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this poll has been on my mind for a few days and im real curious about this topic in particular
When I say metafictional stories I don't mean stories that have like a meta gag or a nod and wink to the camera moment or like That One Character Who Makes References, I mean stories that are actively and intentionally meta narrative and/or deconstructive of the themes they convey
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what the fuck do you mean rvb restoration finally dropped
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that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them
like you do realise that the entire point of set up and pay off is that you’re supposed to pick up on the clues the writers give you right? you do understand that plot twists only work when they retroactively make sense bc there were hints building up to the reveal right??
Some people engage with stories as if it's a competition where their job is to demonstrate that they're the smartest person in the room. These people aren't worth listening to about media.
the thing to ask isn't "was this outcome surprising?", but rather "did this outcome make for a good story?"
wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?
like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"
BECAUSE ROUGE THE BAT DRAWN AS WIDE AS SHE IS TALL WITH TITS TO MATCH KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?
I’m physically unable to take Leithanien’s Kaiserinnen and Die Septemberrevolution seriously, entirely because the Mouthpiece was bizarrely obsessed with it. We basically had an entire production on Die Septemberrevolution. We watched that Siracusan performance from those spire casters that were doing a documentary of Empresses' Voices' and wound up getting the only footage of the first strike from the Twin Empresses on Herkunftshorn. We did a novel study with the Playwright of a book about some kid being in one of the Spires for take your kid to work day and him and his musician dad squeezing past the wreckage of the destroyed labs to escape in time. We watched that Jara Wilson movie of her being a spire caster that gets stuck in an elevator shaft when the place collapses. I am dead fucking serious, we had to make up fictional people that died in the war, write an obituary for our Die Septemberrevolution-sona’s, and then write and deliver a eulogy as their grief-stricken music teachers as one of our performances. At one point in the production stages the Mouthpiece clarified that he hadn’t personally lost anyone to the war, nor was he anywhere near Leithanien when it happened. He never bothered to ask if any of us had actually lost someone in the war, which kind of seems like a thing you should do before making us invent fictional victims to perform as. The casting began with him demanding to know where we all were on the day of the conflict and what we remembered, and he started crying when we told him that 1. we were two years old at the time and couldn’t remember shit fuck, the closest thing was one of the older actors kind of thought they remembered being very confused at adults freaking out over the TV but that could have been literally anything, and so this meant that 2. we were the last class he would ever brainwash that could possibly remember Die Septemberrevolution. Probably didn’t help that Lucian pointed out that we were the class born in 1076, so in two years he’d have actors that hadn’t even been born during Die Septemberrevolution. That may have contributed to the Mouthpiece crying over the whole thing.
We’re Gaulish.
Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's and Vrains
Artist: MegaChan
I think if you took a maid to a farm and asked it to tend to the chores with no further directions, you'd come back to an exquisitely cleaned chicken coop, a basket full of eggs, two buckets of fresh milk from the cows, and what could generously be called the remains of a horse smeared against the inside of a stall
When asked "Why did you do that", it'd tell you the chickens were far too unruly, and thus deserved to be deprived of what they hold dear.
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you, uh, want some bathtub grappa?
Honestly my favorite character bit of Mahoyo is Touko knowing she’s not just the villain but also the designated fanservice character and running away with it.
All her sprites are either her with her back turned doing the boobs and butt pose, or her hands on her hip. Sometimes she angles her face back a little to look extra spicy. She’s described as someone who walks with the strut and confidence of a runway model. She is canonically so hot that she made a special trinket that lowers her attention-grabbing attractiveness by approximately 40% (best she can manage) if she wants to move around without being ogled. Staring into her eyes is literally spell-binding.
And then you see what she does with her day and it’s cheating at pachinko to make easy money or spending the entire day at a park, hunched over, scribbling thousands upon thousands of inscriptions into the dirt and stones to use for magecraft that she doesn’t even need to do.
I wasn’t exaggerating by the way, Touko literally becomes a highschool girl’s bi awakening by getting ultra wasted singing karaoke
Doodled my current FGO team >:) peak harmony 👌
