#don’t eviscerate me

[threeawfulfruits]

Somehow I have gone my entire life under the impression that Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy were the same thing

Cue me growing increasingly confused and disturbed for the first two hours of a FFXVI playthrough on YouTube as I watched graphic violence and sexual content play out on screen with the latent belief that Mickey Mouse was going to show up at some point...

[8-worms-in-a-trenchcoat]

y’all ever heard of a discomfort character? cause that’s what ford is to me

[strawberrystepmom]

jotaken forever 🙂‍↕️ even if this is literally two years old 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

art by @/54prowl of course

[myfandomhalf]

I’m going to say something that is going to make people angry but no one else is saying it so…

Aventurine’s culture being based on Romani culture does not mean that every single aspect of Romani culture applies to his in-game culture. Hoyo as a company has shown many times in the past that they will pick and choose different parts of a culture to create their in-game cultures. They are not saying that every single part of a culture is meant to be represented, they’re just taking inspiration, there’s a difference. Not only would it break immersion to see a real life culture depicted in-game, but imagine how offensive it would be if they got something wrong? Imagine how hypercritical we would all be of them?

Aventurine is NOT Romani, he is Sigonian, a fictional culture that is based on the real world Romani culture, but is NOT the same thing. They will have overlaps, but they will also have differences. They are NOT one and the same.

Saying that just because something is Romani it must ALSO apply to Aventurine makes no sense because he ISNT Romani. Please let’s remember to separate our real lives when talking about these fictional characters. You can assume and hope and guess and think that maybe a certain aspect of Romani culture might also apply to him? But it’s not a fact, it’s a headcanon, please don’t treat it as canon.

At the end of the day we will never know what aspects of the Romani culture hoyo intends to be part of the Sigonian culture, but that’s why headcanons are fun. You can pretend all you like! Just remember it won’t make it any more canon.

[vardasvapors]

do people have recommendations for good bits of writing on vengeance/revenge/vengeful dispositions/cultures of vengeance?

context being that, i’m someone who has an extremely vengeful disposition that comes with revenge fantasies and desires that never ever fade if i don’t act on them—unlike all received wisdom, for me there is no ‘control yourself until the vengeful impulse fades, don’t do something in the heat of the moment’ sort of experience. either i remain with a desire for revenge for a grievance for years or decades (and collect more over time steadily without any of them ever dissipating), or i take revenge in some way (very occasionally this is satisfying, more likely i convert the vengefulness for the unavenged grievance into regret or guilt or shame over the action i took, this is usually worse than stewing in vengefulness which is why i don’t do it often but knowing it’s worse doesn’t have any impact on the preoccupation with feelings of vengefulness/fantasies of revenge, also even if it’s worse it’s at least different so sometimes i will give in just out of being too sick of having some particular unavenged-grievance hanging over me).

and i want some sort of defamiliarizing detailed analysis of the psychology and nuances of it that i can apply to myself, or see myself in, or both. i guess. something that can make the vengefulness feel absurd or abstracted or alien or whatever enough to sometimes just fade with time or be successfully let go of. or something.

[midgardianqueenreturns]

I know that these days in the Ace Attorney fandom the cool thing to do is to stan and defend Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and bash Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice (and don’t get wrong, those two DO have a lot of writing problems), but Imma be honest:

Disbarring Phoenix Wright was a seriously bad writing decision

“But…but…Phoenix isn’t ooc because look at the circumstances!” Yes, I agree (Benix is hot let’s be real), but you’re missing the point: the problem isn’t his characterization so much as the circumstances that created it. It cheapens the ending of Trials and Tribulations and tbh would have pissed me off if not for the fact I was playing it knowing his disbarment would be undone in the next game. I understand Shu Takumi was forced to put Phoenix in the game (it honestly would have been the best case scenario for us all and in the long run for the trilogy if he got his way and didn’t have to include him) but this wasn’t the way to go. I like the basic idea of his character of being a disillusioned lawyer who fell from grace, but not for an established character we spent a trilogy watch grow as I feel that’s an arc more suiting to an original character. I needed to get this off my chest because all the “stop saying Phoenix was ooc in Apollo Justice that game is peak!” takes are dramatically missing the point.

[landlockedcorsair]

Having impure thoughts. Very distracted by things I’m thinking about.

[gothamitis]

my parents roped me into attending some healthcare worker appreciation gala with them tomorrow night 😭 have to spend the evening getting misgendered and deadnamed to a bunch of rich people to earn next semester’s tuition

[m00sebaby]

something about sports lends itself so strongly to love. like you’re my teammate and when you succeed i am beside you and i am cheering louder than any fan. your success is my success. your loss is my loss and i am going to pick you up if you fall. i am going to help you when you can’t help yourself. i win with you and i lose with you. i train with you and i travel with you and without you i am not within my full potential. i want to be better but i want you to be better too. because if only one of us is better then neither of us are.

