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[henryshaa]

Couples Therapist discusses The Ultimatum

[loveletterworm]

TOBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOBY THIS IS GOING TO AFFECT THE TROUT POPULATION!!!!!!!

[themagnusarchivesblog]

TMA Entity

[handfulofspoons]

A useless ray of godamn sunshine.

Close your eyes.

Blood, gore and spoilerwarning.

[trepans-apprentice]

HAPPY LATE FUCKING FATHERS DAY TO MY REAL FATHER

I LOVE YOU TREPAN <333 NUMBER ONE DAD. THAT RIGHT THERE THATS MY FATHER I LOVE HIM DEARLY @kittyking445 KEEPS TRYING TO KILL MY DAD </3

anyways ive spent the last hour and a half collecting every time hes in the comics. again spoilerwarning lmao

[td-rarepairs]

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SCARY GIRL SPOKE TO RAJ (platonic ofc) SCARAJ NATION (two people wbk) WE WON

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[justproshiprants]

reminds me of when a person joined my 18+ dead dove server - they pushed past my several layers of checking they were comfy. Then decided to get pissy at a spoilerwarned noncon prompt - then decided to bring it outside of the server and complain to anyone who would listen

Who just happened to be a minor and I had to tell not to get involved because of there age, though even the kid still found it funny that they ignored the warnings and were still bitching

It's definitely annoying how common this sort of behavior is from antis. I'm very grateful that the individual I'm referring to luckily only seems to be bothering a single individual about this, and while it's funny on some level, it's still annoying. I tag my fics with relevant trigger warnings for a reason. In sending screenshots of my fic to people without permission or any sort of warning, they entirely defeat the point of having those warnings in the first place.

[bigmack2go]

WHAT A SUPRISE! MACKJ NOT BEING ABLE TO KEEP SHIT TO THEM SELVES!! (Sneak peak to my new chapter. (Spoilerwarning (sorta(?))))

@ykthefancyclamwiththepearlinside

[diaphin93]

My Thoughts on Dawntrail

So, Dawntrail has been out alot, but still spoilerwarning for the MSQ up until 7.0. This is not an indepth analysis of Dawntrail by any means, but more of my personal thoughts on how I felt about the story and contrasting it with how I feel about The War Within, which I think managed to deliver the first storytelling W for World of Warcraft since both games are running simultaneously.

For context, I do play both Games and I'm both positive and negative about certain aspects of both. For example, I feel strongly about Modern World of Warcraft just offering more than FF14 in terms of content, even if FF14 has alot of content that can be well replayed after it isn't current anymore. I enjoy general healer gameplay and tanking in WoW more, but also feel like FF14 being well able to compete through its great visuals and occassional innovative class design choices. I feel like World of Warcraft entered a golden age of class design since DF, while FF14 is currently in the midst of a very grim dark age.

And I have to admit, I started off kinda lukewarm on Dawntrail. I was on a prolonged hiatus and played more World of Warcraft or Singleplayer Games through most of Endwalker, but got hooked right back into the game a few months prior to Dawntrail release, slowly catching up with the story. I wasn't really hot about the initial premise, Endwalkers initial MSQ being an emotionally invested rolercoaster ride following Shadowbringers, concluding the entirety of the story so far and the entire Zero Chapter and the 13th being kind of more interesting for me personally, but wrapped up rather fast. In retrospect, I kinda felt sad about how many year long engaging plotlines, the war against the garleans, the ascians and the primals, where just concluded in one sweeping go, especially the end of the Garlean Empire being bitter to me, as it was my favorite plotline, adding alot of the narratives nuances, world building and depth into it.

Though I was still happy to play the story, really excited about the new classes and I was open about playing through it all. I kinda liked the idea of a succession contest and I actually liked Wuk Lamat well enough. I think Sena Bryer is not the best voice actress, but she has an endearing and authentic quality to how she voices Wuk, my biggest issue being her performance really crashing apart badly whenever she has to raise her voice. Though, as opposed to many, I don't really dislike Wuk. I think her story does not deliver in the slightest on her potential and that she remains overly static, but my bigger issue really was the inclusion of Alphinaud and Alisaie, who just well mandatorily shoved in because of Fan Demand. I guess there is a problem of both of their character arcs being concluded and them not feeling that distinct anymore, more like a package. Without the narrative being centered on their growth and maturing as people, they also feel a bit bland to me, compared to the other scions. I generally feel like Raha should have been included into the story instead, maybe a bit more Estinien as well, to let the newcomers have an adventure without the stakes being at an all time high for once. Rahas presence also would have helped Krile alot I think, because they just play off each other very well.

