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Crisis Core Transcripts
The long awaited (??? by me) master post of links to the Crisis Core (2007) transcripts. This bs was typed up by hand by yours truly because SOMEONE made UMDs very difficult to rip (<3 u SONY).
Link to gdrive folders hosting transcript documents.
Link to my fancy dedicated tumblr page for this nonsense because I can't not go overboard?? (it is maybe a convenient place to bookmark)
Check below the fold for direct links to specific content.
oh my god itās laika day everyone drop what youāre doingā¦ we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever
Never forget, she was loved
She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it
She was loved
great ritual for honoring Laika's memory (from another thread)
you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokƩmon mystery dungeon'd!
unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokƩmon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokƩmon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokƩmon. good luck!
tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokƩmon to be your partner.
bonus rules:
you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny
take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)
apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender
have fun and be yourself!
this headline is so fucking horrible why is it whenever indigenous people are murdered everyone avoids saying they were murdered
itās so important to show solidarity with indigenous people right now and remember that this was a hate crime. rising hearts is an indigenous run organization and theyāre asking everyone who can to braid their hair on monday regardless of if youāre native american or not
so in the wake of your āpopping bottles for makorraā post (which i 100% agree with) iām curious about what other lok-era discourse you were referencing? i was not online back then and i would unironically love to know š
god thereās so muchā¦.. i promise im not gatekeeping (in. this instance) but i literally donāt think i could explain it all if you werenāt there between the years of 2011-2014. like if i tried to explain it now it wouldnāt even make sense. we live in a post-korrasami world now. we live by different rules, different values, different discursive modes. and the Old World is long dead; i cannot simply dig up its corpse. but those who know, know.
For my money, the hand maiden and the feudal lord post kind of sums up the level of living in denial that went fully critical after the finale.
Dr Tingle, how can you have so much love and positivity when this world is so full of hate? I get so worn down by it. I try hard to spread love but hugging someone is hard when they light you on fire.
How are you so strong?
BODY: hour and a half hike at 6 am in the morning then a half hour of 40 pound kettlebell every single day
MIND: by being autistic its the dang best
SOUL: knowing love is real
in my opinion the soul part matters most but every buckaroo is different see what works for you bud.
that being said, you are STRONG already. you have a trot that is uniquely yours and NOBODY else has that power. there is nobody else as good at being you as you are and that is infinitely mighty, especially once a buckaroo figures out how to wield this cosmic gift. but make no mistake it is in you from the start
honestly yes buckaroo
Will you be seeing red after taking this quiz?
I can only readĀ ādogsā and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.
8/10 but fuck, OW.
You
This post has gotten 18,000 notes in the last 36 hours. And you @bunjywunjy are patient zero.
WHAT CAN I SAY
EXCEPT,
Saw this Trucks Discourse on facebook and I'm not part of that world but yeah that one on the left is delightful and I really had no idea just how wasteful and pointless the other kind is until this comparison
itās so sad that theyāve been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzleāthereās no way the one on the right can breathe properly
What's up, I made a meme that I'm sure is extremely broad-audience and relatable
This has gone far enough that it has now circled back to my dash organically. Love that we all hate pointless wool blends. Hate that we can't escape them.
Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.
Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.
A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.
Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.
Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.
In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.
I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!
Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.
Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.
Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:
-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.
-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.
-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc
-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.
-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.
-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.
Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.
The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?
Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.
A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.
Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.
The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.
The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:
And
I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.
Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.
Have you ever seen a deer in the wild?
Yes, many times
yes, 2-5 times
yes, once
maybe? I'm not sure
nope!
For the purposes of the question, caribou, elk, and all species of deer count. Moose do not count, but I'd be shocked if many people have seen a wild moose but never a deer.
For a bonus, tell me in the tags about your Deer Experiences.
