#bc im just like...conversational with german

[thisisridiculois]

Am I going to have to work on my German just so I can watch the show my mutuals like

[mykennaleigh1]

The fact that Neil Josten canonically knows at least six languages is actually insane so here's my thoughts on all of them :)

English- English was his first language he learned (obvi). He grew up in Baltimore (hey im from MD too!!) so he pronounces words a little funny, like water as wad-der, and so on. Mostly soft t's and r's. Sometimes, he has a hint of a British tilt to some of his words, just bc of his proximity to Mary.

Japanese- I like to think that he learned a bit of Japanese in his father's house. This is his second oldest language, but it's also his second-least proficient. He never really had a reason to use it unless he was insulting Riko or talking to Ichirou. I like to imagine that he wants to improve his skills now that he has the time, so he watches anime in the background while he studies.

German- He learned German on the run, as we all know. He and his mom spent the first few years in Europe while his dad was still actively looking for them, and they bounced around from country to country for a while. I think he considers this his "second" language just bc it's the one he spent the most time using and practicing.

French- I love that he's canonically bad at French accents. He most definitely picked up French while he was bouncing around Europe, but like Japanese, he's not great at it. He got beat by his mom a lot for messing up the accents, and he could never quite grasp them. I mean, he got better for the sake of his own survival, but now that Mary's gone he can chill out a bit on perfect pronunciation. He considers French to be his "third" language, even tho the accent sucks.

Spanish- He knows a bit of Spanish from his time circulating the southern US. This is definitely the language he knows the least of. He can hold a slow conversation, but when Nicky starts to get ramble-y during their practice sessions he has to call it quits before he gets frustrated. (he still practices on his own bc even tho he doesn't have to run anymore, he wants Nicky to have a piece of home)

Russian- This is the last language he ever tries to learn. Him and Andrew pick it up fast, but they do it in such an ass-backwards way that they sort of suck at it. They 1000% just sub in German words when they don't know it in Russian and their accents are all off bc they don't have anyone around them to base off of. They both have like "second year of high school foreign language" level of proficiency but they both think they are great at it. Neil considers it his "fourth" language, when in reality he sucks.

[grotessquerie]

(ignore this) Reasons for me to stay alive

trying 2 not kms gets harder day by day so ^_^ some may be triggering so be careful <3 hidden under cut because its kinda long

all the canes i could eat if i didn't die...

my friend is either gonna buy me a 12 pack of a&w zero sugar root beer OR a three finger combo from canes when he gets the money

my ex (for multiple reasons, most of which revolving around "he could love me again one day")

my friends who come to me when somethings wrong/they just wanna hang out bc they feel down

adding on to reason 4, those friends would have basically no one to talk to about their problems because You know they come to me for a reason (their other friends don't take it seriously, don't seem to care, dont listen/dont give good advice, their friends jst dont like talking abt stuff like that, et cetera yk)

i like masturbating idk

i like to look at my body sometimes like i love my boobs i love my hipbones and my ribs and my collarbone

sometimes i do think im pretty

i wanna dye my hair all the colors someday (maybe all at once or maybe not, but i WOULD like to know what its like to have blue hair and pronouns)

i wanna get a diagnosis for (or to confirm that i don't have) whatever could be wrong with me and ill have to be 18 to be diagnosed with two of the possible disorders (which im NOT)

i wanna read all the books i think look interesting

i wanna write all the stories i think would be cool

i gotta outlive my great grandpa

i wanna make new friends like me and show them that they are capable of being loved and that someone actually does care about them

i wouldn't be able to play the games i like if i died

i wouldn't be able to doomscroll

id never be able to talk about myself again

i don't wanna fail and then wake up with terrible fucking stomach cramps like i did last time

id lose my 800 almost 900 day snapstreak with my dad (YES i use snap and YES i keep my streak w my dad going like its life or death)

i wanna be able to cut myself elsewhere on my body and NOT have it limited to just one ankle

i wanna get better at rhythm games

i need to finish all the shows i started and never finished (and find new ones to watch)

i need to finish reading the manga i never finished (and find new ones to read)

i wanna make a drawing that's so good that im proud of

i need to make more bracelets and kandi and charms

i like to collect trinkets and if i died i wouldn't be able to

my baby blanket

my stuffed bunny (unnamed)

i actually love big red zero sugar :drool: so good

i still need to try all the different kinds of macaroni

i need to become fluent/conversational in other languages besides English and german

if i ever do move on from my ex, i wanna experience falling in love again and ill do it right this time

i still have so much love to give and so many tears to cry

i need to be nicole dollangangers #1 fan

i wanna listen to all the music and find new artists i like and new songs and everything

my momma :(

the little kitty thing i keep on my laptop (she js sits there, isnt connected or anything)

i wanna find more cute clothes to wear

i love jokes i love to laugh

i either wanna be able to see myself lose more weight or recover from my ed

i wanna be clean from sh someday

i wanna find new hobbies that i love

i NEED to read the entirety of The Meg series (yes this is separate from finding new books to read)

i NEED to rewatch The Meg and The Meg 2 until I've seen them both 100 times (i LOVE the meg)

the poptart flavors I've never tried

the zero sugar drinks I've never tried

the people i could meet in the future

the pets i could own in the future

giving myself a chance at recovery for everything (Ik i said it already but its alright)

i like naps

[mushroomates]

Lord of the Rings hosting? Speaking foreign languages?? Love your posts!! the silly rambles of other tumblrians is my life blood currently

yeah!!!! ty for the kind words! ooooooooh hosting… stay tuned my friend that’s it’s own post :)

legolas: french. proper, france french. also european spanish, latin, and norwegian- which he will sometimes speak with gimli, but the dialects are so drastically different any communication is strained. he was taught formally, “properly” bc his dad lowkey a language purist and that’s kinda problematic but this isn’t abt him

gimli: most germanic languages, including danish, swedish, and norwegian. he speaks the common dialect, the conversational type- not the fancy literature university taught excuse of a language that legolas does. he likes to make a point that if they were on the street, legolas could read the street signs and not understand anything said to him.

aragorn: french (his upbringing), passible italian, street spanish (european and mexican), decent greek, decent norwegian and german, and some mandarin. is very quick picking up languages and speaking/understanding the local dialect

boromir: conversational italian. i’m sorry guys but gondor was based in italy and the roman empire,, and not even that but it just. feels right. im gonna say he speaks passible italian, but more… anglicized italian as he wasn’t really taught it but picked it up around family. (a lot of yelling by his dad)

frodo: knows latin. also french, spanish, and passable italian. has a generic accent that’s not to noticeable when he speaks. is a very good tour guide across europe and a great tutor if someone wants to learn.

merry: maintains a duolingo streak of easily four digits. it’s sweedish. no, he cannot understand gimli. no, gimli does not understand kerry’s sweedish either. he can, however, understand ikea directions. (it drives boromir nuts that the two people who on who can read the manual are possibly the worst at relaying them. merry because he doesn’t understand what’s going on, and gimli, because he believes he doesn’t need any manual)

pippin: tried learned klingon, but lost interest quickly. knows about eight different ways to say “your mom” and all the fun cuss words that come with foreign languages.

sam: is trying very hard to learn french. frodo is teaching him patiently and he’s picking it up rather fast. really, really hates verb congregation and gendered language.

gandalf: mandarin, greek, turkish, quebecois french, finnish, moldovan, castilian spanish, latin, pig latin, and probably more. he’s also fullent in hobbit.

[vryptidart]

rapidly reaching the point where i need to decide what languages Salt and Morag know, and to what proficiency... it'd help if we had a specific country set, but i continue to maintain the ambiguity bc its more fun that way

what i've established so far is

Morag: - speaks Spanish. aside from a bunch of dockwork specific terms and swears, most of her practice is from reading, and she's not good enough at it to intelligibly Mutter and Growl like she usually does. very formal and simplistic sentence structure

Salt: - doesn't speak Czech (+Russian, implied)

Salt is most likely to speak things that are applicable to city life- which is where the specific country would help out. she'd be focused on conversational ease, and fairly basic writing/reading. i actually think her knowing some Latin would make sense, bc of stuff with her mum, even before i realise the potential for the 'tu omnia' scene heehee. im faintly regretting making it that she doesn't speak Russian. or maybe i can make it she just was so off-kilter at the time that she didn't hear them right- bc in retrospect that would fit her really well tbh. giving her something with a strong fairytale culture associated with it would fit best. maybe some form of Arabic...

Morag on the other hand would be most often continuing any language studies by reading, typically novels and academic literature. if she's not picking it up from a specific person- and probably even with that- she probably does online self-paced courses to establish enough knowledge to get to those levels. so her languages are probably fairly eclectic, not a linguistically related grouping, and academically focused when it comes to her vocabulary. maybe German, for the workers rights literature lmfao

i might actually make Morag be the one who speaks Estonian, after all these folklore papers ive been struggling with gfhghfh she's read a bit of folklore and i can only see her reading more now that she can see its applicability to the supernatural world. salt knows more fairytales to start with, but morag will study them on an academic level (actually an AU version of her she was a folklore professor at a university hehe)

they probably both know their local sign language- ahh now im thinking abt Echolian Sign as a concept... having it be used predominately underwater as supplement, but adapted for on land for the Hard of Hearing and Deaf supernaturals...

the core thing really is just Do They Speak Estonian, i don't need a Definite list, but im also like. language learning is a hard thing! true full fluency in multiple languages is a VERY rare thing, and a lot of supposed polyglots arent... actually functional lmao

[k1rameki]

AYANA HC POST 🔻

yes im doing these kinda posts again no i dont regret it. i love ayana so much nobody gets it @alex-dontknow waves .. also bit of fair warning i will be talking in depth about stuff like self harm, suicide and mental illness so pls be cautious when reading this ⚠️⚠️

she comes from a rather large family, comprising of both parents, two older siblings (hiiro and amita), an older twin brother (andy) and four younger siblings (they have names i just cant remember them).. she's very close with them all and she loves them to death

LOVES sweets. has a massive sweet tooth and often forgets to eat proper meals because shes busy eating random candies (she's a hypocrite bc she's ALWAYS on tabi's case about not eating enough... smh girl the call is coming from inside the house)

had a lot of trouble with getting into new relationships ever since being with bf. she's the kinda girl who plans her entire life revolving around the people she dates truly believing it'll last and when it doesn't she's a total wreck. ayana is VERY bad at emotional regulation she sees everything in black/white

when aya first started dating dalia, the former appeared more standoffish and was a bit too prepared for the worst to happen, spoiler alert dalia was (and very much still is) head over heels in love and would literally kill for that teeny woman

works like three different jobs.. full time musician, part time pastry chef at a local bakery chain and a teaching assistant at her old high school (her mum works there as a music teacher) so as you can imagine shes very overworked. girly needs to take a break

