#queue is an illusion

[unsunderedphoenix]

Bond Lore

It is no secret that soul bonds are a thing that happen in this world. One could say that they are dangerous. but what is life without a little risk. Also, if your not bad at picking a partner coughLehebreacough then you should be fine. But just as there are different kinds of love there are also different kinds of bonds. All of which will persist even when reincarnated.

General Bonds- These types of bonds change with each new life lived. The soul simply wishing to close to one another. The nature of the relation from life to life does not matter in the slightest.

Romantic Bonds- These soul bonds are made by choice. These bonds can be made between two people or many. Depends on how many eternal partners you wish to have. This bond type means a likely hood of falling in love with the same soul or souls in future lifetimes.

Familial Bonds- These bonds are not chosen but happen naturally. Though rare on a larger scale, these bonds are common among siblings that play together often. It is even more common among twins as there is something about two soul sharing one womb that makes it happen more. These bond cause the two souls to circle each other on every life, though the bond of always familial in nature.

[daily-hanamura]

[uwuyangeppie]

gentle, gentle, gentle.

if nothing else, he is gentle with you.

gentle, calloused hands brush your hair, and hold the soup spoon as he feeds you.

gentle eyes admire you from the doorway, from above as he stands, from below as he kneels.

his voice is gentle as he tries to reassure you that you are safe with him.

but those gentle hands tied the coarse rope that rubs against your wrists. they picked you up and took you away from the outside world.

those gentle eyes watched you in the dark, in the snow, and in your house under the name of preservation.

and that gentle voice worked overtime convincing you that he was just to here you help out, trying to decode what you liked in men, trying to push you towards him.

in the end, you never did look his way until you forced his hand.

nobody will be coming for you for a long time. you don’t need to follow the path of erudition to know that.

after all, you think dryly, who would possibly suspect the ever upright gepard landau?

[spockvarietyhour]

V: The Series "War of Illusions" (1985)

[probablygayattorneys]

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The first time Phoenix had Edgeworth watch Trucy.

[div-divington]

Federal Bureau of Control

--> the Research Sector

[sunlightfeeling]

ザテレビジョン / The TV: 2002.11.16-22 No. 47

[tea-of-destiny]

shuffling the queue 2943085798023 times because i'm trying to break up some of the thematic clusters and it just keeps scheduling them back together

[midnightbrightside]

This might affect the economy.

concerning. will look into this

[apostaterevolutionary]

You know what would be really funny, is if people came together to have an anti-crab day. A day where every user who joined prior to automattic’s acquisition logged off for 24 hours to show that yes, actually, older user retention is important and you should listen us just as much as new users

The users giveth, the users taketh away

[unsunderedphoenix]

Have her in a masquerade outfit!

[limbusprideflags]

Aroace flag colorpicked from Land of Illusion Hong Lu! (Request)

[silber-zunge]

[spockvarietyhour]

V: The Series "War of Illusions" (1985)

[voxiiferous]

**| Interesting revelations of the evening!

I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!

Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.

And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.

If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?

but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.

And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.

There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.

Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.

Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?

The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).

[calamitysshatteredson]

Alright, officially "away" for charity stream times. Had hoped to get more done this week, but sometimes the universe just likes to laugh at us. Please consider this a formal invitation to check things out at any point during the week, there is always something happening.

I'll be lurking 'round the usual times, and posting a chocobo auction reminder. I'd say "you kids be good", but where's the fun in that?