#main motif if you will

[thermodynamic-comedian]

when i say "kayne malevolent is so spiral" i don't mean the magnus archives fear entity spiral btw. i mean junji ito's uzumaki. the crawling chaos that throws your life into disarray and demands your attention. the spiral that will bring down an entire city as entertainment. just to capture an audience for itself.

in terms of tma fear entities, i strongly believe he's entirely of the slaughter.

[buffythevampirelover]

currently obsessed with the theme/trope of history is repeating itself. how could it not? it was always going to be this way.

[adelrambles]

On a small note, Bishop's designs do something interesting in 03 that I don't think I've seen anyone mention? But his outfits between the main series and Fast Forward utilize a light/dark motif that highlights how his character has changed.

His main design is black with hints of white underneath. An evil person with good motivations underneath it all. His Fast Forward design is a white dress covering black clothes underneath. A seemingly good person covering up an evil history. I just think it's neat.

Also check out the 1870s fit

[leezuhh]

"beef" on netflix is so fucking good. i love a show about a small event that turns into something insane that nobody involved could have possibly predicted. also i like steven yeun. spoilers in tags

[imminent-danger-came]

“Mei! You have to stop. I know you’re upset, and that’s okay! I know what it’s like to have a power you don’t know how to control—

—to feel like the fate of the world is in your hands

and you have no idea what to do!

((How do you still not see that he has no idea what he's doing? How about this for a plan: stay down MK, or I will put you down.))

But you always have my back, and help me through it. We, will figure this out!

Together!”

[sefirots]

it's him. the estrogen taking sister.

[verflares]

how do ppl even post or talk abt their og loz and oc stuff without the Dread seeping in . you know what i mean

[themanwhomadeamonster]

ME WHEN VIDEO GAME SERIES CALL BACK TO PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS BY REFERENCING PAST MUSICAL THEMES AND MOTIFS EXCEPT IT'S INCOMPLETE OR OTHERWISE ARRANGED DIFFERENTLY REMINDING US THAT IT'S THE SAME SETTING BUT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE EXACT SAME STORY

[mtkanna]

there's a line in the archon quest where childe mentions that he's been in an uncharacteristically bad mood. after that, he goes on to tell us about his past in the abyss--how skirk took him in as an apprentice because he awakened "it," how he'd been searching for her ever since he left... but it made me think of something else.

i don't think childe fell into the abyss, per se. i think that he fell into enkanomiya.

there are only two regional specialties to be found in enkanomiya; sea ganoderma, which are said to be linked to the dead (of which enkanomiya has many), and sango pearls, like the description of song of stillness. the kingdom in song of stillness is a maritime one, like enkanomiya would have been, and was part of the abyss--just like enkanomiya now is.

when you first open the gates, enkanomiya is in whitenight mode: as bright as the dawn, even though there is no natural light. if this is "the last story worth telling," then surely it refers to this ajax, and makes the story of the ajax one made up of every man that once bore his name.

around enkanomiya, you can find old, abandoned weapons, like swords and polearms, which bear a striking resemblance to childe's elemental constructs. there's another abyssal link in the presence of heralds.

skirk said that childe was "ever in the eye of the storm," or to put it another way: conflict would always come to him. and perhaps so too would he always be drawn to places the sun couldn't reach, and the whale of the past, something he was never meant to return to, yet defined him nonetheless...

and then! callbacks to enkanomiya can be seen everywhere. gateways within sumeru, venti mirroring the depictions of orpheus, the statues in the chasm, then the library itself mirrored in the book of revealing... i think enkanomiya has to have some deeper connections to what else is happening to teyvat, and i think childe is the perfect avenue for them.

(also, tsuyuko's line about the pull of enkanomiya mirrors a saying of mengzi's about the human spirit: “humans tend towards the good just as water runs down the hill,” which probably doesn't mean anything but i wanted to bring up anyway.)

