#Sol speaks

[sol-shines]

something something a follower who is more devout than their god. a fervent acolyte and a doubtful divine. the obsessive devotion of one who has become a sword for someone who cannot stomach the thought of wielding them. misplaced worship that refuses to be swayed. a invulnerable deity painfully human in its uneasy hesitancy, a fragile mortal made alien by its unquestioning conviction. attack dog and owner with a tight grip on the leash. and make it as fucked up and gay as possible.

[solena2]

every time i’m reminded what i put as my favorite food when i signed up for the undertale newsletter i start laughing uncontrollably

[solarspan]

knowing that the next limited life session could be someone’s last ☹️

[psychedelicvanillabean]

in case you wanted to feel emotional about dan and phil’s silly lil halloween dance, this song is called ETERNAL LOVE x

[solsunships]

Please...show me an image of your f/o that makes you smile :]

[supertale-au]

totally lied to you all when i said i had designs for every major character already. i totally skipped mettaton. i knew his role in the au and everything but i didn’t have any drawings for him at all.

as of now that is no longer the case. it’s possible i’ll still tweak some stuff before he shows up in the comic, but this is his design for this au.

as you may have surmised from his everything, he’s a supervillain.

[droppingartintotheinfinite]

thinking trigun (1998 anime) thoughts…

i keep thinking about what would happen in an au where vash died instead of wolfwood. like vash is so essential to the narrative, he’s like whatever the opposite of narrative doom is. narrative immortality. he can’t die until he gets to knives and they have their final battle, it would break the rules of the story. he’ll live forever until that final confrontation, in a narrative sense, because the story can’t exist without him. if he died it would be a different story

like from the start wolfwood was always going to die and vash was always going to live to the final showdown, and everything in the narrative is ready and waiting for this to happen. the entire story is one long rube-goldberg machine that exists for the sole purpose of leading vash to knives and having them fight it out until one of them dies (knives surviving in the end is in defiance of the narrative. it’s vash telling the fate that’s been hanging over them their whole lives to go fuck itself. i am so goddamn feral about this but i can’t help wondering what would happen if you took it further) with the final conclusion of that deciding the fate of humanity

which is like the classic story, right. you’ve got the ultimate good guy and the ultimate bad guy battling for eternity until one of them wins and everyone else in the story is ultimately tangential to this. they can influence either party but the final conclusion is entirely out of their hands. to work within trigun’s tendency towards christianity parallels, it’s god versus the devil, each working to either save or damn humanity as a whole. tale as old as time

and trigun already plays with this narrative a fair bit. in fact i think it’s fairly reasonable to read trigun as a whole as a commentary on this type of story. practically vash’s entire character is that he absolutely straight up refuses to be the kind of hero who kills the bad guy at the end, even though everyone in the entire world including said bad guy is trying to make him into that, and the story ultimately concludes with him succeeding at this, successfully refusing to engage with the might makes right philosophy that everyone’s been trying to push him into and his reward for this is getting to take his brother home at the end, getting to force his way into a kinder conclusion where they have a chance at true reconciliation

and i love this. it is one of the reasons why trigun is the anime ever. but i keep thinking about what it would look like taken even further

because vash has narrative immortality, but only within the bounds of the narrative of him and knives as fated nemeses, only within the bounds of the narrative that considers him and knives to be the only characters in the story with true agency, and that’s the narrative vash has spent his entire existence desperately trying to deconstruct

i keep imagining a world where vash fucking. trips on a rock and eats shit or something while he’s fighting caine, takes a bullet to the head, and the story has to keep going without him. like, the ultimate defiance of knives’ ideology would be him inadvertently killing vash via all the fucking assassins he keeps sending at him, statistically it’s something you’d expect to happen but you know knives has never even considered a world where vash actually dies, let alone where it’s his fault

like i keep imagining fucking. wolfwood and the girls having to finish vash’s journey without him. the three of them going to knives and being like look. here is the ultimate consequence of your beliefs. you spent so long solving all your problems with murder that you accidentally killed the only person left who actually matters to you and it’s too late to get him back now. it’s too late to undo what you’ve done and we all have to live in the world your actions created

and i think this au is maybe really about knives and his control issues and his response to anything having the capacity to hurt him being to shoot it until it stops moving but only in the sense that the whole anime is about the narrative of damnation versus salvation that knives created in his head and then enforced on the whole planet. i want to see a world where he has to come face to face with the fact that he hurt vash more than humanity ever could have. i want to see a world where he has to drag himself into redemption because the only person in the world who loves him enough to do it for him is fucking dead and it’s his fault.

