#the lone power

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[dduane]

always good to see the lone power bettering the universe in some ways

(snicker) However accidentally, and (ideally) out of sight, where people will have a lot more trouble indicating what they're pointing and laughing at. :)

#Young Wizards meta #the Lone Power #entropy #whoopsie

[chell-shook]

Hot take but Nita and the Lone Power have the most interesting relationship in the whole series

#its about the looking up across the board and recognizing your opponent #and the if #only if #the working together foreshadowing? #dd you're killing me #not you dd #young wizards #nita callahan #the lone power

[fiction-quotes]

Rhiow got up, shook herself, and headed over to the side of the building to make her stairway down. The joke is, she thought, getting sidled and heading down the briefly hardened air, that knowing the Powers are there and listening doesn't really solve that many problems. It seemed to her that ehhif had the same difficulty, though differing in degree. They were either absolutely sure their gods existed or not very sure at all: and those who were most certain seemed no more at peace with the fact than those who doubted. The city was full of numerous grand buildings, some of them admittedly gloriously made, in which ehhif gathered at regular intervals, apparently to remind their versions of the Powers That Be that They existed (which struck Rhiow as rather unnecessary) and to tell Them how wonderful they thought They were (which struck her as hilarious – as if the Powers Who created this and all other universes, under the One, would be either terrible concerned about being acknowledged or praised, or particularly susceptible to flattery).

She thanked the air and released it as she came down to the alley level and made for the gate onto the sidewalk, thinking of how Urruah had accidentally confirmed her analysis some months back. He had some interest in the vocal music made in the bigger versions of these buildings, some of it being of more ancient provenance than most ehhif works he heard live in concert in town. He'd gone to one service in the great “cathedral” in Midtown to do some translation of the music's verbal content, and had come back bemused. Half the verses addressed by the ehhif there to the Powers That Be had involved the kind of self-abasement and abject flattery that even a queen in heat would have found embarrassing from her suitors, but this material had alternated with some expressing a surprisingly bleak worldview, one filled with a terror of the loss of the Powers' countenance – even, amazingly, the One's – and a tale of the approaching end of the Worlds in which any beings who did not come up to standard would be discarded like so much waste, or tortured for an eternity out of time. Rhiow wondered how the Lone Power had managed to give them such ideas about the One without being stopped somehow. Such ideas would explain a lot of the things some ehhif did.

  —  To Visit the Queen (Diane Duane)

#book quotes #science fiction #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #diane duane #feline wizards #to visit the queen #rhiow #urruah #the lone power #religion #christianity #catholicism #deities #gods #angels #fear #anxiety #churches #cathedrals #worship #flattery #music

[thermodynamic-comedian]

imagine ianthe's suffering rn. its so funny to me. girl all u wanted was power and i respect that but turns out that the side effect of power isnt the moral implications or whatever, its dealing with god's personal drama.

#ianthe/john dynamic is so fascinating and amusing to me. #theyre equally awful in such different ways #post-htn especially. #ianthe's so much for the grind for the power of it all yknow. theres only one person she cares about really. #and she has to deal with the most powerful guy ever being just a very sad very lonely wet kitty of a person. #i imagine at some point the (toxic codependant) instincts kick in and she starts like. genuinely caring for him #in the way she cares for people. which is by endlessly tormenting them #and he starts caring for her the way he cares for people which i can only assume is by constantly asking her if she hates him #theyre both the worst. they can be the worst together. #the locked tomb #tlt #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #saint of awe #htn #htn spoilers #harrow the ninth #john gaius

[non-un-topo]

Thinking about Yusuf and Nicolò as young men again

#the old guard #kaysanova #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #siggy draws #it ain't much but it's more than i've drawn in months. i miss this sort of cartoony style. like a dreamworks movie almost lol #my brain conjured an anime ending apparently and i can't explain why #maybe they're too girly looking but i didn't feel like using reference pictures so i guess they're bishounen sdfghfds #ahh i usually have director's commentary in the tags #yusuf is probably around 23-25 and nico is 19-22? though i can't say confidently that yusuf would be able to grow a full beard at 23 #but maybe he can maybe he's just that powerful #they're either very sad and lonely or very pensive. or both. maybe they're longing for something more... maybe a true love #i also dk what these clothes are. yusuf has some good clothes on. is probably flourishing as a merchant but still longs for More #nicolo is wearing... a tunic? but it could be a thin gambeson instead. maybe he's learning how to use a sword #i try to capture their best assets in this doodly style: yusuf's eyelashes and cute ears and weirdly shaped eyebrows #and nicolo's nose and heavy brow and the fact that he has almost no lips from the side lol

[saturdaysky]

hunger is whatever shape the moonlight pulls your shadow into.

The cover and first two pages of a comic about Essek and touch, set just after episode 97 and the reveal of his treachery.

There are nine pages. I will post them in batches as I finish them, and each post will be updated with the links to the other pages. 💜

I've had this idea sketched out for several years (check out my user icon, which hasn't changed since I made this account 😉 ), and I am excited to finally sit down and finish it! Here's a close-up of the Rosohna and Xhorhaus panel on page 2.

An absence is also a presence, no?

Poetry source is ONE SIDE OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GHOST OF MARVIN GAYE by Hanif Abdurraqib.

#my art #essek thelyss #shadowgast #critical role #lonely wizard with access to unimaginable reality-bending powers uses it to make even lonelier decisions: the comic #''keep pages simple! don't make panels into paintings'' is truly excellent advice for comics. however hubris is tasty and fun #see you in 4 years when i finish the next 3 pages #i tried a dozen times to post this but tumblr had an annoying issue where it only saved an incomplete draft and sent updates to the void #so yeet 🤞 hope my text made it. we are skipping drafts entirely. live fast die hard

[cats-and-cacti]

#marina #marina and the diamonds #electra heart #oh no! #radioactive #power and control #bubblegum bitch #lonely hearts club

[esdeaths]

Are you telling me that the "legendary battle" gloreth waged against the monsters was just a child raising a play sword against their shapeshifting best friend because her village was scared of them and now an entire civilization is built on the ideaolgy of a glorious knight fighting a great evil thats only based on the fear of a very small group of people 1000 years ago

#nimona #can you guess what i just watched? #i thought it was pretty alright #but the more i think about the implications the worse it becomes #the warping of history to benefit a narative those in power tell the people #idk this part just really struck me #they did such a good job with the transition of actual gloreth to the idolization of her #the juxtaposition of a child with a wooden sword #scared and wanting to be accepted by her community #and the imposing statue wielding a golden sword in the middle of the city #it was all about fear #we dont even know if the “monsters” are multiple #or just a single lonely girl #wanting to also be accepted by a community #the implications this movie presents is just aahhh

[taddymason]

Imagine how sad it is that Jay doesn't even remember his parents, he doesn't know his own age, or his birthday. He's been all alone for years since he can't trust anyone enough with his secret and no one cares about anything but work. He's stuck in a job he hates but knows nothing else.

yeah, I have many thoughts about him…

Also go watch this video please it's literally Amnesiac Jay

#I swear I can't put all my thoughts about his appearance in order #on the one hand I expected him to be more asshole for spending so much time in the Administration #and I really don't think they will make him a real threat because he barely knows how to control his powers and is just scared/confused #And its fine #the poor lonely scared bastard #jay ninjago #jay walker #ninjago jay #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago fanart #Ninjago dragons rising #Ninjago spoilers #Ninjago dragons rising spoilers #ninjago #I swear that if they give him a least one badass scene in part 2 like they did with Kai I will be able to die in peace

[fiction-quotes]

S'reee blew, a sober sound. “It's the usual confusion about time,” she said. “All of the great Powers exist outside it, and all we usually see of Them are the places and moments when and where They dip into the timeflow we're inhabiting. This world has always been an annoyance to the Lone One – It gets frustrated here a lot – so It visits often, in many forms. From inside our timeflow, it can look as if the Lone Power is bound in one place-time and free in another...and both appearances are true.” S'ree rolled and stretched in the water. “Meanwhile, outside the timeflow, where things don't have to happen one after another, the Lone One is eternally rebelling and eternally defeated – ”

  —  Deep Wizardry (Diane Duane)

#book quotes #science fiction #fantasy fiction #ya fiction #diane duane #young wizards #deep wizardry #s'reee #the lone power #time #deities #gods #rebellion #defeat #fighting

[failbrothers]

“The Encounter” by Louise Glück

From The Triumph of Achilles (1985)

#succession #kenrome #kendall roy #roman roy #web weaving #poetry #finale #louise glück #The Hug . *crowd errupts* #i can talk about this scene forever and ever and ever #its so deeply packed #for both of them #it probably felt so relieving #they both needed it for their respective reasons #kendall needed that power #and roman needed his cage #where its scary and lonely but safe #in a way this is their purest form of love

[hajihiko]

......and they were roommates.

#Fuyuhiko is a good dude when he's not being a rat bastard #fuyuhiko kuzuryu #peko pekoyama #izuru kamukura #New AU to the roster Izuru is like '.... ok.' And just moves in with them #Keeping your insanely powerful classmate a secret from your crime kingdom parents #Also Izuru is like 'are you gonna use me as your tool. Are you ordering me to leave' #And Hiko is like no and also no. I just dont think this is right do whatever you want #HE GETS IT #Fuyuhiko and his two friends who don't consider HIM a friend and also barely consider themselves people #Ok ok done this is why I just grabbed screenshots and did a silly doodle I dont know how to express myself #An art #Fuyuhiko and his compulsive 'stick around with me' hes lonely :(

[guardian-angle22]

911 Lone Star | PAUL STRICKLAND

#911 lone star #911lsedit #paul strickland #my gifs #looooook i couldve included so many more momentsss!!! he's always using his powers of perception #paul strickland the amateur sleuth of the 126 #i miss him so much

[psychicdisaster]

I can't get over how pure Saiki was as a child :/

#those episodes really get me #he just wanted to help akechi #and it seems like he was just another lonely child? #he had to isolate himself because of his powers :/ #saiki k #saiki no psi nan #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kusuo saiki #coffeejelly.txt

[chicoryblast-art]

Post it note from late o'clock

#dont starve #don't starve #dont starve together #don't starve together #dst wilson #triumphant wilson #wilson higgsbury #wilson percival higgsbury #wilson p higgsbury #dst #dark powers don't make you any less lonely buddyy #I wanna write/draw comics for this guy I wanna write/draw comics for this guy I just gotta get some TIME