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the history fictionologist creating gallagher: yeah so he’s got huge tits and his fursona is a dog and so he wears pawprint shoes and he howls and barks and growls and

othet fictionologist: is that necessary

gallagher’s dad fictionologist: Extremely. Don’t interrupt me again.

#Gallagher #HSR #I’m GONNA PISSSSSSSSS

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Aventurine should have been wearing a feather boa instead of a fur collar and no one can change my mind

#Aventurine #HSR #this is my incredibly big brained post-travel thoughts #can you get jet lag from a 2hr flight??? it feels like it ughhh #anyway I don’t hate the fur #wish it was so much bigger and fluffier but WHY wasn’t it feathers #give this man a ruff #let him annoyingly leave behind shed feathers #let ratio pick one up and scowl about it before carefully storing it away #turn it into an ink quill that he uses to write all of his blunt little letters to Aventurine #let me collect and cradle them and fashion jewellery out of them like I want to do with my parrot’s molted feathers #ack just imagine how swoshy they’d be and dramatic and soft PLS #FEATHERS > FUR ITS ALL IM SAYING #PLUS ITS CAMP AS ALL FUCK

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I still cant believe his name is fucking Veritas. Every single time I remember, weeks, months later - I still pish myself over it. It just flashes me right back to an exam hall and me desperately scribing out a legal essay in three hours lddkdmdmd.

The defence of veritas was one of my favourite defences to write about?? Conjuring the word immediately unpacks like whole sentences I memorised to be able to dump in those exams, like… veritas is a defence to show that the imputation conveyed by the statement complained of is true or substantially true. The court must consider what imputations are actually considered in the statement. The burden of proof falls on the defender to produce averments of quantum meruit. Case names spring to mind, classroom debates, old dusty halls and pigeon (bullshit) latin, all the wrinkles in my old professor’s faces.

And there he is. Dr fucking Veritas Ratio. Standing there like a gijinka of a legal concept - and what a perfect embodiment of it he is, like, for real. Who really truly believes in finding The Truth, who finds beauty in knowledge and the propagation of it, like a professor lamenting that universities are no longer (if they ever truly where) idealised bastions of genuine learning and truth seeking but have instead become a step in a pipeline to the corporate world. He loves pushing and debating others to force the burden of proof upon them, empowering them to speak their own defence of veritas. And if they speak it well enough, produce those sufficiently evidenced averments, he will acquiesce and allow his mind to be changed. It’s not easy to do - the burden of proof is high - but so to is it in real legal cases.

Makes me want to make gijinkas out of other concepts, Golden Rule, Accessio Mala Fides, Quorum Precedence. Ndnsnsnsdnd GOD.

#ratio #HSR #my witterings #ugh I miss studying law tbh #idk practicing is a whole other ball game but all the legal concepts and legal philosophy was so interesting and fun to me #it was all so serious but at the same time quite a bit silly #where words had real binding power and meaning but at the same time are butchered Latin words lmandndndn #anyway I love mr Rat #what a guy LMAO

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Sorry I just saw Firefly and SW's height difference

#silver wolf #firefly #HSR #silver fly #SNENJDJSJSJDJSKSJSJSJDJSN #When I got to this part in the game I took sw out and just. stared at their height difference for the longest time #she’s the perfect height though for cuddles so 🤧🫶 #this art THOUGH LANDNDNSMSKKDKDKDKDKDKD HER GRUMPY FACE IS TAKING ME OUT LMAODJDJDJDNE #firefly is so cute too 😭 I love when she’s a bit embarassed and abashed awaygagshs

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#silver wolf #firefly #SAM #HSR #xjdndnSndndndjdkdSJSJSJSJSJSJS VI SNDNDNSNNDNDSN

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-lies down- got to hard pity and lost my 50/50 for Arle,,,,,,,, 🥹🥲

the banner is pretty much over wwwwwhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyy

#personal #I cant bring myself to swipe when I’ve not been playing Genshin as much as I had been #but CHRIST I got fucked out of CR’s weapon and now I’m being fucked for Arle I’m so fucked off rn #this is my own fault because my focus has been on HSR and path to nowhere #fffffffuck though this hurts arle is legit one of my favourite designs of all time #I was so fucking hyped from the moment the Fontaine trailer dropped #I missed Furina as well and Chiori was rough af #uuggGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #well she’ll probably rerun fairly soon #🥲 #I don’t think I’ve won a 50/50 in genshin for like half a year at this point???? #-claws at the walls-

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Fu xuan :)

#fu xuan #hsr #god I love this #the use of gold to shade on an otherwise pink heavy piece is INSPIRED I’m taking notes #those jade green shadows as well mmm just luxurious #fu xuan looks so jprg end game villain coded here and that energy is just so Correct #she’s so beautiful and I can do nothing but stand here in awe of her

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sunday whimpering clip (no spoilers)

#Sunday #HSR #uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #haha……….. #absolutely not saving this in the same folder as Aventurine’s pained moaning LSNSMSMSMSMSMM #lmao Sunday made uhhhhhh uhhhh uhhhh a lot of Interesting noises in the 2.2 quest mansnsn #the post 2.2 Robin quest as well when he’s falling with her as well DNDNDND CHRIST

