#and how he fears the unknown

[plenaurum]

You know my theory about Leander possibly being dead?

I initially said that he may be a walking corpse. I'm kinda wavering on this theory, though (though it'd be fucking awesome if it were true). Maybe what I'm thinking isn't THAT drastic, but I do believe that he has something to do with death and necromancy. And I do believe that he is sacrificing/using people somehow. Why? And what for? I'm not sure.

I do think that he has died once and probably came back wrong (there is no way he survived a scar like that). He might have learned his magic skills from some entity while he was dead (or near death), which is why he is so skilled, and he may have to spend the rest of his life paying back whoever he has learned from. The entity (or other people) may be what is powering his magic.

He may have been trying to gain power so that he can change Eridia/Lowtown for the better, and, considering his heavy association with the Magician tarot card, he may have gotten greedy, so his lust for power turned from something selfless into something selfish.

#touchstarved #touchstarved game #touchstarved leander #leander #touchstarved theory #I do wonder why mc gets dizzy every time they touch him #anyway #there's so many associations with rebirth death unity of the material and spiritual #with regards to leander #plus I felt like my initial theory was a bit too wild so I had to tone it down #this also may be why he and ais have so much tension #because their situations may parallel one another #IDK IDK IDK #I remember his quote being something like 'mage's lust for power is always dangerous' #something like that #and how he fears the unknown #making me believe that he has an endless thirst for knowledge and power

[squuote]

maybe controversial but I don’t think the narrator could stand being in a room with another one of himself. I think they would get into an immortal stand off battle that goes on for centuries about who is better and who is the “real” narrator and then the parable explodes

#/SILLY #THIS IS A JOKE #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #the stanley parable #tspud #tsp #sorry I don’t want people to think I’m being mean or whatevs 😭 IM JUST BEING SILLY #I just. he seems that way. to me #either he’d like working with himself or they’d try to kill each other #but tbh I think he’d be more concerned about how another version of himself appeared in the parable #and would be freaked out by it unless he did it himself #cause like he does have a fear of the unknown that’s very blatant

[mymarifae]

stupid fucking titty window distracted me on my first few watches (don,xt talk to me ok) but he has his hand held behind his back here... clutching his chips for dear life.. hiding the way he's shaking.........

#oh kakavasha for a guy who actively risks his life in hopes that something will finally just fucking kill him #and who is so sure of the value of his life (nothing) you sure are very scared to die huh #think it's like. he wants to die because he doesn't want this life and given his track record it seems death is his only way out #but he wants A life #but he doesn't really believe that's possible at this point so he just gets more and more reckless #how far can he go until his lucky streak finally runs out...? #but he wants a life!!!!! why can't his luck ever give him the opportunity to claim his freedom and have A LIFE!!!!! #also he's just like. scared. natural fears #he doesn't want it to hurt. he doesn't want to suffer more right before he breathes his last breath #and he's scared of the unknown aspect of it. what's after this? where will his existence go? will anyone even remember him? #will anyone even care? #he seems to be more at peace with the unknown and the 'pointless' struggle against death after his conversation with acheron #now he just needs to finish surviving his last gamble.. and maybe he can have A life #ok brain turned off my blood sugar just dropped ibcan't finish this coherently #AVENTURINE. AUSGH

[pumpkinsouppe]

Sometimes I remember the symbolism behind the two majora fights (kid link vs the fierce diety) and it makes me so emotional

#the way the fierce diety fight is one of the easiest fights in the franchise beccause youve spent countless hours helping others #and in return youve received a symbol of their love and gratitude #a symbol of no matter if and when they forget you you still made such a lasting impact on them that you have a permanent representation of #their thanks and support #and so by turning in every mask you have the strength of every person youve helped on your side #you have the strength because you healed through helping others #whereas the kid link fight is one of the hardest in the series because link is facing all of his demons and fears alone #you did not dedicate the time to unraveling links fears so he does not have the same confidence he has as the fierce diety #you can achieve both and both have the same outcome #just like how there’s truly no one way to dealing with your own fears and trauma #but being able to rely and learn from others took off such a burden that link was easily able to defeat such a fearsome and unknown enemy #OUGHHHHHHH #genuinely a masterpiece of a game #tloz #mm #majoras mask is my everything

[plaguedoctorjester]

Actually drawing Revali for once instead of MSPaint shitpost doodles what???

#my art #revali #revali botw #real drawing #i used medibang on mobile #the ads on there suck so i have it set to airplane mode whenever i draw on it :< #botw #btw if you read the tags #im cooking up a species swap thing #i wont say it directly due to fear the tags will unleash some unknown lie into the horrid algorithm #but whatever bird => fish teehee :> #i love how he's still skrunkly in this image like my MSPaint doodles

[sagehaubitze]

Do I have any mutuals who have been with/are currently with someone who is aromantic?

I am struggling very badly, and I do not know how to cope with the feeling of (romantic) love not being reciprocated.

#text #it is a very complicated situation #and I can't say that he's aromantic #but he currently is unable to feel those types of emotions #and frankly he may never again #so I'm just.. I don't know #when you love someone you love them unconditionally and that's all I know how to do #but I'm having an extremely hard time with the lack of reciprocation #and fear of unknowns in the future

[flashdoesahundredyarddash]

ermmm..? whiteboard doodles but I finally drew Halbarry in awhile!!!! (drew this just now....shoutout?)

thinking about them guys... i missed halbarry so much im so glad they're actually married whattt (spreading misinformation online)

#halbarry #ermmm user flashdoesahundredyarddash is back at it again with the halbarry art! #its been ages! #so sorry.... lacked a bit while im on...here is some art for you guys since I never had the chance to do the HalBarry week prompts... #speedster ramble #yessss... hal is wearing dog tags and a hearing aid #i also gave him the arrow scar and a bunch of others like barry with his top surgery scared + lightning scars... #im so normal about that #i fear they are dragging me back into the depths of the unknown... #also barrys outfit is sooo silly he is just like me #i didnt know how to draw much...so there's no background?? #guys please talk to me about halbarry pls... #barry allen #hal jordan #ermm #my art #you can tell who i focused on more... #HELP #nobody can take them for me im fighting for this throne.../j.... #dont mind if its sloppy because.......it was made on whiteboard and it's like 2 am for me currently #dc comics #lowkey...

[smirked-with-triumph]

The hot potato with the blue suit and smoke!! If its actually Mr. Turner then he is so fine, Your art makes me want to devour him in whole!! Aaahhhhjhbvh?!?

absolutely devastated Nickelodeon is never gona acknowledge him in any capacity ever since the end of Oh yeah!Cartoons (for me the last chance to do it in a tasteful way was 2 times in fact, in Channel Chasers and or in Mice Capades where they all became tom and jerries), at most it's butch hartman showing some production art or giving a passing mention of him when he reminisces about working on the pilot💔his appearances were so brief i can post my fav moments of him here (but i ask to search up fairly oddparents Party of Three first if you dont want spoilers, its the best one!)

#its not everyday theres an anon showing excellent taste #the entirety of fop season 0/oh yeah cartoons era is on youtube! please enjoy it when you can watch it! #i have made it my mission to keep pilot timmys parents alive in the form of art and AUs #in my interp he works at timmys school and looks after tootie! from these episodes hes excellent as a parent and teacher #if i do decide to give him a supernatural origin then the crocker interactions would be very interesting #“it was hard to hide their faces all the time” butch said...my showrunner in christ use the power of imagination/fear of the unknown #and no pulling a loudhouse where they show the parents faces anyway..that made me so madcore #at certain points they were undecisive with how much should be hidden of him and also his skin going🟤⚪inbetween scenes takes me out #asks #fop #also hope tumblr doesnt glitch again and actually lets me posts videos without spamming your timeline what the fvk

[witchhazelnut]

#do you get it though??? #this is exactly how I interpreted the cali beach swim #yes the drowning leitmotif #yes the rebirth #yes yes #but those are in the broad scope of kendall #what is he actually thinking in this moment?? #he feels in his power #he feels like he is a force to be reckoned with #he can’t fear the water #the big unknown #because he IS it #but he only thinks this #this is not reality #it’s delusion #and he can’t think his way into a form that doesn’t drown #succession #kendall roy

[ziracona]

We remember how much his ‘look at what they’re doing, what they’re asking you to do,’ monologue slapped, but what Deacon doesn’t get enough credit for is that he’s right about every single faction when he cautions you too.

