#rf

[crimes-chevalresques]

I cannot stress enough that women can't save men from themselves. Women can't be there in the boys' locker rooms, they can't shield them from other drunk men at football matches. Women can't control the media their coworkers consume, they can't stop their brothers from watching violent pornography. It's not even a matter of saving or prioritising ourselves over men, though we are well within our rights to do so. We physically can't be there. I solemnly swear that every man I come across, I aim to make them just uncomfortable enough so as to offer them a small way out of their terrible view of the world. I just can't pull them out.

[ryllen]

martin oh martin

[starspice-y]

In my 3D Studio Art class we had to make enlarged objects out of cardboard, so my made my 3DS running my favorite game, Rune Factory 4 :D

If I had more time I would have made it waaaaayy more polished, but I'm proud of what I finished with :)

[gomoraly]

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

[sillymanzy]

Tried again with with rf!

[ranchstoryblog]

Merch Alert: Rune Factory 1, 2, and 3 "Retro Cafe" themed goods and more fluffy Story of Seasons animals plushes!

New Rune Factory merch from GraffArt! They’re currently up for preorder on the EEO store and the line-up includes acrylic standees, tin pins, and a clear case featuring the new artwork.

Each character featured on the clear cases above has their own acrylic stand/pin that can be purchased in a blind bag or in sets. Previous line-ups are also still available.

Meanwhile, in Story of Seasons land, big and fuzzy plushes of our bestest friends, cow and chicken, will be showing up in stores around Japan in the second week of November. There's a list of stores here, but if you're like me, you'll probably just be waiting for resellers to put 'em on on Mercari or whatever.

[trybard]

bluesky | twitter

[pinkhutia]

the way ive seen people get told to take down informative posts about health/safety (esp ones directed at women) bc "op is a terf" like.... is ideological purity more important than women's health and saf- ohhh right. right

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

When life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a momma bear by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Momma teaching life skills to her young bear cub (you can see by the dirt on their noses they had been digging for food).

[runefactorynonsense]

I exalt the wolves and unicos a lot, but, fun fact; the Elefuns are my favorite Rune Factory monsters

[crimes-chevalresques]

I wish there was a convenient/shorthand way to distinguish the different uses of the term 'gender' in mainstream politics. For example, the way 'gender' was used by Beauvoir (socialisation/imposed limitations) v.s. Wittig (artificial social categories) v.s. Butler (performance) v.s. Stoller (identity) v.s. 'Bible' (bioessentialist). I feel like it would make some debates so much easier.

I understand to an extent why we use the same word to encompass all these notions. They are interpretations. The term precedes its definitions. Nevertheless, it has rendered so many texts/interviews incomprehensible without correct context and, in worse cases, fuelled conflict that should not have been there in the first place.

Most radfems use the Beauvoir/Wittig definitions. Most current lgbtq+ activists use the Stoller definition. Most transmedicalists use Stoller/'Bible' definitions. I'm not sure who uses Butler's definition properly other than queer theorists, but I'll have to admit I'm having a hard time getting through the literature myself, so maybe I'm wrong about that.

I'm sure there's more definitions I'm missing, and the same definitely goes for 'sex' also. I feel like I always need to keep a little glossary in mind, depending on who I talk to. You can't be caught using Stoller definitions in right-wing spaces, and you can't be caught using Beauvoir definitions in queer spaces. People will think you're picking a fight.

[ryllen]

End of discussion

[liquial]

Water Ruins pt.2 ✧ Rune Factory 4

[gomoraly]

Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma - Bachelorettes of Azuma

[thunderberryz]

So wait a second...

In official Rune Factory 4 lore, Ventuswill was supposed to die many, many centuries ago. It's uncertain how many, but it's generally accepted that Leon likely became the first Guardian around 1000 years ago. The big thing is that, in theory, Ventuswill's natural lifespan could have been much longer with no need for Guardians or Rune Spheres, but she was born in a land where the runes were beginning to die out and was thus weak. The Earthmates creating the Rune Spheres was as much about restoring runes to the land as it was saving Ventuswill because while the world can go on without Ventuswill, the world cannot go on without runes. Without runes, the land becomes barren, crops won't grow, and all life eventually ends.

Now, I don't know much about Rune Factory 2 since I haven't actually played it (and anyone who has is free to correct me on the below points), but from what I've read online in terms of the lore, Fiersome's apocalypse would have happened a thousand years ago had the ancient Earthmates not placed their seal on him--roughly when Ventuswill was originally supposed to expire. And every thousand years, the seal on him has to be renewed; if not, the world is destined to be destroyed in Fiersome's raging apocalyptic hellfire, after which Terrable will awaken and restore life to the charred landscape at the cost of eliminating whatever remaining life has survived--in other words, a total rebirth of the planet.

Between the close timing of these two past events--the point that Ventuswill's life was originally supposed to end and the point when the seal was placed on Fiersome--and the fact they were to occur when the world's runes were starting to dry up, the Earthmates both past and present have been staving off the inevitable End of the World for centuries. The world, as we know it, could have been destroyed a thousand years ago as it was supposed to, but the Earthmates said "Nope! It's too nice to let it all die!" and have done everything they can to extend its lifespan.

And that's when we get to Rune Factory 5 and an incredibly dark statement from the main antagonist, Gideon. According to Gideon, Alice/Ares is the last known Earthmate--not the last, but there are so few Earthmates that if there are any others left, they're most likely in hiding and are on their way to becoming an extinct species. Now, Ventuswill's longevity has been ensured thanks to the actions of Lest/Frey during RF4 and she'll probably still be munching on pancakes in 1000 years, but if the Earthmates wind up going extinct, there's no way to restore Fiersome's seal because only Earthmates are capable of renewing the magic used to keep him locked up. And Fiersome is not the only godlike creature capable of causing the world's inevitable destruction; Tides of Destiny gave us the Legendary Golem, whose cataclysmic battle with the Native Dragons led to the creation of the current world, and RF5's potential apocalypse was that of the Fathomless Dread, an eldritch abomination that literally had to be sealed in another dimension to prevent it from destroying the world.

The Rune Factory world has brushed time and time again with total annihilation and the only reason it has managed to avoid catastrophe was because there was an Earthmate around to stop it. What happens when there are no longer any Earthmates to stop the end of all? Or is it possible that the Earthmates are going to experience a revival of some sort? Besides a castle-esque design, the logo for Rune Factory 6 does suspiciously feature a seraph/halo motif, after all...