Tangential Worlds

Writer, blogger, fan of RWBY and Life is Strange

[j-richmond]

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[lets-steal-an-archive]

[bifidokxd]

🍎x3

[lasvistas-lavender]

full tea full shade i miss when lis was more of an anthology with different characters, settings, and powers. I love chloe and max but lets leave it alone...tell other stories!!! be creative!!!

[tangent101]

Dontnod considered Life is Strange to be akin to Final Fantasy. Each game is self-contained and (mostly) without a sequel, but each game would be Life is Strange. And honestly? I kind of wish LiS2 didn't include Arcadia Bay, David Madsen, or any references to anything in the first game. They should have had each game be its own unique world.

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 1)

get yourself used to sleeping on your back (and possibly elevated depending on your surgeon) BEFORE surgery.

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top surgery tip 2)

have cough drops on hand because your throat will probably be sore from the breathing tube they use with anesthesia.

[cathedral-spires]

Top surgery tip 3)

Get and use straws. You'll have T-Rex arms for a while but you still need to hydrate.

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 4)

the post surgery compression binder is more comfortable than youd think but it still gets pretty itchy. so dont be afraid to take benydryl, itll help you rest and stop the itch

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top surgery tip 5)

sounds weird but try not to flex your pecs… watched a horror game play through and every time there was a jump scare my whole body tensed up including my pecs which hurt like a bitch

[purplepunchsoda]

Top surgery tip 6)

Have hand sanitizer/ body wipes incase you cannot reach across sinks easily and to also put under your armpits if you cannot get deodorant there

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 7)

you might be numb in some areas affected by the surgery. especially if your surgeon does any liposuction along with just cutting your boobs off. right now my armpits are numb which makes cleaning them weird. less of a tip and more its normal for early in recovery

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top surgery tip 8)

about a week in stuff starts to feel like pins and needles. i thought that meant my one nipple was falling off. turns out its the opposite and its them coming back to life. the post op compression binder while annoying does help the tingling feel less weird

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 9)

you surgeon may be ripped to hell and back like mine and put the compression binder on super tight. ITS OK TO LOOSEN IT A LITTLE.

its there for compression to keep the swelling down but same rules apply as a regular binder: it might be a little uncomfortable and feel tight but you need to still be able to BREATHE

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 10)

invest in a long pair of tongs or one of those claw grabber things. i just made ramen that was in a cabinet above the microwave. how? tippy toes and tongs.

[britcision]

Top surgery tip 11)

You can buy little hair net looking guys at some major pharmacies that include shampoo and can be used to wash your hair in bed if you’re having trouble in the shower

(This is a general surgery tip but all my disabled friends swear by ‘em post surgery it makes your life much easier and you can feel properly clean)

[itsparadoxlacuna]

top surgery tip 12) it’s okay to sleep on the couch or in a chair if it’s too difficult or painful to get in and out of bed. My couch plus a pile of throw pillows on either side of me was the perfect place to sit and simmer as I recovered. I also recommend getting one of those airplane pillows that go around your neck. very useful if you end up sleeping sitting up and don’t want your neck to crick.

[tanukipost]

top surgery tip 13)

when it comes to scar care. anything is better than nothing. and you dont need to shell out hundreds of dollars for fancy scar creams. to massage your scars as long as everythings properly closed you can just grab an gentle unscented or naturally scented lotion and use that. shea butter, cocoa butter, bio oil the like. youre just looking for something for sensitive skin and thatll keep them hydrated.

[dominyk9]

14: suffering is not noble take the damn meds

14a: take them *before* doing the daily tube drain

[spring-maidens]

pinup of the big cats princess abbi for @fawnduu <3

[hexjulia]

lmao god, english upper class people... I was reading Mathilda, and there's all these monologues about the protagonist going insane from loneliness and not knowing how to act when she finally strikes up a friendship again; she has retired to a cottage in the woods and is essentially in hiding. All this time we're given the impression that she is utterly alone in that cottage. Much woe about the completeness of her loneliness. and then.

what do you mean your servant ...? in your cottage in the woods where you were so utterly alone? that one?

[hexjulia]

pt 2, this time Frankenstein by the same. Said Frankenstein is greatly relieved when he returns and the 'apartment was empty' because this means his monster has fled. but then

...did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.

Eventually the monster was like "well this is awkward. I'm out." and the servant presumably just filed the encounter under "weird shit upper class people do" and went on with his life.

[lierdumoa]

I remember taking this college elective on film adaptations and we talked about the controversy caused by the PBS adaptation of Emma, which made a point of putting servants in every. single. scene, confronting the audience with the reality that the main characters are surrounded by servants constantly and are choosing not to acknowledge their presence. Emma is consoling her "poor" friend Harriet over her misfortune and the entire time a servant is standing there silently brushing Emma's hair or some shit. Virtually every other adaptation of Emma does a very good job of invisiblizing the constant presence of the working class labor force that allowed these people to live the way they did.

