#*i am forcibly pulled from the stage by a comically large hook*

[dreamboyf]

something ive noticed is that people in general, across all walks of life, usually PREFER to listen to non-transmasculine people making assumptions and often bad-faith takes about transmascs, rather than actually having conversations with trans men and trans masculine individuals about our lived experiences.

and getting people to actually stop talking, turn off their internal monologue about what they assume trans men to think and feel and experience, and then *believe* what WE as individuals say about our lives, rather than what non-trans mascs paint our lives to be? nearly fucking impossible. your time would be better spent teaching a rock to fly.

[iturbide]

WAIT TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF THAT GUY WHO POINTED OUT THE ROUTE NAMES - THAT'S WHY DIMITRI'S ROUTES IN BOTH GAMES START WITH THE SAME AZURE TITLE - AZURE MOON AND AZURE GLEAM

HE'S THE ONLY ONE OF THE THREE TO STILL RESEMBLE HIS THREE HOUSES SELF AT ALL - EDELGARD HAS NEW PLANS AND A NEW ALLY WHILE "CLAUDE" ISNT CLAUDE AT ALL

AND THAT'S WHY THE GD ROUTE NAME CHANGED COMPLETELY TOO, FROM VERDANT (MORE GREEN ASSOCIATED) TO GOLDEN (OBV YELLOW), IT WAS A SIGN THAT THIS CLAUDE IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND NOT EVEN CLAUDE TO BEGIN WITH, ITS ALL COMING TOGE*forcibly removed and pulled off screen by a comically large hook*

I am going to END whoever is operating these stage hooks you hear me

I have a pitchfork and I'm not afraid to use it

I'm having flashbacks to the Three Houses route name discussions we had, breaking down the implications of Crimson Flower and Verdant Wind and the like (and I loved those discussions, they were excellent).

Also maybe it's just the geologist in me but Golden Wildfire also kind of makes me think of pyrite -- the textbook example of "all that glitters is not gold," considering that its colloquial name is "Fool's Gold." It might look like gold, even shine like gold, but it's not gold in reality -- just like how the character in Three Hopes looks like Claude, but reveals himself almost immediately to anyone that knew him in Three Houses as someone else entirely.

Verdant Wind was about hope: it was the green of new beginnings and the winds of change. Golden Wildfire is a brilliant falsehood, poised to destroy everything in its path.