#this is the bit ive chosen to commit to

[pbpsbff]

might be getting sick. if i am expect another sickfic

[stuck-writing-sickos]

Slick (yandere coworker)

TWO

[Masterlist]

[T/w: suggestive content, misogyny]

<<hey do you fw this guy? ik hes not performing nearly as well as Lukas and Yuki but tbh i like writing him. the bite-sized nature of this story is liberating, as is the inner-monologue style ive chosen. given how busy ive been this feels good to write hahaha. lmk how we feel about this one.

Also if you noticed how misogynistic my characters all are - lord knows i tried not to build them this way. Unfortunately ive interviewed (informally) a lot of straight cis men in my life and i'll tell you what - they are even WORSE than what ive put down here. My commitment to psychological realism may be my demise. Sorry if you came to me looking for escapism. But hey, at least these guys commit to the bit, huh? dont fw this kinda guy irl tho lol>>

For my own sanity, please don't give me the truth.

So you are the type to fuck me then leave me, I see.

You were gone by morning. When did you sneak out? I have no clues. It was my fault, I didn't hold you tight enough when I drifted to sleep. Can you blame me, though? You worked your magic on me like your life depended on it. You treated your tongue and fingers like they were that of the Devil, and the rest of your body as if you were on a mission to recall the soul I owed you. You even attentively wiped me down, smiling, your lips butterflying on my sweaty forehead. You acted like all the trickstery you had pulled were out of love.

No... it really was my fault. I should have been the one giving you the time of your life. Instead I let you play me like a fiddle... my god. How embarrassing. How very emasculating. I can't fault you for being gone so soon when I lied sprawling and broken after you were done with me. For godsake, I whimpered and whined under you.

I tried texting you, but you took half your Sunday to respond. What the hell were occupying your time? Did you have any idea how each hour agonizingly crawled past me? I guess not. I asked if you got home okay. You said "of course, thanks for checking in on me. You're so nice!"

Man, fuck you.

I bit the bullet and asked you out again. No respond for the rest of the day. Fine. No big deal. I was never one to be bothered by juvenile texting etiquettes. You were busy. I get it. You had plans. You're a busy person. All good.

Or you lost interest in me.

I feel used, but I wasn't sure for what. You weren't on it for a free dinner, that's for sure - you have never looked like you were strapped for cash. As for my body... I don't believe what I gave was nearly adequate. You didn't even give me a chance to prove myself - hell, you pushed me down on my own bed and wringed all you could out of me. Why on Earth did you humor me, if you got nothing worthwhile out of me?

Maybe you found that out afterward. You saw me at work, then at dinner, then in bed, and you decided that I wasn't worth your time.

I'l give you one - I now know that you are very funny.

Elsewise, I got nothing.

Given your secretive nature I suppose you wouldn't kiss and tell. There's nothing in it for you, except for an even more tarnished reputation. We all hate you anyway.

Well, they all hate you.

The others didn't hold back when they talked about you - they made fun of your clothes for being "too nice" (whatever the hell that means). They also laughed between themselves about your overly formal and distant attitude - did you know they think you're a robot? You are especially NOT popular with the girls, by the way. They think you're, and I quote, a stuck-up bitch.

The fellows mostly don't mind you. With the way you conducted yourself around me, I'm sure you know how easy us men are by now - if you're kind to the eyes, we wouldn't have any qualms with you. But, we also have this pathetic thing we do where we agree with the ladies around us. They're easy on the eyes as well, and we want to scutter around them long enough to maybe get something out of them. Long shot, I know. Extremely desperate. Well, I know that, too. Forgive us when we nod along or laugh between one another when the gals make degrading assumptions about the men you might have slept with to get all the nice things you have, like your shoes or clothes or earring or that enviable sense of financial security.

Again, I'm sorry.

I used to not think about their gossips, but the way you dominated my body and self worth stirred something ugly at the depth of my guts. Did you do this before? How many man have you spent the way you did me? How many were driven a wreck?

Actually, never answer that.

[dykes]

spoilers for the finale of the handmaid's tale (season 6 episode 10)

luke bankole is the only man in this show i think deserves some kind of Okay Ending. and even then im like whatever man. you basically let your wife and little girl rot in gilead for years.

soooo fucked that janine didnt get out in the end. but of course right. they needed something to make aunt lydia actually work for gileads fall during testaments lol. actual dogshit writing. (future me pointing and laughing at this paragraph btw)

ill never stop resenting atwood for writing the completely not needed sequel lmfao. everything that could have been went down the toilet with that absolute dogshit book.

okay miss scientologist is onto something with the pacing of this final episode tho

the smiles that june and serena share !!!! im going insane im going crazy im going to start biting people !!!!!

"if he ever thought he had a real choice, he would have chosen you" okay… that coupled with the look shared between them. fuck offfffffff. she's speaking about herself.

THEIR GOODBYES TO EACH OTHER MY HEART HURTS. june forgiving her in the end. uguHHGHHHUHRRRRRRR SHAKES THEM LIKE DOG TOYS IN MY MOUTH

but what an absolute dogshit ending for serena lol. to just disappear into nothingness. to one day hopefully "be found" by tuello. fuck off lol. like yes the chemistry those two share was so much better than whatever the fuck was going on with any other man in the show. but lol. what a hollow end.

EMILY RETURNING I LOVE YOU

Ughhhh the dreamt up Boston "of what could have been".. them all doing karoke.. janine happy and doing karoke.. june loves her so fucking much. im going insane etc. she deserved to be happy and out and safe.

please. please be janine. please tell me they've bought her janine. OHHH MY GOD YES. IVE NEVER BEEN SO FUCKING GLAD. OH AND. AND NAOMI BRINGING HER HER DAUGHTER. SERENA GOT THROUGH TO HER IN THE END IM THROWING UP. shes doing whats best for her daughter. not whats best for her. please im so fucking glad.

and then more setup for the testaments (SEVEREST EYE ROLL)

ughhh june basically committing to going back in. to continue doing what she's been doing. "not fighting is what got us gilead in the first place"

oh finally they're talking about her writing the book/the namesake. it only took six seasons a lot of bullshit in between.

and then right into luke and june's stuff. i am glad they're basically splitting up. like they still love each other. they do. and it matters that they do. but they are leaving each other because of that love. and he's bringing up the book again. okay. bit on the nose i think.

ohh my god more serena content SNORTS IT LIKE A LINE OF COKE. ughhh her pouring the stuff out of her little plastic bag (everything she has). and theres the shirt june picked out for noah. that she slipped into her things. and serena breaking down with "you're all i need, you're all i need. you're all i ever wanted" while staring off into the middle distance. OKAY?????? like yeah she's talking to noah but she's not talking about him there she's really not im sorry if you think she is.

june returning to the old waterford house (the one serena burned down) immediately after that scene is very. okay. thats a directorial choice. but also girl that place is a ruin of burned wood. thats not safe to wander through for ur little introspective moment.

not a june sitting in her old rooms window scene. come on now. lmfao. reciting lines direct from the book into a recorder and then end. HUMONGOUS EYE ROLL.

so my final thoughts:

for a series finale it wasn't bad by any means. it was the right amount of introspective. of somewhat hopeful. but at the same it felt very idk. not shallow. but it fell flat from what could have been (if the testaments were never written and if the show didn't hate women).

i think elisabeth moss did mostly do a good job heading the two ending episodes. i was desperately afraid she was going to have nick live. but she came through in that regard.

but i also think man what a fucking waste of talent in that final episode. fuck all stuff between june and moira. more could have been shown of rita. of janine. and i think they went full coward about the main relationship of the show, in the end. which is the hugest L. it didnt even need to be romantic. but whatever. they needed to setup everything properly for the testaments (throws up in my mouth)

[threeclans]

Hi! I hope all is well. Ive been in the wcrp community for a few years now and Im currently in the process of rebooting my own rp server. Ive tried several times and have been struggling with keeping them running/staying motivated because activity seems to die completely about a month or two after opening… I was wondering if you had any advice for running a long-term rp like this? Anything is appreciated.

