#chris post

[doctor-ciel]

in the 1590s, straight up “fausting” it. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s just say. my bargain.

[crispytubes]

actual event that happened today

[detectiveshikanoinheizou]

[neptunevasilias]

tbh I'm still surprised Maria x Cordovin old woman yuri never became a thing

[mtt-brand-hrt]

Musing about the weird route... this might sound confusing lol

I was thinking about how Berdly dies in it, how unusual that is when you think about it. I mean, it would make sense on the undertale genocide route, and killing him is definitely supposed to feel like a natural continuation of the route because we are thinking of it as "deltarune's genocide route," but it's not. It's a route much more centered around social interaction, manipulating Noelle and trampling over her agency. So it doesn't have the unified identity of "the route where you do nothing but kill people" like in undertale (where, no matter how much you wanted to stop, the simplicity of it was so easy and repetitive that it was hard to, and you could almost keep proceeding without thinking about it), so upon reflection killing Berdly feels weird (ha)

Especially with the distinction between killing darkners vs killing Berdly, with the latter being treated as much more serious. Like, even if you operate under the assumption that how you treat darkners doesn't matter because they're just fake and lesser beings, Berdly is a huge step up from that. And killing him doesn't even fall under the pretense we and Noelle are operating under, that this is all to become stronger, because you don't get any EXP or anything from killing Berdly. The battle screen just closes. I think that's probably what unconsciously made it feel so harrowing to me when I first saw it, because it really feels like the consequences of taking a "game" too far. Like what I said about continuing a genocide run feeling almost mindless, it's much the same for Noelle and for us playing the weird route.

I'm worried about Noelle becoming a threat to all the main characters besides (or maybe even including) Kris. I think it would be cool if she got caught killing another character, and Susie had to step in. It would be a great way to cross both their places in the narrative: Susie's usually the strongest, but a weird route Noelle would be even stronger. Yet, Susie's still the only one who can stop her, but not for a reason she's used to. Susie would have to appeal to Noelle emotionally, and she's not as confident about doing that.

Another thing. I don't think the rest of the weird route is going to focus so much on manipulating Noelle, or at the least it's not going to be as straightforward and easy as it was in chapter 2 (but I DO think that the weird route is only going to be about Noelle). In chapter 2, she doesn't see it coming, and she thinks the whole time that she's dreaming. But when she wakes up and sees the consequences and the proof that it was all real, she'd know better. And even if she still convinced herself that it was all a dream, she wouldn't be as willing to go along the next time she's in a dark world, at least for the sake of not having another nightmare like that. Or at the very least, we would have to spend some time getting control over her again, and we couldn't do it the same way twice (play off of/take advantage of Noelle's history with Kris). Maybe in chapter 4 we cut out the middle man and start appealing to Noelle as ourselves (the soul and/or the angel), especially since at the end of chapter 2 she seems to start to be aware that there is someone else besides Kris who made it all happen.

[cyberelf-axl]

Can't figure out how to put impact font on here

[nikoonaroomba]

Do you ever think about how common red is in the art gallery? The mannequins and painted ladies are most often red, Red Eyes and all the dolls, the mannequin heads have red mouths, etc. No wonder Garry thought Ib was another thing from the gallery at first. And on the other hand, it makes Mary look even less threatening in comparison.

[flowersintheattic254]

Thanks Chris. Well I’m reminded of this scene.

‘Look Kurt I don’t know what I’m doing.’

[autistic-mobert]

I remade my first AMV from more than a year ago!

[marichatrien]

3000 posts!

This is some kind of disease I think

[mckitterick]

When Noem testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, ranking member Senator Chris Murphy gave such powerful, informative, and important opening remarks I have to share:

transcript:

"I say this with seriousness and respect, but your department is out of control.

"You’re spending like you don’t have a budget. You are running out of money for this fiscal year. You are illegally refusing to spend funds that have been authorized by this Congress and appropriated by this committee. You are ignoring the immigration laws of this nation, implementing a brand new immigration system that you have invented that has little relation to the statutes that you are required to follow as spelled out in your oath of office. You are routinely violating the rights of immigrants who may not be citizens, but whether you like it or not, they have constitutional and statutory rights when they reside in the United States.

"Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter, as if the election gave you some mandate to violate the Constitution and the laws passed by this Congress. It did not give you that mandate. You act as if your disagreement with the law, or even the public’s disagreement with the law, is relevant and gives you the ability to create your own law. It does not give you that ability.

"Let’s start with your spending. You are on track to trigger the Anti-Deficiency act. That means you are on track to spend more money than you have been allocated by Congress. This is a rare occurrence and it is wildly illegal.

"Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year. You may not think that Congress has allotted enough money to ICE, but the Constitution and the federal law does not allow you to spend more money than you have been given or to invent money.

"This obsession with spending at the border has left the country unprotected elsewhere. The security threats to national security are higher, not lower, since Trump came to office. To fund the border you have illegally gutted spending to cybersecurity.

"As we speak, Russian and Chinese hackers are having a field day attacking our nation. You have withdrawn funds for disaster prevention. Storms are going to kill more people because of your illegal withholding of these funds. Your myopia about the border fueled by President Trump’s prejudice against people who speak a different language have shattered most of this country’s most important defenses.

"Now let’s talk about the impoundments. When Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose the administration has no discretion whether or not to spend that money unless you go through a specific process with this committee.

"Let me give you two of many instances of this illegal impoundment. The first is a shelter and services program. Senator Britt may want to zero that account out, but that account is funded in a bipartisan way. You may not like the program. Your policy is to treat migrants badly. I think that’s abhorrent, but it doesn’t matter that you don’t like the program. You cannot cancel spending in this program, and you cannot use the funds, as you have, to fund other things, like ICE.

