#dark soul real

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THREE NEW SHIRT PREORDERS ARE UP FEATURING (FINALLY) THE I GUESS MEME Y'ALL LOVE ON HERE

#i guess #dark soul real #dark souls #shirts

[rachelfloof]

#if you ship mystic flour x eternal sugar you're also indirectly shipping hollycacao idc what anyone says #this makes them soul mates in the most literal sense #hollyberry is loving the lesbian energy created in the studio today /ref #hollycacao #hollyberry cookie #dark cacao cookie #mystic flour cookie #eternal sugar cookie #mystic flour x eternal sugar #cookie run #dark cacao malewife real #rachelfloof art

[piracytheorist]

Oh BOI when I tell you this transition gave me shivers

This is a prime example of why spies like Twilight cannot afford emotional attachment, why their entire survival depends on them ignoring their own internal struggles.

Donovan Desmond is a force to be reckoned with; within minutes of meeting Loid, he shamelessly shares his corrupted views on humanity:

"It is simply impossible to understand what someone else is thinking. People will never be able to understand each other."

And that's why you're using force to bring other nations to their knees?

There you have Twilight; a man who lost everything in a war started by people who had the same way of thinking that Desmond has; a man who has sacrificed his own identity and chances of personal happiness in his mission to never allow others to suffer like he did.

The emotional investment is huge. He doesn't do it just because he thinks it's the right thing to do, he does it because he has first-hand experience of how much pain a war can cause. And he'd rather keep suffering if it means such pain won't be felt again by anyone else.

And yet, through all his internal turmoil, he has to look at Desmond and smile and agree with him. Him acting like the loyal Ostanian citizen who believes the Desmond group cares for the country is nothing compared to this transition. He goes from a man who is haunted by the traumas of his past to a beaming, hopeful man who indirectly endorses violence - the very thing that ruined his and many other people's lives - over understanding among humans

He has to become the exact opposite of what he stands for, become the kind of man like the ones whose actions ruined him. And the ironic depiction is not lost to the audience; his eyes are covered in shadows as we hear his inner thoughts, slowly getting brighter as he prepares his disguise, and finally getting back to the light when he fully dons it.

It's disturbing and it's wrong and it's the opposite of how it should be. Twilight may have made it his life's mission to never act on his emotions, but it's perfectly clear he does have emotions; he's just very good at willingly pushing them aside. And this depiction in that lighting is perfect to show how it's a necessary and conscious depravity of his own self that he has to partake in in order to survive and see his mission through.

It's brilliant. Disturbing, but brilliant.

(Anime only fan here, don't spoil me for the manga)

#Spy x Family #sxf meta #Loid Forger #I just!! #I love it both from a storytelling and an angst standpoint #cause we know that his end goal is a noble one #with relatable and respectful motives #but we are made aware of how much he ignores his own emotions #and how prepared he is to pretend he's everything he's not #and go against his own real self #how dark and how deep he's ready to go #he's a hero who casts no shadow - but who is FULL of shadows in his soul #500 #1k

[is-the-fire-real]

Another bit on the pro-Pal fandom, this one axiomatic

Being a good person is not the same thing as pretending as though you believe you are a good person.

Being a good person takes work. You have to do stuff. Doing stuff is hard. Doing good stuff is harder, because you have to put thought into determining what you think is good beforehand. That requires self-reflection, honesty, a willingness to challenge oneself, and taking in information from other people to verify that your concept of "good" is, well, good.

The nice part is that once you evaluate what is good and start doing good things, it becomes easier. You gain inner calm, peace, and even joy.

("Good" is not always the same as "necessary". Necessary work can be a slog, or it can be horrific. But there can still be a calming satisfaction at the core, the security that this is necessary and therefore worthwhile.)

Pretending to believe you are a good person takes less immediate work. You don't have to do anything that positively impacts the real world, and you don't have to do any of that annoying, time-consuming self examination. But in the long run, it's more exhausting. By far.

You are insecure about whether or not you are a good person. You're pretending to believe you are good. You can't feel secure in something you pretend to believe. That insecurity gnaws at you, especially when you engage in bad behavior--harassment, doxxing, posting gore, swarming tags, encouraging and promoting suicide among your fellow "activists", telling your opponents to kill themselves, stalking, spamming unrelated content with literal Nazi propaganda.

None of those are good things good people do. And you understand that. You would think someone was bad if they did those things to you. The cognitive dissonance between who you want to be and who you really are, as determined by your actions, is scary. It's painful. It rears up every time someone you have labeled a Zio colonizer scumbag asks you to please just stop and you remember a time when you begged someone--an abuser, a troll online, a 4channer, your parents--to just stop please just leave me alone.

That must feel terrifying, and again, it makes you insecure. It makes you question if you're doing the right thing.

So you do the work to pretend to believe you are good. And that's far more work than goes into being good.

