#Sol means so much to me

[ghostedflakes]

Alright long post about Sol Bufo, death and the intense dread I feel about the future of Swag Daniels.

Throughout the campaign, Sol has built a very complicated connection to death. Obviously his connection to the fungal network is part of that but it's been building since the beginning. He has his first near death experience in the ep.4 “A Frog in the Fog”. The next time he gets this close to “death” is in episode 13: “Alexandrite”, when Alexandrite almost takes him over.

Episode 27: “King of Dragons” is where everything changes. All in one episode Sol forms a connection to Shroomrot, watches him die and then nearly dies alongside him in the mud. After this episode, Sol establishes a connection to the fungal network, his first encounter with the idea that death is not an end but a cycle. Shroomrot was a sad loss of course but the network becomes a comforting connection for Sol. Then episode 29 happens “Crown of Dreams” and it’s a mirror of Sol’s experience in ep.27 but much more grim. Sol in this moment comes the closest he’s ever been to death and all he can do it watch helplessly as his friend gives himself up to save his life. Calder giving his body to Ultrus was not a death but it was a profound loss and it likely held more guilt for Sol than any other experience in his entire life. It is this point that Sol decides he never wants to be that helpless again. His switch to Way of the Long Death Monk is fascinating because it’s an assertion of his resolve to always bounce back but also a further acceptance of the Fungal Network and the comforting association it has to death. And things start to look up for Sol, he meets Swag, he battles Utlrus and is nearly un-hitable, and they get Calder back. All’s well that ends well for Sol Bufo.

Except, Swag goes missing. The only connection he has to his origins gone to Alexandrite, who tried and failed to take him in ep.13. Sol didn’t go down, he didn’t do anything wrong, and yet Swag is gone. Life goes on, Sol refuses to go down and the next time he sees Swag is in a dream eerily familiar to the one he had in episode 27 as he was drowning in mud. Floating carefree in a warm swamp this time with Swag by his side. The things Swag says in this conversation are very concerning. He starts drifting away, he tells Sol that he is thankful for having met him. His language is so final. He's thankful for the time they *got* to spend together. He got to be a hero "in the end". And Sol tries to push back, reaffirming their future, telling Swag that they are still looking for him. "To keep everyone safe" he says. And Swag responds "You've been studying the bond of life and death so you have to know you can't keep everyone safe." He tries to say that Sol needs to let him go but cannot finish that sentiment until Ep. 57 "Cold Hard Truths".

Swag has accepted the end, but Sol refuses it. Just like how he refuses to go down. He keeps telling Swag that they will find him, help him but Swag already accepts his fate. Notice how in this episode Duck Team are revealed as Peregrines, people who affect destiny, forge their own way forward. Now remember that Sol is a clone, supposedly a copy of Swag and yet they do not share this title. Sol, despite his status as a clone, is his own person. He defied fate in his existence, the only complete clone of the original Sol Bufo, breaking away from Mothership, and now fighting actively against Alexandrite. I think it is Swag's fate to die but I also think it's in Sol's nature to reject that premise. In the last few episodes, Sol has been reminded that he has family besides Swag. Albin is his brother, Kenna is his little sister, Duck Team is his family. And in a way, this is all preparing Sol for a profound loss. So we'll have to wait and see. Will he be able to deny fate, to somehow save Swag? Or will he be fully confronted with loss and inevitably, that he did nothing wrong and yet Swag is still gone? Food for thought and also immense dread.

