YES! FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT SYIR, THAT MONSTER LILY MADE
responding to anon talking abt syir (diantha’s gardevoir): lily presents syir as a sort of “evil counterpart to g” and “everything she’s afraid of becoming” because she forced diantha into a relationship and abuses her, but this falls flat in my opinion because g is still just as bad as syir in many regards.
g forced a mating bond on comic!lily without her knowledge and in a state where she couldn’t consent (and would get comic!lily in serious legal trouble if anyone found out), is violently possessive over comic!lily to the point of threatening her friends and partners, saw a ralts bonding with comic!lily as a threat to their relationship and nearly attacked her despite acknowledging that ralts are children for her species, created a baby without comic!lily’s consent, “forcibly silenced” anyone who found out about her and comic!lily’s mating bond, and has physically assaulted/threatened comic!lily multiple times.
(side note: syir and diantha never properly appeared in the comic, only being discussed in a since-deleted set of articles on the poke-madhouse wiki. but at one point when the character lacey beaulieu questions comic!lily about her relationship with g, comic!lily gets indignant and insists she hasn’t “pulled a diantha”— implying it’s diantha’s fault that she’s trapped in an abusive relationship with a creature who holds full physical/psychic power over her. and that’s really fucked up.)
That's a ridiculously dark set of headcannon, especially since Diantha is doing alright in the games.
mutuals. do any of you have the really long photo of qui gon jinn that says "is this guy bothering you queen" i need it
Speaking of Sylvanas... The deal with her is that some sexist dickbag behind the story made her into black and white villain, but Lily didn't mind it until later it was pointed out her actions were immoral and they explained them by saying she was brainwashed, right? Sorry of you don't know yourself, I have no idea who else I could ask about it.
Now you got me there because i never played World of Warcraft lol
But from what i have heard, the reasons she disliked how Warcraft wrote Sylvanas is how they turned her into a villain and botchered the Horde.
Unfortunally im not a reliable source about that sorry for it.
Yes it is. Lots of brazilian mythological beings had influence of the Catholic Church, wich is, ironically, the source of their weaknesses.
For example Bradador and the name Maria, that references Holy Mary. Werewolves and their weakness to salt and Holy water. Churches literally entrapping giant snakes and so goes on.
One factor that I think is worth pointing out about Lily's mischaracterization of Gardevoir as some sort of "badass banshee" creature is that it's not just Gardevoir that is mischaracterized, but banshees too: Lily seems to be under the impression that banshees are these powerful female figures that go around striking fear into people's hearts with screams that outright deal physical damage and also they're way better and stronger and cooler than every other mythical monster or some shit when in actual Irish folklore (where banshees originate from), the scream of a banshee was merely heralding the impending death of someone in whichever family that particular banshee was a part of. So yeah, turns out that banshees aren't these awesomesauce epic ghostfairy warrior ladies that go around screaming to actively cause harm to anybody they cross, they're literally just preemptively mourning a family member.
Keep in mind that this mischaracterization of a well-known monster is coming from someone who claims that people aren't allowed to portray vampires and werewolves as anything other than evil aristocrats and predators respectively because that's what those creatures originally represented.
That's actually a very good point. I never thought about that.
But this is a classic case of Lily being a hypocrite and doing things she accuses others of doing.
For some reason, I have hunch her understanding of banshees come from games. I have nothing to prove this. It's just a speculation.
I'm sorry, what the FUCK happened on Bluesky?
A lot.
Wait a minute this is Surrender to Madness from Poke madhouse?!
since it won't be coming any time soon, here's asylum!g's StM surrogate replacement form
Thinking of a name for it, running for 'Unshackled.' lots of chains and shit.
It hurts both Sandra AND Gardevoir to pull it off, but it provides a substantial overall boost to Gardevoir. They can't use it for much of a crutch, or any more than like once for a short time sometimes, it just hurts them way too much
Nostalgia hitting me like a truck because i never knew the artist name but still watched the artist in very old vídeos
Said your favorite childhood artist
I ASK
Castlevania Sabine!
So
Welcome to the hall of ethnic Sabine pfps (being used by people who actually ARE that race/ethnicity.)
French Canadian Sabine
(Me)
Romanian Sabine
@thetepes
Possum Sabine
@btart1313
Armenian Sabine
(Sai Discord User request)
(Gallery will update as I make them.)