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[politicalbloodtea]

He's protective

[dragon-spaghetti]

Alright simps come get your juice ✨ based on this by @/gooseworx

(Please click for better quality!!)

[peppermint-blake]

i did an art & shhh i definitely wasnt laying down again as usual while drawing shhhhhhh (/s)

[trying414]

CHAPSTIK

CHAT AND ASPIK SHOULD BE SHIPPED AS CHAPSTIK

BECAUSE CHATSPIK IS BASIC

AND THEY'RE EXTRA AS HELL

KEEP IT KISSABLE

CHATSPIK THE CHAPSTIK

[matrixsss]

Moodboard for Cosmogeny by @highlordofkrypton

[helyiios]

[cairaleighexe]

he's 3 apples tall...

[the-littlest-kojin]

Is there a hierarchy to how much Shio dislikes the Scions? For example does she tolerate Urianger but can't stand to be in the same room with Thancred? Or is it all kind of uniform?

There is definitely a hierarchy to how much Shio dislikes the Scions, roughly divided into tiers, in descending level of dislike:

"I do not trust a single word out of your mouth, you are fundamentally untrustworthy" tier, which contains Urianger, G'raha, and Krile, all of whom have shown themselves willing to lie to manipulate, and as such, get treated like they are always doing so.

"You have shown that my own agency or personhood are less important to you than what you wish to use me for" tier, which contains Alphinaud, Minfilia, Y'shtola, Thancred, Moenbryda, and Papalymo, all of whom have demonstrated exactly that thing, mainly in the form of assigning Shio jobs outside of her job description with no asking involved, just assuming that she will take on this task with no objection.

"You have tried to historically kill me and I refuse to turn my back on you for a second, and you have also shown a penchant for leaving your allies to go lone wolf things which means i do not trust you as an ally either" tier, which Estinien has to himself for self-evident reasons.

And finally, "You are guilty primarily by association and projecting your own desires onto me, and while I do not consider you irredeemable, you need to show me that you see me as a person before I would trust you a single ilm" tier, consisting of Alisaie, Tataru, F'lhaminn, Riol. If I've missed a Scion, they're probably here.

[enjolras-out]

Please rant about Fenris Wolf and morse mythology👀🐺

OH MY GOD REALLY????

THIS ASK MADE ME HAPPIER THAN ANYTHING IN A VERY LONG TIME THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ENABLING ME!!! Okay I am working on a paper due tomorrow (which funnily enough is also about wolves hehe) so in absence of gunpoint this is not (quite) 30 minutes but here are some THOUGHTS:

(I’m sorry this got long you are forewarned)

Brief introduction: Fenrir/FenrisWolf is a giant wolf in Norse mythology, mentioned in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose and Poetic Eddas (early thirteenth century) and a lot of runes and stones and songs. He’s a son of Loki with a giantess named Angrboda and he’s brother to Hel, goddess of the underworld, and Jörmungandr, the Midgard-Serpent. Fenrir is destined to kill Odin as part of Ragnarök.

Ragnarök is the Norse end of the world. It literally means END or TWILIGHT of the gods (rök, twilight, is etymologically related to reykr which means smoke, so also implies a fire (the fire of the gods/the world) burning bright and then devouring itself. Which suggests that Ragnarök is part of the natural cycle where things grow and die and are reborn, not a monstrous anomaly)

(I don't read or speak Old Norse though I have written papers requiring me to study it a little bit, and the devouring/rebirth idea is my unsubstantiated literary interpretation and anyone is welcome to tell me I’m actually just wrong)

There are humans after Ragnarök (Lif and LifÞrasir, who in some stories survived in secret and in other stories kind of emerged out of morning dew on the other side) so it’s more the end of a time cycle than everything becoming void.

Okay now here is the most intriguing story in any mythology ever:

The gods decide to raise Fenrir among themselves for reasons unknown. Possibly to do with Odin having a connection with wolves in some stories, possibly they just want to keep an eye on him. So Fenrir grows up in Asgard and KEEPS GROWING. Everyone is terrified of this giant endlessly-growing doom-prophesied wolf cub. Everyone except Tyr.

Tyr is meant to be the most beautiful/noble/wise of the gods “the most daring and intrepid” (Snorri, Prose Edda) and he is the only one who dares come near enough Fenrir to feed him. They are FRIENDS, they’re basically brothers. Tyr presumably has a whole other life among other gods and maybe mortals but to Fenrir Tyr is everything he has.

(again, this is my interpretation but the Prose Edda definitely leaves this wide open)

Since Fenrir is destined to kill Odin and bring about the end of the world, the gods decide to chain him up and stop that from happening. They try several different chains and Fenrir breaks all of them easily. So, they get the dwarves to forge a thin silk ribbon which is the strongest chain in all the worlds. This is called GLEIPNIR.

When they dare Fenrir to let them chain him, to prove he can break anything, Fenrir obviously knows this is a trick. So he tells the gods:

“in order that you may not accuse me of cowardice, let some one of you lay his hand in my mouth as a pledge that this is done without deceit” (Snorri, Prose Edda)

Tyr lays his right hand in Fenrir’s mouth. We already know Tyr is the “most valiant” – he is making a sacrifice for the gods, for his family. He knows exactly what is going on and what will happen. He also knows that this ONLY WORKS because Fenrir trusts Tyr ABSOLUTELY.

When Fenrir realizes he’s been tricked, and that Tyr betrayed him, he bites off Tyr’s hand.

This is not going to help Fenrir get free. This is a response to betrayal by the one person he trusted, growing up in a den of people who hated and feared him, the one friend he had in the world. In the Edda this is the smallest moment but it DESTROYS me. Yes I am writing a batshit crazy epic fantasy novel about this relationship and no it will probably never be finished.

Anyway Fenrir is now chained till the end of the world and the exact way he gets free, kills Odin, and has his own cubs who eat the sun and moon, does not seem to be agreed upon by scholars as far as I’ve been able to tell. Maybe Tyr had something to do with it… No but for real it was probably something like the world-cycle came to an end and destiny was the one thing stronger than Gleipnir.

Also, while Fenrir is chained he howls so much that a whole river forms from his saliva. The river is called Ván (which I THINK means hope or expectation). Wish I knew where it was supposed to be.

Anyway – there are a lot of possibilities here about the struggle for resources in a harsh environment, monstrosity, human-wolf enmity AND kinship, being a victim of destiny, also a fun parallel to be drawn with Prometheus and other mythological characters who get epically chained for most of history.

Also - would Fenrir have been angry enough to destroy everything if they hadn't betrayed and chained him?? Would Ragnarok have happened at all if the gods hadn't tried to stop it?? Another example of trying to stop destiny only to end up making it happen?? But I need to write my paper now so these speculations are going to have to wait.

HOWEVER:

I have never been more disappointed in my life than when I watched Thor: Ragnarok and Fenrir was in it for like 5 minutes and didn’t so much as HOWL or actually do anything except snarl and do what he was told. I’m sorry Taika Waititi you are a wonderful director but FENRIR DESERVED BETTER THAN JUST BEING HELA’S TAME DOG.

Fenrir could never be tamed or mastered by anything except destiny (which I’d argue is the metaphor for the chaining). I get that Thor is its own story and not supposed to be faithful to the actual legend but come on – you go to the trouble of having a mountain-sized apocalyptic totally beautiful CGI wolf in your superhero movie and don’t even DO anything with him except make him bite the Hulk a couple times???

Conclusion: FenrisWolf is the most awesome and most misunderstood character in any mythology ever and I will die on this hill (if necessary with a sword imbued with 12 berserker souls). If you read this far I apologize and thank you in the same breath.

[lavenoon]

Eclipse seems to be very much a lab/research/'accidentally setting things on fire' kinda guy - has he ever been in the field the same way Sun and Moon have? if not, is it because he's just a bit too gremlin to stay undercover or does Eclipse have a personal preference to not get involved with field work? - @clxckwork-sun-n-moon

He's a pure researcher/ developer! In fact, he can't work in the field - he's too blunt for that, and doesn't quite have that awareness needed for sneaky undercover work. Not quite the gremlin behavior stopping him there (or Moon would have had bad chances, too)

It's not interesting to him, anyway, so he doesn't mind! HQ however put a big, red stamp on his employee file to label him as "DO NOT DEPLOY IN THE FIELD, EVER" agent after it was so obvious that he told his brothers about his job, even asking if they could work there, too.

(HQ did accept those unorthodox applications, because a two AI animatronic in the field does offer unique opportunities for undercover work. Animatronics in general have the potential to be great agents, as they can always review their memories, rather than just recall.)

But Eclipse is happy right where he is, with funding and opportunities (and encouragement) to develop new little gadgets. HQ maybe isn't too happy with how frequently things end with flames, but all in all he's much too efficient to be let go, and he knows it <3

[iunctura-arch]

Dark has central heterochromia. Though the main colour is red, his eyes turn gold near the pupil. It's a neat gradient.

[blueskittlesart]

i hope everyone in nintendo’s management department dies and goes to hell no matter what and i’m not kidding

[bellwethers]

Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[quibbs]

NO questions 🫡. she gets what she wants

[canisalbus]

barracuda face