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The thing about the Witch Hat Atelier world is that the magic system sounds great until you realize it's essentially programming and that sobers you up immediately. Sure, maybe you reach the level of skill needed to draw perfect curves, straight lines, and circles without looking down, but after that you still need to be able to logic out which combination of sigils will actually give you the desired effect, and if you misplace a single line it all goes to shit. Add to that the inclusion of effect-altering inks and you start to understand why Olruggio is Like That.

#witch hat atelier #YEAH.......

willgrahamscock

some of you need to realize that your faves would be having unsafe bdsm sex because they don’t actually know what bdsm sex is, they just want to fuck and also kill each other. you must understand this.

#like a clear empty field lit by a pale blue moon

cry-stars

I can't take credit for this as it was something I was talking about with my friend. but as we were watching DR3, we noticed that izuru often says "tsumaranai/how boring" whenever he sees something that would be particularly traumatizing or frightening to most people. One example is Chisa's brainwashing/torture scene, and another is when the future foundation attack ships are coming to Jabberwock. As we were talking, we theorized that, because of the trauma and torture that Izuru has been through, seeing these traumatic events is likely still traumatizing or distressing, but he will dissociate as a way to cope with seeing these things, since visible emotion and fear were punished out of him during the kamukura project. but he perceives the feeling of dissociation as emptiness or boredom, which is when he will say this. it almost seems like a phrase to ground himself.

#izuru kamukura #sdr2 #HMMMMMMMMM #stardust to remember you by

moobieni

What do you see through the broken mirror

#hajime hinata #izuru kamukura #sdr2 #stardust to remember you by

cartoon-fanaticism

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

#portal #GLaDOS #lmfao #yeah.

sourdough-seal

hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

#FUCKIN #STORY OF MY LIFE

sinister-w1zard

Stuff so far

#izuru kamukura #chiaki nanami #stardust to remember you by

vesperosy

this tweet has been fucking killing me

#sdafjsdlkfja #witch hat atelier

kexiu-0415

ETERUAL HATE

#chomp chomp #eito aotsuki #100 line #100 line spoilers #im gonna explooddee i lvoe this route sm #like a clear empty field lit by a pale blue moon

fabled-whump

Former living weapon whumpee who has no boundaries. It can’t say no. It has to make up for what it did, it has to balance the scales. If that means saying yes to every favor, spending every second of downtime cleaning or volunteering, and bending backwards for everyone's convenience, then so be it.

If it can't be a weapon, at least it can turn itself into a helpful tool. They're not so different, really.

#hoo hoo hee hee rubs my gremlin hands together

beauty is in the eye of the beholder or something

#takumi sumino #100 line spoilers #100 line #scrawlamander #hes just a little guy #i want him to look creepier and wetter but atm i don't wanna spend more time rendering #i think the export from clip murdered the saturation #or maybe im just on night mode #idk yeets this into the void

thefandomcassandra

Drew some kind of cover art of my fic kaleidoscope of mirrors

You should read it if you like:

Mutual corruption arcs

Recognition of the Self in the Other (derogatory)

Eito POV

Nozomi actually being angry because she deserves it

Medical trauma and child abuse (of the neglectful and medical variety)

A vague scientific explanation of how the cryptoglobin experiments worked and why rejection symptoms are a thing

Nozomi having a chronic illness

Graphic descriptions of the horrors

Applying diagesis to the game that isn't overt but is there in the bg

#fic rec!!!!#kaleidoscope of mirrors #100 line #100 line spoilers #nozomi kirifuji #eito aotsuki

lauren-ce

Something something the visceral horror GLaDOS must feel after watching Chell for so long, only for her test subject to literally go off the rails and disappear inside of her.

It's such a fantastic reversal of power! In an instant, it changes the genre from Chell's psychological nightmare into Glados's body horror.

This whole time Glados has been creating a psychosexual connection to her lab rat, and now that rat worms its way through her body in a way she can't track.

There's almost an intimacy about the rooms Chell solves being specifically tailored for her to see. They're a dishonest facade, until Chell escapes from the predetermined path and sees what Glados truly is/looks like, and ventures all the way to the heart of her, stripping her bare.

"What if you were a massive mechanical complex and I skittered through your insides and climbed into the heart of your most private and vital organs? And we were both women?"

This too, is Yuri

#portal #GLaDOS #chell #robots

nekusakuraba

obviously the freak4freak nature of eitaku cannot be overstated, but i think it's also poignant that so much of what makes eito fall for takumi is... really human? giving someone a second chance, trying to understand them even when they've hurt you -- there are a lot of moving parts, but ultimately some of what makes eito fall in love is a display of what he's spent his whole life hating.