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brightis' key dungeon mechanic being the usage of light via keystones (you can collect them as you progress through the dungeon - more keystones being held = larger radius of light around the player = easier to see) and only becoming well lit (dungeons start off dark taking advantage of the low draw distance of the ps1) until after the boss, coupling that with the required run back to the entrance and picking up the previously boss locked chests that can be opened with remaining keystones is so, so soooo fucking good. genuinely

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Fish Grid - Large Riso Print by NatalieAndrewson

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An old soft proofing tutorial of mine that I’ve been getting requests to post again.

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

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the sekiro drink sharing thing should've become standard in all fromsoft games going forward. in elden ring they should let you get drunk with patches. if you pick something strong (in this beautiful world it is also possible to acquire fucked up moonshine produced by monkeys in elden ring) then your character passes out and you wake up with all your runes gone

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when i say “bye forever” i’m not really leaving forever (as many may have noticed.) i just have a flair for theatrics. it’s more potent than a simple Bye. but you will be seeing me again. always

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gouache falin

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if men r going 2 be horny and misogynistic when designing female characters can they at the very least make the outfit cunty......nothing pisses me off more than seeing a bitch with negative 2 articles of clothing on and it’s still ugly......flop ass bitches......

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about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

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starting tomorrow i will be a real person in this world

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CHARACTER ASK GAME!!! 💫

Send a character + one or more of these question!

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

11. Would you date this character?

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to ths character? Something you don't like?

23. Favorite picture of this character?

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

26. FREEBIE QUESTION!!

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World Central Kitchen announced that it will resume operations in Gaza on Monday, almost one month after seven of its aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the enclave. The U.S.-based nonprofit group, founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, suspended operations in Gaza for four weeks after the workers were killed on April 1, according to a statement. The organization identified the aid workers as Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a 25-year-old Palestinian; Lalzawmi (Zomi) Frankcom, a 43-year-old Australian; Damian Soból, a 35-year-old from Poland; Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada; Security team members John Chapman, 57, James (Jim) Henderson, 33, and James Kirby, 47, all from the United Kingdom, were also killed in the attack.

Before halting operations, the organization had distributed more than 43 million meals in Gaza “and accounted for 62% of all international NGO aid,” WCK said in a statement. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains dire,” said Erin Gore, the nonprofit’s chief executive officer. “We are restarting our operation with the same energy, dignity, and focus on feeding as many people as possible.” WCK has 276 trucks carrying almost 8 million meals that are ready to cross into Gaza via Rafah, and will send trucks into the enclave via Jordan too, it said in a statement. The organization is also continuing to explore delivering food with the help of Open Arms, a Spanish humanitarian organization, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Hi OP, i know your post wasn't about america, but can we please talk about america? this also applies to America, hey did you know this happens in america too? oh hey this applies to america too, did you know about america? i bet noone has mentioned america yet, as an american i feel the need to mention this happens in america too. this also goes for america. america America America can we talk about america please? we should talk about how this happens in america. nothing can be talked about without mentioning america. we need to talk about america.

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LMAOO

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Is your local MP a landlord?

You can find the register of interests for the Australian federal parliament here and find out! It'll show you all the properties they own and if they're to live in or if they're investments.

That way you know which politicians stand to directly benefit financially by keeping rents high and housing unaffordable for the rest of us and then VOTE THEM OUT!

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From the Freedom Flotilla, April 27 2024:

On Thursday afternoon, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition was contacted by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry (GBISR), requesting an inspection of our lead ship – Akdenez. This was a highly unusual request as our ship had already passed all required inspections; nevertheless, we agreed. The inspector arrived on Thursday evening. On Friday afternoon, before the inspection was completed, the GBISR, in a blatantly political move, informed the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that it had withdrawn the Guinea Bissau flag from two of the Freedom Flotilla’s ships, one of which is our cargo ship, already loaded with over 5000 tons of life-saving aid for the Palestinians of Gaza. In its communication informing us of this cancelation, the GBISR made specific reference to our planned mission to Gaza. It also made several extraordinary requests for information, including confirmation of the ships’ destination, any potential additional port calls, and the discharge port for humanitarian aid and estimated arrival dates and times. It further demanded a formal letter explicitly approving the transportation of humanitarian aid and a complete manifest of the cargo. Again, this is a highly unusual move from a flagging authority. Normally, national flagging authorities concern themselves only with safety and related standards on vessels bearing their flag, and are not concerned with the destination, route, cargo manifests or the nature of a specific voyage. Just like when you register your car, the authorities don’t require you to detail to them every place you are going to go with the car. Sadly, Guinea-Bissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate starvation, illegal siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is showing the world the extent to which it will go to deny Palestinians the aid they need to stay alive, in direct contravention of International Humanitarian Law, UN Security Council resolutions, and two orders of the International Court of Justice. [...] without a flag, we cannot sail. But, this is not the end. Israel cannot and will not crush our resolve to break its illegal siege and reach the people of Gaza. The people of Gaza and all of Palestine remain steadfast under the most horrific, unimaginable conditions. We take strength from their incredible, inexplicable ability to maintain their humanity, dignity and hope when the world has given them no reason to do so. It is our responsibility to keep that hope alive. WE WILL SAIL.

