#prophecy of the circle

[magpies-gold]

Bare Your Soul

[morbidmagpiemess]

Goretober 16 - Insects A companion to number 2.

[magpies-gold]

It’s a little hard to tell because my file records only go back to 1999, but it’s either Jahrd (at the time, named Jared) or Myrnak (who hasn’t changed a ton except that in the current timeline he’s just a kid and when I created him he was 32).

Myrnak wins by virtue of having the earliest saved file with his name on it!

Then and now.

As a runner up, Jared/Jahrd

Of all your current/active OCs, which one is the oldest, in terms of when you created them?

[curapicas]

The feathers on his shoulder not only visually ties Laios with his feathered sister, but also allude to the third head. That being said... doesn't he already have a third head in there anyway?

which is interesting because he's implying he wants to bring into Melini's future the winged lion and the demon both.

And badass af. The lion's position on the cape is basically "I'm keeping it. But it better remember it's always between my teeth."

[crustaceousfaggot]

When I was 13 my mom caught me trying to shoplift a Doctor Who comic book from Chapters, and I remember being more worried about her finding out how obsessed I was with Doctor Who than I was about her knowing I'd been shoplifting

[kateis-cakeis]

Okay okay thinking about it, really thinking about it. My post from the other day (here) I said "you see him slip into this version of himself that is hardly recognisable, even when you compare him to his characterisation in S4" talking about S5 Merlin.

And then I really thought about, okay but what if say S1 Merlin was put into S5 Merlin's shoes, would he do any different? Would he?

Honestly, think about it.

Let's take him at the end of S1, where he was ready to give up his life for Arthur completely to save him. I mean sure he did that in S1Ep4, and tried to do it in S1Ep11, but Ep13 is where it really hits. He said goodbye after all.

This is a Merlin that was ready to tell Arthur about his magic, but was locked out of the possibility after Will lied as he died to protect him.

This is a Merlin who already tried to kill Mordred. Or well, let him die really. Not so much kill.

So let's look at lines from S1EP8 about Mordred dying vs Arthur dying, shall we? ...

"Would you let something terrible happen if it meant you'd stop something even worse happening in the future?"

"One of them's bad, really bad. And the other, it's...unthinkable."

"For once, you don't have to worry. I'm going to do nothing."

I cut out Gaius's replies because Merlin's lines are more important here. The 'something terrible' and the one that's 'bad, really bad' refer to letting Mordred be executed.

Meanwhile the 'something even worse' and 'it's unthinkable' refer to Arthur's death in the future.

He decides to do nothing as we know, he decides to let Mordred die, right up until Mordred pleads with him through telepathy.

That's the S1 Merlin we're dealing with.

Maybe if you took him from Ep1 or pre-S1 yeah he'd act differently, but S1 Merlin is as much defined by Arthur's impending death as S5 Merlin is.

The only difference is between them, S1 Merlin has destiny propelling him forward just a little more than S5 Merlin does. Whether by love or sheer dedication, S5 Merlin is even prepared to push aside his own freedom to save Arthur's life, just to condemn Mordred to death.

Would S1 Merlin do any different?

No, no I don't think he would. Not if he saw the vision, not if he saw Arthur fall.

S5 Merlin is defined by what he saw in the pool, he's defined by seeing what he believes is Arthur's death (not yet knowing he would survive for days after acquiring that wound)

If S1 Merlin, or even S2, 3, or 4 saw that same vision? I don't think they would do any differently.

Maybe he had more hope earlier on, sure, but that would be missing the way that S5 Merlin hopes. He tells both Mordred and Finna that it "won't always be like this". He hopes for freedom as much as S1 Merlin does, he's just more prepared to prioritise Arthur.

But isn't that what he's always done? S2, when he struggles to lie, but still does lie to Arthur about Morgause and his mother - He's thanked for reminding Arthur that sorcerers are evil.

The way he acts just before telling the lie is so similar to his expressions when he's about say "There can be no place for magic in Camelot" in S5Ep5.

That's the thing. I know I bang on about how S5 Merlin is so much darker and he is, he grew up after all. But I truly think if S1 Merlin saw that vision, nothing would have changed.

