#no images belong to me

[lizardkingeliot]

I had taken seven thousand souls by then. But Lestat was the only one that felt like murder. Semantics, surely, but it's how I felt. He came by invitation. My distraction from the monochromatic landscape. The gray of an obliterated road, the gray-brown of a charred and bullet-ridden city.

[tp2-byes]

LET THE LITTLE MONKEY REST

Hold these little ones too, please

[wi55iams]

A teenaged Carlos Sainz Jr. celebrates after coming 2nd in a race at Zandvoort during the 2010 Formula BMW Europe season.

[surevive]

A commission I got last year of my Vash and his Nai from @redsoda1111. A most perfect example of the soft side of my AU. The imagery is based on this piece of writing of mine.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price signing autographs at Tomb of Ligeia movie premiere (1964)

Footage courtesy of Getty images

[ryuusea]

“I win, Mr. Holmes.”

(I think Sherly also feels he’s winning 🤭)

More i7 x Yuumori crossover sketches, Liam in Tenn’s TRIGGER Hidden Region MV outfit.

Funny enough, first piece was supposed to be a Liam only drawing, but then Sherly decided to drop in between his legs.

[icedb1ackcoffee]

Corrupted by Design | Fic Playlist | Feyd-Rautha x Reader

Behemoth (Remix) by Perturbator and Gost | Terror by We Are Magonia | Like Meat (Spoiled) by ESA | The Destroyer by Garçons | UNHOLY by Dxrk ダーク, Kordhell | Smells Blood by Kensuke Ushio | Trapped by SIERRA | Hunt by Noizinski | Night of the Wolf by Nox Arcana | Cupio Dissolvi by Qual | Upgrade by OFFL1NX | Black Sun by Toshiyuki Hiraoka | Unbroken by SIERRA | White Poison by Unholy | Obsession by Gesaffelstein | Parallel by OVERWERK, Pilotpriest | Viol by Gesaffelstein | Never Right by SIERRA | Hunt by Noizinski | Reign in Hell by Gost | Spires by CABLE | Corrupted by Design by Perturbator

Corrupted by Design (Rated E)

[ixirian-archive]

HELP WANTED 2 PAX RUNDOWN (SO FAR):

All info obtained from someone who went to pax and recorded themselves there. Filming of the booth is allowed but filming of the minigames is prohibited.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Allegedly they have an ETA of December 2023, and are planning on showing more footage after Pax.

The HW2 demo has 3 minigames available, similar to the HW1 PAX demo. These games are titled:

Breaker room

Carousel

Bonk-A-Bon

Each visitor can only pick one minigame to play before they need to leave. The streamer in Freddit, Chillyshiba, chose Breaker Room. The others have a little less concrete info from what I can tell, but I'll still write what I've got.

Breaker room is pretty self explanatory. It's the SL breaker room level, but apparently a little different. Something about shooting him with a megaphone?

Carousel is the most interesting to me-its apparently the scariest, and apparently the main foe is Eclipse! Which explains why he's a set piece in the surrounding booth.

UPDATE: CAROUSEL actually has Moon

UPDATE 2: DETAILS FOR CAROUSEL:

The last one is Bonk/Whack-A-Bon, which is probably just what it's title says-whack em down like whack a mole.

UPDATE: I was mostly right about this one, but Helpy is apparently included in the array of hittable little dudes.

The booth itself is also cool as hell.

And that's all I've got for PAX for now. I decided to make a bit of a post on it on tumblr because I've realized that a lot of this info is split between Twitter and discord and I want to spread the word more.

my biggest regret as a token collector is being unable to get the faz token

[lyril]

hey, how's it going! i don't have a job and i'd like to be able to afford some black-out curtains and other things before i suffer in a house without air conditioning again this summer. so, i'm offering some simple, uncolored pencil sketch or line art commissions!

if you're interested, message me at @garlude and i will give you my paypal info and discuss the commission with you! as well, i have a few leftover adoptables you can find here. more examples of my usual work and a few of the commissions i've already taken will be under the cut!

[puzzlevisiondarling]

Guys. Guys please don't take my image saving and memes privileges,,,

[jaypilled]

jaypilled back with the nexo knights art that's a whole year old that I'm only posting now 🔥🔥

honestly no idea why I never posted these at the time because I honestly cooked with a lot of them

[veryfancydoilies]

Dr. Helen Faraday from We Happy Few aesthetic

I told the Executive Committee I wasn't going to make any more Spankers, or Gates, or Clever Locks, or Peepers, or Jubilators. Those were all my designs, you know.

[squoobest]

goodnight, tangle!

[surevive]

I commissioned the amazing @corzev for a few pieces to tell the story idea I posted about here. There is a 5th one, but I can't post it on Tumblr <3

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price being interviewed about art. (1962)

Video belongs to Getty images.

[katyspersonal]

Marika & Messmer are fascists but not the hornsent who chop people to small pieces and put them inside jars to achieve divinity because they believe they're "chosen" people and therefore superior to other races? Have you considered the possibility that sometimes both sides of a war can suck? This is why frenzied flame is the way🙏

Anon, I am going to scold you before I get to the topic because "have you considered [thing]" here should be reserved for a problem when someone is ignorant and in a bad, poor-taste way! Which I was not because obviously I "considered" this! You are referring to a silly post of me liveblogging how I got to Messmer, and so of course I addressed Messmer! I should not add long disclaimer about every other lore-relevant thing when I make a basically liveblog-ish remark to "demonstrate" that I do not let other culprits in the story "get away" either! 😣 For example recently I've been focusing on Fire Knights to express my hatred for religious purism, but later in another post about story of Abyssal Woods I've instead focused my vitriol on Hornsent Inquisitors! There is its own post and time for everything!

