#brutally accurate

[vultureboi]

SVSSS described by me while high on sugar:

Spoilers and Mature warning!!

Oh no! The MC is trapped in the worst book ever written as the character who gets turned into a human stick by the book’s protagonist! Well shit, I guess he should probably suck up to the protagonist early on and save himself from a gruesome- oh… wait. There’s a shitty system that deducts points if he goes out of character. Well shit.

But wait! After turning the protagonist gay, he kicks him into Hell and breaks his heart!

Protagonist comes back and is a yandere!!!

So basically, he got rid of the future where he becomes a human stick and instead created a future where the world ends and he’s fucked roughly on a cave floor because he done turned the protagonist gay.

But wait! Turns out! It was just the protagonist possessed! So it wasn’t his fault for brutally fucking his shizun! So that’s thrown out the window! And then they live happily ever after.

#svsss #scum villian self saving system #mxtx svsss #mtxt #book review #but while sugar high #funny #brutally accurate #maybe a bit salty about the r^pe scene #totally loved the books tho

[bell-of-indecision]

rumor has it that if you ask me about porus 2017 I will vibrate at the speed of light and then combust out of sheer anger

#i postponed watching the last 6 episodes because I couldn't watch Hasti die yet i love him too much #and OH MY GOODNESS I should've just left it at that #this was by far the absolute worst ending I've ever seen #character assassination at its finest #and no I'm not talking about the fact that puru was literally assassinated in the end #I'm talking about the fact that Alexander did the most absurd things including murdering puru's brother #AND disrespecting his dead body #and by the end Puru was calling him friend #CHARACTER #ASSASSINATION #this can't be the same puru that brutally murdered ambhiraj out of vengeance #Alexander was the WORST he deserved DEATH and nothing else #it wouldn't be historically accurate you say??? #WHAT about this show was historically accurate my guy??? #anyway It's been a week and I'm still LIVID don't touch me I will explode #to whom it may concern. #the three people in this fandom come get y'all juice #porus #indian tumblr #desi tumblr #desiblr

[nevesmose]

I think the Replikas are in control of the gestalts in Signalis. Hear me out.

Sierpinski is a space gulag with replika guards. Fair enough. But then we get to the apartment building on Rotfront where, first of all, the blockwart is a Kolibri. A heavily armed Kolibri on the lookout for spies, who we can see from her computer has access to everyone's medical records and the right to enter someone's property whenever she feels like it:

So in that block at least, everyone lives under constant physical and bioresonant surveillance from the gremlin downstairs. Let's look at the report Ariane's teacher wrote about her:

So communal living with a Kolibri warden is the expected norm for everyone since the Revolution, and Ariane is considered suspect for not growing up this way.

Speaking of Ariane's teacher, there's a comment in the school memory about her:

Eule wipes it clean before she can note it down so I have to copy from Erika

Further supporting this is one of Ariane's notes:

So we can see that Eules are the ones who educate gestalts. Let's imagine that you, a gestalt kid, wake up in your apartment block and head out past the psychic replika who has awareness of everyone and everything in the building. Currently she's slowly pushing her steppy over to reach up to a bookshelf, but still.

Out the door with your gas mask on, remember not to look too hard at the great red eye and off via the metro to school where you can do a little light bullying of the kid with weird hair and then sit down to lessons from a pleasant, friendly Eule who regularly reports to her superiors about your political reliability.

That's not even taking into account the constant possibility of an Ara being inside your walls at any given moment, or the Storch/Star police brutality tag teams roaming around.

So on Rotfront at least, gestalts seem to live in a crushingly regimented culture of constant replika surveillance every bit as sterile and suffocating as the DDR the game draws inspiration from.

No wonder Ariane wanted to escape it any way she could.

