Jade Ivy

They/Them || United States A very broke college student who happens to do animation.

[komakesthings]

Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.

A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.

[masterqwertster]

I'm not going to argue that Bolaire casting Command on Azune to stop him from going after the executioner because he attacked Mayali was good or nice or kind. It is still mind-whammying your friend/ally while in a vulnerable state. But Bolaire could have been much more forceful, truly asked Azune to be a thing instead of a person, and he didn't.

The Command could have been "Halt", "Freeze", or most damningly after hearing "I'm not a thing. I'm a person" it could have been "No" like Bolaire did to Murray for the stone giant's hand. Halt is in the spell's description, so it has Rules as Written effects: no movement, no Action, no Bonus Action.

Any of those commands, had they landed, would have 100% taken the choice to attack out of Azune's hands. You think you're a person but I'm not giving you a choice nor respecting your autonomy. You cannot do this because I'm wielding you and I say no.

Instead, Bolaire's Command was "Calm". And as it is not in the spell description, Brennan has set the rule back in ep 4 that the affected creature gets to interpret the command as they see fit. You can attack calmly, kill calmly. Do what you want, but you must be calm.

Calm is an ask to take a breath, and think about whether or not this is the choice you really want to make. Because the choice to attack still exists, you just can't do it with overwhelming passion and feeling. Calm creates space to see if what you want is pure hurt for hurt, or the chance to wring answers out before laying on the hurt.

Is it kind to take away the burst of passion and feeling? Not really. Not when it drives the realization of personhood, grants the feeling of being a person.

But, in its small way, Calm says you have a choice, so let's not be blind to what happens in more than just this immediate moment.

And I can't say if Azune would have chosen to let any Command take him in that moment. If he would have willingly failed the Save and been forced to Halt, been a good little tool. But what Azune was told, commanded, was Calm, and that he accepted, to have a breath to process and consider before making his next choice.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Thjazi and Aranessa’s relationship is intriguing to me because Thjazi’s feelings on it seem ambiguous or conflicted, even from the start. On his wedding day he’s (rightfully!) discomfited by recieving Thimble as a gift and delays the wedding to make sure she is is comfotable with her outfit, firmly establishing the principle that Thimble’s happiness and well-being is worth as much as anyone else’s. Then we have the flashback where he’s off to start the Falconer’s Rebellion and is urging Hal to join it; Hal is shocked at Thjazi thinking he could leave Elodie and his infant daughter Hero, but Thjazi doesn’t come across as particularly troubled about leaving Aranessa. After his capture, Thimble tells him Aranessa was looking at him “longingly” and he brushes her off.

But on Aranessa’s side, we see that she mourns Thjazi deeply and wishes she had joined him during the Falconer’s Rebellion. While both of them chose other priorities over each other – Aranessa her family and house, Thjazi the revolution – Aranessa’s feeling for him come across as stronger than his for her.

What did he feel about this marriage? Did he love her but already have misgivings before the wedding that their values and social status were too different? Did he hope that the standing of House Royce would allow him to work within the system to fix it, and find himself disappointed in that? I do think he married her out of genuine affection – if it was purely strategic he would have been strategic, have not disrupted the wedding, have not been so open about his absolute lack of deference for this much-higher-status family he was marrying into. But I’m getting the impression that he had doubts and felt conflicted about his marriage even from the start. From the outside, Thjazi and Aranessa might have looked like a fairytale at the beginning; but I don’t think they ever were.

I want to see more about them.

I suspect that Aranessa’s great secret is that she knows Thjazi’s experiments were responsible for the closing of the Doors to Faerie and for everything her house has lost, and she has told no one.

[jadeiivy]

I drew pomni 🙂‍↕️

[eicinic-deactivated20211001]

Pow pow! 

[ezrazzle]

Finally decided to try my hand at drawing some voltron and thought I’d get some practice in with a quick sketchy sketch of lancey lance. From a scene that made my heart ache in one of my fave fics: Lilac Sweet by Star_Gazing_Knight 

[ezrazzle]

Birthday gift for @star-gazing-knight based on her fic Lilac Sweet ♥  Hope you have a good day, sweetie  ♥

[iceguessie]

Favorite moment from the episode…

Plus the mentioned pillow fort…

[thecheatinghomunculus]

new reaction image

[rural-panoptes]

[saintjosie]

[damnpharos]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[deerkibble]

[sneakyspades]

[neraiutsuze]

[manasaysay]

It's incredibly funny to me that everywhere people turn, Occtis Tachonis is there. He's in Gormalay, he's in Castle Klippenblick, he's in the Palazzo Davinos. Everyone's talking about Occtis Tachonis and how he's dead but no he's not because I saw him at a Candlefeast in Timmony, no he was at Castle Torch and he walked into the Endless Night, couldn't be he left behind an undead cat in Castle Klippenblick-

And Wicander Halovar is not only nowhere, he is Sir Not Appearing In Our Thoughts Or Prayers.

[mm-slashing-boy]

Here in Campaign 4, we've got Thjazi, who's metaphorically haunting the narrative, and Occtis, who's literally haunting the narrative.

[sicklyseraphnsuch]

There's a narrative throughline in how the three dice darlings were all primed for slaughter, for sacrifice, for consumption.

Wicander was isolated from the rest of his family, willfully kept ignorant and thereby docile, meant to be the child raised in the Light, the saint that would sell the good word, who would never have any part of his life not consumed by the faith and its faithful.

Occtis was neglected by his family until they were forced to consider him a possible resource. Then, they slaughtered him, using his body and soul as ritual components.

Azune was beloved and abandoned by his family in the name of that love. They taught him that sacrifice is the truest form of love and if Azune loved anyone, he must be prepared to sacrifice himself to love them.

[no-atheists-in-fckstles]

Julien and Azune have both been conditioned to accept how asymmetrical their most important relationships are.

Julien told Aranessa to find his sister, but to retreat at the first sign of danger because he couldn't bear to lose her—only for Aranessa to immediately tell him to guard her sister "as you would me". As in with his life. The message is, "You gave me explicit permission to return to you without your sister, but I won't give the same".

Aranessa told Julien from across a shared bed, "I wouldn't be frightened to look for that golden boat if you were by my side," and then said to Thaisha days later, in front of him, that she would walk the Old Path when it beckoned. The message is, "I expect you to wait for me if you die first, but I won't do the same".

I'm not yet convinced that the stakes of the initial Falconer's Rebellion were high enough to justify Thjazi not pulling whatever strings necessary to put a twelve-year-old in less violent circumstances. Bolaire's cold open showed a town that didn't seem at all paranoid about whether any armed travelers it hosted were rebels, as though it had no fear of retaliation. Theater troupes were still traveling and performing. Abstaining from choosing a side altogether was an option even for Thjazi's kin. Surviving rebels were fully pardoned, allowed to migrate and reintegrate into law enforcement and memorialize their fallen in stone with no disclaimer denouncing their ideals. Thjazi's bridges to Aranessa and Raimond were never burned on their side, and even if they had been, Thjazi also had an in with the wealthy Lloys. Future information may change my mind, but as of the most recent episode I am not convinced that Azune's only prospect under Thjazi's wing was the Torn Banner.

And then there's the matter of the execution, and what was revealed about Azune's expectations at the dinner table scene with Hal.

"I know you'll have to stay here. I'm sorry for all the distance I kept. I hope all those fires I set were worth it. Make sure you set some of your own when the time comes." Thjazi, my guy, what the fuck? That's what you come up with when you think you aren't gonna die?

Aranessa and Thjazi were definitely well-suited to each other. They can justify remaining in these sacrificial dynamics with Julien and Azune when the latter are, like themselves, adults who make their own choices. But those dynamics solidified under pressures Julien and Azune experienced before and throughout puberty. So to what extent has it really been their choice?

[isuredolikeechidnas]

woe, seekers shinji death chair be upon ye

[jadeiivy]

Little drawing of Tyranny. Don’t ask how the lighting works I could not tell you. Something something ever light everbright the lights falls like this because I say so 😭

[sicklyseraphnsuch]

The Halovars are Smarter

Oh sweet baby Shaper.

The Halovar is the smarter one of the priestly houses. Not only did they successfully subjugate a celestial, they also made a method of making more celestials or celestial-adjacent body

The Halovars? are winning?? this arms race???

[flailypichu]

I know there's been a lot of talk about how people ship Occtis and Julien because they're pretty and standing next to each other, but I honestly think something I'm drawn to right now is that Occtis knows exactly what Julien wants from him in a time where that can't be said of most people in his life.

He and Thaisha are at odds and their relationship seems in flux, and Vaelus admitted that she wants him to help resurrect Sylandri.

Julien just wants Occtis not to be evil, and Occtis is pretty sure he's not evil. He can do that one. I imagine it might feel good to spend time with someone who doesn't need you to be anything more than you are.

[jadeiivy]

Still some work to be done on it. But here’s some love bullet fanart. Truly I need more of this in my life 🙂‍↕️