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Happy Pride Month to all Life is Strange Fans out there! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
do you get it. do you see what i mean
I love that the game lets Alex wear her rainbow outfit in the end screen, even when she romances Ryan.
She's still bi no matter what you do, and I love that for her, and that the game reminds you of it.
Im gonna be fr for a second I think a lot of the reactions ppl have about the castings in general (not just Mia and Faly) has shown that too many people in this fandom are shallow and very appearance obsessed and its pretty dissapointing.
I personally love Chloe and Rachel castings and I was stunned to find out that some people think Maisy and Esther aren't pretty enough to be Amberprice and that they 'deserve better' whatever that means. Actually people are pretty rude about Esther and how she's 'too weird looking' to be Rachel and again 'erm Rachel is supposed to be beautiful and they gave her to Esther??!'
Like y'all.....these are real people we are talking about. Let's not say fucked up things abiut Tatum, Maisy, Mia, Emily, Faly, Billy etc just bc this fandom has crazy expectations and can be really fucking mean.
Obviously people are allowed to have their feelings about the casting but like the way people are sharing them is so incredibly rude and lacks decorum. Lets all remember that the game is called Life is Strange and not America's Next Top Models.
The entire cast are all supposed to be your average everyday teenagers, why on earth do people want everyone to look unnaturally beautful like they all jumped out of the CW is beyond me but that's just how I see it.
Would love to know your opinion on this matter if you wanna say anything.
I was gonna make a separate post about the matter, so THANK YOU for bringing this up. The mass fan reaction to these castings has been so frustrating, ever since Maisy and Tatum were announced. I don't watch a lot of TV and I had zero expectations for who they would cast because it was likely that they'd cast unknown actors. Life is Strange won't have a Mario, Zelda, TLOU, or Fallout-level budget. They were always going to cast people you'd never heard of (which I elaborated on here back in September). And now they have and people are losing their goddamn minds.
I understand that this show has been highly anticipated for many years and it gave people a lot of time to build up expectations in their heads. For them, they want an actor who will dazzle them right away with some appearance or "vibe" that feels like the character jumped right out of the game. And just because Maisy is short, or Faly and Mia are Black, or Esther has a certain face shape, that illusion is ruined and people feel entitled to voice their opinions.
People forget that casting directors are looking for an actor who will nail the audition and the chemistry read. Maybe Emily, Mia, or Esther did a great Chloe audition, but Maisy is the one who booked it because she clicked the most with Tatum. Max and Chloe are the central relationship of the game, so their chemistry is going to be vital for the show. Also, Esther is a fucking MODEL. Like an actual, working model. She's modeled for Fendi, Stella McCartney, Miu Miu, and others, so it's insane to me that some fans feel entitled to comment on her appearance when it's a part of her damn career. Like, maybe stop policing women's bodies?? It's disappointing how heavily skewed the hate is toward the female actresses; this is Bella Ramsey as Ellie all over again.
On the flip side, you have Tatum, who looks enough like Max that people are instead being parasocial with her and spamming her comments sections with "OMG MAX" and Max gifs. It's harmless right now, but I worry it might escalate to an uncomfortable level after the show comes out where fans won't be able to see Tatum as their own person. The last thing I'd want is people villainizing Billy, Faly, Tom, Emily, Raul, or even Maisy for playing antagonistic characters in a show because they can't separate the actor from the character. It should already be incredible enough that Life is Strange is getting adapted at all and that most of its cast are actual fans of the game. Mia, Tatum, Billy, and Emily have at least played LiS, and Faly said recently he's played it three times. Imagine joining a project that you're also a huge fan of, only to be met with hostile fans who say you can't play a character because of how you look? Do better.
Y'all. These are young, online, Gen Z actors. They see the shit you post about them. They have accounts on the same sites where you're posting hate. They have friends and family who will see what you say about them, like in Tatum's IG post from last month (she sees you calling her a "she/they unknown actress!") Don't forget that while we have seasoned actors onboard, Tatum is basically a newcomer. Life is Strange is her television debut. If this show does do unexpectedly well, it's gonna catapult this cast into mainstream stardom, and the least we can do is be decent to them while they adjust to fame. At the end of the day, they're human beings who deserve privacy and respect like anybody else.
I've seen this happen before with Heartstopper and Heated Rivalry, and I'm sure LiS will get the same treatment because it's a queer show with a lot of queer talent onboard. So for the sake of a pre-emptive PSA:
Do NOT speculate about these actors' sexualities or harass them into coming out.
Do NOT speculate about their relationship status.
If they have a partner, LEAVE THEM ALONE.
If you're publicly hating on an actor for their race, height, appearance, or otherwise something they can't change, you suck. Get the hell off my blog.
Do NOT project your feelings about a character onto the actor. They're here to do a job, not answer whatever reservations you have about how their character was written in the game or the show.
These characters do not belong to you. There is no "not my Chloe/Kate/Warren/Rachel/etc." Stop bothering and hating on actors based on your interpretations of fictional characters that you are not entitled to.
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Sean and Daniel’s relationship throughout their journey
Life is strange 2 - Dontnod/How the light gets in -Laurel/Sparks - Coldplay/For the widows in paradise, for the fatherless in Ypsilanti - Sufjan Stevens/The Hellbound Heart - Clive Baker/unknown/I’ll give you the sun - Jandy Nelson/Grief lessons: four plays by Euripides - Anne Carson/The complete stories and poems - Edgar Allen Poe/Poem of the end - Marina Tsvetaeva/Icarus - Crane wives/the world at its beginning - Dustin Pearson/Cato the younger - Plutarch/unknown/I will - Mitski/For your own good - Leah Horlick.
