the rantings of a mad british headphone murderer

They told us back in 2022 that the story about Team Glenn was its own thing, while Sephiroth was getting his own unique episode. This means we’re probably just getting started.

It also sounds here like they added in a “part” about his youth to the original First Soldier story.

I don’t want to make assumptions, as this COULD be talking about episode 2, but I am getting the impression they originally started writing the Rhadore story for Team Glenn that would cover the shift from P0 soldiers to Hojo’s SOLDIERS, but decided to add Sephiroth into the story in order to document his first mission.

However, his actual individual story was its own thing, and it’s about Wutai, Masamune, his friendship with Angeal + hopefully Genesis, and whatever the hell is going down with Hojo. Nojima mentioned Hollander in another stream, so there could be more on the Jenova Project too. Who knows. Still, I think we’re going to see more than we expect in Episode 2, and I’m quite hopeful it’ll start from Seph’s POV this time.

Bonus:

Nojima knows about the fanon stuff lmao. He found it challenging to write more story for Sephiroth because of those headcanons.

So, I guess his solution was to literally confirm half of them since that’s essentially what happened 💀

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

I’m just going to be blunt about it; America’s depression epidemic is a direct result of the all-encompassing alienation we experience under late stage capitalism, and now private interests are attempting to recuperate the general public’s feelings of hopelessness and despair into marketing material, the spectacle in effect recuperating our despair and making it appear that the powers that be are on our side. That we are being watched over by boardrooms with loving grace, despite the fact that they are part and parcel with the forces of economy that has driven so many people to not see any hope in their lives. By recuperating the public discourse about the root of endemic depression, the status quo is able to trivialize it and sterilize it before before safely incorporating it back into mainstream society. Not only are we unable to strike against our enemy, most of us can’t even see them for what they are, and the rest of us can’t even speak to the truth of what they are capable of.

In the past two days I've read dozens of stories of students who aced their mocks and coursework, who had predicted grades of As and A*s, only to be given Ds and Es because of where the school is. I've read dozens of stories of deserving pupils losing their places at prestigious universities because their grades are too low.

Rest assured this algorithm had no ill effect on private schools, which were in some cases awarding their students significantly higher results than their prior grades indicated.

MOOD.

Masterpost of vaguely-addressed letters that actually got delivered to the right person. Whatever you say about Ireland, the lovely people at an Post clearly know how to do their job.

1. Your man Henderson, that boy with the glasses who is doing the PhD up here at Queen’s in Belfast, Buncrana, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

2. Blindboy Boatclub, Postman should know, Limerick, Limerick postman should know.

3. Mr. Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach, Castleknock, Dublin 15.

4. Petra Kindler and Donal Moore, unfortunately I forget the streetname but it’s near a street named Cul de Sac, The beautiful city of WATERFORD, well-known for its kindly postmen, IRELAND.

5. HERE PLEASE [on a map of the coastline near Dunmore East].

Bruce: nailed it!

Nicole: (cackling as the camera zooms into the ugliest cake pop her eyes have ever laid on) WHAT IS THAT!

As bruce whisks in a bowl midway the process, if you edit the clip to make it loud enough you could hear him muttering under his breath why the fuck did I adopt so many kids

Nicole: and I genuinely don’t know what mr wayne is doing over there (cackle) (camera cuts to Bruce frantically counting the figures before adding them to the final cake as he knows if he forgets any of them they would never let him live it down)

Nicole: oh I love the purple you chose for spoiler’s Cape! / Bruce: it’s actually eggplant but thank you nic!

Jacques: as….. lo…vely as this cake looks.. I can’t help but notice.. you forgot to add batman to it

Paper Towel Batman goes viral in gif form.

Sirius: *crouches down*