#but no they botched it up

[cracklewink]

Harmony Syndrome Part 5/5

The last chapter of my mlp infection AU! Thank you to everyone who followed along. Some final thoughts on my twitter @cracklewink if anyone's interested : )

[topchomp]

gaydeon da ninth

[rad-roche]

i made lead paint to see if the weird angle i'm taking with the setting can support a longer story (i think it can) and mostly, being honest, so i could make that rusty nail joke

i couldn't make that ha any smaller because it artifacted to the point of being unreadable and trust me i tried really hard

[littlewinnow]

I love your drarry dads au so much! Do you think baby scorp will ever get around to calling Harry some variation of dad or will he always be Harry ™?

Thank you!!

Oh I constantly think about this, I think he’d switch it up saying harry or dad when he gets older.

I hc that currently toddler scorp made up his own nickname for harry because of Draco at first 😂

[doctorsiren]

Will you ever draw more 7yg defenseworth? I absolutely adore the drawings you did for the last post on this! :)

Defenseworth getting his disbarment letter + doodles from various points during the 7yg ^^

[yourlocalabomination]

I’ve decided to make some last-minute…cuts.

[laurrelise]

beautiful gorgeous stunning women of the umbrella academy save me SAVE ME

[eternal-moss]

Guys I am Missing Them

Oh well, at least Jules being immensely gay was canon in the end

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

The type of man Jeeves finds acceptable for his niece is kind of telling tbh. Like, when all he knew was that Biffy didn’t keep his appointment with Mabel at her hotel, he wouldn’t let them within miles of each other

But as soon as Bertie is like ‘no no, you’ve got it wrong! Biffy isn’t playing with her affections, he’s just a barely-functional scatterbrained disaster who can’t remember his beloved’s last name or the hotel she was staying in’

Jeeves is like ‘oh, is that how it was? Well that’s fine then 😌’ and proceeds to help them get together

[neversetyoufree]

Since writing my last post about how Vanitas understands "salvation" as the preservation of one's self, even at the price of death, I've been thinking about how that plays into Vanitas's thoughts on resurrection. It's only two short lines, but I find the view he expresses in this scene absolutely fascinating.

Vanitas tells Misha that the dead "don't come back," and the fact that he phrases it that way stands out to me. He doesn't say that resurrection is impossible on a physical level; he implicitly concedes that maybe Misha could "bring back" something that looks and acts like Luna. He doesn't quibble about the practicalities of reanimating someone whose body turned to ashes or bring up whatever concept of the afterlife he may have.

Instead, Vanitas says that a resurrected Luna would simply be "something else that looked like her." A resurrected Luna would lack some fundamental part of whatever it was that made Luna who they were in their first life.

But what would they lack? I don't think he's implying that a resurrected Luna would lack their soul—not really. Setting aside the absence of souls as a conceptual presence in VnC, I think that would be too concrete and specific for what Vanitas is gesturing toward. Rather, he's conceiving of the Self in a somewhat ineffable way. On a metaphysical level, a version of Luna brought back from the dead simply Wouldn't Be Her, and he can't put it in more concrete terms than that.

So why does he think this way?

I think the concept of resurrection is awful enough to Vanitas that he has to reject it outright for his own stability. He cannot even slightly entertain the notion that resurrection might be possible, because that would destroy one of his main coping mechanisms.

Resurrection is nightmarish to a man that relies on death as an escape. Vanitas is suicidal, but beyond his self-hatred, his relationship to death is very particular. He's someone whose body and being has been corrupted and violated several times—through violence, through experiments, and through Luna's bite, and he's desperate to retain control of himself in the aftermath. He's desperate for control in regards to everything in his life, but especially his body and his death.

Vanitas is being slowly transformed into something inhuman, and he plans to die someday to escape that fate. The idea that after he's gone, someone could override that decision and force him back into living a life he doesn't want must be unacceptably horrific to him. He dismisses it out of hand because he has to.

Vanitas says a resurrected Luna would, on some level, not really be Luna. Whatever comes back might look like them, but it would lack some fundamental self that makes Luna "Luna." Thus, if Vanitas himself were ever "resurrected" after his death, it would be the same. Death remains an absolute escape for him, and even if someone contrives to bring back something that looks like him after he's gone, it won't be him. That life won't be his problem.

In addition to whatever beliefs Vanitas might have about death and afterlives the feasibility of resurrection, I think this is a key part of his relationship to the concept. He lives his life knowing that death waits for him as an escape valve. He needs that looming death as his salvation. Thus, faced with the concept of resurrection, his argument basically boils down to "nuh-uh." He shoots down the concept and declares that a resurrected person wouldn't be themselves in some nonspecific way, because the possibility of anything otherwise isn't something safe for him to consider.

[bisexualfbiagents]

Hey, Scully, that word unruhe, unrest, is bothering me. Maybe he thought he was curing them somehow, saving him from damnation. From those things in the pictures, you know, he called them the howlers.

THE X FILES GIF MEME [2/20] EPISODES Unruhe (4.04)

[scoots-canoe]

DB doodles dump heehee

[karnaca78]

what my brain wants to doodle instead of sleeping when it's 30°C

[duchess-doodles]

Dianeeeee I think I wanna fuck your husband

Edit: guys I finished it

[valensolo12]

My pillars of eternity journal part.. 3! (here's 1 and 2) there's so many cool locations and moments in this game i struggle to pick which ones to draw... Twin Elms is really pretty.

Tried a couple new things and adding some color for accent >:) let me know what you think!

[hoodiehorizon]

I have an idea 👉👈

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