#a light within the dark

[spectralarrovv]

the dark lady’s guidance; quench the light of the moon

#shadowheart killing the light within her to fully dedicate herself to shar the erasure of her memories is to kill who she was and could be #explodes and dies #i hate armor I HATE ARMORRRRRR #matt rambles #my art #shadowheart #jenevelle hallowleaf #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #dark justiciar #shar #selune #sketch #drawing

[thedarkacademian]

yesterday’s academic indulgences

#finally feel like myself again #the academic beast within me is rousing #dark academia #dead poets society #the secret history #chaotic academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #aesthetic #the dark academian #poetry #art academia

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lmao Frank would absolutely keep a list of everything they tried to do to fix this situation. He has his work cut out for him with poor wally as well. Does he know what happened to Sally?

Frank does know what happened to Sally! ofc he caught his first glimpse of her when he sorta woke up, then after he Actually woke up, Wally made sure to sit him down and be like "she will kill you if you go near her <3"

still, Frank didn't really believe Wally. so Wally showed him proof:

and Frank quickly changed his tune.

and honestly, it's more like Wally has his work cut out for him with Frank lmao. cause by the time Frank fully wakes, Wally's pretty much given up. and rightfully so, there's... not really anything he can do except protect his sleeping friends.

so Frank's initial attempts to make a plan kinda went like:

Wally is very earnest about saying "that's nice". it is nice. it's refreshing to have someone around that still believes something can be done, however futile that hope is. Frank will catch on eventually.

#these two are very fun to explore in this au because its kind of a role reversal? in a way? #bc after literal decades of being alone in the dark #wally is jaded. hes learned things. hes unlocked a variety of emotions. hes adapted. hes had an all around bad time. hes Different Now. #and frank? frank (at least in the above scribbles) hasnt dealt with that #comparatively hes bright eyed and bushy tailed!! #so hes like drawing up plans and brainstorming #and meanwhile wally is just lounging off to the side with a book hes read about a thousand times #frank: I HAVE A NEW PLAN! #wally: *pats his head* good job neighbor <3 #wally: *goes back to staring into the void* #wh lights out au #scribble salad #welcome home au #within the year tho frank goes from We Can Fix This! to actively talking to a stick with eddie's hat hung on it #and i mean. there is really Nothing they can do. its out of their hands #but perhaps its in someone elses door.... #also thank you for the opportunity to Talk about this au! ive been marinating it in the braintisserie a Lot!

[kingsandbastardz]

Cheng Yi, Zeng Shunxi, and Xiao Shunyao 2023-24 New Year's Eve + New Years gala photos

#if they are their characters they're positioned exactly where i imagined they'd be post canon #llh returns to the sea and fdb transforms/ travels and dfs returns to seclusion #dfs and llh are mirrors to each other while fdb has elements of both within him #with both llh and dfs becoming static and frozen in time it's up to fdb to bring movement to the board again #thematically descending into the dark or rising into the light??? #speaking of which i need to work on that dfs meta #mysterious lotus casebook cast #zeng shunxi #xiao shunyao #cheng yi

[wingedblooms]

Rotting darkness

This post briefly explores the darkness in Hewn City, how it is connected to the Weaver, and foreshadows Elain’s journey as @offtorivendell, @willowmeres, @silverlinedeyes, and others have suggested. Please avoid if you do not want to read hofas spoilers.

In acomaf, Feyre visits the Hewn City for the first time and has to combat her immediate discomfort of being trapped beneath in the dark. It’s possible Elain’s own discomfort in Hewn City is similar: this place might trigger terrible memories of what she found in the Cauldron.

Feyre also observes how deathly pale and cold everyone appears, and she claims the Court of Nightmares was the work of a god. It even holds a dark castle within.

I wondered previously if Hewn City belonged to Stryga, who is described as a death-god and a dark queen; if it was her black castle once upon a time.

She was known for her ability to devour life. And it is said that the evil within her—which I theorized is similar to or the same as the rotten core of the Valg—may have tainted her favorite mirror. Is it possible that the black stone of the castle within the mountain was also tainted by her evil core? If she is like the Asteri (and goodness, from behind she truly does look like Vesperus), did the land drink from her as she might have drank from it? Over time, it might have begun to reflect her dark, evil core.

