#ending the pursuit

[autcore]

So exciting to finally hold it!

#i helped the crowdfunder for this book in 2019 and its here!!! its real!!! #kricketot chirps #aromantic #ending the pursuit #lgbtqia books

[aromantic-diaries]

You don't need romance to be complete! What you need is to find the cursed amulet and set the ancient spirit free from it's prison so that it finally finds eternal peace thus restoring balance in the universe

#aro #aromantic #arospec #legend says that a brave hero not oreoccupied by the pursuit of true love will set out to end the curse

[chiefyarts]

"Think of me as… a bear trap. Not a sword."

#the spiral is SUCH a cool entity #its the quiet pursuit #the door calling to be opened or taking the place of a pre-existing door #its like a creature to me #like a trapdoor spider waiting for its prey to open the door so it can end the game #tma #the magnus archive fanart #tma fanart #tma podcast #the spiral #tma entities #tma spiral #fanart #the magnus archives

[agentc0rn]

He dared to fly high and beyond

With a will that burned hotter than the sun itself

Outstretched his hand

Just to feel a modicum of its light

Longing to possess its brilliance, power, legacy

Enveloped and overwhelmed

His wings of crystals cracked and he fell

Down into the heart of the sea

Just before the tides claimed him

From the skies, came down them

and reached a hand for his.

#pokemon sv #pokemon dlc #pokemon fanart #pokemon sv dlc #the indigo disk #my art #pokemon #kieran pokemon #rival kieran #pokemon kieran #trainer kieran #the hidden treasure of area zero #sometimes our greatest strength is also our greatest weakness - unknown #Icarus’ fall teaches us the importance of finding balance in our pursuit of greatness - also unknown #When I was writing down the tags in my other post it hit me that Kieran is literally Icarus but with a happy ending #I feel enlightened about this #I have a big soft spot for Kieran as you can tell with all the analysis #art and animatics of him - such a special boi #pokemon scarlet and violet

[jetcorax]

he'll burn himself down

gotta love a good fall from grace

magali villeneuve, greater good cover

lesser evil by timothy zahn

greater good by timothy zahn

lesser evil by timothy zahn

luke ross and nolan woodward, thrawn (2018)

thrawn: alliances by timothy zahn

pat olliffe, andrea di vito, and rachelle rosenberg, thrawn: alliances (2024)

star wars: rebels, "family reunion - and farewell"

thrawn: treason by timothy zahn

chaos rising by timothy zahn

star wars: rebels, "family reunion - and farewell"

#thrawn #thrawn trilogy #thrawn alliances #thrawn books #thrawn ascendancy #star wars rebels #mitth'raw'nuruodo #fun fact the note i wrote for the “all lives are important” quote is literally just “GIRLLL WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUUUU” lmao #the way that thurfian and zistalmu eventually end up being....kinda right :/ #he does burn himself down #and puts the ascendancy at risk in the process #in pursuit of the greater good and in search of a lesser evil he loses himself #and all sense of morality that he once had #L bozo >:( #thrawnposting

[bonefall]

Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.

#I just wish people could be more critical of this #And im not entirely anti-retcon. Mind you #But I am here because i think these retcons make them WORSE characters. It's BAD for a character to GET a book with a redemption arc and-- #Then they don't change at all and act like totally different people later in the timeline #And Leopardstar is the worse one between her and Blackstar BECAUSE she has sooo many active choices here #Im confident in my choice for BB the more I think about it. Leopardstar's dismantling of the bonehill was good #But it works better as a tragedy imo with the rest of the series in mind #That for a brief moment. A fleeting whim. She could have changed. #But she never did. #And Blackstar who was FAR less repentant at the time DID eventually turn around. #At the end of the day one of them appointed Hawkfrost as codebreaking deputy. #And the other did not. #And I think it's fucking bullshit the way that Leopardstar's retcondemption implies that Hawkfrost was just so tricky he mislead her #The old and experienced leader who had been fooled by a tiger before and was soso sorry for it. Just got tricked. #Like fuck off. She never had a redemption. Stop trying to tell me she did 15 years later #She's a girlboss who empires too close to the sun in pursuit of power and drags everyone down with her #Not a sad weepy smolbean #Bone babble #Warrior cats analysis

[stuckinapril]

my GOD I love science. i love chemistry. i love medicine. i love my life

#so happy to have made the choices I have #even if somehow something changes I never want this love for science & learning beaten out of me #no matter what I always want to treasure everything I’ve learned #one day I will be 70 at the library hunched over a book w lip gloss on bc the pursuit of knowledge never ends #and we are so fortunate for that #p

[frau-kali]

#black sails #silverflint #blacksailsedit #blacksailssource #silverflintedit #my stuff #listen #i just love these two shots #silver looks back #and there's flint in pursuit #looking all menacing and hot #and fucking terrifying #he knows he's fucked if they catch him #and not in a good way ;) #but then he escapes by being clever #it's so funny to think of where they started and where they end up #:)))

[unreal-unearthing]

Shout out to cole weaver (guy who wrote the most recent tmagp episode) for writing a case tailor made to haunt me personally.

