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ezlo-x · 2 days

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Ooo here's one for the main gerudo family! Is there any significance to any particular jewelry pieces of nabooru or ganondorf? For example, were any of their pieces passed down from urbosa, or did they get certain bracelets/rings etc as a symbol of maturity as they reached certain ages? Or is there just any piece of jewelry that either character would hold significant to themselves as gerudo or just a happy memory?

I remembered how Taru gave ganondorf his necklace and was wondering if either of the siblings had similar stories for their other jewelry esp since ganondorf still seems to be taking good care of his gerudo bracelets/rings in the present

OOOKKKKK WHERE DO I BEGIN

So jewelry is very valued in Gerudo culture far more than other cultures. It is a beauty item usually gifted or passed down. In Pre-Calamity; Nabooru’s jewelry was gifted by her mother Urbosa, Ganondorf’s jewelry was either obtained by him or gifted by his past lovers. Obviously his necklace was a gift from Tarú, that is Ganondorf most valuable piece of jewelry he owns. As Tarú made that necklace by hand.

I actually want to make a proper post about their headpieces and what they mean. Its something that has been in the back of my mind but never properly did.

OK NOW I GET TO TALK ABT MY FAV PART About a year ago I thought of who might have possibly given Ganondorf the obsession of jewelry he has today. Before Ganondorf dated Tarú, used to date Isha the jewelsmith. Isha showed Ganondorf how to properly style and take care of his jewelry, which has lead him to this day still using the same methods Isha has told him. A few of the rings Ganondorf owns were gifted by Isha. I haven’t figured out a solid design for her but I have been drawing her on and off. Reason why they broke up btw is cuz Ganondorf is stuck in the old and was afraid of the relationship to move forward (married status), so Isha broke up with him. </3

In Post-Calamity times Ganondorf was able to obtain new jewelry in trade, his ankle bracelets and toe rings are a new addition to his collection. Sheik loves his jewelry and wishes he could wear them but those rings at best fit two fingers of Sheik.

#tloz au txt #ganondorf #isha #my art

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eachlittlebird · 11 months

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#posting this today for no particular reason...#George Bluth #Arrested Development

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utilitycaster · 26 days

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You know what's interesting to me? For all people keep claiming at every juncture that perhaps Bells Hells will come around on the gods and see the harm they do (which, as discussed extensively, is, half the time, simply not intervening) not only have they never done so, but also they never quite cross the line into saying the party should join the Ruby Vanguard or aid them - and indeed, they defend against it - so what does this achieve? It feels like they're asking for a story in which the party stands idly by, which isn't much of a story nor, if I may connect this briefly to the real world, a political stance anyone should be proud of.

That's honestly the frustration with the gods and the "what if the Vanguard has a point" conversations in-game. What do we do then? Do we allow the organization that will murder anyone for pretty much any reason that loosely ties into their goals run rampant? The group that (perhaps unwittingly, but then again, Otohan's blades had that poison) disrupted magic world-wide, and caused people who had the misfortune to live at nexus points to be teleported (most, as commoners, without means of return). While also fomenting worldwide unrest?

Those were the arguments before the trip to Ruidus; with the reveal of the Vanguard's goals to invade Exandria, the situation becomes even more dire. Do you let the Imperium take over the planet?

And do the arguments against the gods even hold up? If Ludinus is so angry at them for the Calamity, what does it say that he destroyed Western Wildemount's first post-Calamity society for entirely selfish means? (What does it say about the validity of vengeance as a motivator?) What does it say that Laudna told Imogen she could always just live in a cottage quietly without issue before the solstice even happened? (Would this still be true if the Imperium controls the world?) What does it say that when faced with a furious, grieving party and the daughter she keeps telling herself was her reason for all of this, Liliana can't provide an answer to the question of what the gods have done other than that their followers will retaliate...for, you know, the Vanguard's endless list of murders. (That is how the Vanguard and Imperium tend to think, huh? "How dare your face get in the way of my boot; how dare you hit me back when I strike you.") She can't even provide a positive answer - why is Predathos better - other than "I feel it", even though Imogen and Fearne know firsthand that Predathos can provide artificial feelings of elation. Given all the harm Ludinus has done in pursuit, why isn't the conclusion "the gods should have crashed Aeor in such a way that the tech was unrecoverable?"

Even as early as the first real discussion on what the party should do, the fandom always stopped short of saying "no, Imogen's right, they should join up with the people who killed half the party," it was always "no, she didn't really mean it, she just was trying to connect with her mother." Well, she's connected with her mother, and at this point the party doesn't even care about the gods particularly (their only divinely-connected party member having died to prevent the Vanguard from killing all of them). So they will stop the Vanguard; as Ashton says, the means are unforgiveable. As Laudna says, it's not safe to bet on Predathos's apathy. As Imogen says, she's done running; the voice that she used to think of as a lifeline belongs to someone she doesn't trust. So I guess my question is: if they're stopping the people who are trying to kill the gods (and defense of the gods isn't remotely their personal motivation)...do you think the next phase of the campaign is Bells Hells personally killing the gods? Reconstructing the Aeor tech and hoping none of their allies notice? How does this end? Does your ideology ever get enacted? Or is this entirely moot and pointless and the story ends with Bells Hells saying "well, I'm really glad we stopped the people who [insert list of Vanguard atrocities from above]; none of us follow the gods or plan to, but honestly, the status quo we return to is preferable to whatever nightmare Ludinus had concocted in his violent quest for power and revenge"?

#i've got a lot to do today so I think I'm done posting but #cr spoilers #i called that this particular cohort of fans had empathy only for those like them and were terrified of player agency like. 18 mos ago #and i have never been proven wrong. zero analysis just a constant demand that everyone coddle their feelings and confirm their biases #literally will straight up fabricate lore and cry you're disrespecting a pretend person for not including it in your considerations #absolutely SHIT understanding of actual lore. utter incapacity to follow a logical throughline to its conclusion #it's like. wow. wonder why you're so focused on hypocrisy and you overreact to the word selfish #the reason they hate or fear orym (they say they don't...but that just means they want him to go to a reeducation camp instead of die)#is bc i think they are truly terrified of the idea that people can not just hold opinions that are against theirs but stand fast by them #easier to stan the villain because then they die and you can feel wronged and betrayed and wallow in a sense of continual victimhood #than to like a character who might last long enough to call you the idiot and asshole that you are #but it's also funny bc literally if orym weren't there in the latest convo the conclusion is the same.#ashton's had the same opinion of the vanguard the whole time (and it's not positive) but that's not under scrutiny #probably bc it doesn't allow people to be ghoulish in the most cringeworthy way possible

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musette22 · 1 year

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For the nonnie who asked: here are some of my all time favourite lengthy Stucky fics (30-200k, mostly multi chapter):

Not Easily Conquered by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears

This, You Protect by owlet

Home Is Wherever I'm With You by cydonic

Lucky Seven by BetteNoire

Political Animals by @spacerenegades, Deisderium

Wishes and Words by wearing_tearing

A Company Man by @whtaft

Push It Real Good by spoffyumi

The Size of Perfection by @phoenike

Like Real People Do by 2bestfriends

Easy Work For Easy Pay by AustinB

Prince Charming by Brenda

What's in a Name? by levi_cas_tho, maichan

Critical Feline Mass by Kryptaria, zooeyscigar

Ipseity by SkyisGray

Circling Back by chaya

Ain't No Grave (Can Keep My Body Down) by spitandvinegar

The Necrofloranomicon by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)

with all my skin and bone by unicornpoe

He's All That by @spacerenegades

Monoclonius by Zenaidamacrouras1

oh meet me, my darling, where the sun sets over the barley by charlesdk @trancowboy

Coming Home by charlesdk @trancowboy

The Settler by charlesdk @trancowboy

Waking Up Slow by odetteandodile

Family Placement by notlucy

I Held You in Gloved Hands (And I’m Not Letting Go) by @voylitscope

then a small thing happened by BeaArthurPendragon

North Fork by BeaArthurPendragon

Itsy Bitsy Yoga by wearing_tearing

All Those Little Pieces by Ellessey

Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents @silentwalrus1

Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin's Guide to Supersoldier Seduction by galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt

Coming Home For Christmas by Chiyume

Chase the Lightning From the Sky by SilverSlashes

These next ones I haven't had a chance to read yet, but I love these authors' other fics so I'm sure these are brilliant too!

lane lines by @sparkagrace

Till It Bleeds Daylight by @cable-knit-sweater

Backhoe by @zenaidamacrouras1

hey now, you're an all star (get your game on, go play) (WIP) by @buckyismybicycle

I was alone, I took a ride (I didn't know what I would find there) by @otp-holic

Till there were no more wolves in the West by @dharmasharks

better to speak or die (WIP) by @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place

Atoms by @andrea1717

I'm sure I'm forgetting some brilliant ones, so feel free to add to this! Also, please check out these authors' other works too, they're all brilliant <3

#in no particular order except for the first two lol #stucky #steve rogers x bucky barnes #steve rogers #bucky barnes #stevebucky #fic recs #I tried putting half of this under the cut but tumblr is being so difficult today for some reason #so sorry #long post

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comicbookddr · 1 year

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some more ryan ros blingee edits from my computer that i need to get rid of (check out parts 1 and 2 as well)

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chiropteracupola · 6 months

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Said hello and goodbye / Do you feel alright with the days gone by / I'll never waste my time, I'll never say goodbye...

#em draws stuff #em is posting about the wizard of oz in this the year 2023 #<- organizational tag in lieu of a more findable one since I do not wish to discover an internet soup of some sort at this time #this is due to sanguinity's tags on that 'kissing someone up against a wall but the wall is jeff' post #'and now I can finally check these three off a to-draw list they've been on for years' says guy who now wants to draw them Again #designs here are mostly based on the john r neill illustrations with a few of my own twists but I'd like to try out my own take on them too #I drew this mostly in one probably eight-hour sitting and for several reasons maybe I should not have done that #but I am too proud and pleased to have any regrets on that particular front #now I think maybe I shall fall over. but alas I have got tasks. no falling over for the emmothy today :|#caption lyrics are from 'might quit' by bill wurtz since it felt right for some inexplicable reason

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essektheylyss · 2 years

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I am once again BEGGING folks in the critrole fandom to understand that terms for problematic queer tropes have actual meaning and context.

Queerbaiting cannot exist in the context of "the queer relationship I prefer didn't happen but another one did." Nor does it mean "a queer character doesn't get into a relationship with someone they're implied to be attracted to." It cannot exist because one character you wanted to be queer was not confirmed as such and did not have the chance to explore a relationship the fandom wanted, in spite of a plethora of other queer characters and relationships in the media.

Because queerbaiting means an intended, marketed implication that there would be a central queer relationship that was never actually going to be delivered on, in an effort to attract queer audiences without alienating straight/homophobic ones.

Bury Your Gays cannot exist in the context of "character I ship in a queer relationship died." It cannot exist in the context of "other characters of canonical queer status lived." It cannot exist if the story and setting otherwise strongly and repeatedly refute the idea that any experienced queer happiness must be punished. It cannot exist if the character you're talking about has not been confirmed queer.

Because Bury Your Gays is a term for introducing a queer character into an otherwise straight work (usually in a tokenistic way) and then killing them off without ceremony or purpose—often or, depending on the definition, exclusively just after they have started or consummated a relationship, as it is an implication that queer happiness must be punished as a cosmic rule of the setting.

These tropes virtually cannot be present in a work if they are otherwise refuted by the work itself due to the presence of other queer characters. They suggest a rule of the narrative that queerness is anathema to the narrative and world, and cannot be allowed to exist, which cannot apply if the world and narrative is otherwise very supportive of queerness. In fact, the context of these tropes when they were established implied that this was applicable to the only queer person or relationship in a work, because in the context of their inception, it was nearly unfathomable to have even a semi-mainstream media with numerous queer characters and queerness normalized and expected within the setting.

