i'll never get over how badly people who want to come up with ideas of how tcoaal can be "better" or "fixed" miss the points of anything.
like the other day on twitter i see this thing like. "THIS INCEST SHIT SUUUCKS IT SHOULD JUST BE ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS WHO JUST EAT ALL THE PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE" and it's like. oooh who’s an edgy boy yes you are oooh what a hot take your statements are so controversial what an edgy boy
and the other day like, some of my friends show me this tcoaal rewrite that involves a big sister Ashley (i only saw this post once and don't remember it well). different mom that's an entirely different shade of abusive and a whole different kind of trauma put into Ashley who wants to be a boxer now in defiance of how she was raised and i'm like... why does this have to be a tcoaal rewrite? you've created a genuinely really interesting concept... just tweak it to remove tcoaal from it's DNA entirely and you have this super solid original story idea. and i'm just here like... it's just so annoying. you have this fantastic idea for something original, why do you need to bill it as what makes canon better?
like, it's fine. it's fine to not like the incest. as much asi like to make fun of antis, there ARE genuine fans of this game that aren't really big on coffincest but like everything else- but at least THEY still acknowledge the incest is an important part of the story's DNA and it's themes, so even if they're not in it to ship it they're still here to enjoy the story.
it's always so boggling to me. granted, i've always hated fix fics- i'm totally fine with radical AUs and rewrites, but maybe it's just my personal gripes of "haha i FIXED canon it's better now >:)" like... i can appreciate a fix fic like "oh this character didn't die bc i think it's dumb" but then these are people who fundamentally don't understand what they're trying to "fix."
and like i know. antis are antis. antis always do this. but it's like... man. why can't people just say they don't like a thing bc it's not their cup of tea instead of wanting to "fix" it in a way that ruins it???
Guys, not to be a timebomb hater (which I'm not) but am I the only one who thinks the "Ma Meilleure Ennemie" song fits Vi/Jinx much better than Ekko/Jinx?
Like how Jinx's best enemy is Ekko?
I can understand it from an Ekko perspective, but Jinx's greatest enemy and love always was and always will be her sister Vi (and the same the other way around).
Also the phrase "why does hearing your name hurt me?" which fits SUPER WELL with the fact that Vi spent the entire series trying to accept that her sister is Jinx now, which Ekko had already accepted long ago.
Anyway, don't take this too seriously, the song is still obviously a timebomb song, I just think it doesn't fit them as well as it does with Vi and Jinx.
Here's an interesting instance of Andrew manipulating the audience: I've seen many people say that this moment proves Andrew can feel remorse, but really read what he says,
This is in no way a display of genuine guilt. This is him justifying his decision to not go to the police. He knows that he should feel bad, that's what a normal person would feel, so he needs a good reason to explain why he will never turn himself in. "It won't bring her back" is as good an excuse as any - never mind that confessing would give Nina's friends and family closure (and considering Julia took him to her grave I'm sure he's well aware of this). But alas, Andrew does not actually care, he just comes up with more excuses because that's much easier than admitting he's not normal.
,,Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?" Yeah man, being the daughter
With how much Tsumugi loves Junko, and the Odd writing choices she made, it wouldn't surprise me if she shipped Despaircest
oh 100% there has never been a single doubt in my mind about that she is in fact in the naegi/mukuro tag as we speak spreading hate over it
Played the latest episode of coffingame for the first time, mostly blind , and i got the "deadest of dead-ends" ending, with this achivement. The game outright told me i wouldn't get any Nancy Drew game-style instant do-overs, because this was the result of such a long series of fuck-ups that it couldn't easily be fixed.
And this definitely felt like a bad ending, a game-over, or a dead end. But honestly, it felt satisfying. A tragic ending that arises naturally out of the faults of our main characters. More under the cut
The sibling's tensions get a natural climax, where Andrew physically abuses Ashley and then they have dubcon-at-best sex where Andrew is very drunk and gets cajoled into it by Ashley. Their abuse of each other that has been going on for the whole game up to this point reaches a kind of peak here. And their relationship reaches its obvious, natural conclusion. Their feelings for each other couldn't end any other way. It was already incestous in every way but the most basic literal sense, and now it is that too.
