#from posting content for the weekend

[icewindandboringhorror]

Just curious what the average level of personal investment in these sorts of things is. Like, how much do people usually get into silly stuff like this their friends ask of them? etc. etc. Which I know, only surveying a small sample on a very specific website means I'm not getting an exact average idea lol, but.. curious nonetheless .. Maybe reblog for bigger sample size but also this is not very serious at all/not worth a call to action gbhjbhjb

#which I know this could be context dependent like.. maybe you'd normally dress up but on a week that #you feel sick you wouldn't or etc. etc. - but I mean.. GENERALLY. in the most general average scenario #where you have the average amount of health and free time that you always do. etc. just based on your personality #and level of investment in these things - what on AVERAGE are you most inclined to do #also of course assume they communicate with you ahead of time and are not like planning a part last minute #like 'throw together costume in 5 hours and show up tonight randomly' or etc. I would hope that if we're going with the #AVERAGE of things - most people's friends have better communication skills than springing entire parties #on people last minute lol #assume you have like.. a few days-a week or so to prepare. however ealrly people usually start talking about #birthdays. In my experience it's usually one or two weeks ahead of time. Like 'oh next weekend' or 'oh two weeks from now' etc. #ANYWAY.. feeling a little Sick again of course but still trying to get some photos or something posted #AGAIN i promise I am not going to exlcusively post polls and ntohing else forever hgkjgnekj #I just really really love the ability to post polls and have always my whole life been obsessed with surveying people #I used to think I wanted to do that as a career somehow like.. be one of the people that does psychological interviews #or produce interview asessments for a company or etc. etc. I am always the one friend in the group thats giving out custom made #surveys or asking for other simialr stuff (did you ever take an mbti quiz? how about enneagra #m?? oh yeah I know they're not really scientifically valid or antyhing but like... DID you take them?? huh?? did you??please?? ghjj) #I simply cannot resist.. posting a little poll every once in a while.. as a treat #whilst I still fall behind on like actual content and costumes and stuff gbjhbjh #New poll adventure should be not as much of a wait as the last one was though since I already have the writing #for it really. I just have to do the ms paint sketch. hopefully no unexpected other health issues will get in the way #*** *** *** #< (anytime I do these three star patterns it is an ocd compulsion not me bleeping out words or something just ignore it lol) #(it means something secret in my evil brain just pretend you do not see it. significant only to me) #BUT YEAH.. ... poll... what type of costume party atendee are you? #:0c

[troius]

The Kids in the Room

The Fullbringer Arc is tighter and more coherent than anything in the manga so far, telling a very straightforward story about a young person’s alienation from the world he lives in. It has very specific things to say about the role of parents, mentors, and friends in the process of a kid becoming an adult and does a pretty decent job of looking at how different organizations (the state, gangs) can play into that young person’s life. And then, at the climax of the story, it very intentionally takes all that hard work, and for what I must assume were business reasons, tosses it all away.

The Arrancar Arc was a glorious, grandiose mess. It featured no fewer than three separate worlds, four distinct factions, and probably around twenty characters with active character arcs. Although it started off with the truly breathtaking ambition of weaving all of this together, by the end Kubo had cut a considerable amount of the subplots in favor of actually getting to the end of the story he was telling. And it still mostly worked! Ichigo’s character arc, at least, ended where I think it was always going to: sacrificing his nigh-unlimited power after understanding the price of that power.

But of course, giving up all of your powers isn’t really a long-term solution for Ichigo, just like it isn’t for any of us in life. Ruling over three worlds might tend to corrupt a person, but we all want—and need—to feel like we have some power over our own lives. Ichigo, in his final year of high school, living on the precipice of adulthood, feels this in more than one way. He had this power. He sacrificed it. And yet now, he’d do anything to get it back. Anything except ask for help.

You see, asking for help is hard, but especially in the context of “seeking power”, which in this story is an even less veiled metaphor for “growing up” than it usually is in shonen manga. Asking for help means admitting both weakness (you don’t have the power to get what you want right now) and discontentment (there is something you want that you don’t have). For Ichigo, whose primary method of coping with his mother’s death was asserting a premature independence, this would be difficult even if the thing he was seeking wasn’t something he had very publicly given up in front of his friends and family. Yes, there are times when he doesn’t want to involve them to protect them, but a big part of his self-imposed isolation is his own ego, his unwillingness to reveal to people who love him just how miserable he is, out of fear that it will reveal him to be somebody they won’t love anymore.

And that’s where the Fullbringers come in. Ginjo puts in a tremendous amount of work into getting close to Ichigo—lying to him, giving him little bits of information piecemeal without telling him the whole thing, and of course, offering him power that Ichigo desperately wants. But none of it would be possible if Ichigo didn’t have this preexisting desire to do it all himself, or at least to appear to his friends and family like he’s doing it himself. Ginjo does what nobody else in Ichigo’s life does—offers him assistance without making him ask for it. Hook, line, sinker.

The body of the arc covers this masterclass in manipulation from Ginjo, and it’s a huge change from what has, up until this point, been a very standard shonen battle manga in terms of content, where the fights happen on a more or less weekly basis. Here, it takes over half the arc for Ichigo to fight anybody! It’s all character development, even for the side characters like Orihime and Chad, who don’t get fights of their own but do get to express themselves and show initiative in ways they were largely denied in the previous arc. It’s all a long, slow burn to the climax, where Tsukishima suddenly strips away the support system that Ichigo had so undervalued, leaving him defenseless against Ginjo’s theft of his power.

And that’s my big frustration with the climax. It’s not that I like the Karakura kids more than I like the Soul Reapers, although I very well might. It’s that so much work has been put into drawing out and developing these relationships, so much effort put into showing how this is affecting all of them. And it’s not just metatextual effort either—yes, we spend a lot of pagetime with Chad and Orihime and Uryu, but Xcution also targets them all because of their importance to Ichigo! The very story itself recognizes that they’re the support system that Ichigo needs to be an emotionally healthy adult! Any logical resolution must therefore involve them!

But it doesn’t. Instead, it’s the Soul Reapers, who have not been physically or even narratively present at all for four volumes, who come in and repower Ichigo. They’re the ones who pair up for the fights against Xcution, fights that are very light on the sort of character work that is so characteristic of Bleach fights because there just isn’t the grounding for it! Even the fights that show character are mostly showing development that seemingly occurred off-panel, leaving you wondering when exactly Toshiro and Ikkaku achieved their newfound maturity. But the supporting characters from the bulk of the arc are written out, and even the personal feelings of Shigekuni Genryusai Yamamoto wind up being more important to the narrative.

This isn’t just unsatisfactory on the level of the supporting characters, it also fatally undercuts Ichigo’s own development. We expect the story to end with him overcoming the challenge set in front of him, which at the beginning is clearly his alienation from the people he loves. But he doesn’t really do that—instead, the Soul Reapers showing up is what solves his problems, which suggests that the actual problem in his life is just “they weren’t around”. I don’t think that’s actually what we’re meant to take away here, and the narrative doesn’t seem to think so either, which is why we end with the character development being passed on to Soul Society instead. They learn something in this arc, which is to trust Ichigo. But he doesn’t seem to have learned a damn thing.

And that’s what frustrates me so much about this arc: the lost potential, the fact that there was a very obvious story being told that was abruptly discarded, right at the moment it mattered most. There was probably no way Kubo could have fulfilled all the potential of the Arrancar Arc: there were just to many characters, too many storylines. But here, he condensed his writing, narrowed his scope, and still told a compelling story up until he suddenly threw it all away. Whatever the reason for it-- and I have no insight into the editing or business pressures that might have motivated a climax so different from that the story was obviously building to-- it’s disappointing.

#Bleach #Troius reads Bleach #I spent the weekend on this lol #hope y'all are in the mood for 1200 words of my complaints about this arc #it just really annoys me when an author appropriately limits their ambition and yet still fucks it up #anyhow I'll have more positive content out this week #my six hearts vs Xcution matchups #but I wanted to get this out first so you knew where I was coming from #wrap up post

[judasisgayriot]

i promise I’m a huge proponent of blocking and curating your experience etc and yet it also seems like I complain all the time sorry asdgjkhkl but this fandom has genuinely made me paranoid about following or reblogging anyone new lest I be blockt n cancelled yet again for the associating w the wrong ppl crimes I seem to have committed several months ago when I got into foblr. which is kinda a bummer

#sorry I genuinely feel like I whine all the time and I really do believe in blocking n curating lol #but like I’m a chill nice person I just want to see content of the thing I’m into and I’m getting gradually cut off from a huge chunk of pp #so its just making me feel like a crazy person man!! #Truly I have block me if you want in my bio and I stand by it lol but it feels like it’s never ending and idk man #i maintain my relative innocence here! I’m just here for a good time! how did I end up at the pariah table #sigh thanks chill freaks n weirdos for being chill. promise I’ll shut the hell up now don’t get hurt don’t u get hurt. lol #also sorry if I like reply to your posts n act like I’m your friend but you’re actually like uh stop #talking to me you’re not my friend go away. i just like genuinely want to have friends and I’m awkward as hell #god this is so stupid and long and I feel like a cringefail fool but what can you doooooo #I’ll make some gifs or something this weekend. i like making things I like being in fandom! but man. it’s been a bit of a struggle here #(foblr lol) #anni rambles #I’m not actually sarcastic and cool and disaffected enough to fully be like LOL WHATEVER IDC even though I partially have that spirit #I’m too earnest and soft for the real haters n freaks n too much of a freak for like. the clique I guess lol

[yournextflame]

What is Crucible?

Crucible is one of the most important part of the Elden Ring lore, but the game never explains the exact nature or the form of it. Or does it?

From description of Siluria’s Tree (the primordial form of the Erdtree is close in nature to life itself, and this spear, modeled on its crucible, is imbued with ancient holy essence) we can learn that it is supposed to portray Crucible. I’ve been bothered why the spear is called a tree and turns out translators missed “spear���  槍  in シルリアの樹槍, so it’s Siluria’s tree spear or Siluria’s wooden spear if I go with 樹 archaic form. Interesting that 樹 originated from Old Chinese 尌 which means “a hand planting a tree”. 

Knowing that Siluria’s spear isn’t exactly a tree, I decided to rotate it and you can see the result on the picture above.

Here comes my theory - Crucible isn’t a tree, a literal crucible or something else, the last known form of the Crucible is a root system, currently known as Great Roots.

Why do I call it the last known form?

Description of Siluria's tree spear says that Crucible is a part of the Erdtree, but usually game refers Crucible as the primordial form of the Erdtree:

Holds the power of the crucible of life, the primordial form of the Erdtree (Crucible Axe Set)

Description of the Guilded Shield also provides some interesting info:

The red tinge in the gold coat mirrors the primordial matter that became the Erdtree.

As I speculate in my Color Theory post, the life on the Lands Between most likely originated from the golden star, which was sent by the Greater Will (it's also supported by Hyetta's dialogue about births and souls).

My interpretation is that the golden star is basically is a seed of life is this Evangelion reference? Notably, there is a theme of organic and inorganic matter being not so different (for example: Marika/Radagon's stone flesh), which can be interpreted in a way that golden star primordial matter contained golden ore and fantasy DNA.

In general, my main idea about golden star-the Erdtree evolution looks like this: Golden star (golden seed) - primordial matter/rudiments of the root system - fully formed Crucible root system/Erdtree's sprout (primordial form) - the Erdtree and remnants of the Crucible (Great Roots)

A quite common motif in architecture from pre-Erdtree period is an imagery of various animals coming from a plant. Divine Tower murals are showing birds, ancient beasts and reptiles intertwined with something floral, similar scenes are depicted in Farum Azula too.

More over, the lead motif is also present in Farum Azula and Nox architecture. I believe Nox and ancient dragons coexisted together for some time, as we know from description of dragonkins items Nox tried to imitate the immortality of the ancient dragons, but failed.

I'd like to thing that this leaf represents Erdtree's sprout.

The roots imagery is a popular theme in Elden Ring too. The tail of the Elden Beast resembles roots, Elden Ring itself used to have root-like rune before Marika's age, roots are shown on the ancient Erdtree's sigil and the giant mural on the Erdtree's entrance.

Roots being assotiated both with life, the Crucible - a place where all life blended together and originated from, but also a death, a place where a souls of dead are supposed to return, follows the theme of duality of life and death. It mirrors the same theme of the red color, a symbol of primordial life and Rune of Death.

Ashes to ashes, what was born from the Great Roots must return to them.

However, both root imagery and red color aren't favored in the modern times, the Erdtree lost its root both on th sigil, but also disconnected from the Great Roots system for the reason unknown (I speculate that it was result of aging of Godwyn's infection). And the red color is commonly viewed as something undesirable and shameful.

[there is a theory of mine that Golden Order not only lacked death, but a life, fertility too, but it's a theme for another post]

And the last, but not the least, cut content:

花の坩堝の乙女、ミランダが この花の最初の一輪であったという

Miranda, the maiden of floral Crucible, is said to be the first of those flowers. Description of Miranda's Prayer outright says that the Crucible was something floral or plant/flower-alike. For the better or worse, I can't use cut content as a real avidence for my theories, but I wonder if Miranda's flowers used to have a more important role in the story.

