#interesting lamp

[creatrixanimi]

I’ve been thinking about an angsty AU where chandelure gets injured when Ingo goes missing (was taken)

[forgettable-au]

Someone in the tags of the last post correctly guessed that Wingdings' lamp was made with these Waterfall glowing crystals soooo I took it as a chance to mention it! Hehe

Moving the lamp around a little will get it to shine brightly again when it's light is starting to fade

[solchle]

WOWOW

[completeoveranalysis]

[5]

Caught up in the moment I forgot to comment on Fai’s open affection in holding Lava Lamp’s face before, so here it is again. HEALING. 

I'm obsessed actually that the response from both of them was PHYSICAL. Lava Lamp expected them to physically attack him, and he would have accepted that, and they DO respond physically but turn it around into an affectionate gesture instead.

Something about the fact that Lava Lamp, with his guilt and self blame, opens himself up to destruction, but Fai and Kurogane (the people he thinks deserves to kill him the most) use the language he's expecting to show him the opposite of his expectations. They don't hate him, they love him. They don't blame him, they're on his side.

Obsessed with this inversion.

Meanwhile Fai manages to reassure Lava Lamp, tease Kurogane, AND explain their thought processes all at once. 

Because ONE of them needs to be able to communicate clearly with words, and it's certainly not the other two!

OOH YES HERE WE GO. 

Fai summarised it much faster than I could ever.

Please add me to the list of people that Fai needs to save through his short and clear explanations.

Fai includes Lava Lamp’s guilt as something too much for him to be fairly assigning to himself. To assume that HE ALONE is responsible for every single bad thing that has ever happened IS far beyond the limits of logic, and to let yourself feel guilty for Everything Ever is an unfair price to put on himself as well. Fai’s kind smile goes miles towards showing that they personally know all the tragedy that has happened since the events Lava Lamp began, but if THEY don’t blame Lava Lamp, then he shouldn’t either.

AND THEN WE GET TO KUROGANE EVERYONE SIT DOWN

Kurogane admits that he would probably make the same choice. 

BECAUSE HE DID. 

Or at least he did a very nice parallel to it, if not quite on the same scale. 

In Acid Tokyo, Kurogane was faced with the choice of following Fai’s wishes and letting him die or breaking the rules to save his life. I'm not sure if this is officially labelled a taboo by the text, but removing someone's say in the matter and turning them into a vampire against their will certainly feels like a taboo at the very least.

Either way, Kurogane chose to break the rules to save Fai. (And his wording here specifies that he had already decided to "protect" Fai BEFORE that moment as well, which I love endlessly yes please. Even before the Acid Tokyo climax Kurogane had already included Fai in the circle of people he loves)

Kurogane paid the negative consequences of his actions too. But he still did it, doesn’t regret it, and would do it again. So his choices are analogous to Lava Lamp’s. 

Fai is the same. When Evil Wolverine offered him a deal that went against the laws of the universe (bringing someone back to life is certainly a taboo), Fai took the deal. He went along with Evil Wolverine’s evil plan in order to save his loved one - it just didn’t pan out all the way. 

So, all three of these characters WOULD and HAVE made the same call on this exact topic. Break a taboo, save your loved one. 

So if ANYONE was going to relate to Lava Lamp, it’s these two. 

And it helps that they also love him. 

[leona-florianova]

made a list, help me make it bigger.

Anyone remembers any movies where stereotypical accountants or bank tellers wear these visors? Extra points if those movies are westerns. Because thats why I started this list. I had it in my head that clerks with this kind of a visor are EXTREMELY REOCURRING CHARACTERS in western or gangster movies... but when I wanted to remember the movies I just couldnt. (so I went looking and ended up adding even those where the characters arent background clerks per se..viz The Mask n Hunter S. Thompson)

[velvetjune]

“She'd always dreamed of seeing New York. They were there now. In a fancy hotel. She drew a bath. She would become like Barbara. No. Better. She sank into dark water. Into Tom.” — Cynthia and Tom, Return

[nonspeakingkiku]

Cover for LAMP binder ☺️😋

Took a bit but we got it done. It's a bit, chaotic because all three of us hosts worked on it but we all like it and that's what matters. Can't do an ID right now unfortunately because brain soup but as always if anyone IDs it before we can it will be added to original post.

Crap 🤦🏻 forgot to add image. Ugh.

There. Added. Oop

Like said. Brain soup.

[a-dip-in-the-source]

Something something Bracken's horns always falling into Kendra's hands. Holding a piece of you you thought you lost forever, letting her have it, because now she's a part of you to.

Maybe a story about destiny. Here's a piece of me you found before you even knew me. We helped each other before we met each other. Thank you thank you thank you for returning the favor, I want to help you further.

Maybe its a story about healing. Bracken the hornless unicorn, trapped inside himself. Kendra brings him out of prison, opens him up, helps him retrieve his second horn. Does it again, helps him reclaim his third.

Maybe its a story of realization. She represent all he was, and showed him he didn't need it anymore. Let me cut you some pieces of me, so that my connection to you can last forever.

The horns are so much to me.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Sherlock Holmes took the glasses into his hand and examined them with the utmost attention and interest. He held them on his nose, endeavoured to read through them, went to the window and stared up the street with them, looked at them most minutely in the full light of the lamp, and finally, with a chuckle, seated himself at the table and wrote a few lines upon a sheet of paper, which he tossed across to Stanley Hopkins.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[dalish-delight]

The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone forever, fair and bright

I know we're probably never getting the restoration of moria in-game, it would just be too similar to the iron garrison story. but the glimpses we get of khazad-dum in its full glory are SO -

[layzeal]

highschool wangxian are boycrush4boycrush and i think that's hilarious

they are the two most good-looking guys in class who are also rival geniuses, so if you're a classmate and you like boys then you 100% either have a crush on the bright, athletic and easygoing wei ying, or the quiet, alluring, handsome and slightly intimidating lan zhan. if not on both!

then they start dating each other 🧍‍♂️

[unopenablebox]

who has any ideas for something really interesting and funny i could do on here that would get lots of people to interact with me online

[reverieaudios]

Hey look it's my last-minute rushed Halloween costume from yesterday. Some sort of demon thing that my friend described as "very gender" so I guess it's the gender demon

Reality sets in that I've got these things on my hands all night

Close up of the hands, and the beginning of the hour long removal process

[completeoveranalysis]

[3]

OOPS yeah ok so the specific use he has in mind for Lava Lamp is Puppeting his empty corpse :D 

If his Syaoran Clone dies he can just put the Clone’s mind in the dead body and keep going :D 

How pleasant!

It’s interesting to me that the translation uses the word “Soul” for Clone Syaoran here, since that is VERY SPECIFICALLY the thing we were hoping he would grow that would replace Evil Wovlerine’s programming. I’m just going to read it as “mind” until I learn otherwise. “Heart” might work as well, but I will leave that to the people who know a lot more than me. 

Also Oh Kurogane and Fai murder faces oh. 10/10 big fan I support this. Tattoo those on me. I am weak.

Absolutely terrible 0/10 horrible plan terrible imagery I do not support this

Dreadful horrible awful I do not wish to see it

[girlysword]

I ranted in the tags of another post but I'm going to say it again here. The reason I was on the Tobert is sus train not only because I ship Theo and Mabel but because that would have made Tobert plot relevant. What would have changed this season if his character was cut? Absolutely nothing. So even though I want more Theo in season 4 (not only for shipping reasons but also to have a brothers storyline with Will) I also want Tobert to come back and do something to justify his existence.

[chatonmagique]

I may have indulged myself a little