#dies of perspective

[gum-iie]

"mind helping me with the straps, love?"

#pov playable dottore: #genshin impact #dottore #wip #ok so my headcanon is that dottore has to have made some failed clones and he experiments on them before recycling them bYE #he may be restrained but at least they didn't take away his drIp #THIS HAS BEEN FESTERING IN MY BRAIN LIKE A PLAGUE #LITERAL ROT #dies of perspective #i will do my best to finish this #<<(me when lie) #procrastination doodles

[tofixtheshadows]

So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.

And I kept wondering: why?

For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.

So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.

But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.

The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.

Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?

That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.

My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.

Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.

Milsiril the puppetmaster.

#Dungeon Meshi #Dungeon Meshi meta #Mithrun #Milsiril #Kabru #btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry #so keep that in mind #like it just seemed WEIRD to me #that gloomy introverted Milsiril #who left the life of a Canary behind #decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy #maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk! #but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice #it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril #I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have #struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective #but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party! #crazy stuff there #everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character #musings with Dea

[bdsmrist]

kim: okay kitsuragi. get ur shit together. hes been out for two days. hes bound to wake up soon. what should i say? “thank you”? i mean, that goes without saying, but its not enough. “how are u feeling”? no, thats a dumb question. the answer is “bad”. should i just not say anything at all? wait till he speaks? wait no- knowing him, that might make him feel insecure. he needs something to hold onto… words to hold onto… right! his gun! didnt it have an encryption on it? right, yes— “sunrise parabellum” —thats perfect. short, poetic, and familiar. at least as familiar as someone in his condition could be. okay. cool. shit! okay hes waking up. okay, keep calm, lieutenant. wait till hes all there… okay, now.

kim: … sunrise parabellum….

kim: *nailed it*

harry: eeuuugghhh…. k-kiiiim…. where the ffffuck is ur pissfaggot jacket-

#thats was the first response i clicked on when i first woke up #cus i was SO UPSET he took it off #like genuinely devastated #but i cant stop imagining how that must be from kims perspective hshdbdhd #like ik my gameplay kim was like #…………….. we almost died detective #disco elysium #harrykim #kimharry #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois

[spoiledmilks]

Poor michael just trying to write his lil survival book

#OOWAAAHAHGAHAHJVDSAJHVSDAHJB THIS TOOK SO LONG MY HAND FELL OFF AND FUCKING DIED #anyways tag time #fnaf #my art #digital art #purple guy #fnaf 1 #fivenightsatfreddysfanart #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #mikol afon moment #mikolll #MIKOOLLLL #mike afton #fanart #art #fisheye #perspective

[royalarchivist]

Cellbit: Yeah, [Bobby is] our son.

Roier: What?

Cellbit: He's our son, no? Or not? Am I not?

Roier: I mean… he's already dead. [...] By the time we got married, he was no longer around. So in theory, in theory-

Cellbit: But in my heart, he is my son.

Roier: Oh, that's fine, in your heart, yes. In your heart, yes. But actually-

Cellbit: He could have been my son, he could have been.

Roier: But actually, he is my son and Jaiden’s.

Cellbit: Yes yes, definitely, of course.

Roier: [Smacks him] Exactly. Well, you're the step-father, you know?

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Cellbit: Hey Tina, have you met Bobby? I don't think you did, right?

Tina: I met him a little bit earlier, he's so cute!

Roier: Aww

Tina: I told him I like StarBobby.

Cellbit: Yeah, it's our son.

Roier: What? But-

Cellbit: He's our son, no? Or not? Am I not?

Roier: I mean... he's already dead.

Cellbit: That's true, that's true.

Roier: By the time we got married, he was no longer around.

Cellbit: That's true, true.

Roier: So in theory, in theory-

Cellbit: But in my heart, he is my son.

Roier: Oh, that's fine, in your heart, yes. In your heart, yes. But actually-

Bagi: Am I the auntie?

Cellbit: He could have been my son, he could have been.

Roier: But actually, he is my son and Jaiden’s.

Cellbit: Yes yes, definitely, of course.

Roier: [Smacks him] Exactly. Well, you're the step-father, you know?

Bagi: So I don't think I'm your auntie, sorry. Unless you want to!

Cellbit: Yes, fake dad, fake dad. Fake father.

Roier: But it's ok. It's ok.

Cellbit: It's ok, it's ok.

Roier: It's this dumbass' fault he died anyways.

