#theres nothing left for him

[elegyofthemoon]

squints oh. guilt complex next to saviour complex. i see jots down notes

[ganondoodle]

did another rough concept for faron for my comic

design is based on both skyward swords and botws look since they are the same character in my AU, idk if this is the final one; she will show up in chapter 4

basic design, with robe, and one of her being noisy

(comic concept art)

[mojaves]

ALEX SHEPHERD, THE BOY WHOSE SOUL IS BOUND TO EARTH AND HE CANNOT DIE. // a.k.a how one small mistake can make you wish you stayed dead

jenny holzer / saturniinne / sun bleached flies - ethel cain / orofeaiel / cecil castellucci / violetteforevernever / ojibwa / i know it's over - the smiths / tathève simonyan / stellernorth / robert bly

[intotheelliwoods]

I am stuck between two options... I cant decide...

[catboymitosis]

Pocketcat's attacks being direct paralells to Daan's support moves makes my brain go crazy.

Daan's magna-medicinal where he sacrifices parts of his own body for the sake of others vs Pocketcat's gentle dismember where he asks others to pick what part of them he'll cut off of them.

Daan's loving whispers where he sacrifices his own sanity for the sake of restoring the health of others vs Pocketcat's chilling whispers where he says something so perverse and mentally damaging it makes people freeze up even in the heat of battle.

Like are you seeing this shit? How after he turns into Pocketcat he inflicts what he suffered through onto others instead? How he was taught to self inflict all of it so one day he could come to perpetuate the cycle of abuse? How can I be normal about this?????

[elcucurucho]

the thing about cellbit and roier’s relationship that’s so compelling to me is that they’re both in the process of isolating themselves, roier out of grief and cellbit because of the game he’s playing with the federation. and yet!!! they’ve still gone out of their way to connect with each other and try to provide support! there’s something in there that’s getting it’s claws into my head, like, “I don’t know the details of what’s going on with you right now but I care about you and I want to make sure you’re okay.” something about how they’re both in their own separate downward spirals but they want to help each other regardless of their own baggage!! I feel like I’m going insane!!!

[thirdtimed]

its so crazy how 3L is literally not that serious. but It Can Be. if you use your beautiful mind

[ilynpilled]

I feel like as the resident dishonor/honor guy enjoyer I have to speak on honor as a construct and how it seems to operate in asoiaf in my eyes. I will be stating the obvious here imo but: violence IS inherent to it. Be it directly or through the enablement of it. “Honor”, as a feudalistic moral construct, revolves around the reinforcement of a status quo. It is a moral construct that is embedded into a feudalistic structure, one that is inherently violent. It can be deeply flawed and destructive as a result of deeply rooted systemic issues. Being “honorable” is very complicated because, again, it does not exist based on a very sensible moral framework. It ends up contradicting itself because the way society is structured in Westeros.

Almost nothing embodies this more clearly than the KG. They are supposed to be the paragons of honor: an unsoiled white cloak.

Vows are social contracts this society is built on. This is why Jaime is very restricted in a lot of ways in his world by his label. Breaking one of the most important contracts (one that happens to be key in reinforcing a feudalistic structure: it places the king’s will above every single other moral or ethical code) makes it so he is not believed or trusted and he is unable to operate properly within their society in a lot of circumstances, as we witness in his chapters. It is honorable to protect the weak and the innocent, but it is honorable to protect your king in all circumstances and reinforce a status quo. To obey your family and play your societal role. To obey laws, even if they are unjust. To keep your word, to be honest. Loyalty to a tyrant has to be inherently more honorable (especially in certain positions) to maintain this status quo, even though it contradicts other oaths and we know it is inherently immoral. Balancing values is the most interesting aspect of characters dealing with ‘honor’ and morality. Feudalism is what makes the honor system collapse. Honor itself can be a more vague concept, “the quality of knowing and doing what is morally right”, but the way it is defined and how it operates within this society is so fucked. The KG appear in the weirwood dream (mirroring the imagery of The Others, conflating the honorable white cloak with snow and cold and death.) “You swore to keep your king safe” “and the children as well.” Yeah, the innocent children of kingslanding as well, that would have burned to ash. It is honorable to save your king, to protect the weak, to save the children, to save the innocents of KG, to obey your father. He tells this to them in the dream, he explains his reasoning for killing Aerys, but they do not budge. That is what Jaime fears the most, the complete collapse of everything that holds meaning to him, heroism becoming undefinable with these conflicting moral codes, which is likely another huge part of him keeping it a secret. It is something he feels powerless against. The way things are prioritized is wrong. Morality becomes skewed. In Jaime’s mind the enemy and primary source of doom is this nonsensical moral construct that contradicts itself represented by institutions that make no sense. It is what makes his symbolic fire go out. His moral code conflicts with this society’s code of ethics, which eventually leads him to cynically accept amorality. It is disillusionment that tears the idea of heroism and being “honorable” apart and leads to moral nihilism.

Another aspect of the honor code and its violence is the fact that it places more value to individuals based on class. It is dependent on class and a flawed social structure. This is despite the fact that vows of knighthood call for the protection of those that are too weak to protect themselves: the underprivileged. Jaime keeps having this epiphany of an inherent equality in death that seems to contradict the way society is structured. Aerys’ life is worth inherently more according to the honor code than Rhaella’s, than the lives of thousands of innocents, than Jaime’s. Yet, a lowborn hand, no one, seems to die harder than Aerys does (and nobody cares). A crown is worth nothing when crows feast on victors and vanquished alike, and the rightful heir himself. We are all equal in death, so the text is indicating that something is not right here.

