#delilah doom

[indirectcomedian]

context behind this post aka rosemary and co. psychologically torturing a woman to her breaking point

[frankyweeny]

You ever think about how Baiken kind of sort of represents what Bedman wanted Ariels to be? Both him and Delilah could've gotten what they wanted without help, but they're kids and kids want nothing more than for someone to help guide them. While Baiken sincerely wanted Delilah to grow up to be a "decent adult" the Universal Will didn't care about what happened to Bedman at all. Where Baiken was willing to let her guard down and ask for help when Delilah was in danger, Bedman scared away anyone who would've been willing and able to help him in the process of carrying out Ariels's orders. And Baiken gave up her goals for Delilah while Bedman died for the Universal Will's... do you get me

[aria-greenhoodie]

Chat would you still love me if I started posting Abigale Blackwing x Jessamine Delilah Gulch yuri

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[kiaranotkeira]

and once again the world is being broken because of wizard arrogance and love. what the fuck

[hand-of-devotion]

All in all that episode was very good for ME, resident lady who likes it when their special guys get worse and make horrible selfish self sacrificing world ending decisions

[analyticallyminded]

tag drop 5/?

people.

[analyticallymindedaa]

tag dump bc tumblr ate my tags part 3/?

[paperglader]

THE WAY THAT I DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE THE LAST PART OF THIS POST. I JUST LOOKED AT MY GIRL GRINNING AND WENT ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT TANGENT IN THE TAGS

guys. when imogen loves laudna so very much am i right??? guys.

guys- hey guys. remember when you watch imogen look at laudna like that but then later on you have to hear her say i promise i'll move on from you i. i promise i'll make the right choice if you're too far gone. and then shortly after you have to hear her say gods, dawnfather? help me. with her. please—

"imogen temult is doomed by the narrative-" NO. have you considered imogen temult FANS are the ones doomed by the narrative because personally my heart is breaking at 190/bpm whenever Imogen Temult. and whenever Laura Bailey.

[enigmaris]

Damians 12th birthday is coming up and Dick knows just what to get his stabby baby bat. Damian has been obsessed with Purple Back Gorillas for months, first because he learnt that the two last known members of the species were male thus dooming the species and then his interest exploded because it was discovered that one of the last gorillas was actually female. Dick was not the only member of the family to have to listen to Damians very, very long lectures about the gorillas.

Dick had not only organized a party at the elmerton zoo where the two gorillas were being held, but he got in contact with the teen who Damian had actually complimented for discovering the female gorilla was actually female.

Danny wasnt sure why dick grayson was offering him an obscene amount of money to come to a kids birthday party but he wasnt about to say no. The guy had made it seem so easy, show up and hang out for an hour or two to talk to the kid about Delilah and her upcoming baby. He had even paid half up front, giving him more cash than he had ever seen in his life. Even Sam had been impressed.

So on the day of the party he flew over to the Elmerton Zoo and met Damian Wayne.

Five minutes in, and Danny knew Dick was underpaying him. The kid couldn't stop sneering if his life depended on it. He was snooty, snobby, snotty, you name it. Danny was questioned on everything to do with Delilah, and nothing he said met the rich kid's annoying standards. Danny was very tempted to literally ghost the brat.

At least until Damian literally judo flipped a guy who had attempted to pick pocket him.

Danny: you know how to fight?

Damian: Tcht, i have trained since i could walk.

Danny, who has only been fighting for a few months and would sort of like to stop getting his ass handed to him has an idea.

Danny: look, i have a deal for you.

Damian: What could you possibly offer me?

Danny: i can teach you the sign language delilah and her mate use. If you learn it fast enough i can introduce you to her and help you gain her trust. Maybe even in time to hold her baby when its born.

Damian, very very tempted: and how much money would you require for these lessons?

Danny: no money. I want to be able to do that. Teach me to fight and i'll teach you the ways of the purple back gorilla.

Damian: i will not be a gentle teacher. If you wish to learn i will expect perfection.

Danny: thats fine. Do we have a deal, Wayne?

Damian: we have a deal, Fenton.

For the next several months, Danny sees Damian every other saturday for a few hours. Damian was a brutal tutor in martial arts, insisting that danny train during his free time. Danny improves in his ghost fighting in leaps and bounds. In return Danny introduces Damian to Delilah and the teaches the guy how to talk to her.

Danny learns to sort of like Damian, even if he was still snobby. They're almost, but not quite, friends.

Its all going great until there is a ghost invasion in gotham and Danny has to leave Amity to save the day. He runs into Robin and helps him fight off some ghosts. Upon the both of them seeing each others suspiciously familiar fighting styles there is only one reasonable reaction:

[monabee-draws]

Sometimes I remember that Ludinus' entire plan hinged on the love between two people who were ripped apart by fate for more than 30 years. Somehow he knew that, when it came down to it, not even Vax's transformation into a servant of the gods would prevent him from loving Keyleth of the Air Ashari. No amount of removal of his personhood, or distance from the person he used to be could snuff that out and prevent him from breaking the non-interference accords to be there when she was in danger. Their love was always going to be doomed by the narrative, and in the end it doomed the narrative too. Everyone talks about Delilah and her willingness to rip the world apart for love, but for Vax it wasn't even really will anymore, just the inevitability of all that was left of him other than the Champion.

[appetite-pen]

And for a moment there wasn't any impending doom or delilah-warlock-bullshit to worry about <3

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Pss you can follow me on lg now!

[greenteaandtattoos]

oh... oh the truly delicious foil between melora sending rain when orym took the blade, something that causes plants to grow, and then laudna trying to get rid of the vines by using wither and bloom against the vines (and accidentally him).

melora approving orym taking the blade and putting everyone's and the world's burdens on his shoulders, and delilah encouraging laudna to take the blade to relieve the hurt she was feeling and to protect orym (and the others).

orym, who already had a blade gifted to him but also took the one who killed his family. laudna, who already had magic but uses the magic given to her by the one who killed her family (and her).

both of them seeing their worth in what they can do for others, how much they can sacrifice for the people they love, and willing to take whatever dark measures necessary to do it, and melora and delilah enabling them.

both of them being taken advantage of for being vulnerable and hurting and taking the opportunity to give them a "purpose" or a way to achieve their personal goals, but only giving them what they need to achieve that purpose when they are desperate as a way to keep their... continued support (used very loosely).

and oh... the absolutely delectable parallel between the rain stopping when dorian told orym that he didn't need to save everyone and delilah's voice and visage disappearing when imogen held laudna and told her that she loved her.

everything about them... the plant parallels, the life/death foils, their sun and moon motifs, the shared experience of death and abuse, the shared belief that their self-worth was tied to their worth to others, both feeling saved and grounded by the one they love.

orym and laudna are profoundly alike, yet fundamentally doomed by the narrative to end up where they are right now. the potential of them being the closest of friends with an unbreakable bond and the inevitability of their differences breaking them and causing a rift between the people they care about is what truly hurts the most.

[walnutcookie]

can you tell us more about the tower of souls au? if you haven’t made a post on it already

HI!! i havent talked abt the au at all yet so this ask is very appreciated, gives me an excuse to yap >:] (TY BTW!!! it makes me very happy to see that people are interested! <3)

Im going to wait until i make a specific animation so i wont be talking about spoilers for now, but i can give you some worldbuilding:

in this au, gardenview center is a HUGE tall tower called Gearview center with a biiig elevator in the center of the building. its steampunk themed with a purple and yellow color palette👍 its also FILLED with wacky silly looking machines, like doohickey invention type shit

its an educational center intended to teach children abt technology and machines and how they can be used to help humans in a variety of ways - each floor of the building is a different classroom, and theres a pair of toons that teach these classes based on their subject of expertise :] (these are the "souls" in the tower, ill be honest i changed the lore since i came up with the name so the souls part doesnt make that much sense anymore but i feel like ive used it too much to change it atp VDKFKFHFLJG)

the founders initially wanted to create animatronic shows that would educate children through pre-programmed song and dance, though after discovering a new mysterious substance underneath their construction site (cough ICHOR) they began to harvest the stuff, and after a few experiments, one of the founders (delilah) realized they could use it to give their animatronics the illusion of sentience. now the animatronics are living, breathing beings which they call toons, and the shows are done live, with hands-on activities!! the toons also have paychecks because its funny

the scraps of lore ive put in my animations so far are that dandy and astro were in the elevator when it suddenly BROKE and they began to plummet to their doom... oops!!!! what did dandy find down there ?

im down to answer any questions about the characters/gearview center so long as it doesnt spoil anything abt the plot >:] TY AGAIN FOR THE ASK!!!

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter)—She had the most soulful eyes! Like an anime character, it's insane. And she was fantastic in Brief Encounter. I also like that she's relatively ordinary looking, compared to some of the really glamorous Hollywood celebrities? She had an understated beauty, you know? And she's British so horray for national pride, lol.

Hedy Lamarr (Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl)—Look. I'm sure someone has already submitted Hedy Lamarr because she was spectacularly beautiful, and a very strong lady too: she fled both an abusive marriage AND nazi persecution at a very young age and rebuilt a life for herself pursuing her love for acting all on her own!! Her career as an actress was stellar; while she began acting outside of Hollywood (her very first movie, Ecstasy, won a prize at the Venice Film Festival), she conquered American hearts very quickly with her first movie in the US, Algiers, and then just kept getting better and better. If all this isn't enough, she was also an inventor: her invention of the frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio transmission technique forms the base of bluetooth and has a lot of applications in all kinds of communication technologies. I think that deserves a prize, don't you?

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Celia Johnson:

An argument actually broke out in a film course I was taking, mostly filled with pensioners, because someone called Celia Johnson "not that beautiful" while we were talking about Brief Encounter. I don't understand how anyone can watch that movie and say that, she's got such magnetism and I think she's so gorgeous!!!

This woman set the bar for romantic doomed love and NO ONE has ever bettered it.

Hedy Lamarr:

The only person you can find both on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in the Inventor's Hall of Fame--her radio-frequency-hopping technology forms the basis for cordless phones, wi-fi, and a dozen other aspects of modern life. She was also passionate in her efforts to aid the Allies in WWII (unsurprising for a Jewish-Austrian Emigree to America), and her name served as the backbone for one of the best running jokes in what is possibly Mel Brooks' best movie. Look, Louis B. Mayer apparently believed he could plausibly promote her as "The world's most beautiful woman". Is an entire website full of people going to be less audacious than one Louis B. Mayer? I didn't think so!

Described as "Hedy has the most incredible personal sophistication. She knows the peculiarly European art of being womanly; she knows what men want in a beautiful woman, what attracts them, and she forces herself to be these things. She has magnetism with warmth, something that neither Dietrich nor Garbo has managed to achieve" by Howard Sharpe, she managed to escape her controlling husband (and Nazi Germany) by a) Disguising as her maid and fleeing to Paris or b) Convincing the husband to let her wear all of her jewelry to a dinner, only to disappear afterwards. Also she was particularly clever and helped develop Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (I can't really explain it but anyway...)

One of the most beautiful women ever in film, spoken by many critics and fans. Beautiful shapely figure, deeper seductive voice, and often played femme fatale roles. She was also brilliant and an inventor. Mainly self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink, and much more.

Her depiction of Delilah and Samson and Delilah just lives rent free in my head. The woman was gorgeous.

Gorgeous and brilliant pioneer of modern technology and the middle part.

[lavenderknivess]

thinking right now about imogen being the vessel and what this means for imodna, particularly if it ends up being similar to how things happened with vax and keyleth.

maybe i’m just a sucker for a doomed by the narrative relationship but it’s set up in a way that has the potential to be SO wonderfully devastating and come full circle in a sense.

Laudna was never originally meant to be romanced, so having her and imogen essentially be a cursed ticking time bomb from the BEGINNING (almost the way things were with the threat of delilah)?? heartbreaking and it WILL destroy me. Also not to mention essentially putting her in the role of keyleth, who is also a marisha ray character, would be a parallel i’d love to see explored.

as for imogen, having the storms in her head and her mother’s voice warning her to run all counting down to her becoming the eventual vessel in the same way vax seeing things was indicative of him running out of time before being claimed permanently as the matron’s champion?? i am UNWELL.

in shorts many thoughts, head empty, thinking about angst and being doomed by the narrative and may articulate more later

[sparring-spirals]

at some point later in this episode:

laudna: god i experienced my worst fear, the worst thing i was worried about ended up happening (betrayal by someone i had grown close to, re-confirmation of my own capability and tendency to cause harm, a single heartbeat and re-awakening of Delilah, or at minimum, the permanent and dooming sensation that i will never escape her influence, or feeling like i am little more than her empty puppet, a shell of her will made manifest, bleeding hurt).

fcg: god me too (teleported right into SO many angry bird creature-people)