#poetic. actually. god

[sollucets]

so the summonable ghouls from the necromancy of thay i gave astarion paralyzed cazador and let starry rogue triple crit him to death

#it was astonishingly low chances…. cazador had to roll a five to get paralysed #& then he rolled a nine and i bardic’d it #so there was a chance it wouldnt work #poetic. actually. god #cinematic rolls is what dnd is ABOUT #also got a nat 20 on the persuasion roll not to ascend which i think is very. 🥹 of me #mostly for the 🥺 of it all on that one though. #because i didnt need it im a bard w persuasion proficiency and advantage #i had a +18 to that roll Without guidance. lmao #bg3posting #anyway. im a lil. wah #rowan chatter

[hinamie]

some quick jjk eye paintings

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #megumi fushiguro #yuji itadori #nobara kugisaki #yuta okkotsu #gojo satoru #geto suguru #ryoumen sukuna #fanart #jjk fanart #tagging everyone feels like it took longer than the actual painting my god #i believe ive gone on record waxing poetic about how i love lower eyelids and how i could paint them fr hours #so i put my money where my mouth is and thats what i did today . self care :) #i had a cool idea fr gojo where i wanted to do like an abberated effect to show 2 extra sets of eyes #but god it looked cluttered and awful no matter what layer mode i put it on sdgdgjsdg #settled fr chromatic abberation on th irises :') #quickish painting but i am ! happy ! #very proud also of the different eye shapes i ws able to achieve while keeping them consistently sized #was worried abt geto there fr a sec #but tbh he turned out to be one of my favs ????? surprised myself #anyway this is my love letter to eye skin <3 i love u lower eyelid folds mwah <3

[c-hrona]

Pietà

#trigun #trigun maximum #trigun manga #trigun spoilers #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood #spoilers #Did it some time ago while reading trimax and didn't post it because I'm an idiot and forgot about it???? #sooooo i'm posting it now because i miss stampede saturdays already MY GOD #anyway i had to cope with Wolfwood death in some ways since it ripped my fucking heart in the most cruel way #jesus... the way he screams and cries because HE'S HOME and then he dies with a gentle smile on his face #the way vash seems to mourn in silence and mantaining his composure #only to discover later that he actually had shortened his lifespan in a moment of pure grief and rage against knives arc #fucking poetic #i hate them so much i wish they had more time i wish they were happy they fucking deserved it fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck #anyway iconographic religion imagery be upon ye i guess #oooooh there are so many christian paintings and sculptures to homosexualize :3c #chronart

[beanghostprincess]

i'm sooo normal about worried/protective boyfriend/first mate zoro

#so normal i'm so normal #<- actually is going insane #god i love them i love him #they're so real to me #they're extremely poetic i'm dying #one piece #roronoa zoro #monkey d luffy #zolu #wano

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Brazilian Grand Prix - Podium - Fernando Alonso

#HE IS SO RADIANT ON THIS PODIUM I LOVUUUU HIMMMMMMMM #once all the pics get released on all the websites i think ill have mental breakdown pt 2 #my roman empire is hoping someone took a pic of him holding the hat in his mouth #real ones will know about my weird obsession with confetti....fufilled today #im so annoyed they cut away when he did his jumpy mario thing #he does it every single time they should know this!! #so thank you to aston's insta for the clips #not my best quality gifs which is annoying but uhhhh i am under duress from myself LMAO #i need to make a brazil 2023 moodboard just from my deranged liveblogs cause my god #see you in Vegas!!! what a way to end a triple header wow. it really made the suffering in cota and mexico worth it #now old man better keep up this performance istg #but like seriously i could wax poetic about his defneding and overtaking in this race #it was actually unbelievable the level of skill he has #to defend against the superior rb19 for like 30~ laps and then to be able to overtake it with his much slower car??? chills. #has anyone gifed his overtake bcs my god i fell down #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #2023 brazilian gp #we do a little bit of f1

[taikanyohou]

“You deserve a lot of credit.” Huang You Ming As Ye Bai Yi + Li Dai Kun As Xie Wang. WORD OF HONOR (2021) - Episode 32.

