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othertmrkids · 2 years

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It was hard to miss how Yulia Anokhin lit up at the first sign of company after a long night of restlessness. And even harder to miss the dart of her gaze over Ace’s shoulder to catch sight of anyone following behind him through her hospital room door. Of course, there was no one and Ace subsequently watched her eyes drop to her hands before realizing she had an audience to keep.

“Ace, hi!” Yulia beamed for him, respecting the nickname he’d introduced himself by, rather than what her brother insisted on referring to him as. And Ace gave her the satisfaction of seeing someone light right back up for her, “Yulia, hi!”

She laughed quietly and Ace felt a warmth at bringing a smile to her face that he was never quite able to achieve with either of his own siblings. “How are you feeling?” He asked as he took a seat beside her bed. To which she offered honestly, “Awful,” though the smile on her lips didn’t fade and neither did his.

“Well, that’s warranted,” Ace sighed deeply, brows raising in a manner that let Yulia know she wouldn’t have to upkeep the pleasantries with him. Not if she didn’t want to, not if she didn’t need it to cope. “You have taken a bit of a physical, emotional, and maybe even spiritual pounding if you believe in fate and all that.”

Yulia had to chuckle. “Yeah, all of the above.” And then, just as Ace noticed the fidget of her fingers on her lap, she added, “How’s my brother?”

There was no right answer so Ace chose to go with, “Stubborn,” and again, Yulia laughed. But as she began to agree, Ace spoke over her with a pointed, “Same as you.” That dampened her demeanor slightly but she only shrugged at the accusation, “You’re not going to convince me to let it go, Ace.”

Ace couldn’t bite back his fond smile. “You are so his sister, you know. Through and through. I don’t know what this other guy’s like but if he’s anything like you two, it’s a good thing you haven’t tracked him down yet. For my sake.”

Despite Ace’s joke, Yulia’s eyes drifted. She looked for a moment as though she might apologize for the secrecy but decided against it, remaining loyal to her faith in her brother’s choices.

“I’m not trying to convince you to let it go, by the way,” Ace sighed.

“Brother said you are.”

“I want you safe and him happy,” Ace insisted, brows raised at the quickness of her rebuttal. “That’s all.”

“Very diplomatic of you, Aeson,” Yulia rolled her eyes, now choosing to enunciate his name in a tease as her brother so often did.

But Ace was quick to cut down the statement. “Don’t call me that. I’m a junior, that’s my father’s name and I can’t stand it. Radimir, he’s something fierce, something magical and he loves me through the mess in my head when I hear my own name. But otherwise it just reminds me of the man that used to beat the shit out of me and my kid siblings when we were growing up.” His voice was matter of fact, devoid of the feeling that he was explaining some of the hardest things in this life for him to even come to terms with, let alone talk about. And he even let Yulia flounder for a bit, open her mouth and close it again to figure how one might respond to such revelations.

But then he presented her with an out from the tension. “Your turn. What’s your big bad hang up? Why is this so important to you that you’d fight even your brother about it?” With laser focus in his eyes he waited, as he sometimes did with the older of the two Anokhin siblings.

Yulia weighed her options, of which there were few, looking anywhere but at Ace’s unmoving gaze for a while. And then she sighed. “Because I don’t have any part of my mom for myself. Nothing. Everything I have is Radimir’s or my aunt and uncle’s or my grandparents’...and I’ve heard it all and pictured it all a thousand times already. Every story, every little memory, I’ve played in my head since I was a kid, hoping there’ll be more every time but…there’s only so much. And Mikhail…he might have more. He might have nothing too, like me, but then I could give him something so he doesn’t have nothing either.”

Yulia finally caught Ace’s eyes and hers glistened now, her voice quieting to an uncharacteristic whisper as she admitted, “It sucks having nothing, Ace.”

Ace nodded immediately, not because he could ever quite know her loss, but because everything in him ached for her, just as it did any time Radimir hurt before him. He slid a hand over the back of Yulia’s and squeezed his fingers around her lightly. With his voice dropped low and his brows furrowed, he willed himself to focus on the matter at hand rather than slipping under the weight of how deeply his heart went out to these siblings. Tightening his hold, Ace implored, “Why didn’t you tell your brother that?”

“Why didn’t he listen long enough to find out?”

Ace took a breath. Her response had been instantaneous; she’d been wondering the answer since the last time they’d seen one another and had come up short.

“Because he’s scared…” Ace answered reluctantly, his expression narrowed in a manner of understanding the risk he was taking in speaking so vulnerably. “He always gets this way when he’s afraid, he got this way when he was afraid for me too. The instinct to protect someone you love is blinding, Yulia. It’s stronger than any force on this earth, it’s illogical, it’s selfish, it’s so much to process that…I don’t think he always has space to listen when it’s happening. But…if there’s one thing I know about your brother then it’s that his love is bigger than his anger. And his sheer force of will-” He intentionally paused his sentence as a watery chuckle burst out of Yulia. “Yeah, that’s right, there’s something greater than his stubbornness. I know that and you do too.”

Yulia nodded, dragging the heel of her palm across her eyes and Ace took the opportunity of her being preoccupied to continue. “I’m not saying you have to give up on finding something more, or giving more, if that’s what it comes to. Just…wait until some of this mess blows over. Please. Don’t give him more of a reason to be afraid, at least not right now.”

Yulia opened her mouth but Ace didn’t wait to hear if she would agree or protest. “You know how curious he is too,” he insisted. “How important it is to him to have all the facts. He’ll come around, just when he doesn’t have to be so worried. And this time, I’ll be there to help out too, you have my word. But for now, you have to focus on getting better, alright? We’ll be better as a team, the three of us. But only if you’re well enough to join and we’re all on reasonably speaking terms.”

