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@wildstar25

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well something like

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<stares at ask prompt>

...Noir AU time?

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What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

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an alternate attempt was also made

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derustin comm for @wildstar25 !!

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an attempt was made

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listen Arsay is the saddest coldest and wettest cat in all of Eorzea and must be swaddled in warm towels and protected at all costs. Just look at those big eyes feel them staring directly through your soul

how could you possibly say no to that face

you monster

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

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That Smile

I posted this on my main blog but I'm transporting it to my sideblog bc I'm having a crappy day and I'm sure this has been done before but I need serotonin this weekend

What's the thing you like most about prev's wol? Can be looks, story, personality, vibes, fashion, anything! Let's spread some positivity 🌞🌤

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ah but is arsay the boob booster or the boob boosted in this scenario

I was mostly thinking boosted but she could be the booster if it was someone with a bigger chest than her

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This is basically exactly what the Death of the Author concept is all about, tbh - that attempting suss out the precise intentions of YoshiP in order to arrive at some kind of definitive Objective Truth™ to its Meaning™ is kind of a silly way to approach fiction when you think about how the meaning we actually derive from fiction generally stems from our own interpretations and understanding of it.

the way we read and interact with fiction is, ultimately, a deeply personal thing that's as much shaped by ourselves and our own experiences as it is by the actual work, and at the end of the day the only person who gets a say in how a particular piece of fiction made you feel is you.

This is especially the case with larger productions like Final Fantasy XIV because, as much as YoshiP might be the Guy in Charge™, by virtue of sheer numbers the vast majority of work that has gone into building the game will inevitably have been made by people who are not him - and every single designer and artist and quest writer and programmer and tester and translator and voice actor and whatever else will have their own interpretation and understanding of what the whole thing is about. Sure, for some of them that understanding might be as simple as "Something I did for Money", but all of the work they've put in has been shaped by their own interpretations of what the larger whole is about.

Like sure, a lot of us are likely here because we have Feelings™ about the game and what it personally means to us, and that means that there will inevitably be times where sparks will fly when some perspectives differ, so it's always worthwhile to bear in mind that every single interpretation is, at the end of the day, still an interpretation.

Meaning is not a set property of the piece of fiction itself, but an emergent one that arises out of the act of being interpreted.

Anyway, it's worth remembering that a lot of things people cling to as Canonical Evidence of their Totally True and Objective Viewpoints on the characters in FFXIV is a lot of times based entirely on incidental side dialogue, often a single line and the possible readings or implications one puts upon it.

This isn't a bad thing, mind; we all do it, and in some ways it's necessary, to comb through dialogue and quest text and side content to get scraps of characterization, lore, etc to base our roleplay, fanfiction, fanart, and analyses on.

It's why I'm often insistent on finding and having context and backing evidence for things, particularly lore analysis. And there are multiple interpretations in a lot of cases--and especially depending on which localization is being used, or if removed content is being considered or not, and so on.

There've been times I think an interpretation is really off (and sometimes if feeling spicy have argued it) given other evidences--or I have missed evidence and context others are going by!

And sometimes people will read the same lines entirely differently, for uncountable possible reasons based on our myriad lived experiences. Things I've had to remember/be reminded of a few times, and so now try to caveat with "I feel" or "I think" or "in my opinion" when giving my own take or rebuttal, if I do.

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one of these days I kind of want to try the whole animation swapping wotsit and see if I could personalise Kea's fighting visuals a bit

also i kind of love the harpe animation and low key love the idea of stealing it but with earth or light or fire vfx instead for use somewhere

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It was certainly a game - don't think I ever managed to get past the chapter 4 boss back in the day! Somehow I still remember the first boss being weak to punches for some reason!

grabbed some gameplay footage from a longplay up on youtube!

there was also this wild thing where upon defeating a boss, you'd get this animation of your character beating the absolute snot out of them that was like fairly simple but still unique to each boss so there was clearly some effort put into this thing!

It was definitely a game, maybe of all time

also the Black Belt version has better music than the original

funnily enough, I think Fist of the North Star might have been the first anime property I was ever exposed to, just not at all in its original form.

basically there's this local store that once upon a time had a Sega Master System console plus a number of games you could rent fairly cheaply, and one of these games was an early side-scrolling beat 'em up called Black Belt where you played some dude whose enemies tended to inexplicably separate into their constituent 8x8 pixel tile elements when they died. No blood mind you, their sprites just comically split into pieces.

after looking the game up in more recent years, it turns out that it actually was a Fist of the North Star game when first released in Japan - Sega apparently didn't feel the license was worth retaining for the export releases and altered it a bit to make it legally distinct.

let's just say some of the design choices suddenly made a lot more sense the moment i found out about the game's origins

Oh man, I didn’t even know that existed, I would have loved to play it knowing its origins 😂

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look early swedish localisations of anime was basically functionally indistinguishable from swedish localisations of things like the Transformers G1 cartoon in that you could generally expect about half of the cast to be voiced by this one guy named Peter Harryson who to be fair not a terrible voice actor but he has one of those voices that is kind of immediately recognizable not matter what role he plays

early swedish anime dubs was kind of like what if tes: oblivion was anime is what i'm saying

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i do not keep track of how many times I've found myself kinda wishing I had a 3d printer for fabrication purposes but whatever that number is, it needs to be incremented by one

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I tend to be fairly insular and generally nowhere near notable enough to draw all that much ire, so I usually keep it on for those who are a bit too shy to send prompts or requests or the like off of anon. Mind you, it's the kind of thing where turning them off is something I try to regard with a bit of a hair trigger - I have no qualms turning them off if I start getting asks that give me bad vibes. But so far they've been largely innocuous so I've felt no need to.

People who have anon asks enabled, I gotta ask, why? What good comes of it?