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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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There should be more ace characters in media and more aro characters and more aroace characters and more aroallo character and more alloace characters and they should be in all sorts of different genres with all sorts of different personalities and relationships and storylines #yay
I was thinking of making a list of all the racist tropes in the Horizon games.
In part because it seems to be taboo to point out racist nonsense in the games. And taboos beg to be broken! But also because of a post I saw recently about how fandoms like to be more queer than the source material but struggle to be less racist and misogynist than the source material. And I think that's (at least in part) because people in general have a hard time recognizing misogyny and racism.
I think the reason why I haven't already made a list of racist tropes in Horizon is because putting all of it in one document to look at will likely make me not want to engage in the games anymore. And that kinda says something. There's some kind of emotional/cognitive dissonance going on here.
I've always wondered what the breaking point is for marginalized people. What makes a person put down a book, movie, game when the racist/misogynist/ableist/fatphobic/homophobic/etc. fuckery interferes with their ability to take any kind of pleasure in the story? What allows a person to just roll their eyes and continue to derive some kind of enjoyment of the story?
Back in the day we called it our "problematic faves" because there was an understanding that for those who experience and recognize racism, misogyny, etc., the stories presented by mainstream media will always be "problematic" in some way. Fandom often reiterates the oppressive tropes in the souce material, but it's also a potential space to imagine beyond it. And now that I've gotten a taste of the potential of imagining beyond, I find myself less and less interested in the source material...
If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
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Everyone has the potential to fall victim to being indoctrinated into a cult. Anyone can be sexually assaulted. Anyone can become a victim of an abusive relationship. Yes, even if you're intelligent and strong willed. Yes, even if you think you're tough and "don't take shit from anyone".
If you've never found yourself as the victim of a cult, or sexual assault, or abuse, the only thing separating you from people who have been victimized by cults / sexual assault / abuse is circumstance. That's it. Sheer luck. Luck over what family you were born into. Luck over who you were surrounded by when you were emotionally compromised or in any way vulnerable. Ect.
You are not better than people who have been victimized. They didn't do anything wrong to ask to be victimized. Anyone can be victimized by these situations given the perfect storm of circumstances. You are not better than people who have been victimized by cults / sexual assault / abuse.
You need to understand that if you are lucky enough to have never been victimized by cults / sexual assault / abuse, it's very little to do with how smart or strong you are or you doing all the "right" things. Someone can be smart and strong and do all the right things and still find themselves a victim given the perfect storm of bad circumstances.
The sooner this can be understood, the sooner we can do away with victim blaming culture. And the sooner we can do away with victim blaming culture the sooner atrocities like cults, sexual assault, and abuse can stop being so prolific. Victim blaming culture allows these atrocities to thrive. And they will continue to thrive until we shift the blame to where it rightfully belongs.
it's very funny to me that the advice in the notes divides cleanly into two camps:
Actually actionable advice (break it down into smaller pieces, leave and come back later, find somebody to do it with you so you aren't doing it alone)
People who are Jared, 19 and just say something that's fundamentally a variation on "just do it scared"
Warning: advice that "you have to leave your comfort zone to grow" is meant for people who are IN their comfort zone the majority of the time. If you rarely/never feel comfortable and safe, you actually need to get more comfortable and safe before you can grow 👍
you need to have at least some control over whether you're in or out of your comfort zone. if you get pitched into a frightening situation without any say in the matter it's a lot harder to handle than if you can choose when and how you approach it.
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