I cannot begin to imagine how fucking stupid some people at Sony must feel right now after seeing Fromsoft make Bloodborne 2 as a Nintendo exclusive.

The god damn yahoo plumber jumpguy company got to have the practical sequel that could’ve been for your IP, which happens to be one of the most iconic and requested games ever.

What’s important to understand here is that, regardless what Duskbloods turns out to be, regardless of whether it is Bloodborne 2 or not, Fromsoft made an incredibly BB coded game for Nintendo which was announced mere days after Bloodborne’s 10th anniversary, after Sony didn’t even post anything about it.

You may not care about soulsborne, which is fine, but even then you likely understand and acknowledge that Bloodborne is one of the most iconic games of all time. Sony slept on that actively while intending on pushing, if memory serves, eight distinct live service game projects, of which zero were successful on release, of those that released.

Duskbloods could be a platformer with visual novel elements and it would not matter: Nintendo Bagged Bloodborne 2. Even if it isn’t Bloodborne 2, Nintendo Bagged Bloodborne 2.

In defense of a "Wicked Stepmother":

Sarah's Stepmother in "Labyrinth", named Irene in tie-in media, only gets about a minute of screen time before Sarah rushes off to her room in a soaked snit. Fanfic writers usually turn her into an evil bitch and even the manga sequel, "Return to Labyrinth", has her cold and abusive to Toby, her biological child. But here's the thing...

I think Sarah's mother gets a bum rap.

Dressing nicely for an evening out and having mild conflict with a teenager does not a Lady Tremaine make. And as someone who actually lived with a narcissistic, manipulative, emotionally abusive stepfather, I can tell you that Irene doesn't even come close to wicked step parent territory.

Backstory first. It's never spoken of in the film, but clues in Sarah's room tell us that her real mother is a stage actress who abandoned her and her father for another actor. Sarah idolizes her mother and tries to emulate her with play acting. Sarah's father met and married Irene sometime after Linda ran off, and Sarah, who thinks her mom walks on water, resents the hell out of Irene for taking her place. A place that Linda abandoned for another man.

She couldn't help it. He looked like David Bowie.

Let's look at her first alledged transgression. She won't let Merlin into the house. Instead she orders him into the garage. Heartless, we assume because we all love dogs and only the most soulless of monsters don't. But slow down. She didn't leave him out in the rain. She put him in the garage. Furthermore, Merlin is an Old English Sheepdog. Is he a nice dog? Sure, but he's also a breed that's notorious for being high maintenance and hard to keep clean and right now he's soaking wet and filthy. Irene isn't being cruel, she's trying to keep him from ruining the carpet.

So now Sarah and Irene are in the house about to have their confrontation. "Sarah, you're an hour late..."

Sarah lost track of time. Sarah is the one who screwed up. Irene has every right to be frustrated. For all we know, she and Robert were supposed to see a movie or meet someone and Sarah's tardiness wrecks their plans. Note, please, that while she is frustrated, she's not even yelling. My mom would have screamed bloody murder and then held it over my head for weeks.

"Your father and I go out very rarely..."

"You go out every single weekend!"

There is no way to confirm who is right on this. I will say Sarah is the one prone to hysterics and exaggeration, so it's not looking good for her.

"And I ask you to babysit only if it won't interfere with your plans."

I ask. Irene asks. She doesn't demand, and she doesn't expect Sarah to give up her previous plans.

"Well how would you know what my plans are? You don't even ask me anymore!"

Sarah, you were LARPing in a park by yourself. Furthermore, with the storm you would have gone home anyway.

"Well I assume you would tell me if you had a date. I'd like it if you had a date. You should have dates at your age."

Irene doesn't want Sarah to be a Cinderella stuck at home every night. She wants her to go out and have a social life. This is literally the opposite of the bedtime story Sarah tells Toby later.

Also, "I'd assume you tell me..." Irene might not be wording it in the best way here, but she wants Sarah to communicate with her. She wants them to have a relationship.

Then Robert enters the scene. "Sarah, you're home. We were worried about you."

WE were worried. As in both he and Irene. You think that's the reason she was waiting on the porch? Because their sixteen year old daughter is an hour past when she said she'd be home and now it's raining and getting dark?

It's not like she'd ever talk to a stranger.

