"We need a slur for--"

Why do you want to say slurs so bad? 🤨

With Iron Lung coming out soon imma post some predictions!

-the mc is gonna die just like how you die at the end of the og game but the overall movie ending will be definitive -We won't learn what caused the Quiet rapture but we'll hear theories and get enough hints to go full matpat -Mark goes the "Two monsters" route in the blood ocean -Some supernatural stuff happens to the mc while in the blood ocean -Possible flashback to the short war between Eden and the COI that led to the MC being captured -We never learn the MC's name since he is a prisoner -We get some lore via the terminal just like when the game updated -The MC at least dies happy to finally be free -That star thing from the game has more relevance and causes problems -Get a full view of the monster since here it won't just be a png face Idk thats all I got I'm so excited for the mobie imma be watching it on my bday!

Y’all gotta come up with some new lines, or just absorb the information without comment.

"which flavor of trans has it the worst"

hey. who do you think benefits from us fighting about this.

Guys (the very small MWM tumblr fandom) their parallels this chapter; I'm going slightly insane. They make me sad (want better things for the both of them)

"this character acted irrationally and i don't like it :/" people act irrationally in real life all the time. why do you want stories to be boring. "it made me uncomfortable" GOOD. learn to be uncomfortable from harmless fictional situations and perhaps you'll handle yourself better next time you're uncomfortable irl

don't get me wrong i love "always knew i wasn't a boy/girl" narratives but how about we start writing about "knew about trans people but couldn't imagine being one because Surely I'm not special that way and instead just kinda bad at being a boy/girl"

this was a comment on a video of a male medical student talking about going into his obgyn rotation and how hes not offended when people dont allow him to sit in on their obgyn appointments to get clinical experience. and I HATE this mindset.

there is nothing sexual or perverted about being an OBGYN. that is a medical doctor for a specific part of a person's body. yes, those parts are used in sex and reproduction. but like any other part of the human body, it can have medical problems that need to be fixed. to say that anyone, regardless of gender, must have some perverted desire in order to become a specialized doctor is so disgusting. do we think that female doctors who specialize in male urology and reproductive health are just horny women who want to look at penis all day?

and if you are personally uncomfortable with having a male obgyn, that's perfectly fine. the video that this comment was left on was specifically about a male medical student saying "your comfort and safety always comes first, no one is offended by you saying you don't want me in the room while you have an exam" which is true!! but to then say "he shouldn't be in that practice anyway. predator." is so fucking nasty. he hasn't done anything wrong. these medical visits should always be built on the strictest form of informed consent. youre judging him for being a student in a very necessary medical field. there are a lot of great women obgyns, i just had my hysterectomy from one, but I don't think that only women should be allowed to be obgyns and male obgyns should not be shamed.

remember that some people hold just as much trauma towards women and would actually feel more comfortable being assessed by a man. male predators are more common because of a patriarchal society that teaches men to be entitled (NOT due to some implicit evil that some folks seem to think exists inside a man), but being a predator is not unique to being a man, and people who have trauma around women also deserve a safe and comfortable medical experience.

i made this my last controversial opinion of 2025 on twitter so it’s only right i make it my first controversial opinion of 2026 here:

this is probably the only time i’ll ever fully flesh out my thoughts on the dispatch locker room scene, but just so everyone knows where i stand on it—this culture of puritanism we’ve found ourselves in is not as progressive as people think it is. no, actually, i don’t understand why the locker room kiss made people uncomfortable, because not a single kiss in dispatch was preceded by consent. this is not me saying that people aren’t allowed to be uncomfortable by it, but this is me saying that i don’t understand it and i do think that as a whole, people (on the internet, mostly) have gotten too “woke” in a way that is detrimental to the way we consume media and expect humans to interact with each other. because the truth of the matter is, the “surprise” kiss trope has been around for longer than any of us have been alive, and people in real life aren’t asking for consent or announcing what they’re going to do every time they do it. obviously consent is important, especially when it comes to anything beyond kissing or foreplay, and we should all be striving to make sure our partners consent and hold the dignity to withdraw it at any point—which is why the game allows robert the character to retract the implied consent that he’s given over the course of visi’s romance route if the player so chooses.

i understand that as individuals, our experiences and particular traumas shape the way things affect and trigger us—that’s fine. what i don’t believe is fine is going around and using this scene (and her general behavior) to villainize invisigal and call her a pervert, rapist, sexual predator, awful, terrible person because we’ve projected ourselves onto robert as a self insert instead of a character who was written a specific way, with his own thoughts and feelings. as individuals and humans, there is far too much nuance and unspoken/non verbal communication for there to be no difference between kissing a stranger without explicit consent and kissing someone you’ve been actively romantic and built history and rapport with, without explicit consent. and even so—that brings me to this:

the double standard. i want to state, i have no problem with the other kisses that take place in dispatch, even the one that phenomeman forces on robert. in the very first episode, we the player are given the option to have robert the character kiss blonde blazer based on their interactions that have happened within just a few hours. you’re meant to go off vibes, and what you believe this character you’ve played thirty minutes as would do. robert does not explicitly ask for consent—he picks up on the unspoken vibe, goes with his gut, and kisses her (if the player chooses), and she momentarily kisses back before retracting her “consent.” if you are romancing blazer, whether or not you kissed her in episode one, robert again is given the option to kiss her—which he does without explicitly asking, “can I kiss you?” this is such a common trope in media and for those of us who have experienced it, in real life. it happens. it doesn’t make robert a bad person, it doesn’t make you or anyone who might have done it to you a bad person (of course, taking into account whatever did or did not follow it). along with this, it is worth mentioning the smaller things like, again, phenomeman who is an alien with no grasp on human social cues, kissing robert without consent—or when malevola, who the dispatch fandom loves and is frothing at the mouth for a romance route with, grabs robert’s dick as a joke and he openly and aggressively expresses discomfort in (meaning that robert the character is disciplined enough to express these things, is not afraid to do so, and we see how he reacts to textbook sexual assault without player intervention)—and the physical assault inflicted on robert by characters like flambae (please do not tell me attempted murder is not as bad, if not worse than sexual assault—i will not take you seriously).

