#Ultimate Venus

[cakemoney]

the speed with which brennan/evan decided to not only kill philtrum but to snap his wand to do so felt so satisfying (and hot), but also the way he did it (leaning into influencing the mind, directly shutting down the brain without any fanfare) draws a sharp contrast to the way philtrum chose to use magic, which is... not in an advantageous way given their location, right? if this was about getting them away from her/seizing the magical objects, she could've just as (or, given the rules as we understand them, much more) easily used some mind control/confusion spell to send them walking away. she wasn't casting intelligently given that magic is an extremely scarce resource there and also given that they're on the Mind magic island; she kind of just did exactly the sort of spell that was used to try to kill evan during the game in season 1, which makes sense given aabria's explanation of this being a group of people who would sacrifice anything to maintain their way of life and their sense of self.

and it just adds to the sinister energy to the island; it implies (perhaps unfairly, we have a sample size of one) that even after all this time on the island, they don't know what the island is about and why it costs them so much magic to do the things that used to be easy. they truly have no idea that they're on the fuck with your head island, probably because the island is fucking with their heads to keep them here and keep them hungry for magic and keep them from questioning if they should be living like this and make them spend every drop of magic that they can squeeze out of everything they have and everyone around them. this island is a like a massive parasite living in their minds pushing them to harvest resources that they think is necessary for their survival but is really being surrendered to feed the parasite. fuck man i KNEW the pretty green-grass blue-sky island was going to be the most fucked up one

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Zeng ShùnXi 曾舜晞

Wb update 2021.08.23

Someone mentioned this photoshoot so I feel obligated to bring back wet XiâoSanYé.

[thalliumstraww]

Mercurizz

Hey *drops fully rendered mercurizz at your doorstep*

YOU CANNOT TELL ME HE WASNT LOWKEY TRYING TO RIZZ UP VENUS IN THIS EPISODE.. YOU CANNOT TELL ME

[axl-rose-official]

Axl at the F1 Grand Prix

[voidscarredadjudicator]

Curious to know which team you're picking for Grand Fest, if any.

Hope you have a good weekend, whatever you're doing! :)

I stand before the screen, weighing my options. Past, Present, or Future. It's no different than any of the other festivals they've held, yet at the same time, the fervor they have for this particular celebration fills me with a strange sense of anxiety, as though this moment will be pivotal in the years to come.

What lies in the past for myself is obvious. A people. A world. One that every day, I find myself wishing I could return to. But the people I was born to no longer exist. The world I was born in no longer exists. Yet the past doesn't have to be solely for mourning, as those memories are what keep those old times from truly being gone.

The present, the here and now, is where the pain is felt, as well as the relief from said pain. Look too far back, and you can't see where you're headed - yet look too far ahead, and you may find yourself missing the forest for the trees. Being here, right now, is the one guarantee in anyone's life, and that on its own is something worth celebrating.

And as for the future... it's only natural to be fearful of what lies ahead. There will be struggle, there will be triumph, there will be love, there will be loss. The uncertainty of what will come next is enough to make folks clutch to what they have now in a vice grip, never learning to let go and make way for that new age.

Today's present will be tomorrow's past, the future of tomorrow will come to be the present, and the lessons of the past pave our way to the future. We are the sum of these things, the lessons learned and the people met, built and iterated upon ad infinitum, all while wading through this river, yet at the mercy of its unchanging current. We chart our course, marking our path for the ones that come after us, so that our present, their past, leads them to the future.

I cast my vote and step away from the screen, a smile hidden beneath my mask as I return home.

[razzafrazzle]

the madelines! moon, mars, venus, and uh... that guy?

[image description: four headshots of original characters. on the top left is moon, who is a dark-skinned older woman with short white afro hair and freckles. on the top right is an unnamed dark-skinned man with dyed burnt-orange locs pulled into a ponytail, stubble, one blind eye, and a large mole. on the bottom left in mars, a younger dark-skinned man with thicker dyed red locs, thick eyebrows, a dyed red goatee, and freckles. on the bottom right is venus, a younger dark-skinned woman with dark brown and blonde dyed hair pulled into afro puffs, small round eyebrows, and freckles. end id]

[hey-scully-itsme]

according to my notes it is one year to the day since i started reading the aubrey-maturin books

[localgardenweed]

Art Student Shadow is back and he’s late to the venue

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Zeng ShùnXi 曾舜晞

ZSX Studio Wb update 2023.10.21

[alevolpe]

Sailor Moon Characters morality alignments according to my hcs

[muffin-snakes]

[deartouya]

izuku midoriya is so peeta. katsuki is so very finnick.

[dnangelic]

intelligence is knowing sugisaki initially conceived dark as nothing but a disguise for daisuke and not his own dude. wisdom is knowing dark even as he is now is still ultimately nothing but a disguise for daisuke and not his own dude