#bullshitting

[aboringredmop]

gay baby jail

(image creds to u/FireFingers1992! there's apparently a small Becky Sloan segment at the young v&a in London for a couple weeks)

[stanfordswifey]

Stanford Headcanons!!

(Bf ver.)

Giggling hes so pretty in this picture-- COUGH COUGH SORRY ILL GET STARTED (pre-portal)

Loves physical touch. Would lowkey miss you whenever he's working so he always hugs you, and gives you cuddles whenever he can.

Kisses? Yes please, he'd be flustered at first but reciprocate it sooner or later, he's a shy lil dude.

Gift giving!! He'd make silly gadgets for you for no reason, you need a pen holder? Boom made you one, need anything at all and he'd get started on it just for you <3

Quality time is something he'd like also, since he'll be working on the portal so much he'd spend time with you whenever he can, sometimes it'd just be the both of you cuddling in bed and he'd start infordumping about the most random shit ever.

He would promise to take you to the galaxy and even farther, that he'd show you everything and adore it with you, but out of every gorgeous sunset, out of every prettt flower, he'd always see you as the most beautiful little thing he'd ever lay his eyes on.

Might be possessive, just a little! He'd 'accidentally' leave hickeys in obvious spots on your body (neck, chest, etc)

He'd take you on dates, he would cook your favorite food, setup the table and for nighttime lazy dates he'd just get some popcorn and you two would watch documentaries together or go looking for a new creature to document.

He would let you draw on his journals or add some stuff in, decorations, notes, etc.

He's the type to pat your head when you do something good

[its-not-the-norm]

kris deserves berdly take this negatively or positively

[nicomoon69]

i feel like hugo and vivian having an explicit sibling relation directly proves how hugo and lycaon werent written as ‘brotherly’ as the dudebros like to call em. if that were hyv’s intention trust they wouldve made them refer to each other as that lol

[poisonalley]

got a Title IX question on the AP Gov exam

[eternalrrst]

ABOUT BLADE'S TRAILER

a crappy analysis by a stupid illiterate chud (dont take my word on half of this i made this for fun + these are my personal interpretations & they might be wrong)

idk a lot of this feels very redundant to me but its ok ill polish it later when im less tired since it's late 😭

0:04 SECONDS

the flame in his eye extinguishes, which i believe is a callback to the original blade trailer 3 years ago where it ignites

also could connect with the fact that he's come to terms with his identity not as a blade but as a person who forges his own path, that drive/mara is being extinguished as well

the name of the trailer is nirvana,, blade has been rebirthed, he's in a state of transcendance and released from his karma perchance 🤔

0:07 SECONDS

the giant scrolls definitely has to do with blade's sins, especially with the imagery of the giant statue of him overlooking himself,,, almost like he's judging himself. it's like that weight he's taken upon himself to pay the price

the flower is growing and flowers also symbolize new life (haha rebirth) i find it really interesting that it's the focal point and the only splash of color in the frame

the next few seconds it appears he's in some sort of coffin or something that traditionally looks sacrificial if you catch my drift ough this is so delicious sorry i love the visuals so much

the roots are growing over him which is VERY reminiscent of mara but he strangely doesn't look all that bothered by it

0:17 SECONDS

a drop of blood drips from the blade statue's hands which then transitions to blade sinking into the ocean - it quite literally symbolizes the lives blade has taken, a physical representation of the negative karma and burden he bears, the sinking metaphor could allude to the fact that he's drowning in the sins he's accumulated

he does find his footing and transition to a lycoris-infested field, the transition is definitely a nod to his og ultimate and could be the 'final farewell' to his previous identity as a blade/as yingxing ... thinking that the spark in the distance and the noise accompanying it is yingxing's forge

0:30 SECONDS

HE RUSHES ACROSS THE FIELD OF SPIDER LILYS, interrupted by himself. OG BLADE!!!, he's quite literally battling his own identity

the recurrent looping i think might be his cycle of life and death, also of his self torment and punishment. the burden he carries and believes he's responsible for ("to pay the price") manifested in the identity of blade, the identity he's reduced himself to as an object rather than a person

his character introduction literally says "a swordsman who abandoned his body to become a blade"

0:45 SECONDS

"a sharp blade must first be broken" < referring to the struggles he's had to overcome to thus be reforged for a new 'purpose'

the character trailer ost's a far cry from the original trailer 3 years ago where it sounded almost violent (the suona, which is typically performed at funerals) but now here there seems to be a somewhat ritualistic chanting and a calmer theme

0:50 SECONDS

EVERYONE CALM DOWN THEYRE STRIPPING HIM NAKED

his blade quite literally fusing into him feels like he's bearing the weight or taking in of everything tying him to 'blade'

1:14 MIN

"escape is no longer possible" -- he's accepted that he has to carry this sin, all the bloodshed and brokenness of the sword he's absorbed fusing back into him as if he's welcoming shard sword's burden

1:27 MIN

he slices himself, as if he's burning his past self away

the atmosphere is clear now, blade sighs and rain falls. he seems to go on with a melancholic stride as he walks towards silver wolf and kafka, where he is now rather than dwelling in the past like he's done before

he's reforged himself for the sake of the present instead of clinging to the past. it could be why he's absorbing shard sword rather than using it directly in his attacks UHGHHH I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I HAVE SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS MAN IM SUCH A CHUD

SIDE NOTES

opens big fat book of notes

i wanna say he's nihility now in the sense that his sin no longer matters since that he's accepted it, or perhaps he doesn't make the sin/mara his entire identity anymore

destruction before in his previous form symbolized his turmoil, the tumultuous nature of wind reflecting his attitude and shifts between mara yet the transition to fire is a nice perspective considering how fire can be seen as both dangerous and (historically) safe. it provides warmth, used in agriculture, but also could very easily burn down the home it keeps alight

yeah ieuywuwhsh omygosh i loved ts so much feed us more hoyo please

[getjingledyouabsolutesquare]

Can someone appreciate the photo I took during my all-nighter