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vocabulary test where all the wrong answers are also true

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>log on to FF14 to try to fit in some Society quests before I have to go run an errand >oh shit the boss FATE I;ve been trying to prep for days is up >manage to hit that before I head out >come back from the store and try to do those quests before I have to go do another thing >"wouldn't it be funny if the other FATE boss I'm waiting for popped today too lol? lemme check" >surprise it is up >but by the time I'm done organizing a party and doubling back for an item there's only 1 minute left on the timer >don't get the kill >have to rush out the door >all of this before 6pm >and I still haven't gotten around to those dailies

it's been a day today y'all

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Managers

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The Knowing I

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The Knowing I

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doodled my best Library team as thanks for them carrying me in Star of the City y'all are the real stars

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doing some post-ARR on an alt, I noticed that in one cutscene Minfilia does something like that palm-punch gesture that later becomes one of the WoL's iconic things

it would be so cute, cute and a little bit sad, if the WoL picked it up from watching her

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within the first few weeks of her term, U-Olga Marie, the first female President of Earth, has already passed sweeping reforms establishing universal income and healthcare for all humans, as well as criminalizing all forms of discrimination and providing tens of billions of dollars worth of funding for health and science research. In addition she has dissolved all militaries, pledging that if any threat to Earth arises she will handle it personally with her pseudo-black holes.

oddly enough the one military branch she has not dissolved is the US Marines, but we're pretty sure that's just a misunderstanding.

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"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure."

"But oh, how strange it was to see the painter now, standing absolutely rigid before the pillar of fire! Yoshihide - who only a few moments earlier seemed to be suffering the torments of hell - stood there with his arms locked across his chest as if he had forgotten even the presence of His Lordship, his whole wrinkled face suffused now with an inexpessible radiance - the radiance of religious ecstasy. I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure."

Hell Screen, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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there's a thing I do in FF14 sometimes that I like to call "slow adventuring", it's where I do simple overworld stuff like society dailies, sidequests, hunts, while limiting the amount of times i teleport and just walk/ride/fly instead, and also resisting the urge to open menus. i try to pay attention to the scenery or imagine what my character is thinking or feeling while doing this, even if it's just "where the heck is my hunt mark" or the like.

I'm not sure if it's a result of this practice or if my anxiety supplements just happened to kick in while I was watching the sunset over the Azim Steppe but I had a feeling like everything was gonna be okay

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okay so playing FF14 PVP after talking politics at the dinner table makes me a bit intense about it

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t'would be interesting to pull on the thread of connection between Yoshihide the painter and Dante the poet both as artists who depict Hell

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Dante and more Abnormalities. y'know after drawing all these I'm glad we've got the Manager we have and not a Doomsday Calendar-head

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I've also been thinking today about Ryoshu, how we know from Hell Screen about her daughter and what happened to her, but it feels kind of hard to picture the Ryoshu we know as a mother because she's like, the least nurturing person imaginable. but that's where it's really heartbreaking, to think that she's someone who isn't really suited (at least not in any way we think of as being normal or traditional) to being a parent but was anyways - until she wasn't.

I wonder sometimes if Ryoshu hasn't always been the way she is now - well she's certainly always been hyperviolent it's impossible to imagine her otherwise - but if maybe the apathy she displays towards everything other than violence is something that came about after her daughter's death.

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(guy who is perpetually a single Canto behind voice): I think Nelly from Canto 6 might be my favorite single-canto NPC so far. When I read the book Wuthering Heights I spent a lot of time thinking about her role as narrator of the story retelling it to Mr. Lockwood - at the point where she's telling it both Cathy and Edgar are dead and Heathcliff is pretty far along a downward spiral, so she's the only one who knows the complete story of the manor from the beginning (iirc she's only slightly older than Heathcliff and Cathy, so they basically grew up together) almost to the end, from a perspective close to the action but not part of the central drama. When reading you have to suspend your disbelief at the fact that she remembers conversations and scenes from years ago, but even so she's far from a perfect narrator, and sometimes not even a good person (one of the fun things about Wuthering Heights is that there's no "moral center", no completely innocent victim - even Mr. Lockwood, who's barely a character, is a bit of an asshole). There's times where you think that if she'd been kinder and more understanding to Heathcliff and Cathy things would have turned out better, and other times where you feel sorry for her and the fact that servants couldn't change households/careers easily in this era because oh my god girl you need to get out of that place. But being the only one who knows a story must be a burden, that's why a story must be shared so the burden can be shared. And the story of wuthering heights is equal parts tragedy, horror, and the most fucked-up romantic gossip you've ever heard in your life so it's the kind of story that demands to be told to someone else.

Limbus's Nelly, when she looks through the Mirror Worlds and sees herself in every one get dragged down by Heathcliff and Cathy's drama, she's essentially reacting to that role of narrator and passive participant that she has in the novel, and trying to escape it. The circumstances that cause everyone to forget Cathy means that she no longer knows the full, correct, story, in a way granting her the escape she wanted - but in betraying Heathcliff and forgetting Cathy the cost was breaking relationships that she had for years. Now the only ones who know the story, who know that Cathy even existed are Dante and Heathcliff himself, sharing that burden of knowing. I think there's a trend too of Dante being an observer to stories that others don't know or forget, like how they're the only one unaffected by the memory wipe that caused the Sinners to forget the Tearful Thing at the end of Canto 4.

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the god who laughs

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shoutout to the Servant with so little story relevance you forget she's part of the game until you happen to need an Archer with a strong single-target NP for a Saber boss fight and watch her twist the boss to pieces, it's our girl Asagami Fujino