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I cannot relate to any of you acting like this election is anything other than a performance. We live in a fascist country and there are two fascists on the ballot. Whoever wins, our conditions here will continue to worsen. Genocide will be allowed to continue unabated.

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Day 11 🎏 Kataang Yuri!

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A table bereft of Grace.

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This song put a spell over me.

Animatic for Hama of the Water Tribe, Bloodbender, after she frees herself from the Fire Nation prison.

Music by Jorge Rivera-Herrans - Get in the Water, from EPIC the Musical, song cover by Morgan Clae [Video Description: Get in the water: Hama faces a Fire Nation soldier at the beach under the light of a full moon. Face tired, almost impassive, she tells him to get in the water. Tides so high: She reaches her hand up to the moonlit sky and the waves of the sea around her start to roil. Her actions in time with the music, she threatens and bloodbends the soldier to step closer to the sea. He shouts no, and Hama sends a wall of water up around them. Hama forces him to kneel and sends the water over the soldier, and the final shots are from his POV as the water rises and covers his vision. ]

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saw this post

emmabeforenone

I would marry them

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So...emh, the gay thoughts won

I recently started baldur's gay 3 and this is my tav with their beautiful strong wife

I feel very normal and...did I say gay??

araneapeixes

how about that hot girl summer

(pose credit to this awesome piece!!)

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That boy who was labelled "gifted" in middle school and internalised that if he wasn't smart then nobody would care about him, is actually now a girl who's internalised that if she isn't pretty then nobody will care about her

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I've actually internalized that I'm never going to have friends the way everyone else has friends nor am I going to ever be pretty. So I'm just waiting for the void to claim me so I can stop hurting.

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The Souls Lore Community: Someone Should Be Studying This.

As I was watching SmoughTown's most recent Elden Ring lore video, I started thinking about the lore hunting of Souls games as a social phenomenon, and I genuinely hope this community is studied by psychologists and social scientists someday, because it's worthy of research.

Normally the rise of FromSoftware's games from relative obscurity to worldwide fame is what people might be interested in, but the dedicated lore community online and especially on YouTube is especially fascinating to me. Dozens of YouTube channels are specifically dedicated to collecting, compiling and deciphering every scrap of lore and storytelling available in these games with a deliberately obfuscated storyline, and hundreds of thousands of people watch and consume this content, not simply satisfied with playing the game, but joining in on the search, the debate and discovery.

I'm reminded of Jacob Geller's absolutely stellar video "Shadow of the Colossus and the Search for the Last Great Secret", and I feel like the modern Souls lore community is a convergently evolved social phenomenon to the "Secret Seekers" on those old forums trying to tease out the last secrets of Fumito Ueda's masterpiece (Hidetaka Miyazaki was directly influenced by Ueda's work, so this makes sense).

People will evaluate Souls lore with greater skepticism than I see most people use for their political or personal beliefs, and the lore debates I've seen in person often feel like academic discourse more than your average nerds discussing their favorite game, so I suppose all I have left to say is "why is no one studying this???"

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I think engaging in FromSoft's style of storytelling and the discourse trying to disentangle it is actually a great way to learn the skills required for philosophical and political discourse.

That is, as long as you are engaging with the item descriptions as potentially factual, propagandistic, or straight up lies. Trying to figure out who is telling you about the Crucible in a certain item, what they want you to believe about it, and what they aren't telling you is really good practice for applying those skills to real life information.

The way From uses imagery to mean both literal and metaphorical/metaphysical things simultaneously is just really good writing. Their games have politics and philosophy in their blood, and the amount of lore-hunters that ignore or miss it is disappointing.

As an anarchist and queer person, I can't not see the anti-hierarchy themes and the horrors of empire and domination everywhere in their works.