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open discussion: do you think gale lets himself go fully grey or does he see one silver hair too many and immediately start looking for the fountain of youth
#ramble#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#disclaimer i Love grey hair i love smile lines i love characters being able to age#but also how much ambition can you ACTUALLY remove from the gale#i have my own thoughts on this for the cyraverse i do NOT think he's going quietly with the grim reaper#he strikes me as a 'goes grey in his 40s' person which is also half of my family#i've seen my future i can't wait
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i flew too high, please catch my fall
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#vashwood#tsunosagun art#i struggled with this so bad omg but i like the ideas behind it#took inspo from solar flares for vash and used andean condor wings for ww#the pose isnt exact but the hand on the back.. u already know what scene i was thinking of#edit: added link to the song i took partial inspo from cuz why the hell didnt i do that in the first place tbh#i will say the inspo was mostly the lyrics and that the music itself isnt the vibe i was going for#side note i can see vash as icarus as well (see: icarus by bastille)#(and the idea of an ambition that will kill you wrt to his promise to rem and how his decision to break it is like falling to earth etc)#which makes me go oughhHGHHH
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There is a theory that the way children play serves as a means to simulate and prepare them for the tasks they'll take on as adults. So for all the narrative weight both Jinx and the story give the boxing machine at the arcade it would never have prepared her or the kids to take on Piltover.
What are the two things that Piltovans excel at over their Zaunite counterparts to keep the hierarchy? Weapons and technological development.
When you look at the way Piltovans invest in their children, they don't prioritize hand to hand/melee combat training. Piltovans focus on giving their children experiences in handling firearms, a pursuit that is both leisure sport for the wealthy and a key offense against dissenting Zaunites.

And from the show notes even Jayce, whose family occupies the upper middle class, was sent on educational excursions across Runeterra to explore the world and learn what it had to offer. Without Jayce's education abroad he would never have been inspired to pursue the concept hextech.
It's no wonder that the two figures that are set to be Piltover's biggest threats from Zaun are Jinx and Viktor, becasue they engaged in the same kinds of games and activities as their Piltovan counterparts.

Jinx didn't have an entire forest preserved to help her practice her sharpshooting like the high houses of Piltover, but she did excel in the few games at The Rift (the arcade) that built on her talents. She's the only Zaunite thus far who's long distance offensive is a strong counter to Piltover's forces.
Viktor couldn't travel the world like Jayce did, but for better or worse he managed to stumble into an opportunity to get real opportunity in research not offered to his peers through Singed. It was through that experience that Viktor knew to turn to Singed when he was at the end of his rope, and the consequences of that will be fully realized in season 2.
Ironically, the kind of skill the boxing game champions is only good for keeping other Zaunites in line. Vander's days of fighting Piltover were way behind him when we first met him, and Vi spends season 1 primarily fighting other Zaunites. It's no surprise the Zaunites who embody the old ideal of strength in Zaun that the game portrays, Vi and Vander, are largely at the mercy of Piltover and end up collaborating with them to avoid further harm.
Zaun's future as an independent city-state couldn't happen if they stuck to their old ideals. The people who stand a chance against Piltover are the ones that not only succeed but excel at playing Piltover's games against them.
#arcane#arcane meta#jinx arcane#vi arcane#caitlyn kiramman#jayce talis#viktor arcane#i also imagine silco heavily invested in jinx's technical education once he took her in#vander ensured the kids were warm safe and loved but he wasn't planning on advancing them or zaun in anyway like silco was#i guess there's also a parenting metaphor in here about the way a parent can harm their children based from their own trauma and ambition#i also think it's interesting that the boxing game kept score for the players and immediately ranked them for all to see#but the shooting game didn't do that instead players had to manually track their own score against each other#who knows how many kids in zaun actually know math that well to keep up with the game and their competitors#the boxing game also has more space in the arcade and is more centrally positioned for other people to view and admire the plaayers#there's more incentive in zaun for kids to play the boxing game rather than shoot
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pinterest showed me some screenshots of posts that gave me the concept for an au where both harry and ron are sorted slytherin & draco is just slightly less rude in the first book. i could go into why i think this makes a lot of sense for ron but i won't. i've affectionately dubbed them the platinum quartet in my head and they will not leave me the fuck alone
#quill to paper#draco malfoy#harry potter#ron weasley#hermione granger#romione#drarry#slytherin harry#slytherin ron#golden trio#platinum quartet#actually i'll go into why it makes sense for ron here in the tags.#imho a major slytherin trait is ambition#and ron *has* ambition he's just never had it actively encouraged and fostered#book fucking one the mirror of erised shows him winning the quidditch cup & being head boy and all#he HAS ambition! and by god does he have something to *prove*#youngest weasley boy who desperately wants to do something different from his family#not get lumped in as 'just another weasley'#he's the anti-sirius in this context tbqh. old pureblood family of gryffindors and he's plastering his room at the burrow w green and silver#in my head draco is also in the train compartment when ron walks in and asks to sit there & harry speaks first so draco shuts up#a little tense but draco also relaxes a little bit. he's ELEVEN he just wants FRIENDS.#ron watches the boys he sat with on the train both get sorted slytherin and has just the biggest burning desire an 11 yr old can have#to get into slytherin instead of gryffindor. to do something different from his other siblings at the gryff table. to Prove Something#the hats like 'ohh. a weasley huh. but so much to prove... there's real ambition#and the potential for cunning... slytherin? alright#good luck! slytherin it is!'#and draco's smug little ass is like 'i suppose there's hope for the weasleys yet if they can turn out a slytherin#and ron is psyched out of his eleven year old gourd bc harry fucking potter is grinning and clapping for him#and also because percy n the twins look SHOCKED AS FUCK as do half the profs#snape is over at the table realizing w complete clarity that he's going to be put thru the ringer as slyth head of house these next 7 yrs
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fallen london stat prioritization is so funny because you're supposed to level all of your stats equally but also the way ambitions and stat specialization is structured means your character will inevitably end up with at least one or two stats that are their Good Ones and also watchful. level your watchful. level your watchful right now. post cancelled this is now a psa. railway content does not become accessible unless you have 200 watchful and this is a hard requirement You Need To Level Watchful
#yin-thoughts#fallen london#new players this isnt about you. pretend this doesnt exist. do not worry about it.#mid and endgame people however: This Is A PSA. From Me To You. Okay? Okay#i heavily advise against playing railway content period until ur done with ur ambition#(particularly in the case of certain HD + BaL endings)#but it is hugeeee. railway is so fucking huge man#you're gonna want it at some point. so. watchful!
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Oh... where do I even start (collapses)
From the february issue of animage!
#i know that natsume is still a teenager but gawddd. something about the crouched pose + comfortable clothes + nyanko by his side makes him#look so Young. he's such a mature character for his age that i still get shocked from time to time seeing him drawn as just that 😭💗#and SEIJI RAHHHHHHHHH MY SHAYLA!!!!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹#that's the face of a man who knows that he can reach any of his lofty ambitions oooooh my gawd 😭#another obsessed-looking matoba (or more like motivated?) to add to our museum folks 🫡#natsume takashi#nyanko sensei#matoba seiji#natsume yuujinchou s7#natsuyuu s7#natsume yuujinchou#natsuyuu#natsume's book of friends#nbof#natsuyuu anime
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AYRTON SENNA / ALAIN PROST / THE MEDIA x mark antony's "friends, romans, countrymen" monologue from julius caesar by william shakespeare, act III, scene ii
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#consider this an early christmas present for those who celebrate and an average day on this blog for those that don't#also there's 100+ of you now? when did that happen. ily all. thanks for sticking around#there's something in the works for that milestone but it's a significantly bigger undertaking than this#anyway. prosenna and caesar/antony#so actually the presentation of that kingly crown WAS ambition and antony knew what he was doing when he put it before caesar.#brutus is both prost and the media.#if you haven't read this play this is your sign. from someone who spent too many years of her life studying stuff like this#should i start a taglist? idk you guys tell me#ayrton senna#as12#alain prost#ap11#prosenna#f1#formula 1#formula one#classic f1#f1 web weaving
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i would like to imagine that after machete dies, vasco starts collecting red things. red, like the soles of machetes shoes and the hems of his cassocks, the front of his nightgowns after a heavy nosebleed. or maybe he collects pink things, like machete's nose and ears and paw pads, or things white like his fur. he never collects anything black, however. red like the hems but never black like the fabric. black is too sad. it's grief, it's unfathomable loss and it means admitting machete is actually gone, stolen from the world. but ludovica is there, and she indulges his collections in little ways on the occasion. it's a small comfort, her love for her husband in their lavender way.
