#remblems

[lightishlilac]

I hate having an uspol hyperfixation, I'm not gonna be able to sleep until the vote ends :( girl how am I supposed to go to school like this I fucking hate college I need a break

[lightishlilac]

Help this just reminded me that my dad shares a birthday with Lee Harvey Oswald 😭

ryan started listening real quick

[misericordel]

“ Hey, you, ”  Leif approaches Veyle in the little bit of time they have to breathe before the next onslaught comes.  “ If this sounds crazy, ignore it, but you know me as the 'Ring of the Sage Lord' or whatever, right? ”

That's his guess anyhow. Not waiting too long, he continues.

“ I don't fully get it still, but if it's easier in fights to call me that or an Emblem or whatever, then I won't stop you. Whatever makes it less hard to focus on the fight, got it? ”

Despite the less than delicate tone he takes, Leif holds out his hand in a show of camaraderie, forged by the circumstances. It is, in his own way, a welcoming.

“ So I'm counting on you!! ”  

"huh?" veyle's head turns at the voice directed at her, and she tenses up seeing it's emblem leif approaching. no, not emblem leif. just leif. just leif. this is repeated like a mantra to herself up until he mentions the ring of the sage lord.

"oh... you know about that...?" she asks, uncertainly. she looks down at the hand that he offers, giving her a little more confidence in interacting him. "i.. yes. alright. i'll refer you as an emblem leif from now in a fight, if that's okay." she finally nods, reaching to grab his hand. a small smile tugs at her lips as they shake hands. "you can call me veyle, embl— leif." she flushes a bit. "...i'm still going to try and call you just leif outside of battle, okay? i mean, you're your own person and not an emblem here so.."

[lightishlilac]

Sometimes I wish I made my reblog tag normal instead of "remblems" cause every time I reblog something serious I just feel. Weird. Tagging it like that. Idk maybe I'll change it to "reblog.txt" or "reblog.exe" cause I like having a special vibe to it,,,

[lightishlilac]

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ I have the trans flag emoji now :)

[lightishlilac]

Catboy murder worm >:3c

fuck it. worm on a string picrew chain. let's fucking go

happy worm creation my friends

tagging @areyoudoingthis @cursed-coat-of-homosexuality @peanutbutterex @tfemteach @piratecaptainscaptainpirates (no pressure 💛)

[lightishlilac]

There are ships that I will have to build communities for, either alone or with like one other person and honestly I'm ready for it

[kingovan]

Made for @beacontactics <3

[owainbradys]

FYE REMBLEM..........................

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………..HEROES

[marioclash]

fi remblem Thouses

[lightishlilac]

I have this friend, and they were able to come out super easily to their parents. I don't think I'd be able to do that because my parents, try as they might, are still low key transphobic (the one time I mentioned I was okay with other pronouns, my mom said, very sternly, "You're a /girl/." And that's just one example). And I told this person that, as an explanation for why I was not coming out to my parents until I moved out. And then this bitch tried to FUCKING PRESSURE ME INTO COMING OUT TO THEM BECAUSE "YOU HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM". EXCUSE ME??? BITCH, I DIDN'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE NIGHTS I SPENT CRYING BECAUSE OF THINGS MY PARENTS SAID. I DIDN'T TELL YOU HOW MY PARENTS REFUSE TO EVEN CONSIDER TAKING ME TO ABOUT NEUROLOGIST DESPITE HOW HORRIBLE MY MEMORY PROBLEMS ARE, TO THE POINT WHERE I'VE STARTED LOOKING UP HOW MUCH IT WILL COST ME TO GET THE EVALUATIONS I NEED MYSELF. I DIDN'T TELL YOU. ABOUT EVERY FUCKING TRAUMATIC MOMENT HAMMERED INTO ME BY MY PARENTS BECAUSE I. BARELY. KNOW. YOU. I don't have a good fucking relationship, I just know how to fake one.

And then this bitch, out of no where, just starts going "Trans people need dysphoria. If someone doesn't have dysphoria, then they aren't trans" and I guess that answered every fucking question I had about them.

[lightishlilac]

PLEASE VOTE FOR MY GIRL BUFFY

She died 3 times, one time as a sacrifice for her sister. She's permanently traumatized by the fact that she _went to heaven and was dragged back to earth by her friends_. She had a whole goddamn SONG about it in Once More With Feeling (and it's so good). She died when she was 16, sacrificed herself when she was 20, then was shot, died, came back, and was never acknowledged as being dead

(Song I mentioned above ⬇️)

DIED AND CAME BACK WRONG SHOWDOWN!

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Everyone show me ur spotify wrapped I'm nosey

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OH BOY HOWDY I THOUGHT I HAD ANOTHER DAY OR FEW BUT NOPE ALRIGHT IT'S GO TIME! Hi-lo I'm the person that submitted Naarah and I'm here to tell you why this child deserves love. First off tho, this propaganda talks about child death, emotional abuse, animal death, just general death, executions, use of an Indigenous creature that really shouldn't have been used, and the kidnapping of an Indigenous child to be raised by a white family

So first off, yeah, she's 13 when she dies. The events leading up to it are long and twisty so I'll just kinda talk about her dynamics and general life

She finds a woman named Elon at a campsite, who immediately tries to kill her but eventually relents and lets her hang around (Elon considers this a funny story, Naarah does not). Elon is a witch (with a whole bag of her own trauma but I didn't submit her so she's not here and her stuff isn't important). And Naarah is interested in what she's doing. So Elon starts reaching her witchcraft. And the two become friends, with Naarah viewing Elon as her big sister! It's very cute! But then Elon gets Naarah to do a ritual with her and,,, stuff gets ROUGH here.

So uh, TW for animal death:

For the ritual, something needs to be sacrificed. And um. Naarah has a pet dog. You can probably piece together what this conversation is about

So yeah, Naarah kills her dog, Azule, but something goes wrong... And instead of whatever Elon was _trying_ to do, she instead summons a creature that has a name I'm not going to use outside of any image descriptions I'll be writing for this!

A-ny-way, obviously that sucks. But you know what else sucks? Bethany Phillips. Bethany is Naarah's mom, who stole her from her tribe when she was a newborn cause she thought she was failing her husband, Gideon, by either being infertile or having a lot of trouble conceiving, it's not 100% clear which but it's likely that she was infertile, with this scene being a mimic of her giving Naarah to Gideon:

The symbol formed is apparently a symbol used in some tribes meaning Woman but I can't find a specific tribe or group of tribes that used it? The closest I can find is one source saying that it was used by Great Plains Indians but I can't find a citation for this. I see the symbol on multiple sites tho, being used for woman, mother, sister, essentially just used to represent a woman in any context

But also Beth uh. Kinda sucks??? Here's just. Naarah's Relationship section with Beth:

And Beth's section on Naarah:

Just... Real healthy mom-daughter dynamic going on here /s

But uh yeah Beth saw Naarah kill Azule and then sold her out??? At least she presumably did. This scene is meant to be some form of recreation of that moment, tho with some added lines by the thing I'm not naming except for the image description:

And then after Naarah got home, presumably not knowing Beth saw her, Beth says... This:

It's likely that the white text where the things Beth _said_ while the red text were the things Beth _thought_. There's also just,,, this assorted stuff, something about how often she says Naarah is "like" family to her instead of actually considering her to be family rubs me the wrong way, sorry there's so much about Beth in this I promise I'll get to the rest of Naarah's everything in a sec:

(Naarah saying "Dad isn't home right now" is so funny to me Gideon is literally sitting in the room behind her I don't know why this made me laugh so much it's not a funny scene)

Also, um,,, this a recreation of Naarah's last words. Her last words were an argument with her mother:

I do want to note, however, that she does care for Beth to some degree, with this exchange happening after Elon captures her:

So yeah, Naarah's relationship with her mom is. Uh. A lot. But what about Gideon, her dad? Well... the dynamic the two have is presented fairly consistently as a teenager bickering with a man she considers to be, for lack of a better word, a boomer. We have exactly one concrete canon confirmation that Gideon is Naarah's dad, which is this line from the first episode:

(The quotes there around Dad are probably the wiki marking emphasis, as Naarah puts a lot of emphasis on the word)

Plus with how Beth acts around Gideon is nearly confirmed that those three are a family. Naarah and Gideon do have a few more friendly scenes throughout the series! While she makes fun of him for being boring or redundant, she's also shown playing with him after she's changed into a cephalopod and he's changed into a log, picking him up and flying around excitedly. She does also threaten to curse him a lot tho?? Their dynamic as a family isn't shown as often, possibly because Gideon wasn't immediately directly responsible for her execution, rather he was as part of The Council WHICH WE WILL GET TO.

So the last major character that Naarah has a dynamic with is Elon. Like I said, Naarah treats her like an older sister and Elon seems receptive to that role (once she stopped trying to kill her lmaooo). Naarah gives her this drawing at one point that shows how much they care about each other :)

Elon also comforts Naarah when their world is about to end:

There is also a banger song during this scene btw everyone go listen to This Is (not) The End by Exit Mouse ft. Caleb Hyles please it's so good

And remember when Elon captured Beth? Back up there? Yeah well, she does later realize that she hurt Naarah after the creature _insults Naarah for fucking up the ritual_ (this is also the only time profanity is used in the entire series):

War and hate on planet earth this scene will always make me cry. This episode, which is the last in the series, always breaks me you do NOT understand

Last group! The Council. They're the reason Naarah (and Elon) are executed. Their role is very loosely defined by Gideon at one point (warning for the G-slur against Romani people):

Gideon was part of The Council, as shown through the audience being asked how many were on it to prove they're Gideon:

Like Beth says above, he didn't _want_ to put Naarah to death, but as a judge in the 1600s, he probably was given literally zero choice. Either put your daughter to death and prove you aren't allied with witches, or refuse and risk your whole family being executed for either protecting or being a witch

Naarah was doomed from the very beginning. Stolen from her tribe as a newborn, raised by a family (or mother?) who tried to force her into a rigid definition of a daughter, and damned the second she met Elon. She had a bad life and a worse afterlife, even if she had peace for some time. She eventually fuses with Elon, along with Gideon, giving Elon power over their little world. But even then, this isn't an ending for her. The episode ends with the words, "When one door closes another one opens. Elon's story is over but the CatGhost story continues," followed by a link to the CatGhost website. This seems to promise a new story for Naarah in the future, one that gives her an ending. Three doors are shown, a blue one, a red one, and a green one. Elon is presumably red, with that door being shown several times throughout the series, plus she has red hair and died by burning at the stake. Naarah... Naarah is the blue door. She has blue hair and was drowned (that's what a cucking stool is). That's her door. If you were to go to the CatGhost website today, you would see pixel art of what appears to be a door in a hall. This has been here for a chunk of time. Someday, I'm hoping we'll see that door swing open. And we'll see Naarah get the happy ending she deserves

Here's some pictures of her in her Purgatory forms and human form to end off the rant :)

Naarah means a lot to me and I think she deserves to make it past at least the first round. Sorry this got so long and is probably really rambley, I've been doing this for around 5 hours now and I think I forgot what I was saying about 20 different times at least

Group A Round 1

[image ID: the first image is a colored drawing of 2 identical anthropomorphized rabbits, both Nin, talking to someone off screen. the second image is Naarah, a smiling little blue ghost. end ID]

Nin

she bnuuy :} she can clone herself and sneaks around in the shadows! member of an evil cult but in her defense she doesnt know its evil. i think. girlie is like a foot tall <3  

Naarah

GOD. Okay so she's like 13, yeah? And she's a witch. BUT. She lives in the 1600s. So when she's caught she's executed by cucking stool (I'm not even joking. It's called the cucking stool). AND ALSO. HER DAD IS ON THE COUNCIL THAT PUTS HER TO DEATH. AND HE DIDN'T WANT TO. BUT HE WAS FORCED TO SIGN OFF ON IT. So then she's dead, cause y'know she was drowned. And then she's in purgatory. And her mentor shows up (cause she was executed at the same time). AND THEN HER DAD SHOWS UP. And a WHILE later, HER _MOM_ SHOWS UP. HER MOM IS THE ONE WHO SOLD HER OUT AND GOT HER EXECUTED. But some part of her still loves her mom. Until later WHEN WE GET TO HEAR HER FULL LAST CONVERSATION. WHEN HER MOM GETS MAD AT HER LITERALLY SECONDS BEFORE HER EXECUTION. And she's like "You have no idea what I had to go through to get you" AND YOU KNOW WHAT SJE DID??? STOLE HER. SHE STOLE A FUCKING BABY. SHE STOLE NAARAH FROM HER TRIBE. And Naarah is like "You never really cared about me it was always about you" AND WHEN I SAW THIS SCENE I STARTED SOBBING I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS HURT ME SO BAD. I feel so bad for her she's just a child who is a also a ghost and a cephalopod

[lightishlilac]

Is quote propaganda even a thing? I don't know, but I'm gonna do it anyway!!

Elon's quote comes from CatGhost 7 Key (ignore it saying Episode 8, that was CatGhost 8 Judgement and counting is hard). She says it after being told that her universe is about to fucking end

Upon exiting the void where she speaks to Key, Elon goes to a cliff to watch the universe end. Naarah finds her and the two have the following conversation:

After this, we get the lines that gave us this quote:

She's right too. After this episode (and after CatGhost 8 Judgement) we get CatGhost 9 Welcome Home, in which Elon, Naarah, and Gideon have gained different designs

[Context, Naarah has gone from a ghost to a cephalopod, Gideon has gone from a hedgehog to a log, and Elon has gone from a cat to a bat]

Just. God. This fucking scene rewired me permanently. The song playing during this too (This Is (not) The End by Exit Mouse ft. Caleb Hyles) just adds to it. The combination of, "The universe never ends. It just changes." with the lyric, "There's a comfort in knowing the truth/That there's no point to anything we do" FUCKED ME UP BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL. I don't know why, but I desperately needed to hear that back then

Here's the video it came from, plus the song playing during that scene, plus a playlist to all the videos in the series cause I need to spread CatGhost as much as I can:

There are so many quotes in CatGhost that could've gone in this bracket but this one specifically Did Things to me as a majorly depressed 14 year old

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First round, thirtieth fight

Quote number 59 :

My good- MY FINE SIR. MY FRIEND. DO NOT EAT THE WIRES. YOU WILL BE FRIZZLED.

-Someone who is a cat owner

VS

Quote number 60 :

The universe never ends. It just changes.

-Elon Doyle, CatGhost episode 8

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PLEASE VOTE FOR NAARAH SHE'S SUCH A LITTLE GUY!!!! JUST A LITTLE DUDE!!!!! HER LIFE WAS HELL AND HER AFTERLIFE WASN'T MUCH BETTER PLEASE GIVE HER ONE W SHE HAS SUFFERED SO MUCH!!!!!!

She died at 12 please y'all please let her have this