#conrad griffith

[mechadeimos]

[baranedizille]

Angels

[thekingofwinterblog]

So a bit of symbolism I have never seen anyone comment on is what fingers each of the 5 Godhand of Berserk represents.

From left to right, we first have Conrad.

Starting with the Pinky, there is Conrad. The littlefinger unlike the rest has little symbolism behind it.

He is the forgotten member, the one with a very mundane name, who never really does anything to stand out, and who's demonic form is that of a giant bedbug.

Next, the Ring Finger is Ubik.

The ring finger is the mystical finger, the one given higher signifigance than the rest of a mytholical scale, and fittingly, he is the most blantly open and frequent about making use of his magical powers to compensate for his less than impressive body.

The middle finger is Slan, the one who is the embodiment of everything evil and disguisting about sex in all it's forms.

The middle finger is, fittingly enough, the finger of vulgarity, with the raised finger along with a fist used, having become a go to insult due to it's visual similaity to an erect human dick.

The index finger is represented by Femto, the evil messiah of an artifical, false god.

As the index finger he points the way, showing the path for those around him to follow, wheter if be conquest, or helping him destroy his former, closest friends in the worst manner possible.

But despite appearances, he is not in charge.

Symbolizing the thumb, is Void, the real leader behind the Godhand, the leader who the rest intentionally or othervise follows.

They are all under his thumb so to speak.

He is also the most vocal about the groups misson to enforce the "Flow of casuality", or in other words, putting his thumb of the scales of destiny.

[persephonyed]

closed starter for @musingmixtape from conrad !

plot: simply this.

they'd grown up together, naturally orbiting in and out of each other's social circles, as if their relationship was the finish line at the end of a prolonged mouse chase. there had always been a naturally pull between the two, and it was only a matter of time before conrad had pulled her to the nearest hideaway and they'd finally indulged in all their fantasies. that was months ago, and they were still attempting to hide things — it wasn't like they weren't both intended for another's hand or something, of course not. but it may have also been the key reason for their secret meetups and hidden affairs. and this wasn't a problem until the rumor mill ran it's course, and foul whispers had gotten back to conrad's ears. because, as it usually is, the gossip was wicked and a wounded heart never acted rationally. "is he why we couldn't meet last night?" the boy finally came out and questioned her. "is he the reason why you cancelled our plans?"

[superkooku]

They look so silly (Ubik spinning around, lol)... when you remove the context of the God Hand's very awful "whoopsies".

they’re on their way to the next sacrifice

[cinemaquiles]

Uma verdadeira novela: "O circo dos horrores" (Circus of horrors, 1960)

[bthump]

I just wanted to say that the discussion around what Griffith really thought of the Hawks is addressed quite directly in chapter 77 where in the 'Reality within his Conscious Realm' Griffith asks Ubik and Conrad, "Which way's the castle?" and they say, "Ah, yes, boy. Your FRIENDS said they'd wait for you there." (they did not use caps, but still). And then Griffith goes there, and it's just a mountain of corpses

That's a good point actually. One of those little details that I never really think about but yeah it's a pretty direct statement that whether Griffith admits it to himself, he thinks of the Hawks as his friends deep down.

Thanks for pointing this out!

[hivemuthur]

Berserk and Souls pt. II

Slan vs. Malenia

berserk vs. elden ring landscapes

godhand embrace vs. three fingers ebrace

conrad vs. rykard

griffith's last tear vs. opaline bubbletear

Griffith's eye vs. Fire Giant's eye

Griffith vs. Rennala, Queen of The Full Moon

Guts vs. Melina

[persephonyed]

"we'll see," conrad smirked back, entirely enthralled with the constant flirtation occurring between them, nearly palpable now. "clearly, that was a mistake!" the boy giggled, squeezing the other's thigh again playfully. "in my defense, your bio was ridiculous. some things just can't be outshone by a pretty face," though, those words created quite the contradiction. brow raised, "i've heard the bathrooms on here are pretty spacious."

"mm, keywords being for now." bentley pointed out, laughter falling from his lips. it was weird, a strange connection, really.. wasn't even sure if anything would even happen between the two after -- especially when he wasn't the type to get into relationships. "i knew you were attracted to me, yet you still swiped left." he couldn't help, but playfully jokes with the other. "oh? now, you're talking."

[kimolisai]

Using Bing Create with the prompt: A visual stunning photo of an african american female cyberpunk looking over tropical skyline, centered, key visual, intricate, highly detailed, breathtaking beauty, precise lineart, vibrant, comprehensive cinematic, Carne Griffiths, Conrad Roset, Borderlands, neon, sparkle

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Today in Christian History

Today is Thursday, March 21st, 2024. It is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; Because it is a leap year, 285 days remain until the end of the year.

1526: In Zurich, Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock escape from prison down a rope. Pacifist Anabaptists, they believed Christians should not hold power, but had been condemned to life imprisonment on concocted charges of fomenting revolution. Captured again that year, Manz and Blaurock will be again imprisoned, and Manz will be executed by drowning in 1527.

1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is burned alive on orders of Mary Tudor, officially because of his “heresies” (he had been a leader in the English Reformation), but actually because of his role in providing King Henry VIII with a divorce from Mary’s mother Catherine many years earlier.

1656: Death of the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher. His Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti proposed a biblical chronology that placed the creation of the world in 4004 BC, and his dates will be incorporated into the notes of many Bible versions.

1806: Burial of David Dale, a Scottish manufacturer and philanthropist who sought to alleviate the condition of the poor by providing food, housing, and education at his mills. He had opened new mills to provide work for the unemployed. Strongly evangelical, he served as a lay preacher and headed many philanthropic endeavors, and was known as a lenient magistrate.

1843: Gungaram Mundel contracts cholera. He had been the first convert at Khari Baptist Church, Calcutta, and his profession of faith had eased the way for other Indians of the area to follow Christ.

1863: Death of Davis Griffiths, a missionary to Madagascar, who had translated the Bible into the Malagasy language.

1965: Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr (pictured above). leads more than three thousand civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. By the time they reach their destination four days later, the number of protesters will have swelled to twenty-five thousand.

1979: Muslim militants burn down the fifth-century historical Coptic Church of Saint Mary the Virgin in Old Cairo.

1994: The people of Augusta, Georgia, dedicate a monument on Green Street to the memory of Christian philanthropist Emily Harvey Thomas Tubman.

2007: Teacher Christianah Oluwasesin of Nigeria is beaten to death by a mob on an accusation that she touched a student’s handbag which had a Koran in it, thus defiling the Koran.

[persephonyed]

"i’m glad it wasn’t really the last time,” conrad pulled her towards him once more, lips pressing gently against her forehead before they were on their way. had it really been a few years already? time passed when you were carrying around a heavy heart, and he hated to admit he let the weight drag him down for sometime. drag him into the beds of people he didn’t care for, not nearly as much as he did for ivy, and that was his biggest regret of all. not the sex, but the fact that he used it to try to get over his best friend. rolling the windows down as they drove, his thoughts flew away with the breeze as soon as her voice hit his ears again. “do you like it?” he grinned cheekily at her, hand naturally reaching out to rest on ivy’s thigh. “dad gifted it to me for getting into this new program, so i guess i can’t say he’s never done anything for me, right?”

ivy couldn’t help but notice how different each little thing was between them. how gentle he was being with her, how delicate the kiss between them felt, the feeling of his skin brushing gently against hers. it was as though things were in slow motion — like every little thing they missed their first go around was being made up for. “i would’ve if i’d known that last time was going to be the last time. or, at least the last time for a few years.” she meant it, too. on the nights when ivy missed conrad the most, she regretted not having a piece of him with her. their friendship blew up so fast, she didn’t have time to think about how many pieces of him she’d be leaving behind. she slid into the passenger seat of the other’s car, immediately tucking a leg beneath her as she took in her surroundings. “well, this is new.” she quipped, as though it was a brilliant observation and not one she only noticed due to how different the seat felt under her overly sensitive drunk body. as she turned around to inspect the backseat, ivy flashed a grin in his direction, teasing edge to her voice. “as much as i’ll miss how loud your muffler was when we took night drives, i suppose this’ll do.”

[gone2soon-rip]

CLARENCE GILYARD JR (1955-Died November 28th 2022,at 66).American actor. Gilyard was known for his roles as second private investigator and right-hand man Conrad McMasters to Ben Matlock (played by Andy Griffith) on the legal drama series Matlock from 1989 to 1993; Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy; Cordell Walker's (played by Chuck Norris) Texas Ranger partner, James "Jimmy" Trivette, in the 1990s crime drama Walker, Texas Ranger; Theo, the terrorist computer expert in Die Hard; and Lieutenant (junior grade) Marcus "Sundown" Williams in Top Gun.He later became an associate professor of Fine Arts.Theatre department at the University of Nevada,in Las Vegas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Gilyard

[saltnsugarbear]

Fandom List!

a comprehensive and cohesive list of media i have consumed and am willing to write for!

this will be updated and modified fairly consistently for maximum accuracy!

The Bear: Sydney Adamu, Carmy Berzatto, Sugar Berzatto, Richie Jerimovich

Bones: Seeley Booth, Wendell Bray

Bottoms: Hazel Callahan, Isabel Lee

The Boys: Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell, Kimiko Miyashiro, Victoria Neuman

Criminal Minds: Emily Prentiss, Spencer Reid

Daredevil: Matt Murdock, Karen Page

E.R.: John Carter, Elizabeth Corday, Carol Hathaway, Susan Lewis, Abby Lockhart, Greg Pratt

Game of Thrones: Sandor Clegane, Theon Greyjoy, Jaime Lannister, Jon Snow,

Gen V: Cate Dunlap, Marie Moreau, Sam Riordan

Gilmore Girls: Luke Danes, Lorelai Gilmore, Logan Huntzberger, Jess Marino

Grishaverse: Nikolai Lantsov

House of the Dragon: Adam of Hull, Jacerys Targaryen, Rhaenyra Targaryen

Shameless: Fiona Gallagher, Lip Gallagher, Mandy Milkovich, Svetlana Yevgenivna

The Originals: Marcel Gerard, Vincent Griffith, Hayley Marshall, Elijah Mikaelson, Niklaus Mikaelson, Rebekah Mikaelson

Punisher: Frank Castle

Smallville: Oliver Queen

Stranger Things: Steve Harrington

Tracker: Reenie Greene, Colter Shaw

The Summer I Turned Pretty: Conrad Fisher

Supergirl: Lena Luthor, Winn Schott

[swallowerofdharma]

What Guts is for Griffith

a dispassionate analysis written for a better understanding of both characters and of Berserk

Part 6: What is it he desires so much?

Not unlike the English word dream, 夢 (yume) refers both to those images we conjure in our sleep or to a wish we want to make happen. An older kanji expression for it, mostly discarded in favor of the new one, was 寝目, where the first character refers to sleeping and the second to eye (or eyes), making the concept of dream/dreams an equivalent to something like sleeping eyes.

A very well known aquatint by Spanish painter Francisco Goya, from the satirical series Los Caprichos published in 1799, is titled El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The dream/sleep of reason produces monsters). The full epigraph reads: “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her [reason], she [fantasy] is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels”. In his illustration, Goya is portrayed having fallen asleep while drawing at his desk, all around him there are creatures associated with evil and folly. The satirical series Los Caprichos depicts human vices like greed, vanity, but also delusions and superstitions, in the context of the values promoted by the Enlightenment. Goya’s etchings and paintings are still well known today, especially for those people who love the arts or have investigated the irrational worlds and the superstitions of the pre-Enlightenment Europe. The epigraph, however, demonstrates how Goya’s message is more complicated, as he believed that human imagination shouldn’t be replaced by the strictly rational plane and that fantasy, if united with the reason, is the irreplaceable source for artistic minds. Goya’s works opened the door for many of the visual elements in dark fantasy tales. Kentarō Miura isn’t dissimilar, in Berserk logic and reason aren’t the real answers. Humanity, confronted with darkness, death, fear and despair, looked for a reason and failed, conjuring the idea of evil or the idea of a savior, the desired one, both fallacious delusions, fantastical beliefs that generated a nearly omnipotent power structure, that oppressed them even more and added to the caos. Griffith devoted his life to a dream, and in doing so he envisions a future through sleeping eyes. Griffith’s madness is showcased in some of his expressions, but often times in the Golden Age arc we are purposely shown how fundamentally human he is.

