conceptually, vivisections are up there in most intimate experience one can get because it's just. i want to know u, entirely and from the inside out. i want u to know me, to have no secret left from ur eyes. i want to open u up, gaze at ur insides and how ur body keeps u alive and i want to touch the very core of u, the fragile flesh and wet meat. i want ur hands inside me, touching places no one ever went before, i want u to handle my most delicate possession and leave ur fingerprints behind. we can be freaks together and u can grip my ribs as u lose ur breath for me and i can hold ur heart as it beats faster for me. we can slice skin open and stroke nerves and watch ur legs twitch from it

what would you call the aesthetic that astronomical instruments like orreries and armillary spheres and astronomical clocks have. because it's one of my favorite things ever

I GOT A

METAL SONIC FIC IDEA AT WORK.

ok ok look. basically. metal rebels again having become sentient and craving independence and runs away before eggman can reprogram the autonomy out of him again. and what does eggman do this time? instead of trying to get metal back or whatever, he builds a NEW metal sonic to replace him, and this one--instead of going after sonic and thinking of sonic as his inferior copy, eggman codes him to think the old metal sonic is his inferior copy and needs to be destroyed.

and so one thing about this is that metal sonic soon finds out what its like to be in sonic's place. having a copy of himself always out to destroy him. and it makes him feel disposable and replaceable even though eggman always told him 'you're my greatest creation'. and im just frothing at the mouth over this

Some random vectorheart poster I made.

damn I've been attacked by the time wizard again 😔 he cast "suddenly 11pm" on me what did I do to deserve this

Peppermint bandit Au- where the circus group accidently leaves Pomni behind in the candy world. The gummy gator crew take her in as one of her own and cowboy hijinx ensues

Samsung SGH-N270 (2003)

Concept: Super-Thief Kamen Rider

Potentially named Kamen Rider Heist?

The Monsters of the Week are security robots of varying description that are protecting Evil Companies/Criminals (because it’s Kamen Rider, a hero, y’know how it is) (The security company themselves might be the Biggest Bad but who knows)

There’s also a Treasure of the Week for every episode because of course there is

Eventually there’s an investigator Rider who’s the rival rider but he never like, officially teams up, it’s like a Zenigata/Carmelita Fox situation where they only team up to take out bigger criminals like at the end of an arc/episode then go immediately back to “Now you’re under arrest!”

Also a cute hacker girl disaster and the “damsel in distress” is actually the rider’s attractive and vaguely a spy/rival thief “not-boyfriend” and there may be another friendly Rider involved somewhere

Forms are named after jewels, metals, or potentially something different that pulls a secondary theme (another animal theme like OOO’s? Maybe just not properly themed at all like W?)

yknow what? yeah lets try to write this proper

so one of the things i REALLY like about some KR series is that they pair two initially disparate concepts, but meld them together to form a third, much stronger concept. ie, ex-aid using Videogames and Medicine to tell a story about the value of a humans life.

so for this series... lets combine Cops Vs Robbers with Angels. hear me out, i think ive got a thing going here

Mercy, mercy me!

Mercy as much as possible is a repeating theme of her interactions. Edelgard might have started the war, but every indication is that she’s limiting the bloodshed as much as possible. This is not reciprocated by her opponents.

The one involving Dimitri torturing Randolph. He was mad at that point. He was not a rational human in that moment. The one with Claude in saving Derdriu: That was literally the only option. If he wanted Leicester to survive, He had to defeat Edelgard.

Personally, I hate that top one but that’s just because I love Judith and killing her made me hate Edelgard so much.

Anyway, I disagree that Edelgard is super merciful and the others aren’t. I don’t like her at all, so I am biased, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.

P.S: Oh, and almost whenever Edelgard talks about enemies surrendering she sounds like a bit of an asshole.

Dimitri being mad doesn’t excuse his attempts to torture the man to death. Or any of his prior actions of killing innocent people.

Like I agree, Claude does everything for his ambition and in most cases. Keeping Leicester around is needed. It why in CF he puts his own people at risk with his schemes as he creates a guerrilla warfare situation in a heavily crowed area. (The translation tries to sand off his edges when it comes to him being morally grey which sucks and it the main reason behind the divide in the community.)

Edelgard being the most merciful is a sad irony because despite her starting a war, she will ways prefer the least bloodshed option unless she is forced to kill due to her opponent. And it a running theme throughout her bosses in both games. Especially with the Kingdom as with the exception of Ashe. All of them actively chose to fight to the death either for revenge or heavy country pride.

For that last bit. Edelgard does fight to the death for the pride of her country? Literally everybody in this game does? Edelgard is no diffrent from any of the house leaders. She’s morally grey just like all the other. In this game, Literally nobody is a good guy. Also, Edelgard never gives the other groups actual acceptable surrender terms. She never told the Alliance for example “Stop fighting us and we’ll stop fighting you.”. She literally wouldn’t settle for anything less than destroying the Kingdom and Alliance. Dimitri gave her fairly acceptable surrender terms and she rejected them outright. Edelgard is not a beacon of reason and mercy compared to the others. And once again, doesn’t really effect her actual character but does make me hate her is just that she sounds like an asshole. Like, that conversation with Dimitri at the end of Azure Moon. She is just insufferable.

