#if: The Exile

[bonesif]

You were great once. You were prideful and skillful and cruel. You still are these things, you think.

And maybe you can successfully drink and laugh and flirt and chase your pain away. But the person that you were grips your jaw and demands attention. You have no title to hide behind, no way to look away. You wouldn't deserve to.

They told you that you'd be great. It's time to face that you were never good.

Enter commander Emery Belrai, the gilded gorgon.

[ from @exilethegame ]

#mc: emery #mc talk #my stoic—>sarcastic gorgon commander! #they/them pronouns for this menace to society #anyways their design is based off of albino ball pythons and they have white hair and pink irises and I'm v proud of those details #all I can say is if you're attracted to them I'm sorry. they're a fuckboy (gender neutral) #vethnamancer..... vethna I'm sorry for what you have to put up with #also #can you tell I love the detail of having stretch marks from mythosi shifting forms? #if: the exile #exile the game #mine #Spotify #moodboard #playlist

[thedeadthree]

but this torture, this agony — it is yours for the taking. it is yours to have. (x)

@exilethegame

#oc: ayrenn urthemiel #if: the exile #exile the game #the exile if #interactive fiction #*legbirthdayweekseries #her on the brain! (when is she NOT she’s BEEN the lady of the house of leg’s brain ajxhhx) #and challenging myself to make an edit/or post writing(s) until my birthday on the 5th? i thought it could be cute! #leg.ocs #leg.edit #*ocmoodboards #GOD THE COLORING CAME OUT FREAKING LOVELY IN THIS IM ❤️‍🔥🥺 #the wings and fire and phoenix aesthetics ❤️‍🔥✨😌 m’love! #when night comes one might think she’ll have peace in dreams but like.. she doesn’t skxjjx #AND ITS LIKE THIS POOR GIRL LET HER REST u know? darn nightmares! #also im so sorry i haven’t been super around as of late ✨🤧 #a lot of things were happening so i was a wee busy! i still kept on a few tags in the mean time (and i still have a couple to do AHH ✨🤧) #the melancholy the anger the bitterness she’s got range! she contains multitudes! what a legend! #thats my painted phoenix! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #MY DARN MEMORY ✨🤧 ​i cannot for the life of me remember who wanted to be tagged so let me know if u would like to be! 🤍 #and one of my favorite quotes from the if IT CAPTURES HER SO WELL I LOVE IT AND THIS IF SM ✨🤧❤️‍🔥 #literally a FAVORITE. an immaculate read truly! a fav of mine you betcha!

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

On the subject of low-effort sketches that got out of hand all because I was trying a new brush... I thought, why not draw all the knights and royal soldiers OCs of mine 🙃

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Starting from bottom right to the top: Undine (Their Majesties' Pleasure), Lillian Lynzal (The Exile), Camille d'Arcadie (Arcadie: Second Born), Marshal Mora (I, The Forgotten One) and Mordred Le Fey (Bastard of Camelot)

#interactive fiction #this ghost's fanart #if: the exile #if: arcadie second born #hg: their majesties' pleasure #hg: i the forgotten one #if: bastard of camelot #wip if #i butchered mordred's name and didn't realize it until i was writing this post :cries: #i hope this doesn't become a thing but i also kinda want it to be? #i just need an excuse to draw my ladies 😣 #quick sketch

[anxietytwist]

#exile the game #the exile #the exile IF #the exile-if #if: the exile #the exile commander #the exile queen Marcelle #the exile meme #the exile memes #IF #interactive fiction game #interactive fiction

[cemeterything]

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

#🐉 #like they were not fucking around they were like you will be BLACKLISTED we will EXILE you there may be FINANCIAL RESTITUTION OWED #if our plagiarism software detects anything suspicious we will FLAY YOU ALIVE IN THE TOWN SQUARE #i still wake up in a cold sweat sometimes wondering if i cited my sources correctly

[kirnet]

LOVE when a video game protag is called a title. The Warden, the Watcher, the Exile…. Yessss be defined by a concept greater than yourself that will ultimately overtake your life

#names like hawke and shep are all well and fun but it will never top THEEE title #ramblings #edit: adding this 18k notes in that this is abt dao poe and kotor 2 since people are not knowing that the exile is referring to #play it. play kotor 2 right now

[dinoserious]

a few shadow gira sketches

#pokemon #giratina #sketch #eyestrain #little warm ups i guess you could call these. im really not doing super hot on drawing a ton recently #pkmn has been beckoning me again so some giras were in order #poke mythos #<<for it is my pre exile gira

[arealtrashact]

Blood of my blood

#warrior cats #squirrelflight #firestar #tigerstar #cloudkit #brackenfur #cinderpelt #leafpool #bramblekit #tawnykit #I'm sure people will take issue with me drawing Tigerstar being fatherly #but I've always liked the passage where Darkstripe takes Bramblekit and Tawnykit to meet Tigerstar #I think it's interesting how his exile mirrors Pinestar's departure from Thunderclan #both leaving their kids under completely different circumstances #my art

[rosepompadour]

Adore each other. Be fiendishly smitten. Be frantically in love. Can there be too many perfumes, too many rosebuds, too many nightingales? Can lovers love each other too much, be too enchanting, too beguiling, too charming? Is it possible to be too much alive, too happy? Adore each other, and never mind the rest.

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)

#also hugo: i'm gonna keep my mistress locked up for half a century after she follows me into exile 😊 #and then i'm not going to attend her funeral 😊 #adore each other 😊 #les miserables #victor hugo #literature

[beckyblah]

#dsmp #dream smp #ctommy #tommyinnit #ctommy fanart #tommyinnit fanart #c!tommy #dsmp tommy #exile arc #my art #I know im about a week late to the anniversary but...

[anna-scribbles]

honestly idk why luka needed witness protection he seemed like he was doing great

#ml migration #migration spoilers #ml #ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #my art #i drew this on a plane with no wifi so i didn’t look up references for anybody. #also i avoid looking at monarch whenever i can help it. so. #adrien lugging his keyboard around that’s as tall as him was rly getting me this whole episode. get those hugs where you can king #i take back all the mean things i said abt luka this episode was hilarious #keep calm and carry on. until you have to be exiled #luka couffaine #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng

[bonesif]

But in your heart, you just want to be a good little soldier. It's all you know how to be.

Enter commander Farron Vamirel, the painted phoenix.

[ from @exilethegame ]

#oh she wants to be good. she wants to be good so bad #my poor stoic tired well-meaning child #she does Not want to hurt anyone and it aggressively shows. she's trying so hard to be good and she's so tired #disillusionment hit her /bad/ she's trying so hard to reconcile the desire to go home and the desire to do good #but she's also so tired and just wants to forget :') #the simplicity and familiarity of taking orders and being Great vs knowing that greatness is on the backs of others and wanting #to do the good she thought she was doing all along #once the stats glitch gets worked out I'll be able to do a sincere run with her bc she's definitely not an aggressive mc #also cassandra by florence & the machine is so inexplicably Her #mc talk #mc: farron #the exile #if: the exile #Spotify #the exile mc #mine #the commander #moodboard #playlist

[thedeadthree]

the flames are all long gone but the pain lingers on (x.x.x)

ayrenn urthemiel — the exiled painted phoenix, once commander of plaithus; the exile

pinterest // playlist // @exilethegame

#oc: ayrenn urthemiel #if: the exile #the exile if #exile the game #interactive fiction #*myedits #*ocedits #inspired by gabbys CUTEST edit! this template was the loveliest to work with and i cant wait to do more loves with it! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🥺 #SHES HEREE HER INTRO EDIT IS HEREE #i have been full exile on the brain no thoughts head empty etc etc and ayrenn has been occupying my headspace since I finished reading! ❤️‍🔥 #amor fati means lover of one’s fate or lover of fate in latin! i thought it would be fitting for her destiny? the road she’s embarking on? #the dates are all sort of based on the symbolism of the seasons and astrology! #spring being the symbolism for a new beginning as she’s exiled from plaithus! the end brings a beginning! #winter being the closing season before the spring! her ending as an orphan in the streets to being a royal! #and! that when she returns to plaithus it comes full circle! in the winter she was introduced to royal life and the ending of her time as -> #and orphan and then it’s full circle when she ends her exile yet embarks on a new quest to end fate once and for all! so the end of an end? #the only one that isn’t based on a season is when she begins her relationship with sabir! that one was bc i thought it would be cute -> #if they became a thing on her birthday 🤍😌 BC IM A SUCKER FOR PAIN THE HEARTACHE THATS LOVING SOMEONE LOSING THEM AND THE RELIEF OF REUNION! #i think? for ayrenn her endgame will be sabir! but i also absolutely adore her and nikke so we’ll see! #WHEN SABIR KEPT MENTIONING HOME HER COMING HOME THE HOME SYMBOLISM OF LOVERS I KNEWW I WAS DONEE FOR ❤️‍🔥🤧 #(i do! have another oc that im planning for a nikke romance though!) #as I was reading and thinking about ayrenn as a character her dynamic with sabir was just *MUAH* im in love! #she’s wanting her life back in plaithus! i think as angry as she is the only thing that is keeping her from burning plaithus is sabir so! #RUN DONT WALK READ THIS IF I WAS AN EMOTIONAL WRECK THE STORY THE WORLDBUILDING AND WRITING IS PHENOMENAL! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 #the stats are as well kind of? what i would imagine her stats being towards the end of the story? ❤️‍🔥🥺

[waddei]

i wont go easy on you just because we're training!

#tommyinnit #dream smp #wadds art #technoblade #technoblade fanart #ctechno #ctommy #c!tommy #bedrock bros #dsmp exile arc #dsmp fanart #cbedrock bros

[anxietytwist]

#the exile #the exile IF #IF: the exile #the exile game #the exile Fate #the exile Freedom #the exile commander #the exile MC #the exile PC #IF #interactive fiction #the commander

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!) #it’s all greek to me