#who lives who dies who tells you story

[metrixnos]

it’s time to say goodbye.

#dsmp #wilbur soot #wilbur soot fanart #who lives who dies who tells your story #i’ll miss him. #thank you for everything

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

#enstars #hiiro amagi #rinne amagi #i don't know if this is a bad time to be amagi-posting given that hiiro's fs2 just dropped but. oh well #also this might be the last thing i draw for a bit because i am in the final stretch of this semester #if you sent in a request. i will get to it and thank you for your patience #anyways i know i'm kinda being like 'haha rinne mama's boy' which like. yeah but also sometimes-- #--sometimes you're an adult in their 20s and like. yeah sure you're technically an adult or whatever but you still feel like a kid yeah? #and sometimes you just maybe want your mom to help you when you're lost or confused or when you need someone to tell you it'll be okay #but you won't get that for whatever reason #sincerely: an adult in their 20s #....can you tell why rinne is like. a vibe to me now #anyways i'm not saying mamagi dying was a necessary evil but if hiiro and rinne had an adult who actually loved them at home they probably- #-wouldn't have left and we wouldn't have the main story #if she was alive today tho she'd be going to their lives sorry i don't make the rules (yes i do) #if she ends up being exactly like the rest of their village in some future lore i'm gonna be so sad. #she'd throw hands with niki's parents #imagine leaving your sons behind because you straight up died (couldn't really do anything about that) #meanwhile your son's boyfriend's parents just. up and left him because they could #also posts with her will be tagged mamagi #if you read all that <3 #mamagi #she'd adopt all the bees and alkaloid too #imagine if they got their singing skills from her #also mamagi 1 rinniki shipper (also does not care it's not legal) #rinniki

[homosexualcitron]

LOVE YOU STORIES THAT USE MONSTER AS A QUEER METAPHOR LOVE YOU!!!!!

#JUST READ HIKANATSU LAST'S CHAPTER #i love you... #(mini spoil in case? go read Hikaru ga shina natsu/The summer Hikaru died it's sooo good fr..) #you don't undertsand how much Yoshiki comparing himself to 'Hikaru' as a monster is so important to me #also this is personal but #'Hikaru' being in a body with memories of that body without being the person who lived them #and starting more and more to be a different person #is so trans to me... or just!!! it's so me!!!!! #maybe it's because im mentally ill because other trans people fight to say they didn't die and they're the same person ect #but i have the opposite feelings #if you tell me “someone die and someone else now is in this body and have the same memories but is a different person” #then i'll say YES YES IT'S ME IT'S JUST HOW I AM AND HOW IT IS TO BE TRANS FOR ME!! #anyway :) i looove using monsters as a trans and gay metaphor and that's what im doing with Emi and Sohan's story if you care

[thatgirlonstage]

Deep breath. Steeples fingers. It’s the way Arthur never needed to know Merlin was part of his destiny to be on his side over and OVER again

#merlin #they’re a true have your cake and eat it too ship #on the one side merlin who feels the full weight and pull of a destiny he can’t escape #that he chooses to run towards with open arms #on the other side Arthur #who has NO obligation to merlin except the one he feels and creates for himself #opens the forbidden ‘what if merlin….was good’ book #do you think about how often kilgarrah talks about them as EQUALS #two sides of the same coin. two souls meant to be one. #but merlin always ALWAYS ALWAYS casts himself as lesser #he sees their joint destiny as one where he is subservient to Arthur #less important #he is constantly willing to die for Arthur’s sake and he TRULY THINKS IT DOESN’T MATTER #merlin is constantly of the view that if he dies so Arthur can live that is *fulfilling their destiny* #what a cruel trick the end of their story is #but that’s my point kinda: merlin never actually understood their destiny #that’s why he fails the test and mordred survives #because he tells Arthur magic can never be allowed in Camelot bc he is too busy trying to save Arthur to save himself #and as a result he gets it wrong #if you look at the whole show but s5 especially as a tragedy the arc is absolutely classical #meanwhile Arthur never knows about FUCKING ANY OF THIS #and yet and yet and yet #call it destiny or love he still finds his partner in merlin. the other half of his soul. #he never needed to know what they were supposed to be to see what they could be

