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@rinboz
What kind of creature is this?
Here's a pin post.
This is Salin, 2D artist working for indie game studios atm. Also interested in ttrpg. I've done lots of props and environment design. Also BG painting and illustrations.
I made a wide range of works, as you can see below.
Portfolio
Guess who painted all of that battle background?
Print Shop
Sticker Shop
Throw me a dime for my quality clowning
This post will be updated if I have more social media
I came back, got called whore in anon ask box. This is so peak. Anyway look at my thirst trap.
My government cannot stop me from internet access. Motherfuckers. I win.
your old ass needs to stop perving on 20 year olds, fucking creep
You stalk my side Twitter account to keep sending me hate, not even on there, but on Tumblr for over 6 months. I'm a 28 years old who talk to my friend, a 20 years old, and you call me a creep. He's like my little brother, and you are so fucking weird for that. I also talk to my other friend who's around my age, and you act like she's my girlfriend. Respectfully, if you see friendly human interactions of any kind, and your mind goes to romantic or creepy dynamic first, I suggest get a therapy, and then a job. Then a friend you care about and regularly interact with. This accusation reveals a lot about you. This level of internet-poisoned brained is so severe you need to do something with your life.
all i think about is sex and how i’m going to die
wait I thought you were a lesbian?? You’re a trans man?? That’s a shock
I am not a man but one person loves to insist that I am. But as long as that is recognized and you are being a decent and respectful to me, words and terms don't really matter. Call me whatever you want, I don't really care.
"Really op, how many books by Black people do I have to read before I'm considered a good person 🙄" Actually you will not be forgiven until you commit the ritual act of 腹切り at your local Barnes and Noble on February 1st
Nobody thinks you magically cease being a racist by reading X number of Black women's books a year and I think YOU know nobody's arguing that, but you can't help but react to even the mildest mentions of anti-Black and misogynoir biases in society without acting like someone is specifically targeting you by name and social security number like you, random Tumblr user, are making a racism, so you act like that's something anybody has ever said at all in the history of the world. Like I don't think you people are actually that stupid, I think you're saying stupid shit out of kneejerk guilt and if you slotted in "Black women" with any other demographic you feel less guilty towards you'd be like "Oh yeah, that's not a real argument anyone has ever made and I'm acting like a lunatic"
Have you ever used the Omen Cleaver? (ER)
Yes
No
Don't remember
Have you ever used Erdtree Greatbow? (ER)
Yes
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Don't remember
Glad it’s not just me
The first time I saw this video I didn't reblog or save it anywhere and it's been genuinely impossible to find again. I searched every variation of "dyke falling apart car bentley review asmr meme" I could come up with on Google and across multiple websites/apps.
So, thanks for putting this back on my dash.
*laughs in Australian*
Bentley Mulsanne (discontinued).
Holden Commodore (discontinued).
Though it's just IMO, the 1948 versions of Bentley & Holden look more interesting.
As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through
Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!
If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic
really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this
when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor
really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this
when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor
What do you think about Age of Compassion? I think people are exaggerating the negativity, to be honest.It will be a bit strange, but if Miquella were to hold democratic elections, he would probably get a lot of votes.
I have thought about it and I think that it has multiple angles ngl, although a lot of popular interpretation of it I find hinges on the Would and Could of how Miquella becoming like Marika, or how charm = no autonomy whatsoever complete brainwashed = Bad. That interpretation got popularized even when his power and its limitations are never stated to be capable of creating such worst case scenario speculation--even if the charm is very vaguely explained.
TLDR, I think it gonna suck, but it's not gonna be the worst-case scenario suck, and it's not gonna be in the pseudo Griffith-Marika way many people think.
For clarity, I'm not gonna discuss every single possible nuance of a plot point executed very muddily. Because if I go through that, we'll have to address every iteration of who did and didn't do which thing. I'll just go with "multiple unreliable narrators suggest that Radahn and Miquella had unspecified promise in the past. Therefore, both sides that participated in the war in Caelid are responsible for the destruction."
So, here are the things I want to address.
1. Miquella = worst evil because of the destruction of Caelid and using his brothers to further his goal.
So, how do you measure evil? By the number of people hurt? By the severity of his crime? Then why are people who are explicitly obsessed or directly responsible for multiple war and killings, such as Godfrey or Messmer, are not considered as corrupt as a guy who has done many shitty stuff for his goal of peace in one war? Is it really about how evil Miquella actually is, or is it about how he hurts 2 other characters that the fandom tends to like? Is it that we can consider his morality as the most corrupt, so we can assume that both his ideology and goals are completely corrupt?
2. A lot of how his journey parallels Marika, so people assume that he would end up the exact same way as Marika. We just don't really have information on this aside from his track record. Let's lay it down
Helping a lot of people.
Saved Malenia.
Played a leading role in a brutal bloody war.
Used his 2 brothers for his own goal in a horrific way.
His resume is different from Marika, and different from people who willingly participate in Marika's culture of violence. With an ability like charm, I think he has the potential to be even worse than her, but we don't know that when tarnished kills him before he even gets to rule, really.
I think it's fair to make assumptions, but I don't think it makes sense to do so based on Marika'a resume, but not his own.
3. I find that the most compelling read of Miquella is more of, being trapped in the cycle of extreme violence, it's impossible for him to break free from it through complete non-violence--and a lot of things had occurred because he had to make brutal and awful decisions in war. Or things have gone wrong on top of that, and pushed him into bloodying his hands even further. Like every leader who participates in war, he isn't innocent regardless of his personal morality. And I doubt that on a meta-level even, he is written just to be a gotcha evil or pure nice guy.
I don't think that the DLC exists to erase the base game's characterization of Miquella. I find that it is similar to what Ymir says, that simply sacrificing things isn't enough. He has to uproot the whole civilization if he wants changes from the fundamental level.
4. Considering that he exists in Marika's golden order/culture as a whole that exercises violence very liberally, I doubt many people in-universe would actually care about peace for everyone regardless of race or religion. To compare to our world, think of many elections lately. How many people have voted for the fascist or the militant? The war-torn Lands Between being even more extreme than our world right now, I don't think Miquella would be very popular. He can't just say "stop" and a culture that loves war and conquest and slavery and genocide will just, stop. Perhaps that's why he has a very powerful army, such as Haligtree led by Malenia, in the first place.
5. Within that universe, especially through the journey of a tarnished during war time, characters often operate on the logic of "we can kill whoever and do whatever when it's required for our goal, because ultimately might makes right". Taking that exact bit of autonomy away from people could be the fastest and least violent way to stop more violence from happening.
6. With Miquella's charm, the game has shown us that charm people still retain most of their autonomy and thought process, including Ansbach who questions Miquella even when charmed. The only thing he really took away from them is the ability to rise against him and/or kill each other. Leda's culling quest doesn't start until his charm breaks. I think this these things are indicative of the capabilities of his charm, and we can assume that him charming more people would be in similar fashiom--most autonomy would remain, but they just can't get up and kill each other all the time.
Though I speculate that he can't realistically charm everyone. He has to be up close with you in the boss fight. Maybe that's why he needs Radahn. An additional threat for people to consider twice before rebelling, and a failsafe for ending wars if he charm can't.
7. And through PoV of the tarnished, aka the exact person who gained power via might-makes-right killing a shit ton of people, of course Miquella is another person to be killed if you want the throne. I find that tarnished is built to be a character with motivation somewhat separate from the player. You barely have decisions to make in this game despite it being an rpg. You're against Miquella no matter what. I think this contributes to how some people, through embodying the tarnished as somewhat of an avatar, take Miquella as the opposition in every front. This, for example, includes how some people see tarnished as justified in the Elden Lord quest because you, the player, are limited by the framework of the game where might-makes-right mass killing is completely unavoidable. Players tend to not think of themselves as the bad guy unless explicitly told so (and there's a lot to talk about games that forces you to be the bad guy and tries to guilt trip, instead of giving you the bad guy options, but that's a long topic). Therefore, characters who operate on the same logic as the player's avatar aren't always recognized as morally grey or a bad guy either. Even when every main character in this game is shitty in their own special way.
On the other hand, most of Miquella's methods are anti-thesis of the tarnished. So, of course, for some people, it's like a knee-jerk reaction of tarnished me good Miquella opposite bad.
This isn't to fault players--games tend to do this--but to explain the phenomenon. The power-grabbing main character isn't wholly good, and a character with the oppsite goal and method to the player's avatar isn't wholly bad.
8. All that considered, I don't think Miquella's Age of Compassion would be the worst case scenario. The charm could possibly stop the most violent perpetrators of war from starting one. Then, the rest of the world are under threat of Miquella's army with Radahn who's very gung-ho about war being the most visible pawn in that game. It might be like a somewhat less-militant version of empires of the past: you trade in some of your autonomy for protection, peace, and resources. It comes with the condition of all conflict suppression. Though, that in itself can be terrifying. You *can't* hold Miquella and his decisions accountable. So pray that he stays kind for eternity. It's a different kind of terrifying promise, really.
It gonna suck. Probably sucks more and more as time passes. But it's probably not gonna be Griffith-Marika cartoonishly evil suck, you're completely braindead suck, or everyone you love being murdered suck--unless you're die-hard about your need to go to war.
Do you think Radahn could breastfeed his entire army from one tiddy alone or would he need to use both?
I think he needs to use breast milk pump and store them in his stable or something. The big tits space in hia armor is just the pump being on 24/7
Wait I thought art was your job, not your hobby
Art and tech-related stuff is my job. I'm not gonna go into the specifics of it, but because it's my job, there are several types of things that nobody really can get me to do for free now, not even myself. However things like 3D modeling and picking a video game apart doesn't fully feel like a job to me, which is why I still do them for fun.
Really enjoyed your lore-essays back when. Just concise and clear to read, also the ability to tie in-universe concepts with visceral IRL topics. Its very unfortunate the state of things here post SOTE, a lot of good people are gone. In the end, fandom is just a hobby, so I cannot begrudge people for leaving if they are not enjoying it anymore. Wish you the best wherever you end up.
Thanks, appreciate it. And tbh I don't think that, if anyone wants to engage with the game seriously in terms of story, you can't sidestep talking about IRL topics. Like you can't talk about games about violent damages of warfare without drawing from warfare. The game, too, draw from real life and historical stuff. If you play Mouthwashing and completely ignores the central theme of rape and misogyny, you're kinda insane for it. Especially when the whole thing is about, despite different severity each man utilizes it, the entire ship still enables Anya's suffering.
Tbh it's one thing that interests wane over time, but this is the first time I see love for From Software game dissipates this fast. While I think the discussion of the quality of writing can be subjective, aka the Art Is Subjective, art in terms of commercial and quality can still be somewhat measured realistically. Such as how much the interest drops, or how this is the first time where the conclusion has receives both insane backlashes and criticism this wide-spread.