"You have also cancelled citizenship and integration grants, which help lawful permanent residents become citizens, helping them take the citizenship test. I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants, but that goal is not broadly shared by the American public. That’s why Congress, in a bipartisan way, for decades has funded this program to help immigrants become citizens.

"Now let’s talk about why encounters at the southern border are down so much. This is clearly going to be your primary talking point today. You will tell us that it represents as success. But the prime reason why encounters are down is because you are brazenly violating the law every hour of every day.

"You are refusing to allow people showing up at the southern border to apply for asylum. I acknowledge that you don’t believe that people should be allowed to apply for asylum, but the White House doesn’t get to choose that. The law requires you to process people who are showing up at the border to apply for asylum.

"Why? Because our asylum law is a bipartisan commitment, an effort to correct for our nation’s unconscionable decision to deny entry to Jews to this country who were being hunted and killed by the Nazis. Our nation, Republicans and Democrats, decided, wrote it into law, that we would not repeat that horror ever again, and thus we would allow for people who were fleeing terror and torture to come here, arrive at the border, and make a case for asylum.

"Finally let’s talk about these disappearances. In an autocratic society, people who the regime does not like or who are protesting the regime are often picked up off the street, and spirited away, often to open-ended detention. Sometimes they’re never seen again.

"What you are doing, both to individuals who have legal rights to stay here, like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, or students who are just protesting Trump’s policies, is immoral and, to follow the theme, it is illegal. You have no right to deport a student visa holder with no due process simply because they have spoken in a way that offends the President. You can’t remove migrants whom a court has given humanitarian protection from removal.

"Now, reports suggest that you are planning to remove immigrants with no due process and send them to prisons in Libya. Libya is in the middle of a civil war. It is subject to a level 4 travel advisory, meaning we tell American citizens never to travel to Libya. We don’t have an embassy there because it is not safe for our diplomats. Sending migrants with pending asylum claims into a war zone, just because it’s cruel, is so deeply disturbing.

"Listen, I understand that my Republican colleagues on this committee don’t view the policy as I do, don’t share my level of concern for the way the government treats immigrants, but what I don’t understand is why we don’t have consensus in the Senate and on this committee on the decision by this administration to impound the spending that we have decided together to allocate in defense of this nation.

"We as an appropriations committee worked interminable hours to write and pass this budget, and so we make ourselves irrelevant when we allow the administration to ignore what we have decided. And then when we look the other way when the administration rounds up immigrants who are here illegally and have committed no offenses worthy of detainment, we also do potential irreversible damage to the Constitution.

"These should not be partisan concerns—destroying the power of Congress, eroding individuals’ Constitutional rights. This should matter to both parties."

_

I never knew that our asylum laws arose from when we didn’t take Jews escaping from the Nazis. Both parties said never again. Yet here we are.

Everything this "administration" is doing is impeachable, and this Congress has a responsibility to get these criminals out of office and keep them out.

Contact your representatives and demand that they hold Homeland Security to account if they want to keep holding their offices - if they in fact want those offices to still be a thing in the future.

[doctor-ciel]

I’m thinking about how in Blue Period, a part of the story was dedicated to the idea of the naked body and how the main character is ashamed of his, feels disconnected from it, thinks of it as just a pile of putty, how nakedness is extremely vulnerable and terrifying. And they talked about how close everyone is to death. And when he painted a live nude model, he recontexutalized all of these feelings about nakedness into seeing it as something beautiful.

And then later in the story, they introduced a character with him unveiling a fuckoff huge nude self portrait of him draped across a couch. What a effective and efficient way of telling everything you need to know about him as a person before he even says anything. Like, normally a character being introduced like this would be a quick way of saying "this guy's an arrogant asshole," but with the specific themes the story built about nakedness, it says that he's a very transparent and confident guy who knows himself well.

Also, they used the ocean to represent death during that arc, with it taking place in a hotel that overlooked the ocean, and he spends a lot of time there too fishing as a hobby.

Edit: I’ve been informed that that’s not himself he painted. But being this comfortable about nudity still shows more or less the same point. Also, I haven’t finished the manga, so I can’t say whether this ends up being an accurate assessment of his character, just that this was my first impression of him.

[crispytubes]

Guys did I ever tell y’all I got accepted into the character design stream at my college

[detectiveshikanoinheizou]

I LOVE making character playlists with 40-70 songs but I am having such a hard time making one for Childe. Even though he's one of my favorite characters ever. The only one I have on there is Mama by MCR because I saw it used for fanart once and thought it was a really good choice. I'm too scared to put anything else.

[neptunevasilias]

Wait wait, there are some interesting implications from this episode.

Sun and Neptune talk about “the night they got the case.” “The case” either means the day they decided to start looking into RWBYJ’s whereabouts, or (more likely) it’s a euphemism for the day this became a problem, aka the day Atlas arrived to Vacuo but RWBYJ didn’t. They said it was “stormy” the day they got the case, and although the visuals use a rainstorm, there was in fact a sandstorm the day everyone arrived (plus, Vacuo rarely gets rainstorms).

They said they got this case yesterday. Which means that this takes place the day after volume 8. This explains why Qrow was so quiet and angry.

This also means that a lot got done in one day: Raven arrived, the summer maiden was summoned to the academy, and most importantly, Ozpin’s whole deal was explained. Sun and Neptune kept correcting each other on calling him Oscar/Ozpin, like it’s new information that they’re just getting used to. But also, it’s something that they know about. They know about the maidens, too.

This means they also probably know about the relics.

[mtt-brand-hrt]

As of today it’s been one week since chapters 3 and 4 released. After thinking on it, I’m going to wait until after two weeks have passed since release to stop tagging for spoilers. That means starting on the 19th, this won’t be a spoiler-free zone.