#forces from beyond

[aurelion-solar]

Kai’Sa & Void Followers LoR Concept Art - Lisha Du

#kai'sa #league of legends #league of legends champion #legends of runeterra #forces from beyond #belvethi elder #void blaster #void abomination #hive herald #voidling #voidlings #void #concept art #official

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[pherre]

briefly considered an idea where julian's daughter visits the button house hotel before remembering she's literally a green party mp and it's a golf resort. rip julian you will never see your daughter again

#GRANTED i don't know anything about british politics but i feel it would be a Bad Look for a green party mp to stay at a golf resort #the fact that they made it a golf resort is so evil why couldnt it be just a hotel 😭😭 why golf 😭 #bbc ghosts #ghosts spoilers #unrelated but i am fucking haunted by that email he typed out to his wife. did he ever send that #pov youre a green party mp and youre forced to visit a golf resort because your horrible dead tory dad sent an email to your mom #from beyond the grave. somehow

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Happy birthday boyo. Your weird family is celebrating about as normally as can be expected.

#aka wouldn't it be funny if his birthday happened immediately after stormbringer #sorry. #ugh this took way too long for the crappy thing that it is but i hope it's funny at least #i realized too late that shirase is in his fifteen outfit. i think he just. popped in from fifteen to strike a pose. then he's out. #wtf is he even doing. i don't know. #bsd #bsd chuuya #not tagging everyone lol #bsd adam #bsd dazai #bsd verlaine #bsd shirase #mori is ready with his camera. he's so proud lol. kouyou and elise are judging. #dazai trying to steal the hat by swapping it out. verlaine is onto him. rimbaud feels a disturbance in the force from beyond the grave #the flags are happy he's still got some people you know :') #and adam is just happy to be there hehe #my art #storyrambles

[trustworthycinnamon]

Howdy Ultimate Dirk nation how are we doing today I'm sorry for my evil crimes (or am I)

#homestuck #homestuck beyond canon #dirk strider #ultimate dirk #ult dirk #homestuck 2 #hsbc #epic galleria #i dont like adding so many technical tags but if i dont organize myself i'll fucking explode and die and go Ult #one might call this yassifying. i simple call it having a Big Brain and Seeing the Truth #that screenshot is from an upload of Beatup btw. mf has like 3 fucking theme songs. lets beat him up #i was forced to draw fuckin hands. worst moment in my life. this was my own form of torture #you can see where i started to give up and go Fuck it We ball. tf is this bastard hunk wearing #what it is wrong with him. it is so attractive #i want him so bad i feel sick. i think i hauve covid. joder que bueno está el condenao me lo cargo a besos dame una noche con él #hey why dont you fuck with My narrative handsome. leans against wall with a rose on my mouth #i dont even read h:bc btw but the slay energy that panel had provoked some energy inside me in me to activate

[fromtheseventhhell]

One major factor missing from most debates on Arya and Lyanna's beauty is that they're being judged by their society's extremely patriarchal values. In both looks and personality, that context is essential to understanding how others perceive them. George explores the misogyny experienced by non-conforming women, especially with Arya, and it's interesting how he plays with that regarding their physical beauty.

Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. (The Blind Girl, ADWD) "You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert," Ned told him. "You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee." (Eddard VII, AGOT)

These two quotes offer a nice summation of this idea. With Arya, her supposed lack of beauty is defined by her being a non-conforming wild child. Her hair is messy, her face is dirty, and she's often in "lower class" clothing while engaging in unladylike activities. None of this says anything about her physical beauty but it tells us everything about how she's perceived. Arya could be pretty...If she conforms to society's standards for a highborn Lady. With Lyanna, however, we get the opposite. Where Arya is judged based on her personality, Robert's romanticization of Lyanna is rooted solely in her looks. He doesn't know anything about the person she really was. There is an assumption that, because she looked a certain way, her personality must fit and Robert imagines her much softer and more passive than she actually was.

That Arya isn't pretty or Lyanna wasn't wild are two perceptions that George specifically pushes back against. This is where people miss the brilliance of them being linked as literary mirrors; it is largely about us learning more about Lyanna, but it touches on more than that. The significance of them being written as wild, willful, and with their own beauty is that George isn't writing his female characters around patriarchal expectations. When people debate their beauty, that's often the trapping they fall into. Beauty and non-conformity are treated as mutually exclusive factors when the story itself never makes that point; this is also the logic that leads people to the (incorrect) conclusion that Lyanna and Arya aren't meant to be similar. Arya's self-esteem issues around her looks and being a Lady make this a topic certain to be addressed in the future; George has made it a part of the story. The conclusion shouldn't be that "looks don't matter", but that looks aren't indicative of a character's value, personality, or morality.

#arya stark #lyanna stark #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #I know we're tired of this topic but I'm going to keep bringing it up until people base their analysis on what's actually in the books #it's not about needing/wanting Arya to be pretty it's about! the story being told #and it's just frustrating that this is such a highly debated topic that lacks all the nuance it's handled with in the source material #among a lot of other reasons people miss this point because they miss the way misogyny is handled in Arya's chapters #they think her being non-conforming mean she has some super special privilege that makes her exempt from it #Arya being pretty is a relatively small part her character but the message behind it contributes to a larger picture #and the biggest shame about this whole debate is that it misses genuinely brilliant writing #it's just absurd to be that /female character being non-conforming and pretty/ is beyond this fandom's comprehension skills #you guys really just want to force them into being flat no-nuance archetypes for easier consumption #Arya and Lyanna...I'm so sorry this fandom can't handle you because they hate women #mind you several people refer to Arya as pretty but apparently every single one of them is lying/unreliable because...reasons #this fandom truly has zero comprehension skills

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Why didn’t the lady just turn six into a nome? Is she stupid???

I was gonna tell you I slept with your mom but I actually may have a serious answer to this.

One of the very important things the DLC did to enhance the plot of LN (and the character of the Lady overall) is that is gave us a very precious interaction where comparisons can be drawn: it shows us how the Lady would react to a normal kid VS how she reacts to Six.

When circling around the defenseless Runaway Kid, the Lady takes her time with approaching him. She goes around him thrice, with each approach getting closer and closer until by the last one she's essentially face to face with him. It almost feels like she's studying him, in a way, before she decides what she ultimately wants to do with him.

You'd think she would take the time to kill him instantly, especially since he was unlucky enough to catch her during one of her most vulnerable moments, but instead she opts to turn him into a Nome after she slides directly in front of him and gets a clear view of him. By the looks of it, it really seemed like she was trying to check something.

(You can watch this video so you can see what I'm talking about. Go to minute 23:58 so you can see what I mean)

When she sees Six, however, she's immediately on the run after her. What's strange is that eventually when Six escapes her the first time and reaches the corridor on the other side, she lets her get the mirror relatively unharmed, and then follows the... "ritual", let's call it that, to a tee. So much so that when she loses, she doesn't retaliate. She accepts defeat. Going as far as to move to make room for Six to bite her neck -- as if she already knew what was going to happen.

(As you can see, her pose here has changed. She's holding herself up to be right at Six's height with her neck.)

When Six does bite her, the Lady lifts her hand as a reflex, but does not make a motion to grab or push Six away. Regardless of whether she was defeated or not, she is still the larger being. If she was to push Six away - especially now that she's weakened by her hunger - the kid would either fall on the ground or, at worse, bite her hand. Nothing life threatening.

What gets me is that SHE, who is so keen on keeping the Maw alive and who is the reason the whole operation is even still going to begin with, the living heart (figuratively) of the submarine, would let herself be defeated without so much as a complaint... UNLESS this is the way to ensure the Maw's survival.

This Lady dies here, sure, but through this process, the Maw gains an heir. The Maw has lived before her, and with this, it will most likely live after her. So her duty is done, essentially. Obviously, though, because she is human, the Lady does not want to just die and give up without a fight at least -- which is what leads to the non-canonical deaths (a.k.a. every time the player gets caught by her and she instantly kills you) and possibly to the ritual even being structured the way it is when Six comes around.

More than a ritual, it is rite of passage, if you will. "The Lady Circles" does sound very solemn and contained, starting with a lone and low percussion that one could compare to the "starting horn", as in the beginning of the battle.

Six is "off limits". In the sense that she can't be turned into a Nome because of her position in the Maw's system. In the words of Tarsier themselves:

Beyond Six's control, because she did not want to be on the Maw in the first place -- but beyond the Lady's, too. Because she doesn't want to die and be replaced. But it's part of the cycle taking place in the Maw, as it has been for a long time, so the Lady must accept it, whether she likes it or not.

Now, whether the Maw did actually survive thanks to Six staying or not... that is up in the air, as of now. We'll find out eventually.

