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[highly-invested]

ABOUT ME:

I've delayed making one of these long enough. Hey! you can call me Dice! I like old music and movies (especially westerns) and I'm a huge reader. I follow and like from @roll-thedice where all my general funny posts (mostly reblogs) go. This account is where my fandom stuff goes. I used to frequent r/cremposting so if you remember the stormlight meme a day for every chapter, hey that was me! Pls send asks I love questions.

THIS BLOG:

Here you'll find my posts and reblogs about the cosmere, worm, NGE, Armored Core, Dungeon Meshi, and anything else that catches my fleeting interest. I'm primarily a cosmere blog and am incredibly deep down the rabbit hole, ask me about intent/command. Beware, here there be spoilers (though I'm open to tagging on request.) I tag spoilers pretty inconsistently for cosmere and not at all for my other fandoms. I will no longer be tagging WaT or Emberdark spoilers. You have been warned.

TAGS:

#good post op 👍🏼 - gold star on your post. I did this because I wanna be able to find it later.

#oc - post that I made. Currently need to go through and apply it to old posts.

#red hands - Amy Dallon fanart tag because you wormies go nuts

[sailatina3]

Why does everyone just lie and pretend Toby Fox makes deltarune by himself? Every single chapter has a long ass credits sequence with dozens of people who contribute to the game. Translation by itself has like 10+ people...

[volition2]

[vintricles]

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

[eroscestlavie]

This just pissed me off so baaaad 😂

[pillowspace]

I truly cannot process how little amount of time is passing in Deltarune. It’s been almost 8 years, you cannot tell me they’ve been on their little adventure for less than a week

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I've noticed in recent years that, at least within mainstream usamerican culture, the sympathetic petty criminal archetype has largely fallen out of favor. you still have plenty of stories of noble nights, benevolent aristocrats, sympathetic mercenaries, but the idea of a thief with a heart of gold is increasingly rare. often petty criminals are just used as uncomplicated cannon fodder, so the protagonist has something human-shaped that they can kill or mutilate without remorse. you see this with dnd players often. the wicked king or the cruel dragon can be reasoned with, but a highway bandit robbing caravans to eat is perfectly fine to torture to death with sorcery

[contemptible-scoundrel]

this is no less common outside of fantasy, either. god knows how many books, films, games, about sympathetic soldiers, police, even mercenaries. sometimes they try to reckon with the inherent violence and cruelty of these careers, but they rarely have the fangs for a message sharper than "sometimes good people have to do bad things." but a thief? a mugger? god forbid, a drug dealer? uncomplicatedly evil vermin, all. again, just used as cannon fodder, purely to provide something human-shaped to hate and brutalize without conscience

[contemptible-scoundrel]

there is an obvious racial angle to this, as people grow more leery towards "those people are evil and inhuman because they look different," the message shifts to "those people are evil and inhuman because they are criminals," paired with heavily biased (and significantly more publicized) criminalization of racial minorities to achieve the same goal of publicly condoned repression and violence

[pavizi]

adventure time comic 2

[iamaweirdviper]

As far as I’m concerned, pokemon villain writing peaked with Guzma. Legitimately worried about the erosion of culture due to hyper-tourism surrounding their sacred rites and practices. Abused as a child, ran away from home to start his countries only youth hostel for similarly troubled kids, and funds it with crime. Bug type specialist, with an ace that is mostly known for its first stage being cowardly. Cultivates a big scary persona as a defense mechanism to protect himself and his members, no one can beat big bad Guzma, so they don’t have to be afraid anymore. His grunts trust him enough to ask him for help when they screw up, despite the fact that they all come from troubled homes. Was so significant that pokemon switched from having cartoonishly evil bad guys and teams to the current model of “sympathetic and understandable antagonist that has some very good points, even as they oppose the protagonist, and is in some way actively doing good in their community by supporting those who are the most in need of assistance, due to some legitimate failing of the current system.” There is a cartoon villain looming behind him, but they’re a twist and not the main team presented. Everyone wants to be him, but they can never replicate the perfection that is this man.

Thank you for your service Guzma

[valtsv]

arranged political marriage narratives are for me similarly fraught to unplanned pregnancy in that they tend to skew towards a conservative, anti-choice sentiment regardless of the author's intentions or ideology, because the end goal is typically the realisation of an apparently empowering and subversive romantic fantasy where the characters involved experience compellingly turbulent and sexually charged conflict between normative expectations and their own desires, but ultimately find themselves fulfilled in and even healed by the acceptance of undeniably important and worthwhile but conventional (and oppressively gendered) roles like that of the loving husband and wife or parental figures. which is a shame because i Do think that there's some interesting and worthwhile commentary to be explored through these kinds of kinky fantasies that reflect the anxieties surrounding very real and enduring sociopolitical issues regarding autonomy and consent, but when that tension is ultimately resolved by settling into a role that's always been what's expected of you, even if it does allow you to manipulate certain social power dynamics in your favour, it just rings kind of hollow. all of which is a very long-winded way of saying that i wish there were more arranged marriage narratives where the participants never fall in love, but still come to care for and respect one another, and perform the marital duties expected of them out of that affection and desire to both help each other advance their sociopolitical countermoves to subvert the status quo and to survive, using the legal and social trappings that come with their marital status to their advantage to protect each other.

[valtsv]

like i really Cannot stress enough how imperative it is that they never feel anything like romantic love for one another - nor are they really friends, although they may like each other's company and even actively prefer it to anyone else's. rather their relationship is comparable to that of two people covering each other's backs in a fight, or two prisoners in the same cell, and there's as much of the beauty of human connection to that as there is tragedy that those are the circumstances that brought them together. and they can absolutely have sexual tension and even consummate a sexual relationship and enjoy it, but it will be unavoidably dubiously consensual at best by design. no flinching from it.

[haharuspex]

pov you’re a bartender and that empress’ personal bodyguard guy keeps poking an atrocious artifact at you while staring profusely (you don’t know his dead wife is spilling your tea)

[mossworm]

making lots of lizard people

[txttletale]

the level design in dishonored 2 is quite good once you get to the actual locations but i kind of dislike the openness of the pre-levels--i wish that "house which contains significant side path to the main objective" and "house that contains Two Hundred Dollars" wer ein any way distinguished as infiltratable locations

[hood-ex]

[valencians]

fantasy: the kingdom has been ruled by one family for 10,000 years

science fiction: a new species evolved in 30 years

[txttletale]

why the fuck is kirin jindosh a target. like why the fuck do i really care honestly. every target in disxhonred 2 it was extremely clear and specific why we were killing them, jindosh is just, we were here to get sokolov so we might as well pop by and brain him cause he sucks. i mean dishonored's script was nothing to write home about but it was tight and competent. 2 is such a marked step down

[txttletale]

one of the biggest misconceptions in esports is that covid killed the OWL when if anything covid saved the people behind it from their own obviously untenable and broken format actually getting implemented

[txttletale]

the con artists behind the OWL should be grateful that the coronavirus meant they never had to learn why nobody's ever made a "global league" before and why even national leagues in the continental usa are split into divisions

[txttletale]

i say this a lot, but it's always really striking how many people assume that like, criticism necessarily comes from a place of moral outrage and personal vitriol, and that therefore when i make a comment about something's political positions i'm "fighting a fight" against it. i literally just enjoy thinking about art and verbalizing those thoughts is useful in organizing and refining them