Calm Kurama: Hiei, can we talk? Just wanted to ask something
Angry Kurama: love, sweetheart, baby, can you come here a second? No, no, I don't wanna do anything don't worry
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Astarion's Ascension - Traditional art (pencils, gold acrylic, PS edit). Sketch here.
You had demons to kill within you screaming
With a gun loaded with guilt
You opened their eyes [...]
Bleed well, the soul you're about to sell
For passion deranged [...]
Bleed well, the heart you're about to fail
For reasons insane
Kill and tell
Baby, we're bleeding well
In hell [...]
I heard you weeping
And on those words, a church was built
To keep the pain in
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reblog for sample size !!
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"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on
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アニメージュ1996年7月号 - アニメムック・アニメ雑誌取扱古本屋「アニエッグ古書店」
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he could be sooo tequila sunset
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Astarion's Ascension - Traditional art (pencils, gold acrylic, PS edit). Sketch here.
You had demons to kill within you screaming
With a gun loaded with guilt
You opened their eyes [...]
Bleed well, the soul you're about to sell
For passion deranged [...]
Bleed well, the heart you're about to fail
For reasons insane
Kill and tell
Baby, we're bleeding well
In hell [...]
I heard you weeping
And on those words, a church was built
To keep the pain in
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Bold of me to assume I'd be in any condition to finish my wip today after yesterday I almost passed out from burnout.
It's been like this the whole month so the piece is not so great either. If I say I'll wait and just work on it after I feel better then I'll wait forever because it just doesn't get better.
Working on it is frustrating but if I don't, I can only... lay down like a vegetable and go insane or get back to work.
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I love how Astarion quotes The Tell-Tale Heart every once in a while. It's a rarer line, and initially I thought it was out of place (Neil is very well versed in theater, so I assumed it was a riff from him), but since reading an analysis of the work I think it was pretty purposeful.
The piece is all about fear and paranoia, things we know Astarion is plagued by despite how he might act. Similarly, the narrator of the story also tries to convince the reader that they are not as troubled as they seem. In the end, the narrator is consumed by the beating of the heart of the old man he killed and dismembered, the sound growing louder and louder until in a fit of rage he reveals the body to the police to absolve himself from the persistent beating.
Except the police never heard the heart beat, because it wasn't the old man's heart at all. The narrator was consumed by the sound of his own heart beating more and more rapidly in his chest from fear. He was the owner of the thing that forced him to reveal his true nature, he is the owner of the tell-tale heart.
And what happens with Astarion after you romance him? He realizes over time that, while he tried to deny his feelings and was initially only interested in manipulating you for his own means, he actually has grown to care for you. You have done something to his heart that hasn't happened in centuries, you have made it feel as if it has started beating again.
Therefore, his tell-tale heart leads him to admit his transgressions, which were committed out of fear and paranoia for his safety.
So the line is actually very, very apt. His confession during Act 2 is his own version of "Villains! Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!" Except, of course, it is his own heart that he is unearthing for us (and it's not so hideous, after all).
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