#terror-billie

[nautilusopus]

@terror-billie replied to your post “Cloud would do the terrible twink avocado tree in...”:

Do I want to know?

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[fury-brand]

Cloud/Aeris

It’s Fine, But Not Really Into It, Please Forgive Me

Why don't you ship it?

I actually really like their relationship. The push-and-pull, the teasing, the easy rapport, the way Aeris encourages Cloud out of his shell, her perception about him and the way they joke and play with each other. It’s good! Their date is my favourite! I love that fanart of Cloud with the nailbat and Aeris with the umbrella! There is love between them that is integral to the broader story! They are important to one another! I just have no particular inclination to see them h*ld h*nds.

What would have made you like it?

Honestly, I bet if the dominant fandom around them was a little different and a little less oriented around Cloud being sad because she’s gone, I’d be more interested.

It also irritates me a little bit how much Aeris has been turned into a supporting character for the purposes of Cloud’s motivation or whatever in compilation years, and seeing Cloud in a million spin-off games vagueing about her rubs me just as wrong as when they make Aeris All About Zack.

I also think it’s probably that I prefer both Aeris/Sephiroth for Serious and Messy (and/or talking mad shit before the brawl behind the McDonalds) and Aeris/Tifa for Light and Happy (and/or Grief-Stricken), so I’m like. I’m good. There’s just not a lot for me here.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

It’s a good ship, I’m just busy playing in the trash.

[cateringisalie]

Sephiroth for the character ask

How I feel about this character

Overhyped and overused. An effective villain once, now more of a marketing tool or an expectation. Which feels very flippant. Sephiroth is interesting and he is unnerving and scary, and effortlessly conveys feelings of unstoppable cruelty. Cold, calculating but also somewhat dramatic. That was 1997. By this point... He doesn’t stay down and if he’s not on-screen immediately or at least alluded to with heavy-handed thematic nudges clearly fandom will just walk away from your FFVII project (how Dirge ever got released is an increasing mystery now I think about it...). Gotta get One Winged Angel in as soon as possible (even if that never was his character theme).

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Aeris Gainsborough is the easy one – I’ve written for the ship a few times. Elena is an odd one I don’t think I understand, but I could swear I actually enjoyed a fic where the two of them were romantically linked. Outside of that we get into murky areas; all the actively popular ones are objectionable (never bought into Cloud with him and Remake really made that unappealing. Zack is... Zack and I try not to think of him if I can help it.Anyone else who may or may not be shipped with him who also featured in Crisis Core doesn’t actually exist).

Putting him with Tifa never works in a way that putting him with Aeris does – which of course feels like hypocrisy but the vibes of it all are so different and with Tifa is just no (I have extensive other Tifa ships so it’s fine). After that from prior fic exploration I suspect further popular Sephiroth ships (excepting the odd Scarlet/Rufus/Tseng) are OCs and self-inserts.

Oh, but I am here for shipping him with Eve from Parasite Eve for no good reason other than she is Jenova-esque and also this was a popular joke pairing in certain older fanfics.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

This is probably Jenova? Sephiroth is not exactly blessed with a multitude of friendships in any release to date (no, not even Crisis Core. Oh sure if had friends there if we define them as other attractive men he stood beside and occasionally fought, but friends as in liking someone and spending time with them/doing activities? Not in the slightest). But he does spend near the entirety of FFVII carting around some denomination of Jenova with whom its popular to assume he could communicate.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don’t think I’ve ever been convinced by some of the arguments for his pre-fire life. The aspiration to have friends he never did feels off (by similar logic most of the FFVII cast have no friends – which is fine for some of them but others are just kinda odd – and hey Remake made this worse). Not-actually-popular-but-really-annoys me: the notion that he burnt down Nibelheim for some revenge logic against Shinra specifically and for recognising it was a front for the company in the backstory feels like some less than great excusing all the murder he did that day. I do not think he should be redeemed (like at all). If you push him into an AU and work around the whole fire/Jenova thing, then fine. If you’re clawing him back from the dead post-FFVII, then no. Also buying into the general villains can be villains and do not need to redeemed.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Stayed dead. And another because Remake makes everything more complicated to talk about now: had the one scene where he walked past Palmer and literally no other appearance in that game. Because that’s how you integrate him and have tension and mystery and a genuinely good moment.

[olderthannetfic]

Hi, did not want to start discourse on your post by reblogging it, feel free to ignore or answer privately. TERFs actually do go to popular blogs and try to get public buy-in for talking points, such as "it's okay if lesbians don't like trans women." They want trans inclusion to be equivalent to lesbophobia. To say you're "not attracted to trans women" means pigeonholing trans women into a particular appearance(s) or feature(s), one(s) which some cis women have and some trans women don't.

Yeah, seems plausible. Joke’s on them if they think my blog’s anything but me screaming about fandom history and a bunch of 40-something nerds kvetching about how Livejournal was better though.

[crtter]

Oh, you know how it is. I’m legally forbidden to criticize the kind of animated characters other people are into for Iyami reasons. I can and I will however, point it out if they’re children, though.

[destroyscythe-heck]

Aerti for the pairing angst ask meme

Allright! 

 who is more likely to get injured doing small tasks: Aerith, Tifa is better at doing physical stuff in general, not saying that Aerith is weak but she hasn't had as much experience cooking or lifting heavy objects, you lift with your legs Aerith, your legs 

 who worries more about the other: Tifa, it's just second nature for her, she's practically Marlene's mom and then there's everything with the other AVALANCHE members and Cloud, so adding Aerith to that list was pretty natural for her. It didt din't take long for Tifa to realize that Aerith can take care of herself, being from basically fantasy Hell's Kitchen New York. She's surprisingly tough, you gotta be in Midgar. 

 who is more afraid about the other leaving them: Tifa again, she already that she had been left after she didn't hear anything from Cloud after he went to join SOLIDER so she's had experience with feeling like she's been left before. Plus her personality makes her predisposed to be a worrywart, she's defiantly the one who's afraid. who is more likely to leave (for any reason) 

 who is more likely to drunkenly confess: Aerith even though both her and Tifa aren't what a lot of people would consider lightweights with alcohol, Aerith is still the one who'd drunkenly confess to anything first. Also Aerith is the louder drunk of the two. 

 who is more likely to push the other away (for any reason): Tifa,

 who picks fights more often: Aerith

 who usually apologizes first: Aerith

 who is more likely to withhold their feelings for the other: Tifa, it's kinda her whole thing as a character. who is more likely to lash out at the other: They're both equally likely to lash out at each other. 

 who gets more jealous: Aerith 

 who is more likely to support the other in a relationship with someone else “as long as they’re happy”: Both actually. Aerith would understand if it turned out that Tifa was more into Cloud or Barret she'd be fine with it, same with Tifa. they're chill. 

 thank you @terror-billie !

[blockmind]

Hey I just wanted to tell you how much I love your Sephiroth art. I'm looking through the tag and it's just A++

Ohh thank you very much!! Sephiroth is a constant joy to draw, a muse haha 

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Being bisexual is amazing and bisexual people are fabulous