#What words cannot convey

[lenkalost]

Cedric and Axel are as different as night and day. Yet, they somehow became friends, a fact Cedric isn't unhappy about. But when Axel starts flirting with him, things become complicated. And between contracts and the everyday trouble that is Dyn Marv, Cedric doesn't need any more complications.

Hey! Another Saturday, another chapter. Today, there's all the drama. I hope you enjoy it. ;)

[3-aem]

MY BRAINS NOT WORKING AND THE CUTE BOY I WORK WITH KEEPS CORRECTING MY GRAMMAR THIS IS SO AHAIWIAKSDHDGRRRRHRNE

[uncanny-tranny]

If you truly want to do what's best for mentally ill people, you have to learn that you often won't be able to separate the "salvageable" parts of ourselves with our illnesses, and you can't pretend like we are sane people underneath the façade of insanity, like we can flip a switch and magically erase the differences that make us "disordered"

[bunorous]

Amnesia: The Bunker and Its Commentary of The Horror of War

For the purpose of this analysis let’s look at the aspects of the game— its characters, its setting, it’s period— as embodying concepts rather than just representing them.

First and foremost: I think the setting of a desolate and arguably isolated war bunker is a very strategic setting both gameplay and lore wise. This isn’t a commentary of the gameplay, though, so I’ll keep that bit simple: it’s claustrophobic, it’s murky, it’s lonely, it’s brutal. It scares you.

In a sense, though, this location also aptly represents the situation many soldiers found themselves in. I couldn’t find any statistics for France specifically, but in the States, 72% of soldiers were draftees, so we can reasonably assume that the percentage of French draftees was at least more than half.

This, of course, is a very ensnaring position to be in. You are plucked from what you know and tossed into a world that society as a whole is unfamiliar with, unequipped to handle. You experience atrocities you cannot even process. You see death, and learn of the great many things that are worse than that.

There is a religious undertone in The Bunker both in the way the soldiers interact with each other and in, of course, the otherwordly religion that ultimately drives the garrison to their demise. For all intents and purposes, Henri has been abandoned by God. He is trapped. He is lonely. He is scared. He reeks of death and blood.

What he feels during this time is not dissimilar from what a soldier anywhere else would feel. You are trapped in a bunker with a horrible beast. Or you are trapped in a bunker fighting a horrible beast. Or the beast is yourself and you must grapple with that knowledge.

On the topic of beasts: are they all not as much a monster as The Beast himself, if not just in their own head? Do they, like Augustin, not feel themselves transforming into something otherwordly due to what they have done? Do they not also have blood on their hands?

In a sense I feel The Beast represents not only just the brutality machine of war but also guilt. He kills without mercy, without second thought, for no reason other than he is a beast, and that is what beasts do.

He has lost himself. Throughout the waning days of his humanity he spends his time in the chapel, repenting for something he himself does not understand, knowing only that he must repent. And he, without a way to cope or process what he has lived through— such a thing had not yet been invented— transforms into the spirit of his guilt, of his jumbled thoughts, but he retains remnants of himself despite. Bayonets through his chest as the soldiers tried to hide from it, run away from it. His uniform still hanging on even when everything else has been destroyed.

(The Rabbit is one such example as well. He retrieves it for a moment, cradles it gently, but the moment is gone as soon as it passes. He has been changed. He can never be changed back. Compassion lives in everybody but it dies in war).

Toussaint represents a very similar concept. Many found his level to be the most frightening. There is something more terrifying than monsters or ghouls and it’s man, drawn thin by things they do not comprehend. His recitation of his poem, which is itself a commentary of the war, is all that’s on loop in his head. Had he survived, had he gone on and lived even as the war ended, it would be on loop in his head nonetheless.

Additionally: everything in The Bunker is uniquely grotesque, though not in a glaringly physical sense (at least not in my opinion). There are no corpses falling from the ceiling in front of you, no jumpscares. It is possible to proceed through the entire game without ever even glimpsing the beast. He is a looming threat, and as much a promise as an uncertainty. He toes the line between two opposite concepts. This confusion and absurdity reflects the mindsets of many soldiers at the time.

Essentially, what Frictional Games is saying is: See this? See this war, this man-made conflict? See these men, haunted and hunted? You can draw lines in the sand all day long recounting blood and guts but nothing is more petrifying than the horrors of it.

It is hard to represent the enormity of war and it is harder still to articulate it. But I feel like The Bunker has come closest to it so far.

Ultimately I don’t think The Bunker would have worked in any other setting than this one. Henri’s compassion in a compassion-less place kills Augustin. Augustin, wrought with grief and horror, very well may kill Henri, as the effects of war spread between people and brothers like a plague. You could say that the war itself is the root of all of this, if not just that it put into motion many of the things that led to the Henri waking up alone in that infirmary bed.

