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[bamsara]

I dont know if it was intentional but I love that Narinder when he sees Lamb throwing up he turns gentle and pushes their wool and ears back so they dont get stained with vomit and for some reason it reminded me of how when Nari was throwing up too after the nightmare he had when they were on route to fight Leshy, Lambert helped him with camellias for the nausea.

Ahh, parallels. I think.

IM SO GLAD YOU POINTED THAT OUT allow me to ramble for just a moment.

Narinder was trapped in the Afterlife for over 1000 years, with little social skills and plagued by wishing for vengeance and his only company being two kittens who become disciples under his rule. He has terrible social skills, if not lacking them entirely.

(I would argue that Aym and Baal also have horrific nonexistent social skills, so those three cat's can't really help each other communicate properly to anyone else outside themselves.)

It can be argued that since The One Who Waits had other vessels to pass time and try to kill /annoy his siblings before the prophesized Lamb arrival, that he would have developed them a little bit more, but I would argue that the power balance would have been oodles more severe since the vessels weren't the promised one. He didn't need them, so if they no longer were of service or disobeyed him, he got rid of them. Whether just sending them out or killing them, any how.

Lamb, however, knows they are the last Lamb, the prophesized liberator of The One Who Waits, and therefore his only option. They knew that they were his only reasonable way out of there (whether they asked for it or not) so they were oodles more comfortable than how a professional relationship would have been.

So they asked questions, bothered him, played and ran around him. Complained and vented to him. Yapped and yapped. What is he gonna do? Kill them? Find a new vessel? He can't. "You're as trapped into this prophecy as much as I am, so let's be friends"

Example parts from Chapter 3:

The power balance equalizes because Lamb did not see his presence a God, but rather a fellow prisoner and victim of fate. Rude and demanding, but in the same chains as they were. 'My lord' was simply formalities at first.

This puts Narinder / The One Who Waits in social situations he hasn't been in (or hardly been in) in over a thousand years, and frankly, he had no idea how to navigate them:

Example from Chapter 5:

The God of Death has not needed to comfort or 'be there' for someone in a long, long time. The Lamb's presence is what forces him to try, even if his first attempt aren't perfect. So in that same chapter, he'll ask them a question to distract them. Conversation. Like how they do it.

While I won't post a screenshot of everytime this happens in written format (not including the dreams/memories/flashbacks that haven't been posted yet)-

The One Who Waits is pushed outside of his bubble when it comes to socializing in a way that isn't just 'God-to-Lowly-Vessal' format. He has to talk to them like a person, because he's being talked to like a person, not a god on a pedestal.

Obviously after the final battle and betrayal (to both of them, otherwise known as the Grand Miscommunication) this means nothing for a while as tempers are still high and feelings are hurt. But overtime, this returns, and can show in small ways (ways that may not seem like comfort but is certainly an attempt) like just in Chapter 18:

Trying to bring them an 'offering' (breakfast) mirroring other times the Lamb has done the same for him:

Crudely offering to replace something they are upset at losing/later offering reassurance abet in a curt way:

And what you mentioned: earlier when the Lamb is throwing up, narration shows they're having trouble with keeping their wool, cloak, bell, ect all back at the same time. He can see that. He has a mental boiling pot explosion over the fact that helping them is even a want that he has after the denial crisis he's experiencing where the only answer a minute ago seemed like he needed to kill them, and he chose comfort.

It is intentional. Narinder is learning how to show care, and allowing himself to show care. Slowly, and not perfect, but learning.

[goat-paradox]

For months, I couldn't stop thinking about this beautiful description of my Max art XXJ

@silverlizard012

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[artist-owl]

There are several moments in tge where Maia is just the Most eighteen, and I would like to posit one of my favorites:

Min Vechin, who Maia is very attracted to: hey :) I've noticed you're attracted to me...want to do something about that?

Maia, experiencing the entire spectrum of human half-goblin emotion at once: NO THANK YOU. GOODNIGHT. MA'AM.

Maia: *turns on his heel and walks out, followed by his nohecharei who got to watch that entire fumble*

[gamora-borealis]

really wish I could go back and tell 14 year-old me that I went to see dan howell live and he wore a slutty nun costume

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor Swift gave 'Chats & Reacts' handwritten letters and invited them to The Eras Tour with VIP in Melbourne Night 3!

''Emily, Hi!! I'm so grateful to you and Bonny for how much you've cared about my music, and all the times you've referred to it as ''iconic'' or ''immaculate''. You've made me laugh and made me feel understood many times with your reviews. I love your wild joy and enthusiasm, that's why I do this!! Have a blast tonight!! Sending my Love, Taylor.''

