I think i finally understand how the Distortion works. I mean, i don’t think it’s possible to ever fully understand it, and i don’t know the whole picture yet because i don’t know what Helen will be like, but i feel like i’ve just been granted a glimpse at the lovecraftian (as in ineffable) thing that is this being.
It’s not a person and a creature fighting inside one mind. There’s no Michael clawing himself to the surface to express his emotions and get his revenge.
Michael Shelley is dead. The Distortion became Michael. It sounds so simple, yet a least in my opinion it’s hard to fully understand.
I think what provides the best metaphor is a small thing the Distortion says after becoming Helen: "without a proper mind." The Distortion does not have its own mind. It’s only a what, but in order to really exist in this reality, it needs a who. It needs a body, but also a mind.
So if i understand this right, it’s like this: Michael Shelley is dead. His conciousness is not there anymore. And the Distortion got forced into that mind, an empty mind of a dead person. This doesn’t make it human, it’s still able to understand the impossible, it’s still the thing that was created to scare and kill. But in the mind it’s living in… the previous owner’s furniture is still there. It gets the dead person’s memories. It becomes Michael, in the sense that it has to be someone. Its existence got tied to being Michael, although Michael Shelley is dead.
When Michael got "emotional", that wasn’t Michael Shelley coming through. It was the Distortion grappling with the side effects of being someone - of living in a mind with all the memories and the human emotions that a human mind can’t fully turn off, even when the thing inhabiting it isn’t human at all.
The Distortion was Michael in the sense that it was thinking with Michael Shelley’s mind. When it became Helen, its consciousness, its being stayed the same, but it needed to adapt to this new mind. It could see clearer now, realizing that the windows of the previous house had been dirty, realizing that the wirings of the previous mind had driven it to do something that it actually didn’t want to do. The throat of the Spiral itself getting caught in the spiralling of its own, borrowed mind.
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bundle up!
chiluc week 2022
@chilucexchange
day 4
prompts: domesticity | bakery/coffee shop au
challenge: include a ribbon
open for better quality | no reposts | ID under the cut
[Image description: A four page comic of Diluc wrapping a red scarf around Childe before he departs on a trip. Diluc is dressed in his usual outfit and his hair is tied with a black ribbon. Childe is dressed in his white harbinger coat.
On the first page, Diluc focuses on the scarf, while Childe gazes endearingly at him. “Remember to wear a coat when you’re out,” says Diluc.
“Okay.” Childe replies.
“And don’t skip meals, even if you’re busy working.”
“Oka-” Childe is cut off as Diluc reaches forwards with his arms.
On the second page, Childe smiles, flustered. There is a label that reads, “Definitely thought he was getting a kiss” and an arrow pointing at Childe. Meanwhile, there is a label that reads, “Only reached up to loop the scarf around” and an arrow pointing at Diluc. Childe replies with an “Okay...” and there are sound effects of Diluc folding the scarf at the bottom of the page.
On the third page, a chibi Childe stares in awe at the finished scarf. A “TADA” and sparkles appear around him. The dialogue continues as Diluc says, “Oh, and one more thing before you go.”
“Huh? Everything is packed though?”
“Not that,” says Diluc with a blush.
On the fourth page, Diluc cups the side of Childe’s face and kisses him on the cheek. “Travel safe,” he says.]
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I would love to see a heartfelt, gut-wrenching goodbye kiss from Finnick and Annie because you know they've had a good few of those kisses in their traumatic life.
anon your wish is my command
When the alarm goes off, Annie doesn’t move. She’s been awake for what feels like hours. She still isn’t going to move, because if she does, then this will splinter and fracture and it will actually be the morning, and he will actually need to leave.
At least he’s leaving in the morning. She hates when he leaves at night. It means that he won’t get any sleep and then he’ll be expected to perform even more exhausted than he normally is. She doesn’t think he slept much anyway. She doesn’t know.
She’s spinning out, so she squeezes her eyes shut and pretends it’s not the morning until Finnick turns the alarm off. He exhales slowly next to her.
He has to know she’s awake. Has to. But he needs her to not be upset, and Annie’s fraying around the edges too much to keep it together the way he needs her to.
