#Swords of Sorrow

[femmefataleart]

Swords of Sorrow by Nei Ruffino

#swords of sorrow #pantha #jungle girl #vampirella #red sonja #dejah thoris #lady zorro #nei ruffino

[viaov]

Tula Lotay, Vampirella, Dejah Thoris, Red Sonja

#tula lotay #vampirella #dejah thoris #deja thoris #red sonja #swords of sorrow #vengeance of vampirella #vampirella and red sonja #vampirella and red sonja meet betty and veronica #vampiverse #princess of mars #john carter #conan #robert e howard #dynamite #dynamite comics #dynamite entertainment #warren #warren comics #warren magazines #harris #harris comics #marvel #marvel comics #viaov

[alaryheart]

Some older doodles of Gideon n Harroww from when I first read GN

(Gideon is saying “Long Sword, my sweet, I’m sorry” btw)

#fanart #gideon the 9th #gideon the ninth #locked tomb #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #I would draw them diff now but I still thot it was fun #gid is forever filled with sorrow to not be using her long sword

[themthistles]

#beyond evil #does it ever drive you crazy how these scenes are mirrors narratively #juwon's desperate if i can't do this you can release the recording vs jaeyi's assured there's no going back i already sent another message #how they get caught in their own traps #how jaeyi says i'm not worried you'll be by my side #and after getting the message she runs but calls dongsik but juwon goes alone #and jaeyi is shaken but juwon's almost broken by it #how jaeyi wants to be dongsik's partner and friend but juwon wants to be his sword and shield #how jaeyi's sacrifice is angry and comes from desire for hopeful future and juwon's is sorrowful and is an atonement for the past #how jaeyi doesn't ask just states her intentions and juwon gets on his knees and pleads but both won't let dongsik stop them anyway #etc etc #does it ever drive you crazy

[meikameleon]

I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King.

When I listened to this song the first time it really hit me like a bullet train. Somehow you'll always find some people who have a very precise idea of who you should be and how you should act, and it is difficult to follow your heart and stay true to yourself.

So here's an autoportrait with a golden crown of sorrows and a bloody sword to swing. A Few months ago I've decided that I wouldn't let anyone stand between me and myself, and if you feel like these words echo something in you, well here's your sign to spread your wings and do the same.

#meikameleon #florence welch #florence and the machine #king #song #inspiration #digitalpainting #digitalart #illustration #painting #red #crown #sorrows #sword #fire

[engagemythrusters]

Ms Florence Andthemachine is right—I do need a bloody sword to swing

#don’t need a golden crown of sorrow tho #just the sword #f+tm #florence + the machine

[transformiing]

Optimus is noble. Optimus is kind.

Optimus is not safe.

He is Commander in Chief of the Autobots, he is an enormous Prime, and he is a killing machine with thousands—millions—of notches on his belt. His weapon of choice is a cannon the size of a school bus. He has lost life and limb and come out on top in spite of it all.

Bear that in mind at all times.

#dossier (headcanons) #i need my golden crown of sorrow and my bloody sword to swing (optimus prime)

[beevean]

Soma Cruz: finds Excalibur in Dracula's castle

Soma Cruz: Drags Excalibur, stone and all, because eff 'not being the chosen one' it's a good bludgeon and he's gonna use it

I don't know why, but the way Soma has Excalibur amuses me.

what's with soma and having some of the most hilarious moves/weapons

(also damn he stronk for being a normal 18 yo)

#castlevania #aria of sorrow #soma cruz #even better this is a reward for the boss rush #the castle says 'yooo you're fast! here have a sword in a rock' #and soma is like 'how can i even use this you troll??? oh wait maybe i have an idea'

[thatwasntlikeridingabikeuasshole]

AHEM! STARLESS SEA FANS!

I HAVE AN INVITATION FOR YOU!!!!! please keep reading, god, if you love the starless sea enough that you're even seeing this we want YOU!!!! are you a long time starless sea fan who has never found anyone else who wants to talk about this book as much as you do? have you always wanted to write/see starless sea fanfic or fanart but didnt think there was a fandom? or have you just finished the starless sea like twenty minutes ago and have been scouring tumblr for anything you can find? WELL I'VE GOT THE PLACE FOR YOU!

WE HAVE A STARLESS SEA DISCORD SERVER!

LINK

reasons why you should join and why this server is the best:

we are all literally just obsessed with the starless sea

and the characters

we draw fanart and write fanfic and even have events with prompts to inspire you to do the same

we have a super cool minecraft server with the inn at the edge of the world and a cherry blossom forest around it with honey and candles and shit

we do storytime where we read to each other in vc from tss, fanfic, or other books and it happens all the time and its really lovely and soothing and fun

we have movie nights and movie afternoons and random impromptu movies but theres a movie every weekend

we have endless headcanons

and a whole channel dedicated to dorian hurt/comfort

i co-run it with @boogleboot who is just the coolest and if you havent met her youre missing out

and theres a bunch of other cool people there too who i love so much

we have a limericks only chat (for which i blame mod boogle its so fun you have to talk only in limericks there)

YOU LIKE THE STARLESS SEA. WE LIKE THE STARLESS SEA. COME JOIN

go click that link girl (gendy neuch). we're so excited to have you. see you in the harbour!!!!!

