#i'm in ffxiv hell again!

[the-unending-journey]

Leofard knew the risks Kiyo had to take due to her status of the star's champion. He knew what he was getting into when he decided to pursue her. Even still, he wasn't happy about what was practically a suicide mission; one that would take her completely out of his reach should anything happen

"...Come back to me", was all he had said while his silent gesture spoke volumes to Kiyo; an incredibly powerful promise to see this through

And if there was one thing she always made sure of...

It was to keep her promises

Rarepair Week Day 5 - Promise

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #xivrarepairweek #my screens #ship: free as birds #I got carried away again lol #wish her hair wouldn't clip but there was nothing I could do about that #yes he is asking her what you probably think he's asking #I'm a giant sap what can I say #also can we talk about how MASSIVE his hands are compared to hers holy hell #Kiyo why are you so fucking tiny #nancy finish the msq

[astrxealis]

me rn having the biggest hots for leon kennedy and astarion sorry LMFAOOO <3

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #^___^ me smiling innocently #bg3 is on the MIND !!! i dearly want it so badly. turns out my dad played 1/2 (not sure which) a looong time ago #but he never got too far i think bcs he's busy... :P but hey i love him. wow. it's really cool he knows it too (ofc he does lmfao) #me and him (handshake emoji) also never getting far in da origins yet bcs we have it on xbox bcs of him getting it a long time ago #but there's that bug in the mage tower... :( funny we both went thru it LMFAO <//3 anyway i got it on steam so i've been playing #again but not recently anymore since 1. ffxiv took over my life last days of summer again 2. summer is over back school so rip #anyway can u tell i love fantasy :)) da and bg babeyyy !!! my type is going to make you guys cry i'm so obvious #zevran... fenris... astarion... i have a thing for ppl w blond/white hair :P idk my fav in inquisition yet and idk anything abt bg1&2 yet #but Yeah. GHBSHJGBSHJG..... da origins is kinda funny (lack of better word) to me btw bcs i like all four main romance options #but it's hard to explain (i have a story behind stuff i want to share but it's tiring and annoying of me /hj !!!!!) #anyway i like blond elves if it wasn't obvious. yes i also like link and zelda from loz. yes i like legolas. yes i like #...anyway! so where does re fit in this? uh. u see i'm a coward actually i'm too scared to play re LMFAOOO #BTU I ADORE THE LORE and the characters and the game franchise and shit ^_^ just. i shld really watch it sometime #instead of reading wikis all the time and just soaking up all the knowledge but i'm. a Coward. okay #i can't even play bloodborne despite how nerdy i am over it... it's so scary to poor little me... i'm a coward (it's the harsh truth)..... #anwyay i'll conquer my fears one day but that day is NOT SOON !!! i wna get into re properly tho aside from just being a nerd #so i'm too scared to play but i'll watch playthroughs sometime (and admire leon) <3 yeah. another blond. i know. shut up. #is this my life rn am i just infatuated w blonds and white haired guys. it's gna be hell if i continue nier replicant rn too huh #uh. goodnight!

[evilsanlang]

have figured out how to do wicked step with a 100% success rate in p10s

#we'd been getting to harrowing hell before this but I was eyeballing the tb towers so it was always a gamble #and a mini heart attack whenever I landed 1 pixel away from falling #I'm NEVER getting that shit wrong again #ffxiv

[neriyon]

Not all who wander are lost - Gridania

Old Gridania │ Stillglade Fane │ Leatherworkers' Guild │ Westshore Pier

"First time in a big city was rather shocking for a boy who grew beneath the Shroud's trees. Hyurs, elezen, and even fellow miqo'te, just going on about their day. Living so close together. With a little push from Miounne, I made it through the first few days and got accepted to study conjury.

Stillglade Fane became another home, countless hours spent on it's calm silence, trying to hear even the faintest whisper of the elementals like our mentors had taught us. Or just reading book upon book, scroll upon scroll of past knowledge of herbs and aether.

It all seems like a lifetime away. I've since seen lands I couldn't have even imagined while still an apprentice. Seen sights only mentioned in books, made everlasting friendships. Learnt to draw upon the power in myself and others.

Offering my help to all who need it."