her favourite pokemon is steenee :3 silly little mangosteen thing

she is in extensive recovery for a self harm addiction. somehow never got put in the ward but went through a LOT of therapy .. its not easy but her loved ones make it manageable

first realised she was trans when she started high school. her twin brother had already came out at that point but she was so worried about potentially being kicked out that it drove her to actually start cutting herself. it even got to a point where she almost ended her life over it (thankfully her dad found her before her pulse was completely gone wails) (she ended up coming out in the hospital and it was super emotional, both her parents and all her siblings were incredibly supportive, especially amita bc she always wanted a little sister to dress up all pretty with)

loves music! shes in a band (s!otr beloveds.. iykyk) and it helped a bit w her debilitating depressive episodes, and even gave her some newfound confidence emm ceeing some gigs :3 she plays the bass btw teehee

incredibly close w the band (thats code for theyre all secretly in love w her somehow and the same is vice versa. this band is secretly one big polycule /silly) :3c somehow has common ground with everybody in one way or the other, even the passive aggressive grump that is tabi /aff /silly

speaking of tabi. those two actually got hella close bc of how bad their exes messed them up, on one instance of seeing boyfriend and girlfriend in public aya straight up kissed tabi in front of them both.. needless to say they had a. rather long and uncomfortable conversation about their secret deep-rooted feelings for each other lol

the (second) most high maintenance person in the world. she and agoti will legit spend hours getting ready together using some fancy ass skincare products whenever the gang decides to do something nice. it pisses the other three AWF

wears hair extensions because she made a routine of cutting her hair regularly to remind herself that she is constantly changing, and in charge of her own life :,3 leaves two little tail strands long bc its cute

master of wearing heels, has legit ran a solid two miles in them once

DOG MAMA!! she has a rottweiler named chewy and a german shepherd named moony who she loves dearly (she had another dog called matzah who ended up passing due to health complications)

before pursuing music, she wanted to be a professional pastry chef or a photographer like her older sister, eventually she ended up teaching herself how to play the bass and the piano, in case neither thing worked out

very affectionate, she's compensating for the lack of affection she got earlier in life /silly

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

Hellow, i just reblogged that post about the cauldron loving elain and I have been seized with a need to figure out what the hell is going on with that so I shall read one (1) chapter if acomaf to bring me closer to my goal. For the record, I did know about the cauldron loving elain and hating nesta because idk, nesta was angry and annoying when she was dunked into it but elain was just so sweet and demure about it probably, i did not think it was. romantic love. but this is a sjm book so I was foolish to assume there would be a male character whos not insanely horny. Actually, is the cauldron even male? He is in the german version but thats just bc the word cauldron is masculine grammatically. Quick someone draw like, a tumblr sexyman humanized version of the cauldron. actually no, tumblrsexymen are traditionally twinks and sjm hates those. Quick someone draw like, a super buff shirtless man with golden hair, or whatever the color of the cauldron is

anyway, PREVIOUSLY ON: THE FLAMES AND DARKNESS LIVEBLOG we had the Court on Nightmares Under The Mountain Reenactment Scene as I like to call it and can we talk about how Feyre has known Rhys for like a year and only liked him for like half a year and yet she was perfectly fine sitting in his lap nacked and letting herself be sexualized by him. Like, I dont even have any kind of sexual trauma, you would still need to build up sooooo many years of friendship and good will for me to do that for you and you would NOT be allowed to jerk me off!! whatever, lets get on with this, its time for chapter 43

I hate that Rhysand is being all like "i shouldnt have brought you, i didnt want you to see this side of me" when its like, buddy you didnt have to do all this shit you couldve just walked in an been like "Im your high lord and demand your orb" and they wouldve given it to you because youre their high lord and youre demanding their orb. And if he thought they wouldnt have given it to him, he couldve easily come up with a different distraction he just went with the one that sexualizes Feyre because hes weirdo. Like, if hes so cruel on every other day then he shouldve acted really nicely, greeted Keir by giving him the biggest hug and being like "uncleeeee!! :D long time no see :)" and Feyre should have been dressed up as like, the embodiment of spring in pastel green soft shades of pink and but Rhysand still treats with the utmost kindness and respect, now that would throw the Hewn City for a loop

Okay so the reason Rhys broke keirs arm is because the word 'whore' triggered him which is understandable but like, Feyre thought of herself as the Highlords Whore in a very deliberate parallel to Rhysand being known as Amarantha's Whore and Im pretty sure she even straightup thought something about being in the position he had for so many years but she was like, horny about it and the narrative just isnt acknowledging it. Like, theyre not talking about it even though their mindlink was presumably open the whole time bc I remember them flirting through the link, and Feyre isnt even like "oh man, I feel bad for thinking that when its so upsetting to him" its so weird

Rhysand basically said "I will never try to protect you by locking you away, instead I will protect you by killing anyone who upsets you, even when they dont actually upset you and they just upset me" like he and Tamlin are not fundamentally any different from each other, its just that Rhysand is a coldblooded murderer. but its fine cuz he wears black leather i guess

I just realized. Rhysand had a boner when Feyre was sitting in his lap. did that go away when he broke Keirs arm or did he walk out of that meeting with his dick fully hard

Listen, maybe its just because its 3am and Im a little sleepdeprived but this conversation barely makes any sense, these bozos are just completely talking past each other at this point