Ace let out a breath, shoulders easing as he finally got his point across. Neither of them had realized how impassioned he would grow over his plea and they both fell into a lapse of silence over it.

“You know right?” She found the courage to begin in a tone so hushed it seemed reserved for confessions. “You know that I didn’t mean to hurt him?”

Ace blinked, reading the guilt off of Yulia as easily as he could from her brother. “I do,” he granted her reprieve, though with a stipulation. “And even if he does too, I think it would be good to hear anyway. Alright?”

Yulia seemed hesitant at the notion of facing her brother again so soon, much less in some form of apology. But that didn’t deter Ace’s gaze, wiling to allow her time but ultimately pressing her for confirmation that she understood what was at stake. There was a strength in her eyes as well, a look Ace was very much accustomed to being fixed with. But eventually, Yulia released a large sigh, rolling her eyes with the aid of her chin and her shoulders as well. “Alright, alright…”

“Alright.” Ace nodded, running a relieved hand through his hair to know he wouldn’t have to push his case any further, for now at least. He expected to catch his breath in the next moments as they both came to terms with what they’d agreed upon, but Yulia wasn’t finished with him just yet.

Realizing that her hand still rested under his, Yulia gave his fingers, curled loosely around hers, several quick squeezes to pull his attention, “Ace?”

Bright blue eyes flashed upward as Ace let out a small acknowledgement of, “Hm?”

“The next time you call my brother magical better be during your wedding vows.”

The corners of Ace’s eyes creased right away with the smile that appeared on his lips. Yulia could almost swear he was reddened by the statement, though she was more curious as to why he was shaking his head than a tease over his complexion.

“No promises,” the older chuckled, running his fingers in a familiar gesture of comfort over his beard. “I might slip a couple in before.”

The blossom of Yulia’s smile mirrored the one she’d aimed at her brother weeks ago over a restaurant table in the company of the very same man she sat with now. Even for someone as forthcoming and outspoken as her, words couldn’t do her gratefulness for him justice. And she hoped Radimir felt the same.

"Now...” Ace interrupted her thoughts as he shifted in his seat to reach into his pocket, “we have more more important business to tend to.” The get well soon gift that he withdrew brightened Yulia’s features even more than his initial entrance into her room. “Careful, careful!” he warned through his laugh as the chocolate frog box was snatched precariously from his hands. He marveled to see her glimmer in even the darkest of times and without looking up from her mission to secure her frog, Yulia made a request so simply, so sincerely that Ace never had a choice but to concede.

“Stay with me for a while?”

#NO THOUGHTS JUST THOUGHTS #ONLY THINKING ABOUT THE ANOKHINS AND CALHOUNS GOODNIGHT #c: Aeson Calhoun #c: Yulia Anokhin #AesonxYulia #My writing #Gosh these two can fucking talk I'M TIRED #GOSH THESE TWO LOVE A MOOD SHIFT IM TIRED #THIS DRABBLE COULD HAVE BEEN 42 MORE PAGES I'M YELLING IM SURE THEY HANG FOR A WHILE BUT I SIMPLY HAD TO MAKE THEM STOP GOODBYE

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shilo-bathroy · 6 months

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I can't stop thinking about how Daniil housed Clara when she was being hunted. The writers could've chosen anyone to house Clara— Lara, Yulia, Artemy — and they picked Daniil. I think this is because Clara and Daniil are cut from the same cloth: they're outsiders who are trying to good while being used by the ruling families. (Artemy is too, Clara and Artemy share A LOT in common but this is about Daniil and Clara. I'll probably write up stuff about C&A)

Think about it.

Clara wants a family and wants to help people. The Saburovs tell her they can help her but treat her awfully.

Daniil wants to.. well, you know. Defeat death and the Kains use him under the guise of helping him.

They're both used by people in power because they're in fragile positions.

He also doesn't subscribe to the Steppe Mysticism which is why he treats Clara like a human — he sees her as an annoying girl rather than a monster. In a town where she's either a saint or a monster, Daniil sees her as neither. It's what she needs. Hell, one of the dialogue exchanges for Daniil [if playing as Artemy] in the Cathedral goes as so:

"Think you're in a better position? She has simply chosen a different tactic for each of us! She has abused my hate and anger. She has abused your love and sense of commitment! I wonder what she did to get to Clara… if she found the Changeling worthy of her schemes at all…"

He's still thinking about Clara, abour how she's probably been hurt and used by the Inquisitor.

Something about the "cold hearted" Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky being one the few people to treat Clara like the actual traumatized girl she is really heartwarming.

He housed Clara. Gave her money for food. Kept her safe when everyone wanted her dead. I hope Pathologic 2 expands on this relationship between them because it's really fucking adorable.

#pathologic #clara #clara the changeling #clara saburova #daniil dankovsky #artemy burakh

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djuvlipen · 5 months

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Here is an NGO that helps Ukrainian Romani women!

Svitlana’s eyes began to shine with happiness as she entered the hotel room in Odesa. She had never spent a night in a hotel, or any place that to her seemed so beautifully decorated. She had come here to change her life.

Svitlana* was attending a women’s leadership training from CARE and the charity foundation Winds of Change.

Throughout her childhood and adolescence, Svitlana had lived in a compact settlement for Roma families in Odesa region. Women’s health was never discussed there. She didn’t go to school, because she had to take care of her younger siblings.

Only recently, at 28, has she learned to write her own name.

Winds of Change, a CARE partner organization, has been working with the Roma community for over four years.

Roma, also called Romany, is an ethnic group of traditionally itinerant people who originated in northern India but now live principally in Europe.

