nbc hannibal au where everything is the same except hannibal has a tumblr blog called i-cook-and-eat-rude-people and nobody questions or reports it because they think its just another gimmick blog

my hungry ass could not work at the timber mill

While I'm posting about my pathologic transcription, I'll make shorter posts about my takeaways. About the literal health of the environment around town, we get a couple people on day one to give context. The most obvious is Aspity, but to get an idea as to why things are as she says, you have to talk to a drunkard, called a Carouser, and a Tot.

The Tot mentions a "Rotten Field," and when asked what that is, he says:

"It’s where they bury the bulls’ bones. The place is covered with fur instead of grass, and it’s all bones bones bones underground. Bones and horns. Yeah."

Why are so many bones and horns and hides being thrown into a field instead of being used in some way? Either for jewelry, clothes, or for tradesmen's tools, these things have a variety of uses.

The Carouser, when asked about the Abattoir, says:

"Hundreds of bulls are being slaughtered there- what else is there to know? It is our humble town that provides the whole Northeastern region with beef! Or even the whole country mayhap."

It's because of the massive scale of the Bull Project that so much excess material is being produced and then thrown into the fields and rivers as waste products. Nothing is in higher demand than meat, nothing is needed as regularly, and perhaps the people in the Capital and in other towns are less interested in buying blood or bone. It's not profitable, the Olgimskys don't view it as anything but by products of more lucrative things.

Aspity says:

"All that water comes from the Steppe and it isn’t exactly clean. Yesterday I inspected all the springs in the area; there seems to be no more clean water around. That salty taste is everywhere, it’s reddish in colour, and there are disgusting clots in it."

And when Bachelor asks for more information, she says:

"The towsnfolk store water in home-made reservoirs. This modest supply should be enough to help us last a little while, but afterwards we’ll have to drink that bloody mixture."

Bachelor reacts to this with disgust, and can even insist she is lying, perhaps because he had been benefitting from this disgusting reality in his life in the Capital.

Aspity's whole point in starting this conversation is to make blatantly clear some of the side effects of the Steppe's occupation, which is that the waste material of the Abattoir is dumped into the river and land. This problem would be lessened in severity if the community was manufacturing meat not for the sake of providing for the entire country, but just for the local population and what's necessary to export in exchange for other essential imports. Obviously, this would be less lucrative for the Olgimskys (who don't care as long as they don't suffer any loss) but it would mean that the people who live here would better be able to care for themselves and the land with no need to think of supporting an entire country off the backs of one small community. The occupation of the Steppe, the running of the Bull Project, will not only destroy the Kin and lower classes, but will also eventually kill the town, the higher classes and even the Olgimskys as well. When the water runs out, it will run out for the lower classes first, but it will eventually run out for everyone.

More on Fat Vlad trying to talk about this all as if it were an inescapable, natural reality (and the Bachelor's fighting against this notion) later. Sort of how some people think that the way the world works, capitalism and such, are natural laws instead of constructed ideas (horrible fallacy).

Found a screenshot on my phone from who knows how long ago, and my tin can of a brain immediately thought to put Him in it

Screenshot I was talking about below

and this is why you talk to every npc, because that's where the best dialogue is

Father - Daughter Talk

(he is usually an asshole but will make an exception for his daughter- he would realistically be ooc in this as he'd probably make something up instead of actually being honest with her but let me dream)

for the ask game, ca you do the first question for kina?

Not many people talk about her so I don't really have a idea beyond just her sprite

(for this ask game)

Yes, we can! This leans on personal HCs a bit, so we will note - we are not 100% canon compliant. More specifically, we add claws back onto mantids and we tend to have bug size differences be slightly more pronounced rather than having everyone be People Sized. We'll run through.. notable features?

1. Describe your OC physically- what do they look like? What notable features do they have, or what’s your favorite part of their design?

Large mantis. Very large mantis, in fact. The pink tends to take second fiddle to size, since being a member just about the biggest species of mantis in the Ant Kingdom (Tenodera sinensis, or the Chinese Mantis), Kina's big enough for it to be notable, even if stunting from lack of food means she's a good bit smaller than an average mantis of her species, but the second thing a bug would notice would probably be the pink.

