#nightshade cs

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A Re-Introduction…

Hey guysss! I’m making this post to re-introduce my OC’s, Olivia and Angeliki, because i feel like i haven’t posted properly about them in a while and some things have changed. Keep reading if you’re interested!! 🫶🏻

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Full Name: Olivia Mae Blackwood

Nickname(s): Goes by Liv to close friends. Hates ‘Livvy'

Operative Code - Name: Mirrorball

Gender & Sexuality: Female, She/Her, Omnisexual

Birthdate: 9th of October

Height: 5’11/180cm

Nationality: British/Romanian

Skin: Quite fair

Hair: A little below shoulder length. Black & not dyed.

Eyes: Green

Other features: Hairtype 2B, though she usually straightens it.

Family: Tori Blackwood (Sister) - Alexandra Blackwood (Mother) - Theodore Blackwood (Father) - Esther Blackwood (Grandmother)

Operative Outfit: A sleeveless black jumpsuit with a zipper at the front, a white hood tied at the neck, with a face mask that bares resemblance to a mirrorball. She has knee-high silver boots with daggers for heels that can attach and detach from the shoe. Also wears white gloves.

Brief Backstory Summary:

Olivia grew up alongside her sister Tori in Surrey, England. However, when a fatal accident caused the death of both their parents, Olivia and Tori (at that time age 10 and 16) moved to Romania to reside with their last known family, their grandma. Olivia’s life was extremely negative during this time; having to suffer through the worst parts of PTSD, trying to fit in at her new school and being submerged into a whole new world and culture was deeply overwhelming.

It only started to get better once Olivia met Ìsak when she was 16. He was the son of a successful fashion designer, and she soon fell for him. He gave her the illusion he could help her get away from her worries, away from the family he claimed were having a negative impact on her. So, in a moment of spontaneous thinking, Olivia ran away with Ìsak and his sister, Svana to France.

Olivia at that time felt like things couldn’t get better - and that’s when they started to get worse. It didn’t take long for Olivia to warm up to Svana, but it also didn’t take long for Ìsak to show his true colours. Manipulative, cold and critical: he gave Olivia a job as a model for his dad’s company, but soon found a way to control her through it. It was so bad to the point Olivia felt she couldn’t do anything, as he threatened her, saying he’d leave her behind with no money or job to her name. Though she wouldn’t break that easily.

After a long time thinking, she made her descision. One night, she successfully stole Ìsak’s money from him whilst he was sleeping, and made her escape. She booked a flight from France directly to the UK, back to her home country. It was then after she landed she began to work hard, earning money for herself and supporting herself without anyone else. It was also when she began her singing career, gaining little popularity at first but soon a surge of fame after a successful album.

It wasn’t that Olivia didn’t enjoy her newfound fame; she loved it, actually. But there were points where the stress and tediousness of the job got to her, and the mental issues that hadn’t been properly fixed within her began to eat her from the inside. She needed an escape. One day, she found an application form for a company. A company by the name ‘VILE.’ It wasn’t long before she joined, passed, and now held a second job as being a bodyguard for the Countess (they shared similar interests and is of use to Cleo, since she is one of the Faculty who travels the most outside of VILE island.) The job, to Olivia, was a break from all the paparazzi and reporters, flashings cameras and lights on stages. It was somewhere she could travel the world freely behind a disguise, where she could be a person again.

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Full Name: Angeliki Spyridis (Pronounced An - ghel - ee - key)

Nickname(s): Angel or sometimes Kiki

Operative Code Name: Nightshade

Gender & Sexuality: Biromantic Straight, Female

Birthdate: June 28

Height: 5’7/170cm

Nationality: Greek

Skin: Olive

Hair: Natural dirty blonde with darker roots

Eyes: Hazel

Other features: Has a small scar underneath her right eye. She has freckles, and a pear body shape!!

Family: Nikoletta Spyridis (twin sister), Varvara Spyridis (mother), Vasili Spyridis (father)

Operative Outfit: A black-and-white jumpsuit with a belt & hooks for her grenades which are filled with smoke containing poison (hence the code name), black shoes and a white gas mask.

Brief Summarised Backstory (This one is still kind of a WIP): Angeliki was brought up alongside her twin, Nikoletta, in Mykonos. Though their looks may be the same, the way their mother looked at each of them was completely different. Their dad was working abroad most of the time, so he had not a lot of say in the matter. Their mother however…

It was clear she favoured Nikoletta over Angel, the ‘golden child’ and prime example in the family. Angeliki was always to blame for one thing or another, and never got a fraction of love from her mother like how Nikoletta did. (I won’t discuss in detail right now but her mother is one of the main ways she got her scars). Angel always was in her twin’s shadow, despite doing everything in her power to be just like her, desperate for approval.

It was after a confrontation between Angel and her Mother at 16 when she had had enough. She was to pack her things and leave for Japan, with a friend of her mother’s, a woman by the name of ‘Lady Dokuso.’ Angel gladly agreed, and though it was sad to leave her sister behind it was the best decision she could make right now. Though, before she left, Angel gave one last act of revenge to her mother for all the years of negligence by stealing the family heirloom from her bedroom - an intricate, silver necklace encrusted with tiny sapphires.

And so Angeliki moved with her now tutor, Lady Dokuso, to Japan to start her new life. She made some friends there, though as she was not in public school (due to language barriers) she was alone for a lot of the time. But it was okay, she preferred it that way.