Nothing. Not even his actions with the Disir. Why would he, if there's a chance to try and kill Mordred Merlin always took it. Or tried to as much as he could.

S2 Merlin, put in S5 Merlin's shoes, might even edge closer to murder, that man tripped that kid up in the hope that two guards would kill him, and instead watched as Mordred killed the guards instead.

What, Merlin was innocent back in earlier seasons? That boy, that man, he was never innocent, man was down to murder from his very first day in Camelot.

So yes, S5 Merlin has ten years give or take of saving Arthur and setting aside his freedom, and that did indeed darken him and change him and mould him, but S1 Merlin already had enough experience that nothing would change.

Merlin was always going to condemn Mordred, he barely knew him early on after all, and later, he already had the knowledge of the vision.

Let's not forget that in S5, Merlin says he likes Mordred, but that he can't ignore what he saw. That he can't save the life of a man destined to kill Arthur, that he can't ignore what the dragon said. That Finna was right, he cannot trust Mordred, not after all he's been told.

I don't think any Merlin could do any differently if he was told all that, and shown Camlann.

There's no such thing as an innocent Merlin, not when it comes to Arthur's life. We can say he became too blinded, but in S4 he killed Agravaine, used dark magic to lock away Morgana's magic for a time, and took away Arthur's free will. S3 is a little harder, but he did command Kilgharrah against his will. S2 Merlin is easy, he tried to kill Mordred, and morbidly held Morgana as she was dying to the water he poisoned. S1 Merls is just people dying left and bloody right. Nimueh, god should we ever forget about the way he killed Nimueh. She fucking exploded.

All this to say, S5 Merlin didn't abandon his values because he already did that when they all first met Mordred. He just became more and more set, darker and darker over time. But if any version of himself was given that vision by the Vates, it's over, it's so over, because that's all it took.

To see Arthur fall, that's all it took. It's all it would ever take.

[prussianmemes]

you should kill yourself if you spend 12 minutes sorting around your notes on your desk, making sure they look messy but also the prettiest ones are on top, posing your textbook open and having the most "academia" looking web page or lecture slides on your laptop screen before taking a picture and posting it on your social media story while quietly scrolling through songs to put with it.

[faultlinesurfer]

Furina letting loose with her accumulated 500 years of mechanical engineering knowledge and just tinkering the most insane shit possible as a hobby.

This has caused several problems.

[magpies-gold]

I know this feeling!

Prophecy of the Circle is on a public hiatus (there’s around 30 new pages and climbing in my Patreon, though!) but 13 years after I launched it, it’s still so unknown that it didn’t even get a mention in the obscure comics face-off tournament. XD

It’ll be a while before all those Patreon pages go public as I’m trying to build a buffer that I can’t run out of, but on the other hand the pause on public released pages means that it’s a good time to read the archive of another so-obscure-it-didn’t-even-rank comic:

https://www.prophecyofthecircle.com

I’m pretty sure I already won the obscure webcomic tournament because I don’t think I’m even on the bracket. 🏆

Anyway, read my comic Follower.

http://follower.messenger-comic.com

[magpies-gold]

I dunno, they haven't yet had a chance to really get to know one another, but I think these two could probably find some good common ground.

[morbidmagpiemess]

Goretober #12 - Inner Beauty

[strwbrryfire]

I know, I`m being extremely rude coming here to pester u at this point (i apologize) BUT

*bangs both hands on the table* LISTEN-

Something, something the religious worship slowly turning into hatred. Like heavy big chains, just hanging themselves at your arms and making a nest into your soul; so Charles don`t see any other way to escape, to not change his entire being/essence -except- he have to make a deal with the devil; and the devil KNOWS Charles will do it to change his fate and he worth it, so he just binds him in a two-for-one deal to change teams and part ways to perharps Mclaren, Mercedes or God and the Tifosi forbid Red Bull?

And suddenly just like the Albatross, "[...]she is here to destroy you; the Devils that you know now raise worse hell than a stranger. Now that's the death you chose by your own decision and you're in terrible danger!

