#i could be 100% wrong

[smiledog15578]

I'm so happy they showed that Jay was lesbian but I bet you 10 dollars they're never gonna bring up her gf ever again

[lostworldss]

So it seems that MC is repressing their memories and feelings from being held captive in the Shadow Realm. The thing I loved most about the last chapter was the moment where they actually showed MC struggle to think back on it, to the point where they were having an anxiety attack.

We thought it was odd that MC hadn’t talked about it, and while we theorized about why, it is looking like it is starting to be revealed that this was actually on purpose (props to the writers if this is actually the case). It’s not that MC doesn’t care or have any feelings about it, it’s that they’ve literally been avoiding thinking about it and repressing their feelings. Which makes sense as a response if you think about the situation MC was stuck in.

As soon as they finally escape from being held prisoner, they don’t have time to rest or take a break after. Not only their life, but the life of everyone in the entire realms is at stake. They have to hurry to find their friends and seal all the rifts, all while Valax is actively seeking them out and trying to kill them. They don’t really have time to reflect and look back at what happened to them in the past year. They have to constantly be on their feet, focused on the present and the future.

Something from last chapter that seemed to make me think that this is what’s happening, was in a part of Nia’s diamond scene. Nia was trying to bring up how she felt about MC being gone, and MC seemed very quick to convince her to focus on the present. While this could just be MC being concerned for Nia/not wanting to make the conversation sad/serious, something about it just stuck out to me.

I think combined with the earlier anxiety scene, it just really makes me think MC is really trying to not have to think/talk about what their past when they were captured, whether they realize they are doing it or not.

I really hope this is actually where the writers are going with this, because that would actually make a lot of sense for the story, and it would be good to see a character that actually faces the trauma that they went through in a realistic way.

[bardicbird]

apparently i write a lot of poetry that can be isat-coded. here’s a condensed one. (txt below cut).

txt:

Stuck in a sun/moon cycle of infinite digestion,

the singing of the stomach on an endless loop

(i.e. swallowing itself like an autophagous animal).

Ouroboros rat snakes

with two-thirds of their bodies

in their bellies:

circling, circadian—

—what happens when a dog finally

catches his own tail?

Will he treat it like any other prey?

[they-call-me-youngermoney]

looking in the tags of my last reverse AU connor ask but dude. connor with tics is genius holy shit.

!!!!! it's such a perfect opportunity to represent the glitchy prototype traits. he has simple motor tics and they match his "glitches" in canon; eye twitches, rapid blinking, and one corner of his mouth stretching into that lil crooked smile he does :]

it's a given he'd do them when he's stressed or anxious, but i really wanna include them during average, calm situations too. casually in the background or while talking with hank. it's just . Something Connor Does and nobody gaf.

[qqueenofhades]

YES SIR YES SIR YES SIR THAT IS WHAT WE LIKE TO SEE!

OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE KAMALA DEVI HARRIS!

[egophiliac]

Do you think this is the Finale of book 7? qwq

at this point I'm not going to believe it's actually over until we get the Diasomnia dorm reruns! those will be the portent I cling to in these times of uncertain anime character drama. 😰

honestly I'd been pretty convinced that 13 would be the end -- or that there might be, like, an epilogue chapter or something, but this would at least be the end of the main plot of 7. but now it looks like the Armor of Dawn Silver card is actually going to be for the second half next week, so...now I'm right back in "WHAT IS HAPPENING" camp! like, I can see a couple of possibilities of how that might still work out, but...well. I guess we'll find out tonight. :')

[locketsvault]

I’ve seen a lot of ppl write about Anaxagoras cosmic eye and chest, whether that be sfw or nsfw. It’s been quite a topic and for good reason. But after this update, I’ve given it some thought, and tbh, I feel it would take him a lot longer for him to feel comfortable letting someone touch his left eye than it would his chest. Hear me out. (Spoilers for 3.2)

1. The loss of his eye is tied to his sisters death. Its trauma is a lot more intimate/personal. It’s like having two scars, one having a more tragic story than the other. That one you tend to keep more hidden no?

Yes the loss of his eye is less connected to her death itself, but it’s the catalyst for why he does what he does. He sacrificed his eye in order to see her again. It was all for her. Now I don’t think he’s inherently ashamed of what he did, tbh I think he isn’t at all. He got what he wanted, he learned valuable information from it, and he has to be careful how much he exposes or else he can’t continue. Which brings me to my next point.

