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I kinda don't care that asoiaf is unfinished and that grrm might never release wow or ados or whatever.... I actually HOPE it stays unfinished :// I hate endings and I love asoiaf I don't want it to end especially not now cuz like... yeah whatever it's missing two books who cares that makes it more special I mean, how many fantasy series have become this successful and loved and a major part of popular culture despite the main story being unfinished? exactly
Imagine if your rebound rejected you for your PROFESSOR. How do you come back from that. Especially when you introduced them to each other and it barely worked then. How do you show your face at their WEDDING after that?????? GOD.
I cannot imagine being Angie Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct 1.29.2026
I conceptually love that Fields of Mistria has best friend route options but I will say the implementation is hilarious to me.
You get to an 8 heart event and it’s like you have two options. “Generic statement about caring about you” or “Generic statement about caring about you BUT we include the words Best Friend in it” like I expected the romantic dialogue options to be explicit not the best friend ones. I would not assume that most of the romantic dialogue options were inherently romantic but the characters just jump on like you’ve confessed your love. It would feel more real if you had to be explicit about your romantic feelings, because that’s how it is in real life.
It’s funny but it’s also an interesting reflection on how people view romantic vs. platonic relationships. One, that immense care is default associated with romance. Two, that the 8 heart scenes kinda treat the romantic route as the intended version. The best friend routes are an amazing step forward in the genre and are a part of the amazing relationship systems in Mistria. They’re a huge win for aro people. But also as an aro person it’s fascinating the blind spots allo devs can have.
Another example in Mistria is the date mechanic. I love it and all the life it brings to the world and characters. I love that it makes relationships more active and reciprocated than the standard for farm sims. It combines with things like the Friday nights at the inn to make the world more real and textured. It just also baffles me that I can’t go in a hang out with my Best Friends. Toggle some dialogue between romantic undertones and platonic ones depending on the status, and the system works for dates and hang outs. We also take active part in maintaining reciprocal friendships, after all.
After the effort put into the dating/best friend distinction, I wish they did more with it this update. It has potential to add so much richness beyond being an opt-out for dating. Not to sound ungrateful. FoM is great and has lots of depth. I just think the dating system could use some tweaks. Not even just for my best friend routes are wishlist. Even just the ability to change your mind to start/stop dating someone after their 8 heart scene would be a good move.
I am not the only one to see that, right?
he's not romanceable because he's focused on his journey
RISE AND GRIND 💪🫡🫡🤜🤛😳💯💶💶💶
I love how you can't romance Olric in Fields of Mistria. He's an arcace King to me and I hope they never change that
Rare occasion of me coming out of my hidey hole because I’ve recently started playing Fields of Mistria (love it, by the way) and as fun as the game and fandom can be I have BEEF with certain fans. Not everyone just with certain trends I’ve been seeing from some very vocal fans.
Cuz here’s the thing. I like watching videos of games I like while I’m doing other busywork. So of course I’ve watched many Mistria videos. And like half the comments are just about how much people want Olric to be dateable. Which, fine, you can wish he was. People have been known to joke on occaision about Robin Stardew Valley being hot too. But it is getting OBNOXIOUS. Lads I have no problem with you being thirsty or being disappointed with your choice of love interests. Just maybe when a third of the top comments are already about how much people want to date Olric you can rest knowing the sentiment has been heard.
And like, part of my annoyance is how omnipresent it is. But part of it is also personal gripes as an aro/ace person. I know it’s a wish fulfillment game and Olric is a fictional character but the mindset reminds me of the ways a lot of allo people act and treat aro/ace people, and just people in general. People assume that just because a character is young, hot, and single, they should obviously be open to romance. To the point that people are coming up with “theories” about how they definitely intended him to be dateable but changed it to make March special. It’s reminiscent of how some people treat and dismiss attractive aro and/or ace people. Or people who just can’t take no for an answer. Like an attractive person does not have to be available to you just because they exist! It’s so weirdly pushy, like the devs have robbed people of their right to himbo.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m hyped as fuck that Mistria is adding Best Friend routes, since most farm sims only have complex heart events for romanceable NPCs and lock some of their hearts behind romance. That’s great. And they’ve done great with lots of other rep, including queer rep. They even have NPCs that flirt with other NPCs of the same gender, so the queerness isn’t just an opt-in for the player! A part of me just also wants Olric to be someone I can at least headcanon as aromantic because I relate to him in many ways and for once I want characters who can be young and hot and not destined for romance. I want one character to be the reverse of when I really want to befriend a character but the only way to max their hearts is to marry them. The community being so outspoken about how much they want him added worries me, because I don’t want the devs to feel like they have to change him to being dateable for the sake of the community.
