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PINTA@2日目東F-01b on X: "牛若丸ぅ…… https://t.co/Du0hAe2LJn" / X

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I got the regular Lyse card in the FF14 deck, and then I ALSO got a second, extended artwork Lyse in the booster pack that came with it!!

They knew who they were sending this pack to. I'm so happy!

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Episode one Belinda: breaks up with her boyfriend because he’s a controlling misogynistic prick who wants her to conform to the role of wife and mother, when he later kidnaps her to force her to marry him she calls him an incel and explodes him

Episode eight Belinda: I can’t help you with the battle I’m no use at saving the world, the best thing I can do is stand in this box with my daughter and be a mother, I love being a mother, please rewrite my entire timeline so that I have a daughter, I’m so glad this right wing incel fascist rewrote reality so that women are wives and mothers because that means I am a mother to my daughter

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the point was she wanted to get back to may 24th at 7:30 am cause she had a shift. she had a shift that she needed to get to cause she was a nurse and god knows hospitals don't function without them. she had a shitty flat with annoying roommates, and she drank expired milk for dinner.

she wanted to go back to that, not cause it was extraordinary, but because it was hers. she had carved a life for herself where she could help other people and it was enough for her.

she didn't need the stars, she didn't need some far away galaxy to tell her what she'd always been. and she definitely didn't need another doctor to try and show her what she's known all along.

she wasn't someone's daughter, she wasn't someone's mother. she didn't have to go back she had to be something for someone else, she wanted to go back because she wanted to be something for herself.

the point was... she wanted to get back to may 24th at 7:30 am cause she had a shift. how could you ruin that for her so completely?

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It’s not even just Belinda. This entire era has been weirdly pushy on enforcing motherhood as the purpose of women

Donna is confirmed to have settled down and had a child as soon as she left the doctor

Ruby is only 19 and from the very beginning she’s in a maternal role. She looks after the children Carla fosters. In space babies she immediately assumes a maternal role to look after the children.

Anita was sad and lonely and now she’s happy and pregnant (from an accidental pregnancy, isn’t she so glad that happened without her deciding to do it!)

The ranis motivation is grief about her infertility, and her plan is to create loads of new time lord children. One of her incarnations describes herself as the mother of the other.

This entire two series arc has been building up to the statement that women should be mothers, and would be so much happier if they were mothers. Whether they want it or not. When it happens they’ll realise it’s what they wanted the whole time. It’s gross and I think one of the most misogynistic plots from a modern show I’ve seen.

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牛若とゲーセンデートです！ by shanaoh@skeb受付中@shana_oh_

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New art by Kubo

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Forgot about tracking my Final Fantasy playthroughs. Played a few more since my last post (which I guess was a whole year ago now).

Looking at my trophy list for the order in which I played things…it looks like 7 Remake was the first one I tackled.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Gameplay-wise, this was solid. Was never a fan of them splitting up the story across multiple games, though actually playing it and seeing the scale they were going for, it makes sense they had to do things this way. That said, so much of this game is just padding or filler, since it's only covering what's effectively the prologue of the original game. It's nice to see the main cast get fleshed out a little through their animations and vocal performances, but I ended the game wondering how a new player who wasn't already familiar with 7 was supposed to react to the whole thing. Cuz it's not really a true remake, but a weird alternate timeline sequel thing, and you need to have already played the original to appreciate that. Anyway, the parts that focused on the original story and the main characters were good, but I'm not a fan of all the new stuff, like the Whispers, and the NPC filler-y stuff like with Johnny, Chocobo Sam, Madame M or whoever. Though the extra worldbuilding that came along with all this new stuff was really nice, I think. Made Midgar feel more alive, which is cool. Anyway, not a super big fan of this one, since it's only a partial story and it felt too padded. 6/10, I guess?

Final Fantasy V By the time I played Remake, Rebirth was already out, but my brother was still playing it, so while I waited until I could borrow his disc, I played some other stuff. 5 was next on my list, and I really enjoyed it. It's right between 6 and 4, not only in name, but in how much I liked it compared to those two. It was a more light-hearted and sort of campy story compared to the somber, dark, and melancholic moods of 4 and 6, and that was endearing - it made it a cozier experience. Also, I enjoyed seeing where all the inspiration for Krile and the Students of Baldesion in FF14 came from. (And Gilgamesh, too.) I wasn't expecting much from the story, but I liked it more than I thought I would. The cast was really good, imo, and I liked how everyone's arcs sort of bounced off each other at one point or another. I also really like how, excluding Bartz, it's basically an all-girl team by the end. That's cool. They should do that again. Anyway, yeah, really fun game. Liked it more than I thought I would. Oh, yeah, and the job system is really fun. Almost forget to mention that. Love me a good job system. They need to bring that one back. 7/10

Final Fantasy VIII I went back to this game after 5 years and finally finished it. I knew I couldn't do it on my own, so I streamed it, and having people to talk to while I trudged through the game worked wonders. Don't think I would've been able to finish without that. Anyway, I ended up liking the game more than I thought I would by the end. And now that I actually have a solid grasp on the mechanics, I could definitely see a younger version of myself getting super lost in the grind and spending hours mix-maxing my stats and GFs or whatever, just experimenting with everything. I understand how so many people who had this be their first FF game as a kid wound up loving it. It truly is a game of all time. As for the story, it was pretty cool, I guess. Went places I didn't expect, and everything surrounding Squall and Rinoa was really well done, I think. The themes it tackled was done pretty beautifully, and I ended up liking the cast a bit more by the end, even if I still don't actually care about any of them besides Squall, Rinoa, and Selphie lol. And the final dungeon is really good. So yeah, I'm glad I went back to finish it. 7/10.

Final Fantasy II Technically, I started 7 Rebirth before playing this, but I finished this one first, so I'm listing it first. Uhh…this is a game, I guess? Like, it's super inoffensive, I suppose, just kinda generally boring. Not a super fleshed out cast, and the gameplay is pretty weird. Dunno if I like the whole "no level, but just increase each individual stat by grinding" thing it had going on. But again, like with all the Pixel Remasters, I just used the boosters to cheese my way through. 4x boosts to leveling spells and everything made me pretty hard to kill outside certain events. I'm assuming the original version didn't have running speed and a minimap, so these dungeons must've been fucking awful to get through. Just hours of getting lost and frustrated, I guess. Sounds terrible. I got the feeling that the dungeons in this game were just designed to annoy players and waste their time. But thanks to the Remaster features, they weren't bad. But still, yeah, it's just a generally whatever game. 5/10?

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth I just do not know how they made this game. The scope, the scale, the detail, everything is just…wow. It feels like this game should've been impossible to make. Especially since I read they did it in just 3 years? Like, that's insane. Anyway, they pulled off something crazy special, and crazy good. I'm still not a fan of the new story stuff - and all the Zack stuff was really weird and pointless - but the adventure was sure a fun one, all the same. Loved arriving at each new area, and loved doing all the sidequests and filling in the maps. Loved the combat. I even ended up loving characters I didn't like from the original: Yuffie and Cait, especially. It's a wonder what great voice acting and extra screentime can do for a character. I think everyone in Cloud's party benefited from this. They're all so well developed by the end. And everyone's gameplay style is really fun if you get it down pat. I think I mainly played as Cloud, Aerith, and Yuffie by the end. Aerith's ward system and Yuffie's ranged ninjutsu stuff is so satisfying when you pull it off right. I just had a lot of fun with all that. And even though I feel like it might be overwhelming to get all the sidequests done, honestly??? I didn't mind. But again, I was streaming and engaging with chat while doing it, so that made it more fun and not like a grind. Though, just like with the first game, all the new NPC sidequest characters are pretty annoying or boring, and I kinda zoned out during cutscenes cuz I just do not care about Billy's parents or whatever. But the extra development you get for the main cast via these sidequests was worth it, I'd say. It's fun to see everyone get closer as they progress their journey, like seeing Barret and Yuffie play fighting in the background, or Aerith and Tifa high-fiving and giggling with each other over something. I'm tempted to give the game a 10/10, but in all honesty, there is still a bit too much padding for my liking, like Remake. Esp with the minigames, though most of them are optional, thankfully. But on the topic of minigames, it's crazy just how much of a variety of them there are - like one is just straight up the Gambit System from 12, which made me excited (though the minigame itself sucked dick). I can't give the developers enough props for what they did with this game. It's so polished, and so big. I can't wait for the finale of the trilogy - even if I'm still not a huge fan of the new story beats. 9/10, at the very least, for sure. They nailed it.

I'm almost done with all the mainline games, now. I don't think I'm ever going to play 1 or 3, though. I watched a playthrough of 1 when Stranger of Paradise was coming out, and there's not much to it. Don't care about 3, but maybe if I'm bored? And I still really want to play the 13 trilogy, but Square needs to put them on PS5 first.

Once I play them all and know all the characters, I'll get into the crossover stuff like Dissidia. Don't want to play them without context on who everyone is first.

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Ishtar and Ereshkigal by Anonimous31@anonds31

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More Panty? More Panty 💖 | Sachi 💜

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100 DAYS OF KINGDOM HEARTS DRAWINGS:

DAY 96

someone else special i know won't let you down

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So, you like cats huh?

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I don't even watch vtubers or hololive, but the news that amelia watson is leaving kinda puts a blackhole in my heart.

She's how I learned vtubers were even a thing, with dumb clips on YouTube, and she always seemed so fun and creative.

Idk, I guess I can feel how real fans are feeling about this, and that makes me sad for them cuz I feel sad too. She was a real trailblazer and I enjoyed coming across a clip of her every now and again whenever the YouTube algorithm deemed me worthy

As a not real fan, I love you Amelia, and I hope you keep living your best life. I'll really miss you, and I hope you know your influence reached even people like me who didn't even knew who vtubers were before you showed up.

You're so fuckin cool. Continue to rock on!

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