hugged Mimzy, but if she ever did that? She would most likely be dead.

6. If anyone else openly/jokingly insulted Alastor, he would go all scary demon ahhhhhhhh. But Rosie? Perfectly fine.

7. The way he talks to Rosie is different to the way he talks to Charlie. With Charlie he's a little bitch sometimes (oh Charlie you look an absolute mess!) and he kinda takes every chance he can to be a little bitch while still being nice and showing he's important.

8. Rosie knows things about Alastor that he hasn't even figured out (I know your an ace in the hole!), and for Rosie to know these things, that would require Alastor to open up about himself, which he doesn't like doing because "must be mysterious radio deer man." Even to Charlie, who he does have a bond with, SHE STILL JUST THINKS OF HIM AS "MYSTERIOUS RADIO DEER MAN"

9. Hating someone together is one of the easiest ways to start a friendship, especially in hell, where people hating each other is really common (Susan? Susan)

10. If he truly was manipulating all of his friends, he's a sinner, he still has a humanish mind. Humans crave bonds with other people as part of their instincts. And you could just get fake ones, but if you're the manipulator in that situation you'll know it's all fake and it won't leave you fufilled. Which is why having one or two genuine friends (Rosie/Mimzy) would have to be a requirement.

11. He has manipulated other Overlords in the past, like Vox. But with Vox, they would realistically never get along. Same with Vaggie, Angel Dust, etc, he just wouldn't be able to form a true bond with/a very strong both with those people. So yes, he's manipulating/has manipulated them. Rosie on the other hand? They're both cannibals from similar time periods, with similar interests, and they hate the same people.

12. Rosie is smart. She easily reads Charlie, a stranger, like a book. And if she's known Alastor for years (which she most likely has), she knows how to read him past that stupid permanent smile. So even if he was manipulating her, she would know.

13. He HATES Susan, and Vox, and probably some other people I can't think of off the top of my head. He can't stand them. So if he hated Rosie? He wouldn't be able to fake a bond like the one they have.

14. His pupils dilate around Rosie, which is a sign that you like/love whatever it is that you are looking at

Look at these

COMPARED TO THESE

AND IT ONLY HAPPENS WHEN IT'S JUST THEM TWO

15. Rosie agrees with him when he says that Charlie is "filled with potential that I could guide," so she knows that he's using her for that kinda stuff. With that moment it shows that she understands that Alastor is helping Charlie with her dream in exchange. I swear I had more thoughts on this one but then I got distracted with finding screenshots for 14-

Bonus reason that's more silly then reason: THAT DANCE IN READY FOR THIS IS TOO COORDINATED THEY HAD TO HAVE PRACTICED IT

#i had to hold myself back from going full autism mode #because if i didn't this post would just be a giant wall of capital letters #anyway tag time #hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin alastor #alastor hazbin #rosie hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel rosie #hazbin rosie #rosie hazbin #alastor and rosie #platonic radiorose #qpr radiorose #radiorose #rosie and alastor #idk what else to tag

[rataccatak]

Analysis of how KaySD draws Sergey Razumovsky

Or: trying to justify a thirstpost about the world's most terrible man

Sergey's gone through a number of artists through the years, and I gotta say, KaySD's rendition has captured my heart. In fact, it was a screenshot of Kay's Sergey that first got me into Major Grom. While Phob's is the official art style that we associate with the comics, Kay's style, I believe, better serves Sergey's character in the current PD run.

Genre-wise, PD returns to being a big-action, ensemble comic, which--compared to The Game's tight conflict and human drama focus--deliberately implements Kay's more traditionally comic-book style to this effect. The first arc (nine volumes in total) of PD are all Kay; though the current issues are being outsourced to a number of different artists now, Kay's style--with its roots in distinctly American superhero comics, such as DC--was what they wanted to prime audience's expectations with. After Time of the Raven, there was a big push for Bubble to adhere their stories to big names like Marvel, and with that came the desire to usher in things like a multiverse, space and supernatural elements, and franchise crossovers. Plague Doctor was one of their latest installments of that new "culture," and they had to match their aesthetics appropriately.

Okay, but that brings me back to the brainrot part of this post, which is HOT DAMN KAY'S SERGEY LOOKS SICK???

The whole idea of Plague Doctor is that, for like seven years or something, Sergey has been declared dead or missing or otherwise MIA. Nobody, both in-universe and irl, knows where he is or what the fuck he's up to. You crack open issue 1, encounter a guy in sunglasses and a hat who is painfully obviously Sergey, but you get to the last page and

(I will say this is probably the most unflattering frame of him. His chin makes him look like such a chad derogatory)

BAM. HOMEBOY IS ROCKING A NEW HAIRCUT, HE'S WEARING ANOTHER STUPID PURPLE SUIT, HE'S RIPPED, AND HE HAS BLUE EYES.

This isn't the soft, sort of angelically beautiful Sergey we're used to seeing from Phobs. It's radically different, an entirely different character almost, which was the intent.

His new look is more practical, both tactically and socially. His hair is cut, so people won't recognize him as easily. It won't get in his face or get grabbed during fights, and combined with his more muscled build, this is a Sergey who's taking things more seriously this time around. Gone is the flamboyant cape and swishing fiery locks; the plague doctor campaign is no longer a passion, but a duty. And he's ready to enter the thunderdome and get his hands dirty and god damn it, he will die trying.

Kay does take care to preserve the core elements of Phob's Sergey, while making a hard left into traditional masc territory. He's still unrealistically attractive, in that distinctly soft and youthful way. He's more noticeably fit but still maintains a slim, smooth appearance.

But on top of that, he adds this charm and charisma to him that is distinctly boyish (as in, young and mischievous, a pretty face that's up to no good). It makes his persona as a young, leftist radical more believable; he looks like a student revolutionaire, angry and passionate about all issues topical and trending.

He does look more obviously aged. Guy is now in his mid(?) thirties, and the past five years probably amounted to like three lifetimes of stress, so it certainly makes sense. Compared to how Kay drew The Game Sergey, his face is more defined with sharper lines, muscularity, and wrinkles. The short hair also ages him somewhat, making him look less angelic and more like... a regular dude.

And of course, there's the overnight peach fuzz.

The more mature, aged look helps him actually look like a person who's lived a life as loaded and fucked up as Sergey's. He's a guy whose parents died, grew up in foster care, became a CEO that rocketed to stardom in five years, committed the most elaborate fucked up terrorist campaign ever, and then immediately fell from fame to the deepest coldest cell in St Petersburg (and this is all just the OG Major Grom run). He's not Phob's Sergey (or Rag, whoever it was in The Game)--a blameless childish pretty boy who's detached from his crimes. Kay does a good job in making Sergey have this subtle undertone of... unsettled, unhinged, what have you. I don't know how much of this is hindsight bias, but he looks like a guy with a fucked up secret. You wouldn't think twice if you were seeing him in a grocery store or something but I can imagine later recognizing his mugshot on the news and thinking wow now that i think about it, he really does look like a serial killer.

And let's talk about his fashion. For all the features of Sergey's flamboyant costumes in Phob's renditions, Kay dresses him quite casually, and it works, ironically, to make him look deceptively plain in the way all extremely rich people dress (think of the $10k white t-shirts and sunglasses get-up all rich men wear). He dresses like his current social stature: a new-money sod who has gotten used to his wealth enough that he doesn't have to show off with his clothes anymore. Of course, this could also be turned on its head and instead, be an indication of Sergey's original, cheap clothes that he habited from his childhood. Certainly, the ironic rightwing graphic tees Kay puts him in edge towards that point of view, only now they're colored by Sergey's sense of political humor. I doubt a "god guns government" shirt is selling for $500 at some luxury tailor shop.

This is what I love about Kay's Sergey. In making him look more human, we get to orient him more organically into our own world. He looks like a thirty year old loser who studied CS in college and now commits cyber terrorism and doesn't know how to cook. He looks like a young adult leftist who is terminally online and has 500+ open tabs on Marxist theory. He looks like a guy who became too rich too young, who was the world's angle and then its devil in the span of like two years, and is now disillusioned with it all, who wears $5 graphic tees and stays up all night looking behind his back and tries desperately to find something that actually matters.

