#roadtriptalks

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she's a child soldier. she's covered in blood (her own). she's a go-getter. she is a grenade who will destroy us all. she's got fallen angel imagery. she's covered in blood (civilians she killed on accident). she posed for an instagram photo at a critical moment. she grew up in a cult. she's covered in blood (civilians she killed on purpose). she has a girlfriend, who is unfortunately part of the gig economy. she even loves movie night. i didn't say her name but you thought of her didn't you

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i made this into an objection.lol because the energy was right

the "m" in bdsm stands for mouse. and the "s" stands for squeak

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Much needed girl time before the school semester starts! Love you ladies 😙 #roadtriptalks #weddingtalks #girltalks

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tiktok voice to me is now only able to be interpreted as the divine resonance, a city-machine that desires your complacency and full knowledge of your every behavior in order to quash revolutionary and anti-imperialist action. anyway you should all listen to friends at the table

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friends at the table may have spoiled me for other actual play podcasts.

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just gonna add on to this one, but thanks for tagging me arysha!

relationship status: single until proven otherwise

favorite color: man it could be anything. come on. idk green? green is good solo. if you ask me favorite color combo i would have more answers but idk i dont really have much of a fav color unfortunately

song currently stuck in head: i am actively listening to Salad by Blondshell, which i first heard on the radio while driving back from two states over with my brother at like midnight on the last leg of a six-hour drive that started at six pm. unfathomable. great song also

favorite food: you know my classic answer has always been mango, but i like a whole helluva lot of foods to be honest. i really like bread. i really like pasta. carbs in general are great - human desire foods :). i like cinnamon raisin bagels a whole hell of a lot, and last friday i annihilated some yogurt pretzels. my weakness

last song listened to: same as currently stuck in head because i'm actively listening to it, but that's a boring answer, so i'm gonna say the song i listened to directly before this one - Starstruck by Sorry, which is one of my all time faves!

dream trip: for several years of my life i have desired to go on a wild, loosely-at-best-planned solo tour of a whole lot of europe. this will almost certainly never happen, not least because planning trips is basically a necessity for me and i certainly do not have the funds to actually go on a trip of that scale, but it is lovely to think about.

last thing googled: uhh. uh. i use duckduckgo, but i just checked and it's "ilia amitola" because i was thinking about Her

i like her. the lesbian. rwby has a lot of misses sometimes but she is a guaranteed home run

tagging @jofiah, @wlw-wukong, and @bojanus, as well as anyone who wants to! no pressure obviously :)

tagged by @yukarishoodie ʚ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ɞ

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status: it's compLICATED-

Favorite color: aqua/cyan

Song currently stuck in head: I am addicted feat. RIME by MikitoP & ESHIKARA (superior to the miku version >>>)

Favorite food: cheese

Last song listened to: Days - Re ver. by Jin and Lia

Dream trip: going to Rwanda to see gorillas in their natural habitat without bothering them 🫡

Last thing googled: remove.bg

tagging @the-one-who-have-no-idea @hallmarkecard @etherealshitt @sarayashikis @glass-halo @gravitonbeamemitter @micr0machine @lesbocannibal and @cat-denied, no obligation ofc ( // ´ ᴗ ` // )

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BUT IT IS TOO LOUD ON PALISADE.

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i really do think about how "catboy" often carries the cultural cachet as being sexualized in an explicitly feminine way, frequently paired with a maid dress, or if not then with "femboy" aesthetics. and how "catgirl" carries none of this in its inherent implications, or at the very least, much less. i dunno. other people have said this more expertly than me but it is really notable the direct parity there and the sexualization of the "feminized-man" image, inherent to which is the denial of "true" womanhood. i think about this and the word femboy and the word trap. i think about this a lot.

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going completely bugnuts over every single thing the fleggs do in friends at the table: perpetua. funniest shit ive ever seen. all my friends i am Begging you to listen its so good

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YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME

you can actually, it's really fun and i'm having a great time. it always makes me wanna show you something like that but i have difficulty coming up with things every time. maybe doctor who? i think i said that already. oh well.

rewatching a show isn't enough I need to sit down & watch it with someone who's never seen it before

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by the time you are twenty one you sjould already have acquired several unmarketable skills, such as lying on the bed all day imagining, hanging out, twirling pencil around thumb,

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"yes, but Samothes could easily have gifted the people fitted sheets,"

(austin walker, marielda NNAF fundraiser bonus episode)

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one change i would make to each fire emblem game

hello. nobody asked for it, so here it is: what one change (or options, or two small ones in rare cases) i would make to each fire emblem game. remakes get the remade version and not the originals because the remakes are by and large just better.

i have a lot of thoughts.

