#bone cuff

[libertynstyle]

#elsa peretti #tiffany #bone cuff #silver jewellery for women #silver jewellery #silver jewelry #silver #jewellery #jewelry #fashion jewelry #jewerly #Jeweller #jewelryaccessories #jewelry aesthetic #Aesthetic #jewelry design #Jewelry Designer #cuff bracelet #silver cuff #cuff #still life #fashion #style #style inspiration #style inspo

[kandi-catnip]

Some of my favorite Kandi pieces I've made recently, plus some silly charms

That slinky cuff took so long to make aah

#kandi kid #kandi cuff #kandi #crafts #they took so long #small business #my bones ache #love them though #monster energy

[thegothicalice]

Forest witch🍂🍄🍁Skirt from Disturbia, shoes American Duchess, oil painted cuff by me, layered tops thrifted, bone necklace and felted hat gifted.

#ootd #braids #witchy fashion #American duchess #Disturbia #bone jewelry #felted hat #oil painted cuff

[onigiri-skullz]

mwehehehe :3c

#rawring 20s #emo #scene #mine #scemo #kandi bone #kandi inspo #kandi cuff #spiked kandi cuff #kandi bone bracelet #pink scene #black scene #scene king #scene boy #black emo #emo blog #emo boy

[weheartstims]

A stimboard with stims my friends picked out for my birthday!

💗|🫶|💗 🫶|💗|🫶 💗|🫶|💗

#weheartstims #stimboard #birthday #my birthday #mod hearts #fave #pink #kandi #kandi cuff #hands #fidget cube #spider-man #spiderman #stim toys #fidget toys #fursuit #paws #fursuit paws #bones #soft #long nails #cat #paint mixing #paint #slime #green #shoes #emo #scene #scenemo

[dozydawn]

Figure skater Tai Babilonia attends the Now Rally, 1989. Photographed by Ron Galella.

#tai babilonia #she had to be a stevie fan #and it looks like she has a peretti bone cuff too what an it girl #1989 #1980s #ron galella

[goblins-riddles-or-frocks]

I wonder why vampires aren't shown to be as depressing as Aleksander is. (Idk anything about this book but since I follow you I have been reading all these metas and DAMNNN)

LMAOOOO first of all formal apology for subjecting all my previous followers who didn’t sign up for TGT meta to all of this TGT meta.

But also, I would argue that some, to even a lot, of vampires are that depressing? The Louis du Point du Lac archetype is a very prevalent one, that then got eventually watered down to the angsty Angels and Edward Cullens of the genre. (I would argue that Aleksander is directly written in conversation with the latter type) And the Vampire Chronicles/Interview With the Vampire itself, with its cast of varyingly wretched, depressed, and traumatized immortals, arguably redefined the vampire genre entirely.

Meanwhile, if you were following my blog before this, I’m assuming you’re here for Hellsing. In that, vampirism is partially a metaphor for trauma, or at least a past that cannot be overcome and turning to self destructiveness for it. Alucard’s entire personal motivation and goal is to die.

In my gradual fandom hop from Hellsing to TGT, I basically just went from analyzing the inner workings of one murderous and miserable, 500+ year old war criminal for anons in my inbox to another— only one of them happens to be Dracula!

(And I have said a couple times before that I think the Darkling is written like a vampire.)

However, I’d agree that there are key differences in the way Aleksander is depressing, and I think that is down to the themes, narrative function, and cultural associations that vampirism frequently lends itself to.

Since you aren’t familiar, I’ll sum up the plot of TGT as briefly as I can. It starts out as a very typical chosen one fantasy, where the protagonist Alina Starkov, an overlooked and unremarkable orphan serving in the military, is discovered to be the lost princess the super special, never before seen magic user with the special type of sunlight magic that the entire country has been waiting for to save it from the shadowy, monster filled dimensional rift, smack dab in the middle of it, that’s been making everyone’s life hell. She’s immediately whisked away to a life of luxury, and taken under wing by The Darkling, the mysteriously goth and pretty commander of all magic users who possesses the antithesis of her power. If she can summon light, he can summon shadows. He’s supposedly “only” one hundred years old, but his ancestor created the Shadow Fold. And he’s soooo sad and guilty about that inherited mistake and he’s determined to fix it. Alina’s supposed to to help him do it— chiefly, through the power of a mythical amplifier that’s meant to enhance her power. But the mid point of the very first book is that shdgdd after a big makeout scene with very dubious vibes, one of Alina’s magic teachers, herself turning our to be the Darkling’s mother, reveals that he’s much older than he claims and that he created the Shadow Fold and has no intention of destroying it, as opposed to using it as a weapon against other countries. And he also means to use the amplifier they’ve been searching for to magically enslave her and take her power for his own. So Alina runs away! And this sets off the rest of the series which is a race to get to each of the three mythical amplifiers before the other does. And generally evading the Darkling who has now gone gloves off and doesn’t mind showing himself to be an unfeeling mass murderer.

The narrative from this point on positions him chiefly as Alina’s foil, as her potential future and worst case scenario. As she amasses her own power and makes sacrifices in the name of defeating him, she’s presented as essentially being in danger of falling into the same path of corruption over centuries. Because, crucially, now that she has the amplifiers, she will also be immortal. And he is both convinced that she must turn out like him, but also that her immortality positions her as his equal above mortals, and as his companion, even if he must capture her and break her will down to make her see that.

The series’ main themes— handled with… debatable success— are that of autonomy, greed, the corruption inherit in accumulated power, and the pitfalls of means to an end morality. The particular ways that Aleksander is a uniquely miserable character are inextricable from his role in the story and what he is meant to represent. But the in-universe circumstances of his immortality also change things a lot.

Vampiric angst is usually tied to the overtly, or otherwise thinly veiled, Christian concept of damnation. Vampirism is culturally a curse, drinking blood to live, and fearing the sunlight is meant to be monstrous. There are individual instances (World of Darkness, some of the True Blood lore) where vampires have their own doctrines and believe themselves to be chosen or better than mortals. But typically cultural associations with them are uniformly negative.

In TGT there is the vague implication of “shadow powers bad” but it’s mostly framed as prejudice against something unknown. Meanwhile magic isn’t inherently awful, and the more powerful a magic user the more long lived they are, hence Aleksander pretending to be 100ish was believable. But hardly anyone else actually lives into multiple centuries the way he has. He’s an aberration. There’s also no element of like readily making anyone else immortal, so Aleksander ends up in this kind of bewilderingly lonely position of being isolated in his power and having no real idea of how or why this happened (beyond his equally long lived mother explicitly trying to have The Most Powerful Child Ever)

I think similarly, immortality as something that’s given to someone at some point during their life, as is the case with vampires, tends to evoke themes of stagnation and being frozen in time. Aleksander is a VERY inadaptable character, who isn’t really able to comprehend how much his sense of morals has been warped over the years. But he’s very driven and forward looking?

I feel like vampires as a concept don’t lend as easily and immediately to the “I am going to create widespread political change” type. And again with no preexisting associations with being cursed or damned, nor their being the inherent need for murder to survive, I think Aleksander ends up being in a position where he’s both more and less morally ambiguous. He’s not inherently monstrous, he only becomes that way through gradual, and inadvertent moral corruption. There’s no element of “succumbing to his nature.” He can keep thinking that he’s fully morally correct as long as he believes his goals are worth it and his sacrifices will have a return on them. The fact that he easily could have turned out completely differently and never been a villain at all is integral to his character.

Vampires conversely tend to deal with corruption of the soul/moral character at the point of immortality, or about consciously trying to combat the corruption of a known and acknowledged baser nature.

I’m aware that I’m making a lot of generalizations and assumptions about the ready thematic functions of vampires in fiction, but I hope this makes sense? Basically I think the tragedy just comes from a different direction.

Anyway, while I’m talking about vampires, I want to circle back to my earlier point about the Darkling feeling Edward Cullen influenced to me. Shadow and Bone was published in 2011, and with how slow moving the traditional publishing industry is, it’s safe to say it was written at least a year or two prior.

This would be towards the tail end of the post Twilight paranormal, and specifically vampire, romance boom. It was not at all uncommon to see unironic romances focusing on impressionable teenaged protagonists with poor self esteem, getting with 100+ year old love interests who, in singling them out (for their “maturity” and discontent from their peer group) validate their self worth, but also completely isolate and impose their own values on them.

The first half of the very first TGT book follows those same tropes pretty closely, and the initial romance heavy book marketing was basically indistinguishable from that crop of books.

To be clear, I think wish fulfillment stories are fine lol, but it’s really interesting to think of SaB (and the Darkling!) as a deliberate deconstruction in response to those trends.

Anyway this kind of went all over the place.

TLDR: I think vampires are?? frequently just as depressing?? They just tend to do it in mildly different ways. Also I have a soap box about Aleksander being a direct take on Edward Cullen (and others of his character type) being easily read as a controlling and abusive groomer.

#I… don’t even know how to tag this #grishaverse #shadow and bone #vampires #aleksander morozova #the darkling #also lol lmao sorry I am not editing or proofreading this I’m too busy #you’re just going to get my off the cuff stream of consciousness #vampire chronicles #hellsing #i ramble sometimes #all the bendy punctuations #a mysterious stranger has appeared #meta #*writer’s cap*

[reblogglelog]

oh god there are two of them

"oh god am I cring"

#green lantern #guy gardner #john stewart #guyjohn #dcu #xrill #tbh if i was in a fisty cuffs id channel Guy Gardner too #WWGD #one punch my problems away #immediately break every bone in my hand #john youre not gonna get laid :/

[darkthingshappen]

May 19th “I’m all you need”

@themerrywhumpofmay

Broken bones | Screaming | Passenger seat

Whumpee sat in the passenger seat of their own car absolutely terrified.  Whumper drove down the highway, each passing mile putting them further from the city and closer to whatever fate awaited them. 

“Please.  I’ll do whatever you want, just let me go.  I won’t say anything.  Ever.  Take the car.  Take what ever you want.”

“I am.”

Whumpee swallowed.  They hadn’t counted on someone wanting to do something to them.  They thought for sure it must be about money or something.  Whumpee looked at whumper.  They both had their seatbelts on.  But if he were to crash his car, then maybe he could get away?  Maybe he could hold him off long enough for the authorities to reach them? 

He looked around, the road in front of them was long and straight.  Fairly clear.  This would be a safe place to flip or roll the car.  He’d never been in a car that did that, but it didn’t look too bad on TV, especially if they had their seatbelt on. 

It was now or never.  Whumpee shot his hand out to grab the steering wheel but found his fingers grasped in whumper’s hand. 

“Oh I don’t think so, whumpee.”  He twisted whumpee’s fingers with a flourish and the bones in his wrists snapped.  Whumpee screamed and pulled his hand to his chest, cradling it. 

Whumper calmly pulled the car to the side of the road.  He got out and walked around to the passenger side.  Whumpee was too shocked to try and run. 

Whumper opened the door and grabbed whumpee’s good hand.  He held the fingers and twisted, snapping whumpee’s other wrist.  Then he fastned a pair of handcuffs onto their wrists, locking the metal tight around the already swelling joints.  He grabbed whumpee’s jacket from the backseat and tossed it over their arms to hide the cuffs.

Whumpee screamed even louder, pain radiating up both their arms.  Whumper shut the passenger door, walked back around the car, and slid back into the driver’s seat.  He put the car in gear and pulled back onto the road. 

“Don’t move, keep the cuffs covered.  If I see them, I’ll break your ankles as well.”

Whumpee nodded from where they were pressed against the door, trying to put as much space between themselves and whumper. 

“You will learn, whumpee, that I’m all you need.  I didn’t want to restrain you.  I wanted to trust you.  But you broke that trust, so you had to be punished.  Don’t worry though, I’ll take real good care of you.  I’ll help you learn your place.”

Agony throbbed through them from their fingertips up to their shoulders.  They watched as the bruises in their broken wrists began to appear. 

“You may have to spend some time suspended in your new room by those broken wrists, but you’ll learn.  And you’ll look lovely learning every lesson.”  Whumper looked over at them and smiled a wide excited grin at them. 

#the merry whump of may #Broken bones #screaming #passenger seat #whump #whump writer #whump community #kidnapping #creepy whumper #intimate whumper #hand cuffs

[angeltannis]

Tbh I still want to know if Frey could ever potentially transform into a dragon (ideally temporarily lol) since she has the same magic abilities as Cinta and the same pain in the ass demon attached to her who apparently grants Dragon Transformation Powers

#forspoken #I have such a vivid mental image of Frey as this gigantic dragon telling people she’s going to find a cave to sleep in for 1000 years #you know that episode of mlp where Ponyville ends up clouded with smoke bc a giant dragon is honk schnooing on a nearby mountain #basically that #Cuff: Aren’t you supposed to be dealing with. You know. Matters of diplomacy? #Frey; picking sheep bones out of her teeth: UGHHHH #[slaps her tail down so hard it causes a small earthquake in Praenost] #also things like #all of Cipal working together to bake her the world’s largest knish #Auden being the only one who can make her change back. all it takes is a 😠 from her #I have many such ideas

[liesmyth]

harrow tops sometimes but she has NEVER had normal vanilla sex ever in her life

listen so far the only sexual experience of Harrow's life included growing a girl a new arm and making her scream and writhe on the floor about it. that girl doesn't know what normal even means. the bone corset stays ON during sex

#and she will use it to do wild shit. bone strap. bone cuffs. marrow blindfolds #ask #lesbianmelkor

[niizhoowaadiziyaan]

#when i get paid and buy a shit ton of beading supplies #all black earrings #all black beaded cuffs #black bone choker #CHAINZ #and spikes. so many spikes #y'all better be ready because every single peice of clothing or accessory WILL BE #INDIGENOUS MADE #goth #native #american #grunge #core #aesthetic #ojibwe #anishinaabe

[thegothicalice]

Green woman 🌿 Oil painted goblin cuff and polymer clay Greenman by me, assemblage necklace by Wolftea, flower crown for Claire’s years ago, outfit thrifted.

#ootd #bone jewelry #witchy fashion #whimsigoth #faerie fashion #fairy fashion #wolftea #leaf shoes #flower crown #Greenman #oil painted cuff

[whoworewhatjewels]

Ghoulish Glam: The Spookiest Jewelry Worn by Celebrities"

Ghoulishly Glamorous: Celebrity Jewelry That Gives Halloween a Sparkling Twist!

Celebs aren’t immune to the bewitching charms of Halloween; they embrace the spooky season with just as much enthusiasm as we do! In the spirit of this eerie holiday, we’re delving into the crypt of celebrity fashion, unearthing some of the spookiest and most hair-raising jewelry moments. From Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton’s infamous vials of blood, which took “commitment” to a whole new…

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#Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie&039;s blood lockets #Billy Porter&039;s spider cuff at 2020 Grammy Awards #blood vial jewelry #celebrity Halloween themed jewelry #Doja Cat&039;s spider earrings at 2023 MTV Video Music Awards #Ghoulish Glam: The Spookiest Jewelry Worn by Celebrities" #Halloween celeb themed jewelry #Machine Gun Kelly&039;s Syringe earring filled with blood #Margot Robbie&039;s spider earrings at Wolf of Wall Street premiere #Megan Fox & Machine Gun Kelly&039;s Blood Vial necklace #Scary Celebrity jewelry #spider jewelry #Timothee Chalamet&039;s bone necklace at Venice Film Festival #Zendaya&039;s spider earrings at London photo call of Spider-Man: No Way Home”

[grimsdeadb0nes]

some valentiney pin-uppy zenyxs i did around this time last year + bonus peeks at ones I never finished (made later in the year) (yes ones a young zursie) Updated them to have her correct tail pattern + my sigs, but otherwise they’re unchanged from when I first did them funfact, the first one is what i’ve had as my phone lockscreen since I made them-

#zenyx #valentines day #pin-up stuff ig #zeti oc #sonic oc #sonic #bone rattling #i made these long before i had started posting zeti stuff comfortably so uh yeah #enjoy ig #zenyx i miss u i need to draw her again #i figured leaving out her spikes (collar/cuffs/tail) made it more..... idk pin-uppy? sexy? idr what i was going for #theres a version of the second one thats kinda memey (in text) but figured i'd give the actual one instead

[rex101111]

Calamity Jane knows servants that use subtlety and they’re all cowards. 

#Fate Grand Order #other servants are kinda coy or charming about it #Calamity Jane puts herself in hand cuffs and all but says /bone apple tea master!/