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I add truffle butter (homemade by myself with both real truffles and fancy butter) to ramen. I’m gonna fry prosciutto till it’s actually crisp. I refuse to touch sushi cause I hate both rice vinegar and raw fish but if I have to I’ll fry the fish on the stove right in front of you and make the rice into fried rice. Unless it’s eel, that shit is good as is. Caviar is disgusting and I weep for the fish you’ve taken the life of because sturgeon can live as long, or longer than a human and that’s a damn shame what people do for them, one of the oldest fish species who are massive and beautiful and dinosaurs. At least some other fish will always die after they release so I can understand taking from them at the end of their life. Sometimes I just pour beer salt in my mouth cause it’s so good and because of my disabilities it’s actually helpful. I think all wine not made from apples are disgusting and I couldn’t care how old or fancy that bottle is, but if you buy champagne just to pour out the bottle in front of me, you can catch these hands. That is a person’s livelihood right there and you are so disrespectful of them.
You are allowed to have your favorite foods, random food combos that others thing are gross. Food rules don’t have to apply because you are the one who controls your diet. I don’t care if you put ketchup on sushi and anyone who does is a moron who can’t respect others. As long as you respect that food and don’t waste it, it’s okay. You are also allowed to have morals. I can’t stand caviar but the reason I’m so against it is because of sturgeon being killed at like 4 years old when they’re a species that can live as long as a human. I don’t like the fact that buying champagne just to pour the bottle out (the worst disrespect I can think of to a food in general) is an actual common thing in France.
Food doesn’t have to follow rules. It doesn’t have to be seen as insulting to see someone else eat differently than you.
Anyways. Don’t eat the rich, they’re all full of plastic and cancer. Just slaughter them. Go find a truffle pig in the apocalypse and farm with them randomly bringing you truffles all year that you lovingly can in brine to keep them safe, so you guys can add that shit to anything you feel like with your lesbian wife who’s churning butter and slap some truffle and butter on a rainbow trout.
Be kind to what you eat. Don’t waste needlessly.
#anyways. the ramen was a teaser lmao my blood sugar was low#the real breakie is gonna be eggplant slices fried in more truffle butter with herbs#but yeah sturgeon caviar makes me cry#why are they killed so young for something so small#one of the few dinosaurs we have left in the world#lake sturgeon can get longer than a human is tall#they can be even hundreds of years#I year to protect the fish but not normal fish. the scary ones#because no one ever sings the praises of fish that are wild and scary and huge and powerful#Steve Irwin would understand me
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. ��black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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How do you. How do you NOT expect a wizard to want to become immortal??? Like hi person with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and wonder for the world and burning desire to know how everything works and recreate it. You only get max 100 years to experience it all. Sorry.
So OF COURSE wizards pursue immortality. It’s in their nature. It’s what makes them wizards. Sure, you can talk about the loneliness of living forever and the boredom of not having an end but guess what else doesn’t have an end. Science. I’ll be very content travelling the world, helping people, and publishing my 39th paper on the solvent properties of moonflowers in potions while you’ve been lying in a grave for 200 years, thanks.
The problem is societal stigma against research into necromancy, which pushes young wizards away from studying ethical and safe methods of immortality and forces them to rely on untested, volatile myths about lichdom, inevitably creating yet another “evil necromancy wizard”. You think they would turn to such means if they had proper support? Proper resources?? You branded them as heretical and insane first! Why are you surprised that desperate, isolated, and stigmatized individuals become what you make them?
Wizards believe that life has more to offer than unfulfilled dreams and a sudden end. And the wizard is RIGHT.
#doesn’t even have to be true immortality!#give me a few hundred more years! I’ll take what I can get!#honestly where does the line between healing and necromancy blur?#a cleric brings someone back to life and it’s a ‘miracle’#wheras when I-#wizardposting#wizard#wizardblr#fantasy#worldbuilding
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what I learned from season 2 of IWTV is that a distressingly large amount of people cannot tell the difference between a consensual BDSM dynamic and assault/abuse, nor do they know anything about how kink actually works
it’s not unhealthy for Armand to be submissive or delve into maître/slave kink dynamics. in fact it’s something people do to explore and get past their traumas all the time irl. additionally, he is like five times older and more powerful than Louis, he wasn’t being forced to do anything, nor could Louis ever actually force him. the kink was probably the healthiest aspect of their relationship, what fucked them over was a jumble of commitment issues, a lack of trust, and eventual murder - which is something that would cause problems in any relationship ever, no matter how vanilla.
the Point of the tragedy is that they were on the precipice of something happy, but Louis hesitated for too long and Armand couldn’t recognize when he was loved, and the kink had nothing to do with it, for fuck’s sake. Louis wasn’t abusive and it’s not bad or wrong for Armand to want to be a sub -
#IWTV#interview with the vampire#the vampire armand#louis de pointe du lac#it’s always so fucking infantilizing too?? the man is 500yo guys he can make his own decisions#oh noooo he couldn’t possibly know what he wants :(( he’s just reacting out of trauma it’s like brainwashing :(((#?????#no???#he just wants to relax for once fucking let him#he’s been in charge of his own survival AND other people for hundreds of years#being a coven leader seems to be a herding cats type of position tbh#let him rest#that’s what his submission is#loumand#like I don’t even really ship them but GODDAMN#they could have actually been alright together if the cards fell different#amc iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#iwtv season 2#if I see another post claiming that the only way for Armand to have a good life is to never be anyone’s sub again I’m gonna scream#also this weird framing of Louis as an abuser just kinda feels racist#I’m probably not the person to speak on that but there’s Something abt that demonization that just doesn’t sit right#like yeah he was a dick. but largely in his head?? he didn’t do or say anything to Armand out loud
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Have you made any art of orcas? I can't seem to find any with Tumblr's broken tag search, so I figured I'd ask in case you haven't. Thank you, and I love all your art! It always puts a smile on my face when I see it. c: ❤️
I have! I was a couple years ago, I also can't find the original post. Broken website lol ;w; So here's a re-upload of The Whale because I am quite fond of this guy !!
[ID: a digital illustration of an orca facing to the right on a simple ocean background. Sunlight is filtering in from above, and there are small fish surrounding it. End.]
#orca#whale#whales#cetaceans#marine mammals#lots of whales and such in this upcoming creature mail series but this fella isnt one of them alas#aiming to get through some of the backlog of years of creatures and upload more designs to the ko-fi sticker shop and perhaps gallery#i need a better place to archive these drawings#theres too many of them now for the sad search and loading functions of any of the websites i use normally#maybe ill finally set up a creature club bestiary site so yall can search and browse through the hundreds of animals#will be fun to get an accurate count of how many ive drawn#it should be close to 500 by now.#once my dad asked me what i was gonna do when i ran out of animals to draw and i was like.#i could spend the rest of my life drawing beetles alone and not even come close lmao#anyway thank you for the sweet ask!!!
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one big thing I’ve learned by 29 is that the Plan, the God’s Plan of it all I mean, is bigger than me and not just bigger than me but also bigger than my understanding of narrative threads and their limitations. And it’s bigger even than just a simple paradox, turning-on-their-head thing way of being bigger. It’s just so vast. And there is so much room for surprise and possibility and hope in that reality.
