#rant warning

[willy-shakesqueer]

My friend's birthday yesterday was so lovely but... 4+ hours of driving, socialing with 9 people in a crowded, noisy restaurant, trying to follow conversations with my auditory processing issues... It's really taken its toll on me. She's worth it, but I feel absolutely awful.

Of course, it could just be hormones talking 😅 but I guess I'm really battling with how costly it is to be neurodivergent. I desperately want to do some kind of art but I'll probably disregulate the minute I get out of bed.

Missing the Say Help update this week is breaking my heart. It's the highlight of my week, every week. I'm glad I've got something else to share with you instead because having nothing would be devistating.

Idk I'm just not in the best place tonight. Anyway stand by to have some art hurled at you.

[jose0317]

The World Has Gone Insane

In order shown:

Copenhagen Denmark 2016 - Thomas Ambt Kofoed

Östgötateatern Sweden 2000 - Anders Ekborg

Vienna Austria 2001-2003 - Thomas Borchert

I love for The World Has Gone insane so much, and I will forever be mad that most productions choose just to remove it (what I wouldn’t give to see Coccioli perform this). Luckily some productions do keep it.

These productions are only from European productions. I’m not sure if this is a coincidence or if it's only ever been included in European shows, since it was cut Pre-Broadway.

Either way, I find it interesting to see how differently the scene is made.

The Vienna and Copenhagen productions really focus on the hallucinatory/nightmare aspect. Whereas Sweden is focusing more on Jekyll losing it. And tbh I think they’re all great in their own way.

I think it’s worth noticing that in the Copenhagen show the “old friends” are on stage and that it’s Utterson in the straitjacket, and Emma is wearing the bloodstained dress and her hair has been cut off.

I also really love Anders Ekborg singing in the Swedish show; it sounds like he is on the verge of crying.

I like to see the struggle Jekyll is going through, and I think TWHGI is a perfect place to showcase not only what he feels, but also how the whole thing screws with his mental state and his ability to sustain Hyde within. All of Jekyll's songs post-Transformation are, more or less, him questioning his life choices, and just overall having a terrible time. But I feel like TWHGI shows the more “I’m losing my marbles” aspect of it.

[joycarver]

For Carver: Are you critical about the actual Poppy Playtime game and the company behind it as a whole? And do you have criticisms on the Prototype’s design as well? Or would you prefer to refrain from talking about such things on this fun RP blog?

warnings: mob critical; my knowledge may have holes (or be blatantly wrong)

tldr mark was right to clock their asses.

there is no force in this entire bitch of a universe that can stop me from pelting moldy tomatoes their way at every turn.

aside from blatant protoinspiration they took off FNAF (sotm most notably) and the NFT bullshit, harassment of minors over fucking minecraft slop animations, first chapter being but a glorified demo that they STILL had the GALL to charge like. what was it 5-10$ clams on release, (with a fckin. main menu merch button) cowardice, and a lack of accountability-

i also just dont see studios/companies as friends who need defending or who can be actually GENUINELY harmed by extensive criticism. they literally laid off a sizeable chunk of staff and replaced them with new people in order to pad out what should've initially been a 5part story. the way the """lore""" is delivered to us is total bullshit. the games hardly look fun to even WATCH other people play- let alone to tempt me into trying to actually bother playing them myself.

I only barely got hooked around chapter 3-4ish, 5 cementing me in place if only because my Muse kicked in so hard for a character who's entire gist boils down to "i have suffered so much for a reward that isn't even mine to lay claim to- but claim it i shall anyway, and i will make it entirely mine so no one hurts me again"

but anyway thats just my two cents pls dont come to my home and kill me. thx

[stardew-allie]

my workplace is drinking the AI kool-aid haaaard. yes, it's here, but also, so are we? humans, who have been building amazing things together for tens of thousands of years? the example they gave is that in the past, looking up info involved libraries, atlases, pulling over in the car and asking people for directions. then in 1998 google happened, everything changed... and now we're living through another shift.

