reading in peace

Call me Wichario or CH, whichever. Any pronouns // 18 // Currently Arknights n' Limbus brainrotted https://www.tumblr.com/wicharios-storage-room

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[thegreatyin]

im not ready for stronghold protocol to go. it's like a brother to me.

[adlbeay]

I love how much of a villain Gordon is in this event. He's a corrupt mid-level bureaucrat who uses his position to embezzle belongings from immigrants! He's letting a bunch of business grifters skirt by safety regulations to make himself look good for the expo! He has a secret lair where he displays a collection of his ill-gotten spoils! He's also kinda racist! He even has a subordinate whose sprite was recycled from the banker lady in CW. In any other story he would have been the main antagonist. Instead he becomes a playable operator while literally still working for the ATAO lol.

I wouldn't have called Tin Man being the actual main antagonist of the story, but it was also fun to be reminded that he pretty much just, runs the CIA and everything that entails.

[wichario]

Unrealized Realities Spoilers

turn on the tv it doesn't matter what channel

they hit the Propelleragon

[wichario]

WAIT I WAS JOKING

[wichario]

Unrealized Realities Spoilers

turn on the tv it doesn't matter what channel

they hit the Propelleragon

[wichario]

If i had a nickel for every Arknights welfare that Global liked when they first came out in CN and then learned that they're kinda racist, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's funny that it happened twice

[not-selfship]

highmore's boss design was likely inspired by radiolarian silicate shells, particularly this rendition by biologist ernst haeckel, published in his book kunstformen der natur (art forms in nature). depicted are radiolarians in suborder stephoidea.

a reddit post that noted the similarity some years ago inexplicably identified radiolarians as a type of coral. corals are cnidarian animals who form colonies in structures of calcium carbonate; radiolarians are single-celled protists who grow complex shells of hydrated amorphous silica (opal). radiolarians catch food and prey by extending thin arms through their shells' pores and they sometimes host dinoflagellate endosymbionts.

i hope that arknights will have more girls based on protists soon.

[hgedits]

Could you sign it for me? Course. What's your name? Fell. Asa Fell, with an S.

[fatestayyuri]

starting a new niche called "edibleknights" where i can only use operators whose codename i've eaten

[mvmvmvmvs]

Ive been thinking about Degenbrecher full armor during the years in Kazimierz

[cerastes]

Seven Years.

[amiya-shirou]

Oh goddamnit I just realized it.

Kal'tsit Esperanto.

Esperanto was the idea for a new global language unifying the world.

That's. that's fucking Babel. it's Babel again

[amiya-shirou]

Why are people in the notes going "actually they probably just meant The One Who Hopes" as if names can't hold multiple meanings anymore and as if the authors of a story that puts heavy emphasis on language (where Originium itself is defined as a new language & the protagonists are direct successors of an organization called Babel) couldn't possibly mean anything by basing the name of one the most central characters in the middle of all of this on a time people in real life actually tried to make a new universal language

[criticaldiplomacyfail]

The flag of Esperanto is also green and white!

[wichario]

NEVER KILL YOURSELF!!

ONE DAY THE RANDOM NPC FROM A SINGULAR EVENT THAT YOU'RE EXTREMELY ATTRACTED TO WILL APPEAR IN THE MAIN STORY AND BECOME MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT UNTIL THEY FINALLY BECOME PLAYABLE!! NEVER KILL YOURSELF!!

justice to Misery fans tho i hope next time is your time

[nero-draco]

[raisengen]

After all this time, it still trips me up how Arknights will randomly have these exquisite NPC portraits—free from the "anime hot" constraints on PCs, with carefully-shaded faces and still clearly showing their own style.

The detail in the face. The texture on the beard, the clothes, the hands. The green accents on the skin and the orange inner-lighting on the clothes. The general fact that a design dominated by grey and white still feels so colourful. All on a character that's an NPC. All in a style only "allowed" because he's an NPC.

And then there's this guy.

Him, he's certainly built different. Wrong, even.

[wichario]

put me in a room with a Trillby Asher and Duke Caster and one of us is getting pregnant

(it's the trillby asher)

[incandescent-irrigation]

i remember how before babel there was still the deniability with kal'tsit putting the blame for theresa's death on doctor. kal'tsit saying "you killed theresa" and you, the player, getting to go "this could have been said as a metaphor"

(in a way it was but the other way around)

you keep hearing about this infinitely kind figure whom amiya loved as much as she loves you, and it's hard not to love amiya as much. surely you couldn't have taken that from her and keep her love.

and then babel happens. and you did it. you did kill theresa, in artificial light but plain as day. you had a reason, a plan, an execution. you begged for her forgiveness as she bled out, and she killed you back. in an act of mercy to those who need you and cruelty to those you chose over her, she stole a god from distant past and gifted it back to the person who unearthed them for her.

you killed theresa (she was destined to die before your plan was ever hatched. it was inevitable) (*you* did not kill theresa) (you know that /you/ killed theresa.) (she was not gone) (she will never be gone)

theresa killed the oracle (they will never fulfill their purpose) (they were replaced) (the moniker they chose took on a new life) (they cannot fix anything anymore) (a lot of people died that day) and left the doctor to atone for them (to Want to Atone on their own) (they will not love the spectrum of theresa the way oracle did)

and the two people left alone afterwards were an immortal whose trust was betrayed, thus her resentment for you, and a child all three of you loved, whose short life was saved and ruined by your pity and theresa's hope, and love and love and love and love, and she knows what happened that day, and she loves you too.

the narrative keeps going. is5 tells you this would have happened anyway, whether or not you were there. in the end you are less significant to the world you created than the little girl you took in. in the worlds where you don't get to wake up she suffers more, so perhaps this is better after all. perhaps this is for the best. perhaps a prophet had to fly too close to the sun for a healer to attempt to undo the damage.