#back to ic content!!!

[byanyan]

it has been a year since i upgraded my phone and i'm still mad that i no longer get to see these cuties whenever i connect my earbuds

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Melody’s voicing all of our thoughts today

[strawberrypinky]

Now that Enver and Elodie are married and knowing the lengths Enver will go to for Bane, would he be willing to "sacrifice" his own wife for his God? Not literally, but putting her in danger under Bane's command. We know he refused to go through the entire initiation protocol during his wedding to Elodie (her dress cough cough). Is his obsession with her greater than his obsession with Bane right now?

That is such an interesting question, dear anon 👀

First of all: Thank you 🩷 - I love getting to yap about this fic and I'm also pretty sure my beloved @heyitszev is also interested in the answer to this.

Short answer? Yes - he would be willing to sacrifice Elodie if Bane asked him to.

Long answer? It's a bit more complicated than that and involves a bit of lore 👇🏻

Enver’s reluctance to fully undress Elodie in order to burn her wedding dress stemmed not from compassion, but from possessiveness. To him, Elodie is his - his possession, his prize - and he refuses to expose her body, even partially, to anyone else (aside from Bane). Even the act of undressing her, no matter how symbolic, is something he jealously guards. That same possessiveness surfaces in chapter three when Astarion touches her shoulder, and even earlier when Enver learns she's rejected other men before him.

According to Faiths and Avatars, "Bane was to be feared by his faithful and even more feared by the unfaithful."

Enver may not have immediately stripped Elodie of her Lathanderian wedding dress, but he accurately pointed out that she had already given Bane what he demands most: submission and fear. By that point, the dress became secondary. Burning it served only as a symbolic assertion of dominance - a power play meant to reinforce superiority. And as Bane's Chosen, Gortash always gets the final word. Reasserting his own authority (particularly in front of the clergy), his divine right, is entirely in line with the tenets of the Church of Bane.

As for whether he would ever sacrifice her - be it through harm or even death - if Bane demanded it, the answer remains yes, as stated above, but it would bring him no satisfaction. Enver wants Elodie to obey because he has no desire to hurt her; in his mind, pain should be unnecessary if devotion is given freely. Still, that conflict between what he wants and what his god commands comes to a head in chapter five, when the conversation turns (spoiler alert) to the question of children, yet the underlying tension stays the same: Enver is devout, and when forced to choose, he will always obey.

Faiths & Pantheons (published in 2002 and partially serving as a canonical foundation for fire & ice) makes this uncompromising doctrine clear: "He [Bane] has no tolerance of failure and seldom thinks twice about submitting even a loyal servant to rigorous tortures to ensure complete obedience to his demanding, regimented doctrine."

If even Bane’s most faithful are not spared, Enver would never presume that he - let alone Elodie - would be the exception.

Does Gortash love Elodie? For now, I leave that question to the readers, though you will get an answer in time. His obsession with her is fuelled by a belief that she is his equal in wit and his match in will - something rare enough to fascinate him. Bane's demands only intensified his fixation and gave him divine license to pursue her. He told her plainly on their wedding night that while he may not want to hurt her, he has no qualms doing so if it becomes necessary. The only reason he shows any leniency at all is because he views her as his equal - but, as with him, she will always be subordinate to Bane. Enver will always serve his Lord first.

Enver may want her loyalty out of desire, but if forced to choose between her and his god, there is no choice at all.

[unrealisticsunovabish]

I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not getting sucked back into the tadc fandom I am not-

[mcytegg]

ls subz reads as a person w severe depression tbh

[necrotic-nephilim]

in lieu of having posted any writing/headcanons/asks in the past few days because i have been *so* busy and unable to do anything fandom-related which is terrible and evil, i have a poll out of morbid curiosity and self-indulgence. i've been meaning to ramble here about how i feel about DC's lack fo Deaf representation and which Batfam members i would personally make Deaf, but i am mildly curious about the larger opinion and now i will subject you all to the question, i would love to hear thoughts/opinions/headcanons on any specific choices. (would love d/Deaf/HoH opinions esp but i'm mostly expecting this to reach the hearing crowd, so opinions from hearing ppl are ones i'm very curious about. if you've never given it thought before you are going to now or else /lh)

[sweetdispatch]

daily reminder that i miss my toothless pookie

[dreamgirlneutral]

CERSEI LANNISTER | a woman may weep, but not a queen.

[ravenkings]

a targaryen-themed black metal playlist

blood fire death – bathory

black dragon – dissection

i am abomination – 1349

ov fire and the void – behemoth

primordial lineage – nazghor

ye entrancemperium – emperor

ecstasies in night infinite – watain

creature of demonic majesty – hulder

the purging fire – uada

EDIT: if you like this, check out my companion stark-themed black metal playlist 🐺

[hypodermicfroggy]

From my experience, enjoyment of the worlds of Blizzard games comes in a spectrum:

Overwatch: Because the developers refused to elaborate further with the lore on account of corporate greed and mismanagement, everything is up to speculation and you can basically do whatever you want with these settings and characters.

World of Warcraft: Please, god, stop elaborating.

[lunaetis]

[ i apologize for the lack of ic content & activity. i had been super busy with work ever since i got back from my trip and the stress from all the deadlines and overwhelming assignments is causing me to have a huge writer's block on top of that. i had been aching to write in my little spare time but my brain is refusing to work with me. i'll try to get some writing out when i could ! i'm sorry for the wait ;; ]

[seraphicstrings]

@motherednature - do you recognize the flaws?

"I harbor no ill will towards you and yours, in fact it's quite the opposite. I adore Nature as a whole. I merely question if you have ever found yourself... disgusted or irritated by what your creations have done."

[spiritcc]

at this point I don't even know if tag fragmentation in the general russian holmes space is worth addressing. a few years ago I successfully kept the ancient customs intact because I wrote a post so deranged and pretentious it displeased people into doing what I wanted but nowadays what's the point in making a grand return of being terminally online if yall kinda right

[synthshenanigans]

Took the words heartburn & mindfreeze literal and now I have these

Might draw the lines better later but am tired atm and wanna [attempt to] finish the art I have for the recent songs

But also might make more unstable(?) forms for the two. [Also maybe attempt to design soul lol]

[aintaresz]

✎ : 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐦 & 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬

— credit to the artist: @SpongeMX !⠀

[noodleblade]

Nobody ever talks about how sassy Smokescreen is like in predacons rising while they are talking to Predaking somebody way stronger and bigger than Megatron and while Bumblebee is trying to be respectful by calling Predaking "your highness" Smokescreen follows bumblebees lead but calls Predaking "your highness" in the most sassiest and taunting way 😭

Your son has a death wish this boy has no fear he did similar things like that to Megatron he told this man to "think fast" and snatched the key from his hand and when Megatron ask for his name he responded with "why? Who wants to know?"

Smh Smokescreen has no sense of danger 😭

MY SON. I love to be known as his mother.

But yeah. No self-preservation, no social understand. I love him so much!

And yesssss!!! He’s so sassy!!!! One of my favorite moments is from the movies when he goes up to Bee and tells him he might have been a Prime and wraps up that conversation with “yeah, I said.” Like chill out my dude!! I quote it all the time. He didn’t have to be that way but the movie really is Smokescreen’s series of reckless one liners.

I need more sassy Smokescreen content. More “dumbass who thinks he is hot shit but has foot in mouth syndrome to the max”. I also have the need for that cocky dumbass to get checked by literally anyone.