I came back to this cookie game last year cause there was a silly jester and people were making really cool art of it again.
I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS SHIT
Never thought a game about sentient cookies could break me as many times as this stupid game has. I cried over COOKIES.
I've been seeing people rant about this update on Tumblr and I'm gonna do the same, but first I neeeeed to talk about these two.
Sadly, I didn't get a lot of screenshots of the scene cause I just wanted it to play out. But the fact that White Lily's last words to Pure Vanilla were "My precious" kills me. I've personally always seen their relationship as kinda one-sided romantically. Pure Vanilla always loved her while White Lily never quite returned his feelings. However, after this scene, I do feel like she loved him in some way. Whatever way she did feel about him, he was her light. He guided her through so much darkness, and I just wished these two spent their last moments together embracing each other.
And honestly, I know this will be controversial, but if any cookie was going to die, I really feel like they made the right decision by choosing White Lily. Dark Enchantress was eventually going to be defeated someday, and White Lily was going to have to go with her. Her death brought me to tears, and that, in my opinion, marks a really damn good character death.
(Also Gingerbrave's whole moment was fucking glorious but I'll leave that whole yap session to the Gingerbrave fans)
Now for my rant :D
If you don't wish to see that, then stay away from this part of the post!
I AM SO ANGRY THAT DEVSIS KEPT THAT STUPID BLUE RAT ALIVE. Yes I know that he revived your entire game, BUT HE HAS TAKEN OVER THE SCRIPT AT THIS POINT.
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN THE OTHER BEASTS ARE DEAD??? And the amount of screen time and voicelines they did have actually makes me so furious. Devsis biggest flaw by FAR is how often they make Shadow Milk the center of attention.
I loved the ending this update gave us. I thought it was really, really good! All except for what we got with the beast cookies.
The beast cookies would have such a better storyline if they were handled more like the ancients. They all get their fair share of lines and scenes, meanwhile Shadow Milk literally gets 99% of the screentime for some fucking reason. This hurts me even more as a Burning Spice fan. I adore this guy so much and yet he's constantly ignored by Devsis. The only beast cookie besides Shadow Milk that had a good amount of scenes was Silent Salt. The others had their own little sections, a few lines, and that's it. MEANWHILE SHADOW MILK GETS MULTIPLE MONOLOGUES AND SEVERAL ANIMATED SCENES.
I feel like the beast cookies got the worst treatment this update BY FAR. Sugar Swan's entrance was very sudden, yes, but she had SCENES. She had LINES. SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENED WITH HER IN THIS UPDATE. They had that whole extra part that showed us what happened in the realm of silence. Why couldn't we get separate sections of that part with each of the beast cookies? Y'know, to see how each of them are feeling this close to their demise? But no. Burning Spice screams a few times, Mystic Flour says a few lines along with Eternal Sugar, and that's it. The clown gets the spotlight, as always.
The reason this makes me so furious in the first place is that there's such an easy solution to this. GIVE THE BEASTS EQUAL AMOUNTS OF SCREENTIME. TREAT THEM LIKE THE ANCIENTS. Shadow Milk would be so much more tolerable as a character if Devsis had it in them to put him on the sidelines for a bit. But no. Now he's gonna continue to be a huge antagonist in the series, and he's probably gonna get a ton more merchandise and costumes cause WHY THE HELL NOT.
On a final note, I'm not gonna leave this game just cause of this. I love this game too much, and this update had so many other amazing things in it. I just hope the beasts get better treatment in the future. Devsis did say they were bringing them back some time, so they better stick to their word.
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Devsis please stop FUCKING ragebaiting us I can't take it
what do you mean HE ALREADY TOLD EVERYONE ABOUT THE OVEN?? When did this even happen? Because not ONCE before has he EVER mentioned this, not to mention that the trio in general have apparently already told everyone that they escaped from the witch????
What could have been a really important, dramatic reveal was done off-handedly and offscreen. I WANTED TO SEE THEM HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WHAT THE FUCKKK
Not to mentioned that none of the characters are worried about this? Like everyone's treating it like "oh yeah haha that thing" and GingerBrave isn't even sensitive regarding the topic. Like I'm sorry, isn't the oven the cookie equivalent of HELL?! He should have PTSD! Not to mention that someone should have mentioned this in ep 15 when he got thrown in an oven AGAIN (and he definitely should have been freaking out more when that happened).
