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Marx was a fun drunk as it turns out

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#i should make more drawinfs with tunas Partitio Face Brush....

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Doodle pile (it ended up becoming therion-centric oops)

#octopath traveler #the thangs

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really fascinating mobile glitch where a post was straight up misattributed to someone else I follow. I do not follow the actual poster but when I tapped the username it correctly linked me to supergreatfriend instead of stella's blog. what on earth

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Still got the post canon brainworms…

Bonus doodles

#octopath traveler #i love gay people.

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Ok you know what. Was thinking about this.

#octopath traveler #octopath traveler 2 #SOOOO CUUUTR

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Replayed PoR recently and that put me in the mood to draw some Tellius stuff.

#fire emblem #tellius #v good expressionsss

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Strange how people keep saying that "Shuro hates in Laios the same traits he supposedly loves in Falin", which is...

Seriously, look at him and his dialogue - does he hate Laios for being a monster freak? For being nerdy and weird and loving nature? For eating bugs? No, that's not it.

Shuro hates* Laios for being so profoundly socially inept (from his perspective).

The key difference between Touden siblings isn't that Falin is a pretty girl - the key difference is that Falin is caring and accommodating to other people, and Laios is awkward and unobservant, seemingly egotistic at the surface level.

(others have already written wonderful essays on why and how they grew up like that)

It has to be noted that Shuro is a sheltered noble from a land where proper etiquette is paramount - he is used to people being incredibly subtle AND incredibly observant around him. He comes from a high-context culture where everyone assumes things based on lots of social cues and shared understanding of context. That's not even a matter of being neurotypical, that's his culture (in addition to his personality and brain chemistry)

He is also rather introverted as person and doesn't have many friends. Even his attachments and emotions in childhood are expressed subtly, in a restrained and proper way. He is polite and refined, perfectly fitting into his house's expectations - even if that means repressing his childhood interests and little weird joys.

In that particular way, the opposite of Laios.

Shuro hates* Laios for being the opposite of the image HE was grown into. This strange man is so utterly insensitive and so open about it - he has no sense of shame (like Shuro), no tact and ability to shut up (like Shuro), no restraint (like Shuro). Look at him talking non-stop about things he wants to talk about and having fun (unlike Shuro) while completely overestepping Shuro's obvious boundaries!

The boundaries, I must say, that not only never before needed to be spelled out, but in Shuro's upbringing and culture would be as ridiculous to spell out as "I want to pee, so I'll go to the bathroom and remove my pants and sit on the toilet and release the sphincter holding my pee in my pee bladder"

Falin is not only awesome in his eyes for being weird and in touch with nature, but for being very delicate, observant and caring AT THE SAME TIME. She is a gem in Shuro's eyes, a miracle of his dreams.

In Falin, he not only sees a nerd-freak - he sees a hope for an introverted, polite, restrained person like himself to reconnect with that love for nature and nerdiness and freakiness.

Laios isn't like that. Laios is unobservant for subtle cues - and so a lot more loud, persistent, enthusiastic and unwittingly annoying. Yes, Falin has all that inside her too - but she restrains herself in order not to be a burden. And so does Shuro, in order to fit expectations. There's similarity between them in that regard, between two introverted and restrained weirdos. And a hope for a kindred, more open soul, from the more restrained Shuro's perspective.

* - I don't think Shuro's feelings to Laios are properly described as hate. Yeah, in his darkest moment he says that, but honestly it felt more like an accumulated stress from a continuous cultural and personal misunderstanding, rather than a profound personal hate.

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What was the post about?.. Oh, yeah, Shuro loving Falin and disliking Laios. That's not him being too horny to think, that's him loving in Falin the defining difference between the two - they aren't gender-swapped clones, after all. Give my boy some respect and nuance.

#dungeon meshi #this is going to sound mean but tumblr users stop projecting so much onto laios you refuse to see his flaws challenge #and yeah give my girl some respect and nuance too by not calling her Just Girl Laios tbh

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I don't know how requests work and this is Octopath 2 so ignore me if you just wanted Octopath 1 ideas (and if I'm just not understandable) but I had some random thought of Temenos and Throne working together to mess with Crick by having Throne use Disguise on Temenos so basically now there are two Temenoi and now they wreak havoc while Crick is like "what... the... I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON." Actually just Throne using Disguise on various people in the party to mess with any of them is also good. Basically I just think that's a really funny gameplay mechanic but I don't see anyone talking about it, hehe...

I went a little overboard with this one… lol

Bonus

#octopath traveler #octopath traveler 2 #pleeeeease

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"My Quiet Forest Home" - By Yasunori Nishiki

#octopath traveler #audio #CELLO MY FRIEND CELLO. AND PIANO

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Octopath Traveler - Final Boss Compilation

#octopath traveler #audio #torment nexus <3

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"Battle II" - By Yasunori Nishiki

#octopath traveler #audio #and who could forget battle I's beautiful sibling. battle II

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Battle 1 - By Yasunori Nishiki

#octopath traveler #audio #the original. the classic.

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Osvald, the Scholar - By Yasunori Nishiki

#audio #octopath traveler #ot2 #cello my best friend the cello

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Loving the dungeon meshi anime so far! The manga is one of my favorite of all time and I encourage everyone to read it

#dungeon meshi

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I think some people get so caught up in a mindset that all moderation is terrible for fandom that they run headlong into the paradox of tolerance and side with the neo-nazis.

If you try to make a group equally and unreservedly welcoming to everybody, especially by saying that no content can ever be removed and that criticism is antithetical to the group norms, you by definition make the group unsafe for marginalized people.

Black fans are inherently less safe in a group that is tolerant of racists or of racist content. Disabled people are inherently less safe in a group that is tolerant of ableism or ableist content. Jewish people are inherently less safe in a group that is tolerant of antisemitism or antisemitic content.

And so there is no value neutral moderation decision--not even "everything and everyone is allowed without question or comment." You are making a choice as to who you want to prioritize in your community, and marginalized people are the ones who lose when you maintain the status quo.