As she became an adult, her view of Lady Dokuso began to change. There was something off about her, she was definitely more than who she claimed to be. It didn’t take much interrogation for her to reveal she worked with an organisation called VILE.. and also not long before she offered Angel a position. She claimed after seeing her all these years she thought she could be the perfect fit, how her innocent and unsuspecting nature would make her a great undercover operative.

Angel agreed to this offer and is now at an undercover VILE base disguised as a florists’ shop in Stockholm, Sweden. She still desires to find her sister, to know where she is and what happened whilst she left. However, the one thing Angel didn’t know was that Nikoletta now worked for an agency - an agency called ACME.

Extra: I’m thinking of shipping Angel with Otter Man - they would be so cute together guys just HEAR ME OUT ‼️

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So there it is! Please give me feedback on my OC’s (either through comments or askbox), i would love so much to chat abt them with someone. Also, fanfics mayyy be on the way soon 👀

[audreyscribes]

Ω PJO MISC. DEMIGOD HEADCANONS: 🌟URANIA: MUSE GODDESS OF ASTRONOMY, ASTRONOMICAL WRITINGS🌠

a/n: I maaaaay have went overboard with this and channeled too much of my interest in astrology into this. Whoops? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [PJO MISC + MUSE DEMIGOD H/CS MASTERIST: [AO3] \\ [TUMBLR]

Out of all the muses, you’re not the most inclined to be the musical or artsy type; where you mostly prefer to sketch out astrological charts and poise out philosophical thoughts. If you do find yourself in a musical or artsy mood, nothing gets you more inspired than using astrology and astronomy more often than not. Which when you tap into your musical talents, you provide philosophical and imaginative inspiration to your audience, lifting peoples’ spirits as if to heavenly revelation.

You’re great at directions, time, the changing of the seasons, and the like as many of which uses astronomy as a key figure. You can figure any of the which just by looking at the night sky or even just looking at the shadows of objects projected by the sun.  So you’re never lost, whether on land or on sea. Although it’s not usually needed, you carry a golden compass around that is a related symbol of Urania. Your compass isn’t one of those ordinary compasses as it’s a timepiece with not only moving dials but it also shows the occasional movement of the planets. Sometimes though, if you look into it long enough, you feel like you can see the future.

In some cases, you are also able to predict the weather to some degree just by sheer connection of the planetary alignment, the earth’s rotation, and so forth. What’s special is that you are also able to somewhat predict even the lightning strikes and rumbles of the gods; to which Mr. D and Chiron appreciate the heads up for.

As ironic as it sounds, you’re either also into astrology or become interested in it. Y’know those horoscope pages that you see? Yeah that, except it's more or less accurate and is basically foresight but slightly below it. Like Urania, you’re able to foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars.

However, if you want to foretell an individual’s future, you’re requirement is a bit more specific as you have to ask what the individuals’ natal signs are. For those who don’t know, finding out your natal sign requires you to know the date and time you were born, where you were born in, to find out what your signs are; that include not only your SUN, MOON, MERCURY, RISING, MIDHEAVEN, VENUS, MARS signs. Those are easy to find out but the key parts is finding the signs people forget about, like their TRUTH NORTH NODE is. The more information your client knows about, the more you can discern their future.

You know the “The Road to El Dorado” stars meme? Yeah, that’s basically you’re literally saying “The Stars are not in position for this” and going “Stars. Can’t Do it. Not Today” either seriously or whenever something inconvenient happens. 

Because you have a connection with the stars, you are able to connect with them and talk to them to gather their wisdom and insight, and if you have a deep enough connection, you are able to borrow their skill and/or power. Your own natal signs that fall underneath them or relate to them is also influential to which ones you have a stronger connection with. It also helps that you know which stars are above you at the time and place, and whichever is in orbit is stronger to talk to.

For example, you had to gather and listen to the stories of Zoe Nightshade, the previous lieutenant of Artemis, and hear about her backstory and history. The more you learned about her, you were able to talk to her from the stars and she often gives you insight and guides your hand when you wield a bow and arrow. Now whether or not you listen to her about her opinion on men is another thing. 

You also have a slight connection with the hunters of Artemis, where they talk about astrology and astronomy with you, as they rely on it for directions and the stars are in the same plane as Artemis' moon. There's also this one hunter though among them that is a bit different and when you recount your interaction or conversations with Zoe, she gives you a relieved yet melancholy smile and thanks you. You haven't noticed it yet that there's a slight silver shine to you.

[daily-cs]

New Year 2017 Chameleon

[miyabinopenguin]

🐉🐺 HAKUKYOUHAKU WEEK 2023 🐺🐉

🪻For the prompt "Yellow Lupine", the flower symbolize friendship and it is also used to  express, to your friend or lover, gratitude and love. I used Tsurugi's Mix Max because 1) This is the "counterpart" of "Blue Star" and focus in CS (The two first prompts were focus in the S1 and last one in CS and mostly in "Tsurugi to Hakuryuu", this one I tried to focus a bit more in "Hakuryuu to Tsurugi")  2) I love his desing.

