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FFVII + some of my favorite shitposts, part 9

If the Rebirth demo had you playing as Sephiroth the whole time:

His long pauses between actions just make him so awkward and adorable at the same time, I can't even.

i posted this old as balls gifset ten years ago today

Happy anniversary old as balls gifset

@meme-conservation

We are pleased to note the continued survival of this meme to the point that it, too, is Old As Balls

This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds

is it working

Yes

Gonna want the sound on for this one boys

I feel this in my soul

No, we need to talk about this. Why is it so true😭

There’s so much to unpack here:

This tweet had me absolutely flabbergasted twice because I read this and I was like "Dame Aylin? The tall, blonde, supermodel demigoddess? How is she at all outside of the beauty standard? This is stupid" and then I scrolled down and there were a hundred replies by straight dudes who were calling her ugly and talking about anime women they prefer

ok listen you've all gotta stop with the "39 year old milf who doesn't know what pokemon is" memes I am 39 and I put like 1000 hours into Pokemon Red when that shit first came out. us 39 year old milfs are in the exact demographic for this come on. rethink your milf fantasy. break out of the box. a 39 year old milf isn't saying "what is charmander" she is telling you in great detail about the team she beat the elite four with.

if anything, surely it’s Kids These Days that don’t know what a charmander is bc they weren’t born when it was a starter.

A 39 year old would've been 14 when Pokemon Red and Blue debuted outside of Japan. Well within prime pokemon age.

Blockbuster Booknook // June Book Nook

it's feminism and gay rights to have an m/m/f pairing because women deserve to have two boyfriends and guys should have gay sex with each other

ok @mylittleredgirl @sigynpenniman you two are my language friends what the FUCK does this mean

In this case “chat” is as in Twitch Chat, like when streamers talk to their twitch chats directly, like “hey, chat, what’s happening?” Not sure what they mean by 4th person pronoun - I would consider “chat” a 2nd person plural (you all) but I can see the potential for defining it as a completely separate thing due to the nature of “chat” being a undefined person instead of a specific one? Idk it’s fascinating tho

4th person is referring to the hypothetical collective of people beyond the fourth wall. the fourth wall is the invisible barrier between the stage and the seats, the actor and the audience. and actors 'break' the fourth wall when they address the audience directly and acknowledge that they're a person playing a character for entertainment. in some styles of performance this should never be done, like opera or musicals, because it can collapse the weight and momentum of the story. in others, like improv and game shows, audience participation is encouraged because it's explicitly a collaboration.

in the streaming era (in our panopticon culture) the fourth wall is extremely permeable in interesting new ways. streamers aren't just playing to an audience, they're able to read and respond to messages from that audience too. it's a collaborative improv, there's a call and response, the audience knows the streamer relies on them for attention as they rely on him for entertainment.

so, yeah, 'chat' isn't second person, it's fourth. i'm not referring to the 'you' that's here with me on this side of the stage, im referring to the people beyond this situation, watching our funny little problems. all the world is a stage, now. don't forget to like and subscribe.

Rivulet Paper on Etsy

i love wikipedia and i think it is good and right to give them money but all their funding drive messages are “well… we’ll be killing ourselves tonight. we asked so little of you and yet it seems that simply nobody cares about lil ol wikipedia anymore….sad…”

I'm cursing my followers with this one, bestie