#KonstAntin 2

[markmisaac]

KonstAntinOpolis: Monsters of The Deep. Unleash your imagination in the deepest and darkest secrets of the oceans. Written by Mark M. Isaac.

[yyshcul]

this is what it feels like to do group projects as a solo project enjoyer

[guardian-of-time-if]

Oooh did the emperor recognized the dragon pendant and so decided to make MC marry the crown prince?

I'm loving all of the Emperor Konstantin related theories I've been getting.

Sorry for not answering Anon, but I'm going to be keeping a tight lid on what Emperor Konstantin is thinking for now.

[apostlesoftheslavsblog]

I hope the future person who finds this acc doesn't hate Gacha (Lunime) games because.

Hey it could be worse!!! Try fucking uhhh reading the Konstantin STD fanfic!!!

[ahsoka-its-all-of-us]

Headcanons on various Imperials!

Arihnda Pryce has a phobia of dogs and wolves. Kallus found that out, and he was the one suggesting Ezra to use the Loth-wolves in case threatening her with a normal death wouldn’t work.

Lieutenant Nolan is from the lower topside of Coruscant. At the Republic Military Academy, he always tried to get up higher in social standing by being very vocal in his disdain for anyone beneath him. He hadn’t graduated and worked in the field for long when the Republic collapsed and became the Empire, and he saw this as an opportunity to climb the social ladder. His attitude made him very unpopular with his peers, and none of his colleagues save for the ones who had no other options attended his funeral.

When he gets arrested for being Fulcrum, Lieutenant Lyste pleads with Thrawn to release him because he’s innocent (which Thrawn of course already knows, but doesn’t reveal to him), but he doesn’t connect the dots as to whom the real Fulcrum is. Thrawn falsifies his rapport, keeping him alive but imprisoned, and making sure that nobody can ever visit him or appeal him for trial.

Thrawn and Eli totally banged, multiple times, during and after their time at the Royal Imperial Academy.

Admiral Konstantine is married, and his husband works as an officer on his Star Destroyer.

Not that familiar with the Chiss’s physical and cultural differences to humans, Eli didn’t realise that Thrawn was much older than him until over a year after they first met. He was shocked at first, but eventually decided that it didn’t change anything. Thrawn was unaware that his age could be cause for any concern anyway, and was surprised by Eli’s reaction.

Rampart, like Tarkin, was a Republic officer who had been spotted by Palpatine early on for his ruthlessness and desire for order under his command. Unbeknownst to him, this got him put on the list of people Palpatine wanted in significant positions once he became Emperor, being the kind of person who would not raise any questions about the new regime.

Multiple high-ranking officers — the ones who still believed in the Imperial cause and weren’t just looking for power — were secretly shocked by Tarkin so casually destroying an entire planet. With such a terrible power being used so blasé, they feared for their own planets and their friends and family scattered around the galaxy. They were even working on a plan to assassinate Tarkin or perhaps also the Emperor, but with the destruction of the Death Star with Tarkin and all of them on it, it never came to anything.

Yularen was one of the officers who turned against the Death Star — he had seen some crazy shit in his time with the Jedi, but nothing quite this gruesome —, and, wanting nothing to do with it, he took a shuttle off the station as soon as ISB matters gave him reason to, which inadvertently saved his life. He is the one who eventually covertly lets the Rebellion know about the second Death Star; while he doesn’t defect, still believing in the Imperial cause, he does think that neither side should hold such power.

