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Since we have so many wonderful new members of the Realm of the Elderlings fandom here the last few months, here is a reminder that the band Within Temptation has a song inspired by one FitzChivalry Farseer and that is NOT an exaggeration, they literally wrote it about him/the books
lyrics below cut!
The child without a name grew up to be the hand
To watch you, to shield you or kill on demand
The choice he'd made he could not comprehend
His blood a grim secret they had to command
He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life
He prayed for both but was denied
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?
So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
The curse of his powers tormented his life
Obeying the crown was a sinister price
His soul was tortured by love and by pain
He surely would flee but the oath made him stay
He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life
He prayed for both but was denied
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?
So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
Please forgive me for the sorrow, for leaving you in fear
For the dreams we had to silence, that's all they'll ever be
Still I'll be the hand that serves you
Though you'll not see that it is me
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?
So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
#realm of the elderlings#fitzchivalry farseer#i dont think we bring it up much but i laugh every time i remember... our pathetic blorbo he inspires so many to song and art#within temptation#hand of sorrow#ramblings#Youtube#was just reading robbin hobbs old reddit AMA again and having REVELATIONS. REVELATIONS I TELL YOU. and found the link to this again lol#did you know before any of the f&tf trilogy came out hobb said in that AMA:#''an exchange of genetic material is possible among/between species that are in very close contact with one another''#WE DIDNT EVEN KNOW ABOUT BEE YET BUT SHE FULLY SAID THAT...#(about whites and dragons and maulkin/the sea serpent who could see the future)#god im going insane
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woke up sweating and having a panic attack so i started amiibo farming and what if i fucking cried.
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rage.
#welcome to today's episode of “me trying to draw 76 different emotions at once”#rage+grief???sorrow??? anguish?????#hmmmmmmm#definitely pain#and a hint of fear#no but like he's angry but there's sadness underneath you get what i'm saying#the kind of rage caused by something that left you traumatized and you just can't stop thinking about how unfair it was#like “i didn't deserve this nobody deserves this” kind of rage#well anyway#i don't even care about anatomy at this point#just let me see how much i can distort the face and still have it somewhat resemble the character#didn't mean to draw him crying again but my hand slipped oops#astarion#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 astarion#baldurs gate 3#astarion fanart
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Knowledge begets a hunger for more
Drink from the Well of Sorrows, Inquisitor.
#my art#shivana lavellan#dragon age inquisition#dragon age#dai#lavellan#dragon age fanart#art#stole that line from Morrigan#it’s finally done!!#I’m going to be making so much well of sorrows art I’m obsessed with it#I wanted the blood running down her hands to kinda mimic the lines on the other hands
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Listen. Idk what it's based on or entirely original, but Within Temptation's "Hand of Sorrow" is fucking fantastic to listen to with headphones. Ultimate fantasy historical political drama
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THE LORE INFODUMP WAS SO COOL!!!! Can I ask about the demon hierarchy? Like, are there demons that are roughly equivalent to the Seraphim in ranking/power? Also I'm curious about the other Seraphim
TYSM?????(!!!) i have put Way too much thought into this im so very sorry this is also super long..
Demon hierarchy is basically a complicated echo or shadow of angelic hierarchy??,, when the angels attempted to overthrow God (and failed, obvi) they were cast from Heaven into the Other- no longer angels, not even human. Angels rely almost soley on their holy power to See and to physically Manifest, so the newly formed demons lacked form, sight, and were almost entirely mindless.
From the Other, which became “Hell” as humans call it, the demons (blinded and mindless as they were) could sense the faint flickers of holy light emanating from human souls and sought them out like a moth to flame.
Lacking form, at first the demons were able to do little beyond sow distrust or cause minor accidents. but with every soul marked and corrupted they realized their power grew- not holy power, as they had been seeking, but some twisted equivalent- and their own hierarchy began to appear. (As their original ranking was lost when they fell, it isnt known if their Former angelic ranking plays a part in their Current demonic ranking… although most redemption-arc demons claim to have been originally of a higher angelic rank, so who can say)
Lower level angels are mostly ephemeral, lacking true form but leaving a marked impression, and lowest level demons are the same. They can influence and whisper, provoke crowds into a killing frenzy, but lack a true form or real impact. They mainly subsist off of mindless violence.
