#theme: fear

[bthump]

what do you think is Guts’ an Griffith’s biggest fears?

Guts: anything bigger and stronger than him. I think that's essentially what the monsters function as in Berserk, thematically - personifications of Guts' fear stemming from his childhood trauma. I mean, that's essentially stated when Guts encounters Zodd and the narrative describes him as terror itself:.

Griffith: I'm going to say failure to achieve his dream. Guts leaving him was worse on him, but it's not something he lived a good portion of his life in fear of the way I think he lowkey, mostly subconsciously, lived in fear of failure. And he sacrifices Guts because he caused him to fail to achieve his dream, by becoming more important.

As a fear it's something that in a happy ending Griffith would've been able to grow past, but he never got the chance to in Berserk.

Like I'd describe Griffith as being driven by guilt, but that kind of goes hand in hand with a fear of failing to achieve the dream so many died for. The fear isn't given centre stage for Griffith the way it is for Guts, thematically, but yeah as a headcanon that's my answer.

Thanks for asking!

#ask #anonymous #character: guts #character: griffith #theme: fear #character thoughts #headcanons

[radiomogai]

[ID: a rectangular flag with 4 equally-sized horizontal stripes with a thinner stripe through the middle. from top to bottom, the stripes are greenish off-black, off-white, swamp green, off-white, and greenish off-black. in the middle of the flag is the vesility symbol. the base shape is a 4-pointed start with smaller points between each star point. the symbol outline is almost-black, and the symbol fill is swamp green. End ID]

Fearenvesi / Fearenvesil

[PT: Fearenvesi / Fearenvesil. end PT]

A vesility for when the fear entities from The Magnus Archives affect most or all of one's identity. This can refer to the concept of fear entities, can refer to several unspecified entities, can refer to fan entities, or any other way that one may feel it fits.

a revenge for @en8y!!! which makes it 8 points for Team Moon i think, because +5 for the base term, +1 for the revenge chain, and +2 for a non-gender term! enjoy, Tech!

@kiruliom and tagging @noxwithoutstars cause TMA =3 (cat face emoticon)

#liom community #liom coining #TMA LIOM #TMA MOGAI #2023coinfight #fearenvesi #fearenvesil #our terms #vesils #theme: TMA #theme: media #theme: fear #theme: divinity #theme: horror #reference book #stealthily terms a coin we'd love to have as well. two birds one stone lol

[honey-makes-mogai]

[Image ID: A MOGAI flag with nine equal horizontal stripes. From top to bottom the colors in order are: dark ink blue, dark blue, teal-green, green, off-white, green, teal-green, dark blue, dark ink blue. /End ID]

Sealeviabonic -

[PT: Sealeviabonic -]

A gender related to paranoia, deep sea monsters, the idea of leviathans beyond human understanding just below the surface, bones so large the creature they belong to is incomprehensible, deep blues and greens, feelings of dread, and fear of the unknown!

Tagging: @radiomogai @obscurian @the-mogai-archives

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#☕️ flags 🍯 #Sealeviabonic #term: gender #Daily Special {Honey's Pick} #theme: leviathan #theme: incomprehensible #theme: ocean #theme: monster #theme: paranoia #theme: color #theme: blue #theme: green #theme: fear #theme: dread #theme: bones #mogai positivity #mogai gender #mogai identity #mogai term #mogai #mogai coining #mogai flag #mogai safe #liom #flag coining #liom flag #mogai label #actually liom #liom coining #liom term

[quottakes]

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

#harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #theme: death #theme: fear #words #literature #novel

[wallpapersdehetalia]

I have photoshop again so more fun abstract ones like this!

Character: Belarus

Theme: Fear; Purple

#hetalia #hetalia wallpapers #wallpaper #computer background #computer wallpaper #background #hws belarus #hetalia belarus #theme: purple #theme: fear #theme: quotes #quote wallpapers #quotes wallpapers

[lucidloving]

David Foster Wallace // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Albert Camus, A Happy Death // Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland // Brené Brown, Dancing Greatly // @danielcalmdown // Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love and Leaps of Faith // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Sleeping At Last—Neptune

#theme: fear of vulnerability #i.e. abstenance from love #web weaving #web weave #webs #poetry #prose #aesthetic #prose poetry #literature #art #book quotes #novels #books #novel quotes #quotes #words #writing #inspo #poems #poems and poetry #compilation #parallels #illustration #song lyrics #mixed media #vulnerability #on love #writing inspo

[talesoftattonwiltswoe]

Datura Vs. Ferna: Fear

If Tatton’s mind was an arena and his fears each the monsters within it, Datura and Ferna were both his champions, his defenders in their own unique way.

