#it’s really cool

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Randomly thinking about grrm’s deconstruction of knighthood in asoiaf and how ironic it is that the Night’s Watch - an organization known to be half full of murderers, rapists, thieves, and all sorts of criminals - is essentially in charge of defending all of humanity when shit hits the fan. Like westeros just scrambled ‘the lowest of the low’ together into a penal colony in the far north and is totally fine depending on them for their survival; though tbf, i guess part of it has to do with expecting these societal ‘others’ to give their not so valuable lives for the good of the realm, who really cares if they live or die because they’re out of sight and out of mind. And it’s kinda funny too when we factor in the kingsguard because it’s a far more respected institution than the NW presently, but it too has its fair share of monsters. Quite a few men of the kingsguard have been morally bankrupt individuals, and we even see how the men of the KG sometimes forget other people they should be responsible for because their one priority is the king (we see what happens when you put the people of the realm first and then are ostracized by it a la Jaime tho there’s more to it). Missing the forest for the tree is something both institutions share, making them quite similar. So it’s interesting how grrm flips the fantasy classic of the black knight vs the white knight. The black knight is often anti-heroic, if not straight up villainous, and is often made to be diametrically opposed to the valiant and ever good white knight. But asoiaf has white and black knights both be shown of great virtue and great vice. The white knights in this story really are no better than the black knights. I’d love to see how these two entities could intersect, i.e., what happens when a white knight eventually changes his cloak for a black one (*cough* Jaime *cough*) and how that falls into grrm’s deconstruction of the romance of chivalry, the extent of personal heroism, and perceived knightly virtue. Welp I don’t even know what point I’m trying to make anymore, I just wanted to talk about the KG and the NW because they’re really cool.

[piepiepiemag]

these days i just want to lay down and rot into the earth and become a pretty flower

[maesonc-artistic-adventures]

The flip of a coin.

[hqbits]

shadow dio is actually peak dio design

[apollos-boyfriend]

my dad is never fucking beating the streamer allegations his christmas gift for himself finally arrived and tell me why THIS is what he unpacks

[simplyghosting]

Sensible me: I should learn to use the zorn palette. It’s a good challenge on color limitation, creation, and theory. It’s cheap and you own all the colors.

Evil me: buy all the colors used in the Peter rabbit illustrations. You own none of them and they’re all expensive and also you’ve never figured out how to use watercolor in a finished piece. Having money and sense of realistic goals is for chumps.

[animationismycomfort]

can I say the danganronpa kills and executions are really cool and the music is awesome

[spicybees]

Finally finished the custom OC garage kit my friend and I collaborated on! The paintwork COULD have been a bit cleaner but given I didn't have an airbrush I think it turned out pretty good! This is the 2nd fully custom OC figure I've made which you can see behind Xiias here! (I've done more customised existing figures which you can also see) and I'd love to make more in the future!

[onlineviolence]

i love ultrakill

[saytrrose]

DO YOU PLAY

Dead By Daylight (?) 🤨

I personally do not play it myself but I’ve watched ppl play it and I like it 👀

[sivavakkiyar]

exciting find for people interested in Buddhist lit: found a PDF of Patrick Olivelle’s translation of Asvaghosa’s Buddhacarita.

it’s one of my favorite versions of the Buddha’s life and that translation is the best imo. Much more significant reasons to give it a look: Asvaghosa was the premier Sanskrit language poet/dramatist pre-Kalidasa, who offers a lot in homage to him, and Ambedkar notes him specifically as an influence for his “The Buddha and His Dhamma” (from his preface: “I would particularly like to mention Ashvaghosha's Buddhavita[=Buddhacharita], whose poetry no one can excel. In the narrative of certain events I have even borrowed his language.”)

this translation is ime difficult to find and is expensive and shouldn’t be locked away to academes. I’m grateful to an old teacher for leaving it to me. It’s rare to have an opportunity to recommend it when I can’t physically loan my copy out so

(it looks longer than it is, it’s a bilingual edition and it’s poetry. really lovely)

[rdfhyrsc]

From the pilot when vaggie was talking about Alastor and the other overlords you can see husker behind him in like a shadow, and I never noticed this till now 

[setyourphaserstoslutty]

People think my bag of dog teeth are weird

[cutiecandychopper]

🔥Step by step🔥

[anime-in-new-albion]

I need someone to explain to me in small words and crayon drawings the plot of Reverse: 1999.

It’s a cool game and I enjoy playing it a lot, but I do not understand what’s happening at all.