"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better.
And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.
Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts.
One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
What do you think would happen if all tertiary attractions and their aspec label counterparts were common knowledge? Or, at the very least, much less niche knowledge than they are now? I wonder how many more people would identify with those labels. And how many people who would benefit from those labels (or at least the concepts of those labels) who would refuse to identify with or acknowledge they relate to them due to internalized aphobia. It makes me think about the multisexual spectrum and how it’s possible that the majority of people technically fit under it in some way, but there’s so much homophobia and denial about the fluidity of sexuality that many will never come to realize that they, too, are LGBTQIA+.
Sometimes I have the aphobic/queerphobic thought of, “If we have so many aspec labels—all of which are considered queer—then probably everyone would technically fit somewhere in the LGBTQIA+ community.” But then I realize that I’m forgetting that being queer isn’t about being a minority. It’s about existing in a way that intrinsically goes against our heteronormative, cisnormative, allonormative (etc.) society and existing that way unapologetically. I mean, maybe that was obvious (/npa), but if I need the reminder every now and then, then maybe there are others who do, too.
Okay. So I know it's being remastered. I think it's going to look wonderful and I'm going to buy it and max out the in-game clock with play hours because I just love the game so much.
But... It made me cry to see.
Because as impossible and stupid a dream as it was, a teeny tiny foolish part of my idiot heart wanted to see it remade like Final Fantasy VII. I KNOW. IT WAS DUMB TO THINK THAT. And that's not to say it wouldn't happen one day but... Right here, right now, I have to accept that there aren't and weren't and probably will never be a remake. I'm happy for the remaster. I am. But we all have that one game from the old days that we stupidly pray will one day get an upgrade that will just bring them even more to life. Yeah yeah. I should just get over it. But I don't wanna. I'm whining and I wanna whine because VIII is my favorite Final Fantasy of all of them and I love all the characters so much. So what if it was a simple love story? So what if the main character was a stoic hard to relate to guy at first? So what if it didn't blow everyone's mind with its narrative? IT REACHED ME TO THE VERY CORE OF MY HEART. Just as IV, VII, IX, and X did. I love this game so damn much. So yes I wanted what I couldn't have. Whether you liked it or not, it was a favorite for a lot of people. Final Fantasy as a series is insanely incredible and I love most of the entries. But VIII captured my heart from the day of release back in 1999 and I've never been able to let it go. So yeah I'm crying because I just want an hd remake that I'll probably never get. But even as I type this I know I'm still gonna hope more than anything for it. Just like I'll still pray every day for a remake of Threads of Fate. Because I love these games so much and I'm selfish and I want more.
Like y'all don't even know. I pray for it at every E3 premiere. I'm only just able to type this even though this announcement has been out for awhile because I couldn't stem the disappointment. Lame I know but I just can't help it. I feel very strongly about Final Fantasy VIII. As gamers we all have felt a significant impact from a game that touched us and made something in us explode in a shower of passion and love. I just... Ugh. I'm just unhappy and needed to get it off my chest. Rant (whining) is over now.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the Doctor had not witnessed the entire fuck up that was Ashildr and the ramifications of his actions there. I wonder if, instead of being trapped in his confession dial he had run right into River( i might be a tad obsessed).
I think without those harsh lessons he would have made some rash and very different choices. It would have been brilliant to watch him desperately try and actually actively save his wife and have her stop him. Because she would have.
Also don’t the time lords have a loom thing where the consciousness is downloaded and thus River could potentially be revived just in a different body? I can’t see her being contained in the library forever, she is too restless and too rebellious and far too clever to let something a silly as death stop her.
Just finished watching Win or Lose. I think it’s a great show. Before I thought that it wouldn’t be worth watching because they took out the blatant trans rep (key word here being “blatant” because it’s actually still there; in fact, anyone who has any clue as to what the trans experience is like will be able to see it) and I was under the impression that they had traded the trans rep for Christian rep (which, tbh, I’m still not sure how to feel about? I’m an ex-Christian myself and can see how people would get upset over explicit Christian rep, especially since Christianity is highly overrepresented in the US and they don’t get into any other religion with any of the other major characters, plus probably other reasons I can’t think of). But after I saw a video (I forget who it was from, sorry) saying that it deserves a second chance, I decided to give it one. I mean, the creators put their hearts and souls into this show—you can tell—and because Disney’s stupid, they had no choice but to cut out the most obvious part of the trans representation so there would be just enough plausible deniability for bigots not to get upset about it. I’m glad that at least Kai’s story wasn’t completely cut like some trans storylines (*cough* The Gatekeeper *cough*).
First of all, I love the artistic choice of bleeding the metaphorical and the literal together. I know that’s one of the selling points of the show, but still. Really cool that, especially in the climax of the last episode, you can’t tell how much of it is metaphorical and how much of it is literal. Every character gimmick that they’d been establishing throughout the rest of the show comes into play, and other characters actually interact with those characters’ gimmicks themselves, which is pretty interesting (I don’t know if I’m saying all this in a way that makes sense, haha😅).
But anyway, I wanted to talk about one particular moment in Kai’s episode that kinda got to me.
(MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD)
There’s a scene in which Kai’s father is giving her a talking-to at home, and he says something to her along the lines of, “Every mistake you make doesn’t just reflect on you, but also on the group you represent.” And… damn. I realize now that he was literally talking about the softball team, but in the moment I truly thought he was talking about Kai being transgender. And I think that’s kind of what the creators of the show were going for, too? Because, when you’re trans, everything you do and say is treated as some kind of mirror held up to the trans community (though, to be fair, I believe this can relate to any marginalized experience; I’m just sticking to my lane here by just talking about being trans). If one of us does something bad or makes a mistake, it reflects negatively on all of us because bigots think we’re some kind of monolith. And with the hypervisibility transness has been receiving these past several years, it’s just… not great (sorry, it’s past 1 in the morning and I’m not at 100% thinking capacity rn).
So, idk, I think that moment in the show just felt a little too real. Not in a bad way, though, to be clear. Anyway, Win or Lose is a good show imo, send post.
