#(Since I do like Limbus Company)

[cremechees]

hongcliff yuri coffee date thank u goodbye

#hong lu #heathcliff #limbus company #hongcliff #they kiss in the backseat of heathcliffs horrible red pickup truck #also i canNOT draw cars. metallic beasts!!!! non organic life form. i cant do it #im so. hhh about limbus rn but i can still enjoy my blorbos #this is my oc heathcliff. and my oc hong lu #as a wise man once said my fandom is no longer limbus company it is simply hongcliff fandom <-thanks niki!! #i still have. some wips wahh #but honestly since everythings going downhill i'll just make hongcliff yuri and nobody can stop me. im gay!!!! #like fuck it right??? ghjrhgjgrhj i havent played in a month

[seautism]

⚠️ BLOOD WARNING

that one liverleaf scene redraw trend but make it yi sang (unfinished)

i should go def finish it but for now i'm lazy asf so here's the current piece

REFERENCE

(NOTE: btw the pose here is traced from the pic, although the rendering and details are drawn by me)

#yi sang #limbus company #i'm not gonna add more tags here since it still unfinished lol #this has got to be my most peak drawing i ever made. i don’t think i can do smth like this ever again

[tatzebea]

It's Fool's Day

#my art #limbus company #lcb #ryoshu #lcb ryoshu #mother series #mother 3 #lucas #lucas mother 3 #meme #(Haven't posted a lot lately) #(But at least I could make a meme for April Fool's x3) #(You know. The meme with your comfort characters) #(The 'I think we gonna have to kill this guy. damn' meme) #(I wanted to draw Ryoshu and Lucas) #(Since I do like Limbus Company) #(And I got back into Mother/Earthbound) #(I haven't drawn Lucas for 11 years) #(And I only doodled Ryoshu before (and made a plush)) #(Maybe I am a little rusted in art wise?) #(I dunno what else to tag tbh)

[himawanai]

canto IV thoughts: starts screaming

#limbus company #ishmael lcb #yi sang lcb #hima art #eyestrain #maybe. #also i was originally gonna caption ishmael standalone with smnt like ‘my body contorts but my mind persists’ #like idomt know ishs reaction to being melted into goop was interesting #is it the feeling that Oh shit im actuslly dying fr #and she hasnt gotten to her goal yet (presumably finding Ahab) #or is it like the sheer terror and cognitive dissonance of seeing yr body do things it shuld not #either way she was interestingly vulnerable in that moment #strange since she usually has her handle on thigns #and she prides herself on that too #ihave not even mentioned my yisang thoughts. i like him now

[outism-had-a-purpose]

Do you think Ishmael would enjoy fishing games? Yeah I di know she’s a whaler instead of a fisherman but do you think she’d enjoy DREDGE

#ishmael #limbus company #assorted outisms #in my head she would likely not considering the whole eldritch horror abominations that’ll try and fuck you up sometimes #and that moby dick could be also considered as some sort of eldritch deity since you can see the story having cosmic horror elements #but then the city does have abnormalities that could do so much worse that murder your entire crew #anyways where was i #would ishy like dredge or not discuss

[thegreatcrowdragon]

Does anyone know of a good place to watch the limbus company cutscenes? Any time I’d search for them I’d always just get recommended that one guy’s videos (tsul or something idk)

#limbus company #‘play the game yourself’ I tried and I’m still stuck at the baba yaga stage because of the time limit (it’s been months) #hate that guy so fuckin much #for a variety of reasons it’s not like a personal thing (even then though he is extremely annoying) #I feel the need to elaborate I mean I hate the youtuber guy #though I do also dislike the baba yaga due to losing to it so often #also since I’m getting tips: I don’t have friends who play limbus

[cat-of-starlight]

tfw you are trying to Limbus Pull but the game's only Bonus Units™ are the ones that freak you out/irritate you lmao whoops

#Mini tag rant hello everyone #Idk man I just think they make me uncomfortable in an Extremely Unique way #The group is already terrible and I mean. yea. its the city. there is terrible shit everywhere #But Its The Ableism For Meeee #Like ok they say they don't like the prosthetic users but does it end there? #this may be a personal thing but where does the line of 'ok amount of unorganic materials in your body' actually go #Is it just external? What do they do if you have inorganic materials inside you- does that still count? #'You're overthinking this' ok maybe but also- #I uhhh #If its ANY inorganic materials that may make you impure then I also kinda count (long story that I don't need to make tumblr's problem) #Like excuse me for having a deep rooted hatred of the characters that not only antagonize my main fav (Danteeeee <3)- #-but also would probably. you know. maybe target me too depending on where they draw that line #So yea- #I hate the N-corp units. (Heathcliff can stay since he's clearly reluctant) BUT- #Other three gotta pack their bags #only even pulled since there aren't exactly many Good Units at the moment #but be sure I'll yeet that crazy eyed freak back into her stupid little pit the MOMENT I have a better Faust unit #ok anyway rant over thanks for reading if you got this far #limbus company