[zoeysalisu]

who? @konstcntin

where? konstantin’s apartment

when? right after the event ends AKA after people have been yeeted back to the mortal realm

Zoey had tried to hide it, on the labyrinth. Tried to hide the way her heart hammered on her chest, racing like a mockingbird and as weak as one. It hadn’t felt welcome, her brief stint back into humanity, she hadn’t felt safe. She had felt vulnerable and just like she had felt the moment right before she had been killed, the same way she had felt as soon as the wedding night had begun to go wrong. It had been terrifying the idea she could have died so very easily somewhere beyond all she had known. It’s that fear that keeps her moving, once she had dropped by her apartment to drink a blood bag she had in reserve entirely. She had been oddly unthirsty when her vampirism had come back, but she didn’t want to risk it. Now, in front of Kon’s door, she is thankful for the brief distraction. Thankful and annoyed, because she can’t stop herself from worrying that he didn’t make it back, and she hadn’t wanted to think about it but she can’t stop thinking about it. Hand raising, she holds herself back from breaking the door and just knocks relentlessly.

“Kon? Are you there? Please be there,” she asks, voice soft and almost desperate for the comfort of seeing him whole.

[mumblingsage]

A fair bit of the story research lately has been googling "How to X" and scrolling past the multiple results advising me to never do X.

[opelman]

Rallye de Monte-Carlo 2023 by Ste Tit Via Flickr: Photo du Net

[villanelleskiss]

killing eve vs the last of us: a comparison

A niche post for the likeness of those who are obsessed with Killing Eve or The Last of Us, or both. 

I’ve recently been listening to the TLOU podcast for both the game and show and I’ve noticed a lot of similarities to the characters of Villanelle and Ellie. They are both similar characters, along with similarities between Eve and Dina, with possible similarities between Konstantin and Joel.

WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS FOR BOTH KILLING EVE AND TLOU 

Villanelle:

Villanelle is a character who we’re introduced to right away in the show. Seeing a speckle of blood across a watch, getting the sense that she is not who she says she is. Hiding her true identity while never shying away from her anger and murderous natures. She has felt these emotions from a very young age and displayed them as well, while also never having any family connections to fall back on for comfort. Her mother sent her to an orphanage, her father passed. In school she hurt and maimed other children before being sent to a juvenile detention center. She had a relationship with her language teacher, whose husband she proceeded to mutilate. Which sent her to prison, where she presumingly killed more people and led to the faking of her death. Where she met Konstantin who recruited her into a twelve, a group of powerful government entities with a mind to create their own militia of seemingly teenagers/young adults whose minds are easily swayed and preyed upon. 

Over time, we see Villanelle has become one of the victims of this group. But does she ever really see herself as a victim? She sees herself as a predator, like a shark, hunting its prey. Given orders to murder who she thinks are random people, but we as viewers know it’s serving a higher purpose to those in charge. She never questions what she does and rather, she enjoys it. Villanelle is flamboyant and creative, acting much like a child. Killing men with fancy poison pins, clamping their balls, holding their ties into elevator doors, and gutting them like pigs in front of their scorned wives. It’s all a game, how she can make each kill more interesting than the last and we enjoy it. Seeing how she does it and what her thought process is behind it. But there really is no thought process, she kills because she wants to and that’s how simple it is. That’s what makes her different from everyone else. 

But what happens when we add Eve to her story? Villanelle becomes unraveled at the seams. Everything that she has worked for and trained herself to be, devoid of emotion with a lavish lifestyle with endless money, slowly becoming a life of the past. Eve shows her what a normal life is and can be for her, that she can put away  her anger and let herself feel all those emotions she’s tried so hard to keep hidden. To be herself, to be happy, and no longer fighting inside. 

Likewise, with Eve who understands Villanelle and wants to know more. She wants to know everything about her and she will throw away her normal life in a moment if she can get even a sliver of that. But Eve is the same, too. She wants to know what it’s like to kill in a world where having dark and angry thoughts is considered to be a bad thing and here’s Villanelle who embraces all of those things with wide open arms. It’s exciting to know that there is someone like her, who can equally understand that. She shows compassion and empathy to Villanelle for the first time ever and that overwhelms her. To know that a person like Villanelle is capable of being loved by someone like Eve, it’s beautiful, but it’s only possible because they are the same. 

