#a new character emerges!

[of-fairys-and-tails]

A chapter a day!

Chapter 10/525

[fantasycorrupted-a]

finally starting to figure out the fairy's backstory

she's a druid from the seelie court, her name is Zira, she's 5'0", and unlike fairies usually do she left the Feywild/village where fairies live to explore, guided by her curiosity

also there's a connection between her and Rigmor, maybe they're unlikely half-elf/fairy friends but I've no details on that yet

[kits-shrine]

“Their crafter is truly skilled,” he agreed, admiring the work and the woman's smile.

~

Reila winked at Kagu, “ready for that pampering little lady?”

"Thank you, I try." A sweet voice chirped. A pretty vermilion colored pheasant looking bird with a golden beak smiled at them. "I'm Suzaku, if you have any questions please let me know."

~

"Uhuh." Bya smiled tucking her small hand in Reila's.

[anzuhan]

[iinryer]

guys…. the hotshots thing is more fun if you’re making shit up…. instead of just doing regular discourse…

[ananxiousgenz]

okay now that I've had a night to sleep on it I just wanna take a minute and go absolutely buckwild over john doe in part 26 bc like. I was expecting the "I will not let you drown" line. I've seen the fanarts of it floating around, I knew that was coming. what actually fucking killed me was the second I realized john was reciting a robert frost poem to calm arthur down. and not just any robert frost poem, one that has been quoted over and over again, usually by arthur. that made me start SOBBING bc like.

this inhuman entity, who around 4-5 months prior, wanted arthur and the rest of humanity dead just because he had power and could kill them. learned so much from this broken mess of a man. learned about stories and poetry and music and mysteries and compassion and love and fell in love with all of it so deeply that it permanently changed who he is and how he sees humans and the world they live in. changed him so much that when he saw his friend crumbling under the weight of his own grief and guilt, chose to not only comfort him, but chose to comfort him with a poem. a fucking poem. when john has been so deeply invested in the stories and poems he's heard from arthur. he heard one that he liked enough to memorize and to keep close to his heart. and he chose to give it back again when his friend needed it most. to reach a hand out to arthur with a thing he loved and tell him he's heard. he's not alone. but he needs to keep going. most human action imaginable. do you think arthur ever recited that poem to john? to keep him calm when he got scared and lashed out? and that's how john learned it? and it brought him enough peace and comfort that he figured it would help arthur too??

literally the only equivalent I can come up with for this moment is something I saw once a long time ago. so my mom was sick. like really sick. normally she's a power-through-a-cold kind of person and she was laid out on the couch, so she wasn't doing great. and our dog, who was a lot younger then, knew something was wrong, and clearly wanted to make her feel better but didn't know how. so, she got her favorite toy, and gently shoved it into my mom's mouth. a kind of "I don't know how to make you feel better, so here's something I love and I hope it helps." it was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen. and it wasn't that the bone itself helped, it was the act of giving it that made everyone feel a little bit better. and that is what happened here. it's not the thing that john gave, even though it is significant, it's the fact that he chose to give it.

nobody talk to me for the next 5 business days, I'm going absolutely insane

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Jack au where he's a psychic who can commune with ghosts. Almost every major character from Supernatural is a ghost. Including Sam Dean and Cas. This would serve these major tennants of his relationships:

Isolated. The people Jack spends the majority of his time with are NOT part of the normal world. Sam, Dean, Cas and Mary live in a bunker and don't know how to be people. The AU hunters are literally from another world. His mom is dead. Kaia is split between realms. The only Real people he knows well are his young adult nerd friends and arguably Harper. You don't want 1/4 of your tie to reality to be a witch who wants to be Cheryl Blossom from Riverdale as her life's aspiration. That's no way to live!

Intangible. Because of Jack's immense power, he is, in a sense, untouchable. He is stopped when people hug him or push him or shoot him because he chooses to stop. There is a veil between him and them. There is also a scarcity of common ground. There is nothing else out there like him. Dean might stomp and bark and howl but, ultimately, what can he do to Jack physically? Nothing. The only power the ghosts have is emotional and social. Imagine being outcasted by the ghosts who can only see you and each other. Ouch!

Fleeting. Everyone he cares for is doomed to die. This happens even before he's born with Cas and Kelly and Mary, but also throughout his life. He both has long strings of tragedy in short periods AND he's immortal and worries about it. Loss and loniness are inevitable for him on a massive scale. Cas might claim that he'll be there with him but he dies like twice a year at least. Picture ghost!Cas midway through a reassuring speech that he's always going to be there with him fading out into the veil mid-sentence.

Guilt-ridden. Life is wasted on the living, isn't it? Youth is wasted on the young. He's got dozens of ghosts needing him to live in the way they want him to so they can feel alive again, and he's not capable of being that (literal) lifeline. He needs to learn how to say no and stick to it. He needs to learn how to live with the fact that he has to disappoint people to live well sometimes. He has to engage with the living, because the dead are going to kill him if he hangs on to them too long.

So if someone could write this devestating yet beautiful 25k+ fic for me that'd be really swell.

[yotsubafan2000]

outfits 🙂‍↕️🐮🌀

[sunfloralchaos]

Uhhh anyway meet Pyxis

[rhysiespeeces]

redrawing fallout ocs coz i can . sorry for the mess of writing i’ve been developing these mfs for a while now

*slaps trunk* these bad boys can fit so much lore in em

(also i started playing 76 with my friends and i love mr fuzzy :33)

[ emergency commissions r open pls check my pinned ! ]

[silverwhittlingknife]

i have a special place in my heart for "show don't tell" storytelling, especially in comic books. comics are a visual medium!

[definitelynotshouting]

Can I ask, since you mentioned agreeing 'even if under duress' - how did the Watchers convince Player Grian to join them in hunger au?

So take this with the specific grain of salt that ive never watched Evo directly (but have friends who have ((thank you wren)), so i know tidbits via osmosis from them), but my thought has always been that the riddles the Watchers gave the Evo Players were all tests used to measure cleverness and intelligence-- the whole point of them attempting to copy the mind of a Player into a Watcher larva in the first place was to try and avoid the insanely high infant mortality rate their typical juveniles go through, bc they dont understand their own limits enough to even know they have them yet. So they needed a Player they knew they could instruct and who would listen to them, and, well. Grian, for all he was rebellious and outright defiant of the Watchers, still solved their puzzles and only had to be punished once before he stopped trying to mess with them

What ive always pictured is after the dragon fight the two main elders of the Watcher colony finally revealed themselves to Grian properly-- i have this crystal clear image of the two of them hovering above and next to the central end island, looming over Grian, and like, these guys are big. HUGE. A good 5x bigger than the ender dragon itself, at LEAST. It would be hard not to feel insanely intimidated by that, honestly, especially when there are two of them side by side, blocking your entire view of the End from that direction.

Anyway picture that with the context of these two giant floating winged worms youve never seen before, who have demonstrated their powerful ability to manipulate code in a way you cant.... telling you that they have chosen you to become one of them. Thats an immense amount of pressure, both from flattery and fear, especially considering theyve punished you before for defying them. I like to think even then, Grian balked a bit, and while i dont have exact dialogue beats here, i know the Watchers continued putting that pressure on him (likely while leveraging his friendships too-- like ive always said, if Grian hadnt been chosen, BigB wouldve been, and i can absolutely see the Watchers offering to take him in Grian's stead) until he finally caved and accepted their "offer" of joining them.

Unfortunately, he didnt find out exactly what that entailed until it was far too late.

[bookwormonastring]

i am so excited

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[doomrichards]

Re: Boycotting Marvel Studios Captain America: Brave New World. If you are known as the Marvel fan to friends, say you aren’t going and urge them to do the same. This has to reach beyond the online fans circles to the casual fans, friends, family, classmates, coworkers etc.

Jewish fans have said it better but Marvel Studios has consistently failed to properly adapt their Jewish characters (Moon Knight, upcoming Billy Kaplan), as well as refused to use other female leads (Sharon Carter, Misty Knight) & instead chose to spotlight a Zionist character.

Romani characters like Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff (anglicized name Peter) were white-washed and offensively written to collaborate with Hydra (a fictional org started by Red Skull, a Nazi trained by Hitler) Marvel has failed representation matters.

During the Holocaust, Nazis targeted both Jewish and Romani people for extermination as part of the Final Solution. An estimated 6,000,000 Jewish, 250,000-500,000 Roma and Sinti victims died in the Jewish and Roma genocide, “Shoah” and “Porajmos”(US)/“Samudaripen”(EU) respectively.

As the genocide in Gaza and Zionist occupation of Palestine since the 1948 Nakba continues, the choice to have a Zionist character is likely tied to the US military involvement in Hollywood and government support of Israel. (Captain Marvel was used to recruit women for the Air Force)

Again, adapting Sharon Carter or especially Misty Knight as a Black woman with significant rapport with Sam Wilson as Captain America in the comics to be the female agent in the plot could have avoided a Zionist character all together.

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has called for a CA:BNW boycott due to this Sabra/Ruth Bat-Seraph character. I hope this post is useful for reaching beyond online fan circles for more impact. Please let me know if I have made any error. #FreePalestine

References:

https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-captain-america

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution

https://www.romarchive.eu/en/voices-of-the-victims/genocide-holocaust-porajmos-samudaripen/

Additionally, if you are based in the area, disrupt the reshoots as part of the "creative, peaceful protests to challenge Marvel Studios" called for by BDS.

The shoot was revealed to go from May-August by DanielRPK, if only somebody interrupted set or called the atlanta lot (Trilith Studios) OR even organized a protest where they’re filming at🤔 https://t.co/OmkkQadUAY

— Captain America News (@UpdatesCAP4) February 4, 2024

[cycheis]

I posted this on my Instagram but I'll post it here as well, here's some miscellaneous art examples!

I'm offering emergency traditional and digital commissions! Due to some unforeseen financial trouble, I've got my commissions open for the first time ever (I'm desperate). Most details for my pricing/availability are in the images, and I'm very flexible about what I am willing to do! Please inquire if you want to learn more, I'm more than willing to answer any questions!