#naddpod #not another dnd podcast #ba2umia #sol bufo #naddpod spoilers #Sol means so much to me #fun fact i started writing this directly after the swamp dream #i have a lot of thoughts #and then episode 57 happened #really funny to write about a deeply emotional connection with a character named “Swag”

[joybeantown]

Drew sol-o of a Twitter meme i saw going around i love them sm UGH

#joybeantowndraws #guilty gear #csp #drawing #clip studio paint #guilty gear strive #sol-o #sol badguy #jacko valentine #soljacko #THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME I LOVE THEM SM #wanted to sneak an order and fredrick in there too hehe #and minions as well #ggst #sol badguy x jacko valentine

[solradguy]

:)

#my stuff #suggestive cw #guilty gear #I didn't mean to put that much effort into this but then two of my friends wanted me to stream it so lol #You can thank them #I've gotten the weirdest Stockholm syndrome for Jack-O' lol #Tbh I thought she was kind of annoying at first but then I was like that bird with the cracker meme #Where it's angry and then it bites the cracker and it's like 'oh this is good actually' #But then I'm like how much of this is from the Sol brainrot lol #Anyway Jack-O' girldick hours #greatest hits

[lovedeltaa]

thinking about my little meow meow

sol emeralds and sol energy fucking her up 😱

#sth #blaze the cat #au stuff #me n my friend have crafted lore for the sol emeralds #cuz there's literally nothing canonical lmao #they're like foils to the chaos emerald #and simultaneously reflecting blaze's personality vs sonic's #so they're like chaos vs order here #I luv the hc that chaos energy spurs the growth of plants and flowers #and it's important in this au #so the sol emeralds sorta do the opposite #cause destruction and wilt and kill any surrounding plantlife etc etc #sonic's beauty of chaos vs blaze's downfall via order #u feel me #and her powers are 'fueled' by sol energy ig #I'd need to dissect my brain to truly explain wtf I mean by all of this #but in essence the sol emeralds don't like anyone and barely tolerate blaze LMAO #must maintain the order and stability quite literally to a fault #so all that is fucking her up! caused scarring from using her powers! #so the bangles r to help regulate and disperse that energy so the scarring doesnt really go past the wrists #ok bye i'm talking too much here sry #luc arte

[sideblogdotjpeg]

hey guys does anybody know whats the date today

#.... SORRY. #posts by me dot com #ok. i rembered it was hs day today and did this in about. 1 hour. at 5am rip #i. TTRULY did not spend enough time + i dont rmb enough to give them accurate and true classpects. but #okay. heres my rationale for all of them #callie rogue. obvs. her family are smugglers. she took one of those smuggled goods (serpent egg) and tried to give it to someone better. #stealing and redistributing hope etc. hope i chose for idea of potential & infinite possibilities (destiny peregrines). #also if i rmb right.. hope is one of the classes for like losers. which. i mean that is all of duck teams. losers who realise they suck #AND kick ass #sol blood. connections & bonds we fight for. also his whole arc abt family. etc etc #page because. ok uh #pages have a whole thing of starting out as nobodies and becoming someone. v dteam. i did also consider giving him knight but. ultimately #wanted to draw sol in the page shorts shorts. so. well. #calder i was. least sure abt #gave him void i think relates to his feeling of smallness/insignificance/uselessness + the helm... #and a knight. bcus hes a selfsacrificing guy. also his entire character is like... protecting ppl. very knightly #i dont remember that much abt the knight class tbh tho. RIP #also not featured but oliana/aryox seers of mind. OBVS #......... we are NOT main tagging this one gang B)

[solcorvidae]

Lambert "Bellsy" Bellegarde, #27, an absolute menace on the ice.

Fic pending. It will take place after I finish Hypothermic and be set immediately after the final chapter is uploaded... whenever that ends up happening. We still have a ways to go.

#I have a hockey blog and I never know if I should post hockey au stuff here or there??? #I know y'all probably aren't the biggest hockey fans but I also know the ppl over there aren't the biggest witcher fans... so. #but this modern au is crazy bc I have so much of their lives planned out and I want to write about each of them sooooo bad #but that means multiple fics following different characters... soooo #it might be a while #but good god I have so many thoughts about this lambden sequel and I haven't even finished my original geraskier fic yet?? #and dont even get me started on eskel #bc I have a ton planned for him too #but if anyone ever wants modern au lore... dont hesitate to send me questions bc there is a #99% chance I have already thought about it and have an answer ready for you #hypothermic ao3 #the witcher fanfiction #the witcher modern au #lambert witcher #lambden #sol rambles

[inky-axolotl-gaia]

Bit of a hot take, but Blaze’s friendship with Cream and Sonic deserves just as much (if not in some ways even more so) attention and exploration as her friendship with Silver given how much they hugely impacted Blaze and helped her to grow as a person. This applies both to canon and in the fandom space.

