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I lost the post I was gonna reblog this from, so:
you and the hat man
oh boy you're fighting demons aren't you. it's like you're in a constant staring competition with something that's always in the peripheral. what the fuck. (at least, that's how people who don't know you would react). at this point you've probably gotten pretty familiar with the hat man. he's a reliable kind of guy. keeps to himself, sure, but you can trust him to be there. maybe a haunting isn't too bad if it's never left your side. you can only imagine what it will be like when he's not there any more.
...don't you love when these just go for your throat? Because this is dead on, as much as I had hoped for some kind of dialectic that, if balanced, would create some equilibrium, Temperance instead of Two of Swords, which isn't really feasible when one half of the equation (you, i.e. me) is inherently unbalanced.
It's like when you accidentally share the zoom window and there's an infinite recursion of you, whatever you're doing at the time, smaller and smaller. No matter how many times you split the window, you're still in there, making less and less sense. Presumably, small enough up in the corner, there's an eight bit you. There's a you who's been reduced to a single pixel, but still trapped in the same context.
(Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows, particle man.)
The hat man probably isn't thrilled about the situation either. Being on the peripheral of the context is still within the context. Both of us are more defined by the negative space we occupy in said context than any actual existence.
I haven't even been drinking tonight. I thought about it, but then I thought, nah, I'll just have a sinus headache tomorrow, and the weather's been playing merry hell with them already.
There's a lot going on at the moment. And I think I'm much lonelier about it than I realized.
Shame the hat man doesn't do hugs, I guess.
#uquiz#unrelated to fandom#what is your duality?#you and the hat man#and a bunch of existential whining from me which is frankly embarrassing from someone sober#i genuinely don't know if i want to be the signal or the noise
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some of the right words
#akia art#olba#baxter ward#olba mc#maggie fighting for her life (colorized)#girl went into step 3 a casual dater and it took all of two (2) moments for her to accept she was screwed#doubly so bc it was supposed to be seasonal 🤣 it's such a fun premise for how it engages the mc's own complexities#i wonder how long it took baxter to fall on his ass tbh#i feel like he was self-aware enough to know it was happening but there had to have been an element of frog in boiling water to it#what w all that 19 yo emotional constipation LMAO#and the writing's preoccupation w coexisting dualities#the recoil of refusing to perceive until perceiving happens beyond your control must be insane#anyway i was also fighting for my life trying to draw a mouth kiss and that's why i've avoided them until now#tell me why it's giving the slobbery make out meme 😭🤣
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Canines
The hand that feeds
Mickbell Tomas & Kuro Dungeon Meshi
^ 1: Ink-the-artist, I will remove my teeth / 2: Margaret Atwood / 3: C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy / 4: Mitski, I’m your man / 5: Ojibwa, I love you like a rotten dog / 6: KotOR II / 7: Stardrop, Everything that’s ever been mine is covered in teeth marks / 8: Sodikken, People Eater / 9: Mitski, I’m your man / 10: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 11: Mitski, I bet on losing dogs / 12: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 13: hun, I did not bite with Malice / 14: C. Michael Davis, Don't Pet the Dragon / 15: Mitski, I’m your man
v 1: Early versions of the myth as in aeschylus orestes / 2: Ink-the-artist, I will not remove my teeth
#Yeahh i’m workng on a mickbell & kabru party analysis oops#I’d bleed for anything if it held me the right way. Even teeth#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#Mickbell tomas#kuro#mickuro#mickrin#It’s on topic in my heart#The red means I love you…#The duality between the care & devotion and the hurt & isolation is really what gets to me#Traumabonded kittens highkey#Tw#cw#cw abuse#tw abuse#Web weaving#web weave#webweaving#I hit 30 pics :( would have added more if i could#Idk even anymore… Pls tell me you see the vision#Mick obvi loves Kuro a lot but this was meant to focus on the unhealthy side if that wasn’t obvious. Abuse tactic of isolation etc etc#People always leave. doesn’t matter how or why but his parents his sister everyone he’s never enough to stay#and that’s why he thinks he has to trick Kuro into thinking Mickbell’s the whole world or he’ll discover that there’s more out there.#Stuff that’s worth leaving him for. He has to make the world scary and unknown and not pay him and not let him have connections#That’s why he doesn’t want people to have a choice!! Either Mickbell doesn’t care about you or he’ll make sure you can never be without him#and there being a third option/outcome in this freaks him out!!!#Some of these should be called ‘No Title’ instead but I have bad academic crediting etiquette this looks cooler sorry#He’s scared of course he bites. There’s only throwing bones when feeding a stray. So bare your teeth and chew me up
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DAY #11
>posting Achilles until he arrives at my doorstep.