Though, there are qualms with how their story unfolds. When we do see these women together, they bicker but they work well together. They’re enemies but they’re lovers. If they choose to and they can, to kill together, it’s one of the most dangerous things possibly ever in the world and everybody should be terrified of that. They can tear the world apart and rule it together. 

Ellie: 

When we first meet Ellie, she’s a bold, defensive 14 year old girl. Orphaned from a young age due to losing her mother, who was bitten by the infected, leaving Ellie with exposure to cordyceps which later would cause her to become immune when bitten by a runner. She’s in military school, where she was put by a somewhat surrogate mother, Marlene, because it is the safest place for her to be in the world we see. Then Joel and Tess come along, who are asked to smuggle her out of the city to Salt Lake to a group called the fireflies, who have a team that can create a vaccine from her. 

At first, we see Ellie as a girl with an extreme childlike wonder due to never being able to experience anything from the world before. All she sees is remnants of it. But when situations become dire, from Tess becoming infected, to the tragedy of Sam and Henry, we start to see a change in her. She learns how to use a gun from Joel, killing only when necessary but she enjoys it when she does. She wants the power that Joel does when he kills. So, where does this darkness come from? Is it who she is? Or is the cordyceps fungus that is growing in her brain? If she wasn’t infected and simply “just a girl”, would she have those same thoughts or feelings? We only ever saw Ellie briefly before becoming infected in The Left Behind DLC, where she was just a girl having fun and exploring the broken world with her best friend. So it’s hard to say if we’ll ever know the truth. 

And by the end of the first game, we start to see where more of this anger and guilt manifest. Because she was not able be the cure due to Joel’s love for her, she questions everything she is. Is she a monster, is she nothing? Her feelings are so strong that despite how hard she tries to hide it, she simply can’t. Every chance she has, she asks Joel the same question, or rather demands it, Tell Me The Truth. And each time she is lied to, the anger just becomes stronger, taking on a personality on its own. 

So, at the event of Joel’s death, it allows this anger to manifest and show itself in the deepest and strongest way possible. By hunting down and killing everyone and everything that had anything to do with it. Murdering people who have lives, who mean something to others, without any mind. And when she does find the people who were directly involved, only God can save them because Ellie does literally become an animal. But inside, we know she is still that girl we met at the mere age of 14. So, does it become difficult for us to see her mindlessly kill or does it become even more exciting and interesting? Because by the end of her journey, she saves and spares the life of the person who killed Joel. Would a monster do the same? That action shows that there is humanity inside her and she is just so broken inside from her own emotions, that, that is what controls her actions. 

With Dina, we see them fight but we see them comfort each other. They bicker but they trust each other and love each other. They are partners and where one goes, the other follows. They kill together and is just as rough around the edges as Ellie is. They protect each other, always. We see the tenderest of moments, sometimes it’s just a song, sometimes it’s through sickness, and other times it’s after Ellie kills someone, but they have each other, through it all. Ellie is loyal at all costs, to everyone she loves in her life. The only time she betrays that is through the pain she feels. But she realizes her mistakes and in the end, wants to make everything right again and follows her heart back to where it belongs. 

Father Figures:

Villanelle’s real father dies when she is young so the only father figure that is in her life, is Konstantin. He believes in her like nobody else does, but he is also afraid of her. He knows what Villanelle is capable of and tries to keep her at a distance, but his own love for her, his own curiosity doesn’t let him. She figures out he has a daughter and later on, takes her away from him by introducing her to the darkness. So, he tries to kill her, she tries to kill him, he tries to save her, she leaves him, it’s an endless cycle but it’s one that works for them. It’s a dynamic only they could have for each other, because they are not a real family, not connected by blood, which is a point Konstantin points out to her. But she is truly the only one that he has. His own actions despite the ones we would be led to think Villanelle caused. But in the last season, their relationship is strained. Why? It could be because of Villanelle’s attempted religious rebirth but it could be the effect of everything they have done to each other. Villanelle finally realizing that Konstantin continues to lie and hurt her, so she does the same to him.  And by the end of the series, it ends with Konstantin’s death, again by his own actions before they’re able to reconcile. 

