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a lot of things "killed" destiny 2, but it's hard not to place the blame on them removing the entire first half of the game and starting you at endgame. not just because that personally disappointed me, but because that's visibly still stopping new players from trying the game in its final state
there's just no onboard at all. like, to the extent that this is still given as the reason not to start. it's hard to think of a more efficient way to stop new players from joining your mmo without literally barring them from registration. the things people talk positively about are, in a material way, impossible to experience now
the return of cayde-6, a character you cannot meet and cannot see the death of, is one of the primary emotional beats of the story's finale
at present, as far as I know, he is completely absent from the playable story excluding this beat. a bittersweet reunion and farewell to a character who does not exist to anyone who started the game in the last half decade
extra crazy to see people swinging so hard for big corporate copyright lawsuits on tumblr dot com tbh. alright girl whateverrrrr, I hope the lawyers come for your favorite fan artist next if you're so in favor of it ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
you're all frothing at the mouth for a queer climate activist getting sued now but oooh just wait until you can't order astarion keychains and baby yoda plushies and whatever the fuck else off etsy anymore
I guess in light of all the feedback I've been receiving tonight I'm going to turn over a new leaf and become a good citizen who defends copyright law. first up is snitching out the nice lady at the local farmers market who sells crochet pokemon plushies, I want to see nintendo sue that cunt into the ground
in conclusion I've never felt this post more strongly
sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
Listen, fellow trans women, I love you all, but if you think that trans men or transmascs are an oppressor class you need to log the fuck off because you are being brainpoisoned by discourse-mongers. That is a legitimately rocks for brains take

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I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.
i appear to have made mortal nemeses with a pigeon
tumblr stop rooting for the pigeon
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sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space
they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people
they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining
Tamamo is neither fox nor jackal
In Fate, what animal species is Tamamo-no-Mae? Most people think of her as a fox. Some people will know that in Fate/Extra, she calls herself a jackal (all the way back in 2010!). But, while much closer, that's also not the entire truth.
You see, Tamamo is a ĹášgÄla.
The evolution of Buddhism across Asia
Wait what. What is this section. This is a post about a fictional fox wife character, what's going on. No, but please humor me for a second.
Buddhism is⌠let's say, something like a reformist movement based on Hinduism. It adopted many of its same doctrines and systems of belief, while rejecting and modifying others.
Buddhism was funded in India. Then it arrived to China in the 1th or 2nd century, where it blended with native traditions like Daoism and Confucianism. Then it was transmitted from China to Korea in the 4th century, and then from Korea to Japan in the 6th century, where it blended with native Shinto beliefs. (All the dates are estimations. Even historians disagree.)
The important things to note are, first, that Buddhism moved from country to country in a chain: from India to China to Korea to Japan. There are other countries involved, like Vietnam, but we're going to focus on the India-Japan chain here.
Second, Buddhism never quite "replaced" existing traditions, rather it blended with existing local beliefs via syncretism. At every step along the way, Buddhist beliefs would adapt to fit with a given country's native traditions.
The Indian ĹášgÄla
In Sanskrit, the term ĹášgÄla (जŕĽŕ¤ŕ¤žŕ¤˛) just literally mans jackal. As in the animal, specifically the Indian golden jackal. I don't now Sanskrit, but according to Wiktionary, "ĹášgÄla" is pronounced kind of like "shri-gaa-luh".
Jackals are scavenging animals that haunt cremation grounds, stealing offerings and feeding on corpses, plus they have a creepy, piercing nocturnal howl. So in most mythologies and folklore, jackals have negative associations, specially with death and tombs (think the Egyptian Anubis?).
In India, jackals are usually portrayed as cunning and opportunistic, and linked to death. In Hinduism and Indian Buddhism, jackals are associated with deities like Kali and Chamunda, goddesses that reside in cremation grounds.
But at this point, the ĹášgÄla is just the real animal (plus symbolism). It's not, strictly speaking, a mythological creature.
The Chinese yÄgÄn
Buddhism then spreads from India to China. An so translators would take Buddhist texts and begin to translate them from Sanskrit into Chinese. But they find a problem: the texts sometimes mention jackals (ĹášgÄla), but jackals aren't native to China. So what do they do?
