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Hot.

She’s so silly

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Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

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Funny enough, I do think Edelgard prefers the company of women, I just think that her potential relationships with several men are the most tragic and that is crack to me. However, I should rectify this.

The game shows me that Edelgard viscerally dislikes how anxious and afraid Bernadetta is, in that Edelgard believes Bernadetta deserves as much dignity as any other person, and that Bernadetta describes Edelgard as the bravest person she knows. Those two are in love.

Marianne clearly fell in love with Edelgard and they did not even have supports, you are going to have a hard time convincing me what else Marianne describing Edelgard as radiant and brave could mean. Like, Edelgard is rebelling against the Goddess that Marianne very much believes in the existence of and Marianne's response is just "Damn, she sure looks brilliant and courageous, though."

Why did Dorothea have a song about Edelgard prepared like that. Oh, it might have been improvised? How did Dorothea improvise it that quickly. Why is Edelgard so invested in what makes Dorothea happy in their early supports and what makes her upset in their last support? WHAT DID EDELGARD MEAN THAT HER STORY IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT DOROTHEA? Love.

Yes, maybe Lysithea is more of a sister to Edelgard and vice-versa. That is a very valid interpretation of what is going on, just given that they must remind each other of their families one way or another. At the same time, neither of them show their vulnerabilities that often and it is crazy how unguarded they get towards each other. They literally save each other from their medical conditions in their shared ending. Romantic or not, they are locked in on each other.

You know, yes, this does get Hapi involved despite no supports (again). Edelgard invited her with Lysithea in their raid to trash one of Thales's laboratories. Is killing mutual abusers together not an act of love? Listen to Dixie Chicks "Goodbye Earl," then come back to me to weigh in on this. If Edelgard is in love with Lysithea, then this is strong evidence for Edelgard also loving Hapi.

Monica is literally a punchline for delusionally obsessed homosexuals in this fandom after 3 Hopes launched. What else is there to say.

Obviously, not everything is shipping. Love can be platonic or found family and all that jazz. On the other hand, maybe we should reinterpret a core assumption about the Edge of Dawn/Lady Hresvelg motifs; maybe the song is not addressed to Byleth, maybe Edelgard went to Garreg Mach and realized that she needs to close off her heart because she realized she falls in love with people in general too easily. Maybe this loser fell in love with half of the people she came here to betray and kill. That song is pretty sappy, if we accept it as a look into her mental state, it is strong evidence that Edelgard is someone who falls in love often.

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Watch and share with everyone you know.

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Monster made from the remains... expelled... by scavengers after a sky burial.

One of those "we're going to be weird about burial practices we regard as strange or exotic" horror movies, except instead of killer mummies or whatever it's an evil smoke monster made of all the people whose ashes have been illicitly scattered at Disney World.

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The girl in the box

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If you can seriously bring yourself to hate this dork I think you may be beyond help.

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Skip. There are no squares.

look-a-like

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Oh God, I feel this so much.

Like okay I talked to her, now how the Hell am I supposed to let her know I'm interested without coming off as a desperate loser or like a creep who just wants to get into her pants?

An autistic man struggles to get women to like him. He asks for advice. The vast majority of the advice he receives is from one of these two categories.

Just talk to them. I don't care how oversimplified that is. I refuse to believe that it's possible for someone to struggle to socialize. Just let it come natural. If it doesn't, you're shit out of luck.

You struggle because women are stuck up b*tches who enjoy condemning men to a life of loneliness because it gives them an ego boost. Here are some tricks for how to manipulate women.

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I've never seen anybody suggest that Dimitri is not mentally ill. More often the discussion centers on whether his mental illness is severe enough to absolve him of his actions during the timeskip and whether he is mentally fit to be king.

The latter sort of assessment is largely subjective, but the former is well trodden ground in the legal world. While there are varying legal definitions of insanity around the world, I find the one used in South Australia's is a good distillation of the most common elements. Quoting from Section 269C of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA):

A person is mentally incompetent to commit an offence if, at the time of the conduct alleged to give rise to the offence, the person is suffering from a mental impairment and, in consequence of the mental impairment— (a) does not know the nature and quality of the conduct; or (b) does not know that the conduct is wrong; or (c) is unable to control the conduct.

While some jurisdictions have more restrictive definitions, I don't know of any where you could realistically found not guilty by reason of insanity without satisfying at least one of those conditions.

