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[asksonicversearchive]

I don’t really know what to say. I just wanted to post this one!

Edit: don’t mind the absolute brain fart I had writing Classic and Emeralds second line, it’s meant to be “He spends a lot of time with me and Ego. He thinks we’re cool too!”

11/21

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[tune-on-in-folks]

I keep on seeing people saying that it's building up for Vox to die by the end of the season. And that just feels... unsatisfying to me.

Season one, Adam was a big bad, he posed a threat to sinners and the Hotel alike. He got killed off because there was no need for his continued existence within the story for it to continue on as it is. His death makes sense.

But everytime I think about Vox dying at the end of season two, it just feels... Lazy.

Repetitive.

If you kill off every villain at the end of the season then your story gets predictable, it gets boring, and people lose interest.

To me, this season is all about the hubris of man, Vox representing that. A lot of people compare his bid for Heaven to The Tower of Babel. Man unites with a single goal to reach Heaven, and for their hubris, they are cast apart, separated by the creation of other languages.

Vox has united the sinners with a single goal to reach Heaven (and become a God himself), he's driven by hubris, an extreme pride that makes him put himself above everyone. Which is slowly starting to break apart the Vees. And which should ultimately be his downfall. He's only out for himself, what happens when those he relies on, abandon ship? Being in the form of the Vees, and the sinners currently following him, leaving. Vox is just calling in divine intervention with his declaration of a holy war, but his punishment is to be seen.

His head has grown too big for his body, his pride and arrogance belies the fact that he's actually deeply insecure. With identity being one of the themes this season, and Alastor using Vox in a deal, I feel that killing Vox off wouldn't make sense.

At all.

Alastor's weaved Vox into the bigger picture. He made a deal with Vox for whatever reason, intentionally, following his dissatisfaction with being stuck in a deal with Rosie. Whatever Alastor's planning has yet to come fully into play, but Vox is a part of that. Their relationship; their rivalry and past, has been stressed this season. It plays quite a big role in the actions Vox has been taking, as well as the way Alastor is able to get underneath his skin.

I also keep on thinking about Vox's reaction to Charlie saying she believed anyone could be redeemed. This was his face after he asked:

His face while she was answering:

And his face immediately after:

(sorry for low quality lol) I still don't know how to feel about his reaction. To me it read as anger, like Charlie's answer pissed him off or rattled something deep within him. It could have been a "Bingo, there's my spin on how to get into Heaven." But that's not really what has been transpiring. So, I'm starting to believe it's something more akin to the fact that Charlie believes anyone could be redeemed, (they just have to want to be and try.) but Vox might inherently think he's irredeemable. Or rather, that he's not worthy of redemption.

The last time he had been open and transparent had been right before Alastor crushed him 70 years ago, that's not something Vox ever wants himself to feel again. ("We cannot let ourselves look weak to other Overlords.") Maybe to him, trying for redemption would be him admitting that he's weak.

Which brings me back to The Tower of Babel. The humans were punished by God by the invention of languages, splitting them up. With the way Vox has been weaved through the narrative, (he's literally Alastor's foil, there's been a big focus on Alastor's voice this season and "Vox" is literally Latin for "Voice." As well as "Vox Populi" and "Vox Dei" being song titles, and the stressing of Vox being a "voice".) and his own hubris coming to a head, I think that he'll be punished in much the same way. The Vees will split apart and he will be left with nothing and no one, going back to that time 70 years ago (or before) where he was nothing. Where all he could be was vulnerable.

And from there, perhaps there's a possibility for Vox to look at himself long and hard. For him to try to fix things after all the bridges he has burned. With the Vees and with Alastor. And maybe (also could be a punishment from the possible divine intervention) Vox will seek redemption.

To me, something like that would be a compelling story. It would add so much more layer and depth to Vox's character. To me, that's more satisfying than just killing him off to get him out of the way.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk. Can't wait for episodes seven and eight to absolutely destroy me and contradict my predictions! (and kill my happiness, lol.)

[imponder1ng]

Ever since I’ve joined Tumblr and gained more media literacy, I’ve definitely grown more appreciation for strong platonic relationships!!

I’ve went from “THERE’S NO WAY THEY AREN’T CANON!THERE’S NO OTHER EXPLANATION FOR THIS!” to “This could definitely be interpreted in a more romantic sense, but it can also be interpreted platonically, and just as good!!”

I don’t talk about Coiny and Pin in a platonic sense much due to how much I love the ship, but I’ve definitely grown an attachment to their canon best friend relationship!

I feel the same sense of fulfilment and “Aww that’s so sweet!” from their relationship now, unlike before, where I so desperately wanted them to be canon, seeing it as the “final step”, the only way their relationship could get better

I don’t see Two’s extreme mourning of Gaty as a “Oh, they definitely had a thing for her!”type of thing anymore (thank GOD, because that was a pretty unhealthy way of thinking), I see it as them spiralling after losing their first and only true friend, and I see that as just as big of a deal as if they really WERE dating!

There’s this idea in media that dating is the “ultimate” thing, the ultimate relationship, and that everything else in beneath it, but that’s simply not true, and reading into characters, relationships, ect and interacting with the community have made me realise that!

I no longer ship characters because it would be the grand “final step”, I ship them because it’s a different type of relationship that I think it would be interesting and cool to explore with them!

So thanks, Tumblr, for making me think healthier!:3

[macabre-vernissage]

um chnt textposts i made while procrastinating

[autism-or-artism]

[artceps]

yea sorry ive been dead. anyone who follows my bluesky knows ive been devoured by cassette beasts lately but i promise kirby is still in my brain its just. pushed aside

[youphoriaot7]

okay 4x06 was really funny and i giggled through it BUT. the actual concept of the episode is NOT FUNNY AT ALL. especially because it infects dean.

gonna ramble with spoilers below the cut (and yeah i know i know i'm the new guy here but yk just in case)

no because the idea of dying of fear is already terrifying. i have very high anxiety levels; i've had panic attacks in the past. the idea that one of those things could just...kill me one day? horrifying.

but by giving it to dean, especially post 4x01, it's so much worse. dean already has years and years of trauma—both just from dealing with monsters and demons (whether he admits it or not), as well as from his family and similar situations. he was practically a feeding ground for this thing.

take it like this: you start your day normally. you have to see a dead body and help with the autopsy, but that isn't the first time it's happened. shortly after, it's like your nerves are on fire. there's so much input and not enough places for it to go. your sensory system is overloading, and your nervous system can't handle the heat; it's freaking out a little. you've been jittery before, so you shove it down. it'll be fine.

flash forward about a day and something is wrong, and you know it. so do the people around you; you're figuring it out. however, with the inflamed nervous system, you're barely any help. you've just clawed your way back from death—a massively traumatic one, i might add—and now you're right back on the chopping block. there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it. you're losing hope.

this is really the kicker for this episode: no matter what he does, dean can't help. he and sam, for all their arguing, almost always deal with cases together. when they go off on their own, bad things happen. (i truly think it's one of the reasons they've made it through things other hunters couldn't, but that's a whole other rant for another time.) and in this one, he just...can't.

oh, he tries. he still travels with sam to help get the witness statements. they go out together to look at the wood plant. and what does he get out of it but a near nervous breakdown? so he gets ditched; left at the motel to stew—which, as someone with anxiety i can tell you, is an AWFUL idea. doesn't really matter though, considering he only has a handful of hours left.

then, when the episode ends, there isn't much wrap-up (not that there ever is on supernatural but i digress). instead, all we get is dean (unsurprisingly) lying and avoiding talking about his hallucinations. a lot of which, as you find out earlier, came from hell and his time there. (if this man heard one more dog i was going to sob)

one last thing to touch on: sam's reaction. look, i don't know if it's because that oldest-sibling-with-a-younger-brother instinct is just too strong and i'm connecting unhealthily with dean winchester (/hj) or what but sam's reaction to, well, everything this episode felt very...understated to me.

like, listen, the episode was funny to me because seeing this guy who always plays this big burly tough guy completely shrink and go absolutely haywire was funny. it was, i'm not gonna deny it.

but on a personal level, watching the only grounding rock in your life you've ever known, the person who has stood by your side through a lot more than you'd care to mention, that has saved you, saved himself, and saved a whole lot of other people—watching that man be reduced to nothing but a terrified, trembling mess? that's horrifying.

(and if i were sam, i would not have been reacting normally. and i definitely wouldn't have been annoyed. dean did his best to get around it for as long as he could. yeah, it resulted in a lot of screw-ups. but he tried, from the start. because he could've just curled up in the backseat of the impala, locked the doors, and hid from the world until the heart attack. and he didn't.)

[culssi]

I drew hands yipeeee

Ink demonth 9: record

This is what I could think of, this one was also a hard one to think of what to do. You could say this also could be for day 1.

I remembered this song from batim aus like abomination and metal & ink that I really loved (and still do) reading, even before I had tumblr.

Abomination by @halfusek

metal & ink by @fishymom-art

(Honestly scared to @ them, they’re too cool 🥲)

The song itself reminds me of can’t you see I’m lonely, recorded in 1905 which is a song I quite liked.

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Sketch, I forgot her eyebrows initially. This was quite fun to draw actually :)

Hope you have a wonderful day/night