Going into the story, I just feel large portions of it were just really boring. The trials felt alot like side quests and I think the slowburn combined with the lack of voice acting and real battle content really made me mentally numb through alot of it. The cultures were encounter felt less interesting to me than in the past, especially since their presentation just came off as dry. And really, this made the lack of battle content and actual gameplay inside the quests very noticable. I personally also think the truth about the blessed siblings really fell apart for me, because while it was horrible how the Mamool Ja deliberately tried to breed two-headed ones, in their obsession with reclaiming their former glory, I just don't understand what the conclusion to it is supposed to tell us, as it turns out that they're simply the result of the different mamool ja tribes intermixing and the offspring having a high mortality rate, so it kinda feels like the conclusion is anti-miscegenation. I think that part of the story would have come together better if there was some more sinister method behind their creation.

But until then, yeah, it was well servicable. Us stopping right at our tracks after finding the Golden City was annoying, but what really broke the camels back to me was how we are forced through Shaaloani for some wild west side adventure afterwards, basically killing any excitement for the story up to this point. I personally also just don't like the whole wild west setting of Shaaloani, as it just felt just too far off from the rest of Yok Tural. So we are off to a very bad start for part 2 of the MSQ, which only gets worse when the real actual starts. I hate that the entire section of the alexandrian invasion on Tuliyollal is not playable and just cutscene after cutscene, way to keep us distant from the drama and action happening there. I also really dislike the aesthetics, but more on that later. We are off to even more fetch quests until we can finally board the train to attack the dome and...yeah. The story really falls apart here for me.

I really, really hate the entirety of Alexandrias aesthetics. First off...they are not Alexandria. They bear no semblance to the aethetics of FF9 Alexandria outside of the ruins of the oldtown and just don't really feel fitting for FF14 in the slightest. Modern Aspects worked well with Garlemald and Amauroth, because they still had a fantastical edge to it and looked unique, something that I will always immediately associate with this game. Alexandria on the other hand does just look like any generic cyberpunk city. And we are in the midst of enemy territory but just nothing happens. Its all peace and sunshine after they caused massive slaughter in the country we were supposed to feel attached to at this point and instead its basically just one sightseeing tour, where it feels like the game actively forces us to be in awe and wonder about how great it is there. Then there is Sphene who was really unlikable to me. I don't understand why so many people hate Wuk Lamat and sing praises to Sphene. I think what gets me is how the story forces itself to forget the elephant of the room, that she is the queen of the nation that just attacked us, and just sings praises about how kind and nice she is. I don't use the term Mary Sue lightly on female characters, I love to use it much more on men, lol, but she feels this way in how the narrative seems to try to bend over backwards in framing, which I just didn't find endearing at any moment and probably made me feel indifferent to her entire story.

I also feel like Alexandrias practices of turning souls into a currency, harvesting them and feeding them into the populace to creat a decadent faux immortality to everyone able to afford them, was never treated with the necessary gravitas and disgust. They invaded a world that never did them the slightest harm and slaughtered its people to rip out their souls, for gods sake. In every other story, this would be a nightmarish moral event horizon, while Dawntrails heavy handing and parody-like theme of understanding basically just treated it like a quirk of them we might not like, but have to respect. It feels like a parody of how the narrative treated the ascians, where we saw their humanity, saw the desperation and reasons behind what they do finally, but still could firmly stand in opposition to them, because the idea of us having to die so that they can restore their idealistic world was inheritly unfair. Dawntrail lacked this. And Dawntrail over and over displayed a near insistance of killing every sense of tension and stakes build by its own narrative, because right after Sphene decides to become the second coming of Endsinger, we go through a theme park sightseeing tour. It doesn't help that in a setting in which souls are a real physical thing we have already seeing and interacted with, killing AI Engrams just does not have any gravity to me. It works in traditional Cyberpunk Settings, where the soul is a much more abstract concepts.

So yeah, what I really disliked the most was DT killing every bit of tension the second it build up. Meanwile, I think the TWW Storyline not only had a better antagonist, but also just a better story experience where the action of the gameplay, even if its fairly simple, was combined well with the narrative at hand, with it making the great choice of relegating most of the zone lore to side content that can be used as alternative level routes for alts while keeping the main story focussed on the characters and the conflict at hand. I also think that the Azj-Kahet quests kinda handled the seeing the humanity in the people invading us better. Its more interesting firstly, because the people of Azj-Kahet are literally beastlike spider-people we so far only faced as an invading swarm and touring the city is a much less lingering endeavor and happens while connecting political players planning a rebellion and recovering a lost ally who had been kidnapped.

I think I will still regularily look into FF14 and resubscribe with new content patched, but currently its crazy to say, but World of Warcraft has the story that got me more hooked this time around. The zones are also really much more fun to explore, I love World of Warcrafts Zone Design and how the game gives you ample reason to be in the open world. There is also the current state of Dark Knight, my favorite class, which is just not fun in the slightest, I'm still hoping for an emergency class revamp in one of the 7.x patches, but otherwise my only hopium is Dark Knight getting a full on revamp with 8.0.

