#Holi Fitness & Beauty

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"Have you no more memories?"

I am made of memories.

"Speak, then."

[okaydiscount]

uhmmmm i was listening to 'no ones deserving' by superheaven and my brain told me to draw this so i did (///￣ ￣///)

[tlou-obsessed]

I am just gonna freak out about 'The Wild Robot': spoiler alert

How fucking genius is it to make Brightbill look all scared at Roz, looking for reassurance, his wing is messed up and he can't fly, he's looking at his momma and nowhere else. To have Roz get flashbacks to how he looked through the stages of life made me ugly sob, and then she rips the hardware 'the cold heart' out, and put Brightbill there, showing that he's her heart now.

Then Pedro comes in with the most heartwrenching voice acting, throughout the movie we get fink who begins out as a 'every man for himself' but his caring nature comes through when he's looking at Brightbill, and through Roz we see him change, he becomes kinder, and starts seeking out Roz, looking for a friend... and cares for Brightbill, motivating him. One of my favourite lines from the movie is : "Fly like you, not them".

Can we just cry about this moment too, because Longneck being the only goose who believed Brightbill was capable knew Roz ran to see her kid and decides to fly by one more time. Also can we just obsess about that, they really showed how important a support system is. This last look had the floodgates open.

[subzeroparade]

a Cainhurst-adjacent version of Ludwig, even though nothing in Bloodborne is this colourful.

[georgiaswarr]

i’m seeing this post going around about how tori saying she and michael aren’t a couple is the ‘loss of their life’ and i’ve never disagreed with anything more.

[andrewknightley]

played slay the princess and this quote has been in my mind ever since

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[arcaderot]

so. The news

[flowersforvax]

I'm not gonna pretend I fully understand all the visuals of the Eat Your Young music video after the first time watching but I did start fucki g crying so uhhh good job Andrew I guess

[yougotafastcar]

Between Gwendoline Christie (The Sandman and Wednesday), Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso), and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (Pitch Perfect 2), I clearly have a new type developing lately.

Tall, intimidating blondes.

(I'm suddenly remembering a childhood crush on Cate Blanchett. Hm)

[marklikely]

the results of that "is fanfic a book" poll have shown me one thing and its that this site never graduated past that absolutely insufferable phase in 2013 where everyone acted like every book is the single most sacred thing on earth

[mccoyquialisms]

"huh, idk if I'm really 💖💜💙 I don't remember having any crushes on gir--" [abruptly remembers that time I was walking in the quad on campus and saw a girl I found so captivating I nearly full on stopped walking and couldn't stop staring to the point where she NOTICED and I had to hurry away] "--oh my god I'm an idiot."

[subzeroparade]

is there a reason that you portray ludwig as a cainhurst man? does something point towards it in canon? i love the concept but am beyond curious

I think if you string a few things together via lore you can make the argument, without being able to prove or disprove it either way. 

(I’m not the first to point out any of this btw, all credit to precedent lore-hunting) -

Cainhurst has several visual references to horses, including the castle’s mounted knight statues not found anywhere else; the spurs on the boots of the male Cainhurst noble's garb; the reiterspallach’s literal meaning of rider’s broadsword; the NPCs called, in English, Indentured Chevaliers. In French, the noble’s getup is translated as Chevalier - which can mean simply knight (as in the military rank) but does also literally mean mounted combatant. This is why, in my writing, Ludwig has the formal title of Chevalier - because of his ancestry.  

Outside of the Cainhurst context, there are almost no references to horses or mounted fighting within Yharnam itself. Take all of that and apply it to the fact that Ludwig looks a lot like he was riding a horse when he succumbed to the scourge, and you’ve got a connection, if a little tenuous - but so is most speculation in Bloodborne. If I were to argue this as an art historian, I’d slap a footnote on this with some caveats but I’d still put it forward.  

For my own narrative purposes - I’m going to assume you’ve read my work and that’s why you’re asking - it makes for a fairly compelling “outsider” perspective to the intricacies of Yharnam, and a different lived experience/history when I’m writing from his POV. The overt xenophobia of Yharnamites and the tension with Cainhurst are rich textural and plot elements for storytelling - there’s more than one way to lose your humanity, and being a foreigner in a hostile environment is one. It also creates opposition and variation alongside both Gehrman and especially Laurence: Ludwig, a member of the landed gentry who has never wanted for anything in his life but still feels duty-bound to be of service; in contrast to Laurence, who grasps at every advantage he can get and still acts like the world owes him.    

Ty for the ask :) Here is an unironically pretty WIP of Ludwig in some Cainhurst-inspired costume ideation. 

[frnkieroismydaddy]

Can't stop thinking about him (Pete Wentz's natural hair)

[cosmik-homo]

It seems people are getting hype about Magical Girl As Horror Lately? and idk the main concept ive been revolving around- for an au I prommy ill write something for soon ok- is, like. Not exactly magical girl as horror but magical girl as. It is so so unfair. Imagine you had a falliable, human, imperfect body- imagine, even, it was unsatisfying, not fitting to you, or misfunctioning in ways that impair your life. and imagine being granted the ability to loan a perfect body made out of light and flowing with power and perfection, a poised, radiant body- only to turn back .only to have that other form only validated to help others. only to have a real actual mystical voice which claims important in the universe claim that to be or do good your own body really isnt enough?

Just. Having a good body you can turn into as if thats ok to do to someone, give them that and take it away