#the dialogue is just an example

[kendallsroyco]

I am simply obsessed with Charlie's delivery of this monologue. His understated acting at its best

#charlie cox #daredevil #matt murdock #it's less about the content of the monologue and more about charlie's delivery that makes this my top 3 fave scenes in dd s3 #also just a great example of how charlie didn't/doesn't need to shout or scream just to give a good performance #to me it feels like a lot of others use being loud and shouting dialogue as a crutch 😅 #also they gave matt the least amount of monologues/scenery chewing scenes like they gave fisk/frank/karen yet charlie still killed it 😌 #he's just so good at understated acting

[thanatika]

an interesting lens to analyze pathologic would be through the ways it references commedia dell'arte. part of it is that the conventions of commedia have left a lasting imprint on theatre, puppetry, and performance in general, but i think there are some very specific nods as well.

for an obvious point, farcical character archetypes represented by masks were an essential aspect of the art form. pathologic not only uses that concept in mark immortell's masked plays, it also uses the same two types of masks: a flat mask that covers the face with holes for eyes and mouth (also comparable to ancient greek theatre masks), and a mask featuring an exaggerated, beak-like nose.

i'd say there are also references to the commedia archetypes in the actual characters themselves. for example, i'd be surprised if "vulgar comedies" wasn't an intentional reference:

(i don't have a clear translation of "площадных комедий", the term that clara uses for "vulgar comedies" in russian, but the russian wikipedia page for commedia dell'arte is the first thing to come up when I google it.)

that's not to say i think the game is trying to completely frame dankovsky as il dottore, the laughable caricature of a psuedointellectual. but clara certainly sees him as one! and arguably his characterization is closer to this archetype in her route, as well as in the pathologic 2 haruspex route (mister "i was blessed with a naturally high intelligence", among other hits). these differences are possibly an indication of unreliable narrator.

after all, changeling's route is from the POV of a religiously-fixated teenager who sees the world in terms of stark good and evil, and whose character is bifurcated between pure good and pure evil herself. arguably the NPCs in her route act as elevated, exaggerated versions of themselves due to her perspective. and pathologic 2 leans harder on the "it's all a play" framing device than the original game did, giving the player a role to embody and making NPCs feel more like characters who exist for the purpose of the play (and for artemy as the protagonist) than as fully realized people. hence how in p2!artemy's first and last confrontation with the bachelor, you find him staged dramatically in a room cast in mood lighting as though his sole purpose is to wait there for you to enter. (well, either that or it's just that he's a drama queen.)

at least, that's one interpretation of why he comes off as more of a pompous twit depending on the route. another aspect of commedia dell'arte is that the protagonists often go unmasked, and relatively unexaggerated, compared to the masked villains and comic relief characters. bachelor is the protagonist of his own story, and arguably the deuteragonist of the haruspex route. but in changeling route and p2 his role is more of a bit player among many, cranked up into the role of learned fool.

#mine #pathologic #this focuses a bit on daniil just because that dialogue is what first put the commedia dell'arte connection in my mind #i'd like to look into other examples/allusions but i'd have to read up way more on the history of the art form and theatre in general #which i'd enjoy doing regardless #patho #patho meta

[whumpitisthen]

The difference between

"What am I going to do with you, Whumpee?" — Caretaker sighed tiredly.

and

"What am I going to do with you, Whumpee?" — Whumper mused sinisterly.

#i just think polar opposite yet the same dialogue is neat #whump prompt #my writing #whump #whumblr #whump writing #i fucking love this shit reblog with more examples i want more

[adobe-outdesign]

GameFreak's Pokemon dialogue simulator

#pokemon #pkmn #gamefreak #outdesign posts things #I get that they don't want to do lots of branching paths but there are better ways to handle dialogue #kieran in the DLC is a good example of this where you're forced to lie and that's a major plot point #just make it so you can chose to lie or not but he takes issue with it either way so the player still feels like they have some agency

[acoraxia]

