#indigo season

[jay-wasstuff]

[charmac]

Mac McDonald - "Gay"

[valkariel]

(Yet Another) Hatsune Miku

Another Miku cosplay glamour with two dye channels! :> Nothing special here, but wanted to use the headphones that don't make sense on au ra.

Head: Magitek Ear Guards - default / cherry pink Body: Street Top - jet black / turquoise blue Hands: Saigaskin Armguards of Casting - default Legs: Faire Kohakama - turquoise blue / jet black Feet: Bootlets of Eternal Passion - turquoise blue / jet black

Earring: The Emperor's New Earrings Neck: Edenmete Necklace of Casting Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: -- Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: Faeberry Atelier

Shader: Faeberry Studio

[agentc0rn]

⦿ Help Zygarde end the clash between Xerneas and Yveltal and restore order.

[chaeryeos]

　　　　　　　　☆゙ ۫ to live in a world of desire ֶָ ࣪ ׅ

　　　　　　　　　　☆゙ ۫ i'll give you my all ֶָ ࣪ ׅ

[crispinsphonebook]

Fall is approaching!

[sarucane]

Ed Teach's Stories

From practically the moment we meet him, Ed's identity is unstable. We know who is he (Blackbeard) from context, from the story told by the the room around him, by Izzy and the flag his crew. But the thing is, Ed doesn't fit the story of the Mad Devil Blackbeard. Two of his first few words are "good" and "love" for crying out loud. He's called "Blackbeard," but his beard is grey.

This instability exists because Ed himself isn't sure what story he's telling--or wants to tell. "I shouldn't be bored, I'm fucking Blackbeard!" All through his early episodes Ed is in increasingly desperate tension with his own identity. He's trying to tell stories within stories, wanting all the stories to be true at the same time, yet aware of the reality that the world is constantly trying to wipe one or another of the stories away. And not really trusting that he can tell the whole story of who he is.

In the first season of OFMD, Stede wears a different outfit every episode. Yet Stede remains the same: despite his internal tensions (almost despite himself) there's a stability to his identity. But all through both seasons of OFMD, Ed putting on a new outfit means he's trying to tell a completely different story about himself.

And underneath this cacophony, there's Ed. And Ed is himself a chorus of stories, a living contradiction. A patricidal murderer who was protecting his mother; a paragon of masculinity who longs for softness and fluidity; a man renowned for violence and madness who has in fact carefully cultivated that reputation and is extremely careful with his violence; a killer who doesn't kill, yet who does kill all the time just at a bit of a remove; a half a dozen names and personas and yet always Ed; unloveable, yet deeply loved.

At the beginning of the show, Ed isn't actually good at telling his own story. He's good at listening to other people's stories, and conforming himself to them often without conscious effort. But when he tries to really tell his own story--asking Stede to run off to China, singing his break-up song song, going to become a fisherman--he fails. We don't understand in the first season why his judgement clouds, why he becomes weak when he tries to tell his story. But in the second season after spending half an episode in Ed's mind, a painful truth is undeniable: Ed, like Stede, doesn't think he's worthy of telling his own story.

So instead of telling his own story, Ed let other people tell his story. In the first season, Ed built off what Izzy told him he had to be. But he couldn't lose himself in Blackbeard, no matter how hard he tried. So in the second season, when Ed couldn't face living with his contradictions anymore, he wrote an ending worthy of Blackbeard.

All this, because Ed thinks he can only be "himself" by telling one, single story about himself. By denying his contradictions, rather than embracing them. Splitting himself in two to tell himself a story, rather than telling the story himself.

What Ed doesn't believe or trust is this: For Ed to really be himself, he has to be impossible. Two contradictory things, at the same time.

The second season of OFMD is about learning to embrace all these contradictions. In each episode of OFMD, character look at the same object or situation (a wanted poster, a unicorn, a velvety suit, a relationship, a past trauma) and they tell two completely different stories about it. Sometimes one of those stories turns out to be wrong, but more often than not both are true, and something else--something beautiful-- is born from the place where those contradictions meet. And the characters, Ed most of all, learn to accept and balance this dissonance.

Thematically speaking, I'd argue that's why the second season of OFMD is more fantastical than the first: fantasies are contradictions, real and not-real at the same time. And isn't that what transformation is, in the end? What you are and what you are not, meeting and becoming "you"?

Transformation isn't all good. At first, Ed's fantastic stories hide his pain or invoke despair

But later, the fantasies make their way into reality. The impossible begins to shape reality--and opens a way for hope.

