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Hey you know that really disturbing thing where you yawn and your salivary gland shoots a concentrated spray of saliva out of one of its horrid nozzles like you’re a venom spitting snake for some godawful reason

#this happens to me but rarely enough that it disturbs me every time

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ANDOR | Appreciation Week (2023) Day 7: FREE DAY!

-> My spin on the palette movie poster layout -> Motion blur transition credit

#andor was so goddamn good

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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

#no surprise the kid likes hollow knight #he was cool even as a toddler

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So, I saw an interview with the show’s writers and it gave me a lot of thoughts regarding fallout, narrative themes, and colonialism.

First off, I consider myself pretty misanthropic, but even I know “people are evil and innately bad and destructive” isn’t the theme of fallout. That’s doing a lot to lift the blame off of American imperialism and how *that* is the great evil the series warns us about, not “everyone is like this”. The first game opens with us seeing American soldiers executing prisoners of war as America annexes Canada to take petroleum and uranium: it’s clearly about American evil and military/imperial evil, not something innate to all people.

Second, fallout is unique *because* you see “civilization” in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tim Cain has a quote about fallout 1 where he said “my concern in this story is the ethics of life in the aftermath of nuclear war, not building a better laser gun”, and that’s pretty central to fallout. Rather than stagnating, it tries to show us how life would adapt and move on from the apocalypse. The world will change, yes, but it will change in that the apocalypse will become more distant. The future won’t look much like the day the bombs dropped.

Third, what a colonial view to have! “Where’s civilization? Where’s *everything*?” is what you got from westerns? You think railroads and churches being built in recently stolen territory (as is common in Wild West stories) is “civilization”? Wanna tell us what you think America was pre-colonization, Wagner?

It shows this perspective that doesn’t truly want to admit the flaws of America, either willfully or (more likely) due to ignorance. It’s a sheltered perspective, one that doesn’t know history, one that doesn’t know other cultures, one that doesn’t even know the themes of the story it’s writing for…

Edit: this next quote doesn’t have anything to do with those points, it just feels wrong to me to write so spitefully for a series…

#i knew when they nuked the ncr #that they were going Bethesda Fallout #they can't have humanity bounce back or adapt because they don't know how to write that #they can only write the surface level wild west Fallout #despite this I enjoyed the first season so #no hate I guess

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He needs a nap from napping so much

#gaaaaaaaaaaaato #what a good cat #he's working hard

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I'm glad you couldn't!

I really liked this post saying how this scene reminded OP of the Evrart Claire chair moment and I really. couldn't resist.

#dungeon meshi #kabru #laios touden #disco elysium

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harrow definitely thought they were like dating and in love after the pool scene meanwhile gideon is like shit she’s in love with a dead body not me i guess i’ll kill myself (for her)

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow having the most game in the whole empire actually drives the plot tbh

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Incredible the degree to which the Dungeon Meshi fandom collectively said "This ain't about her."

#maizuru #falin touden #dungeon meshi #falin breasts so boobily you forget she's got ninja stuck to her toes

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*Slaps Shizuki* This boy can't fit any exposition at all.

#shizuki soujuurou #mahoyo #you gotta understand in the nasuverse this makes him a god

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This entire scene for Kabru was like that one bit in Disco Elysium where you sit in a chair in Evrart's office. My boy is making increasingly difficult Composure and Pain Threshold checks

#dungeon meshi #disco elysium #kabru #rin #shuro

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Commits to the bit with the seriousness of a man going to war

#dungeon meshi #kabru #everyone is in a fantasy RPG and he's in Disco Elysium #this is his version of sitting in that chair

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*GRABBING YOU* HEY. HEY LOOK AT ME. SHURO DOESN'T HATE LAIOS FOR THE SAME THINGS HE LOVES FALIN FOR OKAY? OKAY? IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME YOU KNOW THAT ALRIGHT. IT'S IMPORTANT YOU KNOW LAIOS AND FALIN AREN'T THE SAME JUST GENDER SWAPPED ALRIGHT? Shuro hates (hates a strong word for it honestly but it's the simplest to use) Laios because he himself was raised to know and rely on subtle social cues and etiquettes that Laios doesn't pick up on while doing the opposite: being very outspoken and unknowingly making things awkward in some situations. THATS WHAT SHURO HATES. We see that Falin while still very weird in her own right is much more conscious of peoples feelings and social cues which Shuro appreciates. SHURO DOESN'T HATE LAIOS FOR LIKING MONSTERS AND WEIRD THINGS AND LOVE FALIN FOR THE SAME HE HATES LAIOS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THE ONLY WAY SHURO KNOWS HOW TO COMMUNICATE BOUNDARIES AND SHURO IS BAFFLED BY IT CONSTANTLY.

#this #acting like Marcille and Shuro would just like the same traits repackaged in a cute girl #is a misread of both characters and also the siblings fwiw #dungeon meshi

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Car ride with Lady vs with Dante 🎶🐤 || (Extra 🔥)

#good choice Dante #the DMC3 theme slaps to this day #devil may cry #dante sparda #dmc lady #baby nero... I think

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let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook

#everything but dancing #and honestly I think not being able to dance takes me down a notch from hot too #but I won't be modest and say I'm not attractive

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with everything else that happened it's easy to forget what an incredible entrance this was

#dungeon meshi #she's not wrong #hien #kabru

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To this day, the strongest use of spoken word to recruit an enemy unit in an SRPG

#dorcas #lyn #fire emblem 7 #go home and be a family man! #wait wrong game

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THERE WE GO

VIP INBOUND

#important enough to have her own theme music in a cast of dozens #serra #fire emblem 7