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #neri's screens #not all who wander are lost but i sure as hell am #post 2 and i'm already cheating a little on my own rules aiuefheufh #first and 3rd pic are basically same location #one is from the bridge next to it and other from under the guild facing the bridge #also once again we finish with night pic of me going “ooh fireflies!” lol #and uhhh the lore blurb is a bit more uhhh unpolished this time sorry about that #i'm still not 100% sure how to handle the whole cnj/whm lore haha #i prefer the idea that hawu'li's healing magic comes mostly from himself rather than the elementals #how does that work? hell if i know lol #anyway as a little timeline thing! hawu'li was still an apprentice when dalamud happened #didn't go to the frontlines but pulled some of the most stressful days of his life #helping fully fledged hearers treat people when there were wounded from both the war and the calamity itself

[cryptid-crusader]

I'm so salty. 🙃 My bf and I did the copied factory raid for the first time tonight and I'm so damn miffed because we waited in queue for like over 30 mins and I died a lot (sorry everyone lul) and then at the end the only thing I got were these ugly ass normal boots that aren't even as cool as the boots I normally have equipped. >:( He managed to snag 2b's dress set and BOTH pod minions. I'm glad he gets to look like a sexy baddie but got damn, who even made these normal ass boots an option? Thigh highs or bust! I'm grumpy.

#i feel kinda bad because he was like 'we didn't just do this for loot we did it for fun!' #and i was so grump at the moment I was like 'WELL I DIDN'T HAVE FUN AND IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME' #which wasn't true i did have fun and it wasn't a waste of time #but I'm still peeved as hell #now i have to die a lot again for another chance to look like a bad bitch #lord help me #ffxiv #flapping my wings #complaining up in the club 2nite

[oddsnake]

did they make monk into second ninja where different combinations give you different skills. in the end.

#ffxiv #this is hell i'm never touching monk outside of pvp ever again

[asleepinawell]

just two dragon boys homoerotically akh morn-ing each other at the end of the universe, as one does

(better with audio as it hit THAT part of the song at the perfect time)

#this probably has an interest group of exactly me #'show me your vaunted fortitude' zenos that's gay #ffxiv #i tried so hard to get my rotation to line up for this #the the music lined up perfectly #i was so pleased #akh morn-ing bosses back gives me so much genuine joy #favorite spell in the game #i know i'm weird #i was so excited to get it i didn't bother to use my damage buff first oops #my rotation just went to hell when i saw his cast bar because i was like :DDDD #whatever i won on the fist try #10/10 best fight ever would have a gay fight to the death with zenos at the end of the galaxy again #ffxivmp #endwalker spoilers #endwalker #zenos yae galvus #mp #tempestgaming #also zenos blasting dark and me blasting light is nice symbolism (even though mine is unaspected) #uggghhh this ending part was so good #i know some people didn't like it but it was absolutely what i wanted at the end of the game #the ability to just go all out in an extremely fun duel with no real stakes #the world wasn't hanging in the balance we'd already saved the day #i mean at the end of the day he was right and i just needed to get past all the other distractions #gg zenos #akh moron #himbo lizard boy tag

[warlordfelwinter]

ZENOS?!

#WHAT #i can't believe i'm riding to fight the endsinger on dragon zenos #what the hell is going on in this game #also slightly hate that it made perfect sense for me to do this trial with my npc friends #but instead i have to use azem's crystal again and get real humans #ridiculous #square you let me fight hydaelyn with the npcs #and it was amazing #but UHHHHH g'raha tia with the crystal wings????? #literally the coolest shit ive ever seen #and fiver's little smile as he pulled out that teleporter #ffxiv #ffxiv endwalker #ffxiv spoilers

[picturesofashe]

finally got 100% achievements in cult of the lamb, now i can go back to gposing!...

i say as i start working on my crafter/gathering gear again instead since the patch drops next week

#ffxiv #also not ffxiv #send help i'm in crafting hell again #i wanna make my own gear #instead of spending both arms and legs on the marketboard when the new crafted gear drops #currently getting my melds fixed #because they were botched as hell before

[noxtivagus]