Rhysand just said something about how Tamlin just locked Feyre up and let her waste away and almost die and Feyre was gonna say "He was trying his best" but Rhys interrupted her like "Dont compare me to him, stop comparing us" when she didnt say anything about that ??? my guy is projecting so hard rn he thinks theyre having a conversation that theyre not even having

And like i would argue that Feyre doesnt even compare Rhysand and Tamlin that much, the narrative definitely does it a LOT, but Ive been reading Feyres thoughts throughout this whole ordeal and I feel like she barely even thought about Tamlin since she sent him that letter

This scene is supposed this big turning point for their relationship and its clearly meant to be really emotional but the only emotion i can feel rn is annoyance with Rhysand because its like, he did have genuinely traumatic things that happened to him but not only is he barely affected by any of them, those are not even the things that the narrative brings up whenever its trying to get me to sympathise with him instead its always just "whaaaaaaa everyone thinks Im nasty and evil just because i keep doing nasty and evil things T-T"

Feyre is being very cruel but in a kinda funny way because its directed at Rhysand rn, i would insert the quote but I am in no state to translate anything at the moment but shes basically like "of course you have to hide your true self from your friends, they wouldnt wanna hang out with otherwise, you burden"

Idk why but the prose being like "my arrow struck him too deep" is so funny to me, it has the same energy as the vampire fics i read where the weird gay one gets his heart broken and he goes "it wouldve hurt less if he staked me in the heart"

Feyre is like "i cant believe he was so vulnerable and shared his sorrows with me and just threw all of it in his face" and I could not give less of a shit, but ive been on a big emotional abuse kick lately so now Im thinking about what if Feyre was just faking having feelings for Rhys in order to make him fall in love with her and be vulnerable with her only to then tell him the truth and reject the mating bond and make him completely break down as revenge for UTM. now that would actually be empowering

Now Feyre is thinking about how shes been using Rhysand for a long time now and come onnnnnn there is such a big power difference between them, I genuinely think its basically impossible for her to do that. Like, hes the most powerful guy in the history of guys or whatever, if anything you were doing bothered him that much he could simply make you stop doing it. hm. now Im thinking about what if rhysand was actually a huge masochist. Now that would actually be hot

Feyre is talking about how all the members of the inner circle suffered and are traumatized and theyve all learned to live with it and, not to extend too much sympathy to Rhysand, but all of the ICs major traumatic events happened centuries ago, his traumatic event happened one (1) year ago and it lasted 49 years i think its gonna take a little more time till hes all better

ughhhhhhh dont remind me of Amrens stupid romance subplot im gonna kill myself

Starfall is called Die Nacht der fallenden Sterne [the night of the calling stars] in german which is so much cooler and more whimsical, shoutout to my gal pal Alexandra Ernst for attempting to reinsert atleast a little bit of whimsy into this joyless world

Also, apparently its expected that Rhysand spend the first starfall in fifty years with his people, his people in this case referring to the Verlarians in the city that no one knows exists and not the people living in his courts actual capital. then again, i guess those bozos are all trapped under a mountain and wouldnt be able to watch it anyway so who cares

Amren said "hes not lucky to have us, we're lucky to have him" like yeah, hes paying you all exorbitant salaries just for being his buddies

God, amrens jacking rhys off so hard rn I cant believe she didnt wanna have sex with him when he asked

btw Im not even gonna dignify all that vaguely meta bullshit about how Tamlin is the golden prince and rhysand is the villain in the stories but the villain in stories is the guy who locks maidens away in towers and rhys freed her with anx kind of commentary because its just stupid, its just sjm bashing you over the head with how subversive she is when Tamlin and Rhysand are basically the same guy with different aesthetics at this point, like Feyre is not making a choice between the goodboy hero and the badboy villain, shes making a choice between a Bad Boy with a Heart of Gold (green) and a Bad Boy with a Heart of Gold (black)

[bigmack2go]

More of the language stuff bc the spanish stuff fucking WORKED.

Okay german. I dont have as much here BUT

Dutchy and kloppman talking in german exclusively and kloppman being like a granpa to dutchy bc they’re both mother tongues whos first language is german and idek i think i esteblished my point but they bond over that okay:(

Not abt the language but here’s a quote from dutchy: “i’m not actually from ‘dutchland’. I’m German but all off europe is the same to these american ass idots (and race)”

Skittery who knows German and is bilingual and in non stop arguments with dutchy who corrects him sometimes because skittery, while speaking german fluently, is still American and dutchy (like every german) is a G A T E K E E P E R.

Itey who’s can’t speak it so no one knows but understands it perfectly well eaves dropping on some german conversations

Crutchie and dutchy in heated arguments about……. Stuff. Idk. But it’s in german.

Flames and dutchy teasing each other and bickering in German all the time and almost no one understands them and just,,, are they laughing about us right now??

Flames teaching smalls and/or tic german ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Bart talking german in his sleep

Everyone thinking vince speaks german but he’s actually from the netherlands (in oposite to dutchy)

Also reminder that i’m from germany. Saying every German is a gatekeeper isnt racist its a fact, and observation. Im a gatekeeper. And not just about german.

[mithliya]

ugh sometimes u can just tell something is being said/done bc men find it hot. im watching this german show and one of the main guys picks up a woman from the plane & she comes home with him (very weird but whatever) and hes talking to his male neighbour (whos also a close friend) & that woman comes and says she made herself more comfortable, he was like "but ur wearing ur coat" and she says "but underneath im wearing nothing" then walks away & they have that cliche "guy is desperate to run in to have sex with her" scene they often have and all i can think is if a woman said this to me out loud while im in the middle of a conversation id frankly find it off-putting bc why do u want my neighbour to know that ur horny for me rn......weirdo behaviour

[thisismeracing]

bono!reader x mick thots

so like how do we feel about lewis going to ferrari and bono staying at merc and mick filling his seat for the bon x mick universe?

cause i dont think bon goes to ferarri with lewis i just dont

and having bono be mick’s race engineer at merc when he started off as michael’s? *chef’s kiss*

it feels wrong to have bono leave bon at merc for lewis

i was in the fence on including lewis’ departure from merc but leaving it out also feels wrong

and bono being mick’s race engineer is the only thing that really feels right to me. alongside the fact that bon stays at merc too.

☕️

this is a good line, bono staying as mick’s race engineer, but I see him having a super heartfelt conversarion with bb telling her he may leave the team soo, and kind of asking if she’s ok with it, if he can go with lew, and if she’s gonna be ok with mick (bc he’s accepted mick now and he’s actually relived she has the german with her now that he’s considering going to ferrari). Maybe bb will be super sad, leave mid conversation to seek for mick’s comfort, they will talk after some silent hours cuddling, and bb will go to her dad again to tell him she would love to keep working together w him, but it doesn’t matter if theyre in different teams or not, they’re on the same outside the tracks, they’re family and thats forever (this would go for lewis too 🥹) and she would talk with lew saying that she prefers her dad go with him rather than he goes alone to a different team. Im not sure, but this is the scenario I have in mind hihi

[victusinveritas]

whats the story behind ur url...?

sometimes phrases get stuck in my head like songs do. and i'm a latin student and so sometimes those phrases can be in latin. so when i was in the shower last night i just said "victus inveritas" out loud bc it just popped in my head. i was trying to remember where it came from bc it doesn't sound like something i learned? like it just sounds like it means "food lie" which (to me) is a nonsense phrase. but it kept bugging me so when i was out the next hour and remembered what i said i looked it up. but i hadn't thought to remove the space in between so i didnt know it was you. i couldnt find anything on it and im telling u i was losing it. mutterin 'victus inveritas victus inveritas' under my breath repeatedly like i was casting a damn harry potter ritual spell.

anyway i just logged onto tumblr and saw u reblogged and was like oh . there it is . victus inveritas

It's absolute, grade A Dog Latin and you are the first person online to ask about it! (That I remember. I've had a few head injuries so...if I mentioned this before, sorry folks.) Victus In Veritas was what I was going for (Defeated in Truth), but my Latin is about equal to that of a low level 12th century priest in the far corners of Christendom: yeah I know it's a thing and used for Church Magic, know the words that I'm supposed to know and what they mean and all that, and can use that to some extent to fumble my way through the rest of written language, but if I had to write or converse I'd be fairly close to incomprehensible. Despite this I have an undergraduate degree in Medieval Studies. How? German counted according to my advisor, and I've taken enough of that to read though not enjoy Alfred Döblin's work (which had nothing to do with Medieval Studies and was mostly something I did in graduate school during my adventures there). Food Lie is also a perfectly acceptable rendering. Good on you for spotting it!

[horsemotifs]

https://www.tumblr.com/nigesakis/751665934514765826/people-are-wayyyy-too-comfortable-making-gale-soft

heavy agree on this post

im with u on being interested in power dynamics and stuff but i think the way a lot of fics write bucky as the big imposing masculine dom top and gale as the skinny needy sub bottom is like. based entirely on exaggerated physical attributes and instead of anything to do with how their characters behave and its extremely weird to me lmao

oh yeah physically i definitely agree.

in fandom stuff ive seen buck depicted way weaker/skinnier/smaller than he is canonically. i mean, we did watch him push down bucky twice with just one hand, fight him literally once, watch him manhandle his co-pilot and fight the two german guys, stay relatively healthy through his time in the stalag (in which he managed to hold a leader position through it all despite the stress. when he tells bucky about the proposal its the only time his posture seems relaxed/letting himself be tired) and escape, and going right back into work following his return.

and they definitely put callum on a different workout plan for mota that made him less broad, which reduced their size difference more. i think people often use callum and austins irl size difference instead of what they looked like during mota. and bc of this people automatically put buck in a more submissive/softer role which starts a whole 'nother conversation. its the same thing with james in the terror and many other mlm ships

[astralartefact]

a nier reincarnation tierlist, but why make it easy if you can be annoying and write an analysis of every theme in the gacha game nobody cares about

notes

the following contains far too much analysis for my own good

for many of these you need to also at least know their dark stories to make sense of what i'm writing below the cut (but don't worry i haven't read them all either)

i just wanted a picture for my write up and was too lazy to draw 21 characters so don't take the tierlist too seriously

i call it reinkane for short bc that's its japanese hashtag (i know cane and kane are spelled the same in katakana but as a german i'm more comfortable with ks i guess)

also i know it's Gamer blasphemy to praise a gacha game but i think reincarnation is my favorite nier game im sorry okay i know that's a bad thing to admit but i need you to know i have bad taste

on reincarnation's theme

...and write an analysis of every theme in the gacha...

there is only 1 theme. probably more, but you'll see what i mean

it took me an embarrasing amount of time of going "well, but what is this game really about" (you know, since the other niers are about something too) to realize that it is indeed just about reincarnation - it's just thinking about it in a more abstract/straightforward way.