#the starless sea #tss #zachary ezra rawlins #dorian tss #dorian fateheart rawlins #zachary ezra fateheart rawlins #dorian rawlins #mirabel tss #mirabel cavallo #mirabel x the keeper #time x fate #simon x eleanor #fortunes and fables #sweet sorrows #the ballad of simon and eleanor #bee key sword #crown heart feather #fateheart #leander fateheart #katrina hawkins #kat hawkins #kat tss #madame love rawlins #momma rawlins #im tagging desperately i should stop lol

[death-of-seasons]

Our Lady of Sorrows, 2020

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#death of seasons #art #artwork #dark artist #dark art #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #gothic #gothic art #our lady of sorrows #seven sorrows #seven sorrows of Mary #mater dolorosa #religious art #madonna #sorrow #swords #sword #catholic art #portrait art

[femmefataleart]

Triple Threat | Swords of Sorrow

Red Sonja | Dejah Thoris | Vampirella

Art by Nei Ruffino

#triple threat #swords of sorrow #red sonja #dejah thoris #vampirella #nei ruffino

[misstrashchan]

Mmmmm been having some thoughts on Ruby and Weiss rn

Ruby is set up to be foiled to Alyx, both in the opening, trying to retrace her footsteps in her story in the first couple of episodes, picking up Alyx's knife at the blacksmith's:

And in the latest episode, her lashing out being met with her intepreted as being cruel and selfish:

"Like Alyx, she wasn’t just a little petulant or inconsiderate. She was selfish, cruel. Like this whole word was simply make-believe and the rules didn’t apply to her."

"What about you? It's *all* about you!"

JWBY all seem to have different ideas of who and what Alyx was. She exists to teach a moral lesson, she's just a girl trying to survive and find her way back home, she was a mean little girl, she was the villain who rewrote the story.

But then we also have this line from the book said by Oscar in V8:

"She brushed off her bumps and bruises, for nothing hurt worse than the loneliness in her chest."

And... I'm reminded of Ruby's own loneliness, how distant she feels from her own teamates and friends right now, from the pressure of expectations to always be the one with a plan, with a smile and something positive to say to inspire everyone to Keep Moving Forward, put on her by both herself and the people around her. How Weiss is mourning her kingdom, Yang and Blake get to sort their feelings out, Jaune gets to have his breakdown, to the point his own over shadows Ruby's and her feelings are dismissed. And how the way she lashes out at them was both understandable and a long time coming, but also terribly cruel and messy. And that no one can be blamed for not seeing or reaching out to Ruby more when she refuses to let others know how much she's hurting and ask for their help. Ruby is still entitled to her own feelings. So is Jaune and WBY.

Which brings to mind a certain quote shown at the beginning of a certain someone's trailer:

"Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow, for the heart has no metrics or forms of measure. And all of it... irreplaceable"

Weiss's arc involves her looking outside of herself and learning to see and understand those around her, their own sorrows and burdens they carry with them. And of course, loneliness is a big reoccurring theme in Weiss's arc. Meeting her teammates and supporting them is what leads to her understanding their struggles, hence why Weiss develops from wanting to be the leader to instead dedicating herself to being the most supportive member in team RWBY, and thrives the most when she's fighting with them, but also emotionally supports them through their own struggles.

She's the one who notices something's off with Blake first in V2, and gets her to open up to the rest of her team so they can all work it out together:

"So, Blake Belladonna, what is wrong!?"

She supports Yang when she's confronting Raven and dealing with her abandonment issues

"It's okay if... you're not okay."

Her own sense of self and relationship to loneliness is a healthy one at present, and is something she can use to relate to others.

She understands other people’s loneliness, that Blake in V5 needed space and in time she’d come back, and Weiss would be ready to be there for her when she did. And she also understands Yang’s loneliness in the same volume and that she needed someone there to support her.

“But you’re right. I don’t know loneliness like you do. I have my own version. And, I bet Blake has her own version too.” 

"When she's ready, I'll be there for her. And I know we're not as close, but... I'm here for you too."

Weiss understands that no one's version of loneliness is the same, and every individual needs something different to have their feelings respected and understood. And now in V9 Weiss has to reckon and come to understand Ruby's own version of loneliness after seeing Ruby snap and how much everything has been weighing down on her, and what she needs from her as a friend and teammate.

All the way back in V1, Weiss grew to accept Ruby as leader and promised to support her:

"Ruby... I think you have what it takes to be a good leader. Just know, that I am going to be the best teammate you will ever have."

And I believe she'll try to hold true to that as best she can for Ruby going forward.

