#Dark Eloquence

[clockwork-carstairs]

jem and julian: i’m not good with words / idk what im talking about 😓😪🗣️🚫🙅‍♂️

jem and julian:

You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you. I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you wil not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you. – jem “i’m not good with words i prefer using music” carstairs

When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them. – julian “nothing i’m just talking” blackthorn

[starlightspin]

I love bg3 for a multitude of reasons, but my favorite thing about it is how the Dark Urge literally haunts the narrative, and they're fucked by it too. They have to die for the story to begin, for their plan to fail (or succeed, if you go the evil route, but I'll be referencing the redeemed durge and the good ending). Orin has to lose her shit and kill them for the story to start, but at the end of the day, they have to die. They have to be killed.

You can see evidence of them throughout the game: you see the Bane and Bhaal symbol by the gnolls in Act 1, throughout all of Moonrise during Act 2, and through the letters and interactions throughout Act 3. If you're playing a Tav, you can't help but wonder about this person. Who is this? What did they do? What were they doing for the cult and why did they die? It's even more obvious and in your face when you play as the Dark Urge, as you have to face what you did in the past all throughout the story. You haunt the story, but it's not really *you* who haunts it. You're different now, but you're desperately searching for any scraps of who you were and who you can be all throughout the story.

There's a sick sort of tragedy in this, especially in Act 2 and 3 when you start (and finish) putting together what actually happened to you and what you did. You have to face the person who haunts the story, but that person isn't you at all anymore. They still have their memories, the glory, and the power of the Scion of Bhaal. You have to face the fact that you had to die in order for the world to be saved. The Dark Urge will never be the same after Orin lobotmized them, and maybe it's for the best. They managed to save themself because they were fucked by the narrative.

Anyways, I'm so so normal about this game, I promise.

[spooky-albi-bumblebee]

i’m not a big wolfstar fan but i find people using sirius calling remus “lupin” as evidence against the ship to be kinda dumb😅i feel like he calls him that because they’re like victorian men who went to an old fashioned private school, not out of dislike or anything of the sort

[skullzy20]

Do you see my vision or something

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

Good morning today I had to lead volunteer training at 9am and I woke up at 8:48am

[detectiveneve]

pondering on a meta diving into Gale's abstract brand of selflessness (willingness to go away to a corner of the world to die so that none of the faceless masses will be harmed by his mistake) vs his personal selfishness (willingness to stick by tav despite being repulsed by tiefling camp murder + general vocal approval or interest in accumulating more power) and Gale's status as someone who is good aligned but generally ineffectual at enforcing actual good (the way that wyll or karlach will actually leave the party) which is fascinating for a fairly good-aligned person. just love when the Good Guy is actually kind of fucking weird. edit: tumblr cut off my tags Okay. and how all of this ties back in an interesting way to his relationship and power imbalance with mystra. he was wronged, deeply, but he also desires still that ... status / closeness to divinity in some way, by her influence. Gale thinks that he would be a better god simply by virtue of his mortality but he cannot escape the appeal of holding himself apart from others and being more than, greater than, something closer to godliness and thus inherently removed from mortal values and standards of right and wrong, which the gods themselves don't adhere to in the same way.

[escapismsworld]

"Polyhymnia, Muse of Eloquence" by Charles Meynier (1800)

[royalnavyart]

figure studies except it’s all just sergei polunin

[stunt-lads]

I think sometimes people relate to the monster or loving the monster because it's a self projection

I think it's telling too that a lot of the people who prefer to make their favorites monsters or are attracted to them tend to be queer in some way as well

It's hard to love yourself when your love is seen as wrong and monstrous

But if that vampire can be desirable or that werewolf can be loved, then yeah, so can I

[the-meme-monarch]

Chara being the knight in dr would be a fun parallel to them being the first fallen human in ut i think. the effect it left in the dark worlds/their leaders paralleling the lingering impact it left on the underground/their family despite not being able to stick around to see it itself. idk. knight chara theory forever ok

[sysig]

One better (Patreon)

[souptomatobasil]

Roberta in Faerieland, a Neopets the Darkest Faerie fancomic

[bird-lube-now]

thinking about getting pinned down by a girl in the backseat, making out, feeling her get hard as she grinds on me, things of this nature.

[tired-gay-wreck9]

dude, what if karkat didn't help rose's alcoholism in game over because of gamzee?

I think there's also the alien aspect of it, that he doesn't get human culture, but

rose just got into consuming a substance that makes her happier and more lighthearted instead of the serious godtier great fighter she normally is

gamzee got into consuming a substance that made him happier and more lighthearted instead of the angry highblood great fighter he is during murderstuck

when gamzee stopped consuming the substance he killed two people, because of that past experience I doubt karkat would be jumping at the bit to have rose stop consuming the substance

I doubt he was 100% convinced that rose would turn into gamzee without alcohol, but gamzee probably played a factor

also, rose / gamzee parallels? both struggled with addiction, had absent parents, both have extensive knowledge of stuff, were upper class, purple

[eyranbelanore]

The Raven (Not to be confused with the work by Edgar Allan Poe!)

The jet black feathers, Glittering midnight blue, With black beady eyes, Shining like black pearls, Above a polished beak, From which a harsh cry sounds,

The long black cloak of feathers, And clawed taloned fingers, With which to grip their perch, They sit and wait, For their prey to fall, As they know it will, Hence why they crowd, In sinister covens, And never move until it’s time.

A fallen creature, Upon which they would swoop, With beaks agape, With which they would tear, Into the stilled flesh of their feast, Ripping, yanking and gouging, With wings flapping violently, As two of the creatures, Pull at the same piece of gore, Misty talons scraping the ground, So sharp they leave permanent scratches, Even when the blood and bones, Had been long swept away.

The scratches will remain as a testament to the birds warring for food, As a testament to the fallen animal, And the death that these shadowy birds signify, The death they wait for and upon.

[floriographyandstories]

on the monster's voice

something very specific about the pain of frankenstein's monster. so beautiful a creature, who understands the fundamental beauty of language, how "the words [we] spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers", how likely it is he would've agreed with robert frost in that a dead language leads to dead poetry. he spoke to understand because "the world was to me a secret which I desired to devine" and yet in every version of his tale since we have stolen away his voice