#trying to escape the darkness

[avatar-of-the-web]

If you asked me 4 years ago if a system like mine could exist and described it as it is now. Well I probably wouldn't have said no but I would've been completely astounded still.

[starrypawu]

ok so i never rlly paid attention to the dates before and i was wondering how much time was in bewteen the showdown and wanted and-

oh ! so chosen was. alone. for 5 years. ! oh okay !

and we dont know how much of that time he was running from rocket corp either, he couldve been on the run for 5 years for all we know.

thats,,, yeah.

[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

[bagelvangr]

Act 2 Durge when Shadowheart

[the-muppet-joker]

Does vriska hate women too

I h8 those 8itches!!!!!!!! Just because I kin Vriska does not invalid8 my misogyny. Please respect that.

[starry-bi-sky]

catch me looking up nightingale symbolisms for tales of the passerine. if danny's using the name of a songbird for a hero name, regardless of familial connections, i will utilize the symbolism tied to the bird. Anyways general gist of the nightingale symbolism i've seen, other than what wikipedia told me, is that nightingales were frequently symbolisms of spring renewal, loss/death, love, etc. catch me about to incorporate music into Danny's character

[himejoshiangels]

do you know how fucking infuriating it is to go into the duke tag for posts abt one of my favorite characters only to be met with post after post of people who don't gaf abt him but want to pretend that they do by deciding to project their lack of interest in him onto the story itself. by saying over and over and over and over that the only way he fits into the dynamic of his family is by being fucking "normal" when that literally isn't the case. like it's fully entirely made up. pick up one comic with him in it, any at all and that's disproven. he only exists to juxtapose their chaos, their trauma, their quirkiness. I think that reply pissed me off so bad I reached my breaking point. it's already so hard to find any content of him at all but the stuff people make is always, always discrediting him entirely.

[herearedragons]

tag the oc that's most likely to get stuck in a time loop and what kind of time loop it would be

[jara257]

making my way through house of leaves has been rly good. i can never shake the feeling that it's burning a hole in the space it occupies in my room. like a rectangular void drawing in everything around it, not unlike a black hole. like a hateful monolith that promises to destroy me every time i reach out to touch it. then i pick it up and it's only a book. kinda awesome

[eye-of-yelough]

what i really enjoy about abusive durgetash is is that if you get crazyinsane enough with it, durge’s GodMaster They’re In A Constant Battle To Break Their Chains From, goes from Bhaal to that fucking tyrant guy.

[lucianalight]

This is a somehow personal and pro Sylvie post so feel free to scroll past it.

For reasons related to my last post, I needed a comfort show after breathing stopped being painful and Loki finale has become a comfort episode for me. But I don't want to talk about Loki this time. For the most part. I want to talk about Sylvie. Why I love and sympathize with her.

Her conversation with Loki in the finale is my favorite Sylvie scene.

"And who are you to say we can't die trying? Who are you to decide we can't die fighting?"

Her rage, her defiance, her hatred of someone else deciding for her. All that are things that I can deeply understand. That I feel every single day. Being targeted and hunted for your very existence, for your harmless choices, for your basic human rights, for being you your whole life. Her pessimism, her distrust of everyone, her thirst for revenge, her relentless fighting to be free even for a short time, even if it means her death, even if death will be the only freedom she gets. All of it, I feel too.

These lines, this dialogue between Sylvie and Loki in ep 6, always make me emotional. It's a conclusion to the conversion they had in ep 4.

"Annihilating is easy. Razing things to the ground is easy. Trying to fix what's broken is hard. Hope is hard."

And Sylvie, Sylvie looks like she's about to cry. It's like she's never even considered it.

Can she hope? Is she brave enough to hope? and isn't hope why we're fighting? All she had till then was rage and revenge. They were the forces that drove her and when they were gone, she was lost, empty, alone. She started to doubt her choices. And here Loki was offering her softness, change, hope. Again. Like he did from the start. And that moved her.

What I like though, is that what Loki does in the end, isn't fixing TVA like he initially wanted. He destroys the loom, the very thing TVA was trying to protect. But after that, he fixes the timelines, not by controlling them, but by setting them free. He both destroys and fixes sth and through that proves both himself and Sylvie right.

"I grew in apocalypses Loki. I've lived through enough of them to know that sometimes it's ok to destroy something." "If…if there's a hope that you can replace that thing with something better."

[m-art77]

Idk if Tik Tok and the fandom here are making me delusional or whatever but I’m genuinely curious about the chances of Gortash becoming a romance option (down the line for Dark Urge). Like I feel like if Larian conducted a poll at this moment for a dlc romance option Gort would be pretty high up or number one?? Because I keep seeing more people start to like him? Like is he becoming more popular? Especially because it seems widely accepted now that him and Dark Urge were an item of some kind and the fandom overall seems to like that. Or am I in an echo chamber for him?lol

[sigmamax69]

OK OK so I kept seeing @kindheartedgummybears's and @lazylesbianbear's werewolf AUs and I reallly like them and I got inspired to draw something like that !!

Tbh ig this is just as if Erin and Jamie were in The Quarry's setting, and Jamie got turned into a werewolf and captured Erin in the woods. What will happen to her? Who knows!!

[claudiaeparvier]

Claudia’s Spark in the Dark Day 1 & 2: “Hobbies”

“I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality.” -Frida Kahlo

[sitelenco]

someone broke the mirror...

"everyone said they didn't even shatter the mirror, nor even seen Meta Knight behind it..."

decided to take that one gijinka Meta Knight artwork and make a 'copied' kra file by using the "Save As"; i recoloured the outfit and sword, changed the facial expression and emblem, then i added some final details!

(btw apologies for the double posting in a single day :'[)

[cringefaecompilation]

ever think about how every single member of bell's hells has to deal with a second half to them that threatens to kill them or take over their entire body?

imogen has her connection to predathos. laudna has delilah. fearne has the shard of rau'shan. ashton has the shard of ka'mort. fcg had their care and culling protocols. orym has an archfey pact. chetney has his werewolf side.

so what's going to become of dorian?