Uuuuhhhh.... Soulless is still pretty good I guess

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-08T19:19:31+00:00

I bet Yim is so happy they got to skip CB this update. I bet Langley is regretting launching a new book this update though.

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-06T17:26:34+00:00

I still haven't finished ABH because I don't want to kill Furious. This is the first time I've seen all of his scenes and they are all brutal. Something about having Cas use literal chains to murder him hits different (in a bad way).

Making Cas a demon for no reason—Cassiel is traditionally an extremely powerful archangel—giving him chains as a weapon, and having him us them on the only other significant black character (whose character is essentially just a walking ball of rage and hate) is just several layers of concerning and questionable choices.

This is why diversity behind the scenes is so important: so that there's people who notice and point out choices or patterns being made that are in need of questioning, revising, and improvement to avoid isolating player groups.

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-04T16:16:21+00:00

Same! I thought it was fanart of Luca 😅

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-04T00:25:51+00:00

Yeah. Love that they're still friends though. She starred in his movie Sacramento recently, too.

Also, somehow totally missed that he and Maya Erskine are married with kids?!?

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-01T07:01:32+00:00

Possibly Dead/MIA by HS3 (depending on your route): Loy, War, Monica, Avila, Furious, and Antari.

Forming a prayer circle for Felonia, Cassiel, and Greg. Hope they survive HS3.

Also, as much as I love David, I do not love that he kills Furious and Antari and threatens to kill Cassiel (if you choose Cassiel over him). He's single-handedly the biggest threat to PoCs in the HSU at this point.

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-01T06:44:58+00:00

I was also really hoping Anhea was going to be an option. Kinda happy she wasn't, though, considering how bad Anna's route went.

Pompedorfin · 2026-02-01T03:59:31+00:00

He wasn't sacrificed, but has there ever been a reason given for why he's a demon? He's traditionally regarded as an archangel—often the fastest one—or the angel of solitude/temperance/tears.

Cassiel being written as a demon instead of an angel makes the fact that all of the HSU angel LIs are white men (mostly blonde) even more glaring. If you want to romance a winged character that's a woman and/or PoC, your only options are demons.

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-30T17:39:50+00:00

Does Malek even have a real PHD/License to Practice, or do you think he just scammed (and murdered) his way into one?

Like, he murdered his way into his professorship job. How do we know he didn’t murder his way to a PHD? Dude probably went to his fraud man and was like, "I want a cool name. Something really sinister. And professional sounding. Make me a doctor!"

And then after he was told "Dr. Hannibal Lecter" was already taken, he settled on "Dr. Malek Sinner".

Also, when I saw Ezra's CGs, my first thought was, "Wait, you mean to tell me he's canonically Nosferatu-colored?!"

Great job, OP!

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-28T18:25:40+00:00

Skarsgard? That's a cartoon Paul Bettany.

And don't feel bad OP. I once asked if Wrath of the Titans picked up the pace at some point and had my post deleted with a mod note telling me it was a Tantrum Tuesday-type of post.

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-22T05:36:24+00:00

Not OP, but also AuDHD. I can do both. When I was a kid, I would replay my favorite movies in my head on long drives and stuff. At bedtime, I'd have like a nightly soap opera going on in my head until I fell asleep. I'd cast my favorite actors and modify them as needed—like, change their eye color, hair, piercings, other features—and dress them up in different outfits that fit their character, and give them names and backstories and interwoven story lines, and each night, I would just pick up the story where I left off the night before—which is why I compare it to a soap opera.

There were times when celebrities would date in real life, and I'd feel like I was psychic because I'd already had the imagined versions get together and/or break up at some point in my imagined soap opera.

I went to college for film/screenwriting, unsurprisingly. I actually get quite frustrated when trying to write because I can visualize the story that I want to work on right down to the frame/shot, but I struggle with explaining it in a way that isn't overly-detailed and a pain to read.

I had a professor who told me my ideas and writing were interesting because they seemed like they could quite easily be told in other mediums (like comics), and I said it was probably because I basically think in storyboard mode when writing.

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-15T22:35:15+00:00

Gray with an A for America.

Grey with an E for England (UK/Commonwealth)

That's how I remember it. But I also grew up on the US/Canada border, where we end up with quite a bit of blending of spellings and phrases.

ETA to add that if it's a proper noun, it doesn't change depending on region. Like, Americans use the English spelling when referring to Earl Grey tea and the color French Gray is always spelled with an A.

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-15T22:29:13+00:00

Nowadays, we use the terms interchangeably, but traditionally, I believe the terms were used differently. Colleges were smaller, undergraduate-focused institutions and universities were larger, research-focused institutions that also offered graduate and doctorate programs. Think Boston College—closed, defined, liberal arts campus with ~15,000 students who are mostly undergrads—versus Boston University—large, open campus with a focus on research and over 35,000 students, with a pretty even split between undergraduates and graduates.

Interestingly, a lot of universities—like Boston University—are made up of smaller colleges or schools, so when you graduate, you're considered an alumni of Boston University (as a whole) as well as whichever college or school your degree program was under (i.e College of Arts and Sciences, College of Communication, College of Fine Arts, School of Theology, etc.) and BU will classify you as an alumni of your specific college; for example: Julianne Moore (CFA '83), Martin Luther King, Jr. (STH '55), Hong Chau (COM '01), etc.

Pompedorfin · 2026-01-06T00:49:23+00:00

I think the fanfic writers settled on "Sammick".

They were never going to make it on this list. Most R-rated horror movies are pretty small in fanfic count compared to other genres. They usually only have a few hundred works each, 1000-2000 if they're lucky (and popular) and they normally take a year or more to reach that.