And she is pink. A salmon-y pink, but still... pink, which is a color that's not out of the range of what people expect, what with orchid mantises being a thing, but it's still notable simply because of the mantis it's attached to.

She's tall by bug standards and pretty damn well-built, she's got runner's muscle from spending her time darting across half the kingdom, but genetics mean that she tends towards more bulky muscle more than she does the sort of sleek "runner's physique" people usually associate with that. Translated to human looks, she'd have a mild version of the sort of "movie star six-pack" that gets seen as a Beauty Ideal, as her baseline is "underfed and mildly to moderately dehydrated while doing very physical work".

She's got fairly well-cared-for claws, along with a set of purple daggers she generally has sheathed on the insides of her raptorial claws in such a way that she can "flick" them out to be combar-ready at a moment's notice. Her bandanna is a gift from Maki back when they were just starting out as explorers, but the knife setup came later. Her primary eyes are purple, but she uses her simple eyes more most of the time. Squints enough that you can't really see the color most of the time. She's got a wide, wide assortment of scars and scratches on her shell, mostly from Explorer's Association jobs, but the specifics of those vary from fic to fic - our current most consistent one would be a series of grooves cut into the inner sides of her claws from when she was still getting the hang of flicking her daggers out of their sheathes.

In less words: Large, scarred, buff pink chinese mantis with daggers strapped to the insides of her claws and a bandanna tied around her neck, generally in some state of agitation or another.

What is the wildest piece of trivia from the game you know?

Coming from a wiki editor, I'm a behind the scenes historian. Some few examples include:

The fact the key promotional artist was semi-viral in the Spanish JoJo community.

The fact Jacksepticeye played a prior project from Genow (Robin is the game in question).

The fact Maki was the first character created in general.

The cut cutscenes between Vanessa & Hoaxe.

Being indirectly responsible for leaking new info about the game because I copied & pasted something from the discord server.

And the funniest one.

Genow accidentally liking a NSFW artist's SFW Kabbu fanart and being unaware on the content that person draws.

bold of you to assume i know any cool trivia that i didn't learn from the wiki lmao. EVERYTHING you just said is new information to me

like, some background lore i know is the "you shouldnt be able to use the compass in the beehive" argument, leif used to a lady named cerise, some of the characters came from an earlier version where the game was about sea creatures instead of bugs.

but yeah most of the trivia i know is throw away lines from having team snakemouth chit chat/talk to npcs that mean absolutely nothing to the overall game but mean everything to me <3

“so i was thinking that the point is that the love wasn’t powerful enough to change anything. in the case of the scarlet letter, it’s this puritanical society. in samson and delilah, it’s the fact that their people are at war. and it doesn’t matter if people think they’re together because of the sex or if they really love each other. it isn’t about this schism between lust and romance. it’s inconsequential. even if they did love each other, it wouldn’t matter. it’s not a force strong enough to surmount those other pressures. which makes it more realistic than any other bullshit narrative about love.”

my mom: you should get a little dog.

totally normal things to say to your sibling

"Yeah no, if you hated ants but loved termites, I'd have to disown you as a sister."

-me to kait, discussing ants, like you do.

there's probably a poem in the fact that my dad got rid of the windowseat in the back room to make space for a massive flat screen.

feel so awkward on like any site other than tumblr. like i make one mistake on discord or youtube and i immediately start spiralling. but if i make a mistake on tumblr and i start correcting myself my moots just go ":3 ok" and move on. i have no idea where i was going with this but yeah. tumblr good, moots good, internet makes me happy

im a little termite actively feeding on your floorboards

DAMN is that why my feet keep breaking through the floor??? shit 😔

will you take it a little easier on my floorboards if I feed you peanut butter three times a day? blinkety blink

Martyn also got married to and then subsequently divorced from a termite in rats! I think it was watermunch?

He also flirted with origins sneeg.

a. a TERMITE??? what is wrong with this man hello.

Aromance giving me a weird objective view of romantic relationships and while I feel like I'm pointing out something obvious I KNOW I will be disagreed with

-takes deep breath- AAAAAAAAAAAAAA