#isabelle answers

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[some-zer0]

In "Desperate Measures," when Lovelace drops Wolf 359's single f-bomb, she interrupts Kepler, and when I first listened to the series I interpreted that as her acting out of spite. I mean, he's playing eenie-meenie-miney-moe with her and Eiffel's lives, I feel like she definitely deserves to say fuck you to that. But her interruption is right before Kepler's about to say his final "moe," and it's rushed. And all I can think of now is Lovelace seeing Kepler about to land on Eiffel and thinking, "No, I've seen enough of my crew members die," and choosing to take the bullet for him. Poking the bear on purpose, because she couldn't save her other team, but if she just stalls for long enough then this team might make it.

[sneeblbop]

me in public toilet after group of teens was in there

REALLL that reminds me- a few days ago i was in the bathroom stall, and a group of girls were hanging out, and one of them JUMPED over the stall to peek at her friend as a joke and i got rlly scared so i stopped pissing so fast amd got the fuck out of there

[sherbertilluminated]

Everyone please look at this picture of Elisabeth of Valois

According to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, where it's been digitized, it was painted by Sofonisba Anguissola approximately 30 years after the death of the queen. I found it while searching the KHM Wien's Digital Collections and it reminded me that Elisabeth was only 23 when she died...

[answerguiltygear]

having to relearn how to draw on an ipad so here I think they have a lot in common

[carelessflower]

unfortunately at their core every major couples in tmi is just him & i by halsey in lowercase, the 'i' just fluctuates between them

[annabelle--cane]

hey, i saw you recommend wolf 359, and i have a, well, kind of rude question if you don't mind.

does it um... get better? i listened to the first couple episodes and i found it sort of gratingly unfunny and annoying. i mean, if it's to someone's taste then that's fine, but it seemed very different to the vein of tma and malevolent. does it get more serious as it goes?

thanks, sorry for being a hater 😄

while I do personally enjoy the early episodes quite a lot, there is indeed a massive tone shift relatively early on. the first couple of episodes are very, sorta, classic american sitcom in vibes, but starting at roughly episode 11 it takes a sharp turn into drama of the "we have trapped these characters in a small precarious space as they slowly develop more and more conflicting trauma responses" variety. eiffel remains eiffel and not even god could make him change his sense of humor, so if you find that entirely too offputting then you probably won't get on with the rest of the show, but there is a reason it's usually put on lists of notably well executed and emotionally impactful character dramas.

[bookishjules]

Best Sizzy moment in your opinion?

it's the bite scene. it has to be the bite scene.

the thing is.. this is the first truly intimate moment we have between the two of them. up until this point they've both been almost dancing around each other like a whirlpool, slowly moving closer and closer, leaning on each other, protecting each other, etc., but in ways that don't necessarily have to be acknowledged as indicative of just how much they mean to each other, yk?

and if isabelle hadn't gotten drunk the night before. if she hadn't let down her walls enough to invite him over just to sleep, and if that night hadn't set a precedent for this one where they are both sober and awake. if simon hadn't been hungry.. it's just one thing after another that strips the layers between them until it's just simon and isabelle. and the bit of forced vulnerability on simon's part leads izzy to give him pieces of herself as well. admittedly it's babysteps.. but that's still huge for izzy. she doesn't like seeing him like this. doesn't want him to put off prioritizing himself and his needs out of fear.. of himself, of izzy's opinion of him. because she does trust him. she does want him. so she shows him that. and as she does so she reveals, at minimum, the implication of her own insecurities in this situation. and those willing cracks in the facade of fearlessness she clings to are like the flecks of gold simon notices in her not-as-black-as-he-thought eyes.

the fact that the scene starts with the two of them awkwardly trying to fit together and ends with an easily achieved comfort, and that between those two moments sits a conversation dipping into vulnerability and intimacy.. i could hurt you. let me see your face. you're not nothing. nothing about you is ugly. they're a part of you. i trust you. i want to be with you. it scares the hell out of me. you are a heartbreaker. maybe you'll break my heart. ..it says so much. so much about what a shift this night is, even if its intangible, even if the result isn't that obvious. the shift toward ease and simplicity and security is there.

and don't even get me started on the metaphor of simon siphoning the output of isabelle's heart into himself. of izzy letting him. the acknowledgement that this is different than it has ever been before. in so many ways this is just a physical representation of everything they achieved through their conversation. it's izzy saying you need me. let me be here for you. let me let you use me. which is itself a reciprocation of not only the night before, when izzy needed simon and he came just for that reason, but also of moments like that in cog when he comes to her after max, and he lets her use him because it was what she needed. but it's deeper. it's vein-deep. and the pleasure they both get in the act of sharing blood is just proof of how right they are together. of how scary this whole thing is but also how worth it.

[menkhu]

[slavhew]

Hello!

If you're not too busy, would you mind listing some of the things you think count as death flags for Mr. Spender?

There's the obvious fact that he's the "old" mentor to group of young protagonists, but what else do you think would count?

OHH BOY ok so I'd think I'm a crackpot for this but since we're talking about Zack "Foreshadowing" Morrison. I have some thoughts

No harm in leading with the (chronologically) first thing that jumped out at me:

This one IMMEDIATELY made me antsy whenever I came back to it after my initial read, and considering Zack has referred to it on twitter in the past as one of their favorite jokes it's definitely not been forgotten about.

Second, the sheer amounts of near-misses, jokey or not, of Spender narrowly avoiding specifically lightning

Again, not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice, latter two of which had real gravitas rather than an one-off joke.

And third, Spender himself. He's repeatedly shown himself to be kind of a self sacrificing idiot, as well as prideful to a fault. Granted, it's both him and Mina trying to take on all the responsibility of saving Mayview and its inhabitants from their fate.. But Spender is exactly that right measure of doesn't-value-himself-enough (chest footprint aftercare or lack thereof), having an obscene amount of power (enables his loner act + pride) and poor judgement that has the capacity to put him at great risk. And it has!

Spender has not only shown low enough self-esteem to view himself as the de-facto scapegoat for the safety of the town, but also prideful enough to make very bad calls that end up in people, often himself, hurt (COUGH FORGE INCIDENT COUGH)

This is all conjecture, but it's definitely enough to make me worried about him :') Even if all this doesn't mean he'll necessarily die he's definitely getting (even more) seriously injured at some point. I love the guy but he's so far doing a horrible job of convincing me he wants to live bad enough to circumvent at least that

[dawns-beauty]

scrolling your blog for realistic to the lore and well thought out elf designs to get the taste of OBRE screenshots out of my mouth. Thank you for the work you do because holy shit

thanks!! it has been really fun

[sherbertilluminated]

tallying all the references to art and particularly to painting in Don Carlos (1787). I haven't translated all of them yet. But IRL one of Elisabeth's ladies-in-waiting was the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola who gave Elisabeth lessons and looked after her daughters after the Queen's early death.

And one of the themes I'm particularly interested in for staging Don Carlos is the complicity of the court and their ability to ratify or deconstruct the hierarcy to which they themselves are subject. And Anguissola's portraits of the royal family aren't subversive per se but they're often praised for their psychological acuity and that goes hand in hand with the conflict between kingship and personhood that this play is so keenly occupied with.

Like.

Yeah; I sure hope it does.

[caracello]

note: this isn't asking if your f/o would selfship with you in a reverse au. obviously they would. but if your f/o was real and lived in the world With you, would they selfship with fictional characters?

[fllpflop]

thinking about suzabel gothic horror

[prest0-art]

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