#and it becomes a reoccuring thing

[slightlycomicobsessed]

the temptation to make a dani/illyana smut fic where it's literally just them pining over kitty and rahne, respectively. dani accidentally using her mirage powers over the both of them to project their greatest desires.....

[pennysucks]

I'm in love with the idea of a swap au now so I'll be posting about it, live with it

PLS IMAGINE A HERMES-EURYLOCHUS VERSION OF MY GOODBYE

I'M NOT GOOD AT CREATING LYRICS SO I CAN'T REWRITE MY GOODBYE TO FIT THEIR CHARACTERS BUT JUST TRY AND IMAGINE IT 😭 I would tweak irl

[quuerbee]

Oh I'm ill... Chung myung hallucinating his dead loved ones voice to help him when he needs it the most.......I need to be shot.........

[deltafruit]

so. AI East.

[aeriondripflame]

i have no idea if i made this up but qhorin halfhand was ironborn right

[coffee-dere]

I just want to be a doll...

[katyspersonal]

Honestly, thank you for calling Messmer a fascist I feel like so much of the fandom just ignore the way he is written for the sake of a more simplified and commodified character they can lust over. Not only is it weird to completely deny such an important part of his character that affects the wider narrative (not even getting into real world implications) it just makes him more boring! This is a Fromsoft game where very few characters are ever even close to morally pure. And yes, Messmer isn’t as pure evil as he was presented in the trailers, that doesn’t mean he’s a good person. A lot of people take away the main twist of the storyline as “the Hornsent were the bad guys the whole time and Messmer was completely in the right” when that’s just not the case. Sorry for ranting in your ask box I just thought you might like to hear out my case lol x)

First not going to lie, frien, I start to have some personal concern because of the messages like this. 😔 I am getting the type of messages like "thank you for doing this Elden Ring thing when everyone else does that Elden Ring thing" + followed by jab at the fandom for not paying enough attention or variants! There was "thank you for actually having positive reading of Nanaya when people portray her as agent of chaos", then "thank you for writing Rellana with her own ideology when people portray her as just Golden Order simp", then "thank you for writing Messmer and Marika as fucked up when people make them wholesome mother-son bond"... now this too

I want to say that I do not blame you, or anyone who sent previous messages I mentioned! And I am glad that you find enjoyment and understanding in how I analyse and write Elden Ring things! Like, yes, I am happy that it resonated with you when by your own admission, it is not something you see often! ...that being said, I really do not fit to be the "face of opposition" if you can even call it that! xD I am very meticulous in my analysis (against my will, autism is just like this) and try to not have any bias but instead fixate on what the writer really wants to say, but I should be more critical with compliments that I accept! Don't want to get my ego bloated with comparisons fshhddhsf I accept the compliments for my posts! Just not the '...unlike the rest of the fandom' part if this can be helped!

^^^ On the subject, Messmer said this phrase even in the first, gameplay trailer, and it already made me raise my eyebrow! Saying that "impure" creatures do not deserve to live is really wild, however, it didn't look to be Miyazaki's average jab at religious crusades... yet xD

^^^ Then THIS stuff in the second trailer. Basically, I was already labelling him fascist before the DLC dropped 🙄

I was actually really... delighted to find out that Fromsoft touched such a huge topic? Even though it is called 'Crusade', Miyazaki's jab at religion leaned more towards Inquisitors of Hornsent! Messmer lived up to my expectations from his character and MORE! He is not even wiser than burning all traces of history and culture, had it not been for his Knights beings better than this! Honestly, Fromsoft raising the topics of fashism and genocide is one of their biggest Ws so far, and something I will always love SOTE for!

Above all I agree that even if you ditch everything about 'subtext', 'media literacy' and 'obvious implications', the story about "justified genocide" doesn't really offer anything interesting narratively! Making a whole nation/race/whatever 'inherently evil' and their genocide as heroic act....? It doesn't offer anything: no meaning, no fuel for self-reflection as society, no awareness of real world parallels, no philosophical debate about horrors of revenge cycle...

Doesn't offer anything interesting, except for.... yeah, making Messmer more approachable to simp for. Well, everyone knows what I think of such characters:

Debate about media literacy and subtexts in Elden Ring is very tricky, and I've learned the hard way when Mohg beaten the allegations! (my confidence was shattered that day fhddhsf) It is hard to draw the line where 'obvious implication' ends and 'but they did not DIRECTLY say it...' starts! So yeah, when logic and reading deep ends, I think feelings can help. Messmer is a horrible, horrible person, and genocide is the worst thing humanity can fall into. Is making one character (maybe two, as Marika is connected) more "likeable" worth larger story with meaning, rising such significant topics? I don't think so!

As for Hornsent........ sighhhh...

[dimension20stuff]

I feel like I've grown so much as a person the past couple years but not in like...quantifiable ways. I am very proud of myself.

[fowlblue]

I have had So Many Thoughts about Black Butler it is not even funny

[dr-docktor]

staring longingly at the official ENA desk mat that I want so bad but is simply too big for my desk

look at her....

[mossy-covered-bones]

Why am i so hurts

[deanaferal]

highly recommend extra cold strawberries and a buttery croissant be the first thing you eat after a stomach bug tries to eviscerate you bc it’s from Aldi but it tastes like it was delivered by the hand of God

[ink--theory]

good evening! here's some music recommendations from todays spotify shuffle :]

[noctiispiri]

is it just me but i can't play in/see 2fort the same way after watching emesis blue

what could be an average 8 hours on 2fort suddenly feels eerie and weird. everytime i go to a certain area my mind just flashes to a scene tied to it, its insane

probably just brainrot taking over again

[daily-fengari-things]

*is raining*

Feng, running up to Ven with his hands cupped (and soaking wet), looking entirely ready to vibrate out of their skin: "Ven! Ven, Look!"

Ven, who was sitting in the shade where he can't get wet and writing: "Hm?"

Feng, shoving his hands full of worm into Ven's face: "His name is Jerry! And-"

[morbidstuff2019]

been up for 22 hours and almost fell asleep in the booth at the karaoke bar while scream singing one last breath by creed. good night though!!!!!!!!!!