day 1036 of thinking about those ice sculptures

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[halacska-fins]

He sure is direct, alright....

[evercelle]

[evercelle]

then -> now

[moonkitty]

cooking mama castlevania spinoff cancelled 2020 e3 leak

[zinan-kg-deactivated20210113]

This video lives rent free in my head

[skoople]

another heavy handed symbolism moment: my mom has a potted sunflower in the kitchen. because it is a sunflower, it keeps turning towards the light from the window. my mother keeps rotating it so it faces inward because she wants "to see its beautiful petals and have it really brighten up the space!" . the sunflower is visibly wilting .

[imperialinquisition]

are you going to tell her or

[skoople]

her masters degree is in biology

[requiodile]

there are many factors affecting nuca’s fan culture and engagement level and character literacy, but one that stands out to me at year 5 is that none of the previous event stories have been formally released for free through the game itself—you can only read past events through reruns, or reread them after you have played new ones for the first time. and they only rerun events once, in the following year, and never again.

so if you started playing this year, unless you pirate, you have no legit access to the character interactions and growth from events from years 1-3. and this is made significantly worse by the card-locked chara stories, which you can’t access either because you have to wait for a special pull event which hosts them. you pull rerun cards with a separate paid currency than new cards. the rates are abysmal. ftp players are forced to pick a favorite and hope they can get every copy of that specific character, which means their pull success for the rest of the ensemble cast is circumstantial given that they’re only pulling on their fave chara events. which means they’re only getting a threadbare and spotty experience of the other character’s story.

pirated stories are out there for folks to find but that extra step is too much of a bother or insurmountable for many, because piracy literacy is also down—and in some regions of the world, the fan opinion around piracy is so low that they simply won’t. and that keeps the gacha exclusives profitable because people will buy duplicates for themselves before they will share with others.

this is to say that 1) piracy is not a priority for me re: nuca because i started playing shortly after the year 1 anniversary and thus through reruns and new events i have ‘kept up’ with the game and 2) i came on just in time to miss out on the rerun of the white day event, which i have no way of reading officially, even 3 years after it originally ran.

and for new players……unable to read past events from the year 1-3 peak of character development………….they literally just have less to work with and they’re taking these characters at face value with no context. no fucking wonder their takeaways are as if they’re playing a wholly different game. because they’ve missed out on 90% of the everything!

[beemovieerotica]

[iamanewvagina101]

what r ur kinks

I'm consumed by grief

[kissawnshelly]

It's been a month since I last posted here.. dantedmond commission 🙊🙊

[iyavi]

the rats are really cute...

[templetv-deactivated20260211]

hey can you come over and surgically remove this heavy, aching rot from my heart? we can watch a movie afterwards

[c-53]

Wild caught clownfish will be like ‘hm you see, the anemone you got me is a slightly different color and tentacle width than the one I had back home, so I will not begin hosting it. I’ll be a sort of wandering ronin for the rest of my days.’ And then a captive bred clownfish will be like ‘ok so I have this curved rock I found and I just sit above it and it take care of me 👍’

[c-53]

Some of my favorite clownfish hosts

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[idololivine]

new tidal wave of summer single dropped

[catalystcomet-archive-deactivat]

hello this is my favorite video ever please please

[catalystcomet-archive-deactivat]

el muchacho monday

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[fisheito]

Fun fact from the sailor yakumo intimacy rooms: Yakumo used to be a pokemon