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ffxiv enthusiast 31 years old /

[Lucas🍭🐰 @SuperSweetLucas]

I genuinely think the competitive side of marvel rivals forgets that the casual side is 95% of players and they don't understand that triple support is the "meta". They don't understand that shit and are just playing what they want to.

Genuinely, it's Quick Match. Let people play what they want to and use it as a learning opportunity to do better against 3 supps. Is it annoying if you understand the sustain? Yes. Is the third support potentially a 12 year old who just said "OOOOH ROCKET RACCOON I LOVE HIM" and played him? Also yes.

Some of y'all need to act like adults and recognize that the sweaty competitive side of Rivals is maybe the top 2% of players. Y'all are NOT the majority and should stop trying to get people to play a specific way because it makes it easier for you.

[Maren Jade - Comms Open @MarenJade_]

The wonderful @3arth_o gave me permission to post a flambert fanfic with their gorgeous artwork attached for the fanfic I wrote in a cold sweat inspired by it!

Enjoy!🔥🤖🔥

[autist @litteralyme0]

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[Kevin MacLean (Fortress of Lugh) @FortressLugh]

Still more authentic than the Nolan adaptation.

[Nick Fassolas @nfassol]

Our Ancestors, the ancient Greeks primarily called sub-Saharan Africans and other dark-skinned peoples south of Egypt Aithiopes, or Ethiopians. The word literally means burnt-faced or burnt-skin people, from aithō meaning to burn and ops meaning face. They used it because of the much darker skin caused by the intense southern sun.

Homer first mentioned them as mythical tribes at the edges of the world. Herodotus described real Aithiopes living south of Egypt in Nubia and Kush, noting their dark skin and woolly hair, and clearly separated them from the lighter North African Libyans. The term became the standard catch-all for sub-Saharan Africans.

These Aithiopes played no role whatsoever in creating Greek civilization. Greek culture arose from local Neolithic peoples in the Aegean, Indo-European migrants, and nearby influences from Anatolia and the Near East through ordinary trade.

Greeks saw Aithiopes as distant, exotic outsiders with almost no contact until long after the main foundations of their civilization were already in place.

There is zero archaeological, genetic, linguistic, or historical evidence that sub-Saharan Africans founded, colonized, or meaningfully shaped Greek language, cities, philosophy, art, or institutions.

Any later interactions were minor and one-way, with Greek culture reaching Africa rather than the reverse.

So no, the Hellenic civilization was not invented in any shape or form by Africans. Anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant of the evidence or pushing an agenda.

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

This Odyssey thing has pissed me off so much. And I'm not even Greek.

We've seen this same thing play out so many times over the years - remember everyone insisting Cleopatra was black, or that Vikings had a "diverse" society? I'm sick to death of leftists trying so hard to destroy European cultures.

White populations are entitled to our own unique stories, histories, mythologies that DO NOT INCLUDE non-whites.

And when you make this point and say, "hey, it's shitty to erase white people from their own history", leftists will scream at you that mythology isn't even real, so why do we care?

Well, you guys race-swap our historical figures, too - like casting Anne Boleyn as a black woman, trying to insist Queen Charlotte was black, adding black people to Viking stories, telling us constantly how multicultural ancient Rome and Greece were.

But, the mythology thing, to me, is the worst of all.

Because it means you think you're entitled to fuck with the fabric of European cultures. These narratives often tell a people who they are, where they came from, and what they value.
Some of these mythologies are so impactful and enduring that they have shaped Western art, literature, philosophy, law, identity.

And it's why they continue to be useful today in helping to explain who our ancestors were and what mattered to them.

You don't just get to erase that bc you have diversity quotas????

It is disgusting that dismantling the cultural heritage of white people is so socially accepted.

But, it has gone far enough. And it needs to stop.

[Cryptmommy @Cryptmommy1]

Men, on behalf of women, I’m sorry our gender relationship is like this.

Men in my life have always treated me well, often while working hard difficult jobs and I hate to hear them degraded by people too rich to ever know a fraction of their character or suffering.

On behalf of my father, brother, uncle, teachers and friends.

Sabrina Carpenter,

Go fuck yourself.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Rip Chuck.

