#land i lost spoilers

[withdenim]

I may never finish this so before I forget to post it. Have my contribution to dragons rising.

#ignore my non canon compliant fritz design #the animal hats are hard to draw 😭 #ANYWAYS #fritz finds Lloyd’s old hoodie in the land of lost things hc #fritz ninjago #fritz and spitz #spitz ninjago #bonzle ninjago #cole ninjago #cole brookstone #geo ninjago #btw geo and Cole both let the kids braid things in their hair shut up #ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising spoilers #I should start a my art tag I think #my art

[skywerse]

NEW HAIRSTYLES!!!!! LET'S FUCKING GOOO

#jrwi riptide #jrwi #just roll with it #jrwi spoilers #jrwi fanart #jrwi chip #gillion tidestrider #jay ferin #sketches #digital art #coloured sketch #gills hair volume is crazy #im envious #so fluffy #in water? rocking that wet rat look BUT when he's on land?? BIG FLOOF #chip looks like a lost puppy #i baby him too much #also big thank you to condi condifiction coz i finally figured out how to draw braids #cause i had to do so much mental gymnastics to draw jays braid #like it took me ages #and i mastered the craft

[fanficmaniatic]

HEAR ME OUT.

What if that was Geo? What if they used to be friends? And then Geo scaped the dungeons and Vania simply though he was imaginary, thus forgetting about him?

It would make sense that Geo would not spend a lot of time with other Munce since he was pretty much treated like an outcast, so imagine baby Geo finding and making friends with an even babier Vania. Also, both of them doing art together (Since Vania did the Ninja cardboard, so she prolly likes art).

Anyways, Geo spending time with baby Vania and thinking of her as a little sister. Done? Got it? Great. Now imagine Cole telling him about Vania and his heart breaking about being remembered only as an Imaginary friend. You are welcome.

#Ninjago #dragons rising #dragons rising part 2 #dragons rising spoilers #spoilers #Vania ninjago #shintaro #Vania #Cole #Geo #lostshipping #cole brookestone #Geo rookery #yes I am going to use that as his last name #Geo ninjago #Cole ninjago #The land of lost things #master of the mountain #ninjago motm #ninjago dr #dr #MOTM

[melveres]

letters from his Spellbinder

#chickenscratch #dyvim whitehart #wizard101 #w101 #dyvwiz #<- implied #khrysalis spoilers #he is on his government mandated break #forever funny 2 me that the spiral door never gets fixed in khrysalis. theres a room for it and everything. #and instead the wiz has to come to bastion via trap door lmaooooo poor little hero #also!! as i was gettin the screenshot for this i found out theres a gardening rank 15 quest in khrysalis!! what a pleasant surprise #thought i was seeing things or my game broke or something #zaltanna i missed uuuuu!! also loved the whole ‘restoring bastions vegitation’ plotline. my wiz oc has a whole post-spiral lore bit on that #settling down in khrysalis and spending most of her not-mortal life helping to restore the ruins and land #finding lost teachings and taking on apprentices… #if this sounds a bit like frieren then lemme tell ya i watched that show and it felt like i was watching an elf version of eurydice. crazy

[yogurtlid10000]

To the like 3 people who follow me for hnk I finally drew them again. 😓 they are so dear to me 🙏 when will th new chapter come out pls

🤔I was thinking about cairn and phos when phos lost that long luscious hair 🤬high ponytail was elite

#phos hnk #i love phos so much #i love phosphophyllite from hnk so much #cairngorm i love cairngorm #cairnphos #i love cairngorm #houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #hnk #lotl #hnk spoilers #i feel like cairn would feel a bit sad at least after phos lost some of Lapis’s hair yk? Like that’s more of Lapis lost #more of their memory gone #poor cairn #Today I listened to replay by iyaz on loop for over 40 minutes #Todays good shall be erm peppermint Oreo

[bidokja]

I was joking a while back that the actor they have playing KDJ for the orv movie was too handsome for him and a friend who's read orv was like "KDJ is actually secretly attractive!!" And I just felt my soul leave my body right then

SIGHS...

Okay. Buckle in. I'm gonna finally actually address and explain and theorize about this whole...thing.

I'm not gonna cite any exact chapters cause it's like 11:30 and I've got an 8 hour drive in the morning but I'll at least make an approximate reference to where certain things are mentioned. Also, this post is just my personal interpretation for a good bit of it, but it's an interpretation I feel very solid about, so do with that what you will. Moving on to the meat of things:

There is one (1) instance in the web novel that I know of which describes specific features of Kim Dokja (especially ones other people notice). This takes place when members of KimCom are trying to make Kim Dokja presentable to give his speech at the Industrial Complex (after it's been plopped down on Earth). This is when they start really paying attention and focusing on Kim Dokja's appearance since they're putting makeup on him; I still don't think they can interpret his whole face, but they can accurately pick out and retain more features than usual. If I remember correctly they reference him having long eyelashes, smooth skin, and soft hair. These features can be viewed as (stereotypically) attractive.

Certain parts of the fandom have taken this scene and run with it at a very surface level, without realizing (or without acknowledging at the very least) that this scene is not about how Kim Dokja looks. This is, in part, due to not realizing or acknowledging why Kim Dokja's face is "censored" in the first place, and what that censoring actually means. I think it's also possible that some people are assuming the censorship works like a physical phenomena rather than an altered perception.

I'll address that last point first. The censorship of Kim Dokja's features is not something as simple as a physical phenomena. It's not a bar or scribble or mosaic over his face. If that were true it'd be very obvious to anyone looking at him that his face is hidden. But his face is not hidden to people. They can look at him and see a face. If they concentrate on his eyes, they can see where he's looking. They know when he's frowning or grinning. They see a face loud and clear. But what face are they seeing? Because it's not really his, whatever they're seeing.

No one quite agrees on what he really looks like. And if they try and think about what he looks like, they can't recall. Or if they do, it's vague, or different each time. We notice these little details throughout the series. Basically, Kim Dokja's face is cognitively obscured. Something - likely the Fourth Wall, though I can't recall if this is ever stated outright - is interfering with everyone's ability to perceive him properly. This culminated in him feeling off to others; and since they don't even realize this is happening, they surmise that he is "ugly."

Moving on to the other point about what the censorship means: To be blunt, the censorship of his face is an allegory for his disconnect from the "story" (aka: real life, and the real people at his side). The lifting - however slight - of this censorship represents him becoming more and more a part of the "story" (aka: less disconnected from the life he is living and the people at his side). The censorship's existence and lifting can represent other things - like dissociation or depersonalization or, if you want to get really meta, the fact that he is all of our faces at once - but that's how I'd sum up the main premise of it. (The Fourth Wall is a larger part of the dissociation allegory, but that's for another post).

So you see, them noticing his individual features isn't about the features. It's not about the features! It doesn't matter at all which features got listed. Because they could describe any features whatsoever and it would not change the entire point of the scene. Because the point isn't what he looks like. The point is that they can truly and clearly see these features. For the first time. They are seeing parts of him for the first time. Re-read that sentence multiple times, literally and metaphorically. What does it mean to see someone as they are?

This is an extremely significant turning point dressed up as a dress-up scene.

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P.S. / Additionally, I'm of the opinion that Kim Dokja is not handsome, and he is not ugly. He is not pretty, and he is not ghastly. Not attractive, nor unattractive. Kim Dokja isn't any of these things. More importantly, Kim Dokja can't be any of these things. The entire point of Kim Dokja is that you cannot pick him out of a crowd; he is the crowd. He's a reader. He's the reader. Why does he need to be handsome? Why must he be pretty? Why is him being attractive necessary or relevant? He doesn't, he doesn't, it's not. He is someone deeply deeply loved and irreplaceable to those around him, and someone who cannot even begin to recognize or accept that unless it's through a love letter masquerading as a story he can read. He is the crowd, a reader, the reader. He's you, he's me. He's every single one of us.

