you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy
Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period
shout out to the 11-15 year olds who wrote Kingdom Hearts fan fiction about the Organization and did a bunch of female ocs + self inserts for the sole purpose of mocking the Organization/driving Xenmas and Saïx up the wall. you are my heroes
Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.
The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.
There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.
on the one hand Kingdom Hearts has a bunch of characters with tragic murderous backstories some of which who are literally dead. On the other hand it has Disney characters. On the one hand it's complicated on the other hand it's just a battle between Light and Dark being a literally translation of Good and Bad. On the other hand it's heartbreaking on the other hand a character sleeps upright in a chair for years on end
Sony: yes, Roxas is a representation of Sora's memory, but Xion is a representation of Sora's memory of Kari. She is a representation of his love for her, his best friend. And so she becomes Roxas' best friend, because he is Sora and Xion is Kari and love is everlasting
I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you
it broke today that biden airdropped aid to gaza. other than the fact that this is an obvious pr move ahead of his re-election campaign, i think it's important to stress how ineffective this method is compared to just allowing humanitarian aid to come through. airdrops carry far less aid than truck convoys, for one, and require an airdrop zone with a lot of idealistic conditions that don't often coincide. this is a major reason why you hear a lot of airdrops being conducted at beaches--and why a lot of them have been blown to the sea. and what's even more dangerous about that is that a lot of these palestinians are malnourished, starving, in a delirious state of mind. many of them are so utterly hungry that they'd be willing to swim through just to get their hands on a sodden meal. but apparently this is the best thing the us, which literally funds israel's ongoing genocide, can do for palestinians at the moment.
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