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venlia or something

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what i gather

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"you are an honest thing i gave to the world" is the most maternal thing to say ever, how are people missing this??

aglaea is already an adult here btw since she was a young adult when her parents died (which has already happened), she already has mnestia's coreflame AND has grown used to it to start relying on the golden threads so easily, and just look at the hand difference.

we know aglaea took cipher in because in a later cg, she calls it "our shop" before she leaves, and she wanted to prove that aglaea taking her in was "worth it", if that doesn't scream "adopted child wanting to prove you were right to adopt them" idk what does.

"oh, but she blushed!" babes, hallucination-aglaea literally complimented her with something she's always wanted to hear, who wouldn't blush?? blushing isn't inherently romantic, i need y'all to realize this, you can blush from compliments.

anyways, cipher and aglaea are the most tragic mother-daughter pair in hsr (yes I'm saying they out-tragic cocolia and bronya)

side note: cipher talking about how she missed being scolded by aglaea and tribbie broke my heart 🥹🥹🥹

are people on tumblr missing the fact that aglaea and cipher are mother and daughter. why the hell are you guys still calling them yuri AFTER completing the 3.3 quest

like look at the difference between their hand sizes. that is an 8 year old and a full grown woman in her 20s. there's no ambiguity to be had with this; their relationship is familial, not romantic. you're absolutely fucking insane if you saw these cgs and walked away with "two lovers meeting for the first time" and not "aglaea taking in an orphaned child as her own"

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Ok, call me crazy, but I have a theory. And it might not necessarily be a theory, maybe just an observance, but I noticed something with Malleus Overblot.

Warning - Spoilers for Book 7

So as we all know, the main plot point that leads up to Malleus overblotting is Lilia leaving NRC due to a loss of his magic. But over the books, I've noticed something. In Book 6 we learn that overblots are less a sudden intense outpouring of blot and negative emotion, and more like the tipping point of an amalgamation of years of buildup. I find that made a lot of sense with what I'd noticed, because with the blot gathering cut scenes, even in parts where it seems like things are going pretty well (like with Azul, Jamil, and Leona all having the upper hand until almost the very last moment), it gives a sense of dread and things taking a darker turn.

And while some of them make a lot of sense (Vil's ever growing obsession and losses to Neige or Riddle's constant fights with the main gang and his own dorm), in the instances where the blot buildup doesn't makes sense, Book 6 fave it clarity.

But I noticed that there's always a tipping point. A snap where you can see the character in question starts acting differently or odd. Riddle was violent and sudden, all of them were. But Azul was the first and most obvious example of this snap that I noticed. Leona destroys everything he worked so hard for, it cuts back to us and the tweels, and when we get back to Octanivelle, Azul's gone batshit. Literally. He snapped in every sense of the word. Riddle's snap wasn't obvious to me aside from the absurdity of Ace punching him, until I looked back. Riddle's snap was Trey going against him. Leona's was finding out he not only got found out, but got foiled. Jamil's was thinking the whole world saw his plans (which I believe was actually less just his own plans getting fucked but also a reaction to the fact that if he got found out by thr Asim's, his family might not survive their wrath but that's for another time.) Vil's snap wasn't even what lead up to him attempting to poison Neige, because he acts normal right after when Rook takes the juice. His snap is Kalim stopping him from hurting Rook with said poison. Idia's snap, I don't think was in the underworld talking to the original Ortho. I think Idia's snap was hearing Ortho call him Idy.

But Malleus? While the lead up is all about Lilia's impending leave, his loss of one of his only people. The only person who's been there his whole life. His dad. He's no where near Lilia when he snaps. He's already snapped when he shows up in the party with Silver and talks Maleficent monologuing. You can so easily spot his snap, because similar to Azul, he goes batshit. Silver notices it right away with Malleus laughing suddenly.

The begs the question, why did he snap with Silver. They were talking about Lilia, and Silver was crying, but to me. It didn't feel like that snap was about Lilia. It felt like it was about Silver. I'm one of those people who believes that Malleus and Silver are like brothers. They have a bond like that, even if they don't act on it in cannon. They're supposed to be a prince and bodyguard, those are their roles, and they're good at playing them for a reason. But that's the thing. If that's all they were, why would Silver, who doesn't show that much emotion is general, who's calm and collected, who runs out in what seems like a near panicked state to find Mallsus before Lilia leaves, start bawling his eyes out in front of Malleus. With barely a nudge?

