One Step Closer To Heaven

Xenomorphs (Alien series) and Asari (Mass Effect) are basically the same thing.

Both are nearly immortal unless killed, with four distinct phases of their developmental cycle.

Both technically reproduce asexually, but gain genetic diversity and simulate evolution by using samples from a “father” of a different species to remix the DNA of their daughters.

Both have a caste system led by the oldest and largest matriarchs, and supported by low level psionics.

Both have generally humanoid frames, but with weird head crests and stuff.

Few people in their settings have ever engaged one in combat and lived.

Xenomorphs (Alien series) and Asari (Mass Effect) are basically the same thing.

Both are nearly immortal unless killed, with four distinct phases of their developmental cycle.

Both technically reproduce asexually, but gain genetic diversity and simulate evolution by using samples from a “father” of a different species to remix the DNA of their daughters.

Both have a caste system led by the oldest and largest matriarchs, and supported by low level psionics.

Both have generally humanoid frames, but with weird head crests and stuff.

Few people in their settings have ever engaged one in combat and lived.

Also, the "few in the setting have engaged one and lived" could only apply to Justicars and certain very powerful Asari. A single Asari has an advantage due to being born with Biotic powers, but those can be overcome much easier in setting than a Xenomorph.

Listen I know everyone is busy fixating on her silly midriff window some people to the point of compounding new sexism on top of IS’s sexist design but honestly Byleth is really cute?? I support this teacher…

The demon jumped ship into Katy Perry.

Let me demonstrate 

Era One: Miley is not possesed

Era Two: Miley is possessed by the Unknown Demon

Contact: Miley comes into close contact with Katy Perry

Transfer: Uknown Demon makes leap into Perry

Recovery: Miley recovers from possession

First Murder: Katy Perry, Possessed, proceeds to kill a Nun via stress in a legal battle over the purchase of a convent

R: “Rudolph.”

M: “What’s your real name, Rudolph?”

R: “… Red-Nose.”

did this anime waifu just tear down the edgy pretentious pseudointellectual facades we construct for ourselves as an obfuscating substitute for actual worth of character and accuse us of being so wrapped up in our own insular self-validating atrophied emotional comfort zones that we can only relate to others through pop culture allusions and mental dominance contests instead of a genuine emotional connection between two human beings

That’s exactly what the character was telling her counterpart to knock off. Big words. Big words with the assumption that everybody listening or reading will understand or have the energy and means to research what they don’t. Big words that communicate a big ego and little consideration for others.

She’s telling him to come off his pedestal and talk to her as himself, with his own words - words she can understand, because no, she’s not a walking dictionary or thesaurus or history book or anything like that, and unlike him she also doesn’t pretend to be, even though she’s arguably just as “exposed” to all these things by way of his presence in her life as he is by way of his presence on the internet.

What is “obfuscating”? What is “insular”? What is “pseudointellectual”? Fine that you seem to know their definitions, but you aren’t addressing an audience that can or should be expected to know those things. For god’s sake, I do know those things and I still had to keep stopping to figure out what the hell was being said.

She doesn’t understand these things because he never tries to help her understand. She doesn’t understand why he thinks he’s educated and edgy just because he talks about blood and knows a little bit about this religion and that world issue. She very clearly wants to understand, but he’s so busy being clever that all she gets out of him is, “It’s really cool, but you wouldn’t understand it.”

So no, that… big jumble of words up there is not what’s going on. What’s going on is that an anime character just called the internet age on its bullshit.

this right here is so fucking important. As someone with ADHD, I struggled with having to decipher this bullcrap in my Liberal Arts classes or any time I needed to read shit for essays and it felt like pulling teeth. I would always think. “DUDE you’re talking about art!! Fuck off with the big words and just tell why I should give a shit about this damn painting!!” I’m not saying if you use big words fuck you I’m saying if you ONLY use big words fuck you. Especially when you’re to talking down to me about something I should understand. It’s a social wall that will leave you feeling cold and lonely up on your high horse. and If you do this and want to knock it off: 

Don't always say: pseudointellectual 

Try to say: pretentious or full-of-it 

Don’t always say: insular

Try to say: ignorant or  a don’t know don’t care attitude 

Don’t always say: obfuscating

Try to say: Confusing or messed up 

imagine loving your anime wife so much you take 4 years and 4 months off your life to make this image in survival mode in Minecraft, that’s right…Minecraft

Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.

Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealed that they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.

This is nothing but the truth.