SCREAM OFFICIAL LYRICS RELEASED AAAAA

#🌙.rambles #[ ffxiv. ] #i heard most of the lyrics right ! #oh man listening to the song again n i'll never get fucking sick of it. it's so good #IT MAKES ME SMILEEE HDFKJASKLFJDI #IT'S SO FUCKING COOL #I'LL NEVER GET OVER THESE LYRICS GODDAMNNNN #OOOOH FLENSED AND FLAYED #UWAHHH IT'S ALL SO CATCHY I LOVE THE BEAT SO MUCH ;;;;;;; #OMG ATHENA'S POV . I LOVE MAD WOMEN #I HATE HER AS A PERSON BUT I LOVE HER AS A CHARACTER BCS #NAH YK I ACTUALLY HATE ATHENA SO MUCH BUT #THE AESTHETIC THE VIBE. IT'S DARK IT'S DISTURBING AND I LOVE IT HAHA #' BURIED ALIVE IN THE COFFIN OF WHO I USED TO BE ' HELL YEAHH #I'LL SCREAM ALL I LIKE OMG OMG #slumbering tumbling / wandering wondering / sufffering hungering #OH IT'S MIND NOT DARK #WAIT THAT HITS EVEN HARDER OH MY GOD I'M GOING INSANE #' FOREVER FALLING INTO MY MIND / DEEPER DEEPER DOWN 'TIL I #SAY GOODNIGHTTTTTT' #I'M JUST A STRANGER WE ARE ALL STRANGE INSIDE WAHHH #HOLY SHIT THE WAY THE #LYRICS PROGRESSING WITH THE USE OF NO ONE CAN HEAR /US/. FROM YOU TO US HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCK THIS CHORUS #THERE'S NO RELEASE (RESCUE ME) OH MY GOD THE RESCUE ME #SCREAM !!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH IT MAKES MEM GO INSANE I WANT TO KISS IT AND AND #HFLSADHFLSKDJFKDJ ?!?!?!? WHAT THE FUCK MAN I LOVE IT SO MUCH #BRUH SOMETIMES I FORGET HOW DARK FFXIV CAN BE.... I LOVE IT SM HONESTLY IT HAS EVERYTHING I LOVE #THE TARGET AUDIENCE OF FFXIV ARE ADULTS FR ! BUT IT'S SAFE FOR TEENS BUT DEF ADULT AUDIENCE. IT SPEAKS OUT TO ME #these past few years my maturity has definitely upped by a lot. HELP I STARTED FFXIV WHEN I WAS BASICALLY STILL 13......... #GODDAMN EMO ERA AGAIN . I GUESS I CAN'T ESCAPE IT WHEN I'M ALSO A SLEEP-DEPRIVED DRK MAIN GRR

[jpegcompressor]

i'm so normal and fine about the dawntrailer i'm totally and absolutely 100% average. absolutely fucking john doe over here.

#untitled.txt #every fucking time i see a trailer they make urianger hotter. idc if he was in the trailer for only three seconds he looks so damn fine #they can't keep DOING THIS TO ME #EVERY EXPANSION TRAILER. every time. i will simply pass away about it. #the entire trailer was so fucking raw they had 3/4 of my favourite characters in it. the fourth fucking died so of course he isn't there #it's so pretty and the graphics update is so exciting ;_; i'm going to be unbearable when it releases #gone from my fc for 8000 years taking raw as hell gposes #if they ever release the gleaner outfit then goodbye. i will simply not be returning. i will disappear into ffxiv never to be seen again. #considering that erenville is in the trailer and likely a major factor in the upcoming expansion... HYPOTHETICALLY #they would have EVERY REASON to put it in the cash shop at bare minimum right #like every other major or semi-major npc's outfits #i think like every scion except for estinien has one or two outfits in the store. even nonmajor npcs like gaia have stuff in the store. so. #PLEASE #anyways there's your one post for the month jpegcompressor nation. goodbye. *dissipates*

[fourteenthz]

Only ffxiv really can make you feel the way players do when they finally are able to start shadowbringers

#ffxiv #i remember when i finished sb and I was still excited abt it #but then i realized i was about to start shb and boy I miss that feeling #I'm finally healed enough from shb to watch other ppl playing through it and it makes me so excited #to see them feel the same u know? hell it gets ME excited all over again #the same for endwalker but im not healed enough from that expansion to watch other ppl play through it lol #ONE DAY. Until them ill keep watchinv everybody else playing through shb #if u guys have any recommendations pls lmk ty #i still get excited seeing other ppl play it but i miss the feeling still #what a game man what a game #txt

[astrxealis]

"And so they did not resent him, and instead gifted him their cruel acceptance." — this line STILL drives me insane. oh my god. hermes

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა ffxiv ໒꒱ *·˚ #complex thoughts on him i won't be explaining but one thing i know for sure is i absolutely LOVE hermes #giving him big hugs ..... also the tales from the dawn are so good. i'm just skimming thru them again rn and. God #“Tell yourself what you need to believe.” ................. hell #:(( makes me all very sad #i mourn the people the ancients have become. all of them #aghhhhh HERMES ...............................

