#this is the home stretch

[remesrobotics]

Psalm

GSN.000 - 詩篇 (しへん) / サーム  “Enjoy your game, and have a nice day!”

Good Point - Gentle Bad Point - Cowardly Like - Board game Dislike - Hot weather

5’1” (154.94 cm)

Note: Psalm is a 'sona and effectively the narrator muse for this blog. Any non-directed/general answers can be assumed to be coming from her (IE me)

From the edge of public awareness comes a collection of unusual ‘robots’ from outside of conventional reality that call themselves the God’s Servant Numbers, or GSNs. These metaphysical entities take on robot-esque forms in order to live amongst robots and humans, and rarely get involved with the habitual robot drama in the world. In general, they are only moved to combat in order to protect the defenseless against violent robots who are beyond reason… and to this end, most of them are terrifyingly powerful.

That can’t be said for Psalm; the ‘human’ element of the lot and a laughably weak non-combat robot who nevertheless serves as a focal point and interdimensional doorway for the others to exist on the physical plane.

She appears as a somewhat out of shape humanoid robot dressed in baggy human clothes, with a ‘mask’ over a shadowy face with only her eyes visible. She wears a baseball cap emblazoned with a large, jeweled cross, and dotted with various pins, usually a combination of crystals, birds, bugs, and eldritch/biblically inspired angels.

While she appears to have a ponytail of curly brown hair, it is not hers and is simply a wig fastened inside her cap.

Her ‘mask’ is her actual mouth; it splits vertically into insectoid mandibles, with pointy teeth. It not only represents her association with the ‘abyss’ (as a more literal locust), but also evokes the imagery of a keyhole, indicating her status as an interdimensional doorway.

What other doorways she can open is best left to speculation, but there is a strong implication that Truly Terrible things could be unleashed upon the world if she were to ever be damaged to the point of not being able to maintain the locks.

Generally stays out of trouble and simply acts as a bystander and civilian. Doesn’t hold a job, but does a bit of random volunteer work on the side to help people. Helps anyone equally, and shows no judgment to any robot so long as they remain civil. Gets along fairly well with most DWNs.

Possesses only one special ability; the “Quantum Cross.” It is a projected, crystalline hard-light shield. Shape akin to a wedge-top heater shield, with a cross covering the whole front, it’s transparent with glowing ‘wireframe’ edges and faint silvery reflectivity. It’s about a foot taller than she is, and wide enough to cover her and one other person.

The shield itself functions like Arthur’s armor in Project X Zone, where it can only take one hit before breaking, but of A N Y magnitude. This includes extended-duration beams, as the shield will continuously absorb the energy and only dissipate once the attack itself has ended. However, the magnitude of the attack it absorbs increases the recharge time before she can use it again.

When it breaks, it releases a hyperspace shockwave that temporarily incorporealizes both her and anyone immediately behind the shield with her, essentially granting the physical equivalent of invulnerability frames.

Due to her frail nature and situational ability, she will prioritize avoidance, and usually has a ring or bracelet of Hymn around to call any of the other GSNs to her as defense. This is about the only time they will take ‘orders’ from her.

[hoiist]

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

What level of down bad is "Abusing your powers as an Akademiya employee to keep tabs on your crush's library loans"? Just asking for a friend.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[mewtwoandme]

Let's hope that Jeo's brotherly reassurance was what she needed to hear to lessen some of her doubts X3

[hinamie]

brighter days ahead

[a-literate-chicken]

Eepy……..

[soapyakships]

heat abnormal kokoronashi

[hemi-demi]

Stay with me

The next chapter of I am Here is up!

[chinzhilla]

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔒𝔫𝔢 𝔇𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔬𝔣 ℌ𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺

You're sad. You don't remember what you want. You don't remember wanting. It passed long ago. And nothing ever changes.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

[bonus-links]

RUINS, pt. 15

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[ceaselessly-mad]

"The door? The door… Yes, the door. I could have left, couldn’t I."

