#*circle not cycle

[brian-kinney-apologist]

[kidovna]

can i interest you in an adam parrish

[corneliaavenue]

Clara Bow lyrically is soooo fucked up, but no one notices because they just focus on 🥰"You look like Taylor Swift in this light, we're loving it" 🥰

[vigilskept]

i don’t even know if i have the energy to get into it but it truly does fucking grind my gears that criticism over how characters/worldstates were handled gets conflated with criticism of how genuinely fucking atrocious the politics of this game are.

like yeah ok. the dev cycle was a fucking nightmare. no one’s really happy with the game they put out. sure, we can extend empathy to those involved. and yeah, there are labour issues within the gaming industry at play here.

the labour issues are not what made this game deeply fucking racist.

[batedible]

sometimes i'm normal, and then sometimes i think about adam parrish

[sunderwight]

If Tianxi were T4T they'd both have survived.

Especially if the Old Palace Master didn't know about it (and why would he? I don't think Su Xiyan would tell him and TLJ definitely wouldn't). Somehow word gets around that the demon realms are celebrating because Tianlang Jun is going to have a child. OPM, already aware that Su Xiyan has shacked up with him (and furious about it), takes this to mean that Xiyan is pregnant and does his usual thing of locking her up and forcing an abortive on her while plotting to ambush and trap TLJ.

Except of course, Su Xiyan isn't pregnant enough for the abortive to do more than make her somewhat ill, and Tianlang Jun is too busy giving birth to fall for an ambush. Su Xiyan escapes, Tianlang Jun safely delivers Binghe, and they all ride off into the sunset with Zhuzhi Lang and threats of declaring open war if the other sects ally with Huan Hua Palace to try and make any kind of move against them again.

The old palace master never does figure out why his plan didn't work.

[gojosbf]

the whole story of jjk is a parallel about megumi (the blessed prodigy) and itadori (the cursed finger eater) exist because of gojo (the prodigy) and geto (the curse eater/manipulater), they parallel to each other a lot except megumi shows the signs that he can be saved unlike geto who was too far gone before he could be saved. they fight in the same way, for the same reasons but this time maybe they will break the cycle. walk with me here...maybe itafushi will be the proof that no matter how fucked up the world is and how odds are stacked up against you, there is still a chance that you can change history.

[artmagicly]

Art by Cycle Circle

Software Used: Photoshop

[thecollectibles]

Art by Cycle Circle

[nemfrog]

"Ordinary bicycle." Cycling for health and pleasure. 1890.

Internet Archive

[gh0st-4ss]

Ouroboros

, emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece represented with its tail in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. A gnostic and alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation.

[squash1]

applies to any/all even the actual lovers so

[drenched-in-sunlight]

the Light of Miquella incantation Eng description is so confusing to me, so i decided to look at the JP text, still confused (i asked both my native speaker friend and American friend working as a translator in JP, and even they are confused and i couldn't just give them a wall of text on Elden Ring lore so they could translate 1 paragraph), so i turn to the CN translation which follows the JP one... and it's so clear??????????? im shocked

(please note im not native CN speaker either, but my mother tongue is built based on their language and i double check with my friend who is fluent)

Miquella wishes to embrace everything, yet he understands that there is one exception: whether it be the absolute God or the Lord (King Consort): there could only be one (of them)

so us player, as Lord of the old Order, is the one he could not embrace. and we clearly see that for him to accept us, we already have to be charmed and relinquish our claim to Lordship (thus failing the boss fight).

i feel like this is the translation i could understand & line up well with how events in the game plays out. Miquella wants to accept all, but the rule of the world dictates that there could only be one God & one Consort (who the hell wrote that rule...), and so one of us has to give.

it presents a paradox of him wanting to become a God to save people & bring compassion, but to be a God he HAS to eliminate all other candidates for Godhood. he has to be the only one.

it sheds light on why Marika's age also started with conflicts. it's something demanded of the new God. and also us when we fight to become Elden Lord (+ line up with why Ansbach is not mad at us for killing Mogh, as he too understands that rule).

[geekeryisafoot]

Since their introduction, so many of us have been trying to find the theme and metaphor of World Hater as our primary antagonist. Is is hunter v prey? Hunter v farmer? Life v death? I love all of theories and I'm inclined to believe all of them are true in one way or another, and I'm excited to see what we lean into as the story continues

And now we have this page

Now I'm leaning more towards the circle of life. Ichi embraces the cycle. He kills only to survive, and he knows someday it will be his turn to be killed for something else to survive. What we've seen of the witches works this way too: they aquire and aquire until they fail, and when they die their majiks return to the ecosystem to be acquired again.

But World Hater breaks the cycle. They are not life until death until life. They are obliteration. They are entropy. And, as of now, I think our thematic core is that they will need to be hunted to be put back into their place in the cycle.

[beastlybardou]

Did you know? Did you know that if there's a take that really upsets you in the community, you can just block people who you see post it until eventually you don't see that take anymore? Did you know that? And then you don't have to make posts complaining about people saying things you don't like all the time, and in doing so, perpetuate the discussion about that drama point and make all your followers (who probably agree with you) have to read miserable posts that remind them of the drama all the time?

This includes the "I don't care what other people say, X therians are valid and super cool!" type posts. Like alright, that did nothing to help them, I've seen 50 of them in the last 10 minutes and they're all the same, you're still talking like that group of people isn't in the room with you right now, and it still counts as posting about drama. Stop white knighting and actually engage positively with the people you're talking about instead.

[swagglessmoth]

Fanart for Among the Moonlit Fields by @ohai-there (though it could also be for astmw)

+several other versions bc I struggled wayyy too much drawing this

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These⬇️ are my top two. The text was fun on the first one and the colours are pretty. The second one is actually how I originally finished the drawing, but the colours were too muted and I wasn’t convinced