#otherwise I really don't get;;

[yuseirra]

Here's what I think has been happening on onk(chronological order)

Surprisingly, EVERYTHING CAN COME TOGETHER IF WE INCORPORATE THE GODLY/FANTASY ELEMENTS THIS SERIES HAS. So I'll write it down.

-Ai(Amenouzume-no-mikoto) and Hikaru(Satutahiko okami) were gods who blessed the industry as gods of entertainment. Amenouzume decides it would be a good idea to explore the human realm as "an ordinary girl you can find anywhere", excited from the love she receives from the people.

-She hops off to earth and reincarnates as Ai.

-Hikaru finds out and reincarnates as himself. They are born a year apart because of the time difference of the godly realm and the human world.

-They forget everything about their past life as gods and begin living as human beings. However, they are still gods in essence, and they need to receive "love" in order to function properly the way they originally did as gods, for a god's "presence" and "significance" comes through worship, which is a form of love and attention from the people.

-Hikaru and Ai both have a hard time being understood and blending in with others because "they are too beautiful". They both get abused as a child and Ai is sent to a children's home, while Hikaru is predated on and molested from a VERY young age. Originally the virtuous god, and the god of the right paths, knowing what is right or wrong is especially important for Hikaru. He keeps trying to please others the way he did as a god by complying to what people wants out of him, and believes it should be the right way to receive love, and gets broken severely in the process. As for Ai, Amenouzume blesses love affairs and marriages with her husband originally. But her situation makes her unable to comprehend what love actually is. Both gods start fundamentally becoming destroyed and start straying off from what they are supposed to be originally.

-They find each other when they reach their middle school years. Hikaru manages to help and guide Ai onto the right path subconsciously, and improves her self-destructive tendencies. However, he himself gets gaslit by his abuser and gets severely destroyed. Earlier, I mentioned these two need "love" im order to function properly. Ai manages to obtain some amount of it through her idol work, and Hikaru tries to get it from Ai. However, since Ai was already quite broken and was only healing herself, so she isn't able to give all the light he needs. Thus, Hikaru doesn't recover from his hollow state and his eye starts getting fixed onto the black, fallen state. Because of this, his character as a god starts shifting into the opposite of what he's originally supposed to be. He becomes the "god who loves absurdity and unreasonableness" before he realizes it, and starts leading people's futures into disaster.

-Seeing what he's become, the gods feel the need to replace him with a new sun god, because Sarutahiko is a sun god in his very core. They decide to assign "Amaterasu", who's the stronger sun god, and the one who actually does replace him in the myths as well to take his place. At this point, Hikaru even twists his own fortune and the ones around him in a disastrous direction due to his leaking powers. People start either turning more insane around him or even die as well. As for Ai, she becomes pregnant unexpectedly and she ends up leaving him concerned for his sake but he has no idea of her intentions. Their children were not meant to be born alive, but Tsukuyomi decides they'll make the right vessel for Amaterasu(Ruby) and Susannoo(Aqua) who'd each be assigned a role. Amaterasu will help her mother and replace her father. Susannoo must protect his sister and take down his father. They inherit the star eyes from their parents. The white comes from their mother, who still managed to keep some love, while the black comes from their father, who's devoid of it and has shifted into the black star(a fallen god)

-Ai gets murdered, finally learns what it means to love someone and what she is in her last moments as a human being, and returns to being Amenouzume, as the white star. She returns to bless people from the industry the way she's done, and dwells in the "white star eyes" as a blessing. She's the "god who loves people."

-Hikaru blames himself for Ai's murder and falls into despair. From that point on, he devotes his entire life to find a way to bring her back. He considers himself as Ai's killer.

-Aqua loses all the will to live, is influenced by the black star, the guiding god who is his father, to not die yet and continue living for revenge. He is convinced that his father is the one that's killed his mother despite it having little base. This thought was influenced by Hikaru. Ruby decides to become an idol to sparkle and shine the way Ai's did. This is her instinct as Amaterasu that illuminates all.

-Hikaru, at some point, realizes that he is a god in essence. He decides to use his powers as one to lie and manipulate people, in order for his mission to bring Ai back. He craves her "love" and finds a company under the name of "EYES", for she can be found in the "eyes" of people she's bestowed her powers and love in. He tries to find a way to revive her, but that is in vain, so he chooses to become closer to her instead, through collecting her lights. He also "does what he can do for Ai" by giving his godly wife offerings and trying to "increase her significance", for that's what gods need.

-Ai and Hikaru both help their children through their powers when they need them through their "eyes". Hikaru, out of self-hatred and maybe out of his sliver of kindness left within him, aids his children to come after him and kill him when they wish for that to happen. He helps Ruby with her career and Aqua with his plans, but since he himself is twisted, his soul keeps breaking down the further he strays down the wrong path and his children does too when they use his power. Hikaru loses almost all his nobility as he does, and Aqua's soul breaks significantly too, so Tsukuyomi goes to warn him about it.

-Hikaru's goals are almost complete by the time Ai's movie's finished and ready for screening. He decides he'll go see Ai but before that, he decides to act out of his fatherly feelings and visit his children with her one last time. He listens to Ruby's wish and grants them, gets surprised that she does have the potential to shine even brighter than Ai which was her wish. His eyes briefly turn white, affected by the love Ruby emits from her eyes. Then he decides to approach Aqua next and grant his son's wish too. Since he believes him and Ai wanted revenge on him and wished for his downfall, he grants those in advance. However, Aqua shows him the message Ai's left for his sake, wishing to help him out if he's lost, and her confession of love. This was unexpected, and he's significantly startled.

-The rest is as follows in 155-162. His intentions or what he's thinking here are very vague. But he tells Nino no turn herself in, and watches Ruby's concert. This must have to do with him "wishing to do something for Ai" one way or another. Then when Aqua comes to kill him, he tries to persuade him to go back and live. But THAT fails. When he tells his son about the same eyes they share, he's actually telling him of the powers he's granted him of. Wasn't it nice? He says, because...it's HIM that's helped him through it. Hikaru also knows REALLY well of what Aqua wants because he was watching his children through his eyes.

-Aqua decides to carry on his mission and protect Ruby. Having Hikaru alive is dangerous, his power is too arbitrary and hazardous. Aqua declares that his godly father will never have what he wants his way, and he has to die here with him for Ruby's future. As Susanoo, Aqua has an advantage over Hikaru, who's the sun-land god, over water. In turn, he decides to achieve this by drowning him. Aqua puts his own life to seal the deal for, Hikaru isn't someone who can die normally. Human laws won't constrict him either since he CAN tamper with people's futures regardless of space if he puts his mind to it. Being put in jail will not prevent anything, it's not like his powers don't work behind bars. The guy HAS to go.

-Upon hearing this, Hikaru despairs because it's the LAST thing he wants to happen. For his goals(that probably has to do with meeting Ai or of her presence in some way) to fail last moment, and his son dying, that's so far from what he wants. It isn't about his own life being at stake that's the problem for him, because he's already stated in that conversation he has with Aqua that it's not a bad thing for him to die if it means Ai's life would carry more weight from it (this logic stems from the idea that Ai is a god who takes tributes. He's willing to give it to her if that's necessary, the way it is in Mephisto.) Ironically, it's as if his own powers that he's been using in order to get what he's wanted finally having backfired at his most crucial moment. Hikaru, whether he wanted it or not, kept twisting people's futures and ruining them into their worst futures after he turned into a fallen god. And now, he pays his own price by having his future twisted the very moment he could achieve what he's finally wanted.

-He panics, keeps insisting Aqua shouldn't do it, but Aqua goes through with it and they both fall into the waters. Upon falling into the sea, Hikaru thinks of Ai and how he only ever felt like living while he was with her. He also thinks he can't die here YET. He had something to do in order to turn his own wishes into a reality. Finally, as he completely falls into darkness, he thinks that it's too bad he could not kill Ruby, for that's what would have let him feel Ai again. From what I'm getting at, killing Ruby really could have given him such results. By the end of the series, Ruby has obtained the eyes that can send out love to people, which may be identical or even stronger than her own mother's. She's the one who shines brighter than anyone in the onk world as confirmed by Hikaru himself, and her abilities comfirmed through Aqua. She's fully blessed by Ai, and Ai's love dwells and radiates from within her. Hikaru would have definitely become closer to Ai if he managed to seize Ruby's lights. However, seeing how nothing really happened to Ruby's concert when it happened, I feel Hikaru wasn't planning to really go through with killing her, actually.. If he was going to do something for Ai, would that be achieved from harming Ruby in the process? Is this guy really that messed up? I think what he's thought was formed from his regrets and a device to show how fallen he's become, if he were going to die this way, he at least should have made an attempt to get Ai back because he knew of a way that'd achieve it for sure. I personally think it was his last shred of humanity that's kept him from going that far even while having known that. He once referred to Ruby as his and Ai's child, what they have between them. That's in anime S2 and I felt that was pretty loving of him. I feel like he's the god who's helped her music video become a great hit, and the god responsible for having her career prosper when she wanted revenge. I mean in Mephisto, he URGES his children to get back at him. He hates himself because he thinks he's the one who's responsible for causing Ai's death. After that, he gets dragged off to hell by the black hands of the souls that suffered from his powers I guess. Unlike Aqua, I doubt his body will be found. In one of the myths, Sarutahiko is said to have drowned but what's happened to him after that remains ambigious and we don't really know if he's really perished or not. It'd probably be same for his case.