Okay back to the LORE with light heart now!! This is true of course that both sides are atrocious; the Hornsent basically pulled a mad cult crusade on the shamans, and very ironically long time after their folks were victims of also a religion-driven crusade! This is basically playing extermination ping-pong for generations and regardless of who "started it", none of the innocent people (children, those who disagree and simply belong to [race], distant descendants that did not DO anything etc) deserved to be exterminated by association.

To get more elaborate, one has to take into consideration just how long the conflict has been going on for, and everything else Marika has done besides the Crusade. The people being killed by Messmer's army are most likely generations apart from the people who hurt Marika's! I've mentioned that earlier where I questioned how Grandam and Hornsent (NPC) seem to not even know why Marika/Messmer went with war at them at ALL. Like, both are/were barbaric in their own way, but there's clearly a side that has suffered enough now. Like, this was such a disgusting conflict that even Marika, who was the one who had it ordered in the first place, felt the need to distance herself from it because it WAS the battle without glory or honor. There were the Hornsent, likely a cult or something, who murdered and mutilated the Shamans back in their time, but Marika was the one who started the war and kept it going even after it was clear that the Hornsent had lost, and ruined the lives of many people that weren't even part of the war in resistance like the Hornsent NPC! (One more nitpick about it is that her/Messmer's war was that of exterminating of all who have no Grace, as opposed to some insane idea on how to force them to be reborn to "join" her type of people hfhhhbhf)

Correct me here if I am wrong, but so far we can't know if ALL Hornsent accepted the practices of Bonny Village and their higher religious institution. The Greater Potentate Cookbooks that we find relating to hefty pots describe the author as having been "haunted by the grotesque practice of his village of birth". This guy didn't sound like he was very proud of what his people were doing, and it's coming from someone who was raised there! There's likely a lot of other Hornsent who found the practice just as disgusting, especially amongst those that didn't do it themselves, but we don't know that because most of them are dead and the ones who remain are understandably upset and distrustful of "our" kind!

🤔 It is also because of this why it's more reasonable to call the two leading figures of a cleansing war fascists than an entire race, because we can't just assume that ALL Hornsent are fascists just because their religious order and justice system is fucked up. We just don't have a key leader figure to redirect such sentiments towards, unlike with the Golden Order! Basically confirmed fascists are Marika, Messmer + Fire Knights + Black Knights + troops, various warriors and perfumers and what not who agreed to participate @ the Hornsent who are doing the potting, the Hornsent who did slaughter Marika's village, and remaining corrupt clerics leaders of the religion!

(On a side note, Frenzied Flame is definitely the answer but y'all shouldn't tell Melina on me hfjjchjgdh)

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UPDATE 1 from July 4th that I wanted to add in the OG post instead:

I have nothing to add here, all of these are rather fair points! I am a little late with adding these screenshots but you've probably seen some more speculation on the Hornsent Inquisitors these couple of days by me and @val-of-the-north in my blog! Here if you missed these: ( x ) ( x ) The gist of it is that seems like Inquisitors are hunting their fellow Hornsent as heretics for serving the "impure" nobles, but regardless of whether it happened before Marika's mentioned "betrayal" or after, it is STILL horrible to harm people for association with those that didn't even do anything wrong :^)

Still applies that calling the whole race fascist doesn't work (heck, the Hornsent who choose to stand with Midra and Nanaya are confirmation of strong exceptions!), but the sentiment is certainly very strongly rooted culturally.

Sigh.. I am pretty sure there are people somewhere in the fandom that would fall into "hornsent deserved it" pit over this, too. Like "hey, even currently Hornsent culture is a rich soil for Shaman Villages 2.0 and 3.0 and 4.0 and so on to happen, so why not preventively exterminate an inherently dangerous culture?" (..if anyone here really thinks along these lines, please know that this is a dangerous line of thinking and you'll get ideologically groomed into excusing genocides before you know if you don't question what you're implying here) What they needed was more communication with other cultures and adopting more tolerant and humane principles. Seeing that various horn-ness species are just like them rather than sitting in the "we divine they filth" bubble if it is THAT bad. Maybe Marika even HAD the power to provide such change and bridge the gap while she was still a trusted figure to them during her "infiltration", and yet instead of putting and end to terrible traditions with careful planning and diplomacy, she chose the path of revenge..

Genuinely a depressing point to think about. And yes, absolutely doesn't do her a honor to choose ruin and hate.

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UPDATE 2 from July 11th:

I also completely forgot to back it up that the fellow Hornsent were also facing execution through being stuffed in jars!

Yeah nah, definitely their people in power were so dangerous that should someone protest against the murder of Shamans and alike, they'd meet the same fate.. Having to swallow what your insane authorities do, with your own life in the line, is also something very real. This situation obscures the number of people who are against it from the superficial look.

I myself live in the country where people can't protest against the government unless they want to go to prison or face other dire consequences, so having to sit quietly for the sake of yourself and your own families for the outside world LOOKS like we don't care and ""'"agree""". :)))) Fun stuff. :') Here, anyone who would ask why Hornsent that disagree with their leaders don't express it would technically be in their right to do so, but most people will protect their own life first, especially if sacrificing it won't really avail anything. Again, Elden Ring is incredibly real with these topics. :')