Words.

22 years old. Bisexual. She/her Writer on occasion. Mostly just unsure of which bits of her are important.

[frogtax]

glams i cooked up. marsh green supremacy

[rabid-catboy]

I feel like we don't talk enough about the fact emet-selch looks like that

He's literally a goth old man running around in skirts and/or a dress. Iconic. Inspirational, even

[slimetony]

If you’ve tried to reach out to me in the last 7-8 years and I didn’t get back to you I’m medicated now and I’ll be reaching out to you shortly

[slimetony]

I can do this

[ectojyunk]

A crack in crystal that's an all-too-familiar constellation. Inspired by @azems-familiar's fic!! You can read it here

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[captain-starskull]

I live my life thinking the perfect conversation doesn’t exist and then tumblr drops this in my lap.

[silketara]

Just Titania bonking the Exarch [lightly].

He probably didn't do anything wrong. It's the WoL-

[queercbc]

Remembering the episode of Galavant where Kylie Minogue is The Queen of a medieval gay pub and sings this absolute bop.

[tobyfoxmademeascaly]

I adore y’shtola now because every single plan she comes up with is nigh-guaranteed to be the most unhinged idea ever thought up by cat or man. Being pursued by cops? COLLAPSE THE TUNNEL AND TELEPORT DIRECTLY INTO HEAVEN. Need to distract the Children of Everlasting Dark? THROW BEEHIVES INTO THEIR HOUSES. Need to perform a diving save into a bottomless pit? TELEPORT DIRECTLY INTO HEAVEN. AGAIN. Need to get on Mt. Gulg but air travel isn’t feasible? GIANT ROBOT. Need a portal to hell? MAKE A DEMON. That doesn’t work? SHOOT A LASER. AT THE MOON. Banger after banger.

[agirlwithachakram]

Actually the portrait of Charles is red to represent enthusiasm, energy, determination, passion, strength, leadership, and love. It doesn't matter that it looks like he's walking through fountains of blood spilled by the British empire! Some of you people need to learn color theory

[erebus0dora]

i was WAITING for this post

[talysalankil]

tumblr coming across the painting:

[franzias-cave]

painting of joan of arc but she's got a lil carabiner. is this anything.

[franzias-cave]

she's got the key to heaven or something

[giritina]

Cult

[nights-at-crystarium]

at last, a burger art from me~

[last-flight-of-fancy]

Shrouded

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[aotopmha-deactivated20260101]

I keep going on and on about the gameplay/story integration in Endwalker, but I think Vanaspati is another great example.

In my eyes it's a little bit of a milder narrative example than anything that came before, particularly all of the level 82-83 gameplay sections, but I think it excels at a different aspect of storytelling, which is specifically creating an atmospheric story set piece.

Especially the run towards the final boss feels incredibly impactful because of how massive in scale the destruction of the forest below is shown to be.

I've seen Vanaspati be compared to Holminster Switch and I agree with that comparison.

They're both equally good at creating a similar set piece of selling the scale of a new unknown enemy force with the difference that at this point in the story, we don't really understand the Blasphemies and how they truly work at all.

While Holminster sold us the horror based on knowing, Vanaspati sells it by us knowing basically nothing.

The revelations in the cutscenes after the dungeon fix this, and I just really like how the story manages to still create enemies that you fear after making some characters survive the craziest circumstances possible.

The nature of the Blasphemies is horrific because anyone who turns into one is automatically gone. The souls do not even get a chance to be reborn. They're just gone.

(Shoutout to the Arkasadora family turning into Blasphemies one by one as they succumb to despair at one point during the dungeon.)

I love, love the monster design for them. They were great in Amaurot and I dare say, the bosses in here are also mechanically more interesting. Amaurot is a great set piece, but I'm not sure I care for any of the bosses in there mechanically.

While I think there are some really neat mechanics here, particularly for the final boss.

I really like the "meteor" mechanic here. Was a cool variation in Zodiark, is cool here, too.

And with finishing Vanaspati and learning more of the foe we face, we're firmly back from the moon and at the lvl 85 quests, about half-way through Endwalker.

I have nothing else to say here, really. I think it's just a really good story.

[winterheart]

wip