#noon types

[noonslullabies]

When your ideas for the next part of a game turn out to be wrong, you still can still smile because you get to throw the new thing into the old idea soup

"HE MADE FUCKING ME WHITE?!"

"Yeah, but I didn't think I'd pissed him off enough that he created his own Baldr, and quite literally, spat on your memory. Sorry dude."

Remember, our Breiðablik is Baldr's home.

Why do we have when the Sun God of Justice exists?

Please I need our gun to be stolen and to still be proven its rightful wielder.

Loki's lil smirk means we're going to have fun.

Höðr is our defense attorney... maybe I can spin this a legit reincarnation like I did with Ymir (best ally for a walking corpse).

You know she's going to adopt the Baldr collective (each summoner gets their own (mine is a little shard) while Nyota is holding the black hole of the brightest dying light who is ready to go back to being a War God and NOT A PARTY GAME right now).

:D Yes, I'm happy.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

As I saw this I basically just woke up and I thought you drew him in just a little mini dress and just was ready to accept him kicking ass in a dress

hes like if a magical girl was divorced

[noonslullabies]

I'm trying to find audio posts of my voice because there were moments of sharing my past, but I found this post.

*listens to Anastasia soundtrack*

Dear god, Fire Emblem Awakening style!

Oddly, Vlad’s (Kelsey Grammar’s) voice fits Frederick. (Hammers it in with ‘Learn to do it [waltz version]’)

Then there is Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart) with Dimitri’s sad I gotta let her go, and god, Chrom. (I’ve been looking at Robin/Chrom stuff for an hour now, so it is coloured)

Actually, any of the ships can fit in this, and Gaius would fit into Dimitri’s role like a glove.

*feels*

[dreamdripdistance]

the duo!!! i wanted to put them side by side so i could yap about them, which i will! under the cut! bc this is MY BLOG!!! GRAH!!!!

in siffrins side theyre on the stage, bowing for the roses at all the endless curtain calls. because its his turn in the spotlight, theyre the one bound by the script to keep smiling and to keep the show running because they dont know the alternative!!! the curtains arent closing for the ending either, theyre already opening right back up to start it all over againnnn! back to the stage, siffrin!

but also theres an outwards and upwards movement because in the end sif DOES get out, theyre not trapped (the star theyre reaching to as well, thats meant to rep loop!)

contrasting this with loops side, while theyre technically free from Their time loop when we meet them, but theyre still dragged down by the universe, a perpetual falling star and an unfinished play. theyre always going to be trapped by the consequences of their own choices!!!

loops card isnt Technically an inverted star tarot card (the text is still upright) but theyre still meant to have that downward, reversed pull compared to siffrins card because theyre PARALLELS!!! its also darker since this time, loops not the one in the spotlight (... the timeloop) anymore

also the song lyrics i put with both are so important, trust. the full verse from stray/burnt sugar by gouge away "never feel richer than to find / that the most consistent part of this life / is that the sun will always rise / and there's stars in the night / time will beg for you (x4)" kind of just encapsulates the whole feeling of the game to me, the constancy of everything for better or for worse, and the distant company and comfort siffrin finds in the stars (plus the song itself is really on brand for sif, it feels both cautious and warm at the same time)

while for loops one, marrow by st vincent "muscle connects to the bone / and bone to the ire and the marrow / so i pretend there arent ten strings tied to all ten of my fingers / H-E-L-P help me" always reminds me of like. loop doesnt have a body anymore? theyve lost their human physicality and now gotta follow the universe's whims no matter what as a result of that. also 'how can you help me, stardust?" lol (also the song has a really fun groove to it that just feels Very loop to me)

ok thats it

[northernfireart]

sleepy shiny

[front-facing-pokemon]

[noonslullabies]

Considering I move into AUs because I add my stuff into the mix and it technically means I'm working on the latter.

Dare my followers to take this!  😜

[esperfruit]

Got back into Kim Possible, a show I adored as a child, so here are the main four ^^

[shalluringly]

allura of altea and mel medarda you will ALWAYS be famous

cr. @dr.shoko on tiktok

[noonslullabies]

I live a skip away from Philly, PA, and we just had an earthquake.

