#its like a parasite

[feferi-i]

Pvz has got me into a chokehold, because no matter how much I hyperfixate on different franchises (Homestuck and Punch-out!!) It always come back like fucking springtrap to haunt me for another week

#RAHHHHEGAHHHHRGAGHHHHHRGWGHHHH #I CANT ESCAPE IT #ITS LIKE A PARASITE

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

sorry for my inactivity, irl stuff is hitting me really badly AGAIN. i keep saying this but ill try to finish my queued comms

I appreciate your patience

#im repeating the same thing but i really mean it when i want to get back to them — i just cant find that spark right now #i dont want to make them think ive forgotten. i never would #might get a lil venty here so look away if u dont likey #its so mentally exhausting when you're stuck with something so unbearable that you cant even remove if you wanted to #its like a parasite #they dont provide benefits — the other way around. and they live with you #sucks fr #sighsgd yeah either way i hope everyone's doing alright here #i dont feel like rbing a lot but i love seeing your art and gushes in my dash <3

[alientoastt]

in which marius' mechanism is like an angry parasite and burrows its roots further into his body when removal is threatened.

[imade id: a digital painting of marius von raum from the mechanisms. his metal hand is clutching a bar and the arm has been ripped away from his body just below the elbow with an eruption of blood, tissue, and silver cables. the stump of his remaining arm is drenched in blood and the same silver cables snake in and out of his skin from his elbow to his neck; his whole right side is also bloodied. most of his face isn't visible, as he strains and leans away from the carnage. His eyes are shadowed. the background is nearly black with a jagged and gritty stroke of red lancing through, and the whole thing has a gritty paper effect applied over top. end id.]

#image described #marius #the mechanisms #alientoastt #body horror #blood #parasite #ask to tag #i gotta draw more mechs body horror. theyre freaky. #i dont know if this is too grotesque. it feels like it might be. but i am proud of this piece #it also might be too cartoonish for the concept its trying to get across? #oh well.

[bigfatbreak]

YOU GOT IT LETS HEAR A ROUND OF APPLAUSE!!!!

#replies #EXACTLY LMAO #let's hear it for parasitic birds!!! #woo!! yeah! yee haw!! #and you know what some parent birds do when they find a parasitic bird in their nest? #they abandon the nest! #just because if they throw out the parasite itself #its likely that their parent will attack the nest later on #points at marinette dropping the classroom to try lone-wolfing

[direquail]

One of the many things I find funny and irritating is the slant of a lot of interpretations of Alecto's name (that it's about feminine rage)--on this here wlw internet in the year of our lord 2024, it's easily made to figure as rage against God, or rage against patriarchy, or religious oppression, and therefore an allusion to the idea that she's going to get her vengeance on John for betraying and oppressing her somehow, but like

John is the one who named her Alecto. He's the one who named her that. So, naming her "Alecto" is alluding to the embodiment of John's rage--their rage, since they are joined inseparably (John even explicitly says that when he first perceives her: "You wouldn't stop screaming. You were so scared. You were so goddamn mad").

He says of Alecto to Harrow, "In a very real way, you are [Alecto's] children". At a very surface level, Alecto is (depending on the text or tradition), one of the Furies--famously, in several surviving Greek tragedies, who punish Orestes for the crime of killing his mother. In fact, in Aeschylus' Oresteia, they declare that they are specifically bound to avenge matricide.

So the name "Alecto" alludes to the nature of John's mission and how he sees it.

It also implies that his divine rage, the rage that gives him power, the power that makes him divine, that he either represents or wants to represent, is feminine rage. He was chosen by Earth (which, Furies are sometimes the daughters of Gaia); he is her champion, however he's managed to fuck that up. Once the truth of that comes out, it becomes clear that all of his power comes from her.

And that's why you get statements from Tamsyn Muir like:

“[T]he God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch. John falls back on hierarchies and roles because they’re familiar even when he’s struggling not to. Even he identifies himself as the God who became man and the man who became God. But the divine in the Locked Tomb is essentially feminine on multiple axes – I think Nona will illuminate that a little bit more."

So yes, he plays the role of Emperor and God and Teacher, with all of the things that implies. And I don't think it should be discounted. But he also is (and partly sees himself as) the chosen champion of a goddess, or what is for all intents & purposes for a human like him a goddess. He is her avenger, and while she sleeps, her avatar.

And I don't think we're meant to read him purely as a parasite who's taking advantage of her to gain power for himself, either. Or an oppressive, Kronos-like figure. Especially if you consider Palamedes' theory of the Grand Lysis, even if he was purely motivated by desire for power before (which I really doubt), there are parts of each in the other, now. What was clear and separate before is uncertain and interpenetrated. Is his rage his own, or hers? Is his mission of revenge his, or hers? If he wants power, is that his own selfishness, or her desire to survive?

And does it matter?

#the locked tomb #tlt meta #john gaius #i really wish there wasn't such an intense desire to find the worst possible interpretations of johns' actions #because like. they're plenty hurtful on their own! they're plenty shitty! #there IS however something tamsyn muir is trying to express through the series and it's fairly complicated-otherwise it wouldn't be a serie #and i don't think it actually helps us to turn john into a cardboard cutout labeled 'evil' #or apply tropes we've marinated in from radfem-informed segments of online wlw culture about how men are parasites on the Divine Feminine #or apply the messages of other shows with a big emphasis on queer and wlw themes--like spop--to something that just fundamentally isn't the #there is more than one way to talk about lesbian religious trauma and there is more than one narrative around it #and more than one perspective on it #i wish that people would try harder to experience the story on its own terms

[kagoutiss]

was thinking the other day about how parasites are ganondorf’s solution for so many things. now cant unsee him being a massive nerd about parasites

#parasites cw #trypophobia #ocarina of time #tloz #ganondorf #zelda #nabooru #morpha #barinade #gohma #this makes less sense if u haven’t seen my tweet barrage but yeah oot ganondorf & his silly giant parasites. i love them #yes i know morpha isnt technically a parasite but still #it IS an insanely huge single-called organism tho. which must be why its ‘water’ isnt normal water lol #just the fluid surrounding its nucleus #i think he would have an interest in funny creatures like that especially if they’re distinctly nonhuman #but him being interested in parasites specifically makes sense to me #the idea of a comparatively tiny & insignificant being infiltrating a much larger one. and then wreaking utter havoc on it #while sustaining itself in the process #i think he would be really into slime molds too…..let him be a weird nerd…..

[patchworkpoison]

first aid gave it to him

#transformers #pharma #mtmte #tf pharma #maccadam #my art #tf mtmte #grimace shake #i had to do it with pharma #the parasite in my brain #i actually really like how this drawing of him turned out and ofc its for a shitpost

[p4nishers]

the fact that buck didn't start smiling or try to play it off as a joke when eddie asked if he was okay. bc with maddie and the others he felt like he had to be okay FOR them. like they were waiting for him to fall apart but he just couldn't allow himself that, because no matter how much he loves them, he can never be truly vulnerable with them without feeling like a burden. but with eddie, he doesn't have that. eddie is his safe place, the person who has seen him at his worst and let buck see him at his worst. so no, he didn't play dying off as a joke bc this was eddie and eddie never needed him to pretend to be alright, he only needed him to be there, alive and with eddie. that's the difference.

it really boils down to buck saying "you don't need to pretend with me" in s5. because they don't, they really don't have to pretend with each other and now that eddie is in a better place he can recognize that and apply it to their relationship as well.

#going actually clinically insane at this point i don't even know what im saying like the brain parasites are working OVERTIME to get those #braincells destroyed like i seriously need a lobotomy or to drink acid or some shit cause jesus #does this even make sense? its too late for big brain posts sorry #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 fox #911 spoilers #911 6b #buddie 911 #911 6x12 #buck x eddie #buck and eddie

[ef-1]

I'm like. just thinking about how dystopian it is that Vogue, undisputedly the most influential fashion magazine in the world, who's demographic (according to Mediascope TSN) is split at approximately 80%/20% people who identify as women to people who identify as men would churn out an issue about women in motorsport, an actually grotesquely under-represented minority in that field.

