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"Goddammit, that stupid ass font again. i told Miss Grant to send the memo about that. This is why no one takes UNIT seriously. Good grief it looks like we've prepared a statement about Dorothy's adventures in Oz."
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they should let me design tshirts
i really struck a chord here didnt i
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"Don't touch that dial, dear listeners! This show's gonna be a bloodbath!" 💥🩸💥
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Thinking about Original Sphene and the Sphene that we met in msq.
You are a program, a ghost of the original Sphene, stripped of every flaw and hesitation that the original might have regarding doing certain decisions "for the good" of your people. You are the idealized version of the original. But when people look at you, they do not see you but they see the original queen and yet what you are is not a complete reincarnation of the original.
There's a wonderful/horrible theme of idealization and depersonalization running through Dawntrail, and Sphene is its pinnacle.
Not one single person in Alexandria treats her like a person except for Wuk Lamat.
The Alexandrians are all happy when she appears, but she is absolutely an ideal that serves them. Nobody cares what she wants. Nobody even asked her permission to turn her into this caricature of herself. You can see this the most clearly in the patch content, when the reaction of the Alexandrians is overwhelmingly that they want to forget her. Because the ideal she represented means nothing to them if it comes with any pain or inconvenience on their part. She was supposed to make them happy. If she doesn't, there's no reason for her to exist.
She's a more extreme case of what's happening to Bakool Ja Ja and Zoraal Ja. The Blessed Siblings are forced to embody hope for their people to the exclusion of being treated like a son by their father. Zoraal Ja subsumes his own personhood in order to try to become the ideal he thinks he has to surpass.
Gulool Ja Ja is the counterpoint. He's idealized and treated like a mythic hero, even while he's still alive. His deeds are etched in stone to live forever. He's literally larger than life. But he's constantly contrasting the Dawnservant with Papa, who can't help himself from rough-housing in the throne room right before his important event, and whose two heads didn't agree on whether or not to lecture their daughter for running off as a child. The Rite of Succession is set up as a way of making his children walk in his shoes, to see what he saw and understand that they could do everything he did because they have to in order to pass the trials.
Which is why, I think, Wuk Lamat is the one person who reaches out to Sphene as a person. She just went through this lesson about her old man. She is now Dawnservant, as legendary a figure as he was. Slayer of the Skyruin, savior of Mamook. She knows there has to be a figure inside the figurehead. Even if that figure is long since gone.
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Thinking about Original Sphene and the Sphene that we met in msq.
You are a program, a ghost of the original Sphene, stripped of every flaw and hesitation that the original might have regarding doing certain decisions "for the good" of your people. You are the idealized version of the original. But when people look at you, they do not see you but they see the original queen and yet what you are is not a complete reincarnation of the original.
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Just remembered how when I first started listening to w.bg I for some reason had it in my head that I just. Didn't expect it to be gay. Idk. I then proceeded to forget about:
1 - Mike having an ex boyfriend in episode 1
2 - the whole thing with Ryan and scruff
And then I was surprised later when Mike and Edgar got together and it was gay
#LOL I DID THE SAME THING except i did it all 3 times#episode 1 was a pretty mild ‘oh! gay podcast! cool!’#the ryan reveal was ‘wait mikey is gay??? whoa neat!!’#and edgar was like ‘WHOA GAY RELATIONSHIPS? COOL!! ‘#an unreasonable escalation of surprise#i also listened in a short amount of time#things get lost when every episode is back to back#and the plot is incredibly intricate to keep track of#reblog
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QUEEN E[IN]TERNAL
#WHOAAAAAA WITCH HAT ATELIER REDRAW WITH SPHENE???#this idea is so enlightened i’m going crazy#two of my current obsessions in one#this goes so hard#everytime i see someone who understands how fascinating sphene is i am cheering and clapping#ffxiv#dawntrail#dawntrail spoilers#ffxiv sphene#queen sphene#reblog
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the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable
the funniest part of this post to me is that the reblog:like ratio is nearly 1:1. nobody’s just liking everyone who sees this video goes yeah i gotta inflict it on as many people as possible
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#i know it makes a better narrative to use them sparingly and allow for the intricate details of the ancient world to remain obscure#but i miss them so bad#i want to go on more adventures with them#i want to see more of the ancient world#ffxiv#ffxiv shadowbringers#ffxiv endwalker#ffxiv spoilers#shadowbringers spoilers#endwalker spoilers#reblog
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i love characters who do the “i worship the myth i make of you” and in turn dehumanize and get wrong the object of their devotion and love. yes project a thing that does not exist onto a pedestal and kneel at it like it is your altar. this will surely not blow up in both of your faces eventually