because the thing that tripped me up was that only about 2 and a half stories are actually about what I thought of as reincarnation (death -> next person) so it can't possibly be about that, right? but if we think about reincarnation as an abstract concept of "something is passed on to somebody else next in line" then basically every single one of these character stories is about that in some sort of way - and at the end of the day isn't having children some form of reincarnation? one of those things where i'm like did everyone else already notice this and its just so basic of an observation that nobody talks about it and i don't want to start the conversation in case it makes me look dumb

the core theme reinkane explores isn't just that though, it's more specifically the loss of agency through this "reincarnation" - it's about parents making decisions for their children, it's about people who don't get to decide for themselves because others already decided for them and in that the writers repeatedly pull from certain 'sub-themes' aside from familial ties:

royalty (basically a more overt version of loss of agency through birth/familial ties - children of reigning royals are born with certain responsibilities they never asked for simply by being children of their parents)

robots (beings created for a purpose by somebody who decides that purpose for them)

heavily enforced societal rules / decisions (rules you have to obey just by being born without any choice not to. it's more of a broader reincarnation in that entire generations make decisions that generations after suffer from instead of 1 person to 1 person)

war (similar to the above, war is basically about somebody forcing their decisions onto somebody else and especially the people who don't even have a say in it have to suffer for it)

and for the most part all of the stories (with a few exceptions) are to some degree about one or more of these. so let's get into some of my favorites:

sarafa

my love. it took a while for me to warm up to her, but once i put it all together i'm just... *chef's kiss* i hope they don't introduce new characters (aside from major ones like mama's true form or something) because she's the perfect book end character to end on.

not only is she a royal character like the very first character (rion), she's also one of the few characters to actually interpret this sort of reincarnation as a good thing!

it's very found family in that the "royal reincarnation" is still very very bad and even worse than rion's for example, but the reincarnation as part of this line of princesses sent to the slaughter also harbors a good thing, since only through their inter-generational sharing of knowledge that is built on all of the princesses that came before sarafa she can finally break the cycle, even if it ends up revealing something far worse.

saryu, hina & yuzuki

if you haven't noticed it yet, the current era of nier (starting after automata) is the "we're ruining our children" era. yorha:dark apocalypse, reinkane, all of voice of cards and even yoko taro's amazarashi (nier anime ed) music video is about it. like literally all of it.

anyways: all three of them (for saryu it's her ex story) are about how their parent's decisions influence their children's lives to a massive degree, in saryu's case it's the absence of her mother that shapes her entire life and with hina & yuzuki it's obvious i think.

hina & yuzuki get bonus points for being the most straightforward "this is how this theme looks in real life" about the theme even if them murdering their parents is obviously heightened for dramatic effect

also i have nothing to say about the hamelin lore except yuzuki turning into a red eye makes him canonically an incel and i won't explain why

priyet

another one where it took me a while to really get what is going on. at first i wasn't too keen on her story since i read her being a monster that wants to hide herself as one of those queer-werewolf allegories that I personally am just not really a fan of. but then i read her hidden stories (because yes. the first four hidden stories for every character are "lore" relevant. somebody is having an aneurysm as we speak foaming at the mouth over "kingdom hearts bullshit") and i like that a lot more even if it's probably more problematic?

basically since most people probably didn't read them bc unlocking them is a bother (if only there was a website for that) the guy who is friends with her and saryu (the one that priyet murders at the end of saryu's story) has a crush on priyet (literal love triangle!!!) and through misunderstandings and bad communication he keeps escalating their relationship until

His whisper played in my ears over and over and over and— "No! I hate this! I HATE it!" Every place he touched me was covered in filth. Every glance caused my hair to stand on end. "I'm gross! I'm dirty! I'm disgusting! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I'm going to be sick!" I took a pair of scissors and jammed them into my bed over and over. By the end of it, my room was a disaster and my throat raw from screaming, but I still felt no better. "Why...?" If things went bad between the two of us, what would happen to me and her? Oh, but I knew. She'd take his side— of course she would. And then we wouldn't be friends anymore.

her hidden story is a surprisingly nuanced look into what makes consent (or rather what doesnt) that i very much appreciate especially coming from japanese writers who are kind of universally handwaved as 'well it's a different culture, they're living behind the moon'

of course that boy is just a child and made a mistake, but society taught him - intentionally or not - to assume that her being nice (because they're friends) must mean she's fair game and her saying no is just her "not being confident" so he just keeps going and it results in her literally becoming a monster that needs to hide her sullied body beneath a table cloth.

and there's also something in there where this interacts so beautifully with her being gay. like it doesn't even occur to the boy that priyet might not even be into boys in general and now everything has gotten so much more complicated for her at a time in her life where everything is already complicated enough as it is, only because a guy decided he likes her and gave her no real choice about it - and all of that because society thought it was a good idea to demand eternal romance bonding at 14 because without that the boy wouldn't feel the pressure to establish a relationship in the first place (there it is, we took the long way back around to the theme of societal rule enforcement)

(side note: i fully understand if some people like this less than queer werewolves especially since it's a really sensitive topic. i personally think it's fine - since all of this game is about the fact that we learn/"reincarnate with" bad things from our predecessors i read priyet's story as that, a situation where all of these terrible values come together to utterly fuck her up - but if it's a no from you i think that's perfectly valid as well.)

