#fave tag

[eratos-girlfriend]

“The end of separation is the end of desire”

I love herrr <3

[faksyan]

[immult]

hunger as yearning save me. save me. save me hunger as yearning.

[chronologically-challenged]

Thinking about Loop vs Siffrin and how much their "directing" differs considering their circumstances.

Siffrin's "directing" centers on his guilt for wanting more. While the first rounds of getting something good are fine (family runs in particular), as he stops feeling as authentic, he feels more like a manipulator. The world feels less and less real thus he is setting this all up their own gain. It gets worse before it gets better, and at the end, this is ALL about Siffrin redoing a perfect ending for himself. Trying to get the results he wants to see what will change. Notably this change is to get out of the loops ultimately, there is a drive to get something else out of what is becoming a clearly limiting sense of two days.

Loop on the other hand. That goes into the tone of sasasaap. Mainly. Loop is in a death march. For 99% of the time, Loop NEVER got any happy ending for their actions. While you can argue there's a sense of comfort in keeping their friends in the dark, Loop ultimately doesn't want to be the one to break the news that their entire journey was for NOTHING. That this will always end in death. That their banter and fun will always end in tragedy. So they keep up smiles. They act. They direct and pretend that all is going well. Forever being that comforting precense their friends "need". Again. And again. And again. Ultimately it's that vulnerability that let's Loop win against the King, but it's too little too late. Before they can get to the real issues behind the loops, they're too exhausted from their death march to keep going.

For Siffrin, the time loop is that favorite food metaphor. It's an overindulgence with no rest, no change. A too little sandbox that they can't get out of. Burning sugar if you will on an empty stomach.

For Loop, they're playing out their final moments over and over again. They hide this fact from their loved ones in hopes of keeping this overwhelming despair from crushing them too. They still could have reached out, asked for help, but by the time they realized there were no options left already martyred themself to a doomed fate of forever pretending everything is fine.

[clownkiwi]

[dualbasilisk]

Edgar Markov as Marceline the Vampire Queen! The art is the Marceline and the Scream Queens cover 1E by Colleen Coover

[ehh-is-the-name]

chipmunk <3

[stanfordsweater]

today i am appreciating that you are always out here being the number one engager of the wincesties. who else is doin it like you, keepin this zombie moving around

thank you 😭 i feel like i'm failing miserably lately tbh but you've motivated me... stay tuned

[karlachfan87]

[siren--squid]

OH MY GOD.

I dont check this app for A DAY and then THIS??? 🩷🩷

[sugarpsalms]

whatever, at least they dropped the curated list of 10 recently pubbed (2024) open access medieval studies books

[heartofhubris]

Seafoam perry wink bublgum tidepool (platonically) orange healthy grass dusty curtains not so healthy grass bananner orb (and that ur my peepaw omggggg)

[immult]

[chronologically-challenged]

David Ward 🤝 Siffrin

Being unable to leave a horrific place designed to mess with their own insecurities. This causes them to trap themselves in the same place as much as the situation itself is trapping them. Leaving their own perpetual hells is scarier than staying because at least they always know not only what type of awful horrors they will face here but that in staying they never have to truly confront their own shortcomings and inability to connect with other people.

[clownkiwi]

playing with my touys

[dualbasilisk]

In the newest MTG set Duskmourn they released 15 new cards named "The Fear Of (something)," and they *almost* fit Smirke's fourteen. Surprisingly there weren't any related to violence (not directly anyway, I only counted each card as being for one entity) or bugs or disease.