Joel is Ellie’s father. Wholly and simply. Blood or not, that doesn’t matter. His lies to Ellie about the fireflies would regard the same outcome as if he was her father by blood. The hurt and anger is possibly even more because she knows what they have been through together. They crossed the country and saved each other from infected, and their lives have literally been dependent on each other. It was an easy decision for Joel to save Ellie, killing everyone that got in his way, much like Ellie would later kill everyone in her way to avenge Joel. So, them not speaking to each other and Ellie publicly berating him is not easy for Ellie. Especially when Joel lost his own daughter Sarah. But her choosing to want to fix that relationship is a brave one, when his death was less than 24 hours later. And Ellie finally choosing to let her life with Joel go, so she can live her own with Dina. 

Overview:

If you put these four characters together and switched their places, you would have a nearly similar outcome. Both Villanelle and Ellie are lesbians, while Eve and Dina are both bisexual. They are similar but different, but their stories are unique and borne of trauma, anger, and overwhelming emotions, which are calmed by love and humanity by Eve and Dina. 

(Disclaimer: Eve is not being sidelined to just Villanelle’s counterpart in this post, as Eve is her own person, this is just a comparison to Villanelle and Ellie’s stories)

TLDR:

They are the same person except Villanelle is clean and smells good, while Ellie is stinky and dirty. 

[krolik999]

[fayevalcntine]

Claudia in paintings pt.2:

Agnus by Konstantin Korobov The Mocking of Christ by Gerrit van Honthorst The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

[bkenber]

SAG/AFTRA and WGA Strike on the National Day of Solidarity

It was another day on the picket line as SAG/AFTRA and the WGA continue their long-running strike against the AMPTP. The fight for a fair contract and better pay rages on even as it looks as if no end is in sight. But, then again, it was not really another day as this was the National Day of Solidarity which not only brought these two unions together, but many others including the AFL-CIO, IATSE…

[guardian-of-time-if]

I just played the emperor-meeting in the forest...and he just promised his son's and heir hand in marriage to a orphan MC...? I agree with the empress, unless he knew what MC would become...did he recived a prophesy?

Interesting thought Anon!

Who knows what Emperor Konstantin is thinking. Certainly not his wife. Or at least, not that wife.

[ahsoka-its-all-of-us]

And honestly? Both are valid as hell and I will defend them with my life

Crosshair watched the Empire destroy his home and was left abandoned for 32 days and he was still a loyal soldier to the Empire after all that.

Kallus spent a night on a ice moon, but when Konstantine left him hanging for a high hive he just fully went “you know what, I don’t need this negativity in my life” and jumped ship.

[herpsandbirds]

Hi! Whats the weirdest little guy you got? I wanna draw a cool lizard

WEIRD LITTLE GUY (Saurian edition)

I will give you 3 options... choose wisely my apprentice!

OPTION 1: The Rogue

Secret Toadhead Agama (Phrynocephalus mystaceus), defensive display, family Agamidae, found in Iran, North Afghanistan, Eastern Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

photographs by Milan Zygmunt & Antoshin Konstantin

OPTION 2: Chad W. Martin, III, Esq.

White-bellied Worm Lizard aka Red Worm Lizard (Amphisbaena alba), family Amphisbaenidae, found across much of South America

Legless lizard.

photographs by Dick Bartlett

OPTION 3: Bishonen Ga Daisuke Desu, Act 5

Common Barking Gecko (Ptenopus garrulus) barking at your sorry ass from its lair, family Gekkonidae, South Africa

photographs by Bernard DUPONT & Ryanvanhuyssteen 

[collageofnudes]

Diana Sedova (Диана Седова) by Konstantin Mikhalev (Константин Михалёв)

part 3 / 3 (part 1 , 2)