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[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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#cw: blood + eye scarring #oh the inherent intimacy of seeing and being seen #just a comic about how the desire to be seen and shown love and compassion unites us all #also big scary monster lady pretty #girl power! the personification of disaster and strife uses she/her pronouns! #i also feel somewhat obligated to mention here that i dont have anything against christianity as a whole #i just think the concept of God is interesting #i went to a christian school for 12 years im allowed to make this comic #comic art #sapphic #yes. interpret the subtext #stillindigo art #heartearters #thats the name of the anthology this will belong to. whenever i finish it #stillindigo comics

[queenofmean14]

Y’all. I am cackling over here about Polin fans complaining about the lead couple not getting enough screen time and too many stupid subplots.

Welcome to Shondaland hell, kids! No one gets what they want.

#bridgerton #polin #kanthony #no one is happy #Bridgerton spoilers #why did Portia not tell her children how babies were made? #she and Violet both belong to the awkward mom club #that balloon scene was awkward and greggy should have been in the basket for extra drama #why isn’t John Scottish? #this slow burn quiet thing isn’t translating well on screen #I keep think Lady Arnold is Kate McKinnon #why is the queen a terrible matchmaker? #she’s 0/4 since Edwina didn’t marry the prince

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Leave wildlife alone. He probably bites.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #a-qing #xiao xingchen #xue yang #shout out to our girl a-qing for seeing the downfall this man would cause at minute one of meeting him #Something to be said about the differences in their 'blindness' also having figurative consequences. #xxc is blinded to consequences by his own naivety. He helps who needs helping because that's what he feels is right. #meanwhile A-qing is falsely blinded; she wields naivety as an outwards illusion while knowing full well that not everyone is worth saving. #She's one of my top 5 fav mdzs characters and I refuse to be quiet about it. #XXC is the kind of person who wants to save baby birds that fall out of nests. Alas. He should have followed the rules of nature: #'If you care - leave it there.' #The little rat man you found is so full of diseases. He bites. He will pee on all your belongings. Do not take him home. #No matter how sad he looks!!!! #For those who don't know what xxc is speaking Spanish: It has become a little inside joke. No significant lore: He Just Knows how. #Everytime he does I am blowing a kiss to the Spanish speaking mdzs community. I will consult you guys on slang as this arc continues. #(Playing around a bit with paneling and layout. To improve means to experiment!)

[rockafirevevo]

i found an old bon's burgers coloring book at the thrift store!!! i cleaned up one of my favorite pages, but i figured i'd also post the original out of respect for whatever little artist colored it in. it looks like they gave up on finding their way home :(

#if it isnt clear this is fake i made it #i think it's. maybe a little on the nose but i like how it turned out and i want to make more maybe #also i used she/her for rocket because i headcanon that promotional materials are inconsistent about their pronouns #which i was going to include in the caption but it didnt feel like it belonged so it's here instead #the walten files #twf #rocket bunny #unreality #i need. a better art tag

[blood-starved-beast]

how would you interpret Maria hugging hunter in her visceral? i always thought of it as some sort of mockery from her

Sort of, but in the way that her whole fight is sort of a "mockery" of the concept of a dashing Heroic romance (In the Shakespearean sense of the term). Let me explain.

First, we have to understand Maria's character design in that she is of the bifauxnen archetype. The bifauxnen is a handsome, gentleman-ly type woman portraying all the traits we associate with a dashing hero: courageous, refined and sometimes aristocratic, and androgynous. She is the counterpart to the bishonen, the contrast to the more coarse Lad-ette. The most famous of this archetype of course is Lady Oscar from Rose of Versailles. She is essentially a Female Prince.

The Lady Maria reflects this design. Out of all the Hunters and Byrgenwerth crew, she is the one dressed to the Nines, wearing dashing Cainhurst fashion to something that is essentially nasty and wet and all the other things (the Hunt). She's wearing jewelry (the Lumenflower brooch) the cravat, the fact she curls her hair, the aristocratic looks and backstory (the fact that she's the Lady Maria, a Knight of Cainhurst Vileblood royalty), the fact that she was the one taking care of the Research patients and they worship her, etc. Her outfit fits along the lines of the Lady Oscars, Alucards, and so forth. The fact that she is the only one to realize the atrocity of her actions, to regret her actions and reject her calling as a Hunter, is so fucking introspective at the cost of noticing Gehrman's mania for example reads very much in line of a Romantic hero. She is presenting a Look and this Look says she is meant to come off as rich, handsome, and heroic as she's slaying monsters. At least, those are the visual cues the player is meant to read in that sense. And that is carried over into her actions.

Lady Maria fights the Hunter to "liberate [them] from [their] wild curiosity" - she is taking the role again, of the hero. The villain here, being that need for Insight and she is saving the Hunter from the call of blood. She then engages you a fight, a dance really, set to waltz - again, playing with those romantic hero tropes (assuming you don't parry her to death). The visceral attack therefore, plays into that fantasy. She treats you so gently cause of course you are the Victim enslaved by your thirst for knowledge, she is the romantic hero, mercy killing you with the sweet kiss of death. She steadies you as your now heartless body bleeds out onto the floorboards of the clocktower.

But like everything in Bloodborne, there is a catch you see. Cause the Lady Maria is not a hero in fact; she is a bloody coward.

Yes, Maria is the only member of the Byrgenwerth crew (and amongst the few Hunter in general) to make a dry stop + u-turn from the Hunt and the atrocities associated with that. But unlike someone like Djura, who at least is trying to be productive in his redemption, Maria runs from her mistakes. She casts Rakuyo into the Well and leaves. She joins the Research Hall and contributes to more atrocities there, but hey at least all the patients there love her right?? (😬) And when her brooding (or maybe insanity? who says she was immune to the Beast plague? Or Kos infecting her brain??) was too much for her, she takes her own life instead of you know, working to dismantle the systems - both the Research Hall and the Hunt itself. Her issues and her guilt - that is more important to her than actually helping or saving people. She the Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, Lord over nothing else but the reminder of her greatest failure. Both in life and in death.

Cause you see, her stopping the Hunter isn't really about saving them from their wild curiosity. The Fishing Hamlet is dead and gone. The effects are echoing throughout all of Yharnam in this day and age. Heck, the Hunter just came in from the Research Hall itself. It is well and truly Known, to prevent future atrocities of that scale, one has to know the events that led to those atrocities in the First Place. Lady Maria isn't helping you, isn't saving you from anything you already knew to begin with. She is, once again, trying to alleviate her own guilt and shame and trying to prevent others of knowing of that shame. So she tries to kill you. But you know, in a Heroic way. Hence why the whole fight is a sham and mockery.

She also hates your guts. I consider this to be tertiary canon at best, but the deleted lines has it so that she calls you insufferable, and baits you to kill her. She Does Not Actually Give a Shit About You. It cannot be more blatant than that. And how couldn't she? You make her recall her greatest shame, force her to break the last of her principles (no Vilebloodbending) so that your ass does not learn of what she's done. You also keep coming back, so you're a constant reminder that no matter what she does, her actions really do mean nothing, not before, and definitely not now.

Also she stares at you like this the whole fight if looks could kill well, you would be dead and not coming back (The way you ought to. Bastard. Stay dead already!! - Lady Maria, probably):

So yeah, she is mocking you with a oh so sweet kiss from the Handsome Hero type as she rips your heart out (breaking it) and kills you very dead. Cause fuck the Hunter specifically.

#lady maria of the astral clocktower #bloodborne #my meta #me shaking Maria: YOU ARE SO STINKY!!! RATTY BASTARD #Also there is something to be said about how she cries out to the Moon Presence like Gehrman does when she's killed #but she never actually Made Contact with Her #Crying out to a God who is Deaf to Her #as she's dragged to Kosm Hell where she belongs!! #so yeah

[kkkkkkkitty]

#homestuck #hs #kanaya maryam #like my previous post I do not like these so much #something I though was interesting while I was rereading her introduction was how much her interests & such overlap with Jade's #from fashion to gardening (topiary) to dreams...all caps JADE GREEN BLOOD... wardrobe appearifyer #I tried to use a comma oops. inherited advanced technology. tha frooooogggg. #its just called a wardrobifier I see now #You Forked An Innocent D Loitering Over There By The Shout Pole Minding Its Own Business #KANAYA BY----------------------------E! hee hee #I love Kanaya's hive #OH she has that same plush lunchbox setup too. #I don't actually remember her & Jade's actual narratives overlapping much at all...? #No hjtat is a complete & total utter lie. WOWZA. #I hvae to shower but thamatically their arcs have very much to do with acting in service to others I will wonder what exactly they *say* #about eachother although as a work I dont think that Homestuck is terribly effecient with its. ok hold on htis belongs to like my little #notebook not tumblr tags. I am abuzz. #excuse me goodbyeeeeeeee :] #*thematically

[d-lissa]

I am biting anyone that takes Tashi out of the throuple of doom and say that the guys only actually love each other and not her, or would've been better off without her or whatever.

Just say you can't conceive being in love with more than one person at the same time and move on, because that movie was not for you.

