#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.

[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

[aunti-christ-ine]

[isabelopaque]

aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe, inanotheruniverse - tumblr, voyager s2 ep5 - non sequitur, woodgathering - patti smith, gabbi dunn, ghina rai

and tom paris? fate wasn't so kind to him. it isn't supposed to be this way.

[astrologysaysno]

Again, gonna add another drabble of Idol Shang Qinghua. This time with Chappell Roan

I just find it really funny if there was a scenario where Shang Qinghua is actually a noisy drunk.

Specifically, Shang Qinghua is a singing drunk who loves to belt out songs while downing a shot of vodka.

So one day he gets drunk on accident due to him being attacked by some of Mobei-Jun's plentiful array of enemies but the only thing that came to effect when they tried to poison him was by being drunk for the rest of the day.

So I can imagine Mobei-jun just stalking the halls when he finds a drunk Shang Qinghua in his office. He looks through the crack in the door way as he begins to hear him sing. Even when drunk, His confidante can easily hold a note.

You said, "Baby, no attachment," but we're

Knee deep in the passenger seat, and you're eating me out, Is it casual now?

Two weeks, and your mom invites me to her Long Beach house. Is it casual now?

I know what you tell your friends

Baby, get me off again

The news shocks Mobei-jun. Shang Qinghua has had past lovers? When? Was it before they met? How many people has Shang Qinghua courted?

Crystalline ice grow from the floor as he listens intently behind the door, desperate to know more about Qinghua's past. What he hears next shocks him as his advisor's voice suddenly got louder, cracks and a bitter feeling worn in his tone as he belted out.

I fucked you in the bathroom when we went to dinner

Your parents at the table, you wonder why I'm bitter

Bragging to your friends, I get off when you hit it

I hate to tell the truth, but I'm sorry, dude, you didn't

And whoever that person was, Mobei-jun concludes that he was an inept and immature lover, incapable of pleasing Shang Qinghua.

Mobei-jun feels a sense of resentment, angry that whoever this old lover was, he had the chance to have Shang Qinghua but ultimately was too idiotic to do so.

Mobei-jun is also silently grateful that he did fumble, for now Mobei-jun now has the chance.

I hate that I let this drag on so long, now I hate myself

Hate that I let this drag on so long, you can go to hell

And whoever this person was, Shang Qinghua clearly no longer wants to see, if any indication by the climactic finale of the song.

Mobei-jun opens the door, spooking him as he got off the desk he was sprawled on in order to look more orderly. He could care less about that.

He makes a beeline to Qinghua and bombards him with question on his love life, who has he been with, what were they like.

This goes on for hours, and somehow, by the end of it, it ends with them ending up as a couple, kissing passionately against the floor.

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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