[technologistrevolution]

If anyone is interested the murder mystery Gosford Park specifically explored this phenomenon. Roger Ebert did a review of it here.

[mycatwantstoeatpins]

[Description:

A quote from Mary Shelley's Mathilda: '[...] arrived and quite incapable of taking off my wet clothes that clung about me. In the morning, on her return, [highlighted] my servant [end highlight] found me almost lifeless, while possessed by a high fever I was lying on the floor of my room.

A quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: [...] hands for joy and ran down to Clerval. [highlighted] We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; [end highlight] but I was unable to contain myself. It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly.]

[hekuuu]

Continuing to watch the campaign :>

[chloepleasestopdying]

I feel like we won’t be in this mess of a pandering war if True Colors had been received better. Like, to me, it feels like they decided to bring Max back because that would get people’s attention only they fucked it up so they had to hard turn into pandering for pricefield shippers which leads us to Reunion. 

[tangent101]

I liked True Colors.

But there were definitely problems with it.

For one thing? It was too short, with story elements that were truncated or abandoned.

For another thing? It was essentially LiS without a Storm - we have a girl with powers, she witnesses someone she loves die, she has both a lackluster (underdeveloped) male love interest and a more kickass female love interest, the female love interest supports her 100% even while the male love interest has a chance of turning on her, the older white male antagonist is a twist most don't see coming. And so forth.

For a third thing, there is not much replay value in the game and it sadly is just so easily forgettable, compared to LiS itself.

Maybe if the game had been longer with more character development then it would be more memorable. But then you would need a different company than D9 to create the game, seeing that D9 can't craft games with good endings to save their lives.

[qumiwo]

quick Cass with a plain white background because she IS the moment.

[viktormaru]

.......anything with fjord and molly.....its my fave ship and it's so rare and I love your style :)

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[bluequillss]

silksong !! trying out a new artstyle (again) lmao

[thealexchen]

So something interesting about Chloe’s return that I haven’t seen anyone else talk about yet is that it seems like the wrong Chloe returned to whichever Max you play as. The timelines didn’t just merge, they got scrambled.

If you sacrificed Chloe, the Chloe who returns seems to have been alive the whole time and is terrified by memories of her dying. As in, this is Bae timeline Chloe in the Bay timeline, the Chloe that Max saved and traveled with for several years as her best friend/girlfriend before breaking up.

If you sacrificed Arcadia Bay, this Chloe is haunted by visions of a storm that never happened. Not only that, but Arcadia Bay and Joyce are totally fine. Now she’s meeting a Max who has massive survivor’s guilt and is grappling with the realization that killing off the whole town was pointless. Likewise, Bay timeline Chloe doesn’t know that Max has been grieving her own death for over a decade. She’s the 30-year-old Chloe that unceremoniously broke up with Max via letter and tried to move on with her life, and now she’s meeting a Max who only remembers her at 19 and had absolutely no one to confide in about her powers or trauma.

If done well, that could lead to some very complex and interesting interpersonal conflict. What if Bae timeline Max is resentful of the Chloe who spent the last decade in a “perfect” timeline that she didn’t get to be a part of? What if Bay timeline Max, who’s still mourning her soulmate, is blindsided by the Chloe who dumped her after only a few years together and is scared to try again when given a second chance?

I still think that merging the timelines does a huge disservice to the moral dilemma that Dontnod set up in the first game, but the scrambled timelines at least adds a layer to them reconnecting because they’re meeting different versions of each other. They truly are meeting each other all over again and reconciling the person they knew with the person now back in their lives.

[oodlyenough]

I've been wondering about this and I think what you describe is a potentially interesting angle but I have a more cynical read of the clips we saw, which is that basically no matter what you're dealing with what I'll call 3rd Chloe who experienced neither Bay nor Bae but is having nightmares from whichever you chose. The details of 3rd Chloe's life are as yet unclear (does she even remember the events of LIS1?) unless I missed something in the promos. 3rd Chloe to me seems like an attempt to mitigate the branching issues (in a way not all that dissimilar to the comics Chloe living with Rachel in an alt timeline, I guess) by simply replacing Bay AND Bae Chloe with the new one.

Personally I think your idea is more interesting and that's the angle I expected them to take ... Bae Chloe haunted by memories of Bay and vice versa. But that clip of the Bae ending in the livestream, with her confused by the storm, really threw me. It definitely didn't read like a Chloe who broke up with Max via letter...

The cynical side of me suspects all roads lead to more or less the same Chloe, much in the way all roads led to more or less the same Max in DE. Now I personally kind of take all post-LIS1 Pricefield stuff as an AU fanfic version anyway, lol, but even there it does irk me to imagine "the last outing of Max and Chloe" will be about a Chloe who did not live LIS1 with me, whatever the outcome.

All TBD I guess!

[thealexchen]

The Chloe who says the storm never happened and Joyce is alive isn’t Bae timeline Chloe.

Bay timeline = Sacrifice Chloe (save the Bay). Bae timeline = Sacrifice Arcadia Bay (save Chloe).

(I know it’s confusing.)

Bae Chloe (the Chloe who Max saved and dated) is in the Bay timeline, since Max tells her “you’re alive. I don’t know how or why.” Bay timeline Max thought Chloe was dead.

The Chloe in the Bae timeline (where AB was destroyed) isn’t exactly Bay Chloe, since she obviously didn’t miraculously come back to life as a 30 year old. Instead, this seems to be a 3rd timeline Chloe where the storm never happened. We don’t know yet if this Chloe ever reunited with Max, since the whole storm was triggered by Max’s powers. It can’t be the timeline where William never died either, since that Chloe was paralyzed in a car accident at 16.

I’d like this to have interesting consequences and compelling conflict but this is also the studio that had NPC’s T-posing IN THE TRAILER so it might just be that one conversation and instant forgiveness and Pricefield fluff. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[ozmaanodyne]

The terminology the fandom made up a decade ago really coming back to bite us in the ass this is so confusing 😖😖

So I'm guessing we now have three versions of Chloe?

1. Chloe (Bae): Max chose her at the end of LiS 1, dated/ lived with Max (Bae) till after LiS 2. Developed visions of safi and Chloe (Bay) dying at the end of LiS 1. Now taking the place of Chloe (Bay) in the Max (Bay) timeline

2. Chloe (Bay): Max chose to save Arcadia Bay. Died 19 yo on Blackwell academy bathroom floor. No memory/experience of the plot of LiS 1

3. Chloe (Mid): A complete unknown, whose mom is still alive and AB still intact. We don't even know if she and max ever reunited in 2013, or ever. Now replacing Chloe (Bae) in the Max (Bae) timeline

Except its still possible even Bay timeline Chloe isnt exactly Chloe (Bae) since all we know is that she has been alive and not sure why shes there. We don't really saw from the clip any hint she has had a relationship with max/had a destoryed arcadia bay. So I think what @oodlyenough was saying is,maybe for convenience sake, they are all the same chloe, i.e.

4. Chloe (Super): A composite of all possible Chloes. She has visions/memories of her death in Max (Bay) timeline and of the plot in LiS 1, while being alive along with her Mom and an intact AB. Her relationship with Max might be determinant on player's choice, where if they were romantic they would have dated and if not they wouldn't.

(I guess they would have met in adulthood regardless? Although who that Max would be I have no clue.)

I also hope no.4 isn't what they are going with, but with the way they wrote DE to generalise the trauma and experience of max from both timelines... I just hope they make it interesting.

[oodlyenough]

Just putting a cut 'cause it's long

Yes that's what I'm saying essentially! It got confusing because when I say Bae Chloe I meant the character Chloe in the Bae-ending-version-of Reunion VS describing Chloe's experience of the ending.

My guess from the clips is/was that you get #4, and then you get either flavour text/some dialogue about Arcadia Bay (if you sacrificed it) or the bathroom scene (if you sacrificed Chloe).

If anything, DE to me feels like they jumped through a looot of hoops just to try and narratively justify having a Chloe to use in both timelines that is relatively consistent. (I think they must have developed much of this alongside DE, the timeline is too crazy otherwise, which would mean some form of Chloe/Pricefield was always in the plans.)

I would hope to be wrong though cause I find that answer much more boring than #1 and #2 swapping like this original post suggests.

[thealexchen]

Gotcha. Okay. Before Reunion was revealed, I thought that from the leaked PEGI rating that only one version of Chloe (Bae Chloe who broke up with Max) would meet both versions of Max. The timeline scrambling has more interesting narrative potential but you’ve got a point. I don’t want to get my hopes up too high that D9 will actually carry the plot to an interesting place.

Like, if Chloe was always in the cards, why didn’t they just scrap DE and make Reunion a longer game with the plots of both games? They got the fanbase so riled up and had all those price hikes and “DLC” for no reason.

[tangent101]

The reason is $$$.

As in maximization of profits.

Square Enix and Deck Nein give no shits about Pricefield.

What they care about is making lots of money at the expense of their target audience.

The problem is that their actions have resulted in a lack of trust and a likelihood to wait until the game is on sale for 90% off.

Because I will never trust Deck Nein again. Ever.