#hes 53

[smashorpass50plus]

[and-loth-cat]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE EWAN MCGREGOR

he is EVERYTHING

PLEASE DONT BE IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE ELSE PLEASE DONT HAVE SOMEBODY WAITING ON YOU!!!!

<3333333

[ms0milk]

thinking about mithrun dunmeshi who could incapacitate most opponents in hand-to-hand (update: he’s a trained knife-fighter!) but chooses to use extremely fastidious teleportation magic without blinking at how easy it would be to accidentally blow himself or everyone involved, friend or foe, all the way up

(and finding something in all of his lackthereof, to smile about here which only ever happens one more time SPARE me SPEAR me anything love this guy forever)

[correct-hermitcraft-quotes]

Zedaph: You're very hard to listen to sometimes.

Tango: I can't imagine why! I make perfect sense!

Zedaph: You're like a puzzle. 's why I hang out with you, man. I used to do sudokus, now I just listen to Tango.

[goldenpinof]

forgive me, Sister

[sylrose-tinted-sunglasses]

When you're totally fuckable and your husband falls into another man's lap instead.

[seawaveleo]

the other side of the door

[subskz]

does anyone else feel like someone poured pop rocks and soda into their brain and shook it around really hard

[nocreativityfornames]

Barbatos and Solomon's first meeting and a theory of mine, aka: what if Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his friend?

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SWD S3 AND NB S1 AHEAD

Okay, so we've had pieces of info about their first meeting for a while now, but after collecting everything I could on these two to make my recent posts I was able to put them together and here it is.

First, there are the two times the story was briefly told in Obey Me! SWD, this one being from lesson 53-16 when Asmo discusses his first meeting with Solomon and then asks Barbatos about his:

And this next one being from lesson 49-A when Asmo asks about it for the first time and Solomon doesn't want to tell him:

And we learn what happened in the aftermath from Thirteen when she tells us about it in Obey Me! NB lesson 11-10:

So Solomon risked his life to summon Barbatos using an incantation and was left on the brink of death because of it, all because he "desperately needed his powers to control time", and after their interaction and whatever happened there, Barbatos took him to the Fountain of Knowledge and declared him the new protector of it.

By the way, they didn't make a pact during their first meeting but later on instead, or at least that's what I got from Barbatos saying:

I'm saying this because "eventually" is vague enough to be open to interpretation and could mean that they did make a pact during their first meeting and that it only took some bargaining for Barbatos to agree. But the way I saw it was that the pact was made later on.

So, the questions left unanswered from this are:

1 ) What made Solomon want to control time badly enough for him to seriously risk his life for it?

2 ) Did Barbatos help Solomon by using his powers to control time like he wanted him to?

Because it never says that Barbatos agreed to Solomon's "desperate need", and it doesn't say why Solomon was so desperate for it in the first place, only telling us that there was something he wanted enough to risk death for it.

But it does answer WHY later.

At first I thought we didn't have more info on their first meeting, but then I remembered this little moment from Obey Me! NB ( that I added to my post afterward and here's the screenshot from the post because I was too lazy to open the game and go to the lesson again ):

So Solomon almost died summoning Barbatos because he desperately needed his powers to control time after causing serious destruction to the Human World with his...?

Well, maybe, the passage does say that Barbatos appeared before him and not that he was purposely summoned by him, but it could be that the book is just depicting what people at the time thought happened, since it makes it sound like that was their first meeting when Barbatos himself said that Solomon summoning him was how they first met.

Anyway, let's assume I'm right and that's what happened and the reason why Solomon needed Barbatos was to fix the damage he did to the Human World unintentionally.

THE MAIN THEORY: Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his childhood friend's life, who was affected by Solomon's powers going out of control.

This is something that Solomon tells us in Obey Me! NB lesson 14-16, that he had a friend while he was locked up in the basement as a kid. He tells us the story of how they met and says that from then on the friend started visiting him regularly and that they would chat through the bars of the window basement and that's how their interactions went for however long. But then while telling us about them he suddenly stops:

And thus this became my current theory.

Solomon's powers, which have always vastly surpassed your usual human's, start getting out of control and becomes a threat to the world, endangering one of his loved ones ( much like MC's in S2 with Lucifer ). And desperate to save their life and out of what to do, he summons a demon he knows can control time to help him.

Judging by how Solomon struggles to tell the story to MC though, we can assume that it didn't end well.

Maybe Barbatos refused to save his friend/had no way to do it ( he can only travel through timelines and not actually go back and change the one where he is ) and Solomon had to accept the fact that they were dying and say goodbye and this was the moment when he made this promise to them to become a good sorcerer, learn how to control his powers and protect humanity.

Or maybe Barbatos did try to save them/told Solomon how to do it but it ended badly somehow and that's what brings Solomon pain when he tries to talk about it.

[themultifandomnerd]

What I love about this sequence of pages is that, we get to see Mitsumi in Sousuke’s POV at honestly her most stunning. She’s glowing in the sunset, the wind is caressing her hair, she’s got this soft smile on her face... and Sousuke is so shook that when he gets pinched by that crab he isn’t even processing it because he was so taken aback by that moment.

Furthermore, we don’t immediately see his face when it happens. We just see the back of his head as he goes “Oh, ouch” “I’m good” “Yep” but then we do see his faceー and dude is so red because it’s finally hitting him that he is absolutely gone and probably has been for a while.

Then Mukai, post romance-talk, is like “So how was the crab bro?” and Sousuke is basically like “Huh? What crab?” because he is so shook and you can tell just from that panel that Sousuke’s eyes are on Mitsumi and Mitsumi alone.

[ozcarr]

Relistening to Mission to Zyxx and it’s just as dumb as I remember god bless. I’m always and forever a sucker for an absurdist improvised serial adventure podcast. I will never change. Half-way though season 3 right now and felt like drawing the crew.

Definitely used @snuffysbox’s animated pitch designs as a sort of jumping-off point — they’re so soild and I’m a huge fan of her work.

[mwppp]

people will say old men wolfstar and then they’ll be like 35 max. that’s too young! if i am reading an au i expect them to be alive and well and raw dogging at age sixty. i expect remus to be balding a bit and sirius to have greys!

[correct-hermitcraft-quotes]

Cub, being punched to death by at least five Hermits, sounding genuinely confused: What's going on here?

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

JOHN: i love when i try and interact with a really cute baby and they make it abundantly clear i have killed their energy and they hate my vibe.

BABY IN THE ECTOBIOLOGY LAB: BBDBBDBBBSSSSS 😊😊😊 KITTY cat::!? 🥹😅. bbbbbbbbbfdft 🤣

JOHN: aww, is the weird mutant kitty cat your favorite?

BABY IN THE ECTOBIOLOGY LAB: 😐

[lesbiankordian]

bsd 54 vs 114 (kinda)

it's interesting to me how it's the second time in bsd there's a dead guy after whose death we learn it's actually a different person's body

IDs in alt

especially that they look similar. and especially that in ch 54 (where the first page comes from) we also get this panel:

ID in alt

"the reason Dostoyevsky let himself be caught on purpose" - about meursault. here's how Fitzgerald and Dazai comment his capturing (ch 53):

ID in alt

and Dazai's lack of knowledge of Fyodor's ability was talked about in today's chapter. so yeah. I'm curious if there's a reason (except the ones we know of) why the perfect crime arc and ch 114 both revolve around a fake body

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

I can't believe that the cover story Jon came up with for Michael stabbing him is that he stabbed himself with a bread knife,

SIR, you live in London, just say you got mugged.