#hottakes

Fuck any endo that says that you can be a system without a disorder.

Fuck any endo that says you can be a system without trauma.

first of all, we should have gotten more Elisabet POVS and content in HFW, that’s my personal gripe because she is such an important character and she’s constantly referenced literally everywhere (coughs tilda) and where’s her pov on everything? Are there really no datapoints written by her in any ruin (yes, LATOPOLIS or the Hades Proving Lab has holos of her and Travis Tate and an audio point of her and Tilda, but really?? It’s not enough ouuu)

hfw was more about branching off from Elisabet imo, Aloy seems to have been slightly losing herself ingame and acting more and more like Elisabet and less like herself because she was convinced that saving the world is “Elisabet’s dream” and what “Rlisabet would have wanted”, not Aloy’s. (So basically it does make sense she had less content).

okay anyways, about Elisabet.

she is an extreme genius who never could persue human relationships quite right. Now, alot of people argue and bash Tilda inwards for saying that Elisabet would have never had any romantic attraction towards her, but I honestly think it’s not the case. I think there was SOMETHING there, even if it was small. Elisabet was absolutely capable of forming relationships, especially with her own Mother who’s death really took a huge toll on Elisabet’s life. And GRIEF DOES CRAZY THINGS TO PEOPLE! After Elisabet’s mother died, she probably didn’t have a shoulder to cry on, anybody to rely on or talk to like she would to her mother, and this is literally where Tilda is placed to fill that void. Of course, things were never the same after Lis’s mom died, and Tilda wasn’t a replacement for her mother, but rather another figure that Lis had a chance of growing to love.

As their relationship went on Elisabet probably fell out of love, and though timeline shit isn’t specified literally ANYWHERE (again, why I want more elisabet povs) I like to assume that Elisabet and Tilda started growing apart as soon as Tilda got involved in Far Zenith more, and as Elisabet started working on project zero dawn (Tilda half-used her to get a copy of APOLLO, because honestly idk if Elisabet would have given the copy if Erik Visser was asking for it). She LOST TRUST for tilda, she couldn’t handle the thought of being with someone who stabbed her in the back. (After far zenith tried to steal GAIA)

Anyways, Elisabet being Elisabet, she cannot let her burdens overwhelm anyone else. She has an incredibly independent complex and never seems to want to share any slight or majour problem with literally anyone unless absolutely necessary (hence, zero dawn). So that “part of herself locked away” was probably that, along with other parts of infatuation and love that she’s tied down because of how much loss absolutely destroys her.

she was probably wrecked after her mother passed, and building more human connections probably scared her into being more alone (though I do think she would have still been primarily solitary even if her mother wouldn’t have died). half of this prolly doesn’t make sense idk im tired but my main points are:

They didn’t completely destroy her character, HFW was about Aloy finding herself

she should have gotten more screentime through datapoints OF HER WRITING

Her and Tilda’s relationship wasn’t strong by any means, and Tilda was mainly there to comfort her as a means of replacing the hole left in Elisabet’s heart after her mother died (oh btw, Lis did not do this maliciously ofc)

Elisabet IS capable of loving, but due to fear of loss and how it affects her, she doesn’t persue anything to the fullest/doesn’t have an interest in the event that it would shut her down like her mother’s death did.

Elisabet never wanted to put her burdens on anyone else.

hello! This blog is where you submit all your hottakes for the game die of death, the person behind the blog is @iburntthewateragain, lets get on with the rules.

RULES:

No nsfw. Suggestive okay.

you can criticize the devs or saucefy but dont full on just insult their whole life. You can call em a dumbass and stuff but id rather you not completely insult the devs.

You can disagree with a hottake but dont be an asshole to someone just because you disagree with their hottake.

dont submit JUST a headcannon. If theres a hottake and a headcannon thats fine, just dont submit only a headcannon.

thats all!

anon list:

🤷‍♂️ Anon

star anon

Caprisun Anon

Sweet N Sour Fries Anon

blackhole anon🕳️

Drunken on Milk "Talks Only in Bold" Anon

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It wouldn’t be a day at the Haven™️ if we didn’t talk about how men have a hand in the downfall of the world. To be more specific, America. While I’ve been on hiatus, I’ve been looking around on social media and noticed a shift in what we use. I see a lot of people shift to the streamer platforms like Clubhouse, Spaces, Twitch, etc. While initially these platforms weren’t harmful and a way to get closer with people and inevitably achieve some sort of success and fame within the process. The harm came when they tailored their platform to spread harmful rhetoric, what makes it scarier is the streamers are typically men who have built an audience talking to younger men. With what has happened as of late, I can’t help but think this plays a role in the state of current America whether that includes pop culture, politics, and behaviors towards women.