-Ai was very worried of Hikaru saying he was crushed by the weight of life and heavily afflicted by the darkness of the industry. This is what happened in a very literal sense for his case, because he is a god affected directly by the industry's nature itself. If it's good, he can be the kindest god who blesses everyone. If it's tainted and evil, he becomes evil with it. He was pretty much beyond recovery after they took his only support, his love of his life away. In turn, in reaction to that, he became a catastrophe that could only be taken down through the life of our very beloved protagonist. He became that messed up. So is all this evil in the industry his fault? No, he was still so kind;; I still can see his caring nature left as a remnant...he didn't deserve to become like this! Someone save him!!!

-Ruby will shine as the next sun god, as Amaterasu. She'll emit light through her eyes and spread love in the industry, and "save" people. However, I'm not sure if they will have her save someone in a really solid and practical sense as in saving lives of the ones that are dead in the story. It seems really unlikely seeing how the story is going. Whereas onk has these fantasy elements to it that CANNOT happen in the real world, it still seems persistent about the matter of life and death. If Ai could have been brought back to life, Hikaru would have been able to do it and everyone would have been happier, but even he couldn't even though he definitely has something weird going on about him. But if Ruby's the strongest deity in all of Japanese mythology... and they did start out with the sentiment that the whole world is fiction and all, she'd probably be able to make SOMEONE happy with her powers, I have no idea who that would be, maybe Aqua can be reunited with her as a normal little boy if he gets a third chance in life because WHAT WAS HIS LIFE REALLY??? If you think about it, yeah!! His whole life got tied up in this mess and he had to die twice?? If there's a god who's assigned him of such a fate, they need to take responsibility!! (which is likely Tsukuyomi which IS, why I get annoyed at her and call her tears crocodile tears because wouldn't Aqua have lived if he didn't have a mission to begin with? Isn't she the one who kept urging Aqua to continue avenging his father or something?; Or was that Hikaru too out of self-hatred but Hikaru DIDN'T want his son to die from what I see, his fatherly feelings towards his children are actually real and pretty much there.) Maybe Ai may appear as a goddess in the final chapter and reassign Aqua a happy life out of her love towards him. (but save Hikaru too omygod;;)

That's a summary of what I think's been happening regarding the entirety of onk's plot, mostly revolving around Ai and Hikaru's true nature as gods. If the story is like this, it can make complete sense while taking away a message that's pretty meaningful to think about still although, I still think this shouldn't have happened to Aqua at all. Give him back his future, I didn't come here to see his funeral. And Hikaru was a good boy. Ai deserves better too. Ruby, save everyone. That is all!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[artificial-ascension]

Being transmasc means you will hear people say shit to you with their whole chest that, if they said to a cis woman, would get them on a block list of raging misogynists instantly also you are also on that block list for bringing this up.

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

[gottagobuycheese]

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[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[lazylittledragon]

hi! I absolutely love your art and I get so happy when I see it come up on my feed! 🥰

if I can ask, why does cyra use a cane sometimes? I just saw your art where gale and cyra are with their newborn and cyra is walking with their toddler and she has a cane and I was curious.

have a good day! 😁💚

thank you so much!!!

i don't think i've said much about it other than 'she almost died' aksdhsh but everything went very wrong when the first one was born and she got sepsis, which can really fuck you up long term and she developed chronic fatigue.

she definitely tells the children that she's got a sword hidden inside it

[hellohellowelcome]

ik it's just homophobia at work, but something that's always puzzled + bugged me is when fans can't apply the real-life complexities of romance, sexuality, and identity to fictional romance. I'll see a well-thought out analysis of how Ochako or Izuku are great examples of comphet, for example, and all of a sudden here comes a pack of dudebros shouting "MHA fans don't know how to read OCHAKO CANONICALLY LIKES MEN! IZUKU BLUSHES AROUND GIRLS! THEY ARE STRAIGHT!" from the rooftops....like.....okay? Should we clap? It's the same spirit that drives antis to rush to social media to say "bkdk and togachako are dead I prayed for times like these" instead of just enjoying their own ship 💀

It's "sexuality can be fluid and sometimes your understanding of the attraction you experience (or don't) changes over time and that's okay!" Unless, of course, you're talking about [insert character here who must be straight because it kinda seemed like it in these three panels from four years ago~] Like oh brother, give it a rest.

Again, there's nothing wrong w/ disagreeing with headcanons like these!! You might think, "well, I actually think Ochako's crush on Izuku is genuine and that they would make a cute couple!" That's great, love! Ship to your heart's content! My issue is when people act like any interpretations aside from heterosexuality are insane and the product of some inability to understand the source material. Especially when it doesn't affect your individual hcs or enjoyment of the series at all? And especially when most of these headcanons often come from actual queer fans seeing their experiences in these characters' journeys.

[kcrabb88]

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.

[beatcroc]

there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]

[a2zillustration]

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[leefail]

In my Arab region (I can't speak for the others, but I'm pretty sure they have similar things. Add your stuff if you do!) Coffee time is kind of sacred and is tightly regulated with heavy traditional rules. Especially so for the male populace.

Coffee makes the man! (Literally, I can't stress this enough)

Men and women alike are trained from a very young age on how to make and serve their coffee. A coffee with a good colour is a bright sign for your guests, and the way you serve is very telling of you.

Doors are ALWAYS open for guests, and HUGE halls are prepared to accommodate them (they can reach hundreds, depending on your dad's popularity). A household's head is a very blessed man when he has children/grandchildren because he can brag about them by showing their serving skills off. Those children will be scrutinised and judged according to their coffee serving manners. It's a very integral part of a charming character's traits for us. So, parents, especially fathers, are very strict about this.

Aside from guests, families have daily coffee time for themselves, too! It's very respectful to serve your mom and dad coffee. So it's expected from you.

Considering Ra's personality, serving him coffee as a grandson would be a nightmare.

Imagine Damian refilling the finjaan again and again in front of an elegantly sitting Ra's until he gets it right? Imagine him waiting (while standing, maybe for an hour or so) for Ra's to finish his finjaan so he can refill it again? Imagine how LIVID Ra's would be when Damian accidentally fills the finjaan to the top (a message that says, are you satisfied, yet? Get out! In my region) imagine Ra's asking Damian to serve coffee for his villain allies?!! Arabs and non?? And imagine people getting to know and hear about him from his coffee serving, like a good Arab son, before they know him from his sword?

Also, when he finally lives in the manor and sunset arrives and Batman is sitting by the batcomputer, deeply focused, and then is surprised by a finjaan presented to him because it's coffee time?

Damian would be very confident and proud of his coffee making and serving skills he would expect from Bruce nothing but sipping and asking for a refill, because his father should know his manners.

Bruce would know nothing about this but would, of course, sip (not drink! Drinking bad!!!) without question, and will continue to accept and sip every. Single. Day before patrol without knowing what is happening but going along with it because he's pretty sure this is Damian's way of bonding.

Which is not really true because Damian is only performing his duty as a son. He never really understood the core meaning behind this tradition because for a long time now, the art of Arabian Coffee was only a skill that was expected from him and a part of showing good grace. But as days pass and the number of people being served coffee increases and coffee time becomes a routine before each patrol for the whole family, when dates and snacks and small talk and occasional laughter join in, the very meaning behind this tradition clicks with him, and he serves it with a smile.

[homkamiro]

Scoutling so cute 🥺

As much as I love lesbian Pauling headcanon, something about Scout being attentive and genuinely supportive to her gives me giggles. They are cute cmon

Both? Both is good. I'm a Scout multishipper

[userautumn]

"not all men" but not in a men's rights way, in a "it's important to remember that men aren't the only perpetrators of cruelty, abuse, and evil and that subconsciously or consciously training yourself to view men as inherently evil and everyone else as inherently safe inadvertently puts you in a position where you're both vulnerable to attack or harm from people you otherwise wouldn't suspect, AND causes you to limit the number of allies you might have in a time of need" kind of way.

[deoidesign]

Well here's an Art vs artist meme with some art from this year!

I don't think I've ever done one of these before, but I really like this jacket. It's a marlboro jacket but I don't smoke and I already feel bad telling people I don't have a light and that will be bad x100 when I'm literally wearing a cigarette jacket so I tried to cover the patch up with one I made. cause I really like this jacket

[simplynims]

Vincent: "You mean to tell me you don't believe in things that go bump in the night?~"

Lovely: "Oh my god I'm gonna end up like those unsolved murder mysteries they talk about on those stupid ass podcasts aren't I-"