#-candidate to be honest’

[tricoufamily]

Y’ALLLLLLLLL THE TECH INTERVIEW WENT SO WELLLLLLLLL

[mobydyke]

even if you try try your whole life to be righteous and be good, you'll wind up on your own floor choking on blood. btw. if you even care

[the-music-maniac]

I've never been able to get over stories where the abused becomes the villain. True of any media that has this trope, really, but especially true of Sephiroth. He makes my heart hurt.

Created to be nothing but a weapon, abused and manipulated and experimented on from childhood. Sent to go fight Shinra's wars for them, desensitized to killing from a young age, but still managing to hold onto his kindness somehow. They made him into a legend larger than life for their propaganda, while simultaneously de-humanizing him in the worst ways, isolating Seph to the point where no one around him, not even his closest companions, even realized that he needed support. There's hints that no one around him really knew his background by the things they say - the only one who was aware of the extent of his mistreatment was his abuser. He was a high functioning individual - who would be arrogant enough to assume that The General could need help? Who would dare?

And I don't blame Angeal or Genesis or Zack for not realizing. Along with them simply not knowing there was an issue that needed addressing, Sephiroth probably kept it from them on purpose - whether by choice or necessity or outside influence or self preservation.

Sephiroth just wanted a normal life too. He didn't like having his picture taken, but endured because he had to, and because other people wanted it of him. He didn't really care to compete for the title of hero with Genesis, even though Genesis didn't seem to believe it. He took care of his troops, and we see in that one cut scene where he failed to save a soldier, that he still got upset over stuff like that. All those years of killing and losing his men to Shinra's missions and he hasn't truly become numb to it.

And then nearing the end, after first being told he's a monster by one of his former friends, and then later spending a week in that library not eating or drinking or sleeping, left alone to his devices because who would assume that the most competent general of their time can be in a vulnerable state, and shouldn't be left alone right now?

After learning the "truth" about his origins, and after a lifetime of systematic abuse, no longer believing he's even human anymore. And then the only person offering him a hand in his darkest moments is the one he shouldn't have taken. But at that point - could you blame him? Whether or not the post nibelheim Sephiroth is truly him or just a puppet for Jenova I'm uncertain about, but the end result is that from start to finish - Sephiroth never manages to break free from the whims of those who wanted to use him.

And because he gave into his worse demons - he won't receive a happy ending. He won't be saved. There's no comfort for him, no opportunity to rest and heal and grow. His childhood wish to live a normal life will never come to pass.

Watching Sephiroth's story unfold is like watching someone drown in front of you while surrounded by a crowd of people. And the one drowning doesn't even scream for help because he's been conditioned to believe that the suffocation is normal.

I will NEVER get over him. It doesn't excuse what he did after Nibelheim, I'm aware of that, but I can't help but remember that people only ever had praise for him while he was burning villages down in Wutai on Shinra's behalf.

It doesn't excuse his actions. But I will NEVER be able to forget all the ways the world failed him first.

[robobarbie]

I'm gonna be so real I thought you were Filipino or Vietnamese for the longest time. white person jumpscare

the filipino portion of the fandom is so powerful that theyve even changed the perception of who i am. incredible

[suntails]

i know you said you don't want to draw too much shippy stuff for twst, and i respect that! but i'm so happy you're also a mallesil truther because oh my god i feel like the only one sometimes. happy for everyone who wants the diasomnia family dynamic but i need those two dying in each other's arms in every universe (in a decidedly gay way) 🙏

thank u for reaching out!! yea i realized at some point that the level of shippiness in my work isn’t very clear, but the story of twst has so much for me to unpack thru art that ships just don’t call my attention to draw like in previous fandoms so alas 🤘🤘

i completely understand any and all interpretations of diasomnia, so i never want to come across as though i’d be annoyed with people, or think of one interpretation over the other or anything. i understand that it makes many people uncomfortable as well, so i hope that people who only want familial content find joy in other works out there and send them nothing but the best! i feel similarly LOL it’s the way their fates are inherently intertwined that does something crazy to my brain, i just think it’s tasty to think abt

[angelofsmalldeath-codeine]

It’s as if the Tories and Sunak are getting out of their way to lose the election. To which I say good.

After 14 years of their austerity politics, defunding the NHS and forcing European migrant workers back out of the UK because of xenophobia and misleading the British public, they have destroyed everything on their path and now are back on hating queer people.

Now Sunak is going after David Tennant on twitter. DT barely knows how to text on his iPhone and calls Instagram ‘MySpace’. The man has no social media and unless someone shows it to him, he won’t know what’s happening on the internet.

Sunak has also underestimated the backlash. Doctor Who fans will go to war to defend DT and Doctor Who fans aren’t the bigoted closed minded people Sunak is used to deal with. His/the tories’ dog whistles won’t work on them.

And finally, Sunak picking a bone with David Tennant is nothing but a diversion from the actual discussions that should be taking place:

- Obligatory National Service

- Cost of living

- Dismantling of the NHS

- Reduced access to education

- increased gender violence

- Unemployment

I could go on but we know how terrible of a shape the UK is right now. I moved away 4 years ago but it still hurts to see my friends having to live in this dumpster fire.

ETA: DT could have used better language when referring to KB? Yes, he most certainly should have because his message is being diluted and the discourse is being diverted to identity politics and how black women are always on the receiving end of criticism. I agree with this reading of the situation, but on the other hand Kemi Badenoch is being tokenised and weaponised by the tories in which anything you say against her is misogynoir. There’s no winning.

[bubonickitten]

I truly, desperately need the Democratic party to focus at LEAST as much on the undecided progressive as on the undecided right-leaning moderate.

If you really want to earn the votes of undecided people, or--perhaps more importantly--inspire a young generation of first-time voters to vote for you, you HAVE to fucking talk to them and meet them where they are, and then prove to them that you've got their backs.

Like, yes, I'm voting for the Democratic candidate either way because the electoral college two-party system precludes viable alternatives. But forget the discourse about voting, not voting, voting third party, etc. for a minute and just acknowledge the fact that there are going to be people who are not going to change their minds if all you can give them is "not as bad as the other guy." Just, speaking purely in terms of pragmatism and sustainability, "not as bad as the other guy" is a dead end for a large percentage of voters, like it or not. Democrats have got to do better than that if they want to genuinely improve their chances of beating the other guy -- in this election and every other.

(ETA: I should probably clarify that I also don't like or trust the Democratic party, for the record, and this isn't me white knighting on their behalf. I'm just saying if they actually want to court progressive voters, they have to stop being... you know. Like this.)

[potahun]

how does one face a 30-year old subordinate who's got so much trust in you that when he sees you in the same basement as him, where he's been trapped, he automatically exclaims: "yatta! now i'm saved!" without checking to see whether there are other people with you, without wondering why the door of the basement closed now that you're in the same basement....

furuya, you live like this? you live with this level of candid, unbridled cuteness being thrown at you every day? baffling to me. absolutely baffling.

[karmicpunishment]

can i be so real rn i really don't enjoy the "dazai will join the port mafia again" theories lol

like nothing against ppl who like 'em, obviously, i just think its. the least interesting route to take in this story and kind of goes against all the themes of the overall plot.

though i wouldn't mind a "dazai sets himself up to be transferred but the other agency members stop it" kind of plotline

[sonnet18s]

[dvasva]

ye tbh. im withholding my vote unless i see kamala harris actually support palestinian liberation. im not gonna be duped into accepting what i wouldnt accept out of joe biden just cause kamala harris isnt joe biden. which isnt to say ill neber vote for her but i'm certainly now strongly undecided until she makes a change.

if u also want better from these damn politicians, email and call her campaign reps, the white house, mail into her hq with physical mail telling her to actually put her money where her mouth is.

politicians actually have to earn ur vote. im not just gonna wait until she doesnt need us to vote for her anymore to be vocal about this issue.

Palestinian lives are not currency to pay for our comfort. If we can't even support them during a genocide we are actively funding, then tbh we don't even deserve the comforts. your own fear is not an excuse to not at least attempt to use what leverage you have with your voting power to get a politician to actually do what theyre supposed to do.

[starr-ghost]

if i had a nickel for every time i’d latched onto a character who i relate to a liiiiittle too much who is also a walking red flag i’d be crushed under the weight of several million nickels

[goethitee]

hellllppp one of my favorite coworkers that was also going for this position just snapchatted me & im too scared to open it

[lupismaris]

Didn't get to smoke before work this morning (also not at all confident I took my meds) and while I'm managing the immense stress of the day (hello three new projects) rather well I'm reminded that the ritual of a spliff and a cup of coffee does in fact help keep my teeth dull and my temper subdued

[theradicalace]

see you sometimes talking about mime/shifty

what's the ship about?

to be completely real with you, it's a ship i got into secondhand. @circus-clownn got me hooked on it, blame them (affectionate) but also you should ask them about it it's their pet ship 🫶

it's a very opposites attract pairing to me. pretty/refined/silly mime meets filthy/rough around the edges/different flavor of silly shifty. the kind of couple that makes everyone go "wtf??" on first sight but they bring out the best in each other.

and they're silly!!!

[queenerdloser]

i'm not trying to be mean but if you're not american and you have no idea how the american voting system works, maybe just shut the fuck up about the 2024 election. thanks.