#again. idk if that makes sense#but I am someone obsessed with the patterns and what the patterns are telling me#and it’s like. sometimes nothing! but also sometimes something!#there is no way to predict what will happen or what will be presented to me or what will unfold#both personally and in a more big picture way#based on what I feel or what I know or what I have already experienced#there are hundreds and millions of different possible combinations#I am making this sound more profound than the revelation is (and also more vague)#but I love to be like ‘oh being this way means THIS thing and this kind of thing always happens to this kind of person’#and actually. it just doesn’t?????? a million different things could happen and do happen every day that are unlikely and unpredictable#even when you think you’ve accounted for that by looking for the unexpected you still can’t tell#and I love that. used to hate that the future was shrouded in mystery#and I still sometimes do. but I am growing to love it#uncertainty and just the sheer not knowing feels better#and God IS surprising. life is surprising!#THAT I feel like I know#every day of my life I wake up and I pry open the blinds and I look out and say.#what is going to happen today#like I do kind of do that a little#or maybe it’s more. what has the night brought.#and you know what the world is so wide. not in terms of me being able to go anywhere travel-wise#or do anything dream-wise. but in terms of what can and DOES unfold every single day/week/month/year.#there are surprises in store! folded tucked away around the next corner#like I just.#I’m getting carried away but AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I never really share anything personal on here because I'm a pretty private person, but there's something so profound about getting passed down my Grandpa's old camera collection.
Like what do you mean he took pictures of my Grandma with them 30+ years ago? That the A-1 Canon that's now in my room was the camera that took my parents' wedding photos? I stuck a roll of film into the same place he did? The thought of him loving photography as much as I do is the most tear-jerking emotion I've ever experienced even if we're not that close.
I just got the A-1 Canon working again after upwards of 20 years of being unused and sitting in a cupboard. Hearing the shutter go off as I took a picture of my dog was something special, and I don't even think I can describe it in a way that makes sense. It was like I was holding my own family history in my hands.
I was genuinely surprised it was in such good condition in the first place - I barely had to do anything other than look over it to make sure nothing was broken and mess with a few areas of concern. My grandpa kept his A-1 in immaculate condition despite his pretty bad health; the same with his other cameras as well.
As much as I want to keep them all in a glass case and have them stay perfect, I can't imagine not using them the same way he did. Of course, up until I have to retire them for my own kids to use one day in just as pristine a state.
#random rambles from a nineteen-year-old who loves history and old stuff too much#I set all of them up in a few cubbies on my bookshelf for now until I can get the parts I need#I can't wait to get them working again - even if I have to sink a few hundred into repairs it'll be well worth it#I don't think I'd ever be able to work in a museum I'd cry at literally everything I see#so many stories#just felt that I needed to type this out#lots of emotions today
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Prompt 137
What happens after a Halfa dies? What happens when their bodies of flesh can no longer hold the power of their soul? What happens when they’re no longer alive despite the fact they can never truly die?
What happens when their soul finishes incubating in its cocoon of meat and bone that’s warped and twisted over an immeasurable amount of time? When the soul leaves a body that refuses to stay down because death is not an option?
What happens when a Halfa finishes incubating in their first form, and splits? What happens when mortals not understanding what they’re doing in their hubris, causes one to do so early?
#dcxdp#dpxdc#prompts#I mean could also be just Danny Phantom#But can you imagine a mind-reader being Slammed with the twisting emotions of something that was One but is now Two calling for its parents#Eldritch danny#Eldritch halfas#Halfas naturally split once they reach their limit#There was a reason Danny found it so easy to split himself temporarily after all#There are other Halfas out there and they have awoken#They had heard the scream#like others long sleeping amidst Infinity#But the realms are Infinite and slow to travel even with their great size#The GIW aren’t going to just be dealing with a newborn pair of Godeaters#but also several adult ones circling the world like sharks#Most ghosts are the equivalent of fish in the ocean#Gods are the sharks and seals#Halfas are a mixture of whales and serpents#It takes Hundreds of years for them to even get ready to split#Danny isn't even a newborn he's a fetus and was just torn in two by the GIW trying to separate the ghost and the human halves#They got what they wanted but it was a Mistake#Neither is human#They created monsters and now they must face the consequences of their hubris#One body of flesh and bone ripped asunder no longer alive yet not dead either#One body of spirit and soul bloomed anew with life yet never able to walk among the living#Also could potentially have halfa batfam members or other once familiar faces from different timelines and realms
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Grian: I am an adult. I am not a child. Treat me like an adult >:(
The watchers: Baby. Our little adorable baby.
