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AHKO OFFICIALLY ANIMATED

firstly it's the 'beak' shape. this kind of face is not exclusive to Adis - Dactolyst and even Hunhow have a cat-like 'muzzle', but in terms of details like slits on the sides Brysko looks much more similar to Adis than to any other Sentient. Also, what is exclusive to Adis is his 'eyebrows', which Brysko also has. There's also some kind of 'halo' at the back of his head. The Hunra, while lacking any face resemblance, clearly has Adis eyes though.

The middle part of the body of Adis has a diamond shape and shapes his light into an elongated star. The Hunra, while obviously having deformed body of original Adis inside his big shell, lacks the light - it was given to the Operator, or taken by them if the case is Wally not only messing with people's brains, but actively embodying alternative possibilities like they did in JSC. But the star motif is present in Brysko's design, the glowing part in the middle of his chest is also shaped like elongated star.

If this resemblance is intentional and Brysko's face features are indeed supposed to be parts of Adis that Hunra lacks, I wonder if Adis was somehow taken apart O_o

Anyway, a Crooner is a type of singer who performs with a smooth, intimate style that originated in the 1920s. Said style was made possible thanks to improved microphones, which picked up quieter sounds and a larger array of frequencies than before, which allowed the singer to access a greater dynamic range, and allowed singers to exploit the proximity effect.

Either way, i would still see nothing wrong with depicting her as a sex worker, and calling her a hooker is distateful, and i think the person who called her such should be ashamed.

And yes. I am vauge posting, no i will not give out names.

DE has said that the Perita Rebellion was modeled after World War I in some ways. with that in mind, borrowing aesthetics and tropes from a genre characterized by post-war Americana doesn't come out of nowhere, even if film noir is about the period after WW2 rather than WW1

more importantly, it serves to clarify what kind of story is being told about the Sentients. it is not a story about colonialism. the Sentients are not an allegory for native peoples. they aren't native to Tau, and their existence as a creation of the Orokin Empire does not compare to indigenous histories in any way. the closest thing we have in real history to a people being created from nothing by another people... is the act of colonizing, not the experience of being colonized

if anything, the Sentients are an allegory for the United States. even that is far from a perfect allegory, of course. I don't think they're meant to be an allegory of anything. not all sci-fi is allegory, though a lot of it is. sometimes sci-fi functions as a thought-provoker by creating an unlikely combination of aesthetics.

anyway, the Sentients colonized Tau, then they rebelled against the empire that sent them there, then they made their own mess. sound familiar?

as a caveat to "they made their own mess," it's also worth pointing out that the aftermath of war tends to involve material conditions that push people to desperation, like destroyed infrastructure, depleted or inaccessible resources, and widespread trauma. in the Sentients' case, the naturally-occurring flower that gave them individuality was wiped out. clearly Bloom was a hasty solution to that problem that stuck; it's right there in the name

who invented Bloom? how was it distributed then, and how is it distributed now? what resources are required to concoct it, and are those resources scarce or abundant? how difficult is it to produce in large quantities? what are the side effects? it will be interesting to learn the answers to these questions. it might explain a lot about Fornax

also worth noting that Fornax isn't the whole of Sentient society in Tau. DE said there are going to be multiple different locations of that size, and if I remember correctly, they said not all of Tau is like Fornax. presumably there's a percentage of Sentients who live in a hive mind, and I don't doubt that hive mind looks down on the individuated Sentients and their problems while having its own obvious, inherent problem. there will also probably be groups of individuals who organize themselves very differently from Fornax. whatever you hoped Sentient society would look like, it may actually exist somewhere!

and that's nothing if not realistic. individuals never universally agree on what society should be, and even when some who have high ideals manage to come together in a stable community, they never completely succeed in meeting those ideals

a visitor on the biodome!!

Mercury and Mio, in orbital ballet

my very loose take on sulemio week day 3: music/astronaut (for the love of god pls view on desktop or rotate your phone oTL )

yapping + closeups below!

A: Chill, y'all. They're not going to leave the Operator in the dust. Who tf do you think is gonna pilot the Vessel when the time comes? It has to be the young traumatised atrophied child, or the Evangelion reference DE have been building to for more than a decade won't land!

B: The Operator is literally an atrophied, void-riddled, traumatised child. They have not, as far as we can see/tell, ever physically recovered from their extensive time in the Lua pod. Remember, we can never be 100% sure they are ever physically present when they use Transference, given what happens when they get shot up/'die'. As far as we know, they've possibly never physically left the pod, so are we really expecting them to go pick up the Lotus? They can barely pick themselves up - I don't think they have the leverage to make Wally second-guess itself like the Drifter does, either.

The Drifter was, both diagetically and non-diagetically, the way that DE chose to 'age up' the Operator without removing the Operator from the game, and (both literally and metaphorically) 'handing off' the adult work from the Operator to the Drifter - from the literal child to the adult, so DE don't have to constantly wonder if it's alright to be portraying a child doing all of this buck-wild stuff (like physical romance, I remind you) and maintain their ESRB M rating.

It was necessary, and I think it was necessary in the story as well; the Operator isn't ever going to drastically change or grow (to, say, the extent of the difference between the Operator and the Drifter), partly for actual narrative reasons (yet another Evangelion reference - stuck as children forever), and also specifically because of ludonarrative issues - it's a game that has to have so many things remain applicable and valid across the life of the game - old content, cosmetics, player entitlement, etc.

Whether you chose the Drifter or not, that part of the story is canon across all Tenno, and one of many surprisingly hard-locked points of the otherwise supposedly all-possibilities-filled 'Eternalism'.

There's also something to be said for leaving childhood behind, no matter how traumatising it was. You can bring it with you, but you'll never be, or stay, the same.

Your torch was passed on from your own Operator to you, the Drifter you are now, probably before you were ready to truly stand on your own two legs in this world.

But our Warframe Operator and Drifter have something that we didn't; The team at DE. And if it's one thing I've learned about DE after more than a decade, it's that I do trust them to make it worth while.

Have faith, Tenno. They are both You, and You Did Not Leave Yourself Behind. Trust Yourself.

But do it quickly, because

TAU IS IN SIGHT

Grumpy detective with a smoking problem and a fatalistic but unflappable inner monologue (voiced by frequently typecasted gunslinger Matt Mercer)

Constant black rain that just makes everything Worse

Drugs and violence devastating the homeless underclass

Helpful urchins surviving as best they can in the lowest streets

Doing dirty favors for shady dock managers to advance a hidden grey agenda involving getting into a mob boss's inner circle to collect information and evidence

Bare-knuckle brawling, obscenely large revolvers, people being thrown out of plate-glass windows

Driving through busy city intersections loaded with glowing enticements to smooth over the suffering

Stratified decadent high society flush with gambling, dancing, and singing

The city's most popular singer/dancer knows the detective on sight, implying either an at-arms-length relationship or frequent patronization, a symbol of beauty for whom the doom timer is no doubt ticking

Atmosphere of lies and betrayal tragically far past the point of ever being healed in one lifetime

Tense negotiations over a card game with a dangerous mover and shaker

It was just a usual Thursday in Hollvania when the Operator sent her a message about Hunhows' demise and sacrifice. Artemis made her way back to the Origin system to see what has become of the once great, once terrible.

In Brazil, there is an entire ethnic category specifically for mixed-race people, such as Eira. Pardo. Pardo is the term used for people who are of mixed race, belonging to two or more ethnic groups.

But also remember, the way your ethnicity is perceived is different in Brazil than in the US or other less racially mixed countries. Here, your appearance will count much more than ancestry when it comes to your ethnicity. If you are mixed-race (white and black) but have a white-passing appearance, then you are white, regardless of whether you are mixed-race. So, simply being mixed-race doesn't make you "pardo". The term "pardo" in Brazil is more commonly used to refer to mixed-race people who are "between" two races (usually white and black, but in this case, it would be between Asian and black since her father is black and her mother is Asian), people with "café au lait skin" that is too dark to be perceived as light-skinned but too light to be perceived as dark-skinned.

Approximately 45% of the Brazilian parda, which is almost half the population and the largest ethnic group in Brazil (approximately 43% is white and approximately 10% is black). Furthermore, pardo people are part of "Brazilian blackness," since in Brazil the term "negro" (which here is not a racist term, please understand this cultural difference) encompasses both black and pardo people. Pardo people are part of Brazilian black culture, pardo people are part of the Brazilian black struggle and fights, pardo people are part of the Brazilian black community.

Don't call Eira black if you don't want to. Call her parda, brown skinned, Latina, mixed-race, blasian, call her whatever you want, but don't deny the fact that she is a person of color, don't you dare reduce her to just "tanned." Yes, it's kind of annoying that out of so many girlfriends she's the only girl with dark skin so far. It would be nice to have a black girl with really dark skin, or (Gods knows how much I would love) an Indian girl, for example, but denying the fact that Eira is indeed a person of color is wrong and even a bit racist and colorist.