Hi!

awareness is the curse

Boys can sob, girls can snarl

Do not tag as lunter

I’ve think I’ve figured it out

I think I know what MDR is doing and what lumon is doing and where this story is going to go

It’s Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice dies and goes to hell, Orpheus descends down there and gets the chance to bring her back, but loses her forever because he turns round to look at her.

If mark is Orpheus, and Gemma is Euridyce, and the severed floor is hell, that means that by going down there as a severed employee Mark got a chance to bring Gemma back, but he’s going to lose it by looking back to find her. By reintegrating.

Gemma died. Like actually died. She wasn’t brain dead and intercepted by lumon. She died, mark identified the body. Somewhere between that and the cremation lumon took her.

Lumon is trying to raise the dead, presumably to bring back Kier (who’s body im sure is being preserved in some horrid cult place of worship somewhere in the depths of lumon) and has been pretty successful so far. At getting the body back. The mind is trickier, and that’s what MDR is doing. They’re tidying up brain waves, trying to bring a persons memory and conciousness back.

That’s why the files expire. The person gets too dead, their brain gets too damaged, and there’s no point trying anymore.

Gemma has been the most successful so far. She’s not just physically alive, but her brain is functioning too. Her position as wellness counsellor was an experiment to see how she interacts with other people, to see how well her consciousness is recovering

Coldharbour is her last file. When it’s done, she’ll be completely back and lumon will have successfully brought a dead person fully back to life, a major milestone for them. If it expires, she’ll be gone forever

Mark reintegrated. He’s going to be suspicious of lumon, suspicious of the work, and so caught up in looking for Gemma he won’t finish cold harbour

He looked back. So he’s going to lose her forever

Posting this later than I normally would I have been watching Star VS with my daughter and oh my god Star is so skrunkly. She's the best. Good vibes.

speaking as a fan of both, why do steven universe fans talk about it like it’s miraculous ladybug. steven universe was actually good

Soul of her

Chang for the character ask (if you're still doing that)

(Tumblr decided to only show me this message like 10 days after it was sent, so I can absolutely provide! Tumblr fix your Javascript already)

First impression: My very earliest recollection of Chang is of rewatching the 1991 series in high school, and thinking, "This kid's cheekbones are angular"

Impression now: Chang is a delight! I love his hijinks with Tintin, and I really wish we got to see more of him in the series.

Favourite moment: Probably the scene at the end of Blue Lotus when Tintin is having dinner with Chang, the Wang family, and the Sons. It's a joyous but bittersweet moment where Chang now has a family again, but Tintin has to return to Belgium, leading to Chang saying he has a "rainbow in [his] heart". It's the gayest canon moment in the series and I can't believe it hasn't caught on more.

Idea for a story: Chang integrating with the Wang family. He's lost his family twice before, and it must be difficult to try and get adjusted again...oh man, I just realized he then almost dies in a plane crash months later. He's been through so much. If anyone wanted to make a big hurt/comfort fic, try writing about the series from Chang's perspective

Unpopular opinion: the 1991 series really did Chang dirty. He has less to do in the animated version, and he's suddenly younger and has razor-sharp cheekbones. I wonder if they were trying to make Chang look less like the real-life young Zhang Chongren? That's the only reason I can think of for why they changed his design so much

Favourite relationship: Tintin/Chang; I kinda headcanon them both as asexual, and that they'd be the most ridiculously schmaltzy couple ever

Favourite headcanon: I really like @professorcalculusstanaccount 's take on an older Chang in their Roswell AU...he's got a sort of greaser style too, slick but still fashionable, since the setting is somewhere around the 1950s-60s. It's a very clever take on his character!

artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

hush little baby dont you cry. mamas gonna buy you a big horse fly. and if that big horse fly dont fly. mamas gonna buy you another horse fly

Not to compare the internet’s sexiest murder puppets but Mr Neighbor wins against Wally- he could obliterate that little fruit