#little nightmares #little nightmares theory #little nightmares meta #ln meta #six #little nightmares six #ln six #the lady #little nightmares the lady #ln the lady #the lady ln #six ln #the runaway kid #the runaway kid ln #ln rk #rk ln #runaway kid ln #{im very passionate about the 《two characters thrown together from forces beyond their control》 point in particular #neither of them has a choice in this and its incredibly fascinating because it again implies a tie deeper than just #six being a random kid with the hunger and the lady casually being the means to solve that problem #and also why im so convinced the lady used to have the hunger as well. to have the solution to a problem you must first experience it no? #and it would explain why Six out of all the kids having dreams dreamt of the Lady and not a place/specific moment in time #the connection between them is strong while also being nonexistant in terms of past relationships. like they didnt know each other prior #n they just started beefing. LMAO}

[bosooka]

whenever people say that satine made a huge critical mistake/moral failure by not "compromising" with militant mandalorians i wonder if i was the only person who heard satine say the words "even extremists can be reasoned with" or "concordia is under independent rule and we need to talk to the governor" or "there was a time we weren't enemies, perhaps that time has come again" or "there will be no bloodshed" when she literally surrenders to death watch (a terrorist group btw) because she knows she's lost popular support to them

idk i think there's sort of a satine horseshoe theory going on where people who hate her and people who Nuance Like(TM) her both have selective amnesia about how compassionate, observant, and willing to compromise satine actually is so they can paint her as either a genocidal dictator or an overly-idealistic stubborn bitch #GirlBoss with good intentions and in the end they're 3 centimeters away from each other in terms of how rancid i find their opinion to be

#satine kryze #idk i don't think anyone who is talking about compromising and not being pacifist is doing so in good faith #it's all with the same uncharitable premise that satine forced people to accept her rule #when we see she believes her legitimacy comes only from the people's desire to be ruled by her #it's just a bunch of bad faith extrapolation from the dialogue of known antagonists #like it's a tv show there's nothing beyond what we see on the screen #there is 0 indication that before the death watch arc people wanted satine gone quite the contrary #and going 'well but we don't know what the people REALLY wanted' is silly because the people don't exist and do not have a will #sw

[badolmen]

On the topic of ‘bad mascot horror video games for kids’ the exception to the rule (or rather, something that understood the assignment) would be My Friendly Neighborhood.

I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t booted up the game before, but just…don’t be fooled by jumpscare compilations or the character design. From the opening cutscene this game grabs you by the fucking throat. The mechanics have thought put into them, the voice acting is top notch, and christ the fucking story - a complete story, one that has an end that isn’t promised in future ‘chapters’ or left ambiguous.

Yes, it has jumpscares from goofy muppet monsters, but they’re not cheap tricks. Once you learn how the game works they’re easy to avoid or at the very least anticipate - not to mention they’re survivable with the healing mechanic. And just when you think the scares are done, when you’re well into the game and have all the tools you need to navigate around potential jumpscares, the final act dunks you into the deep-end with the actual horror and nightmare fuel puppets.

I’m not sure how much the game as a whole qualifies as ‘horror,’ but it’s certainly being lumped in with the Whatever-Mascot Horror Game of the Week genre. Which is a shame because My Friendly Neighborhood is leagues ahead of those other games. It has more in common with survival horror than it does with mascot horror in terms of gameplay and tropes. It’s literally just the ‘monster’ designs leading people to assume its another Poppy Playtime clone complete with half baked story and repetitive, unimaginative gameplay loops. And that’s so far from the truth -

My Friendly Neighborhood is like if Sesame Street and Resident Evil had a beautiful muppet baby that opened its eyes to have an existential crisis when confronted with the horrors and apathy of modern capitalism.

#ra speaks #personal #video games #mascot horror #survival horror #my friendly neighborhood #I’m not trying to be harsh on the mascot horror genre but let’s be real. a lot of those games aren’t made from genuine joy for the genre. #which is a shame because as MFN shows you CAN make a kid friendly horror game that CARES deeply about the message and story it has to tell. #a lot of ‘click bait’ video games these days aren’t…games. they’re walking simulators. at best a compilation of fetch quests w flavor text. #video games are an ART medium. what emotions are you trying to evoke. what are you trying to communicate beyond language. #its art that cannot exist without participation of the viewer and that participation needs to be considered as an active force. #the player is not passively turning the page they are writing the story the rules the world with you. but if there’s no genuine love for it #from the creator…what is there? what’s left when the player is a vehicle for YouTube jumpscare clickbait and not an integral piece of art? #I’m rambly today. sorry.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Your spilled milk theory makes so much sense. Plus, how in the small update 'move barnaby' can be taken as like a command for him to move out of the way. (Maybe from the show entirely?) Which would make sense that maybe something will happen to barnaby!

hmmm well That im skeptical on, purely because Wally was following an instruction - the whrp were just asking random things. though. though. i think there could be some merit in it being foreshadowing - storytelling isnt purely on-purpose-in-universe...