[sapphic-story]

So for anyone not on Twitter jk Rowling might legally have to pay a trans woman 1 million euros (1,070,975 USD as of 4/23) so things are about to get hilarious

[damnedrainbows]

for lucifer finding out sinners can be redeemed, after the elation wears off grief would be quick to set in. He’d realize that all of his people, his little children of darkness have all needlessly died for literally nothing. Even though he always found the murders senseless but depression and being so jaded made him accept them, he never thought there was anywhere else they could go.

After his own attempts at redeeming sinners failed miserably years ago, he believed sinners were a lost cause and there was no hope for them. It was easier to accept the slaughter if there was nowhere better they could be anyway. There was no other alternative but be there with him, miserable forever. In a way it’s merciful

learning all his children died for fucking nothing? When they could have been sent to heaven? learning they all died from his own failure to make redemption work in the first place? If he’d just managed to reach them years ago, if he’d just managed to connect with them, he could have saved so many?

he would fucking break.

[qrovidcore]

absolutely EATING THE DRYWALL over the act 2 resist!durge scene. it’s been three fucking days and im still like. you MEAN i have to Get Up and Go To Work and Function when ALL i can think about is this and it makes me go INSANE. like the absolute emotions of that are something i haven’t felt from anything less than actual tabletop and it’s just. here. in this goddamn video game. and fucking. we all know the scene. probably everyone knows the version of the scene i personally got, even if they didn’t get it themself. and yet. and YET. i cannot even put into WORDS exactly how all of that hit because it’s not even just the one goddamn scene it’s the 60+ hours of choices i have been making up to that point and 60+ hours of time i have put into the relationships i have built with the rest of my party and cutscenes before it that maybe only went the same way for like 0.1% of other people as they did for me or even happened At The Same Time as they did for me and i just. i just!!!!!!

[chryzuree]

i know this is something i’ve written (& not posted because im shyyyy), but what if jacks lost both chrysi and azure and jst went insane because of it. what then, huh. and what does he do when, after hundreds of years of cruelty and evil, he finds himself face to face with both his soulmates and he realizes he can never be the companion they loved. what then.

[pepprs]

beaver gnawing on wood noises

[quicktimeeventfull]

Events Have Occurred & i have jettisoned the christmas fic i was working on in favour of this absolutely shameless hurt/comfort college au fic about L having a Real Bad Time at a holiday party

[depraved-perfumer]

All of your concerns are legitimate, and so was my previous response, which was entirely in good faith, I do consider OPs writing to be eloquent. If there was any sarcasm in there, I apologize for it, as it is entirely out of bitterness.

I don’t have an answer as to why you, personally, should sacrifice yourself. That is something for you to decide on and no one can force you otherwise. I also agree with you that if one is to vote for president in the US election this year, the only feasible candidate is Kamala Harris.

I just have a couple of questions for you:

How is my vocal setting of terms under which I would prefer to vote for this candidate threatening you?

Do you honestly believe that, in 2024, after the images we have been seeing day in and day out for almost a year, calling for a ceasefire and preparing to enforce an arms embargo if this ceasefire is not honored, and not, as you said in your reply, “cut all ties with Israel”, would lose her the election? I really don’t think it would.

You narrowed the focus to the individual in your response, and that is one way to see this. I have no argument for your personal idea of what is more important to you. No one is forcing you to sacrifice yourself for others. The question is, how far are you willing to be complicit. Because let me make it very clear, if we pay federal taxes, we are. Aaron Bushnell for example made it very clear that he was done being complicit. But we cannot all set ourselves on fire about it, and I’m not asking you to. I’m asking your voice to join ours, to show that there is popular support for Gaza, that supporting and demanding a ceasefire will not lose Kamala the election.

I only have one more point to address, OP said that Trump makes nuclear war more likely. I personally do not see how, as we are already at the brink, with an international situation that hasn’t been this tense since before World War I. The current Democrat administration has fumbled most of our international politics on a similar if not worse level than Trump has. Pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza now would be a major corrective move in the Middle East. It is the simplest way to avoid generalized escalation in the Middle East, which could very easily pull us into a World War, same as addressing the Ukraine situation that is spiraling out of control, and that we have been feeding before it escalated in 2022, again under Democratic leadership, since 2014. What I am trying to say here is, I am not convinced that Trump is a unique nuclear escalation threat here. Rather, we are witnessing the end of US international hegemony, and that is an incredibly dangerous position for our planet to be. If we do not change course towards peace, globally and immediately, I frankly don’t think much will matter anymore very soon, including who the seated president is. That’s just my opinion though.

Your position is perfectly understandable, and I hope I addressed some of your points and questions here. Your decision is yours, as is mine, and whether or not I will end up voting for Kamala Harris is also up to me. I have nothing to offer you for your voice, I’m afraid. But we would appreciate it.

The discussions around whether or not to vote for Kamala keep being dominated by very loud voices shouting that anyone who advocates for her “just doesn't care about Palestine!” and “is willing to overlook genocide!” and “has no moral backbone at all!” And while some of these voices will be bots, trolls, psyops - we know that this happens; we know that trying to persuade progressives to split the vote or not vote at all is a strategy employed by hostile actors - of course many of them won't be. But what this rhetoric does is continually force the “you should vote for her” crowd onto the back foot of having to go to great lengths writing entire essays justifying their choice, while the “don't vote/vote third party” crowd is basically never asked to justify their choice. It frames voting for Kamala as a deeply morally compromised position that requires extensive justification while framing not voting or voting third party as the neutral and morally clean stance.

So here's another way of looking at it. How much are you willing to accept in order to feel like you're not compromising your morals on one issue?

Are you willing to accept the 24% rise in maternal deaths - and 39% increase for Black women - that is expected under a federal abortion ban, according to the Centre for American Progress? Those percentages represent real people who are alive now who would die if the folks behind Project 2025 get their way with reproductive healthcare.

Are you willing to accept the massive acceleration of climate change that would result from the scrapping of all climate legislation? We don't have time to fuck around with the environment. A gutting of climate policy and a prioritisation of fossil fuel profits, which is explicitly promised by Trump, would set the entire world back years - years that we don't have.

Are you willing to accept the classification of transgender visibility as inherently “pornographic” and thus the removal of trans people from public life? Are you willing to accept the total elimination of legal routes for gender-affirming care? The people behind the Trump campaign want to drive queer and trans people back underground, back into the closet, back into “criminality”. This will kill people. And it's maddening that caring about this gets called “prioritising white gays over brown people abroad” as if it's not BIPOC queer and trans Americans who will suffer the most from legislative queer- and transphobia, as they always do.

Are you willing to accept the domestic deployment of the military to crack down on protests and enforce racist immigration policy? I'm sure it's going to be very easy to convince huge numbers of normal people to turn up to protests and get involved in political organising when doing so may well involve facing down an army deployed by a hardcore authoritarian operating under the precedent that nothing he does as president can ever be illegal.

Are you willing to accept a president who openly talks about wanting to be a dictator, plans on massively expanding presidential powers, dehumanises his political enemies and wants the DOJ to “go after them”, and assures his supporters they won't have to vote again? If you can't see the danger of this staring you right in the face, I don't know what to tell you. Allowing a wannabe dictator to take control of the most powerful country on earth would be absolutely disastrous for the entire world.

Are you willing to accept an enormous uptick in fascism and far-right authoritarianism worldwide? The far right in America has huge influence over an entire international network of “anti-globalists”, hardcore anti-immigrant xenophobes, transphobic extremists, and straight-up fascists. Success in America aids and emboldens these people everywhere.

Are you willing to accept an enormous number of preventable deaths if America faces a crisis in the next four years: a public health emergency, a natural disaster, an ecological catastrophe? We all saw how Trump handled Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We all saw how Trump handled Covid-19. He fanned the flames of disaster with a constant flow of medical misinformation and an unspeakably dangerous undermining of public health experts. It's estimated that 40% of US pandemic deaths could have been avoided if the death rates had corresponded to those in other high-income countries. That amounts to nearly half a million people. One study from January 2021 estimated between around 4,200 and 12,200 preventable deaths attributable purely to Trump's statements about masks. We're highly unlikely to face another global pandemic in the next few years but who knows what crises are coming down the pipeline?

Are you willing to accept the attempted deportation of millions - millions - of undocumented people? This is “rounding people up and throwing them into camps where no one ever hears from them again” territory. That's a blueprint for genocide right there and it's a core tenet of both Trump's personal policy and Project 2025. And of course they wouldn't be going after white people. They most likely wouldn't even restrict their tyranny to people who are actually undocumented. Anyone racially othered as an “immigrant” would be at risk from this.

Are you willing to accept not just the continuation of the current situation in Palestine, but the absolute annihilation of Gaza and the obliteration of any hope for imminent peace? There is no way that Trump and the people behind him would not be catastrophically worse for Gaza than Kamala or even Biden. Only recently he was telling donors behind closed doors that he wanted to “set the [Palestinian] movement back 25 or 30 years” and that “any student that protests, I throw them out of the country”. This is not a man who can be pushed in a direction more conducive to peace and justice. This is a man who listens to his wealthy donors, his Christian nationalist Republican allies, and himself.