you don't have much in common, do you
#hello from halo head#i had a cooler caption but forgot what it was#something something duality and reflection#i dont draw humans much. can you tell?#btw i had to google that. some turn of phrases make me feel like achilles#you're jumping out of your skin? don't do that please.
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growing up is apparently realizing the man who portrayed this guy:
is also the man who portrayed this guy:
the range of hugh dancy
#yes HE WAS THE PRINCE#shout out to the all of 2 people who were shocked in the notes of my last post#the duality of man#the duality of hugh dancy#hugh dancy#will graham#prince charmont#hannibal nbc#nbc hannibal#hannibal#hannibal come get your man before he marries ella of frell#the day i realized he was the prince was the day my entire life made sense#my hindbrain knew what i didnt and what was right before me#that i would forever fancy hugh dancy#lol#ella enchanted#prince char
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u kno i just started a new play through and when u first meet gale he does the slow blink that cats do when they trust u and he spent a whole year with only a cat as company …. hoping these r connected…. he’s so babygirl
you are so right, anon!
also let's face it, tara at some point probably gave him unsolicited dating advice. like, this is who we're talking about here:
we know she snoops too:
Tara the Tressym: However, I will not press you further. Your private correspondence is just that, technically. What kind of companion would I be were I to sneak a peek? NodeContext: A little telling, like she plans to read it [the letter] later
and:
Tara the Tressym: I won't pry for specifics, Mr Dekarios. Not when I can sneak a peek at your letter while you sleep.
#i can also see her be like the duality of man meme where it's like#tara without fail after every date: mr dekarios! how were they? have you tried blinking at them very slowly? will it be a spring wedding?#also tara sharpening her claws: what are your intentions with my adopted wizard son?#tara is the nosy overbearing mother to morena's more laid back approach#gale dekarios#tara the tressym#ch: tara the tressym#ch: gale dekarios#vg: baldur's gate 3#series: baldur's gate#text: asks#meta: mybg3#sort of lol
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im not necessarily sure if these things are connected so this is more of an observation than any kind of theory but i do think its interesting to ponder these two contrasting situations where the yj adults talk in hushed tones about “it” - one is nat and lottie of course talking about “it” as a darkness, a malicious presence/entity, something larger than them that’s also inside of them, something they brought back with them but that would have been better left in the wilderness. and the other is taissa and shauna talking about a different “it”, a feeling of rightness, and a feeling of belonging with someone, something that made them feel whole, and that they were never able to find again after the wilderness.
#the duality of the wilderness... you will be the freest you have ever been in your life#but you will also experience a darkness that you'll never be able to shake off for the rest of your life#is it worth the price you paid... and more importantly what would you do to get that feeling of freedom back?#yellowjackets
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You know what’s impressive? (As someone outside the law enforcement circles, more of an “outsider looking in”)
It’s 25 year old Matsuda Touta being invited to attend an ICPO conference with Yagami Soichiro, Police Investigation Bureau Chief
Like???