#like sally being reversed makes me raise an eyebrow #in-universe im super doubtful the whrp have any intent behind their commands beyond 'is wally actually there and listening' #but on a more meta level. Hm. Big Hm. #you. keep thinking.... #rambles from the bog #homebogging #but yeah something Is definitely gonna happen to barn #you cant be the best friend of the story's driving force and Not be doomed in some shape or form

[tmascfaggot]

robot boy with a digital shrine to an ai god. thinking pondering musing

#or any more like #enigmatic technological force #smth that doesn't have physical form but could if it wantwd #smth thay can be channeled and seen as the word of god #smth that seems like it's coming from divinity beyond earth. smth coming from the sky #fun fact: i used to be in the Actually Divine community on tumblr (if u know what that is. sorry) and there werw digital shrines there #i wonder if i can find the site wveryone used to use #signal broadcast 📺

[aurelion-solar]

Legends of Runeterra: Forces from Beyond - Level Up Animations

#kai'sa #gwen #evelynn #league of legends #league of legends champion #legends of runeterra #forces from beyond #level up #legends of runeterra gif #gif #my gifs #mine

[chicago-geniza]

Pharmacy is making me download an app to fill my prescriptions and I am once again getting irrationally angry at App Creep. Stop encroaching on the necessities of daily life. I don't want to scan a fucking QR code and I don't want to download an app just to get my allergy medicine or buy a bus pass. I will Kill you

#No more apps. We have moved beyond the need for apps #My only vehement Retvrn opinion is Stop Requiring A Smartphone To Live In Society #Like the only thing stopping me from switching to a flip phone of yore is #MyChart + CVS #+ Ventra + My fuckass bank forcing you to do everything through the app

[muninnhuginn]

li tianchen saying he hated people who pretended to be nice but were secretly jerks the most + the neighbour who saw what was going on but backed off (whether because of his own safety or because liu lan shook her head to get him to go away with the idea that it would stop further escalation). the idea that "jerk pretending to be nice" in this case is represented by an observer seeing something wrong and refusing to intervene.

looking at cheng xiaoshi's repeated interference during dives vs lu guang's mantra to keep the past as it was. to remain an observer deliberately.

#link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #tying these ideas together in a very loopy bow until I can decide what to make of it #the fact that during this entire dive we don't actually get to see how much of it was keeping things the same vs potential alterations #and that cxs went into the dive not knowing both li parents would die but lg received that info during the dive #he could easily decide to relay that info or choose to keep it to himself in the hopes of making cxs follow his instructions #(just as with keeping emma's death from him. the earthquake outcome.) #has lu guang actually been forced to change in any capacity or will he keep following the same lines. or does he trust cxs has changed #enough to follow the path even knowing the outcome. idk idk it's just musings #anyway I'm side-eying the guy with the football in the fountain big time. got some ideas but nothing settled yet beyond being sus at no fac

[worstloki]

I like the jotun horn jewelry/decoration thing but i think it wouldnt be like. Gold. Bc where are they getting gold from? Where are they mining it and smelting it and stuff? Idk why. It just doesnt compute in my brain, it doesnt seem to fit their whole thing and mentslly i csnt imagine the place having a ton of gold thst didnt get ripped away when they lost the war. Even though aesthetically i get that it looks nice.

I don’t even mind Jotunheim naturally having a lot of gold *in the past*, (or whenever) I just don’t like the way people use it as an orientalism-vibe literary device. There’s often no explanation given for the gold either, especially in a post-colonised world unless there’s a note on ‘this is ALL the gold Jotunheim had left and LOKI has it bc he needs to look pretty (and like a woman)’

#it’s wild #like maybe they used to wear bands of gold on their feet or something in the past but #did Jotunheim LOOK like it has any good at all in the MCU #where is that coming from beyond the orientalism #ASGARD is the gold planet #why doesn’t ASGARD supply the gold #wouldn’t that serve a better function in any forced political marriage(ish) concept? #wouldn’t that be a way for Asgard to establish their power in the scenario?? #whatever #I think Thor should be the one in gold jewellery btw #Loki can have green seaweed or ice jewellery or something I guess

[katabay]

top 5 fandoms?

oooh, okay! so my top 5 to hang out in (which is not necessarily the same as stuff I draw fan art of, but ones where I’ve gone to group meet ups at conventions, attended watch parties/events for, actively seek out the tags for on twitter, etc) are probably

-Kamen Rider

-the bitter Sam fan side of SPN

-DMBJ

-Pacific Rim

-Guardian/Zhen Hun or the Yakuza franchise

#I avoid a lot of fandom spaces now because the vibe isn’t super fun and I dislike the elevator pitch trend people have adopted #when talking abt media like I fully did not give a shit about dunmeshi until a friend convinced me to read it bc the way everyone #on twitter talked about it was boring as hell so I’m not interested in going beyond talking to two friends abt it #and generally keep it down to the tried and true system of ‘find five friends and chat about it offline’ method of enjoying things #but the above five things are things where I actively go out to engage with or talk to other people about #tbh fan art is a lot like shaking loose thoughts from my brain and forcing them to take a coherent shape on paper #ANYWAY I think the JSAMN fandom might replace one of these at some point. everyone is very nice 🥺