The word “Roma” means “man” and refers to different communities, including Kalderash in southeastern Europe, Romanichals in England, Sinti in Germany, Italy, and France, Kalé in Wales, Finland, Spain and Portugal, and Gitano from Spain, as well as many others around the world — there are an estimated 400,000 Roma people in Ukraine.

As part of CARE’s Women’s Lead in Emergencies model, Winds of Change is working with the Roma communities in Ukraine to train women to take part in leadership.

‘I dreamed of being an artist’

Svitlana was 15 when she got married. She married her husband “under the Roma law.” They have no legal marriage documents.

“He stole me from my parents, and since then we have been living together,” Svitlana says. “This is how most Roma girls live. [They say] women should only look after children, clean and cook… But when I was a child, I dreamed of being an artist. To paint beautiful patterns on the facades of the house. It’s a pity that I never did.”

Some 80 percent of girls in the Roma community have similar stories. From a young age they help their parents look after younger children, and between the ages of 12 and 15 they are coerced into marriage where they then start their adult life.

Now she has six children.

She dreams that all her children will be educated. So, this year, with the support of the Winds of Change Foundation, three of her six children went to the first grade, and two went to the second grade.

For Svitlana, it was an indescribable joy.

A double standard

“Very often, representatives of local authorities, especially in rural areas, turn a blind eye to Roma needs,” says Yulia Hladka, a Winds of Change representative. “Children may not go to school, because it is their tradition. They are Roma; they are married early and have different ‘duties’” — this is how social services often react to the remarks of Roma human rights organizations. If a Ukrainian woman was in a similar situation, she would have been noticed and social services would have intervened.”

Roma people feel this indifference, even from the medical community. When Svitlana fell ill, the local hospital was reluctant to admit her. It was the same with the pediatrician. He simply recorded the visits in a log, although he did not actually examine her children.

It was only with Yulia Hladka’s help that Svitlana finally decided to see a gynecologist to find out the cause of her irregular cycle and heavy bleeding. But it wasn’t easy, because of ethnic discrimination. Only at a private medical center was Svitlana thoroughly examined and found to have cervical erosion, a damaged cyst, and critically low hemoglobin.

Now she is undergoing a long course of treatment.

A double discrimination

As Winds of Change has learned, changing the lives of Roma women is not always easy. These women have suffered discrimination, and sometimes violence, and are understandably reluctant to trust.

Human rights organizations call the Roma community one of the most discriminated against social groups in Ukraine.

Roma women in Ukraine are subject to double discrimination — on ethnic and gender grounds. They face limitations in various aspects of their lives, such as being compelled to marry at a young age and having more than two or three children. Because their community considers them responsible for caring for younger children, they also have restricted access to education compared to boys. They face challenges in finding employment and accessing healthcare.

Life undocumented

Many problems are caused by the lack of documents, as usually Roma people live in isolation and very rarely turn to government institutions. Women give birth at home and do not even apply for birth certificates. The absence of passports also makes it difficult for Roma to obtain documents, so they cannot receive assistance from the state, and their number in the country cannot be officially counted.

According to Roma NGOs like Winds of Change, charitable foundation “Planet of Good People,” just over a third of Ukrainian Roma are employed. For Roma women, this is often complicated by the fact that they are mothers of many children, so they face discrimination on this basis as well.

This was the case with Svitlana. She has been dependent on her husband’s decisions almost since childhood. All her time was taken up with housework and caring for her six children and her husband’s sister’s 13 children.

“At one of the focus groups, we realized that a very big problem for Roma women is the lack of access to basic services and jobs,” says Yulia. “They usually live in rural areas where there are not many employment opportunities.”

“But even if vacancies do appear, Roma are usually rejected, because of stereotypes and ethnicity.”

“We came up with the idea to create a social enterprise where these women could get hard skills — sewing home textiles and clothes — and soft skills, like communication, psychological self-regulation. We organized a small sewing company in Odesa called Petalenca, where Roma women sew bedding and home clothes. We train them and help them promote their products.”

After the escalation of the situation in Ukraine, many internally displaced women also found their place here and started working together with Roma women. Some women had some stereotypes about Roma before but working together helped to dispel them. Now this company employs Roma and women who have been displaced.

*name changed

They accept donations!

#ukraine #resources

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inblackwoods · 13 days

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Isidor and Simon, Daniil and Artemy

There’s one line that Daniil says to Yulia that has been driving me absolutely batty. Yulia says:

“You can call these demons what you want… you may refer to the Hair Eater as ‘time’ if this will make you any happier. I am comfortable with a more juvenile vernacular. It is what I am used to.”

And Bachelor replies: “You are repeating something that Isidor had once told me, almost word for word…”

When did this conversation happen? We don't have many letters between Daniil and Isidor to know how well they knew each other or how often they spoke. How did they meet? Why? How close were they? It’s hard to say, but Daniil refers to Isidor as “[m]y gentle associate, my selfless advisor.” Assuming he’s not being sarcastic, this is high praise. It also makes me think that Daniil took Isidor’s words to heart- deeply. That means that this idea, that people can be using different words to talk about the same things, is one that Daniil is more comfortable with than he’s always given credit for. Bachelor might be more open to setting aside semantic/linguistic differences for the sake of finding middle ground to agree on.

In the introductory healers cutscene, Daniil says, “it seems unlikely that we will ever get along well,” and then a few moments later he amends that statement to, “no… We won’t ever get along.”

That sounds sad. He seems almost like he had hope that the other two immediately dashed to pieces. Before, it was "unlikely" that they would get along "well," not impossible that they could get along at all. Now it is simply "we won't ever get along." He seems uncertain, perhaps because it is against his hard logic to completely bar any possibilities without confirmation. And he is usually adherent to standard social etiquette/ideas about politeness. It is possible that certain ideologies can find overlap and find a means of coexistence. But unlikely. Termites and Utopians don't often share tables.

