This Is What I Mean When I Say "sniles So Sneetly" Btw

holy shit, there are only three people left at the OIAR!!!!

Diversity Win! The OIAR's women's quota just went up to 100%

Idk if this is making me feel better or just giving me emotional whiplash

There is a popular headcanon that Aurora stops talking to the crew and largely goes dormant after the events of Out. And while that's all well and good, it is a headcanon I know I enjoy and it's good that everyone is having fun with it, but it is far more likely that Aurora didn't begin talking to the crew until after the events of Out.

My evidence is the fact the crew (excluding Ivy) didn't know that Aurora and Nastya were lovers until the events of the Breakup story- which can be dated in the timeline by the fact Scuzz is present in it. Admittedly they did know Nastya had a sexual relationship with Aurora, but their knowledge of her sentience is debatable. Furthermore, in A Bedtime Story, Nastya is messing with Aurora speech/story parameters, and all the crew is acknowledged to be aboard (Scuzz is not a part of the list, but Tim, Raphaella, and Marius are, which date it pretty far ahead).

Or if you don't want to go with evidence from the writings, there is the very basic fact Nastya has to translate Aurora's desires to the crew in ouatis.

Nastya fulfilled all of Aurora's social requirements while she was aboard, but she also possibly created those requirements through her endless refinement of Aurora. Just like Aurora was likely Nastya's main connection to someone, too. When she goes Out, there is no one left for Aurora. She's trapped with too large of feelings now and nowhere to voice it.

Really, it's no wonder when she speaks to the crew for the first time, through the speakers she once transmitted Nastya though or through screens aboard. It's an acute horror for the crew to learn her only after she leaves. To learn Aurora as her engineer once did. To truly feel every bullet hole they put in her, every time they wrecked her, once her personhood is forced upon them.

They understand now, but that doesn't make anything any better. They understand, but Nastya is still gone and never coming back.

Happy spöök

… i have nothing to add to this …

Djooklyn

Psycean task: when someone has something you need and they make it really difficult to get, all the while being unnecessarily bitchy about everything.

Antigonian task: when someone does something fundamental bad (and a bit stupid) and you take it upon yourself to do something about it, regardless of the consequences, you will have to face.

Medean task: (1)when you do everything, sacrifice everything for someone and they thank you by stabbing you in the back. (2)when someone betrays you and cut them down to size.

Medusean task: when you’re trying so hard to be left alone and people just don’t seem to get the message.

Ismenean task: when you do too little to late and desperately try to salvage the situation (and failing miserably)

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

ghost choir 👻 🎵

i'm so sick of poems about graves and paris and bones and orpheus and gods and rebirth and "girlhood" and orange peels and holiness and pomegranates and motherly pain and rot and cannibalism and teeth and how grief is really love. the horse is so incredibly dead. isn't there something else for you to say. don't you want to tell a new story

Jonny: yeah the Toy Soldier is doing fine

TS: *sings the most horrifying beautiful, tear filled song about the dehumanization of constant violence and war, and the never ending cycle that is pointless conflict.*

Jonny: yeah anyway Bertie fucking died lmao what a loser

Found this on Pinterest, but count this screenshot as a reblog