Character shipping while demisexual in a nutshell...

The Ultima Horse...(mesohippus)

Late night bitchy post. If there's one thing in fandom culture I can't stand, it's those who feel that their dislike of a story entitles them to talk shit about the intellectual capacity of anyone who did like it. Types who say crap like, "At least I have standards. You have delusions & excuses."+

Same...BUT in all fairness, it's mildew season and my nose is stuffy. It's just too easy for certain consonants to come out sounding wrong, and I was in a hurry! I was going for that ancient Mesopotamian ethics demon, and got whatever this lazy toad-shaped thing is...🤧

I'm interested to see if Logos has Harpocrates bouncing any of his information off of Vivian, and where they might agree or disagree. (Harpocrates is canonically an expert, sure, but peer-review is priceless in making certain of it.)

Interesting amount of wiggle room left by doing it this way...🤔

*Throws my phone across the room after it autocorrects "fascination" to "fascism".* OUT, FOUL DEMON!

During Final Fantasy XVI, Clive and Gav find Edda, a pregnant survivor of the atrocities in Waloed. It is she who explains the Arche myth, a foretold doom that resembles the Norse Ragnarök. As it happens, the main sources of Norse lore are the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda books. #FinalFantasymythology

This is one of the few criticisms of FF I typically find to be valid. While VII-Rebirth was a bit bloated on mini-games IMO, it's appropriate that it should have more than XVI because it has a fun road trip vibe between serious events. On the other hand, XVI's near-total exclusion of mini-games+

The ghosts, I can live with. Like 'em or not, they're a known factor. But spaghetti sauce stains in my Tupperware?! Inexcusable. Unforgivable. My pruned fingers will splash dish-soapy water into the eyes of the offender.

Re: that last post: It actually grieves me when I begin to feel like I'm the only one who's right or fully informed about a thing. It's alienating because it usually means I'm the only one who gives a damn about that particular angle or topic to the extent that I do.

[Highly competent. An expert. Reliable. Trustworthy. Helpful.]--These are healthy alternatives to, "always correct and smarter than others," and they have to be earned. Needing to be seen as or thinking you're always right/ correct severely limits your capacity to learn and is just plain arrogant.

Via @automaton-media.com, composer Uematsu: “I’ve never used AI & probably never will. I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself. When you listen to music, the fun is also in discovering the background of the person who created it, right?" More:

#inktober2025 #inktober #ff16 #ff14 #ff15 #finalfantasy

Saw the ages-old topic of whether or not fanfic should be subject to criticism come up the other day. I didn't read very deeply into it, but for me, it comes down to one word: Consent. Did the author, who is doing all that writing for fun and no profit, state they were open to public criticism? +

I don’t care what music you hate. Tell me what moves your soul. I don’t care what stories you find broken and derivative. Tell me the ones that help define you. I don’t care which big name property you think lost its way or is a cash grab. Tell me the indie darling I should know. Spread love.

*Checks the old Twitter feed.* *Sees, "Ultima is more of a concept than a character," being repeated again.* Yep...fine. Whatever. That's why we get a fairly extensive glimpse of his backstory and are implicitly prompted to consider what makes him tick. Just a concept. 🙄

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

FYI, with regard to this thread: "Don't like, don't read," is part of my personal fandom ethos. This is just me venting about feeling generally alienated by some social norms in fandom spaces.

When I decide to write fic for a story, it's because I truly loved that story, to the point it's living rent-free in my head. Obsession territory. Meanwhile, much of fanfiction culture is rooted very deeply in audience dissatisfaction. It's not a motive I understand very well outside of +

Someone sent me a kind compliment for one of my XVI fics today, & I just feel...ashamed. Not ashamed of the fic, but that my brain is so dead set on the square peg going into the square hole. Depressing times? Depressed mood. Ashes & sackcloth flavored. Easier times? Time for creativity & fun.

