#relics specifically

[bumbleboyart]

everyone always says “beam me up scotty” but who beams up mr scott?

evidently this ep got to me more than i thought it did, man lost in time both left behind and leaving behind. agh

[lunaicfantastic]

fav part of gideon the ninth is for the first pre-canaan house chunk of the book, she's all "ugh I'm so normal surrounded by all these weirdo goth freaks when I blow this popsicle stand everyone will see how cool and normal and charming I am" and then she gets to canaan house and realizes that while she might have been a normie jock in the ninth house she is not exempt from being a goth weirdo who hides important doors behind tapestries and sneaks around in the dark so she doesn't have to talk to people. like we talk about her being a jock forced to be goth but nature v nurture babey she's not shedding that bone freak skin anytime soon

[relic-seeker]

lemmquirrel sketch dump

[driftingballoons]

It’s like having a purebred dog and a possum you found in the dumpster

[olrinarts]

Day 10: Bishop's Relic, with bonus short featuring sheep lore and a very nervous Lamb

[kradogsrats]

my staff / my truth

[proffbon]

Every time I think about Lords of Fortune and their cultural sensitivity I have to go 'Don't think about it' like that Portal 2 scene, because I get too invested trying to understand the logic behind it and eventually short circuit.

[turrondeluxe]

i think it would be funny that kirby's only exposure to the kirby franchise was the anime, so when they tell him about the games his mind is blown, jaw drop reaction

i think it'd be funny if he played the games too only so he could randomly start doing the victory dance

[raayllum]

I've been thinking about the parallels between the Relic Staff and the Key of Aaravos all the time lately. This is for a few reasons:

Both are 'ancient' relics and have been passed down through the ages. For the Key, it was the royal line of the Orphan Queen; for the staff, it was likely dark mage to dark mage, although it could've become Katolis' high mages in particular (if only from Kpp'Ar to Viren, say)

Both are gifts, i.e. Harrow gifts the Key to Callum, and Aaravos gifts the staff to Ziard

Both the Key and the Staff are identified to having belonged to Aaravos directly once upon a time, though they fell into human hands

Seeing the staff seems to be what piques Aaravos' interest in Viren as well as establishes why Aaravos thinks Viren would be a useful pawn. I'm gonna say this goes double for Callum since the cube is literally in his intro, and Viren's staff doesn't even make the cut

The staff likewise works as a key, capable of both trapping elves and required to open the chrysalis (each providing evidence that the staff has something star magic-y going on too)

The Cube is called a key, although how much it works as one is unknown. However, like the staff, there are indications that it was related to humans developing dark magic (the dark magic dreams + blood magic, it being associated with Aaravos at all, the pawn intro, etc), which is also tied back to Aaravos on its own

Shout out to @its-leethee for catching the "legends say it unlocks something of great power in Xadia" and the "dark magic became a key that unlocked a place of power in Xadia for all humanity" in particular.

Now, I'm prepared for what I'm about to say to be basically moot the second Claudia is given an intro of her own in S6, if she is, but I am intrigued by Callum and Viren alone being highlighted in the pawn intros, even when Claudia is much more of an active pawn in arc 2 than say, Viren, who is mostly a carrot dangling over her head to motivate her to be more active. We also know (minor 6x01 spoiler) that Viren's statue crumbles in the 6x01 intro once Aaravos touches him, so it seems unlikely that Viren is a prominent pawn for him going forward.

That all said, it would be interesting to me if the Staff and the Key are related to one another somehow. Maybe the staff helps unlock something in the key, maybe the key leads to something in Elarion that helped lead to the construction of the staff, maybe both the staff and key (aka Viren and Callum, respectively) will be needed / called upon to free Aaravos from his prison by using both of these objects. (Or play a part in his grand revenge plan, whichever comes first.)

Again: I don't think this is necessarily likely / I don't feel confident about it, but it could be an interesting connection to explore with a little more lore legwork.

[nadia-el-mansours]

Wait, did Margo pick jazz to become a better team player?

[third-king-of-salmonids]

mister joe how do you make your voice sound like that its so cool !

YEARS OF TRAINING IN MY SCREAMO BAND AS A TEEN

ALTERNATIVELY FOR A FREE TRIAL RUN

PLACE FOOT DIRECTLY HERE WITH FULL FORCE

[vaguely-concerned]

I am so mad about how desperately into pan I am. he was specifically made to fuck me up. they dangled him in front of me like 'hey would you like to see a sad clown trickster with emotional intimacy issues and a heart of, if not gold, then some mysterious alloy with qualities not at all unlike those of gold at the end of the day?' and I went 'boy would I!' and now I'm lost. I'm on my knees he's like if reyes vidal was actually redeemable instead of just a 'release my man he did do all of that but I don't care' situation

[microwavingtoniii]

These two should talk and be friends and talk about history and

[sacrificialarrow]

We ever going to talk about how the veil was falling apart ten years ago? How shit's happening fucking regardless of anything Solas does?? No??? Aight I'mma head out.

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

Okay I have a proposed solution for the Israel situation.

I call it the One State Solution.

That State? Florida.

Relocate ALL Israeli citizens to Florida. Kick the non-Jewish Floridians out of Florida, or put them on a Floridian reservation in the Everglades. Florida is now the sovereign Jewish Homeland.

Please explain to me how this is any worse than what Israel is doing right now. Is kicking Floridians out of their home and putting them in an uninhabitable reservation bad??? Are you saying it's bad to steal people's land and relocate them to an uninhabitable surveillance state???

[thatringboy]

rwby in a honkai star rail AU where the plot is exactly the same except the Brothers are now Long and Tayzzyronth and Salem hasn’t realized that those aeons are dead is this anything