#enrichment posting

[thearomancer]

Watching a tumblr post I’ve seen on actual tumblr appear in a YouTube compilation or on some other app always feels like how I imagine wild life photographers must feel when they see an animal in the zoo they’ve photographed in the wild.

#like #I’ve seen you in your natural habitat #are you getting enough enrichment here? #not wizard posting #tumblr

[kayawolfhorse]

Discuss

#this isn’t necessarily based on creature or sanity levels it’s what would be funniest for the Bit #also the idea of muppet & human duos is amusing to me. false and ren. pearl and gem. bdubs and etho. do you see it #zed and cub as unethical scientists is fun it’d be solid enrichment for them both #mumbo is equal parts muppet and man. maybe he’s a muppet that got turned into a guy idk #mumbo being over the line vs under it doesn’t mean anything i just ran out of room and didn’t feel like changing it btw lmao #kaya posts #hermitcraft #1k

[officialspec]

ill be honest as much as i love to criticise the use of fatphobia for comedy ill never be able to hold the fatphobic jokes in kung fu panda against it

like yea those movies are guilty of dipping into The Usual Tropes for a cheap laugh but not only is the character writing for the fat characters the strongest and most sympathetic ive Ever seen literally just the character designs of the pandas in the 3rd movie get me choked up sometimes. theyre all so appealing and clearly treated with the same care and attention as everyone else without copping out and making them Barely Fat. po is already a size that doesnt exist in film protags and hes still the thinnest person in that whole village and that meant a lot to me

#i havent seen the movies in ages but the design of the ribbon dancer is sooo . AUGH #like not just to have that many fat characters but have them be REALLY fat without being treated as ugly or nasty #OR THEIR FATNESS BEING TEMPORARY !!! its their natural state thats how theyre meant to look!!!! #its easy to get caught in the thinking of like. having fat characters be a minority in a lineup to reflect 'real life' #EVEN THO that isnt always true but regardless #having a cast where the nonfat characters are so few and far between theyre hardly present at all. so fucking enriching 2 me #imo writing-wise the third one is by far the weakest but it still is just so important to me that they designed the pandas like that #can i kfp post on main is that allowed #idk i watched a video essay im emotional abt this again

[itsmeyourmentalillness]

In honor of shourtneygate2k24, have some shitposts! ✨️

(And also a friendly reminder to be cool to Courtney and Shayne whether or not they're together, okay thnx guys 💛)

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

#smosh #courtney miller #shayne topp #text posts #memes #shourtney #schrodinger's shourtney #no but for real whether or not they're together this day has been so deeply funny #it's like a fandom-wide enrichment activity and I am having so much fun

[carolinanadeau]

"this female character is underdeveloped" TO YOU. I can read subtext and I know all about her backstory and her rich inner life. also she told me personally

#I honestly think that one of the most enriching and rewarding parts of writing fanfiction is getting to #fully flesh out and explore a character who gets some but not-quite-enough characterization in canon #unless the character is REALLY minor there are always so many threads to pull out and weave into something new #you can even deconstruct the marketing materials! oh this character is only described as 'beautiful'? wonder how she feels about that hmmm #my original post #writing #fanfic #I'm just really proud of what I've been able to do with Miss T. it's almost all right there in the script and lyrics if you'd only look!

[sapphic-sprite]

fat lesbians are so perfect please screw off if you think otherwise

#so tired of seeing fat butch lesbians be used as a joke in lgbtq spaces #fat lesbians enrich the lgbtq community and the lesbian community #some of y’all have very obvious fatphobia #lgbt #lgbtq #wlw #nblw #lesbian #butch lesbian #femme lesbian #fat lesbian #lgbt pride #lgbtq pride #wlw pride #lesbian post #wlw post #lesbian pride #nblw post #nblw pride

[frogetime]

cain instinct

#in stars and time #isat #IM NOT WORKING ON THIS ANYMORE IM POSTING IT IM PUTTING IT OUT THERE ITS DONE #AUGH #isat siffrin #isat mirabelle #isat loop #anyways if loop came back i think theyd periodically beat the sht out of each other like 2 cats with the zoomies #its enrichment #myart

[jackalspine]

(Sarah McLachlan’s In the Arms of an Angel playing~)

Some phans are tired of the irresponsible fridge-ing of their beloved Drs Fenton, and rightfully so!

