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Is she a villain because of her moral apathy and urge to craft dread amalgamations or because of her French passive aggressiveness?

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One of my favorite fanmade bloodborne enemy names is hateful maggot because i just love the concept of a random animal being hateful to you specifically

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Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, Sunflowers, 1892

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Jerboa By: Karl Soffel From: Lebensbilder aus der Tierwelt 1908

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Jeremias Ritter - Nautilus Snail, c. 1630 (Nautilus shell, silver-gilt)

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Havent seen anyone make this joke yet so i made it myself

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character who;s doomed form the start but not because of tragedy or anything but because they're a woman and their writer is a misogynist

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needle felted sardines

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the full story is in the gofundme link, but the tl;dr is my apartment is collapsing and i really need help with money for a deposit on a new place. please share or donate if you guys can. thank you.

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kos & maria

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well I was gonna caption this with the "Can you hear it?" line but I realized I already did that last time. um...

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The world would never be ready for all my adeline opinions. Forged through Years of obsessive thinking i dont caaare that most people would disagree with me. The fun of soulsborne & also idgaf shes a whole entire character to me

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Oh recently I've been thinking about "metanarratives" and the existence and prolongation of characters beyond their written media, as in, as they keep living on beyond their story and how the reader shapes said story, and its had me thinking about adeline, specifically of the way we talk about her. Because shes never referred to as saint adeline, thats what we (as in, a majority of the broader community) refer to her as, and it's interesting to me that we do, what is it about her that made us default to that word that adella does not have? Adella is a saint, but shes most often referred to as "sister", it's not a base game vs dlc (our pre existing knowledge carrying over) thing since blood saints are already very much known of, but it is true adella never refers to herself as a blood saint, it's left to item descriptions, whereas adeline says it outright, so it's possible it came from people that had not read said description and so defined her by what seemed most apparent about her status (a nun), and led to others using it as well and so forth. But regardless the word saint itself is a bit of a special case for Us it's absolutely not the same kind of signifier as a word like sister, and i think theres something to be said about the way adeline and adella are presented to us and how that factors into how we view and treat them, adella is simply a nun, a servant, she doesnt do much and doesnt say much about it either, whereas adeline is a martyr and presented as such, it makes sense that it would influence the names we would default to calling them. Anyway regarding the word saint, would blood saints ever be referred to as such (saint [name]) ? We dont know that much about religion in bloodborne beyond its basics and the more... Direct and complex relationships to great ones, we dont know anything about how it appears to everyday yharnamites, it raises the question of what a saint is, do saints as we know them exist in bb? I would be inclined to disagree in some way because i doubt the church would ever name the blood saints after something so holy, that would be giving them too powerful of an image, i think sainthood as a concept exists but is less... Extreme? Than what we know. And so, adeline is not a Saint in universe but we made her one by simplifying her character for naming conventions by the first thing she tells us about herself, she is not a saint but we refer to her as such outside of what she is, and in a way isnt that what saints are? To be canonized posthumously and have your life turned into a story to tell, your person turned into a concept, isnt that what she is to us?

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well I was gonna caption this with the "Can you hear it?" line but I realized I already did that last time. um...

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Oh i had a dream last night where i was playing bloodborne and it was literally just the normal game except when i got to the place in central yharnam where the brick troll is banging on the door he broke the door and you had to fight him alongside the huntsmen. And it felt So weird because everything was the exact same except this

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A Lighthouse on Fire at Night by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)

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