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" Salty Sunrise " //© Arie Burla
#Dead Sea#nature#landscape#lakescape#Salt Lake#Salt Rocks#Sunrise#aesthetics#wanderlust#explore#follow#discover
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📸 source: Kill Rock Stars (FB)
#Kill Rock Stars#cassette#tapes#alternative#shoegaze#riot grrrlLush#Babes In Toyland#7 Year Bitch#Helium#Bikin Kill#Belly#L7#Bjork#Pansy Division#Fugazi#punk#Dinosaur Jr.#Sonic Youth#Courtney Love#R.E.M.#Julia Hatfield#Veruca Salt#omega#our lady omega
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my least favorite character in ff14 is the ishgardian rock salt tooltip
1.) it's always correct to disrespect item descriptions you don't like, especially if they only exist in english
2.) *pinches nose, extremely a nerd voice* it's been established in-game that ishgard is culturally distinct from coerthas and that a defining feature of ishgardian cuisine vs. coerthan cuisine is how extensively spiced and seasoned it is (whereas coerthan food is noted to be blander and probably derived from gridanian cuisine, and ishgardians dont appreciate coerthan food and vice versa). that motherfucking food is seasoned!!!! get that shitty rock off the table!!!!!!!!!!!!
3.) since ishgardian food is well-seasoned already, if the salt rock exists it should only be as an incredibly funny secret insult. if you lick the rock you're telling the host that you think that he is shit and his food is bland (like a coerthan, god forbid, or even worse, a gridanian). the rock should only exist as a catalyst for 3 to 7 generations-long ishgardian blood feuds. i want to see people getting knifed at the table for daring to lick the rock. i want to see families get ruined. make the salt rock political
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On Wuk Lamat, and Female Characters in FFXIV
The Thing with Wuk Lamat is you can tell me you think she had too much screentime; you can give me numbers on how many lines she had or how many scenes she's in relative to other characters or other expacs; you can prove to me "objectively" that she gets more focus than other main NPCs; you're simply not going to convince me that this is something I should be unhappy about. And not just because it's silly to think you can use numbers to prove a story is good or bad and make someone else go, "Wow, you're right, let me just throw away all the joy I experienced with this story and revise my opinion because you've scientifically proven to me that I'm wrong."
Because while I love Final Fantasy XIV and I have greatly enjoyed its story in so many ways, fundamentally one of my biggest beefs with this game has been how much female characters have been denied complex character arcs and growth and agency and interiority.
Minfilia gets treated as a sacrificial vessel who lives for everyone but herself and doesn't even get to have feelings about her own death because that entire arc is focused on a male character's angst about it instead. The game tells us in the Heavensward patches that Krile sees Minfilia as her best friend and then just forgets about that later and never follows up on what that loss must have meant to her. Ysayle is basically right about most of what she's fighting for but harboring a bit of self-delusion is apparently such a terrible sin that she has to pay for it with her life, while her male foil is deemed so worthy of salvation that there's a whole plot point about how important it is that we risk our lives and others' lives to save him. Y'shtola is a major character who's been around since the beginning, and the game keeps dropping maddeningly interesting things about her (apprenticed to a cranky old witch in a cave! saved her own life and the lives of her friends with an illegal and dangerous spell and it worked! reserved and undemonstrative yet regularly through her actions reveals herself to be deeply caring! disabled!) and then shows complete disinterest in following up on any of those things with the kind of depth and care shown to male characters with complex arcs like Urianger.
In general there is also a repeated thread of female characters being portrayed as weak or overly emotional: Minfilia is weak because she doesn't fight and needs to be eaten by a god in order to gain "a strength long sought." Krile is portrayed as not being able to pull her weight with the Scions (despite the fact that she actively keeps five of them from dying in Shadowbringers) and the only thing they could think of for her to do in Endwalker was be yet another vessel for Hydaelyn (hmm, that sounds familiar) and it's not until Dawntrail that she gets much actual character development in the main story and even that has to come alongside "Look, she can fight now so that means she's useful." (And I love Picto!Krile, I'm just saying, there's a pattern.) Alisaie, despite having very good reasons for needing to find her own path apart from her brother, is portrayed as having to prove herself when she returns, that she's "not the girl she once was," and "will not be a burden" (while Alphinaud is repeatedly given the benefit of the doubt and reassurance and affirmation from other characters even after he takes on responsibilities he isn't ready for and fucks up big time).
And if you follow me you know I adore Urianger, and I love Alphinaud and Thancred and Estinien too, so please don't misunderstand what I'm saying here! I'm not knocking those characters, or saying we shouldn't also love them. I just use them as a comparison to demonstrate how the female characters have been neglected.
