Very Busy Barbie🩷📞

Kenna/26/nothing has aged me more than being told this blog is as old as I was when i made it

[everything-avery-belle]

i would like it to be known that a slightly different image of avery was posted over on bluesky where we can see more of their face

[nebulatheundead]

I'm very happy that Scarlet Hollow is getting a bigger expansion again, though there is one small thing I would really love to see patched in.

In episode 1, there should be an option to tell Duke about your job and living situation the same way there is with Stella. I just feel like the only reason I don't go with Duke more often is because I don't want to miss out on all the Truck related dialogue, both then and later on.

[blacktabbygames]

i'm afraid duke just doesn't care enough to ask

[blacktabbygames]

i see folks in the notes suggesting that you be able to bring this up out of the blue, only to be shut down. please trust us that this would kill the flow of the scene. the joy of taking duke's route through episode 1 is that you don't have to lock into anything. for all we know, your MC might as well be astronaut mike dexter

[blacktabbygames]

"And you're afraid that your cousin has dipped her cup into Enoch's well of devilry. Isn't that right?"

[voyaging-too]

Example of good video game writing in Scarlet Hollow: the sticker on Kaneeka's laptop. I noticed it in Chapter 2, but others may have gotten to see it as early as the end of Chapter 1. If you don’t know anime, all you see is a cute anime critter, possibly a pokemon. If you do know anime, you’ll recognise Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a dark and bloody deconstruction of magical girl stories. Knowing more about her taste in anime is a poignant piece of characterisation for Kaneeka, a goth anime nerd stuck in a small dead-end mining town. But then I got to Chapter 5 and found out what Kaneeka's actual situation is, and where her plotline has been going all along, and that sticker turned out to be the biggest, bleakest piece of foreshadowing in a game full of big, bleak foreshadowings.

[dollhair]

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

[copepods]

apprentice(s)

[greeds]

[hexadonis]

something crazy

[acheykai]

// CONTENT WARNING FOR BLOOD //

Witch Hat Atelier Manga Spoilers!

Thinking about Qifrey discribing the ink from the Silverwood tree as it's 'literal blood' and brushbuddies looove ink!

[moonbobreblogs]

[lowviolet]

northernblots: Once there was a girl named Jenny. She was like all the other girls, except for one thing. She always wore a green ribbon around her neck.

[ghostsontelevision]

[parosu]

lawyers reference in the new deltarune chapter it's my lucky day 🪤🐁

bonus darkner trucy-ralsei (was in the files but i didn't see it during the trial battle) & more under the cut⬇️

[tantosbesos]

[blueskittlesart]

fallen humans (in light of recent events)

[vaguely-concerned]

I understand why they prioritized keeping up the tension in the scene instead for a more cinematic experience, but I also really wish the anime had preserved this particular pose from the manga

to show us just how deeply unserious qifrey is about this whole thing hfsjkdhfa. the 'mm-hmm honey' of it all. his utter lack of worry that olruggio is going to actually put his foot down is so fucking funny the more you understand about their relationship

[timelockedwitchgoblin]

Just reread this entire interaction, it's fascinating.

First question. Is he wet on purpose? Qifrey is wearing his cloak. The cloak we EARLIER THIS DAY saw repel water when it rained. The chapter bonus about clothes specifies that he has seals on it to keep him dry. We've seen him fall in the goddamn ocean and this cloak gives him a bubble. Did this man think getting wet in the rain when Olly tried to take Coco would garner him pity points?

Second question. Why doesn't Olly dry them off? We see Tetia and Riche fiddling with a towel. We get a bigger payoff narratively when Coco learns about the drying magic after barging into his room. But why doesn't he dry them here? Is he being petty and refusing to because he knows Qifrey didn't even need to get wet?

Idk what they are consuming (soup? Probably?) but Qifrey busies himself handing it out while Olly tries to ask him wtf he was thinking. Qifrey doesn't answer that, he just says she has a name, and while we're doing intros, Coco, this is Olruggio; he lives here and keeps us safe and we love him ✨

Qifrey hands out the soup in this order: Olruggio, then Coco, then himself.

Olruggio starts to muse on his duty as the watchful eye to report all this to the knights (panel above) and Qifrey says yes the knights! Coco, would you like me to teach you about them? (Olly see what a good teacher I am?) Anyway, the knights are the super inflexible cops of our world who erase people's minds no nuance, no questions asked. (He pauses for dramatic effect and looks pointedly at Olruggio) But Coco you are a good, dutiful child. I'm sorry I got you into this mess. If anyone is getting their memory wiped, it should be me *stares at Olruggio until he gets flustered and leaves*

[creekfiend]

its so awkward when people ask me why i dropped out and i have to be like "inadequate disability support" bc no one wants to hear this. they're always like i thought they had to provide that though isn't it the law? girl you might want to sit down i have some bad news about the litigation-based enforcement of the americans with disabilities act

then if i do say that theyre like, couldnt you sue? well theoretically maybe but not without spending more money than i have and putting myself through absolute hell. so no. no i can't.

[mabelsguidetolife]

it’s just this