#inch resting stuff

[gifti3]

okay i need to stop fucking around seriously

[pinkfey]

it doesn't feel like there's really a wrong answer to emmrich's quest because either way he has to let go and i think sacrifice is always neat

[fatedroses]

I offer the frankly hilarious scenario of zenos and estinien having to work together (probably because of tataru) and a little bit of headcanon-ing I have in regards to the one main issue they run in to when theyre a duo.

[royaltea000]

I like the human actors a lot too! (I say as if the actors weren’t initially human)

[themanwhomadeamonster]

Nils Parker - The Angel in the Marble // Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus // Warframe: Whispers in the Walls & 1999 // Ati Metwaly - The monster that created Michelangelo's sins // Warframe - Albrecht's Notes // monsteringmag - frankenstein's monster and michelangelo's angel

[blasphemousclaw]

coincidence

OK SORRY you sent this when the first DLC trailer dropped and I never got around to answering it. I guess now that the DLC is out we actually have some more context to discuss… yay?

So obviously the columns in the Volcano Manor throne room look pretty similar in shape to Belurat’s columns — they’re both spiraled Solomonic columns. When I first saw Belurat’s columns in the trailer I IMMEDIATELY thought of Volcano Manor. Upon closer inspection though, they look pretty drastically different stylistically:

The Manor’s columns are very loose and naturalistic with very fancy, baroque ornamentation, whereas Belurat’s columns have a very rigid, geometric structure and a tighter coil. The design philosophy feels so different to me that it’s really making me doubt that they’re meant to be related? but let’s go through the design’s symbolism and see if Belurat has anything in common with Rykard that might link the design philosophies together:

According to the Spira sorcery of the tower priests, “The spiral is a normalized Crucible current that, one day, will form a column that stretches to the gods.”

Belurat is full of spiral designs… in columns, curtains, art… even the Tower itself is a spiral:

“Sacred seal of soiled amber engraved with a spiral tree design. The majesty of the white tower, stretching to reach the gods, even inspired a secret faith in the invaders, the people of the Erdtree.” (Spiraltree seal)

The Spiral is the central visual motif of the Hornsent’s faith… it represents the energy of the Crucible, which the Hornsent sought to harness with their Tower spiraling into the sky to touch the divine. I bet this spiral current of the Crucible is why the Hornsent revere horn growth: “Horns are sublime artifacts to hornsent, and their presence confirms the belief that they are a chosen people.” (Immunizing Horn Charm +2) …horns grow in spiral formations, and appear on beings that don’t normally have horns due to the influence of the Crucible.

(Golden Horn Tender)

So… does the spiraled Crucible current have anything to do with Rykard, or if he didn’t build the throne room, whoever did? Well, Rykard does have a Crucible knight in his service, which might indicate that Rykard has some kind of allegiance to Crucible concepts… the spiraled columns are really serpentine looking, and I think serpents could also be related to the Crucible because like horns, scales are also evidence of the Crucible’s primal influence:

“A talisman fashioned from a scale that embodies the aspects of various creatures. Said to have grown on the human body long ago. A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.”

so maybe serpent worship is just another way of revering the Crucible, different from how the Hornsent worship the Crucible? (they don’t revere snakes in any way… we don’t see any snakes in Belurat)

Ok but honestly, I don’t really believe that the Volcano Manor columns are so important that they’re meant to represent the Crucible current in the same way that the Hornsent’s entire city is meant to… you only ever see these columns in this room. I think that they’re just supposed to be decorative because Rykard was a fancy guy, and because the spiral motif evokes the Manor’s whole theme of serpent worship.

TL;DR the columns in Belurat explicitly represent the spiraled Crucible current, and the ones in Volcano Manor’s throne room are probably just decorative and totally unrelated

[doodle-girl]

Just dropping this bit from the AMA here 👀

[gh0str3c0rd3d]

i wonder who those two saves are….

[double-features]

my taste in guys (imagine my boyfriend is here also i didnt feel like searching for a photo of you, sorry taylor!)

[cult-of-the-eye]

world building ‼️‼️ bro knows how to hail a taxi cause he's literally inside a human's brain ‼️‼️makes sense 👍👍

[gayferrari]

wag charles x girl oscar driver au hello??? can we hear more pls pls pls. hope the writing inspiration strikes you bc i would devour this fic

this means a lot, thank you!!! It's an AU that lives in my head where girl!Oscar is Alpine's reserve driver, and Charles is Pierre's girlfriend, and they often get shoved together for promo — filmed together in the garage, invited to the F1 Academy doc premiere, that kind of thing. Charles is still an ex-karter, but she had to stop when Arthur got more serious, and she never talks about her karting days if she can help it even if that's how she and Pierre met. Oscar wants Jack's seat really fucking bad and she never thinks about Charles if she can help it. They both get icky around Flavio. I just need a HOOK to smash them together like dolls.

This is first and foremost a fic about a girl driver banging the girlfriend of another driver, but I might end up doing some #wag commentary because I genuinely think it's very interesting.

[texanmarcusdavenport]

Can't stand the racist ahh caricature of Dr. Gao but I do appreciate the fact that canonically Krane can't stand to be a villain alone, the second his old partner (who he hated anyway) deserts and betrays him he's like. Well. Time for a new mad scientist!

[aeolianblues]

was kinda thinking about this when I saw Renee Rapp live recently-- I didn't know her visual vibe, I'd heard a few songs here and there but I hadn't really *seen* her, and her attire at Osheaga was really casual, a jersey (baseball/basketball?) and slacks. And that was so amazing! I couldn't help thinking, the work Billie Eilish has done for how women in pop music are allowed to dress is incredible. Seeing her up there all comfortable you just know that Billie walked in her oversized tops so that Renee in her slacks could run; Billie walked through all the critcisms about how she dressed slobbily and having to assert that she didn't owe anyone a display of skin, so that Renee could be comfortable and unquestioned running up and down the catwalk in front of 10,000 people. How iconic.

And I don't think we even realised at the time how much something as simple as letting Billie dress the way she as a (then-) 17-year-old teenager dressed, could end up meaning for a future generation of women in music.

Obviously there is still way to go, there were weirdos complaining about how 'plain' Dua Lipa's Glastonbury outfit was this year (in 2024!!), l have to ask, are you at Paris Fashion Week?? She is the musical HEADLINER of an entire day of music at one of the biggest music festivals in the world, and you can't grant her the space to exist as an artist, you have to moan about her dress not being excitingly revealing enough. There's work to do, it's still dismal out there. But the space Billie Eilish has created for a most ordinarily-dressed woman popstar is still heartening.

[sparkledog-dot-png]

ACTfur on Air - The Crew by jesonite (2010)

[radioregine]

thinking about how a few years ago, i was recommended for this conservative political office job around here that would've paid life-changing salary to me but i was & still am too principled to accept something like that. wasn't just 'oh my boss is a repub but the job has nothing to do w his beliefs' i wouldve been voluntarily contributing to local campaign material and that flies in the face of everything i strive towards ...

[bibastibootz]

Schätzchen.