#...i think?

[rat-rosemary]

I love the idea of nether cultures braiding their hair/fur specially because I think it would be very cute for Sapnap to braid George's and Dream's hair during the early dsmp with meanings like "pack" and "taken" without telling them and blushing so hard about it and also because I cannot stop thinking of Dream styling his hair in a loose way that specifically means "broken bonds" after prison and the violent reaction Sapnap would have to it

[eschercaine]

Ok, ok... I’ve got new info thanks to the YouTube comments.

Remember the fire that caused all this mess?

At first, I thought that the Writers used Alicia as bait against her family since that’s what Clea seems to imply in her dialogues. But according to the artbook, Alicia was the intended victim for that fire. However, Verso saved her.

Ok, I’m gonna go now and cry.

[honesttaffy]

Today

[namiweiko]

This specific line has always stuck out to me, and I find it really highlights one of the most crucial aspects of Phainon's character.

Even after enduring unbearable agony, he still says his quest for deliverance was the only time he ever felt true happiness. That in spite of being burned alive by the coreflames, he still found comfort in it's warmth.

Since he lacks a ‘self’ altogether, he instead derives joy from helping others because external approval is really his only source of ego. Simply put, he finds comfort—pleasure, even—in his own suffering because it means others won’t have to. Altruism to the point of suicidality.

He displayed these traits, albeit in a far less extreme way, even as a child. From the beginning, his wish has always been "to fulfill other people's wishes." Not once did he ever consider his own needs, and that lack of self-preservation has always been his hamartia.

[msk29fan]

A Transformers animatic for March 15?!?

Not my animatic.

[radiantmists]

i know some other book fans don't like the faile backstory in show, but i think it's very much in keeping with what the show's been doing in general with the shadow: with the more 3D forsaken, with liandrin, and with min's arc last season, they're showing us that darkfriends are people, who feel the same emotions as everyone else, are bitter for comprehensible human reasons, and have their vulnerabilities preyed upon by the shadow.

and part of darkfriends being people is that sometimes they have families, some of whom they're very close to. many of us love the hadnan kadere chapter, how he seemed to have genuinely cared about his family and has developed this weird cognitive dissonance around them finding him out and him having to kill them. we like ingtar, and the emotional toll it takes on rand to get to know and genuinely admire someone who turns out to be a darkfriend.

but the show doesn't have the ability to delve into the psyche of random darkfriends (or anyone) like that, and i think making a major character have a family member turn out to be a darkfriend is a really clever way to demonstrate the emotional fallout of that. and i think faile is a good choice for that; unlike with min and aviendha her parents are existing characters with significant roles, so we can have davram and/or deira show up later and continue to develop this really interesting emotional question of what you do when your family member turns out to have turned to the dark. at the same time, she's not a first-string character like elayne or the EF5, for whom making their parent a darkfriend would spawn a new emotional arc that would have to take up an absurd amount of space in the narrative.

basically the writers are giving themselves an opportunity to explore an interesting question that goes largely untouched in the book text, and they tied that opportunity to a character for whom most fans hate the late-book plotline anyway, so they have some space to play with it without it displacing a more popular plotline. it's smart writing, and i'm excited to see where they go with it eventually.

[mizaruwu]

You're drawing the LU blorbos, but oops! You forgot to draw something!

Oh no! I forgot–

Twilight's face markings

Time's eye scar

Legend's jewelry

Wild's scars

Sky's red earrings

Hyrule's clothes strings

Wars' shoulder armor

Four's minish earring

Wind's lower tunic details

Voting ended onApr 10, 2025