#vitalazam

[ssseriema]

displays of affection. or somehting

[mering]

with him i have an ending

okay i want to explain some of my thought process for this one. i started it for the vsz week prompt "gods/worship" (and obviously did not finish it in time), where i wanted to do something with depictions of sainthood in medieval art and the imagery in illuminated manuscripts.

i took the basic idea of the pose from (many versions of) st michael and the dragon, switched around so that despite keeping the original power balance intact, zam is the one being impaled; in defeating vitalasy, he's forcing his hand to hurt himself. if it was up to zam, vitalasy would have retaliated and proven him right post-betrayal, but that isn't how it goes.

zam is holding the inverted eclipse shield subz gave him after the betrayal. i drew him in my wormhole design in reference to the final conversation they have, where zam is using the idea that he's broken beyond repair as a shield to avoid having to engage with vitalasy. in short: i'm trying to visually portray the contradiction present in needing someone to hurt you to maintain your worldview/sense of self, when they don't want to do that.

the lyric in the caption is from heartland, which is an album about struggles for authorial control, and resentment over how someone else portrays you, and a shift from complete belief in someone/something towards that resentment... where authorial power is conflated with godhood. (it is also about gay romance.)

also, here's a version from before i did the black background:

[clingyduofan]

telepathic communication

[polyclipse]

Vitalasubzam Week 2024!

Because so many people were interested in this, I speed-ran the creation of the prompt list (with help from a lovely friend <3) These prompts can be any type of fan content, fics, web weaves, art, playlists, anything and everything is happily accepted!

You can participate in any number of days, and you can choose any ship within the trio for any day! I do ask that you tag anything you post with #vsz week 2024 so it can be reposted here!

[smntyheust]

this guy is like 100% normal i'm sure

[nocturnefan]

i dislike them

[uzukali]

fagrts in ma book

[citrusinicake]

Vitalasubzam Week 2024 Day 5: Gods / Worship

man wormhole arc was so sad amirite guys? <--- hasnt reached that part yet

so the posing is somewhat based on this shot from perfect blue where me-mania is being a parasocial creep

obv i dont think vitalasys like that at all but if theres any shot that exemplifies "coveting" to me its this one

[myrmica]

[kishdoodles]

Small affections

[connor6sex]

[ssseriema]

i will eat you alive, and there'll be no more lies

vsz week day 3: golden apple/trust

[mering]

the sun is a cold and pale horizon, and it knows not the rays that it bequeaths unto the dying

[clingyduofan]

my heart is singing for you, and i’m singing along!

[irrealisms]

i lied lol im also dropping some s4 thoughts. i've been doing some thinking about s4 vitalasy & zam recently (when am i ever not thinking about s4 vitalasy & zam) and fairy tales . from vitalasy's perspective they're in the crane wife story, or a similar story. from zam's perspective they're in bluebeard. in both cases you've got one partner keeping a secret in a secret room, and as soon as it's discovered everything collapses and they can't truly stay together anymore. but in the crane wife the secret is self-sacrifice and in bluebeard the secret is hurting others. (notably these are also both gendered--the self-sacrificial victim is the wife, the murderer is the husband. and in lifesteal they're obviously both men and are not playing out traditional fairy tale gendered dynamics lol. this is part of why there isn't a clearcut answer to which of them is right about which story they're in.) either way there is a question hiding in the margins: if the secret is never revealed, will the wife die or will they stay together happily? we don't know. they don't either. they have to open the door. this is how the story goes. there is no version of the story where they don't open the door. the important thing is that the one you love has a room they are hiding from you, with a secret that they know will tear the two of you apart, and you enter it anyway, and things are never the same.

[tomscryingcorner]

princezam fancam. funny caption