#alberoner

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Bodies

The re-homing from Meta inc. continues, with these quick anatomy-focused sketches of my original characters (I’ve been constantly writing and rewriting their stories for 12+ years 🥹). I wanted to depict common varieties of body habitus I’ve seen in myself and people I know irl. Mostly.

OC intros are under the cut, if you’re interested—

1. Tamara (she/her) is a doctor, newly graduated out of apprenticeship and looking forward to starting her own clinic with her school bestie. That is, before her childhood bestie’s mom gets kidnapped by the same people that killed hers, and they all have to go rescue her together.

2. Mira (she/they/experimenting with he) is a vigilante whose power of shapeshifting into animals is also a curse (the longer they stay shifted, the more animalistic characteristics they retain after shifting back). The golden eyes and odd patches of fur and feathers are a fixture at this point.

3. Aditya ‘Adi’ Padmaraja (he/him) is a prince who was born to write poetry and sketch flowers but forced to take up a sword and shield to rescue his mom. He’s Tamara’s childhood bestie. He’s ace. He knows people are thirsty for him but he really just wants to finish his coconut in peace.

4. Narmada (she/her) is the third consort of the elven high king. Having immigrated from the elven diaspora in the great subcontinent to their ancestral archipelago, she was once the captain of the royal guard. That is, before getting entangled with the royal polycule.

5. Alberon (he/him) is the elven high king, the realm’s beloved scatter-brained hedonist with a very carefully constructed heart of gold, an insatiable appetite and a revolving door of many, many lovers. Isidore (he/him) is the new ambassador from the continental elven diaspora to the archipelago. He’s a terribly incompetent diplomat and everyone suspects his election was rigged. But he’s a hyper-confident vintner and the most adorably awkward flirt, so that’s sexy enough for Alberon to ignore the blazing red flags for a little while. A little while, promise! He’ll be careful! This is all for research!!

[ales-art]

Alberon himself, king of the fairies, appeared before the people.

[athenepromachos]

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots 👑👑

[winemastery]

Rosso Grande Alberone Zinfandel (Episode 377)

Rosso Grande Alberone Zinfandel (Episode 377)

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A Rose in the Desert

It started, like many things in her life, with a report from one of her many spies. A short missive whose message was hidden under a cypher of her own design:

"Selvala of Alberon has left Fiora"

Not Paliano. Fiora itself. It was curious enough that she had to investigate it.

The elven explorer had been a thorn on her side ever since her ascension to the throne, even if never to a significant enough degree to warrant any action. She brought legitimacy to Adriana's opposition, sure, but her days of politicking ended back before Brago's death. She was someone to keep an eye on, but never a priority. If she was planning to bring outside help, however, that was a different story.

So she set her spies into motion to find the when, the where and the how. If the elf meant to return, this would mean she found a stable omenpath and even without a rival's involvement that was the kind of thing the Queen of Paliano would rather have under her thumb. When the reports came back of Selvala exploring a different world filled with sand, cacti and a growing network of omenpaths? Oh, but that was striking gold!

This "Thunder Junction" was easy prey to Marchesa's well oiled political machine, spies spreading throughout the plane and quickly establishing lines of communication flowing by train and mount from its frontiers directly to her desk. It became such a point of interest that one of her advisors — the one whose job was to be bluntly honest, to keep her grounded — called it a growing obsession, and they weren't entirely wrong.

Because Marchesa had never been one to fight a battle she could lose. Her ascension to the throne had been the work of decades setting up everything so that even before a crown sat on her head she was already pulling all the strings.

Despite insurrectionist former guards and unprecedented phyrexian invasions, her reign was at this point a self-maintaining hold over everything that mattered in Paliano.

The fact that many of her political rivals had perished in the invasion — be it through phyrexian blades or not — meant that, despite all of the struggles of reconstruction, she kept feeling something she had never felt while setting up her own ascension:

Boredom.

How long had it been, really, since she had to do any ground work? To be the one holding the poisoned knife or the stolen missives, instead of ordering people to do her bidding?

Perhaps that was why Thunder Junction held her interest. A new garden for a rose to show her thorns.

Setting things up for a self-approved leave of absence was easy: she already had body doubles, of course, so it was simply a matter of choosing the best one for a prolonged act, then making sure her lieutenants would do their jobs without getting any silly ideas of subterfuge.

Queen Marchesa held court at the same time a nameless traveler arrived in Thunder Junction, her bag filled with her favorite knives and poisons, clothes that perfectly fit the local aesthetic and not a single plan or scheme set in stone.

The plane wouldn't know what hit it.

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Animal Motifs in A Stepmother's Marchen

I'll be breaking down the (main) characters and their respective animal motifs in A Stepmother's Marchen. Potential spoilers ahead.

Shuri: Rabbit

Animal Characteristics: Gentle, Kind, Swift, Alert, Patient

Visual Symbolism: Split hair = bunny ears, large round eyes

Story Motif: Shuri is literally a prey animal caught in a world of predator animals, including her children. While her nature is gentle, she doesn't hesitate to fight against injustices done to her or her family. While headstrong, Shuri often requires help from her stronger (physically and politically) allies to help her overcome or escape various conflict.

