#I'm still not okay about this

[jinxingwinter]

We've all realized at this point when Isha is reflecting back her time spent with Jinx she views Zaun with so much more colour and whimsy than the reality they were living in. Her pastel memories are overlapped with fun scribbles that are really similar, but more lighthearted, to Jinxes hallucinations.

The scene I want to talk about is where they both take a running leap off of a rooftop. When they first jump Isha eye's are looking up at the sky, bright and full of wonder. On the other hand, Jinxes eyes are black. No emotion is shown through colour, no light reflecting in them, and her smeared makeup is so heavy it looks like bags.

But as the flashbacks continue, Isha keeps coming back to this moment and as they fall together Jinx starts to change.

There's light reflecting in her eyes now. Her makeup also isn't as heavy or dark and then we get this...

Isha is no longer looking up and her eyes are also darker in colour. Meanwhile, Jinx has the sunshine illuminating her back and Isha who uses colourful doodles to reflect emotions has scribbled purple to fill in Jinxes cloud. But more importantly that blue and purple diamond around Jinxes eye really leads up to...

Jinxes eyes go back to Powder blue. And unlike Isha's other doodles, which are messy and fun this change of colour is neatly contained to their eyes. Which I think means this isn't in Isha's mind. It's showing us Jinx reconnecting to herself, to Powder, through Isha. Not only that but her pupil isn't black but yellow. The colour I associate with Isha. And in the next moment,

Isha eyes also turn blue because she has seen Jinx for her in her entirety. She has no clue who Powder is or how that version is different from Jinx now because Jinx could show Isha that side of herself and it wasn't a weakness, it was fun. Plus, with knowing what we know through episode 7. Powder always had the ability to change the world. It wasn't just Jinx. Isha was inspired by her and she had such a deep influence on how Isha perceived everything. Isha loved Jinx and it's why she made her decision to protect Jinx even at the cost of herself. So while Jinx is looking upwards and onwards, Isha looks down, eyes wide open, into what they're leaping into.

A body of water. Which we all know holds heavy symbolism of transformation for Jinx. It' where Silco took her to let go of Powder. Now she's willingly jumping into it with Isha to reconnect to the little girl she tried so hard to bury. But for Isha, that water means something different. Isha is the catalyst, she is the change, her actions will spark Jinx to go forward but at the cost of herself. She looks down because there is no forward from here. So she reflects back through all of her precious moments and you know she believes if everything was just to lead up to this moment than it was worth it.

[everchased]

hahahahaaaa get safe and cared for, idiot

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

[grey-viridian]

Leonardo

I finished this comic about a month ago but couldn't bring myself to post it. It started as a simple illustration and then I just kept adding more and more and at some point I had to stop myself and cut the story short. I'm still not entirely satisfied with the result but... well. I like it. That's enough.

[astrhae]

crowley used the metal tool in season 1 to start time, and we learn that he's used it first to start space. to create the stars -- he still remembers how. he still remembers all of heaven's passwords: in the book crowley is described as an optimist because he has the "utter surety... that the universe would look after him". not god, but the universe. and of course he does: he helped create it and he's looking after it, too.

think about it: aziraphale had a sword, but crowley is about to face satan who wants to destroy the world, and crowley's only weapon is a tool of creation

[dreamyluigi]

something something luigi doesn't remember the final events of spm or dimentio at all after he's defeated (but mario remembers everything)

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[vaguely-concerned]

the more I play the more I think lucanis basically knows it's illario who betrayed him right from the beginning (he's had a year in the ossuary to think. not that many people knew where he was going. when you ask him 'did Illario know you'd be on that ship' his only answer is the hardest flattest 'yes' you ever heard). so it's not so much about figuring out who the traitor is (because that's ludicrous. we all know. immediately. they didn't really bother to hide it lmao) as about methodically closing off every single avenue of denial lucanis has clung to that whole time with as much or little gentleness as you might prefer until he has no choice but to admit it. because the moment he has to admit it, he'll have to do something -- feel something -- about it. and that's such a catastrophic event in lucanis' inner landscape (he has had TWO people in this whole entire world up until now and will do anything to hold on to them with a heartbreaking child-like desperation, even at and especially through the detriment of his own self) that he'd rather just. not. what if we quite simply. didn't. what if we just stayed here in the emptiness where we can both pretend you didn't hurt me in a way I should never forgive. I have so much practice in that with caterina already it's always worked out great for everyone so far. (press x to fucking doubt but that's trauma logic for you lol)

after everything illario did, so much of the storm of lucanis' emotions around it is 'what the FUCK did you get yourself tangled up in this time and how do I get you out of this mess safely'. what's worse: the fact that your brother murdered you, or that he put himself in horrible danger doing so and thus exposed you to the risk of losing him forever. lucanis' heart certainly has an opinion here and it's fucking unhinged (affectionate)

the themes of dissociation in lucanis' character in general makes me feel nuts. allllll these contradictory messy things he needs to cut off from each other because they can't coexist or be easily reconciled inside him. but all remain stubbornly true separately anyway and will have their due one day. love and resentment. tenderness and fear and rage. terror and longing. love and freedom don't coexist. the burned out golden child anthem is playing in the background. he was always caterina's favourite and he has to keep striving to deserve that dubious honour with every breath he takes and then, presumably, mercifully, some day he will die and be excused and can rest. and until now he's suppressed all the -- natural, healthy, protective! -- negative feelings that threaten the few attachment relationships he actually has, at the cost of ever actually having his needs for connection and safety met and leaving his core self imprisoned and compromised. and spite goes 'what. no. that's dumb fuck that' (*spite voice* I do not understand that and even if I did I would not respect it) and does not allow him to fall back into that, which I think is what saves his life, ultimately. it took being possessed by a demon for lucanis to even contemplate telling anyone he loves 'no' in any way, but hey. whatever gets you there right lol

lucanis is dealing with the freeze response allll the way down baby. and he was even before the ossuary, that just turbo powered it and brought it to a breaking point way before it could happen naturally. but something was going to break eventually no matter what, and I'm just glad that in the end, through the power of friendship and also pure spite, it doesn't have to be him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[riddlerosehearts]

i really need everyone but especially anyone who romanced gale with a bard tav to know about this interaction from early access that larian took from us

[fukutomichi]

The Rings of Power | Season 2 | Aug 29 - Oct 3, 2024 "Protecting that which is most fragile, most dear, is a task entrusted to all Elves. And one that is not yet complete. And I promise you, there will be more painful sacrifices." - Galadriel

[shredsandpatches]

On the subject of "Mary Did You Know," it always makes me think of this poem, which is thematically similar but more biblically accurate in that it's founded on the premise that yes, she did know all of that, and that's also kind of awful?

And yes, it is that Dorothy Parker. She contained multitudes.

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[fantasmaglory]

Looking at this art by Dan Watson of Marasi and realizing something curious about that lamppost...

The Ascendant Warrior and The Last Emperor who?????? It's literally Vin and Elend holding hands. Kill me now.

[doberbutts]

Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.

Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.

It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.

Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.

He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.

I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.

I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.

He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.

"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.