I think people misunderstood my macaque post

Ah well you win some you lose some

#people saying ‘the sun cant exist without the moon’ #yes it can? #it just wouldnt shine #we wouldnt see it #thats why macaque is flawed from the start - you have him DEPEND on the sun to make any progress #with his character #moon and sun symbolisms are great but when you take it away #sun wukong is still SUN WUKONG but macaque is nobody without wukong and thats saying smthing #and i can give you so many examples of characters who have stories without relying on their childhood best friends #like jinx from arcane or marceline from adventure time #sometimes you can make it work if the story is about both of them #but the story has ALWAYS been about wukong never macaque #even macaque’s dialogue and actions and drives are all connected to wukong #and thats a little sad ngl #comeback kid #think pan

[blaithnne]

Can we as a fandom collectively move on from writing Scrooge’s accent out in dialogue? Like the “ye” thing? Please. Please. Please. Please Please Please PLEASE—

#context I’m Scottish lol #and this was so common in the dt fandom #that I started doing it #EVEN THO HE HAS MY ACCENT AHDBDHD ?? #anyways so yeah it makes his dialogue awkward to read #for ppl who aren’t America/from wherever the author is from #bc for example here a ‘normal’ speaking voice IS scrooges accent #so seeing ‘yee’ all the time is rlly weird if that makes sense?? #in general I think accents are better described out of dialogue #not in them #this is my biggest pet peeve in writing ever I think lol #goes for all accents imo not just Scottish ones! #ofc if you disagree that’s okay! write however you like this is all /lh! #but yeah this is my opinion and I’ve not seen anyone else say anything abt it and I wanted to LOL #Ducktales #Ducktales 2017 #Scrooge mcduck #textpost #maybe I’ll expand on this later with examples

[v-arbellanaris]

here's the thing, right. like. okay, let's take everything up to the title showing up as the 'origin' style opening for dai, where you establish character. but like. literally what about that opening establishes character. you get brought to the chantry in haven where they briefly discuss executing you before declaring the inquisition. you can either begrudgingly support the people who have actively threatened you repeatedly or you can go uwu i'd love to help you guys out im so excited to be working with you. like. hello.

#throughout most of the haven stuff you don't get to develop your own opinions on anything. key information is shoved into codexes with #no other information or dialogue contradicting what was said. if you do express an opinion the game goes out of it's way to have every #single companion hammer you over the head with the 'correct' opinion. and for some reason they're almost ALL on the same page. #for example. DORIAN advocating for the circles so southern thedas doesn't ''become like tevinter'' like hello what. WHAT. #magic dangerous. apostates bad. blood magic evil. wardens bad. tevinter evil. qunari evil. dalish bad and stupid. ferelden bad and stupid. #chantry good! templars good! seekers good! orlais good! colonialism good! #like somehow. ALL OF THEM. #when it's to that extent like it's clear they're trying to push you towards some kind of conclusion. rather than letting you make your own. #or even be able to express it. AS AN ACTUAL CIRCLE MAGE I CANNOT EXPRESS COHERENT ARGUMENTS TO SUPPORT THE REBELLION. #like HELLO??? #sorry but there IS no moment or period in time where the herald gets to establish their character. they're immediately thrown into #the deep end of the plot. you get IMMEDIATELY THROWN into the resolution of the mage-templar war. with barely any info except what you #get from your advisors and companions. and some codexes if you go out of your way to read them. which. considering they push you to go to #val royeaux as soon as possible. is just. #like come on. let's be real here. #tbd #dai critical

[gamebunny-advance]

It's Laurel.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in my quest to collect character trivia, it seems like Yonny is the only Rescue Officer whose reason for joining isn't really explored.

This is just another odd job for Collin.

Shepherd was born into it.

Russ joined out of curiosity.

Dingo was inspired by the Rescue Officer (Shepherd's dad) that rescued him.

Bernard was recruited by Shepherd.

I don't recall any other officer talking about why Yonny joined. Maybe it just goes without saying that a doctor would be an essential member of a rescue team, so there doesn't need to be further elaboration, but I feel like it sticks out since everyone else has a stated reason for joining the Corps, even if it's minimal.

In general, I think Yonny gets the least extra information about him from the other officers. It might be to add a more "mysterious" aura to him to make him a little more threatening/off-putting, because the things that the others do mention about him mostly relate to his dubiously unethical methods of experimentation and odd personality.

Pre-Publish Edit: I recently learned that in Yonny & Dingo's Japanese profiles, it's revealed that they're childhood friends, so I suppose that could be the reason he joined the Corps (and why he experiments on Dingo the most). That said, I haven't found any evidence of this in the English script, so I wonder if there's a piece of unused dialogue in the game about it, or if a line got translated a little differently to omit that information.

There is an End of Day dialogue where Dingo vaguely remembers one of Yonny's experiments on him, causing him to glow, but (as I remember it) there's no indication of when this event might have occurred. Given that the result was him glowing, it would be easy to assume that said experiment was related to the glow sap and thus occurred recently rather than the far past. However, it's possible that this is a childhood memory that's resurfacing.

Post-Publish Edit: That End of Day dialogue does clarify that this event occurred "back home," but whether this meant Giya (the Rescue Corps' planet) or Ohri (Yonny & Dingo's home planet) is not clear.

#gbunny writes #pikmin #pikmin 4 #yonny #it's possible that his relevant dialogue happens before endgame #so i might've just gotten locked out of it #for example there will come a time when shepherd stops mentioning her experience with one of russ's family parties #so it's possible that i just missed some yonny dialogue

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Y'all, I think I've figured it out. Operating on the assumption that the finale is indeed an alternate timeline from the manga, then someone could have written on a page of the Book to rewrite reality to lead to the events of the finale sometime during season 5's events. In other words, this would explain the INCONSISTENCIES with things that were established or at least heavily implied/assumed prior and in the manga: Chuuya being a real vampire and not in control, nothing being planned, Dazai giving sincere speeches, Dazai really being shot and saying his "last words", Fyodor's hand not being injured, soukoku not killing Fyodor while in Meursault because they literally couldn't and Dazai needing Sigma to discover Fyodor's secrets because of that, Fukuchi's goal not being one that relied on Fukuzawa being alive since he clearly intended to kill him, etc etc too many more to count

Events and explanations in the finale feeling so contradictory and out of place, and characters feeling so ooc and not acknowledging any discrepancies, makes perfect sense if you consider that, up until a certain point, this was our canon timeline — until someone rewrote the ending of the arc with the Book, starting with Fyodor injuring his hand...! We only have one example of the Book being used to majorly rewrite reality in the manga, and when that happened, the main players — the ADA members — were aware that reality was changed, even though they did have memories of the new rewritten reality. BUT, Nikolai was unaware of this during that scene, and so also were all law enforcement because of the clause written on the page accounting for that, so what if the same thing could happen in this instance, to prevent all our characters in the finale from being aware that things had changed? We literally saw someone writing Nikolai's dialogue for him; imagine someone doing that during Dazai's final speech in the episode, and during all the rest of it! I don't know who this would be, but possibly a mysterious third party who got a hold of a different page from the Book somewhere and wrote things to turn out this way, because they wanted the ADA to win against Fukuchi and Fyodor? Maybe even because... this is the only way they can win?

Remember Atsushi asserting this plan, and how silly and too simple it sounded? What if someone else ended up doing just that, writing their own simple outcome for the ADA to win (as a narrative of course, which is probably why it had to start with the major catalyst of, again, Fyodor injuring his hand)? Additionally, if that's what happened, maybe the ending of the finale is a sort of side effect to the Book being used improperly in this way, leading to a destabilization of the timeline or a mishmash of other timelines into the anime one, leading to the alternate Fukuchi and Akutagawa we see there?