Its epicenter was in Tewksbury, New Jersey, and it was at a magnitude of 4.8.

Apparently, Ry slept right through and only woke up to mom calling him. He went right back to sleep - he works nights.

Our neighbor's grandkids felt it up where they live, too.

Dad heard that the city hall was being evacuated, so likely fears of structural damage or something broke.

[arthursfuckinghat]

I'd be lying through my fucking teeth if I said I liked rdr2 a normal amount

[eli-am-confused]

Young Eddie catching a young Howard reading a romance book.

Part 1/3

This had to come out in tree parts because Tumblr said I drew too much. (Could I have stopped here? I mean yeah. But I didn’t write all those words in my notes planning out this comic for nothing)

As always, the words are after the cut.

Picture one

Howard: Oh Collin. You’re so dreamy <3

Picture two

Eddie: Hey Howie! Dinner’s ready! We’ve been callin’ ya for like an hour!

Picture three

. . .

Picture four

Eddie: Whatcha readin?

Howard: NOTHING!!!

[skrunksthatwunk]

not gonna elaborate for now but why did none of y'all tell me the no.6 light novels were Like That (/pos in like a mildly baffled and mostly enthralled kinda way)

[hanzajesthanza]

I saw a take that was like “Lady of the Lake” is a complete mess and barely even a Witcher book because by then Sapkowski just wanted to write Arthurian legend fanfiction and write and essay about meta text into the book

are you me?! lol, because i was on r/fantasy a couple of days ago and saw witcher catching stray bullets there too 😭

anytime i do hear this take, i want to say: “… and what’s wrong with that 😅🥲 and what’s wrong with that?!”

because, to be honest, i also didn’t really care about any of the arthurian stuff… but then i actually went and read his opinions on why it’s important; which turned out to be just as interesting as the book, so i see it as like… own author analysis of his characters and world… like this is the kind of thing you typically beg authors to explain about their series and he just did it 🤷🏻‍♂️

the problem with my take is that i didn’t read it when it came out in 1999 (probably due to not being born yet) so i have no abilityto judge it as it was “in the moment”. i also didn’t even read the series chronologically, and played witcher 3 before i read the books, so i suppose the ending had a reduced effect on me…

however; i was a mess at the ending… so i don’t want to know how i would have reacted had i read it free of spoilers… i probably would have been like the ‘99 fans and been pissed all the same. i get the frustration: “our heroes are dead and you’re prattling on about some old legend…”

but i feel like lady of the lake is a fine wine for how it ages well. well, maybe not the… library bit, or forest gramps bit. but it ages well if you reread it and do so with patience.

the nice thing about writing and reading is that it’s asynchronous. you have all the time as a reader to pause. if you don’t understand the references, use your time to look them up. you don’t need to understand it perfectly, you don’t need to be like sapkowski and become an arthurian fanboy.

you just have to understand what he was getting at: that in his view, the arthurian myth is the genesis of all the modern fantasy genre, and by not only intentionally writing parallels to it in his work, but writing his character into that world, he is humbly (hehe) submitting his work into the fantasy canon and sending it off after it's been completed; like ciri with her parents. if you understand it this way, it becomes very beautiful indeed. it’s not just “arthurian fanfiction” because in his view, ALL fantasy writing is “arthurian fanfiction.”

(and this is even more interesting from a cultural perspective btw to me because… well it’s better explained by paulina drewniak in her thesis, but arthurian legend (in welsh and anglo-saxon forms) is “western european”, same with the modern fantasy genre being english-dominate. and witcher is… well, poland is in central europe (look at a map), but characterized as “eastern” for socio-political, historical reasons. so witcher is absolutely insane genius because sapkowski took this western format and myth and mixed it with some polish history and sensibilities of the ‘90s audiences, as well as influences from polish romanticism, making something that ends up being intriguing to many more cultures than just the one. the internationality of the witcher began way before witcher 3 snagged game of the year 2015! hehe, also geralt as a character taking from american genre fiction—hardboiled crime, western genres. and at the same time he became a polish hero. (bold claim maybe, but i mean it like… well, i’m working on the essay for that now, so you’ll see i suppose 😅)

