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Spiderweb Sanctuary - Ohio (2) by Brandon Parsons
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my dark link thoughts coalesced into wonderful headcanons and crazy amounts of forced perspectives and dutch angles
also sorry HW i would have included your dark link(s) but i do not have passion for your game <3 maybe next time
Some thoughts below
I have thoughts about dark link that boil down to basically two things: 1. it's always the same dark link, and 2. dark link has a very difficult time changing.
No matter how many times dark link is brought into existence, he is formed from the shadow of link usually to test link's will. that shadow can be duplicated (as seen in HW) but generally speaking it's the same guy, sharing the thought space, you know how it is. In terms of sentience/thinking for himself, I don't think there's all that much of it. He is a dark reflection/shadow of link, so shares his abilities and thought patterns (for combat) with added aggression and. evil. i guess.
As said by navi, "conquer yourself", and all that. He's a challenge to the inner will power.
That being said!!! he can have a little bit of individuality, as a treat. Just in the form of being mean and sadistic <3 he's got thoughts, he's not just a combat doll (tho in times of low power, or a greater power having the reins, he reverts to that), so he can be frustrated, vindicated, happy, etc etc. though when your thoughts are mainly "evilevilevilevilevil" your idea of these emotions are a bit skewed.
When he's summoned for each different link, i hc that it's all the same magic, so the same dark link every time. he "remembers" in an abstract sense of his role in the same way a link or zelda "remembers" their own reincarnation. tho his is less of a reincarnation and more being used over and over again. a persistence.
The iteration that's summoned reflects the current link at the time, the part of link that needs testing/defeating, so it's not an existence that he himself can change to match the present. he's locked to that first copy/shadow only. So if he were to have a second encounter with an older link, he'd look like the first time they fought, unless he was specifically re-summoned. i hc he's got limited magic, so this is not something he can do himself.
in a links-meet scenario, his form would be limited to those specific forms of the links, and it would always be the points in time in which he first encountered them, unless there's other magic either he or someone else has access to to allow him to change forms to match.
now you might be saying at this point "wouldn't he be a weaker match if he was put up against an older link?" yeah probably lol. but also!!! i like the idea that with the limited magic he has, he's able to change juuuust enough to stay relatively evenly matched. being able to play to different strengths and all that. but the base stuff is still the same, so he is decently easy enough to read if link remembers the kind of stuff he was pulling back when he originally fought dark link.
dark link also knows about all this so while limited to the particular skillset, is able to adapt slightly.
but yeah been thinking a lot about a links-meet au where dark link is there choosing a different link to be every time he appears to the party.
though there are a couple links that he never impersonates in their games!!! so can't change into those guys unless he gets a new round of copycat magic.
Anyways goodbye guy standing there with standard camera angle, i have dutch angles and forced perspective
#Spirit Tracks#Zelda 2#The Adventure of Link#Ocarina of Time#Legend of Zelda#loz#zelda 2 the adventure of link#loz aol#loz oot#loz st#Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks#Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time#Dark Link#dink#link#teehee thinking about this was fun#hope yall enjoy some of my thoughts :0#ofc this all hcs so be nice<3#tho i would love to discuss yalls thoughts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#and yalls own hcs!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you have them!!!!!!!!!!!!#shout out to the zelda 2 official art that's where i got the AoL link design#i kinda want to take the top left one and make it into a full piece#it was a lot of fun to do#such a fun camera angle and perspective <333#man i need to play spirit tracks#there's probably several hacks out there i just need to get my hands on one#also technically the dark link in st is wearing the green tunic but i wanted to draw the conductor outfit cuz that's THE fit!!!!!!!!!!#also he doesn't blink/close his eyes when you defeat him <3#also yes you can tell i have a favorite#peace and love on planet earth <3
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homage to one of my favourite books ever
#the left hand of darkness#ursula k le guin#artists on tumblr#sci fi#bookblr#evandered#hi everyone recently read tlhod again and good news! its still one of the greatest novels of our time#had to do a lil tribute couldnt get it out of my mind u know how it is#also choosing the colours for this was unbelievably difficult#i have a red version a purple version an orange version 3 other shades of pink versions.....
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Eyelashes frozen shut, thawed with a kiss.
A while back @aurpiment made a comment about Genly and Estraven based on The Kiss, as a concept. And? Fellas, I had to
#the left hand of darkness#genly ai#therem harth rem ir estraven#my art#fellas is it gay to travel 80 days across the ice with your not yet friend and then kissing his eyelid?#well? is it?#I’m really pleased with this actually even tho I wish I could make it look more painterly
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"LETS GO CAP, OVER HERE FELLA 🗣🗣" "coming! coming 😣💦!"
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#matthew tkachuk#aleksander barkov#florida panthers#MATTHEW JUST YELLING OUT CAP. OKAY.#JUST DRILL SERGEANT HIM WHY DONT YA#poor sasha he was stuck behind everyone and it looked like he wanted to sign the jersey for the owner of the nightclub#but with the cup in his hands he could so he just shuffles over to matthew yelling at him to come over like a dog 😭😭😭#sasha polite boy but couldnt#theres comedy in matthew yelling directions at him and sasha so softly replying im comign dont leave meeee im coming please wait!!!!#sasha didnt want to get left behind by matthew...#oh 1619...#cats: after dark
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As an outsider to a culture, no matter how long you live amongst them and study them, you will never have a true understanding of it unless you go on a treck through the ice with just one of them, forming a deep connection with them based on how on your differences makong you both alien far from anyone else besides eachother, and understanding eachother through that and agknoledging but never enacting on your sexual tension because it would mean you would have to be and agknoledge them as stranger and alien once more, and they still havnt healed from their grief from a past love which they cannot separate their love for you from, and you will never know if that decision was right because just as you were about to accomplish your goal they get mortally wounded in a rushed move influenced by that same grief that haunted them all their life, so they die in your arms, leaving you traumatised, depressed, and eternally alone as you find yourself so changed by the expirience and by them that you feel alien to your own people and culture when you meet them once more
#the left hand of darkness#ursula k le guin#UFOEOEHDUD. SORRY EVERYONE#anthropology#Estraven: killing myself infront of this alien to change the trajectory of his whole life
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Mr. Ai Before the Thirty-Three
#no cmon guys i really want you to join the space un. why are you laughing#that scene where genly pitches his case to the councillors in orgoreyn to mixed results#the left hand of darkness#ursula k le guin#genly ai#my art#watercolor
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i am not seeing enough of this photo going around and just want to bring it to the dash because it might be one of my most favourite photos ever :)
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#sleep token#sleep token vessel#the composition of this photo is gorgeous#i cannot get over the colour#especially the contrast between vessel’s skin and the paint. he looks so pale and the paint is so dark it’s beautiful#also completely hung up on the fact that the rings on his left hand are all ocean themed#the streaks of paint on the keys oh my god#it’s really not fair that a set of hands should be so devastatingly beautiful#ramble on exie
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I am so not immune to a Medea moment. my beloved has left me. we had a life and a love and a child. my beloved has left me for another. I have lost my life and my love. I still have my child. my beloved deserves to pay. all he has ever really loved is our child. here is a stage. here is a role. here is the chorus to sing my sins. here is my beloved with his horrified gaze, fixed on me. here is my beautiful daughter. here I am, in her countenance, her phrasing, her cruelty and her mirth, mother that I am. punishing him. letting the light in. letting my daughter burn. and here I am, in those beautiful eyes of the girl I helped raise, the very last thing she ever sees before she dies. I am her and she is me; and all that is left of us both is utter agony
#lestat is so mother. haha im gonna fall apart that’s his baby girl#he was the last thing she saw before she died. and you could see it. coiled inside of him was an agony#a deep dark scream that he’ll never admit his body is holding. that was his beloved girl. his horrible monster daughter.#he would have enjoyed killing her and letting her kill him across centuries. she was supposed to die. she wasn’t supposed to stay dead.#claudia loved him and hated him. and she looked to him. because it was a cold comfort but a comfort nonetheless. and better than the burning#mother who enjoys punishing her daughter. mother who flinches from the marks left behind after punishment has been handed down#love does not save you from your mother’s immense cruelty. her immense cruelty does not prevent her from loving you.#madness!!!!#lestat de lioncourt#claudia de pointe du lac#claudia de lioncourt#iwtv#iwtv spoilers#amc iwtv#hey can we get#sam reid#delainey hayles#some Emmys please??? god. GOD. it’s so over gang#medea#jason and medea
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Varadha touching his nose ring while looking at Deva, remembering the time when Deva himself that put it there for him with his own blood in his hand, remembering the fact that it was Deva who protected and kept his "little honor" intact.
#salaar#varadeva#prithviraj sukumaran#varadha rajamannar#devaratha raisaar#what deva didn't know was the fact that putting a nose ring on a mannar yourself in front of many people as their witness#was considered as wedding ritual#that's why Varadha was holding his breath because there's also blood in deva's hand to seal the oath#lol in Varadha's heart he considered himself a married man#but Deva didn't know that#no one told him#this is obviously made up custom I think in my head lmao#funny scenario in my head is that Varadha was staring so intensely at Deva wondering if he should stop him or not#contemplating in his head if he wanted to be married at such a young age#but in the other hand he didn't want to embarrass Deva in front of many people because he was determined to put the nose ring himself#every mannar knows that Deva was Varadha's husband as well#the only one who's left in the dark was Deva perhaps if he told his mother about the detail his mother might tell him#he clearly told the event after his mother asked him how did he got the electric scars#but of course between Deva and Varadha both never mentioned the part where Deva put the ring on#that's why the first thing that he did when he met deva was to run into his embrace#he was like I didn't have to feel like a widower anymore my husband is here after 25 years alive and healthy#then he also didn't hesitate to sleep on Deva's lap#he is his husband after all#who's going to tell Deva that he's a married man#thinking about older Varadha trying his best to give a hint for Deva to consummate their marriage#they have waited long enough#25 years he has been waiting for him and he only has a little patience left especially if his Deva has grown into such a fine strong man#Deva of course never shy away from Varadha’s touch#but he also never do it more than that only a cuddle and a kiss on his neck one time and never more was he not into varadha the same way#just imagine the misunderstanding the chaos the pining and just how confused they both feel like bad communication at its finest
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For two people who claim not to care for the other, Estraven and Genly monologue about each other often.
#the addition of Estraven’s POV is such a gift and something I was not expecting#and this passage in particular reads like a dream#the left hand of darkness#therem harth rem ir estraven#genly ai#rink reads tlhod#‘I keep out of his way: for clearly that is what he wants’#MAJOR breakup energy right here
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Columbus OH - Broad Street United Methodist Church by Blake Thompson
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Me crawling through the first half of the Left Hand of Darkness: aw this is not so exciting, yeah the bigender thing is interesting but when are things going to spice up?
Me after Estraven saves Genly Ai from prison and now the two of them are in a tent in the snow, at the beginning of winter in the winter planet and Genly is both wounded and drugged and Estraven is tired as hell but still takes care of him: this is THE best fanfic trope I could ever dream of, what do you mean there are only 100 pages of this, I crave 500!
#the left hand of darkness#hello now estraven and genly ai live rent free in my head#welcome new obsession#say hi to recent obsessions#not trek#scifi#ursula le guin
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what if i put my life in your hands? what if i took your life in mine?
#okay look there's a reason i've been obsessed with this scene for 21 slutty slutty years#imagine for a second you're yue#your master—whom you loved more than your own existence—decided his work was finished and didn't need you anymore#and he pushed you into the dark where you slept for centuries until a little girl woke you up by sheer dumb luck#you now are trapped in this horrible new era where everything is too loud and too fast and too bright#you're also trapped in a body that isn't yours jockeying for room with a completely separate soul that you don't know or particularly like#and you're draining your meager stores of magic to the dregs in order to keep the two of you alive#under the surface of tsukishiro yukito you're drowning—and the both of you are fading away entirely#and then this boy#pulls you to the surface of yourself#and says with his whole heart 'i won't let you disappear'#he smiles at you and teases you and then pours his not inconsiderable power into you#and you take and you take and you take and he never says stop#he never says only a little but no more#he holds you close and lets you sup on the very marrow of his magic until there's nothing left and he's simply an ordinary human#and for the first time in centuries—perhaps ever—you feel full#when you finally step away and ease his unconscious body onto the bed as gently as you can manage#you murmur that you ought to thank him#but it's such an inadequate way to convey your gratitude#how do you give thanks for what you've made him lose?#you put your life in his hands and he cradled it as if it were precious... and then he gave you his own in return#in the world before this one you would have been as good as wed#you thumb the swell of his cheek and allow yourself one last look at your would-be husband#and then turn around to face the threat behind the door#as it creaks open to reveal a little body wracked with sobs you think you would face anything that would dare come for him or his sister#not because it is your duty as the guardian of the cards#but because you love them#touya/yue#ccs#yue
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after ep 11 and the marriage contract reveal and seeing a lot of speculation that they are a god of anarchy (already v connected to figs character) i rewatched the scene between her and porter and zara talking about where she gets her powers from fig says about kristen (and cass) “she’s doubt, im rebellion, they go hand in hand” and brennan lays it on thickkk about fig pledging herself to rebellion would also make kristen (and cass) stronger !!!
#d20#dimension 20#fhjy#fig faeth#emily axford#brennan lee mulligan#okay 1 these people are geniuses#kristen applebees#ally beardsley#okay okay listen#fig says rebellion and doubt go hand in hand#ankarna who seems so be some sort of ancient forgotten fiery deity who was MARRIED TO CASSANDRA#i think ankarna is a god of anarchy and rebellion and fire and passion and blaze yknow#to go hand in hand with cassandras cool calming embrace of darkness and mystery#FURTHRERMORE#i am starting to suspect sol had some part in getting rid of ankarna just like how galicaea had her followers do to cass#but i think that sol took all the domains of ankarna and incorporated them into his worship until ankarna had nothing left but rage#and u can definitely scrub clean the name of a god of rage but u cant remove rage from peoples hearts babeyyyy#long live ankarna :)
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maybe... snufmin of some description for requestober
Day 18 - They're gossiping about you
#My art#Requestober#Moomin#Snufkin#They're trying to figure out how to approach you to ask you to come play ♪#Or rather Moomin is and Snufkin's giving advice - possibly even useful lol#I made it in time yaayyy <3 I'm so sleepyyyy haha#Didn't have time for a notebook sketch on this one - I think every so often about the poll I ran on YT about my sketches#Results shook out that making a digital sketch from scratch > having a paper sketch prepared so hey! This will be that!#I personally still prefer to have paper sketches but I'm still fairly pleased with how it turned out ♪#I'm not sure what's going on with Snuf's left leg now that I look again....hmmmm.......#I will once again blame the sleepiness lol#Moomin turned out great <3 I guess that comes from having doodled him recently haha#It's been another dang-while since I drew Snufkin huh! I'm at the point where I've forgotten if his hands are dark because gloves or skin#Here it's gloves but was that always the case?? I do not recall ah#Still tail tho! Gotta tail#Slightly matching hehe I like the differences - Moomin's is more roundy! Cute <3#I like when they twine tails - though here they're facing each other too much! Arms together instead hehe#Light touches ♫ Cute lads <3
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