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Genuinely curious, what are your thoughts on Dancer and FCG cuz like, he Literally, not figuratively, tried to kill her and did kill all of her companions at the time. I can see being critical cuz she doesn't seem to treat them like sentient beings, but even in the canon... most of the automatons aren't. Just some of the really old ones from Aeor/other old cities, right? So? She got a whoops!sentient microwave, treated them like a microwave, they killed all her friends and almost her and she's supposed to....? Be good buds with them? Also I know it's said that she trauma dumped on FCG, but let's switch it from microwave to personal journal - how would YOU feel if your personal journal popped to life and attacked you for trauma dumping? IDK haha I guess Idk you opinions and I'm just responding to my projected assumptions of your opinion. REALLY I'd 100% sincerely would like to hear your thoughts. I was really bothered by FCG pushing to meet with Dancer. Like jeez just leave her alone, you're her literal sleep paralysis demon, read the room.
Hey! Thanks for the ask, I put this a little bit in the tags but I can elaborate more here. (Edit: elaborate A LOT MORE it seems)
So here goes, I don’t know if you meant it this way but the analogy of a journal or microwave is helpful here because that’s exactly how Dancer treated FCG - as a tool to be used. But they *aren’t*. FCG is a whole being with emotions and thoughts all of which are apparent and so clearly distinct from other automatons.
So tbh, I think the perspective of “whoops! Sentient bot” makes sense for like a month, max. Not years. After all, we have seen NPC after NPC recognize FCG is a sentient being almost immediately after meeting him. I find it VERY hard to believe that Dancer never realized it herself.
Additionally, we need to step out of the plot itself and look at FCG’s mechanics. We know that every time he heals, takes damage for someone else, etc. he takes stress points, and that once past a certain threshold his switch flips and he goes full Murderbot.
We also know that rest and recovery are what reduces FCG’s stress points. So that tells us that Dancer was using and using and using FCG and not letting him rest (enough? At all?) even though he needed it. Because again he’s a person not a tool.
Even when they met back up recently and FCG sobered her up she remarked how she missed him doing that for her. And while I don’t expect her to miss him, I do think it’s indicative of her interest in him never being about him as a person but only how he could serve her.
And if we want to criticize FCG for his lack of boundaries, inability to take no for an answer and pathological need to fix Dancer sure that’s fair. He needs to unlearn a lot of that and quick. But we then have to ask ourselves where did those traits come from? They didn’t come from nowhere.
FCG is mentally extremely YOUNG. Aside from the 6?-ish Months spent with Ashton all he remembers is his time with Dancer. So, if FCG has a pathological need to fix others, to help them, and feels worthless if he’s unable to do so - that comes from how Dancer treated and trained him.
That doesn’t just go away; ESPECIALLY not when FCG doesn’t even remember going postal and doesn’t see to have the (IMO) most clear and realistic view of his and Dancer’s relationship.
After all look how he interacts with the Changebringer. She’s his surrogate Mom/Dancer. He needs someone to tell him how to feel, think, and what’s Good and Bad because he doesn’t know how to do it for himself - because he wasn’t *taught* to.
But here’s my real question. What do we call one person keeping another person in service to them, with no compensation or personhood to be had, and with no intentions of releasing that person from that service? That’s slavery my dude. AT BEST indentured servitude.
(but that implies there’s a debt. What debt? Waking him up? He didn’t ask for that; that was her choice.
And again this sounds a lot like children being “indebted” to parents for giving them life, housing, feeding, etc. )
That’s the part I can’t get over. And that’s the part I can’t get behind where FCG is the abusive one. The power differential was NEVER in FCG’s court; he never once thought of himself as a person or as anything but in service of “Soul Touched”. That complete sacrifice of yourself and your needs (or an inability to even know you HAVE needs) comes from being in relationships where those things are expected/demanded.
So, yeah, he literally tried to kill her, and I gotta be real I’m not surprised. Even children of abusive parents who they love snap sometimes. Because again, that’s mentally what he was at the time. A child.
But even then, no I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unrealistic for Dancer to be traumatized or not want to see FCG again. I don’t even think she’s wrong to say “I can’t give you closure” because closure isn’t something other people give you.
But the way she’s been discussed to be largely clueless about his sentience, blameless in his blow up, and FCG’s victim? I just can’t get behind that. Like at all.
