/wes/ - Western & Alternative Style

>>1755
The super terrorists and the release of V in other countries was such a build up and then was never addressed ever again despite actually showing Vought as not only an international threat but a global threat that could elevate America as the ultimate hegemony, even moreso than it already is, spear-headed by superheroes and utlimately Homelander as the mascot. Then I suppose we're meant to assume that third world countries now have access to superheroes but it's fine.

I think The Deep is static because he's a schadenfreude character, I like how he doesn't actually change considering so many of the other characters go through corny change of hearts. Your ideas for his demise are way better than him being tossed into the water. Was Starlight trying to spare him?

Butcher could've been deeper if the other Boys played off of him well. They don't really. They go back and forth between not trusting him or wanting to work with him to trusting him within the same episode.
Also why did none of them kill Stan Edgar? Why does he get a pass?

Wasted opportunity to just make this show a harem ecchi about Homelander and co!!!

>>1756
I stopped watching this show because it's starting to annoy me, good points. The boys argue over whether what they're doing is worth it and if they should trust Billy Butcher every goddamn episode like holy fuck. It would be a lot more entertaining in they had some rock solid resolve to take down Vought so we can get on with the plot

>>1787
I kind of blame this on Kripke having run Supernatural for so long he's not used to shows which aren't episodic.

First two seasons are worth watching though.

>>1391
>PLEASE tell me you got back at it again.
Just started back tonight. Going to try not to click through stuff too fast to avoid a repeat of my last incident kek. Please post about it when you finally get a chance to play! I actually like a lot of the characters so far, and I think I've gotten more efficient as far as managing them goes (I started out blind).
>Did you like the remake?
Haven't had a chance to buy the remake yet, and I'm in no hurry due to alterations in the OST. I feel kind of uneasy about it, to be perfectly honest. OFF is one of my most favorite games ever, and I'm so afraid of the remake doing something to ruin it, as silly as it sounds.

Makes me sad that there's only fanart of Henry and James hanging out platonically, either that or the shipping art is all just buried online and i still haven't found it, guess i'll have to make my own.

>>1388
I played the sequel before the first game, so I'm of the unpopular opinion that the sequel was more fun as far as gameplay is concerned, but the plot was retarded.
>know how our first villan was a mad scientist? This one is a mad artist! Ain't that quirky!
Pffffft

I've been playing Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within, a point and click adventure game from the 90s, and I'm absolutely shocked at how much fujo bait is present. I'm pretty sure one of the side characters is into Knight, and they've outright acknowledged that Ludwig II of Bavaria was into men. The side character is constantly touching Knight and giving him longing stares: it's great. It's also an all around fun and intriguing mystery, that's shockingly well acted for a live action video game from the 90s.

>>1781
Iirc the second Phantasmagoria game has some gay stuff in it too

Been watching House of the Dragon S3, somewhat begrudgingly due to how god awful S2 was. It's been a better experience (not difficult to accomplish) than expected but I can firmly say it was worth it for Gwayne Hightower. Fine piece of ass. He can get it. He NEEDS to be fucked. But it's ASOIAF so he will either die horribly next season for the crime of being A Good Guy, or marry a charisma-black-hole woman.

Good material for doomed one-sided love for a character I don't at all care for (but it's there), plus dead dove content with his creepy uncle and/or innocent enamored young nephew. Hits all the right keys for me. Unexpected upside to what is otherwise a mid at best show. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>1757
I've got almost zero knowledge of 40k, but I'm managing to get through it fairly well. I'm having a pretty great time of it so far. The Spy vs. Spy stuff is great. I'm a very sentimental person, so I actually find myself empathizing with Trayzen quite a lot. It takes a deft hand to make a robot mummy simultaneously alien and heartfelt.

Any recs for very excellent BL vampire books? Obviously there's Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but is there anything else out there that's worth reading?

I finished reading Fulgrim a couple weeks ago and it definitely one of the more fujo-baity of the Horus Heresy novels so far with Fulgrim and Ferrus Mannus' relationship with them starting out as the best of friends and it all falling apart once Fulgrim tries to convince Ferrus to turn traitor like him. I have a feeling it would have led to some great moments down the line if Fulgrim didn't chop off his head in battle, although it does lead to this really great moment where Fulgrim relinquishes his soul to the daemon possessing his sword in order to experience oblivion rather than the guilt of murdering his favorite brother, only to end up trapped in a painting and fully aware of everything going on. I know there's the whole clone thing too but I want to read that story first before making any judgements as I dont want it to end up being another Guilliman/Yvraine situation.
Everything with the dropsite massacre was horrific, especially with how far the Emperor's Children had been corrupted, like I knew they were all sex, drugs, rock n roll and excess but I was definitely not expecting the comic in the spoilered image being played completely straight or one of them kissing another space marine's severed head before discarding it. Plus the general scope of the betrayal is just kind of a downer.

Someone has made a collection for no valve fanfic. And hopefully more will be added during the 'aftplug week' on tumblr.

Thank you based (frustrated) fujo.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/valve_free/bookmarks

>>1778
Does the "Plug and Play Sexual Interfacing" tag count? Because for the P&P fics I bookmarked it's just robo sex with kisses and cables, vents and adapters, no valves. Though many of them have no dicks either IIRC so maybe it's a different category altogether.

>>1779
I'd say anything counts as long as it's not valveplug. Sparks, wires, ect.

>>1738
I know one of them is Baxter (And I am celebrating), but who is the other one?

>>1740
Husk. Basically, there was an exclusive trading card released and the preview miscolored his hat as the trans flag colors instead of the pansexual one. It was fixed shortly after. Aidens were so upset over it and it was very funny.

>>1740
I only ever saw straight ship art of Baxter

>>1645
late, but this reminded me that I really need to finish those books, the tension and open affection between the male characters is just delicious. some of my own screenshots in russian, sometimes the english translation doesn't do full justice to the original fujo potential, my own translation:

when they first meet -
>Rogozhin: prince, allow me, the reason you became dear to me (lit. the reason I came to love you). maybe, because I met you in this very minute, when I met him as well (points at Lebedev) but, well, I did not come to love him. come to me, prince. We’ll take off these little boots from you, I’ll dress you in the finest marten coat, I’ll sew you the finest tailcoat, a white waistcoat or any other you like, I’ll stuff your pockets with money, and… we’ll go to Nastasya Filippovna! Will you come or not?
>Myshkin: with great happiness I'll come and I thank you very much for that, that you came to love me. Perhaps even I'll come today if I have the time. Because, I'll tell you frankly, I have come to like you as well, especially when you told me about the diamond pendants. I liked you even before the pendants, although you have a gloomy face.

when Myshkin went to Rogozhin's for the first time -
>Myshkin: I came to comfort you, because you are dear to me as well. I love you very much, Parfyon. and now I'll go and never come back, goodbye.
>Rogozhin: stay a little

>>1762
I so wish I could understand russian so I could read Dostoyevski the way it was meant to be read. I can’t imagine how much nuance was lost in translation…
I hope you enjoy The Idiot anon, and wait till you get to the end. Myshkin and Rogojin get way gayer lol

>>1760
I marathoned through The Secret History and I'm still not sure how to feel about it. It's lingered in my head, so I suppose it made an impression. It was moody and enjoyable, and I liked how pretentious all of the characters were. It was charming.

I was planning on reading Exquisite Corpse next, but I remembered that Brite is an obnoxious Gayiden and I've got a hard line on reading stuff by annoying FTMS. I'm deciding between Strangers on a Train and Brideshead.

>>1717
Wait. I don't wanna cheat on kyman but I get it

>>1718
Thank you nonna for understanding, but be careful cartters will sneak up on you kek.

I'm considering writing some fanfic for it now but I don't have any ideas. Might upload on both ao3 and then ff.net if I ever do.

>>1717
Not my main ship but I see the appeal, especially the fanfics that center around the Awesom-O episode.

I watched My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and it was pretty good. It was definitely more like a slice-of-life film and admittedly I looked at spoilers just to make sure it wasn't a sad ending. I sorta regret that and I need to stop looking at spoilers, but I also didn't want to watch a tragic gay movie and the vibes of the first half of the film scared me into thinking it might end badly kek. Omar and Johnny are pretty hot together and their chemistry is palpable from the get-go. Omar's a cutie-pie despite acting reckless/sorta scummy the entire film and I like that Johnny (who is, yes, an early Daniel Day-Lewis) is clearly head-over-heels for him in spite of the shit Omar gets them into. I recommend the movie if you're into more chill, slice-of-life films with somewhat subtle commentary on being gay during the '80s and in the Thatcher era. also, I really like what they do with Tania, Omar's cousin and potential fiancée…

The Cable Guy is male yandere kino with a great 90's soundtrack

>>1708
Big brain nona over here