#2025 media

[ciitrinitas]

xenogears.

replay because i wanted to try out the perfect works build, and ahhh, yeah...it's very, very solid. even just having cultural and religious references translated more accurately is lovely to see, but the parts of the script that have been tweaked for translation corrections or clarity are soooooo great to have. fully rec it to anyone replaying gears or hitting it up for the first time.

i've been wanting to do a full series replay/play (i haven't played the blade games terribly extensively. my copy of xb3 has sat there untouched lmao), so it was nice to finally get going on that. gonna reread perfect works next.

[robo-bat]

2025 Media: Final Fantasy 1 - Pixel Remaster

I'm once again keeping track of media I've consumed this year which is usually contained to just a pinned twitter thread, but this time around I wanna share my thoughts while playing and overall experience in a more extended format. So first things first, Final Fantasy 1!

The first time I played Final Fantasy 1 was on my cousin's original NES cartridge. I was young and didn't have a ton of experience with turn based RPGs and after just going in with the starting team I proceeded to die continuously and didn't really make it past the initial introduction, but had fun. Fast forward some years and I got the FF1+2 collection on GBA, wherein I finally experience both titles all the way through. I've had a soft spot for FF1 in particular for a long time because it has such a charming atmosphere and vibe that just really works with me. It's a simple adventure with a lot of heart and despite your characters not talking for themselves they feel like a passionate bunch on their way to help the world and try their best along the way.

I finally picked up the Pixel Remaster physical edition last year but put off playing them until I had some downtime between other major games and after finishing up a couple others decided to sit down with some good 'ol FF1. The first thing that blew me away was the music. The orchestrated soundtrack is something I didn't realize my ears so desperately craved. Final Fantasy is filled to the brim with iconic songs through and through but I can't deny the first game in particular just hits in a lot of ways cause it's where so many iconic themes originated. I swapped back and fourth a few times but mostly stuck with the orchestrated renditions cause my ears were just unbelievably enamored.

Since I wanted to still have a life and keep the playthrough pretty casual I played with increased money and exp to cut down on any grinding. I occasionally turned off enemy encounters if I was getting a little too strong or was tired of encounters while running into my fifteenth dead end because I have none of these dungeon maps memorized to save my life. These features are one of those things that really made the experience better overall cause it's just nice to pick and choose when i want things to be easier or more difficult along the way. Especially cause I wanna replay FF2 again at some point and turning off enemies will be a godsend

I feel like at the Pixel Remaster's initial launch I remember a lot of chatter about the new character sprite work. Although that may have been mostly aimed at FF6 in particular, I was personally really happy with how the characters looked. Especially once they got class upgrades I thought they looked phenomenal.

Overall I think I enjoyed this playthrough more than the one I'd done in the past because I got to experience a lot more of the game than I had before. As a young teen playing it on GBA I didn't do all it had to offer and definitely skipped over a lot of things I didn't realize existed. This time around I basically did everything there was to do (outside of hunting warmech but that could have taken hours so I made a realistic call) and I fell more in love with the world than I ever have been before.

I think at the very end the thing that touched me the most was a very simple line:

"With the memory of their struggle buried deep in their hearts, they will quietly watch over our world."

A strong sentence that speaks volumes for a game with silent protagonists. A line that encapsulates so many RPGs to come, and so many forms of media that came before it and inspired Final Fantasy as well. The hero's journey to save the world isn't one that is always filled with fanfare and celebration. It can simply be given a quiet reminder that heroes will arise when needed to aid those around them, and continue to play their part long after their work is done.

I'm so thankful to have replayed this beautiful journey, which pleasantly surprised me for how heartfelt it still is after all these years.

Overall ranking: Game good, someday I'll go back and do a solo class challenge run.

[cchickki]

If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

[ruporas]

new year! [id in alt]

[manitapaleta]

Historians will say they were roommates

[sidras-tak]

I love Thailand. Hello historical romance gays. Hello catholic repression 1996 gays. Hello messy lesbian situationship mix-ups. Hello gay marriage scams and more importantly gay divorce scams. Hello multiple shows featuring fortune tellers, tarot decks, and fate— all gay. Hello homosexual mafia leader raised on soap operas. Hello multiple murder mysteries including one with an evil game of Truth or Dare. Hello seven men fucking each other in various combinations while putting on the worst performance of Romeo and Juliet this college theater troupe has ever seen. All this and more promised for 2025. Thanks GMMtv.

