#But the world said no lol

[im-here-too-i-guess]

New au, but this time its about Ase and the tree of trinity!

So, you know how Ase was incubated from a stillborn seed of an immortal tree? And I've established that he and the Tree of Trinity are closer to each other than the other two?

Now what if we take those two facts and Gais's might, and make him into something more?

So, something happened in Japan. A great plauge extended to each and every corner of the land, causing thousands upon thousands to suffer from its effects.

Some of them are lucky to die, others are cursed to a lifetime of pain and suffering and others.

Others turned into violent monsters.

Ase was instantly pissed after hearing about this. Because he saw something like this before, albeit a smaller and less dangerous case, this isn't just a plague no.

This was something that was a by product of forbidden knowledge.

These cases usually result in terrible consequences. Ase has seen thise consequences, but never one like this. He immediately gathered the students undrr him and started looking for ways to migitate its effects long enough to find a cure.

Ase have solved smaller cases of forbidden knowledge that plagued the kitsune kingdom over his long life, and as the son of a literal god said to be one step away from omnipotence and maybe the by product of an earth goddess from a whole different pantheon. So help him will he let some fucking forbidden knowledge destroy what he and his brothers work so hard for.

Ase and his students worked tirelessly, managing to save multiple kitsune, it was also helpful that kitsune biology worked the way it did. But Ase couldn't save them completely, the forbidden knowledge was still there, albeit weakened, but still there.

News of the kitsune managing to migitate the effects reached everyone, causing people to ask them for aid. To which, despite them not being kitsune, Ase gave. He sent his students to every corner of Japan to help whoever they can and he himself even went out.

But just when things were starting to look up, the forbidden knowledge suddenly grew stronger, so strong that it even started to affect him. He immediately went back to the kitsune kingdom, hearing that some of his students were folding left and right, even worse was that even his siblings were being affected.

And they didn't have the resistance he did, being made from life itself.

So, he laid down his pride and turned to the celestials for help. Even if it left a bad taste in his mouth to do so, for his siblings he would do anything.

So he sought Ameterasu, and she gave him a method, it worked, but everyone was still suffering. So, he came up with a plan, he decided to take her method and take it a step further.

So with the help of the Tree of Trinity, Ase stretched his power to every corner of Japan and pulled. The forbidden knowledge latched onto him and condensed inside of him, he nearly kneeled.

And so, filling his very being with life and returning to but a seed, he sacrificed himself. Taking the forbidden knowledge with him.

Ase made his peace with disappearing from this world.

But the Tree of Trinity was not content with his death. So it reached deep into the earth and connected with the world, ascending it to the World Tree.

And it wanted its brother back.

Ase's soul was pulled from the afterlife, and took his seed and pulled an Alaric. Incubating him inside of it and the worldly energies, resulting in the birth of a god.

The Abundance.

(Yes I stole from Honkai lol)

Ase connected to the World Tree and the world, becoming a kitsune god of life. Weaker than Alaric and Ameterasu, but a god nonetheless.

The world was plagued with forbidden knowledge, and it was not content with his life being sacrified with the forbidden knowledge.

And what the world wants, it will have.

@lulu-nightbon

[nixthelapin]

I find this dichotomy so funny:

Odysseus, who has been in war for years and is quick to be crafty and trick his enemies: *laments and mourns giving up mercy and being forced to become the monster*

Telemachus, the one with a reputation of being small and weak with a good heart: *kills a man from behind while they’re distracted without any hesitation or remorse*

[chimerafeathers]

i know we love to rag on Siffrin for feeling so miserably guilty and manipulative for the crime of [checks notes] “doing nice things for their friends so that they’ll be happy and care about him even if it’s not perfectly sincere on his end”

but like. in context i don’t think that thought process is anywhere near as nonsensical as it always sounds written out like that

i’m sure i’m just stating the obvious here but it’s not really about the “crime” of making people happy. it’s about what he’s not doing, which is anything that would allow their friends to have any real knowledge or agency over the situation they’re all in.

it’s about never acting according to his real feelings in the moment and letting them see the messier version of him that exists now, never allowing their relationships to evolve or develop meaningfully beyond the “safest” iteration, the thing that is Known and produces the Correct Results, because anything else has the possibility of leading to negative emotions towards Siffrin.

Siffrin knows he’s not really doing all this for their benefit, not entirely, because the “right” thing to do would give them the full context to choose how they feel and what to do about it. they’re happy, but in a way they don’t get to keep. they’re happy, but in a way that keeps Siffrin safe from anything more complex and real. they’re happy, but only because some Siffrin in the past said the right things once, and this new, bitter, lonely, desperate version wouldn’t know how to get the “correct result” without a script to follow. they’re happy, and it was real once, it meant something once, but not anymore.

they cared about that Siffrin, yes, but would they still care about this one, if they knew? if Siffrin ever allowed them to know? (he won’t, he can’t, he refuses.)

and there’s something that could have been said in favor of Siffrin allowing himself this “selfishness” if it made him happy anyway, if it could be a genuine source of comfort in a difficult situation—but it doesn’t! not really! because that guilt is there, because that fear is there, because of how flimsy it all inevitably feels.

so they’re not doing it for their family’s benefit, because that happiness is predicated on lies and ignorance. he’s barely doing it for his own benefit, because they’re torturing themself by revealing things they no longer want to reveal, concealing things they no longer want to conceal, acting out of fear of rejection rather than genuine desire for connection. who benefits from this hollow “kindness,” really?

that’s why the last loop had to be the ugliest one. Siffrin had to see that the worst could happen and there could still be love and connection on the other side. that even when the party sees the worst of him, when they have the agency he’s been knowingly denying them, they will still choose to love him.

[bruhstation]

happy 4/4 to the greatest baddies that’s ever hit children’s television

[vynnyal]

I've been having a delightful time stumbling over my emojis being used in random servers, so here's more

[soapyakships]

goodness gracious

[starlightwoofwoof]

uhhhhhhh okay so idk why but I don’t really feel like doing Goob’s comic rn idk why- but you know what I did feel like doing???

another silly DW x MLB AU comic

this was what happened with Glisten after Perfect was defeated!! yippee!!!

[fraycreations]

Silver Bloodstains by @blueisquitetired

‘Yes! Yes. I- I forgot almost everything, you must forgive me. You are…’ He paused. ‘…my former host?’ ‘ Brother. ’ Emmet corrected, pulling his twin to his forehead once again. ‘I am your brother.’

[dandeleon]

hi @disgruntleddemon :3c

[ampleappleamble]

hey as long as we're all Nastyposting remember when josh sawyer said that literally every single companion and sidekick in both Pillars games canonically can, will, and/or does eat pussy/suck dick. king shit

[ribbitbobo]

inspired by this

[recent-rose]

hey i dont go here but jayce's speech about viktor in s2e9 isn't him saying 'u should never have tried to heal yourself, you were perfect the way u were x3' it was him saying that viktor's physical health never made him any less beautiful, never made him any less important, never made him any LESS, period. he wasn't saying viktor didn't need to pursue a cure for his ills like come on his motivation to invent hextech was to help people. to cure disease. viktor's first and foremost among them.

he said what he said because it was the thing viktor craved to hear most in his life, and that is why those were the words that punched through his defences even as the machine herald: jayce loved him wholly and unconditionally, healthy or ill, good or bad, human or inhuman. he would always be loved just the same.

[postphagendauniverse]

obsessed with people taking an offhand joke-y comment from phil in the middle of an unrelated pre-show question as a detailed breakdown of their entire financial management situation never change phannies i love you

[mlobsters]

person of interest s1e20 matsya nyaya

that about sums it up

first time watch liveblogging via gifs part 22 of ?

[aimedis]

i think sam and gavin aren’t worried about their partners dying because they’ll just kill themselves immediately after

[inkskinned]

so one time i got bit by a brown recluse which is one of the only types of spider in my area that's actually dangerous and at first i didn't know what had happened to me, only that it was nasty. the swelling wasn't going down and the wound started to get ugly. i don't want to like get into the details because that's gross but it got to the point 2 weeks later that i was worried enough to go to the doctor, which i hate doing.

i am not afraid of spiders but other people are so i'd been covering it with this big ole square bandage (i needed more landscape coverage than a simple bandaid) and sat in the university medical waiting room, kicking my heels and playing BOTW. the nurse who admitted me was like, oh, we have got to get Tom to cover this one. she wrote spider bite under my ticket.

i waited in the near-empty building for like an hour and then nurse tom shows up in spiderman scrubs, out of breath. "sorry," he says, "i saw - your slip - and I had," he heaves in a breath, "to run home and. get. these scrubs. i literally. ran. felt like a job. for. spiderman."

i laugh. he puts his hands on his knees, thumbs-ups at me. fishes a pamphlet out from under his clipboard that basically says spiders can be scary but you don't need to be scared, there's very few dangerous spiders in new england. "honestly," he wheezes, "we probably don't need to get you into an exam room. just..." he waves his hand at the pamphlet, "read that."

i look down at my arm. then back at him in his scrubs. and then down at my arm. i like that he made an effort to make a joke, but now it does not feel like a good joke, because they are mistaking my calm for a lack of injury. "can i. like. at least show you the bite?"

he gives me kind of a weird look, which is fair, but then says. "if. i mean, if you have to."

i peel the bandage off. his face goes green.

"oh," he says.

"yeah, man."

"a... spider bit you?" his voice is high and tight and trembling. he backs up a few steps.

"i think a brown recluse," i offer. "i know it's nasty, sorry."

"excuse me for a moment." he looks over to the administering nurse on the other side of the small room. "i need to find someone else to take care of you."

the administering nurse smiles over to us with a degree of pleasure that is almost salivating. for a moment, like a window opening, i am briefly aware of what must be a psychic message floating amongst the in-between. her jaguar teeth all say this is like a party for me and i know exactly what i'm doing.

"oh no, tom," she says, grinning. "i gave her to you specifically."