#orv #orv analysis #orv meta #orv spoilers #mine #ask #there's also the meta that he is described with these (stereotypically) pretty features as they are about to try and 'sell' him to a crowd #which feels to me like a very pointed way to convey how 'beauty' is commodified. how audiences like 'attractive' characters more #note: made some edits to add in a couple of sentences my brain forgot in the moment so make sure u reblogged those if u do #tag edits for further commentary that isnt strictly relevant to the point i was making: #do i think that this face censorship was executed as well as it could have been? nah. #not that it was like. done Badly. it's followed through to a certain point. its established enough for me to make this post at least. #but i do think it is the one thing in the web novel that SS didn't capitalize on. #like. they still stuck the landing but it was not as picture perfect of an execution as the rest of the metaphorical stuff in orv #also. this (not the face censorship specifically but the 'hes just some guy' point of it all) is one of the big reasons i think that- #-visual adaptions of orv can never quite work. they can do the best that they can with that medium but a lot of nuance is lost- #-simply by virtue of it being a visual medium #i personally think the only way a visual medium could work would be one where they commit to the power move of not showing kdj's face #(until a certain point (of view) that is) #his face is always facing away or out of frame or hidden by someone or something else in the way #commit to the fucking allegory or simply perish

[ghost-colours-manga]

Land of the lustrous chapter 44

#houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #houseki no kuni spoilers #land of the lustrous spoilers #manga #manga colouring #my colouring #Hello if you are reading my tags here's a fun fact #This is the chapter where phos lost their head and something I noticed is that phos's head was drawn extremely detailed #For like the first time in a long time #This is the last time we saw their original face so it's a clever way of foreshadowing what's to come

[lunian]

I'm def not hallucinating that TOTK got so much inspiration from Age of Calamity

so much ACTION AND MONSTERS AND CHARACTERS AND PLACES AGH—

i even start missing this calm drama of BOTW

....and where I didn't use brain that often bc now its damn decayed weapons and needed fusion 😩

#at least now i didnt get lost to find main quest when i landed on hyrule #mystuff #totk spoilers

[burning-idiot]

I JUST WATCHED DR PART TWO AND I AM ABSOLUTELY GOINGN INSANE. I CANNOT BRETHR. COLE COLE COLE HES SO AMAZING IM FANGIRLING LIKE CRAZY HES SO COOL

#ninjago #cole brookstone #cole ninjago #dragons rising spoilers #I’m so not normal #I don’t even know how to explain it #but he’s just so cool #and pretty #yes I know he’s a Lego #just watch Land of Lost Things and you’ll get it #Andrew Francis did an INCREDIBLE job

[pixpirs]

this might be me looking too much into it but...why does phos have such a strong distain for humanity? they've never met a human outside of one memory of the professor and she...treated phos with kindness? i dont rlly understand

#houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #im trying not to be hostile or overtly critical im just. lost #and if someone could explain i would legit be greatful #houseki no kuni spoilers #its 3am btw this is what i think abt

[spectraltenkai]

He paid the price for his betrayal. 

Drifting alone, far, far away.

Friendless, alone to self reflect.

What is god power to a greedy mage? The opportunity to rise above, or burn in a blaze of regrets.

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Inspired by this song as well as some irl stuff lately.

#kirby's return to dream land #kirby's return to dream land deluxe #magolor #magolor's epilogue #lost magolor #kirby #not gonna lie #i haven't been able to draw well for months #it's been iffy lately #hopefully i am better #no spoilers for mags epilogue btw please thanks #going to play rtdl dx soon #floating in space is something huh #this was meant to be a doodle but oops

[scanndan]

Me @ WFA Ep.45:

Omg what do I even say? WFA dangled gremlin Jason in front of me like a carrot and then smacked me with a crowbar 😭 The fact that the joker card was in the bg of the first panel... the way the panels became less polished when he started having an episode... when he climbed the stairs and the pit pooled ominously below... when he looked so small running through the long, tall hallway of defaced pictures... when he curled up in a corner... when Bruce came to help him......

