#God he looks like he's in so much PAIN

[revenantghost]

Man, this bit right here from the episode 11 preview keeps standing out to me

We just saw Vash take a bullet and then pull it from him his own flesh with barely a whimper, no reaction. But this?

This hurts

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

There is a platonic explanation for all this. Right?

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[aenslem]

Then employ one of your own superstitions. Wish me luck.

[cometblaster2070]

so i'm going to go fucking insane because for a while this aspect of malenia's character design has been bothering me and making me think I'm seeing things and going fucking crazy.

the aspect in question is malenia's left arm:

when i first saw malenia's arm my first thought was oh okay they're probably just bandages or some sort of wraps.

but then you look a bit closer and like

idk about you (because i might be losing it) but it seems like the mesh of whatever the fuck that is very clearly melded with her skin in a way/it looks like it's going into and then emerging out of her skin (which is HORRIFYING to think of I won't lie).

and once again i thought i was going crazy and seeing things because surely these were just meant to be wraps or bandages like the ones we see in the scene of her fighting radahn right?

and then the thought of the needle came to my mind. along with something malenia says in her cutscene before we fight her.

"my flesh was dull gold"

huh. now isn't that interesting.

this would imply that in order to stall the rot from consuming his sister, miquella made a plan to sew unalloyed gold into malenia's skin using his needle in a last-ditch attempt to save her arm.

(granted it's funnier to imagine he just sticks it in her arm and goes okay great all done! and that's probably the canon way it went but)

the thought of the sheer pain malenia must've gone through during this process, to be honest, and the thought of the guilt miquella must've felt at having to force his sister to endure even more agony just to help her is just sad.

and all of it is done just in an attempt to salvage what they can of her and hope that more can't be taken.

edit: btw when looking at malenia pre-bloom and pre-losing her needle it looks like there's a proper layer/cover/whatever it is around her arm up till her knuckles making it seem like an actual covering or layer on top of her skin and what not, but when we fight her post-bloom and post-losing needle it appears like some of the layers have either flaked or fallen away and that reveals that it's actually meshed with/into her skin.

[cangrellesteponme]

i don't think wonderland is ready for those alices

[vaguely-concerned]

Thinking about the symbolic weight of smoking in the TLT universe that comes to the fore in The Unwanted Guest -- the way it moves through from person to person: Pyrrha smoked, and Augustine wanted to impress her in all her stone cold fox MILF James Bond glory (and tbf who wouldn't) so he started too. and even though as far as he knows she's been gone for a myriad and is never coming back, he keeps the habit. Ianthe sees something in the hollowed-out Faberge eggshell of Augustine that resonates with her, all that gilded eloquent emptiness and disdain through the ages, so she picked it up from him to try to emulate it. She picked it up so hard that Palamedes -- the exact spiritual antithesis of the 'smoking! on a space station! what a powermove' ennui Ianthe so admired -- spontaneously unnerded enough to even known how to, simply from a sort of contact contamination of the soul.

G1deon and Augustine sharing a jittery smoke after their near-Harrow experience during soup night, and it's the closest thing to any real sense of brotherhood that remains between them. Pyrrha going ten thousand years dying both literally and for a smoke (and then Camilla sold her fucking cigarettes (for a third of what they were worth, probably Pyrrha's own good, and also more importantly grocery money). what an entirely haunted time to be alive etc.). Augustine and Mercy trading a cigarette back and forth in the middle of their collusion over the love and murder of god.

An act of small and measured self-destruction in the name of something a little bit like connection when you're stuck somewhere in yourself where love itself dares not or cannot tread (ritualized, transmissible)..........

[lotus-pear]

I FINISHED PERSONA 5 AHHHHHH akira and akechi are fucking me up like something something about how you live your whole life like you're dying because your purpose is only for revenge hatred anger and more revenge revenge revenge until you finally meet someone who truly makes you feel something and genuinely wants you around BUT you are fated to kill this person and how in the face of death that maybe maybe maybe for the very first time, in such a LONG time, you want to fight for something - someone - else other than revenge revenge revenge but it's just beyond too late and yet maybe if you choose to die for this someone then perhaps in a twisted way he'll understand enough that all the moments you both shared together before are not entirely filled with lies - that there's love there despite everything, that there's love there even an ounce of it and that's enough for you. these gay bitches are ruining meeeeee!!!

akechi and ren make me beyond miserable like the whole premise of akechi's character just being centered around justice, HIS justice, and how it was twisted into something beyond recognition as he spiraled into a abyssal prison of jealousy and self-loathing and excruciating pain and ultimately died because he couldn't accept the fact that for someone who wanted to be loved so badly, he was indeed loved in return.

he was literally on fire and still said "i don't need your pity water, let me burn". like his destruction was his own choosing. and it's that final last ditch sacrifice that resembles a futile attempt at an apology for his death being the final outcome that actually makes me insane. like he was sorry that things had to end that way. like he was sorry they couldn't be anything more enemies.

[hanzajesthanza]

a book with geralt 😃

a book with geralt without ciri 😐

a book with geralt without yennefer 😔

a book with geralt without dandelion 💀

[pennaraptor]

one year ago today.

[invinciblerodent]

I fucking swear, if I see another person say that an explicitly bi/pansexual character is "gay-coded" or "straight-coded", I'm going to yartz.

Just straight up hurl.

Perhaps even spew.

Or retch. Disgorge. Upchuck. Yarf. Etc. You get the picture.

[kyouka-supremacy]

DELACROIX SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[raddestrose]

Beefleaf save me Beefleaf

[theladyfae]

i think human nature/family of blood is a really good two parter in how it manages to show how full of shit ten is 🫶

[topicaltropic]

oops! all wips

[bluehairmisfit]

Not to make “tag vent sunday” a thing but Idk how I can go from having a great string of days where I feel happy and confident to just. Randomly fucking dropping. And feeling like the actual worst.