#edgelord but that's the point

[lymooniee]

LIKE THIS IS SUCH AN INSULT HELLO ???

He looks so cute tho AHHH

#sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #shadow the hedgehog #DONT CALL HIM AN EDGELORD #UGHHFJDJF AND POINTS THE FRICKEN KATANA AT HIM

[empty-dream]

“You’re not hollow.”

#jigokuraku #hell's paradise #jigokurakuedit #gabimaru #gabimaru's wife #myedit #mygif #i dont rlly wanna give away her name cuz its kinda plot point later #at least it was impactful for me #the credits also dont mention it #one day if the anime gets to that ill properly tag her #anw THEY SO CUTE AHSNFUSD #yea face it gabimaru ur not edgelord ur a dork

[egophiliac]

how dare they immediately break up the best team combination. I demand more of Michinaga getting mad at people being nice to him (though I will also appreciate Michinaga getting mad at just about anything)

#art #do i have a tag for art i should have drawn better but didn't. hmm. #kamen rider #geats #broody angsty edgelords are my least favorite #until they turn out to also be awkward dumbasses at which point they become my MOST favorite #which is to say i am suddenly enjoying michinaga a lot #he is torn between professional pride and wanting to make ace's house fall down

[aingeal98]

I think my most controversial opinion as someone who reads dc comics is that WFA is good actually. And people who dismiss it as poorly written fanon are on the opposite side of the spectrum as people who insist it's the only batfam comic that should be canon, but both sides are equally wrong and annoying.

#dc #batfam #I'll never defend it for the Talia stuff. But other than that the writers do actually Get all the characters more than a lot of modern writ #You can just say you don't like the genre they're writing for instead of acting like any content of these characters in slice of life #Is a betrayal to their core themes #like ok edgelord. Maybe if the modern batfam conflicts were actually well written you'd have more of a point #dc rambles

[eff-plays]

I do think that Evil Durge and Ascended Astarion is fucking hilarious though. Like yaas bitches, flush your character development down the toilet! Have insane power struggles! Make each other worse! Kill each other!

It's literally so funny.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #two things i will never play but like to think about/see others do cuz it's hilarious #two edgelords just trying to out-joker each other #ascended astarion: you will sit in my lap and be my little bitch #durge: actually i will flay you alive for my own amusement #BONUS POINTS if you decide to rule via tadpole and enslave ascended astarion #that is fucking BRILLIANT #uno reverse card his ass #all of that ... 7000 souls ... just to become brainwashed by a bhaalspawn #he really is a fucking girlfailure isn't he #i love it #ascended astarion is so good when he's either dead or being bullied by someone more powerful than him

[y-rhywbeth2]

Still kind of disappointed that getting killed by Astarion in Act 1 doesn't come up if you try and kill him in Act 2:

Durge: "It's really all right?" Astarion: "Well no, you tried to kill me, of course it's not all right."

Wow, can you imagine if a traveling companion, possessed by an infernal need to kill attempted to murder you in your sleep one night? Can you imagine if they lost control and actually killed you? And just left your corpse there?? And then when you confronted your murderer he basically told you you were overreacting and tried to convince you he should get to murder more people??

Is this upsetting you?? Is it? W O W. I can't imagine how you must be feeling.

“We can compare notes.” We can compare some bloody apologies maybe.

He has the right to get upset about this and be petty, of course, but so do I, technically, because he's getting way more sympathy in this scene than he gave. And I enjoy being petty as much as he does. It's fun!

#Who's my favourite hypocrite? #Getting killed by Astarion is admittedly your own fault for letting the vampire bite you but that's beside the point #playthrough shenanigans #babbling #/astarion #/durge #/astarion/durge #petty murder boyfriends #edgelord hours