I might have said this before, but I don't think there's such a thing as literal 'non-judgment'. Even if your conclusion about a person is overwhelmingly positive or compassionate, that's still judgment. What people call 'non-judgment' is usually just good, slow judgment that's concerned with+

If you come for the woman, the dog will eat you. #FF16 #FinalFantasyXVI

Hmmm...Interesting. But for legal purposes, I do not have, nor have I ever had any plans with regard to any current or future colleagues that could conceivably lead to this conclusion as a result of my own actions or influence on others. I have neither the funds nor the charisma.

#inktober2025 #inktober #ff16 #ffxvi #finalfantasy

Real Maelle✨ #Expedition33

Me: I can absolutely express my thoughts on this thing in a clear, concise, and easy to digest manner. Me, waking up to see the big thread I wrote before passing out the night before: Hm. Nope. No, I cannot be normal about this at all.

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

🧵I enjoy that Clive was raised in dysfunction because it keeps human volition in question, right up until the end. How "free" is Clive really, when he's raised to see protecting Joshua as the core of his life's meaning? Although there's a beauty to their brotherly love, there's an undeniable +

I have to say, being a lifelong inhabitant of the weird kids' table in whatever social situation I find myself in--work, academics, family, fandom, etc.--has kept a LOT of drama at bay. It's not foolproof, but being able to say, "Not my circus, not my monkeys," most of the time is quite nice.

Some #FFXVI doodles from stream today, had a lot of fun <3 #finalfantasy16 #ff16 #cliverosfield #cidolfustelamon #jillwarrick

I mean, shit. I waited a full year and several replays to make sure I wasn't misunderstanding anything before unleashing my critiques on XVI's localization. If I'm going to express any beefs with a story I otherwise love, I need to be 100% sure that they're worthwhile and accurate.

If your only critique of a game is “I want this to be a different genre” You got nothin. Nothin. Anyway play FF16 it’s brilliant

"What the fuck is Cloud Gate?"

mortal

Oooh, I'm sorry. I'm all booked up with other, higher priority horrors this week. Maybe if the clown registers early next year, I can squeeze in about...a half hour for him in 2030.

I am begging people, for the love of anything sacred, learn about emotional abuse & manipulation tactics. Even if all your relationships & family life have been healthy, b/c I promise you, this is the exact same rancid BS that an abusive parent or partner would pull, but applied to all of society.

I love it when ironic posts like this are actually halfway decent advice. If you're specific, you might feel compelled to consider exactly why you hate those things about yourself, and if it's rooted in bullshit, some of that hatred might just start to collapse under scrutiny.

Just watched No One Will Save You again. That movie is a masterpiece. No details wasted. Yes, it's an alien horror flick, but it has a fuckton of depth. Hits even harder if you've known a lot of betrayal/ abandonment, or if you have a hard-on for the flavor of Jungian symbolism found in FF games.

Then what the fuck is the point of you

#33tober 1 - Monolith Clair Obstober: Artspedition 33 🎨🖌️ I want to improve my digital painting skills, so that's this year's #artober theme. #art #ClairObscur #Expedition33 #ClairObscurExpedition33 #Paintress #Monolith

Another contender for "Most Hair Glue Used" if nothing else.

What I tell my students: if you want to be better at understanding something, you have to change your posture from defense to curiosity and improve your question-asking ability.

Haunted by the terror of being alive? You may be entitled to compensation

I should make one of these to challenge candy seeking children to a duel while decked out in my jellyfish hat and dragon-scale shawl.

Way back in 2013/2014, when tumblr was still a lively place, I managed to get myself canceled. How, you ask? Because I talked about how I related to a character re: posttraumatic growth. Knowing that this is a sensitive topic, I made sure to preface everything with, "speaking only for myself" +

Thinking about collective trauma. If you're a fellow US person with anything resembling a sense of decency and compassion right now, you're probably feeling it. You're not weak or irresponsible if it's all overwhelming. Dealing with *all of this* plus the normal grind of BS that is a human life +