This of course this doesn't fix shit in the ongoing decay of their personalities and relationship. The sibs know this, and are at an impasse, a low point, so they decide to end it all. And end it in the same way that Andrew the incestous romantic weirdo suggested at the start of the game, jumping to their deaths together, their bodies being splattered and mixed together, so their bodies will be forever intertwined.
And the bastards that they are, they decide to do it in front of a bunch of school kids on a field trip, so they will be traumatized. They even shout "hey kids watch this", and Ashley does the akanbe at them, and go down in an embrace, laughing.
It's really a great ending, it got everything. It's even set up at the start of the game with Andrew's fantasy. And these two co-dependent idiots being both unable to resolve their issues, even with incest, but also unable to leave each other, so they die together always felt the most likely outcome for them. And their suicide has this playfully edgy tragi-comedic tone that feels like peak The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.
This might only be a game over or a point-and-click adventure game dead end, but it's definitely a satisfying if tragic ending in its own right. I laughed, felt an odd sense of catharsis, it's great.
saw people on twt pointing out that she wears his old gloves & i'm so 🥺
So, humanity is at over eight billion people. Time for a bit of statistics education for y'all, because I feel like it.
Okay, take a group that's around 1%. At least officially, it could possibly be higher. So like,
BPD: 1.6% officially
DID: 1.5% officially
Trans: 1.14% officially
Schizophrenia: 1.1%
These are American statistics, but presuming that overall none of these have some sort of strong cultural cause, they should be representative of the norm of humanity. Now, let's get the raw number estimate out of this. What we're going to need to do is multiply 8,000,000,000 by 0.016, 0.015, 0.0114, 0.011 respectively.
128,000,000
120,000,000
91,200,000
88,000,000
So, this a rough estimate for the number of people in each category respectively. Bit bigger than you might assume when you hear "approximately 1%", right? When you hear "approximately 1%", you're liable to think something is super rare. And in proportion, yeah, sure.
But plot twist, I'm discussing misinformation and bad propaganda. Did you know the internet allows disparate groups of small populations to connect and form larger communities than was ever possible offline due to how irl populations are distributed? Now, imagine a community of just 25% of trans people. Using the prior information, you can do this calculation yourself.
Done it? Did you get 22,800,000 people? Good job. If not, the calculation should have been 91,200,000 x 0.25. Now, imagine a community online of 22,800,000 people. That's a pretty damn big community online, right?
And this here shows how false claims of the level of visibility of various groups online being the result of "fakers" and "trenders" is. Those claims rely on your inability to understand that even 1% of humanity is 80,000,000 people. You aren't seeing anywhere close to 80,000,000 different people posting about it. You aren't even seeing 1,000,000 people posting about it. You are seeing a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of humanity posting about it. Social media just enables that itty bitty bit to find each other and interact.
You gotta love how it only took an episode for Vi to get over her angst phase and immediately be all "Let's settle down and raise our daughter together in the hippy commune!" with Jinx.
Also big respect to Isha. Sometimes a family is just an adopted mute girl, her two sister-mums, and her werewolf grandad. And she'll do anything for them. That's beautiful.
praying for an active arcane fandom revival full of proship freaks so i can get vijinx or jilco media like we all deserve
finally got an opportunity to use this as a response 🥰
(here is the bonkers hot art I was commenting on)
𝑺𝑻𝑵𝑲 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒗𝒍𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒚𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒓 ♔︎— 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐯𝐥𝐢𝐬/𝐅𝐮𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧 ♡ | 𝑨𝑫𝑯𝑫 ✰ | 𝒆𝒔𝒑/𝒆𝒏𝒈 ➪ 🇺🇾
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