invite her to your island 🥺

sobbing

the funny thing about this scene is that its Sosiel proposing to Mikael in his painting studio, which is exactly what happens in the Pathfinder romance

gay marriage

I found Myth she was on vacatioon this whole time

even for a man shoving cigarettes and alcohol down his throat like candy prolly had a good 25-30 years left in him

If anything think that speaks to the tradegy of his character cuz 36 in truth is really young in the grand scheme of our life spans, even back then

while being a 36 year old man in 1899 was in some ways different then being 36 in our modern world but Arthur getting called a OLD GRIZZLED MAN by himself and other characters when Im only two years younger then him is very funny

also most romance enjoyers understand this anyway, just the cyclical nature of discourse ever turning

love is real and beauitful and there is joy to be had in romanticizing but real life romance is often a more profound and quiet thing rather than something theatrical and loud

The thing about the romance genre is that its an 'escape' and a stage perforamance of romance, even in more grounded tales , which makes a lot of the discourse around it silly. The way people talked about romance novels in the 1900s really hasnt changed in tone from today, its so interesting

The point where 40k's satire fundamentally fails really comes down to the conflict between how Satirical Space Catholic Empire needs to be cringe, but Marketable Soldier Miniatures need to be cool

i love that this grizzled outlaw has such beautiful penmanship *sobs*

i love arthur's journal, I love that it updates depending on the order you do missions, encounters, find certain plants/landmarks etc, I love it so much I could cry again

Idk hot take i guess, unless its a specific type of genre, I think stories should be more then just their twists and turns

rdr2's story is one of those examples where having the ending spoiled does not take away anything from its impact. I pretty much was made aware of most of the major plot points prior and yet it still emotionally hit me like a train

I saw someone whined a book had a questionable abusive romance and said a different book did it better because it was used with 'purpose' in that book which really was just code for "how dare people use these themes for horny purposes"

it comes up without fail in every convo about modern literature and Im trying my damn best to approach it in good faith but I cannot figure out what the hell people are worried about

its just seems to be something thats constantly brought up with such confidence, with such certainty, surely there has to be some real world basis or data for it right? Surely its not just...uncritically admonishing a genre for spurious reasons

if anything...most women older and younger collectively these days seem to be way more intune with what are red flags in relationships...is there some new social phenomenon of women diving into abusive relationships more then ever before? what is the cause and effect we're seeing here?

outside the context of fandom discourse, my brain shuts off re discussions about 'dangers' of romance titles 'normalizing'/romanticizing' etc abusive dynamics and Im failing to see where the effect of this is happening on modern society.

(its an issue thats been happening much longer then that but its wild how most of my life i could sniff it out a mile away)

and you would think people like myself who lived adjacent to those communities would be more prone to bastardized that language but god its so prevalent among people who couldnt be anymore distant from them

It really says something that my hunch for the past 20 or so years is to assume almost every new 'slang' is just appropriated language from the black community and being confirmed correct

its pretty funny that this was my reaction to arthur at first, but once his personality and character developed more I was completely hooked

putting another awful terrible man into the toybox

sorry this is all ive been able to think about all week

once again the games that dont explicitly label themselves as cozy end up being the most soothing for me

I am a sucker for things like skyrim with survival/camping mods, it is a very comforting, almost meditative experience and I feel like RDR2 gives me that vibe without all the modding hassle

I never even played the 1st RDR and even I picked up on what would happen.