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[imustbenuts]

Fire Emblem ramblings/translations masterlist

(Last updated 7 Feb 2024)

Outdated bit:

Kiran is (functionally) a boddhisattva/deva theory (somewhat jossed)

Fire Emblem Heroes stuff

Fire Emblem Heroes - the quiet Buddhist cosmology beneath the Norse Facade (Long Read)

(un)fun fact about a lot of fire emblem's general plot lines regarding the iffy issues of bloodline and just rulers (A Fafnir centric rambling)

Reading Eitri as a reflection of the player/Kiran

Devas and their association with music

Kiran's luck in FEH (Part 1) / (Part 2)

Fafnir looks like a Japanese politician running for elections...

Unsorted meta eastern religious culture stuff

Thoughts on why Fire Emblem adores the idea of Avatars

Aureoles and halos

Sombron's Cobra Dragon Form is a call-out to Buddhist Nagas. Or: wait, are Divine and Fell Dragons really that different?

The Heroes relics are Buddha relics

Shinto's influence on the writings of Big Bads

Iron swords are $10 (new!)

Fire Emblem Heroes x Awakening wombo combo

Connections between Robin, Grima and Kiran

Potential connection between Naga and Kiran

Kiran and Grima's Yin Yang relationship [fengshui]

Fire Emblem Awakening

Ylisse's parallels to irl Japan (new!)

Reading Grima as an Abrahamic god stand-in in the world of Fire Emblem, and how that is filling in gaps in the narrative.

Fire Emblem Engage

Why EN Pandreo AROOs and JP Pandreo WHEEEYs

Why is Rosado written that way?

Seadall & East Asian Beauty Standards (new!)

Translations & related

Yusuke Kozaki's comments in regards to Askr's character design

The Key of Truth "Breidablik"

Alfonse's thirst for the summoner

Alcryst S rank support + S rank Ally Notebook (Fan-translated)

Alfred's cut Ally Notebook stuff in JP

In conclusion

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[familyofpaladins]

[narwhalsarefalling]

[bluesturngold]

[emberdothound]

[junjou-laina]

When you're in the middle of a traumatizing FFXIV MSQ cutscene but you forgot that you queued up for a groovy ass dungeon.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[cosmicretreat]

[cielskunk]

Download The Stoat Animal...

[retinaofthemindseye]

[gnawing-suspicion]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[official-lucifers-child]

so make it

Cunt

[capybaralovers]

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

i love having free will

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

just realised i put this on the wrong blog

[catchymemes]

MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE

[fear-is-nameless]

Let us all have a good June.

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[fooltofancy]

partner said "isn't that just evil?!" and i must disagree.

is it evil, or just a possessed cat corpse?

evil.

the cat was already dead how could u begrudge some voidsent a squishy cat body?

Voting ended onMay 10

[alexanderwales]

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.

[adhdedrn]

#it's fucked and it's bad design #i should be able to write and edit for 20 hours a day #i'm just sitting there how are we even using energy #feels made up (via @softest-punk, emphasis mine)

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.

Feed your brain.

[qqchurch]

marriagetoxin is just so absurd that someone can wield a makeshift spear made out of live birds and you basically just go 'what the hell, sure'

[fascinationstreetmp3]

mutuals lets do this