#bungou stray dogs #meta #THIS MAKES SO MUCH FUCKING SENSE AND EXPLAINS SO MUCH I'M GOING TO SCREAM #i guess this is sort of a foregone conclusion that the Book is the result of this timeline #since we ALREADY KNOW the different timelines are a result of the Book s;dlkfkgfkdlsl #but it only just occurred to me of the Book being used like. MID-PLOT #THE FINALE REALLY IS JUST BAD FANFICTION LITERALLY LMAOOOOOOOO #A BONES EMPLOYEE GOT ISEKAI'D INTO THE BSD UNIVERSE AND REALLY FUCKING WANTED THAT HAPPY ENDING FOR S5 IN 24 MINUTES COME HELL OR HIGH WATE #AND GOT ONE OF THE PAGES AND JUST WROTE IT THEMSELVES!!!!!! 😂😂😂😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣 #they'd had enough of the people slandering their anime adaptation. they said oh we'll REALLY give you something to cry about #BUT THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY CHARACTERS FEEL OOC!! IF THEIR DIALOGUE WAS WRITTEN FOR THEM VIA THE BOOK!!! AAAAAAAAHHHHH #....what if it's Dazai. What if Dazai wrote this ending just like he wrote the Beast timeline. What then— #I guess Beast in and of itself is one massive example of things being rewritten and no one but the writer (Dazai) remembering/being aware #that they were ever different #so.......... it's not impossible despite what we saw with Sunday Tragedy #i'm telling you though i've connected the dots #if things go differently in the upcoming chapters #and we see that other Fukuchi and we find out about someone using the Book i'm going to LOSE MY MINDDDDDD

[nikki-tine]

Just oooone more thing to add before I get some sleep:

My Deitysonas are not exempt from being ticklish.~

If you want to utterly destroy a god with tickles, then my Deitysonas are very much fitting that criteria :3

#sfw tickling community #Elocin #Nai #Nikosami #Yeah. they’re as ticklish if not a tiny bit more than Niko Spirata lol #They probably are only more-so due to touch-starvation #Living as a deity for eons will do that to a motherfucker #I just think it’d be funny to interrupt Nai mid-dialogue by squeezing his sides for example #Or when you hug Elocin’s belly that you could scribble at it and it’d get her to blurt out a squeak and giggle! #Or you’re having playful back and forth banter with Sami… and the next thing you know #you dig your fingers into their back while they’ve got their back facing you #and it makes them yelp and cackle giddily!! #… I just like bullying my own sonas okay #Also always loved the idea of reducing a tall entity (deity or not) to giggles

[frankencanon]

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

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

[mariocki]

John Levene pops up as Gene Bradley's co-pilot on his private jet, called Tony, (John Levene's character, not the jet) in The Adventurer: I'll Get There Sometime (1.15, ITC, 1973)

#fave spotting #john levene #sergeant benton #doctor who #classic doctor who #the adventurer #I'll get there sometime #1973 #itc #classic tv #Gene's private jet crops up a couple of times in the series‚ yet another example of how he's the greatest everything that ever did anything #it had a copilot in the other eps but not played by John; this ep requires a few lines from the copilot so perhaps that other actor wasn't #considered good enough at reading dialogue? who knows. certainly not me (and Pixley don't write a bible about this stupid show‚ your work #is needed on better things!). little for John to do here except sit in a cockpit and trade worried glances with Gene about bad weather and #plane problems; this was a holiday episode for Gene Barry‚ with just these few token scenes to include him (presumably coming as a blessed #relief to the crew who‚ by most accounts‚ couldn't stand him). it also allowed Catherine Schell (who Barry had had fired) to quickly return #and shoot enough scenes for a couple more episodes; despite Gene B's meddlings‚ the American backers liked her and wanted more of the #character. so we get this episode in which Gene is waylaid in his plane for the whole ep and it's up to his helpers (Schell‚ Garrick Hagon #as the longest lasting Stuart Damon replacement‚ and Barry Morse's Mr Parminter) to do all the adventuring and save the day without Mr #Amazing. Parminter is a curious character; he starts the series as a sort of semi mysterious spy master who calls on Gene for favours and #often knows more than he's telling. abruptly his character shifts completely about half way thru the series and becomes a buffoonish #ministry type who stumbles through cases and fights and has to be shepherded by his long suffering subordinates Hagon and Schell #it's most dramatic here‚ where he's positively idiotic. you'd be tempted to think Morse was simply giving up or playing with the part now #the series was well underway (and Gene wasn't around to shout) but in interviews he actually complained about how the character was #lobotomised by the scripts‚ so this isn't coming from him. who knows? maybe the writers themselves were trying to tank the show #certainly nobody seems to have had a very good time making it (Gene B flatly refused to be interviewed by network for their dvd release..)

[randomositycat]

Does anyone else just kinda dislike the knh dub :(

#i just feel like #the acting compared to sub is a bit lackluster? #maybe im biased #also i totally understand changing dialogue for whatever reason but #sometimes it feels unnecessary and changes the energy of the conversation just a little #apothecary hour #the apothecary diaries #maybe more than a little #i wont give examples bc i dont watch dub too often #i watch it when theres a new release but i dont go back and rewatch dubs #but when i go to watch a dubbed i just feel like #somehow the tone of certain conversations is different #not drastically obv but as a nitpicker i can tell #the conversations feel out of place with the way the eng vas are directed #idk maybe im just biased #i dont hate the dub #obv ill watch it #like the vas are still doing a good job but to me it feels like “a paycheck is a paycheck” rather than actual interest #but idk! maybe its just the way theyre being directed! im not a va!

[featherymainffins]

Now this might be because I have issues but is it just me or does Slay The Princess feel like an allegory for a relationship?

#like i dont even mean the actual textual stuff like the two gods loving each other i mean like #while the narrator himself does say that he is not the protagonist at all the voices do in fact count him as one of them and #both the narrator and the voices are described as shattered glass pieces on the floor #and im saying that just to contextualise what im about to say because i feel like the narrator is an echo of someone who was in #a relationship with another person and is trying to 'slay' the memory of this person and defeat death not only literally but #on a metaphorical level (as in the death of a relationship). if you do slay her you destroy her memory and in that way you do not know her #at all nor do you care to #and the routes would be the perspectives held by different parts of you. shes literally a being that changes based on who perceives her #but metaphorically thats just how people work isnt it? relationships are complicated and there is a part of you who sees someone as a razor #and there is a part of you who sees them as a damsel and another who sees them as a god etc etc #its like youre a person who is trying to make sense of the situation and; which is why the construct of the princess is made up of #several vessels called perspectives. you understand the whole of what you think only when you take apart all your perspectives; #and theres a you who isnt you anymore who doesnt want to do this. hes telling you to just destroy it. it was wholly wretched and wholly bad #and it changed which is a crime in itself. theres an echo of you. and theres you; built by this echo because thats how the self works #we are each our own god and we build ourselves. the different voices are like different parts of you #much like the vessels are the equivalent of the voices. theyre the finite confined perspectives; aspects of a whole person #and slaying her in this context would obviously mean literally just destroying the memory and deciding that change and all it brings #is an awful thing. though im not yet sure what the difference between leaving with the whole and between separating yourself #and leaving with just an aspect would be. #thats probably like the only thing thats kinda ruining this interpretation lol #oh and obviously a lot of the routes have like very strong relationship symbolism. specifically a lot of them feel like #scenes from a relationship that is falling apart. for example in the adversary and then the fury when you run away the dialogue #basically mimics a partner running away from a conflict and the other one destroying themselves because of it #witch and the thorn are both heavily Esop-coded and the text itself says that its about two people hurting each other even though they love #each other but both are afraid of the other one and of being vulnerable. thorn is about finding forgiveness in one another #and deciding to be better and love each other despite the hurt youve caused each other due to your problems #etc etc #like am i insane am i mental am i projecting?

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Sometimes a book isn't exactly good, but the vibes are right and that ends up being enough.

#i've decided i'm going to vagueblog about books lmao #which means NO ANSWERS about which book this is #i like to read a lot of the overhyped stuff because i get really curious #most of the time they end up not being great but usually there is something compelling about them and i get why they got the hype #this one for example has some decent characters #but the author keeps trying to do all the worldbuilding through dialogue #which is making the dialogue REALLY CLUNKY #the exposition feels a lot better written outside of the dialogue #but also a lot of this stuff doesn't need to be laid out the way it is #it's like the author decided to give all the answers away and i can't tell if that's them being misleading #or if it's just not great writing #it feels a lot like they took their outlined information and refused to delete any of it during editing #the world is interesting though and there have been a couple moments that evoked very visceral emotion in me #but tbh a lot of stories that try to touch on grief do that to me