Dearest Yenalia @dearyenalia - Tumblr Blog

My pug Otis needs eye surgery and I’ve started a GoFundMe to raise funds. Information in the GoFundMe link. Please reblog, and donate if possible. Any little bit helps.

https://gofund.me/d19f6034

dearyenalia

Reblogging this here too.

hybridanafrost

PLEASE SHARE THIS

I am unemployed with hospital bills and in need of money.

I have been unemployed for half a year due to chronic pelvic pain and recently had surgery last month. My insurance barely covered it and I barely have enough to cover rent and my other bills as is.

If you want to donate to my PayPal my email is [email protected].

olearypoetry

#;musings

dawntrails

#character: thancred waters

niraff14

Why Lolorito despite being a Ruthless Ammoral Capitalist is actually still a better person than a modern day CEO.

He actually pays those under his employ fairly well from what I can gather considering the kind of loyalty they seem to have for Lolorito. Money is a powerful motivator.

The thing Lolorito cares about above his own wealth, is Ul’dah.

He still has standards as to what he will and will not do for profit.

What does a Modern CEO care about more than profit? Their own Wallet, to the detriment of everyone around them so long as they have fat stacks of cash.

erickgage

Lolorito doesn’t just care about profit today, he cares about profit tomorrow, next week, and a year from now. He is unrealistic as an oligarch as he can see further than the next financial quarter.

chysgoda

That long term view is also how I explain his co-opting of the bloody banquet plot. I don’t think he wanted the Scions or the WoL dead. I do think that he wanted a better idea of what the fuck they were doing so he could figure out how to plan for UL’DAH.

Step back and try and fit the Scions into real-world politics. (I’ll be using the US as an example because that’s what I’m most familiar with) The Scions of the Seventh Dawn are this strange combination think tank, lobby, and paramilitary organization with absolutely no oversight. Not only that but they’re an organization that contains the worlds most potent weapon of mass destruction, the Warrior of Light. A weapon that while nominally a member of one of the grand companies is really taking all of their actual orders from the Scions.

Oversight is a HUGH concern in any kind of ruling body. Why is it so scary that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have top-secret security clearances? Because there is no oversight. They are only beholden to Trump and even that is tenuous at best because again there’s no means of oversight. Why are the laws about lobbying always so contentious? Because it determines who does and does not have oversight.

So what is Lolorito hoping to gain from the bloody banquet? Predictability.

He doesn’t want the scions or the WoL dead. Killing the people who are best equipped to handle you’re number one recurring national security threat (Primals) is a bad idea. He wants to know what the fuck they are doing and direct that in ways he feels best for his nation.

At the time he probably wasn’t worried when the Scions and WoL escaped. Ishgard probably didn’t register as a possibility. Up to that point, all interaction with Ishgard was strictly quid pro quo. Haurchefant wouldn’t have been a big enough political player for the international scene to notice. So he doesn’t expect Ishgard to be an option for the fugitives. He most likely assumes that they’ll go to one of the other city-states, and even if he can’t get them extradited to Ul’dah they won’t be wandering around like an unexploded political land mine.

However, that backfires on him when the WoL DOES get sanctuary in Ishgard. Suddenly that free agent weapon of mass destruction has a lot of political and emotional reasons to firmly plant themselves in a political camp, a potentially hostile political camp. And they don’t have much reason to trust the alliance as a whole, so if they got a bad case of the primals come up, they’re tried and true remedy may not answer the call.

So the reason that Lolorito gives half of his wealth to the sultanate? The reason Hancock has orders to pretty much dress up like a seal and perform on demand? Lolorito is trying to make up for ground he lost to the bloody banquet. The WoL can topple governments, and he’d REALLY REALLY like to make sure that Ul’dah doesn’t come up on that list. Especially now when it can be presumed the WoL has a direct link to the General of the most effective military machine in Eorzea in Aymeric.

tl;dr: Lolorito really cares about his city and probably has nightmares about the WoL turning coat.

scrollsfromarebornrealm

THIS.

tea-and-conspiracy

(( This is a brilliant analysis, @chysgoda . Even though I’m an Ishgardian RPer, I didn’t really consider how effective Ishgard’s military force would be because I always figured the Dragonsong War had run their ranks a bit thin. However, Ishgard’s the only nation with true anti-air as well as the only nation with burgeoning magitek courtesy of Skysteel. They also have (or had) steam-powered ships, which you’d think Limsa would be all over, and they’re the sole source of war chocobos. Presumably the High Houses are wealthy enough to rival if not beat the Syndicate, with none of the loyalty issues that the Brass Blades and the Flames face. And to top it all off, they’ve got an entire order whose sole purpose is to divine their enemies’ future movements.

Ishgard actually founded the Alliance in order to turn the tide of the Autumn War. But when Mhigo got captured and Nidhogg returned, the Alliance did nothing. The Ishgardians have every reason to be grumpy, and the Syndicate probably knows it. ))

chysgoda

@tea-and-conspiracy I hadn’t read about the thing with the Autumn War that is very interesting! I really enjoy this kind of analysis because it gives really interesting perspectives on the characters. Like how much shit do Aymeric and the Fortemps have to deal with to keep the WoL out of internal politics? Or any of the Alliance leaders for that matter. Sooooo yeah I got plenty of thoughts and hot takes.