#glothic

[alvoskia]

High General Glothic Nykari, the Infran of Blood

We are unique among the world. We should act like it.

[thethiefandtheairbender]

Do the Infran kids have Enneagram types?

Yes they do! more about them over on @alvoskia & inspired by Sleeping At Last's enneagram songs + my own research

Flames: One (The list goes on forever / Of all the ways I could be better, in my mind / As if I could earn God's favor given time / Or at least congratulations)

Bill: Two, which is mine! + bonus Infran of Water metaphor (A mighty ocean or a gentle kiss / I will love you with every single thing I have / Like a tidal wave, I'll make a mess / Or calm waters, if that serves you best / I will love you without any strings attached)

Ally: Three (Maybe this trophy isn't real love / And with or without it, I'm good enough / Maybe I've done enough / Finally catching up / For the first time I see an image of my brokenness / Utterly worthy of love / Maybe I've done enough)

Rayan: Five (I want to watch the universe expand / I want to break it into pieces small enough to understand / And put it all back together again / In the quiet of my private collection / It feels like an out-of-body experience / But something gets lost from a safe distance)

Isuri: Six (My mind was heavy / Running ragged with worst case scenarios / Emergency exits and the distance below / I woke up so worried that the angels let go / Oh, God, I'm so tired of being afraid)

Jamie: Eight (you were wrong / My healing needed more than time / When I see fragile things, helpless things, broken things / I see the familiar / I was little, I was weak, I was perfect, too / Now I'm a broken mirror)

George: Nine + bonus Infran of Time metaphors (So show me what to do / To restart this heart of mine / How do I forgive myself / For losing so much time? / Wake up, roll up your sleeves / There's a chain reaction in your heart)

Them all fitting pretty perfectly was not intentional—the majority had their roles and personalities picked out and developed well before later enneagram songs came out—but it is kinda cool how it worked out / makes me feel like I succeeded in my goal of giving each one a distinct personality / different goals and fears from one another.

The one Infran 'non kiddo' left out is Glothic, who'd be a Four (As if God hid the building blocks / Of every beautiful thing / In this game of hide and seek / I can't help but think / That ordinary has swallowed the key) which despite him having a more antagonistic role, is my favourite enneagram song (and not the only villain I've typed as a Four either, the other being Viren from The Dragon Prince)

[naughtybooks]

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A QUIRKY SCIENCE FICTION SAGA CONTINUES

The Very Unexpected Fourth Book in the Glothic Tales Trilogy

The planet Earth needs to be saved!Not from alien attack, nuclear destruction, or even being hit by a misguided comet. No, Earth needs to be saved from making millions of years of painful losses for Gloth, and it falls to March Gregorian, eldest son and heir to February the Twenty-Ninth, the Supreme Potentate of the Twelve Sun Systems of Gloth, to find a way to finally make Earth profitable. 

The obvious starting point in such a difficult assignment is, of course, to do some quick research and then ascertain the most lucrative tradable commodity a planet has to offer. Once that is clear, simply arrange to export a whole lot more of it and the problem is solved. As March prepares to make his first journey to Earth, he is sure he knows which Earth product will solve the problem – Salmon. Unfortunately for March, all does not go well on the salmon front, and he discovers all too quickly that Earth is not an easy place to manage, understand, or to squeeze a profit from. 

Faced with losing face with his father by returning to Gloth empty handed, March fears that his salmon failure may lead to serious doubts about his ability to remain heir to the Supreme Potentate. Luckily, however, his fears of losing his right to the throne evaporate in a flash when he stumbles upon a remarkable alternative solution - Swedes.

Don't panic if you haven't heard the first three episodes, as all is explained in March, the hum-along, foot-tapping, fourth hilarious Glothic Tale.

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[crowsinparadise]

The bot spam following thing is such an insta and twitter thing and never worked here on tumblr.

Spam bots are basically any type of bots (usually pretending to be hot white young women) that mainly work through the instant follow back method lot of insta/twitter users do (not working here because followers count is not visible and barely no one cares about it).

So the thing is, you (on insta/twitter) gain a ridiculously amount of followers that work with publicity agencies. Those agencies as soon as you reach X amount of followers (even if they're bots) contact you to "promote" their products. These usually scammy companies send you their products (often cheap jewelry and glothic-ish accessories) for you to review them and basically make those companies to gain purchases (that may or may not arrive to their clients).

