Murder Most Foul and Unnatural

Necro, 30, writer, anthropologist. ro3k side blog: romance-of-three-memes.tumblr.com

[necromancy-enthusiast]

I haven't played any of the Final Fantasy VII remake entries and am not entirely sure I want to because I was never that crazy about VII to begin with (I *like* it, I don't *love* it), so I don't know how much Vincent's recruitment method has changed (I'm pretty sure he's mandatory now? From what I've seen it also seems like they spoon-feed the player way more, so I imagine getting him won't be as nearly as annoying) but really, it was an iconic sequence, especially when you're like 13.

Going into this mansion and solving those stupid ass puzzles and fighting those stupid ass enemies only to walk into the basement and have a guy sleeping in a coffin backflip 20 feet into the air and give this bit about how he just wants to be left alone to atone for his sins, and they're like 'welp whatever guess we'll go look for Sephiroth some more' before the pseudo-vampire goes 'WAIT I changed my mind, take me with you', and then you go use him in battle for the first time and get his limit break and he turns into this cool monster out of nowhere, and suddenly it was all worth it and he's now the coolest guy ever.

[chalroe]

eva stratt online shopping coping mechanism

[poodpoopsie]

I wonder if you'll ever know how you make me feel... I think Maizula deserves some fluff for once in life... even if it is ooc...

[lesbianlyonelb]

I just wrote 8 pages when I haven't written in months and was beginning to think I'd never be able to again. Idk what it is, but I am sharing and manifesting this energy for every writer who sees this. May you write 8 quality pages effortlessly and find joy writing once more

[realest-slenderman]

8 pages you say

[helen-was-here]

Me when Supergirl convinces the 13 year old not to kill the irredeemable villain because it would retraumatize her: yeah ok fair enough :/

Me when Supergirl kills the irredeemable villain herself the second Ruthye’s back is turned, thus ending the cycle of abuse without involving the terrified grieving child: YEAH OK FAIR ENOUGH :D

[hotvampireadjacent]

[spring-ephemeral]

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

[asofteredge]

hey everyone, just curious:

what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?

[friendlynoodles]

Surfin' Noodle, acrylic on paper, 2025.

[amorphousamalgam]

Kerdly but is Romance Academy

[complexkomainu]

ALWAYS REMEMBER: THE NIGHT IS DARKEST JUST BEOFRE IT KEEPS GOING FOREVER

[metalbatteryzone]

[psychicpsy]

Wouldn’t it be funny if the final round of the tumblr sexyman poll was Sans vs Jesus… and Sans won? I think I’d consider opening up that mini bible my aunt gave me for pride month in that case.

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Who’s sexier?

Sans Undertale

Jesus Christ

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

[eggtempest]

golden deer girls 🦌

[necromancy-enthusiast]

It was an extremely smart move to consolidate the summoner and white mage job classes into one general role in Final Fantasy 9 and 10, because in those games only one or two playable characters can ever summon and that's an important part of the story, but healers are also practically mandatory in a lot of RPGs given the way they're designed, or at least unless you happen to be playing a particularly easy one or you hate yourself *cough* I mean uh, want to challenge yourself, but still, they and summoners are relatively incidental in function. They're certainly useful, but they also sort of have a problem where if they just do that one single thing they're really good at, heal or summon, then they spend a lot of time standing around twiddling their thumbs waiting until their next moment to shine comes.

Later entries have tried to get around this in various ways since the summoner job was introduced in Final Fantay 3. In a lot of games just about every character can summon if they have the right job class, skills, items, etc, but this often makes it feel less... Special, I guess? Perhaps even a bit boring? Often it just feels broken since anyone can do it unless there's some sort of restriction (like it being restricted to a specific job class characters have to be assigned, or like in FF13 where each playable character has a single summon unique to them).

Final Fantasy 4 also has a dedicated summoner, Rydia, and she got around the aforementioned incidental nature of being a summoner by also being a black mage, but black mages are already glass cannons, so you're sort of just giving the glass cannon even more ammo by giving them summons too. On the other hand, giving white mages summons instead gives them more offensive capabilities besides holy spells (which you usually only get access to pretty late-game anyway) or just also giving them black magic (and thus making them feel less distinct). It gives them more stuff to do, but still allows for them to primarily focus on healing and support. It's also killing two birds with one stone by allowing for smaller parties with more fleshed out characters to be able to function a lot more variably, which 9 and 10 are built around.

[grimeclown]

I got a job at a gas station across from a casino and a guy keeps coming in to buy whole cartons of cigarettes and talks in the third person calling himself "snake eyes pete" and every time I tell him his total hes like "tell ya what if old Pete rolls a snake eyes why dont you give it to him for free?" and he rolls the same set of loaded dice on the counter and it does not matter how many times he rolls snake eyes I will not give him the cartons for free he gets so mad

[grimeclown]

Snakeyes Pete is from Toronto he gave me a button once that said "Canadians have the best luck" and i said i thought that was the Irish and he said "I fucking hate the irish" and i said okay

[dragongirlsweetie]

it's always so funny how insistent people are that war "isn't inherently political" like you would be hard pressed to find something more inherently political

[evilscientist3]

people from different countries actually just kill each other with guns for several years at a time for no reason