Okay, so the first Victor Gideon scene I saw was him interrogating Leon. My friend thought it would be a good idea to let me get an idea on what he’s like because I haven’t watched an LP of RE9 at the time.
My first initial thoughts were:
“His voice is a lot softer than I expected.”
“I’m digging his coat.”
“Whu- …Why did he do that?”
“Oh god, why is he pawing at Leon like that?!”
“…And NOW I understand why people are all over this guy. Holy fuck!”
i really dug how arrested development they all were, especially Crystal: lying and spinning tales like a child would to save face when he sees Kelson through the binoculars. the tellytubbies being part inside-joke part gospel.. his at times very childlike vocabulary (tum tums.. sleepy..) the excessive flaunting and preaching to impress his gang. you can tell that so much of his scripture is just regurgitated from what he grew up with as the son of a vicar, just twisted to fit his own agenda. that is an overgrown, sadistic, feral child!!! very peter pan and the lost boys, in the most fucked up way possible. i loved it!!!
my only complaint is I wish we got more individual development of the Jimmies. i wanted to know more about their interpersonal dynamics. we only really got a few surface-level indications of the groups workings: shite and fox being best pals, snake and jones being in a relationship.
i was especially interested in Jimmima. I thought we’d learn a bit more about her in relation to Crystal. from the promo/fan theories i had thought she might be related by blood to him in some way, or at least have a higher standing in the hierarchy of the group. I definitely think she was *probably* his favourite as the most sadistic ‘finger’. it is hard to tell though, wether his rage following her death was at things simply not going his way or if he actually cared on any personal level.
such an interesting little set of villains i wish we got to spend more time with!
you know the feeling when you listen to an album and you are just stunned, like it caught you off guard. i finished the album and i have been sitting here with my hand in my head because i don’t understand shit like WTF just happened??
i thought the album would be different and it would be good but THIS??? this is ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY AMAZING. mind-blowing. everything about this. omg i’m too stunned and i don’t fucking know what’s wrong with me. i’m just in a daze.
LOUIS TOMLINSON DRUGGED ME WITH HIS PERFECT ALBUM.
i can’t decide a fucking favourite song because ALL OF THEM were so fucking good. i kept telling myself while listening, this is my favourite, and then the next one would play and i’d forget what the previous one even sounded like because the current one is SO FUCKING GOOD???
i don’t know. i’m too stunned to speak.
LOUIS WILLIAM TOMLINSON YOU ARE A HELL OF AN ARTIST. you deserve everything baby and if people can’t give THIS masterpiece the moment it deserves then we have failed as fangirls, not you. NEVER YOU.
I’M SO FUCKING PROUD. BEYOND PROUD. YOU HAVE GONE THROUGH SO MUCH, OVERCOME SO MUCH, AND YOU HAVE GIVEN YOUR BEST. and now it’s our time to give you the recognition you deserve.
Watching 56 Days!!!!! This is not like any show I’ve watched before goddamn! And I’m only on episode two!
I have been waiting for this to come out for over a year and I’m two days late so I feel kinda stupid but oh well.
Actually I’ve been excited since before I had any clue what it was, just because both Dove and Avan are in it. They’re both such phenomenal actors. And people. And artists. Like, I’m kinda totally obsessed with Dove, have all her music, she’s one of the 4 people I have instagram for. And of course Avan is marrying one of the other 3 people I follow.
Dove’s technical skill when it comes to acting is just incredible, she has such fine control of her body, voice, and expressions that I just have to admire. It’s this skill that makes her so perfect for duplicitous characters.
I wasn’t someone who ever watched Nickelodeon, so my familiarity with Avan and his work started much later is still largely incomplete, but he’s capable of such intensity. He can make any scene he’s in feel so… deep, for lack of a better word. He projects this feeling that there’s always so much under the surface, what that is depends on the scene. It could be a huge well of emotion, or thoughts, or tension. He just amplifies everything with his expressions in a way I don’t even understand.
And of course it doesn’t hurt that they’re both conventionally attractive people, but that’s always secondary for me.
Anyway yeah that’s what I’m doing, I’m obsessed, this show is amazing, the directing and scene composition are masterful. The music is perfect. So far the sexual scenes have been tasteful and short, not disrupting the flow and setting the tone of the relationship which was one of my biggest concerns going in. (I’m not really a fan of those, so I’m relieved it’s not gratuitous.)
i know it has been a million years so i'm not gonna feed any empty promises. but had the chance to watch this beautiful movie opening night and it has reopened everything within me. i love this movie so much and i can't believe they managed to make it better than the last.
the bond and deep appreciation and love i feel for some of these characters and the world of avatar is limitless. i'm itching to write but i genuinely cannot promise anything as of right now.
nonetheless i don't know whose feed this will even come across, i hope my old friends and readers and new followers are all living wonderful lives. i miss you all and you come across my mind every now and then.
