#Dark Moments of the Soul

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

I’ve only been in total darkness once. I was deep in a cave. Friends and I agreed that we would stand alone, not touching, and turn off all the flashlights. The count began. One, two, three! Dark, total darkness...

#Thoughts About God #devotional #Mike Woodard #Dark Moments of the Soul #Psalm 27:13-14 #thoughts-about-god.com

[desertomb]

Anor Londo's last remaining deity 🌙

#dark souls #gwyndolin #fan art #my art #//I was going for a post ds1 pre ds3 moment

[chibigaia-art]

piece I made for the class art show we had in June, theme was medieval times so I uuuhhhh. ykno. \[T]/

#dark souls #chosen undead #solaire of astora #cgart #i wasnt the only one that made souls fanart but everyone picked different characters or moments #iirc i was the only one that made a ds1 piece

[tonyfinale]

love love love those vague and romantic ass ds2 flavor texts

#'WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO BELIEVE?' :) #replaying ds1 and damn are the item descriptions pretty plain in comparison #they still say meaningful things when they want yeah but not as hard as 2 did methinks #neat thing to appreciate them iterating on #:) #dark souls #dark souls 2 #ds2 #them doing that dying history theme of the game thru these things *chef kiss noise* yeah we like that #nofuckinshit 1 trumps it in most ways as a put together videogame but we all have our moments

[tigercomplexes]

when the soul is dark. or whatever

[ID: A drawing of Solaire from Dark Souls. He is a knight wearing chainmail, a greathelm, and a tunic decorated with a sun. He is casting a lightning spear, and preparing to throw it like a javelin. /End ID.]

#dark souls #dark souls i #dark souls 1 #ds1 #solaire #solaire of astora #so i can do image ID with multiple pics but not one. competent web design moment #actually it's not even ID it's just a caption? so i have to write it in the description anyways?? #flat sketch

[mintbees]

so my mom really loves elden ring and for christmas i thought it would be a cute gift idea to draw her a print so i went up to her and asked her what thing from elden ring shed like me to draw expecting her to say something like "oh the pretty view of the swamp area" but instead she interrupted me and went "you know those big ladies with the sawblades on the vulcano? Those. I want those."

I think it'll look really cute in her sewing atelier

#elden ring #cannot emphasize enough how she did not pause for a moment. she thinks these things rule. (shes correct) #might livestream the process of working on it cuz im already halfway done with the lineart #the bee speaks #my parents both being gamers makes stuff like this so easy my dad gave her dark souls 3 for her birthday

[hyakunana]

It has been two years since they’re dating Beyond Light

#destiny #destiny the game #destiny 2 #bungie #destiny art #beyond light #hunter guardian #exo stranger #elsie bray #elisabeth bray #fanart #comic #context: there is a text passage in born from darkness quest that while in english says 'the exo stranger holds out a hand' #in portuguese it literally says 'the exo stranger holds your hand' i am not joking #and just these days i found a photo I took from this very moment bc IF THAT AINT THE EXACT SECOND I LOST MY SOUL TO THEM AS A SHIP #scheduling this to post on saturday 26th aka the day elsie held alfa's hand #meanwhile zeta the ghost still doesnt know wtf is fish the pouka #and now i shall return to work on 014 week and dark future chap 2 #im expecting to post next chapter on the weekend before next season i just gotta render them #november was full of work to do so yea im trying not to get burned here xzkcbbo #if i wasn't so full of work this month i would also add the glassway opening dialogue #'we aren't strangers; you can call me elsie; or elisabeth--' //alfa the hunter crashes her sparrow in vex contructions #never checked how that line goes in english im gonna do now before i sleep - but in portuguese is juST THE CUTEST TONE IN HER VOICE EVER #comes back here to say ok in english she sounds sO TIRED LIKE UGH WHATEVER LETS CLEAN THIS S(*& CLOVIS DID

[hesperidia]

if there's endless timelines in the bsd universe then there's one where Atsushi refused to leave Akutagawa's corpse alone in that ship and perished with him after rampaging on Fukuchi

#if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks then i'll follow you into the dark... #its funny bc. one way to interpret sskk is that its one sided (aku's feelings not requited) #but what if it wasn't. what if they both had soul crushing affection for each other #what if the grief and the anger of the moment was bigger than the need to save the rest of the world #who knows maybe atsushi could've come past his fear for and teared fukuchi to a million pieces #bsd #sskk #okay i'm going back to study now #lazutxt

[her-penetrating-soul]

