#death of the muse

[cyberkiss2uu]

bweird oc-tober day 5 RELATIONSHIPS !!! oughh brainrotting about my muse is my favorite truly 🙏 using an old pic because im in agony 2day oopsie >_<

i love fleshing out this entire family but most of all i love thinking about Lexa's return [tldr she ran away and joined a pirate crew for a few years]

of the top 3 [left to right] we have Nala [her bio mom], Ryne [dad] and Gemma [the oldest sibling] and in the bottom four we have Axel [twin brother], Lucas [older brother], Ida [her other mom yea poly ftw] and Mikah [older brother]

i thinkk i drew this back in February i was like rlly sad and missed my friends LOL but it was fun to think about Lexa seeing her family again 🙏 obviously she was very close with her twin but he changed a lot when she left [hashtag magical corruption. this keeps happening to my ocs] and the family as a whole was always very close but they did tend to baby Axel and Lexa a lot which is what drove her to run away in the first place 💔 IDK im rambling i love them sooo much. ueueuueueue

#bweirdoctober #bweirdoctober 2023 #oc-tober #my ocs #big hugs #gahh i love them sm #artists on tumblr #digital sketch #jammy ocs #death of the muse

[nordarknessdimsthesky]

the amount of sheer GENDER stored in these images should frankly be ILLEGAL

#im vibrating out of my skin #im shifting physical states #season 2 is gonna melt my entire fucking face right off #ofmd #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death season 2 #edward teach #jim jimenez #frenchie #speaking and musing

[avastyetwats]

Izzy Hands.

#Izzy hands #OFMD #our flag means death #con o neill #Izzy hands musings #resting at the inn (ooc)

[melverie]

Just remembered that Satan in the "A World of Our Very Own" devilgram says that he believes he was "born in order to meet MC" and it always sounded incredibly cheesy to me but then I thought about it a little more and--

Originally, Satan was just a small glimmer inside Lucifer's consciousness until Lucifer's wrath reached its peak with Lilith's death which, in turn, resulted in Satan's birth

MC is a direct descendant of Lilith after she was reborn as human

If it weren't for Lilith's death, neither of them would be here

Both of their existences are directly intertwined with one another, so in a way Satan's right

They have always been destined to be a part of each other's lives

#lilith's death is like a looming shadow that both are intrinsically tied together by #and that to this day shapes almost all moments of their lives #it's a shared pain that runs deep #yet neither of them ever actually experienced it for themselves #and yet they're the only ones that can fully understand the suffering it causes the other #i love satan & mc's relationship so mucchhhh #obey me #obey me swd #obey me satan #obey me lucifer #obey me lilith #obey me mc #mel's starry musings

[cahootings]

Love how Stede’s dream had him fighting Izzy on the beach in bright midday sun, but as soon as he sees Ed and starts running towards him it’s suddenly golden hour. This bitch IS our romantic hero

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd musing

[unproduciblesmackdown]

always enjoyed the Chess Set In The Foreground perspective framing used here

now also noting like, huh, a chess set in a general store just visited by marigold competitors who killed one of their guys and are now on the way back from their rendezvous point w/suppliers

#and now to take a big sip of ''nothing suggests lackadaisy ft. people stuck / things repeating / death begetting death'' #not like i suppose we're going to be hit with ''& then mordecai and viktor sat down at the defiance field office for every passing gangster #played chess and then went and properly slaughtered the lackadaisy crew and arbogasts at the funeral home / barn w/car-sized holes'' #good reminder though that Viktor Is Now Active....left off with elsa managing to give him a phonecall; for good measure #lackadaisy #i have no lengthy Mitzi Mordecai Murder Mystery Musings posts for today (b/c not enough fresh musing insights) but no prommies #epiphanies are on their own schedule #quite the chess piece arrangement seen there too lol. can't tell if there's any Classic Configuration in the game b/w viktor & mordecai #not a chesshead and never was lol strategy games??? who's that #or i'll play them but not strategically. invented Flick Chess for indoor recess in elementary school #you flick a piece across the board and whatever you knock off the board = you took those pieces lmfao #though not like that has Zero strategy. thinking of my day enjoying tiddlywinks research #imagine my delight revisiting all this material like oh yeah the little pic of freckle tiddlywinking #let's squop; boys #i'm also supposing that chess sets? checkers sets? and etc. would be common general store features; like phone usage....real general.... #but like; what; are we expecting this Not to bring a response from marigold lol #got the nervous twitch but they're like ''ah it's fine. cost of doing business''

[johannestevans]

the doylist explanation is that fang hugs izzy from behind so that we can get both of their faces in shot at once. the watsonian explanation is that fang has learned to hug izzy from behind because otherwise izzy's instinct is to go for his throat

