#i don't know shit about coding

[vitch-with-v]

Ok no cuz like why the fuck do i get cramps A WEEK BEFORE my period who the fuck coded this shit this configuration sucks ass and i can't even get into settings to fix it >:(

[fellthemarvelous]

Aziraphale hate makes my brain hurt.

Like let's be really fuckin' for real here.

Neurodivergent fans have repeatedly said that Aziraphale is autistic coded. I agree with them. I have never been diagnosed but I wonder about myself. If only I could get a doctor to take me seriously enough to test me for it, but alas, I'm a 43-year-old woman living in the good ole US of A.

Those with religious trauma have repeatedly said that they identify with him as well. I'm one of those people. I endured 12 years of Catholic schools and just as much time being taught a very black and white view of things that I've had to spend more than 20 goddamn fucking years working to unlearn.

I find that my views as a survivor of religious abuse are often dismissed because people keep wanting to say "Aziraphale doesn't have religious trauma." Yes, thank you, I get that, but unless you've been indoctrinated and brainwashed into a very black and white view of the world, you probably don't understand the kind of feelings Aziraphale's onscreen experiences evoke in so many of us. Heaven might not be real, but the feelings of "God is always watching" still stick with me today even though I no longer believe in God. I have entirely denounced Christianity because of my own personal experience, and I refuse to allow people to try and guilt me or shame me for trauma that I didn't ask for. I wasn't given a choice.

As a child I was told that God was real and always watching everything you do (just like Santa Claus) and can hear everything you say and knows everything you are thinking. Do you know what I learned to do in order to cope with this overwhelming and anxiety-inducing information as a small child? I learned to censor my thoughts. I never spoke up, and I have always felt like I was putting on a show for people because I had to be who I was told to be or I would get into trouble.

Aziraphale said "poverty is a virtue" during The Resurrectionists, and as someone who grew up in the Bible belt and went to private schools, I was taught this very same shit by the Catholic church. He learned in that very same episode that "poverty is a virtue" is actually a tool of oppression to keep the poor poor and the wealthy wealthy. I know we all watched the episode. He went into that episode believing what he said, but by the end of it he knew it was actually utter bullshit. Aziraphale is not ignorant. He's highly intelligent, and he has never been too proud to admit when he has been wrong. He accepts that the information he learned before is not matching up with reality.

And it's so obvious some of you have zero experience with that type of indoctrination because of how very little empathy you show Aziraphale for his "mistake" of "choosing Heaven over Crowley" and "making Crowley sad" so clearly Aziraphale must somehow be "abusive" and "manipulative" and "selfish" and "self-centered" because he didn't choose to run away with Crowley at the end of season two.

First of all.

FIRST OF ALL...

Aziraphale has a mind of his own.

Aziraphale is always going to try and do what is right.

Aziraphale is an angel. He's a being of love. And the reason he's so "bad" at being an angel is because he actually wants to protect humanity. He has always loved humanity. He repeatedly has to contend with what is "right" versus what is "good" and "wrong" versus "evil". Yeah, he has flaws. He's an angel, not a goddamn fucking saint. He has lived on Earth for more than 6,000 years. He has seen everything. He loves doing human things.

He's obsessed with magic. It makes him so happy. He's not very good at it...well not when he's trying to put on a show for Crowley.

He chose to learn French the hard way, so even though he knows every single language in the world, he chooses to be mediocre at French. Something that annoys and amuses Crowley at the same time.

He loves to dance even though angels aren't supposed to dance, and dancing with Crowley was what he wanted the most.

He owns a bookshop and refuses to sell any of his books because they are books he's had for as long as there have been books. He will chase customers away from his collection, and Crowley understands how much they mean to Aziraphale because he refuses to sell any when Aziraphale leaves him in charge.

He and Crowley have been speaking to each other in coded language for more than 6,000 years. They have to be very careful about what they say because Heaven and Hell are always watching.

Heaven has photographs of Crowley and Aziraphale sitting or standing together throughout history. Hell had one photo of Crowley and Aziraphale actually working together and it was Aziraphale's quick thinking and how good he actually is at sleight of hand tricks that managed to get that photo out of Furfur's hands so he wouldn't be able to turn Crowley over to the Dark Council.

