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A lil trade I did with @rosieberry last year ❄️

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Fatimah Asghar, How’d Your Parents Die Again?

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"I hate these particular characters/groups cuz they killed people, and death is bad!"

"So we should kill all these other characters and anyone associated with them because they're all inherently bad and that will solve all the problems and we can live happily ever after!"

Quick, which antagonists, nations, groups, or other lore figures am I talking about?

(Answer: pretty much any and all of them)

I know this is a video game where we violently fight everything for experience and loot, and to move story (though some NPCs seem to die a lot less often than the defeat animations would indicate).

But there's a real interesting thought process in how some folks see the "obvious" resolution to handling some characters/groups only in terms of punishment.

Especially despite much of the story's own discussions of rebuilding, second chances, and reforging community (and how that often works better than simply beating down others).

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Forget joining the Rangers back in the day.

Tragically the rangers do not, as far as I’m aware, have a softball team where they have bi-weekly grudge matches with the guardians. But they should.

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... Holy crap

At one point I speculated that Fandaniel's throwaway comment about Zenos being a case where Emet-Selch "finally succeeded" was about Zenos' corporeal aether being as dense as an Ancients'. Not his soul, but his body at least being 2x as dense as the average Source inhabitant (and 14x as anyone from a Shard).

One of the big reasons for the Sundering was that extremely aether-dense people can't interact directly with Dynamis. You can hear Meteion bc your aether is so thin. People turn into monsters bc Dynamis overwhelms and consumes their Aether.

What if Zenos cannot directly interact with Dynamis. At all.

What if THAT'S why everything seems dull and boring to him? There's a whole spectrum of emotion & feeling that he straight up can't feel because his booty too fat his corporeal aether is too thick. But he's still a sundered soul, so part of him still needs Dynamis to feel connected to other people (unlike the Ancients who seem fine?). But his corporeal aether blocks it. The same way that Zodiark's shield kept us from hearing the Endsinger for all those centuries (& by extension the whole universe really), Zenos' thicc aether literally prevents him from feeling connection to others.

This explains why he so easily no-sold the WoL. In addition to supernaturally thick aether, he's also mostly immune to our Power of Friendship crap.

... Mostly.

Because obviously the Ancients still weren't immune to the Endsinger, her effect was just different. They didn't turn into monsters, but their imaginations turned on them, causing their creation magic to manifest ravenous nightmares. In the same way, some part of the WoL's Dynamis was so potent that it broke through. And that's why he became so completely addicted to us. We're literally the only person with powerful enough Dynamis that he can feel any connection at all.

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“To have returned here, with you at my side... it means more to me than you know. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart.”

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📢A Fisher's Guide to Eorzea - V.2.0.0!

No longer a single 303 page document, "A Fisher's Guide to Eorzea" has been sundered into SIX VOLUMES.

📚Faster Perf + Loading 🎨New guide art style 💧New Aquariums guide 🤯and more! 🧵

Check it out now: https://afishersguidetoeorzea.carrd.co The original single-doc book got so big that I had to break it up. Seems fitting. Examples of the new site and new art style below:

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guy who makes a spreadsheet to figure out if his crush likes him back

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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Chen Chen

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You sure?

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genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

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this endwalker culinarian levequest text makes me smile so much. im imagining fourchenault's moon escape plan happening in a different timeline, he's so proud of himself for being right, and then he gets to the moon and the loporrits only have his least favorite food. serves him right

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i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma

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from concerning the book that is the body of the beloved by gregory orr

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THINKING ABOUT THE VOID DREAM MAYBE TOO MUCH but i just. i love the line. rip sura's big brown baby cow eyes

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recently at a bar someone told me i seem like id have a lot of pdfs