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[estoult]

is shiki murdering a passing white woman only to find her alive the next day yuri

No that’s yaoi

[tainbocuailnge]

@druidquest see it was very obvious to me throughout dawntrail that a lot of this was an epic previous final fantasy reference (i haven't meaningfully played any final fantasies besides fourteen) but unlike endwalker postgame being a bunch of ff4 nostalgia bait that falls flat if you haven't played that game (with a "hey you guys loved shadowbringers right, remember shadowbringers?" bonus round) dawntrail works perfectly well without ever having played final fantasy nine. it pays homage and references and builds upon both earlier expansions and earlier games but it's not trying to ride the coattails of a better story in order to have any meaningful emotional payoff it's just good on its own and probably enhanced by knowing the original context of the things it references.

i don't think it was clumsy at all, dawntrail has a laser focus on its themes and message from start to finish in a way that makes the digressions and silly little errands you inevitably get sent on to pad the space between major plot beats feel much less excessive and annoying than they did in every expansion before. and it's funny that you call it an amusement park ride because the final area being exactly that is extremely intentional, living memory is an artificial experience meant to bring joy and relief from everyday sadness and sphene is dressed in a tacky plastic looking dress because she's the theme park mascot princess that serves as the face of that artificial experience. saying it's just clumsy but heartfelt references and cool shit rather than an emotionally impactful and well written epic is massively underselling how well put together dawntrail is. it's at least as good as shadowbringers and endwalker and which one you think is better will come down purely to personal preference.

[rhlotr]

todays stream is featuring special guest @druidquest

[pokemonlolitaproject]

As requested by druidquest a coord inspired by Pokemon #747 Mareanie

[fatestayyuri]

@druidquest i'm still not muting that post no matter how many times you crush my notifs

[booty-uprooter]

I posted 24,240 times in 2022

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I tagged 2,086 of my posts in 2022

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#zack's adventures in the er - 327 posts

#ffxiv - 250 posts

#endwalker spoilers - 48 posts

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and like ik theyll probably make me go pretty far sometimes and its not a job that most ppl stick w very long cause its hard and depressing

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

the english names in death note aren't weird because the author doesn't know what english names sound like. the japanese names are also weird. the author didn't want to freak anyone out by accidentally writing someone's actual name in the notebook that murders people whose names are written in it. death note was published in jump, a magazine normally targeted to elementary and middle school children. it was a reasonable precaution born from a reasonable concern

1,199 notes - Posted October 27, 2022

#4

i'm convinced the devs go out of their way to make raid fights as much of a pain in the ass as possible for black mages just to fuck with yoshi p specifically

2,201 notes - Posted August 19, 2022

#3

crystal exarch: g'raha tia wasnt in the tower when i got there

wol: did you look? did you look under things? he's a bit of a manlet. more of a scale miniature of a person, really. did you look down ever at all? he could've been standing right in front of you and you just missed him

crystal exarch: *choking back tears* there was no such person

2,280 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#2

imagine if the defunctland guy ever had to testify in court like. the look on the judge's face when the lawyers call up Mr. Perjurer

16,958 notes - Posted June 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

when ppl act surprised about ppl celebrating the deaths of imperialists and fascists on the celebrate the death of imperialists and fascists website

32,050 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

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[kiracles]

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[druidquest]

dearest druidquest

*deep breath*

could you please stop inflicting a random gravel event. please

oh hey this post reminded me of something

[angelicvanga]

I haven’t seen either kinos journey enough to make a fair comparison

[dragoneer99]

one day shinigami eyes will get a mobile extension and free you from your burden

it fucking better

[wearesorcerer]

@druidquest replied to your post “@wearesummoner, @we-are-artillerist, could I interest either of you in...”

VINCENT VALENTINE???

Girrrrrrrrl, it’s worse than that.

Here, have a seat and let me tell you about an anime that’s so dumb it’s genius: Final Fantasy Unlimited (FFU from here on out -- because).

There are four main characters:

Ai (the redheaded girl) and Yu (the boy) Hayakawa. They’re twins. They have basically no personality beyond gender (and hair color) and no powers beyond the magic items they get as the show goes on.

Ai (”Love”) is “fiery” but practical. Her item is PoshePocket, a living bag of devouring which sometimes gives her hammerspace items.