2. His eye is always covered, I don’t think just for cosmetic purposes. I think it’s a balance between hiding the act of blasphemy he committed that would surely get him kicked out of the grove, and also bc it is a very private thing he had done. It’s also on his face, a more vulnerable area. I mean, it used to be his eye.

Hyacine confirms herself that he never takes off his eyepatch, even when he’s alone. A small part of my wonders if it’s also for protection reasons, the eyepatch has more practical uses too. But for this sake of this post, I think it’s genuinely bc he doesn’t want to be caught. But also, bc it’s very intimate.

3. His chest I believe was done during the attack on the grove. I don’t think it was there before imo, but I could be wrong. We don’t really have any art pre attack that shows his body. And I don’t think the devs cared about changing his entire model for the echos we see when we first get to the grove.

The reason I think that void formed was bc of all the alchemic events that he had done during the attack. He sealed the black tide in the grove so no one else would be harmed. He created echos for us to find when we arrived (though he somewhat explained the exchange in his echos for this one). While looking at the research with Hyacine, he performed a ritual to try and merge the core flame with his body—though ultimately failing, every single thing he did required an exchange. He says it multiple times, alchemy follows the law of equivalent exchange.

But every single one of these, aren’t intimate. They aren’t personal. He even shows the void through his shirt.

4. Also… we know his heart was transmuted into a philosopher stone. That’s a very vital and vulnerable organ that’s no longer in its usual spot. His chest is a lot less of a threat.

I feel like if he ever let anyone touch his eye, he’d really have to trust them. It takes courage on his end too, he has to allow himself to open up in such a way. He’s prideful and arrogant, but at heart, he’s a broken child who’s lost everyone. Have faith in the gods they said, and even they abandoned him. Anything linked to his sister is personal. I genuinely believe it would take a lot of trust to let someone though it, let alone see it.

I kinda went on a tangent besides my original point but yk. Also, if I forgot anything or am wrong pls do kindly lmk! I’m still figuring him out and I know I missed some important stuff!

[icanfixthempolls]

[bloodypawwz]

If you’re comfortable with me asking, I keep seeing jirai mentioned on my dash but I don’t know what it means, it would mean so much if you could explain? You just seem really nice and like someone I could approach :>

haii np ill give u the best explanation i can !!

jirai is a subculture which originated in japan and translates to ' landmine ' ! it is typically used on people who are explosive and or have very instable emotions ( like a landmine being set off ! ) ofc these are typically a result of mental illness so many people who are apart of the jirai subculture normally have some sort of mental illness

normally it is associated with behavoirs such as self harm, drug abuse, sw, types of eating disorders but not every jirai takes part in these and not every jirai only takes part in these ! there is no one size fits all kind of jirai !

ofc people often like to paint us as the ' dark side of jirai kei ' which is a little silly to me as thats literally what jirai is ! jirai has a strong relation to the dark girly kei fashion but wearing dark girly kei ≠ being jirai

[pheyphem]

what is with twitter phannies and not knowing anything about dnp i just saw someone describe the steve the pigeon as niche dan and phil lore. they called him kevin

[serpentface]

WARDI WRITTEN LANGUAGE (BASICS).

Couya's full name (properly 'Haidamane Couya') written formally and with common handwriting conventions.

The Wardi written language derives from earlier proto-language systems consisting exclusively of logograms without direct phonetic meaning or grammatical structure. These symbols gradually became simplified and abstracted to the point of many having little intrinsic clarity, and combined to communicate abstract concepts.

The development of a full written language did not occur independently (as very few written languages do), and its phonetic elements (namely its use of syllabograms) were largely derived the 'ancient' Burri writing system, gradually synthesized with native writing conventions, and in the contemporary forms a wholly distinct system. The language's Relatively universalized form is a very recent phenomena, developing within the past two centuries with the region's conquering/unification into a single entity.

The contemporary written language is a mixture of logograms and syllabograms. It is read from right to left and arranged in horizontal columns. The most formal variant of this system contains each character within a square outline, usually separated by a small space. This outline confers little phonetic or symbolic information beyond making distinction between syllables exceptionally clear, and can be (and often is) omitted in handwriting. The separation of words is conveyed through a narrow rectangle or line in formal contexts, and again often omitted in handwriting (instead indicated instead by a wider blank space).

