#will def most more later

[my-name-is-apollo]

On the prophetic nature of the Delphic god (Apollo):

What god of heaven suffers earth’s weight, knows every secret of eternity’s course, aware of the world’s futurity, ready to reveal its presence to the nations, and endure contact with humankind? A great and mighty power, whether the utterance it produces determines fate, or whether it merely voices destiny.

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

This is actually the first time I've seen someone talking about the possibility of prophecies determining the fate, so this took me by surprise. Also the first time I've seen the knowledge of the future being a weight that Apollo has to carry, so that's very interesting too.

[daeyumi]

misc. design scribbles for cycle of the stars (plus one extra link design from a possible one shot au i may do later down the line)

i will clean these up later but wanted to shove what i have here for now

[veritphoto]

Shoma Uno — Timelapse / Spiegel im Spiegel FS at GPF 2023

thank you for the incredible career 💙

[mcytegg]

i think im in too deep w charmander duo. bc i was thinking abt how flame thinks very little abt bans, and how theres a genuine possibility he helps the Guardians ban people not even bc he thinks bans should matter, but just like for fun bc he doesnt think of it that seriously. which led me to thinking "wait but pangi could help him change his mind ^-^" nd now im just thinking of an au where pangi does Just That .

[ahrabaki]

chuuya in jjk. i have concepts of a verse ................... ?????????????

[crumbleclub]

hmm.

the afton kids having complicated methods of hiding information or contraband from william.

[birrdify]

i love smg4's design i love 4's flaws i love when he realizes his mistakes i love when people acknowledge his anger issues i love when main characters aren't perfect and make mistakes i love 4's impulsiveness i love when smg4 says something insensitive

[mintandcreme]

:)

[starfiyah]

news that will matter to no one else but me: daran norris has had a husband since 2021??

[akkivee]

still patiently waiting for the day ramuda and jakurai commensurate over being weapons of the state 😔

[psikind]

shout out to the evolution of one's artsyle being a real true thing (redraw of my "first" dnd character 2019 -> 2023)

[xshimaeraxx]

casino cups au: pre-game, back when Cups n Mugs were still just a pair of normal kids, they had a lil sister. however, she died not long, maybe a few months over half a year after the game happened (but before Elder died in any case) — so, being the totally mentally stable teenagers they weren’t, Cuphead & Mugman seaked out an old “family friend” (cough cough Chalice, it’s Chalice, Chalice is the old family friend) and made a deal: one half of their soul each, to keep their sister’s soul alive, even if not exactly the same as it/she was before.

but of course, by then, their sister’s body has already been buried, and they’re about to give the whole thing up as a lost cause when they hear about how one of Cagney’s daislings has died recently — and, well, it’s not like Cagney would really ever need or want the body once it’s been buried, right? Right?

(Cags catches them digging up the daisling’s body two nights later, and, surprisingly, doesn’t immediately resort to trying to kill them. Instead, he asks: “What the Hell’re you two doin’?” and they can’t help but explain, about their sister’s death, the deal with Chalice, the need for a new body to house their sister’s soul — and Cagney… he proposes a deal. Cuphead & Mugman get to use his daisling’s body to house their lil sibling’s soul, but in return, he’ll be allowed to take care of the lil thing something like 50-60% of the time.

They both agree; it’s no bigger a price to pay then the one they’re already paying to have their only blood family be returned to them, after all, and when thought of like that, it’s really not hard to agree to Cags’s demands at all.

Cagney helps them dig up the rest of the daisling’s body.)

and so, Chalice revives their lil sister’s soul & shoves it into the daisling’s body; but then Elder dies not even two weeks later, before Daisy (not their sister’s name, but this — it wasn’t their sister, not truly, not really. a version of her, perhaps. but it wasn’t her, it was just — a mix of her-theirs’ souls all shoved into one little living-daisy’s body) has even woken up (because apparently having the halves of two different souls + a single shard of ANOTHER soul all shoved into one body really takes something outta a flower), and then Cagney just up and fucking disappears, taking their sibling, their family with him, and then —

they move to the city, purely to search for Cagney, but it turns out city life is expensive and all their other jobs keep on falling through bc they keep on ditching their shifts to search for Cagney or Daisy or anything that’d even vaguely point them towards where their last living blood relative other then each other is at, and then a good six months into Cuphead & Mugman livin’ in the city Daisy falls through Mugman’s fucking bedroom window, and it’s obvious they’ve been hurt and it’s ALSO equally obvious that they don’t entirely remember the both of them, but they already anticipated that, hell, had expected that to be the case back before it’d all gone to absolute fucking shit and, and, and —

they tone down their searches for Cagney, because apparently it’s not his fault their lil sibling got taken from them both and they DO still kinda owe him for letting them use his daisling’s body — fuck, had it really been an entire year ago, now? — but don’t stop them entirely. start looking for a stable, at least semi-over the counter/legal job because they don’t want Daisy to be taken from them both now that they finally, finally have them back, and then Cuphead hears talk that the Devil’s Casino is looking for a pair of at least semi-experienced waiters to hire because their old ones had quit within a month of the damned job, and, well.

