#My body is a vessel for my soul

[pitofpurple]

TW: eating disorder, boobies

Me in the 7th grade: I don’t have an eating disorder because my lack of eating isn’t effecting my physical health

also me in recovery having to replace all my bras: Did I skip a letter?

[honestlyvan]

Alright, I see, my first mistake was referring to the Casey of the Dark Place as Alan's "familiar".

[corvidcrybaby]

Erzsebet Bathori begins to shapeshift.

[cali]

my grandma and grandpa fed a family of red kites daily over like 15 years. it would circle in the air around noon every day and they would put a piece of meat on their terrace and the kite would swoop down and take the meat back to its nest near a pylon. if they had kept that up for a couple thousand more years theyd have domesticated those birdies to the level of a housecat but unfortunately they died because they were old and human

[cryptidyork]

Listening to TMBTE for the first time be like

[rae-irien-kimura]

Something not of this world.

[sonicasura]

My trauma loving ass thought of an idea. Knack but he is a walking soul container. His spirit and another(s) in the same body unaware of each other at first. Knack often having strange dreams about being in someone's shoes thrown into various situations that range from insane to terrifying.

The golem fully unaware that these are someone else's memories who slowly becomes more conscious the deeper he goes. A change which gradually gets noticed by his companions as Knack and this other spirit begin to sporadically switch control. One second he's normal self but then the next acts like a completely different person.

To Knack, the swap is equivalent to a blink. One second he is chatting and the next atop a skyscraper like a gargoyle. He absolutely grows nervous about these blackouts as no one knows what's going on. Then Knack looks into a mirror.

He isn't alone in the reflection. Someone is standing there next to him. An impossibility since he's by himself. Knack moves his hand and this second person copies him at first before acting of their own accord.

There will soon come a time where both souls can move together as one. Able to interact without any mental barrier keeping them separated. Sadly not now and won't be for quite awhile.

Knack is stuck having to understand this phantom that follows beside him. The same goes for his companion. Both face the unknown alone and are scared of what it all means...

When you don't know who or what you are.

[s00nyoungie]

just came out of the theater i need everyone to go watch Monkey Man right now

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

It’s late so I have no real positive inkling about how coherent this will be.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts engaging with the concept of “don’t look away, bare witness” and how anyone looking away by not reblogging or engaging is privileged and therefore a bad person. I reject this premise wholeheartedly for one very critical reason: the world will not get better if the only emotions we have are anger, exhaustion and trauma. None of those truly lead to anything productive in the long run.

This is not to say don’t engage with different perspectives, unlearn things or simply sit in the uncomfortable nature that comes from our global society. But learn to take breaks.

There is massive difference between “looking away” and “hitting pause”. It needs to be more acceptable on the internet to hit pause. To seek joy, to sleep and wake up rested. There is also the fact that our brains are not able to process the 24/7 news cycle - if we try, we end up making the nuanced into simple paradigms.

[cuntstable]

every time i think about the law of regression statues and how if you were to combine their poses it looks like marikas is cruxified and that radagons the cross she hangs on i kind of want to start screaming. like WOOAAAAAAAAHHHH

[sluttylittlenewsboy]

It is genuinely so terrifying to realize that you truly and wholly want to spend the rest of your life with someone

[pregstiel]

thinking about swap meat (s5 episode where sam and that random kid swap bodies) and as much as i normally dislike bodyswap stories, the only thing that really bothered me about it is the idea that any being in sam's body could consent to possession. like, i understand why the episode uses it (raise the stakes for the finale), but if that was the case.... why go through the rigmarole of trying to get sam or dean to actually consent? even if heaven was invested in getting a more legitimate yes, why would lucifer care if he could just get any demon to take sam's body and give consent OR get other groups of witches under his express control to repeat what happened in the episode but with more preparation? in my brain i've just automatically discounted that beat in this episode as non-canon

[crabussy]

guy who gets extremely excited whenever he does normal human things. guy who feels utterly delighted when he crosses his legs while sitting on a chair. guy who is thrilled when he remembers he has fingers and laughs out loud when he wiggles them just because. guy who finds the concept of clothes amusing and intriguing. guy who pokes his bruises with a bemused and fascinated look on his face. guy who quivers with joy when he drinks water and thinks to himself "im drinking water!!!! me!!!! i am!!!"

[trashbatistrash]

,

[lennythereviewer]

My favorite Kingdom Hearts fact is that one of the biggest plot-holes that Nomura has never been able to meaningfully retcon or write his way out, a plot-hole so big that it fundamentally breaks the very rules the series is written on...

