#he needs to repent

[crashinghipsnhearts]

"Blessed art thou among men" or however that prayer goes.

oh okay.

[eccentricmya]

The Valar's mistake did not lie in seeing a possibility of good in Melkor. Rather, their mistake lay in not seeing the equal possibility of him remaining evil.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[wip] i can draw whatever i want forever

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

Do you guys think he misses being in the council sometimes, being a corrupt politician and all that

[drolta]

watching Mizrak war with himself over what he feels are his obligations to the god he serves and his feelings for Olrox

[kindahoping4forever]

Ash IG Story

[reksink]

A Gaggle of Children from a Tortured Mind of One

[finnie-cozy]

Drawing of my oc dave 🙏

[ygamiraito]

me and the bad bitch i pulled by being over dressed all the time

[yeonbam]

the cosmic loss joke inflicts on himself by pushing him out of the family he finally found because he believes himself undeserving of it juxtaposed against his desire to Want and Have that always pushed him to stealing breaks my heart. Because desires have always been non-material. He can adjust to a vastly different environment than his richboy mansion. He can find a way to slay at jail (with all the tattoos); he searches for any skin to be in except his own, he is comfortable in any disguise but not his truth.

What he Wants and steals is for Being 'someone else' based on the (self deprecating) perception he has of himself (his family had of him). He wanted to have his father's approval, the gratification of being useful for something by stealing from the corrupt and giving to the poor, he wanted to have jack's freedom from his engagement with rose not because he wanted to possess jack romantically but because he wanted jack to be free from boss and pursue his dreams... he keeps wanting for other people, and only within it is hidden his desire to see himself as a different person than what he believes himself to be. he wants to be a protector, someone loved by his family, someone who is capable of having a family.

[just-null]

brother @ me: why do you always draw bow man (noritoshi) with the most luscious lips? why do you make him look so beautiful??

noritoshi:

its bc he is beautiful. what the fuck i cannot stress to you enough how these two images are within the same 5 mins.

[batsplat]

do you know why vale seems to have a soft spot for pedrosa?

there's not any single one reason, I don't think, but here's are a few contributing factors that come to mind:

history! in large part because of the honda link, dani's the alien he's known the longest... valentino was the number one honda rider at a time at which dani was honda's rising star. photo on the right is from the 2001 honda celebrations at the last race of the season (when dani was sixteen); from oxley's valentino rossi: all his races: "that night vale celebrated in style at a raucous honda victory party, where he taught honda youngsters daijiro kato and dani pedrosa how to drink". they've known each other forever! valentino was getting teenage dani drunk! quite natural to be fond of someone you've seen grow up like that, even if they are being moulded to be your next big rival

circumstance! the way it basically works with valentino is that if you want to have a feud with him, you generally need to have a title fight with him when you’re already ‘established’ rivals (ignore marc, that’s its own thing, 2015 is a freaky season). biaggi and valentino were enemies headed into 2001 and then were worse enemies, he was cool with sete in year one but not year two, mostly *wiggles hand* the same with casey and jorge… feuds aren't build overnight. valentino and dani weren’t ever really direct title rivals - closest they got was 2006 and 2008, but in both cases valentino probably didn’t see dani as his main problem that year. there wasn't really any competitive necessity for valentino to get nasty... also with one or two notable exceptions, valentino did kinda have dani handled in their actual wheel-to-wheel fights, which let’s face it probably didn’t hurt

yapping! so this is just a theory but it’s one I believe strongly in. you know how valentino loves to talk, right? the thing about pressers and podiums is that you're always going to have a few regular attendees, if you will, corresponding to the front runners in any given year. now, unfortunately for valentino, there were periods of time where almost every other regular attendee was someone he had pretty active beef with. that doesn’t mean he always avoided yapping at them, but relatively speaking you want a guy you can build up some good repartee with to pass the time. dani was his guy… less complicated than casey and jorge, plus dani is polite enough to go along with it and maybe even enjoy chatting to valentino (it’s been known to happen). pressers can be boring and at podiums you're still full of adrenaline, valentino wants to share a joke with someone! my completely unscientific sense is that valentino does this a lot with dani around 2008-ish to 2012, then for two years marc is the number one yap victim, then for a while it’s a bit…? oddly valentino does seem to chat quite a lot with jorge in 2015... he likes to throw in a quirky behavioural pattern sometimes to keep you guessing. anyway then in 2016 he is Actively Ignoring two of these men so vale goes!! hi there dani!! and takes it from there (though the field is more mixed up post-2015 so he becomes more of an opportunistic yapper). in general, valentino will chat to pretty much anyone with A Few Exceptions, but he does usually have a bit of an order of preference

dani’s personality! now, obviously dani is very much capable of feuds, but he’s not that naturally combative a character. valentino generally needs a competitive justification for beef, though some personal animosity can help too… but he never really hated any of that trio of young riders to come through. valentino's known dani forever, he’s been around dani a fair bit because of their respective statuses in the sport, dani isn’t going out of his way to pick fights with valentino, so no reason not to get on! he does clearly quite like chatting to dani and seems pretty fond of him even towards the start of the alien era, at a time in which it was broadly expected that dani not casey would emerge as vale's primary challenger... god knows if the relationship would have soured if dani had assumed that mantle (probably at least a little lol) but failing that, valentino does just seem to quite like him. y’know, sometimes it’s like that

They Have Also Had Their Disagreements, But There Hasn’t Been Much Cause For It To Escalate Further. these disagreements have tended to be over racing standards, where dani is generally in the ‘you people are all insane’ camp and valentino is generally in the ‘ah it’s fine’ camp (though, obviously, there is nuance here… cf vale also criticising sic over the le mans 2011 incident that left dani with the broken collarbone). generally, they don't get into direct conflict over it, more of an underlying difference in positions (hey, aragon 2013 is an example)... but there’s been dani’s suggestion that valentino’s sepang 2015 stance is inconsistent with his generally laissez faire approach, and also some other isolated little scuffles over the years like say 2017 aragon (see below). pretty small scale stuff in the grand scheme of things and if you've been on-track rivals for that long it's kinda inevitable you'll eventually disagree about some stuff, but perhaps worth bringing up

went through all of the alien combos in my head and these two slot in just behind dani/casey as probably the two most consistently beef-free inter-alien relationships? dani/casey gets extra credit for surviving The Teammate Test. but, y'know, the thing about valentino is that he's a sociable, outgoing guy... he likes talking to people... he's actually interested in them... he's a decent conversationalist, easy to get on with, all that stuff. so if you expose valentino to this nice fella who at most was like... perhaps a bit more reserved towards the start of his time in the premier class (partly due to his mentor's approach), but really was generally pretty chill... well, if valentino isn't given any reason to hate dani, then default state is that he won't. good on them etc

[dykedvonte]

It's a shame that Sergeant Bitter-Root and Manny/Boone have never met cause those conversations would be fucking rough

[regheart]

there are some underlying religious implications in the very core of the harry potter universe and stupid or not perverse or not they are certainly annoying for when you want to write any derivative work that is not aligned with the author's views

i'm thinking mostly about horcruxes and what exactly is the damage of having a fractured soul (something more than the very abstract idea, considering the series makes no effort in defining a soul...). it doesn't seem to be connected with a sense of self or sanity or moral balance (assuming it's already off by the decision of making a horcrux, actually having them won't make anyone more inclined to immorality), the only side effect appears to be the ugly crying baby harry sees at the halfway stage of afterlife and what that suggests for me is the incapacity of crossing over to Death with a capital D, or a split soul condemned to eternity in limbo (limbo as purgatory? or hell in the sense of ultimate punishment?)

the notion of heaven and hell is a very christian one, obviously, and a lot from the series is taken from christian costumes, but secularized (like christmas and easter). i won't attempt any theological analysis because i haven't been religious in years and there's a lot a need to study, but i can say for sure that regret and penitence as means of salvation is also a very christian idea, and it's all that takes to repair a soul (and conquer eternal life?). it's funny how very low demand it is and how intangible, but the narrative frames redemption by this criteria: snape and draco switches sides, regulus has a change of heart and sacrifices himself, grindelwald repents in prison and dies a different man (catholicism, if i'm not mistaken, demands faith and charity, something that you know in your heart and something you do for others)

another thing which is considered a perversion in universe is killing and consuming a unicorn, not for any even vaguely material reason (toxins! magical property!), but because they're so pure that violating them is a sin, similar to real examples of eating restrictions existing in some religions. whatever is the meaning of this purity

and the lack of specifications is not what bothers me — the power of love, the deathly hallows, prophecies are all very poorly explained — because i think mysticism and superstition in a magical universe are actually pretty interesting and those are some my favorite bits of worldbuilding

but rather i'm annoyed by the books having references to religion and specifically to christianism 1) so casually laid out, like the school calendar following christian holidays, which is just lazy 2) so linked to crucial ideas of good and evil in the narrative, but in a way that is so completely secularized that feels dishonest because you cannot escape the concept of a soul & this version of an afterlife & a very particular view on death and redemption, and yet all of it is vague and abstract, like the absence of a explicit religion makes it all an uncontested true and the default view of every single character

[activate-shadow-of-the-window]

Little bird, where are you going? / I forgot to catch your name

Little bird, where are you going? / Would you mind if I came too?

Little bird, wait a moment / I only just found out your name

Little bird, stay a while / Or at least take me along

Little bird, stay forever / I’m better off because you came

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A Mumbo and a Grian and a totally normal relationship concerning crime and conformity

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Lyrics from The Arcadian Wild’s “Little Bird”

[icharchivist]

the artbook saying they planned on having Cole in da4 to give a compassionate voice wanting to help Solas navigate through his pain and supporting him in front of Rook and the companions, only for the final product to literally just be "bashing Solas hours because he's such a loser for always being alone and he's to blame for literally everything (rightfully so or not)" just fills me with an intense sorrow i will never recover from.