#incidental person

[mothmiso]

Cornwall 2022 (2) (3) (4) (5) by George Gillam

#trees #mossy #countryside #cows #seals #beach #dogs #incidental person #england #cornwall

[ringneckedpheasant]

#marc.txt #if you just saw me post this no you didn’t <3 #ftr I am mostly cat only incidentally dog #also a rat person though

[isan0rt]

You know, when you consider Azure Moon as a self-contained narrative, the use of ‘unanswered questions’ and ambiguity as a reinforcement of the themes of the route are really effective. I honestly think having the route not address the Slithers was the best narrative choice IntSys could possibly have made given the themes of Azure Moon.

Like. The developers didn’t really expect people to actually play all the routes; they designed the game so ‘everyone would have a different experience.’ As a result, all the routes have very different themes and scopes. Azure Moon is the tightest, most character-driven narrative despite not being the shortest route.

And Azure Moon is about grief.

Grief hangs over the entire route; except for Mercedes, every single one of the Blue Lions is haunted by the Tragedy of Duscur and the unanswered questions surrounding it. Felix loses his brother directly, and his worldview and best friend to the aftermath. Ingrid loses her fiance, but also her sense of security; without Glenn, her people may starve, and her personal future is now uncertain. Sylvain and Glenn were the same age, so we can assume they were friends, though his loss is less direct; Sylvain is surrounded by people broken by loss, including his own father. Annette’s father leaves her family in disgrace over being unable to stop the tragedy. Ashe loses his foster brother to the aftermath; and later his foster father as well. 

Dimitri and Dedue lose everything.

All of them spend the whole route wanting to find answers and some kind of closure for this event. It drives the entire narrative for all of the Lions actually from Faerghus. Mercedes, meanwhile, stands as an outside observer to that tragedy - but she is also dealing with her own personal tragedy and unanswered questions about her brother, and that drives her during Azure Moon.

And the thing about grief is that sometimes you never get closure. But you still have to move on, anyway.

That’s the whole point of Azure Moon. Dimitri has to move on. All the Lions have to move on. 

Mercedes cannot regain her brother, whether you find out his identity or not in the route. She has to move on anyway. Dimitri cannot reconcile with his family, not with Rufus (Did Dimitri kill him? We the viewer can never really know for sure) and not with Edelgard. He never finds out whether Patricia wanted to kill his father, or whether she loved Dimitri at all (and we the viewer don’t, either). He has to move on anyway. The Lions never find out the cause of the tragedy.

They have to move on anyway.

Involving the Slithers at that point would not only add a bunch of last-minute narrative complications that aren’t necessary in Azure Moon, it would undermine the emotional impact of the route (in much the same way the last map of Verdant Wind does, honestly). The themes of Azure Moon not only don’t need to answer the question of the Slithers; not answering that question is the point. Bringing up the Slithers at that point would take all the air out of the personal drama the route takes its entire runtime addressing.

Dimitri hesitates at the end. He stops, and tries to look back, and Byleth stops him. He has to move on. He can’t keep looking back at Duscur. He’s got to walk forward. 

And that means leaving his questions unanswered. 

#Fire Emblem Three Houses #FE3H #Blue Lions #Like honestly if you look at the route as the ONLY route you play #The story is incredibly well self-contained #In a way that also makes you want to play other routes! #Azure Moon IMO is really effective from an emotional impact perspective #Like. assuming you like deconstructions of Hamlet because that's what Azure Moon is lbr #Incidentally I personally don't think Dimitri actually killed Rufus....but I don't know!! He could have!! I will never know for sure. #That's the point.

[bird-divorce]

please discuss ur current or future tatts in the tags I wanna know!!

#our flag means death #poll #personally I have 4 #my first one incidentally is a sea gull my bestie sticked and poked on my ankle #it's about my home and I love it soooo much but also post s2 I'm like ok ya maybe it's about changing for love and returning to land #opening ur heart to love :') #I also have a quilt on my thigh #a flower on my hip (just a small one in a black box it's very flirty and sexy) #and my latest is a bull tattoo on the side of my tummy that I designed and my friend tattooed! #it's insp by the 1400s bce minoan bull leaping fresco #and it's got stars

[riftclaw]

I don’t think it’s possible to name a bigger downgrade than what they did to the tomas in stampede. that is literally just an emu. WHERE IS THE ANTEATER TONGUE.

justice for the tomas

#trigun #trigun stampede #i have more thoughts than this on stampede but like #the tomas are my favourite incidental worldbuilding thing #and i know orange can DO creature design bc the bugs fucking rule #SO WHY DID THEY NERF MY BABIES?! #(note: the manga ones have hooves!!!) #yes i am the only person in the world who cares about this #reblogs #guest art

[dreadark]

thanks to lemuen complaining about aulus not shutting the fuck up, I think we can safely conclude he was in fact the guy thorns was fighting in leonhardt's kin memories

this still doesn't explain why leonhardt has thorns kin memories but I don't think that one is ever being explained

#arknights #i dont know what kin memories means but i love saying words #im being completely serious here about that being thorns tho #a sword technique where you trace circles... #that's literally destreza. look it up. it uses so much geometry #and the part about not following the book exactly? look at thorns archive file 2 #incidentally that's also the file that mentions he studied under a certain priest... #i used to joke about ayers being a walmart thorns (in personality. i e2d him for this #and then ak does this. alright. #im connecting the dots BUT WHAT AM I CONNECTING??? #post

[starflungwaddledee]

Hi sorry to bother you but I just wanted to say that as an autistic person Starstruck makes me want to cry. I love her so much let her live the happy life she deserves with people that accept and care about her. That “otherness” or feeling of being “incorrect” and being seen as suspicious/ostracized for it was absolutely NAILED and it HURTS SO GOOD. I just really wanted you to know that. It’s nice to see someone like me in media, especially in something like the Kirby franchise. Thank you.

ohhhhh i am SO thrilled to receive this message because i am autistic, and by extension so is starstruck, and this was entirely on purpose! i'm so happy that you feel i nailed it! thank YOU for letting me know this; it's the highest praise i could have hoped to receive!

this was intentional autistic representation by an autistic creator and i am over the moon that it's connecting with you! her inability to "have the right magical signature" and her "mimicry of the signatures around her in attempt to fit in" is explicitly a (rather ham-fisted, if i'm being honest) autistic parallel, especially towards masking.

there are obviously parts of her story that aren't explicitly parallel (she is still a little alien after all, and there's going to be Fun Dramatic Aspects that my real life autistic experience sadly lacks), but for what it's worth i'm really happy that this purposeful allegory was noticed!

thank you again so much for writing in, it means the world

#also ngl but i just think like the entire kirby cast is pretty autistic in their own way #like we ALL know meta knight for SURE but the others too. at least imo!! #i have actually been wondering if folks were picking up on this tbh. it seemed so apparent to me but that's bc i made it so i knew #i've had some say 'oh it's the social anxiety' which.... yes. also correct. i also have that too & it is that as WELL but it's incidental #i think this is the first time that someone has directly compared it to autism. it's nice. thank you! #representation in media sure does continue to be like... a Certain Way. but i think you can just hit everybody with the autism beam #it's morally correct. #asks #starstruck dee #starflungs personal tag

[nonasbirthday]

a couple years ago i had zero attention span, and i hadn't properly read a book in forever. the pandemic absolutely did not help, on account of i was working long hours & also dead inside. but in early 2021 i picked up TLT and it reignited my love of reading. and over this past year i finished 22 books :')

forever grateful to the lesbian space juggalos for resurrecting the ghost of my 12-year-old self, a nerd who had to be banned from reading books while walking between classes. (she wouldn't be very impressed by my 2023 book count, but she also had zero responsibilities and limited internet access, so. who cares.)

here's to a continued love of reading for all of us in 2024, and maybe some ATN teasers!

#i'm still dead inside but now i am a person who is dead inside AND read 22 books this year #i think atn is probablt not coming out until 2025 if we're being for realsies. but maybe ARCs and promotional material in 2024! #ntn was announced in summer 2021 with a release date of fall 2022 soooooo. #incidentally if you have any queer sci fi / fantasy recs i'd love to hear them! #my most recent reads are: System Collapse - Martha Wells; Lady Hotspur - Tessa Graton; Foundryside series - Robert Jackson Bennett #nonasbirthday

[hecatesbroom]

as a generally curious person, the one question that's always burning at the back of my mind is: how do my mutuals look?? so because tumblr is the Great Anonymous Basement of the internet and we're obviously not posting selfies, I'm asking you all (very very nicely) to reblog this and tell me what you look like in the tags!!

#i'll go first! #i have lightish blonde hair and blue eyes (aka typical white person) #my hair is incidentally the straightest thing about me (and very long. i'm thinking of chopping it off and getting a bob soon) #i wear glasses. everyone agrees my face looks weird without them #my sense of style fluctuates between 10 y/o boy from the 1930s and someone's secretary in the 1970s -- or any combination thereof #actually i think it's safe to say i look like either: a grandma. the grandpa she buys clothes for or the queer kid who raids their wardrobe #depending on how i feel that day lol #oh and you can recognise me by my flat cap. i don't leave the house without it #yup. i get Looks when i go outside lol #i also still have a forehead covered in pimples. have done since i was 12. still waiting for that to clear up (if it ever will sjkdf)

[mothmiso]

千葉県 | Chiba Prefecture (2) (3) by Typ250

Via Flickr:

(1) Kominato railway Tsukizaki Station

#railroad #incidental person #train station #public transportation #cats #abandoned houses #japan #chiba prefecture

[seaweedstarshine]

Thinking about River affectionately calling the Doctor her “madman in a box” only after he's called her his “bespoke psychopath,” and vice versa. They each were called these words by the other before ever using them to describe the other.

