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anon · 1d
U know how project sekai holds competitions where people can submit designs to be added yeah they held another one with theme exotic and it went about as well as u would expect
anon · 1d
I find it so funny that people took one look at orientalist tsukasa tenma as was like omg genshin impact 🤤💕 also who the fuck at project sekai thought “exotic” would be a good theme?
anon · 20d
I don't know if you have been asked this before, or if you tweeted it about such an idea once, but: What races do you think the alnst main cast would be if they were in Arknights?
i swear i did say smth about this before but i can’t find it so let’s go alien stage arknights
Sua can only be a bunny this is obvious
…what else to say. Maybe she’s infected (but she’s hiding it. very well… so far. Since she’s an idol and revealing that would be a huge scandal
Suppose a bunny idol already exists in ak but that one is racefaking so this is original concept trust
mizi… hmm? She is the jellyfish princess
which would make her aegir
definitely wouldn’t be an Iberian aegir though
Somehow im reminded of Purestream in rewinding breeze, when thorns mentioned how he was treated and she was like… oh wow… um it’s not like that in yan…
She has that energy?? mgjfjdjf
But also what if she was from aegir
I guess I should look at path of life for proper context but I don't wanna do that
I know aegir has its own problems but idk… I can imagine mizi as some naive ambassador aegir sends out (expecting nothing from her)
And you know the nation closest to aegir other than iberia is. That’s right. rim billiton bunny country here’s how mizisua can win (???) (Also this is debatable geography but eh close enough)
Somewhat typical plot… sua offers mizi a place to stay in rim billiton (ig she’s on break from touring)
then randomly collapses from oripathy at some point (which mizi is barely even familiar with) so mizi starts running around looking for help…
(Do idols exist in rim billiton? I guess they do now)
Ok till is like canonically a sad wet cat but idc he’s not being feline. He should be zalak. Do you see my vision
like a shrew or wait. HEDGEHOG
spiky and tiny and cute. I’m so smart
(Do we really not have a hedgehog op already?? Or even porcupine… strange)
Also obviously he’s infected he can’t win
Kinda wanna throw him in kazimierz where he gets to suffer in infected knightsports
yeah wait this works well… managed by some knightclub that treats him like shit and he hates listening to them too but he’s obviously a terror in the ring so they keep him. (just realized the pun on nightclub how did it take this long bye)
Problem is I can’t exactly figure out why he’d put up with it… sure this is the only way he can pay for for his healthcare (his case is pretty severe) but it doesn’t seem like the risk of death would stop him from running away (since here he has nothing keeping him). But I like the idea of him being a competition knight so suspend your disbelief a bit please (I guess I should invent a reason to keep him… maybe for the sake of some other infected he ended up watching over.. why am I thinking so hard….)
And then ivan! is a puppy
Which could work but… what if he was a bigger puppy. lupo
I mean they already joke about unsha being some mafia type
Since he has no free will he’s gotta be a Fang right??
If this sounds suspiciously similar to something I said before uhhh ignore that (doubt anyone remembers but me anyw)
Though I don't know how to get him out of that situation… um… maybe he actually just. wins the round he’s in. He’s so good at murder 👍
then he’s just left “free” and has no fucking idea what to do. so he leaves Siracusa and wanders… (gestures above) you can guess where this is going ehe
…but this kind of just ignores the whole mafia thing?? I want him to be a heir to one of the famiglia too… surely both of these can work at the same time
And yeah even as the heir he still just fucks off. he’s like that
Imagine the concept of all his fans—I mean uhhh subordinates trying to find out where the hell their boss went and then he’s on tv. The tv that they get through delivered videotapes months late dmfndjf ah terra worldbuilding
(The concept of a former Fang becoming a competition knight because all they know is how to be a part of a game of fighting others to the death—well not death anymore but still. The similarities?? wait maybe this is kinda cooking
wonder what the chances of ak doing smth like this is)
Luka’s obviously gotta be sankta so naturally hyuna and her brother get to be sarkaz
imagine something similar to raimund and fortuna’s situation… well not really
Luka’s just a lost sankta in kazdel maybe
except luka actually ends up selling out hyuna to get into laterano. Maybe the… uh whatever part of the govt oren belongs to I kinda forgot… but they kill hyunwoo and get hyuna’s leg. Shes not having a great time
(hmm kazdel isn’t too far from rim billiton… needless to say hyuna being a sarkaz would be infected… hmmmm
but kazimierz sure is far
if im just running with this let’s say ivan ends up getting pulled back to Siracusa (obviously he doesn’t win the major… let’s have some dramatic ivan vs till fight where they both get disqualified. It can be cool in my head)
and ???somehow drags till back with him. Ok now they’re close enough. (…is different countries really close enough??)
