#but that doesnt mean in dead

[comicartist13]

Hi! So general announcement, I'm not going to be much active on here as I used to, simply because I have exams coming up and I need to focus on studies as MUCH as possible. If I can get art out there every once in a while, I will. But other than that, the art and the comics will have to take a step back! See you guys in a bit!!

[dreamsy990]

trans telemachus

[ezkel]

au where the house of black is blood purist but not homophobic or transphobic.

Regulus comes out as trans as a kid, they make him a transition plan.

He comes out as gay and they change their arranged marriage folder to pureblood men instead of women.

he tells them he's dating James Potter, the blood traitor, and that's where the problem is.

[http-wolfstar]

Chilly day ❄️

[losver07]

this is them meeting sirius btw

[daggerfall]

Between all the Darien postings, I did want to say my thoughts on Gabrielle as well:

In my opinion, Gabrielle's arc from base game to Solstice is a story of survivor's guilt. She goes from respectable portal mage in the Mages Guild, to combatant in the final charge against Molag Bal to stop the Planemeld. She's not some high ranking mage in the guild, she's just been in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time. She lets Darien flirt with her for fun but plays hard to get. This isn't the time for serious feelings - this is war. And then she watches him vanish in front of her without getting to even confront her own feelings, and watches King Dynar, leader of the charge, die in front of her. She watches these two brave warriors sacrifice themselves to save the day in a way she could not. That is a deeply, deeply traumatic experience - especially when everyone is likely telling you how brave you were for your part in the battle and how happy everyone is that the Planemeld is over. They don't know what it cost.

She spends the next few years doing little but trying to find Darien - scouring books in the Anvil mages guild and making no progress until you give her the note from Darien from Wrothgar. She even joins the Antiquarian's in an attempt to find him (dialogue you can only get if you did the main quest but Not Summerset). But she has to learn about Darien returning and then being lost again in Summerset, again from you. She didn't even get to see him or speak to him or help save the world again. She's been left behind yet again and is following in the trail of the Vestige and their encounters with her obsession. And then she feels responsible for the death of Merric and the capture of Vanus, and has to step in to fill his shoes as the leader of the Mages Guild and Stirk Fellowship alongside Prince Azah.

Look. Gabrielle Benele is not a leader. She is not some legendary, powerful mage with a high ranking in the guild. She is an extremely capable portal mage with experience in war and boatloads of PTSD, and a valued Antiquarian (albeit with some... controversial codices). She's portal girl. She's one third of the OG cov gang. She should not be leading the Mages Guild. That level of pressure on her after everything is insane.

I do not think her crush on Darien is solely why she was so quick to suggest sacrificing herself to bring him back - I think she was struggling and lost for many years. Her life purpose to alleviate her guilt was trying to find Darien; someone she viewed as the best of us all. I feel like it's not unreasonable to think that she may have had thoughts of "it should have been me", knowing how much she admired the person Darien was. I think that hero worship in itself could have fed into the romantic feelings she held for him, and made them into something more than what they actually had in Coldharbour. She's had a long time to stew in those memories and obsess over them. So it's not surprising she would be rather quick to suggest the exchange with the Gift of Death when presented with her own immediate and unavoidable death, and knowing that using it even once would stop Wormblood from being able to use it.

And I think in some way, she recognized that she herself was stuck in the past. Everyone else was able to move on, but she can't. Others may miss him, but she's the only one Still Trying to bring him back. She can't heal, she can't move on.

The only people who could understand are Vanus and the Vestige. Vanus is her superior and now imprisoned, and regardless of your Vestige's relationship with Darien, I think she would feel some level of jealousy at them getting to always be involved in Darien's life. The note in Wrothgar, Summerset, the sidequest in Southern Elsweyr, his ghostly apparition in Blackwood. She doesn't get to be involved, but the hope of his return is the only thing that keeps her going.

I think her sacrifice is far more than just "girl likes a boy enough to die for him" or "killing off woman to bring back some guy". It's a disservice to character to look no further to her obsession with finding Darien and dismiss it narrative favoritism to Darien. It's a heartbreaking conclusion to an 11 year long arc about the only other regular person to leave the Chapel of Light. You got to be a Hero, and she had to just... go on with life. Alone.