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🤍 ‿⚘Clashing into the depth of my oceanic soul. Whirling seas roaring from the depth of my undying love for you. Cloudy skies, a tiny bliss of light shining through the darkness. In solitude, I find a comfort I never knew I could feel. I'm a child of the light. Yet light can't exist without the breathless beauty of darkness. She is soothing to my eyes. She is breathtaking, and she comforts me. Gazing out into the distance of what I once was for you. A "Fool in love with you," yet I wasn't the one who took this precious soul for granted. You did. Yet you did me a favor. For I have gained resilience once again. I will flourish within my wings of love, fluttering endlessly. I will cherish all you gave me. You gave me teachings, lessons & a lifetime of change. I'm enjoying myself in the darkness of my bewildered oceanic soul. A delicate balance between light, her radiance. Draped into her wonders, a profound silence that she gives me. I never knew that into the moonlight skies with the twinkling stars, I could fall in love with life once more. Gazing into the constellations, my love tale will be echoed a lifetime. I shall be written into the skies delights. A painted love, a love tale that engraved into my crevices. Into my silky velvety skin. Into the chambers of my heart. There is where I'll remember you. There is where I shall keep you. Closing this chapter pages written. Swaying to the melodies of my inner bliss. I was the light you craved. You yearned for. You needed. My illumination will prevail, for you were unworthy of it. A distant memory is what you are. I'm glimmering now because I knew from the start you were never mine. A borrowed soul. I have seen beauty in light & darkness two worlds subdued into my being. Alas, I am whole now. A distant memory is all you are. In the distance, I see myself flourishing once more like a flower, discovering life once more. A child rediscovering her joys once more. Unafraid of what life brings. I'm a diamond amongst stones. It's one of a kind. One in a million. I am in love with my essence of everlasting beauty and love.⚘⁀🤍

Written: March 24th. 2024

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#her penetrating soul #dark beauty #brunette #photography #darkness #light #lovers #my writing #my emotions #spilled ink #poet #soulful #soulful beauty #soulful love #soulful expressions #soulful sentiments #soulful moments

[zu-is-here]

I don’t know why but I have an image of cross and baby aim playing in the ocean?

#zu art #comic #ask #post dark cream #cross!sans #dream!sans #aim!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #at first I wanted to remake a meme with two types of fathers but then this idea amused me xp #thank you for waiting!! <3 #''He had a thousand excuses. I had one goal.'' (c) Cross (rest his soul) #perhaps this joke cost him a new world record for holding breath underwater xd #Aim wanted to be thrown in the water too then >:D #key moments of the past? <3 #thank you guys a million for 9800+!! (*ﾟ∀ﾟ*)♡ #it's so hot in the city now ;;; too lazy to clean the line xp

[downfalldestiny]

Describe 🌊☁️ !.

#Soul #Thought #Waves #Dark #Weather #Rain #Rainy #magical world #magic moments #magic destinations #Away #Breathe #September sea #Clouds

[ok-honestly]

“Yeah, I'm the girl you've been waiting for

I'll have you down on your knees

I'll have you begging for more”

#in this moment #whor3 #goth girl #let’s be friends #girls with piercings #spooky #tattoos #goth asthetic #dark souls #medusa #dead inside #im cute #send asks #follow me

[magistralucis]

Miniature Painting Retrospective (2023)

2023 has been a hell of a year, but it had one upside to it, namely that this was the year I got into miniature painting. The downsides are money spent on plastics and paints and my ever-increasing piles of shame, but what mini lover doesn't deal with that 🤣

I'm a relatively new painter. I began painting in the second quarter of this year, and I haven't exactly done it every day or even every week, though I think I've improved greatly nonetheless. This is a retrospective post with some examples I've painted this year, what I learned, what I'd do better, and goals for the future.

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April 2023

Despite the many pages of ramblings on my blog, I did not actually get into miniatures because of Warhammer 40K, it was Dark Souls that got me to pull the trigger 😂 I love, love, love Dark Souls, when I realized there was a boardgame and people painted the plastic figures that came with them I had to get me some of that. I've actually posted these before on my DS sideblog, so if you've seen them around somewhere else 'twas I who was responsible, but these are the very first minis I've ever painted.

Siegward of Catarina was painted almost entirely with contrasts and metallics. I wanted to give him the really rusted look like Catarina Armour has in DS3. Solaire was painted similarly, except I didn't really get how to 'paint white' or 'paint yellow' or to use ink to fill in the sunface, so his chest is woefully incomplete. I thought of stripping him to start over, but have since decided against it; what I'll likely do is to get another Solaire and do the better job with that one. It's good to see where you began. Gives perspective.

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May 2023

I began properly looking up painting tutorials around this time. Coincidentally, this was the first time I began to really feel like I knew what I was doing 🤣

Eygon of Carim was painted almost entirely with drybrushing, save for the brown cloth, which was my first attempt at wet blending + adding wear and tear and scratches to simulate realism. He was drybrushed with a gunmetal grey then tinted with Black Templar for the majority of his dark armour, then drybrushed with silver to highlight the edges. His shield and mace followed the same procedure, except they were sponged with bronze later.

