#it's an advanced tactic

[shodansbabygirl]

ive gotta make more playlists on my phone my shower was a fucking trial and a half today

#angie mcmahon attacking me with whistling and sadness and then here comes a special boy sending me into a fit #and then a bad the killers song disappointing me and then arctic monkeys being the same as a bad the killers song and then another----- #now you'll ask why do you have bad the killers songs and ill tell you its because sometimes i like the bad ones on purpose #it's an advanced tactic #called containing multitudes. #its just that with like 3 sleater-kinney albums you'd think they would have come up once in the like 20 songs i skipped while i was in ther #actually its 4 #i just. i have the killers and sleater-kinney in basically equal proportion so why did i get 15 the killers songs

[allisonmckenzieart]

#viera #final fantasy #final fantasy fan art #final fantasy tactics advanced #ffta #red mage

[wario-land]

Game Boy Advance's All Stars in...

SUPER SMASH BROS. ADVANCE

A concept idea made by me, because i love GBA and it's various games

#game boy advance #mario and luigi #metroid fusion #kirby and the amazing mirror #zelda minish cap #kingdom hearts chain of memories #castlevania aria of sorrow #megaman battle network #harvest moon #pokemon emerald #fire emblem 7 #sonic advance #wario land 4 #mother 3 #rhythm heaven #mario vs donkey kong #the legendary starfy #drill dozer #tomato adventure #advance wars #shining soul #final fantasy tactics advance #boktai #tactics ogre #summon night #gba #nintendo #golden sun

[chocodile]

Another Sylvanian Family/Calico Critters set: Bangaa Bishop, Viera Elementalist, Nu Mou Hermetic (Ezel Berbier), and Moogle Gunner from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance!

These took absolutely forever to put together. Their clothes are layered and removable with fully painted bodies underneath and most of the added body parts such as ears and tails are posable.

These will probably be the last custom dolls I do for a bit. They were a huge undertaking!

#viera #ff viera #nu mou #calico critters #sylvanian families #moogle #bangaa #mog #moogle gunner #viera elementalist #bangaa bishop #ezel berbier #final fantasy #final fantasy tactics #final fantasy tactics advance #ffta #ffta2 #Art doll #doll custom #custom toy #calico critter custom #crafts #fanart #boy I am so ready to be on to another project and done with these... I really did not intend to spend this much time on them

[divorcedfiddleford]

You made a post saying “it has been zero days since our last alex hirsch hates ford so much bullshit” and i know it was mostly hyperbole, but you have some really good takes that I would love to be elaborated on in terms of how ford is written

it really wasn't hyperbolic. over the years he's just really shown a lot of hatred towards this one character.

content warning: discussion of abuse

i want to start with this clip from the commentary which i think of as a microcosm for how the writers and especially alex think about ford.

transcript:

rob renzetti: i mean he [mcgucket] should've basically knocked ford out, and... and destroyed the... you know, tied him up, and, destroyed... and... alex hirsch, speaking over him: yeah he should've beat ford with a wrench and taken this thing apart piece by piece! he's the one who understood how to built [sic] it, but...

... so that seems like a pretty violent course of action. shall we unpack that?

ford is a character who's pretty explicitly written as a victim of abuse, and who now has c-ptsd as a direct result of the abuse he experienced. alex hirsch believes that ford deserved everything bad that happened to him, that it's ford's own fault, and that he also deserved worse things to happen to him. this is why, given every narrative chance, alex hirsch has piled more suffering onto ford's plate. the biggest example of this i can think of is in the journal, when he wrote that fiddleford was actively erasing ford's memory (despite this being a massive timeline contradiction which i still refuse to accept). because god forbid ford even have one remotely healthy relationship with somebody. that would be too good for him. ford was manipulated and lied to by bill, but alex repeatedly compares him to icarus, a teenager whose demise was the result of his own ignorance. this comparison is still so fucking offensive to me. the sun did not lie to icarus, did not guarantee icarus all of the happiness and success and sense of belonging which he had been denied all his life, did not actively shut out the voices of those around him who would try to help him.

alex in general has a very strange relationship with abuse. he seems to get really upset when people read his characters as victims of abuse. the strongest instance of this is actually not with ford, it's with pacifica - especially in the nwmm episode commentary. the episode says "pacifica's parents have conditioned her to respond to a bell" and alex says people got "the wrong idea" about it. like. dude. what the fuck. you wrote abuse. even if you didn't mean to, that's what you wrote. you can't say people got "the wrong idea" just because you didn't think about the subtext of what you were writing. anyway, back to ford: i believe this extends to him as well. alex wanted to write a character who's a foil to stan and who was a selfish unlikable victim of his own arrogance. however that's not what he wrote. he somehow seemingly accidentally wrote a really compelling and relatable awesome autistic guy who had to fight for every good thing he he ever had in his life only for it to be taken from him every single time. but alex can't let go of seeing ford as just "the opposite of stan". when he talks about "how someone as smart as ford could fall for bill's tricks", he refuses to realize he wrote a situation in which a man was being psychologically manipulated and tortured.

it goes back further, too. people repeatedly theorized that filbrick was... not a very good father, to say the least. on top of the very explicit and canon fact that he threw one of his children out on the street (seriously, there is no defense for this), people pointed out that stan would flinch at filbrick, that ford seemed upset by things filbrick said but dared not talk back, that filbrick was mad at stan not for hurting his brother, but for "costing the family potential millions". but alex can't have people seeing ford as sympathetic. ford can't have it bad like stan did. ford had to have everything and he lost it all because he sucks so much. so he wrote the graphic novel story where ford is filbrick's favorite child and filbrick also is not even a bad parent you guys he's just stoic. ignore the whole thing in dreamscaperers where stan perpetuates the abuse that filbrick did to him. ignore the fact that ford was shouting at stan and then completely shut up as soon as filbrick entered the room and did not say another word for the rest of the night. ignore all that because i just made up this story where he cries at a present from stan. filbrick loved his boys for sure you guys!!!

i'm not even touching on how alex repeatedly villainizes traits commonly associated with mental illness and neurodivergence. ford's hypervigilance becomes arrogance. his passion for knowledge means he's a know-it-all. his difficulty socializing and making friends means he's a misanthrope. his lingering resentment for the way he was raised means he hates his brother and is the worst human being to ever have lived. i could go on, go even further into how the finale reaffirms this, but i feel weird talking about this too much.

#help you unclogged the dam and it all came rushing out #it's been years #didn't know i still had all this in me #apologies for the lack of sources. i reference a lot of old interviews and tweets from 2016-2017 #i know insider was one of them but a lot of it was questions he'd be asked at convention panels and off-handed comments from the dvds #seconds before the clip i included alex says ford's great flaw is pride #as though it was his pride that led to the world ending #and not a millenium-old plan by a monster using advanced manipulation tactics supplemented with literal mind control #tales of the wild zeep #1009

[butt-berry]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance turned 20 last week!

#mine #orig #art #digital art #final fantasy #final fantasy tactics advance #final fantasy tactics #ffta #digital painting #fantasy art #artists on tumblr #nonpoke

[ethernalium]

#final fantasy #final fantasy tactics #final fantasy vii #dirge of cerberus #crisis core #final fantasy the spirits within #stranger of paradise #kingsglaive #vagrant story #final fantasy mystic quest #final fantasy crystal chronicles #final fantasy type 0 #world of final fantasy #final fantasy tactics advance

[vgwater]

#Fft #Ffta #Final fantasy tactics advanced #Final fantasy #Final fantasy tactics #Pixel #River #Stream #Waterfall #Mine #Gba

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

“A fantasy for wherever reality takes you.” (Electronic Gaming Monthly #171, Oct. 2003)

#Final Fantasy #final fantasy tactics advance #gba #square enix #video game ads #retro gaming

[tomaturtles]

what the fuck does hovering means how do i superboop

Stop your cursor over the boop button on someone's blog for a couple seconds til the button does a little spin and then click it! On desktop anyway, not sure if you can superboop on mobile 😔

#anon #asks #advanced warfare tactics....

[nocternalrandomness]

514th FTS F-22 taxis at Hill AFB, Utah

#USAF #Lockheed Martin #Boeing #F-22 #Raptor #Stealth fighter #5th Gen fighter #Military aviation #Fighter aircraft #Advanced Tactical Fighter

[maddiebiscuits]

just another FFTA shopkeeper

#ffta #final fantasy tactics #final fantasy tactics advance #sprite redraw #final fantasy #art #fan art #maddie's art

[taffywabbit]

me: i wish someone other than intsys would make a good tactical RPG with Fire Emblem-style gameplay for me to enjoy

studio: look we made a cool new tactical RPG that fans of strategy games like Fire Emblem will enjoy

me: is the gameplay Final Fantasy Tactics or Advance Wars

studio: it's a good tactical RPG ma'am. fans of strategy games like Fire Emblem will enjoy it :)

me: *plays 20 minutes of it*

(it's FF Tactics or Advance Wars)

#buny text #no shade to either of those games but ff tactics is not really my thing and advance wars is EXTREMELY not my thing #and you would not believe the number of times i have been recommended something like Wargroove when i complain about the decline of FE game #i want more shit like FE Echoes #like literally i'd be overjoyed if i could just play ports/remakes of older FEs with modern difficulty balancing and QoL features #it's deeply frustrating to me that if i want an FE game without permadeath i have to also deal with dating mechanics and a persona calendar #i'm just really surprised i've seen so many indie devs and other studios play off of classic TRPGs but they never seem to do FE #i really thought fuckin uhhhh. triangle strategy or whatever was gonna be it. but i played the demo and it's FF tactics #anyways all the more reason for me to get into gamedev so i can make my OWN indie fire emblem. with gay nonbinary space furries or whatever

[passingmeby]

#Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Deluxe Pack) #videogames #aesthetic #japan #GBA #game boy advance #nostalgia

[garmmy]

mealtime 🥪🥪

#final fantasy #final fantasy tactics advance #garm's art

[theblindarcher]

Step forward and meet your fate, dogs!

GBA FE styled bust shot of Canopus Wolph from Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, made as a subscriber suggestion for November '23.

#pixel art #ドット絵 #fan art #ogre battle #tactics ogre #canopus wolph #square enix #fire emblem #gameboy advance