That dark and evil core seems to have started to show physically when she was bound to the Middle and could not consume life and joy and beauty in the same way she used to:

And this rotted description mirrors what Mor tells us about the darkness of Hewn City. She says there is no light in it, never had been. It is eternal, rotting, and withers all life.

It is not like the darkness in Velaris, which was made for dreams, rather than nightmares. The darkness in Velaris is full of starlight: life and joy and beauty. Hewn City is the opposite. It’s a rotting pit, or void as @offtorivendell has theorized, that devours all light, just like its former eternal, dark queen.

As such, it is also the opposite of Elain and Urd, blooming life. It may even represent the magic that the Asteri imbued (void) within Urd’s sacred waters and her sacred peaks, which are void of life and thrumming with power. And Elain’s behavior in this scene tells me exactly how she might handle that challenge in the future. She may be afraid, but she won’t hesitate to do what is needed: to descend into that darkness. And it might try to poison her light and claim the very life from her, but she will square her shoulders. And she will face it anyway.

The difference is that, in her book, she will face that darkness and prove it has no power over her.

#hofas spoilers #hewn city #rotting darkness #not the sort of darkness in velaris #Stryga’s black castle #a mirror of the evil within #the opposite of Elain and Urd #blossoming life #weavers of light and life #Hope in the Void #elain archeron

[darklight-phantasm]

Realized I never shared my Skylanders collection on here and since others are currently doing it I thought why not.

Not the best pictures but here's my pride and joy - 237 Skylanders in total. Not pictured are Elite Spyro, Stealth Elf and Dino-Rang (they are on the top), the 8 remaining vehicles for each original element, 30 Imaginite Crystals (3 for each element), 17 Traps and every Adventure Pack piece with their corresponding Magic Items as well as the Land, Sea and Sky Trophies.

Many said that this game isn't simply a hobby but a lifestyle and I absolutely agree.

#skylanders #collection #figures #all collected within about 6 years #I was dedicated to planning out each element so I end up having an equal number for each one which is now 28 Skylanders per element #minus light and dark obviously but they both have 6 #the traps are the only part where I didn't really bother to complete it or even have an equal number #but yeah these guys mean the world to me I love them dearly

[bluegarners]

what if i told you robin IS a performance and is much harder than being batman....

#and other things everyone already knows but i LOVE to state the obvious #idk you try smiling and cracking jokes and bearing the weight of being the only light in a crushing darkness #that follows you everywhere you go AND also be a kid at the same time #with some kind of tragedy in your heart from even before you were taken in #and your only source of comfort is the big mansion and the dank cave and the TWO also traumatized people within it #and youre not allowed to talk about any of this shit to anyone else and you have to go to school and get A's on your tests #and generally LOOK like youre happy- ecstatic even- to be living with bruce wayne or else child services is going to take you away #and possibly put you in an even worse situation #peace and love but i think i would have gone insane and try to kill batman for being all gloomy when I am the one suffering for it

[fuzzy-worm-with-wings]

A bookmark I made of my favorite boy, Shadowsight <33 I drew it on paper and colored it on procreate using the multiply tool!

#shadowsight #warrior cats #warriors #warriors art #warrior cats fanart #fan art #bookmark #mixed media #tbc #a light in the mist #darkness within #lost stars #veil of shadows #place of no stars #dark forest

[dnangelic]

what kind of emotion(s) do u guys write from

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT. #i think abt tht post tht says siken writes w panic and mary oliver writes w hope n i was thinking abt #hiwatari's 'if a shadow is behind a circle then it's a sphere and if a shadow is in front of a circle then it becomes a hole' #obviously that can apply to dark + dai vs krad + sato as part of their dichotomy but its also applicable to both of them as individuals #if u include the manga bc of the way daisuke/dark's heart is. solemn and grandiose but vacant with nothing to satisfy anyone in it #everything they do or say comes from tht empty cathedral. a graveyard. the noble but desolate dust-filled underground of an opera house #i'm writing abt summer and winter but most importantly im writing abt love and light's echoes in a jet black space #i'm saying the reason dark and daisuke are always so grateful for others is because they're always so lonely #and emotionally if not socially malformed and outcast in their own ways #writing daisuke is anxiety and deep guilt on the surface with an undercurrent of pride and arrogance #writing dark is pride and arrogance on the surface with an undercurrent of anxiety and deep guilt #but anything and everything is sourced from that hollow and empty well. that 'nothing' that is a phantom thief's #restless and covetous heart #even within canon the things dark and daisuke both REALLY want- they lie to themselves lie to the audience about until they finally #either obtain or surmount it #well. anyways. sorry for tag essay #i had a lot of feelings and no place to put them 💀

[mirror-to-the-past]

Xingqiu fans are dining excellently with all the references to him and lore regarding the Guhua Clan being spotlighted via Chenyu Vale's "A Wangshan Walk to Remember." The comparisons that can be made between Xingqiu and his predecessors is also very fascinating...