also the absolute gall of reinkane to introduce a magic school and make one of the two protags meaningfully gay right when jk pops off

marie & yurie

these two are special because it's just one and zero all over again and i will take any dod3 reference i can get... their chapters are literally called "One Vow" and "Proof of Zero" - and yes that's also a binary code reference but yurie literally doesn't have a right eye how much more overt can it get... well maybe like this:

marie being the "heroic ruler" who wants to save everybody and do right by her people, who sings to spread her magic (of hope), but fails not only because it's not meant to be since the world doesn't allow for happy endings but also at the hands of her ruthless sister... why yes, I also approvingly nod my head at war crimes because they're drakengard references.

the only minus marie gets from me is that all of her concept designs are so much better. but this one looks so similar to hina. i get that her hairstyle looks more like one now but you could at least have given her black hair or something idk

they fit into the general theme that noelle and dimos (and F66) also partially explore, that robots are created with a purpose that benefits us humans - but if these robots are genuinely thinking beings, do we rob them of their agency by pushing our needs onto them? And Yurie only wants Marie's eye because humanity tells her that she "lacks it" - so even when she decides to take it because she knows she lacks something, is that really her agency? Fascinating stuff to think about.

(also the fact that humanity created a robot and took the robot's agency about taking humanities agency)

yudil

he is the bestest boy, he speaks to me as a ffxiv samurai main. i haven't read most his non main stories yet, but i have a feeling it's the one nier story that is at least in part about capitalism??

also it's nice to see that this game at least tries to not only have pale skinned characters. it's probably not a particularly noteworthy depiction of an arabian nights sort of setting, but i guess we have to set the bar low since a certain other insanely lucrative gacha game is planning to introduce a literal prison wasteland as the country all black people come from and a certain other recently released game that adds 2 more lore units to 14 can somehow literally be about the discrimination of minorities and slavery and still decide that the progressive option was to delete all black people from existence (honestly the writers/whoever else is to blame for that should be ashamed. can't call that anything but ludicrously tone-deaf and embarrassing.)

F66x

I'll be real. I appreciate F66x being here. I think it's really cool they commit to her bald head in all of her costumes (despite me loving her dark story 4 hairstyle...) And you can just tell she has it going on. Like Super Mario RPG levels of "I never really played this but I just know this is special and deserves all the praise it gets." But I just. Don't really care that much for some reason??

The thing is I really should!! She has the flowers, she has weird religious shit going on, all of the signs of some relation to the groteskerie queen - but I guess when her and 063y's chapters first came out the connection to dod3 was too obvious, which made it unappealing to me? idk it felt like a red herring (and it honestly still does) so i never really connected to it all that much

argo, 063y and gayle

the dads + gayle are interesting because they actually reverse our viewpoint on reincarnation. most of the other stories are from the reincarnated person's view, but these stories are about the characters that were reincarnated from and how that fucks them over too.

well, okay, argo not really, argo's story isn't about him it's about his daughter, which means technically it is exactly like the other ones, but i include him because the first part still applies (which is btw why he scores relatively high on my list, once you realize his story isn't about him i think that makes it more interesting. does it replicate the heightened value fathers get ascribed to in family dynamics or does it comment on it...?)

but 063y and Gayle also lose their agency because something happens to the person that reincarnated from them. Every version of 063y fights the flowers to protect his son - because that's what fathers do. But is that really agency? Is there really a choice in that? Same thing with Gayle even if it's about her sister instead.

of course that's also where the war theme comes in since it made this lack of choice even happen in the first place - but it's easy to imagine that without a sibling/child (/parent in the case of lars, who is very similar in that regard but from the other side of reincarnation) all of these people could have more easily chosen different and try and get away for example.

kaine's grandma

and this is where i announce that we have a special guest tonight, it's the one and only Kali from NieR Replicant and she's joining the ring with a steel chair!!!

no really though

when i first saw that scene at the end of sun/moon in the trailer for the final episode (the one where hina/yuzuki are trapped in the lunar tear meadow with kaine's shack) i sighed. is this necessary? literal reference for references sake. where does this come from. you just took that one scene people know and stuffed it in here. could you not come up with anything else that you could have referenced? like come on we're all only waiting for accord here.

turns out i was wrong, it's not just a random reference. it perfectly fits the theme :) with good-enough dreaming energy you too can explain away any plot inconsistencies

it took me until i did the scene again to get to the secret ending, but i realized that kaine's relationship to her grandma is one of those "reincarnations" that actually works. and while she does fall into a "revenge for dead relative" thing similar to gayle and lars, the things she learned from kali are the things that end up protecting her. without kali kaine wouldn't have become the person that would end up helping nier and emil.

it's a reincarnation story that never put kaine into a place where simply because she was kali's grand-daughter she was in a worse place than before - and unlike lars or gayle she can decide to go after hook on her own terms because hook isn't a literal war that she doesn't have any meaningful impact on. (i'm losing the thread here i think but i hope you get what i'm talking about)

