#Personalized Mother’s Rings

[stars-and-darkness]

why does so much of mel discourse on this site centre on to what measure she did or did not manipulate jayce like that's the extent of her complexity and grey morality, as if she has not directly and indirectly been contributing to the opression of zaun not because she's prejudiced or hates them but simply because she profits from it, like i am so sorry my queen that they don't get you like i get you

[braxix]

Elrond: Ya know, I didn't understand that whole love thing until I met Celebrian.

Galadriel: Stop talking or you lose your tongue.

[katyspersonal]

Commentary on religious "redemption" in Soulsborne

To think of it, the rebirths magic used by Rosaria and Rennala, and more particularly people becoming addicted to it and getting corrupted by it gradually, is a very clever satire on the Christians that can't understand their own darn religion?

And, yeah, I know:

But fdhdfshfds I mean like, the sentiment of being "born anew" and furthermore believing that they could basically conjure up atonement and be "purified" upon request, instead of putting actual effort in change and fixing consequences of their actions, if it applies.

Both man-grubs addicted to being reborn by Rosaria and juvenile scholars addicted to Rennala's amber egg (which is still a piece of Golden Order) grow weaker with each next rebirth. The time spans between rebirth grow shorter and shorter after each next one, meanwhile effects grow more and more detrimental rather than beneficial. And, just.. doesn't it all sound awfully familiar?

The first experience of being "purified" and starting over as new, better person is REALLY great. It feels like finding true peace of mind, feels like a bliss, you are full of hope and it is like your sins and suffering got left behind and were like a bad dream, right? But over time, the truth, the deeply ingrained flaws you didn't truly work on, and the rot of this world start to creep in, and you are becoming put back to the "worse" version of yourself that you had hoped you cast away. And you don't want to lose that sense of bliss and being good, so you seek it again. It can feel like you are able to start fresh again for a while. And then again, and again, and before you know it you become just a pitiful parody of that initial experience. It becomes frantic and very quickly changing cycle of "being bad again", and then "casting that sin aside" by praying and moving on, instead of genuine long term effort of fixing what you did (or working on this flaw).

I guess man-grubs are for sure a more plain reflection out of the two? Grubs that will never curl up and become butterflies! In the very same game, there are 'Angels' that sprout from within hollowed humans' Darkness, even against their will!

They, on the contrary, can reflect losing faith to the point of truly finding it, if you see what I mean. Symbolic of becoming so lost in hopelessness, confusion, sins, mistakes and suffering that in the end it becomes faith for its own sake, without any tangible or perceived benefit. The more conscious variant of it, the Angelic Faith, is more like comprehension that blessing is to not wash all your "filth" away but to seek God within it. Not to get too personal here, but it is something I can understand too; I remember feeling SO drowning in my critical flaws and wrongdoings that I thought "damn, only God can truly love the rot and shit that I am fr" and.. it gave me more peace of mind than it sound, to be deadly honest.

Of course, either concept is not a supplement for real growth and effort, but one is deliberately trying to cheat truth and fate and another is unfortunate result of being driven to your lowest by either the world or yourself.

Interestingly enough, Rennala's unity with the Golden Order started with the similar concept of cheating fate.. Celestial Dew doesn't raise the dead back to living or rebuilds the broken things, however, it does do something with your mind. It makes me wonder whether her own attachment to the Amber Egg is not just for the sake of clinging to all that was left of her marriage, but also for the sake of recollection of that feeling where everyone left tormented with the Liurnian war just "forgave and forgot". The scholars are being reborn "fresh and pure", there is still accent on casting away the "filth"

In any case.. I think Fromsoft are just trying to say that if you want to become a better version of yourself, you really should accept that simply washing all your sins, pain, grudges and flaws down the drain won't work and instead you should either work for it (if improvement is possible) or salvage what you can (if improvement is impossible).

[wilmaaaa0]

Sometimes I think about how Miquella literally threw away all aspects of what he once was, INCLUDING his Grace. We see that from his character model his eyes are gray, which means he's Graceless.

You could view this action in two ways:

1. Miquella was so confident in his plan that he deemed nothing would stop him at this point, and since he's going to start his own order anyways, he doesn't need grace anymore (not expecting our Tarnished to come flying from the bleachers with a steel chair)

2. Miquella was so desperate to show he was atoning for Marika's sins, and was so desperate to succeed, that he threw away his Grace in the hopes it would help him ascend, danger or no

It's really up to the player to decide which one they think is more likely.

Either way, when we kill him...he's dead dead. There's no coming back for him; he doesn't get placed in the Erdtree and his soul will never be reincarnated. Which is...really, really sad, imo. Not only did he sacrifice everything, he FINALLY achieved his goal, and then we kill him right out the gate and...it's over.

That's it. That's all that Miquella will have done or will ever do. His legacy is an unfinished one, even when he finally got the power to finish it all.

[shyfurby]

Yeah I like the headcanon that the Carian sorcery sword was his. Have some sketches about it 🗡️✨

[eirianerisdar]

You don’t realize how much progress you’ve made in therapy and executive dysfunction management until you have to help your middle aged parents (undiagnosed audhd and autism respectively) get ready for your sister’s wedding in a few days and realise they have absolutely no time management or organizational skills except for shouting and panicking

[seabeck]

Heya, I'm guessing you didn't see this when it happened:

https://www.tumblr.com/badjokesbyjeff/758144861510762496/el-shab-hussein-heritageposts-you-and-your-team?source=share

Re: "verification" which is clearly not actual verification, meaning either the verifier is doing a laughably bad job, or is in on it.

Donating to actual aid organizations like WCK, PCRF and Anera is always a better idea than random people on social media.

Wowza that is something alright. And there’s still people in the comments defending them I.. media literacy is dead my god.

[morningmask27]

i am not sorry for the Carmine reblogs, she has fully taken over my brain at this point.

A mixture of her being so unhinged and neurodivergent that it feels like she was made for me to like her and her very unfortunate dynamic with her little brother make her a character that I was just made to get attached to.

I want to study her under a microscope and get her help with the Kieran stuff, I want to make things worse between the two siblings, I want them to blow up at each other in a way that will make them unable to reconcile, because she failed to do everything right for her brother, because he took everything so personally and lashed out, because the two just can't fit together nicely, they're just not made for that. no matter how hard she tries to be a perfect sister, no matter how much she cares about him, I want things to go so wrong between the two. I want the pain to be so gut-wrenching it tears them appart.

but I also want them to reconcile; in another world things could be saved. carmine could recognize the way she acts hurts her little brother that she loves so dearly, she could try to reach out to him and be better, and he could accept it and they'd be able to rebuild things together.

it's a tale of two siblings that struggle to coexist. Carmine's technically the one in the wrong because she hurts Kieran, but she doesn't intend to. she struggles to realise how he feels an just tries to do it her way because she's the older sibling and knows best. she loves him and wants only the best for him, that's why she made the player lie to him, but it backfired alomst immediately.

she failed and that's the real problem. now let's hope that the Indigo Disk lets them reconcile (in a satisfying way)

[kingofdinosaurs]

she eld on my ring till all of my children are born accursed and i start tossing them into the sewers forever and shit

[stackthedeck]

once again haunted by the boostle soulmate au

[itsbinghebitch]

preliminary thoughts on be my favorite (because i really do think this show deserves involved analysis not a few scribbled notes): but the complexity!!! a show that respects its viewers. there was no miscommunication trope, just people hurting other people because of decisions they made even after careful deliberation. but no amount of careful deliberation can change the impact your choices have on other people’s lives. kawi and pisaeng’s tough conversation at the end of this episode left me in tears because it recognizes exactly just that, how hard it is to be someone among others at all. no matter how many times he’s traveled back and forth between past and present, no matter how many calculated choices and variables fixed, kawi can’t find an optimal timeline where everyone will be happy. everyone has their own demons to confront, pearmai has to learn to deal with her mother as well as accept kawi and pisaeng getting together, kwan has to disentangle her complex relationship to not, not has to become an actual adult and not the manchild he currently is. 

one step in the right direction doesn’t fix everyone else’s journey. kawi is not the main character of life. 

[adhd-merlin]

you need to read this if you haven't (on arthur's [mother's] ring)

[mossbabie]

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[gimelisjewelstore]

5.0 TCW Slanted Marquise Diamond Band 14K Solid White Gold Promise Band For Her Engagement Band Anniversary Gift eternity band wedding band

[mynameisnowwyrm]

New nightmare unlocked: finding more and more spelling errors that werent therw before everytime i read through a text, i edit them out, and after I've submitted it i find more spelling errors.

[coraniaid]

If the reboot goes ahead, and SMG plays an older, wiser Buffy who shows up a few times to give advice and encouragement to the new Buffy (named after her, of course), I hope they keep her romantic life as vague as possible. The original Buffy didn't want to know too much (if anything) about Giles' dating history, or her own mother's, and why should the new one?

I hope the most we get about the last twenty years of our Buffy's life are some scattered hints that she's in a long-term relationship with somebody who used to be a vampire -- "a vampire with a soul?" the show's new Buffy can scoff -- but who became human again "decades ago" after fulfilling the terms of an ancient prophecy. I hope they have the original Buffy let slip that she met her partner when she was a high school student, but it took her a while to realize that they were the one. That they used to be evil but have since reformed and help her fight against evil and save the world. That they're the most important person in her life after her sister and her nieces. I hope the Bangel and Spuffy fans spend hours refighting old wars about which character Buffy is "meant to be with", both convinced that the show is building up a cameo by their preferred (now older and in-universe human) leading man.

I hope that, in the last episode of the first season of the new show, our Buffy's phone rings during a key bit of exposition -- in the library, ideally, because it won't be Buffy without one of those -- and she apologizes, saying that she has to take it because "that's my wife". I hope as she walks out of shot, phone in hand, we see her smile and we hear her say "hey, Harmony". And I hope the show never, ever expands on any of that again.