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sepublic · 3 months

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I wanna analyze part of the exchange between Luz and the Titan, because I’m seeing some people misunderstand it by claiming the show is saying that Luz doesn’t need to self-reflect because she always means well, unlike THOSE guys (Nevermind everything she and others have gone through up until this point). Maybe I’m repeating the obvious, but;

“I’m not so kind. When I saw the Collector fly up to Belos, I hoped with all my heart I would see them blast him away, and-”

Here we have Luz insinuating that she’s not kind, simply on account of wanting Belos dead; Nevermind the fact that she has plenty of justified reason to want gone someone who has maliciously caused her and her loved ones so much pain, trauma, and agony across so much time.

“Hey, I can relate. I was willing to do anything to keep my kid safe. But I attacked the wrong person, dragged the Collector down here for nothing.”

The Titan does relate to feeling shame over ugly emotions like hatred and anger, which can make people lash out; Bringing up how those feelings brought him to make a terrible mistake that would have a lasting ripple effect on the Boiling Isles up until now.

“Does that make us as bad as Belos?”

At which point, Luz drops the question, the false equivalency that it’s fair for her to nevertheless entertain for the sake of self-reflection; Does her and the Titan feeling anger and even hurting people over it, or planning to, make them as bad as Belos?

“What? Have you been drinking Eda’s homemade apple blood?”

The Titan’s skepticism over this false comparison is self-explanatory.

“Well, Belos says he’s trying to save humanity, and we’re saying we want to save our families, so isn’t that the same thing? Don’t- Don’t these feelings come from the same place?”

When Luz says ‘feelings’, she’s very much talking about anger, even hatred; The kind that drives people to fight and even hurt others. Belos is angry, but Luz notes that so is she, as was the Titan, and all of them claim to do this over loved ones they’re worried about, right? That’s the ‘same place’ she’s referring to.

“Well, you assume Belos’ goal comes from a genuine place. But, that man doesn’t care about anything but his need to be the hero in his own delusion. And because of that, he fears what he can’t control.”

That’s when the Titan clarifies the difference; The anger of the victim is not the same as the anger of the abuser. The anger of the oppressed is not comparable to the anger of the oppressor. Anger doesn’t necessarily make you the bad guy, especially when it moves people to do the right thing. Both Luz and the Titan are angry, yes; But they’re angry because they legitimately have loved ones, and themselves, who have been hurt, and are genuinely at stake here. They're still allowed to feel this way. They only want Belos dead because they can’t get him to stop hurting people, so this is the only option left to make him stop endangering others.

Whereas Belos’ hatred is that of the colonizer; He never really had anyone at stake here. Humanity was never in any real danger, especially not Caleb, whom Philip consciously disrespects by going against everything Caleb stood for, despite Caleb having made it clear with an open-armed welcome that this would never have to exclude his love for his brother. Philip made the decision to choose a world over his brother, NOT Caleb who understood he should theoretically have both, as a parallel/foil to Luz who wants both, but is still struggling to accept she can have that.

Dana confirmed at Pixelatl –and it’s fairly obvious even without said confirmation- that she based Belos off of televangelists, cult leaders, the conservative relative, etc. The first two especially are hardcore bigots, the kind who really double down on their prejudice, and actively make it happen on a larger scale; These are the kind of people who go past that reasonable point of being well-intentioned but misinformed about their biases.

Yes, Luz and Belos are both angry, but Belos’ anger is that of the reactionary conservative, hence “fearing what he can’t control.” He claims to feel threatened, but unlike people like Luz who really are endangered and fighting for their lives, the only thing being threatened is Belos’ worldview of supremacy and self-righteousness, so like a lot of right-wing “morality police” and the like.

In the end, TOH is calling out how bigotry did not start from a place of good intentions, which is fitting given Belos represents the type of OG bigot, the Puritans who were among many who made contact with the Native Americans and vice-versa; Prejudice was born as a way to justify narratives of power and control, by dehumanizing others and thus justifying their suffering and exploitation for the sake of those who ‘really’ matter. These narratives, when perpetuated, create self-fulfilling prophecies and issues that the misguided but well-meaning are concerned about, which leads them down flawed attempts to address these problems.

This is to say people who genuinely mean well, who have been hurt and do have others at stake, can make mistakes; This very exchange reminds us that the Titan hurt the Collector, something she does nothing to justify, and something the viewers know was objectively wrong, and has deep consequences as we’re currently seeing. Luz and the Titan both contributed to the Collector falling into Belos’ hands, but while Luz was genuinely manipulated and didn’t realize what was going on, the Titan chose to lash out at a bystander because she couldn’t channel her anger successfully towards the Archivists.

But the Titan has learned, and she’s recognized what she’s done as wrong, and she’s made efforts to undo and make up for that. And it’s important to remember how all of this was prompted by the genocide of the Archivists, who claim to be preserving life, yet destroy it when it does not heed their plans. People are still responsible on an individual level, but it’s also worth noting how the system can influence them, just as it did for Amity and Lilith. And the system was started by people who didn’t really have a system over their heads, or were rebelling against a different kind.

It’s not as if TOH is saying you can’t mean well and make mistakes; So much of the show is about people meaning well and making mistakes, especially parents towards their children. And this is fitting since a well-meaning parent nevertheless hurting her child is the inciting incident of the series, and it’s something that is brought up and resolved in the previous episode between Luz and Camila. Hell, Luz herself understands that meaning well can hurt others, like when she kept secrets from Amity, under the guise of not wanting to burden her girlfriend.

TOH still has plenty of examples of genuine intent leading to bad things; So it’s entirely reasonable, in this case, to bring up the original people who codified bigotry and prejudice, because being a freak and a weirdo does not happen in a vacuum, it is in relation to a society. At some point you have to discuss WHY someone is considered strange; Who designated the guidelines for the deviant, and by extension, what are the guidelines for what is ‘normal’, who decided this would be normal, and why? And that’s why the story brings these back to the settlers who made contact with the Native Americans and vice-versa, and established a precedent for prejudice towards these people.

The point is that the show is refuting the centrist idea of Both Sides, that if you’re violent and/or angry then you’re just as bad as the oppressor, if not worse; Victims are allowed to be angry, they have a right to be upset, as Eda herself says. You can’t expect them to appeal solely by peace when that’s clearly not working out, hence Raine and Darius’ rebellions, which do necessitate violence at times, even if they’d love to minimize it and try; Which is why the finale shows the initially-cautious CATTs accepting covenscouts who are willing to change, why Kikimora is shown doing community service (and that's assuming it's not just a job given her lack of uniform; She may have been allowed to reintegrate into society as a regular citizen).

Between the juxtaposition of the Collector hearing about how Amity and Lilith were successfully appealed to, and applying that to Belos, only for that to fail as Luz explains this individual situation is a bit more complicated… Basically, what the show is saying is that you should choose to be kind and give chances and grace, anyone can change; But people also have a right to prioritize themselves in self-defense, and just in general health, when people continue to refuse to reciprocate, and leave no other choice. Because there’s still responsibility on the other party to respond to these offers of kindness, and make the same choice to improve the world; They have free will, everyone does, and you can’t force people to be better, anymore than the Collector can force people to be their friends.

Not to mention how victims have a right to be upset and don’t owe forgiveness, but at the same time, the concept of Restorative VS Retributive Justice argues that it’s better for the world if everyone improved; That doesn’t mean victims have to forgive or even necessarily help, because improving oneself does not rely on your victims doing you favors. It’s ultimately about harm reduction; Ideally, harm is reduced by helping people open their minds and change, but if that isn’t working and the person keeps hurting and even killing others, then yes, harm must be reduced by imprisoning, or even killing them in self-defense.

Hence the difference in that Luz’s anger comes from ultimately wanting to reduce harm and being frustrated by those who continue to perpetuate it; Versus Belos whose anger isn’t really meant to prevent harm, but pointlessly cause more of it, because of his immature disgust towards those different, as well as the supremacy and selfishness that actively puts down others for Belos’ own sake (because Caleb isn’t allowed to have more than one person in his life, apparently).

And note that Belos is already at the end of his life (because people only have so much time to change before it's cut short by death), because extending it requires sacrificing palismen, which goes against harm-reduction; So they can’t just imprison Belos without killing him. And in the end, the protagonists don’t prolong Belos’ misery by letting the boiling rain finish him off, they get it over with by stomping on him; Not only does this allow them to vent much-deserved anger towards an oppressor, but it cuts away any chance of Belos coming up with something last-second by just ending him right there. That reduces harm from Belos, and harm TO Belos, because his death isn’t any longer than it needs to be.

And on Luz’s side, her not doing anything to Belos is justified because it’s about her refusing to help him, thus standing for herself and what she believes, and not letting this traumatic, gaslighting presence have any more power over her. Luz still allows her loved ones to finish off Belos; Her not responding to Belos is about reducing harm to herself.

It’s a lot of stuff. It’s about balancing a lot of seemingly conflicting, opposite ideas, like Luz balancing two worlds; As she herself explains to the Collector, it can be “complicated.” It’s about nuance, and a case-by-case basis; Because note that the Titan doesn’t tell Luz that she will always be right because SHE always means well. Just that in this specific case, in regards to this specific guy, things are not equivalent. Hence why the Titan focuses on deconstructing Belos and not Luz.

This moment specifically is breaking down colonial rhetoric by calling it out for what it actually is, because Belos is 100% a colonizer and this is one of the most important aspects of his character, and his contributions, to the narrative. And whatever mistakes Luz and the Titan made, at least they care enough to make up for it, because they really are trying to do this for others, instead of prioritizing an ego trip; That kind of mentality is doomed to being static. I'd argue the Titan isn't necessarily saying that Belos never cared about anyone (AKA Caleb) period, just that in the context of his 'protecting humanity' claim, he wasn't doing it for anyone because there was nobody in any actual danger, and he knows it. Philip wasn't actually concerned for Caleb's sake when he killed him.

#the owl house #luz noceda #boiling isles titan #analysis #meta #emperor belos #philip wittebane

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littlest-nightingale · 8 months

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Guess what time it isss!! Qsmp agere thoughts time!!!!

Bbh isn't technically Baghera's caregiver, but he may as well be at this point

Forever has taken care of little Cellbit once and would love to do it again, but Cellbit is not a fan (he never intended for Forever to know in the first place)

Tallulah can read littles like an open book, she just knows when someone is little

Charlie has a problem with sexualizing himself when he's slipping because he thinks it will pull him out of that headspace. It doesn't, and he doesn't find the strength to let ppl know until the last second.

Phil regresses very, very rarely, but when he does, Fit is his cg.

Roier loves wearing dresses and skirts while regressed because he wore them when he was little (I hc him as trans) he's a big fan of swishy skirts

Cellbit lets little Roier braid his hair (Jaiden does this occasionally, sometimes Richas will let him out things in his hair as well)

Etoiles is just as restless when he's little, gets upset when he's told he's too small to fight. There's been several instances of him getting back from a dungeon or fight and immediately going completely boneless and small. (Normally in Phil or Baghera's arms)

Maximus has tried to babysit a little before, but he got emotional and ended up calling someone else to take care of the kiddo

Mariana realized that little time is the perfect opportunity to help Charlie learn more Spanish. They use flashcards and watch/play videogames in Spanish if given the option, and there's special rewards for learning new words and phrases! Charlie loves showing off his new words to whoever will listen, it's adorable

Quackity hasn't regressed voluntarily since Wilbur left. He doesn't want to be little without his caregiver, and he doesn't want to ask anyone else to cg for him. Phil has offered to care for him time and time again, but Quackity refuses.

Jaiden has an endless supply of stories from back home (I hc that Jaiden was raised on a Pixelmon/pokemon world) that the littles find fascinating. She's trying to see if she can get access to her boxes so she can prove they're real.

Phil tends to forget that his wings are clipped and will get hurt because of it, for some reason little Phil hasn't processed that he can't fly anymore.

Wilbur doesn't let himself regress anymore, because he thinks he needs to be big for his daughter. Little does he know that his Dad regresses around Tallulah all the time.

Richas once looked Cellbit dead in the eyes and told him to go regress because he needed a break. Cellbit insisted he was fine. Richas then proceeded to do everything in his little dragon power to make his dad feel small.

I don't know much about Pac and Mike but I feel like they are absolute menaces when little. The most rambunctious pair of toddlers the server has ever seen. Need constant supervision because they are the regressor equivalent of Phineas and Ferb and they will get hurt if left on their own.

#sfw age regression #agere #qsmp agere #mcyt agere

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yeah-yeah-beebiss-1 · 1 year

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would you recommend scarlet & violet to someone who really didn’t like sword & shield? (ignoring the obvious performance issues)

Depends on what you disliked about it.

-The fairly low general difficulty is still present, although the nonlinear structure means you can choose between “standard modern Pokémon difficulty curve the whole way through” or “challenging for half the game and then steamrolling through the half you’re overleved for.” People have already figured out an order to do everything in that will give you a fairly typical Pokémon level curve, but anyone going in blind is going to have a weird mix of all-or-nothing difficulty.

-Story is a bit more present than SwSh, although it isn’t on the level of SM or BW. You’ve got 18 objectives divided into three story arcs (typical gym-challenge routine, dealing with school delinquents, learning about the legendary Pokémon) that you have to complete to reach the climax.

-The school setting feels barely relevant, for better or worse. They send you out into the world very early on and while you can go back to take classes (cutscenes likely intended to teach newcomers basic gameplay mechanics), I haven’t seen any real benefit to doing so yet. The history classes offer interesting bits of lore, but that’s about it.

-Linear routes are gone, instead you effectively have one gargantuan Wild Area.

-No HMs. You can use (the equivalent of) Fly to landmarks you’ve already visited immediately, and doing the titan quests unlocks new movement options for Ko/Miraidon (sprinting, swimming, higher jumps, climbing, and gliding).

-Trainer battles out in the field are completely optional, you have to talk to them to initiate a battle. This sounds heretical, but I feel like it’s a wise decision in light of the open world - it would be a massive pain in the ass to be trying to run to a destination only to get interrupted by a trainer you missed whose whole team is now 15 levels lower than yours so you have to mindlessly mash A for two minutes to get moving again.

-Terastal is an improvement over Dynamax, it actually has meaningful strategic implications without being a “BECOME THE FUCKING STRONG” button.

-I’m enjoying the raids a bit more than SwSh’s, they use a weird Final Fantasy-type ATB system for a faster pace rather than just repeatedly bashing at barriers (and the raid theme is a banger).

-Towns/cities feel more barebones because you can only enter 2-3 buildings per town (gyms and sandwich shops, nearly everything else is either a menu you interact with or just a facade).

-Breeding is in fact still present, but there’s no daycare - instead, you set up a picnic and idle and compatible pairs of Pokémon will just randomly spawn eggs for you. The other picnic features are making sandwiches (which give “make X-type Pokémon spawn more frequently for Y minutes”-type buffs), and a clone of SM’s washing mode.

-Can’t comment on online/multiplayer aspects due to lmao pirated copy, but if it chugs this much in single player, I’m not optimistic.

-I know you already said “aside from the performance issues,” but let me reiterate that you can make Ko/Miraidon backwards-long-jump up cliffs like it’s a Super Mario 64 speedrun. It’s very silly.

In general, I feel like they could’ve had something really special on their hands if they’d given it another year or two in the oven, and there are certainly moments where that specialness shines through. But then you find another “city” that’s effectively a bunch of facades and a gym, or the framerate drops, or you have to deal with the clunky-ass minimap and you’re reminded of how half-baked it all feels. If you like Pokémon, have a high tolerance for jank, and can find a copy on sale, you’ll have a solid time with it. But I can’t in good conscience recommend people drop $60 on it.

#anonymous #customer support

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elveneye · 1 year

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``I know now fragility.``

You would think for a character that has basically become my profile mascot, I would draw him a lot - but alas art block is constantly swinging a bat at my head. 👍

This is my version of Dagri'Lon from Interesting NPCs! Despite being a super follower there's not a lot of content on him (I understand. He's a pain in the ass.) so here's some recognition for this edgelord.

[More info under "Keep Reading"!]

Sorry if I say anything that makes no sense up ahead my english is running low on fuel today …⁠ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ

You could say this version of him is an AU, because I changed aspects of him that just wouldn't be anything like the real Dagri'Lon you get me? Dagri is supposed to be a serious character but I sort of picked him up like "You're my friend now, we're having soft tacos later :)"

It's very funny having this ancient dude who's body is in a vortex of slowed time and is no doubt tormented by that tag along with the Dragonborn that is only alive by sheer luck. Oh and also Inigo. And they're brother and sister. I don't know how one survives hanging out with siblings who start throwing shit at each other when bored (as siblings do).