EXTREMELY specific parameters would have to be met to have either of these tropes in particular present in Exandria at this point, and even then, the question of whether or not it would still apply given the conceit of the setting's relationship to queerness and gender as well as the improvisational format of the medium is something that would take whole dissertations to discuss and come to anything approaching a definitive answer.

#cr spoilers #cr discourse #cr meta #do NOT try me on this particular subject i stg #because your options are 'read my very reasonable and organized explanation post' (the 'me being nice' option)#or 'take my 600 page thesis on the matter to the fucking face'#feel like I should make a graph here.#does the character have to be confirmed queer? no for queerbaiting. yes for bury your gays.#does the story need to exclusively handle queerness in a tokenistic way? yes for bury your gays. it's complicated for queerbaiting #(complicated cuz... a character can be confirmed queer and it can still be queerbaiting.#depending on severity of the bait vs actual amount of time/importance of the character on screen)#(i.e. end of supernatural? queerbaiting cuz like. the ratio was absurd. the random gay character cameos in disney films? queerbaiting.)#does it have to be intentional? yes for queerbaiting. not necessarily for bury your gays.#death of the author and all that.#honestly I would personally argue that the nature of the game of dnd makes it impossible to have an instance of bury your gays.#but I'm not writing that essay today cuz it would be wasted on tumblr.#and like. in general. suggest a queer person who enjoys narratives about death and grief is homophobic one more time.#you will get the ream of paper to the face.

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mugzymiik · 4 months

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"going against canon is so cri--" FUCK you and FUCK your fandom expectations I WILL GIVE SO MANY OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS NEOPRONOUNS AND SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT you will LOATHE the day you crossed me by limiting the sheer POWER of my headcanons my dear friend

#this post is brought to you by any pronouns Tsavorite gang #/j #yeah nothing really sparked this i just wanted to say “fuck you in particular” to the ppl who decide to be assholes and go “☝️🤓well thats #not canon so you cant headcanon that—“ LIKE STFU!!!!! i dont CARE its called a HEADcanon for a reason JOHNSON!!!!!! its canon in my HEAD so #FUCK you and that friend of yours i know youll rant to in dms afterwards like “person on the internet hurt my feelies☹️” I KNOW YOURE GONNA #i feel particularly evil today sorry boys/gn/j

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whenthegoldrays · 2 days

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Hmm

#pondering #I can’t believe it’s been a year since I gave up on my last crush #it seems like so long ago I feel like I’ve lived eight lifetimes since then #but it also feels like just yesterday #and yet I feel so…. distant from him #I mean I also never see him anymore #the only reason I did then is because I’d seek him out #and even then….#idk what I’m trying to say #just that things change #and myself of two years ago would be amazed #that I’m able to have a normal life and think about him minimally and painlessly #because two years ago I was in the DUMPS #I went through this intense phase where I just felt like I *had* to be with him and got to the point where I’d just cry out of fear that #that I’d die before I got a chance to make him fall in love with me #it was so bad I was so paranoid and lovesick and and and.. ough #I still remember that night so well #it was also a Wednesday like today and it had been an awful day and I had a headache #and I just thought. I can’t take this anymore. where are we even going. he’s never going to notice me never #i GIVE UP #it was mostly an impulse but looking back I’m so glad I followed that particular impulse #it’s like when Edmund walked out of Mary’s house not because he was super resolved but more on an impulse of the moment #just felt like the thing to do. and I may have regretted it once or twice afterwards but in the end it absolutely WAS the right call #and a couple months later YOU-KNOW-WHO showed up #absolutely insane events happening to me last year.#but now I feel like the girl from that one video #“girl who is going to be okay” djdjdhdh #but really! I will be!#and I am even! just taking it one day at a time #elly's posts

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decamarks · 2 years

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the thing people point out most often in my paintings is usually my use of color. it's definitely my favorite part of painting, so hearing this always makes me happy. but it's weird, because it's really hard to articulate exactly why i choose colors the way i do, aside from basic color theory principles. HOWEVER, i've recently come to the realization that i have one significant influence that i don't often register consciously: IMAGE COMPRESSION. the way colors are compressed is really similar to the way i choose all the colors i use. here's an example of what i mean:

see on the left it's just a normal, white hallway. but when you start to reduce the number of colors through posterization, you see that there's BLUE! and RED and YELLOW! there's all these vibrant, glowy, low-contrast rings of color banding around the walls, comprising an overall 'white' image. they're like little halos of light. the photo obviously looks 'uglier' when you compress it like this, but i can't help but appreciate how unique it looks. it almost looks iridescent. you would never think to use color like this if you weren't a computer trying to crunch together the closest available colors.

