The Tire Fire

Gil. Enjoyer of things and vocal critic of those things. I write sometimes.

[junkmixart]

There was so much gay baiting in this game it was surreal that these guys weren't Robert's additional love interests 60

LIKE TELL ME WHY THERE WERE ONLY TWO ✌️✌️✌️

💕Which dating route would you pick? 💕

[dustin-ajar]

thats the whole game.

[taahko]

i think some of you dont like narratives or stories or characters i think you just like fanfiction tropes

[taahko]

protagonists can and will be sexist, racist, insensitive, cruel, stupid, etc, especially towards the beginning of a story. these are called character flaws and they are a surprise tool that will lead to narrative fulfillment later

[mapswithoutwyoming]

And sometimes "narrative fulfillment" doesn't mean "the character overcomes their flaws" or even "the antihero is punished for their flaws"! sometimes it means the narrative says "wow was that fucked up or what? anyway i'm rod sterling"

[urie]

real nuance perverts when it depends

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[primaius]

[goldensunset]

if you or a loved one have ever tried looking up discussion of a female fictional character online only to see terms like ‘waifu’ and ‘best girl’ used you may be entitled to financial compensation

[goldensunset]

ok yes it’s true ‘mom friend’ and ‘girlboss’ also suck but this is specifically about the nightmare that is dudebro fans looking at every woman in a story like she’s gonna come to life and be his real life loyal housewife. like the implication is that, regardless of the medium of the story, somehow they see this as a dating sim where they choose who their fave is and project romantic fantasies onto her, acting as if they are in any way a part of this fictional world and she could ever love them back. it is the art of ranking every female character by appearance and cute girl tendencies and pitting them against each other. like boy she’s not your domestic girlfriend she is pixels and also she’s too busy fighting for her life inside the hell dimension aren’t you interested in the story

[simoondraws]

—Remember.. If it's too hot for you, you can grab that glass of wonderful cold water... And give me my 20$

[corsairesix]

My favorite theory about why Cait sounds Irish is that she was raised like that as a prank, but I also think it would be funny if she was from Ireland and was a staunch republican.

[corsairesix]

Piper: Hey Cait, sing a song from the old country.

Cait, loudly and off-key: COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS-

[randomalistic]

I think making character playlists is good for you and connected to analysis skills in a very fun way and low investment way. I know its seen as quite trivial but to me it operates the same way looking at a lot of art builds ur skills passively. Yummy enrichment activity

[my-never-ending-nightmare]

[clevercrumbish]

Every time an ongoing media property finally reveals a heavily telegraphed plot development that people complain "came out of nowhere" it makes me think even more that maybe Knights Of The Old Republic 1 was the greatest to ever do it when they followed the Big Twist up immediately with a soft tinted supercut of flashbacks to all the lines and scenes that foreshadowed it throughout the entire game. Do that. Beat your audience over the head with their own media illiteracy. Please, we need it.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[taking you aside in the group masturbation vc] this place is a den of vipers... you are the only one I can trust

[t4timekeeper]

anyway i think fans of unjustly overhated female characters and fans of unjustly overhated characters of colour should unionize

[morganaspendragonss]

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

[rubynye]

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

[ririarts]

The family tradition, if there is one, is dying in that suit.

Song for this. (Truth by Alex Ebert)

Different color variations:

[jamjuce]

'My sad owner moved in with the fire human'

[samirasystole]

ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see