[aspparticune]

Mmmmmmmmm Genloss

Having Generation Loss fanart be the first art I post on Tumblr wasn’t my initial plan but here we are. I don’t usually speedrun art but Genloss made me feel things and I couldn’t not, so here’s this :D

#I am still not okay /pos #this man is a talented genius #he makes me feel pain but I love them for it #generation loss #genloss ranboo #generation loss finale #still not over this #mmmmmmmmmmm #ow #genloss fanart #ranboo fanart #hamilton lyrics #let me tell you what I wish I’d known #when I was young and dreamed of glory #you have no control #who lives who dies who tells your story

[cappucosmico]

i went to da hospital bc weed did nightmare shit to me (advanced)

#last night. i'm goo now but that took all day lol #y'know that reddit(?) story of the guy who gets hit by a car on his bike then lives out like a whole decade and gets a wife and kid #then notices the lighting of a lamp in his house is wrong and wakes up to find none of that decade happened #and he just like blacked out for a few minutes after getting hit on his bike. #i lived out 2 days‚ Died in that 2 day period‚ woke up to vague lucidity #then lived out a few years i think. but it was like some inception shit #everything was very abstract. at one point on the way to the hospital it was like an arcade game. 8-bit pixels 3rd person pov #like on the road. i saw the world like it was an xbox kinect. like it was just sticks. crt tv. newsprint #at one point everything was greyscale and i could see all the veins in rodan's face in highlighter yellow colour that was neat #nothing i saw was real but it was kind of layered to where i could vaguely tell if i was closest to reality #everytime i got close enough to reality i asked what time it was #it was very frustrating to spend like hours not close to reality and then i got lucid and i'd ask and it'd been like 5 minutes. KFMFNGNF #and apparently i was awake the whole time so that's fun #my weed nightmare my mindfuck. my beanfreak #if you will

[hecksupremechips]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰

#its like okay listen i understand the basic math of any persona game they say things and everything they say is actually #very bad when you think about it for more than 3 seconds #like what theyre intending to do with the death of this character is be like oh no your sad friend dies tragically thats so saddddd #but that doesnt mean you cant live a wonderful life full of meaning you cant let grief consume you life is beautiful awagga #and i guess shinji is a specific character whos used cuz i guess its more tragic that he never realized he was worthy of life and shit #and i guess its also like ‘dont be like this guy who let grief consume him and then died you gotta Be Different’ #which i dont. love. that last part cuz if you think about shinji and what led him down this road #its like. of course hes depressed! he accidentally killed a woman with a child when he was 16! #he himself is an orphan and he just made some other kid an orphan as well and it happened cuz his persona went out of control #which very much can translate to ‘this must mean im dangerous and can hurt everyone if im not kept under control’ #so of course he isolated himself and believed he was evil and became suicidal like who wouldnt feel that way #like am i supposed to be mad he left sees and took drugs cuz uh while i dont think isolation or Evil Drug is good for his mental health #i dont think him continuing to fight in sees is something he can just easily do again given how he killed someone like he shouldnt have to #be a part of this thing anymore like how would he even safely get castor to not do that??? he cant kill more people on accident! #so yeah like using shinji as an example of bad coping mechanisms is already just. a big fucking oof to me like it just feels like the game #is saying he shouldve gotten over it and simply not be suicidal and stayed on the team. idk if thats the intent but uh it wouldnt faze me #cuz persona games are notoriously awful at writing characters who are traumatized and abused #but what makes everything even worse is how the game kinda like. acts like shinjis death is a stepping stone #like we’re supposed to use it as a wake up call and understand the stakes but keep going on anyways #and akihiko and Ken get. ‘great character development’ according to the game telling you they have now developed #but damn all akihiko is is just repressed he cries for 3 seconds and then is like I SHOULD MAN UP and then neglects a depressed child #shinjis dying words are words to live by now even though they piss me the fuck off like girl am i crazy HES FUCKING #HES TELLING ME NOT TO CRY OVER HIM BECAUSE HE SHOULD BE DEAD ACTUALLY AND THIS IS A GOOD THING ACTUALLY #like if the game wants us to still find meaning in life despite losing someone it just really hurts that shinji has to die for that to work #apparently. cuz the character i see myself in is shinji. not some perfect prettyboy who does everything perfectly and has 4 gfs #his death seems like a punishment for bad behavior. the bad behavior being of course depression and drug use. and im simply supposed to be #better than that if i want to live. and we dont get to form a connection with him cuz thats gayyyyy #and his death is like a NOBLE HEROIC SACRIFICE idk its just such bullshit to me i hate it so bad #how is killing a suicidal guy and then treating it as admirable that he said ‘this is how it should be’ supposed to make me feel #makes me feel sick personally and it ruins the entire game’s theme to me because its fucking shallow and the story is bad and im tired