Once Sergey looks more believable, he becomes more understandable. And the more we understand him, the more the story has the potential to make him intrigue and surprise and reach us in multiple, unexpected ways.

#not as expansive as I wanted but I wanted to get The Thoughts out #major grom #plague doctor #sergey razumovsky #bubble comics

[necros-writing-stuff]

The Eden Analysis/Lore Dump.

Part one of idk, we'll see.

Note: all sources are Vrel confirmed. This means scenes written by or approved of by Vrel, as well as Vrel's posts on the blog. There is additional info from people asking Vrel things on discord, but idk if all of these are confirmed so I've left them out. A lot of Eden scenes are not included due to controversy around them being OOC (these were not Vrel made scenes).

All info is collected up to the date of 19th September 2022, game update 0.3.11.

Tumblr doesn't like a lot of photos, so I'll keep them out of this, but if you'd like to see screenshots of the lore I've compiled I'll be able to show you in another post or an ask.

Discussion welcome about points made!

Warnings for: Eden being Eden meaning noncon, petplay and pred/prey, but various forms of child abuse mentioned in theorising their past.

Who is Eden?

The basics. Eden is a hunter in the forest of DoL. They do not like the town, they don't like technology or modernised ways of living, and they are not afraid to be an asshat. They kidnap and rape the player character, as well as putting them in a collar or even a cage later on.

Eden does not like animals and warns PC to stay away from them. They also don't like people that much.

What are they like in the present?

Eden's schedule is filled by them having breakfast, getting ready for the day, tending their crops, going out hunting, preparing any catches, chopping wood, having a bath, maybe having dinner, and then sitting around reading or tending their gun.

PC is able to clean and organise the cabin, help Eden farm, clean and gather things outside of the cabin, fix Eden's clothes, cook any food they have, and since Eden has no electricity or plumbing, they'll likely have to fill the bath by boiling pails of water one at a time.

Prior to PC, Eden would have had to do all of this by themself. This helps explain why their home is so spartan. It explains why the crop field is all weedy, why the spring is dirty and why they have no mushrooms. It simply would have been to time consuming when they already has so much to do.

Eden's favourite hobby seems to be reading. Despite not doing well in school, they enjoy old literature that quite often is worded in ways that take a little bit of know-how to fully understand. I don't think Eden was bad at school because they're stupid. I think they dropped out of school because they had too much going on at the time to put effort in.

Their anti-modern stance could be worsened due to how much tech would have advanced while Eden was in the forest. We don't know how long exactly past "a very long time," but I'd wager Eden watched things on VHS and has no idea what a Netflix or Amazon Prime is. Lack of knowledge in something can often lead to fear.

Eden also used to have quite the libido. This has since been reduced from what it used to be, but the hunter and PC can still go at it roughly 12 times a day depending on lust and other things.

We see that Eden is quite insecure in their appearance. Vrel says that they've "Whipped themself into a state of anxiety over it." Whether this is because of their toned form or the scars they have is up for debate, as both could be from life in the forest.

Eden hates going into town. They wish they didn't have to make supply runs, but the forest doesn't give Eden nails to make repairs. It doesn't provide bullets for hunting. Eden's hatred of town is a funny thing, because in the first scene where they drag PC back home at low love everyone fears them. This fear could be from childhood.

We also see that Eden has their anal and oral virginities. They used to have a hand holding one, but this is no longer the case.

Eden's behaviour towards PC is very controlling. From spanking to collars to cages, they aren't afraid to put them in their place - below the hunter and obedient to them.

The hunter has been described by Vrel as "quite vanilla." This is a curious description, especially as Vrel also said that they'd be intrigued by a PC wanting to taste their blood. Eden also engages in pet play adjacent things, as well as predator/prey. It could be that Eden is rather vanilla compared to most other people in the game, rather than vanilla themself. A lot of the pet play we do see from Eden (and even the spanking) is something they do as a punishment. It could therefore be argued that their hatred of animals translates into these moments where PC is not what they want. Eden therefore treats them as one.

However, Eden is loyal and certainly expects it back. Vrel says that they will not cheat and will be driven to violence and punishment if PC does.

One more point from the present: Eden is said to distrust the temple. They don't know Jordan or Syd, however. Yet Eden is unaware of Ivory Wraith, even if Wraith seems to show some curiosity towards them in scenes involving both of them. Eden could perhaps not believe in the supernatural or religion and be seen as a heathen by the temple when they were around town.

What do we know about their past?

Not much to be honest. Eden outright refuses to talk about it beyond some cryptic things. We know that they didn't do well at school, we know they've been in the forest for a long ass time, and we know that they don't want to talk about their family.

The only proper connection Eden seems to have to the outside world is Bailey. What started as a theory of Bailey and Eden knowing each other more than as just client and seller is pretty much confirmed. The theory started with Eden chucking after PC asks them where they got their magazine from. Eden replies "An old friend," as they draw PC in closer. This, along with the fact that Eden somehow can buy you from Bailey, set off the theories. Vrel more recently said on the blog that "Bailey and Eden do interact outside that, but scarcely."

The most popular theory on how they met was that Eden was orphaned as a child, either through abandonment and abuse or a harsh death of their family. Bailey was either another orphan or a child Eden met at school.

Vrel mentioned on the blog that Eden dropped out of school before they could graduate - and even knew Winter - so it is possible that Eden left and ran straight into the forest or that they left to get a job. Perhaps illegal jobs with Bailey.

Regardless, a life as an abused orphan with no family also helps explain the bareness of the cabin. They have nothing sentimental worth keeping.

I do theorise that Eden is keeping something of importance. Perhaps Bailey gave them something important to look after out there.

After all, there are many around the same age as Bailey and Eden (both said to be in their 30s by Vrel) who they could have issues with. Briar, Landry, Remy, even Quinn. With Bailey working for Quinn, it is possible that Eden did something against Quinn that means they have to hide. Maybe Bailey did something against Quinn and Eden took the blame as they were already wanting to leave into the forest.

If Eden has pissed off someone important it could add to their fear of town. As mentioned above, people clearly fear them when they are around. Its highly unlikely that Eden would be a target - unless it's by someone paid to do it. Perhaps by someone rich like Quinn, Briar or Remy. Maybe even Leighton. Or, Eden's past abuse simply clouds their perception of themself due to how long they've been alone. This is emphasised by when someone asked Vrel if Eden would accept a yandere PC stalking them. Vrel said it "could work." Does Eden really fear being victimised? Or would this be a special case as they'd like PC?

The "Eden was an orphan" theory also means Bailey likely gained the role of caretaker as Eden was leaving or had left. With Bailey being around the same age its highly unlikely that they were the caretaker at the time. The abuse Eden faced either as an orphan by another caretaker or at the hands of their family may have been worse than what we see PC goes through. Sexual abuse is a probability. We don't know how Eden lost their virginites. We don't know if they were abused, the abuser themself, or if it was consensual. It also could explain Eden's closed mouth on their issues. They could have been taught that sharing that stuff was weak and to bottle it all up.

Eden's need for control does imply that they were hurt indeed. The animal hatred element is obvious, in the forest with aggressive creatures it is nigh impossible that Eden hasn't had some bad run-ins. Maybe even some sexual ones they didn't consent to. The temple could also be involved with this, fueling Eden's distrust of them.

So how does this theorised past impact PC?

I'd argue that Eden sees themself as a saviour to PC in a way. If Eden found peace living in this way after a childhood similar to PC's then they could believe that PC will find the same comfort they do out in the woods.

If Eden lost a friend in Bailey and now has a very strained relationship with them or was abandoned as a child somehow then it helps to explain why they're so possessive over PC. They don't want to lose someone else.

If Eden has been hurt by animals, then they lash out at PC by treating them as one.

