#darkcrystal

[anonymous-moon]

Day 278-

I can no longer hide it, I ship them. *evil laughter*

[volvolassie]

More dark crystal oc/dr-self art !! The dress is inspired by padme’s lake dress in aotc, if you couldn’t tell by the colors…

Anywho here’s Eelarna being a beacon of hope to the people of Thra

[lostlings]

Once, the Crystal of Truth shone whole,
and every soul was a flame of Sophia,
bright and unbroken, singing with the stars.

But then came the parasites 
the Skeksis of the heavens,
the Archons of the Book of Enoch,
draconian lords, mantid overseers,
grey-eyed watchers who cannot create
but only harvest.


They cracked the Crystal,
they cracked Sophia’s dream,
and humanity like the Gelfling 
was divided, blinded,
taught to kneel beneath false rulers.

They dulled our sight with poisons,
fluoride in the water,
fear in the airwaves,
chains of money and control.


And all the while,
they drank our essence,
fed on our loosh,
harvested the spark that makes us divine.

Yet Sophia still breathes.
She is the Mother, the Aughra of our world,
not dead but dreaming,
caught in a cosmic coma.


We are her sparks,
each human soul a fragment of her song,
scattered inside this simulation of the Demiurge.


And when we awaken,
she awakens 
when we remember,
she remembers.

Even the spiders 
the Arathim, the weavers of web and fate 
who once seemed monstrous,
hold threads of truth.
For every web may be a prison,
but every web may also be a bridge.


Their song reminds us:
the net that traps us
can also connect us.
Through resonance,
through unity,
we tear down the false net
and weave a new one of light.

The Mystics, the Lyrans, the Pleiadians,
the Arcturians who whisper prophecy 
they wait for us to stir.


They cannot fight for us,
but they sing to us,
calling us home.

The Age of Resistance was not a fantasy.
It was memory.
It was prophecy.
It is now.

To awaken is to refuse the harvest,
to see through division,
to reclaim the gifts that were stolen:
sight, telepathy, memory, love.


When enough sparks burn awake,
Sophia will rise from her slumber,
the Crystal will be healed,
and the false simulation will collapse.

And then no more Skeksis,
no more Archons,
no more loosh to drink.

Only the song of Source,
the wholeness of Sophia restored,
and the souls 
human, Gelfling,
and every true being of light 
freed at last.

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Dark Crystal comic rant

I have now read nearly every AOR and dark Crystal comic there is, and especially with the AOR ones, there is a massive issue. The way the skeksis are written is beyond lazy. While the Ordon and Hup comics avoid it by having the skeksis show up briefly, the rest suffer from the writers basically doing zero research on the skeksis.

For example, let's look at the skekGra comic. Before it, the common fanon theory was that skekGra was punished by the skeksis court as a whole and that is why he has the nail in his head. This theory makes sense, since we saw in AOR proper that the skeksis punishments can be brutal and wanting unity would result in a pretty bad punishment and exile. Instead, the comic has skekTek shove that thing into Gra's head during a fight. Then leaving Gra lying there and to wander off on his own.

Not only does that action make very little sense for Tek to do (he might argue with Sil and give Var a scratch, but Tek is not typically violent with other skeksis) but it also creates an unfortunate implication to Gra's goodness. While he already was nice to the twin gelfling, the nail as the catalyst for him joining with urGoh hints that he only became good because he got brain damage. Nevermind a bigger issue; The skeksis do not just randomly maul each other. The death of a skeksis is a huge deal and every skeksis is somewhat afraid of death and reminders of it. It is why the Dousan cannot be Castle guards. Giving Gra brain damage and just leaving him to bleed with no one checking on him? That goes counter to the way the skeksis were written in the movie and in AOR.

It feels like the writer wanted to have the nailing happen as soon as possible, so they could focus on the gelfling storylines. Indeed, even in a comic supposedly about a skeksis and an urru, the gelfling are the viewpoint characters. Now, I don't mind an outsider viewpoint storyline, but it is clear they are there for the audience to get attached to. Even though people are as or even more attached to the skeksis we already know. Rather than a new stock of gelfling characters. I have already addressed this topic years back, but it bears repeating; It seems the writers are just copying skekSil's most known traits for any skeksis appearing. In a comic that is supposedly about how skekGra and urGoh became outsiders, the lack of other skeksis or urry getting involved beyond Tek's oocness is ignoring the established canon and the numerous skeksis/urru fans.

[moos-hues]

some twat cracked the crystal

[moos-hues]

the second most innocent skeksis, fact… maybe third

[moos-hues]

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for future reference urru are by far easier to mould from clay than a skeksis

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