#tower of tears

[sepublic]

Have you ever seen a bubble in the process of freezing?

Very beautiful... Snowflakes like crystalline stars, with ghostly ferns sprouting afoot. Looks just like a snow globe, too! I imagine this is what the Escapees were trapped inside when frozen in magical cryostasis. What delightful gifts for the Queen of Tears’ child, when the wrapping they come in is a treasure in and of itself!

#GEverse #the escapees #tower of tears #oc #ocs #my ocs

[jayceehallows]

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#AOVI technology #dr Jennifer Joy Brenley Nyhof #Evynlee marren #JayCee HaLLows #ONE reality #poetry #Tower of tears #Tunnels of terrors

[khytal]

solitary tear

#vash the stampede #millions knives #trigun #trigun stampede #khyt.art #do not tag this as ship or I’ll drop a grand piano on your head #idk what to call this I didn’t spend a lot of time on it #something something mole under the eye being a tear and then tear as in rift #the mirrored markings along with the eye resembles the big tower in julai #(before the lab takes off)

[stardustedknuckles]

I know they had to reset some things for the handful of people starting their loz adventure with Tears of the Kingdom, but if you've played an inordinate amount of Breath of the Wild the beginning plot is fucking hilarious. You and the princess went missing under the castle for an as-yet-unspecified amount of time after seeing your history duplicated in someone else's cave paintings. Half the people you meet back in Hyrule are worried sick about you. Half pretend they have never seen or heard of you. And a handful are literally selling your old clothes. The implication that you two went missing and everyone went "welp. He's not gonna need that stuff for at least a hundred years. But also we have to look for them."

(Hestu is especially funny to me. I've decided he just says that to all the Hylians bc he's faceblind af)

#loz totk #Loz spoilers #Tears of the kingdom #Even the towers were like okay I'm gonna just head out

[onaperduamedee]

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

— Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated from the French by Grace Frick

#the wheel of time #siuan sanche #wot edit #wot on prime #clever as a pike #mygifs #mine: wot #you know what I will stop fiddling with it #I wanted a certain vibe I think I achieved it #I picked the wrong copy of the book without my annotations so it took me ages to find the quote #ANYWAY #yes please talk to me about about Siuan and power #Siuan dreaming of a home like her father's hut #knowing it'll ever be just a dream because her power and stability depend on the appearance of power she conveys #she's a prisoner of the Tower but the world depends on her control on it #she's an heretic but her heresy hinges on her ability to follow the law #to be the law #yes I know someday I will stop making Yourcenar-inspired fandom gifsets and tearing my hair to find translations #but the temptation was too great to quote from this because she's such a political being at heart yet driven by such dedication to humanity

[radaverse]

When the angsty ahh aus meet

+ smol comfort bestie swap

#if I had a nickel for everytime I made an au where the main char gets severely injured and they get a bestie to comfort them #I'd have two nickels #wait actually three if I count that lil old sonic and su one #peppino and jack just constantly look like they're one milisecond away from breaking down on tears #and guavo there still being the bestest friend #about the btw creature- #Mai is like eight and still takes fcking huge responsibilities on her shoulders #like saving the savior of the entire world #she is a thing who has always been treated with cruelty yet only knows how to give kindness #good chinchilla #pizza tower #samurai jack #pizza tower au #samurai jack au #tower of mistakes #paws of magic #ToM #PoM #art #peppino #gustavo #jack #mai #aku #pt #sj #the samurai jack au is a wip btw. I'll post the 1st chapter when it's ready #pizzaposting #jackposting #radaverse

[lady-harrowhark]

I promise I’m going somewhere with this but I am currently fixating on how seeing Naberius’s trident knife in the beginning of HtN gives Harrow the Gideon Memory Migraine™, despite no clear connection to Gideon:

Ianthe considered this. She nudged the confection basket hilt of the rapier at her hip aside, and took out a long knife that, again, ran a hot rill of pain down your temporal bone. It was—though you had never bothered to learn—Tern’s main-gauche, his trident knife, a long blade from which two other blades would spring at the press of some hidden mechanism; she flicked that mechanism now, and with a snickt they burst out like a firework, two hard points of gleaming steel. She flicked it again, and the blades went snickt back into their housing.

Is it simply that it’s something from the Canaan House era in general? Or is there more going on? Stick with me here.

