#one brings shadow one brings light...

[necromeowncy]

Happy birthday to my friend @nights-at-crystarium ! Behold: the Shadowbringer, himself. 🖤

(Go show the birthday boy some love 🥰)

[andnowrotfront]

i have who brings shadow stuck in my head

[deer-a-day]

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lighting pt 2?

[aufi-creative-mind]

[TotK] NOODLE DRAGONS - a redrawing

The noodles are finally ready, seasoned and plated!

Here's my 2023 redrawing of the original 2019 Inktober noodles. That being said, I won't be doing Inktober for this year but I do have other artworks of Noodles and Spirits that I am aiming to complete before the end of Spooky month.

As for the noodle dragons, this is part of a "what if the noodles are small and are [spirit] companions to their respective person?" idea. Link's dragon is called the "Wild Dragon" or the "Dragon of the Wild".

Also... N O O D LE C U D D L E ヾ(≧ ▽ ≦)ゝ

There's more to come!

[antaripirate]

another one from the drafts

[what-do-you-mean-theyre-evil]

How I be looking after I made multiple essay posts about how story filled and angst riddled Aerin's romance was going to be only for him to be a 4 chapter NPC companion.

[imminent-danger-came]

was the peach being a metaphor in 1x06 foreshadowing...

You're damn right it was.

I've talked about it before in this post, but it's clear to me that MK only wanted the peach of immortality in 1x06 to become more like Wukong—or rather, to become more powerful/immortal like Wukong ("I just wanted to be good enough...like you" from 1x09 anyone? Tbh most s1 episodes are centered around MK wanting to be good/strong enough soooooo). The peach is a source of power/immortality, something both MK and Wukong have reached for at the expense of others:

Macaque: "No that's YOU! You're the one always running off! Looking for more power, more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while were were ahead!"

But, at the same time....the peach is a symbol of Wukong and Macaque's friendship:

The same way it was in 1x06 for Mei and MK:

The only reason either of them ever wanted power was to be strong enough for the people they cared about after all. The peach was a metaphor, and they "really wanted that peach"—it was a metaphor for really wanting friendship, and also really wanting power. Wanting their cake and eating it too.

I appreciated that the second time Wukong gives Macaque a peach, it's a "downgrade"—just a regular popsicle, versus a peach of immortality. Like being together is finally enough for Wukong, and it'll be enough to pull them through. (Which is something Macaque thought from the beginning: "Together there was nothing that could stop the two of them, either in the celestial realms or on earth" [2x07]).

Bonus detail:

MK in 2x07 attempted to bring his friends bags of peach chips. So. Whatever.

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

I love that one of the roles fire plays in this series is to represent how all consuming desire can be, and how it’s framed as something that can be world ending when uncontrolled.

So naming unnatural, untamable green fire ‘wildfire’ is therefore a stroke of genius. It’s the representation of how we humans manufacture our own doom in the pursuit power, of how uncontrolled desire will eventually blow up in our faces.

And the fact that barrels and barrels of it sit fermenting under Kings Landing, Westeros’s breeding ground of maniac desire, and the capital the ambitious and corrupt flock to for what it promises? It’s perfection!

[giddlygoat]

my brother can make me laugh without moving at all. he can make me laugh on command, just by existing, and there is no physical tell or indication that it is about to happen. it’s like he can will me to laugh and i will. of course we’re not telepathic, but we do speak in unison sometimes. we improvise like no one’s business. we could fool anyone into believing we are psychically linked. when i try to explain it, i sound silly saying it out loud, but i really CAN tell what he’s thinking. we exchange so much information just with a look. he can make me cry laughing and he doesn’t even have to move

[thegreatyin]

while im on my posting about shadowbringers kick it's remarkable how quickly square enix got me attached to a minor antagonist that showed up for a handful of honestly pretty poorly written but surprisingly incredibly well voice acted quests like. 200 hours earlier in the story. like i forgot who ardbert was when he came back in shadowbringers but by the time we got to rak'tika i was in tears going that's my fucking buddy that's my good friend ardbert that's literally my bestest pal

[takamoris]

What sayest thou, master Matoya? We may accept this fate or defy it. But we cannot deny it.

