#contrasting elements

[cracklewink]

My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

[gigivas]

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[gerrykeay]

im not putting this post into words. beams into your mind The Parallels

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[cantobear]

i have a vision...

[invinciblerodent]

Ngl, some people's "I wasn't allowed to be an irredeemably evil shitbird, ergo Veilguard is not an RPG" argument is extra funny to me, because I don't actually think there is a conceivable narrative in which, if your Rook did something as objectively amoral as selling people into slavery, they wouldn't wake up the next morning floating untethered in the raw Fade with Neve's bootprint on their ass, and the Lighthouse no more than a distant blip on the edge of their vision.

Like there is a lot to get into here that I just don't have the time or the spoons to go through, but I'd argue that one of the biggest strengths of Veilguard's writing is that the main cast are all very well-defined characters with their own sets of morals, ethics, and goals, and they collectively have more than enough of a backbone that if Rook did something that proved them incapable of leading the team to the story's climax and/or proved them to be of no benefit to them, they wouldn't fail their quest: they would just swiftly and efficiently get rid of Rook.

[rustchild]

one of the wild things about people’s stubborn insistence on misunderstanding The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is that the narrator anticipates an audience that won’t engage with the text, just in the opposite direction. Throughout the story are little asides asking what the reader is willing to believe in. Can you believe in a utopia? What if I told you this? What about this? Can you believe in the festivals? The towers by the sea? Can we believe that they have no king? Can we believe that they are joyful? Does your utopia have technology, luxury, sex, temples, drugs? The story is consulting you as it’s being told, framed as a dialogue. It literally asks you directly: do you only believe joy is possible with suffering? And, implicitly, why?

the question isn’t just “what would you personally do about the kid.” It isn’t just an intricate trolley problem. It’s an interrogation of the limits of imagination. How do we make suffering compulsory? Why? What futures (or pasts) are we capable of imagining? How do we rationalize suffering as necessary? And so on. In all of the conversations I’ve seen or had about this story, no one has mentioned the fact that it’s actively breaking the fourth wall. The narrator is building a world in front of your eyes and challenging you to participate. “I would free the kid” and then what? What does the Omelas you’ve constructed look like, and why? And what does that say about the worlds you’re building in real life?

[vaguely-concerned]

obsessed with the fact that if you choose the last purple option in lucanis' romance chat before going off to tearstone island ("they MOVED the MOON!!!" still in the running for the best delivery in the whole game btw it's so ineffably hilarious to me), it's rook who flinches away just a little bit (if still warmly <3) and tries to change the topic and lucanis who's steady even though he's clearly still so afraid. 'don't tempt fate'/'*the softest fucking voice you've ever heard in your entire life* I don't intend to'. pain and suffering

lucanis looking at rook and helplessly, with a wonder that verges on despair, saying 'what would I do without you?' is soooo. especially at that point in the relationship and with what's about to happen. and for whatever reason rook can't quite stay with the fact that they do mean that much to someone, that they are so reverently and so groundingly 'I want to know what your favourite food is so I can make it for you any time you want it' everyday loved, it's too much and they have to deflect from it or the fear of losing it. can say some very interesting things about them, too.

(there is also a Pattern in that in my estimation lucanis frequently responds better to inviting humour than to earnest shows of concern -- it seems to help him be more engaged/online to be offered that more neutral space to meet you in and uh 'build' the conversation around something funny together than to be confronted with compassion head-on because that clearly mostly deer-in-the-headlights him, as we also see with some of the early flirt options haha. contrast this especially with bellara, who repeatedly gets genuinely upset if you try to make light of some pressing and painful situation she's dealing with (girl I'm so sorry I'm so jestercore and I canot change this but I'll try :'( for you). I think the times lucanis reacts negatively to the purple options are much more about you siding with other (frequently more charismatic lol) people against him or throwing him under the bus interpersonally -- like seeming to go along with illario's charm offensives, or telling teia lucanis didn't want to come help out with caterina's funeral and he'd just sit alone and brood about it if you didn't force him (???!!! hello??? unprovoked and deeply unkind out of left field???? this option is so fucking MEAN and for what fhdaskjfa you're telling me there's no way for rook to be a bit of a dick in this game?)

when it's one on one conversation he consistently seems to find it quite comforting, though... which makes a lot of sense because in many ways it's how he interacts with illario, just shorn of the resentments and hidden daggers and things they Do Not Talk About but really should beneath the levity that makes it sharp. it's gone ugly between them, but I think the affectionate instinct beneath is real and goes back a long way before all of that festered -- it's a form of play he does with people he loves. and uh. not really caterina huh. notably.)

