A belated word or two on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's bestiary
A short tribute to some excellent freaks
Animals scare the shit out of me in the sense that I regularly find myself contemplating the sheer collective terror and pain occurring on the planet in any given ten second stretch as wild creatures hunt and gnaw and tear and paralyse and suck the fluids proboscishly from one another. I think Robin Williams said something similar in Jumanji and maybe also Schopenhauer in Jumanji 2 but this is a real and regular thought I have.
On the other hand, they also bring me quite a lot of joy each day both in the local (my cat, the dainty gremlin, her majesty shits-on-keyboard) and global sense.
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