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp 04 taking notes #anyway I’m a classically trained musician #and ballet dancer #and so the sacrifice of time and effort and your body and pushing thru pain for the art… taken to its extreme ends….. #feels familiar I guess lol. #one difference is that I sacrificed approximately zero (0) children in pursuit of this goal #pinkie swear

[val-of-the-north]

The insidiousness of Kin in Bloodborne

The game makes a clear distinction between the earthly, beastly nature of mankind and the higher, more sophisticated and advanced inhuman evolution offered by the stars, with one being feared and hated by almost everyone but a small group of irreverents and the other being the goal of most organizations in the setting. They crave the superior knowledge that the stars, sea and Great Ones can offer them and in their selfishness they drag the entire population through the mud, subjecting them to the Scourge that turns them into the reviled, de-evoluted monsters that infest Yharnam.

But there’s something to be noted when analyzing the result of their attempts at ascension... most Kin we see are horrifying and animalistic monsters, no better than the beasts that devour the population. Take for example the Brainsuckers. Their lust for insight isn’t too dissimilar from that of blood-drunk men for their precious healing blood. They do everything in their power to feed themselves on more insight, more knowledge... and for what? In their current state, it’s more of a craving than a meaningful pursuit. And their locations are rather telling too, as most of them are found in the base of operation of the Choir. How were these men of science any different than the commoners they deem blinded by beastly idiocy? All those sacrifices to turn into addicts themselves.

We also see the Fluorescent Flowers, beings who are undeniably kin but... there seems to be nothing intelligent about them. They are ultimately just predators, luring in prey with their flower-like bait. Whatever ritual or experiment made those certainly didn’t lead to a greater understanding of the cosmos. The Scholars of Byrgenwerth themselves have long since turned into mindless sludge who attacks anything they don’t recognize, drifting away in a Nightmare far from their old world. Gardens of Eyes are also just monsters who instinctively attack us despite their supposed higher intellect.

Perhaps the Celestial Emissaries are the only ones not relegated to the role of mindless fiend yet even that is debatable. While we see their individuality still persist somewhat after the transformation (Arianna even remains passive and never retaliates unlike the others) as shown when we breach into Iosefka’s Clinic from the backside, for how long will that last? The other Emissaries we see are exactly like all other Kin, attacking us on sight and sparing no grace for anyone who approaches, showing no sign of their past humanity. And even if they do retain their intelligence somewhat, the same happens to certain beasts, like the Afflicted Beggar. Despite his condition he is capable of complex thinking, more complex than even most Kin we see, and he is able to feel things too.

Other attempts at evolution fail spectacularly and turn people into hungry monsters. Adeline, the only patient of the Research Hall conscious enough to address us is starving for Brain Fluid, and her hunger gets ravenous fast. The fact she is restrained as hard as she is seems to hint that she’d get violent, and we see many patients getting violent and even animalistic at times.

Or think of the Nightmare Apostles, once cultists of some kind, now turned to mindless spiders. The only one with a head on his shoulders and a brain to match is Patches, though he seems to be an explicit exception to the rule. [x]

No matter what, the thirst for knowledge remains the same... a thirst, a primal urge. Beastly idiocy goes both ways, but the stuck-up researchers of Yharnam don’t see it, and that’s their fatal mistake.

In the end, they were no better than the poor population. Just as clueless and obsessed with the very thing that was eating away at their humanity... but while the commoners despaired at this fate in the case of beasthood, these madmen wanted it and ruined countless lives to achieve it. Ultimately, it’s hard to feel sorry for them. They got what they wanted in their short-sightedness: absolute oblivion of the self.

#bloodborne #bloodborne lore #an observation really #brainsucker bloodborne #celestial emissary #afflicted beggar #this can potentially be applied to real life too #sometimes pursuits to get smarter or be different from others lead down dark paths #lonely ones usually... #and they end up not being worth it at all #val-post

[samuraipussy]

do you ever think about how mizu's name means water and taigen ran from his fate to follow in his father's footsteps as a fisherman and what does he end up chasing in the end?