So yeah, my advice here (and other sites in fact) is to block at sight every single bot following you.

Having the worst anxiety of MY LIFE. I gained another 30 followers on tumblr and 28 of them were bots plz tell me this is happening to everyone else too and not just me, cuz my ocd is spiraling and I'm thinking ppl are stalking me or smth!!! Plzz

[butterflyqueeen]

Meet Faye Butterfly, a Cosmic Queers member!!🌈 . . . I tested out my watercolour pencils on Faye and I think I did a good job??😅 I really love Faye, they’re really cute!😍❤️ #cosmicqueers #originalcharacter #fayebutterfly #psya #cutebaby Materials used= My A4 sketch pad, a sketch pencil (H), Hunter Studio’s watercolour pencils, @fabercastellglobal colouring pencils [image description: a drawing. Faye Butterfly in a pretty flower dress and wearing a glothic flower crown.] https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNm5GNhYJS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wjhd71yiz3nm

[alvoskia]

I want to know why were the Infran powers that were chosen? (Life, Death, Water, the Moon, Fire, Knowledge, Time, and Blood) Also I think it’s cool that some contrast each other like life & death and fire & water. But some don’t like there’s moon but no sun? 🤔 Also why are there 8 Infran but only 7 protagonists?

There were a few different reasons that went into selecting the ones I wanted! I can't go into all of them because some would be spoilers for much later on in uh, the Series, but I'll tell you what I can and what I remember from when I was picking 'em (everything was like solidified by 2016 so it's been a while, as you can imagine)

I knew I didn't want something that was just elemental, hence moving away from more than just Water / Fire and like. I was also drawn to wanting to build concepts for unique power sets; I feel like so often 'nature' powers is just "person A can control plants and that's about it," so building the Infran of Life's powers off the idea of Connection was a lot more freeing to me, allowing for some cool stuff you maybe wouldn't necessarily expect to be on the table.

I also kind of developed stuff in the ideas of contrarian pairs to a degree (Life vs Death, Time erodes Knowledge, Moon vs Fire/Sun, Water vs Blood in terms of family dynamics, etc).

For example, I knew my main two characters -- Ally and Jamie, otherwise known as the twins -- were going to be Life and Death respectively, reflecting the way they're both very different and very similar simultaneously, but often have an argumentative and difficult time with each other in spite of how much they love each other.

Your question about Moon with no Sun is actually a long-ranging debate in-universe, as Infrans have had different names (I imagine there's been some Infrans of the Sun > Fire for example) in different periods in time / cultures / and languages. I'd imagine one of my northern peoples would call the Infran of Death the Infran of Mercy, for example, instead

And the Infran we're 'missing' from the main cast is the Infran of Blood. I won't say too much more (though his character tag is kicking around here for admittedly minimal perusal) but here's our first real mention of him from the story! (This is 14 pages in so it's not too spoilery, y'know?). He's currently a lot older than the rest of his Infran generation by close to 20 years, but we get into why later

“Since George and I just have dreams,” Rayan continued, scanning the next page. “That means—” “About four of us should have counsel for an even split?” Counsel was coveted, more sought after than dream memories because it was more direct. You could actually talk to your past lives rather than just deciphering cryptic clues from glimpses of eras gone by.  Rayan nodded. “Three of us,” he corrected. Because they were seven out of eight. Right.  Nobody knew what Glothic of Kilvoskia had; he’d left before the Order could Claim or train him. Maybe he was so twisted his past lives were ghosts, his dreams nightmares he revelled in. It was horrible, but she couldn’t quite tamp down the pang of envy that well—he had something. Anything.

[thethiefandtheairbender]

every generation: the infrans of the last war

[scorpiobunnie]

[infrans]

Glothic: *appears for one second* Me: there he is, my son, my baby boy, my precious, murderous child. look at how he just stands there like a little troll, i-

I’m glad you like his character, as I was particularly pleased with how the description of his physical appearance came out! Just make sure not to woobify him - he’s still a sadistic murderer. :)

[hotchickarmy]

#glothic #glam #fashionnightout

[thethiefandtheairbender]

moodboards: glothic

In regards to Glothic, I will say only this: kill him quickly.