please don't fall for tumblr's revisionist history. they banned the tags of queer identities before because they were "pornographic", they deleted posts and banned users overnight due to the nsfw ban, including posts that weren't even porn. then recently they ran an ad campaign+
bragging that they are the "most queer social media site". now they "unbanned nudity" to recruit new users by LOOKING like they allow nsfw now even though they don't. and they have big problems with hate speech/bigotry (especially terfs) much like twt does. dont fall for it.
This is a real language that they've decided to completely ignore the rules of for the convenience of English speakers. Even the Japanese version of his name is consistent with the true Gaelic pronunciation.
This is an objectively horrible decision.
There's some QRTs and replies that give specific examples of how Tumblr is both queerphobic/pro-TERF and is unequipped to handle distinguishing artistic nudity from porn in the present day. I encourage everyone to take a few minutes to read them!
@getvalentined
I'm glad things have improved! I still think it's tone deaf at best to run an ad campaign about being the "queerest social media site" given the site's history, and it's incredibly difficult to trust their new policy allowing nudity will be implemeted well.
Been holding on to this one for too long, so I thought I'd share while we're all sitting around here waiting for the stream.
Seph/Angeal comm by the extremely talented
@kacinsfw
!!!
one of the best scenes in crisis core is when zack gets excited to see sephiroth then remembers that he's currently annoyed with sephiroth one second later. literal puppy
Gaelic is an endangered language and it is a real shame they've made the decision to disrepect it like this. Remake *should* have been the opportunity for them to pronounce and spell the term correctly. It's not like they've been afraid to change the names of protags before.
I'm officially losing it.
The first image is Seph calling Cloud a puppy, which makes me think he called Zack that which is why the phrase is in Cloud's head.
The other dialogue is Sephiroth telling Cloud he did well. Those wide eyes, Cloud is so surprised to be praised 🥺
You want "mainstream queer content" but only queer people can consume it? That's not possible. The more non-queer people you scare away from queer content the less of an audience queer media has. Queer creators will make less money, and say goodbye to mainstream queer charas.
i adore cloud's delusional version of sephiroth like sephiroth would never say "good thing they dispatched ~us~" no matter who he was dispatched with. it's so funny
*Reading QRTs* I think everyone needs to play the original game immediately because Cloud is not "horrified" or "disgusted" by Sephiroth during the time period he admired him and joined the military to be like him lol.
If people were telling others they can't read gay content 5-10 years ago we'd call that homophobia. It still is homophobia, regardless of whether these kids realize it.
the tweet says "anger towards sex and queer people" and the qrts say "why do you think kids having sexual boundaries is bad" that is two different things and conflating the two is blatant puritanism. having boundaries does not entitle you to spew hate and anger towards others
i really hate that i have fallen into the generational trap of fearing the younger generation. but the amount of conservativeness, puritanism and just straight up unfocused anger towards sex and queer people outside their world view i see in gen z is extremely disturbing.
@joshuadavdking
That's not what you said. You said "fujoshis are fetishizers" which is distorting the meaning of a word from a different culture than yours. If you simply said "don't fetishize my experience" no one would be saying those things.
Mentally preparing myself for someone to say "actually that happpened to Zack" every time someone gets excited about the SC stuff in Nibelheim... even though that isn't true about all of it bc Cloud is an Unreliable Narrator™️ and Seph doting on Zack *in that way* makes no sense+
Great news for Rufus enjoyers--in an interview with Inverse Nomura said that Rufus Shinra will have "some sort of new episodes that do not exist in the original, where we will get to know more about him and dig deeper.”
#FF7Rebirth
#RufusShinra
#FF7R
#ルーファウス神羅
The CN and JP versions of the comic has no negative comments. Why should an artist take the effort to translate their work into English when harassment is what they get for it? You're driving artists away. Artists who make "pure" content will stop translating too, trust me.
the fact that coffee shop AUs where a barista is forced into responding positively to being hit on are considered "wholesome" tells you everything you need to know about 🐜s total failure to understand consent+
"your fanfic reflects you" folks sure are quiet on coffee shop aus where apparently you can hit on workers without their consent and also violate food regulations by fucking in the stock room
Sephiroth has no memory of himself after FF7, so he reforms himself using how Cloud sees him in AC
AC Sephiroth: "On your knees, I want you to beg for forgiveness"
Cloud....
