#and finding the cgs

[cosmic-courtroom]

@doomed-bythe-narrative

coughs and grins you know what time it is

CARRRRMEN PROPAGANDA BABEY because i know nothing about lyf. sorry guys.

anywa. general cw BECAUSE I ALSO FOUND THE CGS SO.

CW : BLOOD, DEATH, SUI, CHILD DEATH, MANIPULATION, ETC. THERE’S A LOT. SO, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

now. let’s begin. before lobotomy corporation began it started in the backstreets and an outskirts laboratory. carmen in both ruina and lobcorp was said to go into places in the backstreets and preach her words and speak out and loudly about just how fucked things were. gebura even talks about this in library of ruina and how she first met carmen. their first conversation and interaction was an argument saying that carmen could never understand the suffering and agony that the people in the backstreets go through every day and night just to survive. carmen agreed with gebura (at the time, kali) on what she had said and said that kali could never understand the pain and struggles the people of the nest go through either even if she tried to explain.

in the city, you are supposed to be someone who is nihilistic and resigned and stay in your place. (this is also hinted at and said in children of the city by mili) carmen wanted to rebel against that. she didn’t want to sit at a desk somewhere and work until she died and let the cycle continue, she didn’t want to be another gear in the clockwork tower known as the city. you’re not supposed to do anything, she used this. and the way she would use that, was she would go out and make speeches to people to gather some others. who would later be doomed by this as well and become the sephirah of lobotomy corporation.

she gathered a color fixer (kali-gebura), a high ranking aristocrat (daniel-chesed), orphaned children (lisa and enoch - tiphereth a & b), youngest worker (michelle - hod), worker (elijah - malkuth), a close friend (giovanni - netzach), her partner (ayin - A/X), his friend (benjamin/hokma). and one more but that was after her death. and they were significantly tourtured for information to continue.

what did she want to do? carmen’s objective was to “cure” the city of its “illness”. of being stuck in the same cycle. of being subjected to the madness of being unable to do anything but work and go home. work, go home. and repeat. once again, mentioned in mili’s children of the city, “Only thing that's left is to work on following commands.”

her experiment was known as, “the seed of light”, to truly end all suffering and all complicity in the city. as she valued human life but also extreme perseverance and extremely strong wills. this would be her downfall.

the substance used in these experiments was an unrefined form of cogito.

one of the children, enoch, wanted to be “useful” around the labs in the outskirts at this time and he wanted to partake in the experiments to help speed them up. in short, he died from them. the other child, lisa, was close with enoch and always had been, had told carmen directly to her face that she would be better off dead.

carmen attempted suicide later. she was nearly successful. but this suicide resulted in a low risk abnormality we know as bloodbath. take its description:

“many hands float in the bath. they are the hands of the people i once loved.”

while in the story it describes that bloodbath originated from someone cutting their wrists in a bath while the other person slowly finds out their craving for death. while looking into how carmen and ayin spent their successes and failures. popping champagne when they succeeded, and carmen feeling like she would truly be better off dead when they all failed.

carmen craved death when people started dying and no matter how many advancements were made, she couldn’t overlook the fact that someone died within her own facility. ayin found her body in the tub, barely alive and placed her in a cryo coffin. at least what was left alive of her.

unfortunately this is where hod/michelle comes into play. and the final sephirot parts. michelle had sent a message to the head (the city’s official government) about the experiments that were being conducted in the facility. she had witnessed firsthand the deaths of her coworkers (gabriel, giovanni, elijah) and the child, enoch. due to cogito. unrefined and incomplete cogito.

she killed herself after the attack on the facility, ayin was forced to read about it in the news.

elijah had already died before this due to the unrefined and not even close to being ready to test in humans cogito. she wished to help and tried it, eventually ayin had found her begging for death on the floor with half her teeth and fingernails gone, he left her to die there. on the cold hard floor.

