#info-dump

r/AITA

u/CeoOfCassieONosCasinoOfWoe

Am I (lostcountM) the ahhhole for just permanently bounding my newest only employee (18MFlux+Xenos) to his job with contract-bound magic & even after telling him card could be in all the games @ once, they get upset at me bc they MAY feel torturous? But. HE SIGNED the job contract so idk whats the issue *shrug*

Excerpts of a lecture by Inquisitor-Professor Ziel Malthus of the Ordo Hereticus:

"Anyone who has been in a relationship or studied them from afar know that codependency is not a great basis for a relationship. Unfortunately, this toxic dynamic has been writ large across the Imperium with the Ecclesiarchy and Sisters of Battle. Without a constant external threat, both organizations become prone to mundane and extraordinary forms of corruption."

"Mundane activities provide the mental frame work that the weak willed use in dealing with the extraordinary. This is how diplomatic Xenos and Daemons are able to gain influence over our species. By presenting themselves as just another trade partner who will abide by local customs, they mute their victims sense of righteous disgust. Accepting a bribe from a recidivist is merely the first step on a path leading to making a pact with unholy warp-horrors. This tragedy is constantly occurring and being averted thanks to those who abide by the Pax Imperialis"

"As you already know, the Adeptus Sororitas can be divided into the orders militant, hospitallers, famulous, and dialogus. The first protects the God-Emperor's houses of worship. The second provides healthcare to the faithful populace. The third guides the nobility towards righteousness. And the fourth accumulates, disperses, and censors knowledge. Due to their culture of militancy and austerity, when the Sisters receive excess funding they tend towards over-preparedness rather than conventional decadence. That is no sin in this accursed universe and if more people lived like they did, we wouldn't have so many problems. But large caches of weapons, supplies, and useful information are difficult to maintain and secure. Inevitably something gets loose and causes havoc."

"The modern Adeptus Ministorum was founded at the same time as the Sororitas in the wake of the Vandire Heresy. The ministorum is meant to give the people a sense of purpose in exchange for their wealth and lives. Every cult of the emperor is unique but they must all pay their tithes to the Sisters. If they don't, they will be declared heretical and purged by the Sisters and any other imperial forces. This ensures that well organized and generous sects survive longer than fraudulent faiths. The flipside of this is that one cannot extract wealth from a cult if one does not know it exists. And so those hidden spiritual leaders who are best at keeping secrets also tend to tend to have more resources than those priests that are honest. As members of the Ordo Hereticus, unraveling these impious conspiracies will make up the bulk of your work."

"Without an external threat, the churches and sisters are like... It's like a pair of ourosbouros, the mythical xenos that feeds on itself for eternity... But mated together, if that makes any sense."

"The sisters will over extract from the churches in preparation for an invasion that never comes. That creates resentment in the starving masses and greedy nobles. They unite together to overthrow the faithful. They will fail and the Sisters will double down on tithes to prepare for another revolt, and in doing so, plant the seeds for another. This cycle is self-destructive, yet it does have some redeeming value in that it produces veterans with some combat experience."

"Apostate ministers will lie to the sisters, claiming diminishing returns from their coffers, while financing their own private institutions. Underfunded and austerity minded, a poorly led group of sororitas will make do with what they have rather than interrogate the matter. When crisis comes, the sisters efforts will be inadequate which plays into the apostate narrative. The sisters are portrayed as being useless and unworthy of the faithfuls support. And so the church leaders become ever more powerful while the Sisters are relegated to irrelevance. This can lead to the same societal power dynamics that allowed Goge Vandire to nearly ruin the Imperium."

Particularly me taking the time out of my day to put the effort in and build a castle on a multiplayer server.

I spent most of the school lockdown in Queensland building it. So I had a lot of time. But I never actually finished it, which is a shame.

But nonetheless I hyperfocused quite a bit, between gathering the materials, watching the tutorial and actually building it. It took up at least 100 hours of my time.

Before that my Hyperfixation was playing Stellaris. I Hyperfocused into playing 1000 hours of it over a significant amount of time.

The only thing that ever stopped me was school, but even then I was thinking about it.

My most recent Hyperfixation is... well I don’t particularly have one right now. The most recent one was actually building a giant wheat field in minecraft. I think the next one might be a medieval village.

What is Kawaakari vibes in your tag?

Thank you!

Hello! Thank you for asking, because this gives me a perfect excuse to go on a special interest info-dump. :) Though, I will balance that with not turning this answer into something that's the length of a novel.

Ahem, anyway. One of the things I really enjoy doing is watching chorus battles. I won't really go into what those are here-otherwise, this really will become novel-length. But the point is, I've been watching as an invisible/silent spectator for years, but I'm a bit more involved now. Sometimes, I even write fanfictions for entries that I have particularly enjoyed or been intrigued by, or whatever.

Anyway, one such chorus battle (or CB for short) is called Kawaakari Academy Chorus Battle (KACB or KACB2 for short). It's actually had/having two iterations. One is ongoing now (it's in its registration period, where groups sign up to take part) and the other one started late 2020 and finished in the summer last year. I'll refer to that as "last year's Kawaakari" for the rest of this answer. One of the interesting things about KACB/KACB2 is that it is very, very story-rich. So it particularly captured my imagination and interest above and beyond the general interest I have in watching CBs.

So, with last year's Kawaakari, I found myself thinking about what the world in which Kawaakari Academy existed was like, and writing a number of fanfics as a result of this. KACB essentially became my special interest within a special interest. As a result, I would sometimes find that I'd come across posts here that reminded me of certain aspects of Kawaakari Academy, which is what made me like them. Sometimes, I'd even look out for posts that had a 'Kawaakari' kind of feel to me, just to reblog them. Hence me using the tag '#Kawaakari vibes', because that's what the tag communicates: that there is something about the post that reminds me of Kawaakari. Whether that was something in the canon (so to speak) or just something that fit with my own headcanons and imaginings of what the Kawaakari world was like, to me those things had those vibes.

HOWEVER, though I have been doing that for a while, initially I started using a different tag. That tag was #Luciform vibes, named for one of the fanfictions I wrote for last year's Kawaakari. That was a multi-chapter affair, incorporating entries from multiple participating groups across all three rounds. It is one of the fanfics I am most proud of from a writing perspective, though I am slowly making minor revisions to some chapters. But I digress. Some of the things I re-blogged and tagged with the "#Luciform vibes" tag were all things that could fit a more general "#Kawaakari vibes" feel, however some things reminded/remind me specifically of certain plot aspects of Luciform. So while last year's Kawaakari was ongoing, and while I was still writing Luciform, I mostly used "#Luciform vibes" but after both were finished I gradually switched over to "#Kawaakari vibes".

I have a feeling I will be using the tag a lot more now that this year's Kawaakari is under way. I am participating in a group this year, as their storywriter (which is quite a privilege, as usually teams don't go for seperate story-writing members, the main categories of team members are vocals, mix, art and animation). But even if I wasn't I would be ready to immerse myself into whatever new lore is given this year. I would possibly even consider writing more fanfic, though since I'm a participant for now I wouldn't commit to a huge thing like last year's Luciform. Even with that though, as I said, Kawaakari Academy has become a special interest within a special interest, so I would still end up coming across things that remind me of it.