#the series has existed for a while

[st-hedge]

Sometimes people will say they want a new game within a series but then also say they didn’t like any of the new changes/additions in the existing continuations. U want a remake, not a new game

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[raticalshoez]

Was thinking of my post about dream teams and got really invested in whatever Unrequited Hate has going on

[mobius-m-mobius]

#a man who DESERVES A SLICE OF PIE

[fisheito]

I started reading beastars so now HE's reading beastars .wait

THEY'RE reading beastars

[constellation-sapphic]

Hey I'm fucking tired of people complaining that WL is too different to the other series's. So what. What happened to leaving nice comments on the videos because other people were already being rude to people in the group. I'm sorry that it ain't giving you the narrative drama you seem to think they owe you. It's Minecraft and they're having fun. Fuck off

[jez-bez]

You have your Phukan and I have my Phukan in my world too. [...] Different paths lead to different futures. If you want a future with Phu, stop being a coward.

The juxtaposition in this image is beautiful and scary at the same time. Where our Cir is standing in a completely empty white room that resembles a padded cell/seclusion room, reflecting as Mame calls it 'a person with a blank brain, representing Cirrus mind in our world' - OtherWorld!Cir is standing in a seemingly functional operations room.

As we've come to learn in this scene (and in the bts!) Other World!Cir is the brains behind this all. He's the one who shows our Cir the dream sequence with Phu. ("How does it feel to see a different future?")

And I wonder, if the multiverse truly exists and it isn't just in Cir's mind (an argument can be made that's it's happening inside his head anyway but that's besides the point kdjbfkjsdf) and OtherWorld!Cir is the brains behind it - then how many Cir's were too cowardly to reply to Phu back in high school? How many Cir's never actually got together with him? How many Cir's have never broken free from his mother's control over them? How many times has OtherWorld!Cir seen his/their own cowardice ruin every Cir's lives?

How long did it take OtherWorld!Cir before he had to step in and take control? And how many times has it not worked, the Cir from those universes too ruined beyond repair to ever live a normal life?

The questions are endless and I'm so interested in learning more about him, though I doubt we will.

[todayisafridaynight]

[sparklecarehospital]

Sometimes I wonder how I'm ever gonna be able to work on the other Spinch stories I have, I have so many ideas for things but only so much fixation power

[mabaris]

another thing that i just noticed is that the dwarves have now had done to them by the elves what we’d thought the elves had done to them by humans, at least before inquisition. cut down in their peak and permanently ruined, left to scrabble for the broken pieces of their history

not to say it’s an inherently bad choice because oppression isn’t that straightforward, but it sure was an interesting choice to shift the “they destroyed our way of life and fractured our society and we ARE allowing ourselves to feel angry about it and reclaim our history and maybe use that to rebuild what we once had” narrative from the elves to the dwarves. like if that’s the story you really wanted to tell, you could have also given it to like. bellara

[randomnameless]

I seriously hilarious how after a year people are still treating Engage like it burned their spouses and fucked their crops. If they love "moral grayness writing" that much, they have tons of other rpgs with similar themes to play, 8 seasons of Game of Thrones to watch and lots of grimdark fantasy books to read.

Seriously, there's only 3 times (if we want to count 3h that badly) where this franchise has tried to explote more nuanced and complex plots, and those games were the Tellius duology and the Jugdral games. The rest have milquetoast fantasy rpg plots. Why they sticking with FE when it's clearly not the franchise for these kinds remains an enigna.

Mmh,

I wouldn't say GOT's seasons are grim d4rk, imo they're trash in the same vein as the Kadarshians TV show, you're watching it to see how ruined things will be

(c'est quoi l'équivalent US/UK de l'émission "les marseillais"? )

I feel like Martin's books were more in the lines of "deconstruction then reconstruction" of the "traditional" fantasy tropes, with his own choice of depicting very grim and dark things that participate in the "deconstruction" side of his works... even if at times it borders on misery porn and, tbh, misogyny.

Fantasy settings, in general, always have some sort of monarchy and morale of "the good/rightful king returns home and everything is better!" - you can add some twists here and there, but in general, and especially FE, it's that kind of frame. We're not in game where Bob and John feel like Hector charges them too much for the sewer tax, and file a claim to his court to be discharged from paying said tax.

I'm not saying you can't add twists and add some sort of depth to the game, hell the Tales of franchise often tries to add some greater theme to their general "hero with a sword whacks people and is ultimately involved in a greater quest to save the world while eating appel gels", Symphonia tries to tackle racism and how being a victim or racism doesn't give you a pass to create concentration camps to turn people you see as "inferior beings" as fuels/devices to upgrade you and your chosen ones (even if that plot point utterly vanished when the MC goes "i wish we could have been friends" which is, uh, I guess where i found Kishimoto's inspiration for Obito I guess), Abyss tackles the existential crisis of clones/people created to be spares, do they have the right to exist beyond the purpose of their original creation or not? - etc etc.

Funny how you mention Tellius, because IMO, Tellius is even more shaky/wonky than Fodlan (or at least it's a serious competition) with its general message of "racism BaD but miscegenation BaD too" which is, uh... well.

That leaves Jugdral with all of the stuff it wanted to convey - and managed to do while being a SNES duology (I think?) - and yet Jugdral is, at its core, a story of "rightful heir returns to his throne" with some emphasis, especially in FE5, on what "rightful" means but the premise is the same, it's not Dalshin who's going to become the Lord of New Thracia, it's Leif because Leif is Quan'n'Ethlyn's son : his journey in FE5 is all about learning to become a good leader/king.

Back to your post, if people want a game where you "smash the patriarchy" and bring "the revolution"... well, the FE series is not (or wasn't, who knows how it will turn out to be in the near future) for you.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The one thing about thinking about the clockers is that I don't think they work quite as well as a literal based in concrete canon and every thing that brings with it, so much as they're like. Two steps back looking at the big picture (themes and allegory or something ig. Or an AU almost. Or a story being told inside the story)

Because to an extent I don't think clockers works as well when you try to put them in with everything that happened before Limited Life, unless you see Clockers not as a literal family unit but rather a sort of... Not found family, but constructed family? Like a story they've made up for themselves as an odd round about way to cope with the Death Games.

And this would apply to and explain other relationships that pop up too, like jokes about marriage and divorce. Like Bdubs and Etho in Last Life. Because maybe it's just a bit easier to understand a divorce than it is to understand the world tearing you apart from your closest friend and demanding that you kill or be killed, and it would be so much easier if you were being separated because you were mad at each other, and it was your choice, and you could pretend you have some modicum of control over the situation

So then the clockers, the flower husbands, divorce duo, the ahasbands, would all just be constructed relationships to fill missing holes, to explain their actions and events around them, and to bring some sense of familiarity and stability to this chaos

[trees-to-meet-you]

Btw I’m actually a little behind on the pjo series so I’m only on like. Episode 5. But I’m getting to the end of it and I just wanna say I love Annabeth so much I love her and I love Leah Sava Jeffries they’re both incredible

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I'm having sad thoughts about Jacques again. About how he only seems like someone who has things figured out and is put together because we are seing him by very biased lens.

We are seing him by Lemony's eyes. The eyes of a man who idolized his older brother, who wanted to be like him. The eyes of someone who tends to either be extremely judgy or see everyone as better than himself and idealize them (often both at the same time).

We are in a different level seing him by the eyes of the Baudelraies. But they know little of Jacques and what they know is mostly that this is a man their parents knew, that promises answers and more important an adult that for the first time looks at Olaf in disguize and sees Olaf. Their view is biased at best.

We are also seing him by Quingleys eyes. But for Quingley Jacques was the man who found him lost in a tunnel alone and confused, griving and in danger and gave him something. That gave him some answers and food and a place to stay even if it was the abandoned house of one of his dead friends.

And even by everyone else Jacques is a Snicket, the Snickets are very competent and mostly loyal but also a bit weird. And Jacques is all that. But in comparrison to his sibblings? He has his life put together.

That's to say that Jacques is likely tired, overworked, traumatized and failing apart. But he can keep himself suave, well-read, well-dressed and calculating. He isn't taking obvious risky behavior like Kit. And he certainly isn't just a blurried bunch of trauma in a fedora like Lemony. So he appears to be someone that is fine. And that we shoudn't worry about.

[idl3dr3ams]

wow the later episodes are like way more amusing to me now bc its all lies

I'm going through my storyboard and making sure I can still realistically do what I was planning

and i can. i definitely can. but there is not an ounce of truth in anything she says until the one episode that i won't talk about anymore than this

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

ae recently learned that it’s likely that the impact of the meteor itself is not what wiped out the dinosaurs, but rather the meteor essentially disintegrating immediately and polluting the air that killed them