The Grand Master Guhua truly did live out the life of idealized dignity and transparency just as Xingqiu desires for himself. There's something very touching and heartbreaking about the fact that Guhua's life was one deemed heroic, but he was only able to have his legacy carried on by Boxuan who cast his own name aside to exhalt the name of the deceased Guhua.

And then right after briefly recounting the life and works of Master Guhua, Wen brings up Xingqiu, reemphasizing the lofty ideal/hope that he can respark the dying flame of the Guhua (no pressure) and potentially act as a parallel to the founder of the art himself. It's made all the more poignant, considering that we could easily draw the connection that Chongyun could be considered Xingqiu's potential Boxuan equivalent, a fellow young practitioner of martial arts who acts as a peer and supporter of Xingqiu's arts (although lets hope Xingqiu doesn't die preemptively like Guhua did).

I don't have snippets of the dialogue for it or screenshots, but those books in the archive room were just so lovely to see. The fact that many of the old disciples of Guhua were just nerds like Xingqiu and enamored with wuxia novels, shelving their discussions of them among all of the records they held in their library was so sweet.

Additionally, the person who invented the Rain Cutter technique that Xingqiu uses now was the one involved with the hidden Wangshan chambers that had the really forboding message about the heavens rejecting humanity and whatnot... very mysterious stuff.

Additionally, those 5 swords scattered around Chenyu Vale, the first of which you find at the outskirts of the Wangshan Chamber....while not necessarily all individuals of the Guhua Clan, it made me oddly emotional to see how the years that went by, depicted by each sword's material- from a blade to a crude sword shaped stick- and yet they all had in common a very poetic observation of their goals and the world about them that could easily flow as a singular nature/travelling-based poem. And that spirit of poetry intertwined with swordsmanship flourishing across the ages still continues on with this one dorky rich boy. It's honestly wonderful worldbuilding, that through environmental storytelling and the mere mentions of a character who was never even present for the entirety of the world quest, all of these stories and records of Guhua disciples and swordsmen before him tell me all I need to know about Xingqiu as a character, too.

#definitely would like to do more rereading of the texts within the Guhua library + those weird inscriptions #these lore drops were so cool #currently caught up in the profound nature of multiple generations united in their love for art- poetry- swordplay- idealism of heroism etc #the joy of community but also the loss of having a space in which your passions can be taken seriously and allow you to grow into the #desired version of yourself #the fact that xingqiu is considered a light in the darkness for the current Guhua elders yet he practices his art as part of a double life #all while the wangshan chamber crumbles- very symbolic #suppression and isolation kills passion #genshin impact meta #semi incoherent most likely as I am sleepy but I had to get my thoughts out #genshin impact #genshin 4.4 #genshin 4.4 spoilers #xingqiu #a wangshan walk to remember

[mothgoddesss]

HAPPY 4 YEARS OF SKY: CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT!

The disco lights are ON! The stage is LIT! Everyone's dancin' and prancin' in the office! Even Telfoso adorns herself in the iconic teal hue as she twirls around on the dance floor! Baybei attempts to mimic her moves, and Moro busts a few moves, too!

While I normally don't make art like this, Sky means too much to me, to where it is literally a hemisphere of Brainne. While I've only been around for half of its total life, it has brought me countless memories, cherished friendships, helped me build a genuine and meaningful following, and made me realize two little stars of my own who shall be born someday. The event itself was a BLAST, I had a lot of fun jamming to the music conch shell with friends and my older sibling, and the vibes were truly pristine. They've just been knocking it off the ballpark with the events this year-!!

Here's to another year of greatness and many more! ♥

Got this done a while back, but I forgot to post it here ERRP

#sky children of the light #sky cotl #that sky game #sky kid #sky cotl oc #✧. MOTHGODDESS WORKS. #✧. ILLUSTRATION WORKS. #✧. THE PRIMORDIAL MOTH (TELFOSO/KIDDE). #✧. NEWBORN LIGHT WITHIN THE DARKNESS (BAYBEI). #✧. OPTIMISTIC TURTLE LOVING LOSER (MORO). #✧✧✧ COMMENTS: #I kept this simpler on the rendering side but it still took like two weeks a/f event ended due to valley stretches T0T #AND BECAUSE I LITERALLY KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT THIS BLOG HERE I AM WITH IT TWO MONTHS AFTER THE ANNIVERSARY H AHA DHASJKSAKF

[vaguely-concerned]

the ultimate act of futility it is to argue about the rightness or wrongess of the jedi and their world view only through a watsonian lens with in-universe information, without taking into consideration the doylist perspective that this is fundamentally a cosmology constructed by a guy whose self-described religious views are those of a 'buddhist methodist' who was hopped up on campbell. friends we are never going to get something entirely coherent out of this b/c what went into it wasn't either and that's fine, that tension is probably part of what makes the franchise so enduringly interesting, please stop tearing each other apart I'm so tired

#like yeah the jedi philosophy gestures at buddhism but also... anakin is born through immaculate conception #there's some christianity all the way down nonsense going on here too. it's complicated and weird and so interesting! #not conducive to drawing definitive final conclusions on anything within tho #star wars #I've been thinking a lot lately about how 'falling to the dark side' seems to have a lot more to do #with falling from grace than any ideas I've seen connected to buddhism (not that I'm an expert in either religion haha) #anakin is an antichrist figure who gets saved by one startling moment of grace and love -- not through awakening #I'm generally a jedi-enjoyer btw my main grudge against them is how few rivalling force traditions we get to see (especially light side) #there's apparently quadrillions of living souls in the gffa at any given time. are u telling me there isn't more variety than that??? #r u telling me the jedi have a monopoly on truth? does no one not named something like 'darth deathandplague' have other interpretations?

[bluejohnhook56]

#visuals #light and shadow #liminal spaces #shadow play #liminal aesthetic #power of colors #in the dark #worlds within worlds

[esrah-rah-rasputin]

applies black hole concepts to Kevin WTDB's eyeballs

#I have thoughts about light symbology #and how apparently darkness can actually be what fully consumed light looks like #A point where light is concentrated into itself so within that space there it's blindingly bright but only to the black hole itself #never the viewer #his eyes are missing but also there is so much light in them #So. much. light. #Esrah talks #Kevin wtnv #wtdb

[yonemurishiroku]

Apollo hides the light of dawn in Nico's hair.

#so that the moment he caresses Nico's cheek as goodbye is the same time he draws the daybreak #nico as the dawn carrier. darkness and the light within #sky au #i have so much nipollo content for this au #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #night nico #nipollo #apollo (pjo)

[hh-hb-lonelydemon-rp]

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There is so SO many opinions and takes I can give. However, most of them involved an rp account I deleted and remade, but here it goes.

If you have a mutual/friend who is blocked by another mutual/friend of yours and the friend/mutual that you have who was blocked asks you to be a messenger to see why they blocked them. DO NOT DO IT. In fact my advice is to block the person being the messenger and report the person sending them because it’s harassment.

Not to mention if your the messenger and claim to be that one time that will cause immediate distrust. Because after that occurrence I stopped trusting this person altogether. And I wondered how much were they telling to the person I broke ties with. (There are other things that happened with these two individuals that I won’t get into because it’s a LOT and this post is already so long but yeah..)

In this fandom specifically I have been blocked by a few people I do not know why, but it’s not my business if that person is uncomfortable with me in any way it’s their right to block me. Even if we are close mutuals/friends I prefer communication if I cross a boundary, BUT if you think for your mental health it’s better to move on and block and follow your gut feeling that’s absolutely valid too.

When I first started in 2022 I used to take it to personally, but I would never send a mutual/friend to them that’s just downright wrong to me. Nowadays if you block me you block me and that’s fine. But sending a messenger to someone not only defiles the trust of the person that blocked you but also the person your pressuring to be the messenger. And AND it causes distrust with the messenger as well. So the hot take is if someone blocks you…they block you. And let it go. And people who do that send a messenger thing and continuously do so are actual TRASH.

#voxiiferous #ask answered #(this fandom though is already a mass improvement so fare I have no negative experiences) #(there are still amazing and wonderful people in the other fandom though…) #(…absolutely kind and amazing people that are like shining lights within the darkness) #(and some followed me here which I love 😭💕)