#Kinda?

[shootingstarrfish]

belphie lvl 10 (i think) intimacy call spoilers!

hes such a spoilt brat i love him

#complaining about him being a spoilt brat knowing full well i would indulge him anyway #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me art #obey me belphegor #omswd #shitpost #kinda? #my art #belphegor #digital art

[kalcifers-blog]

Why the fuck would they name it that

#tmagp #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #kinda? #kalcifers blog #kal rambles

[bobamiruku]

erm

#persona 3 #p3 #p3 spoiler #kinda? #thanatos #ryomina #ryoji mochizuki #minato arisato #my fart

[starquarck]

Silliest of sillys

Tbh my style and these models just don't mix well lmao

Kindly gonna semi redesign them so they fit my art style lol hehehe

#starquarck #starquarcky #transformers #transformers one #tf one #tf #maccadam #orion pax #transformers orion pax #d 16 #transformers d 16 #semi redesign #? #I guess #megop #kinda?

[geekgirles]

Lady Echo: A Character Analysis

Before we dive in, there's something about me you should know. I'm a TV Tropes truther. That site is my Bible. If a piece of media interests me, then you'd better believe I have visited its TV Tropes page.

And because of that, Echo in particular is a character I've been meaning to talk about for a while now, because I get the feeling people tend to overlook what I feel is the true core of her character at the end of season 3.

As you can see, while other tropes go more into detail about her true motivations behind betraying Oropo, that part of her character ends up being reduced to being a Woman Scorned, and while that certainly applies here, I really don't think that's the trope that best encapsulates her character and her decisions at the end of the season.

A Woman Scorned is essentially any woman who has been wronged by the person she loves and seeks revenge or has at least expressed great anger. And it can go from being cheated on by a partner, or simply being rejected by their love interest and not taking it well. And both heroic and villainous characters can be the ones to break her heart. In fact, Arpagone too would be an example of this trope, as even if her feelings for Ruel are still there, most of her actions are motivated by the pain she feels for his decision to choose money over her.

As you can see, this all fits with Echo's actions and feelings at the end of season 3, but it's very general overall. Which is why, in my humble opinion, Echo is a better example of Love Forgives All but Lust.

This trope is essentially a deconstruction of tropes centred around the appeal bad boys have for women. The thing about women falling for bad boys is that those women tend to know they're bad news, and beyond a desire to be the ones to change them, the real reason that interest is born is because they're attracted to the idea of the bad boy being a jerk to everyone, but them. Love Forgives All but Lust is what happens when the woman is rudely awakened from that delusion.

In other words, when they realise not even they are safe from their partner's worst actions. And what is the best way to have a woman feel betrayed to the point of seeking revenge? Unfaithfulness.

Sure, they will forgive their partner if it turns out he's a serial killer, but if he cheats? Then he's the one who's dead.

And example of Love Forgives All but Lust is when the police is trying to get a mafioso's wife/girlfriend to testify against her lover, but she refuses to cooperate... until she discovers her husband/boyfriend has a lover, then she'll do everything to bring him down.

If you think about it, this is essentially what happened between Echo and Oropo after he revealed he only ever "loved" Amalia. Even if Echo is a much more active player in Oropo's machinations than simply being aware of them, having helped him carry over his plans for centuries as his second-in-command.

After he kissed Amalia and claimed Echo never meant anything to him compared to her, that's when Echo totally lost it. And her subsequent actions are a direct result of his betrayal. It never had anything to do with Echo seeing the error of her ways, as we all know.

Think about it, it wasn't until Oropo chose Amalia over her, after everything they had ever been through, that Echo truly struck. Once it became apparent her lover didn't care for her nearly as much as she cared for him, that's when Echo revealed his true plans: to destroy the gods, he must destroy the World of Twelve and deprive them of followers. In other words, he was willing to commit mass genocide for the sake of his dream.

Moreoever, the fact that she got to reveal the true extent of his plans at all already highlights that only she knew about them. All along, Echo knew what Oropo was planning, the consequences of his dreams, and she never once stopped believing in his cause. Their conversation in episode 6 even going as far as explaining Echo already believed in him and supported his dreams before ever falling for him, meaning she can't even excuse her actions by saying her feelings blinded her. Because she was perfectly aware of Oropo's plans all along.

And yet, that didn't stop her from loving him. If anything, it was only another reason she fell in love with him.

No, it wasn't until Oropo broke her heart that she ever went against him.

If you ask me, this all reads as Echo not minding Oropo's most questionable tendencies because she was convinced she was exempt from ever being at the receiving end of his worst actions. After all, she had been by his side the longest, witnessing how he got rid of demigods that failed to meet his standards or were no longer useful (going with what the show claims, I haven't read Ogrest's manga). It wasn't until he kissed Amalia and shoved her aside that Echo realised not even she was safe from him.

And it was because Oropo had had no qualms to screw her over that Echo decided it was her turn to screw him over. And hence, she revealed his plans to the Brotherhood of the Forgotten, not because she'd seen the error of her ways, but because Oropo had hurt her and she wanted to make him bleed in turn.

In the end, Echo's actions weren't fuelled solely by revenge or even jealousy, they were fuelled by the bitter realisation that she never meant as much to Oropo as he meant to her. It was about realising he had no qualms hurting her, not about how he had no qualms hurting anyone else.

It was about Echo not being enough for Oropo.

And for me, that's why Echo is a better example of Love Forgives All but Lust.

#wakfu #wakfu spoilers #kinda? #wakfu season 3 #lady echo #oropo #the brotherhood of the forgotten #amalia sheran sharm #yugo the eliatrope #demigods #coqueline #count harebourg #toxine #adamaï #black bump #ush galesh #kali #dathura #arpagone #poo #dark vlad #goultard #sipho #love forgive all but lust #woman scorned #wakfu analysis #eliotropes #trope analysis #tv tropes

[wraithdolll]

bitches love my mustache

#rhys strongfork #borderlands #borderlands 3 #my art #fanart #shitpost #kinda? #methinks im getting the stupid version made into a print so i can go get it signed by ray chase this weekend #damn whoever took his grey hairs out #that concept art was flawless #how dare you take his greys #i know he stressed too theres no excuse..

[spaceboibrainrot]

I still don't have a name for the au but Dib dies and is uploaded into Zim's pak

Dib doesn't understand how Irken pak's work and after experiencing 10 minutes of doom as a kid he is very hesitant to remove himself from Zim

#invader zim #iz #spaceboi's au #spaceboibrainrot #zadr #kinda? #could also be #zadf #idk #Dib pak au

[stealingyourspins]

was trying to draw Cole but didn't realize just how built i made him until it was too late and decided to full send. his traps make his neck nonexistent and he spends 10k on steroids a month to scam folks on social media about his special diet and training course <3 🥰🥰

#ninjago #ninjago fanart #cursed art #kinda? #bones art #spins art #this is a joke btw i was trying to draw a traditional strongman physique and fucked up severely and leaned into it for the bit #ninjago cole

[nobie]

Rampart doing literally anything

Crosshair:

#he’s hates him with every fiber of his being and that’s so real #crosshair my beloved #the bad batch #star wars #crosshair #tbb spoilers #kinda? #just in case lol #nobie does stuff

[boundlessentity]

Could not be funnier to me that this is a canon (if paraphrased) interaction:

Ruggie: Hey Leona, how’d you get that scar, a prominent and defining feature of yours?

Leona: Don’t remember, don’t care, and frankly it’s absurd that you expect me to know that.

#twisted wonderland #twst #twst meme #ruggie bucchi #leona kingscholar #twst incorrect quotes #kinda? #twst correct quotes

[cindytoast404]

alice dyer bbg they could never make me hate you <3

#alice dyer #gwen bouchard #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #kinda? #tmagp 12

[theautisticjedi]

He looks like a teacher waiting for the class to quiet down

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf movie #william afton #springtrap #spring bonnie #yellow rabbit #matthew lillard #fnaf movie spoilers #kinda? #hall of fame

[blueblurzz]

I found you, Faker!

