originally posted on tumblr, Oct 23rd 2025
okay so, i never posted these??? or at least i can’t find them in my archive which wow okay lol
anyway, these were pieces i’ve made for two ThanZag zines back in 2021, ‘Cherished Partners’ (2021) and 'Inexorably Drawn’ (2022) <3
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 22nd 2025
anyway zagreus having mellowed out since the first game and melinoe being so ruthless despite being the baby sister? i eat that shit up
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 24th 2025
so the Furies being described as having snakes for hair, huh?
not enough Meg art in my repertoire, so i'm fixing it uwu
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 25th 2025
baby adventures
Zag giving Than puppy eyes until he grabs whatever it is he wants that's out of reach my beloved
also the arcana card gave us canon Than wings and i have never been more hype about it!!!!!!!
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 25th 2025
heeeey time to put my arthuriana tinfoil hat on!!
So it's already been pointed out that between Guinevere and the Sir Arthur mecha, we might have some round table shenanigans going on in the background. Mind you we only have the pilot to work with, so this is very much just baseless speculation and unrepentant slapping roles around.
Guinevere is Guinevere, nice and clean. The main aspect of her character in arthuriana stories is her courtly love affair with Lancelot while being married to Arthur. It could be that the unnamed male character from some of the promos we see in the pilot is called Lancelot or smth like it, but there is another character who is very very close to Gwen.
Frankie! It's also been pointed out that she has a bit of a Disney princess vibe going on with her robots and doodads, and even has the "animal sidekick" in Boombox. Lancelot is the orphan heir to a lost kingdom, making him effectively a prince, so that's one possible connection. He was also raised by fairies as a child, and her hallucinations of the Star Pups feel rather poignant. She also seems to have an aggressive streak when called for, and Lancelot was known for his fits of anger.
(also can i be even more of a pusher for it, but the unnamed Ken guy has brown fluffy hair, earrings, and his circlet also has a star like Frankie's knight hairtie. Frankie also has a purple cap to his purple circlet. their noses are also kinda similar too?? alright moving on!)
I won't go further on the plot beats involving Lancelot cus it's unlikely to be a one-to-one retelling after all, and I won't do Dana and the team the disservice of going there either. this is themes and vibes mostly.
I will say however, that besides Guinevere, Lancelot's closest relationship in the mythos is with Galehaut.
Galehaut was a half giant, poised to usurp Arthur's throne and kingdom, but he becomes so enraptured by Lancelot's skills, he gives up his goals for the kingdom just for a chance to being Lancelot's friend. They are so close, that Galehaut dies of grief when news of Lancelot's alleged death reach him. Yes, those chapters sometimes feel like they were written with rainbow-colored pens.
Dana has stated that there won't be a romantic line between Franki and Andi, so that's a scratch off, but we don't need them to be romantic for this connection to be still possible.
For one, Andi and Frankie have always been close friends, and the broken sword/shield symbolism around them make them a codependent duo. Likewise, Andi has been shown to "borrow" from Frankie's knowledge in robotics, since she's clearly the one with the skills to handle the job of engineer.
Part of me believes this is in part because Andi is an enabler for Frankie's rose-tinted idealism. The truth of the park's labs and likely the cutthroat inner machinations there would likely demolish Frankie's love for the craft (a grim mirror of how the entertainment business chews you up into irrecoverable burnout and spits you out), thus her taking on that job despite being unwilling seems more for Frankie's benefit than her own.
Regardless, her closeness to Frankie and willingness to help her with the Gwen droid mirrors how Galehaut not only swears companionship to Lancelot, but also wields Lancelot to Guinevere as her champion and lover.
And it has been pointed out that Andi has blue lung, or the beginnings of it, and Galehaut does die in the myths so um. oops??
Oh! I also wanna point out that in Arthuriana, there is the False Guinevere arc, where the evil half-sister of Guinevere turns Arthur against the real Gwen, and sends both the real Guinevere and Lancelot away, and they are both sheltered by Galehaut. make that what you will <3
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 21th 2025
a possible story arc i can see for KoG is: at some point, Frankie fixes up Gwen. she's in immaculate condition again and ready to go, but Andi is against bringing her back to the park for some reason. maybe because of Sparky, maybe smth else, who cares. but Frankie still wants to make an impression, to show her skills, so off they go.
it goes terribly bad. maybe it's Olivia herself or maybe it's some spokesperson for her, and they see Gwen and are not impressed in the slightest. more like outraged with what Frankie has accomplished. "you think you fixed her? you ruined her. did you really think you'd know better than us, who made her? you're a menace to us, our brand and Gwen's entire image. go away before we call security for this breach on our assets." and send her away, devastated.
