#the blood mirror

[renaultmograine]

A partial list of Lightbringer quotes I'm mildly obsessed with.

It was the kind of beauty that made you shit your pants.

It was one thing to die, it was another to let some giggling morons murder you.

[He] was so mortified, he decided to just die and get it over with.

"Wait, this wasn't the thresher?" "Do you feel THRESHED?"

"I was a bad child. Fortunately, I've come a long way since then. Now I'm a bad man."

"The philosopher said that a man alone is either a god, or a monster. I'm no god." / "Well then, maybe the times call for a monster."

"He will serve the purpose for which he was made, or break in pursuit of it, just like the rest of us."

"Death by cock sounds so romantic, don't you think?"

"Are you a man, or a god?" / "I'm busy."

She turned her eyes on him, and his heart flipped over and convulsed, tried to crawl off the squeaky clean floor to the stairs, its palpitations making it hop like a deranged bunny; the worst escape attempt in history.

[She] was so smart that it was a miracle she could get dressed in the morning.

"Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice."

The man loved language like a wife-beater loves his wife.

"You got potential, and you know potential means? Ain't done nothing yet!"

He knew what to do, but knowing what to do here was like knowing that all you had to do to climb a mountain is to walk.

[He] felt an odd purity, the serenity of saints and ascetics and the batshit insane.

"You thought castrating a man would stop his quest for vengeance?"

She mopped her face with a cloth and then slapped powder on quickly, fought with her hair for half a minute, and decided history belongs to those who show up.

"Your father picked your brother, but [God] picked you, does that tell you nothing?"

"A little madness keeps you from going crazy."

If one is going to be a fraud, one ought to do it well.

It seemed both an impossible achievement and pathetic at the same time.

"[God] walks men through fires every day, I believe that. But before you walk through fire, make certain it's one he's asked you to walk through."

"I think I owe my aunt an apology," the boy said, very much alive. He spread one of the cut gaps in his tunic, showing a coat of the finest mesh steel beneath it. "She gave me this for my birthday. I asked for a race horse. I complained."

Good old Kip, ready to bash down doors that were unlocked.

"Fortune favors the bold, but don't be bold with me again."

As always, he was dressed carefully, looked wrinkled as an old apple, and had a demeanor as pleasant as a night of diarrhea.

"But sailors and a straight told tale have but passing acquaintance."

"You're sixteen!" / "Seventeen in a few months." Ten. Ten months.

"See? I have a gift!" / "A few." / "No, just the one!" / "Pray tell." / "I'm fat!"

"Of course, I don't believe in dice."

He'd die for these ingrates. Not happily, but he would.

If only she had an orator's voice that could be heard over fifty thousand murmuring souls, but most orators couldn't pull off this dress either.

Maybe she was smarter than he thought. What a terrible thing to think about your future wife.

"Dying is a task I can do alone."

"Next time I ask if you're sure, lie."

We are the stories we tell about ourselves, but when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.

This wasn't shit creek. This wasn't no paddle. This was shit ocean. This was "I can't even see land."

Woman, you are the reason some smart ugly guy invented language, simply so he could have some chance against better looking men to woo you.

"You find threats of me tearing [your penis] off arousing?" / "Not when you put it like that."

"War is hell, but hell is where my friends are."

"Shorter sleeves, next time." / "He said, if you asked for shorter sleeves, to look for another tailor, because he will be jumping off each of the seven towers until one of them finally agrees to release him from this hell you've confined him in."

Say this about executing a man, it does rather overshadow one's fear of public speaking.

[She] looked at [him] as if he was a rock trout who had just beached himself and started lecturing her on eudaimonic theology.

Of all the improbable situations [he] had found himself in during his short life: killing a king, killing a god, actually having friends, being able to jog more than a few steps without collapsing and dying of equally lethal doses of heart attack and embarrassment,

Only I would try to do surgery with a battle-axe. Only I would almost succeed.

"You fucking going to help me stow this fucking thing you beaver shite eater?" / "Man can't appreciate a sunrise for two fucking heartbeats? You and your dysentery gums fouling a liminal moment." / "It will be a subliminal moment if you don't start helping, because I'm gonna knock you the fuck out!"

"Are you mocking me, my lord?" / "Actually, I was using this tricky rhetorical device we learned in the hinterlands [...] where I was born. We call it a 'compliment.'"

He examined the ropes behind her back in no apparent hurry to save her fucking life, thank you very much.

"History will judge me for giving birth to a monster, but at least I have the decency to hate him."

"You are not a messenger, you are a hallucination!" / "A hallucination that tells you things you don't know and kicks your ass?" / "Hey, you didn't kick my ass!" / "You just don't want to admit you lost a fight to an eight year old boy!"

"You climbed all this way to confront God himself, and at his doorstep you're just gonna kill yourself? Really?"

"Remind me the next time you louse something up that you aren't half as bad as your brother." / "He's only my half brother, so there you have it."

"Dead winners and dead losers have only one thing in common. Unfortunately, it's the most important thing."

"Huh, where did you pick up that keen understanding of what a super arrogant guy will do?" / "Win, shut it." / "Yes sir, sorry sir. Dying makes me grumpy, sir."

Please, let this not be 'out of the frying pan, into another frying pan closer to the fire.'

"I want you to know something. In all my years of working with spies and murderers, and traitors and scum, I've never met a man who deserved betrayal more."

"You know, for the longest time, I used to think you were an asshole." / "Oh yeah? And now?" / "Oh I still do, I just used to, too.

#not included: 300 billion winsen moments bc those are several paragraphs long #or that one quentin moment in book 5 #lightbringer posting #the black prisim #the blinding knife #the broken eye #the blood mirror #the burning white #lightbringer saga

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Blood Mirror | Author: Brent Weeks | Publisher: Orbit (2016)

#books #The Blood Mirror #Brent Weeks

[theoldkyokodied]

If you follow my main you had to know this was coming… anyway. Enjoy these bloodweave doodles :)

#bloodweave #gale x astarion #astarion x gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate more like baldurs gay amirite folks? #yeah sorry the themes of hunger abuse and power got to me. I’m not immune to thematically mirrors #I have so many thoughts about the it’s not even funny anymore #oh you mean to tell me that canonically gale would offer up his blood if asked and that astarion can’t even do that bc of the orb ?? #tasteful irony that the guy who would want to help can’t do that bc of a mistake he made for love. #especially devastating for someone who measures his self worth in usefulness #oh they are so fucked up and they could understand each other in ways hardly reachable to others #once I start an origin run it’s over for you guys I will be so insufferable. even more than usual

[rainbow-taishi]

'Random Anime-style story concept'

Snow White but they're a fairy tale demon fighting against the descendant of the Queen and Huntsman

+++ Bonus stuff++++

#cioccolatodorima #my drawings #anime #drawing #manga #shitpost #anime style #character design #fake anime screenshot #story concept #snow white #yeah that tv guy is the frikin mirror because why not #there are more marchengrimm like snow white #i like adventure action more than romance because I dont really ship haha😅 #warning blood #warning gore

[julls]

Durgetash sketchpage by wonderful @mureh ♡!! Scenes of Gortash x Durge Juria before and after "my wife has amnesia" bg3 events (⸝⸝ᵕ ᵕ⸝⸝)

#bg3 #Enver Gortash #durgetash #durge #bhaalspawn #envuri #gorge #Juria #dark urge x gortash #villain romance #mirror scene mirror scene!! my nemesis #they did a blood ritual wedding and wear rings hehe #then she comes back and wants to kill him but can't. instead they KISS with the dagger between them ahhh #beautiful sketchpage ♡♡♡ #for me

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

#guys i fucking love listening to albums fr #best thing CDs have done for me is forcing me to listen to albums in order #this post is about. so many albums and artists #bad suns #imagine dragons #Set It Off #bastille #FUCKING HELL BASTILLE #theyre albums are SO GOOD #guys seriously. give me the future + dreams of the past. go listen to it. its so fucking good #doom days also fuckin slaps man. my fav oart is the fact the first 3 songs merge together for me until i realise million pieces is playing. #<- and ofc it has another place on it #also Imagine Dragons‘ Mercury 1+2 OUGH #the tone shift as you go through the double album until it does a full circle #sometimes a good album can be made up of songs that are banger after banger #<- All This Bad Blood-bastille Night Visions-ID smoke+mirrors-id apocalypse whenever-bad suns elsewhere-sio etc #and sometimes a good album can be made of songs that tell a progressive story while referencing eachother to enhance meaning and connect wit #-with the artists lived experinces #<- give me the future + dreams of the past-bastille mercury act I+II-ID Duality-sio #Tree Man Posts #music

[bacchuschucklefuck]

she turns, makes direct eye contact with you, smiles,

#dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #buddy dawn #cw: blood #cw: gore #cw: violence #hello this is the first post on this blog. welcome. I need to offload my art somewhere outside of my usual sphere #anyways yeah. yeah #I just think making direct eye contact with the person your murder victim is supposed to mirror before murdering them is kinda vibe #thinking abt kipperlily and kristen and how kipperlily was meant to be riz's foil but #genuinely kristen works so much better as foil for her instead. like how would beardsley ever not have swooped in to steal this off of #murph's plate. order vs chaos. embracing the rules vs rejecting them for having always fallen through the crack by your nature #so my busted ass brain saw this moment of kipperlily KILLING kristen's foil and I went insane like she took him out of the equation #HE is no longer kristen's foil. KIPPERLILY is now. deranged I need to draw this Immediately #kristen seeing kipperlily with true sight... smiling at her..... the interference that now narratively connects them do you see #can anyone hear me. hello

[ladyofthecreeddraws]

It's self care to submerge yourself in a tub full of blood you didn't even work for and absolutely do not need, all inside a room full of wall-length mirrors. Obviously.

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #you know. bathory style #well except for the mirrors but u get it #went full middle school edgelord on this one tbf #blood fuckin everywhere because it's fun #btw listen to Villain by K/DA for this one. it fits. anyway #fanart #m'art

[venvellan]

you're a vampire? oh yeah buddy i know don't worry. well it's just that you spent two days pretending to eat food. you were "biting" things and throwing them over your shoulder. it wasn't very subtle. i also caught you trying to stare directly into the sun like, multiple times. i'm glad the sun doesn't hurt you anymore! but you're not supposed to look at it. yeah, really bad for you. oh and that collar doesn't really hide the bite mark. it's very stylish! but it draws attention to your neck and only covers about half of it. no it's okay, you did a great job! can't exactly check in the mirror, right? heh. hey, you almost had me! keep trying i'm sure you'll get better at it

#i dont actually know if astarion eats food or not at this point #cause the parasite lets him be under sunlight and not need to be invited into places #which is definitely just for the sake of gameplay if nothing else #but he also still has to drink blood #and cant see himself in the mirror #i'll either find out eventually or i wont #baldurs gate #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion

[mindless-kindness]

first symptoms of demonic possession

#my art #metalocalypse #dethklok #william murderface #aotd spoilers #i messed up so i rebloging my art again #cw blood #there is something special about murderface looking in a mirror type of artworks

[catwyk]

huh. there's something on my face

#i kinda hate this #dont look at it too long lol #the silt verses #tsv #tsv 39 #tsv fanart #the silt verses fanart #tsv angel #glass angel #the silt verses glass angel #perspective #mirror #mirror art #podcast fanart #tsv podcast #lineless art #lineless #pale #semirealism #semi realistic #blood #a little #tw blood #sure yeah ill trigger tag that #art #my art #fanart #digital art #digital painting #medibang

[bittybatarts]

happy Night of Nocturne from the Boreal Wood

#digital art #flight rising #fr mirror #dragon #artistic rendition of my dear mirror Pumpkin and her favorite ability Eliminate #tw blood #there's barely any but. better safe then sorry?

[krazieka2]

Vampire Mercedes lore doodles (and vampire Lorenz bullying)

#carrying over my posts from twitter choo chooooo #these were stewing on twit for a bit cuz I had other doodles I wanted to doodle #BUT ALAS even doodles take time and energy. maybe in 3-4 months from now #2023 art #fe3h #mercedes von martritz #Lorenz Hellmen Gloucester #in this AU mercedes can go outside and enter rooms and stuff she just cannot see her reflection #lorenz cannot eat certain things but otherwise hes good to go #well that and the blood drinking stuff #i can't write fics but i would like everyone to imagine in their head the comedy hijinks of Ingrid Felix and Ashe trying to hunt a vampire #while Mercie Annie and Sylvain are like woah vampire?? so weeeeird #Annie knocking over and smashing things into every mirror while mercie stands there like #'you could have also just put a sheet on it...?“ #meanwhile Dimitri is fighting his own demons he has no idea what's going on communication is dead just like his dad #Lorenz going on a lore dump about Gloucester's history w vampires #hilda rolls her eyes but when she looks over at Claude he's furiously taking notes the absolute nerd

[thelastlivingme]

GOSH I SAW THE MIRROR REF FROM @adorkastock AND I COULDN’T GET TO DRAWING FAST ENOUGH

When you’ve been so many different people it’s hard to know which is real…

In the end I think they all are.

#accalyn #luna scifi #my art #ref #mirror #broken mirror #tw: blood

[thebrainrotsreal]

EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK!!! I want to be coherent about this season but please picture me foaming at the mouth and running on the walls. S2 being what if Mark's just like his Dad? Insanity. I love this show. Anyways, AU where an Evil!Mark tries to make Our!Mark worse, and Our!Mark tries to make the other better. Something something confronting your idea of the worst version of oneself. Plus, tweaked black and yellow costume because I saw it and immediately went murder hornet lookin' ass and knew I had to draw it. Evil ass Mark. Horrible. I think he should be dragged kicking and screaming into redemption.

#mark and the fact he is fighting for this fucking life to avoid the Many Bad Endings???? im pacing. getting out the red string. #when the season is about who you are and what you could become. when trying to be good is an active choice and a struggle. #RAHHHHHHHHHHH #chewing on the bars of my enclosure...when every mark is evil OUR mark is the outlier. the exception. the OTHER. RAHHHH #dog poetry being mark poetry because how often can you kick a dog before it starts snarling before you raise your hand? #how often can you beat it before it rips into you without mercy? when it bites not at your hand but at your neck? #when does violence for survival and violence for vengeance start and end? when your opponent is down and you keep drawing blood? #circling and pacing and losing my mind over this btw if you care #anyways self vs self gets me going crazy. did you know i loved the end of atsv? because it shows. #i think o!mark would lose his fucking mind at what evil wasp looking mark has done + this mf wasp would LOATHE mark's kindness #they both see the other as the WORST version of themselves and they can't stand it. They can't shatter the mirror but they think they can-- #--change the reflection. #evil mark seeing mark and seeing what he USED to be #mark seeing what he COULD be #CAN U SEE THE VISION?????? #digital art #invincible rotating in my mind #invincible fanart #fanart #mark my beloved #mark grayson fanart #mark grayson #invincible s2 #invincible show #mark like hello this is my secret twin and he is NOTHING like me hahahaha anyways wanna debate about having mORALS and LIFE #mark grayson vs the urge not to accept every responsibility as his own #he's batman coded that way #ok im done yapping #if this happened in the comics in any way shape or form dont tell me JACK SHIT or i will PUMMEL YOU with my SHOES

[zuzu-draws]

"Absolute Strength.. and the Loneliness that accompanies it...

...The one who tried teaching you about love is..."

#ryomen sukuna #sukuna #jjk sukuna #satoru gojo #gojo satoru #gojo #jjk gojo satoru #jjk fan art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #my art #fan art #jjk 236 #this isn't exactly SHIP art but i'm going to tag it anyway #Sukugo #The fact that Satoru tried his best to reach out to Sukuna and the sense of loneliness that accompanies his existence #The fact that he saw glimpses of his own loneliness mirroring in Sukuna #Despite them being enemies ; one a millennium old curse out for his blood ; the strongest of History clashing with the Strongest of the #Modern age #I can't help but think that if they were born in another timeline they could've shared a bond like no other #:') #Some people have started to reach out to the loneliness that has etched itself into Sukuna; and the fact that Satoru tried to show him that #he's not alone in his own special way #will forever be something so special to me :'( #Best buddies #i tried something new this time