I really appreciate how antithetical Enciodes and Enya's dynamic with Doctor are, to the point of hilarity.
Enya has some sort of Majikoi!Benkei deal going on with Doctor, if you ever read that, someone whose office she can reliably use to slack off and take a nap. Her coming to Rhodes Island in the first place was to escape her Saintess duties in the first place (in addition to checking on Ensia, of course), she said "yeah sure whatever, pal, I'm an Opera Eater or whatever, just get me away from scripture for a bit and we're gold". She's straight up cooling, and when it comes to Doctor, her main way of interacting with them is by hanging out, slacking off together, and eating snacks together. They are Straight Up Cooling. Her 5* Potential gift is a small bell, not anything particularly grand, but meaningful enough as a gesture. Her 6* Potential gift, however, is straight up an admission of close friendship:
"A wooden box for storing perfumes, carrying the scent of Vine-Bead Court incense. She gifted it to you in accordance with how the Kjerags treat their close friends."
They are homies. They hang out. They faff around. Wouldn't be out of place to see Enya, Gavial, and Doctor going at it at the bumper cars. They are buddies. One of the success lines in the Retracing Our Steps minigame is Enya going "Great work as usual, Doc, let's go hit that joint over there, they sell really good food in there, let's hang out :)"
And then there's Enciodes.
"A scabbard for his blade. Made of Originium Ice Crystals, it will never crack."
"A scabbard for his blade. Made of Originium Ice Crystals, it will never crack."
This thirsty ass theater kid infamously disliked jackass could not more openly have said "I want to have SEX." A scabbard. For his blade. A whole other scabbard that works specifically for his blade, for you to have. Because he doesn't mind being a naked blade for you. You are still rivals, his greatest obstacle, his cerebral nemesis, but you may have the scabbard for his blade, which will never crack. Or, in other words, oh my god PLEASE let me hit.
And here's a terrible harsh truth for all of you that I've already hurt in the past by telling you that you would love Gnosis if he was a woman: You would love SilverAsh if he was a woman. Do not even front, you would LOVE to be gifted a VOW the way a scabbard is.
The point is, Enya is a super chill friend and Enciodes has no fucking idea of how to communicate.
Witch Hat Atelier episode 1 is gorgeously animated. But man, weāre really gonna have Bishounen Gojo doing his fuck ass nondenominational fantasy British accent the entire show though huh?
reading the wiki for the american psycho movie every single thing itās saying about christian bale has me in tears ā¦ā¦.. he literally wanted the role so bad he got that buff in two weeks, rejected every other offer for 9 months while the producers tried to get dicaprio to be patrick bateman bc bale knew dicaprio would chicken out, went to dinner with the director and the guy who wrote the novel IN CHARACTER apparently scaring the shit out of the novelist, took the role for $50k, and then made all his costars think he was a giant freak bc he never fucking broke character, and APARENTLY LITERALLY HAS CONTROL OVER HIS SWEAT GLANDS AND USED THIS IN THE BUSINESS CARD SCENE
Warhammer has such strong yaoi potential and the fanbase doesnāt take any advantage of that at all. Kharn the Betrayer/Argel Tal is pretty good doomed/tragic yaoi that requires basically no stretches in imagination to make work. The fact that on AO3, there are only 13 fics (in English, 28 total), most of them mid smut, is a crime.
The very basic round up is that Argel Tal and Kharn are oath sworn allies from two factions that are rebelling against The Emperor of Mankind. The leader of Argel Talās faction foresees his death to happen in the final battle of the rebellion. However, one of the guys from Argel Talās faction named Erebus, whoās basically Warhammer Judas, betrays him by stabbing him in the back and killing him way before this. Erebus does this because he believes that as long as Argel Tal is alive Kharn wonāt fulfill his destiny of becoming an avatar for the god of blood, Khorne.