[andnowrotfront]

i have shadowbringers stuck in my head

[goldeneyedgirl]

Wait I NEED more variable stars!! Can I make that a request for Christmas or? Also, do you have any other bits and pieces of the STL alternate universe where he grabs her and they both leave? They make my heart so happy ❤️

I cannot promise/guarantee canon Variable Stars for Ficmas, but I can absolutely dig out some cut scenes or the Chapter That Was Scrapped at the very least.

I honestly never wrote any more of the 'Jasper takes Mary-Alice with him' verse because the OG one was just depressing and the one I published a few Ficmases ago kind of set them up to be happy together. However, I like a good spontaneous challenge

takes place after mary-alice and jasper had a nice healing, post-escape bath in the forgotten house (which you can read here.) (Later, Emmett will admit that it's his fault they went so far afield. It was his turn to pick the hunting grounds, and they ventured way out of their usual comfort zone. It was a spontaneous choice, not part of the plan, and that's where it all fell down.

The animals aren't as wary, there are no worn paths from previous hunts, and it is completely untouched. There are the odd scents - human hunters, nomads, the usual thing that any piece of land in this part of the country holds. But there was nothing to suggest there was any risk. He would never bring his family somewhere he suspected was dangerous.)

The thing is, he barely even sees anyone before he is slammed into a tree that creaks ominously, bark and branches raining down on them - there's a glimpse of a nomad, downwind, in the lake. Smeared with blood that is rolling down his back in rivulets.

And then he's having the life choked out of him, cracks spiralling up his neck and his panic bursting out as he stares down into dead red eyes.

(She's tiny.)

(No really, he needs to emphasise that it takes him a minute to understand that she's managed to manoeuvre him against the tree - at speed - so that she's standing on a boulder, holding him several inches above the ground by his throat because she's child-sized. It takes him a moment to comprehend what is happening, it's so unexpected.)

Right now, he's expecting to die. She looks unamused, and the male is already redressing to come over; if the Diminutive Devil is this vicious, he doesn't stand a chance against the male. He just hopes Rose gets as far away as possible and doesn't come looking for him.

The male is scarred worse up close, blood seeping out of his shirt like some kind of biblical nightmare, and Emmett's honestly wondering how fast his death is going to be. Between the two of them, he might actually get out of this without experiencing mind-bending pain.

(He's definitely panicking. Is she an Immortal Child? He's never seen one. She's so dirt and blood-covered, he can't tell. If she is, the male is going to be even more protective, with the whole 'illegal upon execution' thing. Shit shit shit.)

He's holding his hands up in peace, trying not to look like more of a threat but as he looks back at the girl, she frowns at him and backs off immediately, releasing him suddenly before folding herself against the male.

"I'm sorry, I didn't..." he begins, his voice hoarse as the cracks heal, trying to back away as fast as possible.

"I didn't know it was you, Emmett," the girl says, her voice flat. "I didn't see you coming." She frowns again and looks down at herself. "This is all wrong."

There's no inflection in her words, but the male - with a dark look in Emmett's direction - acts as if she's gone hysterical and looks down at her.

"It's okay. You can wash off the worst of it." His voice is calmer and gentler than Emmett anticipated.

"It wasn't supposed to go this way," the girl says and this time, he hears the frustration in her voice.

"The best-laid plans, Mary-Alice." The male's eyes are back on Emmett and he really wishes he'd taken the opportunity to leave.

Except...

"Wait, how do you know my name?"

[aroaceleovaldez]

Actually one more thing about Sun & Star -

“But can a being made of light survive in the darkest part of the world?”

So like. Is this a metaphorical thing or is Will actually made of light now? Is that a decision we’re making? Cause I am FASCINATED by the implications of that. Also, Tartarus itself isn’t the darkest part of the world, Nyx’s Palace is. Though there was some indication that Nico may have gone there in his first venture to Tartarus, which is Very Interesting because if they return there then you have a literal Son of the Sun venturing into The Literal Realm Of Night and i can only imagine that’ll be a fascinating scenario.

[charulein]

Honestly my main grievance with ffxiv is how the female characters are treated lmao

[leedongsik]

I want Naksu to get her memories back and be her badass self so bad but at the same time I want Uk to fall for her again without knowing it's her and her current self is so cute and funny, why are we only getting 10 episodes...