This Isn't A Pro Censorship Post, So I'm Sorry If You Somehow Read It That Way, But I Think AO3 Should

this is horrible and dallon didn't deserve this, im glad i found idkhow because i really have lost all respect for urie. spreading this so people know

if we gonna talk dallon's mistreatment in panic! why are we not discussing the fact that despite being a full time real member and writing all of twtltrtd dallon was still making so little money that he had to take up carpet cleaning jobs to feed his kids while brendon was making six figures

smh why do some of you guys get so offended when people literally just sit next to you. those are pixel cartoon horses on a screen

Y'see, no, y'see, what I mean is like

Claus starts the very first battle with 42 HP (the number 42 is associated with death in Japan). He loses his shoes as he ventures to his doom at the Drago Plateau (another piece of Japanese death symbolism). He re-emerges as a nigh-silent, apparently emotionless revenant - with a broken, disjointed heartbeat. Some Tazmilians speak of him as if he's already obviously dead, and even suggest Flint oughtta give up on his lost son. Which is cold and painful to hear, but does reinforce the game's consistent theme of moving on from grief. This perpetual tension between clinging to the past out of love & hope, and coming to terms with a bygone loss.

When Hinawa's ghost speaks to Claus, she says, "You must be so exhausted." Personally, I get the sense this implies a deathly weariness beyond just how overworked n' stressed out the kid is (especially considering the person saying it is a ghost herself). But more importantly, she tells him, "Come to your mother." Which would be… kind of a deranged and horrible thing for her to ask of him, if he wasn't already supposed to be dead. She calls to him from beyond the grave, and asks him to join her at last. And he does, without question. Recognizing he's been kept alive against his will this whole time, a tormented spirit that was never permitted to move on, trapped in a robotic corpse that's been twisted beyond repair.

His three-years-delayed death, though heartwrenching, brings the story's motifs of grief and acceptance to a natural conclusion. Flint has to finally let go, Lucas has to find peace with it. You can't re-animate the past, or fix anything by selfishly pursuing it. In fact, you may just wind up zombifying its image into something corrupt, something hardly recognizable (Porky does this constantly 🤧). Only by letting it lie can you honor it, and begin moving toward a better future.

'Course, this is just my impression of what Itoi's intentions were with Claus. One of a bazillion possible interpretations, and by no means the most definitive. Even on the off chance I'm totally right about what he was goin' for, he's a chill dude who's stated plenty of times he welcomes fans to find their own meaning in these games. That's kinda the point of narrative art, after all. I personally feel like the story hits harder if Claus' suicide was yet another reckless choice he made, rather than a necessary course of fate. Interpreting it instead as a second tragedy all its own - with its own slew of implications - rather than a conclusion to the first. Lettin' the character be more than just a sacrificial symbol. That's just me, though. 🤸‍♂️

But altogether I just love how many ways this game can be read and re-read. How much it has to offer, if you peel back the layers and inspect it a little differently. And how other fans are always drawing my attention to different angles, makin' me reconsider it in new and compelling ways.

when my kindergarten teacher would tell us about a rhombus she was very insistent on the fact that a diamond and a rhombus were two very different things and I thought that was the stupidest thing in the world but I didn't say anything and to this day I've never seen it used again

rewatching cells at work

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

I saw a post on here about the whole "Curly talking with those dog buttons" situation, but the reblogs and comments were off, so I have to make my own post to express my thoughts on it

I saw a few seconds of that video, and just that was enough to make me feel rather uncomfortable. My first thought was, wouldn't that be painful? Forcing this man with *literally no skin* to lean forward and smack one of those plastic buttons with his stubs because he has no hands? (seriously. those buttons can be a little tough, you have to put pressure, you can't just tap on them)

aside from the logistics of it, it seems the mouthwashing fandom forgets Curly is still a man. A grown adult, with a fully functioning mind and sense of self..I can only imagine how dehumanizing it would be, to be forced to sit on the floor and use buttons made for *dogs* while already being in possibly the worst situation someone could be in.

the people acting like it's cute or funny are a huge part of this problem - acting like the suffering of a severely injured and extremely disabled quadruple amputee is something funny or silly or quirky. even myself with my developmental disabilities would be absolutely disgusted and ashamed if someone saw me struggling with a meltdown or something and treating it like some cute moment. Yes, Curly is fictional , but treating him like no more than a silly gore mascot really says a lot about how some of you guys feel about real disabled people.

I guess running a magical animal/creature dogfighting ring??

duality of man

woah weird robot kid

I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes