#NEW ADDITION BTW

[cubbihue]

chimmy changa timmy, why do you hate muffins? am I missing some of the lore?

Timmy doesn't like how they taste. No matter who, how or where they're made, the muffins are all the same to him. It's frustrating because he knows they shouldn't be.

And each time he walks away feeling immense disappointment. Like something should've happened.

He does his best to avoid eating them, but, Timmy found that people react weirdly when you say you don't like muffins. So he eats them anyways. He's unfortunately surrounded by muffin-nuts.

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[ganondoodle]

so, this is already super long, but i dont wanan split it all up into different posts and at this point what does it matter to add more

i read up on some things and freyas dialog once you progress her quest is worth adding here

(also you learn that she was infected with rot as well ... but miquella just kinda .. cured it??? how?? and thats also interesting bc if he can just cure it ... what about malenia, or ... radahn for that matter, thoguh i guess that happened after miquella was already in the realm of shadow, though honestly i kinda doubt that radahns condition wouldve made much a difference..)

when she learns what miquella plans to do with radahn, even though she was/is a follower of his, she says shes fine with it, bc it would let him enjoy ... war forever? which is kinda strange since miquella wants to build a world of compassion/gentleness, which kinda goes against war (though ...we know that people that claim to be righteous can also just define certain things they dont like as evil and then act like ridding the world of it is an act of kindness)

would that really be worth leaving everything behind, even himself? even the things he cares about? has he been so scarred by so much war that that is the only thing he enjoys? you can enjoy fighting without wanting war too, whats it worth if he isnt even himself, much more a scattered shadow, or like an echo of himself, could he even find joy in that, can he even feel in this stitched together condition?- anyway, its yet another time that someone else says their opinion on what they think he wanted, once again nothing from his side, and while her armor description says that radahn saw her fight and offered to join him, it doesnt say how well she knew him personally

she also says that it would break jerrens heart to know this (or sadden him i think) which seems to confirm that jerren really didnt know and actually believed he was doing a good thing by organizing the festival, which is just ... so sad, you could also wonder if jerren knew radahn better and perhaps .. would be against miquellas plan. if he knew

(was thinking about making this into another post but im adding it here anyway)

taking what little we know about radahn, or get told for that matter, he does seem to be rather 'nice', in the context of elden ring leading an army and killing people really isnt that bad in itself, compared to uh .. whatever is up with literally everyone

the most know fact is that radahn started to learn gravity magic for the sole reason of not having to abandon his horse, who wasnt the best and radahn got much too big and heavy for it- so he could hover above the saddle as to not hurt it ... and he still does so even after getting infected with the rot (base game fight it seems brutal as the horse gets stomped into the sand, but i think it literally just goes into a little bubble benath it and pops up fine when hes needed again .. which is interesting bc radahn could just fly away or jump away, he wouldnt have to put the horse into the sand unless to .. either protect it from you or his own attacks)

its cut content but the long cat talisman used to have a description that mentioned it was radahns pet

the description of other items (cant remember which one, but its something you get in caelid/sellia) has one of the i think only two direct quotes from him in which he thanks the people of sellia for teaching him gravitation magic so he seemed to have been rather respectful and not a complete ass

from gaius armor we learn that he and radahn learned that magic together and had a friendly rivalry (gaius being a disabled man with no legs who depended on his boar friend to get around- hey look another one with a beloved steed) which ... might just be one of the nicest descriptions in the game

he was a godfrey fanboi (kinda cute?) and served the golden order (maybe mainly bc of that?? sicne godfrey was literally marikas consort) and it all went messy when the elden ring was shattered but still he seems rather 'tame' compared to others

he was very respected by his men, and even rykard, the blasphemous, must have been fond of him given that there is a big portrait of radahn in the one of the main rooms in the manor, and i dont think thats just bc they are brothers

we also dont know the exact reason why radahn held the stars in place, was it really just to stop ranni, his sister, from enacting her plan? she wanted to usurp the golden order so perhaps so (which .. if he didnt want ranni to remake the world into what she wanted it to be by destroying the golden order ... why would he want to help miquella, who also wanted to build another world in a similar way), but theres also the fact that sellia, where he learned his magic, was nearly destroyed by a falling star, and we find multiple fallingstar beasts in various stages of maturity in the world (the young ones seemed rather freshly fallen there, so perhaps his grip on the stars was starting to loosen as he was fighting the rot) and we know they grow into what astell is, some cosmic insect like monster- could he have done it just to stop ranni? or to protect people from falling stars? what about both, two bird one stone- would it be another reason hed want to stay alive no matter what? bc all that would resume once he died, as we literally see happen