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Nora: Wolf

Animal Characteristics: Adaptable, Brave, Loyal, Wildness, Intuitive

Visual Symbolism: Dark hair, blue eyes, often seen wearing informal (messy) clothes, Nuremberg Crest = Wolves

Story Motif: Nora is a lone wolf amongst the Nuremberg Family and prefers lurking in the shadows. While he seen as wild and brooding to those he dislikes, he is loyal and eager to please to those in his favor. He is quick to adapt to social situations and observes his opponents from afar before striking.

Jeremy: Lion

Animal Characteristics: Confident, Aggressive, Direct, Stubborn

Visual Symbolism: Golden hair, Feral grin, Neuschwanstein Crest = Lions

Story Motif: Jeremy has shown himself to be self-confident and aggressive, choosing to use his fists over mental tactics to get his way. He is fiercely protective towards his family and is a natural leader among his peers.

Theo: Eagle

Animal Characteristics: Tenacious, Authoritative, Egocentric, Leader

Visual Symbolism: White hair, golden (single exposed "eagle") eye, Baden Bismark Crest = Eagles

Story Motif: While Theo is distinctly selfish and possessive, he puts forward a facade of humility that is expected of a future leader. He is guilty of using underhanded methods to get what he wants, even at the expense of his subject of desire (Shuri).

Richelieu: Raven

Animal Characteristics: Prophetic, Transformation, Intelligent, Cunning, Partnership, Guidance

Visual Symbolism: Black hair, eye bags, long black robes

Story Motif: Cardinal Richelieu has once experienced "rebirth" and follows a deep devotion towards God. He works at the hand of nobody but often gives mysterious words of (sometimes manipulative) advice to others. He has expressed an interest in partnering with Shuri in recent chapters.

Ludovika: Swallow tailed kite

Animal Characteristics: Divinity, Freedom, Awakening, Playful, Transformation

Visual Symbolism: Split hair = split tail

Story Motif: Ludovika was initially a commoner turned Empress, with a bright personality and desire for power. Johannes has expressed a desire to cage her, but since her death, she has flown beyond his grasp.

Bonus: Alberon as a fox(?) and Everette as a chipmunk

[blood-orange-juice]

Hello! May I ask if you have any headcanons for Fischl, Albedo, or Kaeya? Or thoughts about them in general?

Either way it’s quite fun to read your posts on Childe’s personality✨

Hello! ^^ Thank you for the ask and for the kind words! These guys are among my favorite characters and I mostly have incoherent shouting.

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My main Fischl headcanon is that Oz is not an electro construct but an instance of true creation magic, similar to what Gold did and Narcissenkreuz Ordo tried to replicate.

Girl just accidentaly performed a godlike feat because she was lonely and bored. She does that.

Other than that, all my previous headcanons have been covered in the last year summer event. She's talented, kind, observant, a bit too sensitive for the everyday world and brave af (not the "rush into danger" brave, the "I can look at myself closely and admit I was wrong" brave).

Lil sis is majestic. And she got all the important stuff right. If she wants to roleplay through life then I see no problem.

(it's so often shown how caring she is! during Unreconciled Stars she's one of the first to arrive in the disaster zone. and she regularly invites Mona for dinner because she knows Mona keeps spending all her earnings on books instead of food.

she just... helps others. all the time.)

Also Bennett absolutely has a crush on her.

Also sitting in a garden watching a play is THE shit (even more so in real lfe) and I loved that summer event.

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With Albedo it's weird in the sense that there's a lot of going on with him but we either have obvious things (him being Gold's creation) or things we can't really connect with anything yet. I wonder if him being a potential danger to Monstadt will be subverted.

I also hope that him not getting a winter event this year means Hoyo are cooking something else. They usually do that when a character doesn't appear for a while.

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For Kaeya I would need a week and multiple posts.

Do you know that his surname, Alberich, means 'king of elves' in Old High German?

(which in Old French slowly became Alberon and then Auberon. so not just a king of elves, the king of elves)

Which is incredibly bizarre because he's a descendant of the regent family, not the royal family. Why were they called Alberichs?

Also In The Song of the Nibelungs (which for me rhymes thematically with The Ballad of the Fjords spear lore) Alberich is the dwarf/dark elf (svartálfar) who guards the treasure of Nibelungs.

(actually I should write a detailed post about it. hold my beer)

A smaller thing: it also makes me sad how his EN VA makes him sound slightly sadistic while in CN he's more of the "teasing older buddy/coworker" type (and later in the story we learn he's incredibly kind). He's just so beautifully voiced in the Chinese version and none ot the translations do him justice.

[q-ueen-potato]

I Have ZERO knowledge about butterflies but here are the butterflies that inspired the wings of Luffy and his family/ the fairies I'm my au...

Luffy – Monarch Butterfly

Elanor (mother) -red Lacewing

Luffaron ( grandfather) – emperor moth

Abina (aunt) -Blue Morpho

Melona(cousin) -Red spotted purple

Alberon(cousin) -Pipevine swallowtail

Cirdan (uncle) - Tiger swallowtail

Daena( Gran-aunt) - Atlas Moth

Gildor (cousin) - Eyed silk moth

Nienna(gran-aunt) - Luna Moth

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Insta: alberon

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Art by French Alber (@alberoner) in Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde, France (2022) #alber #streetart #lamolinastreetart 📷 via artist mysl.nl/fMgV

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Roma: confiscati beni e contanti per un valore complessivo di circa 1 milione di euro.

Roma: confiscati beni e contanti per un valore complessivo di circa 1 milione di euro. Roma. Nella mattinata odierna, gli agenti della Polizia di Stato della Divisione Anticrimine della Questura di Roma stanno eseguendo un provvedimento di confisca di beni, emesso ai sensi del Codice Antimafia dal Tribunale di Roma – Sezione delle Misure di Prevenzione, su proposta del Questore di Roma. A novembre dello scorso anno, nel corso di un'importante operazione finalizzata a contrastare l'accumulazione illecita di patrimoni da parte di organizzazioni criminali, sono stati sequestrati a 3 fratelli di origini calabresi, stanziatisi nella capitale da lungo tempo, beni e contanti per un valore complessivo di circa 1 milione di euro. Quel sequestro si è oggi trasformato in confisca e la ricchezza accumulata è stata sottratta alla disponibilità, diretta o indiretta, dei proposti e messa a disposizione della collettività. Con la disposta misura di prevenzione patrimoniale sono stati confiscati i seguenti beni: 6 unità immobiliari, di cui 5 ubicate a Roma ed 1 a Siderno (RC); 99.770 euro in contanti; polizza assicurativa del valore di 80.000 euro; disponibilità finanziarie pari a 35.000 euro. Con lo stesso decreto, per l'attuale ed elevata pericolosità sociale di tutti e 3 i fratelli, è stata altresì disposta l'applicazione della misura di prevenzione personale della sorveglianza speciale per la durata di 2 anni. I predetti si sono evidenziati per i loro stretti contatti con diversi ambienti malavitosi, anche di matrice 'ndranghetista, e sono stati già condannati con sentenze irrevocabili per attività criminali legate al traffico di stupefacenti e ad altri gravi reati. Nella primavera del 2021 erano stati arrestati nell'ambito dell'operazione denominata "Alberone", condotta dalla Squadra Mobile della Questura di Roma e coordinata dalla locale Procura della Repubblica, per aver costituito un'organizzazione, operante proprio nel quartiere San Giovanni – Alberone, dedita ai delitti di usura ed esercizio abusivo dell'attività finanziaria, con estorsioni nei confronti della vittime contro le quali, in caso di mancati pagamenti, venivano organizzate vere e proprie spedizioni punitive. Le indagini patrimoniali, avviate nel 2021 dagli specialisti della Divisione Anticrimine, hanno abbracciato l'arco temporale di circa un trentennio ed hanno permesso di accertare, nei confronti dei 3 fratelli, un'assoluta sproporzione tra i beni, nella loro diretta o indiretta disponibilità, il tenore di vita condotto e i redditi dichiarati al fisco. L'odierno risultato rappresenta un'ulteriore conferma che la criminalità va contrastata non solo attraverso un'assidua opera di prevenzione e repressione ma anche mediante indagini di carattere patrimoniale, in grado di recuperare quella ricchezza, illecitamente acquisita, che costituisce una minaccia per l'economia legale.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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NERA CON FORME, MA NON CONFORME...

di Redazione https://lepluralieditrice.net/11-11-nera-con-forme-a-pisa/ Sabato 11 novembre alle ore 17.30 l’autrice Marianna Kalonda Okassaka (Marianna the Influenza) presenta il suo saggio Nera con forme. Storia di un corpo grasso al Circolo ARCI Alberone, Via Pasquale Pardi, 199 Pisa. Dialogherà con Miss CreamyCreamy. L’evento è organizzato dalla Casa delle Donne di Pisa. Decostruire gli…

[padaniafelix]

Nella settimana in cui scoprimmo che nemmeno dei cadaveri di alieni esposti in un Parlamento ci impressionano più così tanto, lascio il link ad una mia recensione del libro Venivano dalle stelle di Giuseppe Pederiali.

Siamo negli anni Settanta, in un paese della “Bassa” emiliana, Alberone: chi mai potrebbe pensare all’arrivo di un’astronave dallo spazio più profondo?

[mixedbagofships]

An autopsy was performed before his body was place in a casket in Alberon because the doctors need to know exactly what killed Garfield. Dr. Daniel Lamb was the one to do it. A crowd gathered outside Francklyn Cottage to hear the results. Apparently, Garfield’s death was inevitable, which was a relief to Lucretia.

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