#whatever you win some you lose some

[jackfromthefairytale]

ERRA - Sol Absentia [LIVE 2022]

happy birthday jesse cash

[piyo13sdoodles]

day 18, hote chapter 48:

And his Radiancy, whipping around to glare at him, glared--and then he started to laugh, and magic shimmered into illumination around them, fell through the air, filled the room with sparkles and shimmers, and his Radiancy slumped down to a seat on the divan and raised his hands up to the magic raining down, and he laughed, and laughed, and laughed.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

this cliff took more lives than i could on my own im losing it

[novadragoness]

A builder who totally understands where X is coming from, collecting all those shinies for Coco, because she also likes shiny things, and has been secretly leaving pretty rocks on Unsuur's porch for weeks now.

[seagreenstardust]

Tbh when I first watched MHA and got to the preview for ep 3 and realized Izuku was going to be the world’s greatest hero because All Might was going to give him a quirk, and not because he was heroic enough without one, I was a little bit disappointed. The end of ep 2 leaves you feeling so high and that one spoiler brought down a notch for me

Now? Izuku deserves a quirk more than anyone, so sure, having him give everything, down to destroying parts of his body without repair, just to lose the quirk? Also feels a little bit disappointing, if that’s where we’re headed, just because he’s sacrificed so much

THAT BEING SAID. Izuku was a hero before OFA and he’s gonna be a hero after it. That’s an indisputable fact. And the last thing standing in his way is the barrier Kacchan and All Might put in front of him all the way at the front end of this story: that being a hero requires a quirk. Seeing Izuku overcome that would be so insane

[bitchthefuck1]

you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

[sleepyc63]

are you still out there?

[dindjarindiaries]

Pain: I was stuck at the airport for 10 hours yesterday/last night before my flight got cancelled in the wee hours of the morning

Gain: I had an exhaustion dream of Hunter with a brand-new haircut looking handsome as ever

[bugeyedfreaks]

Your headcanons on HIM’s diner: who goes there from the main cast, its star rating, HIM’s customer service, if HIM hires, etc.

Ahhhhh, the good ol' Otto Time Diner!

I'd love to hear your headcanons because, honestly, my only headcanon is that Him basically created the diner for the whole bit of messing with the girls that one day and shut down the restaurant after like two or three days. ...maybe he kept it open a bit longer and started giving people food poisoning for fun, but I just think he eventually got bored of it.

[sig-got-a-gun]

A Lil voicing thing I did for @weepinglilvessel 's lunar eclipse au! Comic here

Hope you enjoy!

Audio alone here (no random gods):

[gothsuguru]

gonna make my brother buy this for me

[joutsummer]

schrödinger’s gc favorite

[kbookblurbs]

The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth #3)

4.5/5 - at times too cerebral for my tastes; very fitting pyhrric victory; the mother-daughter relationship in this book makes me SICK. I'm obsessed.

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW!!!

In an effort to keep this a bit more concise and to the point than my review for The Obelisk Gate, I'm structuring this review into three main sections:

Worldbuilding

Pacing & The Ending

Essun, Nassun, & their relationship

Worldbuilding

I deeply love that Jemisin devotes so much time to making sure that the worldbuilding here reflects on a (sub)textual level the point she's trying to convey regarding race, oppression, and the consequences of othering people. It's rich and allows for a really nuanced exploration into what it means to consider people subhuman, what that does to their psyche, and what that exposes about that society. The section about the "Briar Patch" is ... particularly horrifying. A match to the scene in The Fifth Season with the node maintainer in terms of sheer banal evil.

I do feel, however, that sometimes the commitment to this description and this worldbuilding on every page interfered with getting to know some of the characters. Obviously Essun, Nassun, Schaffa, etc. are very well-developed, but characters like Tonkee, Ykka, and Lerna felt very one-note at times. Since our main characters are in their own heads so much, it doesn't really feel like we really get to know anyone else - though that could be a narrative technique given Essun's tendency to misunderstand or underestimate her relationships with others. Either way, I personally wanted to see a little bit more interaction between everyone.

Pacing & The Ending

At times, the book dragged for me. I think this may be because I felt some scenes with Schaffa and Nassun were somewhat repetitive, but I understand the need to keep them in. They each show something different and unique and horrifying, to be perfectly honest, about their relationship and Nassun's underlying traumas.

The ending, however, was everything I could ask for. It's felt all along like Essun wouldn't survive this, but through books one and two, I had imagined more of a go-down-swinging type of exit. This one was, frankly, all the more heartbreaking. She loved her daughter more than she loved humanity, more than she loved herself.

And what a blow for Nassun. To be orphaned twice over, basically, and to have a hand in the death of each of your parental figures makes my heart ache for her. She's so young to have experienced the world like this. It's especially tragic and fitting, as far as endings go, that she loses her orogeny at the end of the series. It's not a stretch to say that Nassun literally lost everyone who ever loved her and a part of herself she loved (and an arm!). What ultimately brought her the most happiness was also the seeds of her own personal tragedy.

Essun, Nassun, & their relationship

Few things have made me more sick, angry, and deeply conflicted than the twisted ties between Nassun, Essun, & Schaffa. How tragic to be so traumatized by even the attempt to live a normal life that you inflict the same pain upon your child. That your abuser can recognize your actions as wrong. That there's no way you could have known any different!

That said, Essun being afraid of her daughter and understanding that she is afraid of Nassun because Nassun is just like her was, again, deeply sad and frustrating on my part. It was understandable, because even as Essun has attempted to accept the whole of her life, who she is, and what she's done, good and bad, she hasn't really forgiven herself for it. She hasn't forgiven herself for being born powerful and stubborn and ambitious and seeing those traits reflected back in her daughter made her frightened!

From Nassun's point of view, for her to know, but not quite understand, that Schaffa had a hand in making Essun who she was and is, made me as the reader miserable. Schaffa is treating her better than many of the adult figures in her life. But he's also grooming her into a weird, toxic, codependent relationship that only serves to confirm Nassun's impression of her mother as someone who doesn't (or can't) love her when Schaffa is literally the reason that Essun acts and parents the way that she does. It goes round in circles and makes me sick and ill and I will be thinking about this for the foreseeable future I fear.

Overall - an excellent book and an excellent series that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a dense high fantasy or science fiction story. It packs a punch!

[wasteland-heresy]

Dr Sydnee McElroy saying she became a doctor cause of hemorrhagic fevers (and then immediately acknowledging how unhinged that sounds) has me thinking about a Slannesh/Nurgle apothecary so hard rn

[threepoint14art]

sorry that your head is normally so quiet and devoid of most wants, that your twin can just send you into absolute hell by psychic bond-ing you their feelings, it WILL happen again

based on a dungeon meshi panel! spoilers for chapter 85 of the manga!!

[thesnazzyjazzy]

The year's almost over and this year i got my drawing tablet and started to take a few steps in digital art. And although I sometimes get sad that i didn't manage to draw a lot this year...

I then remember I fucking made THIS

(with like zero prior experience)

(And then a couple more smaller animatics (is calling these animatics correct??))

I rarely feel like giving myself a pat on the back for the stuff i produce artistically™ ,but i think these have some merit to them, even despite their flaws