#he sells too well

[suntails]

growing up!

[ryllen]

no, but pinecones is really beautiful isn't it ?

[justmoveyourhand]

Counter theory: maybe they DID die, and their restored selves are just a new form of Sleeper.

I'll be honest I'm kind of desperately hoping that's the case. I can't stand the idea that Phyrexia is just....gone. One of the oldest evils in the multiverse, in their cannon and ours, gone with...what, ONE named death in Jaya? Frankly I think the Pruning should have been literally that. Don't just despark, trim the roster. Let there be consequences, let there be loss. Let. Characters. Die.

WAR had the same problem, but it at least had the virtue of a MAJOR death. Dack was a beloved one-off, but he got a lot of attention leading up to his death in the novel. Enough insight that even if you didn't know who he was, it was sad to see him go. Gideon had been one of the front lines for...what, a decade at that point? He was effectively co-leading the Gatewatch with Jace, and their ham-handed attempts to ship him with Chandra, Magics Leading Lady in modern, throughout the Gatewatch era cements that they knew he was important. They spent time making you understand how he'd changed, he was still growing out of his old self, how important he was...and THEN they took him from you. The beautiful irony of the Indestructible Man being the casualty. The damage it did also became a new character angle for Liliana. She felt like she didn't deserve to live through it, had consciously decided to sacrifice herself to fix the mess shed helped make...and they she had that choice taken awake. Guilt, anger, loss of a friend she'd finally admitted MATTERED to her.

Gideon's death cost us an interesting future, sure. I would have loved to see a storyline where the Blackblade corrupted him, turning him into a self-righteous tyrant who still believes himself a beacon of hope (and bolstering our increasingly shrinking Villians roster), but what we got had consequences. It changed thing.

Now let's look at the Aftermath of Aftermath. Sure, we have a lot fewer Planeswalkwers. That could be interesting. Maybe we won't ever see them except on their homeworlds again...expect they created Omenpaths. So they can still logically get anywhere. So it doesn't matter.

But all the corrupted walker! Surely there a lot there. I mean, Nissa was a torso with snake-spine body. And now she's...back to normal but with a new haircut. Vraska and Jace became a twisted murder couple...and now they're settling down on Ravnica. Nahiri (my beloved) could have become an even fiercer villian (since that's clearly the only direction they're interested in taking her), could have applied her lithomancy to the living metals and ivory grandeur of Elesh Norn's basilica, trying to retake her place when things ended...but instead she's right back where she was during Zendikar Rising.

Just...reset. Nothing mattered. No consequences. Most of the corrupted Walkers are OLD characters, ones who you could easily argue had run the gauntlet, had their arc. Nissa, and Ajani specifically...they were Lorwynn 5. That would have felt impactful, the ending of an era. They could have been let go. We have SO many new faces that could have taken their place. But no. We can't take risks. We can't risk alienating the people who love these characters, right?

It just makes me sad.

Can we talk about this art for a second? Tinfoil hat conspiracy theory time: I think Nissa and Ajani were supposed to die in March of the Machines.

As it stands, the art is “people who are important to Chandra”, but it would make a lot of sense if it was originally supposed to be “people Chandra has lost”.

But that’s just a theory. A GAME theory.

[suzuberto]

You got booped by Panini the wanderer frog

He likes you very much and wishes you good booping day

(or only day if you aren't into booping)

He also documented it on his little journal

Image ID

A photo of a green and white belly hand knitted frog wearing a lavender hat and yellow hoodie carrying a little crossbody bag and booping to the camera (frog + clothes are bought but handmade from local ladies, the bag is made by me)

The same frog as before but with an upper photo. He's holding a pencil on his left hand and a journal over his little legs that has a frog hand with "1 apr 2024" and "boop" written on the left page and a "today i booped strangers on tumblr ♡" with a little self portrait below on the right page. At his left side there is a pen holder with other pens and a calendar, and oh his right a plate with cookies and an empty mini cup, he already got his morning tea!

(frog + clothes are bought but handmade from local ladies, the bag + journal is made by me, the other thingies are from sylvanian families sets)

[lizzybeeee]

"Handsome! Handsome! Handsome! Handsome! Handsome! Handsome! Handsome!"

[kanerallels]

*starts to make a post about my latest crisis like three times*

[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[sandwichsapphic]

“very amusing sir” DO NOT ENCOURAGE HIM. your boyfriend is making jokes during the apocalypse this is NOT the time

[flying-cat]

no need to ban tiktok if meta is buying it. i'll just delete it myself lmfao

[keepthemacramesecret]

theres also a cool time/clocks motif going on w raffles which i am predictably haunted by but we cant get into that today

[drpicklesart]

they are going to mehnahnaroo

[breizhbaguette]

True Story

Me in a french book shop, wanting to read stuff about Tim in a legal way (because I realised I never read anything about him): Excuse me, do you have any comics with Tim Drake as the main lead ?

The seller : *laugh a little*

Me : ?

The seller : I'm sorry but you won't find anything anywhere.

Me: What do you mean ?

The seller : There's no translation of any of his story in french.

Me *confused* : Nothing ? No Red Robin ? No Young Justice ?

The seller : Nah, nothing. Maybe I can find you Batman comics with Tim as Robin but that's it. *take 5 batman comics out of tons of Batman comics* There's those ones, but all the others it's either Dick or Damian. Sometimes Jason.

[rebouks]

Hey there! Hope you’re doing well! Just looking for some Becca advice. Just curious if you have tips on cluttering and landscaping so places feel home-y and not like picture perfect magazine spreads. Everything I find on Pinterest is just too pretty ya know?

I guess my biggest tip is just to take inspo from real life, and from your sims! Like.. we're often busy and don't put things back where they belong straight away, maybe the remote inexplicably ends up in the kitchen now and then, or that take out you got last night didn't quite make it to the bin and remains strewn across the coffee table. That box in the corner is still taunting you, even tho you moved in over a year ago! Your attic is full of shit you keep meaning to sort out but never do, and you never quite manage to round up all your discarded clothes until you've nothing left to wear. You should totally take your sims into account too, their personalities, habits and their hobbies etc will dictate what's laying around the house! Oscar's house for example is usually a mess, esp since Cookie's a slob and he's always busy 😆 It's always dusty cos everyone forgets to vacuum, no one ever picks up the mail, there's shoes and bobbles and hair pins everywhere, the attic is full of shite, the kids leave all their activity stuff everywhere and school bags and books and trash and whatever the shit else, they both collect random things and there's plants EVERYWHERE it's just them but.. visually, in a house idk lmao.. maybe just make a perfect room and then move everything around and add random crap until it looks lived in 🤔

[silverselfshippingchaos]

my favorite thing about having so many y.akuza f/os is knowing half of these guys would fucking hate each other LMAAOO

[waldensblog]

I was remembering that old "best friend is next to you in jail" meme from the late 00s/early 10s and I knew exactly who would be who in a Hogwarts legacy version.