#doom of Fools

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[stil-lindigo]

esprit de corps

[ there's still space left in your shadow. most of us will die in it.]

prints (all proceeds go towards purchasing e-sims and donating to Care For Gaza)

[gordon-freeman-phd]

me (on the chair) and my super soldier friends, im 6 foot 2 btw

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

(based on the Fool from the Rider-Waite tarot deck)

[lbhslefttiddie]

i do love talking about how sy is weak to pathetic men but i just had a fucking moment because it occurred to me. sj is also weak to pathetic men. his favorite guy is yq (extremely pathetic) and a lot of his angst around yqy is that he thinks yqy doesnt need him anymore (is not pathetic anymore). his issues with men in general are that he perceives them as Threats (not pathetic)

[drenched-in-sunlight]

*SoTE spoilers undercut

This is a continued discussion in light of Marika's newly discovered tragedy. It changes so many things about how we look at the story thus far but more importantly - the DLC story trailer, especially this scene:

think about how Messmer knows, very acutely, that at one point his mother could have been cut up and put in a jar. and that his other kins were not so lucky....... it gives that scene such a tragic edge.

he wasn't doing this just for the violence. this is his answer to Marika's love and all she has done for him. yeah it's not right, it's not justified, but as something done to avenge for the kind of pain she went through? it won't be logical nor right but it's something he will do again without hesitation.

the infirmary in Shadow's Keep shows that he's trying to care for and save whatever left of her people. their people.

the line he said in his armor set description hits different when you consider all that. he wants to be the heir to all her sorrow and all of her pain. wishing that he could alleviate even just a bit of the burden of her grief and survivor guilt.

i wonder if, when Marika hid him in the Land of Shadow, fearing people will judge him for the malevolent snake he carried, she raised him in her home village? this will explain why the Tree Sentinels guarding the village drop two Blessing of Marika - the blessing that specifically stated Marika made it for Messmer's sake and him alone. it will also explain how he knew of his Mother's tragic past and took it upon himself to carry out her wish of vengeance for her people.

(also if you wanted to get to Marika's village, you have to perform the O Mother gesture before her statue in his Shadow Keep, implying he's guarding the way to her home village as well.)

One other thing I like is that in the story trailer, the heroic music sounds like it's for Miquella. and it is, in a way. it is his boss music, but the lyrics has "Ave Marika Aeterna" (Hail, Marika The Eternal).

Given that the boss arena is where Marika - the sole survivor of a whole village, walked through to salvage the remains of her people, making them the symbol of her divine ascension, I wonder if that OST is actually for her - the God, the woman whose story is finally realized in this DLC, and those female voices singing in honour of her are the spirits of her fallen kins: cheering on their last hope for justice. Through this girl, those people who had been wronged and died there will live on eternally.

All this of course seems like such a charitable take on all this, after all Marika ended up being just like the oppressors who used to put her people in jars, but I think I just want to appreciate how the environmental storytelling of this DLC is simply amazing. and once you consider that this is, in the end, Marika's story, everything will make a lot more sense.

[sofiaruelle]

Judas, kiss me if offensed, or wear an ear condom next time - Lady Gaga, 2011

How are we doing, chat? 🙃

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

Don’t think about it too hard, you’ll never sleep a wink at night again

[zukkacore]

“Starbreaker is dead Jace was killed and forcibly shatterstarred he’s not a real Porter acolyte wah wah wah” don’t you understand that being Brought Back Wrong is its own form of romance. Say it with me again folks. This too is yuri

[https-hunter]

Me when Richie dies even though the show literally starts with the cops finding his body

[namelessprayers]

the thing about people like cheng xiaoshi is that they love everything. lu guang was aware of this from the very beginning, and he has the sufficient reasoning to match the claim.

it's not simply because cheng xiaoshi is unbelievably nice or far too empathetic for his own good; it's because anything he can make look beautiful through the camera is something that he cherishes. but seeing as everything cheng xiaoshi takes a photo of is somehow transformed into something worth seeing, lu guang deducts that he must be in love with everything to some extent.

no one can envision the universe so favorably and not be somewhat in love with it. lu guang can be glad, at least, that the universe seems to return the love of cheng xiaoshi in kind.

when it comes to cheng xiaoshi taking photos of anyone, he manages to make them look as good as everything else, as lu guang supposes that general people are also grouped under the umbrella term of the universe. and so cheng xiaoshi loves everything, highlights the good and almost makes lu guang fall a little in love too.

actually, scratch that, not almost and not a little; lu guang falls all the way in love with cheng xiaoshi, definitely a bit too much.

which would be fine, if it weren't for that fact that every photo cheng xiaoshi takes of lu guang makes it seem like he is in love, just a few degrees more than lu guang can deal with. but he's sure that it's nothing personal, because cheng xiaoshi has always been like that in his photography, painstakingly in love with the subject.

it sucks since lu guang is pretty sure he'll only ever love cheng xiaoshi sincerely out of everything else.

but there are set foundations to the infinite timelines lu guang intercepts. in each timeline, cheng xiaoshi is genuine above all else and lu guang is a liar, a fool. in each timeline, cheng xiaoshi loves everything else whilst lu guang only loves him, maybe exclusively and probably forever. in any case, lu guang cannot escape his own distaste for the world itself, or the fact that cheng xiaoshi does love him amongst everything, perhaps even more than most.

lu guang is sure this has all happened before. he is sure that he's lived the part where cheng xiaoshi confesses through their photoshoots in which he manages to make lu guang look anything but a miserable product of grief and mourning and absolute hypocrisy.

lu guang wants to ask cheng xiaoshi how he manages to love the universe which will bring him to a cruel end and let him go. it asks lu guang, begs him through everything, to let cheng xiaoshi go.

lu guang knows that much, and yet, he remains with time at his fingertips and a photo of himself taken by cheng xiaoshi in his palms. he doesn't think he'll ask the question, because he has eternity to do it. he doesn't think he'll confess, to all of it whether love or lies, because he's pretty sure it wouldn't matter anymore.

though as much lu guang wants to say none of it matters anymore and everything is now nothing, derailed by time, he knows it's not true. lu guang knows, because he still wants cheng xiaoshi every time he's gone and he always fails to reconcile with that end.

doing this over and over again is as inevitable as cheng xiaoshi's love for everything, as inevitable as his untimely death, as inevitable as it was when lu guang first set eyes on him and should've known. but even if he did, he doubts he'd have done it any different, and still he continues to prove that there's only one thing to make it so;

the thing about someone like lu guang is that he loves cheng xiaoshi above all else, and even that little piece of everything, he'll never quite have. but he's always been aware of that, and despite it, he still tries.

[lotus-pear]

rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening

[theotherhappyplace]

*watching an anime*

Me: I really like this mom character

*she puts her hair in a low side pony tail hairstyle*

Me: NO-

[professional-court-jester]

i’m genuinely of the belief that the megamind sequel/tv show was meant to premiere on nickelodeon in like 2011 alongside their other spinoff shows, but then got shelved after the movie flopped financially and has been sitting around in some archive gathering dust until peacock decided to release it as “new content.”

like, can we just look at the visual evidence alone?

he fits right in with this lineup. peacock, i’m onto you

[gandalf-the-fool]

[sewing-elven-maid]

@pippin-fool-of-a-took

Molinde smiled, lifting her eyes from her work. A half Ling was indeed a unique sight. "And who might you be, young one?"