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Post-Bae relationship study of Max/Chloe all the way to the breakup?
I've been outlining this FanFic but I don't really know if there's anyone else other than me who'd like to see that 😭 The story isn't all doom and gloom but that's the ending, everything else is a relationship study of how they got there, following each year from 2013 to 2021 (DE never gave a specific year just vaguely 2020-2023). Not fully sticking to DE canon of how it all happened, I wanna try to do a better version (no breakup letter for example). Reunion in the epilogue tho!
I genuinely believe that Max’s arc in the game is either becoming an everyday hero and sacrificing Chloe, or acknowledging herself as just a girl in love with her best friend who doesn’t want to let her go.
How would you write a “Sacrifice Max” Ending? (in which Max intervened and stopped Nathan from shooting Chloe, but as a consequence got shot herself)
I think I would:
A: I'd change the dialogue on the cliff from "Chloe has to die" to "Someone has to die because it's the only thing bad enough to force the police to take Nathan in." I think if I were to add this ending and explain why it didn't HAVE to be Chloe, I would go the "The storm is caused by the evilness of the Prescott's and the storm can only stop if they're stopped," route.
B: Make the route exclusive to certain choices. To unlock this route, you'd have to side with Chloe for the majority of the game and then choose to sacrifice her. You'd know if you unlocked the route correctly because Max's dialogue on the cliff would change.
C: Instead of telling Chloe that she "doesn't want to do this," she'd tell Chloe that she loved her, and she was sorry for leaving for five years, and no matter what, they'd always be Max and Chloe. Her words would be ambiguous enough to not catch Chloe's suspension, but Max's mind would already be made.
D: She'd go back, and instead of sliding down the wall she'd take a deep breath and wait for the inevitable slam of the bathroom door being thrown open.
E: Chloe would walk in and Max would wait for the gun to press against Chloe's stomach before jumping out and screaming Chloe's name. Nathan would get startled and reflexively turn around and shoot Max in stomach.
F: Max would slump down and Chloe would run over to her while Nathan ran out of the bathroom in a panic. Then, the timestream would change.
G: Instead of a timestream picture of Nathan shooting Chloe, there would be a picture David rushing in the bathroom to find Chloe holding Max. Then you'd get a picture of Nathan getting interrogated by the police. Then, a picture of Chloe watching from the parking lot as Mark Jefferson was placed in a cop car, and picture of Chloe and Joyce sitting in the diner, presumably talking about what happened.
H: Then a photo of Chloe holding a picture of Rachel and looking visibly distressed, presumably after getting the news of her death. Then a photo of entering Max's room with Kate and Warren, then a photo of her playing Max's guitar. Finally, a picture of Chloe driving into Seattle.
I: The timestream would end with Chloe in front of a graveyard. Max's parents would be there, as well as Joyce and David and many of Max's Blackwell friends. Chloe would watch the funeral through tears before looking up to spot two deer's watching her from the distance. She would smile, remembering her deer-like best friend, and then leave the funeral. She would wave to Joyce, and Joyce would wave back, insinuating that Chloe was saying goodbye.
J: Chloe would get back in her truck and we'd see that her truck was full of hers, Rachel's, and Max's belongings. The implication would be that Chloe was leaving Arcadia Bay after the funeral to travel. The final shot would be Chloe driving out of town, and two deer watching her go.
The way the Life Is Strange franchise portrays freedom is so, so, so, insane.
It's portrayed as the ultimate goal Chloe, Rachel, Karen, Sean, Steph, and possibly Alex strive for. Yet, it's also portrayed as a doomed ambition that you'll have to give up everything to reach.
Rachel loses her life in her search for freedom, and so does Chloe unless Max makes the ultimate payment of everything she and Chloe have ever held dear. Karen has to sacrifice her family to be free, and Steph has to sacrifice her bonds in Haven Springs. Alex has to sacrifice her dream of living a happy life in Haven with her brother to end up on the road, and Sean loses A: His life or B: His freedom or C: His brother or D: His safety in his pursuit of escaping into Mexico.
But despite what all is sacrificed, freedom is still portrayed as something beautiful. It's portrayed as Chloe and Max driving off into the sunset for more adventures. It's portrayed as Rachel and Chloe happily daydreaming about their future with no awareness of the horror yet to come. It's portrayed as Karen, Sean, and Daniel star-gazing and letting lanterns lose into the night sky. It's portrayed as Alex and Steph playing in a band in front of their adoring fans
But it's also portrayed as something destructive. It's the tornado that destroys a town so Chloe can leave. It's the wild fire that engulfs a town Rachel feels stuck in. It's the bullet wound that made Alex and/or Steph realize they didn't belong. It's the blood shed by a nine year old as Sean crosses over the border. It's the deep emotional scars Karen left behind when she up and left in the middle of the night.
Freedom is portrayed as this beautiful ultimate goal that ends up being a force of destruction in the lives of everyone who seeks it. It makes me think of this philosophical question: "Can you be truly free if you have something? And it makes me think of how the franchise answers "No. At least, you can't have everything." It's an interesting twist from how freedom is usually depicted in media, and the choice to make the downside of freedom destruction makes me brain go insane.
just sayin', pretty wild that you come stumbling out of gabe's apartment with your face all fucked up. and just a couple hours later, you just so happen to miss that call that would've saved his life.
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