[binah-beloved]

Not binah its limbus: if you haven't seen the canto 6 trailer dropped and in terms of new id/ego for your 4 favs, Don got a new ego, gregor got 1 new ego and outis got a new id and ego (ishmael gets nothing for now)

Butler Outis.

#not binah #limbus company #i've lost the will to get everything of my favorites since the Incident but i do intend on getting butler outis at least #ishmael is in time out right now and will stay there until she does something to get back into my good graces #so for the moment i have three favorites #also i'm surprised you read the tags and remembered who my favorites were. thank you #don. hm. i already have three egos for her #then again i have four for gregor #depends on what tier don's new ego is since telepole is good for rip space and also if it's even charge to begin with #then again when have i ever known how to actually play the games i like properly #is it a coincidence that one of my favorite sinners is voiced by binah's va? probably not but also i just like them both #thank you for the limbus update. i don't have time or patience to watch trailers

[azoosepted]

another day, another reminder that a singular limbus company shitpost from this godforsaken website led to me making a full fledged parody of In Hell We Live, Lament

#its been five whole months since i started #theres like at least five different versions of it too #its literally just in hell we live lament but its ishmael going insane over a whale plush #the phrase “what doth the whale doing?” has been stuck in my head ever since #i dont even remember who the op of the shitpost was i just know it was on here #limbus company #fucking why #project mili

[saeraas]

i got my ass beat by chicken head (spicy) so bad I quit playing this event

#limbus company #first run ishmael fucking killed hong lu in one hit and second run chicken head instantly killed hong lu #I'll admit it i got hard skill issue'd #but i was so tilted i gotta let it go #let me level with u who is reading this: i did not find kromer as difficult as this chicken head man im going to combust #granted i did play this on two cups of coffee at 2am so i would probably do better since i slept lol #i dont even like coffee it was just a dire need yesterday

[gacha-incels]

“Arknights/Limbus Company/etc is obviously very political, why are these incels playing it?” Here’s a longer answer if you’re interested.

If you haven’t been watching gacha communities for the past decade this might be confusing to you, but these guys see the games as just apolitical stories with a majority or all-female cast being there to titillate the male viewer. They are for his consumption. It’s why in both eastern and western “gacha game” communities you can see them talking about how these games are better for having “beautiful” anime women versus the hideous hags of western media. I’ve seen so many people asking “how are incels playing a game with so many strong female characters?” They see them not as “strong female” characters but rather “eyecandy made for me”. tbh when it comes down to it I wouldn’t call any of the designs in these games absolutely groundbreaking for the anime genre they’re aiming for. Arknights even follows the standard “fully animal faced-guy” and the female equivalent “small featured anime animal girl with some fur”. This doesn’t mean the designs are bad or you’re foolish for enjoying them of course, there are a lot of fun ones. Anyway, you can see the same sentiment in the majority of anime communities as well. Like do you think that stereotype of an anime nerd who “loves 2D women but hates 3D women” means he’s a feminist because the 2D girl is still female?

To be frank, after some of the actions taken by these companies (ex. the firing of women for posting anything vaguely feminist) can you honestly say an “apolitical game with anime babes” is not the way the games are often enjoyed? The company Yostar who publishes Arknights in Korea literally wrote a statement saying the game is apolitical and calling feminism a dividing force. If the publisher can say something so flippantly like this just to appease their incel fanbase, how can the game be making any meaningful, hardline progressive political statements? I am of course not saying this renders any positive message you get from these games moot nor am I saying it’s impossible for the writers to be passionate about their work, I’m just relaying the thoughts of the incels/“gacha gamers” playing them because there seems to be confusion. What I’m writing here doesn’t mean the worst interpretation of these games are their defining interpretations. I’m trying to explain how the games that many people see as being antithetical to incel beliefs can have these same men as high-spending fans.