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic #sonic adventure 2 #sonadow #kinda? #I mean I'm the artist so I can say it's sonadow

[bastardnoodle]

i'm in the middle of reading harrow and i miss her like idk the moon misses the sun or something gay like that

#gideon the ninth #gideon nav #the locked tomb #tlt #tlt spoilers #kinda? #my art

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 3 of Alastor's really bad awful day~ What's worse than having to go on a fake date with your rival ? Your other rival (one-sided) deciding to play paparazzi, of course.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (end)

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #radio demon #alastor hazbin hotel #charlie hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel lucifer #vaggie #my art #had to separate part 3 and 4 because it was too big of a post it didn't look nice #on a side note I feel like I'm getting better at drawing Alastor's hair ! Though I still hate his 50 shades of red color palette #radioapple #kinda? #I just like when they annoy each other

[neckromantics]

More creepy and unsettling, creature Astarion please.

I beg of thee. Vampires are meant to be an uncanny valley type of thing. An undead creature of the night that passes itself as just the right amount of living and mortal for you to let your guard down. I need more examples of his vampiric nature showing once he's grown comfortable enough, and I need it now.

~

An Astarion who is so silent in his movements that you often got jump scared by it in the earlier stages of your relationship.

You'd be lounging around on the sofa. Reading a book, lost in thought, all serene and cozy beneath a nice knitted blanket-- just having an all around nice, relaxing time when you see movement out of the corner of your eye. You glance up for just a moment, to the space before you that was previously unoccupied, and his entire face is suddenly hovering right in front of you.

Just waiting. Not moving. Pupils blown so huge that there's barely any color left to his eyes. Fangs are peeking out over the bruise-purple skin of his bottom lip. He's pallid. White as a corpse. Definitely in need of a good feeding.

His intentions were entirely innocent. He really only meant to ask you a question, and here you are being all dramatic and jumping several feet into the air and throwing your book off to the side in a panic. Thankfully, you're able to catch yourself before you full on shriek in his face.

(You love him and his ghoulishly handsome face, you really and truly do, but you sincerely thought for a moment that he was a spectre come to take you to the afterlife.)

~

Astarion, who routinely forgets to breathe. Yanno, like it's nothing.

You're well aware of the fact that vampires don't need to breathe. It's more of a force of habit than anything else, really-- something left over from when he was still mortal, he says.

Although, during bouts of intense emotion, or some sort of uh, stimulation, the focus on something so trivial gets put on the backburner for a bit.

The two of you will be sharing a particularly passionate kiss (or worse) when you feel the rapid rise and fall of his chest stop short. It's like all of the air has gotten caught in his lungs, and he ends up making these creaky grudge-like sounds in place of his usual low moaning. A clicking in the back of his throat in place of a sigh. If you play your cards just right, there might even be a rattling from deep within his chest that almost sounds like a purr.

When he finally does breathe, usually due to a well executed nip to his bottom lip, or the gentle brush of your fingers against one of his ears as you play with his hair, it comes out as an animalistic hiss. A sharp, choking gasp that sends goosebumps down the length of your arms.

~

How you catch him watching you sleep.

How you'll wake up in the pitch black of your bedroom in a cold sweat. Your hair is stood on end, a fearful shudder threatening to rattle your frame. A spike in your pulse that has your sleep addled brain doing somersaults in your skull. All of your instinctual alarm bells go off at once, telling you that something must be terribly wrong. Something must be watching you.

You try to blink away the bleariness-- try to shake off the fog of sleep for long enough to get your bearings, and catch a glint in the dark so ominous that for a moment you're scared stock still.

Something is watching you. Someone, rather.

Astarion's eyes gleam back at you in the dark like a wild animal's might. A bobcat, maybe, like the ones you'd often find stalking pray outside the tree line of camp all those nights ago. Pupils that glow a filmy, holographic orange despite there being no light to reflect off of them.

You don't notice until after you've taken a second to calm yourself that he's hovering over you. The bed just barely dips from his weight as he supports himself, and you'd be baffled by it all if you had any braincells left.

"Go back to sleep, darling." His voice is so soft, even over the pounding against your eardrums. Soothing. Tranquilizing. And though your eyes do begin to feel heavy, you're not exactly in the mood for rest anymore.

Especially not when he's pressing cold, feather-light kisses down the length of your throat not a moment later.

~

Please, I beg. Give me more.

#bg3 #astarion ancunin #astarion #baldurs gate 3 #astarion x tav #astarion x reader #bg3 tav #astarion headcanons #astarion fluff #kinda? #astarion smut #? also kinda?