One of my pet theories I’ve been harboring since Kiriona’s wounds were revealed is that Harrow herself wounded Gideon after she threw herself on the fence, paralleling Jesus’s side wound from being speared after his crucifixion. They needed to ensure Jesus was truly dead, and presumably Harrow also needed to be well and truly sure that Gideon was dead before proceeding. Ianthe says she put a sword through Naberius’s heart to pin his soul in place for her ascension, and we see his body run through with the sword. Harrow needing to do the same to Gideon would certainly be some very juicy angst fuel.

The other crucial component here is one of my other favorite pet theories: that Harrow knew Gideon’s sword was haunted, likely before even coming to Canaan House. I’ve seen a few people do some more detailed explanations about that, but I’ll do a brief rundown here. 

Harrow says as far back as GtN about the sword “I never liked that cursed thing anyway; I always felt like it was judging me.” After the events of HtN with the River and Canaan House 2.0, we know she has an innate and potentially subconscious talent with spirit magic; it seems likely she was able to sense what was in the sword whether she knew exactly what was going on or not.

In HtN, Guideline #3 in her her pre-lobotomy letters to her post-lobotomy self has several stipulations (wipe it down with arterial blood nightly, coat it in regenerating ash, don’t cut flesh or bone with it) that sound a lot like precautions one would take to keep a soul from hopping out of it.

When discussing the sword with Abigail in Canaan House 2.0, we get some very specific qualifiers around how much information Harrow is able to provide about the sword. Directly before remembering that the sword was Gideon’s we have: “Harrow’s brain, though still a jumble, was no longer a mess in a darkened room. Memory had gifted her a small torch she could light the disarray with.”

After that, she struggles to recall further details, her own brain providing obstacles: “The light was not proving helpful enough: she was, in desperation, kicking over piles of the rubble in her own brain.” In the end, she’s able to tell Abigail: “I hated that damned sword for years. I don’t know why; it just felt strange - rancorous. I cannot deny that I often assumed its edge would be the last thing I saw. I don’t know.”

Circling back to the final battle of GtN, we get my favorite little nugget of support for this: Harrow is described as looking “affrighted” when Gideon tells her to go get her two-hander. I’d initially taken that to mean she was startled (and maybe a bit annoyed) to find out that Gideon had brought it at all, or freaked out at the situation in general. But I’ve begun to wonder if she specifically didn’t want Gideon to bring that sword with her to Canaan House because she knew, or at least suspected, what it contained.

Which brings us to the trident knife. If Harrow needed to fix Gideon’s soul in place by impaling her herself, and she knew there was a malevolent soul in the two-hander that could conceivably hitch a ride in another body that it came into contact with, she would have needed a different tool for the job… Which may very well have been the trident knife. Seeing the weapon she used to mutilate her cavalier’s body with seems like exactly the sort of thing that would bring on one of Harrow’s Gideon-induced headaches, no? It’s also notable that when Harrow sees this knife, it’s directly before Ianthe stabs her through the hand, again analogous to crucifixion wounds. I gotta say, if this holds water, there’s a certain poetry to both Harrow and Gideon receiving versions of the Holy Wounds on the blade of the same knife.

(Edit to add: further theorizing prompted by @camilla-rekt‘s fab addition can be found on this reblog)

#this is really just a jenga tower of theories but i'm still sitting here rubbing my hands together like a cartoon villain #i am just ripping biting tearing to know what happened between those two chapters #(and incidentally there may have been actual ripping biting tearing involved but i digress) #i wonder if this could have anything to do with the favor harrow owes ianthe… hmm #Nona the Ninth spoilers #harrowhark nonagesimus #Gideon nav #kiriona gaia #ianthe tridentarius #Nona the Ninth #ntn #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt meta #tlt theories

[frayed-symphony]

My Linktober 2023 drawings

#zelda #loz #majoras mask #tears of the kingdom #ocarina of time #romani #saria #stone tower temple #myart #linktober #I wanted to do so much more but one month wasn’t enough to prepare #gonna stop beating myself up over it now #ack

[radiobarf]

INKTOBER 2023

DAYS 07-12

#hellsing #alucard #chrono trigger #frog #crash bandicoot #sonic the hedgehog #rouge the bat #zelda #the legend of zelda #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fanart #inktober #inktober 2023 #radiobarf

[titan-fanatic]

After rewatching this episode in honor of its 20th anniversary I can confirm that the future is just as if not even more abysmal than this episode portrayed it to be

#also it's really emotional. I teared up at some parts #teen titans #how long is forever #starfire #cyborg #beast boy #raven #robin #like theres this specific shot of the old battered tower 20 years into the future and it hit hard for me

[sepublic]

            As I draft out the general ‘idea’ of how the story goes and ends and whatnot… I realize that in a way, the Queen of Tears basically gets away with it all.

         As I’ve said, she’s done this all for her child, all so her child could be happy, find friends who understand, and no longer have reason to cry; At least, not cry out of sadness. And by the end of the day, her kid didn’t come up with this idea to gather a bunch of people and enslave them to their will, that was all the Queen of Tears!

         Now obviously, her child doesn’t question and nevertheless accepts it, and that ultimately doesn’t work out; The Escapees DO escape, as they’ve always done, as they’re known for. But I’m taking a restorative justice approach to this kid, because ultimately they ARE a child and punishing them with more loneliness isn’t going to help… What they need are friends and kindness, who can teach the maturity necessary for the child to recognize where they went wrong, while still asserting they deserve to be happy too.

         So when it’s all said and done, somebody’s gonna step up and offer to adopt the kid, to befriend them, something along those lines. Everyone hates the Queen of Tears for what she’s done, but someone like Trexdis, for example, isn’t willing to punish a child just to prove a point to their parents; She isn’t like Midas’ group of Escapees, after all!

         Trexdis probably would arrange something and/or support it. Talikal is of course aggravated, because they can’t let the Queen of Tears get away with this, but again Trexdis admits she considered that possibility. And obviously the child could help heal any damage and make up for things with their power, too!

         And the Queen of Tears is stunned by the compassion of our protagonists, because they COULD choose to hold a grudge like the Escapees do, and they’d actually be justified. But for the greater good, for the kids, they’ll just have to let this pass, they’ll have to let the Queen of Tears succeed. They could torture her endlessly as retribution, and the Queen of Tears wouldn’t mind, as someone who would gladly submit herself to that torment for her kid to be happy; And if her kid IS happy, then she doesn’t mind continuing to pay the price for something she nevertheless got.

         But as I’ve said, the Queen of Tears dissipates once her kid’s wish is fulfilled, and I imagine there’s a bittersweet farewell she has with her child before that happens. Maybe she does feel one regret, that she couldn’t be here to see them grow up happy and be loved… But knowing they will be, that’s enough for her.

         It’s just. She’s NOT exactly a good person, the Queen of Tears is someone willing to lie and kill callously for her kid, and that isn’t justifiable. But Trexdis would feel hypocritical to call her out for that, because that’s a prioritization she can admittedly relate to. You could argue the Queen of Tears was vindicated, rewarded, for all of her effort, no matter how immoral; Sure, her plan didn’t turn out exactly as she anticipated, but it did lead to a series of events that resulted in her kid finding love.

         Maybe there’s a point to be made that the Queen of Tears caused unnecessary grief, not just for others but even her own kid; She could’ve just… asked for help, instead of forcing people. She was so desperate to make them feel as happy as possible, she basically discounted herself as a means to actually address that loneliness, when it was what she was made for; The Queen of Tears went about this in such a needlessly roundabout manner, is what Trexdis might point out.

         The way the Queen of Tears went about it wasn’t right. And you could argue it’s because of what our protagonists did to fix things, that actually ensured it succeeded; Not the Queen of Tears’ efforts. It’s the reward for the protagonists’ work, that the Queen of Tears just happens to share in. Maybe that’s something she’ll consider, or won’t, because she doesn’t need to and is about to disappear into thin air anyhow. The results are all that matter, right?

         She’s a mixed bag; You could argue her as morally gray, given the selfless attitude she has for her kid, the Queen of Tears’ willingness to die for her child’s happiness. But isn’t it selfish to prioritize that kid over others? But then, the people she originally intended to suffer at her child’s expense were the Escapees, who… weren’t really saints, and are grown adults. And as misguided as she was, the Queen of Tears IS somewhat genuine about the Escapees finding mutual love with her child, too! She’s happy giving up everything for her kid, surely they will be too… It’ll be a happier and more fulfilling, more useful existence and atonement, than their usual course of action.

         I guess a part of it is really up to the reader to decide how to feel; Anger, vindication, reluctant agreement? Justice isn’t always served, things don’t work out perfectly, so maybe there is an element of tragedy in the sense that the Queen of Tears crushed so many for her quest, and ultimately got away with it, got exactly what she wanted. But maybe there is no tragedy, just the painful, yet ultimately freeing, acceptance of restorative justice over the retributive kind.

        The Queen of Tears does so many horrible things, and in the end… She wins. She’s rewarded. She succeeds and has basically no real regrets… Utter girlboss.

