#and the bell rang

[cannellaeluce]

Così finisce, come tutti sanno, il più gran libro scritto da un cristiano. Sanno i cristiani che alla fine dei tempi, nella loro identità intera, ripeteranno l’incarnazione di Cristo. Mistero che non si può concettualizzare come non si può concettualizzare la quadratura del cerchio; non si può vedere come non si vedono i propri occhi. Succede però che un antico poeta di Firenze asserisca di essere salito in carne e ossa nell’alto dei cieli, e di avere visto lassù in Cristo-Dio i propri, i tuoi, i miei occhi, di essersi visto, per un attimo d’eternità, con gli occhi di Cristo-Dio, di essere stato lui, unico della propria miseranda unicità di uomo, contemporaneo di Dio nell’armoniosa unicità dell’essere, e di non poterlo né raccontare né ricordare né aver capito né… Ma racconta di esser poi tornato sulla terra, portando in solitudine la passione e l’oltraggio d’essersi riconosciuto nel solo Dio. Investito peraltro da alcuni famosi santi del compito di scrivere quell’esperienza inenarrabile, immemorabile, incomprensibile, racconta di aver preso carta e penna, e così, su due piedi, nella smania dei giorni che se ne andavano, d’essere riuscito bene o male a scriverla, a emendamento e salvazione dei nostri ceffi di poveri Cristi futuri, in una lingua futura, nel libro sterminato che comincia: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita. Incredibile.

Vittorio Sermonti, commento a Paradiso XXXIII

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is drawn very small, floating in the middle of the image. His body is made of plants and he is shielding his eyes with his hand as a bright light shoots towards his face. Around him are messy drawings of snarling wolves, two hands made of plants intertwining, human mouths screaming and bearing teeth, bones and teeth, a green eye crying, Ruidus, and flowers. End description.]

A hunger you cannot fathom, a screaming you fail to recognise as your own

[tj-crochets]

Worm!!

[yesloulou]

Marc Marquez and Daniel Ricciardo skippered for one day | Wednesday, Spain '24 🇪🇸

[revvethasmythh]

"This 24 hours has a lot of range": The Bells Hells Story - Campaign 3, Episode 4: On the Trail of a Killer

[door]

hard at work this morning

[starbuck]

Ravenous is Haunted

Within the lore of Ravenous, eating people causes you to “absorb [their] spirit,” but what does that mean in practice?

Ives mentions that eating someone brave gives you a surge of bravery, which is exactly how Boyd goes from too scared to move to single-handedly capturing the enemy command. The spirit of his fellow soldiers and specifically his commanding officer compel him to do it. But we know that this personality shift is not permanent, it abates. However, I believe that there are other more subtle influences that remain. 

There’s a whole collection of things Boyd, Ives, and Hart do and say that mirror the actions and words of the people they’ve eaten…

The protectiveness that Boyd shows towards the Fort Spencer crew after Ives arrives as colonel is a new trait for him and highly reminiscent of Reich’s protectiveness towards Toffler. From the moment he’s stuck with Ives at the fort, Boyd also immediately decides to murder him, the thing that Reich died furious at him for not doing, and never strays from this mission at all. Boyd and Ives both headbutt each other in their final fight, a Knox fighting move, and Boyd also attempts to strangle Ives at one point, which is Reich’s. Another example that I like is when Hart says to the chickens he’s feeding “run away! run for your lives!” which is what Toffler died doing. These are all small moments in isolation, but together they form a compelling picture. 

For another thing, you have Boyd mentioning to Hart near the end the “nightmares” he’s “still” having about Reich, Cleaves, and Knox. These aren’t just random trauma nightmares, they are specifically about the three people of the Fort Spencer crew that he’s eaten. And, considering how strongly Hart reacts to the mention of this, he is likely experiencing the same thing. Since it is canon that they have actually ABSORBED these people by eating them, I don’t think it’s a stretch at all to call this a haunting. 

Put these together and you have the people who have been eaten haunting the cannibal characters at night and maintaining at least some sway over them by day, often without them even realizing it… Fun stuff!

As far as Ives goes, I think that he is less affected by this phenomenon than Boyd and Hart are. He’s been eating people for much longer than they have, he has no moral compass whatsoever, and he has a very strong personality, so he’s not gonna let a little haunting get to him. That being said, who knows what quirks of his personality we might be able to attribute to people he’s eaten in the past if we knew more about them? I also think that his assumption that he is unaffected by the people he eats is a part of his downfall, and I’ll explain that in a moment. 

The last thing I want to talk about is the bell because that’s what REALLY gets me mmmmmmmmmmm… SO! During Boyd’s fight with Ives, there’s a moment where Ives has fled the room they were fighting in and Boyd doesn’t know where he is, so he’s checking behind all these random doors and not finding him when he hears a bell ringing in the courtyard. He goes out and sees the ringing bell but no one near it. Instead of going towards it where he knows Ives is likely waiting for him though, he walks towards the barn, as if in a daze. When he enters, he sees the bear trap and gets an “Aha!” look on his face. 

Now, who do we know who is associated with both that bell and a bear trap? It’s Reich! He is the only person we ever see ring that bell and (in a deleted scene) he uses bear traps as target practice, shooting at them to snap them shut while Boyd watches. So, at the very least, we can say that Reich indirectly inspires Boyd in that course of action. 

BUT, because I am me, I’d like to take it a step further by proposing that, since Reich is haunting both Boyd AND Ives, he influences Ives to ring the bell (with Ives not consciously thinking anything more of about than “this will surely get Boyd’s attention >:)”) and then influences Boyd to walk over to the barn instead of immediately continuing the fight so he can show him how to end it once and for all. Boyd asked Reich to “tell me what to do,” and Reich answered him!

I did also write a fic about this concept a few years ago if anyone is interested!

[annemarieyeretzian]

chetney asking vex “can you remind me, are you with anyone, married, spoken for? I can’t remember. you’re absolutely stunning.” 😂

[commandertartarsmoocher]

Scrunkly blorbo eeby deeby scrimblo doodle compilation.

ft. that one infamous ✨blorbo pose™✨

[eldritchdeceit]

gay robots‼️ 🤖💚💛

[lorettasquietplace]

[spoiledlbleach]

don't fuck with the king of fools

[iluvvaporeon]

mini comic abt akari stealing ingo's hat lol

text beneath cut bc my handwriting is shit :33

Akari: Uncle Ingo!

Ingo: Yes, Miss Akari?

Ingo: What is it you need?

Akari: Can you pleasee crouch down a little?

Ingo: Alright, but might I ask why?–

*yoink sfx*

Ingo: Oh!

[respectthepetty]

Just two color-coded girls in love.

They kind of remind me of two other people in love.

No, not them! They are just bros in love with other people.

No! Not them either. They are in love, but they don't remind me of Ongsa and Sun. It's the teachers! Ongsa and Sun remind me of the teachers in love!

But I get it. Every pair had a blue x warm-colored character, so it was hard to know who I was writing about. But that color exchange at the end from Sun was *chef's kiss*

Good luck to the bros through.

Lord knows they need it.

[heich0e]

sometimes i listen to 'the view between villages' and i wonder if oikawa feels resentment when he goes home to japan