the head had sent an arbiter. garrion (binah). garrion nearly wiped everyone there. taking kali’s arm in the process. garrion was mortally wounded and tortured by ayin before having her brain and internal organs extracted to become binah. a sephirah. but during extraction team game talks with binah, she explicitly says that ayin had talked to her about, “would carmen have approved of everything that had happened if she would’ve known HER INITIAL ACTIONS lead ayin and benjamin down this path.”

lobcorp finished.

onto lor.

how does she affect the narrative from here ? she dooms others. she fucks up more people. she makes the narrative her bitch. she’s been doomed by the narrative and everyone else was doomed by her actions.

in lobotomy corporation, cogito was made by carmen’s brain and nervous system being stuck in a box, a big ass fishtank if you will and the cogito she produced was used to extract EGO and abnormalities. an employee went insane and was too far gone by looking into the well. occasionally cogito could bring them back but they would have to take time off.

in ruina, there are these things called distortions now, people who have such a big emotional buildup that they hear a voice and see a light, fall into that and listen and they distort into some creature. some creature capable of demolishing entire nests and backstreets. the pianist is a prime example of one, 300k people were killed in his wake. the voice and the light ? that’s carmen. it’s fucking carmen. in a way she wants people to be free in the way adam wanted the abnormalities to be free and walk amongst humans.

she still wants her one true desire, to free the people of the city. to let them be them. she lets these people fall into these cycles and turn them into distortions at her voice to free them. but she also works on convincing angela that her desires to be free and human are achievable and can and must be reached.

near the end of the game, carmen and angela meet again. and you must fully realise the keter floor. angela wants carmen to stop everything she’s doing, to stop the madness, to just. stop the distortions. obviously carmen denies and still wants the people of the city to understand what they are capable of and what they can do. to “love their true selves.” as she puts it in game. angela doesn’t stop her and won’t as long as she’s part of the light. the light that was harvested in lobotomy corp.

now, limbus company.

limbus company is new but, it’s a very very popular theory that the golden boughs you have to collect that are apparent in every L Corp location in the city is part of carmen. which would add more to her being doomed and her dead body and parts of her actively being exploited by the wing and company itself.

as recent as canto IV, carmen has been mentioned by dongrang as cause for distortion and essentially told her off. it does prove that carmen is apparent in limbus and she will be around more often as far as i can see with this revelation.

and finally. angela.

angela is a robotic variation of carmen created by ayin and benjamin. she was made after her death and in direct violation of the AI ethics amendment act, as her brain is a partial scan of carmen’s. angela is a direct extension of carmen and she struggles with this in both lobotomy corp and much more in library of ruina. and the things she is forced to do makes her cold and uncomfortable and with a prickly exterior. she was forced to play along with a “script” during lobotomy corp to collect light and energy and release it all on the 50th day. she only did it for 3 days. the white nights and dark days incident as it’s constantly referenced in the series. it was quite literally carmen’s plan to plant the “seeds of light” in the city and in the hearts of all the citizens so they would change for the better. but she doomed that, she changed that course quickly.

angela was more confused with her creation initially and always asked again what her purpose was. ayin’s consistent answer was,

“a machine should behave as a machine”

as it was constantly repeated to her, obviously it had an impact. not to mention she was programmed to perceive time 1000x slower than than average human. making her failures with this “script” that ayin and carmen made so so much worse. angela had wanted to help all the sephirot with their problems but every time she presented them with a valid solution to their problem, she was hit with a reset. learning to ignore the deaths, the cries for help, everything. she hates ayin for what he did, she doesn’t know why he hates her but, she knows why she hates him. for putting her in a robotic, mechanical body and forcing her to hurt and doom others as, “you’re not her[carmen]”.

she TRIES to be nice and listen but it FORCES a reset on her. the scenario ayin made her do. everything. it gets reset and loops, nobody knows what happens, only angela knows. and she’s forced to figure out where she went wrong. she’s forced to ignore problems, she was forced to doom others. as carmen accidentally enthusiastically pushed forward, until it became a twisted fucked up mess.

video used for these - lor complete story

honestly, i highly recommend you play or watch a play though of the games if you enjoyed any of this because it’s SO interesting and so phenomenal of how carmen actions caused such a cataclysmic reaction and how angela, a version of carmen, struggles with her identity but is also by extension, A VERSION OF carmen and doomed by the narrative as well and has doomed the narrative.