it would be a good critique of Disney, to ignore fans who are trying to salvage the potential in their characters, while putting them down for even trying to offer good critique or be heard over some imaginary line-goes-up scenario from the suits. cus Frankie loves Gwen, even when she's at her absolute lowest she can see the brightest memory of her childhood in her. For the execs, Gwen is just a vessel for printing money at the cost of everything -and everyone - else.
originally posted on tumblr, Aug 20th 2025
for the Reeves Batman series, we CANNOT have the playboy Brucie persona because we do not need it, and I'll tell you why: people love a pathetic man.
i will now ramble about it
after the flooding, Batman may have become the dark horse antihero of Gotham, but when Bruce Wayne steps up into the public light, he becomes almost like Gotham's mascot. Batman was present for a good few days furing the immediate response to the flood, but afterwards he vanished for a good few days and honestly, nobody begrudged him for that. dude had been lifting debris and injured people with a fractured sternum for days on end after all.
first real press appearance he makes as Bruce, he looks like a mess. dark circles, pale skin, swaying from exhaustion and looking ready to vomit just from being upright. yet the reporters are relentless, asking about his parents, his debt to the city, the skeletons in his family's many closets. it's a total mess, and public perception of him is awful at first, reasonably so.
but then he keeps showing up, and keeps putting his actions - and money - where his mouth is, and perception is mixed. it doesnt help when he seems less than lukewarm to the Batman when asked about him. then the call happens.
Reál is running everywhere all the time, haggard but undaunted in the face of this crisis, and her and Bruce become closer as he steps up to the needs of the city. close enough to have him on call, and a lucky podcaster gets a semi-informal call between them. he sounds so distraught at being in some online thing on the spot, you can almost hear him flusteredly hiding his face in his hands about it. at one point he just goes "oh no, its fine, its... whatever, yeah, I'll cope." in the weakest, most downcast tone known to man.
it becomes an instant meme online. people picking his most pathetic wet cat looking candids snapped by civilians with the quote on it. gotham folks caption it on everything, from mild inconveniences to, well, their entire homes being lost to flood damage or workplaces being closed down in the wake of the Falcone investigation.
the fun dies the moment some smartass captions it on the photos from the Wayne Tower attack, and then on the Riddler video screenshots regarding the Waynes, but the shift is irreversible.
people are now making "bugs when you lift a rock" and "failwife compilation" memes about him, there are "Bruce Wayne being a dork in front of the press for X minutes" edits flooding social media. the more awkward and fumbling he looks, the more folks seem to appreciate him.
"okay so he wasn't a drug addict narcissist, he's just a loser" posts but in the most appreciative tone. not even the expected "gentle reminder that all billionaires suck" replies can counter the relatability of the guy. reporters from out of town get lambasted when they ask questions a bit too harshly, cus hey! that's our princess only we get to push him around!
some skeptics wonder if it's even some PR stunt to fix his image in the wake of the Riddler attacks, but no. dude is just has that socially awkward loser rizz.
originally posted on tumblr, Aug 5th 2025
for the Battison movie where Robin shows up, i ned Robin to also have a stalker fit with at least four layers that make him look like a very frumpy throw pillow. the hoodie + cap combo is nonnegotiable.
originally posted on tumblr, Aug 1st 2025
“What a won-der-ful summer we’re having here in our beloved Krat… The cicadas are screaming, the wheels are screeching, and the harvest is looking promising…”
My piece for the “Halcyon Days” Claim-and-Draw event over at the Red Lobster Inn server, featuring our beloved serial killer puppet <3
originally posted on tumblr, Jun 10th 2025
My goodness, this was a long time coming. I apologize in advance, this will be a long ride, simply because the topics I need to approach are very complex and obscure by nature. I'm trying to keep it simple for the average layman reader, but not at the expense of academic integrity. Therefore I have made the executive decision to do this in a series, that will then be compiled into a proper, huge article post. Please bear with me as we embark on this journey! If you go into this, know that despite how thorough I end up being, I will be baaaarely scratching the surface of Gnosticism as a topic of study. This is meant only as a very basic showcase of concepts and names for the sake of connecting them to Lies of P, and to cogitate on possible lore implications. I will also try to cover information regarding the Alchemist faction that falls outside of the Gnosticism purview, like Paracelsus, his writings, and Rosacrucian belief. Anything for the lore~! Let's hold hands, and I promise, we'll make it through together. There will be cake at end.
Sophia Monad, Simon Manus, Pleroma Forest, Valentinus. One thing all these names have in common (beside being in Lies of P) is Gnosticism and their relevance to it. Trust me, it's not just for shits and giggles.
But, what the fuck even is Gnosticism?
More than once I have seen fellow theorists and lorekeepers in the fandom struggle with the religious aspects of the game, and I wouldn't blame them. Gnosticism is obscure as all hell, and the more you get into it, the more baffling and confusing it can get, and it certainly doesn't help that most of our historical sources are scarce to say the least. In fact until very decently, we only knew about Gnosticism because of their detractors, which as you can imagine, is hardly a reliable source at the best of time.
I want to thank the video by Max Derrat who first brought up these connections to me, and ever since I've been digging further into the topic and I think there is quite a bit of content to bite into. In fact, I think we can even make predictions on what will come for the next game/s! Yes, it's just that relevant!
I've been scratching my head on how to even begin this whole affair for months. You see, trying to explain Gnosticism to your average layman is a struggle to say the least, not only because it's convoluted as hell, but because, well. It's not even a thing.
For the uninitiated, gnosticism refers to our current understanding of heretical Christian beliefs from early Christianity, as designated by what would become the Orthodoxy. Now what the hell does all that even meant?
We gotta rewind back to early Christianity, as in right after Jesus got crucified and his disciples and followers lost him. Without his guidance, they had to come up with not only what to do going forward, but also well, what the hell does Jesus even mean to them? Back when Jesus died, most Christians agreed that he was significant, but not much else. It comes with a lot of theoretical theocratic debate on what it means to be a Messiah and what salvation is and what it means for humanity and their souls. I will not get into it cus it doesn't really matter to us.
What does matter is that our understanding of what it means to be "christian" and how to "perform Christianity" didn't sprout ready made, despite what your pastor or priest might have told you. It took several centuries for debate to develop the Christian theology we know today as Catholicism. The Bible doesn't contain every single book that was written by the apostles at the time, in fact the contents of what is deemed "canon" changed several times. For a good time in the history of the religion, the Bible wasn't even a thing!
There was no real settled authority to determine what was right for Christianity as a whole. It was a messy, turbulent hotpot of concepts, ideas, gospels, cultures, influences, wanna-be new messiahs and miracle workers, and it was anybody's game on what Christianity could and might become.
What we today understand as Orthodoxy, the "right" way to do Christianity, is the "Christianity that won the day". They pushed out all the other sects from the spotlight, enshrined what was permissible and what wasn't, decided what would be gospel, and all others were deemed blasphemies and heresies. Those were to be shunned and their teachings mostly lost due to censorship and erasure over the centuries.
As such, it's worth noting that they did not call themselves Gnostics! They saw themselves as Christians because truly, that is what they were. Gnosticism is a modern term for schools of Christian thought and mythology that have similar concepts and ideas, but that is a term we impose upon them. Likewise, to call them heretical or blasphemous is to discredit them as a valid belief system as any other religion. We'd basically be doing the work of the Catholics for them.
While I will be using terms that are ascribed to them for the sake of simplicity and convenience, gentle obligatory reminder that history is complicated and nuanced and written by the victors.
Now, what does it mean when we say Gnosticism? We have established they ran counter to what we know as Orthodoxy today, but what exactly did they believe and why?
Well, the 'why' doesn't matter to us as much as the 'what', so let's focus on that.
It's worth establishing that, in Antiquity, the nature of a god, be it polytheistic or monotheistic, is that they are Good. You pray to them for whatever reason, but you trust that they are good, and will have your best interests in mind as their creation or devotee. They may punish you, they may be capricious or mischievous, but they are Good and will do Good. They created this world for humanity, their creation, to live in it and prosper. This goes even more so to the Jewish god Yahweh, who was the sole creator of the universe and everything in it.
Therefore, when came the concept that a god, the God who created the world and all within it, was Evil, that was quite the shake up!
See, this concept to us in modernity isn't new. We've all seen or heard of some fantasy story where the Powers That Art In Heaven are evil and wrong actually, or at the very least unfair and mean-spirited. The Matrix, His Dark Materials, The Good Place, Assassin's Creed, Black Myth Wukong, just to name a few, and I'm sure you can think of others too.
There is a looooot of background culturally and historically, from Egyptian donkey-headed demons and Platonic diatribes to demonic genealogy based on a misreading, but those will only confuse you more than elucidate you at this point. So we're skipping it! (lol)
We'll instead jump over to the 2nd Century, where a guy named Marcion of Sinope proposed a theological theory that the god depicted in the Old Testament and the Torah, the god of the Jews, was a vengeful, evil god, who used the Jews to kill the son of the true, actually Good god, Jesus, so maintain his control over the world. As you may imagine, this reeks of antisemitism and indeed, early Christianity is rife with it, but bear with me for a bit here.
If you have dabbled into Christian theology or those atheist manifestos from the 2010s youtube era, you must have come across this thinking before. That the god of the Old Testament is near completely different from the one in the New Testament. One is a vengeful, tyrannical god that commands violence and brutal judgment on those who oppose him, and the other is full of love and forgiveness, who loves his children equally and accepts all sinners who repent and seek his light. How can they both be the same?
The simple answer, to Marcion, is that they aren't. One is God the benevolent father of Jesus, and the other, is the Demiurge. Put a pin on that name.
Normally, this is where I would delve into the arguments that Marcion made for this thesis, which aren't too shabby all things considered, but as I pointed out before, it delves into far too much antisemitism for my tastes and escapes a bit from our focus. Suffice to say, this period in Christianity involves a lot of pointing fingers and accusing one another of being the Devil or demonic or in league with the Devil and demonic powers, yadda yadda, we know the old-song-and-dance. Marcion was himself even called an antichrist and heretic by his contemporaries for this very theory!
What does matter is that Marcion is a name to remember, not only because of this theory, but because he was the first to publish a cohesive canon for the New Testament! It caused the proto-Orthodoxy to release their own canon in response to his New Testament, which sends us to the canon races and what would eventually become the Bible as we know it today.
To be clear, Marcion was not a gnostic nor can his teachings be directly correlated with what we call Gnosticism. Remember, this was a hodgepodge of concepts and ideas of which we struggle to directly connect and correlate to this day. While the concept of an Evil Creator is shared between Marcion in the east and the Gnostics in the west of Rome, the details become harder to reconcile.
Now back to that pin. Demiurge. One might wonder why this name sounds a bit Greek and - besides the fact that early Christian theology did always involve quite a bit of Greek - that's because this name comes from classical theories of philosophy. If you've ever had a (passably decent) lesson in philosophy, then you're familiar with Plato's parable of the cave. The people who are trapped in the cave and only know the "world" by the shadows cast on the wall of the cave, who never learn about the true outside world? Yeah, that one.
The Demiurge functions here are the sculptor of the material world. He can see the shapes and forms from the world of the Ideal, where everything is perfect and good and well, ideal. But he, a fallible creator, with access to imperfect materials, cannot recreate the Ideal world though he's benevolent in truth and wishes to make a good world in kind. Similarly, we flawed humans cannot create ideal works of art thought we try, as we are too many layers distant from the world of the Ideal. Our material world is the shadows on the wall of the cave, mishapen illusions cast from the Ideal, and because it is all we know, we deem it "real" and all there is.
Gnostics have majorly adopted the term and general concept for their flawed creator, and ascribed to him varying levels of "evilness".
Okay, so I just made your read over 1.6k words worth of primers, and you're wondering when I'm finally going to get to the point. Maybe you're not and you're a nerd like me, and if that's the case, I love you. But if you are wondering, then I'm sorry but it will take a little bit more. Sorta.
When I said this time of Christiantiy was chockful of theological theories and dissertations, I wish I was kidding. There are dozens of branches in gnostic schools of thought alone, and those are the ones we know of and have sources or mentions of. It would not feasible to go through the relevant details of them all here without turning it into a college-level class on the topic, so we'll keep to three main branches, which are the ones most people are familiar with anyhow. Well, two main ones and a third one which feels relevant to Lies of P.
Remember how I said Marcion was a relevant figure in all this? Here's another one, Simon Magus. Yeah, jumpscare!
Simon of Samaria or Simon Magus, so named by Irenaeus (he'll come back later) is known in Catholic Christianity for doing all sorts of whacky stuff, from floating to prove his powers only to fall and break his legs, to being the eponym for the sin of simony. For those who don't know, simony is trying to buy or sell ecclesiastical offices, sacraments, or sacred things; basically to exchange spiritual gain for worldly gain.
One would think this man the Devil incarnate or something for such a terrible reputation - and in Bible of all accounts! -, but he's also attributed as the founder of what we call Gnosticism. Which is a debated credit, granted, since he was attributed the founder of the Simonian gnostic sect, which appeared around the 2nd Century. Also, he's not the Devil incarnate but God remade. I'll explain, don't worry.
The major point when it comes to Gnosticism is that, despite minor (and major) disagreements in their world order and genesis retellings, is that they seem to agree that the material world is a prison, and our mortals bodies bound by Fate are shackles. Our souls, our spiritual breaths, are the divine spark given to us from the ineffable realms beyond and above the material world, where we truly belong and where we all should aspire to return to. We are kept here alongside the Evil Creator, the Demiurge, who in his ignorance or jealousy, keeps us from being reunited with the divine source.
In that light, the story and angle we know from established Christianity is completely turned on its head. In Gnosticism beliefs, Eve blessed mankind with true perfect knowledge because she defied the order of the Demiurge, the devilish snake was sent to rescue her and Adam from ignorance and stupidity, and Judas Iscariot was not a cursed traitor, but an instrumental part of the salvation of Jesus from the cage of his mortal flesh. To know and understand these things, is to acquire knowledge, Gnosis - thus the name.
The way one may escape this prison however, and if it's even possible for some people, changes quite a bit depending on the school of thought you're dabbling with, however. For example, for Simon, to awaken to the knowledge of these things and to attune oneself to the divinity within and beyond the material world, is to become divine yourself. As such, all can awaken to godhood in their own right, and become as Jesus in divinity and self-actualization and self-salvation. Kind of WWJD mentality but to the extreme.
There are some other interesting (creepy) bits about this guy, but I'll get to them waaay later, when we tackle the lore implications. His other bit of relevance to us is also that his texts might have been an earlier form of one of our important branches: the Valentinan doctrine.
Valentinus was a major guy in early Christianity, though your average Joe will definitely not know of him. He was a well-known and respected figure among the proto-Orthodox community, known for his hymns and eloquence, and almost was elected bishop! When he was passed up for the position, he allegedly broke with the Catholics and began his own sect which, given the effort Irenaeus and his contemporaries went through to declare his teachings heresy, we can safely assume was incredibly popular.
His gnostic system is by far the most complex (and difficult to understand or explain), but also probably the one you're most likely familiar with, alongside Sethianism. Which, you guessed it, is our second main branch!
Sethianism seems to have had origins in Jewish sects prior to the movement of Jesus, which would become Christianity, but their origins and influences are less attested than Valentinianism. We don't really know who wrote most of their books, and their history is still veiled in lost history. It has however the easiest (though that's not saying much) gospel I've had to go through so far, and the name should ring a bell: The Apocrypha of John.
And what about our sort of third branch? Well, it's dicey. The book itself has been named Pistis Sophia, though the four volumes which form it have no clear title and the name was given to it when they were first translated. The attribution of which sect it belongs to is also not quite settled; some have attributed it to Valentinus (because of course, why not?), while some cogitate Ophitian and Severian, none of which I have an interest in covering here.
This book however, is not only well-known among Gnostic afficionados, but also rather relevant to Lies of P in my view. Therefore, we will cover it rather than whatever possible branch it belongs to. Cool? Cool.
Oh, don't look at me like that. I told you earlier this was going to come out in parts, and I did make you sit to almost 3k words of information. So sit back, stew a bit on what you got so far, and let me know your thoughts. Concerns, questions, praises, existential crisis, send them my way!
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 9th 2025
thinking about my au Viktor………………..
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 21th 2025
THREE BECOME ONE
You ever get so into a fanfic you makes fanart for yourself? yeaaaa
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 22nd 2025
what better warm up than a fic scene that won’t leave me alone uwu
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 24th 2025
mmmmm men <3
i can feel the rust shaking off lads ITS HAPPENING
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 25th 2025
“You invented a portal to other worlds, is what I’m hearing?”
“No, just one world in specific. This one.”
Viktor frowns, suspicious.
“And why this one?”
Jayce tries and fails to not chew on his lower lip, and hazel avoids Viktor’s steady gaze. Whatever the answer is, it will not be an easy one to hear.
“Because, it’s the one you’re in.”
can you tell i got lazy to finish the arm? yeaaaah
originally posted on tumblr, Dec 23rd 2024
okay but can we take a moment to talk about the shock on these stills?
for years they ruled together, and things felt stable and predictable. comfortable. and now in such short time, their numbers got halved. HALVED. no wonder they fell into infighting, with such widespread power vacuums and a need for a solid leadership among themselves.
another notable thing as the stills progress, is how the amount of money and paperwork on the table dries up. business is scarce, organization is shit. add to it the covert operations by Caitlyn's team spreading confusion and misinformation amongst themselves, and Zaun's established hierarchy is bound to implode.
originally posted on tumblr, Jan 1st 2021
Give me a character and I'll break them down:
How I feel about this character All the people I ship romantically with this character My non-romantic OTP for this character My unpopular opinion about this character One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
CHARACTERS: Dorian Pavus, Caranthir Ar-Feiniel (The Witcher)
How I feel about this character
Simple, I love him. I love Dorian so much, I love his bright personality, his sharp wit, his incredible smarts, his vulnerable and incredibly gente and kind heart, just how deeply and truthfully he feels, his drive to do what is right and improve, to live free and standing up to what he believes in. God I love that man.
All the people I ship romantically with this characterI
mostly just ship him with the quizzy (wink wink ;3c), not much of a fan of Doribull myself but i can see it, I've seen some Blackwall shippers make some convincing arguments but still on the fence there.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Your usual suspects, Sera, Varric, Iron Bull, but I particularly treasure his friendship with Vivienne. Dear lord those two are so good and funny together, they both care so so much and both have their own way to keep their distance but they can talk equal to equal on many things, how they keep in touch after their time in the Inquisition, [clutches fist] they good!!
My unpopular opinion about this character
Uuuuuuh I don't rly know what unpopular opinion I could have about him tho??? Nothing that comes to mind at least.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
That Bioware's gross grey morality bullshit didn't keep us from telling him off about slavery. God i still get *so pissed off* about that. Like, I have other small things but this one! This is my One Thing! I wish had happened.
and bonus round content: the Boy™ cus I Must, i Can't Not do this for the Boy™ úwù (the boy in question is Caranthir Ar-Feiniel, for those of you out of the loop)
How I feel about this character
Love this edgelord bastard, just so much. Canon version he's the baddest motherfucker in the Wild Hunt, full stop, you cannot change my mind. Our expanded version of him is,,, Him Baby!! Soft and caring and good but still very much a badass, love me some characters like that, literally cannot get enough of him.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
Well, the OT4, obviously!
My non-romantic OTP for this character
mmmmm that's a tough one..... he's got so many great non-rom relationships, but I'm gotta say him and Aisling. Chaotic little gremlin siblings, i love them so much...
My unpopular opinion about this character
Fanon designs for him where he's white and blonde and pale-eyed are hella boring u.u
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
More voice lines, I think. Would have been nice to have seen the Wild Hunt generals interacting among themselves too. Also, him decking Avallac'h, just once. Just one time, and I'll be happy, just please just one punch [pleading emoji]
originally posted on tumblr, Nov 23th 2024
maybe i'll bite the bullet and do my main DAI ocs, who knows, i sure don't
originally posted on tumblr, Nov 27th 2024
loaf 🦅🍞
originally posted on tumblr, Nov 27th 2024
im not sure if it's been brought up yet, but something that has annoyed me in Veilguard is, how they undermine the darkspawn as they have been established.
sure, darkspawn and the blight have always been this enigmatic but uncomplicated Evil(tm) that bubbles out of the ground once in a while. but since DAO, they have been intelligent. they aren't mindless drones, a hivemind maybe depending how you look at them, but they aren't shambling hordes either.
they have blackmisthing. they build barricades and outposts. they plan and strategise. even without the guidance of a corrupted archdemon to guide them into a Blight on the surface, they are rational, which makes the heinous acts they commit all the more brutal. in Return to Ostagar, it's established that they partake in defiling the dead and symbols to destroy the morale of their opponent.
with Veilguard and establishing the that Blight comes from the cut off spirits of the Titans broiled in anger and despair, it could have said something quite more potent if they used the darkspawn as they had before. if anything, it would have made Harding's arc all the more poignant when talking about ancestral trauma, and old wounds festering deep but unable to be forgotten or ignored, because it always comes back.
but noooooo, the Blight now is just gross yucky boils and mindless droves of body horror mobs for you to action RPG punch pow blow up. they don't make or create, they don't plan, they create no sense of antagonism with Rook or the other companions. if Ghilan'nain was really able to "tame" and "use" the Blight the way she professes she can, then she would have used that in a smart way.
nothing she ever threw my way - not even Weisshaupt - made me as upset or emotionally distraught like Return to Ostagar did. honestly, the darkspawn might as well just be reanimated skeletons, for all the threat they posed in general.
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 27th 2024
Anya never entering medical school on earth and yet capable of discerning the effectiveness of mouthwash as disinfectant, to keep incredibly calm and aware in an increasingly troubling crisis, to not slack on her studies and keep up with safety protocols no matter (despite Pony Express being notoriously negligent), not only stabilize Curly but treat his injuries enough to keep him stable AND alive.
Jimmy struggling back on Earth and yet landing a job in a meager position in a dying company that he idolizes and near fetishizes as his salvation, a job implied that he only gets because Curly not only vouched and referenced him to the company, but maybe even covered up for his mistakes. Mistakes which let me remind you, take significant effort since there are plenty of safety nets to avoid said mistakes.
One mistake and Curly is dead, yet he isn't. One mistake and Jimmy would be dandy, and yet he makes so many there is no amount of covering up or excuses to cover his ass.
"Competency" is a scam in Mouthwashing.
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 27th 2024
another angle of Curly's negligence folks seem to pass over is, not even towards Anya.
the Tulpar "passed inspection" yet it was missing a fucking cryopod. doesn't matter who would be left out, cus they are all equally expendable. Curly could have gotten that fixed yet he didn't. "should have made a bigger stink about that", YEAH YOU WOULD THINK SO!
he should have, as the captain looking after not just the crew but himself (captain goes down with the ship and all), and he didn't. he says he should have, makes an off-handed comment about it when talking to Jimmy, but words don't matter. someone's life is at stake here from the start, but all he can offer is a passing comment of regret.
i wonder if Curly was really that good of a captain, or if it was Jimmy hearing it from the higher ups cus Curly is a terminal enabler, and that INCLUDES enabling the company's disregard for safety and endangerment of the crew. because Curly says he cares and maybe deep down he does, but it doesn't matter as much cus he's not actually putting in the work. he will never put his money where his mouth is, because that's not even his money, but Pony Express's.
a good employee is one that doesn't threaten your bottom line, and Curly is a great captain.
(so great he will be fired just as easily as everyone else on the ship)
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 28th 2024
Some people aren't getting the full context of my point, so I'll explain. Curly was always doomed to fail as a captain, because he is captain at the Pony Express.
there comes a time in every manager's career (probably in a visibly shitty company but not always!) where you look around you and see all the bullshit happening and all the cutting corners and all the dangerous practices, and you realize you have two options. You either hold the fort, put your ethics and morals aside, and stay at the job because you're one of the good ones. You see all the bad shit happening but you think you can be the one to maybe ease it for your underlings without crossing the higher ups.
Or, you realize that if your sense of empathy is too big and you put your foot down. You get written up, maybe a frown and a warning to mind your place, and you do it until finally, you get fired. Maybe you quit in a seemingly hollow display.
Most likely you choose the first option, because you reason that, if they fire you, they will just find someone who Will do what they say. Hell, maybe even someone who is less competent and enjoys the power trip and uses it to their advantage (cough Jimmy cough). Eventually, the higher ups will find their yes-man, so you become their maybe-man.
But here is the thing. There are, in fact, more than two paths. There are many venues of malicious compliance or willful ignorance and even collective action to better your environment. You just can't see it because the system traps you into a dichotomy of employment or death. THAT'S the trap of capitalism.
And Curly fell right on it, just like everyone else on the Tulpar. Curly is a negligent enabling leader, just as Anya is too desperate for the job, just as Daisuke is pressured into a job he doesn't want out of guilt for not being employed and aimless, just as Swansea is too stuck in his ways and just making it a day at a time because he's not content with his lot. Everyone there is the perfect victim of the system and its monsters, in the perfect roles to create this tragedy.
That's the POINT.
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 10th 2026
the Tulpar crew is the perfect capitalist hellscape crew for the Pony Express, and thus a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Curly is a reckless enabler, showing a willingness to endanger his crew (lacking a cryopod?? really??) so he doesn’t cross the higher ups and thus is the perfect leader. he doesn’t rock the boat.
- Daisuke is a kid with probably no work experience and also nearly no skills on the job requirements, meaning he’s enough of a pushover to follow the cues of his fellow crewmembers. for better or worse.
- Anya is an aspiring doctor desperate for moneu, meaning she has at least some ethics and scruples, but not enough to not accept the job. She has only enough training as strictly necessary to fill the nurse role, and thus fulfill the bare minimum of any laws that go “every manned ship needs an able medical staff”.
- Swansea is the sort of old stubborn codger that doesn’t quit no matter what you throw on his plate. him and the company both know he won’t get another job once this is over; no matter his thoughts or feelings on the treatment of himself or the crew, he goes down with the company.
- Jimmy is the very kind of wretch that thrives in this environment. he knows he can throw some mean words around and get his way, and he’s the kind of man who would swim through the ranks cus he can not only get away with it, he’s the type to have created the system in the first place.
his sole flaw in all this was that he panicked and thought his career (and thus his life) was over. he would rather destroy everything and everyone than to conceive of a world where he can’t get away with his reckless incompetence and abusive tactics.
originally posted on tumblr, Oct 1st 2024
OFF WE GOOOOOO~! Time will tell if I'll see through it, but we give it the old good try anyways. Gonna try and keep these as grayscale to not fuss with colors, hopefully the next ones are less rendered so I don't burn out.
For the Tree prompt, Wukong sleeping by a tree right before the Underworld summons drag him into another immortality lololol
Journeytober original post [here]
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 19th 2024
what better than a Mucha style poster for our dear White Lady?? my second and final entry for the Red Lobster Inn’s LoP anniversary event themed around Chuseok/Korean Thanksgiving. this one was a lot of work, but it was worth every second!
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 16th 2024
my first entry for the Red Lobster Inn’s LoP anniversary event!! so so happy with the turn out for this occasion, all the entries have been so lovely <33
originally posted on tumblr, Sep 14th 2024
My piece for the JTTW discord server event, themed around our favorite AU. Gotta say, my Expedition to the West AU brings me endless joy, and helped me make quite a few good friends since I first delved into the fandom. Here's to more and more good times!! <3
Title is lyrics from the song "Dare to Ask Where Is The Road", from the 1986 series
originally posted on tumblr, Aug 22nd 2024
I’ve been working hard making some goodies for our LoP discord server, and this is our banner! Gosh, this one took a good while the get right, but so glad with how it turned out :3
Asks and answers from an ask memes that prompted me to hint at fanfics projects.
originally posted on tumblr, Aug 6th 2024
📓 for Elden Ring or AC? 👀
WEEEEELL
for AC, I wanna write my ultimate fix-it fic, where Desmond copied Clay's AI to himself, and helps bring him to life with the fountain of youth. All while exploring grief, personhood, self-determination, and what we owe to ourselves and our loved ones. Mostly set on AC3 but with snippets of scenes from the earlier games to contextualize stuff. Slap Desmond and the gang with the HCfying beam and fine tune some of my issues I have with the series. Also Clay makes Des a new arm uwu
for Elden Ring? HOO BOY
it's hard to explain shortly but, consider. Grace can be given and taken away, and while tarnished who can see Grace and thus be caught in the no-dying loop are rare. but what if, it wasn't? what if Grace can be given back with a proper ritual, and you could amass a minor army of undying tarnished?
cut to Messmer being hounded by a band of undying tarnished, and once he succumbs to the abyssal serpent, they get the fire they wanted from the beginning. except, he doesn't die.
he wakes up in the Lands Between, the mountaintops to be exact. the veil was lifted away, and both trees in sight on the horizon. Scadutree and Erdtree, together again, burning. With his fire. The fire he can no longer summon, and his snakes no longer bound to his flesh but still with him. And the eye his mother once plucked has returned. He himself, is now a Tarnished.
someone stole not just his fire, but his divinity and his curse, his very fate. and I wanna figure out if he'd even want it all back or not, after learning well the Lands Between once again.
Send me a "📓" and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.
originally posted on tumblr, Mar 26th 2024
Jayvik gritty fantasy au? 👀
Very curious about that one!
hehhehe it's my little guilty pleasure /lh
it's very The VVitch kind of grounded, more psychological horror than real sword and sorcery fantasy.
Jayce and Viktor grew up in a small village on the outskirts of Piltover, and several odd - and grim - occurences has people crying foul magic and witchery. Turns out, they are right, because there is a coven nearby working to bring a new witch into their fold, namely Viktor. Jayce is a blacksmith apprentice and just wants to befriend Viktor, who keeps him at arm's lenght for his own protection, but it only backfires.
After a particularly grueling winter in the village, that led to a dangerous fever that claimed a lot fo Jayce's memories and changed his temperament, things finally go back to normal.
Years later, Jayce has moved to Piltover to become a witch hunter, the only legal way to study magic at all. The clergy has made him responsible for the interrogation and possible exorcism of a man who was captured recently. A man who seems to know him, though Jayce doesn't remember him, and who also seems unhingedly committed to "returning what is rightfully his".
cue several abnormal hauntings, hallucinations and unexplainable events <3
originally posted on tumblr, Mar 20th 2025
Jayvik/Madoka Magica AU?? 👀
listen. listen. Jay listen to me. im grabbing your shoulders. Jayce is so Homura coded actually, and Viktor is so Madoka coded.
Ximena doesn't survive the snowstorm (post-hypothermia complications can be a bitch) and fem!Jayce (yes it's yuri now sue me) gets sent to an orphanage, the same one Viktor is. they are young here, just kids, but they grow together. at first as academic rivals, constantly challenging each other over their grades.
then the creatures show up.
someone unlocks smth hidden deep in the fissures, and now there are little arcane creatures roaming around granting people wishes. most of them are simple enough, but all of them impossible without magic. anyone can be a target, so long as they Want hard enough for something.
of course, they find Viktor first.
it's not much of a blip on the Council's radar, until news of uncanny anomalous beasts start cropping up around the undercity, and with them, mysterious combatants with odd weapons. that warrants investigation. they find a couple of teens who seem hellbent in unravelling what is up with the creatures granting wishes, and also the beasts attacking people in the dead of night. beasts that seem to only grow in size and power.
things escalate quickly. cue a lot of political and internal tensions, Vianka and Jessa getting separated by several complications, and now there is a huge beast intent on swallowing Piltover whole. and Vianka is the only one left who can even attempt to fight it.
it doesn't go well, and now Jessa wants something truly enough to grab the attention of the wish-granting creatures. so she makes a wish.
