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I think back here and there to the scene where Arcueid is pinning down Tohno Shiki and for whatever reason, what reason I don't precisely recall, there's a brief moment where she is vulnerable in a way that implies that her emotions and emotional vulnerability in that moment makes her connected to the root and thus all life on earth and mortality perhaps?

There's just so many ways to interpret that scene, and while one may feel inclined to dislike it at first because one may believe it implies that emotions or emotional vulnerability makes one weak, I feel that it's saying something much more thought provoking and potentially philosophical than that, something about life, humanity, mortality, how all things in life are ever changing and thus mortal and so giving something supernatural an aspect of life makes it mortal in and of itself (I'm explaining this terribly), the general theme of decay in Tsukihime that can be found in gothic horror in general, et cetera.

It's a really good scene overall, even if it can feel played down at times by Ciel's harem anime style jealousy that bogs down her own route the worst with sexism but that's another topic.

Maybe nature or reality in general might be more accurate to say than life in some ways, though, maybe not in that scene.

I'm having a double take on this because although Tohno Shiki might not have realized it truly yet by that scene, his ability focuses on the concept of mortality itself, as a law of the universe of sorts if you will that all things change and come to an end and decay if you will by heat death at least. So when Arcueid is supernatural it might be more accurate to say that she is beyond natural or at least typical nature in a sense, and that providing her with an aspect of nature such as emotion in a sense can bring her to a natural state or a state that is connected to nature or typical nature rather than seperated from it.

All things in nature are connected in some way, and in Tsukihime this is represented through strings (think string theory but more allegorical than the actual theory itself), so to give something supernatural a connection with nature such as emotion is to make the supernatural natural, and thus mortal, thus vulnerable. I feel like I'm not giving the beauty of this scene justice, but the beauty does lie within the logic of the scene itself and by extension Tsukihime and potentially the nasuverse as a whole. Not big on the potential interpretation that emotions are what makes one human as people can very much be human without that, but it also doesn't necessarily have to be interpreted that way either.

Emotions are just one aspect of humanity, and thus an aspect of life, and thus an aspect of nature, and thus an aspect of the everchanging, finite, and mortal, thus when connected with the supernatural to make the supernatural natural, it makes it not only mortal, finite, and everchanging, but a part of nature, a part of life, and even a part of humanity, thus making the Arcueid by this point is in some way human in contrast to her understanding as an all powerful supernatural vampire when at full or near full strength. She's even shown to fear this version of herself later in her connected nightmares with Tohno Shiki as well as a side story in Kagetsu Tohya with her Crimson Moon form. Crazy no one's gonna read this.

I've been replaying Final Fantasy XII for the first time in a while and I gotta say, I really cannot emphasize how much better that game would be if Ashe was the main character instead of Vaan.

My arguments are as follows

  • The plot revolves around Ashe's quest to return to the throne of Dalmasca
  • Ashe makes almost all the major decisions as to where the party should go next and what they should do
  • Ashe is treated as a "chosen one" by all the important NPCs
  • The Big Question at the heart of the plot for most of the game's story is how far Ashe will go vis a vis nethicite and the pursuit of power in order to reclaim her kingdom
  • Vaan has jack shit to do in the story after the first few hours of gameplay and his plotline would have made more sense if he was not the main character

Literally the only reason Vaan is the main character is because the executives wanted an anime pretty boy as the lead. The entire story revolves around Ashe so why not just make her the POV??

A nice trans euphoric experience is being turned on by your own body. You might not even love or accept your body yet but that won't stop you from getting horny in the mirror when you get in and out the shower or when you look down at your titties.

*Googles how to to fix getting second hand social anxiety from nearly every social interaction one witnesses*

2024 simulator

joe biden ai text-to-speech: my fellow aamericans, i just blasted a fat dookie on the constitution and am about to replace the second amendment with transgender surgeries for children. the only way i could be stopped now is if brave sheepdog patriots attacked woke polling stations in the following counties...

average small business owner: WHAT!!!!!!!!

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Anyways since I know most of my followers haven't read Apocrypha this is your friendly reminder that at some point Jeanne wholeheartedly suggests loading a bunch of planes with explosives and just tossing them at the enemy.

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Actually now that I think about it, from the Underworld movies to the Blade movies to most recently the Tsukihime series, most vampire media I've consumed actually predates Twilight. That's mildly interesting.

I find it funny how all or at least most vampire media these days are in a post-Twilight or at least post-00s to early 10s world and you can kind of see the influences of that one way or another like when vampires and werewolves are assumed to be rivals almost all the time. That particular trope wasn't invented by Twilight by any means as I'm pretty sure the Underworld movie series predates it so it might be even older than that I imagine, but I have a pretty strong feeling that Twilight REALLY popularized that trope. I personally didn't start getting into vampires or vampiric media much at all until after Twilight's influence if I'm not mistaken by virtue of being born in the 21st century so there's that.

i'll maybe do an effortpost about this later when i'm not just having sneaky phone time at work but what drives me round the bend about discourse around fictional incest in particular is the idea that the erotic and the artistically meaningful can be neatly delineated and function as discrete categories; that the presence of eroticism must necessarily foreclose the presence of meaning (which is to say the production of a discourse) and indicate instead some kind of Perversion on the part of the creator, therefore that our Fucked Up Themes must be utilitarian in nature which is no better or more mature than the cry for literary didacticism; that our understanding of the relationship between the internal ethics of a work of fiction and the ethics of the world around us becomes flat and didactic as soon as eroticism comes into play. all of you are so fucking unimaginative