the war over max's sexuality

max doesn’t have a canon sexuality. you can play as gay, straight, bi, pan, asex basically anything! you can have a gay max where you don’t go to ape with warren or kiss him and just kiss chloe, you can have a straight max where you can go to ape with warren and kiss him but don’t kiss chloe you can have a pan/bi max where you can do both and you can have an asex max where you can do neither.

It’s Tumblr, this war over character sexualities will never, ever, EVER end. For your average Tumblr user anythign “cisgendered” equals homopbohia. Just look for Tumblr users who can deal with stuff as adults pal.

I miss this game.

If only the “will impact the past, present and future” wasn’t a lie...

LiS Fandom

Can everyone just stop fighting, please?

All of your opinions on sexuality/gender/character are yours and so are the opinions of others and they’re all correct because they’re YOUR interpretation. Stop fucking hating each other because someone disagrees on Max’s sexuality, it isn’t fun for anyone in the fanbase.

Like I normally stay out of shit like this, but come on y’all, I’m almost scared to give my own opinions on characters because of how vitriolic some of the disagreements get.

This is so far one of the most conflictive fandoms I’ve ever been into, have no hopes for this one...

Why are you all acting like having the option to be with a male or a female in this game is so controversial? There are so many other games where you can chose your characters gender and your love interests gender but you’re acting like what Life is Strange did is this giant lesbophobic scandal and the developers are horrible for it lmao grow up

Both sides are incredibly aggresive towards shipping. I mean... if you ship Chloe x Max then you’re fanatic scum, ship Warren x Max and you’re lesbophobe. Can’t we just get along? :/

“Max Caulfield is straight and she will date Warren in the drive-in”

You didn’t see the Warren x Max kiss rite…?

I mean…it’s really not that far off to think Max is straight. She seemed pretty straight to me. Actually, a lot of people did until she suddenly fell in love with Chloe at the end of EP5. There’s even bi people (what Max is supposed to be a representation of) in this fandom who I’ve come across, that thought she was straight. 

Also, you don’t have to be straight to be in a romantic relationship with a guy. And I don’t get what’s so funny about Max and Warren going on a date when they’re practically canon if you play Max as pro-Warren..

Even if you’re not pro-Warren, she still thinks about the drive in, and seems sad that Warren is going with Brooke instead, so…lol

Hey, I never said that Max was straight just because she was dating Warren, stop generating. She can be Bissexual, and she don’t turn into lesbian just becouse she’s dating Chloe, at the same way that just becouse she’s dating Warren she don’t turn into straight. And I respect the Max X Warren otp, it was just a joke, don’t take it so seriously. Btw, it was for the pricefield ones, I don’t know why are you so injured.

and, if you realize, the Max X Warren kiss is optional, but the pricefield one isn’t. They just kiss, without the game asking.

I swear to my life, in my game there was no kiss on either ending .___.

People even after Life is Strange has been over for a while: “You’re lesbophobic for saying Max can be interested in Warren!! Warren is a gross straight, white boy!!!” Just. Just one thing I have to say… SHUT UP. OH MY GOD. JUST SHUT UP. YOU’RE STUPID. MAX CAN BE WHATEVER YOU WANT. EVEN LESBIANS CAN SHIP HER WITH A BOY. JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE GAY DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO HATE STRAIGHT PEOPLE. And that’s all I have to say on this matter. Grahamfield is cute. Pass it on.

This is tumblr for you, my friend.

Sadly every day we’re surrounded by people so insecure they believe everything is an agression towards them, It’s not diferent from religious zealotry or political fanaticism. It’s not wrong to be gay or straight or christian or atheist or whatever; it gets wrong when you can’t accept out there there’s people that might not agree with you.

I would understand if you were mocking or insulting someone with diferent preferences or beliefs, but modern american society and our crappy media has taught us we’re all “special unique butterflies” with facts, not opinions. 

