#which is the beloved which is the world
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[sun-drenched, late] by Gregory Orr
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☆ you sow; & thus you shall reap what you are owed
{☆} characters tsaritsa
{☆} notes cult au, imposter au, drabble, gender neutral reader
{☆} warnings blood, violence
{☆} word count 0.8k
You are dying.
Gold melts into the dirt, bleeds into the very earth that you'd molded by your own hands – a familiarity you do not understand the source of – you know it to be true, yet you do not remember it as Teyvat does. It weeps, in turn, for the way you bleed upon it, the way your lungs strain for breath.
It is fury and sorrow and fear and hatred so raw that your mind buckles.
You will die.
"A dying godling and its judge, it's jury – it's executioners," The voice is hollow and cold, sweeps across your broken body like the first chill of winter, "Archons who saw themselves Gods, now brought to heel by their own hubris."
A cold hand upon your cheek, the brush of a thumb across your lip, the gentle caress of cold across your skin. You know her – you don't remember, you shouldn't recognize her but you do – and she knows you. The cold beckons and you follow, let her kindness settle in the hollow space of your chest. You want to speak, to cry and scream and rage, let the world burn around you in a fit of flames so hot even she cannot contain it – but she silences you, quiets the anger seeping into your blood, quiets Teyvat itself.
"Do not speak, little godling. Guide my hand," She is cold; her hands are not gentle, yet it is bliss compared to the callous, cruel hands that have shattered you. She is cruel and cold and brutal but she is love in the way she kisses the crown of your head. She is love in the way she is the bulwark between you and the world that has scorned you – she is fury in the way she brings them to their knees. "And I shall enact judgement most divine."
They will pray for forgiveness, and they shall find themselves wanting.
"It wasn't our fault!" They cry, but you cannot recognize the voice – it breaks and cracks like glass. "They were too human. How were we meant to know? We– we thought they were.."
Silence.
You watch your judge – the executioner, the blade that shall carve their sins into the very marrow of Teyvat, stand above you like death. As cold as winter and just as brutal. Your temple has been painted in the gold of your divine blood, and she shall complete the masterpiece with their own. The Archons shall become the grandest art in the world – this temple the canvas, their blood the paint and their bodies the palette. The cold that cuts sinew cradles you – it sings to you, whispers sweetly in your ear and carves bone from body in the same breath. The cold presses it's lips to your wrist and it cradles a heart within it's palm – judges them and finds them guilty.
It is her spear that rests between their ribs, her sword that dissects and her dagger that carves – the cold devours.
In the breadth of this divine sanctuary, the Archons dwindle. They become the pieces of a divine work of art, they bleed and bend and break upon her hands. She shakes the heavens and carves mortality into the bones of the divine – your word is Law, and you weave their deaths into the roots of Teyvat itself.
They shall know of their grand folly in every moment henceforth and longer still and they shall weep.
And as the curtain falls, as the world crumbles beneath fist and blade, she cradles your face between hands too cold – as gentle as a shard of ice between your ribs, as brutal as the kiss of gentle snowfall. The world buckles at the loss of six, but she alone does not allow it to break – you will have to mend the wounds of the world when you are well, but today you weep and Teyvat weeps with you.
And alone, the cold remains.
Stone has eroded, the wind has ceased, the flames have been extinguished, the storm has been silenced, the forests have gone quiet and the seas go still.
But the cold remains, bathed in gold.
It wraps you in thick furs, cradles you against the winter storm that brews beneath a veneer of composure. It brings you home – lets the world settle into a stillness and silence that inspires only dread and still she presses a kiss to your brow.
It is cold, but there has never been something so warm.
Where hands have broken you, she drapes you in furs, wipes away the thick gold that clings to your skin. She pieces you back together where you have been shattered, reshapes you where you have been bent – makes of you something new. Not a god and not a mortal but something wedged between them.
But you are yourself.
And you are where you belong.
They shall put you back together and you shall know only the worship worthy of the divine. They shall carve this world into your image, tear out and burn away the rot that festers.
All you need to do is say the word and they shall be your tools to make this world your own.
One word and those who wronged you shall burn, too.
Just one word. That's all it takes, and they shall take away your pain.
#sagau#genshin sagau#self aware genshin#genshin impact sagau#self aware genshin impact#fic tag#genshin cult au#genshin impact cult au#tsaritsa#“eros you left for a month again” yeah.................#anyway. posts tsaritsa fic and leaves#i kept it kinda vague but the fatui are all on your side. whether or not your actually the creator or not though..#now thats up for debate.#did they tamper w teyvat to kill the archons? to break the world to be remade in whatever image they see fit?#using you as the means of their end?#maybe you are the creator and they just saw an opportunity. maybe they are just devoted to you.#i just think lowkey villain au but specifically imposter au where the only ones who side w u r the fatui like OUGH#i love the fatui. them being the only ones 2 side w u is so tasty#prime material for angst bc the self doubt if the only ppl who believe u r the “villains”#a lot of this is just like. tsaritsa posting again though#the tsaritsa who loves so deeply yet cannot love#contradictions all the way down#she loves you but she cannot love you.#she loves you but she will put a dagger between your ribs. she loves you but she is incapable of love#tsaritsa the woman that u r ough#harbingers and their complex relations 2 love my beloved#smth smth tsaritsa seeing an opportunity to install a puppet “creator” which creates a separate imposter!au when the actual creator pops in#did i write this just 2 write tsaritsa being vague and Weird and horrifying and a horror and a lover and just a woman and#yeah :]#please talk 2 me abt the tsaritsa pleas epleas pleas eplease please please please p[lease please pleas
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Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.
But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”
Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)
Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.
I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.
Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…
#the third eye has been opened#😵💫#like tolerate it was always a difficult song#even when we learned it was based on Rebecca it obviously took on new meaning post-joever#and especially in light of ttpd#but the thought spiral i went on last night when i started thinking about all these connections#and the evermore of it all#I’m Charlie at the conspiracy board again#writing letters addressed to the fire#me thinking too hard about Taylor lyrics#evermore my beloved#tolerate it#i kinda gave myself the ick with all this 😵💫#because of the ttpd of it all coming up#and i feel like i remember interviews where Taylor said joe was so well-read especially about like world events and politics and stuff#and supported her when she wanted to start speaking up (not getting into that)#but just based on ~vibes now I wonder if that was like a sore point too at some point#which again i have no proof of but just like… experience with pretentious millennial art bros lol#oh man oh man oh man#this feels like some sort of huge revelation at 1:00 am#when i started writing this lol#eta: when I queued this in the middle of the night i didn't see all the excellent discussion about the seven/folklore posts#so all of you who have been posting about them this morning consider yourselves tagged too!
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O you, who at the world's far-off end dwell,
I know your wish- it is my wish as well.
#ephemer#khux#khml#kingdom hearts#kh#missing link#kingdom hearts union x#kingdom hearts missing link#kh ephemer#thinking about... how among the people in scala he's this legendary figure#but from a personal point of view he was simply someone riddled with grief#he founded a new world but he did so alone when he should have been with all his friends...#mine: kh#my art#so time may or may not have gotten away from me... i started this drawing in July. lol#the caption is part of old verse 2 from pokémon legends arceus#the entirety of which is absolutely perfect for ephemer but would be too long#i'll just write it in tags here:#'o you; who at the world's far-off ends dwell; i know your wish- it is my wish as well.#my own beloved is now gone from me; departed to a place i cannot reach.#my old companions have left me behind; their faces faded into days gone by.#still to my breast i clutch this hopeless dream; a futile wish for us once more to meet.#oh you; who at the world's far-off end dwell; i know your wish- it is my wish as well.#but ours are cold and endless winter days; warmed only by memories locked away.'#[minor edit: fixed the color of the lines on his shirt!]#[i am so proud of this one you don’t understand]
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so as literally everyone following me in the past 24 hours knows, im fucking obsessed with her. take her shes everything i have
#undertale yellow#martlet#martlet undertale yellow#martlet uty#?????????#tagging is hard and terrible#should i tag ut?????????#ehhh nah#i shant#whoop#my art#martlet my beloved love of my life i want to kiss you#(words said by worlds most aroace person)#... i should get better at drawing the prosthetics 😭#anyways uhhhhh yea i found out what a martlet actually is so she uses prosthetics now👍#i like to think the boots and stuff is a diff set of prosthetics for when shes just building or chilling#these ones come out when she has guard duty/needs to run around/lots of movement#also idk i might just make her shirtless??? idk which design i like more just yet so eh#ill figure it out next time#so much grief was caused in the making of her wings#GIRL HOW DO YOU HOLD THINGS 😭😭😭😭#ARENT YOUR ARMS WINGS#but yeah. harpy potentially shirtless prosthetic user martlet👍#the world gave me a new blorbo and by god will i dump every headcanon conceivable onto her
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Has anyone talked about the implications of Riku’s music in Symphony of Sorcery (DDD) being from the Nutcracker and how that relates to him and Sora?? Or perhaps I’m reading too much into it.
#soriku#I have NOOO idea what pastoral is from unfortunately so I can’t say much on Sora’s side but when I recognized the waltz of flowers on Riku’#side of the world I started freaking out because that’s so like; LMAO ITS RIGHT THEREEEE!!! Riku is such a lover boy#The thing that makes it 20x funnier is I had started writing a soriku nutcracker AU two years ago after my friends and I watched the Barbie#version of it; anyways when I feel like it I’m gonna research the nutcracker a bit more and see if I’m piecing something together here#or if I’m reaching#Which I doubt cause I know them boys hearts sing dearly beloved SOOOO the music choices for their worlds certainly mean SOMETHING#maybe
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i know that by "pro gamer" it def means that joonghyuk plays shooters or like competitive games but i personally like to hc as a speedrunner. Hes got like world record in mr goobers day off cuz he can do the dookie skip consistently and he got fast sligma on his best time. Hes a gaming icon
#I love speedrunning so much#I consider it a sister field to rhythm gaming which is my beloved#I know yjh has the grind mindset for speedrunning and i just think it would be funny#Also it would make sense he streams attempts but doesnt have to be like high energy#Tell me what game u think he would have world record in cuz i made all that up#Kdj in his chat: wow joonghyuk that time will never be beat *beats it the next day#Hsy in his chat: i could do better than that *has never speedran a game in her life#orv#If this doesnt make sense with the ending uhhhh sorry??? Im only on like chapter 80 of the novel and chapter 200 of the manhwa#Im working thru it#Dont worry sbout spoilers tho ive looked thru the tumblr tag like dozens of times lmao#omniscient reader's viewpoint#yoo joonghyuk#yjh
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losing my shit!!! i was so very convinced that my last ridiculous fictional crush of 2023 would be the Toymaker, severe as the brainrot has been and is...who could've guessed he'd be pipped at the post by Dr Fry, a man who brainwashes chickens 😂💖 my mind is a JOKE