#Critical Role#CR Spoilers#FCG#Dancer#TW: slavery mention#of the fantasy variety#tw: parental abuse#I don’t think this is discourse (moreso Meta IMO) but if folks feel differently I’ll add a tag#fresh cut grass
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~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~
(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)
#discworld#rincewind#the luggage#svsss#shen qingqiu#sqq#takofukkatsumi honestly thank you for this tag i've been chuckling on and off about the luggage overtaking sqq for a while now#something about it feels Right. no one expects the luggage until it's on you#honestly my main goal out of this picture is to force svsss fans to witness The Luggage and its horrible legs#shen yuan and rincewind hit that awkward point where you're keeping pace with a stranger#you can't quite manage to speed up or slow down at the right point to break contact#so they end up having a VERY weird conversation#at least anything sqq says is not the weirdest thing rincewind has heard#got sucked into a book? let him introduce you to the librarian#actually now i want the librarian to meet the system#if anyone could figure out a way to beat the system's head in it'd be an orangutan offended on behalf of literary characters everywhere#conversely both sqq and sqh are capable of ''speaking'' with pratchett style footnotes ARE are capable of seeing each other's footnotes#they weaponize this against each other immediately#honestly intrigued to see how many notes this gets - what's the general overlap between discworld fans and mxtx fans?#or is it literally the two of us here in this venn diagram?#i feel like it should exist though - are both not simply fantasy parodies in one variety or another??#my art
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Body diversity in Dwarven Women,,,,, Ryoko Kui marry me
#crying screaming etc#the middle girl in the line up is ME#i am also appreciating the variety of fantasy underwear#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#dwarves#dwarf#crazee talk
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This might not make the final cut (not even a first cut exists yet LMAO) but. Possible scene for the Winter Soldier AU? A mysterious blonde man keeps appearing in Hyacinthus' dreams. Wonder who that is hmmm
#'wolves don't look like tha–' SHHH#it's a special fantasy variety#(i can't draw animals)#it's almost completely unrendered and a little all over the place#but i just couldn't be bothered today sorry#toa winter soldier au#trials of apollo#toa#pjo#apollo#lester papadopoulos#percy jackson#riordanverse#hyacinthus#scribbles#lonely thoughts
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That's Turks teamwork. Pretty good, right?
#final fantasy vii#ffedit#ffgraphics#ffgifs#ff7#*ff7#my gifs#i am so normal about the turks#society if it was easier to get clips of them fighting together#hey square how about a before crisis remake#though i suppose i like the variety of ways they can work together#but also please look at elena and rude playing catch and think about how they're good at it because the turks play with darkstar thanks#it also feels weird using a quote from cc when there are no cc gifs but what can you do#rude#reno#elena#tseng#the turks#advent children
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"i can't come up with a fantasy name for my world so i HAVE to use chatgpt to get the gears flowing" have you all forgotten what fantasynamegenerators.com has done for you
#we literally already have the resources people claim ai has introduced#'you're discarding a very helpful tool' we already have that tool in a thousand different varieties#and with the added bonus of not plagiarizing/lying/being utterly horrible for the environment#there are tons of prompt and name generators made for this exact purpose!#there are worldbuilding resources and lists all over the place!#need some music to listen to for inspiration? look up ambience playlists and you'll find tons with Real Songs!#there are whole composers on youtube who make fantasy specific music using talent and brains and it sounds better than ai cobbled noise!#people in creative communities have already used more functional forms of ai + actual brainpower to make you these resources!#if you would just spend 2-3 minutes googling you would find them!
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babe wake up I remembered to do a new years Takumi after 4 years
#Takumi#fire emblem#fire emblem heroes#feh#fire emblem fates#Takumi fire emblem#fe14#blowing the dust off these tags#DAYUM ITS REALLY BEEN 4 YEARS#well here he is the man the myth the legend#TACO MEAT!!!!#def weird comparing him to the one from 2019/17#like wow I can see all the stuff that stayed and what habits changed…#wack#anyways back to my finaled fantasy. of the fourteenth variety#also realized that I’m cursed by the number 14. the 14th fire emblem and the 14th f*nal fantasy#I used to mix their names up all the time and now I simply….. don’t.
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“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to.”
Glamtober Day 21- Another world (Wonderland)
Chimerical Felt Coat of Casting (Colibri Pink) / Werewolf Arms (Colibri Pink) / Fat Cat Halfslops (Colibri Pink) / Werewolf Feet (Colibri Pink)
#a cat for another cat of the more... pink variety#got a good cackle when i was changing dian's hair colour#ffxivglamtober2024#ffxiv#oc: dian#glamtober2024#ff14#ffxiv gpose#gposers#ffxiv screenshots#warrior of light#wol#miqo'te#final fantasy xiv#final fantasy 14
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OPEN TO : f / nb PLOT : your every day enemies with benefits situation . possible additional connections could be coworkers , bandmates , childhood enemies , exes who can't leave each other alone , etc .
" OKAY , THIS WAS A MISTAKE and it is never, ever happening again ." dawn can't help but feel a bizarre sense of deju vu to the last time the two of them found themselves in this position . or the time before that . she ignores it ." and if it is not already abundantly clear you will tell no one ."