BUT instead of shedding light on women who are ACTUALLY involved in motorsport in ANY meaningful capacity, they put a turbo fascist nepo baby on the cover whose claim to fame is being some guys daughter and some dudes girlfriend and whose last two visits to the spotlight involved a fascism scandal and a racism scandal and had her cosplay as a driver then proceeded to crown her the princess of motorsport whatever the fuck that means. it's not even satirical bc the irony is laid on too heavily

we sure do live in a society

#like. who scripted this shitshow. how did it go through multiple people. did no one during the editorial process think 'hold on.' #lol. whatever #the system is so parasitic its hard not to be discouraged. #f1 #kelly piquet :) #FEMINISM AMIRITE LADIES?

[embarasseddragon234]

Even More: Fambily™ (mostly)

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#lmk #lego monkie kid #incorrect Monkie Kid #incorrect quotes #the consequences one technically fits book Wukong more than Lego Wukong #but its still funny #husband does NOT get free pass to netflix #not until he pays his tab that is #Mei saw Tang listed as parasite and was like #lol me too! #and changed it

[belthegore]

WODtober: Day 1 - "The Monster In Me"

those r just ur insides, man. put that shit away

#sorry i lied wanted to post this one on its own. i really like how it turned out #i meant to make this more symbolic but weh #wodtober #vtm #vampire the masquerade #tzimisce #wod #owod #world of darkness #inktober #horror #gothic horror #artists on tumblr #digital art #oc art #art #gore #guro #oc: parasite

[policy-of-trvth]

rare post oh my days

anywho doodles i made of these little fuckers i think they're so neat

theres so many more but this app only let me put ten. i love them

#bugbo #bugbo series #bugbo bensilly #kinitopet #kinito the axolotl #kinito fanart #art #these guys are the parasites in my mind #they're the voices #kinito my beloved #still not giving you my location tho #also hoppo is like. really hard to draw #people say that all the time #and its so fucking true #i love her but oh my days

[munchboxart]

I don't really share my comic sketches here but I think this one is silly

#while reading dunmeshi i rlly saw similarities of laios and mui #its why laios is my 2nd (or 3rd. idk if the first one counts as 1 person or 2-3 people) manga character #im so upset laios's feelings for squid/octo has been forever tainted by that parasite #SENSHI TOLD YOU ITS EDIBLE WHEN YOU COOK IT IDIOT!!! #also id feel like mui's tentacles would taste weird bc of how stressed they are. at least his bangs #munch sketches #my comic #mui #jun #my oc #my ocs

[itsguysnightitsironic]

And once again the world is safe thanks to some silly freaks

Put them in the train again-

#legends of avantris #edge of midnight #marius renathyr #yorgrim #briggsy “the kutlass” kratch #farryn of the hartsblight #ol' jericho sticks #virgil (raum) #lethica nightborne #im sorry to the oauw crowd but edge of midnight has clenched to my flesh like a parasite and i don't think its going anywhere in a while #i have the flu and i can only do this and drink water

[masterbaiting]

the parasite

red mother, laurel radzieski / the thick of it (2005-2012) / the beggar, swans / the parasite, swans / ladybug found in transverse colon during colonoscopy / some guy on twitter in 2011 / wiktionary page for stoma / the thick of it 2x01 commentary / some article / peachy, missy higgins / various images of ophiocordyceps, cordyceps, and other insects

#hello ive been working on this unconstitutionally long post for like a month. sorry its so fucking cluttered. there is still more i could #add in but i am cutting it off here. max recced me 'red mother' its a poem from the perspective of a parasite and everyone should read it #this post kind of portrays both malcolm and ollie as parasites of each other - malcolm as the overbearing ophiocordyceps controlling ollie' #every move and ollie as the tapeworm or some shit small and sapping away malcolm's strength until he kills him #really they are both hosts to the same parasite. which is of couse working for the british government #anyway my favourite parts of this are the mouth/anus bit (starts losing my mind) and no yeah actually idk all of it #the thick of it #shut up ulrike #my webweaves #webweave #malcolm tucker #ollie reeder #sorry for this objectively fucking insane post. i will never change #long post

[lil--nuggett]

Hey guys, so if you know Baldur's Gate 3 this is an AU for that with Hardenshipping but it's really fucked up. I will explain why it's fucked up below the cut.

Maxie is a High Half-Elf Warlock (his patron is Groudon), and Archie's a Human Fighter <3

Also I just realized this is the first time you have seen me draw Archie seriously lmao my bad guys I'll try to draw him again soon

I took a ton of inspiration for various things for these designs, including Guile for Archie's armor bc I love Guile sm!!