She drags herself out of bed at the last second. She knows they’ve both put it off, he’ll have to run the whole way to make it to the train on time, so she runs down the stairs and nearly collides with him as she stumbles on the last step.
He catches her. It’s almost thoughtless, the way he does it. Like he’ll always catch her.
“Finnick,” she says helplessly, and draws his head down to hers so she can kiss him.
It’s quicker than she wants. She wants to lose herself in it. She knows she can’t, but she does, just for a second, in the feel of his lips on hers. How soft his hair is under her fingertips.
“You’d better run,” she says against his lips. “Don’t want to be late.” Her voice cracks.
Finnick kisses her again and then turns and dashes out the door. He never said a word to her. She doesn’t think he could.
Annie collapses into a kitchen chair and stays there, staring at the wood grain of the table, for a long, long time.
send a kiss
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Alright fine I’m gonna speak my mind.
My cis followers, listen up:
Being attracted to trans people is not inherently a fetish. The way you speak about trans people CAN be fetishistic, but 99% of the time when I see cis people calling out trans fetishism it’s literally just. Someone being really horny for a trans person. That’s not inherently fetishistic.
Sorry but it actually hurts me a little when I see cis people claim that a content creator is being fetishistic for drawing a trans guy with tits and a pussy, or for writing smut where a trans guy really enjoys using his pussy for sex, or God forbid said trans guy is fem. Trans people like that exist, you know. I myself have a pussy and fuck yes do I want people I’m in a relationship with to be attracted to it. And the same goes for many transfemmes who keep their natal parts, especially butch transfemmes.
Trans people are not a monolith. We don’t all hate our bodies or experience dysphoria or express our genders the same way. I swear to God cis people are all “allies” until a trans man is fem or a trans woman is butch or an enby isn’t androgynous or we actually enjoy our bodies or we have a kink or sexual fetish you don’t like.
Cis people: I know your hearts are in the right place and I appreciate that, but spouting “oh this content is fetishistic and Bad because trans men NEVER like their vaginas and are NEVER feminine” (or something equal to other trans people) is seriously not the allyship you think it is.
There is absolutely a conversation to be had about fetishising trans people — chasers in particular — but it’s quite a bit less black and white than hating certain FICTIONAL portrayals of trans people because these types of trans people exist in real life and we can see what you say about us.
I love my dick and my pussy (because I have both — are you aware we can have both?) but I saw a post today by someone I really like that actually made me feel kind of shit about myself because it was a cis person essentially saying that smut that describes my genitals in any particularly horny light is fetishistic and that really kind of hurt me. It made me feel like people think I’m undesirable due to my body only it was said in some backwards attempt to be an ally which is almost worse than deliberate transphobia lol.
I guess my point is: not all trans people’s feelings and experiences are universal. Call out obvious transphobia when you see it, yes, but please stop speaking for us about complex situations you just can’t fully understand unless you’re trans. Trans identities and experiences can be so much more complicated than what mainstream celebrities and articles will tell you and I just really need cis people to stop behaving as though the issues we face are a quick and easy fix. It never is. Sometimes the best allyship is to listen to how WE feel and take it into consideration instead of saying whatever you think we want you to say — because a lot of the time, we don’t.
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where did the idea that aziraphale doesn't know gabriel tried to kill him come from. he literally did. they did the bodyswap specifically bc both of them were aware of how similar their ex-bosses are and aziraphale knew gabriel would fully try to murder him and also in the first fight of s2 crowley SAYS that gabriel "tried very hard to cast you into hellfire and destroy you" so even if somehow aziraphale believed he did the whole bodyswap just to save crowley from holy water (which he KNOWS was brought there by michael also) while heaven kidnapped his body to give it a stern talking-to then that line would've given it away. this one is not a communication or information problem folks he is fully aware of how bad heaven sucked in s1
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putting this here, as this is where i am the most active in posting art work, if you would like to see some personal stuff that ive been working on that is related to some things in this post please feel free to send a dm and i can send you my other blog !! please support those who have been hurt in this situation, and to those out there who arent only hurt and disgusted by alex kisters actions, but are also hurt due to being attached to his characters, i hope this show some help.
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