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LOOK AT MY SON GOING IN TO PROTECT PEOPLE TvT

Afflicting this on more people:

@secondarysefikura @tatersdoesstuff @painted-daisy-l0l @nettlewildfairy @captorcorp @reverenddmso @bloopiebloops @nancrow

Now what do you folks want to steal from me??

Last Song: Back In Black by Robyn Adele Anderson (AC/DC cover)

Last film: Minari

Last search: it was about a creature in my fic I can't spoil it lol

Favorite color: red

Sweet or salty: sweet

Tea or coffee: coffee

Currently watching: Supernatural rewatch

Currently reading: Lumenlaulaja (Snowsinger) by Emmi Itäranta, Kultainen peura (The Golden Deer) by Miina Supinen

Current obsession: no other obsession compares to the one you can come back to after a long break and find new fics and fans to talk to <3

Currently working on: Light Carries On but life got in the way so I haven't been writing

Current desktop/phone wallpaper: for phone Alphonse Mucha's Spring (a woman in a green dress holding flowers), for desktop some pic of white cherry blossoms dark-blue background

Tagging @lawsofoptics @30-to-50-plastic-spiders @trevelies @straw-bees

Last film: Free - The Final Stroke Vol 1 (outing myself as a weeb)

Last search: trying to find this one tumblr post where someone really fucks up typing ‘sucks the transgender out of you like a mosquito’ (found it)

Currently watching: Re-watching S1 of Supernatural

Currently reading: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russel (Dr Who tie-in novel)

Current obsession: Supernatural, duh, but trying to get into Warhammer

Currently working on: so… many… things…

Desktop/phone wallpaper:

Desktop -

(Boygirl with the white hair is my D&D character and drawn by me, girl with the pink hair is my friend’s and drawn by her)

Phone wallpaper -

Last song: Carousel - Blink-182

Last film: Tucker and Dale vs Evil (10/10 movie)

Last search: Myers Briggs personality test (for my new oc lol)

Favorite color: black (or red)

Sweet or salty: salty

Tea or coffee: both are equally amazing

Currently watching: (rewatching) House MD

Currently Reading: Witches Canyon by Jeff Mariotte (Supernatural tie-in novel) and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Current obsession: the Saw movies! And Supernatural lol

Currently working on: my Supernatural longfic and the Saw Summer Bingo art event

Current desktop/phone wallpaper: my desktop is TFW in the Impala and my phone wallpaper is Sam <33

Last Song: You’ve Got A License To Drive (Me Crazy) -The Boys Soundtrack

Last film: I think it was The Devil Wears Prada? It’s been a minute

Last search: “Vought Rising”

Favorite color: Pink or red

Sweet or salty: Salty

Tea or coffee: Coffee

Currently watching: The Boys season 5, and The Boys season 1 and Interview With The Vampire with my sister

Currently reading: Project Hail Mary though I’m only like a page in and Witches Canyon

Current obsession: The Boys, Kripkes shows always have me in a chokehold

Currently working on: That later seasons Sam essay I still haven’t finished

Current desktop/phone wallpaper: For my computer it’s the Shinji chair picture and for my phone it’s a Starlight image

Last Song: Cloud Smiles by Nobuo Uematsu

Last Film: The Greatest Showman

Last Search: Microplastics and marine life

Favorite Color: Pink

Sweet or Salty: Sweet

Tea or Coffee: I don't drink either

Currently Watching: Prince of Egypt for my film class final

Currently reading: Too many CaitVi fanfics

Current Obsession: Arcane and The Magnus Archives

Currently working on: My marine bio presentation

Current desktop/phone wallpaper:

you know the square Enix character will fuck severely when they hit this pose

The pyramid of bodies is the exact visual language used in classical Renaissance art:

The triangle the eye unconsciously identifies is a structural shorthand used to represent a struggle toward a singular point. Géricault explicitly used it in The Raft of the Medusa to show a pyramid of dying people culminating in the one guy waving a flag for salvation:

Another good example is the Vigeland Monolith in Oslo:

A mass of bodies reaching upward is heavily present in Ascension art like the Assumption of the Virgin above. The physical rule of these pieces is usually: the lower figures are crowded together and dynamic to show struggle— while the top figure is alone, calm, still, and surrounded by negative space ((showing detachment)). This is the case with Sephiroth at the top there to mirror how divine figures are framed to contrast earthly chaos with divinity.

The mass of bodies reaching upward represents human desperation, the collective cry of people suffocating under mortality and the chaos of existence, desperately clawing their way to the highest peak of spiritual escape to try to liberate themselves from that suffering.

But .... Then you have the irony. You place Sephiroth at the top of that exact structure like a god looking down on a mountain of black robes, the world, humanity.

And the reality is he’s not detached from the desperation at all. He’s completely trapped by it, and if anything that's why he’s at the top. His “ascension” is fueled by the exact same desperate, obsessive need to escape his past, his trauma, and everything that binds him to the humanity he despises.

Just as everyone else is below him. What makes this even more brilliant (imo) is that it visually mimics the physics of the Reunion itself. Sephiroth thinks he’s pulling the strings from above, but that mountain of bodies is rushing toward him because every single cell of Jenova is magnetically snapping back into place. But even Jenova herself is trying to break free of her own isolation. Meaning the creature Sephiroth worships (I use this word lightly) is just as trapped by hunger and desperation as the humans she infects.