morphogenetic fields forever

Hey! I'm Catherine, from Scotland. I currently post a lot of Ace Attorney, Zero Escape, Persona and Fire Emblem stuff, though other things do sneak their way in! Icon by hajimehinatayy.

[tapiocats]

You’re a star, Claudia

[tmng3102691]

“虚假的幻梦”

[souperluminal]

05.28 - Nebula

[havingapoemwithyou]

from let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy

[prokopetz]

#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

While the historical evidence for Mario having a younger brother is quite concrete, the name of said brother is less certain. "Luigi" is generally held to originate with a separate figure from a series of chthonic myths, who originally served as a sort of psychopomp charged with capturing spirits that escaped the underworld. The strongest case for a contemporary figure named Luigi comes from the Waffle Kingdom sagas; however, this Luigi's brother is a gladiator named Gonzales.

[rlyehtaxidermist]

now I know that there's no way for me to respond to this without a bunch of fans of the modern adaptations ruining my inbox for the next week, but there's no evidence of Waluigi - or indeed Luigi - in any of the contemporary versions of the Mario-Wario sagas. The name "Wario" itself is a later invention, held to be a pun on warui that likely emerged after the adoption of Japanese scripts in the Koopa States.

The conflict between Mario and his "boyhood rival" was one over political influence on his home island and Mario's long absences - in particular his trip to Sarasaland. While later Sarasan sources would heavily reference Mario's brother, he is absent from both the preceding narrative and the unrest in Mario's homeland. The historical consensus is that the Sarasaland journey was one of Mario's earliest wanderings, with his brother attempting to manage affairs in his absence and proving unfit. The invention of a separate "Wario" character and its development into an explicit coup d'etat were later poetic creations, as is distancing of the "Wario" figure from the later depictions of Mario's brother as the more cowardly and reserved "Luigi".

(As an aside: "Mario Land" is a mistranslation. The original Mushroomer and Sarasan chronicles are better translated as "the land of Mario", without connotations of ownership. The modern scholastic consensus is that it refers to Yoshi's Island, where Mario and his brother spent their youth and later established a small manor, not, as commonly depicted, a "Mario Castle". The emphasis on Mario as king of "Mario Land" was a mostly successful political maneuver by the Yoshis to retain coequal status with the Mushroom Kingdom heartlands in the face of 18th-century expansionist pan-Mushroomism.)

The later emergence of "Waluigi" is an ironic recombination of two figures from the same historical source, and may have originated as a farce parodying the Mario stories. (The name "Waluigi" is also conflated with the early Norman figure Varr Yngwi, who is generally credited with the invention of tennis.)

[kingofreddragons]

Happy birthday to the emperor

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

[lolita-wardrobe]

Hello, General!

◆ Outfit: https://www.lolitawardrobe.com/yingluofu-ender-sacred-relics-20-version-military-lolita-full-set_p8928.html

[lajackalope]

The Black Rabbit of Inlé

[geospiral]

She's already gone.

[lesly-oh]

My fragile god, fading fast.

[lesly-oh]

💔

[dornishsphinx]

Speaking as someone who has only really seen the videos and so is very much not up to date on any lore implications, but given that the themes and relationships of Zombie Stage seem to still be very close to Alien Stage, where the aliens made mixed DNA kids of all the competitors at the end, while Zombie Stage has literally shown us that the price of competitors losing is losing body parts...

(I know they were selling off the parts, but also I mean... the average person does not have the same money an entertainment company who literally have the chance to PRODUCE an idol from literal parts of popular stars..)

(The show never ends after all so... how exactly does it continue when the last scrap of competitors are gone?)

It would fit the critiques the show is making of the idol/kpop industries to a T as well I will stake my fortune on this theory.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]

[homoquartz]

i’ve warmed up significantly towards the concept of small talk ever since i learned that its sole purpose is to make friendly noises.

as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now.”

small talk isn’t to get to know a person. it’s just a greeting to affirm you’re buddies in the universe.

i am motivated by wanting the other person to know i am friendly, so i have gotten pretty decent at small talk when i used to hate it.

[piratedgender]

[themisally]

[dornishsphinx]

10 years late to the party after reading the book and seeing the musical version of The Black Lizard and realising that the name "Ren Amamiya" is maybe a reference to Jun Amamiya, given he's from a Detective Ko"goro Akechi" novel... and Yuuki Mishima would fit in since Jun Amamiya is made a hell of a lot more sympathetic in Yukio Mishima's adaption compared to the novel.

(Does that mean police drag Joker would have a fake name related to Midorikawa...? Poor woman, she's the main antagonist yet this would mean her subordinate got referenced not her lol)

[gyrfalconknight]

Gringolet 🌞🐴