The phanmarket is understandably saturated with tags of neglectful!parents, abusive!parents, and more notably- dead!parents. This of course, stems from the tones a lot of phans picked up from the source material, and which thus bred abundantly on fanfic.net as a convenient shift out of the status quo of the show and into that good ol angst fic goodness.

Phandom nowadays has had much time to steep in the primordial angst goo of which it was birthed, and upon reflection offers a softer hand to our dear Drs.

Now, we- The Drs Fenton Rehabilitation Program or DFRP recommend several ways of coxing your jacks and maddies out of your fic, without resorting to drastic measures!

See more: @maniacwatchestheworld ‘s post

Or yknow. ol reliable.

Whatever idk just,

Somethign something euthanasia.

#hehehe ok yeah silly post done time to go to sleep #send ur jacks and maddies out to the farm. #we have fudge and ghost sighting enrichment !! #jackal shenanigans #danny phantom #jack fenton #madeline fenton #long post #hey! my first Danny of 2024! #lol #skeh #1/5/24

[th3e-m4ng0]

re: that post about the lack of enrichment in trucks

i bring yet another megop au where op is another depressed fellow whose EM field is always emitting gloomy and tired vibes. vs megatron who is at his happiest when hauling materials and messing with his coworkers/friends

they haven't seen each other in years since the war ended and they signed all these treaties and paperwork !

#wip #au #op wonders why he's the only odd one from his peers that feels specially unhappy with his post-war life. he shouldn't. work pays well and h #has a house all by himself. he's not in immediate danger. no one is actively trying to kill each other. has access to energon and treats #his friends are all near him (and yet he doesn't try to contact them bc he might be bothering them) #by all means he should be happy but alas. he is not ! (sadge) #and then megatron's like YEAHH. ROCKS. I HAUL THE MATERIALS. i will dump dirt on top of you if you are distracted. do not try to tip me ove #i will punch you. oh optimus prime? idk he's probably passed away idc. look at this buiding. i'm helping #[truck with Sufficient enrichment vs truck with lack of enrichment]

[starstruck-critter]

timeloops huh?

#in stars and time #isat #outer wilds #isat siffrin #isat loop #isat isabeau #isat odile #isat mirabelle #isat bonnie #im way too lazy to split my posts so u get everything all at once #sending the isat cast to space because its fun and enriching #they wont die badly in there i promise #my art

[harrowedsoup]

Gideon: Harrow won’t let me speak to anyone because she thinks I’m stupid and I’ll bring shame to the Ninth House >:(

Meanwhile, Harrow: If anyone actually gets to know Griddle’s horrible personality they’ll immediately want to climb her like a tree. Obviously the solution is to make her keep silent because no one finds the strong and silent type attractive. I am great at making plans.

#the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #griddlehark #that post has been living in my mind for days #because yeahhhhhh #Harrow really does like Gideon’s weirdness #she likes the dumb nicknames and the way Gideon’s insults are really smart but also stupid #while Gideon is just convinced that Harrow is annoyed with her #like you stupid butch Harrow is delighted with the enrichment you bring to her enclosure

[bijouzen]

genuinely i cannot verbalize the fucking joy i get from wizard tumblr. like. sometimes i just scroll through silly little wizard content and it makes me so fucking stimmy that i feel like im gonna fucking explode

#I know Im not super active all the time on my wizard blog but i still adore it so much and it means so much to me #this is my enrichment #*looks at wizardblr posts #bounces off the walls like the audhd creature incarnate #bites something #theres so much joy /pos

[birbwell]

the bishop and the knight

#the pillars of the earth #pillars of the earth #waleran bigod #sir catface #cateran #birbwelldraws #cleaned up a mostly finished wip from august so i can have somthing to post for valentines #theyre enrichment for me your honor

[picaroroboto]

For the past couple days, I've been unfortunately cursed with thinking about Zenos yae Galvus. I don't even particularly like him - not that I dislike him either, Zenosfuckers you can put your scythes down - but it seems to me like a lot of the fandom either greatly misunderstands him, or doesn't even care to try to understand him, which from an objective standpoint as someone who cares deeply about writing in video games kind of pisses me off. But I'm more pissed about the fact that I'm apparently going to keep thinking about this issue until I actually write a character analysis of him.

