February 2012
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Yuri: Look at all of them. Every one of them praying as hard as they can so the bishop will be all right.
Karin: He's an important man.
Yuri: If I hadn't come here, this valley would still be a nice, peaceful place.
Karin: But then we couldn't save Russia. Think of Anastasia's family. It's your own mother's homeland.
Yuri: These guys deserve to be saved too.
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“I did enjoy your impassioned defence of the narrative richness of Shadow Hearts.”
– LaT
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Oh, you guys and your pearl-clutching over the fact that a straight white man has been reimagined as a woman of colour (sexuality to be determined) in CBS’ Elementary.
Never change.
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fixingontheday asked: I'm really loving all your Shadow Hearts post even if all I know about it, I've heard from you.
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Okay. You know what I just can’t cope with?
The fact that Yuri never would have tried to use the Emigré Manuscript to bring Alice back to life if Roger hadn’t convinced him that it was necessary for them to do it. We know he thought about it. We know he wanted to do it. But he never did; he had the book to bring back the dead in his possession when Alice died and rather than use it...
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“I was in favour of burning [the Emigré Manuscript] and having done with the whole affair myself.”
Then explain to me why you’re going to go fetch it back — no, worse, you’re going to make me do it — from the secret location where you hid it specifically to prevent evil-doers from getting their hands on it just to hand it over to a secret society who you know...
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I just remembered I have a tumblr.
“She died for you, so you feel like you’ve got to live. But you’re actually sad and don’t feel much like living…”
Okay, so — my secret shame is that I actually find this really romantic: this idea that Yuri is fighting to realise Alice’s dreams because she can’t realise them now; — that he’s fighting to stay alive because that was one of her...
aeraspais asked: Melissa thinks we lost you to Shadow Hearts. I disagreed.
Now I see the errors of my way.
Now I see the errors of my way.
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Once the float goes up, God will home in on it from the M71 nebula, some 4,800,000 light years away.
Shadow Hearts is comically specific about where in the material universe “God” resides.
These games have kind of an interesting relationship with mythology/religion. Deities from multiple religious/folkloric traditions are confirmed to exist in the material world itself and can be...
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Ugh.
Shadow Hearts is giving me so many feelings.
Because the villains of both Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts II intended to “destroy” the world in order to reshape it and eliminate evil and suffering (although Kato’s plan was ridiculous: to take the world back in time by a mere hundred years, as if everything was peachy keen in the 1800s) — and, as established, the in-game...
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I sometimes wonder what it says about me that it’s generally quite easy to make me sympathetic to the idea that certain fictional characters who want to die should be allowed to slip peacefully from this world.
Like. I read, “Would you drag a poor soul that’s finally about to find tranquility back to the burdens of life?”
And I’m like. “THAT’S A LEGIT...
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cake-light:
I just cannot with this Rihanna conversation right now. First of all.
I wonder how many times [Rihanna’s] publicist has said, “You know…maybe this isn’t such a good idea.”
Do you really think that is what a publicist would say? The publicist probably said YES GO DO IT IMMEDIATELY RECORD IT NOW because a publicist would understand that this song is directly selling the gossip and...
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Okay.
I forgot that there were points in this game where it literally was a Sisyphean nightmare.
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He earnestly seeks the escape of death — a place with no suffering, where no one can hurt him.
When you put it like that, it almost seems like a cruelty to save his life.
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Ugh.
Ugh.
All Shadow Hearts does is kill people off in ever more brutal and horrifying ways as they fight to protect their homes and their loved ones from the forces of evil; — and it makes you break the news to their distraught relatives as you work your way through a Sisyphean quest which will only end in tragedy for all concerned.
Why was this game made???
— Except as an...
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List of characters who are Damon Salvatore:
Yuri “I may not be as smart as you but I know what’s important in life!” Hyuga
Damon Salvatore
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Okay, so.
I’m getting so tired of people acting like the problem with the Grammys’ decision to allow Chris Brown to perform — and his continued success — is the message it sends to women. I’m tired of people saying that the problem with x, y, or z is that women will see it and their response will be to decide that violence or abusive behaviour within their own relationship is...
Anonymous asked: sourcedumal tumblr post/17848347194/hexterian-vorked-gentlemanbones
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Dear followers, put something you'd like to know...
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Frivolers.
k.
aeraspais:
I’m gonna tell you lot this:
Gossip Girl is definitely a modern day retelling of the Great Gatsby, y’all. How you could draw such conclusion is just, well, so correct.
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Disabled people face unlimited unpaid work or cuts... →
Mental health professionals and charities have said they fear those deemed fit to undertake limited amounts of work under a controversial assessment process could suffer further harm to their health if the plans go ahead. […] The policy could mean that those on employment and support allowance who have been placed in the work-related activity group (Wrag) could be compelled to undertake...
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wingsoutstretched:
okay, look, when someone who has been the victim of domestic abuse talks about domestic abuse
whether as a child, a significant other, a spouse, even a helpless onlooker trapped in that cycle of abuse
you shut up and listen to them
it doesn’t matter if you don’t feel uncomfortable, troubled, or terrified by a video of a teen being violently ~punished on a hidden camera, or...
