loving in the long grass, close beside her 🍃 giving her the name of the one the moon loves

this is durgetash to me

there's that fucked up three-eyed thing that lives in the woods. whose turn is it to chase it off again??

it’s kinda concerning that whenever someone has been outed as being a horrible person I have to play the game of “have they actually done horrible stuff or did they just make/like some weird fanfiction?”

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

🗝️🔒

u are not immune to gortash's tits!!!!!!!!!

(and neither am i. take this trend with my durge before i become too insane)

bonuses:

the stupidest thing ive ever drawn ever. coping abt them through memes because if i think too hard about my durge + gortash i will pull a gale and explode on command x

qpr jean and neil. that's all i'm gonna say.

do you see my vision?

Actually, if the experiments with the scourgers did involve funneling power from a beacon, then that could suggest evidence to support some previously hypothesized ideas.

It would make sense to me that they would've tried primarily to harness the potions, akin to how Otohan's contraption operates. However, for experimentation purposes, particularly in the early stages, I would also imagine that they had done some kind of experimentation of that kind on the beacons themselves, particularly while they had multiple.

In fact, that could be exactly why Ludinus needed more than one—if he was concerned about his previous experiments having destroyed the power sources, it would've made sense to acquire two, so that the second would remain once you'd drained the first.

But notably, the beacons were unchanged, as the ones returned would've been examined by the Dynasty, particularly the one handed over in the peace talks. The Assembly had had three years to drain them, and did not.

If Ludinus had two beacons, and this was his purpose with them, and he had three years of access with complete oversight over the process, hundreds of years after he'd initially designed the prototype, it's not unreasonable to believe that had it been possible to drain one of them, he would've.

It does raise into question what the ultimate goal of these experiments was though—over time, would Ludinus have wanted to make this siphoning more powerful, or more sustainable? Take more and more powerful sources of energy and drain every drop, or pinpoint the siphoning to be able to return again and again?

I would posit the former, from what Ludinus has done thus far. But if he stumbled upon an inexhaustible well of power... it would also explain why it was so uncomplicated for him to release all but one.

But Ludinus also does not introduce it into the Malleus Key as a divine element. It could be that his need for a divine talisman needed to be pinpointed upon the Pantheon. It could also be that his viewpoint is too limited to see it as divine. But Exandria has a way of putting limits upon arcane power, and living beings are always exhaustible, even extraplanar ones—even the gods of the Pantheon can die.

So if a beacon is inexhaustible, then really, what the hell is the Luxon?

Yeah, people like to think that (adult) Jason’s snarky, cutting, and unapologetic post crisis characterization and the (mostly) “watered down”, docile personality he’s had from N52/rebirth onwards are irreconcilable, and that the shift was just an editorial decision with the intent of marketing him as a “likeable” hero.

While that last part might be true, have they considered that textually it makes perfect sense that being consistently in contact with an abuser just does that to a person. Wears them down until they feel like nothing but a husk, without any discernible direction or opinions of their own. If it isn’t completely burnt out yet, they (consciously or unconsciously) suppress that part of themselves that thinks independently either for self-preservation or to keep the peace. Considering anyone, even “mentally strong” people could fall victim to mental abuse, it’s actually pretty realistic imo.

"It's three seasons old, at least," said Phillip, in a pained voice. "What sort of provincial backwater did you buy it in?" "The Little Dover Dress Shop." Visander bit out each word, fuming that he knew the answer. "It still has an empire waist," said Phillip, a kind of agony on his face. "You know, here we have fashion, we don't just go about wearing robes for ten thousand years." "I care nothing for your human fashions, worm," spat Visander.

Dark Heir by CS Pacat is a comedy. Or, in other words: if book 3 is not a married-life sit-com between Phillip and Visander I riot.

(In other, other words: there are so many fantastic romantic dynamics in this book, but the one couple I have imprinted on like a baby duckling is the queer murder-machine with tunnel vision stuck in the body of a Victorian ingénue and his husband Who Really Does Not Want To Be Here and can endure his wife being "a dead man from a defunct world" but draws the line at him not dressing for dinner.)

i keep thinking about the one line dark justiciar shadowheart says when shar returns all her memories right before she kills her parents

and u can be like, do what u think is right!! (even though u probably picked all the worst options for the nightsong to die)

and she

she acknowledges and is aware of how messed up her whole situation is but shes in too deep to stop!!!!!

and im

ooOOOUUUUGGGHHHHH

Au where quirks exist ever since the beginning of humanity but thought the last 200 years they started becoming rarer for no explainable reason

"for no explainable reason"? Not "because someone born two hundred years ago started eating them all"? Well, both can be true I suppose

1- humans have always had quirks so just go ahead and disabuse yourself of the idea that world history looks anything like ours now. Any boundaries humans have drawn between themselves or their spaces are totally different. Anyway, our story is set on the island nation of Akitsuba, which has begun to receive reports of children who are born without quirks- it seems impossible, but apparently the child born in Canton Province to two glowing parents but had no light himself was not the result of an affair. He is genetically both his parents child - just, without any unique plus alpha factor at all.

2- when the news breaks, Setsuji looks over at his twin brother. The two stay in a group home, and on the record, they have a spike quirk, just like their mother did before she died at their birth. In truth, Setsuji can take others quirks. He assumes he took his brother's in infancy, which why the boy can't use them, but now he wonders if his brother was in fact simply born without. He doesn't say anything, but his brother does- whispering it at night, apologizing for assuming his brother took it all this years ago and refused to even try to return it, but there's simply nothing to return, is there?

3- more people are born quirkless over time, and more people lose their quirk to AfO over time. Ujiko theorizes that quirks would get too strong, so both quirklessness and AfO are evolutions to prevent plus alpha self destruction. That is, sadly, a generous view- quirklessness is largely viewed as a horrible strange disability, and suddenly quirks become more important. Few people before had jobs that specifically used their quirks, but now no one wants to be mistaken for not having one. Many people campaign to treat and 'fix' quirklessness, trying to force activate one, study and prevent it, etc. Just go ahead and assume all the terrible things that can happen with this mindset, it all happened.

4- by the time of canon, however, quirklessness has been around for two hundred years, and it isn't going away- clearly the opposite. about half the population of the world has no quirk, and the number's hanging around 45% in Akitsuba when our main character, Akatani Mikumo is born. He's quirkless, and lives in the capitol of Higakyou, as schools there are required by law now to no longer require certain or any quirks. It's an election year, so his first semester of high school all anyone can do is talk about the candidates- especially Yagi Toshinori, a bit of a symbol for quirkless politicians and one people thought would run years ago. Mikumo, who helped Yagi carry groceries home one day and didn't recognize him outside of the bright suit, camera lights, and makeup, makes friends with a few kids at school. (Ochako, and the twins Tokoyami Fumikage and Kuroei- while the latter has a quirk, the former does not).

5- Then one day, Yagi is kidnapped, vanishing on live tv through a smokey warp. Mikumo doesn't know what to think about that, until he runs into the man on his way home from school- clearly in bad shape, with strange dark eyes that glow with some quirk he shouldn't have. Mikumo helps Yagi hide, and asks what happens, and how he can help. (AfO decided to end Yagi's use as a symbol by forcing a quirk on him and controlling him, but one of his brother's successors managed to break Yagi out first and give him his brother's quirk, allowing him to fight against AfO's quirk and withstand them safely. As for what Mikumo can do to help... he's done far more than he should already, a kind boy, but that answer isn't going to be good enough for him- he's determined to do more anyway.)

HOWDY FOLKS I've not drawn very much as of late since. uhhhh. SEVERAL things happened. but one of them is because i went to a miniature painting convention this past weekend!

it was super fun! here's a couple minis i painted-- first one was just for fun and i want to make her into a character now, second one i did in a class on painting with limited palettes! i did that with only three different colors of paint!

It started with a whisper ♥ (Patreon)

I wish I had Tomodachi Life

Earlier I was imagining what I would do for ships (since my plan is to make the entire island Cookie Run characters), since from what I recall you can only do romances with the opposite genders. Like if I wanted to do wildchip, would I have to make one of them female?

But then I remembered, I don’t actually have Tomodachi Life, so I shouldn’t really hypothesize on a game I don’t even have