wait kromer rant sounds interesting
Ohhhh the Kromer rant.
Nobody in Limbus thus far has been hit with the fandom flanderization "she would not fucking say/do that" beam harder than Kromer. I've seen both absurdly sexualized "yandere" Kromer and woobified to hell and back Kromer. I think a large swath of people just... ignore that the central pillar of her character is that she is an ableist cult leader.
Yes, she is probably only around 23-24 years old, and yes based on the source material she probably came from a much poorer family than Sinclair. But trying to twist that into her being a hapless victim of circumstance leaves a sour taste in my mouth when we're first introduced to her through the fact that she considers anyone with a prosthetic less than human. Like. We can't ignore the violent bigotry here. N-Corp may have decided to give her a platform for it, but it's not like they groomed her into wanting to kill everyone with prosthetics. She was already like that, and N-Corp simply enabled her to do that on a wide reaching scale because they could make a profit from it (N-Corp's singularity is memory extraction iirc, and the nails are able to extract memories from the people they kill, which in turn are sold by N-Corp as "Experiences" and also what they feed to Nagel und Hammer members to brainwash them).
And as for whatever yandere shit I've seen, I think that's just a refusal to engage with the themes of the text. A shipping-brain only reading. Like, the reason Kromer is obsessed with Sinclair is because if she can convince him to join her, that is a powerful talking point for her cause. "Look, the son of a major prosthetics manufacturer is on our side! His family was going to force him to get a full-body replacement. Isn't it cruel to force that on someone who's barely out of high school? Aren't prosthetics cruel. Aren't they inhuman?" It's a game of rhetoric to her. Sinclair was going through the stress of not wanting a cosmetic surgery and Kromer saw how she could use him as a pawn in her anti-prosthetics agenda.
And Lust as a skill does not necessarily refer to sexual desire. I already said this but since greed was replaced with gloom, lust becomes the de-facto sin for desire. Bloodlust, lust for power, lust for revenge, ect. The fact that some people will take the themes of Kromer's story; how a corporation will platform the most violent bigot they can find to increase their profit margins, how inherently hypocritical Kromer's ideas of "purity of the flesh" are, and how if you give someone so violently bigoted an inch they'll take a mile, and just throw all those out the window in favor of her being some kind of evil succubus obsessed with Sinclair because she wants to fuck him is just incredibly, mind-numbingly frustrating.
And the concept of "Vagina Dentata" needs to be put up on a high shelf until anyone who wants to say distorted Kromer has one can pass an elementary level reading comprehension test.
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Petition for Aaron never to mention Liv again.
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Ok
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Listen- ok hear me out
Team Plasma tries to take Emmet from Ingo
You can use N here maybe, you dont want literal translation commumication so he probably just Gets pokemon really well, read their body language like pokemon jackson galaxy. Calls it talking with them because hes talking their language (body language and recognized behaviors). He sees how depressed Ingos partner pokemon is and tries to 'free' him from Ingo. Emmet might not be able to use N to tell anyone the truth, but if Emmet doesnt make his feelings on being seperated from Ingo clear, Ingo definitely will. Thats his emotional support Emmet thank you very much.
I just like imagining bamf pissed off train twins looking all cool and serious defending each other 😊 (even if they dont know its each other-)
What you suggest doesn't match up well with the timeline I have for the au.
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i truly think that like, in the absence of using twitter, and having so many eyes on this blog, the two best things i have done for my mental health lately are create two google forms.
google form #1 has one text field (long) and it says "exorcise your demons motherfucker" and that's the form where i write every insane unpublishable thought that i should keep to myself but need to get out of my brain. this ranges from erotic imagines to whining about things that are too small to get mad about to jokes that i don't know what to do with but haunt me like an intrusive thought. all those thoughts go in the exorcise your demons form.
google form #2 has three text fields (long): 1. little delight; 2. big joy; 3. a thing i am grateful for. they are all optional so i can fill out as many as or as few as i want. i was inspired by the post that goes around every couple weeks about write in the tag a delight in your day. i had more delights more often than i saw the post, but rn those delights are hard to remember after the moment under a mountain of stress, so writing them down when i can helps. and doing it in a google form helps a lot bc i can go back and reread everything easily
and doing both of these in a google doc is way better for me than like a paper journal or sketchbook bc while i sometimes have a sketchbook with me and very infrequently journal, i ALWAYS have my phone on me so if i'm suffering the agonies somewhere away from home, i can just open up the forms on my browser app and write whatever so i don't end up posting something insane or i don't have all the things that made me happy that day jammed up inside of me (or worse, forget everything good that happened.) it's been very nice imho, i recommend it if you're the type of person who processes thoughts through writing or wants to hold onto things, but doesn't want to be carrying a notebook around all the time
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