Streamers have always been a thing and had a community for years but the uprising has taken America by storm. I don’t give one streamer specifically credit for more so a behavior. Streaming was typically for gamers and it kind of turned into talk shows exclusively for men. It started with gaming, then talking to their audience, then talking specifically to their male audience, and somehow it ends in misogynistic alpha male talk. Women in these spaces are almost non existent as misogynistic rhetoric is often being spewed and women are being targeted. These streamers ideal target audience aren’t anyone but impressionable young boys from the ages of 12-17 years old, the formative years a young man. It almost reminds me of the argument the violent video games garnered towards little boys would make them act out said violent behavior, and not understand the difference between whats reality and fiction. Streaming has become the resurgence of this behavior, making it unsafe for women in online spaces and in real life. We’re often subjected to the rhetoric that they spew to these young impressionable men and are on the receiving end of their behavior to assert themselves as “alpha males”.

In pop culture, streaming has become prevalent as a lot of todays artists, athletes, and actors are starting to appear on any streamers live of their choosing. While it’s an opportunity for fans to see these figures in a different light and in a less intimidating setting, it feels like the fourth wall has been broken. The content that the post popular streamers push out are widely misogynistic and/or anti-black. Seeing the high profile celebrities that join their streams is a bit… questionable to say the least. The dynamic has changed and the rose colored glasses are off, celebrities who people once have thought the world of has now become scrutinized because of streaming. For example, Halle Bailey was once beloved and seen as the innocent sister between the Bailey sisters. Halle recently had a baby by popular streamer DDG and while that wasn’t the reason her image changed it who she had her baby by. DDG comes off like he hates Halle by bashing her sister, not telling her the child they share will be on his live stream, and making his fans attack her when she was rightfully upset. Online discourse surrounds her to this day behind the relationship to the point where her music or talent isn’t even a topic when bringing her up which is a stark difference compared to five years ago.

As streaming became more popular as of late, the violent behaviors to women has become more noticeable. These “Alpha Males” are giving advice to their audience (obviously not talking to women or girls) and it’s attempting to reinforce masculinity. Equating dominance, aggression, and emotional suppression with being a “real man”. Popular streamers with large followings often use humor to trivialize violence and disrespect towards women. Making it seem like this behavior is humorous or even entertaining.

Popular streamer Deshae Frost just recently did a live stream in Target, in the video he’s hitting on a girl who’s there with her family unbeknownst to him and he says to her that he’ll “F*ck the sh*t” out of her”… Are you ok??! The video progresses and the girls brother then presses him and says what he said to his sister wasn’t ok with him. He immediately gets intimidated and him and the female guest he had on the stream takes offense to what the brother is saying and rushes to say it was “just a prank” and “do you want an apology”… as if that girl wanted to be subjected sexual harassment to thousands of people and why were you so comfortable with using her as a subject for your twisted ‘humor’. Showing behavior like this desensitizes and trivializes the behavior and makes acting like a creep funny to his viewers and in the long term it may make his viewers adopt the same behaviors in real life.

Streaming influencers and streaming platforms are becoming a part of our culture whether we like it or not. While it brings opportunities for relatability, builds connections with their audiences, and is a form of entertainment, it has also enable harmful content that leads to the normalization of violence and disrespect towards women and reinforces toxic masculinity which we should all be concerned about especially in this climate. I think it’s safe to say the streamers are here to stay and the platform is rapidly growing. We’re shifting to new times in media and not gonna lie… it’s scary how much influence people in front of computer screens has on impressionable people and how they depend on these people to in a way, raise them??! We have some… interesting times ahead of us and I’ll definitely keep my eyes on how this trend evolves and its impact on pop culture.

What do you guys think?

Should we be concerned about streamers?

At what point do we draw the line of entertainment and responsibility?

I missed you guys so much! Thank you for waiting for me and supporting me throughout my hiatus. I can’t wait to write more for you guys and get this blog lively again!

Until then…

See you later🩷✨

if you have to completely trace 90% of your "art" and smack a new color pallet ontop of the traced art.

You are not being creative.

Its not creativity, Its laziness in learning how to draw the human body especially when there are many tutorials for free that help.

Its one thing to take someone's premade model for public use to color in as long as you credit the model maker,

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