[snapscube]

I see a lot of people sending ffxiv asks. What's something you're hoping for in dawn trail? Personally I would love to do some food tourism with the gang and go on a bar crawl that ends with drunk karaoke with Urianger

LOL those are extremely understandable desires

Honest to god i have zero expectations OR hopes for the story in Dawntrail specifically. It's a brand new arc! I kinda just want to see where they take it. I know it's not gonna reach the same heights as Endwalker for me, purely by virtue of it not being An Ending To A Decade of Meaningful Storytelling. If anything I expect it might feel a little underwhelming at first, but that's fine! I'm with this game for the long haul, I wanna trust that they'll be able to build to something great again at the very least.

As for OTHER hopes i have, there is one thing I am really specifically hoping for. It's like, disgustingly specific:

PLEASE INTRODUCE BETTER ANTI-ALIASING IN ONE OF THE GRAPHICS UPDATE PATCHES

I would KILL for them to find some crazy fucking way to implement something like DLSS/DLAA however unlikely it is but AT THE BARE MINIMUM this game desperately needs some MSAA or hell I'd even take TAA.

And then aside from the pipe dream of getting some AA upgrades, I just hope they have some actual multiplayer/battle-focused large scale content in Dawntrail like Bozja. Or SOMETHING with a little bit more Meat on it. I was hyped as hell for Island Sanctuary but in retrospect I feel like THAT much development effort going towards content that is purely single player and designed to be incredibly low-stakes and, quite frankly, kinda boring was a bit of a mistake in the long run. It had potential but they didn't really sell it at the end of the day imo. They've mentioned there is going to be some more "lifestyle" content in Dawntrail, which is nice in its own right! But I hope that it stands alongside something with a lot more depth to it, cause as it stands a large majority of my playtime in Endwalker has been catching up with legacy content I missed on my way through the leveling.

#ffxiv

[blood-orange-juice]

ok so ive never properly played genshin and don’t plan to but i know a bit about it’s lore and characters and i think it’s really neat. however i have thousands of hours on ffxiv. on that note please explain why graha and childe are similar. i only have very basic knowledge on childe and i gotta know

Fellow ffxiv enjoyer. <3

(anyone asking me about G'raha has a 100% chance of getting a wall of text and I'm not apologising for that. enjoy your wall of text)

I'm not entirely sure I'm not a case of a person with a hammer to whom everything resembles a nail, but I do think they are the same archetype.

Sweet characters who could have been perfect sidekicks (who still are perfect sidekicks) but listened to too many epic tales as kids and found themselves in a wrong place at a wrong time and now have to play a key role in some universe-changing story.

Both are defined mostly by their stubborness, they are not very suitable for the roles they've chosen and fail over and over again until they do it somewhat right (barely).

No matter how badass they look, their power is not their own, G'raha is a glorified technician of someone else's miracle and little else than a living key, Childe wields an art of old Khaenri'ah without fully understanding it. It's all borrowed from someone else who needed them to achieve a goal.

They do look badass, but mostly because they larp. I'm honestly not sure which one enjoys theatrics more.

Civilisations that created the magic they use specialised in perversion of the natural order of things. They try to use it in relatively noble ways and mostly hurt themselves but the flavour is there.

Both are unbelievably tragic and both somehow make their stories seem almost lighthearted. Complete absense of self-pity. I think that's what makes them both so charming, it's a rare trait.

Both have an incredible capacity for loyalty and love and an incredibly twisted view of what relationships look like. "I'll cross time and space for you, I'll die for you, I'll build a city for you, I'll live for you but please don't ask me to share my plans." "I'll sacrfice my own health and respect of my subordinates to keep my brother's happyness, probably my humanity too, but don't expect me to actually interact with him."

Both have something that looks like self-sacrificial tendencies bordering on suicidality while being, if we are honest, a self-serving trait (partially born out of low self-esteem but still self-serving). They want to live in an old myth and sacrificing oneself is a perfectly reasonable price for that.

