#kin appearances

[devildarlindumbass]

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ugly

[see-arcane]

One thing that I really liked is how the Juke's spiritual dance scene was so vibrant and diverse, not a single person was dancing the same, different ancestors from different cultures and different music styles yet so clear that the meaning of the music evolved despite being severed by colonialism, even the chinese spirits were opera actors! The fire burning through the physical dimension of the wood, representing unity and freedom powered by Sammie... then the irish vampire dance comes, and it's just so so flat.

No one is irish, not a single person (except Remmick) there knows what the rocky road to Dublin means culturally yet they sing it in a shrill tone, he is the only one dancing in the middle of the circle, and suddenly everyone forcibly moves in a hivemind around him to worship HIS culture. There are no dancers, no different music rhythms, and certainly no ancestors nor future people.

While Sammie brought both alive and dead with his voice and music in harmony to celebrate past present and future in a space of true community, Remmick could only imitate it in a desperate attempt for community while gleefully colonizing black and brown people just like how the english colonized his.

1000% this.

Sammie's gift manifests what community actually is, weaving together a collection of multiple identities with a shared culture, history, and heart at its roots. It's celebratory and a revel of everything past, present, and future. Identity, but not identical.

Remmick's imitation is only a showcase of himself and the warped vestiges of his own culture and past, leaving room for nothing else, all of it forced onto unwilling participants to play along in what amounts to a puppet show performance to make Remmick alone feel better. We see proof in the end credits with Stack and Mary that, while still monstrous, vampirism here is not a thing that innately causes you to colonize on impulse. They were only themselves, independent as a simple duo.

The full colonizing/conscripting route comes strictly from Remmick. He is the one choosing to actively violate and force his will onto trapped souls the way you'd playact with dolls, all the while willfully blind to how he's repeating the same evil that the English forced on him and his long-dead community.

I honestly wonder what would have happened if Remmick had got hold of Sammie in the end. Either forced him to turn or wrung some pity-performance out of him, calling up Remmick's ancestors and descendants...only for those spirits not to dance and commune with him the way the spirits reveled in the juke joint.

The spirits Sammie conjured with talent, love, and joy were there to celebrate among their people. And Remmick's community, if they deigned to appear, what could they possibly have to celebrate in that bloodstained night, seeing what this member of their kin has done? This distorted funhouse mirror version of the same bastards who stole their land and their culture and their lives, making those sins worse twice over with an existential undead hell of souls enslaved to his hive mind will? No. They wouldn't dance. They wouldn't revel.

Remmick's lucky he died before he could drag Sammie into his hell and coerce a summoning song out of him. The stake and sun took him before he had to see exactly what kind of reception his dead and future community would think of his work on earth. (Though I imagine all that is waiting for him still, wherever he's gone.)

[boredgrace23]

Kith And Kin, chapter 19

Being a sniper meant he needed to spot the enemies before they did him. That was his entire job. If he couldn’t spot the enemies, then he might as well put down the gun for being useless.

Ugh, emotions. Those weren't his, Mick Mundy, AKA the RED team's Sniper, forte at all! Yet, forced to deal with his confusing emotions, can he survive another day in this horrible situation? Nevertheless, with a building guilty conscience?

[m00nj3w3l]

So I listened to Clear's drama CD

[alfazoings]

distortion detective been on th brain,,,,, i Am so ill about them

[soli-nepenthe]

Beyond Cloudfall spoilery thought:

Anyone think about how dragon Sylus was more "human", not just in his half-appearance, but also, despite the bloody history he had to witness with his kin and what he suffered through (those 108 murder attempts) he was the most human-like? And if his soul was indeed a garden of blooming red datura blossoms, even if it was an illusory dream, it was a depiction of a peaceful paradise? That was his soul's inner beauty and purity...a curious thing to have for a "monster".

[ineedhjalp]

me? a new pfp? in just two days? what do you mean?

[puffyshka]

February 2024 – October 2024

[honey-lemon-halo]

i love love looove being an angel btw. I have pretty pretty wings and a biiiiig ole halo that sits at the back of my head (so u can grab it when you pin me facedown and violate me what who said that)

[nitro-sys]

tried my best to make myself in roblox...

[jarchivism]

j on help me ivbe been terapped ni ther lonelyn for 2 weeks its so col d - yours lovingly mart in (<3)

ps : i cantf find tge cloud emojui

Hold on a bit, Martin. I will be right there. walks off into the lonely to fetch martin

[lazycranberrydoodles]

I hate to ask but who is hua Chang

Hua Cheng is the deuterantagonist of the Chinese web novel Heaven Official's Blessing! It's a historical fantasy novel about gods and ghosts and cultivators (xianxia) by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It's also a gay romance (danmei). The main themes are destiny, love, and what it means to be a good person. It has a comic version (manhua) and one-soon-to-be-two seasons of animation (donghua).

He's an 800+ year old ghost who has a sentient sword made from his own dismembered eye, runs a city, turns his enemies into blood rain, creates silver wraith butterflies and has been devotedly worshiping/pining after his god, Xie Lian, his entire life. This book is the longest hyperfixation I have ever had. So I think it's pretty good (understatement of the century).

I can and have written essay length rants about him but here is a paragraph i wrote a while back about my favorite things about him, to sum up:

His gender probably. The way he looked fate in the eyes and said “fuck you, old man” and built a highly successful life of his own. How he is so fucked up but still hyper-competent. How all his strength comes from love. How his devotion changed as he grew up but never wavered. The way he is kind but not nice. His infodump swag.

[exocynraku]

for the genetically accurate warriors, perhaps ebonyclaw? I think shes very lovely and it would be nice to see her get some attention! no pressure tho!!

ebonyclaw LL, XoXo, BB, DD, dmdm, aa, II, ww wanna request a cat? see here: link

[mythrilpencil]

Day 2 of @ocweek: Family!

Had to do Sky for this one instead of Edge; with the post-campaign reveal of her and Han being biological siblings, I just had to draw a family picture of the two of them with their father Takashi (middle).

Plus a black and white and sepia version of the picture, depending on what kind of photograph the setting’s technology would produce (if it even can do photography)

[banesberry-anomoly]

Wow thats crazy 🍷

[limbuscompany-culture-is]

limbus kin culture is being invited to a tabletop group and slowly but surely becoming the leader of said group through sheer force of personality, simply through realising the final boss is a fucking whale.

-ahabmael anon

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