Hi! Advice as far as group management goes is always something that will vary from group to group — what works for us might not be exactly what another group wants to follow for their own guidelines, depending on preferences and standards for how certain things like time and server setup are handled — but I'd be happy to go into some things that I think have led to ThreeClans seeing a lot of success through the 8 years we've been active!

We've had to do a lot of adapting and learning during this time, which is the first thing I'll make note of. When our group started, we were roleplaying on Skype, and our organization looked quite a bit different than it does now today! Still, we've kept a lot of things from our past too, like our commitment to keeping up with the pace that we've chosen for our group (which follows a real life time system, so that the flow of time progression proceeds naturally in tandem with the flow of time in real life — each day that goes by in real life is the equivalent of one roleplay day, so that you don't have to worry about doing any math to track how your characters should be aging or progressing) and our longstanding lore and rules for the sake of member comfort.

One thing to keep a group going that I've found beneficial in ThreeClans on the modding front is making management something you feel capable of handling! As a Mod, you're dedicating quite a bit of your free time to something that's a hobby, and if you aren't able to invest your time or passion into a group, it's easy for members to feel uninvested too. To make this smooth for everyone, set yourself up for success! One way we do this in ThreeClans is by making things comfortable for us. We like to keep our channel numbers low, for example, so that we're not constantly darting back and forth between hundreds of text chats trying to keep up with what's being said. We've also been told this helps members feel less overwhelmed in what would otherwise come off as a "large server" with many channels to drown in. As an example, I've attached a screenshot below to display what our setup looks like for three of our main categories for NettleClan, CreekClan, and JaggedClan and the amount of channels we have accessible for each one.

When these are kept open, I can see them all at once on my screen without scrolling. Any notifications, therefore, are visible, and I can keep a close eye on all activity! Some of these channels are also temporary, and therefore we're usually even a bit lower in number. One other thing to note here is organization in the way you name things. Being able to search your channels for relevant information using Discord's search feature makes modding tasks easy. Say you need to reference a roleplay done by a member: by knowing exactly what format of naming you use for the channels you have available, you'll know where to look when searching!

When it comes to motivation on both the behalf of Mods and members, it's definitely a delicate balance. Sometimes you just can't be sure who will "click" in a group or with a particular opening. In ThreeClans, we always try to prepare for our openings with the awareness that we may have members who join and then drop off in the early weeks of being in the server for one reason or another. They may not mesh with the server atmosphere, they may feel overwhelmed with the amount of history or the amount of people present, they may simply get too busy to be prepared to take on roleplaying at the time and may not have anticipated such a thing when applying! For whatever reason, sometimes things just don't work out. We'd advise, then, leaving some "extra room" when you open a roleplay for these occurrences. Accept enough applications so that even if a couple of members do decide to depart, you won't be out of your entire member base.

Of course, you don't want to resign yourself entirely to the idea of people leaving! Like I mentioned, feelings of being overwhelmed can sometimes crop up, or sometimes people may just be a bit shy. In this case, the best thing you can do is be prepared to include them. Go out of your way to say hello specifically to them as they join the server! Offer a compliment when you DM them to give them their invite. When setting up the server for new members, be sure to make sure that every person is included in conversations about character development and relationships. It's your job as a Mod to take note of who clusters together and who might be a little more quiet, and while you can't make anyone talk, you can reach out and let them know you'd love to roleplay with them when you have a chance! This is something you should also encourage members of your roleplay to do if you have a pre-existing server. In ThreeClans, I think part of the reason we see success in new openings is because our current member base is so actively welcoming and completely excited to say hello to any new participants when they do hop in to the server that it's easy to feel like you've made a friend from the start.

When people feel like they fit in, they're more likely to maintain engagement in a group. Let them feel like they can come to your Mod team with ideas, and you'll be able to bounce your own thoughts off of them and help generate further plotlines that fuel you past that initial thread of the 1-2 month period of excitement. Of course, sometimes it has to be up to you and your Mod team to take note of the unique traits of people and their characters and come up with pitches to present to them on your own. This can be exciting for members as they feel included in something that makes them want to keep moving along — in addition, I'd always suggest that when you start a group, you should have an idea of how your opening plot is going to slot in new additions.

All too often I think people tend to have a basis for lore / setting / staff characters and neglect to imagine the plot threads that will need filling in by new additions. This can mean creating a draft and reworking it a few times as you figure out who the characters that'll come to populate your roleplay server are, of course, but even having a loose idea of a plot such as "This opening will be based around the idea of a clan that has been stable for seasons upon seasons, but now with the introduction of a branch group claiming to be descendants of former clanmates who went missing years ago, they're forced to reckon with what they really know about their history and how it might impact the reality of their cozy lifestyle and current leadership," gives you something to work with. Member characters can fit into the role of characters comfortable with their normal lives (soon to be disturbed) or in the position of those about to shake things up, depending on where you choose to go with things.

Another thing to mention as far as activity goes is maintaining OOC connections! It might take some time with a fresh group, but part of what keeps ThreeClans together, in my opinion, is the bonds formed by our members and the fact that we all often get together to have fun outside of roleplay settings. Things like movie nights hosted on stream or casual gaming sessions / nights hosted by Mods or staff can really bring a community together and foster a sense of belonging which translates to an overall feeling of happiness in a server. You can choose to host OOC events that have an impact on the IC world too, like contests to make up parts of the lore of your server or to create things like clan icons or server specific resources with special rewards like character art given out to anyone who participates!

This is getting long, though I could go on for ages about all the things that can compliment a server and its continued activity. At the end of the day, sometimes you just have to keep trying! Your first attempt or your first few attempts might fall through, but if you show continued passion and find the right group of people to work with, you'll manage to make something that continues steadily along, I'm sure!

Mod Maya

[lowtideandhightea]

having some thoughts abt durge/shadowheart romance, spoilers below

to start with i wasnt really expecting this to go well, id heard spoilers that indicated shar was gonna be a little bitch abt it but that kinda worked for the story i wanted to tell - shadowheart and my durge lyss making each other worse, reinforcing their separate indoctrinations, etc etc. women's wrongs power couple would have been nice, but i was also pretty interesting in the slow tragedy of two women who almost escaped their worst impulses, that the love you wished would give them the strength to leave instead gave them the strength to stay and then rotted the happiness out of itself.

i know ive seen other people talk with disappointment about how theres no bonding over your mutual amnesia and that also sucks but man. what really gets me is the dissonance.

like, shadowheart is sooo pissy about lyss killing a selunite cleric, subjecting the harpers to shar's shadowcurse. like, yeah, the bhaalspawn enjoys the feast of death or whatever, but girliepop, that was as much a sharran win as a bhaalist one.

but yk, fine, fine, that is technically before she commits herself to becoming a dark justiciar by killing the nightsong, theres leeway there.

so why is even a dark justiciar shadowheart so judgemental abt killing investigator valeria?? what, babygirl, makes this somehow worse than killing dame aylin??? it is literally the same thing. im just as destined and chosen by bhaal as you are by shar, and we both are spilling celestial blood in an unholy consecration of that destiny. what the fuck.

and like, i get that a huge part of shadowhearts narrative arc comes from her cognitive dissonance, her desire to not be Like That competing with the fact that being Like That is exactly what shar demands. but like. it feels like if shes on the dark justiciar path, there should be more space for her to recognize the parallels. especially when last light was a p prime example that our goals can align.

idk theres such frustrating tonal whiplash constantly, as sharran shadowheart is virtually indistinguishable from selunite shadowheart in how she responds to dark urge accepting bhaal :/

it made the cutscene after house of grief a bit funny. "hope youre not trying to steal shar's favor from me." "of course i am. im much better at wickedness than you." well, thats for damned certain.

[quitefair]

All the questions for the dragon age reblog

astagah bro susah ni..... (tak susah pun you know me too well huhu.... thanks for asking!!!!)

gonna have to keep track of what ive not already answered. also half of this is going under a cut because as always, it got too fuckin long.

4. What does your worldstate look like going into DAV?

I need to go back into the Keep and take a look. There's some stuff even within Tashak's canon run that I think I need to tweak.

Main plot

Denies being chosen by Andraste

Recruits mages as allies

Grey Wardens recruited as allies, rebuilt

Stroud left behind in the Fade

Alliance between Celene, Briala and Gaspard

Morrigan drank from the Well of Sorrows

(Softened) Leliana as Divine

Shared the truth about Ameridan and the first Inquisition with the world

Vowed to stop Solas at all costs

Companions

Blackwall becomes a Grey Warden

Saved the Chargers, Bull is Tal Vashoth

Cassandra didn't rebuild the Seekers

Cole becomes more spirit

Sera kills Harmond on her own

Varric tracks down the source of the red lyrium

Dorian did not reconcile with his father

Helped Vivienne with the Snowy Wyvern (people that don't do this, we can't fuckin be friends)

Helped Solas with his friend

Advisors

Softened Leliana

Cullen stopped taking lyrium

Du Paraquettes elevated to nobility

6. Do you have your Rook(s) planned out to any degree? If so, would you share some details or ideas you have?

I've been talking a bit about her in the previous asks, but I have a somewhat vague idea rotating in my mind. Don't want to commit too much until I've played the game though.

(Those that want to peruse her tag, it's here.)

7. Which character from the previous games or other media are you most hoping will make an appearance in DAV?

I'm going to be real with you guys. If I had it my way, I don't want any of the previous characters to be in DA4. I've been scarred too many times with Bioware fucking up their characters in subsequent media.

What I'm trying to say is, keep your hands off Fenris or I'll come to your offices and kill every single one of you.

Then again, having said that. Maevaris Tilani, the woman you are. The moment she appears on my screen I'm going to need a defibrillator.

10. Which location are you most excited/hoping to explore in-game?

Antiva. Bioware, please. I need to see. Antiva. Rivain too but I have too much of an emotional attachment to the Antiva in my head.

12. What’s one thing you’re hoping we DON’T see in this next game?

As mentioned above, characters from previous games that are written badly. I don't want it. I don't need it. Let me play and be at peace.

13. What’s one thing you’ve seen confirmed so far that you’re a fan of?

The Veil Jumpers. God. I can't stop thinking about them, I need to know EVERYTHING about them. Veil magic, Rift magic, the science of the push and pull between Thedas and the Fade, separated only by a thin sheen of fabric. I'm going insane.

14. What’s one thing you’ve seen confirmed so far that you’re NOT a fan of?

At first glance, the combat and the interface really reminds me of a combination of God of War (2018) and the newer Assassins Creed games. And... I don't like that at all. As much as I adore GoW 2018, I want Dragon Age to be it's own thing. Yes yes you could say games can be inspired by other games, but I know for a fact that development of this game has been a nightmare, and shit has had to change last minute. God of War 2018 has been referenced as a game that made EA execs change the direction of what this game would've been, alongside Jedi Fallen Order.

We don't need another Soulsborne Action Adventure game. We need another Dragon Age. And this... really doesn't feel like a Dragon Age game so far.

15. Do you have any unpopular opinions about DAV so far?

Kinda answered in 14. I've refused to look at anything after I saw the gameplay reveal. I didn't think I was going to be as excited for this as I am. I didn't think I would have as visceral a reaction as I did to the character reveal trailer. The loredrops have been So Fucking Interesting. The characters are driving me insane. All of this already feels like the Dragon Age I know and love, and I don't want anything to spoil that for me until I can get my grubby little paws on the actual game.

I'll reserve my judgements and griping (oh there will definitely be griping) for then, my friends.

20. Post a picture or gif that conveys your current level of excitement for Dragon Age: The Veilguard!

[divorcingjimmatthews]

Just discovered you, and wow. Thank fuck you're here.

You like Jade and reader, right? Ever thought about reader who's been in town for a while now too, who's seen the horrors and shi before the talismans and all that, but is actually the ultimate horror?

Hear me out. You know Randall's theory that there must be someone on the inside of the sick little experiment that Jim believed and told him about? Yeah, basically, that's the reader.

And they're not even trying to hide anything. Reader's so nonchalant about everything, so unaffected. Somebody dies? Okay, but did Tian-Chen Lui make banana pancakes like they requested though? It's night? Oh that's fine, they'll just take a quick stroll, no biggie, just putting a relatively acceptable distance between him and those, monsters, as people called them.

People just assumed reader was sociopathic and suicidal and rolled with it. Somewhat.

So he and Jade have this little rendezvous going on, and reader just basically follows Jade around, helping him with stuff, and just genuinely being a good and supportive boyfriend/girlfriend/lover, as they likes to call themself. (They've never really talked about labels or anything)

They're just a dudd everyone. A dude who's basically all powerful and scheming, the puppeteer who controls the strings, a being right out of a creepy pasta story who's just so in love with they're human, who's most definitely on the spectrum 🫶🫶

Of course, the only important part of that whole bit was that they're a dude in love with Jade Herrera, and everything else is basically not that big of a deal, so they're just not gonna mention any of that.