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#whh#why must you wound me like this anon#coming to my inbox and saying this to my face like it's nothing#/j#no I do love this headcanon#especially since red and pink are practically absent from Vasco's intended color scheme#red is Machete's theme color and his personal favorite in-universe#but it's also sort of a symbol of his ambition and obsession with his career which eventually got him trapped and led to his demise#so even though I believe Vasco finds him dashing in red he would also feel attached to pale pinks and whites#because if you strip Machete of his red and black work persona that's what's left#and I'd imagine moments like those are what he cherishes the most#answered#anonymous#Vaschete scenarios#Ludovica ;o;#I love her I need to draw her again >:T
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crystal
#pokemon#suicune#johto#shiny suicune#sprite in the first image is suicunes 1999 pre-release gs sprite. you should see raikou's#hmm. i should probably make a sketches tag for this blog too. ah well#faller!kris#again i'll get into the johto of the kodyverse once ive fulfilled my unova ambitions or whatever but this is the suicune of kris's original#timeline. that's died. somehow. i dunno. i'm thinking rocket got to it and kris went and stole its pelt back from them#and that pelt is one of the only things she held onto when falling to the main timeline#suspiciously familiar walking wake appears#pokemon gsc#sketches
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Impulse: talking about how cool it was to reach 1 mil subs Someone in chat: Skizz is gonna overtake you soon
Impulse, no hesitation, with his entire impussy:
G O O D.
I can't wait. I can't wait! Honestly I would LOVE- I would ABSOLUTELY love to see Skizz pass me in everything. Subs, views, everything. Dude deserves it. I've been dreaming about that since I started. Him coming along and making his way up and overtaking me and me riding- I'll ride his coattails for a while, you know!
#impulsesv#skizzleman#imp and skizz#they are so besties#don't look at me#impulse loves skizz so much it's not even funny#a man with an endless thirst to be the best at what he does and yet he dreams of his best friend succeeding more than him#a guy with unstoppable ambition and all he wants is that his bestie reaches beyond anyone else#they are so platonic ideal i don't even know what to say#imp and skizz everyone#this was from the 19/2/2024 stream btw#just for those who are interested#dose of impulse#dose of skizz
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spent ages preparing to audition for a role I really really wanted and it's looking like (still unconfirmed) they might not even be holding auditions at all but have just given it to someone directly
which, meh, that sucks but that's the industry!
I'm just like now what? I spent a lot of my free time the last few months prepping and I genuinely don't know what to do with myself now!
#guess I'll... have a bath?#call my mum?#keep prepping anyway on the off chance the rumours are false?#I already asked my agent to investigate but she can't find out either!#that's hollywood baybeeee#sorry mario your blorbo is in another show#I should get myself a treat as a reward for all my hard work even though it didn't work out#I have 3 criteria for this sort of thing and if I tick them all off I can walk away happy#Did I approach it from curiosity not ambition?#Did I make it known in the industry that I wanted the role?#Did I prepare for the role?#I did all three of those things so audition or no audition I can hold my head up high#might get myself one of those nice cookie dough brownies from the coffee stand this week as a consolation prize
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The big marshmellow seat in Kacchan's car is prob bc he wanted to show off that he got an expensive upgrade lol added bonus if he specifically chose to let Izuku be in the most comfortable and fun seat lol
I also like the headcanon of him protecting izuku it’s very cute 😭 and deku sinking further into it the more katsuki talks, like he’s enveloping and securing him… hashtag symbolism hashtag thinking 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

#the emphasis of kiri asking ‘why is the backseat like that’ being a humorous jab#but also overlayed with katsuki being the one to give deku special treatment#(complaining about giving him a ride despite being the one to suggest it… letting him sit in the comfy seat)#(offering his agency and telling him that he’ll only recruit people who have the same ambition as deku)#(agreeing to visit deku’s class again and making sure he has a different way back home after eating)#deku’s oblivious and it’s so cute#because HIS default has always been giving katsuki special treatment so there’s a bit of miscommunication happening#it’s literally like when deku doesn’t know he’s in love with katsuki because he’s ALWAYS been in love with him you know???#AND I STRAYED FROM THE TOPIC KINDA BUT I WANTED TO RAMBLE#I took psychic damage looking at this chapter again but we persevere !!!!!#I love them#bkdk#dkbk#bakudeku#dekubaku#:’)#ktdk
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Wait is the middle picture from those three sketches that one scene from the wigmaker job?