But Isidor tried to teach him that they could, and Daniil tried to remember that.

#Pathologic #Pathologic Classic HD #Daniil Dankovsky #This is all more apparent in the Haruspex route with how interested Daniil is in Steppe medicine and Isidor's notes #But I'm not into the Haruspex route analysis yet #Hold your horses #Daniil also uses flattery for deception though so watch out #Also don't get me wrong Daniil isn't a sad poor creature #He's a BITCH he's hard to get along with #He's not doing himself favors

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rathologic · 1 year

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it's frustrating because aglaya is already villainized by nearly all the characters in patho2 (yulia as the slight exception), and the point of this is that you, the player character, are asked to approach this fellow person trapped in an impossible situation with grace instead. the Haruspex, a character who is fundamentally about extending his love to everyone in the game (as described by the devs!) has the ability to extend love, platonic or not, to her! logical! so seeing people talk about how much they hate her IN PATHO2 is like extremely jarring.

aglaya never does anything to harm the player in p2 (boring choice, but that's not my point); the closest thing would be that she causes fan favorite badgrief to have a lasting personal crisis. but a lot of the violent hatred towards her instead seems to stem from her flirting with you...? and it's always visceral want to see her dead kind of hatred. sorry people can't handle a woman in a position of authority speaking somewhat impolitely to them but the "flirting" part does really bug me so I'll get into that

the single major change p2 implemented to aglaya's story was that the Haruspex can meaningfully be on her side by agreeing to her request to leave the town together. it's weird to see that disparaged by fans for her using the imagery of romantic attachment, while the player's never forced to use the same imagery in return. the escape's not "you instantly fall in love with each other and run away" it's about a way of reacting to the fate imposed on both of you by the narrative: pathologic 2 simply describes fate through the lens of romance, re: nara and the brides, re: "a fate like a good wife, emshen... your wife" (re: the option to call aglaya your wife on the train).

& there's a fascinating meta aspect to the fact she can tell the haruspex as the player has the ability to make this choice, to be the only person in the world who Could not villainize her, and maybe even help her under an extremely short time limit. her expressing attraction to the haruspex (through a reflection, even) is for once not a weird misogyny thing but a reasonable way of parsing her feelings and needs into something that you might listen to! it fits within the societal framework expected in the game, and adds a discussion of romantic love to p2's dissection of the ideal of love in general; "discussion" meaning it is given to the player to see how you feel about it, and remains open-ended.

then she doesn't even make it and replaying you Know she'll never even make it which lends all the more meaning to choosing to flee with her. since patho2 is a game at its core about symbolic choices representing love + what it means to the player to choose to undergo challenges for no extrinsic rewards! her whole quest is a microcosm of key themes of patho2 (aka: "udurgh"), and potentially, a moment of respite and genuine friendship during one of its most stressful phases. if someone felt strung along by it I have great news for them about the final impact of every other quest in the game

and furthermore the connections she sees between herself and the haruspex are genuinely there. they're both trapped in the game they both will cease to exist after it and meaning is derived, both for the player and for her ("touch me with your words"), from choosing to fight the inevitable however briefly instead of just submitting to death - and love being the only driving force that can motivate that choice. how did you miss the point about love when it's the only point the game ever makes.

#p2 spoilers #aglaya lilich #pathologic #you see the antidote to mean and pointless complaint posting is... detailed and meaningful complaint posting instead. well enjoy #pathologic 2 #only sort of due to my point being you're not forced into it! but it may as well go in my tag ->#aglayartemy

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go-go-devil · 9 months

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Compilation of Various Changeling Headcanons of Mine

Been a while since I last wrote a massive list of hc's I have for a character, but I've been feeling bad for the lack of Patho content I’ve been sharing and want an excuse to talk about our beloved Clara the Changeling 🐀✨

Some spoilers for two of Pathologic Classic's endings are included in these, I should mention. Otherwise, enjoy!

Clara is a demisexual lesbian. I don’t need to do an in-depth detailed analysis to prove it, I just… know it!

She’s also neurodivergent, but in a way that makes it hard to give her a proper diagnosis. Really it’s most likely that she has overlapping disorders (adhd, bpd, autism) mixed in with others exclusive to those who’ve spawned from the Earth.

I’ve discussed this in another post once, but Clara’s biggest fear is her own body. A combination of knowing she was born from the clay and bones of the Earth combined with the truth about the world itself has given her a dreadful insight on how fundamentally different her physiology is from the other humans in the Town. Oftentimes she’ll feel different textures than what her skin and hair is supposed to feel like, and will need to stop what she’s doing and convince her mind that she’s real before the right textures return to her senses.

Is a tactile learner, and often prefers to show affection via touch (ex: patting one on the shoulder/back, holding hands, hugging, etc.)

The stress of her journey made her shed many tears, but now she’s become embarrassed about it. She’ll do everything in her power not to cry in front of others if she’s ever upset, simply saving it until she’s buried herself under some bed sheets or finds a lonely alley to cry her sorrows away.

That being said, if someone she cares about did find her sobbing and wanted to comfort her, she would throw herself into their arms and take in their compassion like a flea to fresh blood!

Clara was born with an innate understanding for very adult concepts and philosophies despite having the body and mind of a teenager. However, she finds herself preferring the conversations she has with the Town’s kids compared to the adults.

For example, with Sticky and Murky she can assuredly engage in a long, thoughtful debate on the mystical qualities and immaterial essence of life held within some nuts they found lying the dirt, while with the Bachelor and Haruspex she needed to slowly and carefully explain to them why it’s wrong for adult men their age to bully a teenage girl.

