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[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

“dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home in a few days”

girl, what home

[exclusivelymerlin]

Merlin dies at the hands of someone during battle. His last scream is Arthur's name.

Arthur finds out about the magic afterwards. When he finds out, there is a moment of relief that the choice of what to do with Merlin is out of his hands now. That fleeting thought makes him throw up, emptying the contents of his stomach into a wayward bucket Merlin had left on the floor, like a promise that he would be back soon to finish a task.

Clutching the soiled bucket as if it's a treasure or his last remaining link to his late friend, he wonders if Merlin would have screamed his name on the pyre just the same.

[kippdipp]

I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created.

[gridoc]

gridocs your tumblr

[epicfroggz]

That was actually SUPER interesting and a totally fresh take for me, the idea that the Abyssal Serpent is Messmer at the end as its the result of an artificial splitting to create another Radagon/Marika situation but force the "Radagon" to go without a body of their own.

It was reading more to me that this was a new Outer God/Vassal of one that was in an intensely parasitic situation with Messmer, even more so than Malenia and the Rot God. This take though, that in the end it's *just* Messmer... Very interesting... Very, very interesting. His 2nd phase fight having different models could even just be that since he literally JUST destroyed the seal, he hasn't fully merged into a unified whole again.

Yesss, you see my vision!

(madman ramblings ahead)

The Abyssal Serpent cannot be an Outer God, as the God-Devouring Serpent, Eiglay, is not a god, though it may be worshipped as one—serpents seem to be their own beings entirely, deities that live eternally. Yet, why does the Greater Will allow such powerful beings to exist, if their existence serves to destroy that which its chosen have created? I think, for the purpose of checks and balances. There is no life without death, no Gold without Shadow. Marika has been very good at avoiding fate, but in the end two of her demigod children, Rykard and Messmer, CHOSE the path of the serpent. It was not a decision made for them by some extant force like the Two Fingers. Rykard let himself get eaten by Eiglay just as Messmer removed the seal of his own volition—both knowing they walked the path of blasphemy, and prepared to sin—for what? For a personal ideal they could not forsake, even if it meant betraying Marika’s Order.

(Not saying Messmer and Rykard are exactly the same, but that both of Marika’s sons that mercilessly killed sinners to the Golden Order ended up becoming giant snakes is just poetic. They were the ones in closest contact with the ugly truths of her gilded Order, and they both came to essentially the same conclusion. Fascinating!)

Messmer may or may not fully merge with his serpent self, but I do believe both his forms will heal, like how Rykard immediately begins to regenerate after we defeat him. While Messmer’s humanoid form was held stagnant with the seal, the serpent within kept growing just as his hatred did—its countless eyes and fangs representing this painful and unhealthy overgrowth, along with the snake bodies within Messmer’s own wounds (and in his eye socket…). The winged serpents that are connected to him also grow between phases, so quickly that their skin immediately splits and sheds. So yeah, just this sudden growth spurt that Messmer’s body needs time to reconcile, but he has to fight us first. If I may offer another Volcano Manor comparison, Messmer may keep his humanoid form like how the man-serpent Zorayas has her human form.

(She’s the only other red-scaled and green-eyed serpent, I wonder if there’s some connection? Apart from her and the winged serpents both being friend-shaped.)

One other thing I forgot to mention last time: it is not just conceptually that the Abyssal Serpent is born of Shadow itself. Messmer seamlessly transforms into it and back via a shadowy goop; the serpent’s potentially infinite body emerges from a pool of shadow; and apart from traveling within it as the serpent, Messmer appears to be able to project parts of himself and the winged serpents through shadows, such as when he gets closer look at you in the opening cutscene to his fight. Like, it’s not just for show that he resides in the Dark Chamber of his Shadow Keep; he intentionally keeps things dark for himself. Even his flame itself takes on these shadowy and serpentine properties—as much as he hates it, the flame is very much a part of him, born of the dark kindling inside.

