#;; vee suffers for artifacts

[viatrixtravels-a]

CAMPING IN DENOUEMENT OF SIN FOR A MONTH ー FIRST WEEK RESULTS

I'm doing a little experiment where I will farm the same domain (Fontaine domain for now) for one month straight to see what this gets you in terms of useable artifacts.

I just finished my first week of farming and these are the results.

-> 1080 resin -> 27 runs

As you can see, the domain clearly favored Golden Troupe for me this week! I'm mainly looking for Golden Troupe pieces for my Fischl, Albedo and future Furina, so I'm not complaining. Still, these results were quite shocking to me!

I was also surprised by how little flowers I got and got way more circlets than I expected.

When we look at a detailed breakdown of the Sands, Circlets and Goblets, RNG was not in my favor. While I did get some ATK% and HP% sands, most of them had terrible sub stats, unfortunately. :/

The biggest letdown were definitely the circlets though. I got a total of 18 circlets but only ONE of them had a crit main stat and subpar sub stats.

HOW MANY POTENTIALLY GOOD PIECES DID I GET?

Out of the 62 five star artifacts I got, only these 4 I would say could potentially be good. Unfortunately, they're all 3-liners. > <

The goblet could be a good off-piece for Dendro DPS characters or potentially even as part of 2P set for someone like Tighnari who does a lot of charged shots.

The HP% sands has potential for Furina while the DEF% sands will most likely be an upgrade for my Albedo, depending on how it rolls.

Lastly the flower is the least impressive of the four since I prefer those to be 4 liners to start but if it rolls into atk% or EM and has a lot of crit rolls, it could be good for Fischl. If the last stat is def% it's a potential upgrade for Albedo and if it gets HP%, it could be usable for Furina.

WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS?

An on set Geo goblet for Albedo, awesome! ...Until you look at those sub stats. That's just a big OOF.

Lastly we have amazing sub stats for someone like Wriothesley who uses crit, EM (for melt) and ATK%...but then the main stat is DEF%. F in the chat, please.

[is-she-suffering]

The Purple House

In 1993 Katie Jane Garside infamously suffered a very public mental breakdown. Tired of being in the spotlight, viciously mocked by some journalists and not allowed to express herself through her own lyrics, Katie Jane left Daisy Chainsaw and disappeared for several years. She described reasons for going away in THIS interview. She spent that time in a few different places, hiking in Lake District area, experiencing paranormal activity in an old Welsh cottage, before coming back to music for a short tour with Test Department (as well as recording guest vocals for their Totality album). Finally, she moved back to London, where she accidentally bumped into Crispin Gray, which resulted in duo deciding to start working together again, this time as Queen Adreena. However, the most extraordinary sounding and somewhat mythologised was the year when Garside lived in Lake District, in certain colorful house, with a an elder lady helping her to recover mentally. In various interviews Katie Jane mentioned she spent that time walking, screaming into wind, as well as writing poetry and lyrics.

Katie Jane: It’s magical, I lived with a woman called Varya V. in a house called The Purple House.  At the time I had no idea, but Ted Hughes had lived there.  I had no idea, I lived there with Varya and a young couple who were about to have a baby and one other young man… I was there to meditate.  I was recording more of that “primal scream of consciousness” with the idea that I was gonna make it all into a record.

So that was a very verdant and beautiful time, and then I came back to London to make that into a record.  I had little detour with Test Department.  That was a fun time, I could be a cog in machine rather than having to front something. It was so different, I wasn’t “important” at all, I use that word with quotation marks.

What's interesting is that Queenadreena's fans were able to track that house. The early 00's Katie Jane fansite called Room 11 even had a picture in their gallery. If you google the name, you can find quite a bit of info about the house, the extraordinary landlady and some of the guests that once lived there.

Cumbria’s famous Purple House was located near Rigg Beck, a stream in Lake District’s Newslands Valley. It was built in 1881 and at first served as hotel.

The place was bought for £500 by Varya Vergauwen in 1950's.  She provided lodging to unemployed, struggling actors, writers, singers and other lost souls. Varya Vergauwen, also known as Varya Vee, was a sculptor, a member of Bloomsbury Group, and rumoured to be a "witch". She was married to a captain and raised 10 of her kids in the Purple House. 

This isolated place served as a sanctuary to many artists. Keswick’s Blue Box theatre performers, actor Bob Hoskins, actor Tom Courtenay, comedienne Victoria Wood and even poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath had all stayed at Rigg Beck.

The house was apparently full of weird artifacts like stuffed fox, a harmonium, guestbooks including Ted Hughes penned poem and alcohol and food ration packets with expiry dates reaching times before WWII. The comment on one of the blogs mentions a lot of stuffed animals standing and collecting dust... Who knows, maybe that was in part the inspiration behind Queen Adreena's Taxidermy album name?

By the time Garside moved there, the house was already in a very bad condition. You can find several related stories of former inhabitants online. If you read THIS account, it will give you an idea how the house looked in the 90's. For the long time, it had no electricity at all. It's interesting that even despite these harsh conditions, most of available accounts paint the Purple House stay as one of the most magical moments in their lives:

(...) Rigg Beck was becoming dilapidated, and Varya hated spending money. By the time I was lured from London in 1985, the house was on its last legs. When you opened the front door, the smell of cabbage and dry rot wafted out. We few, we happy few, were unemployed, underemployed, fully employed, but above all poor, and the last of the hippies. It was a good time to be high in the hills in that strange house, and I have never again felt so free from the cares of the world.

Katie Jane: I was there for about a year, long enough to see the seasons come and go. It’s a really extraordinary place (…) I always loved to go there and walked in the mountains with my family and just adored it and one day, I met a man who took me there, he said he thought I’d like it. We just walked in and there was extraordinary things there just very strange art and decrepitude and skulls of all different animals and the door was always open and it turned out that a woman, the maverick, lived there called Varya V. And the house was literally falling down, the roof was caving in and it had different floors. The top where the roof was caving in was the winter floor and below that was the autumn floor. I lived on the summer floor and then there was a spring floor in the basement, that’s where Varya lived and I met her and said, “Can I come and live with you” and she gave me a room which was utterly completely infested with mice and rats. Anytime you turned the light up at night, they’d just come alive and yeah, the house had just really gone back to nature, really. It was being taken back by the land, but it was utterly beautiful and everything was so filthy and I had a sleeping bag. There was a made-up bed there, but I think the sheets on it hadn’t been changed for like ten years or more or something, so, I chose not to sleep in those sheets. There was no hot water or anything like that and yeah, I lived there and it was just beautiful and I’d just walk in the mountains and find my voice there. 

KJ: After Daisy Chainsaw, which as you pointed out, was quite a ride, for one so young there was a lot of pressure and lots of world tours and burn out and lots of shaving heads and I was toured-out! They told me they wanted me to do another world tour and I was like, “Well, I don’t think I’ve got another world tour in me, right now.” So, I stepped away and yeah, went up with the intention of recording me singing against waterfalls and avalanches and the walk in the mountains and I recorded loads of it. Actually, I recorded loads of stuff to portable DAT tapes and the plan was to cut it all together and make that a record but I never got around to it. I have the DATs somewhere, maybe one day, and I’ll sooner find out what happened in the mountains, but I never did that stage of the journey, but I did wander for extensive days and nights screaming into the sky and it was just a really beautiful place and one day, it was done and I said goodbye to Varya and I took my little car and drove back to London and sometime after that, I found out Crispin had moved into the area and after a long, long journey, we started putting another band together and that became Queenadreena.

At some point, Varya moved to Kendal. She died at the age of 90 somewhere around early 2010s. Afterwards, The Purple House would stay abandoned and slowly decaying for years (now only frequented by squatters, bats and ghosts hunters) up until it burned down on June 30, 2008. There were (fruitless) talks about possible restoration, but the house was bought in 2007 and then lost in the fire just a year later. Rigg Beck was rebuilt after the fire, but currently standing building looks nothing like the original (trust me, it just looks bad) and many believe the fire was spread intentionally.

KJG: It was burnt down on purpose because it had a rare breed of bats living in the falling-down roof but whoever bought the land had always planned to knock it down but they were unable to take the house down because it was protected, you know. Anyway, it was, one day, mysteriously burned down, so, I suspect sabotage. Obviously, I have no proof of that.

 There's more to find about the Rigg Beck online, from accounts of living in a dilapidated house to info on Varya's life to ghost stories. You can read some memories here:

After I finished writing this post, i managed to find photographs showing how the house looked inside in 2007. In abandoned state. It's a mess, but you can see a lot of the items mentioned in these online accounts!

Other photo sources:

www.beautifulrailwaybridgeofthesilverytay.wordpress.com/

www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/image_galleries/purple_house_gallery.shtml?4

www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5520785794

www.facebook.com/groups/ilovethelakedistrict/posts/10159745314398072/

Katie interview:

www.pleasekillme.com/katie-jane-garside/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIjLcFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaul_dHjj48B6SGrSrZNW8lXmPQF3NbogAKgXGFXhW5siRer4PH1znRHVQ_aem_oXPza_bnyJzUrIi5XmKzhg

[emsprovisions]

one giving the other their jacket / covering them with it when they fall asleep please :)

AUGHHHH AMANDAAA THE FLUFF!! YOU'RE INSANE!!!

friends to lovers prompts

Matt had warned Gus it was supposed to be chilly in the human realm today. He'd asked Vee about the weather and she confirmed a jacket would be a good idea. But did Gus remember one? Noooo.

Matt gave him many versions of "I told you so" all day as Gus shivered every time they stepped outside.

He'd thought it might be a good lesson to Gus. That maybe he'd remember to wear something warmer next time. Though, he did look good in that stupid floral button-up with the sleeves cuffed.

They'd gone to a nearby city outside of Gravesfield to explore for the day. There were comic shops, book stores, food places Gus wanted to try. It had been a fun day. But now they were on the bus headed back towards Gravesfield. Camila had insisted they stop by for dinner and Vee had declared it a movie night, inviting the whole gang over.

Matt was tired, if he was honest. His social battery was sort of worn out. He had a bag of cool finds by his feet, including Z-Men comics and human artifacts for his bookshelf. He'd rather like to just go home, maybe talk Gus into a sleepover. But they were already committed to going to the Noceda's, and he didn't want to let Gus down.

Gus had fallen asleep at some point on the two hour ride back. He was slumped against the window, glasses askew, mouth gaping open. He looked so ridiculous, Matt rolled his eyes. He looked so endearing, Matt's heart twinged in his chest. Gus's arms were covered in ghoulbumps, and he was curled in on himself, arms wrapped tightly around his stomach to try and keep warm.

Matt sighed. He leaned forward to shrug off his jacket, leaving his own arms exposed in his loose tank top, but it would be worth it if he was a little cold for a little while. Gus had been cold all day. He'd suffered enough.

Matt covered Gus with his jacket. The younger witch stirred slightly, burrowing into the jacket, still warm from Matt's body heat. There was a small smile on his face in his sleep. Then–even in his sleep it was as if he knew–he adjusted, moving from his spot against the window to lean into Matt's shoulder. He was, evidently, still passed out.

Matt just stared down at him in incredulous awe. Then he wrapped an arm around his friend's shoulder and got comfortable. Yeah, sharing his jacket was worth it after all.

[oursummer-if]

₊˚ପ⊹DEMO✬˖*°FAQ*ੈ✩‧₊˚DIRECTORY✧ ೃ༄

think high school musical 2 but instead of working over summer you find yourself on a outerbanks style treasure hunt in the pacific islands with as much mystery and danger as an uncharted game!

You've just finished senior year at high school, final exams are over and now you have a two to three month wait till you get your exam results and decide what your want to do with the rest of your life... which is the best time to take a senior summer trip all the way in a different continent, right?

Well even if it wasn't you're doing it anyway, having planned this with your best friend and next door neighbour for the past few months.

After coming across a piece of seemingly random information, you find yourself in a group chasing lost pirate treasure while being chased yourself!

OUR SUMMER (is what we make of it) is rated NC17/16+ on account of explicit language, sexual references, depictions of violence and the use of weaponry. please read trigger warnings! play at your discretion!

₊˚ପ⊹FEATURES✬˖*°[ trigger warnings ]✧ ೃ༄

customise your mc! from your appearance to your gender to your family relations and academic background!

chose which age bracket you fall into! are you graduating at 16 as a certified genius? did you have to retake the year, ending high school as a 19—year—old? or do you fall somewhere in between?

choose your familial background! will you create a fully customised family or with you go with one i've sprinkled in for flavor text?

+so far i have three planned backgrounds──american born and bred; afrikaans immigrants; and not—so—recently moved from canada! you are not restricted to these choices. they're just options that give you a bit of flavour text!

choose your feelings on travel! do you have an aversion of public transport? does flying give you the heebie-jeebies? do you have experience in cross-country or would you rather die than walk another step?

romance one (or more.. or none!) of eight love interests! are you romantically inclined? are you in touch with your feelings? could you be non-committal? do you fall hard and fast and with everyone? get attached to everyone or leave them all in deep waters.

+with an aroace route, eight solo routes ad three variants of poly routes you have a plethora of choice! poly routes include a triad (a/o), a vee (n/o) and a polycule (a/b/m/n)!

choose a special interest! are you into marine life? do you like history and historical artifacts? are you a bit of a polyglot? are you good at parkour?

find a hidden treasure! decide if you want to sell it for profit or simply split the money you'd get as a finders fee. or──do you take hush money and leave it to the gold hunters on your trail?

endure deadly and dangerous situations! or don't, not everyone knows their limits after all...

suffer through water based puns or bathe in water based metaphors!!

₊˚ପ⊹CHARACTERS✬˖*°[ li intros ]✧ ೃ༄

Adelaide/Adrien Beauchêne──your best friend!

[F/M—18] French. Your best friend, you met at the young age of 8 years old and have been kind of inseparable ever since!

Genuine, kind, loyal, safety, vulnerability, pining, frustration, trust.

*best friends to lovers──option of mutual pining, option of they fell first you fell harder, option of triad poly route with O Baek, option of polycule route with Bodie Monroe, M Wattson and N Rojas.

Bodie Monroe──the mysterious newbie!

[NB—18] Italian American. You only met Bodie about six months ago, for some reason you were the one the school asked to show them around and help them integrate into their last six months of high school however, you really don't know much about them other than they're polite and artsy!

Eye—opening, thoughtful, secretive, intriguing, frustration, worth.

*strangers to lovers──option of fwb route, option of polycule route with A Beauchêne, M Wattson and N Rojas.

Corelia/Corbin Malich──your mortal enemy!

[F/M—19] African American. You met C on your first day of middle school and instantly hit it off... in a bad way. It may have been an utter miscommunication or something you actually did but after that 'incident' it's felt like they've had it out for you any chance they got. You're left wondering if there's anything to be done to mend bridges or if this particular one is long past up-in-flames.

Anger, hurt, insecurities, tension, release, finality, heat.

*enemies/rivals to lovers──option of miscommunication of feelings, option of hard feelings to soft feelings, option of one sided rivalry!

Khin Thein Saeli─Kelly──your self—appointed tour guide!

[M—20] Half Thai Australian, Half Myanma (Burmese). Upon reaching your destination vacation you find yourself bumping into Khin Thein more than once, in what he calls a brush if fate he takes it upon himself to be your tour guide around the area. You don't know him at all but his charming smile and cheeky words are enough to keep you wanting!

Wonder, adventure, curiosity, questions, connections, mystery, cheek, timing.

*strangers to lovers──option of meet cute, option of gay awakening (masc!mc's), option of summer fling, option of near-instant-love!

Mohini/Mohan "Mo" Wattson──your home room desk partner!