🐲 Day 1:��Infatuation | Team Zero Won AU | Aconite

🐺 Day 2: Rivarly | Knight & Dragon AU | Plumeria

🐲 Day 3: Bloom | Arranged Married AU | Blue Star

🐺 Day 4: Dungeons and Dragons | Werewolf AU | Yellow Lupine

🐲 Day 5: Sugary | Free Day| Blue Ballon

🐺 Day 6: Autumn Festival | Feudal Japan AU | Nightshade

🪻 Day 7: Interstellar | Future AU | Sumire

[killiansprincss]

Timeless - a Captain Swan AU - Chapter 2/19

Summary:

Season 3 divergence - When Zelenas time portal works, Henry wakes up alone in Storybrooke and must travel to the Enchanted Forest to get his family back. Only once he gets there he quickly realises its not like the one in his book, theres no Evil Queen and his mother Emma wasn't put through a wardrobe, theres even a poster inviting the entire kingdom to her engagement ball, to Hook. What will happen once Henry gets them to break this new curse and they get their memories back? In which chapter is inspired by a different Taylor Swift song.

AO3 CH.1

This is the newest chapter in my new CS Enchanted Forest with a twist AU, this fic has my entire heart so please read it! This is a Snowing chapter and will be focusing on Captain Swan very soon!! Please enjoy :)

Marys Song -

She said, "I was seven and you were nine"

I looked at you like the stars that shined

In the sky, the pretty lights

And our daddies used to joke about the two of us

Growing up and falling in love

And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyes

And said, "Oh my, my, my"

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“Johanna, I'm so bored.” Princess Snow, at 7 years old, was an independent girl. She loved her parents, but she was stuck inside her palace, and after 7 years of roaming around every inch of the palace, she wished to go outside.

“My dear Snow, why are you bored?” Snow loved Johanna, her lady in waiting. She was like a mother to her when her own mother was busy, but she didn't understand that she needed time away from the palace, she wanted to be like the girls she sees outside her window.

“Johanna please. We can tell mother and father I need a riding lesson! Or you wish to teach me about nature?” Snow was desperate to see the outside world.

Johanna sighed. “I will see what I can do.”

Snow smiles, she knows she’s won, Johanna is pretty easy to wear down.

A few days later Johanna tells Snow they can go riding together outside the royal path, and snow couldn’t be happier. 

“Snow! Snow! Wait, you can’t go too fast!” Johanna calls out as Snow's horse gallops ahead slowly out of sight.

Snow's horse Nightshade starts to gain speed and she unintentionally loses sight of Johanna.

“Nightshade! Slow down! Ahhhhh.” Snow starts to scream as she clutches on Nightshade for dear life.

Nightshade neighs loudly and comes to a halt, throwing Snow off screaming as she hits the ground.

“Hello? Are you okay?” She hears a voice say.

She opens her eyes to see a boy, blonde scruffy hair, no older than 10 standing over her. He gives her a hand and helps her to her feet.

“Thank you.” She says to the boy. He was wearing ragged clothes and had dirt on his face. He was very different to any boy she had around the castle, even the stable boys were better dressed than he was.

“I’m David! What’s your name?” He asks.

“I’m..My name is Mary.” Snow smiles at the boy. She considered telling him who she was, but then again this was the first person her age not from the palace and she wanted to see what it was like. Being a normal child. “Do you live here” 

The boy, David nods. “Me and my mother do, we grow crops on our farm to sell at the market, where do you live?”

Snow couldn’t tell him she lived at the palace, so she simply says, “I don't live far from here, but my parents don’t let me out of the house much, I don’t have many friends.”

“I’ll be your friend!” David says, as if it’s the most natural thing in the world, Snow liked him, he had an infectious smile, and he was the first person to not see her as a princess,

“I like you David! You seem like a good friend!” They talk for almost an hour until Snow hears Johanna on her horse frantically looking for her.

“Oh no.”

“Is that your mother?” David asks.

“Not exactly no, but I may have lost her on my journey here.” Snow explains.

‘There you are! I have been looking for you! I was worried sick!” Johanna loved Snow, she cared for her like a daughter, and not just because it was her job to do so.

“I’m sorry Nightshade lost control and threw me off, I don’t know where he went. But I made a new friend, his name is David! He owns a whole farm, isn’t that amazing!” Snow always looked for the positives in life, something awful could happen but Snow would look and see the good thing, something her mother taught her, always look for the good even  in the worst of situations

“We have to get you back home, your parents will be worried sick!” Johanna says, wiping the mud off Snow's dress.

“What about my friend? When can I see him again?” Snows asks, she wasn’t about to leave the first friend she had made.

David smiles at Johanna, there was something about this girl that he liked, he wanted to see her again.

Knowing Snow would keep pestering and pestering her she simply says, “Okay, okay. As long as you stay on the trail with me. Tomorrow, I can see what your mother thinks.”

Snow smiles, “see you tomorrow David! I can’t wait!”

“See you tomorrow Mary!” David calls out as Johanna helps Snow onto Nightshade.

“Mary?” Johanna asks.

“He can’t know I’m a princess, he won’t want to be my friend. Please Johanna please, don’t tell him.” Snow begs, this is her one chance to be somewhat normal, to have someone look at her like she was normal.

Johanna reluctantly agrees and the next day, Snow goes back to David and his farm. And the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that. They become best friends, Snow helps him harvest the crops, and he even gets her to milk the cow. Snow loved it, she was coddled at the palace, her mother would scream if she knew the things she was doing. But she didn’t care, she was having fun and that was all that mattered. 

A few months later, after spending every few days together, Snow isn’t able to keep up her secret for much longer.

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“We’re going to the King?” David asks his mother, excited to see the palace that rumour has it is remarkably beautiful.

“Yes my dear son. The Farm is suffering, and we need his help.” Ruth explains to her son. Their farm had been suffering for weeks, but Ruth was stubborn and wanted to find a way without asking the King for help. Too proud. But after the crops had been wilting they were not able to sell any to the market, and hadn’t the money to sustain themselves.

“Wow the Palace! I can’t wait to tell Mary about this!” David and Mary had become fast friends, they told each other everything, she would tell him about her horse Nightshade and he would tell her about how he ran around chasing his sheep. He knew she was clearly from a wealthy family-her clothes were nicer and not many families could afford a horse for their children. But she wasn’t snobby like some of the richer kids in the kingdom or the ones he met during his brief moments at school who looked down on him for not having much money, but Mary she didn’t mind that he had to work for his money, she was happy to get her pretty clothes a little muddy. He liked that she was different. And since he didn’t bother to go to school anymore he didn’t get to meet any other kids his own age. He knew he had a good friend in her.

King Leopolds and Queen Eva’s palace was grand. It was far more elegant than he could’ve imagined. There were colours he had never seen before, and the walls were decorated with so many paintings. One wall was lined with paintings of who he assumed were all the royals, they each had crowns sitting atop their heads with brightly coloured jewels.

They join the line of other people. His mother said that around this time of year, the King and Queen are generous and like to help out their people who are in need. There are roughly 10 people in front of David and his mother. He sees the Queen sitting on the throne at the end of the room, she has dark hair and a red dress on. The King sits beside her in deep conversation with the man at the front of the line. Then at the end, David presumes is the princess, he isn’t the tallest so he can’t see her very well but she sits on her own throne and her parents seem to adore her. 

It must be nice, David thinks, to have two parents. David was always told his father was a brave man who sacrificed himself for others and that’s why he wasn’t around. But David wasn’t dumb, he didn’t know exactly what happened but he remembers hearing them fighting all the time and vividly remembers sneaking out of bed one night when the fight was really bad, his mother was yelling at him for being drunk. He also remembers her crying a lot, when he didn’t come home. And the day she told him he was gone forever, that was not a good day.

“Your majesties.” Ruth bows in front of the King and Queen when she gets to the front.

The King and Queen smile. “Whatever can we do for you?” 

“Mary?” David creeps out behind his mother to take a look at the royal family, and in the Princess’ throne, Princess Snow, was his best friend Mary.

“David!” Mary, no, the Princess replies. “I can explain!”

“Snow?” Queen Eva looks to her daughter and to the young man. “Do you know this boy?”

“You’re the princess?” David looks at his friend in disbelief, she was lying to him?

“I wanted to be a normal girl for once, not a princess. So I’ve been getting Johanna to sneak me out of the palace.” She tells her parents. She looks over to David and his mother, fearing that he won’t want to see her again, “I’m sorry I lied. I thought you wouldn’t want to be my friend if you knew I was a Princess.”

The Queen whispers to her guards who announces to the rest of the people waiting to speak to the King and Queen would have to come back later. They needed to know what their daughter was getting up to.

“You’re Majesties, I had no idea young Mary here was Princess Snow.” Ruth felt so embarrassed, she had come to the Royal Family for help with her farm and ended up being in the middle of a scandal with her son. “But she and my son David have become quick friends, my boy has been getting her to milk our cows and feed our pigs. If I had known the truth, I wouldn’t have allowed this to happen.” Now the thoughts of the young girl mucking out didn’t sit well knowing her life of luxury and servants waiting on her. 

King Leopold crouches down and looks at his daughter in the eyes, “Is it true? You’ve become friends with this young man?”

Snow nods, worrying what will happen. But Leopold just smiles and takes a look at David. “I’m not going to deny my daughter friendship. I admit I worry about my dear Snow so we do keep her locked up where it’s safe, but if she has found a friend in you young man, then I say why stop the blossoming friendship.”

Queen Eva can see how happy her daughter is, and like her husband said, who are they to deny friendship, “I believe it will do Snow some good, having a friend like you David. You can teach her that just because she is a princess, does not mean she is any better than someone like yourself who was not born into royalty.”

The King and Queen in the spirit of friendship pay off all the loans on the farm, and promise that if times get hard again, they would be more than happy to help again in the future, it was the least they could do for David who was their daughters first real friend. David and his mother were always welcome in the palace to see Snow, except when she had royal duties or lessons.

“You’re not angry with me?” Snow asks David, “for lying to you?”

David shakes his head, “I couldn’t be angry with you! I think it’s really cool you’re a princess!” He takes a look around at the ceiling, seeing all the floors and rooms it must have, “you just have to show me around the palace!”

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I was sixteen when suddenly

I wasn't that little girl you used to see

But your eyes still shined like pretty lights

And your daddy used to joke about the two us

They never believed we’d fall in love

Years passed for Snow and David, and they remained best friends, well into their teen years. The King and Queen had offered Ruth and David roles at the palace, so that David could be close to Snow, and Ruth would not have to worry about the harsh winters but they politely declined, they loved their work on the farm too much. The three parents were amazed at how close their children were, they would joke that a royal wedding was in their future, but at their young ages they couldn’t think of anything worse.

Until that changed slowly over the years.

“I don’t like that Hercules kid.” David says seeing Snow excited to go hunting with her new “friend” who happened to be half Greek god.

“Okay Charming.” Snow teases, using the nickname she gave him a while back, “just because he’s a demigod doesn’t mean you need to be jealous, you’re just as strong and powerful as he is, running around after the pigs and carrying milk to the market is a hard job!”

“I’m not jealous! I don’t care how big his muscles are.” He lies, hoping Snow doesn’t detect any more jealousy. “It’s just that Greek gods are known for being corrupt, what if Hercules is also corrupt and will corrupt you by association?”

“He’s just teaching me how to use a bow and arrow, it’s not that deep!” Snow rolls her eyes at her best friend, he was overprotective sometimes, or at least that’s what he said.

The truth was, David was in love with Snow. He doesn’t know how or when it happened, but he was in love with her. He started to notice how her hair shone in the light and how her green eyes would light up when speaking about something she liked. He’d look at her lips and wonder what it would be like to kiss her. She was his best friend and it did worry things would change which is why he kept it hidden.

David would make excuses to come and see her more often because not seeing her was painful. But now she had started seeing Hercules, a literal Greek god who was good looking with large muscles and perfect hair, of course Snow was obsessed with him, he didn’t blame her, it would be if Aphrodite was around-though David did wonder if her beauty would compare to Snows. He was too afraid to tell Snow how he felt, she was a princess and he was just a shepherd. He couldn’t be with a princess, she was going to marry someone rich and noble and have royal babies while David would be left alone on the farm until he died.

“All right well I have to get back to my mother, those pigs don’t feed themselves.” He was too much of a coward to say how he truly felt, one day she would announce her engagement to a prince her parents chose, and David’s heart would truly break.

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“Stupid Hercules, with his big muscles and being a half god.” David was angry. Not at Snow, not directly at Hercules either. He was angry at himself for not saying anything sooner.

“Stop stop stop.” Ruth tells her son, she can see his head is not focused. “You realise you're not feeding the pigs anything?” Gesturing to the empty bag of pig feeder.

“Sorry, I guess I’m just a little distracted.”

His mother nods, “I can see that. Go to her. Tell her how you feel before it’s too late.”

David scoffs, “I don’t know what you mean.”

“I’m your mother. I know everything. I see the way you look at her, you’re not just friends anymore are you.” And it wasn’t a question she was asking, it was a fact.

David kisses his mother on the cheek and runs to the palace, he was going to tell Snow how he felt. At last.

When seeing Snow, he would use the servants entrance rather than go through the main gates, it would take him into the kitchens where he’d smile at the head chef who knew him as he went to the passageway that led to a stairway outside Snow’s room. He lingers in the stairway next to her door for a few moments, working up the courage and going over what he was going to say.

“Johanna, I can't believe it!” He hears Snow's voice from inside.

“I take it you had a good time?” Johanna was still Snow's most loyal servant, he had gotten to know the older woman over the years and knew how much Snow loved her.

“He kissed me! Hercules actually kissed me! My first real kiss, I can’t believe it!”

In a matter of seconds David’s heart broke into a million little pieces. He was already too late. Hercules had got there first.

What really hurt was ‘my first real kiss’. David was her first kiss, granted they were both young and it wasn’t anything romantic, Snow dared him to kiss her, and he did. They both laughed about it, it didn’t mean anything. Except it did to him. He thought about it all the time, and as he grew older he wanted to kiss her again. Now he will never get the chance.

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Snow hadn’t seen David in almost 2 weeks. It was a long time, Snow didn’t have any royal visits or duties planned so why hadn’t he come to see her?

Hercules was also gone, he was going to complete his next labour and he was one step closer to Olympus. Before he left, he kissed her goodbye. It was magical and beautiful, but he was gone. She would miss him, but they had only spent a few weeks together, and she didn’t love him. The kiss was nice, but her heart didn’t belong to him.

David on the other hand. What was it about the shepherd, he made her feel things nobody else did. The only person who knew of her feelings for him was Johanna. She probably knew the moment they met that they would end up falling in love. Except, he only thought of her as a friend. He will only ever think of her as a friend. He was always the little boy she met on the farm, who chased around the chickens and didn’t care that he had dirt on his face, but then over the years he became sweet and Charming, hence his nickname, and she kept thinking about his eyes. She would close her eyes at night and he would appear in her dreams, confessing his undying love for her, but then she would wake up and he would just be her friend.

For some reason he hadn’t been showing up, he would send letters saying he was busy with the farm, or he was making extra trips to the market. Something was up, and she was going to find out what.

She went to find her horse Nightshade, and rode up to his farm. He was there, he wasn’t at the market, and it didn’t seem like he was that busy.

“Hey Charming, you look really busy at Market Day.” She shouts as she dismounts Nightshade and ties him to the tree.

David drops the chicken feed, not expecting to hear her voice. “Dammit.” The chickens are now all around his feet where the food fell, pecking at him. His mother was going to kill him.

“Snow? What are you doing here?”

“What am I doing here?” Snow was shocked, and annoyed that he was feigning innocence, “Where the hell have you been David? I haven’t seen you in almost 2 weeks, I miss my best friend.”

She hears him mumble something, and can’t quite make it out, she thinks she heard Hercules name. “What was that?”

He makes his way out of the chicken cot. “I said, I thought you were too busy courting Hercules.”

“I’m not courting anyone, and certainly not Hercules.” She says standing up straight and poised, careful not to let any emotion slip past her guard,

“No?” He asks, eyebrow raised clearly not believing her.

“No of course not, and I’m not sure why you would think so.”

David shrugs. “Just assumed so, I mean you were spending so much time together.”

“I thought you weren’t jealous?” Snow didn’t know why he was so jealous all of a sudden, even if she was romantically involved with Hercules it shouldn’t matter to David who has not once shown any interest in her other than friendship.

“I’m not jealous.” He’s lying, Snow can tell, she can always tell when someone is lying to her.

“David I’m not sure what is going on with you lately, one moment you’re my friend, the next you’re avoiding me and acting jealous because I’m spending time with someone else.” She wanted answers, she was tired of playing it safe. “If you don’t want to be my friend anymore then I don’t care.”

She turns her back and walks back over to Nightshade, if he was going through something, then he could figure it out on his own.

David swears as he runs to catch up with her. “Look, you were my best friend, still are. But I think I love you Snow. And no, not just as a friend. I think about you all the time, I want to be with you, I want to kiss you again and not laugh about it. I don’t care that I’m just a shepherd, I’m in love with you.” He looks into her green eyes and tries to read her reaction but he can’t, so he continues, “but if you’re with Hercules, how do I stand a chance against someone that’s a Greek god? I know that I’ll never be enough for you, but I want you to know that I’ve been in love with you for years and I don’t think I’ll ever not love you.”

Snow doesn’t say anything. She’s in shock. He loves her? Really loves her? The boy she’s been in love with for years, loves her back?

David watches Snow's facial expressions, sure she’s shocked and thinking and probably finally realising why he had been acting strange the past few weeks. When she doesn’t say anything back, he realises it was a mistake and turns back to his farm.

“Charming wait!” She calls out. Instead of saying anything, she runs over to him, grabs his coat turning him to face her and says nothing as kisses him. She kisses him for the first time, nothing like when they were younger no. This kiss is something she has wanted to do for years, she’s no longer the 9 year old that got kissed by David as a joke, she was 17 and in love with her best friend. He was the only person she wanted to be with.

“Wha-what was that for?” David asks when they finally pull away.

Snow laughs. “Seriously? Charming, I love you too. I think I’ve loved you for years, I just assumed you only ever saw me as a friend. And Hercules by the way, he’s gone. I didn’t love him, it’s you who I want to be with.”

David kisses her again. This was perfect.

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Years pass and Snow is still in love with David. David’s mother is over the moon, she wants only happiness for her son. The King and Queen on the other hand were a different story. They loved David, he was a great friend to Snow and he made her happy, they adored him for that reason.

However the kingdom was suffering, they were not as rich as they once were. They always wanted Snow to marry for love, but they didn’t think she would fall for the penniless shepherd. She couldn’t marry him, he would bring no money and no wealth to the kingdom. Snow had to be married to another prince, or a duke from a wealthy kingdom.

The two had spoken about marriage over the years, whilst Snow knew her parents wished for her to marry a nobleman or Prince, she knew they loved her and loved David. She wanted to marry for love and did not think they would have a problem. David on the other hand did have his reservations, whilst he loved Snow and wanted nothing more than to spend the rest of their lives together, he couldn’t imagine actually marrying her and marrying into royalty. Life would be different. But then for Snow it was worth it.

So the two lovers go to the King and Queen to ask for their blessing.

“Your majesties, you know how much I love your daughter. She makes me happy every day and I can't imagine life without her.” He smiles at her and she squeezes his hand in reassurance. “I know I do not come from much, I am but a shepherd but I promise to love and cherish your daughter every day, I wish for your blessing to marry her.”

It’s King Leopold who speaks first. “David, we understand how you feel about our daughter. I do not doubt your intentions.”

Queen Eva picks up where he doesn’t know how to continue, “Snow. Dear sweet Snow, as much as we would love for this union to happen, it simply can’t. Our kingdom will be in debt three years into your marriage if you do not marry a nobleman. We were going to introduce you to the idea of suitors but then the two of you began a courtship of your own and I was hoping you would come to your senses. I’m sorry but we do not accept this union.”

Snow didn’t know what to say, she looked at her parents with wide eyes and shakes her head, lip trembling as she fought the tears that wanted to come out. There was nothing to say to them so she storms out of the palace with David at her heels. It’s only when she is outside the palace walls that she drops down and tears begin to flow.

“Let’s run away together.” Snow tells him a few nights later. Since telling their parents, Snow had been staying with David at the farm, avoiding her parents.

“What?”

“I mean it. Let’s get married, and run away together. I don’t want to be a Princess or Queen if I can’t be with you. So let’s get married, without telling my parents. It can be just you, me, your mom and Johanna. Then we can run away and start our lives together.” Snow was crazy, David thought, but brilliant at the same time.

He kisses her and tells her, “If that’s what you want.”

“I’m only happy if I’m with you.” And she meant it, they were meant to be together, she could feel it.

“In that case.” He drops down to one knee and pulls out the ring he’d had in his pocket for months. It wasn’t new, it wasn’t the fancy jewellery she was used to, he wouldn’t be able to afford that if he tried, he’d end up starving for 2 years before he could buy a cheap metal band. But the ring he gives Snow is special, it’s his mothers, he didn’t want to accept it at first, his parents' marriage didn’t work out. But Ruth said she saw great things in he and Snow's future, she was getting old and wished for nothing more than to see her son get married before she died.

[salty-cs]

did the bison HAVE to be made by lillian nightshade. im so sorry but i will always hate her cs pet style its so ugly :/

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[aurae-rori]

looking back on penacony i still can’t get over all the references to the waste land (massive fuckoff poem by cs lewis) and how perfectly it fits together bc despite all the textual and cultural references its ultimately about what one does in the wake of annihilation. its the fragments shored against ones ruin trying to make sense of the broken pieces left behind. i think it’s beautiful and perfect for penacony and its also my favorite poem like. ever. and it makes me really happy to see it get used. tldr mihoyo let sunday quote the second coming by yeats or even just say something about things fall apart or something about turning in the widening gyre. and my life is yours

- xoxo a very tired jetlagged aria/robin nightshade

You were so fucking real for that, I'm gonna have to look it up and read it because i fucking LOEV POERY RAAHAH

[mod-python]

i am so tired of lillian nightshade dragons. genuinely hate most of her cs pet designs and ik thats an unpopular opinion but seeing the same few patterns repeated on every dragon she makes is frustrating when every other artist can make actual unique designs

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[darkdreamtheorist]

Cosmology of N’gaea, or What if Humans were the Virus?:

After Covid-19 eradicated all human life*, animals roamed Earth wild and free. #HumansAreTheVirus.

Suddenly a new mutation fell from the night-lit sky in the form of Circene, radiant green spores found in many grasslands and shrooms that latched onto the beasts from within thru lapping, brushing or grazing, physically altering their forms and altering their minds; they stood on their hind legs, produced human speech, gained intelligence. Some species have fully evolved to a human-like status with some of their features and now live like their former masters.

Three new class systems arose from these changes, namedso for the creatures of various literary figures containing animals in them andof how much Circene came into their systems: The Talkative Narnians from CS Lewis, the Housebroken Barbans of Brunhoff, and the Uplifted Mobians, namsake of the world which a speedy blue hedgehog hails.

However, another mutation branched out from the green spores. As Circene came from the nightshades bearing its name and in puffstool shrooms, a second type, Moly, sprouted about as did the Snowdrop flowers bearing the very same medicine Odysseus used to cure his crew and others from Circene’s curse. When taken in high doses, Moly would siphon any amount of Circene in an animals’ body and permanently erase their newfound lifestyle w/o taking cautionary measures. This dichotomy granted each species a choice to cross between the three classes.

Fun facts about N’Gaea:

- Civil licenses grant Narnians a freedom of transition via id collar or chip, allowing for certain privileges like finding jobs, affordable housing, and can choose whether or not to wear clothing in public,permitting they wear the collar, while Barbans can freely swap between feral & anthro forms by just how much clothing they wear (Zuzel the Fox). It does get awkward in changing rooms when you think a wild boar raided JC Penney in their birthday suit

- Adoption services grant similar privileges as a Civil license to both Barbans and Narnians while under supervision by a foster guardian, usually domestic animals, but don’t be too shocked if a bear lives in the same home as a nuclear family of deer adopted or as an in-law

- Certain diets had to be controlled, as predation upon any prey is illegal unless they were Narnian, or under a business like Herd Thinners or Dewclaw’s Fine Meats. You have to maintain some degree of natural order when they’re your boss, employee, or your mother.

[c-d-p]

so um uh guys

if i ever were to hypothetically find motivation to write a fanfic

wtf should i make it about!!1!1!1!1!!!!

I have two similar ideas, but i want other people’s inputs;

OKOKOKOK i don’t think i made my question clear enough so let me explain

If you pick Olivia & Angel Lore, you’d be getting the full story behind their lives. Each segment i write about them will be the most important events in their life, the fic will end once they get their VILE acceptance letter.

OR…

If you pick Olivia & Angel VILE life, you’d get the opposite basically. It’d be what their life is like in VILE, relationships with other characters, missions etc etc. Not sure how i’d plan this one out, but i’d be happy to write it if that’s what the majority votes for!

In the future i’m hoping to write both fics, but ig i’m just letting you all have first pick? Anyway pls vote, last time i did this i got 0 votes and i reallly need to decide pls and thank you 😣

[tedkaczynskiofficial]

Even if you don't like generative models, this blog post is an amazing read. It also explains why Glaze and Nightshade aren't going to work on "local" models. People aren't training generative image models on their own personal computer. They're using Stable Diffusion and "fine tuning" it with LoRA (the math/stats people always make fun of CS people's sexy names, but I like this one). The UChicago people replied to a Twitter thread confirming that they didn't/don't expect Nightshade to work for LoRAs (someone put a screenshot somewhere else in the notes, and I didn't think to grab it. Maybe it was OP?).

If you know an image has had both or either applied, you can basically tell the model that the image is wrong and improve the model using the borked pictures. I think it is really cool that Max Woolf figured out how to do this in this particular case, but I think it should be made clear to non-ML people that augmenting/perturbing data is like... a foundational strategy to improving a model. Sometimes the augmentations are as simple as up-sampling classes that are underrepresented, but the popular ML libraries actually include functions to bork images to train image classifiers on (not in the same way as Glaze or Nightshade, but still).

i feel quite bad for people who are convinced nightshade and glaze are going to fix the balance of power in the art world because it really won't. they're quite useless and extremely easily circumvented, but trying to tell anyone this results in you getting shouted down. buddy i wish it worked too!

[audreyscribes]

Ω PJO DEMIGOD HEADCANONS: 🌕 ARTEMIS: Goddess of the Hunt and Wilderness, Archery, Moon, Maidenhood and Childbirth 🏹

author's note: I had a sudden idea about writing some headcanons Camp Halfblood demigods being claimed and what it's like for each respective god and cabin, followed by a small blurb afterwards. Thank you for reading and please like and reblog! The order is not in order of the cabin numbers. [PJO DEMIGOD HEADCANONS MASTERLIST]

You’ve become one of Artemis’ ‘children’ as you joined the hunters of Artemis and became part of the sisterhood. 

For the most part, it’s a pretty nomadic way of living. You’re constantly on the move, hunting animals and monsters with your fellow sisters and companions. It's pretty comfy and the tents they set up are great (they also have full blown washrooms somehow, so no need to forgo running water) so it feels like glamping. But every now and again, Artemis takes you guys to stop by Camp Half-blood. 

Say what you will, there's something being stationary and sleeping in an actual building, in actual beds. 

You see the curious eyes watching you and your group, but they keep their distance given boys are off-limits and girls either look at you with awe or disdain. 

Y'know how the Apollo cabin often has archery matches with the Huntresses? Although they don't particularly become any closer, there is some sort of connection between your cabins. Probably because Artemis and Apollo are twins, and Apollo's children don't seem particularly attracted to your group, so there's something there. 

You take part and help out with the annual recruitment at the Camp. Teaching other potential maidens about what it's like being a Huntresses. You're told that they always have one interested individual that joins them by the time they leave camp.

Braids are often a common hairstyle among the hunt, aside from ponytails. Being on the move doesn’t allow much time to dwell on hair aside from basic hair care, so keeping it in a braid is often more of convenience. There’s usually a mass hair-washing station and it becomes a group bonding experience. All the hunters help braid your hair and teach you other styles along the way, and it’s not uncommon to see a hair braiding train. This often also leads into storytelling time and devolving much like a sleepover, bringing a certain sense of nostalgia.

You know you’ve become part of the hunters when Artemis asks you to help braid her hair. Your hands will shake and you will stutter, but as she encourages your hands to weave her hair, you feel honoured and the barrier between her and you is less daunting. 

Other than Dionysus, people feel envious and are curious what it’s like being around a god so often. Artemis accompanies you on your hunts more often than not, and usually is not around when she has to attend a council with the other Olympians or tend to her nightly duties. It’s a see-saw of perception being around Artemis; on one hand, you’re aware of who she is but on the other hand, when you’re hunting together or when she joins you with the other hunters, you forget she’s a deity.  

If you joined in when Zoe is a lieutenant, she is strict but fair. She is the ultimate big sister of the sisterhood. She may seem a bit cold to you but as she helps guide your shooting stance and gives you tips, tells you to zip up your parka or checks your supplies, you know she cares for you like a sister. In fact, you notice she seems more at ease as she looks after you and your sister…it makes you think if she had biological sisters. 

When Thalia is now the lieutenant, it takes some time to get used to. There’s a bit of friction and gap, since Zoe was in that position for over 2000 years. However, Thalia is confident and has the qualities of a leader, so her stumbles become sprints. She is different from Zoe in how they bond with the sisterhood, but if Zoe was the cool, proud sister, then Thalia is the fun, laughable sister that wouldn’t hesitate to give you a noogie.  

You looked upon the silver lady, her entourage of people behind her. The moon was full behind her head, bestowing a glow on her and you were just in awe to be in her shadow. 

A tall and graceful girl stepped forward and she regarded you with a pointed look. “If you wish to join our lady and our hunt, you must pledge yourself from romantic love and swear loyalty to Lady Artemis and our sisterhood.”

You nodded as she nodded back. “Recite this oath: I pledge myself to the Goddess Artemis. I turn my back on the company of men, accept eternal maidenhood, and join the Hunt.”

You recited this pledge and the girl with moonlike qualities smiled. “I, Artemis, accept this pledge. Welcome sister to the Hunt. As long as you remain as one of my Hunters, and are not slain in battle, you will not die under my watch.”

The other hunters cheered for you as you nodded. The other girl stepped forward with a warmer smile and held out her hand to you. 

“My name is Zoe Nightshade, lieutenant of Lady Artemis. Welcome to our sisterhood.”

[daily-cs]

January 2014 Pony

[miyabinopenguin]

🐉🐺 HAKUKYOUHAKU WEEK 2023 🐺🐉

🪻For the prompt "Bloom", I tried to represent the literal and metaphorical "meaning"and if someone didn't noticed yet, yes, I'm trying to keep it cronologically.  I love these outfits and what they TRIED (due to the circumstances) to do with them in CS.

🐲 Day 1: Infatuation | Team Zero Won AU | Aconite

🐺 Day 2: Rivarly | Knight & Dragon AU | Plumeria

🐲 Day 3: Bloom | Arranged Married AU | Blue Star

🐺 Day 4: Dungeons and Dragons | Werewolf AU | Yellow Lupine

🐲 Day 5: Sugary | Free Day| Blue Ballon

🐺 Day 6: Autumn Festival | Feudal Japan AU | Nightshade

🪻 Day 7: Interstellar | Future AU | Sumire

[csbullshit]

am I the only one who thinks butterfly wolves are super underrated, the lineart is really nice and I honestly think they're adorable & dont get why they're considered one of the 'low demand' species

[cs-discourse]

True CS fans know that the REAL CS MILF is the 2014 Lilian Nightshade staff pet...

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