#but .

[kurtsascot]

sure why the hell not

[yaoifuldnp]

GUYS IM MEETING FRANK IERO AND SEEING DUNES AGAIN

[isjkrowlingdeadnow]

Good luck for your Greggs interview!!

Thank you, Anon! It was at 9am and I tripped over on my way there

[allo-frouto]

girl, you're the cutest

i stalked your ig and there's no doubt on that.

also you're so smart and i guess also funny?

10/10

hope the dude who has your attention deserves it.

I’m not that funny by the way.

[conspiracy-crows]

I have the best boyfriend. He, despite living with family and them getting grumpy and annoyed when he comes home late(noise mainly) picked me up at my place and drove me to work toniiiighttt

Specifically cuz I was gonna get a Lyft so I could get a little extra rest, cuz I slept like 4hrs today

Because *gestures at world* that all is incredibly triggering for me.

Because of COURSE my ex-stepmother was a alt right ultra conservative fundie Christian, in 2011. Which means that now, 14 years later my brain is screaming, because suddenly that's not a fringe sect anymore.

[megasportsmedia]

Liverpool : Encore un record historique pour Mohamed Salah en Coupe d’Europe

L’international égyptien Mohamed Salah continue de réécrire l’histoire. Lors de la victoire de Liverpool face à Lille le mardi 21 janvier 2025, Salah a inscrit son 50ᵉ but en Coupe d’Europe sous les couleurs des Reds. Il est devenu le premier joueur à atteindre cette marque avec un club anglais. En effet, Mohamed Salah a ouvert le score à la 34ᵉ minute contre Lille (2-1) en Ligue des champions.…

[rollofleaf]

I hope everyone who voted for a fascist so they’d get cheaper eggs is happy. I really do. Enjoy your grocery prices skyrocketing because of his horrible economic policies. You’ve earned it. I’m sure it was worth the suffering trans people are about to be put through.

[ohithankyou]

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[jotadoul]

With a sad smile, Folken admits that he doesn't have long to live anyway— the death which was originally staved off by Dornkirk has been catching up to him ever since. This is, definitively, a suicide mission.

i wrote this in my bigass episode by episode breakdown, but since no one's gonna read all that, i'll let it be unread in its own post lol, because i think this is the most articulate i've ever been about this topic. but to the one or two people who do read what i post: thank you. you Will be rewarded by the narrative.

Folken's black wings are a literal metaphor. It's an in-story sign that he's dying, and it's so we can remember "what you put out into the world is what you'll receive" by pinning it to something visual. Remember, Folken is the one who bringd the golden rule into this. The zone of absolute fortune is simply a place where action/reaction, giving/getting (lol) is happening at an almost instantaneous clip. And the toll was acceptable to him because of the trust and love he put into Van and Hitomi.

Escaflowne tells us that violence begets violence. Live sword die sword. Violence isn't cool, it's not good, it eats at you, depletes you, sets the whole world back, war is barbarism we must move beyond, and love will help us do that. This is something that Folken and Van themselves talk about. But look: If that's the case, then Folken killing Dornkirk demonstrates one of the only truly righteous acts of violence portrayed in the series— an act of violence the show tells us is necessary in order to bring about much-needed change. If that's true, if what occurs must be done and ultimately (beyond Folken's death) yields a net positive, then he should be rewarded for it, not punished.

Unless... was killing Dornkirk... the wrong thing to do...? He was very much a villain, this paragon of Western thought trying to force his will onto an entire world by reviving a horrific machine which had previously caused an apocalypse, in a story that is essentially saved by more Buddhist thought. Folken was right, Dornkirk wouldn't listen, and he couldn't shut the machine down even if he wanted to, and he didn't want to. I don't thiiiiink we're supposed to believe Folken was wrong, only that it's all deeply unfortunate (har har.)

What about Hitomi interfering with Van's death in the same way Dornkirk interfered with Folken's? Does that not push off Van's death for some later date, too? What about all of the senseless, "insignificant", gruesome deaths that Van and Allen have caused? Dilandau was just an identity grafted onto Celena, but if that's what nullifies consequence for him, that's an egregiously cheap way of avoiding the same implications. (And they knew that, too, which is why Celena is unwell even after she comes back.) What about the deaths Hitomi herself is blamed for causing? Van wields THE titular war machine, and in episode 23, we know he's doing it to impress a girl. Van has experienced trauma in this process, but so has Folken. They grew up under the same conditions, after all. Many things that were out of Van's control were also out of Folken's control. Folken did also try to keep Dilandau in line, to no avail.

If Folken had instead used violence in an effort to prevent Dilandau from causing further violence, maybe even dealing out the same fucked up corporal punishment Dilandau does, I think a lot of people would be pretty upset about that. Would they be upset because of the violence itself? Or would they be upset because Dilandau's the one on the receiving end? And... for all of his military strategising... do you think it's in Folken's nature to hit a kid?

A chance at forgiveness between the characters and between the viewer + characters is important in this story, no matter what you choose to do with it.

If death is the result of even a righteous action, a series of righteous actions intended to make up for harm done, how much did any of the story's previous points matter? If there is nothing one can do to make up for their wrongdoings, then what significance could there possibly be to Hitomi proclaiming that she doesn't believe in predetermined fate? Clearly that's supposed to be meaningful (since we ditch the pendant, tarot, and Escaflowne itself) to tell us that the course of fate can be changed at any time— except if Dornkirk's been manipulating you the whole time. The series asks you to consider what happens when the conditions in which your actions take place are ones you have no control over, like, the things that people do if everything has set them up to only be able to make one type of choice. That, the story says, is why a violent environment makes people choose violence. So I guess Folken's death proves

Nah actually fate is predetermined and you will have comeuppance even if you do the only thing you have control over: change your behaviour completely

And no, sometimes, or maybe just for you, Folken, even if you're at the mercy of a cruel environment/a manipulator, you should still be punished for what you did in that situation.

Which... okay? It's not very satisfying, but I guess I could accept it. Even still it wouldn't make sense for Folken to be the final picture/bearer of those concepts, even less when people like fucking... Adelphos and Dilandau make it out alive. And I like those guys, lol!

The more I think about this moment, the more it tears down the story's construction. It stands in direct contradiction of everything that's come before it, and unfortunately, being where it is, that's... the entire story. It's a domino effect of seeing other contradictions between aspects of the story. When a story is driven by characters and emotion, I am willing to forgive pretty much anything. But the things Escaflowne wants us to remember are repeated over and over. They're the rules it chose to play by. If anything, perhaps it explains too much, and not enough is allowed to fall away! That's why moments that don't make sense really don't make sense.

And you know, maybe that's why people think Folken didn't matter as a character: because if Van and Allen are miraculously spared (honestly? it's insane that Allen lives) then that means all the death and destruction they caused was actually morally right, because, well, they're rewarded, aren't they? And if Dilandau is effectively allowed to live, that means his actions weren't so bad either. So instead of ~interpreting~ Folken's death or its flatness as damning evidence of subpar writing, they see it as damning of his character.

The consequence of Folken's death is that it reaches back through the whole series and upends much of its message. I actually do understand the team's reasons "why" it's there, I understand what it means, because this isn't the first time something like it has occurred in fiction lmao. But that's part of the problem. Its greatest crime might be that it's one of the most uncreative aspects of an overwhelmingly inventive story.

[aure-entuluva-2407]

@majorproblems77

BEHOLD. DAS BRUDERS

I cannot break the number one rule of Star Wars and post them separately. So here they are together, as it should be :D

Featuring: A totally-normal-looking Fives and Actual Ray Of Sunshine Cadet Echo, with whom I had to get creative while shading XD

Enjoy!!!

(part of this game)

hey! if you enjoy my work, please reblog it :)

[connordevianthunter]

saw a post saying fuck north and i was like BLOCKED but before that I went to their blog and it was a fifteen year old...... sigh. .... blocked for different reasons

[squishykitty825]

Me: case brief case brief case brief (due tonight)

Brain: 🙂‍↕️

Me: I’m waiting

Brain: 🎵 Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves 🎶

Me: …

Brain: 🎶The line between naïveté and hopefulness is almost invisible🎵

Me: bruh.

[blanches-bazaar]

R.I.P to Benny ❤️

[midmorninggrey]

why is shea butter in everything

is it really that great guys

[taxidermydolls]

i rly need some ppl to realise that experiencing a normal range of human emotions doesnt mean u have undiagnosed bpd at 14

[m--rtyr]

played more with krita