#aspect: edge

[fairyable]

Perhaps the most well known edge dyad is tom and jerry

[alialmans]

This blog is curated to be viewed by selecting a tag and browsing it, instead of looking at the whole blog (as it is pretty spammy without that). You may also find more success getting good content if you just follow a specific tag or a few instead of following the whole blog, but you do you. Good luck!

As of W̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶..... w̶h̶e̶n̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶i̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶u̶p̶d̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶t̶s̶... months ago, each path had this many posts:

#aspect: lantern - 30

#aspect: moth - 26

#aspect: grail - 24

#aspect: heart - 31

#aspect: winter - 17

#aspect: edge - 21

#aspect: forge - 16

#aspect: knock - 24

#aspect: secret histories - 18

I will not be explaining where those names come from, if ykyk

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[alialmans]

Finally I can master the knife game

(that's who buys all your iron daggers in Skyrim btw)

dear universe give me ten billion dollars and infinite free time and indestructible hands so i can do every hobby ever

[alialmans]

How do you only have 3 followers?? Your blog organization rules and you deserve more

*sigh...*

I know girl, but since Ḫumbaba, his voice is the Deluge,

his speech is fire, his breath is death.

He hears the forest’s murmur for sixty leagues is one of them, I don't complain

[ariadne-mouse]

Tiny Hut: has a 10ft *radius* which means it is a generous 20ft across from side to side, or 314 sq ft

Artists and Writers everywhere, absolutely correct: it's small enough that whoever's in it simply must all pile together like a basket of puppies

[kittykatninja321]

When people say “Jason wouldn’t smoke because he died of smoke inhalation” I respectfully have to disagree, because if there’s one thing Jason is going to do he’s going to take aspects of his trauma and use them for himself and push on them like a bruise (he takes the name red hood, he uses explosives and guns, the crowbars were lame but they weren’t out of character), so I don’t think that would stop him from smoking. The way I see it I think Jason would be one of those people who occasionally smokes a cigarette when things are Particularly Bad, even though they swear they stopped smoking, like a maladaptive coping mechanism basically

[justabrick]

A place where I can be without remorse...

You know, I've read many a discussion about MGR and occasionally polls pop up that aim to rank the bosses from least evil to most evil. And somehow Mistral frequently ends up in some kind of "misunderstood" or "lied to" category.

I have a couple strong opinions on that view.

I'll start this off with a weird thing – the dwarf Gekko.

Little recon focused UGs that follow Mistral everywhere. Here are some fun facts about them: - they vocalize in high-pitched tone that can be interpreted as childish and cute - when the player gets hit by Mistral, the Dwarf Gekko will either applaud Mistral or laugh at Raiden - in the section where you get to play as one you can applaud the other dwarf Gekko and they'll dance with you - chopping off the upper arm of a Dwarf Gekko in blade mode will result in it briefly pausing in confusion as it searches for its missing limb - Courtney thinks they're cute and compares them to little mice

- there are cute figurines of them made as merch - a lot of fanart features them in adorable chibi forms - they react to pain by wailing and screaming

So, they're little critters, right? They're cute, make cute noises, they display surprising degree of emotion through both sounds and gestures for a military UG. Like little monkeys, or mice, as Courtney put it.

Now how does Mistral treat them? Her pre-bossfight cutscene: Comforts the tripod that Raiden hurt, even holds it's hand tenderly.

To only moments later tear off it's arms and crush it as it wiggles around and squeks in pain.

Comforts something -> hurts it, keep this dynamic in mind for later.

And throughout the fight she tosses them around, obviously killing them in the process. Courtney comments on that too:

You could say that it's all intimidation tactics to get under Raiden's skin, except we get to see Mistral in her downtime in Bladewolf DLC. Boy do I have a lot of details to highlight there.

