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ashanimus · 1 year

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This Belos Essay is Gross

I fully admit I did this to myself. I voluntarily went HEY you know what animates me like a vengeful eidolon to the point where I could chew solid stone while laughing? Ragging on the history of Christianity in America! Oh look! A cute gay show about disabled witches sticking it to Puritan Cult-Peddling Murder Grandpa (also known as Ash's personal bugbear)? SIGN ME UP? Lets dissect this dreadful son of a bitch in the context of his theological bullshit!

But then I get to the parts where I have to think about Belos and all the Grimwalkers and its sicker the more I think about it. Everyone knows of course its just. The depth of the violation and desecration and depravity in its own context is Beyond Grotesque.

I'll elaborate more on this later, but Puritans were obsessed with how a person's remains were kept. This scabrous donkey's bastard was mutilating the unburied remains of the brother he murdered for 400 years. The thing that makes me insane is that any attempts to tell himself "I'm saving your soul, Caleb" had to have petered out pretty quick in that process. He discards the Christian name. Starts calling them all Hunter. Witch Hunter, a title, a job description, a fucking factory tag. He even started branding them after a while, which we know now is a death sentence no matter how perfectly obedient they could have hoped to be. He knows he's not saving Caleb. He's farming the experience of his death.

"I'm starting to think you make those things just to destroy them."

Belos demurs, "Of course I don't, Collector. It hurts every time he chooses to betray me."

The fact they included this line from the Collector--someone who has observed and gleefully enabled this sick fuck for centuries--seems to suggest Belos' denial here is a weak one.

He does enjoy it! They show us! As soon as Luz and Hunter enter the mindscape, he goes out of his way to sabotage Hunter's loyalty. He gleefully drags the kids around, building up the reveals that will make Luz crumple to her knees and destroy Hunter's entire world. The timing. The showmanship of it all. He smiles when he flicks Hunter's little forelock.

"What a shame. Of all the Grimwalkers, you looked the most like him :)"

These are the words he intends to kill this kid by. The dude has been playing this game for CENTURIES and still enjoys the process of torturing them before he slaughters them. How many Grimwalkers died with some variation of "What? Who is Caleb?" on their lips--but the part that haunts me are the ones who lived long enough to say "Sorry" before they were killed. Phillip isn't saving Caleb's soul, he's punishing him over and over.

So why does he do this? How does the Puritan part factor into it? Other than the pleasure of murder that is. It makes me think of how the main purpose of missionaries is to experience rejection. Particularly when it comes to sending kids out from the church. The purpose of the whole affair there is to reinforce that The World Bad, and Rejects the Word of God, and the Only REAL community you have is the Church. They understand you. This creates not just the insulation that gives them a chance to practice the script of the Rejected Religious Warrior, but create distance from reality.

Belos has been working on the worlds most horrible DIY project. He's been doing it for 400 years. What on earth can sustain that laser focus, him working while his body monsterizes and turns to evil Ghibli goo around him? Man hasn't eaten real food in 400 years.

His brother's death! The point of no return in Phillips villain origin (inciting incident: the moment Caleb fell for Evelyn). Each incarnation is going to to have a witch's pointed ears and the Grimwalkers pink eyes, wear different scars that Belos himself stuck there, but it's still his face. Sure it's a younger face than Caleb had when HE died, but at this point it hardly matters. Phillip is farming Caleb's death to re-inspire the moment where genocide entered his heart. These witches have taken you from me, Caleb. I'll make them all pay.

But first, I'll make YOU pay.

This bitch was going to take time out of the Day of Unity to kill Hunter if he got him. My god. Given that he was pressed for time I like to think it would have been quick but god if this is any indication...ugh.

I feel gross! 8)

#toh #the owl house #toh spoilers #toh hunter #hunter wittebane #emperor belos #this is so messed up #ari don’t look!#this will end up in the video essay with more stuff but I had to get my thoughts out because its making me insane #ash's owl house meta

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twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat · 3 days

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@dollsuguru pspspspps……….. the teeniest tiniest sneak peek just for u ………………..

#THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS OK I BARELY KNOW THIS MAN #idk why my first thought was to write him crying ok….. don’t look at me……. i just think he’d look pretty w tears in his eyes </3 #kairo do i have ur approval so far…………….. is he the type to cry . like at all. i can see him being a bit of a closeted crybaby #BUT I DONT KNOWWWW writing abt characters when u havent finished the source material is so terrifying 🥲🥲#im out here feeling like the author herself is gonna come after me if i write him wrong #(also trust that i’m breaking into ur dms when i Actually get started on this i’m gonna need u to be my coauthor i fear 😞)#ari noises ✩

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ikarosapollo · 3 months

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“I wondered if he had eaten anything in the last week” “he was too young to look so angry” Percy Jackson father of an 11 year old at the ripe old age of 14

#percy jackson #lit: pjo #ari don’t look #nico di angelo #the percy nico dynamic is everything to me #nico: I HATE YOU I WANT YOU DEAD #percy: you look thin when did u eat last???#pjo reread lb

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hawkp · 5 months

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You know what I don’t understand? Since Sisko had to make out with Dax and Kyra in the mirror universe, why didn’t he just do the same with Bashir and O’Brien to score 4/4??