witcher is just so damn unique for this reason. i think many works try to stay monocultural, but witcher is like this big soup that sapkowski throws a bunch of different ingredients into—and skillfully, not randomly. anyways this paragraph is really off topic but i think this was really cool :) i’ll write more on this later, at some other time. but to connect it back to topic: what i mean is, the arthurian legend makes witcher all the more richer. and then for me as a “western” reader reading it, it’s like this big full circle (even though idk crap about arthurian legend before i read the witcher :’D ))

i think that lady of the lake made me a better reader because i realized that fantasy and genre fiction, aka what i understand as "entertainment" and "reading for pleasure" is much, much more similar to "high literature" and "serious reading" than i had initially received it to be. sapkowski said it something like: “all writing is literature, everytthing except the tv guide and A to Z nutria breeding.”

the way i separated them in my mind was that entertainment books were to just entertain, and serious books were to hold an author’s message, so you should work at what they’re getting at. the witcher showed me that “entertainment books” ALSO hold the author’s message and you should work at what they’re getting at;

in other words, it’s not just about you, the reader, your pleasure; this is a two-way street. this is a game, for the enjoyment of both parties. it’s a bit like charades, or pictionary. the author is saying something, thinking something, it’s your side of the game to figure it out. and i found that figuring that out is much more fun when you also at the same time are receiving a story that you’ve become emotionally attached to and makes you giddy. but it’s not JUST about that story, the joy is not limited to just this world and these characters.

i adored english classes for this kind of game, but because we read stand-alone novels, the characters always felt a bit flat—and of course because most of the time they’re just vessels intended to carry the story. but with the witcher, with this saga, you get the benefit of a “low” work: the stakes which feel personal and intimate, the long standing development of the characters, the fandom excitement and buzz, and also the benfit of a “high” work: the allusions and intertextuality, the hidden meanings, the cleverness and play. it’s really the best of both worlds.

and the hussite trilogy takes this farther because it’s a historical fantasy so sapkowski could include as many historical and literary references as he desired… if they existed by the mid-15th century and were known in central europe. but that’s a LOT of sources to draw from already, pretty much an unimaginable well of context. and did i understand everything, no. i didn’t understand much. but i was pleasantly surprised because i understood more than i expected, and when i didn’t understand i could figure the intended meaning out through context clues. i mean, this proved to me that these references to other works are all just extra sauce anyways, to make the dish a bit richer and fuller…

it’s just nice metaphor, and a lot can be done with this. if you compare geralt to arthur or reynevan to lancelot (well… as HE believes himself to be…) … that makes the meaning sooo much deeper. i like this with “electra” most of all. i think we should all adopt classical or mythological psuedonyms that we feel represent us; these are shorthand for what we stand for and what we believe in, who we are. if you know a bit about just a few myths, you can extrapolate so much from just one name. this is also the case with fictional characters from the modern fantasy genre, so i see what sapkowski was getting at when he draws lines connecting the two.

the only reason i DON’T like it when he does this is because… i do feel a bit like: i went into a library to return a book, but instead of taking my book back, the portly old librarian wordlessly shoved two NEW stacks of books into my arms, then pushed me out the door back onto the street. because andrzej sapkowski is basically the offline version of a guy on forums who recommends you twenty new books every time you mention you enjoyed one. i cannot keep up! so now i have a reading list ten miles long. i think his recommendations and what he intertwined into the witcher will literally keep me occupied into my 30s. but that’s ok, i know what to bring now if i ever get abandoned on a deserted island.

for this reason, i think witcher is both the worst and the best introduction back into reading i could have asked for. if you dig for two seconds are basically handed a road map to not only the entire genre, but the wide open world of european literature, both western and eastern. and american literature too, which i think i’ll be giving a second go…

[crazy-thing-called-rock]

eyy guys official pride flag for jayce talis just dropped