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[animefem]

i think more neurodivergent people should practice saying "hey please only say yes to me infodumping to you about my favorite things when you have the emotional capacity for it, don't force yourself to or it defeats the purpose and if you hide it you'll grow resentment unnecessarily and if i ever find out i'll feel incredibly betrayed" to loved ones, even if they also are autistic/adhd/etc. it is an important boundary that is in OUR control and would radically change our sense of trust with others. we can be authentic AND build trust if we communicate effectively with other people

this can also apply to passionate ppl in general, and to their loved ones who think that making a martyr of themself so their loved one can ramble to them beyond what's comfortable makes them a better partner. it actually often does not. the only way we can learn to trust that you actually want to listen to us when we ask is when you say no sometimes too. otherwise we'll go into a guilt loop everytime, bc we don't have the data to prove that you would tell us if it was too much. i think even without neurodivergency being involved ppl are likely to martyrize themselves for their loved ones not realizing that being a martyr AT ALL will ALWAYS backfire at your loved ones. it never just affects you, and it always impedes genuine connection and trust. even i have been guilty of letting my autistic friends ramble at me until i was exhausted, and then straining beyond that bc it felt too rude to tell them, even when it was negatively affecting our emotional connection on my end. but communication is key, folks. it's a hard habit to learn but one we all must learn, and both sides need to do it

[professor-nobody]

Plagues of The Prince of Egypt it's a very Megatron/optimus coded song tbh

[tallulademetriou]

now that i’ve watched a complete ass playthrough of FF16, some (jumbled) thoughts under the cut, though mostly about the story:

full spoilers ahead as well!!!!!!!!!!!

i didn’t have high hopes for the story since i played through heavensward and that was... an Expansion for sure, and i expected to have the same nitpicks about FF16 as i did with HW. it still surprised me though lol

maehiro cannot write complex women to save his life. period.

but strangely enough this isn’t even maehiro at his best so i wonder what actually got cut during development.

the world-building is immaculate as always and for once i actually want a dlc to explore more of it.

also this game’s cutscenes oozes with fucking money cbu3 is insane. what was your budget yoshi-p!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the way benedikta was easily one of the most interesting eikons in this line-up and yet she was done dirty by being killed off so early in the game.

even jill felt shallow at times and while the romance was pretty cute i will not lie, she just sort of fell flat for me at the end parts. maehiro i am in your walls.

i did love her mini-arc though and i wish there were more moments like that.

there’s a point near the end of the game where the gang encounters barnabas and i kept hoping jill would be playable but no... she was not.

cid is really well done though. like i LOVE him.

joshua/jill/clive could have been my all-time trio but they didn’t have the time to marinate well.

clive grew on me as well, thanks to ben’s performance (partly) but i was not expecting how lovely he is a protag... 

something about him being raised in a lonely castle by an abusive mother then growing up into a shy, traumatized shell of a man who just wants to atone for his sins and protect what he couldn’t protect, but realizing soon that there’s more to his life than sorrow. i love you clivefinalfantasy.

the side characters are also fucking great it’s so unexpected.

i also enjoyed dion and barnabas for what they were worth. everyone expected dion to be a traitor or evil and for barnabas to be a complex and tortured king but it turned out to be the complete opposite.

barnabas you are fucking crazy. i can respect that.

political intrigue as the pretty backdrop to an evil alien overlord/creator is nothing new but it’s just so fucking funny they went that way. the most classic of all FF move.

ultima as an end boss does nothing for me personally but i always love a good punch your god in the face so it actually did end up as a +1 on the scoreboard for me.

the pacing could be jarring at times with some strange choices story-wise. really wish they’d done less awkward sex scenes that didn’t really give us anything and gave us more time to explore the eikons and their dynamic with their respective dominants.

the jill/clive naked moment can stay tho that was precious. 

though now that i think about it, i do wonder if they were going for the shb route but ultimately changed it so it wouldn’t be too similar. the fallen is just Too similar to what we get for the Ancients, with ultima trying to save his planet from the blight this time around, except he was a selfish god at the end trying to preserve legacy and not life.

and yep i fucking cried at the end LMAO. i cried so hard my eyes were fucking swollen the next day it was actually unbelievable?????

clive holding joshua’s dead body while he has flashbacks of joshua holding hands with clive as children, then the moment when his brother bestowed the phoenix’s blessing, to joshua as a baby had me fucking bawling lmao fuck this game actually.

