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in the silt verses i think that prayer marks to the saint electric should resemble transmission pylons as viewed from below

the more complex the sigil, the more powerful a conduit for her current it is

everyone should try pacing around your home infodumping about something while pretending you're on a podcast or a stream and someone asked you a question about it it's really enriching and fulfilling

given that prayer marks seem to be routinely engraved on acolytes/sacrifices themselves, what is the status of (non-votive) tattoos in tsv? could they be used by victims/surviviors of illegal worship to cover prayer marks (like some do for scars)? or to neutralize them? or conversely, would they not interfere with a prayer mark at all, and then could they be used by illegal god worshippers to hide them? or are they looked down upon or regarded with suspicion/wariness? do they even exist???

I think yes to almost all the above - I imagine that former worshippers might cover up unwanted prayer-marks by transforming them into a new design, but not as a mechanical cure-all - they might then sometimes find that the new design is somehow being incorporated into the manifestations of the god as it haunts them.

(i.e. Change that barbed-wire tattoo into a nice harmless rose because you want to be rid of the military-boundary deity you used to follow? Surprise, your family are all twisted up in a maze of horrible wire with red roses sprouting from their mouths!)

Suspicion of any iconography whatsoever would definitely be a society-wide issue, and contribute towards the prevalence of straightforward propaganda that we see in the show.

samurai flamenco was an underrated treasure that most of yall slept on smh

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

fuck it everyone tell me about one fanfic which has changed your brain chemistry

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ok further thought having finished re-watching the OG Descendants:

not only is Cruella de Vil wildly out of place in a line up of otherwise fairytale & fairytale-adjacent villains the film also just completely fails to grasp her as a character?

Like: Jay's thing is that he was raised to be selfish and only look out for number one and he learns the value of being a good team player. Evie was raised to think being beautiful is the only thing that matters and learns that she's actually smart and talented. they're both solid character arcs w good messages for the audience and engage with what made their respective parents evil.

Carlos's thing is that he was. raised to think dogs are bad and then learns that dogs are nice? problems here:

a. this isn't a Growth Arc like the others bcos its not like he was raised to think dogs suck bcos love & friendship are bad his mother straight up lied to him that they're dangerous and as soon as he met one he realised they're not. he doesn't have a personal flaw to work on, he was just ignorant.

like there's shades of a good arc here w idk his mother having raised him to think love&friendship are overrated and that the only thing that matters is what people can provide for you? he would be all like 'what's the point of having a dog they're nuisances who just eat and poop all day' and then he would learn about unconditional love. but no that's not what happens bcos his mother just lied to him about what dogs are.

& this stands out bcos the other character journeys are actually very solid!!

b. hating dogs. was never Cruella's thing? Cruella's thing is consumerism. she's into furs bcos it's a way of showing off how rich and powerful she is and slaughtering 99 puppies just to make the world's fanciest coat is the ultimate expression of her conspicuous consumption. its a custom baby seal leather boots situation.

so like Cruella's kid's issue should be having been raised to value material goods over people's feelings which is an arc that absolutely could be resolved by him befriending a dog but again the root cause of his issue with dogs is that they're 'rabid pack animals'

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