Yu (”Courage”) is more impulsive but quicker to trust. He gets a magical feather which lets him communicate with Chobi.

Chobi is the chocobo biting Ai’s hair (a running gag). His only power is being a “Ciel Chocobo” (having flight armor).

Tifa Lockhart Tifa by way of Aerith Lisa Pacifist, a special operative who is trained in the Kigen Arts (which she mainly uses to erect force fields). She acts like their babysitter, basically.

...and...

Vincent Valentine Kuroki Kaze (”Black Wind” and translated as such in the dub), who is usually just called Kaze (in both).

He’s an Unlimited. We’re not really sure what that is, but we do know that they are basically indestructible and have some other powers -- in his case, the magun (maybe -- other people can use it, but it doesn’t usually work out well for them). He’s amnesiac, barely speaks, exhibits almost no personality or emotions, and yet is the best main character.

Plot

After a pair of dragon kaiju attacked our world, the Hayakawa twins’ parents go missing, so the two go looking for them. Lisa runs into them as she’s trying to do her job and the three wind up on a train which takes them to a mysterious place called Wonderland. They go wandering around trying to figure out what the Hell is going on in this place (and find the missing Hayakawa parents) and run into danger. Kaze (whom they had encountered previously) appears in the nick of time, is mildly surprised when the prosthetic on his arm “moves,” and then goes through a transformation/summoning sequence (partially seen in the other post).

This formula happens almost once an episode. There aren’t very many episodes in which it doesn’t happen and they tend to be either very plot-heavy or boring. The show goes on like this for 25 episodes as the main characters with dialogue (from our world) become more and more embroiled in the machinations of the Earl Tyrant and his Four Lords of Gaudium, who have nefarious plans involving Chaos.

You can imagine why this show got cancelled as quickly as it did, but you’d be wrong! In fact, the show didn’t get canceled so much as defunded -- because of how badly Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within flopped in the box office. The show condenses its original two seasons (52 episodes) into one season and drops a lot of info. Much of that would later get released in various other formats.

Oh, and if you thought that Kaze and Lisa were the only Final Fantasy VII allusions, may I introduce you to Kaze’s rival and fellow Unlimited, Makenshi (~”Magic Swordsman”), aka Shiroi Kumo/White Cloud?

A taciturn, powerful swordsman with spiky hair, a bishounen countenance, and some access to magic (in his case, he breathes Mist, which he can use to summon Mist Dragons). He has another rival in the form of his brother, Madoushi (”Mage”), aka Akai Kiri (”Red Mist”), who is similar but red (hair and clothes), has long hair (an anime mullet), and is thoroughly evil (IIRC).

So Cloud Strife by way of Mytho from Princess Tutu.

(Technically, he’s also a protagonist. Further spoilers.)

Why do I mention the show ever?

Because as dumb looking as the conspicuous CGI summons are and as over the top as the summoning sequences may be, it’s a lot of fun to watch Kaze declare which colored bullets he’s going to use to summon stuff.

And by “stuff,” I include Phoenix (as shown), Titan (a robot...), and Meteor Master (which is a barely recognizable Tonberry before it screams; launches itself into the sky; and rains fiery, meteoritic ruination upon the land).

[estoult]

Power washer simulator…

[tainbocuailnge]

cascu is gonna turn out to be lugh or some shit isnt he

nah I think he’s genuinely cu chulainn. an impossible one but still the real deal, not unlike alter. but what IS suspicious here is how his second noble phantasm, ochd deug odin, calls upon odin’s power rather than an irish god’s, and also has some kind of use restrictions placed on it by odin. for as much as we’ve gone into gods of other pantheons fate has been notably silent on both norse and irish gods so far despite having a whole norse lostbelt, much to my frustration. my best hope remains for lb6 to just deliver everything I could possibly ask for.

[rhlotr]

typical family photos feat @druidquest

[transjinako]

hello yes i hear youre handing out digikins

I think you’d like Lotusmon, shes a flower digimon that offers others respite from the sad reality and gives them good dreams, but won’t hesitate to hurt those who refuse her 

[bonusdragons]

November 11, 2019:

Mint Secondary, Spiral, Runes.

Violin of druidquest's clan!