#I have been thinking about this a lot but his problem with the Minutemen is he doesn’t trust the power structure as not likely to corrupt & #while if you’re a good General the Minutemen stay in corrupted and are /very good/ they can also become used by a bad PC and deeply corrupt #and even convinced to sell out the commonwealth to the institute AND think they’re doing the right thing so he’s actually 4-for-4 #he’s a little harsh maybe but he’s /not/ wrong and people don’t talk about that or the monutemen’s potential for corruption either #I adore the Minutemen! they’re great. working hard RN to drag Deacon on their entire quest line so he will like them better. but this does #not change they have the potential for deep corruption as well as becoming a great group. it’s so /easy/ to tell people who to hate and why #when you’re in charge. and the difference between them and the Railroad is the Railroad knows they’re signing on to a death sentence and #everyone is there out of a personal experience and personal conviction to do what they think is right. none of them have heard these people #are heroes and think they can become heroes by signing on. they’re a bunch of traumatized - angry - hurt people desperate to not let #something that happened to them before happen again. you can’t easily corrupt viciously held personal beliefs #now it’s not necessarily bad either that the Minutemen represent hope and justice and good! hope is vital and so is potential. people have #to believe in something right? but it does introduce the easy threat of being corrupted because people are there for the idea of something #and ideas corrupt quicker in reality than action plans do. I think it’s fascinating #Anyway Preston deserves a Minutemen who live up to what he saw them as as a child and the commonwealth needs real good guys and I will / #/always/ see he and they get them. but I don’t think Deacon is given credit foe the validity of his criticism. #it happened when he was young. they sold out and power corrupted and almost all of them and a lot of civilians died. that doesn’t have to #happen again. they /can/ be different: but it’s important to remember how easily it did last time. learn from the past. move forward #fallout 4 #god I love the Minutemen though they’re very sweet. the fear in my soul when I see three people in cowboy hats with muskets and no armor #trying to take out a sentry bot in the distance let me tell you even on survival I jump into danger with a panic previously unknown #kind little fools. they’re doing great : ) 💙

[silencescribbles]

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#2024 #🐱 au #drew him :) #i like to think he was mentored by smokestep but tbh he was more likely mentored by an unknown cat #or swiftstripe but i think that doesn't line up with silver's mentorship #i'm too lazy to do the math on that #(oh no it's possible but it's like a two moon break for swiftstripe lol) #but yeah more likely random cat #he has a scar on his other shoulder from kithood #visible in yesterday's piece #he mentored acornpaw! #acorn insisted on it #stormfang is known to be a brutal cat #and cares for very little #but he is a fantastic warrior and knows how to use fear to his advantage #and i also don't think he's meant to be drawn cleanly he looks way better in messy sketches #not really sold on the white belly too but i think it's cute

[mako-neexu]

artists who draw oberon in a horror theme or something/anything disgusting my beloved

#my fav always be eldritch looking oberon #oberon who claws at his throat as bugs climb out of his overstretched mouth #oberon and gore <3333 #every art showcasing how bony he was during his long months of staying still #oberon who looks simply like an Unknown thing to be feared #oh wait AU's oberon <333333333

[gch1995]

I’ve contemplated a lot about why Luke was the sort of person that Anakin felt inspired enough to turn his back on Sidious and the dark side for, while Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka weren’t.

While Anakin does become a hypocrite who no one was obligated to forgive after he turned dark, regardless of his tragic circumstances and compromised agency, I think Luke was the one who finally inspired him to turn back because, in spite of as “above it all” as Obi-Wan, Padme, and even Ahsoka wanted to believe they were, they still had many of the same issues Anakin developed of feeling pressured to be people pleasers to corrupt authority figures, expectations, and rules that they knew were wrong out of fear of the unknown under compromised agency, moral hypocrisy, pride, manipulative tactics, selfishness, and/or an exceedingly vengeful side in their anger that they were not willing to pull back on when they dueled him or other enemies that piss him off.

Padme, Obi-Wan, and Ahsoka loved Anakin, but they were also prideful, self-centered, and terrified people who were too afraid to admit that their methods flawed, too afraid to take a stand against the standards of these broken systems they were born into, too afraid to admit they were wrong, too afraid to take risks to do better, and too afraid to admit that they weren’t as “above it all” as they pretended to be.

Luke Skywalker being Anakin’s son is definitely one of the influencing factors that inspires him to turn back to the light. However, it’s also because Luke is self-accepting of his bad decisions, flaws, and mistakes. He’s aware that the old Jedi Order was deeply flawed, hypocritical, and misguided, in spite of their good intentions. He’s unwilling to stoop to the same level as his enemies. He won’t let himself get carried away with baiting his father into a fight when he gets angry, and start making justifications of how he’s “right” just because he has good intentions, just because he was fucked with first, just because he’s not a Sith, or just because it’s “too dangerous” to take a risk to be honest, kind, and offer one of his enemies (his father) a better opportunity when he sees that he really is also a victim of Sidious who is still struggling against his darker instincts and searching for freedom and love from family. He refuses to enable Anakin’s slave mentality and ultimately refuses to let his father believe that “Anakin Skywalker is dead.”

This isn’t saying that Anakin is an innocent, that Luke was obligated to forgive him, or that his victims didn’t have valid reasons to fear him and resent him. Of course, they did. The point is that in those little moments where he tries to reach out to Ahsoka, Padme, and Obi-Wan about being unhappy with the Jedi and keeping secrets of his marriage before going dark, backs off, says “Don’t make me destroy you,” or lets them go, they all had an opportunity to refuse to further perpetuate the cycle of abuse by acting in anger and vengeance. They could have refused to encourage his sense of compromised agency. They could have broken the cycle of system sting abuse, crime, and oppression with Anakin in those instances by being the bigger person.

Instead Padme and Obi-Wan encouraged him to continue to stay with the Jedi and/or keep his marriage secret when they knew their systems were corrupt, and knew he was becoming increasingly emotionally/mentally unstable and unhappy in ways that made him a danger to himself and those around him out of fear of the unknown by pretending that he would just get better if they told him he would when he tried to say otherwise.

Instead, Ahsoka ended up declaring that she’d “avenge her master” when he refused to join her right away and told her “Anakin Skywalker is dead because he destroyed him.”

Instead, Obi-Wan egged him on into a duel on Mustafar by using Padme as bait, and refused to back off after getting him to let go of Padme from his reckless blind rage/paranoia force choke before killing her when he thought she brought Obi-Wan to kill him and even got him to a point where he could tell Obi-Wan “Don’t make me kill you.” When Anakin cornered him again 10 years later for revenge that he clearly didn’t want as much as he had convinced himself he did because he still cared about Obi-Wan deep down, tells Obi-Wan “I destroyed Anakin Skywalker, not you,” and even gives Obi-Wan a chance to run away, Obi-Wan allows Anakin to continue to believe that Anakin is dead, convinces himself that he is, and he runs away to compartmentalize his own guilt over how he mistreated Anakin.

Instead, another ten years later, Obi-Wan more or less encourages Anakin/Vader to kill him by just standing there after confronting him in A New Hope, and saying “I’ll become more powerful than you can ever imagine.”

So the reason as to why Anakin can’t be inspired to atone or do better by Ahsoka, Padme, or Obi-Wan isn’t just because he’s a deeply flawed person. It’s because they are too, they live in denial of it, and let him live in denial of it, too.

#Padme Amidala was deeply flawed #Anakin was deeply flawed #Ahsoka was deeply flawed #obi wan was deeply flawed #and they all lived in denial of just how deeply broken and flawed they all were and kept encouraging Anakin to pretend like he was okay #sacrificing his better instincts and happiness to try to conform to these broken systems that they all knew were messed up out of fear #until he finally stopped trying to fight back and became a serious problem for their well-being out of fear of these corrupt authorities too #when he couldn’t get anyone to listen when he DID try to reach out for emotional support and escape to fight back #like in spite of telling them that ‘Anakin Skywalker is dead’ are obi-wan Ahsoka and Luke willing to let him believe that or not? #when he tells obi-wan and Luke ‘don’t make me destroy you’ hesitated to kill them or gives them a chance to reason with him or walk away #are they going to run away act defensively or stoop to his level and try to kill him when he’s hesitating and being vulnerable? #when he gives obi wan ahsoka and Luke a chance to back off in their duels as vader are they going to fight run away or try to reason? #when he tells Ahsoka revenge is not the Jedi way is she going to agree that vengeance is bad or stoop to his level? #it’s because Anakin is desperately looking for someone who is good and self-aware enough to realize that both sides are messed up #and he can feel safe just being the best version of himself rather than throwing away his moral integrity and sense of self to conform #it’s like he’s testing people he cares about to see if they will encourage him to break the cycle of toxicity in the galaxy #to realize that both the old Jedi/Republic and Sith/Empire were deeply fucked up governments and institutions #or continue to enable and perpetuate it themselves #to not stoop to his level and enable or perpetuate terrible behaviors choices or crimes ‘for good’ fear of the unknown or revenge #to these broken systems that enable and perpetuate systematic abuse of power crime and vengeance ‘for the greater good’ out of fear #pt jedi critical #anti jedi apologists #anakin skywalker #darth vader #luke skywalker #Luke was the only one who could inspire Anakin to redeem himself because he was the only one who didn’t get caught up in the cycle himself #and the only one who refused to let his father believe that ‘Anakin was dead’

[neomedievalist]

just finished reading the wings by yi sang (a bit late) in preparation for canto iv. that shit is so good legitimately highly recommend. it's really short and you can find it online pretty easily

#data #another victim of limbus literacy #but for real. #how he writes abt his depression and isolation and how it manifests into a fear of the outside and unknown and just.coping with the abuse #its REAL good

[tortoisesshells]

11.

#scenes i cannot think too much about or i'll go insane. bite something. actually. #one prisoner to another. love a guy who immediately pings liz;s problem within fifteen minutes of conversation. #anyway. burke/liz real. to me. #dark shadows #the news from collinsport #elizabeth collins stoddard #burke devlin #anyway i do think it's extremely cool that burke-as-partial-unknown means that burke becomes a mirror of sorts of the worst fears; #or the hidden motives/feelings of collinsportians; #or that he simply highlights important things about them through how they react. #burke's a prisoner like liz; a poor kid trying to make good like joe; #a man whose worldly success hasn't gotten him the immaterial thing he wants like bill; #an outsider looking for a home like vicki; etc. #polkaknox edits

[madigoround]

I know I’m very late to this party but I just finished it and I absolutely HATED the last episode of the magnus archives

#SO MUCH LEFT UNKNOWN #and im not necessarily upset at Jon’s decision I knew he wouldn’t feel like he was able to pass along the fears to the next world but the #pretty large jump between okay here’s the plan and oop Jon found his way up the panopticon alone! he just snuck away from Martin and decided #to do a little switcheroo! and the unknown of what happens to Jon and Martin after the explosion? #does the explosion actually work and transfer the fears to another place? what would the earth actually look like without any fears present? #i have too many questions #the magnus archives #the magnus archives spoilers #i Guess? it’s been like a year and a half since it was finished lol #i will say the depiction of how the fears came to be was pretty Daggon cool