The Princess Bride Is Such A Funny Book To Read After ONLY Seeing The Movie. Like Goldman Made Up A Fake

“Something Hurts Something Aches Something bends until it breaks.”

Guess who got their hands on Call of the Netherdeep.

(Song referenced: “Time will Change You” by the Crane Wives”)

(Pose by @adorkastock )

My personal theory is that his especial intrigue with death is born from the fact that there’s probably not a lot of beauty right now. There’s been a lot of talk of how Asha is withering and not in a good place right now because her domain is withered, but I can’t imagine ANY of the gods have a healthy domain right now. The Sun is choked with smoke, the “last bastion of civilization” is festering with hatred, nature is withering, redemption just had all her followers wiped out.

And people are trying to survive. Not make art not find beauty in the world. Survive. The arch heart carved out a beautiful space, one. But can he really be happy if the last beautiful place in the world is nestled like a parasite in the heart of a place that despises him? If it has to be secret and guarded because it can and will be destroyed if found by the wrong person? If he knows the moment he creates it that it will not fade gracefully like a flower or a painting or a glorious sunset, but it will be destroyed abruptly and painfully?

If the Arch Heart is still around, I think the reason is likely that every god has done a lot of healing, and is doing a lot of healing from the Calamity. But it’s important to remember in the moment we find them, none of them have flourishing domains and all of them are coping in different ways.

It's interesting to bear witness to Emhira/The Matron's offer to kill S.I.L.A.H.A/Corellon because they were tired and intrigued by the notion of permanent nothing. Mostly because it raises a very interesting (and important) question for both Downfall and C3's narrative:

What, if anything, changed?

It's been hundreds of years since the Calamity, and The Arch Heart is still a prominent and heavily worshipped deity across a wide range of groups. Corellon, and any others sharing their sentiment, still have not made the choice to die, despite the means and motive being presented to them a long time ago. Even now, when threatened with the return of Predathos - they're moving in tandem with all of their other siblings, marshalling their forces and gathering strength

Did the Arch Heart have an epiphany between the start of Downfall and the end of Calamity? A moment where they realised that they genuinely do not want to die? Or perhaps they're still intrigued by the notion of nothingness, yet only stay alive to continue fulfilling their purpose to their siblings, worshippers, and Exandria?

It may very well be a question that gets answered in Downfall Part III, but for now it'll keep rotating in my head like a lazy cat on a lazy susan

I feel like this fandom shouldn’t be this mean and divisive about having different takes/ predictions about A STORY THAT IS STILL BEING TOLD

At the end of the day we’re all just responding to improv. Yes, Matt has likely put together some key plot events but his work will only take us so far without the choices the players make.

People can bring up lore/canon/past texts but at some point we do gotta recognize that the path forward is ultimately being decided by Matt and the players.

Use lore/canon/past eps as a guidepost but don’t get superior in thinking your prediction of how things will go is going to be the Correct Version and everyone else “lacks media literacy” (whatever the fuck that overused phrase even means anymore)

comic done for a project assignment a few years back!

who’s sexier than the Arch Heart NO ONE

Critters have given a million different reasons as to why we should or shouldn't kill the gods (myself included lol), but for me, it ultimately comes down to the fact that they're my blorbos and I love them. My fucked up little guys.

look at me. listen to me. this is directed at americans for the record. the reason you think North American animals are boring is because you live here. there are so many cool and beautiful animals here. we have beavers. we have wolves. we have moose. we have sea lions. we have armadillos. we have mountain lions. we have alligators. we have foxes. we have bighorn sheep. we have manatees. we have bears. we have ocelots. we have BISON. and that’s not even touching on the birds! or the turtles! or the snakes! we have amazing beautiful and diverse wildlife right here and it deserves to be appreciated and protected

comics as an art form make me insane. they’re so difficult to do well. there’s so many different ways to make sequential art work and most of them are deeply unintuitive. onomatopoeia that feels completely ridiculous to put down often reads seamlessly. panels on a page become a fractally nested image composition challenge that’s only possible to lose because if you do a good job no one will notice. you have to direct the readers’ eyes on a specific path across the page but also account for the fact that they won’t follow it. comic time isn’t linear. if the order of events isn’t crystal clear the story becomes incomprehensible. sometimes you need to do this on purpose. all this for a medium almost universally considered less effective than animation and less respectable than plain text. even its own name doesn’t take it seriously

Good Evening Mr. Phelps.

30 years ago, the city of Aeor created the Latimus Princeps, a device that prevents divine entry and scrying within the city of Aeor. Since then, our covert agents within the city have learned that Aeor has neared completion of a god-killing weapon known as the Factorum Malleus. In addition, they have created a failsafe protocol spread throughout the city, wherein should they feel there is a threat to the Factorum Malleus, they will disseminate knowledge of how to build it across the globe, ensuring its recreation. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to infiltrate the city of Aeor in the guise of a mortal, sabotage the failsafe mechanism and Latimus Princeps, and destroy the Factorum Malleus. As always, should any of you or your IMF team be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

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