In the last episode of S2, Ed emerges from the waves as the kraken--but there's 3 musical tracks playing, three themes: the kraken, Ed, and Blackbeard. Then he reads a love letter, and has a deeply romantic moment with his boyfriend. He puts on a new outfit to escape the British, yet his personality doesn't change at all. When Izzy first apologizes to him, Ed says "I'm the one who should be apologizing," but then Izzy changes his entire understanding of their relationship. Becomes the first family figure to offer Ed permission to be himself.

Contradictions galore, and yet Ed is still Ed. Both who he was formed into by other people (his father, Izzy, Pop Pop) and yet who he is.

In the final scenes, Ed begins to finally accept the tensions of his life. He tells Zheng that yes, he wants to kill Richie--but he doesn't go on a revenge quest. And while before his forays into being someone else meant changing his name, his clothes and mannerisms, his whole story, he doesn't act like that at all in the last scene of the ep.

And Ed's been able to do all this, to come this far, because of Stede. Stede, who Ed was drawn to because he was a "fancy man who leads a brigade of imbeciles," yet had won a fight with Izzy. Stede, who looked at Ed at his lowest moment, after Ed had admitted that the entire basis of their friendship had been in bad faith, and said, "I'm your friend." Stede who, even knowing Ed wouldn't want to hear from him, poured his heart into letters about how their bond was unbreakable.

Stede is everything he is, all at the same time. And when Ed was drowning in his own contradictions, (a rope tied around him that he could not undo and yet had put on himself) trapped somewhere "inevitable, yet impossible," Stede appeared as a fantastic, beautiful creature and brought him home.

Stede lets Ed be everything he is, and sees it all as true and worthy of love. Even when Ed fucks up, it's all right.

And sometimes, telling two different stories about something doesn't lead to a fragmented self, doesn't drive people apart.

Sometimes, it means understanding. Means acceptance, safety, connection.

From discordance (contradiction), harmony. A gentleman can be a pirate. A man can be a bird, or a unicorn. Izzy can have been one of the good ones and a fucking nightmare. And Ed can tell all his stories, they can all be true--and he can still be Ed.

[ask-n]

I wonder what N would do if he encountered Tomo (Kid raised by kangaskhan in season one) and his family.

more feral playmates?? absolutely sign him up! who knew how common it was for children to be left for Pokemon to raise canonically though 🤔

[saltydkart-reblogs]

Spoilers for the Scarlet/Violet Indigo Disk DLC

The fanart could go crazy guys think about it

[milkymittens]

cw: abuse

i rewatched holy matrimony today and frankly i think we need to talk about it more

[indigopoptart]

DEATH

sharing this in honor of spooky month and totally not bc i completely forgot to post it

[goldensunset]

found this on twitter :)

found this on instagram!

[valkariel]

Dreadwyrm's Hoard

I tried to make this chest gear look good, but very specifically the bronze metal details and silhouette of the gear just is very hard to work with.

Head: Idealized Estoqueur's Tricorne - midnight blue / metallic gold Body: Dark Horse Champion's Coat of Casting - midnight blue / metallic gold Hands: Idealized Estoqueur's Gloves - midnight blue / metallic gold Legs: Baronial Culottes - midnight blue / metallic gold Feet: Panthean Sollerets of Casting - metallic gold

Earring: The Emperor's New Earrings Neck: Dreadwyrm Choker of Casting Wrists: The Emperor's New Bracelet Right Ring: The Emperor's New Ring Left Ring: The Emperor's New Ring

Main Hand: Dreadwyrm Rapier Off Hand: --

Fashion Accessory: -- Minion: -- Mount: -- Location: Alzadaal's Legacy - The Zhayolm Remnants - The Thrice-won Hoard

Shader: Faeberry Bloom

[agentc0rn]

On the Road to Indigo Disk

[awobbles]

The Indigo Disk epilogue with Pecharunt comes out January 11, 2024

Sonic Prime Season 3 comes out January 11, 2024

[love-for-burgundy-blog]

This is interesting...

Kanto (including Orange Islands): I enjoy it but I'm not a huge fan, and it's somewhat poorly written (although I will give it slack for being the first two seasons)

Johto: Didn't like it and it's poorly written

Advanced Generation (including battle frontier): I think it's decent and the writing is decent.

Diamond and Pearl: I have mixed feelings on it and the writing is good (it would have been great if the filler was reduced, Kenny and Ursula were more utilized, and Ambipom wasn't released to play ping pong)

Best Wishes: It's my favorite season but it's poorly written sadly.

XY and XYZ: not the biggest fan but I still like it and the writing is outstanding.

Sun and Moon: I love it and the writing is Amazing.

The context for this post is in the tags ⬇️