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Final Fantasy X-2 ⚔️💗✨

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By now I am very tired of the "weird/evil girl who is fixed/saved by the audience-insert generic anime boy by just showing her basic kindness". But I will forgive Kara no Kyoukai, obviously, because:

Mikiya Kokutou did it first

Mikiya Kokutou did it best

Mikiya Kokutou is very well designed not to be an audience insert, because in spite of his core genericness, he is a person with his own unique personality traits, quirks, and relationships. The series's real audience insert is a different guy and he doesnt get the girl

Mikiya Kokutou isn't just a generic vessel-for-kindness to be extended towards Shiki either, he is a character defined by his kindness written with commitment to that. He's nice to his girlfriend when she murders people, but also to the people trying to murder his girlfriend, and the people trying to murder him, and his girlfriend trying to murder him. Lesser writers would have given him a moment where his sense of justice brings him to angrily beat up one of the villains, but that's not who he is. He is kind to those the audience and the author wishes he wasn't, and to those you shouldn't be kind to. It's his personality and it doesn't just enable the romance but eventually threatens it as well.

Mikiya Kokutou brought her flowers every day for two years while she was in a coma, in spite of her having just put a knife to his throat. Hardly basic kindness. Could you do that? No. Humble yourself. Mikiya Kokutou is better than you and me.

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The Garden of Sinners I

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★ 【我美蘭】 「 flame 」 ✔ republished w/permission

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perdón por solo dibujar gwevin (mentira)

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kev

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🌸 by B L O O M [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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by yaku

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I remember the thirst over his LB7 outfit when it dropped.

FGO fans are so chronically starved for male fanservice that the top post on the subreddit rn is a pic of Kadoc wearing the world's most normal cooking apron from the new event and literally every comment is terminal with lust over this fully clothed man

I think Kadoc fans are just like that, honestly.

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I kinda feel like we're talking past each other here. As I presume that at least a significant amount of the "Can you guys play something other than DnD(5E)?" have pretty similar thoughts to me on the actual matter. And I think it's less about "owing" and more about the ethics of the matter. I honestly don't really have an opinion of the AP audience, as evidenced by the fact that I didn't double check the numbers tanking point and just bought into it, but rather that this subset of AP audience members who are presumably annoying, are that way in advocacy of a point that generally speaking I agree with.

I'd at least like to think that the AP audience supports their preferred variety of AP shows because they like the cast, not because of the show's budget and the brand they're using. At least I hope giving them more credit than that is valid.

not putting this on the dropout confessions post about it but the whole "big actual play shows should USE THEIR PLATFORM to move away from D&D" remains the most absolute dogshit opinion of all time:

"use their platform" is just like. on the one hand this is about the reach of their platform, as opposed to people making this about actual irl politics, but also like. it's just one more dumbass case of fandom as activism. You want the things you already do anyway to validate your politics instead of spending an iota of effort to support something else.

Critical Role, TAZ, and D20, three extremely prominent actual play shows, all pretty regularly step away from D&D and do at minimum miniseries and in some cases entire seasons in non-D&D systems. Viewership/listenership craters every time, and as a nosy-ass bitch and a completionist, the people who drop first are ALWAYS this kind of "ugh they shouldn't just do D&D" people. Like, I check on the people who say this publicly and INVARIABLY they are not watching Candela/Daggerheart/Moonward and complained nonstop about Crystal Palace and Cinderbrush; they're not listening to Amnesty and Steeplechase and the various miniseries interludes; and they skipped MisMag, Never Stop Blowing Up, and Mentopolis. And it's always either because they don't want "not D&D", they want their favorite game; or because they want the kind of story that really is best told in a D&D-like system and D&D happens to be a great example of said D&D-like system that these players already know (and heaven forbid you gently suggest they seek out one of the many like, pathfinder podcasts, and I say this as a pathfinder hater who still listens/listened to two pf1e SRD-based podcasts)

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As a tabletop enthusiast with no real skin in the game here as I don't really follow any of the big Actual Play shows, I fail to see how wishing the big LP shows would move away from DnD is a 'dogshit opinion'. Like it or not, big actual play shows were a huge part in making 5th edition the juggernaut that is it today-coming off of 4E not even having dominant market share in the ttrpg space. WotC's corporate handlers have proved time and time again as of late that they want to actively damage the experience for players, GMs, 3pps and independent systems; the overwhelming dominance of 5E has let them get away with attempting to do so significantly less-scathed than they'd ought to be. If interest 'craters' whenever shows like CR do different systems (despite CR originally being a PF1E show), that's unfortunate, but that's kinda a benefit of having sponsors, is it not? You have the freedom to keep producing your high production value show, even if some episodes underperform. In the short term, sure some people in the YT comments might get disgruntled, but in the long term, DnD failing to hold on to their best free marketing asset is almost certainly what's best for the TTRPG space as a whole. Heck, it might even incentivize Hasbro to loosen the leash on the creatives at WotC in the long term.

Now to put my bias out here, I'm not exactly a fan of 5E, but I wouldn't consider myself a hater of it. Heck, I'm at the tail end of a 2+ year 5E campaign currently, though admittedly I'd decidedly prefer a 3.x game or possibly even 4E if I were to play a DnD game after this. However, I have absolutely no interest in DnD2024, and that sentiment is largely mirrored by the folks I play with. That may change in a couple of years once the game's been settled should I hear good things about it, but that's how I stand now.

not putting this on the dropout confessions post about it but the whole "big actual play shows should USE THEIR PLATFORM to move away from D&D" remains the most absolute dogshit opinion of all time:

"use their platform" is just like. on the one hand this is about the reach of their platform, as opposed to people making this about actual irl politics, but also like. it's just one more dumbass case of fandom as activism. You want the things you already do anyway to validate your politics instead of spending an iota of effort to support something else.

Critical Role, TAZ, and D20, three extremely prominent actual play shows, all pretty regularly step away from D&D and do at minimum miniseries and in some cases entire seasons in non-D&D systems. Viewership/listenership craters every time, and as a nosy-ass bitch and a completionist, the people who drop first are ALWAYS this kind of "ugh they shouldn't just do D&D" people. Like, I check on the people who say this publicly and INVARIABLY they are not watching Candela/Daggerheart/Moonward and complained nonstop about Crystal Palace and Cinderbrush; they're not listening to Amnesty and Steeplechase and the various miniseries interludes; and they skipped MisMag, Never Stop Blowing Up, and Mentopolis. And it's always either because they don't want "not D&D", they want their favorite game; or because they want the kind of story that really is best told in a D&D-like system and D&D happens to be a great example of said D&D-like system that these players already know (and heaven forbid you gently suggest they seek out one of the many like, pathfinder podcasts, and I say this as a pathfinder hater who still listens/listened to two pf1e SRD-based podcasts)

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I watched Netflix's Uglies

And I do in fact have thoughts. Unfortunately it's late, I have work in the morning and I won't have time to type anything substantial up until Monday evening.

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Corrupting women into becoming sluts for delicious mapo tofu.

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