#elden ring #elden ring lore #lore theories #crucible #erdtree #cut content #I will reply to asks on weekend #sorry but sumeru was too good #I was even thinking to write lore posts about aranaras #who would win - an intricate story from grrm and miyazaki or the bunch of shroom bois #JP

[il-predestinato]

me hearing oscar say he wants to emulate daniel's character off track: on behalf of Eastern European women, and women everywhere, please don't. please strive to be so much better.

There is no driver on the grid (used to be on the grid *grin*) that I dislike more than Daniel Ricciardo, so I am actually slightly proud to say I'm not even sure what you're referring to - but also slightly embarrassed that I'm so uninformed. Please feel free to enlighten me. 🙈

But yeah, agreed - I pray that Oscar will turn out better than him on and off the track.

#i fully admit that i have every version of daniel's name and abbreviation muted on every social media platform #so i'm genuinely not up to date on whatever cringe behaviour he's been up to other than what i'm subjected to on race weekends #i'm so happy that i can consume mclaren content again #elle.ask #anon #i only posted the daniel bits from that interview because it was reflective of oscar's [good] character

[austerulous]

Good morning gang! ♡ I have a busy day ahead of me and I’m still spitting blood so I won’t be here much, but my plans for the weekend include sending out the asks for that inbox call, catching up with DMs (here and on Discord, finally) and a regular spring-clean of my follower list.

#because i plan it doesn't mean it'll happen but i'll do my best! #inspired by sue's post but this is a reminder i don't like people following if they have no intention of interacting with me on some level #this can be through likes comments ooc chat tagging in dash games literally anything that can could as engagement #there are plenty if opportunities here but if you aren't feeling it then feel free to soft block me #i want to keep my circle as small as possible so we can really sink our teeth into our plots and dynamics #that doesn't mean being perpetually online or constantly available but it does mean showing some interest #i'm literally the slowest person both ic and ooc but i reach out to mutuals fill in interest trackers like starter calls etc #i hate how negative this sounds because it doesn't apply to like 90% of my mutuals but hey ho #i'm only reiterating what's literally written into my rules so i can keep this space comfy #it comes from the experience of having a ' silent watcher ' stealing heaps of creative content from me and my friends in the past #not on tumblr but still #anyway i hope you all have a good saturday and a chill weekend ahead of you ♡ #◈ — ooc; puffin speaks

[uraharasandals]

I wonder how Unohana sometimes feel in the Gotei 13, because she's simultaneously one of the oldest (and hence senior, by age and thus by rank in default) and only women in a highly hierarchical and military organisation. She probably gets talked down to and disrespected a lot - especially given that she doesn't seem to be the type to openly advertise the fact that she was there at the beginning.

Like, Kyoraku and Ukitake knows about her past so it's likely that this was something that was known by people before she adopts her current demure demeanor. Also the fact that she seems to scare the everliving shit out of some people by her aura alone. But what if there were some idiots who weren't wise enough to keep out of her hair? And some people who looked down on her regardless?

Unohana would probably have made recovery for them as excruciating as fucking possible but still, thinking about this.

#I'm discussing this because I was in a production over the weekend and I was literally the only QPOC in the room #I was also the most senior ranking member of crew after the directors and producers #And yet I still feel talked down to by the other white men in the team #I don't know this just made thoughts™ emerge from my head because it doesn't seem discrimination would've been non-existent #They just likely didn't show it because it wasn't relevant #But kenpachi and the 11th has a clear disdain for the 4th so there is definitely drama in the Gotei 13 #Unohana Retsu #Unohana Yachiru #Bleach #Bleach meta #I'm posting a lot of Unohana content recently and it's quite strange because I've never really been that interested in her as a character #Lmao #But I'm loving it so far!!

[dykevenusian]

Day three of covid: alternating between sobbing and laughing and then c*mming once I get bored

#today has been such a dumpster fire #and last weekend I thought I was going to die #it’s gets better but first it’ll get so much worse #personal posting #covid posting #time to find more content to keep my mind from melting #who has good steddie ronance or byler fics drop them in the replies #steddie #ronance #byler

[fortheloveofaussiegrit]

(📷 Jakub Porzycki)

#.2023 #monaco charity football match 2023 #right i think thats everything i have to post from this weekend #lotttt of content #and a lot of squealsss #and now i have to go to work cos someone agreed to work bank holiday