Aziraphale saved Crowley from being taken to Hell again. He wasn't able to save Crowley from Hell in Edinburgh, but he sure as heck managed to save Crowley from Hell during WWII. He took Crowley to his bookshop and showed Crowley that he stole the picture from Furfur. He saved Crowley.

You get that, right?

Aziraphale SAVED Crowley.

People always talk about how it's "always Crowley saving Aziraphale" because apparently heroic acts are only heroic when they are grand gestures. The sleight of hand wasn't heroic at all, am I right? It wasn't sparkly and showy. It wasn't interesting enough, therefore not heroic. At least that's all I'm hearing when people start with their "blah Aziraphale deserves to suffer because I have no imagination or ability to understand the media in front of me blah", and all these reasons he deserves to suffer is because Crowley almost got hurt.

Aziraphale did that without flinching and I watch that part closely every single time. He's not scared for himself. He's scared for Crowley, and he managed to hold onto that photograph. He did not fail Crowley. He protected Crowley.

And so here's another thing that we like to point out. The way that Aziraphale, an angel who is effeminate and male presenting, an angel who is soft and full of love, an angel who is kind and forgiving because he has empathy and compassion, is somehow painted as abusive and manipulative. He's not violent, but he could easily fuck up your world. He doesn't use his powers. We have no idea how powerful he is because we only ever see him do small acts. He's used to hiding. It's the only way he has ever been able to protect Crowley.

And I'm not saying that Aziraphale has actually saved Crowley before means that Crowley hasn't also saved Aziraphale. Like, you get that those are not mutually exclusive and their relationship is not transactional, right? They have spent their entire existence protecting each other but never actually getting to be together because Heaven and Hell are always watching.

Yeah, Crowley fell. We all know this. We are aware of this. He was the serpent of Eden. He gave humanity the knowledge of free will.

But what we don't talk about is what Aziraphale gave humanity.

What did he give them?

We all know what it is!

Let's say it together!

He gave Adam and Eve his flaming sword because it was dangerous outside the garden and Eve was pregnant and she was already having a really bad day. He showed them compassion and gave them his extremely powerful angelic weapon so they would stand a chance on the outside of the garden. He gave humanity the gift of compassion. It's just unfortunate that his flaming sword became a weapon of War.

And then what did he do after that?

Ooooh, yeah, that's right.

God asked him about it and he straight up lied to her and pretended he had no idea where he'd managed to misplace it. She didn't say anything after that. He told Crowley the truth though. He told Crowley the truth even though Crowley fell.

Yeah, we know Aziraphale has done some really fucking questionable things. He and Crowley both suck at passing for human in front of observant people like Nina. They're not human. They are still learning, but they managed to experience human history together despite being on opposite sides and their experiences with humanity are what has shaped them into the compassionate and loving duo they are now. One of them is not better from the other.

This, my friends, is what we call meeting in the middle. It's why shades of gray is so important. Aziraphale constantly breaks the rules. Crowley refused to play by Heaven's rules. It's the reason he fell. He doesn't play by Hell's rules either. These two dorks figured out how to cancel each others' miracles out throughout human history in order to have more time learning about humanity and each other because working all day every day sucks when there are so many new things to learn and experience with the people you love.

We know Crowley and Aziraphale both love each other. Neither of them are good at hiding the hearts stars in their eyes.

But here's what's really fucking annoying about the Aziraphale hate.

Aziraphale was already crying when Crowley grabbed him and kissed him. Aziraphale is trying so very hard to do the right thing. He loves Crowley. He does. But he also has a duty to humanity, and he has taken that job very seriously since the creation of Adam and Eve. He sent them out into the world with a flaming sword so they would have a chance at surviving beyond the walls of the garden.

And he knows that Something Terrible is going to happen and he spent all of second season trying to figure out what that Something Terrible was while trying to have some sort of more honest and open relationship with Crowley, but again, they aren't human, they are a demon and an angel approaching life from opposite sides who met in the middle and fell in love with humanity together.

He wants more than anything to tell Crowley how he feels about him, but he wants to do something grand for Crowley because Crowley has always been grand and dramatic and sexy and a little bit scary.

Crowley is impulsive and has a temper and sometimes says the wrong thing but he has always trusted Aziraphale because Aziraphale gave him a chance even after he fell. Aziraphale chose to shelter him instead of smiting him while they stood on top of that wall. He knew he was supposed to kill Crowley, but oops, he gave his sword away to the humans so he didn't really have anything to kill him with and Crowley is the one who created nebulas. The Pillars of Creation is Crowley's work and Aziraphale was there to witness that, but he watched Crowley more than he watched the nebula. He witnessed the pure joy on Crowley's face when he said "let there be light" as a nebula full of colors exploded before their eyes. He was fascinated by Crowley.

But Aziraphale is going back to Heaven even though he has made it perfectly clear he absolutely has no desire to go back to Heaven. He told the Metatron this during their conversation. He spoke these words out loud. They exist.

But then The Metatron said this....

The Metatron. The very same angel who told Aziraphale in season one "to speak to me is to speak to the Almighty." He's the boss. He's the big guy. He's used to existing as a giant head and he had to give himself a body so he wouldn't stand out on Earth. And he knows that Aziraphale and Crowley have been working together since the beginning. He knows they worked together to prevent Armageddon in season one, and now he's made it clear he knows they were working together long before that. And let's face it, Aziraphale really wants to know what this Something Terrible is that Gabriel is running from so he can try to prevent it from happening.

It makes sense that he would want to take Crowley to Heaven with him because he would be able to keep Hell from getting their hands on him again. Aziraphale hates it in Heaven. He doesn't want to go, but Something Terrible is happening and Metatron isn't taking no for an answer, and maybe Heaven won't be so bad if Crowley is there with him. At least they can fix Heaven together.

But Crowley can't go back. We all get that. We don't blame him for saying no. It doesn't change anything.

Something Terrible is about to happen and Aziraphale has to figure out what it is. He wants to change Heaven.

He is fully aware that Heaven sucks. He still has faith in God. His faith isn't in Heaven. He deserted his platoon in season one and threw himself back to Earth so he could figure out how to make sure the war between Heaven and Hell doesn't happen.

But see, here's the thing. Heaven is at the top. Heaven has all the resources. Heaven is responsible for the creation of Hell. Heaven is empty and Hell is overpopulated. Aziraphale knows this. Crowley knows this. It's obvious every time we see either place. Both sides are desperate to go to war and will not hesitate to destroy humanity in the process. This is the opposite of what Crowley and Aziraphale want for humanity. If anyone can change Heaven, it's Aziraphale. He's the only one up there who gives a shit about humanity as far as we know. No one else is going to speak on humanity's behalf.

Some of us are so busy getting mad at Aziraphale for going back to Heaven and giving Crowley a Big Sad. Newsflash: Crowley is not the main character of Good Omens. Aziraphale and Crowley are equals, yet we wanna hold Aziraphale to higher standards because he's an angel, and when he makes mistakes it's proof that he's the bad guy.

Holy mother of all things that trigger my religious trauma, let me tell you. I spent my entire life hating myself every time I made mistakes. I've had to teach myself that just because I mess up sometimes doesn't mean I'm bad. It means I'm human. I still struggle with it. I probably always will. So when you say that Aziraphale deserves to be punished for breaking Crowley's heart, you not only ignore that Aziraphale's heart is also broken, you're saying he deserves to be punished for doing what he thinks is right.

Wanting to change Heaven for the better is not a bad thing.

And some of y'all wanna see him suffer for going back into the lion's den that is Heaven, knowing that he is already an outcast, that they have already tried to kill him once, knowing that he is a deserter, that he has been lying to Heaven about a lot of things, and you still think he's blinded by Heaven? You think he's just so naive and that's the only reason he's going back. He doesn't show his emotions the same way Crowley does so it means he doesn't care as much. He's expected to consider Crowley's feelings over his own when making choices. Like holy shit if all of that hasn't defined my experience as a woman with religious trauma in this fucking society. He's expected to be subservient to Crowley and if he doesn't do what Crowley wants then he's being unreasonable and illogical.

What the actual fuck, y'all.

Like seriously.

I'm sick of this bullshit. I had to step away from this fandom because of how toxic some people in this fandom are. It's not chasing me away, but the fact that I chose to hang out in a a more toxic fandom that is already notorious for being really toxic over a fandom that claims to be more open-minded and welcoming should probably tell you something.

It gave me a lot of perspective, and yeah, I'm still gonna speak up against the bullshit Aziraphale hate.

People are entitled to their opinions, but the Aziraphale hate isn't an opinion. It's just ableist, misogynistic garbage. At this point we all know y'all say these extreme things about Aziraphale because y'all get more joy out of the harm and alienation it is causing others.

