specter @ 7.3 spoilers

A screenshot of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Strohl is talking to Will on the gauntlet runner, looking unhappy. Strohl: Forging aristocratic alliances, courting favour from royals and nobles, marrying some wealthy lord's daughter, and then there's the matter of heirs...

Strohl: If I had a daughter, her hand would be promised to another family at birth. A son would follow suit in my courtly endeavours...

Will: Your life is yours to choose.

Strohl: ...If only it were that easy.

thinking about the extremely overt acknowledgement of euchronian cisheteronormative patriarchy again

A screenshot of Metaphor: ReFantazio. Heismay is speaking to the group. Heismay: Louis. The monstrous child himself, eh? So you're not just grasping at power. You've got conviction.

LOUIS'S MONIKER (🧵)

when heismay first talks to the group, he refers to louis as "the monstrous child" - but rather than an out-of-pocket description by heismay, this was originally a specific moniker louis was called in his time in the army that's otherwise lost in translation.
#metaphorrefantazio

YOU'RE NOT INSANE AND NEITHER AM I

it's such an on-the-nose shot in a way that doesn't come back for like 60 hours.. it's so good........

REACHING UP TOWARD HIM WITH THE CHURCH BETWEEN THEM IS SO!!!! MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

🎉 birthday 🎉

i've gotta do the transmasc byleth azure moon gender saw trap someday

i did end up booting up 3h but couldn't focus to start playing. spared by my own executive dysfunction

@ euchronian military have you considered maybe just not having child soldiers. was that an option

#metaphorspoilers
also while i'm still thinking about louis's miserable life i really need to make a post about his moniker in the army, because it got completely lost in translation and there's really Something about him being a child soldier given a cool moniker about how Mature For His Age he is-

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

this shit has me booting up fire emblem three houses

if you're starting playing metaphor for the first time all you need to know is that this is the most romantic shot in the game. it will all make sense to you eventually. i would never lead you astray

Kaizoku Fansubs' influence is everlasting.

HAHAHHAHA NO DIFFERENT GUYS

the game was in dev hell since 2017 so my conspiracy theory has always been that shadowbringers coming out straight up is why they changed the name from amaurot so it wouldn't seem like a ffxiv reference

the king whose funeral you saw is named hythlodaeus :) (yes there's super direct utopia references everywhere)

oh also fun thing to just keep in mind when you get started. the working name for the capital city when the game was in development was sanct amaurot

[update] Investigating: AO3 is now fully down. After performing a software upgrade a few days ago, we've been unable to keep our server cluster healthy due to what we believe is a bug or issue with the new release of our database server software.

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atlus seems to have huge problems with stuff getting translated / punched up out of context in a way that makes other stuff not make sense and in a game with pretty intricate worldbuilding and timelines and subtle foreshadowing that has some. side effects.

I LOVE HOW MUCH OF A DRAMA QUEEN HE IS IN ENGLISH BUT HOW MUCH HE'S STILL LIKE ❤️ I'M YOUR FAVORITE RIGHT ❤️ TO THE GUY HE JUST!!! MURDERED!!!! IS SO SPECIAL TO ME

the english localization is kind of a hot mess but when the lines hit they really hit

i do love the way this line is in the english but nothing is going to beat the pettiness of the implied "but he cares for meeeee" here to me. normalest man in the world

have you thought about him today. now you have

truly love of my fucking life. sorry for how much about him i've spoiled for you indirectly with my oc bullshit

xiv maintenance and uma maintenance and ao3 down in one night. evil energy in the air