#alexandra's genesis

[simply-ask-games]

the long awaited iconic tumblr post ask game!! thank you for all who suggested a post :)

(if enough people want one perhaps I'll make a part 2? who knows?)

and, naturally, reblog to join + click for quality

[goredaddy1633]

If only I had this condition if it existed. Ever.

[fangledeities]

Alexandra Daddario

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, Luca Giordano (Italian, 1634-1705).

[enchanted--roses]

International Woman Day — Day 3 —  "In March I'll be rested, caught up and human."

Violet Bing , Ilsa MacGyver, Genesis O’Hara, Elizabeth Monahan, Liliana Pietri, Phoenix Halliwell, Vivien Reeves, Gwenevere Sinclair , Kaitlynn Kane , Alexandra D’Amore - & Quotes that means things to them

Happy International Women’s day! Women have influenced society from its beginning, and a large part of that has been through literature. We want to know what quote/s by women represent your OC! Or even, what quotes or lyrics does your OC use to ground herself. Feel free to use any female made quote, it doesn’t have to be from poetry or a book!

Emma Stone // Emily Wickersham // Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility) // Princess Diana // Anne Hathaway // Emily VanCamp // Glinda The Good Witch (Wizard of OZ) // Diane Von Furstenberg // Katie McGrath (Supergirl) // Holliday Grainger// Jane Austen (Persuasion) // Marilyn Monroe // Katherine McNamara // Sophia Bush // Dolly Parton // Maya Angelou // Jenna Coleman // Holliday Grainger // Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) // Cinderella

Forever Tag: 💠@fiercefray​ 💠@foxesandmagic💠@valdrinors​ 💠@ochub​ 💠@arrthurpendragon💠@fanficanatic-tw​ 💠@robertdowneyhiddlesbatch   💠@chickensarentcheap​ (wanna be on any of my taglist? ask me!)

[unknownarmageddon]

President. Alexandra's Genesis

waaa thank you jaa :]]

[breezybeej]

The Emergent Narrative in Elden Ring

I've been wanting to talk about this since I met brother Corhyn but I waited because I wanted to see how far my story would carry me. And the answer was all the way. Warning that I will be spoiling some major plot points in the game.

I started Elden Ring with next to no knowledge of the plot. I had watched zero videos, read zero synopses, nothing. At the character creation screen, I said, "I want to walk into this with a backstory." I saw that confessor was a starting class and came up with one very easily:

A woman of mid-high rank in a religious order. The high priests falsely accused her of heresy and had her burned alive. That inspired this appearance. Meet Estrelle:

I fell in love with this look so hard that the only headgear I ever wore was the commoner's headband. I wanted to see this.

So I enter The Lands Between. I am told of the Elden Lord and what needs to be done to deliver these lands from their current catastrophe.

One of the first things I find is a book of prayers. I take it to a priest named Corhyn. The prayers turn out to be heresy against the dominant religion (the Golden Order is the presiding power). I am immediately hooked because my character was accused of the same in my own made up backstory. So I immediately start exploring what counts as heresy in these lands because if my own order could be led astray, could not the Golden Order?

After some time, I meet Miriel who is a pastor of divine wisdom. He hits me with this line which was nothing short of absolution:

"Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined."

From here on, all heretical writings were brought to Miriel because I know he will teach without judgment.

As the game progressed, I learned more of the Golden Order, of how the church maintained a social hierarchy alongside the royalty in the capital city of Leyendell. One thing to know about the lands between is that it grows more destitute the farther away from the capital you travel. The Fringelands, they are called, where societies become so desperate for change that they enact abominations upon themselves and others in the hopes of finding a power that can unseat the current Lord.

It turns out that most of these religions--but primarily the Golden Order--answer to the Greater Will which is a mysterious eminence beyond understanding which bequeaths power to those deemed fit to hold the title of Lord etc etc. Allegedly, only a select few understand the machinations of the Greater Will. Estrelle had heard all this before. Hogwash, we'll call it.

So the seed is planted in my mind. The social hierarchy needs to be overturned and the influence of the Greater Will needs to be cut off.

That's when I met Ranni the Witch. As it turns out, she had some similar ideas to me. She was selected as Lord-worthy but she wants nothing to do with that. She wants the Lands to be without a lord. Through her, I discover it is possible to kill the ones who are enacting the Greater Will's manipulations. All I have to do is carve a path for her.

So I do. During all this, I also discover that the loss of Death in this realm can be undone. That the strange immortality that many experience can be cut off. So I can simultaneously bring back the concept of mortality and end the meddling of an outside entity and destroy the societal constructs that are causing so much inequality.

And then something magical happens. You see, my primary companion has been a woman named Melina. She tells me that, in order to progress, she will have to sacrifice herself to the fires of creation. I am saddened at this news but she seems determined. I know how horrendous death by fire is. This young woman does not deserve this fate.

But someone tells me there's another way. I have to explore this if I can save Melina. I learn of the Frenzied Flame. It represents chaos. I go through hell to find this flame and an the way, I find one of the most powerful images in the game. One of the lowly wretches, one who follows the frenzy, one who is emaciated, blind, poor, and-- to the understanding of the Order--unable to experience grace, is playing an instrument. He is sitting on a ledge and playing a mournful tune and I sit and listen to him for a long while. This man in the middle of all the strife and chaos is creating something beautiful. I am determined to put an end to the Golden Order. The meek shall inherit.

