I think the most amazing thing about Alhaitham's ironic question "How has realizing your ideals gone for you?" is that yes, on the surface, it pierced through the heart of Kaveh's feelings at the time and forced him to reflect on whether he still had enough belief to keep going, but--BUT--
This is also Alhaitham subtly asking: "Was your life better without me?"
Kaveh left their friendship because of his ideals.
Kaveh's attempts to realize his beliefs began in earnest during his argument with Alhaitham, who challenged him back then by suggesting that Kaveh didn't honestly believe in his ideals and was just pursuing them out of guilt and a desire to punish himself for his father's death.
Kaveh's attempt to "realize his ideals," therefore, spans the exact amount of time he and Alhaitham have been separated. When Alhaitham asks about Kaveh's attempts, he's asking very specifically about the course Kaveh's life took when he was no longer in it.
How did it go for you? Were you happier? Was it worth it?
I truly believe that Kaveh will be able resolve his conflict with Alhaitham--and come to understand Alhaitham's actual feelings--when he realizes that, in that exact moment, he should have turned the question around:
How did realizing your ideals go for you, Alhaitham?
Was your life better off without me?
No.
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The scoundrel just arrived from France. He's bigger than I thought he'd be.
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of ten’s companions, if the doctor couldn’t handle losing them and crossed his own timeline to trick them into traveling with future!him instead of past!him so that he’d have a little more time with them:
rose would do it. first because bless her but she has the situational awareness of a rock, and legitimately would not realize this isn’t her doctor until his facade starts to break down and he starts bleeding grief-laced love for her at every turn. but once she does realize it, she’s both deeply sympathetic and a little scared that she could make him into this. it’s a lot to be confronted with having that much power over someone, to break them so thoroughly. rose would try to get back to her doctor, but while she’s with the future version, she tries to do what she can to ease his pain. (she also tries to figure out a way to subvert her fate. she fails.)
i think martha would be harder to trick. she can smell desperation on the doctor like a bloodhound. she is so tapped into the fact that this man wants to off himself so bad and that she’s 90% of his self-restraint, so present her with a doctor who is lacking that and she’s onto him immediately. however, assuming he gets her to come with him, explains why he’s doing this, there’s like. a minute where she’s kind of. not flattered exactly, but surprised, giddy with the realization that he’d come back for a little more time with her, especially if this is early season 3 martha. which would all come crashing down around the time that he reveals that he wasn’t pushed to this by losing her to some tragedy or her death or anything- but that she chose to leave. that is the point at which martha goes ‘oh i need to get the fuck off of this tardis right now’ and ghosts the past!doctor that she was also traveling with because holy shit, man.
donna, like rose, is easily bamboozled into following the wrong doctor home, provided that he shuffles her along into his tardis too fast for her to argue. but she catches on far quicker than rose does. like, three minutes tops of watching the doctor move through the tardis in a way that’s definitely not enthusiastic piloting and looks more like guilty panic. and then she yells at him for lying to her. and she yells at him for kidnapping her. and then she stops yelling because he’s gone sort of still and quiet and his eyes are just broken. and he doesn’t explain himself, he confesses. donna is going to try to stay with him after this btw. because how do you go back to looking your best friend in the eyes when you know he’d take everything you’ve become away from you, even to save your life? and this is still the doctor, he still did that to her, but he regrets it. regrets it so much that he can’t live with it, he’s breaking time and space just to hear her say his name again. and donna doesn’t want to lose him anymore than he wanted to lose her.
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"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.
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You're wonderful, thank you for donating profits from your art and comics to people who need it, do you still have to cover print costs for physical copies? Is pdf better?
I’ve decided to cover the remaining production costs myself, so from now on 100% of that product’s price will be donated! PDF is better if you can only spare that amount, but more will be donated if u choose a physical copy :)
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How much will eternal cost?
it'll be the same as the first zine, $20 USD! It is shorter than the other zine but color printing costs more lol. I think I'm going to be able to cut the shipping cost this time though, since it's a slimmer book so i should be able to get smaller envelopes and they should weigh slightly less, so i think shipping will be somewhere around $5 for north american orders this time!
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He's maybe sorta the devil but he's like pretty chill about it, you know
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Well... 3 weeks ago in Wien I bought a keychain and a linen bag with Stephansdom on it to have something to remind me of the lovely trip. This time I'm bringing home a different kind of souvenir 😍
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Different images same vibe
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omg your draluc nenodroid is so cute, was he easy to make? its so genius, i wanna make my own blorbo dress up dolls
nendoroid dolls are very easy to make!! draluc had some extra steps cus i painted his body but here are some guides and some doll bodies that people often use for their nendoroid heads:
obitsu11 bodies are really popular and fairly easy to get. they do need a neck peg alteration and there are a few tutorials online [1] [2] for how to do it! (i can't seem to find it now but if anyone can find the one that uses cut up plastic credit cards to replace the connecting part i'd love that as reference as it's the most sturdy one imo)
nendoroid dolls are a little smaller and very easy to put together since they're the same brand and meant for this use. as a note: they're kinda flimsy!! and imo the proportions arent as cute as other dolls. too tiny of hands
ninimal (a very good clothes shop for obitsuroids/nendoroid dolls you WILL get sucked in by all their tiny cute things) also has a ninibody (this is the one draluc has!) that is a bit taller and slimmer.
there are also nowadays a few different kinds of ball jointed dolls that are compatible with nendoroids! the way the S hook and elastic attach is already compatible with the hole left in the neck joint. off the top of my head there's UFDoll 1.0, UFDoll 2.0 (with toonier limbs) and bonbon galaxy's 1/12 dolls that come in human as well as three different styles of anthro plus mermaids and taurs!
on top of that there are all these really cute blind box bjds out there that you could take apart to use for nendoroids, and they even already come with outfits and everything!
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you know when i first started getting really into mlp like two months ago i was all like "omg this is so great im actually gonna be able to get merch of my favs !! thank celestia that for once i dont have a super obscure niche interest that has four existing pieces of merchandise each going for seven umbajillion dollaes." WRONG i got cursed with fixating on like the one character that only gets a crumb of merch
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