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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH (2024) ↳ Aerith Gainsborough ➤ Costa del Sol

#ffviir #ffviir spoilers #ffvii rebirth spoilers

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FUCK OFF

#usf #2024 #they TEAR GASSED STUDENTS #and threatened them w rubber bullets #then arrested them for throwing gas canisters away from themselves #in mlk/freedom plaza which obstructs access to NOTHING #i got this email at 10:52pm today #fucking hell

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ATONEMENT (2007) + flowers

#film

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La Belle Dame sans Merci by Paul Julien Meylan

#WIFE. #john keats

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stares w open confusion @ teredio-on-a-boat fic. how are u only 6.5k words

#THIS IS TAKING FOREVER #it feels twice as long as terences no good very bad dragonet day #and Yet #hhh i think i have #1 transition #a few more conjoiner paragraphs #and an ending to write #then ill be done #maybe #brihamut's mercy

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Raffles nodded again, this time with a smile that stayed in his eyes as he leant back watching me. I knew that he was thinking of other things I had stooped to, and I thought I knew what he was going to say. He had said it before so often; he was sure to say it again. I had my answer ready, but evidently he was tired of asking the same question. His lids fell, he took up the paper he had dropped, and I sculled the length of the old red wall of Hampton Court before he spoke again. -The Gift of the Emperor

oh boy its gift time... so much going on but the dynamics during that little weekend visit in thames ditton are Fascinating

#w the same intensity as Put Those Boys In A Situation #put those boys in a boat!!!! #wild cheering etc #ew hornung

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#drakengard

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"I always thought this planet was so huge. But lookin' at it from space, I realized it's so small. We're just floatin' in the dark... kinda makes you feel powerless. On top of that, it's got Sephiroth festerin' inside like a sickness. That's why I say this planet's still a kid. A little kid sick and trembling in the middle of this huge universe. Someone's gotta protect it. Ya follow me? That someone is us." FINAL FANTASY VII (1997) ☄️

#ffvii

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The Performer 🎭🎶 A character class for The Hidden Isle.

You can preorder the TTRPG here

#art

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"....it would seem I owe you my wings."

Phoenixflare Week || Day 2: Wings / Flight Phoenix & Bahamut + Quotes (insp)

#wow these are gorgeous #ffxvi

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❝ i'm here to even the odds. any objections? ❞

#ffxvi

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i made a bouquet of fake flowers based on aerith's basket w lilies, tulips, and frangipani! 🎀🌼💐

#i also got extra liliies #they're more like tiger lillies tbh #for a shadowbox #i got white lilies and some purple water color #will i be able to dye them as wyvern tails. god knows #brianna babbles

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

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me: oh man im starving but im not sure what i should make for dinner……

the spirit of a 12th century templar knight that died a horrific death due to torture that started haunting me after i found a sword in the middle of the woods: spaghetti once more, prithee?

me: henry you are brilliant. spaghetti it is

#this is dion. to me #brianna babbles

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Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

#2024

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1920 "New York By Night" by Christopher R.W. Nevinson. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

#twilight bri

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#insane making #cs forester