reblogging shit that inspires joy

I used to play Warframe. And that spawned one of my famous 1-person injokes: Barbara.

When they added the ability to feed the flesh-room with your formerly human puppets, they also let you name your flesh-room. On that day, all I could think of was that one Markiplier animation. The one with the axe, and Barbara. Naturally, I called my flesh-room Barbara.

I played for a couple of months after that, and every time I had to walk in on Barbara, I mused on this idea.

It barely took a week until I started joking that the eldritch atmosphere and weird mechanics about Barbara are normal... she's Barbara, after all.

Two years later, I tried Genshin to catch up on this "gambling to own girls" thing it popularized. And guess what, Genshin has a Barbara. Not only does it have a Barbara, it's Barbara is an idealized depiction of nurses. Suspiciously idealized. There was only one conclusion: She was the same Barbara.

From that day onwards any Barbara could have been the same Barbara that I left behind when I quit Warframe. Barbara is an odd, eldritch thing after all.