#personal nonsense

[thepoisonroom]

beauty standards are so fucked up what happened to i love your body because it's you. what then.

[phantom-kiwi]

Venom 3 spoiler warning but like

"Ride me cowboy", "we've been together for a year?", "Sometimes I think we would've been happier you and I living a life like this", them calling each other Thelma and Louise? Them talking about future plans and the camera directly cutting and staying on literal happy newlyweds?? "BUT I NEED HIM BACK" ???? A montage of their time together???? Hello ??? Symbrock nation can you hear me !!!!

[sammaggs]

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[myrskytuuli]

You know....as a proud slut and a whore, I genuinely really appreciate Helluva Boss' commitment on that lust is not a sin that causes suffering. (also same for gluttony) The lord of lust just wants people to cum, it's the lord of greed that non-consensually pressures his subjects into sexual situations they are not comfrotable in. It's the lord of greed that creates sex dolls from subjects that don't really like it. It's the lord of greed that needles onto your insecurites, the lord of lust thinks you're perfect as long as you're having fun and are happy.

It genuinely feels good, amidst this media hellscape that tends to equate lust with rape and sex with power.

[myreia]

Collection of dumb FFXIV AO3 tags I've made.

[disregardcanon]

weird thing i've noticed working at the liquor store, but pennies that aren't actually american pennies end up in my register once every like... 4 months?

[roguelioness]

why is it I spend hours cooking but eating takes like 20 mins

and then I have to do it all over again???? outrageous. appalling. disgraceful.

[thepoisonroom]

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

[phantom-kiwi]

As a borderlands enjoyer I can say I'm so so happy they took the "colorful cartoonish crass violence with unique and bold character designs" game series and made it photorealistic + gave it bland generic soldier protagonists. That's really what the colorful cartoonish crass violence with unique and bold character designs game series needed I agree

[sammaggs]

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[myrskytuuli]

That burger poll reminds me, I'm going to have to find out a picture of a finnish rye bread burger. I think it might either kill or bring transcendental joy to an american.

[myreia]

It's been two years since I played Endwalker. It is the expac that I have spent the most time digesting by far, and I think I still haven't come to terms with just how much I dislike the forced time loop and Kairos for what it does to Venat's general characterization, writing and relationship to the WoL.

I've tried to write a post dissecting this multiple times, but it always ends up becoming a mess because there's just too much to say and the writing I'm discussing is janky and riddled with issues. I'd give Endwalker more grace if it wasn't for this one character and this one plot beat, but because I've received backlash for being critical of her writing in the past, I'm being stubborn about it.

I'm generally pretty flexible about most fictional things, so it is extremely weird to be in a position where this one bit of writing makes me want to chew glass.

Unfortunately Venat is too important to the overall story to ignore or sweep under the rug.

It's her knowing everything in advance that breaks her character for me—the pre-determination from the closed time loop. I wouldn't have issues if she had lost her memories to Kairos, too—in fact, I'd probably love her. If she went into the Final Days not knowing anything about Meteion or the future world, and the Sundering was an unexpected consequence of the Hydaelyn v Zodiark fight (as it is implied in Shadowbringers), then I wouldn't take issue. Or if the game actually cared to show her trying to avert the crisis but nothing works, and make it a "you can't fight prophecy" kind of thing. Or to show her concerns being dismissed by the Convocation and double-down on them not budging and not believing her.

But instead they imply that she followed the WoL's information to the letter to connect the timelines, and didn't tell anyone about Meteion or the Final Days and let her world walk right into that unprepared. And then instead of Hydaelyn's actual summoning and fight with Zodiark, we got a metaphorical cutscene that, while very beautiful, is a pretty shallow musing on 6.0's themes.

I could even give the time travel a pass (even though I think it's a really weak way of giving the WoL the information they need about Meteion) if they didn't let her keep her memories. But the way they do it in game, Venat has no agency in her own story because her actions are pre-determined. It's a prime example of “look at the pretty spectacle and don't think about it too hard”.

I don't think the writing does a good enough job at actually letting you have an organic relationship with Venat. The story is too rushed; the game relies on assumptions, headcanons, and sentimental/meta nostalgia (the "has your journey been good?" line) to make it work, which is why she's such a divisive character. It's personal because we've all fleshed her out in some way with our own ideas. But I didn't leave Elpis feeling like Venat and I were friends or that we were connected. I left feeling like she was a stranger I knew for 24 hours max and somehow she decided that she loved me and put me on a pedestal, then decided to throw out her own world (that she says she loves) for the sake of mine based on a few stories.

This whole premise falls apart for me because the writing never sold me on Hermes' perspective, or that the Ancient's world being a broken paradise doomed for failure. They didn't explore it enough to pull that off. We needed to see the lands beyond Elpis, which is a research facility and should not be considered the norm. Ancient society has its problem for sure; it's an extremely flawed society, but no more than everyone else. This especially falls flat coming after the expac that had Eulmore.

What happened to "to ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom—it is indolence"? Sorry Louisoix, apparently that no longer applies if it's Hydaelyn doing it.

The scenes where Venat talks about her travels and how much she loves the world just don't feel genuine to me at all. I think it is better in FR and JP, but in ENG she sounds like a western tourist who Eat Pray Loved her way across a foreign country and came back "enlightened". Which sucks because out of all the new characters introduced in 6.0, Venat has so much potential! She has the makings of a phenomenal character! But there are too many execution problems, and her writing is hurt by the fact that the game is so scared of you thinking she's flawed. The game's inability for the WoL and the Scions to criticize her actions or view her in anything but a positive light hurts her writing.

I worry a lot about posting this because criticizing Venat's writing hasn't gone well in the past. If I sound sensitive, it's because she carries a lot of ffxiv social baggage for me.

I no longer play with the group I started ffxiv with. A couple people within that group got upset when I started thinking critically about her character because I thought it was interesting to give the WoL a difficult relationship with her. Eventually I had to leave because I couldn't stay in a place where I was being ignored, talked over, and cut out from doing group content because of my opinions about a fictional character.

It was a crappy situation all around tbh, and I don't really ever want a repeat of it.

[new-berry]

Personal nonsense. TW Quite violent

Fully recovered from the trauma of the vet visit and the bee sting.

[grineerios]

what do you call a lazy sentient

... an idle-on.

[optiwashere]

I'm tired of pretending that Shadowheart in clown makeup isn't hot

[springmagpies]

Me with like all of my ships: they are the ship. And you know what I fucking mean it every time. No lie.