Episode 254: The Emotional Impact of Final Fantasy Story Related Cards

What this episode covers

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast! Taya and Alex find another excuse to talk about the upcoming Final Fantasy series while Hobbes takes a night off. They cover cards and story beats for several games, mostly the four from the commander decks (6, 7, 10, 14) focusing on cards covering emotional scenes and struggles for the characters involved. The potential mental health impacts of these scenes are explored as part of our commitment to May and Menta Health Awareness Month! Warning that this episode does have spoilers for FF as we know that some people might be coming to these games (as old as some of them are) through Magic the Gathering! Reminder that at the end of the month there will be a charity event for NAMI that the podcast is greatly committed to helping! We also finally have a Linktree [https://linktr.ee/GoblinLore] with all of our discounts/resources ____________________________________________ As promised, we keep Mental Health Links available every episode. But For general Mental Health the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) [https://nami.org/Home] has great resources for people struggling with mental health concerns as well as their families. We also want to draw attention to this article [https://www.nami.org/blogs/nami-blog/october-2017/9-ways-to-fight-mental-health-stigma] on stigma from NAMI's site. If you're thinking about suicide or just need someone to talk to right now, you can get support from any of the resources below. * National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: [https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/] 988 * Veteran's can Press 1 at anytime to be taken to the Veteran's Line * Crisis Text Line: [https://www.crisistextline.org/] Text HOME to 741-741 * International suicide hotlines [http://www.suicide.org/international-suicide-hotlines.html]: A comprehensive resource list for people outside the US. * IMAlive [https://www.imalive.org/]: Click Chat Now to access a live online network of volunteers through instant messaging. * TrevorLifeline, TrevorChat, and TrevorText (LGBTQ+ crisis support) [https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help-now/]: 1-866-488-7386, or text "Trevor" to 1-202-304-1200 * Trans Lifeline [https://www.translifeline.org/] (US): (877) 565-8860 ____________________________________________ Opening and closing music by Wintergatan (@wintergatan [https://twitter.com/wintergatan]). Logo art by Steven Raffael (@SteveRaffle [https://twitter.com/SteveRaffle])