Or aka, my guess as to what I think (???) happened at the end of brick-by-brick. Way too long theory ramblings below:

So we only have the audios and transcript to go by, but for me, it seems like Poppy momentarily became hyper aware of her surroundings, and is now openly addressing both the literal stage/props/backdrops for the shoot and even the cast members of the show.

She questions where she is, not recognizing the stage as her barn, and the transcripts don't specify who she's talking to, even though they sounds awfully familiar to Sally and Frank.

So trying to visualize what's happening, I sort of imagined Poppy understandably freaking out over the person trying to open the door, her pushing herself towards the window to make distance, and accidentally knocking down the bricks, causing one of the ??? to exasperatedly ask why she hadn't just opened the door (though honestly something completely different could be happening).

Either way, this just brings on a whole new set of questions. At what point does the puppet world and the real world mesh together, if that is what's happening? What is happening to the puppeteers of the puppets that do suddenly gain this awareness, at least during that moment? Does this mean that the Looky-Loo storybook series are based on actual episodes of the show, otherwise how else did we getting a recording of between a physical puppet and cast members, if this is just happening within a book? You know what I mean???

Anyways thanks for looking and reading if ya got here ♥️🏠

[queenlucythevaliant]

gone right into my heart

i. Fundamentally, mean children everywhere are all the same.

ii. Eustace Scrubb didn't think of himself as mean, of course, but he was. Cruel, petty, entitled, spoiled - all fine descriptors.

iii. All mean children have tough, scaly hides under which they conceal vulnerable flesh. They breathe fire and hope no one notices that it reeks of rot. Their claws are sharp, and because of this they cannot write in soft sand or hold hands with their loved ones.

iv. Eustace's cousins came to stay for the summer, and the worst part of it all was that it'd been years since he'd gotten a proper rise out of them. It was infuriating! Having them around would be no fun at all.

iv. Later, in Narnia, Eustace began to understand why they were so impervious to him. He'd been mean, sure, but they were knights.

v. Take me home, take me home, take me home, he said. Over and over. Take me home where it's safe. Take me home where I am in control. Not afraid. Not vulnerable.

vi. Eustace was never in control. It took becoming a dragon - the natural culmination of all the entitlement and cruelty that lived within him - to finally make that clear.

vii. He was wrapped in tough, scaly hide when the Lion came by moonlight. Eustace was a dragon, but if he still couldn't reckon with knights, what chance did he have against a lion?

viii. The lion's claws were sharper than his. They were sharper than anything else in the world.

ix. When those claws tore into his dragon hide, Eustace thought he would die. Perhaps, in a way, he did.

x. Claws that sharp should not have been capable of such dexterity or care. Yet they found their mark like scalpel blades in a surgeon's hands; not like the crude things that hung off of Eustace'a wretched dragon-limbs.

xi. He could feel them tearing through the scales. The tough dragon hide parted like butter. The lion's claws dug deeper, through tissue and muscle and the contorted cage of his ribs. They found his heart, and struck.

xii. After that, there was a pulling sensation. Eustace should have been dead, but his heart was beating, even impaled as it was with the lion's claws. Slowly, with an agonizing gentleness, the lion drew the boy's heart out of the gnarled dragon skin.

xiii. The body that came with it was soft and vulnerable and naked. How could he pretend at meanness now, with his armor so thoroughly destroyed? It would rend him to pieces.

xiv. Oh, thought Eustace. Was I ever anything else? Or have I always been this soft and naked?

xv. Yet the lion did not leave Eustace to his nakedness. He dressed him in soft clothes before returning him to camp.

[shmules]

WAKE UP DRDT FANDOM ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

[avianii]

popping back on for 2 seconds to post the best art I've ever made

[aquaquadrant]

autocorrect gave timmy a new nickname 😂

[marlowe-art]

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