#you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take #ds9 #benjamin sisko #3x19 Through the Looking Glass #DS9 3x19 #ari watches ds9

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kicktwine · 2 days

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What sword would fit DRK Alisaie better? More Gpose might be incoming, but I am stomped on what sword to give her.

I genuinely have no idea. There are SO many dark knight swords in the world. I would probably say not a square one though? She feels like a tapered sword or curved edge sword person to me. The solid rectangle ones r too brute force looking I think

(edit: the replies are setting out many many good swords for her to pick from at her leisure she is carefully and happily shopping,)

#I just look up drk weapons and pick one at random-#eventually I want a nice one for Ari? but. I don’t kn- some of them have like glowing detailing and I think she’d like that #ask #anon

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aratilightwood · 1 year

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Anna Lightwood should’ve thrown that memorandum book she wrote about her accomplishments, into Jesse’s casket at the end of CHOT.

Change my mind.

#cassandra clare #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last hours #chain of gold #chain of iron #chain of thorns #anna lightwood #this is not a frickin slutshame #so don’t come at me like that in the comments #the reason why i disliked anna is because of her characterisation #despite being heartbroken by ari in eet -#there was no justification behind her treatment of the women she courted #and the absolute cheek of her to say she approved of everything she did when matthew asked if she wanted to contribute…#would ari want something like that lying around now that they’re officially a couple?#cc romanticised the ‘heartbreaker’ and ‘ladykiller’ labels and made anna look like a fuckboy instead #the memorandum book needed to be buried

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rubyloops · 2 months

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he’s my favorite guy ever

#you don’t understand #the amount of admiration I hold for this silly silly canadian actor #just look at him #this is a bts photo of him in nikita by the way!#peter outerbridge #nikita #ari tasarov

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darth-el · 2 years

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Stranger Things Characters and Their Birth Chart

Eddie: Libra sun, Sagittarius moon and rising

Steve: Taurus sun, Libra moon, Pisces Rising

Jonathan: Scorpio sun, Aquarius moon, Scorpio Rising

Nancy: Gemini sun and moon, Virgo Rising

Robin: All earth signs. It doesn’t matter what earth sign combination you have. It’s Robin.

Argyle: Big three are obviously Sagittarius

Billy: Leo sun, Scorpio moon, Leo Rising (bonus: Libra Venus)

Joyce: Capricorn sun, cancer moon, Sagittarius rising

Hopper: Aries sun, Virgo moon, Aries rising

Murray: That man is Aquarius through and through

El: Cancer sun, Scorpio moon, Taurus rising

Lucas: Aries sun, Pisces moon, Libra rising

Will: Pisces sun, Cancer moon, Pisces rising

Max: Scorpio sun, Aries moon, Gemini rising

Mike: Taurus sun, Virgo moon, Capricorn rising

Dustin: Aquarius sun, Taurus moon, Aquarius rising

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evansbby · 10 months

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This is random but I feel like so many people in the cevans fandom would like… love the wrestling fandom lmfao. Like… everyone here writes fics about cevans characters being big and beefy and size kink etc etc. y’all… wrestlers actually ARE six foot five plus and super built and muscular and they are SO entertaining like pls 😭😭😭 it’s like a soap opera but they are athletic and so talented with how they tell stories through matches. They are also extremely tough with what they put their bodies through every night. Y’all like Ari… there are like 18372828 Ari Levinsons in the wrestling world ksjdjsjska

#that’s why I got obsessed with Ari #cos he reminds me of all the beefy hairy wrestlers that I used to stan #my childhood crush was literally the rated r superstar himself #he’s like six foot five #and he was a literal MENACE in the 2000s yall #anyone else an edge fan???#and I don’t mean edge now he doesn’t hit the same now #I mean 2000s edge #also ROMAN REIGNS??? hello???#he’s like… dictionary definition of daddy with how he looks rn #oh and I could go on and on #let’s not forget my fav white man Cody Rhodes!!!#pls tell me I’m not the only one #my thoughts 💭

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ashanimus · 1 year

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Owl House Face Reveals and Why They Work

I'm so behind on my Huntlow week contribution but I have to exorcise these bees from my brain.

One thing I have noticed that The Owl House does really well are face reveals. Each time we've had them they have been genuinely unexpected and interesting. Now, face reveals are nothing new in media, and in many genres within the speculative fiction box they kind of have their own language and preset expectations depending on the assumed archetype of a character.

Growing up in the 90's, this was quite consistent (particularly with anime). When a Cool, Masked Character or Villain shows up, there's usually an instant of the mask getting revealed in a moment of vulnerability that shows us what the character looks like--but in a wide variety of these reveals...the conclusion is often along the lines of:

Protag: Oh. They're a lot cuter than I was expecting!

There's often a little romantic subtext here too, but not always.

And for all the benefits (and true banes) of anime-type character design, it was/is very common for the resultant revealed face to be conventionally attractive (or drawn to be perceived that way). I know that this is a sort of gentle pushback to the historical VILLAIN=UGLY trope that is nowhere near as prevalent as it used to be, but after thirty years of prettyface mask reveals, it ended up paving the way for strong, sleeping expectation of mask=pretty underneath instead.

And as a result, we're not taking away much more information that what was already expected (re: masked character not so bad) when the character showed up masked to begin with.

Now, this isn't always bad. But in the case of a face reveal, it's supposed to be a moment that establishes really important visual information quickly--and if it's doubled with the "masked character is unconscious/injured" there's a good chance they wouldn't normally let our hero get that close to begin with. The point is, the scene has heavy lifting to do!

Which brings me to our first big face reveal in Owl House, Hunter.

So at this point, the Golden Guard has made his debut--he's been set up as a "genius teen prodigy". This is loaded language that anyone who grew up watching anime instantly understands. Even if you don't though, the way Lilith talks about him sets him up for this expectation well. In this scene, he shows up as a cocky little asshole with a lot of bravado but also, importantly, some key visual indicactors of power. He's got a staff in his right hand, a cage in the other, and is wearing heavy armor and of course the mask. He shows up in a fifty foot fist made of boiling salt water.

Without showing us his face, the show has already laid a pretty strong, unconscious foundation for what the audience is going to see under there! So when we get our classic moment:

This scene moves so much VERY quickly.

First, the Golden Guard's face doesn't resemble the archetypal expectation the audience might have had based on what had been set up. If anything, we're getting a lot of traits all at once we're not used to on a sympathetically portrayed character (more on this in a second). They also wisely destroy any possible interpretation of romantic subtext by giving us a sibling slapfight immediately. But the biggest takeaway from this quick scene visually is the fact the Golden Guard here very young, about Luz's age, maybe a little older--a detail highlighted by our hero herself--and VERY vulnerable. Very murderable. See how his torso (heart) is twisted up, head is tipped back and the eyebrows are scrunched up? Makes him quite a bit "smaller" looking even though he's quite tall compared to the other kids.

But what does this do for visual understanding of a scene? When expectations are subverted, the viewer in a way is able to absorb the visual information with new eyes. When a mask reveal shows us something actually surprising, it actually allows us to absorb the visual details without sorting them into an archetype. So what do we see? Who is the Golden Guard without his mask, his armor, or the trappings of his power?

Well...he has a lot of traits classically associated with unsympathetic characters, to start! He has dark heavy brows, reddish eyes in an ashy face, an aquiline nose and a big ol' gap in his teeth. He's got a ragged ear. Now lately, eye bags and facial scars have come into vogue for heroes, but not usually in combination with all of those other traits (if it was just the scar or even the ear, it wouldn't have told us much). And even here, they're startling because no other character in the show displays eye bags or prominent scarring--not even the mercenaries or adults. He's also fabulously expressive and earnest regardless of emotion, which takes the edge off any potential ability to intimidate (and we know he's about as intimidating as a kale salad as shown when he tries to order the Coven Scouts around at the precinct).

At this point, now that whatever preconceived vision of the mysterious Golden Guard has been blown out of the water, we're able to absorb what each individual character design choice is actually telling us.

This is one busted-ass teenager.

The eyebags show he's exhausted/stressed. The facial scar is a brutal fucking injury and the kind of thing that you get when someone is deliberately trying to hurt you (in combat or...well. what's implied to later be the actual reason). The ripped ear highlights the idea he's seen a lot of combat. The gap teeth highlight the childish imperfection and youth.

One of the things that struck me most about watching this for the first time and watching other reaction videos (a lot of them of different ages and demographics to get a decent sample size) was the incredible consistency of the response to all this visual information! Almost every single one of them were some variant or combination of these two thoughts: "Oh no, he's so young, poor thing! Is he okay?" And even better--the audience understands the answer to that question the minute they ask it, even before the conclusion of the episode. No, he is certainly not! This brainwashed child is in a lot of physical and emotional danger!

Which is GREAT! That's clearly what the intent was. An given how much of a little shithead he was in his first appearances, it was really amazing to see how thoroughly he was able to go from that to instantly sympathetic--as well as visually very interesting.