[coldresolve]

rambling

i think there's a dunning kruger effect sorta thing happening with a lot of people in circles like the one ive cultivated here, but specifically relating to the characteristic of "being fucked up" as opposed to competence

it sucks because, yknow, i really feel at home with other fucked up people. there's a mutual understanding there that neither of us are holy, so you don't judge me, and i don't judge you. there are no taboos, there is no moral indignation, you don't have to censor your thoughts, there's a solid understanding of the difference between thought and action, neither of you are your past, etc. it's genuinely freeing not having to deal with the usual social rules that get you shunned for being a weirdo lol

and then hardcore george walks in and signals desperately with every fiber of his person that he, too, is fucked up. so you sort of take him at his word, because you have no reason not to - but oh snap, you're being lured into a false sense of security. because the moment you say anything remotely out of the ordinary, or behave in a way that's slightly eccentric, hardcore george starts blurting the same moral indignation you'd expect from a nun, and immediately decides you're too degenerate and probably dangerous. so you ask him in what way he is fucked up, and he says he eats cereal with water instead of milk. and while that is atypical, it's not exactly the sort of lifestyle that recontextualizes your view of what counts as "extreme" or "out there" - he just dipped his toes lightly into something unusual, and now thinks he's a maverick. this is hyperbole, but i hope you get what i mean. it's dunning kruger for being fucked up, right

a lot of people who market themselves as hardcore and fucked up are, to put it very bluntly, very average people, who despite their constant show of apathy will treat outcasts with the same disgust shown by everybody else - while somehow having convinced themselves, in their tiny little noodle brains, that they themselves are the outcasts. and i know it's not a competition, it's not a race to be the most fucked up or whatever, that's not the point. i'm just being pissy about how "being fucked up" has somehow been aesthetisized to the point where two thirds of the people you think are gonna be cool about stuff thats a bit out there, are not actually cool about it whatsoever

#its hard to talk about this without writing something that can be interpreted as like. edgelord pick me lmfao #i hope you get my point ig. its not like i can convince anybody to be charitable if they dont want to be #im just tired of people who act like something theyre clearly not #other #was gonna post on warm but ehh its more relevant here cause yknow. cough

[see-arcane]

It seems to me that all Dracula Lives sequel novels and movies do not want to explore the consequences to the actual main characters and the world at large that such an ending would entail, but to have Dracula as the protagonist and their OCs (and when any of the book characters still are there, they are practically OCs). Personally I'm tired of him returning, bring on other vampires or undead or werewolves and ghouls if you want new monsters in the same universe. But it's time for the survivors to shine, not their tormentor, for once.

No, no, Dracula can still show up! He just has to be in a little dirt jar. With a cape.

But yeah, seriously, there's so much more fodder to work with than just "Somehow Dracula has returned :/." Countess Dolingen's there, the Pretty Girl in Piccadilly, the sailors of the Demeter, the Bloofer Lady-bitten kids (we don't know if all her victims were reported and/or if they lived), other supernatural bogeymen, and oh, hey, yeah, all the implications of Literal Actual Demons hanging around in the mountains giving out sorcery lessons...

But nooo let's just hit the rewind button on Dracula turning to dust, it's cool, it's fine, 11/10 very original

#like at this point #why even call them sequels? #you want an AU #that's all #'X happens so Dracula doesn't turn to dust yet or ever' #'so more Dracula happenings happen' #I absolutely HATE Anno Dracula #but at least its slide into the edgelord sewer began with it establishing it was in fact an AU #no sudden undo button for Dracula poofing into ash #things just went south in Carfax #(and then got exceedingly worse from there) #augh #dracula #sequel #adaptation #bastardization

[troperrific]

/ekuoto chapter 52 spoilers/

Warning: discussion about sensitive topics, usual ekuoto stuff.

Hahaha, holy shit, hahahaha!!

This chapter was just about as horribly wonderful and wonderfully horrible as I’d expected and hoped it’d be!

First things first, dang Mr. Priest is terrifying this chapter. He turned the tables on Asmodeus in so many ways and there’s so, so much to unpack.

The way Mr. Priest echoes and throws Asmodeus’ words right back at her, the way he aggressively ignores her choice (her “consent”) to retreat/get away from the fight (he slammed the door!!) and forces her to “take” his anger anyway- it all mirrors what Asmodeus put him through in the best and worst way possible.

Mr. Priest’s violence towards Asmodeus isn't sexual (as in, this isn't rape in a literal sense), nor is his enjoyment of getting back at her (as in, this isn't sexual gratification). But the mirrored actions/words and the one-sided “pleasure” of violence should still evoke, in part, the horror of Asmodeus’ attempted rape towards Mr. Priest.

It’s very reminescent of domestic violence too, which, if you remember Mr. Priest's flashbacks and what "Aria" told him, make this even more fucked-up than it already is.

Of course, there is a certain sense of catharsis to be found in this mirrored violence, in seeing Asmodeus get a taste of her own medicine. The reader can see where Mr. Priest is coming from, and after an entire arc of seeing Asmodeus’ manipulation, anticipating the worst AND witnessing the worst in chapter 51, one can appreciate the irony applied here, even while simultaneously feeling horrified.

Rip Asmodeus' thighs. And she even did her leg days properly too...

I think Arima-sensei manages to achieve a good balance in their writing, when it comes to making “revenge scenes” both cathartic and horrifying/fucked-up. I also like the way they use innuendo and subtext in the narrative- it’s great! I liked how they did those things in the Beelzebub arc/Part 3 and I like how they did it here. And both aspects are enhanced with Fukuyama-sensei’s art- the facial expressions were particularly good in this chapter.

(something something the interplay between violence and sex and hunger, something something primal urges and passion, life and death, something something)

Speaking of expressions…!

I really love these two in particular.

Just what do they mean, I wonder… the first one takes place between two maniacal, rage-fueled grins. It appears alongside Mr. Priest’s new halo (which I’ll get to in a moment) and it’s such a curious expression.

Is it a sad, resigned smile? Has he come to accept and embrace his role as the “Child of Hope” because he’s “learned” what “wanting a normal life” leads to? Maybe he’s thinking “Well, what did I expect?” regarding the good things that happened to him this past month, all a trap laid by Asmodeus.

Is it a regretful one? Does he regret believing another fake victim? Does he regret his good intentions and well-intentioned actions and trust, as they’ve backfired on him again?

Is it a relived one? Did something click and he’s convinced himself he no longer needs a normal life? Is this relief a future one? Has he gone full-circle into wanting to martyrize himself again?

Whatever that expression means, it looks like whatever Mr. Priest felt or realized at the moment allowed him to (temporarily?) reach new heights regarding his holy powers.

(And right as he’s at his most violent too… Mammon would be proud.)

Also, his halo… that’s one fancy halo. I tried to research a little and found some interesting facts about different artistic depictions of halos.

From what I can tell, his halo looks a little like a dodecagon (a polygon with 12 sides) or maybe a tridecagon (polygon with 13 sides). It also has multiple rings within it, with little… arrows/rays of light(?) and stars/particles(?) adorning it.

According to these sites, a polygonal halo (usually an hexagon, and sometimes referred to as a Nimbus a Pans) is often used to depict allegorical figures, many times a personification of a Virtue.

The little arrows cutting through the halo could very well be rays of light. In this case, it could also be a rayed halo. This type of halo is apparently often combined with others, and is usually attributed to a member of the Trinity.

Finally, the number twelve and the presence of what appears to be a bunch of little stars could be a reference to the starred halo. This halo is almost solely drawn on the Virgin Mary, depicting the Immaculate Conception or being a reference to Revelation 12:1.

(As if the line about reviving people and Beelzebub mock-crucifying him wasn’t enough lol. Makes me wonder about Mr. Priest’s mom though. Since we’ve only vaguely seen his father.)

But who knows. Maybe it's a reference to a piece of art?

It’s just something to think about. Maybe there’s a deeper meaning. Maybe it’s just rule of cool. Hopefully it’ll be both.

Also, this has nothing to do with this chapter’s commentary, but this small research made realize that Leah’s triangular halo wasn’t just an aesthetic choice to go with her cubes forming circles (lol).

The triangular halo is also used to indicate a member of the Trinity. She’s invoking their power, so it fits. But y’know, makes me wonder if there’s gonna be a third…

Back to Mr. Priest’s smiles. I wanna talk about this:

Friendship ended with Mammon, Mr. Priest is the funniest ekuoto character now.

Just what is “beautiful”, Mr. Priest?

Is he marveling at his own strength? Is he glad he’s reached a new height like Mammon did? Is the fact that he’s so strong he could “end up destroying everything” beautiful?

Is this self-acceptance, something similar to Leviathan’s own epiphany back at Part 2?

Or is this a new-found joy in seeing the fragility of life? Maybe he’s seeing beauty in the fact he’s “feeling almighty” as he’s “earned the right to end another’s life” (and promptly give it back if he chose to), something akin to Beelzebub’s thoughts on human nature.

Is it all of the above? Something else?

Hm.

It’s very worrisome. Even moreso because it’s followed by this:

It’s okay, guys! Mr. Priest has gathered all seven Dragon Balls, he can just wish Kuririn back to life!!

Coldest line in the story so far. What the actual fuck, Mr. Priest? (No jokes, I love this, please continue to freak me out more, Mr. Priest).

Also, this is quite in line with the way the Demon Lord’s have acted so far, isn't it? Who cares?? He’s gonna do what he wants right now, who cares about casualties? He can just bring everyone back??

Ah, but it also echoes what he probably heard in his memories from his father and from Abbot Nicholas (chapter 31). “So? You will heal anyway” and “So? You won’t starve”.

Mr. Priest is very funny, actually.

And speaking of funny…

No high-school romcom manga is over without a good ol' kabedon!... Er, doordon...? Gates-of-Hell-don...? Rodindon...! forgive me

Mr. Priest invented a new memetic kabedon.

But really, this has been kinda of a pattern with the Demon Lords so far: they approach Mr. Priest out of their own accord, hurt him (by deceiving/fighting /triggering him) because they want something out of him (a challenge, a friend, a hunt, an answer) and then they usually try to leave, on their terms, once they’re satisfied.

It almost went like this at the end of his second fight against Mammon. It did go like this at the end of his first fight against Beelzebub.

(It also went like this when he fought Leviathan, but considering we don’t know how he feels about her and the fight after the arc, I hesitate to add her in this ‘list’).

You see, I do think that the Demon Lord’s did/do want to help Mr. Priest in some way or another, whether that’s by teaching him their “wisdom” or “freeing” him from his duties/Church-aligned morality. I do! I genuinely do!

But just as they want to help him, they also want something from him. Their motivations do have a certain selfishness to them.

I’ve seen lot of readers joke that the demons want to give Mr. Priest therapy, but I’d argue it’s more accurate to say that the demons are using Mr. Priest for their therapy.

The Demon Lords always seem to want to prove something to themselves while fighting Mr. Priest. They want answers. And it’s because Mr. Priest is the “Child of Hope” (the strongest exorcist, the most righteous, the purest soul) that they seek those answers.

And part of their fondness towards him, to me, seem to hinge on that title and on the expectations and projections that the Demon Lords seem to put on him.

In short: they also have used Mr. Priest for their own benefit, despite whatever good intentions they might’ve had or whatever connection they might’ve felt, and then they dared to refuse him any sort of satisfaction.

Or at least, that’s probably how the boy sees it.

No wonder Mr. Priest is pissed.

On that note, the scene where Mr. Priest goes all creepy between Asmodeus’ (literally) thunder thighs…

I take it that this can be interpreted both figuratively and literally.

Figuratively, in the sense that the Demon Lords project so much shit on him, they don’t know him as well as they think they do. Yes, even when they’ve been briefly inside his head. But also because he really isn’t in the “right” state of mind.

And literally… well, because he has a head buddy, apparently.

I’ll just leave these cool theory posts here. Go read them, they’re great.

To finish these very short thoughts about the chapter (sarcasm), about Asmodeus and Sarah…

I also love this panel. What a great expression. She looks like she’s about cry. She makes me want to cry. And slap her. And cry.

There’s a lot to be said and analyzed about this relationship (which I will do, a bit more throughly, later): about how Asmodeus wanted Sarah to fight back and to defy her fate and her family, about how Asmodeus seemingly couldn’t fathom the idea of having a consensual physical relationship with Sarah (or anyone?), about how Asmodeus equated Sarah retaliating against her first abusive husband to Mr. Priest (and Sarah too) retaliating against her…

But I want to focus on Asmodeus’ “epiphany” about what she wanted to confirm to herself.

…I really do enjoy how the 7 Deadly Sins are written in this series. It’s not just that the author wants to say something with their portrayal and that they’re thematically consistent and interesting…

They’re… very entertaining and complex characters, I think. There’s always a good balance between all the characteristics one can expect from memorable antagonists. Like, they’re charismatic and fun and charming, they’re scary (in all kinds of ways!!) and awful and really fucking vile at times, and, deep, deep down, they’re… pitiful. Pathetic.

They’re very, very pathetic. And I like that.

And this… this has kinda proved to me what I’ve suspected for a while.

The Demon Lords, against all odds, have very little to no ambition when it comes to a relationship with a human, don’t they?

They’re willing to settle for the barest scraps. I wouldn’t say that they’re completely okay with things never working out… but if there was a bare minimum of love there, then maybe it’s not bad that it didn’t work out…

Even Leviathan, who desperately wants friends and readily admits her loneliness, is okay with ending things with Mr. Priest with a fight.

As a Demon Lord should.

I mean they’re monsters!! They’ve accepted that they’re monsters, and it’s not something they can help anyway, right?! They can’t help their monstrous nature, their monstrous bodies, so it’s better to embrace them!! It’s not something they can help, right, so it’s better to give up, right?!

Right…?

(It's at this point that you gotta stop and wonder about their incessant babbling about the nature of men/women/humans/demons... they're originally angels- or in Leviathan's case, a being blessed by God- after all...)

It’s a form of comfort, I suppose, to realize that no matter what you did, things wouldn’t have changed for the better. Sometimes, wondering about “what-ifs” can be the greatest torture of all.

Sometimes giving up, specially on yourself, can be the greatest sin of all.

Asmodeus originally wondered if, had she taken those men’s places, had she been the one to rape Sarah (because, again, Asmodeus can’t seem to be able to separate any sort of sexual relationship/act from sexual violence/rape/sin, and likely because, to Asmodeus, if Sarah’s being forced to marry, it’ll be rape anyway, so Asmodeus might as well have been the one to take Sarah) if she could’ve made Sarah happy.

Asmodeus wondered if she could’ve made Sarah chose her over her filial duties.

But she didn’t. She wouldn’t.

It's insane!! Actually, it's not even about Sarah choosing Asmodeus anymore! She can't even imagine that!! I wonder, does Asmodeus think that, because Sarah didn't "fight hard enough", that meant she didn't want her? That it meant Sarah would never have been with her willingly?

Of course she wouldn’t, why would she? Asmodeus is a monster, right? She would’ve hated her anyway, right? Even if Asmodeus had ripped away Sarah's ability to choose, she still woudn't have picked Asmodeus. Sarah would never have been hers, no matter what Asmodeus did or didn't do!! So it’s better that things ended how they did, right?

After all…

…

Anyway, with the arc coming to an end real soon, I wonder how things will wrap-up.

…I’m reaaaally dreading the fact that we haven’t gotten “Masses of Trash- Part 2” yet. Is it gonna be in this arc?

…….Is it gonna be in another future arc?

“Erase all with a flick of the wrist”, indeed.

#troperrific talks #ekuoto tag #make the exorcist fall in love #at this point I wonder if the Demon Lords aren’t just suffering from the worst case #of Catholic Guilt (TM) ever coupled with #the worst case of daddy issues festering for millennia #anyway go off Mr. Priest your edgelord phase amuses me

[1pcii]

people who compare zoro to sasuke dont understand zoro, but also most people who use sasuke as a unit of measurement or point of reference to compare against don't understand sasuke either, I am in a tar pit.

#like ppl who think zoro and sasuke are comparible think so because they see zoro as this hypercompetant edgelord who doesn't smile post ts #when this is obvious not true. there are definitely comparisons you CAN make but those aren't them #but going on. sasuke isn't that either (bar the hypercompetancy maybe) ppl just think he is because they have either a very basic under #-standing of his character or only know of his fanon characterization #both characters are so much more complex in personality. characterization and motives #it sucks to see this comparison made to insult zoro because it's wrong but also it's obvious they didn't get sasuke either #but also because again there are a few interesting similarities I don't see people point out often #aughhh maybe I'll take a crack at that when I'm more awake #psii.txt

[newvegascowboy]

trying to practice portraits and get my proportions/angles looking better. i get way too impatient and it suffers as a result so im using some of my favorite assholes for practice

#not fallout #kal talks #kal does an art #star wars #maul #maul opress #ventress #thrawn #revan #asajj ventress #i know revan looks like the most edgelordy edgelord thats the Point #theyre just some nasty guy. stinky. #also feat. my terrible realisation that in b&w nightbrother tattoos look like juggalo facepaint

[bombusbombus]

"batman is the perfect foil to the joker because he never laughs" is soooooo much less interesting and dynamic than "batman laughs all the time, the joker just isn't funny"

#like! the whole point is that Batman is the audience and the audience isn't laughing #but framing it like that's a priblem with Batman instead of a problem with the joker is just a flop move #the Joker's jokes fall flat. his audience doesn't laugh. so he commits harder and harder to the bit #because admitting the joke wasn't funny is the ultimate horror #there are so many important parallels to edgelords who hurt people with their “humour” #so many parallels of refusing to laugh along to harmful things. refusing to give in out of politeness or pressure #sometimes the best response is refusing to play the game #and sooooo many authors try to turn that into Batman being special instead of Batman making a choice not to engage on the Joker's terms #theres soo much real estate in the idea that Batman DOES get the joke. but doesnt think it's funny #why would you try to change it #batman

[britcision]

By the way this has been annoying me again so I need all the edgelords to listen for a moment

When you break a bone, it grows back stronger FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. WHILE IT IS ACTIVELY HEALING. Then it’s just the same as all the rest. The bone is not actually stronger going forward

Repeatedly breaking bones will not give your character a stronger or break resistant skeleton, you are much more likely to end up with weaker, brittle bones from repeated breaks

To say nothing of the need to carefully splint and set the bone to make sure it actually heals properly in the first place

Tragic backstories are fine but please at least double check your biology

#for the edgelords #tragic backstories #broken bones #yeah this has come up kinda a lot this week and it’s annoying me #torture your characters if you like but please look up torture methods #i know you don’t actually want long lasting complications #just the Trauma Points #i have very much disappointed my dear edgy dnd players #but i made it up to them by doing the exact same thing and giving them nice traumatic scars and shit #consequences are fun actually if you aren’t a coward #torture

[general-sleepy]

"He was that terrible type, the Silly Cynic, his aim a caustic commentary on all things and all men, his achievement mere vulgar irreverence and unintelligent scorn. Ill-bred and ill-informed..."

"Nine Points of the Law" E.W. Hornung

Hornung defining "edgelord" in 1898.

#raffles #e.w. hornung #nine points of the law #i'm adding the phrase silly cynic to my vocabulary #edgelord sounds too almost cool #crime and cricket

[dein0nychus]

draws gortash as one of my aliens. refuses to elaborate. leaves.

#hes a basilisk/wyvern hybrid. hes wyvern height. short king #he also has an artificial beak hook which is considered like.... pretentious edgelord fashion. extra pretentious points because its gold #i imagine hes got gay little gold ornamentation for his crest too but i didnt draw it

[y-rhywbeth2]

In Throne of Bhaal there's a spell used by a former Bhaalist priest where you can ritually cut out your heart and place it in magical flames that can only be extinguished with the same magic (at which point you get your heart back), and for as long as the organ is on fire, you're fully alive and invulnerable to damage... at the low cost of your emotions getting numbed/flattened.

Sadly, on double checking, I think it's druidry or something, and not a Bhaalist thing... but still. I want to cut my Durge's heart out and set it on fire...

...hey, Karlach needs a new heart, right? Is she taking donations?

#It's not even the invulnerability thing it's the emotional numbness he'd be after #Also the edgelord points #Kressa would be so confused during the autopsy #babbling #/durge #edgelord hours #bg2 spoilers