"when that sky rains fire on you and you're persona non grata, Charles; I'll tell you how I've been there too, my dear"

Sorry, that line of thought just hit my head like a piano after seeing the post i tagged u and ur new drawing of the personification of Ferrari in my feed.

Have a nice day/night i guess?

AAHHH NOTTT RUUDEE AT ALL IN FACT I AM IRL /GEN GOING LIKE THIS IN UTTER GLEE:

one thing that charles very rarely shows is anger or hatred. like. no matter how much he hates the car, no matter how much suffering, or how hard he's pushing — he's always cautiously optimistic.

but then like, i believe it was after one of the zandvoort fp's (? unsure), he was just so frustrated with it all and said something along the lines of "i can take nothing positive away from this" THIS IS THE DEATH YOU CHOSE, PITIFUL PREDESTINED!!

he gets pushed right to the precipice of that disdain that boils somewhere deep in his heart and ferrari watches as he gets riiight to that tipping point, then boom. monza. tyre whisperer, prince of ferrari, king of monaco, our precious golden boy here to prove his loyalty to us!

it makes me INSANEEE!!! even more so if you bring max into it, you bring in red bull, who have said yknow oh charles is helping you win the wdc...,.but then ferrari gives him her good graces and he shows off beautiful that talent that lives in him,..AND THEY TRIED TO WARN YOU ABOUT ME!! ((((because remember once upon a time, there was an extremely small margin between max and charles in the wdc rankings after monaco)))))

tl;dr—charles leclerc is the albatross and he is here to destroy you

[gothra]

just saw the stupidest post I’ve ever seen complete with shitty tags from someone I’m supposedly following, improperly endorsed by a quote from bell hooks that, used in the context I just cringed at, makes bell hooks look like an idiot which I think is the worst and most disrespectful part of all of this. men aren’t going far right because we’re too mean to them. We are critical of them because they’re going far right. Leftist men aren’t betraying their causes because we aren’t being nice enough to them, they’re turning to the right because they hate us and the alienation is a result of that hatred. The answer to getting men back on the left is that men need to be better people. It’s incredibly babyish and immature and noticeably hypocritical that you people look at all of the white women voting against their interests and rightfully call out the fact that they are committing an act of betrayal but you can’t do it for men. When white women do this it’s rightful outrage, but when men do this, it’s “wow, these liberal and leftist men are betraying their causes and weaponizing their privilege to damage their societies…probably because those mean misandrists say things like ‘men suck!’” These men aren’t leaving the left because they’re alienated, they’re alienated because they hate women and our rightful frustration at their behavior isn’t the cause of that! I don’t understand why white leftists can understand that they have a political responsibility to defend POC, even when those POC make jokes about how white people suck, but when it comes to women it’s like their brains turn off and the principles we fought so hard to teach them (not that all of them have learned those lessons) go out the window it’s very strange.

And I’m willing to admit that being mean to men certainly isn’t helping them stick around, but neither is being mean to white people. Because that’s not really the point of it. If your answer to marginalized people venting their frustration about their personal traumas at the hands of people with white or male privilege is to go and vote and make sure those marginalized people lead difficult lives, you can’t possibly have liked those people in the first place. If their suffering means less to you than your feelings, it seems that all of their frustration was rightfully placed and well earned.

[i-could-be-so-much-more]

It frustrates me to no end that everyone I talk to someone new my brain catastrophises to the point where even though I know logically it’s fine, and normal, and fun, I end up making it a bigger deal in my head that I know it is…I think myself into spirals that the logical part of my brain knows are ridiculous and dramatic and improbable, which stress me out more than is entirely necessary…it’s so tiring to exist and participate in the social world sometimes

[theetwinkleboy]

[itsjustdotsandcrosses]

Archmage Vishalny, Arcane Diplomat and Master of Enchantment (DND NPC)

#1, main overall stim board of the set (vampire/dark themes excluded)

With themes of magic and snakes, fashion and accessories, and calligraphy/planning. How Vishalny likes to present herself, an overall aesthetic board.

xxx.xxx.xxx.