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you like to talk about the future as if it's real and when you tell me that you love me I can almost feel it
hello hello ^_^ i was wondering if you could talk a bit about ronnie? i keep seeing your reblogs and thinking "waow that's so character!!" and i simply must know precisely what sort of gordian knot of diseases you have given her.
GASPPP it would be entirely my honor to talk about Ronnie as much as you'd like!!!!! I'm so happy she's caught your eye! ^w^
(here's the girl! :3)
First things first, you should know she's a Date Everything OC. But all you need to know if you aren't familiar with it is that they're all object gijinkas.
So! Ronnie here is a vintage luxury wrist watch :) She's ambitious, charismatic, charming, perfectionistic, very romantic, and perhaps more than just a little bit self-absorbed :P
Ronnie's well aware that she's, first and foremost, a status symbol, and that her timekeeping skills are secondary. As such, she's very concerned with her image and her reputation.
(More under the cut because I ended up rambling quite a bit lmao)
There are two aspects of her reputation that Ronnie is particularly concerned with:
On one hand, she must be beautiful, eye-catching, elegant, refined, luxurious. It's what she was made for. She has very ambitious plans for the future, involving fine dining, international travel, high fashion, all that rich people stuff. She is not just any watch, she is THE watch, she is a princess, and she'll make sure you (you as in, the player character) know that.
She's special and destined for greatness - and the fact that she's in your possession means you must be special and destined for greatness too! Not everyone can have a watch like her, after all. She's very exclusive. And it's her responsibility to make her wearer look very important!
(This also gives her kind of a jealous + competitive streak when it comes to other watches and other timepieces in general. She has to be the best and the only one or else she is nothing)
On the other hand, she really wants to be seen as a good person. Any luxury item can be a spoiled rich kid, sure, but no one likes a spoiled rich kid, and Ronnie really, really needs that kind of validation. So, being a princess is not enough. She has to be chosen by her subjects.
For this reason, she's become kind of a social butterfly, always going around the house performing good deeds, building rapport with people, helping organize events, trying to get on everyone's good side in case something happens and she needs their support...
She isn't always great at it though :p You might have guessed from me calling her self-absorbed that she's not as good at reading people as she'd like to believe, but hey! To some extent at least she at least tries to adapt to different people's personalities and say what she thinks they want to hear (as long as she thinks they're worth her time, anyway).
It's tiring enough for her to walk that tightrope, but she'd probably be able to handle it if it weren't because there's a catch.
The thing is [SPOILERS] she's not a genuine luxury watch! She's a fake, a counterfeit, more specifically a Frankenwatch. Some parts of her are genuine, but some aren't and this is the crux of all her issues.
In theory, a complete fake would know exactly who they are and who they are pretending to be, right? But Ronnie's in a strange gray area in-between. Is she a victim, the genuine watch whose heart was torn out and now has to relearn how to be herself, or is she the monster, a parasite who's taken over someone else's life? Such questions haunt her.
I generally say that she's piloting a dead man's body after his death, because she was mostly made from his body parts, but that's a bit of an oversimplification. Sure, there was one specific watch she was modelled after, who she was made to replace, BUT it's more accurate to say that she was stitched together from parts taken from different watches Frankenstein style. Or, as I like to put it, her body is a graveyard. Maybe that's kind of a dramatic way to word it, haha.
In any case, that's where her identity issues come into play. I often say she IS the mask and that there's nothing underneath, because every decision she makes is heavily influenced by how it'll make her look. Her appearance, her hobbies, the people she hangs out with, the things she says, they must all fit her "benevolent royal" image, but that's not a role she chose for herself.
You could ask who she is when no one's looking, but I don't think that would help. The logo written on her dial defines her, and those letters hold no meaning if there's no one around to gawk at them. As an actress, she is nobody unless she has an audience to perform for. As I/Me/Myself said, she is quantum physics; her witness brings her to existence!
She's so wrapped up in lies that she doesn't know where they end and where the truth begins. But of course, she would do anything to uphold the illusion that she's a genuine luxury watch. After all, if her secret gets out, she will most likely be vivisected for parts... (also deep down she doesn't have any self-worth. the way she sees it, the facade is the most valuable part of her and so she must hold onto it no matter what)
I store my art of her on Unvale if you wanna see more of her :)
Ronnie is a Date Everything OC. She's the personification of a lu
And that's pretty much it! That was longer than I thought it would be :p But I hope that was the answer you were looking for!
Thank you so much for asking, I'm so honored!!! :D If there's anything else about her you're curious about feel free to let me know ^^
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Like I just feel like a concerning amount of social skills advice for autistic people is written with the fundamentally incorrect assumption that 1) all autistic people could learn how to socialize normally if only they knew it was important and put in a bit of effort, and that 2) thus it is actually fine to judge the autistic people who don't
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I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person
BUT
a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."
#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’
maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english
El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.
Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.
Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.
A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.
La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.
Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.
yk guys I think a lot of ppl when arguing against the death penalty go for a like "people don't deserve death, etc" view and I get why ppl argue for that I rly do! but it doesn't matter. I don't trust the government to do it, I don't trust them to decide who should die, I don't trust them to determine who is mentally competent, I don't trust them to not be bigoted and discriminatory in their practices, I don't trust them to have the right people, I don't trust them to execute it in a humanitarian way. and I've had discussions with ppl who otherwise have similar viewpoints to me in many ways but can think of people they think deserve to die, and I think if abolishing the death penalty is like, a super important cause to u the same way it is to me, the argument u use shouldn't be "well these people deserve to live" (although in some cases I think yeah the death penalty is done to people who totally don't "deserve it") because that's so subjective, it should be "do you trust the government to do it?" like, do you trust the people who cant even fill potholes on your road to determine who should and should not live
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The relationship between Lucky and Ivan looks interesting. I'm intrigued
oh wow! thank you! in simple terms Lucky has a failing a heart, IVAN has an artificial eternally beating heart. does Lucky truly like IVAN or do they like the machine in IVAN’s chest? hmmm who knowssss… alternatively does IVAN truly understand human relationships, or does he enjoy the freedom that comes with Lucky hmmm idk…
do they actually like each other or do they like what the other can do for them? they’re my way of exploring a complex relationship.