@PRelations i will add a minor correction in that riddick lied about the surgical procedure, the eye shine thing is actually from his heritage. if you watch a let's play of espape from butcher bay (the game is basically another movie with more useless walkaround), you see he "unlocks" it through necessity. i liked the surgery thing better, but they went with the action hero trope of "yeah, i was just that cool to begin with" which was a little frustrating. he's still riddick though so it's all good. it doesn't make it any more convenient or easy a power to have. i actually liked the game overall, it had a lot more interaction with johns and you get to see more of johns' character developed. he's still a dick though.
Wow that's... actually super unsatisfying! Blegh. I might go ahead and watch one of those lets plays though, because I'd really dig seeing more of his character.
Anyone here ever read The Last of the Renshai/the Renshai Trilogy???? Because I'm reading the first one (R recommended it, since it's where his name came from) and I see nothing for them. At all. Which is good because no spoilers, but bad because, well, yeah.
So I'm recruiting people on Tumblr for my main small fandom again because the game's on sale now so I'm just gonna link this post also that is a fuckton of notes on a post for me and most of them are people I don't recognize so I'm just like "what did I do with this post that got your attention?"
+anima is so good i love it. nana is so cute i love her. and senri. and cooro. and husky. i love them all.
+anima was amazing. Cooro is the ultimate cinnamon roll, Husky is such an adorable prickly child, Senri was also too adorable despite being like 6ft tall and I want all of Nana's dresses.
Yep, those are the feels. Though it's sad rereading some of Cooro's stuff after the reveal at the end... Also I hope Blanca ended up OK. She just kinda... dissolved? But it'd be nice if she managed to get somewhere sane and meet some nice people.
so i was thinking of making a Freeman's Mind thread, because it's my go to "life is being shitty and i haven't binged this in a few months" series, and arguably the funniest let's play in existence. i decided not to because i thought the fandom is probably too small for there to be to many others on here who like it. then i remembered the small fandoms thread so here we are. it's the entire first half life game but a guy plays the part of "what freeman is thinking the whole time" and does a dialogue for this silent character. it starts off a little slow (but still good imo) and is just. really great. this freeman is sarcastic, has poor impulse control, is paranoid, is kind of an ass, and complains about black mesa's horrible architecture and building choices non stop. it's funny, it's meta in some places, and just an overall great time in my opinion.
Man I love Freeman's Mind, I just marathoned the episodes a little while ago out of boredom/avoiding schoolwork.
my favorite part is at the end of the series where the credits are just pages and pages of quoted comments saying "what game is this?" despite it saying what game it is at the end of every episode.
K-drama fandom. It's not tiny as a whole, but the fandoms for each individual drama are pretty small. The portion of those fandoms that are active once the drama is over is tiny. I'm only really watching one drama right now (Cheese in the Trap, which should be subtitled Why Teaching Your Mildy Sociopathic Child That He's Not Allowed to Have Boundaries Is a Bad Idea) and I can't go into the tag because I'm way behind, it's already over, and I don't want to be spoilered. I've just started catching up with the webtoon it's based on, too. ...That's another small fandom. Which is a pity because it's a great read and the first three seasons aren't available for free on Naver any more, making it harder to get new readers.
WHOOPS I'm super late to the party even though I had this thread watched, but YES it has a fandom. There's like... four or five of us. :') Plus the creator, who I'm mutuals with! (Man it was really weird to write a smutty Ephemeral Prince fanfic knowing they'd be reading it...) I've been meaning to write Snowe/Erio fic for foreeeever but I keep not getting around to it.
I just replayed it with the thought 'man I'm sure I was imagining Snowe/Erio, I know how I can get about cute boys in proximity, probably just way construing things in a way they weren't meant.' But like, if I was imagining it, my imagination wasn't being very active for once >u< Everything that happens when it's just the two of them struggling to keep it fucking together in the Worst Most Awful Mind Palace Ever is my favorite part of the game. I follow the creator, they're a quality blog. I'm excited for whenever their new game comes out but I still haven't fucking read Ephemeral Prince. Like you would think I would have by now, considering how much I love the game, but every time I look at 'follows the bed end to start' I just.... ehhh... fff... I'll start it later... I know they come back but 'starts with all your faves dead and the catharsis you worked for hard for ineffective' is sure a tall order >u<
Yeah, it's a hard sell, but it's kind of amazing in that both endings are canon. It sounds so gimmicky but I was impressed with what Ronove did with it, and how. It'll punch you in the emotions a lot, but it's really, really worth it to get to know more about Xiri, demons in general, the original king, and why Snowe's parents fled Sabine. It ends up genuinely happy, but it's not an easy win. ... And the Snowe/Erio is even more obvious. Not explicitly stated as such, but you definitely weren't imagining it in SSP.
I mean the reason I do want to and am going to read it, seriously, I swear, it'll happen, is because I'm pretty into Xiri already, like, giggling and saying 'Xiri you card' when he does some silly antics, like trying to tear a child's mind apart, in the original game, that kind of into him. So I'm going to do it. I'm really going to do it. I actually miss how much the first playthrough punched me in the feelings, how I just... I always expected that something bad wasn't going to happen, I knew at any given point that something just wasn't right here, but every time something bad actually happened it happened in a weirder and more intense way than I could have possibly guessed, especially when Spoiler: sepulcher of our lord Snowe's reunions with his parents didn't end up being a quietly heartrending scene where the sociopathic, self-obsessed assholes he wasn't expecting were slowly revealed to in fact be assholes through dialogue and poking around in their castle. The game didn't have to reveal that, the player had already figured out what Snowe didn't know. No them mfuckers straight up didn't know who he was and tried to murder him. And never figured out who he was, and kept trying to murder him. OK THEN!!! It still hurts but like, it really hurt less when I was expecting it on the second playthrough, so I was still angry with those absolute bastards but no longer surprised, and that is eventually going to drive me to read Ephemeral Prince. I have to see how Ronove can hurt me again.
I really should replay SSP and re-read EP, it's been a long damn time. (... I wrote a fic set midway through EP two and a half years ago?? Yeah, definitely time to revisit.)