They do a direct phonetic transcription, even if the resulting word has no meaning in Chinese. The Sanskrit term ĹášgÄla gets transliterated into Chinese as yÄgÄn (é嚲). (At least according to biologist and folklorist Minakata Kumagusu. I don't get it either.)
The result is a sort of composite canid creature that doesn't have a clear identity. The texts will describe a wild canid that travels in packs, can climb trees, and howls at night (all actual jackal behavior), but is also evil, eats humans, and serves deities of death (not actual jackal behavior, one hopes). This mixes real animal attributes with mythological ones, weakening the link to the original jackal.
Then, since China pretty much doesn't have jackals, this yÄgÄn gets conflated with canids of similar descriptions that DO exist in China, like foxes, martens, and dholes (the dhole is a small wild dog that resembles a fox). The link to the fox in particular is important, because the fox was already a deeply established animal in Chinese folklore, with the huli jing (Chinese shapeshifting fox spirits).
So we move from real animal to⌠vaguely mythological creature, reinterpreted through local folklore.
The Japanese Yakan
So now Buddhism reaches Japan. And again, there are no jackals in Japan, so what do we do with the yÄgÄn? First, the same characters "é嚲" that are read in Chinese as yÄgÄn, are read in Japanese as yakan (on'yomi reading).
Just like in China, Japan had a strong tradition of fox-related folklore with the kitsune / youko. Initially, the term "yakan" actually was just a synonym for "fox" used by Buddhist monks and diviners. The yakan then merges into the broader Japanese kitsune tradition, because it fitted neatly with the beliefs that already existed about them.
Separately, there exists the word yako (éç) used for a wild fox or a spirit fox. And it just so happens that yako also had an alternate old spelling of yakan (éç´). So when ĹášgÄla was transcribed phonetically to China as "yÄgÄn", that didn't correspond to anything, so it was seen as a new creature. But when it was transcribed to Japan as "yakan", it just so happened to coincide with the pronunciation of a term that was already in use to refer to magical foxes. Funny coincidence.
By this point, the original meaning of "jackal" is completely lost, because the concept of the yakan has been inherited purely through language. So now the yakan is a supernatural beast linked to foxes, or even just literally a fox.
Okay, but what does it mean
The compound é嚲 (yÄgÄn / yakan) is made of two characters. The first (é) means "field" or "plain" or "wild". The second (嚲) can mean "to dry".
The above literally doesn't matter. Again, according to folklorist Kumagusu, yÄgÄn is just a phonetic transcription of ĹášgÄla. Whoever translated this was like, what Chinese character sounds like "ye"? Maybe "é". And what character sounds like "gan"? I guess "嚲". So there you go. Pretty sure those characters were chosen purely for sound, not because "dry field" has any relevant meaning. I could believe the é (wild) to have been chosen on purpose, but the 嚲 (dry) is likely there only to complete the pronunciation.
No, but seriously, what does it mean
I think it's faster to just directly translate the entry in Weblio (a monolingual JP dictionary):
https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E9%87%8E%E5%B9%B2
ya-kan ăé嚲 / ĺ°ĺš˛ă 1 - The name of a legendary evil beast in China. It's said that it resembles a small fox, is good at climbing trees, and possesses a night cry similar to that of a wolf. 2 - Synonym for "kitsune" (fox) or "yako" (wild fox). 3 - A type of Noh mask. A demon mask representing the face of a fox. Used in plays such as Kokaji (The Little Blacksmith) and Sesshouseki (The Killing Stone). 4 - Another name for the blackberry lily plant.
The fourth entry is irrelevant. The first and second entries repeat what I explained above, that yakan refers both to the mythological beast and the literal fox. But it's the third entry that's really interesting.
Noh is a type of theater with emphasis on dance, which often involves masks. Weblio gives us two examples of noh plays that use this kind of yakan mask, and both are plays involving foxes.
The Little Blacksmith is a story about swordsmith Munechika, who is commissioned by the Emperor to forge a sword. He prays at a shrine to ask for divine assistance, and then receives the help of a mysterious boy, who is eventually revealed to be the deity Inari, a god of agriculture and foxes. (Also, Inari sometimes gets syncretized with Tamamo-no-Mae, though this is rare. But there exist Tamamo-Inari shrines IRL.)