Sure, it was his first meeting at the start of the series, but do you know what I was doing at 25 years old? Not going to INTERPOL, aka International Criminal Police Investigation, conferences with the Chief of my department, that’s for sure
What a guy
#where can I find a man like him?#golden retriever badass cop#matsuda touta#touta matsuda#hella hard worker#loyal#dedicated#love of my life?#can see both sides of the conflict#and isn’t blinded by his own biases#just wants to do what’s right#a little reckless but doing his best#balls of steel for that handstand on a balcony#helping to bring down the mafia? like?#idol manager#to#Misa Amane#I mean?? the duality??#a freaking sharp shooter#he just gotta… stay away from Sayu#she’s a tad young and your boss’ daughter#death note#soichiro yagami#yagami soichiro#ICPO#Interpol#light yagami#yagami light#sayu yagami#yagami sayu
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honestly the season 2 zhaan treatment is kinda odd in general. not Bad just. there are three zhaan-centric episodes in a row, picture of you will, home on the remains, (sort of) and dream a little dream. they all kiiinda suck, and they all characterise her in a different way to the last. and then there are a few other episodes she’s barely in at all like out of their minds immediately after those three. am i making sense
#again i don’t think any of it is Bad. even the way her character drastically shifts in those three episodes#it shows her duality - her complicity. i like it#there’s just. Something . that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. under-utilised potential for Something More. i cant articulate it#just kinda feels like the writers don’t know what to do with her and they’re overcompensating in odd ways#idk. idk#farscape#your daily dose of idiocy
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not pictured: me lying at his feet in a melted puddle of desire
#he’s tripping over me but it’s fine#for all maximus’ softness and sweetness and tenderness#he’s also the fiercest and most terrifying force of nature when he fights#get you a man who can do both#he’s scary and unbeatable and threatening TO YOU#for me he’s got heart eyes and hands as light as a feather 🥰#if he’s your ruthless archenemy who must be eliminated then what’s he doing with his head in my lap falling asleep while i stroke his hair??#huh??? what about it punk????#idk what these tags are#i’m just freaking out over him#over his precious duality of sweetness and harshness#i’m constantly torn between needing him to make sweet love to me#versus absolutely rail me against his cell bars#BOTH#both is good#both is ideal#make me your wife sir#make me even more of a lovestruck fool for you than i already am#jk i could never unless??? 👀#gladiator#maximus#maximus decimus meridius#gladiator 2000#russell crowe
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thinking about. narukami arashi. in all her messy self. augh...
#i love her sm and its like way beyond the queen girlboss thing#i have yet to read much of her in the !! stories cuz im catching up slowly but#at least in what ive read so far. shes such a wonderful character. full of duality#shes caring shes distant shes cute and dainty she could beat your ass shes confident shes insecure shes collected shes impulsive#she wants to be loved and love as well but she knows it's painful to chase after someone... to lose people... its painful and scary...#i love how she insists on being there for mika bc she already lost someone to her self centeredness. she will reach out.#she will not allow herself to miss her friends' pain again#but also she keeps her distance... leo had to literally shake her pain out of her...#in ! even though eeeveryone is mean and transphobic she keeps smiling and doesnt push the issue#even tho it hurts her sm to be constantly invalidated...#(yes ik its a good bit of retcon shut up)#even though shes so confident in herself. she still cowers at the thought of being rejected and ostricized.#tbh i love knights in general. the overarching theme of “individualists”#but theyre all just. deeply lonely and unloved people#theyre sticking close and playing family but theyre all terrified deep down its all a house of cards...#i need to read the model trio lookback. i need little nacchan and the birth of her insane crush on the teacher guy.#(also tbh i stand by nacchan being thw most normal knights member. even her crush is Just Girlhood Things)#(like cmon who didnt know a girl who had a delusional crush on someone older. i knew like 10 girls like that#its only the child model part that makes her unusual. between a rich nobleson a yandere tsundere model#a genious lunatic composer a vampire chuunibyou guy and a child model tgirl. whos the most normal)#enstars#arashi narukami
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two hours ago had an existential crisis moment in a bath
ten minutes ago it started raining like crazy, just absolutely pouring at 10pm so i ran outside and just enjoyed getting soaked in seconds. it was warm and made me feel alive so yaknow.. sometimes you truly gotta will yourself to enjoy the little things
#life#hormones be wildin but also idk.. there are moments when the brain goes 'why am i here? what am i supposed to do with my life?'#and then you experience moments like.. just standing in the summer rain getting absolutely blasted and it's like YEP i feel alive#for moments like this babeyyyyy sometimes it's like the weight on your shoulders the never-ending questions#and sometimes.. it ain't that deep#the duality of a woman#the evanescence-blasting emo vs. 'i'm so random eks dee' girlie i guess
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how people thought Harv would react to learning Bruce was Batman: YOU BETRAYED ME WHAT THE FUCK ? all these years how could you ? you ruined my life ! how Harv actually reacted : *shaking sobbing crying* I know you're Batman please lock me away or do something before Two Face finds out . I need you , I don't want him to hurt you . how people thought Twos would react to finding out Bruce was Batman : YOU BETRAYED ME WHAT THE FUCK ? all these years how could you ? you ruined my life ! Now perish . Two Face: Hot . alright lets go save his ass ...