[runeberry]

in 2025 can we go back to consuming media slower? no more "sorry I'm late to this" two weeks after a game or show comes out, no more "late to this trend" about art memes or prompt fills a couple days later

not everyone has access/time/energy to drop everything and binge/draw/etc the moment a new media property comes out

slow down, let yourself enjoy the media and explore the narratives, quit putting pressure on each other to produce so much work, HAVE FUN

and while we're at it, let the artists and writers and gif makers and everyone else involved with fan content know that you appreciate them. leave a comment on that fic, squawk in the tags, send a (nice) anon

just, let's get back to playing in fandom again, yeah?

[urstepdaughter]

oh? || mv33

pairing : max verstappen x !Michael Schumacher's daughter

face claim | beabadoobea, girls from Pinterest

warning: some curse words, she/her reader, maybe suggestive

request: SMAU for Max Verstappen dating/ married to Michael Schumacher's daughter since he was young, and the paddock/fans is only just finding out? -anonymous

ynsschumacher

liked by: maxverstappen1, user1, user2, and 40,009 others!

ynsschumacher: first post, is this how i work the app?

view all 12,860 comments

maxverstappen1: I’d pay for you to step on me

| ynsschumacher: likewise baby girl

user1: never thought I’d see queen post, but yes, this is how you work the app queen

| ynsschumacher: yeah i love you

| maxverstappen1: outrageous.

user2: what is max doing in her comments DA FUQ

| user3: i think they’re dating! they’ve been seen in the paddock a couple times but never said if they were dating!

| user2: ah, okay, ty for the clearup!

maxverstappen1

liked by: ynsschumacher, landonorris, user5, and 80,657 others!

maxverstappen1: my wifey just got instagram, she can finally see my posts always include her

view all 30,546 comments!

ynsschumacher: if u love me you’d burn that photo on slide 2 of me

| maxverstappen1: sorry but no it’s too cute

| ynsschumacher: no head for two weeks

| landonorris: yup, clock his tea girl you got this xx

mv33fan: wait r him and yn dating, per chance?

| user4: i think so! they have matching rings, I don’t think they ever told us though LMAO

liamlawson30: you’re telling me my new teammate is a simp…

| ynsschumacher: hey, only I, me, myself, can bully my man tf

ynsschumacher

liked by: maxverstappen1, landonorris, oscarpiastri, and 90,897 more!

ynsschumacher: sexy people (me) suffer the most and always have hot bfs 🎀

view all 80,983 comments!

maxverstappen1: ur so hot can u step on me

user6: so they ARE DATING..? how did NONE of us know..

| landonorris: not me, I’ve been knowing girly pops

oscarpiastri: confidence is key!

| ynsschumacher: die respectfully

I hope you like this! First request, more will come! 🩷🎀

[arcanegifs]

The Strong Gather | 2025 Season 1 Act 1 Gameplay Trailer (Edit by Diyyo) - League of Legends

[boiledprawn99]

This’ll post a minute before midnight in my time, so…

Happy new years, from me and all the blorbos I picked up in 2024!!

[azuredawn81]

share your address | luke hughes social media au

read part 1 here

part 2

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yournamelastname i told him he didn't need to carry every bag

friend1 how'd you do it girl

yournamelastname i'll tell you when i learn

friend2 new nails?

friend2 y/n this is serious

lukiepookie he's so bf coded

devilsfan43 y/n do you know how lucky you are

lhughes_06

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lhughes_06 photographer by day, hockey player by night

edwards.73 y/n was a paid actor

lhughes_06 bruh

jackhughes fries in the bag

seamuscasey26 stick to hockey

elblue06 so cute ❤️

elblue06 when do we get to meet her

part 3

tags: @verycoolusername1 @tomskookie @dream-girl06 @skepvids @devilinpradaheels @r0wdymaize86

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[gansey-like]

Hey so this is super scary

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of changes to its content moderation practices that would effectively put an end to its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps.

The reversal of the years-old policy is a stark sign of how the company is repositioning itself for the Trump era. Meta described the changes with the language of a mea culpa, saying that the company had strayed too far from its values over the prior decade.

“We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement,” Joel Kaplan, Meta’s newly installed global policy chief, said in a statement.

Instead of using news organizations and other third-party groups, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will rely on users to add notes or corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading information.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said in a video that the new protocol, which will begin in the United States in the coming months, is similar to the one used by X, called Community Notes.

