yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf

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tara "tara wrist" hillegeist. i dabble. (once, i moonlighted as a dragon golem vtuber for a time. one day i shall do so again.) if you're here you're here for 1 of 3 things: media criticism, dialectical materialism, or unhinged reposts of what i like.

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yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· 25d

incredible to think when taken in context of its first 5 or so main chapters but ARKNIGHTS really is one of the best written video games of all time full stop. nothing else out there is doing it even remotely on this level. ideologically gutsy as hell and full of hot violence and weird shit besides

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jul 3

and i'm in the fucking hospital! so how about that!

the full medal set for medjehtiqedti bound

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 26

reasonably certain there's more ominous looking buildings downtown but if someone's gonna think "looming megastructure" in my hometown of good old fucking reading, PA they're gonna think of the castle from hell up on the hill

RHS. it's a massive single-building school situated on a hill done up to look like a castle. for decades, every grade of high school was shoved into this building, all 9000 students of them.

the same building, seen from the bottom of the hill, from about a mile or a few of street away. it looms over the brownstones and cars along the sides of the road that goes directly uphill towards its massive bulk.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 26

two astronauts on the moon meme image, you know the one.
the first astronaut, staring at the earth: "wait, it's all influenced by twin peaks?"
second astronaut, gun pointed at the first one's head: "always has been"

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 25

oh i can actually post this now that i play on a phone for real. sick

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 25

name a film with a title that is a full sentence.

THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 21

well, as i'm always fond of pointing out-- you know what shinji higuchi was working on during NGE's production? what franchise revival near ate him, mentally, right around the time they would've been workshopping a certain set of episodes about getting eaten alive by your own adolescent imagination?

gamera being menaced by the UFO, from GAMERA VS VIRAS. the UFO is a sphere of disorienting rings of pure white and pure black.

evangelion unit 01 being menaced by the "shadow" of leliel, from NEON GENESIS EVANGELION episode 16, "the sickness unto death, and the splitting of the breast". the "shadow" is a sphere of disorienting rings of pure white and pure black.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 20

dorothy spinner summons the backrooms lifeform, DOOM PATROL issue 65, "sliding in the wreckage part 2: the book of ice" (pollack, case, medley, woch, vozzo, workman for dc vertigo comics, 1993).

dorothy spinner, a gorilla-faced girl, and a creature made of squiggles and hangers.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 20

today, in "i could have prioritized doing so many more things with my playtime besides this, but instead"

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 20

youtube comment by MsSteelphoenix.
"Graffiti quotes, top to bottom:
- A life mediated by images is experience unclaimed
- What is love?
- Capital is the only value we have yet to debase
- Revolution is the most creative act
- We are not creative: here we are condemned to make art
(there's also a 'yo mamma fat', but I don't think that counts 😂)"

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 19

i forgot to put my words together and then forgot about this post until today when a blog post crossed my gaze and reminded me of what i was gonna say about it by more or less summarizing the whole thought there for me in these two paragraphs, imo www.animefeminist.com/a-juneteenth...

It might be easy to dismiss slavery’s entanglement in the broader isekai genre as a quirk—that is, if you don’t understand that anti-black sentiments were a direct export to Japan under Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who introduced the cruel art of minstrelsy directly to Japan. That was in 1853, decades before Japan would utilize sexual slavery from Korea to East Timor to satisfy the carnal desires of Japanese soldiers. While Hitler took directly from chattel slavery and America’s thorough breaking of a singular racial group, the Japanese Empire mirrored much the same through its sexual domination and enslavement of Korean women—vessels to heap pain upon until their bodies, just like my ancestor’s own, were deemed perishable and shattered.

In modern day, Japan remains deeply entangled in what fans of the “land of the rising sun” (and I use that term specifically, as do they) often dismiss as engaging in Black culture purely out of curiosity. When comedian Hamada appeared in shoepolish black in 2018, two years into my life in Japan, there was little backlash. Even my coworkers said that he was doing a respectful send-off to Eddie Murphy’s role in Beverly Hills Cop. Yet when I was in Japan, I saw plenty of biracial Black-Japanese people around me and on TV. Why not impersonate Eddie Murphy with someone who’s skin tone isn’t “shoe polish”, a shade that simply doesn’t exist because Blackface puppeteers my skin, sliding inside blackness as a cultural concept only to kick Black bodies in the back of the knees for shock value.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 17

meanwhile, i--

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 15

i have to say this *is* the funniest possible result i could have gotten from answering truthfully according to my own self-assessments. i could also see what the questions were implying but i refused to let that change my answers in the slightest

NGE test results:
"You were tied between multiple people."
70% - Asuka, Misato
50% - Rei, Shinji, Kaworu
40% - Gendo
35% - Ritsuko

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 13

CRYING ACTUAL TEARS FROM LAUGHTER I AM GOING TO FUCKING PISS MYSELF HELP

a labor pilot yelling "I will absolutely NOT run away!" as the monitors in her cockpit flash a reflected green in her eyes

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 12

for example lol. this is what carousel posts look like, to me, quite literally

bluesky user, reposted to my tl, gushing "i realized with the new carousel feature i can do THIS. starting with the mighty nein because they're my favs" above a post bereft of any images whatsoever. the replies are all people gushing about how good they look, referencing the colors and composition. again: there's no images visible in the post.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 8

naturally i just glanced through JAILHOUSE 41 first but hahhhh yesssss here we go

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 2

making productive use of my spare time

a friendly rp scenario in which wis'adel makes talulah suffer during a game of "never have i ever" by starting with the statement "never have i ever killed anyone who didn't deserve it." i'm writing for talulah, who chugs her drink and flips a very smug wis'adel off afterwards

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 1

alt version

MOVING PICTURES, kathryn and stuart immonen

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (#160-291), ian flynn, tracy yardley, terry austin, and john workman

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Jun 1

THE ART OF CHARLIE CHAN HOCK CHYE, sonny liew

DC: THE NEW FRONTIER, darwyn cooke & dave stewart

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· May 23

writing a song about the future. / ARKNIGHTS, "unrealized realities" (lowlight + various for hypergryph, 2026).

Image of Nasti Lunorey, a Sarkaz woman, hooded, obscured by text. The text is her memories. Text reads:
"The wind blows on the leaves in the young Banshee's hand, and voices fall from the breeze.
Convallis Children's Voice: One more! Ome more story!
Væla's Voice: How about the tale of the wandering metal hero? He even graced our valley once. In fact, the mist that shrouds Mist Lake was actually blown from his pipe ...
Nasti: ......
Laqeramaline's Voice: Retract your feather horns like this, and you can shield your eyes.
Aefanyl's Voice: So we can use them as an eye shield to sleep during the day?
Laqeramaline's Voice: No, of course not. This is so you can easily weave your tears into elegies at funerals ...
Another recording ends, and the young Banshee keeps her leaves in a chest pocket ..."

Nasti Lunorey, older now, playing an unaccompanied elegy on a whistle made from a single leaf, cradled in memory and time.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· May 22

growing increasingly deranged by the second

youtube comment from HALCALI_official:
"HALCALI is Back (fire emoji)"

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· May 5

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· May 3

the diff btwn what the most produced ships in terms of material are when you just take what's uploaded in every language vs what that spread looks like when you limit it to just uploads in EN is so demonstrative tbh. almost like the fanlore writer saw the former and assumed EN was doing all that lol

Relationships:
Elysium/Thorns (Arknights) (906)
Chongyue/Wang (Arknights) (867)
Lappland/Texas (Arknights) (676)
Doctor/SilverAsh (Arknights) (646)
Executor/Flamebringer (Arknights) (597)
Bellone | Demetri/Vigil (Arknights) (390)
Toland Cash/Młynar Nearl (352)
Saria/Silence (Arknights) (284)
Gnosis/SilverAsh (Arknights) (282)
Doctor/Flamebringer (Arknights) (277)

Relationships:
Lappland/Texas (Arknights) (186)
Saria/Silence (Arknights) (133)
Doctor/Kal'tsit (Arknights) (130)
Executor/Flamebringer (Arknights) (109)
Exusiai/Texas (Arknights) (107)
Franka/Liskarm (Arknights) (93)
Gnosis/SilverAsh (Arknights) (93)
Skadi/Specter (Arknights) (77)
Doctor/SilverAsh (Arknights) (73)
Fiammetta/Mostima (Arknights) (73)

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 24

oh ok

evangelion/final fantasy xiv alliance raid collab: GHOSTS OF DESIRE

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 20

Without stating your age, post a movie that released when you turned 18

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 20

i think i'm very funny. and i'm right.

Reze, from CHAINSAWMAN, talking to Morgan, from OF THE DEVIL. Both are amnesiac, for context.

Reze: Ah, capitalism. The root of all man-made evil.

... what's "capitalism", again?

MORGAN: ... What, do I have to do everything around here? THere's Marx in the library.

REZE: Marks?

You mean, like, for where to go looking for the origins of capitalism or something?

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 19

playing an exorcist in a friend's short CAIN campaign and i am *truly* back on *several* layers of bullshit with this one

NAME: Bormotukha
AGENDA: Doomed
BLASPHEMY: Tongue

BLASPHEMY: Tongue
Your powers have no effect if you
can’t speak, or if sound is suppressed
somehow. Using the same power from this
blasphemy more than once before resting
has ramping effects, which are not
optional.
• Second time: +1 CAT (min. CAT 2),
take 1 irreducible stress.
• Third time: +2 CAT (min CAT 3,
max CAT 7), +1D, take 3 irreducible
stress. Anyone in short range from
you takes the defeaned affliction for
the rest of the hunt (hard on rolls that
require hearing).
• Fourth time: Power always
resolves at CAT 7 and do not roll
(automatic successes per die rolled).
Afterwards, suffer instant death as
your body is ripped apart by forces
beyond comprehension, which cannot
be ignored. Anyone in short range of
you is permanently deafened.
POWER: SILENCE
Effect: You say ‘silence’ and choose an area up to CAT size with its center at a point in range.
Everything in the area completely stops producing noise. Anything mundane that would make a loud noise as part of normal part of its operation completely stops functioning, such as vehicle engines, creaky door hinges, guns, explosives, fireworks, etc. Your powers from this blasphemy or any other blasphemy or psychic effect that would create a loud noise do not work inside this area.
• Gain or grant +1D when next acting on this power.
• This power can easily affect the parameters of rolls.
POWER: DIE
Effect: You say ‘die’ and instantly
kill all humans in an area up to
CAT, centered on you. This is not
optional, you don’t get to choose
who to kill or spare, and you don’t
require a roll to do so. If you used
this power at least once to kill one
person, at the end of a hunt,
permanently fill in a sin box. If you
used it at least once to kill more
than one person, permanently fill
in 1d3 sin boxes.

Transfem. Piebald; hair has a Mallen streak. Smoking habit. Corset piercing across her throat. Blocktype tattoo on the back of her left hand that reads "I AM THE RAT WHO REMEMBERS" in Russian.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 18

every new episode revisited brings new horrors and new delights. especially for me, a character actor sicko with a longstanding '80s thriller problem but who was maybe not very good at picking names out or recognizing faces when i watched this the first time. like. hey! it's jenette goldstein! yay!

it's jenette goldstein, from NEAR DARK, ALIENS, and T2: JUDGMENT DAY! she rules! she's playing a woman running a suicide hotline out of her townhouse. i'm sure she means well.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 18

slime princess! she's a pudding blob with wobbly tendril arms and a tiara.

yoko taro is just cis dude halimedemf@ae2501maeth· Apr 16