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Millennials are the most nostalgic generation

They are homesick for a place that doesn't exist because it wasn't a place it was a time

A time with the perfect amount of social media, flip phones, burned CD's, local show and real human connection

[Nekaishi ✟ Kitsune VTuber 🦊🦋 @nekaishi]

The problem isn’t about playing as a woman at all. It’s that God of War has always been about Kratos. The entire franchise was built to be peak masculine. It’s made to cater to men. The game is literally about a guy who wants to rip the gods apart for tricking him into killing his own wife and children. It’s about the male drive to persevere through unimaginable suffering and use it as fuel to do what’s right—at all costs. It’s about a man taking on not just the world that wants him to suffer, and die, but the entire system, spiritual and otherwise. This franchise inherently speaks to the soul of men and resonates, in a huge way, with the struggles men actually face (in an exaggerated, fictional form of course. It’s a game)

We’re in an increasing culture that keeps flirting with the idea, or just outright replacing male-led games and movies with women instead of creating original stories with strong female leads. Games are pretty much the one safe haven most men have left—to feel seen, to escape, or at the very least have their frustration understood. Given the current climate, it’s obvious why some guys have a knee-jerk reaction to this stuff

Men suffer in profound ways that almost no one is willing to acknowledge. It’s so bad it’s taboo to talk about it or even imply it. People hate me for bringing it up. Anyone who can’t see why men are getting a little upset and more sensitive about this is being completely insensitive and ignorant to reality—borderline, or just straight up gaslighting and shaming men for having the audacity to express themselves even a tiny bit. It’s like pushing people 99% of the way to their breaking point, then going for that last 1%. And when men speak up, the response is just “Oh stop being a baby,” “boohoo, poor baby man thinks he has it hard.” Completely ignoring the reality… It’s nasty, disgusting behavior

There are franchises with strong female leads that tons of men absolutely adore, that have also played a huge part in their critical acclaim—Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Hellblade, The Last of Us, Control, Nier: Automata, to name a few

Most people don’t want a female Jack Sparrow or a female 007, and if you think that simply and strictly boils down to "misogyny", you need to check yourself. The vast majority of people are not opposed to incredible female characters with amazing stories and arcs and you can't strong-arm, grandstand and virtue signal them into submission over what's often quite frankly, bullshit. Most men love strong female leads when it actually makes sense. People just want good, original writing—and yeah, they also want strong female leads, and for women to feel seen too in their own franchises, or franchises that work. Look at Resident Evil as a GREAT EXAMPLE 🫳🎤

[Perc 𒉭 @PercThaGoat]

i don't think white dudes realize how much we miss them making music like this

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Milennials (noun):

A legendary tribe of 30-40 years old who look 25 but feel 65 who fueled by iced coffee, nostalgia, and mild panic

[kris 🌙 @Mearokii]

"youre not that old"
when i first started playing league the post game lobby looked like this

[yellow dog thing @hi_itsBlizzard]

i fucking despise how every space in the internet is slowly being forced into being a "kid friendly" space all because stupid ass parents cant take care of their kids properly and just throw a tablet on their face, and complain whenever something bad shows up

[Michael @TheMG3D]

*Taps sign*

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Let’s stop lying to ourselves.

Helen of Troy was Greek.
Aegean. Mycenaean. Bronze Age Mediterranean.
Not African. Not “reimagined”. Not “updated”.

Her beauty was the cause of the Trojan War.
Not a footnote. Not symbolism. The engine of the myth.

If that makes you uncomfortable — good.
Myths are supposed to be uncomfortable.

What we’re seeing now isn’t bold storytelling.
It’s the same tired studio reflex: change the optics, avoid the ideas.

They don’t rewrite because they’ve found something deeper.
They rewrite because they’re afraid of:
• beauty as unequal power
• desire as destructive force
• men as catastrophically fallible

So they flatten it.
Sanitise it.
Lecture instead of tell.

And don’t pretend this is a one-off.
It’s a pattern.

• Anne Boleyn — race-swapped Tudor England, played by Jodie Turner-Smith.
History reduced to a statement piece.

• Cleopatra — a Macedonian Greek ruler rebranded, played by Adele James.
Egypt had to issue corrections. That should’ve been humiliating.

• Vikings: Valhalla — medieval Scandinavia rewritten to suit a modern HR handbook.

Now it’s Helen’s turn.

And notice the rule they never break:

👉 They never do this to African mythology
👉 They never do this to Asian history
👉 They never do this to Indigenous stories

They only “reinterpret” Greek, Roman, British, Norse myths.

Why?

Because those cultures are treated as safe to vandalise.
As public clay.
As tools for modern ideology.

That’s not inclusion.
That’s creative cowardice.

If you want African stories — there are extraordinary African myths.
Tell those.
Fund those.
Respect those.

But hijacking Greek mythology and calling it progress isn’t brave.
It’s bankrupt.

Helen of Troy does not need correcting.
She needs respect.

And audiences are sick of being gaslit into applauding ahistorical nonsense just because it comes wrapped in prestige language.

Myths don’t need updating.
They need understanding.

And if that scares modern studios —
they shouldn’t be anywhere near history or myth in the first place.

[🦇 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 | nsfw @horrorsthetics]

anyway…. fuck Quentin Tarantino