fucking crying because of the immediate implication in chapter 6 of the epilogue that macaque and wukong teaching MK together is absolutely the way to go because the progress MK makes is immediate, overly successful, and cannot be denied
and the way they taught and thought about things was good and worked very well for MK, who needed that hour to build confidence in himself and practice in a low-pressure environment with no stakes, no catastrophes, nothing on the line.
MK believed in the love and wonder of magic while cloud-somersaulting, and he did the same thing with the tree. he did magic for magic's sake. he did it because he wanted to, because he wanted to see a flower bloom. but because of his connection to the element of wood, MK's magic is much easier to direct. He probably thought of a ginkgo tree for like a SECOND and his magic was like "YUP! okay!"
i just love the conversation they have with MK before leaving him alone. They give him what he needs, they tell him that if he fails, it's not his fault; it's theirs. they rewrote the method of teaching elemental magic just for him. they love and care about MK so much and they want him to succeed it's so precious!!!
physically holding myself back from just making the epilogue be more magic lessons, but nooooo we gotta have shadowpeach feelings and wukong has to give his mans a plum or some shit 🙄
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ok, I know I complained about Starfield for a severe lack of quality of life features, and a truly arbitrary and soul-crushing grind, but I decided to go back to try and fix some of these issues with console commands. I was only... partly successful, but at least I did learn how to force an alternate universe of my choice. And this one has... two Lorres?? D: Which one is me? D:
(as another angry aside, the game does give you an "alternate start" as a random chance when going through the Unity and starting a new game+. This chance is 15%. Fifteen. Percent. I'm pretty sure the game devs had to be aliens, masochists, or masochist aliens, to believe that anybody would find it worthwhile or fun to grind the game over and over for a measly 15% chance to see something new. Fuck yoooou)
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The more I think about it the more I really feel like the recently coined term mesosex might fit me and it's been shared by several intersex education/advocacy blogs I follow now so I know there's support for the term but I'm still like. Scared I would be Intruding™ on intersex issues if I started using it. Like I mean. I'm an afab & (afaik) perisex person with a reproductive disorder that's likely caused by a (non-intersex) hormone imbalance which I'm now essentially having to take feminizing HRT to fix, and as a result I'm now growing tits and undergoing female-pattern fat redistribution at the age of 25 after years of having little to no secondary sex characteristics. I've always identified with intersex issues but now that I'm essentially having to undergo HRT to make my body match my asab that connection to intersex issues feels even stronger. And like that's what the term is for. But my anxiety is still like "but what if you're intruding tho" lol 🙃
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