I have many complex feelings on her bond with Alexander Block, but I do believe that after her meeting with The Powers That Be she chooses not to accompany Block on the front lines. Even if she wants to leave, she knows more than anyone that this world only exists within the confines of its setting, and thus she can only live within the space created for her and the others. Perhaps Block can leave, but just as she says to him in her ending, "You came out of thin air and you'll pass into nothingness."

She still sees the Albino as her brother, and will often times travel deep into the steppe to visit him.

Once the plague is quelled Clara eventually begins to form a new family unit by being communally raised; essentially moving about at her own leisure between the residences of the members of her bound most patient with her (Yulia, Rubin, Lara, and even Bad Grief on some occasions) as well as Daniil and Artemy, who are both willing to put their past quarreling behind them. Presuming the Termite Ending was picked, of course!

The Saburovs remain unwilling to accept the future granted to the Termites, and Katarina in particular still believes that Clara is her proper heir and has tried to reach out and bring her back into their care to start over. She avoids them like the plague, still not ready to forgive them for abandoning her.

If the Humble Ending was picked, then she lives all by herself in the Rod, with only the consistent company of her two surviving humbles and the Bachelor and Haruspex; the three having ended their feuding after learning the shared knowledge of being dolls, yet still haven't fully recovered from the trauma of it all. She sends letters to Commander Block hoping to hear about what the outside world is truly like, even if all he can tell her are what battles lay on the front lines, and is trying to defy her fated rivalry against Maria and Capella by trying to form an alliance, perhaps even a friendship, with them to ensure a good future for the Town.

Capella is the only one willing to tolerate her presence at the moment, yet is still uneasy about this new future the Changeling has created…

While Clara always preaches about her fierce understanding of the divine powers of love, she genuinely does not understand the concept of being loved herself. Thanks to her hasty upbringing in a cult, she assumes that it is something like a commodity: needing to be earned by successfully completing tasks, and being instantly lost if she fails said tasks. The reason her mood nosedives into dramatic self-loathing whenever she angers/fails the people she cares about is because she believes that they now no longer love her as much as they used to.

Okay those last few points were pretty depressing, let me lighten it up a bit. Clara and Grace often have fun sleepovers in the cemetery together! Or at least what weird teenage girls closely connected to death find fun, like communicating with the dead and expressing their feelings toward one another in a series of flowery, cryptic riddles :)

I can totally see her owning pet rats! They’ll cling to her scarf and ride her like a taxi as she walks throughout town, freaking out every adult she passes.

Going back once more to her complex feelings about her own body, Clara also feels just as strange about her gender. She knows her anatomy isn’t built the same way “normal” girls’ are, despite taking the form of one. Often she feared that those who knew of her unnatural birth secretly saw her as an inhuman monstrosity, let alone those who haven’t found out yet. But eventually, with the support of those closest to her, she learns that humans inherently do not fit into the neat, fantastical boxes of cis heteronormalcy and slowly embraces her unique form of girlhood, and perhaps may start experimenting with using other pronouns too.

#clara the changeling #pathologic #pathologic headcanons #if anything this came about to hype myself up for a clara centric fic I’m writing #but it has been a while since I posted a massive hc list #I need to get back into the habit of that

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trash-capable-of-sentience · 2 years

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I think part of the draw of burakhovsky is that, no matter what ending in first or second game is chosen, bachelor daniil dankovsky ends up alone. All of his relationships - Yulia, Andrey, Peter, the Kains - are professional in nature. Even Eva, as she was simply his landlady, and even then the relationship seemed to be more wish fulfillment on her part, the same with Maria. Anyone who he might have been close with in the Capital is fled or dead due to the destruction of Thanatica.

I think we saw this man, lonely as he is, and went 'you know who we ship with him? the dad. because he absolutely deserves to be one too.'

#pathologic #artemy burakh #daniil dankovsky #burakhovsky #the haruspex #haruspex #the bachelor #bachelor #bachelor dankovsky

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rikeijo · 11 months

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Today's translation #276

Spoon.2Di, vol. 18. Mitsurou Kubo's interview

Part 7.

--- What about Yuri Plisetsky?

K: When we went to Barcelona to see 2014 Grand Prix Final, I had a chance to see Yulia Lipnitskaya in her private clothes - she wore leopard print with black background, and seeing her suitcase, also in leopard print with a gold handle, I thought: "Where did you buy this?!" - very aggressive fashion (laugh). But it was a visual that left the strongest impression on me, among everything that I've seen during our research trip. I thought - "It's so awesome!" and also that "It would be so nice, if a male figure skater like this existed~", so I let myself include those elements in Yuri. Because I had this base, it was also very easy to write this character, his personality and so on. This kind of low tension voice Uchiyama Kouki-san has, suits the character very well, I feel. When I was listening to Uchiyama-san's tapes from the audition, he already had this low tension voice at that time, so I was like: "Please, always be like that and don't ever play the character in a more lively way!" (laugh).

[Notes: Not so "fun" fact, but "It would be so nice, if a male figure skater like this existed~" is one of the quotes Mitsurou was bashed for the most on the Jp side of fandom, because it was deemed "disrespectful" to the real-life skater that "Mitsurou would prefer her to be a boy". This is of course not what she meant at all - I think it's quite clear that she simply liked her style and thought it would suit a male character, too. But as some people had a problem with Yurio and Mitsurou at the same time, it was easy enough to misinterpret into something bad... ]

#yuri on ice #yoi translations #yuri on ice translation

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katyspersonal · 8 months

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What are your thoughts on deraciné (the VR game that fromsoft made)? It's pretty obscure but it has a wonderful story (and plenty of bb references to the point that there was a rumor that it was supposed to be bb 2)

Sorry, I forgot about this ask as I read it when I was still in the bed and could not answer... But yeah, for now I don't know anything about this game! I first even heard it mentioned in Zullie's video about the Wormfaces, but I already was surprised why I literally never hear about it? ...and now that you've mentioned it is VR I guess I see why :') ...or maybe VR is way more common thing abroad and it is JUST obscure.