[F/M—19] Indian American. Graduating a year before you did, M has always been kinda out of reach. They're nice and funny and always engaged in conversation with you during home room but you didn't have much more of a connection than that. After finding them in the same vacation spot as you, courtesy of their friendship with C, isn't something you considered before and you're left wondering if this is a good or a bad coincidence...

Enigmatic, charismatic, untouchable, fraternising, determination, unearthed, surprising.

*acquaintances/friends to lovers──option of long time crush, option of annoyances to lovers, option of fwb route, option of polycule with A Beauchêne, Bodie Monroe and N Rojas.

Nola/Noah Rojas──your plane seat mate!

[F/M—18] Venezuelan Canadian. After meeting on the first plane ride and finding out you have neighbouring seats the entire journey to the same location──“just what are the chances?”──you find yourself knowing more about this stranger than you ever thought you would. With an unwavering smile and an enigmatic personality you can't help but find yourself drawn to N. They're not shy about what they're interested in and you seem to be catching their eye!

Whimsy, easy, connection, hyper, emotion, bold, straightforward, cunning, athletic, unpredictable.

*strangers to lovers──option of meet ugly, option of it-must-be-destiny, option of vee poly with O Baek.

Oliver/Ollie/Olivia Baek──your next door neighbour!

[F/M/NB—17] Korean American. Having been your next door neighbour for as long as you can remember, you're more than familiar with O! They're a familiar and comforting face, more than you ever seemed to realise. O's warm demeanor and kind appearance seem to radiate like sunlight and you're left wondering if you'll be wilting if they ever leave your orbit!

Kind, comforting, radiance, withdrawn, quirky, concerned, shyness, reason.

*childhood friends/neighbours to lovers──option of first love, option of second chance romance, option of option of triad poly with A Beauchêne, option of vee poly with N Rojas, option of polycule route with A Beauchêne, Bodie Monroe and M Wattson.

Siteri Van Every──your islander info girl!

[F—17] Fijian New Zealander. At first she was just a name on a page, an option of information until she found you! Quick to make herself known as valid source of information she's inducted to the quest after a set of events that leave you with more and more questions for her.

Knowing, arrogance, secrets, intrigue, adventure, banter, answers.

*strangers to lovers──option of instant connection, option of gay awakening (fem!mc's), option of betrayal, option of summer fling, option of finding the one?

pictures aren't true representations of character visuals, none of them are mine──all found on pinterest.

Levi──your younger brother!

freshly turned 16, a bit of a tech nerd, got himself into two part time jobs and bought his own gaming PC, his gamer tag is Leviathan and you never let him forget it! he's not exactly shy, but compared to your sister he's definitely the quiet one. he floats on the surface of water, occasionally kicking out bursts of energy and easygoing wisdom that leaves your family stunned as he retreats back to his man cave of a bedroom──he may be the youngest but he's also the tallest, standing taller than even your father (and still growing). easygoing, smart, introverted, blunt.

Ellery──your older sister!

born on the day before your birthday, Ellery's the early twenties to your late teens. after taking her gap year times three she's ready to get into college and has been preparing for months now. she's a tiny ball of chaotic energy at the big age of 22 and has always, always, encouraged you to go with your gut.──easily the shortest of your family, you often joke she gave all her height to her siblings. energetic, creative, loyal, scattered.

Tanya──your mother!

working as a travel writer, Tanya has travelled pretty much all of her adult life! your 47 year old mother is somehow the perfect blend of your siblings—she's creative and energetic like Ellery while also being contemplative and thought provoking like Levi. she's committed and rooted as well as not compromising who she is to her core. Tanya has always wanted to support her family and was blessed to be able to do so without sacrificing her love of adventure... it's probably where you (may) get it from.──only just taller than Ellery she's still quite short. Supportive, busy, caring, semi-absent, accommodating, emotional.

Waylon──your father!

working as an art historian, Waylon hasn't had the most stable job in the world. when he landed his job at the high–end art museum you were 8 years old. he gives your life stability, finally finding a place to move to and stay there he became the backbone of your family. similarly to your mother he seems to be a combination of your siblings, he's calm and collected like Levi and always has your back like Ellery.──having only just been overtaken in height by your brother, he's easily one of the tallest in your family. stability, loyal, introverted, detail–oriented, secret keeper, logical.

Lillian──your niece!

a little ball of joy at only 6 years old. she's quite easily the most loved of the family, quite possibly due to the chubbiness of her cheeks or the dimples she shows off when she smiles. she absolutely adores you and always wants to hear your stories... you wonder if you'll ever make it back to tell her this one.

Maurice──your father's brother!

Lillian's single-parent father recently out of a divorce with his menace of a partner. He's had to pick up more jobs just to pay the bills and keep Lilli safe and cared for, especially when he refuses to take money from your parents. your family took it upon yourselves to step up and support him with Lillian, which really wasn't a chore to do. you just want to help.

Miss Patricia──your rival treasure hunter!

the real enemy on your treasure hunt. armed with a sharp and cutting smile and a shotgun Miss Patricia is not someone you ever want to come up against... except when you uncover a new piece of information she didn't have before you now you're a threat to her fortune.

Raphael&Tane──patricia's 'henchmen'!

big. burly. mean. scary. men... you could take them! or... outrun them? one is never far from the other so don't get cocky if you only come across one of them... you may just have fallen into their trap!

I'll do my best to give options regarding family closeness and reactions but for the most part it'll be set in stone that you come from a loving, if not chaotically busy, family with little strained relationships.

You can definitely decide how much you like or dislike Miss Patricia and The Guys™️

©️ bonnie berry 2023──@moretinyideas

[mayasaura]

Harrow, baby, I'm so sorry I forgot your allusions

One of them is lesbian Jesus with Mordred's backstory, and the other is both Achilles and Hector in the Illiad, and may be related to the Fisher King

Priamhark Noniusvianus

PRY-am-hark. Three distinct syllables; avoid eliding the H. NOH-nee-us-vee-AHN-us. You should have the trick of the "us" sound by now. If you don't, it's fine, nobody cares, it's a random name in a novel about bonermancy.

NOTE: Priam in the Iliad was famously a dad in a city about to go splat.

Note on that note: The city is Troy and Priam is the king of Troy, father of Hector.

Pelleamena Novenarius

Pelly-AM-enna. Rather than ah-MAY-nah. Noh-ven-ARE-ee-us. As with Harrow, the "us" is closer to an "o" sound.

NOTE: In myth, Peleus famously was the father of Achilles.

Note on this note: In the Iliad, Achilles kills Hector and attempts to desecrate his corpse, which is preserved by the Gods, after Hector kills Achilles' partner Patroclus (see above original post for griddlehark reasons). So that's uh. Certainly something.

Fisher King allusions aren't Confirmed By Authorlord Prime, so it may be a coincidence, but

and the only two that survive to Arthur's day are the Wounded King, named Pellehan (Pellam of Listeneise in Malory), and the Fisher King, Pelles. Pelles engineers the birth of Galahad by

Fisher King legends imply that the King has become unable to father or support a new generation which can carry on after his death. (A "thigh" wound has been interpreted by many scholars in Arthurian literature as a wound to the genitals.) There are hints in the early versions that his kingdom and lands suffer as he does, and modern scholars have suggested his impotence affecting the fertility of the land and reducing it to a barren wasteland.

And there are apparently later more heavily Christianised versions of the Fisher King in which rather than a king, it is a line of priests with the sacred duty to guard a holy artifact. So make of that what you will.

The classical vibes of griddlehark are impeccable. Yes, they have Hades and Persephone aesthetics; the lord of the cold dead and the blooming flower her heart keeps trapped in the darkness. They also have the courtly love of a knight for her untouchable Lady, if her Lady were also her King. Then they're Orpheus and Eurydice too, she's kept alive as long as she refuses to look at her. One of them is also lesbian Jesus with Mordred's origin story, why not. And of course they're also Achilles and Patrocles, naturally; an unstoppable force on the battle field, together from childhood, there is no me without you, at the end of everything a final blurring of their edges. Mingled blood, mixed ashes. It's a Lot.