Dismal Research

I'm way too emotionally invested in Fool & Scholar's Liberty universe. SE Rocket Punks 4Ever | Kovski is the worst anthropologist | The Archon is history's greatest monster.

[misanthropicmessiah]

Téo+NG Morka Black Rock Gaiters

[captainizzyhands-deactivated202]

just because your area of study isn’t chemistry or anatomy doesn’t mean you’re any less of a mad scientist! mad astronomers are evil! mad botanists are fucked up! mad psychologists are twisted! all fields of mad science are valid!!

[helloitsbees]

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Orchestrate the destruction of a whole people group because you’re bored of studying them and they’re racially inferior anyway. Record yourself doing it for research purposes.

KOVSKI.

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Dismas: A Rebuttal

I am Not Happy™ with the not-yet-released official Dismas design, therefore I had to spend an entire night back in April perfecting this simple bust of my version of Dizzy. Yes, he is from Atlantis.

And just to show how terrible my workflow is, so you can see why it takes me forever to shit out even the smallest thing:

[fyeahdisneyatlantis]

Milo Meets Kida: Translated! (aka milo fails at atlantean)

Origin: Atlantean

“Who are you strangers and where did you come from?”

Origin: Atlantean

(HALTINGLY & with a bad, very american accent)

“Who…are you strangers and….where did you come from?“ 

Origin: Atlantean 

"Your manner of speech is strange to me.”

Origin: Atlantean

“I….travel…friend!”

Origin: Atlantean

“…I travel friend…

(impatiently) …You are a friendly traveler?" 

(does anyone else love how she’s correcting his shitty atlantean LOL bbies ♥)

Origin: Latin (look at this frickin dweeb switching into latin)

"So, my friend, I am a traveler!”

Origin: Latin

“You speak the language of the Romans!”

Origin: French (milo plz)

“Do you speak French?”

Origin: French

“Yes, sir!”

[darkspellmaster]

Flirting -when you’re language geeks. 

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Look, I’m just saying.

You haven’t truly had an OTP until you’ve had an OTP in which one participant canonically murders the other.

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Martollow Kovski...

What I thought I was getting:

What I got:

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Kovski: Do you have people dig up the clay for your ceramics?

Dismas: I’m not sure, I think it is a slave job.

LIES! LIES! You know exactly where the clay comes from, Mudboy! 

Per the episode commentary, whenever Dismas doesn’t know the answer to a question, he just dodge-rolls it. But this--I think this is a wombo-combo of feigning ignorance in order to dodge a question that he knows the answer to, but wants to appear as though he’s above possessing that knowledge. Upstairs don’t know what goes on Downstairs, and that makes them more Upstairs.

Which all makes me wonder how low the Mudeyes are on the Fringe ladder. I’ve been picturing them as weirdo reclusive artist-types, who would insist on harvesting their own clay because 1) they ain’t got slave money, and 2) you can’t just send some unskilled worker to go get “clay”, like there’s only one grade and variety of clay; clay is serious fucking business. But if clay harvesting is widely seen as a “slave job”, that would probably reflect poorly on them, like they’re a bunch of gross dirt people. So no wonder Dismas would want to distance himself from them--can’t Move On Up (to the South East side) if everyone thinks of you as some kind of ghetto trailer trash pig farmer.

He’s so New Money, it’s sad and adorable and I love it.

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I have no idea when Kovski found time to put together his iconography. It has an author’s note, so it wasn’t cobbled together by someone else based on his audio notes, and it references stuff from the expedition, so he didn’t write it beforehand.

Do datapads have a drawing program? I guess they must, since paper seems to be an uncommon, old-timey kinda thing.

And. OK, look, none of that really matters, because Kovski dedicated an entire page (i.e. the same number as he gave the SE Punks) to Claw Conway’s sexy lady tattoo. (Y’know, because it’s such a high quality tattoo, he just had to appreciate the workmanship.) Meaning he must have spent an inordinate amount of time staring at this big, sweaty dude’s big, sweaty bicep, taking down every detail of this tattoo. So. To answer the question: Kovski is bisexual confirmed?

[cowboyvamps]

Vaas was a good and interesting villain who was smart and cunning and scary and was one step ahead of you and had a deep background that easily tied in with the characters in how they were similar with their anger his death was fucking stupid and unnecessary and unbelievable you cannot have this generic fucking white boy learn how to flip knives like that you CANNOT tell me he did that and then plop this boring fucking cookie cutter business man villain in front of me and expect me to be happy with it you CANT do me like this

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Two posts and I’m already swerving through other fandoms, but like. Basically all this re: Dismas. Where’s my “Awesome, Charming, Brilliant, Insane, Beautiful Villains Who Got Killed For Dumb AF Reasons and Now the World Is a Worse Place For It” support group? Because I collect these boys like trading cards.

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Alternate theme to Critical Research.

[sasspiria]

IDK why most, if not all of my OTPs are just “Feral little man and his bratty nerd boyfriend” 

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Uncomfortably Charming But Also Incredibly Violent Maniac X Fucking Bitch-Ass Nerd Who Ruins Everything 

The eternal OTP.