#cycling around

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

#obsessed with the fact that rain world is a game about survival #yet every character we meet has the express goal of trying to optimize killing themselves #every creature in game seems perfectly content fulfilling their role in the ecosystem no matter how many cycles they do the same thing #(rly obvious with gourmand's entire route. guy who lives their life to the fullest without the slightest hint of resentment) #it was really only the ancients who thought they were above it and thought of it as something to escape from #5pebbles is so interesting because the only reason hes “”“godlike”“” is because of his vast knowledge. if he was in any slugcats shoes he #would die instantly which is ironically what hes been trying to do this whole time #this comic was kind of exploring the idea of awareness (divinity) as something that drags down ones enjoyment of life (walking). #if 5p would humble himself down enough to walk around like any other creature #he would a) be much happier in life and b) achieve the ascension he's been gunning for for millennia like all the slugcats did #but he never will. #getting rid of all his work on the problem or even his awareness of it entirely #would just be a trick of convenience that steals away his godhood #and him calling himself godlike is kind of a cope LOL #a cope being faced with a problem he was never meant to solve #a cope being faced with what he did to moon #a cope being faced with the rot inside him #oh well. #anyway fuck 5 pebbles i hate that guy #rain world #rain world fanart #rw five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #rw gourmand #rain world gourmand #five pebbles #rain world void worm #rain world ancients #also JUST KIDDING ilu 5p. you suck but i💛u

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[eternalchemy]

"adam and ronan are a sun and moon pairing" yes and ronan is the sun. but specifically like this:

#having many thoughts #bc obviously ronan does not feel like a traditionally sunny character #but this. oh #and adam being the moon well. #i dont even want to think about the implications of gansey as the earth and adam and ronan both orbiting around him #oh ive made it worse for myself #anyway haha #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #the raven cycle #trc #the dreamer trilogy #td3

[daeyumi]

💫🌟 There Flowed Forth (Consecration of the Self) ☀️✨

[Cycle of the Stars au]

#zelda #legend of zelda #zelda au #loz au #ganondorf #au ganondorf #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #cycle of the stars #cycle of the stars au #cycle of the stars ganondorf #whew i FINALLY finished this one #feels like it took forever lol but i’m pretty happy with how it turned out #one last piece to finish up this series (it’s impa) but it might be a little bit before i get around to it tho #but hey at least i got the 3 triforce holders done #one of these days i will draw ganondorf with a different expression lol i can’t help it if he’s perpetually pissed off

[kaiasky]

its sooooo dumb that the days of the week are a thing we have extremely broad standardization on. i should have to be like, oh my mutual who lives in the 6 day week country... i think its 4sday for them??

#kaia.mypost #like obviously many people work weekends or on a different cycle but like. 'Sunday' does not shift around wrt to other things

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X DC PROMPT #26

(I'm feeling angsty today.)

(#) = Notes at the end of post

(*) = Just me building off of other ideas.

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Going Supernova

The GIW have discovered his identity, and they don't waste time on using this knowledge to their advantage. They spent the last six months creating a weapon that not only hurts ghosts but absolutely obliterates them down to their very cores. After testing it for so long on minor ghosts and then discovering the local ghostly menace's secret, they have the bright idea to make an example out of Danny.

They ambush him as he's fighting the invading ghost of the day. Their first shot misses and hits the ghost they're fighting. As soon as the shot lands, the ghost freezes in place with a look of dread and horror.

They look up at Danny with tears in their eyes and has only a few precious seconds to say, "Run," before their skin cracks and they shatter, the miniscule shards evaporating into nothingness.

Danny is petrified and grief-stricken over what he just witnessed that he doesn't have the time to even twitch before the GIW lock their sights back onto him and shoot him in the back.

Agony consumes him. His chest burns, and his ribs rattle with the effort it takes for him to breathe through the pain. The civilians who were still on the scene gasped in horror as they watched their local hero's chest start to crack and glow from within.

What the GIW didn't know was that Danny had just recently elevated to Ancient status due to helping Clockwork with the timestream. That and with his status as a halfa, what they did will end in nothing but disaster. (1)

Danny spots his parents, sister, and friends in the crowd. His parents watched in awe and excitement while his Jazz, Sam, and Tucker looked at him with horror-stricken disbelief. Knowing what's to come and not having enough time to explain, he gives them a wobbly smile.

"I'm so sorry."

He whips around and rockets straight up into the sky. He breaks through the atmosphere in a matter of seconds and continues to fly at breakneck speed away from the little green-blue planet he calls home. He has to get away. He can't destabilize so close to them. He has to go even further.

His form is steadily breaking off into pieces as his human and ghost half fight and fail to keep him together. He can feel his human half dying and his ghost half barely holding on by a thread. He can't stop, though. If he stops here, the Earth will be destroyed from the backlash.

He had no worry for himself. After all, stars die all the time. That doesn't mean that's the end for them. They just take on a new form or even help breathe new planets and galaxies into life.

'A star's death is not the end!' He comforts himself.

He only makes it a few light-years further before his energy fades out to nothing, and he slows to a halt. It's only then that Danny starts to panic alone in the vacuum of space. The furthest he's even been from home and the comfort of his friends and family.

"No. No, no, no, no." He repeats over and over. "Not far enough. Not far enough! I'm still too close!!" (2)

His stuttering heart rabbits inside his chest along with his crumbling core. He hugs himself tight with the false hope that maybe that would stop himself from falling apart. He cries for his family, his friends, his planet. His life and lives he's about to take through no fault of his own.

Because for a star to give life, they must first destroy. (3)

"I'm sorry. I-I'm so sorry! Please!"

He sobs into his hands as the light of his core pulses one final time.

"Please." He whispers brokenly.

His core shatters, and he screams for the entire cosmos to hear. His form expands with immeasurable force and shakes the very foundations of creation. His desperate attempt to spare the Earth from his self-destruction was in vain as the waves of his shattered core ravaged the solar system and destroyed everything within its path.

The countless people and other creatures on Earth didn't even have time to blink before they were completely eradicated. Quick and painless but nonetheless gone.

It took centuries for everything to settle again.

It wasn't until countless millennium passed that the solar system began to take shape again. However, everything was reshaped and put back together as though with a child's memory of what it used to be from so long ago. Some things were bound to be different, like how Mars gained its own population of intelligent humanoid creatures. How Earth's own population started to develop extraordinary abilities and magic was able to be used more freely outside of supernatural species.

Soon, there were heroes popping up all over the universe of all shapes, sizes, and species. Some people were even reborn. They started remembering a life that, as far as they knew, never actually existed. How could it? None of the people they were before showed up in any records. There were records, of course. They just, unfortunately, no longer existed.

No one knew why, either. At least not until a magic user stumbled upon a tome belonging to what they knew as the Underworld. It told the story of a young boy who died too young and was destroyed from what he became afterward. How his destruction also destroyed the world despite the boy's efforts to save it.

This story was shared with the masses of people experiencing these memories of other lives, including the heroes who took up the mantle of keeping the Earth and other corners of the galaxy safe. They mourned the loss of a life so young, so bright and full of potential. They hoped that wherever the child ended up, that they were at peace.

Little did they know, the child was part of the universe itself, his very being woven into the fabric that makes up the night sky and everything that lays beyond. They can't see or hear him, but that precious child--the Ancient of Space--laid curled around the Milky Way itself with Earth cradled gently in his trembling hands.

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(1) Because of his status as the new Ancient of Space and the fact that he is half human/alive is the reason his destabilization took longer than the ghost he was previously fighting. An Ancient has immense power of the aspect of reality they control, and his human half was desperately trying to keep him alive. He can't live without his ghost half, though. It was also the power of his Ancient status that made his destabilization so explosive and damaging. However, him being a halfa is also what saved his existence in the end and allows him to still continue to be the Ancient of Space, as Space itself is always in a state of dying and rebirth. It just took several thousands of years to pull himself back into a semblance of what he previously was, but obviously irrevocably changed.

(2) According to scientists a supernova would have to be within 30-50 light-years to trigger a mass extinction on Earth. To be actually completely safe from one, however, it'd have to be 160 or more light-years away. Danny didn't even make it to 20 light-years before his core self-destructed, which is why he was panicking.

(3) As I'm sure most of you know, supernovae are essential to creating life, but that life is preceded by the death of said star.

(*) I haven't really thought of who would be reborn into which character. I originally thought of Jack Fenton being reborn as Bruce Wayne, but Bruce only disguises himself as a himbo while Jack actually is one. The only reason I thought it would work out it because 1) Jack's paranoia about ghosts and translating into Bruce's own paranoia 2) him regaining his past memories would explain his propensity to collect black-haired, blue eyed children because of his loss of Danny and 3) him and his relationship with Jason after he came back as Red Hood.

Other than that, I can't think of who any of the other characters might be. You can decide!

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #danny goes supernova #the giw fuck up #but when don't they #ancient of space danny #danny's destruction destroys the universe and everyone in it #time passes and he eventually regains enough of a form and consciousness to put it back together #but not a 1:1 recreation #several millennium of existence is bound to make the memory foggy #and thus the DCU is born! #some but not all characters have memories of their past lives before the universe was destroyed #they're yours to decide #danny did self destruct but he is NOT permanently gone #space has a natural cycle of death and rebirth #danny is still the ancient of space #the people sympathize and mourn what happened to danny #they think he's gone but he's not #your decision if they do discover he's still around tho! #danny phantom crossover #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #writing prompt #prompt #sleepy writes stuff

[dykealloy]

ripple effect legacy // my tears are becoming a sea, M83

#weaving parallels but god at what cost #something something luffy inheriting the will of a burnt out sun #something something the things we leave behind (broken promises. pain. little brothers. cool fire punch moves) #see the significance of ace is that he spends his whole life asking 'should i even have been born' and then through the positive #impact he has on everyone around him he creates a continuing cycle of change where people reach out a hand to help others #he said 'im not sure i deserve to live' and then became the most remembered and loved and sorely missed dude in one piece #like it's almost comedic how luffy keeps finding his big brother in the stories and best qualities of all the people he comes across vs. #people who knew ace and keep seeing pieces of him in luffy #anyway happy new year portgas d. ace trauma be upon ye~ #one piece #op #portugas d ace #portgas d ace #asl brothers #yamato #wano spoilers #one piece spoilers #CJ's edits #amv #monkey d luffy #straw hat luffy #monkey d. luffy #portgas d. ace #CJ's op watch-through

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Nooooo Bestie, don't go to mad at me island

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #nie huaisang #Bestie (nhs) attempts to dodge responsibility for his meddling. Fails miserably. Gets soggy and wet as a defense. #I think there should be an ace attorney au for mdzs just so nhs can be an girlfail definitelydidit witness #NHS with the wettest eyelashes: “my whole lineage is based on killing and vengeance and swinging massive swords around” #He was so smart for breaking the cycle tbh. What if you just didn't engage with the tradition that eventually drives you mad? #Other notes from this scene (because I'm skipping over the man-eating castle explanation) #Shout out to NHS again for hearing that Jin Ling almost died in the walls and going 'maybe he got what he deserved'. Unhinged.

[mmmairon]

Hi mairon! I love the self insert comfort you did it was so cute! Would you be able to make some more? Possibly diluc taking care of someone like the girl you did in the last one — maybe putting them to bed because I’m suffering w my insomnia right now 😅 if you can’t dw!

oh, to be tucked snugly into bed by Diluc Ragnvindr

#insomnia is the worst i’m so sorry anon #and it’s like the most frustrating thing in the world #there is a part in my menstrual cycle where i just cannot sleep 🗿 i feel actually insane whenever it comes around #i hope you are sleeping better now! please take care 🥺❤️ #i’m such a sucker for hurt comfort man #diluc is walking around the bed and getting snuggled into his side after this #before my dad passed away he would tuck me in bed every night #yes even when i was 17 #he would grab my blankets just like diluc is and use his weight to push me into my comforter lol #and then ask if i’m snug as a bug yet hdhhf #hurt/comfort #diluc x reader #diluc x yn #diluc #my art #asks #genshin impact #anon #tagging this as awealuc #because it is #atp #awealuc #genshin #diluc ragnvindr #diluc fanart

[skeletonzimms]

we’re none of you fucking bitches going to tell me about the butter sculpture of arthur’s death ft. kilgharrah ?!?

#I HAD TO FIND THIS OUT FROM TWITTER DOT COM?!?? #FUCKING BUTTER #HOW WAS I NOT MADE AWARE?!? #HOW IS THERE NOT POSTS CYCLING AROUND ABOUT ARTHURS DEATH SCULPTED IN FUCKING BUTTER #IM CRYING #bbc merlin

[squash1]

“to be loved is to be changed” but it’s adam parrish being loved unconditionally for the first time by gansey and then by ronan lynch and then by blue sargent and learning that love is supposed to be easy. like breathing. and finally accepting the love he has always deserved.

#this thought has been banging around in my brain and making me crazy #if i see one more tiktok of a pet or stuffed animal with this quote #i will simply pass away #i can’t take it #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #richard campbell gansey iii #trc #the raven cycle #pynch #adam and ronan #the raven boys #blue lily lily blue #the gangsey #gangsey #mine

[brother-emperors]

WHAT DOOM FOR YOU?

back again with my Please Read The Thebaid Agenda! I adapted the ending of Book VII into a comic because oh boy. thoughts thoughts thoughts.

There is a horror in having yourself altered to such a degree where you are unrecognizable in your own self, to know that it is happening, to know that you should be dead and yet you are not. You have already seen the moment of your death!!!! (Stat. Theb. 3.537 – 47) There's a horror in knowing, and in it being treated as an act of love when it's really more like a violation. Amphiaraus is spared Creon's decree, but by falling into the underworld, it makes things worse on a cosmic scale.

Statius' Thebaid Book VII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War, Charles McNelis

The Perils of Prophecy: Statius' Amphiaraus and His Literary Antecedents, E. Fantham

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#the thebaid #it's all greek to me #komiks tag #long post #amphiaraus #wheezing i actually started this last year; i only JUST got around to finally finishing/formatting it all #anyway please read the thebaid it's so good #theres something about apollo perpetuating cycles of violence as a catalyst for it u know. #in book one they recount how apollo's rape of a king's daughter is what set in motion the events that led to current rituals #and then with amphiaraus the collapsing of borders between the 3 realms dragging the cosmic in to the war #the war that mars himself looked away from in disgust!!!!

[es-3]

yk, props to gansey for having the “craving the chase not the end result” mindset for glendower but not converting that over to blue

#my brain jumped around so much while trying to right tags #cuz the chase for glendower was his reason to live #not the wish to be granted #just the search #but blue was never like that #it was never about the kiss they weren’t supposed to share #just her #and now i want a blusey tangled au #you were my new dream #and you were mine #but its right before gansey had to sacrifice himself #the raven cycle #the raven king #trc #richard gansey #gansey #blue sargent #gansey x blue #bluesey

[bisexualchaosdemon]

The very first thing Noah says in trc:

Gangsey after finding his body:

#i can't be the only one who knew he was dead right? #it is the first thing he said! #i didn't realise that none of them knew he was a ghost until this point #it's a book about clairvoyants and magic welsh kings #i assumed that i was meant to believe the boy with the cold hands when he said he was dead #i was just like “oh one of them is a ghost that's cool” and continued reading #their entire friendship is built around the supernatural and he told them that he was dead HOW DID NONE OF THEM FIGURE IT OUT?! #gansey was litrally brought back to life by the ley line just like ??? #noah czerny #gangsey #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #blue sargent #ronan lynch #adam parrish #the raven boys

[adamsrcnan]

adam is watching oppenheimer. gansey is watching both and giving his social commentary on both that makes everyone roll their eyes but he's so gansey about it that they'll listen anyway. ronan doesn't care about either, but he wants to sit in the theatre with adam for 2+ hours and hold his hand so he will be there. blue and henry are watching barbie and blue is gonna walk in with gansey and henry on each arm dressed as ken

#my take in this meme going around #feel free to disagree??? #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #richard campbell gansey iii #gansey #henry cheng #the gangsey #the raven cycle #trc

[potatounicoorn]

As if Kuruk being claimed as the worst Avatar in history, while he cleaned up Yanchens mess, dedicating his life to slaying bad spirits while getting no reward but only hatred towards him, losing his wife on the wedding day in progress AND his own life at the early age of THIRTY THREE by literally rotting from spirit powers was not enough suffering for a lifetime. Hah. NooOOOo!

Apparently universe does not want to give this man a fucking break because his "team Avatar" his "best friends", keep being the absolute assholes even after his death AND LITERALLY BETRAY HIM IN HIS NEXT LIFE. AND THEN KEEP MAKING HIS RECARNATION'S LIFE MISERABLE. WHY WAS NOT ONE LIFETIME ENOUGH, WHY??

#And the so called friends have to fucking nerve to keep saying everything they do is in honor of Kuruk😃 #How is making his recarnations life a living hell a way to honor your friend who literally is that person recarnated??? #AND YOU KNOW IT IS HIM #LIKE STOP LEAVE KYOSHI ALONE SHE DID NOT DO ANYTHING #Kuruk and Kyoshi both deserve a hug a better life a better world and a better circle of people around them #Jianzhu better sleep with one eye open cause I AM COMING AFTER HIS LIFE #He better start praying cause I will show no mercy #I hope Kyoshi fucks him up with all the power she has #Avatar kuruk #Avatar kyoshi #Jianzhu #Hei ran #Kelsang #Kuruk #the rise of kyoshi #Rise of kyoshi #avatar the last airbender #The avatar cycle #Legend of korra #Atla #kyoshi novels