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HE IS JUST SO

SOFT

PERFECT

EVERYTHING

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I finish consuming a piece of media and immediately my brain is like what if we rewrote it to fix all the things we don't like

I cannot enjoy things normally as a writer

#this is about hazbin #just just #let me in the writers room #I promise I can fix the pacing issues and make the female characters have more depth #let me #just let me in #clawing at the walls of my enclosure

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listen, I've been around the tumblr block for a while, and I know basically nothing about hazbin outside of what I hear through the grapevine. however, that angel dust guy has got to be the transest man I've ever seen

#hazbin hotel

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Kavetham constellation brainrot

we, collectively, don't talk about Kaveh and Alhaitham's constellations enough.

Looking at Alhaitham's first, Vultur Volans was the roman term for the constellation Aquila (the eagle). But why are we referencing its symbolism as a vulture instead of an eagle? That feels deliberate even though everyone assumes Alhaitham's meant to be an eagle. I contend that it's meant to be three things, an eagle, a vulture, and a falcon (just like the interpretations of the real constellation.) The eagle is obviously the well-trodden path of the divine symbol of Zeus/Jupiter. But what we kind of ignore is that the eagle was said to hold onto Zeus's lightning bolts, y'know his method of smiting people. Vultures and falcons have similarly death-related divinity. In an ancient desert environment, vultures are very useful as scavengers for getting rid of bodies to prevent the spread of disease and the general unpleasantness of rotting flesh. Falcons are very clearly associated with Egyptian gods, but particularly Horus, who was famously born/created from the dismembered body parts of his father. Interesting.

Now let's look at Kaveh. Paradisaeidae refers to birds of paradise, which are a real kind of bird, but the name is based on a kind of bird from Persian myth called the Huma bird. These things are wild. They're supposedly always flying and never lands on the ground. Some myths depict them like phoenixes, burning up every few hundred years to be reborn from the ashes. It's supposed to bring good fortune to people it flies over or who touch it. In some traditions it cannot be caught alive and whoever kills it will die within 40 days. It overall symbolizes unreachable highness and divinity. Obviously, it's a fake bird, but it's theorized that it's based on bearded vultures (meaning if we interpret it as a real bird that's gained divine properties, it would've probably done so via literally starving itself out of an unwillingness to bring or benefit from harming another creature).

They're the same kind of bird, fundamentally, but associated with opposing kinds of divinity. One brings destruction and the other brings fortune. One is self-sustaining, comfortable as the right hand of the true divine, but it is outcast due to its nature to survive using tragedy that befalls other creatures. The other cannot ever come down to be a normal bird, it sacrifices itself on an altar of being able to continue to bring joy to people it will never be close to. Change, decay, and cold rationality vs burning compassion and altruism and perfection. The burning bird can never be a meal for the vulture, as its death means only ash, and it is thus the only kind of misfortune of another creature the vulture can truly understand and care about. The Huma can never understand why the eagle is content as a messenger for the gods, why the vulture feels no guilt for the death it scavenges, why the falcon is content with a normal life when it was born with the potential for unimaginable greatness. The eagle, vulture, and falcon cannot understand the Huma's lack of pride or its willingness to damage itself for the sake of humans who would catch and kill it in their ignorance.

Also relevant is the fact that Deshret is clearly meant to be an analog of Horus or Ra. Both are associated with falcons and the sun, and their eyes are both significant in mythology (Deshret is symbolized by an eye in a sun in the lore). Nabu Malikata also has a massive pattern of sacrifice and she famously made a daughter-bird that was destined to die in the cataclysm.

There's a lot to unpack here but by god someone's gotta do it. The reincarnation, entangled souls, two sides of a coin vibes are SO STRONG with them. They're soulmates and the constellations only reinforce this when you pull back the hood on them. AAAAAA

#genshin #genshin impact #kaveh #alhaitham #kavetham #haikaveh #king deshret #goddess of flowers #nabu malikata #personally my favorite alhaitham bird interpretation is the vulture #there's something so poetic about it #the vulture really captures his cynicism and relationship with wider society #and it contrasts with the whole phoenix thing kaveh's got going on #love my birdies fr

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I'm crafting something truly evil, diabolically beautiful, and I'm sorry

as much as I want them to be happy, something about Kaveh and Alhaitham is just so... suited to tragedy. like they give me the same feelings that probably led to someone coming up with Orpheus and Eurydice

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as much as I want them to be happy, something about Kaveh and Alhaitham is just so... suited to tragedy. like they give me the same feelings that probably led to someone coming up with Orpheus and Eurydice

#genshin #genshin impact #kaveh #alhaitham #kavetham #haikaveh #for every happy ending they get I must do something utterly heartbreaking and devastating #oh the og little mermaid ending would be great #i'll write that down for later #they are built to suffer what can I say

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every so often i have to regress to my middle school interests. for my mental health and the safety of the world

#opens a03 #searches danganronpa #i refuse to be judged for this

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i'm gonna be honest if arlecchino dies before i get to see her be gay with columbina i'm suing hyv for emotional damages

#genshin #genshin impact #arlecchino #columbina #its not a want its a need #unhinged lesbians are essential to my well being

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childe getting accused of the serial disappearances, which started over twenty years ago, like

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the master plan 👌

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lyney is t4t (twin for twin)

#genshin #genshin impact #lyney #genshin lyney #also trans though #the blatant flirting with the traveler is honestly hilarious #bro took one look at them and was down catastrophic #the true peak of this joke is if lynette also got with the abyss twin #and none of them are cis #and poor freminet is fifth wheeling #two sets of twins where one is transmasc and the other is fem nonbinary walk into a courtroom

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childe being back in the archon quests is really the invigoration I need to get through this semester. HES BACK BABY RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

#genshin #genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #i fucking love my stupid ginger man #youre telling me archon quest with childe and an autism coded dragon #only the best kind of archon quest #im so fucking hype #childe in main story is gonna get me through law school applications

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so do y'all think it rains when neuvillette cries in ANY situation ...like regardless of the context and the kind of tears they are? like during... activities ...asking for a friend

#assuming hes the hydro dragon obviously #but like we all agree he is #genshin #genshin impact #neuvillette #fontaine #implied nsfw

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you ever look back on something you wrote and do a double take?

“there is no procedure to finality other than its ubiquity” DAMN BITCH WE WERE GOING THROUGH IT HUH

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so I just watched the moriarty the patriot anime. how is the manga gayer than what I just witnessed? how is that possible? like that was incredibly homoerotic what more can you possibly add without actually having them make out

#the answer is animating i finally caught you #why the fuck didnt they animate it #FUCK man #anyway im off to read fanfic goodbye

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tumblr putting klance on my dash in 2023 is a hate crime

#yeah i liked the post anyway #what about it

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