“It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. The company’s current fact-checking system, he added, had “reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship.”

Mr. Zuckerberg conceded that there would be more “bad stuff” on the platform as a result of the decision. “The reality is that this is a trade-off,” he said. “It means that we’re going to catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down."

Elon Musk has relied on Community Notes to flag misleading posts on X. Since taking over the social network, Mr. Musk, a major Trump donor, has increasingly positioned X as the platform behind the new Trump presidency.

Meta’s move is likely to please the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump and its conservative allies, many of whom have disliked Meta’s practice of adding disclaimers or warnings to questionable or false posts. Mr. Trump has long railed against Mr. Zuckerberg, claiming the fact-checking feature treated posts by conservative users unfairly.

Since Mr. Trump won a second term in November, Meta has moved swiftly to try to repair the strained relationships he and his company have with conservatives.

Mr. Zuckerberg noted that “recent elections” felt like a “cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.”

In late November, Mr. Zuckerberg dined with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where he also met with his secretary of state pick, Marco Rubio. Meta donated $1 million to support Mr. Trump’s inauguration in December. Last week, Mr. Zuckerberg elevated Mr. Kaplan, a longtime conservative and the highest-ranking Meta executive closest to the Republican Party, to the company’s most senior policy role. And on Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that Dana White, the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a close ally of Mr. Trump’s, would join Meta’s board.

Meta executives recently gave a heads-up to Trump officials about the change in policy, according to a person with knowledge of the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity. The fact-checking announcement coincided with an appearance by Mr. Kaplan on “Fox & Friends,” a favorite show of Mr. Trump. He told the hosts of the morning show popular with conservatives that there was “too much political bias” in the fact-checking program.

The change brings an end to a practice the company started eight years ago, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s election in 2016. At the time, Facebook was under fire for the unchecked dissemination of misinformation spread across its network, including posts from foreign governments angling to sow discord among the American public.

As a result of enormous public pressure, Mr. Zuckerberg turned to outside organizations like The Associated Press, ABC News and the fact-checking site Snopes, along with other global organizations vetted by the International Fact-Checking Network, to comb over potentially false or misleading posts on Facebook and Instagram and rule whether they needed to be annotated or removed.

Among the changes, Mr. Zuckerberg said, will be to “remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse.” He also said that the trust and safety and content moderation teams would be moved from California, with the U.S. content review shifting to Texas. That would “help remove the concern than biased employees are overly censoring content,” he added.

[quiet-admirer]

In for 2025:

Getting fatter

Helping others get fatter

Creating more fat4fat art and stories

Kinky zines

Consensually high-fiving your friendly local death feedist

Objectifying canonically fat fictional characters for your feedist fantasies and fan works

Peanut butter

Out for 2025:

Asking random fat people about their health or if their loved ones are mean to them now that they're fat

Telling normies feedism isn't that weird

Drinking shakes or eating food you don't like the taste of

Waiting for other people to make the weird feedist stuff you wish you could be reading/watching/looking at

Your entire wardrobe because you're getting fatter

[thecoolguy24601]

Happy New Year Everyone!

[relaxedstyles]

[slutforpringles]

Twenty other drivers on the grid, multiple high-profile reserve drivers, much anticipated team changes for many drivers and a bevy of young hyped rookies - and yet F1 media is kicking off 2025 with Daniel Ricciardo. He's truly the main character forever and always.

But also just want to reiterate that I never want to hear the wider F1 fanbase complain about the media coverage and publicity surrounding Daniel ever again. Since Singapore Daniel has been all but radio silent, other than the occasional instagram post. He hasn't courted media attention, hasn't done a tell-all post-Singapore, and other than a short informal tiktok-style video for The Red Flags podcast hasn't even given a single interview. And apart from denying a few future plans-related rumours, Daniel's camp/team have been equally as quiet. This was despite the media clamoring for any sliver of information from or about Daniel over the last few months and, undeterred by the lack of information, the literally thousands of articles, podcasts and thinkpieces that followed over the last few months.

All that to say that if F1 fans have an issue with Daniel's coverage in the media they need to stop pointing the finger at Daniel and his management, and start redirecting their frustration at the actual culprits - F1's increasingly nasty tabloid-like media who have for years exploited Daniel's popularity and fame for their own profit and clicks.