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[godmerlin]

[heartstringgs]

Cat and Laila appreciation post. That's it. That's the entire post.

[resident-rats]

Something something, in RE4 remake you shoot all the BOWs, something something, apart from Krauser who you literally stab through the heart, something something, Leon quite literally breaking his heart, something something, Krauser clearly being obsessed before that, something something, having to kill him close range and intimately

[the-kipsabian]

📸 yumiiii125

[luna-loveboop]

There's a lot about Twilight's injury arc that makes me wanna cry but every time I read through it Legend is what gets me

Because Legend took his hat off out of respect when going into Twilight's room while he was injured

I don't I ever have or ever will read a "salty and traumatised and not-nice but still good" character as well written as Legend. Because he's mean and snarky and grumpy- and almost always at least one of his eyebrows is down. Twilight even saw him as a bully at first. (Ref. comic 'bully' in Lu archive)

But this is a warrior who will take off his hat for another who got hurt. Legend shows love in almost invisible ways, and his heart is guarded enough to have spikes. But if he's going to see someone who's injured he shows respect and care.

And he showed his care in other ways too- he has so much love for Twilight to show this much past his guarded heart

Legend is always wearing his hat- it is literally something he puts on just as much as his shoes or tunic.

He shows so much love for Twilight through his injury. And him pulling off/putting on his hat is just one small way that was shown.

*dies drowning in tears because legend took off his hat and it means so much and*

Art and comic by Jojo @linkeduniverse au

:)

[crowleyholmes]

The thing that gets me so much about the kiss though, among many other things but this one i just never stop thinking about (and i'm sure it's one Crowley doesn't stop thinking about either), is how despite how shocked Aziraphale was by it and how scared and overwhelmed he was and how dangerous he knew it was (because he knew the Metatron was most likely watching), and despite the fact that he Forgives Crowley for it afterwards and breaks his heart, he didn't pull away. He didn't push Crowley away, either. And he easily could have, I'm 100% sure. Sure, Crowley was holding him in place by his coat lapels but still. Aziraphale could have turned his face away, could have pried Crowley's hands off, could have pushed him by the shoulders, could have verbally protested... but he didn't. In the end it's Crowley who ends the kiss and lets him go. Aziraphale wanted it just as much as Crowley did. But he was scared and confused and completely overwhelmed, and of course he falls back into old patterns. Plausible deniability!! Put on the front of the Good Angel! What do good angels do? Oh yeah, they forgive! It's their favorite thing! The good angel forgives the evil demon, look, Metatron, we're both doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing!!! Aziraphale is - stupidly? pointlessly? maybe!! - throwing up this facade, this ancient front they have always been forced to hide behind, to keep them both safe!!!

But at the same time, he IS angry. There is definitely some sincerity in that "I forgive you" he spits at Crowley. Because if there was one thing he never wanted to say in response to Crowley finally, finally kissing him, it's "i forgive you". It's pushing him away and breaking his heart and breaking them up, to keep them both safe. To give them a chance to do what they have to. But Crowley forced him to. And he doesn't even see it. Of COURSE Aziraphale is fucking devastated.

[raayllum]

Callum really just says "Is anyone going to love and admire Rayla?" and then not wait for an answer.

[theslaughtersfavlesbian]

every time I see agnes montague or jane prentiss fanart I squeal and start kicking my feet like a schoolgirl in love, I can't help it

[helpmyinterestsareverywhere]

Zane... Zane I love you so much you're so stupid <333 EVERY time he opens his mouth he just gets worse

"100 percent of successful detectives wear trench coats and hats while narrating their thoughts."

"Her eyes showed annoyance, but her heart revealed that she respected my unorthodox techniques."

he's SUCH a cutie patootie your honour - i hate him so much <33

[monay-monn]

My Current Pcs

Monay the False Saintess

✦| Angelic Cow-girl ✦| Current Li: Sydney (Fallen) > Avery ✦| Playstyle: Defiant ✦| Mission: Perfection (feats collecting + max skills)

Summary of File:

Very first 'normal' save + current longest running save, focused on playing through as much content as possible and achieving as many feats as possible. Accidentally got Angel tf after hyperfocusing on making money for an entire month by spamming the spa (wanted to make sure she could take on Robin's debt and still have extra money on the side to not get punished by Bailey). Very school + reputation focused (all reputation is positive), visits mickey and landry as much as possible to lower fame + buy pepper spray. Worst world corruption out of all the saves (stole ivory necklace + rite of defilement).

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Mammon the False Prophet

✦| Demonic Cow-boy ✦| Current Li: Sydney (Faithful) > Robin ✦| Playstyle: Defiant ✦| Mission: Become the Ultimate Lewd Priest (infamous reputation + Max lewd skills)

Summary of File:

2nd save + 2nd longest running save. Focused on doing all the things that Monay's save couldnt do. Playstyle is a little more risky with trying to get money using the lewder job options and trying to raise his lewd fame. Currently the save is almost exactly the same as Monay's save except they're less restricted by the way they can actually fuck around. Mostly made just to see the difference between rite of promise faithful!sydney vs rite of defilement fallen!sydney. Also supposed to be the save focused on romancing Whitney but ended up liking Robin and Kylar more.

Lowest world corruption out of all current Pcs (never stole the ivory necklace + rite of promise).

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Nene the Entropic

✦| Demonic Harpy ✦| Current LI: Great Hawk > Eden ✦| Playstyle: Submissive lewd ✦| Mission: Fuck around and Find out

Summary of file:

3rd save file, initially started to rack up Harper's love by repeatedly getting sent to the asylum, now turned into pregnancy save.

Currently the most chaotic save out of all of them. Restricting myself by not fighting the lewd encounters + not focusing on school and instead fuck around the outskirts/forest.

Explicitly made to dismiss/reject all the school/town lis.

World Corruption is currently unknown since I made her explicitly to stay the fuck away from the temple.

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??? the ???

✦| Fallen Fox-girl (intended) ✦| Current Li: Sydney (fallen) > ??? ✦| Playstyle: Defiant Crossdresser ✦| Mission: Get all virginities taken by Sydney (failed)

Summary of File

Created on a whim because I wanted a crossdresser PC. Has the most amount of Feat boosters out of all my starting PCs (mf used all 259 coins I had). Also created just to fuck around with Rite of Promise and trying to corrupt Syd. Current goal is to try and achieve fallen forgiven status + getting the other transformation feats I hadnt gotten yet (namely fox + cat + wolf).

Dont really have a name for her or for what kinda direction I wanna take her save file...

[fancifulplaguerat]

I have a surfeit of Mistress brainrot that I need to let. About how one of the primary themes expressed through Victoria/Nina is how conflicts are often forced into a dichotomy. This is more explicitly discussed by Katerina—her position as an intermediary between Victoria and Nina, along with her dialogues to the effect of the inevitable breakdown of a conflict into “good” and “evil” elucidates what underlies the relationship between Victoria and Nina, which is one of supposed opposition between good/evil and dark/light, but which the game consistently muddies and refutes .

Victoria holds the position of ‘protector’ within the conflict between her and Nina; the Chrestomathy describes that “…The Town was torn in two by the confrontation between [Vlad and Victor’s] formidable wives […] some days, everything was bound by a terrible tension—it meant that the Mistresses were “spinning their yarn.” […] Their confrontation did not stop, but the people stopped feeling its depth. It was Victoria’s merit.” Likewise, Victoria is characterized as the people’s protector against Nina within the game text proper, with Katerina speculating that Vlad only brought Victoria to the Town to provide much-needed opposition to the newly-arrived Nina. Two further selections from the Chrestomathy even suggest that Victoria died to maintain this role, that after her death, she “became something like a local patron saint. Flowers, pastries, embroideries, apples, cups of salt and all sorts of offerings are placed on her grave every day [in] gratitude for protection from Nina Kaina, who even after her death continues to disturb people.” Likewise: “Victoria left shortly after Nina’s death for no apparent reason. It is believed that she did it on purpose in order to continue to be able to restrain her unbridled rival, who after her death gained some mystical power over the city. Indeed, after Victoria joined Nina, people breathed a sigh of relief and felt again […] that invisible wings were sheltering them.” This bird symbolism also accompanies Capella in the game-text; for instance, in how she characterizes her ascension to Mistresshood: “You do not know what it’s like… when a freckled bare-legged nymph breaks apart, and a graceful alabaster swallowtail emerged in all its glory, its wings covered the people, its love enfolding the world…” Birds are of course evocative of hope and perhaps even the Holy Spirit, which is likely a reach but perhaps not outside the realm of possibility given Victoria being informally beatified—she can be connected to holy protection in that sense.

Victoria’s posthumous characterization as a near-saint after her death is notable to me in how Victoria and Nina appear to embody their own mythos upon death. That is, Victoria—held as a benefactor despite doing “few good deeds”—is treated a patron saint and a “guardian of the family hearth, the protector of the weak and the poor…” despite being married to Vlad and not apparently providing any opposition to his exploitation of the indigenous population. Nina was instead describes as a “vampiress” or a “witch,” and in death is treated as almost a literal nightmare of evil spirit. Returning to the animal symbolism, Nina’s assigned beast in Patho Classic’s files is a mare, and I wonder if this is connected to the ‘mare’ of folklore (little detail: Katerina once refers to Maria as a “filly” so. Horse girl Kaina women <3).

And here is how toxic middle-aged yuri can still win:

“They believe in vain that Victoria fought Nina. Stupid are those who try to show Victoria’s greatness, dressing her up in the clothes of a white sorceress who defeated the evil witch. That wasn’t the greatness of Victoria. Naive are those who present her as good mother who protects children from a nightmare. Heat and cold, house and road, wool and shine, darkness and star—they, who embodied the extreme of extremes, were extremely close to each other. Only with each other could the Mistresses share their cosmic loneliness. [A/N I’m spitting blood 👍] Victoria’s greatness was that she loved her rival much more than she loved her. Being stronger than Nina, Victoria, the protector of the people, opened the way for Nina and allowed her ruthless truth to triumph.”

Yuri aside (the crowd boos) this fascinates me because this is the second instance where Victoria is described as stronger than Nina, the first being “The first and most powerful of the Mistresses was Olgimskaya.” This is a potential discrepancy with the game, wherein Katerina implies that Nina preceded Victoria, though 1) there are other inconsistencies in Nina’s timeline, which may be purposeful obfuscation to play into the meta, and 2) Katerina says that “[Vlad] married her a long time ago… but she and their son, Vlad the Younger […] used to live far away,” so perhaps in this vein, Victoria was the first. As for her strength, there are two points of interest for me.

Firstly, how this might communicate parallels between Victor and Victoria. Victoria allowing Nina’s “truth to triumph” evokes the consistent sentiment in Patho Classic that every truth must ‘speak in its own voice,’ so this reads to me as though Victoria allowed the Utopians to have some sort of victory—perhaps with the construction of the Polyhedron, as that is roughly meant to coincide with Nina’s death, barring the aforementioned temporal inconsistencies. But Victoria’s decision to “open the way” for Nina frankly reminds me of Victor. Like Victoria, Victor supposedly had the influence to convince Nina to abandon her apparently bloodthirsty intrigues, as “Victor was the only person that Nina used to obey not out of fear, but having recognized his superiority,” but that he “allow[ed] her absolute freedom of choice.” I still have no gd idea what that ‘superiority’ is supposed to mean, but perhaps there is a quasi-answer in Victoria. She, too, apparently had a strength or “”superiority”” over Nina, and could have theoretically stopped her, but chose the opposite. And Pathologic is clearly highly purposeful with its names, I doubt it’s random that the two characters who were supposedly truly able to control Nina have the same name.

But why Victoria allowed Nina’s victory is obviously more speculation. Maybe because she believed she would triumph in the end? Victoria’s assigned animal is a phoenix, and Capella’s plans for the future do involve a sort of rebirth for the Town, so perhaps Victoria considered Nina’s ‘victory’ a means to this end. Either way, I think the Mistresses’ conflicts strengthen the game’s idea that opposition is necessary, as Katerina notes that “[The three families] are building the town together, all of us, and we are building it through opposing each other,” and Grace says, “Each of us will tug the power in our own direction: she’ll tug a bit upwards, and I’ll tug downwards. We’ll tune life together, opposing each other.” And I finally wonder if there is something to Victoria’s strength exceeding Nina’s, as the one more closely associated with hope (regardless of the reality). After all, I will die on the hill that Patho is a more “optimistic” game than it appears, even if that optimism is essentially resolute stubbornness

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

ari what do you think of jin itadori (also i would like to bubble🫧 anon if that's available please)(you could just call me bubbles)

MOTHER .

(hi my lovely little anon, the bubbles emoji is taken by an ask i haven’t answered quite yet, but feel free to pick another one!! 🥹 so nice to meet you <33)

it’s funny you say this actually because i’ve been thinking of him recently... especially after the whole lore reveal. the fact that jin was literally devoured in the womb so his sibling could survive + willingly let himself be manipulated by kenjaku despite knowing it wasn’t kaori….. well. it’s tasty, right? and it makes me a little insane because if sukuna embodies strenght, isn’t it only natural that jin would embody weakness? the weakness of love? inherent submission to those more powerful than him?

anyway what i’m trying to say is kenny topped. thank you for listening 🫶

[sirrenhd]

two pretty dogs for @bennidraws ❤️

[evilvvithin]

hello and welcome to one of my doodles from my journey of improving drawing skills

[octoagentmiles]

Try list any Octo-Agents and think of an Episode you Think give them a Shining Moment

W O O F this took a while– I was thinking long and hard about this because there are SO MANY good moments and episodes 😅, and so many agents– it was difficult, but I’m happy with my answers 👀

Ranger Marsh’s Shine Episode is definitely The Monitor Lizards. I LOVE this episode, it’s one of my favourites in the whole series so far—not just because of the events in it, but as a concept. I LOVE the callback to the Great Swamp Search!! I watched the 2nd season blind, and seeing all these familiar faces was SUCH a fun surprise. It’s good for Ranger Marsh as a character, because it actually shows him doing his job as a Ranger, not as an Octo-Agent. It also reinforces the fact that he truly cares for and is friends with these creatures, even if they are invasive, and that he's willing to travel to check in on them. This is another episode that also proves (to me) that the writers know they’re dealing with an older audience for the show, and are more likely to delve into solid lore and continuity. This episode makes me really hopeful for more of that.

Natquik’s Shine Episode, WITHOUT QUESTION, is The Red Fox. Honestly I feel like I don’t need to explain why, but I will because I like talking ✨: Natquik is my favourite Octo-Agent, but overall we haven’t actually gotten that many episodes dedicated to him yet. The Red Fox gives us a close and personal look into what Natquik is like by himself (I love episodes where characters are alone 👀), how he deals with problems (by ignoring them until they get worse—which is interesting... *stares at Barnacles*...), and even hints toward his family, by showing us his family portraits, and leaving us wondering, “Where are they?” – There are so many moments I love in this episode, from when he first discovers the kits, decides to help them stay warm, rushes to protect Barnacles, to his bittersweet goodbye at the end. It’s all so perfect.

Tracker absolutely shines in The Missing Lake. Honestly, he shines a LOT in Above and Beyond, considering he never got his own episode in the main series, and was only in Operation Deep Freeze for two scenes. AnB has been really good to Tracker, and I’m so grateful they decided to make him an Agent. The Missing Lake sticks out to me the most, because for the most part he is by himself (and I’ve already mentioned my love for that <3), and unlike all his other episodes, we get to really see him be responsible and use his Polar Scout skills in action. He’s often portrayed as a follower, who just goes along with whatever he's told to do, but he takes charge twice in this episode: when he offers to help Rowan, and when he stays behind to save Buck. Love that for him.

Calico Jack. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Calico Jack....... I could talk forever about this funky old cat man. He doesn’t just shine, he GLOWS in every episode he’s in—but alas, for the sake of this post I will be focusing on The Harlequin Duck. I love the showing of his gentle parental instincts in this episode, and his singing; since we know he canonically has a theme song, that I headcanon he wrote himself. I think far too much, and often, about how he legit panicked when he realized the egg was missing. How his first instinct was to hide that fact from Captain Barnacles. He was terrified, having a full blown panic attack on screen. He apologizes to the mother duck with such genuine solace, and promises to get it back “On [his] honour as a pirate!” ...Which is extremely significant to me, considering Kwazii was the first character to EVER say the phrase: “On me honour as an Octonaut!” in The Flying Fish after Inkling’s book was lost – and of course as a final touch, I adore seeing him work with Pete to get the egg back. The way he tosses the egg in the air, fully trusting that Pete will catch it... they’re so in sync, just as pirate and parrot are meant to be ;)

Paani... I feel like there’s so much more to him than what we’ve seen so far, it almost feels unfair to assign him a “Shine Episode”. So, instead of highlighting a single episode, I’ll quickly talk about three that stick out (PS: you might sense a theme 🤣):

The Barnacle Geese - Uncle Paani. I like the “I’ll be my own uncle” joke, and the Edgar Allen Poe reference. I think Paani’s determination to help the chick (who doesn’t seem to want help) is nice to watch, and helps to prove his worthiness as an Agent—which is always fun considering his hesitance when Barnacles tried to recruit him in S1E1. In a way, this episode also makes Paani seem more like Barnacles. See my old post analyzing the show’s intro. (*Stares at the episode title* 👁️👁️)

The Arabian Camels - Take a shot of cocoa every time I mention my love for episodes where characters are forced to be by themselves. This one is especially interesting to me though, because we know that Paani was alone, for a very long time, before he met the Octonauts. He has no trouble working and getting by alone, and we get to see him exhibiting that, while being out of his element (a dry desert) at the same time; and that’s really cool.

The Lonely Frog - ...Y’know how they constantly make the Octonauts/Agents meet creatures with similar issues to them? Yeah. *Stares at the episode title.* *Stares at the end scene where he says “Kinda like when I met you guys!” before obnoxiously jumping into the lake, in response to Shellington+Peso saying “They never even knew each other existed before! [...] and now it’s like they’ve known each other all their lives!”* *STARES MORE AT THE EPISODE TITLE,,* *wonders how long Paani was actually alone before becoming an Agent...*

Pinto, where art thou? He wasn’t in S2 at all, which was a bit disappointing since we just saw him get an Octowatch in S1. I would’ve expected him to be pressing that button every chance he got, giving us a “Penguin who cried Octoalert” episode. But anyway,, The Curious Penguin is the PERFECT episode for Pinto. It shows his personality really well, and I love how his distractions and the things he learns and discovers help him to save the day in the end. I think Pinto (just like Kwazii) is a good portrayal of ADHD, and how he just needs to be in the right environment to succeed. Each time Pinto messes up or loses focus, isn’t because he was left alone and couldn’t be trusted—it’s because he was left alone and understimulated. So when he’s thrown into a sudden high-stakes situation, all of his focus hones in on the moment, and he’s able to save Dashi and Paani by himself.

AND, because you didn’t say it had to be an Above and Beyond moment, I want to throw some love at The Oarfish episode from the main series. In this episode, Pinto no longer views Peso as “less” than an Octonaut, and is so excited to watch him do his job—it’s really cute!! His impulsivity is once again a positive thing—granted, it seems to annoy Peso a little, but when you think about it he kinda saved the day by being impulsive. He sounded the Octoalert without permission, which let the captain know to come back before their radio signal cut out, and by being unafraid of the “monster” and swimming outside, he was able to discover what the problem was so that Peso could help. He did good.

Pearl.... I love Pearl a lot, but I can’t think of one specific episode that comes to mind for her. I love The Pupfish because it introduces Peri to AnB, and I love how he teaches her how to tie a knot, so she can save the algae (and Glen). I like The Bison episode because it’s interesting watching her not doing something with algae for once, and The Pink Glacier because her and Kwazii’s dynamic was something I didn’t know I needed, but now I want more of (/p).

Ryla. Possibly controversial opinion: I liked Ryla in The Caves of Sac Actun, more than I like her now in Above and Beyond. I know she’s only gotten 3 episodes so far, but she’s really missing something. Sac Actun gave us lore on her right off the bat: she’s old friends with Dashi, she’s a skilled cave explorer, she’s spunky, she’s purple. AnB hasn’t given us much yet. So far her only shtick is caves, and that’s getting a bit repetitive. Consider every moment she has in Sac Actun as her “Shining Moment”, because honestly that whole movie is a 10/10.

Koshi,,,, she hasn't gotten that much yet, but I'm gonna say The Longfin Eels is her Shine Episode. I like the way she narrates the whole episode, because it's very in-character. Plus we know she’s literally writing about this adventure in her diary as she's telling it, as if it were a mystery book. She reminds me of narrators from 1920s film noirs, and that’s cool. Also! Honorary mention of the scene when she gets her Octowatch: I loved that for her <3

Min is below the cut, because my answer for her includes some very heavy SEASON 5 SPOILERS, including SCREENSHOTS:

All of Min's appearances so far are dear to my heart. However, my favourite has to be her own introductory episode: The Giant Chinese Salamander.

The Rainforest Rescue is another amazing episode for Min—she’s a wonderful character on her own, of course—but I think we can all agree that she and Inkling are very adorable together (no matter how you interpret their relationship).

When Above and Beyond aired on Netflix, there was a lot of confusion around Min, from the younger audience and other fans who hadn’t seen S5. The Giant Chinese Salamander introduces Min with a 20-minute special; showing her in high-stakes action with Kwazii, bonding with the Octonauts, being an all-around Cool Person™, and a flashback of how she met Inkling when they were younger.

She saved his life. He was thrown far inland by a rough storm, and was trapped until she found him. I honestly headcanon that Min partially (if not outright) inspired Inkling to form the Octonauts, and this moment could have literally sealed the fate of EVERYTHING we know.

But! Until S5 comes out, that's all I've got to say~ 👋💝

[troubleah]

leah is rebekah's foil but how and where are these two similar, if there are similarities between them at all?

i'd like to think they share a core desire! sure, what they want out of life is completely different, but they both know exactly what that is and will stop at nothing to get it. "i just want to be free," rebekah says to elijah. "i wanted love and happiness and you denied me the freedom to have either!" she screams at klaus. leah will never understand craving romantic love - or family of her own or children or to be human - but oh does she get wanting to be happy. oh does she get wanting to be free. ( and then freya tells dahlia, "i only wanted to be free" and look, all three sisters want to choose their fate. all three resent the ones who would take it away ). also, sass. leah has always admired her big sister's wicked tongue and wanted to be like her in this regard; not that she'll ever admit to it. she's also stolen some of her clothes at least a few times over the centuries, though she'd claim it's out of her duty to be an annoying sibling rather than appreciation for rebekah's fashion