#3. Demons Inside

[capricciosso]

ROWENA What in the hell is this? SAM Insurance. Comfortable?

[gloufiz]

Possession is the only explanation, I will not elaborate further.

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN for WKOREA & VERSACE

[joetamy]

Made some smol sketch stuff 🔥

[rain-124c41]

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[wavyskies]

Day 1 of @llocket and @lavendergalactic's event: an edit based off your most looped song (Song: Cult of Personality - Living Colour)

Characters used: Sekido, Zohakuten, Urogi and Karaku from Demon Slayer (no Aizetsu for now </3)

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[inkprovised]

Aziraphale stopped in his tracks. He was so happy to see Crowley alive and well. Until just now, the Angel thought he might never see him again, that Crowley would never talk to him again. But here he was. Aziraphale wanted to explain what happened- but was it the time for this?

So much was going on in his head, he didn't even realise when his tears started falling. One big step towards the demon, the urge to hold him of being held. But he stopped abruptly. What if he didn't want to be near him anymo-

The Angel had no chance to finish his thoughts. Crowley did two big steps towards Aziraphale to embrace his Angel.

All they could do, was absorbing each others Warmth.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry for being so stupid." Aziraphale sobbed uncontrollably.

"No, Angel.", Crowleys voice broke. "You just wanted to help."

I just realised how much I want them to just touch... Please hug each other! I need this! YOU need this! I want this even more than a kiss! Or give me both!!

I think I'm gonna barf...

[coquelicoq]

listened to my yunmeng shuangjie playlist for the first time in a couple years and some of these songs are apropos af. others, not so much, but i can at least make a guess as to what i was going for with most of them. in no particular order:

what human by the killers is doing on here i haven't the first idea except i assume it must be about one or the other of the golden core sacrifices. but which one, and how, i couldn't tell you.

all i really want by alanis is on here which is a) hilarious and b) soooo true bestie omg my mind.

the playlist also includes the way we were which i am 90% sure was 75% a joke, but the other 25% is that what's too painful to remember we simply choose to forget has wei wuxian written all over it.

i don't know what i thought i was doing putting psycho killer on here except that i don't have a wwx-only playlist so this was the next best thing i guess, or maybe you could make the argument that the 'when i have nothing to say my lips are sealed' verse is jiang cheng coded? it's both of them coded frankly. they're both disasters.

there are three guster songs which seems excessive given there are only 21 songs total, and probably there's no reason for me to have included amsterdam except i bet it's in my divorce playlist and maybe i was just adding all my favorite breakup songs? unclear. (but in support of this hypothesis i present exhibit a: don henley's the heart of the matter, of which i have performed many a dramatic rendition in the shower while angsting about various failed relationships.) demons however is extremely on the money and fa fa has a good level of thematic resonance i think.

i still think fix you is a freakishly good representation of wei wuxian's approach to the golden core transfer. definitely my favorite of the golden core subgenre. golden corecore if you will.

the next time fleetwood mac wants to perform go your own way in concert i think they could just play the clip of jiang cheng telling wei wuxian he can't protect him if he insists on protecting the wen. same effect and they can rest their voices for a minute. take a lil water break.

memories can't wait (apparently i was listening to a lot of guster AND a lot of talking heads) is i guess about jiang cheng haunted by the ghosts of shixiongs past but it seems a bit of a stretch now if i'm honest.

i actually love the background by 3eb as jiang cheng post wwx's death. i've always dug that song but never understood the lyrics but now i'm like. well clearly it is about this exact situation. try to keep up. motorcycle drive by (i was listening to a lot of guster, a lot of talking heads, and a lot of 3eb) is maybe less obvious but the vibes do check out. jiang cheng has never felt so alone and he's never felt so alive (derogatory??).

doesn't remind me is mostly a list of very specific and random nouns that are not at all relevant here but the chorus is doing something for me. however i don't think it is quite an accurate representation of wei wuxian's character OR of what he believes his character to be. so this one could probably go. the way we were did it better 🙄

over my head (cable car) and your winter are just quintessential sibling angst to me, and not just to me but also to 1) the fray (the singer has said that over my head is about a fight he had with his brother) and 2) whoever decided to play your winter right after kat and bianca's fight in 10 things i hate about you. see, i have backup.

ordinary by train is like. somewhat related?? but i can't figure out whose perspective it's from. not a great fit all told but the bridge is 🥺 (i want that for them!!) and i am perhaps biased by the huge soft spot i will always have for the spider-man 2 soundtrack.

absolutely zero by jason mraz is clearly guanyin temple BUT jiang cheng thinks it's about jiang cheng and wei wuxian thinks it's about wei wuxian. lol!!!! clowns. are they wrong though

i put nickelback on here. can't say i'm surprised given how much fun i had with how you remind me as a teen but also, like with absolutely zero, i think maybe they both think this song is about them and that's what makes it so crunchy. they don't have all the facts!! i'm insane about them.

and so it goes as a yunmeng bro song came directly from the genius brain of @winepresswrath and i haven't been able to listen to that song since without thinking of jiang cheng. and i would choose to be with you, that's if the choice were mine to make...but you can make decisions too, and you can have this heart to break? SHUT UPPPPPP

and of course i had to end it with neil diamond's version of he ain't heavy...he's my brother. classic. can't imagine any more fitting sendoff. wei wuxian is singing it through gritted teeth willing it to be true. jiang cheng is occasionally doodling the lyrics in his diary and then burning the diary to ashes and then throwing the ashes in the lake. the load doesn't weigh him down. at ALL. he ain't heavy. like dude...thats his brother...

[djevelbl]

Currently watching Clown's LifeSteal Season 3 shenanigans — what did ash mean by "communism wins"????

[psychogenic-fugue]

i saw this on reddit and though it looked fun

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

I just realised I squeal over AkiJun and so many other ships.....all while having an aromantic Junpei pfp.

Lmao he is on the aro spectrum like me because I said so, but the aro flag looks cooler than the demi/grey romantic flags.

[torgawl]

i was a reading a bit more on purgatory and purgatorius ignis (cleansing fire), which is a concept that existed even before the notion that purgatory itself was a third other-world domain, similar to heaven and hell, when i suddenly remembered dante's la divina commedia and decided to revisit the story a little. and i found something interesting as i was scrolling through the wikipedia page.

so, purgatory is the second part of la divina commedia, following inferno, and is an allegory telling of the climb of dante up the mount of purgatory, guided by the roman poet virgil. alegorically, purgatorio represents the penitent christian life (and christianity, as we know, is one of the core themes of fontaine's archon quests that arlecchino was a part of). while describing the climb dante focuses a lot on the nature of sin, examples of vice and virtue, as well as moral issues in politics and in the church. what's interesting, though, is that the poem posits the theory that all sins arise from love – either perverted love directed towards others' harm, or deficient love, or the disordered or excessive love of good things.

why is this interesting, you ask? let me add here a few quotes before i contextualise it:

"she is a god with no love left for her people, nor do they have any left for her" - dainsleif about the cryo archon, the tsaritsa

"her royal highness the tsaritsa is actually a gentle soul. too gentle, in fact, and that's why she had to harden herself. likewise, she declared war against the whole world only because she dreams of peace. and because she made an enemy of the world, i now have a friend in you." - childe about the tsaritsa

"everyone praises her for her kindness and benevolence, but they forget that love is also a form of sin. what if she's just trying to compensate for something?" - wanderer about the tsaritsa

the tsaritsa, the cryo archon and the person arlecchino is devoted to, is theorised and hinted multiples times to be the god of love. yes, the love that is said to be the origin of sin in la divina commedia. we can also draw parallels between the idea of perverted love talked about in the poem and the relationship between arlecchino and others, for instance the kids of the house of the hearth.

arlecchino's drip marketing including an excerpt where the scene goes from a gentle warm environment, seemingly mistaken as a loving family home full of innocent looking children, that quickly shifts into a somber and dark atmosphere under her authority - the children answering instantly, without hesitation and completely obedient -, is the perfect illustration of the duality within her character. there's an obvious exploitative and manipulative system making use of the house of the hearth and the orphans under its roof, where arlecchino (as the one running the orphanage) is the provider and the kids are brought up to be dependable and further dispatched as fatui soldiers when "potential" is recognised. and we can deduce that there's ways that their education is done from a very young age so it prevents or punishes any sort of dissent, something not hard to imagine when we know from freminet that arlecchino doesn't like when the kids cry or show emotional vulnerability, something she sees as weakness, for example. but if there's this dark side to her, there's also certain attitudes that demonstrate her care for the children or even her care for the world around her. arlecchino helping freminet get closure on his mother's death, the reformation of the house of the hearth (which we know used to have a much more punishitive and strict leader before arlecchino took over) or even her devotion and deep respect towards the tsaritsa are some examples of the way she shows care for other people. now, we can theorise that these good deeds directed towards the orphans under her care are very much purposeful to better manipulate them, but i think that's exactly what the notion of perverted love in la divina commedia tries to hint at.

besides this concept, there's something else that peaked my interest in dante's poem. dante pictures purgatory as an island at the antipodes of jerusalem, pushed up, in an otherwise empty sea, by the displacement caused by the fall of satan, which left him fixed at the central point of the earth. it's a cone-shaped island that has seven terraces on which souls are cleansed from the seven deadly sins or capital vices as they ascend. at the summit is the garden of eden, from where the souls, cleansed of evil tendencies and made perfect, are taken to heaven.

as we know, arlecchino is being introduced in fontaine, her homeland, and the idea of purgatory as an island in the sea leading its way to heaven caused by the fall of a sinful being sort of reminded me of remuria. remuria was the civilization in fontaine which directly preceded the previous hydro archon egeria's rule. its downfall occurred as a result of remus' attempt to avert its predicted destruction, and in particular, by his act of sharing his power and authority — reserved only for gods — with the four human harmosts he appointed to govern his cities. remuria eventually ended up being sunken into the abyss, devouring everything including the people and remus himself. we know there's still a region in fontaine's map that wasn't yet released, so how odd would it be that the last part to be revealed in fontaine might just be the land that was once sunken? after the little note about the samsara cycles near the tower of the narzissenkreuz ordo, which referenced a cycle called remuria, i would not be surprised at all. it's also particularly funny that fontaine is directly below celestia. yes, the floating island in the sky above teyvat which is the residence of the gods, the same gods that made remuria fall. as the contemporary philosophers of our time have said, that's sus!!!

i don't want to get too ahead of myself because i don't have a theory about what's going to happen or what role arlecchino will play exactly but i don't think it would be shocking if we got to know more about remuria during her release. and still in the purgatory idea, i think the angel of death (azreal) might be an interesting parallel to make with arlecchino. azrael's role is seen as benevolent, transporting souls after death. it fits perfectly well with the idea of purgatorius ignis, that signifies transformation. in different cultural and religious contexts, fire can also symbolize destruction renewal and even rebirth so i'm very very curious to see what arlecchino's story will be like.

[t-u-i-t-c]

A CHARACTER I'M REMINDED OF BY:

😬 → HIROMI (REVICE)

[youcouldbeit]

"Haha, right, Merry.. um... Sins..mass?"

[gothmothgoblin]

“i could fix her” “she could make me worse” “she could fix me” “i could make her worse”

I DID FIX HER!

[virgo-barbie]

i know i’m cute and bubbly and oh so very pink but you would not believe how positively horrifying my nightmares are lol