#Camilla Build

[cornycopeia]

the dynamic duo!

[ooctlt]

What kind of music they like? Which one of them wears headphones all the time? Which one of them should be use headphones?

gideon: roxanne, heat of the moment, fortunate son, black hole sun, joan jett etc. she does listen to danger days but she will not say she likes mcr because people start making assumptions about her. she mainly likes that album and occasionally listens to save yourself, ill hold them back a concerning amount of times in a row

pal: classical when hes studying, ska for the hype

cam: house music, brass/horns heavy stuff. also likes ska and guitar-heavy songs

dulcinea: 2000s party music, R&B and jazz

harrow: cathedral nuns singing (9 hours), muttering radio channel (20 hours)

PSA: please do not send asks asking characters their opinions on singular songs/song genres/tv shows/movies. they are too specific to spend time listening, thinking, and drawing an answer to and they will be ignored

[racefortheironthrone]

The Unwanted Guest and Grand Lysis

As part of my ongoing obsession with a certain transcendental plural entity, I re-read "The Unwanted Guest" with an eye towards what was Palamedes thinking about Grand Lysis and the nature of spirit magic shortly before the transmutation.

While a lot of the discourse on TUG has focused on the permeability of the soul (for good reason), I found myself on this re-read focusing on a different bit of Sextus' Poirot reveal:

PALAMEDES It’s all so messy … so much messier than we ever imagined. I’ve been in Camilla’s body for months now, and I’ve started remembering things I never saw. This is the real truth of Lyctorhood, Ianthe—it’s not some bloodless swapping-out of batteries. It’s grafting; transplantation. When you absorbed Naberius Tern’s soul, you didn’t swallow a diamond. (emphasis mine)

When I initially wrote my essay about Grand Lysis and Paul, I had thought of the Sixth's version of the Eightfold Word as a megatheorem that was enacted in the very moment as we saw it in Nona. That's certainly how it appeared at the time, but this paragraph above strongly suggests that the process we see later with Paul on the Ninth was in a certain sense already underway throughout their time on New Rho.

This certainly explains why Palamedes was so confident in his psychic duel that he had out-thought Ianthe about something so core to her core area of expertise: the nature of the soul. Because contrary to Ianthe's arrogant presumption that only she had "eaten ice cream," Palamedes and Camilla had been experiencing transplantation-leading-to-lysis for months and had been thinking really hard about what it all meant about the soul and the nature of Lyctorhood.

Moreover, one of the things I absolutely love about TUG is the way it completely recontextualizes and makes us rethink one of my favorite passages from Nona:

They dashed toward the abandoned body of Ianthe Naberius—an abandoned body that was now propped up on its elbows, staring out with pale, distrustful eyes, an expression on its face of commingled hate and despair. “So there was another way, Sextus, after all,” the body murmured. The figure crouched down and extended their arm. “I know how hard it is for you to kick against the goad,” said the new person. “But there are more worlds than this. Come with us. We are the love that is perfected by death—but even death will be no more; death can also die. There’s still time, Ianthe. Time for you, and for Naberius Tern.” The abandoned body stared at what had once been Camilla’s hand, at what once had been Camilla’s face, then at the hand again. After which it said brightly— “I bet you say that to all the boys.”

As I said in my original essay, one of the things I originally thought was so funny about this sequence is the idea that Ianthe would ever have contemplated the idea of Grand Lysis with Babs. But now that we know what passed between Ianthe and Palamedes during their psychic duel, it explains exactly why Ianthe is consumed by "commingled hate and despair," because she's just had a core element of her worldview, her ambitions, and her sense of herself comprehensively debunked and sees the proof of it standing before her.

And it also throws in a different light Paul's offer to Ianthe, which is rendered far more sympathetic and compassionate than before. They’re not just trying to convert Ianthe to their way of thinking, they’re recognizing that lysis is actively happening to Ianthe regardless of her will. Unwantedly, the inviolability of Ianthe's personhood has been compromised because she never stopped to count the cost of ascension, and thus Ianthe Tridentarius no longer exists - she is Ianthe Naberius (not Tern) now. Better to fully embrace the comingling of "proteins and lipids and molecules" and become something new and whole, rather than poison yourself with resentment and denial for a myriad.

And thus the tragedy that Ianthe refuses Paul's good news.

[tiffanyachings]

god i love camilla. gideon mistranslates pal’s final message to her as an i love you and she’s immediately like

[createacamillahect]

Camilla Hect who gets absurdly serious during sex roleplays but also has moments of breaking character and just beautifully snort-laughing

omg camilla snort laughing 🥺🥺🥺

She does an incredible amount of research for your role-playing. One time you were tied up as a captive on her pirate ship and she somehow threw in that pirates wore patches to help with light changes during raids, who knew.

Another time she was doctor and had to unbutton your shirt to slide her hands along your chest, she pronounced atherosclerosis with the ease of if she had been saying it in front of the mirror for a week.

