#however much it'd be

[yuseirra]

Delight lies beneath Colors of life that's excellent Though pictures fade away Beauty will remain the same

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

[monstertidbits]

YYYYYYYEAHHHHHHHHH

[2manyfandoms2count]

I saw a post on insta that pointed out that by moving up the Eras tour movie release by a few hours, it would make it end around midnight on the 15th, a Friday, and the ides of March, and Reputation does have betrayal themes...

Anyway, I've already clowned myself so much with this album's release, what's one more? (the 15th is also red nose day anyway, so.)

(btw I think my perfect transition would be "I forgot that you existed" being the last surprise song played in the movie, but when she gets to the "got out some popcorn as soon as my rep started going down" bit, it starts glitching and some kind of announcement is made 👀 )

[karinyosa]

okay the website of my local church w the pride flags out front actually really slaps they have like 5000000 choirs and a page on their specific beliefs that is pretty slay actually, unfortunately for the part of my brain that thinks choosing to do this is insane for me

[kifu]

I highly doubt it, but this chick may be a large fowl lavender. I ... don't remember what hatched this group.

[mirror-ralsei]

THOUGHTS: Threat Level and TwistedSwd

This is just a quick connecting of a couple of dots: the “threat level” demarcated by backing out of deleting a file at the last minute, and the ThornRing only being acquired by aborting a Weird Route at the last minute. (Shoutout to HalfBreadChaos for pointing out both.)

Notably, keeping the ThornRing - that is, a last-second abortion of Chapter 2’s Weird Route - is required in order to craft the TwistedSwd. We know little about the TwistedSwd beyond that it’s “a strange blade” for Kris that lowers Trance (contrasted with the ThornRing itself, which increases Trance).

“Twisted” kind of reminds me of Chara’s line to us about “a perverted sentimentality,” especially in context. Chara is specifically talking to a player who completed a No Mercy run twice, something most players would not do.

This, to me, is a bit similar to the conditions required to keep the ThornRing, and therefore obtain the TwistedSwd: a very obscure and deliberate path, probably followed for the purpose of obtaining a specific result. In the double No Mercy player’s case, it’s probably to see what kind of dialogue might change. In the TwistedSwd player’s, it’s obviously to obtain the TwistedSwd.

There’s also one more use of “twisted.”

Flowey describes you as “more twisted than [him]” if you subscribe to the newsletter “just to see what would happen if you unsubscribed. This does seem to line up with the way “perverted” is used to describe us by Chara.

Even if that’s not the case, and there’s no parallel between these ideas, I think “threat” and “trance” will probably be some kind of Chekov’s Guns for plot purposes later, as will the TwistedSwd. And I definitely wonder, like others, if we might have to do some, well, twisted things to get a “good” or “true” outcome.

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[efoyisk]

𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙿 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙾 𝙵𝙰𝙻𝙻: 𝙷𝙰𝙻𝙻𝙾𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙽 𝙶𝙰𝙻𝙰 [𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟹].

tagged by: @executiioner THANK YOU I DID NOT FORGET ABOUT IT

tagging: @mobiues and i dont even know who hasnt done it pls do it all of you

[todayisafridaynight]

reminiscing on the period where i didnt know sawashiro was modeled after ttm and the second i learned and embraced that it 1000% altered the way i drew him These Are Not The Same Bitch

[mercuriart]

poor little meow meow (is talking about the antichrist)

[nerosdayinanime]

jjk & kny self inserts - icarus is all the way back from feb last year (i made him & aether but then giyuu consumed my soul and i havent touched them Since...) and i just made kuro today

[dandyshucks]

if Wardell somehow broke containment from this little blog, my biggest fear is that the marauders girlies would be like "OMG IS THAT REMUS??? IS THAT REMUS MARAUDERS??? OMG MARAUDERS FANART??? THIS LOOKS LIKE REMUS!!!" bro keep your nasty HP shit away from me and my creations :[ keep that distasteful offensive AIDS/HIV allegory character away from me jfc

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I listen to a song called Grapes by I dunno who but applying it to my AU stuff is really fun. The previous Chica is having a TIME with it and recently?

Been thinking about Jurassic Bark going through some hiccups over Roxy not telling them why she's so upset (it's because of Mimic stuff btw she's struggling) and to give everyone some space she just... Swaps places with her friend that happens to be her only predecessor. Completely forgetting that they'd think she'd done something to get herself scrapped and replaced by a new Roxy. She thought they'd talk for a sec first but nah Chica and Monty just fucking crumbled the moment she introduced herself with a different name and saw the different model number on the scan. Neither of them clocked that the model number was lower than before but still

Then the other side? Roxy completely removing herself from the limelight to try and recuperate after everything... She just so happens to be with not only two of the canines from the old Raceway and Jack, but also a few Chica and Monty variants. Like at least one of each. Maybe even Tiger, who everyone else believes is the Storyteller who did some shit and a half to them. Roxy not even thinking about it, alternating between the carnival, the salon and wherever else, trying to take a god damn break...

And they don't act the way her partners would. They do sometimes but they don't support her the same way. They think she's just naturally very cuddly or clingy or something until they figure out she's unknowingly latched onto them cause of those she loves. Boy is that a fun conversation...

I can't really do anything with this, mostly because I have no idea what could possibly push Chica and Monty to want a break of some kind with Roxy. But also because I haven't really made any previous Montys yet lmao. Could do Pupcakes/Roxica with it but I love the trio a lot so...

[arolesbianism]

Finally starting to get some proper fairy worldbuilding brainstormed for the random card au, huge win for 3 specific characters and them only

[astrumocs]

“We’ve begun to reevaluate old information regarding the fall and disappearance of The Exchange.”

You sit still and remain silent, gaze looking off to the side. The title makes you feel a lot of things, but you let them stay buried deep within you.

“As you’re one of the previous members of his crew, you’ll need to answer some questions for us. Most of them will pertain to this particular subject matter, but it is in your best interest to answer any and all other questions we have for you.”

You offer the same behavior as before, apart for a small hum of affirmation. You squeeze one hand with the other as it rests in your lap.

“Now before we begin, I’ll need you to state your name and previously held rank.”

There’s a long pause before you reluctantly look up and answer, “Seifer Sanaca... former Blue Angel Lietenant.”

--Seifer Sanaca is Available for Asks--

[taciturnraccoon]

an interaction i'll draw (at some point) is during the quints arc when the muppies finally meet the maltos and being HORRIFIED that these fellow terrans already have integrated weaponry

thrash: i was born like this bro 😎

muppies: you were BORN with WEAPONS? thats REVOLTING.

and maybe one or two of the muppies thinking that its just the thing an autobot would do. speed demon would probably be bold enough to say as much and then end up offending the maltos.