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I can’t sleep because I started thinking about Final Fantasy VII again.
:(
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I posted on my fb that “metal fans are obnoxious” and someone I friended literally yesterday responded “yeah I totally am”.
Firstly: metal fans are obnoxious. If I ever hear the statement that metal has more in common with classical music[*] than any other genre of music again I’m actually going to start sinking some serious time and money into realising my death...
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“I’m sure I wasn’t really a very good actress. Seriously, we are talking about...”
– Kate Winslet on Titanic 3-D to USA Today | Vulture
(ht weber)
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So, I’m still following the GAME twitter account despite the fact that it’s been over a month since I stopped working there and a little while ago they linked to a post they made on their Facebook page about people’s video game crushes — which made me question whether there were any video game characters I’d consider dating if they were real. I really wracked my...
Happy February 14th.
I love you all as much as Kanye West loves Thom Yorke, as much as Simon Amstell loves Ben Whishaw, as much as Natasha Khan loves The Karate Kid, as much as George R. R. Martin loves lengthy descriptions of food, as much as Crystal loves her sock of the month club, as much as Zooey Deschanel loves kittens, as much as music critics love pretending that Bon Iver’s body of work — and...
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alookinglassgirl:
spectroscopes:
You know what most kills me about the comments on that BuzzFeed article? When a woman trivialises domestic violence by joking that she wouldn’t mind getting beaten up by a man she’s attracted to you can’t move or breathe for people calling her a “stupid bitch”, blaming her for the downfall of society, etc. — but when a man makes the exact same joke by saying...
aeraspais asked: This weekend was terrible.
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Also.
I might as well just change the title of my tumblr to ‘tw: abuse’ at this point.
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You know what most kills me about the comments on that BuzzFeed article? When a woman trivialises domestic violence by joking that she wouldn’t mind getting beaten up by a man she’s attracted to you can’t move or breathe for people calling her a “stupid bitch”, blaming her for the downfall of society, etc. — but when a man makes the exact same joke by saying...
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Rihanna.
That’s it. That’s the post.
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It really is horrifying
that Kanye West got not only more flack, but a worse reputation for grabbing a microphone out of Taylor Swift’s hands and making a rude comment than Chris Brown did for beating his girlfriend until her face was unrecognizable.
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aeraspais:
Trigger Warning: Child Abuse
Just — (a) I am not sure why we are discussing cultural differences when the person in question was a white dude. Like, we are not trying to invalidate, judge, shame or condemn the way your parents might have raised you, because we don’t know your life — that is, we don’t know how your parents punished you or any of that, and we cannot make guesses on...
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aeraspais:
I’m just — I am tired of seeing people brush off any sort of criticism placed on a woman as misogynistic, because how are we suppose to improve, period, in any professional field if we are barred from all forms of criticism. Like, saying this does not mean I do not believe there are a lot of discussions can be and continue to be rooted in sexist imagery, because lol, duh, of course, I...
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“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think...”
– Chris Brown will be returning to the Grammys this year (via pulsifers)
U M (via danceyrself)
I’m so glad we now know who the true victim of that assault was. I was confused for a second there.
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Anonymous asked: Ponytails: Not even men who are going to prison get this warning. As the common warning/threat is a rape joke, I won't repeat it, but it applies to all men and is entirely situational. There's no list of warnings or a range of advice regarding height/build or the benefits of weightlifting & hand-to-hand combat training. When prisons require certain hairstyles, it's to protect...
hierarchia asked: In your posts on Andrew Scott, you once said: "[i]n everything he gave the exact same performance: camp to the point of farce, over-the-top, SHOUTING! ALL! THE! TIME! FOR! EMPHASIS!" I haven't seen/heard him in enough to say whether or not I like him as an actor, but in what I have seen/heard of him (Cock, The Hour), he does exactly what you've pointed out here. In short, I...
Pet peeve:
Video games which force you to do stupid things (e.g. hand over the weapon of mass destruction you just spent half an hour getting your hands on to someone who is clearly an agent of the enemy — looking at you Okami, Final Fantasy VII, etc.) in order to advance the plot.
Like.
No.
I don’t want to give Sephiroth the black materia.
You can’t make me.
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Okay.
I’m still not over what happened yesterday; in fact, I don’t think I’m going to be over it for a long time. Because what happened yesterday is that a number of people who identify as victims/survivors of abuse said “This looks like abuse to me and this is why,” and a number of other people who do not identify as victims/survivors of abuse jumped into defend and...
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latxcvi:
Also, also, also, can we please stop with the disingenuous bullshit about whose property that laptop was or wasn’t. IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER who paid for it. That is not the point. That is so completely not the point and focusing on that to defend someone firing a loaded weapon just to make a statement is a pretty mindblowing example of derailing. He wasn’t defending someone’s life....
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deadasdisco:
tw: abuse
“This isn’t abuse! He’s not even angry!”
how about everyone who hasn’t lived with a controlling abuser shuts the fuck up about what does and doesn’t qualify as abuse and stops invalidating what I and other people have been through by saying we’re just whiny bitches who deserve it?