#anyway maybe i'm missing something but idk

[altocat]

Why was Lucrecia even having the flashes of Sephiroth anyway? Was it Jenova stuff or was Sephiroth evil in the womb?

So one of the (many) little reasons why I dislike Dirge is that it sorta minimizes the victimization of Sephiroth. I get that Vincent is the main focus but the game barely touches on the fact that Sephiroth is also a major component in the overall tragedy. The story sorta just makes it about the romance melodrama and less about the fact that a baby was experimented on against its will in the womb and set on a predetermined path for destruction thanks to the actions of a bunch of careless dumbasses. Sephiroth is only mentioned in a handful of lines and the flashes Lucrecia gets of him point to the idea of him being an evil antichrist figure whose darkness Lucrecia could sense from the very beginning.

...which isn't at all accurate to the Sephiroth we saw in First Soldier and Crisis Core. It's like Dirge doesn't really care about the fact that the Jenova Project actively hurt Sephiroth as well. Arguably the most out of everyone. But the game doesn't really want to talk about that beyond a few throwaway lines. I really don't like how Dirge creates this image of Sephiroth during this timeframe. Sephiroth is literally blameless in this scenario. And is, by all accounts, a genuinely decent person up until Nibelheim. Or at the very least actively TRYING to be one. So the whole antichrist vibe just doesn't work. I'm not saying this to shill for a serial killer and claim that Sephiroth's actions in the future aren't his fault --they ARE. Very much so. He is an evil monster. But Sephiroth was not born evil. If anything, he showed great capacity for real, earnest goodness. It took a very extreme set of circumstances after a LIFETIME of extreme circumstances to finally get him to snap. His fate is intertwined with the sins of the father, the sins of the mother, and ultimately the sins of Shinra as a whole.

SO with all that said, the flashes are from Jenova. It's a common Jenova thing. Lucrecia is receiving premonitions from Jenova, something that Cloud also experiences later on as well. Maybe they function as a warning. Or maybe Lucrecia is just seeing what will inevitably come to pass. Baby Sephiroth's only "crime" was that he shared the Jenova cells with Lucrecia in the womb, making her physically immortal. But like...he was a fetus. It's not like it was intentional. We know that Sephiroth is devoted to the idea of his mother and probably would have never intentionally done anything to hurt her.

Dirge is so messy, man. Has some really neat concepts but like...idk. so many missed opportunities.

[cutter-kirby]

okay so i’ve been gone all day so i’m finally posting my fionna and cake initial thoughts. and since i’ve seen only a few people talking about my second favorite alternate finn, i’d thought i’d share the big thing i was thinking about during episode 5.

how the fuck does farmworld finn have that many kids???????

so i’ve always thought that farmworld and ooo operated on parallel timelines, and the show seemed to follow this too, but literally how does a 29 year old have a dead wife and a preteen kid, especially fw finn, who i seriously doubt was mentally and emotionally ready to start a family so soon after the crown was destroyed. so unless the show changed its mind and farmworld is suddenly farther in the future than ooo, i have no idea how fw finn has such a big family (cause like. the show clearly wants us to think that they’re all biological kids as opposed to adoption).

let me share my initial theory for who jay was. when i first saw him i thought he was going to be little sibling.

i mean. the years match up perfectly here, so i have no idea why they went with the option that completely messes up the timeline.

also to clear up a misconception the flashback at the beginning is almost definitely during the year ice finn spent alone freezing people (between jake the dog and crossover) before prismo's meddling destroyed the crown in the nuke, so that part holds up at least.

i could be missing something that makes all of this make sense. i'll probably rewatch this episode tonight if there's any info i missed i might add it idk

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Liam was a boy, and then a man, who suffered so much trauma and pain. He was bullied as a child and then lived a nightmare that I think none of us can really imagine of having that triggering experience replicated on a literally global public scale. He became a man who inflicted trauma on others. He was an addict who was unable to find a way out of that disease, and now never will, but who was open and vulnerable about his struggles. He was an incredibly talented musician and artist and an absolutely integral part of one of the most important bands of a generation; his voice and songwriting and skill in the studio shaped every aspect of what One Direction became at their best. He loved that band and being a part of that experience with his whole being and would never have stopped celebrating what they meant to us and to the world. He had problems and did bad things; that doesn't mean he was a bad person who didn't deserve to be loved and helped to heal- everyone deserves that- and the fact that that's not something that can ever happen now is devastating. I was very distressed by many of his actions; and I cared deeply about this man I didn't know and wished for better for him than this outcome.

