#it sounds like freedom

[fluffyartbl0g]

Since Gear 5 is right around the corner, can we see when it awakened in your time travel AU?? I saw in the ASL installment that Ace referenced a fight with an admiral, was it then?

Well I’m kinda busy rn so I won’t be able to draw the entire encounter, but this is about what it looked like when akainu first saw it 👍

Speedrun/Time travel AU masterlist

#one piece #op fanart #time travel au #speedrun au #one piece spoilers #monkey d. luffy #akainu sakazuki #tw eyestrain #cw eyestrain #gear 5 luffy #sun god nika #can you hear them? #it’s getting louder #it sounds like freedom

[raayllum]

but yeah rayllum strolling into the starscraper like "yeah we want this super secret powerful weapon so we can kill an imprisoned elf. yeah he's totally evil we promise. we have his prison in your bag. also can you give us your equally rare gem stones to free these three other elves + human who looks like a dark mage, who we promise are totally not evil. we also have their prisons in our bag. yeah the same bag. you're 100% gonna give us the stuff, right?" is funnier to me than it should be

#freedom or death symbolism etc etc. #rayllum #tdp #the dragon prince #s6 #arc 2 #mine #the celestial elves: well this sounds like a jolly good time to us

[ohgoditssnek]

Reject gender.

Become God.

#i don't want your silly human roleplay i want to be the cosmic horror #become something more than a human #reach the true form of your identity #lmao i sound like im in a cult #it's about freedom of mind yaaalll #gender #is a lie #shitpost #i have thoughts in my head #:p

[an-au-blog]

Oh, your love is sunlight

Happy (late) Valentine's Day (version without text ↓ +description in tags)

#east blue asylum wing au #zosan #zoro x sanji #zs #first off if its bad quality - it's a huge canvas and it's more pixelated if i try to export the picture than if I screenshot so... :/ #I sometimes like assigning songs to different dynamics and or characters I play around with and I've been recently listening to #a lot of Hozier again and I'd like to think that Sunlight is how Zoro sees Sanji - he is Icarus flying to the sun and he is willing to get #burned if only to reach the sunlight - it's a deathtrap... because of course it is... all attachments are but Sanji's love is the death tra #that he welcomes like a moth to a flame because even Icarus felt the bliss and freedom before his wax melted #I haven't depicted it here but Sanji's Hozier song for Zoro would probably be NFWMB because in his eyes Zoro is this untouchable force #that would watch the world go up in flames and when the time Sanji wouldn't mind being a tree just to fuel his fire (im well aware how #cheesy that sounds just bare with me... or better yet listen to the song its really good trust me ok?) #the world starts and ends with him and where they lay #and their shared Hozier song is Francesca because if anything in this au zosan are two lovers stuck in Dante's inferno and sprinting back i #only for the chance to get back to their lover and if that meant going back into hell to look for each other then so be it #there's a part of the song that goes “My life was a storm / Since I was born / How could I fear any hurricane?” which is pretty fitting imo #op #fan art #my art

[silvermoon424]

I'm catching up on the whole MamaMax situation and it's wild. Honestly, this just further cements my opinion that people who obsess over child trafficking (which includes promoting myths like "stranger abductions are very common and parents should be paranoid") and "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" are all freaks.

Like yes, of course human trafficking is a huge issue, but these motherfuckers spread the myth that children from loving, well-off families are being snatched en mass at the park to be sold into sex slavery. In reality, human trafficking (especially sex trafficking) usually affects the most marginalized people in society who don't have people to fight for them.

Like for fuck's sake, stop making spreading misinformation that makes parents super paranoid.

