#pure cycles

[drdisasterarts]

stardust to stardust // inspiration -> "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt

edit: reblogs r appreciated plsplspls😖💕‼️

[frownyalfred]

Was Bruce Wayne “always a bit of an insomniac” or was he simply predestined to be attuned to Gotham’s night cycle? Relieved at its sunsets. Energized by the blanket of darkness over his city, from a young age. Feeling the tug of ache in his heart when the sun rises, knowing his time to return home is swiftly approaching.

[ratsbanes]

im on my abuse cycle agenda again, so let me remind you that most of the abusers in it care about the recipients of that abuse.

mori has said in beast that he cares about dazai, but in the 15 light novel he says that a problem like dazai can be useful. he wants dazai to succeed but success to mori is very limited, meaning that the only way mori saw fit to raise dazai is to prepare him to be the mafia boss. he assumed they wanted the same things when all dazai wanted was to be happy and that the way to be happy was to survive the darkness long enough.

dazai has said that he believes that akutagawa could become one of the strongest members of the port mafia, that's including others like chuuya and kouyo by the way, if he could just play it smart. he chastises and belittles akutagawa to try to force him to use his head in the same way that he does, the same way that he had been ultimately forced to do. he pushes and pushes for akutagawa to get through the darkness when all akutgawa wants is to be useful to somebody.

akutagawa pushes kyouka to be useful. he wants her to work through the pain because he believed that eventually being useful would make her happy. and as we saw, akutagwa eventually realises that all kyouka wants to to be surrounded by people who love her, not to be a tool.

the headmaster wanted atsushi to be able to survive, koyo wanted kyouka to be able to thrive with her, most of them care about the people they abused. the only exceptions to the rule are abusers who see a goal greater than their victim or who are afraid of them.

[sydneysageivashkov]

john chapters dashboard simulator

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It's an honour to blog the end of the world with you all

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localcryptid 🔁 gaydesandpersephone

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why is everyone more upset about the cows and not the actual people he killed

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because cows offer something of value to society and cops don't

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x

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oh my god it's not funny that he killed so many living creatures?? killing cows should be considered a serious red flag for the love of god. cows are intelligent animals. they can problem solve. they have best friends. stop memeing about this

#new zealand #cows

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Why take it out on the cows though?

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the cows were spies for the government, obviously

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well of course he used sheep

#kiwi mutuals please don't unfollow I love you I swear #new zealand

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given the discourse it is time we settle this once and for all. vote now or forever hold your peace.

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he's literally not a necromancer, he's a scientist who discovered new elements

#propaganda

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hillo yewchewb todey I'm redickorating my necromantic lair

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you're just jealous you still have the union jack on your flag

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idk elon musk's involvement feels like a red flag

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they cut my funding I'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] blow up this entire planet

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[squash1]

GUT. PUNCH.

like rip my organs out i don’t wanna have a heart anymore.

[vaguely-concerned]

if everything with varric weren't enough to make rye go the level of ape shit at solas that he does (and goodness don't get me wrong it was more than enough!), forcing him to sit alone with himself in the fade and wonder if he really just saw lucanis die right in front of him with no way to know for sure added kill bill sirens in his head so loud the voice of the Maker Himself could not be heard over them if He personally peeped through the blanket of the dark to cry 'hold, hold'

(That no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it. indeed. maybe you should have thought a bit harder before making me quite so much in your own image. bitch)

[battleclawed]

What if the Sacred Orb survived and was the most doomed girl to ever live... long-ish OC lore under the cut

In my AU, the Battle of the Burning is pushed back a little bit, so Kludd gets to be an alive dad to both the Sacred Orb and Coryn for a while. Don't worry he still dies

I've named my Sacred Orb OC Guinevere as a nod to Kludd and Nyra's Lancelot/Guinevere-ness (bonus points because the root for "Guin" means "white"). She goes by Gwen in daily life, though Nyra likes to use her full name.

Gwen is Kludd's mini-me, right down to her appearance. When Gwen is still very young, she's closer to her mother, but as she gets older and her parents tell her about their plans and her role as heir, her father becomes her entire world.

(As far as Kludd's parenting goes, I can't imagine he likes babies at all so he's in distant father mode until Gwen starts actually having a personality, at which point he's like "Wait. This thing (my child) worships me and I get to tell it what to do and mold it into whatever I want? Sick this rules")

Gwen's worldview and sense of self are entirely built upon the idea that she is not only superior to all non-Tyto owls but also superior to everyone--she hatched from the Sacred Orb, she is the most Pure, she is the perfect heir who will inherit her father's kingdom.

The first crack in this view is the birth of Coryn (who's still Nyroc at this point). Nyra starts paying more attention to Coryn because he's born on the eclipse, which irks Gwen. She's the one who hatched from the Sacred Orb; who cares about some moon magic?

Gwen develops a complex about not being an eclipse baby and takes it out on her little brother, but otherwise ignores him. She thinks he's weird in classic mean big sister fashion. They are not close.

Before Kludd dies, Gwen is unshakably confident; she is, after all, the perfect heir, a great fighter, a Tyto Most Pure, just like her invincible, infallible father, right? The world will be hers one day. She is perfect, her family is perfect, and nothing will ever go wrong.

(Also, there's no way Kludd and Nyra are letting their precious heirs kill each other, so Gwen's TUPSI is her friend Cinder, a Lesser Sooty. Cinder was born into the Pure Ones, completely buys into their ideology, and is perfectly honored to be a sacrifice.)

("I'm honored that my death will make you purer," Cinder whispers. "I'm so happy to die for you." Gwen can't afford to hesitate. Her father is watching.)

Kludd dies in the AU equivalent of the Battle of the Burning, which completely shatters Gwen's worldview. After his death, she takes on the title of High Tyto, dons his mask and his battle claws, but they don't quite fit. She tries to be strong just like her father, but she slowly starts to crack.

Coryn still has firesight, so he still leaves for the Great Tree after seeing visions in the flames of Kludd's final ceremony. Nyra is deeply upset by this. Gwen is glad her mother belongs only to her again, but also plagued by the idea that maybe her mother would prefer for Coryn to have become the High Tyto instead.

In the wake of her father's death, sometimes Gwen wishes her mother would hug her and hold her like she's a chick again, but she knows that can never happen. She's the High Tyto now. She can't afford to show weakness.

Gwen is a good soldier but not as talented of a commander as her father was (or at least, she believes he was). The Pure Ones lose battle after battle after battle under her command, which only makes her spiral even further. (She puts on a facade of confidence to mask this. It mostly works.)

Nyra and Gwen argue constantly after Gwen becomes the High Tyto. Nyra wishes her daughter would obey her. Gwen wishes her mother would trust her abilities. They're all the other has left and yet they make each other miserable.

("I'm the High Tyto," Gwen says. "I'm the one in charge." Nyra counters by pointing out that she is the one born on the eclipse, the one with the great enchantment. Gwen resents her mother more and more, but she has no one else to rely on.)

She wonders if maybe Nyroc would've been better. Maybe it should've been him after all? Maybe this is all because she wasn't born on the eclipse. Maybe she was the wrong choice, except she can't be wrong because that would mean Cinder died for nothing. She can't be wrong because that would mean her father (who taught her and raised her and believed in her) would be wrong too, and that just isn't possible.

Coryn obtains the Ember of Hoole and becomes king of the Great Tree. Gwen wishes she'd been allowed to kill him in her TUPSI after all.

During their final confrontation, Gwen corners Coryn and tries to kill him--tries to avenge her father, defend the legacy he left her, justify her entire existence--but can't go through with it. (It's all too much. She wishes she was still a hatchling. She wishes her father was still alive. She wishes none of this had ever happened at all.)

Gwen surrenders, but, seized by the need to not disappoint her father even after his death, tries to kill Coryn one more time in an act of betrayal. She almost succeeds, but is stabbed through the back by Twilight.

Gwen dies a bloody death, just like her father. As the world grows dark, she wonders if he's proud of her.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Being religious and mentally ill is such a weird combination because...

How I feel (manic) half the time: G-d and I are literally joined at the hip and we have a special connection <3

How I feel manic after doing something wreckless or completely dangerous and risky (the other half of the time):

[good-morzan-inheritance-cycle]

Eragon would be that white woman that sees one of those highly reactive pitbulls and be like “let’s get him a pup cup and sweater and name him Edgar.”

[thearunadragon]

Eragon: (running off spite and the fumes of depression) good morning, everyone, today we’ll learn the subtle art of not dying

Everyone: (groans)

Eragon: that’s what I said too. I’m giving you the knowledge so I can ignore it from this point onward.

[spacenintendogs]

the cycle

30 days of wolfox: day 11

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

anyone ever think about how collectively the aces ultimate goal is to die because . boy do i

[wherethemothsgrow]

This is so Ronan Lynch coded

[delta-orionis]

[I wanted to comment on this post about the celestial spheres in Rain World but I don't want to derail a lore analysis post by talking about OC shit]

I hadn't really considered that the Ancients might consider moving stars/anomalies in the sky to be a bad omen, but it makes sense because similar things were often considered bad luck by many human societies (comets and eclipses in particular were considered very bad luck, because they were very difficult, if not impossible, for ancient societies to predict).

I do think that the Ancients definitely incorporated the movements of the Sun, Moon, and stars into their belief system, because they were constants that could symbolize the Cycle. The planets too, to a lesser extent (if there are any other planets to begin with...)

Three Stars Above Clouds' research primarily focuses on anomalies in the sky- changes in the stars and planets that might hint towards them escaping their prescribed cycles. This was the task given to them by their creators, the Firmamentalists, who were a splinter group of Ancients outcast due to their belief that the Solution could only be found by searching the sky. Maybe I could work this into why the Firmamentalists were considered unusual; because they spent their time researching things that the wider Ancient society at large considered to be bad omens.

I'll admit that I take a more hard sci-fi stance when writing for TSAC and a lot of it goes directly against things mentioned in the Rain World lore, but I enjoy the challenge of trying to make those two different viewpoints make sense together.

[visenyaism]

Dany avoiding Egg's mistake of looking back, when I don't think Viserys and other bothered to teach her alot about him is fitting.

I think he would have adored her

my thing about dany and her family members is that i think they would have really struggled to understand her- targaryens in the royal house have never treated their daughters particularly well and she is this cycle breaker who got dragons to hatch by looking forward instead of backwards. (and maybe this goes vice versa a little bit too- dany can’t really understand what it’s like to be raised in immense privilege with power being a natural expectation and not something you have to take.)

like i bet egg WOULD love dany, but i think if she was his daughter, King Aegon V would’ve still married her off for political gain. that’s the difference between the two is although they had very similar goals, Egg got too entrenched in the feudal system and the rot got him in the end. genuinely believe none of her ancestors would be able to understand what exactly let her walk out of the fire unharmed and with dragons and that’s why so many of them including egg killed themselves trying to do it.

[shih-coulda-had-it]

AFO as the Control Devil, how would it be?

you would think he'd be more unhinged, but actually, it's just a cosmetic contact lenses change. like, what's his motivation now?? what is one for all, if all for one is about ultimate control--

omg OFA is the fear of the collective. UNIONIZATION DEVIL. IT'S A METAPHOR