Anyways about his design!!! I knew I could improve his original outfit somehow, so I took a couple of mods, jumbled them up together aaand created something, I guess! So it's not really my design I just sort of played dress up with him LMFAOA

I do feel like I could've given him armour that's more... the best I could describe is, grim reaper-y? Like some kickass black robe - but I couldn't find anything at the time, so I just stuck with Contractor armor. It does improve stealth, though!

But no matter what I absolutely HAD to have a hood to highlight the fact he's got no head. I mean that's like the focal point of his design, his non existent head. I'm too lazy to write the entire story of how he lost it but the way I remember it (and this I couldn't find on the internet I had to listen to him repeat it in the game) was he had these 3 servants that had to guard his body during the transfer which I assume was him trying to become immortal. One of them, never specified which, was like ay fuck you guys and sort of nuked the entire transfer, killing everyone in the process except for Dagri'Lon, who's soul was now in the void and his body in slo-mo. He also says there was a dagger in his neck which he just throws in randomly? And it took him about 300 years or more to even conjure up movement. TWO ENTIRE CENTURIES LATER his body is just, still in slow motion. And his fate has lead him to be the side kick of a Khajiit woman who jumps head first into traps and cries whenever she has to count.

Oh and the horns are purely accessories. Just thought they looked cool.

"If he's headless, why the eyes and teeth?" Well here comes the part where I intervene! If I'm being honest I was like "Yeah this just looks cool lol" but I made up a reason so now I have an excuse to draw him like this.

The eyes and teeth aren't real, they're purely just an illusion spell. If you tried sticking your hand under his hood (good luck) it would just phase through. But it's not a permanent spell, so if he forgets to recast it, well you can see in the drawing what happens. It doesn't hurt him or anything, it's like some sort of ectoplasm breaking down, which now makes this drawing funny because it would be the equivalent of not blowing your nose in a while and snot shooting out when you sneeze. If this doesn't make sense in the Elder Scrolls world I can't think of a better reason sorry 💔

There's more little details that I changed about him... Like he doesn't hate absolutely EVERYTHING that isn't decay (he likes hares. really likes hares), not as Gary Stu as he is ( I like to think that whenever he makes some sort of egocentric comment some Looney Tunes type of shit happens like he immediately gets sent flying by a trap) and most important of all HE'S NOT BAREFOOT !!!

I only now remembered to mention this but he's a mage who, If I had friendly fire on, would end up vaporising me every other fight. I've never seen worse aiming in my life.

If you've made it this far, thank you very much for reading. This is like the first time I've publicly just info dumped about an interest lol.

If you've got any questions about him send em my way in the asks!

#the elder scrolls skyrim #skyrim #digital art #art #tes v skyrim #skyrim mods #skyrim followers #3dnpcs #interesting npcs #dagri'lon #tes v #elvendrawz

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twilightknight17 · 5 months

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P5T Story Finale - Part 2

I'm typing this up while sleepy to post in the morning, but here is the rest!

Where last we left our beloved idiots, they were running for their lives back to the train from the collapsing Palace. Lavenza attempts to do the whole "please keep your hands and arms inside the ride" speech, but Morgana cuts her off and begs her to just go.

It's kind of cute how disappointed she is that she doesn't get to say it. But we're going!

[insert the sound of the Thieves screaming here]

The train is able to take us back over all the previous Kingdoms to get back to Erina's, and we get to see how happy everyone is that all of this is finally over. Also I just love how the flying train looks. <3 I wish it could stay like this. I'm sure there's a way to connect that to the other rooms. XDDD

Once we land, Lavenza informs everyone that the rest of the Kingdoms will disappear soon, and that we should "use our time wisely". I'll give the kids credit: they figured out really fast that it meant Erina was going to disappear too. Even if she was still going to 'exist' in Toshiro's heart, they were sad that they couldn't bring her to the real world with them.

I dunno, Toshiro, if the others were never gonna see Arsene or Captain Kidd or Robin Hood again, I think they'd be sad, too. You're fine. Everyone else is crying, too.

I really think everyone got a crying sprite, actually.

Erina gets to say something nice to each of the Thieves, and that she was glad to be friends with them. And she promises Akira and Morgana that she'll find a way to see them again one day.

It's sweet, even if it probably won't happen. :(

Toshiro promises that he won't forget anything that's happened here, and he won't waver in his convictions ever again. I'm surprisingly proud of him. He started this game as an absolute soggy paper bag of a man, and now he's gained nerves of steel.

Maybe nerves of like... copper. He's still got a ways to go. But he's come so far.

After everything fades out, the Thieves find themselves back in Leblanc. There is no indication of how much time passed while they were gone. They mentioned resting multiple times, so within meta-space, the equivalent of days were passing, but there's no clue how it correlates to the real world. Toshiro was in there long enough that there was a news report about him being missing, but like, Sojiro's not kicking the door in freaking out about where his kids have been, so... I don't even know.

(Sojiro is not in this game at all, which is sad. :( )

The Thieves are worried whether Toshiro made it back safely, and Ann makes a brilliant suggestion.

Fortunately, everyone shoots that down with the reminder that Public Security is watching them, so they are forced to just wait and see what happens for now.

Morgana makes the most adorably intense face.

Toshiro, meanwhile, has either reappeared at the Diet, or went to the Diet immediately after reappearing. And Marie and Yoshiki don't seem to have any clue where he was.

So I guess they didn't throw him in. Which means it really all was just Salmael trying to break him.

Imagine being just a guy, trying to exist, and a god decided to specifically try to break your brain. What the heck. X'D

Yoshiki and Marie immediately remind us that they are horrible fucking people even when they're not Salmael's cognitive puppets.

Toshiro just agrees with everything they say.

And then as soon as they leave, he rips up the script.

We love a man who's been through character development. XD

Timeskip an undetermined amount of time forward.

Futaba mentions it's "warmer" today, so maybe we're into early March? Everyone is still in school. Can we at least get a single flicker of what date it is?? Please? Scramble had a calendar; I'm dying over here. XDDD

Anyway, Toshiro held a press conference and went rogue, indicted his father for all of his crimes, resigned his position on the Diet, and broke off his engagement, all in one go. I kind of wish we'd gotten that scene properly, because it would have been a WILD ride. At least the picture is great. XD

That is sad, though, because I think he'd be a fantastic prime minister now. And one with a semi-direct line to the Phantom Thieves of Hearts!

He calls the Leblanc phone to get in touch with them and let them know he's okay, which is both sweet and hilarious.

He says he's still dealing with hearings and court stuff surrounding his father and Marie, and that he's being looked down on as part of it all, too. But he also says he's going to start his career from scratch, and work his way back up on his own merits. Which is a noble goal. Maybe him and Yoshida can meet and hang out. They've got a lot in common, and Toshiro can use a mentor who isn't a piece of shit.

But Toshiro's okay for now, and that's the important part. He makes the Thieves a promise to never give up on his ideals, and it's really nice.

And with a bit more philosophizing about human nature and hearts and whatnot, we have hit the credits!

Post-credits, we get a lot of online chatter about how Toshiro has been seen out in public basically every day. Hanging out in Station Square, talking to people, helping out with things, basically doing everything he can to rebuild his reputation.

And someone is watching him.

She walks with a cane now, but she's here, and I'm so happy they were reunited. I want them to be so happy together.

And that is the actual end! The final boss was really cool, and I thought the ending was great. Obviously I'm sad to see Erina go, but it made sense. I am curious why they changed her name in English. Watching the kids ponder over whether "Eri" and "Erina" were related in some way was... a little exasperating. I don't know if leaving her name as Elle would have made it less of a glaring neon signpost, or if "Elle" in Japanese was an equally-obvious reading in some way.

I'm a little annoyed that we never really found out how the Thieves got into the metaverse? Like, if we assume Salmael yoinked Toshiro, did he also yoink the Thieves? Was it an accident because of all the duplicates of Leblanc? Give me something, game.

I wish they'd done more with the fact that it's a sequel. Namedrop Sumi and Maruki, at least, because as it stands, it's just little things. The grappling hook. Lavenza. It's no fun to have all this potential stuff and not use it. Although it is funny, because I still don't think anything in Scramble contradicts any of this, so it would still work as a Royal-timeline sequel. Which means these kids will have killed five gods in five months. And that's assuming there's no god at the end of the DLC. XDDDDDDD

The mechanics were fun, and different from what I was expecting. A little repetitive at times, but not in a way that I found annoying. The real annoyance is trying to get enough money for all the persona-summoning to fill the compendium. XDDDDD

Also, I ran into... I guess a weird glitch? Right at the end, after I saved my clear data. I saved two slots before I left for the final fight against Salmael, so I'd have one to go back to to grind for personas before I do NG+. Those files were at about 36-37 hours. Salmael and the ending took me about 2 hours.