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#Gallagher #HSR #this is so fucking cool #I love the lighting so much it makes me feel like Im going to be sucked down this corridor into an abyss I’ll never come back from #it’s just so perfectly unnerving hhhhh #Gallagher looks so good as well and I love the hounds the shadow of his hands make GOD

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2.2 spoilers //

He finally texted me back and I’m on my knees. Like I might actually cry - he wants to live 😭😭 ffffuck. HAPPY about being alive, FUCK - I can’t believe he just said that with his fingers aaaHHHHH. He’s worrying about being a bother but also actually SHOWING he’s insecure about it oh my god lay me down in the tall grass

#2.2 spoilers #Aventurine #HSR #my witterings #I cant express fully how much this means to me #he mentioned he’s still having nightmares as well so it’s not like his cptsd is just magically cured #but wanting to live #still struggling with anxiety and loneliness and still entrenched and entangled with the past #but still able to experience that fragile sliver of happiness that comes with the simple fact he’s alive 🥹😭 #I’m gonna throw up #I can’t tell you how meaningful it’s been to just appreciate being a living thing #something so fundamental and simple and small #fuck and it’s what rat wanted for him too 😭 #staying alive for his own sake #and only for the sake of living #no value prescribed to it #it’s okay to just be your messy fucked up self auahagghhhhhhhhh #idk so many people with cptsd never get to this point #its a diagnosis with not a super high rate of favourable outcomes #and representation of the suffering that comes with ir means a lot to me but also the hard won difficult joy and appreciation and recovery #is so so so so wonderful to see #I’ll have much more articulate thoughts about it later right now I’m just #so so happy

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Drawing Sunday every Sunday until Sunday drops.

2/∞ (my condolences to all other sunday mains out there)

#sunday #hsr #OH MY GOD VI #THIS IS STUNNING HOLY CHRIST #It actually looks like a still from an anime it looks fucking gorgeous oh my god #his lip shape is doing something to me hhhh oh my god #I can't believe what shapes you can carve out of just the simplest placement of shadows omg #though I can't imagine this was easy at all #the eye is also supremely gorgeous my GOD #the light in it #the sparkles #like he's glaring right through me CHRIST IM SWEATING #the lighting on the hair is also just MMMMMMM #like its glowing #he's bathed in divine righteousness and he is about to strike me down

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want to do a properly thought out write up on this but.... Sunday and Aventurine have so many parallels. Sunday the oldest of an orphaned sibling duo who wishes to sacrifice himself (in a sense) for his sister, Aventurine the youngest of an orphaned sibling duo whose sister sacrificed herself for him. The way Aventurine puts his left hand behind his back to stop it from shaking and Sunday who holds his right hand behind his back during particularly intense moments. Both who feel fundamentally alone no matter how many people they surround themselves with, who actively build self-destructive walls to keep themselves from others, who struggle to find a sense of peace and happiness for themselves, who hide every emotion behind a placid smile, who willingly transform themselves into actors within the grand theatre of life.

#sunday #aventurine #hsr #honkai star rail #my witterings #there's no way they aren't thematic parallels right #like I wonder if you can take aventurine arc in 2.1 and hold it as a foil to sunday #I need to think about it more because I don't think they are the same by any means but there are interesting mirrors in here #I wonder when Sunday asks aventurine if he'd destroy the world #I wonder what he thought about his answer #hmmmmmmm #haunted by Sunday describing happiness as something like the light from a star #something that emanates from the past #haunted by aventurine asking why he can't feel happy like everyone else #ffffuuuckakaK

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Silent mode - activated

#topaz #honkai star rail #hsr fanart #my art #aaaghhh I had so much fun with this one #I really love Topaz's light cone so much #thinking about her after work life #where everything is just so still and peaceful and full of living things #where the air tastes new and fresh #and for a minute she can just Be #phone off work a million miles away and for just now there's this blissful velvet blue quiet #waaghhhhh #I finally pulled her on fri and I love running around as her so so much #she makes my heart so full T_T

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everything stays right where you left it

everything stays but it still changes

I

#scaramouche #Furina #genshin #holy fucking CHRIST the colours in this are stunning #I need to sit and turn over the parallels between them more this is achingly gorgeous #I love. so much. that third panel hhh #Raiden’s expression and all those falling puppets #mannnnnn

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Everything makes me think of them 🥹😭

#Sunday #Robin #HSR #bluebells have a kinda angels trumpety kind of vibe to them #I love the whitebells as well 😭 #I don’t usually see those aaahh

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falling angel 🪽

#Sunday #HSR #auahhhhhh the soft glowy lighting 🥺😭 #the anguished posing where those fingers just feel so fucking tense and raw and real ghhhhhhhaaaugh #the bird that couldn’t fly 😭😭 #babbyyyyyyyy

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#Aventurine #Ratio #rat piss #HSR #Waauaghwhe 🥺 #Aventurine’s tiny pony tail is so inspired I love this #he’s so cute awqhhehej #it would be so bouncy and swishy and annoying lansnsmsdk #rat could tug on it when he’s invariably getting distracted #also rat with a cravat is A+ absolutely no notes