#non-sequitur

[oddlyunadventurous]

[d-i-whitecards]

"Belching in the affirmative."

[declawedwildcat]

I see a lot of screenshots from undeniably excellent lines in the chat sections of this game, but I feel like people are sleeping on this absolute banger of an excuse Grim gives to try and hang up on you

[benoitblanc]

why didn't you tell me? because i didn't want to believe it. because i don't want to believe it.

[propalahramota]

Me: *posts about another insane and evil thing russia's doing in their war on Ukraine

Crazy ppl on tumblrdotcom: Have you considered the crimes of the Google LLC, hmmmmm???

[tsuchinokoroyale]

NieR

Far

Where ever you are 🎶

[gh-0-stcup]

I'm gonna be honest, I really don't get the take that Daniel was saying Armand was lying about his backstory. Given the context of the scene, it seemed like a pretty clear jab at Armand's identity issues.

Daniel had just toppled a 77 year relationship built on a tower of lies. And not just lies to get out of trouble or keep Louis close - lies that Armand crafted and held onto as a preferential version of reality.

Armand wasn't just lying to manipulate, he desperately wanted to live the lie. To be the person he was portraying to Louis. To have their relationship be something different than the sad reality. If he fakes long and hard enough, eventually he'll make it. If he acts like the Good Partner well enough, eventually the harm he's done won't matter.

Armand has been trying so hard at this act that it's suffocating both him and Louis. They're weird, uncanny valley, Stepford versions of themselves in Dubai. He's trapped them in this bubble of faux kindness, faux supportiveness, masking all the resentment that lies underneath.

Armand can't confront the reasons behind his own actions to himself, let alone be honest with other people.

Armand identity is centered entirely around his role in other people's lives. He is who others see him as. He molds himself to the whims of others and has almost no concept of who he is outside of this. When the role he's inhabiting comes into conflict with the actual person he's buried deep down, it incites a breakdown. Sometimes he lashes out violently. More often, he'll gaslight or use his powers to force everything back into his preferred neat little box.

Armand is a foil for Louis in this way. Louis has also spent large portions of his life holding on to lies about himself and his relationships. But Louis does want to figure out the truth of things. He can be resistant to it because the truth tends to be more painful than self-delusion, yet he soldiers on. Louis ends the season resolving to learn to live honestly and finds empowerment through that. Armand clings to the lies and ends up alone.

So with all the context of the last two seasons and all the points made on identity and self-delusion, it seems bizarre to me that people think Daniel is saying "you lied about being raped" to Armand.

Armand, Amadeo, Arun - who are you? When did you stop living like a person and start putting on carefully crafted masks? What is real underneath all of that? Do you even know?

To me, this seems to be much more in line with what's happening in the show.

[deer-a-day]

222

not this time

[bfoxanimation]

"That's a more lukewarm reception than that time Brian tried joining that running club..."

[boom33713]

seasons 2 and 3!!! (and one from the intro bc i realized i didnt make one for it yet. oops)

less transformations this time, more other cool effects. i've noticed you usually only see the light effects when they're not in view, which was more rare in these seasons.

and a bonus :]

[simsecret]

Submitted May 26th, 2024.

[veinsfullofstars]

Idea: Daroach being the type of person to give everyone he knows a whole cavalcade of silly/stupid/endearing nicknames. For example:

“Hey, powderpuff, how ya been? Lose any shortcakes lately? Hehe…” (Kirby)

“Eh, I dunno ‘bout this one, spinster. I think red is more my style than green.” (Spinni)

“Damn, big man, you sent that fool to space with that right hook a' yours, haha!” (Storo)

“For the last time, old man, the ship doesn’t need more thrusters!” (Doc)

“Careful there, sparkles, you’re gettin’ glitter all over my good cape!” (Ribbon)

“Huh. You're gettin' real good at landscapes, ain'tcha, easel weasel?” (Adeleine)

“Whaddya say, sunshine? Wanna join me n' the boys for a good old-fashioned heist tonight?” (Dark Meta Knight)

“Aw, don’t worry, shady - I’m sure the Squeakers are more scared a' you than you are a' them.” (Shadow Kirby)

[clementine-kesh]

voyager is a show about the tragedy of wanting to go home so bad then finding that home doesn’t feel right and believing that maybe you did it wrong somehow and if you could just try again a little different this time everything would be back to the way it was before you ever left in the first place

[cisthoughtcrime]

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[roseofhybrids]

So I had this realization about something in the godhood Au.

Doll.

Considering the fact that Because Uzi ate CYN’s Core who ate Doll’s Core Doll is still in some way in Uzi after all of these decades.

So I like to think that Every so often Doll tries to take some control over Uzi’s body but it just results in her talking Russian which didn’t start until 100 years after Episode 8. By 1300 years Uzi is just used to Doll’s attempted Hijacking that she’s just an annoyance as much as CYN is. Also at some point between that time Uzi gave N,V,Lizzy and Thad each an English to Russian translation in their systems in case she does it while talking to one of them.

Not sure if Uzi would need to give them translators, since all the English-speaking drones in the series already appeared to understand her and vice versa

I can't recall if I wrote it in a post yet, but I have been playing with an idea. That Uzi could use the solver's hologram abilities to let the dead drones, who have been added to the AS hive-mind, visit the land of the living. Sort of like her calling on their ghosts to come have a chat

I don't know if she'd let the mortal drones know she can do that (could easily lead to thousands of them coming by every day asking to speak to so-and-so dead loved one, and she's already busy as is) but I could definitely see the occasional drone getting a weird "prophecy" in Russian

was Doll trying to give them some advice? was the solver tail trying to trick them? did robo-god just want to flex the fact that she's bilingual for a sec?

a mystery that has baffled drone scientists and (people who study prophecies/religious texts, I'm not sure the exact word for that in this context. Theologian? Haruspex? Augur?) for centuries

legend has it, if you go to the gods seeking help with vengeance. The host, Uzi, may speak to you in a forgotten voice in a Russian tongue. And she will tell you to abandon your quest for revenge and go home. If a drone insists on continuing their plans, all she will say is to dig two graves

[aunti-christ-ine]