#sloth shit

[rummy1869]

The ugly ass sloth from Acton... I like him he's my fav

I meant sea otter or smth

[kinardsevan]

I can’t believe I have to address this again, but since it’s clear the Buddies have started to trickle into Empty Bones…

Yall, have your ship. I could care less. But I s2g the next person who sends me a review telling me they think Eddie’s actions are “hot” or that they’re disappointed they aren’t together… GO FIND ANOTHER FIC. That is not and NEVER WILL be the reality of which Empty Bones is based in. Not to mention, it’s so cheapening to make a story so heavily based in dealing with severe, complex trauma all about a ship.

Or did you miss the part where we’re in chapter 19 now and Evan and Tommy still haven’t had sex? [/rant]

[a-chihuahua-named-poopoo]

Sloth Dog

[greenbergsays]

I was thinking about the phrase “hate the sin not the sinner” but my brain got it mixed up and said “hate the sinner not the sin” which is INFINITELY funnier

[the-one-who-lambs]

Observation

[lewishamiltonstuff]

Idek what part this is but here you go: more cursed stuff that I've saved over the years

[circle-7-2]

There’s something about the english language that pisses me off and it’s that there’s NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “IGNAVIA” AND “ACCIDIA” (both translated as “sloth”)

This is why reading the Divine Comedy in English is kind of a downside to understanding the lil red guy (*punches the english language*)

The “ignavi” are those who were “too lazy to think”, which means they never chose a side and always stayed neutral. Like, when there’s a decision to make, these people go “yeah no” and don’t do shit eu elections this year

“Accidiosi”, on the other hand, who are the ACTUAL SLOTHFUL, are the the ones apathetic towards any action, deed, basically every form of initiative.

To not confuse with “ozio”, which is the time you dedicate to yourself away from the public, and I DON’T KNOW WHY IT’S ALSO TRANSLATED AS “SLOTH” BECAUSE IT’S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST TWO (Petrarch will find whoever said this)

Ignavia = NOT giving a fuck about decision making or ‘marking’ one’s presence on Earth

Accidia = NOT doing shit

Ozio = DOING shit for one’s self

I had to get this off my chest I apologize ☠️☠️☠️ I always have a hard time explaining this to my non-Italian speaking friends and I’m always so close to pulling my hair

[krasytoonz]

Accidentally married so they smooch it out

[darudedogestorm]

need to be put on an iv drip of pure fma 2003 for the next several days or so i can't take not rewatching it immediately right now. Yes I just watched the ending episodes yesterday why do you ask please give me pure concentrated 03 into my blood stream right now please please

[fullmetal-scar-simping]

Dante/Sloth is a dilemma to me… From Dante’s POV her fascination is self-explanatory. But what of Sloth’s? On some level I can see her pursuing it to spite the men in her life, to show just how much she isn’t Trisha Elric. But she’d also be aware of the fact that Dante’s obsession hinges on seeing her as Trisha Elric, so she’s still fueling someone else’s perception of her in that role.

Does she just go along with it? She’s named Sloth because of her boys’ sin, but also because she’s seen as shirking her motherly duties. In some ways it’s easier to be Dante’s pawn; You have a benefactor feeding you the elusive red stones. Don’t need to worry about becoming human because that would just make you more like Trisha (Which is fine by Dante; Managing another Homunculus impatient to become human is a slog).

And you don’t need to worry about any other purpose in life because Dante will tell you what to do, and that’s all you need. She guides you, cares for you. Dare I say it… Dante is like the maternal figure that Sloth would’ve preferred to have rather than be.

Which um, oedipus complex…? Or Sloth is just accepting Dante’s “eccentricity” because she’s done the calculus and has decided she’d rather pay that small price to continue having someone to take care of her. Perhaps Sloth is like Pride that way, and they are introduced working together under human aliases so that seems fitting.

It’s a strange, mutually(?) beneficial arrangement between Dante and Sloth. Does Sloth accept this as part of the terms because she doesn’t have the energy to fight Dante and take care of herself afterwards? And there’s nobody else like her out there? Or does she genuinely consider that she’ll have to kill Dante too in order to eliminate her past, because Dante is too linked to her husband to ignore?

Ooh, I'm enjoying your take on this ship, even with them posing as a dilemma. Leaning into that dilemma with the pragmatism of Sloth's survival, eventually fracturing into Sloth's murderous rejection of Dante's projection of Trisha onto her gas flavour. The potential oedipal-adjacent roles they inhabit in this interpretation of their toxicity, especially since Dante herself is not maternal (not to Envy, not with anyone)-! The image of this dead mother who rejects that previous-self so thoroughly that she's remade into the passive, dependent daughter Dante never had. An emotional and psychosexual punching bag against Hohenheim, rendered fully dependent on her 'mother' to care about her and make her world for her. She's orphaned by her children, themselves her progenitor (an inversion of the mother who births her children; the children birthed her). So, orphaned, Dante takes her into this "orphanage".

