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Holiday trip

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DT-8 if it was epic and Hypergryph did not forget about Vulcan again... she could've solved it easily

(NOT a ship art!)

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O Mother.... Our existence is death in prepetuity. Complete us, fill our hunger....! We pray unto you, fill us with the blood of humans, with the blood of humans... Oh...dearest Mother. As your Children... When shall we be permitted to quench this thirst for blood...?

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im not immune to evil woman

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first try to draw this type of Character

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wip

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I think the general "a lot of PM fans refuse to read below the surface or even believe that there *is* something under the surface" I think is a lot of the reason why canto 2 is considered "the worst".

It's probably one of if not *the* canto with the most subtext and subtle foreshadowing, and what it did for Rodion's character was incredible, but because it isn't explicit like with the others most people just brush it off as "Rodion didn't get any development". And the final boss is *so good* narratively and symbolically, but because we don't beat up a giant creature an upsetting amount of people just call it "underwhelming" and "anticlimactic" - just absolutely refusing to engage with the themes and emotions, and refusing to understand *why* the fight was designed around running away instead of facing the representation of Rodion's trauma.

Like you've kinda said before, pretty much the entire plot seems to be hidden in off-handed lines and indirect analogues in the early chapters, but especially canto 2 with just how often those seemingly inconsequential lines keep coming back (and eg, the heartbreaking realisation that Don's outburst at the start of canto 3 (breaking a taboo to prevent a child from being forcibly removed from their father) is almost 1-to-1 foreshadowing of her most painful moment).

tl;dr thank you for being literate, its very nice to see analyses from someone who actually knows how to read the subtext, or in fact the *text*.

Thank you.

Canto 2 genuinely continues to be one of my favorite Cantos purely because of exactly what you say. It is so intricately crafted, every single line has a reason to be there and even now I still find new bits of foreshadowing whenever I come back to it.

Like, I will say the Canto 2 boss fight is a bit. Tedious. In a way that doesn't serve the narrative. Like there didn't need to be so many waves of enemies to make the point it was making. But I also understand why it took the form that it took! There is a reason why it's structured as running away in a chase, if anything I wished they leaned into it more.

But yeah, you're exactly right. It's prevalent in many, Many parts of this community.

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In a fight...right?

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Sunday and Lightning Lord being friends? :3

day 19 - lightning lord thinks the lil man is very neat

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Alchemaniac, Skadi's official artist has posted a new illustration featuring Skadi and Skadi The Corrupting Heart!

Source and please check Alchemaniac's Twitter Account!

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just fell to my knees

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Fake Hag Blaze (Comm for @/hoxton_twat! on Twitter!)

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A little detail I've never seen anyone notice: Gregor's eyes turn yellow when he's in distress

Before I thought it's just a lighting thing (like on Twinhook ID) but that's definitely not the case with the new welder Gregor. And you know who also has yellow eyes? Hermann

For comparison or for people who never paid attention, Gregor's eyes are orange (just like my dog's lmao)

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When Elegies Are Ashes

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Bring back his wife