#◖𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 & 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 / 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 .#this was LITERALLY IT#of course I'm referencing ram v's latest entries here but man yeah this is what happened like two face just wanted to know why harv always#sobs shakes vomits over batman like “ why is it so deep about batcreep with you ? ” and now he knows and he's not even mad#twos literally like “ oh our soulmate ? ”#i feel like there's been some growth like had this occured in their younger years then yes it would be filled with confusion and anger but#two face literally mellowed out a bit in that he at least takes Harv's immediate relationships to account and those who show they care for#them#and lets be real twos knowing bruce's true duality = twos thinking that's hot as fuck#he just wanted to know because he hates being left out of things too don't keep secrets from your alter in your own head harv >:/
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TaeMin — Eternal Trailer #1
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#Taemin#eternal#comeback#lee taemin#shinee#the king of kpop is back#WHAT IS THIS AESTHETIC#it makes my goth heart sing 😭#How am I supposed to function#Our emo boy is back#THE DUALITY SIR#Help#i love him your honor#Youtube
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Here we are– you are the first of the 4 in which I completed. MSpaint spooky/thoughtful Cayin doodle. It was fun deciding on what to do. Hope you enjoy, Croc. Hope you don’t mind that I was feeling BB Cayin <3
// AAAAAAAAAAAHHH this is so lovely!! You nail his style perfectly, this came out so cool. Thank you Cat!!
#submission#Your art is always a joy- and when it's about the snake gentleman himself I just feel so lucky ;u; <3#don't mind it being BB Cayin at all! ER may have been my focus lately but I still think a lot about the Victorian snek with a hat#plus you capture him so perfectly#also I have to say I'm a huge fan of your usual artstyle but I also really dig the rougher style of your MSpaint doodles!#this could be a portrait for when you talk to him in a very stylish point-and-click adventure game#the way the lines frame him. The way you incorporate the white into his dark clothing and his overall pose her#is such a cool mood#if you make the image smaller and the pixels become more pencil drawing-like it feels like a small illustration over a tabletop statline#or a quest's description#in other words your art just gets the thoughts in my brain moving and I really like that!#the small touch of the colored bow on his ponytail is a neat detail too#and you know what I kinda love the way that warm sepia-ish tone feels#and you know what I kinda love the way that warm sepia-ish circle in the back could be the moon or the sun depending on how you look at it#because it plays really nicely into the duality of Cayin's shadowy style with the theme of the sun for Yig#gives a bit of an Autumn vibe to the picture too :y#but yes I could go on- love it. Love it to bits 8]#hexenjagd#friend art
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Linktober Shadow Day 6
Shadow Beast
The Twilight Princess fan in me really came out on this one huh? I blame the sleep deprivation. We never quite addressed the effects of the Twili Magic on Twilight and how it's only sheer force of will and the fact he's so darn kind, Midna's influence and Time teaching him the Song of Healing first being the main factor in making sure he doesn't fall huh? Even more so than the One Cutscene. We also need to talk more about the fact we technically kill Midna's people and how by the end of it all Twi is so changed by the Twilight Realm who's it's own can of worms that, much like Time he can't quite go home as himself me thinks, as a treat to myself
Mostly Twilight x Reader, this goes out to all of the folks who never quite recovered from Twilight Princess and the fact we never got that sequel (I mean it gave us BOTW and TOTK and Wild, but at what cost?), but can be read as Link x Reader either on the platonic or romantic.
