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[yuriartillery]

im applying a new problem-solving philosophy that i learned from the way of the sword. i basically cut down anyone who stands in my way like animals lead to the slaughter and its really improved my workflow. im running into way fewer problems that cannot be solved by applying swordlogic

[phoenixyfriend]

Okay I have yet ANOTHER AU idea and it's vaguely historical fantasy setting where, due to their respective fathers' deaths and alliance, Jango is king of Mandalore with Satine as his heir (despite being less than a decade younger than him).

Jango arranges for Satine to marry the grandson of the Jedi count Dooku, which is fine, they find out they get along well enough, but they have trouble conceiving. Since this is a Dualsex Obi-Wan setting, the solution to this incredibly uncomfortable situation is for Jango to get Obi-Wan pregnant in hopes that Satine's the one with low fertility, because that's basically his stepsister and Jango does NOT want to fuck her.

Obi-Wan does get pregnant, but then they find out that so did Satine, and Jango's house is just full of his pregnant heir, her pregnant husband, and two under-tens with anger issues (because Obi-Wan brought his illegitimate half-brother with him, and the kid has some ongoing conflict with Bo-Katan).

I think that while Satine has zero interest in going through another birth, Obi-Wan... really wants more kids and Misses Being Pregnant so it's time for an awkward conversation with Jango about helping out again.

Satine's pregnancy was Korkie, and Obi-Wan's was Boba... plus maybe more. Not sure if the first two Obi-Wan pregnancies should be Boba+Cal, then Omega, Boba+Omega, then Cal, or Boba, then Cal+Omega, or if I should scrap Boba being the oldest Jangobi baby, and have his first be Alpha-17 or something. There's room for a bunch of kids, I think Obi-Wan wants a whole lot of pregnancies in this AU.

Satine's a bit uncomfortable about the sperm donor being Jango of all people, but whatever, that's what being royalty is like, and honestly when it comes to pregnancy, she's very 'better you than me' about it because ow.

[badaziraphaletakes]

I don’t have a fully fleshed-out post about this yet, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the way GO, especially GOS2, treats ab*se and ab*se victims. There were a lot of things about this aspect of the show and the way it was written that haven’t felt right to me all along.

Now I know why.

[elves-as-things-my-friends-said]

Maglor, in his beach era: if ravens are creatures of Odin then seagulls are creatures of Loki.

[hockeybot]

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[utilitycaster]

wait d&d character concept: ritual disrupter for hire

[nanomooselet]

Wraith V / Through A Glass Darkly

I admit to maybe being overly obsessed with this thing.

Because of (naturally) the colours (and the fact that at 100%, it looks like a flatlining heart monitor, as if we needed more indications this is a symbolic death). Vash in red/magenta and gold, Knives in blue/white and violet - until it's complete. Then Vash wakes up, suddenly all-violet, while Knives is left only with blue and teal.

Why would that be? Because Vash is at last consciously using his powers? Maybe. Likely.

But I, at least, would also like to believe Tesla has more to her story than forever remaining an objectified victim, though I know I'm probably deluding myself. (I'm interested to see just what, if anything, Orange plans for her. I've always felt there was more to her perspective.) I like to think she's present too, in her own strange way, and not simply as part of Knives.

What do you think her opinion would be of these events? Of her brothers?

What choice do you think she would have made?

I, personally, suspect Tesla would have had powers both to bring and to take, just like Vash. I doubt his personality being destroyed and his body brutally exploited to access those powers (never mind the purpose they're accessed to fulfil) is a plan she would want any part of, whatever her opinion of humanity. I think Knives had no idea what he invited upon himself making contact with the Core, something that exists outside of time. I think Tesla and Vash are both stranger and more existentially terrifying beings than even he imagines.

Knives baptised his brother in order to make him fit to receive divinity - and in Christianity, divinity comes as three parts in one. Not two equal opposites, as Knives conceptualises himself and his twin, but a singular whole expressed as three aspects. Parent...

Child...

Spirit.

His plan worked perfectly. He could not have made a bigger mistake.

Having been baptised, having received the spirit, the answer finally comes to Vash, and the truth.

Whose side are you on? Who are you?

See, it's made a point in Stampede, more than before, that the twins are almost physically identical. The resemblance is close enough for them to be mistaken for each other, something which Knives exploits. Even spending so much time so far apart, it seems inevitable that they influence each other. When one looks into the other's face, he sees his own reflection as in a mirror.

Though that almost never happens in the series. Knives and Vash almost never share the same eyeline.

They don't see eye-to-eye or face-to-face. Not until the very end.

The English dub, the finale, the question Vash asks as he finally begins to cry - "Who are you?" There's a reason he asks the question in those words.

Roberto said it in the first episode in the scene where we met Vash as an adult, hanging in the desert. "This clown's the big bad Typhoon? Vash the Stampede��� who are you?" (The first time Vash gets called a fool or a clown, and not the last.)

Vash isn't quite sure... or rather, doesn't know who it is that he should be, if not what he is now. He's only ever been a counterpart, either allied or opposed, to his brother, and Knives has made it very clear what he thinks of any attempts to be anything else.

The question Roberto asks is the question the whole series builds towards answering because Vash isn't certain there is an answer, without his twin.

Until the moment he sees his brother, really sees him, and finally realises... that is not his reflection. He can't see himself in this mirror. There's something missing. And if that isn't his reflection, then who is he, looking? Who is Vash?

Whose side are you on? Who are you?

Human or Plant? Gun or Superman? Darkness or light? Yin or yang? Water or fire, heaven or earth? Are you a spirit, or a body? A machine or a living thing? Daydream or nightmare? Monster or angel?

