#...metaphorically

[shwoo]

...Chadley FinalFantasySevenRemake is is secretly part Cetra isn't he.

Because:

Sephiroth was injected with ancient corpse cells before he was born in an attempt to create a child with Cetra powers. This did not work as intended because it turned out what they had were not Cetra remains. They were John Carpenter's The Thing remains.

After Aerith and Ifalna escaped, Hojo stole Ifalna's body and dissected and catalogued it.

Aerith and Ifalna escaped fifteen years before the events of the game.

Chadley is fifteen years old.

The timeline just works too well. And I'm a bit confused about Chadley claiming to be a cyborg, but also saying he was "created" and wondering if he has a soul, but I assume Hojo had another human kid who he lied to again. That seems more in character for him than making an assistant who happens to be able to perfectly pass as a teenage boy, and also shares his eye colour.

No comment on that protorelic cutscene with Hojo, because it's very ambiguous and I've seen a bunch of very confident sounding interpretations that don't line up with what I got from it at all. I will say that Hojo doesn't talk about Chadley and his "brothers" being full of surprises in the Japanese version. He just says something like "Did you undo your management program when you thought I wasn't looking?"

No comment on where Hojo got another kid either, or how Ifalna's cells got involved. Except that I think there's lines the series wouldn't cross.

The Cetra's abilities involve communicating with the planet, and using its power without materia. As far as I can tell, materia are crystallised lifestream that contain knowledge and experience, through which the user can ask the planet to do some magic for them. Chadley's main gameplay purpose in the first remake game is to develop new materia. He even says that it was thought to be impossible to create artificial summoning materia, but he still manages to do it.

In Rebirth, he branches out into managing Cloud's Queen's Blood career analysing life springs, and never really explains how a very samey button pressing game translates into multiparagraph pause menu lore dumps. Kind of sounds like he's talking to the planet and putting its power into materia. I think his age is better evidence that Hojo was trying to repeat what he did to Sephiroth with an actual Cetra this time, but Chadley is weirdly able to do things with the lifestream that seemingly nobody else can.

Anyway, I think Hojo definitely tried to make a child with Cetra abilities like he meant to do with Sephiroth, and it's probably side content boy.

[22degreehalo]

An aroace rpg where you have to balance Discomfort Points versus Social Rudeness Points

But also you can do nice actions to forgive Rudeness, but if you do them too much people fall for you and then it becomes much harder not to gain Rudeness Points

When you're with people who have the Queer tag, all gains and losses are doubled. Because they're more likely to understand, but also more likely to close ranks against you, and it hurts more when that happens

You have to give poetic descriptors for how great romance is (or rather, some separate inhuman metaphor concept, so non-aros can get the feeling too) and if you repeat words or can't keep up you gain Rudeness. But the whole topic gives you Discomfort.

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[snekky-arts]

Look Up

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I don't usually dabble in realism - but this was a gift for someone very meaningful in my life. And some things just deserve to be painted as they are.

[hellspawnmotel]

the me that did and said those things

[aphel1on]

nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold, the Fairy Godmother says, you have to fix this, your kingdom can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule, to be loved, when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

[atissi]

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

[spurgie-cousin]

This is such a good, succinct way of describing the illusion of choice many fundamentalist women and men have when it comes to life paths.

[cracklewink]

My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

[tanjir0se]

Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !

[thelesbianthespianposts]

imagine: you get your memories back after years of amnesia to find out your whole species is dead and earth doesn’t exist anymore. that the only thing left of your culture is your weird ex and his busted honda civic that barely even works that he stole from the government when he was 13. And he’s been taking members of an alien species for trips in his honda civic and they’re all like “woah it’s so cool” and you get upset because it’s NOT COOL it’s a honda civic, the turn signals don’t even work “wow it can go up hills” yeah OF COURSE IT CAN GO UP HILLS EVERY CAR COULD DO THAT. but they’ve never seen a car before so everything it does is the coolest thing ever. And your ex’s only tool is a fucking screwdriver which is somehow also cool to this dumbass alien species even though it’s a fucking screwdriver so you just look like an idiot screaming about how none of this is even cool it’s actually really shitty but your whole planet is gone so you can’t even prove it but also you’ve had a constant drumming sounding in your head since you were 10 slowly driving you insane. I would become evil too.

[toasterkoi]

Some of my all-time favorite scenes from my all-time favorite fanfic Tethered at the Wrist by @nebrasska-alasska on Ao3!!! The charm of each chapter and the way these two hedgehogs are explored is so refreshing, please please go read it, it will change your life 🙏

[superparadise-ghost]

going into mickey 17: hehe yay Steven Yeun!!! omg im so excited to watch Robert Pattinson play a little weirdo again wahoo!!!

leaving mickey 17: We need to explode Donald Trump.