Keep your ship up, nothing wrong with pairing TWO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS for fun.

i think my problem with the sacrifice chloe ending is how defeatist it feels

chloe accepts her face to be cast off and abandoned yet again. max goes back in time. she sinks down to the floor and buries her head in her knees and has to listen as her best friend is shot and killed once again, after god knows how many times in that entire week.

there’s no resistance. there’s no fighting back against fate or destiny or whatever’s in charge. there’s resignation. not at all what we’ve been doing the whole game.

i can’t believe that after everything max would just sit there. regardless of how you played her, her main priority throughout the game was chloe. reconnecting with chloe, helping chloe find rachel, trying to fix the past for chloe, making sure chloe was safe. chloe, chloe, chloe. there’s no way the max caulfield at the end of the game, who had been through hell and back, would just sit there and let her friend die after going through so many timelines just to make sure she was okay, for her to be alive and happy and well.

i also don’t see why max couldn’t have stopped chloe from being shot without her time powers. she could have intervened between nathan and chloe before the gun was fired - and after what she’s been through, i would definitely say she’s capable of doing so. 

the sacrifice chloe ending would have been a perfect opportunity, imo, to drive home the “everyday hero” concept. to show you don’t need time travelling powers to change the outcome.

and i’m just kinda sad they didn’t go that route i guess

Both endings are incredibly defeatist... And the post-choice scenes they offer are incredibly lame. The “sacrifice Chloe” is the most emotional one since they make you witness Chloe’s death without having a chance to do anything, BUT they’re still weak... I mean, it’s not like the “Run with Chloe” one is not emotional, you sacrifice thousands of innocents, including her family and people who you come to love such as Kate just for one person; and still if you look into it it’s still the worst ending since it would turn their lives into Final Destination. If Chloe is meant to die so badly the universe created a storm because she’s not supposed to keep on existing yet Max tries, it’s still gona look for bigger ways to get the job done...

DONTNOD imho did a terrible job with chapter 5...

I just really really want the protagonist of S2 (or at least a major character) to be a black person.

I really don’t ask for much. lol

Actually, I’d rather see an asian or a latino. I can count some black important characters but I can harly recall asians or latinos; that being said having a latino would help mend some of the ratial issues surroinding said ethnicity that have apeared as of late.

I’m also a latino so... maybe ust asking for too much :/

“Max Caulfield is straight and she will date Warren in the drive-in”

You didn’t see the Warren x Max kiss rite...?

My thoughts on Polarized and the end of my Life Is Strange journey

(buckle in, it’s a long one)

Admit it, we were all quick to hop right on the hype train, even though we weren’t sure where it was going to take us. Were you satisfied with where it ended up? I myself, and seemingly a majority of the fan-base, are not.

When I started Life Is Strange, I didn’t really like it that much. It was the dialogue and the stereotypical teen drama. But I enjoy choice-based, narrative games so I willed myself to continue. I was happy I did because the game turned into something much more. I found myself caring about the characters and becoming interested in the story. I was creating fanart and cosplaying, discussing theories and such with the community. Like many others, I invested myself into this game. So it’s no surprise that when the finale was approaching, I was counting down the days. When I was finally able to play Polarized, I jumped right in. “What happened to Max after episode 4?!”, “Can we save Chloe?!”, “What do the Prescotts have to do with all of this?!” So many questions. Of which very few were even addressed. 

