Harrowing and Harking

22 | Ace | Walk the walk, travel the space, stare down the ghosts

[captainhark]

Oh you're someone who masked so intensely all your life you literally have no fucking clue who you are, and you don't understand why people around you could ever actually give a damn about you because why the hell would anyone care for someone who basically isn't real.

You also relate to murderbot, I fucking see you

[miosinee]

mary kline backrooms my beloved

[otrebot]

Backrooms

[imaginative-joy]

More Kaladin and Shallan as Calvin and Susie! Words of Radiance especially radiates (lol) this energy 😂

I based “Mr. Pattern” on the official Lightweaver spren plush!

Original comic panel below cut:

[harrirats]

haunted

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[jadeharleyinc]

all my alters become walters when i pitch the baseball of success

[punkitt-is-here]

[chechula]

Using Stormlight Archive to experiment with digital brushes, Knight Radiant and his Prince Charming :3

[doodlebugugg]

One thing that I wish was in the movie now that I’ve read most of the book is how much of a weird little freak Ilyukhina is. Wow babygirl I’m so enthralled by your desire to fuck nasty as much as possible before your suicide mission and your insistence of death by heroin so you can experience “true pleasure” once before you die. Truly an icon.

[tyresw]

I very much hope Sanderson depicts Jasnah as experiencing psychosis during her youth. And in a non-magical way at that. We know how deeply the ardentia have failed those in their care for mental health concerns and I think it should be treated as human rather than supernatural in focus because of that.

Also if would just be really cool to see a fiercely intelligent and logical person deal with psychosis without it diminishing them

[betterbemeta]

Though to be completely serious on the Ciaphas Cain topic I'm seeing a lot of surface level reads like "the memes will have you believe Cain's a buffoon but he's really a super badass" or "Cain's not really heroic, he admits he's a coward," and it's all missing the point.

Ciaphas Cain's a genuinely kind man. That's the 'real' guy. His heroic reputation, his inner insecurity, are BOTH shrouds over what's up with him. Cain's badass accomplishments flow down from kindness and patience he displays, not from just being really competent. He also is competent, but he would not be in the situations to express competence without his core character trait.

He's an unreliable narrator, so you have to look at his choices and reflexive reactions instead of his excuses:

He says he 'pretends' to care about the troops to avoid being fragged, to be manipulating them so they stand between him and danger, but he will genuinely care for them without thinking, often asking them what's wrong or intuitively taking action on their behalf.

He will talk someone with him down from a mental health crisis kindly instead of immediately shooting them, which is what he's 'supposed' to do.

He will defend his allies not just from enemy attacks when possible but also from criticism, punishment of other Imperium-aligned parties.

He is explicitly not sexist and overtly opposes peers who are sexist in his presence (this is notable also given his easygoing, friendly preferences, he won't make an appeal to other men or befriend them on the basis of sexism)

On this topic, he is able to make note that a woman looks nice to him without being creepy about it, or avoiding the topic, or undermining respect for her at all.

He is disturbed when those he works with don't display humanity, are cold towards friendly casualties.

He tries to remember the names of everyone with him at a time, and is disappointed in himself when he fails. Sometimes he also remembers nicknames and other accomplishments.

He makes dad jokes to alleviate tension for others around him.

He reflexively tries to save the lives of those in danger around him, even putting himself at risk to do so which causes him to remark that he did so 'against his nature.'

He makes sacrifices to make sure his wounded get care when possible, and often checks on the status or condition of his wounded when it's common to euthanize and/or abandon casualties.

He narrates in a traumatized fashion when he can't save someone's life and they die in front of him, remembering the gristly details of their demise. Sometimes this includes enemies if he thinks their deaths weren't necessary.

His job requires that he's around the troops when they're in danger. When the troops are in danger, they often are killed. He explicitly fears others around him being killed. I wonder why (apart from self-preservation) he says he wants to be as far from combat as possible? 🤔

He says the only man he's ever really trusted is Jurgen, who is a Blank and therefore in this setting constantly exuding an aura of don't-trust-me. His goodwill skills must be triple S tier to grow to trust Jurgen MOST of all people.

And more. Yeah, true, the Grimdark Universe is a scary place and he fears for his life. But typically we feel more fear when there is more for us to lose, and no matter how many guys he puts between himself and danger, no matter how relieved he says he is by that act, he doesn't behave as if relieved. He displays even more 'paranoia'. Those are his fucklings and the Mother Fuck's afraid for them as much as for himself.

He would HAVE to see himself as a coward, because he has been trained to kill anyone who shows such concern as he does for other people in a crisis. He has not been given the vocabulary to understand that how he feels is a symptom of being a good guy in a seriously bad universe.

[cosmerestuffgoeshere]

That's when it hit Elhokar. Dalinar's fist.

[elkius]

Reanimal tapping into my fear of being eaten alive

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[grynwood]

"I don't let go. It's my one thing"

[postapocalypticspacepirate]

daily reminder that Neil Gaiman is a rapist and abuser and if you can boycott Harry Potter then you can boycott his work too, Good Omens included

link to un-paywalled article

[anthureums]

harrow outfits :) my creepy little dress up doll

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love designing outfits but keeping them monotone has always been a struggle for me, so for harrow i focused more on shapes and textures. i like her in structured, top-heavy silhouettes!

there's also a part in htn (the ball dream sequence) about the aunts repurposing her ancestors' old clothes for her so i kept that in mind for some of her outfits...jacket cut and laced back together to become adjustable, ruching to fake more volume or maybe hide holes in tattered thin cloth, etc :')

[sorchasolas]

Having blue hair and pronouns would've saved Elhokar