there's a lot lost in a camera's translation of raw sensor data to pixels, but the distortion created can be equally beautiful if you look at it through the right lens. i remember zooming into heavily artifacted art when i was little and thinking "how do the artists know when to use white pixels or very slightly bluish-white pixels??" i ended up trying to replicate this a few times, assuming the reason my drawings didn't look as good was because i was using the wrong colored pixels. this initial misunderstanding definitely paved the way for my fixation on the subject, once i was old enough to know what a "jay-peg" is.

the different containers that data, particularly images and sound, are encapsulated in, always define them in some way. the idea of lossless quality—seeing/hearing something the way it was 'meant' to be perceived, free of distortion—is an ideal that i've learned to stop striving for. there's value in compacting things, and conveying them less than perfectly. this concept isn't anything new, of course. the warm fuzz of record players, the blurry imperfection of polaroid photos... these things are genuinely gorgeous, despite their 'ugliness'. it's almost strange to think that effects like these were compromises with the technology available rather than deliberate aesthetic choices.

dithering, reduced color palettes and artifacting are all obviously more modern forms of 'ugly', and thus less often reminisced about. but i really wonder if we'll see more appreciation of them in the future, and i kinda hope we do... i've been showing my appreciation for this somewhat abstractly, but it's undoubtedly still apparent as an influence in my art. i can't help but love it all, honestly.

there's something undoubtedly charming about images so compressed that it's obvious they've been passed around websites for a while, as well as slightly sped up, 128kbps versions of songs uploaded over a decade ago. yes, sometimes it hurts that you can't covey things with lossless clarity—there is always a distortion; a compromise made to compact raw data into something comprehensible by human eyes and ears. these little bits of 'ugliness' are unavoidable and inevitable, because they define the data itself. even your flawless FLAC files become distorted by the speakers that play them. perceptual perfection is always fun to strive for, of course... but sometimes learning to love the limitations of a medium is the best you can do for it.

#tl;dr: i love Images.#i have SO many thoughts on this subject but it popped into mind again today for no reason in particular LOL #i have another post in my drafts with a similar subject matter but pertaining to 2D vs 3D in particular. maybe i'll post that eventually...

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arthur-r · 1 month

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what’s really embarrassing is my roommate on the phone with his mom saying “yeah i’ve been getting really sloppy i haven’t cleaned in a week it’s terrible” and my side of the room is just like that. all of the time. and i feel guilty but he also hasn’t ever said anything to my face he moved my stuff some at the beginning of the year but has never talked to me about it and i’m also so fucking ill that i just cant really handle adding that to my list while trying to also not fail school. so here i am being a terrible person i guess. did i tell you guys about turtle-person. have i showed my bracelets. i’m gonna go to sleep but in the morning i need to show my bracelets

#help i have work tomorrow. i also feel sick and strange. wish me luck #the sun was around today which was incredible but also i think it gave me too much mental energy #cause for the first time in forever i had the brightness of spirit to go for a walk. but that’s not the same as having the blood flow for it #so i think i overexerted myself cause of being finally happy and mentally energized i forgot about being physically disabled #i also had to explain POTS to somebody today and she was literally like ‘oh is that the thing where you need to have salt’ and NO like #i do have a really high salt intake to cope with POTS. but that’s not the fucking thing yknow?? like no that’s not what the thing i have is #it has nothing to do with salt. salt is a fun little coincidence that it can help with water retention which in turn helps with POTS #and it raises blood pressure is i think the other reason? but anyway idk i would honestly rather she just not know about it than have like #that very particular tiktok version of it like i am so glad for internet knowledge being spread and stuff and i mean. i guess even the posts #that i’m about to complain about are good for making people feel like they’re not alone. so maybe it’s fine. but i was going to complain of #the videos that are like ‘‘that one POTS friend’’ and it’s just like. salty food. instead of like. having to sit down?? BEING FATIGUED??#and like whatever. whatEVER but i wish it wasn’t getting conflated with one particular little way of treating it. even though i use that way #i don’t have needs-a-lot-of-salt-disease. like that’s not the point. that’s not the issue. it’s not a salt deficiency. salt just helps #and it doesn’t FIX it. it just helps. that’s all #ANYWAY EVERYTHING IS FINE. i feel sick though. but i’m gonna sleep and i’ll be fine #i miss before i had a job cause then i could sleep all day if i skipped class and it would be really nice. but now i have a job i would be #missing on my responsibilities for. and I don’t actually have accommodations. but im gonna sleep i’ll be fine #and library book cart is actually so rollator. like as far as being able to walk the library situation is such a win #anyway i’m gonna go to sleep now. but yeah idk i’m sick and a mess what else is new. but i have something whatever i’m good theres something #unrequited love for life or something like that. ok im gonna go to bed sorry for being weird and strange all the time!!!!#me. my post. mine.#delete later

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lunarflare64 · 2 years

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Being loveless is so frustrating sometimes, not in the "oH eVeRyOnE eLsE sEeMs So HaPpY, i WaNt ThAt" way, I don't give a fuck, leave me out of it please and thank you. No, the issue is I see so many posts that go "EVERYONE wants love" "EVERYONE needs love" "you deserve love!" etc etc that immediately make me extremely uncomfortable, but I'm not allowed to say anything, because if I mention loveless people on those posts its considered an attack on the happiness they're celebrating, and should I even bother? Its not about me, that's kind of the point, the only way I'm involved in those posts is the "everyone" lines, and clearly loveless people aren't included in "everyone". Do we matter enough to those people for them to change the way they speak in those posts? To be considered before lumping the whole world together like that?

I've never consented to being involved in the concept of love, I don't want to be dragged into it, those posts straight up feel like a violation of boundaries, and is there even anything I can do about that? Its not like anyone else cares, and if I want to be in mentally healthy spaces I can't just block every person who posts those things, because they're considered positive and good things, the only spaces that wouldn't talk like that would be loveless spaces (a huge minority on the internet, nonexistent irl) and unhealthy spaces where ALL positivity is locked out. I'm already in the former, and I LEFT the latter years ago because it was bad for my mental health, I'm not going back there

#vent #vent post #loveless #loveless aro #aromantic #i still might have to unfollow some people #one person in particular is super bad with it and has triggered more than a few incidents like this #in fact theyre the reason for todays upset over it #yeah no im unfollowing them im done

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capaldiera · 1 year

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it was so not the point of mash and would have been jarring tbh but like rn i'm wishing father mulcahy had actually talked about religion in more than just little quips. girl what are your thoughts and what things do you like to focus on. btw

#thinking abiut this rn because i was wondering if theres any particular saints he likes but i think it was kicked off by when i was thinkin #g earlier today about. well i was thinking about heroes again. specifically about the men he grew up around and didnt want to be like and t #he places he looked to for the kind of man he did want to be (reading plato; what he saw of gentleman joe cavanaugh)#and i was thinking about the ways he differed from the other kids (who bullied him) and the kind of kid his dad wanted him to be (to me the #subtext in emphasising how much he used to sit inside reading directly before talking about going to the match with his dad is that his dad #kind of dragged him along and wanted him to be into boxing instead)#and so i was thinking about all that and in listing the plato thing and the boxing match thing. i thought about jesus and how like the chr #istian bible descibes him as gentle and kind and patient and whatnot. and how he fits into that list and like obviously one assumes he is a #role model for mulcahy. lol. but the show doesnt really go there bc thats just not the tone its not what the show is #(not complaining about that it would most likely be done sooo obnoxiously and like its literally not what i want to see on tv)#and then i was wondering about when his religion became really important for him. like given what he seems to feel about his family #and how much he doesnt talk about them. i would assume its a connection he more or less found/established as independent from them #which leads me to think of it as either something he got into later or something which was a refuge for him as a kid.#and like ive thought before about how the things he mentions in heroes Dont have to do with catholicism. and maybe thats just bc it wasn't #part of the story. or maybe its because he just wasnt really looking there for guidance and hope at that point #anyway i dont have answers to any of these questions i was simply turning them over in my head like smooth pebbles in my mouth #me.txt #mashposting #oh i got soo distracted here but ALSO the reason i was thinking about it when i made thsi post is bc i was wondering what stained glass he #likes Lol #for potential use in a joke post i might make

