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Jiang Cheng with Zidian worm on a string, 2019

The myth of Sergey Ushanka isn't true at all. There was no tragic computer scientist with a degenerative brain disease who tried to upload his consciousness to a hard-drive. The Sergey Ushanka video is really just Colin Becher getting so fed up with FR3-d1 that he fucking ate his computer.

What I love in the French version of Our Dreams at Dusk (Eclat(s) d’âme in French) is that the characters also call the host « personne » which either means a person/somebody (you could argue that somebody would more correctly translate to « quelqu’un », but the meaning is similar) or nobody. And each time I’m reading the manga, I’m never really sure if the meaning was intended as « this a person, they exist but they are as furtive as a stray cat. You might perceive or even touch them but they will stay a mystery » or « this is nobody, we’re not sure if they really exist and they don’t care about existing to hard either. They are like a ghost wandering eerily at the edge of you vision and when you think you may be finally looking at them, you really are looking through them ».

Though it kinda is the thing about the host, being somebody and nobody at the same time. And I love how the ambiguity of the word « personne » sustains this idea and this mystery. Est-ce une personne ou n’est-ce personne ? :)

I’m wondering if the double meaning is also present in a lot of other languages.

I might be wrong about the host though, it’s been a while since I read the manga so my memories are a bit fuzzy haha.

A bunch of my Magnus Archives art

Drawn with pastel, mechanical pencil, and ink.

Will post more in future

Shit shit shit I've (finally) been getting into tma over the past couple days and I was already headcanoning Jon as ace but ITS FUCKIN CANON???????

My ace-dar is so fucking good lmfao

This is the best news I've received this pride month, tma is all my favourite things, asexual people, horror, need I mention ASEXUAL PEOPLE AND HORROR