sure, AI is huge. it is here. we can't put the lid back on. but I'd argue libraries and atlases and asking for directions have been a quintessential part of the human experience for thousands of years? and maybe just maybe the lack of public spaces and mundane interactions with fellow humans is (one of) the reasons we're so polarized right now? are you absolutely sure you want to not only stay on this path but use AI tools to actively dig us deeper into those pits? can we not actively throw away skills humans have developed over thousands of years in exchange for AI results that are questionable at best?

and - and! - you're telling me I need to do all this in order to be a valuable employee? yeah okay sure, just shoot me into the sun

[willowwithin]

Thoughts under the cut because spoilers

Look I liked Luthen but I do not see the point of having a whole episode dedicated to his and Keyla's backstory when we only have 3 episodes left.

It was a solid episode but like why

Thank goodness we actually got some Kay, Melshi and Cassian in episode 11, you know we could have had more of THAT.

An entire episode just for a rescue is also a choice.

Then episode 12 comes along and I... just.... ????????

????????

Rushed setup barely covers it, trying to cram all of that into what like 50 mins, of course it wasn't going to work.

Also Cassian now freaking LIES to Jyn in Rogue One, he HASN'T lost everything. Wilmon is still alive, Bee is still alive, BIX IS STILL ALIVE.

OH AND THE BIX STUFF.

I like Bix, I don't like how they used her as a torture device and then shipped her off to corn field planet to have Cassian's kid.

It also makes Rebelcaptain really icky for me now, like how am I supposed to watch Rogue One with this knowledge. Is Cassian just being flirty with Jyn to keep her on his side, why does he even keep going back for her then.

And don't give me the whole "oh they retconned it so they have sibling vibes now". That makes zero sense in the context of Rogue One.

I'm not saying there weren't good bits to this show, anyone who has talked to me about it knows I defended it a lot.

Tony Gilroy and co you can never take Rebelcaptain from me.

[demsquared]

MADE IN MS PAINT /// old man !! (okay funny thing but i just rememebered why i didnt post any of my ms paint will art !!! it was cuz i showed this art to a friend group and one of the people i showed to said "wow, making that BLUE TRIANGLE THAT DOESNT EVEN EXIST AND IS AN AU VERSION OF A NACHO DEMON have dark skin is SOOOO woke!!!" THEY HAVE NEVER EVEN WATCHED GF. it made me KINDA!!!!! upset . sorry for the rant)

[maxisthewierdo]

so! After desperately searching all of worldless, there is no secret ending i have found. Which sucks, because i have a few problems with the main ending I think you guys can agree on. Spoilers under cut…

So. First off, the buildup. The sky cracking open as we slowly kill more and more green entities and our gray companion freaking out only to die was AWESOME to see. If only there was an actual final boss to go along with it…

Second off. I had no final test of skill, really. I spent all this time building up fighting skills, and for what? The devil fight? The green dragon thing? They didn’t end the game, so clearly theres something stronger I have to beat. But, nope. Practically a cutscene.

third off, the ending. Now this may just be me but i don’t like the sudden jump from “edda desperately trying to save aven via absorbing him” to “big bang.” The idea of them absorbing eachother is the entire concept of the first half of the game, but i wish they followed through with it.

okay, disappointing rant over. I have to get this out there lol

[ehliena]

To people hating on "white" Damian...

This is a panel from Batman and Son (the Grant Morrison/Andy Kubert comic that introduced him officially as Damian Wayne)

See? Same skin tone as Tim.

And the Variant Cover:

I love brown Damian as much as the next person, but to frequently complain that he's always supposed to be brown is... well it's not how some people's skin work.

I headcanon that Dami is the type who can tan and tan nicely, but deprive him of frequent sun exposure (*cough cough* Gotham has smog and he's mostly in the Cave) and he gets pale.