yeah basically 😭
Grian reflects on how they spoke to him before in Evo, and realizes it was patronizing back then too, he just liked the praise
#ask#grian can even say he’s 25 and they’ll think that’s so small. like they’re hundreds of years old. 25 is nothing 👋#(grian is 25 in this au bc that was his age in Evo)#(it’s kinda funny writing this au bc I turn 25 this year wth)
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How absolutely wild must it have been for Nightmare to have like, minimum-to-no contact with mortals for hundreds of years and then the first two he has any regular close interactions with are Killer and Dust.
Like he must have a book in his castle somewhere of all the observations he kept like he was studying a new species
#UTDR#UTMV#Nightmare Sans#Killer Sans#Dust Sans#I could probably ramble for a while about the effect Killer had on him alone#But imagine being hurt by the world and carrying the grudge for hundreds of years while you wreak havoc all by yourself#And then you get one (1) roommate and he's so strange and unhinged but not at all what you expected#And then you get a second and he's so different again it's like they're different creatures even though they came from the same root world#And you get a third and he's a little more grounded but still has such wild needs and stipulations#By the time he got Cross he was probably onto his 3rd book of observations#If you dig around in Nightmare's library or office long enough I just know you can find at least one book where he's noted down what all hi#boys need and like and hate and what they refuse to do and how to handle them#Like someone leaving super detailed instructions for the care of their pampered beloved pet#Anyway Killer loves to joke to the other 3 that they should be nice to him because he ''let Nightmare adopt them''#and he's not entirely wrong#Anyway I need to go to bed so I can work all day tomorrow (rip) goodnight gang!!
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Headcanon that 90% of Sally Jackson's jewelry is from a jewelry box of heirlooms that her mother and grandmother wore, a collection that she'll one day pass down to Estelle after she's added her own jewelry to the collection and passed on.
#listen im all for “everyone can wear jewelry” im a guy that wears jewelry all the time#but theres something so special about the women in the family passing down their jewelry#the men have been able to leave their mark easily for hundreds of years while the women struggled#passing down jewelry is like saying “we have always been here and we always will be here”#i dont know its sweet#shed let percy wear the jewelry if he wanted tho#but something tells me that percy feminist Jackson would want estelle to have the collection#even if he sometimes borrows a thing or two#pjo#percy jackson#heroes of olympus#hoo#trials of apollo#toa#sally jackson appreciation post#sally jackson#pjo headcanon#sally jackson headcanon#percy jackson headcanon#btw theres DEFINITELY real gold and real pearls in the box
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nice to know that they haven't forgotten that he can just. do that
#the fandom is sleeping on the fact that he can do very high quality (but not long lasting) illusory magic#like. how does it work? it seems to be related to his anemo powers somehow but how does that even work#he's also very skilled at forgery and deception in general#(see: he was able to forge rex lapis' signature so accurately that it took historians hundreds of years to realise it was fake)#genshin spoilers#4.0 spoilers#technically? it's not really a spoiler but whatever idk#venti
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post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do
Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.
Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.
Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.
And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.
In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.
She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.
So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"
But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;
Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?
And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.
If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.
It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.
Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.
Or this shit,
If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.
Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.
Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.
