#jesus christ my god man

[raii-bread]

bro i am straight up gonna lose my shit oh my FUCKING god

[outthewazoo]

Late obligatory Halloween art, though I was NOT late for partying and fumbling two bad bitches so let’s go 🤑🤑🤑 (I engaged them in riveting conversation and never asked for their socials 💪)

[katabay]

PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc

to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.

in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.

so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!

that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.

all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.

and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!

Seeing Knights For The First Time

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

The Temptation of Perceval

Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)

The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Perceval and Gender, etc.

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

On Wounds

Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges

The Red Knight

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice

The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell

[lilislegacy]

does… does annabeth have other shirts?

cause no matter where she is, even if she’s away from camp or with her family or traveling, she’s almost always wearing a camp shirt

someone buy this girl a kohls gift card or something PLEASE

there are better colors than orange, bestie. so much better. there’s a whole other world out there. i recommend blue for you. that’s a good place to start i think 💙💙

[birrdify]

"YOU IDIOT WE ALREADY MISSED PRIDE MONTH!!!" "THATS CAUSE YOU KEPT PUSHING ME IN THE PHOTOSHOOT YOU ASS!!!!"

[shihoerusu]

—-The hands that cradled your face and tilted it upwards to kiss your forehead are soaked in unfathomable quantities of blood 

——but they cradled me yes?

[certifiedockappreciator]

Can I gush about a detail that's in SM:OG? I know its really obvious, but I just want to point it out none-the-less, it's so good.

SPOILERS. GO READ OCTOPUS GIRL IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. ITS SO GOOD! I also recommend reading Doctor Octopus: Year One.

It's the fact Mary Alice's face is obscured in Otto's memories due to his overwhelming guilt over what happened before the accident, and how he wasn't able to save her in time when she was dying years later.

It's only when Otto finally takes Otoha's advice, treasuring his memory of Mary instead of clinging on to that guilt...

...we get to see her face.

[coronangelic1]

"i feel like we are going in circles with this" BECAUSE OF YOU!!! YOU KEEP REFUSING TO MOVE FORWARD AND ADMIT THE FACTS AND. WHERE IS THE LINK! YOU IDIOT!

[blamemma]

genuinely terrifying to me that you can emphasise the true dangers of artificial intelligence in this era of oversharing, but people will turn a blind eye and ignore because oh twitter have made a fun little app where you can develop incredibly realistic pictures of a real person in any sort of clothes, location, or position you want.

you're teaching it.

you're refining it.

one day that could be you. your child. your loved ones. your likeness being used in videos doing something you'd never dream of doing. in a video you'd never wish to be shared.

but oh it's fun as a meme. fun to get that little serotonin boost that internet attention gives you.

[ai-the-broccoli]

enemies to lovers / but you'll never own my heart

@luzon-dove happy birthday, Quinn!! As a present, I decided to draw a piece fanart of your "blood in the walls of the yagami house" AU fic series, since I found it very well-written and full of super interesting ideas and concepts. I hope you like it!

[lyss-sketchbox]

At first I didn't fully grasp how horrible it is for the Natlan characters' skin color to not be black. I thought it was just Sumeru all over again, not every person from [insert irl culture] is black, maybe there will be black characters in the future, HYV is a chinese company it was probably not gonna be changed, etc.

Then i find out that even the CN and KR community is pissed... and there is a petition for HYV to fix their designs....

The thing that finally made me realize is a post somewhere showing a google search of 'Kinich'... the Maya sun god... and its taken over by QUITE LITERALLY white anime boys

[justaregularken]

Werewolf boyfriend who keeps stretching you with larger and larger toys inside you to “train you to take his knot” because he’s bigger than all of them

[frnkiebby]

fucking PRETTY~🎃

[memobread]

his norman reedus era😩😩😩😫😫

[kindahoping4forever]

Backstage @ The 5SOS Show Tour Philadelphia

[tokyoteddywolf]

Not me debating writing an Aventio fic based on a book I really loved... urgh-

I got Aven recently and just finished his arc in Penacony and I am incredibly bored! I wanna write while I have the energy...

Lemme know if I should :p

Basic premise is its based on a book called Written In Red, which I feel absolutely fits Aventurine??? Look at the book first, give it a read, and tell me the main character doesn't remind you of him. I will go feral.

Anyways if you don't, the premise of the book is that the main character, a blood prophet who is also a slave, escapes and runs away from captivity to a town in order to hide and live amongst sentient predators called "Others", basically ancient as fuck monsters that can swap between animal and human forms. Others actually do prey on humans, but it's modern times and they have a begrudging agreement to coexist with humans because they make decent stuff that the Others can't create. The main character ends up living among them and figures out herself, while also teaching the Others some new things. It's actually a nice book in my opinion.

I'd have to reread the book but yeah. That would be the very basic idea. I already have a character list of who is who lmao.

I wouldn't make it a carbon copy of the book though, not with the characters I have in mind, but it would be a similar plot at least. Consider giant wolf Ratio, everybody, that's all I'm giving you.

So...

EDIT: Holy crap that's like 50 people and it hasn't even been a day-

Here you go ya feral bastards jesus-

Warnings for gore, violence, blood, people get torn apart and eaten you have been warned. (Can only be viewed if you have an account)

Enjoy