#queen of isolation

[penguinzzz]

HUMAN BROPPY?!?!?

I DONT KNOW HOW TO DRAW CURLY HAIR IM SO SORRY.

Here's without that weird lighting

Also you can't tell me you don't picture branch having a long ass messy hair. This man has been isolated for 20 years. Ofcourse he'd have a long messy hair.

Also damn I think I've drawn poppy's head a little massive..

[rfsmith]

Y’all ever think Branch gets hit with the reality of waking up and realizing: “Holy fuck, this IS my life.”

And still finds it hard to believe that he’s in a romantic relationship with the Queen of Pop, with a literal QUEEN.

His brothers that left him 20 years ago, are either just living outside his bunker in the village now or he knows how to get into contact with them or knows where they live now. He was alone for 20 years and suddenly he has his family again.

The tribe that made fun of him being paranoid and overprotective now see him a very essential part of the village and want to hang out with him.

He’s super chilled with several royal families and leaders of other tribes.

He can casually join any group/band and they’d be accepting of him because he’s just like any other troll even though he has some differences.

[alicentzwaitinglady]

alicent keeping her pious energy in season 2.

she wears more veils and a lot of seven-pointed stars. she prays a lot even when not in a sept and is surrounded by septas. speaking about how she prays for the blacks and that they'll see the truth/come to a bloodless understanding.

being so pious that others at court are annoyed. so religious that when speaking to someone she finishes their sentence (like she says the quote from the seven pointed star before they can).

alicent feels like her position at court is vanishing, so she seeks comfort in the faith. she buries herself in prayers and scriptures.

organizing jaehaerys's funeral procession and praying for him (and those long lost).

[dadrielle]

I want laudna and the raven queen to bond over loneliness

[squidprinceofwinterfell]

Funny that the AV Club suggested the Deep might have ulterior motives for comforting New Noir when Deep is, at his core, a sad lonely bro who just wants someone to shotgun beers with. It’s like you guys don’t even know him at all.

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Oh we are so BACK

When I tell you I saw this and died. HELLO?????

I keep hiding my face lahshjsdhjgfsaf HE HAS NO RIGHT. NO RIGHT AT ALL BEING THAT SEXILY INTENSE AAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway, I should probably try to make some attempt at describing the event since. If I don't I'll just be barking/crying/hiding my face for the next twelve hours.

Basically--and I'm not sure this is going to be across the board, but it held true for Napoleon and Sebastian at least--each suitor has a birthday event this year instead of a separate story. Comte's won't be released until tomorrow, but they have posted a preview.

From what I gather, he talks a little bit about himself and reveals parts of his past that haven't come to light in the game yet. There wasn't really enough to convey a coherent narrative beyond attending a party, but the line displayed here does get across the larger theme:

Comte: (I don't need momentary pleasure or ephemeral affection any longer. Now that I know love, there's nothing but you.)

He talks about how the aristocracy have thrown parties and extravagant celebrations for his birthday for most of his life. But none of it has ever really made him happy, largely because he knows that they are attempts to strengthen and broadcast power relations within high society. While I don't think he means it's entirely devoid of well wishes, I do think he sees it as a nexus of influence--and thus, by nature, impersonal. And honestly, I don't think he's wrong about that; the higher the echelon in social standing, the more it requires performance to maintain the position.

That being said, there is a fascinating flashback where he remembers a pureblood telling him about how falling in love with a human is an experience of another caliber entirely. My understanding is that Comte was still a fairly young vampire at the time, so he didn't really understand what the person was getting at. It seems like the other pureblood was trying to convey the difference in feeling, perhaps the fact that humans are more grounded in accordance with how they live--the reality and necessity of change.

After reading this--and the recent 5th bday story--I can absolutely see how change is something Comte has a complicated relationship with. He's known a certain way of life for so long, has constructed a sensibility of distant, rational maturity. After all the heartbreak of his youth, and two very acute traumatic events in his life, I can see why he'd be so afraid of broaching any kind of proximity with another person. Because on some level it's so much easier not to put your feelings on the line, to never have to fear devastating loss. And that's to say nothing of the worry of being unable to measure up on behalf of another person, of letting them down.

I'm so excited to see the rest of the contents, but something about the preview made me equal parts giddy and enamored (all I do is kick my feet with excitement LOL). I think what gets to me with Comte is that he truly does love companionship as a place to rest, a place where he can be honest about himself and his feelings without fear of ridicule (and the same goes for MC). In a world increasingly obsessed with surface level performances of power, status, and emotion, it's hard not to feel his exhaustion to the core.

Also, because these lines at the end more or less destroyed me in the best possible way:

MC: ...The you who had nowhere to belong no longer exists. In much the same way...Abel, I belong to you. Comte: ... Comte: I wish I could say to myself all those years ago, the me who kept indulging in such paltry things. Comte: Until you meet MC, you will never know love... The warmth of MC in my arms filled me with such joy I was near tears. (I don't need momentary pleasure or ephemeral affection any longer. Now that I know love, there's nothing but you.) The moment my lips found hers, the sweetness lit a fire deep in my body. Comte: These cute lips that melt against mine, the heat of your skin, the love that envelops me in your embrace--always leaves me so deeply in love with you.

