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So do you like villains because they’re cool, or because it’s cathartic to see characters completely lash out against the world for their trauma and abuse and just be angry for all their pain in a manner that doesn’t actually affect anyone since it’s all fictional.

galadhir

It helps when they’re also good looking

fluffygif

A parrot with a sense of humor!

dacuslucy

so i’ve seen this around a lot and i always felt like the version i listened to just. didn’t have everything? sO! i edited together my three favourite versions of the tik tok sea shanty! enjoy!!

(listen with headphones if possible!)

(yes i know the ending is bad oKaY-)

lynati

YES PERFECT EXCELLENT. THANK YOU FOR THIS!! I got literal chills listening to it and I’ve only had that happened in response to a handful of songs in my life, and it’s a feeling I adore, so *dumps a bucket of kudos at your feet*

worddevourer

It’s like… It’s like the end credits of a movie where the last shot is the finally repaired ship sailing away with the ensemble cast who have gone through hell to make it to this point.

gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe

by おつまみ/1日1枚更新@_otumami_

fluffygif

Distinguished gentleman

animepopheart

★ 【Csyday】「ゴッホ」 ☆ ⊳ van gogh (fate/grand order) ✗ add’t reposting not permitted ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

sorrowful-prince-pelleas

Imo, a major aspect of Kiara as a character is that while she projects onto The Little Mermaid, she doesn’t parallel her in a narrative sense, and that due to her inability to truly love others, she fundamentally doesn’t understand the narrative she loves so much.

During her childhood, where she was isolated and bedbound, one of the cultists gave her the book and so it was her only window info humanity and how “real people” behaved. For her, the characters of The Little Mermaid are idealized figures, and real-world humans not matching up to that ideal is what leads her to spiral down into who she becomes in CCC - a woman that doesn’t understand or caste for humanity, seeing herself as the only human.

(I want to point out that according to her bond CE, “on the brink of death, the girl holds a single book she treasures” - it’s possibly her only personal possession, or at the very least the only thing she has ever treasured, which makes her misunderstanding even more tragic!)

So, as a quick summary of The Little Mermaid : a Mermaid (who has a long life but no soul) saves a prince from drowning, and learns from her grandmother that humans have short lives but souls that ascend to heaven when they die - basically, humans have immortal lives after death.

She wishes to obtain a soul, but according to her grandmother,the only way for a mermaid to do so is to have a human love her so much that they share a soul. After this, she makes a pact with the sea witch to go on land - she trades her voice and tail for legs, and if the prince her she will gain a soul, while of the prince marries another woman she will turn to sea foam (as mermaids do then they die). However, the prince is already in love with a girl who saved him after the mermaid took him to shore, though he does care for the Mermaid as a sister.

Eventually, he is about to marry the other girl, and that night the mermaid’s sisters bring her a knife - if she kills the prince she will be able to return to being a mermaid. But seeing the prince and his wife, she can’t bring herself to kill him, and turns to foam. Afterwards, she meets “spirits of the air” that tell her that even if she doesn’t have a soul, if she works for 300 years as an air spirit, she can gain a soul.

It’s history is also incredibly important and interesting - Hans Christian Anderson was someone who was constantly faced with unrequited love, both towards women and men, and was also very occupied with the theme of religious salvation through love. So, him writing a story in which someone, despite their lack of a “soul”, is still able to gain a soul through good deeds as a reward for selfless love is very thematically resonant and also completely understandable.

CCC!Kiara funamentally lacks that sort of selfless love. While FGO!Kiara, still having a bit of who she was before the influence of CCC Kiara can learn selfless love through her relationship with Ritsuka, CCC Kiara is too far gone. She cannot conceptualize selfless love - she could never do what the little mermaid did and sacrifice her life for someone else’s happiness, because for her, other people are fundamentally not human and therefore don’t deserve to be saved, and their joy shouldn’t be prioritized; she can’t understand that the Sakura AI’s are beings that can feel real and legitimate love. No matter how much joy and comfort the book brought her, Kiara was never able to grasp it’s true meaning.

Unlike Kiara, BB parallels the mermaid, being an “inhuman” being with a potentially long life, but no “soul” in a sense. While Nasuverse humans are able to return to the root (the parallel of going to heaven for the Nasuverse), she’s an AI and so she can’t. This is further emphasized by her role in CCC - in the CCC Route Ending (which is the closest thing CCC has to a true ending) has BB sacrifice herself in order to save Hakuno and Sakura. Just like the little mermaid, she gives up her life to save the one she loves (who doesn’t love her back).

Unlike Kiara, BB is capable of the sort of true, selfless love that Andersen clearly admired, which I find to be super fascinating, and I love how FGO acknowledges that dynamic by having the summer mermaid Kiara embody Yaobikuni (who serves as a much closer parallel, being a holy woman that ate the flesh of a mermaid and became immortal) and Shen (a clam monster that creates mirages and changes it’s shape, which is what Kiara does very well!), and not the Little Mermaid herself.

#just wow #i love the dynamic even more now

sloaners

there’s no way this joke hasn’t been made yet

capturetheatre

this is genius!!!!

performer: @abby_seim

video source: @josey__terry

sapphire363

Ok so not only is this person a fantastic singer, this is also fucking hilarious

roseyturtles

hellotrickster

Vid Title: Scarlet Briar: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Vidder: affablyevil / hellotrickster Length: 2:37 Fandom: Guild Wars 2: Living Story

Spoilers up through Entanglement!

ar182947262-deactivated20221202

OH MY GOD SOMEONE DID THIS

dicedragonjo

Ah yes, the only thing I’ve been watching/listening to for the last 24 hours…

nekoshige

ヤマウチシズ‏ @kimagure_salad さん

arsanatomica

Other places:

INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / ETSY / KICKSTARTER

#look

writerswritecompany

Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language

We are always told to use body language in our writing. Sometimes, it’s easier said than written. I decided to create these cheat sheets to help you show a character’s state of mind. Obviously, a character may exhibit a number of these behaviours. For example, he may be shocked and angry, or shocked and happy. Use these combinations as needed.

by Amanda Patterson

turbo-kong

I feel like this could be helpful for artists to express emotions through the body language of a character

#reference

my-arietta

MY MAN CAN GET IT!!!

#finally #hans christian andersen #fgo

gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe

by ねこのけだま

jowellshe

【舊劍亞瑟 / King Arthur(fate proto)】

Lancelot & (Arthur)

to Him

腦洞↓

蘭斯洛特懺悔的對象一向不是基督

而是他

這股力量使"亞瑟"經常被定在那個位置無法動彈

被迫看著蘭斯一次次執行他不曾也不願賜與的懲罰

“你不需要這樣，蘭斯。”

但是這句話永遠都無法傳達給他

“You needn’t do this.Lance"

But he will never hear it.

Lancelot & (Arthur)

「——」

這張的主要是看了都鐸王朝

一開始國王跟白金漢公爵那種劍拔弩張的感覺很喜歡

雖然這張有點不一樣

向國王進行吻手禮

大概是相敬如冰的君臣最親密接觸的時候

重要私密的對話本不該在大廷廣眾之下進行

但也許這是唯一的機會

Gawain & Arthur

P5-P6

Merlin & Arthur

just-shower-thoughts

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

unclebeanbag

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

ulysseus

Plants don’t wage war

unclebeanbag

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

kasaron

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else.

systlin

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

moirakatson

This post did not go where I expected it to.

deathbeforednf

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

norseminuteman

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed.

breadgunner-deactivated20181003

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

booksandwildthings

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

nevercure

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

nevercure

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

nevercure

Not to keep spamming this post but

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

kiwilemonteanonsense

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.