yes! it's this specific passage where lucanis is just seething with rage and trying to keep a lid on it, and illario's a stablising, comforting presence. BROTHERS!!!!! <3 though i chose to draw his hand on his shoulder rather than his arm i guess. artistic liberty!
#in the future i want to discuss lucanis' anger in the short story + how spite would have made it worse#and how in my beautiful mind illario would have been the one to help him#no blood magic needed!!!!#like its a point of serious issues between the both of them and the relationship is like obviously fraught#and illario still gives his ambition pause because lucanis is losing himself to a demon and he drags him away from it#illario being a positive force despite his goals/lack of morality/etc is so interesting to me like. it doesnt matter what he's done#or the what's he's trying to do and all the usurping. lucanis is soothed just when his family is near#same applies to caterina to a . lesser extent. if they deserve this reaction from him is another thing#i also think. and important to note. that lucanis' internal narration never worries about illario's ability to finish the job#he sometimes giggles in his mind about illario not having the best balance or footing#but does not worry about the assassination being botched . and i also thought#the line 'i'm only here because of you' implies lucanis wants him to come on the job#considering he was the only one hired (the elf that greets them not recognising why he had someone with him)#so. i dont know why im saying all this actually. maybe just more on lucanis' dependancy on and care for illario + vice versa#lucanis dellamorte#illario dellamorte#answered#anonymous
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i am thinking about. From the Earth, Nectar
#if u haven't read the fic#.... experiencing yaku thru dante's pov is so funny.....#who is this meek creature. who has never had ambition in his life. he makes zero sense. he WANTS to be weak#duality of serpent catching dante by surprise GIVES ME LIFE#flashback to that one fic where eiden looks at bottom yaku like he's deflowering a chaste maiden and i fsdkjlsekeh#dante and eiden sharing confused expressions at the sight bc that is NOT what we're doing over here...?#JUST STARING UP AT INTIMIDATING SUNLORD WITH HIS 🥺 WET ORBALS#what the HECK do i tag u two as#danyaku?#yakudan?#dankumo?#yakudan almost sounds like a rice bowl#nu carnival dante#nu carnival yakumo#from the earth nectar
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Song of the Day: Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
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A fine song and even finer piece of poetry (it began life as a poem, published in 1966 as part of a collection titled Parasites of Heaven), Leonard Cohen's signature Suzanne remains one of the most well-regarded and widely-appreciated popular compositions never to crack the Top 40. Part autobiography, part religious allegory, it seems to mean something profound to almost everyone, even though its real meaning is, I've discovered, a matter of fierce debate. In completing my customary research for this entry, I encountered all sorts of interpretations, various writers peeling away layer upon layer of supposed substance, and honestly, I've never in my life had to wade through such a morass of pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook, while emerging none the wiser.
Maybe the self-anointed intelligentsia are making it more difficult than it needs to be. There’s certainly not a lot of allegorical sub-text to the first and final verses, which actually form a straightforward account of his relationship as a young man with one Suzanne Vaillancourt, née Verdal, a bohemian performance artist and blithe free spirit with whom Cohen became close in his years circulating among the various artistes of the Montreal cultural scene. She was, by all accounts, almost irresistibly alluring, and according to Cohen every man she met fell in love with her. Alas, she was married to a fellow artist, a man so attractive in his own right that apparently, every woman who met him fell in love too, and in his best moments, listening to his better angels, Cohen wasn’t about to do anything to insert himself between the two, even if she’d been amenable, which she wasn’t; he once told an interviewer that as a couple, they were inviolate, you just didn’t intrude into the kind of shared glory that they manifested. Not that he didn’t think about it, of course, c'mon, a guy couldn't help but at least toy with the idea, just in the abstract, but he satisfied himself with an entirely platonic, albeit exquisitely intimate, relationship that never developed into anything untoward. This is from an interview conducted by Kate Saunders of the BBC:
Saunders: The song is about the meeting of spirits. It’s a very intimate lyric, very, very intimate.