#literally the sound of freedom all over again #I'm sorry I have such little patience for this bullshit because it directly feeds into stuff like QAnon #mamamax #youtube drama

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

it does something incomprehensible to my little writer’s soul whenever alex articulates a phenomenon of the writing process i’ve always picked up on and then goes on to describe it in exactly the same way

#when i first heard him say this when i was watching the interview i legit had to pause the video for a moment #because it was like he’d actually taken my words straight out of my mouth #literally for years i’ve been fascinated by the little timeless pocket between dusk and dawn where there’s so much freedom #to explore creativity uninhibited and unobserved and without fear of consequence #the way it allows you to create things almost as if they don’t really exist #or like the rest of the world doesn’t #and the magic of that freedom #like if you create things on the cusp of dreams it’s almost as if they don’t count #they’re liberated from any usual self doubt or self criticism that invades the imaginative space during the daylight #why am i making myself sound like a creative vampire 😭 #i’m going to stop rambling in the tags now sorry #i fear absolutely none of this makes sense #kudos to anyone who’s read the whole way through this #the gist of what i’m trying to say is that it’s such a special feeling when someone whose writing you adore and connect to so much #puts into words elements of the process that have always resonated with you #and this is just one example too #right i’m going to stop rambling now #but one last thing before i go #on a more superficial note: can we appreciate how softly spoken and soft fluffy haired he is here?? 🥺 #alex turner #humbug era #arctic monkeys #alex vid #lulu posts

[weaponizedducks]

absolutely wild to me that your whole life is defined by exams you took when you were seventeen. their brains are not even fully developed yet. please pick a lane, adults. you dismiss their words. you call young people stupid and unable or not old enough to have good opinions or make choices or participate in the choosing of their own futures and yet you define their futures by one little test. well guess what an exam has a fuckton of choices and if they can't be trusted to have an opinion on their own lives then maybe they can't be trusted to make academic choices on a test either. either you give us a voice or you will not hear until it's too late

#by that i mean we will overthrow the government #get in losers we're going to overthrow the government #i am british so i do mean a levels/gcse's #i am not against exams or school but please #this doesn't just go for teenagers this goes for all young people- like late twenties early thirties their opinions get dismissed bc of age #but not too young for people to harrass/assault/take advantage of? #the people in charge don't care about the things that matter #school #exams #gcse #government #fuck the government #this is about kosa #STOP RESTRICTING FREEDOM #stop kosa #kosa #i'm not even from the usa but this is horrific #do you realise how stupid you sound telling teens they can't make their own choices then giving a forty page test on random unrelated shit #yeah no if i can't have an opinion how am i supposed to do well on tests?

[asteriaarts]

chip drowning motfi, the sea was my first home X gillion tidestrider The Ocean

#jrwi riptide #i like the ocean #gillion tidestrider #i like what it represent in riptide a lot #freedom #but also when u think abt chip and even jay #they lose a lot of ppl directly because of the ocean #jrwi chip #rambles #the sea is never presented as a bad thing yet it takes #i dunno bro im making mouth sounds at this point

[cometrose]

"Silk Flowers grow in pairs on small red bushes"

Other archon having twins

Zhobgli is suspicious

(Plus the god of eternity saying his story is not yet over)

“~twin where have you been~”

it’s still pretty interesting that Zhongli doesn’t have a ‘twin’

it is very clear one of the main themes of genshin is family especially between that of siblings (twins)

the traveler is the twin and all of the archons -the main characters of their respective regions have “twins”.

Venti has the nameless bard, Ei and Makoto, Nahida and Rukkhadevata, Furina and Focalors. These are characters that look identical but live very different lives.

A core part of each archon is their relationship with their respective twin. Ei struggled to move on after Makoto died, Rukkha was everything Nahida dreamed of being, Focalors made Furina play a part for 500 years. I am unsure of the dynamic of Venti and his bard but it’s pretty easy to assume he gave his life great meaning and considering he looks just like him he never could move or wanted to forget what he looked like.

So the fact Zhongli doesn’t have anybody with that kind of connection is really odd lol. I've complained so many times like “Zhongli!! where is your silly clone!” and he refuses to answer my calls. Rex Lapis is represented by silk flowers but they grow in pairs but where is Rex Lapis’ pair? Where is the moon to his beautiful sun???

Some people argue a more metaphorical twin for Zhongli is Rex Lapis/the Exuvia. The point of the Liyue archon quest was Zhongli stepping down from a role he has had for thousands of years and considering the way he talks about Rex Lapis/geo archon (he always refers to him in third person) I believe Zhongli sees him as a separate person entirely. So losing Rex Lapis was like losing his twin. Casting his exuvia aka body double on a crowd of people and burying Rex Lapis was Zhongli’s conclusion with his “twin”. He ended his reign and made peace with his life.