Sarah runs up the stairs in a snit, not even acknowledging her father and leaving Irene dismayed. "She treats me like a wicked stepmother in a fairy story no matter what I say." Her voice isn't angry, it's hurt. She's making an effort to reach Sarah, but nothings working. She can't break through the tantrums and the anger and the hero worship of Linda.

Sarah is a fantasy junkie. It's all over her room. Her books are all fairy tales. Her dog and her teddy bear are named after figures from Arthurian legend. But she's wrapped herself in a different kind of fantasy, a toxic one. One where Irene, well meaning and kind, is one of the evil stepmothers from her fairytale books, while Linda is good and virtuous like one of the dead moms at the beginning. Except Linda isn't dead. She's shtupping a costar.

Part of Sarah's coming of age and maturity is rejecting Jareth, the stand in for her mother's lover and therefore finally rejecting following her mother's selfish path. We see her finally let go of Linda by putting her picture and clippings in the drawer. Hopefully, the next morning, after she picks the confetti out of her hair, she'll finally be able to start over with Irene.

Starting to think some of you calling for a book or a movie just need a series of short sketches/one-page-long comics.

"I want a horror movie in which the hero sees the warning signs, turns back, lives their best life while the horror happens to someone else in the background"

A five minutes sketch or a full-page comic strip would take care of that without making it boring.

"I want an isekai webcomic in which the hero immediately gets killed by the first wolf/dragon they see cause they're not trained in fighting"

How long do you think this particular story would last. Get a one-page-long comic strip and be over with it.

"I want a time travel story book in which the time traveler accidentally brings future viruses with them and kills all of humankind"

that's frankly depressing and also will not make a compelling long-form story. A comic strip tho? or a late night skit?

"I want some classics to be adapted from the point of view of the working class people living next to the main characters!"

Unless they have a novel-long standing role and we know what goes on in their lives (negating the point of "giving them a voice" since they already have one), that story is just going to be the classic, (possibly still) in third person narration, with a slightly more outside perspective, and some modern judgement sparsed in. Make it a full-page strip/a short story, and i assure you you'll make a better story than trying to make it 300 pages long.

"I want an office romance where the male lead is as toxic as [insert latest Booktok sensation] but the female lead sees the red flags and leaves"

Good for her. Do you plan to write a full story with no conflict? Cause if you don't have another romance lined up for her with the wholesome baker down the corner, it's just going to be 300 pages of her sending applications to get a new job or detailing what she's doing in her new job.

Oh, and also my favorite:

"I want an office romance where the toxic male lead abusing his position to date a girl is denounced to HR and there's a more realistic outcome"

You do not want an office romance, you want a drama about workplace harassment, possibly sprinkled with a stalker storyline. That's fine. But don't go looking for it in the romance section, it's probably not going to be there.

Prayer Request

Hey all, please pray for a woman whom I’ll call S. She is in a scary stalking situation with her recently ex husband. Please pray for safety for her and her kids, that he won’t be able to take control of her accounts, and that law enforcement will do something helpful soon.

I am obsessed with this botched restoration of a 19th century statue of saint anthony

Look at how yassified he is

One of the reasons the walrus-versus-fairy thing was so contentious is that not only did the person who originally posed the question strongly believe the correct answer was obviously the fairy, their reasoning for why the fairy was obviously more surprising was that seeing a fairy would instantly refute the validity of human reason as a tool for understanding the universe and bring your entire worldview crashing down. The sensible response is, of course, to point out that people don't work like that, and realistically nobody is going to see something mildly inexplicable and fall to their knees wailing in existential despair unless we're living in an H P Lovecraft novel, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably pay money to read a story about a dude having a full on Lovecraft protagonist breakdown in response to seeing Tinkerbell.

People joke—not unjustifiably, mind you—that looking at a weird fish would make H.P. Lovecraft have a mental breakdown, but I think this movie would actually do the trick. I don’t know what his “in the moment” reaction would be but I feel strongly that after watching Shark Tale, he would die in his sleep.

one of my biggest pet peeves is when non-Christian writers have a Christian character and impose incredibly secular views and beliefs that directly contradict the Bible on said character, and pass it off as it being the True Christian Worldview™

European Grass Snake/snok. Värmland, Sweden (April 2, 2021).

Worcestershire, England by Nicola Stocken

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evelyn's toolkit

+bonus

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

Oh, they DO have those!

The like button should be at the bottom, looks like this:

The dislike button differs depending on your device but it should look something like one of these:

Hope that helps :)