All of the models so far remain unbased to this day... I am not very good at remembering to base my models

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June 2023

Got into 6mm historicals (Anglo-Saxon/Vikings) during this period, which I don't have a picture of as those are currently in a storage box we stashed away for the Christmas holidays (guests staying over 😖).

Had another go at painting an Onion Knight, however, this time of Catarina Armour than Siegward specifically. Siegward has a longer Zweihander and a more detailed look. I wanted to give this version a clean look, and he was painted in a much more traditional style, following the base + shading + highlights + edge highlights method. No contrasts nor drybrushing, though the shield was mildly sponged with black. I'm proud of this one.

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July 2023

Got into Warhammer during this period. Had a break from painting as I tried to read and digest WH40K necron lores/novels, then became attracted to some of the full-size models, as well as building an army for Epic Armageddon. Shown above are some 6mm necron warriors, Immortals, Flayed Ones, and pariahs I painted as an example at this time. They are very, very small and very delicate and I love them your honour

I'm especially happy with the Flayed Ones. I'm actually using those to make a small Twice-Dead King diorama atm, I'll get some more made for the actual army. The pariah models have that warscythe design with a hole (?) in the middle but I... don't??? like the hole??? so I just filled them in with milliput and painted them up similarly to glaives instead

I also obtained a larger Dancer of the Boreal Valley model. She is in the pile of shame. I am afraid to begin painting her now that I've been staring at her for so long 😖😖😖

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August - September 2023

I............. ghghgghgghggg

The pile grows. At least I gave Orikan his green marble interior design???

Started doing 28mm historicals in early Sep. When it comes to the actual gaming aspect of this hobby, I have played way more historicals than I've ever played Warhammer or the Dark Souls Boardgame; I play SAGA with my sig. other, and he got me into Chain of Command, though I'm playing solely with the models he painted for that one (since he has been in this hobby for many, many more years than I). Here's a berserkr I painted and based up. NMM chainmail and glazed fur detail, the rock/ground based with cork.

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September 2023

Still doing historicals. My Viking warlord, rock based with foam, need to add some grass on there or something. Otherwise very very happy with how he turned out. I keep going back and forth between giving him a shield, since I love painting shields, but I also don't want to obscure the main details of his body. All metallic details are NMM.

Note the scabbard and the glint of his sword. I'm not super good at NMM yet, but I can do tiny glints and details like these.

An example of general warriors, huscarls, etc. I have about 50 men in varying states of completion. These are all Victrix models. Every one of those shields are freehanded. They make for very good practice because they're a nice, well-defined flat surface. I'm really proud of those.

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October - November 2023

My beloved Tea Space Marine brothers 😂☕ I've posted about those before (x, x, x) - the Arizona Tea dude is not yet done because I actually need to give him a banner and paint up his base, and during December I was too occupied with other creative activities to work on him. They are the first Space Marines I've ever painted and tbh I don't find them the easiest to paint (???) but they're some of the best fun I've had so far!

I want to make a whole series of those, not just of Space Marines or even the Imperium. I might do more porcelain, they're really fun to pose next to tea-things. The teacup Marine was painted a gloss white (after being primed not-white 😨) then freehanded with royal blue, with Retributor Armour being the gold. The Arizona Tea Marine was painted emerald with pink edges, tinted in places with Magos Purple, then freehanded with various shades of plum blossom-esque colours. Still wondering what design his banner ought to be.

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That's it for 2023. Next year I want to do the following things.

Finish up the Epic Armageddon necron army, complete with vehicles (300-400 points).

Finish the Dancer of the Boreal Valley statuette (because that's what she is at that scale, she's the biggest model I have, it's part of why I got intimidated lmao).

Get better at NMM.

Apply aforementioned NMM techniques to necrons on the pile of shame that are not painted.

Learn how to airbrush.

Obtain at least 6 points' worth of guys for a SAGA Viking army, then paint them up and base them properly.

Base my minis properly, full stop 🥴

Looking forward to some fun painting sessions next year!!! 💖

#warhammer 40k #dark souls #miniature painting #miniature #mini painting #freehand #epic armageddon #not included in this retrospective is the fact i'm building a plane with sig. other at the moment #1:72 scale nimrod. it's quite a lot for people who've never built a plane before but we're managing 😂 #no pictures of that because we haven't put on wings yet

[bumblingbabooshka]

