Latte's Fandom Shenanigans

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[lattedecoffee]

Item: A Soft Pillow Rarity: ⏶ Common

What's your comfort game?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Probably Mario Kart (Wii or 8 Deluxe) or Tomodachi Life (so excited for Living the Dream!)

[mageknight14]

I latch on to every word of twewy and especially neo twewy analysis you write. neo is one of my favorite games of all time and it's so compelling seeing someone write about it the way you do

Aw thanks! I guess with NEO, I was so tired of people just dunking it for not being the exact same as OG TWEWY when I was like "what the fuck, this is the best possible sequel you can make to something as insane as TWEWY" when I played the game. I think what really got me while I was on reddit was someone talking about NEO was, and I quote, "too experimental of a sequel for something like TWEWY" and I had to let the irony of that statement sink in for a full minute.

At that point, I was like "nah, screw this, Imma give the game the analysis it deserves."

I think the most impressive thing about NEO is that it inverts (get it? Like Inversion?) a lot of things within the original but not with the intent to foil it just because. There are certainly a lot of deliberate callbacks to the original in NEO (An0ther basically being Rindo’s CAT, Shoka sharing traits with both Neku and Joshua and even having Sakura in her last name, having the three weeks again, a full-on team structure as opposed to just duos, the ideals of Shinjuku vs Shibuya, etc), but the game puts forth its own unique twists on these concepts to have them fit within NEO’s themes and make them feel natural. Fret shares a very similar backstory to Neku when it comes to having dead best friends that shaped their personalities but Fret chose to cope with his grief in a different way and as a result, he has his own problems to deal with in contrast to Neku. NEO uses the skeleton of the original but aims to tell a story to add on to its lessons of human communication and reflect on the struggles of teens and adults alike in the modern era, and as a sequel to something like TWEWY, I think that’s the best possible call they could’ve gone with.

Maybe one day NEO will get its full due. It’s easy to forget (and it still happens in some circles) but back in the day, people just could not vibe with the original TWEWY, whether it’s for its controls, Neku’s confrontational personality, the surplus load of mechanics the game throws at you at a time, etc…

There were people who would dismiss the game on its face just based off of the premise/style alone and I remember folks on 4chan and other forums comparing Neku to Squall amongst other things. While TWEWY was critically acclaimed, it was also quite subject to criticism. And yet, as years go by, people would look more and more fondly on the game, try it out for themselves, and go "holy shit, this game is fucking rad." The way the game uses its mechanics to tell its story, the way the themes were detailed, the messages it expressed, etc…

I think NEO is in a similar position to the original in this regard not just by some people who are just experiencing the TWEWY IP for the first time but also fans of the original, funnily enough. Not that I necessarily blame them, given how NEO is a different game from the original in a lot of ways. Still, it’s both funny and frustrating to see people’s dismiss NEO’s strengths (combat, characterization, themes, etc) just for not being like the original when a lot of folks back in the day would dismiss TWEWY just for not playing like other games at the time.

Not that I don’t think that NEO is exactly free from criticism. I certainly have a lot to say about how it handles aspects of a New Day (namely Tsugumi) as well as some of its pacing but frankly, I don’t think the original is perfect either. And I’m okay with that.

Why? Because I love both games to the point that their strengths are enough for me to brush over the flaws they do have in spite of it all as well as the ways they approach storytelling and combat design.

I don’t think there’s ever gonna be another game like OG TWEWY. That’s just impossible due to how the game was made. But for what it’s worth, I don’t think there’s gonna be another game like NEO for a long time either. And in a way, that makes it the perfect sequel to TWEWY.

[insertdisc5]

happy balentimes from the isat cast

[insertdisc5]

[penny-anna]

Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

[penny-anna]

~*~earlier~*~

Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits

Merry: Frodo what’d he say

Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish

Merry: I mean you could do that but consider

Merry: you can only tell him ONCE

Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.

[penny-anna]

#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible

Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK

Frodo: :)

[storywonker]

Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?

Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve

Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying

[ramshacklefey]

Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:

Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.

Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.

Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*

[reformedkingsmanagent]

@ghostriderofthearagon

[cryptidscrypticcrosswordclub]

dYinGggGggg…

[whetstonefires]

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.

so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.

plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.

so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.

[whetstonefires]

to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.

so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!

considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.