They do love PC, as Vrel has said, just in their own way. An unhealthy and twisted way. They also do view PC as incompetent or soft (Vrel says Eden views PC as too gentle to shoot them with their gun) - perhaps willingly putting this on them for their own peace of mind or seeing a younger self in PC.

This can also been seen in how Vrel says Eden would not care if PC was previously a criminal or rich before they got them. Eden doesn't want PC to be someone they were before. They want PC to be who Eden wants them to be. Or, who Eden knows them to be. It's up for interpretation.

Where does this leave us overall?

Eden is paranoid, controlling, hard working and I don't believe they've as dumb as popularly interpreted - especially when you consider that they have to be dumbed down for gane mechanics and fairness reasons.

They trust next to no one and act out when that trust is broken or when their control is shaken. They are insecure.

They keep their cards close to their chest. They know how to keep secrets. But what those secrets are remains to be seen.

Further updates may provide more answers, especially a big update such as Pregnancy. We'll be able to see Eden's behaviour towards a baby and glean some info then.

#eden the hunter #eden analysis #degrees of lewdity #'nw grapefruit'

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

For the ask game: 1, 3 and 4!

Thanks for the ask!

The character everyone gets wrong:

This is tough, because I feel like plenty of people get plenty of characters wrong, but the one EVERYONE gets wrong? I don’t know. I’ll just have to pick a character that a lot of people get wrong instead…

I think the LOTR movies did lasting harm to Gimli’s character and people’s interpretations of him. They made him into comic relief and undermined the depth of his personality. This is not a criticism of John Rhys-Davies, who did a great job with what he was given! (And I fucking love that armor.) But the movies did not do Gimli justice.

Gone is his wisdom (“Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens”). Gone is his love for poetry and music, and the song of Khazad-dûm (which is one of my favorite scenes). Gone is his relationship with Frodo (which is a nice connection between the Hobbit and LOTR because of Glóin’s friendship with Bilbo).

Gone, too, is his open affection for Legolas, replaced by emotionally distant banter. And I like banter sometimes, but Gimli and Legolas had a very sweet friendship in the books (once they opened up to each other). After the battle of Helm’s Deep, after the competition, they were just glad to see each other alive. There was no stupid back-and-forth about the last kill—and I don’t think Tolkien’s Gimli would sit on a carcass.

Potentially even worse, Gimli in the movie (for some reason?) tries to persuade Aragorn NOT to release the army of the dead even after they’ve fulfilled their oath. There’s nothing like that in Tolkien’s books, and it just makes Gimli look dishonorable. After all, in the book, he’s the one who spoke in favor of keeping oaths when the Fellowship set out. His actual characterization in Tolkien’s books was mostly thrown aside for cheap “funny” moments.

There are still Gimli scenes in the movies I enjoy, of course, like the scene when he tells Legolas about Galadriel’s gift to him—“I asked her for one hair from her golden head...she gave me three”—and Legolas smiles. It’s one of the few sincere scenes they have together, and one of the few moments when we see more of Gimli’s inner feelings. I just wish the movies had been more faithful to his characterization across the board.

And because the movies have so much influence, I think the movie version of Gimli has replaced many people’s conception of him, which makes me sad. I don’t think everyone does this—I know there are other book Gimli lovers out there!—but too often I see fanfiction and fanart replicating the movie version of the character.

Screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr:

This is another tough question, because so many bad takes compete for the top spot! I think a prime (pun intended) competitor for the worst take is the idea that Rings of Power added to Galadriel’s characterization rather than horribly detracting from it.

When the final episode of season one came out, some people were excited that it referenced Galadriel’s line in FOTR (here the quote from the book), “In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen…stronger than the foundations of the earth.” But the way Rings of Power chose to reference that line didn’t add to Galadriel’s characterization at all. It made her entire character arc dependent on a man asking her to be his queen. Galadriel’s ambition comes from HER—not from Sauron. I was very disappointed to see ANYONE defending that.

One person actually came onto one of my posts to tell me that Rings of Power Galadriel is “exactly” like she is in canon, and I was like…where??????? Tolkien’s Galadriel fought, but the idea that she would enjoy killing, like the show portrays, is just bizarre (why do I have to fucking explain this?). Tolkien’s Galadriel had the ambition of ruling a realm of her own—she didn’t go on a wild goose chase for “revenge” of all things. Tolkien’s Galadriel was extraordinarily wise and perceptive from young age, not a petty, temperamental, undiplomatic brat. Tolkien’s Galadriel was tall and strong, not short and scrawny. And Tolkien’s Galadriel never trusted Annatar—she certainly wasn’t manipulated by him, let alone nearly seduced. I cannot believe someone would have the audacity to defend this abysmal portrayal of Galadriel by arguing that it’s CANON.

What was the last straw that made you finally block an annoying person?

If people post annoying things, I’ll usually just unfollow them. I unfollow people who post too many gifs from the Hobbit movies, for instance. No offense to them, I just hate the Hobbit movies and don’t want to see gifs/pictures of them. But even a single Rings of Power gif will get you blocked. It’s not even a last straw.

Turning back to Gimli, I think the worst aspects of the movies’ portrayal of him (like the drunken scene in the extended edition) were replicated by the Hobbit movies (the unmentionable food fight, for instance) and then by Rings of Power (what exactly was the value added by having Durin burp loudly during dinner?). Tolkien’s Dwarves can be funny sometimes, of course—like when they sing about breaking Bilbo’s plates!—but they don’t have disgusting table manners. They’re actually very polite, often bowing and saying “At your service!”

In conclusion: respect Gimli, respect the Dwarves, and respect Galadriel, or perish by my axe.

#asks #Gimli #Galadriel #my writing

[sonknuxadow]

you sent me down the Sonic name rabbit hole and the misinformation is even more stupid then originally intended.

Archie Sonics Middle name being Maurice had only appeared twice in comic form, once as a definite joke and once as a dubious joke (hard to say if it was serious since it doubled as a throw back joke) but Maurice was kinda an inside joke for the most part and they even poked fun at it in one of the Sonic Prime adverts.

Olgilvie is where it gets stupid. Sonics 'first name' was never given in canon but was allegedly posted on Penders own website, saying that he intended it to be his first name but never actually applied it. I say allegedly because finding actual proof is basically impossible. There's no screenshots of the website, Penders never posted about it on social media and there doesn't appear to be any interviews with Penders saying so either. It is entirely possible that this was just a made up rumour/someones personal head canon posted on a mid 90s forum that spun out of control.

yeah i definitely think his middle name being maurice was just a joke at first and it was only mentioned by the characters themselves twice that i remember, but there were also multiple character profiles for sonic that mentioned his middle name being maurice and/or sonic not being his birth name, so it Was intended to be canon. but again the same cannot be said for olgilvie, i cant remember a single time the name was ever mentioned in the comic and other writers have said that it isnt considered canon

as far as penders himself talking about this goes, i actually did manage to find a couple tweets of his that mention it but theyre actually very recent and in response to someone asking about it, i still cant find the original source for this claim anywhere. but i do have some stuff to say about the tweets so.

part of the conversation is cut out because i didnt wanna post screenshots of some random persons tweets, but basically someone was asking where he originally confirmed this, where the inspiration for the name came from, and if anyone else used it. which as you can see he didnt really answer that first question. and he also says he DID use the name in one issue, but hes blatantly wrong here because issue 53 doesnt say sonics name is olgilvie, just that his birth name isnt sonic and his middle name is maurice. so hes definitely misremembering some details here

now im not saying this is actually what happened but wouldnt it be so funny if penders never intended for his name to be olgilvie specifically but someone on the internet just made it up and it became so widespread that penders himself even believed it and thats why no one not even him can provide the source for where this was originally stated

#i think he might also be wrong about where the name maurice was first brought up but thats not as big a deal #since hes admitted to not reading issues done by other writers. not surprising he got that detail wrong since he didnt write that issue #and yeah i wasnt able to find anything about it on penders website either #the archive thing only goes back to 2020 and the sonic name thing has DEFINITELY been going around for longer than that #because 1. i remember seeing it before that and 2. i looked at past versions of pre sgw sonics page on the sonic wiki #and the oldest version i could find is from 2014 and it mentioned the name thing #there is a source attached to it but idk if its a source for the time penders supposedly mentioned it #or if its a source for the time ian flynn said sonic had gotten a legal name change. #but the link doesnt go to anything sonic related? just a blank page on a comic news site. so its impossible to know #coudlnt find anything relating to sonics name on the forum on his site either #but its possible he had a different website before that that might have mentioned it. considering how long hes been online for #asks #JESUS CHRIST THIS POST GOT LONG. SORRY

[lastweeksshirttonight]

What is this?? Lee actually following up on promises of posting longform writing??? I know, I'm scared too.

Last Lee Tonight (wherein Lee quotes noted political commentator Olivia Rodrigo) Season One, Episode Nine

(Original air date: 6/29/2014) Topics covered: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, LGBT rights and discrimination in Uganda

Trigger warning: discussions of homophobia

"That is why I, personally, refuse to pay for Mennonite cabinets. Because Jason Bourne could, conceivably, beat someone to death with one of those things."

Because the last time I posted one of these reviews was (checks notes) August 2023, a brief recap of where we are in terms of the season developing is in order. Episode Eight was the first time the entire main story was put on LWT's YouTube page, after a very... scattershot approach to uploading segments onto social media. The show is also coming into its own - although the recap of the week segments are bouncing between being extremely surface-level, sometimes only one joke long, and closer to the current iteration of a small yet rigorous dive into a relevant topic for a few minutes before the main topic, the main stories are beginning to take longer form, even though they are still tied to the idea of the show being immediately relevant.

This episode is one of the few I think is, with a few exceptions, almost completely available on the LWT YouTube page worldwide. Both major segments are uploaded, as well as an extended interview segment. Looking forward, they do experiment with the idea of breaking up most of the episodes and loading them onto YouTube for the rest of season one. At least they're actually, um, loading the main parts of the episodes on YouTube from here on out. As I've said many times before, no one had any idea what kind of show LWT was supposed to be or what it would become.

Another fun fact - apparently you can no longer screenshot these episodes I bought on YouTube on my desktop with PrtSc. What the fuck. Is up. With that?! (aaaah~) Fuck you business daddy you complete sack of daddy-shaped shit. (Clearly I have my ways of getting around this, even if the screenshots seem a bit blurry to me, but... fucking hell, I'm just trying to take a screenshot OF SOMETHING I PAID FOR.)

ANYWAYS. There's an episode of LWT we're ostensibly discussing!

Our first topic is the 2014 World Cup. England has been knocked out, so the tournament is dead to John. Oh John. So innocent. So full of life. You have no clue about the shitstorm you're gonna drop on FIFA's doorstep next season.

At the World Cup, an Uruguayan player, Luis Suarez, bit an Italian player, something I totally forgot about. He also bit TWO OTHER PEOPLE. John calls the Italian player "a delicious piece of prime Italian steak" - I forgot that chaotic bisexuality has been baked into this show from day one but I love it.

(Based on the only hate comment I've ever received, I know someone will probably deign to tell me that John is not bisexual, which... I know. But the writing of this show has chaotic bisexual energy - in some seasons, like the one where John begs Adam Driver to chokeslam him into a table regularly, energy honestly isn't a strong enough word to describe whatever's going on - and I like acknowledging that element of the show.)

John mentions the week has been awash with depressing terrorism news but leads into a segment about Boko Haram being driven out of their hiding places by snakes and bees, an incredible victory for the scariest parts of nature. John is furious that scorpions have instead decided to hide in bananas in supermarkets instead of fighting terrorism. John's grin after delivering that joke is effervescent. He loves this kind of stupid, "now THAT'S a sentence"-style joke.

He's so happy y'all

We take a hard left turn into discussing Syria, and that the US is looking to send money to "appropriately vetted" rebel soldiers. The obvious question is asked - how do you vet rebel soldiers? John suggests a trade-school-style commercial to recruit potential rebel soldiers. (The offer is open to bees and snakes!) One thing I like about the early episodes that does still come through from time to time on the show are these sorts of Daily Show-style fake commercials and PSAs. They can get repetitive after seeing the segments they're covering, but there's usually some fun twists and chances for some real absurdities and escalations you can't do in the show proper.

Our first real segment follows after this, on Burwell v Hobby Lobby. You may remember this as the court case that allowed for Hobby Lobby, a crappy JoAnn's knockoff run by evangelical Christians who also stole artifacts for a bible museum, to not pay for an employee's birth control through the Affordable Care Act because it went against their religion. As a corporation. Because corporations are people now. God this country sucks.

At the time of airing, this decision hadn't been made yet by the Supreme Court, so John is going over the details of the case, including the questions at the center of it - do corporations have freedom of religion, and are corporations people? John confidently says "no" before realizing he has to actually discuss this, and I really want to live in 2014 John World. This whole segment has a lovely capper extending two ideas to their logical, absurd extremes - government cannot be an a la carte system, something John demonstrates by showing a wild variety of things people don't want to spend their taxes on which starts fairly even-keel but spirals into Fox News talking heads saying that their tax dollars are being spent on Mexican prostitutes. And on the flip-side, if corporations are people, well, people die. Amongst other things.

Something that's been a bit lost about this case in the ten years since is that a Mennonite sect that owned a kitchen cabinet making company also sued the government over providing birth control. I totally forgot about that.

Our "And Now This" segment is on politicians misusing the word 'literally'. Chris Traeger literally adored this segment. (It's short and is exactly what you'd expect. Not much to say here.)

The next segment is on LGBTQIA+ rights in Uganda. Interestingly, John introduces this segment by saying "finally tonight..." despite being only 12 minutes into a 30 minute show. Definitely had me checking the clock in confusion.

I appreciate that John opens this segment not sugarcoating anything happening to LGBTQIA+ individuals in Uganda, even before he gets into the details of the anti-gay laws there. While there's been segments prior that have been obviously extremely serious, this is the first one that feels like John is coming from a place of seriousness first, jokes second. There are plenty of jokes, yes, lots of very funny ones. But when you compare how this segment opens, with no frills or equivocating, to even the Hobby Lobby segment earlier this episode, there's a pretty obvious difference.

People really didn't know how to react to the line "the moral arc of the universe is long, and it bends away from Uganda." There's like one scattered laugh at that. I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be a joke.

A lot of the details of this segment are deeply upsetting, especially post-Trump in a world where it feels like freedoms are rolling back everywhere and extremist hatemongers like Scott Lively are being treated more and more seriously. The fact that he was laughed at here in the past is refreshing, but knowing that he'd likely be a top senate candidate now is so distressing. There's a lot of things that can be seen in this show in hindsight, most of them so far more benign than this. Unfortunately, the exportation of homophobia now looks less like the death throes of a dying political position, as John posits here from 2014, and more like a big factor in sowing the seeds for this last decade's right-wing global surge.

That being said, Pepe Julian Onziema is a true portrait of grace under fire. The interview with Onziema in the show is extremely illuminating, the kind of interview that makes me wish John did more interviews. Onziema is a delight - I love his seriousness in speaking to the realities of living as an LGBT+ person in Uganda, and his bravery in fighting this fight despite the looming threat of severe prison time. Relatedly, "Sorry doesn't cut it" is such a great comeback to John apologizing for being part of two groups of people that brought this wave of homophobia to Uganda.

There is an extended interview with Onziema on YouTube that dives further into some of the specifics of certain social elements, like context into how Ugandan discourse took on elements of American homophobic talking points (like "gay people are recruiting children") and a timeline of Scott Lively's touring of Uganda. John manages to completely break him by singing part of an early hateful song about "the rainbow belonging to God" as well, which made me so happy. Turn those hateful things into ludicrously stupid ones to destroy them.

I do highly recommend watching this interview - it's one of the best things that LWT has ever done, still. This has stayed with me for 10 years.

Other notes:

Hey. Hey Lee. You gonna talk about the fit?: Yes of course I am, the meds didn't change my brain THAT much. We have a light blue shirt with a dark blue tie with lighter piping, and a gray suitjacket. This is a subdued look but I like the neutral slate color combination going on here. 8/10

I haven't mentioned the unique title cards for each episode of LWT yet, mainly because this is the first one I found really funny - it's a picture of Renaldo with the caption "Kickus Ballium". (New name for football ahoy!)

Please enjoy this incredible "I'm so smooth" looking freeze frame that I took while pausing the episode to write. So smooth.

"I've got to be honest, being British is sometimes a little like being an alcoholic. When someone says you did something awful, you find yourself going, 'Honestly, I don't even remember doing that, but yeah, probably, probably. I'm a dick, I'm a dick.'" He slipped so easily into that Ian Duncan mode for this line, I so hope he comes back for the Community movie.

#john oliver #last week tonight #last week tonight with john oliver #last lee tonight #Youtube #i am aware that i have spent over half a year on this and have only gotten nine episodes in

[arsenicandfinelace]

I'm new to Leverage fandom, and I'm a tad confused🙈 What's meant by ot3? Because I really like P, H, E as a platonic team, and close friends, but I only ship Parker and Hardison romantically. Does the ot3 mean platonic? Or is it all 3 of them as a romantic poly triad? "Everyone" in fandom seems to ship ot3, I feel so out of the loop, what am I missing? I tried to find hints in the show of Eliot being part of the romance, and I don't, and I want to be part of it all, but I don't understand

And I have shipped triads before, so it's not /that/ I can't wrap my head around. it's just Eliot being romantically involved with Parker and Hardison I can't see. But people keep saying it's canon, and that it's not a fanon ship, and that's where I'm lost. Because obviously I'm missing something huge, this is the biggest pairing in fandom for a reason, and I feel stupid, because what don't I see that everyone else does? Please help!

Yeah, so basically, if you're only into Parker and Hardison romantically and Eliot as their bestest bud, that's a valid interpretation. Parker/Hardison are explicitly a couple, and Eliot does still date other people. I don't think anyone will really make a case that you're wrong for not seeing it like that.

But, essentially, it's a combination of the show naturally grouping them together, a friendly fandom averting shipping wars, and idealization of the individual ways those three show devotion.

The show makes a distinction, in terms of character work, between Nate&Sophie, who are a unit and will bounce off each other for most of their development and subplots, and Parker&Hardison&Eliot, who are a unit and do the same. Nate&Sophie are a couple, and Parker&Hardison are a couple, and then there's Eliot, sort of flapping free in the wind, prime shipping real estate without a recurring love interest but with two characters whom he unarguably loves and bonds with.

And the chemistry is important too. Parker&Eliot is a good dynamic: they're both damaged and hardened and trying to find a purpose in a world that left them to their own terrible devices. Eliot gets Parker in a way Hardison, who is remarkably trauma-free for a word-class criminal, doesn't. And anyone who's seen Hardison&Eliot knows those two have committed to annoying each other for life; they both come alive when they're needling each other, but they both take care of each other in their own quiet ways. Given this show devotes way more screentime to the found family than the romance, we get about as much time spent on those dynamics as we do on Parker&Hardison, and we see how indispensable each one is.

(If Leverage had a bitchier fandom, this would probably result in endless feuding, but no one wants that here, and this is a happy compromise.)

So yeah, if you don't see it, you don't see it, and I honestly don't have it in me to write a lengthy post with lots of screenshots and examples of moments they Invented Love™, but basically, the show gave us a romantic pairing plus one extra person who can never be cast aside and who loves each member of the pairing as much as they love each other. And then the show told us they're going to stay together for the rest of their lives. This is what happens.

#asks #anon #leverage #always and forever the best ot3 #start a post with 'yeah so' and end it with 'so yeah' #i have an advanced degree in literature and writing donchaknow

[hegory-grousing]

so I discovered last night that I can't take screenshots of prime video on desktop anymore, meaning I can't take screenshots for houseywousey art reference. there's still stuff I could try to do to work around it but point is I was troubleshooting with a friend and got genuinely very upset about how fucking stupid and awful streaming services have gotten. plus not being able to do The Stuff I Want To Do On My Computer and not being able to Take Damn Screenshots Of My Special Interest was setting off the Autism Rage™️

and a little while later I mentioned wanting the dvd box set cause I should be able to take screenshots of that and my friend was like "hey what's your address again so I can buy you that" and I was like "are you sure, you don't have to-" and he was like "yep shut up I'm buying it for you it'll be there saturday"

and the circumstances are kind of silly but I feel loved in this chilis tonight 🥺

#not house #slugs posts #personal #I love my friends #it's important to have people who listen to you complain without trying to fix it but it's also really nice #to have people who upon hearing you say there's a solution to your problem go 'I'm doing that for you literally right now'

[aprillikesthings]

Spite donations

So my evening adderall has kicked in and I wanna talk about the concept of spite donations, because 1. it's such a great idea I want more people to know 2. I want to encourage myself to do it more.

Say you're in an argument with someone, especially online. Here, twitter, facebook, reddit, the family group chat, what the fuck ever. They're being stupid or mean or whatever, but you can't get them to see logic or compassion and they're frustrating you.

You know you're not going to change their mind. But blocking them might feel like giving in. Or they're a relative or a friend and you don't want to burn that bridge just yet. Or you did block them/close the app, but now you have all this anger burning away at you and you feel like shit.

Walk away from the argument (literally or metaphorically). Take a deep breath. And donate money to a person or non-profit out of sheer fucking spite.

(OBVIOUS CAVEAT ONE: Not everyone can do this. I know that. There have been times in my life where I could not even spare $5. I am painfully aware that I am lucky that I can do this sometimes. But that just means that those of us who can afford to do it, should. Imagine that I am doing it on your behalf. I love you.)

If the donation is related to the argument you're having, that's cool! I once got in a rage at a friend's relative on facebook who was denying that voter ID laws are racist (they are, side note; and I gave her lots of information on it) and she was furious that I Was Calling Her Racist!!!11!! So I looked up a couple of voting rights non-profits in her state (one fights against voter suppression laws, the other does the nitty-gritty of helping people get ID's and get to the polls), checked on a couple of non-profit watch sites that they were legit, and donated $50 to each of them.

(I admit I was more spiteful than usual, and posted screenshots of my email receipts to the thread. It did shut her up, so there's that.)

Donate to abortion funds in the name of anti-choice politicians or family members. Donate to a local environmental non-profit when your uncle is a shithead about climate change. Donate to the gofundme's of transgender strangers for their rent or gender-confirming surgeries when JKR pops up in your twitter trending.

BUT it doesn't HAVE to be related to the thing you're angry about.

Lots of shelters and other charities that do direct aid for people have amazon wishlists. I have the the wishlist of a local day shelter for homeless folks on my amazon account. Sometimes when I don't know where else to donate money I just pick random shit off their wishlist. Thanks for making me furious, random asshole on reddit, some homeless woman just got NEW UNDERWEAR AND WARM SOCKS. FUCK YOU.

Look, righteous indignation is an addictive feeling, and the internet is basically primed to give you opportunities to feed into it. Use that urge to do actual good! If nothing else--if you're like me? The feel-good dopamine hit of knowing I'm helping a cause I believe in or even a random stranger? That's a much better bit of dopamine than I could possibly get from yelling at people online.

But also: there's a kind of relief? Often it's just difficult to walk away from an argument. Some days I am better at this than others. But tossing a few bucks at someone who needs it gives me a kind of satisfaction, like I "won" the argument.

"But April, recurring donations are better for most non-profits." I agree! 100%! Did you know that if you use paypal to donate to non-profits, that paypal can keep a list for you and when you go on your account there's an option to do it again? Make a couple of charities/non-profits your default "Fuck This Guy" donations.

It doesn't have to be a lot. $20 is still something. $10 is still SOMETHING.

Don't just get angry. Donate some money.