When it comes to characters and their relationship with honor the important through-line is examining whether they are being “honorable” in the abstract sense, if they base their actions around empathy and a sense of actual justice, or if they are abiding by made up flawed constructs. Being viewed as honorable by this society does not make you a good person. In fact, in order for you to abide by the honor code you would likely have to turn into an amoral individual. For example, if you try to keep the cloak pure white you will metaphorically soil it. Like every one of Aerys’s kingsguard did. To keep their oath to the king, they broke vows to protect innocents and protect women. They should lose their honor by a lot of definitions, but that would mean the status quo collapses. Jaime’s knighting for this reason is very much like a boy being sacrificed at an altar. It is not just about drawing a parallel between young girls and boys being sentenced to bloody doom by violent constructs created for their gender.

“Blood is the seal of our devotion.” He bleeds on his plain white tunic. It was never “pure white”, it was always all tainted in blood. It is inherently violent. You can argue that is when “the boy died.”

Very rigid and hypocritical honor codes built for feudalism lack nuance and lead to amorality. I think George aims to address, interrogate, deconstruct, and then reconstruct honor, as with most other key concepts present in fantasy. Honor can be redefined. Examples like “No chance, and no choice”, among many others, are at the root of that reconstruction. Even then, the reconstruction does not conflate it with pacifism necessarily. For example, Chelsted did the ‘honorable’ thing, in the abstract moral sense, of quitting his job and not supporting a tyrant anymore, but that act achieved nothing in preventing the wildfire plot. Same with essentially everyone important at court abandoning the situation that is Aerys, turning away from a gaping wound and not addressing it before it was too late. Jaime had to soil the ‘white cloak’ and disrupt the status quo and lose his “honor” within those terms by murdering his king and his pyromancers as a kingsguard and actually save half a million lives. It was not glorious, nor was it anything like the songs, and the city is still doomed because there is no way to get that festering corruption out of there at this point, metaphorical of the greater problem with KG, but it was heroism, a choice with meaning, and a form of triumph, even if the consequences break Jaime down the line. He gets no answer to the question of what it means to be a knight and a man of honor if society’s version of it is so skewed. Then, Jaime and the readers get an answer in the form of Brienne: “I dreamed of you.”

[popiplant]

hey did you guys notice the the uhm the lighting in these scenes. did you.

[skunkes]

talons been meant to have Some Butt since his inceptionbut that ask has me wondering whether or not he shpuld have a lil gamestop booty. Adm the thing about that is I will never understand people who draw like, only women woth the same exact body types under the guise of "well its what i find attractive/i like drawing attractive people🙄" like youre telling me theres no circumstance in which you:d find a lil gamestop booty attractive? grow up

[dennisboobs]

talking to macdennis shippers makes me realize how much more i enjoy charden lmfao

[lokh]

FINALLY ANOTHER LAIOS/SHURO ENJOYER!! ppl love toxic yaoi until one of them is actually mean and jealous of the other🙄

ITS YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD

[scramble-crossing]

Yknow what after thinking about it for a little bit I actually love Neo Joshua. He's really come into his own as a Composer, and by that I mean he's totally discarded every last shred of humanity that clung to him and made him who he was in the first game: jaded and misanthropic and so miserable in his isolation and his perceived impossibility of human connection that he was wiling to take the whole damn city down with him just to escape it, but still having enough of heart left in him to let Neku change his mind, to hurt when he sees him with his new friends and his new life, something he will never have, knowing it's by his own design.

And yeah, you can totally read him as still having those traits in Neo if you want! I'm not against it. It's certainly a fun interpretation.

But you can also read him as being way, way worse than before and that's just so fantastic thematically. Of course he was going to end up like this! That's what being the Composer does to you! Of course he would let Neku and his friends and his own proxy's friends die so long as he secured victory in his little inter-planear chess match and kept his city intact. Of course he would see Shoka's entire existance as nothing more than a way to settle his debt to Rindo. These people are ants to him! It's a Sims game! It's goddamn Pikmin! He doesn't care. He can't care. He's a God and he gave up the right to be anything else a very long time ago.

Now even Neku, the person who was shot by him and forced to fight tooth and nail for his life for no greater crime than being at the wrong place at the wrong time, who said he would trust him even if he couldn't forgive him, doesn't trust him anymore. He saw Joshua and the person he'd become and was quicker to believe that he'd stuffed him in Shinjuku for his own gain. He did it! He finally broke the camel's back!! You really fucked that one up didn't you Jotchy boy!!!!

[ourhouseishaunted]

70% of my trigun thoughts are abt how plants (independent and dependant) work and what they symbolize and their relationships with other characters and the world and stuff and the implications of independent plants coming with the earth forces and what it says about how earth has progressed since SEEDS left the planet, 20% of my thoughts are "hope those guys (meryl milly vash livio ww knives) are having fun" and 10% is rotating trimax Rem Saverem around in my head at all times

[cruelsister-moved2]

man one thing idk how to feel about is the trans men you periodically see weighing in on 'lesbians who fuck men' discourse, usually pretty young people who dont have much experience, desperately insisting that lesbians can be attracted to men because their lesbian girlfriend says so. look I'm not trying to be mean but you need to realise she doesn't see you as a man. she sees you as a woman, or basically a woman, and that's why she likes you. if she was attracted to you as a man she would have to reconsider her feelings about men. if it's just you, that's because she doesn't see you as one.

[toytulini]

i made an oc thats at least nicknamed "Stupid" and im constantly thinking about what a power move that is tbh