母語ではないが、日本語オッケーです。 She/her. Old enough to remember VHS tapes. Call me Aqua! I write fic and scream about things. Yu-Gi-Ow!, Pocket Pikas, Fire Shield-Medalion-Thing, and Fullmetal Alphonse, to name a few.
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Hi, there! I speak both English and Japanese so feel free to ask or DM me in either language! 英語も日本語も話すのでどちらでも話してくれても大丈夫です!少しあとで日本語のようこそメッセージを書きますのでそれを読みたいならこのポストの下に見てください。
I go by Aqua! I obsess over Nintendo JRPGs, especially Fire Emblem, Xenoblade, and Pokemon. I love anime, my longtime favorites being Fullmetal Alchemist and Shaman King.
Favorite characters include but aren't limited to: Alear (male preferred), Robin (both!), Azura, Chrom, Marth, Alfred, Ivy; Roy, Eliwood, Rex, Mythra, Pyra, Nia, Morag, Eunie, Taion, Shulk, Melia; Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric, Envy; Tao Ren, Asakura Yoh, Usui Horohoro, Lyserg Diethel, Joco McDonnel. I also have an OC named Delilah who is my daughter.
I'm also an avid fanfic writer with a ridiculous amount of WIPs as TheTacticianAlchemist on AO3.
You may have found some of my work as Mod Rose on the ages old chrobinprompts blog, and I'm also a mod for chrobinweek.
I also have done fan translation for mankin-trad for Shaman King: The Super Star and & a Garden (since taken down; go read the official versions or check out Patch Cafe to learn about the series!) and fan translation/subtitling for Shaman King 2021 with iPatch Subs (on hiatus). I'm currently a professional freelance JP->EN translator.
While I do tag NSFW, I don't consider this blog to be SFW so do be careful.
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Just a few more matches left in this set, and we've still got some of the strongest- and the strangest- left to go!
Mega Salamence has been called the blood-soaked crescent, and with its brutal rage only increased by the mega evolution energy, it's easy to see why. When it flies, its razor sharp wings slice through anyone standing in the way, and it won't hesitate! Like all the psuedo-legendary Megas, Mega Salamence carries a terrifying base stat total of 700, with monstrous offence and swift speed. Accompanied by an ability that turns its Normal attacks into Flying ones and boosts their power- Aerilate- you do not want to be on the other end of one of Mega Salamence's Double Edges! It doesn't appreciate that mega evolution twists the wings its so proud of into a new form, but despite that, it has incredible aerial agility and skill, with even the most complex topography not posing a challenge to soar through. I wouldn't want to anger this Pokémon, so maybe it needs your vote to pacify it?
Barbaracle has always been an overlooked and odd Pokémon, but Mega Barbaracle gives some new life to the Kalosian barnacle! With Barbaracle being made up of several individual Binacle units, Mega Barbaracle multiplies further, into 11 distinct Binacles, each controlling one of its 8 arms, 2 legs, or head. All these parts working in tandem, Mega Barbaracle becomes a fearsome fighter, even gaining the Fighting type that works alongside an ability that further increases the power of moves that make contact with the enemy. Mega Barbaracle uses its many arms as a distraction, messing with opponents and drawing attention away from where the next strike is truly coming from! And when those strikes do hit, with 140 base Attack, they're going to hurt! Will you give this underappreciated Pokémon a little more love?
jax died before she could come out, and she died before she could become a better person and make any kind of amends with the people she hurt. I don't think the story was written that way by accident
she's horribly repressed and comes from horrible circumstances including homelessness. she also pushed away every hand extended to her and every chance she could have taken to get better. there were a million better decisions she could have made and she did not make them, and she caused an incredible amount of harm along the way. and still the story wants us to believe her worthy of being understood and loved
to come out would be to embody herself, to view herself as a real person, to start to leave the haze of dissociation that allows her to think of herself and everyone else as cartoon archetypes in a false world where nothing matters
she's desperate to stay in this world that she sees as false, where she's a funny cartoon character and she can still brush off the pain she causes as silly cartoon antics
it's exactly this dissociation that allows her not to take her own pain or the pain of others seriously. it was what ultimately led to her death. a jax that cannot come out is also a jax that cannot make amends
something I love about a tragic story, where a character fails to complete the arc that might have satisfied us as the audience, is that it asks us what led to the tragedy
the despair it leaves us with, the satisfaction it denies us, leaves us to yearn for things to have turned out differently. it leaves us thinking about what could have been done, what decisions could have been made, what different circumstances could have prevented the tragedy? dissatisfaction drives us to act
I love, by the way, the matter-of-fact cut from her walking away to her already being gone. like many tragedies we experience in our lives, the news comes to us unceremoniously, undramatically, flatly. it arrives well after the moment where we could have been there. in one quiet moment the world shifts underneath our feet. at first it feels like nothing at all until the information percolates through us, manifesting first as a dull ache that feels inadequately small and insignificant
we don't get to ask "what could I have done if I were there," we can only ask "what could I have done before it got this bad?"
Oh boy, a complex character who's a woman! I love messy characters who hurt everyone around them and continue the cycles that hurt them!! Can't wait to share this joy with fellow fans– why's everyone calling her a bitch
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i love richeh because at first glance she's quiet, withdrawn, and you think she's the shy kid of the group. but no. she'll kill you. that girl is ready to murder at any time of the day. just the stubbornest, most obstinate, most self-confident child on the planet. you try to tell her she can't do something, and she'll not only ignore you, she'll do the thing while conjuring sparkles and somehow utilizing crystals. respects maybe three whole people in the world and doesn't even try to hide it. said ACAB, out loud, to the cop's face after physically attacking the cop. best little girl representation of all time.
I really do think many Fire Emblem fans are lowkey irony poisoned and addicted/heavily attached to sardonic, cynical and rigid views and perceptions of storytelling, and you can tell by the way most of them describe Engage as "campy" "cheesy" "self aware, turn-your-brain off fun" when... it's really not. The plot of Engage has themes, purposes, serious moments, an overarching point, etc. I theorize that they call it campy because they can't handle/aren't used to/don't like things that are extremely sincere.
Every FE game has funny moments, every FE game has hype moments, every game has magical, high fantasy tropes, and-most importantly-almost every game name drops 'Fire Emblem' within their stories at some point.
The only thing that Engage has that sets it apart is its fun intro song and the final cutscene when summoning all the Emblems again (which even then, it's basically the Emblems' own version of final map dialogue tbh).
Like, I know people describe Engage in these light hearted ways as a compliment, but even then it reads backhanded lol.
whenever the conversation about difficulty and accessibility in games come up i want to slam my head into a wall because noone thats speaking has anything more than a surface level understanding of what "difficulty" even is
your game should have accessibility options, but if your only accessibility options are "turn off central game mechanics" then you have made shit accessibility options.
you know what accessibility option doesnt completely fucking butcher your game while allowing almost everyone to play it? an option that is not available in 99.99% of all games ever made? easy:
no no i actually think it’s super fun that you took that aro/ace character and bent them over backwards to make them gay!!!! we all know being gay is more #progressive than being aro/ace so i’m so glad you freed them from having a storyline unconnected from romance and shipping!!! you go diva!!!
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i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.
Before Pride month ends, it's a reminder XENOGEARS SAID 🏳️⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS! 🏳️⚧️
It's one of the best PS1 games for this alone & why Monolith Soft are still the goats for being such an ally within the Xenosaga AND Xenoblade series as well!
the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces.
empathy:
is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)
is an automatic response that cannot be controlled
cannot be learned
sympathy:
is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person
is something a person must actively choose to do
can be learned
compassion:
is showcasing care and support via words and actions
is something a person must actively choose to do
can be learned
if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.
stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus.
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