#strength and immortality

[czarnyfeniks]

This artwork features a simple yet meaningful phoenix tattoo. Symbolizing rebirth, strength and immortality, the phoenix is depicted in a minimalist style, focusing on its essential characteristics. Its elegant shapes and lines express beauty and harmony, and at the same time reflect the power and steadfastness of the phoenix. This tattoo is a reminder of strength, being raised above adversity, and rising from the ashes.

[cogentranting]

One of the funniest things about Jack Shephard is that he becomes immortal but only for like 6 hours (maybe less) and then promptly dies.

[gaiussleechtank]

I feel like as a fandom we don't talk enough about the Fisher King. No, I don't mean the actual episode - that is an entire other post in itself. I mean the actual Fisher King.

How Merlin meets an ancient being that was well cared for and loved, who has lived for centuries to the point that his actual name has been forgotten and all that is left of him is a desolate land and crumbling castle.

And that the King that Merlin meets doesn't ask for greeting or hospitality, but instead death.

Isn't it such a coincidence that a powerful person has stayed waiting for the time of the Once and Future King? Left, forgotten, aged, exhausted and begging for an end?

The Fisher King isn't a foreshadowing for Arthur's failed destiny, but Merlin's eternal doom.

The Fisher King is Merlin's later parallel.

[jaggedjot]

the notion that queer men can be flamboyantly theatrical, perform in drag, even occasionally refer to themselves with female pronouns, and nevertheless willfully uphold and enforce patriarchal norms, would have been a well worn complaint in any given 1970s lesbian collective, and yet

[plusvanity]

You know what they say about bass players 🔥 🍆

[wildsaltair]

respectfully I need to climb him like a rope ladder and do him so good we both ascend into the clouds and never recover

[semisomnosres]

I'm sure this cat person would have said something less romantic than it was in the original, but I don't know what, so without the text

[hisbutleronhiatus]

It has been 74 days since the Kuroshitsuji hiatus was announced.

After leaving Agni and Wolf in charge of looking after the younglings for the next hour, Sebastian departs on “a quick errand.” A short while later, she casts a wriggling burlap sack, weighed down with iron chains, into the depths of the sea.

It will be a few days before the authorities and the public at large become aware of Viscount Druitt’s inexplicable disappearance, but that monster will never threaten her children’s safety again.

[waytoointoships]

I’m having wriolette thoughts and it occurred to me that Focalors cursed furina with being immortal.

Neuvillette could probably do the same to Wriothesley if he wanted.

[avadmortain]

THE KISS ON TOP OF THE HEAD OH I AM UNWELL ‼️

[equaltotheuniverse]

StarCycles Chapter 1 pg. 20-21

Kindness is free

START // NEXT

Happy new year! I also had to recover from feeling like blah so am back on schedule

[claitea]

wait hey hold on. were there multiple heroes of truth and ideals over time or were they immortal because why is there a 500 year difference between the establishment of the relic castle and the abyssal ruins

edit: post cancelled no actual proof for the heroes to have been around 3000 years ago. my tags are still relevant though i think

[astarionslittletreat]

okay but what if "walking in the sun again" isn't the same thing as "curing vampirism"?

[besiegedhunter]

Got curious about how many Operators had "Outstanding" for Combat Skill in their profile and went through every character profile (272) to find out how many there were

Eight + one Chongyue

So 8/272 Operators have an Outstanding for their Combat Skill and two of them are 5*s. These eight are:

Nearl the Radiant Knight

Mlynar

Hellagur

Qiubai

Gladiia

Ch'en

Then the two 5*s

Lappland

Projekt Red

Somehow these two Wolves join this very exclusive club despite being 5*s but then I don't think their rarities line up with what they actually are capable of. Kinda funny it's just two Siracusan Lupos however.

[morgansmornings]

[nikofortuna]

JTTW Chapter 46 Thoughts

Chapter 46 for the @journeythroughjourneytothewest Reading Group! TW: discussion of body horror and Psychological Horror under the cut, as in I will be giving my own creative descriptions on the three Immortals’ inner feelings as they realize they are in fact about to die.

The reminder of Sun Wukong being a hyperactive monkey makes this ever so real. He is very neurodivergent once more.

Also Tang Sanzang taking the initiative! Seems like character development to me.

It is very adorable how supportive Sun Wukong is. Also accurate, as far as I can remember that monk can’t lie to save his own life.

Hehe, centipede moustache for the Immortal.

Very nice that the silver tongue of the historical Xuanzang is shining through a bit in this round.

One could interpret Tang Sanzang’s words as him calling his disciples, who are monks for all intends and purposes, treasures.

I am not sure if it is just me but I don’t find all these, what should be instances of body horror, particularly unsettling at all. The situations seem really more funny than anything. Perhaps I am desensitized on that front from reading the likes of Junji Itou before. Though it might also be that I just have no great care for gory things, because to me simply having a body is horror in and of itself, so I kind of have to be used to that and external wounds are much less scary to me than diseases and all that harms from the inside.

Besides unless there is a component of psychological horror to it as well it is just not all that impactful in my eyes. Only when I actually imagine the Daoists realizing in horror they are about to die and think of their emotions and what must be going through their heads in those moments does it have a scary undertone to it.

Like imagine having your head cut off and while it is no big deal at first, after your head does not come back the first time you call, your calls become increasingly more desperate and terrified until your voice gives out because you are dead.

Or having your insides in your own hands and while that is not problem to you as you can just put them back, enter the hawk snatching them up and you are left to stare from the hawk in the sky back at your empty hands with the dreadful knowledge settling in that you are already dead.

Or feeling the oil start to boil and desperately trying to claw your way out of the cauldron, but to no avail until you are finally dead.

I’d argue the first one had the least horrific death as it was a quick one and I can imagine him being so focused on calling for his head that, even though the dread is there, he didn’t even quite process what exactly was going on having neither the focus nor time.

Meanwhile the second one has the focus to realize.

The last one was most clearly described as distressing in the novel but only in one small sentence. Either way this one has the time to realize. Plus this is extra harrowing because goats are notoriously good climbers.

Now those mental images, those read as truly scary to me.