#indie rp#indie bi rp#indie lesbian rp#dawn / interactions .#opens .#one non - fantasy one for variety
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Oh my godddd I would be such a Chocobo girl if I was in the ff7 universe. Give me ALLLLL the big birds you can find to me. I'd race for fun mainly and I'd be on my top game making my birds the damn best.
#Wark my stupid baka life for no big birds like Chocobos being real in our world#Well ok they sort of do but they're dangerous and not as versatile as them#Or even have a variety of them#Cloud is also a Chocobo guy btw this should be obvious#Ff7#Ffvii#final fantasy vii#Final fantasy 7#Final fantasy#ff7 rebirth#ff7 remake#QueenBird Rambles#Ff7 chocobo
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I've hit a bit of a reading slump, on top of receiving my delayed-for-two-months salary, so I'm about to go book shopping in a few days.
Has anyone got any book recs for me? :D
#I like horror and fantasy!#Preferably the gothic variety#And i like purple prose!#Dislike romance abhor smut#Morveren rambles#I'm crowd sourcing pls i already scoured booktube fro recs
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I love that the "Vincent is Sephiroth's father" headcanon hinges entirely on the fact that they've both got generic bishounen anime face syndrome under the spiky hair rofl
Vincent is Reno's father confirmed. Because they both have the same delicate facial features. Vincent is Cloud's father. Vincent owes $95,354 in child support for his 12+ children. Confirmed by lack of facial feature variety in the (modern) Final Fantasy universe
#textpost#How can something with a budget like Final Fantasy Seven just completely shit the bed wrt to facial variety#One of my biggest criticisms of FF7 tbh#They USED to have some variety#'Ohhh it's a remasterrrr let's make them all so beautiful that they look the same'#At least the old men have some variety. I guess#Don't even get me started on the women
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I've seen some very odd takes about certain language used in the scene where Mizrak rebukes Olrox at the end of Castlevania: Nocturne, which I think might be due to lack of knowledge about the historical context of certain things.
CW: historical racism against First Nation groups
I know reading academic articles isn't for everyone, but I have to wonder if a lot of people in the Castlevania: Nocturne fandom have not watched things like, say, Disney's 1995 animated Pocahontas, which, for all its many, many flaws, features the song, Savages. I'm not going to quote it in full here, you can find the song lyrics elsewhere (though the European colonizers do use the lines "vermin" and "barely even human", among other epithets). It's not a great song for a lot of reasons (among them being it tries to "both sides" things). But to look at the scene in CN where Mizrak, a Christian working in a European Christian church with at least some Europeans, calls Olrox, a First Nation man, an animal without the understanding of how Christian European colonizers (typically as part of or at least backed by some Christian churches) have viewed First Nation peoples and treated them, and certain epithets used for them, and how European Christian dehumanization of "new world" groups and non-Christians generally worked/works?
Well.
#castlevania nocturne#mizrak#racism#olrox#I mean it's probably a good thing people aren't watching the very racist movie#but it's weird considering the movie's impact on audiences and media generally and how well known it is#european and christian dehumanization of non-Christians and other marginalized peoples is well-known#and it has been weaponized many many times#to look at how Mizrak is specifically weaponizing that and ignoring what he is doing is a choice#also to ignore how Mizrak himself likely faced similar racism#and as a member of a marginalized group likely learned to weaponize himself after joining#which is a common thing as well in part as a survival tactic so you do not become a target of the in-group and get ostracized#you don't have to watch the Disney movie to know this stuff#it's just unfortunately probably a way a lot of people know about the phenomenon#like idk what do you think Christian Missions are for#a lot is happening in the scene and I'm not averse to the take that Mizrak is being very specific for a variety of reasons#I just think he is very aware of what he is saying#and why#don't see em as much lately but back when the show first came out stuff was wild#and some of the comments on my fics well#bigotry#I think the crew are doing very specific things about the weaponization of language#and how racism was used for colonization#and for indoctrination#and that is I guess still flying over folks' heads#like it's a double thing#vampires are considered animals by humans#but the word can have lots of meanings#like we've had the 'tired of elves being fantasy metaphors for racism' discourse#what do folks think vampires are
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[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Girl Shy. It depicts Harold Lloyd's character Harold Meadows sat at his typewriter, paused in thought as his fingers hover above it. His eyes are looking up and his mouth is slightly open, like he's dreaming awake. A thought bubble floats around him like smoke, with the faces of two women in the middle of it. The two have annotations next to them that denote the twenties era stereotypes that they are styled as. The one noted as "the flapper" is smiling and has curly, slightly unkempt hair, with a headband around it. She has lighter makeup than the woman next to her, who has dark lips and eyeshadow and is labelled "the vamp". She has large circular statement earrings and an ornate headpiece atop her smooth updo. Her eyes are downturned, and her expression less approachable. Harold is coloured in greyscale, and so are the ladies, although they have a warmer brown tone, as does the smoke. There's a pinker line of light surrounding them and the writing. The background is a dark brown.]