Keep being loudly wrong, but if you think I'm not entitled to challenge shitty-ass, harmful, hateful discourse, bite my ass.

I'm not the one who lost the plot in this fandom.

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

Gokuto Jihen Shuibanashi -Akushoku- Light Novel Summary

As I promised, below I will give a summary of the "Gleaning Topic: Bizzare Eats" Gokuto Jihen 45 page Light Novel (available for 300 yen on BOOTH). Please support the official release by purchasing this light novel! It's displayed like a yotsume toji book. The plot is Hirahara centric! A synopsis is as follows:

Hirahara is assigned to investigate a culprit who stole the arm of another Escort from the Intelligence Bureau under the Court of Enma. He heads to an abandoned hotel in the mountains and starts his investigations, navigating it's many rooms and floors while avoiding humans and fighting on an empty stomach.

Spoilers below (of course) so proceed with caution!

The story starts with a deceased one crashing through the window of an abandoned hotel, into the empty parking lot where the moon shines bright. Beyond, in the building of the hotel, a pair of yellow eyes stare forward.

Cut back to half a day earlier.

Hirahara, in his usual spacey way, is getting assigned a job from Rokkaku - a member of the Intelligence Bureau had his arm stolen from him during an investigation and Hirahara has to get it back. Hirahara's lax attitude towards the whole situation an inability to read complicated kanji (he's me for real) causes Rokkaku to simply summarize everything for him, sending him off with an origami bird that acts as a guide through the mountains.

Upon arrival at the hotel, Hirahara notices that it's covered in dust, yet there's still a set of footprints that don't belong to him. He explores all the first floor to no avail, and continues to the second floor. Rather than finding any culprits, though, he realizes that some humans have pulled up in a car.

"Are you scared?" they ask each other giggling. Must be a test of courage. Hirahara really finds humans a nuisance - well, he doesn't hate them because their manga and games are interesting - they're just going to get in his way. He does his best to navigate away from those people, because with how fragile they are, if they run into each other, he might accidentally kill them.

Hirahara, sadly, hasn't eaten anything since dinner, which was already some time ago because the sun's long set when he arrived. He contemplates eating a bug, but lets it go by mistake. Next time, he'll just grab what he can to eat rather than abandon his mission for getting a snack. His hunger starts to mess with his intuition.

He follows sounds into a room with a giant hole in the ceiling, but doesn't see anyone there. He nearly misses an encounter with the humans by climbing into the upstairs room just before the humans enter the empty room, looking for ghosts. They leave just as quickly, though. Hirahara's really doing his best here!

Hirahara finds himself in a restaurant, and gets excited at the thought that he can get something to eat. Unfortunately, all he finds is wrappers and expired bentos, which puts him into tantrum mode as he stomps around. This attracts the attention of a high school aged girl named Aina. She's got a bag full of food, so Hirahara, ever the gentleman, just takes it from her and eats her food.

Aina's curious about Hirahara and asks him a lot of questions. What's his name? What's he doing here? What's his job? Hirahara answers with one or two words. He's Hirahara, he's here on a job, he's looking for a thief.

The two are interrupted when they hear a scream, followed by the sound of doors slamming shut and the car driving off. Hirahara notes this is because the humans left in terror. He wanted to ask Aina about it, but she ran off already. Again, being a gentleman and all, Hirahara gives chase down a long hallway into a storage room.

There, he's confronted by Aina again, but this time she's swinging a hatchet at him. Hirahara doesn't get it at all. "Hey I didn't do anything to those humans!" He says, thinking they were together and those guys just left Aina behind. But that's not why Aina's mad.

"Those two things aren't related at all!" Well, Hirahara has to really wrack his brain as to what's going on. Finally, it clicks. His hunger had gotten in the way of his thinking, but that's right. he's here on a job.

"You're the culprit."

That's when the fight begins. Aina and Hirahara really go at each other, Aina slamming Hirahara into the wall with a mighty swing of her hatchet. Blood drips down Hirahara's face, blinding him. He strikes back with his shovel, so hard and quickly that he's just hitting things. When he regains his sight, he can clearly see that Aina has lost her weapon. She bolts for the door, Hirahara hot on her tail. She just about makes it to the door when Hirahara takes another swing at her. She incapacitates him and takes his shovel. It's her turn to hit him now.