#challengers #the entire movie is about how they all needed each other to play tennis (live life) to their best #and how when missing one of them the entire thing felt off #they all bounced out on each other #please stop trying to put them in little neat monogamous boxes they are all three obsessed with each other and that's what makes it #interesting #LET THEM DATE EACH OTHER IN A THREE WAYS RELATIONSHIP DAMN IT #STOP LESSENING THE BOND THEY BOTH HAVE WITH TASHI AND TASHI'S OWN FEELINGS FOR BOTH OF THEM #BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU #honorary mention to the people that don't take her out but also act as if what she and patrick have is lesser in feelings and intensity as #what patrick hadwith art #again. not the point. why are you prioritizing a relationship over another?? makes me think of those people that can't understand #valuing friendships just as much as romantic relationships. just because it's DIFFERENT doesn't mean it is any LESSER in intensity #it's just something else! all three have very different dynamics with each other that belongs to their own categories and can't be compared #or ranked by how “important” they are #jesus fucking christ #i do NOT have the dental health to bite so many people but by god i won't let that stop me

[monarch-moon]

Manifesting the ultimate match of my dreams: Performance vs Grandma

I can't be the only one who imagines these matchups as a shounen anime tournament arc, right??

@bestestspirit

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky children of light #performance guide #belonging guide #belonging grandma #sky grandma #I could've done this with cannoneer cuz thats how it feels like right now but the mental image with grandma came first so I'm doing that #no matter who wins tho I'm just happy grandma will be at the finals tehe #EDIT: HOLY SHIT THEY WON WE CAN HAVE OUR DREAM MATCH #btw grandma sweep she deserves to annihilate them I'm sorry performance guide

[sunflowerwizard]

Mrs. Aele'nor Ravenguard 😭💖

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #bg3 spoilers #bg3 wyll #wyll x tav #wyll x mc #oc: aele'nor #ship: wyllanor #twilisart #twilisocs #ENGAGED BETROTHED AFFIANCED ETC #sobbing over how she starts as a lonely hermit who doesn't believe she belongs anywhere #to finding belonging and purpose and eventually love in her weird little tadpoled found family

[michyeosseo]

I want to become stronger sooner to help Master wipe out the miasma from the Immortal Realm to free the people from oppression.

#cdramaedit #cdrama #the legend of shen li #zeng li #feng xue ya #与凤行 #baby ah'li is crazy good #even in the troop sparring at the camp you could see how she mirrored and improved upon the drills with her shifu i– #the matching silver sword ugh yes more passage-to-screentime #really gets to me that despite her accomplishments in the field that earned her the throne #despite being whispered about as a weak ruler #shen muyue's leadership policy is about aggressive diplomacy #'twas not enough to prevent shen li from making The Choice #and so she is left as survivor yet again... hoping against odds #last night's ''her holiness will never give my belongings away.'' #and you're right about that darling she's resorted to be a mainstay at your armory #caressing the training spear in place of all the blisters turned calluses in your tiny palms

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 23 - Midnight

With their intended voyage into the void only a few days out, Arsay thought it the upmost importance that she steal her partner away to Kugane, that they might share one more fond memory together should things not turn out the way they plan in the thirteenth. It was as they crossed the very same bridge the miqo'te had once sat on together two years prior when Arsay gifted Y'shtola with a bracelet matching that of her own. A token of endearment which, Arsay confessed, she would have given to her fellow scion back then, had nerves not gotten the best of her. While their relationship has undoubtedly changed since the initial purchase of the jewellery, the sentiment remained the same. Y'shtola was someone who Arsay loved dearly and she will forever be grateful to have the seeker's life intertwined with her own. No matter where their free spirits took them, they would always hold each other in their hearts. A promise Y'shtola was more than willing to keep. She slipped the the string of beads around her wrist without a second thought. They were never to come off, not even when the two decided to delay their return to Radz-at-Han in favour of a private bath at the dead of night.

#miqomarch #miqomarch 2024 #ffxiv #y'shtola rhul #y'shtola x wol #wolshtola #Arsay Nun #WOL posting #arsay nun lore #arshtola #thanks to nhaneh for the body mod #i had to do some insane fov to get the moon and them in the same shot so sorry for the distortion #forcing arshtola lore into this prompt since idk when Ill ever get around to gposing the actual scene #this is between 6.1 and 6.2! #endwalker patch spoilers #i had the idea that arsay bought the Dai-ryumyaku bracelets from a vendor between 4.3 n 4.4 when shtola is off to the doman enclave #and arsay is like hey wait you should let me show you around kugane on the way over! #a fun friend date that ends with shtola finally accepting she has a crush on arsay and its terminal #and arsay having a single moment where she starts reflecting on feelings & thinks maybe she missed hanging out w/shtola more than she shoul #only to quickly butt that idea out of her head and continue being super normal #arsay notices these matching bracelets with red and purple string and shes like oh they are so cute and they look like #they belong in a pair it would be so sad if they were ever split up unexpectedly #i know ill buy them and give one to shtola wouldnt that be fun! #so she does that and then cant bring herself to give yshtola the damn thing because she starts second guessing herself #so arsay stashes the bracelets away and she started wearing hers later under her glove #fast forward to two years later and arsay finds the other one in one of her bags #and now shes dating yshtola and they are about to go somewhere super dangerous #what better time to tell your gf how much they have always meant to you #and what better way to do it than with a gift and some words spoken from the heart? #it was a little unconventional since arsay didnt really have marriage on the mind but it was a proposal in a sense