-Batman

OH anon i am so happy that you enjoy my little imagines!!! ive been sooo meaning to write more but i got a bad case of wanting my writing quality to be better than it is so i end up never posting anything LMAO

PLEASE DONT DO THAT TO JADE THO oh my god that would break him. i would kill to see something like that happen in the show ngl the slow realisation both for him and for the audience would be brutal and delicious specially with how defensive and wary he is of people at first... good stuff, but definitely something i would never have the heart to write myself so i really admire your commitment to the horrors

i like to have fun with the idea that the place is protecting a few chosen people (mainly boyd, sara, jade and tabitha) because it needs them to perform a series of actions for some evil purposes. i feel like that would tie in so nicely into this AU because imagine jade realising that he's surviving things he shouldn't have survived while the people around him keep dying, and also eventually realising that he's not "investigating" as much as he's being led down a very intentional and very dark path :) food for thought

ty for the ask!!!

[empressofthewind]

is it too late to ask for a snippet of Loving Can Heal?? Ive been dying for an update I need ittttt

Hi!! I am SO flattered that you asked <3 I have been trying to work on it over the past few weeks, though studying & general life commitments have gotten in the way a little bit, but I am very much hoping to have chapter 5 posted by the end of November if possible! However in the meantime, I am more than happy to share a little snippet of my current draft :-)

~

After a brief stop at the dorm to drop off Near’s robot, Mello and Near set off around the campsite on their venture to start the third challenge; map in Near’s hand, instructions in Mello’s. Mello’s initial plan had been to start with the areas they were already familiar with, but Near suggested they try the opposite, focusing on the rest of the grounds first to familiarise themselves with foreign sections of the camp.

So they did exactly that, making their way towards the back end of the campsite to the mini golf course, which they had both cited as one of their least explored places. In the interests of working together cooperatively, Mello had agreed to let Near take the lead, so as to avoid tiring him out – which seemed like a reasonable idea at the time, except that Near was apparently part snail. The pace was agonisingly slow, and the fact that Mello couldn’t complain about it was even more agonising.

He had started to think about things in a new way, though. Not just anyone could meet L; he was too important, his presence too valuable and sought after to be so easily handed out to the first person who asked. They had to prove themselves worthy. Were this camp an individual endeavour, Mello would have been a shoo-in. He could complete any of these challenges alone with ease, and with Near’s athleticism in such a poor state, there would have been no competition.

To earn the prize, he needed a real challenge, and spending four consecutive days with Near certainly fit the bill. Hating Near was easy; it was his default. Liking Near was much harder. Hence, his ability to work with Near despite their differences was the only way to prove himself to L. He was sure that was not the purpose of the pairing – they were chosen alphabetically – but thinking about it in that way made him slightly more determined to comply.

So, difficult as it was, Mello bit the inside of his cheek and kept his eyes down and gave no outward indication that Near’s sluggish movements fazed him at all. The instruction sheet in his hand served as a good enough distraction, for the time being. Memorising the symbols kept his mind away from the torturous cycle of hate and frustration that he knew would get him nowhere.

[nebulablakemurphy]

My dear author ive been reading your Draco fic and I must admit, I'm a little dumb (super dumb in fact lol) so I am a wee bit confused, do you think you can explain what it is they had decided to do with the curse and the removal of memories? 😅 I'm sure its just me but like with all the time jumps and everything, it has me scratching my head like an idiot so please help me understand

P.S. I really like the story and I've been enjoying reading it

First off, thank you for reading. I’m sure the time jump situation might make it confusing. Usually I separate present day from past events with italics, I didn’t do that here. The only time we’re seeing present day Draco is in the first passage of part 1. After that, it’s picking up right before the war and we stay on that timeline for the duration of events leading up to present day.

Now about the curse/memory situation, you’re not stupid at all, the pace is just very quick, so if you blink you’ll miss it type thing. It’s mostly based around this line of the prophecy from part 1 “Through love and by love, castles will crumble.”

So the first thing they decided to do is stage a break up, stay away from each other and make it seem like they don’t have feelings for each other.

However once information about this prophecy gets back to Voldemort, he’s made up his mind that he wants Rosanna under his control. Easiest way to do that, make Draco a death eater and bring Rosanna back to the manor. He wants them to fulfill this prophecy in his favor.

Because as the prophecy also states, “A lion heart, tried and true; chooses a side the other must lose.”

So both Rosanna/Draco and Voldemort/his inner circle have been picking this prophecy apart and they’re both trying to control the outcome in different ways.

The dark side is thinking it’s a baby, similar to the way that Harry’s birth was prophesied. Taking “Born from the dirt, through he, blossoms.” From the prophecy very literally. To them, this baby is their chosen one that will somehow sway the tide of the war between light and dark.

Draco and Rosanna are more focused on the “through love and by love,” aspect of the prophecy. So how can they stop loving each other? This is covered briefly in part 2 in the room of requirement. They could use a time turner, but that might make it worse.

They could use a memory charm, that won’t work for Draco because there are details untwined with their shared memories that Voldemort would easily be able to identify as missing.

They could get rid of just her memories, but then they also run a risk of Rosanna being asked something she should know, but doesn’t have an answer to. Which brings us to the imperius curse.

They ultimately decide on this because, they can get rid of her memories without being caught. Rosanna will not remember Draco, she won’t be in love with him. She’ll be doing whatever Voldemort demands of her so he will not get suspicious.

The imperius curse is a last ditch effort to slow down Voldemort’s plan and give Harry, Ron and Hermione more time. In the end does help Harry win but also lands Draco in a lot of trouble post war.

A case is opened against him, by the ministry, for the use of memory altering charms, abduction by means of the imperius curse and false imprisonment by means of the imperius curse.

There has always been speculation surrounding whether or not their oldest child was conceived while Rosanna was under the influence of the imperius curse. Which is what the men on the radio are discussing in part 1 present day.

When Draco was originally charged, immediately after the war, he is cleared of all charges, but now someone within the ministry has reopened the file and is leaking information to the public.

Resulting in the demand to recharge Draco for war crimes committed against Rosanna. Even though she’s already testified in his defense, even though using the imperius curse was her idea, even though it was only used to slow down Voldemort. It’s a major gray area and people are still divided about what the ideal outcome should be.

This story is very layered and spans over the course of 20+ years. More details and clarity come to light as the story unfolds. So please never feel silly for asking a question. I hope this clears things up! 💜

[noresultsfound]

I dont understand how this is the only post (that i can find, so far, on tumblr) talking about this. people should be, and are, outraged

it goes to show that just because you are being advertised something by a reputable (linusTechTips is one of the affected promoters) person or group, you can't always trust that they've thoroughly investigated the company theyre being sponsored by, and even if they have, whether theyre willing (or able, due to the sponsors rules) to disclose the reasons why they've parted ways with a company openly

i implore you to add more things to this list but ive gathered a couple ideas for ways you can investigate whether a company (particularly those that pair with influencers) is being authentic

the most common advice- does it sound too good to be true?: something that came up a lot in honey sponsors was a line that went something like "what have you got to lose?" or "theres no reason not to" - we obviously now know that, you have a lot to lose and there ARE reasons not to

check previous/parent company names- a lot of people didn't know until the news broke yesterday that Honey is owned and run by paypal. if they had known that before, knowing paypal's murky at best background, how many people would have chosen not to instal the extension? as an addition to this point, check the owner of the company and some of the things they are known for saying/doing

do at least a little bit of searching for every investment- before you commit to ANY sponsored product or service please do a little bit of scouring. the more people investigating these things, the more likely that things like the honey scandal will be found sooner. something to consider, if you screen record what you do there is evidence if something happens that you dont know how to repeat.