Q: "But, what even is there to analyze with him? Isn't he all about wanting to fight the WoL and nothing else?"

Well, you wouldn't be wrong with saying that. That motivation is at the forefront of his character, and even if you look closer, everything about him comes back to either "violence" or "lack of understanding of others". But there are more meaningful sides to his deceptively simple character. That question of meaning is what I really want to look into - what does his character mean, what symbolic or thematic role does he play in this story?

Q: "Better question: why are you posting this on your art blog/Fate meta sideblog?"

Good question, with a stupid answer: I have all of 6 followers on my FF14 sideblog, and around 150 here. Let's go under the cut so they don't have to read a wall of text, unless they want to.

When you look at and compare FF14's villains, you can see a very clear change, no doubts thanks to the change in main writers. ARR Gaius and Thordan are more or less two-bit villains - Gaius's memeable iconic Praetorium speech gives us insight into how fascists try to justify themselves but little into Gaius's actual personality, while all Thordan gets as far as depth of character is an NPC in a sidequest remarking that he wasn't always a bad person and was probably doing what he thought best for his nation. Nidhogg is a little more understandable, since revenge is a relatable motivation to anyone who's been hurt by others. In Stormblood, Zenos and Yotsuyu are both presented as deserving of pity even as they do terrible things. Come Shadowbringers and Endwalker though, the story takes a greater interest on why villains like Emet-Selch and Elidibus do the things they do, and the player is allowed more options to try to understand them and see how similar they are to the WoL. Hell, Hermes and the Endsinger are barely "villains" at all, with the level of sympathy the story shows them.

What I'm getting to here is that Zenos, with half his arc in Stormblood and the rest in Endwalker, is sort of caught in the middle of this shift. He played the role of the rival character in Stormblood really well, but come Endwalker, he's standing on a stage full of heroes and villains with grand causes and deep motivations, as the guy whose sole motivation is fighting for pleasure.

It seems he's not unaware of this contrast himself - when Jullus confronts him for ruining Garlemald for no good reason, he retorts with "Would you be happier had I a good reason?" Zenos makes no attempt to justify his own actions and doesn't care that his reason seems incomprehensible and unforgivable to others. Yet in that same cutscene Alisaie hits him with the fact that if he keeps living solely for pleasure, he'll die alone. When next we see Zenos, he's alone at the Royal Menagerie waxing philosophical about what he really sought in the battle with the WoL.

See, what really motivates Zenos isn't just the thrill of battle - this guy has gotten Battle High and the joy of human connection confused. Really.

Even before he gets so perturbed by the idea of dying alone, there's other suggestions, like his proposal of friendship to the WoL when they fought in Stormblood, and then later his dying words in which he explains that he never understood others - at his core, he's just lonely. I know there's an official side story that tells it, but you don't need to know the exact details to glean that he had some sort of tragic backstory. Sad, but not a surprise, considering he's the prince of the Garlean Empire, raised to take the throne and continue the Empire's legacy of violence.

At his core, he's a very lonely person, but also a thing of violence, raised using violent methods for the purpose of causing more violence. Violence is how he lives and breathes - the only way he gets any sort of connection with others in a world of hurting and being hurt is the brief connection warriors dueling as equals can sometimes find. Don't deny that this sort of connection exists - FF14 is great at making fights that are both fun and tell a story. Hence, why he goes crazy for the WoL, but also refers to them as "friend". In their fights, he senses (or thinks he senses) similarity between him and them. Beneath all the madness is a pure, genuine joy in seeing the self reflected in the other...but he also instantly gets on the train to projection-town, population Zenos, and assumes the WoL is exactly like him, ignoring or failing to notice that they also fight for deeper meanings. The worst part is, he doesn't even notice that what he's actually seeking in fighting them is connection until Alisaie's aforementioned callout.