Doomed by the Narrative: SEMIFINALS - 1

[nyaa]

NYAN NYAN PARASOL (2000)

Doujin soft action game featuring developer / artist Shisui House's mascot character Mei-nyan.

[kapacb413]

[itslilacokay]

oh would you look at that

part 1!

[ohposhers]

I would very much like to see the rest of Brozone meeting Cloud Guy

they fear him

[fruifruit]

just one chance wayne please

[dolly-doe]

vaguely serious post but i really think we should discuss internet safety regarding the agere community because the amount of people (ive noticed this almost exclusively with older kids/young teens which is Really nervewracking) who publicly post about searching for a cg or taking cg 'applications' reeeeeally worries me !! please make sure u completely trust the people u are vulnerable with !!!

[astranauticus]

this isnt the kind of stuff i'd usually post but im fuckin losing my mind. ive been watching through the bilibili livestream vods of like this arknights lore creator reading through and commentating on like the game stories and right now im watching the vod from his main story chapter 11 stream and his reaction to logos' sprite reveal is so fucking funny i had to clip it. man is really having a crisis on stream

[kkoct-ik]

whos this goober in my death game

the silly :)

[lemonemenom]

"Thank the animators for how good this film looks"

"It was the effort of various animators who sometimes get overlooked"

For those who are interested. Artists or crew members , not animators.

Animators are a specific job and a small cog in a massive machine. They are ONLY responsible for the base motion of characters and props. They don't even animate hair or clothes anymore, only the physical bodies of the characters.

I see people a lot online doing the "Thanking the studio diminishes the work of the animators" dance, but frankly attributing the work of animated films to animators is worse and completely ignores all the other crew who work in modern animation & VFX (both 3D AND 2D).

Think of an animated film like a board-game.

They didn't think up the concept, or quantify the rules, or design the board, or source the materials, or organize the labor/production, or make the pieces. They just move the pieces around.

"Oh when they say animators they mean all artists on an animated film"

Sure mate, and every single person that works in a hospital is a scrub nurse.

[stimsfx]

self indulgent little!wash stimboard

x x x / x x x / x x x (if i fucked up crediting pls lmk)

i think he should get 2 be a little kitty . as a treat

[papermonkeyism]

Hey, can anyone help me find a thing?

I remember seeing a photo of a (life sized?) model of a small, fuzzy theropod, possibly a Sinosauropteryx or something, all fluffy and posed like it was jumping up (to catch a bug or something?) Something like this?:

Can't remember if it was from a museum, a science article illustration or one of the art model makers I follow, it's been a while, but I was thinking of it and would like to see it again.

Thank you!

[agerefandomstuff]

Hey! Can you give some caregiver!Sam winchester headcannons? I read your dean hcs and i loved them so much!!! <3

• Will genuinely get sad if you decline a bedtime story. He LOVES to read with/to you.

—If he doesn’t get to do a bedtime story he feels like HIS routine is thrown off. Or he worries that you don’t actually like bonding with him. since this was the first and easiest thing for him to settle into and get excited about with you when you're regressed.

However, a little reassurance helps that insecurity.

• Also bedtimes are a must.

—He has a schedule and chores for you to complete every week.

—But the fun part is you got to sit down with both Sam and Dean to make and decorate the chore sheet. AND you get STICKERS to mark off what you’ve done.

(Sam almost regrets the sticker idea since he has to buy them in bulk now since one or two or five might end up on the boys’ faces rather than just the sheet. Oopsie! Haha!)

• Strict no thumb sucking rule.

—If he even SENSES your thumb going anywhere near your mouth, you’re getting the: “where have our hands been? And how do we know what the demon touched was clean? Exactly. We don’t. Get that thumb back in your lap. And use the necklace/pacifier I got you.”

—He knows about chewlery.

—Almost got you and Dean a matching pair but he didn’t want to hear Dean’s complaining (you both know he would’ve liked it eventually and it would’ve saved all of Sam’s pens.)

• Sam was uncomfortable at first holding you since it’s been a long time since he got to hold and cuddle someone. And back then it was romantic. Not… parental. He was worried about crossing boundaries or that he would be holding you wrong or just… h-he was uncomfortable! And nervous! Alright?

— But he cuddles you plenty now to make up for his original nervousness and he adores how you settle against him on the couch or on the bed.

—He’ll sit for hours with you curled up on his lap or leaned against him. The lights turned down to a soft yellow glow. Just bright enough for him to read his book but not bright enough to hurt your eyes or overwhelm your senses.

Sometimes he’ll softly play music off his trusty iPod or turn on a sweet nature documentary for some quiet background noise.

• Otherwise he puts on educational cartoons like magic school bus, osmosis jones, wild kratts, word girl, bill nye, myth busters, etc.

—He wants you to learn things (Dean complains to Sam about how they’re all educational because you know he’s sitting and watching them with you. He’s a sucker for cartoons.)

—But also those are the only cartoons Sam can really stand to watch for long periods. He’s almost burnt out on Scooby-Doo, Dory, and Frozen. Because of how much Dean played them but he’ll still watch them with you if you want.

• He gets crazy proud of you when you (or Dean) later repeat a fact you learned from one of the shows he put on for you.

Y/n: “Wild Kratts say that wolves’ prey will escape by swimming in water! So maybe if we go swimming the werewolves won’t get us!”

Sam: “Baby, I love that you remembered that.. but it’s not going to convince me to let you out of the safe zone until this hunt is over and I know you’re safe. Besides, you're way too little right now. How about you help by watching more of the Kratt Brothers so you can tell me more facts about wolves, okay?”

Dean: “Did you guys say something about Wild Kratts being on? Whatever it is, throw in a beer and some popcorn and I’m in.”

Sam: “Dean… c’mon..”

Dean: “What?”

Sam: “You’re going out on the hunt with me. You can’t stay back and watch cartoons with (y/n) right now.”

Dean: “But it’s Wild Kratts! I don’t want to get behind!”

Sam: “Dean.”

Dean: “Ugh.. fine. I’ll gank the werewolf with you.”

Y/n: “Then we can go swimming?”

Sam sighs, “Then.. maybe we’ll go swimming.”

Thank you for the request!! I hope you like this one as much as Dean’s!

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

Chapter 6 checkup (The text on Vertin says "Alive but gay" btw)

Inspo (also spoilers for Madoka Magica and Ninjago lmao):

(Fyi, I didn't know how to do the gray out thing so the black text is supposed to stand in for that)

Up to date version of this image with chapter 7 spoilers below the cut

[therantingsage]

Nightly Too Close thought. Again.

Change God’s funny. Once it gets to the point Sif-n-co are comfortable talking to them, they just go so silly with it. Lots of over the top body language, switching up which party stand-in they’re talking through every sentence. Isabeau’s square mouth opens and Mira’s voice comes out. Everyone’s voices shuffle, really.

Bonnie and Odile’s ‘Change God Modes’ both lack mouths, so whenever they ‘talk’ it’s only really apparent though body language. They love making Odile in particular super animated. They like to make Isabeau do the robot.

Once they first realize it’s the Change God puppeting them, though, Siffrin definitely spends a loop or two hiding somewhere and interrogating Mirabelle about it because they figure she’d be the one with the most know-how on the subject. Mira why is your DEITY playing with all your bodies like DOLLS why are they ROLEPLAYING

Related but I think Siffrin gets a new tear-nightmare after that reveal. Where the family’s faces fall away like masks, leaving gaping empty shadows behind.

And then the nightmare follows them during Clocktower sleep too.

[kustas]

how i miss that mid-90s to early 00s anime era where they were mixing the simplicity of cel with its limited color palettes and little compositing and the complexity of character designs and backgrounds allowed by skilled artists and years of animation expertise + early CG imagery while still being drawn on traditional media...ough