This Vessel Is Too Full Of You.

to me this is what slay the princess is really all about. not about grand concepts of life and death, not about some distant cosmic concepts, it's about a very specific thing about our lives and how we deal with them.

it's about the fear that the things that happened to you shaped you in a way that made you worse and you need to fix and undo them, the fear that if this bad thing didn't happen to you, you would be better, and how, no: there is no judgement to be made on your experiences or how they shaped you. your experience do not worsen or better you, they just change you, and that change is important and good because it makes you more complete and fleshed out as a person.

you can bring such a huge variety of difference princesses to the shifting mound, parts of her who have experienced a huge range of emotions and events, from tragedy and pain to happiness and love and everything in between, princesses with a huge range of personalities and character, and she sees value in every single one of them. no matter how dark, painful, horrible a chapter it is, no matter what awful things have happened to them, no matter what kind of princess it is or how cruel or horrible she is or what she's done, she can find value in them, because they add to her, and complete her.

she can find beauty and meaning and substance in the vicious razor, appreciate her joyfulness, she sees the vengeful and petty witch as righteous because her bitterness from the betrayal she experiences formed in her an idea of right and wrong, she describes the terrifying nightmare as tender because she sees her inner sadness and sensitivity, she describes the vicious and vengeful wraith as 'driven' because she sees her power of will and determination.

she does not make any moral judgements on either the 'good' or 'bad' princesses, she sees their experiences and the traits and understanding of the world they add to her.

the important thing to her is to have experiences and perspectives that flesh her out and add to her, they let her grow and gain substance and understanding. she has nothing bad to say about any of them, and the only 'bad' thing she has to say isnt a bad thing it all, it's not having much to say at all about a damsel who has little experiences and little to offer her, and it's not a sentiment she ever expresses on her own.

and i mean, it says it right here at the start of the game right, 'there are no wrong decisions, there are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings'. and then this line from the ending where you return to th stranger:

this applies to TLQ too. tlq is stillness so he doesnt change as the shifting mound does, but he also has parts of himself and his character as represented by the voices, and all of them serve their purpose. all of them have value. they are not bad or good, they are not better or worse, they just are.

and like, to me where this actively applies to real life isn't this that you should seek out negative or bad experiences, or that you should actively suffer to build character or anything so extreme. it's a way to understand the bad things that already did happen and the pain and trauma you did experience, and a way to understand the pain and trauma that sometimes is inevitable as just a part of any life experience, because the most important and valuable thing to a person is to have any kinds of life experiences, positive or negative. and in the case of the negative, you are shaped and changed by it, but you are not worsened, you just become more. it carve texture around your heart.

Justice for Doomer Princess. She deserved her own route. Or at least a hug.

Uhh, here, a template

Original meme below

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Love! From pixels.

this is about the wary stranger

please stop the cold hate

and give him more appreciation

I'm tired (of seeing the apothosis)

Oh my GOD (no pun intended), I've been trying over and over again to get paranoid in the apothosis bu I just get ntrarian EVERY TIME (still love him ththhttotuougoughyu(however the f*k it's written))

pd. I just realised i wrote apotheosis wrong but it's really funny so i'm gonna keep it Xd

Why does EVERY. SIGLE. FANDOM. I'm in has an overlap with the "In stars and time" fandom?! are they just everywhere? is this a conspiracy? ARE THEY THE ELITE THAT CONTROLS THE WORLD?!?!?

anyways the game looks cool but my broke ass can't afford it and even if it did I have other things I wanna play first (Scaret hollow, Deltarune when it comes out, Silksong IF it comes out...)

Why not more webber?

We NEED more fanart of webber in cotl, this is not a petition it is an ORDER.

(I was gonna add an Image of webber but I couldn't find any, wich proves my point)