These writers suck dude, how do you waste the MAIN CHARACTERS' BACKSTORIES to this degree. Strawberry was the ONLY ONE to be like "That whole thing was actually really scary" and the others should have had that too! But noooooo instead of dwelling on the protagonists' genuinely really interesting backstories, we get shadow milk aurafarming and angst AGAIN. It's pissing me off
To the people arguing over shipping wars due to the new leaked "lovers" card, I have done tarot for years, let me cook
This is a full breakdown of literally everything in the card so its long sry
before I get hated for siding with purelily keep in mind I am a neutral shadowvanilla shipper just here to educate
I've seen some people saying that lovers can mean familial love. devsis can always play with and shift things around but it generally means actual lovers not just friends in the tarot context
The not being friends is further pushed by the fact that they kept in the burning tree in the right side, the literal flames of passion
For those saying its not purelily because shadow milk is there, hes in his snake form for a reason. In the original card there is the tree of knowledge on the side (like in the crk card) with the snake coiled around it
Now in these kinds of symbolism type stuff the snake around a tree with apples is mostly bringing from the Bible story of the snake tempting eve, aka the snake mostly symbolizes temptation. Maybe since its you know shadow milk headmaster stuff this could symbolize white lilys temptations for knowledge and to learn more, ultimately leading to her demise and suffering all over earthbread.
But the snake can also mean sensual desire, and specially transformation that comes from gaining hidden knowledge, that screams white lily (turning into dark enchantress stuff).
The tree of knowledge also has obviously knowledge but also represents commitment and evolution (like for themselves)
I would comment on how they aren't naked but its a kids game so I won't say that had symbolism lol
It is worth mentioning their positioning, instead of standing together symbolizing unity, commitment, yin and yang, white lily is going forward and pure vanilla maybe even seems hesitant, which hints to them maybe not being together romantically in the end, their souls being separated from each other and different not as parallels but just differnet
Noted that the Roman 6 up top means basically just harmony and completion and its there so maybe its just saying that shes leading him
Also maybe worth noting that yin and yang is a big thing with them and smc & pv are opposites, two sides of the same coin but I don't think theyre pointing at that here.
The background is also different, there is not garden of eden in the crk ver (or smth like it) and there is no angel, this angel is supposed to be like a higher power and transcend their existence but instead its just the door presumably to nether queen
This seems like it could be a parallel, instead of an angel you have simply a door, leading to something negative. The hiddeness/mystery could also be something instead of the very kinda up front angel
But the door and nether queen might not be in place of the angel given that the steps that lead up to the door are in place of the path to the peak of the mountain which has some symbolism of what path to choose to go on property to your destination, possibly eluding again to pure vanilla choosing a path (with or without white lily).
Thanks so much if you actually read all that and feel free to debate, ask questions, or discuss with me and others in the comments ^^
tw: swear words, bullying a fictional character, gif that may induce epilepsy, hate on a fictional character? (not really), character ooc
oh wow, WOW! lookie here! look who decided to show his damn cute face in my DAMN HOUSE after eating all the rainbow cubes I have hoarded since I started playing this game! how dare you!!!! TO THE LOCKER WITH YOU!!!
Oh my god? when u pick him up it's like he's waving, so cute
I WANT TO GIVE HIM A FUCKING HEART ATTACK RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGG!!!!
Anyways... I'm gonna leave him there and never look back (god, i wish we could put a cookie permanently in those lanterns)
I know I should be happy that I finally got both, but I only feel relief that I can stop obsessing over rainbow cubes and I hate myself because why did I care about pulling those skins if I knew that I won't use them ever uggghhhh.
Don't get me wrong, I like Sage of Truth but I hate him but I love him but I hate him but I love him... It's just... ugh... he is just so goody-two-shoes, so soft, so nerdy, so bully-able looking, so vanilla... that makes me go aggressive but I guess in a good way? I want to squash him! it's this cuteness aggression? what it's wrong with me?
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Okay, so let's look at the definition of the term pick-me. A pick me is a woman who puts other women down in order to get validation from men.