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

normally, i'm not one to claim to be particularly good at creating original designs. i'm working on improving that, but i still don't really think i'm at that point yet.

however, there is one element of my solaris' design that i do really adore. if not for the way that it looks visually, then for its narrative purpose.

i think that solaris has a prosthetic beneath her eye. if you don't want the socket to collapse, it's pretty much essential to have one. if you took off the patch, there would still be something there.

but i like to keep it on when i draw her. because of the branding. the zoraxis insignia.

it is very clear to me- to just about anyone, really- that solaris and zor don't seem to get along. zor doesn't indulge her personal projects, despite that being the reason she agreed to work under them in the first place. solaris is curt and insubordinate with them- despite knowing full well what they're capable of. zor doesn't give her the proper resources to live healthily on the death engine. solaris abandons them the first chance she gets.

it's a give and take. both of them prodding and pestering and snarling at one another. they stay with each other out of necessity. really, it's the only explanation... zor has 'fired' lesser employees over matters far more trivial than what solaris has demonstrated.

but, when you take the death engine into consideration, everything gets turned on its face.

to me, i think the death engine was a critical turning point in their relationship. a dramatic change for the worse. solaris is quite confident in her abilities as an engineer- and why shouldn't she be, with all that she's shown to have made?

but zor exploits any weakness they can find. they seek out weaknesses specifically to pick people apart- hell, they did it with prism before they had any clue how much she was worth. and the death engine's failure was more than a weakness.

solaris' eyepatch- the zoraxis insignia stitched into it- is a cattle brand. it's a turning point in their dynamic. solaris has failed, and as a result, she has lost what power she held over them. she is no longer of better use to them alive than she is dead.

post the death engine, talking out of turn becomes lethal. asking for too much becomes lethal. taking up too much space. thinking for herself. zor doesn't need her anymore.

which means- as much as she loathes it- she has to bow her head, hold her tongue, and defer. the death engine took her eye from her, but zor took away whatever remained of her pride.

[merlinmerlot]

I could play one of the most beautiful well crafted video games on the planet and it will never be as appealing to me as one that kind of sucks shit but has soooo much potential

[scattered-winter]

sometimes i see a post and its like. hm. you actually care very little about the story or characters or plot at all bc all you want is for the token male twinks to kiss.

[inloveanddepth]

of course you have blue hair & pronouns

[doodlboy]

Doodle that will make sense later <3

[chichikoi]

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[imminent-danger-came]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how many hats SWK manages to keep crammed on his head in lmk?

That man was doomed by the narrative, is mourned by the narrative, is and was haunted by the narrative AND is haunting the narrative, all at the same time! And lmk isn’t his story, and he doesn’t think of it as his story, and he doesn’t want it to be his story, but it’s also exactly his story, just a little to the left, and he is trying to remove himself from this new story, but also can't escape it because this isn't his story but also it is, and he's taking steps to ensure this don’t end up like his story, and is accidentally contributing to problems that are making it like his story all over again as a result. What a character!

To quote Anne Carson,

"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing".

I think, strangely enough, most characters in Lego Monkie Kid are living past the end of their myth (jttw). You have Wukong who is the only original pilgrim still alive and around, you have Tang, Mei, Pigsy, and Sandy who are all reincarnations of the pilgrims (supposedly), and then you have all the antagonists who try and continue their stories in their own way. DBK was freed from under the mountain, almost killing his wife and son in his continued pursuit of world domination. LBD escaped her prison early, continuing her plan for a perfect world which ended in her defeat, her end. Spider Queen refused to accept the end of her empire, and ultimately was killed by LBD for it. Azure Lion had been sealed in the scroll, and after being released immediately tried to continue his rebellion, his hubris, martyrdom, and refusal to change becoming his downfall.

I think in Wukong's own way, he does something similar—falling into old habits and becoming his own undoing. His search for the samadhi fire was exactly what Macaque was upset about in the 4x11 argument:

"You're the one always running off! Searching for more power, or more sources of immortality: you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead!"

MK earlier in the special makes the point "Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be." to which Macaque replies, "Wukong didn't think so, he always thought he had to be stronger—more immortal." And that's what he does in s2 isn't it? He still isn't strong enough. He can't defeat LBD, so he has to go find the power that will make him strong enough to do just that—and Wukong finds the samadhi fire. Which in turn leaves MK behind, and has him relive his life's story again.

Like, this dude is CRAZZZYYYY