[samcarter34]

My theory on the Raven Queen is that her predecessor wanted her to do it.

The person the Raven Queen used to be was described as being not just an archmage, but a partner and follower of her predecessor. She knew him, not only knew but but the word partner specifically implies a pretty close relationship in some form or another.

We’ve also seen the gods can sense when someone’s trying to usurp them, and what happens to people who try. So, either the Raven Queen was the greatest archmage in history that not even Vecna could compare to (since he found a way to ascend without having to kill a god and he of all people would’ve been very happy to take one out if he could) or, there was something different about the god she was replacing.

Now why a god would want to die, I don’t know. Maybe he was tired, maybe he felt that it was natural for a god of death to die, and that it was less and end an more a transition. But the Raven Queen said she was following her destiny, and your divine partner and mentor telling you to do this kinda lines up with that.

[1cebittentwicehigh]

Beware the loose Alien running amok in my house

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

i miss baghera i miss her. as much as qbbh was sad about not getting a flower of the day at least bagi knew to give him one and now pac too. what about baghera. where are her flowers. where is she. queen come back ill give you a bouquet.

(i know she's on break i hope she rests well but UAGHGH qbaghera hasn't gotten a flower in so long......)

[wonder-worker]

"As for the government of the kingdom, [Edward V] had complete confidence in the peers of realm and the queen."

"According to the Crowland continuator, [Elizabeth Woodville] seems to have taken the king's place in listening to his council immediately after Edward IV's death. It does appear that she expected to have some role in her son's kingship, and the Crowland continuator’s report of the letters sent to her by [Richard of Gloucester] indicates that she had good reason to expect to be able to work with him and the other councillors: 'the duke of Gloucester wrote the most pleasant letters to console the queen; he promised to come and offer submission, fealty and all that was due from him to his lord and king, Edward V, the first-born son of his brother the dead king and the queen'."

"[However], in what was Gloucester's first coup, Edward V was separated from his household and Woodville advisors. When the young king questioned the move, Buckingham was reported to have told the boy 'It is not in the business of women but men to govern kingdoms'. The blunt remark referred to the authority of Elizabeth Woodville as queen and the power she must have anticipated within the new political climate left by Edward IV's sudden death [...] While the veracity of this scene is questionable*, the words attributed to the duke no doubt seemed plausible to Dominic Mancini who believed they exemplified the popular sentiment held by men [...]."

-Dominic Mancini, The Usurpation of Richard the Third / J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Alexander R. Brondarbit, Power Brokers and the Yorkist State, 1461-1485

*One of Mancini's key sources seems to have been Edward V's own doctor, John Argentine, who attended to him in the Tower. It's very likely that he was the one who recounted this scene to Mancini, which suggests that it should probably be considered more credible than not.

[arbitrarycategories]

Me in my timesuck au: so Stanley is gonna join Fiddleford and Emma-May and have a happy polyamorous marriage 🥰

Me in my isosceles not isolated au: so Stanley is going to imply he’d be down to kill Fiddleford if Stanford tells him to

[theknightofsolitude]

🎶✨when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

Okie dokie Smokey. For really though @muchacha-de-los-ojos-tristes get ready to answer as well….. wit yo punk ass lol.

80808 - Death Grips

Red and Gold - MF DOOM

Stolen dog - Burial

The moment i said it - Imogen Heap

If i had a tail - Queens of the stone age

[fataltwelves]

i don't know why, but it feels like i can't stop myself from drawing lines in the sand

[dnangelic]

serendipity of me sometimes wondering how my portrayal would've been like had i stuck strictly to canon's rules in regards to the curse(tm) and dark vanished as soon as daisuke's love became mutual with somebody but then all of dai's ship partners would get stuck with him sighing to himself like. all the time. forever

[inkyquince]

Just dance lore goes insane

[iceangelsimon]

Ice Equation AU (English)

Day 2: Isolation (parte 3)

https://youtu.be/ncf6rXp9tNA?si=czG4wa2iXSZnfA6J

Art based in

https://www.deviantart.com/angelblood/art/The-Ice-Wizard-Equation-Part-1-343554511

This deviantart art was what inspired this comic, this work is non-profit

Singers

James LaBrie = Me (Simon)

Magnus Ekwall - Pride (Ice King)

Eric Clayton - Reason (Simon Petrikov)

Irene Jansen - Passion (Marceline)

Mikael Åkerfeldt - Fear (Crown)

Heather Findlay = Love (Betty)

Cartoon: Adventure Time, from Pendleton Ward

Álbum: Human Equation, do Ayreon

Artista: @hesitantvampirealien

Link to Day 2 isolation (part 2)

Link to Day 3 Pain (part 1)