By the way, I know Ariane is called the "gestalt officer" on the Penrose but she doesn't seem to have much actual seniority or control of anything beyond her radio communications work. Elster is the one who maintains the ship, and we know that she's dedicated enough to do that to the absolute limits of her endurance anyway no matter what state Ariane is in (😢) so it'd just be a case of ordering someone to fulfil the task they were literally created to do. Almost as if the officer title is a meaningless bauble designed to make the Penrose Progamme more appealing to gestalts.

#signalis #words words words #assuming that the locations and texts shown in Ariane's Wild Ride are accurate representations of things that really existed #ariane yeong #elster #lstr 512 #rotfront #kolibri #eule #kolibri steppy #“Police Brutality” would be a great name for a storch & star pro wrestling team to be fair #feels like that's already how they view the world anyway tbh #bah gawd it's Storch breaking into the Eule dorm with a steel chair #The Time Is Now (1000 Eyes and Cicada Sirens Remix) #ongoing feud with Steppy Up who are just 5 identical kolibris

[thesouppond]

My Partner: Hey we're doing secret santa with my family this year, just christmas ornaments though, nothing fancy.

Me, who hasn't even met half these people yet: Sweet. Am I gonna be judged if I turn up with a light up bedazzled beholder/biblically accurate angel?

My Partner: What?

Me:

I frankensteined together 4 different ornaments and a shit ton of beads for this I hope they like it

#BE NOT AFRAID #Sorry to the 3 dragonfly ornaments that I had to brutally hack apart for this #biblically accurate angel #beholder #christmas ornament #A Soup post that's NOT GL or B10 related??? #pond soup #my art

[cactusdying]

guys i'm going to be real i dobn't think i expected this kind of direction for the lore update

#cacterart #brutal orchestra #tw drugs #i played class of '09 recently. it feels like class of '09 played me #every time i get an idea for a crossover it's divine whispers. and also autism #anyway back to class of '09 i don't even know if i can recommend it because like #it just feels like american high school simulator #and i live on the opposite side of the world so i have no idea if it's accurate or not #so it all just feels. absurd to me. i still can't believe this game is real #it's 2 GAMES and i played both of them #anyway i'm only posting this here for. archival-ish purposes #i'm very sorry once mre

[saldotz]

Had a dream maybe a month ago that I went to this woman's house with Mike Schmidt (who was. apparently my brother in this particular context?) and she tried to set me on fire because she absolutely hated me for some godforsaken reason. And Mike, who had been previously sitting on the couch, Legitimately tackled her ass and started beating the everloving dogshit out of her in order to protect me.

My brain comes up with some. very interesting situations sometimes.

#no because mans was absolutely brutal #it was like the fountain scene all over again #kinda accurate though to be honest #FNAF #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddys movie #fnaf movie #mike schmidt #dreams #weird dreams #Im still trying to figure out how to properly Tumblr tag have mercy on my poor soul please

[hydrachea]

Name a better duo than ships I'm not into and tags that make me go "HOWEVER,"

#something about that lightsaber meme #i'm not into this ship. BUT. #god what a nice one too i rarely find the exact brand of eroguro stuff i like to read but this one hit the mark #*nods* the inherent eroticism of vivisection #or i guess yeah disembowelment is more accurate here #vivisection implies like scalpel and a table it's about being meticulous (hot) #that was bare hands and a sword so it's just brutal (also hot) #what a wonderful language english is #ray's records #whoever guesses what ship i'm not into but very much made an enthusiastic exception for here gets a picture of last year's batch of kittens

[what-is-this-tomfoolery]

merry brutal pipe murder day everyone

#i hope you have someone to celebrate with (but not too accurately) #tma #magnus archives #extended sounds of brutal pipe murder #jurgen leitner

[shoku-and-awe]

Walking down the street in Sendai and what’s this I see?

Does this vending machine say 昆虫食 (konchū-shoku) insects + ...eating?

It does! This is the last thing that I expected.

I guess the buttons with just bug names are just... bugs? Some of them have tasting notes telling you that they're sweet or rich or, uh, big, but no meaningful description of the preparation or flavoring. All of them are ¥1000 a pop.

The purple one that says 昆虫チョコ (konchū choko) is bug chocolate. The brown one that says コオロギクッキー (ko-orogi kukkī) are cookies made with a type of cricket (Grylloidea family, if that tells you anything). The blue one is a mystery (何が出るかな？ nani ga deru kana? / What will come out?).

I'm actually kinda keen to try But when I do eat bugs for the first time (or the first, uh, intentional time) it's gonna be fair! It's gonna be something that's actually potentially tasty—like a mealworm taco or some crispy sweet-soy sauce Japanese preparation or one of those grilled Chinese market skewers—I'm not gonna sabotage it with a Hamilton worth of rando insects of unknown provenance and expiration date from some back-alley Tohoku vending machine.

#japanese vending machines #entomophagy #eating bugs #i don't wanna talk about the first time #(more accurately... the first several times) #there was bug larvae in my rice. i don't know how i was eating them for #i was young #it was a brutally hot summer #i don't know #we don't have to talk about it

[arklay]

tagged by @faerune & @leviiackrman to do this uquiz for some ocs – thank you so much lovelies, i know i've been super inactive so i've missed a lot of things but i appreciate it! ♡

tagging: @avallachs @brujah @calenhads @chosolos @dameayliins @envergothash @leopardmuffinxo @maxthetruman @nocticulas @nokstella @pinkfey @risingsh0t @shellibisshe @swordcoasts @voerman @wrymbloods & anyone else who would like to do it, i have no idea who has or hasn't already! ♡

OCS AS TYPES OF SUFFERING.

— the giver.

your energy depletes as you hand it out to anyone passing by your basket. people walk by and take, but no one ever leaves. you're constantly running on low when people keep asking you to give. you'd give your soul away for free, and then what left do you have of yourself if you can't say no?

— yearning.

the pain in your chest bubbles knowing that what you want may never be yours. you're lost in a fantasy world, or consumed by what you wish were or had as opposed to what you do. it's hard to appreciate what's around you when you're appreciating the hope of what could be instead

— the taker.

your expectations are ones you can barely meet. you compare yourself to others, but with a hypocritical light. you'll never find what you're looking for if you're laying down half of what you receive. it stings to be given less than expectations you've set, but if they were more reasonable, do you think even then you'd be happy?

#tag games. #oc: dani #oc: diana #oc: reina #can uquiz results please stop being so brutal and accurate like they always hurt so much HUH #also i'm about to be unapologetically annoying but points to pinned post :] #there's also a newer edit in diana's tag hehe #again am really sorry for being so inactive and my tracked tag keeps breaking so i've missed so much stuff but i miss you guys sm #and just thank you lots for still tagging me in things i appreciate it so so much !! #forgot to put the link to the uquiz omg oops

[explosionshark]

Vegan Moment, I guess, but it's always weird to me when ppl on this website romanticize Laika. What other stories of dogs subjected to killed by extreme stress before they slowly starved to death do you think are cool? Tell me about them

#tbf i also think the way people were upset about the admittedly brutal death of this one dog #while having no issue with the equally brutal torture and killing of billions of other animals for meet is also frustrating #idk. guess i would just love some ethical consistency #*meat. ah whatever #edited to be more accurate

[mazhai]

saw a post about how bridgerton is liberal white escapism trash bc it implies that anything other than being a virgin or a wife to a rich man would bring you certain doom and like. girl. no fucking shit.

#“the show is only about preserving social order and maintaining the nuclear family” #what did you think it was about? racial equality and its widespreadedness in the fucking 1800s? #bs. #my point is not that anything set in the past has to be brutally racist for it to be historically accurate but that doesn't mean you can #ignore that facet of society completely #im curious how do you consume media if you throw a tantrum whenever a character makes an ethically questionable decision?

[hmm-ctrl]

hands this to you very nicely. please look at them.

(also i made this stupid alignment chart for every party member (except gospel + mordrake) as to why they join Nowak ↓

#i am open to revise the chart btw. i dont brainrot for all of them so it's not 100% accurate #the only one im NOT moving is burnout bc that is Literally Exactly where he belongs #brutal orchestra #soeepy

[kanona56]

So in doing historical research for Of Infinite Night, one of the things I really wanted to figure out was what Philip's exact ethnicity would be. We all know he's Nigerian but Nigeria itself has MANY subgroups of people, all with their own culture. I spent days looking into it and came to the conclusion that Philip is of Igbo descent.

How did I come to this conclusion, you say? Well, allow me to explain. Prepare for a lesson fellas.

As I said, there are many different tribes in Nigeria but the three dominant ones are: Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani.

Igbo:

Educated and hardworking people

Typically more focused on constant improvement

More involved with businesses and more "advanced" jobs

Eager to travel from their community and strive for bigger and better things

Majority Christian.

Hausa-Fulani:

Not generally as focused on higher education

Rural and are generally farmers or marketplace workers

Tend to stay within their community with little interest in leaving what they know behind.

Highly value religious beliefs

Majority Muslim.

Yoruba:

Kind of a mix of the other two

Can be both highly educated or content to stay in their community

Religious belief can vary but they are generally more aligned with the Igbo people

This tribe wasn't very involved in the Biafra War, so I didn't look too much into them and safely ruled them out as an ethnic group Philip could be.

The following is a very general rundown of historical events. There's definitely more nuance in what happened in this war, so just be aware of that as I go into this.

The Conflict

The Biafran War (Nigerian Civil War) mainly happened due to a power imbalance in Nigeria when the country was released from British control. The British, predictably, did not take into account the different tribes and their political and religious beliefs, and so they gave the Hausa-Fulani most of the government power without much forethought or even an attempt for a fair system for Nigeria to choose their own leaders. This caused an uproar for the Igbo people, who as the generally more "educated" people, are well aware of the issues at hand. They felt like they deserved better representation and control over the Nigerian government over the Hausa-Fulani.

It's important to note that it was very likely that the Hausa-Fulani were predominantly Muslim, and so their rule would not align well with other ethnic groups at all. This is the root of the issue that the Igbo people had with the Hausa-Fulani having most of the government at their fingertips.

The Igbo people would eventually attempt to mitigate the Hausa-Fulani's governmental power by assassinating a number of Hausa-Fulani representatives and attempting to place Igbo people there instead. Of course, this would cause another uproar and would fast track both tribes into what would become the Nigerian Civil War. The Igbo, who lives majority in the south, would attempt to secede from Nigeria. They called themselves Biafra.

The actual war actually took place in the northern parts of Nigeria, which is where the Hausa-Fulani people were and still are dominant. We know from Philip's tome that he was living right in the middle of the war when it was happening. Or was he?

The Anti-Igbo Progroms

In 1966, the Hausa-Fulani would commit a progrom against the minority Igbo people in the northern territory. An organized genocide against their opposing tribe. The actual war didn't start until a year later in this area when Biafra in the south would attempt to push back.

Now, in Philip's tome, there's a piece of dialogue that confirms a few things to me:

Endless stories of death, destruction and mayhem. He didn't understand any of them.

"They hate us. Why? Why do they hate us?"

"Because the radio and the television tell them to."

"What did I ever do to them?"

"You were born in newly created Nigeria, that's what you did. You were born a Northerner!"

Philip asks why he's hated, and the answer he's given is that he was born in newly created Nigeria as a Northerner. So... that would sound like he's Hausa-Fulani right off the bat. Right?

Well, let's remember what we know of Philip in general:

He likes chess and math.

He thinks analytically

Throughout the tome we can discern that he's a critical thinker

His grandmother consistently attempts to keep Philip focused on educational things like his math and chess

We can assume through what we read going through Philip's thoughts while all this is happening that Philip is actually an incredibly sharp, smart boy. He's not stupid, he knows what's happening. He questions it and ponders on it.

