HIGH ON STANDARDS LOW ON SKILL. CREATIVE PROCESS MAKE YOU ILL

You should definitely play Caves of Qud but you should also follow the people involved on bluesky because this is how they respond to negative reviews.

in his defense the camera systems in the lucky 38 don’t have smellovision

if there were two guys on the moon and the one killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what

not if he cheated, then it's completely justified

Sometimes I say something stupid to people and I just want to go, "DISREGARD PREVIOUS COMMUNICATION" so we can just move on instead of me quickly trying to come up with an innocuous explanation for what I just said that doesn't make me sound insane or like I just made a massive social blunder

removing your masked character's mask is a mistake aesthetically ideologically and sexually speaking but i won't deny that catching a glimpse of a little skin in the spaces beneath the eye holes or the gap where the mask meets the face gets me a bit hot under the collar

i’d care if the person i reblogged this from vanished

idc if you reblog this from me but reblog it every time you see one of your friends or mutuals have reblogged it

misandry is when women say mean things and hurt my (22M 6'5" condom size XL) feelings

my fallout oc, he's an enclave deserter

The series Ahsoka is coming out soon, and in light of the recent comments by Ashley Eckstein...

... I figured I'd also point out that people hated Ahsoka.

Every complaint you've heard about Rey? It had been hurled at Ahsoka about 7 years prior.

“Oh, she’s fighting Grievous and she’s only, like 13?! That’s so OP!”

“She feels like a Mary Sue written for a prequel based fan fiction.”

“Oh, she disobeyed an order from Yularen on Ryloth?! She’s so snippy!”

“Ugh, I hate her and her stupid voice!”

“She’s always pointing out stuff other characters have missed, like she’s so perfect! She's a Mary Sue with an annoying voice and personality.”

And honestly? I remember that period. People despised Ahsoka (and sometimes voiced anger towards Ashley Eckstein too), just like they hated Hayden Christensen, and most Prequel-related content.

But guess what? They weren't the target audience. Said Eckstein in her 2018 book It's Your Universe:

“Ahsoka’s arrival on the scene was met with mixed reactions. She had a big personality and was very snippy. [...] She talked back to Anakin, and some even called her bratty. Critics didn’t quite know what to think, but kids loved her. Finally, girls had another character besides Leia and Padmé to play on the playground — and now there was a lightsaber in their hands.”

They didn't "fix" Ahsoka, as you'll see on some click-baity YouTube thumbnails.

She had a fucking character arc. There was nothing to fix.

The whole point of her character is that she starts out as immature and petulant as Anakin is in Episode II. This forces Anakin himself to grow up, so he can better take care of her.

Eventually, they both mature together... and at some point, Ahsoka surpasses Anakin by learning and implementing the Jedi teachings, while Anakin remains stuck on that first part (no thanks to Palpatine).

Same thing goes for Reva. The character has a goddamn arc.

I'm all for putting a "save the cat" moment to make these characters more likeable (and even when they do, like they did with Rey, then somehow the problem becomes that they're too likeable), but at the same time, I think parts of the fandom should wait and see before prematurely hating on a character (who almost always "just happens" to be female, weird!) to see what story is being told.