#when it's available

[randomnameless]

The fact that there are tons of people who refuses to see the original Japanese script as Canon really pisses me off. For bloody sake. It's a damn Japanese game. It's like if that certain version is more favored to their palates they'll just take it and insists that's the Canon one. Sounds like a whole lot of copium to me. Or the only language that exists for them is English. Ugh... Screw localisation issues

IDK if you're the same anon -

Ultimately I think everyone can enjoy the game they like and all, but when we're trying to write meta or discuss about meta related things...

That's where it fails.

Pat'n'pals's FE16 and 3 Nopes lean heavily in a "Church BaD" narrative, even if they couldn't outright erase and supress some lines due to "creative writing" or something.

But some people will try to extrapolate and analyse a lolcalisation exclusive line, and see what it brings to the game - that has never been written with the lolcalised line in mind.

Remember that line about Supreme Leader and the Slithers and who was supposed to be the puppet or the other? JP version of Tru Piss has Cornelia express surprise at Supreme Leader manipulating the Slithers, launching torpedos at the "uwu small girl was forced to do bad things bcs mole people bad" ship.

But too late, that ship already sailed anf fueled a long ass fic, thousand of takes and trillions of words about... fanon!Supreme Leader. Rather, lolcalised!fanon!Supreme Leader.

That post I rb'd today?

While I was still browsing redshit, many people said Clout offered a chance to surrender to Rhea (despite, you know, he and Supreme Leader's support or his earlier lines) and lo! This "maybe you could run away" was a lolcalisation exclusive line - should we be happy that the og game doesn't bring out (this time) the old'n'tried victim blaming "She forces me to kill her bcs she doesn't want to run away" ??

Maybe... or maybe not, since og!Clout instead double downs on the "if i'm killing you it's just because I want to see the world change lel" knowing well there's no option where she gets out of this place alive (rather, where Clout lets her get out of this place alive).

Back to redshit, we have people who wrote 50k words about the game, how deep and interesting it is and how it has ~meaningful themes~ only to discover that those themes and things they love about the game...

Were add-ons from the lolcalisation team.

The thing they love is not FE16, but lolcalised!FE16 - pointing it out will make some people rage because hey, they spent 800 hours talking about this game and the realisation that their discourse and walls of text are actually talking about the loLcalised copy pisses people.

Take it with a grain of salt, as a french loser who always switch to JP audio when available, but I have the feeling redshit and some fans really love "their game" and not "the game". Like, idk, maybe to the point of criticising Kikuko Inoue thinking she should act more like "Rhea" when she voices the character.

Is it entitlement because some people refuse to consider/interact with something that wasn't made "for" them?

Can you imagine, in this day and age, someone modifying/replacing ATLA's OST to make it more "palatable" to a french audience, and french people insisting that this "French OST" is a better fit for the scenes and conveys themes better than the original OST?

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Tl; Dr : Anyone can have their favored version of pizza crust.

But when you start to develop theories about Naples’s cuisine and the importance of the thick crust in this cuisine based on the pizzas you find in Pizza Hut, you shouldn’t feel offended when people remind you that, no, Neapolitan pizza is something specific and it doesn’t have a thick, Pizza Hut crust.

So the previous essay is... well, completely missing the point, because you’re not talking about the topic of your essay, but talking about a “copy” of the main subject of your essay.

#anon #replies #lolcalisation issues #pizza recipes are srs business #some recipes and foods are protected bcs they're unique #Roquefort is a cheese made in a special part of France #you can't call Roquefort a cheese made in another country that's not the same cheese #not to bring the same level of exclusivity to video games #because hey if you're not playing the JP version you wouldn't be playing the game so better start to learn #but JP version always overrides everything else when discussing about the canon #when it's available #let it be some super kind people who translate things when asked #or Jp audio #and while the localised version bring a 90% accurate 'understandable for the targeted audience' translation #for the remaining 10%? #that's why I really want to thank whoever compiled the script and audio for the FE Datamine website #really thank you so much

[and-corn]

shoutout to the "foolproof" bread recipe I fucked up entirely for inspiring this

#something different from what I normally draw! #I said this when I realized the bread was NOT making it and I made myself laugh out loud #also...if you happen to really like this it's available in my threadless shop - acorn.threadless.com #tw: cursing #typography #lettering #graphic design #illustration #original art #digital drawing #digital illustration #comedy #humor #relatable

[yeehawpim]

#original comic #comic #writing #terry pratchett #thud! #artists on tumblr #my comic #my art #i was honestly so mad at myself when i realized i didnt own a physical copy of thud while i was writing this #i had to buy the ebook to pull that line cuz there werent any available at my library or local bookstores

[theopossumwitch]

#post this cat when #st patrick's day #meme #cat #happy st pattys day!!! #alt text available

[hayaomiyazaki]

ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

— I do love you very much, somehow even more now that I know you. It's important that you believe me. — I do. And I love you very much, Dad. Dad. Dad? Did you hear that?

#all of us strangers #haigh #queer cinema #mine #mine:film #mine:lgbt #mine:strangers #mine:haigh #mine:scott #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #usergay #dailyflicks #dailyworldcinema #fyeahmovies #junkfooddaily #userdarren #usermichi #userdaniel #uservnss #userluz #usercande #underbetelgeuse #it will be such a nice day when an actually good rip of this is available :') #1k

[tritoch]

i know a lot of people (very understandably) dislike the paladin job quests in ffxiv, particularly HW, but i do think it's fun that, now that the pre-ShB MSQ revamp is complete, paladins now have a very cool and thematic in-game storyline that happens without a word being spoken: the development of passage of arms.

none of the below is directly stated in the script, but imo it's a fairly obvious gloss on what the game presents, if you assume a paladin warrior of light. spoilers for all expansions through the end of 6.X.

in the new version of steps of faith, as vishap breaks through each ward protecting ishgard from attack, lucia mounts a final desperate effort to hold him back, with a very familiar looking animation:

but even lucia can't hold back vishap's flame alone, so the temple knights surge forward to assist her. their efforts make the shield visually more powerful and larger. the temple knights here band together in defense of ishgard, and their knightly resolve to protect their home is the difference between victory and defeat.

lucia and the knights do ultimately succeed in defending the last ward, as you have to defeat vishap before their shield falls or you lose.

later in heavensward, obviously, we will get ffxiv's most famous (failed) attempt at blocking something with a shield.

this moment can be read as fairly impactful on the warrior of light's development; as i've noted elsewhere, after the trauma of watching haurchefant bleed out in their arms at level 57, at level 58 paladins learn to channel their magic into healing (and it's called "clemency," or mercy. mercy for whom? who was guilty?), and as someone pointed out on that post, at level 58 dark knights used to get "sole survivor", letting them heal in response to a marked target's death.

for a time, you literally carry haurchefant's shield with you, and 3.3 very much literalizes in genre fashion the idea that even when you are standing alone, your fallen friends stand with you. you don't need to call any allies to stand at your side and raise their shields with you because they are already there, in spirit.

stormblood marks a pretty important turning point in the warrior of light as a combatant, in my opinion, and the text makes this clear in several ways. first, in pretty much all your jobs, you've now far exceeded your trainers and are pioneering new techniques. this is no less true of paladin, which for 60-70 abandons any trainers at all for you to show off your peerless skills in a tournament.

second, stormblood is straight up a story about you getting stronger. at level 61, zenos kicks your ass. at level 70, you kick his ass. why? because you fought and got stronger and developed incredible new techniques and became a one-man army.

for a lot of classes, this story lines up nicely with the big rotation changes or flashy new finishers on the way from 60 to 70. SMN is now busting out bahamut and casting akh morn; RDM gets verflare and verholy; DRG starts harnessing nidhogg's power directly through dragon sight and nastrond.

the tanks are divided in two: warriors and gunbreakers get huge damaging upgrades at 70 in the form of inner release and continuation, each of which lets them hit the same button many times for lots of damage and satisfying animations. paladin and dark knight get more protective abilities; dark knight gets the blackest night, and there's been plenty said about that already by pretty much everyone.

