#ddlc thoughts

[panicloser]

Just had a realisation

In Natsuki & Yuri's fight in act 2 when things get super out of hand and Natsuki accuses Yuri of cutting

...how did Natsuki know that?

I mean maybe she didn't and was just doing some fucked up guess work

But it was true, so it's possible and interesting to think that maybe she somehow found out? That would be an interesting plot to explore, cuz how? How did that impact their relationship?

But also I don't think Natsuki would be mean enough a person to call that out if she knew about it, would she? Is she truly that caught up in the heat of the moment to say that? That would also be interesting to explore

And like if she didn't know, why the fuck did she guess that?

Sorry I just suddenly got hit with a flurry of curiosity about that, guess thats what happens when u can't sleep, idk, thoughts?

[lizzemea]

Taking a step outside the media boundaries: How Doki Doki Literature Club got me closer to leaving my church (no spoilers)

When I was a believing member of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (aka Mormon), it was very eye-opening for me to read the short, infamous horror visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club (aka DDLC), because before then I would have never touched an M-rated gory game with spicy stuff, much less that made gaming headlines for being the most terrifying psychological horror. But one fateful day, I got a strong spiritual prompting that I should play it....

(For context: I used to spend hours combing reviews of media I was to watch to make sure there wasn't even a HINT of sex or gore. Horror was a strict no-no for me and I almost didn't play ace attorney (another visual novel) because, get this, some of the ladies outfits showed a tiny bit of the top of their breasts)

So, I played DDLC. It was TERRIFYING, hitting hard on horrors I'd seen in real life and I had to pause to take notes and breathe a couple times. But in the end, after it was over, I could say it was amazingly cathartic, very thought provoking piece on the topics of mental health and after that it felt very empowering to say that instead of feeling like I had become an awful devil who deserves the worst for allowing such dark thoughts to be observed, I actually felt MORE accepting and loving of other people, including myself.

It was surprising, growing up Mormon and getting the impression that horror media would scar me for life. and I'll admit there's some horror visuals I'll never be able to unsee completely. But in the end I was okay, and everything was alright.

Suddenly I had to start reevaluating all these standards I'd set for myself and the standards in the church around me, and ended up both realizing how impossible&inconsistent some of the standards the church sets for people is, and realizing that someone can have "inner demons" like disturbing thoughts&other stuff without being a horrible unworthy person!

Needless to say, The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints has a high level of shame for such things and wouldn't be a fan of my insights, or of DDLC.

And so, my shelf gets heavier and I'm one step closing to realizing that my church, is false.....

[panicloser]

I hate how a lot of, DDLC fan content, especially old fan content from back when it came out, immediately fixated only on the part of Monika's character that's "she wants to date you so bad she kills the girls, what a yandere" and not the far more interesting and tragic part of her character that's "this character is aware that she is forever trapped in a fake world with fake people and you're her only hope at something real"

And I like both parts certainly but so many fan songs and stuff like that boil her down to just being a psychopath villain that's sooo obsessed with being with you 🤪

Yeah because she's TRAPPED in a GAME and your the only thing that's REAL, did you miss that??

A lotta fan content didn't even MENTION that, it's her entire MOTIVE and what makes her character so interesting and some traded that for her to be just another yandere girl 💀

And what's worse is one of this game's messages is not to boil these characters or real people down to their tropes, that there's more to them than the trope that they fit into

And yet Monika and the other girls got turned into exactly that by many parts of the fandom

Fortunately I don't see this happen much on Tumblr tho :)

[panicloser]

It's funny how the MC in ddlc is self centred but also has no sense of self

[panicloser]

Other than the very mean specific things he says, the other thing that makes the MC's dialogue towards Sayori come off as sooo mean is that she in return is sooo nice to him. Cuz like if you've been friends that long it makes sense that you'd be more comfortable calling them on shit or making mean jokes that you both know you don't really mean but usually in those dynamics both people would be that way towards each other, so it's a mutual equal thing ur doing together. Meanwhile MC & Sayori's interactions will literally go like-

"hey mc I really care about you and want you to be happy, and I know you're a good person inside :))"

"stfu Sayori your so stupid why don't you clean your room and wake up earlier IDIOT >:((("

Like 😭