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RIP Kabosu, who inspired one of the most influential memes of all time; Doge.

2/11/2005 - 24/5/24

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

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I admittedly am very vanilla and don’t typically care for villain or even morally grey characters so the Arle we got does cater more to my tastes and I like her a lot BUT I also recognize that it was a boring and frankly spineless move to tone down her nastiness the way they did

If they’re gonna play it this absurdly safe when it comes to their playable characters I wish they would at least give their villain NPCs actual models and designs but thats not gonna happen because doing so doesn’t make them money

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People bemoaning how the HSR western fandom became just like GI’s as if they didn’t expect it. Don’t they know who makes up the majority or at least a very large portion of the HSR’s fanbase? This was how it was gonna be since day 1 when people immediately started shitting all over GI the second HSR released.

People don’t just drop toxic attitudes when they move fandoms they bring it with them and spread it like that’s why all modern fandoms are kinda shit

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I probably would have a very different opinion on how things turned out if I was able to view Furina and Focalors as the same person, which tbf the game does outright tells you thats the case! But its extremely difficult for me and others with similar opinions to reconcile that with how Furina/Focalors’ circumstances was presented.

If a part of myself were to split off and go on to do different things, live a different life, maybe form different opinions, I would have a hard time considering her “me” at that point. She’d be a me who took a different path, but she wouldn’t be the me who continued to exist after the split. Could her accomplishments still be considered mine? I didn’t get a Masters but a me in a different life did! Could I therefore say I got a Master’s after all? It doesn’t help that Focalors talks about Furina as if she was her creation rather than extension of herself, though it could be a translation problem.

And even if I were to look at this quest through that perspective I still would think Furina got shafted towards the end because look at how they resolved her after her last cutscene appearance. She gets the answers second hand and she gets them OFFSCREEN. Then she just… quietly leaves the stage. Doesn’t even appear with the other actors to give a bow before departing.

There’s still a lot they can still do with Furina since Fontaine’s pre-cataclysm lore still needs to be tied up and properly linked to Teyvat as a whole. They could use her second story quest as an avenue to do that. The result might be sloppy but they can do it! But her lacking Focalors’ memories and also committing to life as an ordinary human gives the writers an excuse NOT to do that and give the role to Neuvillette instead, and that’s something that I’m afraid of.

Man its been weeks and I’m still soured by the conclusion to Fontaine’s main story. I'll just rant here

There were a lot of things I didn’t like about it (Arlecchino's altruism being played straight, Traveler being out of character, the lore exposition ass-pull with the prophecy slates, the weird logic about how destroying a Gnosis could potentially wake up the Heavenly Principles but not fucking destroying an Archon Throne when Celestia forced everyone to fight a GODDAMN WAR TO ESTABLISH THEM-) but the biggest offense to me was how Furina was handled. This was marketed as the grand finale of the arc, the climax with Furina at the center of it all. And she got shafted. Big time. Furina had no agency in the plot whatsoever, nothing she did had any effect on how things turned out, and she didn’t even have the dignity of fully understanding why it all had to happen that way.

(Also I will preface this with yes Furina and Focalors are technically the same person with the same origin, but after the split Furina lost all her memories as Focalors. They are two separate consciousnesses with different experiences, and therefore I will treat their individual choices as their own)

I’ve seen people try to argue that no, she chose to take on this role knowing she would suffer, that she didn't HAVE to go along with it. And she was even working by herself to solve the prophecy without relying on Focalors, she wasn’t a puppet/pawn! But the thing is she was essentially in a hostage situation. If she didn’t do things exactly as dictated by Focalors people would DIE. Like there is a reason why criminal punishments are lighter when it’s found the perpetrator was coerced into it! And her researching how to avoid the prophecy changed nothing about the outcome, she could have sat around eating cake and the story would have word for word turned out exactly the same. All that information served to do was highlight her suffering and draw the audience’s sympathy. That's what I mean about her not having agency, it's not about her ability to act as an individual but how her actions had an effect on the overall plot. None of her choices outside of the role designated by Focalors did anything to change the situation for better or worse.

And to top it all off she didn’t even understand WHY this all had to happen. Why do people dissolve in the Primordial water? How does her pretending to be an Archon play into solving the issue? Why can’t she confide in anyone? What the hell is Focalors even doing? She doesn’t learn the answers to any of these until after everything was over, and not even from Focalors’ own mouth, it was relayed to her by Neuvillette.

Speaking of Neuvillette, I’m not gonna lie I’m sorta annoyed at his existence because it felt like Furina was shafted for him. Everything is very tilted in Neuvillette's favor. He gets his powers back, full control over Pneuma/Ousia, final say in trials, the ability to hand out Visions, and just straight up the ability to manipulate life itself. And okay all these things were his to begin with lore-wise, whatever, but he also becomes the "lore important" character after this at Furina's expense. Furina doesn't have her memories as Focalors, she can't tell us anything about how the world works, about Celestia, about what happened 500 years ago. Even though other Archons didn't give us much either for one reason or another, they at least HAVE that knowledge, and are therefore guaranteed to have involvement in future events with the Abyss and Celestia. Furina at the moment, doesn't. Neuvillette has it now. And all that talk about Focalors judging Celestia? Also Neuvillette's job now. And it feels like it was all stolen from Furina from a story-telling perspective because again, she didn't know of the plan to return his powers. She didn't even get to explicitly agree with her other self that he should have them back. The writers really seemed to go out of their way to place him on a pedestal at Furina's expense, which irks the hell out of me.

There are some opportunity for future interludes to turn the current state around, and they probably will since Furina is still being marketed as an Archon, but as it stands I want Fontaine to be over so we can move on to the next disappointment.

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Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

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please hate my favorite fictional character accurately at least

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This comment about the shit going on at YouTube is so real

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