like i said, this list is not exhaustive so please add to it if you can. stay safe tumblr

if you have the Honey browser extension installed, uninstall it immediately. big big story broke on youtube today strongly indicating that Honey has been massively defrauding basically everyone who does any business with them at every level, including influencers, customers, and actual retailers.

the short version of ONE of the alleged crimes is that they've been hijacking referral links and codes. if you have honey installed on your browser at all, and you use any referral code from anyone, there is a high probability honey will swap out the referral link identifier for their own even if they don't provide a coupon at checkout.

they also are just lying to you, and hiding coupons that very much exist. they're completely fraudulent

paypal bought honey in 2019 for 4 billion, so paypal has been strip mining the influencer economy for 5 years now. the amount of money that's been essentially stolen is unfathomable

[spacedlexi]

so i caught up on amphibia,, i dont think i watched the same show as you guys

[plaguethewaters]

@casinocatt your wish is my command

basically ive been reading Way Too Many royalty / vague medieval fantasy webtoons and i need to write something in which they talk in that fancy, aristocratic convoluted way because. because i need it

so royalty au! or, vaguely - as far as ive gotten in these two days of daydream, it stands like this

L'manburg is a small coastal kingdom on the very edge of the Essempi's territory - it was once a military colony that very recently fought for independency. They have a costitution and as far as laws go they're a democracy, with an elected president (the very first country to have equal voting rites for men and women, even if it is census-based voting). BUT the last president schlatt, had a referendum to decide whether he would stay as a president or appointed as king - the vote was clearly falsified, reaching 85% of approval, but it was approved nonetheless. When he died it was without a heir, and the parliament (which schlatt kept, for some reason), decided to appoint young secretary of state tubbo as his successor.

tubbo doesnt particularly like being a king, si he immidiately orioises the same referendum, without any tricks or intimidation: to his surprise, the people of lmanburg still vote to keep him as king, as long as the original constitution is reinstated and they're able to vote for the parliament. Tubbo feels kinda forced to stay in his position as of now, even if he doesnt particularly like it.

(this is a beeduo focused idea but i cant Not put clingy in it so: when he became president, tommy was appointed as the head of the church. He has a spot in the parliament as representative of the religious class, and he can stay at tubbo's side lal the time)

This is were the vaguely comes in, because ranboo is very much not a king. In fact, he was born and raised in the "syndicated lands", the largest anarchist community known in the server, which has been living indipendently for like. 400 years or so.

they only come in contact because, when major diplimatic congresses happen to regulate things like exports and internationl communication and such, the anarchist land feel. a little bit left out, and theyre scared other countries will take advantage of their absence. So they get into massive groups and decide, by spontaneus vote, to send a couple of guy from each side of their lands into those congress, as representative. And they do it by show of hand, but it is clear that the five chosen (techno phil niki ranboo and connor) are simply the richest and most known land owners that agreed to do this.

(alas, i need both techno and ranboo to be rich as hell to stay in charachter, so this cannot be an anarcho communist society. Truly a tragedy for my political beliefs.)

anyway this is getting kind of long but ranboo and tubbo meet at one of these international galas, initially find the other kind of annoying, slowly warm up to each other, and then they make out.

And also the syndicate continues to commit multiple crimes in tubbo's land while ranboo "distracts" him . which tubbo is well aware of, he just doesnt care enough about petty minor crime he can blame on nobles he hates anyway.

every day i say to myself that i Must Not make another cbeeduo au. and every day i fail

[wri0thesley]

I wonder if sampo isnt just aha, with that 4th wall break at the end of belo (or part of aha?)

oh this is a fun theory ive seen a lot! I don’t personally think that sampo is aha themselves, but I’m pretty fond of the idea that he’s an emanator of aha! that would explain his ability to be in the right place at the right time, to slip through gaps that would catch other people out . . . and, of course, he mentions specifically ‘the guys and gals in the tavern’ and we know that the masked fools/aha’s followers use taverns as base of operations! his affinity for wall breaking and talking about himself in third person, almost like a parody of a sleazy businessman (‘wherever there is business, there is sampo!’). there’s even the ‘hiding in plain sight’ kind of theme of his ultimate with the heart shaped box for the bomb . . .

sure, he’s ostensibly on the path of nihility, but . . . aha seems like someone who would allow even their chosen to commit for the bit. ‘nothing matters’ but in a fun, cool way! i do think he’s a little too mortal (obsessed with saving his own skin) to out and out be an aeon, but

then again, aha pretended to be a mortal trailblazer for nearly a year for shits and giggles, so . . .

I definitely think there’s more to him than meets the eye and i really do think that it has something to do with aha in particular!

[stxleslyds]

Also, the writers' failure to understand, every crime Jason committed had a motive. Attack other criminals? Holy warrior destined to purify the world of evil. Attack Bruce? Joker's still alive. (Oh, Jason, it's much worse than that.) Attack Tim? A parody of what he once was. He wasn't just a "bad boy". He was dangerously insane.

Hi, Anon! Yup, there seems to be a lot of things that writers have gotten confused about Jason Todd/Red Hood and the biggest one is his motivations to kill certain criminals.

Let’s be honest, Judd Winick set a golden path for the upcoming Red Hood writers. But each and every writer that used Red Hood in their stories completely missed the point of Jason’s character. All of them. It’s so incredibly wild to me that every other writer read UtRH and came up with whichever version of Jason they came up with.

Let’s list the writers that completely missed the point.

Geoff Johns in Teen Titans vol.3 #29.

Geoff Johns was one of the first to completely mischaracterize Jason, why on earth would Jason go to the Titans Tower to beat up Tim? This is not me saying that Jason would never do that because Jason thinks of Tim as his brother or a friend or the person that he can trust the most from the Bat-Clan (can you believe Lobdell tried to sell us that one?), this is me saying that Jason wouldn’t have done that because he couldn’t have given less of a fuck about Tim’s existence.

When Jason found out that Bruce had another Robin he wasn’t bothered by his “replacement” he was mad at Bruce for having another child playing hero after he lost his life as a fifteen-year-old. Jason didn’t even think of Tim as his replacement as fandom likes to make us believe, Jason called Tim “pretender”. And that was that, but to go from minimal recognition to go out of his way to beat him up at Titans Tower is a massive mischaracterization.

Paul Dini in Countdown (to Final Crisis).

Paul Dini in Countdown did absolutely nothing with Jason, I am sorry but that’s all he did. Him writing Jason was like watching a dog trying to catch their own tail. He started with a pretty basic take on UtRH Jason, then he added a bit of Jason being an annoying man with Donna, then we had the jealousy arc because apparently, Jason had the hots for Donna but she didn’t want anything to do with him and he was all angsty when she paid attention to Kyle instead of him, and then, later on, he had that whole Red Robin bullshit (I am sorry about this, but I absolutely hated that, it was so dumb, I am so glad it didn’t last long because it was just too bad), and after all that mix of just not interesting stuff he went right back to the Jason that he had at the very start. It was a waste of time, but I guess that he had to be there because he was an anomaly and all that. I just think that was DC’s first try at making Jason Todd/Red Hood something more than just a street-level vigilante and they failed miserably.