Just as she gains the upper hand, though, Hirahara strikes with his fist and punches her so hard, Aina flies out the window. She lands in the parking lot, unable to stand. Hirahara's about to deliver the finishing blow when - out of the corner of his eye, he sees something still moving around in the hotel. It's gone in an instant, and that distraction is just what Aina needs to close the gap and get Hirahara good with a kick to his face. It breaks his nose and shatters his teeth. He stands back up. The fight continues.

Tagami, meanwhile, has been assigned to assist Hirahara by Rokkaku. He really doesn't want to do it, but knowing he can't exactly say no, he heads to the hotel. When he arrives, he sees Hirahara and Aina fighting each other, their bodies basically falling apart, and still they're trying to strike each other.

"And what are you idiots doing?" Tagami has no time for this shit. Hirahara's convinced Aina's the culprit, he's sure of it. She ran away after all. But Aina continues to deny it. After all, she was just running away because Hirahara chased her. Finally, Tagami's had enough. He pulls out the paper that Hirahara didn't read carefully enough. Turns out, Aina's not the culprit after all. A picture of the guy is included in the description. Hirahara just jumped to conclusions, what a shame!

Just as Hirahara is rolling around, wallowing at his mistake, he sees something climbing the hotel wall. It's got a human like upper body with no skin and just flesh and a mouth, and it's lower body has bug like legs gripping the wall. As soon as the trio make eye contact, he spits at them with a gross smelling liquid and jumps at them - the actual culprit.

The monster goes for Aina - she's fresh meat and he's hungry. She goes for the punch but gets caught instead. The monster goes for the bite and rips her arm off with it's mouth, but suddenly Aina's dragged away to the hotel again.

It's Tagami, thankfully, as he did his best to save her from getting swallowed by throwing a chain at her to drag her back to safety. Unfortunately, Aina's arm can't exactly be recovered so easily. They can see it sticking out of the monster, along with other body parts that clearly don't belong to him.

Aina and Tagami have some quick banter with one another because Tagami explains the situation: Basically, a long time ago, there was a famine that drove people mad with starvation. This monster, previously human, ate everything - from insects to animals to humans. It changed his figure so much that other humans hunted him down, chopped him up, and sealed him away in the mountains. Overtime, he was forgotten about, so the Intelligence Bureau were in charge to watch over him. However, he was finally able to resurrect, attacked the Escort on duty, and escaped.

Tagami and Aina come up with a plan - they can see a special mark left by the previous Escort marking the monster's weak spot. Aina runs to grab her discarded hatchet while Tagami goes in to fight.

Hirahara, on the other hand, is having the time of his life. He loves that he can keep punching this thing to no end - especially because it just won't go down. He's a battle junkie through and through. The monster, however, is not having fun getting pulverized by Hirahara so he decides.

"I'll eat you."

Of course, the monster never gets a chance because Aina, now hatchet in hand, comes down on him and severs the arms on it's back. Tagami goes at him with the pickaxe, he strikes that spot on it's back marked by the other Escort when the monster swings the two of them off him. But instead of getting finished off, Tagami realizes that it's the monster who screams out in pain. The mark was actually magic that turned into ropes and recaptured the monster, letting Hirahara deliver the final blow. But uh...

Hirahara is literally starting to eat the monster. He bites into the neck, hating the taste of sweet and rotting flesh, but he can't help but go in for another bite. He's still hungry. Plus, the monster was the one who said "I'll eat you" first, so, it was fair game.

Aina, on the other hand, has never seen this feral man going to town before so, she drops this great line of "I think it's gonna give you diarrhea" as she stares on. As Hirahara enjoys his meal, Tagami notices that Aina's arm is growing back, which means the Escort who lost his arm is surely growing it back too.

When Hirahara finishes everything but the head, Tagami uses his great rope skills to wrap the head in cloth and bind it with rope, some kind of Escort magic seal to keep the monster from regenerating (at least not for 1000 years). Everyone has a moment to take a break, but Tagami's still a bit on edge.

If Aina isn't the culprit, then why did Hirahara call her a thief? Turns out it's because she took the food the humans left behind. I mean, Aina just felt like it was fair game because they came packed for a picnic. And besides, she doesn't think humans taste very good at all. Tagami, somewhat concerned, asks for clarification. Aina has, actually, tasted human before. She bit a stalker a long time ago, so it was just in self defense. If she had to pick between eating people and convenience store food, she'd rather eat the convenience store food.

Hirahara, for a moment, considers what it's like to taste humans, but Tagami and Aina both shut him down. That's too bad though, because Hirahara is always hungry.

And it's gonna be a while before breakfast.

[coquelicoq]

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions que l'on n'ose poser et qui attendent pour tomber le souffle du plus courageux. ("Le Café des Chasseurs", Daniel Boulanger)

my experience reading this sentence:

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs

makes sense. this is a full sentence.

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle

okay, maybe this makes sense? the silence particular to conspirators [which had] blossomed from the pale pavilion? kind of weird though...maybe it's related to the next part instead.

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple

what

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions

WHAT????

richard coward translates this as

Beneath the pergola, convolvulus-like, the peculiar silence of the plotters spread over everything and over the six invalids, and the many questions that no one dared utter, and which waited to be asked for the breath of the bravest amongst them, fluttered above them like as many pale flags. (New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in French, p 115)

he also has an endnote after "courait" which reads

The subject of this verb is le silence particulier. Boulanger uses the inversion to convey stylistically the all-embracing secrecy of the meeting.

this is making me cuckoo. obviously the subject of courait is le silence particulier. what else could it possibly be!! that's the least confusing thing about the sentence!

what is actually confusing is everything that happens after le silence particulier. fleuri is a past participle which i would think is acting as an adjective because there's no auxiliary. what's it modifying? silence? are we saying [le silence [particulier des comploteurs] [fleuri du pavillon pâle]]? and where is the pavillon pâle coming from? this is the first use of the word pavillon. the translator takes it as figurative language, which maybe it is, but i can't figure out what it's doing in the sentence because...

what the fuck is going on with multiple? if it's an adjective modifying pavillon, then shouldn't it (and pavillon!) be plural? like by definition?? the translator has clearly interpreted it this way by the inclusion of "many pale flags". however, i originally interpreted pavillon not as flag (flags have not been mentioned in the story at all so far) but as outbuilding, because on the previous page the pergola was described as having "murs aveugles" which the translator thought was odd because pergolas don't have walls, let alone windowless ones, so he thought maybe it was referring to an outbuilding. also, if multiple is somehow modifying pavillon despite the fact that they're both singular, everything up to and including multiple is a complete sentence. what is des questions and everything after it doing? that's a completely new noun phrase. what verb phrase is it part of?

at one point i was thinking, could multiple be a verb? but it would have to be a verb in the 3rd person singular present indicative (or i guess subjunctive), so it can't parallel courait. there are present indicative verbs in this sentence, but they're both in the subordinate clause after "des questions". the subject would either have to be le silence (which doesn't make sense because courait also has silence as the subject and is in the imparfait) or le pavillon, which doesn't make sense because there's an et in between pavillon and multiple.

i can't say the translation is incorrect because i don't understand the original sentence. but if i start from the translation and try to work backward, the biggest problem i run into isn't "many pale flags" (maybe le pavillon pâle et multiple could be a plural noun phrase stylistically?) but rather "fluttered". he's added a completely new main verb that doesn't exist in the original. and at first i was assuming that he was getting fluttered from fleuri somehow, but i can't make that make sense either semantically or syntactically which maybe is a skill issue, i don't know!!

if we try to line up the correspondences between original and translation by color:

Sous la pergola courait en liseron sur toutes choses et sur les six infirmes le silence particulier des comploteurs fleuri du pavillon pâle et multiple des questions que l'on n'ose poser et qui attendent pour tomber le souffle du plus courageux.

Beneath the pergola, convolvulus-like, the peculiar silence of the plotters spread over everything and over the six invalids, and the many questions that no one dared utter, and which waited to be asked for the breath of the bravest amongst them, fluttered above them like as many pale flags.

it does seem like fluttered and fleuri have to be related somehow. maybe fleuri is actually supposed to be fleurit (most of the story is in the passé simple)...but if des questions is the subject, it would have to be fleurirent because questions is plural. and it still seems pretty weird not to have a conjuction in the french (he's added "and" in the translation). and where did the "above them" come from in "fluttered above them"? i am losing my mind. what am i missing.

[ailithnight]

How hard is it, really, to make a mobile game?

All I want is a basic, first person simulator type game that is actually just a basic simulator type game.

None of this premium currency loot boxes energy limited time offer arbitrary timers gacha mechanic bullshit. No ads. No servers. Everything stored locally and fully available to play entirely offline. Doesn't even need some kind of story.

Just, here's a world for you. It looks pretty nice. Explore a bit. Find somewhere to settle in. Gather resources. Build a nice little house. Basic tools. Go find some seeds. Start a garden. Basic hunting weapon. Bow and arrow. Spear. Net. Go find some animals. Wild deer, chickens, goats, sheep. Kill for meat and skins. Or catch and bring them home to raise. Brought some live animals home? Time for a barn and animal pens. Looks like your garden grew while you were gone. Time to harvest. Might need some plant storage too. And a kitchen. Maybe a bedroom. Tend to your farm and spend the between time making everything nicer. Keep exploring. More plants and animals and even flowers to find to cultivate. Find a cave. Metals. Or maybe a village. Merchants. Time for upgrades. Make new things with new materials. Or buy them by selling surplus supplies. If there's enemies at all, you have to go looking for them. Nothing comes to you looking for a fight. Your home is safe. Keep building and improving and exploring. It's a nice world. Enjoy it.

[jasontoddsno1simp]

I'm gonna be honest with you guys - I rly don't care for the people both side'ing the angry Robin discourse in the name of nuance.

Cause it's not nuance. It's revisionist history.

[laylanatorseventeen]

i walked in the door of my house at like 10 at night and the children were just standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE DOOR staring at me like the sisters from the Shining???? they didn't move at all they just stood in one spot staring at me like they were planning to beat me up for giving them names like Newt and Frog. like little guys you cant take me i've got a sword. go to bed. damn.

[our-reb00t-boi]

it's funny and also very telling how haters say the reboot is an edgy netflix adaptation... When we're here on this timeline and since 2018 (?) there was already news that netflix has the rights and license for an upcoming DMC netflix show and will be directed by Adi Shankar, among the edgiest (ig ymwv) media creators right now and has confirmed since 2023 it's his adaptation of the og DMC continuity like so much for "its an edgy netflix adaptation boohoo" but that's the treatment for the og DMC netflix show coming up

[beatcroc]

Thoughts on the incident?

[eightspringdays]

You know what has always seemed funny to me is that Mello has some kind of relation with fire (the explosion and then the fire in his death), and at the same time, his real name is the same one of the arcangel known for having a flaming sword (even tho never stated in the bible but he's represented with one in almost everywhere for interesting reasons but no one gives a shit about that)

which i totally think is a stretch of my part because based on platinum end, ohba's vision of religion is almost the equivalent to the opinion of a 15 yo edgy incel that likes reddit too much

but still funny to me. it's also funny considering the name literally means "who is like god?" because, technically speaking, michael will never be like god, he's the protector and fighter. his name is almost the statement "no one will be like god" which I think is funny considering that the one who tried to be like god was cast out to hell, like u know, the good-looking angel that in some depictions is actually a very manipulative entity that convinces some angels to get into his side and fight with him and was defeated by this said arcangel

that's very funny to me

[tearlessrain]

I am begging someone to pick up dashboard unfucker, stylus has limitations and this does not feel like a permanent solution at all

[thelesbododo]

So I started playing Master Detective Archives: Rain Code and what the actual fuck is happening

[white-collar-cannibal]

oh this is sick actually the post game-over scene seems to be cycling between various versions (depending on the time maybe?) i've seen so far the circus/forest/hall of mirrors/arcade scenes i don't know if there are others

[oneroomjestershow]

Sooo...what is Eli? Not sure if you've answered this anywhere else before...They're some kind of eldritch abomination right? Could you elaborate on that?

I wouldn’t go that far as calling him eldritch abomination idk why… that sounds too great of a title? their dad is one tho. I will point some of the characteristics of eldritch abominations and if Eli has those or not because i'm not sure myself, also i'm not an expert this is for fun and don’t have a lot of info about it so blehhh):

(LONG ASS POST BELOW OMFG) (cw for slight body horror talk like always, murder mentions too, also my bad writing and punctuation yeyy)

The problem with Eldritch abominations is that it’s difficult to visually depict them since it’s better when they lack form, when you look at it you lose fear, they become comprehensible in a visual way if it’s not moving or difficult to find a form that produces the fear of the unknown or possible threat). There is also the feeling of fear that comes with looking at those entities, it can have an explanation or just be triggered by the fact that the creature is breaking reality, but with Eli is just a little uncomfortable feeling in people, nothing maddening. Eli has a recognizable form even if it's changes a lot, so it loses that touch a little bit. I personally don't find her monster form that horrible, for me it's more on the cute side (-1 point for Eli booo tomato tomato tomat-)

Eli reshapes reality in:

Themselves, their own code with their physical form, but they do this without touching the code in a manual/direct way, their own willingness produces a change in it. Also their ability to disfigure, reshape or alter the body of others and change their code can be an example too.

The surroundings (against Eli's will), it gets affected because they are something that shouldn't exist or doesn’t belong in that reality (and that’s what they feel, it’s like a materialization of their thoughts in a sense; im not saying their mind has control over the surroundings, this is just a small fact). Things like terrestrial animals freezing just by being near them (this doesn’t affect humans since Eli is half human) or fish getting meters away from them (their dad comes from the sea so the creatures of that ‘realm’ know what to do, while animals of land kind of short circuit accepting their possible death). Eli also causes a small uncomfortable feeling in people, but that dissipates the more time they pass with them (ooo why ooo) so it doesn’t count (but this can be felt by other people that are ‘monsters’). 

So it would be accurate in that aspect (+1 point Eli woo)

Eli’s existence also goes against natural laws as we know them. I was thinking that their existence could be explained by science in a far away future, because the thought that no one is going to be able to understand them kind of makes me sad but that’s just my personal view on them. The laws that they broke are life and death definitions (like the undead category; zombies, vampires etc), i don’t feel like explaining this right now sorry, but you can make yourself an idea with what i have said before. They also break some gravitational and physical laws (chunks of flesh floating in the air or even getting dissolved into it) anddd this is too much im leaving it there my head hurtsds (+1porintn eyeyyu)9

Eli can be killed. Difficult but possible. You just need to be smart about it. You don’t need to go to great lengths or a great sacrifice to make it happen. Some eldritch abominations can be killed, but a lot of times it's not easy to do so and requires a lot, so even though it’s not a requirement, it’s kind of meh (-1 point because yes, fuck Eli, get her ass, whathe flip)

Existing outside of reality? their reality is the game universe, but bear with me for a second. If we count Eli as in the game universe, you can see if from two perspectives: them as in the character and concept inside the game OR as the entity playing the game.

There is Eli as the character concept inside the game universe, with their background and other characters. Everything normal and fictional from here.

Aside from that we have Eli’s existence that's supposed to be outside of the game, ‘the player’, someone or something real. This would be the ‘being beyond our reality’ (the reality of the other characters), something not perceptible to the code. Actually a side note: i had an idea before that was for Eli to shape or have an impact on the code of the game through veins and flesh, but I don't want that to be in the game universe… it's just a funny thought… I'm making you lose time

Since the game has two sides to it i wanted to explain that from Eli's perspective, but the first one is the canon for my oc, the other is just an silly idea. It’s nothing out of the ordinary since it goes along the game’s themes

(+1 point but -1 point we didn’t go anywhere wohooo)

A danger for humanity? don’t get me started, yes (+1poitn ofr Elii don’tmakemetalkabouttheirdad’ssillyplannotimportant) also they kill people i already explained that before but not in detail but im not doing it here goodbye THISIS TOO LONG

Conclusion: if anyone read all that im so sorry, i hope you had time because that was a waste of it, you get a little kiss from idk anyone go claim that kiss to whoever be happy. Eli is probably an eldritch abomination to whoever deems them that way so its ok! i actually don’t call them that bc it sounds lonely, what do you mean beyond our comprehension? it will never be understood? that’s a little sad :( whathe hell. i can't deny it's sound kind of cool but I don't see Eli in that way

[etunpeudevitriol]

Has anyone else used the team formation tab to create one or more "me and my besties" sort of team? For example, here's a team I called Mind Squad

(the team name is also going along with my headcanon that Merlin's teams only exist in their own mind, and from an outside perspective it looks like Merlin is casting several simultaneous spells against the enemies, which is why everyone who's known Merlin for 5 minutes calls them the best mage they've ever seen BUT I DIGRESS)

What I want is to see y'all's squads :D

[drawbudd]

youtuber, covering a horror ARG: this game was developed by just one indie developer-

Me ever since I've been trying to make a game: Ohh my god,,, this was made by,,,, just one personnn,, , ,