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I dunno if this is going to make it's way to Tumblr, but I figure it's on the Discord servers. Either way, tossing it on the ol' archive for me.

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crow 850

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cleansing devastation

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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)

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angel (derogatory) to angel (casual) to angel (romantic) to angel (desperate)

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will you just let me be silly for a sec. there's this dread so ancient in me

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twitter / instagram

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crow 718

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Beloved OC Ôoran as a Treomar king.

(and me as an almost normal artist)

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character who is sun-coded but not in the traditional ray-of-sunshine way. character who is sun-coded in the sense that they burn hot and bright and powerful, that they're a raging fury of fire and passion, and that maybe, just maybe, they are destroying themselves as they do so.

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Finally my shadow god Alto 🌌

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Whatever man *accepts you for who you are*

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some shadowgods for the start of spring <3

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i literally cannot stop thinking about Nehrim so i’m doing some character fanarts!!

Kim is the first  🏹

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you’re not evil girl you’re just lonely and no one has cared for you in a while and its making you crazy can you go get a fucking chai latte or something

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touch starved but for physical violence

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Hello I would like the essay about soul blades please and thank you. Also it can be 10 pages that's fine.

(original post for reference)

soooo it's less of an essay and more like bullet points with my thoughts on individual quotes from the passage buuut here we go:

the urge for self-perfection proves to be self-destruction - humanity always strives to do things "for the greater good" in order to save themselves (see enderal), but this is all in vain because, well, nobody is perfect and their flaws end up being their undoing with the cleansing - unleashed at the end of the cycle (called predestination here).

the first shadowgod in history broke through the perfection of humanity - this sure is interesting considering that the veiled woman did this exact same thing. kadath was a perfect society, and she destroyed it because it was causing them all to live in misery. this might just be referring to the first turn of the cycle: the veiled woman smiting kadath could really be something like the starfall, right? and after this imperfection was gone, the shadowgod eventually arose as a natural consequence and the rest of the cycle ran its course

the blades prevent the urge for perfection - as with the previous point, the shadowgods seem to be against this perfection... being a part of the cycle, which was created to combat perfection, this makes sense; but if humanity's urge for self-perfection is to want to do good deeds, why would the blades prevent this? well that's what i thought at first, but you can also be "good" without striving for perfection - the shadowgod could fit with that. striving for self-perfection is arrogant, in a way (example tealor arantheal). as for how the blades affect this..... man i have no clue. i'm open to ideas

and why should they? - well from kadath we know why

ancient, all-devouring soul collectives that want to bring humanity to a collective consciousness - rubbing my hands together and cackling. of course, these are the high ones, but how do the soul blades protect against them? i never really thought about it until i read this part, but it makes perfect sense: the soul blades trap your soul in it. similarly to how you would bind one to a soul gem, except that you're actually alive and well. the cleansing affects anyone with a soul, but not objects, because then we wouldn't have places like the living temple. so of course it wouldn't work on anyone trapped within the soul swords... so yeah, the shadowgods are immune to the cleansing, not only because their death was predestined to be something else but also because the cleansing just wouldn't work on them

the high ones: are they our guardians or do they just prevent us from achieving perfection? - the high ones and the cycle were created after humanity's perfection was broken, so yeah they prevent. but, well, if you knew the eternal misery that perfection brings, why would you want to strive for it? wouldn't that make them our guardians? (well, if it does, it doesn't explain why they have to be so obnoxious and condescending about it lmao)

welp that's all :) if you read the whole thing thanks! i'm always down to write paragraphs about vyn stuff hehe