(also interesting detail that was pointed out to me in the comments; in regard to him potentially wanting to resist the rot and not die by all means necessary- his great rune is on fire, great runes change according to their bearer, as seen with other runes, like malenias, and his was set ablaze, fire being one of the methods his men still to this day try to fight the rot even though it has consumed all of caelid by this point .. despite him not having any fire in his attack pattern except for the meteor attack)

would he have wanted to be "revived" using a family members body, (he didnt seem to hate anyone of them, or at least not that we know), to serve as pawn to his half brother and help him become a god to rebuild the world? to abandon all his men, his friends, his horse, almost all of his family, his land?

some people seem to take miquellas and freyas words as a fact that he willingly agreed to it, but to me it jsut doesnt add up

(again im not arguing to be more right, im thinking about it in the way im interpreting it bc i like to think and wonder against what you are told, especially in this case where hes never given a voice and its all about what others think of him or want from him)

(EDIT; literally second after i posted this i started to watch a video about the dancing lion boss and it just hit me that theres also a parallel to be found with how radahn loves lions so much, bc of godfrey most likely, he even called himself that; but .. the dancing lion is a puppet made from one, its people puppeteering a mask made from a golden lion .. radahns dlc armor is just called 'young lion' set ..... puppetry of a dead lion......... .. the end fight ..... )

(more elden ring radahn thoughts)

on whats really left of him .. and his soul? general too many thoughts about him- long post and probably incoherent, but you know me, im never coherent anyway, many thoguhts, head full, quite literally

in base game, he has lost his mind we are told, and clearly he isnt like he used to be, but we really dont know the extend of it hes clearly capable of fighting rather .. controlled; its not like hes biting and clawing after you, he still uses his swords (and bow, sth he doesnt even have in dlc) and magic, we know even in this condition he held back the stars AND still fought you hard at the same time (i know undead people can still fight in elden ring, pls hear me out)

and i wonder .. how much of his mind did he really lose, obviously some since he eats people now which isnt sth he used to do, but ... we dont know how talkactive he used to be, we get one (two? i can only think of one) quotes from him in the descriptions of an item, he might have been a man of few words already, so him not talking at all isnt that good of a measure (not saying its the only measure, just wanted to mention), resorting to eating people that atack you might just be an act of desperation too

we get told he kills friend and foe alike (and im not questioning that really) but in his cutscene we see him drag along the bodies of cleanrot knights, who are under direct dommand of malenia, and by extend miquella, im guessing they kept sending them after him to finish him off; now knowing that him dying means being sent to the realm of shadow, to miquella, and NOT knowing if he wanted that, i feel that that detail has grown in importance-

when you start the fight, hes rather defensive, shooting at you almost immediately upon you entering the arena with no extra cutscene either, what he shoots at you a long ranged gravitation bolts that stop you dead in tracks with a very high stagger rate and if you are on torrent it stagger you off of it; i know it could be just tactical and bc all he knows now is to fight as best as he can BUT, you could also look at it as a defensive strategy, to keep you away, and away from him .. even though you are not told he is afraid to die and he eats people now, sure he could come over there and snack on you once he shot you enough times, but the important thing is that you as a threat to his life is eliminated AND he doesnt seem to have some sort of insatiable hunger for people that makes him charge and snap at you immediately, there could be self control there still (if i wanted to reach a little further i could also say he could be trying to keep you away from him not jsut to save himself but to save you from him too, but thats a reach and i know that)

once you get close enough he usually changes to fire a salve of arrows that fall from the sky and follows you around, also high in stagger- its only when you get too close that he pulls out his swords and charges at you

his arena is interestign as well, its a piece of land in caelid that is inaccessible (unless you can fly?) from all sides, a barren battlefield only reached through a teleporter, im not sure if it is the same place as when he fought malenia or not (wasnt that in the middle of caelid where you find the rot needle?) but i doubt anyone could have put him there against his will, so did he .. go there himself? or stay there for that matter- how quickly do you lose yourself when infected with rot? and how quickly for him, since hes a demigod? did he intentionally isolate himself there? make it harder to reach him for both friend and foe alike?