But at the same time I feel that interpretation is so ehhhh. Like all of the twins we’ve seen were their own person with their own thoughts and feelings. Like yeah furina and focalors were once the same person but that was no longer the case when focalors brought out the scissors and said act woman.

Let’s get venti and zhongli out of the way cause they are a little weird from the rest of the seven but we’ve never met “Rex Lapis” and then he doesn’t have a human form like the rest of them. We have talked or at least heard the voices of the “other twin” . We met rukkha, we heard makoto and neuvi let us see focalors.

A big part of the archons is their relationship with their other half but Zhongli’s stories most always focus on someone else-a different god a different entity there is just so little of what we know about him comes from his own mouth.

Besides when you look at the visual symbolism then all the archons are represented by the moon and shadows. They live in the shadows of the "twin" if almost haunted by them. They cannot live up to their glory or they are forced to be someone they are not. These 'twins' are the reason for our archon's (hell even the traveler's) existence and journey, it is why they continue forward until they eventually find new meaning in life.

However Morax is always represented by the sun and light, and you could argue that Zhongli is the moon to Rex Lapis’ sun but if you look as his symbols -his golden eyes, the golden light he uses to save xiao and his interactions with the people of Liyue he still holds that warmth.

Next the big revelation for Zhongli was his relationship with Liyue itself, not himself. We could argue that the existence of "Rex Lapis, The Geo Archon" was intertwined with that relationship but Zhongli's narrative is stepping down and taking his hands off Liyue not any personal struggle. If Liyue had failed his test he would've remained the geo archon for the foreseeable future.

That means, Liyue itself is more of his twin, it is something that plays a huge role in his identity and leaving it behind and moving forward is the core of his arc. It is Liyue that made Zhongli play the part of the geo archon, it is Liyue that made him turn on friend or foe if they were are threat, Liyue and its people are the motivation for everything Rex Lapis did. Morax’s love for his people defined every action that he did as the geo archon.

Long story short ehh if push comes to shove I can accept Zhongli's dragon clone as his twin but I would also argue against it because it doesn’t hold thematic weight that the other twins do!

In the end, we can still safely assume that zhongli’s twin has gone awol but then who are they!!! Each archon has a pair that is meant to parallel the relationship between our travelers Aether and Lumine but where is such a twin???

I've talked so much about Zhongli about everything but Ei mentions in her voice lines that she believes his story isn't anywhere finished. She even talks about him in Zhongli's teaser way back in 2020, "in his long life he has met countless people and shall meet countless more still. As they say: waters change course but mountains move not". Its kind of neat the god of eternity says your story isn't over

I may be a delusional zhongli stan but I don't think it is farfetched to say he is veryyy suspicious. We don't know his true form, we don't know the truth of his contracts, we don't know if he's hiding a twin, and the goddess of eternity herself believes his journey will continue forward.

Could he be missing a twin because he's not from Teyvat? What if he lost his counterpart a long time ago? What if we have simply not met Zhongli's twin and the two of them are separated from each other much like the traveler? I always believed Zhongli kind of crashed into Teyvat like a meteor or shooting star and that's why he's kind of weird but it could be possible that Zhongli's counterpart is just not here either long dead or with a different destiny.

Fun fact to add to Zhongli’s weirdness; Did you know Zhongli and Neuvillette are the only playable characters whose constellations are different from their character quest? Zhongli's constellation is Lapis Dei but his story quest is Historia Antiqua, much like Neuvillette's constellation is Leviathan Judicator but his story quest is called Diluvies. Which is weird cause Venti has the same constellation as Zhongli (Carmen Dei) but Venti's quests line up. Like is it a dragon thing but why?

Then most of the original archons croaked during the cataclysm and Venti went into a coma. How did Zhongli get out of the damn thing unscathed? Why didn't he lose his twin or die and shit?

I know in my soul Zhongli is hiding the secrets of the world in that pretty little head of his. He's just a bum and refuses to share it with the crowd.