But then I guess he also needs to find till a new doctor. or you could say Doctor (lol
I mean everyone here except luka ends up looking for oripathy treatment so… Rhodes island is the natural destination for all these plotlines. And luka can just be part of the laterano govt which RI has to collaborate with. there. Plot!!
(Wait if they go back to RI ig there’s no reason for ivan and till to go back to siracusa. Except for the roadtrip bonding of course
Did you ask for plot not even a little bit
but I can’t not ramble…
anon · 10d
This is probably a very cringy comparasion, even more so because it is from a dub, but still, it is something that came to my mind when reading the event: There's this one scene from the Spanish dub of The Simpsons that I've forgotten all context for, but it had to do with Mr. Burns and his gay assistant. Again, I remember absolute nothing of the context, but what I remember clearly is that the assistant leaves him alone in a room and as he's leaving he thinks to himself "A veces no se porque lo quiero" (Rough translation: "Sometimes I don't know why I love him")
Not sure why did that scene stayed in my subconscious (I don't even watch the Simpsons what in the world...) but like... That's Miłosz. That's fucking Miłosz in a nutshell right there.
anon · 9d
Leaving the comment here because for some reason it appears Twitter has me shadowbanned because now no twit I ever write in response to someone gets actually seen nor does it stays up for long (...maybe because I'm a Venezuelan using a vpn and I wasn't keeping it a secret exactly? bitch idk this is weird):
So... yeah, the R6S characters. I haven't played that game nor do I think I ever will if I'm being honest, but yeah. "Anime beam aside did they shave doc?? Whyyyy" I remember reading that Blitz got shaved too. Tho from looking at their image results on Google, looks like both him and Doc usually have their mouths covered?, so maybe HG felt free to ignore that both of them actually had a 5 o'clock shadow. RIP.
(...tbh I do think AK Doc looks very very handsome, but... yeah...)
Out of all of them, looks like Ela was the one who was the least changed by the anime beam? Like, she looks mostly the same? (...is it the green dyed hair making me think this? probably). Meanwhile compare that to Iana who got like 10 years taken off from her age or something...
...also funny that you just complain about Doc getting shaved when arguably the absolute worst thing that HG did in these collabs was take a brown-skinned Chinese Canadian woman with "First Nations-adjacent mixed ancestry" (copy and pasted text I found when reading about her, do NOT quote me on that. Also uh yeah, that's one weird sentence, "First Nations" is such a broad term, what does that even means... you know what, nevermind) and not only whitewashed her but also gave her random blue eyes for some godforsaken reason? Huh?
Like... WHAT DID THEY DO TO FROST? Discovering that she was actually brown-skinned was bad enough, but if that "First Nations" nonsense isn't some fan just making up shit and she is indeed supposed to be half-indigenous, well then that makes it so much worse. Like... What the fuck. What the actual fuck. What happened there exactly.
Actually you know what, no, scratch that previous paragraph because it doesn't even matter if that happens to be total bullshit because the important thing here is that AK Frost looks whiter than a sheet of paper and then you look at her R6S model and find out she is... not. Why.
Forget about him getting shaved, at least they didn't whitewash Doc...
oh yea you've definitely been shadowbanned... sometimes i check the rts on my posts and i see you there when i didnt get a notif for that. and i dont really get enough notifs to miss them (lol??
twitter... i sometimes wonder how my acc has just been fine for so long
huh had no clue about frost... well most people dont bother to talk about her bc she kinda just exists, but when the collab was announced i saw ppl speculate she was just added to have a chinese character
the blue eyes is... certainly a choice...
anon · 8d
Thorns skin incoming!!! The next concept art book should be coming soon hopefully they’ll put the stulti cast in there too
anon · 4d
No you don’t understand it’s misogynistic to like mlm but it’s legitimate criticism to boil down a well know talented queer artist her fujo gf who forced her to add icky men and celebrating any kinda of queer love between men is lesbian erasure. (Jokes aside I understand the frustration of wlw not being as popular as mlm but the leaps these people go through to justify there frustration IS ironically misogynistic and also homophobic. like why do u keep shitting on mlm representation like being a man into men isn’t whatever I genuinely don’t think people want to here anything else other than men bad women good) But then again I’m not even into alien stage I’m just someone who’s been a qmengs work since before it came out so to see an artist I’ve looked up to for a while be out in South Korea of all places and instead of people celebrating that all I see this shit is fucking frustrating
what's the joke here this is just what people say unironically 💀
it's like... see before i just thought this discussion was pointless
generally speaking, ofc i agree the disrepancy between m/m and f/f in fandom overall is due to misogyny because that's like... a fact
but not just because the straight girl fujos all hate women or whatever this boils down to on twitter lmao
and that's simply a reflection of #society so complaining online doesn't accomplish anything. but well people should be free to vent about things they can't change
that's what i thought before anyway... but more recently i've just realized how much of said "venting" is just obvious misogyny and homophobia??
part like what you said, so much is really just men bad women good which... cmon
and then the amount of times ive seen people being accused of not being real lesbians over liking yaoi is?? ????? how are poeple this unselfaware. it's not just that one fringe acc trust me, hell this isn't even the first time ive seen that accusation to qmeng specifcally
so actually no. Just stop. stop talking about it. ever.
people never take this seriously fsr but really do people not know the origins of the word fujoshi. idk man maybe it's just me but calling someone a rotten woman as an insult does sound kind of misogynistic
or god. porn addict. as we know it's sooo feminist to say women having sexual desires is bad
"but we need to have a conversation about fandom misogyny"--no maybe some things don't need to be a fucking conversation actually. this matters so little in the grand scheme of things, and clearly most people don't even have a proper conception of what misogyny is, much less when they're posting bullshit online
i mean... a very basic example: you know how fanfiction is mostly written by women. purely for the sake of argument, let's say overall there's more of them attracted to men so that's why there's more m/m
...and people never even consider the misogyny already inherent to this. i mean like-- misogyny is why romance is seen as a genre for women and unmanly/lesser/too girly/whatever word this should be common sense/etc right??
which reflects onto how it's mostly women engaging with fic
but you /know/ things like this is never what people mean when they talk about misogyny causing a lack of f/f. no it's because the people i dont like have internalized misogyny (everyone's favorite new buzzword) (which again im not saying is untrue, just not in the way most people mean it--also literally everyone is affected by this to some extent so dont act so superior)
so now i can call them brainless fujos. and get likes on twitter
i dont mean this as any particularly deep observation or anything
it's just frustrating how many people's conception of misogyny seems to begin and end at how fandom treats female characters
i wanna say this is bc of how chronically online people are that they forget real life exists but am i not also chronically online. so why are all of you like this huh???
............ uhh so after all of that how can i get you to try alien stage it's only 30 min and im so normal now see--mnsdfhks (oh wait i guess you mean you didnt try it and you were actually normal about it right)
unfortunately im a fake fan who only got into this when round 6 blew up, but now that im aware of these guys it's neat seeing their names pop up in so many music videos... (deep faker <3)
anon · 14d
is5 Kal'tsit/Theresa toxic yuri, answer if you agree
(I say this when I haven't actually read the damn thing and I'm only going by random CN spoilers without any context, but still. Like what the fuck do you mean that is5 timeline Theresa has Kal'tsit all chained up, how am I supposed to react to that...)
been a while since I looked at IS5 stuff but i think kal’s chained up because theresa and theresis never had their split and then their allied strength could take out kal when she tried wiping out the sarkaz (…)
Well by take out I mean capture. Considering the immortality
Everything here might be wrong don’t quote me. I’m not bothering to look this up and my memory is shit
so theresa doesn’t even really know kal in that timeline does she? I mean she knows who she is but idk
I guess you could make something out of if she talked to her in jail but… I don’t think kal would talk. Even after 300 years
tbh canon kaltheresa at the beginning could probably be closer to that if you want toxic yuri idfk
I don’t remember if we have details on how exactly they met but is there even a way where it doesn’t involve trying to kill each other lol
Since this was after that war kal started right
anon · 16d
What do you think the next half anniversary event is gonna be about
I was sure it’d be lappland alt when the stream was there but now i feel like it’ll just be ch15
No idea who the 6* will be… siege alt finally this time trust
Again main story has 1 million options so who can say. Siege alt allerdale and manfred fsr idk. This won’t be their worst performing lim banner because pepe took that slot (i have no clue how she actually did nor do i care)
…i still need to read ch13… zzz
anon · 17d
have you seen dead plate the game
anon · 17d
To play devil's advocate a little, here's why I think those characters that made you go ??? are in the Game Breaker page.
First thing first, tv tropes is gonna tv trope apparently, because man some things on that page seem really, really old. "Written back when the operator listed was brand new" old. Man...
Also, the page doesn't seem to take its name to heart and it isn't a "Breaks the Game" list as much "this operator is Good" list? Whatever.
Tequila - He was a freebie 5star Mlynar before Mlynar was Mlynar. Just because Mlynar does everything he does better doesn't mean he's bad.
Cutter and Blue Poison - Weird comparision to Exusiai aside (like what do her and BP even have in common besides both being in the same Sniper subclass... you know what forget it, bet this was written years ago and Exusiai was the best Good Sniper Is Good example that existed back then...), this seems like a "They are really damn good for the rarity they have" mention? "Disc One Nuke" is a trope on that website, after all.
Wanqing - This one is very easy: He's there because he's a flagbearer. No, really. Look at the list, they wrote a whole dedicated entry to the flagbearer vanguard subclass as a whole, and then proceeded to add every single existing flagbearer currently in the game into the list anyway too because... Because. Like even Saileach is there, and she's the Queen of Mid. The game could drop a flagbearer that has been purposely designed to be complete dogwater garbage tomorrow and whoever is editing that page is gonna list them anyways because flagbearer = good. The bias is real.
W - ...because she Limited, I guess? No wait, there's not actually that many Limited Operators on the list... Maybe just another possible example of Thing That Was Written Who Knows How Long Ago And Now Is Just Kinda There. I'm actually more confused as to why is Dusk there in the Caster section...
anon · 17d
not the previous anon but having those news/confirmation that Pepe is Mid is so freaking funny to mebecause my only exposure to Pepe's kit was reading TV Tropes, and seeing someone that added her to the "Game Breaker" page. Ok, sure, she's Limited, stands to reason they'd make her busted I guess, surely whoever is putting her there in the same damn list as Surtr, Thorns, Ch'en Alter and Mlynar isn't just bullshitting surely, whatever you say
Now that I know that she's considered Mid by the Meta™ and that whoever did that was most than likely a Pepe fan coping big time it went from "whatever, get that thing out of my face" to "ok this is fucking hilarious"
HUH
i gotta see this
...
??? Did they put half the fucking cast in this why is tequila here. What is cutter breaking. blue poison is literally a normal fucking sniper. wanqing???? regular W?????????????
Ok i would laugh at pepe being called broken but if these are their standards i guess pepe actually deserves to be there lmao
tho it's not even like this is consistent since nymph quite literally breaks a part of the game and she's not here. but this is already too much thought for smth that was clearly written by throwing darts
arknights tvtropes is such a mysterious place
anon · 18d
We may not know how popular/unpopular Pepes banner was, but did you see that DragonGJY, the guy who does the Operator Hindsight videos, gave her the worst recommendations of all current future six stars (Marcille wasn‘t mentioned)?
It‘s also funny that she barely received any showcase videos because she is neither broken enough nor interesting enough
oh yea
already knew she was certified Mid
i mean usually i would rather chars i like be mid ndfgjkfd wisadel you dont need to do all that. please. dont actually,
but pepe's gameplay is kind of just... bad? like bad to use
there's chars that aren't breaking the game but still feel nice to use (like... idk jessicalt.... im kinda saying mid as a joke but you can't call her that. but ig she's not #meta)
and pepe is not that. weird uptime and weird range we got Ls all around
they rly set her up to fail i guess. which. well im hardly complaining
anon · 1mo
Before Retrospring is gone, let me have this confession here real quick: I hate how HG handled/has been handling the Iberian Inquisition sideplot. Seems like they had an idea, then got cold feet of making them as awful as they were initially described to be and so they dumped it on the trash. I love Lumen, I really do, but HG effectively just used him as the narrative equivalent of a piece of duct tape on the whole Iberian-Aegir plot. "Here, the Inquisiton has a Token Aegir member now. We even wrote on his files that he is working as the middleman between the Aegir and the Inquisition. Oh, there's joint meeting between those two now btw, we hid that bit of info away on his file too. Racism is solved, we never have to touch that again! Hurrah!". That's all she wrote. That's literally it.