Datura would fight Tatton’s fears for him. Outspoken and fearless, she’d relentlessly challenge each his thoughts, raise a flag against his beliefs and wage war against them with her own grounded reason. She’d spear holes in his logic where it faltered and give him a contrasting view that often shook him out of the maze of himself. He oft needed her viewpoints and knew she’d love him regardless of what he feared. Still, a deep inner shame often trailed behind each their interactions, a fear of appearing foolish or being dismissed that made Tatton wear a braver face around her, masking his deeper struggles.

Ferna, on the other hand, never tried to change his mind. She treated Tatton’s fears seriously, as if they were just as real to her as they were to him. But she wouldn’t fight them. Instead, she’d sit with Tatton in his shadows, walk the mazes of his fears with him hand-in-hand, kneel right beside him in each his challenges and quietly but persistently remind him that he had everything he needed within himself to overcome them. She’d inspire courage within him so that he could rise and challenge his fears himself; hope that he could find his own light in shadow. She helped him light his own torch, find his own path, be his own champion.

This was why Datura was the one he leaned on when the world overwhelmed him, but Ferna was the one he turned to when he drowned in himself. If Datura was the one who shattered his labrynths, Ferna was the one who helped him believe he could find the exit. Ferna’s approach was infinitely favored by Tatton. Because he only felt a hero when he found his own path and walked it.

#Theme: Fear #Snippits and Concepts #Datura #Ferna

[willowser]

i think katsuki just answers his phone by barking out, "bakugou." no hello, probably doesn't even look at the caller id LOL when he hears it's you, though, i think he breathes out the tension he didn't realize was coiled in his shoulders, and says a lil, "hey," 🥺🥺

and i think when he calls you, and you answer with your sweet, "helloooo ??" he is so soft 😌 just mumbles out a quiet, "what'chu doin'?" and listens as you tell him, before saying what he needed to 😌

#okay one bkg thought and then i am going to bed hehe #i need him terribly i fear 😔 #pls just the idea of him huddling in a corner so no one can hear him 🥺 as he speaks softly to you 🥺 #and even if he calls to tell you something—he always asks what you're doing 🥺 #and listens 🥺 and engages 🥺 #i also dont think he says goodbye LOL #he just says 'alright' and hangs up LOL #or he says 'alright love you' hang up #why does this make me so insane for him idk idk #✿ thoughts: bakugou #✿ theme: domestic bakugou

[woundgallery]

Tracey Emin, from the series Exorcism Of The Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996

#tracey emin #performance art #art #painting #word art #fear #terror is our real theme #red #contemporary art

[heartscrypt]

the web - fear of manipulation and lost control made manifest

#twst #twisted wonderland #jamil viper #kalim al asim #twst tma au #tma #heartscribbles #dont tag as ship #honestly this piece stands alone w/o the tma au tag but i just want it there for context #but for the very niche audience of tma twst people im sure you all understand me when i say jamil is SOOOOO webcoded #i have a lot of thoughts on a twst tma au that will probably come out later #most of them center around web!jamil tbh #there is something incredibly funny about aligning (guy with horrid fear of all bugs ever) with (spider themed fear god) #i will keep doing it

[bebzbrainw0rmz]

Bunny girl Karin bc my friend said tsun tsuns r bunny coded

#fear and hunger #funger #fear and hunger termina #fear & hunger #fear & hunger termina #karin sauer #idk maybe context is she’s trying to get dirt on someone at a sylvian themed bar? #girl idk #my art

[bthump]

I noticed that Femto and NeoGriff's slitted pupils tend to switch between white and black. Is there some sort of reasoning for the difference or is it just art inconsistency

There are three explanations I can think of for this - two thematic, one world-building, if you want like, real-world logic lol.

So first off, I think it's important to note that glowy pupils/eyes are a recurring thing for the otherworldly characters in general. Locus gets it a lot:

Schierke kinda does:

Danann:

2 versions of Slan:

And like basically every monster

Probably plenty more too but those are all the examples I could quickly find in pages I already have saved. And granted they’re not all identically illustrated, but I feel like the glowing/shiny/brighter pupils thing is similar enough to be grouped together.

So, logical explanation: it's an animalistic way to show they're a step apart from humanity, the way animals' eyes glow when they reflect light. Yk, like deer in headlights. If Griffith/Femto's eyes glow sometimes and sometimes don't, maybe it just depends whether he's catching the light in the right way.

Thematic explanation 1:

Like I detailed in that link up there, it's an illustration of fear that's built from Guts' formative trauma. This doesn't necessarily fit the good characters like Schierke and Danann etc, but it could be that Miura originally stylized the monsters this way to illustrate Guts' fear of them, and then turned it into an inhuman trait in general, or it could be that even "good" characters carry that inhuman tinge that strikes some amount of uncanny fear into people's hearts the way apostles do - for instance, Guts mentions that Skull Knight gives him he exact same feeling Zodd did.

Thematic explanation 2:

It mimicks eyes catching the reflection of bright light, which is a recurring image Miura uses to illustrate longing. Which certainly makes sense for Griffith and the apostles/godhand at least, who all became monsters because they desired something enough to sacrifice for it. Plus Skull Knight and his vengeance campaign.

And potentially any/all of the three explanations can fit depending on character and context - for instance, there's the inhuman explanation for NGriff's eyes glowing, but when we see a close up of the glow when he's looking at Guts over a vast distance like so

it's a good symbol of longing.

When Femto's eyes glow like here

it works pretty neatly for all three.

Anyway I haven't paid attention to all the instances when Griffith/Femto's eyes do this vs when they don't so I can't really say if there's a fully recognizable pattern to it, but I think this works as an explanation for it as a creative choice.

Thanks for the question!

#ask #anonymous #character: neogriffith #theme: fear #theme: true light #theme: picspam

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

#Fear and Hunger #D'arce Cataliss #Cahara #Ragnvaldr #Enki Ankarian #Unlike Dungeon Meshi - I cannot in good faith recommend this game to a broad audience. #My background with F&H goes as follows: I am hanging out with a friend. He says “hey try this game I've been playing.” I say “Okay!” #I have never heard of this game. I pick the mercenary. I go through 5 min of character history and background. I am mauled to death by dogs #It took me 4 resets to even get in the dungeon. But I finally get there. I am caught by a guard. He cuts off all but one of my limbs #I am forced to crawl around in a blood and corpse pit until the game tells me 'give up idiot'. #I reset. I am mauled by dogs again. I realize this is not for me but I am intrigued enough to go home and watch some playthroughs #And WOW what an interesting game it is! I really do appreciate games that blend their design philosophy with the theme it wants to set #This is a game about fear and hunger. And persevering. And penis (my god is there a lot of penis) #I recommend this to people who like extremely challenging games and can handle the many *content warnings* within this series #If the idea of Bloodborne/eldenring and undertale having a little RPG maker baby sounds appealing to you - give it a shot #It's made by ONE GUY and it's a great horror game. I am just really bad at it. #My friends just enjoy putting me in situations where I scream and yell. We don't talk about the corn mazes. Or the other horror game nights #Apparently I'm funny when I'm Scared! #As people who follow me on twitter might know; I am deep in the pits of this series right now. I will be back with more art.

[honey-makes-mogai]

Angelsfearquoteic -

A gender related to the quote “Even in the heart of heaven, angels can still feel fear.”

[PT: Angelsfearquoteic -]

#☕️ flags 🍯 #Angelsfearquoteic #theme: angels #theme: fear #theme: heaven #theme: words #quoteic #mogai #mogai blog #mogai community #mogai safe #pro mogai #xenogender #xenogender coining #xenogenders #mogai coining #xenogender community #liom post #pro liom #liom #liom friendly #liom community #liom safe #suffix: quoteic

[mishacakes]

“hey misha what if magnus archives eldritch darling crossover?”

me: hm probably not. i WILL draw this tho.

#misha arts #eldritch darling #tho ina’s eye theming and fear of being judged IS very eye coded………

[paeonie-s]

my current read on yoshidas ch is that hes the equivalent of a high schooler being made manager of a mcdonald’s bc all of his adult coworkers quit which leads him to believe that the fate of the world now depends on his ability to keep the drive thru times below 90 seconds

#chainsaw man #csm #i doubt this is the reality bc of themes of everyone being irrelevant pawns in the horseman/primal fears grand plans but it would be v funny #if whoever’s in charge of public safety rn meets up w yoshida and is like wdym you didn’t convince denji to stop being csm 😐 u were out only #hope ig were fucked now 😔 while yoshidas moments away from setting the building on fire thinking abt his calc 1 exam tmmrw #sometimes the fate of the world depends upon ur fry person and sometimes it depends upon manipulating the host of a primordial being w lame #ass threats related to his similarly immoratal thru a cycle of reincarnation baby sister/former boss #.txt