Tony S. Daniel in Batman: Battle for the Cowl.

Even though the first two did make mistakes with Jason’s characterizations, this man was the first to just throw UtRH out of the window and make up his very own version of Jason Todd. And his version was horrendous, that Jason had no problem with attempting to kill children and innocent people, he also really wanted to be Batman because Gotham needed a Batman and he wanted to be the person to wear the Cowl and he was looking for a Robin for himself.

I know, the whole concept is the perfect opposite of what Jason Todd and Red Hood were in UtRH. Every aspect of BftC Jason is based on nothing.

Jason wanting to be Batman because Gotham needed Batman is just the beginning of what’s wrong in this book. Jason became the Red Hood (in part) because he believed that Batman and his ways weren’t what Gotham needed so he made a better version of Batman with Red Hood (according to him) because Red Hood did what Batman refused to do. Another thing that is just wrong is Jason wanting, Damian, Tim or Dick to be his Robin, there is just so much wrong with this, first of all, Jason wanted Batman to stop having Robin because child soldiers ran the risk of dying at a very young age and that’s exactly how he saw the whole thing because that was what had happened to him. Second, if Jason was mad at Bruce for getting another Robin why would he now want one of his own to team up with his Batman? Damian was a child, Tim was someone that apparently Jason hated (because Jason beating Tim was mentioned in this event), and then Jason actually asked Dick Grayson, Nightwing, to be his Robin? Listen, there is no way that was Jason, nothing about him makes sense, even taking into account that Jason had beaten Tim already in this event Jason actually tried to kill both Tim and Damian (it might have been just one of them but yeah, it still doesn’t make sense).

I just don’t think that Tony S. Daniel knew who Jason Todd was, maybe he got confused but the thing is, his “villainous” and deranged version of Jason Todd allowed a villainous and deranged version of Red Hood to happen with the next writer that I will be talking about.

Grant Morrison in Batman and Robin vol.1 #3-6.

This was the birth of the villainous, deranged and bloodthirsty Red Hood. There is absolutely no trace of UtRH Jason here, not even if we are looking at the opposite of things like we could do with Daniel’s Jason. Grant Morrison wanted Dick and Damian to have a villain to match their Batman and Robin and they decided to give us a red-haired-pill-headed-red hood. Everything from Morrison’s characterization of Jason is crazy, from the red hair (hello pre-crisis) to the awful Joker’s Red Hood looking suit, everything was just weird.

I still don’t believe that was Jason, to be honest, I would rather think that version of Jason was actually a rouge Skrull that came all the way from the Marvel Universe and lost his way in Gotham City. Maybe when he made the jump between universes, he got too much information and got confused and took the form of the wonkiest Jason Todd he could come up with.

This Jason was absolutely deranged, he knew exactly what he was doing and he didn’t care if innocents died. This Jason was the one that got locked up in Arkham. This is the Jason that Dick put in Arkham for Jason and everybody else’s safety.

Dick putting that Jason in Arkham wasn’t a bad thing or something that anyone can use to shit on Dick Grayson (not on this house). This Arkham was reformed and that Jason knew that if he stayed in that new Arkham he would stay away from trouble, but here is the thing, that Jason loved trouble, so he took all the tests to prove he wasn’t insane and asked to be transferred to Blackgate (where all the Red Hood’s enemies were). That Jason didn’t ask to be sent to Blackgate because the Joker was a cell away from his in Arkham, he did it so he could go on a killing spree in Blackgate (which he did when he got there).

Skrull Jason was just bloodthirsty and nothing like UtRH Jason, he had no motive other than just killing for fun or whatever. He didn’t want to protect Gotham and he couldn’t have cared less about the drug trade in Gotham. In Batman and Robin vol.1. Jason Todd was unrecognizable. And luckily, we never saw him again.

Scott Lobdell in Everything that he ever wrote about Red Hood.

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Lobdell was the king of overpowering Jason, he was the one that drove Red Hood farther and farther away from his street-level vigilante status. He continuously added more to him, he was a big deal because he was meant to take down Ra’s al Ghul, he was a big deal because he was the only human to train in the All-Castle and learned to summon the All-Blades.

This Red Hood’s morals and ideals were kind of gone, there just wasn’t any kind of interest in Jason to get rid of drugs or try to control its trade in Gotham, he just had no interest in street-level threats, everything was extraordinary in both New 52 and Rebirth. If he wasn’t in space he was in some mystical land. His friends and allies became even more and more powerful, his level of power was completely off compared to the others. His personality was ever-changing and quite honestly you could barely see the Jason that he once was.

This Jason also was very inconsistent in the way that he felt towards people (obviously because Lobdell is a shitty writer), he wanted to follow Batman’s rules and was shown as someone that still had fond memories of his life with Bruce before he died but was also willing to let those memories go, to move on? Maybe? I don’t know. But he changed his mind about Bruce and following his rules or not for a very long time. Jason was also a little bitch about Dick, and he was a little bitch because he (Lobdell) never gave the reader or anyone a concrete reason as to why he hated him so much and then in Rebirth he decided that Dick wasn’t that bad. Also, Jason went from “Willis Todd, abusive husband and father that deserved to die” to “Willis Todd abusive husband and father but he sent me letters when he was in prison and Penguin had him killed so now, I really want to avenge him”. Yeah, I don’t really know why that happened and like most of Lobdell’s arcs and stuff it was never really completed or well thought out.

Lobdell’s Jason characterization was a mess for ten years and that’s the prime reason why Jason is a character with no solid background, story or future.

James Tynion IV in Red Hood and the Outlaws.

Tynion’s Jason Todd was a hero, he was like a mini Tom King Batman. Everything he did was right and there was just no way that you could bamboozle him. This Jason was able to hold to Blades that drained his soul as well as hosting the Untitled in his body (that were able to drain his soul too) and on top of all that he completed his journey of the Chosen One by making those ancient martial arts moves that he learned before he was Robin even though Talia hadn’t been able to master it yet.

Scott Snyder, Tim Seeley in Batman Eternal and Batman and Robin Eternal.

A mess, this was pure New 52 levels of bullshit and they all just wanted to push the “Batfamily” and while Dick was gone, they were trying to make Jason fill the void that Dick left in Batman events. It didn’t work at all and all they did was mess around with Jason’s characterization more.

Geoff Johns in Three Jokers.

I have talked enough about Johns’ takes on Jason Todd and Red Hood, but let me tell you something real quick, if a writer thinks that the best they can do with a character is make them give up their morals/ideals for an unrequited love interest, then they can keep that idea for themselves. Geoff Johns wrote a book that was absolutely not needed and then proceeded to butcher every characterization that he could, Three Jokers was three issues long and he managed to add more trauma to Jason’s torture, push the narrative of Jason being at fault for his own murder and make Jason’s motivations to be the Red Hood weak enough to make him want to give up his work for a woman that he barely knows (and doesn’t like him at all).