#this isn't as coherent as I'd like but I wanted to post this before it left my head and the next episode happened #obviously there's no perfect solution to ruby's problems and ruby may be getting worse before she gets better but #there wasn't a perfect solution to blake and yang's struggles either #nor with weiss's own #that doesn't mean they can't be there for ruby and try to understand her own sorrow and loneliness #also I'd say weiss was starting to support jaune with his own loneliness #but of course this was it's own double edged sword when it came to ruby #but I think she'll help them both #I'm just more interested in ruby and weiss tbh but that's just a personal thing #rwby #ruby rose #rwby alyx #weiss schnee #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #rwby2 #rwby5 #rwby1

[devileaterjaek]

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

#gaming #castlevania #castlevania aria of sorrow #aria of sorrow #soma cruz #horror #ayami kojima #sword #art #official art

[bywandandsword]

You ever, like, look at your hand or other body part, the veins under your skin or the movement of your fingers and just, be awestruck about the chain of events that led to your being created, evolving into such an intensely complex body. All the muscles being used to move my hand, all the neurons firing off, a lot of it without my conscious thought, the fine motor control that these limbs can have. And then all the social meanings behind it. The hands of my grandma making dinner, the hands my mom braiding my hair, the arms of my dad holding me when I left home for the first time, and how these patterns were replicated in some form, long before we were even human. Our bodies and their histories and their meanings are such intricate, beautiful things

#sword speaks #it's something I find deeply sacred #like even if you don't believe in anything else spiritually THAT at least is something holy if anything is #ourselves and our connection to others all the way back to the first life on this planet #and the great love and sorrow and passion we all feel as humans #Idk it just makes me to thankful to be alive to witness it despite everything #(in case you couldn't tell yes this is a big part of why I went into the social sciences)

[prettyboykatsuki]

i have many many many critiques about wylls story, most of them being about the fact it's just so lackluster in game when compared to other companions which is a shame. because wyll to me is and has the potential to be an even more emotionally compelling companion. and he was early access!! he was so gritty in ea please bring him back larian i beg of thee. the way he was rewritten has stripped him of so much nuance and depth. wyll to me is such a wonderful character to me because of what he represents, which is heroism so down to his core he never gives up on it even when he ought to

his goodwill and nobility are ceaseless. at the center of his story is betrayal trauma, his agency over himself vanished into thin air. mizora turns him into a monster and there is no turning back. he has become the thing he's despised, the things he's hunted for his entire life. and we know so little about that canonically because of the way his story is set up but its hinted time and time again that he struggles with his reality deeply and even that cannot make him turn away from the city he loves so much.

if larian would go back to clean up and fix his story (which im truly praying to god they do) i want them to touch on what wyll must be going through as he continues to try to ground himself and deal with his newfound reality. i want them to touch on the abandonment he experiences because of his father and the inevitable burden his title as blade and hero has on him. because these things obviously compel him, they're hinted at all the time but they were completely stripped of him in final release and its fucking disheartening... larian please im begging you. thats the love of my life. please.

but for now i will do it with fanfiction and gather enough wyll fans to make a fuss about it . peace and love

#aristotle.txt #wyll ravengard #bg3 #i love wyll so desperately. which makes sense as a deku lover certainly. #but i love him even more because his story is narratively interesting #here is a classically heroic noble making a devils pact to save his city #who is only rewarded for doing this by being banished from the city hes sworn to protect. by his father no less. #he spends seven years away from home and makes a name for himself as a fucking folk hero #he never returns. he doesn't explain himself. he decides that the least he can do is give his life to the sword coast #and then wyll meets karlach. a devil hes supposed to kill except shes not #and because wyll is wyll and because what matters to him most are his beliefs he is easily convinced to not kill karlach. he doesnt want to #kill karlach. so he doesn't. and he pays the price for it. his entire existence is uprooted and he is turned permanently into a partial #devil #hes become his own prey. he spends the game clearly sorrowful in the mourning process. and the game just refuses to touch on this set up #as a WRITER it boggles my mind why wyll does not get that attention from larian because the concept of a hero balancing the weight of his #own pain and sorrow against his beliefs is moving. being able to open up that path with tav narratively that allows wyll to be #selfish and heartbroken. to not be blade or sword. just wyll. what a beautifully interesting storyline would that have made #i have delusion in my heart. i hope they fix it. i want them to fix it so badly because i fucking adore wyll in every way. #and i want the game to represent who he is as much as i feel for him. he is an origin companion and deserves it. #bg3 spoilers

[tragedykery]

fuckign. we argue in the kitchen about whether to have children about the world ending and the scale of my ambition and how much is art really worth the very thing you’re best at is the thing that hurts the most but you need your rotten heart your dazzling pain like diamond rings you need to go to war to find material to sing I am no mother I am no bride I am king.

#musicposting #florence + the machine #dance fever #I NEED MY GOLDEN CROWN OF SORROW #MY BLOODY SWORD TO SWING #MY EMPTY HALLS TO ECHO WITH GRAND SELF-MYTHOLOGY #I AM NO MOTHER #I AM NO BRIDE #I AM KING #elli rambles