“Because I am your f r i e n d”
“My dear Basil,” cried Dorian, “what have you told me ? Simply that you felt that you liked me too much. That is not even a compliment.”
“It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession.”
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
"ohh what if my kid starts identifying as a CAT because of the trans agenda we have to prote—" well they've always done that. do you remember the psychological effects of h2o on young girls. of warrior cats on autistic children. i believed i was a demigod because of percy jackson. twilight came out and kids were telling their friends they were secretly vampires. this is just a thing kids do. worry less
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My 32yo extremely cishet no social media brother whose only contact with anime has been childhood runs of dgb and pokemon games has just discovered watching anime, needless to say he called me today to ask if naruto and sasuke are gay. He's on episode 15.
yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame
This is even WORSE.
To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,
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Clive and Joshua, Twin Princes of Cinder
there's something very funny when you play the original final fantasy 7 and the final fantasy 7 remakes back to back where the way Cloud and Sephiroth interact has completely changed due to 25 years of yaoification. in the original game they barely even talk to eachother. in remake and rebirth they can't go 12 seconds without gazing deeply into eachother's eyes
In the original game, Sephiroth is a fairly generic evil bad guy whose mystique is entirely built on basically being a cryptid. He's mentioned as existing once or twice in Midgar before killing the president offscreen. Cloud tells Barrett about Nibeliheim because Barrett asks who this "Sephiroth" dude people keep mentioning is, and you spent pretty much the entire first half of the game trying to find him.
In Remake, he's hinted as being in the first reactor watching Cloud, appears to Cloud in a dream outside the reactor, appears to Cloud in another dream in the church, appears to Cloud in another another dream in the VR machine, shows up at Shinra Headquarters and talks with them a bit, stabs Barrett, and then has a 45 minute multi-phase final boss fight against the whole party in a dimension beyond time before doing some sultry foreshadowing and piecing out.
Despite this massively increased role, when you leave Midgar Barrett still does not actually know who Sephiroth is. No one ever actually tells him for the entire first game, and he presumably spends the entire 45-minute final boss fight in the dimension across time wondering why this goth twink time lord stabbed him.
Got into Kingdom Hearts. Thinking a lot about the little brother of all time not being allowed to keep his friends/older siblings without darkness taking them away. He’s so lonely :(
Feather River Bulletin, Quincy, California, March 20, 1924
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