#DIRECT-TO-SOUL

[bradgeigerbillboardmusicawards]

PROVE BRAD GEIGER IS DETECTED ALWAYS

DETECTED BY POLICE DETECTED BY MILITARIES AUTHORIZED BY GOVERMENTS ALWAYS HAS ACCESS TO ADVANCED DIRECT-TO-SOUL LIFE SUPPORT

[ohitslen]

Something other about his eyes

Bonus! Based on this quick thing I did this afternoon and the idea took a bit more shape and turned into that thing from above uEK

[haomnyangz]

[1800s newspaper seller voice]: low quality gifs of some high quality boys smoochin’ come and get ur low quality gifs of some high quality boys

[eminentzayn]

remember when someone released 5 balloons for liam at a memorial and the balloons formed the WMYB formation before the balloons scattered and one went way higher than the others? yeah. me too.

[ohnomysoul]

I think we should have a conversation about how people tend to portray Hornet as having a hair-trigger temper/being always just angry and how that’s both a disservice to her character and really odd considering how much of a stoic she tends to be in game about her feelings. She’s blunt and sharp but not explosive and straight up abrasive. She has tact. Just like someone who’s both a spider and born into a royal family has to be to survive.

And along with that, as a Lesbian myself, the way people write her as being always angry and pissed off mixed with the other defining trait of being a lesbian or sapphic in some way also rubs me the wrong way.

Like… I hope people realize that they are making her into the “angry/bitchy lesbian trope” right??? And by making her like be especially rude towards the men (who are written to hit on her) also plays into that? I doubt it’s intentional but it’s still offensive.

(Clarification too just in case: I love when people headcanon Hornet as being a Lesbian for obvious reasons that are not limited to me simply loving her as a character, but I do beg people to think more about how making the self controlled guardian that Hornet is into a lesbophobic trope that isn’t even adhering to her canon character is disheartening.)

[cosmicaces]

aw yeah

[goryhorroor]

day 21 of horror: wes craven

[vaguely-concerned]

In light of the info about the properties of souls in The Unwanted Guest, I want to shout out that Gideon — with no grounding in the theoretical underpinnings of the subject whatsoever — actually makes basically the same observation about the permeability of the soul at the end of Harrow the Ninth, when she's in Harrow's body and (with some justification) is pretty sure she's about to die in the River:

Harrowhark, did you know that if you die by drowning, apparently your whole life flashes in front of your eyes? I didn't know, as I died and took you along with me—having kept you alive for what, a whole two hours?—whether it was going to show me both. Like, at the end of everything, if it was going to be you and me, layered over each other as we always were. A final blurring of the edges between us, like water spilt over ink outlines. Melted steel. Mingled blood. Harrowhark-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrowhark at last.

‘As we always were’! ‘Melted steel, mingled blood’! (Also interesting that despite saying earlier in the book that all she ever wanted was for Harrow to eat her (oh Gideon), the metaphors Gideon reaches for here are not about consumption ala what Ianthe’s deal and thus traditional lyctorhood is presented as in TUG, it’s about similar and equal substances joining together to a new whole, more like what we see with Paul. I personally feel like a Paul-style merging for Harrow and Gideon is not in the cards and would not be a satisfying ending — it worked as a bittersweet conclusion specifically for Pal and Cam because those two are utterly nuts in all their sanity lol, but I don’t think the series means to present it as The definitive answer to the central question of individuation vs. connection. There is something so moving to me, though, in the fact that right at the end this is what Gideon wants for her and Harrow. Not for Harrow to eat her, not simply to be of use to her, but to be made together from the same stuff. It’s a longing for connection and union that’s finally at least in imagery free from the imbalance within the ultimately hierarchical roles of necromancer and cavalier that Gideon internalizes through her corruption arc in Gideon the Ninth, understandably so as it’s the only model she’s presented with in their society to understand intimacy and attachment and devotion through. But Gideon says Harrowhark-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrowhark at last, mutually and equally. And I’ve written about this before, but at what must be almost exactly the same time, the same process is happening in Harrow’s mind through the evolution in the symbolism of her dream bubbles. Help I am emotions now) 

Palamedes is so right, Gideon is a lot smarter than most people -- including Gideon herself -- ever give her credit for.

[chanrizard]

Social Path Recording Making Movie ⁝⁝ ChanLix

+ bonus:

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i... wrote a smol fic (っ´▽`*)っ

also!!!!! If you haven't seen it - shoutout to first ever published fic in Ninja Showdown/My Immortal Soul tags - Lustrous Red by @missadmyre !!!

[lakemojave]

Hey fellas,

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[onefortherose]

* Kris...Let's go back there tomorrow, alright?

@pscentral event 30: friendship ↳ Kris and Susie: Deltarune Chapters 1 & 2

insp

[felondese]

coping by coming up with now-possible world states since our choices won't be referenced one way or another in dav. realizing that actually, i'm not limited now by canon options. the choices can be whatever i fucking want. or don't want. they can be fucking bonkers off the wall and if it's not referenced in game, it can be true and unquestioned!

yea i'm shipping everybody and bioware can't tell me it's not canon in my world state

[bonetrousledbones]

y'know its fun to dunk on undertale's pixel art inconsistencies and purposeful ugliness sometimes but can you imagine if it actually looked good. it just wouldnt work

[tavs-brainworm]

Sorry but I’m so soooooo sick of the “Astarion loses his soul if he ascends, it’s not really him, he literally becomes a different person, etc” argument.

I don’t even care whether it’s canon or not (it’s not, the writers confirmed it’s definitely still him). It’s just… “magic made him evil” is so goddamn uncompelling to me.

If magic made him evil, then his words and actions as AA are NOT reflective of his twisted worldview and internalized self hatred, they’re NOT a manifestation of his belief that he is more worthy of life and freedom than the spawn he sacrificed because he has to be, because if he wasn’t then it would mean he deserved death too.

If magic made AA evil it means his motivations are fully separated from those of the Astarion we’ve come to know, because it’s not “really” him, right? You’d have to believe that AA’s evil isn’t born of the same cruelty and ugliness that already existed in Astarion’s heart pre-ritual. That it’s just… totally manufactured and artificial. By stripping Ascended Astarion of his depth you necessarily strip Spawn Astarion of his depth.

I don’t want him to be evil because of magic. I want him to be evil because of what’s in his HEART.