#zhongli #archons #genshin impact #noooo #this is too long again #this was definetly a yap session #but like really though where is his twin! #where is zhongli 2 #like ive seen so many people at least on twitter say zhongli's twin is his exuvia and like *shrug* SURE I GUESS #but its still so different from the others UNLESS you count the exuvia as Liyue itself which is rather metaphorical then the physical twin #speaking of which what the fuck is the god of contracts #freedom eternity wisdom justice war and love are all common abstract concepts and normal things for gods to be #what the hell is contracts like if it were truth or power or even promise that would make sense #but contracts are not nearly as abstract as the rest of them fuckers #maybe if it were relationships instead of contracts but that sounds rather romantic doesn't it? #me writing this: uhh where do i put a page break this time #long story short he's weird!!! #zhongli is super weird!!! #why is all his fucking shit cubes! #also if we consider zhongli and exuvia a twin what fucking parallel is that to traveler UNLESS you look at it as the final stage #and you know during the lantern rite event paimon writes a little blurb about the regions and is like we've been through the land of winds #and for liyue it is the final destination of a star SEE HOW i can connect this back to star!zhongli but also the traveler is a star #maybe the end of the traveler's journey is letting go of their twin like zhongli let go of liyue

[some-greatreward]

god, can’t believe it’s only been like 4 weeks since i listened to my first libs song. like wtf, i feel like a fundamentally changed person

#actually might have been 6 weeks bc I definitely listened to CSMN - went ‘heh the cofrontmen thing is pretty cute’ then forgot abt it #then saw some smiths-adjacent posts on tumblr and went. hm. they sound a bit dramatic #then saw a freedom gig post and was like: #‘aww they seem happy to see each other’ ‘oh hey that’s the album cover’ #‘wait he went to pick him up from JAIL??? that he got sent to for robbing HIS HOUSE????’

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

it's actually so important to me that in the memory loss extras xie lian finds out he doesn't have spiritual power anymore (because he's been having sex). it means

he feels comfortable relying on hua cheng

he's able to be 'selfish', and choose what he wants rather than what other people think is correct

he's free from the responsibility of being the most powerful martial god in heaven

he's getting thoroughly dicked down

#tgcf #i speak #love to the fics that do alternate things where he still keeps it or recultivates or w/e #and initially it feels a bit anticlimactic. he just got that back!! why would he give it up!!! thats such a shame! #and then you realize you sound like a heavenly official #he doesnt give a shit #isnt it beautiful that his husband is always so close #that he doesnt feel guilty about borrowing anymore #isnt it so nice to know that given the choice between upholding an ancient promise for incomprehensible amounts of power #and fucking his husband #he fucked his husband??? #slay king #removing the shackle 1) gave him enough power to defeat jun wu and 2) removed the last marks of control that jun wu had #it was about xie lian's freedom and love empowering him #i'd argue that the main point was not the achievement of simply becoming more powerful. #so hua cheng's third death was still hugely important even if xie lian did not keep the power #i cant imagine he has a problem with this development #hc: but gege.... your cultivation...🥺🥺 xl: i want you more hc:🤯😍 #gay sex + getting to kiss gege all the time for power > any guilt he might have #thats my two cents :) #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #tgcf meta #hob #heaven official's blessing #tgcf spoilers #tgcf book 5 spoilers

[void-imp]

why is the us literally a nightmare country, none of us can rest because the people in power there are constantly fucking shit up

#literally every day i hear of a new bill that sounds like something from a dictatorship but nonono this is the land of freedom #and sadly all the clownery has consequences for all of us because of the power usa has... #nonsims #olly:rambles

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "don't be easily identifiable as a minority if you want to be treated well" is baffling to me because... the negative ideas and stereotypes about those minorities aren't being challenged - they still exist, and again, they are fundamentally unchallenged bigotries. That is why assimilation is not liberation - the underlying problem as to why some people are treated and seen as sub-human still exist and still affect people.