Lyse has some of the stronger character development among the female Scions, and while she's still kind of portrayed as being too emotional and hotheaded in early Stormblood, I think it's actually explored in more depth in a way that I like; Lyse has good reasons for wanting to fight for her nation's freedom, but having been away from Ala Mhigo for several years now, she needs to understand the stakes for the people who've been there fighting for years, what they've lost and still have to lose. She grows as a person and rises to the challenge of leadership, and I'm even okay with the fact that she leaves the Scions afterward because it feels right for her to stay in Ala Mhigo, and at least she doesn't die.
And by all accounts she was, like Wuk Lamat, widely hated when her expansion came out.
Unironically I think the other female Scion with the strongest character arc is Tataru. She tries to take up a combat job, finds that it's not for her, and decides to focus on where her strengths are instead. In doing so, she both holds the Scions together as an organization in the absence of a leader by capably managing their finances, and also comes into her own as a businesswoman and makes international connections that benefit both the Scions and her personally. In contrast to Minfilia, she's not portrayed as weak because she doesn't fight, and is actually allowed to be an important character who's good for more than being sacrificed. Tataru is still distinctly in a supporting role for the player character, however, and her character arc happens as a side story that takes up a relatively small amount of screentime over several expansions, which I think is probably why she doesn't evoke such a negative reaction.
But there is a pattern of the game's writing showing disinterest in the interior lives of female characters generally, and in making their growth the focus of a story.
So yeah, I'm going to be happy about Wuk Lamat! I'm going to enjoy and celebrate every moment of her character arc, of her personal growth, of watching her put the lessons she's learned into action. I'm going to love and treasure every moment when she gets to be silly, embarrassing, emotional, scared, grieving, confused, upset, seasick, impulsive, and still deemed worthy of growing into a hero and a leader. I will love her with all of my soul and you simply will not convince me that it wasn't worth the screentime after such a profound imbalance for basically the entirety of the game. We've never had a major female character get such a strong arc with this much love and attention put into it and that means more to me than I can truly say. The backlash to it is disheartening, as this kind of thing always is, but I'm not going to let it ruin the wonderful experience I had playing it and how much joy it continues to bring me.
And for those of you who don't want any of that for a female character, thank goodness you have Heavensward and Shadowbringers and Endwalker and no one can take those away from you.
(And if you follow me you know that I love Shadowbringers and Endwalker and have very fond memories of Heavensward despite some issues with it, so not only can I not take that from you, I am not trying to!)
Some of us have been real hungry for a character like this with an arc like this, so, I think, y'know, maybe we can have that. As a treat.
#this has been sitting in my drafts#i held off on posting it and i'm tagging minimally#but yeah i still feel this#wuk lamat#ffxiv stuff#afk by the aetheryte#dawntrail spoilers#ffxiv critical#anne's ishgardian salt rock#dawntrail
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I saw someone redraw this album cover w/ Laios and thought it fit Hilda too
what the flip there’s not enough tags so im just gonna list the creatures here:
Hilda, tide mouse, rock chewing slug, elf, land puppy thing, vittra, miniature cow, nisse, water spirit, barghest, salt lion, thunderbird, troll, butterfly, and deerfox
#I was about to color this before I realized that wouldn’t make sense#hilda#hilda the show#hilda netflix#hilda the series#fanart#hilda fanart#hilda (hilda)#barghest#hilda barghest#troll hilda#hilda troll#thunderbird hilda#woff hilda#woff#deerfox#hilda deerfox#land puppy#those things were never given an official name were they..?#vittra#vittra hilda#miniature cow#miniature cow hilda#hilda nisse#nisse#tontu hilda#hilda water spirit#hilda salt lion#rock chewing slug#hilda elf
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you heard her, she doesnt want your snacks
#HOMOS#your doodle dump for the night my liege dips my head#suggestive#im putting that there for the smack#jk#my art#digital art#oc art#sona art#doodlings#anthro art#chris that blood looks like a fucking#ASS PLUG KINDA#don’t look at it#that salt lick looks like a#FUCKING MOLLY ROCK
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fascinated with the unfolding story of the most hated man in my grandparents small town, who is a guy no one has ever seen or heard of before, who showed up out of the blue and decided he was gonna be an amateur food critic of stuff available at the farmers market.
my last update on him is that he bought a barbeque sauce from a local lady and then reviewed it as "decent but pedestrian" and called it a "passable imitation of store bought/big brand" and ended with "but ultimately uninspired" and now henrietta is on the war path. literally everyone hates him. the little free community gazette has never flown off the grocery store shelves like this before
#i mean the community paper also posts yearly that ol'#''we don't hate the gays! we aren't homophobic! we just don't want to see flags and the rainbow crosswalk is a uhh safety hazard uhh bye''#so the opinions in there need to be taken with the whole rock lamp of salt but#jj stuff
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Louise Post, circa 1997 ♡ Unknown photographer
#louise post#veruca salt#veruca salt band#1997#90s#1990s#nineties#aesthetic#fashion#photography#vintage#rock n roll#music#alternative#women in rock#90s music#grunge#grunge aesthetic#alt aesthetic#grungy girls#90s bands#90s aesthetic#90s fashion#rock#rock music#bands#alternative rock#90s alternative#alt rock#90s alt rock
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other shows' musical episodes: cute little self-deprecating meta! fourth wall breaks teehee! one tearjerker song but otherwise a loving homage-y tension-breaker!
malevolent's musical episode: diversity win! the serial-killing maniac mowing down civilians and torturing the main character has musical synesthesia induced by extreme violence
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hole, metallica, and veruca salt. canada, 1995
#courtney love#hole#hole band#grunge#women in rock#celebrity skin#live through this#nobodys daughter#pretty on the inside#music#rock#rock music#grunge music#kinderwhore#courtney love cobain#90s music#90s#america’s sweetheart#veruca salt#metallica
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Halfway Rock Light Station, Bailey Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Sometime in the 1960s, coastguardsman, John Cluff was returning to the island with the recently repaired precious television set. It's always tricky landing a peapod in rough seas, the boat flipped, and the set sank. Three sad weeks with no tv.
#lighthouse#maine#maine lighthouses#halfway rock#halfway rock light#halfway rock lighthouse#old salt#coast guard#coastguardsman#television set#television#t#rowing#peapod#boat#row boat#casco bay#Bailey Island#illustration#art#design#drawing#maine artist#maine illustrator#maine landmark#jada fitch#John Cluff#lighthouse keeper
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Boygenius EP by Boygenius, 2018
#album diary#boygenius#julien baker#lucy dacus#pheobe bridgers#2018#100%#100% RTR#bite the hand#me & my dog#souvenir#stay down#salt in the wound#ketchum#matador records#indie rock#folk rock
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I love Jazzy, just as a general rule, but something that caught my eye in the beginning was the little ways Jazz’s brother treats his brother like shit.
Looking at the anime, it makes sense why they censored the women and kept the mess to a minimum for animations sake, but at least he’s clothed and awake. It makes it seem as though Jazz’s older brother is doing it for the soul purpose of being a bastard.
But looking at the manga, he’s asleep. The curtains and couch are torn, the mess is purely clothes, food, and drinks.
His brother isn’t even awake to gloat. The manga gives the impression that Jazz’s brother disregards his space on a regular, to the point where he feels comfortable passing out drunk half naked in his brothers space.
I know it’s not just me, but having a room- that’s supposed to be a safe space- violated repeated by sights and smells you don’t know? This poor kid has no sense of privacy or safety. His family literally runs on the idea that if you get robbed it’s your fault.
#mairimashita! iruma kun#welcome to demon school iruma kun#drabble#Jazzy#We get the barest glimpses into the Misfit class family lives but it’s interesting to me#Jazz has every reason to be a scum bag because he’s surrounded by scumbags but he’s loyal and caring???#He literally loves people looking up to him and taking care of them because he knows he’d be a better big brother#AND HE IS HE TAKES CARE OF HIS CLASSMATES#Jazz goes out of his way to help his classmates even when it doesn’t benefit him#and you just get the vibe that his family doesn’t see it as good or nobel#the only people who have his back are his friends and teachers I’m sobbing#Jazz’s brother did give him the whistle but that was only after Kelago’s visit so I’m still on the fence on that#I’m over analyzing it obviously the Anime gets the point across the same#but something about having your possessions defiled by naked people you don’t know adds extra salt into the wound idk#Jazz is my sweet baby boy okay#andro m jazz#Andro m Rock#His brothers name is Rock???
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Arven Moodboard
#aesthetics of the internet#moodboard#moodboard aesthetic#arven#pokemon#pokemon scarlet#pokemon violet#pokemon scarlet and violet#arven pokemon#arven moodboard#pokemon moodboard#pokemon scarlet moodboard#pokemon violet moodboard#pokemon scarlet and violet moodboard#squirrel aesthetic#animal aesthetic#oyster aesthetic#bell pepper aesthetic#food aesthetic#food tw#food cw#octopus aesthetic#trypophobia#trypophobia tw#trypophobia cw#rock salt aesthetic#dog aesthetic#puppy aesthetic#sandwich aesthetic
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That one poll got notes again and I was forced to remember that someone said the words "There are no non-obvious mechanics in Duty Finder content" on my post.
In the first alliance raid series there is a mechanic where 1/3rd of the players need to get magically shrunk and eaten by a dog.
#people who think that because crystal tower is EASY (relatively speaking)#that that means the mechanics are OBVIOUS to new players#i can only imagine you are the ones always being dicks to new players in the alliance chat#it's not cute. be helpful or stfu#anne's ishgardian salt rock#be kind to sprouts.#ffxiv stuff
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Pokemon au again yippieee
#lssmp#mcyt#lifestealsmp#lifesteal smp#baconnwaffles0#princezam#garganacl#goodra#bounsweet#slowpoke#pokemon#pokemon au#Keep that salt rock away from Zam's silly dragon slug#that's 80 pounds of slowpoke laying on his chest bro is going nowhere!!!!!
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