Gacha games are unique in the world of consumer media in their extremely close and constant relationship with the consumer. You have to not only love each character’s design (and sometimes story) but also be willing to drop serious gambling money to “buy” them every single month. It’s like merchandizing on steroids. I think the term “whale” has been watered down since younger kids have started playing, but these people spend thousands per patch. Over the years I’ve heard about multiple games like this being sustained by just a couple of high spenders. In 2018 there was even a western news article about a man who had spent $70k+ on FGO. The publisher can’t rock the boat too much to displease the consumer too many times without risking EoS. Every character design and story of a gacha game is affected by this FIRST while any artistic intent comes second.

A Korean woman who had lost her job due to similar “feminist hunting” tactics wrote an article describing the way these incel men think. I posted it here and part of it summarized: the men that play these games see themselves as buying and “owning” the female characters in gacha games, who are often dressed and presented to them in a highly sexualized manner and will obey their commands. In the same way they “own” these 2D women, they also want to own the thoughts of the real live female illustrators who work on the games. Therefore, if these women have expressed ideas that the male gamers find upsetting, they will be angry she doesn’t conform to what they want like the servile 2D girl and do everything to get her fired (this is where she mentions Limbus Company as the most recent example of this happening).

You can argue for some of these games, maybe the girls aren’t dressed super provocatively and give (you) shit instead of being a simpering doll, but in the end it’s not like they can physically walk away or stop speaking to you. For the “waifu” hunter guy it’s just a different type of anime girl to collect.

The stories in these games are generally not what gets targeted as much by incels. In gacha “gamer” communities, especially the Korean incel ones, their main concerns are: how revealing are the summer swimsuits? How many women work for the company designing characters? and related, Are the male characters designed for women or for men and do they “look gay”? If you search through this blog, you can see them directly speaking about these things in regards to their hatred of Genshin Impact and Star Rail. All of these have also been encapsulated in the original Limbus Company incel attack: they hated that the summer female character looked more “clothed” (wearing a skintight suit instead of a bikini) than the male summer character. They thought the collar necklace and open shirt on the male summer character meant he was “a slave” for the female viewers, so obviously it was designed by a woman. When they learned a man designed and illustrated those characters, they searched to find a female illustrator who worked in the game and went after her instead. These guys WERE FANS that played the game beforehand and didn’t think anything in the story was upsetting enough to attack the company about. They were familiar enough with the works of Project Moon to name their little group after an antagonizing force in one of PM’s previous (non-gacha) videogames. And Project Moon saw them as such a significant part of their gacha fanbase that they wrote an immediate apology and fired the artist. How do these actions in reality inform their fiction and the interpretation of it? Getting this out of the way, they were NOT in any danger, the “fans” were not clamoring to get in their offices or camping outside, they were let in and calmly had a meeting with some employees at the office. You can still find photos of them goofing around, the ridiculous write up they brought with them and a transcript of the conversation. This was not a “guy shows up at Mihoyo’s offices with a knife” situation. In the end it was a financial and moral loss for the studio with many new and longtime fans completely dropping the games and Limbus Company taking one of the biggest financial and D/MAU drops for a gacha I’ve ever seen. You can read more regarding the ramifications of this here, this post is already pretty long for this website anyway.

Again I’m not writing this to shame anyone who plays these games, loves their characters or enjoys their stories. I don’t really care either way, and I obviously find the genre interesting or else I wouldn’t have been monitoring it and the fans for a decade. I just want to shine a light on the thoughts of the more “incel” gamers that play some of these games since I have seen a lot of genuine confusion as to why they would play them. In the future my aim is to write a more in-depth post about these issues, their history and the way antifeminists think.

#Arknights #yostar #hypergryph #project moon #limbus company #Genshin impact #long post #korean incel #incel ideology #gacha #fate grand order #fgo

[infrared135-36]

the zoomers playing gachas now get so defensive and aggressive over them compared to what I remember from the early to mid 2010s. I see so many people saying “well Y is a gacha but you totally don’t need to spend like Z gacha! It’s more like a live service!”, or “X gacha fans try playing a gacha that actually respects you like Y!” I see this all the time for people shilling shit like Arknights or Limbus Company. Please for the love of god can we get back to the point where everyone can recognize creating a game in the gacha genre is inherently exploitive. I’m not saying this to shame anyone who plays them because I don’t really give a shit, of course there’s pedo-pandering heavy games like blue archive and increasingly FGO that I wish would EoS but that’s a different discussion. If these “nice” gachas wanted to be “buy an update a month” or whatever live service games, they would have been. It doesn’t matter if you think they’re nice about it, they made these games specifically to be gachas because they make a shit ton of money. In one single “dead” month for Limbus Company they basically made the same amount of money that the entire Pathologic 2 kickstarter made for example. And this is even after alienating half their fanbase pulling that incel shenanigans shit.