[septembersghost]

in a timeline where Elvis had been in good health and lived longer or even was still alive! what do you think might've happened with his career?

this is a great question, and i love it despite it also making me unspeakably sad. obviously so many things would have to change for this to happen, and there are endless hypotheticals that can be asked about him - what if he'd gotten, and been willing to accept, help with the pills and his other struggles, what if he hadn't been trapped in vegas, what if he'd left parker, what if he had had the chance to make dramatic pictures and choose/record more music that inspired him rather than the movies and soundtracks he ended up having to do for so long, what if he hadn't been drafted, what if his mother hadn't died when she did - any one of these changing potentially changes the whole course of his life. but let's say nothing is different except he's healthier and survives. keep in mind elvis would've only been 45 in 1980, and, all things being equal, his voice would still have been strong and clear and beautiful. i don't think he's the type of person who ever would've wanted to stop creating and performing. the 80s gets us into an interesting time with music, disco fizzles out, a bunch of fresh rock and pop and country sounds rise and flourish, hip-hop begins to enter the mainstream. another big thing that happened was the revitalization of broadway, with particularly flashy, sweeping musicals. barbra streisand, who'd primarily been recording various forms of pop as it shifted for a good decade or so, along with her successful film soundtrack music, returned to her roots and released the broadway album in 1985 (one of my albums of all-time), when el would've been 50, and it was seen as a gamble, but turned out to be a huge hit. elvis may not have been a musical theatre performer in that sense, but he had a natural affinity for drama and flair, so it'd be cool to know if he would've taken to any of that or incorporated aspects of it (in my head, he'd totally enjoy the phantom of the opera). the rock sounds, the r&b, the fusions in pop and country, all of that would've piqued his interest, i think, because he was so passionate about music and was so skilled (and such a sponge for it across genres) at adapting it. so he could've experimented with new sonic forms, kept expanding his abilities and repertoire. i'd love to imagine that he'd have flown away out of vegas and finally gotten to tour the way he wanted. i even think he would've added innovation to the culture and music happening at the time. if he'd remained well and found creative outlets that inspired him, it's something he could've kept going on and building for a long while. i feel certain he would've done more gospel records too eventually, while still staying current at the same time. i imagine any of that would've somewhat altered how his legacy has been viewed, especially the wrongfully disparaging commentary. maybe he'd be like some of the other artists we've seen, paul, elton, bob dylan, billy joel, and so on, and kept playing well into his 70s. maybe eventually he'd have retired instead and taken time for himself (and you asked career specifically, but i hope he could've found some personal peace and love that he kept looking for too), but...part of me really does think he never could've left making music or being onstage and sharing that love and energy with an audience, as long as he was able. he would've found those songs to keep singing. which is what he did do in life. if only he'd had more time.

kind of off-topic/an aside, but i honestly believe he'd be so, so touched, and so amused regarding some things (i simply know he'd dissolve into that contagious laughter), that the young women on the internet, even a generation behind me, (after i explain the internet to him, i will tell him <3) are listening to and watching, and writing and reading about, and making countless fanvids and edits/gifs/etc for him in 2023. i hope in 2027, when he's been gone for fifty years, all the fans right now, new and old alike, still hold onto part of what they're currently experiencing. there's something indescribably wholesome about it (even in the thirst posting tbh, because it's still his power?!). i just cannot fathom any current star having this effect decades later, including the ones i adore. not because they aren't great, not because they aren't creating wonderful, lasting work, they undoubtedly are, but so much has shifted in how we absorb and keep and pass that on which alters it along the way. elvis' status as the best-selling solo artist of all time could *maybe* be broken eventually (although it's not in the foreseeable future), but it won't actually be comparable because streaming and everything within the industry has vastly changed. another difference, unfortunately, also lies in the tragedy. i hope our current young musicians have long careers and carve out happy, peaceful lives free of as much of that torment as possible, but the immense sadness and mythic rise and fall of it all are why we culturally still cling so much to certain people - as i've oft mentioned with EP, MM. to those eternally young and heartbreaking figures. if they'd experienced recovery, and lived the long, contented lives we wish they had, would we be this captivated by them now? or do we look into the abyss of their absences and hold them closer to keep them alive, to understand and feel that connective empathy? it's deeply human nature to be drawn to trying to understand the shadow of that darkness chasing their light. we want them to live and we can't give it to them, so we find ways to bring them to life instead.

i wish he was here to know how beloved he is, and i wish he was here because it would mean the trajectory of his life was far more gentle. i wish he was here to laugh with us about it and see us singing and dancing along to his music as if it was brand new, but i do believe he often looks down at us like:

#i keep thinking about #when you're gone who remembers your name who keeps your flame who tells your story #you could've done so much more if you only had time #what is a legacy? it's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see...who lives who dies who tells your story #in this particular case there are professional storytellers carrying that torch forward exquisitely. but. there is also us. #and we're just as much a part of the fabric of the story and its ongoing life #i really do believe there's a spiritual connection and graceful intervention that happens particularly with art and specifically music #and i feel that in a profound way and i know that's how it was supposed to be #he's not here but he is #i know that because look at us right in this moment 💖⚡ #anonymous #letterbox #elvis presley #* #so i keep singing a song #i was a dreamer

[shinmiyovvi]

To continue off with my Folklore Au, Here's a wip of Lena as a multo (ghost) who's very angy at you for breaking her stuff

#wip #call of duty zombies #cod zombies #codz #cod zombies oc #codz oc #original character #valena villanueva #primis val #Who made the precious bean angy? #I'm not mad I just wanna know #*reloads pistol* #I'll tell the lore behind this one #I forgot to give you all Reaper Ji eun's lore but it's already self explanatory #Her traje de mestiza is so hard to draw help :'> #This really took me a while to decide if she's gonna be a Multo or a Kaperosa #Since Kaperosa or White lady who's soul is vengeful and has unfinished business within the living #Multos are just ghost roaming around an abandoned building or a house that has a sad and depressing story of it #And haunts the people who lives on the house where the person died

[lucifer-kane]

Raven is soooooo. Literal looney toon ass slapstick violence weird guy. He also just is so tragic. Soooo so tragic.

#tragic character enjoyers would LOVE Uncle Raven Shaperaverse #i want to kiss him i want him to be able to rest and be happy again post david but that's just. so hard anymore #can change the scene in his favor to the slapstick from the original dark #sorry im thinking about his bit in the posthuman war and if i think about it too long i lose my mind #we say it all the time but imagine you could tell your past self he should have loved himself before he dies so you can live #all the posties are tragic but my bias is he's the most tragic tbh #especially because he just has so much potential as who he is #god the 'finale' to the posties story in july will kill me and im not even going to it

[oceanera12]

So... This is Now a Thing

Hope to see you there!

#era talks #discord stuff #discord server #i caved #thank the hubby #who is now called dan #dan the husband #his name is not actually dan #if you go to the discord server #you will understand #lol #ta-da! #i did talk about doing this a while ago #and now it is here #let's see who lives who dies and who tells the story #... #wait #wait am i the one who tells the story?

[sundaytragedy]

Several of my peers having kids I couldn't imagine. Good parents are like "My life is all about my kids" like nah I don't think so. This is about me

#if i ever think i want kids show me this post #my mom has probably had this thought but after i was born #you know ive never thought about this did my cousin live with us before or after i was born #just something i dont really think about until somebody tells me i look like my aunt #though custody was a seemingly neverending battle by my dad's side to get that dude away from his alcoholic parents #aka my dads sister and whoever the fuck she was dating #just something i dont really think about until people tell me i look like my dead aunt who died before i was born #cant believe i forgot the part of the story that spooks people where my mom found out she was pregnant w me shortly after my aunts death #turned into a family lore post

[infizero]

currently having a hamilton moment .

#relistened to the full soundtrack. rewatched the proshot (not on D+ dw). im ill #yes its problematic dw I KNOW I KNOW. but it is my problematic fav and i will not lie to you and say i dont love this shit to my core #this shit makes me fucking batshit insane it is srsly a fucking masterpiece #dont get me started or i will talk about it for 5 trillion years. the fucking DETAILS MAN. IN EVERYTHING #THE MOTIFS IN THE MUSIC. THE VISUALS AND CHOREOGRAPHY AND BLOCKING. THE STORYTELLING #i cannot name a single other piece of media that is SO fucking cohesive in how everything relates to everything and everything #always comes back but changes in little ways and its all so circular and. GAHHHHHHHHHH im seriously goingto lose it #i feel like i notice something new every time its crazy. how did i never realize the emphasis on ''time'' when the full cast sings it in #the very beginning lined up directly parallels how they put emphasis on ''time'' in who lives who dies who tells your story #and dont get me fucking started on burr. oh my god. i could talk for YEARSSSSSS about his character and how well written he is and how #he and hamilton parallel each other and how their duel looms over the entire musical like its an unescapable prophecy. #''we keep meeting'' EVERYONE DIE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #anyways. sorry. i need to be put down. bye #serena.txt #also i can still remember the exact time phillip's heart stops in stay alive reprise despite it having been like 2 years #<- what does this say about society.

[ilikeyoshi]

another day another annoying modern greek goddess per3phone girlboss take

#sorry i'm sorry her whole story is about how mothers of the time had their daughters taken by death and men #how they had no power to stop this #so it drives me a little crazy when ppl completely trash that for a “girl escapes her dumb mom for a punk boyfriend” sORRY YOURE BORING #IT IS SUCH A MEANINGFUL STORY ABOUT WOMEN'S SUFFERING AND AUTONOMY THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF MANKIND #IT'S ABOUT HOW NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOVE SOMEONE DEATH WILL ROB YOU OF HER #AND THE HORRIFYING WAY MEN OF ERAS PAST AND PRESENT ARE SO SIMILAR TO DEATH #HOW MUCH OF HISTORY HAVE MEN HAD THE POWER TO REMOVE A DAUGHTER FROM HER FAMILY FOREVER? HOW TRAGIC IS THAT #WHETHER SHE LIVES OR DIES YOU WILL NEVER SEE HER AGAIN. YOU CAN NEVER TELL HER YOU LOVE HER AGAIN #but everyone wants to turn the god who kidnapped and assaulted her into a hot goth wifeguy. whatever #sorry i saw someone say “hades 'kidnaps' persephone” in air quotes and i almost lost my shit #im not trying to say this is Problematic or Cancellable or whatever btw i'm just mad that a story about women's love and grief #became another stupid romeo and juliet ass love story. congratulations you missed the ENTIRE point #greek mythos have such heartbreaking and beautiful stories and u ppl wanna turn it into some twilight shit fuck off #yoshi talks

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Let me tell you what I wished I'd known, when I was young and dreamed of glory: you have no control [over] who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

-Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda (History Has It's Eyes On You)

#hamilton musical #hamilton #george washingmachine #history has its eyes on you #who lives who dies who tells your story #i-live-you-die-i-tell-your-story #writing #poem #quotes #love #writeblr

[septembersghost]

one of the most touching, humanistic things is seeing someone write an outpouring of love and reverence, saying "you've touched my life and i miss you so much," about someone who's been gone for a long time, even was gone long before they were born. there's such a power in that. they're not here anymore, but they are. they still are. because look how those bits of love and inspiration and connectivity can change another life, can light up the world. immortality being sparked from one heart to the next. the divide of time and space transcended. they're never really gone because there they are, living and breathing in someone who needed them most and remembers.

#what is a legacy #it's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see #jess.mess #bubble wrap around my heart #crying over a post i just read it's fine #i think about that lyric all the time. it's just. who lives who dies who tells your story... #*