Joshua Williamson in Future State: Red Hood and Robin #5.

Now, with Williamson I have issues only when he writes Jason, not because his stories are bad, don’t get me wrong, I would have completely enjoyed FS: Red Hood if it weren’t for the completely unnecessary Rose/Jason side plot he had going on. Jason was clearly working undercover for some people that he hated working with. He had to arrest or kill “masks” (vigilantes, just like he “used” to be) for the Magistrate.

His ideas were pretty solid, Jason did the job but he never killed the masks and actively didn’t trust the Magistrate but he was working there to tear them apart from within, and that’s amazing if Williamson had given us Jason Todd/Red Hood working undercover to dismantle an organization I would have been really happy.

But that’s not all he gave us, even if I just forget about his failed attempt at giving Jason a relationship, I can still see that Williamson is the kind of writer that wants (or is just following DC) to make the “Batfamily” happen no matter how dumb and out of place it looks in comics’ canon. So, I am a little bit weary, any writer that leans too much towards making Jason and Bruce work together and become a family makes me want to scream, but I do understand that is just me, many people want those two to be buddy-buddy, I, personally, would love to see Jason kick Bruce in the balls and tell him to lose his number.

Chip Zdarsky in Urban Legends: Cheer.

Ah, yes, I remember the days in which I thought that this could have been something good. Well, I was utterly wrong and I suffered all the way through this mini. I feel like now I can safely say that Zdarsky only wanted to write a Batman book but DC told him, “Hey you can write Batman but it has to be within a Red Hood story, but don’t worry, you don’t have to know much about the Hood guy, just come up with something and write Batman around that”.

I know that’s what happened because I read that story and all we got from it was horrible characterizations for pre-Robin Jason, Robin Jason, Jason Todd and Red Hood. I don’t know how he did it but yes, he managed to mess it all up.

From Jason not really wanting to be Robin and acting recklessly every step of the way, to secret desires of a perfect family with Bruce and so many other people that he couldn’t care about, Urban Legends: Cheer is the perfect book to avoid at all costs if you believe that the concept of “Batfamily” is the biggest lie, DC is trying to profit off this time around.

Zdarsky also nerfed Jason in ways that I thought DC only wanted to nerf Dick Grayson. But I was able to see that I was wrong. Zdarsky’s run also pushed some of the most disastrous narratives that DC really wants readers to believe like: Robin Jason wasn’t good at his job, he was too reckless and ultimately his death was his own fault. Yay! I want to cry!

I will give Zdarsky two points for at the very least showing that Red Hood wants to protect children and that he has a huge issue with how the drug trade is controlled and abused in Gotham City, it had been a while since we had seen that aspect of Jason’s Red Hood make an appearance.

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It’s just too many writers completely missing the point of Red Hood’s character or simply writers agreeing to destroy Jason’s uniqueness in the DC Universe so DC (as the publisher) can further push the abomination that is the “Batfamily” in comics’ canon.

I do agree with you Anon when you say that Jason isn’t just a “bad boy” but I also don’t think that we can call UtRH Jason “dangerously insane”. Personally, I will only use that last description for BftC and Batman and Robin Jason, those two were dangerously insane indeed.

UtRH Jason was very meticulous in who he wanted dead and who got to live. He entered Gotham’s most dangerous world and he had to make a big entrance, he invited the eight most prosperous street dealers to a meeting, showed up with the decapitated heads of each of their right-hand men and an AK-47 and said:

“I am offering you a deal. I will be running the drug trade from now on. You will go about your business as usual. You will kick up forty percent to me. That is a much better deal than the Black Mask will give you. In return, you will have total protection from both the Black Mask and Batman. The catch? You stay away from kids and schoolyards. No dealing to children, got it? If you do, you’re dead.”

This was Red Hood! Red Hood wanted to control the drug trade in Gotham because he knew that Gotham is far too corrupt and filled with drug lords for him to just want to eradicate drugs from Gotham. If he had tried that he would have been a dumbass, but he wasn’t. He didn’t want to start a gang war and get innocent people killed because of it, he wanted to set the rules of his new Empire and he had to start with the street-level drug dealers, from there he grew until he became a major pain in Black Mask’s ass.

We went from Jason wanting to control the drug trade and take over Gotham’s underworld so people like Black mask couldn’t have people work for him (or being dependent on him) when they were still in high school or were in a vulnerable position, to Jason fighting a war for a mystic land because he was their “Chosen One”. DC really wanted to do something grand (yet boring) with Jason instead of sticking to a street-level vigilante that could have become a Drug Lord to control the drug trade of a city that is so filled with crime and corruption that it can’t be saved by anyone.

Batman doesn’t eradicate crime, he “controls” it, puts a blank it over it, lets it nap up until it wakes up once more to make more mess.

Red Hood had other plans, certain criminals didn’t get to nap, or, better said, they would get to nap forever.

So, no. I wouldn’t call that “dangerously insane”, I will call that “vigilante that believes himself judge, jury and executioner” of a city that is drowning in crime and corruption.

Anyway, I hope you have a really nice week Anon and thank you so much for sending me this ask!

[the-female-gaze]

Papa IV “The Anointed One”

What does it mean to be anointed? In a biblical/spiritual sense—to choose by or as if by divine election.

Btw, I literally just copy/pasted a lot of this from a few Google searches/Wikipedia pages because I felt this new title was a bit of a clue for us. I’m not a scholar, just a nerd/part-time Occultist. 

In most cases, the "anointed one" being described is a regular person who has been specially set apart for God's plan and purposes. However, there are other times when the "Anointed One" being described is God Himself -- largely in connection with Jesus, the Messiah.

Most often, the term "anointed one" is used in the Bible to refer to a person who has received a special calling from God. There are many such individuals in the Scriptures -- most often notable public figures such as kings and prophets.

King David, for example, is often described in the Old Testament as God's "anointed one" (Psalm 28:8). David also used a similar expression, "the Lord's anointed," to describe King Saul on a number of occasions (1 Samuel 24:1-6). King Solomon, David's son, used the same expression to refer to himself in 2 Chronicles 6:42.

In each of these situations, the person described as "anointed" was chosen by God for a special purpose and a heavy responsibility -- one that required a deeper connection with God Himself.

The Anointed Messiah

In a few places, the Bible authors also refer to an "Anointed One" that is different from everyone described above. This Anointed One is God Himself, which modern Bible translations often make clear by capitalizing the letters in the term.

Daniel 9:25-26 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.

This is a prophecy given to Daniel while the Israelites were captives in Babylon. The prophecy describes a future time when a promised Messiah (the Anointed One) would restore the fortunes of Israel. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight (and the New Testament), we know that promised One to be Jesus, the Messiah.

Papa IV could be a king like King David? Conquered Jerusalem, slayed the giant Goliath and removed the threat of the Philistines to the point they were never a threat to the Israelites ever again. Also commits adultery with Bathsheba. Bathsheba was married to one of his soldiers and David fell for her—so he sent her husband into battle knowing he would die. He did, and Bathsheba became one of his wives and she gave birth to future heir, King Solomon. Could there be an uprising against him and his new followers so he has to fight back against them and the “retired” (re:dead) Papas? In the new promotional image he stands in front of a wall that depicts a notorious Swedish bloodbath that occurs after the coronation of Christian II as the new King of Sweden from the 1500s--afterward Christian became known as ‘Christian the Tyrant’. Could be a coincidence, though. Not everything means something.  

King Solomon also anointed by God- Biblically as far as Christian, Hebrew and Islamic texts go he was an important prophet of God. The biblical narrative shows that Solomon served as a peace offering between God and David, due to his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba. In an effort to hide this sin... he sent the woman's husband to battle, in the subsequently realized hope that he would be killed there. After he died, David was finally able to marry his wife. As punishment, the first child, who was conceived during the adulterous relationship, died. Solomon was born after David was forgiven. It is this reason why his name, which means peace, was chosen. (Side note: Copia’s name--does it have anything to do with the word cornucopia meaning a great bounty, flourishing, etc?) Could Copia be a King Solomon type figure for Satan? No doubt Papa Nihil pissed Satan off more than once during his reign.

There’s a ton of folklore surrounding King Solomon involving magic and demons--which is straight up the Ghost alley. Historically there’s not much to go on, but myths abound. In mostly non-biblical circles, Solomon also came to be known as a magician and an exorcist, with numerous amulets and medallion seals.  To me, Papa IV looks like a powerful ritual magician, I can’t explain it. His robes have demon sigils that are directly taken from the magical text The Lesser Key of Solomon, an anonymous grimoire on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. Ritual magicians today use those sigils for a variety of summoning spells, much like King Solomon would have likely done. Legend states that he used “the seal of Solomon” (a magical ring) to command help from demons and angels to complete the first temple of Jerusalem. The Seal of Solomon, in some legends known as the Ring of Aandaleeb, was a highly sought after symbol of power. In several legends, different groups or individuals attempted to steal it or attain it in some manner. 

Could the newly styled Grucifix on Copia’s Mitre be a new magical seal? Looks a lot like the Seal of Babalon to me--Babalon also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations, Whore of Babalon, etc. She is the woman/creature in the Book of Revelations that rides on the back of a great beast and brings forth with her the end times. I love her, btw. From Revelations Chapter 17:3-6;

“...and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”

Should also point out that Twin Temple who are joining Ghost on tour next year are devotees of Babalon and have a song dedicated to her. I love them, too, obvi. 

Anyway, King Solomon did a bunch of shit that God didn’t like (common theme in the Bible FYI). According to 1 Kings 11:30–34 and 1 Kings 11:9–13, it was because of these sins that the Lord punishes Solomon by removing most of the Tribes of Israel from rule by Solomon's house. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.

If Papa IV is like a King Solomon character, we can see the potential for Copia’s head to get a little too big and thus comes a subsequent smiting from Satan or something. He looks the most regal and luxurious of all the Papas and King Solomon was known for his wealth. I think the parallels are very strong here. 

And lastly--the Anointed One aka Jesus, son of God. There’s already theories in the Ghost community that Copia is the antichrist and with TF naming Papa IV the “Anointed One” it looks even more like this is a huge possibility. It could mean nothing--but I think it’s interesting the other Papa’s did not have a canonically religious title associated with them except for Copia. Like there’s no ‘Flamboyant One’ in the Bible (sorry Terzo). But like? Come ON. But it could also mean our precious Rat Daddy will be sacrificed as a way to restore order much like Jesus was. Sacrificial lamb, sacrificial RAT. My heart can not take this. I weep. 

But also Satan, the Anti Christ, etc act as polar opposites of Christianity. So maybe Papa IV, potential Anti Christ extraordinaire, will be spared the same fate.  

Thanks for coming to my Ghost Talk. 

[eviltransmasccatboypili]

i hear an opportunity to talk about my thoughts of totem species and realm shit that ive kept hidden..

Totems are an all male species, as documented by elven folk (which the world the Realm is set in is dominated by)

Skirts and stuff were seen as trendy to totems, especially younger ones, back when Foolish was around Zams age- He just assumes Zam is a bit old fashioned. its similar to like- someone in their 20s current day, dressing like a 70s/80s 20 year old.

Growing out hair is seen as a cultural thing, but it can also resemble how wise one is.

Trans people exist, but its rare for a totem to be out as trans- totems are usually very emotionally unaware and dont really pick up on stuff like that. Foolish mainly sees it as an Elven / non-totem thing.

Zam doesnt tell people shes trans, with the only people knowing are Pangi, Ash, Derap, and Pili (unless im forgetting other lifestealers then they know too)

With the Totems growing their hair out as a cultural thing, i should also dive into more culture- fuck this is getting long LMAO

Emerald placement is a very important thing- its basically a symbol of social status. Head, heart (eith that, betwixt the tits is a similar status), and hands are the most admired spots, with shoulders, neck, and thighs being better than most but not the bestest.

Foolish has an emerald on his forehead, and Zam has one yknow. betwixt the tits LMAO- meaning both are seen to be of high standing and looked at more as responsible, patient, and caring. Its why Foolish is a king- high social status and being chosen.

Being chosen is basically like the opposite of hunger games where you got a guy and hes the fucking king now !! gotta be of high standing and already kinda fit the mold of good king (foolish was a bit too aloof to normally be chosen, but he was the one)

Zam wears dresses that show her emerald because man i wanna draw that and also showing emeralds is a surefire way of saying "im not middle class mfker" if its good enough

Pili doesnt gaf about social standing he'd gladly eat the rich and Zam doesnt mind him tearing her arm off because she is a literal totem of life so that shit does NAWT kill her no matter what

adding onto this cause i reread the answer again IM STUPID

also they fall in love because Pili is incredibly open about being trans and Zam is brought to tears about it and when she spills why Pili is like "oh god girl nobody is gonna commit war crimes on you for being trans its normal here" and he is her emotional support cat whenever anyone talks to her because man lifesteal gives anyone anxiety and the torment that girl has gone through would kill a man 🫶

oz kill me rn i have the urge to write pilizam from before the divorce i need to make an au where i can go into depth about tr!zam and how shes a totem and why tr!foolish refers to her as his son instead of daughter because hes unaware and totems are a male species that reproduce via magic and pili finds out "holy shit the hot girl is trans HELL YEAH" and pilizam t4t and pili learns about totem culture and why tr!foolish is just so goddamn oblivious like "oh totems usually grow their hair out! it used to be a fashion trend.." and AUUGHH I WANNA MAKE A COMIC TOO I WANNA WRITTEEE IM OPENING GOOGLE DOCSS.. FUCK.. FML BRO anyways it would be pili-centric and my gawd im getting brainworms

WAIT NO KAYA THATS SOO FUN.... im not too into trfoolish lore and allat but you Know im always up for pilizams ... especially pre divorce cuties .. 🥹🥹🥹 would u perhaps... like to tell me more... maybe about trzam and her heritage and stuff and how she and pili fall in love .... 🥹🥹🥹