#the inevitable end of everything

[gametourism]

Outer Wilds, Timber Hearth, Youngbark Crater, tw flashing lights

[VD : a video showing the end cycle of the sun passing the bramble seed on the ground. as it reaches the left side of the screen, the sun collapses and explodes in a blue flash, expanding until the screen turns white /End VD]

[trilliath]

honestly shout out to the dead dove: do not eat creators, the darkfic authors, the people who can unflinchingly stare into their darkest desires and curiosities and give them life enough to share with other people. It's absolutely so much harder than it looks to pull off

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Let the revenge games begin.

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[scarapanna]

I liked your art, you won🎉🎉🎉

WE WON NO REDEMPTION WAHOOOOO/silly

I'm still terrified of the redemption route for this clown though hdhghfg, I want his silly self to stay evil and wimsy and goofy and with redemption uhhh

We're like

I dunno I'm sooo scared devsis is gonna take away that aspect which is what makes him just so funnn. Please pretty please let him be god awful and rotten and rude and goofy if you take that route Devisis I want him to keep his funny wimsy qualities. Please please pleaseeee write him well y'all are doing sooo good with him don't fumble by taking the redemption route (And if they do it better be good and he better stay chaotic and goofy and sassy and condescending and all his "rotten rabid thing" qualities)

If they do him (And his fun aspects justice in this dreaded hypotetical) then I may be cool with it. Though the mean ass possum has grown on me so much I'd 100% miss that evil and unhinged part of him TONS, devsis have mercy pretty please/silly

[Longer more insane ramblings are in the tags hsfhfhhv]

[valtsv]

i'm not that worried about tumblr becoming unusable just yet but if/when it does die i am going to be genuinely sad because i've found and developed a community on here and have a place where i can be honest and feel like i belong even when there's nowhere and no one else i feel i can turn to, and i've spent so much time on here that it will, for better or for worse, leave a hole (lol) where it once was when i finally have to pack my things and go. even if i archive my blog, it'll be the end of a period of my life that i put a lot of effort into and got a lot of joy out of, and which shaped some of the ways i've grown and changed and discovered myself as a person. even if there are new communities in my future, both online and irl - which i'm sure there will be - i'll still miss the time i spent here and the people i spent that time with.

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 169

this is it, the dynamic

[calamitoustide]

regulus "i have a feeling you got everything you wanted and you're not wasting time stuck here like me" black and james "you're just thinking it's a small thing that happened the world ended when it happened to me" potter

[puhpandas]

gregory vanessa and freddy will have content in secret of the mimic no matter how small like to charge reblog to cast

[user2718273]

Having big feelings abt her again

[butwhatifidothis]

it annoys me so much when people say "edel had no other choice" as a thought terminating cliche. like even IF that were true, how one goes about that is still a characterful thing that gets minimized to "so it's not her fault stop being mean to her she just did what she had to". like. does she feel regret? does she apologize ot the people she's hurting? does she view it as righteous? who knows, becuase the argument is only ever used as a "stop being mean to my wife" line and not a character thing.

Yeah cuz like. Okay so let's say that starting the war was absolutely not her fault because xyz circumstance robs her of any substantial say in the matter.

What about using Demonic Beasts? What about her siccing her army and different set of Demonic Beasts on her own "friends" so that she could make more Demonic Beasts? Stealing from a gravesite to do so? What about starving her citizens, and being the only lord TO starve her citizens in their route? What about killing Judith as she ran away from her? Hell, invading the neutral Alliance in the first place? What about helping the Death Knight get away with stealing Flayn if 25 turns pass? What about saying nothing about Kronya even after Solon reveals himself at Remire? What about giving Jeritza a hunting ground to enable his bloodlust and not, like. Professional help?

She couldn't even mention a means she's working on to do anything about her starving citizens? Did she have to blame Claude (and everyone really) not immediately bowing down to her as to why the Alliance was violently invaded, and not her violent invasion being the reason it was violently invaded? What about persecuting Church followers who didn't do shit to anybody, did she have to do that shit too? Never freeing Brigid and instead stationing her men there on her route and sending Hubert there off of it; that was forced on her too? Taking Byleth's credit during the siege instead of letting them get the recognition they deserve - what, just, fate forcing her hand once again?

Are we really going to sit here and say because the war "needed" to happen, Edelgard was forced to do literally all of that (and more)? That because Edelgard was "forced" into war, she was also forced to do literally anything involving the war?

Like you said, her stans saying that she "had no choice" but to start the war does nothing to say anything about her as a character, because they also reject everything else she did regarding her war as having anything to do with her agency. They treat "she had to do this" as a means to protect the moral purity they want her character to have so they don't feel bad rooting for the villain to win, not as something that goes on to mean anything for her.

And I'm not asking for her to save literally every single person ever from any harm ever to prove her care about not going to war exists, I'm asking for LITERALLY ANYTHING. Because she quite literally does nothing to mitigate harm from anybody in this war, and regardless of whether the war was "forced" on her hands or not she absolutely could have done something to make sure her people suffered as minimally as possible. Which damn sure isn't seen in her hiding behind them as she sits in her throne room (a thing Dimitri and Claude absolutely don't do, with either similar or less time to prepare to protect their people). Or starves them, a thing uniquely said about her route (as literally all the other ones have the army go with lacking food supplies). Or allows Thales to conscript them under threat of death. Or openly saying that she thinks weak people would only stay weak after her war because they're "too used to relying on others" - because when her war takes everything away from people, it'd be THEIR fault for staying weak, which is *chef's kiss* so kind and caring amiright guys. Definitely shows off that she understands and/or cares about the ramifications of her war onto the people, and not that she has her head shoved squarely and firmly up her ass.

What does it meaningfully mean for the war to not be Edelgard's fault, if she's not going to do anything to indicate that she cares about other people enough to want to not force war on them? Hell, when she very explicitly shows she doesn't particularly care about how it'd affect people, if it affects people in a way that doesn't align with her beliefs? When she very explicitly says she's perfectly willing to sacrifice her people for her higher cause, and then goes on to sacrifice her people for her higher cause? If she doesn't even try to help others because the war was forced on her, that at best makes her one of powerless victim or uncaring defeatist - neither of which fit the resolute caring ambitious revolutionary they paradoxically also want her to be. So, again, what does it actually mean for the war to not be a result of Edelgard's agency, if she regardless of that still shows callous indifference to those harmed by the war?

It's a question no one who posits this about Edelgard is able to answer, because as you said, it's not meant to be anything more than a shallow defense against her own actions. Letting Edelgard have even the slightest smidgen of agency in her own actions means accepting that she is a massive fucking penis. A huge gaping asshole. A plain ol' jerk. Which again! Is INFINITELY more engaging to watch than this marionette strung along by literally everyone around her into "looking" like a villain, only being her "true" self when she's feeding kittens and dwawing her cwush and burping her googoo gaga babyass girlfriend they also tend to make (f!)Byleth over her shoulder

[sea-jello]

CHAT

CHAT I WAS JOKING

[croissantk]

The thing abt people trying to assign mei and mk into the 'hero and warrior' dynamic and comparing them to eclipse duo's relationship saying history will repeat itself and stuff 🖐STOP. THINK for a second. I love the idea of tragedies as much as the next guy but. That will just not happen with those two. Like do you remember the samadhi fire scene? And the way mei tried so hard to reach out to mk in the same way in s4?? Yes yes they DO parallel eclipseduo and they do have the potential even more soo well but lest not ignore that they are much better than that okay?

So to conclude this debate. In my most opinion☝️ it is essentially that; mei is a hero pushed into the role of the warrior and mk is a warrior pushed into the role of the hero. Does anyone understand me

[dykedvonte]

Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.

It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

kinda haunted.

[qoldenskies]

i think the villain fire at will au snuck up on me a bit bc i confused it with wwww for a moment there lol but what is the villain au about, if there’s anything ur willing to share !!

wwww has some similar concepts but i think the biggest difference is that the wwww disaster twins are codependent while in fire at will i would say that the thing going on is more uhh. enmeshment. like

wwww leo is not intentionally abusive. he can be clingy, or pushy, or even hurtful, but these are responses to the environment he's in, and once he's in a safer place with a larger support system he's able to even out and their relationship becomes a lot healthier. he's always just under someone else's thumb. he's hurting.

but in fire at will it's not the same, leo is intentionally using donnie and stringing him along-- it's hard to say how much of it stems from emotional dependence and how much of it is malicious because of his own crumbling mental state, and i think answering that question would undermine the story so im not gonna. you're meant to question it tbh,,, but i'm also not going to undermine donnie's agency in a lot of his decisions. they're feeding into each other with their combined trauma and closing themselves off from others. a big part of the story is leo having an immense tragic falling out with raph in particular, and people take sides. it's a mess.

wwww is a story with a happy ending and fire at will is a tragedy-- death looms large over faw!leo as a threat for the entire story. it begins with an extremely intense near-death experience, and its his motivation for everything afterwards- a desire to run from it, to untangle himself from the web he's woven for himself. and he only sinks deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until it catches up on him and there's no running it from it anymore. now whether or not donnie ends up going down with him, like both of them believe he'd be supposed to, that's the question,,,

[rosykims]

having a lavellan who is kind of an absolute demon in her own right is so much fun because sure that cut content of "oh solas didnt deserve a happy ending but lavellan did" is lovely and worth centering in the conversation.... but you know what else hits? "oh my god i dont even care anymore" "if this is what it takes for them to both fucking LEAVE thedas then good riddance"