#Servant creation

[studentshaul]

Name: Gavrilo Princip

Gender: Male

Class: Assassin

Alignment: Chaotic Evil

Stats:

Strength: E

Endurance: D

Agility: C

Mana: D

Luck: A

Noble Phantasm: A

Class Skills:

Presense Concealment: A

Personal Skills:

Revolt for a Better World: A Taken from his anti-imperialist, nationalistic views. With this skill the more Princip believes in a cause, the stronger he gets when fighting for it. So long as a fight will achieve the goal he sets, he will never give up.

Plotting and Scheming: C A sharp young mind who plotted and successfully killed Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This skill is exactly was it says on the tin, he can plot and scheme murders and assassinations with precision. Things just go my way: B Causality is linked to Princip, from his lucky shot on the Archduke to the fallout from the assassination. This skill can effect the world around him to a small extent so that he can complete what needs to be done. However just because things are set up for him, doesn't mean he always pulls through in the end.

Noble Phantasm: The Black Hand - A Conspiracy for Freedom: C+ Allows Princip to summon shadow servants that resemble fellow members of the nationalist organsiation he joined, the Black Hand, to help him. These shadow servants can scout, fight and even communicate. He can create up to ten at a time. Fatal Bullet - Cause of the Great War: A+ The spark that almost destroyed Europe. The cause of millions of deaths. This Bullet is a conceptual weapon that when actived makes it so that the next bullet Princip fires does not injure the target..but it effect causality around them. A butterfly effect that leads to the worst possible outcome for the person and their families, friends...neighbours. A spiraling effect that drags those effected by it into a metaphorical hell.

[starheirxero]

Local god, once again, gets too silly and tortures his servant 😔 (heartbreaking)

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I love this man so much he makes me ill 💜

[tnbc-thoughtsandheadcanons]

Something that has always bothered me about The nightmare before Christmas sequels and the fandom is how Sallys abuse is never talked about or swept under the rug or down played as not that bad. The movie does a great way how showing how abusers can deceive peoplelike every thing is fine but nothing really is. The Dr only hurts Sally when no one is looking or when they are alone and unfortunately when Jack is around he puts on a act like he’s a good guy that would never hurt anyone so Jack is not suspicious Sally is in Danger. I understand this is a difficult subject but I believe one that should be talked about. Sallys story is one of hope that things can and will get better ❤️‍🩹 and that you are not tethered to your abuser. 

I believe I've talked about it before, how Sally's situation with the Doctor can be looked at through the lens of abuse, much like Lock, Shock, and Barrel with Oogie Boogie. Dr. Finkelstein is well-liked among his fans, who have arguments against the whole 'abuse' thing, but I think it's an interesting discussion worth having from its complexities. It doesn't get much focus in many Nightmare adaptations at all.

The Doctor is overprotective and overbearing - as his expectations for Sally are not to join in on the Halloween celebrations (which is Halloween Town's most beloved time + purpose), and from that we can surmise that he doesn't allow her much freedom outside of the tower. His punishment to her is locking her in her room with a gigantic piece of wood over the door, for how long is undetermined, but it leads to Sally's escape being something drastic like jumping out of a window.

He treats Sally's restless behavior as a "phase that will pass", with enough "patience". But, really, what is Sally's 'restless behavior' beyond just wanting to go outside and join in on the fun? To meet people, to make friends? Dr. Finkelstein, whether intentionally or not, is trying to cage Sally and enforce that her 'acceptable' behavior is to be content living and serving him, and not seeking a life outside of him and the tower.

There is some emotional manipulation you can see in the movie between the Doctor and Sally, and it comes across a little more clearly in Caroline Thompson's Draft:

And abusers can be good or even well-liked people. The Doctor and Jack clearly have a friendship, or they at least get along well, as Jack comes to him for some lab equipment and seeks his help with the skeletal reindeer, and the Doctor is kind and welcoming to him in return. It's not really clear whether or not Jack *knows* how Sally is being treated at home, in both recent Nightmare books it's addressed and received badly by Jack (who wants to fix the situation), but it could be very easily guessed he may not notice anything if Sally doesn't talk about it and the Doctor presents nothing as wrong. (The Doctor does pull Sally away during Halloween, trying to be quiet about taking her back, so he may not want to make a scene with her and have others know their situation.)

Sally taking the initiative to escape on her own, to use her wits and learn special concoctions to poison Dr. Finkelstein with (a little morally-gray though), and re-sewing her dismembered limbs on is empowering and teaches us that you can overcome your obstacles. What she and the Doctor have is definitely far from a healthy relationship, and something some abused people can relate to - Finkelstein's emotional manipulations and caging Sally inside as a servant, and her poisoning and escaping him in response to these things.