(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)
#I wish I had more succinct and practical advice to give you besides the woman beam trick#Honestly I just kinda feel it out because I like telling stories about girls#I made it fun for myself by clapping and cheering and whooping and hollering whenever a girl does something#because it's not fun to write like a monk in a monastery#With the spectre of Brother Smockbimble looming over your shoulder telling you to Write Perfectly Every Time#Characters aren't real people. You can just fix it if you happen to fuck up or do better next time with what you learned.#Making mistakes is just part of acquiring skill#and writing is an art just like painting or drawing.#So don't make a fun OC project into homework! You should be enjoying making your own art! Express yourself!#Please understand that when I'm ripping into the series I'm being so harsh because it's bestselling corporate media#Read by HUNDREDS of thousands of kids worldwide#Raking in millions of dollars a year. Written by a TEAM of professionals.#So I have higher expectations of it than of a fandom rando on the internet. Or even a self-published author who's just One Guy.#Hence why I'm infinitely more charitable to Ratha than I am to Battle Cats#bones gives advice
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anyone else a little weirded out by one of the first things sonia and rauru did was putting zelda in a little white maiden uwu dress even though the clothes she arrived in didnt seem damaged or dirty at all and fit her much better
(also that dress is way less practical for a battle against a super powered evil guy)
#ganondoodles talks#zelda#totk#zelda?#more like sonia 2.0#idk i dont like that they show her with her cool new haircut and practical clothes#only to throw them away for a seemingly less well made version of the previous pretty white uwu maiden dress from botw#even if she stayed there longer than it seemed can they not?? wash them??#plus the extra makeup and earrings#seems so unecessary#maybe im reading too much into it but its kinda .. weird#and arguing that its a cool new outfit for her or sth doesnt work#bc both oufits she had were all over promotional material + its boringly similar to botw#youd think being put into a dress so similar to the maiden dress from botw would be soemthing zelda would never want#after being forced to do so much shit she didnt want to do wearing it and spedning a hUNDRED YEARS FIGHTING AN EVIL GOO MONSTER IN IT#give zelda a cool armor set#like actual armor
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you know the fandom has decently explored what the first cav death was like but not enough exploring of like. what happened after Dakota saved him. how many deaths before Dakota decided oh alright I'm gonna need a place to put all these? presumably they still had a mission to complete, so did Dakota just have to try acting normal after that? did cavendish pick up on him acting weird at all? get annoyed at possible sudden protective behavior from dakota?
#like when you watch iold you can kinda figure ok I can see how he's hiding this sorta I mean he has a whole system#but that's after hundreds of times and many years#how'd he even find this island man#just went on Google Earth or what
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good morning. neuvillette with a dragon!child!reader who, once everything blows over in fontaine, goes to find furina and gives her the biggest hug. they've known her for a very long time. and many times, perhaps she almost, almost cracked to them... but her resolve stood strong every time, and she would backtrack with a laugh and some dramatic flair.
while they can't understand how badly she must have suffered, because they aren't human and their mind is not so fragile, they can at least imagine it. and they can't help but think that maybe she doesn't want to be alone right now; she's been alone for five hundred years. if she wants to be left alone... that's fine, and they know she'll tell them that, but at the very least, as one of her best friends (perhaps her very best one), should they not go check on her?
idk i'm going to play her story quest today probably so i will return with more thoughts!
#aphelion speaks 🌸#this post is not about neuvi i am sorry for leading you all on like that 🙏🙏🙏 /lh#EVERYONE. GO APOLOGIZE TO FURINA. RIGJT FUCKING NOW. APOLOGIZE TO HER.#LIKE. HOLY SHIT.#i felt so bad for her that i almost CRIED and i am not even exaggerating#i know we are all so enamored by neuvillette and how he genuinely loves the people of fontaine#but can we PLEASE take a moment to talk about *furina* and her love for her people?#because holy shit. holy shit dude.#she must have been so so so lonely for so long#but she KEPT ON. RELENTLESSLY. FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.#yknow#i know the whole point was to destroy the throne and the position of “archon”#but.... man. furina is fontaine's archon and she always was. as far as i'm concerned.#she persevered out of love for those like her and even went as far as to relentlessly +#+ do her own research into what was causing the disaster#she tried so hard. and fucking NO ONE apologized to her yet.#FURINA LIKER AND DEFENDER APHELION REAL 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
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