#i'm exorcising it

[simstinkie]

yo i just fired up the ole gaming laptop i used before i got my desktop in 2020 and i wonder how much lost cc is in this 14gb mod folder

#i'm exorcising it #originally to see if i can rig it to stream from the studio #it does not have a usb 3.0 so i cannot use nice camera BUT that's cool cos less equipment #text post

[theeminentlyimpractical]

Aziraphale x Rose Nylund, The Golden Girls.

+ Bonus, feat. Anthony J. Crowley as Blanche Devereaux:

#good omens #aziraphale #the golden girls #in my shitposting era now i guess #I'm so sorry #this has been sitting in my notes app for a month I needed to exorcise it from my system

[lots-o-doodles]

Vash's arm detatching made me think of this

#trigun #trigun stampede #meryl stryfe #vash the stampede #shitpost #my art #I'm so sorry this is so dumb #but I had to exorcise it from my head

[ratwithhands]

Some doodle requests of John Ward from insta. The ones submitted, in order, are:

Throws a bagel at him

Exorcising a demon child

Draw him pregnant

On all fours eating a pile of toes

I will perhaps post some other doodles of him because I'm getting back into Faith for the first time in a few years and I got some ideas while I was gone (namely one about a particular game over screen). Anyways see you guys later and sleep tight.

#faith john ward #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #john thomas ward #art requests #doodle #character doodle #shitpost art #shitpost doodle #fanart #gotta say it feels kinda funny making fanart for a game with strong christian themes #cause like I'm not christian and there's some stuff I don't know #so I gotta spend the next 5-10 minutes hunting through google to see how everything works #definitely interesting to hear about at least :) #also I made it mostly cause I though it would look cool but I do have a Second Death AU of John based off the Gary death screen #I need to watch the Unholy Trinity gameplay and some lore videos before I flesh it out more but it's pretty goofy rn #michael is also there but like I kinda exorcised him #sorry possessed michael fans 👁👁💦 #anyways have a goodnight ^^

[cgerice]

There's a joke in here somewhere, I think

#luigi #bowser #bowuigi #Hi hello don't mind me just exorcising this from my body real quick thanks bye #do not perceive me #i've been seeing a lot of “bowser uses luigi for practice” posts lately and i'm glad we're all on the same page #there was going to be a second part to this that had luigi giving advice #but it wasn't as funny as i wanted it to be so oh well

[roxannepolice]

Something about 15 having more elements of Gallifreyan culture (the writing on the sonic and on the freaking nails) in his image than any Doctor before.

Something about him flippantly stating he was abandoned instead of TOTALLY KIDNAPPED MY PARENTS WERE TOTALLY SOMEWHERE THERE IN THAT COMPLETELY EMPTY SPOT.

Something about knowing it's more important to save Ruby now than to learn of her past.

Something about parent with their own issues frame rather than an eternal child.

Something about Carla using the same words as the Doctor to reflect on how we are defined by our memories and people we know rather than by vague essence of might have beens.

Something about identifying with the past you had with its good and bad sides rather than the very bad sides you can't even remember.

And yes, something about Gatwa being the first first generation immigrant to play the Doctor.

#i'm very pleased with how rtd exorcised ttc of empty martyrology in case this wasn't clear #doctor who #doctor who meta #the doctor #fifteenth doctor #ncuti gatwa #i literally ordered doctor and master in gallifreyan custom nail tattoos and am wearing them rn btw #the church on ruby road #ruby sunday #carla sunday

[squiddlysq]

Love is Love is Love & so on & so forth

#electric dreams #edgar electric dreams #miles electric dreams #madeline electric dreams #electric dreams 1984 #guys why isnt tumblr autofilling the madeline tag. we need to love women #Genuinely haunted by gay demons while tryna watch Electric Dreams. Had to exorcise this image from my head #Edgar bisexual king with a hottie on either thigh. He simply cannot lose #Srry I've got a illness called homosexual #Only cure is drawing hot poly makeouts #squiddlyart #I haven't done lineless in a while but this blasts absolute penis I'm rlly into how it turned out

[distort-opia]

Alright excuse my compulsion to situate everything within a timeline, but. I love that now there's more than one story taking place before The Killing Joke that establishes Bruce empathizing and relating to Joker, and that Zdarsky clearly took inspiration from the one before his own for this aspect of Bruce and Joker's relationship.

