#because NOOO NO DEAR GOD NO! THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT NOOOOO

[bleuberrygliscor]

are you implying that italians are not white on that jan 6th olive garden post

That I think they arent? absolutely not! but white supremacists play fast and loose with who is the "acceptable" white and who isnt. For a long while Italians werent the "right kind of white" and were shunned next to any other non-white minority as a "to be removed" item. up until relatively recently (around the early 1900's or so) they were ignored, until it became clear that the white population was being "outnumbered" and they needed to make a call on how to deal with that. their decision was to expand the idea of the "pure white race" to italians and irish people, rather begrudgingly, because the actual definition of whiteness is really silly and arbitrary and just comes down to how pale you are in the end, so you can totally recruit anyone to your cause by lying to them and pretending you wont backstab them when you will, just later on down the line.

As of now, Italians are clear in their eyes, since the New PM is extremely conservative and a woman, easy to play identity politics with and try to undermine progressive ideals with "BuT FEMiniSM???"

I just found it extremely ironic that a group of hard right conservatives would choose to dine at an Italian restaurant, given how extremely anti-Italian most folks like that are, especially since Italians are sterotyped to be Catholic and we all know how Evangelicals feel about Any Other Form of Christianity.

#rem replies #tldr: NO! NO ABSOLUTELY NOT! OH MY GOD NO!!!!that would be so fucking out of pocket for me to say. #no absolutely NOT THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM SAYING!!!! i'd add more stuff but like: #a) i respect your sanity. i will not show you more of patr*ots.win than i must. and b) i wanna get this out kinda quickly. #because NOOO NO DEAR GOD NO! THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT NOOOOO #if youre really intrested (i dont know why you would be) but check out the 'great replacement' theory #this really all just ties. in. they want breeding stock. italians can pass as that. so they're chill now. thats it. its very gross...) #check back in like 15 years or so and see how they feel about italians then. because they felt the same way about hispanic people.... #which is why they ask you to pick if you are hispanic as an add-on to being white / black. and why suddenly we dont like #hispanic people coming over. weird alot of that 'they're stealing our jobs' stuff cropped up after immigration befan and hispanic people #didnt assimilate well into white culture. they brought their own with them. weird how..that happened. #weird how...the roe thing really only hit white women. weird how they want to use that same frame work to remove access to same-sex #and interracial marriages. look at how they discuss non-ethnic jewish people. they still remove their whiteness regardless of their #genetic backgrounds. like its really fucking stupid and arbitrary how White Supremacists define 'whiteness' and its insane to watch them #pick and choose who is allowed at the table at any given day.

[gardenofshadcws]

Things I have learned/noticed on a second playthrough of Stranger of Paradise (Part 10)

under the read more for lots of screaming. It’s time for The Jackstos.

I am in no way emotionally stable enough for the end of this sequence.

As the game ramps up the Fools Missives call Jack “my dear friend” more and more often and man I’m tearing up on a LOADING SCREEN.

nononononono traversing the burned out hell world didn’t take nearly long enough i don’t want to do this nooooo

“I don’t give a damn about you” “give me a reason to live” “I’ve lived too long” HELP.

ASTOS’S FACE. THE SAD KITTY FACE. NOOO.

I may have run a little far with the “my heart’s filled with enough sadness to fill an ocean” in my fics. No regrets

WHO AM I NONONONONO BABBYYYYYYY

THE VOICE BREAK ON “THAT’S ALL”. THE VOICE BREAK. THE SAD KITTY EYES AND THE VOICE BREAK. TODD HABERKORN YOU OWE ME FOR EMOTIONAL DAMAGES. I DONT WNAT TO DO THIS BOSS FIGHT.

i might have let him win the first time he deserves it. It’s not me I don’t suck.

Oh. Oh my god. His boss description. “the darkness in him can be purged through pain. Hurt him to weaken it” I THINK WE FUCKIN DID THAT ALREADY.

The fist bumppppppp. And then when you lose to UWO it shows it againnnnn

“I don’t know where my heart should lie” with Jack of course ;-;

DOES HE SAY I’LL WAIT FOR YOU WHEN YOU SOUL BURTS ULTIMA WEAPON ORIGIN

The way Nil calls Astos ���it” 😠 fuck you and your spiral staircase hat Nil

NOT EVEN GONNA LIVEBLOG THIS SCENE JUST KNOW I’M HYPERVENTILATING AND CRYING A LOT JACK’S GLAD HE’S OKAY THE WAY THEY HOLD HANDS FOR A LITTLE LONGER THAN IS NECESSARY WHEN ASTOS PULLS HIM UP THE WAY THEY SMILE AT EACH OTHER AFHHAHAJFJDHSHGDHAHGAHFHSHUAHZF.

