Aether's Flow

its good to acknoweldge the hollowness of revenge but sometimes you really do just need a story about someone who gets hurt and then kills and kills and kills and kills their enemies. its cathartic, babey.

Final Fantasy XVI is awesome in this regard.

Max Wazowski

i think my favorite ff14 narrative gimmick is that the savage raid unlocks are explicitly just the WOL having adhd daydreams about the cool shit they've done. the omega raids are even explicitly about cid trying to put on an ASMR tibetan meditation spotify playlist to calm them down but the WOL is unmedicated so it really only makes the problem worse

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

@ fic authors what do you personally consider a successful fic? What’s the bar?

actually writing the fic down

final fantasy xiv when you wear the frog suit

why be colorblind when you can just be regularblind

like to charge, reblog to cast.

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

Explain.

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.