#I love Marisa

[blubblubisdead2me]

i think im in love with her

so the new game huh

[redinthesea]

Not meant to be an AU, just a silly crossover design challenge thing! Mostly because I had the thought "Kasen is extremely Ralsei-like" which of course was followed by "surely I can draw the WaHH trio as the Deltarune trio, they share so many similarities" followed by the incredibly scary string of words "Yukari Gaster" manifesting in my brain, at which point I knew I was going too far and slowly loosing myself to madness and had to stop.

[tembryo]

happy pride month to mastercard

hi guys i finally drew the Best Lesbians Ever again for pride month apologies for not posting i was DOING EXAMS and GRADUTATING but im normal now time to get my gay on

[blubblubisdead2me]

Getting myself to sketch even if it doesnt turn out how i like is hard

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

The Hypocrisy of Vex'ahlia

Before you all come for me, I am a Vex stan and I will defend her until I die - she is my favorite Critical Role character and I'm so glad we're getting a deeper dive into her psyche.

The complexities of her character cannot be overstated. She has a lot going on under the surface, and the breadcrumbs of her deep-seated insecurities have been there the whole time.

I'm really excited we get to explore those in season 3 through her relationship with Percy, in a way different than what we've seen in the actual play streams. I want to commend the writers for being able to convey so much in so little time.

We are introduced to Vex as a sexy, confident woman who uses her looks and charisma to her advantage. She takes charge most of the time, being the unofficial "leader" of Vox Machina. She presents herself as someone who doesn't really need anyone else and does not care about anyone outside of her brother. Keyleth even comments on this in the first episode, "Vex and Vax only care about themselves".

This, of course, is a complete fabrication, a mask she wears to hide her insecurities. A mask, she wants no one to see through. The irony here is that she can so easily see behind Percy's mask - "Darling, take off the mask". It takes one to know one, after all.

She so badly wants to get underneath Percy's mask, for him to show himself to her fully. There's something inside of her that sees the guilt and shame inside of him and that resonates with her belief that she is deeply broken. Vex truly believes that something must truly be wrong with her. And why wouldn't she? Saundor, who said he knew everything about her, saw this, too, after all.

Saundor says plainly, "you will never be enough."

So it must be true, right?

Why wouldn't something be so wrong with her? It would make sense. Her father carries no love for her, her mother died, and Vax had to sacrifice his life for hers. She knows Vax loves her, and she believes he is the only one who does. Even Kamaljiori, an ancient and all-knowing Sphinx, fed into this during their test when Vax fell: "you have no family left who cares for you".

Her hypocrisy lies in the facade she built as a woman who does not need anyone or anything. She presents herself as someone who does not need the love of others, when in reality, she desperately wants to be loved.

Saundor saw this as well.

Vex longs to love and be loved. And yet, she cannot allow herself to give up her facade and let Percy love her and admit her love for him.

The last person to see through her walls was Saundor, and we know how that went.

What he said really cut her deep, as we see after the Kevdak fight when she brushes off Pike's inquiries about her experience in the fey realm.

As we see her relationship with Percy move from harmless flirting to physical intimacy at the beginning of season 3, we see her embrace the physical closeness to Percy but starts to block him out the moment he wants to cement their relationship. But she can't let herself tell him how she feels because that would mean admitting her heart is his - and that would be doomed to end in tragedy, as Vex admits later in the cave.

Putting up this emotional wall between her and Percy will not give Vex what she wants: love.

Love is that emotional intimacy. Vex loves to point out the importance of love between other people- in season 2, pushing Keyleth to tell Vax how she feels ("it always matters"), assuring Allura that Kima's love for her will help her endure after Vorugal's attack, and putting faith in the rest of Vox Machina.

Vex understands what makes love so special, and how important truth and intimacy are to real, lasting love.

And while she comforts others and pushes them to be vulnerable and embrace love, her own fears prevent her from fully doing the same. It's ironic and sad, how one of the only people who can see through her mask is the one she's pushing away.

Trauma makes hypocrites of us all.

Image credits @blorbologist @aq2003

[jaqobis]

truly think one of the other lowkey funniest moments in hdm is when mrs coulter says she and asriel should've kept and raised lyra. like it's such a poignant scene, and i see where she was coming from, but also she was completely wrong. oh god. if there are two people who should not be around a child it's asriel "child killer" belacqua and marisa "child torture, for science" coulter. like, mostly staying away from lyra for a lot of her childhood was in fact the best thing they could've done for her. good job team. that is not the thing to regret here

[cdyssey]

if you got obsessed with two or more of these tragic but morally fucked up women who have a soft spot for their children, then you may be entitled to financial compensation

[teethburied]

♪ However I look it's clear to see I love you more than you love me I'm an original sinner but when I'm with you I couldn't care less I've been getting away with it all my life Getting away with it all my life ♪

commission me for a gifset to help a palestinian child get medical care!

[gensokyotoothfairy]

[tragicotps]

[occasionaltouhou]

had a conversation on discord about the idea of reimu dying and splitting into kami reimu (in gensokyo) and oni reimu (in hell) and then fighting over who gets to keep the name. there are clear implications to this,

[admireforever]

Industry

[casualavocados]

"In Lyra's heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won."

HIS DARK MATERIALS • The Golden Compass/Northern Lights — 1.05 | The Lost Boy — 2.01 | The City Of Magpies

[blubblubisdead2me]

CANT SLEEP DREW MARISA INSTEAD

[dreasdreams]

Marisa Coulter moodboard

"Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice."