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just-pauline · 2 months

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Congratulations on the International Women's Day! 💐

#and according to tradition #Marlene with pink flowers #art #fan art #pom #tpom #drawing #marlene #marlene the otter #penguins of Madagascar #the penguins of Madagascar

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katakaluptastrophy · 4 months

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Can we talk about Juno Zeta?

You're living the dream, Master Archivist of the Sixth House. The Archaeology department hates you. The secretaries love you. Your son has risen to the very top of the absolutely unproblematic meritocracy of the House to become Master Warden. Sure, you treated him as a colleague when he was 7 too, but this is much more intellectually satisfying and much better for your publication record (suck it, Archeo). You sit on the Oversight Body, making decisions for the 3 million strong House of the Sixth.

Then the Master Warden gets summoned by god to become a Lyctor. (No civilian has seen a Lyctor for thousands of years. But the information you do have speaks of astonishing power. Are you intrigued? Do you regard it as an even more stellar opportunity for the Master Warden? Do Lyctors have access to interesting material for the archives? Does the possibility of your son becoming an immortal finger and gesture of god ever feel strange?)

A few months later, some fragments come back in a box. There's nothing left of Camilla at all. No one will tell you anything. Every House but the Third and the Ninth has lost its head or heir (the poor girl your son loved is dead. You're never going to get another overly-formal letter from the Fifth begging for Lyctoral documents from your archive.)

Then the Master Warden makes contact from beyond the grave to tell you that the saintly founder of your House left a plan in place in case it ever became necessary to betray god. He tells you why god should be betrayed.

Suddenly, the Oversight Body has to make a decision. To take your home and 3 million people away from the Dominicus System (away from its thanergetic soil, no more necromancers will ever be born). To break the contract of tenderness made on the day of the Resurrection. Do you have time to call back your soldiers in the Cohort? Do you have to leave them behind? Has the Oversight Body ever felt unanimously about something before? And how frank can you be with the House? You have visiting scholars from almost every House, and who knows where the Bureau have eyes and ears.

There are calculations to make. How to transport a whole House? How do you work out that it takes five hundred and thirty-two obselisks? That there are deleterious effects past five hundred and sixty? How do you find a stele that would anchor such a big thanergy transition? (Only the Fifth make stele. Do you try to do it yourselves? Who do you trust on the Fifth to help with that? Is that why Kester Cinque left Koniortos?)

The Master Warden, who is dead, lives inside the body of Camilla, who is not. He picks you - in your capacity as Master Archivist - to be one of the negotiators. How do you integrate 3 million people into a completely alien society with whom your people have been at war for millennia? How does negotiating with terrorists feel compared to academic committees?

What happens then? One day you just...lose it? The sun rises too bright and too blue and you are in agony, unconnected from yourself, screaming and writhing. And when the thing in the sky is at its furthest orbit from you, in some exhausted moment of clarity, you nearly kill yourself using necromancy to restore your sanity. You blind yourself. Do you think beyond that moment? As someone who deals in documents and artefacts and forms in triplicate, do you mourn your sight alongside everything else you have lost? Your son, your home, your god, your sanity...

And now you are a hostage. Sixteen of you in the back of a sweltering truck, held at gunpoint, always moving. The only thing keeping you alive is the possibility of selling you back to the empire that you've betrayed. Your captors have signed a 'no torture' clause, and perhaps they do stick to that. You're needed for providing proof of life and are probably better off than most. But it's too hot, there's not enough water, you can't see, and the only way out is either that the Master Warden gives Blood of Eden a Lyctor or being released to the mercies of the Kindly Prince. You sit in the dark and do mental maths with each other to stay sane.

Somehow, the Master Warden has done it. Without a Lyctor, he's turned his own cell commander against her fellows and you have been released. Most of the Oversight Body can't even walk out of the truck without help. But you're free, and the Master Warden - now in the stolen body of a Lyctor's cavalier - has the sort of mad scheme only he could come up with. Those mental maths will come in handy. The cell commander isn't bad either...

You can't see your son die again (the last time he speaks to you, from that borrowed body, he calls you 'mum' instead of 'Master Archivist'). But you can smell Camilla’s flesh burn. Perhaps the Commander, holding your arm, describes it to you. You follow this new person, your child, now something else, back into the truck where you were held captive and watch as they drive it into the River.

The Tomb is open. Your child is part of a being of strange and unimaginable power. The House Formerly Known as Sixth is on the other side of the universe. You are on the Ninth with a dead cavalier in the body of her necromancer, the Emperor’s construct, legions of demons, and a very mysterious dog...

Anyway, I'm very excited to see what havoc Juno gets to cause in ATN. She's there to be snarky, do psychometry, and be a romanceable MILF. Let her yell at god. And for goodness sake, let her get some peace at the end.

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #juno zeta #The ATN wedding is Juno and We Suffer right?#They get married in accordance with an ancient and solemn old earth tradition (by an Elvis impersonator).#Noodle is the ringbearer.

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fiendishartist2 · 6 months

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happy birthday care and paul

#my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #petscop #carrie mark #petscop care #belle leskowitz #petscop belle #lina leskowitz #petscop lina #i had to look up cars from the 90s and work off of like 1 picture of the back seat of a honda accord lol #but anyways happy birthday care and paul!!! this series means so much to me and im so happy that ive been able to share my-#-love of it to so many people. in my life and online #ive made it a tradition to rewatch petscop on halloween with a friend whos never seen it before #and each time i find more and more things to love about it #petscop is a growing organism. so theres more to love every time i come back to it :)

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cobbssecondbelt · 1 year

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The differences between Din and Paz's relation with their foundling are quite interesting to observe.

Paz explicitly refers to Ragnar as his son, and Ragnar calls him ''dad'' without hesitation. We don't know how long they have been together, but they are family, there's no doubt about it for anyone.

Meanwhile, Din has had Grogu under his wing for 3 years, and despite their obvious bond and everybody else saying otherwise, he still refuses to acknowledge himself a parental figure. Even without the threat of having to hand Grogu away, Din can't quite yet let himself embrace the role of a father fully. Probably because he knows the pain of losing parents and knows Grogu will eventually lose him before he's even out of childhood, and therefore can't bring himself to this level of emotional vulnerability (even though his love for his foundling is evident), as other people have already mentioned.

Paz and Ragnar don't have that. Obviously nobody is safe from an early death, especially not Mandalorian warriors, but for them it is a risk, not a certainty. Din knows Grogu will outlive him by centuries. He knows he will only be a blip in his lifetime. And maybe he wants to protect Grogu from the great pain that inevitably comes with great love. Even if it's too late for that.

Din still has a long way to go and a lot of things to learn about loving. And think Paz can teach him plenty, without even realizing it.

#Fatherhood and attachement are definitely not themes I expected to see explored between these two characters but I sure am not complaining #Paz and his foundling literally melted my heart today and I think it can be a great way for him and Din to find a common ground again #I also strongly believe Paz never truly acted out of evil intentions towards Din #He acts in extremes but actually always has fair points #or acts according to tradition #din djarin #grogu djarin #paz vizsla #ragnar vizsla #the mandalorian

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mettywiththenotes · 5 months

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Tiny Toga

#bnha #toga himiko #ochako uraraka #edit #edits #mettys posts #metty posts #despite me getting a lil better with editing #the blocks stay ON during tiny posting #as is tradition #that may change tho.. according to my whim lol

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pushing500 · 2 months

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We got attacked by Vikings and captured one named Gorillaslayer, which I'm sure will not result in anything unfortunate happening in the near future.

Eerie, NO! We were trying to convert you to our ideology!!

Bonus: Live Gracie reaction to cycling back to the goddamn Hat Bit from The Animist Alliance again

Right as we finished researching Deathrest in hopeful preparation for Eerie to join us... It's a tragic life out here on the Rim :(

Violent Conversion Ritual it is!! Alas...

Well, it looks like we won't get a cool sanguophage just yet. Hopefully someday, but for now, we'll just have to hope he tastes good.

Unwaveringly Loyal Finch has some... Interesting moods going on at the moment, too. I suppose we'll end up eating her, too, but we might save her for a date-specific sacrifice ritual we've got coming up.

In other news, Gorillaslayer has been promptly executed for her crimes of converting Eerie and forcing us to resort to violent conversion.

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oozeandgoo-art · 7 months

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Tetraflexagon commission! I've been working on this one for a while.

More below the cut :3

In terms of text:

Motormaster has "steadfast" and "wrathful"

Dead End has "loyal" and "nihilistic"

Breakdown has "insightful" and "paranoid"

Drag Strip has "fearless" and "impulsive"

Wildrider has "realistic" and "flippant"

and on Menasor all those characteristics are written out to show how Menasor has a combination of all their separate strengths and weaknesses

#traditional media #transformers #stunticons #drag strip #dragstrip #red-redesign g1 stunticons #motormaster #dead end #wildrider #Deadend #Breakdown #tetraflexagon #commission #macaddam #The idea was to showcase their strengths and flaws according to my commissioner's headcanons :D I think it came out very cool #I love making paper commissions for people. I lose a little on shipping and materials but god it's so nice to be able to mail people #physical objects instead of just sending a file

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pyrrhuria · 10 months

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attack on @delfinxxia of heir oc eight prisms, gleaming/the peacemaker and my oc imminent accord/the mediator! comics aren't a thing i normally do but i wanted to try somethin different to get out of art block & ALSO i wanted to draw them signing. like . an actual conversation. signs were loosely borrowed from slugsign and SCSL but i improvised a lot lol.

explanation of whats happening under the cut because idk how clear it is

accord and prisms are out exploring together. near the end of the cycle, they stumble upon a ton of blue fruit. prisms is eager to gather them all, but accord warns that the cycle is about to end and they should really just leave.

prisms does not want to leave the fruit. she tells accord to carry some, and after an amount of time Very Concerning to accord, they rush back to the shelter while the rain begins to fall. they make it just in time.

at the shelter, prisms explains to accord that since they brought all the fruit, they can stay put without having to go out of their way to get more food for many cycles in a row (yay !!! isn't that great sis ???).

prisms tells accord to chill out, because everything went according to plan and they made it back just in time. accord takes offense to this and reprimands prisms for the irresponsible decision (lovingly). they're "speaking" rather than signing here because all they're communicating is general emotions (frustration and confusion respectively), not complex concepts like time.

#rain world #rain world ocs #slugcat #art fight #traditional art #my art #my ocs'#others' ocs #team werewolves #imminent accord (oc)#eight prisms gleaming (oc)

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aquariumlamp · 4 months

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merry susahaomas everyone

#i think haori is the type to be really awkward with romantic advances even after she starts dating susato #so during christmas she would like purposefully hold a mistletoe in between her and susato #and she would be like Ohh susato look!! a mistletoe!! (literally carrying the mistletoe) what shall we do!! well according to the tradition #and susato would just be really happy but also really confused and thinking to herself “?? haori you can just ask”#i got the idea rlly last minute so i just rushed it LOL #tgaa #dgs #the great ace attorney #dai gyatuken saiban #susahao #susarei #susato mikotoba #haori murasame #rei membami #periberris-art

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wormonastringtime · 1 year

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUPIN!! :]

#the birth date is February 10th according to a cagliostro book 👍#my art #doodle #traditional art #lupin iii #lupin the third

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machiavellli · 15 days

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Happy 2'777th birthday to Roma

#“am I your Roman Empire pookie?”#according to the tradition Rome was founded between the 20th and 21st of April #let’s hope the Roman gods can watch over me next week during my Roman history midterm 🧎🏼‍♀️#rome #Ancient Rome #Italian tag #roman empire #italy #my blog stuff

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klingerfashionarchive · 5 months

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special: korean shaman from season 5 episode 13 "exorcism"

#i couldn't not post this one #her dress is so stunning and i love the way she dances in it #this is one of my favorite episodes for sure #according to mash wiki her clothing and dances are entirely authentic #i don't have the knowledge to confirm that but i love how respectful the episode feel towards the natives and their tradition #i love how the scene with her dancing goes on for so long and really lets it breathe #such a beautiful scene <3 #by the way if anyone has resources (online/literature/whatever) about the local clothing and tradition i'd be excited about anything!#will forever hate that our historical costuming classes only cover europe #have a great day everybody #mash #m*a*s*h #klingerfashionarchive #mashblr

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meteorstricken · 3 months

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Listen. Listen. If this is one of the expressions that plays over the villain's face when telling the hero they don't need them, something significant other than pure hatred or malice is going on there. I'm just saying. Just suggesting. Just pointing a thing out.