the point is: we’re holding invisigal, a villain with a complex history who has probably never had a proper relationship, romantic or platonic, to this ungodly standard for acting on intense and yes, probably irrational, emotions with someone she has fallen in love with that she believes may feel the same way. is she invisible while she does it? yes. she left invisible, probably expecting to leave entirely, but it’s not irrational to believe that someone in her situation would stop, hold their breath (literally), and take a leap of faith, which we hear her do. she walks away, pauses, and then runs back to kiss robert in a final act of desperation. these are all things that we as the viewer can, given enough critical thinking skills, infer with the context clues and overall information we’re given about these two characters.

i could go into how the fandom’s treatment of invisigal and the reception of this scene (ie; “Invisigal is immature, Invisigal is pushing 30, Invisigal is too abrasive”) is indicative of a larger problem that probably stems from misogyny (when comparing her character to fan favorite flambae), or racism (when comparing her character to blonde blazer), or lack of media literacy, or all of it mixed together, but that would require novel, and this is long enough already. the overarching point in all of this is:

tldr; Context matters, not everything exists in a vacuum, and i don’t believe, fundamentally, that there is anything wrong with the locker room scene. i don’t think it’s bad writing, i don’t think people defending it are wrong, and i personally don’t believe that what invisigal does is sexual assault (textbook definition aside)—and i’ll be probably the first to say that, even if it is, without any room for doubt, so what? the puritanism we’ve doused ourselves in has left no room to consume media that is meant to make us uncomfortable or question why a certain character behaved a certain way, or even worse, do some self reflecting on why something made us feel a particular way. if the locker room scene made you uncomfortable, it’s well within your right to feel that way, but i do implore you to explore and attempt to navigate that—while at the same time giving a messy character who does messy things some fucking grace, and questioning why all the other fucked up things that happen in this game don’t make you uncomfortable. and if they do, why are we here? why are you engaging with the post game content at all? let us all hope and pray that 2026 brings upon us the ability to engage with things that aren’t black and white. i leave you with this text i found that i think perfectly encapsulates my thoughts on this.

Giving up on academia to pursue a life of sudoku

I am holding your face in my hands so gently when I say this:

You cannot optimise your way out of being human

You can take every supplement, superfood, and nootropic going, and you'll still have days when you're ill, when you're tired, when you make stupid mistakes for no good goddamn reason.

You can read every book on non-violent communication, or gentle parenting, you can go to therapy, and be ever so mindful about the people you fill your time with, and you're still going to experience conflict, and misunderstandings, and grief.

You can plan your schedule 24/7 in carefully calculated 3 minute increments to ensure maximum productivity, but that train will still be late, that project will still run over, you'll somehow still never get around to learning that language, or that instrument, or that sport.

You can do your cardio, and track your macros, you can carb-load, or keto, or whatever the fuck dumbass extreme diet is this week's fountain of youth. You can do crosswords, and sudoku, and keep up a 12-step nightly beauty routine, but you're still going to age. You're still going to live through the gradual dissolution of the self, both physical and mental - and that's if you're lucky.

There is no one right way to live your life. Everyone you look at who is somehow managing to live the life you imagine is perfect for you has sacrificed something important to you, or has resources you don't.

I get it. I do! This mortal coil is wrapped so tight around you that you can't breathe if you stop a moment and let yourself be aware of it. There is a book on the shelf in your local library right now that would change you as a person if you read it, but you never will, because it's one of a million and there just isn't enough time.

You are an animal, just electricity in meat. The product of millions of generations of 'just good enough'. Let yourself be that. Learn to be just good enough. Let yourself lie in a sunbeam like a cat. Let yourself search for small pieces of joy like a magpie. Feel every transcendent and wretched inch of your humanity and howl at the moon like a wolf when there's too much of you to fit inside your skin.

You don't have to be perfect, but please, let yourself be you.

I recently had a revelation. The reason youthink you're uniquely fucked up is because you see the inside of youe brain the same way an embroiderer sees the back of a piece. You see all the mess that no one else does. But everyone has that mess, it's normal. You see other people as better because you have no way of seeing the inside of their brain. Does this make any sense

i bet scratching your neck with your little foot feels good as fuck if you're a cat

i mentioned it in tags before but im still rotating it in my brain so. I think it’s really cool that L’s successors kind of embody the three categories of people that Light wants to rid the world of once and for all. There’s the morally ‘evil’ who commit crime (Mello), ‘lazy’ people who waste their talents not helping society (Matt), and any people who try to stop him from achieving his goal (Near). Theyre quite literally the personification three people he could possibly end up hating the most

And then there's the fourth flavor of successor that is literally just straight up unapologetically a murderer who fits the precise target on Light's hit list.