I press on into the lair of the Frenzied Flame and I'm shocked to learn that it is one of the agents of the Greater Will, though it is not connected to the others, it seems. So I enact a plan. I ally myself with the frenzied flame because I need it to spare Melina an excruciating death. I do not intend to maintain this allegiance. There is a cost, however. The flame engulfs my body and I think "I was killed by fire, I know this pain and I can withstand it."

Melina, upon learning of this, believes I have thrown my hat in with a force that will ruin the world. She abandons me but that is fine as long as she lives. So I use the flame to gain access to the inner realms of the kingdom (which involves me, once again, sacrificing myself to fire.) My character is covered in scars from the repeated burnings. I look like this now:

Something interesting happened, though, when I severed my connection with the frenzied flame. Something subtle that had no impact on the literal narrative of the game but which made me lose my mind. Estrelle's vision was restored.

By sacrificing herself through the frames of frenzy and then again to access the inner realms, by choosing to submit to fire to save her friend, Estrelle found herself with her useless eye renewed.

Quite literally, she could see what needed to be done. This was a sign, not from God, not from the Greater Will, not from any holy text, but from within her own body, her own soul.

Along the way, she discovered an ability. In game terms, it was the Inescapable Frenzy incantation but essentially you grab someone by the head and forcibly make eye contact with them and your force of will drives them to insanity. The description of this ability reads:

"To gaze into one another's eyes is truly the most intimate form of human contact."

One of the last obstacles in my way was someone determined to maintain, even increase, the influence of the Golden Order. When Estrelle grabbed him and looked into his eyes, when she opened wide both windows into her soul, it overwhelmed this tiny man and his understanding of the world and he fucking died.

I was fucking losing my mind at this point. All of this storyline was happening because of a random decision I made to come up with an arbitrary backstory that was created before I knew any of the game's plot.

I carry on with the game and finally defeat the current Elden Lord. From here, unfortunately, I have to choose one ending. Either Ranni's path or the path of restoring death to the lands. In my heart, I know that both things happen though in the 'canon' only one does.

And this is how I ended Elden Ring. Someone who died in flames at the hand of religious abuse proudly bearing the molten scars of repeated fiery sacrifice to free The Lands Between from the influence of 'gods' who do no more than subjugate the poor and unfortunate.

There are so many other connections in the game to this backstory but this post would be like 4 times longer if I tried to go through all of it and most of them are not as Holy Shit Big as these were.

[leo-nesebjorn]

燦々の太陽 - My glistening Sun

Wow, this piece turned out much different that I planned 😅

There was an art meme on X to draw a sapphic pair after a book cover (scroll down to see the original cover). So I wanted to draw Ritsuko & Alexandra just like an adult couple, but then I thought Ritsukos face looked so young in the sketch that I changed them to teens. Next step was that I fumbled a sun in the background & wanted to give Ritsuko an ethereous vibe ☀️

So I ended up with more sun & glare & a pinch holyness, & now I'm pretty happy how it turned out 😭💜

I love how Alexandra looked up to "her glistening sun" & how she has a ray of light in her face & onto her hair - seem's like she will gonna be blessed ✨

[d0vegum]

i just called the “queen alexandra's birdwing”-butterfly “the queen alexandrias genesis” anyway how’s your day going

[ss-trashboat]

childrens hospital, alexandrias genesis, jello (affectionate), hatsune miku binder andddd tubby custard machine but replace crafts with art 💜

i was waiting for children's hospital when i reblogged this and babe you didn't disappoint lol

BUT YES FOR JELLO i take too much pride in that tbh

[dark-magical-ships]

I thiiink… President, Alexandra’s Genesis, Children’s Hospital and (partially) The Color of the Sky :D !!

I love how the only difference between your answer and Casper's is that you somehow got the impression that I have "talent" and are somewhat less confident about judging my sleep and/or posting habits XDDD

[lunayuu]

Children's hospital

- aaaaaarrrghhhhh

!!! :D

[lonelyprinceofthedark]

President. Alexandra's Genesis. Out Of Touch Thursday.

IM so cool it's intimidating?!?! Beastie I tremble in fear of how cool you are.

[cynicalmusings]

ur dashcon ballpit 2 me

in that case, my friend…

EN GARDE 🤺 🤺

[7h3g3n3r4l]

Genesis

by Alexandra Bochkareva

[leo-nesebjorn]

It's still four hours till new year in my time zone, but yeah ...

Alexandra and Ritsukos wishes a ✨ Happy New Year 2024 ✨

It wasn't originally planned as a New Year's motif, I came up with the idea spontaneously earlier. Let's see what happens to the actual picture 😆

[duckprintspress]

Celebrate International Non-Binary People’s Day with 20 Great Reads with NB Characters!

Happy International Non-Binary People’s Day! Join Duck Prints Press in celebrating with a pile of books featuring non-binary characters! In some of these stories, the representation is explicit; in others, it’s implied, or open to interpretation, and, well – we’ve obviously made our interpretation, and that interpretation is us shouting NON-BINARY RIGHTS from the rafters. Books on this list were suggested by Adrian Harley (@adrianharley), Alec Marsh (@alecjmarsh), Dei Walker (@dei2dei), Nina Waters (@unforth), @shadaras, Tris Lawrence (@tryslora), and a few anonymous contributors.

In no particular order, here are twenty books for your enjoyment!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Unmasked by the Marquess by Cat Sebastian

Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Gamechanger by L. X. Beckett

Translation State by Ann Leckie

Soulstar by C. L. Polk

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders

Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander

Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou

Provenance by Ann Leckie

In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Li

The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

You can learn more about these books and read their synopses by visiting our full blog post on Wordpress!

What are YOUR favorite books with non-binary characters? Share them with us, and let’s hear it for non-binary rep in fiction!