#nothung

[illustratus]

Siegfried Fighting with the Dragon by Achille Beltrame

[rainingriversofyou]

Swords 🗡 Throne Of Glass

Artist: artoffrostandflame

[bobdobalina]

an observation from Nov 27, 2020

Today's Wagner insight is that the final moments of Walküre Act I and Siegfried Act I are nearly identical. In both cases, the heroic tenor (first Siegmund, then his son Siegfried) has finally gotten his hands on the sword that was promised to him, Nothung, which has lain dormant for years awaiting its worthy owner, and he holds it up in celebration.

To nearly the exact same melody, Siegmund sings "So blühe denn Wälsungen-Blut!" ("so thrives the bloodline of the Wälsungs!") and a generation later, Siegfried (who is the final product of that bloodline) sings "So schneidet Siegfrieds Schwert!" ("so slices the sword of Siegfried!").

The furiously-playing orchestra falls briefly, dramatically silent to allow the hero to hit these money notes, playing only three key chords. For Siegmund, it's Em-B7-Em (i-V7-i) — he is reclaiming something old that was promised to him, so the music returns to its home key, in perhaps the most classically satisfying cadence of resolution. Whereas for Siegfried, who has melted down the shards of his broken inheritance and literally reforged it into a new sword, the orchestra pivots to a new, major, key: Em-A7-D. He is like his father, but he is not his father.

In both cases, after the tenor's moment of glory, the orchestra comes roaring back ("furiously," "as fast as possible"), with brass using the third chord to launch into the Sword motif, while the characters celebrate orgasmically and the curtain falls. The characters who began the opera stuck in miserable situations have discovered a way out, fulfilling old prophecies and conquering their first obstacles — oblivious to the problems that have already been set in motion and will ultimately spell their doom. It's the perfect way to end a first act.

[blazevillains]

im serious and im delirious!

the penis brothers

[intothevrains]

i have a small defense of manon. i am just passionate about manon and her shounen love interest treatment the fandom aims at her.

for one: manon made a good choice when she left rody. he wasn't changing or improving as a person. she recognized that he would only change it he didn't put his all into their relationship-- because it was the only thing he was focusing on. he didn't put a single dollar into fixing the bathroom, washing his dishes, self care, etc., and it's all because rody doesn't have a limit in how much he gives. but, she loved rody enough to break up with him all in the hope he'd help himself or learn to provide for himself, instead of exclusively for others.

second of all: rody has issues and needs help, but his issue is his relationship with manon. rody put everything into their relationship. this is not to say she was offering nothing or that she was using him or whatever.

and, this in particular i find very grating: she rebounded on vincent because she was heartbroken. she was not malicious and she was clearly still in love with rody; it's sad to me that people forget her heart locket. i reiterate: she loves rody.

annoying of all to me: shipping vincent and rody while frowning upon manon showing interest in vincent after their break-up, all while seeing nothing wrong with rody showing some facsimile of interest in vincent after just breaking up with manon is insanely hypocritical. it's okay when rody does it but not when manon does it?

vincent is the obsessive artist and, arguably, rody is the obsessive lover. people often get this confused somehow

tldr; manon did nothing wrong.

[dizzybizz]

mushishi at 2am challenge

[eebie]

[dirtytransmasc]

me 🤝 creating insanely unrealistic "what if?" situations, that put both Jon and Cat into precarious positions, in which Jon *needs* a mother and Cat has no choice but to fill that gap.

[one-hell-of-otaku-is-here]

List of all Lucifers from all media I came to simp over (in one way or another)

I may have weakness for Devil Himself Ig 😇

My personal favourite are ofc OB!Luci and Devilman’s Satan. I cant choose third place between Sinsations BL and Vivziepop one (mainly because at moment of writing this post we don’t know lot about Hazbin Hotel where he should appear but it’s coming thankfully). The last place goes to one from Sandman (Netflix adaptation, DC version actually looks kind of hot but Ig) as well as Lucifer 2016 show (they are supposedly to be same person in comics but Lucifer shows kind of goes on its own which is good at least for me cos Tom Ellis slayed there) and sadly Urushihara is stuck at middle lol (i still love him my baby nerd)

[finnycore]

going PURELY by foil logic brinkfinny makes sense

[400terahertz]

THE STICKERS ARE OFFICIALLY ON THE SKETCHBOOK!!!!

They turned out so cool!! I love them very much, eeee im gonna stare at them forever

randy im being 100% for real when i say i was lying awake just now like...did i reply to that ask about the stickers AND I FUCKINGGGGGGGG DIDNT IM SO!!!!!! I REMEMBER SEEING THIS IN POP UP IN MY EMAILS AND BEING LIKE you have a sale! :> IT WAS YOU YOU DEVIOUS FIEND IM GONNA BLOW UP!!!! THR HONOUR I AM FEELING SHAKES YOU WAAAAAAAAUGGGGGGH THANK YOU

[illustratus]

The Forging of Nothung by Arthur Rackham

Siegfried reforges the sword Nothung as Mime brews a sleeping potion to use on him.

[megaaggron]

I think im like in luv with my fwb but im ohly gonna rant about it Here cuz i dont wanna tell anyone i know IRL cuz then ill never shut ul😃😃😃😃😃😃😃🦜🦜🦜♥️😃😃😃😃Its unrequited i believe 😄😄😄😃😃😃😃😃😄😄😄😄😀😀😀😀😀😀😄😄😁😁😁😀😀😀 *takes poison damage* *takes poison damage*

[sapchats]

sapnap :]

[blazevillains]

[gorgynei]

i cant wait for the wizard arcane magic in m9 animated. like theres magic in c1 but almost all of it is divine or bardic/druidic. give me big magic circles. give me dr strange magic. give me counterspell battles. give me dunamancy