#theme: colour

[araekniarchive]

Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, I Love You

George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

Jimmiwin, the red painting

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Kaash Paige, Love Songs

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Ocean Vuong, Notebook Fragments

The Rolling Stones, Rainbow

Vincent van Gogh, Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes

Coldplay, Yellow

Charlotte Gilman Perkins, The Yellow Wallpaper

Great Expectations (1998) dir. Alfonso Cuarón

Albert Camus, A Happy Death

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

Gwendolyn Brooks, To the Young Who Want to Die

Franny Choi, How to Let Go of the World

Suzanne Siegel, After Dinner Walk

The Murder Capital, Green and Blue

Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon

Mitski, Blue Light

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

[araekni]

[ID: Two images of the same piece of textile art. The first image shows the full piece, and the second shows the detail. The image is an rectangular cross stitch on white backing: it shows multiple grey and blue pop-ups like those from older Windows computers reading 'Are you okay?' and 'Hello...?' They're layered on top of each other to create a glitch effect, with the window they've opened shows a colourful seaside scene. The background of the computer itself is in a neutral blue, and icons can be seen going vertically down the right hand side: of a blank folder, a mini computer and the recycling bin. End ID.]

AT LAST....... I'M FREE

Approximately seven months and almost 12,000 stitches later...... behold :') I don't even know what else to write anymore gfdsgsd just look at it. Please.

Feeling brave enough to try it yourself? You can by the pattern here for as little as $1 👍

[hajihiko]

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

[anbaisai]

he's so mean

[araekni]

[ID: An oil painting of a bouquet of flowers; the top half of the painting is very traditional, but from the middle down the colours of all the different flowers smear down the canvas in a vertical rainbow. End ID.]

Unknown - Tuula Lehtinen , 2021-22.

Finnish, b.1956 -

OIl on canvas , 200 x 125 cm.

[crabsnpersimmons]

Happy Halloween from the "Have You Eaten?" Boys!

[spiderzlover]

Her Saturday 💙💛

[hinamie]

binding vow

[lucky-draws]

evil vampires need 2 things. a nice robe and an emotional support rectangle

[lucabyte]

Happy PMD Red is on NSO day. Sadly I don't think King the Skitty and Muse the Cyndaquil will be returning to finish up their adventure regardless.

[lizzybeeee]

DATV explaining the 'Regret Prison'

A REGRET PRISON IS STUPID AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT ITS NOT

TL;DR: a prison can serve as a metaphor but it shouldn't be entirely comprised of a metaphor.

From what I understood from what the game gave us: Solas has made a new prison to move the God's too - since bringing down the veil would free them from the Black City. This new prison is separate(?) from the fade or so far removed/contained that bringing down the veil would not compromise it...apparently. We interrupt his ritual, Solas gets sucked into the new prison he made, and the elven gods are free.

When Rook gets kicked into the fade they're physically there - which means it's a physical place in the fade, like how it was a mixture of physical/thought when we entered it in DAI. Which makes sense - the gods are real and living beings, they need to be in a place, there must be some aspect of physicality to it.

Alright, cool, it's a Black City 2.0 - I assume it's better defended to prevent people breaking in/out again?

NOPE.

We get there and it's a 'regret prison'?? It's tied to the regrets of those within it? Composed of regrets??? Solas had to wait for the right moment for Rook to be sufficiently 'full of regret' that they could switch places?

So is the prison tied to Solas's regrets? If so, how can Rook escape? The prison seems to work around the idea that it relies on the regrets of the person it's holding to work - which is how/why Rook was able to be trapped and later free themselves (along with whatever remains of the team apparently being able to do something on their end, not that we hear about it).

WHICH IS STUPID!

Are you telling me the prison intended to hold to megalomaniac elven gods was going to imprison them based on their own regrets? Is Solas assuming that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are as self-pitying as he is? They'd break out quicker than Rook did! He made a time out corner for the elven gods to sit in and gave them an out if they reflected on their emotions/regrets or decided that they don't regret what they did. Elgar'nan, a spirit of tyranny, is not going to 'regret' his actions - he is going to justify them by telling himself and others that he knows what's best.

We can come across some of Solas's regrets in the prison if you run around a bit and explore:

Remnant of Failure - talking about the orb from Inquisition.

Remnant of Parting - talking about Mythal

Remnant of Reflection - more vague, talking about the Titans I believe.

So maybe he altered it - maybe he intended the prison to be 'locked' with his own regrets because after a millennia of having a pity party he still can't bring himself to self-reflect and look to the future. But what if Solas died? Or if his guilt lessened - would it diminish the strength of the regret prison?

We already have pre-established lore (though DATV has shown they don't really give a crap tbh) that once the being that has claimed/altered an area of the fade is slain, it's influence diminishes both in and outside of the fade. So if the prison was tied to his regrets then it would require Solas to basically live forever to keep it stable - especially if he brought down the veil and removed the one barrier that kept the world and the fade apart.

Rook and Solas needed some assistance to exit - but it doesn't seem like it was much! Solas used his dagger and Rook just...got out through a fade tear? This is Solas's 'more secure' second prison? It has a worse track record than the Black City! If Rook - who is not an elven god - managed to escape the regret prison what is to stop anyone else from breaking in and out of the prison?

And what did Solas intend to do with the blight - the bulk of which is apparently in the black city?? If bringing down the Veil would free the gods in the black city doesn't that mean that the blight would also be released?! Did he have a plan? Why does he go fully ahead with bringing down the veil at the end if the black city is still there and filled with blight?!

I get it: the 'regret prison' is a metaphor for how Solas holds onto the past and how Rook can move past their regrets and grow. He's trapped by the past - it's a prison. Cool. But this prison is supposed to by a physical place to contain the gods - not just to solely contain Solas. The mission is literally called 'A Cage for Gods'.

The Black City is an actual place that's so far out of reach of anywhere else in the fade that no mage can ever reach it while in dreams - let alone physically, which was only done once and took tremendous effort/blood sacrifices. It made sense - it was cool to see floating in the sky in DAO!

Though it's not said specifically, it's strongly implied that Arlathan is the Black City. You can see in the concept art that floating elven city is exactly the same as the black city in DAO! It's this foreboding thing just lurking in the sky - a constant reminder of the sin that led to the horrors of the blights and darkspawn. A real place with lore and history that also serves as a metaphor for the hubris and destruction of those who call themselves gods and act as tyrants -> for both the evanuris and the magisters.

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS BIOWARE!

WHAT IS THIS KINGDOM HEARTS NONSENSE???!!

[umiena]

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[lnhisgarden]

#⃞ Amour bleu ⭐ ˙ ི ྀೃ ཐི༑✟⃨⃛༑ཋྀ ♬ .˳˳.⋅ॱ˙ ˙ॱ⋅.˳˳.⋅ॱ˙ ˙ॱᐧ.˳˳.⋅

[chloesimaginationthings]

WHY ARE SUN AND MOON SO CUTE IN YOUR STYLEEEE

I stand by that Sun and Moon are the best to draw

[ghoulgeists]

hes taking a smoke break