#word of honor #wohedit #wohdaily #asiandramasource #cdramasource #cdramaedit #cdramanet #yexie #* #faiza gifs #ive never actually ever giffed this scene in its entire form BUT !!!!!!!!!!! GOD. #ZJ SHUT UR DAMN MOUTH FGS PLEASE. #ANNNYWAAAAAAY MY SWEETEST BABES! #ive waxed LYRICAL and POETICALLY about them but GOD. the WAY xie wang's ENTIRE ... demeanour just. CHANGES. when ye baiyi just #doles out the praise. GOD. #yby will give the EXACT amount of praise that he thinks someone is worthy of having from him and so i LOVE how zj just has .... #like. SO little awareness man. #like bro READ the room man. #anyway i LIVE in the last few gif where yby turns and gives xw that SMIRK #his TRADEMARK smirk ....oh oh ohhhh man.

[rhaenin-time]

No, House Targaryen is not inherently "doomed" by the very same flaws (and themes) that doomed the civilization that they left.

No, they're not fated to succumb to the Doom that they survived specifically because of the foresight that set them apart from everyone else who perished. Not only would it be terrible, simplistic writing, it would also endorse a terrible, simplistic worldview.

People choosing to make House Targaryen a representation of and thematic successor to not just the civilization that they differentiated themselves from, but the power structure that they chose to leave, literally divested from, and actively worked to prevent from rising again in another form... really rubs me the wrong way.

Why isn't this projection and generalization done for any of the families that come from the cultures that are not coded as other? Why is it only the family that's been separated from their cultural context? Why do the other families each get to be unique, complex manifestations not just of different aspects of their cultures, but of their own specific histories?

Why is the foreign degenerate family both a representation of everything wrong with the culture they come from, and a scapegoat for everything wrong with the system they assimilated into? How is it they represent everything bad about what they left behind, and also everything bad about the land they came to? Even though all those flaws are not only shared by the system as a whole, but are flaws that predate their arrival, that they were punished for resisting, and that they are demonstrated to be incompatible with. Why is it always both?

It just rings so familiar to the way so many people view the other in real life. Because the Targaryens are overtly, and intentionally written as the other. It's the reason so many people identify with them, and it's the very same reason that other people vilify them. They're not just the in-universe other to the 'default' culture established in the text, but they're also given characteristics that we, the reader and audience, can recognize as other and even sometimes anathema to Western Christian culture.

Perhaps the old tales were true, and Dragonstone was built with the stones of hell

A Storm of Swords, Chapter 25, Davos III

I want you to ask yourself: Why is the idea of "fire and brimstone" evil?

To paraphrase the annoying people that love to cite Ramsay when they feel like it: If you look at a morally complex family surrounded by other morally complex families in a morally complex world in a story that's famed for seeking to challenge your underlying assumptions, and think that their association with fire and brimstone is meant to signify their singular satanic evilness, rather than say... challenge that very Eurocentric assumption, you haven't been paying attention.

This vilification mindset where the Targaryens are the singular evil of Westeros is so common to people who seem to want to consume ASoIaF without engaging with the criticisms of the Eurocentric worldview of history at the heart of it. And they end up using the convenient “others” to project all the wrongs of that world onto so they don't need to examine it any deeper.

This is the part where I so often get crucified!

This is the take that so often gets me crucified for "trivializing real world bigotry" in an attempt to "moralize interpretations of fiction" by an onslaught of people with troubling ideologies who then ironically steer the onslaught to moralizing their interpretations of fiction in a way that seeks to either mask or justify their troubling ideologies.

The worldbuilding of ASoIaF is an almost unparalleled projection of the Eurocentric worldview. That's what makes the world feel so rich. That's why GRRM and even the readers and audience are able to craft so many details that feel intuitive. But that also means that how you choose to interpret that world is often driven by underlying biases and ideologies that relate to that worldview — especially if you're not willing to challenge them the way George RR Martin does and encourages you to do.

It means that certain potential biases and ideologies people might balk at outwardly expressing in the real world are recontextualized in a way that feels more comfortable to indulge in.

There are countless examples from countless parts of the narrative. Honestly, you could fill books on the matter. But the one I'll point to right now is how the vilification I pointed out earlier is so emblematic of how the Eurocentric worldview often seeks to project their own flaws onto the other or choose scapegoats for systemic issues.

It comes from the same place with how someone pointed out that the baffling bastardphobia that would have medieval peasants giving the side eye is so often people jumping at the chance to “cosplay” as bigots who base their arguments in misogyny and bio-essentialism. Because it's an acceptable channel to indulge in that mindset in a way that they'd often otherwise question, or at least hold back from expressing out of caution.

And there I go again. "Moralizing fandom" for pointing out that fandom is so often used as a 'safe space' to build communities that share and spread troubling ideologies that you're not allowed to criticize because those ideologies have been 'appropriately' decontextualized from their real-world parallels, even though those parallels are still very much there.

