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Shadowbringers is a ghost story, it's a love story, it's a post-apocalyptic horror story, it's a high fantasy that turns the genre's notions of light and dark and hero and villain inside-out and upside-down. Fitting with the whole light and dark schema it's FF14's writing at it's darkest and edgiest, and most optimistic and hopeful at the same time. It's about the struggle of finding and protecting whatever hope you can in the most painful of situations, about how even the strongest of us have to rely on one another, and it's an allegory about healing from grief and trauma on a grand scale. It's about choosing an imperfect present, a broken world, over a false promise of a utopian past.

Most importantly it's a story about the universal human experience of trying to kill evil angels while being lied to by wizards who are weirdly obsessed with you.

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the hands that held you down feel tender

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oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

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Look I’m a simple woman with simple tastes. I like my villains intelligent, unhinged and obsessed with the hero to the point of homoeroticism

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Soulmates, but in the way that we are both distorted images of each-other, a reminder of who we could’ve become if we had taken a different path. We will inevitably die at each other’s hands- both attempting to destroy our antithesis.

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Guy who has wandered through the halls and corridors of your body not with any special kind of love but with the untold intimacy of a contractor assessing the damages and potentials voice: right, so the main issue here is that the body is currently a temple, okay, and what we want is for it to be a home, cause temples are pretty and all and occasionally nice to be in if you're into that sort of thing but very few people would actually want to live in one. So what we're gonna do first is you're gonna take a look at what's here, the carrying walls and windows and all that, and you're going to come up with something you'd actually like to be alive inside of, and it's going to be a lot of work and it's going to feel strange and stupid and embarrassing but you're still gonna do it, because otherwise this construction site is fucked. And maybe what you want to live in is a skatepark or an anime-themed cat cafe or an esoteric library that has a dildo section for some reason, so it might feel like it's a downgrade from a temple, but it's actually the opposite cause the main customer for a body is you and the main customer for a temple are templegoers and maybe higher powers of some kind, - i wouldn't know about those, they never hired me, - not the temple itself, which is what you are, right, cause the body/mind/soul separation doesn't actually do anything, so what you're gonna do is look at the current layout and dig out whatever hope and ability to want you have and come up with a blueprint, and then my boys can actually get to work. Oh, and you have got to change the windows, it's drafty as fuck in here.

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Area Man Struggles with Choice Between Basic Morality and Homosexual Desire Toward Worst Person Alive

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Anyone else get their WoL to their island sanctuary only for them to completely crumble? Go a little insane? Have a bit of a Lord of the Flies era?

Anyway, this little guy that I made up that lives in my brain keeps crying all the time and I don't know what to do about that

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At this point if you ask me what my "fictional type" is, the hell if I know.

"man who is monster and sad". Does that work.

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Did this for a friend's daughter who wanted a "cool and scary dragon." The original is pretty small (4"x6") and I didn't have much time to spend on it, so I had to take off his butt wings simplify his design somewhat. Heavily referenced from this promotional image.

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Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

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I WISH THAT I’D BEEN BRAVE.

richard siken, crush // christopher healy, a hero’s guide to saving your kingdom // the amazing devil, ruin // j.d. salinger, raise the high roof beam // susan sontag, as consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks // claudia rankine, don’t let me be lonely: an american lyric // the avett brothers, i wish i was // frank bidart, the war of vaslav nijinsky // nicola toon, everything, everything

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👌

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Ah... how's it goin' Claude?

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In the woods lives a man, 10 fulms tall or taller, hair like molten brass in the sun. But the most uncanny thing about him is the conversations he can be heard having with himself. Those who overhear him swear he speaks with two voices...

I've been thinking about this idea for a WHILE but I made this in response to this tweet specifically because I wanted to play dolls too

shaking, foaming at the mouth I'm normal, I'm sooo normal about FFXIV, and its themes of becoming, and destruction/transformation of the self in pursuit of a role/goal/ideal, and cannibalism both symbolic and literal, and the things we will do in order to reach our goals even to the erosion of our morals and minds and bodies and souls, and the unification of individuals to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts AND DID I MENTION CANNIBALISM IS A RECURRING THEME--