The Killing Stone is⌠yeah, that's the story of Tamamo-no-Mae as a noh play. The earliest versions of her tale ended with her unceremonious death, and it's this noh play that introduced the concept of the Killing Stone, which would then become a permanent part of Tamamo's mythology.
So the association between Tamamo and the yakan does not come out of the blue.
Dakiniten and Inari
Dakiniten, a demon-turned-goddess of Indian origin, is either a yakan herself, or is depicted riding a yakan. So when all those beliefs arrived to Japan, since the yakan is now a fox, Dakiniten became syncretized with Inari, god of foxes. So the ĹášgÄla/yÄgÄn/yakan goes from being a lowly jackal demon in India, to being a sacred messenger of one of Japan's most important gods. (Then Dakiniten gets further syncretized with Amaterasu, which is what causes the indirect Tamamo-Amaterasu link.)
So the "yakan" is a literal jackal in India, an ambiguous mythical beast in China, and a literal fox in Japan (except foxes in Japan are mythical shapeshifting creatures).
So what animal is Tamamo?
There are, to my knowledge, three separate instances of Tamamo being referred to as a yakan. Two in 2010⌠and one in 2026.
The first and most well-known one happens in Extra, not long after Tamamo's Noble Phantasm unlocks. Hakuno asks her what she is exactly, if she isn't just an ordinary fox. I'll be going over the relevant dialogue line by line. The provided translation is the official English one.
ăžăăăăăŻč¨ăŁăŚăăĺşćŹçăŤăŻçăŞăă§ăăă I'm a fox, mostly.
Ok.
ç˝é˘äšĺ°žă ăŽĺźçĽăŽçă ăŽăăăăăăŽăŻĺžäťăă¨ăăăăĺăŽĺ°žă˛ăă¨ćăŁăŚăă ăăă Just like the magical nine-tailed foxes in Japan folklore, yep.
The localization is a massive oversimplification, but I really don't envy the official translator here. If I try to retranslate it:
Stuff like the Nine-Tailed White Face or the Shikigami King, how to put this, those are things that were added on later. Please think of them like embellishments to the rumors.
She first mentions two spirits in Japanese folklore.
One is the hakumen kyuubi (ç˝é˘äšĺ°ž), or Nine-Tailed White Face. The term hakumen ("White Face") is strongly associated with powerful fox spirits, in particular Tamamo-no-Mae and Daji. They have many other similar names like Golden White Face (konjiki hakumen, éč˛ç˝é˘) or Golden-Furred White Face (kinmou hakumen, éćŻç˝é˘). Tamamo uses any of these three names interchangeably to refer to the facet of Amaterasu she descends from.
The other is the Shikigami King (ĺźçĽăŽç). The shikigami are the spirits that onmyouji sorcerers use. But I cannot find any information on this supposed King? Google returns literally 5 hits, and 1 of them is people discussing Tamamo.
The closest thing I can think of is that shikigami can be bound to ofuda (paper talismans), which miko (shrine priestesses) also use. Which is why Tamamo fights using ofuda, because she's a miko (well, she was actually a nyokan / lady-in-waiting, but those did share some ritualistic duties with a miko, so they're distant cousins). Also, the most famous onmyouji is Abe no Seimei, whose mother was the kitsune Kuzunoha (no relation to Tamamo).
In any case, she says that "stuff like those two are later additions". In particular she uses ĺžäťă (atozuke), which means appendix or postcript. She's saying that she wasn't originally those beings, but rather they were tacked on later.
Then, there's a Japanese idiom "to add tails and fins" which means to exaggerate or embellish (like how a fish story gets bigger every time it's told). She's using that "tails and fins" (ĺ°žă˛ă) here, as a kind of sneaky pun since she's talking about tails and foxes. And she asks Hakuno to please think of all the above as just "embellishments to the rumors".
Basically, she's saying that she wasn't originally those kinds of things, but later embellishments added that connection. (This actually maps to IRL, since in the original myths Tamamo was two-tailed, and was only seen as nine-tailed centuries later.)
