#picture is not gruesome

[mayasaura]

You know that WWII comic about death as a sexy lady with a skull head telling a young man “Come in, dear boy, I’ll treat you well, I used to know your daddy”? That’s Cytherea & Gideon

wait oh my god you're right. It's literally them.

"Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy"

Or it would be, if she had ever bothered to tell her about her daddy

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Godwyn used to treat Messmer's snakes as pets, and tried to name them more than once. Never worked. He also liked to peel off the shredding skin just to see Messmer's reaction to the sensation. Sometimes he tried to feed them, but soon he found out Messmer could taste it too.

[milolovesbmc]

I will be your rock, Dog, when you're rolling your eyes...

Close ups/Process pics under the cut!!

Yes this is for a gay production of a 12 year old play... Sigh. Gruesome Playground Injuries how I love you

[mustangphobia]

oh, captain.

scene redraw in chap 9 in her back, his snap by @imkazz

[tevinterdays]

revamp from a few months ago of some 2023 vesper art made in a frenzy after a pc death.

never posted the original here but it's one of my go-to profile pictures and i felt like changing things up around here

[peasant-player]

A little very early wip, it's a drawing of finduilas tragic death and I got inspired by @serene-faerie. They have a really good post about basically elven and spicy paintings! Check that out!!

[isnt-it-too-dreamy]

obsessed with how much frodo's departure for valinor is framed like him dying in the movie?? with him walking towards the boat pale faced and jesus-like gandalf in glowing white (who literally was reborn like another certain someone) taking him by the hand and leading him onto the boat which then sails towards a white light. also they gave the book description of what frodo sees from the boat as they near valinor to gandalf as dialogue to when he describes to pippin what dying feels like? like ok can you please calm down 😢

[tiredspacedragon]

Why is there an exit to the Test of Trust on the 777 Stairs?

Like in theory I really like the idea of that room; a group enters, and each member is trapped in an inescapable cylinder adorned only with a single latch. A recorded voice informs the group that if each individual lifts the latch at the same time, they all may pass, but if one betrays the others and lifts their latch first, they will go free and their companions will perish. However, this is a trick, and if one of the group does attempt to betray the rest, they are all judged unworthy and dropped into a pool of water that will slowly heat and boil them alive.

The specifics don't mean much, but the concept is solid. Judge the character of the team by their ability to work together and prioritize the group over personal gain. If one is willing to sell the others out, they certainly don't deserve to continue and the rest are likely no better, so they all die. Fair enough. A little extreme perhaps, but this is a safety feature on the path to the most powerful item in the universe, which has complete power over life itself, so I'd say it's fair.

So why the heck is there a tunnel out of that boiling pit? One that was clearly put there intentionally since it contains doors that shut behind any who pass through it to prevent them from turning back. If the point of that chamber is to determine who is worthy to continue on to the Ignika, why is there a way out for people who fail the challenge? One that leaves them closer to the mask instead of spitting them out somewhere else far away from the stairs? The test of character is completely moot at that point because it's actually more beneficial to fail the challenge, because it lets the group completely bypass the next chamber they would have entered normally, which was presumably Umbra's room! It's just a cheat code to get around the strongest guardian!

So is that the point? Is it not a test of character, but instead a test of intelligence and craftiness? If so, it's a piss poor one, because you can't judge someone's puzzle-solving skills if they aren't aware there's a puzzle they're supposed to be solving. Plus what would it matter if those who passed it were clever if they've already proven they can't be trusted and are thus completely undeserving of the limitless power they're trying to get their hands on? And if it is a test of character, it's also useless, because the stairs have an automatic system that detects the intentions of those who descend them anyway! That's why the Inika and the Piraka faced different challenges on the way down, the Toa got the heroic path with the Chamber of Death, which actually is a solid test since it demands the same thing the Ignika itself will, while the Piraka got the villainous path and the trust test instead.

So like, if you already have a system installed that can sense the intentions of those coming to claim the mask, why isn't the path that opens to those with nefarious intent not an instakill? Why is there a way for them to succeed at all when they're the last kind of people who should? And more importantly, why is it the easier path?

[murmel-malt]

I'm back in a DAO phase, so I gotta know more about your Warden! What's the run down on Genevieve Amell?

Welcome back in Dragon Age hell, I’ll make us some tea! and thank you for letting me yap about my girl.

So about Genevieve, my mage Warden of questionable morality, unrepentant blood mage of my heart whose favorite non-blood-magic school is ✨Entropy✨. As a general rule you can assume that if something is forbidden, feared or frowned upon, Gwen will instantly be into it, no reservations. All the while she looks like a perfectly well-adjusted and put-together member of society. 

At the start of the game, baby girl has already been dabbling in blood magic but hasn’t been caught or suspected yet because she has the biggest, most innocent doe-eyes ever and makes sure to be an exemplary circle mage because she likes being alive and not tranquil. But make no mistake, she haaates the Circles. Not just for herself personally but as an institution.

Which is also why she jumps at the chance to be recruited by Duncan after the failed jail break circle break. “Anything is better than wasting away in this godforsaken Tower”. She is not groveling for forgiveness from the First Enchanter and Knight-Commander, just letting her vitriol run free. This is perhaps the first time Irving and Greagoir realise that she is not as pliant and agreeable as she had appeared to be. 

But she is no longer under their authority, she’s a Grey Warden now. And Genevieve, having never half-assed anything in her life, does not half-ass that either. She is committed and she will not lose anyone else she cares about/under her charge and manages to get all of their rag-tag group through the fifth Blight alive. 

Afterwards she starts looking for her family while dodging any an all questions about the suspicious lack of a dead Warden after the Archdemon was slain. Oh, and she of course starts looking for a cure for the taint - which, with her determination and penchant for blood magic, will end in either resounding success or absolute disaster.

Like, worst timeline Gwen is 100% competing for the title of ‘maddest, most fucked up mage scientist’ with Ghilan’nain herself while best timeline Gwen is smooching her pope gf and chilling with her siblings, having successfully slowed or fully reversed the Taint.

[iridescentscarecrow]

it is scary how much my twt priv is just me yapping about aventurine / dissecting every single line of his dialogue. people are watching in terror as i froth at the mouth & say that he's reze in a different font.

[milolovesbmc]

These are like… 5 months apart……. I’m starting to think I might not be very normal and regular about them

[softservewidow]

The what

[hydrasaura]

when i said that mha ripped off naruto (which i said only to piss off mha stans anyway) I didn't mean to sound like i was praising naruto. it was actually more like a sigh of disappointment, a reaction to seeing that all the problems that naruto had as a show transpired trough mha too and i was tired because watching naruto was enough for me but then i realized that my problem actually is that i can no longer stand watching shonen anime and i chose not to tire myself by cringing at the repetitive tropes and cliches anymore

[lexkent]

today I was thinking about how if I ever became a therapist I'd be tempted to prescribe floating down a river to everyone because there's nothing better and then I saw this

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1961)

[has-the-goat-burned-yet]

might be late today. turns out ribcage is hard to draw if you don’t know how to draw ribcage