#everything is just a show and a scenario

[the2ndsanctuary]

It was said by a mutual of mine before as well that there's certain lack of engagement with Shadow Milk's character outside of his situationship with Pure Vanilla, and even the dynamic is being what it seems verrrrry flanderized . aND I think if you really want to angst Shadow Milk its like. YOU CAN do that and i dont know if anyone is doing it right cuz im too scared to look. but like

u have to understand that if there' anything shadow milk feels remorseful, or regretful about, is that he doesn't. its too early i think to say for sure where his character is going, but i think it is safe to say he does not regret anything, does not feel bad about anything he's done or going to do, and probably has never felt bad about it at all.

what makes his character so compelling as a villain AND a personality, is how unabashedly shamelessly sadistic and despicable he is. he thrives in others suffering. there's a chance he spent all his divine self in solitude, aware of everything everywhere all the time. because to know is to constantly find yourself in isolation when people dont want to face the truth. and what he's doing is twisting it the way he wants, lying to the point of willing it into reality.

and how can you angst it? its his lonely realization of the truth he's hiding from, that will never make him able to connect with anyone. its knowing that your beliefs in something greater, something innocent, were false, and you will be destined to be the only one to Know. his perfect world is of lies and hatred, because he's so full of it himself, where suffering and bliss is one as are truths and lies. he's a deeply sad individual and not in a sympathetic, understandable way (unlike burning spice who shows active signs of remorse and suicide ideation as he's struggling with his failures). his conclusion makes him feel comfortable in inflicting and subjecting people to unspeakable psychological pain.

i cant tell you what to do if you want to feel sympathy for shadow milk, but i really think there are far more complex and interesting things you could do with his own failures. he thinks the only way to null his own hatred for the cruel reality is to make others suffer, to make it where he's constantly comfortable and entertained. he thinks if he tries hard enough and torments people enough, it will make, ultimately, a better world of chaos and, I THINK, a world where knowing the truth will equal to nothing.

thats where his entire conflict with pure vanilla is coming from. he THINKS he knows everything, and he THINKS that in seeing pure vanilla so naively believing in truth to be something that prevails, he can make a show of the ultimate proof that all of pure vanilla's beliefs are rubbish, by breaking him. by turning pure vanilla Into him. by isolating him and making him suffer the way shadow milk did, in everpresent and everaware solitude.

tldr he's lonely for the fact that he's an all knowing entity and thus is hateful towards the world and people so he inflicts it upon others in a manner of manipulation and constructing the narrative the way he wants it to be for personal entertainment and comfort. and he loves it. he uses pure vanilla to prove his point. you shouldnt feel bad for him and in fact you should be beating him with sticks every day every minute every second and his angst is nothing but selfish spiral he has no desire to get out of because he enjoys it and uses to justify his actions.

[anna-scribbles]

if the agrestes weren't rich i think that gabriel would be the normal one. like gabe's problem is that he stopped running into natural limits due to absurd wealth and his obsessive nature led him to develop some kind of god complex where he won't accept that anything is out of his control. I think that if gabe was broke again and just simply couldn't afford to go on an international goose chase for ancient magic artifacts of untold power, if he had to work a 9-5 to live and couldn't just disappear into his basement lair to commit domestic terrorism and say evil monologues to himself, then he would be way more normal. he'd just be some guy. he might even let himself have a mowhawk again. but I think that emilie would be way LESS normal if they weren't rich. like emilie needs so many people to be obsessed with her so much all the time in order for her to function. and gabe would still have his toxic codependent obsession with her, sure, but that wouldn't be nearly enough. emilie has to be at the center of the world's spotlight at all times because she doesn't know how to exist if she's not performing. anyway all this to say I am so certain that if the agrestes were not disgustingly wealthy, emilie agreste would one million percent be running a massive family vlogger youtube channel

[shouts-into-the-void]

So, having read the fast-pass episodes of Nevermore, I must confess that I may have been sold on Willtresor 🫣

[vaguely-concerned]

so when adaar tells harding that they got her mother out of danger in ferelden before the blight really hit, and that she's safe with 'some old friends' for the duration... good people of tumblr I was just hit with the incredibly funny concept that harding's ma is spending the entirety of the veilguard double blight hanging out with the valo-kas mercenary company. ma harding and shokrakar is the buddy comedy duo I didn't realize I needed until right in this moment. they butt heads to begin with but end up seeing eye to eye eventually. with the help of some crates, and creativity.

(...in fact since harding's parents have canonically amicably divorced since inquisition.......( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) hello my second nichest but also perhaps most valid dragon age pairing thus far. lace bringing taash home with her for the first time only to find her mother standing on a chair to also be passionately making out with a powerful and bluntly hilarious vashoth warrior is something that can actually be so personal.)

[herearedragons]

I love you detectives wrestling with cosmic horror I love you government agencies in a futile pursuit to contain the supernatural I love you academia and bureaucracy strugging to quantify and codify the otherworldly I love you systems and habits desperately trying to hold the line against the chaotic the unclassifiable and the unfathomable.

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[bacchuschucklefuck]

the never stop blowing up vhs is where cute twinks go to get harmed

[wutheringmights]

Do you have any thoughts on how "everything was fine" au time, spirit, and warriors would react if they somehow met their ctb canon selves?

Everything In the Past Was Happy AU, how I missed you! This is honestly such a good question. I love thinking about characters meeting alternate versions of themselves, especially when their fates are so wildly different.

For clarity's sake, classic CTB brothers are going to be referred to as Warriors, Spirit, and Time. Everything In the Past Was Happy AU will be referred to by the captain, engineer, and child.

I think the captain would be very disappointed to see how far he's capable of falling. While the captain never got as bad as Warriors did, he also never really learned his lesson. He definitely admires Warriors for all the ways he's trying to shape his life into something better, but it's marred by disappointment that he's turned out so pathetic.

Warriors would think the captain was his nightmare brought to life. He would hate the captain on sight and would call him out on so much of his bullshit. But still, everything worked out for him. He got to save the day without fucking up his relationships with Spirit and Time. Warriors would be unspeakably jealous.

The child (who despite the title would be a full blown adult in this scenario) and Time would have the least number of differences between them. Time would have had a rough childhood whether or not everything fell apart during the war. Looking at them straight on, you would think they are exactly the same. They would even think they are the same.

But there's subtle differences that they only realize in each other after a while. Time is very secretive and purposefully keeps himself isolated from others. The child is warmer and tends to lean on others far more. Time has a helplessness streak he can't quite get rid of. The child is more stable. They would be more confused by their slight differences than disturbed

The engineer... oh boy. So in the Everything In the Past Was Happy AU, the engineer and the captain stay on good and close terms throughout the war. But that resulted in the engineer being the captain's outsourced moral compass. The engineer knows the captain is kinda a piece of shit, but he accepts that in part because he knows the captain wouldn't do that shit to him.

So here's a version of himself who lost that bet. The engineer isn't as shocked by that as you would think. The captain betraying him is disturbing, but not unthinkable. Again, it was always a possibility. But what does shake him is how bitter and angry Spirit is, and how Spirit has become the worse version of himself. The engineer is very comfortable believing he has a strict moral code, so to see any version of himself stoop to Warriors's low... that's rough.

Meanwhile, Spirit would be pissed off. In his mind, the engineer is the worst version of him. What do you mean you're his best friend? What do you mean that you let him get away with doing any of that bullshit on anyone?

So they hate each other.

[tevos]

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[quicklyandrogynousfox-blog]

accepting the best presenter nta 2023

[fingertipsmp3]

The good news is my smart typewriter arrived, the bad news is its battery is deceased

[beastsovrevelation]

Hearing anyone else than Michael get called Commander of the Heavenly host makes me so viscerally angry I want to rip my own chest open.

Which means, as I've said before, my girl should behead Metatron, disembowel Aziraphale (for being an usurper), and knock out Gabriel's teeth (for being a previous usurper, not to mention disrespecting her).

Isn't Good Omens a fascinating show, huh?.. Somehow, it made a real life Satanist into Archangel Michael's greatest fan and most ardent defender.

[thecoolerliauditore]

WORST PART of liking traffic smp actually is my storytelling medium ass nerd oversharing to a friend that has no clue what im talking about how alot of traffic smps Vibes come from the fact that its a minecraft series and if the exact same storyline was in like a tv show or whatever it would be so much darker and Problematic even and then i have to go uh so anyway there was this frog that only like 3 people knew about and it was the major conflict for like 3 episodes

[anthromimicry]

oh, but imagining the potential for warmth and also perhaps some humor in the scenario that misao decides she wants to try to cook something for someone she loves while they're over is currently making my heart happy. like i'm not going to lie — misao has honestly not cooked a day in her life since she just simply never had the need to, being a jorōgumo and all, but she would want to at least try to show she cares for them by attempting to cook their favorite dish or something whenever they're over at her home. and this would still apply to her even if she ended up completely failing at it at first because one of misao's love languages is acts of service. thus, of course she would want to provide them with something as integral as food. but GAHHH, picturing it from misao's loved ones perspective is also equally as sweet to me, because them guiding her on what to do while reassuring her that it's okay? and them eventually just deciding to cook together because misao may or may not get overwhelmed by the fact that she has such little knowledge about what to do because she wants everything to be perfect is... idk. it can be either incredibly romantic, or make for a very wholesome platonic moment between her and another character, which i LOVE

[pankomako]

sometimes i draw a scene and then i look at it and im like "oh yeah i am DEFINITELY cut out for storyboarding"

[clownattack]

just saw some server screenies of one of the elitists mansplaining/completely talking out of their ass to me abt my own oc and like

lmao again for a person who keeps talking abt reading comprehension they sure dont get their shit right lmao.

[palismet]

hello i do still be working on my *checks notes* seventeen hunter fics in progress. no i have not finished any of them. yes i am mentally ill ✌️