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just spent like an hour playing “who’s that pokemon” w my sibling and i was flabbergasted when they couldnt identify like half the pokemon they were seeing. (shrek voice) he didnt even know garganacl

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So! Fate and Homestuck have been a special interest for about a decade now (I’m sorry Dean, but I can’t stand you.) and yeah this might be a several month old post but it’s 3am let’s party. So this is my take.

I would have to say that Shirou Emiya is a Knight no question. When you consider the masks he wears and his future as EMIYA/Nameless there’s no other class I can see fitting. Aspect wise it’s actually difficult, because as Archer he fulfills the role of a Knight of Time narratively, but those powers aren’t inherently his, they belong to Alaya, not himself. It leaves me stuck between Doom, and then the Rage/Hope dichotomy. Because Doom Loves Shirou. He and Lancer keep meeting because he didn’t die when reality said he should (thanks Rin) so the universe keeps throwing these assholes at each other even when they don’t recognize each other. But I think Hope/Rage as class inversions match Shirou and Archer the best. Whether he’s a Knight of Rage or Knight of Hope I’m too tired to say for certain. Buuuut I think he relied on false hope in the beginning and came into his own as a Knight of Rage in the Heaven’s Feel route while Archer was him leaning too heavily into Rage.

As for Rin? Well her character is ultimately defined by her relationship with other people isn’t it? She’s always the deutertagnoist never the protagonist. Her relationship to her servant, to Shirou, to Sakura, to Hakuno, her father. It’s always someone else defining her character but I don’t feel like it’s in a lacking a sense of self Heart Way, and more Blood way. One of the best analysis I’ve seen of her character pointed out that Rin puts herself in the position of people owing her so they won’t leave her. With her experience I think she might be a Mage of Blood.

Poor Sakura I can’t see as anything but a Doom player, but that’s also because she seems to fulfill the role of Maid better than Witch to me. Because while she does snap and go heavy on her aspect, she doesn’t start off bubbly the way witch’s are like to do and doesn’t settle back into being an energetic person. I think Maid of Doom fits her best, but I could see an argument for Witch of Doom. Because while she does have the obscurity of a void player, I think the tragedy of Doom is more overwhelming to her story.

Ilya is the hardest for me because so much of her character is best explored in the VN, and unfortunately she doesn’t explores in things like Extra, AND I don’t think it’s fair to consider proper timeline Ilya and Kaleid as the same person the way I normal do Nasuverse characters. Narratively she bounces so far all over the place depending on the route and choices you make it’s hard to choose. She was born to die, a vessel for the holy grail. Ironically my first thought was Blood, but I think Ilya is the Heart player here. Possibly the Most Unhealthy Page of Heart I can think of in media. Which could possibly work for Kaleid too… hm.

Remember at midnight when I was like "Mmmhmm yes magical girls very good then"?

Well, strap in we're doing more of that shit.

I apologize to anyone who has a massive fight or flight reaction to the Fate franchise, but they have a magical girl spinoff and I am in love with it SO!!!!

Illya von Einzbern (Child): Page of Blood

You know, it occurs to me that Homestuck is a creation myth about gods who give birth to themselves, and Illya is the ONLY one of there grail children that can't be said to have done so. Amazing. What a terrible little creature she is. I adore her endlessly.

Anyway, Illya has many charming character traits, but her absolute adoration for her friends and family are top of the list, right next to her immense cowardice. The self-conflicted Page of Blood title is a natural fit not only for her immense, world shaking love of Miyu, Chloe and Shiro, nor her literally being a source of life fuel for Chloe, both of which are very Blood behaviours.

She's also just pitiful, absolutely the saddest baby, until she busts out these insane growth curves. Classic pagery.

Chloe von Einzbern: Prince of Rage

Speaking of Gods Who Give Birth To Themselves...

This is a really basic read that I don't think needs much justifications. Chloe appears during impossible situations to break barriers and let Illya achieve her goals.

Mostly by way of overwhelming destructive force.

Miyu Edelfelt: Bard of Light.

Miyu is also a self manifested god, amazing, what is even happening with these magic cups?? Why do they want so badly to be Real Girls??

Anyway, Miyu is a Bard of Light because she is a channel for ultimate destruction forced into an inconsolately passive role, and worst of all the force is literally just "other people getting constantly really lucky." I mean, damn, girl lost the lottery at birth. Oof.

Bonus the main timeline: adult!Illya is a Bard of Light too; I think being a grail kinda does that to you. Shiro is the Heir of Space because literally there were 3 anime about him inheriting othes people's space powers come on. Rin is a Thief of Heart and a damned good one at that. Sakura simply deserves not to have to play SGAME let the poor child have a break mein Gott (Witch of Void). Saber is a fucking sprite obviously.

These are my opinions not statements of fact. I am always interested in hearing your opinions too.

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the emotional whiplash of going from aliens: real? to sinèad o’connor’s death to mitch mcconnell possibly having a stroke on camera

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UNCOCON

I absolutely love that this shop has proper plus sized models for their yukata!

Shop link: https://www.rakuten.co.jp/love-berry/index.html

Link specifically to their plus sized yukata selection: https://item.rakuten.co.jp/love-berry/c/0000000108/

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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

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save a horse, ride a man that has shape shifted into a bear

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panel ended hours ago but im still screaming

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“apparently we are banned on TikTok because of the bear scene”  

 audience cheers loudly   🤣🤣🤣

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“transition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.“

This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: “from what age do you gain bodily autonomy?” Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment you’re fucking born.

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Spooky season is closer than you think.

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Seinfeld

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Wait I realized this Twitter rate limiting thing happened literally the same day as the Reddit 3rd party app shut downs. Wonder how many of those users have come here today to this Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing Ass website

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I finally switched to firefox and I've seen a lot of posts about the effortless importing of preferences from chrome and how it's important to support non-chromium platforms, but nobody is talking about the loss of productivity that happens when beautiful women come to your house to kiss you on the mouth because they heard you use firefox now. nobody's talking about this

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this pride does have everything