#R!AU: 1|

[hinamie]

off on an adventure ! this au turns 1 week old today

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

pose ref [x]

[lucabyte]

i CANNOT stress enough how incompatible the themes of these two pieces of media are. i promise my media literacy ability is actually good im well aware that these character mappings are absolutely nothing. that said. play with me in this space. in this sopping wet miserable space. its bad luck to kill a piou piou

original screenshots (and hypnosis 1904) for reference

[mblue-art]

<333

alt cropped ver.

[foolsocracy]

yay soft tennis

[taitavva]

it's getting weirder 🎉🎉🎉

[sketch dump part 1 — part 2 — part 3 — part 4 — part 5]

[guyspleasehesmyfriend]

two dumb bitches telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”

[lovesickeros]

popping in randomly after almost an entire month just to talk non stop about the tsaritsa again everyone sit down.

specifically just thinking about the implications of tsaritsa's ideals originally being about love + the abandonment of those ideals to complete her goal of, presumably, destroying Celestia or whatever she's cooking up. to the point even her people don't love her and I probably don't even remember a time her ideals were of love. now it's all just ice and snow and cold.

which makes romantic fics w her even funnier because she's purposely removed this part of herself and suddenly reader walks into teyvat like they own the place (they do) and I can only imagine her reaction. angry, probably. because why you? what are you doing to her that's caused her hundreds of years of strict adherence to rejecting "love" both from others and to others to just. collapse. absolute shattering of her world and you probably don't even know it bc if nothing else she's good at hiding it. a lot of denial. tries to pick you apart and see what's makes you so different.

and oh she just hates it. she loathes it.

basically one sided enemies to lover trope because she can't stand you for a while but if you stick around she starts warming up to you and it makes it WORSE. so much worse. tries to distance herself but your just everywhere and it gets on her nerves because why does she love you? she isn't capable of love, not anymore. she thought she was.

g-d forbid one of the harbingers or PIERRO notices she'd never live it down. might even consider the implications of just killing you (she doesnt). worse if you know about it and act like a brat she will lose her damn mind

just the tsaritsa being an absolutely horrible mess internally.

[robingivesmemagic]

this was actually inner dialogue completely unrelated to batman in my head from a while ago. but it feels a teensy bit fitting

[ pls dont tag as ship ]

[ambarraquel]

Okay, since Episode 3 is out, I want to share what’s been on my mind since Season 1. I don’t know if this is possible or logical, but it’s about Irving.

This might turn into a rant 🤣. But keep reading—I promise it makes sense in a LUMONesque way.

1. We know severance is mostly irreversible, and Rhegabi just confirmed how hard it is to send messages between the innie and outie.

2. So how does outie Irving recognize that elevator?

Thanks to Felicia, we now know it’s “The Exports Hall,” where Optics & Design used to handle shipments directly. But if Irving has never been there, how does he know about it? It makes no sense for him to just know.

And then there’s his connection with Burt—it feels so deep, almost like it transcends severance.

What if Irving has been at LUMON longer than he remembers? The severance procedure can selectively erase memories, and we already know about the past MDR Refinement Calamity that LUMON may have distorted to create the lore and keep the departments separated. The most important thing is that MDR is curiously the center of all that weird lore!

Now, the OTC escape plan/MDR Microdat Uprising of Irving Mark Dylan and Helly has become new lore with the whole claymation thing—which we know has been spread to other innies, at least to some extent, because of the new employees Mark briefly shared as coworkers. What if that alleged cannibalistic assault from the paintings actually happened?

Maybe the exports elevator area was so successful that they decided to utilize it in different forms—thus the cannibalistic revolt. LUMON could have devised a whole plan, making that revolt happen as they tried to crack the technology enough to create Mrs. Casey. (Or maybe the revolt was an accident that led them to the technology behind her.) So maybe that place beyond the hall exists because LUMON had to devise a place for trial and error? Maybe employees involved in the cannibalistic revolt were wiped and “reset” down there? Maybe LUMON was experimenting with early severed chips?

We know for sure that down there is where they keep Miss Casey in storage. If LUMON can erase memories with severance, it makes sense they could also erase people or keep them in a state of suspension. So if Irving has been there before, maybe something happened to him—maybe he was even kept there as punishment. Maybe that was an early Break Room. Whatever it was, it must have been such a strong memory that, even without fully understanding it, it pushed him to take LUMON down.

Which brings me back to Irving and the plausibility of his remembrance.

1) What if he was originally in Optics & Design and met Burt over and over again, kept falling in love, and they went to the Exports Hall for work early on? So he was familiar with it, but didn’t expect to be exported himself. Maybe one of his last, most emotional memories was that black hall, which is why he remembers it. Maybe LUMON erased them multiple times because they wouldn’t allow it—or maybe they even knew each other as outies and chose to have their memories wiped. Maybe that’s why Burt followed Irving in his car—because he actually knows his outie—but that seems more convoluted 🤣.

2) Another theory of mine is that maybe Irving was part of the original cannibalistic revolt of MDR. I’d love to believe he also met Burt at that time, and he somehow survived and chose to have his memories reset rather than be fired—because that would mean living in a world where Burt was also in it, even if he couldn’t remember him. And maybe Burt was also reset?

So, the only explanation that makes sense to me for outie Irving remembering that elevator is that he’s been there before, but his complete experience was erased—except for that one lingering image of the elevator.

(And yes, I know the much simpler explanation is that someone from a Let’s Take Down LUMON secret society could’ve shown him that picture, and he’s painting it over and over because he’s part of an effort to take LUMON down. But honestly, that’s too simple—it takes the fun out of it 🤣.)

[poltergeist-coffee]

despite how this looks, this is fanart for the fic One Eventful Night by @winniiieee (or Winnieeeee0 on aO3)!!! go read it!! please! it’s so good!!!! it’s a racing/F1 pacmanduo/pactoiles fic !!

[normal-orange-cat]

hows his relationship with his dad?

Lore post

❝A foolish son brings grief to his father. ❞

"Now forget and be content. When the earth sends you a blessing, you don't ask why it was sent."

This is one of those questions that I hope can be answered in time with other interactions and posts (does that make sense?). However, to not leave your ask with a half assed answer, I'll say this; their relationship is like a flaming sharknado going 300mph towards an orphange right behind a power plant. Just kidding! It's probably more unpredictable than that.

Since the beginning, it's been apparent that Michael's (PD1, for newcomers) mental health has only spiraled, making him a bit more mercurial than usual. Fatherhood introduced him to a new set of paranoid delusions, and intrusive thoughts that he would have never thought he'd experience. To give him some credit, he really does try his best to give Aster a sense of normality, even if it's ultimately all in vain at the end of the day. Meanwhile, Aster's inexplicable and unpredictable behavior is extremely detrimental to their relationship and destructive to his father's mental health.

When Aster was born, Michael was convinced for a while that Aster was replaced by something else as a punishment for the catastrophic atrocities and abhorrent tragedies he had caused. Instead of a personlized punishment for him after death, the earth had sent him a personal demon from the deepest crevices of hell in the form of his own child to torment him. (Side note, this was one of the other delusions he'd have. He was also convinced Aster was replaced by some other malicious folkloric creature or was born out of an animal). I'd like to say that delusions eventually passed on completely, but since Aster is the epitome of pandemonium, I don't think it's something that ever ever left his psyche. I'd go as far as to say that it's something that will subject him to having another psychotic break one day.

Sounds a great way to start fatherhood and like a stable & healthy father and son relationship to me.

[guyspleasehesmyfriend]

this came to me in a vision last night while i was falling asleep

[coern-art-very-cool-and-nice]

✌octofrin

[challfilk]

Severance, my beloved. This show is mint. (ft. my severance OC, Chall F.)

[scourge-sympathiser]

SCOURGE SUNDAY 013/???

[AU] tht weird guy who keepz showing up in jaypawz dreamz

[stromuprisahat]

Ruin and Rising- Chapter 1 (Leigh Bardugo)

Yeah, still have hard time believing the Darkling would let them just lie around, where someone might take them. Little Palace might've been his home for decades, but a survivor doesn't forget to guard his most precious possessions.

Besides- shift in language after more than thousand years etc. etc...

Did it ever occur to anyone they are incomplete, because those are copies?!

Alina's fate would gain another layer of irony- her butchery a result of unquestioning relying on a counterfeit.