To be honest, the only part of the episode I really enjoyed was the beginning. It isn’t only because Mark Jefferson is my favorite character. It was literally the only part where I felt like I was on the edge of my seat. Witnessing his personality change, hearing the bitterness in his voice, and really seeing him for the monster he really was had me feeling intimidated for the first time in the entire series. Even though I liked his character, I still wanted to get out of the Dark Room because it made me uneasy. (I still made sure he wasn’t hurt of course, haha). When I had escaped the grasp of Jefferson and entered into the rest of the game, it’s like something was sucked out of it. I just didn’t feel as engaged. Something was missing. I did find the nightmare sequence pretty eerie and interesting, but I didn’t feel that connection to the game that I had felt in previous episodes. It was as though my hand was being held and I was being guided through it, as opposed to it being up to me which path the episode took. There weren’t many choices to make, or much in the environment to investigate, or very many people to talk to. I would have liked to catch up with some characters. Then, coming to the end after the nightmare, I am presented with only two choices. And to my dismay, the ending was very predictable. So because I had grown so attached to her, I choose Chloe over Arcadia Bay. What do I get? A very short ending scene. They don’t speak to each other. They don’t check for survivors. They just drive off. I have watched the other ending, which was much longer. I wasn’t satisfied with the ending either way. After that scene, it was over. The game was done. I stared at the screen in disbelief and thought “Wait, really? That’s it?” What about the Prescotts? What about all that spiritual stuff? Why was Rachel built up so much to be explained away in a single sentence? There were so many things set up in previous episodes that amounted to nothing. I didn’t feel anything after it was done. I expected this big emotional impact. Instead I just turned my console off and went and put some cookies in the oven. I shouldn’t have been able to just shrug off the finale to a game that held such a place in my heart. 

As far as I’m concerned, it ended at Episode 4: Dark Room. I’m still left in shock over the cliffhanger. I’m still reading and discussing end theories and plots with other fans, because those were more interesting than what I actually got.

And even that way the “Leave with Chloe!” ending was not only twisted, but it’s no where near a real conclussion. Think about this... The universe created a tornado because Chloe Price is supposed to be dead, that’s her destiny, she has no further role to play on our planet; the fact Max altered time to save her life made the universe try to fix this mistake and even with dead Chloe at episode 4, the damage was too strong already.

So, this means, if Chloe is REALLY meant to die and the universe goes as far as making an effing tornado to punish the fact her death was being delayed, that means letting Arcadia Bay be destroyed and run away with Chloe isn’t even close to a solution, the universe is still gonna keep playing “Final Destination” on Chloe and Max until they’re both dead or Max decides to sacrifice Chloe, or many others for her.

Also, why the fuck was Chloe carrying the butterfly photograph like, out of the blue?

The game played a “Bioshock Infinite” on us, the “No matter your choices, Fate is an unbeatable force”; heck, analyze the symbols, it pretty much made an abstract, surrealist epilogue like Bioshock Infinite (when Elizabeth takes you into the “Lighthouse Maze Nightmare”), I mean damn, THERE’S EVEN A LIGHTHOUSE AS A SYMBOL FOR FUCK’S SAKE! The message on both games is exactly the same, and for a choice-consequence story, it just sucked. I said it back then and I’ll say it now, it’s not good writting, it’s lazy design.

for yall:

Please get a fucking life. 

aren’t you that person who compared being gay to touching shit?

No. That wasn’t me at all. 

If you’re going to say something about me then at least get it right.

It was @help-i-cant-escape-the-fandom who mentioned something about that, but that’s not even what she was saying at all. Stop trying to twist her words. You obviously were reading what she said the way you wanted it to be. 

We were discussing something about people taking the kiss dare in EP3 too seriously, and she happened to make a comparison saying that her sister was dared to touch poop so it must mean that she’s in love with it. Just like how people think kissing your friend as a dare automatically means you have feelings for them. 

“Compared being gay to touching shit” I CANT EVEN IM IN THE BATHROOM AT SCHOOL RN AND IM HAVING A LAUGHING FIT LMFAO that’s not what I was saying at all lol I was saying that dares shouldn’t be taken seriously. I’m not comparing being gay to touching shit wtf gays are cool.

You don’t have to explain yourself because I know exactly what you said. These people just love twisting our word don’t they? 

are you guys still talking about this bc I stopped paying attention to this lesbophobe circlejerk awhile ago

- not talking to me

- on my post

Because my comments weren’t directed to you, smart ass. 