Inktober - Day 15 (Guidebook)
Film - Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1924)
#inktober#inktober 2024#girl shy#harold lloyd#girl shy 1924#harold lloyd fanart#girl shy 1924 fanart#digital art#if u wanna get into harold lloyd films id probs recommend something like the freshman first but uhhh i do like this one obvs#i cant tell if its sexist or making fun of that with the portion this is referencing tbh ... or like some weird combo#which is a question that always pops up when watching silent comedy lol#so just be aware of that before u watch it lol#its really cute though :) the main romance (not pictured) is so 💛💛💛#also for some reason i remembered there being 3 fantasy women instead of just the two here 🤔🤔 couldnt find anything tho...#i know the move for drawing silent era stuff would be black and white or normal greyscale but i wanted something more sepia here#i think a lot of people underestimate the variety of tones in silent cinema tbh#i love when i watch one and they do the blue and yellow tinting for scenes <3#anyway song of the day is shes so modern by the boomtown rats :)#have recently become obssessed with the song... on repeat... consuming my thoughts...#really really catchy 🙏🙏#i am getting into the boomtown rats a bit tbh ... really enjoying the album this song is from 💛💛
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So is that pretend marriage Cyber au in space, does that mean Smokescreen is the normal one while Optimus and June is that weird couple that vibes on a different level?
If this is the Do As the Romans Had Done idea, then yeah. Optimus is just that buff need that's really quiet and serious, yet unintentional feral and/or terrifying. And June, while able to blend into mundane societies, has a really broken scale of a Danger sense.
I'm definitely keeping it as Other!Au, but now I'm leaning that June comes from a long line of magic-users: alchemists, sorcerers, enchanters, and what not. Think of them between deep in the mystical many-kinds-of-arts and unhinged field work scientists.
And that's why June isn't too freaked out about everything because this species-swap with an impromptu space adventure isn't the weirdest shit that happened in the family.
Smokescreen is the normal guy from a civilization that fell to an inconceivable scale of planet-wide infighting, but he attributes any weirdness from the others as "Oh, they used to humans, so it's a learning curve" and "Primes doing Prime-things."
Meanwhile, Optimus is climbing extreme cliffs to reach a stray goat without a by-your-leave or safety rigging and more than capable of fishing with his bare hands off a waterfall to use it as a teaching moment for vocabulary and anatomy structures for the kids.
June, while is more affable and likes chit-chat over recipes and the weather, is also the person that made a deal with a fae that's an Archivist in a forgotten library beneath a massive cave system to hunt down extremely rare specimens that were once predominant in textile spellcraft for protection and health. That deal ended with Jack, by the way, so he's still a spooky fae-child.
Smokescreen is deeply engrossed by Optimus in a bar: really terrible at small talk but more than able to consume fuel that's used for stripping rust infections from a tank without a grimace and starts a fist fight when someone tries to drug another person's drink without them knowing.
June is in a shadowy corner doing a secret handshake with an indescribable stranger because she recognizes their cloak's stitching and scented tobacco from her (several greats) grandmother's fellowship. Now she's back to doing odd jobs or quests.
Smokescreen rationalizes it that June was a medical professional for humans, so it isn't too out of the realm why she's interested into toxins because he's more distracted by Optimus dropping bombs that he consumed hallucinogens as a sparkling and managed to survive to make to Iacon.
#ask#transformers#transformer prime#tfp#do as the romans had done#smokescreen#june darby#optimus prime#optimus#humanformers#humans into cybertronians#magic#creature#maccadam#my thoughts#my writing#Smokescreen is getting front row seats to OP's weirdness and finding waaaaay more about the guy on the run than living in a converted silo#smokescreen is also thinking “wow humans are sure superstitious” as Jack is telling him what birds are saying and June makes a potions lab#Optimus is dropping bombs about his past and either very casual or reluctant#meanwhile June is doing scifi fantasy side quests of a more mundare variety
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One time for character design practice I decided to draw Captain Drinian and also give him a sister except I’m not much of a writer so I don’t even have a name for her, all I know about her is that she’s an asexual lesbian, and like super strong or something.
Also I just want to believe that Lucy wasn’t the only woman on that ship the entire time.
#and that they are both ride or die for each other and caspian#also did this to practice box braids and locs#narnia#voyage of the dawn treader#artists on tumblr#character design#oc art#illustration#c.s. Lewis#fantasy oc#chronicles of narnia#drinian#caspian x#I love thinking about the lore and headcanons for narnia#particularly around the golden age#but also caspians era#cause it’s rebuilding this new kingdom with even more variety in citizens#I like thinking about the telmarines that stayed and why#this also exists cause I’m bisexual#fairmerthefarmer art#prince caspian#vdt
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