another point is that most enemies (as far as i can think of) that are infected with rot/are in caelid also deal rot damage, radahn does not, hes even really vunerable to it in fact, its an intersting detail to me bc he only uses either standard attacks or gravitational magic, given that hes been in this condition for a long time and its caelid id expect the rot to be somewhat important there, but its not

how much has he really lost his mind, is he really as mindless as jerren makes him out to be? is he trying to stay alive no matter what, isolating himself on an (almost) island and only living off what comes there, which is usually people that want to kill him, be it friend or foe, all are out for his life one way or another, could it be defensive ... desperate even? no one but him and miquella/malenia seem to know that him dying means hes put into the land of shadow, where miquella is waiting for him; (why wouldnt he tell anyone? was he not able to? was he afraid to upset the golden order by spilling it out?) could he know that would be the end of him having his own will, knowing what miquella can do to people? ... perhaps even .... having been manipulated by him before when he was less experienced and more in direct vicinity to him, to promise something he doesnt actually want?

this is a reach too but ... could he be trying to make himself unusable for miquella, theres no real cure for the rot, could he have decided to stay alive as long as he can to both destroy his own body (and soul even?) intentionally so it cant be used against his will, like a desperate act to destroy himself rather than become someones unwilling puppet? did he succeed in both somewhat but not enough to become fully worthless and unsalvageable? just how much would he have had to destroy himself for him to become useless to miquella, is there even a limit? would he have been "revived" no matter what, no matter what little was left of him?

how is he mindless, yet his soul it taken when you kill him, his body beyond repair, but his soul intact? that seems like the opposite of what he is, and you are told he is, in the base game to me (maybe hes just fallen into madness i guess, but given the soul is like .. the self, he should be mad in the dlc too then, unless miquella can just pick out the parts he likes and throw away the rest .... which isnt impossible either)

now, there could be the argument that he might have actually agreed to it, hes been a big fan of godfrey, who is a consort to marika, a god, and little more than her pawn as well, his 'young' look you see at the end of the dlc could also be connected to it, the braids i thought where a sign of miquellas influence could also be just how he looked back then, an imitation of godfreys hairstyle- and we dont know for sure he didnt used to have them even after gettign older since they could just have loosened after spending so much time in a zombie lite condition (or is it?)-- but his portrait in volcano manor doesnt seem to have them either, hes also sporting the armor you see in base game (i think) there the fact that, according to godfrey, strength is the only thing that matters and to become a consort you need to be the strongest of all to be worthy, could also be interpreted that way- though i dont if he would have wanted to replace the golden order, he was a fan and follower of it, did he even think of it the implications? did he even know? was he just young and stupid? (very possible tbh)

then theres the idea of there being less left of his soul, so in the dlc he is barely if anything at all, himself, both in body AND soul, how much was there even left after all that time in caelid, he is silent except for like two grunts he does also in base game (he has more sounds there too), completely unexpressive, with very few gravitation magic, in the second phase miquella literally snakes his arms around his neck, almost every single attack is filled with light magic, clearly coming from miquella and not him (i know bringing up leonard might seem overemphasizing his role, but in these games what information you get is very scarce so every bit you do learn is important and was written intentionally- but he stayed together with him in caelid, all his attacks involve him in one way or another, he only started to learn that magic for leonard, so radahn didnt have too abandon him as he got too large to ride him, he uses gravitation in dlc too, so it means that at the point of his life that he is recreated as he already had leonard or that that is a sign of whatever is left of his soul that comes from a much older him, and if it is, its very little) (also this is a reach too but most enemies with horses have separate health bars, he doesnt, he and leonard basically share the same health bar, literally inseperable uwu)

"theres no evidence hes mindcontrolled" people say to me. have you seen him? how he acts? or more, how he DOESNT act? that miquellas entire deal is THAT HE BEWITCHES PEOPLE, ffs he STEALS YOUR HEART if you get grabbed by him twice in the dlc fight- theres no evidence he wasnt either, you are told they had a vow, but you never know what exactly that was, when it was (in the memory of miquella wishing for radahn to be his consort you only see miquella- was it a silly wish between kids tha miquella never grew out of?), in what circumstances, you never get to hear radahn say anything about it, its completely left out, thats a little unrelieable to me! idk!