They were both essentially raised by the same man. They are brothers through Lilia. Malleus has almost no one, he clings to Yuu because they treat him as if he were just another person. Just as Lilia does. Just as Silver often does. Sebek is the only one of the group who treats Malleus the way we could expect someone from Briar Valley might. Sebek is a whole other thing, but wouldn't Silver, who was raised by Lilia, who was taken in by his grandmother the queen, who guarded his and acted as her general, treat him similarly?

He does! We see it in events like the Glorious Masquerade, he is still Malleus's bodyguard for a reason! But if Lilia's relationship with Melanor was like Silver's with Malleus, it makes sense that their relationship would reflect that of their parents. And it has the added effect of Malleus being an orphan as well, and as far as I can tell (and an eng player trying to not get too many spoilers), Lilia takes a major role in Malleus's youth. He might not have been there constantly when he was younger, but he was there. And he was the only one who (besides probably his very busy grandmother) didnt treat Malleus as something to be feared or revered.

But what does this all have to do with Malleus snapping and overblotting? Malleus and Silver have a very specific relationship in cannon. Its professional decently often, but it's also soft. Silver will absolutely protect Malleus, but he knows that he doesn't always want or need it. He doesn't need to be observed like a hawk 24/7 if something goes sideways. (Seen in how quickly he and Sebek check on Malleus after the attack in book 6, and how calm Silver is while Sebek is panicking over a missing Malleus he wouldn't leave alone later on).

Malleus barely has to say anything to Silver before he breaks down in tears about everything with Lilia. I know as someone who be very private with what's bothering me, the only person who could get me to break down that hard and that fast would be someone I consider family. Silver so inherently trusts Malleus that he'll sob and cry in front of him with so little. He's desperate and shattering. The only person he let see that was Malleus.

Then Malleus laughs, and Silver's caught of guard. That basically proved that this is his snap, because it pretty much fully implies that this is out of character for the prince. Silver would take the laughter and the teleporation is sride. Instead he's shocked and bewildered through both of those things, confused when they show up at Diasomnia.

Malleus only goes back and quickly overblots because he'd already hit the point of overblotting. But it required blot, and he hadn't used any magic for that blot like everyone else until he got back and everyone started fighting him. He overblotted because losing Lilia killed him. But he didn't Overblot until the only other person beside the newcomer Yuu (who was also trying to figure out how to leave him) who treated him like a normal person expressed his exact feelings.

Neither brother wanted their dad to leave, but Lilia was leaving, and it broke Silver. And thus, Malleus snapped and overblotted because of Silver.

Anyways I'm not very good at articulating myself sometimes but this is just a long-winded way of saying I think malleus actually only fully overblotted because his little brother sobbed for their dad leaving them and his need for the few people he has was combined with his need to protect them (aka the sweet dreams and forcefullness of them) and Silver's breakdown was just the final straw. He kept Lilia and everyone else via their dreams safe because it meant they were all together and happy.

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with overblot cards officially coming i am BEGGING to see the remaining characters get some kind of special story SSR (I believe its just ace, deuce, epel and jack left? correct me if I'm wrong)

I need it so badly. (esp for ace to no ones surprise...)

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epel truly is a child of divorce

Choose a parent, epel

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to support snow white!epel remember vil (the evil queen) ordering rook (the huntsman) to bring epel back like how the evil queen ordered the huntsman to kill snow white?

remember epel singing into the well like snow white?

it's twisted wonderland, a character can be twisted from multiple stories (i.e cater as cinderella, the king of hearts, a card soldier, silver being the sword and aurora) and a multiple characters can be twisted from the same story (i.e both trey and cater being the king of hearts to riddle's queen of hearts, all of heartslabyul (- riddle) being card soldiers)

so is it really impossible to say that epel is both the poison apple and snow white (+ also grumpy), and that both epel and neige are twisted from snow white?

tysm for coming to my ted talk ^-^

i know neige is the twst ver of snow white, but i always love the fics/aus where vil is the reincarnation of the evil queen and epel is the reincarnation of snow white.

in some way, it's a bit tragic because the evil queen despises princess snow white, yet vil schoenheit cares for country bumpkin epel felmier? (what did epel felmier have that snow white didn't?)