Now, can we name one instance where White Lily exhibits such behavior? Just one canon moment where she puts down another woman to get attention from a man, and provide an explanation of how it is pick-me behavior. That's all you have to do.
Go on, I'm waiting.
Oh, wait.. You can't. BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T DO THAT!!!
Just say you dislike her. Do NOT use the term pick-me incorrectly, please and thank you.
I will say it again: A pick-me is a woman who puts down other women to get validation from men. A pick me is NOT a woman that you personally dislike.
Like, gold is not his color AT ALL. The only way he looks good is when people do amazing fanart of him. I like the hair, but that's it. The black and gold is so ugly on him.
why do you not like shadowvanilla? i am not much of a shipper myself but I don't think that ship is absolute hell π but it's just my opinion and would love to hear urs
Okay before I start explaining I just want to say that I am not one of THOSE HATERS who randomly spreads misinformation and and calling it Proship etc and hating on it for no reason
I hate this ship because how it is annoyingly everywhere in fact so much that I had to filter it in Tumblr it just gets on my nerves every time I see the fanart (I obviously don't hate the art itself but it's the ship that is the problem)
the ship wars between purelily, Shadowsugar and shadowvanilla is stupid like it's not that hard to just ship what we like without spitting out bullshit, they always try to find a ways to say that it's canon I hear mostly from Shadowvanilla and it just pisses me off (I do find some from purelily and Shadowsugar but it's pretty rare tho),
And these dumbass excuses saying "oh but they made a song about them in the Korean version so it's canon in the Korean version" "the va loves shadowvanilla too" "but-" SHUT. UP. I don't care if you like it I don't care if you want to confirm it cannon but you are NOT making me like this ship
And what makes it worse that sometimes they say white lily is in the way SHE IS NOT IN THE FUCKING WAY white lily only interacted Shadow milk once and you have episode 7 and 8 without her WHAT. DOES. THAT. MAKE. HER. IN. THE. WAY. I also really hate when they make shadow milk as a very jealous/clingy prick that protects pure vanilla it is not cute in any way it is straight up just annoying when it comes to characters who becomes jealous when the other characters are with the others
Oh and don't get me started when some of you guys say that he will get a redemption in act 2 I swear to god I am going to rip my hair out whoever says that again SHADOW MILK ISN'T SHADOW MILK THE ULTIMATE COOKIE HAS TOOK OVER HIM I KNOW VERY WELL HE IS GOING TO GET SO FUCKED UP AT THE END AND REALISE THAT HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE OF ABSORBING THE ULTIMATE COOKIE and NO pure vanilla isn't going to """fix""" him he tried twice from the past episodes and it failed miserably I don't think he's going to try for third time since he's now a maniac
Now about the ship itself as a dynamic: it's BORING af
Like shadow milk has feelings for Pure vanilla and then vanilla tries to be his friends but NOOOO he decline it because he is a pussy and doesn't want to tell the truth, just wtf dude it's one of those boring romantic dynamics that one person doesn't want to tell the truth about their feelings when the other is just trying to bond with them as friends like there's nothing special in this
It is heavily implied but that is not confirm for me to like it, but I don't understand why in the English version they just decided to erase all the queer shit which just confirms that devsister just likes to queerbait for no reason it's not my problem but but it is for those who ship them
Oh yeah don't get me wrong I do not like some Shadowvanilla haters from what I said on the top they randomly spread misinformation and just hates it for no reason without actually doing some research, and in fact I did almost fell into those misinformation trap but thank god I have found someone named DIANA!! on yt has explained shadowvanilla in a proper way (please do check it out if you don't understand they explained it really well)
Soooo yeahhhh I don't like the dynamic some of the shippers are annoying af which made me hated more and the fanart is everywhere which makes me hate it even more and sometimes it gets to the point that my head hurts I'm so glad that shallowlily saved my ass and actually cures me from all this
And the reason why I prefer shadowlily more than shadowvanilla it's because how very similar there are which makes it pretty interesting and they only interacted once which makes it even more interesting and there's a lot of beautiful fanart especially fountlily
Look I don't care if you like it that's good for you as long as you just respect me (and others) I can respect you back
You will never see me ship it you will never see me like it and you will NEVER see me draw either shadow milk and pure vanilla just being together I just can't stand them seeing just them being next to each other.