There’s a decent chance at this point that more people know of Halimede the twitter chaser account than have even played Heaven Will Be Mine, the game the character is from. But it’s okay, we can fix that. Speaking of which, did you know a certain visual novel about lesbians in giant robots in space is sadly no longer on sale on steam?
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BACK FROM THE DEAD FOR MORE HEAVENWILLBEMINEPOSTING
I had a short animation assignment for a class, so I animated part of the first Luna-Terra/Saturn fight! It's a little rough around the edges because I only had so much time but I'm happy with how it came out. I mean they let me draw gaywomen for class, of course I'm happy
in light of all of the unhinged gay mecha queer posting, I'm thinking about Luna-Terra again
the thing I find so compelling about LT is that she's the only one out of the three main girls to have had an intimate experience with real actual "I have to kill or die" type violence. all of the other pilots have, essentially, just been play fighting out in space. it's not *not* dangerous but theyre fighting concepts, abstractions - there's not really a huge risk of bloodshed, just change. LT, on the other hand, has come away with real wounds and carries that damage inside her, forever. it's why she's okay with such a downer ending, if it means everyone comes home alive. she's cynical, a coward even, but it comes from a real place of genuine love for her enemies - because they're all closer to being her comrades than her handlers ever were.
"What, why don’t I go home too? And leave all those idiots to just fucking die on a rock? Who do you think we’re doing this for?"
One of my perennial probably-never-gonna-happen projects is doing a deep dive into the parallels between how Disco Elysium blurs the line between political theory and physics and the way We Know the Devil and Heaven Will Be Mine do the same. Like, they're by no means compatible systems of metaphysics, and given both the timing of their authorship and the circumstances of their publication I strongly doubt that either one influenced the other, but there are some very conspicuous points of intersection.
(Incidentally, if the way that Disco Elysium literalises the dialectical weight of history in its setting's laws of physics is living rent-free in your brain, you'd probably get a real kick out of We Know the Devil and Heaven Will Be Mine, assuming that frank discussions of religious trauma and transphobic violence aren't deal-breakers for you.)