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You can just call me tofu. An adult. Pronouns are whatever, go by vibes.

⚠️First thing though: if you came here because i liked/reblogged a Homestuck thing from you, please don't follow i'm just a casual new fan in the year 2025, and also i haven't read past the OG ending. i support your love for post-canon tho i just need time lol

⚠️ hello faewish and piecey enjoyers. I'm @tofu-in-style please go there lol

As for the rest:

⚠️ Runs on a big big queue that is shuffled weekly. If I liked a fandom post/reblog of yours it's highly likely it will be reblogged in a queue, just a matter of when due to the weekly shuffling. The queue is empty at the moment so it will be rapid fire reblogs for now

⚠️ Multifandom blog. What you will mostly see are things I'm really into currently, so if you follow me for a specific fandom, be prepared to see a change in interest!

⚠️ For this reason, I ask that you don't expect me to follow back. I apologize in advance for my pickiness about who I choose to follow.

⚠️ The reverse is also true: if I follow, please don't feel obligated to follow back!

⚠️ I may soft block if I feel like my blog isn't to your interests.

⚠️ You may also unfollow if my blog adds little to your dash

Lately I have been lazy about tagging warnings, even common ones. I apologize.

Quick links:

Scribbles - basically all of my art. i used to have dedicated tags according to medium (miiverse, 3ds, wii u, traditional) but I have stopped.

FFXIV Diary - xiv blogging.

Tomolife - tomolife blogging. I think I'm finally going to go for the long haul (I keep putting it down for months)

Miitopia - now running a homestuck edition

@tofu-in-style - Style Savvy and Infinity Nikki side blog

catchymemes

#animals #hamhams

bakudadadan

s is not for sayonara will you forgive me at last?

#;w;#final fantasy xiv

spiribia

alma and hunter meet-ugly. I CAN'T DRAW

Happy pride month

Desscarasssss.

Trying out my new greyscale alcohol markers. These are the warm greys, might do Ichi with the cold ones. The gold is with watercolors.

@colourful-void I'm warming up :)

#ichi the witch

creatingblackcharacters

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

creatingblackcharacters

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

tritoch

one of the places I think the writing for FFXIV has generally missed an opportunity is to explore in more depth how krile feels about the events of stormblood and shadowbringers (edit: I meant endwalker) vis-a-vis zenos and the resonant experimentation.

like, stormblood is in part a story about the gendered impacts of imperialism, which is why two of its leads include a woman sold into marriage at a young age and later forced into sex work and a woman whose unflinching loyalty to empire explicitly does not shield her from misogyny. the scene where zenos grabs yotsuyu by the hair is just straightforwardly a scene of gendered violence to the greatest extent the animations and the mores of the writers allow. depending on your wol's gender stormblood is either the story of how zenos exploits and abuses three women (two of them textually colonial subjects) on his way to do the thing that really matters, fight a man or The Woman He Has Decided Is Exceptional. and the third of the women violently exploited in this way is krile!

like the violence zenos does to yotsuyu and fordola is desexualized to the extent images of gender-based violence can be desexualized under current conditions (and I think it could easily be argued that square-enix's decision to be like And It Wasn't Sexual in the stormblood side stories is kind of a cowardly ass-covering move), which imo is why it matters that the violence done to krile is explicitly to violate her bodily autonomy! human experimentation, particularly performed in the service of empire, is very obviously meant to be a vile and horrifying thing to contemplate! zenos in the text deploys the metaphor of animal butchery: "[S]ilence that mewling little piglet. I would not hear another sound pass her lips...until I strip the fat from her." we are very explicitly invoking ideas of dehumanization, of women as objects of consumption, etc. and this pretty shocking culmination of this theme in the stormblood main quest...doesn't really get paid off and 100% just turns into a genre power up for the endgame, and stormblood's themes about gendered violence don't get any payoff in the text until fordola and yotsuyu's patch stories.

even just in writing this I can actually sort of immediately see why they couldn't explore it. it's gonna be pretty important that krile not be read by the audience as a victim in relation to zenos if endwalker's finale hinges on her having the ultimate say-so on the mothercrystal-shinryu situation. If it's at all about krile as a victim of his violence, it can read really horrendously to have her deciding "yeah I believe in zenos enough for this" as a factor of the finale. and it's conceptually cool for her to have the decisionmaking power here at all, zenos involvement or no. I like the idea that she specifically gets to make a dramatic gamble here at the end. but the idea that it only works because they pretty explicitly overlook what he does to her is....pretty bad! and it's not like it removes these implications from the text! they don't get undone by ignoring them! there are perhaps drawbacks to trying to have a character pull double duty as the Existentialism Understander and the Avatar Of Imperial Violence And You Better Believe That Includes Gender And Race-based Violence

just a bummer to me that they seem generally disinterested in fleshing out krile's understanding of the hydaelyn and zodiark saga, which is pretty disappointing given she's literally getting possessed by hydaelyn and making that choice with the mothercrystal. would love to be proven wrong and for the next expansion to get much more interested in her!

#final fantasy xiv

oldhunters

eating up any and all louisoix scraps i get

#final fantasy xiv

dogpuppy

I wish I could have heard you sing this… I bet you have a beautiful voice

lunatykmode

Edgeworth and Eustace/Sebastian! (commission!)

And so the worst AAPI month kickstarted with a Wasian meet-up and ended with a Chinese American man found not guilty for killing a Black teenager in 2023 😮‍💨

Donate to Cyrus Carmack-Belton's funeral costs here:

We have started this GoFundMe to help support the family of Cyrus Carmack-Belton and … Todd Rutherford needs your support for Justice for Cy

nollimet

Weevil….

gaitou

do you remember Angel Maxine, the artist behind this song?

Angel opened a gofundme about a month ago, so if possible please consider donating to help fund her future projects :)

I’m Angel Maxine, a trans woman, artist, musician, and activist using my voice, music, and vis… Maxine Angel Opoku needs your support for P

if you aren't able to donate, please share! as of writing this, Angel has only raised €433 out of her €7k goal

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