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valiant-portabella-pirkko · 7 months

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thinking about Commander Pirkko, Saoirse, and Scarlet's dynamic across Regrowth is so interesting to me because like. Regrowth is fairly close to canon at first, but still diverges in one major aspect: the Commander was meant to be a set of three. and in Regrowth, it only LOOKS 'normal' because the other two-- Scarlet and Saoirse-- never made it to where they were supposed to be.

but their roles and abilities? those haven't changed. they're still who the Dream fashioned them to be. they fill the holes in the Commander's leadership, seeing all the blindspots that Pirkko can't.

if they were working together, that'd be great. therein lies the problem, though; they're not working together. at all.

the two people who were meant to be the Commander's most trusted allies instead become her deadliest and most effective enemies for all the same reasons. everything that would have made them the perfect team make them also the perfect enemies, and the end result is a clash so catastrophic it nearly ends Tyria all on its own.

and it takes the entire dragon cycle for them to finally figure that out.

#my posts #GW2 #Regrowth AU #ironically i've been writing about Flourish and yet I'm talking about Regrowth. but tbh this is one of those points of overlap #that really makes them both shine when you set them side by side and compare the two timelines to each other #because. that's The Whole Thing. Flourish is what Regrowth WOULD have been if everything hadn't gone sideways early #i just have a lot of feelings about the tragedy of these 3 and how they turned out compared to who they Could have been #Saoirse could have been a beacon of hope. instead she would nearly shroud the entire continent in everlasting despair.#Ceara was meant to be a voice of reason. instead she'd be remembered for her destructive fall into madness.#and Pirkko's bold fiery heart would be crushed under the weight of a destiny that was never meant for her to carry alone.#and that's not even MENTIONING Aurene and Vlast... Aurene would have chosen Saoirse instead of Pirkko. but Saoirse wasn't there.#and Vlast would have finally found a mortal after his own spirit in the Commander. an unyielding Champion with the heart of a dragon.#... instead... she would be forced to watch him die.#the tragedy between Pirkko and Vlast in particular hits different when considering they were meant to be as close as with Aurene #but they never even got the chance to know each other.#man. it's feels time today i guess!!

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rowenabean · 5 months

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#it's... really interesting working around these parts sometimes #i'm pretty sure only myself and 1 other person actively go to church from my work #but there's a real undercurrent of faith which is sometimes lowkey syncretist and sometimes pops up unexpected #tbh sometimes a stronger belief in the supernatural than my own #today in the staff meeting one of our nurses said 'hey i can feel we're all drained the energy in this room is not what it was we're all #burned out post covid #so i called a chaplain this morning can we get him in to bless the building'#and like. the ultimate reason she made this happen was our coworker broke her arm yesterday #like i think she had been feeling it for a while but was like 'right i need to make this happen'#...not something i would have expected as a solution?#the particular name she mentioned is a retired minita in the haahi mihinare church who happens to be a patient here #sure?

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khaotunq · 8 months

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#the demons are winning today #spent an hour on a gifset refreshed my dash and saw one someone else posted that's basically exactly the same #to the depths! goodbye!#i've binned 3 other gifsets just because i'm mad at myself for no particular reason today #and so i'm whinging to the void pls ignore me being a sad sack #i enjoyed the ep but i'm in a weird fog where i just #can't find? excitement about it?#everything is stupid but mostly me #i'm going to go sulk elsewhere i will rb stuff when i get a fucking grip #thank u anyone tagging me <3 #so it is decreed #it's possible i'm just crashing like fuck because i've been a bit manic for a week

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