>preparing for bed
>go to set alarm
>ishmael dm saying “luka to the lakers”
>assume it’s bait but check anyways
luka to the lakers
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highkey considered texting a luka lakers edit to a mavs fan from my high school. havent talked to him in years. dont want to be his 13th reason but might do it anyways
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i don’t have his number and he’s in a frat at an oklahoma school. im sure plenty of other insufferable thunder fans are doing my job
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i know this is prolly a common statement but
(minor ps5 spoilers)
why does ann’s outfit. look like that. you could’ve just not done that, especially given her background with the 1st villain
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If i cant find a gf like that, i can become this gf. The possibility is still on the table
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I know more internet friend dealers who can hook me up on estrogen than i know dealers irl who can hook me up on weed
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my best guess is it’s an attempt to invert the portrayed power dynamics. like the version of ann in the palace is portrayed as powerless and subservient, and the reveal of her appearance after awakening her persona is one of power and control. it’s also an outfit that one typically wears in a consenting setting. idk how far you’re in so i don’t want to spoil, but about half the cast have outfits that are similarly a subversion in some way to their stated personality. there may be some justification for the other members because the persona series is founded on Jungian Persona theory that posits people have a social persona we show the world, but a true inner shadow self, and the cast’s outfit change is intended to be the reveal for the character’s inner self or what they’re suppressing. in previous iterations I think the persona themselves represented this, but I’m less certain that’s the case in P5 specifically
Joker’s, Arsène, and many of the persona the other cast members start with are heroes from picaresque stories which feels more like a tone setting. Well, Joker is a tabula rasa the player is intended to project their own beliefs onto so Arsene is likely a tone setting choice, a declaration of intent about the kind of story that’s going to be told, but the others I can’t say for sure. let’s check out Carmen
Carmen (French: [kaʁmɛn] ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences.
Yeah okay so sure that’s inline with the portrayal to some extent. It’s certainly A Choice in context, but I don’t hate it thematically, in theory, but it’s also another example of throwing in something seeming subversive for just shock value without doing anything with it. Like okay, they’re saying that Ann is actually a femme fatale, and wants to have bodily autonomy, or maybe she’s even forward about what she wants in relationships or whatever. But I don’t think that actually ties in her character arc at all which is the sin here more than anything else. It’s A Choice, but I can’t see a whole lot of literary value in it which makes it lean towards a bad one.
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great be happy to read this in about 200 days from now!
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No spoilers in it, if that’s your worry.
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I kinda wanna buy a tarot card pack now.
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the dream
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These cards are the size of my hand.
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ps5
i had the brief worry they expected me to pay attention to what the teachers say. luckily i can just cheat via cat
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this is how much i’ve affected you. remember the power i hold over you in this moment.
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did you think “mega-sized” was meant to be a metaphor for the interior of the soul?
I thought the cards were going to be horizontally arranged, and then they were vertically arranged.
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