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[fancypantsrecords]

Various Artists - Hi-Fi Rush Original Soundtrack | Laced Records | 2023 | Blue Translucent with Red & Blue Splatter + Green Translucent with White & Blue Splatter + Yellow Translucent with White & Blue Splatter + Purple Translucent with Red & Purple Splatter

[askfordoodles]

Emmrich Volkarin is stronger than any marine 🥓

[zegalba]

Aniye Records autumn/winter 2024

[fenharel]

He'll never ask for help, but that doesn't mean we can't offer it anyway. But do you think he can be helped?

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[elliefont]

Veilguard had better be a game that I replay countless times to only romance one character and make all the same decisions over and over again.

[bebemoon]

look for the name JESSICA (requested by @disney-eyes) | aniye records peach puff sleeve and skirt corseted mini dress (s/s 2o25), luis de javier white lace tights worn over clear platform heels (s/s 2o25), alexander mcqueen punk stud ear cuff, valentino "club couture" eau de aprfum (bergamot, bitter orange, mandarin orange, fig, orange blossom absolute, orris root, balinese patchouli, cedarwood, musk), versace mini la medusa crystal handbag

[ghostespresso]

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

[letz-smoke-zaza]

Life is unfair,

Kill yourself or get over it.

Life is unfair,

Kill yourself or get over it.

��� Child Psychology , Black Box Recorder

[moeblob]

There is ZERO lore here, I just asked someone to name a basic color (the person said orange) and I said thank you and proceeded to google bikini armor. Because my brain said "that's the next step" and ?????

Have a character design I will probably never draw again, I guess.

[fancypantsrecords]

Lustmord / Aethek - Scorn Original Soundtrack | Ebb Software / Laced Records | 2023 | Black

[crystalpallette]

get you a girl who can give you everything

this started a long long time ago when I made a joke about how sega should put ringo in more dresses, and then my friend reminded me that oh yeah!! I can do that instead!!! and then one thing led to another and we joked about punk ringo and I drew that too. using ringo like a dressup doll is so cathartic it's kinda crazy

some bonuses (original designs, timelapse) under the cut bc I like these designs!! I might do some more with them!! please disregard the band poster in the first second of the timelapse that's something else!!!

[buttons-beads-lace]

Solving the Fantasy High Last Stand Exam math problem

I just watched the Last Stand Exam eps of Fantasy High Junior Year last night and the math question gave me a vivid flashback to being given problems like this in elementary school and filling an entire page with painstaking calculations, working out the location of both trains minute by minute until I found where they were the same. Because sometimes "give the gifted kids something new and challenging to do" ends up being an impossible task that kids just don't have the right tools to solve.

But eventually I got to algebra class and they taught me the real way to solve problems like this, both accurately and quickly! Which is what I will show to you.

(It would still probably take me longer than five minutes. Especially without a calculator. Nobody's gonna divide 175 by two-and-one-sixth without a calculator. C'mon.)

I tried to explain Why I was doing each step while still going as fast as possible, feel free to ask questions if you're curious about anything.

[gmanmedias]

MY LEFT BRAIN KNOWS THAT HER LOVE IS FLEETING…

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

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(Late) Day 1 of @cocajimmycola ‘s event! (edit vers)

Day One (Monday) : Amasui / Frills

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Record Label History: 4AD Records (CAD 105)

Modern English

Mesh & Lace (1981)

[willaux]

wow who could've seen this coming that's crazy