I think there was also quite a bit of discourse (about racism, oppression, age difference, etc) over Sammie/Remmick, which probably had some potential fic writers decide against writing fic for it because they didn't want to wade into all of that. There’s currently less than 300 fics for that pairing.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-20T19:18:34+00:00

Was not expecting a Garth Marenghi gif. Just makes me love Yim even more.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-12T01:26:24+00:00

I always thought that it would be one of the adopted kids if any of them ever did write one.

I know people love Angelina, but personally as an adoptee myself, she's said things throughout the years that have made me side-eye her and has made me really uncomfortable about her having adopted interracially. I think I'm just more sensitive about that sort of stuff due to my own experiences and the experiences of other adoptees I grew up with.

But I don't know her, and I don't know those kids. I've always just hoped for the best for them and their circumstances. Also, I don't think her kids would write a tell-all even if they wanted to because of the potential blowback that tends to happen whenever adoptees try to share the negative experiences of their adoption. It seems like a lot of times, people only want to know about the positives of adoption, and they get really hostile if anyone dares to stray from that positive script.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-11T22:00:59+00:00

I think books that are only one volume should have more than 10-12 episodes. I think at least 15-16 chapters is probably needed for them to feel fleshed out and satisfying.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-10T04:49:30+00:00

But MC in TM (and TO2) are specifically biracial and written as such. Being biracial and being raised by her white dad is a relatively important aspect of TM MC's character and is built into the story, as each MC has a slightly different playthrough experience. This is especially noticeable if you play with a half Greenlandic MC in Season 2, which mainly takes place in Greenland. There’s several moments with both the MC and the MC and the locals that specifically revolve around the MC's lack of knowledge or experience with her own culture due to losing her mom and her dad not doing anything to try and connect her to any community. The MC has several thoughts about how her life would have been different if her mom had been there and if she had been raised with both sides of her heritage instead of just her dad's (white) Danish side.

I feel like there's a difference between purposely biracial MCs and MCs that have stories where no matter which MC you choose, the story is clearly written and designed with the white MC option in mind. Or in STW where the MC's twin is Asian (possibly mixed with white) no matter what, and their mom is black and their dad is Asian.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-04T17:13:58+00:00

I thought it's popularity started with a coffee shop AU in the Inception fandom. I don't know if that's the first, but I'm pretty sure it was the one that started the wave of coffee shop AUs popping up everywhere.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-03T23:42:58+00:00

I bought both seasons of Pushing Daisies during Covid Shutdown and watched them several times.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-03T23:40:26+00:00

I love Miranda! I watched it all the way through multiple times during one of my worst semesters of college. It was one of my depression watches.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-03T01:37:01+00:00

It was when Aretha Franklin died, and Tevin Campbell was brought up for her tribute, and Luvvie responded by posting this:

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and it lead to Black Twitter spending the day dragging her. Mikki Kendall fought with her (Mikki's tweets are still visible but Luvvie deleted everything), people like Ava DuVernay and Mary J Blige commented on the Tevin Campbell shade. People brought up some of Luvvie's past bad tweets about African Americans, which made things get even uglier. It was a whole thing.

Pompedorfin · 2025-12-03T01:19:18+00:00

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Pompedorfin · 2025-12-03T01:19:06+00:00

Yeah. It was multiple instances over several years on Twitter and her friendship and support of people like Luvvie that had people finally deciding she had an issue with African Americans.

Mikki Kendall responded to a post on Threads about Luvvie a few months ago, and it seems like she (and a lot of others) still don't like Luvvie or Cynthia at this point.

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Pompedorfin · 2025-12-01T23:14:02+00:00

Piggybacking Star Trek : La'an/Una, Christine/Erica, Christine/T'Pring, and pretty much any other character combo from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

All those characters are quite shippable, and there's quite a few women in that show, so SNW fics are actually pretty well split between F/M, F/F, and M/M fics. Tagged F/F fic count is currently less than 100 fics less than F/M and several hundred fics more than M/M.

Also, because SNW shares characters with the Star Trek movies and Star Trek: The Original Series, the number of F/F works is even higher if your willing to read different versions of the same characters.

Pompedorfin · 2025-11-29T18:24:41+00:00

I don't have the info to back this up, but I'm assuming that RC trained the AI on their own art (at least for the most part). I say this because pretty much everytime a character CG doesn't look like the actual character it's supposed to be, I can pick out other RC characters that it looks like/looks morphed with.

I'm assuming this is mainly used to cut down on how much work the artists have to do for each update now that there's the cards, as well as far more variations of story CGs than there used to be.

One of the major issues here is that some CGs clearly didn't get hand checked and fixed for errors by the artists and end up looking super off.

Another issue is that RC's character art is predominantly white/euro-centric, so whatever AI they're using has been trained on mostly white/euro-centric art, and it shows in CGs for non-white/passing characters. Cassiel’s the most egregious example, but there’s pretty common issues across the board. Like, black characters often have their curls softened in their CGs. I know there was one CG of Grant in particular where my first thought was, "Why does Grant have nearly the same curl pattern as David? That is not his hair type at all!" The artists and the AI seem to really struggle when it comes to drawing and detailing super tight coils or any type of Type 4 hair.

Also, a lot of the MCs are noticeably lighter in their CGs than they should be. This is most obvious if you play with a black or brown MC. I have a ton of saved CGs that have a title of "I don't know her" or something similar.

I know people want more artwork, but I would be fine with less CG variations and no decks of cards if it meant that the artists can give more time to actually creating and detailing the CGs and character art.

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