NO WAY

Something something the visceral horror GLaDOS must feel after watching Chell for so long, only for her test subject to literally go off the rails and disappear inside of her.

It's such a fantastic reversal of power! In an instant, it changes the genre from Chell's psychological nightmare into Glados's body horror.

This whole time Glados has been creating a psychosexual connection to her lab rat, and now that rat worms its way through her body in a way she can't track.

There's almost an intimacy about the rooms Chell solves being specifically tailored for her to see. They're a dishonest facade, until Chell escapes from the predetermined path and sees what Glados truly is/looks like, and ventures all the way to the heart of her, stripping her bare.

"What if you were a massive mechanical complex and I skittered through your insides and climbed into the heart of your most private and vital organs? And we were both women?"

This too, is Yuri

Avatar AU where Aang wakes up like 3 days before Sozin's Comet returns and he has to speedrun the entire series.

my favourite thing about chuuya nakahara is that he's just kind of. chill. about everything. he's like, my tragic backstory has no hold on me, i went to therapy and i'm all good now. i'm a bad guy cuz it pays good and my found family happens to be here. what do you mean that's not a good reason, you a cop or something?

someone will betray him and he'll go ok well that's pretty upsetting. they probably had a good reason though. i'll forgive them if they let me get a good punch in. if they're really just a hater they're giving me bad vibes and i don't wanna deal with 'em at all tbh.

things have been done to him that would warrant a lifelong crusade of revenge for anyone else, but for chuuya nakahara it's just, that was super not cool but i'll let it slide if you get therapy with me.

chuuya is down for any crime and thinks moral boundaries are for losers and stuff but he's the nicest guy in the port mafia when it comes to not mistreating his subordinates and probably helps old ladies cross the street. he shows up for a solid 10-20 minutes of screentime per season and makes all the fans fall in love with him while doing the bare minimum, and despite technically being a villain i don't think he's worked against the agency a single time (although to be fair this is often not on purpose). he also does the bare minimum every time he's asked to help in-universe and clearly isn't even trying, and he sweeps anyway because he is ridiculously overpowered and could probably kill literally everyone if he actually wanted to, and i just. no one is doing it like him. you go you unbothered king.

so did we ever find out the exact wording of Mami’s wish?

cuz i like to imagine she wished to ‘not die alone’

which makes it hurt OH SO MUCH MORE when you realize that she died the minute she realized she wasn’t alone anymore

"he would not fucking say that" but you ever be looking at fanart and suddenly its "he would not fucking have abs"

Changbin couldn’t stop mixing them up 😭

The Assorted TYPE-MOON Experience (as of 7/20/24)

Here is a link to Fate/stay night with the Ultimate Patch.

Here is a link to Fate/Hollow Ataraxia with the Ultimate Patch and the Fate/Extra sub-series.

Here is a link to various other TYPE-MOON games and manga/novels such as Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, Melty Blood, and more Fate.

Some things to note:

ALL GAMES ARE PC GAMES EXCEPT THE FATE/EXTRA SERIES, WHICH IS PLAYED ON THE PSP

– Kara no Kyoukai: the Garden of sinners, Tsukihime, and Fate are all part of the same metaseries penned by Kinoko Nasu (Witch on the Holy Night is as well, but it is not included in this collection since only the enhanced version is translated which can be bought on current generation consoles and PC)

– Fate/stay night Ultimate Patch has many settings to customize your experience of the game, please play around with them and set them to your liking, but some of my recommendations are **Display > Quality > High (x2.0) [higher resolutions not included due to much larger file sizes with diminishing returns] **Language > English ReTrans (2nd beta) **Patch > [ANY] Content > [Choose "Classic" for a first playthrough if you want a more faithful experience or "Mixed" for a faithful experience with some Vita additions, but might be best for a second playthrough] **Patch > Censorship > check "Show mature content" + "Show Ecchi & Hentai + Fan-made Demosaic" for the full eroge experience or keep "Show mature content" unchecked for the all-ages experience **Patch > Movie Playback Options > check Display subtitles in movies + Movie Quality > High **Patch > Route Lock > Automatic **Patch > Title menu style > Automatic

– Fate/Hollow Ataraxia Ultimate Patch has many settings to customize your experience of the game, please play around with them and set them to your liking, but some of my recommendations are **Display > Quality > High (x2.0) [higher resolutions not included due to much larger file sizes with diminishing returns] **Patch > Censor > check "Decensor H content" for the full eroge experience or keep "Censor H content" checked for the all-ages experience **Patch > Vita Additions > uncheck "Play Vita OP in-game" and "Vita Ending Credits" to see the original versions of each for a first playthrough **Patch>Movies>check Display subtitles in movies

– Fate/Extra + Perfect Patch + CCC includes Fate/Extra, Fate/Extra Perfect Patch+ (the same game as Fate/Extra but patched to include subtitles for all Japanese voice lines, fixes some of the original translation to better match Fate canon, and bug fixes), and Fate/Extra CCC (a sequel to Fate/Extra that takes place during that game)

– Tsukihime series goes Tsukihime > Tsukihime PLUS-DISC (contains Alliance of Illusionary Eyes) > Kagetsu Tohya

– Melty Blood is a series of fighting games featuring the cast of Tsukihime (ReACT is an expansion for the original Melty Blood)

Many more games are available for purchase on PC and current generation consoles such as Witch on the Holy Night, Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-, Melty Blood: Type Lumina, the Fate/Extella series, Fate/Samurai Remnant, and upcoming games such as Fate/stay night REMASTERED, and Fate/Extra Record

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

One thing I really love whenever I see it in fic is Phoenix having suburban drama with the parents at Trucy's school. Because he is exactly that kind of petty bitch. Somewhere in japanifonia there is a woman called Deborah who has been engaging with Phoenix in more intense psychological warfare than he ever had with Kristoph.

When Edgeworth finally moves in everyone expects it to stop because people tend to think of him as being Phoenix's handler but in reality he just makes it infinitely worse because Edgeworth is even fucking more of a petty bitch except he's also a complete fucking snob who knows exactly how to cut them in the exact way that hurts. Phoenix will insult their parenting style, Edgeworth will insult their wine pairing, do you understand what I'm getting at?