(and yes i do think that was the point of including that scene since you find the key to the door next to where kali's picture is and also the replicant event quest is about kaine and kali too so it was probably already on their mind)

the rest (sorry season 1)

honorable mention to rikachimalu(fio's jp seiyuu) bc i love her, she's precious and i think it's kind of funny that she's voicing a nier protagonist and as such is one of the most frequent guests on reincarnation livestreams despite being kind of out of place lol (don't have much to say about fio though except that she's also firmly in "reincarnation through royalty" territory while also getting some "enforced societal rules" through the oppressive caste system she finds herself in)

kind of pains me that i don't have a seperate section for noelle bc i do think she's interesting, but i already said everything i wanted to say about her in the sections above

akeha is super straightforward family baggage, i think you can figure her out on your own

levania and his whole thing with his mom (hidden stories) tells me that they probably also fall into the entire theme of agency loss through reincarnation much more than i first thought, but i haven't looked into it enough to make any statement on it

i included mama since we finally get to know more about her in season 3 - which does look like it follows the established theme too btw! for speculations sake i do think it would be very in theme for mama to basically add her own story into the cage to help the fight and now this character mama - as a seperate version of the 'real' mama - has to deal with existing as a reincarnation bound to wander and defend the cage by her real version's choice

you couldn't pay me to care about rion and dimos, it's not happening and trust me i tried. it's an aesthetic thing, i liked rion's original design so much that i assumed he would lean into a different aesthetic and now all of his other outfits were disappointments and i don't like him. yes i do judge books by their cover too

finale

i know reinkane gets a bad rep bc it's a gacha game that god forbid expects you to play it and while i do think the gameplay is a dumb reason to hate it since some people - especially japanese players apparently - just love this style of game, i also won't be the person to tell you to play a gacha game.

it is some level of commitment to successfully free-to-play it and especially if you're prone to spending money on gachas please just stay away from it and check out videos or the stories on nierrein.guide. while they are still giving out lots of stuff every so often they also have in recent times added more and more stuff to push you to spend money (before awakening stones there was no reason to re-pull characters since you could upgrade the re-pull stuff with event items and before the character elements you also didn't need that many characters)

and while i can wish all i want that it wasn't a gacha game, at least with yoko taro i know that this thing i love wouldn't exist if it wasn't a gacha game. (no really the people who 'wish it wasn't a gacha game' need to realize that he wouldn't have made anything remotely resembling this if he wasn't told to make a gacha game. you can still wish it! but him being forced to make games and making the best of it is yoko taros whole thing)

also i know we attribute all of the nier stuff to just yoko taro as short hand - and he definitely deserves punishment for what he has done - but this is once more an invitation to also cuRSE YUKI WADA'S NAME!!! HE DID SUN MOON STORY AND VoC FORSAKEN MAIDEN TO ME!!! ALSO GIVE ME ANOGG YORHA DARK APOCALYPSE AS A REINKANE CHARACTER SHE FOLLOWS THE THEME PERFEC-----

[onlyjaeyun]

I decided I'll try to do daily check ins and talk to you about whatever even if there's no chap because you're my bestie baby!! 🫶🏻

Honestly I was SO pissed when my block got stolen because like¿¿¿ who tf does that. Also because there were old exams in there that at least had my full name on them and like idk what kind of deranged person now has that 🥹

As for the migraine 😀 my sleep schedule is really bad and I slept from 2:30 till 5 am because I had to drive 1+ hours to get to theeee (idk the English word rn so German it is) Berufsbildungswerk I am doing my training at.

(Idk if you know what that is bc I didn't before I started here, it's basically a normal apprenticeship but the companies here are fictional so no real money or products are exchanged.)

I feel so stupid when I tell people that because I couldn't manage a normal apprenticeship with how my mental health is so ahaha 🫣

Only plus side is that I'm in a shared flat in the town it's in so I don't have to drive another hour to get home at least 🤕

Also!! I'm a Sunoo bias and his last pictures had me dead like how is a man so pretty 🥹🥹

I love you take care baby!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

-🐍

thank you so much for making that decision baby 🥺 it really means a lot to me that you guys wanna talk to me every day especially during a time where i'm a little less active, i really appreciate it so much 🥺

the whole block situation is so messed up its giving law students who delete your essays in the university library like just gIVE IT BACK??

oh my god getting basically no sleep with a migraine is the worsttttt i hope you can get some test soon baby 🥺 and ive actually never heard of that before 🫣

you should never feel bad for things like that, unfortunately germany isn't the best place when it comes to the conversation about mental health so i can only imagine what you gotta deal with 🤕

im so glad you at least got the whole driving situation figured out baby 🥺

your man's looking prettyyyyy like SO fine and hes been getting beefier and its just so 💞💞💞💞💞 urgh

sending you the biggest kiss baby!💞

[genderjester]

is it true that germans call each other Maus, I've been seeing it online but do people in conversation also just say Hey Maus, I think it's really cute

Yeah it's a thing !! "Maus" and its diminuitive forms (Mausi, Mäuschen, etc) used to have like. Quite sexist connotations bc it was the kind of word men would use to condescendingly refer to women (abt them and to their face) but there's been quite the shift in recent years altho im sure someone somewhere is still using it the old way -_-

I dont know how to best describe like. The demographic that does this tho except in my experience like mostly young women and queer people? Not exclusively tho

It is so cute to me as well some ppl at uni use it and its very fun. There's also like a sort of. Meme genre? I guess? That's related to this, here's an example:

(Translation: I live in my own mousiverse. Shenanigans Worldwide)

[minzapinza]

im so tired of living at home ngl

i love my parents but 24/7 they are talking about the end of the world and how putin is gonna kill us all and how ww3 is coming any day now and how the German social democrats/greens government is gonna pass Nazi laws before the election so they can keep governing and how they're gonna take everyone's houses and money to make refugees live there and force feed everyone vaccines

im tired of it. i stopped looking at news bc its a bummer and i stopped talking about it too for the most part because i'm sick of the whole doomerism going on. i just wanna chill

ngl up until like 4-5 yrs ago i thought my dad was one of the smartest people i know but he's gone so far off the deep end I cannot find any common ground with him anymore. like we used to talk about whatever but now, inevitably, every conversation topic leads back to one of those insane topics