Is the existence of Steamboat Willie

Let me explain for the uninitiated:

In Kingdom Hearts 2, there’s a small detour in the story involving Maleficent trying to invade Disney Castle, the home of King Mickey. She can’t step foot in the castle due to an artefact of pure light that wards off darkness locked in the basement.

Pete, who is working for Maleficent, opens a door into the past (Before Disney Castle, this land was known as Timeless River) and decides to remove the artifact from it’s place in time so it won’t be there to stop them from getting in.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase Pete into the past thanks to another magic door provided by Merlin, and through some shenanigans involving old cartoons and teaming up with Pete’s past-self, they lock the door the villains are using, and return the artefact to it’s proper place so it can exist in the present.

You with me so far? Pretty straightforward-ish time-travel plot right?

Here’s where it goes off the rails.

Time travel would go on to become a staple of Kingdom Hearts going forward and would come with a very strict set of rules over how it operates:

1. You can only travel to a point in time where a version of yourself exists

2. You basically give up your body to do so, and travel as a disembodied soul unless you have a vessel to inhabit

3. You can’t alter the past in a meaningful way, what’s going to happen will happen

4. You lose your memories of said trip once you return, but your actions could leave a lingering instinct on your other self that could influence their decisions

“Wait” you may be thinking “Why should anyone go through all those hoops? Wasn’t time travel super simple that first time?”

And you’d be totally right, because the existence of Timeless River completely renders all of these rules and restrictions meaningless. 

There is no version of Sora that existed in Timeless River before he step foot there, everyone kept their bodies, the trio and Pete were able to mess with the timeline as freely as they pleased, and they all very much remember their trip. 

Nomura has never been able to meaningfully explain this super simple, easy way of time travel and the more convoluted method co-existing other than a cheap-throwaway line from one of the villains saying that Merlin “broke the rules” 

The hilarious part about this line is that it implies that PETE of all characters is actually more powerful than the actual villain of the series, because Pete opened a door into Timeless River through sheer willpower and nostalgia for “the good old days”

But the all-knowing chess-master of a villain who had an evil plan several decades in the making with countless moving parts and contingencies to account for had to use the roundabout, more complicated method of time travel where a lot could go wrong.

Pete though? Dude just casually broke all the rules of time travel because he felt like it. He's just built different.

TL;DR: Steamboat Willie breaks Kingdom Hearts lore in half, Pete is more powerful than Master Xehanort, and I fucking love this beautiful trainwreck of a series you guys it means so much to me

I love Kingdom hearts so much.

[creantzy]

Lose sight of yourself

My favs love terrorizing children 😍👍

(Characters:

Nikolai Gogol from "Bungou Stray Dogs" and

Bill Cipher from "Gravity Falls"

- Summary for those who may not know GF: Bill is a cunning dream demon that makes deals with people and is able to possess someone's body if they agree to it and shake his hand. And of course he loves to toy with people psychologically-)

The background in the first few slides is a visualization of the inside of Nikolai's mind

I got this idea when I thought about Mykola's idea of freedom vs Bill Cipher's, and how they basically have what the other wants xD Canon Nikolai wants to be free from his emotions, his humanity, while Bill Cipher wants to be free from the mindscape and be able to access our world, in other words: physical freedom.

Bill is literally not human, not bound to biology, and probably has the kind of "free will" Nikolai desires, while Nikolai on the other hand has the physical freedom Bill wants- even more so than other humans thanks to his ability.

But in this one-part-comic Mykola starts out believing that it's merely his body that is the trap, until Bill Cipher makes him realise that it's not how it works. Young Nikolai in this AU viewed the concepts of "body" and "mind" as separate units where one (the mind/ soul) represents his own self and the other (the body with all its sensations and emotions) is a "prison" that his self is trapped in. However, in reality BOTH components are part of his real self, equally, and one cannot exist without the other. Losing one of them would mean to lose oneself entirely.

And well- that's what Nikolai decides to try, ultimately ending up with his canon goal:

"You're fighting against God in order to lose sight of yourself."

I hope this makes sense, I am very deep in a BSD and Gravity Falls brainrot and whenever I fixate on two things at the same time this is what happens😭

(Btw, Bill possessing Nikolai is not him achieving his ultimate goal, it's merely a step. A vessel is still just a vessel, and not physical freedom in the way he wants it.

How exactly Nikolai's body could be useful to Bill's plans is up to interpretation since it's not the focus of this mini comic xD)

Caesar, 3

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Bill's symbol substitution