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every day i am plagued by visions (thoughts about a dunmeshi restaurant au)

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bonus

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finally complete the main cast of Delicious In Dungeon (aka Dungeon Meshi in JP and Gloutons et Dragons in FR.) I also have timelapses for all of them, click on the links blow to view them.

Lauis Timelapse

Chilchack Timelapse

Marcille Timelapse

Senshi Timelapse

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GET IT WHITE BOY

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I think the funniest thing going on in my green life is that for the past 3 years at this point i've been using a soundboard to harass my friends in VC and in 2022 I introduced a series of voice lines from Gustav Fire Emblem and it's been so wonderful for me to experience them knowing nothing, actively choosing to know nothing, but watching random ass Gustav sound effects alter their brain chemistry and I start hearing them say Yes just like him, and being able to hold stupid fucking conversations using psychotic, nonsensical clips. I love Gustav completely unironically as a character and he's one of the best things to come from Fire Emblem Heroes but I truly have 2 Gustavs in my brain, the kind, wise fatherly king, and the immature, irresponsible, almost animalistic beast with body dysmorphia. I love them both. I am Gustav. My flesh has been reconstructed by the dread powers of Hel.

#fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #gustav fire emblem #gustavposting #my body is beyond even my control

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does anyone have that doge meme that says some shit like "WINS CUSTODY OF THE KIDS FROM MY EX-WIFE/IT'S POOP KIDS" or did i hallucinate this nonsensical image

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Free Free Palestine!

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Fire Emblem Heroes, Book 1

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dude this is random but like. my mom works at a credit union, and a while ago, this totally domestic, collared dog came up to their door and was like.... barking to get in?? it’s a small credit union so they brought the dog inside to keep it safe while they got in contact with the owner

anyway, the owner showed up, looking haggard, and was like “yeah, she keeps managing to get loose. i’m surprised she came here, she usually goes to Wells Fargo.”

and my mom was like.... what?? and the dog owner was like “yeah ever since she started getting loose, she.... always goes to banks. we can’t figure out why.”

anyway the dog is fine and (they’re gonna crate train her or something) but how bananas fucking Wild is it that this dog escaped, multiple times, specifically to go to the bank???? what the fuck

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I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

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Resplendent Lumera

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I wanted to address this reblog but I kept forgoring to and also sort of some of the posts about Engage not doing very much with dragons, which I respectfully disagree with. I think the two dragon protagonists, Corrin and Alear, are actually very interestingly done, but they just don't explore them very deeply and are very Nonstandard Fire Emblem Dragons.

Corrin is less interesting as a dragon and more interesting as a child of a Great Old Dragon. They're one of very few dragons that we've seen transform just from rage (if I recall correctly only Rhea shares that trait). I think it's cool how primal they show Corrin and by extension Papa Anankos to be when their power goes out of control. I personally think Anankos's lore is one of the coolest examples of how degeneration can be so fascinating and ultimately tragic, and something I was thinking about a lot while I was writing the original post. I love that Anankos was an idealist, just like Corrin is, but slowly succumbed to degeneration, and tried so desperately to stop himself from losing everything, to the point that the only thing that soothes him is a song that's about his future child. That turns me into a sopping wet pile of goop every time I hear it. Everything about Anankos is so tragic, and I wish Fates was better written to capitalize on how lonely, bitter, and honestly scared Anankos was. I'd love to see Corrin contemplate more on it. I also really recommend just listening to Fallen Corrin's lines from feh, mainly Male's because he literally looks and sounds like he's hanging on by a thread, and that's really what Anankos feels like, to me.

Alear is also super interesting to me, and yes, we should get it out of the way, it's lame and cringe as hell that Alear never gets to transform into a draconic form despite being the first pure blood dragon character. It sucks and we better see it in supplemental content eventually. I especially love the Engage dragon forms, they feel so atypical for dragons in this series, being based on real world lizards! Awesome stuff.

But the main thing I think is so interesting about Alear is the way, as someone who doesn't remember their life before their reawakening, they feel so uncomfortable with how they are othered by essentially everyone. Everyone loves and supports them, but they can never be the normal person they feel as though they are. There are no Divine Dragons remaining, and while they can have some kinship with Veyle, they have no choice but to be The Divine Dragon. The burden of that expectation is insane and I don't think the text really explores that enough.

Also... Can we talk about how easy you can read transgender allegory into Alear fire emblem? Past Alear is one of my favorite inclusions of the game, seeing the way Alear once was as a depressed, repressed tool who couldn't let themselves think or feel anything lest they be killed like each of their siblings. All they care about is protecting their sister and not dying, because they feel as though they have to live as a Fell Dragon. When they get given the opportunity to live with Lumera and live as a Divine Dragon, they're happy for the very first time in their life. And in the future, when they truly do become a Divine Dragon through Lumera's sacrifices, they seem so resolute and truly happy to live as they are. Even though their identity keeps getting challenged, and Sombron and the hounds refuse to acknowledge that Alear is a Divine Dragon, Alear and their allies never give in, and always affirm that Alear is a Divine Dragon, no matter what they were born as, and no matter what other people say they must be. That doesn't have anything to do with dragon stuff but come on that's so easy to read as a trans thing and really dragons and transgender people are only a few degrees of separation apart.

I feel like this post is now criminally long but squidsystem don't caare. Play fire emblem. It's good, I promise

fire emblem dragons are so cool and awesome when they actually interact with the implications of them and it's a shame that some of their character designs are just really bad which obscures the cool stories involved with them. Because fire emblem dragons are just people, they think like people, they grow like people, they act like people, but they live a mind bendingly long time. I love the child dragon characters because more often than not they're either unnerving with how much they've lived and how much they understand when they literally just look like 10 year old, and or they are too young to even comprehend the meaning of their quite literally thousands and thousands of years lifespans. The fact Tiki is still grappling with the traumatic experience of losing everyone she's ever loved 2000 years after losing them is just such big frown. Like imagine the existential horror of being an 11 year old weird girl but for centuries instead of a year. The old as fuck dragons are really cool too, I think the degeneration lore is really cool and I don't see concepts like it get explored enough, the idea that being so powerful that mortals consider you an unknowable is so unsustainable that they essentially lose their sanity and eventually their sapience is so fucked up. And they probably didn't even realise it was happening until entire ages had already passed. Imagine being a member of a species with a fatal flaw that no one could know about until it was far too late. The fact pretty much all dragons in Fire Emblem are the humanoid manaketes is literally because the ones that didn't are more or less extinct because they were too prideful to relinquish their power, and in some sense, their entire identity. More FE stories should examine the experience of their dragons. Are any manaketes dysphoric because they're forced to live in a body that doesn't reflect who they really are? Imagine the angst. I love fire emblem

#fire emblem #fe dragons #alear fire emblem #corrin fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fire emblem fates #transgender #text wall #wall of text #feh #fe #squidsystem #play fire emblem

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