AHDHAJAJHFJDHHAJAIUDHEHXH.

I’ve seen Astos calling himself a bio-organism referred to as a plot hole because it literally just means he’s a living being but to me that just adds another layer of tragedy to the absolute misery that is Astos’s entire everything. It’s intentionally dehumanizing (de-elf-izing?) on the Lufenians’ part, meant to make Astos into the perfect pawn with no sense of self of his own. Which blows up in their faces big time when the Strangers treat him with basic dignity. I am utterly distraught.

Astos agreeing to Jack’s plan with no hesitation before Jack even says what it is

ASTOS’S FACE WHEN JACK INVITES HIM BACK TO LUFENIA AND PROMISES TO FIGHT. HOW DARE YOU MAKE HIM MAKE THAT FACE. AND THEN HE REACHES FOR HIM AND MAKES THE EVEN SADDER FACE AND EVERYTHING HURTS AND I AM SUFFERING THESE TWO ARE PAIN.

It was at this point the first time where my friend and I realized this is not just a meme game. I’d been leaning towards that for a while but man we were both full on sobbing. Much like I am now.

THE WAY HE SOBS AS HE DIES. “FORGETTING ME” TODD HABERKORN. EMOTIONAL DAMAGES. I MEAN IT SIR.

Kudos to the animators for his facial expressions too. And Jack’s as well. GUH.

HIS SMILE AS HE CALLS THE SQUAD WARRIORS OF LIGHT AND DIES. HE’S FINALLY AT PEACE AFTER LIFETIMES OF SADNESS

#sopffo #sopffo liveblog #stranger of paradise #final fantasy origin #jackstos #having a normal one #nothing but normalcy in here

[sugarcoats-and-heartbeats]

I finished Return of The Thief!!!

Non-spoilery comments:

1. IT WAS SO GOOD! ARGHASLDFJ 2. If you’re anxious, don’t be. Trust MWT.

Now, for all the wild screaming into the void, because I need to get all these irrational, overwhelming feelings out before I hop on over at Sounis LJ and pretend to be smart.

SPOILERS! SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT SPOILERS!

My “live-blog” notes:

- "So, so, so" is out. "Miras' golden balls" is in. - He has all the fighting spirit of an apricot... Like riding a slowly moving sofa - LOL, though I do admit, I find it ironic that Irene would give Gen a horse as a gift, when she's worried of a fall and her own brother died of a fall from horseback - Gen's apartments were Irene's brothers' - two Cleons! two Ions! - why is Attolian!Ion doing back with Gen? Didn't he go with Sophos? - princess Bythesea? LIke, "by the sea"? - SCARY GEN. SCARY GEN EVERYWHERE. SOPHOS! THE PENT! - okay let's back it up here - Sophos throwing water on Gen - GEN CLIMBING UP TO THE WINDOW!!! - ATTOLIA LAUGHING ABOUT IT ZOMG - A;LDFJA;SLDFJAS;LDJK THE PENT AND ATTOLIA AND EUGENIDES AND ALSDFJA;SLDFJKA;LSDFKJ ARRGGGHHHH THAT WAS PRECIOUS BUT ALSO MADDENING - like, here i was, thinking it's Gen who's in danger of getting snatched by a mistress; i was NOT expecting it the other way around - also, every passage i'm either "omg, gen's gonna die" or "nah, he'll be fine." it's so scary whenever pheris talks about the "nowadays" rather than telling the narrative - OMG AND THEN... AND THEN!!! RIGHT AFTER THE PENT SCENE... OMGGGGG THEY JUST DID IT IN THAT ROOM HUH - what is up with all these horrid ambassadors from everywhere?? (Except for the Braels. That one is a keeper)