ăăăăç§ăĺłĺŻăŤăăă¨ă¤ăŤăłă§ăăăăăă夊ăŁăŚăăăăă¤ăăŞćçĽăŁăŚăăăă I mean, strictly speaking I'm a yakan. Like Dakini or the great goddess Inari.
Hey, recall how I talked before about Dakiniten and Inari, about how they are yakans/foxes? Turns out that wasn't filler! (In JP she mentions Dakiniten, not just Dakini.)
Hakuno: ă¤ăŤăłďźă¤ăŤăłăŁăŚăăă¨ăăăŽă¤ăŤăłďźă暯ă沸ăăďź A yakan? Those Japanese tea kettles?
In Japanese, it just so happens that yakan is also the common word for "tea kettle".
Caster: ăăźăĺŽç´ăă丝人ć§ăŤăăŚăŻćŽĺżľăŞăăąă§ăă Hmmn, is that some kind of Freudian slip, Master?
Funnily enough, she's actually kind of roasting Hakuno here. Retranslation:
Hmn, that (joke) is a little too obvious. Master, you don't make for a good boke.
In manzai comedy, you have the tsukkomi (straight man) and the boke (funny man). Normally, Hakuno would be the tsukkomi to Tamamo's boke, but they're switching roles here. She's basically saying "Please, stick to being the straight man, let me do the bad jokes."
ă¤ăŤăłăŻé嚲ăéăŤĺš˛ăă¨ć¸ăăŽă§ăăăăŽéżăăŤčŚăăăŞăăŽă§ăăăăă¸ăŁăăŤăŤăă¨č¨ăă°ăŠăă§ăăăă Don't you know what a yakan is in Chinese buddhism? Would it help if I were to say jackal instead?
More literal:
Yakan spelled as é嚲. Written as "drying in the fields". Since that term doesn't seem familiar to you, what if I say "jackal" instead?
But I prefer the official localization, even if it's less accurate. Explaining the kanji doesn't make sense in English. And since an English audience would not be familiar with the concept of the yakan, the added reference to Buddhism helps. The only issue is that the localization specially singles out "Chinese" Buddhism, which comes out of nowhere.
Hakuno: ă¸ăŁăăŤăŤďźăăăŁăŚçźăŽä¸ç¨ŽăăăŞăăŁăăŁăďźăăăăăăăä˝ăăăćăŽćĽćŹăŤă¸ăŁăăŤăŤăŻăăŞăçă ă Jackal? Like that species of wolf? But I didn't think those lived in ancient JapanâŚ
And you'd be right, Haku!
Caster: ăăă§ăăăźăăŞăŽă§ă姿形ăäźźăŚăăçăăç§ăŽé誏ăŤăŞăŁăăŽă§ăă That's riiight. That's why people mistake me for a fox!
Good, but a closer retranslate:
That's riiight. And that's why, since its figure resembles that of a fox, that became the prevailing view for what I am.
This is exactly what I've been explaining! The yakan was originally a jackal, but since Japan didn't have jackals, the yakan became associated with the next closest thing, the fox. I like that Nasu is explicitly referencing that here.
ăžăăŠăŁăĄăŤăăé嚲ăçăçä˝ăăăŞăăă§ăçćąăăăăŚăĺéĄăŻăăăžăăă And since I'm not really a yakan either, I don't mind being treated like a fox.
To be exact, she's saying that neither the yakan nor the fox are her shintai (çä˝), which is something like the "true form" or "true essence".
She then compares herself to Anubis, reveals herself to be a goddess, and Hakuno decides to drop the topic since Casko seems a bit uncomfortable about her past.
Moving on. The second instance of Tamamo being called a yakan also happens in Extra, in her Matrix info for the entry "Dakini Deva" (ăăăă夊ă). This entire entry is extremely esoteric so I won't translate it fully, but the relevant part (which gets completely omitted in the official localization), is at the beginning:
ĺ ćĽăâçčťăŽĺâăŻĺˇˇéăŤäšĺ°žăŽçă¨ăăăăăăĺłĺŻăŤăŻé嚲ďźă¸ăŁăăŤăŤďźă§ăă
Which translates to:
To begin with, while "Tamamo-no-Mae" is commonly known among the public as a nine-tailed fox, strictly speaking, she is a yakan (jackal)
As in, they literally write "yakan (jackal)", with "jackal" inside parenthesis.
And that's all we had to work with for 16 years⌠Until chapter 94 from the FoxTail manga dropped:
Which, really, is more of the same, up to copying some lines from Extra word for word. This page is basically a summary of everything I've talked about so far.
Then?
Zoologically speaking, she's a jackal/ĹášgÄla, specifically an Indian golden jackal. This is what ties her to Dakiniten. It's also worth noting that the Golden White Face (Amaterasu) dresses in Indian clothes.
Culturally speaking, she's a fox/yakan. When Buddhism reached Japan, the "yakan" slot in the cultural imagination was filled by the closest local equivalent, the fox. And recall that "cultural imagination" can become truth in the Throne of Heroes. This is what ties her to Inari.
Metaphysically speaking, well, it's complicated. She does say that neither the yakan (jackal) nor the fox are her shintai (true essence). Well, of course, because she's technically not an animal at all. She's a Divine Spirit.
I don't think the question of "What animal is Tamamo?" even necessarily makes sense? Tamamo is a product of syncretism. She's not the literal jackal or the literal fox. Maybe she's the yakan itself, the very concept of the Buddhist shapeshifting canid creature that evolved through all of Asia.
tl;dr: Let's say she's a fox, because that's what she prefers and no answer is entirely wrong.
Links
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%8E%E5%B9%B2
https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%87%8E%E5%B9%B2-647627
https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shrigala
https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/jackal

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Ah yes of course, how could I have been so foolish? The title was Garden of Sinners, of course! Of course!
We need a Franchise title, I can't keep House of Leaving my way through this lore. My sanity is on the brink because this stupid franchise can't do proper BRANDING!!! I swear I'm the only one who even knows half the lore, can they please just title everything ONE THING!!! I get that Fate is supposed to refer only to Fate works but I feel like there would be less Grail Wars if everything was just TITLED FATE!!! IT'S ALL FATE!!! IT'S ALL A PART OF ONE UNIVERSE!!! WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW IT'S EL MELLOI IF I JUST WANT WAVER'S STORY!?!? NO ONE HAS READ NOTE!!! THEY NEED TO READ NOTES!!! THIS FRANCHISE COMES FROM NOTES!!! YOU MUST READ NOTES!!! YES YOU READER, YOU MUST READ NOTES!!! READ NOTES!!!
this sounds like a party to me
i need to come up with a way to say âi mean like, movies for grownupsâ that doesnât make me feel like a villain
*peeks in the replies* *gets really nervous and locks my house up and leaves*
well, i mean more like La Piscine or Mulholland Drive,
i think i am going insane
Apparently it is impossible for Tumblr users to think of a not ageist way to describe their tastes, because everything must always be compared to how inferior children are -- despite the fact that it is pretty much never the choice of any child or children when media aimed at them is dumbed down etc.
Things when bad: kids and children are involved!
Things when good: this is very Adult this is specifically Adult only Adults can understand or want this
i literally just donât want to watch Kung Fu Panda
okay weâve come all the way back around. letâs pack this up. this post is done. âwho askedâ you just walked into my post that i made on my blog..? who asked YOU?? am i losing my fucking mind?????
"I want to watch movies where the writers assume the audience can handle complex themes and sensitive material."
"Do you mean porn? Or are you being ageist? You're ageist if you don't like Kung Fu Panda."
I woke up, still need to edit the worst chapter after months of it up, and guess fucking what? Someone commented on it. It's probably praise or whatever but from now on if I'm working on an edit I'm putting that in the notes.
They didn't leave a kudos so either it's a long time reader or... God I don't want to look at that comment I know the chapter sucks. I hope it's a bot comment, that way I can just delete it.

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I'm reading Moby Dick and so far what I'm getting is that there was only one bed. Oh and Ishmael definitely bottoms. Serious literary analysis going on here.
Could yall stop shooting each other outside my window im trying to masturbate
So this was actually the sound of my car getting stolen
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