…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.

which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.

this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!

[bowditch]

Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.

Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*

[linguisticparadox]

Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now

Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?

Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?

Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.

Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.

Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.

[sainamoonshine]

Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man

Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s

[esser-z]

Tolkien would be SO PROUD of this post

[runiaimperii]

It got better

[peaceheather]

there may come a day when i do not reblog this post, but it is NOT THIS DAY

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like a lot of disabled and neurodivergent and mentally ill ways of living and expressing yourself are both not normal and not harming anyone and it's the last part we should focus our attention on

[yuri-puppies]

@heterodox-heterographer you've hit the nail in the head

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

After becoming Firelord, Zuko pardoned the Blue Spirit for busting Aang out of prison but still held him at large for all the other crimes

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

#he sent ozai out to find the blue spirit#to restore his honor  (source: @aboutiroh​ ) 

fIRSTLY, HOW DARE YOU LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS?? 

[nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice]

#qsfdsfsgs#i've been trying to think of a way to make this happen#because ozai doesn't actually have any honor to begin with#so he couldn't care less about it#but one day sokka visited his prison#because sokka would have an unlimited amount of jokes to humiliate him#but that particular day he'd just be messing around with the firelord#mention that zuko and aang were so desperate to find the guy#they might even give him his bending back if he could help#so ozai the idiot thinks he makes a smart move when he tells zuko he knows the blue spirit#and will catch him#but only if he gets his bending back#and zuko's like damn if you find this guy i will make sure to get your bending back#you can count on mee#and then they make sure 'a secret source' wants to 'help' him and gives him 'tips'#and they lead firelord ozai to the WORST places#i'm thinking of the swamp#and the desert#the serpent's pass#and he just has a bad time for the rest of his life#the end (source: @aboutiroh​ )

AGAIN! STop leaving this gold in the tags!!!! 

[silver-tongues-blog]

Aang in disguise: "Did you hear? Apparently that firenation criminal the blue spirit was spotted in one of the caves in the great divide"

[sockisverylost]

Sokka, also in disguise: yeah, heard he was taming the cave crawlers. Maybe you can find the blue spirit if you get close to them too.

[britcision]

Occasionally after a particularly rough month Zuko takes a brief vacation to get his Blue Spirit gear back on and fuck around leading Ozai on another even wilder goose chase

These are his life changing field trips with Toph

[zackbuildit]

Aang BETTER be wearing a fake mustache every time he fools ozai

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

The mustache is of course made from Appa's fur.

[zackbuildit]

It gets bigger every time. The scene always ends with a sneeze

[aboutiroh]

Ozai thinks nothing of the weird facial hair because ‘clearly peasants are just like that’

[atlaheritageposts]

atla heritage post

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[pyxilate]

im going to be referencing this forever

[straysnail]

[ID: tweet from @/haeraecoon reading:

writing at 3 am allows you to think of banging lines like these

next is a screenshot of text reading:

There's a pause. A pregnant one. Weird phrase, actually. How'd it even get pregnant?

Mercifully, Sakura aborts it before it has time to grow limbs.

/End ID]

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

semantics are the ultimate vessel to objective truth . keep splitting hairs and youll reach the atom !

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

99% of all pedants stop cross referencing definitions right before they construct the infallible observation ‼️‼️‼️

[penandinkprincess]

parenting commitment level 3000

[penandinkprincess]

apparently a requirement for working at poison control is a talent for stand-up comedy

[subaru-copilot]

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

[teaboot]

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

[lattedecoffee]

[brodorokihousuke]

ok but is she wrong

[redstonedust]

i understand why people are like "when are we ever gonna use this" about highschool classes, but personally i always kinda assumed it was more like. a taste test for the kids who do wanna use it? like maybe i dont need to reference atomic structure and the periodic table often in my daily life, but i assume there has to be at least one kid in my grade who was like "oh fuck this chemistry shit is awesome" and went on to be a chemist, yknow?

like i understand wanting more life skills to be taught in school and i agree, but i also think some people act as if the ONLY life skills are taxes and housework. do you want school to be a multi-year retail training course with a side of "how to fold bedsheets". that sounds lame as hell. i'll take the algebra thanks.

