#my gazelle

[poetrybyonur]

I want to drown in her, but it is she who keeps me afloat.

Happy Birthday to my beautiful muse, my doctor, my life. She keeps me afloat and never lets me sink to the bottom.

[not-shamhat]

fear of falling asleep

[sweetgazelle]

Sous-chef

[precursorgod]

all i want is third robin steph and owlmaster tim

[hazemaru24]

Suzuno💙

[ben-miller-art]

Twizzelle

Animal: Gazelle/Antelope Sweet: Twizzlers Level 6 Piñata smaller than a Doenut but twice as spry!

[kasiawo]

i would like everyone to play this game please, its on sale on steam right now and absolutely worth the price. i've read all the fics based on this game except 1 because its not in english and i need more. if you enjoy visual novels/dating sim/choose your own adventure get it the art and writing in this game is so good and sweet, i really adore it!!!

i smooched every character and im going to do it again

ID: An illustration of all the romanceable characters from Ambition: A Minuet in Power.

[or-fi-s]

Commission for weregazelle

[zeekappa]

Ice skater poses are fun to draw but it's tough to keep the movement intact... Anyway the figure skater au nobody asked for ft a healthy dose of glitter because I think glitter improves everything

[weremagnus]

A whole bunch of drawings that I did as part of a fundraising sketch-drive for my Extra Life 2020 campaign.

[number5theboy]

@non-plutonian-druid said: "#anyway show five deserves this monologue because when he specifically would give it it would get an additional layer of meaning#absent in the original comic " 👀👀👀i am begging you to elaborate i desperately want to read this essay 

Okay, so why the gazelle monologue would have an additional layer of nuance if performed by Five in the show in my eyes definitely is dependent on the way I interpret the original speech, so little detour into my interpretation of the original speech.

The original gazelle speech is a realisation speech. Five starts out wanting to brag to the nameless Commission henchmen he’s dispatching that he is better, more skilled, more dangerous than them. He likens them to tigers, tigers that possess every attribute of a tiger but lack a deeper understanding of their own place, that will never catch up to him. And at the end, he comes to the realisation that he is not like them. He’s a completely different species - he’s a gazelle, and he’s proud of it.

Which in itself is interesting, because a tiger is a predator and a gazelle is prey. And Five, in the comics, was literally engineered to be the perfect predator, so the fact that he identifies with the gazelle in the face of so many so-called tigers is a subtle reminder that he is a victim in all of this. The Temps Commission preyed on him when he was at his lowest (i.e. lost in the apocalyptic future, deprived of any other path), and took advantage of his vulnerability to turn him into a killer. Him setting himself apart as a gazelle, realising that he is made of other stuff than all other Commission agents, is such an interesting character moment.

And another thing is that the ultimate realisation, “I’m a gazelle and the jungle is my home!” is just. scientifically inaccurate. A gazelle is a steppe animal. There are no gazelles at home in the jungle. Which is a brilliant writing decision, because it highlights Five’s nature as someone permanently out of place, never belonging. He is out of place, and he made that place, in this case a vague-ish metaphor for the act of killing and his knowledge on it, his home. It’s like the exact opposite of impostor syndrome. Impostor pride maybe.He doesn’t belong and he is better, faster, cleverer than anyone who naturally belongs in this environment.

Just for completion’s sake, the whole riff on tigers and gazelle could also be a play on the following quote credited to Dan Montano, because it also prominently features the theme of running and gazelles, albeit with the more often associated predator of the lion: “ Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” More info here.

Which finally brings me to why it would fuck to the highest degree if the show version of Five also would get to do this speech. Because even though there are significant differences between show and comic version, the general beats of his story are similar enough for the above points to still be true to show Five, but show Five also has a very clear theme of running, made much clearer than in the comics. Five running is a defining feature of his character, as it is for a gazelle, and him calling himself a gazelle in the show would have this additional layer of nuance in that we have seen him running before, so this realisation would come less out of nowhere than it does in the comics.

But I also don’t trust the showrunners with comics stuff after what they did to Carmichael and his death scene by giving a very pivotal Five moment to their antisemitic concept of an OC and then referencing the unhinged Five from the comics through a weird invented “””psychosis””” as some kind of incredibly misguided and backfired fanservice. So I’d rather just think about how cool it would be to see this speech in the show rather than have to watch them play it for laughs or have Five be knocked out at the end of it, because this speech only works in a particular sort of framing and I don’t trust the show to do it justice.

[anris-resurrection]

leavin little pinholes wherever he lands

I Imagine he does this:

[sweetgazelle]

Claymore + Claymore OCs sketches

[clodiuspulcher]

i kind of like that in the epic of gilgamesh enkidu and gilgamesh survive and fulfill their epic quest and its only then that enkidu just. dies of some strange illness. its, for lack of a better word, really realistic and poignant and does a better job illustrating the brutality of bronze age life, the extent to which every person regardless of status was at the mercy of forces they couldn’t possibly understand let alone mitigate, to me, than anything in homer

[b0mhat]

[thesquirrelart]