#i am. having A Time #i feel so lost rn...what am i even feeling #i liked the panels of the stairs and the hallway the most #i hope they stick their landing #i also think jason shldve had a mouth in tt once scene tt jarred me out of the moment skfhs #bats #jason todd #bruce wayne #wfa #wayne family adventures #spoilers #wfa spoilers #wayne family adventures spoilers

[baby-xemnas]

idc about demon slayer spoilers so dish it out, what happened to nezuko that ruined her for you?

oh just absolute poopage of her potential

like she was built up as the bane of the main villain like she was the solution kinda , all her development was aiming for that. which was neat with the protagonist being a different person! i always like it when POV characters are less important.

it had all the opportunity to make it main antagonist vs her (and its not just me being delusional wanting my favorite girl to be important. she was built up to it)

and in the climax she got sidelined i dont even remember where she was, i think just kept safe idr lol and author made it protag vs antag without her anywhere in sight making all of her development and progress and special-ness completely pointless

#reason why i drew a lot of ship art of the antagonist and her /pensive/ #i wanted him to be mad that she exists #he should have #plot is basically that hes a demon right and he looks for a way to walk under the sun right thats like his ONLY problem #he hops bodies he does whatever he wants #sun? cant do it #and she is a special demon who just happened to be special girl magic and gain ability to walk under the sun #because love and humanity and whatever #how from then on there wasnt a hyperfocus of him on her i dont know #it was all lost #author was too busy following shounen tropes lol #which everyone praised him for for doing well at #well he sure did not fucking stick the landing #anonymous #demon slayer spoilers

[princessconsuelapark]

hunter and wrecker leaving echo to himself, knowing he copes with grief differently and needs his space, even if they’d probably prefer to have him right by their side, and would feel safer closing ranks when one squad member is severely injured and they’re down another ???? but they know their brother has a different story and doesn’t process things the same way, so they let him be alone in his grief

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb #blake watches the bad batch #plan 99 #star wars #my post #just leave me to cry #like all their injuries are taken care of #and they're all super relieved to see omega awake #so it must have been a little while since they landed #i'd imagine initially echo left the ship with them worried about omega #not necessarily in a good shape himself #but then he would have just got so overwhelmed #i think sometimes he just needs quiet #there's so much going on in his brain already #and in a way he's lost so many more people than the rest of them #sure they all suffered their losses but they were a very insular bunch of people during the war #not sure how much they experienced grief during the war the same way echo did #anyway dave filoni where are you i just wanna talk

[swashbucklery]

Also I made it through the first ten minutes of Secret Invasion and then got so angry at the MCU that I had to go cuddle my dog for a while. Sorry hot Maria Hill I tried. Prickly MCU feelings below the cut.

(Also the more the world turns the more the idea of “present day” without acknowledging the COVID pandemic becomes more and more dissonant in media in general, and I thought this about Secret Invasion and then I remembered that “present day” in the MCU is actually I think 2026 because of the shitty math they did for the Snap and I had to go cuddle my dog some more.)

(And then I thought about how nice it was that nobody could retcon that Tony Fucking Stark cured COVID because he’s For Sure Canonically Dead and that helped a little.)

(Wait no because the dumb baby math means he COULD have cured COVID because Endgame takes place in 2023 doesn’t it I hate it hereeeeeee)

BUT THE THING IS I AM MAD BECAUSE I ACTUALLY LOVE A SECRET DOUBLE STORY.

But it’s a treasure and a gift of a trope because it relies on the viewer knowing the characters. The fun of it, the joy of it, is being able to know the characters well enough that when there’s a shift in facial expression or a choice that doesn’t feel quite right, I the viewer can guess along! The reward of being able to see the twist coming because you know these people, the satisfaction of yelling at the screen don’t listen she’s evil because you the viewer have information that the other characters don’t.

And I want to like this SO MUCH but I’m sitting here like. What depth of knowledge do I have about the inner life of Famous Actor Playing White Man In Suit Number Six. Whose motivations have been a clear and consistent thread between films such that I can follow along in that way. How can that tension and joy possibly be earned in a production where actors are only given single scenes at a time to avoid ~spoiling twists.