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i know neige is the twst ver of snow white, but i always love the fics/aus where vil is the reincarnation of the evil queen and epel is the reincarnation of snow white.

in some way, it's a bit tragic because the evil queen despises princess snow white, yet vil schoenheit cares for country bumpkin epel felmier? (what did epel felmier have that snow white didn't?)

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i still think of this daily

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CRY.

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This was simple life right?

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it's the same but rogue-like is a game category(?) and not part of the descriptor for the actual greek god.

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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i feel like they organize it, like they ask if the other's changing their ui and wow, you are? gotta change mine too!

tumblr and discord changing their ui just enough to be noticeable within a week of each other, 1 million billion neurodivergent people found dead

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??? what is going on in america

huh weird.

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i used to be pro-sag aftra strike but looking at it closely i am now against it.

the fact that:

- mihoyo, under chinese law, already has ai protections against using ai to replace voice actors. they actually had one instance of it (when a tot voice actor was in jail, there was an event and he didn't want his character to be muted, so he gave mhy consent to make an ai of his voice and mhy compensated him for it with cash. when it was proven he was guilty, they recast the character and did not use the ai voice anymore. they only used it in that one event that the original va allowed them to with the og va's consent.)

- the cn, jp, (also kr? not sure) vas of genshin already have ai protections, and the en va of zzz have ai protections when they signed with sound cadence

- they dropped formosa (strike target) as the va studio for genshin and signed with side (international studio who provides ai protections, which is why their recent vas for genshin have been from the uk, japan, etc.)

- mihoyo can't sign with/join independent and foreign unions because they're not allowed to by their own chinese union laws

- the union vas in genshin weren't supposed to join genshin under sag-aftra's global rule one. where union va's are not allowed to work in non-union projects like genshin (but simultaneously are encouraged to audition for non-union projects to turn it union and stand out amongst the non-union talents (which was referred to as lesser quality by a sag-aftra higher up))

- signing the agreement with sag-aftra means that any non-union vas would either have to go union or be dropped (oh, but what about the taft-harley? well it's only 30 days and 3 times in their lifetime. and then after that, they'd have to join and not everyone wants to join. + joining sag-aftra means paying upfront 3000, and monthly payment. it's like a subscription plan.) it's basically monopolozing who mihoyo gets to hire because I'm pretty sure they also pay a fine for every non-union actor they hire.

- if it was anti-ai, then why did sag-aftra sign with 3 ai companies such as ethovox, who are making ai voice models.

just seems scummy to me

Shout out to the weirdo who dm'd me to call me "Anti-union scum"

Like okay but if this is how SAG-AFTRA acts and operates then I'm 100% against it

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Dashingdon Retirement - Where Can I Play?

Hello everyone! Thank you for all the messages about dashingdon. I am aware, and if you want to play an "old" version of the game, you can access it here: https://dae-kalina.neocities.org/Son%20of%20Satan_%20The%20Mortal%20Coil The reboot I am planning to host on cogdemos.ink. Keep an eye peeled here for news on that front.

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It makes me so fucking angry Iskall compares his cancelation to the god damn witchhunts. He unironically fucking compares it to an event, created by the church back then, to demonize women, other cultures and non-christian religions, which killed a countless amount of people, to getting banned from a minecraft server.

Kind of ironic that he goes on this whole rant about "pitchforks" online, then sues all the hermits for defamation and blames them for "ruining his life" and "mental health", statements that will OBVIOUSLY lead to his supporters harassing the hermits.

Godddd i dont understand how people can listen to a statement like that, full of fallacies, guiltripping, gaslighting and still support him

THE WORST PART IS HE NEVER EVEN DENIES IT!! LIKE. at the start he basically admits it. And people still call them false allegations??? And support him??? GIRL HOW ARE YOU NOT NOTICING THAT HES USING THE WHOLE "CANCELATION" THING TO REDIRECT THE ATTENTION & BLAME TO THE HERMIT'S

SO PEOPLE ARGUE ABOUT THE HERMITS "ACTING TOO FAST" INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT WHAT HE DID

ITS SUCH BLATANT DEFLECTION TOO????

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Mind Blind, Now With Twenty Percent More Bruschetta

The cover art has been ordered. The Patreon demo updated. The public beta planned for this March, because it's been five years and this is ridiculous.

Oh, and the game is finished. For realsies. The code doesn't even accidentally send you to the nineth level of hell anymore (that's my next work).

Public demo has also been updated and moved. As thanks to everyone who notified me, it now includes up to Chapter 12. Enjoy the party: