#beasts of burden

[wreckham]

An Image Depicting Body Dysmorphia

#beasts of burden #body dysmorphia #grey wolf #pug #chihuahua #bull terrier #vent art #beckhamdraws

[freshairforrabbits]

"You opened the box. Now you get to lie in it. You don’t get to dissect, take out what you want, and tell me to hand over his heart. It's a package deal. So open your fucking eyes. Stop barking orders at your dog. And listen."

— Chapter 7: Nothing, Beasts of Burden, by @quarlyle

Now tell me what's so good about picking up the pieces, what if we don't even want to?

#beasts of burden #avatar way of water #avatar fanart #other people's writing #my art #the way i dont have a single coherent tagging system holy fuck dhdjsk #either way this fic fucks hard and this was inspired by it ❤️ #alt text goes into the imagery of it more in case anyone's curious what is what #too sleepy to go on a whole ramble about what every little thing means but just know there's a bunch of stuff #go read the fic!! it is wonderful and harrowing and clever and will eat you alive #eye strain #anatomy of a house #fanart of a fanfic

[nfcomics]

BEASTS OF BURDEN: ANIMAL RITES • cover art • interior art • Jill Thompson • words • Evan Dorkin [2010]

#BEASTS OF BURDEN: ANIMAL RITES HC #Jill Thompson #Evan Dorkin #Night Flight Comics #Comic Mail Orders #NFComics #Beasts of Burden

[splashtail]

I love beasts of burden :]... Im always thinking about this page i love jack and the orphan's friendship so much

#splash rambles #beasts of burden #ask to tag

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

Apologies I put 1 day instead of 1 week

#beasts of burden #dark horse comics #poll

[wisdomfish]

Jesus will carry the ultimate burden of our sin for us and will provide power in the Holy Spirit to carry out His will.

BibleRef

#jesus #carry #ufc #beasts of burden #holy spirit

[rosyarrogant]

some ocs heads. more to come!

commissions are open!

#art #oc #chibi #original character #artist on tumblr #beasts of burden #rahim #adrasteia #babur #zinara #inaaya #iaso

[onebluebookworm]

31 Days of Literary Spookiness: Graphic Novels Edition - October 12

Beasts of Burden - Evan Dorkin

#31 days of literary spookiness 2023 #31 days of literary spookiness #beasts of burden #evan dorkin

[wreckham]

An Image Depicting Mental Illness

#beasts of burden #mental illness #whitetail deer #vent art #beckhamdraws

[astralartefact]

Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden Spoiler Post

Thoughts, Speculation, the juicy stuff you might want to know about if you don't plan on buying it...

So first of all before I get into it, short review: I think I liked FM more, that one did more cool stuff, but I liked BoB's Soundtrack better.

As with all VoC games, it's important to note that there is no lore, just vibes, so who's to say. Characters that look the same might be the same, but they also might not (I personally think they aren't). That being said.

BoB is set in a world without night (like Automata) that is built on top of the ruins of giant cities (filled with YoRHa merch) and our protagonist (who looks like Zero) can use Nier DNA magic to capture monsters (some of which we have already seen before). Which kind of implies that it is in the far future of the far future. And I guess that also means that YoRHa had a merch division...

(Thought I just had: What if Yorha was just a brand name before it turned into the 2B factory, but that part was forgotten and these are just relics from before that time…?)

But that's not all! A big part of the game ends up being Al'e's ancestor, who's also the superboss of the game (which means I don't have his card yet and I'm too lazy to grind for it, so if any of you guys beat him feel free to tell me about what his card says)

And he also might be Brother Nier? (Don't worry, I'm only going to get more unhinged from here)

The base of his silhouette is a white haired boy with an iron pipe and he fights black and yellow monsters, who are man-made bioweapons that went out of control. To combat them he invented a medicine that alters a human's dna (Nier Magic Alarm) and it turns out that the beings that were blamed for everything bad are actually *gasp* humans themselves.

Now, of course that doesn't match Replicant 100%, but it lines up with it pretty well. (Also this was revealed in a movie which might be some degree of fake, so who knows.)

