#J-Rocks

[karin0punx]

EVERBLAST FEST 2023 Day-2 🔥 #latepost

On the second day of the festival I got to see J-Rocks, Secondhand Serenade, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Hoobastank 🤩

Singalong to my teenage years!!! 🤟

Sunday, 05 March 2023.

[alucarddaily]

Artwork for KAMIJO's "Symbol of the Dragon" and "Persona Grata" by Castlevania artist Ayami Kojima

[zegalba]

Toshihiko Takamizawa's custom guitars

[sygneth]

"The Fall of the Starmaker"

[flameraven]

Finally finished my piece for the GO Fairy Tale bang! I had a blast working on this-- I really wanted to do a dragon!Crowley to compliment the Dragon!Aziraphale I did, and since Crowley is a snake I went with a more Asian-style dragon for maximum noodle. The accompanying fic is not up yet but I will post here when it is!

[stellabyystarlight]

hope im not late to the party </3

[variousfandomthoughts]

So how do we feel about Crowley being on the 1969 Fleetwood Mac album “Then Play On”?

[relaxedstyles]

[nightisthenotion]

Ruki (the GazettE)

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[bamsara]

I dont know if it was intentional but I love that Narinder when he sees Lamb throwing up he turns gentle and pushes their wool and ears back so they dont get stained with vomit and for some reason it reminded me of how when Nari was throwing up too after the nightmare he had when they were on route to fight Leshy, Lambert helped him with camellias for the nausea.

Ahh, parallels. I think.

IM SO GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT allow me to ramble for just a moment.

Narinder was trapped in the Afterlife for over 1000 years, with little social skills and plagued by wishing for vengeance and his only company being two kittens who become disciples under his rule. He has terrible social skills, if not lacking them entirely.

(I would argue that Aym and Baal also have horrific nonexistent social skills, so those three cat's can't really help each other communicate properly to anyone else outside themselves.)

It can be argued that since The One Who Waits had other vessels to pass time and try to kill /annoy his siblings before the prophesized Lamb arrival, that he would have developed them a little bit more, but I would argue that the power balance would have been oodles more severe since the vessels weren't the promised one. He didn't need them, so if they no longer were of service or disobeyed him, he got rid of them. Whether just sending them out or killing them, any how.

Lamb, however, knows they are the last Lamb, the prophesized liberator of The One Who Waits, and therefore his only option. They knew that they were his only reasonable way out of there (whether they asked for it or not) so they were oodles more comfortable than how a professional relationship would have been.

So they asked questions, bothered him, played and ran around him. Complained and vented to him. Yapped and yapped. What is he gonna do? Kill them? Find a new vessel? He can't. "You're as trapped into this prophecy as much as I am, so let's be friends"

Example parts from Chapter 3:

The power balance equalizes because Lamb did not see his presence a God, but rather a fellow prisoner and victim of fate. Rude and demanding, but in the same chains as they were. 'My lord' was simply formalities at first.

This puts Narinder / The One Who Waits in social situations he hasn't been in (or hardly been in) in over a thousand years, and frankly, he had no idea how to navigate them:

Example from Chapter 5:

The God of Death has not needed to comfort or 'be there' for someone in a long, long time. The Lamb's presence is what forces him to try, even if his first attempt aren't perfect. So in that same chapter, he'll ask them a question to distract them. Conversation. Like how they do it.

While I won't post a screenshot of everytime this happens in written format (not including the dreams/memories/flashbacks that haven't been posted yet)-

The One Who Waits is pushed outside of his bubble when it comes to socializing in a way that isn't just 'God-to-Lowly-Vessal' format. He has to talk to them like a person, because he's being talked to like a person, not a god on a pedestal.

Obviously after the final battle and betrayal (to both of them, otherwise known as the Grand Miscommunication) this means nothing for a while as tempers are still high and feelings are hurt. But overtime, this returns, and can show in small ways (ways that may not seem like comfort but is certainly an attempt) like just in Chapter 18:

Trying to bring them an 'offering' (breakfast) mirroring other times the Lamb has done the same for him:

Crudely offering to replace something they are upset at losing/later offering reassurance abet in a curt way:

And what you mentioned: earlier when the Lamb is throwing up, narration shows they're having trouble with keeping their wool, cloak, bell, ect all back at the same time. He can see that. He has a mental boiling pot explosion over the fact that helping them is even a want that he has after the denial crisis he's experiencing where the only answer a minute ago seemed like he needed to kill them, and he chose comfort.

It is intentional. Narinder is learning how to show care, and allowing himself to show care. Slowly, and not perfect, but learning.

[snakedisorder]

Malice Mizer - 1999 - 再会の血と薔薇 (Saikai no Chi to Bara) CD/Vinyl Single Release Flyer

[eroticlamb]

Ringo Sheena featured in Rockin’ On Japan, April 2000 ♡

[zegalba]

Toshihiko Takamizawa's custom guitar

[famousmyth]

time travel buddies having a jam session ^_^ commissions

[ciwol10932]

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