paladins get passage of arms. instead of a relentless new attack (and you get requiescat at 68, which is a way bigger deal for your dps rotation), your big reveal at 70 for zenos in your fight in ala mhigo is a superior way to protect your party, a shield that lets you stand for your allies so they never have to fall for you again. it's lucia's same shield, except you need no allies' shields to reinforce you, proof of your martial prowess and your ability to transcend limits, and perhaps in truth a reminder that you never really stand alone.

in many respects passage of arms should really feel like a paladin signature move to you now if you are playing it at this point, because you should be popping it in pretty much every fight (you are using your mits, right...?). basically every FFXIV fight has at least one big AOE with downtime that warrants passage of arms usage, usually after the mid-fight add phase with slowly filling bar. since that AOE usually drops during downtime, there's no reason not to pop passage of arms (which otherwise restricts your movement and actions), and even on normal, sometimes every little bit counts on a damage check even if it means dropping DPS (thinking here of harrowing hell P10N on release, which was...less consistent for a lot of roulette parties than you might hope).

so from 70 onward, passage of arms is in a sense a paladin warrior of light's signature move, and certainly the one a player gets to most actually enjoy (since if you're using it, you're by necessity not doing anything besides moving your camera and admiring your sick animation). it doesn't have any competition in terms of spectacle until confiteor, and those you're usually throwing out in the middle of movement.

it's such a signature, in fact, that the only other person shown using your one-person version of passage of arms is your greatest admirer, who studied your legend for over a century.

and it's when he fails (should've popped arm's length, bud) that the warrior of light decides they can't let their friends fall for them, and sends them away with the transporter beacon. this is all wrong: you were meant to die for them, not the other way around. yours is the shield that stands between your allies and defeat. it is you who will win this passage of arms and break your opponents lance. and you do.

and then later, when they need to quickly establish zero's domain as a place of fallen grandeur, the home of someone who once believed in heroes but is now a cool and cynical vampire hunter d, what do they use? a decayed statue of someone in the paladin endwalker gear doing the passage of arms animation, of course.

from a visible instantiation of knighthood as a joint effort to defend what is sacred, to a tribute to the fallen friends whose memories stand by you and animate you, to a symbol of the wol's power as emulated by their allies or darkly mirrored in other shards.

not bad for a mit button you hit once per fight and otherwise never think about!

#the one-handed passage of arms animation is from a mod that afaik is no longer available #it was junjou laina's eikonic paladin mod but the creator appears to have pulled the version i used #pld #ffxiv #the new steps of faith is a solo duty and there's no way i'm doing all that NG+ for two screenshots #so i got those from youtube (sources in the links) #haurchefant greystone #g'raha tia #lucia junius #tbh i'm corny so i was slightly miffed when g'raha jacked our paladin swag to do passage of arms in an important story cutscene #so placing it in context as him emulating you made me enjoy it a lot more lmao. i'm petty!

[deadbutnostink]

Kissy（￣ε￣ʃƪ）

Sorry for any confusion, this is updated now since i realised i fucked up with Azis lines and had a random line in the frame xD

Details:

#gomens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable spouses #ineffable idiots #aziraphale kissing crowley #bible fanart lol #i colored this mess on my laptop with a mouse call me a hero #just hate when you start a drawing and cant finish it bc youre not home #so infuriating #ID available #my art

[mmmairon]

@boar-zine preview of farmer diluc and my sweet Juliet napping

#little juliet passed away last winter #i just wanted to immortalize her in a painting because she was so sweet #pls consider preordering the zine when it becomes available to see the whole piece! #and the many other beautiful illustrations! #GI_BOARZINE #diluc #my art #genshin impact #genshin #diluc ragnvindr #diluc fanart

[gvalesdraws]

🫀

#requests are super cool because I draw characters from my favourite game that i play for 3+ years for the first time #also i need a person who will sit behind me and stop me when im starting to turn simple scetch into full work. thats not even funny anymore #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #dragon age fenris #fenris #dragon age fanart #print is available

[redactedcrowart]

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#drawing brian's face is so fucking hard when there are .0001 references available #we ball nevertheless #inspired by that one guy that said that in my screenshot redraw brian looked like a ghost. this one's for you #eyestrain cw #brian marble hornets #brian thomas #brian mh #hoodie mh #hoodie marble hornets #marble hornets #mh #art #my art #illustration

[genderkoolaid]

reading abt pauli murray..... forget he should've been at the club. he should've been on t

#m. #also kind of pissed that ppl have described his identity as ''he ended up identifying as female!'' #and then reading a book on him basically go #yeah when hrt was finally available to people asking for it it would have threatened his career and he couldnt afford that #but god forbid people recognize transmascs involvement in feminism

[avenoirn]

☀️ die sonne, 🌘 der mond, 🌎 die erde ✨ – romance dawn trio pin series

#opgraphics #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #nami #artists on tumblr #cat burglar nami #op fanart #ok. forgot to post here Once Again #these are available for POs btw!! until feb 3 <3 #absolutely CANNOT wait when the nami pin is produced #.art

[cuties-in-codices]

the wild woman ruel carrying wigalois

illustration from a copy of wirnt von grafenberg's arthurian romance "wigalois", alsace, c. 1420

source: Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 71, fol. 125r

#bastarda #<- trying to tag types of scripts from now on when the info is easily available #15th century #wigalois #wirnt von grafenberg #wild women #wild people #medieval art

[ceilidho]

Saw a clip of a blond rugby player man and now I’m thinking about ghost… in those ridiculous shorts.

oh yeah I'm so into a ghost/reader rugby au.....especially if it's not a professional league au....

like he just plays weekday nights at the local rec centre and in amateur matches (he's a welder during the day....sorry the metal mask calls to me). very few people come to actually watch the matches because it's just a local league, but you happen to be one of the familiar faces in the crowd because you've been having a hard time trying to make friends and you thought it'd be a nice way to get out of the house and do something new.

but Simon always remembers a face and he can't help the way his gaze keeps being drawn to the stands, where you and a couple clusters of fans are sitting and nursing tea in paper cups. he asks around at first, trying to find out if you're someone's relative or girl, but all the guys just shrug, no answers.

so he approaches you himself at the next game, leaning over the railing separating the field from the stands, covered in sweat and grass stains and bleeding from his right eyebrow, and asks you to follow him to the back for a bit. outright propositioning you because he figures you don't have a man, so there's no issue with him trying out for the part.

#and YEAH you follow him sorry my reader character isn't STUPID she knows when good dick is available to her

[0ann3]

I saw the tsum tsum stack or whatever it is that they did, and my heart just went AAAAAAHHHH-

It's so cute and then I thought of drawing this ToT

Did it as fast as I can since I still gotta study for something-

#twisted wonderland #twst #deuce spade #jade leech #lilia vanrouge #ortho shroud #rook hunt #azul ashengrotto #kalim al asim #tsumsted wonderland #doodle #What is height- #what is sleep- #When they did the stack I promise that I did my best to immediately screenshot it #But my phone was too slow so I'll try again next time #Also finished the available maps of the event as soon as I opened the game LMAO #And I can now peacefully go to sleep

[areyoudoingthis]

more than one person asked so i'm making a post about it. i use this program to download torrents (it's safe, no viruses or ads, i've been torrenting for years). and this is the website where i found the ridiculously hd version of ofmd. just type "our flag means death s01" in the searchbar at the top. for s2 you might have to search episode by episode, so "our flag means death s02e01" and so on (i don't know if the season has been uploaded in a single torrent yet, it hadn't been when i downloaded it). then just click the little red magnet symbol that looks like a big U, and it'll ask you if you want to open the link with qbitorrent. click yes, pick a folder to save the episodes in your computer, and have fun (the higher the green number next to the episodes is on the website, the faster the link will download, so if a link doesn't work just pick another one). you can always ask if you get stuck somewhere, i don't mind!

oh btw 2160p is the highest definition available right now so aim for those links, I'll leave them seeding forever

#ofmd #i realized how ridiculous relying on the website was when my wifi was down for a week #and now i'm extra glad i have both seasons saved cause fuck hbo i don't trust that bitch #I'm still seeding warehouse 13 after i download itbto rewatch last year #some shows should never get lost we need to make sure they're available forever