Words of a Dragon

“At Last, we finally meet…”

I was clearly feeling some sort of way when I got to the middle Sephiroths outfit & somehow created what I’ve now called

In episode 7, they're trying to fit 3 chapters into one 40 minute episode. The writers can't dwell on every single thing. They have to change things and make the pace a lot faster.

We should really be blaming disney for not giving the show the time it actually needed and not Rick or the show runners. They used the time they had and some sacrifices had to be made.

1) the episodes are short as fuck so when your trying to exposit in a small amount of time it feels like too much tell vs show

There's something about Hephaestus, god of invention, now making machines that suit himself not the world. He is still selfish. He is still trying.

There's something about Hermes, god of thieves, living off of stolen moments with his son.

There's something about Hades, god of the dead, choosing not to allow more to die on his watch. He makes them work for it, because he is a god and inherently flawed, but thinks for his and others' safety.

We're told all the time, the Source and the reflections, the original and the copies, the greater and the lessers, but Lakeland, the place that welcomes us into a new [lesser] world, looks gorgeous, and the Crystarium's literally designed to be easy to love, no, not by the game devs, by the Exarch himself. However he couldn't have built it all on his own, countless people of the First must've contributed. It's not just a thing architected by a guy from the Source, it's a flower of the First, that one stubborn plant that grows in a crack of a paved road.

It's a post-apocalyptic world. The entire thing could've easily looked like Amh Araeng or the shanty town around Eulmore. People could've easily been as unlikeable as many of those who we save in the Source over and over again. Or at least, not interesting. Yet, this [lesser] world's vibrant and captivating, rich with history, albeit most of it's just hinted at, still, it makes you believe and wonder. You don't see the First as a lesser world as you walk it. I think it adds to the overarching theme of ancients vs sundered.

I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.

According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.

Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.

I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.

(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).

The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, “oh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.”

With only two working-age people in the house, it’s very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they aren’t also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.

The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because it’s all they can do. It’s very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and it’s also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who don’t have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and you’ll be well away.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and nearly every multi-gen/extended family (who were rarely ever white) in my quiet, uniformly lower-middle-class neighborhood was thought of as “dirty” and “taking advantage” of “the system”. The defacto impression was these households were drug dealing or otherwise out of control.