Even Death Won't Do Us Part

[cleaver-gun]

helloo 💖💖💖

So I'm introducing new tags to my blog

(Please bear with me, I'm still new to posting )

#cleaverrants🔪 -> where I do my usual rants/display my prowess in yapology

#cleavingthru🔪 -> where I answer asks sent to me in my askbox

#gunshoots💥 -> where I ask the questions, or ask your thoughts on a certain aspect of the game (pls pls pls interact, I'm gonna ask lots of these)

#gunreloads💥 -> fav reblogs

[we-are-in-girlhell]

andrew: damn i'm in love with my sister but she only sees me as a comfort object instead of a person

ashley: damn my brother is the only person who can stand me so i need to sacrifice all my morals and survival instincts to keep him in my life

the capitalism-shaped subplot mentioned once in a missable scene and never again: hi i havea gore fetish mmghghh

[s0s0chan-artblog]

[dreaming-of-an-absolution]

Being a bisexual tcoaal fan who isn't attracted to Andrew makes the fandom even more painful lol.

The closest that man ever got to being attractive to me was his joke about not being able to say no to a family pack.

And as attractive and hot as Ashley is, the more you progress through the story the harder it is, at least for me, to see her as a sex object because all you end up seeing is a sad, lonely little girl who just wants to be loved.

[yukiyu4]

[nesphia]

[inthec0ffin-deactivated20260525]

Ashley “I will die your daughter” Graves

[we-are-in-girlhell]

something to be said about how ashley represents psychological incest while andrew represents physical incest

[cleaver-gun]

THIS

I'd say Ashley shows signs of emotional incest (and psychological attachment too)

And Andrew depicts romantic and sexual forms of it (with an extreme dose of hypersexuality)

[ciscoffin-deactivated20260528]

[cleaver-gun]

ok so basically

nem is using her genius writing to give "on the nose" commentary on how some people in the fandom have taken the dark gothic horror romance aspect of the game and turned it into overly fetishised slop

Here is ONE of the instances of the game in decay is her making this fucking idiot's dialogue mandatory to drill it in ya heads :

NOW YOU MUST SLOOOOWLY READ THIS PART GUYS!!!:

!!!!

Immense shout-out to tcoaar , If my original, year-round work was used in a mod made by white supremacists that disregards the original creator and writing, while openly using it for fetish content, effectively invalidating the idea, I'd be pissed too<33

ANYWAYS!!! DAILY REMINDER!!! Gothic horror romance aimed at women is meant to be experienced sentimentally,

Not JUST as wank fuel (emphasise on****JUST***).

And if the author, in any sense of their writing, makes it seem like they would feel offended by it, you are outright defaming it and have purely discounted its nuance. It almost makes "Canon Complaint" seem like a Diss Parody, and if u claim the opposite, then you are literally LARPing as a " literary critic". Like, did you even try to understand the point, or did you just skip straight to projecting your own insecurities onto a fictional work?

In the end, she doesn't really care as long as she gets her bank, buuut she did want to make it clear by making this NPC interaction mandatory....

(Guys, once again, this is just what I've perceived)

tagging @demoneyesidol cos they commented asking abt recent tea lol

[cleaver-gun]

chat , nemlei is so ragebaited by some of yall oml lmaooo

[electricsheeple]

tcoaal no one ever did it like you. sitting at my laptop crying holy shit this game is so, so well written and truly captures that awful sickening mutually destructive codependent love born out of trauma-fucked brains and enmeshment. "i can't leave you"/"you don't love me"/"i'll only ever have you"/"i can't get out" ... it's romantic, in the worst of ways. two become one, yeah?

[toushos]

this is my truth

[cleaver-gun]

THOUGHTS & SYMBOLISM BEHIND ASHLEY'S FLOWERS🌸:

a lil yap

-I hc that these flowers look EXACTLY like the pink flowers of a Dodder,(Cuscuta epithymum), which are stem parasites and a PAIN to get rid of (it's perfect.)

-I mean, just LOOK. AT.THEM:

-Cuscuta is a persistent, aggressive parasite. Eliminating it requires early detection, complete removal, and preventing the spread of seeds. Once established, it’s almost impossible to eliminate them completely without harming the host.

-They are often known as lesser dodder or hellweed.

-I also asked ChatGPT for fun what these flowers could represent with NO correlation to Ashley whatsoever

-AND THE DESCRIPTION IS LITERALLY HERRRR:

-In poetry or art, Cuscuta’s pink flowers could often symbolise a sweet-looking parasite, "a burden disguised as beauty", or a pretty/elegant sort of destruction

They work powerfully and PERFECTLY with metaphors for codependency, loss of identity, or even the hidden costs of growth through someone else...

IN CONCLUSION:

IT'S LITERALLY ASHLEY'S FLOWERS AND NO ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND RAAHHHHH

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[nesphia]

[nesphia]