#lisblogging

If I draw Max Caulfield with the same nose as me you need to look away okay. Seriously.

In LIS context, I do not actually have a favorite out of the main three girls and feel very sad when Max Caulfield is underappreciated or treated like a self insert in her own game when she is far from it and very lovable both in her quirky autist teen girl nature, her disordered mind, her saviour complex which eats at her and unending devotion that even rips time and space apart... from a writing standpoint Rachel is my favorite because her Laura Palmer haunting the narrative nature is so beautiful and profound the way you slowly uncover the ugly parts of her she tried so hard to keep hidden and you never truly know her as a person but perhaps you know her more than anyone, actually... just how she functions in the story and the dehumanization of her from those around her but also herself and how she dug her own grave is crazy. And then Chloe is so crazy too as a representation of how one responds to trauma she makes me so sick, and I think people who genuinely hate her don't understand her character at all or perhaps just don't get the game or aren't someone who I would like to be around. It's misogyny, I believe, why these characters are often not appreciated in the way they would be had they been males... Chloe being demonized, and Rachel either treated as an angel or a demon by fans when both are wrong and she would hate to be put on a pedestal, an inherent lack of reading comprehension too... but ahhhh...

Whatever me when I am obsessed with max and chloe's love in a Love affects the world and it's so beautiful and crazy way and not a They're so gay fandom shipping culture way even though they are so gay but I need to be pretentious about their undying love because if I'm not then who will be. The people in the max caulfield tag who call her an ao3/wattpad self insert because they don't care about her at all? I don't think so

Actually, I don't have many qualms with LIS:BTS when I really think about it, comparatively I am one of the people who genuinely like it and have positive feelings towards it enough to have replayed it a few times, albeit not the 150+ hours I have on LIS1... the setting and the soundtrack. Even if I think a lot couldve been done better, I grew to love the voice acting which many hated due to being different (really, chloes va sounds JUST like a young ashly burch! What made it bad is she tried too hard to sound like chloe price, but that adds more charm, in a weird way, adds to chloe's 16 year old awkwardness)... I like what I know of Rachel in LIS1, what she represents, but loved mostly every second of seeing her in her Almost rawest state considering chloe never got to see the deepest darkest parts of her especially as Rachel grew up, she did get to see so much of what laid beneath the surface, at least, even if she never Truly knew her. Its funny how easily fans get manipulated by rachel just as chloe does, I am not one to believe she is a master manipulator at all because Im not a rachel anti just a genuine rachel enjoyer, but lijw, wow, what worked on chloe worked on you and thats pretty funny. I think what i least liked about it were the subplots but that was for the sake of adding something to keep you playing I suppose, since rachels fate is clear. So much of it made me really emotional, it kept up the themes of exploration of different family dynamics that I liked in LIS but like... Really went deep into it, really really, with multiple characters and I liked that. Took advantage of such things wirh rachels family anf chloes too. Touched on a lot of stuff I liked a lot. I liked how to see how chloe was treated by others. Liked the scene where they act in a play. Liked their fucked up codependent situationship.... I liked how awkward chloe was as a baby and how clear which parts she ended up stealing from rachels personality in LIS1 were... the nightmare scenes are so so chilling and well done I feel like. I can really feel chloes pain in them. I liked her journal and how unlike maxs theyre all unsent letters to a max that resides in her head... bah... I really like so much about bts I didnt evenget into all of it. Like LIS1 it was janky I suppose and maybe in different ways from it but I like it. Altho im rly critical of it most fo the time and share a lot of the feelints some LIS1 fans have

Misogyny is especially present in the way people view life is strange and it's imperfect, realistic and yet none truly evil female characters and how different their perception of them and their complex lesbian relationships would be had they been males 👍