#the city itself

[ilynpilled]

Something so sexy about Jaime’s most heroic act being doomed from the get go in every way. It damns him for one, like there is no action to take in the situation he is in without huge cost. So many vows yadda yadda, you are damned either way. But in general, a nuke being under the city is something you cannot come back from. It is meant to be a death sentence to the place, the culmination of the trajectory the kingdom was on. Aerys doomed the city with that. The logistics of removal is not all that simple. If you tell Ned and he even believes you? Great! Now who else will have to know? Who can be trusted with it? How will you remove it? We do not even know all precise locations, we had to kill all the pyromancers. How do you make sure it is not accidentally set off? On top of that, the city is filled to the brim with corruption. Full of players who would love to use and exploit that kind of power. The information itself is dangerous. The wildfire functions as a great metaphor as a result. It is festering corruption. You cannot erase the caches at this point. The closest you can get to that is bury the knowledge. He is still haunted by an endless stream of burning bodies. An event that never happened: “In his dreams the dead came burning, gowned in swirling green flames. Jaime danced around them with a golden sword, but for every one he struck down two more arose to take his place.” When he hears that Tyrion made use of it, he is immediately reminded of his greatest fear: “Jaime saw green flames reaching up into the sky higher than the tallest towers, as burning men screamed in the streets. I have dreamed this dream before.” His faith in institutions is also below ground by then, like you see it in his weirwood dream, he tells the truth to his heroes and it does nothing. It is not about Ned, he is not the one that comes out, even though he assumed he would be. “It was never him.” They damn him to darkness anyway for his act and prioritize feudalistic moral constructs. All these contradictions are what makes his fire go out in the dream. But the belief that you can bury all this, and therefore prevent the existence of an Aerys 2.0, does nothing but stall the inevitable. KL’s supposed savior, Robert, the man leading the rebellion, who would slay the “evil dragon”, just led to stagnation. He did not wash out the corruption in it, he just sat on top of it and let it fester. He rues Robert, he says so. One bad king to another. The wildfire problem is more complicated than a single mad man. Its tragedy is rooted in enablement and escalation. There is a reason the pyromancers are more emphasized in the confession. I read it as symbolic of the systemic issues permeating the city, because those are what allowed it to get to the point that it did in the first place. Brienne knows about the wildfire now too, but she also does not comprehend what a volatile ticking time-bomb it is. They do not know how it works, and how it becomes more dangerous over time. Jaime might even save that damn city twice with the Cers and valonqar set up, but both times it is gonna be ultimately “pointless”, bc KL cannot be saved. But that does not matter, because the fact that someone acted back then has meaning. Thematically, that action itself is a triumph.

#valyrianscrolls #jaime lannister #me when i am trapped by the meta bc one of my most defining acts is a chekhovs gun #but i stll think there is meaning in the action. like there is meaning in the attempt #things are not only about the result #something something jaime always guarding something doomed in his narrative #worst knight in shining armor oat 💔 #his family his children etc etc #his kings #the city itself #so many vows and u will keep breaking every single one of them

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

I like to think that new york is just one giant organism.

#like its sentient #not the people #the city itself #just seems like that

[sunlitsoil]

there is always tomorrow

#lovecore #hopecore #webweaving #the presence of love is beautiful in itself #you got this #self care #self love #recovery #healing #hopepunk #recovery is not linear it is okay to have bad days you have the entirety of your life to have a better day #i wish anyone reading this a good life #i love you #you are loved #and i hope you will find happiness in the small things #i’ve been struggling a lot recently but i always remind myself the good set in store for me and look up places in the city i’ll move to #and it motivates me a bunch so i hope u all find things to strive towards mwah

[decolonize-the-left]

This week alone saw Atlanta-area raids by law enforcement that took a woman out of her house with no shirt, left a naked photo of another woman on display after ransacking a room and dragged a man by his hair – while arresting none of them.

The pre-dawn raids on three houses on Thursday were the third Swat-style operation in residential areas of Atlanta and nearby unincorporated DeKalb county tied to a movement that began in 2021 – and the first in which the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) played a prominent role.

The fight against Cop City has attracted national and global headlines, especially after police shot and killed one environmental protester at a campsite in a public park – the first such incident of its kind in US history. At least one of the search warrants for Thursday’s raid seen by the Guardian authorized the FBI to confiscate dozens of items from the raided homes – including laptops, cellphones, “Defend the Atlanta Forest” stickers and posters and personal journals. The operation came after weeks of Atlanta officials promoting a campaign to catch activists linked to arson against construction and police equipment, all the while activists have been committing more acts of sabotage, alternating with nonviolent, civil disobedience.

COINTELPRO 2.0. if you don't know what that is:

See the rest here:

#cop city #weelaunee forest #police brutality #politics #abolish police #acab #police state #surveillance state #history repeating itself #red scare #capitalism #fbi #leftist #biden #colonization #fascism #human rights #civil rights

[the-nothing-maker]

Home is where the heart is

(Alastiel is a vampire lord NPC from @luposlipaphobya's D&D campaign, Une Cour de Chair et de Charme!)

#vampire #dungeons and dragons #dnd #traditional art #chair et charme #my art #i love it when lupo asks the big and necessary questions like #what if you were in a toxic relationship with your house ? #(which believe it or not is a theme that is getting explored TWICE in this campaign) #anyway the city our PCs live in is half-alive (technically it's a whole vampire in itself) and alastiel is its... semi willing lover ? #it's complicated #anyway he's really fucked-up and tragic and i really like him !! bone grandpa

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories #are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox #anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun #to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people #the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying #it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell? #but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks #and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower #because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism #(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here #in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top #of those themes instead of through it) #ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting #SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT #unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable #thief the dark project #i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP #sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know #garrett thief #basso thief

[k-wame]

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS as Michael & PETER PORTE as Josh 2022 • UNCOUPLED • S1·EP5 

#they had the most extraordinary conversation in this scene - #he wanted to botox his arsehole so his huge member cud fit & i woz yelling inwardly for a whole hr? #is that a thing that happens? omfg?? #the show itself is like sex and the city if carrie bradshaw woz a 50 yo gay bloke w/ 1990s dialogue & plot devices #can be teeth gnashing at times #neil patrick harris #peter porte #lgbtedit #uncoupled #uncoupled showtime #kiss #gay couple #gay #lgbt #uncouplededit #romancegifs #queer media #couple #intimacy #affection #longing #desire #amor #passion #romantic #queer

[galedekarios]

pentiment + the evolution of andreas’s mind palace

#pentimentedit #pentiment #andreas maler #ch: andreas maler #vg: pentiment #gif: mypentiment #i loved this detail so much #from the way the open streets became a twisted labyrinth #where andreas first seeks the center #then the escape #from how we started with the sun high in the sky #then went to a cloudy but star-studded sky #and ended with the deepest and darkest of nights #how the waters were calm #then became a wave and finally completely overtaken by clouds and storm #how everything grew twisted and decayed #from the city itself to beatrice #and the others who once gave him counsel #pentiment spoilers

[bonesmarinated]

Shkodran the tormented brooding capitano who ready to break all the housewives hearts as the protag of a canale5 telenovela ft ♥ vincenzo [ @cybervesna’s oc ] 

#shkodran skiroi #franck lacazette #Vincenzo Giovanna #carabiniere au #stealing the comment from @caffeinatedrogue because that just too hilarious good #they work in a low crime area #some small city where nothing big ever happens until they come onto something big that reveals a darker side of the city's underbelly #maybe involving people within the arma itself... But the institutions and higher ups doesn't seem to listen to commander shkodran (our torm #who beyond the flexing and flirting hides true potential. They butt heads sometimes but become best pals #and Vincenzo is the character that effortlessly gets bitches and no one understands why and it's the respect women juice

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I am obsessed with La Revacholiere. She is everything to me.

#thinking about post-canon as le retour gets closer and closer #and the city itself becomes more alive in answer to her people's needs #a tangible feeling in the air that most people attribute to rising political and social tensions reaching their peaks #but that some people are able to recognize as their city giving them her own strength and support #aaaaaaaaaaaaa #la revacholiere #disco elysium

[stoat-party]

“How dare they burn everything the Courier loves to ashes!”

*imagines my courier reacting to watching everything she loves burn to ashes*

“…that’s some good stuff. you got me this time todd.”

#at this point i do think the horrific continuity snarls were incompetence instead of malice #especially with how lovingly they animated vegas at the end #so i can’t really integrate it into canon in my head but i’m also not mad at it #the show itself? not my cup of tea. but i’m chill now #might still step away from the fandom though because eesh. war never changes huh. #fallout: new vegas #new vegas #fallout nv #fallout new vegas #fnv #courier six #fallout #fallout amazon #fallout series #fallout prime #fallout show #fallout spoilers #fallout tv show #fallout show spoilers #fallout prime spoilers #fallout tv spoilers #fallout Amazon spoilers #fallout series spoilers #unfortunately my courier’s story requires her to have been imprisoned in shady sands from 2285-2289ish #so that’s gonna be a problem #could make it another city but the ncr needs to have a semi-functional government at least

[bleaksqueak]

Since I posted some of my old fanart yesterday... if you're not familiar with Slayers, and thus have never heard its amazing music, do check it out. It's largely by the same songwriter, Masami Okui, that did Utena's iconic opening (Rinbu Revolution) and ofc (TRUTH) and sung by a duo of her and Hayashibara Megumi (you know, the GOAT)

The entire OST pretty much slaps. there's only a couple of bad image songs in an absolute expanse of pure gold. GIVE A REASON, the opening to the second season, tends to be the reigning favorite. (I've a hard time pinning down my absolute favorite... of the original openings, it might be Breeze, but all three are so good. Of the entire catalog? Impossible to choose. Midnight Blue, Raging Waves, Within my Unlimited Desires, Gloria, Get Along... Impossible Choice)

#slayers #the slayers #music #anime #90s anime #Gourry's image song So In the World is like the cutest thing too #the series itself is a deep lore D&D parody swords and sorcery action/adventure series #very firmly a dramedy but when it decides to be serious it goes hard #it very rarely decides to be serious so it's always kind of a thrill when it does lol #but this post is about its soundtrack #namely its vocal songs #and as I said they slap a ridiculous amount #so here #Youtube #what if I go back and put Get Along in here too because I love it so much #I love any version that leaves lina's ramble in at the start #and the lyrics of I WANT THIS I WANT THAT... IT'S JUST HOW GIRLS ARE (showing lina blowing up shit lmao) #Hold on the memories of riding with my granddaddy to the big city next to us #so I could go to suncoast and get the new vhs release of NEXT when it was first being published in the US #just hit me like a sack of bricks #that's a good memory...

[missholoska]

day 1 of Soriel Week year 8: joke! 💜💙

as soon as I realised this prompt was almost identical to the first Soriel Week's day 1 back in 2016 I knew I had to do a redraw :'> I uh, don't recommend looking at the original as I'd only drawn these two like 4 times back then, but the improvement is cool at least 🍂

#soriel #sorielweek #sorielweek2023 #toriel #sans #undertale #undertale art #holoskart #autumn #there was A Lot to fix about the original. besides the obvious wonky anatomy and making toriel and sans look more lively #I felt the background really clashed with itself so I put a lot of time into making everything match and feel warm and cozy #I also switched the mountain and city back there bc mt ebott was more significant for toriel while sans is like. more sociable #so in my mind it emphasised how toriel is free and happy on the surface and sans is continuing to make time for his bestie 💕

[claitea]

i love this guy

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #stardust cookie #clai's art #you see i like crk because its kinda like k/ngdom hearts. utterly stupid in concept but it takes itself Very seriously #except crk is even stupider in concept these are literally cookies and that is a Doughnut Alien #went from stardust calling down countless meteors to destroy the city that created him in a sorrow-filled rage #to him not knowing how chip packets work and attempting to eat the foil pack #this event story was an absolute delight HJEBDJBF

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

‘late roman republic’ but with the same meaning as ‘my late grandfather’. it’s already dead babeyyy!!!!!

real and true, you understand perfectly, but DO NOT TELL THIS TO CICERO!!!

#hashtag the first city walls dripped over with brotherly bloodshed #idk how they had a two consul system in a. city founded in an act of fratricide. and didn't expect the republic to shred itself in civil wa #or. i DO know how they expected it not to BUT as a pharsalia enjoyer...... yeah

[birdcatt]

like antennas to heaven

hello? can anyone hear me?

#ultrakill #spoilers #ultrakill spoilers #art tag #v1 #earthmover #1000-thr earthmover #ok so fun fact: originally the caption was just going to be 'hello? can anyone hear me?' #referencing the fact that i am currently losing my mind over the violence layer #but then i remembered 7-4's title and went. wait #so now it is both a reference to the fact that i am currently losing my mind over the violence layer #and also. has an earthmover tried to contact heaven before? #its a walking city. the end all be all of the war #and in its destruction it chokes itself to death #this one is very sketchy because i am still trying to learn to draw v1 let alone an entire earthmover #anyways another fun fact: i am currently in 7-4 #i just paused it to draw this #going back now. i am just going for completion for this run