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Hello?

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i love the way destiny handles death and immortality. i always think about saladin’s i didn’t even know someone with the traveler’s gift could die… until they did from rise of iron. i always think about spider’s you lightmongers never cease to amaze me. you deal with violence so easily, and suffer loss so poorly. such fragile killers. from season of the hunt. that despite being dead things themselves guardians are uniquely unequipped to handle the deaths of other immortals. that it’s almost worse because it’s a surprise. and this doesn’t even get into how guardians handle mortal deaths, how safiyah and hakim haunt zavala for countless times the lifetimes he lived with them. grief makes guardians feel so very human

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The Navigator

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I can't believe the D2 base campaign is now lost media. the worst anyones ever done it.

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“Partners in Light”

Source: Destiny Grimoire Anthology, Volume VI: Partners in Light

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My beautiful wife...

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Also pfff I don't think I ever shared this anywhere but last year I turned Eris's orb into a lamp for my desk 🟢 I don't use it often because it's super distracting, but it was fun to make

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saw this post on a scotty meme and had to steal it

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illos I made for the Ishtar Illustrated zine! it was a delight to be able to submit something for this project :>

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BORN TO BE HUMAN

OCEAN IS A FUCK

Bring Back The Devonian Period

410, 757, 864, 530 DEAD WIZARDS

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Preview of my first piece for the Ishtar Illustrated zine

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fuck I'm thinking about the last page of unveiling again and how it's literally The Point of The Video Game Destiny condensed into like maybe 8 paragraphs

like THAT'S IT!!!!! THAT'S WHAT WE LEARNED!!!!! THAT'S THE POINT OF IT ALL!!!!!!!

the interesting thing about this passage is that you absolutely can just replace the word "Darkness" with the word "Fascism" in the last graf there but the Darkness in Destiny is NOT synonymous with fascism. Mara Sov is absolutely NOT saying that "a balanced world needs a little fascism in it to keep things honest". In fact, that kind of thinking is what allows for unchecked, thriving Darkness in the real world.

No, the Darkness is not fascism. The Darkness is Memory, which is co-opted by fascism. "Remember when life was great?" "Don't you want to just live in that great moment forever?" That's exactly what the Witness offers, in the end: to be frozen in time in the exact moment of your greatest joy, dead but never dying, trapped in amber and never permitted to live again. Because to live would be to acknowledge the impermanence of that moment, the reality that existence is not and cannot be one single glorious moment. One Final Shape, you might say.

What is it that Riven said? "Even paradise is a prison if you can't leave." She was talking about a literal paradise that was a literal prison for her but that's okay, the metaphor is good too.

I think that Destiny thinks that Memory is necessary and good for humans to have. But Memory is not an ideology. Memory does not grant the power to end suffering. Memory isn't even real. Not the way Life -- existence -- mortality -- Light -- is real.

Anyway that's why Destiny is anti-fascist. There are also a lot of other reasons why Destiny is anti-fascist like the Worm Gods and the Hive and Sword Logic as an extended metaphor for late-stage capitalist society but that's for a different post. Plus someone else who's better at writing than me has probably already said everything I would've said about that.

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Existential questions.

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Inktober day 30: fear, featuring Aurash

“Imagine the fifty-two moons of Fundament lining up in the sky. (It wouldn’t take all fifty-two, of course: just a few massive moons. But this is my deepest fear.) Imagine their gravity pulling on the Fundament sea, lifting it into a swollen bulge...

Imagine that bulge collapsing as the syzygy passed. A wave big enough to swallow civilizations. A God-Wave.”

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