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The Standard Fantasy Adventure Tale can be a lot of fun, as Path of Radiance shows too! But it’s a lot more fun when they change the formula in some way. Like even Ike and co you have switching units up until chapter 8 when your units finally solidify into what you get to choose from thereon out and even Titania isn’t initially there on one map, forcing you to play differently since Oscar and Boyd can’t so easily double up on her duties yet.

I really liked Engage from a gameplay standpoint, but I can’t deny that after at least four of the last seven games I can think of (and I’m discounting new mystery and shadows of Valentia solely because I haven’t played them) have had straight up Jagens again and they’re solely usable because of the reclass system, I’m ready for intsys to do something new with the starting party setup again.

btw last night i made the mistake of searching "sothe micaiah" on this hellsite and was exposed to whole new levels of discourse and controversy i had no idea existed yet. apparently people bitch about micaiah being a light mage instead of a usual sword lord type and i'm just sitting here like. so use her as a mage??? i don't understand what the problem is. she's a mage. treat her as one. are people seriously out here trying to throw this delicate little waifu into Situations like she's ike or marth??? it's not that fucking hard to play a game with a mage protagonist if you play her like a mage instead of like what you think a protagonist ought to be. like honestly i really appreciate that radiant dawn took that particular risk because i think we could stand to tell more stories about different kinds of protagonists and explore what it means to be the hero of your own story when you don't fit the usual mold of a "hero." and i also think the type of story you tell with an unusual protagonist is necessarily going to be more unusual, which i think is fantastic and should be encouraged. more unusual stories please!!

#fire emblem #I will say they probably will if we get a remake of geneology like people have been theorizing for a while #just because instead of combining the manakete and the hero like they have for the last few games #instead we’re combining the prepromote and the hero #which still makes for a very different way to handle the game

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Shizun hug day

#svsss #bingqiu

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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I for one vote that we should have more mage heroes and give the swordy dudes a break! We have a whole two lords who are explicitly the leads of their games who use tomes.

btw last night i made the mistake of searching "sothe micaiah" on this hellsite and was exposed to whole new levels of discourse and controversy i had no idea existed yet. apparently people bitch about micaiah being a light mage instead of a usual sword lord type and i'm just sitting here like. so use her as a mage??? i don't understand what the problem is. she's a mage. treat her as one. are people seriously out here trying to throw this delicate little waifu into Situations like she's ike or marth??? it's not that fucking hard to play a game with a mage protagonist if you play her like a mage instead of like what you think a protagonist ought to be. like honestly i really appreciate that radiant dawn took that particular risk because i think we could stand to tell more stories about different kinds of protagonists and explore what it means to be the hero of your own story when you don't fit the usual mold of a "hero." and i also think the type of story you tell with an unusual protagonist is necessarily going to be more unusual, which i think is fantastic and should be encouraged. more unusual stories please!!

#Micaiah #also Robin #yes I know that there are quasi-lords like Lilina and Camilla and Leo who also use tomes #but is the game centered on them? no #and yes Micaiah trades leadership with Ike and Robin with Chrom #but they are still focal and important and we deserve more lords like that #also poor Micaiah gets way too much shit for everything #let my girl have her war crimes and dubious taste in men #she deserves it

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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A good excuse for the two to snuggle.

#fire emblem #ikesoren #tellius

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“tumblr mutual” beloved friend I would pick up at the airport if y’all visited my home city

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Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu from Scum Villain’s Self Saving System!

I binged the hell out of all of MXTX’s books and am finally getting around to doing art of them! I def have plans to do matching artworks for the other series.

#svsss

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Xie Lian cooks bad on purpose btw. He's perfectly capable of making edible food, but he chooses to make the abominations he does because its a way of remembering his mother, and a source of entertainment when other people can't handle it. Btw.

#tgcf #xie lian

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saying “can u not” to inanimate objects that are just following the laws of physics but in, like, inconvenient ways

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Compilation of Lois Lane being terrible at spelling.

Bonus:

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Me: I hate gossip

Also me:

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A thing I've seen in way too many fandoms:

People have some legitimate grievances and points about how this fandom's way of looking at the series, its perspectives in meta and fanfiction, which voices get elevated over others, etc. shows a lot of some kind of real social problem: misogyny, racism and colonialism, queerphobia, transsphobia, classism etc. etc. Great! Except this same group has decided that the ultimate evidence of this is just the lack of one specific ship they like, where the lack could be explained by misogyny/racism/etc. but also any number of other factors (including, nearly always, that it comes more from this group of people imposing a particular kind of Migratory Fandom dynamic that they like on a pair of characters who don't actually have that kind of connection or any chemistry at all in this particular work)... and as a result, they've kneecapped their argument unnecessarily. This very important conversation about how even a lot of progressive-minded people in fandom are still very limited by privileged, oppressive perspectives has now been reduced to a Ship War, and the people who probably most need to hear this message now have an extremely easy excuse to ignore it, and even ridicule the people bringing it up in the first place.

Anyway, how about we all stop doing this. Especially because most of the most insidious issues with bigotry in fandom have very little to do with whether a particular ship, character, trope, etc. has enough or too many hits on AO3, and a lot more to do with broader patterns that recur across many different ships and genres and fandoms - problematic ones and "healthy" ones, white cishet couples and POC/POC or interracial gay couples, trans4trans and trans/cis and cis/cis couples and genderbent cis/cis couples, all of them. It's rarely the lack of one specific shipping combo that's a problem.

Among other things, I think it's borne out of this fandom mentality that treats shipping as a default approach to media. Which is, of course, perfectly fine if you're just having fun, but is an ultimately limited way to approach media analysis since in plenty of works, romance is just not one of the narrative goals, or the romance that is there is not with the aim of being "shippable" in a way that fits your personal tastes. This also fails to recognize that plenty of marginalized people out there who like media and analyze it and are concerned about issues of representation, are pretty indifferent to shipping! By making "but this one ship isn't popular enough" your hill to die on, you're not just alienating the other people in shipping fandom that you've demonized as X-ist for disagreeing with you - but also many other people marginalized on the same axis who are not going to notice it because they're not watching the show via shipping goggles. And who are obviously going to resent the implication that they have some kind of false consciousness in not seeing this ship. A lot of those people, however, are open to the conversation about how the way that fanfic fandom writes that ship (or doesn't write it, or writes other ships) has some issues that reflect underlying misogynistic/colonialist/cissexist/etc. attitudes!

But making "supporting this one ship" your hill to die on nearly always distracts from your actual point, and gives people of all identities a convenient excuse to refuse to listen to said point. They're not going to dig down into the depths of your argument when they hate so much of what they see on the surface.

Take a cue from the music world, as musical tastes - like tastes in shipping - are also extremely subjective and personal and rarely an indicator of someone's intrinsic politics: You can condemn broader attitudes around a particular media thing's reception without suggesting "you need to like this music/fanfic/etc. or you're a bigot." There are still some people who will act like you're automatically doing the second thing, but many more will be open to it, and it's almost always a more productive conversation that, most importantly, gets at what the actual problem is.

I've seen this in so many forms across many fandoms. "Shipping this man with another man instead of his canon female love interest makes you a misogynist." "Actually, it's preferring him with the woman over the man that makes you a homophobe!" "This show is homophobic and queerbaiting for not getting this specific M/M or F/F couple I like together, never mind those other canonically queer characters over there." "Shipping this POC with the other POC they actually have chemistry with over this interracial pairing with a white person that I've decided is 'better' for some reason means you must think POC aren't good enough for white people." "Actually we've decided that POC/POC couples are the more antiracist option now, so preferring this black character with the white person they actually have chemistry with over this random black character..." This is all so pointless and so self-defeating! It's almost never what the real issue is. Even when there is an insidiously racist/misogynistic/etc. attitude that you notice in a particular fandom's shipping patterns, you can still make it about broader patterns rather than the lack or presence of one specific ship. People will be more receptive and you'll be naming and diagnosing the actual problem. Win-win.

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"It seems you've had quite a life..." - Ema Skye, 6-5 Day 1 Investigation

#ace attorney

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I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

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WN Non-Sapient Animal Upper Bracket

["Anti-Propaganda" is NOT allowed. Please be courteous and only give reasons to vote FOR a character.]

Little Apple from MDZS

Type of Animal: donkey

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Fairy from MDZS

Type of Animal: dog

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#vote for little apple! #best donkey needs to have her greatness celebrated #I did not write a four part series about her for nothing!