is this anything

[shootingwishesatthestars]

Hey guys! I've been feeling a bit insecure so here's something in case anyone (mostly me) needs to hear it:

Your f/o doesn't think you're too childish

They don't mind if you're different from them

Your f/o adores your personality and physical appearance

Your f/o loves all your quirks

Your "flaws" are what they DREAM of

Seriously, you and them complement eachother so well! It's honestly like if someone were to try and find the definition of soulmates, they'd find a picture of you and them. You were literally MADE FOR EACHOTHER!!!

[fleuryuns]

enhypen squid game au?🤞

HOW DID YOU READ MY MIND???? i started working on one this morning 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

[australianditl]

the terrible influence tour was amazing, i would seriously go to another show if i could! they’re so quick witted and entertaining on a stage and i really applaud them for that. i had so much fun 💙

[solxamber]

Gentle Reminder: Requests are closed!

I'm only taking holiday event requests/prompts right now, and any other asks/thoughts are also welcome!

But requests are closed. I will not be taking regular requests till I'm done with the ones I already have.

Holiday Event is open so feel free to send in whatever you want for that!

I'm sorry for the disappointment but I hope you can understand <3

[solena2]

BERDKRIS SHIPPERS HOW WE FEELING TONIGHT?

[sol-shines]

golden horse awards in two days i need you guys to manifest dead talents society sweep and immediate international distribution deal for me ok? ok

[psychedelicvanillabean]

Am currently on episode 3 of Arcane season 2, and I don’t think I’ll ever like Cait. I am a Cait anti.

I just don’t feel like she really cares about Vi. Every interaction with Vi has been done with selfish motives to either further her own goals or just to make herself feel better. She uses Vi to accelerate her own agenda so much to the point of convincing her to kill her own sister on multiple occasions. Not to mention her insistence of Vi becoming an enforcer, the thing Vi despised…

And now she’s using the secrets of her mother’s legacy—who felt that citizens of the undercity deserved clean air to breathe—to purposefully harm those same citizens without remorse all just to get to Jinx.

Cait, they could never make me like you.

[wherenightmaresroost]

For those searching for other works with similar themes and aesthetics to help them pull away from the cult of personality and parasocial relationship Gaiman cultivated, there's a Reddit thread full of author recommendations.

Also highly recommend searching the If You Like Blank subreddit for recs based the specific book you enjoyed.

There is also a redditor who is willing to take away books in exchange for proof of donation to RAINN and payment for shipping.

(If there are other similar initiatives on Tumblr, please add them to the post)

[supertale-au]

original concept art for supertale!gaster + a redesign i’m considering

his whole thing in this au is being just the Worst Guy Ever, so i want him to have that like…. ominous vibe, you know? like someone you take one look at and go “oh that guy does evil shit”. og design was supposed to evoke like… ancient greece or rome, to really hammer home how intellectual he thinks he is. using classical iconography to emphasize his superiority complex, you know? but i was looking through a book of fashion illustration i happen to own (if you haven’t picked up that i’m the brand of guy to own that kind of thing yet idk what to tell you) and saw one of the pieces has a cloak like i put him in for the redesign, and it got me thinking about maybe leaning further into the christian imagery i gestured at with sans’ villain design and their villain names (rapture + revelation because gaster is just. very unsubtle)

plus the holes in his palms and like i know jesus was actually held up by the wrists but the palms are very much a popular interpretation so like. the parallel remains. i think the colors for the redesign are a bit too bright and vivid still so i might try a darker red for the cloak if i end up keeping this version but overall i think it definitely conveys his vibes pretty well