I don’t want to be bitter but I have shaken off many a character I personally headcanon as aro/ace being shipped. I don’t mind if you selfship with Olric or whatever. But the constant insistence on it being added to the game proper irks me. It’s getting shoved in my face by just existing in some fan spaces while also making me dread that he is going to be made explicitly not aro/ace because the community couldn’t stop thirsting. You can always headcanon him as allo and do whatever you want on that end if he isn’t ever dateable, but as soon as he becomes dateable the range of aro/ace headcanons gets almost entirely decimated.
Olric thirsters you can keep going strong just please be chill and consider other perspectives! We all love Olric just maybe don’t make his romance status the only important thing.
Friendly reminder that a couple weeks ago Trump signed an executive order calling for increased logging even at the expense of endangered species, calling on the Endangered Species Commission, aka “God Squad”, to get around environmental regulations! There’s also a plan to use the God Squad to help expand oil production in federal land.
The Endangered Species Act is a large part of why we have a healthy Bald Eagle population today. There’s something strangely poetic about the president of the United States endangering Bald Eagles for the sake of business interests.
Anyways, reminder to people in the US to vote during midterms. The Dems may suck but they will not suck as much as this will. Bald Eagles going the way of the rest of the dinos isn’t a good sign for the country, and minimizing harm is important on its own.
If you want to make a difference outside of voting (something I recommend to everyone) try looking for environmental groups in your local area. Even if there’s nothing you can do on the nation wide scale, they can get you started on local change. Figure out local species you can help. Donate to environmental lobbyists to try to get more environmental protections in law. Be annoying to your politicians, send emails and social media posts and letters.
Also, remember, if you feel so angry you can’t handle writing a letter or meeting an org, it’s always helpful to take out your anger on the invasive species in your area. It won’t change the destructive path of the Trump admin or get rid of the species, but it’ll be a little. Surviving while doing a little is a lot right now.
Broke (bigots) keeping losing: getting upset and literally needing to take breathers where you think about owning people in arguments because you’re upset about an aspect of X-Men that’s always been there. Pretending to not get how many explicit allegories the series has always made towards ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities, then getting pissy when they’re allowed to be explicit. Wanting literally no new interpretations new X-Men writers because you like your nostalgia bubble too much. Literally being the bad guys of X-men.
Woke (me) very sexy and always winning: getting upset and literally needing to take breathers where you think about owning people in arguments because you’re upset about an aspect of X-Men that’s always been there. I mean really, even though we aren’t always supposed to agree with it, sometimes we are. I CANNOT stand idle while they blatantly misunderstand evolution. Even the X-Men calling themselves “not human” when they’re literally calling their species “homo superior” like bitch being in genus homo makes you human by definition! Not that it’s a very good name for a species, that doesn’t follow normal rules of the nomenclature and sounds goofy! Not that it even needs to be named at all because MUTANTS ARE NOT A SPECIES. There is no set of morphological characteristics uniting all mutants, nor are they all related, which is important when designating a new species because genetic relatedness is the throughline of evolution. We literally have separations between crabs and species close to crabs that evolved from different populations because even though they’re similar the genetic relatedness isn’t there. Like many mutants are probably genetically closer to several non-mutants than any other mutants. Namely, their parents. Everyone has some unique mutations but your parents and siblings will always be the most related to you genetically. Like non-mutants can’t even make “homo superior” extinct because they aren’t a discrete species genetically, meaning literally any person can give birth to a new mutant. Evolution is slow genetic and morphologic change over geologic time, it isn’t one day you’re a wolf and the next day you give birth to a German shepherd. I don’t know how none of the X-Men or mutant rights activists (which includes many scientists!!!) have talked to the dumb fuck pop science spreaders and bigoted scientists about how that’s literally not how evolution works. I know they’re the bad guys but that makes it so much more annoying when they let it slide even when they make claims debunkabke without thinking mutants are Homo sapiens. Bro the populace at large started calling you mutants even though literally every person has several mutations that their predecessors didn’t have, you bitches are all mutants. And bro even if you weren’t, you’re letting people think it’s some sort of “next step” in evolution when that style of “march of progress” evolution has never been true. There is no “more evolved” we’re all equally evolved because evolution isn’t a process with an end point we’re stepping towards. Crabs are just as evolved as we are, but at least they’ve gone through the trials of evolving twice. But also even if it were somehow a “next step” or a new species you could at least inform the public that that doesn’t, in fact, mean Homo sapiens stop existing. We still have wolves even though dogs evolved from them. Speciation doesn’t necessitate the extinction of the population that species is derived from. Magneto (and in some cases the X-Men) are playing into the bigots’ hands by accepting that they aren’t human, and they’re recreating ableism again by implying some people can be genetically inferior or that not being able to do something cool and special and exceptional enough makes you different and less evolved. And another thing-
I need to talk more about Chronos and Melinoe cause they really do have a fun dynamic like (Spoilers for last section of the main route of the game):
Chronos managed to bar Mel's authority to open the final door to the House. Melinoe instead crawls through the gutter. He complains that none of the family has class. He does not fix the gutter entrance.