Anyway yeah this is very jumbled and Freeform but there’s my analysis Lawl

[fortune-maiden]

More little Crossbell things (and more CS roasting):

- The way sidequests actually feel optional and are integrated naturally with the story and not “here is the designated time to do side quests”

(though I think Ch 4 of CSIII did it pretty well during the summer festival segment)

[thetiredstuff]

Genuinely don’t possess the words to convey how utterly heartbroken and speechless I am at what is happening in Gaza right now. I worry for when communication is back on.

I cannot imagine the horrors and horrific uncertainty that this night is bringing for Palestinians and those who have connections to people on the ground in Gaza.

[dragongirlbunny]

confession time while i will usually play along as a bit if someone else starts it i do not really see myself as a dragongirl so much as a girl with dragonlike tendencies. viridia is my fursona (scalesona?) not actually me.

[beeapocalypse]

worlds freakiest computer girlfriend who tells u to transition over every single problem faced

[lenkalost]

Cedric and Axel are as different as night and day. Yet, they somehow became friends, a fact Cedric isn't unhappy about. But when Axel starts flirting with him, things become complicated. And between contracts and the everyday trouble that is Dyn Marv, Cedric doesn't need any more complications.

Hey folks, this week on "What words cannot convey" I present a change of POV. Prepare yourself for some pining. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you so much for every click, kudos and comment. It means the world to me. <3 Have a great weekend!

[generic-internet-name]

want to hold my friends and brush their hair and make them tea but there’s stupid “physical space” and “distance” like come on who came up with this

[mlynar-nearl]

punishment - rabindranath tagore (trans. w.b. yeats) / antagonick - anne carson /  młynar archive file 3 - arknights

[astrumocs]

i love wren too :) <3

[mejomonster]

I'm thinking about how you guys have said before I write/type a certain way, how you can tell when it's me who wrote the meta in the tags or liveblog or headcanon before you even see the username and

1. WHAT do I write like lol that you can immediately tell its me? ToT

2. Admittedly I do apologize for the bizarre way I word shit at times especially when I'm liveblogging and writing fast like just thoughts and periods between em and. I swear to you I did get As in English classes and could tutor people in writing essays and correct grammar it's just that skill of clarity is absolutely not being used outside academic contexts apparently

[salted-caramel-tea]

this post was supposed to be a lighthearted post about aspec people by highlighting them in a joking way that still instills positivity and pride in the identity .

unfortunately too many people are too chronically online and media illiterate to realise that so let’s break down the post.

‘shout out to the people not having gay sex this pride month’

this was intentionally a worded to counter the ‘have lots of gay sex this pride month’ jokes and positivity that surround pride discussions. The wording directly associates with anti-queer activity and their frequent attempt to divert attention from queer people during the month of pride. it is worded intentionally. it is supposed to seem counter active to pride .

the humour is then seeing a pride flag. specifically the asexual flag- in which case this stands for an umbrella term across the aspec community which is more recognisable than the variety of aspec flags that i had seen whilst looking for a flag for this post . the grey line of the asexual flag stands for the spectrum between allosexual and asexual it represents the degrees of asexuality and in so, with the purple, stood for the aspec community in this post.

if the joke is still lost on you, the idea was to read a statement that counters the idea of queer pride and find it recontextualised to humorously represent an identity associated with the lack of sexual attraction; ergo no gay sex .

what this post is NOT, is a comment on varied asexual attraction. it us not a commentary on what makes a valid asexual person or whether or not you specifically will have sexual inter course this pride month . it is not saying asexuals are not allowed to have sex . this post is pushing any stereotype of asexuality . op is a sex having aspec person. i am demisexual . i have been with my partner for almost 2 years and engage in sexual activity .

what this post IS, is a joke. it’s a fucking joke i cant make it any clearer. not every single joke is going to relate to your own experiences and that’s ok. not every post about asexuality is going to relate to your own experiences that’s ok. you need to stop taking things at face value and actually engage in some media literacy to understand when something is a reductionist and stereotyping commentary which is inherently negative and when something uses a reductionist approach to convey humour because a lot of you really seem to be struggling with that one.

i fear a lot of you take yourselves too seriously and can’t find the humour in simple tumblr shitposts to the point where i’m having to actually explain what i thought was a very easy concept to grasp because it has upset a lot of people . stop taking everything so seriously .

if you are offended by the original post that is actually a you problem. that is something you have to work on where you cannot accept any form of lighthearted media that does not directly align with your own experiences . bc it’s not serious . it’s a joke x

also allo people can fuck off bc this is literally a post celebrating aspec ppl idc if your gf lives across the country or if you’re just a single loser this literally has nothing to do w u

yall make me want to kms for making me do this

[juicyrottenapple]

henry rollins 😳😳😳😳💦💦💦💦😩😩😩😩

[npd-future-star]

IS THERE NOT A SINGLE PERSON ON THIS GODFORSAKEN PLANET WHO FUCKING RESPECTS ME