(More info and our dumb AU lore under here - No BG3 Spoilers I promise <3)

I'm going to tell you this now... this gets really fucking crazy and honest to god I know I'm going to have a hard time explaining this. It WILL be quite long and I WILL be yapping.

This AU is really just something we did on impulse and it's really fun to mess around with, so I'm hoping you all will enjoy the concept as well :)

I'll try to explain it simply as I can. I thank you in advance to all who sit here and read this ily sm if you read it all <3333

Anyways, okay so imagine how one could do a bg3 AU for these two fuckers...

And throw it right out the window because you'll never guess how me and my friend have done it.

The Backstory:

This all started when my friend decided to play BG3 for the first time, and he jokingly said to me "Should I make Maxie our main character??" and I replied "I you want, but I won't force you" and thus BG3 Maxie was created, and his misadventures began.

Now your probably wondering (if you've played the game) what about the guardian?? Who did we make the guardian?? Well, we made Archie the guardian. However, I did not know just how wild this idea would get within the next few days.

So, eventually we realized how crazy the BG3 lore actually is (it's a like fucking DnD campaign idk how we didn't realize this beforehand), and so, we jokingly started our own "AU Lore" that ties in with the BG3 Lore.

If you really want to know, I have an entire note in my notes app dedicated to keeping track of what happens. It is very long.

The Parasite:

Now, if you've played the game or know anything about it, you know about the Mindflayer parasites. Well, one fateful day, me and my friend joked that the Parasite in Maxie's head was this little freak who looks like Archie.

The two have no correlation other than looks, its completely coincidence and it's not a mimic situation. The Parasite "Archie" does nothing but talk nonsense to Maxie all the time, and initially the bit was that he only talked about Fortnite. All because I made the joke that the dream realm in game looked like a fortnite update. By now, that bit has fallen off (thank god), replaced by just general nonsense and lies.

Also he fucking looks like this:

Weird little freak. This is just one of his talk sprites I have, this is just his neutral expression.

So basically it's:

- Maxie was supposed to be on a Geology research trip, but instead he got dragged into the Parasite issue with the rest of the companions. He really just wants to get home to Archie.

I am the one who handles everything for Maxie in this AU, I do his voice, I handle his lore, etc.

- Parasite Archie is this 1 foot tall, neco arc-esque version of Archie that sits on Maxie's shoulder and tells him nonsensical things. He also says Maxie's name wrong, he says Maxie's full first name and pronounces it as "Maximilliam" instead of the "N" at the end. For Maxie it's like handling a toddler but the toddler fights back, doesn't shut up, and threatens your life. He also has a ton of his own lore that my friend continously adds on to, so I can make another post with just the parasite's part of things.

My friend handles everything with the Parasite himself, comes up with the lore, does the voice, etc. I simply keep track of it.

- The "dream visitor" version of Archie is not real either. It's linked to the Parasite in ways that if I get into it, I will spoil a good chunk of the game. Sorry. Just know you can consider this and Parasite Archie kind of as one in the same almost.

- The REAL Archie is still at home, completely unaware of what's happening, while Maxie is fighting for his life. He does miss him, though, and hopes he gets home soon. He and Maxie are only boyfriends, they haven't gotten married yet. (They also haven't been through their rivalry yet, as this all takes place before that happens.)

Sorry for the convoluted yap sesh, I just have more art planned for this stupid AU and- God I cannot possibly just post this shit with no context. Like, I'd have to explain it eventually so I might as well do it now beforehand yk 😭😭

I might do separate posts with our HCs and some silly conversations that have happened between Parasite Archie and Maxie if you guys would want that :)

Also, I do have all of the sessions from where my friend plays the game recorded and I'll be sure to post some clips of what Parasite Archie sounds like eventually, possibly with snippets of my shitty Maxie voice in there as well. You'll get to see the talk sprites in action with that, too.

#nugget's yapping again #apologies in advance to all the bg3 fans who end up seeing this shit im so sorry guys #nugget art!! #GOD THIS IS SO LONH IM SO SORRY GUYS #Parasite Archie #its official #he has his own tag now. god help us. #like i said ill make a separate post about Maxie and Parasite Archie so you can know more about them and their dynamic #hardenshipping #magma leader maxie #aqua leader archie #bg3 #bg3 au