Thinking about the way they defy reality for each other. How modern psychiatry elevates objective reality to gatekeep full participation in society, yet they shatter objective reality with love — “I can’t let you die without knowing that you are loved.” and “You are always here to me and I always listen and I can always see you.”

Thinking about “What's the mad fool talking about now?” and how Gallifrey ostracizes those labelled mad, going so far as to see it as failure in children. Thinking about “A child is not a weapon!” “Give us time.” and how Kovarian equates psychopath with weapon as a tool of dehumanization and control.

Thinking about the way the psychiatric-industrial complex inflicts violence upon those who deviate from psychosocial norms. How their relationship was born in violence, but of madness — not madness in a post-Enlightenment framework of opposition to Reason, but madness as radical compassion that doesn’t demand so-called rationality — “Every time you've asked, I have been there.”

Thinking about how neither of them chose “psychopath” or “madman,” but they both own those words as instruments in their own agency.

#words by seaweed #(eleventh) doctor is neurodivergent tag #river song #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #antipsychiatry #madpunk #yowzah #doctor who #bc I've seen the discourse on whether river is ‘actually’ a psychopath heres your regular reminder that psychopath is NOT a medical term #it's madman but with a lack-of-empathy slant. #saneism #ableism #reclaimed language #mental health #neuropunk #mad liberation #disclaimer: not a philsopher. can u tell I was a graphic design major w an incidental personal investment in psychotic ppl rights #anyway when I say ‘madness as radical compassion’ I don’t mean that madness creates compassion; but that this position #where participation in modern personhood is violently denied+ autonomy stripped due to weaponizing mental health interests (my river song) #elicits a different framework of compassion— one doesn't have to make sense or ‘fit’ into a convenient Narrative for compassion #the fact that they passing laws to make conservatorships easier to acquire in several states makes me shriek when I think sometimes #so uh tune in next time for me drowning my sorrows in my canon psychotic eleventh doctor evidence posts

[salty-an-disco]

there’s a plural reading to be done with the entirety of Slay the Princess, and while I’m not the one equipped to do it, I do think that even after leaving the cabin, Quiet would still be prone to splitting into other voices if they wound up dying again.

#slay the princess #stp spoilers #the long quiet #stp protagonist #I see every final princess (the one you visit in the cabin) as a system made up of pieces of the vessels you gave her in that playthrough #but the stranger one is the one– how do I put it– more *separate* and incidentally more in touch with their plurality #not sure where I was going with this (and any plural person feel free to correct anything I say) I just think this is a fascinating #part of the game. and deserves to be talked about more

[isfjmel-phleg]

I wish all TV screenwriters a very pleasant Meet An Actual Baptist Or At Least Properly Research The Denomination

#random personal stuff #please note the joking tone of this post #quite frankly you'd get so much more drama and comedy out of super-traditional Baptist culture as it actually is #than in making these characters basically secular in behavior but with exaggerated incidental Christianese tacked on for laughs

[pinkeoni]

the thing about buff byers is even IF will were buff, it wouldn't change his personality and suddenly make him "manly"

#i think its possible for will to become incidentally buff #like cis guys who dont even try and they become muscular #but eh hes more likely to be chubby than buff i think #and hes purposefully styled as very not buff #but even IF HE WERE #he would still be sensitive #and into art #and have a personality seen as “girly” #he wouldnt become a macho manly man #cause thats not who he is #will byers

[synnthamonsugar]

The world's not ready for my aro-spec headcanon (drifter)

#(as someone who is bi & has a weird relationship with romance) bi/pan & aro is something that can be so personal #incidentally its what i keep leaning toward for selene too :) #destiny ramblings #drifter

[fictionadventurer]

It's a little-known fact that the actual reason Tolkien objected to the presence of Father Christmas in Narnia was that his children had been receiving letters from the real Father Christmas for years, and he was nothing like that.

#lol #anyway it's almost time to reread #letters from father christmas #(tolkien's true labor of love) #(lotr and the silmarillion both were labors of love of course) #(but they were of love for the things he enjoyed and incidentally for the people he loved) #(while this was mostly for love of his children and incidentally about the things he loved) #(but really what could be a better fit for tolkien than father christmas?) #(a figure of northern mythology who works with elves and turns his powers toward the glorification of the christ child) #(that is tolkien's entire oevre contained in one person) #the chronicles of narnia #tolkien #c.s. lewis