#i just think its really neat

[bornetoblood]

Bloodborne Head Imagery

Okay there’s a lot of it.

So it seems that decapitation is an act of significance (possibly reverence) in Yharnam- this is seen in the Loran Chalices containing skulls, the altars in some of the treasure rooms in the dungeons having skulls on them, and Laurence’s skull(s) being a big part of his whole deal. It’s clear that important figures in Yharnam are, traditionally, decapitated and their skulls treated as some sort of symbol. But this goes deeper.

Moments in Bloodborne where decapitation is implied/is of relevance:

Ludwig’s head gets cut off and we can talk to him.

The ghost women in Cainhurst are decapitated.

If we take the idea that decapitation is a reverent act, Annalise’s head being obscured by the mask the Church impossed on her may be relevent.

The Research Hall patients become just heads in the latest stage we see them in.

Gehrman decapitates you when you leave the dream.

Madman’s knowledge is skulls.

The scholars decapitated the Fishing Hamlet villiagers to dig around in their skulls.

Rock guys in the nightmare have their heads in their chests.

Loran Silverbeast got those sideways heads.

Headless Bloodletting beast (who is maybe Laurence).

The obvious focus on sight/obscuring of vision.

Mensis cages.

The fact the head seems to be the last bit to fully transform (hense all the beasts with more ape-like skulls).

Laurence’s skull(s) housing his memories and being an object of worship in the Church.

Loran seemed to practice this as well.

There’s probably more but that’s all the stuff I can think of right now!! Feel free to add to this.

I haven’t really come to a conclusion about what this means, it may just be a motif but it’s a very very cool one.

[weirdcat1213]

Is it against tgcf fandom law if I post the name pronunciation guide that's included in the book? It's like 2 pages

[ofswordsandpens]

actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.

And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).

But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.

And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?

On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?

But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.

And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.

And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.

[whoisnotmyname]

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[thebookishwallflower]

I want to see what people like to collect bc I think it’s really fun!! So tag some people and everyone answer with what they enjoy collecting :}

I’ll start

- playing cards

- dice

- tea infusers (& tea)

- dried flowers

- post cards & art prints

- edit: books. how did i forget books?

(there are no standards and no definitions for collections. there’s not set number, and there’s no size, just have fun :} if you’re asking yourself ‘does this count?’ yes, yes it does)

no pressure tags:

@hollybranch22 @irlmarthamasters @liamiscancelled @definitelysapphic @dirtbag-linecook-kyloren @thatslytherinbitch54 @ginger-canary @ciaraloves

& any who’s like to join!

[isthatacalzone]

me: *seeing people yell about how they did Glintshore & Percy's death in the show*

also me: ..................anyway

[gobstoppr]

Tetris Fanart.

I've been playing tetris while listening to horror podcasts. and yeah

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[OLD ART ALERT] A COLLECTION OF SCENES FROM THE GILLIONS CATSCRATCH ARC THAT BROUGHT ME GREAT JOY. i love fishy chips especially when its just gillion being delirious and violent and hostile

[xxplastic-cubexx]

eternally grateful that no matter the verse within cherik either one of them will always have long lushish hair the other can lovingly comb through

[dovewingkinnie]

wanted to make some fanart for the behind the codes au made by @skeletoninthemelonland !!! i rlly like the designs for this au i ahd to animate them 🤧🤧!!!

[nnayomaise]

i think the thing that really gets me about all the "we've got to kill this guy kabru" meme redraws with mithrun is that in the very first conversation mithrun has with laios, he trusts him with, essentially the fate of the world and his life long revenge quest against the demon

[esprei]

I feel like Suicune would look amazing in your style!

ahhhh thank you!! ;w; Suicune is one of my favorite legendaries actually!

[treeprince]

i am once again thinking of post-canon touch-starved binghe always needing to hold/touch/feel in some way shape or form sqq's body, doesnt matter what part, its all the same, as long as he can feel that shizun is alive alive alive and here with him, and even if he cant touch him with his own hands, his blood is the life in shizun's veins, keeping time and brushing against the front of his mind with relief that he can still feel him deep inside

but oh, when shizun reaches out first, the universe crumples to a fixed point where they connect, and nothing now can shake him, except the way that his shizun loves him, loves him, loves HIM!!

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[daughtersgallery]

ok yeah anyways LOOK AT MY LAPIS LAZULI REDESIGNS, BOY.

[jadecantcreate]

a wip of a lil something im cooking up…