[incomprehensi-bull]

y'know i don't believe i've ever seen anyone talk at length about randall and alphonse post-MM. i've been thinking about them a lot recently. they should get to be friends again

[goldenpinof]

Daniel Howell, a walking red flag (to himself)

[lizasweetling]

!! Our little guy!!! if we compare creator to parent then this is Klaus' grandson, and certainly the closest Gil has to a 'daughter'? probably.

I guess upon reflection, not all evil guy's daughters will be grown, and they'll be as bad or worse of a security risk as kids So it does make sense that he has candy. Still a little bit weird (and maybe creepy?) of him though.

Also: fiery death on whoever is responsible for Zoing still being here when the place is fit to blow!!

(not that I'm not happy to see Zoing and for all I know he's been hiding in the castle crawlspaces since Bang dragged Gil out of the secret lab- there's been scary things happening, especially around Gil!)

[winged-cries]

recently i was having dinner with 2 other women and one guy, and none of the women had a driver's license but the man did. we wondered if there's a meaningful gender gap (i'm pretty sure there is, at least where i live) and we questioned why we didn't have our licenses. i mentioned i did start getting mine but my instructor tried to sexually assault me - i was 18 then, i didn't tell anyone, i just left and didn't come back. one other woman in the table said the same happened to her during the test, so she got nervous and left and also never came back. and we were like, hm.

[lesbiandanhowell]

Sam reacts to: SHOWING BLOWHOLE ON THE BEACH - Dan and Phil play The Sims 4: Season 2 #18

- Somehow I am the busiest on our discord and yet this upload had the perfect timing for ONLY me out of the group?

- Sure you paid for this Dan, yes I believe that absolutely.

- Very believable that you "accidentally" didn't save it... sure Dan.

- I also do not believe Phil ever got detention tbh, he seems to nice and polite for that.

- Dan is so very reluctant about that Dragon City sponsorship meanwhile Phil has never been more excited to have "birthed" a dragon with Dan.

- Dan's maximum about of holiday with his family being 3 hours... checks out

- Phil living his exhibitionist dreams through the Sims, ah yes.

- Ah the swinger jokes are back! I missed them.

- Evan just stripping let's go now it's a holiday!

- How did he get stuck on a boat??

- JAMAICA LORE

- They are so chaotic help me

- No Dan's school lore sounds about accurate, we did the same funny enough also on a class trip in Italy.

- Fancy drink lore? Somehow that's the content I want from them. Like I want to know what cocktails they have tried and how they were and what was the worst thing and what came in a funny glass. Tell meeee

- You can tell that Phil is tired because he's really low energy and keeps blinking and, I feel too parasocial noticing all this.

- Tabitha and Dil just making out 24/7 lmao

- I FEARED THEY WERE GOING TO KILL ONE OF THE SIMS OMG THE FEAR

- They're so parasocial they just sung their Sims child a birthday song.

- DAN DID A SPON SEGMENT BY HIMSELF

This was a very low energy video, now I am even more scared for tomorrow somehow cause this was like an expected and lowkey start...

[licensedproldier]

brennan will really be like "is anyone gonna write six of the most tragic and fucked up teenagers in the whole world and their narrative foils having violent murderous beef with each other in a devastatingly teenage way and then tell their story through a series of unreliable narrators or" and then not wait for an answer.

[impbites]

OCtober day 18 - swap 🩸👼 (their original forms look like this!)

i went with "role in the story" for this one. i've thought abt this AU a bit before, but i think a lot of things would change if gwyar was sacrificed instead of claret…

The Cooler Claret spawned from a face monster and so i thought it would b cute to have gwyar mutate from a crimera! (<- objectively uncute thing to say). the monsters r somewhat significant bc they represent unfulfilled desires from when they were still ppl, like claret becoming strong enough to protect her home/family and gwyar's desire to be free (hence y she can fly now).

even though claret emerges as an adult in canon, i chose to keep gwyar as a child in the swapped version bc it felt more fitting. clarets new role in the story is similar to gwyars in that she aims to purge the crimson, but where gwyar becomes quite apathetic, claret takes on a much crueler personality... 😔

[brown-little-robin]

oh I just realized that my interest in anime and my interest in clowns are linked by the concept of "exaggerated silliness". hmm!!!

[iambecomeafangirl]

*Stars above spoiler below* I forgot how much I love Kaider

His lips twitched, but didn’t quite become a smile. “I love you. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. I want to marry you, and, yes, I want you to be my empress.” Cinder gaped at him for a long moment before she whispered, “That’s a lot of wanting.”

[goldenpinof]

would you still date Sarah Michelle Gellar? (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)