#Claire says stuff

[darklydeliciousdesires]

My nan passed at 9pm tonight. We sadly didn’t make in time to be with her, but at least I got to kiss her goodbye.

My heart is broken. I worshipped the ground that woman walked on. I can’t believe I’ll never hear her beautiful voice ever again 💔

[shoomlah]

Friday was my last day at Valve.

Leaving a job full of people and projects you love is always hard, but I have a pretty good reason for it this time around:

Next Monday is my first day at Cyan.

Feels appropriate to announce this on Riven's anniversary, the game that is entirely to blame for who I am as a concept artist and Art Director. WHO WOULD I EVEN BE if I hadn't had my 11yo mind blown by the little wahrk gallows counting toy in the Rivenese schoolhouse??? It's a mystery.

I can’t talk about what's on the horizon just yet—short of helping to get Riven out the door—but I’m thrilled to finally be a part of this studio, officially, after thirty years of wistful pining. If my ancient Riven fanart is anything to go by, it's been a long time comin.'😎

[alcoholicweiwuxian]

quick sketch of claire

[laurrelise]

this will forever be one of my favorite cast photos of all time because i feel like it’s so hard to remember that five was played by an actual child and aidan just looks like such a kid here and they all look so proud of him and happy being together i could cry

i swear i’ll stumble upon this picture every once in a while and it stings me in the heart every time i just love each and every one of them so so much

[domokunrainbowkinz]

You’re wasting all your faith on me

[finalfantasyx]

只因你們叫我一聲大師兄 所以在我倒下之前 你們一個都不能死 Because you all call me your eldest martial brother...before I fall, none of you are allowed to die.

[authorofemotion]

soooooo tired of people contacting me. please do not

[m-aremagnum]

In 1983, geneticist Mary-Claire King (left) explains to Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo [Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo] Nélida Gómez de Navajas (middle) and Estela de Carlotto (right) the technique that will be used to identify their grandchildren stolen during the last civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (1974/6-1983) and prove their kinship in court, el Índice de Abuelidad [the Grandparentage Index]. It's estimated that between 400 and 500 children were taken throughout this time.

Estela was able to hug her grandson, Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, nieto #114 [grandchild #114], in 2014.

Nélida died in 2012 and did not get to meet her grandchild. It was announced two days ago, 28 July 2023, that his identity has been restored. 11 years after she died, 40 years after this photo was taken, and 46 years after his birth to a illegally detained and still disappeared mother, Cristina Navajas, he's been found. His father and brothers are here for him. It is still a victory.

Welcome to the truth, nieto #133, y abrazo al cielo Nélida.

Venceremos.

[darklydeliciousdesires]

Last week, when I visited my nan in hospital, I whispered something to her. “If a fella with one eye and two ravens shows up, that’s Odin. Go with him.” Today, a week on from her passing and I’m sitting in the food court at our local supermarket, and incredibly, I saw a raven fly in, perching up on the high beams.

I guess she went with him. Thanks for sending me a sign that you’re okay, nan 🖤🖤

[swan2swan]

The biggest problem with Dominion is the dichotomy of Maisie's plotline with regards to motherhood, and the way both plots revolve around it from wholly opposite perspectives while never actually clashing.

Her plot starts off simply enough: she's angsting about not being a real person, Claire's trying to protect her, and Maisie spits at her with the "You're not my mother!" line right before she's kidnapped.

This is a classic Finding Nemo setup, which Claire takes to with gusto: she calls on favors, slips into seedy markets, fights a crime boss, eludes raptors, jumps out of a plane, and crawls through a forest to get the girl she calls her daughter back. Most stories would show this as a trial: ye olde "GASP! My parents love me!" story.

But the fact that Claire has no obligation to bring Maisie back is never challenged. Soyona doesn't bother with asking or playing the role of the tempting serpent instilling doubt; the closest the movie comes to that is Franklin giving her the "I told you this would happen" speech. It's all taken for granted, which is...okay, because we have already established who Claire is, but that's not the problem.

The problem comes with the other half of the story: Maisie mopes to Wu about how she's just a close, and Wu immediately points out how no, she was conceived and carried in a human womb just like everyone else! And he calls Charlotte "your mother".

And Maisie goes "Is that my mother?"

And when she meets Ellie, Dr. Sattler is somehow fully aware of who Maisie's REAL MOTHER, the one who created her and who she looks like, is, and gushes about how great of a eugen--person she was. Every single time Maisie talks about "her mother" with the people around her, the word is referring to Charlotte Lockwood, the woman who birthed her.

Meanwhile, that Claire woman is crawling into a slimy pond to get away from a twenty-foot-tall Kreugersaurus because she wants to get Maisie away from kidnappers.

Of course, Maisie runs back to her and yells "Those are my parents!", but there's still something missing there. Claire's side of the story is all about her powering through, risking her life time and time again to track down her daughter...but there's never really a moment between them later. Maisie even posits the "So I was just an experiment to her..." plotline that has been seen before, but even that's immediately refuted.

The movie's not wrong for avoiding the cliches and the oft-used tropes of foster motherhood, but it doesn't really break any new ground, either. Obviously, people can have more than one mom, but there's something of an imbalanced focus on Charlotte as Maisie's mother in the Maisie and Jurassic Park plotline, while Claire in the Jurassic World plotline is doing all the expected Mom Stuff.

I can't wholly express what's bothering me about it, maybe I'm overthinking it, but it...doesn't quite sit right with me.

[kazz-brekker]

i must have been cursed by a witch because even though i like fantasy and romance, i really have not vibed with any of the recent popular romantasy books and all the ones that i DO like barely anyone seems to read

[hsslilly-blog]

this picture is funny to me because it feels like something hunt would say to grace with the experience of being with claire for over 20 years. yes i also felt weird when i did the math

[clarablightt]

IM IN LOVE WITH THE VILLAINESS IS OVER NOOOOO

i need a season two there’s so much stuff that happens in volume 2 of the light novel that i NEED to see animated

but ugh this story is just so good and has genuinely changed the course of my life. Rae is just like me. but at least i still have the light novel to catch up on!!

[finalfantasyx]

楚河啊...如今, 你也是二十有餘了. 你這幾個皇兄皇弟都又成婚了. 你呢? Chuhe...now, you're in your twenties. Your brothers are all married. What about you? 兒臣...兒臣已經有喜歡的人了. I...I have someone I like already. 哦? 是哪家的女子? Oh? Whose daughter is she? 槍仙司空長風之女, 司空千落. Daughter of Spear Diety Sikong Changfeng, Sikong Qianluo.

SNGX Xiaoluo gifset: [6/?]

[shouldntbearevolution]

Excuse me while I talk about how amazing my partner is because??? Omg???? They made the most thoughtful gifts for my birthday including the frog prince snow globe!! Like hello???

And also printed and cut out the Cards Against Hillerska game and made the box for it??

AND made a custom keychain of Every Night Fantasy that is also a NFC they coded themself that links directly to the ep on spotify???

[another-clive-blog]

When the whole team is losing it so you make an intervention about "People who are hurting hurt others", but one only understands the "People who are hurting" part and the other only cares about the "hurt others" part......

(Putting the pencil ones under the cut because I like them more tbh)