#redvioletdelights

[lostlegendaerie]

strangestquiet replied to your post “today in OW i learned:”

if anyone thanks me for healing i'm on them for the rest of the match. i'm their personal health pack

i added this genji as a friend bc EVERY TIME. EVERY HEAL. I GOT A THANK YOU. I WAS READY TO FOLLOW HIM INTO THE ENEMY CAMP BOOSTING HIS ATTACk BUT HE JUMPED TOO HIGH TOO FAST AND I COULDNT KEEP UP

G O S H

redvioletdelights replied to your post “today in OW i learned:”

THIS IS THE BEST OMG

i am having the Best Time with this game

[anneapocalypse]

@redvioletdelights replied to your post:@redvioletdelights replied to your post: ...

LMFAO THAT’S HOW I FEEL WITH STRANGERS TBH. the first five seasons will weed out the Weak™ (TOTALLY BEING FACETIOUS EVERYONE bgc is a flaming heap of trash and we know it) but she wants to see the Best Parts and i’m like “….guys help”

I’ll even stand up for parts of Blood Gulch--like, not all of it, sure, there’s plenty of bad jokes and wtf plot things but some of my favorite RvB humor is the season 1-3 jokes that take shots at online multiplayer gaming culture and military bureaucracy because that shit is a) funny, and b) lambasting things that totally deserve it.

Blood Gulch is pretty much like--okay, even I’ll tell people that “it gets really good at season 6,″ but look man if somebody isn’t laughing at all during season 1, this show is not for them. Even the most serious parts of RvB are built on the foundation of that kind of humor, tone, and subject matter. If someone doesn’t enjoy any of that stuff in season 1--if they’re grimacing the whole time and saying “when did you say it gets good again?” and, more importantly, if they don’t fucking love Tex when she appears--cut ‘em loose, you’re barking up the wrong tree. 

If they get at least a few chuckles out of season 1 they’re probably gonna hang in there.

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@redvioletdelights replied to your post: @redvioletdelights replied to...

ily. THE MILITARY JOKES WERE WHAT GOT ME TBH why can’t i stop yelling.

IT’S COOL PAL FEEL FREE :D and yeah the military humor is one of my favorite thing and literally all of RvB is about military disorder and incompetence from Blood Gulch to Freelancer, like. that’s the show.

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@redvioletdelights replied to your post: I have the opportunity this evening to drag...

MY GIRLFRIEND WANTS TO WATCH IT AND I’M LIKE ???????????

Everybody get on this ride.

[lostlegendaerie]

redvioletdelights replied to your chat “*talking about avoiding dehydration at cons* indy: i know they have...”

I AM LAUGHING SO HARD THAT IT'S PAINFUL

me too bro and it might be worth the cost of the plane ticket just for this

[lostlegendaerie]

redvioletdelights replied to your link “Saro's Year in Review”

omg this is Legit, it makes me sad i only followed you like TWO DAYS AGO

and i am Happy To Have You, hello, please let me know how to maximise your Tumblr experience on my end

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@redvioletdelights replied to your post “@redvioletdelights replied to your post: ...”

and then they fucking MAKE IT SAD during the chorus arc with the kids being FUCKING BABIES. like if you don't know your halo lore (which i didn't, not really) YOU'VE NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED THIS UP UNTIL THAT POINT AND SDIUFHSUGHISUGHISUGDHSIUG.

Yeeeeeeahhhh the whole Chorus situation is super sad, though the Fed and New soldiers being kids (as in, minors) is actually headcanon/fanon--like, it’s a very believable theory, don’t get me wrong, but to the best of my knowledge, there are no confirmed ages for anyone on Chorus, and a soldier calling a younger soldier “kid” can just be a colloquialism or a term of endearment (like Church calling Pvt. Jimmy “a good kid”).

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@redvioletdelights replied to your post “@a-taller-tale replied to your post: ...”

LMAO THAT LAST BIT IS MY PROBLEM. i need everyone i love to love it, so i'm over here like HOW CAN I MAKE THIS HAPPEN. i'm 1 for 1 so like, THE PRESSURE IS ON OKAY

Mmm yeah that’s a tough one and I’m really of the opinion that... you can’t make someone love something. You can share it with them, and you can share your love of it with them, but you can’t force it, and trying to make fetch happen when it’s not gonna happen can honestly do more harm than good.

A personal example? I hate zombies. I hate zombies, I hate stories about zombies, and no matter how much someone tells me well you’ll like this zombie thing because it has great characters or it’s well-written or whatever I’m still like uggghhh zombies no. Vampires, though, I’m more ambivalent about. I will literally never seek out vampire stories on my own, but I’ve been coaxed into liking some vampire-related things, not because my friend who loves vampires chained me to the TV and told me “You have to watch this!” but because her enthusiasm for it bled over and I decided it could be fun to see the show so we could talk about it.

My best advice would be: as hard as it may be, try to take that pressure off yourself and let it be okay if you don’t love exactly the same things. But also feel free to love it around them. If it’s relevant enough to their interests--hell, even if there are no major “nope” buttons for them--your enthusiasm may eventually pique their interest and to be perfectly honest they may be more Into It when they get into it if they don’t feel like they were dragged kicking and screaming. It can be a painful feeling when somebody is hovering over you while you watch something for the first time, needing you to react The Right Way to every line and it just isn’t landing for you. That doesn’t mean they’ll never get into it! But I think giving them the exposure and being free with your own excitement about it but also giving them some breathing room to get excited on their own is the best way to go. Again, your mileage may vary, but that’s my experience.

I love RvB and even I didn’t get into it the first time I was exposed to it. I fell down the rabbit hole when I was good and ready to and now I’m way deeper into it than the person who introduced me to it in the first place.