The game seems to think those two hours were 120, so apparently I fell into the hyperbolic time cube when I wasn't looking???

I didn't touch anything in slot 2 after I left for the final battle, but even THAT time changed. I don't get it. I haven't spent 157 hours without going to NG+, I swear. X'D

(NG+, which will apparently save my money, compendium, notes, gallery, and weapons. But not my level, so I STILL have to be level 96 to fuse Satanael. Damn it, Atlus. Also apparently you can fuse the other protag and protag-adjacent personas on NG+? So, Orpheus, Izanagi and Izanagi-no-Okami, Athena, Tsukiyomi, Ariadne, Thanatos, and Messiah. Which sounds awesome but also aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa more fusion. XDDDD)

Last but not least, I went back to check out the other option when Salmael asks for your answer.

It does nothing. The scene proceeds the same no matter which you pick. I was kind of expecting a bad ending, so that's a little disappointing.

Overall, I really enjoyed Tactica, and now I can't wait to play the DLC and figure out how Atlus has shoehorned this scenario into November instead of just committing to a sequel. X'D These kids had the busiest November of anyone ever, apparently.

See you for spray paint!

#Li plays P5T #one day I'll make a persona final boss tier list #to go with the Persona Parents tier list that I also need to make XD

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melishade · 1 year

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Attack on Prime: The foils between brothers

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What’s funny about me writing this in the spur of the moment is because I thought people were aware of this. But I was having a conversation with @echoblaze5 about it and now I gotta do a full in depth about it.

So as I’ve written Attack on Prime for years, I’ve come to the remarkable conclusion that Armin and Eren are a parallel to TFP Optimus and TFP Megatron. Because...it’s really right there if you think about it. Friends before bloodshed. Fight each other. All that jazz. I will be talking spoilers so be mindful.

Let’s do Armin and Optimus first.

Both are idealistic in nature. They have a desire to learn and a natural curiosity. Both have a desire to sit down and try to talk things out instead of resorting to violence immediately. It’s an innate desire for peace, but Armin also sees talking things out as a way of mature thinking, since resorting to violence would be stooping to the attacker’s level. Both were burdened with a great power and responsibility. Optimus being tasked to take on the role of Prime during the war, and what ultimately kick-started the war in the first place. Armin, canonically, took on the powers of the Colossal Titan. It was in order to save his life and gain the Colossal Titan’s power, but it’s a lot of responsibility. And the powers of the Colossal Titan are equivalent to that of a bomb. It’s a dangerous and heavy power to have. On top of that, when it comes down to it, both will be willing to take action if peace talks don’t work. Armin would be a little more reluctant to do that, but Optimus is a seasoned war veteran. But Armin has a bit of sadistic streak compared to Optimus. Remember this face:

And this:

My man needs to chill out.

Armin and Optimus were easy, but I can go on and ON about the similarities between Eren and Megatron and both would fucking hate it. LETS GO!

First of all, violence. It is not the solution. It is the question and the answer is yes. Megatron being forced to be a miner, then turned into a gladiator, and then flung to war, violence is all he’s ever really known. I don’t necessarily fault him for that. He had to rely on violence in order to survive, and I think if Megatron had grown up in a different environment, he would not have become a violent person.

BUT EREN! I know he did it to save Mikasa’s life, and I respect that because they were literally human traffickers who killed her parents mere hours ago. They deserved what they had coming and deserved to suffer. I get that, but 9 year old Eren fucking STABBED ONE IN THE THROAT AND THEN LURED THE OTHER ONE OUT TO STAB REPEATEDLY! Like Jesus Christ man! And his response to Zeke about it in the Paths: bitch, I’ve always been like this. Eren lived a normal life before the Shinganshina attack and had no issue hunting human traffickers down and killing them to save Mikasa. OMG the distress Carla must’ve gone through that night! Coming home with a little girl and finding out her nine year old son has a body count now!

I digress.

Second, the head strong personalities. They are both extremely stubborn in their own right and it’s led them to make extremely foolish and reckless decisions. Eren always running headfirst to attack the enemy without any real plan. And I can go on and on about the millions of blunders Megatron has made. A book could made about the stupidity of tampering with dark energon alone! But no! Megatron doesn’t listen to his only medic about injecting his own ship (a literal flying corpse) with dark energon (something that can revive the fucking dead). Oh my god, that man lost all thought process when it came to both dark energon and Optimus Prime.

Three, the descent into madness. Cause ya know, Eren destroying the world and Megatron’s revolution of equality turning into one of conquest. ‘Cause Megatron had good intentions, but with his reliance on violence and the war just going on, he just cracked. He literally did everything he ever could to gain power to the point where he just jammed dark energon into his spark and doomed himself from ever experiencing reincarnation ever again by not joining the Allspark.

Meanwhile Eren, oh boy, I need to shit talk this man. Yes, the situation was complicated, and yes, Eren wanted to protect his friends, and yes the hatred the world had was intense and unforgiving. But you cannot forgive genocide! Megatron is your one-dimensional evil villain. He wanted to conquer Earth to rule it. There’s no need for complexity or even sympathy. And at times, it sucks seeing Eren in pain, but Eren literally dragged his friends into hell on the off chance that they would survive and live long lives. And Eren really did not take into consideration what they wanted because they did not want a full scale Rumbling. We know that Eren cares for his friends. But reading those last few chapters...it makes you feel like Eren cared more about this idealistic version of freedom that doesn’t exist compared to the lives of his friends. His selfish desires weigh out more. Eren said so himself: if he wasn’t stopped, he would’ve completed the Rumbling in full. And Eren knows what he was doing was wrong because he’s literally disassociating while doing the Rumbling and regressing back to a child because he literally cannot handle the weight of what he’s done. Whether or not it was foretold, pre-determined, or whatever because of his future visions, it was just horrible. It’s an action that can’t be forgiven. There’s actually a quote TFP Optimus says to Megatron that definitely applies to Eren.

“I am but a soldier, Megatron. And you, are a prisoner of your own twisted delusions.”

Eren was a slave to his idealistic, non-existent version of freedom. He couldn’t escape it.

And the fact that both Armin/Eren and Optimus/Megatron went from brothers to enemies is really adding to this too. Eren wants to destroy the world; Armin wants to save it. Because he believes in a world that exists beyond what they’ve seen. Optimus wants to protect; Megatron wants to rule. Ideologies clash and...they fight.

I could be missing shit. I know I am. This is more of a rambling if anything, but if anyone wants to add then go for it.

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mishkakagehishka · 1 year

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hello i mean this in the nicest and sincerest possible way. what on earth is going on in the new valkyrie event ??

I wanna preface this by saying i didn't read any livetweets, i read vague spoilers, and i decided my. Vague knowledge of the japanese language will get me thru, so whether i properly understood everything or not? Is up for interpretation. And also I have yet to read the last 5 chapters, I left off when the question "why" was asked so, obviously, a gap.

But in short. Mika got reeled into crypto. From what I understood, he was stuck with his art, he wasn't coming up with any ideas, when Sora asked him if he wants to test the Test World where he can also make art using like . Clay and machines and the sort, and that art can then also be 3D printed? I really have to emphasise that my vocab is bad enough when you don't show me tech jargon. But anyway, this is in SSVRS or that VR system of theirs. So Mika does that, he gets really into it, he starts making all sorts of things and another function of the Test World is the VL$, a virtual currency. Yeah. It's a Test World, so it'll all be reset later, but yknow. Mika auctions his works, people start liking them and Test World's popularity soars - and with more people bidding on Mika's works, the value of the VL$ soars, too. One of Mika's works sold for the equivalent of 100 million yen, if I understood that section correctly. Either that or that was the value of 1VL$. Either way, it was a figure that had Mika going, "E- EEEEEEEH?!??!??!?!" so like. Yknow.

On the other side, Mika was spending all his time in VR, so he missed Shu's call. Shu, naturally, decided the next course of action is to fly from Paris back to Japan and check on him "to make sure he's not slacking off". Natsume and Tsumugi explain everything around the Test World and VL$ to him, Sora promises to call higher-ups to fix it, they get told that Mika shouldn't stop now because the value of the VL$ would plummet. There was some talk ab Mika not belonging to himself anymore which was. Right. Shu also scolded Mika directly, bc Mika was excited about that new medium and wanted to show it to Shu, and Shu got pissed off bc it's not real art. I think it was supposed be a sort of vague misunderstanding, the way Shu was speaking made it seem like he didn't consider digital art real art, but later on he says it's just that he doesn't consider art made to appeal to the masses and art made specifically for profit real art.

Whatever the case, Mika got back into the VR, Makoto tells him about the real world value of his works, he offers to buy him an atelier, Mika says it'd help him make more artworks, and in comes Shu on like. A fucking mecha? They started using gamer lingo explaining this one, I kinda shut it out tbh but it was a literal deus ex machina/mechanical god. So. That's when Mika asks what's so wrong about what he's doing, and when Shu answers with his own question - why is he doing that.

This is where I've stopped and I'll probs read the rest later tonight, but what I've seen from the spoilers, they either destroyed the Test World and the crypto, or just the crypto. Either way, a W for the art community and NFT/crypto haters.

#this is like. what /i/ understood. i may be wrong ab certain plot points #asks #ensemble stars

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autisticsupervillain · 2 years

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It's Fictional Throwdown Friday!

This Week's Fighters...

Susie vs Chahut!

Conditions:

No limitations. Susie as of Chapter 2. Chahut as of Act 2.

Scenario:

The Fun Gang wind up stranded and seperated on Alternia when a portal to the Dark World somehow malfunctions. With Ralsei reduced to an immobile item within Kris’s inventory, Susie is left to find Kris on her own. After overhearing some Purple Bloods talk about how they captured some “weird androgynous alien who bleeds red”, Susie storms the church to demand Kris’s release. Chahut is none too pleased to have her sermon interrupted and decides to kill Susie so that she can’t prevent her from spilling Kris’s “holy paint”.

Analysis: Susie

Do you remember your bullies?

Do you remember how they pushed you into lockers, or what names they called you? Did you ever wonder what you did to deserve it? Well, I'm here to tell you, you didn't deserve it. And sometimes, just sometimes, your bullies didn't either.

Susie... er, Last Name, seems to be on the surface nothing more than your typical high school bully. Albiet, a high school bully whose also a giant purple humanoid dragon, but a bully nonetheless. She's violent, ruthless, short tempered, and brash, meaning it's really no suprise that when she gets forced to do a group project with Kris, the one human in town, she's perfectly content to make them do all the work for her.

This straight forward facade quickly crumbles however once Kris and Susie get sucked into a magical parallel universe known as the Dark World. It is here that Kris and Susie discover that they are actually two of three heroes of legend, destined to save the world from getting consumed by darkness.

Susie doesn't buy it for an instant, immediately eschewing the fantasy around her in favor of beating up everything in her path. Annoyed by the heroes attempting to force her to take up a pacifistic attitude, Susie spitefully joins the bad guys, joining the dark prince Lancer to aid him in opposing the heroes. What she didn't count on was growing to genuinely befriend Lancer, giving Susie the first real friend she ever had in her life. Through this friendship, Susie was able to eventually grow as a person, soon genuinely befriending her fellow heroes Kris and Ralsei as well and standing along side them all to save the world from devastation.

Still, Susie is very much the brawler of the team. When she isn't physically throwing her allies at their problems, she's helping to beat them into submission with her giant battle axe. She's arguably the strongest member of the Fun Gang, being tough enough to battle power foes such as Jevil, King, Queen, Spamton NEO, and... hold on, let me check my notes here... Burghley.

Fighting Burghley in particular is actually fairly impressing, as not only can he tank his rollar coaster ride blowing up, but he can endure Queen's wire blowing up right in his face, enduring a blast equivalent to 0.006 tons of tnt.

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Even with that much physical fire power behind her blows, she sometimes needs to bring even more heat. That's where her incredible magic attacks come in to play. With magic attacks such as her Rude Buster, Susie is capable of attacking both body and soul simultaneously, ignoring durability by destroying the Souls of her opponents.

Good luck dodging it at the speeds she moves too, as Susie has consistently shown herself to be effortlessly faster than sound. Not only is she fast enough cover Lancer's ears before the sound of Ralsei's voice can reach them, but she can flat out dodge sound waves by moving nearly twice as fast as sound.

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While all this might make Susie seem like something of a blunt instrument, she genuinely has much more than that at her disposal. While she's no good at puzzles and is painfully oblivious to flirting, she's shown to improvise pretty well on the fly, managing to come up with a way to hypnotize Jevil into falling asleep and figuring out how to beat the Sweet Cap'n Cakes by getting everyone to dance individually for instance. Hell, she even has enough will power to unknowingly resist getting possessed and controlled by the Player, a higher dimensional being who views Susie's entire reality as mere fiction, which speaks volumes about her innate willpower.

In truth, Susie is much more than the brutish bully everyone made her out to be. Despite her blunt, antisocial demeanor she's may very well be the most heroic of the three Heroes of Legend.

Analysis: Chahut

Imagine, what would religion on a hellish deathworld look like?

Stop imagining, because you're wrong. Hell's religion is cruel parody of Juggalos and Clowns. On the toxic deathworld of Alternia, all live in fear of the capricious upper class. And in the Cult of the Mirthful Messiahs, few are more dreaded than Chahut Meanad.

And trust me, she more than lives up to her reputation. Acting as the head of church on Alternia in the Grand Highblood's absence, this towering adult purple blood has made a personal hobby out of murder, torture, and ritualistic sacrific. Between her inhuman strength and supernatural powers, her victims are afforded little chance of escape. Scaling off of Marvus, whom Chahut should be comparable to due to similar upbringings and being members of the same blood caste, Chahut is strong enough to rip lesser trolls apart limb from limb and durable enough to tank a limousine explosion, making her capable of enduring 0.016 tons of tnt.

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Similarly, she should be capable of reacting to and dodging such explosions, as Marvus actively jumped in front of the blast after it went off. This would put her at at least Mach 4, as even the slowest explosions known to mankind clock in at around that speed.

As for things Chahut herself has down, she is known to wear the standard Purple Blood face paint, which is actually highly acidic, as large chunks of the MSPA Reader's face began melting off when they tried to wear it. Despite this, Chahut wears the face paint at all times and remains unaffected. Furthermore, she should possess all the basic powers of a Purple blood, such as mind control and regeneration, as even Purple Blooded children such as the Soleils can induce horrific hallucinations and regenerate from being sliced right open.

As much as all of this might make Chahut seem like an unstoppable brute, she is by no means a mindless killer. In fact, she's actually remarkably polite if you can ignore the blood covered ax she carries around at all time. She's more than capable of maintaining friendships, they're just tainted by the fact that capturing helpless victims and using their blood as paint is her idea of taking her friends minigolfing. Alternia is a death world, where young children are expected to kill each other to survive from the very moment they hatch from the egg. The fact that Chahut is capable of any kind of politeness at all given her position in the hierarchy does speak volumes of the kind of person she could've been in a better world.

Still, given she's bloodstained at alk times, you'd never make the mistake of assuming her politeness equates to empathy. She'll cheerfully offer to teach you the word of her gods right as your skull collapses under her giant clown shoe boot heel.

Throwdown Mashup:

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Throwdown Breakdown:

As far as flat out stats go, Chahut is coming in with a sizable advantage. While she isn't ridiculously stronger than Susie (0.016 tons vs 0.006) she is considerably faster. Whereas Susie is nearly twice as fast as sound, Chahut is definitively 4x as fast. This would give her free reign to press her hand to hand combat advantage, as while Susie has proven to be remarkable at dodging bullet hell barrages, her close quarters experience is comparatively limited next to someone whose been killing from the literal day she was born.

However, close quarters does give Susie in advantage in building up Tension Points, as any attacks she would dodge would be grazed thanks to both the speed and skill difference. While Chahut's regeneration should allow her to trade ax blows just fine, whereas Susie can't really say the same even with healing items, she gas absolutely no defense against magic and that's where I think the difference lies.

Chahut doesn't really have an instant win button here. If Susie can completely ignore the Player's influence, then Chahut's mental powers won't even register too her, as her powers would be inconsequential next to those of a higher dimensional god. The same goes for Susie's hypnosis against Chahut, as Purple Bloods can endure whispers from Gl'bgolyb. Which of course leads to the funny image of both trying to fuck with the other's mind and nothing happening.

"...sis, whaT are you doing?"

"Uh, trying to put you to sleep? Duh."

"With ThaT Thing?"

"WELL IT WORKED AGAINST THE OTHER CLOWN SO YEAH!"

So the question is, can Susie land even a single Rude Buster on Chahut? Because Chahut has no way of surviving an attack that destroys souls.

Yes, Chahut is faster, but not so much so that Susie would move in slow motion to her. She hasn't shown the same proficiency at dodging that Susie has and she has no way of knowing such an attack would instantly kill her. Not even Susie would know, as people can very commonly shrug off soul destroying attacks in Deltarune. She may very well try to tank it, believing her regen could see her through, only to suddenly keel over dead. Having said that, she may very well end the fight before Susie can use it at all given her advantages.

Overall, I'm leaning Susie. While Chahut may just decapitate her before Rude Buster even comes up, Susie is certainly capable of keeping up with, if not quite matching, Chahut in other areas. None of Chahut's individual advantages are so big that they weigh out an instant kill attack that she has no way to see coming.

This Throwdown's Winner Is...

Susie!

Susie

Advantages

Soul attacks ignore durability and regen

Wider Variety of Opponents

Better at dodging

Somewhat Smarter

Slightly Wider Arsenal

Immune to Mind Control

Disadvantages

Significantly Slower

Slightly Weaker

Less Willing To Kill

Chahut

Advantages

Slightly Higher Stats

More Willing To Kill

More Experience Overall

Greater hand-to-hand skill

Regeneration nullifies modt physical damage

Better healing options

Disadvantages

Has no counter for magic

Close Combat Focus Builds Tension Points

Has no method of an easy instant kill

Counter Outs

Both have Hammerspace inventory.

Both resist others mental manipulation abilities

Near equal attack potency

Neither have fought anything quite like the other, outside of superficial similarities.

#fictional throwdown fridays #susie deltarune #deltarune #chahut maenad #hiveswap #undertale #homestuck #Youtube

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radioves · 2 years

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honest to god i think the warden wouldve been significantly improved if they had an actual purpose instead of just being There

take the ender dragon for example - she isnt very hard to fight, she only has one drop; an egg that serves solely as a decorative trophy, and a bunch of exp. but when you beat her, you get access to the end islands, and by extension the elytra

and then theres the wither, an optional miniboss thats a bit harder to fight than the ender dragon, but drops the main crafting ingredient for beacons, aka blocks you can use to create an area of effect buff

now these two items arent exactly necessities. for elytra, you can just walk [and, impo, i prefer this over flying over everything because you at least have the chance of finding something cool that you otherwise mightve missed]. and for beacons, lets be real, the only real use these things have is quarries and Maybe a flex to show just how many you can get. for… some reason. but theyre still worth killing their respective bosses to get

the warden, on the other hand, does nothing. all it drops is a single sculk catalyst that, in the newest update, has since been Significantly nerfed from dropping [i believe] 40 exp to 5. 5

really the only point of the warden now is, as its been put, an ambience mob. it spawns in, acts intimidating, but all you really have to do is bring in a bit of wool or an elytra to dip as soon as it spawns

and you would think that mojang “we removed fireflies because they had no purpose” studios would realize this and do something about it, but as of now, nope. and you would think for how long theyve been babying and hyping up the deep dark + warden they would try to actually make it worth going down there, but the only things one would even consider going down there to get is a compass thats virtually worthless for what it is, and a disc.

not even a music disc that you can play in the background- no, its a story disc, which [no hate to the person who made it] is literally just a sound design test. its the equivalent to playing 11 for fun. not to mention you dont even get the full disc, you have to find fragments to craft it

for how much effort they put into making the warden unkillable, i really dont think they put any of those skill points into giving players a reason to even be near it so it can show off all of its ‘unkillable’ glory. also i find it hilariously embarrassing that like 2 seconds after full release people already found a way to farm it. also it can literally be killed with a fishing rod. so

radio, i hear you asking, can you stop monologuing and get to the point. and to that i say- fine jesus :/

my point is, give the warden an actual purpose jesus christ. un-nerf the catalyst. make it drop something that gives you a buff when under sea level like a backwards conduit. give it a boss fight arena and something it unlocks after you kill it like the ender dragon. do something with the frame like, i dont know, make it a portal like everyone was expecting

yknow, just a concept, but my brother thought since the aether developer was on the team, it would be cool to add a dimension similar to it, kinda like a whole “you must go down to reach the top” or whatever he said idk. or maybe i can plagiarize from matthew patthew and say it leads to a dimension the old deep dark inhabitants fled to before the sculk took over or something

also to add on to the bossfight arena ive heard from someone [cant remember their user sorry] that the deep dark isnt a sectioned biome. its pretty much everywhere at the bottom of the world. and ive never actually played vanilla 1.18+ so i can only imagine how it feels to try to go diamond mining only to get deleted by some random warden that you spawned by complete accident

tl;dr mojang “everything needs a purpose” studios stop being a hypocrite and give the warden an actual purpose jesus christ

or, perhapse, maybe they shouldnt have tried to overhaul the entire game in 2 updates. i dont know.

#readers try to piece together these paragraphs into a legible post challenge #i would go an entire tangent about how yall got mad at people for not liking the cave update and then turning around and getting upset when #mojang has to scrap like everything they planned just to hit the release date. but.#im gonna get hunted down like a rat in a chicken coop over this arent i #:0 #minecraft #long post

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eli-elien · 2 years

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This is an animatic idea I thought of for Elijah Renard! I'm uh prob never gonna do it also cuz I know my android bitchass of a tablet would do the equivalent of blue screening on me lmao

Song is Constellations by The Oh Hellos

You should give it a listen!

Tw for uh suicide attempt cuz woo boy imagine you already hate yourself and your life and you get stuck with an actual concrete and real person/thing telling off how many times ya fucked up and controlling you to do things against your will O_O

Anyways hope uh you can visualize it but uh hope ya like the idea ig lol

"I can feel it on my tongue

Brick and mortar, thick as scripture

Drawing lines in the sand and laying borders as tall as towers"

During these lyrics it's a montage of Elijah, with wings, helping rebuild Raphtalia's village. He helps bring big planks of wood to playing with the kids. He looks on fondly at Naofumi while holding one.

"I babble on until my voice is gone"

Elijah talks to Naofumi, probably showing a new work in progress for blacksmithing or painting project.

"This hill I'll die on is about 90 meters of bricks

Colored indigo and inscribed with my name, and lined with cedar

But the words fall flat like cymbals crashing

Like molars gnashing"

It's a flashback from Elijah's time in the first wave, which had a monster bite his arm off. He runs and runs through the blizzard, seeing his comrades get overtaken and falls, losing what feels like a pint of blood. He then feels something lift him off the ground and into something of an eye of a storm with frost and snowflakes flowing around him. He then sees a hand and takes it.

"Cause like constellations a million years away

Every good intention, every good intention"

We see him and Finnely, she's hugging him, and has blood on her overalls and pink lacey shirt he knitted for her.

Elijah is holding his axe for dear life, scared and eyes wide like a prey animal.

He's covered in blood and surrounded by bodies of men that were trying to kill them, but were still alive.

"Is interpolation, a line we drew in the array

Looking for the faces"

A week or so of traveling after meeting Naofumi at the ill-sicken north town he meets and promises to take three demi-human children to safety. They meet bandits and he brutally hurts one terrifying the kids.

"Looking for the shapes in the silence"

He sees Naofumi on the road and they both are surprised, and Elijah is terrified.

"All that's left for me to climb

To the heavens is the chasm of the night

And a matter of time, but I hear the rumble

As the tectonic plates start to shake

And I feel my blood pounding like the beat of a drum"

Basically the spirit turtle arc+other world arc

*instrumental*

Throughout we see Elijah flying and he's on the cliff edge. Naofumi comes into frame, brows furrowed with more concern than real anger.

He tries to grab his hand and the once winged man tears away in favor of leaving everything behind with the rocky below.

He hates his curse. He hates the axe. He hates the taunting voice of The Raven.

He hates himself.

Elijah takes the plunge but Naofumi takes him by his hand screaming at him and gets the crazy man on solid land.

"Cause like constellations a million years away

Every good intention, every good intention

Is interpolation, a line we drew in the array

Clinging to the faces

Clinging to the shapes in the silence

Like constellations imploding in the night

Everything is turning, everything is turning

The shapes that you drew may change beneath a different light

And everything you thought you knew

Will fall apart, but you'll be all right"

Naofumi screams the lyrics while crying and holds Elijah near him to make sure he's still here. And as he holds him, Elijah too is crying.

Naofumi says "you'll be alright."

Their family nears them, to check if they're ok, and are relieved that the crisis has been averted!

#Rotsh #rising of the shield hero #OC stuff #Rising of the shield hero oc #Elijah Renard #ravenshield #naofumi iwatani #Spotify

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As I kid I remember reading a Donald Duck story about him being frustrated that people were different to him. In the story, he then all of a sudden multiplied to be in the city with just various versions of himself, leading everything to be a total mess. Turns out, we need different views, temperaments, skills, and cultural standpoints to make this whole planet thing work. These days, when ever you have something real to say, you are a threat to someone. We’ve lost the idea that some of our bad ideas should die facing better ones in public conversations, so we don’t all have to die by the bad ideas. As it is perceived by many that there is no transcendent realm, many feel like their ideas is who they are. So challenging ideas, even shitty ones, feels like dying to them. We are each others checks and balances, if this democracy thing is done right, but it goes beyond it. We are born with different temperaments to maintain the balance of the cosmos, even if the planets collide into one another on occasion. A simpler way is trying a make a NY socialite do your farm growing. As hinted towards in the previous article, the art world is by en large, is still totally clueless about the value of digital decentralised certificates. The human desire to erase the parts we don’t like, multiply ourselves in an attempt to reach utopia, and play power games – without accountability – led to this multiplied Donald Duck nightmare. Real inclusivity means inclusivity of temperaments and ideas foreign to us, and that is HARD work to live with. The law of entropy means something Ayn Rand once said: You Can Avoid Reality, But You Cannot Avoid the Consequences of Avoiding Reality The Fork and Flip piece now works in AR via the Artivive app From Vantaa to Dubai When I was a kid, a couple kids used to call me “big head” as my head was disproportionately bigger than the rest of my body. It was true at that point, but I figure it had also something to do with those big ideas I had, that didn’t really fit into the sub-urban grey Vantaa school setting. I’m sure you’ve never heard of Vantaa, but that has something to do with big ideas not being so common there, even if some individuals reach escape velocity. Not saying it was Bronx in the 70’s, but as tough environments damage us, but they also breed sisu. This is a Finnish term equivalent to something like grit, but it doesn’t quite cover it. It has been a very useful thing throughout my life, as I keep being animated and inspired by big ideas. This bubble head figure is being turned into a 50cm 3D statue by the talented and idea filled Hadrien from Arteier3D. We met through Hamad Al Ali from Yalla Group earlier in Dubai, and kept in touch figuring out ways to work together. Getting this statue done is a great honor for me with a sentiment reaching all the way to some lemons being made into lemonade since a kid. It comes to show that through working hard enough and pushing for a vision, things become possible. Very grateful for this whole process now, even if part of the pain remains as the rocket fuel to elevate further still. More on this collab later, as we are onto even bigger ideas. Renaissance 360 continued The Desert Rose piece from the MIrrors series. Blow up at the Theatre of Digital Art in Dubai Would you live here? Would you fly in this? Thanks to Mic Kuisma, that I finally met in person at the Tmrw Conf in Serbia, I was introduced to Martin from White Mammoth studios. He is now responsible for the implementation of “Desert Rose” into a fantastic render of a villa as well as a jet, giving a vision on where we are headed. We will be working together on many things, to which this is a great start. What does it look like, when liabilities get turned into assets via a creative art & licence process utilising digital certificates? Can assets be turned into further value through the same process? Before heading to Finland this summer, due to the kind introduction of H.

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no-gorms · 3 years

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Have a snippet of a robot!Tony thing that might stay a ficlet or might become a prologue for a thing, I don’t know yet:

(Steve & Tony, but also pre-Steve/Tony, 1000+ words, canon divergent, alternate Avengers 2012 setting)

The new suit fits well. Too well. It barely feels like a combat suit at all, settling lighter and easier against Steve’s skin than his recent wardrobe acquisitions of plaid and leather jackets.

Steve’s alone in this hellicarrier holding room, so he stretches his arms and mimes throwing the shield, noting the way the material pulls on the inside of his arms when he does so.

It’ll do, he supposes. It’s flexible enough, Coulson seems the kind of guy who knows what he’s doing, and all of SHIELD’s agents wear similar form-fitting suits, so they must offer decent enough protection. Though they get away with a less eye-catching color combination. The Captain America colors may have been the point back in the day – it made sure that Steve was the main target and allowed the others more freedom of movement – he’s not sure that’s relevant today.

Everything’s brighter, louder, faster in the twenty-first century.

Maybe that’s why his new suit’s been brightened up, making it almost as striking as those old posters. It’s another way that they’re catching him up with the world, on top of everything else – all the files, the briefings, the awkward conversations that have been trying to get him out of his SHIELD-assigned accommodations.

Steve’s so deep in thought that he barely hears the door opening. It’s only the clang of metal boots in approach that has him looking up.

“Iron Man,” Steve says. “Fury didn’t say you were coming.”

“Fury only acts like he knows everything.” Iron Man’s voice isn’t as deep as Steve thought it would be. The files didn’t capture the startling sheen of the metal armor, either, with its red and gold glinting like burnished mirrors with every step he takes into the room.

Suddenly Steve doesn’t feel so self-conscious about his own suit.

“I admit, I was curious,” Iron Man says. “Wanted to see if it was really you that they pried out of the ice.”

“You want to gawk, do it to my face,” Steve snaps.

“I am, champ.” The armor’s face plate pops up, like the lid of a tin can. Inside, there’s more metal – wires, gears, bits of machinery that Steve doesn’t have the word for, even if he might have known their equivalent back in the day. All of the helmet’s innards are moving, clicking, and flashing like small lightbulbs – an engine.

Steve stares. This is a world in which exist town-sized vehicles that can fly, written messages travel instantaneously across the globe, and where playback recordings appear almost as real as the real thing. What’s a walking, talking, fighting robot on top of all that? Nothing, really. Iron Man, the mysterious hero who saved Malibu from Obadiah Stane’s terrorist attack, and a potential Avenger on top of that, is a machine. Why not.

“Oh,” Steve says. “That wasn’t in the files.”

The faceplate comes back down, and Steve looks at it again with fresh eyes. Iron Man’s face – gold with red accents to mark the cheekbones, jaw and forehead. That’s his actual face, with stylized eyes and a mouth, giving just enough detail for the human eye to focus on when conversing with him.

“It’s not,” Iron Man agrees. “Easier for people to believe there’s a human being in here.”

“Romanoff called you Tony, so I thought that, too.”

“That is my name,” Iron Man says. “Well, an acronym. Well, a short-form of an acronym.”

“Anthony?” Steve says, startled. Obadiah Stane worked for Stark Industries, didn’t he? “As in Artificial Neural Technology Haptics—do you remember me?”

“What?”

“Howard Stark,” Steve presses. “He showed me this computing machine he was working on, ANTHONY, it could only do some basic mathematical projections at the time, I barely understood it, but he spoke so much about the dreams he had for it. That it would be able to read and answer and react – an electro-mechanical intelligence.”

“Yes,” Iron Man says slowly, as though bewildered by the turn of the conversation. “That was me. But that was long before I became self-aware. I don’t remember much of that time.”

“Oh.”

“He used me to search for you, though,” Iron Man says. “Those were some of my first proper algorithms, but I didn’t have enough computing power at the time to do it properly, and then I got pulled for other tasks. In the end Fury beat me, I guess.”

Steve has the brief, unnecessary thought that maybe they should’ve just left him in the ice with the Tesseract. He quickly chases the thought away, hoping that it isn’t visible on his face, not that he knows the first damn thing about how well futuristic robots like Iron Man can read people who interact with them. Probably best to assume the worst, and recover from it the best he can.

“Right.” Steve puts on a smile and offers a hand. “Steve, nice to meet you.”

Iron Man looks at Steve’s hand.

Steve has another flash of panicked dismay – do people still shake hands in the future? Is it too invasive now, or too old-fashioned? He knows he shook Fury’s hand the other day, but Fury might’ve just been indulging him and let it slide.

“Tony.” Iron Man accepts Steve’s hand and shakes it once, firm and humanlike. The metal glove is cool and the palm strongly convex, but it’s not unpleasant to the touch. “Back at you.”

“I suppose we should see Fury now?” Steve asks.

“Sure, yeah.” Iron Man watches as Steve collects the shield from its casing and then says, almost in a rush: “Sorry, I really don’t remember ‘meeting’ you. I only have the files Howard fed me.”

“That’s fine,” Steve says, shaking his head. “It’s nice to see that you’ve come a long way from a warehouse of cables.”

“Oh. Thanks.” Iron Man falls into step next to Steve as they leave the hold. “You’re a long way from data on a page, too, uh… Cap. Do I call you Cap?”

“If you want to. But Steve’s fine.”

“I’m gonna call you Cap.”

Steve slants a look at Iron Man’s face. There’s nothing to read off of it, but it just makes the nuances of the accompanying voice all the more pronounced. The teasing curiosity feels pointed, as though he’s trying to read Steve, too, and any conclusions to be had can be found in what Steve only does here and now, as opposed to what he might have read in files.

“Like I said,” Steve says easily, “if you want to.”

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spacejellyfish3 · 3 years

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the utena show’s ending is extremely powerful on its own yes but utena’s final apology? to anthy of not being able to be her prince in the end never stuck right with me. and I think that’s cause in a sense it’s still centering the prince as important, as aspirational, that maybe it could have been a better ending for them—that utena could’ve survived if she were her prince. and of course I might be reaching with that possibly probably but I still wanted to air that opinion out (maybe someone else has similar misgivings as I do and can expand on it so there).

but the real problem for me is that show anthy still very much places utena as a savior figure, as her “prince”. while I live for anthy’s savage verbal takedown of akio as a powerless coward trapped in a Sisyphean game of pretend for all eternity but even so she herself is still shown to subscribe to the dogma of the heroic prince. even visually anthy’s idealization of utena is displayed with her dressed in pink. this visual marker is carried over into the movie with anthy’s bridal gown changing from red (which makes sense since anthy is indian coded and an indian bride’s sari is traditionally red) to white and pink, connoting her as utena’s princess.

movie anthy’s placement of utena onto a pedestal of princehood also often extends beyond subtext and into the text itself, a key example being the scene right before utena’s famed car wash makeover where anthy says “you’re the prince of the academy now, every miracle and all eternity is yours…so long as you stay in this world.” anthy believes that you can only exercise power, have power, be happy, be free within the system, and it’s important to note that there is very much truth in that notion but this power I’m referring to is that of self actualization, the power of maturity. yet…utena rejects that noise, she says no, she says fuck that let’s go be free in the outside world.

if the show is about breaking away from the confines of abuse, then the movie is about breaking away from the confines of trauma. it’s extremely powerful when anthy takes the steps out of ohtori; it’s hard even just to find the strength to leave an abusive situation let alone actively do it. but the pain remains, trauma doesn’t disappear it’s haunting it’s ghostly sometimes literally manifesting. both movie utena and anthy are hounded and bound to apparitions they’ve forgotten are actually dead.

touga died years ago sacrificing himself for nothing in the end and became princely an ideal to strive for and utena has to come to grips with that and she basically says no you don’t control me my grief my trauma does not control me thank you for being my prince but I can’t be a prince I don’t want to be it’s not real

anthy is real

I am real

akio is abuse he is torment and toxicity he is anthy’s monster, maybe a monster that she created once upon a time but he chose to perpetuate his monstrosity. and when confronted with his actions he couldn’t face it he hurt her more made it her fault for the hurt he caused her and he died he’s dead he’s gone but he remains in the ground anthy buried him beneath the roses. the rose garden is a prison she is the only one held captive by the roses and it grows up up high up but it’s still there the roses remain he’s still there in her mind and he’ll never leave but he’s not in control. he’s dead, he’s been dead for so long he remains but he’s not real and he’s no prince because the prince was a lie that never existed it’s not real

utena is real

I am real

and they blaze past everything. there are obstacles but there are friends too who aren’t there yet but they’re on the path they’re trying they’re growing they have high goals they want to reach and someday they will but you can now. it’s anthy’s story it’s anthy journey and it’s hard of course it’s hard

but they break free. they break the castle so huge so big so impossible but it wasn’t real

it’s just rose petals flying in the wind

akio doesn’t control her and though it might be so that she and utena can’t make it outside, that they have to continue as princesses stuck in the role that people give them but they don’t have power over them, they’re free and no longer draped in any costume or performance, they’re truth out of her well to shame mankind and that’s fucking awesome. they might not make it, they might fail like the broken down husks of those who came before them, but they can try they’re free to try. they have the power to try. to revolutionize the world. to revolutionize their world.

“the outside world has no roads, but you can always build new roads.”

I binged the entire series and the movie last year around March maybe, sometime right before quarantine…and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, analyzing it, since. I’m pretty sure it radicalized me and honestly I’m glad it did. revolutionary girl utena speaks truth to power and exists as a creative work in a way that I don’t think anything else has or will. it’s fundamentally itself but simultaneously thrives on external interpretation. it’s both an enigma wrapped in a mystery and as obvious and unsubtle as a trainwreck. above is my favorite quote of the entire franchise because it’s so simple but so profound—you could say it’s my equivalent of “what is grief if not love persevering”.

there are no roads to follow, but you’re open to build your own path your own way. no one defines you but you and that’s simple that’s kinda naive but what’s wrong with that. I’m not sure who originally said this or stated this proverb or whatever, I know I read it somewhere but I’m not sure where, and I’m definitely paraphrasing but

adults are so quick to say the world is unfair and be done with it, but a child would look at that and say: why not make it fair? that’s really simple and it’s innocent of course but it’s still true. why can’t we make things fair, because we definitely could it’s not impossible.

I’m not sure how to end this post—I definitely should cause it’s plenty long already—but rgu is highly foundational to me on a visceral level. it’s helped me in ways shifted me in ways I can’t describe and I can’t really imagine myself now existing without its influence. the best way I could describe its impact its power its importance really boils down to

the outside world has no roads, but you can always build new roads.

words to live by.

#revolutionary girl utena #rgu #adolescence of utena #adolescence apocalypse #shoujo kakumei utena #sku #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya

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Hi! What's the deal with Roxane Gay? I've read Hunger but I haven't kept up with her internet presence at all

I don't want to mislead you, here, so I will say that first and foremost, I fundamentally do not and have not ever found her writing that great. I think she's overhyped, takes herself too seriously, and doesn't really have all that much to say. Her thesis in Bad Feminist, for instance, is basically "pobody's nerfect" which... ok. It's the kind of wisdom that fits on a refrigerator magnet. You can find inspirational posters in your dentist's office that say "you can't be all things to all people so just be yourself." In all subsequent novels/essay collections/anthologies I've been struck by the fact that she centers herself and her own experience more than I personally care for, and that despite decades of her life being devoted to feminism, analysis, writing, and chronicling her own life, there just isn't much water in any of these wells. Reading Roxane Gay to me feels like being trapped next to someone who won't shut up on an Amtrak trip from NYC to DC.

I also think the elephant in the room here is that Roxane Gay grew up absurdly wealthy. Her parents sent her to Philips-Exeter as a boarder, which costs $58k/year now and cost the 70s equivalent when she was there; it has always been one of the most expensive boarding schools in the US reserved for people who are the children of senators and such. I have no doubt that her life there was not all pony rides and illicit caviar parties, but I do think there is some consequent distance between her understanding of normal people and their actual lives.

Viewed through this lens, I find her work makes a lot more sense: she sticks up for Lena Dunham and Sheryl Sandberg, for instance, because in many ways they are her peers as daughters of privilege and boardroom feminists. Dunham and Gay share that indelible quirk that happens when too many people encourage you as a child to view every mundane thing that happened to you as the sort of thing that you should write a personal essay about. Sandberg and Gay both think that all problems in the world can be solved with individual effort and charitable donations because to people born into privilege and comfort, that is largely true.

I am not saying that rich people are immune to bad circumstances, however, nor would I be able to say that about Gay's body of work, because it is firmly (and in my opinion voyeuristically, myopically, uncomfortably) rooted in her suffering. Clearly, this resonates with many people, but it just makes me feel like I'm paying to read someone's therapist-assigned journaling exercises. I don't feel the need to read about Gay's discomfort flying coach because of the relative size mismatch between her body and the amount of real estate allotted her, for instance, both because I am also fat and uncomfortable flying economy and because it's just not an interesting or unique experience.

I'm sure someone has compiled or is compiling a list of every boneheaded thing she has ever said on twitter, which at a rate of about 3 tweets per day every day for the last 14 years is probably a lot of dumb things, but I doubt much of it is dumber than what you'd expect from any other interchangeable bluecheck with terminal must-comment-on-everything brainrot. I am content to just say: I don't find her work to be that good, and to admit that upfront, because maybe I am looking for reasons why she sucks harder than I should, and then to mention a few reasons why I think her work isn't that good: it doesn't say anything new, it's out of touch, it's self-centered, it's fixated in her persecution.

And if anyone has read all this and is already composing a heated counter-essay:

2) if you are a stranger to me and found this by accident, I 100% do not care about what you think

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