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little abnormality

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Carry me home

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i know for a fact one of the twins has slipped up at least once ok

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wife

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I get a kick out of how nobody ever recognizes the Warrior of Light. I mean, there are widely circulated newspapers, but mass distribution of information is still in its infancy. People will be like, "You there! I need someone to shovel shit for me!" and the WoL is just like "sure, fine with me." Then they realize they have someone who literally saved the world shoveling manure and fall all over themselves apologizing. Or they'll be like, "Watch out! There are bandits on the road!" And the WoL will just smile cryptically like "They don't know I kill gods."

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it's just a phase... 2 mechanic

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cosmic (mis)fortune

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Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?

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Quick to their ends, our candles burn until we're free

the fragmented selves of the "unsundered"

emet-selch | elidibus | lahabrea (soon)

long-winded notes under the cut

ah, emet. i realized just how much i missed him in revisiting this, shb emet especially :(

his “sense of self” is, by and large, the emet-selch we meet throughout our time on the first: split between the one that presents to us his phantom city of amaurot, and the one intoning his final words in front of that same city's skeletons.

the tiny, dwindling "slice" is of course hades, who despite emet's self-assured grasp on the past, is still incredibly different from him: idealistic, unembittered, and far-removed by a thousand thousand lives (emet a "megalomaniacal madman"; the tempest’s amaurot an "insult to the memory" of his people, etc).

of note here is his smile - quirked upwards on his left. a krn fan had noted this back in shb and it has stuck with me since (and i’ll link just the images so as to not raise their post from the grave): the right corner of his mouth quirks when he's "acting" or smiling sardonically, and the left corner quirks when he's being sincere, when his emotions are genuine. here, in his last moments, in entrusting us with the future, his legacy, it is one of two times in the entirety of shb that he puts his mask down and shares with us his real smile. this is my favorite detail of the piece tbh!

last but not least, some details i added in on a recent touchup:

a more prominent glow from the um, light source in his chest. and, of course-

the aetheric axe that did the job

yay!

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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when do we get to see their group chat

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my love for you will only grow

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when making a character remember! are they a FAG?

Fucked up beyond belief

Actually would suck in real life (and ideally in the story too)

Gay

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no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

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Hey folks, if you want to fight back against the twitterfication of tumblr USE IT LIKE IT'S TUMBLR!!!!!! REBLOG THINGS!!!!!! USE THE TAGS TO SCREAM AT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

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okay Rook goes crazy for a non-binary name though

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Spirit of the Forest and Incubus