[kevin-winfield]

Aaron and Neil - Mothers and Surviving

EC, Nora Sakavic // Interior in orange and diffuse front light, Nicola Nannini // Open Window by Moonlight, Mary Potter// Forever Flooding Sink, Lara de Moor // Large Bathroom, Chiara Gaggiotti // TFC, Nora Sakavic // Medusa Did Not Spread Gangster Rap Lyrics to the Youth of The Southern Cross, but She Did Not Care to Contradict Her Accuser Sedrick Chisom // The Corridor Chiara Gaggiotti// on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong // Listening to the sun Grażyna Smalej // The sun was like an orange Stellan Mörner.

[pamrak]

US (2025) EP4 • Bury it Deep

[violent138]

i could practically post every panel of this comic, because it's such a ridiculously sweet one. Roy's willing to change so much for his kid, and he still keeps his promises to her-- as much as he can despite vigilante-ing.

[gigivas]

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[clar-a-m]

Imogen and Laudna bouldering AU, inspired by @theunqualified1's fic Chalk It Up To Luck

More drawings for this fic here

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Contrast ~

[hotasfahrenheit]

i know it probably makes practical, financial sense that Dohoe moves in with Juyeong instead of them trying to hang on to Dohoe's apartment- without the tutor job and with having to serve 6 months in jail meaning he probably got rid of the apartment anyway instead of paying for it while he was gone, and with Juyeung probably not making a lot of money by the time the official living together point happens after that, they need to live in the less expensive apartment if the other was even available anymore- but i love that it's Juyeong's place they end up in because Dohoe's apartment felt so empty and cold and full of shadows, but Juyeong's place feels warm and full of light.

Dohoe's apartment was big and fancy and sparse and a manifestation of the lies he was living, the trappings of success without any real substance filling the space at all, a place that had stuff in it but still felt like it should echo with how empty it was. it's where he asked Juyeong to focus on only the present, and it's where they reconnected physically with each other, but especially with the flashback comparison to their first time together, there's still the obvious disconnect between them emotionally at that point.

Juyeong's place is cozy and warm and his bed is surrounded by windows and actual lights, with a lamp at the foot of his bed and a bulb hanging over the pillows AND a desk lamp on the desk right next to the bed; the whole place is full of personal touches and bits and pieces of his life and the things he loves, and even tho Dohoe has said he only cares about the present, the first time he walks in the door he immediately is drawn to the pieces of the past Juyeong has kept there. Juyeong always clearly felt out of step and out of place in Dohoe's apartment, but Dohoe is immediately comfortable in Juyeong's space and it feels natural for them to be there together.

it's a home filled with light and laughter and love, and it's where they can start to build their shared future and shared lives and grow together in a place that is a healthy safe foundation for both of them. a place where they can be honest with each other, and be themselves, and just be happy. which is all they've both ever wanted anyway.

[lizzybeanbutt]

now that you mention it, yeah kabru is kind of an ibex

trying to pin it down but I don't feel confident on my grasp of kabru's characterization (depsite him being my favourite guy. you know how it is) but like. Kabru is a nicer ibex. Ibex is kabru but he's no longer asking. Ibex is a kabru but he's not afraid to let outright enemies stay on the board if he knows he'll win the overall battle. I think Kabru would make a better candidate of rightousness. I need a two way au and we're gonna send the dunmeshi cast to divine cycle space and we're throwing the kingdom crew in a last ditch dungeon crawl

@arcnoise tagging just in case

[mensahbots]

i like that we see hints of a sort of intuitive rapport in this scene between mensah and pin-lee! that little forearm touch especially made me go 👀👀