Are you willing to accept a much heightened risk of nuclear war? Obviously this is hardly a Trump policy promise. But I can't think of a single president since the Cold War who is more likely to deploy nuclear weapons, given how casually he talks about wanting to use them and how erratic and unstable he can be in his dealings with foreign leaders. To quote Foreign Policy only this year, “Trump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldn’t be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city.” That's reassuring. I'm not even in the US and I remember four years of constant background low-level terror that Trump would take offence at something some foreign leader said or think that he needs to personally intervene in some military situation to “sort it out” and decide to launch the entire world into nuclear war. No one sane on earth wants the most powerful person on the planet to be as trigger-happy and careless with human life as he is, especially if he's running the White House like a dictator with no one ever telling him no. But depending on what Americans do in November, he may well be inflicted again on all of us, and I guess we'll all just have to hope that he doesn't do the worst thing imaginable.

“But I don't want those things! Stop accusing me of supporting things I don't support!” Yes, of course you don't want those things. None of us does. No one's saying that you actively support them. No one's accusing you of wanting Black women to die from ectopic pregnancies or of wanting to throw Hispanic people in immigrant detention centres or of wanting trans people to be outlawed (unlike, I must point out, the extremely emotive and personal accusations that get thrown around about “wanting Palestinian children to die” if you encourage people to vote for Kamala).

But if you're advocating against voting for Kamala, you are clearly willing to accept them as possible consequences of your actions. That is the deal you're making. If a terrible thing happening is the clear and easily foreseeable outcome of your action (or in the case of not voting, inaction), in a way that could have been prevented by taking a different and just as easy action, you are partly responsible for that consequence. (And no, it's not “a fear campaign” to warn people about things he's said, things he wants to do, and plans drawn up by his close allies. This is not “oooh the Democrats are trying to bully you into voting for them by making him out to be really bad so you'll feel scared and vote for Kamala!” He is really bad, in obvious and documented and irrefutable ways.)

And if you believe that “both parties are the same on Gaza” (which, you know, they really aren't, but let's just pretend that they are) then presumably you accept that the horrors being committed there will continue, in the immediate term anyway, regardless of who wins the presidency. Because there really isn't some third option that will appear and do everything we want. It's going to be one of those two. And we can talk all day about wanting a better system or how unfair it is that every presidential election only ever has two viable candidates and how small the Overton window is and all that but hell, we are less than eighty days out from the election; none of that is going to get fixed between now and November. Electoral reform is a long-term (but important!) goal, not something that can be effected in the span of a couple of months by telling people online to vote third party. There is no “instant ceasefire and peace negotiation” button that we're callously overlooking by encouraging people to vote for Kamala. (My god, if there was, we would all be pressing it.)

If we're suggesting people vote for her, it's not that we “are willing to overlook genocide” or “don't care about sacrificing brown people abroad” or whatever. Nothing is being “overlooked” here. It's that we're simply not willing to accept everything else in this post and more on top of continued atrocities in Gaza. We're not willing to take Trump and his godawful far-right authoritarian agenda as an acceptable consequence of feeling like we have the moral high ground on Palestine. I cannot stress enough that if Kamala doesn't win, we - we all, in the whole world - get Trump. Are you willing to accept that?

And one more point to address: I've seen too many people act frighteningly flippant and naïve about terrible things Trump or his campaign want to do, with the idea that people will simply be able to prevent all these bad things by “organising” and “protesting” and “collective action”. “I'm not willing to accept these things; that's why I'll fight them tooth and nail every day of their administration” - OK but if you're not even willing to cast a vote then I have doubts about your ability to form “the Resistance”, which by the way would have to involve cooperation with people of lots of progressive political stripes in order to have the manpower to be effective, and if you're so committed to political purity that you view temporarily lending your support to Kamala at the ballot box as an untenable betrayal of everything you stand for then forgive me for also doubting your ability to productively cooperate with allies on the ground with whom you don't 100% agree. Plus, if the Trump campaign gets its way, American progressives would be kept so busy trying to put out about twenty different fires at once that you'd be able to accomplish very little. Maybe you get them to soften their stance on trans healthcare but oh shit, the climate policies are still in place. But more importantly, how many people do you think will protest for abortion rights if doing so means staring down a gun? Or organise to protect their neighbours from deportation if doing so means being thrown in prison yourself? And OK, maybe you're sure that you will, but history has shown us time and time again that most people won't. Most people aren't willing to face that kind of personal risk. And a tiny number of lefties willing to risk incarceration or death to protect undocumented people or trans people or whatever other groups are targeted is sadly not enough to prevent the horrors from happening. That is small fry compared to the full might of a determined state. Of course if the worst happens and Trump wins then you should do what you can to mitigate the harm; I'm not saying you shouldn't. But really the time to act is now. You have an opportunity right here to mitigate the harm and it's called “not letting him get elected”. Act now to prevent that kind of horrific authoritarian situation from developing in the first place; don't sit this one out under the naïve belief that “we'll be able to stop it if it happens”. You won't.