#Pursuing My True Self

[jasper-rolls]

Song: Pursuing My True Self Artist: 平田志穂子 (Shihoko Hirata) Composer: 目黒将司 (Shoji Meguro) Album: Persona4 Original Soundtrack Producer: Atlus

[zora-ark-067]

Rise Kujikawa…

An Idol.

Hmmm…

On the TV, too.

Worrying.

[ragecndybars]

Persona Dancing Soundtrack Tournament - Round One, Match #12

Pursuing My True Self - ATLUS Kozuka Remix:

The Snow Queen - ATLUS Tsuchiya Remix:

[blacksaber8]

Gonna make a dnd campaign where they have to find a monastery filled with traps but it’s home to monks that are infamously good cooks. They swore a personal vow of peace only to be broken in self defense however they will scrutinize you and put you through a maze if you make a bad meal. The idea of a whole bunch of Gordon Ramsey monks smacking the spices out of your hand when you put like a tiny bit too much. I’m going to mandate that every time someone prepares food there, they have to role a wisdom check and an intelligence check both adding up to 36 or higher in order to pass. Skills can modify this. The maze will be filled with what I call daemons and are physical representations of the monks and the players worst selves. The exit is blocked with a door that can only be opened after a key is obtained from the party members daemons that they all must confront one on one initially, however the easiest way to defeat them is by working with their teammates, incentivizing the lesson that their team will help them overcome their daemons.

Ps. Watch out for the Warshitstir saws!

[zora-ark-067]

Uh.

B-Bad time? Bad timing?

Sorry about that…

Heya Ren!

Just got through Yukiko’s Castle!!

(@zora-ark-067)

Okay. Whatever.

[kumakuma-circus]

not me listening to SNOWFLAKES on loop cuz it's low-key my favorite p4 song and realizing the lyrics like perfectly encompass yu's feelings about inaba and his friends and having to leave.

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. UGHHHHHH. THE PAIN OF HAVING MEDIA COMPREHENSION SKILLS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[rawliverandgoronspice]

behold: my second least favorite string of words in the entirety of Tears of the Kingdom.

(it's a little less transparent why this time so I'll explain my thoughts under the cut)

So why do I not like this?

In so many words: because if you remove it, the scene still works, but you lose the moral certainty of what is going on.

This single sentence does so much legwork for the entire game (the kind I dislike), to the point where I'm about 60% sure it's the product of a rework that realized how ambiguous Rauru's position was as the Good Rightful King and needed to nervously reassure the players that Ganondorf Is and Always Was the Invader, Actually.

(no matter that it leaves the gerudos in this awkward in-between state of both invaders and victims, while never dwelling in the specifics of their history and their own agency in the entire thing; brushed off as a sin they have to expiate through loyalty to the winners of that particular strife, but without explicitely blaming them either to avoid the implications of what that would have looked like)

If you remove it, not only do you lose a pretty clunky line that detracts from Ganondorf's intimidating presence (who is he even speaking to? who needs to hear this right now?) that honestly speaks for itself when it comes to his experience with warfare, but also you lose any tension and any mystery regarding why he is attacking in the first place.

You also... kind of rob Ganondorf's motivations of their meaning. "Hyrule will bow down before me" leads to asking... why? What does he want? What does he see in those lands? And what little we get with Rauru and then Link during the final fight begs more questions; why do you prefer hardship to peace? Why do you value strength? What leads you to want to rule a land devoid of survivors, become a king without a kingdom? I don't think we ever get satisfactory answers. If you remove this sentence, on the other hand... Subtextually, it becomes pretty clear that his motivations is that he felt threatened by Rauru's power, which is ripe with subtext and questions about whether this is a legitimate reaction, whether his "no survivor" stance is due to a feeling of betrayal when his own people turned against him post the Demon King shenanigans... I'm not saying it would fix the entire game's writing, far from it, but it would already do *so much more*.

(genuinely, I think he could have stayed completely silent during the Molduga Assault, speaking only in the Show of Fealty before going completely nuts after Sonia's murder, and it would have worked MUCH better in terms of characterization but anyway anyway

EDIT: ALSO!!! that way he wouldn't speak hylian to fellow gerudos, which is weird inherently)

Without this line, the core of the tension between the gerudos and Hyrule comes front in his conversation with Rauru; it allows the cause of his hostility to be Rauru's invitations, that he would have taken as a threat, and would have still made him warlike and domineering without making him cartoonishly flat, because, once again, Rauru is not acting in a particularly more legitimate way when Zelda arrives in Ancient Hyrule; and it would have been... fair to point that out. And make for better characterization for Rauru, and Sonia, and Mineru, and everybody. But the priority was for Hyrule to be pictured as unquestionably holy; always legitimate, always truthful, always beautiful, always just.

Also, and this is more of a nitpick but: why would Ganondorf want Hyrule, specifically, to bow down before him also? Was he at war with the rest of the disparate tribes before, and just carried on his ambitions to the very very newly-founded kingdom as they allied under a new banner? (though it seems to be implies the lands were crawling under monsters in a generic sense, and not Ganondorf's attacks in particular) Why would he even consider Hyrule a legitimate entity worth taking over then, if it is so new, born from the will of a powerful rival, founded by what is basically a stranger to these lands? Why would he covet something so young instead of destroying it and just calling the lands Gerudo Lands II or Grooseland or something?

I don't think any of that was even accounted for, because, beyond everything else: to me, this sentence is so clearly and painfully crammed in here to shield Hyrule from any potential blame and immediately characterize Ganondorf as Bad without having to remove any of the causes that could lead one to side-eye Rauru's little pet project as equally questionable.

Beyond the clumsiness, it is cowardly --and, I think, a little damning.

[belovedblossoms]

//Idk if this is gonna backfire but I'm opening up a starter call! Honestly, I'm gonna be a little selective on this and also make them at my own pace, I'm already a little behind on some drafts but as I'm doing them I also would like to have new threads with you guys too. So please bear with me! Like this post but please specify which of my muses you'd like to write with and also if you just want to plot together, I'm down with that too! I'm not the best at creating things off the bat but I'll do my best for them.

[zora-ark-067]

^^.^^

I’m someone’s Sun Link!

A fox!

[belovedblossoms-m]

//I'm currently in the process of moving my blogs just to have a fresh start. It is still under construction but I'll be nearing to finish it soon and I'll pretty much be ready to get back into things. Like the important links and stuff are available and then I'll build my way up some more. I'll reblog this for the day people and update again eventually when I am fully moved.

@belovedblossoms is the new blog move

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

🐒25 Dec '22🚴‍♀️🦴

Twas the night before christmas Louis' birthday when suddenly I recalled- I sat bolt up in shock- I'd forgotten a promise to yall! It was a christmas day, you see, back in 2018, that Simon Cowell dramatically demonstrated exactly how brilliant he is when thinking things up all on his own rather than taking credit for a woman's ideas- he would be starting a new band he said, of CGI monkeys!! One of them would be modelled after Harry Styles! Sadly someone slapped him out of whatever drugged stupor led to telling the press about that brainstorm, and we never heard about it again... except from me, who had made a vow to Never Forget and to bring it up every xmas forever and ever (because I can only assume Simon would hate that.) He still hasn't learned though, just this year he hyped up an AI deepfake of himself made with that very same technology- he really just so transparently wants a band without any pesky rebellious humans in it, yikes. The fact is, the man is a clown all year every year, so may I present… a 2022 review!

