Thinking about the cast of Arknights and how everyone is haunted by specters of Home. How so many of their stories are either "you CAN'T go home again" or "you MUST go home again". The phrase "you can't get well in the place that made you sick" and what it means for Rhodes Island to be a literal roving place of healing.
I may need to write an essay on this.
i think a lot about how Rhodes Island is simultaneously characterized as a home, but it is also always transitory. something about how the playable versions of any given operator is just a snippet of them from a certain point in time and that it's more than likely they'll depart, move on from this part of their life, and never come back, no matter how much we depend on them. Mountain eventually kills whoever it is at Rhine Lab he's trying to get revenge on and goes back to his family's company. Thorns talks like he doesn't care about Iberia, but we know he would cast aside his humanity for the chance to fight for it for even one more day. Saria is only here because she wants to escape herself, but trying to sever her connection to Rhine only drags her deeper. I mean shit, Gravel literally only joins Rhodes after Victoria, when mechanically she's been the only thing holding my tenuous strategy together for the last three years.
Sure, there are people who stay. There are the Elite Ops, and most of the 3-4 stars. But only two of the Elite Ops are playable. They're not who we get to play as, they're not the point.
The point is the transience. The point is that the person we've come to rely on is only here for a few weeks or months or maybe a year. The point is that we're not an unstoppable army, building and amassing our power. Rhodes Island, as we are allowed to experience it, is an impossible collage of everyone who we've ever known, imagined together in a way they never actually could be. There is a tragedy knowing that none of this could be real, because they just. have to go home eventually.
ultimately i think the reason i don't take a deeper dive into scp stuff is because nothing will ever live up to scp 5031
it starts with Edgy Murder Monster (Who Is Weird) standard fare and then ten or so diagrams later you are like. profoundly emotionally invested. and then you get to the last sentence which makes you cry irl
researcher 1: this right here is a murderbeast. lock it in the shame cube and never pay attention to it
me: yeah okay. it's a keter scp what did i expect.
researcher 2, ten years later: i never met researcher 1 but he was a Bitch. anyway i want to know if scp5031 can befriend a chicken.
me, already reaching for the tissues,
I’m actually gonna go ahead and link to 5031 just to try to encourage even one more person to enjoy what’s got to be one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade.
my only further thoughts that i want to express shall be expressed through these memes
Ok I read the link and I am actually crying now. “one of the greatest literary achievements of the past decade” I’m not arguing
This video has permanently changed my vocabulary so I need you all to see it
Why is it being read in the voice of a guy who will hurriedly warn me about side effects at the end of a medication ad?
as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine
sorry. only semi-related but i simply wasn't ready for "the sun is a distant gorilla". thank you NASA
Large concrete Soviet apartment buildings are a type of girl
This is kind of true actually. In Russian we reffer to different types of apartment buildings by the surname of whoever was in power in USSR at the time, the 3 main types are: ‘Stalinka’, ‘Khruschevka’ and ‘Brezhnevka’, the styles are distinct enough from each other to the point that you could easily distinguish them at a glance if you know what to look for. But the main thing is that ’-ka’ is a feminine ending in Russian which means that all soviet apartment buildings are, in fact, girls.
This is the best thing I’ve read all day
be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
Will never see eye-to-eye with anyone less than the people who treat their pets like wandering ronin instead of valued family members. Like oh there goes Bronson our uncollared, chipless chocolate lab out of the permanently open back door again. If he comes home in three days after subsisting on garbage we'll be mildly thrilled to see him again but if he succumbs to his natural predator, the 2006 Toyota Camry, that's just the circle of life
