#not dead! just elsewhere

[autisticphineas]

reasons why roger doofenshmirtz is more evil than heinz could ever be:

1. added greatly to greenhouse gas emissions by making paul deliver an empty box to him despite the danville mall being located next to his workplace at city hall.

2. embezzlement

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

[youngdutchishot]

I like it when a friend gives you a nickname then someone else tries to use that and they're all "hey wtf only I call them that you bitch" but you're also warmed by them doing that.. anyways I think Dutch would get severely pissed when people try to call Hosea old girl-

[lucid-bug]

She’s just like me fr….

[1percentcharge]

ive been the barbie gothic horror person… the horror high person… the american history pony person… yes, ive lived many lives….

[officialsollux]

Donation post

I have some severe health issues and have been homeless or in emergency housing unable to afford rent or food for months (and in similar situations for years). I am in quite severe pain and traumatised by some horrible things that have happened to me, and I am just at a complete breaking point that I cannot push off anymore. I have reached out to every possible public resource & have a case manager, but these issues have completely trapped me in ways I can no longer compartmentalise off. I would love it if anyone could share this link for a donation post or dm for my main where I have revolut / venmo. Obviously I get people aren't always in a position to help but having people show support and share would be very meaningful ❤️

[art-of-wackylurker]

[Commission Info]

ALRIGHT LADS, we're in for a ride!

For @king-chaos-world <3 Canon x OC OTP that lives in my head rent-free, Kix and Nihlus, they're just so *incoherent noises* And the lightsabers! The Drama!

Comes with a timelapse!

[voidimp]

i never actually got to play bit, my (goblin) dhampir roguelock, but i was thinking the other day about how they wouldve first met their patron, strahd...

get adopted, idiot

[franksfishies]

Finally listening to malevolent s5 kinda. Before sleep so it's fragmented af but anyway my toxic malevolent trait is like dad era Arthur idgaf about Faroe or the dead wife nor do I care about good female rep in the show but this witch chick has good vibes. Would.

[wtl-archive]

What could possibly make you think anyone would want to see this

is. is this supposed to be... anon hate?

A few thousand or so are interested in the comic at least. about 8k on tiktok and 1k on tapas *shrug*. maybe you should read it yourself, it's pretty good! :3

[socksandbuttons]

I just hope that Old Moon doesn't move in with Sun immediately, that he stays with his ex-, I mean, best friend Monty, or with Lunar in his apartment, but I wouldn't like those two to share a roof so soon and with Sun in such a hurt state and confusing

An interesting way to word that ill say- No, Lunar's staying with Sun currently im pretty sure. Monty is living with Earth- theres a chance moon will be staying in the daycare and if he was to go anywhere itd probably to lunar's apartment while Lunar's at Sun's.

Man probably might end up just staying at the Pizzaplex likely.

[xenglitch]

crying screaming sobbing etc what do you MEAN the afd is the second strongest party in germany after the cdu according to votes rn. what the fuck do you mean. @ everyone in germany who voted afd what is WRONG with you holy shit. how can anyone vote a party as right-leaning as the afd. as ive seen several other people say, wer hat euch ins hirn geschissen. wtf.

[blakhol]

Well hi!

I'm either remaking or revamping, not sure which yet. But I'm in general doing an overhaul of the blogs I want to keep and deleting those I'm done with for now - or the characters I only am writing specifically on discord.

I hope everyone has been well and staying safe. <3

[sysig]

Cool guys, measured in C° (Patreon)

[channelrat]

do you have an ao3? or write fanfiction at all, actually? i was reminded of you when I saw an author with the same side blog user :] (elliemiller) regardless those fics are amazing. I’ve been catching up on the tlou fanfic game—

I do have an ao3 but I've not posted any TLOU yet, I have a silly little oneshot fluff inspired completely by something someone said in a comment of one of my asks & i will tag them when the fic is up, that I'm working on right now. my ao3 is AllHaleOlicity but it'll also be posted on tumblr (@ellliemilller 🖤my beloved unhinged sideblog that i didn't think i would ever actually use when i created the name)

it's very very dry on ao3 right now aside from a collab fic i was part of the other year, im revamping (aka i have this lil au universe for Arrowverse with my friend Kayla and all of the fics I had are outdated and I wanna update them)

HOWEVER, if I may... I do have some amazing writers I'd love to turn you towards until I can post something:

@not-so-mundane-after-all -and ao3

@ellie-licious -and ao3

@skoulsons -and ao3

@sotvtaughtmehowtofeel -and ao3

@catsarecutebutaliens -and ao3

@dilf-din -and ao3

@sentientmasstransit -and ao3

@orangechickenpillow -and ao3

@ellies-little-gun -and ao3

@yoursjustasitwas -and ao3

they're all wonderful i recommend them 10 billion times more than i'd ever even promote my own stuff they're brilliant and talented and they all handle tlou so well whether it's fluff, aus, or canon related storyline and plot. So definitely check them out if you haven't already

[skeletalheartattack]

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