[wheniminouterspace]

Thoughts on Shoyo's Brazil arc?

Greatest arc for all the mentally ill out there. It really showed that "Hey. Is something really not working for you? And You want to really make it. Go to the drawing board. Start from scratch" and our baby boy did! It was really really really hard to read. Parts of it. How little things matter. Shoyo inspires me. Furudate Sensei says that Shoyo is his sunshine character. And he truly is one 🥹

Can't wait Ninja Shoyo to be animated.

#spoilerwarning

okay thoughts on BRAZIL BABY. idk if it's because I just finished reading the ball boy arc but it feels very similar. a very frustrating journey that only he can make. alone. that's backed by STRONG motive to be better.

yeah, it was hard to read because what do you mean SUNSHINE BOY is having a hard time doing what he loves, what he's GOOD at. not to drop a "instinct is something you polish" here, but that's what he did. you're right. go to the drawing board and start from scratch.

and I think shoyo took this step because he's had the idea before during the shiratorizawa camp. brazil, to me is only Brazil arc because a) distance b) time skip. but the doubt, the frustration, the drive, the fear of being left behind. they're all there. that's the thing with furudate and these damn seeds that pop as unsuspecting 🌱 throughout.

idk if this was coherent and cohesive but THOUGHTS.

and when he's back, he's done it all. he did it. he made it. with the help of all kinds of people (hehe) ninja shoyo rises from the sands of rio, and you know where he goes from there.

but also yes, brazil's distance is the biggest factor i can't pretend doesn't change everything and that fucked things harder than ushiwaka's "what are you doing here then" or tobio's "I'm going ahead". those things may have hurt but they pushed him to go further. in brazil he was more alone than he ever was, and sunshine boy is beaten down almost for the first time since we've seen him. he is on the verge. and then we meet argentina's setter to remind us, to push us.

[peantisdeliriouts]

Once I had a guy interact with my dead dove blog quite a bit so I invited them to my dead dove server I told them that the upper channels cover dark fiction (I didn't get into specifics) and they said something along the lines of (thats fine because of the books I read) and i was "Great! I will invite you!" so I invited them, and then we had manual role giving at the time. so I asked them if they wanted access to the upper channels. they said yes. they were fine for a bit - but then i put a spoilerwarned noncon prompt. AND THATS WHEN they started freaking out and being really rude. They were surprised when they were then booted from the server and called us all toxic. I suppose I could have been more specific at the start (we have remedied that now) but like... I still asked several times whether they would be ok, and they didn't heed anything I said, and they didn't ask any qualifying questions, only to be like "wtf" when you have already seen it?? It was truly a bizarre entitled display, we do "are you interested" checks for a REASON good sir.

"This freak server has FREAKS in it who like freaky kinks? WHAT THE FUCK!?" Is basically the only reaction I can imagine happening here.

You asked this dude if they were interested and OK with dark topics because they literally interact with a dead dove blog and when they finally get to the server they realize the answer is actually no.

How does one even get to this point????

[dr0wnmyselfinwhiskey]

on an unrelated note, I finished Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty two days ago and I just can't get over the ending I got... like wtf?!?

Spoilerwarning under the cut obviously

I got the Phantom Liberty ending where V hands Songbird over to Reed if he promises to provide her a medical team that removes the relic from her brain.

And I wanted this for V in my first playthrough because all the original endings are so dark with V ultimately dying after some time.

But this...? I mean, yeah, V survives, they live but at what f*cking cost?!? They lose literally everything. Their health, their implants, their job, almost all of their friends and relationships, the lives of everyone they know and cared about go to shit, Johnny is gone forever, they didn't even really manage to save Songbird...

what the ever living f*ck, CD Projekt?? I bawled my eyes out at the bleakness of this.

I know this universe is supposed to be dark and gritty and everything, but I would've wished for at least a tiny spark of hope. An ever so faintly sliver of a bright spot on the horizon.

Well, guess not, so I'll be gladly taking the Sun ending I got in my first playthrough, where at least I went down flags flying as a legend of the Afterlife, thanks.

[ezraweasley]

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Seriously, If you haven't seen the movie you've been warned... This was a great, what the moment in the movie, so of course he did this.

[labuna]

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For the 1. and 6.case of V3(Just in Case)

"But His fate was sealed."

Alternative Version with Kaede's shotpot:

(it Looks pretty different because it's a bit older and i was trying different Styles)

[chosenimagines]

Spoilerwarning Season 8 Brooklyn Nine Nine

KEVIN AND HOLT BROKE UP?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!? HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN LOVE WHEN NOT EVEN THEY CAN LAST

i am done with love 

[huaschengs]

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