- Ohh look Irene is doing needlework! Finally! A book where needlework isn't mocked. - Gen doing a somersault from Fryst! - Costissssss!!!!! - oh no! I forgot what Costis's arrival meant - aww, that kindly stable master. bless him! - Genny!!??? GENNY??!!!! I shall now call all my children with a Y at the end. Ireny! Heleny! Bunny can remain the same (though Sophy sounds cute too) - Kamet! - Yessss, Relius! Is back in action!! Also described as "very handsome" so it looks like Costis has competition here - tortured by the *king*?? Wasn't it Attolia who tortured Relius? - lol apparently nobody's ages are going to be revealed - "some unknown sailor fired without orders" something tells me this was planted - Teleus and Relius bro-time. yes i approve - whoa I see an elephant in the drawing!! - okay, was it ever mentioned that Eddisians have tattoos?? Or is this like the first time that was mentioned and everyone is as shocked as me??? - guys, imagine, the MoW. Tattoos!! - okay, so clearly Relius is a playboy?? and i never caught the hint?? - Helen and Irene girl talk, yessss - Fordad's nice. I hope he's not secretly a bad guy - OH NO OH NO Gen resigned!!! What will Irene do? She cannot rule alone again! - omg Gen is such a rebel. I feel for this poor boy. Let me hug him. Let his queen hug him. Somebody hug him! - OMG OMG OMG they're gonna go to Gen's bedroom in Eddis' library, right??? That tumblr post was right! - wooot oh man, Susa turned! whoaaaaa. Gen is so powerful. I am at AWE - asdfasdf neck kisses, hold me, i'm dying - w-w-wait.... so is Susa and Erondites still plotting together though?? Susa, you little snake, I had believed you! - no, Costis is leaving already??

- Costis and the whole comment about "his heart" isn't in his work XD. Though -- guys -- I'm gonna confess, ten years of manning my tiny crack-boat of Costistogiton, I'm a little heartbroken to know they've no hope - Teleus and Relius... Teleus and Relius???? THIS IS CANON GUYS??? But Relius is a playboy??? How does Teleus handle that??? ship name? telrel? leuslius? - Lol, the magus being sassy to his king - ohhhh all these glorious tidbits we're learning about the Eddisian royalty. Helen's mother had an affair with Gen's father? I would not have expected it of the MoW!!! He seemed too straitlaced and in love with his Thief wife - oh. no. eugenides robbed eugenides. i would have NEVER - STENIDESSSSS!!!! - Gen channeling some Edward Elric energy there about his height, huh? Never thought he was bothered by it - what happened to Gen's stomach illness? Is it now gone because the sand in his food is gone? - "Hilarion knew a disaster when he saw one looming right in front of him." OMGGG this is throwback to that Philo comment in KoA - poor Legarus, now the shining example of a man who did poorly in love - OH MY GOD! Teleus was the one who copied the poem for Relius??? - OH. MY. GOD. Irene is pregnant again. - asdlfjalsdkfj "I didn't become inappropriate on my own!" al;sdjfk these babies. - NO. NOOOO GEN DON'T GO AFTER NAHUSERESH!! - NOOOOO STENIDES NOOOOO We never even met you! (except for that one short story) - Hilarion noooooo - oh nooo Gen being tortured AGAIN noooo how much more can this poor boy handle?

- yess Gen the Thief again!! - Eugenides Eugenideides??? - Philoo nooooo! To think he might still be alive if he *had* fought in the battle instead of accompanying Gen to the trap. I am sore about this, ok? SORE - At least my boy Aris is still alive - nooo Fordad, how could you. I rooted for you - Irene crying. My baby - At least Petrus and Galen have finally teamed up - RELIUS NOOOOOOOO. I HATE FORDAD SO MUCH. SO MUCH - no no no I refuse to believe it. Relius is ALIVE hiding REALLY WELL. Shame on him for breaking poor Teleus's and Pheris's hearts - omg Sejanus. All the Pherises. Their poor dear mother, having to be married to the nasty old Erondites - you go, random horseman who took Pheris on your lap!! *I* say you survived the battle; you and Pheris just never crossed paths again - Noo MoW... =( - oh noo, Sejanus. =( All these people I'm mourning when I had hated them before. Though to be fair, Sejanus was really sympathetic at the end of KoA already - HEEECTTTOOORRR????? - LOL omgggg, Baron Anacritus dancing with his lover right after his wife??? the Nerve! - YESSSS,  WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT RELIUS?? Yeeaaaaaah!! Now he can go back to Teleus and Pheris, and dote on the prince and princess! - wait, where my boy ARIS at??? Please tell me he and Costis are still 2 peas in a pod!!! - ohhohhooh awwww that lovely short story!!! Irene was descended from a goddess too? Aww. And I suspected Alyta is also the water goddess from QoA. - I can't believe it. It's DONE. It was SO GOOD. I would be cherishing this last book for decades, y'all. It was SO GOOD.

#queen's thief #return of the thief #rott spoilers #return of the thief spoilers #spoilers #DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS