#i suppose? implied at least

[theellipelli]

late night/midday texting

[cloudysarts]

this is what the book of bill was about right

(og image under the cut)

[addicted-to-the-knife]

he's so important to me

[siphisket]

Get Spr(ule)onkd

[saitoakirachan-fangirls]

akechi, venting: ... anyway and that's how I killed my beloathed rival-enemy-best-friend-love-of-my-life only to find out he was still alive. Ok, I think that's all. *leaves the booth* There, Joker! Are you happy now?

the priest in the confessionals: 😐

[ancientbygone]

i'll never let you forget the chaos that birthed you

[chellodello]

How’s that hanahaki going for you space-boy?

[frankenfossil]

Oh! I nearly forgot, but can I ask the significance of this panel?

It comes directly after Dee explains that he can’t come and see her from the future whenever he wants. (Which is one of my favorite moments where Dee’s true eldritch horror leaks in to the story), so I assume it’s… sort of a metaphor? How Emily finds herself at the foot of something she realizes is much, much bigger than she contemplated before?

(Also, I just wanted to compliment you for this panel)

(The first time I saw it, I imagined Dee was showing her this on purpose, time traveling from sometime the same day to really show her what it would be like. An object lesson.

The second time I saw it, I started to wonder

Because Dee himself doesn’t really look aware of what is going on behind him.

And maybe, just maybe, this one moment in time has become the only moment that Dee allows himself to come back to to see Emily, the one moment where he can get lost in the crowd with every other time he came back to look. The one moment where he’s explaining why he can’t come back.

Just… Makes me sad, and I wanted to say thank you for that too, because I love these characters and the story they tell, the sweet and bitter.)

Oh!!!

(Quick test of my ability to find which chapter stuff happens in)

I love your reading of that Uluru panel!! I think I probably didn’t intend anything that deep with it; these time skip montage style chapters are pretty choppy and I’m usually trying to figure out a way to touch on all these brief scenes or moments that I don’t want to spend a whole chapter on for whatever reason, and arrange them in a way where the cuts aren’t too hideously abrupt. For visual reasons I try to contrast different locations and not put 2 dialogue heavy moments directly next to each other. Mood wise, I don’t really want to cut from something serious and angsty to something that’s a complete backflip on that. I also sometimes just feel like drawing a nice landscape and hope it achieves my aims on these fronts haha.

I think also here I was trying to move from that final sentence, “The present is more than enough”, to demonstrating them appreciating having that present together - being able to go do cool and enriching stuff, something not completely mundane but not completely fantastical either. (I mean... sightseeing within your own country is extremely normal, but going to Uluru from Melbourne... not a convenient day trip, since it’s 2000km; 25 hour solid driving, or you can fly in a few hours but I think you have to go via Sydney, so that makes it take at least twice as long I guess. Not that it's specified how long they're there for. I haven’t been myself but I’d love to one day...)

So, yeah!! More of a mechanical/compositional rationale than an intentional metaphor, but I think your reading makes complete sense and actually improves the page! (Sometimes I do intend visual metaphors... but sometimes they’re just happy accidents.)

And thanks for the compliment re the crowd of Dees!! I also love the moments I can lean into his eldritch qualities... they’re sadly few and far between but maybe that helps them be more surprising?? Definitely your first reading was what I intended, that he zigzagged back pretty quickly, probably even from within the conversation, but there is an inherent ambiguity to Dee’s time travelling where unless I take pains to spell it out, there really is no way to know when he’s come from. Even if he can be assumed to be taking every interaction chronologically, there’s no knowing how much time has passed for him between each visit. I don’t even know how to estimate how long his experience of time is, when he’s zigzagging back so densely all the time; even the number of living things on Earth any moment is an incomprehensibly mind-boggling number. That eldritch horror again!

Truth be told I hadn’t thought of him coming back to this moment and blending in with the crowd for the rest of the future ;_; but that’s so real... he could well be, the sad sack...

I had a different sillier thought from slightly misreading your question on first pass, which is that maybe he doesn’t originally know what’s going on behind him, but then later on as he’s just going about his business he goes “oh I know exactly how to punctuate that thing I said earlier!!!” and then does it as an afterthought. Oh to have the ability to add the things you wish you’d said to an earlier conversation 😂

[alien-slushie]

Grian: I just ended a 10 year relationship.

Mumbo: Oh my, are you okay?

Grian: Yeah, it wasn't my relationship.

[setevulpo]

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supernatural, s14e07: "unhuman nature"

stigmata: escaping texts, hélène cixous

supernatural, s14e07: "unhuman nature"

power politics, margaret atwood

supernatural, s07e15: "repo man"

the sea, the sea, iris murdoch

supernatural, s07e15: "repo man"

[dykedvonte]

I think the most baffling thing about the Tulpar as a vessel to me is the fact that the ship really did only have a one way communication system.

I know it was cheap but even the most basic of vessels regarding major transport would have some way, shape or form for outside communication. Not only that but there was absolutely no form of innate emergency signal to show they may have been offline or in trouble despite clearly having a system to dock credits if they went off course. It's another factor that really shows that bad situations are made to get worse by design. One person who is required to relay all information to the crew and make all the choices without feedback. No way to update or call for help in case of a dire situation. No way to inform of inner personal conflicts and acquire procedures accordingly.

It really is like they are all in some sort of fucked up solitary confinement. They have their own world with strict roles that are meaningless in the end, as long as the cargo makes it, it doesn't matter what happens on that ship to the company. They don't want to hear anything and will come to conclusions on what happened based on how much pay they can withhold from the workers. Even what they do send is short, sterile and corporate to the extent it was likely written and sent out with a command by some random unmanned computer in an office.

There's something to be said about how unfair it is to force absolute power and control onto one person when you as an entity could do so much more to offload it but I've said it many times before so I won't again.

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

Shelly and Vee’s ichor-purchasable skins are red {Shelly} and purple {Vee}. You know what else is red and purple with connections to the past and future? Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It’s all connected /j

[whistlingstarlight]

Not to be a vampire apologist but I too would be pretty pissed if a bunch of kids broke into my home, killed my brother whilst he was sleeping and then kidnapped my sister(?) and youngest brother. Might wanna cheeky bit of vengeance y'know?

[red-shepherds]

The best we can hope for, really, is that Palamedes exploded clean. The Good Death is a concept very absent in The Locked Tomb, and for good reason--what can a good death be, if rest is unreachable, if use is inevitable? Still, though, and not for his sake, I want thanergetic fission to have left a good, dry assortment of bones. It's one thing for Camilla to have assembled his skull piece by piece--it's quite another if she had to discard the remains of his brilliant brain to do it.

[laotwormz]

do you regret it yet?

[caramelmochacrow]

happy birthday to arisa and happy (belated) birthday to yukina!! (im sorry yukina...)