#<- for distinction lmao

[chipkat]

The same side of two very different coins.

[secretly-a-trekkie]

me when yellow lighting

[uncharted-constellations]

It’s been a minute, (both post wise and design wise) so decided to update the fam + a couple additions compared to last time

[essektheylyss]

I really am not gonna get over Keyleth/Verin as a ship because like, they are WILDLY compelling for having come out of nowhere:

Verin will at the very least live another six hundred years, and is quite possibly functionally immortal via consecution.

They can commiserate about being thrust into the responsibility of commanding a force against extraplanar existential threats at a young age due to the (temporary) death of a parent in the role before them. This really does feel like a two nickels situation, if I'm being honest.

What are air magic and graviturgy if not different methods of achieving the same effect?

He's even a dramatic, long-haired goth with a complicated relationship with a fate deity and, if we're being honest, mommy AND daddy issues. Look at his Netherdeep art. Don't tell me Vax wouldn't approve.

I cannot bring myself to classify this as a crack ship because it is genuinely, bizarrely compelling in character.

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.

[ryllen]

bears for sale @ letterstoear

[raycatzdraws]

A Linked Universe meets The Dark Crystal AU! I don't even remember what started it at this point. I remembered that the Dark Crystal and Age of Resistance are things I like, blinked, and woke up three days later with an AU and a bunch of art.

The designs and the story are a wip and for fun so expect a lot of variation! (I have a few different beginnings, ideas for different designs, etc)! :D

In addition to #linked universe I'll be using the tags #the dark crystal lu au and #courage of the dark crystal!

[usagifuyusummer]

Timmy with his found family your honour. *sobs furiously*

[sparksandstarsandstories]

@garecc and I are having an argument so weigh in

[dailyloopdeloop]

loop and mirabelle. That's it that's the ask

DAY 84: enrolled in the gossip wars

[icecreampizzer]

babygirl who is also a 50 year-old man

[shepherds-of-haven]

I think its funny Caine doesn't respect Justyne for bring a flirt but he loves Chase 😂

It’s because 1) Chase doesn’t flirt with anybody in the Shepherds (besides possibly MC) in a way where Caine often sees that side of him, whereas that’s pretty much all Justyn does in the confines of the Order, and 2) Chase has a lot of cool stuff going for him in Caine’s eyes (cool thief with cool skills to teach, funny, amiable to Caine, mischievous prankster, fearsome fighter) to balance out being a flirt, whereas Justyn does not possess particular skills or a prestige level high enough for Caine to respect him 😅 he’s just A Recruit who can play a stupid instrument and write poetry and some shit

[rookflower]

warrior cats but theyre only allowed one fur colour each

[sorunort]

you know what fuck you [un-greyscales your rpg world]

WAHOO THIS IS FINALLY DONE AAAAAAAGH my color hcs!!!!! some of these were harder than others (isabeau), some of them were easier than others (bonnie), but i'm pretty happy with them all!! especially mirabelle, i did her first but she ended up being my favorite of the bunch...

i'd like to do one for loop sometime (starry spacey galaxy body WHEEE) but i need to rest for like 3 days ough my RSI

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Some of my fave works of French literature/ philosophy 🥀

[magpiesketchins]

You ever get friend crushes? Like just sat here twirling my hair and kicking my feet like "haha you're so funny, what if we like, got to know each other better?" "What if you told me your favourite colour?" "What if I remembered little details and gave you little gifts haha hehe oh think nothing of it."