[akkivee]

i’m absolutely pissed lmao i got on tumblr via my desktop to see i had inbox notifications and learned i had about 10 asks i ain’t ever seen before 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#this is vee speaking #like my notifications have been weird for a while lately and i just chalked it up to posting actual content Somewhat Consecutively #so i just thought maybe it just needed to sort itself out once i had nothing to show lol #but some of these asks are from last year dawg what 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i’ll spend like a day after this weekend on these asks i feel so bad i’m sure a lot of them left tumblr 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[princelancey]

Aston have posted more photos on insta of a driver from a different team than they have of lance this weekend I'm just tired of it honestly

#lance stroll #aston martin f1 #f1 #f1 socials #like seriously? theybalready bately post any lance content compared to seb #and now non team deivers are getting more than him too? fuck off #there are 3 lance pics this weekend ofbthose 3 posts only one of them is him alone #the other two also have seb #the number of posts where its just seb? #eight #its fuxking bullshit #i just want to see some damn pics of my driver from his fucking team #itd be nice if i didnt have to go on getty images and motorsport images to go find them myself

[sonohban]

i feel like i should make something emotionally meaningful someday but is that me genuinely wanting to put forth the effort myself or just feeling like i'm obligated to in order to look like i Understand things..

#slaps self it's just dragon ball it's not that deep #not really i do like thinking about it a lot #but the point is i shouldn't feel pressured to publicly demonstrate that i do through art #also even if i wanted to i just really don't have the energy these days #ok random side vent in the tags but like #i'm seeing LOTS of posts that are like <3 if you enjoy something you WILL find time for it <3 #sorry no. i really can't. i'm up from 5 am to past 7 pm #and then the weekends are the only times i have to draw which feels like no time and it makes me not wanna draw #ok i do actually usually draw on the weekends but i never have the strength to do like Good Art #SHAKES SELF STOP HAVING A CONTENT CREATOR MINDSET FUCKO YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DRAWING FOR FUN. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUN #ahem. sorry #dw my job is nice i swear it's just i wish i had a little time to myself #i really like my coworkers too!! #instant transmission

[inanthesis]

I found a Kei-core post so...

#i would've rb'd it but op changed the post contents and i don't wanna rb it from a rando #and now I think I'm gonna draw. I'll write this weekend. #KEI || musings #GEN || mun edits

[akihikosanada]

persona 5 is a video game that exists

#will forever be mad i couldnt finish yusukes confidant. makes me feel like when i didnt finish chies sl in my first playthrough of p4g #anyways why did they change it so that you have to manually get the items from your maxed confidants instead of them simply #giving them to you at the end of their link -_- like if one were to miss out on any by mistake theyd not get the hot #abilities and ability to fuse the ultimate personas yk #the least they could have done was tell you who you were missing and where to find them like p4 did #i dont mind the walking around stuff to see them im not complaining about that. and why would i anyways you do the same in p3 and p4 #140 hours on a first playthrough of vanilla p5 is too much. thats how long i took in ng+ p4g #between the new content and the third semester i would have been like. fucking 200 hours #too many hours spent on a game which i didnt even like much #and i do know at least vaguely about many of the additions in royal but i refuse to think the re-release would have made me have a #completely different opinion on the game #ANYWAYS. i no longer have any excuses preventing me from finishing my p3p ng+ playthrough 🥲 #ill probs finish it during the weekend much to my chagrin ☹ #final thoughts on p5: goodbye ryuji my number one boy 💔 i will forever miss you king #my post

[vynegar]

14% of the way through....

#ok i can do like half an hour each day and then i'll finish on the weekend. good pace. we can do this #hopefully tomorrow i can do some reading at work. LMAO. #honestly my bottleneck (aside from my own focus/free time) is the rate at which people upload the main story recordings to youtube #youtube channel polar artem u are my hero. i love you. i hope you have a good day 366x this year #tot liveblog #wow i should translate something again... maybe i've improved (wishful thinking) #but it really has been a while and there are some things i said i would translate that i never did. lol #probably not a card tho (mainly since i haven't been reading the recent cards). maybe an extra thing like interview. i'll probably look for #some fan analyses since we got a main story chapter. idk tho i kinda wanna chew over word choice again. then again i get to be a bit looser #when translating discussion posts.... #EDIT 2/12: post is still happening just. it takes so much focus to read two things at the same time aldsjfklsjlaskej #so much more tempting to read other VNs where i'm like. just reading normally. and not also trying to keep track of a plot spanning mult ye #years while simultaneously trying to consider the implications for characterization in the context of 2.5 years' worth of interaction #it's fine my relationship with tot content is totally normal and healthy and i absolutely do this voluntarily. for Fun #ok but DEF it'll be up by next weekend promise (bc i need to distract myself before dessert de otomate)