The Freedom Flotilla, which was set to depart from Turkey on the 27th of April with 5000 tons of life-saving aid, has now been delayed because Israel and the United States has pressured Guinea Bissau to withdraw its flag from the Flotilla's lead ship.

Seeing as how their tactics worked on Guinea Bissau, organizers now fear that Israel and the US will exert the same pressure on whichever country the Freedom Flotilla attempt to register their ship under next.

To help the Freedom Flotilla reach Gaza, please keep an eye out for further updates from the organizers. Right now, as of April 27th, they're asking people to help boost their visibility, and to donate to their member campaigns.

For more info, see their webpage.

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You Cannot Fully Understand Revolutionary Girl Utena Without Understanding Mobile Suit Gundam

I never seem to see people talk about this much, if at all, even though this is The Gay Utena Site, and since I like both yuri and robots I'm going to volunteer to be the one to talk about it.

Yes, I said what I said, you cannot fully understand Revolutionary Girl Utena without understanding Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).

Now that you've seen some Gundam fanart by Chiho Saito, let's dig in.

First, I'm going to give a brief synopsis of Mobile Suit Gundam. For those of you unfamiliar with this franchise, I'm going to be talking about the original show, the first in the series, which came out in 1979.

It focuses on a teenage boy named Amuro Ray who climbs into the cockpit of a giant experimental mech called a Gundam in order to survive an attack on his space colony. He gets recruited into this ongoing conflict primarily because he has no choice, and is the main pilot of the Gundam. Amuro is a smart but introverted kid who is terrified about being thrust into this war, but eventually begrudgingly accepts it because he knows there's not much else he can do about it.

(if you think you've seen this before, yes, shocker, Hideaki Anno is a massive Gundam fanboy)

Towards the end of the show (or the middle, if you're watching the compilation movies), he develops into a "newtype", a sort of quasi-mystical new human evolution that gives him preternatural abilities and allows him to predict the movements of enemies in battle. This concept is important for the rest of this post.

He has a rival named Char Aznable, a delightful bitch of a man who decides to kill his boyfriend in order to get back at his boyfriend's dad and is all around a magnificent bastard. Char, too, becomes a newtype, though he's not a particularly good one. Most of his battle prowess as a mech pilot comes from experience. He makes up for this by recruiting a young woman named Lalah Sune, who is an extremely powerful newtype, to fight for him.

Amuro meets Lalah and is smitten by her and they develop a sort of psychic newtype connection (the newtype stuff is really hard to explain - just bear with me). Unfortunately, she is his enemy, and ultimately she dies by throwing herself in front of Char to protect him from Amuro, and Amuro kills her.

Lalah Sune is dead, so shortly after we are first introduced to her.

Char and Amuro, meanwhile, go on to have an extremely homoerotically charged rivalry for the rest of the show and this relationship continues in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) and the movie Char's Counterattack (1988). Lalah occasionally shows up as a Force Ghost newtype spirit, mostly to try to get Char and Amuro to stop fighting and kiss and make up, like she's some sort of cosmic fujoshi. But she has served her part in the story. She died to advance the narrative of two very sad boys. That was her purpose. (And I say this with all the love in my heart, by the way, because Mobile Suit Gundam is one of my favorite anime shows of all time and Char and Amuro are two of my favorite characters of all time.)

Now let's move on to Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Chiho Saito drew a lot of Gundam fanart. Like, a lot of it. Here's her delightfully shoujo take on Char Aznable.

She seems to have been particularly enamored by Char and Lalah and their toxic relationship. She liked this so much that she straight up took Lalah as inspiration for Anthy. This isn't just me speculating, she has admitted this.

And what about Char? Well, Chiho Saito spun him into a character called Silver Mask, who would eventually morph into Akio. Note the mask and cape. Here he is next to Char Aznable and his mask and cape.

Anthy and Akio are, of course, their own very well developed characters. They are not carbon copies of Lalah and Char by any means. But the connection is there, and this is especially interesting when you compare Lalah's role in her story to Anthy's in hers. Lalah's purpose is to be killed to advance the narrative of two men. And Anthy tells us that in the end, all girls are the Rose Bride, forever in pain for the benefit of the men around them. Revolutionary Girl Utena is a very good story on its own but it's also a meta story about the role of women in anime and storytelling in general.

There is probably a lot more to say about this, including the Mobile Suit Gundam -> Revolutionary Girl Utena -> Witch From Mercury full circle pipeline, and also I'm sure there is a LOT to say about the fact that Lalah and Anthy are both Desi, but although I am a person of color myself I am not Desi so I don't feel particularly informed enough to speak on that (but I would love if other people did). Mostly I just wanted to get this out there. You would not have Revolutionary Girl Utena, at least not the way it is, without Mobile Suit Gundam, and you would not have a lot of yuri without Revolutionary Girl Utena, so everyone please say thank you, robots, for the yuri.

In closing, here's a direct shoutout to Gundam in Utena, featuring Anthy taking charge of the story.