devilrose

Rosangela Ludovico, at glyph limit

illustration, comics, writing...
and then what next, plague of locusts?


webcomic / The Gifts of Darkness
fansites etc. / Rigelatin
anything else / link page


That’s 12 new pages, which conclude Chapter 21.

Once again in the secrecy of his bedroom, Adrien grieves everything that won’t be. And in the depths of his despair, he remembers someone else he lost, another time that never was.

Note: this update is not safe for work. Content warning for sex, nudity, and distressing themes.

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The plot: At 23 years old, Adrien is quite late to become a sorcerer's apprentice - but that's where his life has led him, and he intends to try his best. He travels far from home and to an isolated tower in the wilderness to meet his new mentor, the sorcerer Valerion. The two strike an important connection: Valerion guides Adrien's chaotic personality with infinite kindness, and Adrien brings companionship and a long-forgotten joy to Valerion's lonely life. Yet, each is holding great secrets from the other, which threaten to destroy all they've built together.



cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

too drunk to make this cohesive

i hate how much work i put into my office job that's now worth nothing. thousands of problems solved in creative ways; all worth nothing. i walk out, i'm left with absolutely fuck-all. it doesn't matter that i was clever, it doesn't matter that i cut out hundreds of man-hours of work, it doesn't matter that i figured out how to write scripts that interfaced with our shitty systems to solve problems. nobody cares. none of it matters. i wasted ten years of my intellect. it went absolutely fucking nowhere.

every single job is like this. if you let your neurons turn on for even a second, you're being robbed of all the specialness the universe put into you. it'll all be drunk up by the company like a fucking sponge and then pissed away into nothingness the moment you leave. working hard is pointless. nobody will ever care that you did it unless you're an architect and what you make is so big that nobody can ignore it


queerinmech
@queerinmech

speaking as someone who has also had "architect" and other titles that put me into close contact with the C-suite and who has been credited with saving companies and being the hardest worker they have ever seen

the execs do not give one single fuck about us workers no matter the title or output when it comes down to it

while shit definitely rolls downhill just about everywhere, they do not even care about each other, they will hang their buddies out to dry in an instant if it makes their metrics slightly happier for the quarter

the whole system is so unrelenting toxic that literally no one is happy, not even the smarmy CEOs and puppetmaster VCs

they live in different plane of existence with access to the world's best healthcare and get unimaginable leeway and have comforts we cannot really conceive of

but they have trapped themselves in a circle of hell, scamming each other and spreading fear and doubt to exploit each other and falling for it every fucking time

i feel like i would be less furious if i felt like somebody was happy at the end of the day, but the reality is that multi-millionares are terrified and isolated and miserable all the time even if they have a loving partner and live in a big house on the beach

and that is infuriating

my point in so saying is that the system we live under benefits no one and needs to be dismantled to benefit us all - the practice of inequality ensures only the perpetuation of misery no matter what "superiority" promises - this is why intersectionality is so important!


Nava
@Nava
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