(OBVIOUS CAVEAT TWO: If you have the time/energy/resources, volunteering is also an amazing option. Or just doing something kind for others when you can. A genuine compliment to a stranger can go a long way to lift the spirits, for them AND you. This is just one method, among many, for dealing with the brokenness of the world. The antidote to hopelessness is action.)

#spite donations #my posts

[purposelynana]

What Did I Watch: #23

EVERYBODY SHOULD WATCH TRIAGE.

Triage could take the whole world by storm if not airing on the same period as KinnPorsche. Because personally, me thinks, Triage is a better story than KinnPorsche. That is true, its set production a lot poorer than the later but, the foundation of a great visual medium is always the story and characterization. And goddamn Triage is surely like has been written by Christopher Nolan in his teenage years probably. I'm not exaggerating, I mean I could say it's like had been written by Christopher Nolan on his prime era (*cough*The Dark Knight*cough*) but Triage still had its minor flaw. It was too rushed on certain parts, over-simplification, and making some scenes just like a complete dumb. Yet overall, I'm going to write something controversial.

This by far, the closest I felt joyous, like having nearly the same feeling as I watched Interstellar.

It was freaking genius. On the level script, I have not found something as this genius as what.... when was the last time I watched a genius series? Sherlock? I mean I rarely watched time-travel thingy when it presented in TV. But the logic was tight and the rules on the universe did make sense. And I just can help to compare this little series that the minority of the world know to a mega box office such as Interstellar. Because you see, you know that when you watch both of those things. The foreshadowing, clues spreaded into tiny little details, and god actually a BL which didn't try so hard to became a BL. Fuck even you can ignore all of the BL aspects, it would still a decent drama. This is, motherfucker, what I want on a freaking drama.

And Love Mechanics, why this wasn't trending when now its currently airing? Nobody told me that the shots were straight like movies eh. The framing is to die for, and everything seemed so screenshot-able. Genuinely I felt rather surprised because the budget sure hell increased a lot than their previous incarnation. It presented like, "yes, now we're damn expensive!".

Sure, the Director's Cut is more in conjunction to each scene rather than the usual Cut, because the usual Cut, I'm not saying it's all over the place, but it's quite a bit messier. When I watched a certain scene, sometimes I wondered why this happened, why it suddenly cut to the other scene that has nothing to do with the previous scene. Meanwhile Director's Cut is neater and I could understand the purpose of why something happened in the first place. I get the point why they had the urgency to separate the two cuts (it's money, no surprise). But as far as I concerned, this isn't airing on broadcast television. It's only on the streaming platform, why bother? God, capitalist.

Love Mechanics is still following Vee Vivis, the ultimate asshole who can't seem make up his mind, and the unfortunate Mark Masa. Thank God the story did tone down from the novel by a lot. Vee is all the same, a destructive unknowingly bisexual, but this time, unexpectedly, I understood him. I understood his intention to try his damn hard to make everybody happy. And Mark, I just couldn't help but to comprehend his stupidity to falling in love with someone like that. Well I know that we couldn't choose the person who we fell into. I've been there and certainly having issues to see my stupidity reflected back at me through Mark's action.

At the end of the day, Love Mechanics is a reminiscence of past events. Past loves. Exes. How stupid I am back in the day.

By the way this is what we called Emmy contender for outstanding lead actor in a drama series. Can we agree on that?

#triage the series #love mechanics #what did i watch

[saepiae]

i know ppl have talked abt it more intellectually but it still boggles me how stupid blocking screenshots of netflix/prime etc is like that's free promo and also then ppl will just take a janky photo instead it's not like it's actually stopped ppl from 'distributing the media' anyway

[syrinq]

the creativity/design rant i've repeated myself over in the past week for a million times, condensed in a single post with the only example being fortnite skins

something something i love it when people think out of the fucking box and play with colours and concepts and blah blah blah it's lame as fuck when people or companies or anyone keeps doing what's profitable or known to be safe (UNDERSTANDABLE, BUT ALAS, I STILL DISAGREE)

par exemple, it's safe to go anime/cute gal/cat ears for fortnite skins, or joke skins like stupid ass banana peel, and i'll show that by a mere screenshot that obviously does not show the fortnite userbase in its entirety

and then you scroll across dozens and dozens of ideas that are just ''x but in space'' or ''x but futuristic'' and it's so god awfully overdone, with the same black/white/minimalist colour schemes for sci-fi designs, bright pastels and pinks for cutes-y anime shit, etc. etc. etc.

and you get tired. and then once in a blue moon you come across an idea that has a good foundation, but rather poor or i daresay ''mid as fuck'' execution, resulting in a (gamer slang) L moment and you disappointedly continue on with your life

some sort of modernised medusa feel, with wires for hair instead of snakes? fucking WICKED. AWESOME. and then it drops down as it's just a generic marvel-looking green alien (human) with hexagon clothes, because for some reason geometric design = minimalism = sci-fi. even smite did medusa greater justice by giving her a lower snake body as if she's some kind of reptile centaur.

and then, once in a blue moon's blue moon, you come across a new take on an existing concept, a hybrid mash of multiple topics that come together gorgeously, etc. etc. and those? those fucking ideas are fucking wicked. best of the best. PEAK DESIGN. bonus points if it's executed to my tastes exactly in terms of design, colour, feel, mood, etc. etc. etc.

this? fucking.

*chef's kiss*

this fucking tops all the human skins or anime skins or stupid banana peel variations. blah blah blah, interpretation can always be vastly different from the artist's intention. but this? what in the goddamn, it reads like a futuristic sci-fi/dystopian version of a seagull/bird stuck in plastic.

the way the plastic is shaped to form some kind of bird. the wrapped peels of plastic and rubber looking like clothes. the disoriented colours that are, admittedly, fucking disgusting to me, but are reminescent of oil/contaminated water & loose plastics and thus, very great in execution.

fucking forget sci-fi furries like protogens. YOU WANT A SCI-FI FURRY DESIGN? THIS IS FUCKING IT. THIS IS HOW YOU BLEND, SCI-FI-IFY A THING. A TOPIC.

SOME MIGHT EVEN LOOK FURTHER AND THINK ABOUT PLASTIC WASTE ETC. AS A WHOLE. BUT THIS. FUCKING *CHEF'S KISS* PRIME CREATIVE CHARACTER DESIGN AND I WISH ''ABSURD OUTLANDISH CREATIVE'' IDEAS LIKE THIS WERE MORE COMMONLY AND GREATLY EMBRACED BY PEOPLE. THIS IS WHERE IT'S FUCKING AT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEAK CHARACTER/SKIN DESIGN BITCH!!!!

*YELLS IN MEGAPHONE* THERE IS A THIN LINE BETWEEN BEING PRETENTIOUS AS FUCK ABOUT YOUR SYMBOLISM AND MEANING OF ART, AND EXECUTING IT IN A WAY THAT IS STILL UNDERSTANDABLE TO A PARTICULAR EYE.

*YELLS MORE* I KNOW THAT CREATIVITY IS A SKILL THAT CAN BE LEARNED AND SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE MORE IMAGINATIVE AND CONNECT THE DOTS EASIER THAN OTHERS. SOMETIMES SOMETHING IS SO CREATIVE AND A ''REMIX'' OF THE REAL, TANGIBLE THING, THAT PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MOTIVATIONS, STORY, OR ANYTHING WITH IT ANYMORE. AND THUS IT'S TOO CONVOLUTED OR COMPLICATED. AND THAT'S SAD!