The Owl House demonstrates a lot of mastery over animation and writing techniques/tropes. You could fill a book on the topic (please oh please let there be an art book at the end please please please). But I REALLY loved how they handled face reveals especially, and to date this one in particular is probably my favorite.

#toh #the owl house #toh hunter #hunter wittebane #the golden guard #I was mulling over these face reveals with boyfriend last night #and I had to write them down because theyre really well done #With how much anime has influenced this show #I have no doubt how deliberate this all was #and Im really glad they made such bold character choices in this show!#ash's owl house meta #ari don’t look!#if I have time coming up I'll maybe break down Belos and Del's but I havent had time to take a fart in peace lately so we'll see #also about that damn scar #Ive talked about it before and i probably will again #as the owner of a few Large scars myself #he probably cant feel much in that side of his face and Im reliably told its a miracle its not paralyzed!#fridge horror!

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twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat · 5 days

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HE’S THE CUTEST IN THE WORLDDDDD

#sorry but i CAN’T stop thinking abt this scene :((((( he’s such a good man !!!!#apologizing soso sincerely and empathizing so deeply with maomao #i wonder if their backgrounds r similar at all…. i’m just preparing myself for jinshi to have a fucked up backstory #bc of how pretty he is :(((#but that aside just. the BLUSH. he’s so cute!! he rlly does look so much more genuine here #hhhh…. the urge to write a jinshi fic is Strong but i don’t know enough abt the source material </3 #maybe after i’ve caught up on the manga… or the anime at least…….#i already started on an outline of Sorts BUT LIKE. it’s so similar to one of my gojo fics 😭#me when i can only write for one particular concept (Devotion) and one particular scene (Opening Up Under A Starry Sky)…….#sighhhhh #i’ll figure it out :’3 #ari noises ✩

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tsireyqs · 1 year

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i cut some curtain bangs into my hair! i feel so cutesy wootesy :]

#i want color my hair bright pink!#if i don’t look like a pink highlighter #i do not want it #ari speaks ♡#ignore the fact that i don’t have a case on my phone 🚶‍♀️

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courfeyracs-swordcane · 5 months

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The thing is that literally everybody in the main cast would use Kyrie’s mugshot as a reaction image. Including Kyrie. But An’s the one who arrested her, so. Something something initial antagonist joins the team but doesn’t really change any of their ways (which in this case. Mostly exhausted supervision. But there’s also the rapiers,)

#just me #look I drew a thing #an ballad brothers #Alonzo ballad brothers #Ari ballad brothers #Kyrie ballad brothers #unfortunately an is not a guy who goes in for funny contact names BUT #or contact images. it’s professional or bust.#also they don’t have French ari is just being a little freak #comms open!

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kakuchari · 21 days

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this is my first day off all year so far and let me tell you if i didn’t have to go back to work next week i wouldn’t. i’d go AWOL and quit right now and play ghost of tsushima all day lmfao

#our brand team is so stupid #they made this sparkling new brand guide and then keep asking for tweaks every single fucking email #and i am STARING AT THE FIGMA AS I MAKE THESE EMAILS #i’m gonna start pushing back and referring to the figma because either i’m wrong or they need to update it #genuinely don’t think it’s my fault that they don’t understand design doesn’t easily match to html. like sorry dog but i can’f #put your design jn an email when it Looks Like That You Fucking Moron #📣 ari announces

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her-midas-touch · 27 days

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Literally living for the day we have a family reunion where no one makes a single comment about my weight smhhh

#“oh you look so pretty now that you’ve lost some weight keep it up” 😃🔪#thanks was literally stressed and had shitty self image cause you wouldn’t stop going on about it #and then they wonder why I don’t want to socialize with them 🙄#ari says things

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kicktwine · 1 month

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Ooh, could you tell us more about Ch'mhat?

Mhat is justa little guy. mhat was the third born to Ch’leure, and had terminal youngest sibling older sister syndrome. Do you know what I mean— GSJDB like. she wasn’t paid all that much attention to, so she thought up a lot of ideas on how things could be better and believed them wholeheartedly. She was Loud, to get attention, and deliberately did things her way which because she’s a baby was sometimes mama’s way that had just been ignored by the people in charge. She believed Leure when he said having a Tia like Ari was harming the tribe. She had the least wanderlust of all the kittens, but the most bossiness (right below Ari), and when the tribe ate itself she was thirteen and there with it. She liked finding nopales and hunting bush pythons the most. Her favorite color was pink

#and if Ari really looked back he would feel bad about her. But she’s his half-sister and they weren’t nice to each other #ask #anon #ffxiv #And ari hates her dad with a passion while she thought he was good. Because. Yknow he’s her dad #and she was a kid and you don’t really start understanding your dad sucks if he’s like that until you’re a teenager

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