Huge egos. And I mean Huge Egos. It's a bit less obvious in Graha's case but I know the type, you see guys like that in PhD programs a lot.

Huge dorks. Both of them.

Both are stuck somewhere between human and non-human and, hmm... their ability to remain human is the most astonishing quality of both. By all accounts, neither should have. They somehow did.

Both are incapable of lying to the point where a third of each fandom headcanons them as autistic. Both are somewhat all right with tricking people without technically lying (although Childe had more practice).

Both are secretive because no one would understand anyway.

FF XIV is a kinder story, so it's easy to overlook, but technically G'raha is a case of body horror, accepts the role of a villain for a while and hides from the player way too much. Hmmm... Where else have I seen it. Hmm. Oh right. That ginger guy from Genshin.

Minor things:

Both are little shits and enjoy annoying the hell out of people they dislike.

Abysmally bad fashion sense. There should be a name for this particular type and level of bad. I don't think I've seen this anywhere else.

And then there's the colour scheme. Red+black+white+blue and red+black+light grey+blue (it's an "anime magician" color profile, I think. black-red-white as alchemy colours + blue as pure magic/something elemental). Childe doesn't quite fit but still the combination is rare.

They way they talk. Dear gods. Who the hell talks like that.

Here's where the similarities end.

One is morally grey but ultimately a good guy (technically. I think the point of ShB was that Emet and G'raha are almost the same), another is a morally grey but still (kind of) a bad buy.

At every step of his story Graha is surrounded by people who love or at least appreciate him, Childe is pretty much on his own and surrounded by people who are either shitty or clueless.

G'raha is kind. Truly and astonishingly kind, in a doomed world he chooses to love everything he touches. Silly little priest of hope. Of all the things he has done this is the most wondrous, I think. Not the time travel, not the city he founded, just being able to remain kind after everything that happened to him.

Childe is... well, Childe. I think he is a deeply decent person (to the point of having a visceral distaste for any kind of unfairness) and he's idealistic but he's indifferent more than he is kind. Empathy usually develops only when someone has shown the person empathy first and, as far as we know, he didn't have much of that in his life.

Also G'raha builds things. Childe breaks things. Childe breaks pretty much everything he touches.

One is an archeologist and a mage and another is a warrior.

I think these differences are caused mostly by the settings they were put into. Childe raised in Sharlayan would have been a very different person. G'raha trained by a voidsent and shipped off to Garlean military would look very much like Childe.

G'raha also has a beautiful character development arc. I love his ShB role. He has this huge ego in the raids and is insufferable and then we see an older and wiser him with a bunch of actual achievements and a bad case of impostor syndrome (trying to do anything real always humbles a person, we all know that real world is held together by sticks and scotch tape. honestly, this change alone is beautiful). And he gets to be an actual hero when he abandons all hope to be Important and resigns to die as a nameless villain if it saves everyone and spares his loved ones from heartbreak.

Childe's character development is yet to happen and I'm not hoping for much but we'll see.

The only difference that definitely isn't created by setting is that G'raha is naturally manipulative. In a kind-hearted way and mostly for the sake of better larp but he isn't that straightforward. Childe is spectacularly blunt for all his mysteriousness.

As a bonus, they both compare main characters to stars, but in completely different ways.

"No doubt your heroism will be the star by which I chart my course," says G'raha to the WoL.

Childe mentions the morning star, which is, of course, pretty and a good companion to a lonely traveler, but also it's not a celestial body you can chart your course by.

It's a guy whose signature weapon is called "Polar Star" and his first artifact set was full of nautical themes, so I think he fully understands what he's saying. "You are my friend but I won't change anything in my life for you."

So I don't think his story will be anything like G'raha's, his life took a different turn very long ago. I do think they used to be similar as kids, bookish boys who dreamed of adventure and being special. So it's fun to compare.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. <3

#honestly I think it's mostly involvement in deep lore and the lack of self-pity #everything else just snowballs from it #I refuse to be contained #the world must know everything about g'raha #he's the only character who has a personal tag in my old livejournal blog #even childe doesn't #even dragon age morrigan #g'raha tia #eternal wind #ff xiv #childe #tartaglia #rinn talks to people #one would think that the closest ffxiv parallel to childe would be zenos #another blood knight #and in a sense he is #but also not really #zenos raised in sharlayan would still be zenos #but also maybe I'm overthinking and reading into childe's character too much #I hope not #I want a good story for him

[gunbun]

this post is about the cultural concerns regarding ffxiv: dawntrail

Hi doods. Activism has brushed up against fandom YET AGAIN but this time it punches me straight in the heritage and this time I wanna talk about it.