*YELLS MORE* ON THE OTHER HAND, LEAVING SOMETHING OPEN TO INTERPRETATION OPENS UP SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT A CERTAIN TOPIC. AND I THINK THAT'S BEAUTIFUL IN MOST CASES! (LEAVING OUT ANALYSES OF SHOWS LIKE SU AND PEOPLE FIGHT LIKE CATS ABOUT IT)

*YELLS MORE* AND I ALSO KNOW THAT CREATIVITY OR EXPRESSION OF FREEDOM CAN BE STUMPED BY EXECUTIVES, APPEAL OF AUDIENCE, THE MEDIUM IT'S ON, AND A LOT OF OTHER FACTORS. AND I THINK THAT'S SAD! SOMETIMES YOU DO BETTER WITH LIMITS, BUT I LOVE MY CREATIVE FREEDOM BITCH

*FINAL YELL* ANYWAY I LOVE CREATIVITY AND MESHING OF TOPICS LIKE YOU'RE MAKING MARVEL CROSSOVERS IN YOUR MIND AND I LOVE EXPERIMENTS AND I LOVE ANYONE WHO DARES TO GO OUT OF THE NORM AND TRIES SOMETHING NEW. I LOVE YOU AND YOU'RE FUCKING AWESOME FOR TREADING NEW TERRITORIES LIKE YOU'RE THE FIRST ASTRONAUT ON THE MOON! EVEN IF ORIGINALITY MIGHT BE DEAD OR ''SOMEONE WOULD'VE THOUGHT OF THIS EVENTUALLY'', THINKING ABOUT REFORMING THE WORLD AROUND YOU TO CREATE THE FANTASY IS FUCKING AWESOME, AND THE MORE OUTLANDISH THE MORE *CHEF'S KISS* IT IS TO ME!!!!!

#sy.txt #okay screaming over i just love creative things and unconventional ideas and inspiration sources ETC ETC ETC. #I LOVE!!!!!!!! IT SO MUCH #sy's shenanigans

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[axolot-of-ideas]

im… disappointed im not going to be able to see the one year anniversary of the discord

october 16th

thats when it was created

which means it was only 2 weeks before i got admitted

i can’t believe how much happened in those two weeks

i cant believe it

i still believe i deserve more credit for the discord but whatever

im sad i wont be able to see the birthday of my creation

im more sorry i left my creation and im sorry im terrified of it now

#it- it couldnt have been two weeks #i checked biscuits blog for the original link actually #maybe i misread it #but it couldn’t have only been two weeks- #it felt like a month #a month before masks #a month of what i consider the actual discord #it went downhill for me when the original main got deleted and we lost all of that #but the prime was when it was just us discussing stupid aus #rh au and gang au- those are the prime discord au #i missed that #when it was a discord for friends #and tumblr mutals #we were so close #i remember me and silver and dragon and star just fucking about #i remember how i became the chaos incarnate that i despise i was #i remember the first time we joked about the discord family #when we pestered cap with screenshots and our weird discord lore #and hey if any of the people reading this are still there #double check the date for me- and celebrate for me alright? #and if you can- tell the discord im sorry and i miss it- #not the members- the discord server itself #remember the good times there for me? #i… im- i dont know #it cant have only been a year… #i cant #i dont- #i cant believe it- #it hurts and aches in my chest #i went through all this pain and mental stuff in one year?-

[maleyanderecafe]

Hey there was a mobile game I wanted to recommend you check out! It’s called MazM: The Phantom of the Opera. Obviously the phantom himself is a well-known character and prime example of a yandere, and this version’s Raoul also takes on that trait a little (although it’s mostly because Christine is in a life or death situation and this he’s protective over her), he’s very sweet and doesn’t wait a moment to shower her with praise. Anyway it’s a pretty faithful retelling of the original book and was extra fun for me as a yandere-lover as you play as Christine caught in between the yandere and the actual boyfriend. I think it’s coming to the switch soon as well if you want to wait for that.

...Are you sure that Raoul just takes on this trait a bit...?

Joking aside, sorry it took me so long to answer this ask. I was originally going to watch a walkthrough on youtube, but then I realized that you said it would be on switch and since I just got my switch emulator, I ended up playing with a friend. I will say that there is a lot for me to say about this game, so this will be a long read.

First things first, I'll admit that I've never actually read or watched the Phantom of the Opera before, so I genuinely have no idea what happens in the story. This is where my friend who I was streaming for comes in because she has read the story so she helped fill me in on what happens (she's also making a yandere vn in the future which I will be spamming the heck out of because yandere vn). I think from what she told me, most of the story is relatively accurate, though some parts are changed for one reason or another (for instance, The Persian has a name in this game, but in the original, he doesn't), which has some pros and cons for some characters. Overall though, the story was pretty good for a first timer like me since it really let me experience what the Phantom of the Opera is truly about. I think the creator Mazm did a good job for historical detail, which makes sense considering their platform is about creating games that reinterpret famous stories (they've also done one for Wizard of Oz and Jekyll and Hyde which I sort of want to play), and there are a lot of different notes the player can collect in the game that give more historical insight into what is going on.

The story for the most part is pretty linear. There are some choices you can choose, but except for two, they don't really affect the story. For the most part, the game plays as a visual novel, though you do have to walk around to talk or interact with things to proceed the story. There are cats and notes that lie around the game too, with the notes giving more historical insight and the cats being used as hints in case you don't know where to go. The story is about a detective trying to find out the truth of the Phantom of the Opera at a request of a client whos husband was a victim of him, but most of the story is played through a flashback.

There are also small minigames as well that aren't too difficult, though I honestly felt like some of the minigames got to be tedious at times, specifically the one minigame where you have to press the order of the mirror combo which I found really annoying because besides the fact that I'm bad at those games, you had to do it every time you wanted to enter under the Opera house, which was just... ugh. The game itself seems much more optimized for mobile than it was for switch considering how slow the characters move (and its really slow walking to different places sometimes) as well as the fact that it takes forever to load between different scenes and there's no touch screen option for switch (that I know of). Plus the buttons for moving and pressing hints were annoying to deal with (though this could just be because I'm using an emulator). I also kept getting confused when I was playing, since sometimes I would walk around the entire opera house trying to figure out what to do next, only to learn that I was suppose to talk to someone that was literally five steps from where I spawned. The last thing I found annoying was the fact that there's no option to skip dialogue which is really annoying when I wanted to replay a specific part of the story to take some screenshots. If you play this game, it's probably better to play it on mobile than on switch.

In terms of artwork, Mazm's Phantom of the Opera is really gorgeous, from the overworld sprites to the dialogue sprites to the background and CGs. I love how cute the overworld sprites are (I think Jammes and Raoul's are my favorite, they're both so cute) and every background is really nice to walk through and gives a good atmosphere of what it's trying to show. The character sprites for each characters are nice and varied. I can always appreciate characters that have recognizable faces and shapes, since a lot of times I have face blindness when it comes to characters that look way too similar. The CGs of course are super well done and I love all of them. Overall, the artstyle of this game is very solid and I love the way it looks.

The main character of the story was Christine, who looks really good ( I really love her hair), was for the most part alright initially. While I found her to be a bit naive (because she believed that there was an actual Angel of Music when it was just... the Phantom), she was for the most part alright, and even ended up saving another character from the phantom. However, I found her actions annoying after she met the phantom, specifically the part where she agreed to stay underground with the phantom for two days and would be released as long as she didn't touch his mask, and guess what. Right as she was literally about to leave, SHE TAKES OFF HIS MASK, AND FOR WHAT? YOU WERE JUST ABOUT TO LEAVE?? The other thing that bothered me was the after being trapped with the Phantom for about a month, she is given free reign to go back above ground, under the conditions that she only goes to the opera house and at home. During this time, she's expected to break it off with Raoul, so she fakes a honeymoon with him before he leaves for the artic. However, during this time, she doesn't tell anyone, not even Raoul about what the Phantom is up to. She has an entire month, an ENTIRE MONTH to tell someone that the Phantom is likely to hurt people (as previously he had dropped a chandelier on top of the audience) and she just... didn't. Understandably, she might have been afraid that the Phantom might have heard her, but still, what is he going to do to the possible 100 people that Christine could have told about him. She could have saved people from death if something like that were to happen. Near the end, she does get proper character development and learns to choose things for her sake and not others, which was pretty nice and does stand up to the Phantom after all the trauma (and doesn't get stockholm sydrome, thank goodness), but I still think that a lot of her actions could have probably been written better to make her less naive (since apparently in the original she was about 16ish while in this remake she's about 20 so it's less awkward between her and the phantom).