but fine, maybe he did agree to it, maybe he thought being a consort to a god would make him just as cool as godfrey, maybe he fought malenia, who was said to be undefeated, only to prove he had the strength worthy of being a consort and it backfired when malenia infected him with the rot (why then? also he doesnt look exactly thrilled about what she say to him in the trailer but that could be just me too i guess lolololol), maybe he wanted to die all along but his pride meant he couldnt just let the rot win, maybe the festival was really what he wished for and told no one what the real goal was, maybe he wasnt rotten in the first place and just acted that part so he had an excuse to die without having to fight with all his strength as even the undefeated warrior wasnt able to beat him, maybe becoming a consort to miquella was worth leaving leonard behind to him, maybe he wanted to be nothing but a pawn to a god, to be used and discarded, maybe he really believed in miquellas wish for a "gentle" world (aka all love miquella)

it makes sense, im not going to lie about that, but the other does too- and in the end, we will never know what the truth is! we will never know if that was what he wanted, or if he was manipulated even back then, i wish we could to see his part, his voice, his will, but we never will, and it doesnt matter, in the end it doesnt matter if he wanted it or not, the fact remains hes a silent frankensteins monster of miquella, expression- and personalityless, a voiceless pawn to a god that steals everyones hearts

i dont need to be "right", i like to think about things, i am in the camp of he didnt want to or decided against it, but it doesnt really matter, even if miyazaki himself went onto stage and loudly declared that yes it was all planned from the start and radahn was in on it the whole time- i still would think the other way around it, i jsut think about him alot, i want to question things instead of taking everythign i hear at face value, especially when its very strangely told from one side, i will question every little thing if i only hear one side, no matter how much sense it makes or not, it makes me suspicious

(i some of this can be attributed about purely gameplay stuff, like the change in armor so he doesnt look the same etc, but i dont care, i like to think about the implications it brings with it, intentionally or not)

and there he is in a barren battlefield, eating the remains of whoever enters his isolated cage with the intent to kill him, never succeeding, howling like a lonely old wolf at the sky, is it desperation about a fate he cannot escape, grief about what hes done or failed to do, is it a call of yearning? for freedom?

we dont know. and it doesnt matter.

[dinoserious]

fell asleep against big sibling... being small is so so hard

[party2000]

you know what else came out in 2015? carly rae jepsen's smash hit album emotion

[faerabbit]

listen i love snufmin as much as the next fella but most people i've encountered who ship it are like "ooh! aah! snufkin is so cool and mysterious, he must be dangerous (but in like a sexy way) and knows all the ways to woo someone-"

listen. listen. if snorkmaiden is anything to go by, then moomin would canonically be the more experienced with relationships. i bet snufkin doesn't even know how to hold hands /hj

[valyrfia]

i have an informative covid post that's currently going mildly viral or at the very least has left my sphere of influence and i'm just thinking of a poor soul that thinks "huh, she sounds reasonable i'll follow her" only to open my blog and be hit in the face with my takes on which f1 drivers are having the most rancid sex with each other

[sonicblooms]

the way i actually cannot stop adding swatches to this collectionfdhghhjfn

[tatiejosie]

Hey I wrote a fanfiction for Valentine's day - I wanted to explore the subject of Bella and Mandrake's status as a supposedly married couple.

I think I'll end up making a separate post to explain the process behind the fic, along with little tidbits and concept art, mostly because I've injected a lot of little details to the book/movie's inexistant lore and I think it'd be interesting to develop those!

In the meantime, have an angsty illustration - I promise though, it does get better. But first it has to get worse. uwu (threat)

[apolloccentric]

other ocs. event horizon tends to just go by horizon. their designs and names (save for the hermes) are completely inspired from a video game i used to play a lot with friends lol but i’m hoping to incorporate some more Fun Deep Space Knowledge sometime when i have the brain cells

[felassanis]

OK um. Kaidan extended edition. Wtf did you do to my man. Who is this frat boy.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

hello again fellow denizens of our beloved hellsite, once again i need assistance in picking my Next Book To Read (after i finish this nonfic and perhaps also HILL HOUSE). these are all somehow adjacent to the writing project i'm working on, so i might even read them in order of Victor to Loser (though i reserve the right to say nah).

please help me select my next read based on ZERO propaganda, only titles and cover vibes.

here are all their beautiful faces:

button-press away!!

[riiviir]

hey guys so I just started reading Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott and OMG AHSBNSBSBSNSNBSHZHSHDBFHGGHFHGRJ2KSHSBSNSK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIVITY BETWEEN DIMENSIONS!!!!!!

[taamlok]

i love coming on here and finding out everyone lost their damn mind while i slept

[homuras]

kilruas -> homuras

new url in honor of the girlies being back

[johndonneswife]

🌙🌵✨☀️ piñon tree smell after rain. u agree

[bluejaybytes]

I don't think I ever actually posted my fully finished SplatOC relationship chart so. woe, squits upon you ☝️