This is my version of being a grumpy old man.
Where have all the anime AMVs gone, and where are all the Yu-Gi-Oh cards?
Where’s the streetwise weeaboo to fight the rising odds?
Isn’t there a cosplayer upon a cardboard steed?
timeskip lillie and selene i also posted to my twitter. but i missed tumblr on a whim so y’all get it too. also they’re wives
★ 【鶴亀】 「邪ンヌ キャスター風」 ☆
⊳ jeanne alter (fate/grand order)
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(because i guess i'm not quite done talking about roberta's oprec from my last post on fiction within fiction in ak)
spoilers for roberta's oprec. i recommend reading it btw, at least in a story reader if not in-game
when the morgue worker asks her to think about how roberta herself would like to see her friend made up, they ask her about when cynthia was at her most beautiful. and roberta, going beyond appearances, finds herself thinking about cynthia at her most passionate, and cries. because no matter how good a job she does, no matter how well-constructed the fiction, reality is reality. she can't change the ending of her friend's story, no matter how much she wanted it to be a happy one
the oprec raises some interesting questions: is roberta making her friend look happy a lie? and, lie or not... is that a bad thing?
the embalming, the makeup - who is it for? this creation of a narrative that erases suffering? it's certainly not for the dead, and the only people who ever see it or even know it was done are roberta and the morgue worker, because the cremation happens basically right after. practically speaking, this story roberta is telling, this fiction she creates, can really only be for herself. but i think it's too simplistic to conclude that it is just selfish comfort. embodied in this story is roberta's wishes that her friend's passion could have been answered by the world they lived in, instead of being betrayed by reality
but who is roberta to be telling that story, for her friend with no voice? roberta wonders about this herself, when she gets that urge to erase all her work. but then she concludes—just for now, she wants to be an embalmer. she wants to let her friend "leave this world happy, even if it's all fake". in this way, roberta claims the role of storyteller, even if no one gave her permission to—after all, there is no one left to give permission. but she does so anyway, inserting herself back into her friend's tragedy from the outside (remember, her friend never actually sent that letter).
and so roberta tells her friend's story one last time, to a stranger, letting her live for just a day longer in their hearts...
Anonymous asked:
A lot of anti-oripathy sentiment seems to come from propaganda. Meanwhile Siracusa is too busy with wolf power games for that.
waheelawhisperer answered:
I think you hit the nail on the head. Most of the time, we see discrimination against the Infected being spurred by either a) fear and ignorance, or b) active efforts by those in power to create/maintain an exploitable underclass to use for both cheap, expendable labor and as a scapegoat to keep the rest of the population from realizing who’s actually responsible for their problems.
Meanwhile in Siracusa what propaganda even exists is dedicated to preserving the power of either Signora Sicilia or the famiglie, there’s already an exploitable underclass in the form of everyone who isn’t a mafioso, and everyone already knows who’s responsible for Siracusa’s problems, they just (feel like) they don’t have the power to do anything about it.
