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This will always be my favorite bit of voice acting in all of Three Houses, especially since this scene is pretty underwhelming in Japanese. Chris Hackney just took those lines and decided to give it over 9000%. The result is a moment where it really hits you that Dimitri may be a prince who has been groomed all his life to ascend the throne, but when he finally gets there, he’s also just a 23-year-old who has spent the last 5 years of his life alone and traumatized in a war zone, struggling with survivor’s guilt, psychosis, and the constant threat of death. Just as somewhere underneath the cold, harsh, war-ravaged exterior of Faerghus there is a country full of tenacious, unwaveringly loyal people, there is also a man who genuinely loves his country and its people underneath the one-eyed one-man army that is Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd.
I’m going to hijack this because I have Dimitri Feelings that I’ve been sitting on for a while. Apologies, OP.
You hit the nail on the head. I think what makes him the most compelling of the three lords, to me at least, is that he…genuinely loves his kingdom. He seems to love being from Faerghus. You meet him and his tone of voice (ah Chris Hackney, what would we do without you) shows just how much he enjoys highlighting Faerghus’ strengths. When talking about the Battle of the Eagle and Lion, he mentions how important he thinks living up to Loog’s legacy is; he’s genuinely distraught over the state of affairs in the kingdom, and his lack of power to change it; his need to protect his kingdom and his people frankly kept him within Faerghan borders to wipe out the Imperial troops as they crossed over. He just. He loves Faerghus. I love that he loves Faerghus. He is just So Lovely and Loving.
#the jp voice actor is fantastic but man Chris Hackney was playing in a different league with Dimitri#you can really get a feel for Dimitri's mental and emotional state based on how Chris voiced him#There's this rawness in his voice during the feral era that speaks volumes of how he's suffered without the narrative needing to say it#And then when the power and hope returns to him you hear it#seriously even if you don't like the Lions or Dimitri Azure Moon is a must play purely because Chris Hackney gave the best performance#fe3h#fire emblem three houses#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd
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i'm trying to see something, so please feel free to share which one you picked, your age (or age range), and whether or not you think the show itself was good or bad!
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i'm trying to see something, so please feel free to share which one you picked, your age (or age range), and whether or not you think the show itself was good or bad!
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I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it
To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”
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I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...
...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)
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note: am v aware i have horrible taste lol
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Hot fandom discourse take but framing dark content as only being acceptable if its a vehicle for exploring personal trauma is just giving ground to the puritan segments of fandom.
Simply liking dark content for its own sake is perfectly fine.
It also opens the door for random strangers to interrogate people about their trauma to determine if they're "allowed" to write dark content, only to then most likely turn around and use that sensitive information against them anyways.
#I think policing dark content as being only acceptable to produce or consume if it relates to your trauma is really gross#that kind of behavior demands access to people in a way that no one is entitled to nor are they owed#Like I don’t want to have to air all my traumas to some chronically online purity police just to read a book or watch a movie#And who the fuck cares if my trauma doesn't inform my choices in dark media?#I'm just some person minding their own business and not justifying any poor behavior or basing my ideologies around fiction#I'm just some guy who sometimes likes to see monsters and stuff
I'm just saying, I've never seen them in the same room.
#my cats#Mars (cat tag)#astarion#astarion ancunin#bg3#baldurs gate 3#the reason why I can't romance Astarion is he reminds me too much of my little guy#he uses the same tactics on me as my cat to get more treats#neil said his inspiration was a feral black cat and I was like well you nailed it because he's just like my former feral black cat
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You can’t make wood out of chocolate!!
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You can’t make giant matches look that tasty!!!
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#I've actually become such a wreck for the tragedy of durge and orin#about how neither of them received love or support and were pitted against each other since birth#and how redeemed durge finds community and love in the tadgang but Orin unfortunately never gets the chance to escape#and she's unfortunately going to be consumed by their family dynamic instead of finding peace#it makes Orin the most tragic of the villains for me and the one I have the most empathy for because she never had the chance to be more
My nephew said Dio Brando would dress like me, which I took as an initial insult, but he went on to be like "No, it's just clear that you and Araki are into a lot of the same things and apply that to similar results".
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Wyll names his moves. That's it, that is the post.
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shoobie-doowop
remember in School of Rock where the black girl was afraid to say she wanted to be a singer because she was fat and didn’t want to get laughed at but Dewey was all “who gives a shit, I’m fat too and so is aretha franklin but we’re still valuable and we rock” and then the girl felt better without having to be told that beauty comes in all sizes or some other bullshit. thats the kind of body positivity I’m looking for. tell these babies that they’re worth a damn without tying it to any other arbitrary ideals
Also like. when she asks him why he isn’t on a diet. and you just know she has heard this dumb “tip” a million times before (“just go on a diet!” “if you really apply yourself you can easily use x amount of weight!” “you just don’t want it enough!”)
& Dewey just
there’s nothing wrong! with liking food! and being hungry! you don’t need to starve yourself to fit into some bs aesthetic! eat food!
Also that he cited a fat black woman singer specifically as it was the black girl who asked. gave her a direct representation of someone just like herself instead of citing anyone else
#recently watched this with my nephew and he was surprised about how well it holds up given when it was made#and the fact that it occupies both the uplifting kids movie about an eccentric person who betters the life of the children#(Jack Black is basically Mary Poppins sans magic in it)#but also how it works as a movie for adults about not necessarily giving up on your dreams#but finding unexpected avenues to realize them#and for both it's a movie about growing up and about becoming a better version of yourself through community and artistic expression#and it does so wonderfully while Black gets to prance around like a little Hard Rock fairy and sing little tunes