I'm a non-status Qalipu Mik'maq, for the record. An Indigenous American, if thou wilt.

I discuss some pretty heavy shit below the cut. I pray it persists across all devices. Please advise if you want me to tag this as something, or block the tags I have used. I do not need anyone to spread this on my behalf, I do not need anyone's defense. I just have some thoughts and I want to think them.

So it's been less than 24 hours since Dawntrail was announced and we got the Keynote.

We're going to Fantasy The Americas! Before Industrialization!

Many people went "oh hell yeah, that's Brazil, this is gonna be great! We don't usually see this!"

On Twitter especially, many MORE people lost their goddamn minds, citing CBU3's prior wobbles with depicting foreign/indigenous persons.

And of course, the White Community Leaders are out in force performing pre-emptive outrage or even asking people to quit FFXIV in light of this announcement.

I'm here to ask folks not to do that.

What follows is my tweet-thread about it.

"It is perfectly okay to be waiting and seeing how Tural is going to be portrayed in Dawntrail. It's okay to have a concern.

It is NOT okay to come out preemptively swinging and performing outrage.

Because blood quanta are their own touchy subject I usually don't bring this up, but I am the class of indigenous person what represents "what's left".

And I fucking tell you now I don't need the opinions of Concerned White People.

I do not need Concerned White People telling me what colonialism is.

I do not need Concerned White People telling me to be mad.

I do need Concerned White People to realise that the above two actions are microaggressive as fuuuuck.

"but Jai, aren't you White?"

colonialism and genocide comes in many forms. this includes forcing indigenous persons to assimilate or be killed.

also stuff like reinforcing the idea that being indigenous is shameful so that when their descendants find out, they deny it."

Thus ended my tweet thread. There's one more tweet linking to qalipu.ca.

So I want to write more about this on Tumblr.

I really want to make sure that folks take a hard look at what they're concerned about and why.

Like… a lot of White Concern about the use of indigenous motifs in Dawntrail is itself a brand of anti-indigenous racism.

Thinking that the MSQ is going to automatically be about the Scions starting a colonialism in Tural? That's a pretty gross thing to say in the same breath y'all complain about Always Fantasy Europe.

Calling "cultural appropriation" when everyday items are displayed and depicted in the manner in which they were/are used (gulal, curry)? Way to exoticise foreign and indigenous cultures by thinking that everything they make, wear, use, or eat is something of Deep Cultural Significance that Cannot Ever Be Shared With Outsiders. Saris and salwar kameez are just as culturally significant as skirts and slacks. Moccasins are just shoes.

And moreover, getting preemptively Concerned when thus far THERE IS LITERALLY NO NEED TO BE CONCERNED is actually kind of beyond the pale. I haven't seen many indigenous folks and/or folks from South America being anything but pleased that this time The Americas gets a cool pastiche like Europe, Asia, and India have gotten in the past. There's an undercurrent of "oh no, I hope it's not bad stereotypes" which is ABSOLUTELY OKAY. Reblog and retweet what THOSE people are saying. Do not add commentary.

Preemptively saying "you're worried" about your South American/Indigenous friends with zero indication that they're bothered? Come the actual fuck on. We are not a monolithic group that you can "be concerned" for to get a pat on the back later as a Good Person. Do not Perform the I'm A Good Person And The Worst Thing You Could Do is CALL Me A Racist dance.

Don't "get ahead of the discourse". Not every conversation needs your fucking input. Shut your mouth.

What is and isn't an Offensive Portrayal of Indigenous Americans is a lot more nuanced than most people who like to perform outrage make it out to be.

We can and will speak up for ourselves. Share our words and our concerns if you must. Do not go and distill our words and turn us into the monolith you hide behind to perpetuate white saviourism and neocolonialism.

We aren't a monolith of poor uneducated people who don't understand what the europeans did that need to be uwu protected.

#long post #indigenous musings #idk what else to tag this