The image of Melinoe popping out from the gutter yelling "Chronos" has to a hilarious image I admire Chronos's ability to not burst out laughing at the spot.
Chronos or a projection of him anyway, meets Melinoe out in front of Erebus almost every run. I thought Melinoe knew it was him the first time, cause she tells him to get lost immediately. I was wrong apparently, as it's the second time when she makes the connection. Turns out, when meeting a random old guy out in the woods Mel's first instinct is to tell them to fuck off.
One such interaction outside of Erebus Chronos goads Melinoe and health bar appears. If you attack him, he laughs and leaves.
The first time Melinoe defeats Chronos he threatens to never allow her to see her family ever again. Melinoe's like "my family? Whatever you're talking about I don't care. I don't know them. I do know you dying right now. Last words?" It's such a power move towards a guy with some leverage over you, to not let him know your weakness. And it works.
If Mel loses to Eris Chronos shows up clowning on her in a mirage, in some cases talking to Hades about it.
The condescending way Chronos is when you pause the game and he forcefully unpauses it during their fight. He talks down to her like a child a lot but this is most notable.
I haven't done it but if you get the Aspect of Thanatos on the axe he points it out how he and Mel are matching weapons with scythes.
Anyways all of this is so funny.
Due to recent events (other people posting) I am having Thoughts about the new Chaos design.
Now, I love me classic Chaos Hades. I am a certified Monsterfucker after all. It’s the lack of conformity to what beings “should” look like. It’s the many in the one. It’s the whole biblically accurate angel vibes of it all. The Gender of it all. They were an icon.
But the new Chaos design is also such a banger. Sure, on first glance it’s more “congruent” or “rational” than the original, but it has its own strengths. The Gender of it all, for one. But the severed head of their old design? Haunting. The fetus rising up from it? Iconic. There’s something so Chaos about holding their own birth and death in their hands as they ponder the state of their creation. And even their “normal” suit is so interesting because like. It’s so incongruent from other gods in the game. Out of time, in a way. A much more modern suit than the Greek attire of others. And it’s giving so many questions when you realize the resemblance to the Furies of the first game. Will they be linked in the plot? Is there a thematic link we’ll see? I can’t wait to find out.
I also just want to talk about how the designs can exist simultaneously. Not just in the sense of “the other one already exists and continues to exist in the old game and fanart” but also in the sense of Chaos themselves. They are incredibly fluid, they can change however they please. And we can always put our own headcanons to them and their myriad of forms that they would no doubt love.
For example. The myriad of Chaos’s forms exist simultaneously yet one at a time, manifesting in the mind’s eye of whoever perceives them, so as not to overwhelm their minds with the vastness of Chaos and origin. Because they are being filtered through the viewer’s perspective to dodge the Horrors, their appearance somewhat matches that person’s perspective and expectations. We’ve simply only seen two because we’ve only played as two pov characters interacting with them.