The pure logograms that have been retained in this writing system tend to be those of very common words or specific concepts (most logogram characters for types of livestock, key crops, water, major body parts, etc are widely recognized and in common use). There has not yet been any attempts to fully 'formalize' the language and omit potentially unnecessary logograms, and they remain frequently used as shorthand while conveying the same semantic information.

Many of the syllabogram characters are directly derived from logograms that depicted monosyllabic words. For example, the spoken word 'gan' means 'cow', and the character for the syllable 'gan' is identical to the common logogram for 'cow'.

The name Gantoche (literally "cow-eye") could be written either fully with syllabograms as:

or through logograms as:

Both ultimately communicate the same meaning, but the former clarifies pronunciation (the words gan and atoche are contracted, it's gantoche and not gan-atoche).

It is a relatively easy written language to learn, as the pure syllabogram characters indicate their own pronunciation with little ambiguity and often have consistency to their construction (ie the character for the syllable 'man' contains most of the same elements as that for the syllable 'wan'- the dot placement in particular has indication of the vowel sounds).

The inclusion of logograms in general and many of the syllabic characters being directly imported From logograms complicates matters. These characters lack visual consistency, and can be confusing to the large swath of the public who know common logograms but not the full written language itself. Ie: the word 'ungande' meaning 'liver' will be composed of logogram-derived syllable characters for 'un' (which alone means 'hand') and 'gan' (which alone means 'cow'). Someone who is only semi-literate in common logograms may be confused at the meaning, especially since these same exact same characters may be used elsewhere on their own to indicate 'hand' or 'cow'.

One major exception to this tendency is that current religious doctrine requires established logogram characters describing God to be used in place of syllabic characters. The word for god is 'Od', and has its own unique character (as do each of the Faces, the capital F 'Face', and Its deified pronoun). The syllable 'od' [oʊd] is very common in the Wardi language, and a wholly separate character is used for the phonetic sound when it is not a reference to the deity (ie 'lion' (odo [oʊdoʊ]) does not contain the same character for God in spite of its first syllable having the exact same pronunciation). Names are a bit of a gray area (ie: the name 'Odabi' is very common and carries the meaning of 'gift/blessing from God'). Religious leadership is currently experiencing a mild schism on whether the written character for God is separated due to being wholly sacrosanct (and thus inappropriate to include in the written form of a personal name) or as more of a functional delineation of the sacred and mundane.

[feliville]

I'm 25 now

[downyclad]

i think a lot of folks especially people who are newer to ENA take the allegories of the world and its characters a little too literal.

i think my biggest theory for DBBQ is that the war/soldier references aren’t actually supposed to be taken that literally and that they are instead metaphors for the “war” and “conflict” that lies inside of ENA the worker. she is constantly at odds within herself, in my opinion.

but anyway i think my point here is that ENA is a very surreal series and while i do think there’s subtext to certain things i don’t necessarily think they should always be taken so literally. is humanboard ENA’s dead child or is he simply a metaphor for innocence within chaos? let’s chew on that.

[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[california-112]

- Answer the question, Miss Scully! - What is the question?

The X-Files | S04E09 'Terma'

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: asian authors (adult/NA)

this is about the author's identity, not necessarily the characters!

The Bruising of Qilwa - fantasy novella - aroace MC - Persian-American

After The Dragons - urban fantasy novella - gay ace-spec MC - Chinese American

Kaikeyi - historical fantasy - aroace MC - Indian American

The Circus Infinite - space opera - mlm ace MC - Chinese American

Small Gods of Calamity - paranormal novella - bi ace MC - Korean American

The Graven Trilogy - space opera - acespec MC - Japanese American

Convenience Store Woman - contemporary litfic - aroace coded MC - Japanese

Breasts & Eggs - contemporary litfic - ace MC - Japanese

Come Drink With Me - fantasy novella - aro-coded MCs / aro themes - Chinese New Zealander

Is Love The Answer - contemporary manga - aroace MC, SC - Japanese

The City of Dusk - high fantasy - ace woman & bi demi man (2/5 MCs) - Indian American

She Who Became The Sun - historical fantasy - acespec coded MC - Chinese Australian

The Vanished Birds - space opera - ace SC - Filipino American

A Milky Way Home - contemporary romance - demiro-ace MC, demi-aroace MC - Taiwanese

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

info included here is brief! please see my database for full details of the books