#which is kind of the point i think

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.

[deathricedrawn]

i'm ready to try

[puppyeared]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[twinstxrs]

brennan reintroducing the bad kids with genuine titles they hold in canon like “archdevil” “captain of the owlbears” & “risen saint” but adding “holder of the tin flower” to gorgug’s intro because of how gorgug offering his tin flower to fabian, even after they fought, so effectively represents the type of person gorgug is (a kind one).

[buppkizz]

engie birthday pt 2...a gift from spy

[phaedo]

i keep getting youtube recommendations for videos with clickbait titles about how dark and disturbing the wicked book is from people trying to capitalize on the movie's marketing, which is the way of the world and all, but i just want to say that the correct way to experience the wicked book for the first time is to be a tween/young teen really into the musical and go "whoa this is based on a book?? i have to read it!!" and get some well-meaning but blissfully unaware relative to buy it for you only for you to be faced with the graphic puppet sex clock in chapter one. if you're over the age of fourteen years old it's already too late for you to get the full wicked book experience.

[lbhslefttiddie]

honestly i don't think sqq (jiu) would have minded the accusations of preferential treatment from yqy if they'd felt true. like as children he guarded the title of being yue qi's Favorite with teeth and claws. why shouldn't he be given preferential treatment? everyone ought to know just who qi-ge likes and trusts over everyone else. and for good fucking reason--who else here is watching out for qi-ge? as peak lords he's literally 2nd in command and chief tactician, if yqy values his word over yours, then its both what makes most sense and also what he deserves.

the thing is that to sqq, being accused of being favoured by yqy over others now just feels like a sick joke, because obviously (to him) that's not the fucking case. if he actually gave him preferential treatment you'd think he'd listen to what he has to fucking say, instead of believing what anyone else tells him about sqq. you'd think, if he was yqy's favorite, he wouldn't have left him to rot.

so i think, in a setting where they reconcile after becoming peak lords, that sqq would very much slap yqy's love for him in everyones faces as a kind of power move. a kind of, "oh, you thought that was favouritism? you havent seen yet what it looks like when qi-ge lets himself favour someone."

[twiilys]

The "I love you, I'm waiting for you" part is at the beginning, during the first refrain and at the end. It's always looping and sounding very crackling/electronic, so it's hard to say who's singing. Pomme is mostly vocalising while it plays, so my guess is probably more Ekko reaching out to Jinx.

Fun thing to note also, when Pomme sings her couplet, the lines "juste là dans l'espace" (right here in the space) and "quand j'entends ton prénom" (when i hear your name) are 'echoed'/emphasised, as in Pomme sang multiple tracks that are harmonising here. The line "ou la douceur" (or the softness/sweetness) is also literally echoed/repeated in the background (as opposed to "la haine" (the hatred) where there's only vocalisations in the background).

So in conclusion, Ekko is waiting for Jinx/Powder, who's looking for Ekko "in the space" and remembering the sweetness more than the hatred when she hears his name :)

"Ma meilleure ennemie" by Stromae & Pomme - translation

how everyone's yeah me too. here's the lyrics (+ english translation) to that beautiful song playing in ep 7 :)

"Ma meilleure ennemie" ("My best enemy" note: this is in the feminine form, so implying a female You for all of Stromae's part)

Je t’aime je t’attends

(I love you, I await you -> loops, sound crackling)

[STROMAE]

T'es la meilleure chose qui m'est arrivée

(You're the best thing that happened to me)

Mais aussi la pire chose qui m'est arrivée

(But also the worse thing that happened to me)

Le jour où je t'ai rencontrée j'aurais peut-être préféré

(The day I met you I maybe would have preferred that)

Que ce jour ne soit jamais arrivé, arrivé

(That day had never happened, happened)

La pire des bénédictions

(The worst of blessings)

La plus belle des malédictions

(The most beautiful of curses)

De toi je devrais m'éloigner

(From you I should distance myself)

Mais comme dit le diction

(But as the saying goes)

« Plutôt qu’être seul mieux vaut être mal accompagné »

(“Instead of being alone, better be in bad company”) -> note: the usual saying is "Mieux vaut être seul qu'être mal accompagné" (= "Better be alone than in bad company"))

[BOTH]

Tu sais ce qu’on dit

(You know what they say)

[STROMAE]

« Soit près de tes amis les plus chers »

("Be close to your dearest friends”)

[BOTH]

Mais aussi

(But also)

[POMME]

« Encore plus près de tes adversaires »

("Closer still to your opponents”)

REFRAIN

[STROMAE]

Mais ma meilleure ennemie c’est toi

(But my worst enemy it’s you)

Fuis-moi

(Run from me)

Le pire c’est toi et moi

(The worst is you and me)

[POMME]

Mais si tu cherches encore ma voix

(But if you still search for my voice)

Oublie-moi

(Forget me)

Le pire c’est toi et moi

(The worst is you and me)

Pourquoi ton prénom me blesse

(Why does your name hurt me)

Quand il se cache

(When it hides)

Juste là dans l’espace ?

