#anyway ....

[callizinc]

Making a smaller post here as a sort of follow-up to my bigger analysis from yesterday (Shameless self promo. Read it.....) to talk about some of the things i forgot about! i'm... embarrassed i missed stuff at all 😭 BUT IT'S A RICH GAME OK!!!! IT'S A GOOD GAME THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!

First: I said so much about how work consumes Ena's life, meanwhile the very first line of the game is Froggy telling Ena to get back to work. like. Yeah. Can't get much clearer than that 😭😭 [MINECRAFT CAVE SOUND]

Second: This flavor text at the very beginning of the game is so short and simple but also Haunts Me. (if you don't remember, this is what it says if you try to interact with the door to the casino Before it opens during the first cutscene!)

Mostly because I feel like it's interesting that Ena's deprecating her Own Business (the casino for whatever reason is closed for like, a few minutes, and now it no longer qualifies as a "good business"? ...Girl?) and also because it's another example of how she's so conditioned to an ideal of Work above All Else. GIRL YOU CANNOT BE DOING 24/7 HOURS YOU CAN'T!!!!! THAT DOESN'T MEAN A BUSINESS IS GOOD!!!!! ENA YOU CAN'T BE DOING THAT!!!!!!!!!!

Also, this line is so iconic i can't believe i forgot it, but. Can we just acknowledge how she describes her shitty fucking job as a "Lifestyle" and her "Destiny".

And the worst part is like. Yeah, what more CAN she do indeed? She has absolutely 0 power to change her situation and nobody out there gives a shit about her. Ena.... KILL YOUR BOSS AND YOU WILL BE REINCARNATED AS A LOTUS FLOWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And third, i talked about how what Ena's actual job is is pretty unclear and how I think that contributes to the theme of work consuming her life, and I still agree with that 100%, but I also forgot the very overt nods to her being a scammer 😭 (THANK you so much @aroace-elgyem)

And, no yeah—it definitely seems like she's Actually some MLM-esque schemer conman, but given the fact that she Still does literally whatever the fuck people ask of her, I'd argue her job is defined much more by giving herself to whatever everybody else wants more than it is her sales tactics.

Even so. If she ever scammed people or tricked anyone or did whatever else that may or may not have been bad. ....No she didn't ❤️

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beverly going to frostwind and immediately entering his aunty killer era (like lady killer but for older women who think hes such a nice young boy)

[wutheringheightsfilm]

now i don't know what was going on back in 2012-2013 but whatever lana del rey and asap rocky were doing back then is my roman empire. what was that

[whorejolras]

curly haired wife: just gonna go take a quick shower and wash my hair

me, queuing up the eras tour movie extended edition: cool!

[wellfell]

honestly the kindest thing you could do to me would be to write ryuji or reiko and let akina kiss both of them but you're a coward who's scared of bisexual women in old horror moVIES HUH . 🔪

[fishfingersandscarves]

DANIEL DATES HIS OWN GREAT GRAND NIECE GIRL WHAT THE FUCK

[stormsbourne]

I know this is just purity + war on drugs damage but the opinion people have of drugs is so infantile lol

1) people can have a drink, sometimes more than one, and still be sober. especially if the drink is a cocktail or a beer lmao. you don't go from sober to blackout drunk that fast unless your tolerance is insanely low. most places have a drink menu because one or two drinks won't cause most people anything but slight tipsiness

2) if you don't like drunk people just avoid them. tell them you're not interested. but like I mean we all know these people have never been to an actual bar in their lives

3) drugs are fun and criminalization and stigma around them only serves to hurt people. many people who use drugs use them because something else in their lives is causing them pain, and you're not helping by sneeringly telling them that they're not welcome around you.

4) addiction is a fuck and it takes a lot of work, time, AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT to overcome, and again you're not helping by telling addicts you find them disgusting or that you don't want them to have lives outside of their addiction

5) AND AT MANY BARS THE ONLY DRUG IN ATTENDANCE IS WEED, LMAO

really feel like everyone saw an episode of CSI with a gay club where everyone was drunk and on e and acting obnoxious and tied that in with their pre-existing internalized homophobia about how "unnecessarily sexual" us gays are