Eventually, Philip would manage to leave Nigeria entirely, and as his base lore so elegantly says right off the bat:

Philip Ojomo came to this country without anything than hope for a new beginning.

Which tribe aligns the most with all of these traits?

The Religious References

There's talk from Philip's adoptive mother Funanya over this "Angel of Death" vs "Angel of Mercy". At first glance, we can assume this to be references to what might be tribal beliefs. Traditional entities. I don't think so, though. I think these angels are a cultural flair to what we're all pretty familiar with in our own worlds.

The Angel of Death is the devil. Satan.

The Angel of Mercy is the lord. God.

In other words, I think these are just another label for Christian entities. Take a look at how Philip and Funanya speak of them.

Tome 4 - Conviction: Algebra of Infinite Night

Philip hears his grandmother's voice. "Death plus destruction equals good business for devils disguised as humans."

Philip grinds his teeth and answers the disembodied voice, "They should all be killed... those who pay for murder and those who profit from murder...!"

Funanya stares at him. "Philip... don't say such things... they are trying to take our humanity from us and that is the one thing they cannot take unless we give it to them!"

Philip feels his face harden, "I don't want a sermon. I want my family back. I want them to pay for what they did!"

Funanya puts a hand on his shoulder, "Pray to the Angel of Mercy that we survive so that we may bear witness!"

Philip stares past her at the growing night, "I'd rather pray to the Angel of Death and watch them suffer. Forgive, and be forgiven. I can't! I hate them! How can they take money to do such things?"

"There will be justice, Philip. They will not get away with their crimes!"

Philip doesn't say anything. He doesn't say anything because like his father he believes that those with money, those who can afford killing crews and the quantities of kerosene required to burn humans by the thousands, can get away with any crime they choose to commit - even mass murder. She can pray for mercy all she likes. He'd rather pray for vengeance.

Talk of sermons, prayer, atonement and forgiveness. For me, this has a lot of Christian undertones. What do you think?

Also, after looking up her name, I have learned that Funanya means "love" in Igbo.

The Conclusion

With everything I have pointed out here, I think it is safe to say that Philip is ethnically Igbo.

He was among the unfortunate population of innocent Igbos living in Hausa-Fulani territory during the political mayhem which would turn into a war.

He's a Northerner in newly created Nigeria - in other words, a northern Igbo boy in the new Nigeria released to and ruled by the Hausa-Fulani. That's why he was hated. That's why his people were dying and being killed around him. Philip not only lived through this awful war, but was also a victim to a genocide of his people. He survived the killing crews of the anti-Igbo progrom in 1966.

TLDR: Philip is Igbo guys. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk. 🥲👍

#philip ojomo #dbd fanfic #dead by daylight #dbd fandom #dbd wraith #dead by daylight lore #dbd lore #Guys you have no idea how much time I spent looking into this lmao #I really wanted to be accurate ok #props to BHVR tbh #they really went balls deep into a brutal and bloody part of African history #and actually pulled it off #Philip definitely has ptsd btw #please hug him

[chronicowboy]

tagged by @diazly @shitouttabuck and @jamietarts (muah ily guys!!) to do this

i'll tag @danielsousa and @gracelcdomas if u want <33

#sami rambles #yes jonah is above taylor kelly. that's how much i hate her #no but this is pretty accurate tbf #eddie and chimney top 2 so true #idk how maddie's above bobby tho #tag game #mutuals<33 #also i didn't let myself pick any of the on the fence options i was fuckign brutal with it

[ryanseanw]

#copaganda #paw patrol #also police brutality. k9 units. civil asset forfeiture. overuse of police to respond to things that adding an armed person to is a Bad Idea #and how bad drug sniffing dogs are at thier jobs #(26 percent accurate! that is not high enough! amazing that an animal bred and trained to please their handler will do so!) #oh and my favorite #police dont actually have a duty to protect you #vid rec #Youtube