#DO MT

[turnaboutdick]

Can you pretty please draw John happy?

look at the cows

[aq2003]

this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol

[cuntlijah]

Aragorn n Legolas r so funny to me bc people who don’t know lotr well see gruff manly ranger and elegant princely elf but they don’t know what i know. they don’t know that Aragorn is the long haired sensitive softboy writing sad poetry on his livejournal about not being able to show his girlfriend the awesome new song he wrote for her on his guitar meanwhile Legolas is doing backwards kickflips over gimli at the skate park bc gimli double dog dared him then he and gimli climb the tree at Aragorn’s house n yell at him through the window to come play halo

[egophiliac]

get 'em before they melt!

(the flavors are 99% vibes + first thought only thought, don't take them too seriously)

[cloudemojie]

currently reading svsss and going insane

[agendratum]

stray kids as text posts (1/?)

[shitpostingkats]

*head in my hands* Man. Cloud Strife and his insane cocktail of mental illnesses just continues to be handled so much better than you would expect out of a AAA video game.

Remake and Rebirth are really writing down and circling and underlining the sentence "CLOUD STRIFE IS UNWELL. CLOUD STRIFE EXPERIENCES HALLUCINATIONS AND BREAKS IN REALITY THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACT HIS ABILITY TO INTERACT WITH THE WORLD." That by itself is so huge.

We're getting better about depicting psychosis and related disorders in video games outside of ableist set-dressing in horror games, and there's some great work happening in that sphere of representation. But most of the time, if a game's protagonist experiences hallucinations, it is the capital P Point of the story. This is going to be a narrative about living with this condition, and a main focus of the story. Again, super super awesome. FFVII is not a story about having psychosis. It's a game about throwing hands with a corporate middle manager with unresolved mommy issues and an angel complex. And also the main character has hallucinations.

The player itself is not able to cleanly see the lines between real and not-real, either. You're not viewing Cloud's reality breaks as an impassive observer, sometimes they are treated by the game as genuine threats that can hurt you. And if you've played the game and have a level of meta knowledge, you still can't easily disregard the randomly appearing Sephiroths, because some of them are actually real. The player and Cloud are operating in pretty much the same level of buy-in to the hallucinations, in that you both know this is a thing that happens and will usually assume the hallucination is not physically present unless another character also comments on it. But you can never be sure.

And the way the other party members act about it. The remakes are hammering home "No, it's not that the other characters are polite, or oblivious. Cloud is not subtle. Everyone gradually pieces together that this is a thing that happens to him, and they are deeply concerned, but that can't really do anything to help." I so expected, the first time Cloud has a big obvious break in reality, for the rest of the team to question if he was alright, or if he was even fit to be on this journey. Cloud goes tearing off away from the group, chasing a specter none of the rest of them saw, and it's just a quiet conversation of 'hey, no one else saw what he saw, right?' And then they go and get their guy because he probably shouldn't be alone right now. They never attack him for it, or tell him he's going insane.

Everyone takes to it with so much. Grace. Hello, this is our party leader, he's an excellent swordsman and a good friend. Oh yeah, sometimes he sees things that aren't that there or goes into a weird coma state where he chants about reunion and doesn't seem to notice the world around him, so much so that one time he went into shutdown and tried to throw himself off a cliff. That's just. A thing they accept about him.

And especially with the fact that Remake chooses to drop the truth bomb extremely early that, even with his remarkable grip on his mental faculties, Cloud is dying. Couple years, maybe more, maybe less, but. Tifa and Barret (and possibly Aerith?) know that he is not expected to live long. And they still treat him with humanity and they don't try to stop him from going on a jrpg adventure and they don't tiptoe around him like he's fragile. They don't stop loving him, even as he starts to deteriorate.

It's just. Cloud Strife, man.

[mocndu]

butchineer be with you

[shark-a-day]

Todays shark is...

The Narrowbar Swellshark!

Fun Fact: Their diet consists of bony fishes and bottom-dwelling crustacean and cephalopods!

[evilgoof]

sadness and regret 1/? previous // next // beginning

transcript: dewei: fuck, it’s cold… the snow came quiet. It dulled everything-the sky, the rooftops, even the breath curling faintly from his lips. morning had technically arrived, but the sun hadn't. just a low, overcast light, like the world hadn't really woken up yet. dewei sat slouched back on the porch steps in nothing but a wife beater and thin pajama sweats, like the cold didn't apply to him. his left arm was propped lazily on the arm of the chair, cigarette burning slow between his fingers. his right arm rested over his stomach, hand rising and falling with his shallow breaths. smoke drifted out of his mouth, merging with the cold, and he didn't bother to flick the ash that clung stubbornly to the end. he should go back inside. emery would be up soon-probably already was. crying, maybe. or babbling to herself like she had someon listening. dewei should care. he did care. that's what made it worse.

[duusheen]

The broken family

I feel like I need to explain a few things about this post, so here we go lol

Roxie truly thought something happened to Cici and was scared to death and heartbroken. And yeah, she probably made a rushed decision, but she’s not wrong. Phoenix would go save Pandora’s ass if something happened. Not just because he’s reconnected with his sister over the last few years, but because he’ll always put his family above everything else. Phoenix is, after all, his father’s son. And just like no one could stop Sterling from stepping up for Pandora if something happened, no one can change the way Phoenix is. Not even Roxie.

And because Roxie loves him so much, she would never put Phoenix in a position where he’d have to choose between his family or the one he built with her. She’d rather be the one to leave. They both have strong family values, but while Phoenix leans more toward his parents and his sister, Roxie’s top priority will always be her children—not Phoenix, not even herself.

Summary: YOU ALL VOTED YES

[moonlitfalls]

mt. komorebi sightseer - explorer - eat food at the festival of snow, light or youth - take a selfie with the mt. komorebi mascot - collect a simmi by popping open a simmi capsule 🌸 - swim for 1 hour in wakaba’s river

[felsicveins]

Somewhere in Mount Rageous 10-15 years ago.....

[soni-dragon]

aftermath

[imnotcommitedtothis]

Oh Alejandro and his bad bad intentions (kissing Heather and comforting her when she's sad)

[agendratum]

lee know is good at stuff like this

bonus aka the only shot he didn't miss: