#Death triumphant

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔇𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔱, 𝔰𝔨𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔩𝔞𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔩 𝔴𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔒𝔲𝔯𝔬𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔬𝔰, 𝔬𝔦𝔩 𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔬𝔬𝔡, յԴ𝔱𝔥 ℭ𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔶

[the-evil-clergyman]

Mors Thriumphans by Leonard Bramer (17th Century)

[artschoolglasses]

Death Triumphant, German, 1670

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Death Triumphant (1670) from Germany

[aerikvon]

[duskcowboy]

🎨 by @/vale.jzarts on insta

3 Brothers x 3 Sisters

[pocketgalaxies]

thinking about if/how the loss of opal as we know her will affect at all their perception of protecting the gods, especially compounded with fcg's death. when you reunite with someone you've missed so much and all he has to tell you is that his brother was killed by a god and his friend was forcibly surrendered to serve that god in the name of self-protection from predathos. when your best friend found so much hope in their god and went on this journey with you feeling like they were doing the work of a god who helped him find purpose, and all there is to show for it is a pile of scrap metal. how do you reconcile the idea that your mission is to defeat this entity that threatens the gods, when the gods are relentlessly demanding sacrifice and death from the people you love in order to protect themselves. how can you not think for at least a moment that maybe the gods deserve to be destroyed

[negativ3cr33p]

[girlbossblackbeard]

izzy hands death (drop) [EMOTIONAL] [NOT CLICKBAIT]

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Jules-Élie Delaunay - David Triumphant, 1874.

[yergink]

so i was thinking about the anniversary flashback and there’s something interesting about the way stede and mary’s gifts are really just them misguidedly presenting each other with what they think will be the solution to the problem that is their marriage. 

mary gifts stede the lighthouse painting and specifically calls back to what they were told at their wedding. she’s saying “let’s remember what is expected of us.” she’s sort of. tethered, i suppose, to complacency here, and i feel like that’s reflected in what she says later, too. “we’ve only got this one life. we have to try, don’t we?” in this context, it’s kind of admittance that she doesn’t expect to ever have anything more.

then stede attempts to gift mary the revenge--by extension, a life away from society--and he’s really just begging her for an escape. like, he doesn’t know what the problem really is, but it’s like he knows it’s here on land and maybe, just maybe, if they got away, things would be better. 

and... neither of them are right in these solutions. on mary’s end--it’s never going to matter how much they try to be together, they���re never going to love each other, they’re never going to be happy in the life they have.

and for stede, he’s never going to have room for his self discovery if his family join him at sea. he needs to disconnect entirely from the societal pressures that have traumatized him. 

and it hurts so much more because they are both offering solutions. you could consider that they’re simply in denial about how broken their relationship is, but mary seems genuine when she says she doesn’t hate their lives enough to so completely upend them, and stede does seem excited at the prospect of his family joining him at sea. but at the same time they’re both just so horribly wrong here, and it’s because neither of them understand what the other really needs. staying on land and trying to make their marriage work will only drive stede further into his depression, and them going to sea would sever mary’s chance at getting what she needs (support, community, freedom). 

this is all what makes their conversation in ep 10 so much more meaningful. them sitting down together, finally and for once having an actual honest discussion is like a sigh of relief. they finally get the chance to see each other clearly for the first time and it’s. just so wonderful in comparison. 

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔪𝔲 𝔅𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔦𝔯 - 𝔈𝔫𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔱 (յգգԴ)

[atlasshrugd]

the dots are connected

[mimeposting]

I've become obsessed with this method of drawing. Anyways, have triumphant Wes

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Triumphant Surge

Not even death can quench a hero's inner fire.

Artist: Daarken TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[sweaterkittensahoy]

BIG FUCKING SPOILER FOR THE OMFD SEASON 2 FINALE COMING UP IN

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It is sad that Izzy died, but people saying it "wastes" his growth can choke on my bigger tit.

What I saw was a traumatized person who realized they were ALLOWED to have a better life. And got to CHOOSE that life. Not in the very last moment, but from a specific moment of realizing they were surrounded by love and care even if they didn't feel they deserved it (and, frankly, one of my favorite things about season 2 is how Izzy hasn't "earned' the kindness of the crew when they tell him he needs to get away from Blackbeard).

He got to feel happiness. And release. And to revel in his own queerness and have love poured back to him in the act of doing that.

He will be MISSED, having shown his authentic self to these people who welcomed him in.

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I won't have unpacked all my trauma. I won't have been able to see myself grow beyond where I am right now. My life and my story and my successes are no less valuable if I get hit by a bus tomorrow than wherever I am in a year or two years or five years or ten years or ten decades.

Am I further along than Izzy? Fuck, I hope so. But also, even if I felt I was in exactly his place when he died, we both fucking got there before we went, okay.

He fucking got there.