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  • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    SUPERB, NOR SHALL I

    Top shelf indeed, I guess Sienglinde is like Gertrude if she weren’t Garbage von Lichtenberg madeline-smug So she’s pathetic in a sympathetic way which makes it nail-biting and thrilling to watch them both be furious about eachothers’ pasts until they kiss. Tbh by this point I wasn’t expecting anybody over 40 to get paired off so uncritical support, I am overjoyed ✨

    I don’t hold it against Ulyana no, I did for a split second wonder if something beautiful had happened and Elena was the lovechild of Marina and Leda, that might have been kinda funny actually. It’s a very slight mark against the “normalisation” argument for Karuniya I think, because certainly a society where trans people are completely normalised would have eradicated cisnormative language? But Ulyana is probably (maybe) (presumably?) (can we please have a 30+ hot trans lady somewhere on this boat, Ya Allah PLEASE) just a cis nerd and it’s a great little moment for everyone’s favourite covert intelligence cat izutsumi-idea and her dorky captain.

    Yes yes! To me Abritrator I seemed really sus when she showed up in the hangar and started being filthy, but I suppose it is simply a cultural difference between psionic fishy lesbians and monotone robot lesbians bridget-smug I am glad we can more or less trust her, the folkloric aspect of the Omerseers’ plot shenanigans is a superb new flavour for the series, and also tells us that in this setting everyone, even the eldritch sea creatures, has been gay for at least a millenium niko-wonderous

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      love to hear it

      yeah exactly! exactly! khadija is great, love that she’s getting her enemies to lovers story in her middle age. she deserves it. and sieglinde deserves a chance to try and redeem herself, and also get her OWN enemies to lovers story! love these middle aged women getting a chance to shine!

      hadn’t elena already been born when marina first met leda? but what a beautiful thing to imagine, why not have hope? also in general idk what the correct way to refer to a trans woman as ‘the one whose sperm led to the child’ is, though obviously father is cisnormative and not correct. and ulyana and aaliyah are great, 100%

      she can be gay and way too forward, as a treat. i do love all the omenseer lore, extremely fun

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        I have 0 social energy like 90 percent of the time but my stamina for discussing Unjust Depths is endless basically

        She is and yeah same, again the intergenerational vibes come through strong and wonderful. I desire to see her hang out with the young’uns due to this, every time she says about “the new generation of warriors meant to take her place” and shit. We love to see it!!!

        Yes I think she had but counterpoint: I forgor :) the idea that Konstantin was fuming and buttmad because he got cucked by a transbian covert agent is so fucking rad, y’know? Would also explain why Erich seems to disdain Elana, uh okay new headcanon! niko-happy I’m not sure either, I was kinda hoping Unjust Depths would tell me :)

        Omenseers deserve little treats!!! I like how there is one aphotic sea horror per plot-relevant ship currently, this is going really well & the Brigand’s crew just expanded in very fascinating ways.

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          hell yeah me too

          yeah! i wanna see more scenes like the one where she mentored shalikova! lots of potential, she’s not in my top 5 characters but is one i always love to see more of

          hmmm yeah. i agree, it’s much more fun to imagine this and marina just not believing it to be true. and yeah idk. if the union hasn’t figured it out i really have no idea what one might blurt out when theorizing there

          yeah it’s fun! the brigand keeps taking on new passengers it didn’t really mean to, but it’s great to see. i hope they end up needing to somehow build more rooms to house all the people they pick up

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            Love to see it!!

            I think broadly as well, I just wanna see more inter-crew interaction on the Brigand, such a fascinating collection of gays to chat!!! Aw don’t make me choose a top 5 characters though, I will not choose a favourite child cri

            Yep you cannot remove my headcanon, Marina is just a chad and can’t handle it madeline-smug beloved. There has to be an answer to this but Idk either yaw.

            SHIP MAINTENANCE AND EXPANSION, BRIGAND GETS A NEW DECK soviet-huff The blueprint originally had a third floor, so it’s actually plausible that they could add a Dedicated Gay Housing level.

            • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netM
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              you do indeed love to see it

              absolutely! wanna see more interpersonal interactions forever, but it’s probably for the best the plot keeps moving. i wasn’t gonna, but since you brought it up who are your top 5? don’t need to be in order

              misread as Dedicated Guy Housing and was like “well i would describe some of these characters as funny little guys (maryam mostly, but i could be convinced of arabella) but i don’t think any of them are guys”

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                Yeah but my slices of life :c Ffffffff uhhhh… Sonya, Norn, Murati, Ulyana, Zachikova, if pressed at gunpoint. I’m fond of Marina, Aaliyah and Khajida as honourable mentions as well. It’s honestly easier to carve out characters I dislike though, that list is two, maybe three long tops.

                Funny Little Guys like how newfound oceangoing wildlife is Funny Little Guys :) lol

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                  imagining a world in which there was a bunch of really good fanfic of unjust depths so i could go there for all my slice of life needs and sighing wistfully. speaking of did u see all the art dropped in the discord today? some really good stuff in there and i think none of it is spoilery other than the one that is properly tagged. also my top 5 (not in order) are sonya, murati, ulyana, elena, and a character you haven’t met yet

                  yes absolutely. but also they’re just silly with it! no one else on the brigand is silly enough to be a funny little guy, you know? there are funny characters, but they aren’t funny little guys

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                    Trying to manifest that world by writing fanfic with filthy disgusting headcanon pairings because I said so. Some of the background characters that’re knocking about (VAAAAAAAAALYA) are ripe for this, there’ll always be a spot in my head that’s marked “Khajida is Valya’s dommy mommy and they’re a good little enby” because that just tickles me tbh. I could write for Unjust Depths’ setting (extremely broad and detailed, but with lots of wiggle room) a lot if I could surmount the mortal terror involved.

                    I did, and uncritical supoort that’s a neato Murati, but it is sort of weird (for me) to see Depths’ cast rendered in like 2010s Pixiv style, I guess. Depths only really wears its anime influences on its sleeve at certain fun key points, (screaming to nobody whilst driving ur diamond chainsword into an enemy mech) so it sorta fucks with my head, Idk. I dig this Khajida rendition however.

                    Idk I think Arbitrator might be a little silly herself =) but Maryam is the foremost funny lil guy tbh. Also I adore that there are STILL high-tier characters I have not met yet.