I'm so deeply, deeply SAD tonight. I'm sad for Liam, who will never now have the chance to look back on this hard time and reflect on how far he's come, and for Liam's family, for his parents and his sisters who loved and supported him so much, and for everyone in the 1D band family and circles. And I'm sad for us. It feels like nothing will ever be quite the same, and that's hard and sad and shocking. It's a special kind of doubled grief, to mourn the loss of the person, and also of what he meant to us in this strange world of parasocial fanning, for the real him and also for the version of him that we made up and attached so much meaning to and for the escape that brought us. For him, and also for the easy uncomplicated joy of listening to those beautiful songs from happier times, which might never feel the same again. For the other boys, who we love so much and wish we could shield from suffering and loss and pain. For our fellow fans, who we also worry about the impact of this on. Everything about this is terrible, and I am sending so much love out to all of you. We are not alone, and it's okay to feel complicated emotions and it's okay to mourn and it's okay to care about how it effects you and your life, whatever you're feeling- it's okay. We are here with you. We are 1D family.

[sainz100]

2024 Brazilian GP | x

[atalienart]

✧*:･ﾟArt summary 2024

2014-2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021

[itspileofgoodthings]

one of my favorite things about pride and prejudice is that in the last third of the book Elizabeth’s internal monologue about Darcy is her admitting that she’s in love with him but also putting all sorts of qualifications around that statement that kind of ...tamp down the level of emotion (the “feelings, if not as tender as Jane’s for Bingley, at least as just” line, even the whole thing about her and Darcy being well-matched objectively speaking) and as soon as she’s engaged you get the unbridled joy in the narrative about her own joy, cc: “I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” 

[renirae]

illustration for chapter 10 of A Stitch In Time (and yeah, this is somehow my first actual full illustration for this fic?? tbf I had art block for. quite a while. definitely expect more illustrations for this fic in the future though! ^^)

anyways... Michael Shelley is finally here!!!!! I'm so stoked omg you wouldn't believe :DDD I have so many plans for him... (and they definitely totally don't include me endlessly traumatizing him lmao)

[morninkim]

woman who wonders about many a thing

[bleeding-hart]

some sketches

based on @theicarusconstellation's writing

I keep thinking of details I left out and stuff I need to fix but if I let myself do that I'm going to go insane so we're leaving it at this

Also some Sirius because they're a fucking king and we love them (I very strongly hc them as genderqueer and using any pronouns, but specifically he/they/she/it)

The dress was a bit of a failure but hey it looks like fabric at least I think maybe

[sebille]

Something I really wish we would have seen more of is the relationship between Koana, Wuk Lamat and Zoraal Ja. Wuk Lamat talking about how she spent her whole life trying to be just as good as Zoraal ja , how she looked up to him etc. I wish I could've gotten to see some of that.

[keeps-ache]

buttered noodles 💫💛🍜

[pardonmydelays]

i had so much fun last night omg

[tanicus-caesareth]

guarana drama, damage control

[eggmeralda]

is it weird to tell my friend I miss having music conversations like we did at uni

[welcometoteyvat]

this lantern rite was made for me (person who says this every year)

[duskstarzz]

lately i've been looking for this youtube video i watched years ago again. i've been looking on and off for 3 years at least iirc and i haven't been able to find it yet. it was this video titled something like "a dream i had last night" and i don't remember the creator. it was animated and it was about the ocean having less and less water, and these people who were paid to pump the water either from the ocean or these hose-like things that were along the beach and the people having the realization of just . what are we doing? the solution is right here. so they directed the hose things to the ocean and slowly it started giving back. it was something like that. maybe i'm stupid and looking in the wrong places or maybe the video is just gone for good but idk.