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"You're my friend now. We're having soft tacos later!"

(Continuation of a earlier post)

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Happy Father’s Day

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i'm working on patreon's ttrpg designs between commissions and something is happening this month. i just don't know what

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i love art. i love making art. i love viewing art. i love being inspired by art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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are you really in a media's community if you don't see prominent biphobia left and right during pride month

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such a shame to only keep this on bsky. get it? faci. p. facial pla. get it? it's the facial plan...the facial planes. get it? g

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In Stormblood, there's a scene that reveals Zenos saving Asahi. You know the one. Where Asahi falls madly in love with the man. Because he's big. And strong. And saved his life.

But for Zenos, it was Tuesday.

Anyhoo, I got to thinking about that scene because it has a mirror to it in Endwalker.

See, in the Stormblood scene, Zenos just swooshes his sword and knocks out these resistance fighters of ol' Kaien's. He isn't even doing a light jog to get to them. Just swish and they're no longer a problem. And he obviously didn't do it to, like. Save Asahi. Asahi just happened to be saved. All Zenos is doing is His Duty, which is to take out the enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

In Endwalker, the mirror to this scene is when he kills the blasphemy that's about to strike down a Thavnarian refugee. Thankfully, the NPC doesn't fall madly in love with him this time. But, again, for Zenos...it's a Tuesday.

And when asked, "Why are you here?" he's just like, "There are beasts here to kill. So I killed them. ...They suck, by the way."

It kinda makes me laugh. On the one hand, "Oh, Zenos. Still being Zenos," but also, on the other.

This is not that different from any time the WoL does a Duty where you have to go kill all the soldiers, or kill all the monsters, or kill whatever, saving innocents in the process, and then later on down the road, in some side quest or role quest or job quest, there's NPCs like, "Hey! Remember me! I was this person you saved this one time at band camp!" And your options are like, "Oh. Yeah. That Guy." Or, "Smile and wave, boys. Just smile and wave."

Because for WoL, it was also Tuesday.

But the WoL is happy they were able to save NPC whilst Zenos is like, "I forgot I even did that, like, 10 minutes after I did it. And I don't care now. Good for you, though, I guess."

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I also appreciate the storytelling of Zenos taking the form of Shinryu again to chase after the WoL.

Because it has long been established that Midgardsormr flew from the Dragonstar to Etheirys. Dragon flew through the universe, passing multiple worlds, to get to one that still had abundant life. Because, at that point, most of the worlds were dead. And Midgardsormr could make that trip because dragons aetherical density is fucking staggering and their scales and eyes are full of it. That's why we have the whole Vrtra scales protecting against aetherical corruption blahdy blah.

So taking the form of the dragon allows Zenos to literally fly through space, across the known universe, to get to you. He didn't take the warp drive portal. That closed behind us. He had to do it the hard way. And man broke speed records, I can assure you.

Man also didn't have Hydaelyn's coordinate crystal. He just zeroed in on your soul and booked it.

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