#i know this is so dumb of me #because agents of shield lost me in the end #but this type of story is made for that format #that's why w*rd is hydra worked so well in aos #that's why the spy vs spy reveals around daisy's mom landed #anyway if this turns out to be good feel free to spoil me #but uh #not high on my list #secret invasion spoilers #grouchy aunt j's bottomless endgame rage #mcu feelings

[spartanlocke]

Lightfall spoilers below

I am once again wishing everyone who complained that the Traveler “stole our kill” during the Red War a very stubbed toe.

Thanks to all the bitching and moaning for what was a very fitting and impactful moment in Destiny’s story, Bungie has become convinced that the Guardian must always be the one to kill the bad guy, otherwise players might feel that they were “robbed.” And we can’t have that, now can we?

Ever since Caiatl was introduced as a character she was driven by her desire to kill her father, she said over and over again that she would be the one to kill Calus, so we all thought she would, because Bungie seemed to be building up to it and it’s fitting for her.

Instead she stays behind and we just shoot Calus to death.

Calus was defined by his desire for power. His endless hunger for everything. Something that the Witness nurtured into a imperishable need to be the end. He is hedonistic, yes, but he was cunning and powerful and had the killcount to prove it. He didn’t just laze around and let everyone else do the work for him, even though his subjects did help, he conceived the plan, moved the pieces, and got his hands dirty. Not only does lore not from his biased PoV confirm this, but see it ourselves when he was introduced as literal raid boss, fighting the Guardians to see if they can prove their strength. He fights Ca’our in Spire of Stars, he uses his run-down robots to kill intruders, he murders hundreds of his own subjects to feed the Egregore; he’s literally a one-man army fueled by megalomania.

But he doubts the Witness, doubts that it will fulfill his desire to be the very last at the end, so what does that say about his motives, his desires, which come to conflict with the Witness’s?

...Apparently it says he just sleeps through the whole campaign until the Witness yells at him to get back to work, then we just shoot him to death.

All those years of buildup and carefully constructed characterization, thrown away because players told Bungie that our Guardian needs to always land the final blow.

Anyway, hope y’all are happy, Bungie gave you want you wanted!

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UPDATE: OKKKK got all that out of my system, feel better now.

Despite that I will say that all in all, I like Lightfall! There were a lot of things it could’ve done better but overall I really enjoyed the experience! Strand is tricky to master but I am really enjoying it, the environment and music are 11/10 as always, and the Cloudstriders (Nimbus my beloved) continue to be a very intriguing addition to the story and I love the entire concept of the CloudArk and allowing the citizens to be part of the patrol zones without actually being there. I’m a bit disappointed we still don’t know what the Veil is but it’s normal for Bungie to reveal things in bits and pieces rather than all at once. Also like the foreshadowing Nezarec is getting, feels a bit on-the-nose but I find it preferable compared to how Rhulk just appeared out of nowhere (no shade though VotD definitely made up for that)

Some people are saying the campaign felt like a filler and while I can kinda see it, I can also see why Bungie would’ve done that. The whole reason we're getting The Final Shape is because Bungie realized three expansions was not enough to conclude all the plot threads they were building, so they had to include another expansion to make room. Lightfall‘s conclusion allows them to temporarily Vault the Witness allow the Witness to exit the stage so they can focus on concluding the stories of Xivu Arath, Mara Sov and Clovis Bray before finally taking on the Witness in The Finale Shape.

...I just hope Bungie does them more justice than they did Calus and Caiatl.

#jem blogs #delete later maybe #destiny #destiny 2 #lightfall #lightfall spoilers #Warning: Salt Ahead #Lots of Salt #also bc it doesn't go without saying on tumblr #this is a venting post #not a discussion piece #feel free to disagree but i'm not engaging in discourse #i am just #so tired #someone Please tell bungie it's ok if the player doesn't always land the killing blow #ESPECIALLY when it'd be more fitting for another character to do it #(which you'd think they'd know given season of dawn and season of the lost but. Apparently Not.) #anyway calus and caiatl deserved better you can't change my mind