#Roier #Cellbit #Guapoduo #Bobby #QSMP #Saw people straight up lying about what they said during this exchange so this is just me slapping down the receipts #Roier's right though! At that point in time he and Cellbit weren't married nor did they have that kind of relationship #If Bobby hadn't died maybe Cellbit COULD'VE been some kind of guardian to him #But Bobby is; and has always been; Roier and Jaiden's son #As a side note #With how involved Roier is in fandom stuff #I'm sure he's seen how frequently Jaiden gets left out and/or replaced with Cellbit in family art #So whether this is his gentle reminder to fans or just him establishing a boundary in a relationship: Roier is based #And it's a disservice to his and Cellbit's characters to take their words out of context and/or purposefully misinterpret them #Cellbit understood where Roier was coming from and explained how he saw things #(''I could've been'' ''in my heart'' etc.) #and Roier explained his perspective #(''We weren't married yet'' ''He was already dead by then'' ''Jaiden and I are his parents'') #Communication is the foundation to any good relationship! #and Guapoduo do it well. Usually #The fandom could learn a thing or two from QSMP; aka ''Communications SMP'' #Bagi in the background going ''I'm an auntie? :D'' then ''oh no I'm not your auntie'' then ''Haha UNLESS?'' is so funny

[soaring-trash]

Purple flag 🟪

#WHEN LAUDNA SAID that’s why i’m here IN THE MOST SUAVE ASS VOICE i *dies* #confident imogen makes me go coo coo clock crazy #it was such a moment #i have never drawn a background so detailed in my life #background #perspective #practice #critical role #critters #critical role campaign 3 #critical role fanart #bells hells #fanart #laudna #imogen temult #imodna #imogen x laudna #southerngothic #southern gothic #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #spoilers #love them

[oddthingsndaydreams]

Somedays the artblock wins. Somedays inspiration smashes you like a cadillac on a random dashboard recommend. @transformers-synergize your redesigns are so pretty ;^;

#Transformers Fan Continuity #Transformers Synergize #Moonracer #Augh ;0; her design is so pretty and so clever too! #Moonracer is one of my faves she looks SO good #Like a lil templar so I gave her a standard to bear cuz I needed something to balance the legs of the original pose #And then I died on perspective and ended up simplifying it back down -sobs- #I hope the interpretation is to your liking ;^; I don't think I captured the likeness in her face but if I kept fixing it I'd never post #The legs and the 'coat' and the segmentation of her chest and the tire placement and her antenna I'm ;0; I love love love the redesign #Also you have such a fantastic grasp on color theory. The analogous colors with complimentary details and the general shift towards #Orange/Green is so pretty! Such rich soothing colors #I'm sorry some of the shapes are off btw I misread her shoulders entirely and didn't realize until my motivation died again

[iheardyourprayer]

Sip

#the perspective is so fucked ignore that and look at his stressed little face #cas #castiel #art #ems creation tag #gas n sip steve #heaven cant wait #he will broom pose for me but my pen died before i could draw the thing i was drawing for

[superkitty21]

There's nothing more dangerous than rewatching a movie you used to be hyper-fixated on. I watched The Old Guard for the first time in years and now I'm reading first hand accounts of the Crusades and skimming wikis about Muslim raids on the Genoese coastline in the 11th century.

All this just for a more accurate mental picture of my otps meet cute

#The Old Guard #Nicolò di Genova #Yusuf Al-Kaysani #joe x nicky #Immortal Husbands #minor rant: there is NOT enough accessible edutainment about muslim perspectives on the first crusade #mine

[aroacehanzawa]

the thing is dazai can't die because that would simply be bad storytelling

#i may be the outlier here but i'm fairly indifferent about this chapter #..........as i've been about the past 20+ chapters too #sigma reading fyodor's memories/information was good tho. that scene was excellent #so if sigma actually dies for real that would be even WORSE from a storytelling perspective #bsd

[kohhomaru]

Portrait practice

#sketch #art practice #jjk #sukuna #toji #jujutsu kaisen #wtf is perspective huh?.? #how di I draw nose #sukunas hair is the shittiest shit Ive ever tried to draw gege pls kill this man #tojis jaw on bottom right so big you can punch him.. i dunno how to fix it .. #ffs I didn’t know art was hard

[fantastic-nonsense]

Thinking about how Percy should not have been the child of prophecy but it ended up being him anyway. Because there were TWO children of the Big Three in front of him: Thalia and Bianca. By all rights, it should have been one of them. While Bianca's case is more complicated, Thalia should have had to deal with the prophecy before Percy even got to Camp Half-Blood at 12...but because of a bunch of circumstances completely outside of his control, it fell to Percy to fulfill it.

And Percy was offered the choice on at least one occasion to pass the burden of the prophecy onto Nico but actively chose not to:

Grover looked worried. "But you can't hide things from the gods. Not forever." "I don't need forever," I said. "Just two years. Until I'm sixteen." Annabeth paled. "But, Percy, this means the prophecy might not be about you. It might be about Nico. We have to—" "No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more." -Chapter 20, The Titan's Curse

Percy Jackson was fourteen years old and really said "it shouldn't have been me, it doesn't have to be me, and I don't want it to be me, but I won't let another person suffer because of my own selfishness." What a kid.

#percy jackson #pjo #pjo meta #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #clearing out my drafts #sometimes I really want to dig more into Thalia's perspective on becoming a Hunter and avoiding the prophecy that way #because it's a remarkably selfish choice for a writer to allow someone like Thalia to make #even if her stated reasoning makes sense (re: Luke)

[beforevenice]

so, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because i, too, am fluent in silence.

// r. arnold

#fav #favorite quote #photography #ph #venice #venezia #italy #travel photography #italia #art #rialto #ponte di rialto #rialto bridge #water #canal grande #blue #perspective #q #quote #r. arnold #silence #thoughts

[ash-and-starlight]

Zukka week day 4 // The arts

Studying the blade through calligraphy practice

#id in alt text #yet another love letter to green zukka #for those three of u who Recognize 👀 the background/palette #Im sorry I’m lazy I liked that vibe and shamelessly recycled it all #(ohh also) #(it’s referencing a scene from Hero which would work so well for a ATLA au… up until the very end of the movie) #(zukka as broken sword & flying snow aawjrbjekfbskfk screams cries) #(dies in incommensurable pain) #((don’t look to close at that perspective lmaooo)) #zukkaweek2022 #zukka #sokka #zuko #my art #side note I started this one ages ago and my artstyle changed like six times in the process help

[prince-liest]

some recent thoughts on Nie Mingjue and Jin Guangyao, and why even though I find Nie Mingjue very frustrating in the midst of his Baxia-induced anger issues, I think he’s also a pretty sympathetic character as a whole and it’s really understandable why he thinks the way he does

(as someone who ships 3zun and nieyao, and through the lens of “Jin Guangyao is my blorbo”)

I’ve seen a tendency to paint NMJ and JGY’s relationship in black and white in terms of who was fundamentally more in the right, which to be honest is not really the approach I take to fandom in general. to me the tragedy is that NMJ and JGY before JGY's casting-out had immense respect and perhaps even love (platonic, romantic, whatever) for each other. in the end, a lack of mutual understanding of each others' circumstances that could have otherwise eventually been overcome was driven, by bigotry, Jin Guangshan, and the Nie cultivation style, into becoming an insurmountable difference that eventually killed them both

NMJ definitely Did Not Get where JGY was coming from when JGY was making survival decisions and keeping secrets. he was simply not raised in a way where he ever even had to think about the types of choices that JGY has been forced to make since he was quite young. but at the same time, NMJ was a teenager raising his brother and his sect from a very young age and I think it's a disservice to his character to fail to acknowledge that his entire life he expected to die a young and horrific death, just like he watched his father die, and that this expectation deeply colors his approach to the world. JGY plays the long game. NMJ does not get to think about that, he just has to raise his brother, win a war, and try not to drive his sect into the ground before he kicks the bucket in a violent and gruesome manner. he does not have a choice about any of these things.

and said things are extremely difficult to do, especially as a teenager, which I think is a reflection of MDZS's whole thing where their entire generation is just traumatized by war and conflict and a dearth of genuine, honorable guidance and leadership, which leads to such fractures

but it's also a series of tasks that required the kind of attitude that Nie Mingjue develops, and that in combination with Baxia’s influence gives him this really immovable perspective on life that he just won't budge on with JGY. I think it’s really significant that when Jin Guangyao does regularly play Clarity for NMJ, they get along quite well. and I also think it's really understandable why NMJ is so stubborn and headstrong - he's had to fight his way through being sect leader and not take "no" for an answer, because what the hell else can a young, new leader do to avoid being taken advantage of? frankly even if he had taken up a bit of whatever guile Nie Huaisang didn’t hog from the Nie gene pool... why would he direct it towards self-preservation? he has no room for that kind of fear because he is going to be dead in a few years.

importantly as well, Nie Mingjue unjustly judges Jin Guangyao because he is unable to understand the context that JGY is coming from, but that same righteousness is the reason that he's the first person to have given Meng Yao a fair shake and rewarded his hard work and labor, and that matters a lot to Jin Guangyao and their relationship as a whole. you can’t really have one without the other unless you give Nie Mingjue time to grow up.

unfortunately, Nie Mingjue died his 20s, and was in his teens when the Sunshot Campaign began. look me in the eyes and explain to me what kind of behavior you expect from a 20-something with a magic rage sword.

#mdzs #the untamed #nie mingjue #nieyao #jin guangyao #that parting sentence is intended humorously not genuinely #please don't actually do that #also #/gesticulates wildly at luo binghe lmao #all-considered #I feel like if I have sympathy for binghe then I gotta have sympathy for nmj yfm? #I repeat for the love of god please don't come argue with me I started rotations again and I'm too tired #this is just because I like writing meta about my blorbos #mdzs meta #meta #my writing #im 27 atm and pretty sure that im older than nmj was when he died #which definitely colors my perspective

[layla-carstairs]

thinking about Tessa hearing slipping through my fingers by abba for the first time. like that song is emotionally devastating for people who didn't watch their baby girl die of old age I cannot imagine what it's like for her :(

#screaming crying throwing up #Lucie being born in 1887 abba releasing this song in 1981. yeah. #like in Lucie died at 80 that would mean she would have been dead for 14 years when that song can out #to put it into perspective #Tessa's stronger than me tbh because that would have been my final straw actually #bella talks #haven't made a post in a minute so you're getting them all now sorry #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tessa gray #tessa herondale #lucie herondale #james herondale #mina carstairs #the infernal devices #the last hours #tid #tlh