>all species of deer count
>moose do not count
You DO realize Moose are deer right? If moose don't count than 'all species of deer' do not count.
not for nothing but "chastity until marriage" and "lifelong strict monogamy" is every bit as much kink as piss or free use or knotting is. we just don't call it that because those weirdly specific and highly fetishized sexual practices are institutionalized and considered normative.
what are traditional catholic values if not just an overly elaborate and widely accepted version of a breeding kink
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
More from the notes:
one of my personal favorite dichotomies in atla is how iroh, once the top strategist and highest-ranking general of the fire nation, now directs all his energy and considerable tactical experience towards attempting to keep his teenage nephew from throwing himself into life-threatening situations AND IROH REGULARLY FAILS TO PREVENT HIM FROM DOING SO.
he lead a six-hundred day siege and now iroh can't keep up with a sixteen-year-old armed with two swords and a passionate deathwish. zuko's motto is "act first, think never" and he's running rings around his uncle. it's like!!! who's gonna come out on top, iroh's west point education vs. zuko's deep and abiding commitment to always choosing the stupidest possible course of action, and zuko manages to win every single time
y'all are straight up EVISCERATING that boy in the tags
Not to downplay just how committed to self destructive stupidity Zuko is, but Iroh still managed to keep him alive and in one piece. He lost literally every battle but he won that war.
Not to step on the knife, but also figuratively losing every fight as long as it means the child who is like a son to him is alive is the exact opposite of literally winning every battle and losing his son which is what he did when he was young so that's probably why he keeps so chill 90% of the time around the Zukoness of it all.
Stepping on the knife? Reading that was stepping on a RAKE made of FEELINGS and being SIDESHOW BOBBED by my own EMOTIONS
that's how i roll in clown town baybeee
Important information for writers who arenāt British but like to try to sound British in their British-y fanfictionĀ
āYou need teaā - you are having, or just had, a medical emergency. This tea will have like 3 sugars and milk in no matter how you normally take your tea.
When I gave birth they kept bringing me cups of very sweet tea until I drank one
Even when covered in blood and being stitched up
Folks, friends, yāallā¦. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people donāt know that, I donāt want to be a dick about it, but Iāve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write āesk*mo kissesā? Just say ānuzzled nosesā or something.
Iām not here to call anybody out, itās been in multiple fics, Iām not vague posting. This is just a psa. šš»
If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, Iād really appreciate it.
Iāve had this post on insta saved for sometime ā¤ļø
[Text Description: āHey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means āsnow eatersā in Cree and is a slur against Inuit . Also donāt use āEskimo kissesā. Itās called Kunik. It is a greeting mostly used for familyā¦ Kunik was how Iād greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.ā /TD]
Rebloging for the awareness and especially for the alternative words
And so people who are just learning this now know the proper usage: āInuitā is plural. The singular is āInukā, as in āhe is an Inukā
Every single time I see a take that amounts to "if you write about X happening, or like fiction where X happens, you like X" I'm reminded of this one time I was at a casual friends house as a young kid. We were in her room, pretending to "be orphans" escaping from an evil orphanage and having to take care of each other and fend for ourselves. It was all very Little Orphan Annie/All Dogs Go to Heaven and based on the 80s pop media.
And this girl's mom comes in, hears what we're playing and gets all MAD and UPSET. She says that if we play act something, it's because we want it to happen. So her daughter must WANT HER TO DIE.
First off lady, we were 6 year year olds, so take it down several notches. We barely had a concept of mortality for fucks sake. She made us feel so guilty and ashamed, because she was taking our game personally.
Now I have a 5 year old. And sometimes she looks at me and says "pretend you're dead, and I have to -" Whatever it is. Some adult task she's assigned herself.
And it's just so transparently obvious that she's practicing the idea of having to do things on her own. Which is exactly what 5 year olds are supposed to do. I actually find it very flattering that the only way she can envision me not being available to help her is to be literally deceased. Otherwise, obviously, she wouldn't have to do scary hard things alone.
It's a natural coping mechanism. She's self-soothing about what would happen if I wasn't there by play-acting independence in a perfectly safe environment. She's also practicing skills she needs, and making up excuses for practicing them on her own, without taking on the responsibility of being able to do them by herself all the time yet.
Humans mentally rehearse bad this in their brains all the time. We can do that by ruminating- going over worries over and over again, which tends to lead to anxiety and helplessness and depression. Or we can do it with a sense of play- by recognizing that the fiction is fiction and we can dip our toe into these experiences and expose ourselves to bad things without actually being injured.
My daughter does not want me dead. And I don't want bad things to happen in real life. But fiction and pretend help me face the horrors of the world and think about them without collapsing or messing myself up mentally.
Exactly this.
fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.
Fiction is also a safe space to justā¦ do whatever. You donāt have to justify to anyone (or yourself) what kind of fiction you read or write. You donāt need a reason. You can just like fiction.
And yes, this means you can also not like a thing for no or any reason too. But it does indeed go both ways.
