#mh thoughts

I'm just. I don't know what Jay and Alex were doing for like 2 months in the woods. All they do is hike around all day? I feel like if Alex didn't at least feel like there was some kind of use to doing that, (as much as I like to think about how much Alex didn't want to kill Jay and kept coming close to doing it) he would be doing something more productive with his time. But even when he was alone he kept coming back. Why? Trying to lure the Operator? Trying to find her? He didn't see straight and thought if he went to the source he could... do something?

I personally see Clawdeen in G1 as a queer coded woman in denial about her more than platonic feelings for Draculaura and I think that's made obvious by how jealous and angry she got when Clawd started dating her and how every male love interest Clawdeen has had in the show is always a Vampire 🤔 Aside from that I always felt like Draculaura and Clawdeen's friendship was full of romantic tension even if it was sort of one sided.

They're not as close in G3 in my eyes but I would have still liked to maybe see them explore Draculaura having feelings for Clawdeen this time around instead of Clawd 😔 but I think atleast in G3 we may have Clawdeen be openly interested in girls because I feel chemistry between her and Toralei since the Earworm episode.

tumblr user hivemite, you consistently have some of the best, most normal and good takes on this site and i appreciate you every day. 🫶🫶🫶

this is soooo well said!!! exactly all of this! it's extra frustrating when you have a media that portrays mentally ill characters, Esp one w sm stigmatized disorders with respect and compassion. like come on guys, go back to the media and Think about what it's showing and telling you.

I know why people usually like MH rise more then world, it's a faster paced game with more fleshed out and snappy as hell combat. The wire bug gave unprecedented movement control in a series where movement has been a fundamental ability. (I still think in at least pre sunbreak, it takes something away to have that much freedom of movmenet, but thats another topic) The new skills and reworks of some of the weapons really do make rise special. And if monster hunter was just about combat, then yea, I might agree, rise is a superior game.

HOWEVER monster hunter is not just a fight with a big creature. It's about the environments, the setting. You are a hunter as part of a community that needs to hunt these large wild beasts. And as a whole, I feel world does so much more to put you in that role, and make you feel as part of the world you inhabit then rise does.

To me rise feels like an arcade game with an elaborate upgrade system. I do a hunt, and I upgrade my gear. Kamura village and the u,h castle town I can't even remember the name of were pretty and nice, but I never felt like a home the way Astera and Seliana do. I deleight in every part on Worlds gameplay loop, and adore every little touch that makes me feel like this is a real environment that I exist in, and can act upon it.

when people say something along the lines of "if you experienced these symptoms [common mental n chronic illness symptoms] you wouldn't do any better!" i think this is a sort of backhanded unintentional ableism.

because indirectly, what you're saying is "of course these symptoms would make someone violent/a murderer/a stalker/ etc". like "oh yeah experiencing paranoia, hallucinations, chronic headaches, chronic cough, memory loss, etc would make someone kill people btw". it's like, really gross even though it was good intentioned?

we're not supposed to excuse the bad things different characters did. none of what they experienced was an excuse for it, or made it okay. knowing what they went through can help us Understand, it can help us choose to be compassionate or sympathetic towards them. but it can't excuse their actions, and it's not supposed to.

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Brian, hasn't spoken verbally in like 3 weeks, croaking: open ur EYES im talking to u

but then the friend he killed is there in front of him Again, alive and even sicker than before. instead of ending his suffering he made it Worse.

i think he would’ve felt sick to his stomach. his “mercy killing” failed and now Brian is running around in the woods, brain scrambled with codes and out to kill him. the guy who was kind and goofy n bright is now broken n angry n paranoid and Alex did that to him. made him that way.