Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026but on a METAPHORICAL level. this post is absolutely about Her. 030
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the thing about this post is that, though people are looking at it and saying "omg trans Ralsei real", there is like a 99% chance that this line in-game will actually be related to some absolute nonsense plot irrelevant goof. Queen's gonna say this standing next to a Ms. Pipis or some shit 120
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026thank god. Small Shock is the most important part of that whole sequence 130
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026nothing feels better than finding out that asshole you reported actually got punished for their asshole behaviour. the toxic players seem endless but for just a moment, I can rest easy knowing they're actually experiencing the consequences of their actions 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Want To Overthrow The Dark Dragon Lord 021
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026someone really needs to make a game that has the same style of gameplay as Fire Emblem (particularly the Support system) but your army is explicitly one big polycule 120
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026on principle I am not fucking buying this thing for full price. I have to have SOME standards. but thanks to *gestures to the entire state of the world* I can't be sure if it's even going to GO on sale like consoles usually do after a while. so I will just sit here, pining 000
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026oh god. oh no. reports are saying Fortune's Weave is good. this after the kickass Ravenous trailer. oh No 100
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I only know like three of his songs, and one of them is solely because I heard it in a mashup where someone sentence-mixed him to say "baby, I just want Sans" 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026like what do you mean they've got a Saber figurine on display at the Glastonbury Abbey. I've seen her with her tits out, you know. I've seen her having a bisexual threesome. and you've got a museum-style informational display about her in a place of divine worship. awesome 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it always feels SO wild to me to see how much reach and popularity the Fate series has achieved, given that I first encountered it as a 16 year old looking for porn games, played thru a fan translation of the original VN, and had it become a deeply formative influence on me and my tastes 131
Reposted by Cel🌵🌺 mado 🌺 🌵@ C•ko•fn•ta•C 💧🪱 @madocactus.itch.io · 10/09/2026oh my god they straight up have a little saber display at the glastonbury abbey… www.glastonburyabbey.com/anime-and-th... 68736
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026okay the new Metroid looks sick as fuck. this is exactly the direction I want them to take the franchise in 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026put Kris Dreemurr in Smash Bros. and here's my pitch for why: it would be really really funny to have a clip of Yoshi spiking them into a pit in the reveal trailer 000
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026and I got zero Ocarina of Time nostalgia (Wind Waker is the nostalgia game for me) so it's not like I'm coming from an "it's different so it's bad!" angle. it's just... hollow, somehow. graphical fidelity for the sake of graphical fidelity 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026now that I'm home from work I watched one of the OOT trailers instead of just looking at screenshots. it definitely looks better in motion but my god some of these character designs are just deeply uncanny to me. the whole thing feels off 111
Reposted by Celwebby& ☉∇ @quacking.online · 20/09/2024preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off 3240681490
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026just found out that if you try to give Susie the tiara during the Create An Outfit sequence, she complains about it, and Ralsei says "I can take it if you don't want it" GIRL......... 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026so this idealized self wouldn't be a boy in the sense that Kris *wanted* to be one but in the sense that they felt like they would have it easier, or fit in better, or be more liked, if they were. to me, that's something I could picture a kid feeling as they try to come to terms with their identity 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"everyone loves Asriel, so I want to be just like him, and maybe then everyone would love me too." and Asriel was a monster and a boy and nice and polite and not a troublemaker, so when Kris imagined some better, idealized version of Kris for their monstersona, that was what they came up with 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026yeah, I think I get what you mean. to put it more precisely, I thought of it as like... maybe not Kris' ideal self, but what Kris thought they were *supposed* to be like, or what they thought would make them fit in better, if that makes sense? 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I think THAT could explain why Ralsei feels so strongly that he's only supposed to help Kris and Susie and never make his own choices, because he was literally designed to serve that function in his home game 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026my takeaway from that line is that Asriel was the kind of brother who tried to put his little sibling first. I think he would have made a Kris-like character as the protagonist of his game and made his character the protag's main supporter and hype guy (Your Best Friend, if you will) 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026if there's one thing about the theory I disagree with, it's that I don't think Ralsei was the *protagonist* of Asriel's game. there's a line of flavor text that mentions that, when Kris and Asriel played games together, Asriel used the knockoff controller 240
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026my prior theory was that Ralsei was, like, the embodiment of a younger Kris' idealized self. Kris' monstersona, if you will. that explained all his Asriel-like traits (Kris looking up to, or feeling pressured to be more like, Asriel) but didn't explain Ralsei's metaknowledge like this does 200
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026but I'd never actually considered the possibility that he was a literal in-universe video game character on top of being meta-commentary on video game characters! 100
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026like, for Toad to tell Mario, "press A with good timing for extra damage," that implies Toad knows he's in a video game. and if we look at it realistically, how would that impact him psychologically? what if you knew the rules of your world and it was YOUR duty to make sure they were followed? 100
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026yeah, I like this line of thought. I've felt since Chapter 4 that, on a meta level, Ralsei is meant to be a deconstruction of the Tutorial Guy in RPG games 100
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026RPG Maker is of course full of compromises to create a program which makes games without the user needing to write code, but so many of those compromises feel like they stopped at the first design they came up with and just carried it forward, never iterating for better usability afterwards 010
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I understand it's a design decision that stemmed from, "a user should not have to manually type out anything like 'some_variable += 5'," but it would be so much easier to have a searchable, alphabetized list of variables rather than each occupying a specific numbered slot 110
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026in the most recent version I checked out (MZ, I think?) I was astonished that variables and switches hadn't gotten any major updates after over a decade 110
Reposted by CelMeravia @meraviawrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Actually they should make a cozy farming sim with graphic sex scenes 441929606
Reposted by CelJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/08/2026reply to this post with a time you tried to use a button and it didn't work 1817121
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026like, doesn't everyone read and interpret all media through Typing-Quirk-O-Vision??? did you not see her repeating words three times with increasing emphasis? it was obvious. obvious! OBVIOUS!!! 000
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026and I think I have to take a long look in the mirror and recognize that it's just that years of hard labor in the Homestuck mines means that I am really good at immediately noticing when a character has a Specific Speech Quirk 100
Cel @avalonian.bsky.social · 27/07/2026when I first started looking at other people's playthroughs of Deltarune Chapter 5 once I'd finished my own, I was surprised by how few people seemed to immediately clock that the shopkeeper was Mew Mew, when I understood it right away 100
