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Writer, gamer, ponderer.
Particularly fond of puppets, magicians, Rune Factory, Discworld, random animation, and inconsistent capitalization.
May not be as clever as he thinks.
Probably not a ferret.
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“Which shot in the movie ended up being the toughest to pull off, and why?”
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i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he'd like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar "listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek" like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired
#turns out it's a season 1 community situation#teach was raised in disaphora#only learned common#and gained tenure before anyone who inew better noticed
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the second funniest thing about the whole "does mario feel pain?" thing is that the actual source they have for "nintendo's" "official statement" is that someone asked tezuka if mario feels pain and he said (paraphrasing) "what. why are you asking that. it doesn't matter if mario feels pain"
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Isabelle's a dog, obviously, but is she civilized? Will she go fetch a bone if I chuck it halfway across the town?
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note to self: do NOT double the chocolate chip cookie recipe. the mixer can’t handle it. I can’t handle it. my knees hurt. I’ve been rotating cookie sheets since I was born and I will be rotating cookie sheets until I die
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the 👏 quest board 👏 is 👏 not 👏 your 👏 personal 👏 shopper 👏
the quest board is for monster slaying, rescues, and deliveries through the monster infested woods! dangerous tasks that require the specialized training of a mage or fighter or rogue and would kill your commoner butt in seconds!
if you're able to get to the tavern to post a bill on the quest board, you can go to the market square to get your own dang flour and fruits!
this is why our communities are eroding! no one wants to get to know their neighbors anymore! instead they take their money to drink alone at the tavern, pin up their grocery list, and have maybe two or three dialogue boxes worth of exchange with the mute adventurer who drops off eggs the next day!
and they'll immediately skip town, so there's no need of emotional commitment!
stop using the quest board for in town errands!
"local quests near me"
"quests to complete nearby"
"quests available in my city"
"nearest quest board google maps"
"beginner side quests in my neighborhood"
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This is why you should spend less time posting OnLine and more time posting on the quest board!!!
Example:
Seeking a brave adventurer to fetch me one 5lbs bag of all purpose flour. Reward: A batch of fresh homemade snickerdoodles.
This could be the world we live in, but alas! You squander your time on this mortal plane! Imagine the baked goods we could have shared! Perhaps... in another life.
#real talk#as funny as i find the#'make adventurer do your chores' trope to be#i do think about the process of posting that quest#like if you're too disabled to get the groceries#how did you get to the job board?#it just seems inefficient!#but mock outrage is fun
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"local quests near me"
"quests to complete nearby"
"quests available in my city"
"nearest quest board google maps"
"beginner side quests in my neighborhood"
^ 0 results Found
This is why you should spend less time posting OnLine and more time posting on the quest board!!!
Example:
Seeking a brave adventurer to fetch me one 5lbs bag of all purpose flour. Reward: A batch of fresh homemade snickerdoodles.
This could be the world we live in, but alas! You squander your time on this mortal plane! Imagine the baked goods we could have shared! Perhaps... in another life.
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You Cannot Fully Understand Revolutionary Girl Utena Without Understanding Mobile Suit Gundam
I never seem to see people talk about this much, if at all, even though this is The Gay Utena Site, and since I like both yuri and robots I'm going to volunteer to be the one to talk about it.
Yes, I said what I said, you cannot fully understand Revolutionary Girl Utena without understanding Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
Now that you've seen some Gundam fanart by Chiho Saito, let's dig in.
First, I'm going to give a brief synopsis of Mobile Suit Gundam. For those of you unfamiliar with this franchise, I'm going to be talking about the original show, the first in the series, which came out in 1979.
It focuses on a teenage boy named Amuro Ray who climbs into the cockpit of a giant experimental mech called a Gundam in order to survive an attack on his space colony. He gets recruited into this ongoing conflict primarily because he has no choice, and is the main pilot of the Gundam. Amuro is a smart but introverted kid who is terrified about being thrust into this war, but eventually begrudgingly accepts it because he knows there's not much else he can do about it.
(if you think you've seen this before, yes, shocker, Hideaki Anno is a massive Gundam fanboy)
Towards the end of the show (or the middle, if you're watching the compilation movies), he develops into a "newtype", a sort of quasi-mystical new human evolution that gives him preternatural abilities and allows him to predict the movements of enemies in battle. This concept is important for the rest of this post.
He has a rival named Char Aznable, a delightful bitch of a man who decides to kill his boyfriend in order to get back at his boyfriend's dad and is all around a magnificent bastard. Char, too, becomes a newtype, though he's not a particularly good one. Most of his battle prowess as a mech pilot comes from experience. He makes up for this by recruiting a young woman named Lalah Sune, who is an extremely powerful newtype, to fight for him.
Amuro meets Lalah and is smitten by her and they develop a sort of psychic newtype connection (the newtype stuff is really hard to explain - just bear with me). Unfortunately, she is his enemy, and ultimately she dies by throwing herself in front of Char to protect him from Amuro, and Amuro kills her.
Lalah Sune is dead, so shortly after we are first introduced to her.
Char and Amuro, meanwhile, go on to have an extremely homoerotically charged rivalry for the rest of the show and this relationship continues in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) and the movie Char's Counterattack (1988). Lalah occasionally shows up as a Force Ghost newtype spirit, mostly to try to get Char and Amuro to stop fighting and kiss and make up, like she's some sort of cosmic fujoshi. But she has served her part in the story. She died to advance the narrative of two very sad boys. That was her purpose. (And I say this with all the love in my heart, by the way, because Mobile Suit Gundam is one of my favorite anime shows of all time and Char and Amuro are two of my favorite characters of all time.)
Now let's move on to Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Chiho Saito drew a lot of Gundam fanart. Like, a lot of it. Here's her delightfully shoujo take on Char Aznable.
She seems to have been particularly enamored by Char and Lalah and their toxic relationship. She liked this so much that she straight up took Lalah as inspiration for Anthy. This isn't just me speculating, she has admitted this.
And what about Char? Well, Chiho Saito spun him into a character called Silver Mask, who would eventually morph into Akio. Note the mask and cape. Here he is next to Char Aznable and his mask and cape.
Anthy and Akio are, of course, their own very well developed characters. They are not carbon copies of Lalah and Char by any means. But the connection is there, and this is especially interesting when you compare Lalah's role in her story to Anthy's in hers. Lalah's purpose is to be killed to advance the narrative of two men. And Anthy tells us that in the end, all girls are the Rose Bride, forever in pain for the benefit of the men around them. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a very good story on its own but it's also a meta story about the role of women in anime and storytelling in general.
There is probably a lot more to say about this, including the Mobile Suit Gundam -> Revolutionary Girl Utena -> Witch From Mercury full circle pipeline, and also I'm sure there is a LOT to say about the fact that Lalah and Anthy are both Desi, but although I am a person of color myself I am not Desi so I don't feel particularly informed enough to speak on that (but I would love if other people did). Mostly I just wanted to get this out there. You would not have Revolutionary Girl Utena, at least not the way it is, without Mobile Suit Gundam, and you would not have a lot of yuri without Revolutionary Girl Utena, so everyone please say thank you, robots, for the yuri.
In closing, here's a direct shoutout to Gundam in Utena, featuring Anthy taking charge of the story.
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just need to add 'don't feed after midnight' then i think the teslas will have entered their final form.
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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.
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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but
Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?
Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.
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Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.
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some indie TTRPG settings are so obsessed with being Wholesome and Low Conflict that they end up being like "what if Footloose was set in a town where dancing was ALLOWED!"
well I'll tell you. the answer is that that would not be very interesting
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Sustainable fashion for the Solar Punk
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