Don't think there's any warning this time but might edit later if needed.
Actually yeah there is one warning
TW:
References to body horror typical to Twilight Princess, though I recommend not reading it I'd you're squeamish period.
Even after so long, you and Twilight could still remember the beauty and solemnity of the Twilight Realm, with it’s zircon skies with clouds of trapped fire and rains of viper obsidian.
The silence of the infection upon the realm of light broken only by the echoes of the howling elegy of the Twili and Interlopers who came before creeping over the land like rot and wither over flowers, the lament of the lost spirits of the people and animals of Hyrule falling over your spirit like a shroud, a shared hymm from two worlds reality had been twisted, only both of it’s princess, one filled the luster of empyreal sorrow in her mind and one with the scorch abyssal fury in her heart knowing to see the reflective tragedy befallen to their people. With Link as the one who restored the memory of what once was in both worlds as divinity and calamity sang in his bones and you a witness to the restoration of harmony to the discordant symphony, the two different songs of light and shadow refusing to let go of either of you in an eternal duet.
(Once touched by magic, it shall never leave the one if holds onto Twilight may have been the one with the Beast in his soul, with the howl of a wolf, the bite of shades in his veins and the lament of innocents taking precedence over anything purely because he learned how to silence the whispers of the one’s who made a grab for heaven’s throat and we’re pushed in the cracks of reality for their prideful vánitas even as he could taste it in the back of his tongue, twining around his ribs and overgrowing into his shattered mirror heart like vines, flowering with the divinity and eternal nature of the Hero’s Spirit, already having the hunt of the Fierce Deity in it’s veins and the remains of cursed divinity welcoming the new aspect merrily so he could bear it. The song of the innocent wrongly punished among the sinners rang into your mind, scratched at your skin and dug it’s claws around your throat, chocking you with sorrow and regret, more willing to leave gouges than to let go of someone’s who’s looked into the reverse side of the sacred realm and wept with grief for it’s people and the curse of it’s beauty.
It would never leave you, Link or Zelda, who learned who love the darkness the way Midna did, madness and unsightly delight and all.)
While the people of Hyrule merely became trapped as observers at best, if they were lucky, Midna’s raging grief and resentment quickly became obvious, once she revealed that rotten Zant had done to her and her people, twisted into a new form, distorted in body and trapped in mind like the animals and beasts of Hyrule, their pain driving them in becoming feral attack hounds for the usurper, their howling screams as much sorrow, wailing in an attempt to let their agonized, tortured souls to escape from it’s mouth, a futile attempt to flee from the strain of reality forgetting their true form in favor of Zant’s twisted design, of being used as sentient canvases for cruelty and ruthlessness, of their will being stepped over in favor of corrupting recreation.
Of how it only didn’t quaff down at Midna’s mind because of the nature of her ephemerality, fully beloved by the Realm of Darkness, of how she loathed him for it and wouldn’t wish her fate of that of her people’s on any living or dead soul, once she came to love the Realm of Light through Zelda’s sacrifice.
Which was why, when you saw three of the victims of the telltale twisting from darkness utilized with the intent to drive one insane, a familiar looking plate of stone engraved on the remains of ashes from their identity, the curling of distorted, solid darkness making crooked mishapen manes, bent out of shape from their too long torso and long, long arms adorned with twitching, deformed claws, you feel very justified in way your blood froze, holding onto Wild’s arms and yanking with all you had so his shot will miss, his yelp of surprise swallowed by the bone cracking, blood curdling screech from one of the beasts as a Skyward Strike grazed it’s petrified flesh.
