The funny thing about race car drivers and also astronauts (especially early astronauts) is that they have to fit into a machine where the engineers who built it are historically, constantly, mad that they have to leave room for a human being. So you get (in, say, the 1960s moonshot programs and Formula 1), a collection of really little athletes. Just some tiny guys.
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trying to figure out hsr's timeline is just pepesilvia.jpeg
when dates are labeled "AE" does that mean the WHOLE amber era, e.g. 2157 AE is the 2157th amber era, which itself lasted anywhere from 76 to 240 years?
was the swarm disaster in the 1300s AE ~770 whole ass amber eras ago (e.g. 60,000-180,000 years ago) from the present in 2157 AE, because that is an insane length of time?
the xianzhou fleet set sail in search of Yaoshi ~8000 years ago (whose years in what system???), and Yaoshi didn't exist during the swarm disaster, so is there just a huge gap between 60k-180k years ago & 8k years ago?
but the founding of the IPC is listed as occurring btw 1357-1387 AE, involving the same people who were presumably mortal, pre-Yaoshi, and didn't live for thousands of years, so that HAS to be measured as 30 years and not 30 amber eras?
but also the IPC claims one of those people contemporary to the swarm disaster is definitely still alive??? i mean sure they could mean it symbolically or sth, but man
man.
i understand the history fictionologists now. i too am about to start just making shit up
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i think people's takes on jev being this like thousand year old creatura are fascinating and fit even my interpretation of his character and place in the story (as like. a representation of the setting at large. an archaic force being shoved into a simulation/loop/machine. cosmis horror kinda shit) but i also think it's 1. funnier 2. scarier 3. more emotionally scarring to imagine him as like. a 30, 40, 50 year old man. just a quirky little guy. he had a childhood, maybe he got picked up by seam as an urchin and they were a travelling magic act and clownery and judy n punch duo and they stole apples from the market and he climbed trees w his little paws before someone made him wear shoes. he was a brash teenager and he played the accordion and kept all of his trinkets in a little chest he used to sleep in. seam made his suits, from his own crayon drawings. he was a middle aged man disenchanted with his work and he sought shelter from the boredom in bothering others. and he ran away so many times and he slept outside and he helped seam make their own beer and mead and they still played the accordion and the hurdy-gurdy together. isn't it scarier to make him a normal man? who turns into what we see? doesn't that hurt more doesn't that make his character even deeper. he was just like you and this means That can happen to you too, grounding stuff like that is like one of the basic rules of horror. and then he just goes to jail they straight up lock a mentally ill guy with all those horrors in the basement - not an old-as-time-itself demon, not a savage beast, but. a man. jevil russian sleep experiment au.
again im not calling anyone out its just an interpretation ive NEVER seen anyone else come up with and i genuinely wonder why and if my other jev readings continue to be weird as fuck to other people
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every now and again i remember the person i saw complaining that Ryan was the character with a new ~love interest every week, which is funny anyway considering how not true it is (It’s basically just Bella from Orphan 55. I will be generous and include King James on this list, but i don’t think he was interested in Pursuing A More Intimate Relationship, ngl!) but is even funnier when, if you actually tally the character with the most game, i’m Pretty sure it’s actually Graham who wins the babe magnet award on sheer numbers.
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thoughts on jolymesfoo because i am always thinking about them personally
really really good like, their up their as one of the jobros that i can look at and really get when ppl say 'holy shit they were literally gay and in love??' because MAN
like i think, NOT MUCH, buT there is a slight one sidedness to romantic love that can be taken from the context of the plot of stone ocean. not so much that i dont think jolyne doesnt love them or not romantically, i think she might love them a lot but a lot of her character between not having time or the emotional ability to stop and consider feelings like that at the time of stone ocean. but i think she loves them a lot, i think they saved her
Ermes is SO important to Jolyne right away, she and food were part of the process of pulling her out and dusting her off when she hit rock bottom. So much of that was her own strength but because of them and so many others she was able to know she was loved and cared for. their dedication to her and her to them is what made her stronger... none of them would be anywhere without each other they NEEDED each other
I think so much of the sports max fight and Ermes' "i want to cry my eyes out by your side" line SO much, that even despite how much she grew and became strong to take on her goals alone, she was supported and loved by jolyne and would fall back to her care in an instant.
and in general they have such good chemistry, their sO silly with each other, the many scenes were their goofin off and being silly to each other is sO good. their two peas in a pod
then foo fighters lIKE,,, oUGH
THAT PLANKTON LEARNED TO LOVE BEING A WOMAN THROUGH BEING IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN, their so trans lesbian to me it makes me crazy!!
but their whOLE thing with jolyne is sO!!! AHHH
Foo Fighters is such a rough mean character, in the most charming way. shes like a beloved wild animal ready to bite at anyone who she upsets her
but with jolyne and ermes? shes so soft and shows such care for them,,
i know its her job as their team healer, but the scenes were she gentle heals their wounds and speaks to them with such care in her voice really gets my ass!! when FF was nearly killed by pucci, still hardly even fully formed, no longer has a body and has CRAWLED her way to jolyne only for nearly the first thing they do, is heal jolyne...
and the Dragon's dream fight where Jolyne begs anasui to help FF, and Anasui saying that even if he wanted to, FF specifically said to not help JUST so he could dedicate 100% of his abilities and focus on keeping Jolyne safe. FF straight up would give their life a 100 times just to keep jolyne safe.. that plankton fell in love with that woman fr
they make me crazy i really love and care about them!!
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