As far as I can tell, Dimitri doesn't satisfy any of the three conditions. He's clearly aware the nature and quality of his actions, he is under no illusion that he's attacking Demonic Beasts rather than human beings, or that their writhing in pain and dying when he pierces them with his lance is actually them doing a funny dance and falling asleep. He also clearly knows what he's doing is wrong and thinks himself a monster for it. His ability to control his conduct is the only thing that would reasonably be in question, but a court would likely look at things like his ability to distinguish friends (including allied Adrestians like Mercedes and any recruited Eagles) from foes, or the way he goes about torturing Randolph and describing all the things he's planning to do to maximize Randolph's suffering before killing him as strong evidence that Dimitri is in control of his actions and capable of exercising restraint, rather than acting entirely on impulse.

It's also worth remembering that in real life, even if a court did find Dimitri not guilty by reason of insanity, he would not be set free to rule his Kingdom as an absolute monarch. Instead, he would be sent to an inpatient psychiatric care facility, where he would remain until either healthcare professionals determined that he would no longer pose a danger to himself or others if released back into society, or he died, whichever came first.

"Lobotomygard" is exactly why I hate this fandom. Yall are so ableist, except for when it's your fav. "People are so ableist about dimitri! He's mentally ill! But not lobotomygard :/" or "people dismiss edelgards mental illness! Dimitri wasn't really mentally ill though, he was just a murderer" actually ppl are awful and have no self awareness

One of the first takes on this blog was about ableism so at least you're not alone in your criticism

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How is "give a man a fish / teach a man to fish" even supposed to support to her argument? The point of the proverb is that putting in the extra time and effort to empower the man to support himself will serve him better long-term than simply providing for his immediate needs.

Following it in this context would mean we should... Increase our investment in cooking classes, I guess? Somehow I doubt that's the outcome she's arguing for though.

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Can we please just Ctrl+Z the last ten years of human history?

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Dorothea was real for questioning the Church for enabling them to kill people during the Red Canyon Mission, but I've seen some people harp on her for it, saying stuff like "No shit that a MILITARY school is training you to hunt bandits, what did she expect?"

Valid argument, but think about how she doesn't see those bandits as just people who displeased the Church. She knows how some of those bandits have a life outside of thievery and had to resort into such activities to support themselves/their families because their government wouldn't. She's DEFINITELY been there.

(Not to say killing people isn't concerning enough of a problem because it is, it just feels like many people overlook how insightful Dorothea really is.)

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Jesus. Edelgard haters really do think every decision IS has made since 2019 is a conspiracy to push Edelgard as a "marketable waifu" to sell Heroes alts don't they? It's simply inconceivable to them that she could be popular as a character on her own merits.

The "AG is misogynist" crowd conveniently ignores two things:

the same dev team wrote and signed off on *all* the routes so if you want to point the finger at anyone it should be IS/KT and not individual characters or, worse, fans of particular routes/characters, and

why Edelgard is written the way she is in AG in the first place, namely so the consequences for her actions can all be shifted onto two flat male villains while she remains a victimized, infantilized waifu for marketing purposes. It's almost definitely the same reason her design was softened in Hopes compared to post-timeskip Houses, and why she only appears as the Hegemon for a few seconds and never gets to kill any of her enemies onscreen like she does in CF. IS has FEH seasonals to sell!

But too often criticisms of the writing of these games focuses on specific routes only to drag people who like them instead of looking at broader issues of sexist writing and presentation. In reality there are many reasons why someone might prefer AG that have nothing to do with Edelgard. They might prefer the Lions or their ships (AG especially has a lot of fodder for gay Dimitri ships), or like that it's the most distinct route in Hopes, or that it has the biggest roster or has the fewest playable character deaths.

Shockingly, it is in fact possible to acknowledge that game developers are sexist while also finding stuff in enjoy in spite of that.

NGL, I wasn't expecting "How sexist is AG?" to be the main discourse thus far

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Friendly reminder that many of the people who whine about trans right activists wanting doctors to cut off kids' penises (if the kid wants it) have already elected to have a doctor cut off part of their own kid's penis without the child's consent.

i feel like ppl who are against kids transitioning don’t understand the degree to which pediatrics are fine with medical intervention for kids. like really? this is where you draw the line?