most of my complaints err on the narrative side of the game. the gameplay looks fun and from what i’ve played in the demo i always knew i was gonna love it, but gonna add any remarks here once i’m actually done with that.

it can be as easy as not cycling through multiple eikons but once you sit down a bit with it, it’s complexity shines with how well you can string together combos and maximizing each eikon’s moveset... it’s really fun and as a previous black mage main....... big numbers go boom.

the sidequests can be abysmal design-wise but as someone who has played ff14, it didn’t really faze me so it can be a YMMV thing. 

i need a fucking dlc because we didn’t see Leviathan... my fucking queen WHERE IS SHE

[professor-nobody]

LETS GOOOO GAMERS

A toast to that!

mom i can’t go to school today it’s a national holiday

[alltears]

the intrepid heroes reached new levels of Accurate Teenage Friendship tonight (see also)

[generallyjl]

truly a game changer episode of all time

[tevanactually]

[animefem]

this is so true.

it's also important to remember that some of them ARE still with us today, and their voices deserve to be heard, they NEED to be heard before they are gone too so that they get the praise that they deserve for their stories and wisdom. they have a lot to teach us. usually younger lgbtq people tend to assume they're all long gone already, instead of doing the work to find their books and autobiographies and documentaries and boost their articles/posts. and find them in their own communities, bc yes, chances are there are still older lgbtq people in your community if you know where to look. there's MUCH less of them than there should be, of course, but it's our duty to seek out what they have to say and offer them support too!

As a queer Gen Z, I constantly think about how there’s such a huge chunk of the queer community that’s simply… missing. So much of the queer community died during AIDS that almost an entire generation of us is simply not there anymore.

Those queer people were supposed to be our teachers, our mentors, maybe even our parents or grandparents. Those queer people were supposed to be there for us. They were supposed to be at pride events, welcoming all the young queers. They were supposed to be representation in our careers. Those people were supposed to be there to help us navigate life as queer people, and it’s devastating for both us and them that they never got to do it.

[aaronsinferno]

Hope this helps 🫶🏾❤️

[sourscratched]

unsleeping misc

[animefem]

i love my trans friends, but fun fact...

if you guilt someone for being only into afab or amab ppl, even in a nice "it's okay you can work on it in (conversion) therapy sweetie!! process ur trauma and then you'll suck girldick (or be into boypussy if amab) too like us Morally Good Gays 🥰 work on that internalized transphobia babygirl" kinda way (🤢) for being afab4afab or amab4amab you are a CREEP and a homophobe against same-sex couples, including trans same-sex couples!! this ain't as progressive as you think it is

y'all need to call this shit out in your spaces fr. this just feeds terf bullshit even more

[professor-nobody]

Star likes Bugs in that one Skybound comic....and Skyfire is a biologist...do you guys see my vision? DO YOU GUYS GET IT??! I-im overthinking but god...they were uni partners..

[maybesomethingunusual]

is this a safe space can i say this but i Love love the way tommy looks at buck please go back and rewatch all their moments and focus on his eyes and the way he listens to buck and look at him like he has decided to love buck forever that look he gives buck after they hugged at the bachelor party he looks at buck as if he’s saying “you’re so pretty i can stare at you forever” it’s not just me right

[untitled-tmnt-blog]

Rise August Art Challenge

-- Day 24: Lou Jitsu --

Day 24 of @sariphantom's Rise August Art Challenge! Leo's resemblance to Lou Jitsu is the most immediately apparent, but each of the turtles really do take after their dad in their own ways.

Rise August 2023 Masterpost

[professor-nobody]

I CANT BELIEVE THIS!! THIS IS SO COOL??!11 OMG i'm so happy My silly post inspired this!! :)

Youre so talented!! I love the backgroung actually (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

"Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why, where did we go wrong?"

In another title, "Take me to Snurch"

Quick drawing inspired by @professor-nobody 's post and @voidshrubsquared 's reblog about Spamton in a church! They gave me the brainwaves to start drawing with zero WiFi in the backwoods of the West coast, lol.

This would be pretty soon after Spamton got kicked out of the mansion, in my mind. So, what would our little ol' religious buddy do with nowhere to go? For a while after he gets kicked out, he sleeps in an old, run-down church that's no longer being used in the Dark Web, still wracked with the fanatic mental images of himself ascending using the NEO body and the truths about his own world.

The seemingly crude, childish depiction of the Angels of Heaven in the dusty, stained glass doesn't do the real sight of the world above justice.

[alltears]

hearting texts as an act of emotional warfare (see also)