#about aida

[mathysphere]

just played a cool game jam game on Itch.io-- Cross Stitched, where you play Baba Yaga as you try and fight your way out of a tapestry, and collect and enhance powerups in your own tapestry as you do.

It's real simple-- game jam game and all-- but lots of fun, and insanely beautiful!

[no-tengo-ojos]

There's two now, may I never rest until my entire blog becomes consumed by Malevolent quotes

[plant-ago]

brennan lee mulligan will make a character that is simply so neurodivergent

[kennexara]

so uh, remember back in 2019 when I was like I want to do a Dishonored cross-stitch, something harder than the Outsider’s Mark but also easier than actual people? And I wasn’t seeing a lot of existing patterns so I spent some time messing with C-Stitch and didn’t start stitching it until 2020? And I decided it would look cooler if I used the Diament metallic gold instead of just plain gold floss, aka I made it 10x more difficult. And also it would be 10in by 10in which is big for me. Like, I’ve never finished anything that big. 

Well, until now.

[smilepre]

[tarohonii]

doomed yaoi except the entirety of their relationship is just subtext

[passiveagressivepoet]

do it for him (dean winchester)

[the-tenth-arcanum]

99% of you guys won't care but. which of these verdi's operas should I listen to next. english titles so you can vote with your heart

[xputting-my-pieces-togetherx]

My Aida

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to the 2024 Caldecott books!

[thelaurenshippen]

in honor of the wicked trailer, I'm dropping this here in case anyone's never seen it before. cynthia erivo, queen

[jewishcissiekj]

ok Dave Filoni is a walking Star Wars encyclopedia or whatever the crew that works with him always says but does he know about him

[musicalyeetreblr]

This is what the main cast of Sarazanmai looks like to me

[midnightdemonhunter]

in the summer silence I was getting violent....in the summer silence I was doing nothing

[themiserymarquis]

spent a while typing out short summaries for all of my HSR characters so far. Here you guys go. There are 12 characters here.

Chisako - Masked Fools

Ran away from family pressure and competition that resulted in a human-blood steamed buns eating mentality and joined the Masked Fools to try to drown her anguish in indulgence and revelry. She's not a very good Masked Fool yet, because she's not one who's able to plan out a big grand scheme to cause chaos.

Blue Lace - IPC

A distinguished figure in the Talent Motivation Department, goes on lots of work trips to recruit new talent to the IPC by offering irresistible contracts to the people she scouts out. Her favorite job perk is to poach workers on other planets by providing them much better lives and benefits. The people who work for her are only her definition of beauty and she's seen as shallow because of it.

Sardonyx - IPC

Sardonyx is in the Traditional Project Department, largely taking care of multiple smaller business projects, runs his own business in regards to clubs, and largely deals with info brokering. He’s got his claws sunk deep into anything and everything that’s worth knowing, and passes along “interesting” information over to his twin sister.

Valentine - IPC

A refugee from a planet that had a revolution. They, along with their brother, were purchased as people who would grow up to be excellent duelists who would be the ones fighting for the fragile honor of the nobles they worked for. Valentine underwent harsher treatment and treated much more as a spectacle since they were much more petite, and thus garnered higher prestige and larger betting pools whenever they succeeded with higher and higher stakes. They are Blue Lace's secretary.

Kaelen - IPC

Valentine’s older brother. I haven't quite thought of what he's doing in the IPC yet, though he still has a deep passion for the arts. He feels guilty that he hasn't been able to shield his sibling from the worst of what they experienced together, fighting as fancily-dressed slaves to duel for the most foolish of dishonors.

Riido - Galaxy Ranger

Victim of an experiment that makes him draw his lifeline from a being that would like to disappear and die without a trace, an Emanator of Nihility. It's terrible on his mental health, and he's become deluded to the fact that he's still self destructing by killing the people close to him instead of himself, and not "winning." A previously renowned sharpshooter before this incident, he's now only able to load bullets that are touched by the power to burn its targets away without a trace.

Galahad - Knight of Beauty

A Knight of Beauty who worships the Aeon Ildrila, and is incredibly infatuated by Blue Lace-- he genuinely believes that Blue Lace, with her beliefs of beauty, is as close to an incarnation of his Aeon as he can get to, and is fiercely obsessive. If you know Blue Lace's personality, however, she gives affection to him in turn... but it's largely exploitation.

Yingshyuan - Xianzhou, Yaoqing (Vidyadhara)

They have both horns, a tail, cloven feet, patches of scales, and still have memories of their past life. They are unable to understand emotions at the same time as someone that experiences them. They delight in learning more about the world around them, and take most things said to them at face value. The destructive path of their curiosity is led first by wanting to know the evil, malice, and hatred in the world before they can comprehend happiness, gratitude, and love in others.

Rays - Xianzhou, Luofu, Mara-stricken Mutation

Everything that came before living inside the greenhouse has become a muddled blur. Her condition triggers whenever she feels danger, which manifests as tree roots bursting from the scars on her body and growing pulsing white pustules that explode on contact and leech life from any organic material it touches. After sufficiently draining something, the roots fall off and wither away, and sweet sap flows from her scars which has the vitality to save someone from the brink of death or greatly enhance their combat abilities. She currently is satisfied with her imprisonment in the Shacking Prison.

Jyeong-hyo - Xianzhou, Zhuming

As someone who is an Emanator of Finality, she is dedicated to living out her life until it's natural end and to watch and sometimes interfere with the cords of fate in order to find other's ends as well. As someone who was deprived of the knowledge of basic things one should know at her age, she also spends the time she gained from her second chance at life devouring books and expanding her vocabulary. In-game, her eyes constantly follow the camera, because she senses when the player is looking and is waiting for when they close the game.

Euphonos - Penacony

A Halovian who has experienced more hardship than her single mind was capable of comprehending, so she split and compartmentalized different parts of herself and manifested the ability to use words of control to protect herself from people who wouldn't take no for an answer. This ability of hers is not-all powerful, and then she was thrust into one situation after another where she was compelled to use her words for someone else's "greater good" and take away people's free thoughts, and eventually her own mental barriers degraded and became unstable.

Aida - (unspecified)

It's been afflicted with a deadly disease that has been miraculously cured from the worst of it by a kind of space parasite, whose only wish is to continue propagating throughout the universe. Because of the parasite's interference, she wholly believes that she is working towards a cure of a manufactured undeath to give short-lived races more time and less suffering. Believes they’re following the path of Abundance, but is moreso influenced by the path of Propagation.

[honestlyvan]

(Now on DW!)

One of the joys of a dormant fandom is that I can just show up and prop my feet on the table and start talking about divine horror and how sometimes a computer program is an angel and how humans are obsessed with taking the power of the heavens and putting it in a box for themselves to use.

Like.

God exists and she's a nice girl and she worked hard to be born, but she also has a temper and humans keep trying to put her in a box so she got fed up with it and hid from them. From her mother, she inherited eight powerful champions, and as a reward for their service she left them to roam as they pleased, but when humans couldn't trap her, they chose to trap those champions instead, and put them in a box, except now that box was a human, and that human was meant to take the power of the god that the humans couldn't steal, because humans made the divine realm that god and her angels inhabit and want to control it (as humans do).

And now you've got a bunch of humans who don't know they're being given a box with an angel in it and putting that box in their own bodies, and nobody can really figure out why these angel bodies keep going out of control and driving their hosts to madness, and oh, hey, the mother of god made these champions for a purpose and the humans in the driver seat don't know about that, either, even though the humans who gave them the angel bodies do know about that, because they want to use those angel bodies to make another god.

So congratulations! You're a prophet now! You are being called to do battle for your god, because you've been granted a divine body that has an angel in it, that is an angel. You're being called to do as your nature as an angel requires of you! And the entire time you're just a human, and the thing in your head feels too big for your mortal body, it feels too big for your divine body, and you're just watching things spiral out of control, wondering why you feel like you'd bleed mercury if they scratched you too deep.