And maybe it's not a conclusion! Maybe she will come back in some equally miraculous plot twist. But I think it's important to view her story not as girl sacrifices herself for a boy, but as a story about survivor's guilt and hero worship left unchecked.

[engagemy-others]

also can everyone give a round of applause for jayce--apparently the only character whose parent not only survived the whole damn show, but OUTLIVED HIM. thanks for taking one for the team man.

so everyone must now congratulate Ximena for surviving the ParentDies-fication Beam.

[anyataylorjoys]

seeing so many fellow creators' gifsets getting under 180 notes with an average reblog to like ratio of 1:3 is so disheartening. less and less people are putting out content cause it seems that no one cares anymore.

If you truly care about supporting creators at all, I encourage everyone to have a tracked tag in this economy whether you make content or not, you probably have mutuals who would love to share things with you and can't.

[triglycercule]

imagining this very funny totally amusing bit where dust (despite having a lot of pockets) makes horror carry a lighter for him (only because he can't be bothered to remember to bring one on him all the time) and horror keeps it in his head

but horror's a dick so everytime dust wants to smoke and he needs a light horror's always like "whats the password :3" (he actually said the emoticon i was the quotation marks) and dust has to guess. because horror changes it every time. and its never something predictable. and then he either just totally gives up on that cig or he has to forcefully dig into horror's head to get the lighter because horror's being a PRICK

now dust is shoulder deep into horror's eyesocket while horror is clawing and screaming and killer's just standing there behind them watching this unfold with that fuckass smile on his face (he can't get this type of entertainment anywhere else)

[middle-earth-marauder]

At the Round Table...

[All the Knights and King Arthur have gathered at the Round Table to discuss some urgent mission] Lancelot: My King- Arthur: Lance. We've talk about this; at this table, we are equals- no titles here. Try again. Lancelot, obviously struggling: Ah... fine. A-Arthur- Arthur: See? There you are, good boy- Lancelot: ...

Gawain: Can we... not do this, here?

[snowcoming]

people who say dick's death doesn't count because his heart wasn't stopped for long enough is WILD because he died. he didn't loose consciousness. his heart was stopped by luthor, and he DIED.

and

time doesn't make difference to a dead person. if they wake up their last memory's gonna be of dying, not of how long they were dead. because being dead means being dead, and the characters that get revived will not feel anything different if they got revived in one minute or ten years. they physically can NOT PROCESS how long its been.

[lycrosis]

You know acosf had the potential be one of the greater, sweeter stories where a lost, traumatised side character finds their footing away from the main story's noise.

But I feel like sjm wanted to write villain's redemption (like sharpay or even regina george-esque) but thats not Nesta, she isnt a villain. She's just sharp-tongued and mean.

The worst thing she did doesn't amount to the worst thing that any of the IC did, so the structure of the story doesn't make sense but it still follows those emotional beats.

With her getting a 'nice guy' who 'makes her better', friends who have a similar backstory in trauma, a family that 'forgives her' and her giving up something huge to measure up to what Feyre used to sacrfice for her.

But were these things what Nesta needed?

[mamawasatesttube]

it always gets me when ppl try to paint timkon as nerd/jock. like i mean you could, but here's the thing. tim is the jock. kon is the nerd.

[wittywallflower]

There's something kind of amusing about the Cat King ending up all dark hair black leather, finger waves (over)gelled perfectly into place, like he's some cool dude all stoic and composed now, after all the absolute orange cat behavior he got up to the rest of the time.

I'm sorry, aren't you the one who was having a screaming temper tantrum in the woods because a boy was too busy to pay attention to you? Girl, who are you fooling?

[sunsetcurveauto]

never did i think media illiteracy would save the day. charles rowland standing ovation

[maiqua]

The way Xigbar waited to reload his gun and shoot until Sora was close enough to protect Riku.

Xigbar knew Sora would be able to protect him. Xigbar ships Soriku.