You don’t need to defend their money grubbing asses even if idk you see the game as an inherent aspect of who you are and your identity so anyone criticizing the game itself is as if they’re criticizing you as a person, which, because of the growth of SNS sites especially since covid, I think a chunk of this is. I don’t think that makes these games unable to tell interesting and moving stories or have lovable characters - on the contrary, they have to make sure gacha-original characters will be pulled for, so they invest a lot of time into their appeal, even embarrassingly having them break the 4th wall and directly say this is the case like in FGO. However every single character design and story has to be created under the gacha framework and the unrelenting need to appeal to their userbase. Why do you think there’s a lot of “badass old men” designs in FGO but after 8 years there’s not one single woman with even the whisper a wrinkle? Why did they change Frankenstein’s berserker screams to be a cute anime girl voice? Why do many of the male Arknights characters have detailed, shaded and distinguished facial features while most of the female cast has the classic anime bug eyes, dot nose and line mouth, especially with the full animal-faced characters?

It’s like many entertainment industries where the characters must have mass appeal but on steroids because you’re not paying to buy the game, you’re paying for the 1% chance of getting the character, so the game lives or dies based on their appeal. I don’t even mean this in a sanctimonious “therefore don’t play them” way, there are “traditional” video game companies pulling stupid, damaging and illegal shit all the time, gacha is not the one single evil thing within the industry. I would just like to see recognition about what you’re playing. It’s a gacha game. Yes even Limbus Company is made to have you gamble, that’s literally the reason there’s daily log in incentives and a gacha currency…. It doesn’t matter if you think these games are nice or fair to you. They’re gacha games, they were made to make money from you first and foremost. Keep skeptical about what they do, you don’t need to jump in and defend their practices just because you like the game.

#fgo #fate grand order #limbus company #Gacha #gaming industry #arknights #r1999

[bruhstation]

assorted 2x3x4 stuff from a few months ago (except the last one! it’s recent! it’s a limbus company AU I’m working on)

also a small life update under the cut

hi! it’s been a while since I last uploaded art or anything cstm-related. the truth is that I’m a college student now! yay! I’m studying to become a doctor too! double yay! I’ve been feeling much at home here rather than at high school to be honest XD and it’s great to have the privacy I desired compared to my dormitory life many months ago. the big city I currently reside in (I’m a country boy lol) also gives me a lot of cool places to visit, cool people to meet. I’ve been doing well, maybe a bit on the mental side? haha, it’s just the first week of uni, so I won’t get way too hopeful, but one’s gotta be optimistic

but with university comes a lot of homeworks!! not as much as in high school, but I get home late and I have to think about lots of things other than homeworks, like cleaning the apartment, cooking, etc. I’ve been busy both with my personal life and my social life in uni. I’m also currently hyperfixated on my ocs and welcome home, and lately I’ve been trying to slow down on drawing too much and avoiding burnout (also some things regarding the ttte community but atp it’s just a long lost memory and I prefer to think about the better stuff).

I have many drawing ideas for casa tidmouth, a few fanfics planned too, but I’m whittling at it all, bit by bit, at a pace I desire. hopefully, I can fully return to bruhstation later and gain my footing again. I love my story, I love my friends here, I love my supporters. I’ll just take my sweet sweet time.

thanks a lot for sticking around!

oh, I’ve also been reading more books. a LOT of them!! I think they’re a good way to expand the way I weave the themes in my story, and they’re so good. demian, the stranger, 1984, wuthering heights, moby dick... do check them out someday!!!

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte gordon #ttte henry #ttte edward #ttte thomas #2x3x4 #casa tidmouth #senjart #anyways the lyrics are taken from that decade old hercules x ramses amv. I'm not joking #I am so SO normal about these three old geezers. #<--- have been saying this for more than a year #LCB AU

[outism-had-a-purpose]

2am crackpot idea: so, there's that "Outis was an Arbiter" theory. lots of holes in it, probably won't be true. but consider: what if Faust was a Beholder?

Ohhh.... that's inch resting (does not know what a beholder is)

#i would like to know more though... whats a beholder and please gimme the theories #assorted outisms #the asks had a purpose #faust #limbus company #limbus is my first foray into the franchise so i do not know much about the city😔 #i do know about lobcorp through a youtuber i watch that's been playing the game since its release i think? but the genre of management sims #isn't much my cup of tea so i've never looked much into it

[femmeslash]

various advice tidbits on writing limbus company fic

from my own personal notes 👍 i will likely add on more to this later. this is all based on the official english translation.

Vergilius seems to refer to everyone by their full name. He calls Faust "Ms. Faust" in the prologue and "Miss Faust" in the Dante's Notes mini episodes. He calls Dante just "Dante" most of the time, but sometimes uses "Manager Dante" to make a point. I don't speak Korean so please correct me if this is wrong, but I think Faust is the only one he uses an honorific for.

Charon calls Vergilius "Verg" and the bus "Mephi". It stands to reason that she would similarly shorten others' names if she were addressing them directly.

Regarding Don: "Don Quixote" is her full name. "Don" is a title in Spanish, but seems to be part of her name here. She is never referred to as "Don" or "Quixote", only "Don Quixote". Hong Lu and Yi Sang are similar in that both parts are the full name.

Meursault is pronounced "mer-SO". There's two u's in his name, just like in the word vacuum.

Heathcliff most likely does not have a surname. In Wuthering Heights, he is raised alongside the Earnshaw children but is notably not considered an Earnshaw. He has one name, like Cher and Michelangelo. This can be seen in Limbus in his icon, which reads CE ❤️ HC (Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff).

Rodya's name in her source material is Rodion Raskolnikov. Since she is female in Limbus, her surname becomes Raskolnikova.

Gregor is Jewish; this shouldn't need to be said but it does bear repeating. Please do not have him celebrating Christian holidays. He would not fucking say that.

Sinclair canonically said the word "legit" to Kromer which is something I think of often when trying to figure out if a word seems too informal for him to say. He's well-educated and polite most of the time, but he did still call her a bitch too. Sinclair can say rude words.

Ryoushuu's SANGRIA usually spell out a word. She sometimes uses two- or three-letter ones that don't spell anything on their own (like RB, EC, CIH), but four or more letters will spell a word (SYNC, TRANCHES, NOUN, etc). She will not say HMFTDIHTST or anything of that nature. Rule of thumb: if it's more than three letters, it spells something. (The one exception I have found is her W Corp ID, which has a skill called DDEDR.)

Reading the character's source material can give you incredible insight into why they act the way they do, even if we've already been through their Canto. I strongly recommend looking into the source works as part of a well-rounded analysis.

#limbus company #do not let me talk about the people clearly using fake names ok #im in the market basket parking lot i can't be thinking about ryoushuu

[dionysusdecent]

So i saw a post on the Limbus Company subreddit that talked about why the sinners extract weaker IDs compared to what they already have, but it made my mind think about the Mirror Worlds again and just how interesting they are. And i dont necessarily mean the IDs specifically, i more mean how those IDs existing effects the rest of those worlds.

Like, how many of these worlds have the LCB? And if yes, then how do certain IDs change that worlds version of the LCB? One of the more interesting to me is of all things, the LCCB world, because the Bus Crew is directly mentioned by Rodion in her uptie story meaning that that world has its own versions of the Sinners, and should at the very least of Faust to create the bus in the first place. But since Rodion, Ishmael and Ryoshu are in the LCCB in that world, who replaced them as Sinners? Do Effie, Saude and Pilot take their places in that world? And does that worlds version of the Sinners have Yi Sang potentially meaning that Effie, Saude and Pilot in that world can use IDs? Does Pilot have a chef ID in that world? Does Effie have a Dieci ID?

I just really love the idea of Mirror Worlds because the possible ramifications that IDs have on those worlds and how interesting those worlds could possible be. Like in Erlking Heathcliff's world, who replaces him on the LCB if they even exist. Is it an entirely different literary character like Victor Frankenstein, or is it someone else from Wuthering Heights like Hindley or Linton? If its Linton, did the company put in some effort to help him with his body potentially making him healthy?

Mirror Worlds are cool yall, and i dont think enough people talk about the crazy ideas that they could produce, especially with the Sinners and any worlds that swap characters.

One Mirror World just has a SInner group of Faust, maybe Yi Sang, Ahab, Grete (Gregor's sister in Metamorphosis), Linton, Sonya, Kromer, Yuzuki (Yoshihide/Ryoshu's daughter), Raymond, Eurylochus, Jia Huan and Dulcinea

#limbus company #lcb #project moon #canto vi spoilers #small canto vi spoiler #Mirror worlds are super fun #random ideas that spawned from my head #i kinda like that stupid Sinner group i made