Just think of Zagreus. He’s alone and confused. So many people have kept him in the dark so long. The only stories he’s heard of Chaos are from Nyx, who has known them since primordial times and probably has the most complete view of them possible for beings that aren’t them. He has heard of the primordial horror and incomprehensible nature of Chaos. He meets Chaos as he is encountering the confusing world of Olympian gods and their family drama. And then there’s his own free spirited view. So of course, in this turmoil, with these expectations, his view of Chaos is a scrambled multitude. That’s him and his inner turmoil and his inner lack of concerns for the supposed-tos of being divine.
Melinoe on the other hand, is practiced in magics. She is equals with titanesses. The macabre is normal for her. The politics of the gods, from the mouths of Artemis and Hermes and then through experience, are her everyday. She doesn’t know everything, as she is well aware, but she is curious and ordered in nature. Her perceptions of Chaos were likely shaped by Hecate and the children of Nyx around her, many of whom seem to show deference to older and more powerful deities. She is altogether more formal than Zag, cordial with everyone and assuming the best in them and missing the joke more than joking herself. She knows her place as princess, student, and guest, and acts accordingly. Of course that more ordered person, who sees Chaos as one to be respected and deferred to for wisdom, who is an unknown to be known, would see a manifestation of Chaos in a slick business suit and a comprehensible form. No wonder Chaos seems to find Melinoe boring in comparison, to Chaos itself that perception must seem very flawed.
What will you see, when you gaze into the abyss and it offers you silly little deals and asks you philosophical questions before calling you boring and bouncing?
Due to recent events! I think we should blow up the IPC.
Cannot stress enough how sad I am that Boothill was made so pasty, because he’s so interesting in every aspect of his story and it would be better if some of those bits were more visible. They made his story to deliberately parallel America’s history with Native Americans, and he’s a cowboy which is a job that had mainly black and indigenous people in its heyday. It feels hollow to make the point of his story that colonialism and racism are bad, only to fall in line with those structures to whitewash him. Sure, it’s physically possible for Native Americans to pass that well (one of my closest native friends is pasty with blond hair and blue eyes) but it’s not typical, and we don’t have enough dark skinned rep in general. It comes off as lazy more than exploring the life of a mixed/passing character.
And I know it’s to be expected with Hoyo’s continued disregard for poc, but it doesn’t make it less frustrating every time they write a character to be poc then just. Don’t make the poc. HSR hasn’t added another dark skinned playable character since release and already has issues with roma representation, HI3 has… everything with Carole, and Genshin went through a whole saga of mostly pale people in the Middle East/Africa equivalent.
Please Hoyo I am begging you to for once let your bottom line be risked for poc rep the same way you’ve tried to with queer rep. If you can sneak lesbians and femboys in after being used as an example of what not to do by government censors, you can make Boothill at least a little tan. Being a Chinese company doesn’t suddenly let you off on the bear minimum. It feels like they wanna have their cake and eat it by using other cultures and histories without acknowledging the people who’s cultures and histories they are.
This isn’t coming from a hater. This is coming from a disappointed Hoyo player who has slowly come across all the ways Hoyo has fucked up in this department and who is getting tired of it. I want them to do better (even if I know they probably won’t) before I (and many other players) can no longer justify supporting them as players.
I TOTALLY FORGOT TO POST HIM HERE !!! After almost 3 weeks, Sandnyan on a motorcycle is done and it was so worth it! I had so much fun animating this whole project and it turned out so much better than I imagined. I got to mix two of my fav GitM AUs in the process as well and that was such a blast!!!!! The char belongs to @/venomous-qwille on here though, he is not mine!
Sadly though because the file is so big you guys don’t get the full quality version !! Some of the background is fucked Ik due to this sadly as well but I hope it’s enjoyable nonetheless ^_^
Also a coatless ver!!
Anyways scurrying back into the depths teehee
YIIIPPEEEEE neat fellows
i love them
(fool and misuta fromm ghost in the machine by @venomous-qwille)
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uncolored version too because why not :-0
“Misuta, this behavior is most unbecoming~” - GITM: Three of Pentacles
IT'S FINALLY DONE HOLY SHIT!! I really hope you guys like it! Details under the cut!
@venomous-qwille *bows* this was one of my favorite scenes so far in the fic!! Can't wait for more bots to finally show up I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED FOR NOVA AND SOMBRA!
Uh, also, the term 'Comely Thespian' lives in my head rent-free now and pokes me in the ganglia every few hours 👀 I SEE YOU FOOL!
i just couldnt stop thinking about this
ghost in the machine belongs to @venomous-qwille :D
