#kiiiind of?

[millenniumdueled]

good morning c:

[edoro]

Do you think Caleb would forgive Philip if they were somehow able to meet again and he was genuinely sorry for what he did / what he's done?

I like to think he would since he doesn't seem like the type to hold grudges.

hmm you know... this is tricky. there's kind of a lot here. we're going to get, like, semantical here.

(under a cut bc it's long)

like, what does 'forgive' mean here? "think it's all okay"? "don't hold it against him anymore"? "don't be mad at him for it"? "accept and love him even though he did terrible things and hurt people very badly"?

some people see 'forgiveness' as like, an act of wiping the slate totally clean, more or less pretending the offending action didn't happen, others see it as acknowledging that it did and being willing to still have a relationship with that person and care for them despite their actions

and sometimes forgiveness doesn't really mean anything in terms of having a relationship with the person, but simply means like, acknowledging what they did, that it can't be undone, and letting go of your own sense of hurt and anger towards it, while still not allowing them back in your life or deciding that it was in any way 'okay' or 'acceptable' for them to have done - this is the way i, at least, often think of 'forgiveness' in terms of abuse; it's not me saying that what you did to me was okay, because it wasn't, but it's me accepting that it happened, the past can't be changed, and that i want to move on myself rather than dwell on it.

so... i could see Caleb still deciding he loves Philip and wants him in his life, if he demonstrated like, genuine remorse or any kind of understanding that what he did was wrong and it seemed like he would, you know, change his behavior.

then again, Philip did fuck up pretty badly... i mean, i'm not sure if "holding a grudge" is the right language to use to discuss "not wanting someone who literally murdered you and then went on to use your death - which he caused - as an excuse to do centuries' worth of damage culminating in attempted genocide, while also cloning you and horrifically abusing and murdering the clones during that entire time", you know?

so, you know, it would also be pretty reasonable and understandable in that circumstance to say, "i still love you, but i don't like or want to be around the person who you've shown yourself to be"

he not only ended Caleb's life, widowing his wife and ensuring that his child(ren) would grow up without a father, but he then proceeded to violate Caleb's body and use Caleb as an excuse for committing further atrocities... and he did it after Caleb was ready to welcome him right back into his life.

from Philip's pov, Caleb left him to go shack up with a demon in hell; from Caleb's pov, Philip waltzed in just as he was happy for the first time in his life and threw everything - the years spent laboring to raise and care for and protect him, the effort to give him a better life, the immediate and open invitation to join his new life in this new place - right back into his face in the most violent way possible.

so... i don't know. it's hard for me to imagine, personally, being willing to welcome someone who did that back into my life. even if you still love someone, sometimes they hurt you so badly that you just can't be around them anymore, you know?

it is, i suppose, equally hard for me to imagine that Philip might actually demonstrate genuine remorse and change his behavior, without just getting completely out of character - he just isn't a person who does that. he doubles down. he sees himself as right. he is, at this point, in so deep that recognizing the enormity of what he's done would be a sort of psychic death for him, and the guilt and pain of it would be so crushing that he has to avoid it at all costs.

i know the premise of your question was if he did but i just really struggle to imagine it happening.

there is also the very important point that... a lot of what he's done, arguably MOST of what he's done, isn't Caleb's to forgive.

which again gets into a semantic discussion of what 'forgive' even means - sure, if someone you know and love hurts someone else, you can make a decision to stay in their life despite what they did - but Philip's abuse of the grimwalkers isn't something he did to Caleb. it's something he did to each and every single one of those individual people. every single one of those boys came into existence and lived a life full of pain, fear, and grief, all caused intentionally and deliberately by Philip, and then they all died at Philip's hand.

Caleb doesn't get to forgive him for that. Caleb can't absolve him of having done that. Caleb can decide that he, personally, is willing to forgive Philip having murdered him, but he can't forgive Philip for things he did to other people, and the grimwalkers are all very much other people. every grimwalker was their own individual person, and the fact that Philip himself saw them as simply versions of Caleb is part of his abuse of them.

so... i don't know. i just don't know if you can really apply this framework of forgiveness to the whole thing, i guess. i have trouble imagining how Philip, as he is in canon, could ever really be genuinely sorry or willing to change his behavior, and even if Caleb was able to decide that he can forgive Philip for killing him, the abuse of the grimwalkers and the attempted genocide and the damage he did to the culture and history of the Boiling Isles aren't things that Caleb has any right to forgive in the first place.

[kirbyofthestars]

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[irrfahrer]

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[antevault]

Can’t Sleep, Can’t Breathe by Digital Daggers is so c!dream&c!sapnap and here is my case

“Dire straits and dirty consequences

An invitation to your personal disaster

It's a point break

Another guilty conscience

And I won't stop you til you get just what you're after”

straightforward for the most part; sapnap is calling him out, saying “you made your choices, and here are the consequences.” even if dream hits his point break- becomes overwhelmed by the guilt and regret and tries to atone- sapnap won’t stop. he’s going to see this through, no matter what happens.

“I'm taking you down with me

I'm taking you down with me

Til you

Can't sleep, can’t breathe

You met your enemy

Can't sleep, can’t breathe

Won't get no peace with me”

beginning is very literal. sapnap is laying his life down to put an end to dream’s influence. he’s been hunting dream relentlessly for months following their first encounter in snowchester, where dream tried to manipulate sapnap back to his side or at least into obedience, but sapnap stood his ground and made his intentions clear. in that encounter, dream met his enemy, and it was his brother.

“You tried to tempt fate, be careful what you wish

I'll take you deeper and strip you of salvation

It's a crusade to bring you to your knees

It's what you wanted, your last manipulation”

dream broke out of prison and continues to use the revive book- “tempting fate” as it were. because of this, XD dropped the death book, and now sapnap has the ability to not just kill dream, but “strip him of salvation” or render him unable to ever be revived. wielding this power, he’s now on a death march to track dream down and remove him from the board permanently. in a way, going to see dream now would be doing what he wants; sapnap has the Nightmare set, so by going to dream, he’s “returning” it.

the chorus repeats, then…

“The lower you go the less that you'll know

You're sinking to the bottom now

You're losing control

The lower you go

You're sinking to the bottom now”

as dream has continued acting increasingly monstrous, he’s lost allies who could have given him information, and he’s burned bridges that could have saved him. by choosing to rule through fear, he’s ultimately losing more control than he could have maintained ruling more amicably. as far as sapnap is concerned, dream has no allies and no friends who would offer him aid. his debt with techno is squared and everyone else has turned on him. he’s at rock bottom and there’s nowhere to run.

so yeah basically this song is HELLA dream and sapnap, from sapnap’s perspective. he’s resigned to this horrible thing he wishes he didn’t have to do, but he still feels a sense of righteousness and justice for taking dream out, and a quiet catharsis in going down with him, hand in unlovable hand. from his perspective, he is a hero forced by fate to sacrifice himself and slay his brother, thus saving the world. he feels dream has forced his hand, and he’s furious with him for that. they could have been happy if dream had only stayed in prison like he was supposed to. why couldn’t he just stay inside?

it doesn’t matter. sapnap made a promise, and he will pay any price to keep it.

[barkbrained]

Little comic about species dysphoria and the strain I feel living as an autistic nonhuman

Tip Jar!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

I interviewed myself; it was very short and went nowhere.

[luigra]

oh shit it's Grumbot with a gun

[rivalkieran]

bw2spe scene redraw

[dustykneed]

POV youre an ensign on the bridge by chance and lieutenant uhura just so happens to turn in your direction. you make eye contact. she smiles very slightly at you and you are struck by the light of all the sunrises and sunsets you have ever seen in your life. you die on the spot (albeit happily). you are not the first to depart from existence in this manner and you will not be the last.

i just. i just think shes so cool your honor

(ill get around to drawing chapel soon i swear,, cant believe chuhura invented homosexuality fr

[ploompkin]

New hyper-fixation go brrr

I love love LOVE Mel and Zev together with all my heart,, just a couple of exiles

Speaking of which I finally decided on how Melekh meets the Elturel tieflings: they're a wanderer themselves and bump into the group shortly after they're exiled from Elturel, back when their numbers were larger. They joined them with the intention of it being temporary, but they and Zevlor got along like a house on fire so they ended up sticking around, happy they finally found their people after being cast out of their druid cicle so long ago TvT

Just the lineart under the cut, 'cause I really liked how it looked uncoloured

[phontao]

kenjaku sketches. 👍

[raiiny-bay]

wip of the new guy

[m3gahet]

You're losin' me

I can't find a pulse

My heart won't start anymore

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Sad nategaar angst courtesy of me, myself, and I

@doll-faace said it made sense so I’m trust her (and also with my life <3)

[iscreamkitty]

And if I said…michelangelo distortion……..what would u do abt it…………..

[wildtornado-o]

Roman and Neo have "friends who go to graveyards and laugh at the funny names together" energy

Anways :3 just wanted to draw them in some formal outfits and got a little carried away lol