“We’ve already worked for ‘em once,” Cuphead says to Mugman when they initially protest at the idea of working there, at the place where they died a good hundred or so times, take or give ten or so deaths. “Why not do it again? Not like it can get any worse’n the first time we worked for ‘em, at least.” It takes a few weeks and a damn lot more debates and a shitload’s worth of hesitancy from Mugman, but eventually, they agree with the idea enough that they call the Casino, ask if the waitering positions’re still opens.

Bettigan (because Mugman, after the fights, had obsessively tracked down each and every one of the people they’d fought’s names because of fuckin’ course they had) apparently doesn’t recognise their voice over the phone which is — fair, actually. They’d still been having voice cracks pretty regularly the last time they’d met in person, so Mugman isn’t surprised he doesn’t recognise their voice. Didn’t help that neither of ‘em had exactly done much talking while getting their asses both beat and beating ass.

The positions are, as it turns out, still open — and we all know how the story goes, by then. Cuphead & Mugman’re hired by the Devil and King Dice, the Cupsiblings slowly adjust to working at a place where they’d both died and fought for their literal souls at before, and life continues on in semi-normalcy. Cups & Mugs still search for Cagney; turn up a few clues about a “flower gang.”

And then Dice meets Daisy one day, after a night where the daisling’d had a particularly bad nightmare and the dish siblings, too wrapped around the kid’s pinkie finger not to say yes when they nonverbally asked to go to work with ‘em, have to take them to work, and then Dice, Dice with his eyes, his Eyes, his soul-seeing Eyes —

then Dice asks, “Why the fuck does y’all’s kid’s soul have pieces of your souls mixed in with their’s?” and pretty much everything goes to complete and utter shit, after that.

[johndonneswife]

not a sad ‘woe is me’ post so don’t send me weird messages but: the thing abt cycling through every ED possible and being bulimic for like 10 yrs & making yourself vomit up to 10x times per day on ur worst days is that your teeth and gums will eventually give out on you (bc it doesn’t make a difference if you’ve been good & it doesn’t matter how well you’ve taken care of your teeth for the last x years) and u will be 30 years old crying to your very sweet and kind dentist when she tells you about the 1 million things that are wrong with ur teeth

[james-silenthill]

I wouldn't consider myself an 'old school' silent hill fan tbh. Love 1 + 3, LOVE sh2 obviously. But I'm definitely a lot more lenient on 4 than I've seen others be, and also-- I got into silent hill in fucking. A few years after shattered memories came out. I was a kid but I was late to the party. Shattered Memories was my FIRST silent hill. And I loved it. And I still do love it, I think it was a great direction to take a re-imagining, and is probably the closest successor to sh2 because of it

All that said, I really do miss when cult shit was like. A significant aspect of the games. Like I feel silent hill has a really good chance to lean into institutional abuse and american gothic horror, but it hasn't really been attempted since, like, homecoming. But that was a trainwreck for other reasons

Like despite the shit I give it, I do really enjoy the cult. Maybe a more down-to-earth approach to it, or like. Mixing the horrors of living That reality with the fantastical elements of the fog and nightmare realm and monsters. People love the iconography from silent hill-- the town, the monsters, the trauma, the fog. But all of that is just, vague. It's iconography, it's plastic ghosts strung up on a window. There's nothing to anchor these placeholders to genuine horror

This isn't me saying that a short message was horrible, it was fine, but it is me saying that it was extremely fucking disconnected. Unless that witch thing connects to the order, its just using the nebulous ethereal psychological horror utilized in sh2, and in every shlocky indie horror project that has been trying to capture the magic of sh2

[timey-fandom-stuff]

a doodle compilation of Kriptid Kris the undead creepypasta tryhard being an unnecessarily edgy dork. they might ALMOST be scary if they had anything rattling around in their goofy skull other than moss and poor impulse control, but... alas. don't do bath bombs, kids.

[sesamenom]

trying to figure out Lomion's relationships for the reverse gondolin au - so far I have Rog as his mentor instead of Eol and Celegorm as his "uncle". he's not particularly close with Idril, but Turgon helps him with the politics/statecraft stuff. anyways I can't figure out a marriage candidate for him for heir-identification purposes so