The events of Zdarsky's I Am A Gun take place while Dick is a boy and still Robin, early in Batman's career... and so does Darwyn Cooke's amazing-showstopping-spectacular Batman: Ego. In Ego, we get another instance of Bruce's mind being split in two; there being a separation between Bruce and Batman, with the embodiment of Batman arguing for Joker's murder:

-- Batman: Ego

But Bruce says no. He says he isn't a killer:

Forever obsessed with how Darwyn Cooke so efficiently conveys how Bruce understands Joker, and relates to him. He knows Joker chose madness to deal with tragedy, that he was faced with the same choice Bruce was, and that Bruce could've become him. Because that's what Bruce lapsing into laughter and acting like Joker shows.

But the story is centred around Bruce in Batman: Ego, while in I Am A Gun... perhaps the best line to summarize it is Bruce thinking to himself, "Is the Joker broken too?" in Batman (2016) #128. It's not just the two facets of Bruce vs. Batman in this story, it's also the two facets of Joker: a human being, and a monster.

The conflict in Bruce is mirrored in Joker, and I am kissing Zdarsky on the mouth for acknowledging it and portraying it so beautifully. There's a monster in Bruce made out of hollow anger, and there's a human being crying for help buried inside Joker:

-- Batman (2016) #130 -- I Am A Gun

"He'll fix you." And Martha being the one to say this, the one who becomes Joker herself in a different world, a different Universe... perhaps it's not intentional, but it feels so relevant. In Flashpoint, Thomas Wayne is a Batman who kills. In New 52's Earth 2, he's a Batman who killed Joker himself. And in Bruce's head, it's Thomas Wayne arguing for Joker's death.

But I just love that keeping both I Am A Gun and Ego in mind, knowing that these thoughts and emotions were there for Bruce for years, makes The Killing Joke... even more poignant.

Bruce has been thinking about this for a long time. And all of it coming to a head with the iconic offer for help, with the one time Bruce offered Joker his hand despite what Joker had just done...

-- Batman: The Killing Joke

[clenches fist] It's beautiful.

#long post #and this not even mentioning Bruce going up to Joker's cell and showing him the playing card as revealed in DotF #which takes place chronologically around Year 2 as well #or freaking Going Sane which takes place before Dick came along #fascinating how all these stories shape the early years of Bruce's relationship with Joker. BEFORE Jason's murder #because that changed so much for Bruce. for both of them #I'm also going [WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN] about Batman 130 itself and Bruce thinking of Joker before ''dying'' #I Am A Gun and TMWSL tie in thematically TOO WELL #identity crises! identity crises everywhere #hnng. anyway. I'm sorry I had to exorcise the Thoughts #batman #batman meta #bruce wayne #bruce wayne meta #joker #batjokes #batjokes meta #my meta #batman: i am a gun #batman: ego

[autistickaitovocaloid]

collection of tiny guys

#art talks about stuff #vocaloid #fanloid #project diva #not going to specifically tag the game because while the spritesheet these are from is extend's these are both in 2nd/extend #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #kagamine len #megurine luka #kaito #meiko #akita neru #yowane haku #sakine meiko #meiko looks so fucked up because she's the only one with nothing on her arms #anyway been meaning to isolate the non-kaito ones for a while so here's the full set #i'm pretty sure there's also like. snow miku/hachune miku/some specific luka + kaito ones but i'll make a different post if i do them #''barney why don't you just graphically exorcise screenshots of the models'' because i can't get noesis to work yet #i'd have to line up the angle/zoom of them just right and that sounds like it would suck #once i can get the models i will post hi res pictures of them that just won't be rn #spriteposting #id in alt text

[justletmescrolll]

I don’t even remember what this game was about. all that remains in my brain is a warped idealization of harry and kim’s relationship

murder investigation? ex-something? the pale?? what are you talking about??? come on, we’re gonna be late for harry and kim’s wedding -

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #kim kitsuragi #harry du bois #listen #this idea has been haunting me and I'm exorcising it #I just think if harry found a wedding dress in the trash he would wear it #it's beyond stupid but it's still making me laugh

[beardog]

So softly, a tender breeze brush against my knees On a summer afternoon I get to thinkin' 'bout the hazy days Under August shade that I used to spend with you

khai dreams - "sunkissed"

if only i finished this in august lmao

bonus sketches below the cut

#sulemio #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #gundam #the witch from mercury #g witch #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #beardogart #i'm so fucking happy i'm done w this finally #happy miorine monday the demons have finally been exorcised

[eyesteeth]

love the diner scene in episode 5 so much. on the surface it's hysterical, hayward just dumps this rant about his wife (soon to be ex-wife) onto carpenter, someone he fully believes to be involved in the deaths of five men, with barely any prompting. and carpenter cringes through the whole thing and it's so awkward to listen to. it's four minutes of an incredibly realistic rendition of the worst conversation possible.

and then later you learn that there is no ex-wife. hayward just said that shit off the cuff. and it's so fucking funny on a second listen. all that awkwardness, to a stranger, about something that didn't even happen.

when he mentions his wife again in episode 14, something's clearly off - his speech about the good man running, it feels more like him talking about himself than describing what someone said to him. then, when he says his wife knows he's at the party in episode 18/S2E3, we know he's been on his own for a while. finally, it comes out in episode 27/S2E12 that she was never real. and this knowledge completely recontextualizes the whole encounter in episode 5.

him talking about fear and apprehension, that mounting feeling, desperately wanting something to be over but not wanting to make it be over, feeling like you're giving more than you're taking, it's very clearly him ranting about his job and his associated insecurities. he goes into feeling like he's going to lose himself if he pulls away from this "relationship" or come out the other side worsened from the whole ordeal.

and then carpenter pipes in, and says that there's another option - he can destroy the other party. and that's where this scene really clicks and comes together, because the thoughts hayward is having about his job are the same thoughts carpenter is having about her faith.

she also doesn't want to be here, both in the sense of being in this town and being in this position. she's tired of gods and the problems they cause for her and everyone, and she's struggling with leaving. hayward and carpenter foil each other incredibly in this regard. they even have similar forces pushing them to make this choice in the first place - hayward got into the police because he didn't want to let his mother down, and carpenter got into the church because of the fear surrounding her brother's death. it's guilt and family for both of them.

then, in season two, we get to see them both existing outside of their respective "bad partners" - hayward abandoning his job and working with paige, and carpenter traveling alone to bury the body she's given. (the similarities diverge here - carpenter spends this time alone reflecting and ultimately decides she needs no higher force in her life, while hayward feels directionless without a higher authority and so goes all in on the new god - they both go in very different directions with the momentum they're given)

now, with season three six days away, they're both being pursued by that same "bad partner" from before - hayward was already on the run from the police and making a god isn't going to put him in any better graces, and carpenter has the forces of the river faith coming after her for a double-murder she didn't do. when their paths converge, which is very likely, maybe they'll foil each other again. only time will tell.

#tsv #the silt verses #yes im making another post. i need to exorcise the hyperfixation to a manageable level #i triple checked this one if it's also inaccurate i'm going to eat a small stone #analysis #sister carpenter #hayward

[coquelicoq]

what i love about the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi of it all is that...it's not just that he's famous and therefore widely recognizable wherever he goes. like yes that is very funny because he was an exorcist before he became a famous actor, which means he CHOSE, on purpose, a day job that would make it harder to hide his double life/secret identity from the hordes of his adoring public, but it's more than that. it's not just that he's famous, it's that he's famous specifically for being an ACTOR, aka a person whose job it is to dissimulate, to make believe, to inhabit roles and emotions other than his own. like he decided he was going to become as visible as possible (which again was literally not necessary! he could have gone into any other career for his day job!!) but in such a way that everyone would see him but no one would see him - they would just see his various made-up personas, including the Famous Actor Natori Shuuichi persona. i can't decide if he's a genius or if he just made so many absurd decisions that they canceled each other out and circled back around to working out. he's either playing 9-dimensional chess or he's eating the pieces. too soon to say.

#the other thing i love about it is that in a very real sense it's his actor day job that is his alter ego #being an exorcist is his normie job. he's just a famous celebrity on the side #which isn't that uncommon in secret identity setups but it's still very funny #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #natori shuuichi #natsuyuu meta #my posts #f #i think probably the actual answer is that acting was a very natural career choice because he already masks so extensively #both to hide that he can see things other people can't (and that youkai exist and that he exorcises them) #and to hide what he's really feeling so that no one can use it against him #so if it's already something he has to do & he's good at it...why not have someone tell him exactly how to do it & get paid for it? #and the other part of the answer is that most ppl don't go into acting assuming they'll get famous. the fame was a side effect #so each decision as it was being made probably made perfect sense. but put them all together #and you have this hilarious assortment of elements that seem to directly contradict each other #okay also i would be remiss if i didn't mention the other possible answer which is that the attention came first and was unavoidable #and the acting developed from the need to protect himself from the attention that he was going to be attracting no matter what he did #because he's so beautiful. and (in the exorcist world specifically) because he's the last of the natori #the more i talk about it the more i'm like no becoming a famous actor was the only path that made any sense for him lol #1) he's gonna be watched no matter what bc he's him -> gotta figure out how to hide his secrets -> learn to act as self-defense #or 2) he's got secrets -> he's gotten a lot of practice hiding them -> hey you could make a career out of this! #all roads lead to actor natori shuuichi. and since he's beautiful...all roads lead to FAMOUS actor natori shuuichi #i love it when i ramble so much in the tags that i end up contradicting my own post lol #he's neither thinking ten steps ahead nor is he irrational. he's simply making sensible individual decisions #that follow logically from what is available to him and what his priorities are

[quadrantadvisor]

The Owl House takes place on a corpse. That's clear from the beginning. The people we meet, the fantastical things we see, every part of it is life that comes from death, and it's beautiful. Luz says that, the first time she's far enough away to see the bones. It's beautiful. The Titan was so full of life and magic that what he left behind could be passed on and made anew, and the people who sprung from that, who rely on it, understand that and are grateful. Everything they have is built on the bones of a god.

But what grows from the bones of children? Nothing. Nothing at all.

The Titan hunters killed children. They said they were monsters, but they were children. Children who played games and laughed and from their first conscious moments wanted to be loved and belong. And they hunted them to extinction, and kept their pristine skulls as trophies. An entire room full of them, of tiny skulls that could've become something wonderful and terrible and life-giving but never had the chance. They wear them, as a badge of honor. Look what I've done, look what I destroyed.

Philip Wittebane had been making grimwalkers for hundreds of years, sure, but even knowing that, there's so many of them. How many could've reached 20? There's piles of them, of bones and identical masks, scattered at the bottom of a pit, and god, were they dead, when he threw them down there? It's clear that he doesn't care, that the only thing that matters is disposing of them once they wear out their usefulness, moving on to the new model. Children tossed aside, left to rot and decay, and when we see them the bones are all clean.

#i just watched all 11 episodes of season 2B in one sitting and I'm #having some feelings #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #just in case #this is why I don't watch shows lol like this shit gave me heart palpitations #how am i even going to survive season 3? the answer is i won't #anyways everytime philip fucking wittebane is on screen i am screaming and crying and throwing up #if i saw him in real life i would strangle him to death with my bare hands. it would be ON SIGHT #he's too real is the problem like the harm he's caused and the way that he talks and the way hunter reacts to him #he gives me the same sick feeling as real life self righteous liars #and you know that this is a person who will never change and never listen and never admit they were wrong #and that the harm they've done will never matter to them because to them they can deny anything and justify anything #ANYWAYS. #idk if anybody'll see this post but i needed to exorcise it from my brain #god........... that show sure has a lot of fucking bones #my rambles

[lu-sn]

i know it's 300 years late to be making this post but man. i am still SO angry about mew

the setup was perfect!!! you have mew, this probably-aspec character who hits all of the checkboxes for prim-privileged-gay and seems fully unaware of that privilege, and you have boston, fully unashamed of his sex drive and his many sexcapades while still partially closeted, and they hate each other, okay. they constantly sling barbs at each other right from the beginning, and they're not friendly about it. mew thinks boston is an uncontrollable slut and boston thinks mew is a horrendously stuck-up prude and they're constantly judging each other. at the beginning of the show, they're two fundamentally incompatible people.

and then top comes along, and he's this character who's willing to put up a facade for mew -- willing to play the part of the sweet, unproblematic boyfriend -- but under the hood, he's a lot more like boston than anyone wants to admit. he's a piece of shit to everyone but mew, and he's slept around, and he openly likes sex. he wants it. he's struggling a little without it.

it's perfect because boston is a character that mew is fundamentally at odds with, and top is a character similar to boston that mew does not want to be at odds with. it sets up this huge clash of principles for mew, who is going to either have to learn to accept some of top's behavior and realize that boston might deserve that acceptance too, or he's going to be unable to accept some parts of top in a way that will hurt their relationship.

... or so you would think.

instead, mew gets to have his cake and eat it too: top cheats on him (and frankly, the circumstances of this cheating are suspect; top was basically manipulated into it), and instead of digging into why top did this, why top might feel compelled to secretly have sex with someone behind mew's back, mew lets top grovel at his feet for months, then takes him back while "forgiving but not forgetting". there's no attempt on mew's part to understand top or the cheating, only to corral top back into the persona that mew thought he was in the first place. and top lets it happen. by the end of the show, all traces of the "problematic" man he was in the beginning have been mysteriously wiped away. his cocaine problem is gone, his debilitating fear of fire is gone, and he is perfectly content in this relationship with mew where they have relatively little sex, even though mew is constantly making eyes at all of the new men who show up (cough cough boeing COUGH COUGH MIX) and even though this supposed straying on mew's end and the ensuing jealousy from top was a big factor in why top cheated in the first place.

and because mew didn't need to understand anything deeper about top, there's no way in hell he gains any sympathy for boston; he kicks boston to the curb and is obnoxiously righteous about it.

i've seen some comments that mew is not a hollow and unrealistic character for acting like this; there are many, many people out there who act just as selfishly as mew. i can't stand those people, and i can't stand mew, and in a sense that does make him a compelling character. so putting aside the fact that i would have much preferred to see him struggle with the crumbling of either his principles or his relationship... the arcs of the characters around him are definitely hollow and unrealistic, as a direct consequence of his position in the overall narrative.

let's look at boston for a second. mew, who you famously think is a stuck-up bitch, ends up catching the unwavering attention of top, who you want to get fucked by; you slowly manipulate top into cheating on mew with you, and you're gleeful about it. this is not a thing you'd do if you felt any sort of sympathy or friendship towards mew! you clearly disrespect the guy! you probably fucking hate him!

and then the guy you hate finds out what you did, and he threatens to out you and circulate revenge porn of you in retaliation, and he's the smuggest little shit about it while he promises to ruin your life and then ten seconds later flips masks and goes "but i wouldn't do it because i'm above that kind of behavior" -- and i would just like to poll all of you, and ask you: if a guy you disrespected so deeply came up to you and threatened to ruin your life while continuing to display all the traits you already hated him for, would you feel sad that he friendship-broke up with you and try to friendship-get him back? or would you, i don't know, hate him for all eternity?

once the cheating news breaks, the narrative tries to convince us, again and again, that boston feels bad and guilty about what he did to mew and that he doesn't hate mew and wants to be friends again. i'm sorry. i don't buy it. the boston we saw at the beginning of the show is not a guy who would grovel at mew's feet. so why does the narrative make him do it? why does the narrative kneecap his character like this?

it's for the same reason that all of top's problems disappear. it's because the narrative wants so badly to position mew as the good guy. mew did nothing wrong, they say, over and over again. look at how top and boston beg him for forgiveness. look at how terrible boston was for wronging mew but how right mew was for threatening boston back. look at how top erases all his own flaws just like mew said he could, and boston doesn't do the same, so top earns a spot in the friend group but boston loses his spot forever.

if the narrative had been brave enough to fracture mew's image a little, to acknowledge that he's a mean, messy hypocrite, i could have respected his place in the show as a whole. but they didn't. instead, they gave his character so much potential for growth and then squandered it all, and if that wasn't enough, they went ahead and neutered all of the characters around him, too.

#whew. i've exorcised the demon #i'm free :') #also i'm tilted that the mew-boston-top dynamic revolving around sex basically repeats itself with the mew-ray-top dynamic about drug abuse #and then the narrative borks that too #but this post is too long for that #only friends the series #only friends mew #only friends boston #only friends top

[tomwambsmilk]

Dog doors can be a problem. Your dog can get out, but other things can get in. The Darmine Doggy Door brings you the newest high-tech doggy door from Darmine Devices! These doors are fully automatic, and activated by a digital chip in your dog's collar. You're not gonna get varmin, you're not gonna get intruders, and you're definitely not gonna get this thing! ([inhuman squealing]) 'Cuz I saw that thing. That thing came in here when I was on the couch. ([muted inhuman snorting, squealing]) ([creature shrieks]) (It's a piiiiiiig!!) WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?! WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! My next-door neighbour put a Richard Nixon mask on a pig and had it go through my doggy door 'cuz we've been arguing over a PROPERTY LINE. (Get it off of my bushes!!) He was tryna call me a liar and a thief like Nixon, and a pig! (You're a pig!) But I didn't know what the FUCK was happening 'cuz I've barely been sleeping since my wife got flipped upside down by a swing dancer at a wedding. HE MUST'VE FLIPPED MY WIFE EIGHT TIIIIIMES!!!! And it really bothered me. When you can't sleep and you see that thing, you're not just like right away, "That's a pig with a mask". You're like, "THAT'S gonna kill me, THAT'S real, that LIVES WITH US ON EARTH!!". I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA GET EATEN!!! I'm not a stupid fucking idiot I know it was just a pig but for 50 seconds it felt really real. And when you think you're gonna get eaten and your first thought is, "Great! I don't have to go to work tomorrow." YOU'RE RELIEVED YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO WORK BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA GET EATEN????? What the fuck is this world....... What have they done to us.... WHAT DID THEY DO TO US!?!?!?!?!?!!?! ([squealing]) ([objects clattering]) That was the most consequential day of my life because now I know I don't like my work. THE DARMINE DOGGY DOOR! HAPPY PET, PEACE OF MIND! Anything could happen in this world, we really know VERY LITTLE! My life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become because for 50 seconds I thought there was monsters on the world.

#I think you should leave #this has just been playing in my mind on repeat for the last 48 hours and I'm trying to exorcise it okay