I simply quick-checked a few letsplays on Youtube to get the general idea, and it seems to have a really beautiful atmosphere? I just already really love the designs and the locations! Bloodborne's aesthetic is my favourite out of Soulsborne games; Victorian-ish vibe resonates with me more than other games sorta medieval fantasy setting. So yes, artistically, of course I love it! If I am not wrong, it functions like point-and-click adventure but in 3D. I will be real, I've always been absolute moron at point-and-click games for some reason?? However, the way From puts their stories into puzzles so far proven to be crafted for my brain particularly, so I'd feel confident enough to actually try it... ...if I ever get a VR device. xd I also seet hey played out us playing without combat and in VR as being a Faery children believe exists? This is brilliant! ALSO:

sdhdfgsdfj Autism moment, but I was so glad to see this name xd Soulsborne consistently adds female characters named a variant of this name in their games sdhd Yuria in DeS, mentioned Yulia in DS1, Mentioned Zullie (character, not dataminer!) in DS2, Julie/Yurie in BB, Yuria in DS3... And now this xd I just like when they keep the pattern (glares at BB for breaking the 'cannibal swamp lady' trend)

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Well, yeah, in any case, it seems like it is a lovely game! Actually when I tried to look what it was about, I got reminded of Bloodborne not only because of the designs and atmosphere, but also because of the system. Before I could buy PS4 and Bloodborne, I was stuck learning BB lore all by myself through descriptions, awful quality videos that never showed me what I NEEDED unless by accident, screenshots and images, datamined models and names, all that... And the way I had to move around everything I could to connect together the pieces and figure out the story and headcanons myself? It reminded me of how this game is played in particular. No combat, but just puzzles to solve and things to find. I am sorry if that makes no sense, the reasons brain activates distant memories sometimes can get too obscure or even random.

#ask replies #fromsoft games #deracine #really hard to say anything concrete #but yeah i doubt i could use VR device any time in this lifetime dsfhdhs #but again - I already have experience of knowing the game's lore better than many people who played it #(this is a special skill you get when you refuse to watch the overrated youtubers! HA)#might as well spend it on deracine and demon souls of course

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obey-me-angel-bros · 8 months

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Hello angel siblings I have a question for the younger 3 siblings, which amongst the 8 courtsof the archangels would you join in???

Well, you see sunglasses-grey-circle-human, we don't really know it yet! We have to get the council evaluation to know that!

-Lily🌺

And then pass the court's exam.

-Belphie🔪

but didn't sir raphael say that you might join his court, belphie?

-Beel🥜

He did. Wasn't it that time you got so sick you couldn't move a muscle? The first time you ate Heaven's Delight and started throwing up after that.

-Belphie🔪

yeah, that time...

-Beel🥜

Lord...we were so scared! We thought you might...you know

-Lily🌺

Die. That's why when Sir Raphael asked for aid I rushed to do that. I couldn't do much but I did what he told me.

-Belphie🔪

s-sorry

-Beel🥜

Don't apologize, it wasn't your fault Beel.

-Belphie🔪

Mhm, we were just worried, since we love you lots and lots, you know?

-Lily🌺

🙂 i love you too

before he left he said you were very calm and collected

-Beel🥜

And that you'd fit his court like a leech to a human...? What is a leech anyway?

-Lily🌺

They're like snails, but cooler.

-Belphie🔪

...suspicious...but other than that, we don't really know! We don't meet the archangels all that much hehe!

-Lily🌺

Outside of Lucifer that is, right?

-Simply-Yulia

...not really :\

-Lily🌺

#Big brother Lucy is super busy - Lily🌺#Aw :c -Simply-Yulia #Leeches~ -Belphie🔪#text #facts #bros answer #lily answers #belphie answers #beel answers #anon

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lowkeyclueless5137 · 5 months

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Oh my god, NRC mirror counterpart(that’s just funny to imagine, like what the heck are those guys like. Plus isn’t Idia gonna still be traumatized in that world, and probably be even more traumatized seeing what the hell happen to his brother),I can only imagine the main cast’s reactions, cause wow just wow(also Mirror Crowley just scolding main Crowley will never be not funny to me) I mean Kalim would be vibing a lot with these guys, the rest uhhh self explanatory. Also uhhh why are we ignoring the disturbing part where somehow Orpheus(THAT’S FORCED TO USE THE PEACOCK MIRACULOUS, plus the disturbing thought Yuuki and Yulia were possible forced to use a miraculous to help too) is used by the Supreme to kidnap some people from mirror twisted wonderland(like that part where that anon just off handly says something about Idia and Ortho get taken as well) to be his pawns? Also yeah I’m pretty sure both Idias and Orthos as well as Orpheus will have a very messed up time(Let’s hope our main team can once again save the day here)

>:3c

Well... The reverse NRC Bois are pretty much just nice guys. Still have similar incidents like their og counterparts, but the difference is in how they handle things.

Idia is a prime example. In here, reverse Orpheus's Isekai still happens when young, so Idia, much like his parents as well, are devastated at first. The difference is, while the og Idia drowned in grief and guilt, the reverse Idia tried his best to get over it and see it more as his brother being in a better place. This change of visions has reverse Idia wanting to do better, to be actually better, someone that his brother could be proud of from up there. He still has some times when it's harder to cope with this, but reverse Idia just thinks that if his lil brother watches over him, he wouldn't want to see him cry like this.