I am glad Sally ends up freeing herself in the end, and that she finds a life away from Finkelstein. I like seeing Nightmare fan-material addressing what Sally has gone through and how she learns to heal + grow from her time with the Doctor, and I also like seeing the same for him in return, to treat his newer creation better and learn from his mistakes and become a better person through it. I don't think he's necessarily a 'villain' in any sense, but a person whose intentions and actions are abusive, as they cause much more harm than good.

[outergodly]

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[movie-gifs]

I was so happy there with you. It was like bliss. The Servant (1963) dir. Joseph Losey

[magnusbae]

Matthew and Lucienne, crying softly while reading a book in the library: 

Dream, baffled: What is of the matter?

Matthew, sniffing despite being a raven: this poor, sad mate. he’s trying so hard, but he just. 

Lucienne: and he never gives up, the letters. 

Dream, bemused, gracefully taking away the thick brown book with the golden title: What is this you are speaking of.

Dream, looking at the book name “Nameless Love, Hob Gadling”: —Fuck.

[emelinstriker]

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

Cesar A. Cruz

My favorite quote atm cuz it's so true and an absolute mood

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i am confusing kali and durga but you did make design of fgo her right? can i ask you to repost it bc i scoured your archive and i still cant find it

It was kali! The actual post is here but I’ll post some of the pictures here as well

I’ve been planing on doing proper ascension-like art for her for a while now, just haven’t found the time between work and making my normal content for the blog ;v;

[meirimerens]

you know i must have been bone-tired when this part of the herb brides lore didn't come to my mind when i discussed how the Kin fundamentally differs from the cultures it is inspired by um There Is The Human Sacrifice part. like it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you are doing human, or anthropomorphic (if you want to see the Herb Brides as closer to spirits, which comes with its own set of problematics regarding how to approach their oppression) sacrifice. it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you kill a woman, as part of the journey and in direct resonance with you ritualistically killing cattle earlier, and she offers herself to you with cultural and religious significance.

human sacrifices have been done across the globe for millennia, but i cannot, for the life of me, find any source at all that mentions the Buryats (since that was the discussion point) partaking in human sacrifices by the turn of the 19th-early 20th century (or even anything past the 16th). every single source mentioning offerings and sacrifices i've read mentions animals, things such as milk and vodka, and often both at once. would love to read anything about these rituals if papers exist, but i'm personally drawing a blank.

the Kin has Obvious and very Visible influences but it also differs from specific (in this discussion's case, the Buryats) or wider (here, turkic/mongolic as a whole) cultures from the area by so many pieces, big and small, that i wouldn't have enough appendages on my whole body to count them all. and sister. i have plenty of appendages.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Bilbo's Aragorn poem // Messianic prophecy from Isaiah (53:2, 50:7, 11:1, 9:2, 49:2, 9:6)

[plaid-dm]

Ranger favorite things #002

Every dragon hoards something. They feel a need, a biological urge to collect something. You are in the service of one such dragon. Verde, he is called. And he collects goblinoids like humans might collect dead butterflies. He aims to have 2 of each, a male and a female. As his ranger it is your job to travel far and wide to track, hunt down, collect and preserve 2 goblins, hob goblins, bugbears at a time. You have traveled the globe to find all different kinds of variants.

[starheirxero]

I think Lord Eclipse and Lord Lunar would have SUCH a funny dynamic. Local gods have a feud but only one of them actually cares about it. Servant Eclipse thinks they’re both being ridiculous.

[cattycaleb]

sigh……………….. i wanna know about aeormaton politics………………..

[stayatsam]

WIP

[craigtowens]

Links & Quotes

Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.

Romans 8:28 tells us that God uses ALL things to accomplish His purpose for our lives. Too many times I tried to rush through things without getting anything out of it. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel. He is 98 years old and he’s still busy serving other people! I pray we can all be as selfless and vibrant in ministering to others until the…

[oimoi-op]

About your tags on the Lucienne post: oh we usually aren't even half this nice LMAOOO I could be a lot meaner but like. Both our posting about her and also the anger and frustration comes from the same place of love for and fascination with her. There's so much to talk about it's insane

Literally tho like!!!!! she's such a compelling character on so many levels, yet a lot of the fandom reduces her to the "mom friend" or other similarly reductive if not misogynistic stereotypical roles so for me (someone not super involved in the fandom these days) it's so refreshing to see you and others discussing her on her own merits and not just an accessory/afterthought for someone's white slash ship lol