tamamo from fire emblem shadows, like the rest of the game's cast, comes in two flavours

in another few months we'll have people earnestly asserting that "santiago" wears sneakers because his arches are weaker than sonic's

watching stone ocean i see

and old saw i often think about, first heard from lindsay ellis i think, is that it's well-known in hollywood that it's never that the script was shit. dems take a similar tack to reflecting on their campaigns, i think, finding literally anything else to blame other than their own shortcomings

like if the consistency of the messaging was so confined that people think it wasn't there at all then that's still a failure of messaging lol. literally anything to remove agency in their own defeat it's so embarrassing

like speaking only for myself but i can barely stand it here, why the fuck would i willingly use This But Worse on purpose

...in the sense that they're inexorably drawn together despite a borderline ontological instinct towards mutual destruction?