But the problem is that it's impossible to simply 'channel' bigotry and leave it in an 'acceptable' space, because bigotry doesn't work like that. It's not a static object you can carry around in your pocket to play with when you think it's safe to do so. It's a blight. A living poison that feeds and grows and spreads. And if you give it a 'safe space' and continue to feed it with 'acceptable' fuel, it will always find its way out.

#oh my god this rant took so many turns #but how poetic would it be to get 'crucified' over this take #this was just supposed to be me slowly working towards my long essay about why people love to call targaryens “nazis” #but god i could fill a book with how fandom is an incubator for bad real-world politics #and then i was like - fuck - i got cancelled on twitter so often for any take like this and it's actually aggravating #asoiaf fandom #asoiaf #hotd #fire and blood #house targaryen #daenerys targeryan #hotd critical #because you KNOW some of those writers have been indulging in this interpretation #don't get me started on the 'eastern decadence' themes that also pop up around the targaryens #and how it relates to their 'eastern aesthetic' that would take all day

[pearlsinmyhair]

ok ok ok one thing most don’t know about me is that i’m bi-curious. not exactly bisexual, because i lean towards men and more masculine traits, but im not opposed or disgusted at the thought of intimately knowing and loving a woman. it’s rare for me, so when it happens it floors me a bit.

a once in a blue moon occurrence, if you will.

- minor spoilers for blue eye samurai beyond this point -

so i was very confused when this woman appeared on screen, stuck in the tried and true conflict of do i want to be her or be with her.

and, after a day of contemplation, i have concluded that i would marry mizu in a fucking instant.

an. instant.

#— ⚔︎ blue eye samurai #mizu my beloved #like no actually my girl crushes light me on fire #that’s a little too poetic for a brainrot but i digress #like UGH #love her with everything i have #blue eye samurai #please watch it #i need a new season my god

[an-established-butt-dent]

Dragon Age Inquisition, Solas

POV you find out Solas hates tea.

Acrylic ink and Posca markers on bamboo paper.

#I just wanted an excuse to draw Solas' judgy stare #Come on you just know every day he has to swallow his disgust at ferelden quisine pretending to be a humble wandering apostate hobo #while actually he is used to living as spoiled wolf prins god #munching on virgin rainbow icecream or something #Or tea made from the reflection of the moon or some poetic shit #and inquisitor lavellan is just confused why he is looking so weird during their tea date? #personal headcannon hahaha #solas #solavellan #fen'harel #solasmance #solas dragon age #solas dread wolf #the dread wolf rises #and his number one weakness is tea #dai #my art #original art #da fanart #da #the dread egg #egg husband #egg #my favourite egg #my fanart #illustration

[texasthoughtsaboutnothing]

Imagining a mirror world where Sinclair manifests Phillip's EGO after Kromer kills his family instead of joining her. If that Sinclair were to meet the other SInclairs of the mirror... he would despise the One Who Shall Grip. That man didn't have it in him to run away or even to properly distort. He just gave in.

Likewise, NClair hates this person who actually overcame his sorrow and now looks at him with scorn and pity. Someone who rose with his sorrow, embracing a new path instead of meandering on road decided for him, a road that Nclair knows is wrong but will not diverge from.

Each reminds the other of their greatest failures, their worst impulses, their potential realized and unrealized.

#limbus company #project moon #all im saying is its actually somewhat poetic how im ditching nclair for my burn teams the second I get dawn office sinclair #god please be good #please be absolutely cracked

[allfortzu]

what if i EXPLODE

#the most basic and classic kpop queerbait pose but i still love it youre right #the lyrics during these scenes too this is a song for women and sapphics #they did this for the gay closeted church girls #i literally had a hand over my mouth gasping shocked shaken the entire mv GAOWD im giving the japan division a big kiss rn #momos wolfcut too IM GONNA GJRKDUWP38RBJ #the bridge was so good mina always serves she has given and she has never disappointed! #i LOVE the way sana sang the mmm humming part in the beginning it reminds me of her lines in wallflower and YEAH SHES STILL THE BEST AT IT! #and momos rapping OHHHHHH she has truly never not killed a rap her deep raspy voice is so perfect omg #them turning into paintings in the end YEAH POETIC CINEMA #so glad they made this a littke gay bc all art is inherently gay no im not elaborating #yes obv i saw minas back they had no business putting it there not even 30 secs into the song what if i actually combusted #having this AND oec air force one in one week if god hates the gays why do we always win 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[ichikalvr]

VERY VERY RANDOM BUT i don't think i've seen a lot of ppl talk abt lizzie and pearl yet. and that's crazy bc there's actually some similarities FOR SURE

one defining feature i noticed is that both sl lizzie and dl pearl were, well— alone.

nobody came (except joel) to lizzie's slumber party, and she died first while attempting to seek revenge. and even then, she was still forgotten. both in life and death. on the other hand, pearl was abandoned by her soulmate (along with everyone else) and was left to her own devices. yet she eventually came out victorious, feared by many people on the server.

both were lone wolves. both were angry at the crumbling world that they lived in. both wanted to instil fear to those who wronged them. one succeed, one didn't.

both, funnily enough, also had dogs as their allies. iykyk

and even w/o talking abt dl, sl lizzie and sl pearl still have amazing interactions that should be talked abt more!! with pearl winning lizzie's heart and vowing to protect her, to lizzie asking her to burn etho alive because of pearl's traitor task... and if lizzie didn't die that early on, we could've maybe even seen them create some sort of alliance too :O

AUGGHHHHHH I AM SO NORMAL ABT THEM. THEY BETTER INTERACT NEXT SEASON TOO.... i love shadowmoon sm........

(SHOUT OUT TO THIS FIC FOR BEING THE REASON WHY I MADE THIS POST. THANK YOU OP)

#lmk if i get anything wrong bc i am extremely new to the fandom and extremely scared. ANYWAYS #oh god no i can feel another brainrot going. ooh boy #does this count as shadowmoon #fuck it we ball #shadowmoon #secret life #double life #secret life spoilers #ldshadowlady #pearlescentmoon #i also find it very poetic that ppl actually came to attend pearls party while lizzie. yk. yeah #ANDDDDDD the fact that the ppl with no allies (lizzie and scar) either got out first or last. ouch

[menlove]

academic writing is starting out w one thesis and landing somewhere totally different

#somehow I've written like 13 pages so far abt what deities and stories were absorbed into the mythology of god #that wasn't the intent it was just going to be a look at the connections between the ugaritic texts and the tanakh but well. here we are. #capstone of my entire BA being the thesis that God is made up of 2 goddesses and 2 gods. #he's slaying in a bigender manner or whatever #actually more than that bc this is just the ugaritic texts but you can find other gods that got absorbed into god from other nearby #or more ancient traditions #which to Me is very lovely and kind of poetic but that's on a personal spiritual belief note #(not the historical absorption being lovely but rather the spiritual idea that god IS every god. one that has always appealed to me)

[mermaidsirennikita]

choose your fighter: Immortals After Dark epigraphs edition

#romance novel blogging #romance novels #immortals after dark #I MEAN LISTEN. #every romance novel should have an epigraph where people say something super poetic or super stupid or both #also: wicked deeds (book 3) is apparently the first one to have gotten an eipgraph bc my copy of no rest for the wicked (book 2) #doesn't have one #also also: 'the sorceress is an evil bitch but she's MY evil bitch and i'll have no other' still outsells #probs the hottest is garreth macrieve talking about hunting her against her will and bringing her back to his bed #macrieve's is intensely sad actually and i didn't realize that before now #the contrast of tragicomedy with both neomi and conrad's super works #and ofc: 'expert in boys reverse psychology and law enforcement evasion'. best. my baby girl. my precious cinnamon toast crunch #they're both relentless!!! neither of them can be stopped!!!! unstoppable force meets immovable object: the book!!!!! #(lmao i do love also garreth's title being 'king of all lykae' only for him to be immediately relieved of that #and going 'OH THANK GOD')

[mazojo]

I could talk for hours about the importance of education and it’s deep rooted message and themes in m!ik

#this manga is golden. everything good in the world derives from this and it’s so personal to me #EDUCATION AND HAVING GOOD TEACHERS THAT CARE AND GUIDE THEIR STUDENTS IS ACTUALLY SO IMPORTANT #ITS THE BASIS OF OUR SOCIETY AND THE GROWTH FROM BOTH PARTIES TO BUILD A BETTER SOCIETY IS SO MEANINGFUL #Poetic cinema god I can’t I am dealing rn as always m!ik utterly destroying me yet again #m!ik #mairimashita! iruma kun #welcome to demon school iruma kun #manga #sabnock #balam

[nylwnder]

88 signing for 8 years making the angel number 888 and literally manifesting that bag like DOES HE DO THIS ON PURPOSE OR DOES HE NOT EVEN FUCKING KNOW

#hes always poetic #like i cannot with him #god ive never loved someone more it’s actually so concerning JWKEJWKE #william nylander #toronto maple leafs