 🗣🚨 YAOI ALERT 🚨🗣 [TEXT: Neelix took a seat next to Tuvok. He hoped the Vulcan would make some comment about his story, but a long silence ensued. Neelix found himself feeling unaccountably nervous, reading into Tuvok's silence a general disapproval - and yet, what could he expect? From the moment they first met, Tuvok had been aloof and judgmental. Nonetheless, his opinion mattered to Neelix, and so, inwardly chastising himself for doing so, he turned to the somber man. "So, Mr. Vulcan...what did you think of my story?" Another silence. Neelix felt himself begin to perspire. Why wasn't Tuvok answering him? Had he embarrassed himself that fully? He felt his heart beating in his chest. "I know I've done some awful things in my life," he stammered, "but I've tried to make up for them. I hope you won't hold what I've told you against me..." He trailed off lamely, his words sounding hollow. Tuvok turned slowly to look at him, his dark visage glistening in the heat of the setting sun. His eyes seemed to pierce Neelix's brain. He stared like that for a full moment before he spoke. "I found it an exceptional story. You have complexities, and courage, I would never have imagined." Neelix couldn't believe what he was hearing - Tuvok was actually complimenting him! He felt a little shiver of pleasure, but he couldn't for the life of him think of anything to say in return...] Source: Pathfinders by Jeri Taylor

#Tuvok/Neelix #WHAT WAS THE MOMENT FULL OF. HUH? #NEELIX'S CRUSH ON TUVOK IS SO REAL #Tuvok: Ugh Neelix. #Neelix: -tells a story about how he used to be a criminal and has had a lot of angst and heartbreak in his life- #Tuvok: Wo w......-twirling hair- I didn't know you like...had complexity. You're like such a tortured soul ..... #Neelix: ('I didn't imagine you had complexities or courage' flying over his head) O mmmghmygod #I know Tuvok is just saying 'I didn't imagine you would have had a past like that given how cheerful you are now' #like those 'we all have the homies whose jovial nature can't quite hide their aura of sadness' posts #But I think his phrasing is funny - especially bc the author is using commas to mimic how he pauses in his speech #Also him just straight up not responding to Neelix is funny. DUDE. C'MOOOON. <3 #CAN WE TALK ABOUT NEELIX'S HARDCORE CRUSH ON TUVOK??? THAT DESCRIPTION??? #I'm so sorry there is NO straight and friendly explanation for 'his dark visage glistening...his eyes seemed to pierce [my] mind...' #SHIVERING IN PLEASURE???? NEELIX. #Novel Experiences #Neelix is so hopelessly in love with Tuvok he is sustaining himself on CRUMBS #If Tuvok gave Neelix a pencil Neelix would treasure it forever - HELP HIM. #they are so highschool despite being in their (nebulous middle age?) and (hundreds) #Tuvix #Tuvok #Neelix #I love how there's not really even a straight excuse reason for why Neelix likes Tuvok IN PARTICULAR so much #Almost as if- #voy

[heraldofcrow]

When I retire, all I wanna do is plant a garden hedged with sunflowers with Solaire and listen to birds chirping in the sunlight ;-;

#for a moment my goth melancholy has left me and i’m daydreaming about sunny spring days *gasp* #i’m just so tired and this sounds nice #maybe i need a vacation xD #solaire of astora #dark souls #CrowNotes

[en-chi-la-da]

Tbh I think the whole class should get to smooch hajime. It’s what he deserves

im imagining hajime sitting in a kissing booth looking like lucy from peanuts in her psychiatrist booth. kisses are 5 cents. the hajime is IN.

#hajime deserves the love <3 #LMAO im trying to imagine the line up>> #teruteru BOLTS for the front but quickly gets crowd surfed to the back of the line. chiaki is in line too but she's getting distracted #by her game and isn't moving forward so whoever's behind her just cuts. kazuichi is like 3rd in line bc logically speaking #if he's FIRST in line he'll look THIRSTY for his BRO and that would be CRAZY! BUT!!! no way he's gonna be LAST that's his SOUL BRO ok #if anybody deserves haji bro kisses around here it's HIM!!! 😤 #nekomaru finds it to be a great team building exercise!! remember to kiss with your CHEST!!! 💪🏼 akane thinks it's a competition of sorts #OOPS so she tries to give hajime the Strongest Kiss Ever. does not go well but her enthusiasm is appreciated 👍🏼 #ibuki will get a kiss and then run BACK in line to see if she can sneak another one :3c #gundham kisses hajime WITH TONGUE!!!!! lmao jk gundham would definitely be like 'nobody touch me >://(' but eventually.... #he sends his sneakiest Dark Deva to run up to hajime and steal a kiss when nobody is looking... >://)c kheheheh!! #nagito is content with remaining last in line bc he's just happy to see his classmates having their little hopeful moment :) without him :) #(he does eventually get his kiss tho dw) #and uhh if you give mahiru like a dollar she'll take a pic of the kiss LMAO #ALRIGHR ALRIGHT I GOTTA STOP this is too long. god. appreciate this fucking post anon 🙏🏼 #sdr2 #danganronpa