The very first thing Bladewolf sees as he comes out of VR training

Yeah, that's a freshly killed tripod just laying there, fresh enough to be smoking and throwing sparks still. Remember that "NPC gekkos will dance with you" detail? Yeah, those things are seemingly programmed to be social, and she killed and displays the remains of one of their kin to her "chair". The gekkos composing her chair are constantly whining and moaning as they try to hold up her evidently immense weight. And I mean constantly, all the time she sits in that thing, they shake and make noises. That thing is NOT comfortable or practical on account of said noises, so the reason she does this instead of opting for just a chair is because she loves hurting things. I'll dare to say that she displays more moments of pointless cruelty on screen than Sundowner does, and it's an achievement.

Look at the poor thing on the left hugging itself and rolling around looking traumatized. It jumps up in fear the moment Mistral turns around, too.

She's also not just hurting them, she frequently displays mock "affection" towards them. She does it at two different points to the chair gekkos alone:

Here and here. Let's not forget holding the hand of the Gekko in the pre-fight cutscene.

It can be argued that she does it to Bladewolf in a similar manner, calling him endearing pet names while constantly mixing them with mockery, insults and threats. The whole "shake" scene follows it to an extent as well, Wolf is being tortured while being forced to engage in what should be a friendly and affectionate gesture.

Also note all the gekkos cheering her on and acting like they adore her as it transpires.

So, what we get from all these scenes is that Mistral enjoys hurting cute things she has under her control while constantly flip-flopping between giving them affection and torturing them. Besides that she's casually abusive to every single UG we see her interact with, whether physically or verbally.

Give affection to something that trusts you and depends on you and then hurt it, rinse repeat.

If you know what exactly this resembles, I'm really sorry, if you don't – I'd rather not shatter your hope in humanity. That'd be very dark. Instead I'll just go for slightly less dark.

Look, I'm not implying that this is the pattern of behavior that indicates somebody who enjoys torturing small animals...

I'm telling you in plain text that it's exactly what Mistral displays in overwhelming majority of her cutscenes. She's an unrepentant sadist, one that will take advantage of even allies, and she won't be quick about it either.

And it's not like she's lashing out due to some kind of trigger relating to her past, this crap is done just because she's enjoying it.

Desperado really is the one place she can be without remorse, surrounded by two equally cruel partners whose ideologies only encourage her to indulge in her horrible desires shamelessly and openly. One could even say that all three of them are broken to the point that they're all eternally strangers to any kind of normalcy.

It's not like she's fighting for Armstrong's ideals of mega freedom anyway. Out of the horse's mouth:

Belonging, purpose. That's all she wants, really. Armstrong gave her a fucked up little family she can relate to and some goal to share with them. What that goal is about isn't really all that important.

[alialmans]

A toilet door that unlocks on a timer and refuses to lock until you open the door wide enough

LET ME WIPE MY ASS

None of the french deserve to live. Give me a gun.

[alialmans]

edge long be like

(their scars only make them stronger)

trauma is not real i drink violently for unknowable reasons and my body shakes bc im powerful

[vagueeyes]

S: All of this stuff here where we're wilfully cutting people's heads off - we just loved all that, didn't we? R: Yeah, it was a happy accident of that one positioning of that camera in that booth. S: Because we spent ages trying to find just the right frames, because we knew as soon as we committed to it on Day 1, that was it - we were stuck with it.

INSIDE NO. 9 | S2E4 "Cold Comfort" Directed by Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith

[brainworms-all-night-long]

prime!sonic is a hugger for the express purpose of making Nine both better and much worse

[alialmans]

You know she's totally got the potential to become an edge long, but she'd rather just hang out instead

[porto-rosso]

barbara trying to integrate cass into civilian life via boys and reading when all she had to do was sign her up for amateur rugby

[ohithankyou]

did you guys randomly select between buck or tommy when sending treats to your recipients or did you select based on who you believe is more so the recipients blorbo

[hauntingblue]

Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

[alialmans]

@the-muppet-joker

Do they expect you?

Do they fear you as they should?

Today I saw a leaf that looked like a frog and I was like haha nice and then it hopped because it WAS a frog and I started crying bc life is really full of everyday miracles including but not limited to experiencing frogs