Raoul is the next character I'll be talking about, because even though he is very adorable, he also has one braincell and talks about Christine way too much. My friend and I actually decided to make a counter on how many times Erik and Raoul say "Christine." Erik says Christines name 128 times and Raoul... says it 340 times. This isn't even counting his introduction and only starts up to when Erik is introduced as a formal character and also doesn't count any time he says it in the overworld. 340! My friend kept on joking around that because Raoul says Christine so much, his brother Phillipe became an alcoholic because he's so tired of Raoul talking about Christine. Raoul only really has like three things going for him: the fact that he was in the military, the fact that he's part of the Chagny household and Christine, and that's it. Throughout the story, his goals are pretty much always related to Christine, whether it be to give gifts to Christine, being worried about her or trying to protect Christine from the Phantom. When the chandelier drops on half the crowd during one of the performances, instead of being worried for them or trying to get out of the Opera House, he instead looks for Christine, who is on stage and quite literally in the safest location within the theater. I would consider him a redeemed/protective yandere though, considering his priority is always Christine (he even gives up his own family name to be with her) and he's always trying to protect her. There's a part of the story where Raoul becomes really unhinged when it comes to protecting Christine, lashing out her her friends and other members of the Opera house. He does some really dumb stuff because of the Phantom, specifically throwing away Christine's ring that she got from the Phantom (that she also literally told him before that as long as she's wearing the ring she wouldn't be harmed by the phantom and he just...?? okay??). When he's tortured in the mirror room, he hallucinates Christine blaming him for her capture, and he even cries while hallucinating that Christine friendzones him (which I though was actually really funny, even if it was a tad bit stupid). His redemption comes near the end of the story where he apologizes for being so emotional and realizing that he was a bit of an obsessive beast, and in one ending he lets Christine go to travel the world. To be honest, I don't know if Raoul would continue to be as protective and obsessed with her even after the Phantom's death, but I guess there's not really any way to know.

The Phantom, or Erik (which I know is his cannon name but it makes me laugh because he really doesn't look like an Erik) is the main villain of the story. Unfortunately, in this version, I don't think I can call him a yandere, for one simple character: Melek. Melek, as far as I know isn't in the original story, is a prisoner that Erik has after she refused to marry her. As a character, I do actually like Melek since she's the one of the more sensible characters in the story and she's the more rational one between her and Christine, but her role in the story basically deconfirms Erik as a yandere, at least in this version. For one, Melek is a blind maid of Erik that he did fall in love with and trap, similar to how Christine was, which kind of comes off as Erik being the kind of person who would trap any girl that he likes. Even if this is the case, I don't understand why Erik would keep her alive even after she fell for Christine. Supposedly the reason is that Erik wanted to make Christine feel despair and he did attempt to kill her, but Melek survives and he just... doesn't do anything with her. Honestly, if Melek were straight up not in the story, I would have put him as a yandere because pretty much all of his other actions point to a more possessive/worship type of yandere, but because of Melek it's just not possible in my eyes. Besides that Erik sort of reminds me of a chunni in this version (he's like this absolute darkness is my curse! Like people with 7th grade syndrom seem to have), it was kind of hard for me to take him seriously in certain times. He is very intimidating when he threatens Christine, but his overdramatic nature (which I know is something he's always known for, just this version is uh...) really makes him seem like a child. Erik is for sure suppose to be more antagonistic in this version, considering the addition of Melek and his general actions of possession towards Christine and his disdain for Raoul, but near the end we do see more of his story and we see just how devastating his life is from the moment of birth. I did feel really bad for him when Hatim/The Persian keeps on mentioning the prince he used to work with because its really obvious that he still has trauma from it (and he keeps begging him to not talk about his past and the Persian just... keeps traumatizing him I guess) and the fact that he was treated so badly because of his appearance, but this doesn't excuse his actions in the story. Christine does try to sympathize with him using her own tragic backstory, which Erik kind of pushes away (like bro, we're not trying to see whose parents are worse, she's just trying to sympathize with you, dang) as not being tragic. I think that Mazm did present him pretty well in this story, not showing just his antagonistic side but also his more tragic side. Sadly, like I said, I can't consider him a yandere because of the addition of Melek, at least not in this version.

In terms of other characters, I really like the trio of Meg Giry, Sorelli and Jammes- the friends of Christine. From what I can tell, they're all a bit more aged up in this version, with Sorelli being the oldest and Jammes being the youngest and I feel like they gave more character to them than in the original version. Sorelli is the head of the dancers and the dating partner of Phillip de Chagny, Raoul's older brother and she's the mature and strong willed one of the group, wielding a blade that she uses to protect her friends. I like the fact that they made her a bit more protective and in one of the overworld sprites its mentioned via rumor that Phillip fell in love with her after he saw Sorelli swing her dagger, which I thought was pretty cute. At the end though, after Phillips death, she realizes that she was struggling too hard to climb up the social ladder and decides to forge her own path. In the beginning she attempts to protect her and her friends from the Phantom, declaring that she'll stab him if she sees him. Next is Meg Giry, and from what my friend told me, she was very young in the original books and kind of scardy cat. In this version, she's a bit older but maintains the scardy cat position, and is very terrified of the Phantom. She does gain more character development during the story, standing up to her mother and the managers and overall being a more assertive and confident person, which I thought was a nice touch. Last but certainly not least is my best girl Jammes. In the original story, she barely makes an appearance, but in Mazm they made her quite literally the best character. For one, the canonical reason why there are so many cats hanging out in the opera house is that Jammes keeps on feeding them and letting them in and she has named all of them after the Opera House staff. Jammes loves to spin and has a cute animation and while she can be loud and a bit strange sometimes, she can be smart and assertive when she needs to. Jammes always pushes the other three into being better and protects them when needed (for instance, when Phillip lashes out at Sorelli, she steps in and demands that he apologize for his actions) and can be really smart at times (she's the only character that attempts to at least cover her mouth when the Phantom's fragrance, a hallucinogenic gas, starts to fill up the box seat, despite others who have been in there not even trying) and is the one who stands up for Christine's abuse as well as for the dancers at the opera house being treated unfairly by the manager as she organizes a strike against them. She also becomes part of the women's suffrage after the events of the story. I could go on and on about Jammes, but instead I'll leave a cute picture of her at the end of this entire analysis. Besides those three, I did like Carlotta, the original singing lead of the opera house. Originally, she became an antagonist towards Christine after she became the lead singer, however, she did apologize to her afterwards and befriended her once more before traveling the world. I love her interactions with Raoul because she basically said that Raoul only has Christine and military training and when he gets angry and lashes out, Carlotta glares and him, causing him to cower (this actually does happen multiple times), and I just found that really, really funny. Mifoid, though useless in the story is actually pretty cute as well, I love his bouncing animation. The last character I'll talk about is Phillip because he became meme material for me and my friend considering he probably is so tired of Raoul talking about Christine (we joked that the reason he was sent to military was so that he didn't have to hear her name again) and while he is mostly a decent but strict character in the story, his last appearance really makes him out as a jerk. I did think it was kind of weird that Phillip was so willing to let Raoul go to the Artic mission considering nobody that has gone there has ever returned, and he was rather elitest towards him, not letting him marry Christine because she's of lower

class but during his last chapter before he dies, he goes on a frenzy after he and Raoul have a fight, revealing to Sorelli that he only dated her for fun and not to actually settle down with her, which is just horrible. It's a bit sad though that Raoul only saw him as someone who tried to get rid of him considering that Phillip did raise Raoul and that his last actions were an attempt to save Phillip from the phantom, and yet Raoul barely has a reaction after seeing his body and doesn't even go to his funeral. It's really sad that Raoul didn't even really cry after seeing Phillip's body, considering that he was basically his father figure.

Overall, it's a good game to play and a good retelling of the Phantom of the Opera. I wouldn't consider the Phantom to be a yandere in this game, but I do think that Raoul is one. Thank you for this recommendation!

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