During the eclipse Void explains: “All lies within the currents of causality. Everything has been determined. All of your lives have been spun into this sacred point in time, the eclipse”. Once the altar for the sacrifice is formed, Ubik opens a portal to Griffith’s unconscious mind, his past memories relived through the logic of a sleeping/dreaming mind. He says to Griffith: “This is not an illusion. It is the reality within your conscious realm… materialized within this dimensional plane”. The words confirm that it isn’t indeed the conscious mind, the awake and rational one, because a special filter is applied to what Ubik conjures: Griffith’s memories are materialized within this dimensional plane, which isn’t reality, but a dream-like state, an in-between: “This is a weird place”. In this sequence, we are given a visual reference for the expression used by Void: “All of your lives have been spun into this sacred point in time”, as we can see an old lady while she is working yarn into a thread on a spinning wheel, like one of the Norns, or Moirai, would do on her spindle.

Griffith is made to relive certain memories and emotions, especially his guilt and fear, through his child self and with the assistance of the old crone, who has followed him to a pile of corpses: “What’s wrong? Are you afraid now? Do you want to turn back? You mustn’t think that way!” The old crone is now revealed as being both Conrad and Ubik. Following the story further, and especially through the double pages illustrations of the four Guardian Angels of Desire, after the great roar of the Astral World, we gain a better idea of their roles and their domains: Conrad being a manifestation of disease and Ubik of madness and illusion. Considering the physical and mental conditions of Griffith at the time of the Eclipse, Conrad and Ubik are the ones who have more power over him. Griffith’s mental anguish is displayed fully. The most instrumental memories, of the back alley boy playing a game, of the death of the unnamed child soldier and of Guts’s final words that dismissed Griffith’s insecurity, together with physical and mental torture are the instruments to guide him towards a precise choice.

[fischerfrey]

it's beautiful and sad and brilliant and caused me emotional damage❤❤ i love this era so, so, so much🥺😭💕

hp ww1 | the funeral

what candles may be held to speed them all? not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. the pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, and each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. -wilfred owen

last december i created my character kit enfield and me and @gaygryffindorgal decided that he and ares gaunt's story will take place during the first world war. we wanted to explore the war from the wizard perspective and the more we thought of our characters the more ideas we started to get and with the help of @cursed-herbalist & @magicallymalted a new era was born. now it's been around 9 months and so many others have embraced our story and become part of it and i'm amazed. i decided to make a video that is about the whole era and include as many characters as i possibly could!

in the video:

kit enfield (mine) ares gaunt @gaygryffindorgal odessa avery @cursed-herbalist lunas avery @cursed-herbalist alexej kavinsky (mine) ren godfrey (mine) melv enfield (mine) leda gaunt @gaygryffindorgal sydney barlow @gaygryffindorgal ione avery @cursed-herbalist colm o'shea @unfortunate-arrow zedric faust (mine) aiden barlow @gaygryffindorgal kateryna von engelhardt @cursebreakerfarrier klara belikova @gaygryffindorgal cayetana narváez @endlessly-cursed adeline blackburn @cursebreakerfarrier mysteria charmworth (mine) joel mayfair @magicallymalted irene griffiths @camillejeaneshphm joanna vallen @kathrynalicemc anthony vallen @kathrynalicemc conrad st. james @endlessly-cursed patrick simmons (mine, i guess) proteus gaunt @gaygryffindorgal fiete tegeler (mine)

*the era is always welcoming new people and new stories. we are currently creating an actual story so stay tuned!* ***honestly we need more characters who can die. it's a war after all. i had to give simmons a face just so he can be here so like spoilers everyone but simmons dies! some more dead soldiers would be very neat***