Pointless observation – Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing

My primary motivation for blogging has always been self-indulgence, but I admit that I like seeing when posts of mine, sometimes from years ago and concerning fandoms I’ve long since left behind, randomly pick up notes and sometimes even reblogs. I suppose that’s one thing Tumblr has been good for.

Do I admit to taking a certain degree of pleasure in watching the purity-wanking crowd tearing itself apart over a pairing in their latest favorite show because even they can’t decide on whether or not it is Problematic and therefore evil per their absurd standards?

Yes, yes I do.

Diablo is indeed quite fun and will likely be good for a lot of replays, but there’s not much to talk about unfortunately. I feel like after having a constant Tumblr project for two months I’ve run out of things to keep me busy on here.

Any ideas?

This might have been the most uneventful birthday I’ve had in years. I imagine that that’s a good thing.

I think I’m late to this particular observation, but the latest Heroes update features Jamke and a new map of (western) Jugdral in a modern style.

So many updated assets for Genealogy in Heroes…could be useful for an upcoming project or two, you know.

Until I started reading up on the, ahem, discourse of a certain popular fandom I had no idea that there’s a blog that keeps statistics on the popularity of ships on Tumblr. I honestly can’t think of a more obvious indication that the supposed moral outrage over particular ships is really just a cover for a shipping war and popularity contest.

A side note for my FE Jugdral mutuals; Alfyn’s Chapter 2 boss looks exactly like Tailtiu, if she were an evil apothecary and also tripled in size during battle because this game does that.

One of my Québécois contacts is part Belgian, albeit from the French part of Belgium. The next match of the World Cup is probably going to be a bit awkward for him.

I’ve never really gotten into Pride month, mostly because it’s so unbearably hot in June that I can’t imagine going outside to celebrate anything. I have no idea how the people who’ll be marching in the parades in about a week don’t all have heat strokes.

~~Also Decadence is drunker and raunchier anyway.~~

Unlike some of my mutuals, I haven’t gotten anyone asking me to weigh in on the apparently hotly-debated question of pineapple on pizza. *pouts*

I am of the opinion that the best use for pineapple is as a cocktail mixer, and that its value otherwise is questionable. The topping debate that really ought to matter though is whether shrimp belong on pizza. The answer is clearly yes – there are very few culinary contexts in which you can’t stick shrimp and make them work somehow – but it seems some pizza purists balk at the thought of shellfish on their food.