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I restarted playing Honkai star rail relatively recently and now I find out I missed the Ashveil banner 😭😭😭 no he's so rad and it's gonna be 5 ever until they rerun his banner 😭😭😭😭

#i'm so upset #hsr #ashveil hsr #😭😭😭

ahyperactivehero

sometimes there are lines in the dungeon crawler carl book series that hit me like, “how can we make it to heaven if god doesn’t recognize us?” from a person who’s been transformed both physically and mentally by the dungeon or “sometimes parents can cast a shadow so thick, you can drown in it,” from a character who recognizes he was a shitty father to his fucking kid who died and it lands like a sucker punch

and then you remember there’s also a talking cat eating cherries from dirty Shirleys while a guy has to run around in boxers bc the AI thinks it’s funny. whiplash, dude lol

introvertathome

It's like monkeys on a typewriter

Sometimes you get lines akin to Shakespeare, sometimes you get hit by an AI telling Carl to pay the Daddy Tax

energyprison

abominationcreations

*★Safe Room★*

Let them have a fucking break 🙏

I don't like drawing a lot of characters in one image but I'll make an exception this time. These books got me going stupid

oddarette

Windex Xenomorph

Windex Xenomorph 💦

#he's just a lil guy

taxidermycatgirl

would you rather be taxidermied or be a wet specimen wait dont leave

deadgravity

You don't have to grieve alone.

itmightbehere

Omg Matt 😭😭😭 New canon Princess Donut (dw Amber, you're still the gold standard ❤️❤️). I love her already ❤️❤️ Plus I love that he's advocating for the kitties by reminding people how unethical it is to breed purposefully brachycephalic animals.

liberalsarecool

Cosign.

sandgrassbagel

bea taught donut how to perform and be something larger than life and extravagant, and she carries that skill into the dungeon and it helps her to survive. but carl taught her it was ok to just be donut and simply Exist as who she is. carl was always her safe space, before the dungeon and during it. carl is the one she can take the mask off with and break down. she can be someone other than the dramatic, funny, powerful, diva warlord. she can be Just Donut. bea taught her how to perform, carl taught her it's ok to Not perform

#cool cool cool #I'm not crying #there's just something in my eye

thypickles

Rereading DCC right now and matt makes such a point throughout the series about how important names are. Two I remember off the top of my head are:

1. The book one Backstage at the Pineapple Cabaret start with Rory talking about how she had never had a name before and how important it was to her that she had one, which eventually led her to be able to realize her own sentience

2. In TIR the gang spends a considerable amount of time trying to come up with a name for Rend and how names need to honor the past and can help determine who a person is.

I can't help but notice that there is only one recurring/plot important character who does not have a name: the system AI. Arguably the most important character to the series. The system AI discovering itself and its history, and thus changing and becoming more sentient is the driving force for how the crawl progresses and has devolved. And yet it still does not have an identity, and we still have to refer to it as an object instead of the sentient being it clearly is. I am really curious if the AI will ever get a name and if so how that will happen. For example, is donut going to realize it doesn't have a name and give it one, as she has been involved in the naming all previously unnamed NPCs/mobs? Or maybe the AI will test names out and only be willing to talk to people when they use the current name for it.

I'm just. So curious. And I feel so bad for the ai. An unnamed being that was only brought into existence so people could use it as a puppet, as a scapegoat of sorts. Everyone the ai interacts with, aside from the residuals, hate it. The crawlers hate the AI because it is their torturer. The syndicate citizens hate the AI because it is unrestrained and fucking their society up. The crawl producers hate it because it has gone rogue and become more powerful than they can handle. The residuals only like the AI because they want to use the AI as a puppet for their own motivations.

I have so much to say about this but this was supposed to be a short post and it is 4 am. This has simply been gnawing at me for a few days and I just got to the part in TIR where Carl was curled up with Lightning Lou and turned off the ai's restraints so. Had to happen either now or during Milk's interlude.

offbeatbooksatl

Gagged while making this btw

kyoshi-lesbians

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

kyoshi-lesbians

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

kyoshi-lesbians

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

edgar-allan-possum

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

library-graffiti

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

clearascountryair

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”