my notifs recently got me thinking about the very random concept of "what if there is a second, secret CHB. directly below normal CHB." and i ended up brainstorming it in the discord.
context for how this originated: one was just a random notif on my post talking about the tunnels under the Hephaestus cabin, and the other was some tags from @drksanctuary on my fake readriordan article mentioning the idea of a chthonic demigod camp.
so. my brilliant (read: "smashing my 2 brain cells together") idea: the elaborate and seemingly infinite tunnels under cabin 9 are remnants of an abandoned underground CHB that exists directly underneath camp. It's basically just normal CHB except in a big cave system, probably connected to the labyrinth somewhere and has the separate tunnels, and instead of the Olympian cabins it has chthonic cabins. there's probably also some infernal nymphs and etc down there too. since all chthonic demigods can learn to shadow-travel they probably used that to get down there, and a lot of chthonic demigods probably have geokinesis just by nature, ergo the tunnels (for when they don't want to shadow-travel, or can't).
in brainstorming with the discord we decided it could be cool if some of the cabins lined up with the above-ground cabins, either for thematic purposes or associations or whatever. Like there's maybe a Hermes and maybe Poseidon cabin in the chthonic CHB too that just link to the above-ground ones, but also like Persephone cabin lines up to Demeter cabin because of course it does. and maybe Hecate cabin lines up to Cabin 8 cause Artemis is sometimes 1/3rd of Hecate. Maybe Angelos cabin is beneath Cabin 1, and Zagreus cabin is beneath Cabin 12. Things like that.
The other ones i thought of were either Hypnos or Thanatos cabin lines up with Apollo, because twins, and the other is just right beside it (because twins). And Charon's cabin is beneath Cabin 9, ergo why the tunnel system connects to it (because Charon. Ferryman. Surface access. It makes sense in my brain).
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anyway though. about ango and betrayal, since metas and reactions depends more and more on treating it as fact
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if what happened in dark era was that it seemed like ango joined mimic but in fact he was spying on them for the mafia and the reveals stopped there
no one would say ango betrayed mimic
given that what he was doing in the mafia for the special division IS what he was doing in mimic for the mafia, we shouldn't say he betrayed the mafia either
moreover, the current special ability division betrayal isn't on either; given the situation, the special ability division has been taken over by its own enemy - or at least ango has cause to think so. he's still acting as a special ability division, just independently/outside of orders
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there's a truth to this idea that ango has betrayed every organisation though. it's that he betrayed his friends. that is a lot more difficult to explain, but for everyone involved - ango included - it does count as a betrayal
plus the fact that we the readers/viewers are constantly misled as to which organisation ango belongs to 'oh he's a mafia member - wait no he sold the mafia to mimic - oh no he IS a mafia member - WAIT WHAT HE WORKS FOR THE GOVERNMENT' and 'of COURSE he's a government agent the seventh division IS a government agency - oh actually he is working with dazai ???' i get why it's popular
but ango is not actually a chronic backstabber, there's just no reason to assume we actually KNOW what he truly is loyal to
especially since. as i said previously. he DID betray the special ability agency way back in dark era :p
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I've been meaning to ask for a while, how did you come up with your tagging system? You seem to have a lot of fitting quotes for a lot of categories and I'm just curious how you came up with that
i've always tagged extensively (and maybe a little obsessively), but using quotes as categories was not really an original idea. i saw other people doing it first, and it seemed like a fun and very pretty way to tag for themes.
it had also pained me for years that a lot of beautiful, poignant ideas would get lost in my "words" or "favorite words" tag (there are literally hundreds of pages of "words" on my old blog, and already over a hundred on this one). i wanted to be able to find the things that really struck me and stuck with me, and i wanted to be able to group ideas together so i could return to them, read through them, and chew on them sometimes. so i started tagging for "love and death" and "love like religion" and "monstrous women," but even those weren't precise enough. so i started using quotes that got at specific things. lines of poetry, pieces of prose, song lyrics that struck any chord that just kept singing inside me (a couple of them are actually my own writing).
also, i have this tendency of reading things and going, "oh, this is reminds me of this other thing!!" so i enjoy drawing those connections and quietly sharing them for anyone who enjoys reading them.
an added bonus is i can use a quote to refer to Something Important To Me that i don't want to mention publicly. also!! i can use them for my friends, and every time i tag something that reminds me of someone, i get to tell them i love them!! (see: "a heart that beats. a voice that speaks the truth" and "i know i have found a friend forevermore" and "love you to the moon and to saturn")
i've lost track of all the ones i use at this point (i have several dozen listed on a doc, but not everything is on there), but i'll list a few of my favorites in the tags of this post! unfortunately, there won't be a whole lot here, since i remade my blog just a little over a year ago. there are a ton on the old account. maybe i'll do something similar for the old one, if anyone is interested in that. it'd be pretty convenient for me, anyway.
