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[evilfarmin]

Han Ying has blanket permission to snoop because he is ZZS's dumb little woof woof. Window of Heaven is making great advancements in the field by employing the world's first assassin without a brain.

[venture-through-the-mist]

So, the ‘Lone Ranger’ emote might be a lil…off when you use it for your Operator.

At least, mine is.

It took me a good few seconds to realize that, no, that was not just her face looking weird.

Nope.

[yabagofmilfs]

sometimes you ruin your life and become indispensable to a terrible person with a lot of power at your company which allows you opportunities to continue ruining your life in new and exciting ways for small incremental wage increases, and that’s the beautiful and terrible curse of corporate america.

i don’t work directly with him anymore, and i kind of thought i’d fallen out of favor with him because i’ve refused to come back into the office full time, but just heard from another coworker that my former boss, now president, has been talking me up to the ceo. i’d like a little less talk and a little more money if im honest, but in this climate i’ll take the job security any way i can get it.

[declawedwildcat]

I'm not totally certain what precisely is going on with N+C beyond what I've casually absorbed through your posting but do please ramble about something about it that lives rent-free in your head

That is so fair lmao, it's pretty impossible to get a handle on what goes on in any one of these games without experiencing them and they are very much not for everyone.

Hmm, there's plenty of directions I could take this in, ones that are more relevant and less talked-about, but most of them are not fresh on my mind now that it's been a while since I finished them all so I think I'll spend it on the one that gripped me so hard initially I nearly had to drop the game to go make art about it immediately: the coathanger angel.

Small TW for below the cut — mentions of unsafe abortion

Asakura's chapter of Slow Damage is... dubious, and not handled very gracefully. But one thing it did give us was this beautiful piece of imagery even divorced from anything else that happens in his segment. I don't know why it hit me so hard to be honest; most of my thoughts on it are nonsense that have nothing to do with the actual themes or narrative intent. But it's about the concept of it, the visual, I'll figure out if it means anything coherent by the time I finish writing this probably

For the tiniest bit of context [spoilers, if someone like Muse is reading this *squint*], the chapter in question follows a pediatric doctor with a fixation on cherub imagery and culminates in surgically attaching a set of homemade wings to Towa's back to "make an angel."

The first time we see the wings it's just this glimpse, peeking out of the exam room drawer with no context, while Towa offhand wonders if they're a tool or something. I can't say for certain it was the intention since it's never described as such, but to me the apparent color, gauge, and corners of the wire felt obvious that they came from metal coat hangers.

The leaps my brain made here the first time did not end up at all correct when the chapter's mysteries were later laid out. But when presenting an image of bent wire hangers in a medical setting, especially one with an intense focus on children? There's some immediate associations there, at least from an American perspective. You could have given me a year to ponder it and still don't think I would have figured out where this storyline was going to go, but I was truly surprised that at no point did any character even guess it could relate to unsanctioned abortions.

And then there's Towa — our patron saint of bad decisions, apathetic and selfish. His offer to become the angel is still self-serving, sure; he set out to grant Asakura's wish even if it had been something completely different, because that's just what he does. But we see him taking distinct interest in the little boy the doctor keeps around, in a way he really doesn't even with the other euphoria models. Him taking Hayato's place for the operation is specifically an uncharacteristic act of protection, which of course has some implications that we get greater insight into in the true route later on.

When Towa is laid out with the wings complete, it's possibly the most striking image in the game. It's already powerful on its own at the time, but finishing the game and getting all of Towa's backstory just leaves even more scattered metaphors for me to scrounge up and drape over the picture.

A broken person being recreated in the warped image of something holy. Innocence of snow white angel wings now reduced to skeletal remains, its leftover feathers bedraggled and bloodstained. The juxtaposition of delighting in excruciating pain while being turned into an image of purity, an object of worship for these men whose dark desires consume them until laid as sacrifices on his altar. Jagged edges of twisted, torn wire jutting out from the bastard child of a powerful man's mistress, whose birth we never really learn the circumstances of.

There's a CG of the finished product that inspired the art in my header, but I'm probably using that one in a later ask and I'm also not sure if it will be too sensitive for tumblr's poor image automod, so I'll save it to avoid two posts getting nuked in the event that it is.

{"Make me stack-rank my toxic yaoi" asks}

[vodid]

hi my store is open again with a new print <3

get ur gold foil print here! ⬇ :>

[imasallstars]

SR/SR+ 【WINTER and WINDOW】Eve Santaclaus

FOCUS STAT 　　　6175 VOCAL TOTAL APPEAL 　　　13 438 Skill:「Wonderful Surprise」 　　　(Skill Boost) For every 9 seconds, there is a 40~60% chance that skills activating in the same time will be boosted, for 4~6 seconds Center Skill:「Tricolor Abiilty」 　　　When all the three types are available in a unit, all card’s SKILL PROBABILITY appeal increased by 40%

※ this card is available by reaching a certain number of points in the LIVE Infinity: WINTER and WINDOW event. You are able to get multiple copies of this card by obtaining more points in the event

[butchedup]

my wife’s best friend’s relationship started with her being The Other Woman unknowingly, and while things have worked out i still hold that grudge against her partner. when my wife met her best friend’s partner she decided to forgive and forget and the partner was excited to get to know another butchfemme couple and my wife was like “my butch is big and mean idk if that’ll work out for you right away” and im still endeared months later

[heich0e]

i'm thinking about manor house recluse kiyoomi again.......

[scalproie]

archtemp Rey Dau isnt even that hard but I have not beaten a single one today online even tho I, myself, have not carted once (1)

[somethingscosmic1251]

i'm no good at interviewing because when i'm nervous my brain goes blank and i come across way less intelligent than i actually am, but today i finally did well enough to land a second interview AND two other places reached out wanting to chat with me so hope is being restored that in spite of this people may find me hireable!! woo!!

[a8ra]

[1800duckhotline]

dont be fooled by lucia looking dashing and shit. shes so evil i have come to the point i cant even imagine her having sex now

[doodles-with-noodles]

Drew my lovely Dnd party! I had to put my and another character on the stone because else figuring out the height difference would have taken even more time than drawing the sillies for the first time.

[u-t-o-p-i-a-6-6-6]

Speed boost

[venacoeurva]

Waiting on seeing if a more solid job wants me and if not I'll explore some other options, that'd be real nice to have a consistent, scheduled job again but a lot of WFH stuff entails very specialized experience and certifications and/or regular phone and Zoom use with customers and not just coworkers/higher-ups and that is way not my jam. This is also just a weird time of year for jobs anyway based on my experience

[sowlmates]

I don't even mind the freezing cold I'm just happy that the sky is blue it's ALWAYS cloudy in my city even in summer