You recruit others, and all of you agree that you will pretend together. Tabletop gaming has taught us how powerful this imaginative play can be. You all reassure each other that you are good and you are right. But since you're all lying to each other, that means you must spend more, and more, and more time every day telling each other that you are good, chasing that high, that feeling that you are a good person and your actions are justified.

You tell each other that your "opponents" in this "battle" are not people, so anything you say or do to and about them is okay. You look at lists of "dehumanizing tactics" and instead of internalizing what those lists are teaching you, you go: "Ah, so if I don't use the word 'vermin', anything I say should be fine!" And then you say it.

You do not smile over good news. You only smile when one of your opponents logs off Tumblr because you made the site unusable and unsafe for them. (The expression you make there isn't really a smile, but we'll call it that, since the corners of your mouth do turn upward.) You tell yourself you're just attacking Zionists and pretend you do not see how you're really going after Jews.

No self-examination; that would mean admitting that you're lying to yourself and others. Instead, you traumatize and exhaust yourself until you're psychologically incapable of self-examination. You watch snuff films. You stare at mangled bodies until you're weeping and physically ill (certainly, you're too ill to check whether the video is real, or if it was taken from this conflict).

You force your beliefs into your fandom spaces so that others, the bad people, cannot escape their complicity in genocide.

But more importantly, you do that so you can't escape.

You cannot engage in any fandom but the pro-Pal fandom because that takes imaginative energy away from your biggest pretense--that you're a good person.

You are NOT hurting people because you are striking a blow for Palestinians. You are hurting people, including yourself, because you do not want to do the work of becoming a good person. You are afraid that self examination, at this point, will reveal to you that you are exactly the sort of person you believe you are fighting.

That fear, that insecurity, that dread, that restless sense that if you ever rest or stop or think for just a moment, you'll discover something awful? That's your conscience.

I do not ask you to change your mind about your political opponents. Your defenses are already on your lips and in your mind; a thousand How Dare Yous for me hinting that you look at other people as people. What I will ask you is to consider this.

I came to young adulthood just as Bush was elected, and the Iraq War post-9/11 was the first war I really followed as an adult. I did what you're doing now. I forced myself to look at photographs of destroyed bodies. I looked at photographs of torture perpetrated by US soldiers. I blogged about it obsessively.

I told myself that I was Doing My Part to end the war. But really, it's that the anxiety of being an American during the war made me insecure over whether or not I was responsible for all of this, and therefore, a bad person. If I pretended my looking at snuff photos was activism, and that it was good, then I could pretend to believe I was good and shout "Not in my name" at protests. I could deny my responsibility.

What I really did was traumatize myself. It's been almost twenty years. I can still see some of those torture pictures in my head. In the end, that is the extent of the impact of my online activism. The blogs are all long deleted, and nobody remembers them.

Only my trauma remains.

I do not want this for you. I want you to be wiser. There is still time. You can stop.

Stop hurting yourself and other people. Do the hard work. Examine yourself and your actions. Consider what your own heart is trying to tell you whenever you start to get the shakes and your throat gets tight. Do not take that feeling out on random people online because they have a Magen David in their pfp.

Once you have done the hard work, it gets easier. You will be able to advocate and work for whatever causes you believe in because you know they are good, not because you're joining your friends in cosplaying goodness. You will still be traumatized, and you will still be sad, and you'll definitely still get angry. You will have to face how you've acted exactly like your own past abusers, and that's a real tough row to hoe.

But at the end, you will be able to advocate and work because you want to, instead of feeling as though you must in order to keep up the masquerade.

#free gaza #free palestine #palestine #politics as fandom #suicide #torture #trauma #worse than slacktivism #abuse #is-the-fire-real original #g-d damn it you've got to be kind #i understand you won't listen to this. it's okay if you don't #i may have addressed “you” but i was soothing my own conscience #because i think it's a good thing to tell people to stop harming themselves and others #and it's not my responsibility to change your behavior #it's yours #i'm also not addressing your antisemitic actions #not because you aren't doing that #but because that is between you and your dark night of the soul

[kashuan]



Even More p8cr8 :^)

#dark souls #dark souls 2 #mild-mannered pate #creighton the wanderer #p8cr8 #does the generic MC have a tag dgdsdsd #some pate x (not interested) reader goin on here #okay and now this time for real i'll draw someone else next dsgdgd #also. what in god's name happened to the upload photoset ui. #art

[lastoneout]

People who are newer to FromSoft games tend to think that the best way to be rude to someone you just fought is to teabag them, but this is incorrect. If you teabag me I will simply think "ah what an immature dick" and move on.

However, if you do the gesture where you point down at the ground after fighting me, I will consider it a horrendous slight against my entire being and all I hold dear, and will simmer with rage while praying for your swift demise for the rest of the day. It's truly the most powerful and grievous of insults, and will make any player who's in the know fucking hate you.

Essentially, the teabagging is a "haha gottem" which is easy to brush off, while the point down is a firm "you suck at this game" and needless to say, it hits different.

#nothing wrong with being new but it is very clear when players in elden ring #bcs they are not privy to the unspoken etiquette that has been a staple of the community from the beginning #teabaging is rude but pointing down?? that's the real dick move #that's how you REALLY make it hurt #elden ring #dark souls #soulsborne #fromsoft #all you need to know is 1) don't heal during a pvp fight #2) waving your shield means 'let's fight' #and 3) pointing down mean 'you're bad at this' which is meaner than anything else you could do or say

[littlegoldfinchh]

#im heavy breathing for real #dark souls #elden ring

[fairyroses]

— SMALLVILLE, "Accelerate" (2.21) & "Wrath" (7.07)

+ bonus:

#someday I want to make a really comprehensive 'morally grey lana' gifset but god knows I don't have the time for that right now lol #but for now here's this #given this show's piss poor track record with continuity I'm actually shocked that these s2 and s7 scenes complement each other so well #(the 7x07 convo had to be edited down but I kept the most important/relevant bits) #smallville #smallvilleedit #svedit #clark kent #lana lang #lex luthor #clana #dcmultiverse #sv 2x21 #sv 7x07 #my gifs #lana always knew that she wasn't perfect and she was right to worry about what would happen once clark finally realized it #but he just wouldn't listen to her #and when he finally saw the real dark ruins of her soul... he flinched #because the lana that clark thought he loved was really just an idealized image that he had projected onto her #and that's why their relationship was always doomed to fail #even though they technically stayed together after this (which was a baffling writing choice tbh) they were never the same #also I just need to point out that lex is obviously trying to save his own life in the bonus gif... but he's also RIGHT #lex knows better than anyone what it feels like to topple off the pedestal that clark kent put you on #and I think he really was trying to save lana from the same fate #btw I didn't include his next line but it's 'you might not want to admit it but we understand each other' and that's just... whew #real 'I've seen you in all your fucked up glory and I know that you're just like me' energy #(sorry I'm clearly still thinking about that post that I reblogged last night lmao)

[moonstonetombstone]

#lol #meme #real #elden ring #dark souls #shadow of the erdtree

[crimsongrimoire]

never call the iudex's bluff worst mistake of wrios life. rip wriothesley then-now he died doing what he loved (flirting too much and it backfiring on him)

#crow.txt #genshin #snippets #wriolette #neuvithesley #whatever whichever #sfw #fluff #?? i guess #wow that image looks real grainy in the preview sure hope it doesnt upload like that #dark souls font KINK UNLOCKED #idiot just got his brain completely rewired

[val-of-the-north]

Merciless Roenna's backstory

#dark souls 2 #merciless roenna #aldia scholar of the first sin #royal sorcerer navlaan #ruined alfis #(I am sure no one has ever tagged either roenna or alfis ever before me lmao) #ever wondered why this warlock mask-wearing cutie was in Huntsman's Copse? #...you didn't? uh... #well here's why. 100% real no fake #dark souls #val-arts #val-post

[kcggggg]

#dark soul real

[indiiglow]

Yeah post nut clarity but have you ever tried defeating a difficult Souls boss?

#indi's knight adventures #dark souls #Bloodborne #in other words I finally got SOC snfksjg #those hands shaking are REAL #and the relief when you've been struggling for hours 😩👌

[chubbidust]

I wonder how Ralsei would react to the Human of the Prophecy, the only person for MILES who can seal the Dark Fountains, being a tiny baby who doesn't know how to speak and can barely walk

bro would be flabbergasted

#not art #deltarune #babyrune #real answer: bro would probably be upset cuz the prophecy never specified any of the delta warriors being TWO #he's sketchy but i dont think he would want a two year old sealing the fountains #or even being in the dark world #imagining trying to let kris lead the party but their feet hurt and they just want uppies #and they have a tantrum cuz someone eats dark candy to heal and they didn't SHARE #if it isn't clear babyrune is an au with a bunch of duct tape holding it together #with the soul i think it's possible for everything to happen one way or another #without it kris would be much more toddler-like

[leonisloresmith]

How are baby cookies made?

Storks… Storks deliver them, that’s how.

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #sugar lace storks #dark cacao cookie #dark choco cookie #I guess since they’re here too #me art #yeah cookies are half convinced the storks are related to the sugar swan #becuase how the hell do they keep getting the perfect ingredients to match kids with their parents #storks just show up sometimes whether you’re ready or not #if I’m looking at my cookie run au cacao is lying about the stork #the stork isn’t real #soul jam descendants au

[ryann-44]

old doodle of friede

#I got one of lotheric 2 I just cant get a good photo #the real reason why I don’t do trad art lol #art #my art #sketch #sister friede #dark souls #dark souls 3 #dark souls fanart