#doom above all

[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

[hypogryffin]

this bit too. why is cut content akechi like thsi all the time

[once-more-with-anxiety]

genuinely someone lobotomize me already WHY CAN I NEVER BE NORMAL ABOUT ANYTHING EVER

[maydayintheforest]

In the past two days I’ve watched the ending to arcane, the ending to house md, and the ending to falsettos back to back to back… it is NOT a good day to be a gay man bruh

[frootbyethefoot]

trophy hunting

[ID: a digital drawing of maki harukawa from danganronpa v3: killing harmony. maki is standing dead center, with a blank, almost thousand yard stare, and a neutral expression. she is holding a black and white checkered piece of fabric, with a splash of bright pink blood on it.

behind her are three panels. the first panel, towards the left shows a crossbow, the strike-9 poison bottle, the antidote covered in blood, and a bloody handprint. all of the panels are in greyscale, except for the bright pink blood. the second panel, in the middle, shows kokichi oumas clothing with blood running down the back. the final panel shows kaito momotas jacket, with blood running down the sleeve. END ID/]

[thelifeofacactus]

I sincerely hope that those of you who chose not to vote are feeling the weight of your inaction and false activism now. Did you win? Do you feel good? Is your sense of self-righteousness going to protect you or the people you claim to fight for?

[28ms28]

Guysss stop saying that max is retiring stop saying this shit it's Kelly's birthday tmrw that's why they've announced no other reason no other reason ok he's not gonna pull a rosberg shut up he said he's looking forward to 2025 u can't just say that and retire you just can't ok

[apricotzel]

big fan how like half of the cos populace views rahadin & strahd as brothers the way the module described and how the other half looked at the things rahadin does for strahd and went No I’m Sorry That’s Gay

[the-phoenix-heart]

Sorting Hat Chats - A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Heeeey I'm back again. Hunger Games is one of my recent hyperfixations, so I'm doing a sorting of the latest book/film. I'll only be sorting Coriolanus Snow and Lucy-Gray Baird in this post. And Dr. Gaul oops.

An explanation of the system I am using can be found here. (Credit: @wisteria-lodge )

SPOILERS FOR A BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES BOOK AND FILM

LUCY-GRAY BAIRD is a thriving, healthy Snake secondary through and through. She loves performing, she loves playing coy, and she clearly relishes in getting one up on her enemies. This is a woman who turn her death sentence into a concert. Her plan to defeat Reaper, someone larger and deadlier than her, is to piss him off and give him the run around until he dies of exhaustion (or drinks from a poisoned puddle). To get one up on Mayfair when her name is called Lucy-Gray puts a snake in her dress to freak her out and subsequently humiliate her on live TV. No punches held back.

She's described by her actress as "a performer in a hunt," and she is. She always gives off the impression that she is always acting and always authentic in every moment. Snow certainly can never tell if she's lying or not and for all his faults he is smart.

CORIOLANUS SNOW meanwhile is a Bird secondary (I know, oh the irony) and the two secondaries slot in well together. In ABOSAS we see how he is always calculating in every interaction how he can leverage this for the most gain. He wears a carefully manufactured mask playing up whatever trait he has to to get what he wants from the person he is talking to. That's the Actor Bird in him, he can't just become someone like Lucy-Gray can. Which is why Snow works so well as a mentor for her. He can make all the plans he wants and give her every advantage to win, and she can immediately go along with it without skipping a beat.

We also see his Bird secondary on full display when he starts to come into power. He immediately starts making plans for the 11th Hunger Games when he comes back to the Capitol. His signature method for killing people is poison, and in sixty years that never changes. It's a risky plan that always works so why would he change it? And of course we know after he becomes president just how much effort he puts into controlling Katniss with more and more plans.

As for their primaries, well, that's why they constantly misunderstand each other. Coriolanus and Lucy-Gray look at each other and they both see a Snake primary, but those aren't their true sortings. Lucy-Gray is wearing a Snake primary model, and Coriolanus is wearing a Snake primary performance, not even a model.

Lucy-Gray loves the Covey, but at the end of the day when Mayor Lipp wants her dead Lucy-Gray doesn't need to think twice about running away. She knows they can take care of themselves, and she values her own freedom above anything else. It's apparent also in how she treats Billy-Taupe. She loved him once, but the moment he cheated on her she immediately cut him out of her life and doesn't seem to regret that decision. "Without trust you might as well be dead to me."

Lucy-Gray is a Lion primary, and like her secondary it's healthy. Her mantra is "Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping." She's another example of the Jack Sparrow style of Lion primary, the Fae lion. Freedom is good and control is bad. It's also why when she leaves Snow she makes it a whole production where she sings him "The Hanging Tree" and runs around him as a way to fuck with him. She knows that Corio isn't the man she thought he was and she wants to show him she knows.

Lucy-Gray is the Yin to Katniss's Yang. Katniss is a famous Snake Lion, and Lucy-Gray is the inverse of that, a Lion Snake. That quote about Lucy-Gray being a performer in a hunt is followed by Katniss being "a hunter in a performance." The revolution in a small way begins with Lucy-Gray and is ended by Katniss. Lucy-Gray loves freedom before all else, and that means she is never going to fight the Capitol like Katniss would, "it's too early for [K]atniss," she says. But Katniss is that Snake primary who loves so deeply and devastatingly that of COURSE she would end up fighting the Capitol.

But I think Lucy-Gray likes Snake primaries. I think she likes how much the value freedom, but also the way they value their people. That's what she sees when she sees Snow, a man who will do anything to protect the people he loves over himself. But that's just a performance Snow puts on, because he knows that looks much more nobler than what he actually is.

Snow actually primary matches Lucy-Gray. When we see him he's a young lion. The impression I get from Snow is entitlement. He thinks because of the way he was born that he just inherently deserves to have what is owed to him. But after it's found out that he cheated to help Lucy-Gray win, he is stripped of what little he had and sent to be a peacekeeper. He doesn't know what he wants anymore, because he can't have what he truly wants, so he convinces himself what he wants is Lucy-Gray. Except, the moment he realizes he can absolutely still get that power he turns on her immediately.

His goals never change, in the end Snow does indeed land on top, as he achieves those goals. He becomes president, and then it becomes all about maintaining power and control. And that's the real crux of his Lion primary. Like Lucy-Gray he is a Fae Lion, but on the opposite end of the spectrum. Power and control are good, and he should have that over everyone else in the world. I also see his primary in his method of choice for killing people. He willingly poisons himself so no one catches on, that is some lion devotion to his cause of control.

But, despite him trying to appear completely composed at all times, you can see that very emotional Lion primary underneath it all. I mean, he's clearly obsessed with screwing over Katniss's life in particular because he sees both Lucy-Gray and Sejanus in her. Meanwhile everything he does that fucks with Peeta is to fuck with her, despite the fact that he was also part of that suicide threat. He doesn't like that emotional Lion I think. What he wants is to maintain control over everything, and the appear as though he has this carefully constructed worldview/ideology. He has these intelligent/convincing arguments on the power of hope and the purpose of the games. It can look very Bird to people, and I think it is. DR. GAUL is absolutely a Double Bird Mad Scientist, and I think Snow adopted a Bird primary model based off of hers.

So...

Lucy-Gray Baird - Lion primary, Snake model/Snake secondary

Coriolanus Snow - Lion primary, Bird model and Snake performance/Bird secondary

Dr. Gaul - Bird primary/Bird secondary

[saphflare]

I am so emotionally well after seeing Luxintrus posting those Oceania screenshots, and I just can't help but think about what might have happened if Ocean Lux hadn't dropped specifically into our c!Lux's world and gave her the anchorblade. If then she never had a reason to reconcile with Rat and part of me wonders what would have happened then.

If that would have been enough to make the difference when she and Nox found the broken charter piece and they discussed testing it on Rat. If she never chose or had reason to care for Rat again, she likely wouldn't have been chosen and given the Charter piece to personally strike at Rat. She wouldn't have been close to him after all. Would that distance be enough for her to be willingly complicit in condemning Rat, even aid and watch Nox or even another member of Oceania use it to possibly rid of someone in the most permanent and worst way she knows of. Watch it again as she had witnessed Winsweep done so twice before. That whether it worked or not, have that sit in her heart knowing she let it happen again, even if it was for "the greater good."

Would it have mattered, would it even be the only breaking point, when she would need to watch the members of Oceania grow hungry enough to want more and set their eyes on Spawn. That would she agree to partake in that conquest that was for glory and vanity rather than for the betterment that she strived for, trod onto the familiar path of violence that haunted everyone and broken her down more times than she knows perhaps at this point. Would she have done so if she was a "good" person, not even against some villainous monster, but against people that have done nothing or little to her and, maybe among those, friends. And if that follows, then she might find herself confronted again with Winsweep being recruited by the people she trusted to have her best interests at heart.

Would she have been able to put aside her own morals in trying to be someone good, swallow down the bitter grievances just to stay with them and have that place she had belonged to or would it have ended all the same and she would be alone again, this time not even a log cabin far away to crawl to as shelter.

Alone again and wandering with no where to go, like every other reflection of herself that are lost from worlds they can't return to.

[aerticent]

was reminded that Maven’s entire motivation primarily revolves around his need to be better than Cal at literally anything so much so that he basically kills himself when he loses it

[quewinkle]

Always an angel never a god

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Type O Negative - Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)

[ly-kos]

@strxngertogether said ; x

“ I had a nosebleed when I woke up “ Isha!

// ambessa inspects the child, with worry. nosebleeds aren't usually something you needed to worry about a lot, but when it's people the noxian woman cares about she can be a little overbearing. she raises an eyebrow, gentle affection, brushing a thumb over her cheek. " are you better now? " , is the first thing she asks, trying to see if there's any more bleeding, or anything that could be seriously wrong.

it's likely the difference in air quality, she finally considers. isha's body is likely to be weird about the difference in life quality, now that she's up here, in a warm bed, with clean air.

[dekulakization]

Anyways WIP. Could this be seen as offensive? Yes very much so. Do I see religious themes as a wonderful way to explore things especially considering Tito's cult of personality? Also yes

[mrschwartz]

i'm living out a psychological horror by living with my parents while unemployed