Suzanne: This is it.
Saunders: It seems very sad that the spirits moved apart.
Suzanne: Yes, I agree and I believe it’s material forces at hand that do this to many the greatest of lovers (laughs).
Saunders: So would you say in a way, in the spiritual sense, you were great lovers at some level?
Suzanne: Oh yes, yes, I don’t hesitate to speak of this, absolutely. As I say, you can glance at a person and that moment is eternal and it’s the deepest of touches and that’s what we’d shared, Leonard and I, I believe.
It was beautiful as it was, and it was enough. Well, mainly it was enough. As Suzanne remembered later, once when he was visiting Montreal, I saw him briefly in a hotel and it was a very, very wonderful, happy moment because he was on his way to becoming the great success he is. And the moment arose that we could have a moment together intimately, and I declined. Over the years, there don’t seem to have been a lot of women who said no to Cohen. But Suzanne didn't want to spoil their special bond.
So this is entirely based in reality, an honest account of a precious moment set to poetry in which no poetic licence is taken:
Suzanne takes you down to a place by the river You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever And you know that she's half crazy, and that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China And just when you want to tell her that you have no love to give her She gets you on her wavelength, and lets the river answer That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you think you'll maybe trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind
Suzanne really did have a place down by the St. Lawrence River, where the two used to meet and watch the ships go by. She really did serve him mandarin oranges and exotic, orange-flavoured tea from somewhere in the far east. The poem is practically a photograph.
Saunders: When you heard the song as opposed to hearing the poem, did you instantly think, that’s me?
Suzanne: Oh yes, definitely. That was me. That is me still, yes...
Saunders: Could you describe one of the typical evenings that you spent with Leonard Cohen at the time the song was written?
Suzanne: Oh yes. I would always light a candle and serve tea and it would be quiet for several minutes, then we would speak. And I would speak about life and poetry and we’d share ideas.
Saunders: So it really was the tea and oranges that are in the song?
Suzanne: Very definitely, very definitely, and the candle, who I named Anastasia, the flame of the candle was Anastasia to me. Don’t ask me why. It just was a spiritual moment that I had with the lighting of the candle. And I may or may not have spoken to Leonard about, you know I did pray to Christ, to Jesus Christ and to St. Joan at the time, and still do.
Saunders: And that was something you shared, both of you?
Suzanne: Yes, and I guess he retained that.
Thus the subsequent lines about Jesus, so moving and in a sense enigmatic, written, as they were, by a Jewish artist, would appear to have everything to do with the deep spirituality of his relationship with Suzanne, Cohen seeming to equate reverence for the divine with his intense artistic and aesthetic appreciation of his saintly Lady of the Harbour. Black-hearted stone-atheist I may be, but I've always been especially touched by this mournful depiction of a Saviour coming to realize, as he suffers on the cross, that his charges can't be saved, not, anyway, until it's too late to make a difference:
And Jesus was a sailor when He walked upon the water And He spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower And when He knew for certain only drowning men could see Him He said all men shall be sailors then until the sea shall free them But He himself was broken long before the sky would open Forsaken almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
Only drowning men could see him; it's almost a corollary of the old saying that there aren't any atheists in foxholes, contending that there aren't any believers outside of them, either. In Cohen's telling, people only turn to God when they're in extremis. Otherwise, impliedly, they live meaningless, empty lives devoid of understanding, never attaining the olympian perspective afforded by the high plateau upon which he used to commune with lovely, beloved Suzanne, the deep, captivating woman in the Salvation Army hand-me-downs who saw beauty in the mundane, knew how to find the treasures amid the uncollected refuse, and held the mirror through which Cohen saw himself through her eyes.
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Suzanne Verdal
Source: Song of the Day: Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
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