Texts from Chaldea

Don’t your Servants have phones? This blog runs on FGO NA time, please don’t spoil!

[textsfromchaldea]

i beg your pardon?

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i'm like a million years late to this one but traum really looks like its shaping up to be "three houses but each side hates you" huh

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had to tap back in for my girl

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she's possibly the cutest goddess in proper human history. and the lostbelts, fuck

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had to tap back in for my girl

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I don't want to say the person saying this had no point but complaining that Barghest is flanderized into becoming a wife is only like a quarter true.

It misses how important love is to her and her character. She is doomed to love, and doomed to lose those she loves. Love ultimately still motivates her. She wants to find someone she can love. She carries so much trauma from her love.

It's no wonder people want her to have a good ending at the end of all of this. People want to draw and write her, ultimately, in love, happy, and safe. So yeah, on some level, demure housewife Barghest is sometimes exaggerated but it's only a mild flanderization of a pretty natural point of fandom discussion.

[lightheaded-dullahan]

I hope everyone knows when my friends send me posts like this I usually aim to kill.

TLDR: I know we all want the big buff lady to eat us - but for her that's a constant horror she lives with.

I am including this image of the tags purely as I am using both the original posts and a set of reblogged tags to make my point.

Let's begin with the first bit here -

"She is doomed to love, and doomed to lose those she loves".

She is not doomed to love, she is *desperate* to love. There is a big difference here. She is horrendously lonely because of her curse — to constantly seek out strength and consume it. As a result, she seeks out strong partners to specifically eat them. Her wanting to love is in SPITE of this curse, and why it specifically causes her so much grief. This is also why she says she "taught herself to love weaker beings" — as she hoped them being much weaker than her would counteract the curse.

We can see with Adonis - her deceased lover in the Lostbelt - who she personally nursed back to health after finding him near death, that he was extremely weak. And she loved him BECAUSE of that - because while he had no strength to offer her physical or magically , he would listen to her and comfort her when she desperately needed it. This is why his death nearly destroyed her before the story began - because despite everything seemingly being in antithesis to her curse, she still *ate him*. Because her instincts as the Black Dog instead drove her to consume *everything* in order to become stronger, regardless of strength.

Like, I dunno gang, if someone's response to learning they accidentally ate their boyfriend is to go on a cannibalistic massacre and beg to be killed before she loses what's left of her consciousness; fully becoming the calamity she's feared becoming near her entire life — I don't think she's 'doomed to love' I think she's 'doomed to literally become a monster'.

Next up is this set of tags —

"People often forget that due to her strength she still wears the pants"

Canonically she does not wear any pants. Heteronormative casting aside, her strength alone is not the reason she has a dominant personality. She admits to believing in a dog eat dog worldview , that the strong's responsibility is to protect and defend the weak — this is also why her curse haunts her so much. Because it is both a boon — granting her enormous strength to protect with, and a bane — compelling her to eat her own lovers so she can become stronger.

"Knighthood to her is another very important romance"

This is just incorrect. Knighthood is not a romance to her; it's a salve for her. Her name - "Fairy Knight Gawain" - is explicitly chosen by Morgan to repress Barghest's Black Dog form; granting her some reprieve from her curse by giving her another form of countermeasure. Becoming a knight in the first place was a way to counter her curse, fighting with a sword instead of claws.

"Her love is feral"

"Her love is extremely aggressive"

Her love is inevitably *destructive*. This is why it causes her so much grief and suffering. She is living a horror in which she knows the outcome and frantically tries to change it without any reprieve.

Again - I know we all want the giant woman to eat us; but to Barghest that is a constant terror she must live with.

So yes - even if it's from a place of wanting her to be happy; it's still extreme flanderization to make Barghest into a happy lil' housewife who loves to cook and clean.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

I don't know if it is necessarily a good idea to lead off a post with "I usually am to kill". I don't know you. I don't know why your friends sent me this post. Stop being a Poster about it.

>She was naturally driven to love those who were strong so she could make their abilities part of herself.

The text is pretty explicit about this though.

>Her lover's flesh was delicious, precious, and horrific. It tasted all the better because her love for him had been genuine.

The text is very explicit about this actually! On some level, the curse is driving her to feel love. She had hoped in this one instance that because her love was genuine, that because it wasn't just the curse driving her, that it would be okay.

The point in all of this is that it is not strength that drives her to feed. It's love. It's a deeply fucked up curse. This is why I say she is doomed to love. Love is the trigger for the curse, and it triggers regardless of the strength of her lover. It's a tragedy. The tragedy here is that in fact, she also wants to love! She cannot help to love, she wants to love, and love is what drives her to feed. It's honestly pretty textbook tragedy writing.

>This horrific faerie, the foulest of foul creatures, will live by eating those they love.

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I'm not going into the tags because tbh I also don't really agree with them, it's a fairly boring way of looking at her. But I think reducing her to a violent monster is also flanderization, in a sense, it's just for a lot of people a more tolerable one.

I don't think necessarily that Barghest would be a tradwife, again I think that is exaggeration, but I think a lot of people want her to be happy, because Barghest isn't just a violent monster. She's a knight who is struggling, desperately, constantly, to love and be loved in spite of the fate placed upon her.

>No…but I will absolutely not become a demonic dog! I swear in the name of the Knight of the Round Table whom I defeated…! My name is Tam Lin Barghest. I will overcome Britain's curse!

Why would this line exist if not for that?

Anyways, hope you have a good day and all.

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May I keep... holding your hand?

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May I keep... holding your hand?

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[giltori]

Mei-ren doodle for fun.

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I do not say this lightly but she is in fact the LeBron James of horse girls

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Didn’t get Tonelico so naturally it’s time for me to burn this Chaldea down and start anew

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I literally only have one friend in GF2, come be my friend…… I don’t have V6 Klukai but I have a big heart

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It is the admin's birthday today. Wahoo!

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So I got inspired by @stuffofknightmares 's manga as penguin classics series of post and decided to do my own with Fate Grand Order's main story chapters.

There will be unmarked spoilers ahead.

For now: Part 1 at least.

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Part 2: Epic of Remnant

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Part 2: Cosmos in the Lostbelt (part 1)

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Part 2: Cosmos in the Lostbelt(part 2)

Part 2.5: Ordeal Call

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The paintings, etchings, and prints, in order

The Young King of the Black Isles - Maxfield Parrish

Pandemonium - John Martin

Saint George and the Dragon - Peter Paul Rubens

The Romans in their Decadence - Thomas Couture

Battle of the Nile - Mather Brown

Blackman Street, London - John Atkinson Grimshaw

Washington Crossing the Delaware - Emanuel Leutze

The Two Crowns - Sir Frank Dicksee

The Fall of Babylon - John Martin

Now storming fury rose - Gustav Dore, for Milton's Paradise Lost

The Library in the Apartment of Count Lanckoronski in Vienna, Riemergasse 8 - Rudolf von Alt

Blue Morpho Butterfly - Martin Johnson Heade

The Women of Amphissa - Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Genoese towers in the Black Sea - Ivan Aivazovsky

Miyamoto Musashi - Utagawa Kuniyoshi

The Witches of the Bell Tower - Jose Benlliure y Gil

Falling star - Witold Pruszkowski

The Raft of the Medusa - Théodore Géricault

Winter Landscape with Church - Caspar David Friedrich

The Giant - N.C. Wyeth

The Synagogue - Alessandro Magnasco

The Temptation of St. Anthony - Eugène Isabey

The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum - John Martin

Venus and Galatea Triumph over Moby Dick - Michael Tole

The Wrath Of The Seas - Ivan Aivazovsky

Storm - Zdzisław Jasiński

Hell Courtesan no.9 - Kawanabe Kyōsai

The Fairy Dance - Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

Sunset over the Winter Forest - Heinrich Gogarten

Cross and cathedral in the mountains - Caspar David Friedrich

Rjukan Waterfall - Nils Gustav Wentzel

Souls on the Banks of the Acheron - Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Should be everything! Highly recommend looking up these artists, one of these works have been published as recently as 2021.

[textsfromchaldea]

I saw that the penguin classics poster added more volumes up to ordeal call but it's past midnight here so if someone else wants to cover finding the painting titles go ahead, if not i'll do it tomorrow morning. also i want to see if they'll add the ordeal call chapters before i make a new post