Physically gay, mentally Sebastian Stan
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We Stan the Thunderbolts here, including John Walker.
I have way too many pictures and memes of Bucky Barnes saved to my Pinterest h e l p m e .... ?
Meet: King Schmebulog, aka His Lordship King Schmebulog of Goblintopia, god of the food bowl and escape artist extraordinaire, full title still in progress.
At the time of this photo he was about 3-4 days old. He is currently 3 weeks or so. He is my friends kitten, and is mildly deformed. The back leg covered by my friend’s finger is kinda locked into place out to the side, and his forehead is MASSIVE while his face is squished. I’ll ask her for a more recent picture of him when she can take it.
I was originally going to kidnap him but APPARENTLY I have too many cats already (It’s two.) >:(
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whump is such a strange thing for me. ‘oh im having trouble shouldering the burdens of daily life, let me play scenes in my head of someone getting the shit kicked out of them (fictionally), that’ll make me feel better’ and it DOES
If you haven't played the new DLC, what the heck are you doing online?! Go play!!
If you have, please enjoy some of my favorite grabs with this beautiful new photo mode:
My boy FINALLY gets his baguettes. What an absolute UNIT.
Unffff the cinematic anglesss
I love the fact that immediately after Sandfall gives Verso a train, he jumps in and leaves everyone else behind while screaming, "Choo choo!" I love the whimsy in this area! Bright colors, peppy music! Surely we won't be forced to take a dose of whooo to go with the wheee, right?
... Damn it.
Damn it!
As an aside, the new music is also just flawless. I spent way too long just standing here listening to the vocals wishing I knew French.
Some other nice photos I liked:
Gustave winning all the carnival prizes, the girlies getting a pool day in and... Maelle being just as put together as we thought she was. I blame the Willie Wonka hat.
Just a few extra because I can't get enough of my boys. Hope you're having as much fun with photo mode as I am!
The irony of Maelle choosing to portray herself as nondisabled and without scars in the Canvas is that the Canvas is much better on disabled rights and scars than the real world.
Gustave's prosthetic is useful, but it's also visibly skinnier than his right arm - it's not trying to make him appear nondisabled, it's there to do what he needs it to do, and in the swimsuit skin you can see the scars on his stump, which he clearly isn't bothering to hide.
Both Real and Painted Renoir keep their need for a cane.
Verso and Painted Renoir both opt to keep their facial scars even though they could easily get rid of them.
Verso explicitly states that he doesn't like Painted Alicia hiding her scars.
Sciel wears a crop top even though this means showing a very obvious scar on her body.
Jules states that he might go blind like his father, but he doesn't state this as a horrifying thing, it's simply a something he knows might happen to him.
If Maelle had ended up in Lumiere with her scars and her disability, she'd have probably ended up being treated with more understanding and dignity than in the real world, because Lumiere is a dying city with a population problem which means that it cannot afford to discount the worth of its disabled citizens.
When Renoir painted his Axons he made Aline enchanting, beautiful, mesmerizing and graceful. He gave Sirene opulent jewelry, plentiful color, he painted her island as the only place in the Canvas with that type of architecture. Unique and wondrous in all her ways, with the charming ability to make everything perfect again. And make no mistake, he is the Tisseur ever weaving for Sirene because he does love her but killing him also makes you immune to Sirene’s charm.
He gives Clea the world. Her Axon is just like her, her very long auburn hair, white shirt, dark blue skirt, suspenders. The Hauler is not an overdramatized version of Clea; it’s just Clea. A city on its back, the weight of their entire family on her shoulders constantly. Her Axon is in Old Lumiere, while everyone else’s are much further up toward the Monolith in a perfect line next to each other though divided by the sea.
He gives Verso his window and mirror. Visage is performer with dramatic lighting and stage sounds, Verso with his piano in the opera house as the lights dimmed. Verso hides both behind and within his art and cannot separate those things.
He gives Alicia the impossible, the endless possibilities he sees for her. Her Axon gets ever taller; always reaching for the sky. Neither storm nor fire may stop his little star from going beyond the boundaries of the world.
Renoir works in only layered, interpretive artwork and I think that’s beautiful.
Millions of Years of Immutable Evolutionary Law: “Cats shall have litters of many offspring at one time. Some will be weak or stricken with disease--they will perish to allow the stronger siblings to escape, and to satiate other predators in order to reduce competition and encourage the existence of more capable adults.”
VERSO (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33): a reflection on him as a character
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
Bear with me because this is a very long rambling.
I believe Verso to be a dichotomy incarnated, the more I find myself thinking about him as a character.
He exists in a perpetual state of identity and agency crisis, as he was made aware at some point in his life that all of his memories are fabricated, that he has never actually experienced them, and that he was created with the sole intention of resembling and replacing a deceased son in order to alleviate the pain of a mother who has lost her child in a fire.
He has never been at peace in his whole life, and because he was made immortal, he can't even die on his own terms.
He constantly doubts whether his feelings and relationships are a product of his own, or are instead simply built upon the personality and the experiences he has inherited from the original Verso.
He doesn't know if he's loved for who he actually is or for who he's meant to represent.
And yet, although he isn't sure if he deserves to exist, he loves his family unconditionally (even when he sometimes doesn't agree with their actions) despite knowing that the feelings and memories linked to them aren't completely his own.
His love for his mother, who created him as a copy of her original son, is tainted by resentment: she, his creator, is the cause of his agonizing life as a replacement, and, at the same time, he must live eternally with the guilt of being a reminder to his mother of the son she lost, preventing her from finally overcoming her child's death and moving on with her life.
Later on in the story he experiences again the feeling of being seen only as a replacement, this time through the player's lenses, as he overtakes Gustave's place in the party: he uses the same weapons as Gustave, the same outfits and even takes his role as Maelle's brotherly figure. The players initially reject Verso's arrival to the team: they want Gustave back not a "cheap" imitation, in the same way that Verso's mother wants her son to return from the dead.
Even in the game's final scenes, Maelle (or Alicia, if we refer to her by her identity outside the painting) unconsciously addresses him as if he truly was the original Verso. Painted Verso wants to live apart from his role as a substitute for the original, to forge his own identity. It is tragic that during his final moments with Maelle, he is once again denied his own personhood.
His unwanted existence as a copy is the consequence of a battle that erupted and continues between the members of the Dessendre family, who process grief, after the loss of Verso, in different ways and try to impose them on each other, ending up denying their relatives and their sentient creations in their paintings any agency or consideration.
And yet, copied Verso is the only one who shows compassion and listens to the fragment of the original Verso that remains in the canvas: what would the original Verso think of seeing his family corrupting the world he loved creating in his painting and harming each other in the process because they cannot accept his death? Wouldn't he want to avoid becoming the source of his own family's misery?
Who could understand him better than a copy of himself? With whom he shares his love for music, the memory of painting a canvas full of fantasy and the pure desire for adventure typical of a small child, his bitterness and frustration at not being able to dedicate himself to the piano in a family that venerates only the power of painting?
A central aspect of Verso's character, both the copy and to some extent the original, is that over the years he has developed, a tendency towards deception and lies to protect himself, his family, and his goal. He hides himself behind masks.
Accidentally revealing his immortality and the nature of his existence forced him in the past to end the lives of people he cared about, who suspected, rightfully so, he hid his true nature with the ill intention to betray and sabotage the mission of destroying the Paintress (Verso's mother), who they mistook as the source of their suffering.
From this point on, Verso's interactions with others became somewhat insincere. However, he still desires companionship, to connect with people, and has shown himself capable of sharing touching moments with the other expedition members who he has come to care about: wanting to elicit a smile from them, offering them a dignified place of rest for a fallen comrade, sharing and showing his passion for music or helping someone overcome their fear of swimming, among other kind gestures.
But in the end, he fears that if they come to know who he truly is or his intentions, they will oppose his goal, which, in simplified terms, involves sacrificing himself and all beings of their painted world to save his mother (and later on, his sister) from a deadly fate. Thus, his purpose is defined by both selfishness (to destroy an entire world full of sentient beings so he can finally put an end to his life) and self-sacrifice (to save his mother from a self-inflicted illusion, the painted world itself, that is slowly draining her life force and her sanity).
That's why he lies, withholds information and diverts the attention of the other characters when they get closer to the truth. He has convinced himself, after being conditioned by decades living in solitary immortality, estranged from his family, with an identity he doesn't feel is his own, and the accumulated guilt and frustration of betraying previous expeditions and failing to reach his mother through the years, that his way of fulfilling his mission is the only correct one. He is incapable of opening himself to other possibilities, of trusting his companions (even though he cares for them), of telling them the truth, and of working together to find a common solution that would allow him to avoid bearing the guilt of condemning them to their end.
He sacrifices the painted world and forces his mother and Maelle, original Verso's sister, to leave the Canvas that serves as a refuge for them to cope with their grief. He supposedly expels them for their own good, so they can have the chance to live outside the Canvas without endangering their lives, but selfishly, he also does it to rid himself of his immortality.
The life that awaits Maelle outside the Canvas is no better than the one she has lived within it: in the outside world, her face and throat are disfigured by the fire, a fire for which she was partly responsible, a fire that took her brother, Verso, when he sacrificed himself to save her. Outside the Canvas, Maelle cannot speak, breathe, or swallow without feeling pain; her family is broken by grief and lacks the drive to confort her; her mother and sister, while they love her, they also subconsciously blame her for Verso's death; and her overprotective father has constantly threatened to destroy the Canvas where she has lived an entire new life and where she has found another family that loves her unconditionally. The world that awaits her outside is a condemnation to a life marked by disability, guilt and grief.
The only words of comfort Verso is able to offer Maelle when he casts her out of the Canvas are based on an assumption: he doesn't know if Maelle's life outside the canvas will truly improve. He can only believe and hope that his lies will ultimately prove true, that he hasn't condemned the inhabitants of the canvas and Maelle herself in exchange for a worse outcome.
The more Verso lied, the more he became trapped in a dead end. Until one day he reached a point of no return, and all that remained to do in the end is to lament that things hadn't turned out differently (even though he had the power to change things if he had shared the truth from the start) and wishing that lying, after so many years, wasn't still so painful.
He Who Guards The Truth With Lies, to protect and to control.
