when did you start being yourself?

they/it, minor, plural

[tellybox]

v cartoony person torn in half under cut

[assaultmystic-archive]

the self is a guy you made up to get mad at

[rosenkranz-does-things]

A young citizen of the nation by the unfortunate name of Caul Serrikane is preparing to die. Again.

[thunderstruck9]

Michelle Paterok (Canadian, 1994), Transformer, 2025. Oil on linen on board, 14 × 11 in.

[mismedleym]

experimenting and such

[ayesopod]

something terrible. echoes of past intrusions. barely discernible

[horrorcitos]

klassenty

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 21 hours

[marypickfords]

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)

[elf-hollow]

truly don't know how to express this other than random word association but kris knife dessknight open fountain chara asriel buttercups vriska kill me I don't like this plan anymore you promised. do you understand

[angelswouldnthelpyou]

Sheryl Lee filming Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me

[missinformation5031]

genuinely obsessed with our wars have ended's approach to the great man theory of history. the way caul'd father invokes lord dourmarrow as cyshane's lone defender against the "foreign hordes" reminds me so much of how, say, american conservatives are always going around invoking fuckin george washington or whichever other dead founding father against any and all progressive ideas and movements, or the UK's persistent and rather pathetic nostalgia for the bad old days of the british empire at its height, and all the ways in which dead "heroes" can be weaponized in service of bigotry.

i think the big man is also super interesting as an absurd, grotesque literalization of that theory, a literal great man (and of course it was assumed to be a man, specifically), larger than life, larger than the whole mass of humanity, striding through the stars as a singular and unstoppable engine of history.

it's all really cool and really fucked up and horrible and i can't wait to see where the series runs with all these ideas. i mean god, we're three episodes in and already it has to be one of if not the most thematically-rich fiction podcasts i've ever listened to.

[gravemirrored]

hm

[venusiancarbondioxide]

fascinated by the fact that mr serrikane and sore morel--despite likely having been on different sides of the war and very clearly having different opinions towards the ruling government during the time of the story--are such similar figures in their families. both not quite in touch with reality, both prone to losing their temper, both disabled by the same war, both alienating their children with their behavior (especially their bigotry), both totally unable and unwilling to stop under any circumstances. no amount of pro vs. anti government will stop you from being a bigoted father whose hatred and unresolved trauma is killing your relationship with your family! patriarchs are still patriarchs no matter what their stance on the sitting government is! god, i'm so happy owhe exists. writing is BACK!!!!

[valtsv]

i'm really impressed by the way they deftly wove commentary on racism/xenophobia into this episode btw. i'm white but i'm an immigrant and this is rhetoric i've heard a hundred times from my relatives who think that assimilating successfully, being "one of the good ones" to the exclusion and active opposition of anyone else whose circumstances are comparable, is the only effective solution to the violence that they face (because it's just not worth caring about when it happens to others, only when it's becomes a problem for us), and are so blinded by their defensive exceptionalism that they sincerely believe it will save them from the same indignities at the hands of the bigots who, ironically, don't split hairs discriminating in their hatred.

[valtsv]

really totally not significant at all that caul's most comforting memory - the sole tether that anchors her against euthanising herself permanently - is of a woman who sang her songs of "the better body that is yet to come". for a child with a disabling congenital birth defect, that would have been a formative lifeline. and the worst thing is, it's actually a pretty radical sentiment in a world where the ideologies governing it are based on the idea that "everything yearns to be what it once was". it just so happens to undermine its own intent to encourage progress by inflaming ableist sentiment through implication. so now that child carries that woman's severed head around like a security blanket against the horrors of living, and regularly kills herself to escape the indignities and limitations of her body. the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[valtsv]

[valtsv]

the nametaker: hey, check this shit out. alexa, play despacito [rotting corpse starts shrieking] pretty cool, eh? why don't you ask me how much it cost. go on. i know you want to.

caul serrikane: