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[ynhart]

St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor.

[sonicskullsalt]

musste nachsehen, wie man das Verb röntgen dekliniert

und du röntgst und sie wurde geröntgt hinterlassen gerade schlimme Knoten in meinem Hirn

[verypookified]

I just discovered "croccoons" being sold on Etsy. Taxidermy raccoons infused with wearable black crocs. I'm totally imagining Donna wearing something like that @lyris-leonhart.

[lyris-leonhart-deactivated20240]

What is Alcina's general opinion on pants? Would she ever wear pants? What if Draga wore pants without Alcina's almighty permission?

i first absolutely need to check if you mean pants (USA) or pants (UK) because the two are very different things and you will receive very different answers 😂

[verypookified]

I definitely meant American pants but now I want to look up what the British term is.

Oh.

[verypookified]

I just adore Ileana

@lyris-leonhart

[lyris-leonhart-deactivated20240]

why do you like the frenzy flame so much? i've never understood it just wants to burn the world in madness

I mean that's cool in itself tbf, and a very valid reason for anyone to enjoy the Frenzied Flame. But with that said...

I like the Frenzied Flame not just because it's incantations are rad as all hell and super fun to use, but because there's so much lore behind it (which I'm still trying to work out as I play through the game)

Like (as far as I can tell) it seems the Two Fingers enact the Greater Will and the Three Fingers enact the Frenzied Flame, which suggests at one point they made up a single Hand of God that split itself at some point? (Cos 2 + 3 = 5 = a whole ass hand, am I right???)

And the Greater Will is, effectively, the main antagonist of Elden Ring (which is funny cos it also called on the Tarnished to restore the Elden Ring.... which my Tarnished absolutely Will Not Do). It's desperately trying to impose the Golden Order on everyone, as if it believes freewill is an accident/mistake to be rectified, and goes so far as to imprison Marika for thousands of years in the Erdtree for daring to rebel and shatter the Elden Ring. I don't massively understand the Greater Will's overall motives, other than OBEY ME, but maybe DLC will expand on it at some point??? (Or I've just missed something very obvious alskdjfjjfl)

Meanwhile the Frenzied Flame is over here like ALL SHALL BURN AND FUSE TOGETHER AND BECOME ONE AGAIN. Which suggests it yearns to become one with the Two Fingers/Greater Will again, and become the One Hand of God, as it once was?

And tbh the Greater Will, by virtue of its own Golden Order, must be fated one way or another to become one with the Frenzied Flame again given it's own Law of Regression which says all things are bound to return, or 'eternally converge'.

So the Frenzied Flame ending becomes less about burning the world needlessly in a fit of madness and more about bringing everything together again into like a... primordial soup. It's about establishing equilibrium. Doing a factory reset. Which is no less horrifying but still a very cool concept!

OR. Given Miyazaki is a huge Berserk fan and Elden Ring has some themes and characters inspired by it, you could say the whole Frenzied Flame ending is a retelling of the Eclipse where Griffith sacrifices all his followers to be reborn as a new God - in the case of Elden Ring, the Tarnished rejects the Greater Will and sacrifices the whole of the Lands Between to become the Lord of Frenzy and usher in an era where all is equal (because all is dead, I imagine). Which is another terrifying but interesting take!

Idk idk, I could talk about this for AGES, I just find the Frenzied Flame super interesting to delve into as a concept (alongside the Greater Will). So I hope that's some kind of answer for you at least?????

[verypookified]

this is so crazy to read

[armthearmour]

A beautiful blackened Cuirassier’s Armor which belonged to Duke Albrecht von Schleswig-Holstein, Nuremberg, Germany, ca. 1610, housed at the Staatliche Kunstsaamlungen, Dresden.

[verypookified]

Dark souls 1 characters when you give them buff legs and a skinny upper body

[truenoodle]

"alas" is a truly S tier english word. fantastic mouthfeel, makes me sound like a world-weary wizard, looks cool when written out. good job to whoever created this word.

[verypookified]

Alcina Dimitrescu in Canon: sociopathic, narcissistic aristocrat with a near inability to feel love (except to her children, who are actually random girls that she killed and then had their corpses re-animated by feeding them to parasitic insects. She's probably tortured their pre-mortum selves with judas cradles, iron chairs, or gibbets; all of which can be found in her crusty, dusty torture-chamber)

Random Fanfic Writer: She will be a suburban mom. She enjoys taking her kids to the park ~