Robo Ortho in this world is created not as a replacement, but as an omage. How reverse Orpheus wanted to have a better world, Idia created robo Ortho a bit later, with the purpose of making the world a better place, just how his little brother wished. Down the line, robo Ortho develops a consciousness of his own and the tartarus Phanthoms also give him a soul(following a similar incident to this au's book 6, but much more early and with the Shroud parents instead of the NRC problematic kids). So down the line, the Shrouds came to consider robo Ortho as a member of the family too.

Enough sappy backstory! On with the present!

Now imagine in the reverse Paris, the supreme capturing reverse Orpheus, as they knew this boy had a special ability. His magic was something special, which could also be a thorn in the supreme's side. So he either got rid of him or found a way to overnumber his powers.

The supreme dials back to the incident some years ago, when Betterfly tried to dimension hop. Having the peacock miraculous retrieved (Orpheus was using it initially, because he wasn't able to get sick at all by it. He only made senti-monsters as an aid to Betterfly's akumas. In here, the senti-monsters are simply magic robots, as such they are not alive and would immediately go deadbeat if no one is controlling them. That's why there's no existential crisis over this.) The Supreme realises that they could use Orpheus to create a gate to a similar world from where he came from and try to recruit people that have similar powers as Orpheus, as a way to tip the balance.

Of course, Orpheus is refusing at first. He wasn't affected by the supreme's whims, but he could be reduced to obedience if one tries hard enough. He only had to create a gate and a 'solider' that the supreme would hold the senti-monsters remote. That way Orpheus cannot try anything funny. If he tries to snap any of the 2 out, he will be punished. As such, all he can do is stay nicely in his cell and not complain.

But reverse Orpheus had very foggy memories of his initial world. As such, the gate senti-monster opens up to the og twst and not the reverse one.

The supreme also uses the hostage situation as blackmail for Yuuki and Yuulia, who are forced to go through that gate and reek havoc as to paint a bad image on the resistance in the people's eyes and as such, have them willingly join the supreme. Kinda like a very elaborate way of brainwashing.

Cue the plan being foiled by og Orpheus and Yuuki. Og Yuuki uses cataclysm on the senti-monster, rendering it useless. That does give the chance for the 2 to try and warn their counterparts and beg for help.

Of course, already the senti-monster brought a few victims (definitely Idia and Ortho, but let's add Lilia, Jack and Rook), so Orpheus with Yuuki have to go and save them.

Meeting their good grandpa version who still uses the butterfly miraculous is just so WIERD for og Yuuki and Orpheus.

Of course, they save reverse Orpheus, which is nice, since the og counterpart is the one who bails him out. And they have a nice heart to heart. It follows with getting introduced to Idia and Ortho, who also help out with bailing out.

The reunion in between reverse Orpheus and reverse mari and Adrien is very sweet, a very big Family hug. Reverse Adrien definitely cried the most. :v

#twisted wonderland #asks :3 #The Double miraculous isekai

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mariacallous · 4 months

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Pilger’s politics can fairly be described as anti-American, in that he reflexively saw the United States as a malevolent actor in any conceivable situation. That idée fixe in turn drove him to the conviction that any regime opposed by the US was automatically innocent or even benign. Interviewed on the state-propaganda outlet Russia Today in 2018, he declared the Putin regime’s attempted murder of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury a ‘carefully constructed drama in which the media plays a role’. He said in December 2021, as if Ukrainians lacked any capacity to speak and act for themselves and were merely puppets of Washington: ‘It was the US that overthrew the elected govt in Ukraine in 2014 allowing Nato to march right up to Russia’s western border.’

The apotheosis of this approach was an article in 2016 in which Pilger claimed: ‘The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague has quietly cleared the late Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, of war crimes committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the massacre at Srebrenica.’

There was, I need hardly say, no truth whatever in this preposterous fabrication. With all too familiar legerdemain and gullibility, Pilger had alighted on an article on the Russia Today website and, without stating this was his source, plagiarised it. In my view this episode marks, in its combination of idleness and indecency, the nadir of Pilger’s career, and it was a very low and shady point indeed.

This is not the place to set out the chronology of the Bosnian war but what the mainstream media (including The Guardian, through the exemplary reporting of Ed Vulliamy and Maggie O’Kane) said about it at the time was simply the truth. The war was not a cover for American power: it was a campaign of genocidal aggression conducted by Bosnian Serb forces covertly orchestrated from Belgrade, and in which Nato intervened against their positions far too late. It was also, as I have described here, a terrible augury of the barbarous assault that another European autocrat, Vladimir Putin, would direct against Ukraine 30 years afterwards.

What, then, of the earlier body of Pilger’s work, before his alleged journalistic and ethical deterioration? In the nature of things, it was not always wrong, but it was always reductive. His condemnation of Australian recognition of Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor, in print and in his 1994 film Death of a Nation, was entirely correct. But to be right on a discrete issue was never enough for him. He would have to construct some overarching explanation (or, less politely, a conspiracy theory) in which to embed it. He hence charged that Australia was administering a ‘hidden empire’ that ‘stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific’. You’d be hard put to find any such coherence in Australian foreign policy, which has often been made on the hoof and at the mercy of events.

When East Timor eventually achieved its independence, it did so to the fury of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. It was, in their eyes, an affront, for East Timor (whose population is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic) was properly a ‘part of the Islamic world’ and belonged to Indonesia. This complaint was explicitly cited by bin Laden in justifying al-Qaeda’s bombing of the Indonesian tourist resort of Bali in October 2002, which killed 202 people including 88 Australians.

