#he just...leaned into it

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

I apologize if this has been asked before, but is there any lore tidbits explaining why Rasputin speaks russian (albeit backwards) and is called Rasputin? Made sense when he was the Earth warmind based in Russia but now it seems a little strange Ana taught him in Russian

Nnnnnope! We have no idea why he’s named Rasputin, why he speaks Russian, and why he speaks upside-down Russian. My working theory is that he googled his own name, shrugged, and leaned into it.

Rasputin doesn’t seem to have selected his own name. The first Persona lore page implies that he was named when he was moved and made the focus of the Warmind project. By the time Ana comes on board the name’s established well enough that she doesn’t question it. No one seems to have asked Rasputin what he wanted to be named, but they also never asked if he wanted to be a Warmind either, so that tracks. Given that his two named subminds so far are also named after real humans elevated after their deaths into quasi-mythical figures, he might have elected to take the theme and run with it.

Personally I like to believe that before humans decided to use Rasputin, they tried to kill him (or at least “fix the weird anomaly in our space station’s monitoring systems”) and the bastard just wouldn’t fucking die.

As to why he speaks an upside-down version of a mostly-dead language, well...Rasputin sucks at talking to people. He genuinely seems to have major trouble holding a single-threaded face-to-face conversation, I guess because he’s a) distributed and b) thinking far faster than us. He’s much more likely to use recordings, quotations, music, or synesthetic colors/textures/sounds to communicate what he means. He even sends us on a whole scavenger hunt all around Hellas Basin following clues to figure out he wants to give us Sleeper Simulant and Ana Polaris Lance instead of just, y’know, handing them to us like a normal person. When he does talk, he tends to just declare stuff and let us deal with it rather than have a dialogue. So when he has a conversation with Zavala in the EDZ bunker back in Season of the Worthy, that’s a rare event, and even then Rasputin conveys his message through the map projection and Collapse-era radio broadcasts. Most likely the upside-down Russian is the game’s way of conveying the idea that Rasputin doesn’t speak in an easily-understood way. In fact I’ve heard that in the Russian dub of D1 they changed the language he speaks to something else (can’t verify this though). So it’s really there to sound alien to most listeners.

Golden Age space exploration and assets have had a bit of a Russian bent since the beginning of Destiny. The Cosmodrome was one of the first areas ever designed and the crashed Exodus ships all have the РФВА logo of the Russian space agency. At the very beginning of the Traveler’s uplift those nations that already had major manned space programs - the Americans, Russians, and Chinese - had something of a head start in using all that shiny new technology to start establishing themselves on other planets. Not that they tried to gate off space and take it all for themselves - they were just the nations that already had the infrastructure, so it was easiest to go to space through them. As a result the “standard” languages of off-Earth colonies became English, Russian, and Chinese. Hellas Basin and the New Pacific Arcology on Titan have signage repeated in all three languages. The Moon, as one of the earliest colonies and one that never expanded into a viable settlement, still has occasional direct references to said space agencies. Rasputin retained the РФВА branding for Cosmodrome vehicles up through the Collapse even though we don’t know if the agency itself still existed. He may have just thought it looked cool.

[wispscribbles]

I love your ghost design. I wanna squeeze him :⁠^⁠)

If no hug then why hug-shaped???

[vaxxman]

"Do you miss the time when you used to do no harm?"

Old habits.

Merc behaviour is based on a nice little comment @up-in-flames-writing left on one of my comics :)

Rambling and more silly drawings below.

Loosely based on the Solemn Vow's public blurb:

Art lovers will cherish the bust of Hippocrates, commemorating a time when the Medic still thought doing no harm was a good idea.

I am absolutely convinced that Medic carries dextrose drops with him. German pharmacies throw these after you when you buy anything at all. I went to check if this one specific brand I know of had been around since the 60s and 70s and yes, it was.

Small acts of kindness I can see Medic doing is giving everyone one of these if they are tired. I'm talking about Engineer mostly.

Or they snack on them when solving practical problems together, like during the teleporter bread tumor incident.

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

family tea party.

(in my mind, Radagon is the pure Order with no kindness half, and he always yearns to converge with Marika + be on equal footing with her, so in my drawing he’ll always be kinda nuts)

[sparkles-rule-4eva]

I LOVE that this is a completely normal way for Sonic to make friends, to the point where his buddies either laugh about it or are just like "Not again, Sonic," every time he does it nowadays 🤣

[ahhrenata]

* flirt mode activated *

[clouvu]

Cooking up an older Clervie outfit design so I don't have to keep drawing her looking like her child self but Long

[clarisimart]

Devastating homoerotic Situantioship ends in catastrophic divorce

Thousands dead, countless injured

commission info here

[multifandom--mess]

will sleeps on basically the equivalent of a sofa bed. look at how flat that shit is like no wonder he's irritated as fuck half the time bc he can't sleep worth a damn on that uncomfortable ass bed 😭😭

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[thegayestdiaz]

the fact that we didn’t get buck going on a research bender about his own sexuality and the history of the queer community and sharing all the information he learned is a crime

[itseghost]

they are talking shit (or flirting?)

[drbtinglecannon]

Pros of letting your cat sniff your food/drink

Makes them feel included

Their reaction might be funny

If it's safe for them to eat it's ok if they have a little lick lick it's fine, here, have some butter, my son. Yes, numnum

Cons of letting your cat sniff your food/drink

They might try it and then become a fiend for that food/drink every time you have it for the rest of forever

They might sneeze on it

[egophiliac]

:) hello! :D hope you have a nice day and absolutely do not think of the possibility of one of the last story cards being of silver! and that his groovy will very probably be crying!!! THERE'S SO MANY CRYING PEOPLE IN STORY CARDS LATELY!!! SPECIALLY LIGHT USERS!! I AM!!! SCARED!!!! bc so far we got Lilia and Sebek in the beginning book 7.... so at the end.... so we're missing story Silver... and Malleus is the one with less cards, so they might add one for him... but... the tears... ego.... THE TEARS!!!! EGOOOO!! (LOVE YOUR ART BTW EVERYTIME I GET A NOTIF FROM YOUR BLOG I RUN HERE TO SEE!)

(thank you! 💚💜💚)

YES I am ALSO like...90-95% convinced that we're going to be getting a story card for Silver once we wrap around back to diasomnia. 👀 especially because the way things are going, Silver will be the only character whose dream we haven't seen -- yet???? -- and that just. y'know. makes me wonder!

although I do think it would be VERY funny if he got a story card and the groovy was just "regular Silver except with one beautiful single crystal tear". this is actually a lot coming from him.

(he used up all his emotion yelling at a baby that one time, there's none left for a proper groovy-level cry.)

[skunkes]

meow