I love seeing antis lose. Since Remake came out they've been trying to convince everyone that SC fans are delusional and SE hates us and doesn't include ship moments for us, and now they are throwing a fit because they simply cannot deny reality with how blatant this is.
Sephiroth has, at the very least, deeply cared about Cloud canonically ever since On the Way to a Smile came out so Sephiroth loving Cloud is not actually news nor does it contradict anything. The Sephiroth that loves Cloud in Remake is clearly from AC era so it checks out.
going to send this to anyone being annoying about the clip from the SC Kalm flashback, none of them have played the original game so it's not like they'll know it's cut dialogue anyway /j
@joshuadavdking
You also said you wanted to burn BL, which is often books written by queer Asian people about their own experiences, so yeah, racist. You're somewhat walking it back now but you're still implying a large portion of BL is "toxic" which is untrue.
"Cloud should be bigger, how can he swing the Buster Sword around"
People have done the math on this, NO HUMAN could swing around a sword that size, that's the *Mako* not his muscles
@alisonborealis
Yup, and that's part of why TERFs love Tumblr. They can get away with bullshit like that because they know there's young queer people on there who don't know their history and can easily be tricked into agreeing with TERF rhetoric, like "queer is a slur".
I've seen kids on twitter argue that fanfic will "never be illegal" when I pointed out how important the OTW has been to establishing and preserving our right to share fanfic. It's fine to have criticisms of ao3 but if you want it shut down you better have lawyers ready to+
Sefikura Tanabata... yeah there's no heterosexual explanation for this one
(Tanabata celebrates two lovers, deities that are separated by the Milky Way and can only meet on 7/7)
It's going to be SO interesting seeing how much of the Nibelheim Cloud acts like Zack vs himself. Like his poses look just like Zack but that surprised baby face when Sephiroth praises him is 100% himself
anyway sefikura antis seething over the fact that SC is the most popular ff7 ship on ao3 is so funny. no matter what threats you throw at us you'll never get be able to get rid of all of us. cope
i feel like everyone forgets how evil angeal became. not only did he force his mentee and friend to kill him but he deliberately left a scar on zack's face, so he has to remember it every time he looks at himself. pure cruelty
How lovely that a racist, ableist, slut-shaming, art thief is the one who gets these opportunities, and not any of the other incredible artists in the fandom that aren't horrible people. Can you do the bare minimum amount of research into who you're picking for these things?
@DarkChaosComet
@ikaraxiv
Are you speaking about the original game? No one is faulting people for pronouncing the name wrong as kids. People said "Tifa" and "Yuffie" wrong too.
In Rebirth there is voice acting so the name will be said aloud. They very easily could have used the correct pronunciation.
people who call sefikura grooming as if sephiroth and cloud have an extensive history when cloud was underage when it was actually just one mission that they knew each other then in which seph was in the basement the whole time+
I've seen several takes like this. If you are this naïve about the intentions of the creators of gacha games, you probably should not be playing them at all
cloud is shipped with everyone under the sun but the second someone ships tifa with anyone other than cloud or maybe aerith they're "turning her into a slut"
your misogyny is showing, ff7 fandom
Potential reasons as to why Sephiroth changed his first-person pronoun after falling in the Lifestream
aka the thread I've been meaning to make since I made this account
Warning for mention of the film Psycho which is transmisogynistic & has harmful representation of DID
(1/31)
@dust_rambles
Harassing real life people, no matter how "tame" it is, is against Ao3's rules. Name-calling, while childish, is still bullying.
Proship is an anti-harassment, anti-censorship stance. Banning harassment doesn't go against proship principles whatsoever.
broke: ac is a bad film because cloud is out of character
woke: cloud's characterization is one of the best parts of the train wreck that is ac because it's an accurate depiction of how depression can impact a person's personality.
thread on the discussions about ac today+
saw genesis referred to as "white" today
he's modeled after a ryukyuan man. some of shinra's actions in mideel/banora (banora is part of the mideel area) are reminiscent of the US military's actions in okinawa. please shut the fuck up.
the idea of shinra era sefikura w/ submissive sephiroth is so funny to me. cloud spends YEARS fantasizing about seph fucking his brains out, tying him up, hurting him, etc etc and then he finally starts dating seph & turns out seph is a submissive pillow princess
SE has been deliberately pandering to SC fans in both the Compilation and spinoffs (KH, Dissidia, etc) for over 20 years now. This is not a rogue intern. If you think promoting Sefikura is evil then FF7 is not for you, and you should stick to your morals and stop giving SE money.
@Cherry0Reese
You're speaking about 20+ year old history.
"Cis het women" is a western stereotype. The stereotype in Japan is that fujoshi are lesbians. Why? Because queer women want to read and write stories about queer people without being outed in a country that is very conservative+
They're doubling down on Jenova's discovery being 30 years before FF7, so Sephiroth can't be older than 28 in FF7, maybe 29 depending on when Genesis was born.
I was right they want him younger now, in FF7 it seemed like he was 30 based on Vincent's age but now... +
I think the thing that people miss when they make posts like this is that many people ship characters BECAUSE they are invested in the wider story. Shipping is a vessel for people to create and consume art and fiction that explores the story of the game more in-depth than canon.+
Ok it's past their bedtime...
SE is providing us ship content with 25 year old Sephiroth and 16 year old Cloud can the 🐜s stop pretending this game is for them now
The whole fujoshi "debate" exists because in the 2000s people saw some non-Japanese women who stole a Japanese word acting creepy towards gay men and instead of telling the creeps to knock it off, decided to demonize the word fujoshi, Japanese women, and the entire BL genre.+
this isn't new, it's been there for years
this option is supposed to be used when someone is shown nudity/sex (that was filmed consensually) without their consent, like when people spam porn in replies to tweets they don't like
can we stop panicking now
"why are the only queer characters in ff7 in wall market which is filled with crime"
hm yeah i wonder why queer people would be quite literally walled off from the rest of society with criminals, that's super unrealistic and doesn't resemble real life whatsoever+
"SOLDIER honor" isn't some Shinra-developed honor code, it's how Angeal coped with the fact that he had to do bad things. Zack using the phrase doesn't mean he agrees with Shinra it means that he's trying to maintain some sense of honor in a system that is far from honorable+
From what I've seen some of how Sephiroth is treating Cloud is more how you'd look at/praise someone inexperienced, not someone of the same rank as you
imo that's C's brain putting S on a pedestal and wanting that affirmation from his hero rather than how S actually treated Z.
when you phrase it like this you're saying that "adults with jobs" shouldn't care about the fact that people are literally being harassed into committing suicide. that it's beneath you to care about people dying and that people who care are just "chronically online"
"im not proship or antiship, Im an adult w/ a job🤪"
proshippers are literally just ppl trying to mind their business/enjoy fandom. The only reason proship exists is bc its a simple way to say "I can find ur interests weird/gross, im just not going to violently harass u over it"
@blackqueeriroh
I encourage you to read the replies that discuss how rampant queerphobia and TERF rhetoric still is on Tumblr. It seems little has changed.
@DarkChaosComet
@ikaraxiv
Too late? Tons of English speakers have been pronouncing it the right way and have been informing others about it for years. The Japanese version has always pronounced it correctly.
It's not the "fan way". The fact that it needed to be addressed means fans do not say it one way.
Sephiroth has no memory of himself after FF7. For this reason, he needs Cloud's memory of him to come back to life in AC.
This parallels with Cloud agreeing to help Tifa because she was the only proof he lived.
As we know, Nojima loves CT, and he loves his parallels. (1/2)
anyway if you want disney and other big companies to hire queer writers and make queer stories then maybe dont harass said queer writers and complain that their stories aren't the "right kind of queer" or whatever. just a thought
@Cavemanius
@topazlight
@RedBirdRabbit
*ガーリックトースト You put both ー in the wrong spot.
And you're incorrect because toosuto is the word for toast in Japanese. So you'd translate it to toast, not toasto. Since toast ends in a consonant, making the o in toast long is most natural for English, hence toooooast.
If you watch the original Advent Children DVD there are two deleted scenes in the Extras not on ACC. It's such a pity it never made it to the final cut because it's just Cloud sassing the shit out of Sephiroth 😂
this was about the seph calling cloud a puppy and it's cracking me up bc people have been writing angeal/zack puppy play fics since crisis core came out lmao
🐜s are saying Zack is 17 during Nibelheim just so they can pretend those scenes are "still problematic even if it's happening to Zack" just say you hate gay people