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How did it take me so long to realise that Prosciutto is named after an aged pork and his stand ages people.

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Something I really like and noticed upon re-listening to the Elden Ring soundtrack is the harpsichord and guitar in Mohg, Lord of Blood. At least in comparison to the medieval aesthetic of the world and most of the OST the use of more 'modern' instruments really help set it apart and ingrain the idea of a coming age, beyond the medieval realm of the Lands Between, a new Dynasty.

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So I think one of my pet peeves is the trope of Evil gods torturing their worshippers, cause it's so besides the point. Like, we can all agree that the only reason Satan punishes sinners in Christian lore (despite the fact that in a lot of versions he was the Prometheus who gifted, or cursed, humans with free will and the ability to sin) is because Christianity as an institution wants you to be good and follow the(ir) rules. Realistically there's no reason for Satan, who spends all his time plotting and 'deceiving'.mortals into sinning, to punish them for it.

It's one of the reasons that the more I learn about the Chaos Gods in 40K the less I like their legions. Like the chaos factions (no matter how many times we're playing the fucking 'they were deceived' card) worship these gods who will happily torture their souls for a million years, fuse their flesh with machinery and drive them mad, make them into constantly rotting plague ridden libing corpses. And don't play the 'they're all crazy' or 'it's 40K it's meant to be over the top' shtick with me because 40K goes out of it's way to humanise the dudes who willingly make themselves feel pain every time they aren't killing or being angry.

Contrast that to Berserk's Godhand and 'The Idea of Evil'. Berserk's supreme being (or at least the one we know about) gives the Godhand godly powers and says "do as thou wilt", no strings attached (besides knowing they'll use it to be dicks). The apostles, likewise, who serve the Godhand are given forms basically no mortal could ever contend with and their only responsibility from time to time is r*pe/murder/pillage at the Godhand's behest, which is what most of them signed up for in the first place.

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Lilies are also one of if not the most common funerary flowers so they could also be an allusion to Sumire carrying the memory of her sister with her as her persona, the manifestation of her spirit to carry on and fight, carries the bouquet

So I was looking at sumire’s 3rd awakening and I saw the flowers in the bouquet are probably lilies

Now lilies mean

and what strikes me there is renewal and how it could mean Sumire, after all this time is willing to renew life as herself

her final awakening is coming to terms with the fact that she needs to live on as herself and not kasumi but with kasumi in her heart

God I love her character so much

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Please for the love of God can we (especially non-ace people trying to make us feel better for our stunning lack of representation in mainstream media) stop fucking calling characters who are sexless by design asexual rep?

Robots who literally have no sexual organs and no concept of love or sex aren't asexual rep

Aliens or monsters who reproduce via mitosis or some other goofy shit aren't asexual rep

Kids cartoon characters who, because they're Kids cartoon characters, don't fuck on screen aren't asexual rep

Weirdly enough, when people post pictures of literal aliens, cold, emotionless machines and cartoon characters it kinda makes me feel less normal

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Yeah I'm fine it's just...we could've had buff Cala Maria sigh

From the Art of Cupuhead

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Sigh. The response to "asexuals are actually just childish and scared of sex" isn't "well actually you're wrong because we write the filthiest smut in existence" or "what about asexuals who know all about kink" or "I'm asexual and I love making sex jokes", NO, that's not the fucking point. I don't care. The point is that regardless of how an individual feels about sex they deserve to be respected and treated as an adult, even if the thought of sex grosses them out. I am asexual, reading smut makes me cringe (feel cringe as in the original sense of the word) and looking at anything nsfw makes me mildly uncomfortable at best, and I only like sex jokes to a certain extent. This doesn't make me a fucking child because sex is not what makes someone an adult in the first place.

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Someone please talk me out of this.

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This is currently how I've chosen to cope with no more Bebe after maxing out his S. Link

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What have I done...?

I rushed through Bebe's S. Link because I wanted to spend as much time as possible with the loveable French Weeaboo...and now he's gone.

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Lemme preface this first by saying P3 Reload is my first foray into Persona 3 and I'm about 15 hours in, so any context for how the original game handled SEES and its S.Links are beyond me.

So while, admittedly, the P3-make must be doing something right since I've thus far clocked 15 hours on it (first time playing P3 btw) I'm having a major issue of really not connecting with the SEES team.

Which is funny because the writing in this game IS pretty good...ya know when it's the S.Links. Bebe (my beloved), Mutatsu, Bunkichi and Mitsuko, MAYA, I genuinely enjoy their S.Links, and while (so far at least I haven't got any of them above level 5) they don't have the thematic relevance for befriending you like the confidants of Persona 5 did I still feel a genuine sense of camaraderie between the P3 protag and them.

I can't say the same for the SEES team. For a team I live in the same dorm as and fight shadows every night with I know nothing about them. The one who's opened up the most to you by this point in the game, Junpei, is a loveable idiot but what do I even know about him? Heeeeee...is in my class? Uh...he plays videogames?

I don't know, I genuinely do hope that my connection to SEES grows, this game is damn good so far and I'm still enjoying it more than I did Persona 4.

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So next Anime Con I wanna cosplay for the first time and am torn between Kira, Okuyasu and Diavolo, and I'm really tempted to cosplay as Diavolo from the flashbacks when he was dripped out in the gangster suit but I'm not sure how many (if any) people will even recognise the cosplay if I'm not dressed like a slut

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Aight hear me out though:

Robot stand user who's stand is called 'Daisy Bell', the first song ever sung by a robot

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The Pillar Men invented sex, Dio figured out you could have it with women.

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For context I've only seen up to Part 6 but I just want to say JJBA's relationship to gay characters is... really weird. Like the two more or less explicitly gay relationships, Squalo/Tiziano and Dio/Pucci are both made up of villains and both get buried pretty fucking hard but I would honestly struggle to call it homophobic because of the way it's handled. It's not your usual anime villain queercoding thing because this is Jojo and every single character good and bad is fruitiest person in the universe, instead queerness is used to humanize otherwise pretty awful people. Like, Dio Brando is a shoe in for the single biggest piece of shit of all time in any work of fiction but him actually opening up to Pucci and demonstrating an iota of trust and vulnerability is literally the single sincerely human and sympathetic moment he ever gets.

And likewise Squalo and Tiziano are extremely minor villains who could have otherwise been totally forgettable, but the weirdly touching way they go out, sacrificing themselves for each other is a much, much more tragic and noble death than basically any Jojo villain gets. Like, you can't exactly call it good queer rep but it's also not... not good either? In a weird way?

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Okay but seriously why did Lenore in the Castlevania anime get a death the show treats as touching and beautiful? She's a rapist. She raped Hector. Any complexities and details you may choose to gleam from their relationship (captor and captive relationship and nothing else btw) is overshadowed by the fact that she is his abuser. What the fuck.

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So what with the supposed Dungeons and Dragons collaboration with DBD it occurs to me that the Entity's realm is just a domain of dread. An eldritch entity for unknown reasons abducts malevolent beings or whom malevolence revolves as well as their lands that all exist within the mists (or fog). What I'm saying is the killers are just Dark Lords and they should add Strahd as a killer. Imagine amongst all these chainsaw wielding cannibals or hardcore, gore covered slashers you got fucking Strahd running around like