Girl, why are there so many angsty, ultra violent kids arround Tumblr? I mean, I have a gay cousin and one of my 3 BFFs is also gay, and I’ve never, ever, EVER see them acting like the Tumblr crew... It’s like, this website is so full of victimization and rage and angst it’s not even sad, it’s infuriating and disgusting to see human beings acting like this over nothing.

I saw what you and helpicantstopthefandom posted, I don’t know how that fits “homophobic” and I don’t get when he posted the “touching shit” comment. I’d be mad about it too being straight myself, but attacking people just because you THINK they said something...?

@ LIS fans disappointed in the ending

try making a game where every little decision creates a different ending with endless possibilities and then talk to me about your disappointed feels

you guys don’t give enough credit to the gamedevs for what they do. for example, until dawn was succinct enough to have multiple possibilities in the end, but it was very low-scale as compared to all the decisions made in games like Life Is Strange and Mass Effect

you do realize that making an ending unique to every single fucking thing you do is close to impossible and would require so much time, from planning to animating to developing and shit? it would be cool, yes, but these gamedevs put their heart into this stuff and it was overall an amazing experience – i say they did their job right, better than most of you could do anyway

Choice of Robots. Period.

For my Grahamfield shippers

If you didn’t kiss Chloe and made the Grahamfield choices, Chloe and Max will just hug it out and say their goodbyes before Max returns to the timeline where Chloe is dead and Arcadia is safe.

BUT THE KISS IS STILL FORCED! Just because you played the game as pro-Chloe does not mean that you want Max and her to go out. It should have been an option just like the Grahamfield kiss. If they were going to pull that shit then they might as well have made the Grahamfield kiss forced too.

Yeah, I do agree about that. It kind of felt like they just put the kiss in for the ratings and tumblr shippers :/

They did, and I’m highly disappointed in them for doing that. It reminds me of the Korrasami ending LOK had. 

It’s funny because I think they partially did it so they wouldn’t be accused of queer baiting, but there’s still people complaining about them queerbaiting just because you can’t kiss Chloe if you save her. Smh. 

Other reason why is for ratings like you said. Plus, this EP was going to shit and usually adding in something progressive (even if it doesn’t make much sense) saves the day so. 

…Actually I sacrificed Chloe and Max didn’t kiss her…

It’s because you kissed Warren. It’s also because you most likely didn’t do a lot of Pro-Chloe things. 

At least the game respected that, lol

Yeah, agreed. But it still sucks that if you do pro-Chloe things, the game forcefully makes Max kiss her which is not cool. 

I had that same issue on Dragon’s Dogma.. I remember no matter what I did my character was forcibly a lesbian, and after that I did the guy playtrough and since I spent too much time BUYING from the male store clerk the dragon kidnapped him because he was my “significant one”. I was like “dafuk.....”

K,but nobody is gonna comment on how cute Kate looked in her mourning clothes?

Plus Max does own a dress,Courtney.

Her dress was ugly as fuck.

She could have worn something a little bit better and not so Medieval times looking to her best friend’s funeral. 

<3 Max looks cute on anything!

Sadly DONTNOD never gave me a chance to see Kate without her hive hair...

For my Grahamfield shippers

If you didn’t kiss Chloe and made the Grahamfield choices, Chloe and Max will just hug it out and say their goodbyes before Max returns to the timeline where Chloe is dead and Arcadia is safe.

BUT THE KISS IS STILL FORCED! Just because you played the game as pro-Chloe does not mean that you want Max and her to go out. It should have been an option just like the Grahamfield kiss. If they were going to pull that shit then they might as well have made the Grahamfield kiss forced too.

Yeah, I do agree about that. It kind of felt like they just put the kiss in for the ratings and tumblr shippers :/

They did, and I’m highly disappointed in them for doing that. It reminds me of the Korrasami ending LOK had. 

It’s funny because I think they partially did it so they wouldn’t be accused of queer baiting, but there’s still people complaining about them queerbaiting just because you can’t kiss Chloe if you save her. Smh. 

Other reason why is for ratings like you said. Plus, this EP was going to shit and usually adding in something progressive (even if it doesn’t make much sense) saves the day so. 

…Actually I sacrificed Chloe and Max didn’t kiss her…

It’s because you kissed Warren. It’s also because you most likely didn’t do a lot of Pro-Chloe things. 

At least the game respected that, lol

For my Grahamfield shippers

If you didn’t kiss Chloe and made the Grahamfield choices, Chloe and Max will just hug it out and say their goodbyes before Max returns to the timeline where Chloe is dead and Arcadia is safe.

BUT THE KISS IS STILL FORCED! Just because you played the game as pro-Chloe does not mean that you want Max and her to go out. It should have been an option just like the Grahamfield kiss. If they were going to pull that shit then they might as well have made the Grahamfield kiss forced too.

Yeah, I do agree about that. It kind of felt like they just put the kiss in for the ratings and tumblr shippers :/

They did, and I’m highly disappointed in them for doing that. It reminds me of the Korrasami ending LOK had. 

It’s funny because I think they partially did it so they wouldn’t be accused of queer baiting, but there’s still people complaining about them queerbaiting just because you can’t kiss Chloe if you save her. Smh. 

Other reason why is for ratings like you said. Plus, this EP was going to shit and usually adding in something progressive (even if it doesn’t make much sense) saves the day so. 

...Actually I sacrificed Chloe and Max didn’t kiss her...

Emily Browning photographed by Jay L Clendenin for the LA Times - HQ Outtakes

Hahaha this made my day. Back on my young days when Lemony Snicket came out on cinemas she became my first famous crush like, so badly!

Wow that Life is Strange ending gave me flash-backs to Mass Effect 3′s ending- aka a bunch of disjointed, disappointing shit with fuck-all closure

American game development for you.

Yeah this episode was SUPER EMOTIONAL and Serious! “No mosh pit for you shaka-brah!”

The Kiss Scenes...

Why are there people talking about how passionate the Max and Chloe kiss was and how the Warren and Max kiss was not…

Just because the kiss was longer doesn’t mean it had more emotionl value. That shit was so forced (you can’t even choose) and out of the blue. There was like no buildup. One second you’re all BFF’s 5eva and then you’re suddenly making out. smh

I still stand by what I believe: Max and Chloe were originally never supposed to happen. They were supposed to remain friends throughout this game because this is a game about friendship (what a lie). The kiss scene was added at the last minute and they only did it so they wouldn’t have a bunch of people on their backs accusing them of queer baiting. You guys pushed them and they felt obligated to make that ending.

Also are you guys going to ignore how Chloe looked so not interested and that she just found out that the girl she was in love with is dead? lmao

You can keep saying shit like “the heteros are at it again” (not everyone who ships grahamfield is straight, you twats) but just remember that we weren’t the ones who forced a couple onto a bunch of people.

this is it. this is the actual worst post about episode five.

-wow nice lesbophobia -like warren and max had buildup -wow nice lesbophobia -that’s why they put the earlier kiss in, right? -yes the only thing two women can be is friends -It would have been and still kind of is queerbaiting -Yes, you cannot love once you have lost someone -THEY WERE MAKING OUT. Don’t tell me chloe was confused when she went along with it -wow nice lesbophobia

Lmao. You’re 14. Go to bed. 

I don’t know about you, but I don’t go to sleep at 6.

No one asked. 

Oh, hunilek! I see Tumblr is taking your posts to much to heart and placing labels on them all over again e_e 

Exactly.

If I were a Pr*cefield shipper and said the same shit about Grahamfield then no one would give a flying fuck.

But because I’m saying what everyone else is scared to say and knows is the truth, I have to labeled as -phobic. Typical. 

What do you expect from Tumblr though?

IDK, actually it’s hard to post anything via tumblr without being treated as some sort of sub human creature, specially when discussing about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.

I’m with you on this one again tho.