(Here so close in the space)

C’est quelle émotion... la haine

(What feeling is this, hatred)

Ou la douceur quand j’entends ton prénom ?

(Or sweetness/softness when I hear your name?)

Je t’avais dit

(I had told you)

« Ne regarde pas en arrière »

("Don’t look back")

Le passé qui te suit te fait la guerre

(The past that’s following you is waging war on you)

REFRAIN

[BOTH]

Mais ma meilleure ennemie c’est toi

(But my best enemy it’s you)

Fuis-moi

(Run from me)

Le pire c’est toi et moi

(The worst it’s you and me)

Mais ma meilleure ennemie c’est toi

(But my best enemy it’s you)

Fuis-moi

(Run from me)

Le pire c’est toi et moi

(The worst it’s you and me)

Je t’aime je t’attends

(I love you, I await you) -> loops until the end of the song, sound crackling

[time-slink]

Your honor I'm obsessed with your etho design and the CLOTHING?? Just thought I'd let you know. Eating him

why thank you…! he’s my muse fr

[mandareeboo]

I think a lot of people forget that Garnet's future vision isn't, like, accurate? That's the whole point of Future Vision; Garnet sees so many timelines, and she has to pick and choose which to follow, and they aren't' always accurate. Pool Hopping reinforces that concept, with Garnet being unable to pick which future Steven will follow because she's ignored his development.

She even does it in Future! She's so sure that Steven is in the "pepperoni timeline" that she doesn't even consider that he might be taking the vegetarian option.

Garnet has an approximate knowledge of many things, and she just kinda picks which future she thinks is true based on characters and how they act. Her future vision isn't a solid thing that she can just Know how things will go down. She guesses. A lot.

[astranauticus]

Director of the False Last Act

[wis-art]

I argued with some random asshole on the internet a while ago and I noticed I made them feel really bad with my anger, I decided to at least get them some groceries as a apology gift because I know they struggling too, few days ago I went over to talk about the situation while calm and to properly apologize, made sure to let the person know that they don't gotta talk to me that it's ok if they don't want anything to do with me, they agreed and added me to a group chat with their girlfriend and then proceeded to berate me for the next 4 hours straight taking turns to call me names 😭 and I'll tell you what. To be called creepy and obsessed for sending the money and get berated for that too??? Like I know $50 isn't like a huge amount nowadays but it was half of all the money in my bank account at the time. And it was a tough decision to make because I am already struggling to pay rent and because I'm too disabled to work. I snapped out of it immediately, like wow no wonder I got mad at them in the first place.

The moral of the story is, don't try to fix things with the worst people you have ever met, your gut feeling was right, there's a reason why you got angry. It will only harm you and make you harm them, too, when you eventually get emotional and pissed off over how they treated you and then use it against you. Whatever you do won't be enough and taken as the worst possible thing to do. Simply fuck off. That's the best outcome for everyone that will hurt the least amount of people.

[ube-bluebay]

i have a problem

really long rambling in tags

[puppyeared]

the heaven and earth siblings

[volcanocraft]

Your Gem as an unlabelled bi/gay non-op transman who uses she/her has overridden my previous headcanons and rewired my brain. Quite possibly the most correct take I've ever seen.

I really appreciate you saying this :’) she is so dear to me. I love your turiagirl headcanons as I think gem would definitely be mspec and I haven’t heard of the label before… it’s always fun finding out the new ways people are able to label complex gender attraction!

I’ve been thinking about bi gay gem for the past couple of days too. I just think she is able to represent a facet of masculinity I can relate to heavily because of her unconventional expression of her gender. Unlabelled because she doesn’t think too hard about it but able to identify herself in the flux that is masc while also using conventionally fem constructs because she just likes them … AOUHH thank you for making my day 💖

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.