I personally never considered whether Sloth would view messing around with (or lbr being messed around by) Dante as her own revenge against Hohenheim. In some ways I almost see Sloth as being nearly indifferent to him (not fully, but nearly). Something to think about! As for Dante, we never see overt disdain for Trisha from her in canon, though it's hard to imagine she doesn't hold some contempt towards her. So it's easy (and fun) to have her intersperse her feelings around Hohenheim's new dead wife at the homunculus she now owns.

To circle back to this leading to Sloth ending Dante for her own liberation fron Trisha's past: it's poetic, and who doesn't love Dante's malevolence coming back to destroy her in the end?

I went into my own interpretation of this ship in this reblog [here]. For me, I see Sloth's perspective of this quagmire of a "relationship" as being informed by an emotional and almost human connection made while she was still fresh and suffering in her initial form. That Dante's manipulation started -immediately-, with the addition of Dante's disturbing treatment of women spliced into the mix. Like the intimacy is formed from that rescue of Sloth's body from horrific circumstances (and her mastery over alchemy) gives Dante ownership over Sloth in all conceivable ways. Sloth's depressive pit informs her passivity in the relationship, but I'm seeing that additional dependence with an existential-level of ingratiation. It may contort into the most fucked facsimile of "love" on Sloth's (maybe even Dante's?) end after enough time spent being treated cruelly-and-tenderly while being physically rehabilitated.

Sloth does not want for destiny or filial but she'll exist as per Dante's plots and whims. Dante may command her into whatever role she sees fit, nearly mirroring her creation as a being for other's benefit, but at least with Dante it's more malleable than what that pair of brothers wanted of her. Maybe Dante's control over her strangely doesn't feel like the kind of mockery that seeing Trisha's children makes her feel. Dante sees no worth in Trisha's family and neither does Sloth.

The thing that makes a 'new' ship fun is feeling out all the intricacies, conundrums, potential, and even dead-ends that can arise. Making it work narratively is half the point, the horny bullshit being the other big draw imho.

[mahi-does-some-art]

Man. Kuro really just attracts people who want to keep him alive and living, methods varying. All of whom want to be around him. All of whom are under his strange influence.

Germaine. The Count Saint, responsible for a good majority of the horrors known to the magic world of Servamp through his blood and experiments, had started all of what was happening because of his love for Adam and the grief of losing him to something as seemingly inescapable as death. He brought Sleepy Ash from the dead just so he can live a life that was robbed of him. His goal? Germaine wanted to be beside Adam and then Sleepy Ash. To live beside him.

Sloth. A demon born from Sleepy Ash himself, of the feelings and parts of himself that he cast away. A physical manifestation of his power as a supernatural being. Sloth is the being that actively keeps Kuro alive each and every moment no matter if it was a choice or not. Sloth... never really gives us any hints that he himself wanted to die as Kuro does so I can only assume. It turns out, all Sloth wanted from the start was to be accepted by his host and to live beside him. As two but one.

And Mahiru... Mahiru, the stubborn human that bonded himself with Kuro and made the vampire face his deepest fears and regrets and made him accept himself as someone who cannot die. Someone who is a vampire. Mahiru with his mortal life, makes Kuro look forward instead of back and makes him live no matter how much he never wanted to. Mahiru walks by his side, stubborn as a mule. Mahiru knows Kuro cannot die, so instead of wanting him to stay alive, he wants Kuro to live. Even after his own bones turn to dust.

Kuro is surrounded by people who want him alive and want him to live, no matter if he wants that or not.

[comatomato]

every time i illustrate max verstappen i’m hit by the realization how fine the line between handsome and sid the sloth is and i don’t like it…

[zenjestrr]

Leaving forever tomorrow morning if you need me send letter via carrier pigeon to the mountains of Costa Rica (I'll be back in August)

[slothquisitor]

Did anyone else read The Mourn Watch Rook background and go ‘oh my god, I can make the DA version of Gideon Nav’ or are you normal?

[tortl3]

aziraphale always knew that he loved crowley since the beginning of time, but the look in 1941 was him realizing that he loved crowley even as a demon, even on opposite sides.

[lilacella]

Mistaking Jegulus fanart for Prongsfoot is my villan origin story