So he goes and angsts for a while, then turns into a dragon again and flies across the universe to help us kick the Endsinger's tail feathers, then issues his challenge for that duel he'd been longing for. But what's changed is that he starts with a question - "Such pleasures you sought for their own sake, and for no other reason, is that not so?". Dying after the duel, he's full of questions too: "Was your life a gift or a burden? Did you find fulfillment?" Alisaie's suggestion that he'd die alone actually spurred him to realize what he actually sought in the WoL, and now he's asking all these questions in an attempt to, for the first time in his life, genuinely connect with another human being.

The questions aren't important just because they're a sign of how Zenos has changed in Endwalker - they're actually the thematic heart of Endwalker! ARR may have had "Answers" as it's theme, but EW is the expac of questions. Namely the biggest question of all: What is the meaning of life? Different characters have different answers to that, leading to the grand-scale symbolic conflict being the Endsinger's despair - her belief that there is no meaning in life - versus whatever reasons the WoL chooses to live for, left, as always, up to player interpretation.

When you look deeper, Zenos isn't actually as out-of-place in the symbolic conflict as he first seems. His depressed worldview - that metaphor about drowning in a swamp again - seems to align with the Endsinger's view about life being meaningless. But he aids the WoL in defeating her. In that way he serves as part of the answer to her question about the meaning of life. He may have resented life at times, but he still found meaning in chasing pleasure. Not the strongest or most beautiful reason to deny oblivion, perhaps, but it did enable him to help the WoL triumph. I think of Zenos's philosophy as being connected to the concept of "Amor Fati"...largely because this quote explaining it sounds like something he'd say, or at least agree with on some level:

"and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event—and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed."

So he does have a meaningful role in Endwalker, as the "Amor Fati" against the Endsinger's "Memento Mori". I think that in this the story shows that his reason for living, while somewhat shallow, is not necessarily a morally wrong thing in and of itself (setting aside for a second all the people he hurt in his pursuit of that). It's just that, since it is a lonely pursuit that denies everything except for his target, it still feels empty. The core of the counterargument against the Endsinger's despair is that both pleasure and fulfillment are necessary to live a meaningful life in a meaningless universe, and that's why Zenos is here in Endwalker. Why he even exists in the story in the first place.

Even if you're one of the people who deeply hates Zenos...well, you probably wouldn't have read this whole thing if you did, but I still think it's important to read into characters you dislike, because every character in a story is written for a reason. Plus, trying to understand even their worst enemies is one of the WoL's key traits as of ShB and EW. With his last breaths, Zenos was trying to understand the WoL too - carrying this understanding of him with you as we move into our next adventures is the least you can do for your "friend".

#ff14 #ffxiv #zenos yae galvus #zenos viator galvus #endwalker #ffxiv meta #endwalker spoilers #meta posting on my art blog #god why did i spend my afternoon on this all this proves is that I need to be put in an English class again purely for enrichment purposes

[19burstraat]

If Kaz ever gets bored of just doing the gambling halls he should turn to his core audience and start running Barrel drag bars and gay clubs. He can make himself untouchable by becoming a gay icon and getting drag king impersonators. He can be the isle of kerch's answer to princess diana

#I think he would like being a gay icon I think it would be enrichment #six of crows #kaz brekker #my post

[hydrachea]

'tis a great patch to be a Tartaglia fan!

#said completely unironically #i hope we get to see him shackled on his knees next patch #it would be enrichment for me personally #genshin #genshin impact #tartaglia #childe #genshin spoilers #genshin impact spoilers #fontaine spoilers #long time no text post memes #but this one held me at knifepoint with how fitting it was and who was i not to comply #ray's records