#look yes I get it- Blaze and Silver’s friendship is really cute and there’s a reason why they’re popular as a duo ever since 06 #certainly not trying to discredit their friendship or I guess folks that love to ship silvaze #BUT Cream and Sonic literally changed Blaze forever and I guarantee if it wasn’t for them then she and Silver never could’ve been friends #Cream was the one who first opened Blaze up to friendship #Sonic imparted on her that she doesn’t have to carry the world on her shoulders #at least not alone #not to mention teaching her how to activate burning Blaze and properly control the Sol emeralds #their friendship with Blaze just means so much to me okay- #also I can understand people instantly jump to Silver when thinking of Blaze’s friends given I think far more people played or knew about 06 #while Rush was only on the DS and while there’s certainly a sizable number of fans I’ve seen that have also played the game it’s still few #but even understanding that I can’t help but feel a smidge upset that I rarely see cream + Blaze or sonic + Blaze one on one interactions #and this isn’t even talking about shipping whether Silvaze or Sonaze: just them being good friends #I could probably go on about Rush forever- #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonic rush #blaze the cat #blaze #inky axolotl talks #cream the rabbit

[cosmocove]

forgot to post these whoops

#bonk.txt #exocolonist spoilers #pmmm spoilers #<- for exactly one of these lmao #exocolonist #teenage exocolonist #i was a teenage exocolonist #the only one of these that is like actually finished is the sol 🤝 homura one n the other two arent getting finished cause i got a new phon #so i no longer have like the files for them lmao #nomi nomi was drawn like the day before halloween i drew them cause i originally was gonna draw dys to go with them #cause their friendship means the world to me i love that dys chose to start wearing those gamer gaulets to match with nomi nomi #but this was pretty much as far as i got i changed the lineart color to purple cause it looked better but i dont have a good image of that1 #the 'your parents named you' one was actually the first fanart i ever drew the original sketch of it was made like on september 16th ithink #n i worked on n off again for a week on it before deciding i didnt like it n never touched it again wait forgot to tag #undescribed #anyway the sol 🤝 homura run was drawn on october 20th cause i realized that the way i was playing the game i always maxxed out hearts with #tammy first n just generally took her side on everything n went wait a second #genuinely meant to post these a while ago after i got my new phone but forgot to asfjhejdjdj #none of these are in the same style cause im not consistent n have trouble drawing characters that arent my ocs #if u look for more than a second at sol 🤝 homura you'll notice i forgot to draw homura's other arm n i never fixed it #bonk.png

[sleepyjim]

[ID: 8 pictures of a werewolf tearing off its shirt, kneeling in the woods beneath the moon. these pictures are surrounding a black and white photo of gerard way, wearing their camo jacket and round sunglasses. he has a light mustache and 'crow's feet' wrinkles by his eyes. /end ID]

#i know the hype for this gimage (gerard image) has died down in the past hour or so but #she means so much to me #gerard way #mcr #my chemical romance #lemme know if i did the id right :3👍 #tyler (xe/nox/he/sol/they/night)

[sol-draws-sometimes]

I hate that rock for me a just baseline, unless it’s like CLEARLY rock. Like I’ll hear any sub-genre of rock and just think it’s generic good music. Especially any of the sub genres that are ‘softer’ rock.

This shit is doubly embarrassing considering the fact that I’m a musician, like, I’ve been doing this shit for ~11 years. I should know how to identify genres by now.

#rock #music #soft rock #leo/need #l/n #prsekai #sol talks #it me! #my post #Anyways my sister just told me that leo need is rock #This post applies to a lot of my musical tastes tbh #there are a lot of bands I just thought were ‘a band’ and didn’t realize did rock #I didn’t realize ELO was rock for the longest time #Also people get surprised when I tell I like rock for some reason #I mean I mostly listen to dad rock(or I guess more specifically… yatch rock *tears*) but I can listen to harder stuff #it’s just not in my MO since I don’t KNOW as much of the harder stuff so I just stick to what I know #I will never forget the time some was surprised that I liked Jethro Tull??? #he’s not super loud or anything #It also happened with G N’ Roses or Aerosmith ( I don’t remember the song/band but it was in that genral area) #NOT ME GOOGLING AREOSMITH AND IT HEAVY METAL!?? THAT SEEMS WRONG #yah SEE WHAT I MEAN! #most sources said hard rock but apparently they at the very least metal influences(also blues) #this is like me finding Blue Oyester Cult is Heavy Metal/Hard Rock(even asked my metal head friend #uuh… as I was about to say I’m don’t listen to enough Hard Rock but I do like it! I just need to sit down and culture myself #Even though I artistically understand and as a singer respect the technique behind death growls I’m not the biggest fan of bands/songs that #use that. But besides that I fuck with most rock. I mean I fuck with metal if it’s clean #I mean I do like screaming or those like small growls just not full on growl if that makes sense #tbh I’m bad at identifying genres point blank unless it’s obvious #like songs can have vibes but I’m ass at telling apart genres

[solradguy]

So it looks like Order Sol's body suit thing very probably covers his entire upper body up to his neck, unlike Ky's Holy Order uniform that has a shoulderless undershirt.

However, Ky's sprites don't have the bare shoulders either and the bare shoulder shirt has shown up consistently in illustrations since at least GGX.

Although, that bit of lining that goes around the openings on his undershirt are there on the sprites. It might be a case of a detail being left out to make the sprites easier to read at their scaled down size.

There are so many subtle differences between Ky's and Sol's Holy Order uniforms. I wanna make another post about that some day. But, for now, this is all I have because I need to get work done and thought it was interesting enough to share since I was looking up HOS references for a piece anyway.

#photopost #The differences in their uniforms makes me think of one of two things: #Sol hated all the flowy layers of the official uniform and had a custom one made that fit tighter around the chest #(he definitely at least custom ordered the upper body undersuit since the nails are RIOT brand) #Or there are different types of near-similar uniforms for the Holy Order soldiers to chose from #Maybe it's because everyone seems to fight differently in GG so people would need clothes that fit a certain way to keep it from- #-negatively impacting them in combat #Who knows! I'm probably reading into this too much lol #Daisuke never drew Order Sol consistently and the non-palette outfit differences between HOS and Ky might not mean anything at all

[vaguely-concerned]

I’ve been thinking about this nonstop for days. ‘shirtless wonder’. he really brought that up right out of the blue huh. ‘apropos of nothing, remember how you were hanging around with the hot man who doesn’t wear a shirt for months?’ does tf feel like he and akshan are too much in the same hot guy weight class, as it were? battle of the twunks (entirely one-sided, akshan totally only knows about tf from graves never shutting the fuck up about him and barely paid attention to even a third of it)? is that why he’s feeling so threatened? many thoughts.

throwback to the one enjoyable line in all of the SoL event, btw, which has aged like fine wine to try to make up for it all. that “don’t no one ‘round here own a shirt” has only gained power and nuance with time and knowledge. graves you gay disaster <3

graves seeing all these shirtless dudes running around and, for reasons he cannot possibly explain, finding himself thinking wistfully about tf’s cleavage while he plays around with the blue card and very definitely doesn’t feel homesick lol what a silly idea

#tf x graves #tfgraves #league of legends #SoL is still like 'I do not see it' territory for me but like. hilarious. tf is jealous about a man he heard third hand (not from graves) #might be hot #TF did also feel threatened by ugh don't even make me write it out despite graves being very very gay so y'know lmao #...I wonder if something will happen as we go along with graves' idea of like being a Hero! for once #which tf clearly feels very insecure about (folks... I don't think tf feels much like a hero haha) #I mean they ARE from bilgewater their ideas of what heroes are would probably not match most people but it would be kinda sweet #if they started going in a more robin hood-esque direction (if they are making them softer and more comedic anyway)