Mid level demons are able to manifest, though briefly, and like all demons cannot create their own Eyes so they are often terrifying to behold. This semi-corporeal form allows them to create greater paranoia and general chaos than their lower counterparts but still lacks any real finesse
High level demons are the only ones capable of integrating into high society and pulling long cons. They are capable of possession (altho the body Will begin to rot if they inhabit it for too long) and some can convincingly create a human form with “eyes” that passes for human under a glamor
^^ all higher demons that “pass” in human society (with glamors) and the way they emulate “eyes”
The highest ranking demons are probably roughly equivalent to the Seraphim?? not in term of individual power alone but mainly due to their spheres of influence.
in terms of the 7 Seraphim-
theres the wrath of god (hadeon) charged with punishing humanities sins,
theres the love of god (demonte) bearing God’s love for humanity,
theres the eyes of god (einya) who watches and records humanity over the eons.
Theres the hands of god (?) who both held a hand in creating and still creates for humanity
the sorrow of god (?) charged with forgiving humanity, over and over and over again.
Then there are the two missing Seraphim, the throat of god (?) prophesying humanity, and the feet of god (?) the emissary of humanity who once walked among them.
#IM SORRY I LICHERALLY SAID I WOULDNT BE SPAMMINF & YET HERE I AM…#i have designs 4 hands & sorrow too but they arent like. Finished finished#& the other 2 are missing for Plot reasons#ty for asking lets french irl#💖💖💖💖#(/j!)#asks#my art
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My punkflower brain rot is so bad that when I hear a song that i think miles would like or a song he’d put in a playlist for hobie I tear up idk 😔 maybe it’s because I know they’ll never be canon I just love them so much
#punkflower#hobie brown#hobie x miles#miles morales#miles x hobie#atsv#atsv brainrot#mlm#sorrows sorrows prayers#i love them#please#make them canon I’m begging on my hands and knees
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A moment from ‘The Sea That Calls All Things Unto Her Calls Me’, a canon-compliant-up-to-Thanedd fic by @clydethistles that is Tissaia/Yennefer slow-burn. Also known as the selkie!AU. A favourite of mine - and probably has inspired the most art from me out of all the fan fic stories.
Finished version - there was an earlier update several days ago, but Yen’s skin tone, some hand issues, and how translucent gowns might be were all corrected.
#tissaia de vries#yennefer of vengerberg#fan art#wlw#yennaia#selkies#fic rec#clydethistles#my art#slow burn#delicious angst and sorrow#with rewards for readers throughout the chapters#ocean and seals and magic and self punishment#look i fixed the half-hearted hands!#and yes the dress is MORE translucent now
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doing that thing again where I go sit my oc/npc ship next to each other and afk while I do other shit lmao
#you'll pry these two out of my cold dead hands#they're so sunshine x grumpy it hurts#one day I'll write out how sorrows went with these two
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[Excerpt from Sorrow Beyond Words: Collected Testimony of the War of Wrath, 3rd Edition; edited by Elrond Peredhel. Kortirion Public Library, copy received TA 2510]
“The worst thing I saw during the War? Ancalagon of course, but you won’t find anyone who won’t mention him. Second worst thing? It was a few months later, once Morgoth had been de-footed and dragged out by the stumps, and we were cleansing Angband. We knew we had limited time; the continent was barely holding itself together before a certain dragon collapsed Thangorodrim in its death throes. Delving into the iron hells, with practically every maia of Ulmo, Aulë, Yavanna, and Tulkas singing continuously to keep it from collapsing utterly and taking the entire north with it, just having seen what they brought out of the upper levels, was a rather daunting task. Still had a curiously large number of volunteers, since within you couldn’t hear Morgoth laughing and screaming in his cage.
“So we went fast, killing orcs, experimental monsters, the occasional Umaia. Glad to say I missed the Balrog in the forges; it killed two score before Meril finally took it down. All distractions, regardless. The pits were the real goal.
“How do I even describe them? There were, as best I could divine, about three tiers of thrall quarters. The cells, for prisoners Morgoth and his lords deemed important, general quarters for most thralls, and the pits. The Valar said that he could no longer twist elves into orcs even by the time of his first imprisonment, but from the conditions there, from the bodies we pulled out…I don’t think he cared. Every torture, every debasement, every abomination against the Eruchîn that could be imagined. For each we thought might survive if we got them to the surface, there were five who wouldn’t, and ten corpses. And in the deepest, blackest pit of them all…
“The second worst thing I saw during the War of Wrath was High King Finarfin’s face when he found his sister again and knew he couldn’t save her.”
#silmarillion#the silmarillion#tolkien#silm fic#finarfin#lalwen#war of wrath#stormwritten#war of wrath: sorrow beyond words#for a little added context I imagine Finarfin to be a healer instead of a warrior#“hands of the king” and all#so when he knows lalwen is beyond saving he *knows*
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thought about sending this meme to my friend who hasn’t finished tgcf with the caption “it’s because Bai Wuxiang teaches him how to cook”
#tgcf#xie lian#heaven official's blessing#tian guan ci fu#I don’t know why the quality came out so bad#image got compressed for some reason 😭#when he ate his mom’s food for the last time…. that part. that part got me.#still thinking about sending the meme. haven’t done it yet. on one hand. it’ll be really funny esp once she gets to book four.#on the other hand. is it a spoiler to even insinuate that there’s a reason for xie lian’s bad cooking? that there’s something deeper to it?#because right now it’s a ‘haha that’s so funny and endearing’ character trait#it isn’t a ‘cripples you with sorrow whenever you think about it too hard’ character trait#but it will be…. it will be
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Enrichment time in my enclosure……
From this:
At the end of Trimax volume 6 (via trigun ultimate overhaul)
#trigun#trigun maximum#trimax#i have an idea for the other side but im not doin it today#i have had enough FLOOR TIME and my KNEES HURT#trying to free hand copy something EXACTLY is such a nightmare…#sitting here like girlfriend i need u to stop before you fuck it up beyond repair#i know u see that his lower left eyelid is the wrong shape#and the eyes are too wide and wet and pathetic#buts it IS on brand for him#and im BEGGING you to just let it go#(thats me talking to myself)#anyways. i love that description so much i think about it constantly#basically a gentle guy who is a pacifist and carries a burden of sorrow#yeah#so tru nightow#couldnt have said it better myself <3#im having fun
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Actual canon plotlines that have happened in Project Sekai
Ichika wants to go to Miku Con and all the other units are somehow roped in with her
Anhane and Minoharu theme park double date
Toya doesn’t know what a forest is
Summer festival episode
The gang go on holiday to America
A puppet exhibit at a museum causes Mafuyu to have an existential crisis
Daddy issues
Wedding episode
Akitoya and Emuene gamer tournament
Wonderlands x Showtime gets fucking shipwrecked. No, seriously. THEY GET FUCKING SHIPWRECKED ON AN ISLAND
The gang goes to a sports center
Saki is sad :(
Akito has a crisis
Train adventure
Sports day episode
Rui has a crisis
Mafuyu gets sick. That’s. That’s it that’s the event
Shrine episode
Wedding episode again
Tsukasa falls over and Rui has a crisis (also this is a Halloween episode)
Sports day episode again
Mafuyu has another crisis and goes to a theme park
Akito has a crisis again (also this is a Christmas episode)
Rui fulfilling his literal childhood dream
Kohane has a gun??? WHY DOES KOHANE HAVE A GUN
Ichika goes to buy a CD. Kanade is also there. For some reason.
...A lot of these are just “x character has a crisis” huh
...
Anyway Tsukasa has a crisis
Events mentioned in order:
Scramble Fan Festival!
Buddy Funny Spend Time
Same Dreams, Same Colours
The Sounds of a Summer Festival
Pop! in my Heart
Imprisoned Marionette
Period of Nocturne
An Ode for the Pure of Heart
Close Game/OFFLINE
A Desperate Situation!? Island Panic!
Let's Enjoy Together! Spojoy Park
No Seek, No Find
Stray BAD DOG
Secret Distance
Run! Sports Festival! Committee Rush
Sorrowful Farewell at the Curtain Call
Mirage of Light
The Tomorrow We Hope For
Wishing for Your Happiness Upon the Blue Sky!
It’s On! Wonder Halloween
Heat Up! Kamiyama High Cheering Squad!
Guiding a Lost Child to What Lies Beyond
Find a Way Out
Revival My Dream
Scream! Welcome to the Wolf Forest!
The Warmth of Intersecting Meoldies
On the Stage of Dazzling Light
#shitpost#project sekai#prsk meme#Idk it's funny to me how insane these plotlines can get#Like on one hand we have stuff like Sorrowful Farewell at the Curtain Call where Rui has a personal crisis#over whether to leave his friends or not#and then Kohane has a gun#Idk I find that funny#leo/need#more more jump#vivid bad squad#wonderlands x showtime#nightcord at 25:00#ichika hoshino#an shiraishi#kohane azusawa#minori hanasato#haruka kiritani#toya aoyagi#mafuyu asahina#akito shinonome#emu otori#nene kusanagi#saki tenma#rui kamishiro#tsukasa tenma
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my fave thing about having friends and partners who share my taste in characters despite having Wildly different fandoms is that i can often send angsty song lyrics like "i bet this fits one of your blorbos, right??" and they'll be like "HOW DID YOU KNOW THIS HYPERSPECIFIC SONG ABOUT A FATALISTICALLY LOYAL CHILD SOLDIER WOULD BE RELEVANT TO ME" and i'm like "listen. my guy. there is Always a fatalistically loyal child soldier."
#the specific song inspiring this is hand of sorrow by within temptation but i listen to a LOT of fantasy angst.#many such cases.
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too much
@horrifically // Igor Shcherbakov, Sinichka. (oil on canvas), 2019, // Nicole Homer, Underbelly // Daniele Valeriani // @serratedpens // Takehiko Inoue, Vagabond illustration
#web weaving#web weave#literary parallels#love#one sided love#hurt#alone#lonely#on loneliness#loneliness#unlovable#hand in unloveable hand#dark academia#sadness#rejection#heartbroken#heartbreak#poetry#sorrow#wounds#failing at relationships#failed love#breakup#on love#forever alone#bad breakup#rejected#depressed#exes#ex lovers
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character voice tag
tagged by @winterandwords thank you! my dialogue was “I would like to see the baby.”
Rules: Rewrite the line of dialogue from the person who tagged you into the voice of your OC’s! (You can include a short beat of action to help establish character if you want.) Pass on the tag with a new line of dialogue.
tagging @sam-glade @ashen-crest and @loopyhoopywrites with the dialogue: “You picked the wrong person to mess with.”
Lucian: “I’d love to see your child, if that’s alright? I’ve read so much about human infants.”
Quest: “A baby? Show me, show me, show me!”
Leshanna: “Oh, is there a little one? May I see?”
Zander: The bard’s smile seems somewhat forced. “I’d be delighted to see your baby.”
Sorrow: “Let’s have a look at the youngest, shall we?”
Aspiration: “Come on, show me the newest addition, then.”
Valloroth taglist: @cherrybombfangirlwrites @reininginthefirewriting @memento-morri-writes @foxboyclit @lawful-evil-novelist @at-thezenith @morganwriteblr @fayeiswriting @serenanymph @sam-glade @viscerawrites (ask to be +/-)
#writeblr#tag games#character voice tag#valloroth blogging#c: lucian#c: aliyne#c: leshanna#c: zander#c: quest#c: sorrow#c: aspiration#vren not included because he would not in fact like to see the baby#do not under any circumstances hand that man an infant#aliyne also would not know what to do with a baby#she’s just like. good for you. keep it away from me. please
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