Anyway, I personally hate her. I get why others like her, but I don’t. Playing Crimson Flower was an honestly awful experience(Mostly because I had to kill my favourites and that it was badly written, but also because I dislike Edelgard.

Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Have a good day.

“Also, Edelgard never gives the other groups actual acceptable surrender terms. She never told the Alliance for example “Stop fighting us and we’ll stop fighting you.”.

Except she did, she sent around a manifesto to ever lord and their mother about her motives and the reason behind the war. ( I do wish 3 House gave us the ability to read it. ) She made it actively clear to her everyone that if either don’t get in her or that raise your sword against her. She won’t consider you an enemy. But also making it clear to her enemies that she won’t kill you if you either surrender or lose the battle.

This even extends to both Rhea and Dimitri in CF where dialogue makes it clear, Edelgard would rather not kill them until they force her hand.

Rhea burned down Fhirdiad with all civilians living inside just to make it a living hell for Edelgard as Rhea puts it.

Whilst Dimitri is out for blood in CF. The translation tried to get rid of this detail but there still dialogue making this point clear. if Edelgard doesn’t kill Dimitri and his commanders or win the battle of Tailtean plains.

The Empire is going to innocently genocide because the Kingdom are out for blood due to the Tragedy of Duscur. It why Dimitri takes in Rhea forcing Edelgard to go through him first.

“She literally wouldn’t settle for anything less than destroying the Kingdom and Alliance.”

Both games shows this sorta isn’t the case but also it being complex. Yes Edelgard wants a unite Fodlan. From a political understand. Unity within a country, business or politics is better then a disjointed one.

But she is willing to accept deal as seen with the Alliance remaining a thing in SB.

The reason why it doesn’t happen in 3 House is entirely Claude because he has his own plans and ambitions along side him wanting to be the ring leader.

But you are sorta right when it comes to the Kingdom. Edelgard want to get rid of the Kingdom because of the toxic culture within it, their absolute loyalty to the crest and castle system. Something Edelgard wants to get rid of. And lastly, them basically being the Church 3rd party attack dog.

If Edelgard kept them around, she would be shooting herself in the foot because the nobility there are going to revolt because they are either corrupt or fanatic about the crest system.

“Dimitri gave her fairly acceptable surrender terms and she rejected them outright.”

Except he didn’t. Dimitri doesn’t understand the situation around and his term of surrender is give up on your ideals or die. That is what he does in the end cuts scene because on hand is a lance pointed at Edelgard. The other is a open hand.

“Like, that conversation with Dimitri at the end of Azure Moon. She is just insufferable.”

I’m the opposite because the entire conversation made me hate Dimitri after replaying the game and understanding more of the story because Dimitri argument is hypocritical. He calls Edelgard for pushing your ideals on others but that is what you do when you are a leader.

That is also what Dimitri has done through out AM. He torture and killed innocent people, then opposed a war, never trying to understand the reasoning behind the war but instead does so under disagreement. Dimitri has push his ideal throughout the entire route.

His argument are quite stupid if you don’t buy into his character because they are actively negative.

He doesn’t people can be strong by their own. Believing they need other help which is inherently flawed. Which is what separates him from Edelgard as she does believe in people potential. That you just have to create the situation for them to achieve while for other giving them a hand.

“Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Have a good day.”

Hope you have a nice day as well.

Just going to respond one last time.

She could have founded her meritocracy without a war. She literally could have just done what she wanted with Adrestia. She didn’t need to force her will and worldview on everybody else.

“Just going to respond one last time.”

Same but mainly because we are going back and forward without going anyway.

“She could have founded her meritocracy without a war. She literally could have just done what she wanted with Adrestia. She didn’t need to force her will and worldview on everybody else.”

Except she really can’t or well have it be long lasting change within Due to 3 major factors.

TWSITD

Rhea, Seteth and Central Church.

The Kingdom.

Edelgard main two issues are firstly Rhea and Central Church as they have a monopoly over Fodlan, they have the power and resource to basically veto anything within country. They can execute a head of state like Edelgard but also recognised one like with Loog. They have major power over Fodlan.

And in SB, we hear how the Central Church. Most notably Rhea have been playing an active hand in Empire politics. Preventing the reformation of the Southern Church as unlike within the lore where their implication of Rhea and Central Church cause a coop within the Empire just after a coronation of the new emperor.

Edelgard has put Varley in control of the Southern Church, a person Rhea can’t control or has sway over as Edelgard smartly trick Varley into thinking she fed into his Ego by putting him in a high position.

In CF, he was put under house arrest like Aegir which gives the implication that was either involved with TWSITD and the experiments or tried rebelling against her.

Which is why Rhea forced Edelgard to task Gereth to go a wild goose chase for Sacred Weapons whilst also trying to assassinate Varley at the same time.

It doesn’t help that Rhea and Seteth whilst having the ability to do good, are corrupt. They will always chose their best interest such as protecting the status quo that allows them to hide in a ivory tower over trying to fix the mess they caused.

Because of all of this, while Edelgard can do certain things like strip nobles of their power, something that her father did. If she wants to have proper change things as well as change the status quo within the Empire, she has to deal with the Central Church, strip both Rhea, Seteth and higher ups of their power just to allow changes.

Which require war as they aren’t going down without a fight. And since the Kingdom is the Church Guard Dog that is loyal to the status quo, the church and the crest system. The Kingdom are going to be involved no matter what. It doesn’t help that the Kingdom are slowly going to have a famine as well as TWSITD corruption that is purposely painting footstep back to the Empire for the sake of war.

War was always going to happen between the Empire and Kingdom, the situation within the Kingdom is only going to get worst and the situation Fodlan is in is completely fucked. Something people really don’t understand.

TWSITD makes things worse because similar to the Church, they try to benefit the situation around them, they benefit off chaos and disorder and helps the corrupt nobility get what they want.

If Edelgard want her change to be long lasting, she has to get rid of TWSITD. ( And Central Church. ) And the only way to do that is have full control over the Fodlan or at the very least. Allowing for full army movement. Edelgard is able to make deal with the Alliance but can’t do so with Kingdom.

To re go over. The situation Fodlan is in is completely fucked. There is no easy solution of having discussion when you have major corruption within the country that will put you on the number hits list if you try to. But also an ideology divide which makes things even worst.

With Edelgard in a fucking shite position as only really the Empire is in a political state to challenge the norm so long as Edelgard is able to regain power over the Empire due to IoS.

The Kingdom relies on Church to give them authority while the Alliance system require 5 people to get along to work.

Because Fodlan has a massive Trolley Problem. If you rebel against the System, a lot of People will die. Do fuck all or try to change things slowly despite corruption, even more people will die over time.

I hope you have a nice day.

Three things on that whole discussion:

Point 2 is especially important to note about Dimitri. At no point does he question whether what he’s doing is wrong, he’s just decided he no longer cares. It’s not so much snapping as him relaxing his moral fetters. Yes, there’s the issue of his ghosts plaguing him, but that’s not a new thing, they were tormenting him before the time skip, and they continue to do so after he comes around. He just stopped rejecting the violence they were demanding of him.

"edelgard is evil because ive decided thats what the plot is" - some idiot who hasnt actually played or read the text of three houses

you know what, lets actually check this insanity defense thing. so according to the Cornell Law School website, these guys are Ivy League so they know their stuff, the insanity defense first needs to be split between Insanity or Diminished Capacity.

Insanity, here, is defined as the defendant "lacking the mental capacity to understand the nature of their actions or to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the offense." well, dimitri knows he's a monster, he outright calls himself a beast, so he doesn't qualify.

Diminished Capacity means that the defendant simply could not reach the emotional or mental state needed to commit that crime. "In the example of murder and manslaughter, a diminished capacity defense contends that a certain defendant is incapable of intending to cause a death, and therefore must have at most caused such a death recklessly." dimitri VERY MUCH intends to kill edelgard, says as much pretty much every time you speak to him, and wont be swayed. so this doesnt qualify either.

but lets PRETEND that he qualifies for Insanity, lets pretend.

after that, you have the M'Naghten Rule, a strict test of a subjects mental state. The rule is that everyone is sane until proven otherwise, this defined as "at the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong." again, dimitri knows he is in the wrong, he knew what he was doing was wrong, he does not pass this test.

then you have the Irresistible Impulse test, which supposedly tests whether the defendant had any say in their crime due to being mentally incapable of NOT performing said crime. it is "the defendant was laboring under a mental disease or defect that compelled them to commit the object offense." the website mentions that it is well-suited for people suffering from mania. i dont quite know whether dimitri suffers from mania, but i am willing to give dimitri some leeway here.

in 1972, the modern penal code was revised to make things more clear. at that time, the legal definition of insanity changed to "does not possess a "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law." again, dimitri refers to himself as a beast, he knows what he is doing is wrong. the interesting part is the conforming conduct part, as what we know about faerghus suggests that he was, in fact, conforming to the requirements of his nation's law. in faerghus, dimitri might genuinely be acting within the bounds of law, but we simply dont know for sure.

then, finally, in 1984, congress passed and ronald reagan signed into law the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. this act requires the defendant to prove, "by "clear and convincing evidence," that "at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts."

so i find this last one FASCINATING, because i dont think it's open and shut. dimitri does know what hes doing is wrong, however, i believe that dimitri IS NOT able to appreciate the nature of his acts. he knows that murder itself is wrong, but he weighs all murder equally. to him, torturing a man to death is no different from simply killing them on the battlefield. hes clearing one requirement, but failing the other.

i, personally, do not think dimitri is insane. but i do think the dice could land another way, given more evidence.

this is like lingerie to me

Type of shit a cat walking on two legs would wear

you get me

He's going through a pre-flight checklist to make sure your spacecraft is up to code before departure.