Honestly at first I really wasn't vibing with BoB doing the cycle of violence again, because at this point it's been done a million times, I don't think "I will do atrocities because you killed my [insert person i care about here], but maybe... doing atrocities is actually wrong, because we are the same??" is interesting enough to be redone as much as it already is, especially since drakenier already had at least one game about the cycle of violence (i guess they all are...? kind of?) but then they kind of acknowledge and point out that Yes. We have done this story already. That's the point of cycle of violence stories. It happens again and again and again. Maybe for different reasons, but it seems like we never learn.

And suddenly "Could this guy be Brother Nier?" makes it even more "Yeah. We have done this a lot haven't we. And yet."

Anyways, now to the juicy speculation portion I promised:

So the big bad of the game turns out to be Pulche's mom Mizara, who wanted to understand monsters against the scorn of her people, only to learn that monsters are actually humans. Since the atrocities against them are even wronger than what she initially believed, she turns against humanity and wants to turn everybody into monsters instead.

So. In the german script the monsters refer to her as Mama.

There was a moment where I thought "Wait... It's not... that Mama, right?", but since Mama is just the german word for Mom it's the most logical word for a german script to use here, and since I would trust the impeccable german localization with my life I just accepted that and moved on.

I also wasn't smart enought to just listen if Yui Ishikawa said Mama or not... so if you could tell me how they refer to her in other languages, feel free to do so, because if they also call her Mama...

But then we get to her final final form.

And I realized

that she's sitting in a cage...

(Well kind of, it's definitely a stretch, but I have long arms let me be delusional)

So what if she is that Mama...

While everybody else is ripped in half when they die, she just evaporates after she drank the monster potion and was defeated. And the cards for the three beasts paint a picture that they really deeply cared about their "Mama" and of course she's also Pulche's mom, too. So maybe she woke up as Mama in the cage, because that was what she was remembered as...

(No, don't worry, probably not. But as long as we don't have Mama backstory, we might as well pretend. And listen, playing Voice of Cards with a nier-lore conspiracy board makes it so much more entertaining, I highly recommend it.)

btw, Mizara being mainly driven by the lore reveals of a movie is so funny to me for some reason? Like, what if the movie is an entertainment movie and entirely made up, but nobody knows what movies are so everybody thinks that's the truth.

#Voice of Cards #Beasts of Burden #nier reincarnation #yoko taro #yorha

[itsrocketsurgery]

it wasn’t until i finished beasts of burden: animal rites that i realized it was @neil-gaiman approved

now i gotta get the next one in the series

#beasts of burden #neil gaiman

[spilled-from-my-lips]

we are both beasts of burden

half our loads belong to someone else

but you’re worth leanin on’

hope you can trust me too

to keep these logs rollin

across both our backs

settlin’ in the dip between us

secure because we’re

side by side

oh we are both beasts of burden

and the cart that drags behind

has us both in the halter

blinders on because

ripples across interactions

and between relationships

hurt to try and track

so let’s just keep going

side by side

look, we are both beasts of burden

the tags on the cargo

have long snapped off

nothing is split even

half our loads belong to someone else

but you’re worth leanin’ on

hope you can trust me too

you hold left, I’ll hold right

side by side.

—L.R. Cole, “something about burdens”

#poetry #lrcole #prompt: burdens #beasts of burden

[balu8]

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by  Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson,

Dark Horse

#dark horse comics #beasts of burden #jill thompson #evan dorkin

[simplorist]

In An Alternate Universe...

I said before I didn’t think Al’e would look good in Zero’s outfit. Well, I had time and motivation to kill so I decided to do a messy mock-up of what she might look like. It’s actually it’s not that bad. I’m sure it’d look even better if someone else drew it, lol. I think I just might have beef with Zero’s outfit in general (don’t hurt me Zero fans). Although I still do think the possible outfit choices for Pulche would all suck. I’m not even testing that one out. 

On a separate note, this was actually kind of fun to draw. I haven’t enjoyed drawing in a while, hmm.

#alternate universe #fanart #nier #voice of cards #al'e #what if #sketch #beginner artist #zero #drakengard #no colour #dlc idea #drakengard 3 #drag-on dragoon #drag-on dragoon 3 #beasts of burden