#it might not be coherent

[shakingparadigm]

fav alnst round so far? (mines is round 6 because i love pain and sorry to break it to you but I literally had no reaction when best boy ivan died.hes dead guys accept it.)

Favorite ALNST round... I'd have to say ROUND 5. The concept of the whole thing is just so spectacular not only in set design but in character dynamics as well. The despair and mockery that lines the whole thing is fantastic.

I particularly adore the way this round further connects the concept of death with the color white. The stage which Luka and Mizi perform on is fully white in color because it's built from the bones of an ancient creature, something of a memorial site. In certain shots, the spine of this creature is very clear. The whole area is ethereal and invokes not only a sense of reverence, but unease, too. It's haunting, almost hollow, and just like its origin, lifeless.

The moon that shines behind Luka is almost as big and bright as a white dwarf, a dying star that has exhausted itself of life.

And of course, the association with death is further emphasized once images of Sua appear.

There's something to be said about the fact that this stage is from the bones of an ancient creature, one that was respected enough for its bones to be repurposed in its honor. A deep reverence, worship, even.

It's painfully fitting for Luka to dance upon the remains of a creature so revered while he toys with Sua's image. A form of mockery, of disrespect, especially to the one who worshipped her. In both the literal and metaphorical sense, he tramples over dead gods.

It's important to note that in this round there are two performers but three participants: Mizi, Luka, and Sua. The feeling of death is something that permeates throughout the entire round because everyone involved has been forced to face it. This shared trait manifests itself as their most striking visual aspect: their white attire.

With the insight gained from Luka's relationship with Heperu, it's safe to say that Luka has experienced the feeling of death firsthand. He has quite literally died and then come back to life.

There's the factor of his purple fingertips, a result of his weak physical condition that keeps him on the precipice of life and death. Combined with his extremely pale complexion, his imperturbable disposition and obssession with heartbeats, Luka seems like a body on its way to a corpse, desperately clinging onto his last hopes of life. Staving off the coldness of death for as long as possible and monitoring his own body so that demise is confined to just the tips of his fingers.

Sua's connection to death is obvious. She has died, she is death.

A point of interest, however, is the fact that while everyone is dressed in white, only Luka and Sua share the colors of white and black. They both have these colors in their design, but in opposite places. The black of Sua's design lies on top of her white, while vice-versa for Luka as his lies at the bottom. It works exceptionally well with their state of their characters. Sua as the dead that crosses into the living, and Luka as the living that toes the line of death.

As someone who watched her god die in front of her own eyes, Mizi dons a gown of pure white just like the others. The difference is her second color, a light pink layer resting atop her dress.

Pink has associations with innocence and childishness, and in its more washed out and subdued state (light pink = pink mixed with white, innocence tainted by death) it's a perfect fit for the circumstances.

It's only during her aggressive outburst, when Mizi has death directly pointed at her that the pink layer begins to rip. Completely shedding her innocence, giving way to complete white. Dressing her for death.

Luckily, Hyuna arrives just in time (clad in black, life) to save her.

ROUND 5 has always been a complete masterpiece to me, and the more I think about it the better it gets. A dying man trying to stay alive, a white-clad widow and the haunting apparition of her dead god all performing this sick dance of death upon the bones of a creature who was exploited for spectacle and performance.

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[falafels]

pt.91!! <pt.90 pt.92>

kevin and dan getting into incredibly stupid spiralling arguments that boil down to MOOOOOM SHE HIT MEE omg no i didnt!! OWW NOW SHE DID is so very important to me

and who want to hear about the mexican peso crisis of 1994! i dont sleep anymore wikipedia is my new habitat

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[the-one-who-lambs]

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OH M.Y GOD

I don't even know what to say to express how much I LOOOOOOVE THIS TATTOO SO GODDAMN MUCH. I lost my tattoo virginity (?) to @stychu-stych today and I honestly think I'm gonna faint I. That's NARILAMB AND THEYRE ON MY BODY. THats my FIC. Those sr rth e guys from my fic and the story I'm writing and little pieces of the narrative. On my skin. Oh yeah this is why I've been talking about traveling. This was the main event because I decided that my reward to myself for finishing my masters degree would either be 1. trip to Central Europe or 2. Cult of the Lamb tattoo. And then I met a Polish tattoo artist who matched my creative freak

much better pictures are coming later because Stychu is gonna edit some professional ones she took but AHH. AaaAA. The risen lamb and the fallen god was already going to live with me forever but now IM WEEARING IT. Forever. Explodes

[foxgirltail]

Genuinely, the reason why so many discussions about transgenderism end up the way they do (in addition to the overt transmisogyny) is a complete unwillingness to view gender (and sexuality) as political categories, instead viewing them exclusively through the lens of "personal identity"

"Why do people use agab/tma? Is not the point of being trans to escape the shackles of your agab?" I cannot stress this enough but I am not the one doing the shackling, society has invented the shackles and I am using language to describe them and how they affect me

In a hypothetical future situation where society is no longer (trans)misogynistic and the patriarchy has been fully dismantled, these terms will have no real use. But it's important to recognize what is current actual material reality and what is simply idealism and hypotheticals

I would love to live in a world where tma vs tme is not a meaningful distinction. But that world doesn't exist (and also you are not helping make it so it does), and so those terms remain useful

[sforzesco]

the general concept for this was: it belongs to an oracle deck (non existent, this came out of a dream I had awhile back) where the illustrations are all romans and they all straight up tell you that everything is doomed to failure no matter what you pull lol

also this is quintus arrius

[thebrainrotsreal]

The way my brain activates when the brainrot kicks in. I don't even know what possessed me. Cecil stans please accept my offering of your pookie. My art style is evolving against my will <3

[spiritsglade]

everyone thinking that tim robin and jason robin were the same person is important to me actually. the erasure of jaybin as his own person the denial of his legacy as something of his own. the costume in his memorial case is the same design dick wore. public perception conflates jason and tim. jason himself is nothing had nothing nothing he did mattered. he bore this mantle he died in this costume and robin doesn't even bother to remember him.

[whumpluv]

people trying to talk through sobs is so good in whump. have you ever tried to talk while crying? it's not easy. quick, gasping breaths in-between desperate and incoherent stammering because you're sobbing too hard to get the words out. should be used in whump more tbh.

[mellohiizz]

was gonna do a full post with more designs, but it's already taking me way too long to post these, so whatever. here's some of my uu designs. <3 they're very basic, and i will do a more detailed sheet with different arcs (?) in mind, but it will take me way too long, i fear. so you can have those for now. ^_^ they're all from like... a month ago? maybe more.

[humanjarvis]

Do you think Sylus and Caleb would get along?

i literally love you for asking me this. absolutely not.

i have some more fleshed out posts and a fic idea related to this that may see the light of day eventually but to put it briefly. in the context of mc i think they’d despise each other because they both think the other has done things to hurt her & can’t be trusted. caleb felt threatened by high school boys who got too close to her, so a man like sylus? automatic enemy, on top of the whole dangerous crime lord thing. and if mc told sylus about what caleb did in homecoming wings. well. i cannot imagine that going over too well

even outside the context of mc i think their ideologies are so different they’d hate each other’s guts. or at least caleb would hate sylus, but sylus wouldn’t give caleb the satisfaction/recognition of hating him back. sylus is all about autonomy and agency, caleb will disregard those things if he thinks he’s justified (note: the justification does not have to be good)

bringing mc back into the convo but. one way i look at it is like. imagine sylus and caleb are about to do something that might upset mc. sylus doesn’t make a guess as to how she’ll respond or if she’ll forgive him; he doesn’t dare assume anything about her feelings or decisions that are hers to make. caleb, at his darkest, is audacious enough to guess mc’s reaction & feelings because he thinks he knows her better than she knows herself. he thinks their closeness gives him the authority to make those kinds of judgments about her. tldr caleb has the gall to make assumptions about mc and encroach upon her agency to feel & react to things independently, but sylus doesn’t assume—he leaves her options open and puts his heart on her sleeve for her to break if she desires.

[prodigalwitch]

the reason patriarchal religions oppress women is to convince men to join. many (almost all) religions feature female subordination, usually to her father, spouse, and often, the larger community. this is by design. why wouldn't men join religions where they are promised a domestic servant?

patriarchal religion essentially promises men their own kingdom to lord over, held accountable to a God who does not exist. in fundamentalist religious circles, the father is literally said to have "dominion" over his wife/home/family.

now consider that the two most popular religions in the world are also pro-state violence -especially when the state is theocratic (or can be claimed to be theocratic, reasonably or unreasonably), and especially when the violence is aimed at women.

For every man a state, for every man a punching bag.

[analyticalstarz]

Rui looks like both a butch lesbian & transmasc depending on the card and I truly do not think there's an in-between. the same thing applies to every single fanart I see of him I think

[miukki960]

The Next Prince episode 4 was a fantastic example of "Show Don't Tell" storytelling and how effective it can be when well executed. From the first scene to the very last, the audience was shown parallels between the main and second couples, and not once did the writers feel the need to baby the audience and have a character/narration spoon feed the point of what we were being shown.

It began with the dance sequence, when we are shown multiple shots of the characters dancing with their designated heteronormative, socially acceptable (class wise) partners. Every shot deliberately shows each boy give multiple longing looks at their love interest in the fleeting moments they can see eachother as they spin on the dance floor. And I don't know about everyone else, but I got goosebumps at the sheer amount of emotion on all their faces. And then Khanin, who was raised in London without the stark class distinctions of royalty, decides to act on his feelings and dance with Charan.

We immediately see the shock on everyone's faces, for a prince has crossed class lines and is dancing with someone significantly lower in rank. And in the back we see Ramil and Paytai, and we know and they know that they could never do that, could never have that.

Later, when Khanin and Ramil are alone on the cliffside, we are again forced to compare their characters. As they talk about Khanin's mom, about how they share blood, Khanin expresses sympathy about Ramil's upbringing. And it serves to force the audience to fully reflect on the differences between the two. Khanin got to have a loving father and the freedom to love and live how he pleases, regardless of gender or class. While Ramil lived under his strict father, constantly being reminded of his class and status and responsibilities.

These two scenes I mentioned, plus nearly every other scene in this episode, constantly remind the audience of the differences between Khanin and Ramil, while also subtly telling us that they are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the society they live in. They are both princes, heirs, meant to be worshiped and doted upon by their people. And as we see Khanin basically say "fuck that noise" over and over again without regard to the consequences, it makes the final parallel between Khanin and Ramil hit so much harder.

Because when Ramil is caught for messing with Khanin, and Rachata violently punishes Paytai, everyone is reminded of what's really at stake here. And it makes you truly understand why Charan acts the way he does eventhough the scene wasn't technically about him.

[fear0phobia]

You turn around.

[manguopudding]

finally got around to watching the anime 🥹 the teensy mithrun bait wugh!!!