#but at least its contained

[elithemiar-blog]

Phoenix Rising

How many of my followers know about this story? I believe it had been my very (?) first published fic on FF.net a crossover between DP and Arrow.

My writing has definitely evolved from back then, even I have reread my own works and holy moly does it need an upgrade.

Fun Fact: I’ve wrote this BEFORE I’ve had a tumblr account, and oh boy that rabbit hole had a wild slide.

Now, I’m deep in the dpxdc side of things.

My followers who have already read this bloody thing, would you like to read an updated version? Little more fleshed out, less confusion, ideas added, deleted or just glossed over?

Those who are finding about it now, feel free to read it, just know that it’s only available on FF.

I don’t entirely remember every detail, Ghost King Danny is there...eventually. It’s one of those stories of partially planned out and spontaneous ‘sure lets go with that’ moments.

In one week I’ll be on a 2 week vacation, I’ll be working on this plus multiple other stories both fics and original, cause my brain knows no chill.

Leave your thoughts below.

#dpxdc #look i was young #and in school #i still know no chill #but at least its contained #fic needs such an update #as i'm literally working on an entire other crossover fandom #i'm trying to come off of hiatus #i just realized the dp fixation #and how extensive it is #this has been on my mind for MONTHS #i should be leaving for work #bye

[wasyago]

whoag magical girl transformation armor???

#jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #my art #sketch #another armor design that im never gonna use yeaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!! and when i do ill probably change it anyway let sgoooooooooo #he looks so weird wearing full armor.... where are your fins boy. why are you wearing shoes.... contained him 😔 #at least he's protected so i guess its alright...

[glouris]

“they are very annoying and irritating” are you familiar with the concept of fun and being entertained by drama

#god of war ragnarok #god of war #heimdall #atreus #i'll be most grateful if you stop using my stuff from here and twitter in your content WITHOUT ASKING FIRST #a friend of mine @/fijj10 on twitter has been posting some of the screenshots i sent her and i keep seeing them all over #text her and ask first stop stealing #feel free to use my things as backgrounds and icons though #also shoutout to all the girlies thats been downright nasty and evil about heimdall #i see your comments ladies and they make me smile #im lurking and im stalking when you least expect it #im literally in your walls #such a shocker wow a villain does villainous things #did all the ppl thats been loud and hateful about him escape the genshin containment what #whats the story there how did that happen who allowed it #just keep to your corner and be quiet is this so hard #just shut up shut tf up #ppl that's been normal about expressing their dislike - yall valid im not talking about you #ppl going around attacking others for sets of fictional pixels - tag blocking exists #everyone is so high and moral until its about harassing artists #thats been sitting with me for a while i needed an outlet for venting #thanks for coming everyone #ill go enjoy some more of this 'keeping up with the kardashians' energy they give off #so unnecessarily dramatic and shady i love it

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

#hs #homestuck #dirk strider #eye strain #probably? if you think i should tag something else let me know!! #anyway hooray its time for rambling in the tags #so uhhh heres the teæ i've been sick for like a week and you know how it is when suddenly your throat becomes the main gunk warehouse #and you can't breathe lol. wish i could just pull it out. anywaaayy this is basically a vent piece for me being sick lol #also i could draw remotively the same thing with kris deltarune. oh how easy it is to project having a cold #though i have been also experiencing troubles with feelings recently as well....how fitting for dirk #speaking of the man himself (enough of me) his relationship with his own Heart...is peculiar to say the least #the thing i love about alphakids is that despite being so feral they were. so relatable. i cannot stress this enough how unwell they are an #and how they represented being a teen so well. yeah being 15 years old makes that to you #imagine being an emotional mess and trying to fit the 'norm' and act normal about your friends so youre not offputting #and then you fall in love with you friend and your ai clone falls in love with him too looool noone makes out of this one alive #uhh literally. godtiering stuff and dying remember #and speaking of it. tw for suicidal talk for the rest of tags #do you ever think dirk was suicidal. of course the part of when he teleports his head to jake was totally planned and he knew he would -> #wake up as dreamself but. don't you think the moment he cut his head off was sort of. cathartic. how much did he hate his own guts #beheading himself not only for the plan...but also because he thought he 'deserved' it #also wow he is a Prince and was literally beheaded don't you think its funny hahaa #sigh poor thing #this has ended on a not the very pleasant note hm #also fckkkkkk i didn't draw anything with rose/mary for the lesbian visabilty week #(putting the slash because tumblr search system has a dumb gag with showing you posts that contain the tag inside the other tag. #and i don't want this post to show up for the ros/mary fans because it's not!!!! its rose's father emotional crisis post!!!!) #update YOOOO WHAT THE HELL THE GIF HAS EVEN LESS PIXELS THEN I PLANNED fantastic #this your breakfast now tumblr. enjoy your crunchy flakes of dirks meltdown. mwah

[heatsbeloved]

#self shipping #self ship community #self ship #selfshipping #f/o #f/o positivity #polls #something i was thinking about earlier #about how insular internet communities like this sometimes escape containment #and people kinda point n laugh and call it cringe #and like... on some level it IS cringe to people outside of the group #but ultimately it's harmless for the most part #but for me at least its something i want to keep to myself and other people online #i might say so and so character from such and such video game is cute but #that's about the extent of it #and i wanted to see what other people thought :)

[blinkpen]

brainstorming mechanics for a bloody mary of my very own

#mog art #artists on tumblr #horror #monster #this is for a self-contained horror project with its own story entirely unrelated to MantleDwellers #and by project i mean... possibly live action..? never thought i'd say that but anyway- #she might cameo in MD though or show up once as part of its Monster of the Week format bc My Original CreepyPasta Monster My Rules #speaking of rules there's more to this setup obvs n other effects n powers and i'm still playing around with her appearance #adjustments n such; already will be changing 7 nights to 12 bc Clocks #blood cw #death cw #want to get the specifics just right so there's room for protags to get fucked over when they think they've won #AND there still be the loophole that lets you Actually defeat this thing #or at least neutralize it after summoning so you don't have to commit 2 sit in a chair u cant ever move every night until you die

[jaggedjot]

“Louis de Pointe du Lac. That's an interesting name.” “Louis of Pointe du Lac Plantation. My great-great-grandfather owned one. All that remains is the name.”

“And a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence. Capital accrued from plantations of sugar and the blood of men who looked like my great-grandfather but did not have his standing.”

When introducing himself to Daniel both in 1973 and in 2022, Louis alludes to the ways that the legacy of chattel slavery in the United States remains present through his life. The ramifications of this history will be explored further in his interviews; it is intrinsic to the racism that Louis describes experiencing, and it is built into the economic and cultural foundations of the societies that Louis has and continues to navigate through. The way that this subject is broached however, in both the past and present, specifically centres the relationship between slave plantations and Louis’ own affluence.

Daniel’s remark being prefaced by Louis offering to “Get the boy whatever he wants”, before carelessly pushing a platinum credit card between them, implicitly correlates Louis’ response with that ostentatious display of wealth. It is not an intentional association made by the characters, and Louis immediately downplays the link when he recognises it (“All that remains is the name.”). Given his reaction, it seems likely that Louis did not talk about this topic during his subsequent interview with Daniel, though, again, that does not mean it would have had no bearing on other matters discussed. By contrast in the present day, Louis broaches the subject himself and fairly openly acknowledges the correlation. It was a slave plantation and the exploitation of enslaved people that created the sizeable trust that paid for the house and lifestyle that Louis and his family enjoyed. While Louis does not state it directly, the unavoidable implication of Louis clarifying that his great-grandfather was black and had a different social status to that of slaves (“[…] the blood of men who looked like my great-grandfather but did not have his standing.”) is that several generations of Louis’ black relatives have, at least indirectly, financially profited from chattel slavery. It is unlikely that this wealth was all inherited after the fact, considering that the abolition of slavery in the United States occurred only a couple of decades before Louis was born. These pieces of information seem to contradict then the implicit suggestion of Louis’ earlier explanation in 1973, that the only direct bearing the de Pointe du Lac plantation has had on his life is a shared name.

Both the dismissal and the acknowledgement are characteristic of how Louis describes the past; factual as a basic statement but carrying additional implications whose accuracy is more questionable and or left carefully unexamined. This is a rhetorical device that aids Louis in maintaining control of the narrative and its meanings while avoiding, as much as he can, outright lies. While Louis does view Daniel as a necessity for him to revisit his story, it needs to be stated that this does not prevent Louis from consciously and unconsciously tailoring it for his audience. It is possible that Louis only acknowledges the subject at all in the second interview because he is aware that Daniel has likely done some background research on his family. Considering how insensitive to racial issues Daniel can be, as well as his deliberately combative and contrarian approach to interviewing, it may be that this is a subject that Louis does not want to explore with Daniel specifically; it is perhaps notable that the penthouse Louis shares with Armand contains at least two pieces of art (Slave Auction by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Transformation by Ron Bechet) which are about chattel slavery. Regardless of the reason for Louis’ selectivity, this context continues to hover on the periphery of Louis’ story, adding additional layers of meaning to the events that follow.

It contextualises the contradictory feelings Louis has about his work as a landlord and pimp, roles that may step outside of the shadow of sugarcane and slavery but are only made possible through investing the profits of them. When Louis confesses to the ways he treats his workers, tellingly he invokes plantation imagery with “[…] I lie to myself, saying I'm giving them a roof and food and dollar bills in they pocket, but I look in the mirror, I know what I am; the big man in the big house, stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear their cries.”. This conflict then deepens the resentment Louis has towards his family for criticising how he provides for them, with Paul being the only member who even entertains the idea that they should not spend the money at all (“We should tithe that o'er to St. Augustine's 'fore this house falls in on us.”). Whereas the family judges Louis for connecting them to an industry they view as sinful and lacking respectability, contrasting it to the seemingly fondly remembered family plantation (“Daddy was here, we'd still be in sugar cane.”), Louis is troubled by the exploitative nature of that work and capitalism as a whole. Yet there are also times when Louis exhibits pride towards his business dealings (“And I was now the owner of the brightest club in the district. My club, my rules. […] It was everything I had ever wanted or wished for. […] I made a mountain of money, enough to retire and be buried like a pharaoh.”). This could be suggested to be partly because Louis has moved away from the legacy of his family’s past to create something that he can try to believe is helping his, primarily black, workers (“I paid the staff better, paid the band better, all the while helping those who had been with me down the block to better themselves.”).

Most significantly of all, this context adds an additional lens through which Louis and the audience can examine some of the overarching existential ideas that Louis has been grappling with throughout his life, and that the second interview brings to the forefront. How does the past continue to define our present? Can we be considered in any way culpable for the actions of others? What reparations can we make for the harm, deliberate and unintentional, that we do? The open-ended way that Louis approaches the link between his inherited wealth and chattel slavery, as well as the subsequent ways that these have shaped his life, is reflective of those unanswered questions. Louis is desperately trying to find, if not a definitive answer to these philosophical quandaries, an insight that can give his existence purpose and direction. It is vital to Louis that his experiences offer some greater lesson (“That's the purpose. Our book must be a warning as much as anything.”), and ideally one that he can prove that he has already learnt. The different ways that Louis approaches the subject in 1973 and 2022 then reflect how he is revaluating the past and himself (“The passage of time and the frailties that accompany it have provided me perspective.”), but despite this, critically and symbolically, Louis still does not seem to have come to any conclusions.

#one of the worst things that I think can happen to art is for its nuances and complexities to be dulled and sanded away #because of others inability or refusal to engage with them #I wanted to write about these lines and specifically the one in the first episode #because they are great examples of how much depth is contained in the writing #how complex a person Louis is #as well as Louis' wonderful ability to casually throw a line in that we then think about for days #I have in fact been writing this analysis over the course of two weeks #because I have accepted that I will never get my analysis done before season two #(actually it makes me feel slightly ill when I think about it) #but at least this thousand plus word analysis is about a couple lines of dialogue instead of just one #that may be progress #anyway racists DNI #Louis de Pointe du Lac #Interview with the Vampire #Vampterview

[theboobdraws]

sorry folks im posting my huge backlog of talloraven sketches and taking up the tags and feed, god forgive me etc etc. cowboys upon ye aces and eights except its super gay

their names are desden drake and james o’halloran/jesse ari smith, later jesse ari drake. i have a lot of thoughts about these two but the gist is that dresden was a bounty hunter looking for the infamous witch of los angeles james o’halloran but fell in love with the gorgeous doctor smith along the way, shenanigans ensue, and they both become outlaws bonnie and clyde style. yes they die tragically young in the end what else do u expect

#scp #secure contain protect #scp foundation #james talloran #researcher talloran #scpf #draven kondraki #scp art #aces and eights #so i personally think the actual aces and eights canon on the wiki is absurdly mid #and low quality #i mean there are a lot of interesting concepts there but overall its executed poorly and comes off as #insensitive to say the least #i love the idea of cowboys but by GOD did they not write it well lmao #so. #theboobdoods #talloraven

[skitskatdacat63]

Seb Malaysia 2010 comp because it is my favorite Seb hair

#me obsessed with you? yes. yes I am #there are of course many other pics from this gp that i like #but this post is for me to be unhinged abt his hair okay.... #he just looks so angelic to me???? very cherubic???? #the ringlets in the front of his hair....im...just...adsjlskjl #but this to me is his perfect 2010 hair length #he just looks so pretty....like i really cant understate how pretty he looks in these pics #i dont even remember why i was looking at this gp in specific but his angelic looks have bewitched me #but yes incredibly self indulgent bcs im just so entranced w these pics #at least twice a wk i have some unhinged moment where i cant contain my love for him and thats this post #btw that very first pic is the whole reason i made this post its literally been haunting my brain #how many pics can you post of one man at one gp? #me: yes #if i could i would post literally every picture i have from this gp(its too many) but i tried to restrict myself #key word: “tried” #sebastian vettel #2010 malaysian gp #sv5 #red bull seb #we do a little bit of f1

[soldier-poet-king]

I very much try to live by a 'most generous interpretation' ethos and just try desperately to believe everyone is trying their best to seek and do Good, even though our understanding of it is always necessarily incomplete and limited, I truly do believe most people are fundamentally searching for that, but oh man sometimes y'all make me read theological opinions on this site that's not just 'i severely disagree but see how one could get to that opinion even if I think it an awful conclusion' but more like 'this is the worst thing I've ever seen and I wish I didn't have eyes'

#rare W for catholics bc we be arguing about everything but at least theres SOME common grounding #arguments about quote unquite being saved. and who's really saved. and all that. im #imma be real with you chief. peace and love to all but calvinism is a crime #this also includes not strict calvinism but all the debates abt predestination and the elect or even just #*fully accepting christ and being saved* #like nulla salva discourse amongst catholics is bad dont get me started #but at least there is SOME basis for universalist and anonymous christian arguments #i mean. like. yeah im way way lefter than most orthodox theologians. obvs #but yall really out here still arguing about who's saved?? FOR REALSIES??? #have you considered. its far more complex and the soul and the divine cant be fully contained in human terms #and its so much broader and more terrorible and more wonderful than we can ever comprehend #now in a mirror dimly. etc etc etc. #anyway the transcendence of it all. the beauty and terror of the holy. #tbf the eastern orthodox have this one correct. they really got it. #faith tag #like peace and love and all due respect but also. this is why religious trauma and scruples is so widespread in western christianity. like.

[dwtdog]

omega dnfies have a mega nest in a room of the house and its so ridiculously covered in plushies and blankets bc they just keep buying each other presents

#sapnp is like yall r freaks but at least its contained to one room 😭

[fungi-maestro]

Questionable Images 1/2 - The Question #8 (1987)

#book club #the question #vic sage #dc comics #comics #questionable images #another one of my favorite issues #here you can see vic talk about second chances and get fucked up on drugs #also it contains at least two jokes about vic having no face. higher than there have been so far! #but seriously this issue is really fantastix #it shows you what someone who fights fire like fire is doing in the town of hub city #as well as discussing how 'innocence' can be subjective... #dr spaulding is one of my favorite one off antagonists. hes not cartoonishly evil or anything like a lot of the others. #you can see his motivations and you can see how his morals somehow justify this (while being hypocritical) #and yet you are able to look at it and decide how you feel about his actions & decide what it means when someone is 'innocent' #it forces you to ask yourself how much a person can do before they're irreparably guilty. and whether theres a balance to it. #100 good deeds might outweigh 100 bad deeds. or they don't. and every moment decides whether you're 'innocent' or not on its own. #and at the end you have to ask yourself whether spaulding deserved that. DID the punishment fit the crime? why him and not vic? #it brings up moral issues you maybe didn't think about before. #very very good issue... one i often think about. #WHY WONT TUMBLR LET ME MOVE THESE PICTURES AROUND IM GOING TO EXPLODE #no one is guilty except whoever at tumblr made this impossible

[spaceistheplaceart]

i need something new to go insane about. recommend me stuff pls yall 🙏

#ive been considering dunmeshi but ehhh #im ok observing those freaks from afar (affectionate) for now #preferably its at least a little funny #scavengers reign was fucking INSANE and i love it but it was so good and self contained that im not crazy about it #i need to make animatics i neeeeed it

[arataki-neato]

God March's companion mission made me insane though like the atmosphere? The building creepiness as you work backwards through her memories and see all of her friends and loved ones start parroting the same warning? When it even seeps into the fucking loading screen messages? The questions it gives you of like is the force trying to keep her memories suppressed her or someone else? Is it really trying to protect her or is it hiding some truth from her? Not to mention protective Fu Xuan at the end </3 and those sweet fuckin moments with the Express Crew

Also if you pay attention to the mission descriptions you get some fuckin adorable tidbits like March coming up with jokes in her head to tell Dan Heng later lmfao

Also this one which is less than adorable :(

#headcanon fuckin confirmed btw that march doesnt remember her dreams im so fucking smart #honkai star rail #hsr march 7th #I wonder if the next arc is gonna focus on march or another member of the crew #it might be kinda nice if penacony is kinda like a breather episode #like we had herta space station which was like basically the trailblazers origin story #then belobog which wasn't really relevant to any of the crew's backstories or the greater stellaron hunter plot #then the xianzhou luofu arc which was very dan heng focused #and now we have penacony which at least for now doesn't seem like its going to contain any big express crew lore #it might be nice to have it more paced out like that

[mirrortouchedsea]

Okay but like... the way in Night Club when Hinata starts opening up to Rinne and Rinne sees who he used to be so so clearly in Hinata. Feeling like the world believes your entire existence is wrong, nothing is going right, you just want to give up but you can't. Hinata comments that it's easy to open up to Rinne and I think part of that is just that Rinne intimately understands what Hinata is going through, trying to find himself in a world that he feels like an alien in. And while Rinne obviously doesn't like to be so upfront about his feelings, you can tell he's watching out for Hinata and encouraging him to act up and act out, to be loud because someone is proud of him and is glad that he's there (and now Rinne is in Hinata's corner and he's less alone than he was before).

#I WAS THINKING ABOUT THEM DRIVING HOME FROM WORK AND FORGOT TO MAKE THIS POST OOPS #enstars #ensemble stars #enstars analysis #hinata aoi #rinne amagi #rinne's unorthodox approach to things and his fuck the rules mentality rubs off on hina though asdmpfoa #and yuta hates that its why yuta has such beef with hinata and comments about how hina is becoming like rinne #hina is still having an identity crisis but at least he has someone who understands him and will be there #in his own way even if that way is 'lets go spray paint a building about it' #i think about rinne and hinata dynamic too much for my own good and i am the only one out here in the trenches #anyway... first analysis post on here specifically enjoy! i'm watching a very slow explosion of a post i made on main #that has escaped containment as a fandom post for a podcast i listen to #but hasn't quite blown up beyond like 60 notes... it looks like it might get there soon though as a semi viral post #shay speaks #<- fucking forgot to put my original post tag on here earlier like a loser

[qeyond]

Death Note au where Light is stuck in a time loop and no matter what he does L always dies, he freaks out, and the loop begins again. L's fate is so tangled and twisted around Lights plans from the very start, or perhaps it was simply always written to be this way, but no matter how far back he unravels it all he can't stop L's passing. Light tries again and again and again, relentlessly, to change their futures but it feels eternal. Endless. At a certain point Light realizes he can sacrifice himself to ensure L's survival. But no matter what, it all restarts. After a decent number of resets, L catches on to the time loop and with each reset his memories grow stronger, until he's fully aware of his entanglement with Light. They spend eternity searching for a branch in time that's strong enough to hold them both. They learn to weather the storm and to cherish their time together, seeing it as a blessing despite.

#qeyond sucks #lawlight #death note #l lawliet #light yagami #im sure its been done before but you know i gotta think about lawlight angst at least once a day #light for sure starting to lose his mind and grip on reality after the first 50 resets #and if it wasnt for L also gaining consciousness of the situation he'd be truly lost to the abyss of cruel fate #they die forever for the other #i think theyll find that time line that can contain them both eventually though <3 #if anyone could They would #do yall want me to tag this stuff with something so i dont bombard you with anguish #give your hearts a break