#finally sat down and made this

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

HOT, SINGLE, UNSTUDIED SPONGES. 3000 NAUTICAL MILES AWAY. Come sail the distance and read Tiger Tiger!

[lunar-system]

Edward Teach: The Star.

Adapted from the traditional Ride-Waite-Smith tarot, this version of the Star shows Ed kneeling down serenely by the spring of life, bare to the world, ready to heal after tumultuous events.

Stede as the Sun to follow, Izzy as the Moon can be found here.

Longer exploration of the card's symbolism under the cut.

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The Star: Hope, openness, especially after a crisis. Renewal, healing, restoration.

Rachel Pollack writes: "This is the calm after a great change, whether it comes after a drastic planetary shift or a personal upheaval. There are still difficult times ahead, but the Star tells us to trust."

In the card Ed is depicted with a short, growing beard. Multiple personal upheavals and great changes have already happened, and he is settling into a new reality. Who is he when he is stripped from titles, uniforms and roles? In the space of the Star, he has enough trust to try and find out.

Pollack continues: "In Star, we find our inner strength and belief. The Star teaches us to accept whatever it is, to drop all our shields, to believe. The water poured out signifies healing, emotional and physical."

Ed as the Star is learning to shine his own light after witnessing Stede shine as the Sun. Trust and belief don't come easy, but as the Star he can be vulnerable enough to try again. The water flows from an infinite source, letting the emotions come and go.

Even though the Star opens up towards a bright future, Ed carries his history with him. His tattoos, pictures from other tarot cards, tell about his past:

Chest: Three of Swords, the infamous card of heartbreak. "Trust no one."

Left side thigh: the face of the Devil from the Devil card. One of the largest tattoos he has, projecting his self-image. "I'm the devil."

Right side thigh: Lobster from the Moon card, a beast that lurks under the surface, in the unconscious. "I'm the Kraken."

Right side: wolf from the Moon card. In my depiction of the Moon, Izzy stands for the wolf. Here the loyal wolf is cast to the side, left howling after the broken heart.

Belly: Ram from the throne of the Emperor, a symbol of masculine power. The placement on the lower belly suggest a trans reading of the character.

Chest, around the heart: birds from Ace of Cups, suggesting new beginnings even for a broken heart.

With his past carved to his skin, Ed is kneeling at the edge of land. One of his feet is planted firmly on the ground while the other graces the water. In Tarot, earth is often connected to the material, such as the body, and the conscious mind. Water is the element of emotions and the subconscious. At the edge of the water, Ed is in balance, grounded both in his body and in his emotions, the conscious and the subconscious. The water he pours rejuvenates them both.

TL;DR: After great personal upheavals, Ed as the Star is ready to heal and trust. He carries his past with him, but is ready to shine his own light and have faith in himself and for the future. He is vulnerable and at peace, and he is connected both to the ground and the water, nourishing them both with the water he pours.

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Sources

Image source: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, republished as Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

Text source: Rachel Pollack, A Journey of 78 Steps, 2011, as cited in the booklet for instruction and guidance of Tarot of A. E. Waite, 2016, AGM-Urania, Germany

[suburbanbonfire]

honey you got a big storm coming inspired by Jordan Peele's NOPE and particularly this poster design

(prints)

[kokorozasumono]

I 🩷 STRAIGHT YURI!!!!!

+ bonus p4 stuff idk where else to put

[please dont use she/her for naoto]

[kadens-a-bee]

THAT ANIMATIC WAS SO FUCKING COOL WHAT

[hottopicwannabewithgayhighlights]

What if Movie!Shadow wasn’t made by Professor Robotnik?

Walk with me

From the very first trailer this line from Sonic has been bugging me.

He calls Shadow a “rogue alien” which has always sounded a bit off to me. If the movie is following his game backstory, Shadow should’ve been born on Earth - or at least in Earth’s atmosphere. He’s the only one of the non-human characters to be native to Earth. Yeah, I know I’m splitting hairs but keep walking with me.

In an earlier scene in the trailer, the General describes Shadow’s past like this:

“A lot like yours”

Now, we don’t know how much the General knows about Sonic’s backstory, but if you compare it to Shadow’s game backstory - I wouldn’t call them similar. Sonic’s only family was murdered and he spent years all alone in the forest. Shadow was an experiment created by Robotnik to be the Ultimate Lifeform™️ and raised on the ARK. Yeah it’s an oversimplification of both of their lives but I don’t wanna be here all day.

The point is - Sonic and Shadow’s backstories aren’t alike at all and it’s weird that the General would say they are.

But

What if the movies weren’t following Shadow’s game backstory?

What if he wasn’t created by Robotnik?

What if he was created by Black Doom?

Black Doom creates an ultimate life form out of “Mobian” and Black Arms DNA. Someway, somehow, Shadow escapes Black Doom and finds himself on Earth (with or without his memories of his time with the Black Arms) and is adopted by Professor Robotnik in order to create a cure for Maria.

Or something like that.

What I’m trying to say is I think the movie is going to tweak Shadow’s origin. I’m not overly concerned about that; all of the characters have had their backstories tampered with one way or another. I’m interested to see how they’ll take this rendition of Shadow, especially with him possibly getting a spin-off movie.

Or

I’m just paying way too much attention to lines taken out of context.

Anyway

Thanks for taking this walk with me you can go home now.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

caps from comic Im doing

[inkclover]

E.G.O. of an Angel(a)📚🪶

*spins around and then trips over me feet*

[thinkingabout-girls]

pspsps mutuals you should give me your bluesky accounts….

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

smile for the camera!

crisis belongs to @amyupup47

[patar-fuifui]

-jumpscares you- Woe, butterfree be upon ye

[girl-monkey-odalys]

Haven’t drawn my favorite guy in awhile.

[good-beans]

Who was gonna tell me that Yonah FUCKS !!!!!!!!!

I finally sat down to watch it and sudddenly realized why it made people so upset with Kotoko -- it's "get the audience's ass" pt 2 (part one being Baptism of Fire)

What an Incredible, Precise, Scathing commentary on the public's view of punishment. On how we treat "justice" in the news when it's two parties we don't know. On how hypocritical we want justice but don't want our actions to have any consequences -- we want it to be done but we don't want it to be our fault. She makes a HUGE point about people ignoring mental stress and only feeling bad when people are physically suffering. Before getting attached, people did want the prisoners to get hurt and feel remorse. In real life people are constantly wishing pain onto wrongdoers so they change their ways.

She's making excellent points, as well as the voice drama overall emphasizing the fact that it's the right thing to do to get attached. She's 100% correct, but by framing her as a villain, Yamanaka encourages the audience that we should care about people. We should find out about everyone's lives and get attached before making judgements about them. This project remains about human understanding and love and I am amazed.

And from a character perspective, I just loved her view of the situation! I was worried from the bits of the vd people were posting that she was just going to be painted as a flat, villainous character, but she's so so deep. I love a character who will get their hands dirty to make a better world for the innocent characters they care about. And her speech when hugging Es really revealed how much that burden weighs on her. She isn't violent for fun. She doesn't enjoy it. But her heart is so broken by a world of injustice, she will take on this painful responsibility since she has the power to and others don't.

[jorvikzelda]

two very different experiences were had

[royaltea000]

[a-thing-named-it]

sky is not blue stimboard 

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