SHADOW DRAGON: make nyna playable. have her join like after freeing the palace and have a custom class (staff wielding?) that promotes to gain lances, maybe and a horse. this game needs hybrid classes and i want her to wield gradivus

ECHOES: yes its the misogyny. fix act 5, meaning at least one of the following:

don't have berkut fridge his own wife. instead make rinea playable as a saint, probably. she escapes.

don't have celica sapped of all her narrative role + agency in the final moments of the game. also, let beloved zofia or ragnarok kill duma. really kind of insane bullshit that it cant

NEW MYSTERY OF THE EMBLEM: simply remove all gender locks. i.e. class sets 1 and 2 are now both merged after playing hard mode for all units. also to facilitate this:

norne is now a hunter

malice is now a mercenary (like she was originally)

maybe make katarina a dark mage and athena a mercenary too

kris can of course do whatever she wants

GENEALOGY OF THE HOLY WAR: this one's unsalvageable. here are two ideas.

Gay marriage.

Remove all incest, including but not limited to 2nd-gen cousins, Seliph and Julia implied romance, 2nd gen cousins again, any implication that raquesis is fucking her brother, the rest of the 2nd gen cousins, and make clear that claud and sylvia aren't any more closely related than like 6th cousins.

i'll allow a potential exception for arvis since he's the main antagonist of the game but you can't do this and then turn around and say "woahh hes so misunderstood and well meaning" in act two. you simply cant. he brainwashed his sister into being his wife man we cant come back from that 😔

THRACIA 776: give all the women in the game a boost of between 5-25% to their constitution growths, and some variable boosts to their starting Con stats.

BINDING BLADE: man i dunno, there's like six things i could say here but this game is still infinitely less offensive than genealogy. some ideas:

rewrite every piece of dialogue so they have actual emotion and interest, keeping the main story

vary the map win conditions. no more seize forever, this game came after thracia, give it rout, escape, defend, even defeat boss come on

try gay marriage again

FIRE EMBLEM: this game's great! two options:

boost every woman's starting constitution by between 3-8

make a Lyn Mode that lasts the whole game, a la Hector Mode

SACRED STONES: i haven't finished this one! but easy: just make all the changes Restoration Queen does.

PATH OF RADIANCE: i could say remove the limit on supports, and i will, but also this game almost above all other fire emblems desperately needs some actual people of color in it. it has One (1) Black man (which is a depressingly high batting average for this series, this change could be put on any of these games and tbh should be) and is a game nominally about racism, cmon. embarrassing

RADIANT DAWN: my favorite even though i still havent finished it. give the dawn brigade and friends supports. i wanna see vika and fiona lezzing out. or fiona and meg lezzing out. or lyre and kyze lezzing out. or

AWAKENING: again there are two options but i need both of them to happen. call me greedy but im right

unromanceable nowi. by anyone. come on. nah is now tiki's child. supports updated to match

just don't do the stupid fucking anna change. making her a greedy capitalist and a family of identical annas is lame as hell and makes her 500% less interestng. keep her weird!!!

FATES: now i havent played this one, but from what ive heard removing the incest would be a good look. whether its by removing supports or corrin's textual relationship whatevers easiest im not picky

THREE HOUSES:

finish crimson flower. at Least add battle of the eagle and lion, hunting by daybreak, stand strong at shambhala. toss in a few extra cutscenes while we're at it.

actually while we're at it, default black eagles to crimson flower. silver snow should require some level of rhea support, B+ or A or something. and maybe have the other black eagkes side with edelgard and get rerecruited, would be cool.

make azure moon unplayable. not really but it would be funny wouldn't it

ENGAGE: haven't played this one so i'll just say make byleth female

WARRIORS: this game is goofy as hell. fun tho. maybe try rewriting the story to actually have a story and not just excuses for cool battles.

THREE HOPES: very little room for improvement here. remove gender locked classes, and make the ending cutscene a little more clearly conclusive. oh wait

ingrid can be spared in scarlet blaze.

otherwise perfect

AND THAT'S ALL OF THEM

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fire emblem feminism run part 4.5: uh oh (poll)

folks ive made a realization. a bad fire emblem realization. which is that i have no way of opening nearly as many chests as there are in this game. i have 2 keys totalling 7 uses and there are at Least 20 chests, some of which are Very Important (boots, star/lightspheres)

THE SITUATION:

chests need a key, a thief, or a marth to open

all thieves are men (verboten)

marth is also a man altho i am already using him to seize thrones and access the convoy

sometimes thieves come to rob chests and then i can kill them to steal their stuff but sometimes they just straight up arent coded to go for chests so thats a wash

there are not Nearly Enough keys in the game to open the vast amount of chests and i cannot buy more because the online shop no longer exists.

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someday im gonna write that essay about rwby.