[towardspring]

enjoy being in a stolen group

i never saw you answer when the admins asked this, so i went to them and asked if you ever followed up and they said you didn't respond after they asked for more context either, so i will also sincerely ask here: which group do you mean, and what makes you say that? i’ve been writing and adminning in tumblr rps since 2014? 2015?, so there's a decent chance i’ll know what or who you’re talking about too. like, if something did get stolen, i'd want to understand what happened, not just be told thru anons etc

#sol plots / spn plots / island plots / subplot based plots have been around since 2015 #i ran a sol spn island vibe rp 2 years ago #i ran a spn island based group centered around subplots around 2015 #but hashtag 90s kids remember when they were called pairs rp #if it’s something else i haven’t covered pls lmk! but otherwise i don’t see anything different than #when secrets / idolverse / spn / celebrity / rich kids vibes strike me as familiar in the tags #idk these admins i’m only here to write so i have no stakes in this argument except that this was #one of the few groups in the tags (which tumblrwise have already been dwindling in numbers since people thought talk blogs would be hip to #bring back) that looked like a stable place i could write #and maybe you’ll prove me wrong if you message me because you have irrefutable proof but i’ll take that #over these anons i assume you’ve sent to other people too #like i genuinely want to know so tell me ? like sincerely i want to know where you’re coming from #communicating through anons reminds me too much of those talk blogs and they were already one of the main reasons the community has #gone quieter so if there’s really an issue then talk to me or talk to the admins . Like actually talk #bc if its a problem we can clear up then great lets do that. whatever way it ends i will genuinely accept #i just don’t want this to be another poke in this already deflating community . some ppl (me) still have realities to escape thru writing #ykwim #i said 'since 2015' at the start of this but i really mean since probably even before that etc etc #anyway i say this in the most unironic way possible. hmu

[vulcankin]

people online (especially on This Site, and who live in america) REALLY need to look into “intellectual freedom” and the “right to read.”

#sol says a thing #people online love censorship in other forms lmao #but go on to say they love libraries #guess what? #you are the people libraries work AGAINST #the ALA and libraries as a whole are WHOLEY against censorship in any form #or attempts to control what people chose for themselves to read through any means #lmao #anyways about to get so much hate for this i bet #and before anyone does do not involve me in pr/o or an/ti shit #this is abt trying to control what other people do #not about my views on any type of content

[blackrosecapri]

vyncent has a Bunch of jewelry and trinkets for the greats! when they all shared a body there were a lot of arguments about what to wear so he got each of them a necklace or bracelet so that they all had a say in what to wear w/o him having to embarrass himself.

he still wears them sometimes when he misses them but normally he just keeps a rainbow bracelet for all of them that hes had since he was little

even if they argued about outfits or how to do their hair or fighting style, anything, they were all still family. he misses them.

yeah he has a buch of there trinkets :]

#jrwi prime defenders #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi vyncent #vyncent sol #i love vyncent so much #and the greats #they do mean eveything to me #so does the way he expresses his love for those close to him #he wear whatever they get him #he lets them mess with his hair or paint his nails #its small things #jrwi hc

[hirokiyuu]

hi ive been playing teenage exocolonist please talk to me about the fucking twins

#me lying facedown on the floor just absolutely SCREAMING #the way their various neuroses play in an rship w/sol is so MUCH #dys. and tang. are so. much #i need to fix their rship next playthru ive heard u can (not just in epilogues i mean) #they are both so much #ALSO I HEAR U CAN GET DYS/SOL/[REDACTED] OT3 AND MY FRIEND SHOWED ME THE RECS AND IM LIKE #well! that's for later #next playthru is dating anemone to save her from vace <3 #personal #i was a teenage exocolonist spoilers ? #teenexo stuff