- Froggo

[bougiebutchbitch]

anyway I love that House does shit that is 9000000x more Problematique than Izzy (except, arguably, The Murders Of Nameless Enemies, which is pretty much a genre convention) but I never got any hate for liking him lol

I got less hate for being a Joker fan than an Izzy fan, which is fuckin wild (and - oh hey - look at that - it's possible to love a character like Ed who canonically abuses another of my favourite characters!! Maybe.... You don't gotta pretend Ed is a perfect angel in order to love him!! Imagine!!!)

like I know I'm Loud And Annoying(tm), but if you're gonna come at me for liking 'characters who did meanbad things!!1!!111!' and literally all you can point to is Izzy pulling poor Fang's beard when Fang questioned Ed (which was mean!! it was absolutely mean and shitty!!! bad Izzy!!!! bad!) on a show where appendages are amputated and fed to the victim, I promise you there is way better material in my archive lol

[ludivineikewolf]

I realised I nag people. A lot💀💀💀

I'm sad cuz in the end they ghost me but it's also so funny that people can't tell you they're not in the mood for me rambling. Asdfghjk and when I tell them that I'm prolly rambling to save their asses from my never closing mouth they say, "Oh no it's fine really." 💀💀💀 The situation is so fucking funny that I keep bothering them until they tell me.

[captain-crackship]

Hey @headspace-hotel​ I have these flowers growing in my backyard and I was wondering if you could identify them or if you knew someone who could?

[not-quite-normal]

Aaaaaah I just realised Wheatley in my head has become a human instead of a metal ball and now I have to forcibly remind myself that your drawings of him are not, in fact, what he looks like in the game

haha well that is just delightful, thank you (or sorry)

[melodiousoblivionao3]

They’ll be adding more players though as well. The 3 healthy alternates and probably another 3-4 because it’s gonna be 3 games in the window instead of 2 so more rotation needed.

All that matters though is Sonny will get her 100th cap

Yes that is why I said it would be almost the same, with the only variations from the Olympic roster being if anyone was injured. In the CBA alternates are considered the same as the full team in terms of the protections they receive, so they would qualify the same under the roster rules of automatically attending camp (we can’t confirm this there hasn’t been an 18 + 4 player Olympics with this CBA but I’m assuming it).

We can expect a 23 person roster, with a few training camp players (who are not going to be capped and therefore are not officially on the roster). Three games with 23 players against not so great competition (sorry Iceland and Argentina) will have a lot of different roster combinations, but we shouldn’t see more than 23 on the total roster.

Rn the only only SEI from the Olympics is Croix, but we’ve seen Trin, Soph, and Casey (Jesus I hate that 3/4 of these names are Spirit) out for the last few matches, so they may be unavailable as well.

Really, in comparison to the team we saw at the Olympics (18 main + 4 alternates) there will be guaranteed 2 newbies (for Croix and the one extra spot) and if our queens don’t get better soon a few others for them.

[horrorlesbians]

any drugstore mascara recommendations? mine finally expired and I’m on the hunt for a new one

[calandrinon]

Me (in Australia): I'll buy you an easter egg.

My friend (not in Australia): You can buy easter eggs already? In March?

Me: you can buy them in January

Me: like. new year's

My friend: what sort of country are you living in

[aithusarosekiller]

Who are they talking about? Three guesses

[tau1tvec]

Does anyone know what this is?

[bliplitz]

My hc for what secondo's sermons are like 🌾

Secondos sermons are always uncomfortable, but ultimately the most interesting. He's spent his life the middle child, he himself the ignored one. So he brings attention to what the clergy ignores, what they don't want to talk about for fear of taboo (he'd snort, realizing the irony) .

His sermons are more like gritty ramblings and diatribes that were clearly off the cuff, whatever's on his mind...whatever comes to mind...He's too old to care what people think anymore, he doesn't want to keep his sermons cosmetic.

At the end of the day, he wants it to stick with you, stick with you till bed, and the morning after. He wants you to remember the way he said the words you'd rather not hear and the things he shouldn't have said.