The Amount Of Hoops Some People Jump Through To Avoid Despaircest Is Kinda Wild

Played the latest episode of coffingame for the first time, mostly blind , and i got the "deadest of dead-ends" ending, with this achivement. The game outright told me i wouldn't get any Nancy Drew game-style instant do-overs, because this was the result of such a long series of fuck-ups that it couldn't easily be fixed.

And this definitely felt like a bad ending, a game-over, or a dead end. But honestly, it felt satisfying. A tragic ending that arises naturally out of the faults of our main characters. More under the cut

The sibling's tensions get a natural climax, where Andrew physically abuses Ashley and then they have dubcon-at-best sex where Andrew is very drunk and gets cajoled into it by Ashley. Their abuse of each other that has been going on for the whole game up to this point reaches a kind of peak here. And their relationship reaches its obvious, natural conclusion. Their feelings for each other couldn't end any other way. It was already incestous in every way but the most basic literal sense, and now it is that too.

This of course this doesn't fix shit in the ongoing decay of their personalities and relationship. The sibs know this, and are at an impasse, a low point, so they decide to end it all. And end it in the same way that Andrew the incestous romantic weirdo suggested at the start of the game, jumping to their deaths together, their bodies being splattered and mixed together, so their bodies will be forever intertwined.

And the bastards that they are, they decide to do it in front of a bunch of school kids on a field trip, so they will be traumatized. They even shout "hey kids watch this", and Ashley does the akanbe at them, and go down in an embrace, laughing.

It's really a great ending, it got everything. It's even set up at the start of the game with Andrew's fantasy. And these two co-dependent idiots being both unable to resolve their issues, even with incest, but also unable to leave each other, so they die together always felt the most likely outcome for them. And their suicide has this playfully edgy tragi-comedic tone that feels like peak The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.

This might only be a game over or a point-and-click adventure game dead end, but it's definitely a satisfying if tragic ending in its own right. I laughed, felt an odd sense of catharsis, it's great.

What are your thoughts on TCOAAL mods? I tried watching one of Renee and Andrew but... I couldn't finish it due to the characters just not feeling like themselves anymore.

blatant plagiarism if you ask me, and probably would fall under that if nemlei decided to sue for copyright infringement. i have no interest in going near it. it’s taking nemlei’s story and her art and her characters and releasing an entirely different story, a version of the game where ashley’s sprite is replaced by renee’s and andrew wants to fuck his mom. nemlei herself seems a bit irked by it, judging by the piece of optional dialogue she included in the hallway scene:

so, simply put: i find these mods disrespectful because it’s certainly no longer nemlei’s story or nemlei’s characters as she wrote them in her game. and for what? to turn the game into meaningless “yay hot milf x her son” slop that doesn’t make any sense at all for the story?

no, it’s not the same as game mods that are, say, original cc and skins for your original character in dragon age or baldur’s gate. this is a visual novel, an interactive story, it’s the equivalent to dumping a pdf of a book into microsoft word, hitting ctrl+f and replacing “ashley” with “renee” (or your oc’s name, but at least that’s creating original fan content to some degree for your own enjoyment) and then publishing it online.

and no, it’s not comparable to fanfiction either, which is simply borrowing nemlei’s characters for writing purposes and creating original work— generally, in fandom, a way to show appreciation and with no lack of respect towards the original creator’s work.

all that said, i’m not the fbi, i really don’t care what people download onto their computer as long as it wouldn’t put you on a watch list.

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

In terms of Vijinx goodness, are we going to talk about Jinx letting go of Vi for her own good in her mind, saying she "deserves to be happy, with her", meanwhile Vi just wants to embrace Jinx, literally screaming out for her. Vi then proceeding to have sex with Cait for the first time in Jinx's cell.

Something something symbolism of filling the void of her.

The “That’s immoral you shouldn’t write that, we need to get that taken down” discourse on tiktok right now is PISSING ME OFFF

Wdym you want censorship for a literal ARCHIVE are you fucking stupid

Ao3 was literally founded to preserve works that were largely getting taken down due to censorship

Censorship is the opposite of what Archive of Our Own stands for

The TAGS and WARNINGS are there for a REASON. Use them and stop complaining

The universal rule—don’t like, don’t read

It’s THAT simple

Andrew after seeing THE THING

SAME Andrew LITERALLY ENTIRE GOD DAMN GAME

Guys, not to be a timebomb hater (which I'm not) but am I the only one who thinks the "Ma Meilleure Ennemie" song fits Vi/Jinx much better than Ekko/Jinx?

Like how Jinx's best enemy is Ekko?

I can understand it from an Ekko perspective, but Jinx's greatest enemy and love always was and always will be her sister Vi (and the same the other way around).

Also the phrase "why does hearing your name hurt me?" which fits SUPER WELL with the fact that Vi spent the entire series trying to accept that her sister is Jinx now, which Ekko had already accepted long ago.

Anyway, don't take this too seriously, the song is still obviously a timebomb song, I just think it doesn't fit them as well as it does with Vi and Jinx.

I got bored *Shows you very cool blinkies i did using blinkies cafe*

i'll never get over how badly people who want to come up with ideas of how tcoaal can be "better" or "fixed" miss the points of anything.

like the other day on twitter i see this thing like. "THIS INCEST SHIT SUUUCKS IT SHOULD JUST BE ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS WHO JUST EAT ALL THE PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE" and it's like. oooh who’s an edgy boy yes you are oooh what a hot take your statements are so controversial what an edgy boy

and the other day like, some of my friends show me this tcoaal rewrite that involves a big sister Ashley (i only saw this post once and don't remember it well). different mom that's an entirely different shade of abusive and a whole different kind of trauma put into Ashley who wants to be a boxer now in defiance of how she was raised and i'm like... why does this have to be a tcoaal rewrite? you've created a genuinely really interesting concept... just tweak it to remove tcoaal from it's DNA entirely and you have this super solid original story idea. and i'm just here like... it's just so annoying. you have this fantastic idea for something original, why do you need to bill it as what makes canon better?

like, it's fine. it's fine to not like the incest. as much asi like to make fun of antis, there ARE genuine fans of this game that aren't really big on coffincest but like everything else- but at least THEY still acknowledge the incest is an important part of the story's DNA and it's themes, so even if they're not in it to ship it they're still here to enjoy the story.

it's always so boggling to me. granted, i've always hated fix fics- i'm totally fine with radical AUs and rewrites, but maybe it's just my personal gripes of "haha i FIXED canon it's better now >:)" like... i can appreciate a fix fic like "oh this character didn't die bc i think it's dumb" but then these are people who fundamentally don't understand what they're trying to "fix."

and like i know. antis are antis. antis always do this. but it's like... man. why can't people just say they don't like a thing bc it's not their cup of tea instead of wanting to "fix" it in a way that ruins it???