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Summary of SF-25 performance this race weekend
Qatar Grand Prix | 29 November 2025
might start reading fanfics again because holy shit that ending was bad
In response to some posts I was seeing a while back, I think the only capacity in which HERS could possibly have worked as a plot point was like, back when everything was supposed to be subjective and the (at least American and translation based) fans were in the dark about 90% of the story direction and intentions.
I think HERS is one of the worst parts of Evillious. There is no way to spin "evil person gene is the reason why people do bad things" well.
However, back when we weren't sure what HERS was, I had a different understanding of it. I was under the impression HERS was a label Elluka (Clockworker) and others from fictional fantasy world were using to apply to violent and unstable people. It was an "illness" that wizards could "detect" in aberrant individuals, allowing them to blame and eradicate the individual instead of confronting the society around them that enabled or encouraged their actions. The same society that empowered wizards and heroes and elevated and honored them through battle even though objectively they were doing the same things as those with HERS. Then also, the consistent application of the "HERS" designation to mentally ill, traumatized, and neglected people showed how they were being actively demonized by society and their victim status was turned into a pathological, inherent, evil quality, denying them help or hope. Hell, HERS' havers frequent contracting with "demons" that gave them the power to perpetuate their crimes on a masse scale. Which again, I understood to be fantasy logic and the explanation of IN-UNIVERSE people on the subject of a good/bad dichotomy. The hints about fate's role, Allen's musings, and the creation of the Fourth Period supported this.
But any portrayal of HERS that makes it, like, a Real Gene and not a false, in-universe, flawed concept of psychology that the church, wizards, and aristocrats use to attempt to explain trauma, DID and any non-state endorsed violent behaviour and to victim blame and avoid responsibility while maintaining their positions of power, is eugenicist, imo.
I hope this makes sense, sorry it got kinda ramble-y.
i was talking to my mom about what i thought of the wicked movie soundtrack and her first comment was something like "why did you listen to it, it's all the same songs" and i had to just sit there because i am a classical violist. i go to music school this is what i am studying this is with any luck going to be my entire career. my mother sits before me and asks why i would bother to listen to another version of these songs when "they're the same songs."
mami. my dear mami. i spend like 80% of my time practicing, performing, and studying other people's performances of music that has been played for hundreds of years. hundreds of years. the same exact music.
like. hello
Tumblr and my relationship with feminism
Tumblr made me a bigger intersectional feminist
Tumblr taught me about feminism but didn’t make me one
I was already a feminist and didn’t get more feminist
I already knew what feminism was before tumblr and I’m not a feminist
I still don’t know what feminism is
Tumblr taught me white/generic feminism and nothing else
Here we go.
Before this point, everything was pretty par for the course. Retrieve rare things, bring them back. Eorzea’s errand boy. Admittedly he was far more excited about exploring the Crystal Tower proper than the prep work that had to be put in before that, but he very well knew they couldn’t entirely rush these things considering they couldn’t even get in in the first place.
Then G’raha happens.
I’m making an assumption here that a good chunk of people were rather annoyed with being yanked around like this for the aethersand, but Ashern was... a far more willing participant than what he’d admit. Also he’s going to continue to squint at the foliage G’raha, you can’t stop him. A race with a prize could be fun, but what interested him the most was why go through all this trouble. There has to be more than just the entertainment value, and if our disembodied voice here just wanted the aethersand, he wouldn’t have bothered with this at all. So even though his chain may have been getting yanked around, Ashern’s curiosity far won out any frustration he may have felt. Obviously he does get his answer in the end, and he’s glad to hear a “We’ll meet again.” because he honestly would have been a bit let down if he never got a face to the voice who’s making him run around like this.
Boy howdy is it sooner rather than later.
Which Ashern is very happy about! He finally has a face to the voice and- what is that entrance. Was that really necessary? He’s outwardly straight faced (which he pretty much has been through about 99% of this), but Ashern is definitely laughing on the inside here. Now it should not really be funny at all, but he’s getting a bit of a kick out of this since it was absolutely over the top in his eyes. I think it’s safe to say that that, in this moment, Ashern knew he’d like G’raha.
Also should quick mention that we be sporting Ashern’s old hair style and highlights since that’s what he had after the end of ARR! So, makes sense to ng+ with them. As well as have his original eye color back.