[best-enemies]

remember when the doctor and missy literally had this exchange?

doctor: two hearts.

missy: and both of them yours.

like... it really happened. i keep re-reading it. i made it my blog name. i think about it all the time. and i still can't believe it happened. we really got this. this is insane

#thoschei #doctor who #no but you don't GET IT #missy aka the master said her hearts belonged to the doctor #i mean DUH WE KNOW #but SHE SAID IT. OUTLOUD. #did i dream of this? like. #she wasn't even acting (because she was hiding her identity at the time) i just know it #we all know it #the point of this post is: holy shit the master literally admitted her love for the doctor #whoever says missy didnt mean it is getting their ass beaten #i didnt even get to the part in the cemetery where the doctor kisses missy #and she looks at him with the most desperatly loving eyes i've ever seen in my life #like my girl was dying of love what the fuck how long HOW LONG had it been since they last kissed #had they EVER kissed?? #and we don't even talk about the fact that missy reached for the doctor's lips with her own and GRABBED HIS ARMS #IT'S THERE IT'S IN THE EPISODE #FUCKING HELL #no the actual point of this post is that i'm having a mental breakdown over thoschei #almost 10 years since those episodes and i'm still not over it #i won't ever get over thoschei like #i cant keep typing i just wanna scream

[munsonfamilyband]

As I’m currently writing my full fic for the Claudia idea I had the other day, here is a little sneak peak of a scene that genuinely had me in tears writing it.

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“Robin, honey, I know what you’re thinking…” Claudia made sure to speak softly. Robin was clearly hanging by a thread as they both sat by Steve’s bedside. “It’s not-“

“But it is my fault! I knew he was hurt and I just-I just went home. I left him alone and hurt and-“ Robin cut herself off to take a deep breath. “How could I forget that he was hurt?”

“Steve is a big boy, he can take care of himself, usually. And he always insists on taking care of himself.”

“Exactly! He insists he can do it but he never does! It’s my job to make sure he takes care of himself because otherwise he won’t.”

“I know you two are close, but sweetie, you don’t have to take care of him.”

“I do, because-because he’s my-my-… he’s mine. And I’m his, and we take care of each other. It’s like I always had a heartbeat but I never realized it was two hearts beating together, not just the one. I can’t-…I don’t know what I would do without him. So I have to make sure he’s safe, just like he does for me….. And I failed him.”

#steddie #stranger things #steve harrington #platonic stobin #robin buckley #claudia henderson #claudia is steve harrington’s mom #platonic with a capital p #robin just not knowing how to explain what steve means to her expect to say that she belongs to him and he belongs to her #fully had me in tears #enjoy smooches

[jerefish]

this shot of belly looking at jere 🥹

2x3 | 2x7 | 2x8

#she can’t help it😭 #this is how she fell for him #the way car rides belong to them #bellyjere #tsitp #the summer i turned pretty #belly x jeremiah #jeremiah fisher #belly conklin #tsitpedit #team jelly

[tysonfurybattlepass]

no but this line also seriously rubs me the wrong way

??? what???? i wouldnt even say this to a trusted dogsitter you’re telling me someone you havent seen in years and are on less than ideal terms with swoops in and takes custody of your young child and your response is “do whatever you want with him” are you fucking kidding me? tell me he’s dead to you without telling me he’s dead to you. tell me youre SO mad at your eight year old for not listening to you one(1) time that you don’t care about his wellbeing anymore. you couldnt waterboard this kind of petty resentment out of me

#there are a lot of sus lines about lancer’s home life but nobody has brought this one up afaik #earlier on he pretended to care about how lancer was doing because he thought it would make him more sympathetic to the fun gang #but now because he doesnt want queen to think she got under his skin he’s willing to say he couldnt give less of a fuck about lancer #as some lmao gottem or whatever #snakes belong in terrariums. writhe down there fucker #deltarune

[icecreamsodaaaaa]

Thoughts on different dragons having cultures and different languages?

#augh i think they should have different language……. and like focusing on more cultral aspects #i feel like the rainwings have their own language and written language and god i hate the framing of the rainwings like AUGH no! #though in my version of wof i wouldnt make Glory convert them cause of course… i feel like she would end up joining as an important part of #the kingdom because she wants to be apart of the culture she missed out on and her discovering how much better it is than a stinky ass cave #and she feels like she belongs and damn were other dragons wrong fuck them fuck you kestrel 🖕 #anyways sorry if this is semi incomprehensible its 1 in the morning but oh the thoughts… #i know this has probably been said a million times before but idk #maybe i wanted to rant about rainwings and Glory #wof #wings of fire