Summertime fireworks on 35mm film.
When will FFXIV get serious and give Reapers Sin Eater voidsent
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honour those who came before us
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what the hell
If I don't watch The Boy and the Heron again soon I'm gonna end up on the news
Remember back in like February when there was a wave of people decrying the mere existence of labru as fandom-destroying misogyny but instead the tag sustains itself on like five posts a day. It really wasn't that serious.
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fleurbaie
That cutscene before Mt gulg kills me because it's really just:
Wol: uhhh are you sleeping here?
Exarch, passed TF out behind a rock and playing it off: I wish I was your man
Wol: ok.
Btw I made that meme partially because I saw an extremely popular post that used that panel of Kbru and the Canaries from the finale as an example of "found family". Bestie, you can't have a ~chosen family~ of prison wardens, prisoners, and the guy who successfully sabotaged their military operations.
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i love that elves are properly shown as imperial powers in DM. i'm personally clapping and cheering with every post you make on the matter. race doesn't quite exist in DM as we understand it in our reality (where skin color is used to box people into groups) but kui EVOKES it a lot and definitely takes advantage of real-world impulses and biases despite them not quite manifesting in DM the exact same way.
my favorite instance of it is how the elves of the west ("western civilization" which are also, conveniently, in the north) abuse and suck a region in the global south I Mean Utaya dry, and how they try to do it over and over and over again at the expense of the local populations there. it's such a good parallel.
It's really well done. Like, the elves have a very good reason to be there anytime a dungeon develops, they are theoretically keeping a demon from devouring the world ... but good intentions or not, it still allows them to throw their weight around and seize control of land and resources that they deem "lesser" races unfit to steward. All while not telling them what's really going on, and going around and snatching up random civilians around the world to throw them in prison.
Plus, as I've talked about before, Kabru implies that the Canaries were to blame for how Utaya went down. And he might be right! We don't know. But even if they weren't, best case scenario is still everything I said above.
I commend Kui for giving this storyline to a person of color in a majority white cast, and for giving him a fairly explicit (for Dunmeshi at least) racial identity.
My first reply got cut off but originally I was talking about how common it is for fantasy writers to fall into the "fantasy racism, but everyone is white" trap, and how deftly Kui subverts this by both being extremely in depth about how the differences between her fantasy races shape their societies, and by commenting on this with characters like Kabru and Thistle.
#worse trap: fantasy racism but the oppressors are represented by people of color#In The Flesh and Teen Wolf you are not seeing heaven for this#I will NOT get into a discussion about the conservative/fascist/unhelpful beaurocrat person of color trope in modern media#doesn't really apply to anime anyway (I think?) but it's there#Arakawa is also a real one for the way she wrote the Ishvalans#anime really nailed it with that one shot of those Aryan ass soldiers#though as much as I love FMA it feels very culture-less#Ishvalans again being a mild exception#dungeonposting#hashtag speculative fiction is my passion
Anonymous asked:
i love that elves are properly shown as imperial powers in DM. i'm personally clapping and cheering with every post you make on the matter. race doesn't quite exist in DM as we understand it in our reality (where skin color is used to box people into groups) but kui EVOKES it a lot and definitely takes advantage of real-world impulses and biases despite them not quite manifesting in DM the exact same way.
my favorite instance of it is how the elves of the west ("western civilization" which are also, conveniently, in the north) abuse and suck a region in the global south I Mean Utaya dry, and how they try to do it over and over and over again at the expense of the local populations there. it's such a good parallel.
It's really well done. Like, the elves have a very good reason to be there anytime a dungeon develops, they are theoretically keeping a demon from devouring the world ... but good intentions or not, it still allows them to throw their weight around and seize control of land and resources that they deem "lesser" races unfit to steward. All while not telling them what's really going on, and going around and snatching up random civilians around the world to throw them in prison.
Plus, as I've talked about before, Kabru implies that the Canaries were to blame for how Utaya went down. And he might be right! We don't know. But even if they weren't, best case scenario is still everything I said above.
I commend Kui for giving this storyline to a person of color in a majority white cast, and for giving him a fairly explicit (for Dunmeshi at least) racial identity.
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There is something hilarious about it being a new expansion but Amon is still being a little shit clown at launch. You missed the Endwalker experience? Here comes the entire fucking Syrcus.
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Hi hello! I hope you’re having a good day/night!
This morning I saw your post about Kabru’s complicated relationship with food and how that ties into his past and PTSD and how he is as a whole and I lost my marbles a little (/pos). Food as a metaphor for anything is one of my absolute favorite things ever and I may or may not have spent over an hour scrolling through the rest of your posts about Kabru because he’s genuinely such an interesting character and your analysis of him was wonderful to read. The concept of him not eating in a series so focused on the importance of eating is just so fascinating and the depth it gives to his character makes me feel like I need to bite something (again, /pos).
I’m not sure where I was going with this, I just wanted to tell you that your analysis was absolutely delicious (in dungeon, haha) and I haven’t stopped thinking about it all day. If you had more to add to it at all I’d love to hear it but if not that’s cool too!! Thank you for making him rotate in my brain at high speeds all day and probably the rest of the week now, too.
Sorry this got so long 😅 I hope you have a lovely week 🫶
Hello! Thank you so much, I'm always really happy to hear that my posts have resonated with someone.
I don't have anything smart to add right now, but I'm sure I'll have more to talk about again soon. I've always got thoughts simmering on the back burner haha.
Take care!
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what this dungeon really needs is a femininomenon 💀🌱✨
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Every time someone acts completely nonplussed about the occurrence of fandom racism I'm just like. What kind of world are you living in? Even if you're just skimming the surface of a fandom, if you see a nonwhite character in the media you should automatically assume that fandom is going to treat them unfairly. This is racism 101. Especially on this website where most people are reblogging or at least exposed to posts discussing real-world racism and the way it's interwoven into our daily lives. You think that all stops if it's fiction? You just haven't seen it personally. Or you think you haven't.