#snaketittties

[loycos]

do these people just forget that r sugar is a whole ass jewish person when they spout their shallow idiotic “diamonds are nazis” smarty pants analyses or

i find those claims annoyin. especially when people tell me im a nazi-apologist for liking the (fictional, not real) Diamonds, considering im also a whole ass jewish person. Yes im a none white jew and i love deep media analysis beyond the most basic of levels, what do you know. not every bad person in media is a nazi, dear god please learn what makes nazis what they are and identify them correctly instead of throwing that word around till it loses its meaning.

[paragonrobits]

snaketittties replied to your post: ive had some vague ideas for SU rewrites but tbh...

for me i would give jaspers shattering more meat in the story, more rose flash backs, how white diamond came to be which would include the birth of the gem empire. as well as just everyone paling around bc i love that crap.

oooh! how would you have Jasper’s shattering handled? i mean for my part i’d like to have Jasper around earlier on on a more frequent basis, even if its just as ‘that one asshole who refuses to actually contribute but shit talks everyone’

the rose flashbacks would definitely help to give more of Rose’s view and make the narrative intent clear! Specifically focus on her perpetual terror that she’s doing something wrong and doesn’t Get people, her implied death wish, and stuff to make possible trans analogues (given the connotations of identifying as a Rose Quartz)

for my part i headcanon that White was created by alien race as an autonomic producer/control unit of a robot-style force, and they either fought off for freedom (and still have a sore spot against organics to this day, remembering the cruelty of their makers) or those guys died on their own, leaving the Gems ot mindlessly obey their programming despite there no longer being a purpose for it. If you do not physically stop me from making it a crossover, i absolutely WILL make their creators the Quintessons from Transformers.)

EVERYONE IS FRIENDS AND BY GOD IT WILL BE CLEAR. Ideally, perhaps a lot of early moments with Pearl and Greg genuinely getting along for brief moments until she stiffens up and backs off or gets grumpy/superior, hinting that if it wasn’t for the tension of Rose’s death, they’d get along fabulously

[paragonrobits]

snaketittties replied to your post “me: killing is inherently a destructive thing to the human mind and we...”

unabashed murder is cool when the narrative doesnt give a shit about it. esp when its people who ‘deserve’ it. But when the narrative calls for reflection like atla did, then theres no need

that’s a good point! I love ur words

like, Doom and a lot of other games that focus on non-stop action are a good example of the former; it can honestly help if you set up a scenario where you should be personally delighted to rip them in half (such as the entirety of Wolfenstein).

A big part of it is whether the impact of actually killing someone is implemented; if not, i don’t think it FEELS like actual death, but just another flavor of action. Without the impact or the bite, it doesnt feel like something of the sort of big consequence.

on the other hand, when the narrative focuses on what you’re doing, its a whole other case. Undertale’s an interesting example there, because I got into that game knowing nothing about it at all; I just saw the tagline ‘the friendly RPG where no one has to die’ and i went for it, and its narrative STRONGLY works for this sort of direction

its like... if its just a wild-ass stompy ride, no big deal there, or if killing the bad guys is the whole point of the exercise, that’s one thing. but its quite another when there is a narrative at play that explores the consequentials of those actions.

[paragonrobits]

oh yea the stereotype of Scorpios Are Bitches is widespread, and in astrology Scorpio rules over a lot of “bad” aspects, such as death and sexual taboos. its planet rulers are mars and pluto, and if you just look at the roman/greek gods of those names you can imagine the signs intensity lol

wait really???

me, thinking about this for approximately 12 seconds with this information: ...OHHHHHHHHHHH.

that... would probably explain a lot of Vriska’s characterization, to be honest, and I can see why that would be a stereotype?

So its ruled by Ares/Mars and Hades/Pluto? Hrm. Being ruled by the god of switching between being a comedic asshole and being the patron of mass slaughter/Sparta is one thing, but on the other hand, I mean, Hades does tend to be fairly chill. By Greek god standards. Not sure how they differ in their roman variations, though I understand that Rome shoved more refined feelings of warfare to Mars?

...I have this running idea for a Homestuck concept that does away with the in-universe game that makes them into gods, and instead having them be mortal avatars of some specific divine forces loosely modeled after the astrological signs (going by aspect, speciically, using the trolls’ zodiac signs as the baseline there), and this gives me some ideas for how i might go about actually doing that? Like Scorpio being said to have that whole thing going on?

[paragonrobits]

snaketittties replied to your post: so i think a lot of my problems with characters...

tbh like empathy isnt hard to experience

what kind of empathy do you mean? because there’s some kinds of it that I personally don’t really experience because of cognitive differences

this miiiiiiiight tie into some of my issues with stuff being relatable; what they call cognitive empathy (or putting yourself in someone else’s shoes) is a problem because I really can’t do that; its like some part of me goes ‘I am me, I am not someone else, how can I be expected to assume I just KNOW how someone feels??’

but then there’s affective empathy, which i think is like what I described before. to more or less feel the kinds of things someone is giving off? this, im pretty sure I do feel. (I keep watchin reaction videos to The Last Bastion for example, and it makes me extremely emotional even if i cant articulate why, besides ‘robots being sad makes me Feel Human Emotions’

i THINK that its probably best to shoot for the latter? and tbh is probably what people mean in general (or I would think so?) like, I see a character who is sad in a way that is clearly depicted and i go ‘this is sad. this makes me sad, i understand that this is sad’, even if its not something I can really personally relate to.

tbh this is probably why a lot of human characters in media where there are non-humans fail to really make me feel for them; a lot of times there’s this unspoken assumption that you’re SUPPOSED to care about them because you’re human too, or they rely on that to make some kind of connection and, idk. i just almost never feel it until they put some effort into it??

[paragonrobits]

snaketittties replied to your post: the funniest thing about that ‘stop playing...

i havent played an ac game in a while either ive just literally been hyperfocused on ratonhnhaketon since he first debuted and wont ever stop posting about him i think lol

i was hyper focused on him before i even started playing the games, literally the only reason i played Altair and Ezio was for context before getting to The Main Man himself

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snaketittties replied to your post: i really hate sillicon valley fanboys/technocrats...

he wasnt only going to kill more supers but he was ready to kill bobs Children to get back at him. something even mirage was against and was the thing that made her turn on him.

(you could absolutely read this as Syndrome going above and beyond the limitations of villainy in a way that even Mirage wasn’t comfortable with, though based on Helen’s orders earlier in the movie, its fairly likely that ALL villains are like that and Mirage had a moment of realizing what an actual supervillain is like)

like, between the people the Omnidroid was going to kill just to give him a dramatic fight, Bob’s family, and the retired supers, Syndrome was going to kill a LOT of people over a tantrum because a grown man refused to go along with his demands as a kid.

it just... weirds me out that you get a lot of people who insist he’s the REAL HERO because he makes cool power gadgets, and completely ignore him being literally Lex Luthor if he was a fanboy.

Granted, I’ve noticed a LOT of people in that kind of community who have this weird obliviousness to that kind of thing; another poster was a total anarchist who instinctively distrusted authority and felt all government was inherently corrupt... but they ALSO fanboyed over corporations and treated them as the ultimate power for good and hated all form of regulation, in open disregard of what corporations do the instant they’re not regulated.

That very person tried to claim that Ayn Rand was the greatest and most revolutionary thinker of the modern age, in a rant that basically boiled down to the poster thinking environmentalism was getting in the way of Progress. All i could think was ‘WHY’

[paragonrobits]

snaketittties replied to your post: oh yea the stereotype of Scorpios Are Bitches is...

i used the gods names to be very simple in my explanation bc i tend to go off on overly complex tangents about astrology to people who dont get it yet lol its gotten to a hyperfixation. homestuck really did do a pretty good job making the trolls fit their appropriate archetypes, but i havent kept up with it in some years so idk How good??

we all got our hyperfixations! : )

i have this assumption that Homestuck plays with the associations of the astrology like SU does with crystal symbolism? sort of how SU’s gems tend to invert their traditional symbolism associated with the gems in question?