#the way his entire character arc is seeing with his own eyes what the path of greatness is #what violence and conflict do to people especially the people he cares about most #and for what? #by the end he's so tired and disillusioned with what he wanted in the first place #he just wants to be happy and happiness is humble #mizu's name is beautiful symbolism for taigen's fate but it goes beyond that #because to love mizu is to have to let go of all pride and pursuit of greatness #at the opposite end from his initial goal of restoring his honour through killing him #blue eye samurai

[muse-of-fandoms]

Thorfinn 🤝 Mizu 🤝 Eren Yeager

Children who were traumatized so badly by a parent's death that they swear vengance by killing the ones who caused it, spending years of their lives as killers and slowly loosing their humanity only to never even be the ones to land the killing blow

#vinland saga #thorfinn #askeladd #blue eye samurai #bes #bes mizu #mizu blue eye samurai #abijah fowler #eren yeager #eren jaeger #attack on titan #aot #when you throw away your humanity for a fruitless pursuit #and end up loosing your will to live in the process #i love my weird murder blorbos

[marypsue]

The Big Lebowski is a neo-noir film.

#discuss at will #listen. it's got everything. convoluted plot where everyone's double-crossing each other. #laid-back detective reluctantly sucked into the madness in pursuit of a small selfish personal goal. #femmes fatale; including a harsh cold goal-oriented woman the detective ends up sleeping with but not ultimately forming a relationship wit #corrupt cops #an abundance of grit and sleaze #frequent reference to characters' experience in the war #nihilism. #germans. #and a killer soundtrack #the coens even said it was inspired by raymond chandler what more can you ask for

[neoplasm230]

Laios and Luchino outfit swap

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #identity v #idv #idv luchino #idv professor #luchino diruse #spoilers ahead! #two autistic massive biology nerds #who are friendly to people but largely alone regardless #have a deep respect and understanding of nature that other humans usually don’t understand #experiment their theories using their own bodies #and because of their relentless pursuit of knowledge end up becoming the monsters they study #these two silly billys scratch a very specific itch that my lil autistic brain loves

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

Thoughts on Yona's dream in chapter 254:

I feel like this is Zeno's way of trying to dissuade Yona from pursuing him. He knows she and Hak will go after him, and he probably doesn't want to actually hurt them more than he already has. So he sends this dream of killing Hak trying to warn them off, effectively saying "if you keep following me, this is what will happen".

And will it? Is it a bluff, a threat, a prophecy?

Regardless, I think it's interesting that Yona woke up and didn't even consider calling off their search for Zeno. After making sure Hak was okay, she came to the conclusion "well I'll just have to go without him". I'm not sure whether Zeno was intending to scare Yona off or not, but if he was, then he failed to realize (again) that Yona will do just as much for him and the other dragons as she would for Hak.

(And this next thought is more of a crack theory lol, but let's say Hak and Yona get to Zeno and Zeno tries to harm Hak just like he did in the dream... what if in Yona's desperation to protect him, a crimson dragon form ends up materializing out of Yona similar to what happened in Xing with the four dragons when she was in danger?? What if Zeno has been trying to provoke the crimson dragon into appearing this whole time??)

#much to think about #kusa what are you building in that diabolical brain over there #also worried about lili given how the chapter ended #she is nothing if not stubborn and persistent #if zeno tries to be vague with her and she doesn't accept that i worry zeno will cause more harm in pursuit of his goals #akatsuki no yona #akayona #yona of the dawn #akatsuki no yona spoilers #akayona spoilers #yona of the dawn spoilers #akayona 254 #akayona 254 spoilers #zeno #hak #yona

[ourpleboy]

grins

#my art #dsaf #dayshift at freddy's #dsaf oc #CHROME MAKES A GRAND RETURN #i gave him even more loreHELP #so before he was killed he was a photographer for a newspaper company #but bro got a little too nosy one time #he heard abt the rumors surrounding fazbenders #so he went to go see if he could find anything there to take pictures of #unfortunately for him henry miller was kind of busy making a crime scene and he ended up catching him 😭 #so henry ended up killing him dead #but chrome's desire for the pursuit of truth ended up making him repossess his corpse (with some divine help ofc) #chrome is not his actual name but he went through a lot of brain deterioration before he was able to establish the hard drive #and wire system in his body #hes also latino bc i said so