Pilger was usually quick to blame western foreign policy for provoking terrorism – he referred to the 7/7 attacks in London in 2005 as ‘Blair’s bombs’ – yet here was a case where western nations incurred the wrath of al-Qaeda for unequivocally (if belatedly) doing the right thing. The geopolitical situation was more complex than he had supposed, and than you would imagine from reading his output. He dealt with the disjunction of theory and fact in time-honoured fashion, by never mentioning it.

John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster

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The night passed by without so much as a peep from Yulia. She'll never know if everyone had simply assumed she was in a bad mood and didn't want to be bothered, or if she was tired from the days work and had decided to have an early night. Whatever they had thought mattered little, as the truth would be revealed in the morning.

The day started like any other on the mountain outpost. Those who were tasked with keeping watch of things overnight were just retiring to their beds and the majority of the forces there were just getting up. Within a few minutes everyone would be at their usual stations and it'd be another day like any other. No strange occurrences whatsoever...

That's how it'd usually go anyway. Today the crew at Apex Tentacle Outpost woke up to an alert from Yulia herself that there was a change of plans. Those responsible for preparing food for the outpost were to report to the kitchens ASAP whilst everyone else was left with nothing. No special duties or even their regular ones.

About an hour later Yulia's intentions were made clear.

In front of the main housing area for all of the soldiers a number of tables had been set up, all of them lined with the finest cuisine the Octarian military has to offer... which isn't anything too special, but for a soldier that's been deployed for so long? It's like staring at heaven.

About a minute after everyone started rushing over to investigate, the order was officially given out. "Have fun." was all Yulia broadcast to an entire base of Octarians. And no one had the power or authority to challenge her, not that it's likely there are many who would even want to in the first place.

What had initially started as just an excuse for everyone to share some good food and laughs with each other soon turned into a base-wide party. The only thing that was missing was music, something that would unfortunately not find its way to the party on account of the base needing to remain hidden.

Music aside, things were going off better than Yulia could have hoped for. Before long several games had broken out, such as pin the tentacle on the octotrooper, charger chicken (a game in which two combatants ride Squee-Gs towards each other at high speeds while using their chargers as lances) and even a group that had made a very crude pinata setup using a rope tied around a big rock and a thick metal rod.

...The last one of those ended up intriguing Yulia the most and she joined in, giving the rock a few good whacks and leaving it dangling with the rope. But ultimately neither the rock nor the rod had given way...

That is until Yulia passed the rod to another elite that had traveled with her, one that had a similar build to her albeit a little less muscular. She gave the rock a few quick pokes and let herself get a good feel for the weight of the metal bar in her hands. After a few seconds of silence? Hesitation? It didn't matter what it was as this lady gave the rod the swing of a lifetime. The sound of metal colliding with stone rang out across the camp, it was loud, booming even. It commanded some degree of respect from the entire party.

The metal rod had clearly met its match as it stayed in its post-swing position, dented and bent across one side of the rock. Everyone looked on at this sad conclusion to the battle until...

A tiny cracking sound. Inaudible to everyone but the people closest to the show. The rock gave way, splitting in half down its centre and falling to the ground, now free from its ropey prison.

The partygoers roared and cheered at the spectacle and a number of people (Yulia included) rushed in to surround the woman that had performed such an amazing feat. It was more lively and chaotic than any sporting event could ever hope to be. And despite the fact that nothing could hope to top the wonders everyone had just witnessed, the festivities continued well into the night.

#octoling #octarian #splatoon #splatoon oc

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skullhazard · 8 months

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Don't mind me, just getting mildly annoyed at this small part in the Pathologic tvtropes page for its blatant inaccuracies (despite the fact that this literally doesn't matter).

Almost everything here checks out save for two things. First, the "dandy" bit. Daniil is not referred to as "dandy (adjective)" but as a dandy, as in a bon vivant, a fop, etc. This is more of a commentary on his being a snooty outsider from the Capital. It's weird that they misrepresented this specific word (which is in the text, just not in the context they're suggesting here), but when talking about Yulia they bring up her explicit use of "terribly" when she's describing the degree to which she likes Eva (which also is in the text). You'd think if they got one right, they'd get the other right too, but since they didn't, this "dandy" point just feels like throwing stuff to see if it sticks.

Second, the part where it says Daniil "doesn't seem to be very interested in women." This is demonstrably false, particularly in the Haruspex route, where he calls Eva "my Eva." Additionally, there are dialogue options as Daniil where you can basically flirt with Maria and Lara, and while those are just options (and they don't particularly go anywhere because, y'know, the game isn't really that kind of game nor is it interested in those kinds of side stories) they do at least represent things that Daniil would reasonably think to say, meaning they are as canonical to his character as the other options. This is to say nothing of Aspity's taunting of Daniil's lack of "female attention" on his route, which does provoke a reaction out of him.

Look I'll level with you here; Pathologic is neither a game nor a story that relies on strict sexualities of virtually its entire cast. They can all be gay; they can all be straight; the story isn't affected one way or the other (this is not to discount readings of the text which do rely on explicit sexualities of the characters; said sexualities are simply malleable in a wider context and can be focused for analysis at reader discretion). I'm not mad that this some of this information is a little bit shaky at best and inaccurate at worst; I just think it's funny how they're ignoring the Real Actual reason Daniil & Artemy are listed here:

They're two playable men characters in a video game who interact with each other, and whose relationship changes over the course of the game, which you get to experience from three different perspectives. Of course a bunch of people are going to make them kiss; people have made fictional men kiss with far less material.

#skull hazard says #at least the yulia paragraph gives us some concrete points y'know?#also look at the wording in both paragraphs: one starts with a supposition which is then supported with a direct fact #the other starts with “fans have also theorized” and then references evidence found in “dialogue” and “letters” but doesn't give quotes

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