#a cloud says something

[egophiliac]

do you have youtube channel?

technically yes, but I just use it to host unlisted videos for embedding, so there's nothing, like, public on it. :') sorry! I basically don't post anywhere except here and occasionally on pixiv (in case it's not obvious, I suck at social media).

[porcelanitaa]

I'm so fucking mad. Why when girls like dark and morally questionable characters people assume they're trying to be edgy and not like the other girls? Stfu and let girls live.

[lunarharp]

orufrey

[rocketbirdie]

here comes trouble (make it double!)

[deathberi]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) ↳ クラピヨ (Kurapiyo) / Cloud Jr. meets Cloud! ➤ Mt. Corel

[secondarysefikura]

Modern sefikura idea. Cloud and Sephiroth meet in a psych ward. Cloud recovers and gets out eventually. But Sephiroth misses him.

Cloud’s biggest issue is when he’s off his meds or symptomatic he tends to get delusional. So if he tells someone he’s being stalked or another patient escaped and broke into his apartment. The first question people tend to ask is “are you taking your medication?” Not “do you want to call the cops?”

Oooo, I really like this. Especially since you can imagine that in most cases, whoever is asking Cloud if he has taken his medicine is probably trying to be genuinely helpful. Zack or Tifa or whoever is being told about this "stalker" who "broke into" Cloud's apartment genuinely want the best for Cloud. They just don't realize until it's too late that they're making things worse by making Cloud feel isolated as no one believes him.

Now to develop the sefikura of this a bit:

Sephiroth believes himself to be a god and starts trying to start small cults to himself, which is what causes him to be institutionalized. He takes a liking to Cloud, who he is easily able to sway by feeding into and manipulating Cloud's delusions.

Although the two became close in their short time together, staff realized they needed to seperate them if they wanted either Cloud or Sephiroth to get better. It becomes even more clear the two need to be kept apart when Cloud starts getting better and Sephiroth starts attempting to (intentionally or not) sabotage Cloud's progress.

After finding the proper medication, seeking therapy, and getting connected with a service animal trained to help him recognize when he is hallucinating (that's a real thing by the way!), Cloud is released from the ward.

Sephiroth, meanwhile, is fuming. How DARE these people take Cloud away from him? How DARE they correct him anytime he refers to Cloud as his puppet, his doll, or his cherished one? And most importantly, how DARE they talk about Cloud leaving this place and forgetting to worship Sephiroth as Cloud "getting better." He ought to destroy these humans and take Cloud back by force this instant!

As much as he wants to, however, he bides his time. Rather than letting on how much he hates the people who "took" Cloud away from him, he plays nice and gains their trust. Then, when he's trusted enough that he isn't considered flight risk number one, he makes a break for the streets.

Of course he doesn't leave without taking a few things with him: mainly a variety of different sedative pills.

At first he doesn't plan to use them on Cloud since he assumes that Cloud will run back into his arms the moment they are reunited. But when Cloud gets frightened by "being stalked" and starts asking his "friends" for help, Sephiroth realizes he has no choice but to switch Cloud's medication with identical looking but very different in function pills.

[lotussokka]

inspired by my own tags on this excellent post

[computerram]

started ff8 a few weeks ago, its pretty fun

[kingslionheart]

Do you trust him wholly? I do not. I cannot.

2×06 | ALFRED TALKING ABOUT UHTRED

[no-nic]

never underestimate the joy of crafting a shitty pin 😊🉐

literally the only rin merch i can buy around here is a funko pop, only good for gathering dust on a shelf. obito is slightly less rare (endangered -> vulnerable leap in conservation status). how do i express love for a character without inviting people into my room?

+ bby team 7 & some evil obitos >:3

[cleverreports]

We report on a slow morning: we find it hard to focus on the work that we have to do, when so much is happening on the other side of the window. The wall in front of our desk gets dappled with sunshine, and our eyes are again and again drawn to the fast-moving clouds.

[mueritos]

started a new job recently as a research assistant for a gay Latinx professor in my grad program, and while I definitely don't have the time to be doing my own research, working with this professor on his book projects has been so affirming and healing. i'm working on a book he hopes to publish soon that is full of interviews of gay and trans Latine men...and it is so fucking awesome. I feel so seen by the words I am reading, and I feel tears spring to my eyes looking at the photographs of these men. They look like family members, distant cousins, and family friends. They look so happy and full of confidence. I see myself in their eyes, recognizing the "fish" shape in our eyes that is so distinctly tied to Latines. One of the men in the book is a pup! And it is so beautiful seeing his smile as he holds his pup mask.

I have met very few queer latines. I don't know what it's like to have the tio or tia that has some secret aura to them, that "no se habla" vibes where everyone knows they're queer but just won't acknowledge it. Hell, this professor I'm working with is the first gay Latine man I've ever spoken to. I wish I had a community of gay Latines. I hope I am able to access that one day :)

[sharkgirldick]

Not to be controversial to my most beloved audience members but. I think people who wish they weren't human or believe they aren't human have one of the most fundamentally human beliefs.

[thebirdqueen]

CAN'T stop thinking about Aeriths date being called THE ONE LIKEEE YOU CAN'T MAKE THAT SHIT UP 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[crocwork-clockodile]

Okay, I don't know if this is actually a hot take or not, but I wanted to say this:

To me, often the stories that have no (overt) romance--but still clearly have love--are the most meaningful. Like, you can have Sam and Frodo fucking in your fanfic or your headcanons if you really want to, but isn't it beautiful that they didn't need romance to still love each other? To be willing to sacrifice so much for each other, and persevere through such hardship together? Isn't it meaningful to anyone that the kind of love--familial, platonic, friendship--was what sustained the heroes of a story through their trials when that kind of love is so often made a distant second to romantic, sexual love? Can't the love between friends, between chosen familial bonds, be enough? Must we reduce everything to just. Shipping. What if they were just friends? What if a story could still celebrate humanity and the power of love and still be aromantic and asexual? What if there were a platonic explanation for this, and it was the good old Power of Friendship?

Maybe I'm just in my aroace bitter feelings again, but it does get kind of alienating when all a fandom seems to want to talk about when engaging with their Story of Choice is what they think about the hypothetical sex.

This isn't about any particular fandom, despite my using LotR as the example, but I will say I firmly believe all Tolkien's characters are aroace, and any canonical relationships are qprs and any children sprung fully formed from the earth. The same goes for Terry Pratchett's characters. You can pry this from my cold, dead hands.

[gorgeousmanfounddeadinacroptop]

one thing the be on cloud intimacy coordinators are gonna do is teach a straight man how to kiss another man properly