You feel something warm drip down your ears, taste the promise of violence and the cry of lost souls on the back of your tongue and swallow it down as the memory of the Twilight Realm attempted to bite and crack your ribcage to quaff down your heart, to devour it bones and all, calling out in desperation, “Don’t! That’s a person!”
Sky freezes, as still as a statue, Legend curses the heavens crimson in a way you are so glad Wind isn’t around to hear as he retreats Twilight snarls, the wolf in him revolted and disgusted, you wonder if the Twilight is singing in his mind too as he restrains himself from reaching for the crystal as nails just a tad too sharp invite droplets of blood to one hand, grimm as a graveyard “We need to get them together anyway, felling just one won’t be enough.”
You grimace, releasing Wild, keeping your eye on the Shadow Beasts and another on your group, pointedly not mentioning the twitch in Four, amethyst clouding his gaze and the prism of his eyes turning gray with memories you and Twilight both knew all too well, of the grimace in Time’s otherwise stony countenance, you’d wished to avoid bloodshed of whoever was turned against their will, but you and Twilight both knew that might not be possible, death, unfortunately, might be the greatest mercy you can grant these poor souls.
(The Twilight is harmonizing in your ears, jeering, you feel the Interlopers insanity and the Twili’s lament on your teeth. As lovely as it could be cruel, the merry feeling upon meeting, the sorrow at a parting.
If you ever see the Shadow, you might just try indulging the echo by offering it’s blood as tribute. You'd make it hurt. The fact it learned the spell used to deform reality in such a way was cruel and vile.)
“Legend, how is your magic?” shoots Warriors, analyzing, calculating, it snaps the purple back into Four’s gaze, brings his mind back to focus as he reaches into his inventory for his Moon Pearl, Twilight is circling the beasts with single minded purpose, herding them together and prowling as he would as a wolf, Wild thankfully listened to your warning and had switched from the more destructive Flame and Lightning Arrows to ice ones. It doesn’t contain them for long but it gives a few precious seconds to strategize.
Legend catches on, switching to the Ice Rod on one hand and grasping his own Moon Pearl with the other, Sky has another Skyward Strike ready, but doesn’t release it, you switch from your sword to accepting a Magic Rod tossed at you from Wild, “Good enough.”
You breath in shakily, the symphony of the Twilight Realm has quieted, more lament than anthem as it’s Hero steps back, returning to your side, he nods grimly, “... Then, let’s end this quickly.”
You know your will boys will do their best to heal them, and failing that, you hope that they’ll hear the requiem of the Twili rather than the lament once they’re at peace, that they'll find some form of threnody.
It is a horrible thing, to be forced to die as a beast.
#linked universe x reader#linked universe twilight x reader#We really need to talk more about how the Twilight Realm sticks with Twilight and how it's magic never really leaves him#Heck I also want to know what it was like learning to turn into a wolf on his own. I bet that it was quite the process#friendly reminder that Time Twilight Midna and her people can all shake hands over identity and technical body horror#And how the Twilight Realm also likely has it's form of sentience due to the duality of both people like the Interlopers and the Twili#Something something how the difference between light magic dark magic is more about how willing much each reality changes you#and how Twilight more than anything and anyone who was with him on his journey would embody that fine line#Also the conflict between not wanting to kill the people that remind you of your old friend and the echoes all you have left of her realm#and knowing that their fate is so darn awful that death is a mercy#The reason Reader sees the Twilight as they do is because the dark magic latched onto them via association and Twilight's fondness#Maybe I'll elaborate on that later idk lol#Also the reason Dark Link knows the curse Zant used is both because of his nature and a reference to the TP Manga if you know you know#Hero's Shade mauls Zant in it. It's arguably the best thing in any manga I am begging any people who like Twilight and TP to go read it#summer writes linktober shadow 2023#summer writes#I could go on an entire essay about the relationship between the Realm of Darkness in each game and the Realm of Light and magic in loz#but I doubt anyone would want to hear about it lol
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