Once a Stranger

Elemental Affinities as Personality Types in Tellius

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:51:46 GMT

I thought it would be interesting to look at characters’ affinities and see what it tells us about them and about the writers’ intention about them. While Affinities have a direct effect on gameplay via the support bonus and some of them are probably picked based on game balance (see the amount of Earth Affinity people in the Dawn’s Brigade), nevertheless the concept of Elements conveys a rich imagery which often seems at least partially relevant.

( elemental musings under the cut )

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Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:50:17 GMT

Watched the first two episodes of Yuri Kuma Arashi.

Not sure what to make of it yet… but I think my favorite bit of symbolism is the only male characters present being the judges putting the characters’ love on trial as the arbitrators of beauty, coolness and sexiness. Yeaaaaaah.

Quite a lot of stuff on invisibleness, too. Hmm.

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Reblog of some X-Men meta I wrote on tumblr

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:02:05 GMT

I think one of the most interesting thing about the way Xavier and Magneto contrast is how you can root their difference of attitude from their background.

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And also other stuff but they were part of discussions so I don't really feel like reposting them.

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random observation

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:45:29 GMT

The song "This is why we fight" kind of annoy me, especially in FST, because they never actually say why they fight.

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tumblr x-men meta repost

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:42:59 GMT

So an Anon dropped this in my Ask Box:

( My answer )

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Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:29:18 GMT

If you use tags as a way to make pithy metatextual comments, and not as a way to organise posts; I JUDGE YOU.

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For misstopia

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:19:59 GMT

You know, since I started watching The Good Wife, Julianna Margulies totally has been my inner vision of Catelyn. It's going to freel weird when the HBO show will start.

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