#they do share similarities though which is the funniest part#i am down so bad for characters who construct or manipulate reality#Dr Fry is more along the Mad Mod lines of being able to build his own world through science and engineering#whereas the Toymaker belongs to a whole subset of beloved villains who can really transform time and space with ease#they're sexy qualities don't @ me#the toymaker#dr fry#doctor who#dr mark fry#the giggle#chicken run: dawn of the nugget#chicken run 2#dw#chicken run#aardman#starleskatalks
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A Design for an Imfaously Inversed Slugcat. One of Shadows, One of Egg (And Bonus Innocence Unparalleled)
#rain world#rainworld#rain world inv#rain world enot#inv rain world#enot rain world#rain world survivor#unparalleled innocence#rw unparalleled innocence#my art#fanart#Oh Inv the beloved and behated thing#I had a blast design them hehe#A major thing I did in my process of both Inv & UI was not look at anyone else's designs the concepting phase#I tend to where my inspirations on my sleeves and also general I have the need to compare my designs to others#Which is fine but recent it feels like my RW designs don't have my own unique flare#So here my solution!!#I'm like how these turned out hehe#Also for what Enot is doing with Survior: It views them as the most 'normal' slugcat and poor Enot doesn't feel normal#So mimikcry is its lovely solution that that problem#Also I'm still forming my interpretion of UI so who know maybe their next drafts with be completely different hehe
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the fact that my job can be music... it means that for most of my life I can be happy. isn't that the most wonderful thing? [x]
#joker out#nace jordan#nacko my beloved#i am a master of making gifsets of nace in which almost all of the gifs are the same#i could look at him for hours <3#so pretty#also cry over what he said in this interview holy shit#nacko i am so glad you are happy and that you've found the best band in the world and the best people to be with#WHY DOES MY PHONE MAKE GIF 2 LOOK PURPLE?
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Big fan of characters who are somewhat aware that they are side characters and they struggle with that
#that quiz made me think of idelle black sails#which made me think of wakaba rgu my best friend wakaba rgu#like idelle wins at the end right#and her 'you killed my friend' monologue is so good because it makes u think of her and that girl as actual people#and not just extras that the main cast can kill without affecting anyone#idelle knows shes no max no anne no eleanor but that doesnt make her any less of a person#and then theres wakaba who seems so detached from the weirdness of the duels and is 'just' normal#but then it gets turned around and u see how wakaba feels about the whole situation#ugh wakaba duel my beloved#and in the finale u see that wakaba has taken on the role of utena somewhat#which is crazy? like what does that mean#the world akio constructed is falling apart and the cast is starting to move forward and outside of the neverending cycle#and wakaba now goes from the normie friend to taking on utenas role as an active player?#is she simply redoing utenas story or something else
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decide to make actual refs for both of my ancient ocs; Four Jewels, Fleeting Notes and A Golden Crown, Six Silver Coins
#rain world#rainworld#rain world oc#rainworld oc#rw ancients#rw benefactors#rw#my art#this was mostly for crown since i kept changing their design every time i drew them but jewels deserves a nice ref too#also for artfight which i will 100% do and not flop after like 3 drawings#right guys#anyways#my beloved bings <3
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garfield poll????
would the touden party eat garfield the regular normal ass housecat
#hes mostly bipedal nowadays but hes literally just a cat#this isnt a cat bias either i dont think theyd eat like..idk snoopy either cause thats a normal ass dog#the worlds in which they exist (funnies comic strips) allow for them to behave in ways cats and dogs would not in a more serious world like#dunmesh those are just animals and tbh i dont think the thought would even cross laios' mind himself cause theres nothing special or#monstrous about a regular animal#and if they werent regular animals and were closer to anthropomorphic then the answer is still no cause then they could qualify as some#type of Kobold??? i dont see how no one else is seeing this#you want a beloved iconic american pop culture pet the touden party would eat? scooby doo. there.#hes closer to the chopping block#sorry you didnt ask for the tangent lol#asks#anon
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#art patch#owlboy#in stars and time#double posting today sorry I think?#I feel like it’s a bit unfair to make comparisons between the two games#but also I’m thinking about it so hard and like yeahg#also I have something in the works which I’m almost done#only two left if that gives an inkling#but I guess that would only make sense to those who now owlboy???#anyways sippy don’t read past this point cause it contains spoiler kinda#love that almost ends the world my beloved#I’m just saying Noctae probably did out of love and I’m so normal about can you tell#about it*#minor spelling mistake
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#p4#persona 4#p4g#persona 4 golden#hanamura yosuke#yosuke hanamura#“i should be the one thanking you though” god yosuke GOD he still sees so much of this as him seeking justice for saki huh#nearly one year in and he still feels like this was a responsibility of his. that it was his burden that he had put on to yu.#that initial moment when he asked yu for help in entering the tv world like he still saw it as yu following through with his word primarily#i feel like there's an implication here that he thought yu might/could abandon this task for something else.#rank 10 when yosuke says “somewhere deep down I didn't trust you... no it's more like... i was jealous of you” idk i think on some level#yosuke didn't trust yu. i think yosuke who is used to being let down and used to only being paid lip service and superficial relationships#he didn't believe that someone as competent and as beloved and as enviable as yu would pull through for someone like yosuke#which again i want to shake yosuke like a snowglobe BECAUSE BBYBOY PLS HAVE MORE FAITH IN YOURSELF#DO YOU STILL NOT SEE HOW MUCH YOU'VE CHANGED YU AS MUCH AS HE'S CHANGED YOU#DO YOU KNOW UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN YU WAS THANKING YOU IT WAS FOR THE SAME REASONS??#THAT YOU STAYED UNFLINCHINGLY BY HIS SIDE THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD??#THAT YU ALSO HAD HIS BURDEN OF BEING A WILDCARD DESPITE BEING SOMEONE THAT STAYED CAREFULLY DETACHED SOCIALLY#BUT YOU. YOSUKE. YOU WERE THE ONE THAT CHANGED HIS MIND AND HELPED HIM AND MADE HIM BETTER AND I#YU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT LOYALTY AND DEEP MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS LOOKED LIKE EITHER UNTIL YOU AAAA WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THAT#srry idk why that was in all caps i got very passionate for a moment#anyway. them.#he's good with his queue
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Day 2: Maglor of @feanorianweek
Kingship
Poppy = Sloth | Manipulation
I do think Maglor mourned when Maedhros got himself captured, I just also read Maglor as a manipulative power hungry character.
He probably convinced himself that Maedhros had died and ignored everything that proved otherwise, both as a poor coping mechanism and, subconsciously, seizing the power of being a king, although he never named himself one as that would give him trouble. He differently enjoyed the power and mourned, when Maedhros came back, for the power loss. He was happy to have his brother back of course. I don´t think he spoke against Maedhros choice to give the kingship to Fingolfin, even if he wanted it himself, as he did except Fingolfin to do something stupid and get himself killed eventually, and by agreeing he seemed more "civil" and the friendliest of his brothers, which would end up giving him political power, giving people the illusion that he´s the innocent and harmless of his family.
Maedhros | Celegorm | Caranthir | Curufin | Ambarussa | Nerdanel and Feanor
#beloved manipulative minstrel king#most of this is just my headcannon and how i read him as a character just ignore it if you dont like it#in his perfect world he would sit and play music while telling people what to do and everyone would love and respect him#when he was king he had help from caranthir and curufin with the things he didnt like or thought below him yk boring stuff like paperwork#and only did what he thought sounded fun or helped him keep support and power and of course just for the sake of being in control#i would have liked to give him a fox a cat or a snake but held on to the lion#as a way to show maedhros through it too if that makes sense#but thelien what does poppies have to do with manipulation#easy dried poppy seeds are drugs and was once used as medication and yes you can get high on them you just need a lot like a lot#which is why that if you need to take a drugtest and you have just eaten poppy seeds youll test positive but only on a very little#trust me its not gonna affect you#fun fact in some places its illegal to have red poppies in your garden because of this#still going on the flowers and deadly sins#maglor#makalaure#kanafinwe#tolkien#silmarillion#jrr tolkien#digital art#silm art#my art#feanorian week#feanorian week 2023#feanorianweek
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