the way he doesn’t even complain or display any kind of emotion that a child in his situation should display. fucked up (good stuff)
✧✦✧ the waking sands moment is probably my personal fav in ARR. it pulls the rug from under your feet and knocks the air out of your chest, what the HELL, what do, where go?? and the writers be like “oh you liked this feeling? please look forward to post ARR 🙂”
i need to remind y'all about a removed quest in which you go pray to the gods after the carnage, and the gods are silent. BRING THIS PEAK BACK
it’s rather undercommunicated that not only the ascians are responsible for making the scions’ location known to the empire, but they TELEPORT the garleans into the Waking Sands, while the public outside only hears the sudden disturbing noises
truly a “no good deed goes unpunished” moment, it drives home how VISIBLE you’ve become as a hero, and what it means for everyone around you. but this’s only the beginning 🔥\o/🔥 ✧✦✧ the framing omg. THE SAVIOR HATH COME
so this child just marched in with the look of someone who’s gonna save the day. to prove that the Scions yet live we need to slay Garuda. to slay Garuda we need an airship, Cid has an airship, we don’t know where the airship is. okay let’s go find it, how hard could that be?
btw shouldn’t we try to save Minfilia and Tataru first? they’re probably being tortured as we speak, but ah well.
Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they’ve gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.
So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here’s what you want to do:
In the url bar, type in about:config
It’ll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.
One by one, you’re going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:
Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that’s peachy.
The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we’re just tidying the garden a lil bit.
Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.
If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.
This is a great take and I would like to adopt “Feelings Yakuza” in English actually, I feel like it conveys the whole thing way more obviously than “anti” (not to mention the muddled meaning of “proshipper”).
To avoid harassment, EA and SEA artists have started pre-emptively blocking users with “proship DNI” or any variation thereof in their profiles as a result of this article and said feelings yakuza are getting pissed that their DNIs are being hard enforced by the other side. How very dare.
I’m screaming with laughter at the actual Japanese term, o-kimochi yakuza. The “o” is an honorific indicator to indicate how prissy and self-important these people are being.
I don’t know if Maromi intended this to be the incredible takedown that it is, but I couldn’t not share it:
i keep seeing well-meaning posts about tagging on ao3 claiming that ‘no archive warnings apply’ means a fic is fluffy and wholesome and maybe smutty but can be trusted contain nothing upsetting. and from the bottom of my heart, please, this is so wrong. like, even aside from the fact that 'upsetting’ is a very personal definition, it literally just means that none of the big four archive warnings apply, and i promise you it’s very possible to write a DEEPLY upsetting fic that contains none of those things.
My thoughts, feelings, and impulses only exist inside my head, and none of it matters unless I act on it
Nobody can see my thoughts or emotions
The only things anyone can see and judge me on are my actions
There’s no such thing as a thought crime
thank u
You can have harmful beliefs and harmful impulses and harmful urges and not be evil. You can make yourself aware that these things are harmful and take steps to correct yourself and not be evil. You can walk around with the urge to kick puppies all goddamn day and as long as you are capable of redirecting that impulse to something benign then it doesn’t matter. I don’t know how else to say this
Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.
I had to endure A FUCKING DECADE of this hellsite creating strawmen, shitting on genuinely good writing, and only supporting shitty coffee shop shit or uwu vanilla-ass couples. y'all owe me for the forced vanilla therapy you forced me into.
ALT
