Godzilla Tokyo SOS

one last job

More DGM 💕

house md drinking game me and my bf are doing tonight, over/under on us getting alcohol poisoning?

New Lavi and Kanda art by Katsura Hoshino

i think it is time to bring them back

you haven't changed, you just think you have

Been rewatching Blue Exorcist before diving into the new season ♡

Pray for my mothers they're really going through it

in Disco Elysium I was expecting there to be some kind of “addiction mechanic” that would add a long-term downside to taking drugs, and was surprised not only by the absence of any such mechanic but also that the benefits of drugs greatly outweighed the cost. anyways fast forward to the late game and I was downing three bottles of pyrholidon and smoking an entire pack of cigarettes before attempting any check, and it was only then I realized there was in fact an addiction mechanic

honestly, i think this is why i like the way the game handles substances so much. when i was looking up playthroughs of disco elysium i stumbled across one subreddit thread where someone asked “gameplay wise, is there any point to staying sober?” and just looked at it. like, yeah. yeah, exactly. we know that harry often does drugs specifically so that he can take on a superhuman caseload - as he puts it to kim, to be a “really good detective”. it was so chilling to see a player asking the same exact question that harry would probably be asking himself. without an external punishment mechanic, without being heavy handed about it, and in a way that (as OP pointed out) is so natural as to be almost unnoticeable, it manages to put the player exactly in his shoes as a recovering (or not recovering) addict. it’s a really well-designed mechanic

“Things are harder without this substance, so there’s no reason for me to abstain” being a purely Player-Driven interaction is a phenomenal addiction mechanic. Absolutely fucking gorgeous.

President Joe Biden please send F-16 fighter jets to liberate the beautiful country of Albion from the tyrannical Sunak regime

they hate us control freaks for making sure everyone else does things the correct way

noo dont take care of me its rotten work aha

noo not to me you’re so sexy aha

Kevin and Jean’s love for each other is just SO. Kevin’s postcards and magnets to Jean; his learning French for him; the promise he made Jean make to him; his sending him to his favorite team, the team he knew was the kindest.

His inability to express it is also so heartbreaking to me. Like Jean said himself that they just couldn’t talk but he also said that “the best Kevin could manage was bottomless guilt.” And Jean saying that he once would’ve done anything for Kevin and, even worse, that Kevin knew just that and that’s how he managed to escape Evermore.

Kevin at his core is a selfish person. He used French at Jean’s expense to try and get Riko to stop hitting him, he left Evermore without Jean, he let Neil keep playing for the Foxes despite knowing that it could cost him his life because he wanted to win, he didn’t tell Wymack he was his father until he absolutely had to.

Jean at his core is a giving person, conditioned to not know when to stop. He takes whatever happens to him and is convinced he deserves it, no matter what. He does what people tell him to do. He protects Riko even when he’s dead. He still loves the Ravens. He saved Zane’s life, Zane who betrayed him so thoroughly and deeply, without a moment’s hesitation or even thought. At age 14 and probably for years before, he protected and parented Elodie. He would do anything for Neil. He would STILL do anything for Kevin.

while this is not necessarily an entirely bad take (and no offense to you op!), i do think there’s a bit of a misunderstanding going on regarding kevin’s intentions here

1. kevin using french in front of riko was explicitly described as a panicked impulse. it wasn’t premeditated or a conscious effort to fuck jean over; even because jean himself says “Kevin had damned them both.” why would kevin have done this on purpose, with a clear mind, if he was also going against riko’s rules? you can say it was because jean’s punishment would be more severe than his, but that implies a level of callousness towards jean from kevin’s part that doesn’t exist, and furthermore he knew riko would punish him too. the french was at both their expenses. it’s one thing to interpret kevin as selfish, but at least believe that he’s not dumb enough to implicate himself

2. kevin very famously tells neil to run! he says it in-text! he tells neil to leave because “at least you’d have a chance”! saying he let neil stay because he wanted to win is a blatant misunderstanding of that scene, because the reason kevin “lets” neil stay is because neil wanted to, and kevin had no way to stop him. the only way kevin could have forced neil to run would have been to share neil’s secrets with the foxes, which would have been unforgivable to neil. kevin wanted neil to live more than he wanted to win. blaming him for neil’s choices makes no sense

3. kevin never had to tell wymack a single thing, but he did it (and announced the very complicated and painful matter to the public) because it would help stir attention away from neil. this is by far the most uncharitable interpretation of the situation i’ve seen: kevin, who depended on coach wymack’s goodwill to not be tossed back to the ravens, obviously did not want to share something that could have made coach wymack kick him out. you and i know wymack wouldn’t have done it, but kevin had no evidence it wouldn’t happen. i don’t know about you, but i find that the grown man who lived a fairly comfortable life up until this point shouldn’t have his feelings worried about more than the child who grew up captive in a cult without any family at all. coach wymack can deal with his guilt and his betrayal towards kayleigh later; kevin lived his entire life in that place! it is not the child’s responsibility to fix the relationship with the parent!!!!

the only thing that holds water is that kevin left jean in the nest, which kevin acknowledges on his first appearance in tsc and apologizes for. it was selfish and it was horrible but it was his only option, and he spends the rest of the book trying to help accommodate jean into a better life. kevin has many flaws; he’s volatile and headstrong and narcissistic and insensitive and yes, selfish at times, but he’s not a master manipulator. he’s a traumatized and abused child just like jean is

Driftmark was so foundational for Alicent stans