Both? Neither?

The answer he ultimately gives is... not choosing an answer. It's looking beyond the question and the assumptions that it carries; being truly free. Knives has no right and no means to dictate who it is Vash becomes, and he never did. The question he asks is meaningless, and the dilemma he presents is false.

There's no choice.

'Cause I'm Vash the Stampede.

For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

(1 Corinthians 13: 12-13)

The only true struggle is the struggle against oneself. And, at least in that moment, love wins.

[goldyluna]

What is true love? Your fake sweet demeanor or my fake view of you?

Its bones are as cold as your eyes. If only you could kiss me once.

[halcyon-autumn]

I was really holding out hope that Oisin would turn out to be at least CONFLICTED but noooooo he’s the sort of dude who steals your friend’s boathouse and insults your job and also is evil

[ozbian]

You think you know how you came here. You think you stumbled upon this place. Look at me. Look at me. I am the godless. I am a conduit of divinity that is far greater and more ancient than anything you have ever understood. Look at me. You didn't stumble upon this place, you and your kin. You were called here. We have always been here. You were wandering in the Abyss, lost. And we called you here, so that you can have a home. You didn't create anything. We have always been here. You came and you shaped. You took, and you shaped, and you changed, but you didn't create a thing. You're no god, you're a child. You are a child and you are lost. How do you not see that?

- Zerxus to Asmodeus, Exu Calamity episode 4

[yuriartillery]

as a heavy gunner i share many similarities with a god:

occupy a shrine (artillery battery)

given offerings (rations and ammunition)

prayed to (recieving orders via phone)

smites enemies (self-explanatory)

so i think i deserve a miko and increased alcohol rations

[straightedgesavior434]

Brody King bolts upright in bed every morning like “oh shit I have to protect young goth women!” and just leaps out the window and into the street

[boypussydilf]

i don’t think anyone has done this yet

[rosemarytraitor]

Concept: okay so I KNOW that the changeling myth was a way to obliquely discuss infanticide but. Let’s pretend for a moment that it’s real.

let’s pretend that fairies get put in the lottery to be changelings if they commit petty crimes. Some higher-up wants a human baby for some dumbass reason, and the pool of people who have lost arguments with the seelie court HOA start to get Nervous because if their name gets picked in the Reaping out of the Petty Criminals Hat, they’ll be spending the next 15-20 years growing up as a human being

you have to do your best to be the expected human infant (and toddler and kid and teen). Taking the place of the baby is a Contract to see the thing through. Fairies do not break agreements.

The ones who are good at it (and aren’t just counting the days until they can go home to their fairy family) often grow to love their human parents and siblings very much. Others, well, they leave the household in good order when they come of age, stage a disappearance, and head home. Contract complete.

Now, if you suck at pretending to be human, you hope that your human parents leave you in the woods. If they abandon you — or if they treat you badly enough that it’s non-parental by the standards of the local community — they broke the Contract by ejecting you from the household. You did your bit. You can go home.

But then. Then. If they discover you’re a fairy but don’t push you out of the household? As long as they continue to treat you slightly better than they’d treat a non-family, non-guest stranger, you’re locked in. You are stuck until you’ve served out the culturally expected time to independence. Stuck with people who know perfectly well that you’re a non-human adult who is obligated to play along. Fairies don’t break agreements. Fairy changelings don’t get to run away.

[iphyslitterator]

Did a self-audit about whether I'd levied the dreaded "stop making everything about you" charge against Evan Buckley, but at least half of Tommy's point in the fight about gay shit is YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS ABOUT YOU, so I think I'm doing okay.

[badaziraphaletakes]

Hey!! i canNOT thank you enough for the existence of this blog. i’m not sure if y’all take fic recs so no worries/please feel free to ignore this if you don’t, but i’ve taken to writing stories on ao3 in which aziraphale and crowley reunite but aziraphale actually stands up for himself. I’m quite proud of them (especially my most recent one, titled I Don’t Want To Change That, that tackles the “female love interest” treatment as well as other victim blaming tendencies of the fandom).

All my fics are by acup_oftea on AO3! The three that deal with season 2 that don’t make aziraphale a villain are:

- I’ve Been Loving You by acup_oftea

-Who Could Stay by acup_oftea

-I Don’t Want To Change That by acup_oftea

Writing them has helped me feel less alone since the s2 finale, and my goal was to make readers feel less alone, too, so if you do read these i am SO UNBELIEVABLY grateful and I love you and you’re not alone! Feel free to leave a comment and say hi because us aziraphale understanders gotta stick together. that’s all from me, have a great day!!!

Hi!

So sorry for the disgustingly late reply.

Thank you so much for your kind words!

I'm glad you asked this, because I think we should address it on our main page at some point!

So, unfortunately our position is that we won't review submissions for our fic list, because if we did that, then at some point we would inevitably end up receiving one we didn't feel we should include, and then we would be suggesting by omission that people shouldn't read it - and we never, ever want to say that about anybody's work.

I'm really sorry for not making this clearer from the get-go!

I'm sure your fics are lovely, and I'm glad you wrote them, and we are touched that you sent them to us! We will read them at some point and I expect we will enjoy them :)

I love that you make creative work about this story we all love, and I hope you always keep doing it as long as it makes you happy!

Hope you have a good day and are hanging in there! This has been a rough few months for this fandom.

Take care and happy writing! Fanfiction is so so so important, especially now, in this period where we're collectively seizing GO from its creator and claiming it for ourselves instead.