#musings #fangizzy #fang ofmd #izzy hands #our flag means death

[alphaincipiens]

i’m so normal about him

#these are SO old. like SOOO old #never posted anywhere but they deserve to be #i’m working on a new thing of him he’s my 1 & only muse #lawrence oleander #boyfriend to death #btd #law #myart #upl

[wesleyscreaming]

its always ”b-b-but arent you DEAD??” and never ”was it fun getting buried it looked fun?” never ”was it difficult to claw your way through the soft earth?” they NEVER ask if the first breath of air after fighting myself out of my coffin was refreshing and tasted like sorrow and relief. it did. by the way. not that anyone CARES >:(

#death and dying #deathcore #came back wrong #my blog is turning into a died-but-came-back blog but im here for it #wesleys musings

[jstor]

Finished The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy last night and haven't stopped thinking about it since 😃 (😰)

Following up with this chapter about the elements of horror in the text, if anyone is interested!

#jstor #mod's musings #leo tolstoy #the death of ivan ilyich

[cyberkiss2uu]

// lowkey religious imagery ig ?

umm so this is my boy Kairos :3 hes the god of time in my story Death of the Muse and he gets a little tooo involved in the humans so Kyra (sun god) chains him in a different plane and Kamaria (moon god) just doesnt rlly do anything lol she has no spine

they actually take the forms of animals usually.. Kairos as a fox, Kamaria as a deer and Kyra as a falcon :3 thats why theres a second ver with a fox mask and its slightly different because its an older version LOL dont look closely

#religious imagery #sorta #my oc art #jammy ocs #artists on tumblr #digital art #boygenius lyrics #2 bases 2 artists challenge #it was big on tt did it reach here #death of the muse

[ride-a-dromedary]

Halsin would tell you to go touch grass but mean it 100% sincerely.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Halsin #go touch some grass and maybe you'll calm down #and someone just reacting so negatively to that like well you don't need to be sassy #and halsin is like ??? i'm..i'm telling you to go outside and it'll make you feel better? #i keep imagining halsin sneaking out of the elfsong to go hide in the park because it's the closest he can get to feeling #even remotely comfortable in the city and you just find him on his back staring at the peeks of sky and he looks so much better #than he did when his shirt collar was choking him and the pavement beneath him felt like a death sentence #i feel like people really get on his case for being so upset in the city and criticizing it but like...the man is literally wilting there #he's suffocating - it's like...well...like putting a bear in a cage #and expecting him to perform for you #he will be angry and wounded and try to escape #and only when you've completely throttled him into submission - broken him completely - will he stop fighting you

[shortnotsweet]

In a Week by Hozier ft. Karen Cowley

“The raven is death, obviously. When I die, I want a good tombstone—something right spooky. LT’s got something against the underground, though you’d think that would be just his kind of place. That’s alright. He needs to, he can cremate me. It’s not exactly Catholic, and Mam would turn in her grave, but God is a unicorn and no one is pure anymore, so. What’s all that got to do with me?”

Johnny “Soap” McTavish has a journal. Had. It is his no longer.

Simon “Ghost” Riley had dreams—awful ones, the kind that sank claws into his lungs, dragged him into sleep, and then sent him careening out of it. He still has dreams, but they’re different, now. Better. Johnny’s pages have folded themselves under his eyes and gotten into his head, brighter and more infectious than anything else has ever been. It’s more than the past, that rotting carcass behind him, and more than now. Now is nothing. Now is ash. It’s like, it’s like—blinding, is what it is. He’s a blind man.

It is biblical now. Ghost has read it backward and forward and sideways and inside out. When he runs out of things to read, he reads them again, and when that is not enough, he reads between the lines.

#ghostsoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soapghost #soap x ghost #ghoap #call of duty #cod mw3 #my art #ghost is obsessed with soaps journal bc it breaks his heart at first like really tears it apart but soon focuses on what soap has written #about him. words of admiration and envy and love and fondness. real fondness. jokes made for him thoughts about him musings etc. #and johnnys snippets about his family and how he wants to settle down eventually #then all simon can think about is what life they could’ve lived together after the ‘war’ #nevermind that there will always be war be death be blood and love is there and it matters but it changes nothing #for simon there will always be johnny #who even knows if thats what soap wanted if he loved him back if ghost even remembers him as he was instead of what he wishes he could have #become to ghost if things had gone as they should. who knows. the dead dont sing dont speak. all thats left is what they wrote #the cigarettes refer to soaps smoking habit and how ghost disapproves like a nagging wife. the ash smudges and burns in the paper allude to #ghost deciding to have soap cremated as a spouse decides post mortem due to his own aversion to being underground bc he doesn’t want soap #to be nothing but a decomposing body. he couldn’t bear that. he couldn’t bury him alive or dead so burning it is

[diioonysus]

apollo + art

#apollo by charles joseph natoire: apollo #apollo by charles meynier #the death of hyacinth by alexandre kisseliov #death of hyacinth by unknown #death of hyacinth by nicolas rene jollain #death of hyacinth by giovanni battista tiepolo #death of hyacinth by benjamin west #apollo chasing daphne by carlo maratta #apollo and the nine muses by raphael & parnassus #apollo and the nine muses by anton raphael mengs #apollo and the nine muses by gustave moreau #the muses leave apollo by gustave moreau #the council of gods by peter paul rubens #apollo and aurora by gerard de lairese #apollo pursuing daphne by giovanni battista tiepolo #apollo and daphne by giovanni battista tiepolo #apollo and marsyas by hans thoma #apollo revealing his divinity by franocis boucher #apollo and marsyas by filipino lauri #apollo and marsyas by bartolomeo manfredi #apollo and the python by cornelis de vos #apollo by rosealba carriera #apollo by simone cantarini #apollo chasing daphne by francesco albani #apollo and daphne by john william waterhouse #apollo by simon vouet #apollo unknown (vase art) #the inspiration of a poet by nicolas poussin #apollo and the two muses by pompeo batoni #apollo and daphne dosso dossi

[cahootings]

Actually this post DID get me thinking, about all the times Ed gives up and resigns in the show. It's a defense mechanism. We know he's a deeply feeling person. We know his emotions are strong and he will express them. These dismissive reactions are him pushing those feelings aside, not thinking about them, not acknowledging them, trying to ignore them. Trying to control them. Trying to stay on top of them.

This, of course, always catches up.

And it's making me think about how interesting the choices were in this sequence.

In particular, how the final product contrasts with the version of the script that Jes Tom posted later.

(also reading this again wrecks me wow)

In the version in the show, he is not giddy. He is not happily humming. He is calm, and he doesn't even crack a smile. And I think it's more than just acting/directing choices, it's a completely different tone. His "bye bye" in the show does not read as victorious or celebratory to me, it reads as his quick dismissal and resignation that we see several times before. This is Ed giving up a part of himself without letting himself feel what that really means.

This change feels bigger and more deliberate. Ed still doesn't know what it means to give up Blackbeard. And like all the other times he tries to quickly dismiss a feeling, I think that's still going to catch up with him.

It's such an interesting character arc and I love it and I think it's one of the strong cases for needing another season. He hasn't reconciled what it means to hold on to Blackbeard. We see him bring the leathers - this persona - back, to a degree, at the end of the season. But I don't think we've seen him actually process what that means to him. What does it mean to be Ed? Blackbeard isn't Ed, but Blackbeard is undeniably a part of Ed. And this doesn't have to be a bad thing. This can be a part of Ed that he gets to define anew. I'd love to get to see Ed reconcile this part of him, and how it fits with the person he wants to be. He doesn't have to shun this past part of himself.

I want to see him get to his "Hello, Ed."

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd meta #edward teach #that shot is always so heavy to me! #he's just like. idk. it is such a mixed emotional moment #i do think maybe we lost some of this with the shortened season #it almost feels like this could/would have been handled in the finale if there was more time #because I still think the choice to retrieve the leathers and what that meant to him deserved more (or any) attention #anyway. here's hoping for s3. #ofmd musing

[lonelylonelyghost]

I noticed that Spirealm uses a slightly different way to "hide" the main relationship from censors than from what I've seen before in other danmei adaptations. Before, specific words like "confidant", "best friend", "partner", "colleague" etc. were used to describe them, and you obviously knew what it was a stand-in for.

But here they just... don't say anything.

Instead everyone at Obsidian treats Jiushi like a future boss-in-law, asks if he is jealous when Nanzhu starts escorting a newbie through the Doors (You can imagine that when Jiushi replies with "Why would I be jealous?" the whole team just looks directly at the camera, smiles and doesn't say anything). Nanzhu is openly hostile to the girl that clings to Jiushi's side. And don't even get me started on the Looks, the Hands and the Intensity, it's already insane in those 20/78 episodes that I've watched so far.

The word "boyfriend" is silenced so loudly, that what is going on is even more obvious than if the production used "soulmate" or something.

The drama is as explicit in terms of romance as Word of Honor, if not more, just with a slightly different angle. It's like the censorship committee was like: "You can't have gay couples on screen anymore!" and the production team said: "Lmao, bet" and made Nanzhu and Jiushi be just that.

And it's glorious

P.S. This is Nanzhu's "hatred and condemn" look he would give to the censors

#xiongdi qin my ass #the spirealm #kaleidoscope of death #cdrama #spiraling into spirealm #ghost's random musings