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[someawesomeamvs]

Warning: Major spoilers, violence, flashing lights

Title: wait for it

Editor: ToastyGlow

Song: Wait For It

Artist: Leslie Odom Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Cartoon: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Category: Character profile

[gabychan91]

It’s been a while since I have uploaded my art here on tumblr, but this piece is dear to me because it is a tribute to the EFD animatics. The last part (Wormwood) came out on Saturday and to say that I’m not okay is a massive understatement, lol. Ashivon, Sanga and Ahnmivah belong to @toastyglow ! Thank you Toasty for creating these wonderful characters and the animatics that are so dear to me. It has been a wonderful time.

[hazelnootnut]

i want to be more than this devil inside of me

[first pass under the cut]

[fake-idgafer-federation]

Ahn from Escape from Divinity

Who is he?

He's a friendly ship's captain who lives on an island and has many interests, including boxing, martial arts, dancing and striking up conversations with everyone and anyone, especially if they're cute; he's generally liked but also considered a bit of a ne'er-do-well.

Fake IDGAF-er Propaganda

His IDGAF-er image is intact until he befriends the two Most Traumatized people on the island, fellow Voa Ash and the human Sanga, both of whom recently escaped a violent cult on the mainland called "Divnity".

Ahn is struck by the mortifying realizations that a) it's probably a bad idea to put the moves on either of them at this stage and b) he really wants to get to know them properly. By the end of the series he's totally lost his IDGAF-er credentials by going totally ride or die for Ash and Sanga (see below).

(all images courtesy of Escape from Divinity by ToastyGlow)

Ahn will be added to the roster!

[the-east-art]

Escape from Divinity Spoilers: AUGHHHHHHH

[hatopond]

great six of crows animated.

This is the video that first introduced me to Six of Crows.

I always find the cool characters, dark world view, and stylish art to be wonderful.

original song

[noose-lion]

I'm literally crying over the Ecsape From Divinity series right now.

I was fourteen-fifteen when that first animatic came out, and I was awed and in love. I had never and still have never felt so emotionally tied to a piece of art. Ashivon had felt so familiar, the story of a child made to be a monster to fulfill this "divine" purpose. It was like having a mirror shoved into my face, gently forced to look, actually look, and I have never been able to stop since. I watched that first animatic so many times it is ingrained in my soul.

That animatic helped me survive my teens. That may seem an exaggeration, might seem hyperbolic. But I watched that animatic weekly, if not daily. Tears in my eyes, huddling under my blankets, curled around my 3DS to hide away from the mother who had just beat me. I watched it secretly on my barely cracked open school-issued chromebook slumped over my desk at school as I sat with wet eyes at the back of class. I watched in the late hours of the night, the pale blue screen of my parents' Samsung tablet illuminating the dark living room when I couldn't sleep.

That animatic was a reminder. You could get out. It was possible.

And then more animatics followed. Each one I watched with bated breath. Each one expanded on what I believed possible for the future. It was no longer as bleak. I didn't have to die young, exhausted, and depressed wasting away in a prison of a home. I could get out, yes. But not only that, I could get out and be okay.

I could survive. I could heal. I could learn. I could find love. Real unconditional love. I could thrive and grow and be the truest version of myself. Be happy. And fulfilled. And safe.

Because I got out. I might be struggling, I might be lonely, I might be without goal or mission, left adrift in a world that I don't know how to live in. But I know it gets better. That my people will notice. That they care. That I can heal. That I just have to keep moving forward.

Each part of that series has been released right when I needed it. A beautiful coincidence.

And that angry abused child that clung to the first animatic with desperate clawing hands now stands a homeless college student cradling the same, now finished, story with tears in my eyes. Because I was losing sight of what this is all for, and then here comes this story to remind me again.

I watch that same hurt character from my youth, dear to my soul, I watch him win. I watch them both win. Both of them. They win. They get carried home, bloody, and hurt, but they are loved and free. Free in body, mind, and soul.

Curled up on an air mattress, sheltered by a friend, free from that home that I survived. I watch the end of that story. And I cry.

Escape From Divinity by @toastyglow

[maddsbuckley]

Coming back on tumblr for the first time in ages to completely fangirl about @toastyglow 's Escape from Divinity Series now that it's over

(go watch it btw) and THE BRAIN WORMS. THEY'VE INFECTED ME TIME TO DELVE BACK INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I'm gonna miss it so much, I love Sanga, and Ashivon, Ahnmivah, and so many of the designs and circular storytelling details and the shot composition and the way the songs are used and AHHHHHHHHHH

I found the first video in 2019 and I fell in love with the characters and the world! 2019 was a ROUGH year for me, but EfD lit something in me, brought me back to reality. I fell in love with art, visual media, and music all over again, even through burnout at a music college. I spent HOURS re-watching it over and over at almost every meal in the Caf, and even used the cult setting as the basis for one of my Dread campaigns I ran with friends!

The second video, coming right at the tail end of 2019, fell right in stride with the end of my mysterious dissociation episodes throughout that year. It felt like I was coming back to the light WITH it, in a sappy way. Idk I had many emotions I sobbed a lot after watching that one over and over.

And I don't need to get into the details of every single one, but I love this series, I love this story, and I'm so glad it exists and so many people have enjoyed it. My only solace in it being over is the happy ending, and that I can now force my friends to experience the story for the first time in it's entirety.

Maybe I remember to put this on other social media places but this felt like the best place, where I can nerd out. THANK YOU TOASTYGLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW <3 <3 <3 I hope the brainworms continue long enough to infect me the next time I'm playing guitar :)