#sometimes i get into a mood

[wind-to-your-sails]

The Man Named Winter, and What He Saw

A very fun realization… Peer Past the Veil is within Winter’s colors. The chaos of red magic lets him break down the order of the House, and the natural grounding of green magic lets him turn that breakdown into a revelation on the plane’s true nature. This does mean I am currently conjecturing that the maze of staircases seen on this card is normally invisible, which may yet prove false, but the nature of this card supports that conjecture for the moment.

So, what is the true nature of the House that is revealed by this card? Well, you see how the focal point of this image is a sphere? That isn’t random creepy eye imagery. That’s the planet of Duskmourn itself, where Valgavoth dwells, and has dwelt since time before time. The Below is the basement of the world, the focal point of the House, and as Zimone’s scans in this tangle of stairs confirm, the only place that Nashi could possibly be.

But look at it. Look at where the Below is in comparison to the isolated human figure. It is smaller in this image than the moon appears from most card art set on a planet’s surface. The opening to get there is the Quiescence, which has already begun and which can only last months at best, while the distance measured from this point is ten years of walking at the least. Our party teeters on the edge of utter despair, confronting the enormity of the impossibility of what they’re up against, when Winter reminds them about the first thing they learned about the House; it shifts.

Step back from this peek through the curtain, and then peek through the curtain again from the next room over, and you’re at a completely different point on the plane relative to the Below. Their destination is impossibly far away but simultaneously unknowably close. All they need is a guide. All they need is Winter.

But this isn’t just a cool moment. The fact that Winter can cast Peer Past the Veil is the reason that he is everything we know he is. The card says as much, that seeing the true nature of the House makes it impossible to ignore. Very few survivors in Duskmourn realize what the House is. Some think of it as a finite structure that can be escaped from as surely as it can be stumbled into, some acknowledge its warping of space but assume this is a very clever illusion and they’re still stuck in the same building where the door appeared, some have heard the stories about Valgavoth’s rise but assume they are merely dealing with a hollow world, like Ixalan. Winter is one of a very rare few who knows that the House is the entirety of the plane. And that isn’t something that’s easy to know.

What would you abandon, at such a revelation? Hope of escape is always the first thing to die here, but to have the very concept obliterated from your mind is not something that happens every day. Beholding the true scale of the House, what value remains in anything? Communities of survivors are grains of sand in the floorboards, moments of beauty are such tiny specks of light they cannot be seen through the ugliness. Everything is in the House, and the House is everything. To paraphrase Susanna Clarke, “The Horror of the House is immeasurable; its Cruelty infinite.”

No wonder Winter is Like That.

[napping-sapphic]

take your clothes off and get on the bed what no we aren’t having sex right now we’re cuddling and pressing every inch of skin together as close as possible for the next six hours

[not-equippedforthis]

forever mourning how granada holmes never adapted the three garridebs. diabolical. unbelievable, even. 'if you had killed watson you would not have made it out of this room alive' but in brett's frightfully intense and low, biting, hissing voice. the violent, wild stare versus the gentle hand on watson's knee. all of that precarious control getting flung out the window. the humanity of it. gritting my teeth can you fucking imagine.

[emerynn-art]

was feeling kinda down this morning so i drew max six times and that seemed to do the trick

[alackofghosts]

hibernation hours

[xxmissrosearts]

Imagine…

If say Matthew is actually older than the age mentioned in-game.

Like he’s one of the oldest orphans there being age 15 upon his arrival, yes.

But imagine he stayed at playcare for a couple years. Being ignored for adoption but continuing to make his bonds and friendships amongst the younger kids and the staff. Maybe retaking tests in the game station and still performing poorly.

And JUST BEFORE he ages out of the system…months or even weeks before he turns 18, and gets the chance to be hired onto staff, or do whatever with his life. (If that’s a thing Playtime would’ve even done.)

He suddenly finds himself “chosen”

Maybe first expecting to finally be adopted last second, that way he’s not just tossed into the wide cruel world on his own…only to find himself a part of Doey, to become the emotional balancer for Jack and Kevin, and ultimately become trapped with them in Playtime’s little slice of hell, where none of them are even treated like humans anymore.

[chiropteracupola]

Creamthing d'or passant reguardant, by a sheaf of arrows percée ...and Montjoy also.

[creamthing is the creation of the inimitable @samsketchbook; despite this choice of adjective, I have nonetheless tried my best at a little heraldic creamthing]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

cant stop thinkin bout charles and erik readin together on the couch but instead of reading with him charles is listening to eriks thoughts while he reads. Live mind commentary ……..

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[doctorsiren]

thinking about the moth psycho 100 AU and remembered that we have Mogami taking full control of Reigen’s body when Reigen sleeps (Jekyll and Hyde moment for them) so he can go and like, consume spirits to get stronger and thought that I should draw that :)

Also thinking about what if Mogami doesn’t leave fully after that part in the World Domination Arc and since Reigen can see him now after Mob kicked Mogami out of Reigen’s head, Reigen calls on him to help him when he’s about to go confront Suzuki (i just don’t want Mogami to leave 🥺 /silly)

[moongothic]

Madoka is the promise you won't turn from a child, full of hopes and dreams and the wish to save the world, into a bitter adult who just wants to hurt others and ruin people's lives

Madoka promised to be there for you to remind you of the person you wanted to be and to stop you from becoming what you sought to destroy

Madoka made that promise and became the very embodiment of it

[girlishwhimsies]

some of y’all just don’t like musical steve cause he’s black and you need to just get it over with and say it. like i’ll concede on some things like yes steve has a smaller role in the musical and two-bit has a bigger one whatever. but like movie steve doesn’t get a magical lore dump mixed into the movie that musical steve is lacking. you can use his book lore and add onto it using the lore renni has given us through his costume and similar things. part of being in a fandom is putting in the work. grow up and get over your own biases and realize the value in different interpretations.

[cementcornfield]

Bro, I can't get Burrow to do shit, bro. Throw me the football, bro.

[napping-sapphic]

“Oh you’re so cute when you’re embarrassed” okay and what about when I’m confident you coward??? Don’t call me cute unless you can commit to it 24/7

[vaguely-concerned]

rye in the sheltered glade with evka and antoine after destroying the blight eruption with unholy amounts of alchemical fire, looking Directly at lucanis studying a flower as it emerges undaunted from the thousand year horrors of the blight with all the guileless wonder and fascination of a little boy: yeah that's uh. wow. that is beautiful actually. this kind of does change everything doesn't it

[elliewiltarwyn]

Then vs. Now

tagged by @ubejamjar, thank you <3

i'll pass it along to... @verysmallcyborg @idalenn @ahollowgrave @selnyam @sylaurin @sasslett

I think I had poked around at a couple of the settings before, but this was the first time I took a Proper Gpose, in March 2020.

Compared with tonight in December 2024:

...gods, where do I even start for the differences lol.

switched jobs, going from wanting to heal to bulking up and taking on martial jobs like dark knight, monk, and viper

like actually bulking up, her customize+ scaling looks so natural to me now that skinny peeled Ellie looks so off lol. it's not a huge difference but it's noticeable.

found out how to give her muscle, those arm dragon tattoos, an Archon mark, and arm/leg hair. the tattoos were a joke at first because it's year of the dragon and i'm a dragon in the chinese zodiac, but errrr oops i'm too used to them now. and they look sick.

her highlights changed to black (with a swerve into white for ShB), her facemark changed to match her hair color, and some of her face shapes were different, but she was always face 2 with this skintone and hair color. really nailed that right off the bat.

she was just my avatar in this online RPG back then. it'd take a year or two, probably after beating 5.3, when I'd start thinking about her as an actual character. And now I have an idea of how much she's grown, how much she's lost, what she's gained, how many women she's managed to smooch--

she's on tumblr now, which has also been a great way to meet so many cool wols and their amazing players and i'll forever be grateful for those opportunities and the friends i've made. <3

...if any of y'all ever want to play with ellie i've got mare files i can lend >.>