It's hilarious talking about BG3 with my brother-in-law bc he's a very gamer, very white and very straight dude and it's amazing watching him about to have an aneurysm about how I'm playing lol (long first-time-playing rambling under the cut)
Not even because I'm playing "badly", it's just that my order of doing things is apparently all over the place (I had a few hints on this, taking Lae'zel and Gale into account lol), my "priorities" make no sense to him and he has no idea how I'm making the ranger class work because he thinks it's hot garbage even in table top DnD. Also he can't wrap his head around the fact that I don't like using magic, but that one is confusing for everyone hehehehehehehe
Exploring places I shouldn't have access to is one of the first things I do in games like these, every time, and I get so lost in the discovery sauce that sometimes I end up skipping very initial things because I didn't wanna stay in one place for too long, that's how I was able to completely walk past Gale in the beginning, poor guy was stuck in a rock for like, 40 hours of gameplay lmao
And apparently the mountain passage is NOT the first place you could find Lae'zel after the ship wreck but since it was next to where Gale was and I missed him, I ended up missing her too. The irony is that I went too far too early specifically because I was looking for her, then there was the dragon and the buffed up githyanki enemies who were instantly hostile every time I tried to reach her so yeah, she was DEAD for at least 60 hours of gameplay because I didn't find her when I was supposed to. Whoopsie. Sorry gurl lol
As for my priorities... I reached the Grove, found out Halsin needed rescue and this information alone was enough for me to lock in so, SO intensely I was solving problems I shouldn't even have touched yet at level 2 and that remained a pattern until recently. Even Halsin was like "damn you already did all that? holy shit" when I first talked to him at the camp and that left me "............MOTHERFUCKER I DID ALL THAT FOR YOU-". I literally wouldn't have done half of what I did if his stubborn ass didn't refuse to leave the goblin camp until the leaders were dead lol I'm still mourning Minthara but hey it worked!! Halsin is here and he likes me he's strong as fuck, he's gorgeous, he's fun to have around, I feel it was worth the hustle 😌💖 (but I really didn't wanna kill Minthara, next playthrough I'll find a better way girl please wait for me-)
And honestly I went with Ranger because it's my fave class, I have no idea why it's so underrated. It's not flashy like mage or druid, sure, but it's so useful and it's kinda like an "all rounder" class when you play as a dwarf like I do, because Zivorad's ranged attacks are more lethal for sure but his melee stuff still does a LOT of damage and he has his beasts to fight beside him as well. His initiative is through the roof and with his multiple attacks + magic suppressing abilities + resistance to pretty much every kind of magic that requires a saving roll + the beast + stealth, that man is a nightmare to go against. If he rolls better than you on the initiative - which happens a lot - before you can reach him he already drained half of your hp and the goddamn wolf/bear beside him is coming for the rest lmao
That's why him and Astarion work together so nicely btw, two fast bitches with the power to stop mages and somehow disappear right after leaving you bleeding, confused and powerless. It's a lovely view, I'm always delighted to witness the efficiency hehehehehehehehe Astarion has a fair amount of spells/spells slots but I rarely have him casting anything really, I might change his specialisation to make him more focused on being an assassin and not a "trickster". Something to ponder about later ~
On why I don't like using magic... Well that needs a whole post by itself, also I'm not in the mood to type all of that out lol
These were my thoughts on the general experience so far (+80 hours of gameplay or so, somewhere right before the middle of Act 2 I think?), if any of y'all were watching it from the beginning and felt genuinely confused on what's happening, you're not alone. Everyone is except me apparently lmaoooooo
TTPD is very much giving 2023 summer and “here’s a detailed analysis of what happened when i was feeling insane. all my raw thoughts about how the person i loved the most betrayed me by stealing me of our future, and how that drove me to be rebellious. here’s my hatred of people trying to control me” and so much of what happened with matty and her feelings for him are connected to how joe made her feel. every song about what happened last summer in her life goes back what and who and why of her relationship with joe. so many interconnections.
whereas the anthology is giving pre-2023 and “here’s how what happened with joe made me feel. i felt stolen and i blame you, but i also blame myself because maybe it’s me and my prophecy” and the album ending with the manuscript and her analyzing her past is helping her move forward because she has hindsight feels soooo