#Queen of Tears #Tower of Tears #oc #ocs #my ocs #Kate Trexdis Lasher #GEverse

[jayceehallows]

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#dr Jennifer Joy Brenley Nyhof #Evynlee marren #JayCee HaLLows #poetry #the inauguration #the new normal #Tower of tears

[hijinxinprogress]

YJs ability to piss people off occasionally backfires (But they’re still gonna do it again)

Imagine YJ pisses off a telepath with a stupid costume so the villain with a habit of telepathically tormenting mfs starts targeting yj by making them hear things they’re afraid of and everyone else’s is like regular run of the mill shit like their family/friends dying or telling them they hate them, sometimes they hear them listing every bad quality they have and every mistake they’ve ever made, they know it’s not still happening but they’ll hear a loved one or a civilian they couldn’t save using their last breath to blame them for their deaths in the middle of the night which is usually followed by the voice that reminds them that ‘they just don’t quite measure up to their peers or predecessors so really, wouldn’t it be for the best if they just disappeared? No one would even notice and if they did, how likely is it that they’d care? What could they possibly be contributing to the world that can’t be done better by someone else?’ And that’s normal for yj but what causes them to lose it is when they start to hear the sound of someone clicking their tongue and humming in disapproval whenever they’re doing something ill advised but they only figure out who fears that sound when Anita loses her shit so they find her and they’re like wtf?? you live like this?? but she’s fucking petrified and muttering to herself

#Batman lecturing yj: now anyone could just come in here and- #Anita having war flashbacks: 😨 #or yj breaks something on the watch tower and Wally’s about to lose it bc he keeps getting called to fix shit and lecture them #So he’s like ‘nonono break it break it I’ll just fix it here break this too break everything pls do it go ahead I want you to’ #And Anita just starts swinging #yj definitely hurts villains feelings on a regular basis so sometimes villains give up in tears like no just take me jail yall mean asl #young just us #young justice #yj98 #anita fite #dc empress #cissie king jones #dc arrowette #greta hayes #dc secret #cassie sandsmark #gnc!cassie sandsmark #kon el superboy #tim drake #dc red robin #bart allen #dc impulse #dc comics

[deiaiko]

#13 - Reunion

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#no khun you don't *see* #get the hint bro #bam thought khun has forgotten about him when he pulled him away #and then bam tries to be careful with his hands because he knows khun doesn't like to be touched by strangers #if you zoomed in you can see that khun almost shed tears #also that last panel of khun (thinking): I want to say no pda but then I'd be a hypocrite. so he just :x #yoo it took two weeks but yay it's finally here #the long awaited scene(s) #I hope it's worth the wait #the empty speech bubbles will be detailed on writing format when the time comes #i love the first panel of the fourth page viole looks so cute there #tower of god #tog #two sides of the same coin comic #my comic #my art #bam #baam #25th baam #25th bam #the 25th baam #the 25th bam #jue viole grace #koon #khun a.a #khun aguero agnis #khunbam #koonbaam #bamxkhun

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Question for Peppino's Pizza Peppino, we'll forget the obvious "can you take the lanky goopy lad in for a bit?" one for now, how did you even get into the pizza business? Like, what drove you?

Peppino: "Coming up behind you, Pep."

Pep: "Hi~"

Peppino: "Yes, hi Pep."

Peppino: "How I got into the pizza business? Well, I suppose I was-a always destined to end up working with food in some way."

Peppino: "My parents ran a restaurant when we were younger. Not just pizzas, but that was the main attraction, and I loved to-a help out in the kitchen. Cooking was relaxing and comforting, and making food for others gives me a feeling like no other."

Peppino: "I was going to take over the restaurant when my parents decided to retire, and when I finished culinary school..."

Peppino: "But then the war happened..."

Peppino: "I got drafted, and the restaurant had to close... Those years were awful..."

Peppino: "But, y'know, we made it out in the end... And while the old restaurant was gone, I didn't want to give up my passion and decided to start-a this place."

Peppino: "Sure, it's not the most popular, or successful place in the world, but it's mine... And I wouldn't trade it for the world..."

Peppino: "Yeesh! This onion is strong today! I might need to get a candle."

#pizza tower #fake peppino #peppino spaghetti #this ask was from before Peppino agreed to take in Pep but I wanted to answer it so yeah #from what I remember Peppino being a war vet is canon again?? but he was gonna be one here regardless sooooo #but yeah Peppino it's definitely the onion making u cry #it is definitely making Pep cry tho #well making their eyeballs melt bc they do not have tear ducts #story post

[awanderingcatharsis]

I just finished trials of apollo someone hold me

#“Call on me. I will be there for you.” #bursts into tears #trials of apollo #apollo #lester papadopoulos #the tower of nero