Your favorite times are when her laughter bursts out of her like a gunshot and she starts crying she's laughing so hard. Her laughter is contagious and your cheeks warm and your heart feels like it could burst.

Like this time when she is Cleopatra and you are on your knees as her handmaiden. Her face is expressionless and her chin is tilted up, her head held in a regal posture. She straightens her leg and gently places it on your shoulder before she cracks. The snorts are always the loudest. You can never keep a straight face through them. They come in quick succession, and you shake harder with laughter with each one. You bury your face into her inner thigh, which causes her to laugh harder and she pulls you up into her arms. You hold her face in your hands as you keep laughing, feeling her laughter against your belly. You kiss her sloppily and feeling her laughter in your mouth.

[reallyghostlypost]

My backstory for Isaac

Needed to write a backstory for Isaac for the Halloween Maze fic, so here it is. It's a little cliche, but Isaac reminds me of an anime rival, all smug and unfriendly but deep down inside he has a tragic history and a heart of gold, and it's up to the protagonist to teach him to enjoy life again through the power of friendship. So this is exactly the type of backstory he gets.

Sorry in advance for anyone that likes him, I might have traumatized him a little too much.

- lived in a small village close to Castle Village with his parents and younger brother

- the corruption in the Badlands was still stable at that point and no one was expecting for it to suddenly grow past it's original boundaries

- Isaac, 15 at the time, was coming back to the village after doing some errands in a neighbouring community

- saw something big moving in some bushes but dismissed it as some farm animal and ignored it

- later when he was in the yard he heard screaming and saw a bunch of skeletons running down the road

- ran inside the house and alerted his parents

- they all barricaded themselves inside the house but monsters were starting to break through the door

- parents told him to grab his younger brother and protect him

- they helped him and his brother slip through a back window but didn't had time to leave with them

- as Isaac and his brother were running another group of monsters spotted and attacked them

- Isaac got slashed in the face and his brother got badly hurt (broken hip and internal damage)

- suddenly something distracts the monsters attention (adventurers finally reached the area to kill the monsters, but Isaac didn't knew that at the time)

- they managed to hide somewhere (under a shed?), where Isaac had to watch his brother's health get worse and worse

- they were eventually found by the adventurers after a few hours, but his brother was in critical state at that point

- they were sent to a hospital and left there for surgery and rest

- after Isaac woke up someone from the government (cop, social worker, guild representative?) visited him in the hospital to ask him questions and explain the situation

- his parents have been killed, and so did most of the villagers, he was one of the few survivors

- his brother was alive but badly hurt, and was recovering after surgery

- it took a long while for his brother to wake up and get out of the hospital, and he never recovered fully from his injuries

- they still technically live together in Castle Village, but Isaac spends most of his time at the guild

- Isaac still feels like the tragedy is his fault, that if he would have been more alert and realize that monsters were gathering outside the village the tragedy wouldn't have happened

- he also feels guilty for his brother's health and that he failed to protect him

- he joined the guild out of guilt, to try and prevent this type of tragedy from happening to others

- he secretly feels guilty every time some colleague or civilian gets hurt, feeling like he failed to protect that person the same way he failed to protect his brother

- hates monsters and wants to see them all exterminated

- the village was raised off the face of the earth, swallowed by the corruption not long after the monster attack

[amsterdamhotelroom]

maybe i'm just thinking this bc bret easton ellis and donna tartt are friends but. secret history film/tv adaptation in the style of american psycho

[moderndayamymarch]

AITA for starting a house project without discussing it with my wife?

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

I’m gonna have to give the Aeneid a second chance this winter break and try to approach it with an open heart. I wish I had time to experience the original latin but I’m reading to prep for teaching a Roman history/culture class and do not have that kind of time

[internationalplayboysdotcom]

coronabeth taking nona to school really giving deadbeat dad who gets occasional custody of his daughter and his daughter thinks he's the "fun parent" because he let's her stay up past her usual bed time and surprises her with trips to disneyland despite not paying any child support

[kingcriccket]

The thing about the fall of the house of usher is that like. I think Mike Flanagan is a great character writer but... somehow maybe not a very good horror writer? Which I know is an insane take given his body of work but like. He's great with suspense, but when that tension finally breaks, at least in Usher, it tends to feel kind of... stupid rather than scary.

Which means you're watching all of these interesting, horrible people play off of one another in excellent ways, portrayed by excellent actors, as they unerringly make their ways towards extremely obviously telegraphed and kind of stupid deaths.

[sayritikiapples]

wyvern brigade 🐹🐹🐹🥰🐹🐹‼️🐹💥💕💥💖🐹👍‼️🐹💕💖🐹💥‼️🐹💖💕😩🥰💕💥😊

[charlotte-of-wales]

the sunday times piece about camilla... so you still think Charles doesn't care about popularity of w&k..  👀 

[houseaeducan]

millieeeeeeee

[indiesaster]

match to the sixth.

more camilla hect on patreon i lov her i want her to cut me open

also im gonna jump off a building i hate image compression its insane especially on twitter