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@withoutpeer sent “ say goodbye to me now , & leave before i wake up . ” ( meme , accepting )
There is still a war raging through the galaxy. No matter the confessions they have made to each other, the words they’ve spoken that they’d both kept buried for years (no matter how they know now what they had not understood as teenagers when they had given each other up and locked away their love for the sake of being Jedi) there is a war, and their lives are even less their own than they would be in times of peace. At one time they had given each other up for the sake of service to the galaxy, and now they must again choose the galaxy over love.
They have only allowed themselves this night because either of them could die in any battle, and because she is alive in spite of that. She can feel his fingers gently tracing over the fresh new skin of the still-healing blaster wounds that she’d impatiently ripped the bacta patches off of earlier in the evening. She’s never liked the smell of bacta, and she hadn’t liked the feel of it, not tonight, when she’d wanted only to feel him. This once may be all they have. His hand leaves her body only long enough to reach over beside his sleep couch where she’d tossed the bacta patches, and it’s only because she loves him that she doesn’t protest when he carefully presses them back in place.
“Say goodbye to me now, and leave before I wake up.” He whispers the words into her ear. She hasn’t been cleared to leave the Temple yet (she hadn’t exactly been cleared to leave the Halls of Healing, but she doubts if anyone had expected her to follow those instructions) but he’s leaving in the morning with his battalion.
She doesn’t want to, but she nods. She would rather stay all night, so that they can wake up beside each other: this once may be all they have. But she can’t. Their resolve may crumble by morning; it may be too much to ask to part ways in the morning, when they still must give all of themselves to the galaxy instead of each other. And Bant will never let her hear the end of it if she stays away from the Halls of Healing all night.
“Go to sleep,” she whispers, moving a hand up to run her fingers through his hair as he tucks his head into the crook of her neck, kissing her shoulder. “Go to sleep.”
She waits until she can hear it in his breathing, and feel it in his Force signature, that he’s sleeping soundly before she carefully slips out from beside him, careful not to wake him, pulling on the soft tunic from the Halls of Healing before bending down to kiss his temple. “Goodbye.”
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which fic would you rewrite and publish as a novel?
probably none, honestly! that's kind of what i was musing over in the tags of one of the last posts i reblogged. for me personally, fic has always been an exercise in transforming/reinterpreting/rearranging canon, and so the stuff i wrote is so heavily intertwined with canon that i don't think i could divorce it from that. and lately i've been getting a lot of original ideas, so reusing fic stuff hasn't been at the top of my mind. i mostly made those posts bc i'm curious what fics other people would want to see me rewrite as a novel.
however, one thing i have done is taken some more original concepts from fic and channeled them into new stories. the biggest example is an au i never wrote for the magnus archives -- the "georgie barker sees dead people" au. i had a lot of ideas about how that would change canon, but since i never wrote it, i mostly just had a lot of rants stored up about how horrible it is to see dead people everywhere. and when i started my current novel -- a ghost story surrounding a family who spent a lot of time in haunted houses, wherein the younger sister has always seen ghosts everywhere, but kept it from her family due to obsessive interest in ghosts, and feeling like she'd only be a mouthpiece to communicate with dead family members.... i unconsciously channeled a lot of my concepts for that original au. like there's some rants about the sixth sense that i think i lifted wholesale asdgghkklll. and the secrecy of the ability, etc etc....
another exception is the spooky scarecrows in snow in april-- i took those scarecrows from a real life experience, and it's still so deliciously spooky i think i'll probably reuse it someday, but i'd probably change a loooooot about the premise. i feel like since i want to write horror, and i wrote a lot of fic for horror properties (txf, tma, IT), i'm gonna end up channeling a lot of those experiences in the future. but i honestly can't think of a fic that would work in a relatively unaltered plot state as a novel. however, it's been a long time since i've really read or wrote fic, so if you have one you think would be fun as a novel, lmk! hypothetical writing projects are so fun
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