#politics #assimilation is not liberation #inspired after seeing people go... #...'well why don't you stop doing [culturally significant thing that means a lot to you] if it makes OTHERS uncomfortable and bigoted :(' #'wouldn't you feel SO much better in this world if it means you have to hide away every thing that denotes your minority status?' 🙄 #'freedom is when i force you to not exist in public! assimilate for MY sake - won't you think of ME?' #(that's what that sounds like in my head by the way)

[angelsdean]

so. where do i sign up to get adopted by a queer found family?? i need. community.

#listening to my mom talk rn......i don't know when she became this conservative. facebook poisoning her mind. she sounds insane. #the way she talks abt queer ppl.....i need to leave. she's never ever gonna know the real me. #wild how my dad is like. so liberal cool accepting of everything #and my mom has swung the opposite way #(reason 12834940 why they're divorced lmao) #and i have to be stuck living with my mom bc reasons :/ #i need. financial stability and security and freedom #universal income when???? #i just. i can't keep living like this. this can't be it forever. #vic.txt

[caluupin]

Father!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

#caluuart #genshin impact #genshin #art #arlecchino #god she's just so. cool. pretty. ethereal. badass. #also I LOVE HER STORY QUEST SO MUCH!! I think it's definitely one of the best story quests in the game tbh. #wait uh arlecchino story quest spoilers below: #for one; the quest really gives even more depth to arlecchino's character. like yeah the whole thing is well. messed up. #it's an orphanage that raises orphans to be child soldiers after all. But it's also like. It's more.... humane? nicer? for the fatui anyway #which does bring me to the next thing. you know how arlecchino's like “if you're gonna leave the HotH you need to fight for it with ur life #I genuinely think that she's gonna just. straight up kill them. although it's not unlikely at all it turns out that (most of the time?) she #-just gives them a one trip to memory loss and set them free. which i do know it's kinda like death in genshin's lore but still. #I just find that pretty interesting. #also the cutscene where clervie says goodbye n stuff. It makes me cry EVERY TIME. ARGHHHH TRAGIC CHILDHOOD DOOMED YURI MY BELOVED :((( #clervie makes me so sad man. the fact that she just. accepts death. she really just let peruere kill her huh. crucabena when I fucking get #the hopelessness getting to her at that point. all attempts of freedom failed until that day..... GOD. and clervie finally getting closure- #-in the story quest as a spirit... I just..... man......... #on a lighter note :) #I got obsessed with a bloodborne OST LMAO. the uhh the lugwig boss theme. esp the sec phase one. it's SO GOOD. I first heard abt it in a- #-vid analyzing the ost musically. At the time i was like. woah. cool. what a cool sounding track. fast foward to like. a day before 4.6 #I'm watching a genshin theory video and I heard the music in the bg. I recognized it but I couldn't remember where I heard it from #UNTIL I REMEMBERED. and looked it up. And I have not known peace since. good music. #anw I've been rambling too much so yeah. gn my dear fellows!!

[evelynpr]

No one did "a Father's tough love" like Arlecchino

You KNOW she wants to tell her children how proud she is of them. How she wants to know what they're up to and what they like. How she wants to be a real caring father. How she wants to always ask "are you okay? Do you need help? What can I do for you?"

But she can't care. Caring is a lie, and being cared for makes you vulnerable. She has to be strong, because she must protect her children. She must protect her children, so she cannot feel cared by them. However, the children must care for each other, so they can be strong.

They cannot care for me, because they must be strong without me. They should not care for me, only fear me, for that is how they will survive without me.

#its such a Dad coded thing. to think that the “right” way to raise your children #is by showing them that its a “dog eats dog” world and u only have each other. your family. #that you have to hurt and punish each mistake your children make so they can be “strong enough for the real world” #that freedom must be “earned” through strength #this stupid fucking father cannot show an ounce of emotion because of her own principles and experiences #that shackle herself and her family but still love each other aaaaaaAAAAA #i fucking hate it hereee #arlecchino i am going to strangle and babygirl and make u cry like a sorry pathetic man #like the real pathetic man you are #youre no wolf in sheeps clothing to me #thats a sheep in wolfs clothing #do i sound deranged i probably am #but listen arlecchino is just. That fucking character. I am going to wriggle her around until her heart bleeds out or smth #evelynpr genshin #genshin #genshin impact #arlecchino #the knave