#and the whalefall and fall for me

[sleepanonymous]

Oh, and I know I can tell I'm falling further again But I won't turn away it's far too late for me 'Cause I am broken into fractions Oh, and I am driven to distraction

[alicelufenia]

So I checked out Whalefall

I saw this recommended and thought "oh another dungeon crawler based on 1970s D&D. Wait inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Below (okay these make sense), also Disco Elysium and Dark Souls?? Alright I'll check it out, don't expect anything from it-

Alright you have my attention

So yeah, in going one step further from the meatgrinder tradition of classic dungeon delving, you literally play a ghost that body hops when you die. Also a very unusual use of a hex map for a game, as the dungeons you explore are basically two dimensional, and each floor is one dimensional; you go from hex to hex in a line, similar to Darkest Dungeon. Keeps it easy to track at least, and also hints that it's not the layout of a floor, but the composition of each room and hex (which are all randomly rolled when you uncover them) that matters.

A tabletop rpg with a difficulty selection. I gotta admit, that's a first for me. Also with the way some of these rolls are and needing to roll under, a d12 is going to make them an absolute bitch to pull off, fitting for the highest "difficulty."

Ah yes, the corpse list. That's a thing.

Many, many years have passed.

Probably the most metal part of this game, you literally fight the big dungeon boss while falling, to either be swallowed by the Depths forever, become the Crypt Worm, or climbing out, one floor at a time. Holy fuck

As with any classic style rpg, there are many, many tables to roll on, their unique contents being something I'll leave for the reader to discover for themselves.

Also, gang of 1d6 thieves. Something menacing to me about that.

Your spirit is basically your class. The one constant between bodies.

...William?

Oh hey found my favorite class. And very transgender too.

Also the fucking medic class levels up by killing the patient.

😨

yeah I can believe it

Anyway this shit rules

[floating--goblin]

also very interesting to me that Fall For Me's creature is a whale, and missing limbs has a whalefall. call and response, like The Offering and Sugar in Sundowning

especially because gardens are this running motif - most obviously with the garden of Eden, but there's also "You are a garden entwined with all, you are the silence on sacred shores". Garden = stability, lush, solid land beneath Vessel's feet, contrasted with the ocean = chaos, confusion, ultimate perdition. His tomb.

So when he says "With my love as your garden, won't you fall for me" he's trying to convince this other party that he can provide that stability that will allow them to flourish - so laugh at Provider all you want, but it's just more directly expressing something that Vessel has been saying for several albums already

At the same time, it's not all bright - because the album is about descension, it's the lowest point of Vessel's journey, the darkest hour before dawn breaks. The whale is diving, and he describes his "fall" from Eden as "diving into crystal waters". He was not thrown out, but left bit by bit as his eyes were opened to the world beyond this utopic garden.

So in beckoning this other party to "fall for him" he is really asking them to fall with him. Because the waters are deep and dark, and in the "screaming silence" he needs to know he's not alone. It's very telling in my opinion that they chose to give each song a depth to signify this descension, and Atlantic - most likely about a suicide attempt - is at the top, while Missing Limbs - about lost/unrequited love and being left - is at the very bottom

The deepest point on the planet, where there's next to no life and no light penetrates. Where a whale's bones would arrive picked fully clean and never be seen or disturbed again. Love and the absence thereof will hurt worse than death, because you are forced to keep reckoning with a life of that person's absence - they will be your phantom limb

And so I think the whalefall represents both that process of grieving your love's loss and of coming to terms with it - because he hits (literal) rock bottom and then follows it up with TMBTE, a meditation on being changed and heading back up to the surface, culminating with EIA - an arrival to a new garden, new solid land beneath his feet. No longer Eden the "glory of innocence", because in order to stay in Eden one would have to never live at all, to exist in perpetual ignorance. But Arcadia is a similarly utopic land, only it's on earth - it's a possible goal, it's something tangible and something one must reach through their own efforts instead of being born there.

He had to go through this pain to "become someone new", and that took killing "the man he was the moment we left off" and crawling out of his corpse something more mature and stronger - like a moth or butterfly, another important motif for the band

it's just. all very well put together ok.

[lowkeylaufeysons]

big fish

You don't like what you see in the mirror, face worn by years of being a Hunter, the changes that have crept in with time. Rafayel disagrees with this assessment.

rafayel/afab!mc | qi yu/afab!mc

tags: older mc and older rafayel, established relationship, insecurities about getting older, rafayel comforts you and tells you how much he loves you, hurt/comfort i'm sorry!! un-beta'd.

Your hair is more silver these days. Rafayel notices you lingering in front of the cheap box dye at the grocery store. He sees you frown and sigh sometimes at your reflection, the creams and lotions on the counter beginning to outnumber his paints.

It pains him to realize that you don't like what you see in the mirror anymore, when you shy away from taking photos, the way you fidget and hide when you model for him. This self-scrutiny, Rafayel thinks, is unwarranted. The Sea God's heart, your heart, his bride-- your flame burns even brighter as the two of you traverse life's path. Every morning he thanks the sea for this lifetime, this current lifetime where there are no prophecies, no palace walls, no suffocating sands.

This is the first time he's been lucky, no, privileged to grow old with you.

And yet you are unhappy.

--

The moon is halfway through its journey for the night when Rafayel calls to you from the bath. He's already in the claw foot tub, completely submerged, luxuriating with his eyes closed. No matter how long the day, how tired either of you were, this nightly ritual was sacred.

He remains underwater as you approach, blowing exaggerated bubbles.

Glub glub glub glub.

Rafayel opens his eyes just as you sit at the edge of the tub, smiling fondly down at him. The moonlight is kind enough to illuminate the crinkles by your eyes, the brilliance in your hair, the pearl earrings he made you. He holds his breath, willing the water to still, etching the visual of you peering down at him through the ripples into his memory. He sees this every night, more or less, but every night is special.

He indulges in the moment just a little longer before he surfaces, arms open, wordlessly inviting you to join.

"Are you worried about drying out?" you tease, maneuvering your chest on top of his.

He curls a lock of your hair around his finger, pressing a reverent kiss on the strands. "Talia once told me I should carry a portable humidifier or mister around."

You pretend to consider it, "I guess I do need to take care of you like a plant huh."

"You've kept me alive so far, Miss Bodyguard."

Gently, he tilts your head to gaze into the mirror at the corner of the room.

"I want to hold you like this forever," he sighs, drawing you closer.

You meet his gaze in the mirror, "There's not much left to look at I'm afraid," you say with a dry laugh, breaking eye contact to go back to nuzzling his neck.

There it was again.

Rafayel frowns as he wipes away the water (or was it tears?) from your cheek.

"Can I tell you a little secret?" he murmurs.

The words fall out of his mouth before you answer.

"I've looked forward to this part of our lives for a very long time," he says. Your brows knit together and you tilt your head, not quite understanding. No matter, you would soon.

All those lifetimes, he thinks, that I’ve dreamed of seeing the cute lines start to appear in the corners of your eyes. The mosaic of new shades in your hair. He's never seen them, not once, not in Whalefall City, not on Philos.

Every time he awoke in the depths he prayed that this life would give him that chance. At times, Rafayel found himself bitter seeing older couples. How fortunate they were. To have each other. To have and to hold. It was selfish of him, he knew, to tell you how you should feel about yourself, but the little heartbreak within you, he wouldn't stand for it.

“My beautiful bride," Rafayel declares, breaking through the stillness of the night, "These right here—" he places a soft kiss by your temple, "are proof that I make you smile.”

He places a kiss at the corner of your mouth, holding you firmly as you giggle and squirm. “These right here, are proof that I make you laugh.”

"Rafayel--"

"Nope," he stops your complaint with a firm kiss. “Do you know how long I’ve waited to see this part of you? Of us? Aren’t we so lucky that we can finally see each other through all the seasons of our life?”

Gently, he holds your wrist, nuzzling your palm, "I have more wrinkles now too, and my hands are slower than they used to be. I almost slipped on another paintbrush this morning."

"This is the first time for both of us," he's aware that he's trembling, voice cracking as he tries impress upon you just what he means, "Don't deprive us of this okay? Don't hide. The tides change, as do our vessels, it's so remarkable that we get to do this together."

He feels you take in an unsteady breath as you nod.

"I want you to appreciate your body, this body, for honoring your vows. For bringing you home safe from missions. For coming back into my arms. For coming back to this shore."

You're sobbing now, and he is too. The water has long since become tepid, but as you sink into his love, his admiration, you've never felt warmer.

author's note: I was inspired by this tweet, and a little bit by the movie Big Fish which I adore <3 it's ramble-y but thanks for reading! Shout out to Joy for keeping me company while I typed this out instead of doing work. Comments, likes, reblogs always appreciated <3

divider: @/cafekitsune

[flamesque]

₊❏❜ ⋮ i'll chase you to the ends of the earth. ⚬𓂂

@dolasach

He is used to it; however, that didn't mean he accepted it.

Rafayel sighed as he let his head rest against his palm, the same thing being drilled into his mind by the endless sea of words spewing the history of Lemuria and the world on the surface repeated like a broken record from the elders. He seemed to be falling asleep and was immediately scolded for not paying attention.

Evidently, something came up that had the elders leave the vicinity for the time being and this served as an opportunity for Rafayel to escape. He had attempted in doing so a few times, but he was sure that this time he would be able to be successful. 

A blue fish swam around him and held his hand out, allowing the fish to swim over his palm. 

"Shall we head to the surface? It's a little boring right now and I'm tired of hearing the elders saying the same thing over and over again." 

The fish continued swimming over his palm before seemingly directing him toward an opening to which he was able to squeeze through. It was then he realized that he was out of the city walls of Whalefall City and was able to swim to the surface.

He thanked the fish before it disappeared back through the city walls and Rafayel didn't have to think twice as he turned away from Whalefall City to swim up to the surface; however, before he allowed himself to fully come out, he swam slowly as the damn words from the elders rang in his head. 

"The world on the surface is dangerous, even if those people worship our Sea God, there is a chance that someone will try to capture him."

"As the previous Lemurians have..." 

"Rafayel, you must never venture out to the surface world. Your people are here, that is all that should concern you." 

And the annoying part of all. "The Sea God will one day meet the Goddess of the Forest, and when that day comes, should he fall in love with her, it will be the beginning of the downfall of Lemuria."

Rafayel always thought it to be those stories to be something a parent would tell to their child to make them listen. And besides, Rafayel had always been, not only a rebellious soul, but one of sheer curiosity. 

Once he peeked out from the water, he spotted a woman by the shore. And he had seen a few other humans before, but something about her was different and he couldn't help but to swim towards the shore, closer to her. Who could she be? For some reason... he needed to know and while he doesn't know why he needs to, he simply just has to try; in a way, it felt as though there were residual feelings, feelings that weren't from him and that in itself baffled him.

So without thinking, his mouth opened to speak.

"Who might you be? You don't seem... human to me, although you do appear to be." He tilted his head briefly before letting out a laugh. "Ah, apologies. This is bold of me, I will admit."

[saiintvalentiine]

I'm sending you to the shadow realm

I’m……. killing you, I think?

like on purpose or coincidentally

[mandalhoerian]

deep in my lads brainrot & i randomly decided to watch some things in japanese because i really like the voice actors and know a little bit of japanese . just for the hell of it. "lets see how different the localization is" i said. and OMG im just rewatching the sea of golden sand and

you know how amund is going "your quintessence" this "your quintessence" that? so respectful and everything?

NONE OF THAT IN JAPANESE. BRO IS SO RUDE AND PATRONIZING TO RAFAYEL LIKE ACTUALLY LOOKS DOWN ON HIM, even the voice is reflecting this. in english you'd think he's a subject wanting the best for his sea god but the japanese amund uses "omae" when addressing rafayel, which is SO RUDE. there are like, quite a lot of ways to say "you" in japanese and this is like at the top of the list of no-no. it's overly familiar and informal if its not rude. this is NOT the way to address someone you respect or see on a higher position than yourself. the suffixes of respect are also missing, there is no keigo (honorfic speech). he truly talks from the place of an angered "elder".

speaking of pronouns, rafayel never addresses the mc as "your highness" like he does it over and over again in the english dub. he says "kimi", which is a casual and often used towards someone of equal or lower status, commonly by males towards females.

and "your quintessence is not one to hesitate" in the english dub is actually "the old you wouldn't have hesitated like this" in japanese. which could mean nothing.

"you no longer need to play the suitor" in english is "the act of repaying the debt/returning the favor ends here" -- which i believe references rafayel should be done with repaying his debt to the mc for setting him free

while they're riding the camels and rafayel asks if she knows why the sea god "died", he says "(ningen ni damasareta) and got his heart stolen" . from what i know and correct me if im wrong, japanese doesn't always explicitly differentiate between singular and plural, so, The phrase "ningen ni damasareta" (人間に騙された) can mean either "tricked by a human" or "tricked by humans" in general, depending on the context. which also. could mean nothing.

"it's lemuria's history and the sea god's prophecy" which rafayel says about the tome is actually "These are the prophecies of past sea gods of/concerning/about lemuria" -- insinuating there are actually a lot of prophecies in the tome

"prophecies are but delusions. they are not reality" is "Prophecies are nothing more than nonsense born from people's dreams. You mustn’t believe in them." -- like, it's such a big difference and has so many layers to it.

"you've thought about it then? i may actually take your heart" is "have you thought about it carefully? Someday I might rip out your heart" which is. AAAAAA . SO BRUTAL???? THEY TONED IT DOWN.

"we'll head to whalefall city" becomes "You said you wanted to see the sea, didn’t you? Let’s go look for [geirakutou] together." WHICH INSINUATES THEY'RE ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR THIS PLACE LIKE EL DORADO AND NOT HEADING STRAIGHT THERE. Geirakutou likely means "falling island" or "island of descent" if its like 下落 (geiraku): decline, fall, or drop and 島 (tou): Island.

edit: the "bond" between them in english is [keiyaku] -- which means "contract", which is naturally binding yes, but doesn't really insinuate anything emotional like "bond" does. its transactional

I wish I could have access to the japanese transcript of written text so I could look for more little nuggets like this but alas im listening to japanese dub and english sub so all i have are spoken lines 😭 anyway let me know if im wrong somewhere or you want me to do this for other cards/myths??? because this is SO FASCINATING. so much is missing from english localization, i wish i knew chinese so i could look better into it AHHH

[the-impulse-to-love]

Fall For Me club <3 i felt so bad choosing ascensionism over it ):

LMFAOO its okay… somehow fall for me beats ascensionism personally 😭😭 its just. such a simple song but its so catchy and good and heartbreaking and the whalefall and

[h0neybane]

evelyn's to-do list!

HIIII im writing my to-do list for real!!! this will consist of all my oc/au/series/story/etc ideas and will constantly be updated as i start finishing things up and coming up with new ideas! FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS ANY OF THESE W/ ME I'D BE HAPPY TO TALK ABT THEM cw for: death, alcohol, addiction, rabies

Stories/Series Concepts:

╰┈➤ NRC School Myths: A series of stories about school myths at Night Raven College, their origins, and truths, told in second-person point of view where you are Yuu. A mystery/drama/horror series, a bit similar to Jibaku Shounen Hanako Kun. ⊹₊ ⋆╰┈┈➤ 1. The Ghosts of the Woods: In 1953, two best friends of the Ramshackle Dorm, one human and one dog beastman, have a falling out in the midst of november of their second year. The dog beastman contracted rabies from a bat while on a walk, his behavior escalating in aggression in the coming days. In their most explosive argument in the woods behind NRC, the dog beastman bit the human. In a moment of clarity, the dog beastman cried out in remorse, and the two wept as they held their final converastion. They both died in the woods that day. With a story told through the form of tall tales and dusty photographs in the attic of Ramshackle, it's up to Yuu to find out what really happened all those years ago. ╰┈➤ Whalefall (also an AU kinda): In which whales have magic imbued in them, and the eradication of them on earth through whaling begins to cause environmental catastrophy. When Yuuki, a young girl who was adopted into a family living in a coastal town, gets suddenly transported to Twisted Wonderland, she begins to learn that she's not as normal as she thinks— and not as human either. With the help of the Octotrio and some other mer at NRC, Yuuki finds out exactly what she is, and exactly why her home-world is doomed. A mystery/drama series. ╰┈➤ Bent on Bitterness: In which an NRC professor and the RSA librarian find companionship in each other through a shared love (read: addiction) of alcohol, first finding each other in a dingy bar in the port town of Sage Island. A bittersweet (unrequited?) romance series.

OCs:

╰┈➤ Salmon/Tuna Mermaids: Inspired by that one drawing: a salmon mermaid and a tuna mermaid who fall in love with each other, just to be ripped apart by the salmon mermaid's nature.

╰┈➤ Parapuzosia Seppenradensis Merman: A merman of an ancient, now extinct species of Nautilus. Cursed all the way back in the age of gods, he wakes up in modern-day Twisted Wonderland, having to face the fact that he is the last left of not only his family, but his entire species.

╰┈➤ Eastern Red Bat Beastman: i just wanted to make another cute dessert oc LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

╰┈➤ Mosquito Vampire Fairy: A diurnal fairy (the small kind) that "works" (read: messes around) inside the botanical gardens at NRC. Mischevious and sarcastic, she's Aprilla Belrose's rival and eventual love interest.

AUs:

╰┈➤ TWST Kuutei Dragons AU (with Evleo!!): Based on the manga 'Kuutei Dragons' or 'Drifting Dragons,' a crew of drakers (dragon hunters) take to the skies in their air ship, explore the world, and make some delicious food. At the center of this story is the Night Raven Draking ship, captained by run-away prince Leona Kingscholar and sponsored and named after Night Raven University. Evelyn, newly-graduated from NRU and a dragon biologist, joins the crew of the Night Raven Draking Ship after Crowley, headmaster of NCU, finally gets off his ass for once and does something productive, reccomending her to Leona. This AU will be open to other peoples OCs!! It will also include every single TWST character possible!

thats all for now!! going to update this whenever i need to

@taruruchi @honeyedpearcrushh @teighveepao @boopshoops @scint1llat3

@h2llish @viperbunnies @buttholesparkles @oya-oya-okay @cheerleaderman

@qsoap @angelwishess @gimmeurmoneyagh

[zoidandy]

🧸 and 🪺 :3

🧸 - how would your f/o try to comfort you if you were upset?

Hed kick Me and id punch him. Tripple Kick To his throat. Hes a crustacean so he doesnt feel it. He roundhouse kicks Me to the floor. I get up and start pulling on his Tentacles till he screams. He Slams me through a glass door, onto the asphalt, and throws a punch to my face. I Spit on his face. He swears, retaliates with another punch, missing, A car swerves and starts honking at us. We weestle until we roll in a river. The river carries us towards the ocean. We sink, hands and claws at each others throats. We see a whalefall near us. its so beautiful down here. I wish we could do this forever. We embrace

No but seriously I think hed just give me a hug. hed try to help me then apologize for not being very good at human emotions and id say me neither. We'd watch movies together after and id lay on him until i fall asleep then he puts a blankewrt on me 🙂and he kissies me goodnight 🙂 if thats okay wirh everyoen . is that okay

🪺 - describe your f/os perception of you before you got together, compared to what it is now!

anxious Af what is wrong with that guy. Kind of funny though. Wait kind of cute lol. I Like his passionate. And also Hes kind of charming sometimes if hes not trying. but he tries too hard sometimes. But .. hes kind of cute

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[bestworstcase]

Do you have any more diamond in the rough rwby fic recs? Reciprocity by sigruned was an absolute gem and I got so excited when they posted the final chapter. If not, may I share one with you? In the hall of the mountain king by st-whalefall is…riveting. So far it’s been an intense character exploration for Salem, Oscar, and Ozma, and what they’ve done with the premise is right up your alley. I know you said you don’t like fic recs from anons but I genuinely think you’d really enjoy this one. It’s worth a leap of faith. Happy fall! 🔥🍁🔥🔥

i'm answering this a bit late (bc i don't read fanfiction very often, alas) but i do have to say this was a very funny ask to receive because. yeah. bfrhdhxk if you hadn't said it first i woulda been like oh, mountain king is very good, terrific character writing, great imagery

but you beat me to it lmao

[tokengender]

彡☆ "This Place Will Become Your Tomb" -songic genders!

[PT: "this place will become your tomb" -songic [link to -songic flag] genders]

colors picked from the visualizers / music videos (if they have one), and from images of the sea creatures associated with each song!

atlanticsongic - a gender related to the song "Atlantic" by Sleep Token sea creature: viperfish

hypnosisongic - a gender related to the song "Hypnosis" by Sleep Token sea creature: brittle star

minesongic - a gender related to the song "Mine" by Sleep Token sea creature: sea walnut

likethatsongic - a gender related to the song "Like That" by Sleep Token sea creature: faceless cusk eel

loveyouwantsongic / TLYWsongic - a gender related to the song "The Love You Want" by Sleep Token sea creature: monkfish

fallformesongic - a gender related to the song "Fall For Me" by Sleep Token sea creature: falling whale [colors picked from a blue whale]

alkalinesongic - a gender related to the song "Alkaline" by Sleep Token sea creature: anglerfish

distractionsongic - a gender related to the song "Distraction" by Sleep Token sea creature: cookie cutter shark

descendingsongic - a gender related to the song "Descending" by Sleep Token sea creature: cock-eyed squid

telomeresongic - a gender related to the song "Telomeres" by Sleep Token sea creature: telescope octopus

highwatersongic - a gender related to the song "High Water" by Sleep Token sea creature: snailfish

missinglimbsongic - a gender related to the song "Missing Limbs" by Sleep Token sea creature: whalefall

tagging @radiomogai + @obscurian for archiving :)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

This is mostly a post for me to keep track of my tags but anyway

Ship Logbooks Expanded Universe:

#from the ship logbooks - a sequel AU to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley featuring the Walton siblings and Victor's surviving brother Ernest on a voyage to the Arctic for answers, but posts are mostly about the members of Walton's ship the Vulture

#the three/#tg3 - a trio of adventurers roam the countryside of early 1800s Czech lands to find a cure for vampirism afflicting one of them, plenty folklore creature shenanigans along the way

#the ship tiresias - a man cursed with the ability to see whether someone's fate is sealed boards a merchant ship only to find that the whole crew is marked for death

(all of the above take place in the same universe along with one more story based in Ireland that I don't have a tag for yet)

Worldbuilding projects:

#airbeasts - a setting on a Pangea-like supercontinent where the plains are inhabited primarily b nomadic peoples and a few steampunk-ish cities and transportation is done primarily b airships and dragon-like creatures called airbeasts

#whalefall - an exploration of a world and society on an alien planet where the ecosystem resembles deep sea whale falls

#birbverse - in a postapocalyptic future where humanity has gone extinct, corvids are now the dominant species

#slav warrior cats - exactly what it says on the tin, Warrior Cats but make it Slavic folklore

Other:

#skies over jura (SoJ) - Temeraire OCs, Lucien - the middle son of a judge from Lucerne - runs away from home and joins the underdeveloped Swiss Aerial Corps scrambling to prepare for Napoleon's threatening invasion

#osudy těžce průměrných vojáků zajíce netopýra a osla za světové války - three ocs based on the movie S čerty nejsou žerty/Give the Devils His Due

#wine dragons - a random idea I had about a system of dragon breeds and subtypes inspired by wine classification

#scraps - a dragon rider and his racing dragon in a world where dragon racing is not unlike irl Red Bull Air races

#roky ďábla - a postapocalyptic setting inspired by Fallout and Metro 2033 except based in Slavic folklore on the background of fallen socialist Czechoslovakia

#ledňáček a veveráček - another postapocalyptic fairytale thing

#dragonslayer - after a juvenile dromaeosaurid's brother gets eaten by a hatzegopteryx, she vows to free her pack from these beasts' terror and to master their predators' most powerful weapon - flight

OC projects co-owned with friends

#czechoslovak detective - a guy with a goal to solve everything the Czechoslovak National Security Corps won't

#riddles three - in an urban fantasy world is a café managed by sphinxes. answer the daily riddle for a free coffee!

#vampire bar - vampire ocs

#fantasy yeehaw gang - fantasy kitchen sink world. unfortunately no cowboys

#taxidermied birds - a travelling circus/freakshow

ToyHouse:

[the-jordas-trials]

I just wanna say, your post about Whalefall being stuck on the surface and with only Starshine's corpse. I just. Euhg. Eats the angst like it's spaghetti. Walks away with an art shaped throat

Also made me brave enough to make rp blogs for my ocs so thanks!! and your art is very very yummy. 5 star Gordon Ramsey dish.

@the-last-of-us-fall \ @and-the-rest-of-us-stand

oh wow this is by far the highest honor i have ever received! Im glad my art and my silly warhorses gave you enough confidence to start up rp blogs! and here, just for u. Some more angst. She might be alone but atleast she has dreams and memories

[llesbianwrites]

wip wthursday

thursday is basically wednesday when you think about it!!! when you consider it!! but thank you so much @frenchy-and-the-sea for tagging me - i forgot how much fun writeblr things are lol and actually have an excuse to write was so so nice! thank you sm!!

this excerpt is from. we'll be optimistic and say the first draft of whalefall <3

“There’ll be more,” she said. She was floating, a thousand miles away, the adrenaline keeping her sky high. Her head swam with black dots, her vision going nuclear. She wanted to lay down. Sleep for a thousand years. She wanted to be back home and with her father and she wanted him to say she did a good job and she wanted — she wanted. Like that had ever mattered. Alé didn’t need any prompting. “Lucky! Willa! Get Ruhi below deck then get back up here — I want this ship out now.” The ship sprang into action. Dove sank to her knees, shoulder aching from the gun, and let her head fall to rest on the nearest crate. Her eyes slipped shut. She would have sat there for the rest of her life, just breathing, just feeling her lungs move, if Bellamy hadn’t chosen that moment to creep up beside her. “Lemme see.” “I’m fine.” She was speaking to the box. It was a miracle Bellamy could understand her at all. “Well, the blood and gunshot wound say otherwise. Let me see.” Slowly, painstakingly, Dove peeled herself away. Movement brought pain, and as Bellamy began to prod at her cheek she couldn’t help but wince. A crease fell between her eyes, lips pursing, fingers poking just a little harder. “Ow,” Dove said, like her flinching wasn’t enough. But she didn’t jerk away. And she knew Bellamy didn’t want to hurt her. She knew how to do that better than anyone. When it happened she’d feel each inch of the blade. “Just a scratch,” she said. “Tides be damned, it’s just a scratch.” Dove waited for the relief to crush her. Eyes slipped shut, unmoored, Bellamy’s cool fingers against her skin the only grounding force left. But it never came. Tremors raced up and down her spine, electric spikes of leftover energy, sapping her strength and reducing her to shivers. When Bellamy pulled her hand away, she had to bite her tongue to keep from reaching for it back. “Always knew I was lucky,” she said, voice wobbling. She swallowed and tried again, opened her eyes. “Probably won’t even scar.”

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thinking agn. saw someone on twitter talking about how the archivists would be a cool parallel to the chicxulub meteor and that got me thinking about how the bi parallels the human realm alot and how their eras n stuff seem to be in unison. then remembered the hecktaceous and cretaceous period. and that made me think how long ago did the titan die? the meteor thing is cool but doesnt work when you think about it since the titan was dead during the end of the cretaceous period so i started looking at images, maybe something in the hecktaceous period would be a good clue

and i noticed. that's alot of fools blood. and according to what philip said in eclipse lake "The tunnels were filled with a substance known as Fool's Blood. It signifies a decaying vein." fools blood signifies a decaying vein. what is fools blood doing out in the open where no veins can be found? then it hit me, this fools blood is part of a vein that's almost gone, all that blue stuff around the fools blood is either flesh or part of the decaying vein, so in 145-66 million years the titan went from having visible decaying flesh on the surface to his veins existing only in the form of caves. that is a really minor change for such a large amount of time, so from this we can determine that it takes a while for titans to finish rotting. i mean. makes sense. they're giant

theres probably some genius out there that could calculate the rate of decomposition for the titan and determine how long it took for the titan to finish decaying, but that aint me. so i can only give my guess i think the titan archivist war happened somewhere in the paleozoic era. cambrian would be my best guess theres nothing else to add. because there's literally no more evidence. this is basically a glorified hc. so im gonna rant about papa titan cuz the idea of papa titan being dead for longer than we've existed fucks me up

After decades of fighting a losing battle, the very last titan, surrounded by the decaying bodies of his friends and family, uses his powers to create a fortress for his last remaining child and to seal what he believes to be one of his aggressors between realms, dooming himself to the same fate in the process. but like collie, he isnt dead, his body is split, connected by different realms. his heart still beats, but the same cant be said for all his other vital organs.,as the rest of his body shuts down, slowly falling apart, he becomes like a whalefall. becoming food for the already existing ecosystem while the seemingly limitless power in his titan blood gives way to new creatures. for his entire life, the death of a titan was something not to be sad over, but something to celebrate, after all, with each corpse it meant that there were more beautiful unique intelligent creatures coming to life. but as he stood there, with both feet in the inbetween's river, watching his corpse degrade, he felt nothing but a mix of ...sadness? anger? knowing they won, and that they were still out there, endlessly searching for his child, and that there was nothing he could do except entrust his kids safety to the thousands of golems guarding him. but it was only a matter of time before they would get through them, if they could take down every single titan, these golems were just childsplay to them. and so, he watched, watched as more and more creatures took chunks of his body apart, as volcanoes sprouted and choked out all the life there, as the witches that betrayed them moved onto his corpse. and just to rub salt into the wound, THEY were still there, the trappers, after tens of millions years of unrelenting search they're STILL here. their island surrounded by the bare skeletons of some of the last titans they ever killed, or maybe they were some of the first? he doesnt remember, it's been so long. all he remembers is that life on their bodies never got a chance to blossom, the skin forcefully ripped from their bones by the stars that declared war on them, their blood forged into weapons, their flesh turned into fertilizer, food, hundreds of things, until there was nothing left to take. it wasn't fair. none of it was. what did they do to anger the stars? what did they do to deserve such ruthless genocide? their blood? their blood is what betrayed them? their ability to nullify the power of the stars? seriously? its infuriating. despite how hellbent they were on wiping them out, they barely came down. they stayed up there. watching. waiting. they were too scared of the power of the titans to actually fight their fight so they got others to do it for them, witches. he once thought of them as one of the greatest things to ever come out of a titan, they mirrored their creators in every way, the titans even taught them how to do magic through the use of glyphs! they even evolved to gain their own magic source! not NEARLY as powerful as titan blood, but that bile sack of theirs wasnt anything to gawk at. why did so many rebel? the trappers mustve had tens of hundreds of thousands of troops, some were still with the titans and even helped fight but..there were so many.

for each of every titan, there were thousands more witches ready to fight . it wasn't a matter of strength, no. it was a matter of numbers. and with titan eggs having such unpredictable hatching times, they lost in that regard. so...why did they? the titans never did anything that would warrant this as far as he could remember, they mentored the witches and taught them how to co-exist with their deadly environment, they protected them and helped grow their crops, yet they still... there's no point. he knows he'll never get an answer. over the years he has forgotten much and has tried to forgive the witches, but theres something he'll never forget, something he'll never forgive himself for. the child from the stars, that poor little boy. he knew about them, his kids told him about them, he knew that their siblings in the sky pushed them around, that they hated all of this but that they didnt have a say in it, that he couldnt do anything. why did he attack? was it a fit of blind rage? was it panic? did the mere sight of one of them scare him that bad? he doesn't know. thats what infuriates him the most. he DOESNT KNOW. because of him, an innocent kid has been sentenced to purgatory til the end of time. sometimes he hears him crying out, banging on their prison, his screams echoing through their shared tomb, he couldnt bear to show his face, to look them in the eyes. maybe he deserved this, but THEY didnt. the amount of times hes nearly let himself sink in the inbetween, before rapidly swimming back up, he knows death is too good for him, as long as they remain wrongly imprisoned,, he will endure this punishment. maybe when his egg hatches he could get his child to free them..but thats probably not happening. its fantasy, the most he can do is just nudge things in a certain direction, to make the slightest burns or the slightest sparkles or the manipulate light to form a split second image. thats all he can do. so, hes forced to watch. forced to watch from another world much like the stars did, as his body corrodes, as more and more golems in the fortress break apart...as the demon realm forgets about everything. also, couldnt really find a place to add this, but i do think the meteor and the archivists work as a parallel, not as something that wiped out billions of living creatures, but as something that was completely out of the planet's control, something that wasnt planned, completely random. i said it in the thing before this but i think the hecktaceous period got wiped out not by a meteor, but by the boiling isles' equivalent of the deccan traps. in that little timetravel sequence we can see a GIANT volcano sticking out of the titan. the titan is a pretty mid sized continent, to have such a big volcano sticking out of it, i cant imagine the creatures on the isles surviving the ash clouds. also theres several smoke trails in the back, those might be more volcanoes or just wildfires, either way, not a good sign for wildlife on the BI.