The racism my beloved Simon had to face….my baby. 🥺💔
Although painful to watch, it felt incredibly validating. It was so annoying watching some people say this show was “only about class” while dismissing the BS that Simon had to go through. The abuse was ten fold because he’s POC and S3 finally exposed that.
That being said, and on a more positive note, it was so incredibly sexy when Simon sang happy birthday to Wille in Spanish (he feels safe with him!) and when Wille admitted to fantasizing about stroking those beautiful curlssss (and then actually did it). 🥹❤️🩹
Wilmon forever. 🤎🤍
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Omfg I get asked to be on a lot of panels and be a reviewer for a lot of opportunities like fellowships, commissions, awards, etc. I usually say yes because I use that positional privilege to move Natives, artists of color, and other marginalized people through such a white system. And to also be a roadblock for awful white people.
And that is exactly what I had to do today.
A white man submitted an item of their work that was aggressively racist. I shouldn't go into detail, but it was JAW DROPPINGLY BAD AGAINST BLACK AND NATIVE PEOPLE. Also it was written by a famous person, and I was so mad that he has just gotten whatever he wanted because he's a white man who people know.
I scored his ENTIRE application as a 1.8 out of 20.
Bitch ain't getting this opportunity 🔪
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So I've decided I need no provocation to talk about my characters and a post about mounts earlier got me thinking.
So- all my commanders sort of have their primary mounts; they all get two. I'll set one of them to the sorta default mount on 'x', usually the one I'd otherwise use the least, so I'm using these 'signature mounts' more often in-game- but canonically they're more-or-less the only mounts they have- though they lend some mounts to each other. Zori taught Seremnis how to call her skyscale if need be, and seremnis' griffon sometimes follows Enkkioh around when she's bored.
But!! what main two mounts each of the three has sort of follow themes related to their characters.
Zori has a skyscale (named Roro. after prince rorick. bc she's a nerd, which she got via already cannon skyscale quest in lws4) and a skimmer (named Strawberry, yes this is the same skimmer Strea had, that's why they bonded so fast). Both mounts are highkey geared for good, thorough, exploration- she loves heights, she loves swimming, she loves finding cool, hidden stuff.
Seremnis has a raptor (named Aria, that she summons from the realm of torment, and has the temperment of a puppy) and a griffon (named Requiem, a grumpy grumpy girl who only likes this weird salad, that seremnis got via the canon quest but after lws4, at the same time zori was doing the skyscale quest. She wasn't even an actual sunspear griffon she was just chilling there when the sunspears finally decided she could keep one, and now they are besties and seremnis lets her fight things and sometimes help dispose of. evidence). Anyways the theme is Seremnis likes to go fast, and likes to do so at least relatively quietly. There and gone, like a ghost. But also going that fast is just really fun, death 'defying' (like she'd actually stay dead) stunts and all.
And Enkkioh?
Enkkioh has a springer (named G-Force, because she's a nerd, which she bonded with because of the springer's genetic lack of long ears or tail and a similar color patterning to her own- and, fine, he's cute, stop looking at her like that) and a rollerbeatle (named Kinetic Friction, Kinetic for short- because I am also a nerd- which she got through the cannon quest, as a sort of apology to Gorrik and Blish for distrusting them so much at first. Of course, the result was so absolutely cool that she now apologizes by trying to take gorrik on rollerbeetle rides. C'mon gorrik. It's so cool gorrik. I updated the belt system so you won't fall off this time gorrik.)
...And the theme here is that not a single one of these is a flying mount. (Also neither of them are in any way quiet or subtle.) Enkkioh likes a good leap, sure, but there's always obvious ground in sight, she never gets high enough that landing would be an issue. Enkkioh is in both the literal and metaphorical sense my most grounded character- asuran came from underground, and she feels that in her bones.
In short- she's afraid of heights.
...And she's the character I'm playing through SotO with.
An expansion where you can't traverse the whole map, or even most of the map, without a flying mount.
Yeah she's having... a time
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BITCH STFU
GO OFF XIE LIAN YOU TELL HIM
Ain't no way someone who's been devoted to you for 800 years and had a makeout session seconds ago gon leave you pls
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two tragic lyrics that sum up my familial pain:
“your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me but i do, i finally do”
“he had the same first name as my dad and myself and i hate that i hated it”
like really and truly a shot to my heart, the agony of the trauma of youth and looking back as an adult and understanding your childhood self on the basis that you hated the bits of yourself that your parents and grandparents gave you of themselves and you did this for so many reasons: for acceptance from others, for rejection of your family, for fear of being cast out by accepting those parts, that perhaps your individuality was compromised, perhaps your only value was in those bits in the first place rather than parts of the people that loved you that deserved embrace. and that now, as an adult, you regret ever having felt that way, you wonder if it’s too late to express how thankful you are to have those parts, to carry them with you, to have them engraved in your being. it fucking hurts, man. to be so proud of something you once viewed with such disdain, and wondering if there’s ever a way to go back and attempt to let your family know it means so much to you, to erase all the shame attached to your youth and return that love and hope it means the same as it could have back then.
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