Bitch, you were the one who first introduced the Inquisition as being prejudiced assholes at best. This offscreen "redemption" does not work because even the event itself that they did that in shows exactly why the Inquisition fucking sucks, even if the writers don't realize it. They took all of the Aegir who were living in that place except for a single toddler (what was Lumen's age again when that happened, anyway) and had them Pinochet'd (As in, tortured for info/a confession, then killed). No, one out of ten of those Aegir being indeed a Seaborn cultist does not make it any better, and you know why? BECAUSE THERE WERE STILL SEABORN CULTISTS IN THAT TOWN. WHICH THEY JUST MISSED AND LEFT THERE. PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THEY WERE LIBERI AND SO THEY ESCAPED SUSPICION. ONE OF THEM WAS A FUCKING BISHOP. CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAD ONE JOB THAT YOU DID ALL THAT RACIAL PROFILING/POLICE BRUTALITY BULLSHIT FOR AND YOU STILL FUCKING FAILED AT IT, YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF TRASH!
...Ahem.
Anyways not saying that I'm a better writer than whoever at HG wrote all that (...ok, maybe a little, just a little), I'm just saying that if I was the writer I wouldn't have created an organization who call themselves the Inquisition, put them in that one nation of your world that is obviously based on Spain of all places for extra oof, and then be this wishy-washy about them.
Is that single paraghaph on Lumen's files seriously all what we are gonna get. Seriously. At least have an Iberian event in which the "corrupt part" of the Inquisition go rogue because they don't like the new 'Aegir citizens are people too' agenda. Maybe put the Seaborn gimmick to rest a little bit and have most of the stage enemies in that event be Inquisitors, and if HG really needs to have the final boss be a Seaborn yet again that badly, then may I remind them that the Inquisition has a Seaborn locked up in their basement and ok seriously what's up with that, explain it. Have the rogue Inquisitors' evil plan be to free that Seaborn and set them on the civilians to blame it on the Aegir so they can reignite that discrimination policy and make it worse, maybe have them try to frame Lumen for it idk. There, I have given you the basic premise for a whole new Iberia event, hire me now HG. /hj
No wait I'm not done, there's more. Have the AH take a break on this one and make it purely an Iberia event with Iberian operators only, Kal'tsit can be there too because she's Kal'tsit but everyone else can sit this one out. And if you really must insert the AH plot somewhere then maybe put Andreana in there somewhere somehow, show us Incandescence while you are at it too. Don't even have her in the banner (yet), just show her. Make a callback to that monologue Anita's grandma said to Irene all the way back in Under Tides because that was kinda fire. Maybe also have a random Aegir NPC who doesn't know Lumen personally call him a race traitor because the only thing they know about him is that he's an Aegir and part of the Inquisition. Ok maybe that last one is too on the nose but still, you can't just have the Inquisition be 'good' or 'better' now and that's it. That's just fucking lazy.
And yeah, I know Lumen is in Ulpian's event so maybe something about how the Inquisition is doing gets mentioned there or something... but seriously what could they possibly say or do that it is not gonna be the same wishy-washy offscreen nonsense that Lumen's operator file already has, what with the event being in Aegir and not in Iberia, like this isn't even about them. I'll eat my words if the event actually manages to have something in there, but I really, really doubt it. And again, Aegir event, of all events to give the Inquisition decent lore this would be the worst one to do it in because this isn't even about them, not really.
That's all.
u still got like 6 months until then yknow
i think i complained about it too before haven't i
it's kinda hard to articulate exactly what about the inquisition bugs me compared to the various other questionable organizations RI ends up allying with... i guess yeah it just feels like hg dropped the point about them sucking lol
(and unlike whatever went on with yan and wei yenwu i dont think it was censorship,)
which is weird bc i really liked SN's set up? like it seems to be making a point of how the inquisition killed a bunch of innocents and specifically made the cult problem worse by making everyone so hypervigilant of them...
then is3 happened. as usual all problems started there--
is3 makes it seem like they somehow missed the obvious implications of their own writing, which. well
(then again highmore had the inquisition kill her dad for no reason so they're still fine with it being in backstory. but in the present/future they're unequivocal Good Guys now. The last bastion of humanity even. zzzzz)
i dunno what path of life is doing so i won't try to comment on that yet. but im ok with ignoring my story issues for a bit because where is my inquisition lumen skin hello. say what you will but inquistion pink is a great color--
but yeah it's so weird how things are apparently just... resolved... thorns is just allowed back now ig sure??
isn't that just, narratively unsatisfying...?
like seriously there's no major pushback to that?? no fucking way
(sighs) iberia event 2kwhen (dies
and i even think irene's arc isn't bad. just everything around it.......
on lumen... his second module is so ? how do i put this... it's like some kind of story trying to teach children about racism from the 2000s or smth
Dont worry your racist grandpa is just tsundere he'll get over it
i really dont know how to say this nmsdfgkd it's... it's so on the nose it's just funny honestly. i cant even be mad at it