Sadly, the year's biggest Cowell news was but a hoax- he did not in fact die, yet. However, he did lose a tooth, get COVID, and fall off his electric bike and end up in the hospital AGAIN, proving that ill wishes (mine) can come true to some extent! And not to worry, there's still hope for next year- apparently he still bikes around without a helmet daily. A recent TV appearance had his fans (??! sounds fake but okay) "distracted by his incredibly smooth visage"- allegedly his botox and other modifications got to the point that his son was "in hysterics" at the site of him, a clever turn of phrase that implies tears but could also mean he was laughing his ass off- me too kid, me too. Although The Sun continue to print only flattering and respectful articles- almost as if they had some kind of relationship or agreement with him?! wow this is Brand New Information- the Daily Mail definitely got the brief that tis the season for making fun of Cowell, and have been running an endless series of articles about his "many faces through the years" and "melting mug". They were denied the opportunity with his most recent TV appearance however, as he did that interview with a shadow strategically cast across himself like a low tech witness protection gambit. Perhaps, I thought, some of the issue was with the confusing and scary sounding 25 pound face masks he was reportedly doing, but it turned out that was merely an audio based misunderstanding- it was sponcon for a £25 face mask, boring.

He continues to talk up his son in interviews, bragging that the kid is a great talent spotter and he "leans on him" for opinions (that I can believe) but if you're skeptical that Simon would actually let himself be upstaged, you're quite right! Consider: he also had some things to say about what his cancelled show The X Factor would look like if it came back. The tabs report that he "is adamant that the judges should be industry insiders such as A&R people rather than artists because they are better judges of talent and less jealous of bright young artists.” Sounds like SOMEONE is jealous all right but it's not an artist judge! I think we all remember who stole the show and the hearts of multiple nations- not to mention those of scores of allegedly straight men- on the last season of TXF while spotting and nurturing the talent who went on to win it all, all while making fun of Simon at every opportunity: yes indeed, it was bright young artist and Guest Judge Louis Tomlinson! Gosh who could have seen THAT coming? Possibly the actual visionary of TXF, Nicole Scherzinger, another guest judge who upstaged Simon- most recently when footage of her forming 1D was finally released on the 10th anniversary. She said she was surprised it had survived, that she assumed he had "burned it" (to bolster his decade long lie that it was he who had had the world-changing idea.) But no, she says, in fact it was "the way that my mind grapes were working" which is, um, a very weird way of putting that, but it WORKED OUT GREAT so who am I to quibble with the way her grapejuice flows.

Meanwhile just when you thought we were free of NFT type annoyances Zayn invited us to join the metaverse, no thank you, but get that cash babe and a happy holidays to you and to all our boys: to Liam, acting like he has to make up for the few months off the radar by posting an equivalent amount of insta stories before the end of the year, to Niall, taking a break from taking over tiktok to tease about how busy he'll be next year, to Harry, dousing himself in freezing water in the UK while pap pics of him in LA were dropped, and to Louis, 31 (!!) now and hopefully with some wonderful plans over his long awaited break before another jam packed year of winning. And to all out there, a very let me be your good night and all the love!

[zora-ark-067]

No liveblog tonight because of DISASTROUS LESBIANISM!

[ragecndybars]

Persona Dancing Soundtrack Tournament - Round Two, Match #12

Want To Be Close - ATLOS Remix:

Pursuing My True Self - ATLUS Kozuka Remix:

[fatexbound]

Anon said: The Fox was sitting at the shrine, prices of SP points were as high as usual, even if her social rank was barely above 1. Regardless, her eyes were absolutely huge towards Yu, sparkling with plea as she lets out soft whines.

Pay for my overpriced healing, please?

They all questioned how a normal animal like this fox could travel in the TV world with them, but considering that it proved to be somewhat useful with its mysterious healing leaves, Yu let it do as it pleased. Its pleading eyes caught his gaze the moment he searched through his inventory for any SP recovery items. All of those TaP Sodas he had bought had been consumed.

Sighing, he had no choice but to walk over to it and softly pat its head a few times.

"I have 17,000 yen at the moment. How much will it cost this time?"

[anzuhan]

why did they banish valkyrie to persona 4 in the new event

[callixton]

also no offense but if i don't end up getting into nti next year and i Don't get the student full length. when i am the only director in our year who actually plans to go into this professionally and hasn't decided to change paths post college. well i will be so so so upset