#changing sky spoilers

[goldenflowerceo]

moonpaw's inner voice is literally just ADHD thoughts mannnn

[avalencias]

I don’t know what to do—I have to trust someone—I don’t know who to trust

massive, massive props to aabria for this episode (here at this point and after!!)…to all of them really, but it was about here that I was driving yesterday morning and had to frantically try to hold the image in my head for the rest of my commute. I only kind of succeeded but it is what is. wow. what an episode

[archiepelago]

[conivolos]

jayvik means so much to me. i have so many thoughts about them and none are coherent

theyre partners theyre best friends they reinvented magic together theyre madly in love with each other /p theyre madly in love with each other /r theyre divorced they saved the world together they died together (??) they fucked in that arcane

[sbiderverse]

"Is that me???"

-Ally Beardsley as Liam Wilhemina engaging in some Time Quangle shenanigans

when they said this during the show this image popped into my head and wouldnt leave till i drew it so uh. Peppermint Boys

[bigfatbreak]

I wonder if there's going to be ANY consequences from the wish next season. After making a big deal of the wish rewriting reality, potentially changing it in unforseen ways, it'd be so lame for nothing to actually change. But at least your AU does it right, imo. ^^;

MAN I was like. WHERE'S THE WORLD-SHATTERING HORROR. the slow realization that this is not your world. the way sweets taste slightly to the left and how sour foods linger longer in your mouth, like stomach acid. Where's the doubletake of seeing someone look at Maroon and say its Burgundy. The little changes, the things that sing 🎶This is not your world idiot🎶its gone forever and you failed🎶this isn't what anyone needed but its what they wanted so now you're trapped in a world that's like a dream🎶like a dream🎶sometimes you can't read the words in front of you and there are absurd things that do not make sense to you but everyone passes by, because its the new normal, a newness they cannot remember but you can

WHERE THE HORROR

[lovereadandwrite]

a nightmare from which there will be no waking up✨

[khattikeri]

yue qingyuan is actually quite the anomaly when it comes to airplane shooting towards the sky's projection onto his own characters.

airplane's projection onto shen jiu is obvious: shen jiu lashes out cruelly at others and is extremely bitter about being abandoned. even when he has no malicious intentions he is misinterpreted; he passively accepts others' perception of him as an irredeemable, unworthy person because he thinks it's futile to defend himself and does not take action to change those perceptions out of pride and intentional detachment, continuing the cycle that brought him pain.

yue qingyuan does share some of airplane's own traits (namely being evasive, passive about harm that comes his way, and heavily self-pitying) but something about his role in shen jiu's life... honestly makes me wonder if yue qingyuan is meant to represent how airplane's parents acted towards him.

yue qingyuan (airplane's parents) and shen jiu (airplane) used to be family but now treat each other more like colleagues if anything. on the rare occasion yue qingyuan does talk about more personal matters with shen jiu, he never addresses the elephant in the room and can only say "sorry"-- which infuriates shen jiu, who views those 'sorries' as completely useless, empty words that don't answer his actual question of why he was left behind.

shen jiu and yue qingyuan offer startling insight into how airplane and airplane's parents respectively might've acted prior to the transmigration, especially in light of airplane's extra chapter where we find out his parents divorced, remarried, started new families, and cut off all contact and financial support from him.

it makes me wonder how badly airplane craved their affection and attention that his PIDW drafts included a backstory for yue qingyuan where

he actually always intended to come back to shen jiu

he was tragically unable to come back because of circumstances out of his control

he never gives shen jiu closure or clarification, not out of apathy , but because he cares so much that he feels sickeningly guilty.

it is honestly really sad how that real life trauma ended up twisted and projected onto yue qingyuan and shen jiu, and especially how yue qingyuan's hidden connection to him is more like wish fulfillment on airplane's part, wanting a world where that's the answer his parents refuse to give him.

so yeah, airplane does project himself onto yue qingyuan as he does with many of the PIDW characters, but the connections between yue qingyuan's role in shen jiu's life and airplane's parents in his own also share a lot of telling similarities.

[lemongogo]

rly liked the art this ch 🤭

[chryseiswriting-blog]

“Medicate, Meditate,

Swear your soul to Jesus.

Throw a punch,

Fall in Love,

Give yourself a reason.”

A cool evening breeze.

Rainbows.

Open Roads.

Friends

[goldenflowerceo]

SUNBEAM MOONPAW MENTOR HUGE WIN

[iffondrels-library]

Another update to The More Things Change!

We're nearing the end. In this installment, the Chain set out for the ultimate goal: beating Tears of the Kingdom.

[sillyslayer6]

the rest of teyvat when natlan got a huge fucking abyss flower over it

[angrybatart]

I drew him too close to the spoiler drawing. Oops. But I like how he's turning out, so enjoy.

[familyofpaladins]

Fight for Fate

version I'm gonna use as a lock-screen (its just cropped) :

[mx-metronome]

Meditations on Eden 4

Eden spoilers under the cut, but this one is also a feel-good open floor for y’all to share

It’s about the little things, man.

Our paths just happened to converge there, in the scariest place in Sky, as is so often the case with myself and others. Why would this run be any different? We trekked up the mountain as strangers, watching each other’s backs, it was only polite.

We crossed the threshold into Stormlock together. We went separate ways for this first stretch of statues, each of us connecting the dots into different constellations across the barren castle floor. I usually take pride in guiding others on my personal path, but you were set on yours, I wasn’t about to convince you to take mine.

We reconverged at the second phase, where the rock rain gets harder to predict, harder to dodge. I knew - and I knew you did too - that we’d have to work together to push further into the storm, to keep each other kindled. We gained inch by inch, and when one of us was knocked prone by a loose stone, the other always rushed to aid. We relied on each other heavily in these moments before death, I figured we were in this together, to the end.

I didn’t know you. I didn’t really plan to. I can’t even remember what your outfit looked like at the time anymore. All I recall is that you had significantly fewer wings than I did.

So it came as no surprise to me that you would fall first.

I still had well over 11 wedges’ worth left on me and plenty more ground to cover. I knew I wouldn’t die before you had the opportunity to skip to the next part by yourself and leave me behind.

I still had 9 wedges left and was crawling when you skipped ahead. Your little blue soul vanished, and I was alone. I mean, you did what you had to, and then you moved on. Isn’t that what we’re all doing in the place where we die?

Two agonizing minutes of crawling and writhing and lungs full of stones and reaching desperately for the last of the statues felt like an hour. You’re halfway up to Orbit by now, I thought. No point waiting on an old salt like me, right?

After I finally fell and went through the motions of the cutscenes, had my light restored, I rode the light up and out of the Eye and to those first steps of Eden’s heavenly ruins.

And you were standing there, waiting for me.

You waited the four or five minutes to pass into the next area, and then the three minutes more for me to rejoin you on the other side so that we might fly up together.

Why would you do such a thing for me? What other sky child would wait so long for me??

We flew to Orbit together. We crossed back into Life together. We landed at Home together. And then we blew kisses and went separate ways. Never added each other as friends.

I didn’t know you. I still don’t. Now I never will.

But I’ll never forget you either. Not after how you touched me so that day.

I think that’s what love is about. I think that’s what Sky is about.

It’s about the little things.

~

What little gestures have other players done for you that softened your heart? Inspired a kindly word? Tell me, remind me what Sky is about.