[ncutis-special-human-being]

I even had a teacher tell us that once. We were in math and someone asked him when we were going to need what we were learning (it was something advanced like differentials or something) and he just turned to us and said “most of you won’t, unless you go into architecture or engineering you’ll never use this again but we’re teaching it to you because we don’t know which of you that will be and we want to give you all the option.” And honestly we appreciated the honesty and all tried harder knowing why

[lattedecoffee]

​Some of the skills (particularly the earlier ones but even some of the high school ones) are genuinely useful for 100% of people in their adult lives. Your Literature/Insert Local Language Here (do they call it the name of the language outside of the USA? Legit have no idea) class teaches you how to spot persuasive techniques, check your sources, and consider why someone is telling you what they’re telling you. History class teaches you what happened so you can find similarities with what’s happening or see how what happened indirectly led to what’s happening. Physics teaches you how the physical world around you works so you can show off to children and not look dumb around other adults. Computer science teaches you how a computer works and can help you understand what AI/LLMs are and are not

Ask a teacher why you’re learning what you’re learning if you’re not going into a relevant field. A good one will be honest with you and either provide a use case for the majority of people or admit that this is just gonna be practice for learning shit you don’t want to care about (another crucial adult skill)

[lattedecoffee]

It’s so crazy seeing a younger family member again and realizing how much older they’ve gotten but no one told me how amazing it is to see that little kid you remember figuring out who they are and developing more nuanced thoughts as their brains grow more capable of it.

Stop being taller than me tho

[hachama]

[mouthfacedickrat]

[unhinged-transmasc-man]

True compassion and nuance is sometimes and often really fucking annoying and hard to do. And that's why it's hard. Compassion is as complex and difficult as people are. That's the point.

[l0dge49]

[sisterofiris]

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

[yay855]

I mean, if someone wrote that to me, I’d probably believe they were sick.

[rox-and-prose]

“Slutantions” has me crying laughing

[watermite]

i once emailed my professor with a migraine. a mistake.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

the subject line was “OW”

[xakumi]

THE SUBJECT LINE IS THE BEST PART JSJFJSJDJS JUST IMAGINE GETTING AN EMAIL WITH NO CONTEXT OTHER THAN “OW”

[themodernsouthernpolytheist]

As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.

[asortoflight]

On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”

[whisky-gerblin]

Reblogging for the last addition

[badgraph1csghost]

Claritin makes me weird, but I have allergies so there’s about a month and a half block of time where I’m taking Claritin and am just weird most of the time.

Anyway, my last year of college, I got the flu or something in late March and was also taking Mucinex. I told my professor I couldn’t come to class one day by email except I couldnt think of what to say, so my medicated ass decided to make a Fry meme. I think it said something like “Not sure if I can go to class with a head the size of Texas, bottom text.” I didn’t think until the next day that it probably wasn’t socially-acceptable to tell your philosophy professor you weren’t coming to class via Tumblr style memes. When i got back to class, i found that she’d printed it out and taped it to the classroom bulletin board.

[badgraph1csghost]

Oh shit you guys i turned on my WinXP laptop that I used to use back then.

IT WAS ON THE DESKTOP. THIS IS WHAT I SENT.

It’s even worse than i remember it

[omnicat]

I laugh myself hoarse every time this post comes around, so here it is again.

[bucketbunny]

Once emailed a professor from my hospital bed high on painkillers after a really bad car crash which my heart actually stopped the email “Dead cant class sory”

[sarumans]

i was very sick over new years and one day i woke up to find i had emailed my manager in the middle of the night:

she said it was the most beautiful sick email she’s ever gotten

[expectiations]

what is time but an endless all consuming miasma of void ,?

[goatvibesonly]

they are the nerd x straight bi man friendship of all time (original post creds)

[lattedecoffee]

This is funny but also so true to Maya’s character. She avoids talking about her biggest problems and insecurities like the plague but is overly dramatic about stuff that “doesn’t matter”

When she does get sad about the “real” stuff, that’s how you know it’s really started affecting her. If it was only affecting her as much as she’s pretending it is, she would still be wailing about how Nick wouldn’t let her bring a water gun into the Detention Center

[sulphurdotpng]

Boys will [-1] literally take [-1] poison damage in the [-1] middle of a scentence [-1] and act [-1] like it's totally normal [-1]

[sulphurdotpng]

Hi everyone thank you for reblogging could you check the original post now 😊