To get into some more detail Kharn is all about the feeling and passion in warfare and always has been, but he has implants in his head called the Butcherās nails (for lore reasons) that stimulate his aggression and make him only able to feel joy in combat. Argel Tal was basically Kharnās anchor to not lose himself to the nails and maintain his nobler traits. The problem being psychic beings make the nails go into overdrive, which becomes a problem when Argel Tal is possessed by a daemon. I read Betrayer years ago, I cant remember if the daemon in Argel Tal minimizes its presence to not harm Kharn or if Kharn puts up with it because of his relationship with Argel Tal either way it works.
This all culminates in one of my favorite scenes in 40k where Kharn learns that Erebus killed Argel Tal and instantly confronts him in a fight pit. Heās cold and detached, just there to do the job. He nearly kills Erebus except Erebus runs away before being to heavily injured (by 40k standards). While I love this scene, itās a shame itās become the focus of Kharn fanart. First one is by Grimdorables, where Kharn finds Argel Talās body, second is the best fight pit fanart by Niellustrate.
Anyways, Warhammer should have more non-Primarch yaoi and this is my agenda. I think the tragic/doomed yaoi potential here is pretty solid and self evident.
I can always tell when a Warhammer announcement is made because this post gets another interaction. Iāve made my own notification system on accident.
Thank you Warhammer yaoi post, you got my back like Auspex Tactics.
Howdy!
Watching the video, I am on the "Standing on my business" part, and I just wanna say - Karane has two hands. Potentially more as the chapters keep going.
But Ahko and Karane IS peak, don't get me wrong.
Howdy hey,
You make a strong point, Karane does have multiple hands. I assume you mean we can ship her with multiple people by that one. I agree with one hundred percent, itās just not something I usually think of on my own tbh.
āStanding on my businessā was more about pushing an agenda than the nuance of possibility youāve pointed out. At the time, Iād seen exclusively Karane x Hakari ships, thought itād be funny to do a bit and push for a ship it felt like only I seeing the vision of.
I appreciate you random stranger. It is odd to be confronted with the idea that people other than those I know directly have watched that video though
The most diabolical part of the Endfield factorio is that itās something you intend to engage with 10 minutes, which turns into an hour, 30 minutes in you realize that it feels like your being held at gun point, and after youāre finished you look at the one production line youāve got to be somewhat self sustaining and in your delusion go āthat wasnāt horrible, next time will be faster for sure.ā At the very least, this has proven to me how alien the factory game players are to do this in service of itself and call it fun.
Fun night. My friend and her girlfriend gave me a detailed Cliffsnote of Land of the Lustrous. Then taught her how to play Magic, and rounded it out explaining to her girlfriend that 100 Girlfriends is actually awesome and showed her the video of my lecture on it.
This is more a stream of consciousness than well curated thoughts on the canto and I could see my opinions and feelings going any direction with it in the future.
Finished Canto 9 then slept, now I have my feelings and sleep. Those feelings are mixed. I like it but I am exceedingly aware of its many problems. I was halfway joking when I posted it, but honestly for me this canto is at its best when itās doing hype shit and really suffers towards the end when itās not doing that as much.
Iām of two minds on a lot of this canto for a lot of reasons. I think some of the problems I have couldāve been solved or lessened with an intervallo letting us spread some stuff we had in here out a little more, and focus on our crew a little more during the canto. Other problems I have are just writing decisions.
An example of this back and forth that comes to mind is that I like when Limbus is an ensemble cast. I like in cantos when we get stuff about not just the characters whose turn it is, and I appreciate this canto extending that out to some side characters.
That being said, I wish Ryoshu got more focus in her canto to develop her character some more. Ryoshu is what I consider a background sinner, sheās gonna be quiet for most of the time and chime in only on occasion. There wasnāt as much attention on her as Iād have liked considering that. By virtue of the splitting up perspectives thing we were doing it feels like she didnāt get as much screen time as other sinner in their canto. For that split up, I liked the restricted teams aspect of this canto, but on the back end, itās absolutely insane Ryoshu didnāt have any meaningful interactions with like half the nursefathers outside flashbacks because of that.
On the other hand, I was already annoyed at the functional character reset she had at the end, but I cannot imagine how unfathomably pissed Iād be if she got a lot more development and we did that anyway. Since we did do it though, I wouldāve been fine with something minor, like Ryoshu just stopped smoking after this canto even if she canāt remember why.
Im not a fan of the pseudo time travel thing they did with Araya, that left a bad taste in my mouth as it didnāt feel justified well to me. I could tolerate it for Sinclair because of hype, chutzpa, and the justification of the mark of Caine, but Iām not loving us introducing time bullshit.
I do like that we just outright say Araya and Ryoshu will reconnect someday, but I wouldve liked to see more of the deadest child Iāve ever seen outside of āI love my mom,ā to make me care about her a little more. Like, her scenes in flashbacks were cute, but I felt I needed a little more to be fully invested in Araya as a character outside just Ryoshuās daughter.
To go along with that, I think Iām getting some fatigue in Limbuses promises of payoffs in the future for like everything. I still trust them to do it, but Iām an impatient bitch, sometimes I do just need some payoffs a bit quicker than a few years down the line.
Speaking of payoffs, Greg and Sinclair stuff. Real hype shit, that Iām very here for. Itās all really cool and holy shit lore implications, yadda yadda. Iām fucking baffled that we decided to do the mark power reveal and Greg arm reveal back to back with a one node separation. That feels crazy and once I was out of the hype shit mindset, itās feels contrived to have both of these massive deals happen back to back just like that and pretty much out of nowhere. It couldāve softened the blow to have one of those happen a little earlier in the canto if weāre dead set on both of them happening here in it. They were both cool though and my brain is working backwards to accept it as sick shit that worked in the moment so who cares (Greg fight though. Itās a really good fight but it was annoying entirely because of my ID choices screwing me into phase 2)
Finishing on Faust actually being dunked on in the discord call is so goddamn funny though. Rare moment where I feel bad for her.
Final thought, this was a fun canto but honestly the one Iām most mixed with my feelings on. Itās got a lot cool shit going on but also a lot of problems that I found far more noticeable than I have with most other cantos. Some are minor or personal gripes, but others I think are more fundamental writing problems that I have some fear will persist. I think overall where this canto suffers most is payoff. You can give Ryoshu all the interesting relationships you want but if she doesnāt get the chance to interact with most of them then it just doesnāt matter that much.
Now, side character speed run:
- Hohenhein: I was neutral, now heās hype and sick as fuck I wonāt lie. Iām sold on him now. His scene with the Ring nursefather about art was one of my favorites. I think all the ally fights were cool, I think either the Hohenheim or the detective crew was probably the best of them
- Lab assistants: Couldnāt give a fuck about Marton, Chief. Alyssa at least kinda gets to do shit, but I donāt care much about her either. I guess sheāll be important by what UncClair said.
- Matthias and Kira: I was really fucking with them until Matthias team killed then friendship was ended with him. They fit the hype moments vibe of the canto really well. Itās so funny weāre collecting enemies to shove into the distortion detective squad cause I bet thats where Kira goes.
- Callisto and Albina: I think the art kids are interesting, and I wouldāve been happy if they got a bit more time to them. I really like Albinaās design out of the Iron Maiden, when itās on it does feel out of place but I also like that. Their swords made of their own meat is really cool.
- Valencina and Lucio: I saw her in part one and knew people would be ferally horny about her. I think theyāre both pretty simple, Valencina is pretty generically hateable. Lucio exists. If I forget any characters these are two and three to be forgotten.
- Pinky Apprentice: This is number one in forgettable.
- Sora: Sora really fades into the background for me. She just doesnāt register as anything beyond the most predictable betrayal in part 2 who can manifest ego which is cool. Iām surprised by the amount of love Iāve seen for her because of my complete ambivalence to her existence.
Araya: I think she couldāve used a bit more screen time as Araya and not the nursefather. Maybe if I reread it my feelings will change. I like her well enough but I wouldāve liked a little more time with her as post reveal to really sell me on her before the gut punch. That being said, the scene were she reconnects the chain to Ryoshu was nice.
Distortion Detective Crew: This felt like the subtle hint of a knife in the ribs that I should go read Distortion Detective. They seem fun (I got too much shit to do to read it rn). Ezra has many of what I would describe as Discord Pfp faces. They are way fucking stronger than I wouldāve expected of them.
- Rien (LoR spoilers here): Rien pisses me off. As a character with rancid vibes, +A, I never once trusted this guy but was intrigued by him. As a character who is a walking Roland reference, pissed. As someone who is an embarrassing level of fan of Library, this is the most pandered too Iāve felt and it made me mad. And I just donāt know why this was a writing decision made. Maybe weāll get some greater justifications later, but as of now it just feels like pandering to Library fans (itāll probably be something like āthe prescripts had to prepare us for fighting the black silenceā or some shit if we even get an in universe explanation). I have some stuff from when I was live blogging it in a discord server. When I saw the ditch from the bad ending I was annoyed.
Edit: Iām chilled out about it now, just in the moment I wasnāt jiving with it at all. I understood the thematic reason for him imitating someone else, and after actively thinking for 3 seconds I get why Roland was chosen. Iām still not huge on it and I donāt know if I still consider it pandering, but I still felt like I was supposed to soypog at Furiouso-Replica and that got an ick factor
Manifesting that I encounter a villainess that'll pull me into their plots and schemes and they keep relying on me because I'm such a good henchman and don't ask too many questions
When are you gonna do wizard stuff? You've been etching that same spell array for the last 5 streams lmao
"When am I gonna do wizard stuff? You're watching it right now man. This is it."
you should hunt more demons again
Laughs "Look man, that was last month. This is now. You gotta understand the role of violence in the cycle if you're ever going to thread the needle of your will into the tapestry of fate."
So are you not gonna accept ManaMuncher2003's wizard duel challenge?
"Okay first of all, I don't even know who this guy is. Second of all, you gotta remember that wizard duels are fought across the entirety of reality and the victor is decided long before the challenge is ever issued. But I guess no one ever taught you that."
you're calling us stupid lol
"No I'm just saying that there's a reason why I'm the one doing spells and you're the one watching me from your mom's laptop. No shame or anything."
fuck you and your entire mage guild you shitty hedge witch
"Alright buddy, you're getting annoying. Mods, send this guy to the mind prison where he has to fight a shadow doppelganger representing his deepest insecurities to escape"
NL's never shown us his shadow demon because we know he'd have hair
Failing to hold back laughter "Okay to be fair to that last guy, I gotta send you to the mind prison too. But I'm gonna give you thirty seconds to find a weapon to bring in with you because I have to admit that one was pretty funny"
while it may not seem like it to someone scrolling by with a cursory look, what i am creating is not āironicā nor a āget rich quick schemeā and it is certainly not AI GENERATED. it is a genuine expression of my heart and my beliefs about sexuality and art and love and freedom and curiosity and joy
i was very concerned to hear the skeleton trotting on cover of latest tingler appeared to be AI generated. i am not sure if it really is or not, as the image was purchased from a stock photo website like all of my images, HOWEVER these sites are getting flooded with AI slop just like everything else
could have easily just left it and i think 99 percent of buckaroos would never notice, but this is something i care about a lot. there are authors i will not name that i get tagged with all the time who proudly slop around with their AI, and i will never do that. the soul of these books is not theft
i have updated cover with new stock skeleton who SEEMS to have been rendered by human. as time goes it will be harder to tell but you can trust i will try my best to craft with love and honesty. these is not 'bad covers' or 'ironic content' to me, it is art that i care deeply about. thanks buckaroos
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